
Melange Books Releases for October 16, 2013
If you are waiting for the next installment of Sherry Derr-Wille’s Outlaw Series you are in luck! “Outlaw’s Daughter” is available now!
We’re also happy to bring you another great fantasy novella from Megan Hussey, “House of Lavender Dreams.”
We’re getting ready for Christmas here at Melange by bringing you an interracial romance novel that spans years, Johnny Dragona’s “Santa’s Special Girl.”
And wrapping up our Melange releases, we’ve combined two novella’s – “Shadow Trail” and “Bearly Christmas Darling” by LuAnn Nies – into one to bring you these great stories in print!
Over at Fire and Ice YA Books we’re happy to share the release of the second in the Horse Rescuers series by Patricia Gilkerson – “Nickel-Bred.”

Melange Books
release October 16, 2013

“House of Lavender Dreams” by Megan Hussey
House of Lavender Dreams
by Megan Hussey
Laira, a quirky Florida storeowner, seeks the perfect doll for her July Fourth display. Fireworks ignite when ‘living doll’ Roman comes magically to life—introducing Laira to love and untold pleasures in the walls of his mystical dollhouse—also known as the House of Lavender Dreams.


“Outlaw’s Daughter” by Sherry Derr-Wille (Outlaw Series #3)
Outlaw’s Daughter – The Outlaw Series #3
by Sherry Derr Wille
Jesse Tyler spent her life riding with her father’s outlaw gang. When she sees her chance to escape she takes it, only to catch a bullet in her back from one of her father’s men. Waking to find a lawman at her bedside she knows it’s only a matter of time before she loses her life at the end of a rope.
After losing his wife and unborn child when the Tyler gang robbed the bank in the town where Russ Martin was the sheriff, Russ only wants to see a Tyler hang. Instead of the satisfaction he hoped to gain from Clay Tyler’s death, Russ learns of the two youngest members of the gang Gary and Jesse Tyler. When Jesse Tyler appears in Loveland, Missouri, the town where Russ is the sheriff, he has a decision to make. Can he come to love her in the way she deserves to be loved?


“Santa’s Special Girl” by Johnny Dragona
Santa’s Special Girl
by Johnny Dragona
They couldn’t forget that first touch
In this interracial romance, a seven-year-old, African-American girl and a seventeen-year-old, Caucasian boy meet for the first time after he had been manipulated into dressing as Santa Claus and visiting a hospital. Seeing the girl’s impoverished condition, his heart goes out to her.
During the years that follow, Jennifer and Johnny occasionally meet again. She takes his advice and works hard in school, eventually becoming an attorney. He takes his own advice and stops working as a laborer in the construction business and goes to college.
But they keep meeting and eventually fall in love, which makes some people happy and others unhappy.


“Bearly Christmas Darling” and “Shadow Trail” by LuAnn Nies
Shadow Trail – A quiet romantic weekend in the north woods of Minnesota turns into a dangerous adventure that Crystal hadn’t bargained for.
Bearly Christmas Darling – Trisha Thomsen planned a romantic holiday weekend in a cozy cabin with her husband. Romance flies out the window when she’s forced to escape when a black bear shows up for dinner. While tracking down a rogue black bear, Game Warden, Jason McKnight finds himself looking down the barrel of his rifle at the woman who abandoned him—breaking his heart.

Fire and Ice Young Adult Books
release for October 16, 2013

“Nickel-Bred” by Patricia Gilkerson
Nickel-Bred
by Patricia Gilkerson
Piper and Addie, looking for another horse, find the perfect one in Nickel, but discover the owner is part of a gang of criminals. Nickel’s life is in danger. Can the girls save him from the slaughterhouse? Will they be able to save their friends and family as the vicious criminals take revenge?

WIN IT!
We’re giving away FIVE printed ARC’s (Advanced Release Copies) of Geri G. Taylor’s “The Kitchen Dance.”
Being ARC’s, these books may contain print errors in the text and/or the jacket.

“The Kitchen Dance” by Geri G. Taylor ~ Melange Books~ ARC ~ WIN IT!
About the book:
According to Rene Descartes, no two bodies can occupy the same space at the same time and any physical motion of a body involves moving other bodies from the space they occupy. In my first work of contemporary fiction, Joule and Allen create their own movements in THE KITCHEN DANCE.
Joule Dalton, a successful interior designer with a prestigious architectural firm, lived her life choreographed by her loved ones until a tragedy forces her to learn her own steps. Allen Brooks has endured his own share of manipulations and all his hard work and sacrifice has left him with nothing. He wears his troubles like the too large overcoat he picked up at a mission while living on the streets. This coat brings them together in an unexpected way. Joule takes the misfortunate Allen into her home in hopes of turning his life around. She gives him a place to live, a job, even introduces him to her wealthy friends. What she does not give him is her trust. This he must earn. The two combine their dreams and create a wonderful relationship. Then Allen gets a call that will challenge his sense of responsibility. He makes a choice, one that Joule cannot begrudge. Allen struggles with his decision while Joule goes back to her old life until they both realize what they really want.