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Review: Sacrificial Hearts
2008-05-11 11:00:00
Sacrificial Hearts by Skhye MoncriefAlone, Twila Deeds tries to find her lost brother and stumbles upon a cult she believes is preparing to sacrifice her in a Valentines-Day sex ritual. She learns her brother has joined the cult and claims to be saving her by bringing her into the fold. She can't trust her brat brother, a selfish teen who never did anything for anyone. Nor dare she trust the cult's gorgeous member who arrives to escort her to the cult's Scottish castle on his motorcycle. She has no intention of falling victim to the sacrificial blade before her baby brother is served his just dessert. But Illusion manifests as free will. (1st Point of Time Travel) Gerard Abercrombie can't seem to convince Twila that his time-travel brotherhood has only her welfare in mind before his patience wears thin. Time-travel Code will save him because only the fairies know what the future holds as the Gods send two SACRIFICIAL HEARTS racing toward their destiny.Intense, original, suspensef...
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Review: The Rose of Shanhasson
2008-05-10 11:01:00
The Rose of Shanhassonby Joely Sue BurkhartTo the east of the poisoned sands of Keldar lies a land so fertile and rich it is known as the Green Lands. Here, the people are not cursed by a terrible sin against the Trinity. No, they've done something worse.They've forgotten.As Our Blessed Lady's last Daughter, Shannari must rule as High Queen or the Green Lands will fall into eternal darkness. Her destiny is to shine against the Shadow, protect the land and people with her magic, and keep the Blackest Heart of Darkness imprisoned. Her blood is the key, powered by the love in her heart. However, Shannari's heart is broken, her magic is crippled, and the nobles must have forgotten the dire prophesies, because everyone wants her dead.Only love can restore her magic, but her scars testify how love can be corrupted. So when a barbarian warlord conquers her army and professes a love like no other, Shannari's first instinct is to kill the mighty Khul. Even worse, one of the Khul's guar...
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Review: Waiting To Waltz
2008-05-10 11:00:00
Waiting to Waltzby Lainey BancroftA man who lives to cook and a woman who loves to eat should be a magical match. Except Riana Walker's French is even worse than Jacques Chevalier's English. Besides, with a husband who left her because he claimed her thighs were doughy enough to sustain a Wonder Bread factory, she's sworn off rich food. Can the enthusiastic French chef woo the diet-addicted divorcee into dancing to a different drummer? Or when summer ends will Jacques return to France and leave Riana waiting to waltz?I didn’t realize it when I picked up this story, but it’s the sequel to “Ready to Reel” (or really, the third story featuring the same three divorcees: Alex, Suzette, and Riana). “Waiting to Waltz” is Riana’s story, and it’s just as enjoyable as “Ready to Reel.” Riana is a plus-sized single mom to Ethan, a typical, moody seventeen year old. But while this heroine longs for a man, especially since her two best friends have found their soulmates, ...
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Review: Courage Times Two
2008-05-09 11:00:00
Courage Times Twoby Michele StegmanMaggie O'Dell has finally found the courage to stand up for herself in her every day life. But now she faces a dangerous situation with a man she finds dangerously attractive. Can she find the extra courage she needs to take a chance on love?What a cute story! I thoroughly enjoyed this short tale about Maggie, who’s determined to strike out on her own and be brave no matter what. First she quits her dead-end job. Then she ventures into a shady convenience store late at night because, after all, she needs buttermilk for her pancakes the next morning. But when Maggie finds herself smack in the middle of a robbery at gunpoint, she finds out how deep her newfound bravery really is.The characters in this story are well-developed despite the short length. I can clearly picture attractive yet nervous Maggie; tiny toddler Shawna who wanders the aisles of the store while her mother works the register; and the handsome undercover cop who rescues them both...
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Review: Lily In Bloom
2008-05-09 11:00:00
LILY IN BLOOMby Margaret P. CunninghamA stunning older woman. A mysterious younger man. A garden of infinite possibilities. When Lily McVay needs help keeping the terms of a rather unorthodox divorce settlement, the bond between her and handsome Will may prove that more is blooming than just the flowers.LILY IN BLOOM is a treat. The characters struggle with many of life’s problems, but Mrs. Cunningham shepherds them through these difficulties with a style of writing that is eloquent and totally engaging. Southern humor weaves its way among the trials and tribulations to add even more delight to the story.Margaret Cunningham made me feel like I’d been invited into the McVay home with gracious Southern hospitality. More than that, she brought in Lily’s friends and neighbors to make my visit a heartwarming experience. Not often does one come across an “I’ll help you bury the body, no questions asked” friend like Helen or an 80-something neighbor who tells fortunes, knows ho...
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Review: Keeping Faith
2008-05-08 11:01:00
Keeping Faith by Kara Lynn RussellOrchard Hill Residents - lock up your hearts!Pansy Parker and Misty Green are rivals in romance. Each believes she is the town's best matchmaker. Now they're going to settle the question for once and for all. They're keeping track to see who can make the most matches in a year's time. Both Misty and Pansy are determined to be the winner. No heart is safe in Orchard Hill - not even their own.School secretary Faith Fielding has been in love with her boss for years. She's waiting for him to move beyond his late wife's memory. But when he finally does ask someone out - and it's not her - Faith decides she's had enough and gives her notice. School principal Andrew Thomas can't imagine life or work without loyal efficient Faith but he doesn't understand why she's quitting. Faith's last dayis the big end of school Memorial Day Picnic. Will Andrew figure out how to keep Faith by then or will she be gone for good?Welcome to the town of Orchard Hil...
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Review: Puca
2008-05-08 11:01:00
Pucaby Penny Ash Kian loves humans, so much so he gets himself exiled from the Fae world. Emma doesn't believe in anything she can't see and touch. For her fairytales and magical creatures are just cute stories. Little does she know everything she thought she knew is about to change when her eccentric Aunt Chloe dies and leaves Emma an enchanted forest complete with a lust inspiring Puca.Okay, I'll admit it. I didn't know what a "Puca" was; I had to look it up (it's a Fae shapeshifter!), but that didn't stop me from devouring this enchanting tale.I got a much better feel for Kian than I did for Emma, who she is seemed a bit muddled to me. She is portrayed as strong and independent, but she allows her ex-boyfriend to take advantage of her in ways that seemed out of character without a better understanding of that situation. She doesn't believe in fairy folk at all, but the first time she sees Kian shift from dog to man she is perfectly fine with it, showing virtually no rea...
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Review: The Ice Palace
2008-05-07 11:01:00
The Ice Palace by Bill HaworthIn the freezing winter of mid 18th century Russia a tyrannical Empress devises a cruel and bizarre punishment for a Prince who rejects her advances. A palace of solid ice is built and the Prince is forced to marry an ugly serving wench and spend their wedding night within the frozen edifice.This story, based on actual historic events in eighteenth-century Russia, is an interesting and captivating tale of an unlikely hero and heroine, brought together by fate. Mikhail, ambassador to Italy, marries a lovely Italian woman, but she is also Catholic, which enrages the Tsaritsa of Russia. She orders him brought home to St. Petersburg, and the Tsaritsa spends the next months making Mikhail’s life miserable. She tries to seduce him; she has him repeatedly sentenced to death; she finally makes him court jester to embarrass him, but when that doesn’t work, she comes up with her ultimate plan of revenge. She has a palace built on the city’s river, all of...
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Review: Lies, Love & Legacies
2008-05-07 11:00:00
Love, Lies and Legaciesby Irene EstepPlaced on permanent disability by the department of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF), Parker Wilson applies for a PI license. However, he doesn't plan on tracking down cheating spouses for a living, in spite of his feelings for the woman who tries to hire him to look into the seamy side of her late husband's life. But when Maggie Youngson becomes a suspect in the murder of this purported ex-lover, Parker changes his mind, believing the things she wants to know about the love affair could lead him to the real killer.Having personal experience with the trauma of growing up amid nasty gossip about one's parent, Maggie Youngon doesn't want her 5 year old daughter to hear such nasty rumors about her own father. She's relieved when PI, Parker Wilson is willing to help prove her innocent of murder, but she isn't giving up on her original quest: to learn the truth about her late husband's past."Lies, Love & Legacies" has to be one of the most ...
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Review: Reflections
2008-05-06 11:01:00
Reflections by Rynne RainesWhat is an untamable rake to do after being cursed to suffer a fate unknown to man; to experience solitude in the deepest sense of the word? Watch and wait.As a silent observer in a world he is no longer part of, Rykel Deveau has entertained himself by becoming engrossed in the lives of the living. Society has changed in two hundred years—more importantly, women have changed.Now, over two centuries later, Rykel finds himself forced to share his living quarters with the most unusual female he has ever come across, sensual artist, Danica Lovel. Between the woman's hideous tattered bathrobe and unsightly pink slippers, he should be appalled, yet bizarrely, he finds himself strongly drawn to her. He wants her. The problem is, she has no idea he existsI think everyone’s got a little bit of the superstitious inside them. Black cats, Samhain, and of course, one of the most well known bits of superstition: breaking a mirror brings seven years bad luck. But in...
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Review: Hot Number
2008-05-06 11:00:00
Hot Number by Sheridan SmytheJackpot! No one had needed to win the lottery more than Ashley Kavanagh, and she planned to enjoy every penny of her unexpected windfall – starting with a seven-day cruise to the Caribbean. But it wasn’t until a ship mix-up paired her with her ex-husband that things really started to heat up. She knew she was better off without Michael’s womanizing ways, but constant exposure to his well-muscled chest and to-die for lips left her feeling the burn. Michael Kavanagh had hoped this cruise would help him relax, but when he walked in on his nearly naked ex-wife, everything suddenly became uncomfortably tight. Sharing a cabin with Ashley certainly wouldn’t be smooth sailing – she acted as if she’d much rather throw him overboard than listen to the truth about what happened two years ago – but deep in his heart Michael knew love would be their lifesaver.Hot Number is such a fun and perfect title for this book! I think it's ideal because it applie...
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Review: More Than Illusions
2008-05-05 11:01:00
More Than Illusions by JT SchultzVampire prince Gabriel Paseillo does not intend to get married—ever. His father has other plans which involve Venice and a brooch. He insists Gabe go and get it and insists on Gabe going to Venice to track down a brooch, which he believes will guarantee him a bride. Only he wasn’t counting on finding the beautiful FBI Agent Arianna, the crime lord trying to kill her or changing his mind about marriage."More Than Illusions" is an original vampire adventure that had me both laughing and biting my nails.Arianna is a great heroine. In mortal danger from a foe intent on eliminating her, I appreciated her strength; she doesn't whine or cower from danger. She's also sassy, sarcastic and has no problem staring down five-hundred-year-old master vampires, and her in-your-face attitude was a delight to watch, especially as she rocks Gabriel's world.Gabriel is a marriage-phobic, playboy vampire prince, with dreamy blue eyes and a playful nature that I coul...
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Review: Pigmalion
2008-05-05 11:00:00
Pigmalionby Sharon BuchbinderGraduate student Levisa Harris is focused on finishing her Master's thesis on Baltimore dialects and only needs one more volunteer to complete her study. After a homecoming game, she meets Sam Parker, a handsome man with an interesting accent. But he's not interested in being a "guinea pig." An accounting major from the poor side of town, Sam soon finds out that his "Bawlamerese" is getting in the way of his career. Swallowing his pride, he agrees to be in Levisa's study in exchange for free lessons. A dream job at a big accounting firm is within his reach, but only she can teach him proper speech—in four months! Little does Levisa know that tutoring Sam will lead to passionate private lessons that take her breath away and teach her heart and body to speak the language of love.Pigmalion by Sharon Buchbinder is one of those stories in which you will do a thousand things at once. You’ll scoff, you’ll smile, you’ll dance, you’ll squirm and at t...
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Review: The Vampire Shrink
2008-05-04 11:01:00
The Vampire Shrinkby Lynda HilburnDenver psychologist Kismet Knight, Ph.D., doesn't believe in the paranormal. She especially doesn't believe in vampires. That is, until a new client introduces Kismet to the vampire underworld and a drop dead gorgeous, 800-year-old vampire named Devereux. Kismet isn't buying the vampire story, but can't explain why she has such odd reactions and feelings whenever Devereux is near. Kismet is soon forced to open her mind to other possibilities, however, when she is visited by two angry bloodsuckers who would like nothing better than to challenge Devereux by hurting Kismet.To make life just a bit more complicated, one of Kismet's clients shows up in her office almost completely drained of blood, and Kismet finds herself immersed in an ongoing murder investigation. Enter handsome FBI profiler Alan Stevens who warns her that vampires are very real. And one is a murderer. A murderer who is after her.In the midst of it all, Kismet realizes she has fee...
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Review: All The Time In The World
2008-05-04 11:00:00
All the Time in the World by K. Bruce JusticeHer life as a teacher was uncomplicated and safe, the way she wanted it, until the death of her parents and return to her home town. Sandra Foster was not expecting to wake up in the turbulent 1970s, amid the storm of unrest over Viet Nam, to meet and fall in love with a Navy flyer who was no different than those fighting today. No different than anyone in the Armed Forces, willing to sacrifice their lives for love of family and country. When he is lost and she returns to the present, she will need to decide if it was a journey, a dream, or perhaps the premonition of a promise to be kept? “All the Time in the World” is a bit of a mystery: Sandra Foster goes to sleep in present-day Georgia and wakes up driving a car in 1972 South Florida. Though the story never really explores what she’s doing there, she does take the time-jump in stride and even manages to fall in love with handsome Jim Hamilton, a Navy pilot who leaves for Vietnam ...
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Review: The Smuggled Rose
2008-05-03 11:01:00
The Smuggled Rose by Amy CorwinA cynical earl and a rose smuggler are an unlikely pair, particularly when the smuggler is a supposedly fallen woman the earl owes for saving his feckless brother's life.Nonetheless, Michael, the earl of Ramsgate, is determined to repay his family's debt by presenting Margaret at Court — an action calculated to repair even the worst reputation. But Margaret has been burned before and is suspicious that Michael's intentions aren't entirely honorable…despite the certainty in her heart that she can trust him.As the tension between them flares and Michael's feelings for Margaret strain his self-control, an old enemy bent on revenge returns to challenge Michael's iron determination…and threatens to take Margaret away from him forever.All of polite and non-polite society knows who Margaret Lane is. An unimaginable and false scandal purported by a spurned suitor, caused Margaret to flee the London ton and retire to the safe country home of her an...
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Review: A Sigh Of Love
2008-05-03 11:00:00
A Sigh of Love by Bess McBrideAbbie is on her way to Anchorage, Alaska to meet George whom she has been corresponding by telephone for the past three months. George has repeatedly asked her to come up to Alaska for a visit so they can meet in person. Call her crazy, but Abbie makes airline reservations to fly from her home in Seattle up to Anchorage to meet George. She’s lonely. Why shouldn’t she make a mad romantic dash up to the last frontier to meet a man? She’ll just ignore the practicality and logistics of a long-distance relationship. When she calls George to let him know her arrival time, he chooses that awful moment to let Abbie know that he thinks they don’t have much in common after all and she should cancel her plane reservations. Abbie is stunned, humiliated and ashamed of the lonely desperation that drove her to make nonrefundable airline reservations to Alaska. What to do? Abbie decides to go to Alaska anyway. A grouchy and depressed Abbie meets Tom on the plane...
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Review: Through A Glass Darkly
2008-05-02 11:57:00
Through a Glass Darkly by Anna TaylorHow do you prove the face in the mirror is you when everyone insists it’s someone else? No one believes Roxanna Mitchell isn’t Claire Denby, a millionaire’s mentally unstable runaway wife. Dr. William McCoy, her only potential ally, certainly doesn’t—and doesn’t intend to. Playing good Samaritan cost him his medical license and his faith. He refuses to step in now, especially when a wedding album full of photos shows she’s lying. Roxanna’s only defense? God called her by name when she gave her life to Christ. That name was Roxanna. No matter what those photos show, she insists she’s not Claire. William remains unconvinced, and Roxanna almost gives up… until events force them into an alliance that will lead either to the truth or to their deaths.Roxanna Mitchell wakes up to a strange bedroom, two men that she is barely acquainted with, and the foreign name of Claire Denby. She cannot remember how she got there and when. She can...
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Review: Sonora
2008-05-02 11:56:00
Sonoraby Elaine BonnerTo what lengths would you go to protect your son and to keep him with you? Sonora will do almost anything. She leaves home and goes to a wild and dangerous country where she faces comancheros and the man who wants to take her son away. During her journey she meets Jonathan, the man of her dreams, but she is even willing to give up a life with him to keep Timmy with her? After an attack by the comancheros, Timmy is taken and Sonora is left for dead. Captain Jonathan Parker finds the young woman and takes her back to Fort Benton to recover. Jonathan is a devout Christian and has been able to maintain his Christian principles and be an example for his men. He has prayed for God to send him a wife and he is drawn to this desperate young woman. But is she a woman of God? It doesn’t appear so. Will he be able to suppress is feelings or will God change the young woman’s heart? Will Sonora get her son back and will she be able to keep him? Can she ever entrust her ...
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Review: Come Green Grass
2008-05-02 06:54:00
Come Green Grass by Maxine Bridgman IsacksonLeah Clayborn is seventeen, newly orphaned and accustomed to a genteel life in Ohio. She arrives in Horse Flatts, Nebraska, in the year 1894 to make her home on a cattle ranch owned by a mysterious Uncle Simon she has never met. Despite gaining a number of good, staunch friends, Leah quickly learns that she has both known and unknown enemies making attempts on her life. Intrigue, romance and mystery will grip the reader's interest as the characters move through a tangle of sorrow, tragedy and love. A story you will not only enjoy but also remember.1894 is a tough year to grow up and even more so for an orphaned seventeen year-old girl who is suddenly uprooted from her home in Ohio and sent to live on a ranch in Horse Flatts, Nebraska. Her Uncle Simon and ranch life is hard for a young woman raised in a genteel household. As she makes friends on the ranch and in town it soon becomes apparent someone wants to harm her.Come Green Grass is a c...
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Review: Time To Keep
2008-05-02 03:53:00
Time To Keepby Susan CodyStar Prescott reluctantly takes her doctor’s advice to relax away from her office in a cold dank castle keep in northern England. But when she investigates a strange noise down a dark corridor, she embarks on a journey that changes her forever.The man she encounters seems familiar to her. Has she seen him somewhere before? Star quickly realizes she shouldn’t be in this place or this time, but it’s too late. Her presence has changed things. Now how does she fix the mess she has made and give Colin Kendall the future he deserves?Is there any way to protect her heart, or is it too late for that, as well? Has she fallen in love with a man she shouldn’t even know? Is she out of time with Colin, or will there be Time to Keep?When Star Prescott is practically forced by her doctor to take a vacation in northern England for her health’s sake, she has no idea what’s in store for her. With all the modern conveniences she’s used to lacking in the castle wh...
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Review: Hibiscus Bay
2008-04-30 14:00:00
Hibiscus Bayby Debby Allen An illicit affair with her boss loses Ashleigh Brennan her job along with her dignity. Untrusting of men in general, she vows never to be misled by first impressions again—until she meets wealthy, handsome Remmao Kamal. He’s full of passion and eastern promise—but for how long? It’s hard to believe that this millionaire isn’t married, but his playboy lifestyle aboard his yacht has had its repercussions. After a succession of harbor pickups, his misjudgement of a lover’s intention put his life at risk. Since then, he has been determined to put his womanising days behind him—until Ashleigh walks into his life. Their sexual attraction is immediate and the temptation for Remmao to break his vow of harbor celibacy is as strong as Ashleigh’s desire to protect her heart. But will a one-night stand with no commitments be enough for them? “Hibiscus Bay,” set in a lush harbor town, is an emotional roller coaster of a romance between Remmao and As...
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Review: Something About That Lady
2008-04-29 23:58:00
SOMETHING ABOUT THAT LADYby Carol McPheeStruggling to pick up the pieces of her life, widow Brie Beaumont accepts an invitation to visit the Circle C ranch in Canada's Rocky Mountains. Co-owner Jed Cameron distrusts Brie's motives. He is determined to protect his brother and the ranch from the red-headed gold digger. But when tragedy strikes, Jed's only hope is the woman he vowed to run off.In SOMETHING ABOUT THAT LADY, Carol McPhee takes the reader to the breathtakingly beautiful ranch country of Alberta, Canada. Along with the heroine, Brienna Beaumont, she lures the reader into Jed Cameron Territory. Brie, still fragile from a disastrous marriage and the death of her husband, finds herself transported from the holiday atmosphere of a cruise ship to the Cameron Ranch where she’s met with Jed’s hostility that threatens to undermine all the emotional and physical healing she’s begun on the cruise.As the reader learns about Jed’s reasons for being hostile and the story b...
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Review: Beware of Doug
2008-04-29 06:39:00
Beware of Doug by Elaine FoxHe's Nobody's Best Friend!Lily Tyler's very interested in her sexy new neighbor, private jet pilot Brady Cole. Brady could really go for smart, gorgeous Lily. The fire that's generated whenever they're together isn't just chemical... it's nuclear!But then there's Doug...The real ruler of the roost - Lily's noisy, nasty, match-mauling pooch - Doug likes to greet anyone he dislikes with yaps, nips, and very unpleasant surprises. And Doug does not like Brady. (Doug, in fact, doesn't like anybody - except Lily, of course. And, oddly enough, the squeaky clean, partner-track attorney whom Lily's domineering dad would love for his dutiful daughter to marry.)Brady's no canine fan to begin with - and Doug's the devil-dog incarnate! But Lily could never get serious with anyone who doesn't click with her precious puppy - so Brady's going to need a lot more than great looks, smooth charm, and hot passion to get himself out of the doghouse and into Lily...
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Review: Eye of the Beholder
2008-04-28 23:56:00
Eye of the Beholderby Delia DeleestA marriage of convenience isn't what Adeline Pierce had in mind for her life, especially since she was practically engaged to the man of her dreams. But, time is running out for her critically ill brother, who needs to move to a warm dry climate or face certain death. A move of that magnitude requires a lot of money--money her family doesn't have. When Will Denning, a man physically and emotionally scarred from his time in the trenches during World War I, offers her family the money they need in exchange for her hand in marriage, she feels she has no other option. Learning to love Will is hard enough, but it's made even more difficult by the fact that her former love is determined to do whatever it takes to drive them apart, including murder.Heartfelt and charming, Delia Deleest's latest romance, "Eye of the Beholder," will enthrall readers. You will love both the hero and heroine, and before halfway into the story, will have so many hopes for ...
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Review: Ask Again Later
2008-04-28 19:33:00
Ask Again Laterby Jill A. DavisEmily has a tendency to live with one foot out the door. When her mother dramatically announces, “They’ve found a lump,” Emily gladly leaves behind her career, her boyfriend, and those pesky unanswerable questions about who she is and what she’s doing with her life to be by her mother’s side. But back in her childhood bedroom, Emily realizes that she hasn’t run fast or far enough – especially when she opens the door, quite literally, to find her past staring her in the face.Ms. Davis, an Emmy-nominated writer for Late Show with David Letterman and the author of the best-selling novel Girls’ Poker Night, pens this story about a thirty-one year-old woman at a crossroads. While I expected the novel to focus on the relationship between mother and daughter, it is a much lighter work that falls into the “chick lit” genre. Emily Rhode quits her job as a lawyer when her mother is diagnosed with breast cancer, and she spends most of the book...
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Review: Always Tomorrow
2008-04-27 23:53:00
Always Tomorrow by Shada RoyceGavin Saxton, the residing Earl of Brockington, is guilty - first of sleeping with another man’s wife and then causing the death of her husband. After spending the last three years in the British Army with his best friend, Edward Noble, the Duke of Carlisle, fate hands Gavin more than he wants when Edward’s dying wish is to take care of his wife, Sarah - the one woman on earth unlikely to accept his protection. After being neglected by a man she’d married for love, Sarah Noble carries a soul consuming bitterness like a badge of honor. With the gaping sadness at the loss of her husband and the loss of a child, Sarah’s future appears bleak – until an unexpected guest appears on her doorstep. To her chagrin, the man is no one other than Gavin Saxton - traitor, seducer, coward, and heartbreaker – professing his honor and protection. I struggled a little to write this review, because although I enjoyed the setting, the characters, and the writing ...
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Review: Last Wolf Hunting
2008-04-27 18:17:00
Last Wolf Hunting by Rhyannon ByrdComing home, Jeremy Burns realized his life had all been an act.As if sending the next rogue back to hell was his life's mission. But after seeing Jillian Murphy for the first time in a decade, Jeremy knew he could no longer ignore his desire. By rights of nature, the Spirit Walker belonged to him. Yet fate and fear had worked against these two headstrong lovers in their youth—and cast the Bloodrunner from his home.Now Jeremy and Jillian must join forces to uncover the betrayal that threatens to destroy the pack's stability. And when they're done—well, Jeremy's not about to again deny himself the one thing he wants most in this world.… Jillian belongs to him, and this time his little witch is going to know it!Blood Runner, Jeremy drew the short straw at the end of the first book in this series ("Last Wolf Standing") and must return to the pack and claim his rightful place there in order to investigate which of the pack leaders has turned t...
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Review: Shaking Off the Dust
2008-04-26 23:07:00
Shaking off the Dustby Rhianna SamuelsHannah’s list: Ghosts are cold to the touch. Being tied up isn’t much fun. And danger is a sure-fire prescription for amazing sex!When Hannah Campbell attends a memorial service for the neurosurgeon who once saved her life, the last thing she expects is a lightning strike that knocks her out cold and blasts her lungs full of the departed’s ashes. Things only get weirder when she wakes up to find the deceased standing over her hospital bed, insisting she help him track down the terrorists who blew up his plane.Professor Takeshi Shimodo doesn’t know what to believe when smart-mouthed Hannah appears on his doorstep, claiming to be haunted by the ghost of his best friend. Yet she exhibits some extraordinary psychic abilities. And her determination to find justice for the crash victims, in spite of her fragile health, touches his heart.Takeshi’s acupressure techniques are meant to calm Hannah’s erratic heartbeat, but the longer they are t...
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Review: Midsummer's Knight
2008-04-26 11:39:00
Midsummer’s Knight by Tori PhillipsPlaying at disguises with her betrothed, Lady Katherine Fitzhugh knew not which role she had embraced, for pretending to be her cousin in order to discover the true nature of the stranger she was bound to by royal decree was proving to be much more complicated than she had planned!Only a fool entered marriage blindly, and Sir Brandon Cavendish was no one’s fool. Yet disguised as his own best friend, he was now faced with a ticklish dilemma. For it was fast becoming clear that the woman he truly desired was not his simpering intended, but her strong-willed and passionate cousin!This sequel to Silent Knight, of the Cavendish Chronicles, tells the story of Brandon Cavendish and the woman he is forced to marry, Katherine Fitzhugh. Both the King and Brandon’s father think it’s high time that the popular but promiscuous knight settle down, so they choose Katherine, a twice-widowed beauty of thirty who wants nothing more than to live the rest of h...
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