Saturday, January 15, 2011

Review: Skin Game by Ava Gray

Title: Skin Game
Series: Skin
Author: Ava Gray
Read copy: eBook
Published: November 3, 2009
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
ISBN: 1101151242
ISBN-13: 9781101151242

A beautiful fugitive—wanted dead or alive.

Kyra is a con woman and a particular kind of thief. She steals with a touch, but she only takes one thing: her target’s strongest skill. Which means she can be a fighter, an athlete, a musician, an artist—anything she wants… for a limited time. Heartbroken, she turns her gift toward avenging her father’s murder; with deadly patience, Kyra works her way into casino owner Gerard Serrano’s inner circle. After pulling off the ultimate con, she flees with his money and his pride.

A hit man who never misses the mark.

Reyes has nothing but his work. Pity for Kyra, he’s the best and mercy never sways him once he takes a job. He’s been hired to find out where Kyra hid the cash—and bring her back to face Serrano’s “justice.” Dead will do, if he can’t locate the loot. He’s never failed to complete a contract, but Kyra tempts him with her fierce heat and her outlaw heart. So Reyes has a hell of a choice: forsake his word or kill the woman he might love.

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Review: The Woman Inside by Autumn Dawn

Title: The Woman Inside
Author: Autumn Dawn

Read copy: eBook
Published: October 31, 2010
Publisher: Smashwords
ISBN: 145236334X
ISBN-13: 9781452363349

One look at Uric's mother and his fiancées run screaming. Known as the Ogress, her fearsome reputation is almost scarier than Uric's own. So when his queen sends him on a quest to bring back a healer rumored to be a witch, he can't resist taking the beauty home. Surely a witch is more than a match for an ogre...Can Ceylon tame the queen's berserker and defeat his evil mother?

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Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Review: Orchid by Jayne Castle

Title: Orchid
Series: St. Helens
Author: Jayne Castle
Read copy: Mass Market Paperback
Published: May 31, 2008
Publisher: Pocket Books
ISBN: 0671569023
ISBN-13: 9780671569020

Atop psychic for exclusive Psynergy Inc., Orchid Adams has her hands full with a baffling murder—which doesn’t exactly allow time for husband hunting. Is it even possible there’s a man on St. Helen’s who measures up to her dreams of wedded bliss? Take her new client, Rafe Stonebraker: primitive and elemental, an unlicensed P.I. with some serious secrets, Rafe is hardly marriage material. So why does his powerful presence have Orchid imagining the most outrageous affair? Rafe is embroiled in solving a strange theft while thwarting a hostile takeover of Stonebraker Shipping; he needs a wife—and fast—to salvage his credibility. Orchid Adams doesn’t fit the profile he had in mind, but she fits in his arms. Will their electrifying connection end up getting them burned

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Monday, January 10, 2011

Review: Enemy Husband by Nina Bruhns

Title: Enemy Husband
Author: Nina Bruhns

Read copy: eBook
Published: June 21, 2010
Publisher: Silhouette
ISBN: 142686745X
ISBN-13: 9781426867453

She was a trained thief for the FBI. He was in charge of the FBI's elite ANSIR squad, responsible for preventing the theft of top secret government assets. Bitter enemies within the Bureau, Special Agents Kansas Hawthorne and Stewart Rio weren't prepared for their next mission: to pose as married crooks in order to steal a deadly nuclear trigger. But acting in love could prove to be mission possible when the passion between them starts feeling all too real....

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Saturday, January 8, 2011

Review: In the Dead of Night by Linda Castillo

Title: In The Dead Of Night
Author: Linda Castillo

Read copy: eBook
Published: October 1, 2007
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1426807201
ISBN-13: 9781426807206

It was a night like no other...darker, longer and totally unforgettable

Sara Douglas watched as Nick Tyson emerged from the heavy rain. In his face she saw little of the boy she once knew. She'd returned to Cape Darkwood to research her parents' murder. And stop the nightmares. Was Nick just another terrifying dream—or a flesh-and-blood man who would leave her breathless?

Chief of police now, pain etched Nick's rough face, colored his eyes navy blue. He'd lost someone, too, but while Sara ran, Nick had nowhere else to go. Instead, he patrolled a divided town whose secrets lay dormant at the bottom of the cliffs. Nick wouldn't let that be Sara's fate, no matter how much it pained him to see her again. Together their investigation mounted and led them to horrifying consequences—but more lethal than the case was their undeniable and deadly desire for each other...

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Review: Are You Scared Yet? by Hunter Morgan

Title: Are You Scared Yet?
Author: Hunter Morgan

Read copy: eBook
Published: June 1, 2007
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation
ISBN: 1420103202
ISBN-13: 9781420103205

SOME SINS CAN'T BE FORGIVEN

The police label them "victims," but she only sees them as depraved sinners. With each death, she rids the world of another monster. but not before offering them a chance to repent, atoning with their agony for the evil they committed.

SOME WRONGS CAN'T BE FORGOTTEN

Delilah Swift is on a career and personal high—recently promoted to detective in Stephen Kill, Delaware, and becoming involved with the chief of police, Snowden Calloway. But happiness turns to dread when bodies surface in a local pond—all dead long before they reached the water. Delilah knows the hallmarks of serial murders, and each gruesome discovery points to a twisted psychopath growing bolder and more brutal.

SOME CRIMES DESERVE NO MERCY

In this town full of secrets, a cold—blooded killer is acting as judge and executioner. Anonymous notes—harmless at first, then increasingly sinister—appear in Delilah's mailbox. But the closer Delilah gets to the truth, the higher the stakes. Because Delilah has a secret of her own. and it could be the death of her.

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Thursday, January 6, 2011