In the Mail Saturday 2012 (Apr 21)

In the Mail Saturday is hosted every Saturday at Paranormal and Romantic Suspense Reviews.

I received these in the mail this week.

Deadly Dance [Mass Market Paperback]

Product Description

As the intelligence officer for A-Tac, a black-ops CIA unit masquerading as Ivy League faculty, Hannah Marshall is used to working behind the scenes. But when a brutal murder hits too close to home, Hannah finds herself in the middle of the action, falling in love while racing to outwit a sadistic mastermind.

A KILLER CLOSES IN

After the death of her A-Tac partner, Hannah doubts everything she thought she knew about love and loyalty. When handsome Harrison Blake joins the team, she's reluctant to trust him - or to act on her intense attraction to him. Then Hannah receives a podcast of a gruesome murder, and the only person who can help her find the killer is Harrison.

Harrison has spent years trying to hunt down the cunning monster who killed his sister. Now investigating with Hannah, he faces a shocking possibility - his sister's murderer has resurfaced. As the danger escalates, Hannah and Harrison grow closer, the desire simmering between them ignites. And when Hannah disappears, Harrison has only one chance to save the woman he loves.

Product Details
Mass Market Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: Forever; Original edition (April 1, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0446582948
ISBN-13: 978-0446582940

Royal Street [Paperback]

Product Description

As the junior wizard sentinel for New Orleans, Drusilla Jaco’s job involves a lot more potion-mixing and pixie-retrieval than sniffing out supernatural bad guys like rogue vampires and lethal were-creatures. DJ's boss and mentor, Gerald St. Simon, is the wizard tasked with protecting the city from anyone or anything that might slip over from the preternatural beyond.

Then Hurricane Katrina hammers New Orleans’ fragile levees, unleashing more than just dangerous flood waters.

While winds howled and Lake Pontchartrain surged, the borders between the modern city and the Otherworld crumbled. Now, the undead and the restless are roaming the Big Easy, and a serial killer with ties to voodoo is murdering the soldiers sent to help the city recover.

To make it worse, Gerry has gone missing, the wizards’ Elders have assigned a grenade-toting assassin as DJ’s new partner, and undead pirate Jean Lafitte wants to make her walk his plank. The search for Gerry and for the serial killer turns personal when DJ learns the hard way that loyalty requires sacrifice, allies come from the unlikeliest places, and duty mixed with love creates one bitter gumbo.

Product Details
Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: Tor Books; Original edition (April 10, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0765327791
ISBN-13: 978-0765327796

Manga:

The Betrayal Knows My Name, Vol. 3 [Paperback]

Product Description

Despite finally learning more about the "Sunset of the Underworld" a thousand years past, Yuki finds his thoughts returning once more to his former friend and current enemy Kanata ... But while Yuki may be new to picking sides in a centuries - old war, it is nothing new to the Zweilt. And Kuroto and Senshirou, the new Zweilt pair Yuki has only just encountered, harbor a profound hatred for Opasts, swearing revenge on one in particular. What happened four years ago to inspire such loathing? As Yuki bears witness to the flames of revenge that burn in the hearts of those around him, how will his own heart respond to the betrayal that he cannot forget?

Product Details
Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Yen Press (April 24, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0316119431
ISBN-13: 978-0316119436

Ai Ore!, Vol. 5: Love Me! [Paperback]

Product Description


Reads R to L (Japanese Style), for audiences T+.

Mizuki is the female "prince" of her all-girls school and the lead guitarist in an all-girl rock band. Akira is the male "princess" of his all-boys school and wants to join her band. Love may be on his mind, but romance is difficult when everyone keeps mistaking Mizuki for a boy and Akira for a girl!

Much to Akira’s dismay, his lecherous tutor from middle school, Sho Kasuga, has suddenly reappeared. Akira has a secret from his past that he doesn’t want Mizuki to know, and he’s terrified Sho will reveal it!

Product Details
Paperback: 200 pages
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC; Original edition (May 1, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1421538741
ISBN-13: 978-1421538747

Skip Beat! (3-in-1 Edition), Vol. 2 [Paperback]

Product Description

Reads R to L (Japanese Style), for audiences T.

Kyoko Mogami followed her true love Sho to Tokyo to support him while he made it big as an idol. But he’s casting her out now that he’s famous enough! Kyoko won’t suffer in silence — she’s going to get her sweet revenge by beating Sho in show biz!

Kyoko needs to make some quick cash to pay for acting school, but an easy job as a seat filler for a variety show soon has her on stage — in a chicken suit! Her debut as Chicken Bo is just the break she needs, but a mess of rivalries could trip up her rise to the top. And things get even crazier when she’s asked to sub for Ren Tsuruga’s sick manager. Can her earnest hard work override his bad first impression of her, or will he become a powerful enemy?

Product Details
Paperback: 576 pages
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC; Original edition (May 1, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1421542277
ISBN-13: 978-1421542270

Hana-Kimi (3-in-1 Edition), Vol. 2 [Paperback]

Product Description

Reads R to L (Japanese Style), for audiences T+.

Mizuki Ashiya has such a crush on a track star named Izumi Sano that she moves from the U.S. to Japan to enroll in the all-male high school he goes to! Pretending to be a boy, Mizuki becomes Sano’s roommate … but how can she keep such a big secret when she’s so close to the guy she wants?

It looks like Mizuki’s cover might be blown when she finds out she’s going to have to compete…in a cross-dressing match. She’s going to have to be a boy pretending to be a girl — but that might give away that she’s already a girl pretending to be a boy. Plus, a schoolmate has a crush on Mizuki … only he’s super confused because he thinks she’s a boy.

Product Details
Paperback: 576 pages
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC; Original edition (May 1, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1421542250
ISBN-13: 978-1421542256

Durarara!!, Vol. 2 [Paperback]

Product Description

The Black Biker of Ikebukuro, gliding along the dark streets on her pitch-black motorcycle, may take on any number of delivery jobs, but Celty's objective remains fixed on one single task: recovering her severed head. The dullahan of Irish lore has sensed her head in Tokyo, but even with the research of her unorthodox doctor friend (perfectly suited to examine her unorthodox body), she has made little progress finding it. Meanwhile, the color gangs of Ikebukuro are dealing with a newcomer even more mysterious than the Black Biker: the colorless gang known as the Dollars has the usual thugs fearful and uneasy ... and they have good reason to be scared ...

Product Details
Paperback: 176 pages
Publisher: Yen Press (April 24, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0316209317
ISBN-13: 978-0316209311

Blood Alone Vol 6 [Paperback]

Product Description

There are worse things than being a vampire. For young vampiress Minato Misaki, there is nothing more painful than watching her human companion, the former vampire hunter turned investigative author, Kurose Kuroe, risk his life to protect her.

When a new woman enters the picture, jealousy threatens to destabilize Misaki and Kuroe’s unique bond.

Product Details
Reading level: Ages 16 and up
Paperback: 192 pages
Publisher: Seven Seas; First Edition edition (April 10, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1935934163
ISBN-13: 978-1935934165

Thanks Hachette Book Group Canada, Seven Seas Entertainment, Simon and Schuster Canada and TOR!

What did you get in the mail this week?