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Review of The First Spell ( Prequel to the Hot Magic Series)

Title : The First Spell
Author: Rachel Carrington
Source : Author request
Genre: Fantasy Romance
Length: ebook novella  96 pages
Publisher: Amazon digital
Reviewed by: Cerridwen

Though a prequel to the Hot Magic Series, this is a standalone book. None of the other books in the series, Indigo Spell, Breaking the Spell, and Unchained Spell, need to read first!

Captivated by a wizard with amnesia, Jensen knows he’s only asking for trouble when he takes her to his world. Finding out she’s a member of an enemy guild doesn’t change his connection to her. And their first kiss only strengthens his need to keep her close.

Barely knowing her own name, Charlemaine begins having horrible visions of impeding doom, and she’s labeled an enemy of Jensen’s guild. She doesn’t trust she isn’t being used as bait to bring down the group of powerful wizards, but she doesn’t want to leave Jensen.

Jensen will risk anything to save Charlemaine’s life when magic gives way to betrayal. But will the need for vengeance overcome even the strongest love?

Review Black Desire by Karyn Gerrard

Title: Black Desire (Blackthorne Clan #2) 

Author: Karyn Gerrard 

Source: Gift from author 

Genre: Erotic paranormal romance 

Length: Novella

Reviewed by Laurie 

Tristan Black of the Blackthorne Clan has known heartache and pain. He is a Dhampyre (half-Vampire) and most would say blessed with extreme longevity. Tristan would say cursed as he observed the long, slow decline and then death of his human wife due to old age while he seemingly aged not a day. Now seventy years later, he meets Katrina Hammond who piques his interest.


Katrina is a romance writer on summer vacation when she meets the mysterious and dangerously sexy Tristan. Katrina now finds herself in the middle of a clash between the Blackthorne Clan and a pack of Thropes (wolf shape-shifters).


Can Tristan protect Katrina, and can he protect his heart?


She awakened feelings in him he thought he would not have again. He considered these passions to be little more than vampiric mythology. She awakened his...black desire.


Content Advisory: Brief M/F/M, and M/M sexual situations

Review Seeking Pack Redemption by Eve Langlais

Title: Seeking Pack Redemption (Pack #3) 

 Author: Eve Langlais

Source: Author request

Genre: Erotic paranormal romance

Length: Novella

Reviewed by: Laurie 

Sometimes even outcasts can earn forgiveness.

Thrust into a nightmare, Thea thinks all hope is lost, until an unexpected rescue by three strangers. Forget returning to her old life though, because not only does a psycho vampire want her back, a trio of wolves wants to claim her as their mate.

What started out as a search for his missing sibling, turns into a rescue mission of a woman who makes his inner beast howl. Trent knows it wrong to want his dead brother’s mate, but he can’t help himself, and neither can his friends. However, danger stalks the one they want and they’ll have to face true evil before they can set her free.

And for an outcast wolf, the path to redemption is lonely. Can Jaxon ever atone enough to be welcomed back to his pack and into the arms of the woman he loves?

Review: Wicked Awakening (Book1 in The Wicked Series) by Calinda B

Title:  A Wicked Awakening ( Book 1 in the Wicked Series)
Author: Calinda B
Source: Lit Connect
Genre: Science Fiction/ Fantasy Romance
Length: ebook of 384 pages
Publisher: Sumner McKenzie, Inc
Reviewed by: Cerridwen

Chérie's just a small town girl living life the way she thinks it’s supposed to be. She's got a great guy, a great job and a whole lot of things that don't make sense. Like, why can't she stick up for herself? And why did this mysterious guy walk up behind her on the dance floor, whisper "sexy girl" in her ear, make her body quake with sensation and then disappear? Who is this crazy old woman with eyes like an eagle and braids that blaze with fire who keeps dropping into her world? And where are all these bewilderingly vivid dreams coming from with the mysterious guy as the main attraction? Chérie wants answers. She finds these answers and more as she faces her past, and comes face to face with a future that is more remarkable than she ever dreamed possible.

Review My Brave Highlander by Vonda Sinclair

Title:My Brave Highlander  

Author: Vonda Sinclair

Source: Author request

Genre: Historical romance

Length: Novel

Reviewed by Laurie 

Battle-hardened warrior Dirk MacLerie isn't who everyone thinks he is. He's Dirk MacKay, heir apparent to the MacKay chiefdom and Dunnakeil Castle on the far north coast of Scotland. When he returns home after a long absence, will his clan know him and will the duplicitous enemy who tried to murder him twelve years ago kill him in truth this time?

Lady Isobel MacKenzie is a beautiful young widow betrothed to yet another Highland chief by her brother's order. But when her future brother-in-law accosts her and threatens to kill her, she is forced to flee into a Highland snowstorm. When she runs into a rugged and imposing man she thought dead, she wonders if he will turn her over to her enemy or take her to safety.

Dirk remembers the enchanting, dark-eyed Isobel from when he was a lad, but now she is bound to another man by legal contract—an important detail she would prefer to forget. She wishes to choose her own husband and has her sights set on Dirk. But he would never steal another man's bride… would he? The tantalizing lady fires up his passions, testing his willpower and honor at every turn, even as some of his own treacherous clansmen plot his downfall.

Review Sire's Call by A.L. Jones

Title: Sire's Call (The Crescent City Series, #1) 

Author: A.L. Jones

Source: Request

Genre: Paranormal Romance leaning toward Urban Fiction

Length: Novella (53pgs)

Published by Breathless Press

Dane knows her relationship with Rias is over. 

Rias makes it clear that he disagrees, especially when a rogue vampire threatens Dane's life.

Dane is a newly turned vampire living in the city of New Orleans. As a rogue vampire hunter, she takes down vampires who are endangering their community by killing human prey. But her job can’t keep her mind off Rias, her sire, and her ex. Although a part of her still loves him, she knows they’re better off apart.

As the head of the New Orleans Legion, Rias knows it’s only a matter of time before his fledgling Dane comes back to him, and he’s happy to wait for her to figure that out. But when a rogue vampire arrives in town and threatens Dane’s life, Rias suddenly realizes just how much time he’s already wasted.

Review Her Unlikely Bodyguard by Lorraine Nelson

Title: Her Unlikely Bodyguard

Author: Lorraine Nelson

Source: Request

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Length: Novel (ebook 211pgs)

Release Date : June 15 2012 from Breathless Press 

 

 A stalker who wants revenge… 

A past flame rekindled…

 Jemma Leigh's summer just got interesting.

Jemma Leigh Harding has drawn the attention of an unknown stalker and returns to her hometown of Somerville, a safe haven—or so, she thinks—on the east coast of Canada.

Theodore Garrity is the last person she expects to see, considering how easily he walked away from her after graduation to join the army.

Their past history involves secrets Jemma Leigh is not ready or willing to share. When it becomes clear the stalker has followed her home, Teddy becomes her unlikely bodyguard. Will the terror and past hurts separate them forever? Or will love blaze a fresh path for their future?

Review Shadow's Edge by J.T. Geissinger

Title: Shadow's Edge (Night Prowler, #1)
Author: J.T. Geissinger
Source: Author Request
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Length: Novel
Release Date : June 12th 2012
Reviewer: Carin

Deep within the primeval forests of southern England, a race of beautiful, savage shape-shifters lives hidden from the everyday world. Bound together by ancient bloodlines and a ruthless code of secrecy that punishes traitors with death, the Ikatisend their leader Leander on a mission to capture one raised outside the tribe before she can expose their secret. When Leander tracks the unsuspecting outsider to Southern California, the hardened warrior is prepared for a fight—but not for the effect the sensual young beauty has on his heart.

Jenna spent her childhood in hiding, on the run from someone—or something—her parents refused to discuss. She trusts no one, not since her father’s mysterious disappearance, not since her mother’s sudden death, and definitely not since she began exhibiting strange, superhuman abilities. When handsome, enigmatic Leander appears, promising answers to the mysteries that shroud her past, she knows she shouldn’t trust him either. But their connection is undeniable, and as powerful as the enemy hell-bent on destroying every one of their kind…