I got so much more out of this story than I expected. For one, Candy was a victim of a horrible crime, and even though she withdrew to protect herself, was strong. And when she was ready to blossom, it was great to behold. Based on his prof...
4½ StarsAfter reviewing The Threshold Lost, I was intrigued enough to pick up The Fifth Gate to see if some of my questions would be answered by the first book. Interestingly enough, although I did get some of my questions answered - there were man...
3 StarsThese are three books of great sexual fun centered about four male friends and the female friends of Sylvie - she lives upstairs from Simon (22). Sylvie and her friends are 40 something, and have very interesting sexual encounters with them...
4½ StarsIn Serenade the Moon, Jade Novak shares her life with her father and her son, Nicholas. By day she is a gypsy fortuneteller and by night a beautiful chanteuse. Danny O'Brien, a magazine editor, is engaged to the bosses' daughter for good re...
3½ StarsDifferent Kind of Honesty begins with a hookup in a seedy bar. Maggie Lawless knew the dangers of such a liaison, but she could not deny the strong electric current flowing between the two. After dinner and a memorable night with the dark h...
5 StarsCandy Warner has come back to her hometown for her best friends wedding, and to start a new chapter in her life. She is planning to start a new business and to find a young trainable lover. Mitch Hammond is far from trainable. But since he...
3½ StarsShira Pravoloni worked with her father, Franco, in the family business, The Pravoloni Ravioli Company. Although she was pure Italian, she didn't see things eye to eye with her mother when it came to arranged marriages and traditions like th...
5 StarsCassandra Thompson, a high-heeled Marilyn Monroe look-alike city slicker from Chicago came to northern Minnesota to check out her inheritance. She understood she owned one-half of a gift shop, a legacy from her grandfather, and she was dete...
4 StarsKelly Michaels is a romance author who catapulted to fame with the photo of Italian hunk Derek Calavicci on her covers. Finally, after a string of best sellers, she meets him at a romance convention in person and she receives full court pre...
4 StarsWhat a sweet read! Why is Kandy's freezer always breaking down? Sure it's old, but come on! And isn't it convenient that every time it does break down, Jason Chapman, repairman extraordinaire, is always the one to come to the rescue? Kandy...
4¼ StarsCarol Iderman's marriage is over, which in this case is a good thing since her husband was a lying cheat. Still a phase of her life has ended and she's grieving and she's not sure how long that will take. When she comes face to face with he...
3¾ StarsIt is such a treat to be subjected to Kery's literary elixir. Vincent Devonald is geekily devilish, an alpha in his own league of desirability. Serafina Grovenor is beautifully vulnerable yet internally strong. They come together explosivel...
5 StarsJoanna Mathis, a guidance counselor, was seeking employment closer to her parents’ house to help her mom out with her father’s health. Her mom told her of a position that was open at St. John’s school and she went to apply...
5 StarsColby McCormick pulled his Mercedes in front of his parents' home. He hadn't returned there on over two years. He left Barstow a short time after his mother passed away and he headed straight to Las Vegas to start his chef career. Now he wa...
5 StarsA.J. Llewellyn takes us back to Hawaii and to Kimo and Lopaka's lives but in a different way this time. Johnny Kaimana is a young tour guide and Lopaka's former boyfriend now he is enjoying his new life with his roommate, lover Alex "aloha"...
5 StarsAfter having been married for 28 years, Addy Lipton is fed up with her inconsiderate, pack rat of a husband, Lucky. The two are barely speaking when Lucky wins a trip to Costa Rica. He hopes the vacation to paradise will bring something bac...
4½ StarsA book that quickly has you realize you want to become Mercedes, Colette Gale's Master: The Erotic Tale of Monte Cristo fulfills EVERY expectation of an erotic romance and then some. Closely following the original Count of Monte Cristo clas...
5 StarsThree of today's best selling authors have come together in this fabulous anthology called Rescue Me, where romance and adventure collide. In 'Tropical Heat by Cherry Adair we have Dr. Beth Goodall being held captive in a foreign country an...
4½ StarsWhat started out as the opportunity of her career turned into a surreal nightmare. Katrina Hammond helps people sell their art collections. When a handsome Spanish collector asks for her to help catalog and sell his families collection, she...
3¾ StarsWhen Toby Dobbs' wife leaves him shortly after their wedding, he finds himself alone in a large Victorian home. To stave off the emptiness, and provide an income, he decides to rent out rooms. Preference will be given to artists and perform...
5 StarsIn the previous book in the Magic or Madness Trilogy, Magic Lessons, Reason Cansino acquired an extreme amount of magic as a gift from one of her ancestors. She can now do extraordinary things that no mere magical person can do. But her new...
5 StarsJulia Templeton's The Conquest has two main characters that would make anyone's heart rate rise! The ideal masculine personality - if in real life- would truly be "eye candy", watchable, lickable, dependable, and irresistible. The female ch...
4¾ StarsBlurb From the Publisher: "Book 2 in The Border Chronicles tells the story of Duncan Armstrong, the laird of Duffdour, a man who says he'll only marry for love. And Ellen MacArthur, a highland heiress, who flees to King James IV for protect...
3¼ StarsPity, that is one word Molly Gerard never thought she would experience from her friends. Alas, ever since the divorce that is what her friends have for her. It was not her fault that her husband divorced her, even though he says it was. She...
5 StarsBorn in London to a mother who was a prostitute, Hannah was raped by one of her mother's customers. Hoping that she would be protected, Hannah was sent to Japan to become a servant. After living there for a year, she was attacked while out...
4 StarsWhat do you get when you have a witch who has had no time to masturbate? Well a very frustrated witch who casts a spell to clear her drought. Zina Matthews is at the top of her game. She is a strict businesswoman, rich and sad to say has no...
5 StarsMiss Alicia Alton, a young, well-educated, but impoverished nanny, finds herself falling in love with her widowed boss-Jason Culver, the wealthy, handsome and very sophisticated Marquess of Romley. Thinking that Jason is indifferent to her...
4 StarsOkay move over Mrs. Robinson for Jamie tops you. Here is a mother who is about to say goodbye to her daughter as her daughter is getting married and leaving the house. It supposed to be a sad day for Jamie but instead she is feeling horny....
5 StarsLily McCourt couldn't believe what was about to happen to her. What she thought a couple of drifters from the neighboring ranch were going to do was rob her, but instead they wanted something more from her. Blade and his accomplice were try...
5 StarsDoctor Tracey Nichols works hard and doesn't play much, but she can't resist the chance to spend time with her best friend's cousin Denzil. He's hot, sexy and way out of her normal stratosphere. Between work and the need she feels to be the...
3¾ StarsAfter Isabelle Connelly's father first murders her mother than himself, Isabelle goes back to Jessup, Missouri, to settle the estate. Unsure why herself, Isabelle moves from California back to the sleepy town and tries to make a life for he...
3½ StarsA murder occurring in the sleepy town of Milton Falls shakes up the community. When a suspicious fire follows the murder, the sheriff postpones the town's Zucchini Festival until he can make sure the town is safe. It's too much for the town...
4 StarsRoxanne Gerik will do anything she can to avoid bankruptcy. Her best friend thinks she is crazy for accepting a 5-digit check but she needs it badly. All she has to do is teach an old man how to use the computer and get on the information h...
4 StarsAspen Brooks survived her senior year and being stalked and kidnapped in the Revenge of the Homecoming Queen and now she's about to enter her first year of college at in Twisted Sisters. And Aspen expects things to go much smoother than las...
4½ StarsSea Witch is a romantic sci-fi with selkie and human interaction. On a Maine land visit Maggie, a selkie, finds Caleb, a police chief, and just the man to fulfill her needs. She needs some lovin'. Then she leaves - Caleb searches every aven...
4 Stars: In Sarah McCarty's Running Wild you will find a trio of drop dead gorgeous dominant males with extreme animal instincts and they are out to seduce three stubborn sisters into being a little more submissive. Running Wild is the first book,...
3½ StarsMoira Robertson is traviling aboard ship with her guardian, Sir Bearnard Robertson , his son and their men-at-arms. They are on the way to pay ransom for Sir Bearnard's daughter. While abord ship, Moira meets a strange man, Sir Tavig MacAlp...
5 StarsJustine was the "other woman." Lisa is the widow of an unfaithful spouse. And Kennedy has enough baggage, emotionally speaking, for everyone. Three women whose friendship was forged over golf lessons are on a getaway arranged by Kennedy, th...
3½ StarsCourtney Hudson agrees to go out for a night on the town with her cousin Pilar. Unfortunately Pilar is a no show but the evening picks up when she meets the sexy Alaskan detective, Lloyd Vance. Things heat up between them and they end up ba...
3½ StarsContinuing the Drake Sisters drama Joley - gifted with voice - is a famous touring singer when Ilya comes into her life as a bodyguard. Drama churns when a young groupie disappears and tumultuous events abound as a crewmember is found murde...
5 StarsThe Darkwings are back and with bigger bite and sizzle than ever before! Daphne Urban and her fellow Darkwing comrades are back for another thrilling ride in Under Darkness The Darkwing Chronicles Book 5. Ever since Daphne was given the cho...
5 StarsI was worried that Ms. Hoyt would be a one series hit wonder. I was apprehensive that she wouldn't be able to catch lightning in a bottle again. Within the first two pages, I was hooked. To Taste Temptation is like a big bowl of ice cream t...
4¾ StarsAt just 23, Meg is a successful dessert chef in Oregon, and has been in a relationship with Steve, a salesman for about a year. They decide to take a special vacation to the beach to celebrate the 1st time they had sex. Sadly, Meg doesn't r...
5 StarsHidden in the center of London is a place called the Nightside. In THE UNNATURAL INQUIRER, we are taken back to this spooky place where PI John Taylor lives and works. John Taylor has the gift of being able to find anyone or anything. He's...
4 StarsThis is the story of Mary, the younger sister of King Henry VIII. Mary is 8 years old when the book starts and learns that her older brother, Arthur, has died making her favorite brother, Henry, the new heir to the throne. At 18, Henry beco...
3 StarsLily is a succubus who works for the Devil who in this case, really does wear Prada. She has fabulous clothes, a great job, caring friends but feels lonely because men only want to sleep with her and not get to know her. Until she meets Nat...
2½ StarsI really thought that it was interesting to see how Arabella would use her status as a spy and to see how she would interact with Christopher, an agent on an opposing side. Arabella and Christopher have a dashing courtship complete with all...
3 StarsLacey is an Adept; a member of a race that changes its' physiology to its' surroundings. The changes occur slowly, over time. But Lacey was involved in a horrible battle, and lived to see her comrades, and lover, die. She blames herself for...
3¾ StarsThis was a truly enjoyable read - especially with the snippets of Lucrezia's past interfacing with the present. I thought that the idea was a novel one and the execution superb. I did think that the sexually charged dreams with Antonio befo...
4¼ StarsTortured by a tragic past Fortitude McLaren resigned his commission as a mercenary and became a roustabout for the Ten Nations Fair, he thought to be invisible and remain alone. Griffyd Ringman though had other ideas for he was attracted to...
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