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Be Still My Vampire Heart (Love at Stake, Bk 3)
Be Still My Vampire Heart (Love at Stake, Bk 3)
Author: Kerrelyn Sparks
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
  • Currently 4.1/5 Stars.
 383
Review Date: 7/27/2007


One look at her was enough to stop his heart... If it was still beating. Angus MacKay has been undead for almost five hundred years and it's not often something, or someone, surprises him. Until Emma Wallace. The sight of this luscious agent from the CIA's elite State-Out team was enough to stop Angus in his tracks. But then he discovers that she's a vampire slayer, intent on killing the "monsters" who killed her parents. And it's Angus's job to stop her.

The only good vampire is a dead vampire. It's been Emma's motto since she committed her life to the destruction of these things. Now Angus MacKay wants to convince her differently. Sure, he's a sexy Highland warrior who seems to have stepped off the cover of a romance novel, complete with brogue, kilt, and sword, but he's also one of them. And it's her job to kill him.

The war is on, but will it end in the destruction of one or both of them...or in total surrender to a passion for the ages.


Beware of Doug (Guys & Dogs, Bk 2)
Beware of Doug (Guys & Dogs, Bk 2)
Author: Elaine Fox
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
 137
Review Date: 8/15/2007
Helpful Score: 1


Cute, fun read.


Bite Me If You Can (Argeneau Vampires, Bk 6)
Bite Me If You Can (Argeneau Vampires, Bk 6)
Author: Lynsay Sands
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
  • Currently 4.2/5 Stars.
 742
Review Date: 7/27/2007


One minute Leigh is walking home in the early hours of the morning, and the next a vampire is sinking his teeth into her neck. Turns out it was a rogue vampire marked for termination, but it does Leigh little good because the damage has already been done. She's one of them.

Lucian Argeneau, hunter of rogue vampires, has been alive for over two thousand years, and there's very little to excite him anymore. Food has become tasteless, sex is ordinary. Then Leigh drops into his life. Suddenly he finds himself craving coffee.. and imagining the sassy brunette atop the black satin sheets on his nice big bed. It's Lucian's job now to enlighten Leigh on the inner workings of being immortal..and tutoring her is igniting a fire in him that hasn't burned in centuries.

But until they stop a renegade bloodsucker from destroying the human race, passion will have to wait.


Blood Lines (World of the Lupi, Bk 3)
Blood Lines (World of the Lupi, Bk 3)
Author: Eileen Wilks
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
 190
Review Date: 7/27/2007


Touch-sensitive FBI agen Lily Yu and her werewolf bond-mate are recruited by the Secret Service to help identify elected officials who have accepted demonic pacts. But Lily must turn to fellow agen Cynna Weaver for help when Cynna's former teacher, a demon master, emerges as the main suspect behind the pacts.

After a demon commits a gruesome murder, sorcerer Cullen Seabourne joins the team racing the clock to find the apprentice of evil who uses demons to kill. Cynna and Cullen must work together -- a challenge indeed when each has good reason to ignore the desire simmering between them. But passion and events both spiral out of control as an ancient prophecy is fulfilled -- and the lupi's greatest enemy sets her sights on total devastation...


Causing Havoc (SBC Fighters, Bk 1)
Causing Havoc (SBC Fighters, Bk 1)
Author: Lori Foster
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
 556
Review Date: 7/27/2007


Sexy, sculpted extreme fighter Dean "Havoc" Conor has knee-melting good looks -- and thick skin. But not from his brutal sport's enclosed rings. Orphaned and torn from his sisters as a boy, he has no family. That is, until he gets a letter revealing how much the once-little girls want him back in Harmony, Kentucky.

To stop one of his sisters from marrying a man as sleazy as he is wealthy, Dean finds himself teaming up with her pretty-but-smart-mouthed friend Eve -- who's heard of "Havoc's" reputation and doesn't need some hunk trampling on her heart. Now all Dean has to do is protect his sisters, win Eve over, and expose a devious criminal. And he thought winning the heavyweight cage fighting belt was hard...


Dangerous Games (Riley Jenson, Guardian, Bk 4)
Dangerous Games (Riley Jenson, Guardian, Bk 4)
Author: Keri Arthur
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
  • Currently 4.1/5 Stars.
 512
Review Date: 7/27/2007


Fourth in the Riley Jenson Guardian Novel Series...

In Melbourne's urban underwold, there's a nightclub for every fantasy and desire. But for Riley Jenson, one such club has become an obsession. Riley, a rare hybrid of vampire and werewolf, hasn't come in pursuit of pleasure but of an unknown killer who's been using the steamy nightspot as his hunting grounds.

Leave it to Riley to find the only ticket into the heavily guarded club: Jin, a deliciously hot-bodied bartender who might just provide the key to unmasking a killer unlike any other in the Directorate's experience. Taunted by a former colleague turned rogue, distracted by an ex-lover's attentions, Riley follows Jin into a realm of pleasure she could never have imagined. And as danger and passion ignite, a shocking mystery begins to unravel -- one where Riley herself becomes the ultimate object of desire...


Dangerous Games (Tempting SEALs, Bk 2)
Dangerous Games (Tempting SEALs, Bk 2)
Author: Lora Leigh
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
 554
Review Date: 7/27/2007


First I've ever read of hers but enjoyed it...

Navy SEAL Clint "Iceman" McIntyre didn't earn his nickname by being a coward. Or a quitter. Having crushed an infamous drug cartel in Colombia, Clint was nothing short of an American hero. Now he's home, on a much-needed leave, but instead of some R&R, he finds himself neck-deep in trouble with his best friend's little sister, Morganna Chavez -- the only woman who has the power to bring him to his knees..

Morganna has been secretly working with the DEA to uncover a thriving date-rape drug, which leads her to a shadowy faction that is more deadly than anything her team has ever encountered. Now it's up to Clint to keep this beautiful, determined agen out of harm's way, even while the passion between them threatens to consume them. Soon Clint's greatest mission will not be just keeping Morganna alive, but getting her into his arms and never letting go.


Danse Macabre (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Bk 14)
Danse Macabre (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Bk 14)
Author: Laurell K. Hamilton
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
 507
Review Date: 7/27/2007


LOVE the Anita Blake series...

Anita Blake needs to be concentrating on a dangerous situation: the ardeur -- the sexual power that flows between Anita and Jean-Claude, Master Vampire of the City; and Richard, the volatile werewolf who loves her passionately -- is reaching new levels. The unexpected effect of this is that Jean-Claude's own power as a master vampire has grown -- and Richard, never predictable, is changing, too.

But as the days pass, Anita's less interested in vampire politics than in an ancient, ordinary dread she shares with women down the ages: she may be pregnant. And, if she is, whether the father is a vampire, a werewolf, or someone else entirely, she knows perfectly well that being a federal marshal known for raising the dead and executing vampires is not way to bring up a baby...


Dark Gold (Carpathians (Dark), Bk 3)
Dark Gold (Carpathians (Dark), Bk 3)
Author: Christine Feehan
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 4.1/5 Stars.
 394
Review Date: 7/27/2007


Alexandria Houton would sacrifice anything -- even her life -- to protect her orphaned little brother. But when both encountered unspeakable evil in the swirling San Franciso mists, Alex could only cry to heaven for their deliverance..

And out of the darkness swooped Aidan Savage, a golden being more powerful, more mysterious, than any other creature of the night. The ageless Carpathian mail snatched them from a hideous fate. But was Aidan a miracle..or a monster? Alex's salvation..or her sin? If she surrendered to Aidan's savage, unearthly seduction -- gave him the color, the light, the family he craved -- would Alex truly save her brother? Or sacrifice more than her life?


Dead and Dateless (Dead End Dating, Bk 2)
Dead and Dateless (Dead End Dating, Bk 2)
Author: Kimberly Raye
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
 340
Review Date: 7/27/2007


The sassiest vampire in all of Manhattan, Lil Marchette, is the owner of Dead End Dating -- a matchmaking service for hip, intelligent singles like herself. After only three months, business is booming, and she can finally pay her bills (and more important, feed a hungry cosmetics addiction). But when one of her clients turns up dead (as in never coming back), Lis is named as the prime suspect. Murder?

Sure, she's a vampire, but she can't even work up her nerve when it comes to blood-sucking. Hacking somebody to pieces is so out of the question.

To make matters worse, Lil must also contend with a pack of werewolves who ask --no, demand -- that she find each one a tall, dark, and handsome mate before the next full moon. Plus, the to-die-for-if-I-wasn't-already-dead Ty Bonner, a lusciously sexy lover but totally unsuitable eternity mate, is never far from her midnight fantasies. But Lil has no time for such thoughts. She must prove her innocence and focus on pairing off the dead and the furry -- and maybe stake a claim to her own tasty true love.


Dead Sexy
Dead Sexy
Author: Amanda Ashley
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
 196
Review Date: 7/27/2007


The city is in a panic. In the still of the night, a vicious killer is leaving a trail of mutilated bodies drained of blood. A chilling M.O. that puts ex-vampire hunter Regan Delaney on the case, her gun clip packed with silver bullets, her instincts edgy. But the victims are both human and Undead, and the clues are as confusing as the vampire who may be her best ally -- she hopes...

Master of the City, Joaquin Santiago radiates supernatural power like heat from a blast furnace, but he's never met a creature like Regan Delaney. She intrigues him, fires his hunger, and unleashes his desire, but before he can enter her world, or she his, they must confront a vicious, elusive killer who is an enemy even to his own...


Deadly Game (GhostWalkers, Bk 5)
Deadly Game (GhostWalkers, Bk 5)
Author: Christine Feehan
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 4.1/5 Stars.
 640
Review Date: 8/15/2007


Loved it!!!

It begins as a mission to protect a politician from an assassination threat. But the operation takes an unexpected turn when Mari, a mysteriously beautiful Ghost Walker, is taken hostage. At the same time, Ken Norton, expert assassin and himself a Ghost Walker warrior, is on a mission of his own -- one that reaches into Mari's past. No stranger to the ways of violent warfare, Mari must join forces with Ken and trust his every move -- each one more intimate than the last.


Demon Angel (Guardians, Bk 1)
Demon Angel (Guardians, Bk 1)
Author: Meljean Brook
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 3.2/5 Stars.
 104
Review Date: 7/27/2007


For two thousand years, Lilith wrought vengeance upon the evil and the damned, gathering souls for her father's armies Below and providing her fealty to her Underwold liege. Half-demon, half-human, bound by a bargain with the devil, and forbidden to feel pleasure, she draws upon her dark powers and serpentine grace to lead men into temptation. That is, until hse faces her greatest temptation -- Heaven's own Sir Hugh Castleford..

Once a knight and now a Guardian, Hugh spent centuries battling demons -- and the cursed, blood-drinking nosferatu. His purpose has always been to thwart the demon Lilith, even as he battles his treacherous hunger for her. But when a deadly alliance unleashes a threat to both humans and Guardians in modern-day San Francisco, angel and demon must fight together against unholy evil -- and against a desire that has been too long denied...


Don't Look Down
Don't Look Down
Author: Jennifer Crusie, Bob Mayer
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
  • Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
 322
Review Date: 7/27/2007


She is director of dog food commercials who's just been recruited to finish a four-day movie shoot. But as soon as Lucy Armstrong arrives on set, she discovers that the staff is in chaos, the make-up artist is suicidal, and the stunt director just happens to be her ex-husband. That, and the temperamental lead actor has just acquired as an advisor a Green Beret who has the aggravating habit of always being right.

He thought that hiring on as a military consultant for a movie star was a to-die-for deal: easy work, easy money, easier starlets. But his first day on the job, Captain J.T. Wilder ends up babysitting a bumbling comedian, dodging low-flying helicopters, and trying to find out who's taking "shooting a movie" much too literally.


The Dream-Hunter (Dream-Hunter, Bk 1 / Dark-Hunter, Bk 11)
The Dream-Hunter (Dream-Hunter, Bk 1 / Dark-Hunter, Bk 11)
Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
 1115
Review Date: 7/27/2007


Love all of Sherrilyn Kenyon's work..

Condemned by the gods to live eternity without emotions, Arikos can only feel when he's in the dreams of others. For thousands of years, he's drifted through the human unconscious, searching for sensation. Now he's finally found a dreamer whose vivid mind can fill his emptiness.

Dr. Megeara Kafieri watched her father ruin himself and his reputation as he searched to prove Atlantis was real. Her deathbed promise to him to salvage his reputation has now brought her to Greece where she intends to prove once and for all that the fabled island is right where her father said it was. Instead, she finds a stranger floating in the sea -- one whose face she's seen many times...in her dreams.

What she doesn't know is that Arik holds more than the ancient secrets that can help her find the mythical isle of Atlantis. He has made a pact with the god Hades: In exchange for two weeks as a mortal man, he must return to Olympus with a human soul -- Megeara's.


French Kiss (Hot, Bk 6)
French Kiss (Hot, Bk 6)
Author: Susan Johnson
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
 42
Review Date: 7/27/2007


L.A. architect Nicole Lesdaux has been hired to create a tree house for hunky producer Johnny Patrick's little girls. Nicky has an unlimited budget -- but she might have agreed to work for free if it meant watching his sizzlingly sexy body by the pool every day.

But mixing business with pleasure is taboo -- so she focuses on making this mogul the Taj Mahal of tree houses. Until Johnny's ex-wife takes off for Paris with their daughter...

Since Nicky speaks the language, a desperate Johnny asks her to help. En route, sexual tensions run high. Again and again, the two must fight the urge to come together. and, as Nicky discovers, Johnny does know some French after all.


Full Moon Rising (Riley Jenson, Guardian, Bk 1)
Full Moon Rising (Riley Jenson, Guardian, Bk 1)
Author: Keri Arthur
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
 647
Review Date: 7/27/2007


First in the Riley Jenson Guardian Novel Series..

A rare hybrid of vampire and werewolf, Riley Jenson is just trying to find her place in the world. And it's not always easy for a woman like herself, especially when her work -- for an organization created to police the supernatural races -- brings her face-to-face with some of the sexiest men imaginable. More werewolf than vampire, Riley is vulnerable to the moon heat: the phase when her need to mate becomes all-consuming. But when her twin brother Rhoan is taken hostage. Riley must stay focused -- even when an extremely seductive, deliciously naked, and very disoriented vampire shows up on her doorstep looking for Rhoan. Now she'll have to control her urges if she's going to find her brother..because the people who took Rhoan have another target in mind: Riley!


Gideon (Nightwalkers, Bk 2)
Gideon (Nightwalkers, Bk 2)
Author: Jacquelyn Frank
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
 548
Review Date: 7/27/2007


For a thousand years, Gideon has healed his people. And as the oldest surviving male of his race, his wisdom has always been respected without question. But Gideon knows that even he is vulnerable to the powerful, primitive desires that befall his kind during Hallowed moons -- and nine years ago that truth was hammered home when he found himself claiming Magdelegna, the Demon King's sister, in a wild embrace. Horrified by his lack of control, he left her wanting and furious -- and then exiled himself for the better part of a decade. Now, with necromancers threatening his people -- and Magdelegna nearly their victim -- Gideon must face another truth. He and the beautiful, stubborn Magdelegna are destined to be together, to share a love as deep and old as time itself. But first he needs to regain her trust. Then he'll have to save her life.


Kiss of Midnight (Midnight Breed, Bk 1)
Kiss of Midnight (Midnight Breed, Bk 1)
Author: Lara Adrian
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
 723
Review Date: 7/27/2007


Enjoyed it!

Book One of the Midnight Breed Series..

He watches her from across the crowded dance club, a sensual black-haired stranger who stirs Gabrielle Maxwell's deepest fantasies. But nothing about this night -- or this man -- is what it seems. For when Gabrielle witnesses a murder outside the club, reality shifts into something dark and deadly. In that shattering instant she is thrust into a realm she never knew existed -- a realm where vampires stalk the shadows and a blood war is set to ignite.

Lucan Thorne despises the violence carried out by his lawless brethren. A vampire himself, Lucan is a Breed warrior, sworn to protect his kind -- and the unwitting humans existing alongside them -- from the mounting threat of the Rogues. Lucan cannot risk binding himself to a mortal woman, but when Gabrielle is targeted by his enemies, he has no choice but to bring her into the dark underworld he commands.

Here, in the arms of the Breed's formidable leader, Gabrielle will confront an extraordinary destiny of danger, seduction, and the darkest pleasures of all...


The Last of the Red-Hot Vampires (Dark Ones, Bk 5)
The Last of the Red-Hot Vampires (Dark Ones, Bk 5)
Author: Katie MacAlister
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
 483
Review Date: 7/27/2007
Helpful Score: 1


I like Katie MacAlister's work but this was definitely not one of her best.

Physicist Portia Harding's life is grounded in facts. There's nothing that can't be explained by logic and science...until she travels with her best friend to England and accidentally summons an ethereal virtue who bequeaths her gift of weather control to Portia.

Now Portia is walking around with a literal cloud over her head and a heart-stoppingly handsome maniac trying to kidnap her. But Theondre North is no run-of-the-mill lunatic. He's a nephilim -- the son of an angel -- who needs Portia's help to change his fate. Problem is, Portia's down-to-earth attitude frustrates beings from both heavenly and hellish realms, and gets Theo turned into a vampire. But at least he has Portia to satisfy his newfound hungers...and possibly save his soul.


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