Jackie Brighton gets passed over for a job promotion and
drowns her sorrows in alcohol. When she wakes up in a
dumpster, she thinks she remembers sex with a blue-eyed
male with a very large package, but she doesn't remember
the vampire bite, and she doesn't realize Read more...
APOCALYPSE HAPPENS, the third installment of Lori
Handeland's Phoenix Chronicles, packs a punch with battles,
squabbles, sex and questions aplenty to keep readers
entertained and turning pages. From evil water spirits to
dragon-shifters out to obliterate the sun and moon to a
dagda (powerful fairy god), fans will Read more...
Brett Duncan and his best friend, James Reed, have plans
to meet up with other pals and go out one evening. But
instead, Brett hears chanting in an underground place,
sees a man wearing a goats head and flies through a ground-
floor window. James Reed has disappeared. Brett seeks Read more...
Sarah Bryant combines elements of adventure, love,
treachery and mystery in SAND DAUGHTER, a compelling novel
that takes place in the Middle East near the end of the
12th century during the Crusades. Khalidah, a 16-year-old
daughter of a Bedouin sheikh has little choice when it
comes to Read more...
Barbara Hamilton, a pseudonym for well-known historical and
fantasy writer Barbara
Hambly, introduces a new historical mystery series
starring Abigail Adams with THE NINTH DAUGHTER. The story
takes place in 1773 Boston, a terrific venue for a mystery
with Read more...
Lulu Pangloss, a small seventeen-year-old, has traveled
the country with her mother most of her life, never really
settling down. Her mother's latest plan is to track down
Lulu's alleged father, Fred Cowper, in Rhode Island to
collect child support. But with Fred Cowper in sight Read more...
The late Margaret Campbell Barnes has written numerous
historical fiction novels giving readers a peek into the
lives of English royalty and those who served them. From
Richard the Lionhearted, Ann Boleyn and Isabel the Fair
she lets readers share the intrigue and treachery, love
and passion and heartbreak and Read more...
QUEENE OF LIGHT is the first bookβand a promising start--
to a new series from Jennifer Armintrout. This time she
focuses on faeries instead of vampires, who live in the
sewers and subway tunnels below the land of the humans.
This underworld is split with faeries, dwarves and dragons Read more...
I think it's a far more difficult task to write historical
fiction based on real people. A few such books have
disappointed me lately, and I started the novel
withβthankfullyβunwarranted trepidation. It took just a few
pages to realize I was in the hands of a master Read more...
In Manila, a mute boy named Noland makes shimmering paper
lanterns and sells them at a busy intersection near the
slums where he lives with his mother. He has the help of an
older boy named Elvis. Noland doesn't know Elvis well, only
that he sells lots of lanterns Read more...
Danni Jones follows the stranger to a cave where they see
a woman with two children and a man holding something and
looking bereft. An angry voice comes from the cave depths,
but Danni can't understand the words. Following this
vision, the same man, Sean Ballagh, appears at her Read more...
The village of Ulewic (the place of the owl in Old English)
had a difficult year with crops, animal disease and
flooding in 1321. But a community of women living outside
the village didn't suffer the same damage to plants and
animals. The women in these communities, called beguines Read more...
After a university committee rejects Dr. Nina Wilde's
proposal for a research project to find the long-lost
Atlantis, she finds another benefactor in Norwegian
philanthropist Kristian Frost. But Nina is in danger before
she even meets him in person from associates of Gianni
Qobras, a man determined that Read more...
We have experienced friendships that have withstood the
test of time and/or distance. Few of us likely have had
friendships tested by war like the two characters in
Barbara Hambly's new novel HOMELAND. Rather than a
narrative, Hambly's book is comprised of letters from two Read more...
Louise de Keroualle leaves her father's home in Brittany to
serve at court in Paris at 18. She has a place as a maid of
honor to the Duchesse d'Orleans, sister to King Charles II
of England and married to the Duc d'Orleans, brother to
King Louis Read more...
A noted classic, many have read JANE EYRE as a child, a
student and/or as an adult and might wonder how much stems
from reality. Writing experts often stress the importance
of writing from experience. In THE SECRET DIARIES OF
CHARLOTTE BRONTE, Syrie James explores the life Read more...
After her husband leaves her for an older woman, Nora
Manin, pregnant with his child, decides to move to Venice
to try her hand at glassblowing. She wants to follow in the
footsteps of her 17th-century ancestor Corradino Manin,
recognized as the best glass artisan the island of Murano Read more...
Shay Bassett, a trained nurse, works at a small community
center in a not-so-nice neighborhood of Cleveland. The
underfunded and understaffed center has a suicide hotline,
provides vaccines, counseling and activities for teens both
in and out of gangs, and Shay does her part to get them
medical Read more...
In 1755 Albany, NY, Marisa Jameson overhears her step-
uncle, John Rathburn, discussing with one of his henchmen
plans to burn the fields and homes of a Dutch community.
She then threatens Rathburn with her knowledge in order to
take her maid, Sarah Strong, who is still indentured to
him Read more...
Robert Courteer, Vincent Barieno and Wilbur Sandes, three
bishops from Texas, Florida and New Hampshire, hire Defense
Attorney James Kobs to defend them on charges of protecting
pedophile priests. U.S. Attorney William Goulding accuses
the bishops of moving known pedophiles from parish to
parish within their respective dioceses, searching Read more...
At the risk of sounding like everyone else, I do treat myself to quite a few books, much easier now that I've found a job, and sometimes it's just a nice long run with my yellow lab.
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