Nurse Carol Woods is sick of being penned up. She hated it
before she was turned into a werewolf, when the gray pack
was trying to keep her safe from the destiny she saw in her
psychic images, and she hates it after being turned into a
red werewolf. Now Read more...
Night Tracker Nyx, human by day and Drow come sundown, is
up-to-here with the sprite-related antics lately. It almost
seems like these unorganized pranksters have banded
together for some reason. When Nyx discovers the
conspiracies within conspiracies connected to the sprites'
behavior, dread chills every inch of Read more...
Jezebeth must seduce men to live, as well as to make her
quotas for Lilith, the Queen of Succubi and Incubi.
Therefore, when she is simultaneously called to Lilith,
betrayed to hunter-assassins and rescued by a horror
writer, she is startled, to say the least.
Although Jezebeth can transform Read more...
Patricia Briggs, author of the Alpha and Omega
novels and the Mercy Thompson novels, has re-released her
novice work, MASQUES, with some increased detail and re-
tweaking. A solid effort, the novel is enjoyable for those
longtime fans of her work as well as new fans.
Aralorn Read more...
The tale of Ellysetta Baristani and her trumate Rain, the
banished king and queen of the Fey, explodes in a fiery
conclusion in the richly-detailed CROWN OF CRYSTAL FLAME.
Although a fabulous book in its own right, the work would
probably make no sense to someone who has not Read more...
The world always needs another anthology of love stories
with which to warm ones bones on a chill autumn evening.
And zombie stories: those are always great for a creepy
thrill or a shudder of revulsion. Of course, the natural
progression would be an anthology of zombie love stories.
Whether Read more...
Petra Lang may have run afoul of the Alliance Tribunal for
using her curse and her gift to turn a vampire into a
monster, but she doesn't want to die. After hoping to be
rescued, she hopes never to be caught; in addition, she
hopes her rescuer never finds Read more...
Darcy Spenser was looking for a man to convince her well-to-
do and hovering mother to back off, so she did the
unthinkable: she lied to her mom and said she was seeing
someone. Darcy may have been looking for a man, but when
startled by a wolf and Read more...
Knowing you are the Beloved of a Dark One, destined to save
the soul of and be romantically linked with a lusty vampire
for eternity, would be great, right? Although not strictly
a normal human herself, Fran was first thrust into her role
as a Beloved when she was a Read more...
After the murder of her husband, Astrid Bramfield ran away
to the wilds of the Northwest Territory. No more would she
be an adventurer, trying to keep the magical Sources from
the Heirs of Albion. Instead, she resigns herself to the
hard lifestyle in the wild that forces her to Read more...
One might not categorize three steamy holiday romances
as "sweet," but that's exactly what these stories are.
McLane, Carr and Maynard combine forces to produce three
sensual, but sweet, stories.
In Hot Whisper, LuAnn McLane shows what
happens when Claire, a holiday-loving, family-bound Read more...
Eve Dallas barely takes a breath from a vacation with her
husband before catapulting into a string of weird murders
featuring unusual murder weapons. At first, the victims
seem to have no connection at all, but Eve is determined to
chisel through the evidence to discover why these victims
are Read more...
Caitrin Macleod usually does not leave the women who are
like her sisters, her coven. However, one of them needs
Caitrin's help, so she's a bit out of her element in
England. She's even more out of her element when the
handsome rogue Dashiel Thorpe nibbles on Read more...
Danice's friends have had some interesting changes
recently, so she is well aware of the Others among us. One
would think this knowledge would make it easier for
McIntyre Callahan to interact with her when her lawyerly
duties and his PI responsibilities start to clash.
However, that information just Read more...
Hugh is on a mission of murder: he is desperate to get
revenge on the swine who murdered his beloved older
brother, even if he has to travel through time to do it.
Hugh intends to kill his brother's murderer and take a
certain map back to his own Read more...
Vampires live in credenti (vampire communities) with
their own rules about behavior, dress and superstition.
They are ruled by the Eternal Order, but many vampires'
only desire is to escape the confines of the communities
and the Order as soon as they are able.
The Roman brothers, Alexander Read more...
Beck's second book of the Division 6 series deftly uses
exposition to hook the reader quickly into the world where
paranormal creatures work for and against the law beside
usually unsuspecting humans.
Gunnolf, a werewolf, and Tiberius, a vampire, both want to
rule L.A., but both appear to Read more...
In this sequel to BITE ME! about AJ Ashe's life as a
vampire teenager in a diverse household of vampires,
wizards and one soon-to-be-born hybrid, Melissa
Francis dishes out action, surprises, and complicated
tension that demonstrate just how much more complicated
teen angst can Read more...
As heir to the Reynard Clan, vampire Francesca "Flare"
Reynard has agreed to give her mother and Matri what she
wants: grandchildren, but she plans to do it via technology
rather than biology. However, her mother would prefer a
more organic solution and enlists the steaming hot Prime
Tobias Strahan Read more...
Sara Constantine's goal in life is to put away human
monsters who commit crimes, crimes like her father's
murder. However, when she is reassigned to Division 6, a
secret section of the law that most recently falls under
Homeland Security, Sara learns that not all monsters are
human 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.
© 2003-2025