Christi Barth and her debut novel "Carolina Heat"

Author Christi Barth says, "Romance - Passion - Happily Ever After. What more could you want in a book?" You can find out in her debut novel Carolina Heat!

From Christi's website:

Christi Barth spent years performing in musicals, singing about love and giving people a happy ending in every performance. Then as a wedding planner she spent every day immersed in romance. Now - she writes it!

After winning 1st place in the 2008 Heart to Heart contest, and 1st place in the 2009 Emily contest, she is thrilled to be able to share CAROLINA HEAT with the world. She lives in Maryland with the absolutely best husband in the world (sorry ladies, its true!).

Carolina Heat was released December 7th from Eternal Press. It is available in ebook format from Eternal Press and in paperback from Amazon.com.

Blurb:
Put a workaholic Yankee together with an amiable Southerner and watch the sparks fly! Annabelle travels to Charleston, where she stumbles across the trail of a long-buried Civil War mystery. Along the way she finds steamy passion, steadfast friends, mortal danger, and the love of her life.


Well-known journalist Annabelle Carlyle is stunned by the personal twist of her latest assignment: her best friend Vanessa is missing. Annabelle goes undercover in the Old South to search for answers. Full of thick accents and a way of life rooted in the past, Charleston is as foreign and strange a place as any Annabelle's visited. And before she finds a single clue, she runs into a sexy man she can't shake.

Tall, dark and charming, Mark Dering is happy to show the gorgeous Yankee his hometown. He's captivated by the quick witted, quick tempered redhead. But when they're shot at, he realizes she's far more than just another tourist. Soon they're knee deep in a mystery that goes all the way back to the Civil War. For once Annabelle is in over her head. Desperate to find Vanessa, she reluctantly accepts Mark's help. It isn't long before romance blooms right alongside the magnolias.

The stakes grow higher when a body is discovered. Someone is willing to kill to keep a century old Confederate secret hidden. With her best friend missing and a killer on the loose, it's the worst possible moment for Mark to try and unlock Annabelle's heart. Or is love exactly what her life's been missing?

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If you would like to read a steamy book by another romance writer named Kristie (with a different spelling than the Christi I am featuring at Sizzling Hot Romance today) my books are available as paperback and Kindle at Amazon.com and as an ebook at Fictionwise. I can guarantee you that they will put the sizzle back into your love life! I have a male fan who says, "Who needs Viagra when you have a Kristie Leigh Maguire novel to read?"