Carolina Dreaming by Virginia Kantra (Dare Island #5) Released: February 2, 2016 Contemporary Romance Berkley Reviewed by Mandi Jane is a successful bakery owner who survived an abusive marriage. Her ex is now in jail, and Jane and her seven-year old son Aidan live in the Outer Banks of North Carolina (a place dear to my own heart) and are pretty content. She lives with her father, a police officer, who helps take care of her son. Jane's mother left the family years ago, which has Continue Reading
Review: Kings Rising by C.S. Pacat (Spoiler-Free)
Kings Rising by C.S. Pacat (Captive Prince #3) Released: February 2, 2016 M/M Fantasy Berkley Reviewed by Mandi Note: The review is spoiler free but the comment section does have spoilers! To gain everything and lose everything in the space of a moment. That is the fate of all princes destined for the throne. I'm going to write this review spoiler free, because to spoil anything about this book would be a true disservice. This will probably be the most non-review I've ever written. Continue Reading
Review: Off the Clock by Roni Loren
Review: Off the Clock by Roni Loren Pleasure Principle Series #1 Contemporary/Erotic Romance Released: January 6,2015 Berkley Reviewed by Sheena Marin Rush loves studying sex. Doing it? That’s another story. In the research lab, Marin’s lack of practical knowledge didn’t matter, but now that she’s landed a job at The Grove, a high-end, experimental sex therapy institute, she can’t ignore the fact that the person most in need of sexual healing may be her. Dr. Donovan West, her new Continue Reading
Review: City of Light by Keri Arthur
City of Light by Keri Arthur (Outpost #1) Urban Fantasy Released: January 5, 2016 Signet Reviewed by Mandi I love when I see a new urban fantasy series - but unfortunately, I don't think I'll be reading book two of this series. Here is the blurb: When the bombs that stopped the species war tore holes in the veil between this world and the next, they allowed entry to the Others—demons, wraiths, and death spirits who turned the shadows into their hunting grounds. Now, a hundred years Continue Reading
Review: High and Hell Water by Charlie Cochet
High & Hell Water by Charlie Cochet (Thirds #1) Released: July 7, 2014 M/M Paranormal Romance Dreamspinner Reviewed by Mandi When homicide detective Dexter J. Daley’s testimony helps send his partner away for murder, the consequences—and the media frenzy—aren’t far behind. He soon finds himself sans boyfriend, sans friends, and, after an unpleasant encounter in a parking garage after the trial, he’s lucky he doesn’t find himself sans teeth. Dex fears he’ll get transferred from the Continue Reading
First-In-Series Giveaway!
This coming January, The Last Dream Keeper by Amber Benson and Midnight Taxi Tango by Daniel Jose Older release - both second books in their respective series. he Witches of Echo Park introduced readers to Lyse MacAllister—a young woman who returns to her hometown of Los Angeles to care for her dying aunt and discovers she is expected to take her aunt’s place as the Master of the Echo Park coven of witches. The Last Dream Keeper picks up right where the first installment left off, with Continue Reading
Review: The Muse by Anne Calhoun
The Must by Anne Calhoun (Irresistible #5) Released: December 1, 2015 Erotic Contemporary Berkley Reviewed by Mandi Although the romance in this one is definitely a stand alone. for those that have read Evening Storm, you are all too familiar with the massive Ponzi scheme that has taken place. In Evening Storm, the hero of the book was the whistle-blower who brought down the MacCarren family. The Muse features Arden MacCarren, who had no idea her father or brother, now arrested by the Continue Reading
Review: Misconduct by Penelope Douglas
Misconduct by Penelope Douglas Series: Standalone-HEA Contemporary Romance December 1, 2015 NAL Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “Dark spaces and quiet spaces...that’s all we need” Former tennis champion Easton Bradbury just wants to move forward with her life and new teaching career; leaving her past where it belongs...in the past. But when she meets her newest student and his father, that may be harder than she thinks. Tyler Marick seems to have it all. Wealth, power, and a Continue Reading
Review: Blood Kiss by J.R. Ward
Blood Kiss by J.R. Ward (Black Dagger Legacy #1) Paranormal Romance Releases: December 1, 2015 Signet Reviewed by Mandi First - spoiler alert! The heroine actually lives in this book. After The Shadows, you never know. (I'm still bitter - I can't help it. But I really liked this book so I'm moving on.) Blood Kiss is the first spin-off book of Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood book. It's 100% set in the BDB world, in the training center and lots of brothers and their shellans are in the Continue Reading
Review: Burn it Up by Cara McKenna
Review: Burn it Up (Desert Dogs #3) by Cara McKenna Desert Dogs Series Contemporary Romance Released: November 3, 2015 Signet Reviewed by Sheena After a decade spent chasing shadier pursuits, Casey Grossier has come home to the badlands to settle down in Fortuity. Vowing to put his days of dirty money behind him, he’s cleaned up his act and become co-owner of Benji’s Saloon. But despite his efforts to be a better man, he can’t shake his crush on his sweet-faced bartender, even though Continue Reading