Harlequin Author Spotlight

Author of Pushing the Limits, Katie McGarry takes readers on another riveting and emotional ride in Dare You To. Beth is the girl with the home life she can't risk anyone knowing about. Ryan is the town golden boy with dark secrets of his own. But what begins as a dare becomes an attraction they didn't expect. Suddenly, Ryan must risk his dreams – and his life – for the girl he loves, and Beth is daring herself to want it all.

In the vein of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and on the tails of The Paris Wife comes a stunning debut from authors Suzanne Hayes and Loretta Nyhan. In January 1943, Glory Whitehall and Rita Vincenzo begin a remarkable correspondence. Told through their letters during WWII, this incredible story brings together two unforgettable women who have never met in person yet share an unbreakable bond of friendship.

Debut author Shona Patel takes readers on a powerful journey through 1940’s India in Teatime for the Firefly. Layla Roy has defied the fates. Despite being born under an inauspicious horoscope, she is raised to be educated and independent by her eccentric grandfather, Dadamoshai. And, by cleverly manipulating the hand fortune has dealt her, she has even found love with Manik Deb - a man betrothed to another. All were minor miracles in India that spring of 1943, when young women's lives were predetermined-if not by the stars, then by centuries of family tradition and social order.

In INK, the gods of Japanese Myth become modern-day legend in debut author Amanda Sun’s imaginative new series, The Paper Gods. When the ink in Tomo’s drawings mysteriously come to life, Tomo and Katie must find a way to control the ink before their relationship unleashes a power that will shake the very foundations of Japan – and the entire world.

RITA award finalist Michelle Willingham tempts readers with Forbidden Vikings in a new series set in ancient Ireland. In Book One, To Sin with a Viking, a beautiful Irish maiden finds herself alone with one fiercely handsome warrior who both terrifies and allures her... yet he harbours a secret that just might set them both free...

New Adult fiction explores the often turbulent years in-between adolescence and adulthood. In this episode of The Harlequin Author Spotlight, New Adult fiction authors Chelsea Cameron, Stephanie Tyler, Allison Parr and Carina Press Executive Editor, Angela James, join host Jayne Hoogenberk to discuss the popularity of the emerging New Adult fiction genre, and exactly what it is…and isn't.

An exciting addition to the Harlequin MIRA family, Sheila Roberts writes warm, lighthearted romance stories. Better Than Chocolate is the first of a brand-new series of books, Life in Icicle Falls, set in a fictional town in Washington.

Known for her powerful and thought-provoking writing style, bestselling author Rebecca Coleman delivers an emotionally gripping new novel with Heaven Should Fall, testing the lines between family, loyalty and patriotism. Rebecca Coleman is the critically acclaimed author of The Kingdom of Childhood.

From the makers of the video that took the internet by storm comes a spot-on parody of all the sh*t girls find themselves saying!

The story of a girl named Chelsea Knot who takes a voluntary oath of silence after her gossip-mongering ways yield unexpected consequences… Saying she’s sorry just isn’t enough.