“Run the Risk” is an exciting romantic suspense novel by Lori Foster. This is a fun read centering around one of Ms Foster’s typically protective alpha males who is opinionated and action-oriented and a bit obnoxious since he is perfectly w...
4½ StarsI came across Forever a Lady in a Portland bookstore when the author, Delilah Marvelle, was there to promote her latest work. She had a historical dress demonstration that gave me an assurance that she knew her facts and her historical nove...
4 StarsCourageous is the newest in Diana Palmer's Long Tall Texans/Mercenaries series. Although these books are stand alone for the most part they are also interrelated and often reference events that happen in earlier books in the Long Tall Texan...
3 StarsTemptation and Twilight is the second in a series involving heirs to a secret society with external conflict generated by a rival evil secret society. The heirs of the good guy society are the heroes in the series, and Iain, the hero of thi...
3 StarsSusan Mallery's Fool's Gold series is one that never fails to disappoint me. Each book has just the right mix of humor and emotion to keep a reader engrossed in the happenings of this small fictional California town. In this latest edition,...
4 StarsOnce a high powered derivatives trader, Griff has returned to Wyoming penniless. He is estranged from his twin brother, lacks the skills needed to work on a ranch and in need of a job. Val needs a wrangler and the inexperienced but eager Gr...
4 StarsThe three stories in Kiss Me I’m Irish get progressively more Irish as you continue to read. In the 1st story, the main setting is at an old Irish pub converted into an Internet Café. The 2nd story’s hero is all Irish - stubborn and sexy. W...
3½ StarsBig Sky Country by Linda Lael Miller has great character building, passion, and drama to keep you intrigued to the very end. I found this contemporary romance a refreshing change from the dark romances of late. You are easily drawn to the c...
4 StarsLove is a very fragile thing. How quickly love turns to hatred or even worse indifference unimaginable if the source of that pain is the very people who are supposed to love you unconditionally - your parents. Parker Welles grew up as a pri...
4½ StarsLife maps out your destiny and leads you down a path that shapes the person you become. Twins Slade and Griff paths were chosen with the death of their parents. Griff raised in the city with love and good education which lead to a lucrative...
4½ StarsLindsay McKenna has done it again in The Last Cowboy. It features two people who are opposites from each other yet their passion sizzles. Slade McPherson is a horse person. His whole life has always been on the ranch even though his family...
4 StarsAva Spencer hates Cade Gallari with a passion that everybody in town knows. Seeing him back in town she knows it is time for revenge. As a teenager she wasn’t the usual cheerleader but instead she was the shy and fat bookworm of a girl. All...
4 StarsPlot & Characters: Deadly is the Kiss is a spine tingling paranormal romance that will pull at your heart strings and leave you with a need for more Rhyannon Byrd! I can't believe I waited so long to try this author. What was I thinking! De...
4½ StarsOf all the Primal Instincts books, this one is my favorite and I think possibly the most emotional. Ashe Granger and Juliana Sabin are both secondary characters from the earlier books in the series and the main characters of Deadly Is the K...
4½ StarsA Vampire For Christmas is an overall dark, delicious and sensually dangerous read! This anthology has brought together four talented authors that know how to spin a vampire tale that will pull you into the holiday spirit while giving you a...
4½ StarsEnchanted by the Blood by Laurie London Vampires do not exist or do they? That is something that Charlene Grant is trying to come to terms with right now in her life. A year ago she fell in love with a sexy, gorgeous man, Trace Westfalen. S...
4 StarsLady Justine is willing to do anything she can to get her father back in her life. Everybody thinks he is to blame but she knows he is innocent. Only one man can help her but if she goes to him her good name will be in ruin. She knows the D...
4 StarsA furious Finn has left his home and business in Alaska to come to Fool's Gold California to fetch his twin brothers back to college, but his brothers are equally determined to take their chances on getting cast in a reality TV show. The tw...
4¼ StarsThe twin brothers are trouble. Dakota Hendrix knew that right from the beginning when they entered the reality show. Although they are trouble in her mind they are great for the show’s ratings. Everybody likes them on the show except their...
4½ StarsDara Rose Nolan is at her wits end. Losing her husband is one thing but supporting two little girls without money is making her do crazy things. Coming out to Blue River, Texas was supposed to be a new start at life with her husband. She ne...
4½ StarsOlivia Bishop is boring and sexless. That is what she thinks she has become since her husband left her. Book clubs are her thing, not sexy bartenders tempting her like Jamie Donovan. He is definitely opposite from her husband yet something...
4 StarsRedwood bend is the first Robyn Carr book I've had the opportunity to read. I've definetly been missing out on the work of an incredible author. Dylan Childress (pilot, biker, rancher and ex-child movie star) is on vacation with two of his...
5 StarsBrenda Joyce’s Seduction is set during the French Revolution. Dominic Paget, Earl of Bedford is shot in the back during a failed assassination attempt and is sent to recover at Julianne Greystone’s home. Julianne is a Jacobite and Dominic p...
4½ StarsDiana Palmer surprises fans by visiting some of her early characters in her new book Wyoming Tough. This novel is the story of King Brannt and Shelby Kane Brannt's (from To Love and Cherish) daughter Morie. Fans of Palmer who have wondered...
3½ StarsDiana Palmer has done it again in a book that captures a true cowboy’s heart and what he has been searching for. Mallory Kirk’s whole life has been ranching and nothing else. That is until he meets Morie Brannt and everything in his life is...
4¼ StarsReporter Keri Daniels works for the weekly entertainment magazine Spotlight and she’s great at what she does. But when her editor-in-chief demands her to get the dirt on the most reclusive bestselling author, Joseph Kowalski, and who...
5 StarsKeri Daniels is a successful reporter for the popular Spotlight Magazine and is steadily climbing up the ladder to become an editor. One day her boss, Tina Deschanel calls Keri into her office with incriminating high school photos and an ul...
5 StarsKeri Daniels left her home in New Hampshire right out of high school and except for visits home hasn't even thought of returning. She's worked hard and moved up the ranks as a reporter. Now she's up for a promotion but her editor has given...
5 StarsThere are some things that Keri Daniels has done in her past. Things that she hopes no one will find out about but her past has been revealed. Her editor knows about her past with bestselling author Joe Kowalski. Everybody has tried to get...
4 StarsSarah McCarty’s “Shadow’s Stand” is part of her Hell’s Eight series and tells the intriguing tale of Shadow Ochoa and Fei Yen Tseng. Each of these two unique characters has had to overcome the stigma of being a mixed breed in a society that...
4¾ StarsTessa Donovan loves her job and her family. Yet this new incident of a break in all points to her reckless brother. She loves the brewery but sometimes it could be a real love breaker. It's been months since she's fallen for someone and Det...
3¾ StarsIt has been awhile since I fell in love with a hero in a book, but that certainly changed when Ms. Graham introduced Pinkerton Detective Finn Dunne to the world. Sexy and charismatic, the conflict between him and the strong and beautiful Ta...
5 StarsLady Augustine Ascott adores her younger brother Nathaniel. The boy is the light of her life, a bright spot in the dreary city of New York. When mysterious happenings make Nathaniel fearful, Augustine does her best to reassure him though sh...
4¼ StarsFBI agent Jon Blackhawk is what you would call a catch. Every women in Jacobsville wants to be with him, the problem is he doesn't want to be with them. He's a love em' and leave em' type of a guy and doesn't need a wife like his mother kee...
4 StarsOliver "Beau" Blackthorn is a bastard and welcomes it in many ways. As a bastard he doesn't have to worry about girls marrying him for his money or being caught in an inappropriate way. The only thing he has to worry about is getting rid of...
4 StarsRobin Blackhtorn, better known as Puck, is one of the three infamous Blackthorn Bastards. He has decided to enter London society, using his money and blackmail connections to join. On his first outing at a masquerade ball, he finds his inte...
4¾ StarsThe Blackthorn Brothers are back with the story of Puck a.k.a. Robin Goodfellow. Puck is known for being a walking Lothario yet mischievous all the way. Every woman falls for his charm and quick wit. It is this quick wit that gets him in th...
4 StarsNalini Singh is best known for her psy series and angel novels and she brings readers a great addition in the Royal House of Shadows-Lord of the Abyss. Singh knows how to write romance and shows her stuff in this fantasy romance mix. You ha...
4 Stars"Lord of the Abyss" by Nalini Singh is the final episode in the intriguing the `Royal House of Shadows' quartet that describes the struggle to recover the kingdom of Elden from the evil Blood Sorcerer who murdered the royal rulers and was i...
4½ Stars"Body of sin" Book 4 in the Otherkin series by Eve Silver masterfully culminates a gripping tale of love, betrayal and retribution. Three cheers for Eve Silver's Body of Sin! Finally all is revealed regarding Lokan Krayl's fate and his dest...
5 StarsBody of Sin by Eve Silver is the long-awaited and mesmerizing final book in the Otherkin series. Lokan Krayl's murder has been solved, unhappily causing a severe schism in the family between the brothers and their father. Lokan's body has f...
5 StarsPosey thought that Liam was out of her life after high school. Fast forward 14 years later. Posey runs a successful architectural salvaging business, and is trying to avoid the matchmaking efforts of her family. Enter Liam, a widower with a...
4¾ StarsKevin Kowalski may look like a ladies man but deep at heart he’s a family man. Part of a huge loving family, he was devastated after his divorce. Two years later, he’s dated some but is more cautious. When he meets Beth in his b...
4 StarsIf I had to sum up what this book was about in one word it would be perseverance. Specifically, our hero Kevin Kowalski's almost unending perseverance in waiting out commitment phobic Beth Hansen. It's bad enough that the first time they me...
3¾ StarsKevin Kowalski is not a one woman man and everybody knows it. Yet something about Beth Hansen is making him see that he could change. Something about her makes him want to be good and redeem himself, which scares him to the core. He's never...
4¾ StarsBrody Creed has been back for a while and things are still awkward at home. He's tried so hard lately to reconcile with his family including his twin brother. Everybody in town thinks he will run away any minute now but he's determined to c...
5 StarsKevin Kowalski owns a bar. He use to be a cop and he use to be married but when he found his chief in his wife's bed, he lost both. Now, he has women handing him their phone numbers and making propositions. Kevin's thinking of settling down...
5 StarsSir James Devlin is bored. After living a life of excitement at sea, he is at the point of reaching his ultimate goal by marrying the wealthy darling of the ton, Emma Brooke. Being Emma's lapdog for the past two years has been getting on De...
4¾ StarsThis book came as a surprise because I did not realize more books were coming in the Primal Instinct series. I couldn't imagine what was next, what could possibly have been left undone, after the last book. However Rhyannon Byrd has proven...
5 StarsThis was my first Laurie London book, so I was sure what to expect. I was pleasantly surprised. Alfonso Serrano has been hiding for most of his life. First because he had pledged himself to the Alliance (the evil arm of the vampire communit...
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