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FRIENDS BECOME LOVERS IN LAURA FLORAND’S CROWN OF BITTER ORANGE Book 3 – La Vie en Roses – on sale January 24, 2016 “Silky and addictive.” – RT Book Reviews Laura Florand, bestselling author of The Chocolate Kiss, combines lush description, smart dialogue, provocative sensuality, and the perfume of love itself in A Crown of Bitter Orange , an irresistibly lush novel that is an ode to the scents and pleasures of the south of France and the beauty of falling in love. Childhood friends . Tristan Rosier might have asked Malorie Monsard to marry him when he was five years old, but things had only gone downhill from there. She’d spent the rest of their lives ignoring him, abandoning him, and destroying his perfumes. Now she was back, to wreak who knew what havoc on his life. Lifelong enemies. Tristan might choose to dismiss the generations-long enmity between their two families, but Malorie didn’t have that privilege. Like all the other privileges wealthy, gorg...

We are absolutely thrilled to bring you the Release Week Blitz  for Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie’s AMERICA’S FIRST DAUGHTER , a historical fiction novel is published by William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins, and releasing March 1, 2016! AMERICA’S FIRST DAUGHTER is a compelling, richly researched novel by bestselling authors Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie. Drawing from thousands of letters and original sources, the authors reveal the fascinating, untold story of Martha “Patsy” Jefferson Randolph, Thomas Jefferson’s eldest daughter.  Patsy was one of the most influential women in American history: not only the progeny of a founding father – and the woman who held his secrets close to her heart – but a key player in the shaping of our nation’s legacy.  And her story is one seldom told, until now.  Make sure you grab your copy today!     Amazon  |  Barnes & Noble  |  iBooks  |  Kobo   Add it...

THE ULTIMATE FANTASY ESCAPE IN LAURA FLORAND’S CHASE ME Book 2 – Paris Nights – on sale April 2016 “Silky and addictive.” – RT Book Reviews CHASE ME by Laura Florand April 2016 / Ebook & Trade Paperback / Original / Fiction $4.99 ebook /  978-1-943168-04-0 /  $14.99 trade /  978-1-943168-06-4 Author Residence: Durham, NC About Chase Me Laura Florand, bestselling author of  The Chocolate Thief,  combines smart dialogue, provocative sensuality, laughter, a touch of danger, and two irresistibly strong characters in  Chase Me , an ode to the romance of Paris and the beauty of falling in love.  A Michelin two-star chef at twenty-eight, Violette Lenoir could handle anything, including a cocky burglar who broke into her restaurant in the middle of the night. Or so she thought. Elite counterterrorist operative Chase “Smith” had been through things that made Hell Week look easy. But nothing had prepared him for...

THE ULTIMATE FANTASY ESCAPE IN LAURA FLORAND’S A WISH UPON JASMINE Book 2 – La Vie en Roses – on sale August 2015 “Silky and addictive.” – RT Book Reviews Laura Florand , bestselling author of The Chocolate Kiss combines lush description, smart dialogue, provocative sensuality, and the perfume of love itself in A Wish Upon Jasmine , an irresistibly lush novel that is an ode to the scents and pleasures of the south of France and the beauty of falling in love. Ruthless. That was what they said about Damien Rosier. Handsome. Wealthy. Powerful. Merciless. No one messed with his family, because to do so they would have to get through him. No one thought he had a heart. Not even the woman he gave his to. Cynical. That was what they said about Jasmin Bianchi. A top perfumer of her generation, Jess had achieved  commercial success by growing a protective shell over a tender heart. The one time she cracked it open to let Damien in, he crushed it—a...

Secret of a Thousand Beauties begins with quite an engaging biting humor on its narrative. It was just too funny! However, this promising tone gradually fell into a kind of pervasive somberness at which point, one may understandably drop the book or continue on for curiosity. I pushed on and was rewarded with such a dramatic and piercing story. It is a coming of age and at the same time almost a saga as it details the span of many years. Set in 1930s China, our heroine, Spring Swallow, embarks on a hastened journey to independence to escape the unfair circumstance brought to her by tradition. Out of chance, her luck turns and yet perhaps only marginally better. We are then introduced to other secondary characters and one of them is the indomitable Aunty Peony whose past held secrets of her own. The heartbreaking journey of Spring Swallow etched in my mind and lingered throughout that I imagined myself reading the book with a bowed head that I could no longer lift from the bu...

It’s my third novel of Susan Vreeland and I believe I’m not stopping anytime soon. Known for her portrayal of women artists like Gentileschi and Carr, in Lisette’s List, Vreeland veered away from that premise. Instead of depicting an artist’s life, she draws the few infamous artists’ personalities through the memories of an old man who is adamant to share his past to his young grand daughter-in-law. Not quite as riveting as her other books. Still, there are things to be engaged on. Lisette’s List displays a dynamic portrait of a small town in Vichy France before the tumult of the Second World War and its residents. Pascal’s little dribbles on the personas of infamous artists he met when he was young allows for a fascinating glimpse of their art life and philosophies. Lisette and I didn't warm up instantaneously to each other but through her list, there was a gradual connection as she comes into her own and grows fond of her quirky neighbors. There's a scatter of sor...

"Find a map of British Columbia.” The rugged coasts of Pacific Northwest are almost familiar to me now. I came across its breathtaking and raw beauty when I first read Susan Vreeland’s The Forest Lover of where she waxed poetic about it. So here again I meet the majestic mountains, the dark forests, the tumultuous sea, the mystical dreams and the people of Kitamaat who breathe life into the book. Monkey Beach tells the nostalgic recollections of Lisa Marie, a young Native American woman from Haisla, as she sailed to the sea in search of her missing brother. Her hasty journey is fraught with peril and reminiscences which eventually bring light to the unfolding drama and mystery surrounding her family, her brother’s death, her unique supernatural gift and the social struggle of the residents in their remote Indian village being at a cultural crossroads. This originally came out more than a decade ago and I would have totally missed it had it not been published ag...