Baby, It's Cold Outside by HelenKay Dimon (Men at Work #1) Released: February 25, 2014 Contemporary Romance Samhain Reviewed by Mandi This book starts with some really hot sex y'all. Like boss/assistant, up against the door sex, letting all their pent up lust come through after a long time of flirtation. No wonder her control had finally cracked tonight. She'd opened the door to say goodnight and let him know everyone, including the cleaning crew, had cleared the floor. Knocked right Continue Reading
Cover Reveal: Red Hot Chance by KT Grant
Note: I consider KT Grant a friend of mine, above and beyond normal internet friendships. Also note - I spy a butt crack. I approve of this. Brian “Woody” Woodall has taken a leave of absence from his dream job on Grand Turk to return to Las Vegas, not only to attend his best friend’s engagement party, but to help his sick father he has never gotten along with. Quinn also needs a big favor and asks Woody to volunteer as a blind date for his fiancée’s boss, Daphne Vogel. Woody isn’t thrilled Continue Reading
Review: Second Chance at Passion by Heather Lire
Second Chance at Passion (Holiday, Vermont, #3) by Heather Lire Romantic Contemporary E book, pages February 21, 2014 Desert Breeze Publishing Reviewed by Tori Audrey Rodriguez has escaped her family's life styles of the rich and famous by moving to the small town of Holiday, Vermont. She settles into her new role as bookstore owner, never expecting to run into her Vegas hook-up. Ethan Cartwright has been ordered to take a vacation, by his mom no less. The only people he can imagine Continue Reading
Review: The Dark Affair by Marie Claremont
The Dark Affair by Marie Claremont (Mad Passions #3) Released: March 4, 2014 Historical Romance Berkley Reviewed by Mandi Margaret Cassidy left Ireland to come to England and help those who have come home from war. She is a nurse that helps them rebuild their lives by getting them off of an addiction to opium. She has become known for it and can pass by with the money she makes off of it but she needs more. Her brother is in financial and personal trouble so when the Earl of Carlyle Continue Reading
Review: Murder of Crows by Anne Bishop
Murder of Crows (The Others, #2) by Anne Bishop Urban Fantasy/Dark March 4, 2014 Roc Hardcover Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “That would be the first thing on her feedback list: don't make people-shaped cookies." A large group of crows is often referred to as a murder of crow. Tightly knit and family orientated, when of their own is killed, they not only remember the perpetrator...they will not rest until justice is served. Meg Corbyn, a Cassandra Sangue, gained the Continue Reading
Excerpt from Need you Tonight by Roni Loren
I've enjoyed the Loving on the Edge series by Roni Loren. The latest, Need you Tonight just released yesterday. I haven't read it yet - plan to do so this week and have a review up next week. Penguin offered an excerpt - so I thought I'd post it today to give you a taste of the book. To see my past reviews of this series, go here. Excerpt from NEED YOU TONIGHT by Roni Loren - Goodreads l Amazon l B&N “Where are we going?” “Up,” he said, pulling the door open for her and Continue Reading
Review: Carolina Man by Virginia Kantra
Carolina Man by Virginia Kantra (Dare Island #3) Contemporary Romance March 4, 2014 Berkley Reviewed by Helyce Luke Fletcher is a Marine. It’s everything he knows and all he wants to do. His priority has always been the mission and keeping his men safe. But while in Afghanistan he learns that his high school girl friend has died and left him custody of her ten year old daughter, Taylor--his daughter, a daughter he never knew anything about. He heads home as soon as he can in order to Continue Reading
Guest Author Megan Hart and Giveaway
Megan Hart is visiting Smexy to talk about her new serial. Part three releases today.... Piece by Piece or All At Once? Megan Hart Serial stories have been around for a long time. Charles Dickens published many of his works in serial format. Early radio shows took up the style, as well as soap operas. More recently, the growing popularity of digital publishing has seen the serial make a comeback – to the delight of some, dismay of others. Serial stories can work wonderfully for readers of Continue Reading
Take My Books – March!
SET #1 Hard as you Can by Laura Kaye Fighting Love by Abby Niles Tangled by Emma Chase (released in 2013 as e-book, now in print) Four Years Later by Monica Murphy SET #2 The Raider by Monica Murphy A Wicked Pursuit by Isabella Bradford Why Earls Fall in Love by Manda Collins When the Duke was Wicked by Lorraine Heath SET #3 The Undead Pool by Kim Harrison Vampire Most Wanted by Lynsay Sands Touch of the Angel by Continue Reading
Prince of Tricks by Jane Kindred. (Aka the book that took Mandi out of her reading slump)
Prince of Tricks by Jane Kindred (Demons of Elysium #1) Released: January 7, 2014 Erotic m/m paranormal romance Samhain Reviewed by Mandi I've been in a bit of a reading slump lately. I wanted to read a book that excited me, and nothing I picked up was satisfying that need. I have 1,000 books in my to-be-read pile yet nothing appealed. I was whiny!! And no one likes a whiny reader. So I whined to Tori and her response was - Prince of Tricks by Jane Kindred. Now, when she told me to read Continue Reading