My name is Amelia Gray. I am the Graveyard Queen, a cemetery restorer who sees ghosts. My father passed down four rules to keep me safe and I've broken every last one. A door has opened and evil wants me back. In order to protect myself, I've vowed to return to those rules. But the ghost of a murdered cop needs my help to find his killer. The clues lead me to the dark side of Charleston—where witchcraft, root doctors and black magic still flourish—and back to John Devlin, a haunted police Continue Reading
Review: Fight The Tide by Keira Andrews
Fight The Tide by Keira Andrews Series: Kick at the Darkness, 2 Paranormal Dystopian M/M Romance Released: July 26, 2016 KA Books Reviewed by Sheena Favorite Quote: "Dude, I jerked off inside you." "You sure did." A virus that turns the infected into zombie-like killers spreads through a burning world thrown into lawless chaos. Lovers Parker and Adam have escaped to the open sea when they hear a message over the airwaves from a place called Salvation Island—a supposed safe Continue Reading
Review: Ethan & Wyatt Series by K.A. Mitchell
Getting Him Back by K.A. Mitchell (Ethan & Wyatt #1) Released: February 15, 2016 M/M Contemporary Romance Carina Press Reviewed by Mandi Both books coming in around 100 pages, this two book series has a HEA in book one, but a further look into their relationship in book two. Ethan decides to go to a more expensive college, to follow his high school boyfriend, but when he gets there, Blake tells him he no longer loves him. Ethan is shocked and devastated and decides he needs a Continue Reading
Audiobook Review: Jaxson by Alisa Woods
Jaxson by Alisa Woods (River Pack Wolves #1) Paranormal Romance July 21, 2016 ListenUp Audiobooks Reviewed by Mandi Former SEAL Jaxson River would give his life for his brothers and his pack, but if he doesn’t claim a mate soon, he’ll be forced to step down as their alpha. There’s only one problem: Jaxson’s dark secret would kill any mate he claimed. With someone kidnapping shifters off the street—and only Jaxson and his brothers, Jace and Jared, to stop them—now is not the time for his Continue Reading
Review: Swear on This Life by Renee Carlino
Swear on This Life by Renee Carlino Released: August 16, 2016 Contemporary Romance Atria Books Reviewed by Mandi Last year I read, Before We Were Strangers and gave it five stars. Obviously I was anticipating Swear on This Life, but boy did it have the opposite effect on me. Instead of loving and swooning, I disliked and got a bit ragey. Emiline is an adjunct writing instructor at UC San Diego who also wants her own writing career, but she has yet to be published. She has had a serious Continue Reading
Review: To Kiss a Thief by Susanna Craig
To Kiss a Thief by Susanna Craig (Runaway Desires #1) Released: August 16, 2016 Historical Romance Kensington Lyrical Press Reviewed by Mandi The beginning of this one held promise - so much intense, growly, promise - but it ended up falling quite flat for me. Sarah Sutliffe, Lady Fairfax is newly married (oh how I do love a marriage in trouble trope) to St. John, Viscount Fairfax and when she overhears her husband and another woman profess love for one another, she has a freak-out Continue Reading
Smexy Deals!
(This is a novella of approximately 36,000 words. Also included is a two-chapter preview of Do You Want to Start a Scandal, releasing 9/27/16.) Beautiful and elegant, Miss Diana Highwood is destined to marry a wealthy, well-placed nobleman. At least that's what her mother has loudly declared to everyone in Spindle Cove. But Diana's not excited by dukes and lords. The only man who makes her heart pound is the village blacksmith, Aaron Dawes. By birth and fortune, they couldn't be more wrong Continue Reading
Review: The Sight by Chloe Neill
The Sight by Chloe Neill Series: Devil’s Isle, #2 Urban Fantasy August 16, 2016 NAL Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: "My duct tape brings all the boys to the yard." The paranormal war that engulfed New Orleans seven years ago is over. But the battle for the city is just beginning . . . Claire Connolly is a Sensitive, infected with magic when the Veil that divides humanity from the world beyond fell. Magic can easily consume and destroy a Sensitive, and if Claire’s secret is Continue Reading
August Mini Reviews
Tori: Worked up by Tessa Bailey Romance Contemporary Grade: B+ Tessa Bailey certainly brings her A game as she introduces us to a pair of commitment phobics whose marriage of convenience opens the door to more than they could have ever imagined. Humor, outrageous chemistry, wild unpredictable sex, and some mild angst helps to build a page-turning erotically charged romance when a pouty, growly, giant of a factory worker finds his world turned upside down when he meets a sexy, upbeat Continue Reading
Smexy Deals!
From Jodi Picoult, one of the most powerful writers in contemporary fiction, comes a riveting, timely, heartbreaking, and terrifying novel of families in anguish -- and friendships ripped apart by inconceivable violence. Until the phone calls came at 3:00 A.M. on a November morning, the Golds and their neighbors, the Hartes, had been inseparable. It was no surprise to anyone when their teenage children, Chris and Emily, began showing signs that their relationship was moving beyond that of Continue Reading