Just in case your New Year's resolutions had something to do with reading, too, here's a title for anyone who loves a good, suspenseful yarn involving creepy old houses, mistaken identities, and ghosts from high school past. In NEVER TELL A LIE, Ivy and David Rose seem to have the perfect life--a Victorian fixer-upper, a happy marriage, a first baby on the way--until a woman who claims to know them shows up at their yard sale. She introduces herself as Melinda White, but she looks and acts...

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Make It a Page Turner

The journey to a happily-ever-after ending is fraught with conflict. It’s the tension between the hero and heroine that makes a romance novel a compelling read. Sophie Jordan’s debut novel Once Upon a Wed­ding Night has a great example of how to keep readers turning the pages:

Meredith’s guilt grew, making her nervous. Nick wanted to acquire a physician for her? She could just imagine the fellow’s face when she delivered a one-pound pillow. She glanced suspiciously at the man beside her. Perhaps he was not so kind after all and really suspected the truth . . . that she was not with child. Or even worse. Perhaps he was more nefarious than she imagined and wanted to arrange for a physi­cian that would do harm to her or the baby, ensuring that he gained his inheritance. Had he fooled her just as she fooled him?

May Chen, Editor

• 10/2/2008 The Post and the Courier covers Romance

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• 10/2/2008 Carol Alt on GMA

  Author of Next Year's Model on GMA

• 9/15/2008 Lois Greiman at RWA

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• 9/9/2008 Carol Alt on The Today Show

  Author of This Year's Novel on The...