TALK SWEETLY TO ME is a novella, the latest in the
Brothers
Sinister series by Courtney Milan. It features Mr.
Stephen
Shaughnessy, who was a supporting character in the
fantastic book The Suffragette Scandal. Stephen is a rake
and a scoundrel, and is the author of the outspoken Read more...
THIS WICKED GIFT is a prequel novella for Courtney Milan's
Carhart series. It was originally released in 2009
in the
anthology The Heart of Christmas. It was re-released as
an
enhanced ebook in July 2014. It is fascinating to have
the
advantage of the enhanced content Read more...
A VERY LEVET CHRISTMAS is a short novella from the
Guardians of Eternity series. A holiday story,
there is a
nice nod to Dickens' A Christmas Carol with the past,
present, and future shown to Were Damon by the diminutive
gargoyle Levet, who is acting as a Christmas Read more...
Whatever rating system you might use to rank book reads,
INDECENT PROPOSAL by Molly O'Keefe will blow it right out
of
the water. O'Keefe is one of my auto-buy authors, and
once
again, with this book, she excels! Indecent Proposal
brings
together two lonely, pained individuals, puts Read more...
NO IN BETWEEN is book four of the elaborate Inside
Out series by Lisa
Renee Jones, which includes thus far four novels, a group of
novellas from Rebecca's point of view and four other
novellas
from characters Mark, Chris, Crystal, and Sarah's point of
view .
This Read more...
THE WINTER KING is written by author Thea Harrison. In the
80's and 90's, Thea wrote for Harlequin Mills & Boon under
the pen name of Amanda Carpenter. Capitalizing on Thea's
current massive popularity, Samhain Publishing has re-
released all Amanda Carpenter available romances digitally
as part of Read more...
This novella, MY CONTROL, in Lisa Renee Jones' Inside
Out
series is told from Mark's point of view. The Master
Undone, My Hunger, and My Control, in the words of the
author, fill in the gaps of Mark's life while Chris and
Sara are in San Read more...
By turns heartbreaking and sweet, I WANT IT THAT WAY
follows two new adults figuring out how they can reach for,
and grab onto, true love while still living their messy
lives. Book one of a New Adult series, Aguirre
demonstrates with flair that she can write contemporary
fiction as Read more...
NIGHT UNBOUND is book five in the Immortal Guardians
series,
one of my favorite paranormal romance series. This is a
very kick-butt action series with a stand-alone romance in
each novel, and an overarching story line. NIGHT UNBOUND
can be
read as a stand-alone novel Read more...
Book six in The Lost Lords series, NOT QUITE A WIFE,
deals with the
sixth gentleman from a group of men who attended a school
for troubled boys together in their childhood. These men
formed lifelong bonds of friendship and loyalty. I liked
the first three books in Read more...
I'm a sucker for Lauren Dane stories. I know what I'm
going to get in one of her stories: Hot, explicit sex
scenes with people comfortable with their sexuality.
Characters who have hot button issues due to prior
psychological trauma but who are well grounded and
refreshingly mature Read more...
In NICE DRAGONS FINISH LAST, Julius' mother is fed up with
his lack of
dragonish traits. He's not ambitious. Β He doesn't try to
take things over. Β
He's not sneaky and conniving. Β She bemoans that it's like
Julius was born
with no draconic instinct whatsoever, hiding in Read more...
THE FIRE PRINCE is a classic fantasy tale with a reluctant
hero
traveling on a quest with companions to break a curse. THE
FIRE PRINCE, book two of The Cursed Kingdoms trilogy,
picks up
right where The Sentinel Mage left off, but Gee does a
decent job at Read more...
A novel that feels like it was written like a comic book or
a graphic novel, SCORCHED is a dark and gritty world of
superheroes and villains. I expected to see "POW"
and "Kabam!" written in the text, so realistically did
Hayes' writing style portray the world of superheroes
battling Read more...
When Edward and Free first meet, Free hands Edward her card
and tells him, "Well, Monsieur le Realist. Call on me if
you ever find yourself in need of an exclamation point. I
have an entire box of them." Well, I am borrowing some
exclamation points from Free to gush Read more...
EXTREME MEASURES is the first book in Naughton's new Aegis
Security series. It has Naughton's characteristic
explosive action and adventure interspersed with some
explosively hot sex. The book features a lovers turned
enemies who then turn back to lovers trope.
Eve Wolfe is a CIA counterintelligence operative who Read more...
MY BEAUTIFUL ENEMY, opens with the mad rush of a
no holds barred fight aboard a ship bound for England, and
catapults through continued far-East martial action in
England punctuated by intellectual fencing between
disenfranchised lovers. The pace is unrelenting, and the
story is heart wrenching and beautiful. I Read more...
BETWEEN THE SHEETS is another tour de force from fabulous
author Molly O'Keefe. O'Keefe is one of my favorite
authors, who consistently delivers novels with traumatized
characters who have pathological coping mechanisms keeping
them from happiness. O'Keefe tosses two such people in a
small town with repeated Read more...
LADY LUCK is book three in the Colorado Mountain
series. If
you have read any other Kristen Ashley books, you know what
kind of man and woman you're going to get. The women
are "cute" and whisper their responses. We also get the
stereotypical hero, who doesn Read more...
Sanctify is a rabid speiciest group that has dedicated
themselves to wiping out their alien "enemies", and they
have tried to kill all the Diviners. Diviners are aliens
whose goddess give them direction via tarot cards, and by
telepathy as the Diviners progress along their spiritual
path. Ophelia is a Read more...