RMFW member Bree Ervin suggested we publish lists of books available from RMFW members to help everyone with holiday shopping. Is there anything better to give as a gift than a book? Well, for obvious reasons, we think books should top your list.
I started by putting out a call to RMFW members to submit a teeny-mini-synopsis, cover art, and purchase information. Here’s the first installment. Note that books are listed in the order I received the author’s information.
Waking Up Joy
by Tina Ann Forkner
Tule Publishing
Available in paperback and ebook
“Behind every lost dream lies a second chance…when adored town spinster Joy Talley ends up in a coma after a peculiar accident, she is surprised and incensed to hear what is being said in her hospital room, including plans for her funeral. When she finally wakes, her well-meaning, but bossy, brothers and sisters dismiss her claims, thinking her accident has knocked her off her rocker, but Joy has never felt better, and is determined to set the past right.”
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Risky Brides
by Bayard & Holmes, Vicki Hinze, Kathy Carmichael, Donna Fletcher, Rita Herron
Magnolia Press
Available in hardcover, paperback, and ebook
“Find your next must-read author in this limited-time-only collection from USA Today Bestsellers Vicki Hinze, Rita Herron, Donna Fletcher, Peggy Webb, Kathy Carmichael, veteran authors Kimberly Llewellyn and Tara Randel, and dynamic newcomers Bayard & Holmes. 8 novels and novellas, 8 genres, and 8 unique takes on what it means to be a risky bride for only $0.99.”
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Tides of Maritinia
by Warren Hammond
Harper Voyager Impulse
ebook release 12/2/14, mass maker paperback 1/20/15
“Tides tells the story of an assassin on a mission to overthrow the despotic regime of a far-flung world. Working undercover, he’ll soon find himself trapped in a web of conflicting loyalties that will leave him wondering who his true enemies are.”
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Call Down the Moon
by Mary Gillgannon
The Wild Rose Press
Currently available in print; ebook releases 12/29/14
“In the ninth century, Irish warrior Connar fell hopelessly in love with Aisling. When she came to a tragic end, he used magic to travel to the future to be reunited with her. In modern Denver, he must fight a treacherous enemy from the past and win the heart of his beloved, now Allison Hunter, all over again.”
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The View From Here
Cindy Myers
Kensington Books
Available in trade paper, ebook and audiobook
“When newly divorced Maggie Stevens inherits a gold mine from the father she never knew, she travels to the small Rocky Mountain town of Eureka, Colorado and learns that it takes a village to heal a broken heart. Book one in the Eureka, Colorado series. Winner of the Colorado Book Award, 2013.”
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Trapline
by Mark Stevens
Midnight Ink
Paperback
“A badly chewed-up corpse high in the Flat Tops Wilderness leaves Colorado hunting guide Allison Coil mystified and wary. Obvious signs suggest the dead man is the victim of a mountain lion attack but Allison’s wilderness-savvy bones scream otherwise.”
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Broken Trust
by Shannon Baker
Midnight Ink
Trade paperback and ebook
“A fast-paced mix of Hopi Indians, wierd science, and murder, set in Boulder, Colorado.”
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Changes (Winner of the Colorado Book Award for Genre Fiction and the HOLT Award of Merit)
by Pamela Nowak
Five Star/Gale
Hardcover and ebook
“What begins as a quest for justice becomes a search for identity as part-Sioux librarian Lise Dupree encounters ambitious district attorney Zach Spencer in an 1879 legal battle that will force them both to change the roles they have created for themselves. Their struggle leads them to confront Lise’s haunting past, Zach’s political aspirations, the dangerous prejudice of an unstable Indian agent, and the subtle differences between justice and the law.”
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The Fairyland Murders
by J.A. Kazimer
Kensington Books
ebook and trade
“Blue Reynolds knows the darker side of New Never City–the side that’s hopped-up on fairy dust and doesn’t care if your house gets blown down. Rent’s due and his PI business is all but make believe, but even Blue shudders at having to chase after the tooth fairy, Isabella Davis, a freckle-nosed redhead five feet tall on her tip-toes…if you don’t count the pretty pink wings.”
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Demon Fare
by Cory Dale
Karen Duvall
Paperback and ebook
In an alternate history New York City, steam engines rule, and demon-powered technology is the up and coming thing. A half-demon taxi driver and an exorcist become partners to stop the rogue demons, and a tyrant who controls them, from taking over the city.
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Burn Out
by Kristi Helvig
Egmont USA
Hardcover
“Most people want to save the world; seventeen-year-old Tora Reynolds just wants to get the hell off of it. One of the last survivors in Earth’s final years, Tora years to escape the wasteland her planet has become after the sun turns “red giant,” but discovers her fellow survivors are even deadlier than the hostile environment.”