Twas the night before Christmas… oh wait, wrong story.
Twas the night before I was to meet my friend and fellow reviewer, Virginia, for the Romantic Times Book Convention aka RT and I had realized I had yet to pack. I admit to being a total enigma at times. Like the fact that I have OCD and make lists and checklists while I am also a major procrastinator and usually screw myself over waiting for the very last minute to do what I need to do.
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Things are finally going fine for Joey. She is out of the Army, is a college freshman and has a job in a lab with the hottest science geek ever. If only she did not see strange things happening, on campus. Her roommate for instance, used to be wild, carefree and colorful, and out of the wild blue yonder, turned into little miss Stepford co-ed, speaking properly and wearing only proper clothing. What is going on with the world when people decide to randomly turn into blazer-wearing super-geeks?
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As the only child of the angel Jonah, the Prime Legion Commander, and Anna, a mermaid and daughter of Arianne, Alexis already has the definition of “unique” oozing through her pores. She is not only a merangel who was born with both a tail and wings, but as all the daughters of Arianne receive a special gift, hers was the gift (or curse) of being one of the most sensitive empaths the Goddess ever put on earth. Meaning she feels every ounce of pain, hurt, and emotion that everyone else may be feeling, maybe even more. And it doesn’t necessarily help that her angelic half makes her almost irresistible to be around. Read More »
Crave the Night contains 3 full length novels.
I Burn For You
4.5 Tombstones
Vampire Alec Reynard found his soul mate at the worst possible time. The effects of the secret medical treatments that allow him to live among mortals seem to be wearing off and the beast inside him is trying to go feral. He wants Domini Lancer and her blood is calling to him. I Burn For You is truly a story that will make anyone melt.
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Sofia Hunyara randomly received a letter from someone proclaiming to be her long lost relative and asking her to meet with him and other family members so she can learn more about her ancestry. While there, Sofia encounters a whole world of crazy - crazy that just is not possible in the normal world. Wolf Tamers, werewolves, and vampires? No way! She cannot consider the existence of such creatures. Read More »
“Golden light edged my body as I stood before the long, gilded mirror. I spread a palm over the wrinkles marring the smooth run of the sheer silk gown. A wry smile pulled at my mouth. The practically transparent black silk revealed curves and planes of very bare skin. The gown left very little to the imagination, just as it was meant to. I straightened my shoulders and lifted my chin. Being a reiver, the fertile daughter of a queen, it was my time to hunt down a mate. Any way I could.”
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According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, pelagic means living or occurring in the open sea. To the Undersea Folk however, a Pelagic is a large meeting called by a majority of the… well, Undersea Folk. And without so much as a how-de-do for twelve (long) months from the High Prince Artur, who claimed to want her, Fred finds herself summoned by the High King to attend the Pelagic gathering in the waters of the Cayman Islands. Read More »
Doctor Fredrika Bimm (seriously though, call her “Fred”) is a very unique individual. She is half human and half mermaid but don’t let images from Disney or long deceased Danish authors with a penchant for sad endings fool you. For a mermaid, she is still a rather weird individual. Read More »
It is the latest chapter in the life of Betsy, Queen of the Vampires and life has just taken a turn for the worse. In Undead and Unworthy, Betsy lost two people who were a part of the entourage closest to her and one of them just happened to be a werewolf. Now, she and her husband Sinclair, the King of the Undead, must return Antonia’s body to the Wyndham pack and face Michael Wyndham, the alpha of all weres. She is totally Undead and Unwelcome not to mention completely out of her element.
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Fredrika Bimm (but please just call her “Fred”) is exhausted. Sure, leave it to the King of the Undersea Folk to think her to be the best candidate to act as liaison between the mer-people and humans. Her! Grumpy. Grouchy. Does-not-like-people, Fred. So what if she is the only half mermaid/half human hybrid currently in existence? Did anyone catch the “does not like people” part? Read More »
Brianna Winston-Beaufort (better known as “Bree”) is not what anyone would call a typical attorney. Then again, it could also be because she does not take on the usual clients. Her clients, so far at least, are already dead. Yes, dead. Deceased. No longer in the land of the living. And yet, they still require Bree’s help as a lawyer while facing an entirely different and everlasting judgment.
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If Lynxsander Dackelov (Lynx for short), does not see another woman in his life, he will be content. They are such selfish creatures who have used and abused him to the point that even the scent of desire has no effect on his manhood whatsoever. None. And for a Zetithian, a race where the men are known to give pleasure beyond all others after smelling a woman‘s desire, Lynx feels like he isn’t even a whole man. Read More »
So her mother wasn’t as crazy as everyone originally thought when she said she had fire inside of her and was a witch. Maybe she knew exactly what she was talking about because Sarafina Connell is a fire witch and a rather powerful one, too. She just didn’t know about it until she was kidnapped by Stefan Faucheux, head of the Duskoff, the cabal of warlocks who want nothing more than world domination. What do they want with her? Just a little bit of blood, her utter devotion and the use of her untapped abilities. Read More »
Remember the movie “My Boyfriend’s Back” where this guy is hopelessly in love with a girl, dies, and then comes back to life as a zombie still hoping to win her over? Yeah, it wasn’t that great or that memorable of a movie honestly…BUT Zombie Jack is not only another kettle of fish, with a different tale altogether, Zombie Jack’s story is actually quite good and much more memorable. Then what is with the reference to the B movie made in the early ’90s? Well, because Jack is back and someone is so gonna get in trouble.
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Grant Stewart is a detective who knows to trust his gut. Right now, his gut is telling him something strange is going on at Belle Brides Bridal Boutique. His instincts also tell him that the owner/manager, Erica Peterson, is hiding something and he wants to know what it is. False alarm going off? Maybe. But looking into Erica’s pretty eyes, he can tell something is bothering her and it isn’t the heavy work load.
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The Enchanted Faerie
has the magic to help you find your true love - but it comes at a high cost and possible consequences. These are the stories of six women brave enough to pay the price and face what may come to get their hearts’ desires.
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The trouble with destiny is that it always brings trouble. Seriously. No joke. Always. Sarah just wanted to be a simple, quiet, boring accountant. She happens to be great with numbers. It would have worked - no harm, no foul - and lifewould have been good. But of course, Destiny had to rear its ugly head and not only change Sarah’s plans for a calm and peaceful life, Destiny had to come in and turn her life completely upside down.
With identical birthmarks on the insides of her wrists resembling two half moons, Sarah was born to be a daemon slayer. Dorian knew that as soon as he found her and saved her from the attack of her very first daemon. While she would have promptly thanked him for his heroic endeavor, he then had to go and tear out the daemon’s shriveled black heart and hand it to her expecting her to destroy it. Of course, Dorian then had to explain to her that she was the daemon slayer he had been searching for and inform her of the true nature of the markings on her wrists: they were meant to give her the power to destroy a daemon’s vile heart.
Damn fate! There are plenty of times when Sarah wishes she could have stayed unaware of her true calling, but every time she looks at Dorian, she finds the resolve to do what she must for the greater good. Always Dorian, Dorian, Dorian. How can she successfully fight evil when Dorian keep creeping into her thoughts - distracting her - with his deliciousness. Except Dorian would never think of her in a sexy way. Dorian is all work and no play. Double damn. Not only is Dorian a strict work-aholic, he also has to be all noble about how he feels about Sarah. He wants to protect her. From what? Himself? What could Dorian be hiding that could change how anyone, especially Sarah, would feel about him?
The Trouble with Destiny is simply a delightful read. It is in the first person and I found it fun as well as funny being able to see things from Sarah’s perspective. This book has a lighthearted feel to it that anyone can really enjoy. It is simple and sweet while fresh and entertaining at the same time.
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Kyra Aramis is just a simple piano instructor from Earth. Really, that’s it. Never having been out of the country, much less the planet or the solar system, she now finds herself wondering why she agreed to take on a job on a planet somewhere far, far away where she would probably be the only Terran woman for miles (or planets) around. On Darconia, a planet ruled by lizards, is where she, the simple piano teacher from Earth, will be instructing the queen’s daughter to play those 88 keys. That is, if the heat does not kill her first. Why did she decide to leave again?
Once on Darconia, Kyra finds her whole body automatically covered with sun dried sweat and surrounded by huge lizards with rather big jaws that look like they could bite her in half. She has no idea how to tell if they are male or female and has a fear deep down in the pit of her stomach that she looks like a nice and tasty lunch to them. Kyra is on the verge of just calling it quits and rushing home, until Queen Scalia introduces Kyra to her favored pet “cats“.
Tychar and Trag are Scalia’s Zetithian pet slaves who live in a gilded cage - well treated, given everything they could need, just under lock and key. One with the coloring of a Bengal tiger and the other favoring that of a Siberian tiger, these brothers have gone twenty long years without the loving of a good woman. So once Kyra is within arms reach, they both tell her she smells like desire. And after two decades, it drives both brothers to find a way to persuade her that Darconia is not so bad after all.
Deciding to tolerate the heat on the desert planet, Kyra now has to figure out what to do with two tigers both vying for her attention. She deeply cares for one but she also desires the other. Could she possibly find a way to have both? But her time on Darconia is running short. A small contingent of the planets inhabitants are not happy with the changes Scalia has been making in her regime. Someone is out to get the throne and eliminate all foreigners who threaten the status quo - including Kyra and the Zetithians.
To put it simply, Rogue
is just sexy. Really sexy. Sizzling kind of sexy. Honestly, only Cheryl Brooks can deliver a line like, “I can give you joy unlike any you have ever known” and not only make it work but also make you want to melt in the process. This is truly an enjoyable read. Besides, you know what they say, “Once you go cat, you never go back.”
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Books in the Cat Star Chronicles in the order they should be read:
Slave
Warrior
Rogue
Outcast 
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Claire grew up on the daaeman (or as the humans know it, “demon”) realm of Eudae. As the handmaiden to the Cae of the Ytrayi, Claire was well kept and safe from all the other daaeman. But that did not stop Rue from tweaking and experimenting with Claire’s magick. Nor did that stop him from placing a powerful daaeman weapon inside of her before blasting her to the aeamon (or human) realm of earth to protect her -not to mention the weapon, too- from the Atrika invasion.
Still, for her first time back on earth, it was not the welcome she originally thought it would be. Why would people think she was insane and place her in a hospital because she was looking for elemental witches and trying to avoid the Atrika chasing after her?
When the air witches heard Claire’s mental cry of help, Adam, with his strong fire magick, was called to rescue her. Saving her from the mental ward was no difficulty, but keeping her safe from the blasted Atrika who want the elium stored in her body was. The Atrika are ruthless and would have no qualms killing Claire and a hundred others to get that weapon - a weapon so strong, it would give them the power to take over Eudae and the Ytrayi. Now Adam has to find a way to keep the demons at bay until the coven can figure out how to get the elium out of Claire.
At least Claire has an ace up her sleeve. While Rue was tweaking her earth magick, he somehow transformed it, giving her the abilities to call on all the different elemental magicks, making it more like daaeman magick. Now if she could somehow find a way to weave the magick of fire, earth, water and air together, as Rue had originally intended, then maybe she might be able to keep the Atrika off their backs before anyone else gets hurt. If Rue put the elium in her, there must be a way for them to get it out. The real question is “how” and time is running out.
Witch Heart
is a story that will captivate its readers. It will hook you from the first few pages and then take you on a wild ride. It is a fast-paced story but it is also a story that will make you feel emotion. Anya Bast uses words like Monet used paint. It‘s vibrant. It’s alive. Readers will be able to see the story come to life as it just leaps out of the pages.
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Books in the Elemental Witches series in the order they should be read:
Witch Fire
Witch Blood
Witch Heart
Witch Fury
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Jane Jameson has had a very, very bad day. First she loses her job as a librarian so her boss’s stepdaughter can be hired to do a less than mediocre job and play with fires (while working with the books!). To cap off the evening, she decides to drown her sorrows in liquor. But on her way home, her car just up and dies leaving her to walk, drunk in not so sensible sandals on dark, dirty country roads. Then of course she just has to fall in a ditch, which would have no been so very awful if she was not shot by another drunken idiot who had mistaken her for a deer. Seriously beyond all that, dying and waking up as a vampire was just icing on the cake.
Gabriel Nightengale saw Jane at the bar and somehow wanted to keep watch over her, protect her. So he kept her company while she drank fruity drinks, walked her to her vehicle and followed her on her way home. Something just compelled him to make sure she made it safely. Unfortunately, he did not follow closely enough to prevent her from…well…getting shot and bleeding to death. But he could save her life by giving her a chance at immortality. If he could just persuade her to accept his help and guidance now that she has awakened as the newly undead, it would make things a whole lot easier.
Could you believe there’s a welcoming committee for the newly undead? And a guide book? Well, there is! Now if only the guide came with basic instructions for women like Jane, then it would make the undead life a piece of cake. However, there are things about being a vampire that one just has to learn from experience - like be careful when picking a fight with any vampire, because they could end up deader than dead and you could be blamed for their murder.
Vampires have rules. Worse than that, they have their own judges and juries…and their own executioners, too. So Jane’s undead life might be cut short if she doesn’t figure out who framed her and soon.
If you are looking for a new read or a new author to get into, Molly Harper’s Nice Girls Don’t Have Fangs
is the book for you. It shows literary wit at its finest. This story is not only entertaining and funny, it’s also charming and a joy to read. Did I mention the engaging quips? Ms. Harper’s debut to the published world is one that definitely deserves noting, and I, for one, am looking forward to her next book, Nice Girls Don’t Date Dead Men
. Nice Girls Don’t Have Fangs definitely has a memorable bite.
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Books in the Jane Jameson series in the order they should be read:
Nice Girls Don’t Have Fangs
Nice Girls Don’t Date Dead Men
Nice Girls Don’t Live Forever
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