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October Reads Worth Falling For

Danger, desire, second chances, and unexpected romanceβ€”discover this month’s Fresh Fiction Featured Books.

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She’s the lady everyone overlooks. He’s the prince who can’t look away.

MARKED

Marked, May 2010
Eternal Guardians #1
by Elisabeth Naughton

Love Spell
Featuring: Casey Simopolous; Theron
336 pages
ISBN: 0505528223
EAN: 9780505528223
Kindle: B003IS76BM
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
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"An incredibly fresh spin on Greek Mythology that is full of humor, action and passion."

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MARKED
Elisabeth Naughton

Reviewed by Mandy Burns
Posted April 19, 2010

Romance Paranormal

Casey Simopolous is trying to make her move to her deceased grandmother's hometown a permanent one, but so far all she has done is work herself to death. During the day, she runs the local bookstore, which she loves dearly, and at night, she works at a strip club waiting tables. Recently she has been feeling a little rundown; she isn't sleeping well and hasn't been able to eat. One night at the club, her symptoms are peaking to a point where she becomes dizzy, and a very large handsome man comes to her rescue. Later she is able to save him when he is attacked by creatures that can't be real. Casey takes him home to heal from his wounds and ends up experiencing an almost one-night stand. She has no idea how much her world is turning upside down.

Theron, descendant of Heracles and leader of the Argonauts, has followed his future Queen and wife to a human strip club and for the life of him he can't figure out why she is there. As he carries her out of the club, they are surrounded by daemons sent by a Goddess to destroy the future Queen of Argolea so she can rule their realm. Theron uses the last of his power reserve to send his fiancΓ© home, which leaves him vulnerable to the daemons. Then a human woman comes to his rescue, scares off the creatures and takes him to her home to heal. The emotions she evokes in him are dangerous and impossible to ignore until he sees her mark.

Elisabeth Naughton's MARKED gives an incredibly fresh spin on Greek Mythology that is full of humor, action, passion and a storyline that keeps you from putting down the book. I'm totally hooked!

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SUMMARY

THERON – Dark haired, duty bound and deceptively deadly. He’s the leader of the Argonauts, an elite group of guardians that defends the immortal realm from threats of the Underworld. From the moment he walked into the club, Casey knew this guy was different. Men like that just didn’t exist in real lifeβ€”silky shoulder-length hair, chest impossibly broad, and a predatory manner that just screamed dark and dangerous. He was looking for something. Her. She was the one. She had the mark. Casey had to die so his kind could live, and it was Theron’s duty to bring her in. But even as a 200-year-old descendent of Hercules, he wasn’t strong enough to resist the pull in her fathomless eyes, to tear himself away from the heat of her body. As war with the Underworld nears, someone will have to make the ultimate sacrifice.

EXCERPT

LOSING IT ALL Theron brushed a finger down Acacia’s cheek, watched her back rise and fall in deep sleep. Studied the way her lashes formed spiky crescent shapes on her pale cheeks. Her courage still awed him. Last night she’d been ready to take him on. There was no other female in the universe who would dare stand up to him when he was in one of his moods, but it hadn’t stopped her. She was fearless. And as selfless as he’d told the king. Everything he’d never wanted but now couldn’t imagine living without. He’d known she was his from the first taste. Long before he’d ever slid deep inside her. If he’d been more in tune with his humanity, he would have recognized it the first time he’d kissed her back in her small house. But he hadn’t. Because he’d needed her to unlock that side of him he’d always repressed. She was his curse. His soul mate. His life. And there wasn’t a damn thing he could do to keep her from dying.

BOOK SERIES

Eternal Guardians

Marked
MARKED
#1.0 β€’ May 2010
Entwined
ENTWINED
#2.0 β€’ August 2010
Tempted
TEMPTED
#3.0 β€’ September 2011
Enraptured
ENRAPTURED
#4.0 β€’ April 2012