The humans need to learn the gifts of the wolves, and the
wolves promised long ago to help the humans not only with
hunting and surviving, but also with maintaining the great
Balance. However, every time the wolves and humans try to
live together, they end up fighting. Kaala's Read more...
Once again, Mercedes Lackey has created a rich, lush
depiction of England's Elemental Masters, combining
elemental magic, fantastic creatures, coming-of-age
elements, and the realities of war.
Renounced by her father, Susanne Whitestone has been raised
by the servants around her; they've tried their hardest to
teach Read more...
SWEET DREAMS is a collection of 20 tales developed to
explore the dangerous side of erotica in ways that couples
can easily emulate them. The stories are explicit and often
interesting, and they deliver what they advertise:
dangerously sexy situations that may titillate many
fantasies and inspire some action for Read more...
Drina Argenis has been sent to babysit and guard a teenage
vampire, so she won't get hurt or captured, and also so she
won't decide to run away to see her family, whose memories
of her and her sister have been altered. However, Stephanie
has amazing mental powers Read more...
One of the early Dirk and Steele novels (published in
2008), THE LAST TWILIGHT brings together Dr. Rikki Kinn and
Amiri in the Congo, where multiple factions fight for
medical miracles, sometimes trampling human rights far and
wide. Rikki knows what it is to be held at the mercy of Read more...
Mallory doesn't know what to think when her boyfriend takes
her to a burlesque club for her birthday; it seems more
like a present for him than for her. However, as she starts
getting closer to dancer Bette Noir, originally for Alec's
article about burlesque, she begins to Read more...
This is a tight anthology similar to
Steampunk'd. 16 tales of romance and steampunk style
speculation fill the pages to entice the reader. Although
the format is perfect for being able to fit the stories
within one's daily life, it is hard to imagine not joyously Read more...
When Jaxon Law of the Alpha Pack--former Navy Seal wolf
shifters with other special abilities--last chose to trust
a beautiful woman, a mission ended in death and heartbreak.
Now that he's faced with his potential Bondmate, Jax has
another difficult choice: should he make her his, an Read more...
Not only did Gabriel want to find Abby, the woman who'd run
from him, he wants to find solace from the crazy world.
However, with governmentally-trained agents called
Shredders seeking to kill all the preternaturals left in
the country, this lone vampire knows his possibility of
redemption or Read more...
Trace Huntsman did not want to be the landlord for anyone,
much less Kenzie and Matt's victimized and displaced
sister, Fiona. Time travellers have to get used to being a
part of society, but after her abuse and subsequent ages as
a hawk, Fiona needs socialization. However, she fears Read more...
Confronting one's own mortality comes in many forms. For
some, it is seeing the first wrinkle. For others, it is
when friends and loved ones face illness and death. For
Sunshine, a symbol of her mortality is a single white hair.
Some women would shoo dark thoughts aside or Read more...
For readers who want their vampires domesticated, redeemed
by the love of a good woman, or engaging in playful-but-
clean romps under pressed sheets---please turn around and
return to the YA section, for here there be monsters.
Although Xavier, a former fat and blind slob who failed
miserably Read more...
Although Jillian has stopgap measures to try to control the
poison that makes her blood smell delicious -and fatal- to
vampires, she is still dying; although her companion, the
dhampyr Declan, takes a serum to control the darker side of
his vampiric urges, the rage within threatens to spill out Read more...
Laurell K. Hamilton almost originated the noir female
protagonist in urban fantasy. Over the years, the works
have sometimes strayed from "the mystery" into "the sex."
Although still steamy and ripe with layers of relationship
elements, HIT LIST seems aimed at readers who love Anita
Blake when she's hip Read more...
Gabi Stevens's novel, AS YOU WISH, pulls the reader in
quickly---I'll admit to doing a brief scan of the first few
pages to decide when to read the work and finding myself
with chilled coffee and tired knees since I forgot to sit
down! The characterization is Read more...
Kitala Bell learned long ago not to engage the people whose
deaths she foresaw. She knew they wouldn't believe her or
would think she was crazy. Kit just has to go through life
with as little human contact as possible, just her and her
music. However, one night after Read more...
Lynn Kurland's novels are just ridiculously good. They're
like popcorn, but more substantial. Lynn Kurland's novels
are like a pan of warm, gooey, chocolate brownies. ONE MAGIC
MOMENT is no different. For readers who are already
fans of her excellent romances depicting various time-
traveling characters and Read more...
Val used to have possession of the Encyclopedia Magicka.
Now, everyone in the paranormal world wants it. She didn't
feel any ill effects from her long exposure to the book,
but the annoyingly-likeable Trevor says that only a trained
Keeper, like himself, may find and maintain it. Meanwhile Read more...
Carly's always been the good girl, the sweet one, the
straight-laced one. That's why she sometimes takes trips to
a city far away from her close-knit small community:
sometimes, a girl's gotta let loose! However, after a
sinfully hot night with two men, Carly's Read more...
Sienna Lauren is a cardinal X, the highest level psychic
assassin bred to belong to PsyNet by a psychotic killer.
However, Sienna and her family have dropped out of PsyNet,
continue to try to learn how to manage the new emotions
they are finally allowed to feel, and live in Read more...
Vicky Gilpin
Dr. Vicky Gilpin teaches Composition,
Literature, and other courses at Cerro
Gordo High School, Millikin University,
and Richland Community College. She
recently took the course Vampires in
Literature and Film through Harvard
University Extension School and teaches
an English 101 course with the theme of
vampires. When she's not teaching,
reading, writing, and taking courses,
she spends time with her husband and
their six animals.
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