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  <about><![CDATA[Barbara Bretton is the USA Today bestselling, award-winning author of more than 40 books. She currently has over ten million copies in print around the world. Her works have been translated into twelve languages in over twenty countries. <br/><br/>Barbara has been featured in articles in The New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Romantic Times, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Herald News, Home News, Somerset Gazette,among others, and has been interviewed by Independent Network News Television, appeared on the Susan Stamberg Show on NPR, and been featured in an interview with Charles Osgood of WCBS, among others. <br/><br/>Her awards include both Reviewer's Choice and Career Achievement Awards from Romantic Times; Gold and Silver certificates from Affaire de Coeur; the RWA Region 1 Golden Leaf; and several sales awards from Bookrak. Ms. Bretton was included in a recent edition of Contemporary Authors. <br/><br/>Barbara loves to spend as much time as possible in Maine with her husband, walking the rocky beaches and dreaming up plots for upcoming books. <br/>]]></about>
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    <![CDATA[Casting Spells]]>
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    <![CDATA[<strong>Magic. Knitting. Love. A new series and a delightful departure by the <em>USA Today</em> bestselling author of <em>Just Desserts</em>.</strong><br/><br/> Sugar Maple looks like any Vermont town, but its inhabited with warlocks, sprites, vampires, witchesand an ancient secret. And Chloe Hobbs, owner of Sticks &amp; String, a popular knitting shop, has a big secret too. Shes a sorcerers daughter in search of Mr. Rightand shes found him in Luke MacKenzie, a cop investigating Sugar Maples very first murder. Bad news is hes 100% human, which could spell disaster for a normal future with a paranormal woman like her.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Laced with Magic]]>
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    <![CDATA[<strong>From “a master storyteller”(<em>Booklist</em> (starred review) comes more magic, knitting, and love in the delightful follow-up to <em>Casting Spells</em>.</strong><br/><br/> Knit shop owner and sorcerer’s daughter Chloe Hobbs felt the Fates finally got it right when she met Luke MacKenzie. And no one could have convinced her otherwise—including the trolls, selkies, or spirits who also call Sugar Maple, Vermont, home. But then out of nowhere Luke’s ex-wife suddenly shows up, claiming to see the spirit of their daughter, Steffie—a daughter Chloe knows nothing about.<br/><br/> Steffie’s spirit is being held hostage by a certain Fae leader. And if Chloe weaves a spell to free her spirit, her nemesis will also be free—free to destroy her yarn shop and all of Sugar Maple. But if she doesn’t, Steffie won’t be the only one spending eternity in hell. Chloe’ll be joining her, cursed with a broken heart.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Just Desserts]]>
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    <![CDATA[Hayley Goldstein has been offered the chance of a lifetime: to bake a cake for a world-famous rock star. But she's shocked to discover that she's actually the aging rocker's long-lost daughter. With her world turned upside down, Hayley will need help letting down her guard and hanging onto the things that matter most. And the rocker's lawyer, Finn Rafferty, may just be the man for the job.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Just Like Heaven]]>
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    <![CDATA[It all started with a red lace thong. Normally Kate is a twin set and pearls kind of girl who wouldn't be caught dead in such a thing. But that's exactly what happens when sudden chest pains leave her lying in a parking lot with her skirt hiked up around her hips for all of Princeton to see.     It's a man in a Grateful Dead t-shirt who saves her life, and then disappears without a trace.   A total stranger-and yet Kate would give anything to see him again.  How is she to know that her mystery man is planning a new, far-away life for himself, one that doesn't include romance, even if he can't seem to get the woman in red lace out of his mind?  <p>Romance isn't high on Kate's list of priorities either. But when the handsome good Samaritan shows up on her doorstep, they discover that even the strongest heart is no match for love...</p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[Girls of Summer]]>
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    <![CDATA[Dr. Ellen Markowitz has learned the hard way that nothing is quite the way it seems-not family and certainly not love. But during one magical summer, she will discover that hope and love can sneak back into your heart when you least expect it.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Shore Lights]]>
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    <![CDATA[While Maddy Bainbridge didn't want to go back home to the Jersey shore, her mother's invitation came at a time when Maddy had few choices. But her effort to give her own little girl her heart's desire may just give Maddy a chance of finding her own...]]>
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    <![CDATA[A Soft Place to Fall]]>
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    <![CDATA[A young widow from charming Shelter Rock Cove, Maine, Annie Galloway has finally found the strength to start a new life. All she needs is courage, and time. The last thing she needs is a handsome, charming next-door neighbor... <br/><br/> &quot;Beautifully crafted.&quot;	(<em>Booklist</em>) <br/><br/> &quot;Seductive.&quot; (<em>Publishers Weekly</em>) ]]>
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    <![CDATA[Chances Are]]>
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    <![CDATA[Maddy Bainbridge is thrilled about marrying Aidan O'Malley--but she wasn't prepared for the ordeal of planning a wedding. Now the O'Malley clan is about to get a big shock when Aidan's teenage daughter reveals a secret that could tear apart the entire family--and put a stop to one very special wedding.]]>
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    <![CDATA[The Day We Met]]>
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    <![CDATA[Maggy O'Brien's ex-husband is getting remarried.  Her daughter has dyed her hair purple.  And for her thirty-fifth birthday, her sisters have arranged a weekend getaway - complete with makeover and limo.  It's all Maggy can do to hold on to the pieces of her life right now.  And traveling all the way to Atlantic City, she thinks, will only make things worse.  <p>Conor Riley is in Atlantic City that same day - and his only plans are to roll some dice and keep his mind off the past.  He can't help noticing the beautiful woman across the room, sitting alone.  He can't help but ask her to dance.  And he can't help but ask her to come with him to a romantic escape by the shore - and to think about what their future together could hold.  <p>One voice tells Maggy to stick with what she knows: car pools and groceries and going it alone.  And then there is the other voice - the one that tells her to take a chance, and say yes . . .</p></p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[A Wedding In Paris: We'll Always Have Paris\Something Borrowed, Something Blue\Picture Perfect]]>
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    <![CDATA[<strong>You don't find love in Paris -- It finds you</strong>    <p><strong><em>We'll Always Have Paris</em> by Barbara Bretton</strong><br/>  After twenty-eight years of marriage, Kate and Ryan Donovan called it quits. Two years later at their daughter's wedding, they're seeing each other in a whole new light -- the City of Light, where romance beckons around every corner . . .    <p><strong><em>Something Borrowed, Something Blue</em> by Marie Ferrarella</strong><br/>  Maid of honor Shannon Donovan hates the fact that she's at a wedding without her fiance -- and that the best man is Josh McClintock, a cad she hasn't seen since college. But it turns out her fiance may not be the man she thought he was . . . and neither is Josh.    <p><strong><em>The Picture of Love</em> by Cindi Myers</strong><br/>  She's a hopeless romantic. He's a jaded bachelor. But when Lacey Jessup, a naïve caterer's assistant, meets worldly wedding photographer Marc Kendrick, sparks fly. Perhaps a tour of Paris is all they need to find some common ground.    <p><strong>3 Brand-New Stories in One Collection</strong></p></p></p></p>]]>
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