CHRISTINE RIMMER

HOW TO MARRY A PRINCESS

Bravo Family Ties series: Bravo Royales

Harlequin Special Edition

November

A Bravo princess always gets her man–and she'll settle for nothing less than true love in the newest addition to USA TODAY bestselling author Christine Rimmer's popular miniseries, The Bravo Royales!

Alice Bravo-Calabretti was expected to conduct herself like a proper princess. No more impulsive jaunts to neighboring countries. No more tabloid escapades. But the hot new stable hand was a scandal waiting to happen. His bold blue eyes and come-hither smile could tempt a Bravo Royale to misbehave. Until Alice discovered her "penniless groom" was an American tycoon looking for a princess bride!

Alice was everything Noah Cordell wanted in a wife. But his royal heartthrob refused to say "I do" until he gave up his most carefully guarded secret. And she wouldn't settle for anything less than everything he had to give. Only then could they share a true meeting of minds and hearts—Bravo-Cordell style!

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HOLIDAY ROYALE

Bravo Family Ties series: Bravo Royales

Harlequin Special Edition

December

A playboy prince is roped into giving love lessons to a young, innocent woman–only to find himself falling for his eager pupil, in USA TODAY bestselling author Christine Rimmer's newest addition to her Bravo Royales miniseries…

Up till now, Lucy Cordell has led a pretty sheltered life—but she's ready to burst out of her shell. Still, she has absolutely zero experience with men—so she needs help. Someone to help her shed the cloak that seems to scream "Virgin!" every time she gets within five miles of an eligible guy. Who better than the dashing Player Prince, Damien of Montedoro? He's always come to her rescue before….

True—but Dami only agrees to school Lucy in the fine art of seduction because he's afraid of who she'll ask if he says no! Besides, she needs protection from all the wolves out there. Still, when it comes to Lucy's sweet lit-from-within beauty, Damien has to wonder…who is going to protect him?

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CHRISTINE RIMMER has written more than eighty contemporary romances for Harlequin Books.  A reader favorite, Christine’s stories consistently appear on national bestseller lists, including the USA TODAY and BOOKSCAN lists.  She has won Romantic Times BOOK review’s Reviewer’s Choice Award for best Silhouette Special Edition. She has been nominated five times for the Romance Writers of America’s prestigious RITA award and four times for Romantic Times Series Storyteller of the Year.

A California native who first longed to be an actress, Christine earned her theater degree from California State, Sacramento and then went to New York to study acting.  Later, she moved to Southern California, where she began her writing career with short stories, plays, and poems. Her poems and short stories were published in a number of small literary journals. Her plays were produced at The Back Alley and Group Theaters in Southern California and have been published by Dramatists Play Service and West Coast Plays.

Christine lives in Oregon with her family.

ALL ABOUT CHRISTINE

ANGI: How often to you get lost in a story?

CHRISTINE:  My own?  Five days a week, eight hours a day.  It’s a full time job and one I adore.  I wouldn’t switch places with anyone—not even Channing Tatum’s wife.  As a reader?  At least a couple of hours a day.  I love to get lost in other people’s stories.  It’s one of the great joys of my life.

ANGI: What’s your favorite cartoon character?

CHRISTINE: I think Merida, in BRAVE. Loved the movie, loved the funny, determined, flawed and wonderful Merida with her amazing caterpillar-curly acres of red, red hair.

ANGI: What’s the first book you remember reading? 

CHRISTINE: Probably Fun With Dick and Jane when I was like three.  “See Dick run.”  That kind of thing.  Even then, with all the three-word sentences, I loved the idea that those symbols on a page created pictures and worlds inside my head.

ANGI: What do you like about the hero of your book?

CHRISTINE:  About Noah, the hero of HOW TO MARRY A PRINCESS: his boldness and his pain.  He hasn’t had it easy, but he never gives up.  About Damien in HOLIDAY ROYALE?  I love that he’s a really good man—and doesn’t even realize that he is.

ANGI: What was the first story you remember writing?

CHRISTINE: It was called The Little Sun.  I was maybe four.  It was illustrated by yours truly for pasting on a felt board.  It was an adventure story, I believe, but the details escape me now….

 

ANGI: What is your biggest vice?

CHRISTINE:Oreos.  Chocolate Crème Oreos.  Excuse me.  I’ll be right back.  (crunch, crunch, drool)  There.  That’s much better.

ANGI: Is there a “Blooper” in your story (it may have been changed before printing)?

CHRISTINE: I try so very hard to avoid bloopers.  I can’t think of any offhand in HOW TO MARRY A PRINCESS or HOLIDAY ROYALE.  My most memorable blooper was in the second book in my long-running Bravo series.  I mentioned that the heroine, Meggie, had a favorite gelding.  Then later I mentioned how that gelding had sired a colt.  I got several letters on that one.  And a few reader friends still tease me about it to this day.

ANGI: How is it working with hot guys and sexy women all day?

CHRISTINE: It is a very tough job and one I take seriously.  Especially challenging is trolling the internet for great pictures of amazing looking guys.  So difficult.  But it has to be done so that I get the descriptions of all that hotness just right….

ANGI’S GOTTA ASK: What is your favorite thing about living in Oregon and have you been able to work it into one of your books?

CHRISTINE'S GOTTA ANSWER: I love the beauty here.  It’s just incredibly gorgeous.  I’m in Portland and it’s this totally charming city all wrapped up in mountains and trees with a couple of spectacular rivers running through it. In spring, summer and early fall, I love the wonderful farmers markets we have here.  I love the flowers—rhododendrons, roses and dahlias especially.  They grow in lush abundance here.   I also actually like a lot of cloudy, rainy days in my year.  Makes me feel cozy.  Makes me want to write.  Years ago, when I lived in Oklahoma, I wrote a series of books with buddies Susan Mallery and Christine Flynn called Prescription: Marriage for Special Edition.  Those books were set in Oregon’s Willamette Valley.  I remember researching the setting and thinking it would be a dream-come-true to live in Oregon.  And now, over a decade later, here I am.

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BECOMING DANTE

Day Leclaire

Book Nine: Gabe and Kat

All his life, Gabe Moretti has denied his Dante heritage–but when he meets Kat Malloy, his late wife’s cousin, the Dante Inferno cannot be ignored.

He tells himself it’s only business–her hand in exchange for a necklace his mother created. But when one touch leads to another–and a kiss leads to more– Gabe realizes he’s in over his head. Because Kat has secrets he needs to uncover. And now he’ll have to do the one thing he’s sworn never to do–go to his Dante relatives to find out the truth about this powerful passion….

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COWBOY IN THE CROSSFIRE

Robin Perini

Unjust accusations shattered Blake Redmond's big-city police career—and destroyed everything around him. Now, all this sheriff lives for is keeping watch over his small Texas town…until Amanda Hawthorne and her five-year-old son come fleeing out of a snowstorm with killers on their trail. 

The terror Blake sees in the young boy's eyes makes Blake swear to protect him and his injured mother. But winning Amanda's trust is as difficult as resisting the passion drawing him to this beautiful, determined woman. With their every move thwarted and time running out, the only way Blake can clear his name and save this little family is to confront his own dangerous past—no matter what the cost.

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THE LAST SINGLE MAVERICK

Christine Rimmer

Texas Cowboy Lassos Runaway Bride?

Look out ladies: there's another Traub bachelor in town! Jason "Jace" Traub is every bit as gorgeous as his sexy twin brother, but rumor has it he is even more marriage-shy. There's not a woman alive who could make this restless rancher settle down.... 

Yet insiders whisper that Jace has been talking wedding plans with Jocelyn Bennings, the chestnut-haired beauty who ran out on her own wedding just days ago! Could the confirmed bachelor really be hooking up with heartbroken, headstrong Joss? Stay tuned, loyal readers, to find out if their marriage of convenience runs amuck-or if lasting passion will finally rope in the last single maverick!

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A MARRIAGE WORTH FIGHTING FOR

Lilian Darcy

First Book of the McKinley Medics Trilogy

When Alicia McKinley agreed to a whirlwind Las Vegas wedding, she'd been swept away by the sheer romance of it all. How could she not say "I do" to Michael James McKinley, the gorgeous doctor who offered her everything she'd ever dreamed of? Still, after years of coming in second to MJ's career, it was time to say "I don't" to the workaholic husband who took her totally for granted.

But MJ is not a man who gives up without a fight. He and Alicia might not have a perfect marriage, but now that he knows what is on the line, he is determined to risk everything—including his heart—for a second chance with his wife!

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A NIGHT OF NO RETURN

Sarah Morgan

Private Lives of Public Playboys Book 1

Money, charm and sensual skills don't make up for a heart colder than ice...

Wild parties, wanton women, relentless work-nothing helps tycoon L ucas Jackson escape his dark and haunting past. Arriving at his rural castle in a snarling snowstorm, he craves only complete isolation.... But it seems oblivion can take an unexpected and highly intoxicating form!

Personally delivering the vital file left on her boss's desk, secretary Emma Gray starts to seriously regret her dutiful overtime mission. She never expected the dark side of the usually controlled Lucas could generate such a primitive, powerful-and entirely inappropriate-reaction.

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SURGEON SHEIK'S RESCUE

Loreth Anne White

Sahara Kings

Off the cliffs of Brittany, danger awaits. To Bella DiCaprio, the windswept island offers hope. The story that cost her a prestigious reporting job has brought her here, where a mysterious recluse holds the key to a horrific bombing….

For Sheik Tariq Al Arif, the grief is still fresh. That tragedy took not only his career as a lifesaving surgeon but also his fiancée. Only here, walking the windswept cliffs by the haunted abbey, does he begin to feel alive again. And when the American beauty shows up on the storm-ravaged island off the coast of France, he knows their passion is dangerous.

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THE TYCOON'S SECRET DAUGHTER

Susan Meier

The CEO's Second Chance

Max Montgomery had it all—charm, good looks and a career as CEO of the family business. Marriage to Kate Hunter was the icing on the cake. Until a devastating family secret sent his world—and then his marriage— crashing down around him….

Years later, Max is accidentally reunited with Kate, who also has a secret—the daughter he’s never met! Bonding with adorable Trisha may come naturally, but with the shadows of the past still haunting him, recapturing the heart of the woman he’s never stopped loving is quite a different matter….

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WE'LL ALWAYS HAVE PARIS

Jessica Hart

"I've Done It!"

Clara is a production assistant for a TV film-making company and she’s got a new project. Romance: Fact or Fiction is make-or-break for Clara’s future, and her first challenge is to get Simon Valentine, financial guru turned prime-time pin-up, to front the program.

But Simon’s got no time for romance, real or fictional, and it’s going to take all Clara’s powers of persuasion, not to mention a broken wrist, to get him on board.

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A Bravo Homecoming by Christine Rimmer

Travis Bravo was sick of his meddling mother and her matchmaking ways. So what better way to stop her than to bring a fiancée home for the holidays? One catch—he wasn't even dating anyone. But that was where his rough-and-tumble oil-rig friend, Samantha Jaworski, came in.

An unpolished tomboy, Sam was game for anything for a good friend. But after her girlfriend-ready makeover, she fell easily into the role of Travis's loving partner—and into his arms. Would she be standing under his mistletoe…for keeps?

 

Donovan's Child by Christine Rimmer

Both times, it was a fall that nearly did him in…

The first time, it was a tumble down a mountain that threatened Donovan McRae's very survival. And though he had once been the Man Who Had Everything, at that point he thought he had nothing left to lose.

Until Abilene Bravo walked into his life—and he realized he was wrong. Because though he thought he'd lost his heart years ago, he found himself losing it again as he fell fast for the feisty woman who wouldn't take no for an answer.

 

Doukakis's Apprentice by Sarah Morgan

With her family business in crisis, Polly Prince does her best to keep calm and carry on. But hard work alone can't save her London company from a takeover by the infamously ruthless Damon Doukakis or her traitorous body from the lethal sensuality of her boss!

As his new apprentice, Polly accompanies Damon to Paris to negotiate the most challenging business deal of her life! Worse still, Polly must at all costs resist Damon in the most dangerously romantic city in the world.

 

How a Cowboy Stole Her Heart by Donna Alward

Clay Gregory's known Megan Briggs her whole life, and he's been plenty worried about her while she's been getting medical treatment. Now she's back home and hiding away on the family ranch.

Knowing the stubborn cowgirl won't accept his help willingly, he invites her to a family wedding to help him avoid his aunt's matchmaking!

He plans to remind Meg she's still the girl who can beat him in a horse race! But as she steps out in her curve-hugging red dress, her skills on a horse are suddenly the furthest thing from his mind.

I'll Catch You by Farrah Rochon

Cedric Reeves has just been sidelined, and the bad-boy pro footballer suddenly finds himself without an agent or a prayer of getting back in the game. What he needs is someone pulling for him-someone like gorgeous go-getter Payton Mosely.

A media-hounded celebrity like Cedric is just what the ambitious up-and-comer Payton needs to jump-start her career. That's why she's waging a no-holds-barred campaign to land the Saber running back as her first client. But how's the NFL sports agent supposed to keep things strictly professional when Cedric pursues her with a passion no sane woman can resist? Could this sexy bad boy be good for her after all?

 

A Mother's Homecoming by Tanya Michaels

Welcome Home, Stranger

For Pamela Jo Wilson, returning to her sleepy Mississippi hometown means coming face-to-face with her past. At seventeen, overwhelmed by the responsibilities of a new marriage and family, she fled Mimosa. But Nick Shepard wasn't the only one Pam left behind. Now, thirteen years later, she just hopes she can make things right with her ex-husband and the child she barely knows.

Nick's first instinct is to protect his daughter, but his little girl is hell-bent on meeting the woman who left her behind. With his own feelings for Pam being as powerful and all-consuming as ever, how can Nick know what he's feeling is real? And how can he trust Pam again? First she has to convince him she's through running. That she's come home—this time for good.

Rancher's Twins: Mom Needed by Barbara Hannay

Nanny Holly O'Mara has formed a close bond with her late cousin's little twins. When their estranged father, rough, rugged Australian cattleman Gray Kidman, arrives to take them home to the outback, Holly senses that he is out of his depth.

Holly soon falls for mysterious Gray. Seeing him light up his children's world makes her spirits leap and even begins to heal her own emotional bruises. Yet something is making Gray push her away. With her help, will he find the courage to love again?

The Texan's Bride by Linda Warren

Sheltered her entire life, Jessie Murdock has rarely gotten her way. Until her dying father makes a deal with Cadde Hardin. Cadde will get shares of Shilah Oil on one condition—marry Jessie. In love with him for years, Jessie doesn't hesitate to sign the papers. But she didn't sign up for a completely absent husband.

Now Jessie has a counter offer. She'll give Cadde controlling interest of the business if he'll give her a baby…the natural way. Only he has a few caveats of his own. When life refuses to follow their written plan, Jessie and Cadde have to decide which is more important: their unspoken love or the family business.

In honor of the Romance Writers of America® national conference, we're featuring the different nominees for their highest published honor, THE RITA®, by category each day. We hope some of the authors will be able to join us, but remember they're getting ready for their big night July 28th. We'll celebrate the winners here on the 29th along with our celebration drawings from their gracious donations.

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