Feature: Stranger In The Moonlight by Jude Deveraux (Edilean #7) & GIVEAWAY

Available: Aug 28, 2012 Amazon/B&N

Type: Contemporary Romance

Publisher: Pocket

An enchanting new contemporary romance set in Edilean, about two childhood friends who are reunited after years apart, only to discover that the spark they felt even as kids still remains…

When Kim Aldredge was eight, she met a twelve-year-old boy named Travis who was visiting her hometown of Edilean, Virginia with his mother. Even though they were there under mysterious circumstances, that didn’t stop the children from becoming friends. For two blissful weeks they rode bikes, played baseball, and read out loud to each other. They were ordinary things to Kim, but to Travis, they were oh-so-extraordinary. And Travis helped Kim discover her love of making jewelry, the passion that became her profession. Before he left he told her that someday he’d return, and for years Kim kept the photo of her and Travis, their arms around each other and smiling, close to her.
Travis is now a successful attorney in Manhattan—but there are things in his life that he doesn’t want made public. And even though he’s traveled the world, he still thinks about that summer he spent in Edilean, and the girl he met there. Those weeks changed his life forever. When Travis learns that his mother has moved back to Edilean and is planning to remarry, he decides it’s time that he return as well—not just to investigate this future husband, but to finally fulfill the promise he made to Kim all those years before….

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**GIVEAWAY**

One paperback copy of Stranger In The Moonlight is available to a US or Canadian winner! Simply comment to enter! Contest open until 8/25/12 @ 11:59pm EST with winner announced shortly after.

Feature: Moonlight In The Morning by Jude Deveraux

Available: Now Amazon/B&N

Type: Contemporary Romance

Publisher: Pocket Books

New from bestselling author Jude Deveraux, the first in an exciting trilogy set in Edilean, Virginia, focusing on three young women who all went to college together and have remained friends since.

Sparks are flying between Jecca Layton and Dr. Tristan Aldredge. The only problem? Tris lives in a tiny town in Virginia, and Jecca has a great job and friends in the big city of New York. Can they survive the distance? And who will sacrifice the life they’ve created for themselves for the one that they love?

Filled with Deveraux’s trademark charm and masterful storytelling, Moonlight in the Morning is a well-crafted romance about a summer fling between a country boy and a city girl that has the potential to become something more—if only they lived in the same place—that readers will find impossible to put down.

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Stay tuned because tomorrow my giveaway will include both Scarlet Nights AND Moonlight In The Morning!

Scarlet Nights by Jude Deveraux

Available: Now Amazon/B&N/Borders

Type: Romance

Publisher: Pocket Star

My Copy: Sent for review

What if you learned that your fiancé was not who he claimed to be? Engaged to the charming and seductive Greg Anders, Sara Shaw is happily anticipating her wedding in Edilean, Virginia. The date has been set, the flowers ordered, even her heirloom dress is ready. But just three weeks before the wedding, Greg gets a telephone call during the night and leaves without explanation. Two days later, a man climbs up through a trapdoor in the floor of Sara’s apartment, claiming that he is the brother of her best friend and that he’s moving in. While Mike Newland is indeed telling the truth about his identity, his reason for being there reaches far deeper. He’s an undercover detective, and his assignment is to use Sara to track down a woman who is one of the most notorious criminals in the United States—and also happens to be the mother of the man Sara plans to marry. Mike thinks the job will be easy—if he can figure out how to make a “good” girl like Sara trust him, that is. But Mike has no idea what this mission has in store for him. He’s worked hard to keep private his connections to Edilean, which date back to his grandmother’s time there in 1941. But as Mike and Sara get to know each other, he can’t help but share secrets about himself that he’s told no one else. And in return, Sara opens up to Mike about things she could never reveal to Greg. As the pair work together to solve two mysteries, their growing love begins to heal each of them in ways they never could have imagined.

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This will be a short and sweet review as I did not finish this one. The premise of a undercover cop sent to protect a woman who was unknowing marrying a con artist intent on getting something from her she didn’t even know she had was a great one. It intrigued me. I eagerly got to this one because I had never read a Jude Deveraux book. After the first few chapters I had a hunch this one wasn’t for me. It dragged entirely way too much. Sara was supposed to be this innocent, home grown woman..and she was.. but it felt to goody goody for me. She was very stereotypical innocent. Mike, the undercover cop just had no heat. No spark. Nada. I didn’t feel anything between them at all. At page 178 I pretty much just gave up. Nothing was happening. I didn’t feel like there was any suspense and the romantic element seemed barely there.

Scarlet Nights has gotten some good reviews on Goodreads, so I encourage you to check those out if you would like. Just because it wasn’t for me doesn’t mean you won’t like it.

I give Scarlet Nights by Jude Deveraux a DNF rating.