When this excellent novel begins, Anya Kalinczyk arrives at a haunted house to aid the team she sometimes works with, the Detroit Area Ghost Researchers, or DAGR. After a harrowing confrontation with flying debris, Anya utilizes her unique skill as a Lantern – she essentially sucks spirits into a cavity in her chest, at which point they dissipate and appear to be gone for good. Her protector, a fire elemental named Sparky, though invisible to others, most of the time inhabits a salamander torq necklace that Anya always wears. Very early the next morning, Anya receives a phone call that requires her to appear for her daytime job as an arson investigator. In addition to the fire seeming to be part of a pattern, a firefighter has been seriously injured.
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Unwilling to face thinking about her recent past and unsure of her future, Win books into a resort known not only for its food and accommodation but also its sexual hospitality. Three days of sexual bliss could be just what she needs. Right from the beginning, though, things are not what she expected - not least of which is the upgrade in her length of stay and accommodations.
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Fire in the Sky was an interesting read in a few ways. Selena and Kyden are fire dragons, but Selena has no idea; she was abandoned at birth. Apparently, Kyden knows she is his Fire Companion but needs her to discover her true self before he can fully claim her. Selena is no stranger to the paranormal; she has a were-panther friend, so the idea that her boss is a dragon is really no surprise. The fantasy scenes Selena had were a secret little treat to read, but I wished she didn’t complain about herself so much or contradict Kyden’s interest. Read More »

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In Mind Games, hypochondriac heroine Justine Jones joins a psychological hit squad and battles deranged and paranormal criminals in a crumbling Midwestern city.

The psychological hit squad is called the disillusionists, and you have to be super messed-up to join. The leader, handsome tortured mutant mastermind Sterling Packard, will accept nothing less.
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Quiz: Are you reading too much urban fantasy and paranormal literature?

Join us on 4/15 with author Carolyn Crane and take this revealing psychological quiz to find out if YOU are overdoing it with the magic and monsters. You’ll also learn exactly how messed up a person has to be to qualify to join a mutant mastermind’s psychological hit squad (like the one in the book Mind Games)…plus you could win Read More »

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A big welcome to our readers today! Be sure to read to the end of the interview to find out how to WIN the fabulous prize being offered up.

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This fun romp through the imagination of Louisa Kelley is a great example of an effortless story; while I’m sure it took time and energy for the author, the end result is certainly an effortless trip for the reader, in the most enjoyable sense! Read More »

Dark Dichotomy: Misbehaving

The Burton brothers’ secrecy has kept Napa Valley gossiping for generations. Now a vision reveals an enemy lurking in the shadows, waiting to destroy them all. A soul bonding is the only way to ensure Kendra’s safety, but first she must accept the complexity of their nature and learn to revel in the pleasures awaiting her as the mate of a Dichotomy. Read More »

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Inside the World of Inside

So I dream about this world of Inside. The dream includes characters, the main protagonist, her BFF, and the bad guys. The world—a metal cube—is crammed full with people segregated by levels and includes a complex network of pipes. My main girl, Trella is being chased as she searches for a way out of this world. The dream even provided me with a few twists that I didn’t see coming. Nice dream. The best. It gave me enough information to write a whole novel. Read More »

Xandra Varen and Arrosiah Ari are soul mates from the moment they meet as children. However, they live in a world where they both have epic destinies, one whose fate is known and the other whose future is hidden in prophecy, dreams, and nightmares. Thrown together by gods called the Quelle or Quelli, Xandra and Arrosiah are pulled apart by duty yet collide together like two magnets. Read More »

This novel is told in a direct, first person point of view. The words are not lyrical; the details not crystalline. This, however, adds to the story rather than detract from it. Costa is rough around the edges, he is on the verge of becoming a man and beaten down by his master. The words that spring from him are simple, to the point; they are warrior words. Read More »

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Sarah didn’t know what to think when she opened her eyes to find herself in a period dress standing in the middle of a massive sword fight between a bunch of ragged pirates and naval officers in blue. When the handsome pirate captain stepped over the dead to reach her, pinching herself in the arm proved that she was not dreaming. But how can that be… to be swept away by a sexy pirate has always been her dream, but now as he set her out of the way, Sarah had to figure out if this truly was still a dream. There is no way her wish to the River Goddess to find the pirate of her dreams could have been heard and fulfilled could it?
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Lady Morgana Ramsden had a promise from her mother that she would never be wed to a man she did not love - something that her stepfather respected for twenty-five years. However, when the emperor himself summons her to a competition to be his bride, her stepfather consents and allows her to be escorted by a pair of the emperor’s own sentinels - one of whom Morgana begins to fall in love with.

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Out of Time - 3.5

Marisha just lost her job. While she sulks on her way home from a failed attempt at cheering up with her friends, strange men in a dark alley attack her. A man from another time saves her, but then she’s a little out of sorts, so maybe her best friend Tim saved her. Somewhere along the line, a dragon with a penchant for brunettes is thrown into the mix. Read More »

Sabina Kane has left the Dominae behind and is now ready to meet her sister and explore the other side of her heritage, the mage side. However, her grandmother still has it in for her, and Sabina does not want to find herself caught in the middle. The mage council wants to use her to their advantage, but they want her to ignore her vampire side. Unfortunately for Sabina, it does not take long before she finds trouble in the Big Apple - and it just happens to be in the form of an old partner. Read More »

In a genre filled with leather clad women ready to neutralize you by any means necessary stands a man: he is big, he is bad, he is a bonafide screw-up.

Gavyn Donatti is not your usual hero. He is a thief, and not a very good one, with a nasty habit of getting his partners busted. Master of None by Sonya Bateman opens with Gavyn attempting to escape a warehouse surrounded by goons. Read More »

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My First Dragon

To be perfectly honest, I didn’t think too much about dragons before I decided to write a book about them. Don’t get me wrong, I think dragons are cool. I love movies like Reign of Fire, and I’m one of the five people who saw D-War in the theater. But they’re almost so ubiquitous I didn’t think of them much. They’re the emblem of stereotypical fantasy, there’ve been hundreds of novels that feature them, from The Hobbit to the Dragonlance series to the Pern books to Eragon. I didn’t think much about dragons because lots of other people were doing it for me.
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