Joanna “Mac” McGregor loves her father, and she’ll do anything to keep him safe after Alzheimer’s starts to steal his mind. That takes money, and Mac uses her only skills—those of soldiering—when she takes up a security contract in Iraq. She doesn’t have time for men, her last vacation fling in Fiji relegated as one perfect moment to hold close during the grim reality of war. Soldier Louie Lithgow is tired of fighting, the constant danger, and has decided this is his last contract. He wants to Continue Reading
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: 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
Poisoned Heart – Anna O’Neill Review
The ultimate betrayal . . . .In Edo-period Japan, a prominent family might choose to foster a son from another clan in order to encourage peaceful political relations. When Raiden's family invites twenty-three year old Masashi into their lives, their gesture has the opposite effect: Masashi kills Raiden's parents. Now years later Raiden is studying with a master of magic who allows Raiden the chance to go back in time to kill Masashi before Masashi can lift a finger against his family.But when Continue Reading
Then Comes Seduction – Mary Balogh
It is fun when Mary Balogh has a new series out because they usually all come out within a couple of months of each other. I loved the first book in the series so much, First Comes Marriage, that I just went right on to the second.Baron Montford, Jasper to his friends and well known rake, makes a wager one drunken night - he will seduce and bed Miss Katherine Huxtable. He figured it would be more challenging to seduce an innocent virgin, and he really couldn't think of another wager that he Continue Reading
First Comes Marriage
Viscount Lyngate, also known as Elliott Wallace, finds himself at a country assembly in the small town of Throckbridge, where he has caught the attention of every single girl in town. Of course he wants none of it, he wants to get along with his business and back to fashionable society as soon as possible. Vanessa Huxtable, second oldest of four siblings, and recently widowed decides Viscount Lyngate is most disagreeable, and somewhat of a snob, but she makes the best of it when she is forced Continue Reading
Immortal Warrior
Immortal Warrior - Lisa HendrixBook one in Immortal Brotherhood SeriesBook summary:Ivar Graycloak is a brave warrior, a man known for his strength and integrity. He is also a man with a terrible secret. Long ago he was part of a Viking crew cursed by an evil sorceress to live for eternity as were-creatures. An eagle by day and a man by night, Ivar has lived a solitary existence for over two centuries. Then the king orders him to marry.Lady Alaida is everything a man could want in a Continue Reading
Once Bitten – Kalayna Price
This book came highly recommended from J. Kaye's Book Blog. I am always looking for new authors to read, and this is the very first book by Kalayna Price.Kita Nekai, a shape shifter (her form - calico cat) from the realm of Firth finds herself in a town called Haven after being on the run from Firth for the past five years. Hunters have been dispersed to bring her home and after nearly dying at the hands of one, she wakes up underground - turned to a vampire. The man that finds her and changes Continue Reading