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Cover Reveal- The Stolen Bride by Gena Showalter and Jill Monroe

January 17, 2025 by Angela Leave a Comment

The Stolen Bride by Gena Showalter and Jill MonroeKings of Fury #2Fantasy RomanceMarch 31, 2025 Clover Deering is living her best life. Kind of. Maybe. Okay, so, not at all. The owner of Fur-Ever Pet Spa is deeply in debt and battling a temper that scares even herself. Things go from bad to catastrophe when a terrifying man claiming to be a berserker king demands an impossible mission: force a rival royal to welcome evil into his heart. In exchange, he’ll gift her with a prize she cannot Continue Reading

Cover Reveal- The Great and Terrible by Gena Showalter

October 4, 2024 by Angela Leave a Comment

Blurb: When twenty-year-old college dropout Moriah Shaker runs into an empty chapel to escape an unexpected storm, she’s catapulted into another world Wizard of Oz style. Unfortunately, she winds up in the treacherous realm of Hakeldama, a fantastical but brutal land where justice is twisted and innocents pay for crimes committed by the elites—and she’s now marked for death. On the run and determined to get home, Moriah heads for the City of Lux, where a rumored portal between worlds Continue Reading

Cover Reveal- The Wrong Bride: Kings of Fury by Gena Showalter and Jill Monroe

July 12, 2024 by Angela Leave a Comment

The Wrong Bride by Gena Showalter and Jill MonroeKings of Fury #1Paranormal RomanceRelease date- September 30, 2024 Blurb: Vacationing in Scotland, schoolteacher Elizabeth “Elle” Darcy anticipates picturesque landscapes, castles of old and kilt-wearing charmers, not awakening in someone else's body. Worse, that someone just married enigmatic billionaire Callen Bruce. Though that’s not the biggest problem. To the rest of the world, her new “husband” runs an elite empire. But behind his Continue Reading

Retro Review: Black and Blue by Gena Showalter

June 21, 2024 by Angela 2 Comments

Review originally posted in October of 2013on Fiction Vixen by Angela. Black and Blue by Gena ShowalterOtherworld Assassin #2PNROctober 22, 2013- by Pocket Books I have always been a huge Gena Showalter fan, I love her. Love. She writes amazing snarky, badass heroines and her heroes are all so damaged, snarly and sexy. But the last couple of books I’ve read of hers weren’t ones I wanted to add to my favorites list, they almost seemed kind of off. Like she was taking a new Continue Reading

Blog Tour and Excerpt- Ruthless by Gena Showalter

July 25, 2022 by Angela Leave a Comment

RUTHLESS by Gena ShowalterPNRPublication Date: August 9, 2022Publisher: HQN Books Summary: Forbidden. Powerful. Ruthless. Micah the Unwilling, fae King of the Forgotten, can tame even the most violent of beasts. Forged on the battlefield, this iron-willed warrior considers his soldiers his family, and he will stop at nothing to reclaim their dispossessed land. Gearing for war with a sadistic enemy, he is disciplined and focused—until a feral beauty he encountered long ago wanders into Continue Reading

Jen’s Most Anticipated of 2021

January 5, 2021 by Jen 3 Comments

Good-bye 2020 and so glad you're here, 2021. Please let this year be better. I can say without any doubt, there are a ton of great books I'm looking forward to reading.  The Crown of Gilded Bones by Jennifer L. Armentrout First up, I JUST finished Blood and Ash and immediately one clicked A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire. If you haven’t read these yet, do it now. This urban fantasy series is everything. And, you need to start at the beginning and be ready for The Crown of Gilded Bones Continue Reading

Review: Can’t Let Go by Gena Showalter

October 30, 2017 by Tori Leave a Comment

Can’t Let Go by Gena Showalter Series: Original Heartbreakers, #5 Romance Contemporary October 31, 2017 Harlequin Books Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “How did I resist you?” “I don’t know. It’s one of life’s greatest mysteries.” Jude Laurent survived a negligent childhood and a war-torn battlefield only to lose it all when his family was killed in a car accident. After his discharge from the military, his best friend Daniel Porter convinces Jude and their buddy Brock to come Continue Reading

Review: Can’t Hardly Breath by Gena Showalter

August 29, 2017 by Tori Leave a Comment

Can’t Hardly Breathe by Gena Showalter The Original Heartbreakers, #4 Romance Contemporary August 29, 2017 Harlequin Favorite Quote: “Have fun and stay safe, and make sure you get home by midnight. Excuse my French, but by then there ain’t nothing open but legs and hospitals.” Reviewed by Tori Daniel Porter, Strawberry Valley’s own hometown hero, has come home with his two best friends to take care of his dad and start their security business. A lone wolf whose time in the Army Continue Reading

End of Summer Reading Picks: Can’t Hardly Breathe by Gena Showalter Excerpt

August 9, 2017 by Mandi 1 Comment

A Summer Romance Excerpt from Bestselling Author Gena Showalter About the author: GENA SHOWALTER is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of over thirty books in paranormal and contemporary romances, as well as young adult novels. Her series include White Rabbit Chronicles, Angels of the Dark, Otherworld Assassins, Lords of the Underworld, Alien Huntress and Intertwined. Her novels have appeared in Cosmopolitan Magazine, and Seventeen Magazine, and have been translated Continue Reading

Review: The Darkest Torment by Gena Showalter

June 1, 2016 by Tori Leave a Comment

The Darkest Torment by Gena Showalter Series: Lords of the Underworld (LOTU), #12 Paranormal Romance May 31, 2016 Harlequin Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote:  “...I’m a girl and girls are made of...” “Sugar and spice,” he interjected, remembering the rhyme. “Wrong. Girls are made of vodka and ice. The two combined increase our tolerance for masculine nonsense.” Driven to his death by the demon of Distrust, Baden spent centuries in purgatory. Now he's back, but at what cost? Continue Reading

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