Working in a morgue, Liz is already spooked working the night shift when her boss calls her in for an important autopsy. She is shocked when the latest victim she is slicing open wakens during his autopsy. He is an immortal warrior with many regrets, and she is a psychic. Will he be able to move on from his past that haunts him and affirm his love for Liz? He has to prove to Liz, a mortal, that there is evil stalking them. How will they be able to stay safe in a world of ancient evil? If he cannot protect Liz, she will be the next victim.
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I would like to welcome author Victoria Danann back to Bitten by books! Today she is celebrating the release of her new book The Summoner’s Tale, book three in the Black Swan series. (more…)

PLEASE NOTE: RSVP’s and comments for this post are now closed. Please join us at the live event with author Victoria Danann at this link here: http://bittenbybooks.com/?p=61512

Join us on 2/13 with author Victoria Danann for a Release Party, chat and contest. This event post goes up at 12:00pm Central and runs into the evening.  (more…)

Natasha Hemingway was still discovering the psychic abilities that had first made their appearance four months earlier during a deadly car accident. Her roommate, Annette, who worked at Desires Unleashed, had introduced her to Xavier, a vampire who seemed to be developing a great interest in Natasha…and not just for feeding purposes. After Natasha worked with the elite S.U.I.T division, helping to solve a string of murders, she met Darian, another vampire who owned Desires Unleashed, the most successful vampire-owned nightclub in Chicago.
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Writer Nell Black’s freelance job translating for an arson suspect from ex-Soviet Republic Zavrekestan, who is arrested by the Edinburgh police, throws her quiet life into a tailspin. Rodion Kosar is a notorious thief who gets inside anywhere past locks and alarms and back out with valuable items without detection when it should be impossible. Nell and Rodion encounter each other after the interrogation and have coffee together. When someone tries to kill them, Rodion keeps them alive and kidnaps Nell, taking her on the run with him from Russian gangsters, drug dealers, and British Intelligence. But who will keep Nell safe from Rodion, a dangerous criminal she should loathe, but to whom she inexplicably, desperately aches to give herself instead?
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Abby Cooper, psychic extraordinaire and FBI profiler, has been recruited by the CIA as a spy. Some nasty criminal types have stolen a drone from the U.S. military, a drone which contains powerful software that has the ability to detect a person’s unique aura. With the software in the wrong hands the world’s leaders can be targeted and terminated by identifying their one-of-a-kind aura. With no time to spare, Abby and Dutch Rivers work hand in hand to retrieve the software before something terrible happens. But Abby quickly finds out that world leaders are not the only targets.
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Welcome to Zavrekestan…

…isolated, beautiful, poor, secretive, a country full of smoke and mirrors, where nothing is as it seems. Because the ex-Soviet republic of Zavrekestan is home to the highest density of psychics in the world.
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Bleeding Out, the excellent fifth and final installment in the terrific OSI series, begins soon after the events at the end of book four. Tess Corday, Occult Special Investigator in Vancouver, gets called to a crime scene despite being on leave to figure out if she wishes to continue working for the Central Occult Regulation Enterprise (CORE). It seems that the body of Lord Nightingale, the leader of the necromancers and other beings that inhabit Trinovantum, the surreal city of the dead, has been found in the library of a local university. (more…)

Thanks for joining us today for our LIVE launch celebration for “ Danse Macabre: Close Encounters with the Reaper“, edited by Nancy Kilpatrick. Please ask your questions to the authors, and answer questions in the comments section below.
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The second book in The Order of the Black Swan series just released. This is a true series in the sense that each book takes up where the last ended. So reading in order is highly recommended. If you haven’t read My Familiar Stranger (Book One) already and are entering the contest for a Kindle Fire, you will also get a coupon to download an e-copy in the version of your choice at Smashwords.
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Readers impatiently waiting for their next trip to Sang, fear not — The Mysterious Madam Morpho will satisfy the craving while at the same time whet appetites for book two. When an enigmatic woman shows up seeking employment at his travelling carnival, Bludman Criminy Stain at first feels reluctant to hire her, in spite of her rare talent of seemingly reanimating butterflies. However, once Tish uses her glancing (psychic) ability and relays her thoughts to Criminy, he changes his mind and informs Madam Morpho that she has a place. (more…)

Welcome to Serafina’s…

…Edinburgh’s unique psychic investigation agency. Discretion guaranteed.

Using technical as well as psychic techniques, we investigate and resolve all paranormal
issues, including unexplained noises and ghostly sightings. (more…)

PLEASE NOTE: RSVP’s and comments for this post are now closed. Please join us LIVE with author Marie Treanor at this link: http://www.bittenbybooks.com/?p=56604

Join us on 8/28 with author Marie Treanor for a Release Party, chat and contest. This event post goes up at noon Central and runs into the evening. She will start answering questions around 12:00 pm Central Daylight Time. For those visiting from outside of the US, here is the time conversion link. (more…)

Viper Moon, the terrific first installment in the Earth Witches series, begins with a bang, literally, and does not slacken its pace for the duration of the novel. Cassandra, called to the service of the Earth Mother ten years earlier at the age of eighteen, makes the rescue of children from the Barrows her life mission. A place of evil and monsters within the town of Duivel, Missouri, the Barrows remains closed off to most humans through the protective spell placed around it by the Earth Mother, an attempt to keep the Darkness confined. (more…)

Life seems intent upon presenting more challenges for siren/vampire hybrid and professional bodyguard Celia Graves. The excellent Demon Song, the third installment of the series, finds our heroine trying to pick up the pieces of her life after the events at the end of book two. While out shopping with her friends Emma and Dawna, Celia manages to thwart a robbery, and immediately thereafter, gets approached by some associates asking for her help in rescuing Emma’s brother, Kevin, a werewolf. (more…)

JET: Hello and welcome to another JET-Fueled Q&A session here on Bitten By Books.  I have Manhattan’s lovely assistant district attorney Carolyn Hastings on tap.  Welcome and thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule to talk with us today.

Carolyn: Thank you for having me Ms. Taylor.

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PLEASE NOTE: RSVP’S and comments for this post are now closed. Please join us at the LIVE event with author J.E. Taylor at this link: http://www.bittenbybooks.com/?p=52681

Join us on 4/20 with author J. E. Taylor for a Character Interview, chat and contest. (more…)

The undead and living citizens of Morganville, Texas return for another book in the eponymous Morganville Vampires series, and readers are in for one hell of a ride.

Claire Danvers has a lot on her plate. MIT has finally come a-callin’ for her, and she has an aspiring scientist’s dream of a lifetime just waiting for her to accept. (more…)

Connor Macleod is one member of a pack that left Scotland two centuries ago when wolves were hunted to extinction, and now they have settled in remote northern Canada where the weather and the woods are still wild. Connor is returning home one night from a veterinary case in freezing rain when he sees the new editor of the local paper fighting off a wolf. This is not just any wolf, it is a changeling wolf and the human within it has been warned before about attacking domestic livestock. (more…)

Nola O’Grady has just assumed the position of head of the San Francisco office of the Agency. But since her office is closed and her only employees are a drag queen prostitute with a drug problem, a senior citizen on a fixed income and her Israeli boyfriend who has conflicting assignments, it’s a little hard to believe, even for Nola. However, for now, the boyfriend, Ari Nathan, is in town, rogue waves are killing people and there are links to a previous case that doesn’t appear to be closed after all. Then Ari’s past seems to rise up to join the chaos their lives have become.
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