Hardcover: 496 pages

Publisher: Random House (February 21, 2012)

The acclaimed author of The Dante Club reinvigorates the historical thriller. Matthew Pearl’s spellbinding new novel transports readers to tumultuous nineteenth-century Boston, where the word “technology” represents a bold and frightening new concept. The fight for the future will hinge on . . .

THE TECHNOLOGISTS

Boston, 1868. The Civil War may be over but a new war has begun, one between the past and the present, tradition and technology. On a former marshy wasteland, the daring Massachusetts Institute of Technology is rising, its mission to harness science for the benefit of all and to open the doors of opportunity to everyone of merit. But in Boston Harbor a fiery cataclysm throws commerce into chaos, as ships’ instruments spin inexplicably out of control. Soon after, another mysterious catastrophe devastates the heart of the city. Is it sabotage by scientific means or Nature revolting against man’s attempt to control it?

The shocking disasters cast a pall over M.I.T. and provoke assaults from all sides—rival Harvard, labor unions, and a sensationalistic press. With their first graduation and the very survival of their groundbreaking college now in doubt, a band of the Institute’s best and brightest students secretly come together to save innocent lives and track down the truth, armed with ingenuity and their unique scientific training.

Led by “charity scholar” Marcus Mansfield, a quiet Civil War veteran and one-time machinist struggling to find his footing in rarefied Boston society, the group is rounded out by irrepressible Robert Richards, the bluest of Beacon Hill bluebloods; Edwin Hoyt, class genius; and brilliant freshman Ellen Swallow, the Institute’s lone, ostracized female student. Working against their small secret society, from within and without, are the arrayed forces of a stratified culture determined to resist change at all costs and a dark mastermind bent on the utter destruction of the city.

Studded with suspense and soaked in the rich historical atmosphere for which its author is renowned, The Technologists is a dazzling journey into a dangerous world not so very far from our own, as the America we know today begins to shimmer into being.

“The Technologists combines everything I love in a thriller: fascinating history, science, and a frightening mystery that demands to be solved. Matthew Pearl is one of my must-read authors. He never fails to intrigue and thrill!”—Tess Gerritsen, author of The Silent Girl

“Fascinating, mesmerizing, and richly atmospheric, The Technologists is the best yet from a true master of the historical thriller. I loved this novel.”—Joseph Finder, New York Times bestselling author of Buried Secrets and Vanished

Photo credit: Sigrid-Estrada

About Matthew Pearl

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

For more information on Matthew Pearl and his work, visit his website,  www.matthewpearl.com, and Facebook.  Watch the trailer for The Technologists HERE.

Matthew Pearl’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS:

Monday, February 13th:  Book Chatter

Tuesday, February 14th:  Unabridged Chick

Thursday, February 16th:  The House of Crime and Mystery

Monday, February 20th:  Book Club Classics

Wednesday, February 22nd:  A Library of My Own

Friday, February 24th:  Jenn’s Bookshelves

Monday, February 27th:  Wandering Thoughts of a Scientific Housewife

Tuesday, February 28th:  Jen’s Book Thoughts

Wednesday, February 29th:  Man of La Book

Thursday, March 1st:  Book Addict Katie

Monday, March 5th:  Calico Critic

Wednesday, March 7th:  Annette’s Book Spot

Monday, March 12th:  S. Krishna’s Books

Wednesday, March 14th:  Wordsmithonia

About The Gap Year

• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: Knopf (July 5, 2011)

From the widely praised author of The Yokota Officers Club and The Flamenco Academy, a novel as hilarious as it is heartbreaking about a single mom and her seventeen-year-old daughter learning how to let go in that precarious moment before college empties the nest. 

In The Gap Year, told with perfect pitch from both points of view, we meet Cam Lightsey, lactation consultant extraordinaire, a divorcée still secretly carrying a torch for the ex who dumped her, a suburban misfit who’s given up her rebel dreams so her only child can get a good education.

We also learn the secrets of Aubrey Lightsey, tired of being the dutiful, grade-grubbing band geek, ready to explode from wanting her “real” life to begin, trying to figure out love with boys weaned on Internet porn.

When Aubrey meets Tyler Moldenhauer, football idol–sex god with a dangerous past, the fuse is lit. Late-bloomer Aubrey metastasizes into Cam’s worst silent, sullen teen nightmare, a girl with zero interest in college. Worse, on the sly Aubrey’s in touch with her father, who left when she was two to join a celebrity-ridden nutball cult.

As the novel unfolds—with humor, edge-of-your-seat suspense, and penetrating insights about love in the twenty-first century—the dreams of daughter, mother, and father chart an inevitable, but perhaps not fatal, collision . . .

The Gap Year is featured in Good Housekeeping’s Summer Beach Reads 2011 and  Yahoo’s 10 Best Books for Summer!

Praise for The Gap Year:

“… teases out the ever-deepening mysteries of parents and children as they grow up and apart. … spot-on observations of contemporary family life give this headlong story a fizzy energy that carries through to the unexpected conclusion.” –Publishers Weekly Review

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“Writing so sharp, smart, funny, and addictive, it’’s as if Molly Ivins had gven birth to a novelist.”” – ZZ Packer, Drinking Coffee Elsewhere (ZZ Packer is one of The New Yorker ‘s “20 under 40″ and one of America’s Best Young Novelists by Granta)

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About Sarah Bird

Sarah Bird is the author of seven previous novels. She is a columnist for Texas Monthly and has contributed to many other magazines including O, The Oprah Magazine; The New York Times Magazine; Real Simple; and Good Housekeeping. Sarah, the 2010 Johnston Dobie Paisano Fellow, makes her empty nest in Austin, Texas.

Connect with Sarah on her website, www.sarahbirdbooks.com, on Facebook, and on Twitter.

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Sarah Bird’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS:

Monday, August 1st:  Raging Bibliomania

Tuesday, August 2nd:  The Singleton in the Kitchen

Wednesday, August 3rd:  Lit and Life

Thursday, August 4th:  Suko’s Notebook

Monday, August 8th:  Lakeside Musings

Tuesday, August 9th:  My Random Acts of Reading

Wednesday, August 10th:  She is Too Fond of Books – (Spotlight on Bookstores guest post)

Thursday, August 11th:  Life in Review

Monday, August 15th:  Juggling Life

Wednesday, August 17th:  Books Distilled

Friday, August 19th:  BookNAround

Monday, August 22nd:  A Musing Reviews

Thursday, August 25th:  girlichef

Becoming Marie Antoinette

Paperback: 480 pages

Publisher: Ballantine Books (August 9, 2011)

This enthralling confection of a novel, the first in a new trilogy, follows the transformation of a coddled Austrian archduchess into the reckless, powerful, beautiful queen Marie Antoinette.

Why must it be me? I wondered. When I am so clearly inadequate to my destiny?

Raised alongside her numerous brothers and sisters by the formidable empress of Austria, ten-year-old Maria Antonia knew that her idyllic existence would one day be sacrificed to her mother’s political ambitions. What she never anticipated was that the day in question would come so soon.

Before she can journey from sunlit picnics with her sisters in Vienna to the glitter, glamour, and gossip of Versailles, Antonia must change everything about herself in order to be accepted as dauphine of France and the wife of the awkward teenage boy who will one day be Louis XVI. Yet nothing can prepare her for the ingenuity and influence it will take to become queen.

Filled with smart history, treacherous rivalries, lavish clothes, and sparkling jewels, Becoming Marie Antoinette will utterly captivate fiction and history lovers alike.

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About Juliet Grey

Juliet Grey has extensively researched European royal history and is a particular devotee of Marie Antoinette.  She and her husband divide their time between New York City and southern Vermont.

Juliet Grey’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS:

Monday, August 1st:  Diary of an Eccentric

Wednesday, August 3rd:  Well Read Wife

Thursday, August 4th:  Broken Teepee

Monday, August 8th:  Coffee and a Book Chick

Tuesday, August 9th:  The Maiden’s Court

Wednesday, August 10th:  A Library of My Own

Thursday, August 11th:  The Maiden’s Court - author interview

Thursday, August 11th:  Stiletto Storytime

Monday, August 15th:  In the Hammock

Tuesday, August 16th:  Peeking Between the Pages

Wednesday, August 17th:  Laura’s Reviews

Thursday, August 18th:  Unabridged Chick

Monday, August 22nd:  The Broke and the Bookish

Tuesday, August 23rd:  Stephanie’s Written Word

Wednesday, August 24th:  2 Kids and Tired Book Reviews

Monday, August 29th:  Book Reviews by Molly

Wednesday, August 31st:  So Many Precious Books, So Little Time

Wednesday, August 31st:  Historical Tapestry 

The Homecoming of Samuel Lake

Hardcover: 336 pages

Publisher: Random House (July 12, 2011)

Every first Sunday in June, members of the colorful Moses clan gather for their annual reunion at “the old home place,” a sprawling hundred-acre farm in Arkansas. Samuel Lake, a handsome young preacher with a huge heart and strong convictions, has brought his wife, Willadee Moses, and their three young children to the festivities. For the children it’s a time to vacation away from the prying eyes of their father’s congregation, and for Willadee it’s a chance to be with her beloved mother and father. But tragedy strikes, jolting the family to their core and setting the stage for a summer of crisis and profound change.

Samuel soon learns that he has lost his parish back in Louisiana, so he and his family take up temporary residence on the farm. Everyone is drawn to Samuel’s eleven-year-old daughter, Swan, with her outspoken questions and mischievous spirit. Swan, in turn, is fascinated by her powerful, secretive Uncle Toy, a war veteran, and his sultry wife, Bernice, an old girlfriend of Samuel’s whose desire to win back her old beau is a bit too obvious. But when Blade Ballenger, an eight-year-old neighbor, comes into Swan’s life, she focuses all her fierce energy on keeping him safe from his terrifying father, never realizing the possible dangers to herself and to those she loves.

With characters who come to life like members of one’s own family, Jenny Wingfield’s THE HOMECOMING OF SAMUEL LAKE is a novel with the universal reach of the most memorable and lasting works of fiction.

“Jenny Wingfield has given us a spectacular novel with The Homecoming of Samuel Lake.  This ensemble of unforgettable characters will make you laugh out loud one minute, hold your breath in the next and weep when you least expect it.  I didn’t just love this book; I adored it.”
–Dorothea Benton Frank, New York Times bestselling author of Lowcountry Summer

“Jenny Wingfield’s richly detailed account of good and evil in 1950s Arkansas will captivate anyone who treasures the values of faith and honesty that are a part of America’s rural past. Wingfield’s sense of people and place is uncanny. After reading The Homecoming of Samuel Lake, you too, will believe in miracles.”
– Sandra Dallas, New York Times best-selling author of Prayers for Sale and Whiter Than Snow

About Jenny Wingfield

Jenny Wingfield lives in Texas with her rescued dogs, cats, and horses. Her screenplay credits include The Man in the Moon and The Outsider. The Homecoming of Samuel Lake is her first novel.

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Jenny Wingfield’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS:

Friday, July 22nd:  Life in Review

Wednesday, July 27th:  Chaotic Compendiums

Thursday, July 28th:  1330V

Thursday, July 28th:  Book Reviews by Molly

Saturday, July 31st:  Reviews from the Heart

Tuesday, August 2nd:  Rundpinne

Thursday, August 4th:  Unabridged Chick

Tuesday, August 9th:  Caribousmom

Thursday, August 11th:  Life in the Thumb

Monday, August 15th:  Well Read Wife - book spotlight

Wednesday, August 17th:  Stiletto Storytime

Wednesday, August 24th:  Jenn’s Bookshelves

Friday, August 26th:  Peeking Between the Pages

Close Your Eyes

• Hardcover: 272 pages
• Publisher: Random House (July 26, 2011)

In Close Your Eyes, the author of the bestselling How to Be Lost spins another mesmerizing tale of buried family secrets.

For most of her life, Lauren Mahdian has been certain of two things: that her mother is dead, and that her father is a murderer.  Before the horrific tragedy, Lauren led a sheltered life in a wealthy corner of America, in a town outside Manhattan on the banks of Long Island Sound, a haven of luxurious homes, manicured lawns, and seemingly perfect families. Here Lauren and her older brother, Alex, thought they were safe.  But one morning, six-year-old Lauren and eight-year-old Alex awoke after a night spent in their tree house to discover their mother’s body and their beloved father arrested for the murder.

Years later, Lauren is surrounded by uncertainty. Her one constant is Alex, always her protector, still trying to understand the unraveling of his idyllic childhood. But Lauren feels even more alone when Alex reveals that he’s been in contact over the years with their imprisoned father—and that he believes he and his sister have yet to learn the full story of their mother’s death.

Then Alex disappears.  As Lauren is forced to peek under the floorboards of her carefully constructed memories, she comes to question the version of her history that she has clung to so fiercely. Lauren’s search for the truth about what happened on that fateful night so many years ago is a riveting tale that will keep readers feverishly turning pages.

“I absolutely loved this beautiful, haunting story of a woman who learns to come to terms with a dark, deep family secret. This is the kind of book that hooks you right in, brings tears to your eyes, and ends on a note of shining hope.” —TATIANA DE ROSNAY, AUTHOR OF SARAH’S KEY

About Amanda Eyre Ward

Amanda Eyre Ward is the award-winning author of Forgive Me, How to Be Lost and Sleep Toward Heaven. She lives in Austin, Texas, with her family.

Connect with Amanda on her website, www.amandaward.com, on Facebook, and on Twitter.

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Amanda Eyre Ward’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS:

Monday, July 11th:  Bewitched Bookworms

Wednesday, July 13th:  Starting Fresh

Monday, July 18th:  A Bookworm’s World

Saturday, July 23rd:  Take Me Away

Monday, July 25th:  Jenn’s Bookshelves

Tuesday, July 26th:  Bella’s Novella

Thursday, July 28th:  In the Next Room

Friday, July 29th:  Luxury Reading

Monday, August 1st:  Nomad Reader

Wednesday, August 3rd:  Life in the Thumb

Thursday, August 4th:  Rundpinne  

Friday, August 5th:  Colloquium

Wednesday, August 17th:  Crazy for Books

The Storm at the Door

• Hardcover: 368 pages
• Publisher: Random House (June 21, 2011)

The past is not past for Katharine Merrill. Even after two decades of volatile marriage, Katharine still believes she can have the life that she felt promised to her by those first exhilarating days with her husband, Frederick. For two months, just before Frederick left to fight in World War II, Katharine received his total attentiveness, his limitless charms, his astonishing range of intellect and wit. Over the years, however, as Frederick’s behavior and moods have darkened, Katharine has covered for him, trying to rein in his great manic passions and bridge his deep wells of sadness: an unending project of keeping up appearances and hoping for the best. But the project is failing. Increasingly, Frederick’s erratic behavior, amplified by alcohol, distresses Katharine and their four daughters and gives his friends and family cause to worry for his sanity. When, in the summer of 1962, a cocktail party ends with her husband in handcuffs, Katharine makes a fateful decision: She commits Frederick to Mayflower Home, America’s most revered mental asylum.

There, on the grounds of the opulent hospital populated by great poets, intellectuals, and madmen, Frederick tries to transform his incarceration into a creative exercise, to take each meaningless passing moment and find the art within it. But as he lies on his room’s single mattress, Frederick wonders how he ever managed to be all that he once was: a father, a husband, a business executive. Under the faltering guidance of a self-obsessed psychiatrist, Frederick and his fellow patients must try to navigate their way through a gray zone of depression, addiction, and insanity.

Meanwhile, as she struggles to raise four young daughters, Katharine tries to find her way back to Frederick through her own ambiguities, delusions, and the damages done by her rose-colored belief in a life she no longer lives.

Inspired by elements of the lives of the author’s grandparents, this haunting love story shifts through time and reaches across generations. Along the way, Stefan Merrill Block stunningly illuminates an age-old truth: even if one’s daily life appears ordinary, one can still wage a silent, secret, extraordinary war.

“The Storm at the Door is a fascinating exploration of Stefan Merrill Block’s family history, both of what actually and what might’ve happened following his grandmother’s fateful decision to commit his manic depressive grandfather to a mental institution. Told with intelligence, a poetic ear for language, and empathy, The Storm at the Door is a captivating story about separation and enduring love.”  –Lisa Genova, New York Times bestselling author of Still Alice

“The Storm at the Door is a brilliant and passionate examination of the outer limits of language, sanity, and the human heart. At its center is the heartbreaking love story of a writer’s lost grandparents, an enduring marriage interrupted by madness, sustained by language and memories. Stefan Merrill Block is an amazing writer, at once cerebral and tender, lyrical and profound. The Storm at the Door is an enthrallingly original book.”  –Kate Christensen, author of The Great Man, winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award

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About Stefan Merrill Block

Stefan Merrill Block was born in 1982 and grew up in Plano, Texas. He graduated from Washington University in St. Louis in 2004. He lives in Brooklyn.

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Stefan Merrill Block’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS:

Monday, June 13th:  Luxury Reading

Tuesday, June 14th:  Book Club Classics

Wednesday, June 15th:  Books and Cooks

Thursday, June 16th:  Jenn’s Bookshelves

Friday, June 17th:  Diary of an Eccentric

Tuesday, June 21st:  Life in Review

Thursday, June 23rd:  Girls Gone Reading

Friday, June 24th:  Rundpinne

Saturday, June 25th:  Colloquium

Monday, June 27th:  Man of La Book

Friday, July 1st:  Book Reviews by Molly

Tuesday, July 5th:  Crazy for Books

Thursday, July 7th:  Raging Bibliomania

Monday, July 11th:  Melody & Words

Tuesday, July 12th:  Amused by Books

Monday, July 18th:  Take Me Away

• Hardcover: 608 pages
• Publisher: Delacorte Press (January 18, 2011)

MacKayla Lane was just a child when she and her sister, Alina, were given up for adoption and banished from Ireland forever.

Twenty years later, Alina is dead and Mac has returned to the country that expelled them to hunt her sister’s murderer. But after discovering that she descends from a bloodline both gifted and cursed, Mac is plunged into a secret history: an ancient conflict between humans and immortals who have lived concealed among us for thousands of years.

What follows is a shocking chain of events with devastating consequences, and now Mac struggles to cope with grief while continuing her mission to acquire and control the Sinsar Dubh—a book of dark, forbidden magic scribed by the mythical Unseelie King, containing the power to create and destroy worlds.

In an epic battle between humans and Fae, the hunter becomes the hunted when the Sinsar Dubh turns on Mac and begins mowing a deadly path through those she loves.

Who can she turn to? Who can she trust? Who is the woman haunting her dreams? More important, who is Mac herself and what is the destiny she glimpses in the black and crimson designs of an ancient tarot card?

From the luxury of the Lord Master’s penthouse to the sordid depths of an Unseelie nightclub, from the erotic bed of her lover to the terrifying bed of the Unseelie King, Mac’s journey will force her to face the truth of her exile, and to make a choice that will either save the world . . . or destroy it.

About Karen Marie Moning

Karen Marie Moning is the internationally bestselling author of the Highlander and Fever novels. Her books have appeared on the New York Times, USA Today,and Publishers Weekly bestseller lists, and have one numerous awards, including the prestigious Rita. She lives in Georgia and Florida with her husband Neil and the world-traveling cat, Moonshadow.

Connect with Karen on her Website, on Twitter, and onFacebook.

TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for SHADOWFEVER:

Friday, January 21st:  Smexy Books

Monday, January 24th:  Loves to Read for Fun

Tuesday, January 25th: A Buckeye Girl Reads

Wednesday, January 26th:  Hanging with Bells

Monday, January 31st:  All Things Urban Fantasy

Tuesday, February 1st:  Mindful Musings

Wednesday, February 2nd:  Rundpinne

Monday, February 7th:  Supernatural Snark

Tuesday, February 8th:  The Book Pushers

Friday, February 11th:  Bewitched Bookworms

Monday, February 14th:  Truth, Beauty, Freedom, and Books

Tuesday, February 15th:  A Novel Menagerie

Friday, February 18th:  Dark Faerie Tales

Monday, February 21st:  Drey’s Library

Tuesday, February 22nd:  Stacy’s Place on Earth

Thursday, February 24th:  Jenn’s Bookshelves

Friday, February 25th:  The Lost Entwife

Monday, February 28th:  Luxury Reading

• Mass Market Paperback: 496 pages
• Publisher: Ballantine Books; Original edition (December 28, 2010)

Six years ago, Lucy Kincaid was attacked and nearly killed by an online predator.  She survived.  Her attacker did not.  Now Lucy’s goal is to join the FBI and fight cyber-crime, but in the meantime, she’s volunteering with a victim’s rights group, surfing the Web undercover to lure sex offenders into the hands of the law.  But when the predators she hunts start turning up as murder victims, the FBI takes a whole new interest in Lucy.

With her future and possibly even her freedom suddenly in jeopardy, Lucy discovers she’s a pawn in someone’s twisted plot to mete out vigilante justice.  She joins forces with security expert and daredevil Sean Rogan, and together they track their elusive quarry from anonymous online chat rooms onto the mean streets of Washington, D.C.  But someone else is shadowing them:  A merciless stalker has his savage eye on Lucy.  The only way for her to escape his brutality may be another fight to the death.

About Allison

Allison Brennan is the New York Times bestselling author of many romantic thrillers, including Carnal Sin, Original Sin, Fatal Secrets, Cutting Edge, and Sudden Death.  A four-time RITA finalist and Daphne du Maurier Award winner, Brennan enjoys spending her free time reading, playing games, watching high school sports, and researching her novels.  She is a member of Romance Writers of America, the Horror Writers Association, and Internation Thriller Writers.  Allison Brennan lives in Northern California with her husband, Dan, and their five children.

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For more information, visit Allison’s website or connect with her on Facebook and Twitter.

Allison Brennan’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS:

Monday, January 3rd:  Bewitched Bookworms

Tuesday, January 4th:  Dren’s B-Spot

Wednesday, January 5th:  A Bookworm’s World

Thursday, January 6th:  Musings of an All Purpose Monkey

Monday, January 10th:  Chaotic Compendiums

Wednesday, January 12th:  Under the Boardwalk

Thursday, January 13th:  Rundpinne

Monday, January 17th:  Jen’s Book Thoughts

Tuesday, January 18th:  Fiction State of Mind

Wednesday, January 19th:  Along the Way

Thursday, January 20th:  Reading with Martinis

Friday, January 21st:  Inside of a Dog

Friday, January 21st:  Inside of a Dog author guest post

Monday, January 24th:  My Life in Not So Many Words

Tuesday, January 25th:  Cafe of Dreams

Wednesday, January 26th:  Bookaholic Does Blogging – author interview

Thursday, January 27th:  Bookaholic Does Blogging

Friday, January 28th:  Wordsmithonia

Monday, January 31st:  Drey’s Library

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, June 1st: The Book Binge

Friday, June 5th:  Love, Romance, Passion

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 14th:  Love, Romance, Passion Author Interview

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