Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Review: Darkfever by Karen Marie Moning

Title: Darkfever
Series: Fever
Author: Karen Marie Moning
Read copy: eBook
Published: November 1, 2006
Publisher: Dell
ISBN: 044033635X
ISBN-13: 9780440336358

MacKayla Lane’s life is good. She has great friends, a decent job, and a car that breaks down only every other week or so. In other words, she’s your perfectly ordinary twenty-first-century woman.

Or so she thinks…until something extraordinary happens.

When her sister is murdered, leaving a single clue to her death—a cryptic message on Mac’s cell phone—Mac journeys to Ireland in search of answers. The quest to find her sister’s killer draws her into a shadowy realm where nothing is as it seems, where good and evil wear the same treacherously seductive mask. She is soon faced with an even greater challenge: staying alive long enough to learn how to handle a power she had no idea she possessed—a gift that allows her to see beyond the world of man, into the dangerous realm of the Fae….

As Mac delves deeper into the mystery of her sister’s death, her every move is shadowed by the dark, mysterious Jericho, a man with no past and only mockery for a future. As she begins to close in on the truth, the ruthless Vlane—an alpha Fae who makes sex an addiction for human women—closes in on her. And as the boundary between worlds begins to crumble, Mac’s true mission becomes clear: find the elusive Sinsar Dubh before someone else claims the all-powerful Dark Book—because whoever gets to it first holds nothing less than complete control of the very fabric of both worlds in their hands….

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Saturday, January 15, 2011

Review: Take Me by Grace Samuels

Title: Take Me
Author: Grace Samuels


Read copy: eBook
Published: 2009
Publisher: Ellora's Cave


“I want to taste you.” His voice seduced her. His body, costumed in a linen kilt and a mask of the ancient Egyptian lion-headed god of the massacre, made her body burn.

It was inappropriate, unprofessional, but when he spoke, “I’m not a gentle lover. I’ll take you fast. I’ll take you hard, and I won’t stop until we’ve both come,” Diana willingly took the plunge into decadence, forgetting where they were and who she was.

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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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