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Title: The Mammoth Book of Paranormal Romance
Author: Trisha Telep (editor)
Read copy: Paperback
Published: March 9, 2009
Publisher: Running Press
ISBN: 0762436514
ISBN-13: 9780762436514
Fall in love with someone out of this world.
If love transcends all boundaries then paranormal romance is its logical conclusion. From the biggest names around, here are 24 tales to take you to another time and place.
Let Alyssa Day, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Cheyenne McCray, Jeaniene Frost, Ilona Andrews, Kelley Armstrong, Maria V. Snyder, Carrie Vaughn, Allyson James Marland and others show you powers beyond your wildest imaginings.
Within these pages mythical beasts, magical creatures of all shapes and sizes, heart-stoppingly handsome ghosts, angels, and mortals with extra-sensitive sensory perception play out the themes of extraordinary desires.
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Title: Maui Heat
Author: Ari Thatcher
Read copy: eBook
Published: November 13, 2009
Publisher: Ellora's Cave
ISBN: 1102071455
ISBN-13: 9781102071457
It's the final night of her summer job on Maui. Her last chance to see him alone. Maggie plans to make it a night she'll never forget--one of amazingly hot sex with her coworker Gabe.
Gabe wishes he'd said something sooner, taken their friendship to the next level. He's more than willing to slip away with Maggie for a private farewell. But he's the one all the other summer workers turn to when the party gets too wild, and this is definitely the wildest party of the summer. Is the island big enough for them to escape their meddling friends and release the passion burning inside them?
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Title: Silent in the Grave
Series: Lady Julia
Author: Deanna Raybourn
Read copy: eBook
Published: January 1, 2008
Publisher: MIRA
ISBN: 140891476X
ISBN-13: 9781408914762
London, 1886
To say that I met Nicholas Brisbane over my husband's dead body is not entirely accurate. Edward, it should be noted, was still twitching upon the floor...
For Lady Julia Grey, her husband's sudden death at a dinner party is extremely inconvenient, not to mention an unpardonable social gaffe. However, things take a turn for the worse when inscrutable private investigator Nicholas Brisbane reveals that the death was not due to natural causes.
Drawn away from her comfortable, conventional life, Lady Julia is exposed to threatening notes, secret societies and gypsy curses, not to mention Nicholas's charismatic unpredictability...
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Title: Living on the Edge
Series: Edge
Author: Shannon K. Butcher
Read copy: eBook
Published: March 1, 2011
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
ISBN: 1101477423
ISBN-13: 9781101477427
After a devastating injury, Lucas Ramsay knows he's finished as a soldier.But when the general who saved his life asks him for a favor, he says yes. All Lucas has to do is keep the general's daughter from getting on a plane to Colombia—which is easier said than done...
Independent to the core, Sloane Gideon is a member of the Edge-a group of mercenaries for hire. But she's not on the clock for this mission. Her best friend is being held by a vicious drug lord, and Sloane must rescue her—no matter how many handsome ex-soldiers her father sends to dissuade her.
With little choice, Lucas tracks Sloane to Colombia-where she reluctantly allows him to aid her in her search. But as they grow closer to the target, they grow closer to each other. And before the battle is over, both will have to decide just what they are willing to fight for...
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Title: Broken
Series: Rafferty
Author: Shiloh Walker
Read copy: eBook
Published: March 2, 2010
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
ISBN: 1101185732
ISBN-13: 9781101185735
Quinn Rafferty is working as a bounty hunter for a private detective agency in St. Louis when a new neighbor catches his eye. He's drawn to her-but he has his own soul to mend before he can worry about anyone else.
Sarah McElyea is on the run, but not for the usual reasons a woman goes on the lam. She has a plan for her future. And as much as she finds herself attracted to her gruff, tough neighbor, she can't risk telling him the secrets she's hiding.
But Quinn must get closer to Sarah when she turns out to be the target of his new missing persons case, and both Quinn and Sarah will have to expose their true feelings-as well as their fragile hearts-if their love is to survive.
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Title: Practice Makes Perfect
Author: Julie James
Read copy: Mass Market Paperback
Published: March 3, 2009
Publisher: Berkley
ISBN: 0425226743
ISBN-13: 9780425226742
When it comes to the laws of attraction, there are no rules The battle between the sexes is about to make these two lawyers hot under the collar. Opposites collide when two lawyers try to make partner at the same firm. Payton Kendall is a feminist to the bone. Cocky J.D. Jameson was born privileged. But when they're asked to join forces on a major case, they gain a newfound awareness of each other's personal assets. The partnership spot will be offered to only one of them, though. The competition heats up. Sparks fly. Let the games begin.
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Title: Fragile
Series: Rafferty
Author: Shiloh Walker
Read copy: eBook
Published: February 3, 2009
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
ISBN: 1440687056
ISBN-13: 9781440687051
Six years after trading in his combat gear for hospital scrubs, Luke Rafferty is faced with things just as heartbreaking as those on the battlefield. The abused children being brought in by the pretty redheaded social worker tug at his soul like nothing he's ever known.
For Devon Manning, being a social worker is a rewarding job, but also a constant reminder of her own troubled youth. Devon takes everything one day at a time-unable to form a relationship with anyone except the children she rescues.
When Luke meets Devon, he thinks he might have found what he's been looking for, but in order to get the life he wants, Luke has to break through Devon's emotional barriers and make her realize that his healing touch might be just the complication her life needs…
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