Tessa Dare’s new romance trilogy is coming out this summer, and we are so excited!

One Dance With a Duke will be on tour in June-

In One Dance with a Duke—the first novel in Tessa Dare’s delightful new trilogy—secrets and scandals tempt the irresistible rogues of the Stud Club to gamble everything for love.

A handsome and reclusive horse breeder, Spencer Dumarque, the fourth Duke of Morland, is a member of the exclusive Stud Club, an organization so select it has only ten members—yet membership is attainable to anyone with luck. And Spencer has plenty of it, along with an obsession with a prize horse, a dark secret, and, now, a reputation as the dashing “Duke of Midnight.” Each evening he selects one lady for a breathtaking midnight waltz. But none of the women catch his interest, and nobody ever bests the duke—until Lady Amelia d’Orsay tries her luck.

In a moment of desperation, the unconventional beauty claims the duke’s dance and unwittingly steals his heart. When Amelia demands that Spencer forgive her scapegrace brother’s debts, she never imagines that her game of wits and words will lead to breathless passion and a steamy proposal. Still, Spencer is a man of mystery, perhaps connected to the shocking murder of the Stud Club’s founder. Will Amelia lose her heart in this reckless wager or win everlasting love?

TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for One Dance with a Duke

Tuesday, Jun 1st: The Book Binge

Monday, June 7th: Borders True Romance Blog

Tuesday, June 8th: Life of a Busy Wife

Monday, June 14th: Pop Culture Junkie

Tuesday, June 15th: Rundpinne

Thursday, June 17th: Book Junkie – interview and giveaway

Thursday, June 17th:  Book Junkie – review

Monday, June 21st: Book-Lover Carol - guest post

Monday, June 21st:  Book-Lover Carol – review

Wednesday, June 23rd: Princess Bookie

Thursday, June 24th: Excess Baggage

Twice Tempted by a Rogue will be on tour in July-

The daring members of the Stud Club are reckless gamblers and no strangers to risk—until love raises the stakes in Twice Tempted by a Rogue.

Luck is a double-edged sword for brooding war hero Rhys St. Maur. His death wish went unanswered on the battlefield, while fate allowed the murder of his good friend in the elite gentlemen’s society known as the Stud Club. Out of options, Rhys returns to his ancestral home on the moors of Devonshire, expecting anything but a chance at redemption in the arms of a beautiful innkeeper who dares him to take on the demons of his past—and the sweet temptation of a woman’s love.

Meredith Maddox believes in hard work, not fate, and romance isn’t part of her plan. But when Rhys returns, battle-scarred, world-weary, and more dangerously attractive than ever, the lovely widow is torn between determination and desire. As a deep mystery and dangerous smugglers threaten much more than their passionate reckoning, Meredith discovers that she must trust everything to a wager her heart placed long ago.

TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for Twice Tempted by a Rogue

Thursday, July 1st: Pop Culture Junkie

Tuesday, July 6th: The Book Binge

Thursday, July 8th: Rundpinne

Friday, July 9th: Simply Stacie

Monday, July 12th: Ticket to Anywhere

Wednesday, July 14th: Love, Romance, Passion

Wednesday, July 21st: Borders True Romance Blog

Friday, July 23rd: Laughing Through the Chaos

Monday, July 26th: The Cajun Book Lady

Three Nights With a Scoundrel will be on tour in August-

The men of the Stud Club live and play by their own rules—until passion changes the game.

The bastard son of a nobleman, Julian Bellamy is now polished to perfection, enthralling the ton with wit and charm while clandestinely plotting to ruin the lords, ravish the ladies, and have the last laugh on a society that once spurned him. But after meeting Leo Chatwick, a decent man and founder of an elite gentlemen’s club, and Lily, Leo’s enchanting sister, Julian reconsiders his wild ways. And when Leo’s tragic murder demands that Julian hunt for justice, he vows to see the woman he secretly loves married to a man of her own class.

Lily, however, has a very different husband in mind. She’s loved Julian forever, adores the man beneath the rakish façade, and wants to savor the delicious attraction they share—as his wife. His insistence on marrying her off only reinforces her intent to prove that he is the only man for her. Obsessed with catching a killer, Julian sinks back to the gutters of his youth, forcing Lily to reach out with a sweet, reckless passion Julian can’t resist. Can her desire for a scoundrel save them both—or will dangerous secrets threaten more than their tender love

TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for Three Nights with a Scoundrel

Monday, August 2nd: The Book Binge

Tuesday, August 3rd: Luxury Reading

Wednesday, August 4th: Babbling About Books, and More

Friday, August 6th: Borders True Romance Blog

Monday, August 9th: Pop Culture Junkie

Wednesday, August 11th: Rundpinne

Monday, August 16th: The Brain Lair

Wednesday, August 18th: The Book Faery

About Tessa Dare

Photo © Raphael Maglonzo

Tessa Dare a part-time librarian, full-time mommy, and swing-shift writer. She makes her home in Southern California, where she shares a cozy, cluttered bungalow with her husband, their two children, and a dog.

Connect with Tessa:

On her website

On Twitter

On Facebook

Leopold Bloom King has been raised in a family shattered—and shadowed—by tragedy. Lonely and adrift, he searches for something to sustain him and finds it among a tightly knit group of high school outsiders. Surviving marriages happy and troubled, unrequited loves and unspoken longings, hard-won successes and devastating breakdowns, as well as Charleston, South Carolina’s dark legacy of racism and class divisions, these friends will endure until a final test forces them to face something none of them are prepared for.

Spanning two turbulent decades, South of Broad is Pat Conroy at his finest: a masterpiece from a great American writer whose passion for life and language knows no bounds.

About Pat Conroy

Pat Conroy is the bestselling author of nine books: The Boo, The Water is Wide, The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, The Prince of Tides, Beach Music, My Losing Season, The Pat Conroy Cookbook: Recipes of My Life and South of Broad. He lives in Fripp Island, South Carolina.

Visit Pat Conroy’s website for more info about his work.

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Pat Conroy’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS:

Thursday, April 1st:  Jen’s Book Thoughts

Monday, April 5th:  Lit and Life

Tuesday, April 6th:  Rundpinne

Wednesday, April 7th:  Meanderings and Muses

Friday, April 9th:  Luxury Reading

Monday, April 12th:  Books and Cooks

Tuesday, April 13th:  The Brain Lair

Wednesday, April 14th: Po(sey) Sessions

Thursday, April 15th:  Raging Bibliomania

Monday, April 19th:  Life in the Thumb

Tuesday, April 20th:  Maggie Reads

Thursday, April 22nd:  Stephanie’s Written Word

Friday, April 23rd:  Sherri’s Jubilee

Monday, April 26th:  The Literate Housewife

Tuesday, April 27th:  Peeking Between the Pages

Wednesday, April 28th:  Library Queue

Thursday, April 29th:  Lakeside Musing

Friday, April 30th:  A Circle of Books

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Ballantine Books (February 23, 2010)

When Henry Oades accepts an accountancy post in New Zealand, his wife, Margaret, and their children follow him to exotic Wellington. But while Henry is an adventurer, Margaret is not. Their new home is rougher and more rustic than they expected-and then a single night of tragedy shatters the family when the native Maori stage an uprising, kidnapping Margaret and her children.

For months, Henry scours the surrounding wilderness, until all hope is lost and his wife and children are presumed dead. Grief-stricken, he books passage to California. There he marries Nancy Foreland, a young widow with a new baby, and it seems they’ve both found happiness in the midst of their mourning-until Henry’s first wife and children show up, alive and having finally escaped captivity.

Narrated primarily by the two wives, and inspired by a widely publicized newspaper account, The Wives of Henry Oades is the riveting story of what happens when Henry, Margaret and Nancy face prosecution for bigamy. Exploring the intricacies of marriage, the construction of family, the changing world of the late 1800s, and the strength of two remarkable women, Johanna Moran turns this unusual family’s story into an unforgettable page-turning drama.

“Intriguing and evocative …. A book group winner.” – Publishers Weekly

“Fresh and unusual …. A beguiling, promising debut.” – Kirkus Reviews

About Johanna Moran

Johanna Moran comes from a long line of writers and lawyers. She lives on the west coast of Florida with her husband, John.  The Wives of Henry Oades is her first novel.  Check out Johanna’s website HERE.

Johanna Moran’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS:

Monday, February 15th:  Luxury Reading

Wednesday, February 17th:  Book Club Classics!

Thursday, February 18th:  My Friend Amy

Friday, February 19th:  Beth Fish Reads author guest post

Monday, February 22nd:  Jenn’s Bookshelves

Tuesday, February 23rd: The 3 R’s Blog

Thursday, February 25th:  It’s All About Books

Friday, February 26th:  Thoughts of an Evil Overlord

Monday, March 1st:  Rundpinne

Tuesday, March 2nd:  Peeking Between the Pages

Wednesday, March 3rd:  A High and Hidden Place

Thursday, March 4th:  The Literate Housewife Review

Friday, March 5th:  Stephanie’s Confessions of a Book-aholic – reschedule

Monday, March 8th:  Bibliofreak

Tuesday, March 9th: A Lifetime of Books

Wednesday, March 10th:  Starting Fresh

Thursday, March 11th:  Savvy Verse and Wit

Monday, March 15th:  The Calico Critic

In the opening pages of Jamie Ford’s stunning debut novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Henry Lee comes upon a crowd gathered outside the Panama Hotel, once the gateway to Seattle’s Japantown. It has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has made an incredible discovery: the belongings of Japanese families, left when they were rounded up and sent to internment camps during World War II. As Henry looks on, the owner opens a Japanese parasol.

This simple act takes old Henry Lee back to the 1940s, at the height of the war, when young Henry’s world is a jumble of confusion and excitement, and to his father, who is obsessed with the war in China and having Henry grow up American. While “scholarshipping” at the exclusive Rainier Elementary, where the white kids ignore him, Henry meets Keiko Okabe, a young Japanese American student. Amid the chaos of blackouts, curfews, and FBI raids, Henry and Keiko forge a bond of friendship–and innocent love–that transcends the long-standing prejudices of their Old World ancestors. And after Keiko and her family are swept up in the evacuations to the internment camps, she and Henry are left only with the hope that the war will end, and that their promise to each other will be kept.

Forty years later, Henry Lee is certain that the parasol belonged to Keiko. In the hotel’s dark dusty basement he begins looking for signs of the Okabe family’s belongings and for a long-lost object whose value he cannot begin to measure. Now a widower, Henry is still trying to find his voice–words that might explain the actions of his nationalistic father; words that might bridge the gap between him and his modern, Chinese American son; words that might help him confront the choices he made many years ago.

Set during one of the most conflicted and volatile times in American history, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet is an extraordinary story of commitment and enduring hope. In Henry and Keiko, Jamie Ford has created an unforgettable duo whose story teaches us of the power of forgiveness and the human heart.

About Jamie

Jamie Ford is the great-grandson of Nevada mining pioneer Min Chung, who emigrated from Kaiping, China, to San Francisco in 1865, where he adopted the Western name “Ford,” thus confusing countless generations. Ford is an award-winning short-story writer, an alumnus of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, and a survivor of Orson Scott Card’s Literary Boot Camp. Having grown up near Seattle’s Chinatown, he now lives in Montana with his wife and children.

Visit Jamie’s website HERE and his BitterSweet Blog HERE.

Jamie Ford’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS:

Monday, January 18th: Word Lily

Tuesday, January 19th: Word Lily – author interview

Tuesday, January 19th: Diary of an Eccentric

Wednesday, January 20th: Bibliofreak

Thursday, January 21st: Crazy for Books

Tuesday, January 26th: A Novel Menagerie

Wednesday, January 27th: In Spring it is the Dawn

Friday, January 29th: Savvy Verse & Wit

Friday, January 29th: Save Ophelia

Monday, February 1st: Historical Tapestry

Tuesday, February 2nd: The Brain Lair

Wednesday, February 3rd: Lit and Life

Thursday, February 4th: Nerd’s Eye View

Friday, February 5th: Feminist Review

Monday, February 8th: Suko’s Notebook

Tuesday, February 9th: Books and Movies

Wednesday, February 10th: Suko’s Notebook – author interview

Matthew Pearl is the New York Times bestselling author of The Dante Club, The Poe Shadow, and The Last Dickens.

He is also the editor of the Modern Library editions of Dante’s Inferno (translated by Henry Wordsworth Longfellow) and Edgar Allan Poe’s The Murders in the Rue Morgue:  The Dupin Tales.

About The Last Dickens

*  Category: Fiction

* Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages

* On Sale: October 6, 2009

* Price: $14.00

* ISBN: 978-0-8129-7802-5 (0-8129-7802-1)

Boston, 1870.  When news of Charles Dickens sudden death reaches his struggling American publisher, James Osgood sends his trusted clerk, Daniel Sand, to await the arrival of Dickens’s unfinished final manuscript.  But Daniel never returns, and when his body is discovered by the docks, Osgood must embark on a quest to find the missing end to the novel and unmask the killer.  With Daniel’s sister Rebecca at his side, Osgood races the clock through a dangerous web of opium dens, sadistic thugs, and literary lions to solve a genius’s last mystery and save his own-and Rebecca’s- lives.

Matthew Pearl’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS:

Monday, September 28th:  Book Chatter and Other Stuff

Wednesday, September 30th:  Raging Bibliomania

Thursday, October 1st:  Linus’s Blanket

Monday, October 5th:  Life in the Thumb

Tuesday, October 6th:  The Brain Lair

Wednesday, October 7th:  Bookish Ruth

Thursday, October 8th:  A High and Hidden Place

Monday, October 12th:  Life and Times of a “New” New Yorker

Tuesday, October 13th:  Beth Fish Reads

Wednesday, October 14th:  S. Krishna’s Books

Thursday, October 15th:  Musings of a Bookish Kitty

Friday, October 16th:  Stephanie’s Written Word

Monday, October 19th:  The Tome Traveller

Tuesday, October 20th:  Book Club Classics

Wednesday, October 21st:  Luxury Reading

Thursday, October 22nd:  Savvy Verse and Wit

Allison Winn Scotch is a frequent contributor to numerous magazines and websites including American Baby, American Way, Bride’s, Cooking Light, Family Circle, Fitness, Glamour, InStyle Weddings, Lifetime Television, Men’s Fitness, Men’s Health, Parents, Prevention, Redbook, Self, Shape, Stuff, USA Weekend, Woman’s Day, Women’s Health, ivillage.com, msn.com, and women.com.

She is also the author of the novel, The Department of Lost and Found. Allison lives in New York with her husband and their son and daughter.

Visit her blog, “Ask Allison,” at www.allisonwinn.com.

About Time of My Life

Three Rivers Press

On sale: August 4, 2009

ISBN: 978-0-307-40858-7

304 pages

Most readers have had that “what-if” person in their pasts, the one they could have ended up with, or maybe the one that they fantasize about even after they’ve married or moved on. In her bestselling novel, TIME OF MY LIFE, Allison Winn Scotch explores what might happen if readers could live their lives all over again and change the course of history.

Jillian Westfield has the perfect husband, the perfect baby, and the perfect home in the suburbs, but sometimes she finds herself wondering about the life she left behind. A few short years earlier, she was living with her undeniably attractive but unreliable boyfriend Jackson, working a demanding job at an ad agency, partying too much, and living in a less-than-perfect New York apartment. But those days were full of possibility and free of diaper changes, trips to the grocery store, and endless days fulfilling only the needs of her daughter and husband. Now, discontented in her faltering marriage, Jillian can’t help but think about what her life would have been like if she hadn’t married Henry, quit her job to be a stay-at-home mom, or spurned her mother’s own attempts to reconcile after two decades of silence. What if she’d stayed with Jackson in their run-down apartment and tried a little harder to make their relationship work? What if she’d answered her mother’s letter? What would her life be like now?

One morning, Jillian gets a chance to find out. She wakes up in her old apartment, right in the middle of her life as it was seven years ago, before she’d left Jackson and her job and ignored her mother’s letter. With twenty-twenty hindsight, Jillian has the chance to discover “what if” once and for all—and to decide which life she really wants.

With its hardcover debut last fall, this smart, entertaining, and inspiring story was a reading group favorite and New York Times bestseller. Now in paperback, and with a movie adaptation in the works, TIME OF MY LIFE is sure to win over readers, reviewers, and anyone who has ever Googled an ex.

“A clever, entertaining look at the compromises women make—and the dangers of getting what you ask for.” —People

“This is the kind of unputdownable book you’ll really hope gets turned into a movie.” —Cosmopolitan

“[A] hilarious read.” —Redbook

“Insightful and honest, Winn Scotch keeps it light but delves into the dark doubts of the road not taken.”

—Family Circle

“Scotch is a fluent, spirited writer…” —Boston Globe

Allison Winn Scotch’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS

Monday, August 17th: Hey Lady! Whatcha Readin’?

Wednesday, August 19th: Peeking Between the Pages

Thursday, August 20th: Melissa’s Bookshelf

Monday, August 24th:  Infinite Shelf

Wednesday, August 26th: Book Soulmates

Thursday, August 27th:  Luxury Reading

Monday, August 31st:  Devourer of Books

Wednesday, September 2nd:  2 Kids and Tired Book Reviews

Tuesday, September 8th: Linus’s Blanket

Thursday, September 10th:  Literate Housewife

Monday, September 14th: Presenting Lenore

Wednesday, September 16th:  Stephanie’s Written Word

Thursday, September 17th: Diary of an Eccentric

Annie Barrows is the author of the children’s series Ivy and Bean, as well as The Magic Half. She lives in northern California.

Visit Annie’s website HERE. 

Her aunt, Mary Ann Shaffer, who passed away in February 2008, worked as an editor, librarian, and in bookshops. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society was her first novel.

About The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

    *  Category: Fiction – Literary

    * Format:  Trade Paperback, 304 pages

    * On Sale: May 5, 2009

    * Price: $14.00

    * ISBN: 978-0-385-34100-4 (0-385-34100-8)

Read an excerpt of the book HERE.

Book clubs can check out the Reader’s Guide HERE.

AND Enter the SWEEPSTAKES by July 31st for a chance to win a trip to Guernsey with five friends from your book club!

Annie Barrows TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS

Tuesday, August 4th:  Book Club Classics

Wednesday, August 5th:  Savvy Verse and Wit

Thursday, August 6th:  Maw Books

Monday, August 10th:  A Novel Menagerie

Tuesday, August 11th:  Brimful Curiousities

Wednesday, August 12th:  A Reader’s Journal

Thursday, August 13th:  As Usual, I Need More Bookshelves

Monday, August 17th:  Books and Movies

Thursday, August 20th:  Books on the Brain

Tuesday, August 25th:  A High and Hidden Place

Wednesday, August 26th:  Bookish Ruth

Thursday, August 27th:  A Lifetime of Books ** phone interview with the author!

Monday, August 31st:  She is Too Fond of Books

Dr. Kwei Quartey was born in Ghana and raised by an African American mother and a Ghanaian father, both of whom were university lecturers. Even though his professional writing career began after he became a physician, his desire to be a writer started at a very early age.

Kwei Quartey now lives in Pasadena, California. He writes early in the morning before setting out to work at HealthCare Partners, where he runs a wound care clinic and is the lead physician at an urgent care center. Visit Kwei’s website HERE.

About Wife of the Gods

Category: Fiction – Literary
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: July 2009
Price: $24.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-6759-6 (1-4000-6759-6)

A small West African town …
A dark secret …
A chilling murder …

Set in Ghana, the action moves compellingly back and forth between the capital city of Accra and a town in the Volta Region. Wife of the Gods brings the culture and beauty of its setting brilliantly to life. For fans of Alexander McCall Smith comes a debut mystery novel that introduces a marvelously intuitive detective and a rich cast of characters.

Read an excerpt HERE.

Crisp, engrossing debut.. Fans of McCall Smith’s No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency novels will relish the opportunity to discover yet another intriguing area of Africa.

Booklist, Starred Review

Move over Alexander McCall Smith. Ghana has joined Botswana on the map of mystery . . . more sociological than McCall Smith’s, his setting [is] more rural and susceptible to the ways of magicians….[This] newcomer is most welcome.
Kirkus Reviews

Quartey’s winning debut, a police procedural set in modern Ghana, introduces gifted detective Darko Dawson … a wonderful creation, a man as rich with contradictions as the Ghana Quartey so delightfully evokes … readers will be eager for the next installment in what one hopes will be a long series.
Publishers Weekly

Like The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency? You’ll love Wife of the Gods
Essence Magazine

Kwei Quartey’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS

Monday, August 3rd: A Novel Menagerie

Tuesday, August 4th: APOOO Books

Wednesday, August 5th: Jen’s Book Thoughts (and interview)

Thursday, August 6th: Musings of a Bookish Kitty

Friday, August 7th: Beth Fish Reads

Monday, August 10th: My Friend Amy

Wednesday, August 12th: Reading, ‘Riting, and Randomness

Thursday, August 13th: Serendipitous Readings

Friday, August 14th: Linus’s Blanket

Monday, August 17th: Maw Books

Wednesday, August 19th: Booking Mama

Friday, August 21st: She is Too Fond of Books (and interview)

Monday, August 24th: The Tome Traveller

Wednesday, August 26th: Shelf Life

Thursday, August 27th: Bluestalking