Review: A Love Rekindled

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Title: 

A Love Rekindled

Author: 

Myne Whitman

Release Date:

March 2011

Word Count:

approx. 72,000

Purchase Links:  

Amazon

Author's Website:

http://www.mynewhitmanwrites.com/

Description:  

When Efe Sagay receives a transfer to the branch of a prestigious hotel chain in the Nigerian capital, she accepts it, happy to return home to family after years in the United States. Also, Nigeria is a big place, right? There should be nothing about her new city, Abuja, to remind her of the heartbreak of her relationship with ex-fiancé, Kevwe Mukoro.

However, Efe is facing Kevwe across an office seven months later, swamped by emotions she’d thought were dead. When Kevwe claims he’s never stopped loving her, and asks why she abandoned him, Efe stomps off, incensed! Wasn’t it the other way around?

But they are unable to stay away from each other, and buried desire flares. Ultimately, passion is no match for the bitter memories of broken promises. Efe and Kevwe have to resolve the traumatic events of the past before love can be rekindled.

Laura’s Review:

Review: Eulogy's Secret

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Title: 

Eulogy's Secret

Author: 

Grace Elliot

Release Date:

October 18, 2011

Word Count:

approx. 68,000

Purchase Links:  

Amazon

Amazon UK

Smashwords

Author's Website:

http://graceelliot-author.blogspot.com

Description:  

In the four weeks since her guardian’s death, Eulogy Foster has lost everything. She travels to London seeking the help of Lord Lucien Devlin, the estranged brother who doesn’t know she exists. But Lord Devlin turns her away and alone on the streets, Eulogy is attacked, robbed and thrown onto the mercy of a passing stranger.

Jack Huntley - bitter, cynical and betrayed in love -believes women are devious, scheming creatures and not to be trusted. So when one night he saves a naive young woman from rape, little does he suspect how life is about to change. Despite his growing attraction to Miss Foster, Jack has a problem: Eulogy Foster has a secret involving his bitterest enemy, Lord Devlin, and he can’t trust her.

As Eulogy learns the haunting story of her mother’s past, she knows she will only marry for true love. Deeply drawn to Jack Huntley, she needs him to confess his love before she shares the secret of her birth. Caught in a deadlock, with neither able to confess their true feelings, events take a sinister turn as it becomes clear someone wants Eulogy Foster dead.

Laura’s Review:

Review: Between Seasons

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Title: 

Between Seasons

Author: 

Aida Brassington

Release Date:

October 30, 2011

Publisher:

Word Count:

approx. 69,000

Purchase Links:  

Amazon

Barnes & Noble

Author's Website:

http://aidabrassington.wordpress.com

Description:  

There are things Patrick Boyle will never forget: the sound of his own neck breaking at the moment of his death in the fall of 1970, the sweet taste of his mother's chocolate cake, and the awful day his parents abandoned him in his childhood house-turned prison.

Nineteen-year-old Patrick wonders for decades if God has forgotten all about him or if he's being punished for some terrible crime or sin over a lovely forty years trapped in an empty home. But when Sara Oswald, a strange woman with a mysterious past, buys his house, old feelings reawaken, and a new optimism convinces him that she's the answer to his prayers.

Things are never simple, though, especially when she begins channeling the memories of his life and death in her writing.

Joey’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: 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: Legacy of the Highlands

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Title: 

Legacy of the Highlands 
Author: 

Harriet Schultz 
Release Date:

November 1, 2011 
Word Count:

approx. 99,000 
Purchase Links:  

Amazon 

Smashwords 
Author's Website:

harrietschultz.blogspot.com/

Description:  

What does a vow made 700 years ago in Scotland have to do with a murder in twenty-first century Boston?

When Will Cameron’s body is discovered in a Boston alley, the only clue to the thirty-four-year-old man’s murder is a pristine Scottish sgian dubh dagger left beside it. His devastated widow, Alexandra, flees Boston to find refuge in the Miami villa of Will’s best friend, Diego Navarro, who has the means, power and temperament to solve the puzzle and to avenge the senseless killing.

Diego, a handsome and wealthy Argentine, is equally determined to win the grieving widow’s heart. The growing attraction to each other becomes hard to resist as Alex and Diego follow leads that take them from Miami to Buenos Aires and Scotland, unraveling the Cameron family’s secrets and the Legacy of the Highlands.

Laura’s Review:

Review: Midnight Sun

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Title: 

Midnight Sun

Author: 

MJ Fredrick

Release Date:

June 2011

Word Count:

approx. 60,000

Purchase Links:  

Smashwords

Amazon

Author's Website:

http://www.mjfredrick.com

Description:  

This wasn’t the adventure she’d signed up for…

A sexy boss, a rough crossing, and pirates—all Brylie Winston wanted was a job to help her earn money to buy her own restaurant. She hopes to earn it by working as a chef on a cruise to Antarctica. But she’s slept with her boss, which throws her off-balance even more than the rough seas and warnings of pirates in the area. And he’s determined to have a repeat performance…

Bad boy former snowboarder Marcus Devlin is running from his reputation, sent to learn the family business after decking a senator’s son and making the papers. So maybe he indulged in a last-minute fling before boarding his family’s cruise ship to Antarctica. Perhaps Fate is showing him that wasn’t so bad—the gorgeous redhead who snuck out of his bed is on the cruise. She’ll be a lovely distraction during his exile.

But when South American pirates take over the ship, his instinct is to protect her and the other passengers. But what does a spoiled rich boy know about saving people’s lives?

Laura’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 and Giveaway: Change of Heart

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Title: 

Change of Heart 
Author: 

Jackie Chanel 
Release Date:

June 2011 
Word Count:

approx. 160,000 
Purchase Links: 

Amazon 

Smashwords 

Author's Website:

http://www.jackie-chanel.com/

Description:  

Asia Pierce always gets what she wants. There's only one thing she wants...the one thing she can't seem to get right...the perfect man and the perfect relationship. With three men vying for her heart, which one will she choose? Or will she let her past decisions and bad relationships prevent her from making the right choice?

 Joey’s Review:

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.

Brandi’s Review:

Review: Don't Look Now

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Title: 

Don't Look Now

Author: 

Heide Katros

Release Date:

July 2011

Word Count:

approx. 97,000

Purchase Links:  

Amazon

Direct from Author

Author's Website:

http://www.heidekatros.com/

Description:  

Les Harper faces some tough choices about his future with a prestigious law firm and the unexpected inheritance of his father’s estate. Hoping to clear his mind, he decides on a short trip to New Orleans. Instead of the anticipated R&R he ends up in a police holding cell, a suspect in a street murder. 

Careena Torres, a tough New Orleans cop is the arresting officer. She turns a deaf ear to his claim about his innocence. However, when his claims are confirmed the next day she looks him up to apologize. She is not prepared for the instant attraction she feels for Les. For years she has hidden a dark past behind her police badge. She is not ready for any relationship, though she doesn’t realize that it’s already too late for that. But since the murder was gang related, sanctioned by a handful of dirty cops, who believe that Careena and Les know more than they admit both their lives are on the line. 

Laura's Review:

Review: Maid For The Billionaire

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Title: 

Maid For The Billionaire

Author: 

Ruth Cardello

Release Date:

April 21, 2011

Word Count:

approx. 52,000

Purchase Links:  

Smashwords

Amazon

Author's Website:

http://ruth-ebookexperiment.blogspot.com/

Description:  

Dominic Corisi knew instantly that Abigail Dartley was just the distraction he was looking for, especially since having her took a bit more persuading than he was used to.  So when business forces him to fly to China, he decides to take her with him, but on his terms.  No promises.  No complications. Just sex.

Abby has always been the responsible one.  She doesn’t believe in taking risks; especially when it comes to men - until she meets Dominic.  He’s both infuriating and intoxicating, a heady combination. Their trip to China revives a long forgotten side of Abby, but also reveals a threat to bring down Dominic’s company.  With no time to explain her actions, Abby must either influence the outcome of his latest venture and save his company or accept her role as his mistress and leave his fate to chance.  Does she love him enough to risk losing him for good?

Joey's Review:

Review: The Pendulum

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Title: 

The Pendulum: Legacy of the Celtic Brooch

Author: 

Tarah Scott

Release Date:

March 8, 2011

Word Count:

approx. 25,000

Purchase Links:  

Amazon

Barnes & Noble

All Romance

Author's Website:

http://www.tarahscott.com/

Description:  

Two demands for the promised payment of marriage.

Murder, deceit, and fraud pull Lady Airin Keith between these men.

Which one will bed her, claim her...own her?

Lady Airin Keith won't rest until Lord Jason Bothwell is tried and convicted for the murder of her sister. An unexpected marriage proposal brings an opportunity to prove the earl's guilt, but the knight who appears with her great grandmother's lost brooch threatens to interfere with Airin's brand of justice when he demands the agreed payment of marriage. 

Babs' Review:

Review: Tell Me You Want Me

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Title: 

Tell Me You Want Me

Author: 

Amelia James

Release Date:

March 2011

Word Count:

approx. 61,000

Purchase Links:  

Smashwords

Author's Website:

https://trashystreasures.wordpress.com/

Description:  

Their first kiss is impulsive, fun, a little wicked—everything Jane Elliot isn’t looking for in a man—but desperately needs.  Their second kiss is slow, deliberate, an instant connection—everything Austin Sinclair never had with a woman—and doesn’t want.

 

Jane isn’t the easy conquest Austin’s used to.  She’s a stubborn-as-hell bookworm who’s more interested in studying than dating.  She needs a little—no—a lot of fun in her life, and Austin’s just the guy who can give it to her.  Too bad she thinks love should easy. Too bad Austin knows it isn’t. 

 

Everybody told her to stay away from the heartbreaker, but Jane knows there’s more to Austin than full-body contact kisses and bad boy charm.  All he ever promised her was a good time and wow, does he ever deliver….

 

Laura’s Review:

Review: The Pickle My Little Friend

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Title: 

The Pickle My Little Friend

Author: 

T.C. Archer

Release Date:

March 2011

Word Count:

approx. 9,000

Purchase Links: 

All Romance 

Amazon

Author's Website:

http://www.tcarcher.com/

Description:  

The ninth victim in the Bicycle Chain murders is found dead on his living room floor grasping a paper bag containing a pickle.

Detective Jack Carter is working on the biggest murder case of his life. Which means, the last thing he needs is to find out that the one woman he has feelings for might be involved in the murders.

Vicky Peik knows things—and one of those things is that her boss, Detective Jack Carter, is in over his head. Vicky has stayed a step ahead of Jack in her private investigation. Only problem is, despite her ability to sense the killer, he has managed to stay a step ahead of her. Something’s wrong, and it’s closer to home than Jack can imagine. Can Vicky find the killer before things go too far, and Jack can’t get out? 

Laura’s Review:

Review: Don't Quote Me

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Title: 

Don't Quote me

Author: 

Charlie Kramer

Release Date:

January 20, 2011

Word Count:

approx. 58,000

Purchase Links:  

Amazon

Smashwords

Author's Website:

www.charlie-kramer.com

Description:  

London’s hottest fashion photographer, Claire Montgomery has a problem. Several actually. One; she remembers every event in her life by the shoes she is wearing at the time. Two; she has rules around dating. Three; her belief in monogamy stops her from marrying and four; her little hot pink book is literally on fire.

Claire’s a fun loving flirt who lives life by her own rules. She does it with style, in her vintage clothes and her over stuffed shoe closet, the only accessories she needs. Oh and of course she absolutely cannot do without quotes from the movie stars. Think Audrey Hepburn, Lauren Bacall, Mae West and you’re on the right track.

Greek shipping tycoon, Sebastian Gionis has been announced as a candidate for Chic Magazines, Man of the Year. He’s good with business, not so good at relationships. He’s aloof and his physical presence has Claire’s her heart doing its own kind of rumba. In her eyes he makes Rock Hudson and James Dean seem decidedly insignificant.

Sebasatian’s appearance shakes up Claire’s life and lands her in therapy before she can hit the road on the way to love.
 

Deniz’s Review:

Review: Heart Stealer

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Title: 

Heart Stealer

Author: 

Tiphanie Thomas

Release Date:

April 20, 2011

Word Count:

approx. 95,000

Purchase Links:  

Amazon 

Smashwords

Author's Website:

http://www.tiphaniethomas.com/

Description:  

Movie star Randall Rowe catches sixteen-year-old runaway Kayla Denton stealing food and arranges for his ministry parents to take her in. His kind act, unknown to him, stirs a powerful crush in Kayla, but he soon disappears.

Eight years later after living a fast, irresponsible lifestyle, Randall returns to his small hometown to get his life in order and setup his newly built house. Kayla, now a part-time decorator, refuses the job, wanting nothing to do with the handsome charmer who’s all wrong for her. Yet when her circumstances change drastically, she’s forced to strike a deal.

Dumbfounded for the sparks their close proximity produces, Randall starts seeing uptight Kayla as an alluring woman who he can be himself with and truly love. But she doubts she fits into his lifestyle, while Randall struggles with his own fears, as Hollywood threatens to tear them apart.

Brandi's Review:

Review: Genetic Attraction

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Title: 

Genetic Attraction

Author: 

Tara Lain

Release Date:

January 4, 2011

Publisher:

Loose ID

Word Count:

approx. 41,000

Purchase Links:  

Loose ID

Author's Website:

http://www.taralain.com 

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Description:  

At a conservative Long Island University, renowned researcher, Dr. Emmaline Silvay, has two great loves – her life-saving work, and her younger research partner, Jake Martin. The romantic love is impossible. She’s his boss and he lives with his girlfriend. The the “girlfriend” is actually a boyfriend, the beautiful and infamous supermodel, Roan Black.

Resigned to a platonic relationship, Em accepts a weekend invitation to their home, but the men have a menage on their minds. She can’t resist, doesn’t even want to. But their intentions go far beyond passion. They want her to “be a part of them”. Their three-way love defies propriety and the standards of the University that funds their work. The supermodel’s fame makes secrecy impossible. Their ménage threatens to crumble all she’s worked for. What will give way to make room for genetic attraction?

Brandi’s Review:

Review: Eternity: Fire & Ice

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Title: 

Eternity: Fire & Ice

Author: 

Jodi Lee

Release Date:

December 31, 2010

Word Count:

approx. 6,000

Purchase Links:  

Smashwords

Author's Website:

http://www.jodilee.ca

Belfire Press

Description:  

Amanda is crushed after she finds her boyfriend with another woman. Still reeling from crashing her car, she's rescued by a man unlike any other, and whisked away to world beyond her own. It is there she becomes Siobhan. Together, Siobhan and Kabhan face Eternity in a world of fire and ice. Part 1 of 6.

Babs' Review:

Review: Everything Erotic, Volumes I, II, and III

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Title: 

Everything Erotic Volume I

Everything Erotic Volume II

Everything Erotic Volume III

Authors: 

Alice Gaines, Boone Brux, C.J. Ellisson, Danielle Gavan, Delilah Devlin, Greta Goddard, Keta Diablo, Heather Hughes, M.K. Elliott, Nickie Asher, Scarlett Jameson, Sharon Hamilton, Whitley Gray

Release Date:

Word Count:

Volume I: approx. 55,000

Volume II: approx. 56,000

Volume III: approx. 34,000

Purchase Links:  

Volume I   - Smashwords

Volume II  - Smashwords

Volume III  -Smashwords 

Authors' Website:

http://everythingerotic.blogspot.com/

Description:  

Volume I: Ongoing serials, stand alone shorts, sex through history articles, and sex toy reviews. The name says it all - Everything Erotic!

Volume II: The second edition of the Kindle and B & N sensation! Volume II continues the same serials from the first edition and includes even more racy stand-alone stories from 12 contributing authors.

Volume III: The third edition of the Kindle and B & N sensation! Volume III continues the same serials from the first edition and includes even more racy stand-alone stories from 12 contributing authors.

 

Joey’s Review: