On the Prowl (Tales of an Urban Werewolf, Book 2) (Mass Market Paperback)

I've just finished reading "On the Prowl" the 2nd book in her Tales of an Urban Werewolf series by Karen MacInerney.

After her recent escapades with weres and proving her mom a witch was not a killer (see HOWLING THE MOON) Austin werewolf Sophie Garou plans on keeping a low profile like she used to have before her recent problems. She especially prays the powerful Houston pack ignores her solo existence in the midst of them.

Instead, the pack leadership demands Sophie come to them or else. She has no choice if she wants things to remain positive with her boyfriend Heath and at her accounting firm Withers and Young where she made partner. The Houston pack is outraged by her living inside their territory as strays are normally unacceptable, but what makes her worse in their lupine eyes is that the half-breed has been inside their turf under the werewolf radar screen for a few decades. To make amends and calm their fears of a rogue, she agrees to spy on the San Antonio pack, but quickly realizes she is not a good undercover agent and her new accounting client Southeast Airlines CEO Mark Sydney seems to be sniffing around her an awful lot making her wonder if he is ON THE PROWL with her his target.

Secret Life of a Vampire (Love at Stake, Book 6) (Mass Market Paperback)

I've just finished reading "Secret Life of a Vampire" the 6th book in her Love at Stakes series by Kerrelyn Sparks.

Product Description

Nothing's sexier than an man who can keep a secret.

A typical bachelor party is all about beers and beautiful women. A vampire bachelor party is no different -- except the men are drinking Blissky (whiskey-flavored synthetic blood). And no one can throw a party quite like Jack, the illegitimate son of the legendary Casanova. But when the party gets out of hand and the cops show up, Jack has some explaining to do . . . if only he wasn't struck speechless by the beauty of Officer Lara Boucher.

Lara is sure there's something more than a bachelor party going on. What is Jack hiding? And why is he so interested in the recent disappearance of young women all over town? Her investigation uncovers more than she wants to know, especially about this modern-day Casanova. But if she's ever to make detective, she'll need to expose all his secrets . . . if only her heart wasn't on the line.

About the Author

Kerrelyn Sparks's first paranormal romance, How to Marry a Millionaire Vampire, flew out of the bat cave in 2005 and survived three weeks on the USA Today Bestseller list. In 2006, Vamps and the City became the second book in the Love At Stake series. Kerrelyn lives in the Greater Houston area with her husband and brilliant children. At this time, there are no vampires in her family. Werewolves are another matter entirely.

4 Bodies and a Funeral (Body Movers, Book 4) (Mass Market Paperback)

I'm just finished reading "4 Bodies and a Funeral" the 4th book in her Body Mover series by Stephanie Bond.

Product Description

Ever had one of those days? A surprise visit from her father — who's on the run from the law — has given Carlotta Wren a lot to think about. Should she join her former fiancé, Peter, in proving her father is innocent? If she does, are her body-moving days over?

And then…

A close friend's behavior begins to spin out of control…

The cops turn up the heat on her father's case…

Carlotta discovers that her brother Wesley's gambling debts are child's play compared to his new vice…

And the Charmed Killer, a serial murderer, unleashes his wrath on Atlanta.

Now the bodies are piling up—and Carlotta's father is the number one suspect!

My Review:

I really liked this series and it's a very light read and it reminds me of the Stephanie Plum series except Carlotta has three love interests.

5/5

The Lady & the Libertine (Khamsin Warriors of the Wind) (Mass Market Paperback)

I've just finished reading "The Lady and the Libertine" the 7th book in her Khamsin Warriors of the Wind series by Bonnie Vanak.

From Booklist

Stealing the ruby proved to be much easier than Nigel Wallenford thought it would be. Masquerading as his twin brother, Thomas, Nigel traced the ruby, which was the key to a king’s ransom in ancient Egyptian gold, to the Khamsin camp, where Karida bint Ali Sharif had been charged with guarding the jewel. Once Karida discovers the ruby is gone, she sets out for England disguised as Anne Mitchell to find the duplicitous Englishman who not only stole her honor but also her love.

My review:

I highly recommend reading this series if you like to read books set in Egypt/England.

I loved Nigel and Karida together they heat the pages. Glad to see some recurring characters, etc.

5/5

Dream Warrior (Dream-Hunter Novels) (Mass Market Paperback)

I've just finished reading "Dream Warrior" the 4th book in her Dream-Hunter series by Sherrilyn Kenyon.

Product Description

The son of Warcraft and Hate, Cratus spent eternity battling for the ancient gods who birthed him. He was death to any who crossed him. Until the day he laid down his arms and walked into self-imposed exile. Now an ancient enemy has been unleashed and our dreams are his chosen battlefield. The only hope we have is the one god who swears he will never fight again.

As a Dream-Hunter, Delphine has spent eternity protecting mankind from the predators who prey on our unconscious state. But now that her allies have been turned, she knows in order to survive, the Dream-Hunters need a new leader. Someone who can train them to fight their new enemies. Cratus is her only hope. But she is a bitter reminder of why he chose to lay down his arms.

Time is running out and if she can't win him to her cause, mankind will be slaughtered and the world we know will soon cease to exist.

Glad to see Ash, Simi, Tori, Zarek, Astrid, Nick, Jaden, Jared and Nim.

4/5

Silver Falls (Mass Market Paperback)

I've just finished reading "Silver Falls" by Anne Stuart.

Product Description

Rachel is finally getting it right. After years of wandering, she's married the perfect man and settled into the ideal life. But as her sleepy little town turns into a killing ground, she realizes that this new life might come at too high a price.

Caleb Middleton says he's returned home to set things right. But as her husband's dangerous brother circles like a hungry wolf, poking holes in her perfect world, Rachel draws her young daughter in close. The rain and violence keep coming, and Rachel must decide whether to trust her dream life or her instincts…before the town of Silver Falls becomes her grave.

My review:

Spoilers:

Good stuff: Sophie, the bantering between Caleb and Rachel

Bad stuff: The Killer, Rachel acts like an idiot

4/5

Deadly Desire (Riley Jensen, Guardian, Book 7) (Mass Market Paperback)

I've just finished reading "Deadly Desire" the 7th book in her Riley Jensen series by Keri Arthur.

Product Description

Seduction that kills. Pleasure to die for.

She just can’t resist . . .

Guardian Riley Jenson always seems to face the worst villains. And this time’s no different. For it’s no ordinary sorceress who can raise the dead to do her killing. But that’s exactly what Riley expects to find at the end of a trail of female corpses used—and discarded—in a bizarre ritual of evil. With pressure mounting to catch one fiend, another series of brutal slayings shocks the vampire world of her lover, Quinn. So the last thing Riley needs is the heat of the upcoming full moon bringing her werewolf hormones to a boil—or the reappearance of a sexy bounty hunter, the rogue wolf Kye Murphy.

Riley has threatened Murphy with arrest if he doesn’t back off the investigation, but it’s Riley who feels handcuffed by Kye’s lupine charm. Torn between her vamp and wolf natures, between her love for Quinn and her hots for Kye, Riley knows she’s courting danger and indulging the deadliest desires. For her hunt through the supernatural underworld will bring her face-to-face with what lurks in a darkness where even monsters fear to tread.

About the Author

Keri Arthur received a "Perfect 10" from Romance Reviews Today and was nominated for Best Shapeshifter in PNR's PEARL Awards and in the best Contemporary Paranormal category of the Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Awards. She lives with her daughter in Melbourne, Australia.

My review:

I really enjoyed this book because I like Riley and Quinn together.

Glad to see Kye back and I'm wondering what's going to happen between the soulmate thing between Riley and Kye?

5/5

Paradise Valley (Virgin River, Book 7) (Mass Market Paperback)

I've just finished reading "Paradise Valley" the 7th book in her Virgin River series by Robyn Carr.

Description

Marine corporal Rick Sudder is home early from Iraq—his tour ended abruptly on the battlefield. The carefree boy is gone, replaced by a man who believes his future is as bleak as his mirror image. But can the passion and commitment of a young woman who has never given up on him mend his broken body and shattered heart?

As the people of Virgin River rally around Rick, another recent arrival tests the tightly knit mountain town's famous welcoming spirit. Dan Brady has a questionable past, and he's looking for a place to start over. He'd like it to be Virgin River…if he can find a way in. But he never expects to find it in the arms of a woman who was as much an outcast as himself.

For a favorite son returned from war and an outsider looking for a home, Virgin River offers them a chance to make peace with the men they once were…and to find the dreams they thought they'd lost.

My review:

I really like this series and I would recommend this one to any book reviewer.

Glad to see there everyone had an HEA and conflicts/problems were resolved, etc.

Heard there are going to be some more books in 2010 and I can't wait.

5/5

Risky Business: A Dangerous Precedent\Double Exposure (Mass Market Paperback)

I've just finished reading "Risky Business" by Lisa Jackson.

Product Description

Two classic stories in one volume!

A Dangerous Precedent

Kirsten McQueen's life had become one giant headline: Newswoman Sues Station for Age Discrimination! She had won the first round, but the network brought in its secret weapon for round two: brilliant attorney Dane Ferguson. And Dane was determined to win Kirsten for himself!

Double Exposure

Gavin had loved Melanie — a long time ago. Now, returning to Taylor's Crossing, he wanted only to forget the woman who had broken her promises to him the first chance she got. Would secrets revealed keep them apart—or make their worlds collide forever?

About the Author

Lisa Jackson is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of both historical romance novels and contemporary suspense. Her most recent books include See How She Dies, Hot Blooded, and Cold Blooded. She lives in Oregon.

For more information, visit www.lisajackson.com.

I've just finished reading "Unseen" the 2nd book in her Colony series by Nancy Bush.

Product Description

She woke up with no memories...She wakes up in a hospital room bruised...bloody...confused. She knows her name is Gemma La Porte - but that's all. She doesn't remember smashing her car. She doesn't remember anything from the last three days. But a policeman, Deputy Will Tanninger, is waiting for answers and wants to know if she's responsible for a fatal hit-and-run...But remembering her past could kill her...Hoping to restore her shattered memory, Gemma has no choice but to put her trust in Will. But if it turns out she's guilty of murder, he has no choice but to arrest her. Torn by her growing feelings for Will, and haunted by her shadowy past, Gemma is determined to learn the truth. But, in this case, the darkest truths are unknowable - and the deadliest enemies are unseen...

I've just finished reading "Danger in a Red Dress" the 4th and last book in her Fortune Hunters and the Lost Hearts of Texas series by Christina Dodd.

Product Description

Home care nurse Hannah Grey is dedicated to her patient, an aging widow still tainted by the financial scandal her late husband perpetrated. She makes Hannah promise that upon her death, she’ll right the family’s wrongs, and gives Hannah her offshore account’s access codes.

But Carrick Manly will do anything to discover where his family’s fortunes lie— including kill his own mother. Fearing for her life, and desperate not to betray the widow, Hannah flees. And when Carrick’s half-brother, Gabriel, tracks her down in Houston, Hannah must trust her own instincts — and her heart — to survive.

The di Medici Bride (Mira Romance) (Paperback)

I've just finished reading "The di Medici Bride" by Heather Graham.

Product Description

Christine Tarleton finds herself drawn into a complex web of murder and intrigue in the mysterious city of Venice, as she gradually begins to realize that the greatest danger may come from a man she hardly knows, her husband, Marco di Medici.

Night and Day (Jesse Stone) (Hardcover)

I've just finished reading "Night and Day" the 8th book in his Jesse Stone series by Robert B. Parker.

Product Description

Paradise, Massachusetts, police chief Jesse Stone confronts a town’s darkest secrets in the shocking new novel from the New York Times–bestselling author and “America’s greatest mystery writer” (The New York Sun).

Things are getting strange in Paradise, Massachusetts. Police Chief Jesse Stone is called to the junior high school when reports of lewd conduct by the school’s principal, Betsy Ingersoll, filter into the station. Ingersoll claims she was protecting the propriety of her students when she inspected each girl’s undergarments in the locker room. Jesse would like nothing more than to see Ingersoll punished, but her high-powered attorney husband stands in the way. At the same time, the women of Paradise are faced with a threat to their sense of security with the emergence of a tormented voyeur, dubbed “The Night Hawk.” Initially, he’s content to peer through windows, but as times goes on, he becomes more reckless, forcing his victims to strip at gunpoint, then photographing them at their most vulnerable. And according to the notes he’s sending to Jesse, he’s not satisfied to stop there. It’s up to Jesse to catch the Night Hawk, before it’s too late.

About the Author

Robert B. Parker is the author of more than fifty books.

White Witch, Black Curse (The Hollows, Book 7) (Hardcover)

I've just finished reading "White Witch, Black Curse" the 7th book in her Rachel Morgan series by Kim Harrison.

From Publishers Weekly

Confusion reigns for characters and readers in the complicated seventh urban fantasy outing (after 2008's The Outlaw Demon Wails) for witch detective Rachel Morgan. Rachel's reputation is in tatters—to save humanity, she used powers that are considered evil—and she's still devastated by the mysterious death of her boyfriend six months earlier. Her attempts to solve his murder bleed into a case involving an emotion-sucking banshee, and soon Rachel has to bring in her PI partners—Ivy, a bisexual vampire, and Jenks, a pixie in existential crisis—along with empathic psychiatrist Ford and the banshee victim's father, Federal Inderland Bureau captain Edden. Harrison's unique vampire mythology unduly complicates world-building, and newcomers will be desperate for a glossary, but the nearly nonstop action nicely plays off the poignancy of Rachel's difficult life.

Santa Olivia (Paperback)

I've just finished reading "Santa Olivia" by Jacqueline Carey.

Product Description

Lushly written with rich and vivid characters, SANTA OLIVIA is Jacqueline Carey's take on comic book superheroes and the classic werewolf myth.

Loup Garron was born and raised in Santa Olivia, an isolated, disenfranchised town next to a US military base inside a DMZ buffer zone between Texas and Mexico. A fugitive "Wolf-Man" who had a love affair with a local woman, Loup's father was one of a group of men genetically-manipulated and used by the US government as a weapon. The "Wolf-Men" were engineered to have superhuman strength, speed, sensory capability, stamina, and a total lack of fear, and Loup, named for and sharing her father's wolf-like qualities, is marked as an outsider.

After her mother dies, Loup goes to live among the misfit orphans at the parish church, where they seethe from the injustices visited upon the locals by the soldiers. Eventually, the orphans find an outlet for their frustrations: They form a vigilante group to support Loup Garron who, costumed as their patron saint, Santa Olivia, uses her special abilities to avenge the town.

Aware that she could lose her freedom, and possibly her life, Loup is determined to fight to redress the wrongs her community has suffered. And like the reincarnation of their patron saint, she will bring hope to all of Santa Olivia.

About the Author

Jacqueline Carey is the author of short stories, essays, novels Banewreaker and Godslayer, and the New York Times bestselling Kushiel's Legacy series. Carey lives in west Michigan. http://www.jacquelinecarey.com/

My review:

I highly recommend reading this book and I give it 5/5 stars.

Scarpetta (Kay Scarpetta) (Hardcover)

I've just finished reading "Scarpetta" the 16th book in her Kay Scarpetta series by Patricia Cornwell.

Product Description

From America’s #1 bestselling crime writers comes the extraordinary new Kay Scarpetta novel.

Leaving behind her private forensic pathology practice in Charleston, South Carolina, Kay Scarpetta accepts an assignment in New York City, where the NYPD has asked her to examine an injured man on Bellevue Hospital’s psychiatric prison ward. The handcuffed and chained patient, Oscar Bane, has specifically asked for her, and when she literally has her gloved hands on him, he begins to talk — and the story he has to tell turns out to be one of the most bizarre she has ever heard.

The injuries, he says, were sustained in the course of a murder . . . that he did not commit. Is Bane a criminally insane stalker who has fixed on Scarpetta? Or is his paranoid tale true, and it is he who is being spied on, followed and stalked by the actual killer? The one thing Scarpetta knows for certain is that a woman has been tortured and murdered—and more violent deaths will follow. Gradually, an inexplicable and horrifying truth emerges: Whoever is committing the crimes knows where his prey is at all times. Is it a person, a government? And what is the connection between the victims?

In the days that follow, Scarpetta; her forensic psychologist husband, Benton Wesley and her niece, Lucy, who has recently formed her own forensic computer investigation firm in New York, will undertake a harrowing chase through cyberspace and the all-too-real streets of the city—an odyssey that will take them at once to places they never knew, and much, much too close to home.

About the Author

Patricia Cornwell’s most recent bestsellers include Book of the Dead, The Front, and Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper—Case Closed. Her earlier works include Postmortem—the only novel to win the Edgar, Creasey, Anthony, and Macavity awards and the French Prix du Roman d’Aventure in a single year—and Cruel and Unusual, which won Britain’s prestigious Gold Dagger Award for the best crime novel of 1993. Dr. Kay Scarpetta herself won the 1999 Sherlock Award for the best detective created by an American author.