“They’ve taken Paris,” Laura said.
Everyone stared at her. She was interpreting for the family the excited German issuing from the radio in staccato bursts.
“Are you sure?” Alain demanded.
“He says the troops are marching down the Champs Elysees,” Laura answered.
“Oh, my God,” Brigitte moaned, turning away and putting her hands to her face.

That is the opening passage of Clash By Night, a love story by Doreen Owens Malek that throbs in counterpoint to the tramp of boots as war spreads across Europe.

The Germans have taken Paris, and those heavy bootsteps menace the small French village of Fain les Sources. Many flee, but a few brave souls stay to start up a Resistance. Their futures are unsure, but pride and desperation push them forward. For three women, one question tears at their hearts: Can love overcome the wages of war?

In this stunning work of romance, author Doreen Owens Malek paints a portrait of patriotism and passion struggling to survive as the countryside burns during WWII. From the earliest days of the Occupation to the promised freedom of liberation, Clash by Night will clutch your heart and never let go.

Clash by Night introduces E-Reads’ reissue program of Doreen Owens Malek’s romantic fiction. Keep an eye on her author page for more.

Janet Dailey’s American Dreams and its sequel Legacies follow the sorrowful train of the Cherokee nation after it is wrenched from its native home and resettled on an alien territory.

In the first, set in the 1830s, two proud Cherokees, a Southern belle and a landowner called The Blade share a passion for their people that bursts into a passion for each other. As pressure mounts for resettlement, one lover wants to stay to protect the Cherokee way of life, the other vows to join them on the death march that is to become the infamous Trail of Tears.

Originally published as The Proud and the Free, American Dreams brims with historical tragedy and unwavering courage. You cannot help but be moved by this intense story of passion and hope.

But that is only half the story. Legacies advances the story two decades as the looming Civil War looms threatens to tear the nation apart…and draw the Cherokee people into the maelstrom. Old hatreds have festered between the two sides ever since the Trail of Tears. Now, the split between the Confederacy and Union offers a perfect excuse for these prideful men to re-bloody their hands.

Diane Parmelee, the beautiful daughter of a Union officer, finally has the chance to marry the love of her life, the handsome, Harvard-educated Lije Stuart. But, despite his love for Diane, Lije’s allegiances lie with his plantation-owning Cherokee family and, in turn, the Confederacy.

Further clouding Lije’s heart, the war reignites a feud within the Cherokees, specifically that of Lije’s father, whose name is…The Blade.

Can Diane’s pleas for compromise save Lije from the horrors of war? Can true love reach across divided loyalties and blind honor?

Previously published as American Destiny, Janet Dailey’s Legacies serves as a stunning follow-up to her American Dreams and proves that passion and pride can be as explosive as cannon fire.

Working in the accounting department of a large soap manufacturer isn’t exactly where Casey O’Reilly saw her life as going. She had always pictured something more glamorous, more exciting. But, she never pictured something so exciting as time travel.

A freak lightning strike near Sante Fe somehow sends Casey back to the year 1878. Thrown into vibrant yet unfamiliar past, Casey finds herself lost and alone. That is, until a mysterious man named Luke arrives, claiming to be a time traveler himself. He wants to guide Casey on her journey, even arranging for her to be the guest of an aristocratic Hispanic family. Will Casey be able to handle the shock of traveling back in time? Will she finally take control of her life and realize that love is staring her right in the face?

In Heaven On Earth, Constance O’Day-Flannery, the original “Queen of Time Travel Romance,” shows readers that true love can lead us toward our destinies… even if those destinies are lifetimes apart.

We continue Constance O’Day-Flannery’s unique blend of romance and time-travel science fiction with Once and Forever, the tale of a woman fleeing into the arms of a lover far away and long go.

Maggie Whitaker looks out the small window on her red-eye flight to London, asking herself a simple question. What is she doing here? Running away is the answer. Running away from unemployment, a mortgage, an artist ex-husband demanding alimony. But, Maggie is also running towards something…A romance that lies hundreds of years in the past.

Nicholas Layton is the third son of the Earl of Traherne, introduced at the court and summoned by the house of Amebury to Greville Manor. On his way there, Nicholas is thrown from his horse and meets this enchanting, perplexing Margaret who claims to come from the future. Surely she must be confused, especially considering how entangled she already is in the political machinations of Elizabeth’s royal court. But, the truth unfolds in a single, perfect kiss…

In Once and Forever, O’Day-Flannery, the original “Queen of Time Travel Romance,” shows that nothing–not insidious plots, not royal decree, not even a distance of centuries–can get in the way of true love.

Rita Award-winning Laura Kinsale has been acclaimed America’s leading historical romance novelist, and E-Reads is thrilled to commence reissue of her backlist with beautiful new packages. We’re starting with Uncertain Magic, published for the first time as an e-book.

Roderica Delamore is an heiress and should be a prize catch—except for an embarrassing and magical secret. She has the ability to hear the thoughts of those around her and has never been able to trust anyone as a result. So she dedicates herself to raising her family’s prize thoroughbreds and resigns herself to a life without romance—until she meets Faelan Savigar, the Earl of Iveragh, a mysterious, roguish Irishman whose thoughts are entirely closed to her unusual perceptions and she discovers that she has finally met the man she has been waiting her whole life to discover.

He is called “the Devil Earl,” and is as enigmatic to everyone else as he turns out to be to Roderica. He is also impoverished, damned in society by dark rumor and innuendo, and, for all she knows he could be a liar, a swindler or worse but his secrets stir her and Roderica is prepared to entrust her life—and her heart—to an enchanting stranger.

Few story lines are more romantic than that of a heroine transported to another era. And there is no better practitioner of that plot twist than Constance O’Day-Flannery, universally acclaimed Queen of Time Travel Romance. E-Reads is happily transporting another generation of fans to the long ago and far away realms into which her heroines are dropped. The latest is the old west.

When Mairie Callahan jumps out of an airplane high above the Nevada desert, she simply hopes that her parachute will open. What she doesn’t expect is that she’ll land a hundred and twenty-two years in the past.

When Jack Delaney returns home from the Civil War in 1877, he hopes a vision quest amongst his adoptive Paiute Indian brothers will bring him peace. Instead, it brings a strange, beautiful woman falling from the sky….

Even though Mairie’s ravings about “the future” seem crazy to Jack, he can’t help but be drawn to her. She’s unlike any woman he’s ever met. Soon the two are racing to return Mairie home to her dying brother with an extinct plant that might save him. Will she return in time? Will they survive the danger along the way? And, is the bond forming between them more than friendship? Is it love?

Essential to every time travel story are the questions Will she return to today? – and Does she want to? Sorry, to learn the answers you’ll have to read Anywhere You Are, a timeless love story with a harrowing adventure that unites two souls born a century apart.

Watch O-Day Flannery’s author page for more time travel tales. Where will she take us next?  Or better yet, when will she take us next?

RC

On Valentine’s Day treat yourself to a lavish bouquet of highland heather with E-Reads’ bestselling women’s author Hannah Howell. Howell’s lush and erotic romances set in the treacherous and tempestuous Highlands of fifteenth century Scotland.

Start with Highland Bride, a passionate tale of a feisty beauty determined to uncover the softer side of the iron-willed warrior who has wed her, bedded her…and stolen her heart. Though she has yet to be courted by any man, spirited Gillyanne Murray decides the time has come to visit the dower lands gifted to her by her father’s kinsmen. She arrives to find the small keep surrounded by three lairds, each one vying for her hand…and property. Though resolved to refuse them all, the threat of battle on her threshold forces her to boldly choose a suitor: Sir Connor MacEnroy, a handsome, daring knight of few words. As his wife, Gillyanne is stunned by his terse, cold distance–and her own yearning to feel passion in his arms. Now, bringing her healing touch to a land and a keep ravaged by treachery and secret enemies, she dares to reach out for the one thing she fears she may forever be denied…her husband’s closely guarded heart.

And if Highland Bride steals your heart away, visit Howell’s author page where there are plenty more Highlands where that one came from.

Anything can happen under a Christmas Moon. Even a miracle that the Three Kings would have appreciated.

Pregnant, unwed and down on her luck, history teacher Emma Carlyle is facing the worst Christmas of her life. Needing some research for her master’s thesis on legendary Wyoming lawman J.D. McNulty, she makes a Christmas Eve drive to South Pass City, where J.D. was buried. But…

Heading home, she loses her way in a storm. After her car vanishes, she ends up in 1870, half-frozen and in labor, on the doorstep of a remote mountain cabin. When J.D. himself opens the door with a pistol in one hand and a bottle of whiskey in the other…well, let’s just say that sparks start flying. These two lost souls are clearly meant for each other. But there’s one problem. Emma has studied everything about J.D.–and she knows he has only a few weeks to live.

Maybe, until then Emma didn’t believe in miracles.  But this is the time of the Christmas Moon , and, as we said, anything can happen.

Author Elizabeth Lane has penned a sensual time travel romance with an inspiring message that will send chills down your spine.  Christmas Moon is an E-Reads original, never before published.  For other Elizabeth Lane novels visit her author page.
RC

From Jean M. Auel’s Clan of the Cave Bear to Linda Lay Shuler’s She Who Remembers, novels set among pre-historic cultures have shown a very strong appeal for fans of both genre fantasy and historical romance. E-Reads is pleased to offer a three-volume epic of ancient Tahiti by Clare Coleman.

In the first volume, Daughter of the Reef, Tepua, the daughter of a chief sails from her coral atoll home toward her planned, and ritually mandated, marriage. But she never reaches her destination because a violent storm damages her vessel and leaves her stranded on the shores of Tahiti, a land previously unknown to her. She is made unwelcome because of her foreignness and is victimized because of her weakness and innocence, but her spirit is strong and her will to survive and thrive is boundless.

The world of Tahiti is very different from the one she has known, beautiful, savage and mystical by turns. But she is determined to build herself a new life and, in the process, she will change the destiny of all for generations to come.

If you find yourself seduced by Tahita and Tepua first adventure, you’ll want to read the sequels, Sister of the reef and Child of the Dawn.  Look for them here.

“Clare Coleman” is a joint pseudonym for Clare Bell, author of the Ratha series about pre-historic giant cats, and Malcolm Coleman Easton.

RC

Journey to the treacherous and tempestuous Highlands of fifteenth century Scotland in Hannah Howell’s Highland Bride, a passionate tale of a feisty beauty determined to uncover the softer side of the iron-willed warrior who has wed her, bedded her…and stolen her heart.

Though she has yet to be courted by any man, spirited Gillyanne Murray decides the time has come to visit the dower lands gifted to her by her father’s kinsmen. She arrives to find the small keep surrounded by three lairds, each one vying for her hand…and property. Though resolved to refuse them all, the threat of battle on her threshold forces her to boldly choose a suitor: Sir Connor MacEnroy, a handsome, daring knight of few words. As his wife, Gillyanne is stunned by his terse, cold distance–and her own yearning to feel passion in his arms. Now, bringing her healing touch to a land and a keep ravaged by treachery and secret enemies, she dares to reach out for the one thing she fears she may forever be denied…her husband’s closely guarded heart.

E-Reads boasts fifteen captivating highland novels by Howell. Make it your summertime project to read them all!