Elizabeth Young, heroine of book four in Ms Love’s Young Brothers series, is a werewolf with three vampire brothers. Her brothers’ tales are books one through three, but her story can be read on its own.
Elizabeth is a research scientist working on a serum to make her human again. While at one brother’s bar, she is hit by overwhelming desire for a hunk she sees there and propositions him.
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Wolf Fever is book 6 in Ms. Spear’s Wolf series. Enough background info is included to make it a stand-alone read, but reading the previous episodes (Heart of the Wolf, Destiny of the Wolf, To Tempt the Wolf, Legend of the White Wolf and Seduced by the Wolf) will bring you totally up-to-speed on all the repeat characters.
Blood Groove opens with pathologists about to perform an autopsy on the 60-year-old corpse of the only man legally proven to be a vampire and then executed. Even though a knife crafted from a crucifix penetrates between the corpse’s ribs to its heart, the owning museum has asked a local college to confirm the cause of death. Read More »
Hang on for another wild ride with Lizzie, the newbie demon slayer.
All Lizzie wants is a normal date with Dimitri, her hunky, loving griffin. But, as usual, fate throws obstacles in her path, from a dye-job gone wrong to a long-lost dad in danger of turning demon. Once again, Lizzie is determined to save those she loves and learns a lot about herself while doing it.
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The Girls with Games of Blood is book two in Mr. Bledsoe’s Memphis Vampires series and is as riveting as the first, Blood Groove. I strongly recommend that you read the books in order. A dark tale with loads of gore, tons of violence and outright racism, it is paranormal horror in a historic setting and will not appeal to everyone. For me, it was a captivating read that I could not put down.
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The cover put me off some, but I was pleasantly surprised. These are not normal rotting, flesh-eating, brain-sucking zombies. They have brain power along with their brawn. In addition to zombies, all three stories in this anthology are full of hot gay sex and have good doses of humor. While the sex is described in detail, it is always between caring adults and emotionally-charged. Read More »
Turning a haunted mansion into a Halloween show for charity, Corey encounters the ghost of a man rumored to have been murdered there by his jealous lover. He fixes on Corey, making her blood boil and her body turn ice cold. Of course, Landon and his cousin Keith are there to warm her up, which Corey hopes will set the tormented soul free.
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With an inheritance from her parents, Tommi McColl leaves Manhattan for a fresh start in Charlotte, West Virginia. She is determined to buy a home and then open a bookstore. Undaunted by rumors that the house she loves is haunted, she makes a deal and moves in.
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Ambrus, a centuries old vampire, is attracted to young Edward on a WWI battlefield. Edward is newly turned and fighting it. As the two men meet several times over many decades, Ms. London uses each encounter to build her characters and develop their relationship. Read More »
Alexandra Leveau, a descendant of a voodoo high priestess, is living at home in rural New York with her great uncle after graduating from college. Vadim Blerinca, a centuries old vampire, is a newbie in town who grabs Alex’s attention. These two have a history that gives their story an interesting twist while adding suspense as well as a creepiness factor.
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Taking up where “Bunny Tails: Splitting Hares” left off, Ouida is being shared by Vance and three of his lieutenants as decreed by their pack leader. A good time is being had by all, but Xen is growing more attached to Ouida though Vance has claimed her as his mate. Ouida loves the playfulness in Vance but discovers a new side of herself that finds the dark, commanding side of Xen attractive. When this love triangle turns ugly, can there be a happy ending?
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This story’s heroine is Hailey Saunders, a middle-aged widow who has conversations with her dead husband to whom she has remained faithful since he was swept off his fishing trawler and drowned 15 years ago. In spite of Hailey’s fear of the sea, she goes on a seven-day Caribbean cruise with her sister Megan. Hailey is drawn to Alan Campbell, a hunky Scotsman who is an officer on the ship, and to Karl deGroot, a distinguished gentleman from Holland. Read More »
Dean Rynes, a wolf-shifter, is Senator John Boutwell’s bodyguard only because of their past friendship. When a bomb ends the senator’s life as he is leaving his latest hooker, Dean is assigned to guard the senator’s widow. For years, Dean fought his attraction to Belinda Boutwell while she suffered her husband’s rejection and infidelity. Now as they give in to their desires, Belinda learns that Dean is the wolf she has seen in her dreams. She feels safe with Dean but knows from her visions that the bomber is still out there and this time he wants her.
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This story was previously published in Things That Go Bump in the Night IV. Although it has the same setting as Ms. Raine’s Talisman Bay series, this one works as a stand-alone.
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Legend of the White Wolf
, the fourth book in Ms. Spear’s Wolf series, can be read as a stand-alone, but I recommend that you meet the rest of her shifters in Heart of the Wolf
, Destiny of the Wolf, and To To Tempt the Wolf.
Faith O’Malley, a forensic scientist, is going after her run-away boyfriend, Hilson. When he left, he stole her father’s research paper, not her heart. The only thing Faith knows about the paper is that her father wrote it while in Maine’s snowy wilderness and that he wants it back desperately. Read More »
The woman called Spyder is cursed with an unrelenting need to have sex or go mad. So far, her partners have always ended up dead, but she hopes to eventually find one who can be her lover for life. When Spyder goes out to a local club, the cop tailing her follows and ends up saving her from an angry, abusive drunk. Read More »
This anthology shows a totally different side of zombies and brings these nighttime creatures into the light of day.
Bring Out Your Dead by Katie MacAlister – 3.0: This story was previously published in the 2006 anthology Just One Sip. The main characters, Ysabelle and Sebastian, are also in Ms MacAlister’s Dark Ones series. Though I have not read the series, I still enjoyed this story. The beginning is slow, but things start to move when some quirky paranormals get involved and a string of entertaining events follow. I would have liked this story so much more without the mangled hybrid of French and English used by one character. I found her conversations repetitively annoying. Read More »
This is Book three in Ms Fox’s Demon Slayer series. It refers to past events with enough details that it can be a standalone read, but I strongly recommend that you share the main characters’ past adventures by starting with Books one and two, The Accidental Demon Slayer
and The Dangerous Book for Demon Slayers.
Lizzie Brown, demon slayer for just two months, finally has a family of people who love her. Maybe people is not the right word. Pirate is her talking Jack Russell terrier, but the furry chatterbox does love her with all his heart. Read More »
Rody is a coyote shifter banished from his pack for an offense he did not commit. Wounded and weary from a fight with his pack leader, Rody finds shelter in a park ranger’s cabin. When Jeff returns to his cabin, he senses another presence. Jeff had heard the Comanche tales of the Shifting Brethen but not one of his people has seen a shifter for over 200 years. Now, he is about to not only witness a shifting but also play an important role in his park’s coyote pack.
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When werewolf Vance saved Ouida from being gang raped, he had known this big, beautiful black woman was his lifemate. Being pushed to get ready for an appointment with Westyn, the pack’s alpha, Ouida sobs over her unruly hair. Vance opens his arms to offer comfort that quickly escalates into burning need and flaming sex. Read More »
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