Eloise Hart has lived for 17 Years with her single mother,
Jasmine, without any knowledge that the world of Faery
exists. She gets her first glimpse although she doesn't
believe it, when a very sexy guy named Lucas, warns her
that the Faery king is after her. She doesn Read more...
Leo Lomax and his brother, Hollis, lost their parents in a
plane crash and are sent to live with their father's step-
brother, Crane. Crane imports and sells mysterious and
expensive artifacts and lives in a futuristic building in
the run-down depths of Brooklyn. Leo turns 13 the Read more...
Fans of Cat Adams's Blood Singer series will devour
THE
ISIS COLLAR in a day like I did. Celia Graves, bodyguard
extraordinaire, is still fighting to balance her vampire
and siren abilities, and now she has to try to save the
worldβagain!
Responding to a "magical Read more...
Raised to a life of privilege in the Pre-Civil War south,
Jacy Lane knew there was a huge difference between her
family and the slaves that served them. But she had other
battles to fight such as her mother's plans for her
to marry a man she despised Read more...
Elizabeth Wyndham is indeed the black-eyed daughter of an
innkeeper, but she's also the author of best-selling gothic
romances in 18th-century England. Strong and opinionated,
she's a woman before her time. Rand Remington, tall, dark
and handsome, is a disillusioned English soldier. He plays
gentleman Read more...
HEAVEN'S NEEDLE, the follow-up to Liane Merciel's first book
in the world of Ithelas, The River Kings' Road, is
stronger albeit darker. While some of the characters
including Kelland, the Sun Knight and his companion Bitharn,
also appear in the second installment, others are replaced Read more...
Eleven-year-old Suzanna Snow isn't looking forward to
working in the kitchen of her parents' hotel this summer.
What she really wants is to become a detective like her
famous uncle Bruce. She keeps track of important details in
a notebook and when Maddie Cook goes missing in Read more...
If you're in need of a suspenseful and hilarious read to
lighten your mood, pick up SECOND GRAVE ON THE LEFT, the
second adventure of Charlotte (Charley) Davidson, Grim
Reaper extraordinaire. Actually, this book will make more
sense if you've read First Grave on the Right first, but Read more...
SHATTERED DREAMS, the aptly named first book in Ellie
James's Midnight Dragonfly series will thrill fans of young
adult paranormal romance. Not one of those books where you
know what will happen, if not how, by chapter 5, this book
has a complex plot, realistic characters and maybe more Read more...
Piet Hoffman works undercover for the Swedish police. As an
infiltrator, he has clawed his way up the chain in Wojtek
Security International, a front for the Polish Mafia's
amphetamine business. But Wojtek wants more from him. They
want to take over the drug trade is prison. So, Hoffman Read more...
Five friends meet at Spanish Gardens the evening of December
20, 2012, roughly 20 years after they last met at the same
restaurant to celebrate their college graduation. John,
Olivia, Quincy, Ellen and Simon share stories and long-
buried secrets over the best-ever Irish coffees. But more
than that Read more...
I have to start off by saying I liked A CLOCKWORK FAIRYTALE
even more than Helen Scott Taylor's Magic Knot series. For
as long as she can remember, Melba has had to disguise
herself as a boy as she runs messages and picks pockets in
the outer circle of Read more...
Lisa Lutz, known for her Spellman Files comedic mysteries,
embarked on a co-writing adventure with ex-romantic partner,
David Hayward. The resulting novel, HEADS YOU LOSE, is quite
good, but the snarky and continuous exchange between the two
authors sets this book above the pack. Issues, obviously not
forgotten Read more...
It's tough to put this novel in a particular genre, but
horror and psychological thriller come to mind although it
doesn't fit nicely into either one. Will and Asheley had a
difficult childhood. Their father left when they were young,
and their mother is an on-again-off Read more...
Although she's human, McKenzie Lewis, a Houston area
college student, can see the fae and read the shadows they
leave when they fissure from place to place and realm to
realm. McKenzie has helped the fae king track down rebels
with her shadow reading for the past 10 years Read more...
While on the surface A.J. Scudiere's GOD'S EYE is a story in
which one woman, Katharine Geryon, must choose between two
men, one being an angel and the other a demon, at the heart
it is a tale about the choices we make and the results.
Daughter Read more...
For those who have read the first two books in Walter
Greatshell's Xombies trilogy, APOCALYPSO will be a fun and
gore-filled finale. While this novel can stand on its own,
I still think trilogies are best read in order, and this
one is no exception. Greatshell does a Read more...
Two ships left a dying Earth to start new colonies, but
problems with fertility for which one ship found a
solution caused betrayal. Fifteen-year-old Waverly, one of
the first generation to be born on the Empyrean had the
normal worries of a teen. Kieran, the ship's captain Read more...
THE LANTERN, Deborah Lawrenson's first novel to be
published in the U.S., combines lyrical prose with two
storylines, one present and one past, that will eventually
touch. In the present day, Eve and Dom meet and eventually
find themselves ensconced in Les Genevriers, a ramshackle
farmhouse in Provence Read more...
Moira Young's BLOOD RED ROAD, the first in her Dustlands
series, will captivate fans of young adult dystopian
fiction. Her writing is as spare as the world she builds,
and her use of dialect brings home what could happen
should our world deteriorate to this extent. Saba, the
main 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.