It's hotter than Hades (or maybe Hades is cold?) but not a reason to slow down
on catching up with these delightful paranormal romances.
WATER
BOUND, Christine
Feehan (Jove, July 2010, $7.99)
Off the shores of Sea Haven, a beautiful diver rescues a man from drowning, a
man with no memory of who he is-or why he seems to possess the violent
instincts of a trained killer. But soon, he and his savior will be engulfed in
a storm of dizzying passion and inescapable danger.
CAPTURED
BY MOONLIGHT, Nancy
Gideon (Random House, July 2010, $7.99)
Detective Charlotte Caissie is growing used to the secrets that come with
loving the mysterious leader of a shape-shifter clan. But that doesn't mean she
has to like it. She's avoided complications of the heart all her life, but when
it comes to irresistible Max Savoie, she'll force the truth out of him if she
has to. Hunted by the deadly trackers his nefarious father warned him about,
Max is transforming into a preternatural force he can't explain and Charlotte
will never understand. He's tempting the dangerous limits of their love, but
it's her curiosity that could get them both killed.
CHAINS OF
ICE, Christina
Dodd (signet, July 2010,$ 7.99, The Chosen Ones )
As a wildlife observer in the untamed mountains, Genny Valente had no idea that
a beast more fearsome than any leopard lurked in the forest-a man, one of the
Chosen Ones, betrayed by his gift and tormented by his memories. John Powell
fled his fate and his duty, yet in Genny he sees his one chance for redemption.
He will stalk her, kidnap her, and love her as only a savage can.
CUPID
CATS by Katie
MacAlister, Vicki
Lewis Thompson, and Connie Brockway (Eclipse, July 2010, $7.99)
This one-of-a-kind all-original anthology features stories by three bestselling
superstar authors starring the mysterious, mischievous, and magical matchmaking
felines of the Cupid Cats Animal Shelter, who assist their owners in finding
romance and true love.
UNCHAINED, Sharon Ashwood (Eclipse, July 2010, $7.99, The Dark
Forgotten)
Faced with a custody battle for her daughter, monster-killer Ashe Carver has
hung up her stakes and taken a job at the public library. But then after
centuries guarding a supernatural prison, the dashing Captain Reynard strides
into her world. He has only weeks to live unless Ashe finds the thief who took
his soul—and he’s too drop-dead gorgeous to die.
COLD
SIGHT, Leslie
Parrish (Eclipse, July 2010, $7.99, Extrasensory Agents)
An exciting new paranormal romantic suspense from the author of the black cats
series- Leslie Parrish introduces Extrasensory Agents, a band of psychic
investigators interested only in the cases nobody else wants-the coldest ones
cold sight. After being made a scapegoat in a botched investigation that led to
a child’s death, Aidan McConnell became a recluse. Still, as a favor to an old
friend, Aidan will help on the occasional ESA case. Reporter Lexie Nolan has a
nose for news—and she believes a serial killer has been targeting teen girls
around Savannah, but no one believes her. So she turns to the new paranormal
detective agency and the sexy, mysterious Aidan for help.
DOUBLE
DATING WITH THE DEAD, Karen Kelley (Brava, July 2010, $6.99)
Psychic Selena James is having the kind of week that makes her happy to talk to
the dead. First, famously skeptical writer, Trent Sanders, called her
delusional on TV. Next, her outraged mother publicly challenged him to spend
two weeks with Selena at the haunted Garvey Hotel. Now, if Selena can’t prove
ghosts exist, she’ll answer to Trent’s private wager: one night in his bed.
Trent Sanders doesn’t believe in anything he can’t see, taste, or touch, and
what he sees right now he would definitely enjoy tasting and touching. But as
things move from “haunted” to extremely hot, Trent’s starting to believe some
things in life just can’t be explained
BE MINE
FOREVER, Rosemary
Laurey (Kensington, July 2010, $6.99)
Tom Kyd has smoldering eyes, a sculpted body, and supernatural staying power-
even for a vampire. He also thinks he knows best about everything-including how
to figure out who Angela Ryan was before he and his clan rescued her from a
mysterious attack that stole her memory. But whoever she is, Tom wants her.
MY SOUL
TO KEEP, Sharie Kohler (Random House, August 2010, $7.99, Moon
Chasers)
Sharie Kohler dazzles
with the dark, sensual world of the Moon Chasers, where two half-breed lycans
are locked in deadly combat over the fate of the world—and their own hearts.
Sorcha is no longer the pitiful teenage orphan who roamed the streets of Paris
after her pack was destroyed. But despite all she now has-wealth, beauty,
strength-she is still haunted by memories of Jonah, her fellow half-breed who
broke her innocent young heart years before, and who now believes her dead.
Still devastated over the girl he failed, Jonah has found purpose as a demon
slayer. When a stranger starts stalking the world's most powerful demon witch,
he is assigned to kill the huntress before her meddling releases an evil that
threatens all mankind. Face-to-face again at last, can Sorcha and Jonah put
their anger and hurt behind them to defeat the darkness . . . and dare they
hope to find a love neither dreamed possible?
DEMON
FROM THE DARK, Kresley
Cole (Random House, August 2010, $7.99)
From New York Times bestselling author Kresley Cole comes this scorching tale
of a demon outcast poisoned with vampire blood and the vulnerable young witch
he vows to protect-even from himself. Malkom Slaine-tormented by his sordid
past and racked by vampiric hungers, he's pushed to the brink by the green-eyed
beauty under his guard.
Carrow Graie-hiding her own sorrows, she lives only for the next party or
prank. Until she meets a tortured warrior worth saving. In order for Malkom and
Carrow to survive, he must unleash both the demon and vampire inside him.
BURNING
UP, Angela Knight,
Nalini Singh, Virginia Kantra, and Meljean Brook (Berkley
Sensation, August 2010, $7.99)
Angela Knight pairs a vampire warrior and his seductive captor in a battle
against demonic predators. Nalini Singh returns to the world of her Psy-
Changeling series as a woman in lethal danger finds an unlikely protector-and
lover.
Virginia Kantra continues the haunting tales of the Children of the Sea in her
story of a wounded soldier rescued by an enigmatic young woman. Meljean Brook
launches a bold new steampunk series about a woman who strikes a provocative-
and terrifying-bargain for freedom.
BEDEVILED
ANGEL, Annette
Blair (Berkley Sensation, August 2010, $7.99, Works Like Magick)
At the Works Like Magick Employment Agency in Salem, Massachusetts, matching
clients in need with magical temps is a piece of cake, especially since sexy
Chance Gordricson also happens to be heaven-sent. He’s Kenya Saint- Denis’s
guardian angel. And when he’s hired to keep an eye on her and the two surrogate
children she’s become saddled with, he just might fall prey to temptation.
WHISPER
KISS, Deborah
Cooke (NAL, August 2010, $7.99, Dragonfire)
For millennia, the shape-shifting dragon warriors known as the Pyr have
commanded the four elements and guarded the earth’s treasures. But now the
final reckoning between the Pyr and the dreaded Slayers is about to begin...
Niall Talbot has volunteered to hunt down and destroy all the remaining shadow
dragons before they can wreak more havoc. But fate has placed him in the hands
of Rox, an unconventional tattoo artist who doesn’t even flinch when a shape-
shifting dragon warrior suddenly appears on her doorstep. And as a woman who
follows her heart in matters of passion, she makes the perfect mate for a
firestorm with Niall.
SIREN'S
CALL, Devyn Quinn
(NAL, August 2010, $7.99, Dark Tides)
A new paranormal romance series that follows desire into the depths of the
Ocean. Lighthouse keeper Tessa Lonike savors her solitude on Little Mer, an
island off the coast of Maine, guarding her true identity as a mermaid. But
when Tessa spots a man thrashing around in the ice cold waters during a storm,
she must use her ability as a mermaid to pull him to shore. And a year later,
when Kenneth meets her again, he’s determined not to let Tessa slip away. But
when Tessa’s archaeologist ex-lover comes back to town with a clue to her
heritage, she may be forced to leave her happiness behind.
KISS OF
THE ROSE, Kate
Pearce (NAL, August 2010, $6.99, Tudor Vampire Chronicles)
First in a sexy new series that takes a bite out of the court of King Henry
VIII. Desperate to defeat King Richard III and gain the crown, Henry Tudor made
a pact with the Druids binding him and his heirs to the Druids’ struggle
against vampires. Ever since, the Llewellyns, a vampire-slaying family, have
been in the king’s employ. Now Henry VIII reigns, and his father’s bargain has
been almost forgotten—until bloodless corpses turn up in the king’s bedchamber.
To save the king, Vampire hunter Rosalind Llewellyn must form an uneasy
alliance with Druid slayer Sir Christopher Ellis. But soon, Rosalind must face
an unthinkable truth: that her sworn enemy may be her soul mate.
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