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If you are looking for a paranormal read, this is not it. There are no vampires, shapeshifters, fairies, elves or even a ghost, only two leaves that have the power to heal and bring back the recently dead. In this story, the leaves were used by Romain to bring back his abusive brother, Roul, after Roul’s wife is accused of poisoning him. Read More »

Toshi is an apprentice mapmaker in a seaside village. One evening, he is kidnapped by a Samurai in need of his skills. Toshi is taken out into the harbor and onto a boat that glows green and is crewed by skeletons. The Samurai Asaka is no ordinary man. He is dead and determined to finish his quest so he and his loyal crew can rest with honor.
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Joe (Takai) is half Japanese/half American. Since his mother’s death, he has pushed down his Japanese heritage until he is almost convinced he is as American as the next man. But in his soul, he knows it’s a lie and he aches to be whole. Sukura is everything he has spent his adult life denying, yet he cannot imagine a life without her.
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Randolf Lowe is a spy, a M15 agent assigned to follow and kill a mysterious woman rumored to be an assassin. Everywhere she goes, people die, but Randolf can’t find any proof that it’s her, so he refuses to kill her. He is suspended, pending an investigation, but his thoughts are filled with Stella.

Stella traded her humanity to save her dying father. Randolf was one of her targets; he was getting to close to the truth. By refusing to kill him, she disobeyed. Read More »

Amara has always had memories that belonged to another life. As teen Vampire souls trapped in human bodies, her friends explored their shared past and their need for blood. Now her friends are dying; someone knows about their Vampire past and wants them dead.
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When a handsome stranger comes into Autumn Moon’s acupuncture shop asking for the “elixir of life”, she thinks he’s crazy. Jairec’s not crazy, he’s cursed and has only days to find the cure. His souls have separated and he is becoming a chiang-shih, the Vampire of Chinese myth. But he’s not ready to give up on life. He fights the curse, drinking pig blood while he hunts for the man who cursed him and trying to convince Autumn to help. She is his destiny and has the cure.
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Jill Morfranna is a photographer on location in Scotland. While there, she checks out a castle and the nearby ring of Druid stones. The stones act as a portal to another realm, and Jill finds herself in a land populated by men with horns and feline shape-shifters. When one saves her from freezing to death, she tries to suspend her attraction; she needs to get home. Read More »

Jack Draper can’t sleep; he is haunted by dreams of a dragon. But not any dragon - a purple and very sexy shape-shifting dragon named Puff. His dreams always end in frustration and no sleep for the rest of the night. He takes a trip back to Wales, to the orphanage where he grew up, to try and settle his mind, never expecting to find the dragon of his dreams.
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When Marla becomes lost in the forest, the last thing she expects to find is elves, much less two of them, waiting for her.

Andy and Liam were sent to the outpost on Earth to wait for the next McLeigh, the mate of King Meaghim. The King has been in a magic-induced sleep while he waits for his Queen. Without a mate, the Realm stagnates and becomes barren. Read More »

Brock is an elite marine in the STA corps. Shot in the spine during a mission, he is saved by a beast that appears out of the jungle. It kills his attacker, then bites him. The bite saves his life. His body begins to heal, the paralysis disappears. But his sleep is haunted by nightmares and dreams, symbols and a woman whose voice he heard as he lay waiting to die in the jungle. His dreams lead him to Treva, a beautiful woman with a secret and the answers he craves.
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After learning his new employer, Turbo Blue, is being charged by the EPA for polluting and that he has to attend the hearing, Shaun doesn’t think his life can get much worse. Then LEAF, an environmental group, shows up, insisting they work with Turbo Blue on the clean up. The LEAF woman Shaun has to work with is Justine, his college sweetheart and the woman he never got over.
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Charlotte is a widow who came to Egypt with her brother to escape the oppression of London society, not realizing her brother has already sold her freedom to pay off his debts. As she explores Egypt, she longs to be as free as the mysterious lynx that follows their camp. When the guide takes an interest in her, she casts aside the rules of proper behavior and lets the woman inside awaken.
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In the present day, Calista is kidnapped to be the “fox” in a fox hunt. Naked and alone in the forest she runs pursued by dogs and hunters after her “tail”. To escape, she seeks refuge in a crack in the rocks…

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Dara is a healer caught in a war that claims her home and the only family she has ever known. She is forced to hide her talents or be exposed as a follower of the Goddess and face death. But she can’t leave the wounded men to die on the battlefield so she risks everything to help them. She saves a foreigner who fought on her side of the war and he swears a life debt, creating a bond between them that no man can break. Not even the demon-possessed King intent on taking over the world.
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Talon is an Angel of Retribution with a mission. His mentor and friend, Xerxes, has gone rogue, changed sides and is now killing humans. Talon must find him and give him two choices, penitence for his sins or death.

Rae is a detective hunting a killer who leaves no clues. Both are after the same person.

When Xerxes’s Gargoyles attack the crime scene, Talon rescues Rae. While she begins believing in Angels, he contemplates indulging in one of the seven deadly sins: lust. If he does, he will be weakened, but as they shelter in a neutral safe house, passion overrides good judgment.
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Claudia is haunted. For the past six years, a ghost named Nigel has been her friend and lover. In an effort to escape the hold he has over her, she goes to Berenike, Egypt where an archeological dig is under way. But at night, Nigel’s hold over her strengthens and his presence solidifies until she can almost touch him. By day, Claudia is drawn to Carlton, an experienced archeologist. The closer she gets to Carlton, the more desperate Nigel becomes.

I picked the twist early on, but that didn’t detract from enjoying the story. I would have liked to know more about Claudia’s psychic talent; it was touched on but never explored, and that could have been a lot of fun. There was just enough history about the emerald mines and Egypt to be interesting without it detracting from the romance between Carlton and Claudia.

Book Stats:

• Paperback: 80 pages
• Publisher: Red Rose Publishing (January 14, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1604359331
• ISBN-13: 978-1604359336

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Faith and Vice are part demon, part human. They work for The Guild protecting Humans from demons, and hunting down those Humans silly enough to summon a demon. Going after The Hands of Fate is their latest job. Killing is a way of life; their inner demon relishing the chance to be set free if only for a fight…or for sex. As Faith and Vice are mated, the two men depend on each other for life and love. Only Faith’s love keeps Vice from sliding over the edge into insanity, and Faith seems to relish the control he has over his partner.

Fast paced with plenty of demon killing action followed by lots of male on male action, this book really covers ground. And then leaves a little seed of doubt at the end that makes me hope there is a sequel, because if Faith and Vice break away from the Guild that controls their life, the life they were genetically engineered for, who knows what will happen?

Book Stats:

• e-book, digital format
• Publisher: Changeling Press
  
• Book Length: Novella
  
• Language: English
• ISBN: 978-1-60521-063-6

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Forbidden love and destiny clash when the Witch Elyesha and the Vampire Ben meet. The love that binds them can never be, so Ben leaves and spends a thousand years alone with his memories and the hope that Elyesha moved on and found a man who could give her what she needed to continue her line of witches: a child.

Elyesha has spent her magically extended life looking for Ben. Now she is dying, and Ben must make one last choice: make Elyesha a vampire, or watch the woman he loves die.

While sensuous, I found the start slow; it wasn’t until later in the story that I realized Ben was a vampire and why he couldn’t be with Elyesha. Also, I would have liked to have read a little about her quest to find Ben. “Foretaste of Forever” was an easy to read tale of love lost and found.

Book Stats:

• e-book, digital format
• Publisher: Wild Rose Press
• Language: English
• ISBN: n/a

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Flesh eating aliens, domestic violence, alcoholism, suicide - if you feel ill already, don’t read on. This book is filled with ick inducing moments.

The Kryszka live beneath the city, surfacing only to gather live meat, Humans, which they keep alive to feed off. The police find strange blood at the abduction scenes and everyone suspects aliens.

Harry is battling booze, his brother hits his wife until she is almost dead, and their sister, Becky, finds out from their dying mother that she is half alien. She wants to find out more about her real father: could he be one of the aliens terrorizing the city? Harry helps her, but then the family is targeted by the Kryszka for knowing too much. To survive, they will have to face their own personal demons.

The alien theory is accepted with barely a blink by the authorities, which I found hard to believe. The characters were believable as people but also unlikable. I struggled to connect with any of them, which is a shame as I never felt truly scared. Grossed out, yes; there were many times I wished I hadn’t eaten before reading The Dark Side of the Moon.

Book Stats:

• e-book, digital format
• Publisher: Aspen Mountain Press
  
• Language: English
• ISBN: 978-1-60168-141-6

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Angela had her life snatched away by the obsessive vampire Rory. He’s watched her since she was a child, and for her 18th birthday, gives her immortality and a thirst for blood. Confused and alone, she falls under his spell, but when madness finally claims Rory, she finds the strength to fight back and free herself from her obsessive lover. She goes in search of her past and discovers the boy she loved as a teenager still loves her. Angela feels unworthy and lies about what she has become. She seeks a way to avoid killing to sustain herself so she can face her old boyfriend with a clear conscious and have a chance at the life that was denied to her.

Blood Angel is about redemption and finding the will to be more than what you were made. It is a battle Angela faces daily. But in confronting her inner demons, she is able to put to bed those that haunt her past.

It is a touching story about ill fated love, second chances, and the darkness that dwells in everyone.

Book Stats:

e-book, digital format
Publisher: Amira Press
Length: Novella
ISBN: 978-1-934475-70-6

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