Cate Masters takes her readers on a wild roller-coaster of a ride in Goddess, Awakened. From start to finish, readers will love the story of Jocelyn Gibson, a unique character who is sassy and easy to relate to. Read More »
The stories of the major players of Troy have long captured the imaginations of artists and writers, and this romance novella plays into the same theme. Presenting Achilles and Iphigenia, the daughter of Agamemnon sacrificed to Artemis, as reincarnated in the modern day, Summers presents an interesting and thoughtful twist on the myth.
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Leigh Gerard went through hell with her ex-husband, but it was nothing like the nightmare that awaited her in the early morning hours after a long night shift. Picked to become a vampire by a pair of malevolent rogues, Leigh became a creature of the night without her sire asking for her opinion on the matter.
Luckily for her, rescue came quickly. Lucian Argeneau, a hunter of rogues and a vampire as old as their species, was in the right place at the right time to take her from the monsters’ den and properly tutor her in the ways of vampires. Under the care of her savior, Leigh had a chance at a good (and immortal) life in spite of the suddenness of it all. And best of all, her hero was absolutely gorgeous and stood a good chance of being her Read More »
Matriarch of a prominent immortal family, Marguerite Argeneau experienced five hundred years of hell with her late husband, Jean-Claude. Now, she has independence again and is starting a career as a private detective by tracking down the family history of a vampire desperate to find his mother. Little does she know that his father, Julius, is her lifemate, her perfect eternal match.
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The rogue-hunting “good-guy” vampires of the Argeneau family are back in their eleventh outing, The Immortal Hunter. In this second book in the “Hunter” cycle of the series, author Lynsay Sands brings her lovable vampire family out into the darker side of the world, tracking the “rogues” who would do humanity harm and give their immortal species a bad name. Added in as the love interest is Danielle McGill, a doctor who is kidnapped by the wrong sort of vampire before finding her lifemate in Decker, this book’s Argeneau hero. While Dani is Read More »
Rosalind Llewellyn, Druid vampire slayer and heroine of Pearce’s previous novel, Blood of the Rose, returns for her second novel at the Tudor court of King Henry VIII. Once more, Pearce takes actual historical events and works them into a wonderful paranormal story that should satisfy both historical romance fans and readers looking for a vampire story to sink their fangs into.
The mythical warriors of Atlantis return for their fourth novel in Atlantis Unmasked, the story of the disfigured hero, Alexios, and Grace, a human woman sworn to vengeance. Though its pace suffers a bit as a real middle piece in the series, Atlantis Unmasked is one of the more interesting stories in the series and the hero/heroine pairing is extremely good.
Grace Havilland, an archer and the descendant of Diana, never misses a target. She puts such talent to good use as one of the humans rebelling against the increase in vampiric authority from which her modern world suffers. The rebels have formidable allies on their side as well: warriors from the long-lost, mystical world of Atlantis, whose millennia-long struggle against the vampires has only become more brutal through the years.
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The third book of the acclaimed Atlantis series, Atlantis Unleashed, packs a punch exploring a lot of new settings for its heroic cast and taking some great risks with its edgy hero, Justice. The novel continues the storyline of the Atlanteans’ search for the missing gems of the mystical Trident of Poseidon but takes the ongoing quest away from the vampires already met throughout the series; instead, Day takes her readers through a story of healing and self-acceptance, largely centered in the lush jungles of Guatemala.
Morgan returns with her latest edition into her thrilling Paladins series with The Darkness Beyond, the book centered around the young cyber-whiz Paladin, D.J. Clayborne. D.J. has been a constant presence in the series, and it is high time that he receive his own book—and heroine.
Kitty is back for her latest full-length novel in one of her best outings yet. Visiting London for the first International Conference of Paranatural Studies, she has a chance to scout out the Old World’s place in the Long Game — the vampire Roman’s far-reaching, nefarious plan for vampires — and see both old friends and some who do not quite fall into that category.
Visiting London, however, is not quite the diplomatic outing and chance to reconnect that she is expecting. Roman already has allies, also swarming London for the convention, and if Kitty plans to make any progress in summoning together her own forces against him, she has to learn to play by the rules of new kinds of vampires and lycanthropes. Read More »
Kitty is back in one of her most action-packed, fast-paced novels yet. The action moves out of the Front Range to the Bay Area as the Denver Alpha goes on a quest to track down the mysterious magical device known as the Dragon’s Pearl.
The ever-ebullient and ever-snarky host of the popular talk radio show The Midnight Hour has been on the trail of discovering whether some of the famous figures in history were in fact tied to the preternatural world when she gets a call asking her to come to the aid of one of her old allies. Read More »
Morgan delivers another thoroughly satisfying entry into her Paladins series with this book, as the Kalith warrior Larem gets his story — and the girl.
After the conclusion of Defeat the Darkness, the Paladin warriors, who protect Earth from insane members of the transdimensional alien race known as Others, or Kalith, are at a crossroads. One of the Regents, the administrative keeers of the Paladins, has been exposed as a traitor, and a new administration has come in to manage the Seattle Paladins. Read More »
The sixth book in Morgan’s Paladins series surpasses all of its predecessors by leaps and bounds with a delightful setting and supporting cast for the story and romance. Morgan has outdone herself with this book, and it is by far my favorite of hers to date.
Hunter Fitzsimmon was the tortured—literally—Paladin of the last novel, relocated for reconnaissance and recuperation to a sleepy Washington town in pursuit of an illicit ring of Others—aliens crossing over to earth through a shaky transdimensional barrier. Read More »
In this, the second volume of the Gardella Vampire Chronicles, author Colleen Gleason seamlessly continues her poetically elegant tale — any (oft-suggested) shades of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” are soon forgotten in her Venators — slayers — these books are utter class and sophistication.
A year has passed since the death of Victoria’s husband, and while she continues to grieve, there is a new undercurrent forming in the waters of vampire society: Victoria’s mourning will have to be set aside in favor of combating a rising new evil. Read More »
The final novel in Charlotte Caissie and Max Savoie’s tale concludes their story, packing one hell of a punch in the process.
Police detective “Cee Cee” Caissie had a tormented past, which, throughout the course of the previous novels, she has been slowly overcoming with the help of her lover, Max. For his part, Savoie has some secrets of his own, notably the fact that he is more than the average human.
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The undead and living citizens of Morganville, Texas return for another book in the eponymous Morganville Vampires series, and readers are in for one hell of a ride.
Claire Danvers has a lot on her plate. MIT has finally come a-callin’ for her, and she has an aspiring scientist’s dream of a lifetime just waiting for her to accept. Read More »
Daisy O’Donnell makes a living siphoning vampire blood out of the slumbering undead, earning a reputation as the infamous “Blood Thief.” Things quickly start to get out of hand when she has to stake a vampire in self-defense, and the local vampire community starts to take notice — and as more deaths start piling up in the area, so does the hatred of the Blood Thief.
These books are so damned sultry. I adore them. They are hot and spicy and everything too sexy to be “nice.” I also have to admit that I started this book this morning and did not get through it before work — then came back home to it instead of running errands and doing ten thousand other things that I needed to do…
Life goes on for the Morganville residents and their fellow vampire citizens and keepers in typical fashion. The tenuous peace between mortals and immortals wavers daily, and Claire Danvers and her friends in the Glass House continue to try to live their lives as semi-normal young adults without getting too deeply enthralled in vampire business. This, of course, fails miserably.
Readers of the “Cat Star Chronicles” meet their first Zetithian female in Hero, the sixth novel in the series. The “Chronicles” detail the stories of a species which lost the majority of their people and their planet in an act of violence; Hero is the first book to get at the backstory of that crime, and it does a great job of it. Fans also will remember Trag, the pseudo-anti-hero of Rogue, a previous book in the series, and brother to Tycharian. Read More »
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