Books by Gracie C. McKeever

Here is one of those in-between sales/contest news items to which I referred when Gracie's Gazette went from quarterly to bi-monthly. Thought you'd all be interested, and since the sale only lasts ONE WEEK, time is of the essence.

So, if you've anxiously been looking forward to adding any NBI titles to your most probably overflowing TBR piles, now is the time. All 2001 releases are ½ off…that's right, you heard me, ½ off (yes Virginia, even DESERT DREAMS )!!

Read all the details about the sale below (and happy shopping)!!


>> For ONE WEEK ONLY! January 27 through February 2, 2003!
NovelBooks, Inc. <http://www.novelbooksinc.com> is having a 1/2
RETAIL PRICE SALE on all Trade Paperback Titles released in 2001!
All downloads of titles released in 2001 will be $1.00 off regular
price!
Now is the time to stock up on great NBI books, many of them
award winners! Check out these savings!

FINDERS KEEPERS (SciFi/Romance) by Linnea Sinclair
[Trade Paper] Retail Price $18.95 ~ Sale Price $9.48
[Download] Regular Price $5.50 ~ Sale Price $4.50
2001 P.E.A.R.L. Award Winner
2001 Sapphire Award Winner
2001 Dorothy Parker Award
Best Science Fiction/Fantasy Book for 2001 selected by
Romance Reviews Today
2002 ERA Award Winner Best SF Romance
2003 EPPIE Award Finalist
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Be careful what you wish for. You might get it...
Her ship's in shambles, her boyfriend's dumped her and she's
frankly out of funds. Captain Trilby Elliot hopes her luck has
changed when a high-tech fightercraft crash lands at her repair site.
Finders keepers. She can sell the ship as salvage, pocket the
profits. Except for one small problem: the pilot, Rhis, is still
alive and intent on commandeering her ship.
And another much larger problem: someone very powerful and
very important wants Trilby Elliot dead.
*!*FINDERS KEEPERS is an NBI Best Seller!*!*
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LIONS OF JUDAH (Romantic/Suspense) by Elaine Hopper
[Trade Paper] Retail Price $15.00 ~ Sale Price $7.50
[Download] Regular Price $5.50 ~ Sale Price $4.50
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Who can a dead woman trust?
Everyone believes that runaway heiress Melissa Vanderbilt-
Smythe died in a small plane crash two years before.
Everyone except the one man she fears more than death…
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THE GUNN OF KILLEARNAN (Medieval/Historical) by Dorice Nelson
[Trade Paper] Retail Price $19.95 ~ Sale Price $9.98
[Download] Regular Price $5.50 ~ Sale Price $4.50
2001 Scribes's world Reviewer's Choice Award
Love Romances Golden Rose Award Winner for 2001:
Best Historical andBest E-Book
Ohio Valley RW Notable New Author of 2001 Award ~ Finalist
Virginia RW Holt Medallion Award ~ Finalist
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Set in Scotland of 1650, GUNN tells the story of two people
who are caught up in a war, a relationship neither desires, goals and
ambitions, spiced with treachery and danger, which, in turn, makes
them slaves to their passions.
*!*THE GUNN OF KILLEARNAN is an NBI Best Seller!*!*
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THE CHANCE YOU TAKE (Romantic/Comedy) by Linda Bleser
[Trade Paper] Retail Price $15.00 ~ Sale Price $7.50
[Download] Regular Price $5.50 ~ Sale Price $4.50
2002 AEPRA Award winner
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Meg Taylor doesn't gamble or take risks of any kind. So how
did she end up in Atlantic City with a three-year old, a meddling
mother, and a blind date who won't go away?
Despite his charm, Brad Kendall represents everything Meg
fears most. Falling in love with him is a risk she can't take. In a
riotous romp along the Boardwalk of Atlantic City, Meg learns that
taking a chance on love is the biggest gamble of all.
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WILD TEMPTATION (Western/Romance) by Ruth D. Kerce
[Trade Paper] Retail Price $19.95 ~ Sale Price $9.98
[Download] Regular Price $5.50 ~ Sale Price $4.50
2002 Independent e-Book Award Nominee
2002 AEPRA Award ~ 2nd Place
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Skylar Davenport's neighbors have been killed. Now she must
discover if the mysterious stranger is just a new-in-town rancher or…
the murderer. The signs point to his guilt, but she's unsure. Her
heart and his seductive manner keep getting in the way. How can she
feel any tenderness toward a man who might be out to steal everything
precious to her, including her own life?
Wade Sinclair has a job to do. Skylar isn't the type of woman
he thought she'd be, but it doesn't matter, or so he keeps telling
himself. He certainly isn't about to let his heart rule his head.
Fate killed true love for him once. He isn't looking for a second
chance. So why is he hesitating? He has to be sure Skylar is the one.
That's all. Then he'll take care of her and move on with his
life...alone.
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FATE (Paranormal/Suspense) by Robert Smith
[Trade Paper] Retail Price $15.00 ~ Sale Price $7.50
[Download] Regular Price $5.50 ~ Sale Price $4.50
2002 EPPIE Award Winner
2002 Independent e-Book Award Nominee
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Science writer Judy Armstrong's nightmares about a murdered
woman rapidly escalate into fugue states, during which she learns
that the victim's son, Danny, will be the next to die.
Judy is desperate to help Danny, but this means risking her
sanity, and ultimately, her life, by yielding to the dead woman's
influence. When she realizes the murderer is closing in on Danny,
however, Judy chooses to intervene, whatever the cost to herself, and
flies to the victim's home to confront him.
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WINTER'S ORPHANS (Fantasy) by Elaine Corvidae
[Trade Paper] Retail Price $16.95 ~ Sale Price $8.48
[Download] Regular Price $5.50 ~ Sale Price $4.50
2002 Eppie Award for Best Fantasy Novel
2001 Dream Realm Award for Best Fantasy Novel
Word Weaving Award for Excellence
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At the dawn of Niune's Industrial Age, the Seelie Court has a
heartless half-human aristocracy that annihilates any glimmer of fae
power holds the kingdom in an iron fist.
Ignorant of her own dark birthright, Mina Cole is a factory
slave whose gifts cannot be suppressed. In a moment of terror, she
betrays her heritage to the hunters, and her only hope for survival
lies in the hands of a man crippled in body and soul.
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TROUBLE OR NOTHING (Contemp/Romance) by Joanie MacNeil
[Trade Paper] Retail Price $15.00 ~ Sale Price $7.50
[Download] Regular Price $5.50 ~ Sale Price $4.50
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Men are trouble, and having a man in her life is not on
Natalie Harrigan's agenda…for Natalie, the choice is simple…trouble…
or nothing. Natalie would much rather focus on her career. The new
appointment to the coveted position of CEO is her number one
priority. She intends to prove the naysayers wrong…she'll be the best
CEO ever. But her younger brother's best friend has ideas of his own
on how he'd like to fit into Natalie's life.
Luke DeMarco has always loved Natalie from the moment he
first set eyes on her...when he was eight years old. Now, twenty
years later, she's more woman than ever, and Luke's not too worried
about the difference in their ages. Surely his gentle wooing will
convince Natalie that age is no barrier to love. But will Natalie
allow him to move from their Boardroom to her bedroom?
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DESERT DREAMS (Paranormal/Suspense) by Gracie C. McKeever
[Trade Paper] Retail Price $17.95 ~ Sale Price $8.98
[Download] Regular Price $5.50 ~ Sale Price $4.50
2002 Independent e-Book Awards Nominee
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Released from a twenty decades imprisonment, Kane is an
arrogant but untried djinni hybrid who must let go of his pride and
plans for vengeance long enough to help a newly widowed curator--his
liberator and new "master"--over her grief as he protects her from
his enemies. To do this, however, he will have to get past not only
enormous cultural barriers, but the most monumental barrier of all: a
willful and independent woman who is far from a shrinking violet.
A centuries-old Djinni betrayed...a modern career woman and
wife bereft. Can this thoroughly mismatched couple find comfort and
vindication in each other's arms? More importantly, can their love
survive the ancient vendetta of one unforgiving and powerful demon
Djinni, Kane's sworn enemy Ifreet? Find out that anything is possible
when a devout and mystical djinni from the old-world joins forces
with an urban-reared spitfire from the new.
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THE ANONYMOUS AMANUENSIS (Regency) by Judith B. Glad
[Trade Paper] Retail Price $15.00 ~ Sale Price $7.50
[Download] Regular Price $5.50 ~ Sale Price $4.50
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Eve Dixon, not wanting to settle for anything less than she
is capable of, sets her sights on employment as a gentleman's
secretary, a prime position unsuitable for a woman. She dons
trousers, cuts her hair, and gets a quick demonstration in men's
deportment from a disapproving friend. Disguised as a man, she enters
her employer's regimented world, where she learns how free a man can
be.
Entrepreneur James Quinton has no use for women, believing
them all like his conniving dragon of a mother. His secretarial needs
are unusual, so when Eve appears Quinton is delighted to hire 'him.'
Once employed, Eve discovers that her misogynistic employer
is actually a charming, likeable fellow, one she could easily fall in
love with-if she were a woman. Her disguise leads to trouble when
Quinton's younger sister develops a tendre for her. Then her
deception is revealed, and Eve is caught in a tangle of her own
making. Quinton is outraged-and intrigued-to discover he is actually
a she. They clash in a twist of emotions that neither could have
anticipated.
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NO MORE SECRETS, NO MORE LIES (Contemp/Romance) by Marie Roy
[Trade Paper] Retail Price $16.95 ~ Sale Price $8.48
[Download] Regular Price $5.50 ~ Sale Price $4.50
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Sydney Morgan, single mother, financial advisor, wants the
best for her physically challenged son. Except when his biological
father re-enters her life, she realizes the secrets and consequential
lies she has forced her son to live may destroy not only his trust
but also his love.
When Grant Sinclair brings Sydney Morgan back into his fold,
he soon discovers her long held secret. Will this secret end up
destroying the yet fragile emotions that still exist between them, as
well as the possible future together as a family.
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THE BLOOD THAT BINDS (Fantasy) by Rie Sheridan
[Trade Paper] Retail Price $18.95 ~ Sale Price $9.48
[Download] Regular Price $5.50 ~ Sale Price $4.50
2001 P&E Readers Poll Top 10 Finalists ~ Cover Art
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As the young Elvin prince, Steavil, watches in horror, his
mother is slain by the evil Norfulk Roderickson. Fleeing for his
life, he strikes his head and is knocked unconscious.
Cut off from everything and everyone, Steavil's life takes a
drastic shift. He is found by the king of a neighboring realm and
raised, as Stefan, to be the page of its prince, Roland. Although he
remembers nothing before the rescue, Stefan knows something is
missing in his life, and he longs for the freedom he once knew.
When Prince Roland resolves to return home alone from a
routine trading expedition, Stefan watches from the trees as the
prince is captured by the legendary elves. Will Stefan be able to
rescue the prince? Will he remember his own past?
*!*THE BLOOD THAT BINDS is an NBI Best Seller*!*
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THE DRAGON'S HORN (Fantasy/Romance) by Glynnis Kincaid
[Trade Paper] Retail Price $15.00 ~ Sale Price $7.50
[Download] Regular Price $5.50 ~ Sale Price $4.50
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In a world on the brink of war, to shelter a dragon is to
court disaster. The Demon of Fire has vowed to destroy the noble
creatures and use their magical horns in his bid to overthrow the
Gods. But when the Immortal maiden Xlana finds a wounded dragon in
the forest near her home, something about him tugs at her heart.
Despite the danger, she uses her skills to heal him, only to learn he
is far more than he seems. He is Rynak, Heaven's Dragon and an
Immortal, able to assume human form. And he has been chosen by the
Gods to lead the fight against the Demon.
When Rynak regains his strength, he gives his horn to Xlana
as a pledge of his love. Overjoyed, she realizes they are soul mates,
her destiny joined with his. Together, she and Rynak call the last
two living dragons and their Immortal mates from hiding. The six form
an alliance to combat the Demon's armies, but they suffer a
shattering setback. The Demon seizes hostages, each dear to one of
the three couples. Now they must decide whether to capitulate or
condemn their loved ones to a lingering death. And if even one of
them weakens, all may face utter ruin.
For the Six must stand as One-or lose the world.
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ESCAPE THE PAST (Fantasy) by K.G. McAbee
[Trade Paper] Retail Price $16.95 ~ Sale Price $8.48
[Download] Regular Price $5.50 ~ Sale Price $4.50
1999 Dorothy Parker Award for Excellence
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In a world not too unlike our own, an escaped slave is on the
run for his life. Naked and defenseless, struggling to escape from
the ravening hounds on his trail, Valerik knows that he will die. But
at the last possible moment, a reprieve stands before him, in the
form of Madryn, an enigmatic wanderer on a quest for her lost
innocence. Together these two will dare all to right a most grievous
wrong-and to prevent their world from being overcome by the darkest
evil.
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THE BINDING (Fantasy/Romance) by PhyllisAnn Welsh
Book I of The Silvan Wars Saga
[Trade Paper] Retail Price $17.95 ~ Sale Price $8.98
[Download] Regular Price $5.50 ~ Sale Price $4.50
1999 P.E.A.R.L. Award Finalist
1999 Sapphire Award Finalist
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Is widowed fantasy writer, Korrene Greenwood, going insane?
She thinks she is when the man of her dreams, the sexy hero of her
current novel, appears in her kitchen one morning and starts talking
to her. The fact that he is also a five-foot, eleven-inch, green-
eyed, blond-haired, magic wielding Elvin package of sensual
masculinity contributes to her conviction that a visit to a therapist
is in order.
Bent on saving her sanity, she attempts to destroy the
manuscript and all traces of her book. But her hero, Rendolin, is
shocked at her genocidal tendencies. To prevent her killing his
people, he carries her off to his world-the world Kory believes she
created.
Kory must learn to accept the fate that brought her into
Rendolin's magical embrace before she can understand that love itself
is the greatest adventure of all.
*!*THE BINDING is an NBI Best Seller*!*
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DREAM KNIGHT (Medieval/Historical) by Alexis Kaye Lynn
[Trade Paper] Retail Price $18.95 ~ Sale Price $9.48
[Download] Regular Price $5.50 ~ Sale Price $4.50
1999 RWA Golden Heart Finalist
2002 GDRWA Booksellers Best Award Finalist
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Since the death of her parents, dreams and the cruel whims of
her guardian, Baron Pike are all that are left to Lady Catheryn of
Brezden. Only her belief in the power of dreams gives her hope for
the future.
Since his wife and son's deaths at the order of Baron Pike,
Count Gerard of Reveur knows that dreams are nothing more tan a
childish fancy and believes only in the power of revenge.
Together, Catheryn and Gerard discover the truth in dreams
and the power of love.
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