What can I say about Shards of Hope-Nalini Singh is unstoppable. Fourteen books into her Psy/Changeling series and she still manages to keep the action heart-pounding and the relationships fresh. One of my main issues with series that last this long is that it seems as though the author has a Mad Libs set aside for each new book and he/she simply adds a new name or place to the scenario. Read More »

Sydney considers herself cursed because she is just too damn agreeable, particularly when her Grandmother, Mamaw, has a request-–strike that, an order. Sydney just cannot say no to the woman who raised her and her sister, and Mamaw knows it. This particular request involves the use of Sydney’s special talent, dreaming. The family is full of members with special gifts. They all come from New Orleans, after all, a bastion of “special” people. Read More »

Kendall Moorhead is having terrifying visions of her own death. Her boyfriend, Jason, thinks she needs to slow down with her ghost hunting, but Kendall knows that her gift was meant to help people. When the Mayor starts complaining about aches and pains, Kendall somehow senses that the Mayor’s problems are tied to an unhappy spirit. Kendall’s spirit guide, Emily, warns Kendall that she should Read More »

Alaya is a very young (eighteen-year-old) heart surgeon who is devastated at the loss of a young patient. Though she has been operating for the past two years, the death of this little boy has shaken her to the core. After talking with the head physician of the hospital, he encourages her to take a few months off and possibly head back to her hometown. Alaya has not been home in many years. The death of her parents when she was only five years old left her with the home estate and over a billion dollars, but no true family to speak of. Read More »

Chief Superintendent Frankford Lucas was well aware of his importance to the police force and also of his tenuous hold on reality. After a brief stint in a mental institution in his younger years, Frankford tried his best to keep his visions and intuitions from interfering with his everyday life. When he slept, however, his dreams would take him along The Quiet Road where he learned how to tap in to his hidden powers and assure his success as the Chief. As Read More »

Veronica Austin has left her father and The Brotherhood behind, determined to follow the trail where her mother disappeared twenty years before. That trail leads to Minneapolis and The Dark Sepulcher, a dance club and haven for supernaturals, particularly the Deamhan. Somewhat of a cross between vampires and demons, the Deamhan come in four different varieties, each living off of some form of human psychic energy. Some Deamhan are less of an immediate threat, but Veronica knows all are Read More »

Jared Helm just moved into town. He is a talented, easy going, likeable guy who quickly makes friends at the new school. There is something about Jared that is vastly different than his new classmates, though: Jared travels out-of-body when he sleeps, seeing events that are actually happening long distances away while his physical body is still at home in his bed. He eventually learns that it generally happens when someone needs help or in situations that change for the better with his discoveries. Because of his unique ability, Jared is drawn to other people who are a bit unusual. One night, his “spirit self” journeys to an eerie castle near an ocean, but an invisible barrier keeps him from exploring. Read More »

Life has been going pretty well for telepath and consultant to the police, Adam Ward. He and Isabella Cherabino, his work partner he has long been in love with, have been dating for four months. Vacant, book four in the superb Mindspace series, opens with the couple attending a rock concert (a very different experience for Adam, given the cacophony of minds all around him), and they leave the venue satisfied and happy. The good feelings quickly evaporate when the two come upon a very aggressive t-shirt vendor and his friend a few streets down from the arena, and a brief scuffle ensues, during which Isabella identifies herself as a police officer, and shortly thereafter she and Adam leave. Read More »

After working a disturbing and emotional missing person’s case that destroys her marriage, psychic Mira Tejedor is relieved to be asked to help with a boy who has stopped talking. Anthony Faircloth has not spoken in over a month, and doctors can find nothing wrong with him but his condition is worsening. Anthony’s mother decides that maybe Mira can help where doctors have failed. On her first meeting with Anthony, Mira finds herself actually inside Anthony’s mind, something that has never happened to her before. Read More »

The Ghost Ops were a small, elite team of Special Operators who do the ultimate in risky, dirty jobs. Coming from a variety of military branches, each brings exceptional skills, tightly focused determination, and all share a unique background. None have family ties or had any semblance of a normal upbringing. It was this very lack that made them ideal candidates for Ghost Ops because their personal identity is removed from the system – all systems. They no longer exist in the databases of the world and live and work completely undercover and non-existent.
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Marnie is contacted by the local authorities in Ontario, Canada to help find a missing woman. Marnie uses her ‘blue-sense’ psychic abilities to trace the last events of the woman’s life before she disappears, and she discovers a connection to a sadistic serial killer who ‘collects’ women with the help of her “Cold Company” a 450 year-old revenant (what we call a Read More »

Beginning a few weeks after the events of the previous installment, Marked, book three in the Mindscape Investigations series, finds Adam Ward, telepath consultant to the police department, leaving yet another successful interrogation to go help Isabella Cherabino, his partner and not-so-secret crush, with a murder case. On his way, Adam receives a message to call Kara, his ex-fiancée, immediately. The two have a recent history of helping each other out when necessary, so Adam decides he will return the call a bit later. Read More »

Verity Price and Dominic DeLuca return in the next installment of the InCryptid Series. After helping the dragon princesses find their dragon, the city remains relatively quiet for a few days. Then the Covenant of St. George sends a team to evaluate the job Dominic is doing and all hell breaks out. Read More »

All Verity Price wants is to be able to pursue a ballroom dancing career, and was even on a television reality show about it. However, her family is on the shoot-to-kill list of the Covenant of St. George for taking the side of cryptids, which is her other career path. The Price family are cryptozoologists, which involves the study of things like boogeymen, lindworms, dragon princesses, and things that go bump in the night. And they even have their own colony of Aeslin mice. Read More »

Nightshade is always full of mysteries to solve. What better place for psychic teen Daisy Giordano and her equally gifted sisters and mother to call home. In Dead Is Just a Rumor the 4th installment of Marlene Perez’s Dead Is series, someone is blackmailing some of the supernatural inhabitants of the town and Daisy is determined to find out who is responsible. Juggling her sleuthing with helping her best friend, Sam, plan for the town’s anniversary gala, helping her Read More »

It’s Daisy Giordano’s senior year and she is looking forward to prom and graduation and all the other fun things senior year brings with it. Of course, she has got other things on her plate as well like trying to break the enchantment that turned young lovers into a pig and a prophetic jukebox. She promised Lil, AKA the jukebox, she would find some way to release her, and once Daisy sets her mind to solving a mystery, there is no stopping her. Read More »

What happens when you mix a weather-controlling witch with a vampire? Complete and utter pandemonium, to say the least. A vampire losing his urge to feed, a witch losing the ability to control her powers, and so much more. And then when you add in a handful of Lycans, you’ll soon be wondering how London ever survived.
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What is the best way to help a vampire find his reason for being, again? Re-introduce him to that incorrigible yet adorable little nature witch he grew up with, of course! Enter Sorcha, beautiful and mischievous little witch that she is. Although she has her sights set on quite a different kind of creature, a vampire might just be what she needs, after all…
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A wrong turn leads photographer Kadie Andrews to the little town of Morgan Creek, WY. Familiar with ghosts towns of the Southwest, Kadie knows that something is not quite right in Morgan Creek from its quirky inhabitants to the sinister air it takes on at night. What is worse is that Kadie quickly discovers that there is no way out of town, vampires are real and Kadie has captured the attention of Master Vampire Raylan Saintcrow. Read More »

The Wild Invitation is an anthology that I have been looking forward to; I loved all the small stories that we finally get together in one book. I’ll try to make the plot summaries brief.

“Beat of Temptation” This is Tamsyn and Nathan’s tale. It’s a fantastic backstory to not just Tammy and Nate’s story but also Lucas’s parents’ history. It’s bittersweet, and I loved seeing the strong couple and how they got their roots. Read More »