Master conjurer Grey Carteret regains consciousness in a London gutter next to a concerned street urchin and not far from the body of a man murdered by magic. Some fool is hoping to use murder to raise a demon. Arrested for the crime, Grey must rely on the street urchin for help. But the lad turns out to be a comely lass, and she wants something in exchange.
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Bayou Moon, the exciting second book in the Edge series, shifts the focus to William, Declan’s foster brother, who now resides in The Edge. A wolf changeling, William gets approached by The Mirror, a counter-terrorist unit of sorts, to track down Spider, an agent of The Hand, a scary group that uses magic to physically manipulate its agents and victims alike. Read More »

Gin Blanco falls deeper into the rabbit hole in Venom, the third book in Jennifer Estep’s Elemental Assassins series. Through both Spider’s Bite and Web of Lies, Gin investigated the murder of her family by Mab Monroe, one of Ashland’s premium players and a powerful Fire Elemental. In Web of Lies, Gin discovered Bria, her youngest sister, survived the fire. In Venom, the sisters come face to face for the first time since that horrible night.
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Hello Readers!

Welcome to our Weekly Book Chat. This week we are discussing Anna Strong series by Jeanne C. Stein. Jump right in and start sharing and even if you haven’t read the book, ask the other readers questions about it. Read More »

PLEASE NOTE: The contest portion of the Laura Resneck event is now closed. The winners will be chosen at a later date and contacted via email.

Overdressed zombies, vicious gargoyles, a severed hand… and the night is still young!

Welcome to another day (or night) in the life of Esther Diamond, the struggling actress who is the heroine of Unsympathetic Magic (which is Esther’s third adventure). While pursuing her acting career and also trying to pay her bills (no mean feat in New York City!), Read More »

PLEASE NOTE: The contest portion of C.E. Murphy’s event is now closed. The winners will be chosen at a later date and contacted via email.

BBB: Why do you think urban fantasy had become SO popular?

C.E.M: Oh, I think too much of the magic and unknown has gone out of
our daily world, and that urban fantasy fills a desire we have to see
that reappear. Also, we all watched too much Dark Shadows and Beauty
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Lara Jansen is not your typical Urban Fantasy heroine, and there is no doubt that Truthseeker by C. E. Murphy, the book Lara stars in, is pure Urban Fantasy. There are Seelie heroes, Unseelie royalty, creatures from your nightmares, all set in Boston and the Barrow-lands.
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PLEASE NOTE: RSVP’s and comments for this post are now closed. Please join us for the LIVE event with author Michele Lang at this link: http://bittenbybooks.com/?p=30534

Join us on 9/14 with author Michele Lang for a release party, chat and contest. The event starts at 12:00 pm Central and runs all day and into the evening. The contest portion of the event runs until 11:59 pm Central on 9/15. For those visiting from outside of the US, here is the time conversion link. We are in the Chicago time zone: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/

Michele will be talking about her new book release Lady Lazarus.
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A boy dreams of sunshine and riding a horse, and has the years go by the dream sustains him while he lives in an institutionalized environment of violence and death. Another boy dreams of sunshine and horses, but is tortured by those dreams.
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Max and the boys are back. In this second installment in the Hunters Kiss series, we find Maxine, Grant and the boys neck deep in trouble – yet again.

Starting the story off running, Liu keeps things going at a breakneck speed that keeps the pages turning. Engaging the reader and enthralling the imagination while propelling the characters forward is no easy task but Liu has accomplished it yet again.
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When Maxine comes to and discovers her grandfather’s body, she wonders if deep down she is the monster that killed him. The only problem? She cannot remember what happened. And she cannot remember certain parts of her life up until that point. She will need to search and find out who she is. But in the meantime, she also has to save humanity from a bunch of bloodthirsty demons who Read More »

Just as its predecessor in the series did, the marvelous Sparks hooks the reader from its very first page and refuses to let go. When the book begins, fire investigator Anya works the scene of an extremely unusual case in which a man seems to have spontaneously combusted. An artifact collector, Bernard has many interesting items to which a whiff of magick clings, and Anya also senses that something even stronger has been at work in the hoarder’s home. Read More »

PLEASE NOTE: RSVP’s and comments for this post are now closed. Please join us with author Laura Bickle at the live event here: http://bittenbybooks.com/?p=29955

Join us on 8/31 with author Laura Bickle for an release party, chat and contest. The event starts at 12:00 pm Central and runs all day and into the evening. The Amazon Kindle 3 Global Contest portion of the event runs until 11:59 pm Central on 9/6. For those visiting from outside of the US, here is the time conversion link. We are in the Chicago time zone: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/

Laura will be talking about her newest book release Sparks book 2 in the Anya Kalinczyk urban fantasy series!
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Maliha Crayne was offered eternal life by a demon with one small caveat: she must be his assassin and do his dirty work as long as she was alive. However, Mahila tired of the stain that killing brought upon her soul and reinvented herself after discovering a loophole in her contract with a demon. She has to now save lives to balance out her sin. But she will slowly age with each life. If she succeeds in balancing the scales, she will go to her eternal reward upon a higher plane; but if she fails, she will endure eternal punishment at the hands of the demon whom she had given her life.
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With the gate out of commission, the rebel army find themselves forgotten by the rest of the populated world, fighting just to survive. The immediate threat of the Warlords has been subdued. They must now focus on fighting and decimating the demons who are their biggest threat. The final influx of refugees has at least one surprise-a very capable warrior with obvious weapons skills who catches Captain Laisyn Caar’s attention.
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The atmospheric Afterlife begins with a bang as the aptly-named wraith, or soul-eater, Yasmin Stoker chases down and consumes a Revenant, or young vampire. Yasmin hunts unsuspecting young vampires for her soul sustenance, believing that to be her method of protecting humanity from the scourge of blood-suckers. Yasmin’s town of Shoregrave, England earns its renown as a tourist magnet ghost town for good reason – tons of ghosts really do hang around the place. Read More »

Adam is a former vice-cop who woke up in a morgue and found that he had turned into a vampire. Now he’s stuck between his old law enforcement life and trying to work with the rest of his kind in Los Angeles. But remaining one of the “good guys” is never an easy task, especially when you throw a relationship into the equation. Read More »

The Eyes of the Republic are everywhere. The exciting second book in the Fallen series reinforces this statement in its return visit to the world of 2100 where large cities and much of civilization have been destroyed. When the story opens, the naming of the new Oracle, a young woman with the gift of prophecy who serves as an advisor to the president of the Republic, is about to occur. The Citadel of the Daughters of the Light of the Republic presents a young woman from their ranks as the new Oracle, supposedly chosen for her demonstration of her gift. Read More »

From its gripping opening scene of an angel having his wings removed to the action-packed finale, the first installment of the Fallen series introduces a grim yet fascinating world. In a totalitarian society reminiscent of Orwell and Huxley, the Republic keeps its citizens in check through an odd assortment of both technologically-advanced gadgets and practices rooted in the distant past. Most major cities have been destroyed by nuclear attacks, abandoned due to radiation exposure, and then rebuilt nearby. Read More »

PLEASE NOTE: The contest portion of the Cynthia Eden contest is now over. The winner will be chosen at a later date an notified via email.

BBB: Can you please share with us how old you were when you wrote your first story?

CE: I wrote my first full-length novel when I was eighteen (and, with only the clear vision that time can bring, I can assure you it was very bad and deserves to be hidden under my bed). But I wrote short stories even when I was a kid. Making up stories was always fun for me.
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