Smexy is happy to have Sharon Ashwood here today to talk about Scorched, her second book in the Dark Forgotten series.Who is Sharon Ashwood? Give us the low down.I’m a finance geek who loves to write books involving monsters. My other interests include animals (check out the send and e-card, save an animal initiative I have going here) , the paranormal, playing music, and researching just about anything.Scorched is your second book in The Dark Forgotten series. Did the writing process feel Continue Reading
Archives for November 2009
ARC Review: Scorched – Sharon Ashwood
Ex-detective Macmillan has a taste for bad girls, but his last lover really took the cake—and his humanity. Now a half-demon, Mac’s lost his friends, his family, and his job. Then a beguiling vampire asks for his help to find her son. Suddenly, Mac has a case to work—one that leads him deep into the supernatural prison where Mac learns that cracking the case will cost him his last scrap of humanity. Scorched - Sharon Ashwood (Dark Forgotten #2)December 1, 2009Paranormal RomancePaperback, 384 Continue Reading
ARC Review – Strange Fortune by Josh Lanyon
Valentine Strange, late of his Majesty’s 21st Benhali Lancers, needs money. Happily, the wealthy Holy Orders of Harappu are desperate to retrieve the diadem of the Goddess Purya from an ancient temple deep in the mountainous jungle—an area Strange knows well from his days quelling rebellions. The pay is too good and the job seems too easy for Strange to refuse. But when Master Aleister Grimshaw, a dangerous witch from a traitorous lineage, joins the expedition, Strange begins to suspect that Continue Reading
Heidenkind’s Hideaway
I want to share a blog with you that I hope many of you are familiar with and if you are not, get your booty moving! Heidenkind’s Hideaway has become a favorite of mine. How can I describe her blog? Her reviews are not only entertaining, but insightful and smart.She reads and reviews books that are totally out of my radar, and yet I find myself putting them on my wish list. Most recently White Tigress.She doesn’t review books she doesn’t finish, but that doesn’t stop her from talking Continue Reading
ARC Review: Knight of Pleasure – Margaret Mallory
THE GREATEST PASSIONLady Isobel Hume is an expert swordswoman who knows how to choose her battles. When the king asks her to wed a French nobleman to form a political alliance, she agrees. But that's before the devilishly charming Sir Stephen Carleton captures her heart-and tempts her to betray her betrothed, her king, and her country.IS WORTH THE GREATEST PERILSir Stephen Carleton enjoys his many female admirers-until he dedicates himself to winning the lovely Isobel. When a threat against the Continue Reading
Review: Gemini Souls by Myristica
Past and present converge in this story of two mages, Razeal and Sevrin, who live out forbidden love and find that no matter where they escape to, or how many centuries they have remained hidden on Earth, they cannot escape forever the creature that wants Sevrin dead.In this first installment: Razeal and Sevrin must remember what happened to them over five hundred years ago on another world in order to understand a threat that has found them on present day Earth.Gemini Souls: Volume I - Continue Reading
Review: Bound to Shadows – Keri Arthur
Part vampire, part werewolf, Riley Jenson knows what can happen when vamps don’t play well with others. But she’s never seen anything like this: a series of brutal murders surrounding the latest hot spot for vampire-human hookups—and the victims aren’t just killed, they’re beheaded. Now Riley is launching into action, toying with a seductive—and highly suspicious—club owner, and finding herself in the middle of another mystery: women being killed one by one, without a trace of violence.For Continue Reading
Anthea Lawson Contest Winners
Due to all the wonderful comments, Anthea Lawson has also thrown in a copy of their first book, Passionate. So the winners are:All He Desires - SaraPassionate - Jamie LynnCongratulations to both!!! Please email me your mailing address at mandischreiner (at) gmail (dot) com. If I don't hear from you by Saturday 11/14 I will pick new winners.And a big thank you to Anthea and Lawson for taking the time to stop by Smexy!! Continue Reading
New Authors, New Genres – Let’s Get Excited
In the coming months, there are some brand-spanking new authors that have fine looking books coming out and there are also established authors that are entering new genres. It's a win-win for us book obsessed!! As the good book pimp that I am, I must share these finds with you:First up is debut author Jill Myles - she posted the covers to her new books on Twitter and I was immediately intrigued. I took the time to read the first chapter of Gentlemen Prefer Succubi, and I think they are going to Continue Reading
Review: It Happened One Night – Lisa Dale
Lana Biel longs to leave her family’s Vermont wildflower farm so she can travel and see the world. And her sister Karin wants nothing more than to put down roots and conceive the child she and her husband just can’t seem to have. When a lighthearted fling with a mountain biker leaves Lana expecting, she finds herself tumbling headlong into motherhood while her sister Karin can only look on. For help, Lana turns to Eli Ward, a professional meteorite hunter and her best friend for the last ten Continue Reading