A Little Heat at the June Salon

To start off this summer, we are happy to bring you three more wonderful romances readings at the June Salon....

...BUT first, we're doing something a little different this month for one of our charities - Safe Space of North Carolina. They are looking for donations for their Thrift Shop, which helps to fund the charity. So instead of a slightly used romance novel, this month you can take the chance to de-clutter your space for Safe Space. So this month only,  you can bring a box or tightly tied bag of new or gently used clothes for admittance into the salon.  AND now back to our regularly scheduled blog...

Award winning author TAMMY FALKNER will read from her latest release - TALL, TATTED and TEMPTING.

She’s locked up tight. But he might be the key. 

Logan Reed is tall, tatted and tempting. Kit’s a woman with a mean right hook and a secret. 

Kit wants a tattoo, but Logan sees more than the pain and hopelessness in her drawing. He sees her. He sees her in ways no one ever has.

Logan’s not disabled; but he hasn’t spoken in eight years. He hasn’t needed to. Until he meets Kit. 

Logan doesn’t know everything about her. Kit doesn’t know anything about herself, until she has to sacrifice all she ever wanted to save what’s most important to him.

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MARI FREEMAN will be reading from DIRTY LITTLE FREAKS, (before it even hits the shelves!) the second in her Valkyrie's Vow series.

Valkyries have just three rules:

1. Claim your charge.

2. Deliver said charge.

3. Make a clean exit.

Such easy rules to follow—and even easier to break.

When Swan dawdles on the job, it leads to some hot ’n’ heavy fun with two sexy Spartans. And there could be a lot more…if a meddling sibling, a mad Valkyrie and a few animated corpses don’t ruin the mood.

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And GINA LAMM will read from her latest release THE GEEK GIRL AND THE SCANDALOUS EARL.

The Stakes Have Never Been Higher...

An avid gamer, Jamie Marten loves to escape into online adventure. But when she falls through an antique mirror into a lavish bedchamber—200 years in the past!—she realizes she may have escaped a little too far.

Micah Axelby, Earl of Dunnington, has just kicked one mistress out of his bed and isn't looking to fill it with another—least of all this sassy, nearly naked woman who claims to be from the future. Yet something about her is undeniably enticing...

Jamie and Micah are worlds apart. He's a peer of the realm. She can barely make rent. He's horse-drawn. She's Wi-Fi. But in the game of love, these two will risk everything to win.

A Season and A Night to Remember at Lady Jane's Salon RDU!

 We enjoyed a lovely Spring evening, grand company and readings from the Regency Historical Anthology, A Season to Remember.

Catherine Gayle started us off for the evening reading from her story, To Enchant an Icy Earl.














Ava Stone followed up with a spirited rendition of My Lord Hercules.

And Jerrica Knight-Catania-who traveled from Florida to read with us!- finished up with A Penny for Your Thoughts.


Thanks to all of you who attend and help us lift the genre and support our fabulous charities!

At the April Salon...

This is a first for us at Lady Jane's Salon Raleigh-Durham. While we always have three authors read aloud at LJS RDU, we haven't ever had three authors read from the same book. But there is a first for everything. Catherine Gayle, Ava Stone, and (all the way from Florida) Jerrica Knight-Catania will introduce us to the Bartlett family as each will read from their Regency anthology A SEASON TO REMEMBER.

In CATHERINE GAYLE’s To Enchant an Icy Earl...

As the Earl of Fordingham, Tristan Cavendish has lived by the code his father beat into him for so long he’s driven everyone in his life away, including his brother. Now he is alone. Loneliness dictates he must change, so he sets out to make amends with his only sibling. Alas, his brother seems none too inclined to hear him out, and a woman who must be a vision from Fordingham’s dreams walks into his path. Now, more than ever before, he knows he must change his ways or risk driving her away as well…but how?

Miss Calista Bartlett is on the hunt for a husband—but one who is nothing at all like the betrayer who was her former beau. When she sees the Earl of Fordingham across the room at a soiree, she knows she’s found the very man who is everything her one-time beau was not. Fordingham presents an icy façade to the world, but Calista discovers a passionate man who kisses her feverishly and warms her through to the bones. Can she ever convince him to let down his guard permanently?

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In AVA STONE’s My Lord Hercules...

Miss Miranda Bartlett is on a mission to locate her missing friend. Determined hoyden that she is, she’ll do whatever it takes to get the answers she seeks too, even if that means dressing like a dandy, sneaking into a gaming hell, and surrounding herself with London’s worst reprobates. However, she didn’t plan on bumping into a Herculean gentleman along the way. The handsome and honorable Lord Harrison Casemore immediately thwarts her plans and seems determined to save her at every turn, making it more than difficult to accomplish her task.

Ever since Harry Casemore spotted the exotic temptress trying to pass herself off as a fop, he’s been drawn to her. He hasn’t figured out what she’s after, but he’s fairly certain he’d sell his soul if she’d just let him help her with whatever it is.

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In JERRICA KNIGHT-CATANIA's A Penny For Your Thoughts...

Miss Penelope Bartlett has had a rough year, to say the least. She lost her eldest brother and her father in one fell swoop, and to make matters worse she had to miss out on her very first London Season. Now she's in the thick of the Little Season and all she wants to do is run away. It's torture to watch her siblings fall in love and she's simply not in the mood to make merry with all of them. Especially when they treat her as if she's still a little girl in leading strings. 


Enter Drake Lockwell, Viscount Flitwick. He, too, is typically eager to escape crowded ballrooms and matchmaking mamas in favor of his own company in a deserted garden or library. But a chance meeting in his brother’s garden one night changes everything. Miss Bartlett is young and impetuous, yet he can't help but fall prey to her charms. Perhaps she will be the one to finally mend the hole in his heart...

Or will his secrets be more than Penelope is able to handle?

Ringing in Spring at the March Salon!

What a great night of fabulous readers we had!

Jennifer Lohman, reading from her about-to-be-released The First Move

Jeanne Adams thrilling us with her romantic suspense, Deadly Charms
















Nancy Northcott, transporting us with her paranormal, Renegade

Many thanks to all of our guests.  Thanks for making it such fun!

At the March Salon...

It's St. Patty's Month at Lady Jane's Salon, and as always, we'll be celebrating romance at the Hibernian Irish Pub. So staying with that theme - if you're lucky, you know like if you have the Luck o' the Irish, you might get to hear the restaurant's manager say a few words with his lilting Irish accent. Either way, you'll certainly be lucky enough to hear...

NANCY NORTHCOTT will read from RENEGADE, the first book in her Protectors Series.

SHE ENFORCES THE RULES
 

As the mage council's sheriff for the southeastern United States, Valeria Banning doesn't just take her job seriously, she takes it personally. So when a notorious fugitive and supposed traitor risks his life to save hers, she has to wonder why. To find the answer, she’ll have to put everything on the line, starting with her heart.

HE BREAKS EVERY ONE OF THEM 

As a mage, Griffin Dare is sworn to protect innocents from dark magic, which is how he finds himself fighting side by side with the beautiful Valeria Banning. But when the council finds out the two have been working together, the pair must run for their lives--from the law, the threat of a ghoul takeover, and a possible council mole.

NOW THEY ARE EACH OTHER’S ONLY HOPE

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JEANNE ADAMS will read from DEADLY CHARMS, her most recent release.

Who is the woman with the charm bracelet and why is someone trying to kill her?

Murder and espionage are fairly common in Washington, DC, but when DOD Contractor Dr. Robert Jackson and his fiancée, Mira Alexander go missing from his posh home in a gated community, it's news. With two dead thugs, and a dead woman in his house, it's obviously foul play, and national security could be compromised. However, no one connects the battered Jane Doe, wearing only a charm bracelet and dumped in lonely, isolated Bannion County, Virginia, with the high-powered tech politics of Washington, DC.

With reluctant help from local jeweler Suzanne Packe, Bannion County Sheriff Reece Bowen must unravel the identity of the unconscious Jane Doe through the only clue he has - her heavy, ornate silver charm bracelet. But the killer is working to find her as well. The killer will use her as leverage to get Dr. Jackson to give up technical secrets, or as proof that the killer will do anything - including killing Mira - to get what he wants. Can Reece and Suzanne identify her in time to protect her? With the FBI and Homeland Security closing in, can the killer get to Robert and Mira, and carry out his plan? Sparks fly and national security hangs in the balance as Suzanne and Reece work together to uncover Mira's identity before the killer finds her...

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And JENNIFER LOHMANN will read from THE FIRST MOVE, which will be on the shelves next month!

An unlikely encounter…but he’ll take it! 

It seems like fate…or something! When Miles Brislenn spies the girl he had a crush on in high school-at his ex-wife’s wedding, no less-he can’t let the opportunity pass. He might not have had the courage to talk to Renia Milek back then, but he definitely does now. And that’s not the only thing that’s changed. Gone is the rebel Renia used to be. In her place is a beautiful woman who’s reserved, cautious…and holding on to secrets. For Miles, this second chance with Renia is too important to let her past stand in their way. He’ll do whatever is necessary to help her accept her choices and move on-even if that means a salsa lesson or two! Because now that he’s made the first move, he wants the second to be hers.

February 2013 Salon

Many thanks to our readers and guests for a fun night!

Erin Knightley reading from A Taste for Scandal

















Marquita Valentine (and her Mom) had everyone in stitches reading from Drive Me Crazy

Claudia Dain reading from A Chance Encounter from the anthology An Encounter at the Museum

We laughed all night, ladies!   Thank you for a great evening!

It's February at the Salon...

Happy Valentine's Month...

And speaking of Valentine's, this month at Lady Jane's Salon Raleigh-Durham, we're happy to have MARQUITA VALENTINE reading from her latest release DRIVE ME CRAZY, from her new Going the Distance series.

NASCAR racer, Carter Ambrose, has finally decided to take his doctor’s advice and find a new occupation before another wreck on the track kills him. Only his doctor hadn’t counted on his little sister’s best friend, Melanie Ann Smith, crashing his weeks of solitude with her short skirts and platform heels. And that’s not the least of his problems. His mother has decided that she wants grandchildren and the only woman that's good enough for the job-his ex-fiance.

Twenty-four year old Troublemaker Extraordinaire, Melanie Ann Smith, isn’t asking for much out of life: a house without wheels, to travel further than her home state and her best friend’s older brother, Carter Ambrose. Only three things stand in her way: juggling all of her odd jobs, keeping her daddy from gambling away all of their money and getting Carter to see her as a woman.

Soon Melanie and Carter agree to a temporary relationship. One with benefits that is mutually satisfying in every way, or so each believes. And just when they are ready admit their feelings, family secrets are exposed, threatening Melanie and Carter's fragile relationship.

Will Carter risk it all for love, or will Melanie be left holding the trophy for second place?

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Up next will be ERIN KNIGHTLEY, reading from A TASTE FOR SCANDAL, her latest Sealed With a Kiss release...

A TEMPTING DIVERSION
Things have always fallen into place for Richard Moore, Earl of Raleigh. His good looks, abundance of charm, and the small matter of being heir to a marquisate make him quite the catch. So when a delectable young woman wants nothing to do with him, he can't help but seize the irresistible challenge.

AN UNLIKELY COURTSHIP
Jane Bunting knows all about responsibility—she has managed to support herself and her brother with their bakery—but she knows nothing of excitement or passion. When dashing Lord Raleigh crosses the threshold of her shop, she has no idea of the potential danger to her reputation . . . or to her heart.

AN IMPOSSIBLE MATCH
Neither imagined things would go so far—until the night their worlds collide, irrevocably changing both their lives. But when duty calls for Richard, and with everything Jane has worked for suddenly at stake, will their taste for scandal be their downfall?

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And finally, Lady Jane's Salon Raleigh-Durham's own CLAUDIA DAIN will read from her latest Regency novella  A CHANCE ENCOUNTER which can be found in the anthology An Encounter at the Museum. (And for those of you out there who have been waiting - patiently, or otherwise - for the next installment in Claudia's Courtesan Chronicles, your wait is over!) 

Jamie Caversham is a bastard, quite literally. He is bound for Canada and a new life after one last visit to the British Museum . . .  where he meets Elizbeth Ardenzy. 

Elizabeth is betrothed (nearly), her life planned to perfection by her father. Unless a bastard convinces her her to run away to Canada first.