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Fighting Sanity

Being a bastard on Bassinor has been difficult enough, but Erinii Zakkata has always done her duty to family and that was what landed her in the facility to begin with. Gassed into a hallucinogenic state, she has spent four years trying to swim out of the fanciful creations of her mind, and with a little intervention from a familiar face she manages to find reality again. Or did she?

Until she can find a way to escape she has to appear to be a madwoman in a psych facility, and when the role comes far to easily, she has to wonder if she has made it out of her nightmares or is she still trapped in her own mind, living out an escape that seems far too good to be true?

A representative from the Citadel is now featuring heavily in her fantasies, but is he real or just another illusion to keep her from escaping her imprisonment?

Time and a heavy detox will tell.


Ascent

Lili Ann Baker has been enjoying her time as a cargo captain. She spends huge swathes of time alone getting world building materials to where they are needed and the appreciative recipients give her the feedback that she needs. When she delivers the final harvest containment to Geko 7, the party that erupts is wild and she is invited by the grateful population to enjoy the fruits of their first harvest.

Admittedly, Lili Ann has more wine than she can account for and the next morning she wakes up in bed with a man who does not meet the specs of the colonists. She assumes he is a pilot, like her, and sneaks away in the early dawn hours.

Her ascent is denied by a hungover ground control and she has to wait on the tarmac until the local government can sort things out. Imagine her surprise when her bedmate is leaning against the side of her vehicle, the mind of the Geko 7 swirling in his eyes.

Yavoy has been waiting for decades to find a woman of his own and despite her rather relaxed language, Lili Ann has something that completes him, an enthusiasm for life.


A Healing Caress

Brenawyn has lived life with one goal, survival. When Tracker of the Sector Guard lands on her planet she tries to buy herself some time at his expense and ends up with him and travelling to the Citadel.

Training and teaching for four years, no one is more surprised than Bren when Tracker comes in, his body desperately needing her attention.

After the healing he gives her another option, instead of languishing at the Citadel she can join him at Teklan base.

She keeps him in suspense for the entire nine seconds that it takes her to make up her mind, and then they simply have to negotiate for her freedom. Easy.


A Drop of Blood

Pet has existed in a limbo of confinement and pampering as her owners use her for a symbol of their power.

During an attack they eject her in a survival pod and she ends up on a habitable world, working to survive.

When a group of men arrive and they seem to be looking for her, she fights the urge to run to them for safety, choosing to hide instead.

They find her anyway and bring her to their ship, and that is when she finds out that her true identity is not Pet, but it will be found in a single drop of blood.

Reviewer: Victoria Cross
Review: May 3, 2012
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Fantasy, Science Fiction
This is a short steamy read, perfect for when you don’t have time to get involved in a big thick book. In fact, my only complaint was that it wasn’t long enough. I think this story would be an excellent starting place to build this into a longer tale, if Ms. Grace chooses to do so. I would love to hear more about Pet, her rescuers, and her life before and after captivity. This seems as if it is a small part

Astonish

Trapped in a job working as an assistant for an ambassador, Ceelie is hoping for something better for her life, but she knows that it isn’t likely.

While on an assignment to obtain some atmosphere scrubbing trees Ceelie finds herself courted and seduced before she can blink.

Rimeer is the avatar of the green and life giving world and he is in need of a companion.

Ceelie can’t bring herself to deny any of his needs and when the planet joins them, she finds out that being part of a ménage can include three minds seeking pleasure as one.


Pilot in Command

Helen has enjoyed her tenure as an Alliance pilot, but working with unpredictable crews is wearing on her nerves. When an incident of defense of the innocent via mutiny ends her career, controlling warships is over. Joining the Sector Guard felt right, but if she had known what was ahead of her, she may have held back when the handsome Azon doctor offered her a job.

Hyder has always known the matches that he sees are the perfect mate for the person he is speaking to. He may not know a name, or a location, but he knows what everyone’s perfect match looks like. Seeing himself as the Terran’s perfect match is a surprise, but when he looks her over, he is sure he is up to the challenge. He just has to put Pilot in command.


Soul Keeper

Zeyan has been banished by her own race and her talents have developed under the careful eye of the instructors at the Citadel. When a psychic plague breaks out that shatters the mind body connection, the locals call the Sector Guard and they, in turn, call the Soul Keeper. It is time for her to return home.

Orenn has envied his cousin Fenn’s life and love in the Sector Guard. As a telepath at the Citadel he recognizes a powerful will when he sees it and when Zeyan looks into his eyes, he also sees his future stretching before him, with her at his side.

He had no idea it was going to be the other way around.

Reviewer: Arianne
Review: Apr 3, 2012
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Sweet Romance
Zeyan has a talent that makes other talents happy because she can put a cocoon around another person soul and she can bring back dead people to see their relatives. However, this freaks the people on her planet out so she hid her talent until her cousin wanted to see her mother so badly she brought the mother’s soul back to talk to her daughter. After using her talent she is sent to jail, preceded by a mock t

Intercept

Maud has known that she is destined for life as a dragon's wife, but she has contractual obligations that she has to finish first. On her last assignment, everything goes wrong and she goes from filing paperwork to being scooped up by Raiders for use in one of their arena facilities, providing black market fighting to an entertainment hungry universe.

Tridell has been patient, waiting as dragons do for his woman to come to him. When he finds out she is lost in space, he pushes to find her and puts his own life on the line to bring home the woman of his dreams.

Reviewer: Arianne
Review: Feb 9, 2012
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Erotic Romance, Science Fiction, Shapeshifters
Maud and Lekar’s ship starts breaking up in space due to going through a storm on a planet that was about to die. Lekar gets knocked unconscious so Maud has to drag the Kalordan into an emergency shuttle and start the countdown to disembark from the ship for him. Maud gets into her shuttle and is shot into space. A while later, she feels her ship being grabbed from space, she knew it was not the Alliance come

Interface

Dreaming of dragons got Vikki into space and only the love of one can bring her back down to solid ground.

Vikki has been dreaming of dragons since she was a teen, but as she became an adult, those dreams got more and more graphic. Who needs to seek a relationship when the steamiest sex of a lifetime lies on the other side of your waking mind?

Mercuros has been waiting for his mate to come to him for centuries upon centuries. Refusing to believe that she is finally on Geviil, he fights his senses until her touch convinces him of her identity. She is here and she is his.

Reviewer: Arianne
Review: Jan 18, 2012
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Erotic Romance, Science Fiction, Futuristic
Vicki is an Alliance Specialist trained by the Citadel to make contact with different planets avatars and also a Drai (dragon) mate who has yet to find her dragon. Vicki has done her job a little too well; she has been asked by three different planets to be their avatar. However, she refuses to become one and instead searches for her mate. She has been dreaming of him since she was a child back on Earth. Vick

Seal the Deal

Contract has been trying to get into her legal briefs for months, but choosing the Sector Guard over her friends and family is a no-brainer for Sekhara.

Life counseling the abused and grieving has worn on her nerves, so when she is offered life in the Sector Guard once again, Sekhara jumps at the chance. After some heated negotiations, Contract and Counsel begin life as partners with Counsel's pet, Maxi, along for the ride. They find a lost Terran, get blasted across the universe, and have to be rescued by a member of Udell base, and that is just Counsel's first day.

What kind of a career is it when you have to keep your hands off your partner while you fight for your life?

Reviewer: Arianne
Review: Dec 16, 2011
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Science Fiction, Futuristic
The Sector Guard has been trying for years to recruit Sekhara (AKA Hara to her friends) into the Sector Guard, but she would not hear of it. She always said she could help people with her talent of mind; counsel people who have dire, stressful jobs like the Sector Guard people. Sekhara mind's power can let her travel half the universe to reach people in stressful times as long as she has a brain scan of their

Wound Up

Neva had to face her insecurities and her new partner at the same time. What chance does her resolve have when Archer’s very presence has her wound up?

Escaping through her workshop tunnel, Neva is less than impressed to find that her proposed partner was the one sent to rescue her and the Citadel staff.

She has managed to dodge her offered position in the Sector Guard for over two years and when Archer comes to save her, she knows that her time to think about it is over.

Archer is bewildered that a woman like Neva keeps turning him down. He’s ridiculously handsome, has an impressive talent and is a charming conversationalist. What more could a woman want?

Reviewer: Arianne
Review: Dec 7, 2011
Genre(s): Science Fiction, Sweet Romance
Some background first, as a child Neva was in three accidents that left her with the ability to only move her head and hands. However, she was chosen as a volunteer in the Alliance because she had the ability to sew things without really moving her hands. Neva was taken into the Alliance where they implanted hooks into her fingers. She can also change thread from regular thread to wire and add explosions to i

Sapphire Dare

Instead of going back to Earth after one of her targets shoots her with a poison-tipped dart, Sapphire takes her mother’s advice and seeks out the greatest healer their people have. How was she to know that just being near him would send her senses reeling and tie her stomach into knots? When five males arrive to convince her that Galen is not the right dragon for her, will Sapphire run for cover or will she fight alongside the dragon male who saved her life and preserved her freedom to choose?

Reviewer: Arianne
Review: Dec 7, 2011
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Science Fiction, Sweet Romance, Dragons
Sapphire, a dragon swan, is on an alien world looking for humans who made rifts in the universe to travel. The rifts are causing holes in the universe so she must escort her human targets home and that will seal one rift. Sapphire's mother came to Earth with four dragon swans in her uterus and told the high officials of Earth in there time that the rifts they are creating will kill the whole universe if they

Intensity

Raine knew she was special enough to be a Volunteer, but mating with a dragon is a whole new kind of special.

Setting up orbital stations was lonely, but not a horrible occupation. Raine has spent years organizing computers and systems to work in harmony, but when she is sent to a spa to wait for her ride, she learns that work is not the only pleasure in life. Orell has waited for her for centuries and he is not going to let a little thing like a Terran obsession with work get in the way of him claiming his true mate. He will use every amenity at the spa to wear her down and then he will swoop in for the kill, so to speak. What is a little death amongst friends and lovers? 

Reviewer: Arianne
Review: Dec 7, 2011
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Science Fiction, Shapeshifters
Raine is another Terran Volunteer who joined the Alliance, a governing body of several different planets. Her ability to organize things has given her a job in the Alliance that lets her set-up spacecraft's and space stations. She allocates everything for them and then moves onto another job. Raine just finished a station and is ready to leave it but her ride was called away on an emergency so she is told to

Harvest Hunt

Ashlin wants to save the beast marked for the hunt, but when intelligence sparks in his eyes, the idea becomes the gateway to a new life.

Ashlin has spent her life trying to move beyond her status as a throwback. Unlike all of the population around her, she has to fight for respect on a daily basis. When being Hunt Master is taken from her once again, she resolves to avoid the hunt, but looking into the eyes of the beast to be hunted, she knows she cannot ignore the intelligence in those silver eyes. Leaving her home before dawn, she waits for the beast to catch up to her and manages to help him transform back into Rumble of the Sector Guard. In that moment her fate is sealed and her life in the stars begins.

Reviewer: Arianne
Review: Nov 4, 2011
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Science Fiction, Sweet Romance, Shapeshifters
Ashlin want to be the "Hunt Master" on her planet and she is the best hunter there, however, she knows she will not get the job because she has two things going against her. She is a female and no female has ever held the job. Second, she is a throwback on her planet; one of her ancestor was from a different race than the people now on her planet. She has all the features of the different race and she can tra

Intact

Nya has enjoyed her time on Arcros, mediating minor disputes and arranging marriages. She never expected that she had been offered the position based on her suitability to be a Draikyn mate, and that her soon to be lover was working his way through stone pathways to her side. Hyfor is not what she was expecting, but as she was expecting to work in obscurity, she wasn’t really prepared for anything. Mating with a dragon might be a good bar joke, but the reality far eclipsed the fantasy. 

Reviewer: Arianne
Review: Dec 7, 2011
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Erotic Romance, Science Fiction, Futuristic
Mediator Antonya (AKA Nya) came to the planet Arcros to help the planet and his avatar to deal with the people who came to settle on it, the Evian. Her last contract for the day is to deal with a bride's and groom's parents. It was a long day and Nya goes back to her home. There the planet's avatar, Berenghetti, let herself into Nya's apartment and to her supply of food. After the avatar plied herself with wi

Ripped and Roar

Cila Wen has lived her life unable to speak for fear destroying those around her. The Sector Guard has offered her a position and assistance in controlling her talent, but Cila is not sure if that is even possible. Ripper, her soon-to-be partner, is convinced otherwise and does everything in his power to help her out of her shell and into his bed. 

Reviewer: Arianne
Review: Sep 20, 2011
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Romance, Science Fiction, Shapeshifters
Cila is living in a one person relay station. She is guarding the relay person there. She has a special ability that has kept her in solidarity confinement since she was a child. Cila's ability allows her to punch holes in metal, blast eardrums, and push moons out of orbit just by speaking. This ability of hers has come to the Sector Guards attention and they think they can find a way to help her be around pe

Emerald D.A.R.E.

Raised for one purpose, Emerald is pulled between two facts. One, she doesn’t want to live in a lab forever, and two, her sisters are disappearing into the dimensions they have worked in. When she meets two males of her kind, she has to make a choice and doesn’t even hesitate. She picks the one who doesn’t make her skin crawl. Aegon is a silver dragon with the patience and creative intelligence of his kind. He is delighted that his random sweep yielded one of the dragonettes that he has heard so much about and he will do whatever she needs him to do keep her happy and with him at all times. He has to release her to win her, a conflict he has to wrestle with while she returns to the lab. A life together glows before him, but when will she call him so they can begin it? 

Reviewer: Megan
Review: Sep 1, 2011
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Fantasy, Science Fiction
"Emerald D.A.R.E" is the story of Emerald, a green-eyed D.A.R.E. agent, tasked with extracting humans that were sent to other dimensions back to Earth, in order to heal the dimensional rifts their passing caused. On one such journey, she meets her mate, Aegon, and finally dreams of escaping the lab she and her sisters are leashed to. That is, basically, our tale in a nut shell. For a short story, and as st

Opalite Dare

Opalite has struggled to keep her self-contained while she travels and retrieves lost humans. Meeting up with a shackled dragon male has upset her attempts to keep her lift under her control. When her association with him gets the attention of her handlers, the humans charge her with manhandling one of their own. Defending herself would be hard enough with one witness on her side, but alone against the humans, what chance does a dragon swan have? 

Reviewer: Angibabi4
Review: Aug 8, 2011
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Science Fiction, Shapeshifters
I love this D.A.R.E Project series. The authors take a great spin on the whole Science Fiction/Shapeshifter genre. I absolutely love reading these and can't wait for the next ones to come out. In this installment we meet Opalite the fourth sister of the dragon swan sisters. The other three have each met their mate on previous missions and disappeared. She is sent on a routine mission to retrieve a group of n

Echo in Time

Alara has spent her life under the radar, hiding her nature from the government and those around her. When it came to a choice of letting her cousin fall into servitude to their own government or live a life free in the stars, Alara stepped into the path of disaster and made sure that Tosha went free. Trapped and locked in a lab where other talents were incarcerated she meets a new friend and the man who has haunted her dreams for the last six months. General Brodin has fought wars and when his talent surged forward the government of Dhema sent him to the Sector Guard. He has waited patiently to find his true mate, and when he was told to get himself captured on Dalpha he did it without question. Seeing Alara for the first time, he knows why. 

Reviewer: Arianne
Review: Aug 8, 2011
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Science Fiction
Alara has been seeing different futures for herself and her family while she is sleeping. She has tried several times to change some of the futures she has seen for the better, however, it does not always worked for her. On her world "talents" have a bad life; they are rounded up and forced to work for their government in labs with no pay and no family around them. In "Shaken and Stirred" she got her cousin,

Shaken and Stirred

Tosha wanted a nice day off with her cousin, but a homicidal bug wave forces her to expose her talent to the others on her tour. Before her government can lock her up she is swept off by a tornado and whisked into the stars. Joining the Sector Guard had never been an option, but now it was her only choice. Her name is changed to Shake and her first assignment is a doozy. With Vortex at her side she accepts the emergency assignment and finds herself facing a proven killer who has no problem adding her to the roster. 

Reviewer: Arianne
Review: Jun 3, 2011
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Science Fiction
Tosha and Alara, Tosha's cousin, were on a tour of a world where one day a year flesh eating bugs would come out and eat everything in their path. However, this was not the day the bugs were supposed to come out until one of the men on the tour crushed a nest of the bugs by mistake. Instead of eating each other, the bugs started to go after the people and Tosha had to use her talent. Tosha shook up the ground

Multiple Organisms

Drahali has lived her life as a freak, a woman who was far more than one of the guys. Her strength was limitless, but it doomed her to a life alone until the day the Sector Guard recruiter arrived and offered her a chance to be his partner and possibly more.

Remar suffered the same fate on his home world with his body able to split into multiple incarnations of the original. Meeting a woman who was petite, adorable and could snap him in two would have frightened a lesser man, but he could be more than she could handle any time he wished. 

Reviewer: Arianne
Review: Jun 14, 2011
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Science Fiction, Futuristic
Drahali is considered a freak of nature on her planet. She can lift several tons of weight that would take a lot of men to carry a single one of it. Since she can lift quite a few men over her head without any trouble, most men do not want her as their girlfriend or wife. This leaves Drahali and her family sad. Unbeknownst to her, her father put her up as a candidate for the Sector Guard. Since Drahali passed

Captive of the Stars

Nasha Fano has lived her adult life as the host of Ithena, red star of the northern sky. Refusing to believe that her deceased father sold her to Lord Kalowell she fights for her freedom and the survival of her people. Caught on the wrong side of the wall between her people and the invaders, Nasha is made a captive by the Lord who wanted the avatar of Ithena, but he has no idea that she is the very woman he seeks. Learning about him, his people, and the course of events that brought them together is humbling, but the star inside her will not come out to confront the other avatar or the star he holds. Frustrated, Nasha gives in to the last thing she wanted and embraces the power of his touch in hopes it will rouse the star within. 

Reviewer: Arianne
Review: Jun 3, 2011
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Erotic Romance, Science Fiction
The Haska Chronicles are standalone books that the writer has created involving stars that hover around the premise of each star needing an avatar, a being that can house their essence, so that they can bring peace to the planet. There are female and males stars and each has his/her own gender specific avatar. Some of the stars would like to mate with the other star of their choice and a child is brought to f

Topaz Dare

Topaz has been enjoying the small freedoms that each assignment for retrieval has given her. When confronted by deadly insects that have already killed her targets she has to choose running for her life or finishing her job. She is assisted by another dragon who offers her an option for her time off. He will take her to visit her sister if she will spend some time getting to know him, and part of her is only too delighted to happy to take Kirai up on his offer. Dragons, kidnapping, giant bugs, poisons and meeting a sister she thought dead make for quite the short layover for an active D.A.R.E. agent. 

Reviewer: Arianne
Review: Apr 8, 2011
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Shapeshifters
Topaz is a dragon swan, a female dragon, who is sent to another dimension to find earthlings. The Earthlings left their planet using machines causing rips in space. They must return home. The dimension she lands on has what she calls giant ants on it. She only finds human bones to take home. While in the new dimension she meets a male dragon, Kirai, who has come to that dimension to look for dragon swans. Kir

Hard Hearted

Saving her fiancé showed Gralial’s people what a freak she was and they punished her accordingly by removing her soul. Left with only intelligence and her talent, Gray must start a new life in the Alliance as the Sector Guardsman Hard Hearted.

She is assigned to Teklan base as their healer and physician and partnered with a being that she never even heard of.

As a Nilshan Animorph, Mist has spent his time as an enforcer for the Alliance. When he was offered this position, and Gralial as a partner, he jumped at the chance to protect the woman whose lack of a soul keeps her from caution, fear, or passion. 

Reviewer: Arianne
Review: Apr 7, 2011
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Science Fiction, Shapeshifters, Futuristic
Gralial, or Gray to her friends, has committed a crime on her family spaceship and is being held prisoner. She has kept a talent a secret from everyone and it could cost her life or she could be sterilized since talents are forbidden on her tribe's ships. The Alliance will take her for her talent of healing beings but her family asks for her soul in return so it will be a warning to others of her tribe. They

Ruby Dare

Born of two dragons but raised in a lab, Ruby has lived a life of quiet regulation, waiting until the project proposed decades earlier can be started. When Dimensional Arrest, Retrieval and Extraction gets underway, her innate ability to jump dimensions puts her on the front lines with her sisters, retrieving people from earth whose presence is tearing their home world apart. Each assignment takes Ruby to another world to retrieve scholars, criminals, researchers, and escapees. The freedom she feels on the new worlds is cruelly taken away when she has to return to earth over and over again.

Meeting one of her own kind is a shock, but his determination to help her gain her freedom is even more of a stunning revelation. He offers her a life without walls, in the sun, and wind in her hair. What dragon could resist?

 

Reviewer: Angibabi4
Review: Mar 4, 2011
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Shapeshifters
Welcome to the world of the DARE project. Ruby was born and raised in a lab with no knowledge of her mother or father. She is a dragon and has 19 sisters all offspring of her dragon parents that she has never met. What makes her family unique is that they can jump dimensions, which is a skill that is needed to bring back people who have jumped by unnatural means and because of this they are tearing their own

A Nexus Wedding

We join Abby and Xander on their big day, a huge wedding at Hotel Spectre. When the rings go missing, the bridal gown gets tainted with blood and the groom starts a fistfight in the garden, only the efforts of friends and creatures can make Abby have the wedding day she deserves.

Whatever fate had in mind, this will be the happiest damned bride that ever animated her lawn ornaments. Or else. 

Reviewer: Arianne
Review: Mar 14, 2011
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Fantasy, Futuristic
Finally the story we have been waiting for, the wedding of Nexus and Zander. There is a lot of stuff going on behind the scenes: troll blood gets on the wedding dress, missing wedding rings that lead to fight with the bridegroom and someone else. All the people from the other Nexus books show up for the wedding. Will everyone live through it? The author has given us a nice wedding in the “Nexus”

Emissary to the Stars

Siri has worked her way through the temple of Ilshara until the goddess tapped her as the Emissary. With her life now revolving around worshipers and organizing the temple she has no time for herself and with the great festival coming up, she needs some me time. She asks the goddess for some time off and is shocked to her toes when it is granted. Life on Allacor is calm, serene and has a slow rhythm that Siri enjoys as she spends her days in baggy clothing that are completely different from her Emissary clothing. While the goddess lets Siri's biology come back to its rhythm, Mirkan, the next clan leader of the Sorro clan is there to seduce her into an attachment to his world. Time passes swiftly and when the representatives from her home world find her she is caught and her disguise stripped bare. When the goddess inside comes out to put her foot down, she surprises her Emissary with a plan for this new world. A plan that includes Siri. 

Reviewer: Arianne
Review: Mar 16, 2011
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Erotic Romance, Science Fiction
Siri has become the emissary of the star Ilshara, a fertility goddess. This allows the goddess to touch her mind frequently and use her body for pleasure. But there is major festival on her planet that will last for two whole days and the festivities last year almost killed her with pleasure so Ilshara allows her to take a vacation before the festival. Siri goes to the planet and finds out that Ilshara is wor

Charm

Valeria has fought for her life and sanity at the brutal hands of raiders. She wakes to find herself in her own dreams and memories with a man made of shadows and embers with pointy ears.

Morpheus of Admar has tracked his mate across the stars only to find that he has to keep her in her dreams to erase the traumas of the past. His rescue efforts involve hiding at Sector Guard Base Udell where the raiders on their trail meet an uncomfortable surprise. How many mechs does it take to destroy a small fighter? Only one, and she is having a wonderful time. 

Reviewer: Arianne
Review: Mar 16, 2011
Genre(s): Erotic Romance, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Futuristic
Valeria was been taken by raiders and abused so badly that her mind has lost consciousness. Unbeknown to her, her mate, Morpheus of Admar, has found her and has escaped with her. Morpheus, a dark elf who has the ability to create dreams and is able to walk in others, keeps her in a better dream state. He takes her to a Sector Guard space base that specializes in attack training. When the raiders follow them t

Past Tense

Mayden Morningside is a Reader who works with contracts and lives a quiet life until her old recruiter from Terra comes asking her to join the Sector Guard. She will have her body changed to match her partner's, a strange but necessary practice when one's partner is a dragon. Harusk is a sleeper, a dragon who chose to preserve his genes through a prolonged hibernation. Waking to find out his perfect match needs a little tinkering is surprising, but his first meetings with her captivate him beyond all of his preconceptions. Not bad for a woman in a tank who cant even curse at the pain of the transformation process. 

Reviewer: Kyraninse
Review: Apr 7, 2011
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Science Fiction, Shapeshifters
This story reads like Grace is making an attempt to cross genres and not quite succeeding. The romance doesn't quite make it, mostly because Grace is still relying on pre-set notions and outside factors to push the two characters together rather than actually engineering a proper relationship and partially because that plotline is somewhat distracted by the murder mystery that is going on simultaneously. Spea

Chain

Estelle is a logistical expert, show her a problem and she can solve it. When she is drugged and enslaved, she looks for a way out, sending messages with every outgoing slave and hoping that one will get her plan to the Alliance in time. The escape is on, but she has been shackled to her breeding partner that very evening, linked by a chain they lead the escape until one partner goes on alone. Survivors are offered a place on an Oefric colony world. The shape shifters have a separate town from the arena survivors, and that is where their hospitality ends. Steel leads the charge to design a working village, and since she conveniently made it into the survivors and not the Alliance specialist designation when she landed, let the fun begin. Wyanic is eventually persuaded to look in on the growing village, and imagine his surprise when his true mate greets him when he thought her dead on the ship. 

Reviewer: Kyraninse
Review: Mar 24, 2011
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Erotic Romance, Science Fiction, Futuristic
I honestly feel a little bit frustrated by this book. The premise of Estelle's powers was very interesting and I felt that if it had only been explored in more detail and at a more realistic pace it would have been more believable. As it was, she seemed more like a super computer than a normal human. Wyanic and Estelle's lack of a courtship and the usual sequence of falling in love just exacerbated the p

Guarding Pax

Tricia Williams has been handed over to the Sector Guard, her talent for tranquilizing those around her has become dangerous and uncontrolled. The Sector Guard techs rise to the challenge and in no time, Tricia has been outfitted with a uniform that will let her eat and converse in public without putting her in a bubble. Guardian is her new commanding officer and they have met before. When she was a mediator and he was joining the Alliance, she mediated his contract and he took a place in her nocturnal fantasies from that day onward. Now, assigned to Guardian as a partner, Pax has several things to deal with, and her life depends on his attention to detail. If he would stop staring at her butt, things would go a lot smoother. 

Reviewer: Kyraninse
Review: Feb 28, 2011
Genre(s): Sci-Fi / Fantasy Romance, Science Fiction, Futuristic
This was a reasonably entertaining short, but it had the feel of having been popped out just a little bit too fast. As usual, Grace comes up with fascinating concepts for her Sector Guard series - it is always interesting to see what new ideas she comes up with and how she matches different talents together to make the best of their abilities.  However, I thought that the romance was lackluster and hard

Sacrifice to the Stars

Tia’s life has been defined by avoiding the priesthood, so when she finds herself on a foreign world with seductively familiar males, she is conflicted. General Jenner Mathwin is striking and his voice sends her body into a full-on riot. Can she trust him when it comes to offering her for sacrifice or will the Lassing priesthood tear her to pieces? She really hopes that her trust is earned because when she offers herself to the star’s avatar, she will be tied hand and foot in a public forum. It may be a little late to change her mind once they bind her… 

Reviewer: Kyraninse
Review: Mar 24, 2011
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Erotic Romance, Science Fiction, Futuristic
Short, mostly uncomplicated read that brings up some interesting ideas. The story starts out well, with lots of suspense about whether Tia is going to be danger or is she going to be able to avoid being discovered. This part is handled well, then she inevitably is discovered and things start happening. As usual, it's lust at first sniff, and Jenner drags her off to his family's compound. There's an assumed r

A Nexus Xmas

Deciding what to get for her gnomes for their first Xmas was Abby's main concern, until the little buggers tricked her into animating the snow warriors that they had created in her yard. The new creatures rampage throughout the neighbourhood and molest the quiet homes of Sargent in an effort to strip away their holiday magic. Abby and the others must stop the snowmen while keeping the magic hidden from the average populace. When Yeti arrive to help, Abby is more than willing to accept whatever they will offer to stop the holiday horror of a giant Snow Beast created for the purpose of world domination. All this, and she still has to shop for the holidays, what is a Nexus to do? 

Reviewer: Arianne
Review: Jan 24, 2011
Genre(s): Paranormal / Supernatural, Seasonal / Holiday
This is the fourth book in the Nexus series created by Viola Grace. This story starts with Nexus, a female who can create creatures using magic, wondering what she can get her little group of gnomes for Christmas while watching them build snow castles and snowmen. Unknown to her, her gnomes want to give her a gift of "live" snowmen so they take magic from Nexus and use it to create the snowmen. However, they

Encode

Honey Barrow serves the Alliance as an Encoded Courier, putting biologicals into her own body to keep them viable during transport. This job has kept her flying for years but that is about to come to a screeching halt when she accepts an assignment to transport the semen of an Alpha multi-shifter to the High Prefect of Shoshan. Honey has to prepare for her job by intaking a series of hormones, throwing her into a simulated heat, a heat strong enough to gain the attention of the Alpha she needs to gain the co-operation from. Raddik pursues her with single minded intensity, guaranteeing her return to him via devious methodologies with no twinges of conscience. When her life hangs in the balance, a ripple of events takes her life and her job beyond her control and leaves her at the mercy of the Alpha. 

Reviewer: Heather
Review: Mar 4, 2011
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Erotic Romance, Science Fiction
Viola Grace’s latest release, Encode is a beautifully written fast-paced paranormal romance that will keep readers engaged from beginning to end. She has woven a highly captivating story that will leave readers wanting more. Her characters are intelligent, believable, and interesting. The plotline is fascinating, intriguing and engaging. The sexual tension between the two main characters is explosive.

Impractical Magus

Forced to join her family for the holidays, Haily settles down to a tropical cruise with too much alcohol and not enough company. While her sisters are trying to find their matches in the highest ranking magical families, Haily gets the buffet. Knocked into the ocean by chance, she finds herself surrounded by sharks and trapped in a war that revolves around her. Shocked into using her powers for the first time she grows gills, rides sharks and masters a magic that she didn't know she had.
Loki is the shark shifter Alpha and he takes Haily under his fin, showing her that she has nothing to fear about using her talents underwater, and that this is where she was designed to be. In the water, at his side.

Enjoy this Yuletide tale with sexy sharks, deadly dolphins and a water magus who learns to be herself in the nicest way. 

Reviewer: Arianne
Review: Jan 24, 2011
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Seasonal / Holiday, Science Fiction
This is the sixth book in the “Nexus” series. I have only read the fourth book in the series, “A Nexus Xmas”. This is a true standalone book because none of the other characters in the other books appear in this one; even Nexus does not appear here. This is a story about Haily who as an uncontrollable magus does not fit in her family life or their world. Everybody wonders why Haily doe

Resurrecting Flame

Jenya has spent days leading one hundred prisoners to freedom through a tunnel of her own making. She succeeds in her task and is ready to rest, but the arrival of the Sector Guard throws a wrench in her plans to fade away. Green flames pull her back into the living world and the silver eyes of a Kozue Guardsman are the first things she sees when she wakes. As Digger, she is offered a place in the Sector Guard and put through her paces with Flame and Guardian watching carefully. What possible use could her talent for burrowing through rock be to the Sector Guard? 


Liquid Heat

Saved from an attack by a fire giant too charming for his own good, Jin finds herself on his world, fighting for her self-control. Prepare to get wet.

Jin Bosun enjoys her life on the Raven's Rest station above Jotunheim. Her Terran mother, Myka, encouraged her to go out and meet new people. She has the perfect partners, Terran descended elementals like herself, so they opened a bar together. Elymyntyl. When the lord of Jotunheim puts a price on their bodies and their bar, Jin is worried. When folks start arriving to claim that price, she is caught off guard. Rescued by Ragnar, a fire giant from the planet below, Jin finds herself in protective custody and things are getting hot. 


Engage

One retired Relay, three eagle shifters, storms, sex, and dreams that shake her soul. Natalia is going to have to embrace a new life, or have it carry her away.

Natalia has developed an allergy to the very technology that enabled her to be a Relay. Forced to resign from a job that would cost her her life, she is sent to Solray, a low tech planet whose inhabitants have the ability to heal her completely. A single woman on Solray isn't single for long, and when the Storm Set eagle shifters show an interest in her, Natalia knows the uncomfortable feeling of being prey. Thobin, Rosh and Apdel are linked mind to mind, talent to talent. A woman who brings out the predatory and protective instinct in all three is a woman worth pursuing, and they are not above using her new familiar to work their way into her thoughts and dreams. 

Reviewer: Arianne
Review: Dec 6, 2010
Genre(s): Erotic Romance, Sci-Fi / Fantasy Romance
In the future.Natalia is a “relay”, a person who can connect to other people’s minds over long distance. However, the tech that she uses to be a relay is making her sick. The physician has decided she needs to go to a low-tech planet to heal. Lucky for her the inhabitants of low-tech Solray have agreed to accept her and heal her. Solray’s people have never agreed to do this before. On

Entrap

Aster is a tracker with one particular skill, but thrown into a cell with two tiger shifters, her skills are useless.

Aster Hathaway has a talent for tracking, and being tracked. With a link to her favourite Relay bound by blood, she can always be found. Aster is on assignment to find an abduction arena and rescue the Alliance personnel within. By using herself as bait she only needs to survive the attentions of two tiger shifters in rut. What could possibly go wrong?

Reviewer: Arianne
Review: Dec 6, 2010
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Erotic Romance, Science Fiction, Futuristic
In the future, Aster is a tracker who can send mind signals to her cousin who then relays information to the authorities. Aster is a tracking an abduction arena. Part of her plan is to get herself kidnapped and get taken to the arena. Everything goes well for Aster until she gets to the abduction arena where she is sent into an abode that has two male Kalordans, two white tiger shifters, who are in rut. She

Chubby is the Night

PAGES: 81

LOG LINE: A night at the bar changes Max's life, and changes her from human to an Abomination, even for vampires.

Max just wanted to have a night out with her cousin and go home. As a plus sized lass, she didn't fit in amongst the tiny blonde gazelles, but protecting her cousin from a perv in the alley changed her fate. In a moment of self-preservation when a man started chewing on her neck, she bit the hand over her mouth, setting a paranormal chemical reaction into play. Now that she is infected with his blood, he either needs to turn her or destroy her. The vampire tribunal chips in with an option for Max. She can rescue their kidnapped Guild Master, and he will decide her fate. Sounds like the best deal of the evening.

 

Reviewer: Kyraninse
Review: Jan 10, 2011
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Seasonal / Holiday, Vampires
A sassy, fun read, I breezed through this, incapable of putting it down. I did feel a bit misled by the title and the synopsis, however. Max may be plus-sized, but  in my opinion the story didn't exactly touch upon her problems sufficient to warrant the title or the deliberate mention in the blurb. I thought that it was sort of cheap that all of her problems went away with a simple re-fitting with cloth

Impassioned

Quick Read at 79 Pages

Megan has been summoned to Essengar station in orbit above a planet she is not allowed to set foot on. No alien has the right to walk on that world. She meets her ex-partner in the psi-tracker corps and immediately is overrun with emotion. Einar stirs lust, longing, and when he tells her that he took their child out of stasis to be born in a surrogate, she feels fury.

Punishing him in the most direct way possible, she drains her immediate anger and they can begin the negotiations for Megan's presence...in his bed...as his wife.

Reviewer: KatieSeely
Review: Jul 16, 2010
Genre(s): Erotic Romance, Sci-Fi / Fantasy Romance
Megan and her ex-partner, an Essenger named Einar, have a past. Five years previous, they had a single night of passion before Megan left. Their one night together produced a pregnancy, but Megan had placed the embryo into stasis. Einar married a fellow Essenger and unknown to Megan, implanted the embryo into his now dead wife. Einar summoned Megan onto a space station outside of his home planet of Esseng

Impure
Genre: Sci-fi Romance 
Pages: 68
Flame Rating: 3 Flames 
 
A Terran Times Novella - Blood, bites and a hunger that defies logic, Ardel learns first hand what it means to be the Terran Impure. 
 
Ardel Sak was strong, confident and a stranger to herself. Her mind wiped of all but her name, she is given to a Vimpyr by the name of Sorcal. At first he wants nothing more than her blood, but after fighting for possession of her, his appetites take a decidedly carnal turn. In his arms, she finds the answer to a question she didn't know she should ask. What happens when an Impure Vimpyr and an Impure Terran join forces to fight the new exotic weapons dealers? It is a tale written in flesh and blood.
Reviewer: BusyMom
Review: Sep 6, 2010
Genre(s): Sci-Fi / Fantasy Romance
The premise was fascinating, a kind of alien vampire meets irresistible Terran. The sexual tension is intense. But there was a distinct lack of action and the blurb, to me, was misleading. I found this to be a story with a lot of tell and truly not enough show. I really wanted to know more about the characters. I wanted to see them interact more before the 'Let's be together forever' bit. Everything was just

The Warder's Merman
Genre: Paranormal Fantasy Romance, Shapeshifter, Merfolk 
Pages: 60, 
Flame Rating: 4 Flames 
Cover Artist: Martine Jardin
The Warder's Book 8 - Wet, wild and weirded out, Bea finds herself in the last place she wanted to be--her husband's arms.
 
Beatrix Warder has spent her adult life avoiding this precise moment. In a flurry of panic, she made a choice and it landed her neck deep in the ocean, facing her worst nightmare. Hector was very good looking, for a merman, but he was also her husband and she had now come to him. When they had wed, she had been young and he had been willing to wait until she made the effort to join him under the sea. Bea isn't happy with the end of her dry land life, but with a little bit of effort, Hector is willing to show her there is more to the wet world than fins and a tail.

Enraptured
Flame Rating: 3 Flames 
Genre: Futuristic Fantasy Sci-Fi Romance, Shapeshifter 
Pages: 84
 
A Terran Times Novella -- Experimental pilot, Maura Aitcheson, is competitive but when a tiger shifter is on her tail slowing down has never looked so appealing.
 
Maura is the best pilot for experimental small craft that the Alliance has seen in decades. When a research treaty allows a representative from Nyal space to participate, she has a fight on her hands. Alzor is the best his species has to offer and that is saying something. His tail does not impede his ability to fly a ship, shuttle, or fighting craft. When Maura's craft becomes stranded in a test flight, the giant kitty comes to get her. His craft has a difficulty and they are forced onto a hospitable world. Now that they are on equal footing, Alzor has only to defend himself against her viper tongue for two days when a shuttle will be able to retrieve them. His ways of keeping her mouth busy become quite inventive. 
Reviewer: Arianne
Review: May 30, 2010
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Sci-Fi / Fantasy Romance
Maura is testing a new prototype ship in space when suddenly the left wing rips off the ship. Alzor of planet Kalorda comes to her rescue. Alzor comes into the airlock and kisses Maura. The next day, Alzor goes out on a two-day test when he runs into trouble and Maura returns the favor of saving his life. Little does she know that Alzor is a big cat shape shifter and he is in rut? After saving him, she realiz

Enchanted
Genre: Fantasy/Paranormal, (Dragon, Shapeshifter) Futuristic, Science Fiction, Romance 
 
Pages: 108
 
Flame Rating: 3 Flames 
 
A Terran Times Novel - Myka is the new traveling Healer for Dremarai, a land where a man is measured by the size of his dragon form. Will she be satisfied with attraction to an Elite or let herself be Enchanted?
 
Myka Michaels has been a Healer specializing in obstetrics for years. Her assignment on Dremarai is one she both revels in and dreads. She wants to be the best Healer she can be, but riding a horse-beast from town-to-town isn't really her idea of a fun work environment. Elite D'hai Bosun has been selected as her escort through the countryside, his dragon tattoo proudly proclaiming his ability to summon magic. When Myka begins to feel an attraction to her escort she doesn't know how to tell him, then the custom of Hospitality raises its head. All Myka needs to do is to ask D'hai to fulfill his obligations to her as her host, to give her the Hospitality of his body. Will her Terran prudishness override her urge to ride the dragon accompanying her?
Reviewer: Kyraninse
Review: Jan 20, 2011
Genre(s): Sci-Fi / Fantasy Romance
 As usual, Grace's story is a fun romp through an interesting world. Myka's story is told with just the right amount of humour and spice, with the details of the new world which she must adapt to cleverly woven in.  It seems like Grace has the plot and the characters down pat -- I'm just waiting for her to polish her writing skills and move into novel-length stories. Right now, reading most of Grac

Pan's Legacy
Genre: Fantasy, Paranormal, Sci-Fi Romance, BDSM, Bondage
 
Pages: 75
 
Flame Rating: 3 Flames 
 
Pandora has tried to live down her family's legacy, but when it becomes horribly real she has one choice, embrace her heritage or die. Pirates, pixies and swordfights, meet the newest Pan.
 
One of the Terran Volunteers, Pandora Smythe has gotten a surprising welcome to space. Taken from her home world, she is tossed into a survival situation on an alien planet and forced to fight for life as best she can. When her captors believe she is ready, she is taken to another world and becomes a pit fighter.
 
Granted the chance to meet her captors, surprised is a mild word for her reaction as Huek K'ptain and T'nker Biel confront her to let her know that the tales her grandfather told of an eternal fairy and evil captain were not his imagination. Pandora has something that they want...and she has no idea what it is.
Reviewer: BusyMom
Review: Aug 9, 2010
Genre(s): Erotic Romance, Sci-Fi / Fantasy Romance, BDSM
What a neat short story. Drawing on the tale of Peter Pan, Ms. Grace creates an interesting web of characters and worlds. Her writing is clear to understand, the dialogue believable and her storyline consistent. When it comes to erotic scenes, while short, they are descriptive and titillating. My only true complaint was this story should have been longer. The characters arrived from point A to B very quickly

Imperial Guard
Pages: 80 
 
Genre: Romance, Science Fiction, Sector Guard Series
 
Something is killing the Imperial family and it is up to the Sector Guard to find out what.
 
Dealing with the family who refused to let her bury her father is difficult, but Isabi keeps her grounded as she fights for the survival of her estranged family. 
 
In the mean time, Isaro, Isabi's sister, is with them using her appearance altering skills to forward the work of the Sector Guard. When she meets the Captain of the bodyguard to the Moreski royal family, she falls head over heels over his tail. 
 
Alomar has worked for the royals since he was a kitten, but when he catches Isaro's scent, his loyalties are split. Does he protect the only family he has ever known, or chase the lovely Selna into a dark corner and prove that he wants her just the way she is.
Reviewer: Kyraninse
Review: Mar 24, 2011
Genre(s): Sci-Fi / Fantasy Romance
I found this short story confusing, frustrating, and in dire need of backstory.  The thing is, although I've read a good portion of Viola Grace's work, I don't have encyclopedic knowledge of her stories and this is perhaps a good thing as a reviewer because now I can say with all honesty that this book needs more backstory in the worst way. We're thrust immediately into the action, which it not terribl

Entwined

Genre: Science Fiction Romance, Fantasy

Pages: 86

Flame Rating: 3 Flames

Theadora has waited her entire life to repair her soul, but she knows that it is an impossibility until she meets Hathir and he completes her in a way she never imagined.

Thea has risen to the top of her field in data accumulation. She knows that her soul is incomplete and has come to grips with all that it means to her. Hathir is a gladiator at the top of his game who has the same problem. When they meet, sparks fly and souls are made whole. Hathir wants more than half his soul back, he wants to convince Thea that they are meant to be together, even if it means that he has to participate in a wedding where she is the maid of honour. Doing ritual battle with his soul mate at the wedding is a foreign idea to Hathir, but with her instincts marked by carrying half his soul for most of her life, the battle is on. Let the best woman win. 

Reviewer: Yadkny
Review: Dec 10, 2010
Genre(s): Erotic Romance, Sci-Fi / Fantasy Romance
Two people from two different planets, will collide in the ultimate soul binding experience... Thea is a very conservative type of character in that she works hard and leads a very independent life. She's also very loyal to her friends, so when her two best friends declare their love for each other and decide to get married, she's immediately in maid of honor mode and all of the duties and responsibilities t

Entranced

Genre: Romance, Sci-Fi, Shapeshifter

Pages: 67

Flame Rating: 3 Flames

Can a woman taken from everything she knows find happiness in the arms of a mercurial shifter or will Lora have to hire a trainer for the Lion-shifter, Tiern?

Lora Gainer has spent her time in space researching the physical aspects of Alliance races. Her life takes a sudden switch with her abduction and sale to a lion shifter who isn't even sentient by Alliance standards.

Tiern has a plan. He and his cloned brothers have gotten an agreement from the Alliance that if they breed true, the Seth-Ari clones will be granted citizenship to the Alliance of Federated and Sentient Planets. Their children will prove what the Seth-Ari already know, they are living, thinking and reproduction capable creatures.

Now, the all-male race just needs to find women who don't spur their hunting instincts. Since Lora will tolerate Tiern's touch, she is looking to be the first subject in their grand plan. She can hardly contain her excitement. 

Reviewer: Arianne
Review: Feb 27, 2010
Genre(s): Sci-Fi / Fantasy Romance
Lora, a space bio-technician, was in a slave camp as a slave when a buyer with silver eyes decided to buy her. Tiern wants to impregnate her to prove that he and his brother, all lion shifter clones, are living, thinking and can procreate. This will be the second time they tried to impregnate women. The first time went bad because the ladies brought out the hunting instincts in the lions and they killed them.

Guardian Enjel

Pages: 175

Romance, Paranormal, Science Fiction

Flame Rating: 5 Flames

Miranda Kenzic has come to grips with her life as a slave, but when circumstances bring her an Enjel she has to take a long look at what she really wants in life. Safety, or sanity?

Left for dead by her peers and enslaved by those who found her, Miranda has been enjoying living one day at a time without worrying about healing anyone whose pain called out to her. At her Master's direction, she takes a young Enjel under her wing and helps him through a difficult time in his development. When his Guardian, Osias Aron, comes to retrieve him from their master, she never guessed that she would be brought along for the ride, or that she would find her new owner a man after her own heart. And body.

After an attack that leaves her brutalized and near death, Osias must come to grips with his inability to protect her from the danger that traveled with them, and his lust to have her back in his arms again. Their arrival on his homeworld takes matters out of his hands.

With Miranda ensconced in the Women's Aerie on Jela, Osias is honour bound to engage in his race's customs and practices to win his lady. If only someone else wasn't using those rules to cheat Osias of Miranda's time, everything would go much more smoothly. When a Leap of Faith isn't just a euphemism, Miranda will have to put her life in the hands of the one she loves. Let's just hope the right guy shows up...on time.

WARNING: This book has an assault which may be offensive to some readers, but this time Miranda and Osias get their conclusion.

This book was previously published with another publisher. It has been reedited and lengthened for eXtasy Books.

Reviewer: SamanthaAnn
Review: Nov 16, 2010
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance
Wounded and left for dead by her team, Miranda is picked up by Raiders and sold into the slave trade. Her life is surprisingly easy, considering her innate healing gift had brought her nothing but pain and derision. Everything changes when her master has her share her bed with a young Enjel. Yes, yes, YES!! Were the first words out of my mouth when I finished this book. Osias is to die for as always but th

Starbreaker

For his planet to survive Kale must bring home the Star Breaker, a metal sphere with a Terran female centre.

With an asteroid heading to Morganti, Kale volunteers to retrieve the Star Breaker, a weapon that has the ability to shatter anything in it's way. When he takes possession he feels a familiar presence, a star's Avatar is trapped within the sphere. Carella has been waiting for her freedom, and when her sphere collides with the asteroid, she is naked, free, and in the mood to blow something up. Kale is struck by her beauty and power, and she wants nothing more than a comforting touch after her violent venting. Upon returning to Morganti they find out who she is, but not why her memory has been wiped. Together, they may find a few answers to questions they had never even imagined asking, including How could a Terran who disappeared two years earlier have spent the last four hundred years as the Star Breaker?


Hotel Spectre

Genre: Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance

Pages: 53

Sophie goes to Hotel Spectre to get a grip on her magic, but when she meets her mentor, her target changes.

Growing up as an animal talker had been hard enough, but when Sophie goes to the HalfBlood ball at Hotel Spectre, she finds out that she had been wrong all along. Her magic isn't what she thought it was and her assigned mentor, Raffin, helps her sort it out. Becoming a Love Talker was never on her aptitude tests in school, but with Raffin coaching her, it comes naturally. Romancing an elf is not on her agenda, but as it starts to happen, Sophie must decide if the magic is worth the risk. Or is the thought of losing Raffin so all consuming that it will become the reality?


The Warder's Elf
Genre: Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance
Pages: 57
Flame Rating: 3 Flames
 
Alora was bound by honour and the cuffs Caldur placed on her.
 
Alora was bound by her ancestor's promise to become a bride for a Dark Elf lord. Caldur was that lord. Having waited in his underground caverns for centuries, he finally made his move. Grabbing the wrong Warder the first time--The Warder's Unicorn--had the interesting effect of bringing Alora to him, but that one error would cost him.
 
Bringing Alora into the full bloom of what her bloodline carried would be a challenge, but he has ways of keeping her from fighting him all the way. With his help, the Magic of the Warders would come again to Realm.
Reviewer: Kyraninse
Review: Oct 28, 2009
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Sci-Fi / Fantasy Romance
I've been curious about Alora's fate ever since I read the previous story in the series, but I have to admit that this was a bit of a let down. There were far more questions left unanswered than there were answered, and that definitely impacted my enjoyment of the story. It was not made clear why, if Alora's family felt the shame of having broken the marriage contract, that their family would have made no mo

Seering Order
Pages: 77
Born a slave, Reva is given unexpected freedom in servitude to the Guard and her very own Enjel.
 
Reva has spent her life in servitude, her commanding voice her largest asset. When an Enjel swoops her off and away from her life as a nanny, she has a choice. Blinding and unfocused freedom, or life as a Sector Guard. Seer is her companion, and he wants to move up to lover, but as Order becomes comfortable with her new job, she has to think things through. She has to face her lack of education, social skills and romantic entanglements, and she has to do it fast before her Enjel loses patience.
Reviewer: Vee
Review: Dec 30, 2009
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Sci-Fi / Fantasy Romance
Reva is a slave who serves as a nanny for an insect-type family who may, at a moment's notice, kill her. When a wan arrives in her home and buys her, Reva doesn't know what to think. Soon she learns the purchase was the best day of her life. Enjel has been looking for her for years. She is just what the Sector Guard needs to fight its battle. Not just that, he believes they are meant to be together. Regard

The Warder's Unicorn
Pages: 59
Flame Rating: 3 Flames
Genre: Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Shapeshifter
 
Sephany is conflicted, she wants Malksis, but the elves have taken her hostage. Can the unicorn be her knight, even if he is hung like a horse?
 
With her parents setting her up with a variety of paranormal men, Sephany just wants to go to her cousin's wedding shower and have a good time. But surprise, her escort for the evening is none other than the unicorn, Malksis. Together they attend the function in Realm, and that is where it all hits the fan. Sephany is kidnapped by dark elves, and in an effort to get her back Mal will have to deal with a most deadly creature of Realm, Seph's father. The dwarf lord Gorven Dremlock is not happy that the unicorn has lost his daughter, and this is the pony boy's last chance to claim Sephany as his own or leave her forever.
Reviewer: Kyraninse
Review: Sep 24, 2009
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Sci-Fi / Fantasy
This was another light-hearted, slightly naughty story by Viola Grace. I definitely enjoyed the interaction between Malksis and Seph -- too bad that it was cut short and another story was stuck into the middle of their romance. It almost felt like something of a plug for the new story. Not that I'm not falling for it -- Alora seemed interesting and I'd like to read her story, but it still felt almost grafted

Gargoyles in the Round
Pages: 306
Genre: Fantasy, Humor, Paranormal, Romance, Elf, Magic, Vampire, Werewolf, Mermaid
 
The Nexus Chronicles - book 2 - Guest hosting a Magical Summit is tricky enough, but when someone is out to kill the participants, it turns into deadly fun.
 
Finally at ease with her newly discovered talent, Abby is ready to face her public. The magical public that is. A Summit has been arranged and everyone who is anyone or anything will be there. Using her celebrity is an uncomfortable situation for her, but with the Oak Point Guard at her side, as well as her creatures, she is prepared to get through anything, even the trial of her arch nemesis. With the panels and festivities contrasting sharply with the solemnity of the trial, Abby feels torn in too many directions.
 
Can the relationship she has with Xander survive meeting his family, or will social pressures drive them apart? Will the gnomes and gargoyles behave, or will Abby be called in by Hotel Specter security?
 
Find out in Gargoyles in the Round.
Reviewer: SamanthaAnn
Review: Oct 1, 2009
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Sci-Fi / Fantasy Romance
Abby and her Oak Point Guard make their first road trip to a magical summit where Abby continues to push the boundaries of what being a Nexus is all about. Meeting beings she never imagined could exist to the laughter and antics of the children and the brawling of the Werewolf games to the trial that she really doesn’t want to attend, Abby discovers her new community. Another frolicking adventure is on

Hael's Fury
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Paranormal, Shapeshifter, Romance
 
Pages: 69
 
The Sector Guard - Book 3 - Liv was consumed by service to her planet, but when she falls into a dragon's clutches will she ever want freedom again?
 
Minimizing natural disasters was all that Liv Hael lived for. Her matriarchal family tree had a long history of doing their duty to Drai and she was following in their footsteps. When she meets the dragon that she dreamed about, and he offers her a position in the Sector Guard, she can't believe her ears. Only one thing stands in the way of Liv and Vasu joining. Will she accept his house as her nest?

 

Reviewer: Kyraninse
Review: Sep 24, 2009
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Sci-Fi / Fantasy Romance
I really enjoyed this story. It was a short, sweet read with just enough suspense and action to keep things hopping without detracting from the romance. I do think, however, that Viola Grace should perhaps considering branching out into longer stories. Although the story was engaging enough on it's own, I felt that it could easily have been expanded to include more history of Liv's world, her parents, the cu

Spinner
Pages: 76
Flame Rating: 4 Flames
Genre: Fantasy, Science Fiction, Romance, Magic
 
Captured by pirates to be sold as an Exotic, Dehlia has to find freedom while working around the elf that lands in her lap.
 
Working for the Weavers Guild, Dehlia has gained a measure of respect and dignity in her work as an empathic Spinner. Her yarns, and the emotions trapped within them are sold for a high price. So is she. Waking up on a pirate ship is startling enough, but waking with an elf in her lap is beyond what a normal Terran in space could imagine. Taneus has traveled far to find her and free her, but she will be bound to him in more ways than she can imagine when he is done with her.
Reviewer: Kyraninse
Review: Sep 24, 2009
Genre(s): Sci-Fi / Fantasy Romance
This was a fun and engaging story. Dehlia is interesting and I like how she's smart about using her powers in innovative ways. However, I would have liked a ton more back-story. The world isn't quite fleshed out: I perpetually felt like I was running blind in a maze. How exactly did she get to where she was, what kind of culture was she from, what exactly the entire sentient world thing was... I might have

Flame
Pages: 175
 
Flame Rating: 4 Flames
 
A vampire, a werewolf, and a writer who realizes that she has stumbled into a past relationship that will shape her future.
 
WARNING: This book exceeds Viola Grace's standard heat level.
 
Flame has become what she wanted to be, successful as an erotica writer. But now what she has chosen to become will be twisted by what she has been in a previous life, when the men who shaped her past merge with her present. Set in a fairytale Germanic castle, Flame's life and loves are going to take sudden twists and turns that leave her gasping. Should she choose the life she knows, or the past and the men she has forgotten?
Reviewer: SamanthaAnn
Review: Aug 23, 2009
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Erotic Romance, Menage / Multiple Partners
Flame Barnett couldn’t believe it. Her first book with a big New York publisher and now she is a finalist in the biggest writing award of her life. Not only that, the final competition is to be held at a castle in Germany just like in her book. On top of this, she meets the two brothers who own the castle and they are the best looking hunks she has ever seen and they not only insist she stay at the cast

Running Wyld
Pages: 81
 
Aggie loved her life, but her friends and family agreed she had a higher purpose, why else would they have handed her over to the Dhemon of the Sector Guard?
 
Agreha Wyld had a good life, friends, family and a place she was accepted. When the Sector Guard call for exceptional beings goes out, her planet nominates her and it is over a year later before they get a response. The response's name is Haaro Denler, telepathic Dhemon and Aggie's destined mate. A marriage of convenience is her initial reaction, but her mind swiftly wanders down other paths when she sees the Dhemon's wingspan. During her first assignment on a tech-free world, she embraces her new duties as a Sector Guard, and decides to embrace her husband with the same enthusiasm. Won't he be surprised?
Reviewer: Kyraninse
Review: Oct 20, 2009
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Sci-Fi / Fantasy Romance
Running Wyld is an interesting, short, and sweet story, it does suffer from a few plot holes. I really enjoyed Aggie -- I would have loved to have had more detail about her childhood, her family, and the short reference to how her body wouldn't obey her when she was going through puberty was very intriguing. Too bad that was not explored fully. Haaro, I just couldn't get into. I didn't really get a good gra

Healer

Evah has been healing the Wyoran village of Senatha for months, but when Rapal is brought to her savaged and dying, her skills are pushed to the limit. So is her self control. No other man has woken the woman beneath the healer, but will he stay long enough to enjoy the result?

Reviewer: Kyraninse
Review: Oct 11, 2009
Genre(s): Sci-Fi / Fantasy Romance
I really enjoyed this story. The first sentence drew me in and it just got better from there. I thought that Evah's ability was very interesting in that she not only absorbs the pain of her patient, but it also reflects on her body. I thought that was particularly well done.  However, I would have loved more information on Rapal, what exactly his talent did, what "rigor" was exactly,  and

Chasing Carolyn

Carolyn had it all. A good life, great friends and family, and a wonderful hobby--running. With her instincts revved to the breaking point, running was her natural release for tension. The tension was caused by the two gorgeous guys who joined her gym and running club. How could she outrun her own instincts when they were screaming for her to pick one of them? Would they ever get tired of Chasing Carolyn?

Reviewer: SamanthaAnn
Review: Aug 17, 2009
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Sci-Fi / Fantasy Romance
Carolyn likes to run, and run fast. She burns out treadmills repeatedly. When she one day finds two men who can match her speed she realizes her days of being single are coming to a close. Axom and Ranal have come to vie for her affections.   Filled with the wit and humor her fans have come to know and love this book makes an enjoyable read. It was a little disappointing that the competition between Ax

The Oldest Elf

Driving through a blizzard was the only way for Anora Snow to escape a holiday party, but on the way home she is transported and run over by Santa's sleigh. How will she explain this to her insurance company? He takes her home and shows her the workings of his Workshop, and she learns that there is more to Sahn-Tah Kelas than the rotund merry man. He is one sexy elf and he is out to claim Anora with every Christmas wish he can muster.

Reviewer: Vee
Review: May 2, 2009
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Sci-Fi / Fantasy Romance
After a depressing holiday party, Anora Snow is driving home when she is transported through a portal to the North Pole then run over by a sleigh. She awakens in the presences of Sahn-Tah Kelas and learns he is not the married rotund man of legend, but single and a hottie. Sahn-Tah falls for Anora in the blink of his merry eye but can amazing sex keep her from wanting to return to her old life? The Oldest E

Holding Holly

When you can send your  alter ego out of your body to spy on friends and family, is that wrong?

What if the two hot guys who work for you and who have been hitting on you, are telling you that they dream about being with you? Would you jump into their dreams then?

And what if your ex comes into your cafe and his stunning fiance invites you to their wedding, this weekend? What will you go through to find a date, an outfit and the perfect shoes?

Hannah is haunted, and she isn't the only one.

Reviewer: Dianna
Review: Jan 6, 2009
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Sci-Fi / Fantasy Romance
Holly has a love hate relationship with Christmas time. She is able to sense their feelings and emotions. The strength of the love, the hate, the despair and greed make her very uncomfortable. Because of this she needs to get away from humanity for a couple of weeks around Christmas.   But this year it seems that she is not going to be alone after all. Kevik the dragon is gorgeous in humanoid f

Haunting Hannah

When you can send your  alter ego out of your body to spy on friends and family, is that wrong?
What if the two hot guys who work for you and who have been hitting on you, are telling you that they dream about being with you? Would you jump into their dreams then?
And what if your ex comes into your cafe and his stunning fiance invites you to their wedding, this weekend? What will you go through to find a date, an outfit and the perfect shoes?
Hannah is haunted, and she isn't the only one.

Reviewer: SamanthaAnn
Review: Aug 6, 2008
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Sci-Fi / Fantasy Romance, Comedy / Humor
Get ready for another sexy and fun ride in this second outing with the Silverwood Sisters. Hannah has the ability to venture out of body to visit others, both in and out of their dreams. Simon and Troy are the hot new baristas hired to work in the coffee shop Hannah co-owned with her friend and partner Sarah.  Follow Hannah’s adventures as she is imprisoned with crystals by Troy, swept off her fe

Finding Fiona

Fiona Blanchard has a talent. Finding. It is her passion and her life. From working with audit teams to locating lost children, nothing escapes her talent.

Nothing except the one child she can't find.

Wandering from his campsite less than twelve hours before, little Seth is lost. Fiona joins the searchers to find him, and finds only that the child has been used as bait by an elf who wants her for himself. Seth is freed, but Fiona is imprisoned. She faces unending attempts of courtship and seduction when a strangely attractive man comes to rescue her and is captured in return.

Now Fiona is their only way out, but can even she find away to escape from the nut-job who is holding her prisoner and bringing her flowers?

Reviewer: SamanthaAnn
Review: Aug 22, 2008
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance
Another sister, another talent, and another pair of hot, sexy Fae hunks vying for her attentions and we have the next installment in this creative and fun series. In this instance the talent is finding – Hannah can find anything, anywhere, anyhow. What she needs to find now is way out of the trap she has been lured into by a certain creature who intends for the two elves to fight for her hand in the ar

Getting Lucky

When magic began to flee the earth 300 years ago a council of magical beings prepared for its resurgence. It was determined that the next generation of magic would be placed in the hands of the Wild Hunt, a group of warriors of elven descent who rode through the night under the aegis of Artemis, one of the oldest magical creatures in existence. The elves of light argued that they should once again be the guardians, but the other races disagreed. Their guardianship consisted of seducing the new mages and then abandoning the pregnant women for fairie lovers. The word of the council was final and they created a place in the new world for the Wild Hunt to rest and begin to move with the pulse of the new land beneath them. Now, the ladies are coming into their power and Lucky is the first to meet her guardian and 'perfect' man. No matter how hard she tries, the attraction to her new companion is drawing her in in an inexorable wave. If only the light elf would stop trying to sabotage their wobbly relationship and let them have some privacy, Henry…just might Get Lucky.

Reviewer: SamanthaAnn
Review: Apr 5, 2008
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance
Between running for her life after a card game to stretching out in the Presidential Suite at a posh hotel and meeting Henry at the same time Westa Lucidine aka Lucky has to figure she's just, well, lucky! But meeting Henry Inlough wasn't just a coincidence, and he begins to explain what those strange lights were ten years ago at summer camp. Ms. Grace is starting off a new series with a bang and with

An Honoured Wife

Emily has been abandoned by the Alliance on a planet inhabited by a race so alien it is toxic to her. Despite their differences, she has become the honoured wife of their chief. When a shuttle caught in a comet's tail falls to the planet, it is up to Emily to rescue the inhabitants. Her talent for precognition is a liability as she foresees the inhabitants of that shuttle becoming her mates. Both of them. Will she leave her status behind to become the mate of two men she doesn't know? or will she remain on the planet to stay An Honoured Wife?

Reviewer: SamanthaAnn
Review: Feb 15, 2008
Genre(s): Sci-Fi / Fantasy Romance, Comedy / Humor
Only in Ms. Grace's mind could two beings from biologically incompatible species become husband and wife, and an honored wife at that! Things heat up, both literally and figuratively, when her rescuer shows up in the form of two Khaharim males, egg brothers to be exact. Set in the Haldis Imperium and Alliance worlds of some her other books, this journey is another remarkable ride.

Burning Ceres

When Ceres Avedis ran away from an arranged mating, she thought she was teaching her father a lesson. After six heats and a year on the run she has decided to return to the home and customs she knows. The bounty hunter that captures her and takes her to be sold in the Grand Arena did not figure in her plans. When she is bought and bound in a mating mask she is at the mercy of her buyer, and her body. His touch sears her and inflames her heat into an inferno that threatens to drive her insane before it is satisfied. Can Raanan tame her, sooth her, and convince her to accept a position as a lady of his family? Or will her heat be the only joining force between them?

Reviewer: Dee
Review: May 13, 2007
Genre(s): Sci-Fi / Fantasy Romance
Viola Grace has written a heart-warming love story in Burning Ceres. Ranaan and Ceres had a love for each other growing up, but when Ceres went into heat her father set her up to be mated. Ceres didn't know it was Ranaan she was to be mated with and ran away. Now Ceres has been caught and Ranaan is out to teach her a lesson. Her lesson, was his lesson, is our lesson. Their own lesson; love what you h

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