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Laura Kinsale The award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of such classic historical romances as The Shadow and the Star, The Prince of Midnight and Flowers from the Storm. E-Reads has reissued. Seize the Fire, Midsummer Moon, The Prince of Midnight and Uncertain Magic, with the best yet to come.

Janet Dailey To launch her career, Dailey set a novel in every state of the Union. She has since gone on to write approximately 90 novels, 21 of which have appeared on the New York Times bestseller list. E-Reads offers 64 titles including all 50 of the original Americanas.

Jennifer Blake, possessor of the Golden Treasure Award for Lifetime Achievement from Romance Writers of America, has been called the Steel Magnolia of women’s fiction. A seventh generation Louisianian, she sold her first book at 27 in 1970 and gained her first New York Times bestseller with Love’s Wild Desire. She has written over 50 books, and E-Reads has 36 of them, many of which evoke the author’s beloved South.

Hannah Howell‘s first book was published in 1988, and she has since published dozens of captivating romance novels. The 15 Highland romances offered by E-Reads are perpetually at the top of our bestseller list.

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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.

In Janet Dailey’s bestseller Rivals a love affair bursts into a battle between the sexes.

Flame Morgan, the high-class v-p of a San Francisco ad agency, is instantly attracted to Chance Stuart, a wealthy, powerful land developer. Chance romances her lavishly but withholds a damaging secret during their whirlwind courtship and quick marriage. Starting with the Oklahoma land rush there has been bad blood between the Stuart and Morgan clans but Chance has long desired Morgan’s Walk, a family estate that Flame has inherited. Flame believes that Chance only married her to get at Morgan’s Walk and blocks his ‘land grab.’

The story throbs with Dailey’s legendary mix of mystery, revenge, jet-set action and red-hot sex, plus Dailey’s tried and true formula for down-home color and sweet romance.

Colter Langston’s daughter Missy needs a mother, and Deirdre won’t do. She’s too sexy to play housewife. That’s why sweet, young Natalie Crane is so perfect. And when they are married, Colter decides he has to be honest with her about his heart: it’s cold. Natalie doesn’t know what to do–can she make him love her? Or will Deirdre lure him back into her arms? You’ll learn the answer in Fiesta San Antonio by Janet Dailey.

E-Reads carries almost sixty Janet Dailey romances. Check her author page and fill in your collection.

The Master Fiddler

Naïve Jacquie Grey thought that her life would just work itself out. But now that she’s stuck in Tombstone, Arizona without a dime, she’s beginning to rethink that strategy. Her vulnerability and gullible nature make Jacquie the perfect mark for handsome Choya Barnett, who can’t help but use her innocence to his advantage. Now that Jacquie’s body and soul are laid bare, will Choya regret his cruelty?

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The Ivory Cane

From the moment they met in the streets of San Francisco, Sabrina had mixed feelings about him. Bay Cameron was strong and noble, but insufferably rude. Moments after he saved her life, he had insulted her pride–an unforgivable crime as far as she was concerned. Sabrina Lane was blind, but she could easily see that this man brought out her most passionate impulses. She might even fall in love with him–if she could stand his company.

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In Sweet Promise, Erica Wakefield’s torrid past is behind her–she has finally escaped her self-destructive ways. She knows that she has found the perfect man: handsome, rich and completely in love with her. Forest is exactly what Erica’s millionaire father wants for his beautiful daughter. So why is this Texas spitfire still thinking about her estranged husband, Rafael de la Torres? Wasn’t the Mexican lover just a ploy to get Daddy’s attention? When Erica has to find Rafael and make him sign the divorce papers, she runs the risk that he will reignite the passion that smolders in her memory?

In Tangled Vines by Janet Dailey, elegant 90-year-old Katherine Rutledge runs her family’s Napa Valley winery. Her estranged son runs a rival winery and an alcoholic neighbor, Len Dougherty, lives on 10 acres of the Rutledge vineyard given to his family as compensation for the accidental death of his father. Meanwhile, beautiful, ambitious Kelly Douglas, a rising TV newscaster is assigned to prepare an in-depth report on the Rutledge winery, which is in negotiations to merge with a French winery. Kelly long ago escaped Dougherty, her physically abusive father and doesn’t want to go back home. Then, there’s a murder in which her father is the prime suspect while complications arise via a budding romance with Sam Rutledge, Katherine’s grandson and the manager of the Rutledge winery.

E-Reads publishes over fifty Janet Dailey novels. Visit her author page for a full selection.

A Valentine’s Day gift for Janet Dailey fans: E-Reads is happy to bring back her classic novel Aspen Gold.

Kit Masters, born and brought up on an Aspen ranch, left to pursue an acting career in Hollywood but she still possesses a strong sense of family, loyalty, and integrity and has deep ties to the land where she grew up. After ten years, she returns home to settle her father’s estate and realizes she must choose between her career and Tom Bannon, a man she has not seen for ten years, the man who broke her heart by marrying someone else—the man she still loves. Kit has gotten a golden opportunity, the lead role in a movie opposite famous actor-producer-and legendary seducer John Travis. The movie will be filming in Aspen. She meets Bannon again and they rediscover their romance even though she still feels the pain of his betrayal, while he is haunted by the memory of his dead wife. But now, Travis has begun to pursue Kit ardently.

E-Reads publishes over fifty Janet Dailey novels. Visit her author page for a full selection.

“I could write a better book than that!”

How many writing careers have started with that exclamation?

That’s just how it began for bestselling romance author Janet Dailey. The legend is that her husband Bill gazed at her and said, “Well, then, get off your behind and write one!” The book she turned out was No Quarter Asked and it launched a fabulously successful career whose terminus was the bestseller list. After too long out of print, E-Reads is happy to bring it back, both in print and e-book.

No Quarter Asked was published by Harlequin in 1974, making her the category romance giant’s first American author. She eventually wrote a total of 57 novels for Harlequin, including one set in every state of the Union. These later became known as “The Janet Dailey Americana Series.” The Daileys were instrumental in forming the Silhouette romance fiction line, for which Janet wrote 12 more titles before entering the single title field in 1979 with Touch the Wind, which marked her debut on the New York Times best seller list.

No Quarter Asked is the first of the Cord & Stacy Series which includes Fiesta San Antonio (1977) and For Bitter or Worse (1978).

To see all 57 of Janet Dailey’s early books, click here.

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This summer, E-Reads is proud to announce that 20 of our best-selling titles are now available in very special editions where you can order them to be printed with your own unique dedication messages and photos, thanks to the Inscribe-It services by Shared Book™, a new E-Reads distribution partner.

E-Reads uses Shared Book to provide consumers with the opportunity to make their favorite books even more valuable and special through the addition of personalized pages. These custom creations allow the reader’s affinity for the book to increase with the new version, an on-demand one-of-a-kind rarity. Simply type your own dedication and upload a picture from your computer when you shop for your book online at our Shared Book print-on-demand webstore.

What does the service cost? Actually, nothing! It’s included in the regular price of the book, and they have free shipping in the U.S.!

Among the titles presently available are our best-selling books by Greg Bear, Janet Dailey, Bill Dietz, Dave Duncan, Hannah Howell and John Norman. What are you waiting for? Buy your personalized, one-of-a-kind editions today! (Click here)

Heiress, the Janet Dailey novel breakout bestseller, is available once again. E-Reads has just issued it as a trade paperback, where it can be purchased on amazon.com. It’s also available as an e-book download.

In Heiress, two sisters meet at the funeral of one of the most prestigious men in the country, Dean Lawson, their father. Abbie Lawson, the dutiful genteel daughter bred in the lap of luxury and, Rachel Farr, a mistake born of a passionate love affair, are almost identical in appearance but are worlds apart. Only one daughter can be the heir to the endless oil fields and magnificent thoroughbreds. A fierce competition has arisen between the women, not only for the inheritance but also for the proof of a father’s love. They should have been devoted to each other as friends and sisters, but they have become the most embittered of enemies. The Texas men they love watch as the rivals tear themselves apart to become Dean Lawson’s heiress.

E-Reads publishes over fifty classic Janet Dailey Romances including the Americana Series, one novel set in every state in the union.

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