Friday, September 11, 2009

Review: Secret Agent Reunion by Caridad Piñeiro

Title: Secret Agent Reunion
Series: Mission: Impassioned
Author: Caridad Piñeiro
Read copy: eBook
Published: August 1, 2007
Publisher: Silhouette
ISBN: 1426804423
ISBN-13: 9781426804427

Posing as the fearless assassin code-named the Sparrow had nearly cost Danielle Moore her life. Now the Lazlo operative must finish her mission. Then she meets her new partner. Agent Mitch Lama. Her former lover. A man who is supposed to be dead.

Years ago, as he lay desperately wounded in her arms, Mitch knew he loved her. If only she could have trusted him with the truth back then. Now he's recovered in time to smoke out a killer within their ranks. But Dani poses a greater danger, rekindling desire that puts them both at risk.


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Thursday, September 10, 2009

Review: My Spy by Marie Ferrarella

Title: My Spy
Series: Mission: Impassioned
Author: Marie Ferrarella
Read copy: eBook
Published: July 1, 2007
Publisher: Silhouette
ISBN: 1426803443
ISBN-13: 9781426803444

Daring, bold, secretive—Joshua Lazlo loved living life on the edge. Rescuing the prime minister's daughter from kidnappers was just the challenge he thrived on. But nothing prepared him for the woman who yelled out fiery threats and almost made him forget his real mission....

Prudence Hill knew she was going to die at the hands of her captors—until a powerful stranger swept her from harm's way. Was Joshua her friend or foe? She dared not trust this man even if her survival depended on him. But once passion flared, Pru could no longer resist Joshua's sensual embrace—and a love that could doom them both.


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Review: The Concubine by Jade Lee

Title: The Concubine
Author: Jade Lee

Read copy: eBook
Published: February 1, 2009
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1426827504
ISBN-13: 9781426827501

Requirements for being a royal consort:

1) Exemplify purity.

2) Pass all demanding tests.

3) Gracefully withstand petty backstabbing.

4) Be chaste. Very chaste.

Check to all! Chen Ji Yue is on her way to empress superstardom in nineteenth-century China. She only has to vanquish 300 rivals to bring her family great honor. Oh, and she may not find the deliciously sexy Sun Bo Tao—the emperor's best friend—at all delicious. Or sexy.

Damn. Ji Yue is in big trouble.

Because Bo Tao is definitely very sexy....

And Ji Yue is about to discover that chastity is overrated...


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Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Review: Epiphany (anthology) by Rita Herron, Mallory Kane, Debra Webb

Title: Epiphany
Author: Rita Herron, Mallory Kane, Debra Webb

Read copy: eBook
Published: November 1, 2005
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1552543730
ISBN-13: 9781552543733

These three stories are set in Atlanta, Georgia and are loosely connected via cops who work in the same police precinct. Each cop is on a mission to rid the streets of crime during the holiday season. The stories are all holiday geared and the authors came up with the idea of doing a chronological Christmas countdown, (i.e. book #1 takes place three weeks before Christmas, book #2 two weeks and book #3 the week prior to and leading up to Christmas).

Story #1—AN ANGEL FOR CHRISTMAS by Rita Herron is a witness protection/child in jeopardy story featuring a jaded cop who must protect a child who witnessed his mother's murder. The heroine is the boy's aunt/guardian and passion ignited when she bands together with the hero to protect her nephew and bring her sister's killer to justice.

Story #2—UNDERCOVER SANTA by Debra Webb features a cop who is assigned undercover surveillance of a jewelry shop that is the next likely target of the "House Call Murders"—robbery/murder by criminals who strike around Christmas time. The hero poses as Santa in the heroine's prestigious jewelry store to try to catch the killers.

Story #3—MERRY'S CHRISTMAS by Mallory Kane is a woman in jeopardy story featuring a brooding cop who is assigned to guard the very pregnant widow who is the latest target of the deranged "Widow Maker" serial killer.


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Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Review: Beyond Seduction by Kathleen O'Reilly

Title: Beyond Seduction
Series: The Red Choo Diaries
Author: Kathleen O'Reilly
Read copy: eBook
Published: May 1, 2007
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1426801009
ISBN-13: 9781426801006

Sex didn't scare her...

Despite the success of her sultry Red Choo sex blog, it would take serious buzz to put Mercedes Brooks's first book of erotic fantasies on the bestseller list. And that meant agreeing to another showdown with her nemesis, the super-sexy TV pundit Sam Porter.

This thing beyond seduction did.

This time, though, the on-air innuendos were just a dress rehearsal. What happened later between the sheets was actually the main event. If the tabloids got wind of their night together, Sam's career would self-destruct. But the real shocker was that even with a prime-time scandal hanging over their heads, one night was not enough!


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Monday, September 7, 2009

Review: Ghost Horse by Patricia Rosemoor

Title: Ghost Horse
Author: Patricia Rosemoor

Read copy: eBook
Published: October 7, 2005
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1552543323
ISBN-13: 9781552543320

Though the impetuous Chloe Morgan arrives at the Graylord Pastures (a horse farm in northwestern Illinois along the Mississippi River) welcomed as the new summer tutor, she in reality is there for her own purposes. Her best friend, Dawn Reed, who was home-schooling Nissa Graylord before Chloe, disappeared into the night nearly a month ago. A letter saying she was eloping cut short any police investigation, but didn’t satisfy Chloe. She and Dawn were fostered together for several years, so they’re like sisters. Dawn would never disappear on her, not like her father had.

As Chloe settles in at Graylord Farms, she first suspects Nissa's father Damian Graylord of having something to do with her friend's disappearance. But he's everything to his daughter that her father wasn't to her—and he's everything she could want in a man. But will he want her when he learns that she's been lying to him about her reasons for taking the job?


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Review: Ripped! by Jennifer LaBrecque

Title: Ripped!
Series: Uniformly Hot!
Author: Jennifer LaBrecque
Read copy: eBook
Published: October 1, 2009
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1426840837
ISBN-13: 9781426840838

Subject: Paratrooper Lieutenant Colonel Mitch Dugan.
Current status: Confident. Disciplined. And aching with sexual need.
Mission: Chaperone the brigadier general's daughter.
Obstacle: Eden Walters: the very hot, very willing brigadier general's daughter...

For tough-as-nails Mitch Dugan, the army is everything. Until he experiences the rush of another jump...into Eden's bed.
The high he gets from leaping out of planes is no rival for their sexual chemistry. But Mitch is a proud military lifer...and former army brat Eden has no intention of staying with a man who's never around.
It's time for this sexy soldier to pull the rip cord and save himself--fast. Or he might end up in a free fall with the one woman he can't have....


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