{"id":168422,"date":"2022-07-13T09:42:03","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T23:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/?p=168422"},"modified":"2022-07-13T09:42:04","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T23:42:04","slug":"amy-in-romancelandia-25-books-by-jodi-mcalister-tilly-tennant-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/2022\/07\/13\/amy-in-romancelandia-25-books-by-jodi-mcalister-tilly-tennant-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Amy in Romancelandia #25: Books by Jodi McAlister, Tilly Tennant and more!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Hello lovelies and welcome back to Romancelandia where it decided to not only stay cold but turn wet. Really wet – again! Love and hugs to everyone suffering through yet another clean up. Our thoughts are with you and I hope, for those of you who indulge in the escapism we so freely exude down the rabbit hole, that you can find some brief respite in the pages of a book where love really is all you need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


So, join me, if you are able for this month\u2019s romance releases. It\u2019s warm and dry and I have boozy coffee, red wine, and cheese toasties galore while you rest for a bit. As per usual, there\u2019s a selection of both Aussie and overseas books and they\u2019re all available via Booktopia in either print or digital, so just click on the covers if something takes your fancy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Australian \/ New Zealand Romance Authors<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Here for the Right Reasons<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

by Jodi McAlister<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When Cece James agrees to be cast as a \u2018Juliet\u2019 on the next season of the hit television show Marry Me, Juliet, it\u2019s certainly not for the right reasons. She\u2019s knee-deep in debt and desperate for the associated paycheck. The last thing on her mind is the hunky \u2018Romeo\u2019 waiting for her at the end of the gravel driveway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Dylan Jayasinghe Mellor isn\u2019t your usual fame-hungry TV star. An Olympic gold medallist with calloused hands, kind eyes, and a propensity for panic attacks, it turns out he\u2019s not here for the right reasons either. As a spokesperson for a men\u2019s mental health foundation and the franchise\u2019s first non-white male lead, Dylan\u2019s got a charity to plug and something to prove.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Cece gets eliminated on the first night, it seems like she and Dylan\u2019s awkward first meeting will be their last conversation. But when the TV set is shut down unexpectedly, Cece and Dylan suddenly get a little more time together than they\u2019d expected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will love bloom when the cameras stop rolling?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buy it here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Night the King Claimed Her<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

by Natalie Anderson<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The king\u2019s forbidden innocent\u2026For just twenty-four hours!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Elsie Wynter is stranded in Silvabon, she dreads seeing arrogant King Felipe. He knows far too much about the scandalous secrets of her past, yet her attraction to him returns with a dangerous intensity\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Felipe has vowed to be the last to wear his kingdom\u2019s heavy crown. He\u2019ll take no queen and sire no heirs. But with tantalizing Elsie back in the palace for one night only, he can think of nothing but finally claiming her\u2026 What will Felipe do when their unique fire demands more?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buy it here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hometown Cowboy<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

by Dakota Harrison<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Darby Jameson knows that spending the night with groomsman Ryan Thomas after her twin brother\u2019s wedding is a big mistake. Darby\u2019s not cut out for one-night stands and Ryan\u2019s definitely not one for relationships\u2014she knows this. Still, she falls hard for the sexy cowboy\u2019s many charms, and it\u2019s better than she ever imagined. Darby is in for a world of hurt when one night turns into a secret affair, but what\u2019s she to do when his smile melts her heart?<\/p>\n\n\n\n


When Ryan finally gives in to his attraction to his best friend\u2019s sister, he insists it\u2019s only temporary and best kept to themselves. Darby can do so much better than to take up with him. He has nothing to give to a sweet woman like her, and everyone knows it.
But when Darby drops a bombshell, suddenly a casual fling is no longer an option. With so much at stake, and so many factors keeping them apart, do Darby and Ryan have a chance at a happily ever after?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buy it here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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International Romance Authors<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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After Hours on Milagro Street<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

by Angelina M. Lopez<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Guapo pobrecito her grandmother calls him. The “poor handsome man.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professor Jeremiah Post, the poor handsome man, is in fact standing in the way of Alejandra “Alex” Torres turning Loretta’s, her grandmother’s bar, into a viable business. The hot brainiac who sleeps in one of the upstairs tenant rooms already has all of her Mexican American family’s admiration; she won’t let him have the bar and building she needs to resurrect her career, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alex blowing into town has rocked Jeremiah to his mild-mannered core, but the large, boisterous Torres clan is everything he never had. He doesn’t believe Alex has the best interest of her family, their community, or the bar’s legacy in mind. To protect all three, he’ll stand up to the tough and tattooed bartender with whom he now shares a bedroom wall–and resist the insta-lust they both feel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But when an old enemy threatens Loretta’s and the surrounding neighborhood, Alex and Jeremiah must combine forces. It will take her might and his mind to save the home they both desperately need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buy it here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Home at Cornflower Cottage<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

by Tilly Tennant<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Amelie has lived in Cornflower Cottage since she was born. She did her homework at the scrubbed kitchen table and helped her mum hang washing from the line on the old oak tree in the garden. And when her beloved parents died, Cornflower Cottage became Amelie’s armor against the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


The trouble is that Cornflower Cottage is too big for just her. With a broken boiler and a leaking roof, Amelie knows she must do something to make ends meet. When she meets Xander, a scruffy, brown-eyed nature documentary maker living out of his backpack in a nearby hotel, Amelie rents him a room, hoping a lodger will solve her problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


She soon realises that her troubles are only just beginning. Xander’s muddy clothes all over the cottage and early morning jaunts to photograph otters are going to take some getting used to. But when an argument turns into a heart-to-heart, she finds herself confessing how lonely she has been.
Before long, laughter echoes around the cozy farmhouse kitchen once more, and sparks begin to fly. But when a face from Xander’s past appears at Cornflower Cottage Amelie’s happy home is shaken once more. Xander has changed Amelie’s quiet country life forever. Should she open her heart to someone who has hidden things from her? Or let him leave, and lose the love that makes her house a home?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buy it here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One Night Fling in Positano<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

by Ann McIntosh<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Can one night of passion\u2026change her whole life?<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Nurse Kendra lives a jet-set life. Who needs a home and family when they only let you down? So when meeting gorgeous Massimo in Positano results in one unforgettable night, Kendra has no regrets–until he turns out to be her new boss Continuing their fling is risky, but also irresistible\u2026 Under the red-hot Mediterranean sun, will Kendra realize it’s not her fling that’s at risk but her no-strings-attached relationship rule?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buy it here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Amy\u2019s Favourite of the Month<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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As an extra treat each month, I recommend one of my fave authors\/reads to you, and this month I give you Janet Evanovich. I\u2019m sure this is a name known far and wide from her mega-successful Stephanie Plum series which is still going strong at book 28. And while this multi NYT bestselling author is known and lauded by the world at large for her action adventures packed with thrills and spills, love and laughter, she is also much adored for her earlier Loveswept category romances where many of us first discovered her pacey, humorous, sexy books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Her backlist is plentiful which always makes it hard to recommend just one but I don\u2019t think you can really go past her first Stephanie Plum novel, One For The Money. Later made into a film starring and produced by Kathryn Heigl, the book introduces us to a thoroughly modern literary heroine who starts at rock bottom and determinedly, if a little clumsily, re-invents herself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Stephanie she also gave romance readers one of the cannon\u2019s best known, much-debated love triangles. Members of Romancelandia are either strictly Team Ranger or Team Joe. Although, I do feel that if possibility number three – a really hot thruple \u2013 was thrown into the mix, that would probably be a fairly popular option, also!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Buy it here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Until next time, stay safe and happy reading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About Amy<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Amy Andrews is an award-winning, USA Today<\/em> bestselling Aussie author who has written eighty-plus contemporary romances in both the traditional and digital markets. She\u2019s sold three million books and been translated into over a dozen languages including manga. She has won three Ruby awards and is a triple RITA finalist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In her other life, she was a paediatric intensive care nurse for twenty-one years. Amy lives near the sea with her husband of thirty years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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