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Placeholder for nominations.
*** Outlander by Diana Gabaldon [John F, BelleZora, WT Sharpe]
Amazon (US)
*** Local Custom by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller [BaenSidhe, ccowie, Dazrin]
the omnibus from Baen
*** I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith [sun surfer, issybird, sqdancer]
Amazon U.K. -
Amazon U.S.
*** Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro [sun surfer, Brownskins, SeaWolf]
Amazon U.K. -
Amazon U.S.
*** Behold, Here's Poison by Georgette Heyer [sun surfer, BelleZora, Synamon]
Amazon U.K. -
Amazon U.S.
*** Dirty Little Secrets (Romantic Mystery) by Liliana Hartk [WT Sharpe, BelleZora, John F]
Amazon US
*** The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje [WT Sharpe, John F, Synamon]
Amazon Au -
Amazon U.K. -
Amazon U.S.
* The Last Hour of Gann by R. Lee Smith [treadlightly]
No links given. Available at Amazon, B&N and blushingbooks.com.
Spoiler:
It was her last chance:
Amber Bierce had nothing left except her sister and two tickets on Earth’s first colony-ship. She entered her Sleeper with a five-year contract and the promise of a better life, but awakened in wreckage on an unknown world. For the survivors, there is no rescue, no way home and no hope until they are found by Meoraq—a holy warrior more deadly than any hungering beast on this hostile new world…but whose eyes show a different sort of hunger when he looks at her.
It was his last year of freedom:
Uyane Meoraq is a Sword of Sheul, God’s own instrument of judgment, victor of hundreds of trials, with a conqueror’s rights over all men. Or at least he was until his father’s death. Now, without divine intervention, he will be forced to assume stewardship over House Uyane and lose the life he has always known. At the legendary temple of Xi’Matezh, Meoraq hopes to find the deliverance he seeks, but the humans he encounters on his pilgrimage may prove too great a test even for him…especially the one called Amber, behind whose monstrous appearance burns a woman’s heart unlike any he has ever known.
*** Portrait of Jennie by Robert Nathan [fantasyfan, jj2me, issybird]
Amazon UK -
Amazon US
* Latakia by JF Smith [SeaWolf]
Amazon AU /
SmashWords
Spoiler:
Matthew likes his life in Richmond. He has his friends and his softball and his volunteer work. And he has a very good-looking boyfriend, Brian, who he’s been happily dating for over a year now. So what if his friends tend to question just how good his boyfriend is, and so what if Brian tends to have inexplicable mood swings. And so what if Brian seems to invite Matt’s suspicions on occasion. If he just shows a little faith and trust, he’ll appreciate what he has with Brian the way he should. Right?
But suddenly, Matt finds himself in a desperate life-or-death situation on a trip overseas, and he realizes just how much he misses home, and Brian. He’s luckily rescued by a team of US Spec-Ops Forces, only to find out they’re a bunch of bigoted jerks. Worse, a quirk of his situation forces him to spend time with them that he’d rather not. And that’s when he finds out that first impressions can be misleading. When called upon, he steps up when every fiber of his being tells him not to, and discovers something deep inside himself that he didn’t realize was even there. And his life will never be the same. He finds that he can, after all, make some very overdue changes in his own life.
What Matt doesn’t realize is that the bond of brotherhood runs both ways. And he winds up changing the lives of several of the men on that Spec-Ops team as much as they changed his.
All it takes is faith and trust.
* Tigers and Devils by Sean Kennedy [SeaWolf]
Amazon AU
Spoiler:
The most important things in Simon Murray’s life are football, friends, and film—in that order. His friends despair of him ever meeting someone, but despite his loneliness, Simon is cautious about looking for more. Then his best friends drag him to a party, where he barges into a football conversation and ends up defending the honour of star forward Declan Tyler—unaware that the athlete is present. In that first awkward meeting, neither man has any idea they will change each other's lives forever.
Like his entire family, Simon revels in living in Melbourne, the home of Australian Rules football and mecca for serious fans. There, players are treated like gods—until they do something to fall out of public favour. This year, the public is taking Declan to task for suffering injuries outside his control, so Simon's support is a bright spot.
But as Simon and Declan fumble toward a relationship, keeping Declan's homosexuality a secret from well-meaning friends and an increasingly suspicious media becomes difficult. Nothing can stay hidden forever. Soon Declan will have to choose between the career he loves and the man he wants, and Simon has never been known to make things easy—for himself or for others.
*** The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger [Synamon, issybird, yekim54]
Zola (Exclusive)
Spoiler:
Full Description (from Zola):
The Time Traveler’s Wife, one of the best romance books of all time, is now available as an eBook!
Audrey Niffenegger's dazzling debut is the story of Clare, a beautiful, strong-minded art student, and Henry, an adventuresome librarian, who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-three and Henry thirty-one. Impossible but true, because Henry is one of the first people diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement Disorder: his genetic clock randomly resets and he finds himself misplaced in time, pulled to moments of emotional gravity from his life, past and future. His disappearances are spontaneous and unpredictable, and lend a spectacular urgency to Clare and Henry's unconventional love story. That their attempt to live normal lives together is threatened by something they can neither prevent nor control makes their story intensely moving and entirely unforgettable.
Plus, the long-awaited sequel to Audrey Niffenegger’s time-traveling love story is finally here!
The ebook includes the first 25 pages of Niffeneger’s sequel featuring Henry and Clare’s daughter, Alba. Gifted with Clare’s beauty and Henry’s unique abilities, Alba finds herself caught between her real-time husband, Zach, and her other husband, Oliver, a fellow time-traveler and musician.
Get your ebook today and dive into this classic romance novel. Find the rest of Audrey Niffenegger’s books here and more of the best love story books. Shop eBooks today!
* The Plum Tree by Ellen Marie Wiseman [drofgnal]
No vendor links provided.
** Blind Trust by Nancy Kopp [crich70, fantasyfan]
No vendor links provided.
The nominations for February are now closed.