In Samantha’s Mailbox:
Title: Skinnytinis
Author: Teresa Marie Howes
Received: Via CLP Blog Tours
Synopsis: More than 70 ways to enjoy cocktail hour–without worrying about the calories
For people watching their weight, enjoying the occasional cocktail can be a problem, since the average mixed drink contains over 300 calories. Now Teresa Howes comes to the rescue with scores of cocktail recipes that average only 142 calories each–but have the same great flavor and alcohol content as their full-calorie counterparts. From a Skinny Appletini and a Skinny Cosmopolitan to a Skinny Mojito and a Skinny Margarita, these guilt-free drinks feature low-sugar or sugar-free mixers, fresh fruit, and other clever ways to cut the calories. With 39 beautiful color photographs plus a section on diet-friendly drinks people can order at a bar or restaurant, SkinnyTinis is a must-have guide for weight-conscious social drinkers everywhere.
Title: A Girls Guide to Fairytales
Author: Laurey Buckland
Received: From Laurey Buckland
Synopsis: For daydreamer Maddie, obsessive compulsive Clare, over dramatic Isobel and happy-go-lucky Sophie, life is more a world of tragic than magic. For Maddie it’s a constant battle against the monotony of a job she hates while her heart aches to be somewhere else, for Clare it’s a perpetual struggle to vanquish her teenage insecurities and to see herself for the woman she really is, for Isobel it’s a refusal to reveal her true self for fear it’s not what everyone imagined her to be and for Sophie it’s a willingness to believe in a rumour that threatens to poison her perfect relationship.
But with the love and support of their friends and a little bit of luck, the girls soon realise that happy ever afters are not just reserved for fairy tale fiction – as long as they start believing in them.
Title: Married by Christmas
Author: Scarlett Bailey
Received: Unsolicited
Synopsis: All she wants is a perfect Christmas Eve wedding…
It’s been on Anna’s wish-list since she was a little girl, dreaming of a far happier family life than she’d ever experienced.
But now – only two weeks before her big day – her perfect husband-to-be drops a bombshell…
Only nothing’s going to stop Anna’s plans – not even the pesky inconvenience of discovering her groom already has a wife!
In Sara’s Mailbox:
Title: Torn Together
Author: Emlyn Chand
Received: Emlyn @ Evolved Publishing
Synopsis: Evolved Publishing presents “Torn Together” by Emlyn Chand, a story about one woman’s search for love and acceptance, her troubled relationship with her mother, and her desperate desire to find the happiness for which she’s always yearned. LITERARY/WOMEN’S FICTION. ~~~~~ From her cheating boyfriend to her dead father and cold, judgmental mother, Daly knows she can’t trust others to be there when it counts. This cynicism begins to melt away when she meets Kashi, a light-hearted charmer from India, who decides he cares too much to let her fade into the background of her own life. After a series of false starts, their quirky romance carries them to India, where Daly must win the approval of Kashi’s family in order to seal their “forever.” Meanwhile, Laine struggles to cope with the pain of early widowhood, fleeing into the pages of her well-worn library and emerging only to perform her duties as a social worker at the crisis pregnancy center. Although her daughter wants nothing more than to work as an artist, Laine doesn’t know how to redirect Daly to a more suitable profession without further damaging their tenuous relationship. Can Laine look past her pain to learn from an unlikely mentor? Has Daly finally found someone whom she can trust? Will the women recognize their common bonds before the relationship is broken beyond repair? “Torn Together,” Emlyn Chand’s first sojourn into Literary/Women’s Fiction, illustrates how our similarities often drive us apart.
Title: Grace Unexpected
Author: Gale Martin
Received: Susan Ethridge @ Booktrope
Synopsis: This contemporary romantic comedy features thirty-something Grace Savage, who has slogged through crummy jobs and dead-end relationships with men who would rather go bald than say “I do”. In search of respite from her job, her mother, her humdrum life, she visits Shaker Village in New Hampshire. Instead of renewal, she’s unnerved to learn that Shaker men and women lived and worked side by side in complete celibacy.
When her longtime boyfriend dumps her instead of proposing, Grace avows the sexless Shaker ways. Resolved to stick to her new plan – dubbed the Shaker Plan – despite ovaries ticking like time bombs, she returns to her life in Pennsylvania. Almost immediately, she’s juggling two eligible bachelors: Addison, a young beat reporter; and True, a venerable anthropology professor. Both men have ample charms and soul mate potential to test her newfound Shaker-style self-control, and Grace appears to be on the fast track to a marriage proposal… until secrets revealed deliver a death rattle to the Shaker Plan.
Title: Married by Christmas
Author: Scarlett Bailey
Received: Unsolicited
Synopsis: All she wants is a perfect Christmas Eve wedding…
It’s been on Anna’s wish-list since she was a little girl, dreaming of a far happier family life than she’d ever experienced.
But now – only two weeks before her big day – her perfect husband-to-be drops a bombshell…
Only nothing’s going to stop Anna’s plans – not even the pesky inconvenience of discovering her groom already has a wife!
