Monday, February 23, 2009

Review: Mercury's War by Lora Leigh

Title: Mercury's War
Series: Breeds
Author: Lora Leigh
Read copy: Mass Market Paperback
Published: September 2, 2008
Publisher: Berkley
ISBN: 042522418X
ISBN-13: 9780425224182

Someone has been slipping the Sanctuary's secure information to a pharmaceutical company. Now it's up to Ria Rodriguez to pose as a clerk and uncover the leak. Yet she has no idea of the danger she's about to encounter, or the passion she's about to ignite in one of the greatest Breeds ever created.

Years ago, Mercury Warrant—who, according to his file, is one of the greatest Breeds ever created—thought he lost his mate, and he's had to live with the idea that he'll never know true bonding. Then he's tapped to protect the mysterious Ria—and finds himself falling in love.

But Ria is a woman of many secrets, and she fears being consumed by her feelings for Mercury. Little does she know that she has every right to be afraid. Because the woman believed to be Mercury's true mate is back from the grave, and she's not about to let Ria—or anyone else—get in her way...


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Sunday, February 22, 2009

Review: Dawn's Awakening by Lora Leigh

Title: Dawn's Awakening
Series: Breeds
Author: Lora Leigh
Read copy: Mass Market Paperback
Published: February 5, 2008
Publisher: Berkley
ISBN: 0425219755
ISBN-13: 9780425219751

The runt of the lab she was created in, Dawn Daniels endured years of torture by her pride brother and the council soldiers. Finally freed from her torment, she's now a Breed Enforcer, in control of her own life. Until she's assigned to protect the one man destined to be her mate—and realizes it's far too easy to lose total control.

One of the Breeds' most important supporters, Seth Lawrence has spent years trying to forget Dawn, knowing that her lost innocence has made it impossible for her to get close to anyone. But suddenly neither of them can find the strength to fight the overwhelming passion between them.
At least until the most brutal tormentor from Dawn's past reappears—and threatens to destroy their newfound love, along with their lives...


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Friday, February 20, 2009

Review: Aiden's Charity by Lora Leigh

Title: Aiden's Charity
Series: Breeds
Author: Lora Leigh
Read copy: Mass Market Paperback
Published: July 2, 2007
Publisher: Ellora's Cave
ISBN: 1419954466
ISBN-13: 9781419954467

The forces of survival and destruction swirl in the darkest corners of men's minds. The nature of the beast cannot be harnessed, and survival is the purest of all instincts. Survival of the species itself goes soul deep. But can the human heart accept and adapt as easily? Can Charity bestow the love and the acceptance that has always been a part of her, to the man whose very survival depended on the hardening of his heart, of his soul? And can Aiden maintain that cruelty now, in the face of the sacrifices she made? Only time and nature can tell.

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Thursday, February 19, 2009

Review: Jacob's Faith by Lora Leigh

Title: Jacob's Faith
Series: Breeds
Author: Lora Leigh
Read copy: Paperback
Published: May 1, 2004
Publisher: Ellora's Cave
ISBN: 1843607484
ISBN-13: 9781843607489

They are a new breed, a new race. Engineered rather than born, trained rather than raised, and their unique genetics have created more than one surprise...

Jacob left Faith six years before, unaware that the mark he left on her also left her in an agony of sexual heat that never dimmed. Now Jacob and Faith are together again, but surprises lurk around every corner and dangers as dark and deadly as their very creation surround them in more ways than one.


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Review: Tanner's Scheme by Lora Leigh

Title: Tanner's Scheme
Series: Breeds
Author: Lora Leigh
Read copy: Mass Market Paperback
Published: August 7, 2007
Publisher: Berkley
ISBN: 0425216616
ISBN-13: 9780425216613

After the Feline Breeds' main base is attacked, Tanner desires revenge. So he kidnaps Scheme Tallant—the daughter of a one-time high-ranking member of the Genetics Council. But when Tanner discovers that Scheme herself is a target of her father's ruthless mission, his vengeance takes a back-seat to saving the life of the woman he hopes to claim as his mate.

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Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Review: Harmony's Way by Lora Leigh

Title: Harmony's Way
Series: Breeds
Author: Lora Leigh
Read copy: Mass Market Paperback
Published: December 5, 2006
Publisher: Berkley
ISBN: 0425213056
ISBN-13: 9780425213056

Harmony Lancaster is of the Lion Breed, created to be a huntress with a thirst to kill. But the way she seeks justice outside the law makes her a liability to her own kind. Yet she also possesses information that they need on the existence of the first Leo - who holds the precious secrets of desire.

To save her life, Harmony is paired with Sheriff Lance Jacobs, who tries to tame the killer within her, while protecting the gentle woman he longs to possess. But a dangerous cult leader, bent on destroying the Breeds, could change the way Lance looks at Harmony forever...


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Monday, February 16, 2009

Review: Megan's Mark by Lora Leigh

Title: Megan's Mark
Series: Breeds
Author: Lora Leigh
Read copy: Mass Market Paperback
Published: May 2, 2006
Publisher: Berkley
ISBN: 0425209644
ISBN-13: 9780425209646

Cursed with the extraordinary power to feel other peoples’ emotions, Megan Fields has tucked herself away in a remote corner of New Mexico, working as a small-town sheriff’s deputy. She finds solace in the silence and heat of the desert. But when Breeds begin dying on her watch, Megan realizes that the secrets from her past can’t stay buried forever. Someone is out for blood—her blood.

An arrogant Feline Breed, Braden Arness broods with feral intensity. His mission to solve the mysterious murders brings him to Megan, a woman who accosts his senses like no other. Only with him can she let down her guard—and surrender to the insatiable hunger that wracks her body. But as they team up to hunt the elusive killers, Braden and Megan find themselves becoming the prey…


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