Book View Café’s 5th Anniversary Celebration
Edited by Pati Nagle and Deborah J. Ross
$5.99 (Anthology) ISBN 978-1-61138-337-9
Book View Café celebrates its fifth anniversary with an anthology of our favorite stories. From the fantasy and science fiction of our roots to steampunk, romance, historical and mainstream; from humor to life’s hardest challenges, across the spectrum from light to dark. Stories by Ursula K. Le Guin, Vonda N. McIntyre, David D. Levine, and many more.
As You Wish Series, Book 1
by Mindy Klasky
$0.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-333-1
(Previously released as How Not to Make a Wish.)
Stage manager Kira Franklin discovers a brass lamp in the back of a prop closet, complete with a gender-bending, wish-granting genie. Her first wish is easy – a job on a prestigious avant-garde production of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.
Regency Love and Laughter, Book 4
by Patricia Rice
$4.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-242-6
“Mac” MacTavish impulsively steals his late sister’s neglected children, only to discover it’s easier to handle a clipper in a hurricane than steer two ornery brats. What he needs is a nanny until he can take the children back to his parents in America.
Knowing herself to be too plain and large to attract a husband, Bea Cavendish has settled for a quiet life of feathering her father’s nest—until he dies, and she’s left with an estate she doesn’t know how to manage. Alone and terrified, she doesn’t know what to make of the very big, very angry man appearing at her door with two adorable hooligans in tow.
by Madeleine Robins
$3.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-050-7
In her father’s household Althea Ervine was used to having the running of things–until her father disowned her (again) and Althea fled to her sister’s home in London. For the first time in her life Althea gave herself up to the gaiety of a purely social life, to the theatre and parties and the admiration of young men.
Diamond Brides
by Mindy Klasky
$2.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-457-4
A hot baseball romance.
Teetering on the brink of success as a patent lawyer, Amanda Carter is courting financial disaster. She’s juggling her family’s crippling medical expenses and a huge payment to join her law firm partners – nearly impossible burdens because her father stole her identity. If she doesn’t pay up and win her current case, everything she’s worked for will crash to a humiliating end.
A Liars in Love Romantic Comedy
by Jennifer Stevenson
$4.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-737-7
A BVC Original
Love is lovelier the second time around…isn’t it?
Connie knew Vince while they were married to other people. Twenty-five years of Sunday poker and mint juleps, the four of them. Now she’s a widow and he’s divorcing (again) and everything they thought they knew about each other, and themselves, is changing.
Regency Love and Laughter, Book 3
by Patricia Rice
$4.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-699-8
Eldest daughter of an eccentric art collector, Arianne Richards has become the caretaker of the family’s empty coffers and her irrepressible siblings. Discovering a hidden painting, she is determined to sell it to obtain the funds to send her ill mother into the country. But why does her aristocratic cousin’s suitor, the handsome and wealthy Lord Galen Locke, show so much interest in her humble person? And why does he so badly want the mysterious painting?
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Unexpected Magic: Book 4
by Patricia Rice
$6.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-661-5
A BVC Original
Brighid Darrow, Countess of Carstairs, has endured years of a loveless marriage in order to aid her friends and the people of Northridge. Yet once she is widowed, the village shuns her with accusations of witchcraft–vilifying her unique gift of reading auras. Released from past restraints, Bridey rebelliously embraces her dream of establishing a forbidden school for midwives.
Book 5 of Crystal Magic
by Patricia Rice
$6.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-780-3
A BVC Original
A chef who brews magic challenges a mayor with secrets.
After a childhood of being tossed from foster homes for claiming she can detect liars by their scent, Fiona Malcolm McDonald does her best to conceal her secret these days. But when she sniffs a wrongdoer and drives him off with jalapeno cheesecake, she loses still another cooking job and is homeless again. She places her last hope on her mentor in Hillvale, a town as weird as she is.
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by Patricia Burroughs
$2.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-279-2
When sexy, buttoned-down numbers guy Jeff gets sucked into Cecilia’s sticky, single-mom universe, his life turns inside out. Her checkbook’s a nightmare, her oldest kid hates him, and she’s messy, mouth-watering, independent, and annoyingly unforgettable. He can’t stay away.
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by Marissa Doyle
$4.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-718-6
A BVC Original
The best-laid plans, even of princesses, can go awry…very, very awry.
Seventeen-year-old Saraid of Thekla is on her way to marry the ruler of far-off Mauburni. But she’s not sobbing into her silk-curtained litter at the thought of leaving home, because she has plans–and The Book. She’s studied this ancient treatise on the art of kingship for months to make herself the ideal queen for her adopted country.
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Wild Hearts Collection: Book 3
by Doranna Durgin
$4.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-707-0
The Wild Hearts Collection: Clever, strong, high-action heroines–a taste of Alias, Buffy, Xena, and Covert Affairs, including heroes who are strong enough to capture these wild hearts
RULE #1: FAMILY COMES FIRST
RULE#2: IF YOU BELONG TO KIMMER REED’S FAMILY, IGNORE RULE #1
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by Jill Zeller
$7.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-345-4
A drug made of living souls. Is immortality worth the cost?
A black market in souls; their essence, known secretly as Bijou, bestows the illusion of youth to those who can afford it. Annie Novak and her family have long sought to protect the dying and the newly dead from soul-theft, but a new and unimaginable threat has appeared; someone is stealing souls from those who are not yet dead, and the distilled infusion of Bijou Xtra provides long, long life.
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Tales of Love and Mystery: Book 1
by Patricia Rice
$4.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-185-6
Pippa Cochran flees an abusive boyfriend only to end up working for a man everyone calls the Grim Reaper–and not just because he’s a bestselling author of horror novels.
Fame and fortune are cold comfort for Seth Wyatt, a man whose inner demons have him living on a volatile precipice–even before someone tries to murder him.
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by Marissa Doyle
$4.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-659-2
Whom the gods love…
After three soul-destroying years of teaching unenthusiastic middle-schoolers, Theodora Fairchild is thrilled to be a student again, pursuing her doctorate in Latin. She’s sure John Winthrop University will be the intellectual home she’s always longed for, the place where she’ll finally fit in. But her teaching days aren’t quite over: Theo starts giving “humanities” lessons to sweetly nerdy post-doc Grant Proctor–and loses her heart.
Tales of Love and Mystery: Book 5
by Patricia Rice
$4.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-296-9
Alys Seagraves has lost a home and a husband–she’s not about to lose her best friend, Mame. The elderly widow disappears from her hospital bed with only the slightest of clues to her whereabouts. With no transportation or understanding of where Mame has gone, Alys commandeers her friend’s ancient pink Cadillac and uptight nephew, Elliot Ross, to aid in her search.
As much as he loves the unpredictable aunt who raised him, Elliot is furious with Mame. He refuses to listen to the ludicrous fears of an obviously neurotic female who thinks she knows more than qualified professionals–whether they be doctors, like him, or the police. But as she drags him from his comfort zone on a mad ride down historic Route 66, he realizes Alys has more insight into his aunt’s dangerous path than he does.
Battling blizzards and murderous semi-drivers, they follow Mame’s trail in a last dash to save her life–and their own.
Originally published by Random House (2002)
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Nobody’s Angel
Volcano
California Girl
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Diamond Brides #2
by Mindy Klasky
$2.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-368-3
Anna Benson is an eager “May” to Zach Ormond’s downright sexy “December”…
At age thirty-seven, Zach is a veteran catcher in the last years of his contract, grateful for a no-trade clause that will let him retire a star in Raleigh. Twenty-five-year-old Anna has grown up in the Rockets’ front office; her grandfather has long groomed her to take over the team.
Diamond Brides #8
by Mindy Klasky
$2.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-442-0
Actress Lindsey Ormond has always followed the rules – be nice, keep quiet, and never, ever get involved with a bad boy. But her good behavior has yielded lousy results – she was just left at the altar for the second time in two years.
Raleigh Rockets center fielder Ryan Green keeps life simple – play ball, have fun, and keep an eye on his recently widowed father. When Ryan attends Lindsey’s disaster of a wedding, another sizzling task hits his to-do list – help Lindsey learn how to break the rules.
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Unexpected Magic: Book 5
by Patricia Rice
$6.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-666-0
A BVC Original
A dying viscount, a bookish botanist, and the marriage of convenience that becomes… inconvenient…
Diagnosed with consumption, Viscount “Devil” Dare knows his days are numbered. With his greedy cousin scheming to throw Dare’s mother and sisters out of their home after his death, he can hardly refuse a mysterious lady’s solution–wedding vows.
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Rogues and Desperadoes Book 6
by Patricia Rice
$4.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-633-2
Maria Connolly has courage and beauty, but does she have what it takes to fight cattle thieves and a handsome but deadly gunfighter her father hired before he died?
Artistic Demons: Book 1
by Irene Radford
$4.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-756-8
A BVC Original
What’s a Psychic Vampire to do when she discovers the judge of her dancing competition is the ex-lover who staked her?
Living in the shadows, Psychic Vampire Janet Dryer was a killer addicted to Soul Fire–until her lover tried to kill her at Woodstock in 1969. These days, she haunts exotic night clubs and draws energy from throbbing drums.
And Other Tales
by Pati Nagle
$5.99 (Short Story Collection)
ISBN 978-1-61138-033-0
From the dark depths of the past to the bright hopes of the future, Pati Nagle’s stories range across the palette of human emotion.
Named for her Theodore Sturgeon Award Finalist story, Coyote Ugly includes fantasy, science fiction, historical fiction, romance, mystery, and a few surprises.
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Regency Love and Laughter, Book 1
by Patricia Rice
$4.99 (Collection) ISBN 978-1-61138-697-4
Three novellas and a short story from Regency author Patricia Rice:
“The Borrowed Groom”
A bride-to-be’s sister borrows the groom left standing at the altar.
“Deceiving Appearances”
A work of art leads a lonely gentleman to his worst nightmare and a chance at love.
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by Sherwood Smith
$4.95 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-071-2
Sherwood Smith’s most popular young adult fantasy begins with Meliara and her brother vowing to free Remalna from an evil king. War is tougher than it seemed.
When Meliara is caught by the enemy commander, the elegant Marquis of Shevraeth, it’s escape or die. Afterward, Meliara faces a tougher challenge: the battlefield is no longer mud and steel, but palaces, the weapons manners and fans.
Toughest of all is courtship, when the one who catches her heart is an enemy.
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Crystal Magic: Book 3
by Patricia Rice
$6.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-739-1
A BVC Original
He is Earth, she is Air, together they catch Fire….
Mariah lives off the grid by waitressing, weaving ghostcatchers to send Hillvale’s ghosts across the veil, and keeping clear of electronics that haunt her–until the day her friend and mentor, Crazy Daisy, is murdered, and Mariah goes on the hunt for a killer.
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Slacker Demons Book Three
by Jennifer Stevenson
$5.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-490-1
Defrocked Hindu love god seeks virgin amnesiac runaway bride.
Sent to Los Angeles by her Delhi family when she was only nine, Rathi grows up into a prim, virginal overachiever. Now she’s a lonely, workaholic attorney in a high-power women’s rights firm in Chicago. Just having coffee with the mailroom boy would be a career-limiting move.
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by Sherwood Smith
$4.95 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-193-1
A light-hearted Regency folly, starring Miss Clarissa Harlowe who wants a quiet life-but falls in love with a smuggler, the marquess of St. Tarval.
Tarval’s sister, Lady Kitty, is determined to write a dramatic Gothic to save her brother’s mortgaged estate-if she can reach London.
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Dark Lords and Dangerous Ladies: Book 4
by Patricia Rice
$4.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-247-1
Previously published as Touched By Magic
She was woman enough to tempt a saint–and lady enough to be dangerous
Lady Cassandra Howard has frequented gambling hells as her father’s lucky charm since childhood – but luck ran out along the way. Now, her brother intends to sell her into marriage with a wealthy, dissolute rake. Cass has done many things for her family, but this won’t be one of them.
Book 3 of The Epona Sequence
by Judith Tarr
$4.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-430-7
Long years after the White Mare came to the people of the Mothers, bringing the wild horsemen from the sea of grass and changing the world forever, the world is changing again. The Mother of Lir is dead, her heir cast out amid dire omens. War is coming–such a war as the people have never seen, fought with a new and terrible weapon: the chariot.
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by Patricia Rice
$4.99 (Novel)
ISBN 978-1-61138-101-6
Samantha Neely thought she might have to kill Sloan Talbott. Talbott had already tried to run her and her family out of town, and now she finally had her chance to confront the man she believed responsible for her father’s disappearance. To do so, she had to prove she was woman enough to bring down the handsomest, most sinfully dangerous man she’d ever met.
