Mei Lu Ling is a woman from a traditional Chinese family. Her parents strongly disapprove of her career. Mei is determined not to let her personal life interfere with her job except she's handed a case to help solve stolen Chinese antiquities. A case that leaves her father, owner of an import company, a prime suspect.

Cullen Archer, a Houston based insurance investigator, needs the translating expertise of Lieutenant Ling. Personally, he finds her very attractive. Too attractive. A fact that complicates the case he's working on with Interpol. Cullen's feelings for the Houston cop jeopardizes his case and tangles both their lives.

You can go home again ... 

Rachel Goodman never thought she'd return to Pilgrim Cove. Too many unpleasant childhood memories. But she's no longer an awkward, defenseless kid, so when the one person who'd been kind to her needs her, she gets ready to face the past.  What she's not ready for is the challenge of working with Jack Levine. The man doesn't follow house rules or take advice. Which makes being his boss very difficult. And being his housemate downright impossible.

Until the stormy night Jack and his boat go missing, and Rachel realizes how much she needs him. Her home -- Sea View House -- has become their home. 

To escape from her hometown, Claire Kendall had to leave her past--and her sister--behind.

Now her sister's sudden death has Claire going home to confront her past and her orphaned nephew - who blames her for saving herself and not his mother.  Complicating matters is Tucker Hall, a man who seems to have a genius for getting in the way when it comes to Nick.

Claire knows she'll be happy only once the town of Monroe is a speck in her rearview mirror, but she can't go before Nick is ready.  In the meantime, she'll have to see a lot of Tucker and hope that he doesn't give her any reason to stay.

Brenda Novak is excited to announce that her December Superromance, A Home of Her Own, has been nominated by Romantic Times Bookclub Magazine for a Reviewer's Choice (Best Superromance 2004). She's also pleased that both her 2004 romantic suspense novel, Cold Feet, and Sanctuary, one of her Superromances that came out in November 2003, have finaled in the Lauries!

Linda Warren's Superromance made # 9 on the Walden's Series Bestsellers list. It's the first time she's made the list with a SuperRomance.

Linda Barrett is running contests in January, February and March--to celebrate the release of Reluctant Housemates.  Prizes include a signed copy of No Ordinary Summer (the second of the Pilgrim Cove series) and a $10.00 gift certificate to Barnes & Noble.  Visit her website and click on Newsletter/Contest to get more information.

Bethany Campbell has a new contest you can enter here for a great grab bag of prizes from jewelry to mousepads to art cards to Who Knows What? The contest is running from now until March 9, 2005.   To enter, read the excerpt from Bethany's March Super, Wild Horses. (The excerpt link is on the home page.)   And while there, don't forget to check out the photo of the super handsome hero. Click on his picture to find out his real identity! 

Brenda Novak: Enter Brenda's new Contest Bonanza at her website, where you could win autographed books, Sees Candies, Barnes & Noble Gift Certificates, Dinner for two at Chili's or a $500 shopping spree to the store of winner's choice! Details posted at website.

Debra Salonen's Feburary contest is CHOCOLATE, CHOCOLATE, CHOCOLATE - to celebrate Valentine's Day, of course.  Sign up for her February contest at her website and you might win an 18 oz. box of handcrafted (extremely yummy) Monterey Bay Chocolates, a signed copy of A Cowboy Summer, a cover flat from Caleb's Christmas Wish and some fun extras.  Deb just got back from Las Vegas, where four of her upcoming books are set.  (The first, Betting on Grace, a Signature saga, will be released in November.)  She picked up a bunch of fun gifts for future prizes, including Ethel M chocolates, jewelry and T-shirts.

Brenda Novak: Coming soon, Brenda Novak's Silent e-Auction to benefit juvenile diabetes. 

• Where: www.brendanovak.com
• When: May 1st - May 31st
• What: Tons of great items, like.... 
• For readers--Over 100 autographed novels by some of your favorite authors and many reader baskets filled with wonderful items
• For aspiring authors--reads by editors from some of the largest publishers in New York and critiques by some of the industry's most successful agents
• For anyone--A museum/heirloom quality hand-made rocking chair by Bill Kappel (value-- $6000 - $17000)
• Diamond stud earring from Madison Ave. Jewelers in Sacramento CA (value--$1000)
• Southwest Tickets
• Autographed Kings Basketball Items
• A weekend stay at various Hilton Hotels
• A ride-along in the Sacramento Sheriff's helicopter
• A handmade child's quilt from Quilts from Caring Hands 
• Dinner for two at Chilis, Chevy's Outback

And much, much more!