Temptation’s Edge by Eve Berlin Erotic Contemporary Romance August 7, 2012 Berkley Reviewed by Helyce Mischa Kennon is a beautiful, talented woman who learned at a very young age that if she wanted to survive, the only person she could count on was herself. She’s proud of her accomplishments; her tattoo shop, Thirteen Roses is successful and she’s also an erotica author. She’s thinking about expanding her shop and heads up to Seattle to meet with her friend Greyson who she is Continue Reading
Review: Seawitch by Kat Richardson
Seawitch (Greywalker #7 ) by Kit Richardson Urban Fantasy August 7, 2012 Roc Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “Welcome to the freak show. “ Seawitch, the seventh installment in Richardson's Greywalker series, pits magic against good old police skills in a swashbuckling seafaring adventure when Harper Blaine teams up with a Seattle police detective to investigate a decades old mystery. When a boat (the Seawitch) that has been missing for 27 years suddenly turns up, abandoned in its Continue Reading
Review: Heart Secret by Robin D. Owens
Heart Secret (Celta’s Heartmate #11) by Robin D. Owens Sci-Fi/Fantasy/ Romance August 7, 2012 Berkley Trade Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “ I’m a woman, with a woman’s heart and feelings and needs. And since you can’t provide what I need-I’ll find someone who can. ” Garrett Primross lost his way and his heart when his childhood love and her child died of Iasc syndrome-a deadly disease that swept through his community and destroyed everyone it touched. As the only survivor, Continue Reading
Review: White Hot by Nina Bruhns
White Hot by Nina Bruhns (Men In Uniform #2) Romantic Suspense August 7, 2012 Berkley Reviewed by Helyce U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander Clint Walker is desperately trying to get to Seattle to deliver some top secret information being stored on a tiny SD card. He’s survived the sinking of the submarine Ostrov, only to get to Dutch Harbor and realize that he now has some Chinese operatives on his butt. He’s almost at the airport when he realizes that they’ve probably anticipated this Continue Reading
Review: Blackstone’s Bride by Kate Moore
Blackstone’s Bride by Kate Moore August 7, 2012 Historical Romance Berkley Reviewed by May Favorite quote: He was born to be a connoisseur of erections. He knew them all, the ones like slow bread dough rising, or those like wild Congreve rockets soaring, or others like a water douser’s stick pointing straight at the source. When called upon to do his duty by a woman, he had taught himself to coax an erection out of the thinnest wisp of sexual stimulation. But that skill had come later Continue Reading
Review: A Girl Like You by Maria Geraci
A Girl Like You by Maria Geraci Chick-Lit August 7, 2012 Berkley Reviewed by May As this book opens we meet Emma Frazier and her boss Ben, who she has been crushing on since he started working with her at Florida! Magazine. Thing is in an order to impress him she overstated her relationship with a NASCAR superstar Trip (whom she went to high school with) and promised an exclusive interview. Now she’s got to head back to the small town of Catfish Cove on the Florida panhandle and track Continue Reading
Review: One Night Rodeo by Lorelei James
One Night Rodeo by Lorelei James (Blacktop Cowboys #4) Contemporary Romance August 7, 2012 Penguin Celia Lawson had to grow up fast when her parents died when she was just 11 years old. Her older brothers, Hank and Abe, did their best, but they were young and clueless when it came to raising a young woman so Celia grew up kind of a tomboy. Once Celia was old enough to take care of herself, they let her do her thing and though she was 1/3 owner of the family’s ranch, Hank and Abe Continue Reading
Review: Precinct 13 by Tate Hallaway
Precinct 13 by Tate Hallaway Urban Fantasy August 7, 2012 Berkley Reviewed by May I was always one of those kids who got labeled with an “overactive imagination” because I always thought I saw trolls under bridges, fairies in the garden, gargoyles on the rooftops, and all those fanciful things. Things started to get rough when my mother died… Gayle, the stepmonster as I came to think of her, convinced everyone that my imagination was a product of hallucinations and pathology. Next came Continue Reading
Review: Sweet Talk by Julie Garwood
Sweet Talk by Julie Garwood Romance Contemporary August 7, 2012 Dutton Adult Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “I’m F.B.I.“ She smiled. It wasn’t the reaction he expected. “You want to talk nightmares? I’m I.R.S.” When Olivia Mackenzie inadvertently walked into the middle of an FBI sting during a job interview, destroying months of hard work, she wasn't scared. After all, she’s IRS and in terms of scary, her job trumps all. But the attractive FBI agent who helps her out scares her. Continue Reading
Review: Wilder by Christina Dodd
Wilder by Christina Dodd (The Chosen Ones #5) Paranormal Romance August 7, 2012 Berkley Reviewed by May “For centuries, every seven years, a new group of seven Chosen Ones are drafted to continue the fight against a new group of seven Others. The battle goes on…” Several years ago the current batch of Chosen Ones lost a member (Aleksandr Wilder). Disappeared without a trace, and with no contact or sightings they fear the worst and hope that he is still alive somewhere. The truth is that Continue Reading