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.

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Review: Still Taking Chances

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Title: 

Still Taking Chances

Author: 

Roz Lee

Release Date:

October 2011

Publisher:

Red Sage Publishing

Word Count:
approx. 24,000

Purchase Links:  

Red Sage Publishing

Amazon

Barnes & Noble

All Romance

Author's Website:
http://www.rozlee.net/

Description: 

After a mission in a South American jungle goes wrong, DEA Agent Elgin ‘Hud’ Huddleston returns to his boyhood home to lick his wounds. Despite his better judgment, Hud is drawn to the woman across the street, a petite Dominatrix with a freeze your balls off name.

Mary Beth Winters packed away her toys and put the BDSM lifestyle behind her years ago when she realized the men she dominated didn’t need her as much as she needed them. But when a troubled bad-boy, Elgin ‘Hud’ Huddleston, moves in across the street, she dusts off her toy box and risks her heart to help him heal.

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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.

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Review: For Everything

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Title: 

For Everything

Author: 

Rae Spencer

Release Date:

August 8, 2011

Publisher:

Lazy Day Publishing

Word Count:

approx. 51,000

Purchase Links:  

Amazon

Barnes & Noble

All Romance

Author's Website:

http://raespencer.com/

Description:  

Clay Savage, the ebony haired lead guitarist of the rock band Distracted, has wanted dusky eyed Lily Travis since the moment he met her over a year ago. No matter what he said or how hard he tried, Lily insisted on keeping their relationship as nothing more than causal friendship. Weary of her excuses and only wanting a chance, Clay resorts to manipulation and cons Lily into being his weeklong date. Now that Lily can no longer avoid him or conceal herself as a wallflower, Clay determinedly pursues her only to stumble upon the horrific secret she conceals. Faced with trauma of her past and the shame she wrongfully bears, Clay must now prove to Lily he can protect her and convince her they have a chance For Everything.

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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.

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Review: Ablaze

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Title: 

Ablaze

Author: 

Tierney O'Malley

Release Date:

August 1, 2011

Publisher:

eXtasy Books

Word Count:

approx. 56,000

Purchase Links:  

Amazon

Author's Website:

http://tierneyomalley.com/

Description:  

Dylan Band loves women, but after his ex-fiancée cheated on him, he has decided to create rules to avoid getting hurt again. He plans to stay commitment and pain-free. If he can have a wondrous one night with a woman, that’s good enough. When Frappuccino-addict Angel McCready comes to stay in the condo he shares with her grandpa, he knows how to keep his heart well-guarded from her charm and still flirt with her.

Coming to Seattle, Angel expects to find a relaxing down time. To get away, to forget that she nearly married a man with horrible secrets. What she doesn’t expect is to find that’s she’ll be sharing the condo with a delicious tour guide who must have majored in flirtation, who reads to her to help her sleep and has made her forget about everything with a simple smile.

Their flirtation escalates to a mind-blowing erotic sex. In two short weeks, their time together becomes an addiction. Night and day, they share wondrous times together. Angel is an aphrodisiac Dylan begins to fall in love with. They’re perfect. But there is one problem. Dylan is not what he presents himself to be. 

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Review: Soul Mate

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Title:
Soul Mate 
Author:
Catherine Bybee

Release Date:
August 17, 2011

Publisher:
The Wild Rose Press

Word Count:
approx. 17,000

Purchase Links:
The Wild Rose Press
Amazon  

Author's Website:
http://www.catherinebybee.com/

Description:

Kari Pearce lives the life of a lone werewolf. No one knows of her affliction, not even her sister. When she hears of a missing child up in the Sequoias, Kari goes on the hunt to find the child and her abductor before tragedy can occur. Saving the child is easy, avoiding the FBI agent associated with the case is not.

Agent Nick Murdock knows he's seen Kari before, but damn if he can remember where. There's one thing he knows for sure. Kari Pearce, with her blonde hair and piercing blue eyes, is hiding something. And Nick is going to find out what.

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Review: After Midnight

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Title: 

After Midnight

Author: 

Sarah Grimm

Release Date:

September 30, 2011

Publisher:

The Wild Rose Press

Word Count:

approx. 79,000

Purchase Links:  

The Wild Rose Press 

Author's Website:

http://www.sarahgrimm.com/

Description:  

Thirteen years—that's how long Isabeau Montgomery has been living a lie. After an automobile accident took her mother's life, Izzy hid herself away, surviving the only way she knew how. Now she is happy in her carefully reconstructed life. That is until he walks through the door of her bar...

Black Phoenix singer/front man Noah Clark came to Long Island City with a goal—one that doesn’t include an instant, electric attraction to the dark-haired beauty behind the bar. Coaxing her into his bed won’t be easy, but he can’t get her pale, haunted eyes nor her skill on the piano out of his head.

Can Noah help Isabeau overcome the past? Or will her need to protect her secret force her back into hiding and destroy their chance at happiness?

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Review: Midnight Conquest

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Title: 

Midnight Conquest

Author: 

Arial Burnz

Release Date:

June 1, 2011

Word Count:

approx. 105,000

Purchase Links:  

http://arialburnz.bigcartel.com/

Author's Website:

http://www.arialburnz.com/

Description:  

Scotland – 1513

Masked in a Gypsy guise, Broderick MacDougal hides his vampiric identity while seeking to destroy the man who slaughtered his family. When an old Clan rival ensnares Broderick in a trap using an enticing widow, he is compelled to discover if she is bait or an accomplice, and the cinnamon-haired beauty is his next conquest.

Widow of an abusive husband, Davina Stewart-Russell clings to the only image that gave her strength during those dark times—the Gypsy rogue who stole her heart as a youth. After nine years, she is finally face-to-face with him again, but reality clashes with fantasy as she is confronted with Broderick’s passionate pursuit.

When Davina’s past returns to haunt her, Broderick is forced to reveal a dark secret worse than anything Davina thought possible. The challenge before them has fatal risks and neither of them is prepared for the sacrifices expected for the sake of eternal love.

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Review: Forever Freed

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Title: 

Forever Freed

Author: 

Laura Kaye

Release Date:

May 20, 2011

Publisher:

The Wild Rose Press

Word Count:

approx. 95,000

Purchase Links:  

The Wild Rose Press 

Amazon

Author's Website:

http://www.laurakayeauthor.com/

Description:  

A heart can break, even one that no longer beats.

I stalk my new neighbors, a single mother and her child, drawn by the irresistible scent of their joy and love. I crave their blood, starved for some healing respite from my ancient grief. Now to lure them into my grasp.

But they surprise me. Little Olivia accepts me without fear or reservation--talking, smiling, offering innocent affection that tugs at my long-lost humanity. Her mother, Samantha, seeks me out when she should stay away, offering sweet friendship, and calling to the forgotten man within me. They lure me instead.

Ah, Dio, Lucien, run and spare them while you can... 

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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?

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Review: Storm's Interlude

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Title: 

Storm's Interlude

Author: 

Vonnie Davis

Release Date:

July 15, 2011

Publisher:

The Wild Rose Press

Word Count:

approx. 88,000

Purchase Links:  

The Wild Rose Press 

Author's Website:

http://www.vonniedavis.com

Description:  

Nurse Rachel Dennison comes to Texas determined to prepare her new patient for a second round of chemo. What she isn’t counting on is her patient’s twin brother, Storm Masterson.

 

Half Native American with the ability to have “vision dreams,” Storm dreams about Rachel for three nights before her arrival. Both are unprepared for the firestorm of emotions their first chance encounter ignites. Even so, Storm has two things Rachel won’t abide: a domineering personality and a fiancée.

 

Yet, ultimately, it is Rachel’s past—an abusive, maniacal ex-boyfriend—that threatens to keep them apart…and Storm’s dreams that bring them together again.

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Review: Cold, Cold Heart

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Title: 

Cold, Cold Heart

Author: 

Viviane Brentanos

Release Date:

June 2011

Publisher:

MuseItUp Publishing

Word Count:

approx. 89,000

Purchase Links:  

MuseItUp Publishing

Author's Website:

http://viviane-brentanos.blogspot.com

Description:  

A world-famous rock star, a struggling single mum afraid to love. Will this explosive mix bring happiness or disaster?

Daniel Haynes has the world at his feet- fame, fortune, so why does he feel so empty inside? What is his interest in Rachel Warner, a girl from a quiet Home Counties English town? Why does she hold the key to his happiness? 

But Rachel Warner is scared. Daniel's interest in her threatens her ordered yet unsatisfying life because she has to live with the shadow of her ex-father-in-law breathing over her shoulder. Can she let go of her fears?

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Review: Trinity, A Brethren Novel

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Title: 

Trinity, A Brethren Novel

Author: 

Deena Remiel

Release Date:

March 22, 2011

Publisher:

Decadent Publishing

Word Count:

approx. 75,000

Purchase Links:  

Decadent Publishing 

Amazon

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Author's Website:

http://www.deenaremiel.com

Description:  

One way or another, terror will reign tonight.

School teacher and single mom, Emma Livingston, has been through hell—and back so she thinks. While dealing with the night terrors and active imagination of her five-year old daughter, Hannah, she attempts to lead a normal life. That is, until the demon from those nightmares pays her a visit, too, and threatens both of their lives. Desperate, she reaches out for help—and finds Michael waiting.

Michael D’Angelo is known to everyone in Prophet’s Point, Arizona, as their loving elementary school principal. But to The Brethren, he is the most powerful Protector. Immortal and angelic does not mean he’s without doubts or fears, as protecting Emma and Hannah from Evil tests his ability to fight his tortured past.

As the Trinity is formed, ancient secrets are revealed and faith is tested. When a prophecy is exposed, Hannah becomes the main target and Emma wonders if a normal life will ever be possible again. Hope is like an anchor, but can a mother, her daughter, and an angel overcome the evil determined to annihilate the world?

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Review: Absolution

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Title: 

Absolution

Author: 

P.L. Parker

Release Date:

March 2, 2011

Publisher:

Eternal Press

Word Count:

approx. 95,000

Purchase Links:  

Eternal Press

Author's Website:

http://www.plparker.com/

Description:  

For years, travelers in the French Vosges Mountains heard the wailing of a woman echo in the hollows. Her cries went unbidden. No one was brave enough to seek out the source. Over time, the screams lessen, then stop. Eventually, even the memories slipped away, forgotten.

Six centuries later, two over-eager research assistants find and release the young half vampire, Chloe—unaware of events they unwittingly unleash with her.

Far away, other forces are aware of her awakening. Zaccarius, greatest of all the Slayers, is sent by the Council of Nine to seek out Chloe, determine her worth and render justice. Enticed by her purity and innocence, he becomes her protector. However, Jochad, the Dark Master and his army of evil vampires are eager to claim Chloe.

In the battle that ensues, Zaccarius falls beneath Jochad’s army. To save her lover, Chloe must make a choice. Ancient and dying, Jochad needs her blood to reanimate. His ultimatum—her blood or Zaccarius’ life. 

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Review: Shelton In Love

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Title: 

Shelton in Love

Author: 

Dianne Hartsock

Release Date:

May 13, 2011

Publisher:

Breathless Press

Word Count:

approx. 8,700

Purchase Links: 

Breathless Press

Amazon

All Romance

Author's Website:

http://diannehartsock.wordpress.com/

Description:  

Shelton is falling hard for his best friend and roommate, finding Nevil's dark good looks and moments of gentleness almost impossible to resist. But Nevil is more interested in affairs of the body than the heart. As Shelton's desire for the man grows, he wonders if he can change Nevil's mind. But does he even want to? Nevil might not stay, once he learns Shelton's secret, and then his loneliness would be complete.

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Review: A Taste of Seduction

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Title: 

A Taste of Seduction

Author: 

Mary Campisi

Release Date:

March 2011

Publisher:

The Wild Rose Press

Word Count:

approx. 87,000

Purchase Links:  

The Wild Rose Press 

Amazon

Author's Website:

http://www.marycampisi.com/

Description:  

A young woman of noble blood, raised as a peasant girl...

An orphaned stable boy, now grown and the surrogate son of a powerful earl – the same earl who just so happens to be the young woman’s father...

Meriel and Anthony have nothing in common--she runs barefoot and talks to animals, he won’t loosen his cravat unless the bedroom door is firmly closed. Meriel believes in love, hope, and happily ever after. Anthony believes in keeping a safe distance from anything resembling an emotion. They have nothing in common but an undeniable, burning desire for one another they can’t ignore or understand, and an ailing "father" who will do anything to see them together. Unfortunately, there are others, cunning and manipulative, working behind the scenes. Others who will stop at nothing, willing even to kill, to keep them apart.

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