December 1, 2008

Happy holidays! I love this time year. In fact, I love everything about it! I don’t know about you, but I give a lot of books for presents, everything from cookbooks for the mother-in-law to manga comics for the nephews. I have to share my love of books. It’s just the way I’m made.

I have some wonderful books to share with you this month. Maybe you’ll want to pick some up for gifts or just to read during those quiet times. (Smile, like we have any quiet time this year.)

Midnight Sins is the second book in my friend Cynthia Eden’s trilogy. She says, “When I originally came up with the idea for this story, I thought of it as Basic Instinct meets The X-Files. The hero of my story, Detective Todd Brooks, is on the hunt for a serial killer- -he just never expects to fall for his chief suspect. And the man certainly never expects to discover that Cara Maloan is a succubus...”

Jasmine Haynes has a great new anthology, Unlaced, out with Jaci Burton, Joey W. Hill and Denise Rossetti. “My editor invited me to do an anthology about corsets,” Haynes says. “Sure, I said, then hung up frantically searching for a story. At the time, my husband was setting up to take my updated author photo. He came up with the idea! Why didn’t I write about an amateur photographer who takes erotic photos of a woman in a corset...and go from there.”

Wolf Tales VII is Kate Douglas’ new one about Chanku who are being attacked by all sides. “Who is leading the attacks, and why? When uber-alpha Anton Cheval calls his people together, their combined sexual energy leads to unexpected results and an increase in unexplained powers- -with frightening consequences,” says Douglas. “Will the Chanku survive a future that puts all their lives at risk?”

Free Pass, from Elizabeth Scott, is about couples that offer each other a none-time fling with a stranger. When each of them pursues their fantasy, there are surprising results. “So much of what is out there is written by men for men,” says Scott. “I created a book from a woman's perspective... it explores erotic fantasies with a tantalizing "what if?" It was so much fun to write, because I turned off my inner censor and let the naughty storyline take me for a ride!

In Nora’s Soul, by Margay Leah Justice, all hell breaks out, for real. It’s what happens when angels of light and dark collide on Earth. “This was the book that got inside my head and wouldn't leave,” she says. “I had to write it due to the persistence of one particular character named Dante. He wouldn't leave me alone until I got it right.

As a lieutenant of the Federation military, Sera Ayers is accustomed to giving orders, not taking them in Undercover, by Lauren Dane. Now she must obey the one man she can't stand—and can't stop thinking about. “With the enemy Imperialists gaining ground, a covert team is assembled by Ash Walker,” says Dane. “Ten years before, Sera had lovingly submitted to Ash's dominance in the bedroom. But when he was forced into a political marriage, she refused to play mistress. His marriage now over, Ash wants Sera on his team—and back in his bed.

Until next month...Candy

Candy is a nationally syndicated entertainment columnist, who has interviewed just about every celebrity there is in Hollywood and written thousands of articles. She is the author of the Charmed & Dangerous series including Charmed & Ready Charmed & Dangerous, Charmed & Deadly, and Like A Charm. Her latest book The Demon King and I is available now!

Her non-fiction prose includes Joss Whedon: The Genius Behind Buffy, and essays in Alias Assumed: Sex, Lies and SD-6, and Five Seasons of Angel. She's also the entertainment critic providing the latest on TV, film and celebs for the radio station 96.3 KSCS. And she's the managing editor for FYI Television.

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