Blackmailed Bride, Inexperienced Wife by Annie West

Posted by Megan | Book Reviews, Contemporary, Print Books, Romance, e-books | Friday 22 January 2010 2:32 pm
****½

Alissa Scott loves her sister and is willing to do anything for her, even if it includes marrying for convenience instead of love.

Dario Parisi is willing to marry for different reasons. He wants his birthright back and wants it at any costs. He is even willing to marry an enemy to get back a decayed Sicilian estate that was stolen from his family. (more…)

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Chronicles of the Lost Years by Tracy Cooper-Posey

Posted by Gabby | Book Reviews, Historical, Mystery, Print Books, Romance, e-books | Tuesday 10 November 2009 11:17 pm
****½

Chronicles of the Lost Years is a Sherlock Holmes story in the best tradition of Arthur Conan Doyle. Dr. Watson is, as in the original tales, the narrator, and the story features other well known Doyle characters such as Sherlock Holmes, his brother, Mycroft, the Baker Street Irregulars, Holmes’s adversary Moriarity, and a couple of others.
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Coming Together: Against the Odds Edited by Alessia Brio

Posted by Jules | Adult Content, Book Reviews, Erotica, Print Books, Suspense, anthology, e-books | Friday 16 October 2009 6:01 pm
*****

Editor Alessia Brio brings us Coming Together Against the Odds, the seventh anthology of erotic fiction from the Phaze Books Coming Together series and twelfth in the Coming Together collections from all publishing venues. Two things make this special collection stand out from the pack. First, there is that all of the proceeds from the sale of the book are donated to Autism Speaks, and second, that each of these tales involves an element of mystery that captivates the reader and holds them riveted to their seat.

Each of the fourteen stories featured in this book is uniquely crafted to take the reader on a journey that can be taken alone or share with a partner, as well as reading the entire book through or enjoying it in single story bites. From the four couples taking their revolving dinner parties to a new level in “Blind Tasting” to the Psychic Advisor with a penchant for S&M in “Sixth Sense” and the somewhat psychotic Trina in “The Arch”, the characters are each so well written and engaging that a series or a novel could be written around them. With a balanced blend of both intrigue and erotica, Coming Together Against the Odds would be an appropriate book for neophytes to the genre of erotic fiction.

About The Book:
“All behavior is communication. The trick is to figure out just what it’s saying. No behavior communicates as clearly or on as many levels as sex. All the physical and emotional senses are engaged. Add the element of intrigue, and the intellect is engaged as well.

Phaze Books, in partnership with editor, Alessia Brio, is proud to announce the release of Coming Together: Against the Odds, a collection of erotic fiction with a mystery theme, with an introduction written by the one & only Maxim Jakubowski.

All proceeds from the sale of this special anthology will benefit Autism Speaks.”

Book Stats:

  • Paperback: 280 pages
  • Publisher: Phaze Books (May 31, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1606590472
  • ISBN-13: 978-1606590478

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Highland Dragon by Kimberly Killion

Posted by Shell | Book Reviews, Historical, Print Books, Romance, Suspense, e-books | Friday 16 October 2009 5:07 pm
****

This historical tale is both sexy and exciting as Ms. Killion delves into the sometimes brutal and unjust lives of the Lairds of the Scottish Highlands in the late 1400s.

The secrets of Brycen Castle were the reason a young lad was able to witness the birth of a young lass, her father’s maniacal temper, and his father’s, her mother’s and members of his clan’s violent and savage deaths. Stepping out of the shadows to take the babe from the priest’s hands before the Laird returned to lay waste to her young life, too, he brands the bundle with his father’s signet and escapes with the little one in tow.

Throughout the young maiden’s life, she has been shunned as a witch or worse. Akira is much loved by her adoptive family but is not privy to the information on her real heredity. Her benefactor, although unknown, has captured her young heart as he has long said that he will send for her to become his bride when the time is right. Laird Calin MacLeod has grown since he escaped with his betrothed from Brycen castle and now was a Laird in his own right. When he arrives to get his bride, it is found that she has been taken by someone of his own house, and he and her brother Kendrick must rescue her from the slave auctions to which she had been sold. Returning from the auctions, Calin must slowly woo the lady he has trothed his life to as they make their way back to MacLeod lands and to the wedding. When Akira finds out he is one and the same as her benefactor and that she is not truly a sister to Kendrick, Akira shows her strength in battling her feelings of betrayal and her growing feelings for Calin.

The two must deal with their growing relationship, internal strife and betrayal in the MacLeod lands and the uprising of Laird Kinnon, Akira’s true father, in his attempts to control not only his lands but neighboring clans as well.

I was truly enraptured with this story and its characters. Calin and Akira were both very strong and brave in their drive to protect the ones they love and rid themselves of a man who had left a trail of blood and turmoil throughout their young lives. The book was a sensual and romantic read that fascinated me from the start to the finish with its both amusing and tantalizing scenes, including two weddings and a mass murder. This would be a great beach or summer read to fill your thoughts with imaginative, suspenseful and arousing images of a life long ago.

Book Stats:

  • Paperback: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Zebra Books (Mass Market) (October 6, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1420104411
  • ISBN-13: 978-1420104417

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Can’t Stand the Heat by Louisa Edwards

Posted by Virginia | Book Reviews, Contemporary, Print Books, Romance | Wednesday 9 September 2009 8:25 pm
*****

Miranda Wake has made enemies of most of the chefs in New York City because of her sharp-tongued reviews. However, when she meets Adam Temple, she discovers that his food lives up to its reputation. But when Adam makes a dare for her to spend a month in his kitchen and find out the real side of cooking, Miranda cannot pass it up.
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A Girl’s Guide to Modern European Philosophy by Charlotte Greig

Posted by Brandi | Book Reviews, Contemporary, Print Books, e-books | Wednesday 19 August 2009 4:56 pm
****


When I showed the back cover of A Girl’s Guide to Modern European Philosophy by Charlotte Greig to a friend of mine, she said, “That is way too smart for me.” Perhaps she was taken aback by a few buzz words: antiques, pregnancy, Kierkegaard. Also, it is not a romance.
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Tangled Up In Love by Heidi Betts

Posted by Virginia | Contemporary, Print Books, Romance | Sunday 9 August 2009 10:39 pm
*****

Dylan Stone would really rather be writing sports columns but instead routinely engages in a battle of the sexes with Veronica Chasen, a columnist at a rival newspaper. Anything he can do, she can do better. Until she challenges him to learn how to knit. Surely knitting is not that difficult to learn, is it? Dylan thought that this would be an easy challenge until he finds out it’s not as simple as it looks. So he ups the stakes a little bit and challenges Ronnie to teach him how to knit. Will these two rivals learn that there is a fine line between love and hate?
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Riding on Instinct by Jaci Burton

Posted by Virginia | Adult Content, Contemporary, Print Books, Romance, Suspense, e-books | Sunday 9 August 2009 10:22 pm
****½

When Shadoe Grayson takes on her first undercover assignment, she would never have dreamed it involved being a stripper. But she is determined to prove that she can do the job and bring down the bad guys even with her clothes off. Spencer King, on the other hand, thinks Shadoe is too straight-laced and privileged to pull off the job. As they butt heads, sparks fly between them until, finally, Spencer has to admit that there is a sexy woman under that Department of Justice standard-issue suit. They will have to put their desire for one another on hold in order to bring down a double-dealing federal agent.

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Hard and Fast by Erin McCarthy

Posted by Virginia | Contemporary, Print Books, Romance, Sports, e-books | Sunday 9 August 2009 9:56 pm
*****

Imogen Wilson never dreamed she would be the type of girl to fall for a race car driver. She is always careful, seems to have a set plan for her life, but when she meets Ty McCordle, that plan appears to go out the window, and she discovers a side of herself of which she was not aware. After all, how can she fall for a guy who cannot seem to get her name right?

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Nobody But You by Francis Ray

Posted by Virginia | Contemporary, Print Books, Romance, Sports | Sunday 9 August 2009 9:34 pm
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Cameron almost lost his ride the year that Caitlin left him at the alter but he was able to turn it around and bounce back to do the one thing he loves: racing in the NASCAR Nextel Cup series. When an accident lands him in the ER, he finds out what happened to Caitlin after all these years and discovers the secret that she’s been keeping from him: his son. Cameron will do whatever he has to in order to keep Joshua as a part of his life. And he hopes that he can change Caitlin’s mind as well. But will his love of racing interfere with the family he loves?

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