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Burning Desire – Smoldering And Intoxicating

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September 30, 2014

After Cynthia Eden, Donna Grant is my to go to author for some sinful paranormal, sensual legends, fiery protectors and smoldering passion. Her writings are creative and charmingly addictive leaving us heady and intoxicated.

I am fascinated with her narration because I can feel her heart and soul in every word she pens, creating some brilliant stories around Dark Kings, Druids, Faes and of realms unknown, intermingling old legends with contemporary lives, to take us on a magical journey into worlds unknown.

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Burning Desire is book#4 in her Dark Kings Series as Kiril, a Dragon King travels to Cork, Ireland, the Land Of The Dark, to search for a missing friend Rhi, the Light Fae. Knowing that the Dark Fae wants to capture and break him into revealing secrets guarded by the Dragon Kings, his mission is to get to Rhi, despite the sensual bait sent his way.

Shara belongs to one of the most powerful Dark families and her mission is to lure Kiril into the Dark lair, to prove her worth and get her family’s acceptance. But meeting Kiril brings out a desire that is unexplainable and emotions that put her on the fence of light and dark, right and wrong, loyalty and love.

With all cards open on deck, Kiril can’t control his fiery desire for Shara knowing very well the danger he is heading into trusting a Dark Fae, and Shara is ready to sacrifice her life to help Kiril be safe. Now it is left to the fates if Kiril and Shara can escape the doom of the Dark that threatens their lives to make a future in the sanctuary of the Dark Kings, the Protectors.

Donna Grant’s stories are embodiment of intrigue, excitement and fascination, making us ache for more, burn for more and yearn for more!

Received an ARC from Netgalley for an honest review.

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In Your Dreams – Dreamy!

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Kristan Higgins has such an aura of joy and humor around her, it transcends into her books. Her stories always leave me with a healthy dose of realism and warm fuzzies wrapped in a cocoon. Reading her books is one of my guilty pleasures.

In Your Dreams is the fourth in her “Blue Heron Series” and takes us, up close and personal with Jack Holland and Emmaline Neal as they pair up together to go to Malibu to attend Emmaline’s ex-fiancé’s wedding. And I tell you, Kristan did a fine job of sketching that &$*%$%# of a Kevin!!!!!

Jack is the quintessential Prince Charming, knight in shining armor and loves rescuing damsels in distress with absolutely no expectations. Since the rescue of four teenagers from a car crash into the lake, he’s been elevated to the status of a hero and is not helping him as he battles PTSD, and keeps ignoring it. Into this mayhem comes his ex-wife wanting him back, and he is one frustrated place in his life. Going away with Emmaline to the wedding is his way of an escape not realizing that, that trip is coming up with its own set of sweet problems and he seems to be seeing Emmaline and her sweet butt with a set of new eyes!

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Emmaline is the Deputy of Blue Heron, independent, sassy, kind and liked by everyone. Going away with Jack as her friend to attend her ex-fiancé’s wedding is one way pure torture, but at the same time she gets to know Jack well. The inevitable attraction lands them in bed together. As much as she blames this temporary insanity to chocolate and wine, she knows in her heart she is falling for Jack Holland. And Jack with his knight in shining armor does not make it any easy as his ex-wife seems to be everywhere, every place snagging his attention.

With his coven of sisters encouraging, butting and driving him nuts, Jack needs to re-evaluate his feelings for Emmaline as he needs more than a friendship with her. And Emmaline needs to let go of her insecurities and fear of getting hurt again, believe in Jack and give him her heart.

Witty, humor, sassy and unconditional support is what “In Your Dreams” is made of. It brings out the various facets of relationships and family as they bind you with loyalty, empathy and love.

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Sweeter Than Sin – Sinfully Dark And Sizzling

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I’ve always loved Shiloh Walker books especially her psychic novels. In fact her FBI psychic novels were the first of the kind that I’ve read and have been hooked since then.

Her Secrets & Shadows Series is another sinfully dark and dangerous series taking you into the tiny town of Madison, cloaked in dark secrets, overflowing with abuse and torment and trusting a person very well may take you to the doors of death.

The second book in the series, “Sweeter Than Sin”, (first is Deeper Than Need – Noah/Trinity), moves the story further along to Adam and Lana. Mind you, Sweeter Than Sin can be read as a standalone, but it would be so much more meaningful if read in sequence.

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Adam runs the only bar in the town of Madison, a torture he endures as he is a recovering alcoholic and hasn’t touched booze for the past fifteen years. He is one tormented guy with a past filled with pain and lot of questions. The anger, the wait, the endurance is what makes Adam a normal human being trying to forget a past that refuses to let go. He runs a secret forum along with Noah to help teenagers with issues and a forum that brings to light some secrets that have been plaguing Madison. If booze is one end of the temptation scale, Lana has been the other end of the scale that he couldn’t ever forget twenty years and wondering if she is alive or dead!

Lana is back in her hometown after twenty years of hiding, to make things right and bring justice to the crimes that have been covered under the dark skies of Madison. As she tries to put together the pieces of her past, the relation she shares with Adam is one that cannot be ignored or denied. Lana’s always been the one to protect her family and friends and would do anything to save a life. If Noah has a special place in her heart twenty years ago, it’s Adam who makes her heart hum and lose herself mind, body and soul.

As Adam and Lana try to make sense of crimes happened twenty years ago, there is a vigilante on the streets killing the plague that has been roaming the streets of Madison. Secrets are being exposed and the masks of some powerful people in Madison are been ripped off…yet there are some left to bring to justice.

A power packed story with passion and suspense riding each page.
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He Is So Fine – Another Fine Romance!

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Lucky Harbor just keeps getting smooth as whiskey, silk over velvet and hard to walk away.

“He Is So Fine” is book #11 in Jill Shalvis’s Lucky Harbor Series and is another sizzling romance with Olivia Bentley and Cole Donovan crackling with passion and giving Lucille some fine material for her Tumbler and You Tube fixations!!! Can it be more sexy and funny for the residents of Lucky Harbor as they feed on the gossip with underlying love and concern for their own?

Olivia comes to Lucky Harbor to start fresh with a new identity leaving a devastating Hollywood life and a family that she really can’t relate to. Running a vintage store in Lucky Harbor, she’s careful to keep her distance and not make any long term relations. Living on borrowed time, she revels in running her store and creating endless fantasies and stories with the kids.

Cole runs the Lucky Harbor Charters along with his friends Sam and Tanner and is forever trying to stay clear of his coven of sisters, who have coddled him. He’s got a wonderful family and great business, but a painful past keeps him from having any long term relations, until Olivia literally jumps on his head in the seas with the intention of saving his life and knocks him flat….literally!

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Cole and Olivia can’t deny the chemistry that’s been bubbling between them, and end up together. Cole believes in total honesty to the point of being rigid and unbendable…such a sweetheart…..and Olivia’s yet to come clean with Cole about her past.

Another beautiful love story in Lucky Harbor, as Olivia and Cole try to work out their misunderstandings and insecurities, put a closure to a past that seems to put the future at risk, and the confession of Olivia and Cole was an absolute treat to read.

Can’t wait for Tanner to get his heart stolen!!!!

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Mistletoe On Main Street – Season For Second Chances

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September 28, 2014

I seem to come across some amazing new writers courtesy Netgalley and Olivia Miles sure caught my attention. There is no doubt I can be very picky about the books I read considering I’ m a voracious reader thrice over!!!

I’ve never read Olivia Miles before “Mistletoe On Main Street”, a first in her new “Briar Creek Series”. Set in Briar Creek with its quaint stores, charming people and friendly neighbors, “Mistletoe On Main Street” kick starts the series with Grace Madison and Luke Hastings finding their way back to each other in the season of snow, sleigh bells and mistletoes.

Grace Madison is writer coming back to her hometown after her father passes away. Past pain and hurt have kept her away from her family and a love, that was never meant to be or so she thought. Finding herself at a lose end with things in the city gone awry, coming back to Briar Creek seems to be the means to an end as to what her next phase of life would be.

Luke Hastings is a teacher and he once upon a time loved Grace, before she flew away to spread her wings. Her arrival hack into their hometown, dredges up feelings that have been dormant, and her presence seems to stoke those embers into something more. A recent widower, Luke is at a crossroads between his feelings for Grace, and guilt for what has been the outcome of his only marriage.

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As Grace and Luke try to put a closure to the separation of the past, the guilt and anguish of the past doesn’t seem to make the future any more viable. I loved the way Olivia gave so much more importance to the feelings and torment that Grace and Luke go through. Even as they explore the attraction and come together, their future, their goals and their insecurities always seem to dog them into not to make a commitment. The questions that Luke asks himself, the self talks he gives himself, was an emotional read as a normal tries to get cross over a past that feels he’s never done justice to. And Grace with her inner strength and focus, and a vision to make a future attainable, puts in her full force of tenacity to make things work.

Under the winter skies, on the streets twinkling with starry lights and mistletoes, among the warm people humming Christmas carols and baking ginger bread cookies, Olivia Miles writes a beautiful love story for Grace and Luke. She is on my list for a definite repeat reads and I am looking forward to Anna Madison and Mark Hastings firing up the streets of Briar Creek in her next, “Match Made On Main Street”.

Received an ARC from Netgalley for an honest review.

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