A wild west heiress, Summer Wine Lee knows that she's not an acceptable bride for her fiance's knickerbocker family. She grew up in an Arizona mining town, cares more for critters than people, carries a knife under her skirts, and, worst of all, she has a highly improper secret from her past. But she also has high hopes that a real English Duke can teach her how to be a lady…Were it not for his father's gambling debts, the Duke of Monchester would never have stooped to civilize Summer. But the Continue Reading
Sharon Ashwood Contest Winner!
The winner of Scorched by Sharon Ashwood is...Abigail [All Things Urban Fantasy]Congratulations!!Send me your address please!A big thank you to Sharon Ashwood for stopping by Smexy and giving away the book! Continue Reading
Review: Bound to Please by Lilli Feisty
Ruby Scott is a beautiful, quiet event planner who leads an oh-so-respectable life. Yet the things that go on in her secret fantasies are anything but. She has every intention of keeping her hidden desires under wraps-until she meets a gorgeous, hard-muscled man ten years her junior. Mark St. Crow is a gifted, up-and-coming musician who collects erotic art and loves to "play" women as much as his piano. After one night of uninhibited passion, Ruby realizes there's no turning back. But as she Continue Reading
I have a date with Little Eddie
New Moon is here people! Let's all simmer down for a few minutes of sanity - ok maybe not ;) I am going with a group of girls (because let's face it, husbands would totally ruin the night) on Saturday evening to see it. Our first stop is a wine bar, because New Moon will be a much better viewing experience after a few glasses, don't you agree? I am very excited to see smexy RPatz on the big screen again. Yes, there are rumors he may not bathe everyday, and yes, Jacob's abs have garnered much Continue Reading
Interview with Sharon Ashwood and Contest!
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
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