Mimi Barbour

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A new idea for romance lover’s entertainment!

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The Authors’ Billboard has a special holiday treat for you this year! Spanking new short stories – from the naughty and the nice list – to add fun to your 2019 season and keep your spirits high. Eighteen of our masters of romance have contributed to this incredible deal for your entertainment this Christmas. Eat goodies, drink hot toddies, read, enjoy, make wishes and… dream.

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Many contemporary romance authors today have experienced an increased interest in shorter stories. We’ve moved from big blockbusters – saga type books with tales taking up to 90,000 – 120.000 words or more. Many single titles the traditional publishers requested were this size.

And then the digital world emerged. We skip forward to where lives got too busy for people to spend so much time reading. Now… Indie authors became more powerful, that they were able to make a difference, change the old practices and were happier writing books that didn’t take them a year or more to finish. They needed to produce faster and publish more.

Along came the shorter versions. And the romance readers were happy. They could gobble up stories faster and loved the variety. With the new publishing strategies becoming popular, they had more product than anyone ever envisioned.

Folks began reading on Kindles, Kobos and Ibooks and even those eReaders eventually got replaced by apps on cellphones and tablets. Now access became so easy, that many authors found the readers hungry for more.

Books became novellas and the authors held their breath to see if readers would resist this change.

Surprise!!

They seemed to love them. Sales were great, especially for multi-author romance collections. Not only did it lighten the work, but good writers could also produce entertaining stories quicker and easier.

This Christmas, the ladies at the Authors’ Billboard decided to go one step further. We produced a fun collection of short stories that would be even easier to read. We’re holding our breath in hopes that the readers will love having these holiday shorts to warm their hearts and help refresh their Christmas spirit.

Collections, collections…collections!

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I can’t believe my vacation is over and I’m back in the saddle (office chair) again. How did all my lovely dreams I spent so long fantasizing over – go by so quickly? I had such a great time while away. I thought I’d lived every minute of every day right to hilt.

I did, actually. I really did!

But it still passed quicker than an eye blink, and here I am again – back home and looking at the piles of work waiting for me to get serious. Thank the good Lord that I love my job.

So… I’m happy to be here with you.

When I returned, I found that our ladies at the Authors’ Billboard have gone berserk with the most wonderful box collections to date. Lordy, they’ve brought out suspense sets and contemporary ones for babies, heroes and are now working on Christmas.

These bundles are a huge bargain for any budget, so I have to share their lovely successes with you here.

Nine NY Times and USA Today bestselling authors offer stories of men and women who go to great lengths for the children they love.
A scent of innocence, that touch of softness, an angelic nap, and deep belly laughs. Babies and toddlers bring great joy, love, humor, and even conflict into our lives. But first, we need a passionate encounter, a romance that transcends time.
Marriage-of-convenience, a woman and child in danger, a platonic marriage (but not for long), an adoption in the nick of time, finding out there’s more to life than work, holding on to love at any cost, and a brother’s love for the mother of his nephew—these are the themes that make the boxed set Sweet and Sassy Baby Love a very special delivery! AMAZON – $0.99 or FREE in Kindle Unlimited

Presenting…a new anthology starring a daring display of heroes in action. These men are every woman’s dream come true! Whether fighting to save their families, hot detectives in pursuit of the truth, young sweethearts facing difficult choices, or a strong man offering a broken woman comfort, this EIGHT book box-set from NY Times and USA Today Bestselling authors will get your heart pounding and keep you turning pages long into the night. AMAZON – $0.99 or FREE in Kindle Unlimited

These bundles are a huge bargain for any budget, so I have to share their lovely successes with you here. Seven stories with billionaires, arsonists, cops, special agents, wounded warriors, werewolves and firefighters who deal with betrayal, deception as well as unexpected attraction and romance.

Seven New York Times and USA Today award-winning authors, all masters of the romantic suspense genre, will introduce you to heroes who won’t be deterred. Thrilling plots will keep you reading long into the night. Don’t miss this fantastic collection, another UNFORGETTABLE set!  

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The Players: Always professional on the field, but amateurs when it comes to the game of love. When their perfect matches join the contest, will they be able to triumph over the challenges, or lose their hearts in the process? Raw emotions and urges barely contained, these men and women strive to achieve the greatest victory of all: true love.
Enjoy eight sports-themed romances by nine USA Today Bestselling Authors. AMAZON – $0.99 or FREE in Kindle Unlimited

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***Wonderful Christmas bundles we’ve been working on for your pleasure – all coming soon.

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This series could be the one!!

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Sweet Retaliation
Mob Tracker Series Book 1
by Mimi Barbour
Genre: Romantic Suspense 

A virgin librarian with hot-chick potential, the conflicts in her story won’t let you put the book down. Be prepared for an all-nighter…
She watches the mob kill her twin and is too frozen with fear to stop them. How can she live with that cowardice eating away at her self-respect? Revenge claws at her sheltered existence until she can’t breathe. Though she’s naïve, she isn’t stupid. When she finds a stash of loot in her brother’s gym locker, she has the means.

Now all she needs is the guts to make every one of those low-life gang members pay.

People might think detectives are hard-assed cops with no home life, but Trace McGuire has a dying mom he loves fiercely. Already stressed over his personal problems, he takes a bullet for a virgin beauty hiding while mobsters shoot her brother.
This chick draws out every protective instinct he thought had disintegrated over years on the job and he becomes invested – in her hot body, her plans for retaliation and her fighting spirit.
Helpless, he watches her enter the seedy underworld that’ll eat her alive.
Then he sees her fight.
And wonders if they’ll survive her.



**Only 99 cents!!**


Sweet Justice
Mob Tracker Series Book 2

Cassidy Santino is closing in on the mobsters who murdered her brother and there’s no way she’s giving up her quest for revenge. She’s working at a seedy bar where the gang members hang out so she can dig up information that might lead to finding his killers. When jealous hookers and sleazy barmaids try forcing her to leave, she fights back. For the love of an old rascal who owns the neighborhood gym, she helps train his protégé in the boxing ring. For her sanity, she clings to her relationship with the one man who makes life worth living..

Detective Trace McGuire loses his mother, the person who’s meant everything to him until Cassidy Santino explodes into his life. This chick’s got him so tied up that he’s willing to shirk responsibilities in his job and cut her slack for interfering in his investigation. But, when Cassidy keeps putting herself in danger from the lunatic who owns the bar where she works. That’s where he draws the line. He’s determined to protect her, even if she fights him every damn inch of the way. And man… can this girl fight!





Sweet Resolution
Mob Tracker Series Book 3

Cass is determined to find the female who was there the night the gang murdered her brother. If the missing woman turns out to be the killer, then she has to pay. Walking the nightly tightrope at the bar where she’s employed, staying out of the clutches of the she-devil boss who wants her, and dealing with the L.A. scumbag who’s taken a dislike to her, the battles are constant. One thing she can’t bear to lose – the affections of the detective whose patience with her stubbornness is fragile. When he’s taken hostage, life goes into an even deeper spiral of conflicts and tension.

Detective Trace McGuire can’t bear to watch the love of his life being sucked into the darkness and dysfunction of the Lipstick Club where she bartends. He wants her free of the nightmare and goes to great lengths to make it happen. But when they take him prisoner, how can he help her?

How can he help himself?






Sweet Endings
Mob Tracker Series Book 4

The challenges that Cassi faces in this last book are enormous. Trace has been kidnapped, and every passing day destroys her hope that he’s alive.

The US Featherweight Champion seeks revenge in a rematch that Cassi refuses to even talk about. But she worries how her rejection will affect Arlene and Rusty.

The female witness of her brother’s murder is still at large. Always in the back of Cassi’s mind is the craving to learn the truth and finally get her revenge.

The Vegas mob she works for is entangled in a gang war, and patrons of the Lipstick Club become even more dysfunctional. She’s forced to hide from the crazy-assed, she-devil gang boss who wants her and is closing in.

All Cassi yearns for is that Trace will soon come back to her – alive.

Trace faces his imprisonment with an intense determination to break free – but how? His cell is impregnable. Every waking moment, he’s filled with the need to get back to Cassi. Though the girl fights like a hellion, she’s as soft-hearted as an angel, and he can’t stand the thought that he might die before ever seeing her again. Visualizing her world of turmoil and danger, he won’t give up.

How can he?

She needs him…





Sweet Faith
Mob Tracker Series Book 5

Hooker turned nanny, Faith Whitely, known to her johns as Sunshine, has struggled to be a decent person all her life. And her options were never the same as the good girls in town. Growing up with a sick mother and limited resources, she does the best she can until a man she loves dies in a violent, intolerable situation where she blames herself. Then her world crumbles into drugs and self-hate. She’s saved by the sound of a baby’s cry, an unmanageable child who she bonds with and then needs as much as she wants his daddy.
Any luck Steven Corella has with the women in his life has been all bad. Sensitive, a man who works in a job unsuited to his inner nature, he manages to fool the world. When he finds he’s to become a daddy, the tough-guy personality he’s been portraying all along turns real. He hardens his heart and hides behind thick walls of protection he’s carefully erected. And then Sunshine enters his world, and nothing makes sense anymore.





Sweet Leni
Mob Tracker Series Book 6

Leni Santino’s happy life turns upside down from five words uttered carelessly, “Sergio Mandalas killed your cousin.”
Stunned speechless, her heart closes and the hard facade she’d warn in the past returns. Everything she loves becomes meaningless.
While her wonderful Mani, the man who gave up his future for her, died senselessly, how can she carry on, knowing his killer walks free?

When her long-lost mother, a woman she’d never met, appears to warn her that a blackmailer has found out the family secret, everything spins unbearably out of control.

Detective Mike Kowalski loves the spirited boxing chick in every way a man can idolize his woman. But he feels her slipping away. With the help of their friends, he tries to keep her safe. In the end, the choices were hers to make. All he could do was stand by and watch…

And be ready to pick up the pieces.






Mimi is an incredibly busy NYT and USA Today award-winning, best-selling author who has seven series to her credit. The Vicarage Bench Series – Spirit/Time -Travel tales that have a surprising twist / The Angels with Attitude Series – Angels Love Romance / The Elvis Series – Make an Elvis song a book / Vegas Series – 6 books full of romantic suspense, humor and gritty conflicts / and… the fast-paced, edgy, humorous, romantic suspense, Undercover FBI Series /The Holiday Heatwarmer Series – puppies become cupids. And the latest, explosive Mob Tracker Series – six books full of conflicts and characters you’ll hate to leave.
Mimi lives on the East coast of Vancouver Island with her husband and writes her various romances with tongue in cheek and a mad glint in her eye. She’s been known to say: “If I can steal a booklover’s attention away from their every-day grind, absorb them into a fantasy love story, and make them care about the ending, then I’ve done my job.”
**1st place prize of the 2015 – Chanticleer Reviews – Clue Awards. Special Agent Francesca
**A TOUCH OF PASSION, has just become the 2016 WINNER of The Romance Reviews Readers’ Choice Awards.







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