Please post your nominees for September 2009 Books of the Month on this thread. Please limit your nominations to two books per member.

How about Fallen Angels by Lori Foster

or Angels All Over Town by Luanne Rice

No particular reason why the word angels is in both titles. Unless my subconscious is trying to tell me something.(LOL)

Both my titles had angels in them in August 2009 and I didn't even think about it until after they were posted. Yet it does make sense. With so many vamp and were books on the market, angels would work for an author looking for a new take on paranormal romance.

That's right, the other side deserves some attention as well.

Cute how that worked out, Sue! I don't think I've ever done/seen that before. I'm still trying to think of some new ones to post.

Sue wrote: "How about Fallen Angels by Lori Foster

or Angels All Over Town by [author:Luanne R..."myvite is for angels allover town as I have this book

Karen wrote "myvite (vote)is for ..."

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And I've got some research to do. Every time I come up with something, it's either too far into the series to nominate or isn't available yet. Grrr.... I'll be back.

My suggestions for September 2009 Books of the Month are as follows:

2009 RITA Winner for Best Regency Historical Romance

My Lord and Spymaster by Joanna Bourne

My Lord and Spymaster is the story of Jess Whitby, who although was raised as a poor but cunning pickpocket, is now a wealthy young woman. Her father's been wrongly accused of selling secrets to Napoleon, and he's going to hang - unless Jess finds the real traitor in the London underworld.

Captain Sebastian Kennett prevents Jess from being kidnapped on the waterfront docks, and she wakens in his bed. Their fates then become entwined and the race is then on to find the traitor in Regency London.

2009 RITA Winner for Best Paranormal Romance

Seducing Mr. Darcy by Gwyn Cready

From Amazon:
(Phillippa) “Flip”, a divorcée suffering from "carnal deprivation," has a racy one-night stand with one of literature's most irresistible heroes -- and learns that you really can't judge a book by its cover.

Mr. Darcy just isn't Flip Allison's style. She prefers novels with hot sex on the bathroom sink to the mannerly, high-tension longing of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. That is, until she pays a visit to Madame K, who promises a therapeutic massage with an opportunity to "Imagine Yourself in Your Favorite Book." Somehow, on the way to a sizzling sink-top session with a Venetian Adonis, Flip lands right in the middle of Regency England -- and dangerously close to handsome Mr. Darcy. So close, in fact, that she discovers a side of him even Jane Austen couldn't have imagined.

Waking from her massage, Flip is on top of the world and ready for her upcoming book club -- that is, until she notices a new scene in which Darcy and spunky heroine Lizzy Bennet are arguing over...Flip Allison? Her rapturous liaison with Darcy has had disastrous consequences for Austen's characters -- not to mention millions of Pride and Prejudice fans! Flip has twenty-four hours to put the story back on course, and Magnus Knightley, a sexy but imperious scholar whose brooding good looks and infuriating arrogance are decidedly Darcy-like, is the only one who can help. The only problem is, Flip can't keep her hands off him, either....

Firefly Lane

or

The Lost Recipe for Happiness


P.S. Hope it is okay? I wasn't sure what kind of genre's you guys liked. :)

Shelby,

You can nominate any book you would like. Our members read a little of everything. Later in the month we will vote on the nominees. I would strongly encourage you to research the nominees (read the reviews on any booksellers' site). If your nominees don't make the runoff poll, you can make an informed decision for which books you would like to cast your votes. There are always two books of the month.

Darkfever by Karen Marie Moning

Synopsis: MacKayla Lane’s life is good. She has great friends, a decent job, and a car that breaks down only every other week or so. In other words, she’s your perfectly ordinary twenty-first-century woman. Or so she thinks…until something extraordinary happens.

When her sister is murdered, leaving a single clue to her death–a cryptic message on Mac’s cell phone–Mac journeys to Ireland in search of answers. The quest to find her sister’s killer draws her into a shadowy realm where nothing is as it seems, where good and evil wear the same treacherously seductive mask. She is soon faced with an even greater challenge: staying alive long enough to learn how to handle a power she had no idea she possessed–a gift that allows her to see beyond the world of man, into the dangerous realm of the Fae….

As Mac delves deeper into the mystery of her sister’s death, her every move is shadowed by the dark, mysterious Jericho, a man with no past and only mockery for a future. As she begins to close in on the truth, the ruthless Vlane–an alpha Fae who makes sex an addiction for human women–closes in on her. And as the boundary between worlds begins to crumble, Mac’s true mission becomes clear: find the elusive Sinsar Dubh before someone else claims the all-powerful Dark Book–because whoever gets to it first holds nothing less than complete control of the very fabric of both worlds in their hands….

*I'm nominating this one because I adored it. I've read the first two, and currently have Faefever in my TBR pile.

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If You Dare by Kresley Cole

Synopsis: With If You Dare Cole introduces a thrilling new romance trilogy featuring fierce Scottish brothers with dangerous lives, dark desires, and a deadly curse.

Can he exact revenge?
High in the Pyrenees, a band of mercenaries led by Courtland MacCarrick wages war for General Reynaldo Pascal. When Court turns on the evil general, Pascal orders him killed but Court narrowly escapes and exacts revenge by kidnapping Pascal's exquisite Castilian fiancée.

Can she deny her passions?
Lady Annalía Tristán Llorente despises her towering, barbaric captor almost as much as she does Pascal. Her inexplicable attraction to the Highlander only fuels her fury. But nothing will stop her from returning to Pascal -- for if she doesn't wed him, she signs her brother's death warrant, as well as her own.

Can there be love between them?
From the moment Court discovers that Anna's prim façade masks a fiery, brave lass, his heart's ensnared, and he dares to defy the curse that has shadowed his life -- to walk with death or walk alone. But Pascal vows that he'll hunt the two, never stopping until he's destroyed them both.

Gina wrote: " Darkfever by Karen Marie Moning

Synopsis: MacKayla Lane’s life is good. She has great friends, a decent job, and a car that breaks dow..."

If anyone is interested, the Suvudu Free Book Library has a free download of Darkfever. It's a legal download, not a pirated copy.

That's great info, Eyre, thank you!

I think that I would like to nominate High Stakes by Erin McCarthy - I don't think that I have ever laughed so much reading in a book in a very long time.

I'm going to nominate:

- Mr. and Miss Anonymous by Fern Michaels

and

- For My Daughters by Barbara Delinsky

Flowers on Main by Sherryl Woods
When her last two plays are dismal failures and her relationship with her temperamental mentor falls apart, writer Bree O'Brien abandons Chicago and the regional theater where she hoped to make a name for herself to return home. Opening Flowers on Main promises to bring her a new challenge and a new kind of fulfillment.

or
Beyond Reach --Karin Slaughter.
At the start of bestseller Slaughter's bone-chilling sixth thriller in her Grant County, Ga., crime series (after 2005's Faithless), Dr. Sara Linton, the county's resident pediatrician and medical examiner, is mired in a devastating lawsuit, accused by grieving parents of indirectly causing the death of their terminally ill son. Then Sara and her husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, must travel to rural Reese, Ga., where Lena Adams, Jeffrey's often reckless detective, has been injured in an explosion that killed a local woman. Lena's mysterious escape from the hospital plunges her, Sara and Jeffrey into a dangerous web of meth trafficking, white supremacy groups and long-buried family secrets. Expertly shifting back and forth in both time and point of view, Slaughter builds the suspense to a perfect crescendo, connecting every loose plot strand in a devastating and unforgettable climax. With methamphetamine use on the rise in the country, Slaughter's unflinching portrayal of lives ruined by the drug make her latest a timely and unsettling read.
But not all is peaceful and serene in Chesapeake Shores, with her estranged mother on the scene and her ex-lover on the warpath. Jake Collins has plenty of reasons to want Bree out of his life, but none of those are a match for the one reason he wants her to stay: he's still in love with her.

Jake might be able to get past that old hurt if he knew Bree was home to stay, but is she? The only way to know for sure is to take a dangerous leap of faith.

The Watchman The Watchman - Robert Crais

The city was hers for a single hour, just the one magic hour, only hers.

Larkin Conner Barkley lives like the City of Angels is hers for the taking. Young and staggeringly rich, she speeds through the city during its loneliest hours, blowing through red after red in her Aston Martin as if running for her life. Until out of nowhere a car appears, and with it the metal-on-metal explosion of a terrible accident. Dazed, Larkin attempts to help the other victims. And finds herself the sole witness in a secret federal investigation.

For maybe the first time in her life, Larkin wants to do the right thing. But by agreeing to cooperate with the authorities, she becomes the target for a relentless team of killers. And when the U.S. Marshals and the finest security money can buy can't protect her, Larkin's wealthy family turns to the one man money can't buy -- Joe Pike.

Pike lives a world away from the palaces of Beverly Hills. He's an ex-cop, ex-Marine, ex-mercenary who owes a bad man a favor, and that favor is to keep Larkin alive. The one upside of the job is reuniting with Bud Flynn, Pike's LAPD training officer, and a man Pike reveres as a father. The downside is Larkin Barkley, who is the uncontrollable cover girl for self-destruction -- and as deeply alone as Pike.

Pike commits himself to protecting the girl, but when they immediately come under fire, he realizes someone is selling them out. In defiance of Bud and the authorities, Pike drops off the grid with the girl and follows his own rules of survival: strike fast, hit hard, hunt down the hunters. With the help of private investigator Elvis Cole, Pike uncovers a web of lies and betrayals, and the stunning revelation that even the cops are not who they seem. As the body count rises, Pike's biggest threat might come from the girl herself, a lost soul in the City of Angels, determined to destroy herself unless Joe Pike can teach her the value of life...and love.

Karin, are you sure you want to nominate Beyond Reach? It's book #6 of the series. We try not to go past Book #3; it makes it more difficult to try and catch up in time to read it.

Sam, nice nom! I've never read Crais before, and this sounds really good!

I would like to suggest "Outer Banks" by Anne Rivers Siddons. Both my monther and sister read it and liked it.

From the back cover: In the uncertain '60's, four young women came together as sorority sisters on a Southern campus: Elegant Kate; sensitive, sensible Cecie; sexy, vibrant, and richer-than-sin Ginger; and poor, hopeless, brilliant Fig. At Nag's Head, North Carolina, and over the course of two idyllic spring breaks, their bonds of friendship were strengthened into something rare and powerfully binding. Now, decades later, they are returing to this isolated strip of barrier islands, hoping to recapute what has been lost--the love, the enthusiasm, the passion--and to finally understand what pulled them apart and cast them adrift.

Sounds interesting, Colleen!