Review: Winging It

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Title: 

Winging It

Author: 

Sandra Sookoo

Release Date:

July 20, 2011

Publisher:

Purple Sword Publications

Word Count:

approx. 53,600

Purchase Links: 

Purple Sword Publications

Amazon

Author's Website:

http://sandrasookoo.com/

Description: 

Joy and despair, light and dark, you can’t have one without the other.

Devlin Addams has recently returned home from Afghanistan.  Haunted by memories that he survived the fighting while his buddies didn't, as well as chased by the knowledge his mom is crazy, he’s having trouble acclimating himself to civilian life. Now, armed with a dog and a therapist, he constantly battles the urge to end it all.

Lia Farry—because her Fae name is a mouthful—has tumbled into the Mortal Realm through the Veil between worlds by mysterious circumstances.  Thrust into a new and harsh human existence, finding anything to be happy about is hard. If she can’t go home, she’ll have to make it work.

Forced to interact, Dev’s protective instincts kick in, but he’s unprepared for the onslaught of lust Lia represents.  He wants a normal life but not at the expense of getting involved.  Lia knows she soothes his torment yet she’s battling her own problems. Desiring Dev is a dangerous prospect.  Add in a meddling Fae queen and suddenly life as they know it will change forever.  Love is at stake.  A leap of faith is all they have to depend on.

Joey’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: 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.

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: 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: 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: 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: 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. 

Brandi’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: Hunted

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Title: 

Hunted

Author: 

Carolyn Rosewood

Release Date:

July 15, 2011

Publisher:

Evernight Publishing

Word Count:

approx. 30,000

Purchase Links:  

Evernight Publishing 

Author's Website:

http://carolynrosewood.com/

Description:  

For the past four hundred years, Jahi Wickes has made forged documents and credit cards for the female demons who seduce men into signing away their souls. While enjoying the parades at Mardi Gras, she's ambushed by two angels. One is her former guardian angel, and the other is the Nephilim who’s tracking him.

Dagon has been chasing Vassago for three years. His first big break comes in the form of a cute, sexy demon. When he learns the real reason Vassago is hunting her, Dagon has more trouble than he bargained for. Not only was Vassago sent to guard souls in Purgatory after screwing up his assignment with Jahi, but the person who paid him to destroy her is one of her fellow demons.

Laura’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: One Night with You

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Title: 

One Night with You

Author: 

Vanessa Devereaux

Release Date:

June 2011

Publisher:

Cobblestone Press

Word Count:

approx. 50,000

Purchase Links: 

All Romance  

Fictionwise

eReader.com

Author's Website:

http://vanessadevereaux.com/

Description:  

Both nursing broken hearts, Dana and Mike meet at a New Year's Eve Party. When the clock strikes midnight, a tipsy Dana tells Mike her New Year's wish and that's to get pregnant.

Mike, after being shot in the line of duty and being dumped by his wife, realizes he wants to be a father. When the two decide to have a baby without any strings attached, things get complicated and after they both realizing they're falling in love, there's no turning back. 

Joey’s Review:

Review: V-Day

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Title: 

V-Day

Author: 

Anne Holly

Release Date:

August 31, 2011

Publisher:

Rebel Ink Press

Word Count:

approx. 12,000

Purchase Links:  

Amazon

Barnes & Noble

Author's Website:

http://www.anneholly.webs.com/

Description:  

It all started with a serenade…

A family like Daniel’s and the solitary pursuit of musical excellence is enough to make a young man crazy. No wonder all Daniel Vouks dreams of is getting away. He knows his violin will take him places in life, but the only place he really wants to be is next door. He’s been in love with his neighbor since he was fourteen, but can he ever make her see him as more than just a lovesick kid?

V-Day is the story of a Valentine's Day weekend Daniel fears he may regret, but will never, ever forget.

Joey’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: Hog Wild

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Title: 

Hog Wild

Author: 

Christine London

Release Date:

Publisher:

MuseItHot Publishing

Word Count:

approx. 45,000

Purchase Links: 

MuseItHot Publishing 

Author's Website:

Description:  

Kyle Matthews might have the music world by the horns, but when he loses out in love to his most famous client and best friend, he escapes into the wilds of the desert southwest on a restorative motorcycle trip. Will the hard driving, salty tongued gorgeous mechanic he relies upon to fix his Harley be able to mend his heart, as well?

Laura’s Review:

Review: In From The Cold

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Title: 

In From The Cold

Author: 

L.J. Holmes

Release Date:

June 10, 2011

Publisher:

MuseItUp Publishing

Word Count:

approx. 26,000

Purchase Links:  

MuseItUp Publishing

Author's Website:

http://linsownfirebrand.blogspot.com/

Description:  

Mari loves men who are intimately communicating with the Grim Reaper, like her only mountain neighbor, ninety-plus year old Hector. Twelve years and now she's enjoying her solitude, till Hector ups and dies.

He leaves everything to her, with one stipulation...she must sell his cabin to collect her inheritance.

Determined to keep her world testosterone free she commands her real estate agent to not even show the curmudgeon's cabin to anyone under the age of sixty-five.

Mari must leave for her son's wedding in the mid west for one month. Necessity requires she sign temporary power of attorney for a possible quick sale over to her real estate agent. A bad, but necessary move.

He's moving in and he's her son's age with rippling muscles, and far too much testosterone. All summer, Mari hunkers inside and drools.

Determined to make this stop, she sees only one solution...jump his bones, do the deed and get the annoying SOB out of her system once and for all.

Like most well designed plans, something always happens to blow them to smithereens, and now, three agonizing days later, a huge blizzard is about to hit the mountain, isolating the two cabins from the outside world...Oh Dear!

Babs' Review:

Review: Rafe's Redemption

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Title: 

Rafe's Redemption

Author: 

Jennifer Jakes

Release Date:

February 25, 2011

Publisher:

The Wild Rose Press

Word Count:

approx. 89,000

Purchase Links:  

The Wild Rose Press

Amazon

Author's Website:

http://www.jenniferjakes.com

Description:  

He rode into town to buy supplies, not a woman.

 

For hunted recluse Rafe McBride, the raven-haired beauty on the auction block  is exactly what he doesn't need. A dependant woman will be another clue his vengeful stepbrother can use to find and kill him. But Rafe's conscience won't let him leave another innocent's virginity to the riff-raff bidding. He buys her, promising to return her to St. Louis untouched. He only prays the impending blizzard holds off before her sultry beauty breaks his willpower.

 

She wanted freedom, not a lover.

 

Whisked to the auction block by her devious, gambling cousin, and then sold into the arms of a gorgeous stranger, outspoken artist Maggie Monroe isn't about to go meekly. Especially when the rugged mountain man looks like sin and danger rolled into one. But a blizzard and temptation thrust them together, and Maggie yearns to explore her smoldering passion for Rafe.

 

But when the snow clears, will the danger and secrets that surround Rafe and Maggie tear them apart?

Babs' Review:

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.

Brandi’s Review:

Review: The Last Soul

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Title: 

The Last Soul

Author: 

Carolyn Rosewood

Release Date:

April 20, 2011

Publisher:

Evernight Publishing

Word Count:

approx. 28,000

Purchase Links: 

Evernight Publishing 

Author's Website:

http://www.carolynrosewood.com/

Description:  

Faina has been dead for one hundred and fifty years, but she’s about to become human again. All she has to do is seduce Jace Blackmon, the most honest financier ever to grace the city of angels, into signing away his soul.

Jace Blackmon has fallen in love with his fantasy woman. But when he realizes she was tricked by a demon to bring about his ruin, including the revelation of a long-buried secret to the media, he must choose between his heart or life without her.

Joey’s Review: