Beauty is the Beast, the seventh story in the Woodcutter’s Grim mini-series, focuses on Ransom Shaussegeny, the one member of the family who refuses to accept his fate as a werewolf, tirelessly working on a cure to free all of them. On the afternoon of Halloween, Ransom finds himself once again reading the last part of the curse details outlined in his grandfather’s journal, stating that the curse can be broken by beauty and the beast/good and evil falling in love with one another. Read More »

Absolutely Done was hard for me to rate. I was unsure what to expect when I first picked up this book. An Angel named Absolute is taking over the Grim Reaper’s job while he’s meditating because he’s become too grim (Absolute’s joke, not mine). Absolute has two co-workers, so to speak: Lady Hope and Trench Coate. He’s determined to see the lighter side of death and not to let his grim job bring him down. Read More »

Together, authors Kelly Leigh and Terri Lucas create a well-developed modern world where the unobscured (ie. paranormals) walk among us. Veil of the Unknown tells the story of one obscured on her journey towards lifting the veil and becoming unobscured.

Librarian Lily Drew leads a rather lonely existence. Living in her deceased aunt’s house, Lily spends her time working, watching movies, and sometimes hanging out with her best friend, the very outgoing Miranda. All of that starts to change when Lily receives a mysterious postcard. The postcard actually turns out to be the start of a long series of clues relating to her parents’ Read More »

In 1765, three pirates were hung for their crimes and left to hang above the Thames until the‏ir lifeless lungs had been drowned three times in the rising tides. What a shock then, to discover the body of the huge, red-headed Russian pirate missing the next morning. The tide could never have done this.
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Constantly uprooted and never allowed to ever feel like she’s at home, eighteen-year-old Caitlin Paine has finally started to find some sense of normalcy here in New York. Despite living in a dangerous neighborhood and being forced to attend the roughest high school she’s ever attended, she finds a ray of hope in her fellow classmate, Jonah. But will she get the chance to get to know him or will she be ripped from her home yet again? Read More »

From the outside, Cassandra Fairbank’s life looks like one of an ordinary college student: taking classes, hanging out with her friends, struggling to pay her bills. But the moment the sun sets, Cassandra vanishes from her ordinary world into an alternate reality filled with magic, monsters, and exciting (if exhausting) challenges. She is a product of both realities; her mother coming from one world and her father from another. Read More »

Lightbreaker is the debut novel of author Mark Teppo that begins the Codex of Souls series. The story starts with our main character, Markham, in hot pursuit of a human who has possessed a deer on the outskirts of Seattle Washington. Markham has been on the trail of a former lover, Katarina, who many years ago left him for dead after a dark magic ceremony that went wrong. Ever since that Read More »

Trio of Sorcery contains three short novels, two of which bring back the strong heroines of Ms. Lackey’s early work in Urban Fantasy. These are old school tales of magic, the fight between good and evil and simple storytelling. If you are a fan of Mercedes Lackey, then you will be Read More »

While at the pub with friends, Jeanette receives an envelope containing a handwritten invitation to join the mysterious man in the shadowy, secluded corner. Though the room has it’s share of vampires celebrating Halloween, this gentleman’s commitment to detail was impressive, and Jeanette settled in for an interesting evening of verbal tango. She is both annoyed and fascinated by this man in black.
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Growing up in the barrio with a gang banger for a brother, Rosalina was determined to make a better life for herself and her mother. Her dedication pays off with a nursing job in the local hospital, but the outbreak of a new virus has startling effects on the community. Now the CDC is trying to drag her off to Atlanta in the dark of night. What are they trying to hide?
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When a high-profile socialite is murdered, the religious practices of her boyfriend, Senator Steve Mitchell, and all those associated with her will come under close scrutiny. Enter Elizabeth Tanner, spokesperson and public relations head for the Ordo Read More »

Gavin Stone was considered to be quite a catch by the young ladies and their families, and they put in a great deal of effort on the pursuit. Handsome, gallant, and extremely wealthy, Gavin realized that it was past time for him to find a mate and settle down, but none of the simpering, silly girls in attendance at the ball captured his interest in the slightest. Upon Read More »

What if the story of creation as told by the Bible was written to mask the real truth – the truth that God and Satan were really powerful beings living long before the time of humanity? Read More »

Witch

Holly Cathers has had her life turned inside out. The teen thought the family vacation would bring them all together, but in fact it tears them apart when the white water they are rafting in suddenly turns on them and takes the lives of her parents, her best friend, Tina, and the guide who was in the raft with them. The only people she has left to cling to are her best friend’s mom, Barbara, and an aunt she has never known who comes to claim custody as per her father’s wishes. Read More »

Night Owls, the terrific first installment in what promises to be a spectacular new series, grabs the reader with its first sentence and holds on until the very last. The novel opens with Elly, the protege of the recently-deceased Father Value, on the run from a Creep (a werewolf/shifter type of supernatural creature) after the book she carries. Read More »

Rosalind Llewellyn, Druid vampire slayer and heroine of Pearce’s previous novel, Blood of the Rose, returns for her second novel at the Tudor court of King Henry VIII. Once more, Pearce takes actual historical events and works them into a wonderful paranormal story that should satisfy both historical romance fans and readers looking for a vampire story to sink their fangs into.
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Primrose Brasco is employed by the government-one that rigidly controls and taxes any magical gain. So when she becomes the owner of a lamp and its very sexy genie, Imran, she is less than excited. Accepting any of her wishes could get her Read More »

Maxine Kiss is a demon slayer who is covered with tattoos of demons. By day they protect her body, and nothing can hurt her while the sun is up. At night these tattoos peel off her body to become her protectors of another sort. She is a normal human in the dark, but they would never allow any harm to come to her. They have been doing this for ten thousand years for the Kiss women. Read More »

Maxine Kiss is not your average woman. By day she her entire body is covered with tattoos in the shape of demons that seem to move on their own, with minds of their own. They protect her. A bomb could go off right beside her, but since they are indestructible, so is she when they cover her. By night these tattoos peel themselves off and they are her boys, her little wolves-demons that do her bidding. They have been a part of her line for ten thousand years, passed from mother to daughter. Read More »

I have to admit with this series, I’ve skipped around. I read the first seven books the day they came out, and then picked up the books here and there. When Fall of Night was released, I was interested, so I opened it up and hoped I wouldn’t be lost. I was intrigued that the scenery was different. Claire got accepted into MIT and left Morganville. Read More »