Review: The Limit of Desire

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Title: 

The Limit of Desire

Author: 

Nico Rosso

Release Date:

November 5, 2011

Publisher:

Liquid Silver Books

Word Count:

approx. 36,000

Purchase Links:  

Amazon

Liquid Silver Books

Author's Website:

http://nicorosso.com

Description:  

Captain Jessa Tok is a veteran soldier, but when an artillery strike separates her from the squad she commands, it may be the end of her career and her life. Then a single Dawn Soldier fights his way behind enemy lines to find her. The last man she’d expect. The one soldier she’d had a fling with and was trying to forget.

Sergeant Ryder Hiltop never thought of himself as a hero. He’s a career soldier, just trying not to get killed. But when his captain is lost during an attack, he has to go find her. And not just for the sake of the other Dawn Soldiers. A shore leave with Jessa left an indelible mark on him, and he’ll do anything to make sure she’s safe. But is it a suicide mission to find her? And if they manage to fight their way to safety, can their brief affair grow into something more?

Joey’s Review:

Review: Beyond A Highland Whisper

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Title: 

Beyond A Highland Whisper

Author: 

Maeve Greyson

Release Date:

February 18, 2011

Publisher:

The Wild Rose Press

Word Count:

approx. 73,000

Purchase Links:  

Amazon

The Wild Rose Press

Author's Website:

http://www.maevegreyson.com/

Description:  

Can love prevail over the dark magic of a woman scorned?

The last time Latharn MacKay walked among his kinsman was in Scotland of 1410. Sensuous and charismatic, all the women wanted him, but none could capture his heart. Latharn's charm became his curse when a dark sorceress didn’t take rejection well. She snared his soul into a crystal globe until the one woman destined to be his love whispered his release. Now all Latharn has to do is find her and guide her to him without speaking a word.

One of the youngest archeologists in St Louis of 2010, Nessa credits one thing for this achievement: the recurring dream of a heart-stopping Highlander since the summer she turned eighteen years old. Little does she know, he's not some fantasy cooked up by her subconscious. He’s a trapped soul determined for Nessa to end his six centuries in hell.

Laura’s Review:

Review: Deep-Seated Passion

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Title: 

Deep-Seated Passion

Author: 

Tierney O'Malley

Release Date:

September 1, 2011

Publisher:

eXtasy Books

Word Count:

approx. 75,000

Purchase Links:  

Amazon

Author's Website:

http://tierneyomalley.com/

Description:  

Aaron Hawke is a successful engineer, an overachiever, fiercely independent and cautious man. After eight years of being away, he comes home only to learn that his ex-fiancée who stabs his heart and left love’s bitter taste in his mouth is living and working in his grandfather’s mansion. Aaron quickly decided that she must leave. However, his grandfather’s will has made things complicated—Bronwyn can only leave when she has paid her debt.

Bronwyn Flaherty, a down-to-earth, honest, faithful chatelaine and utterly broke, is miserable. Aaron wants her to pay her debt or start packing. With her hands tied behind her back, she comes up with a solution—sex. Bronwyn’s bold offer shocks Aaron, but he accepts it. He will use her whenever he gets a chance. Payback time. But two weeks into their agreed one month contract, he’s become entangled in his own seductive game.

Brandi’s Review:

Review: A Beautiful Cage

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Title: 

A Beautiful Cage

Author: 

Alyson Reuben

Release Date:

September 2, 2011

Publisher:

The Wild Rose Press

Word Count:

approx. 96,000

Purchase Links:  

The Wild Rose Press 

Amazon

Barnes & Noble

Author's Website:

http://www.alysonreuben.com

Description:  

A BEAUTIFUL CAGE: Wanted by the Gestapo, Rebecca Bloomberg is on the run for her life. Sheltering in the home of a reporter who writes absurd lies for a Nazi propaganda newspaper is hardly an ideal solution. Irresistibly drawn to the man, she dares not trust him, until she discovers his journalist position is a mask for involvement in an anti-Nazi resistance ring.

Gustav Von Furst has done all he can to perfect his mask. Neither his family nor his close friends know the truth. Hiding a Jewish girl is the most foolish risk, yet there is something about her that makes him want to protect her.

Eager to forget the outside world, Rebecca and Gustav are caught up in a private world of forbidden passion—until unexpected danger lands on their doorstep and they’re faced with a decision that will change everything. Will love demand a sacrifice too great to give?

Deniz’s Review:

Review: The Way They Were

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Title: 

The Way They Were

Author: 

Mary Campisi

Release Date:

October 30, 2011

Word Count:

approx. 73,000

Purchase Links:  

Amazon

Author's Website:

www.marycampisi.com

 

Description:  

He hasn’t spoken her name in fourteen years. She keeps a journal hidden in the back of her closet and permits herself to write about him once a year—on the anniversary of the first and only time they made love. They promised to love one another forever, but tragedy tore them apart. Now, destiny may just bring them back together.

At eighteen, Rourke Flannigan and Kate Redmond thought they’d spend the rest of their lives together, until a family tragedy tore them apart. Fourteen years have passed and they’ve both carved out separate lives hundreds of miles apart – hers as a wife and mother, his as a successful, driven businessman. But once a year, on the anniversary of her daughter’s birth, Kate pulls out a red velvet journal and writes a letter, which she’ll never send, to the man who still owns her heart. Once a year, on the anniversary of the first and only time they made love, Rourke permits himself to read the annual investigative report detailing an ordinary day in Kate’s life.

When a subcontractor at one of his holding companies is killed, Rourke decides to pay the widow a visit and offer condolences, never dreaming the widow will be Kate. As they embark on a cautious journey of rediscovery, one far greater than they could have imagined, secrets and lies threaten to destroy their new found closeness – forever.

Brandi’s Review:

Review: Four of Hearts

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Title: 

Four of Hearts

Author: 

Roz Lee

Release Date:

November 2011

Publisher:

Red Sage Publishing

Word Count:

approx. 61,000

Purchase Links:  

Red Sage Publishing 

Amazon 

Barnes & Noble

Author's Website:

http://www.rozlee.net/

Description:  

Marriage hasn’t tamed Candace Callahan’s sexual curiosity, something her husband Ryan is grateful for, but when she asks him to tie her up for her anniversary present, he knows he’s going to need the help of their friends, Richard Wolfe and his wife, Fallon. 

Dr. Fallon Enright is the resident sex therapist aboard the Lothario - the cruise ship co-owned by her husband and Ryan Callahan. When Ryan asks to participate in one of their couple’s rope bondage classes, Richard isn’t sure it’s a good idea, but Fallon assures him all will be well.

What begins as innocent curiosity, blossoms into a polyamorous relationship none of them could have expected, but they are powerless to ignore. When the tabloids expose their new lifestyle, the foursome must choose between the love they feel for each other, or accepting society’s moral constraints.

Laura’s Review:

Review: The Marriage List

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Title: 

The Marriage List

Author: 

Jean C. Joachim

Release Date:

November 7, 2011

Publisher:

Moonlight Books

Word Count:

approx. 37,000

Purchase Links: 

Amazon

Barnes & Noble

Smashwords

Author's Website:

www.jeanjoachimbooks.com

Description:  

Can happily ever after start with a list? Grey Andrews thinks so. After ten years of working, saving and investing, Grey finally achieved a level of wealth that allows him to do what he wants with his life. He needs a woman to share it with, but not any woman, the perfect woman. A woman who has the three essential qualities on his marriage list. But after three years of searching he isn’t any closer to finding her than he was when he started out.

Carrie Tucker, an aspiring mystery writer and divorcée struggling to make it in the world of advertising, turned her focus from men to her career after dating too many creeps and losers. She’s finally earned her big break, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to become the first female creative director in a hot New York ad agency. So what if it means working nights and weekends? It’s not like she has a social life anyway.

Is the marriage list a failure or will a chance meeting at a fiction-writing conference prove the list to be the key to Grey’s happiness after all?

Joey’s Review:

Review: Playing for Keeps

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Title: 

Playing for Keeps 
Author: 

Carolyn Rosewood 
Release Date:

November 2, 2011 
Publisher:

Evernight Publishing 
Word Count:

approx. 41,000 
Purchase Links:  

Evernight Publishing 
Author's Website:

http://carolynrosewood.com/

Description:  

Damien Walker has just hired a sexy new bartender, and landed himself trouble with a capital T.

Teresa's on the run, but from something more sinister than human law. She's a demon on the lam from Hell, trying to hide away in this sleepy town. A job in Damien's bar seems the perfect cover. He doesn't ask questions and he's great eye-candy too. What could be better?

But Teresa isn't the only one with a secret identity and a past they'd rather not remember. Damien knows exactly who and what she is because he'd hunted demons before and old habits die hard.

What's a Nephilim bounty hunter to do when one white-hot little devil walks into his bar and turns his quiet life upside down? She's a complication he could do without. She's also irresistible.

So she wants to cause him trouble? That's nothing compared to what he can do to her.

Brandi’s Review:

Review: Love Me Twice

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Title: 

Love Me Twice

Author: 

Roz Lee

Release Date:

August 1, 2011

Publisher:

Red Sage Publishing

Word Count:

approx. 57,000

Purchase Links:  

Red Sage Publishing 

Amazon

All Romance

Author's Website:

http://www.rozlee.net/

Description:  

Sean Callahan came aboard the Lothario to do his brother Ryan a favor, and ended up the man in charge when both Ryan and Richard left the ship with the women they love. The last thing he needs is a complication, and Celeste is definitely a complication. Once upon a time Celeste had been part of his team as well as his lover, but after a disaster of a mission, and the realization that the other member of his team, Drew was in love with her too, she'd disappeared. Now she’s back, and it’s high time she choose.

Some women have all the luck. Celeste just isn't one of them. All the luck she seems to have is the bad kind. How else can you explain ending up on a ship with the two men she's tried to forget for the last five years? Even worse, not a thing has changed. She still loves them both. Leaving them behind only postponed the decision she knows she has to make, and they aren’t helping any. In fact, they’re both doing everything they can to convince her to choose them. But, Celeste isn’t choosing anyone until she understands how their ménage a trios turned into a ménage gone wrong.

Laura’s Review:

Review: The Best Bad Date

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Title: 

The Best Bad Date

Author: 

Addison James

Release Date:

December 16, 2011

Publisher:

MuseItUp Publishing

Word Count:

approx. 7,000

Purchase Links:  

MuseItUp Publishing

Author's Website:

http://addisonjwriter.com/

Description:  

Susan Wells finds out when a bachelor auction leads to a date with handsome Doctor Roger Lane, and a night to remember. What could go wrong? Everything. Will love find a way through this comedy of errors? Absolutely.

Joey’s Review:

Review: Shakin' It for Daddy

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Title: 

Shakin' It for Daddy 
Author: 

Tigra-Luna LeMar 
Release Date:

November 4, 2011 
Publisher:

MuseItHot Publishing 
Word Count:

approx. 19,000 
Purchase Links:  

MuseItHot Publishing 
Author's Website:

tigraluna.webs.com/

Description:  

Mika Jamison's dream of becoming a Showgirl of Simora is over. Not only that, she lives in a crummy apartment, works a crappy job as a waitress in a small town where everyone hates her. How can life possibly get any worse?

Add Degan Moira to the mix and you get more than trouble.

Degan Moira is a man on a mission--find the only woman he's ever remotely felt human around, make her see that he's the only man that can love her the way she deserves to be loved and live happily ever after.

But will he still love Mika when he sees that she's grown into a bitter, angry woman with nothing to her name?

Joey’s Review:

Review: The Duke's Blackmailed Bride

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Title: 

The Duke's Blackmailed Bride

Author: 

Leigh D'Ansey

Release Date:

September 14, 2011

Publisher:

The Wild Rose Press

Word Count:

approx. 12,000

Purchase Links:  

The Wild Rose Press 

Amazon

Author's Website:

www.leighdansey.com

Description:  

In such dire straits she must bathe in the kitchen, Vanessa Fitzwilliam has just stepped into her bath when Ashton, the Duke of Northbridge steps across her threshold.

 

Hardened by the ravages of warfare, Northbridge is seeking an alliance that will provide him with descendants but make no demands on his emotions. The beautiful but scandalously experienced Vanessa seems a suitable choice.

 

With a handful of old retainers relying on her for support Vanessa is considering Northbridge's offer when he devastates her with one foul blow.

 

To fulfil his desires Northbridge is prepared to be ruthless, but can he bend Vanessa to his will or has the Duke met his match?

Deniz’s Review:

Review: Winter in Paradise

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Title: 

Winter in Paradise

Author: 

T.C. Archer

Release Date:

October 14, 2011

Publisher:

Etopia Press

Word Count:

approx. 7,500

Purchase Links: 

Amazon

All Romance

Author's Website:

www.tcarcher.com

Description:  

Major Kelly Andres awakens to find Major Byron Grayson gone from the cave that has been their military base the last five months, she realizes he has disobeyed her orders. He’s gone to activate the quantum disruptor that he hopes will draw enemy fire, enabling the Provisional Army to attack the enemy armada. It’s a suicide mission. And Grayson knows it.

Kelly has no intention of letting Grayson die alone in the frozen wasteland that planet Onyx has become since the war began. She’s determined to find him and bring him back to base, because when they die, she wants him in her bed.

Joey’s Review:

Review: Hermes Online

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Title: 

Hermes Online

Author: 

Rose Anderson

Release Date:

March 16, 2011

Publisher:

Siren-BookStrand Publishing

Word Count:

approx. 37,000

Purchase Links:  

Siren-Bookstrand Publishing

Author's Website:

www.CalliopesWritingTablet.com

Description:  

Imagine meeting someone who thoroughly compliments you. You share likes and dislikes, views and outlooks and a soul connection unlike anything you've ever experienced before. It takes your breath, quickens your pulse and consumes your every thought. When you make love for the first time, it's as if every cell in your body confirms this is your twin flame. Now imagine the timing is horribly off. In my first novel, Hermes Online, Vivienne joyfully discovers such a love amid the ancient ruins of Greece - a love so complete and soul satisfying but one that just isn't meant to be.

As surely as seasons change, life moves on. Grieving the love she found and lost beside the impossible blue waters of the Mediterranean, Vivienne eventually takes another chance at happiness but unfortunately her next relationship turns out to be one of betrayal. Her faithless boyfriend intentionally administers a low blow to deflect the attention off of him and on to her - if she weren't so dull in bed he wouldn't have had to look elsewhere. Not being one to deliberately hurt someone herself, his unaccountable words become a yoke of self-doubt that spills over into every aspect of Vivienne's life. Hungering for a good word, on a whim she enters a short story written during happier times, to an adult literature site and makes a connection with a compelling man known only as S. The two soon embark upon the world of anonymous Internet communication where their suggestive emails lead her to try erotic chat, where cybersex leads to Skype, and C2C sends both into the arms of a love they'd believed lost forever.

Brandi’s Review:

Review: Joy's Revelation

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Title: 

Joy's Revelation

Author: 

Ginger Simpson

Release Date:

September 16, 2011

Publisher:

MuseItUp Publishing

Word Count:

approx. 7,000

Purchase Links:  

MuseItUp Publishing

Author's Website:

www.gingersimpson.com/

Description:  

Joy Garrett is preparing to marry the man of her dreams and needs her birth certificate in order to get a passport for her honeymoon.  For some reason her mother wants to avoid the issue and urges her to enjoy the good ol' USA.  While pilfering in her mother's things in the attic, Joy comes across a birth certificate, and although the date, hospital and doctor are a match with her, the paper certifies someone else's birth... What secret is her mother keeping?

Joey’s Review:

Review: The Merzetti Effect

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Title: 

The Merzetti Effect

Author: 

Norah Wilson

Release Date:

June 2011

Word Count:

approx. 90,000

Purchase Links: 

Amazon 

Author's Website:

http://norahwilsonwrites.com/

Description:  

Delano Bowen has been a medical doctor for a very long time. More than 170 years, in fact. For much of that time, he’s been searching for a way to reverse the curse foisted on him by a vampress who sought to own him. With the emergence of medical technology, he now also aims to develop a vaccine to protect the vulnerable from predation by rogue vampires. After a century of searching, he thinks he's found the key to his vaccine – a surviving descendent of the Merzetti family. The Merzettis were virtually hunted to extinction over the years by rogue vampires who feared the anti-vampirism properties in their blood.

A foundling, nurse Ainsley Crawford has no idea that she carries a genetic gift, and Delano aims to keep it that way. He must keep her close, and ignorant, for he can leave nothing to chance. He manipulates events to ensure her unwitting cooperation. But when Delano's arch enemy Radak Janecek mounts an all-out assault to destroy Delano and the fruits of his research, Delano is forced to draw Ainsley even closer to protect her. Inevitably, the attraction that has sparked between them from the first flares hot and urgent. Ainsley sees no reason why that attraction shouldn't be consummated, but Delano knows succumbing to it is not just ill-advised; it could literally be the death of him.

Brandi’s Review:

Review: The Girl Most Likely

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Title:       

The Girl Most Likely                                      

Author: 

Jana Richards

Release Date:

November 30, 2011

Publisher:

The Wild Rose Press

Word Count:

approx. 39,000

Purchase Links:  

The Wild Rose Press 

Author's Website:

www.janarichards.net

Description:  

Cara McLeod, the girl most likely to have the perfect marriage, is now divorced and, in her own words, “fat, frumpy, and over forty.” The thought of facing former classmates—and the ex-husband who dumped her—at her high school reunion terrifies her. Cajoled into attending by her kids and her best friend, Cara enlists help at the gym to lose weight and look great for the reunion. Personal Trainer Finn Cooper is more than willing to help—but does he have to be so to-die-for gorgeous?

Finn thinks Cara is perfect just the way she is. She’s everything he wants in a woman, except for one thing—she can’t get past the fact that he's eight years younger. To Finn, age and weight are just numbers. But can he convince Cara the numbers she worries about add up to only one thing for him—love?

Deniz’s Review:

Review: Dreamscape

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Title: 

Dreamscape

Author: 

Rose Anderson

Release Date:

March 16, 2011

Publisher:

Siren-BookStrand Publishing

Word Count:

approx. 74,000

Purchase Links:  

BookStrand

Author's Website:

www.CalliopesWritingTablet.com

Description:  

Unable to deny his own translucence, Dr. Jason Bowen determines his lack of physical substance could only mean one thing—he’s a ghost. Murdered more than a century before, Jason haunts his house and ponders the treachery that took his life. When Lanie O’Keefe arrives with plans to renovate her newly purchased Victorian mansion, Jason discovers, ghost or not, he’s still very much a man. Despite its derelict condition and haunted reputation, Lanie couldn’t be happier with her new home, but then she has no idea a spirit follows her every move throughout the day and shares her captivating warmth at night. Jason soon discovers he can travel through Lanie’s dreams and finds himself reliving the days before his murder with Lanie by his side. It took one hundred and twenty years for love to find them, but there’s that insurmountable little matter of Jason being dead.  

Dreamscape is a reader's Easter egg hunt in the truest sense. Peppered throughout are hints suggesting a story behind the scenes.

Brandi’s Review:

Review: Fast Girls Are True

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Title: 

Fast Girls Are True

Author: 

Tigra-Luna LeMar

Release Date:

August 19, 2011

Publisher:

MuseItHot Publishing

Word Count:

approx. 20,000

Purchase Links:  

MuseItHot Publishing 

Amazon

Smashwords

Author's Website:

http://tigraluna.webs.com/

Description:  

Jonica "Jon" Samuels is a woman that knows what she wants in life. The problem is, it seems the world is conspiring against her. She wants to become the first female motorcycle racer to qualify and win the Shinobi Grand Prix. No business will sponsor her and she cannot run her cycle without a sponsor--she's barely making ends meet as is.  When Derrick Bridger offers to sponsor her, she feels like the luckiest woman alive--that is until the sexy businessman begins to seep beneath her skin.

Joey’s Review:

Review: Getting It Right This Time

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Title: 

Getting It Right This Time 
Author: 

Rachel Brimble 
Release Date:

January 2011 
Publisher:

Lyrical Press 
Word Count:

approx. 75,000 
Purchase Links:  

Lyrical Press 
Author's Website:

http://www.rachelbrimble.com/

Description:  

She's back, but this time she’s a mother…intent on protecting her young.

Two years after her husband’s death, Kate Marshall returns home seeking security and stability for her three-year-old daughter. But when her path crosses with ‘the one who got away’…her husband’s best friend, she has to fight the desire to be with him for the sake of further heartbreak for her and her daughter.

A tough, straight talking theatrical agent, Mark Johnston is dangerously handsome, exceedingly rich, irresistibly charming – and branded by the tabloids as one of the UK’s most eligible bachelors. So even though Mark lost the girl of his dreams to his best friend, he finds no hardship in being single. Or so he thought.

Determined not to lose her a second time, Mark has to find a way to convince her they can work.  But can Kate cope with the media interest and ruthless, money-hungry clients surrounding him, being anywhere near her daughter?  Or accept that Mark Johnston is really the family man he claims to be?

Brandi’s Review: