Friday, January 27, 2017

Review: Hidden Riches by Nora Roberts

Title: Hidden Riches
Author: Nora Roberts

Read copy: Mass Market Paperback
Published: August 28, 2012
Publisher: Jove
ISBN: 0515152951
ISBN-13: 9780515152951

Dora Conroy has a passion for antiques—and any other rarities she can acquire for her quaint Philadelphia shop. A seasoned dealer, she knows all the tricks of the trade. But she is unprepared for the deadly consequences when she purchases a few curiosities at an auction—and unknowingly brings home a priceless cache that makes her the target of an international criminal. Entwined in a reckless chase, Dora turns to her new neighbor, Jed Skimmerhorn, a cop who’s turned in his badge—and whose desire for lovely Dora puts him back in the line of fire. Fighting their attraction while falling in love, they find that hidden riches can have a most ordinary façade. And that possession can be a lethal obsession...

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Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Review: All the Pretty Faces & All the Dead Girls by Rita Herron

Title: All the Pretty Faces
Series: Graveyard Falls
Author: Rita Herron
Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: March 29, 2016
Publisher: Montlake
ASIN: B016DHOBCG

Josie DuKane is on shaky ground. Having narrowly escaped the notorious Bride Killer, she penned a tell-all memoir that dug up a town’s dark past. Now the book is being made into a movie, and Josie must visit the very place that will trigger an avalanche of unwanted memories—Graveyard Falls. On the heels of her arrival, she receives a gruesome photograph of a dead woman with talon marks carved into her face. And worse, Josie just might be the next victim.

Torn between guilt, justice, and revenge, Special Agent Dane Hamrick will do anything to find the man who brutally murdered his sister. When he realizes the recent tragedies in Graveyard Falls bear an uncanny resemblance to her death, he volunteers to spearhead the investigation. But doing so means teaming up with Josie.

Nothing prepares him for the feelings the beautiful, tough woman evokes. As the body count rises and the suspect pool widens, Josie and Dane must put aside their growing attraction to run down the killer who devastated both their lives.

A killer who seems determined to destroy all the pretty faces...



Title: All the Dead Girls
Series: Graveyard Falls
Author: Rita Herron
Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: November 22, 2016
Publisher: Montlake
ASIN: B01G50QX8Q

When a violent storm hits Graveyard Falls, it unearths the unimaginable: skeletons of teenage girls, each dressed in white and holding a candle. It’s clear to FBI agent Beth Fields that this is the work of a long-standing killer—but could it be the one she escaped years ago? She has no memory of the man who held her captive and murdered her friend. But even though someone was jailed for the crime, she’s always feared that the real killer is still out there…waiting and watching.

Ian Kimball never believed his stepfather was guilty of Beth’s kidnapping or the slaying of two local girls. Now Graveyard Falls’s sheriff, he’s determined to catch the true perpetrator. And when more young women go missing, he realizes he needs Beth’s help. She is nothing like Ian expected, and everything he desires. But if they have any hope of finally ending the killer’s reign of terror, Beth and Ian will need to put everything aside, including their past, their mistrust, and their growing attraction...


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Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Review: All the Beautiful Brides by Rita Herron

Title: All the Beautiful Brides
Series: Graveyard Falls
Author: Rita Herron
Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: September 15, 2015
Publisher: Montlake
ASIN: B00U88YMKS

A young woman lies dead at the bottom of a waterfall, dressed in a wedding gown with a rose stem jammed down her throat. And in the small town of Graveyard Falls, the horrifying vision stirs a long-ago nightmare back to life.

FBI Special Agent Cal Coulter gets called in to investigate the murder, which bears a terrifying resemblance to a series of killings committed thirty years ago: three teenage girls were found dead at the waterfall’s base, all bearing rose stems in their throats. The high school football star was convicted and imprisoned for those murders, so now Cal suspects that the real killer is still out there.

Now, the body count is rising again. The monster’s sights are set on counselor Mona Monroe, Cal’s best friend’s widow...and the woman he’s always loved. Can Cal stop the killer before Mona becomes the next victim?


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Review: Hunt the Dawn by Abbie Roads

Title: Hunt the Dawn
Series: Fatal Dreams
Author: Abbie Roads
Read copy: eBook
Published: December 6, 2016
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
ISBN: 1492639222
ISBN-13: 9781492639220

Out of darkness and danger

You can't hide your secrets from Lathan Montgomery—he can read your darkest memories. And while his special abilities are invaluable in the FBI's hunt for a serial killer, he has no way to avoid the pain that brings him. Until he is drawn to courageous, down-on-her-luck Evanee Brown and finds himself able to offer her something he's never offered another human being: himself.

Dawns a unique and powerful love

Nightmares are nothing new to Evanee Brown. But once she meets Lathan, they plummet into the realm of the macabre. Murder victims are reaching from beyond the grave to give Evanee evidence that could help Lathan bring a terrifying killer to justice. Together, they could forge an indomitable partnership to thwart violence, abuse, and death—if they survive the forces that seek to tear them apart.


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Review: Race the Darkness by Abbie Roads

Title: Race the Darkness
Series: Fatal Dreams
Author: Abbie Roads
Read copy: eBook
Published: October 4, 2016
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
ISBN: 1492639192
ISBN-13: 9781492639190

IF HE LOSES, SHE DIES
Her voice haunts his thoughts; her whispers fill his days, but when he discovers the woman of his dreams is
real, he'll race the clock to save her before she's lost to him forever

Scarred by lightning, burdened with a power that gives him no peace, criminal investigator Xander Stone struggles to maintain his sanity against the voice that haunts him day and night-the voice of a woman begging him to save her.

Isleen Walker has long since given up hope of escape from the nightmare of captivity and torture that is draining her life, her mind, and her soul. Except...there is the man in her feverish dreams, a strangely beautiful man who beckons her to freedom. And when he comes,
if he comes, it will take all their combined fury and faith to overcome a madman bent on fulfilling a deadly prophecy.


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Sunday, January 22, 2017

Review: Savage Sacrifice by Ellis Leigh

Title: Savage Sacrifice
Series: The Devil's Dires
Author: Ellis Leigh
Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: January 17, 2017
Publisher: Kinship Press
ASIN: B01MSY2R07

There's no escaping a Dire Wolf on the hunt...

Dire Wolf Phego has a history. One that haunts him and holds him back in ways even he doesn’t want to admit. A mission for one of his brothers bring changes, though, and he’s going to have to figure out how to deal with his past if he’s ever going to have a future.

Michaela likes to be needed. As the doctor of her pack, she’s used to being called out at all hours to assist on everything from accidents to baby deliveries. When an old friend is the one calling, she’ll do anything to help, including putting up with a cranky, standoffish oaf of a man who can’t seem to make up his mind on what he wants from her...if anything.

One soldier fighting demons from his past and his present, one woman doing all she can to save those she cares about, and a shadow that inches closer every day. In the world of the Dire Wolves, time off from missions should be calm and easy. But when ghosts come calling, Phego will have to decide if hanging on to his past is worth giving up his future.

One soldier, one fight...one chance at forever.


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Review: Hidden Currents by Christine Feehan

Title: Hidden Currents
Series: Drake Sisters
Author: Christine Feehan
Read copy: Mass Market Paperback
Published: June 30, 2009
Publisher: Jove
ISBN: 0515146471
ISBN-13: 9780515146479

From afar, Sheriff Jackson Deveau has always loved Elle Drake, the youngest telepath of seven sisters. After a long time away she’s finally returning home to the small coastal village of Sea Haven. But someone has been following Elle, someone who doesn’t want her to make it back. And when Elle fails to arrive, her disappearance strikes fear in the hearts of everyone who loves her. Now it’s left to Jackson to uncover the mystery of Elle’s vanishing, and rescue her from an unseen danger. But Sea Haven is no longer safe for anyone, and it’ll take the powers of all the Drake sisters and their men to survive the coming storm.

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