Summer Paranormal Romance Suggestions

Paranormal, June 2010 BEAST BEHAVING BADLY, Shelly Laurenston (Brava, May 25, 2010,$14.00) Some men just have more to offer. Like Bo Novikov, the hard-muscled shape- shifter hero of this wildly funny, deeply sexy new novel from Shelly Laurenston. Ten years after Blayne Thorpe first encountered Bo Novikov, she still can’t get the smooth-talking shifter out of her head. Now he’s shadowing her in New York—all seven-plus feet of him—determined to protect her from stalkers who want to use her in shifter dogfights. Even if he has to drag her off to an isolated Maine town where the only neighbors are other bears almost as crazy as he is. ENEMY LOVER, Karin Harlow (Pocket, 05/25/10, $7.99) It’s Jax Cassidy’s first mission for L.O.S.T.—one that will give the former cop who went rogue a chance to prove herself. Her assignment: gain the trust of assassin Marcus Cross . . . eliminate him . . . then take down Marcus’s mentor, Joseph Lazarus, a man with a bold eye on the White House. Left for dead by his platoon in the violent hills of Afghanistan, Special Ops sniper Marcus Cross was given a second chance at life. His newly heightened skills make him the perfect killing machine, and as Lazarus’s right-hand man, he’s quickly rising to the top of his dark empire, purging enemies with speed and precision. Only when dangerous beauty Jax Cassidy is sent to bring him in does he begin to question Lazarus’s motives and his own actions. But when Jax’s life is threatened by the one thing that can destroy them both, Marcus must make a bitter choice—her death or his. MASKED BY MOONLIGHT, Nancy Gideon (Pocket, 05/25/10, $7.99) In this stunning first book from Nancy Gideon’s sizzling new series, a tenacious cop and her shape- shifting enemy sacrifice everything for forbidden desire. New Orleans homicide detective Charlotte Caissie is dedicated to bringing down the crime boss responsible for her father’s murder. Using Jimmy Legere’s mysterious and irresistible right-hand man is a dangerous gamble, and not only due to his reputation as more monster than man. Rescued from the swamps as a child, Max exists silently in Legere’s shadow, heeding only his voice—until Charlotte Caissie awakens his emotions and tests his loyalties. Stepping outside his cautious rules threatens more than just his heart. ASSASSIN’S HONOR, Monica Burns (Berkley, June 1, 2010, $15.00) (An Order of the Sicari Novel) Archeologist Emma Zale sees the past when she touches relics. It’s how she uncovered evidence of an ancient order of assassins—the Sicari. When a sinfully dark stranger shows up on her Chicago doorstep demanding an artifact she doesn’t have, he drags her into a world where telekinesis and empaths—someone who can sense the emotions of others—are the norm. Now someone wants her dead, and her only hope of survival is an assassin who’s every bit as dangerous to her body as he is to her heart. LOVE ME FOREVER, Rosemary Laurey, (Zebra, June 1, 2010, $6.99) All single mother Stella Schwartz meant to do was let her son, Sam, browse through books at Dixie’s Vampire Emporium. She hadn’t counted on the shop assistant, Justin Corvis, being a dark-eyed super-hunk with the kind of charismatic English accent that would make her heart skip a beat. When Justin smiles at her, it’s as if he’s known her forever. And when he asks for her phone number—Stella can’t help wanting the thrill to last for eternity. For there’s something dangerously different about Justin Corvus…different and irresistible.