BOOKS BY MY FRIENDS
LORI ANN BAILEY, JACQUELINE DIAMOND, LINDA ROSEN, AND GERRY WILSON
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November 23, 2023
Welcome to Books By My Friends! Today we’re featuring LORI ANN BAILEY, JACQUELINE DIAMOND, LINDA ROSEN, AND GERRY WILSON
BOOK: Surrender of a Highland Smuggler
AUTHOR: LORI ANN BAILEY
GENRE: Historical Romance
BLURB: Surrender of a Highland Smuggler A Wicked Highland Misfits novel: Book Four After being pawned off from one relative to the next, all Olivia Ledford desires is to find a stable place to call home. When at her favorite cousin’s request, Olivia returns to Aberdeen, Scotland, she is forced to re-live the worst night of her life and the death of the only man she’s ever loved. To her surprise, she finds Callum alive and still involved in the business that has destroyed everything she’s held dear. An undeniable yearning for what they’d once shared has her doubting herself and the marriage proposal she’s just received from a man willing to give her the stability she’s always craved. Olivia wants to get lost in Callum’s familiar embrace and find out if they could still have a future together, but first, she needs to turn back time and discover the truth of what happened on that fateful evening. Is the danger that haunted their past still lurking in the shadows? Callum Campbell has closed off his heart. The people he’s counted on have abandoned him when he needed them most–his parents and friends, but what destroyed him was when Olivia deserted him. Now, when Callum’s twin, the only person he can rely on, vanishes, Olivia returns to Aberdeen and inserts herself in his effort to find his lost brother. Having Olivia near stirs all the longings for a family, a legitimate occupation, and a life with the woman he still loves that he’d locked away when she’d left. Callum wants to cling to the warmth and reassurance her presence brings, but the wounded part of him reminds him that she did the one thing he can’t forgive. Will accepting her help lead him down the road to devastation? Books in the series: To Have a Highland Thief To Covet a Highland Criminal To Save a Highland Sinner Surrender of a Highland Smuggler
Note from the author: Open door, spicy
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Lori Ann Bailey is a best-selling author and winner of the National Readers’ Choice Award and Holt Medallion for Best First Book and Best Historical. Lori writes hunky highland heroes and strong-willed independent lasses finding their perfect matches in the Highlands of historic Scotland. Lori co-hosts the weekly podcasts, History, Books and Wine and Crime Feast. When not writing, reading or sharing her love of history, and romance or her fascination with true crime, Lori enjoys time with her real-life hero and four kids or spending time walking or drinking wine with her friends.
BOOK: The Secrets She Learns
AUTHOR: JACQUELINE DIAMOND
GENRE: Contemporary Romance
BLURB: Shocking secrets, unexpected love, a cold-case mystery—and a nosy beagle!
At the age of 50, nurse Anni discovers via a DNA test that she has two half sisters, both of whom were hurt by a con man who has disappeared. Determined to bring her new family together and unravel the past, she hires a handsome P.I., and gets more than she bargained for. That includes his newly adopted dog, who isn’t shy about digging up evidence.
Former police detective Jon, now in business for himself, is frustrated by the one who got away, a swindler who tricked folks including Jon’s own mother out of their savings. His new neighbor, appealingly warm-spirited Anni, is more than the perfect client. She’s also a woman who sends the barriers around his heart crashing to the ground.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: USA Today bestselling author Jacqueline Diamond writes riveting novels that entertain, excite and satisfy the reader. She's sold romantic comedies, medical romances, Regency romances and mysteries—more than 100 titles! A former Associated Press reporter and TV columnist, Jackie is best known for her Safe Harbor Medical romance and mystery series, her Downhome Doctors series, and her Regency romances. Jackie has been honored with a Romantic Times Career Achievement Award and is a two-time Rita Award finalist.
She currently writes Better Late Romances featuring couples over 50. The first title in her Sisters, Lovers & Second Chances series is Really? At Your Age?, followed by Don't Be Silly! At My Age? The third entry, Going Home, At Your Age? will be released later in 2022.
Her books include six Regency romances such as A Lady's Point of View, romantic comedies including Designer Genes, and fast-paced romantic mysteries. Among them are His Secret Son and The Baby's Bodyguard. If you're looking for family-themed romances, please check out the Harmony Circle four-book series, which starts with The Family Next Door, and her Downhome Doctor books, beginning with The Police Chief's Lady.
Jackie has been happily married for more than 40 years and lives in Southern California. Her favorite hobbies are reading (of course!) and growing flowers and vegetables.
BOOK: The Emerald Necklace
AUTHOR: LINDA ROSEN
GENRE: Historical Fiction
BLURB: Three months after her husband's death in 1969, Rosalee Linoff is determined to jump back into life.
For her, that means returning to her art. She desperately wants to be accepted as a talented sculptor, but that requires she dig up the courage to submit her work again - and be judged. Her paralyzing insecurity mounts when she meets her new neighbor, best-selling author Fran Barish.
Fran has the recognition Rosalee craves. But Rosalee's joy with her children, especially her granddaughter, Jill, eats at Fran, a constant reminder of her childlessness. A spiral of mutual envy ensues. It constantly bubbles below the surface of their friendship and is intensified by Fran's long held secret - and her inexplicable fascination with Jill's emerald necklace.
As Jill starts college, Rosalee worries about the choices her granddaughter might make. But Jill's passion for women's rights makes Grandma proud. Together with Rosalee's friends, they travel to New York City for the Women's Strike for Equality - which further escalates the tension between Rosalee and Fran.
When Jill's convictions are tested, Rosalee faces a dilemma. Does she dare trust Fran to help? Will their mutual jealousy make that impossible? Or will the story behind Jill's emerald bind them together?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Linda Rosen lives with her husband in New Jersey, but when the leaves fall and she has to swap sandals for shoes and socks, they're off to their home in Florida. She is the author of The Disharmony of Silence and Sisters of the Vine. Linda is a member of the Women's Fiction Writers Association and The Women's National Book Association where she is co-coordinator of their Great Group Reads committee and founder of the South Florida chapter. In addition, she is a founding member of The Author Talk Network and an administrator of the Facebook Group, Bookish Road Trip, and editor of their newsletter, Wanderlust.
BOOK: That Pinson Girl
AUTHOR: GERRY WILSON
GENRE: Literary Historical Fiction
BLURB: In a bleak MS farmhouse in 1918, Leona Pinson gives birth to an illegitimate son whose father she refuses to name, but who will, she believes, return from the war to rescue her from a hardscrabble life with a distant mother, a dangerous brother, and a dwarf aunt. When instead her lover returns with a wife in tow, her dreams are shattered. As her brother’s violence escalates and her aunt flees, Leona must rely on the help of Luther Biggs, the son of her grandfather and one of his former slaves, to protect her child. Told against the backdrop of the deprivation of World War I, the tragedies of the influenza epidemic, and the burden of generations of betrayal, That Pinson Girl unfolds in lyrical, unflinching prose, engaging timeless issues of racism, sexism, and poverty.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Debut novelist at 82! 7th generation Mississippian. Former high school English teacher.
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