Wednesday, January 31, 2018

ARC REVIEW A Devil in Scotland by Suzanne Enoch


Book three of the No Ordinary Hero series, it kind of plays out like it's the last one since the antagonist in all three books finally gets his just due. Even though all three books have the common enemy they can be read as standalones; there is very little character crossover and when there is it's only pertinent to this storyline. Suzanne Enoch definitely has a way with words, the characters really came to life for me, and the mystery and the little bit of suspense were very well done, this is probably my favorite of hers so far.

Callum, Ian, and Rebecca all grew up together. Ian the stoic, studious older brother; Callum the fun one and also risk-taker. Rebecca was a neighbor the daughter of a shipping merchant who got rich. Rebecca loved both brother's but when it came time to marry she choose the older not just because the title but because he was who he was and everything Callum was not. Callum was a drunkard who would tup any pretty girl and took nothing seriously. That is until Ian and Rebecca announced their engagement and not only that but a deal between Rebecca's father and the Duke of Dunncraigh. Callum knows Dunncraigh is bad news and after he finished insulting his brother and Rebecca, because how could she want Ian when she can have him, Rebecca insults him back basically saying he's a drunken loser and then Ian kicks him out of the house and the family, but before Callum leaves he tells them what a bad idea it is to get into business with Dunncraigh and if anything bad happens he knows it will be Dunncraigh's fault and he will seek his vengeance. 

Callum left Scotland dejected and heartbroken, he never realized how much he loved Rebecca until he realized she wouldn't be there any more and with the truth of her words ringing in his ears he travels to America to create a new life for himself, and he does with his Kentucky Whiskey. A couple of years into in banishment he starts to receive letters from his brother, Callum never even bothers to read them until almost ten years later he sees the obituary for his brother in a months old newspaper, the latest letter goes unburned and Callum finds himself finally going back to Scotland after all these years because he promised he would get his vengeance.

Rebecca was content with her life until Ian died and suddenly followed her Father. The Dunncraigh's had been nothing but generous with their sympathies and their offers to help with the business. The sudden appearance of Callum a year after Ian's death has her all confused she doesn't know what to think of this brisk and brutish man who use to be the boy she knew and what he wants is his inheritance and to make her life miserable. Callum wants to hate Rebecca for what she said all those years ago, he wants her to be a social climbing vixen who had a hand in his brother's death but it's clear she's not and she every bit a beautiful and headstrong as ever and he loves her all the more for it. Now she just needs to stay out of his way while he proves the Dunncraigh and his son are the reason his brother and Rebecca's father are dead. If only it was easier said than done. 

Overall, it was a wonderful story, very well done nicely paced. Rebecca could be a little annoying with her stubbornness but her entire world got turned upside down I don't blame her for not believing Callum's suspicions in the beginning. Rebecca and Ian's daughter Mags is so adorably precocious and Callum's wolf and that walking mop of a dog of Mags, that's funny. It has a wonderfully satisfying ending, and I look forward to reading more of Suzanne Enoch. 

Tuesday, January 30, 2018

ARC REVIEW Surrender by Joan Johnston


King's Brats #3, Bitter Creek #11. Three years! That's how long I've been waiting for this book to come out; waiting to find out what happened up on that mountain between Taylor and Brian. Oh, but this book was so much more than I thought it would be, so worth the wait. This is probably one of the few drama based almost soap opera like Contemporary Romances I like. But unlike soap operas this series has HEAs it just has the endless drama with different people and not the same poor people over and over again, and if it does it doesn't completely ruin their HEA except for maybe Cricket and Jarrett, they were my favorite couple and that was just mean even if it did turn into some really good books down the line. Anyways I digress. I have missed maybe four books in the entire series and having read most of the books I don't know if this would be good for a stand alone, for this the first two books in the King's Brats part of the series should be read; they are all connected with an overall story arc.

The Greyhawks and the Flynn's and been feuding for years, but for a brief couple of months Taylor Greyhawk and Brain Flynn were happy. They were secretly dating until Taylor's insecurity broke them up after that it was prank war between the King's Brats and those Flynn Boys. Years have past Brian is a firefighter and smoke jumper and Taylor has become a pilot. In the latest wildfire Brain is filling in for Taylor's spotter before he jumped when the fire flares up and damages both engines on the plane. Brian and Taylor have no choice but to jump together. Only nothing goes right once they land Brain is attacked by a bear fleeing the fire and the cave the plan to seek refuge in gets closed off by a fallen tree before they can bring in all the smoke jumper equipment Brian pushed out the plane before they jumped. They are trapped in the cave for a few days, in that time Brian and Tag, as Brian calls her, have plenty of time to talk about the past and what happened and what went wrong.

In the meantime Aiden and Leah aren't giving up on their siblings and continue to search even after everyone else has given up. In their search you discover they have a secret of their own and since they are alone Aiden feels it's the right time to sort it all out, in other words apologize and beg forgiveness. Tag and Brian after the fire has finally passed discover another way out of the cave and start to walk, unfortunately the wound Brian got from the bear has become septic and they in a race against time to find help before he dies. While Brian is sick with fever he admits everything to Tag and she reciprocates. But getting out of the woods is only the start of their problems they have a whole new batch of different problems once they get rescued.

Overall, the first part of this book was so intense and edge of your seat. People who are about to die always find it easy to communicate and finally reveal feelings they couldn't otherwise express, that's exactly what Tag and Brian did only when they got rescued they became shut off again, one because of families and another because they're silly, well they have reasons and it does lead to some good drama, heartbreak and steamy make-up sex. I can't wait for the next one. I've been a fan of Joan Johnston for almost two decades and I never get tired of her writing.

Monday, January 29, 2018

ARC REVIEW When The Stars Come Out by Laura Trentham



Cottonbloom #5, I'm so glad we didn't have to wait for Willa and Jackson's story for too long. I am so loving this series, this town, and these people. This second story arc with the Abbott brothers is just as good if not better than the first three books. In this story arc the Abbott brothers, Mack, Ford, Wyatt and Jackson, inherited their father's garage, a four way split that left Ford annoyed and keep threatening to sell his share of the garage. The other three just added on to the garage and turned into Abbott Brother's Garage and Restoration and can't afford to buy him out. Ford wants more he wants it now and the tension and animosity between the brothers just keeps getting worse and worse.

Willa Brown was hired by the boys father almost two years ago, she was there when he collapsed and died and she stuck around after that because they needed her, but now that Ford threat to sell his share has a ring of truth in it and the fate of the garage is up in the air Willa isn't sure she can stay no matter how much cares about Jackson. It wasn't supposed to be a permanent thing anyways but Mr. Abbott reminded her of her own father and she stayed because of Jackson. When Mr. Abbott hired Willa he agreed to pay her in cash off the books but now that he is gone and Mack is charge he wants everything on the up and up  including having her SSN on file, Willa knows her time to leave is getting closer.

Jackson sees the look of panic in Willa's eyes when he brings up her SSN, the guys always knew she was on the run from something but they figured she would tell them when she was ready but it wasn't until that moment that Jackson realized she might run and it hit him that he didn't want her to leave, ever. Jackson decides to insert himself a little bit more into her life and try to figure out what or who she is on the run from; and in doing so finds himself falling for her. When they finally admit to each other that they want one another they start a friends with benefits type relationship that quickly turns  into more. But Willa isn't the only one Jackson is worried about, Ford is missing and his bookies start showing up to collect.

Overall, this is an easy four star read, Willa is a little overly stubborn, but if I had a guy try and spoil me like Jackson was doing for her I would cave so freakin' fast. I have a soft spot for the strong silent types. I enjoy Trentham's writing she really brings Cottonbloom to life with the detailed active setting and the quirky characters. P.S. I don't think Ford deserves a HEA. 

Saturday, January 27, 2018

REVIEW & EXCERPT TOUR Blaze Erupting by Rebecca Zanetti











About BLAZE ERUPTING:

From New York Times bestselling author, Rebecca Zanetti, comes a new Scorpius Syndrome/A Brigade Novella…

Hugh Johnson is nobody’s hero, and the idea of being in the limelight makes him want to growl. He takes care of his brothers, does his job, and enjoys a mellow evening hanging with his hound dog and watching the sports channel. So when sweet and sexy Ellie Smithers from his college chemistry class asks him to save millions of people from a nuclear meltdown, he doggedly steps forward while telling himself that the world hasn’t changed and he can go back to his relaxing life. One look at Ellie and excitement doesn’t seem so bad.

Eleanor Smithers knows that the Scorpius bacteria has and will change life as we know it, but that’s a concern for another day. She’s been hand-picked as the computer guru for The Brigade, which is the USA’s first line of defense against all things Scorpius, including homegrown terrorists who’ve just been waiting for a chance to strike. Their target is a nuclear power plant in the east, and the only person who can help her is Hugh, the sexy, laconic, dangerous man she had a crush on so long ago.















All I can really say is... It's about freakin' time!!! Okay well I can say more than that, but I have been waiting for a Brigade story since the beginning and the regular (whole number) books are all about the Vanguard and the Mercs only hinting at what the Brigade is and what they have done. The events of this novella take place after that of the prequel novella Scorpius Syndrome where you meet Nora and Deacon but before the first book Mercury Rising. I know RAZ has more books like this planned and hopefully at one point we can see the two timelines connect. Squeeeee! I love Nora and Deacon and was so happy to finally read about them again as little as it was.

The world isn't over, yet. The Brigade is still trying to keep things under control but Scorpius is spreading faster than they thought and now they have to worry about more than just the virus but also of terrorist taking advantage of the chaos. Eleanor is a computer genius and she has discovered that one of the many sleeper cells in the US is planning an attack on one of the nuclear plants only they don't know which cell or which plant. Fortunately she knows just the man for the job of narrowing down possibilities, after all that's what Noah's job it finding weaknesses in the security and overall danger of Nuclear Power Plants. Getting recruited to Brigade wasn't part of his plan neither was seeing Eleanor again but it was the hand he was dealt and now he has to deal with it, but it's the end of the world and if he's there with his Ellie he doesn't mind, unless Deacon decides to shot him for being a terrorist.

Overall, I loved reading it. I enjoyed reading it, nitpicked something but that's just personal preference, and Deacon and Connor have the weirdest sense of humor ever. These men bond in odd ways.  




He stood and towered over her so suddenly she stopped breathing. “Are you asking me if I’m available, Ellie Mae?”

Warmth from his body, his very close body, washed over her. She tilted her head back to meet his eyes. “Don’t call me that.” It was his little nickname for her in college, and her heart used to stutter every time he used it. Something special just between the two of them.

“Why not?” He stepped in until their feet touched.

She blinked. Sparks flew between her nerves. “Wh-what are you doing?”

“Exploring.” His gaze ran over her face, curiosity clearly gleaming in those deep eyes. “I liked you. Back then. Big eyes, sweet smile, huge brain.” He reached out and brushed a curl away from her cheek, his touch warm.

Her throat closed. Heat flashed from his touch, down her torso, to zing along her erogenous zones. “Yet the one time I made a move, you rejected me.” It still hurt. When he was down and out—injured and in pain—she’d tried to give comfort.

“I wasn’t lookin’ for forever, and you’re a forever type of gal,” he murmured, standing way too close. “That offer you made nearly killed me sayin’ no. But even though I was hurtin’ and wanted to stop the pain, I couldn’t hurt you. Ever.” As if he couldn’t help himself, he brushed his knuckles along her jawline. “But I wanted you, Ell. Just knew you’d be a mistake I’d never recover from.”

Her lungs released quickly, and she took a step sideways along the coffee table. “Agreed.”

Amusement tilted his lips. “I ain’t a college kid no more, Ellie.”

“I’m well aware of that.” She needed to go by him to get to the door, and he wasn’t moving out of the way. How in the world did he still affect her like this? It had been years, for goodness’ sake. “We’re both eons out of college.”

“I’m no longer hurtin’ or whorin’ around,” he continued, looking big and broad in the small room.

“Your point?” she snapped, trying to get her libido under some semblance of control.

Why did his country-boy act turn her on? She needed a shrink. Bad.

“My point? Well now.” His smile was more wolf than sheepdog. “This time, when you make the offer? I’m gonna say yes.”




















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About Rebecca Zanetti:
New York Times and USA Today Bestseller Rebecca Zanetti is the author of over twenty-five dark paranormals, romantic suspense, and contemporary romances. She lives in the wilds of the Pacific Northwest with her own Alpha hero, two kids, a couple of dogs, a crazy cat…and a huge extended family. She believes strongly in luck, karma, and working her butt off…and she thinks one of the best things about being an author, unlike the lawyer she used to be, is that she can let the crazy out. Her current series are: The Dark Protectors, The Maverick Montana Cowboys, and the Sin Brothers series. Upcoming series are: The Realm Enforcers and The Scorpius Syndrome.






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Friday, January 26, 2018

ARC REVIEW Beyond Danger by Kat Martin

Book Two of the Texas Trilogy by Kat Martin, Beyond Danger is just a good as the first book. Martin remains true to what she does best and the action and mystery is wonderfully done letting you in on the POV of the antagonists. The hot romance does try to take a backseat to the mystery, and it makes sense both of the are professionals who want to keep working together in a professional manner, until the  were-still-alive affirmation sex, then they manage to keep a professional relationship outside the bedroom until the whole situation becomes life threatening then it gets personal.

I loved the characters, Beau and Cassidy. Beau we met in the first book, each book is a stand-alone you don't have to read it, he is a retired race car driver who prefers his sports cars to the company SUV, unless it's necessary. He also has a horrible relationship with his father and hasn't been back home in the last five years the only thing that brought him back this time is the fact that his uncaring father got a barely legal girl pregnant. Beau being a better man than his father tells her he'll take care of everything. including having his father sign over the parental rights to the unborn child.

Cassidy is a private investigator, her main job is finding facts, she's very good at what she does and she loves it too. She is tenacious and will not stop until she has the answers, she's even helped co-workers to capture a variety of bunch of bad people in the past so it's no wonder that former Senator, Stewart Reese, asked her to investigate the possibility that someone may be out to get him. Reese has had the feeling that someone has been watching him so Reese moves Cassidy on to the property, but before she can really start doing her job she walks in and finds Beau leaning over his dead father with a bloody letter opener in his hand. Beau had just came back from the lawyers in Dallas with the papers for his father to sign, Beau had prepared himself for another argument but instead just finds his father dying on the floor with a letter opener in his chest.

Beau knows the police can only go so far in their investigation and as the prime suspect to his father's murder he knows he has to dig deep in his father's dirty dealings to find the real person responsible, so he hires Cassidy to help. They begin to dig deep into the dark recesses of Stewart Reese's life stirring up trouble along the way, unfortunately the more they dig the volatile the antagonist becomes and the more dangerous it becomes for Beau and Cassidy. For Beau it was lust at first sight Cassidy trying to be more professional tried to keep her feeling separate from the facts of the case, but her instincts tell her to trust Beau. The more their lives are put in danger the more protective Beau feels over Cassidy and soon he realizes it's more that just lust but before they can proceed with any kind of relationship they need to clear Beau's name and find the real killer.

Overall, another Kat Martin book to love. I always enjoy Martin's writing style and while I loved the Brodies I'm glad that these, so far, have been separate from that series. I look forward to the next book.     

Thursday, January 25, 2018

Christine Warren's Alphaville REVIEW & EXCERPT BLOG TOUR



BABY, I’M HOWLING FOR YOU:

WELCOME TO ALPHAVILLE, where the she-wolves and alpha-males play. . .for keeps.

Renny Landry is a wolf on the run. Pursued by a shapeshifting stalker and his slobbering pack of killer coyotes, she is forced to flee her job as a librarian to find sanctuary in the wooded hills of Alpha, Washington. A well-secluded safe space for troubled shifters, Alpha is Renny’s last hope. But the first person she meets there is a gorgeous alpha male with fiery eyes, fierce tattoos, and one ferocious appetite—for her…

Mick Fischer thought he left his past behind when he moved to Alpha. But fate has a way of biting him in the tail when a female wolf shows up on his property. Wounded, desperate—and disarmingly hot—Renny brings out the snarling, protective alpha beast in Mick like no other woman he’s known. Can these two haunted, hunted wolves manage to mate for life…even as the deadliest past demons howl at their heels?



I so loved this. I fell in love with this town when I read the prequel novella. This town, Alpha, is like a sanctuary. Where you can start over with your life as long as you are a shifter, Alpha is also the only town to be one hundred percent shifter only. Renny has been on the run for months now and she believes that if she can make it to Alpha then the crazy coyote stalking her will give up. She only needs to make it there in one piece. Mick led a tough life and all he wants now is to be left alone and forget about the past. Being alone and miserable is his penance. One night he hears the unmistakable sound of fighting and blood he goes outside to find a female red wolf being attacked by a pack of coyotes. Mick scares off the coyotes and brings in the woman. Mick realizes right off that she is his mate, but Mick fights it, he doesn't deserve another mate but when he learns she has been stalked he will protect her especially after he finds out it's someone from his own past.

I loved that Mick called Renny "little red" instead of just Red. I loved the story and characters, there were some really funny part I couldn't help but laugh out loud at them. Christine Warren really created one heck of a town great active setting and nice character development. I look forward to more, especially the mayor's story. 
Chapter One


The valiant old Nissan ran out of gas thirteen miles short of her destination. Renny would ponder the irony of that number some other time. Right now, she needed to run, and run fast.

She jumped from the car the minute it stopped moving, abandoning the vehicle on the shoulder of the two-lane highway. Before she reached the tree line, she was already tearing off her shirt, ignoring the chilly bite of the pre-spring March air. She threw the garment aside and immediately reached for the button of her jeans. She continued to hop forward as she struggled out of the confining denim, but the minute that last restriction fell away, she shifted.

Fur replaced skin, arms became forelegs. Between desperate breaths, humanity slid away, and in the place of the panicked woman, a sleek red wolf began to weave through the trunks of the trees.

Her claws dug through the lingering patches of wet, heavy snow and soft leaf litter to the soil of the forest floor, flinging small clumps of mud into the air in her wake. She needed to put as much distance as she could between herself and her pursuers. She might not have seen them on her tail from the highway, but it wouldn’t take much longer. They were the reason she hadn’t been able to stop for gas for the last couple of hours. They’d already chased her across two state lines and more than five hundred miles, and that was just this time. Somehow, she couldn’t picture them giving up now.

She didn’t bother to think about what she’d left behind on the roadside. If the pack caught up to her, it wouldn’t matter whether or not someone ransacked her car and stole all of her worldly possessions. She didn’t think she’d need a good book or many changes of clothes in the afterlife.

If there was such a thing. Frankly, Renny wasn’t all that anxious to find out.

Keeping her head down and her feet moving, she continued to track north and west from the roadside, calling up the map in her head to guide her in the right direction. The last road sign she’d seen had put the Snoqualmie Pass about twenty-five miles northwest by the highway. Heading directly north instead should put the town center of her destination somewhere in that thirteen-mile range, so she had to keep running. Just a little farther.

Alphaville, or die trying.

The town of Alpha, Washington, had shimmered like a mirage on her horizon for years now. As a pup, she’d heard stories—everyone heard stories—of the northwestern town founded and run by shifters as a haven for those of their kind with nowhere else to go. Wolves driven from their packs, bears with injuries and scars inflicted by careless hunters, lions who couldn’t control their shifts, leopards who needed to change their spots—they all went to Alpha, and they all, eventually, got better.

Surely a town like that could provide a safe haven to one small wolf with a teensy-tiny little stalker problem. Right?

Please, Goddess, let her be right.

Renny’s ears swiveled back and forth as she ran, their extra-large proportions helping to catch and funnel in the sounds of pursuit. And damn it, she thought she heard the first indications of it already. They’d found the car, and even if the muddy snow weren’t perfect for holding tracks, they knew she would have fled into the forest. That was what wolves did, after all.

She poured on another burst of speed, paws barely seeming to skim the cold ground as she flew toward sanctuary. Or what she prayed was sanctuary, anyway. If she was wrong, she wouldn’t live to regret it.

The first staccato bark confirmed her fears. One of her pursuers had picked up her scent trail and was alerting the others to the location. Now it was only a matter of time before they found her. All she could do was run and pray she made it to safety before they all caught up.

If just one came at her, she could handle it. In a fight between a lone wolf and a single coyote, the wolf almost always won, even a smaller and lighter red wolf like her. Which was why Geoffrey had sent five of them after her. No way could she beat those odds. Five trained male enforcers of any species against little ol’ her? She’d need to be a polar bear to survive that.

Branches snapped behind her, urging Renny to move even faster. If the coyotes on her tail weren’t worried about making noise, then they wouldn’t bother choosing a clear path to follow her. They’d plow through anything to take the straightest line right to her. Clearly, her nemesis had instructed them not to mess around anymore.

A sharp yip of anticipation gave her a single instant of warning, and that will to survive made her dip her shoulder and twist into a sharp right turn. She dove into the underbrush, ignoring the clumps of snow that plopped onto her head and the way the thorns ripped through her thick fur to scrape at the skin beneath. She could warm up and lick her wounds later, when she was safe.

If she managed to save herself at all.

The unexpected maneuver may have gained her a few inches of distance between herself and the lead coyote, but that didn’t last. She could feel the enforcers closing in again, harrying her as if she were some kind of prey animal, like a wounded deer on the way to becoming the pack’s next meal.

The comparison fit way too close for comfort.

She tried to calculate how far she’d traveled in the last frantic minutes, but all she could do was guess. Running flat out, she could probably manage thirty-five miles an hour, but she couldn’t keep it up for more than a few minutes. Already, burning muscles and oxygen-starved lungs begged her to drop down to something more reasonable. So where had her panicked flight left her in relation to shifter Shangri-la?

Not fricking close enough. If she was lucky, she’d covered eight of the thirteen miles between her and safety. Nine, if the Goddess happened to be looking out for her. It wasn’t nearly enough.

Then something changed.

A new smell cut through the atmosphere of pine needles and wet soil, rocks and wildlife. Something heavier, muskier. Male. Wolfish. Alpha. The realization almost made her slide to a terrified halt.

Shit. She’d just stumbled into someone else’s territory—another shifter’s, by the scent of it—and that could be either good for her or very, very bad. A wolf shifter might take her side against a pack of coyote goons, or he might decide to kill her himself for trespassing on his territory. There was no way to tell.

Maybe now would be a good time to dedicate herself to serving the Goddess and a life of prayer?

She sent one up, hastily but earnestly begging the Moon and all Her Sisters for a miracle. Something, anything to get her out of the reach of the coyotes, who would drag her back to Sawmill, California, and her death at Geoffrey Hilliard’s brutal hands.

Zigzagging through the underbrush, Renny spotted a pinpoint of light in the distance and made a beeline for it. Maybe the prayer had worked, and the light represented the town of Alpha, or at least its outskirts. Town meant people, and a town like Alpha meant people capable of holding off a small band of coyote enforcers long enough for her to beg for help.

It meant a spark of hope.

She called up the last of her reserves of strength and flew toward the light, but the attack came so fast, she didn’t even have time to second-guess that whole prayer strategy. She’d gotten too busy bleeding.

She yelped as a set of fangs sliced into the back of her hind leg.

The pain jolted through her, but her attacker had missed the big tendons, so at least she didn’t fall or lose the use of her limb. That would have ended things fast. But Renny could keep moving, for the moment. So she did.

Stubborn, desperate determination welled up within her. Damn it, she had not lived this long, come this far, or run this hard to let herself be caught now. She refused.

With a frantic yip, she leapt forward toward the clear pool of moonlight she could see through the branches. The beckoning light reflected off a patch of snow dead ahead, just a few hundred yards away. If she could get there, this would be over. One way or another. She’d have reached safety or not, and in either event, she’d be out of options.

She broke out from a thicket of salal bushes, almost blinded by the glare of moonlight off the lingering puddles of white snow, but it didn’t slow her down. She didn’t need to see to know she had to keep moving.

Run or die.

Heart pounding, lungs burning, muscles screaming, Renny raced ahead, no chance to take a breath, no chance to scream, no chance to think. She just focused on that light as it flickered closer.

Almost there.

Almost—

He hit her from the side this time, a cannonball of momentum that knocked Renny clean off her feet and sent her skidding through the detritus of slush, twigs, and leaves covering the forest floor. The shock left her dazed, but she still recognized the stink of him. Bryce. Geoffrey’s beta and one of his closest friends.

And almost as evil as the alpha coyote himself.

She scrambled for purchase, trying to halt her slide and get her feet back under her before the other four caught up to them. If she let them surround her, it was over. She had to keep them off her back.

Bryce snarled at her, lips curling back to expose fangs that dripped with anticipation. At least she knew he was anticipating her death, not her rape and then death, as Geoffrey would. Bryce wanted only her blood, and in the heat of the moment, she suddenly wondered whether he’d bother following his leader’s orders. Tearing her throat out himself would bring the big coyote a lot more personal satisfaction than hauling her ass back south and watching while his alpha did the honors after a day or two at Geoffrey’s mercy. Bryce had performed the hunt, now his beast would want the kill.

He positioned himself between her and the light she’d tried so desperately to reach. He held his head low and forward, his hackles raised as he stared her down with his malicious yellow gaze. He was waiting for her to move, knowing she was already injured, knowing that if he remained patient long enough, either she’d come at him and expose herself to a counterattack or his buddies would reach them. Five against one would see her dead or captured in the space of a heartbeat.

Renny didn’t like either of those options.

Her ear flicked backward, catching the sound of the others gaining on them. She had seconds, if that, to find a way out of this. It wasn’t as though she had much choice. The only way open to her was up.

She crouched down, mirroring the coyote’s attack posture, but she didn’t bother going for his throat. She knew that even if she managed to take him down, the others would be on her before he started bleeding. She wouldn’t get out of this by fighting. She had to take a leap of faith, literally.

Powerful muscles coiled and released with a shocking force, launching Renny into the air and toward her enemy, but she hadn’t aimed for him. She’d aimed for the space over his head, behind him, and she’d almost cleared Bryce’s tail before he realized what she was doing. He jumped up, teeth flashing, and caught her in the side, slashing a deep, bloody furrow over her ribs.

She screamed, the sound emerging from her canine throat as a sort of high-pitched howling yelp, but she didn’t bother to assess the damage. She just ran straight toward the light.

Behind her, Bryce gave a yip-howl of rage and frustration and leapt after her. She could practically feel his hot breath stirring the hairs at the tip of her tail, and that only made her run faster.

She’d broken through another stand of trees before she realized that the distant light she’d prayed was the outskirts of Alpha wasn’t quite so distant, and it wasn’t anything like her long-sought sanctuary. The light shone from a single spotlight mounted in the apex of the peaked roof of a lone, otherwise darkened cabin.

A cabin that smelled so strongly of wolf, she was surprised the siding hadn’t sprouted fur.

Her heart barely had time to sink before a distinctive metallic rasp caught her attention. The sound was almost immediately followed by the sharp, echoing report of gunfire.

Bryce yowled, and suddenly Renny couldn’t sense him at her back. She chanced a look over her shoulder and saw the coyote spin on his heels, making a diving retreat into the cover of the trees. Drops of blood sprayed the snow and mud behind him.

In front of her, a tall figure stood on the porch of the cabin, almost hidden in shadows. The stock of a rifle remained braced on his shoulder, his head bent toward the barrel as he sighted for another shot.

Huh. After all these days of running and fearing her death might be just around the corner, Renny had never even considered the end might hit with the impact of a bullet. Who’d have thought?

Her paws stumbled over the uneven ground at the edge of the cabin’s yard, and she felt her knees buckle. Her hind leg throbbed in time to her racing heartbeat, and the gash in her side felt like a burning stripe of fire. She could feel blood streaming from both wounds and thought it almost didn’t matter if the man fired again. A bullet in the head sounded like the better choice when compared with bleeding to death in front of a stranger, and either was preferable to what Geoffrey planned to do to her.

That was her last (semi-)coherent thought.

She folded like a cheap card table, collapsing onto the wet ground with a low grunt. Her head bounced once before darkness claimed her, and in that last dizzy moment, she could have sworn she heard another wolf growling.

It sounded a lot as though he’d just muttered, “Shit.”

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Copyright © 2018 by Christine Warren in Baby, I’m Howling For You and reprinted with permission from St. Martin’s Paperbacks.



BABY, I’M HOWLING FOR YOU





SOMETHING TO HOWL ABOUT:
WELCOME TO ALPHAVILLE, where the she-wolves and alpha-males play. . .for keeps, in a brand-new paranormal romance series from New York Times bestselling author Christine Warren.

Dr. Annie Cryer has been called many things: Genius. Child prodigy. Scientific wonder.

Wolf Shifter.

Banished from her pack years ago, Annie’s lone wolf wandering has brought her to Alpha, Washington, home to all shifters who don't quite fit in in the "normal" shifter word. Now Annie has the chance to go back home...if only she can make good on a favor her alpha owes the mayor of “Alphaville.” But it's not much of a favor when you're helping the hottest shifter in town...

Grizzly shifter Jonas Browning has a clan in trouble. They haven't had a child born in over a hundred years...and their clan faces going completely extinct. Genetic scientist Anne Cryer has been sent to help save them. But what Jonas doesn't count on is being irresistibly drawn to the small wolf shifter, and his bear isn't about to let her go…

This came out earlier this month and it's a pretty easy going romance that helps set up the town and what it is like there. Annie is a genius and as a favor to her old alpha with the promise of being reinstated into the pack she is suppose to help the bears with their problem. Jonas asked for help because he is worried about his clan and falling head over heels for the little wolf who is suppose to fix things wasn't supposed to happen. When she tells him that they are mates he overreacts, but is it too late to reconcile his foot in mouth disease? Leave it to Mama Bear to set things right.

This was a great novella and a good start for the series. I haven't read Christine Warren before but after reading this I sure am going to start now.   



SOMETHING TO HOWL ABOUT:



 AUTHOR BIO:
CHRISTINE WARREN is the bestselling author of The Others series, including Wolf at the Door, Big Bad Wolf, Born to Be Wild, Prince Charming Doesn’t Live Here, and Black Magic Woman. Born and raised in coastal New England, she now lives as a transplant in the Pacific Northwest. (She completely bypassed those states in the middle due to her phobia of being landlocked). When not writing, she enjoys horseback riding, playing with her pets, identifying dogs from photos of their underbellies, and most of all reading things someone else had to agonize over.


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Monday, January 22, 2018

ARC REVIEW Should've Been You by Nicole McLaughlin



Should've Been You is book three of Nicole McLaughlin's Man Enough series but can be read as a stand alone. I think the blurb was a little misleading with this book, it says, 
"National Guardsman Jase Beckford wants to live a quiet life raising cattle and taking care of his mother. His childhood friend and neighbor Hannah is still his best friend, but when he walks into the Walters house one morning and sees her twin sister Becca for the first time in five years, he wonders if he missed out on something special."

Part of that is true he is a National Guardsman and he wants to raise his cattle and he's been best friends with Hannah, but it doesn't tell you that he's been harboring feelings for her sister this whole time. Or that Hannah is what I would call an attention whore, someone who has to have all the attention on her to the point she manipulates people so she gets her way. Hence why Jase and her are friends and nothing ever happened with Becca. To the point that Becca went away for college and hardly ever comes back home. It's not even like Hannah and Jase are an item, she can date and sleep with other people but she gets possessive when Jase does. Hannah basically leads Jase on a string with friendship as their main staple but with the idea that maybe they will settle down with each other someday. Until Hannah gets engaged to some hipster douche does Jase finally feel like he can move on with his life away from Hannah. Becca comes home for the holidays and sees Jase for the first time in five years and all the old feelings she hoped she was over are back and stronger than ever, only one problem is that she's dating another guy and expects to gets engaged over the holiday. Only after Hannah's surprise engagement do Jase and Becca talk and find out what Hannah did to them all those years ago and all that confessing leads to a kiss. Becca feels guilty over it she rushes home to tell her boyfriend what she did only to find out he cheated on her first and it ends. When Becca finally returns to her dad's house for Christmas with the news that she's single again Jase finally gets the feeling that they can finally start something but between Hannah and the sudden appearance of Becca's ex it turns out to not be as easy as that.

Overall, it had a nice ending and Hannah really seemed to turn over a new leaf at the end but the characters were all a mess and I really didn't empathize with them at all.   

ARC REVIEW Thanks Fur Last Night by Eve Langlais, Milly Taiden, Kate Baxter


I love the punny name. That's probably the thing I liked about it the most. I wanted a review copy of this because I've heard so much about Eve Langlais on Facebook, so I thought why not try it, and while  I did enjoy all of them they all felt a little rush, even for novellas. The good thing is that these are all brand new novellas never published before.

Bearing His Sin: Eve Langlais
Probably the funniest one, the two main characters Cole and Anja bicker almost the whole story. They are that one couple who constantly fight but it is obvious that they love each other. His "I'm still trying to figure out if I'm going to kill you" running gag reminded me of,  "Good night Wesley I'll more than likely kill you in the morning". This was an action packed, humorous but the overall story was just ehh. It did feel like it was being rushed through. Cole is a hitman/assassin scoping out his next job when Anja drops him to his knees, well he falls out of a tree close enough. Anja's crazy Russian grandmother takes a liking to Cole and invites him to the house. Turns out Anja is on the run from a marriage she doesn't want a family that is more than likely trying to kill her. Tired of hiding Anja decides to go back to her home country and make it perfectly clear she is not going to be forced in to a marriage she doesn't want. And because Cole's bear has pretty much already claimed Anja as his mate, he goes along to handle all the killing.

Bought by the Bear: Milly Taiden
Despite having, in my opinion, a horrible title this was really and adorable story. Josilyn gained custody of her nephew when her sister and her brother-in-law died suddenly in a car accident. Their will stipulated she was to gain custody of Nick and not his paternal grandmother who, although has enough money to support him, is incapable of showing and emotion other than disdain. It wouldn't have been so bad if Josilyn's ex-husband hadn't of ruined her career to the point the only thing available to her was with a maid service. Josilyn's best friend found the perfect temp job for her that pays a buttload, enough money to catch up on her bills and then some, all she has to do is pretend to be a mate to a shifter. Xander's plan of a fake mate to show off to his grandmother was full proof, until he realized there was nothing fake about Josilyn. Xander knew as soon as he saw her she was his true mate. All he has to do is ease her into the idea that the mating is real. This was an enjoyable story, I liked it I would be interested in reading other books in this series.

The Alpha and I: Kate Baxter
The longest one in this anthology, also the only one where the bear shifter is the bad guy and probably my least favorite of the three. Not that there is anything really wrong with it I just didn't enjoy it as much as the other two. Devon moved out to Lowman, Idaho to escape an abusive relationship. Liam was out having a normal run with his pack when they were ambushed the next thing he knows he's waking up in a house fifty miles from where he started. Devon rescued the bloodied naked man from the blizzard and brought him home, only he has no idea how he got there. The chemistry is palpable between Devon and Liam but Devon has been burned in the past and is a little wary about anything now. When a body is found in the park Liam can guess what happened and with another blizzard on the way he can only hope they can make it to his pack in time before the vengeful bear shifter catches up to them.   

There is another anthology coming out later containing book two of these series so keep a lookout.


Friday, January 19, 2018

ARC REVIEW The Clan Legacy: Shifters by J.S. Striker


Mate Hunt (Clan Legacy #5)  The Ultimate Shifter Leader Dylan Masters is in charge of everything shifter related, well except for those panther shifter down in Brazil but they leave each other alone. When Dylan gets word that his brother maybe involved in a shifter child slave ring on an island off the coast of Brazil. Dylan decides to handle this personally, taking with him a young wolf shifter names Simon and a young witch Robin they head off to Brazil to ask the panthers for help. Dylan is fully prepared for them to turn him down but they have a reason of their own besides the fact that the whole situation is wrong. Isabella Hart snuck on to the island to see what happened to her brother, what she ended up doing was breaking his cover. Lucky to escape she is eager to get back to help all the rest of the kids and her brother. Their plan is to use Simon and Robin to infiltrate the island and scope it out before doing anything but one thing leads to another and all hell breaks loose. But freeing the kids from the pirates is only the beginning. A sudden kiss between Dylan and Isabella sparks the passion that they have kept hidden from each other. But now that Dylan knows what she is to him not even her Alpha can keep him away from her. 

I enjoyed this one. It had plenty of action and Dylan is smokin' hot and of course with as powerful as he is Isabella would have to be pretty badass herself, trained as an assassin and can hold her own in a fight it's match made in heaven; or at least Brazil.

Hans (Clan Legacy #6)  The Bear Clan Leader Hans Greyson was the only one to refuse to help when the shit came down with the vampires, witches, and shifters, but he knows it was a mistake. He still hates vampires, and even more so now, witches. The bear clan has been cursed by a witch and it's up to Hans to track down the cure hidden up on an enchanted mountain in Scotland. Hans is prepared to make the trek to keep his clan alive what he's not prepared for is that horde of rogue vampires. Ever since becoming a vampire Nell has expanded her talents to not just the assistant to Lucinda, the leader of the vampires, but now a rogue vampire hunter too. Armed to the teeth with plenty of potions and enchanted items that may help Nell is set to destroy the nest of vampires who infested a Scotland mountain, she never expected to find the leader of the Bear Clan fighting for his life against a couple dozen rogues. Nell is able to save Hans and heal him with the help of a potion, but Hans' hatred of vampires is well known so she conceals (with the help of another potion) who she really is, Hans knows she's lying he just doesn't know why. It isn't until they face the gnarly witch that started the whole thing that the truth comes out but by that point Hans feels a certain pull towards Nell. They agree to help each other achieve their goals and get off the mountain alive. 

I love that Nell and Hans took their time with their love affair. For being a jerk in the previous books Hans sure did redeem himself. I think this was my favorite out of the box set. It was entirely focused on Hans and Nell and had a pretty constant flow of action.   


Isaac (Clan Legacy #7) Isaac Hart the leader of the panther clan, cursed to never leave the clans land. Cursed by a vindictive and petty fairy. So when one shows up in his home he prepares for the worse. Roxie went to Isaac as a last resort to save her mother, it was a long shot that Isaac would help her but with the promise to lift the curse and he reluctantly agrees. Once they get their it's clear that Isaac has been played, he's taken prisoner and used as a plaything for the fairies. Roxie feels bad she didn't know the King of the Winter Court was going to do this so she breaks Isaac out and together the have their own misadventures going from sadistic fairies of the Winter Court to horny ones in the Spring Court to the Summer Pirate Fairies and finally back to Roxie's home the Autumn Court where her mother banishes her into Isaac's keeping for an undetermined amount of time. But Roxie's mother keeps her promise and removes the curse from Isaac. Isaac and his clan welcome Roxie with hesitant but open arms and the more time Isaac spends with her the more he wants her to stay, and Roxie wants to stay she'll even risk her own life to protect the clan. But can either of them ever truly admit their feelings?

This was a nice one it had a good flow and I liked the characters. I wasn't expecting a trip through the Fairy Realm so that was a nice surprise.   


Erik (Clan Legacy #8) not included in the box set but can get for free I believe when you sign up for her newsletter.

Simon (Clan Legacy #9) Simon and Robin continued to train together after the events of Mate Hunt. After Robin's time was up she went back to Africa to continue her training with her mentor, Red, to be the most powerful witch on Earth. Fast forward a bit Robin is one of the most powerful witches and Simon is well Simon, he has worked his way up and one of Dylan's best. Robin has earned some time off and the only person she can think of to spend it with it Simon. But upon her arrival Dylan asks a favor that she work with Simon one more time to rescue yet again shifter royalty Lucy, and along to help out is Jake. But things are not what they seem when they get there with demons and hidden mazes throw in the fact that Simon just realized his feeling for Robin are not and have never been platonic and he's feeling jealous as hell and conflicted because falling in love with her messes up all the plans he made to have a shifter mate. But that all goes out the window when he realizes that Robin's life is still on the lines and he can't stand the thought of life without her.

This was the only one I have read and reviewed previously, it's not my favorite mainly because it doesn't flow as easily as the others do, but I love Simon and Robin they are great characters and had a great adventure together.  

Thursday, January 18, 2018

ARC REVIEW Howl For It by Shelly Laurenston and Cynthia Eden


Like A Wolf With A Bone
by Shelly Laurenston. The prequel in her Pride series originally published in 2012. The main characters in this are the parents of Dee-Ann, and because this is a prequel and about the parents of course it would have to take place in the 70s. I was diggin' it I could just picture the Farrah Fawcett feathered hair the bell bottoms and southern rock blaring on the am radios, ooooo and the muscle cars. Needless to say I loved the setting. The characters, you can always count on Laurenston female characters to be just as foul-mouthed as they are badass. Eggie you gotta love that strong misunderstood man, sure he would just as soon as kill you as look at you but after he meets Darla-Mae he knows his life never going to be the same again.
Darla-Mae knows just by looking in his eyes that there is a good side to Eggie that other people just don't see. Darla-Mae was allowed to go to San Francisco to study to be a pastry chef, Eggie is in a super secret shifter only black-ops and was hardly ever home. Darla-Mae and Eggie had never met before even though all his brothers are mated to her sister. When they finally do meet Eggie is saving her life. Before leaving San Francisco Darla-Mae saw something she didn't even know she saw and now a bunch of human are trying to kill her and she doesn't even know why. Eggie will stop at nothing to protect her and she trusts him enough to know what he's doing and that he will keep her safe. Darla-Mae is a pacifist and pretty much takes everything in stride, except her sisters, and because she avoids fights Eggie's parents, the alphas of the pack, view her as weak. Boy are they wrong.


Wed Or Dead by Cynthia Eden. I'm not that big a fan of Cynthia Eden's Paranormal Romance I prefer her dark romantic suspense. But this was okay, it starts and it kind of throws you into it and it left me feeling like something was missing. Kayla's parents were brutally murdered by a shifter a hunter found her and her brother and raised them to be hunters too. Gage is an alpha wolf shifter just trying to keep his pack safe. He knows Kayla's secret the moment he sees her but he also knows that she's his mate. With all the hunters after them Gage is willing to wait until Kayla has realized her entire past is a lie and he's her future. But Kayla is a little slow on the uptake and only after they get captured does Kayla realize how much of a lie her life has been. There is some great action Cynthia Eden is always good with that. I liked the story I just wish this was a full length novel instead of this novella that felt like it was truncated. 

Tuesday, January 16, 2018

ARC REVIEW A Wedding at Two Love Lane by Kieran Kramer


Book two of Kieran Kramer's Two Love Lane series focusing on Greer Jones and Stanford Elliott Wentworth Smythe, the Eighth Baron of Wickshire, or Ford for short. I find myself really liking this series the cast of characters are fun and so likeable it's easy to get absorbed into their world. This one is funny and Ford is so sweet at times. I liked that their romance and seduction took a little bit to get into, they took their time and got to know one another first before sleeping together, but not keeping them from fooling around and doing everything but that. Two Love Lane is a matchmaking agency between the computer algorithms and Macy being part cupid Elle, Macy, and Greer have made a name for themselves as the go to for finding your true love. 

Greer Jones has been planning her wedding since she was a little girl. For Greer it has to be perfect, that means the groom too. When her high school sweetheart and long time boyfriend proposed she realized they really were not right for each other.  Here she is four years later still getting grief from her parents about not marrying him and the fact that he's marrying someone else. Greer is truly happy for him if not depressed that she's still alone but for him she's happy they are both doctors and just perfect for each other. Until she finds out that they are having the wedding in Charleston and moving here.

Ford Smith is in the states to find his muse. As an artist he knows he paints well but there is something missing from his painting. He's in a funk and hopes that a change of scenery might help. In Charleston he finds his muse, the woman he wants to paint more than anything else. Now the tricky thing how's he going to meeting her, so he follows her. He follows her into the auction house and he does met her when she starts bidding on a wedding dress and accidentally sits in his lap. They are formally introduced when Greer runs into her ex and his fiance whose friends with Ford.

For Greer that wedding dress was the epitome of the perfect wedding dress. It didn't matter that she wasn't currently engaged but she planned to be someday. Unfortunately she was outbit by the prissy, stuck up, metrosexual Pierre Simons. Pierre will do anything if it hurts Greer after all they couldn't find him a love match at Two Love Lane, and has therefore set out to ruin them and this dress is just the icing on the cake. Pierre decides to make it a contest, for brides to get the chance to win this spectacular wedding dress. That's not going to stop Greer she enters anyways. It's clear that Greer has no chance at winning unless she has a partner Ford steps up to the task, and in return Greer agrees to model for him.

Overall, this was such a fun read. Aside from all the contest fun Greer and Ford go through and falling in love there is a side story that Greer helps along (love the Nodding Hill reference) with Elle's sister. While Greer is faced with her baggage and deals with it head on, Ford is slow on the up take, it takes a bit for his to realize why he won't admit to actually being in love with Greer. But when he does he goes all out.        

Wednesday, January 10, 2018

ARC REVIEW Heart of the Wolf by Terry Spear

Heart of the Wolf is the first book of the series of the same name. It was published ten years ago and to celebrate the awesomeness of the series the publishers re-released this one. When I found I could review this book I jumped at the chance to read it, having read and enjoyed the more current  subsequent spin-off series, I couldn't pass up the opportunity. I loved everything about his book except for two things Bella's lack of belief that Devlyn can defeat Volan and Devlyn, I just didn't like him. One thing that shocked me because it not this way in her more current books but there was so much sex. I want to complain about it because it was borderline gratuitous but it was so damn hot at the same time. And I think all the sex threw off the pace of the book not a complaint just an observation.  
  Bella Wilder, a red wolf shifter, was rescued by Devlyn when she was a small pup when a house fire killed her family (in the 1800). Bella has always loved Devlyn but the alpha of the pack has been obsessed with her and wanted her for a mate, Bella was determined never to let that happen to the point she ran away from her adoptive family to live as a lone wolf. One hundred and fifty years later Bella is living a quiet life when she is out on a run one day she is shocked to discover the scent of another red wolf in the area. She is so distracted she gets caught by humans in her wolf form and sent to the zoo. Making headline news gives her the attention she has been trying to hide from. Volan certainly knows where she is by now and as Volan's loyal lap dog Devlyn is sure to show up soon enough to take her back to the pack. But now there is also the local red wolf pack whose leader, also called dibs on Bella, out there ready to force her into the mating. By the time Devlyn shows up Bella is ready to run for it again, but Devlyn has had enough and is ready to claim her right then and there and face Volan. Top it all off with the fact that one of the red wolf pack members is going around killing natural redheads and Bella won't leave until they figure out who it is and stop them.  

Overall, it was a good story, I think it could have been better but I enjoyed it. What I really liked was the bonus novella Night Wolf at the back, that was a great story!  

ARC REVIEW Collision Course by Marie Harte


YAY! Lou finally! Book four of Marie Harte's Body Shop Bad Boys, Collision Course. Despite what you might have thought about Lou in the past books, he's not a manwhore. Lou is a ladies man, true, but he likes the courtship. He actually likes relationships, he likes dating and getting to know a woman before sleeping with her. He was raised by a single mom and half a dozen aunts and helped raise all his female cousins and sisters, he knows how to treat a lady. With that being said he never wants to marry or have kids of his own, in his words he's raised enough kids in his lifetime. So it only makes sense that he falls for a single mom, only he doesn't know it, yet. 
 Joey Reeves made a stupid mistake when she was a teenager and her parents never let her live it down. They never forgave her for ruining the plans they had for her but that mistake was also the best thing to ever happen it gave her her son. Joey has spent the last nine years dealing with her parents backhanded compliments and passive aggressiveness, now that she has finally gotten promoted to manager of the flower shop and has a good opportunity to be able to branch out to do weddings she is ready to move out and away from her parents. She also decides it's time for her to start living again, and if that includes dating the gorgeous guy who works for her friend, Del, then so be it. After spending the last nine years trying to apologize to her parents and show them they are wrong about her and being entirely focuses on her son, it's time to focus on her for a change, as long as it doesn't interfere with her son.

Joey's decision to not tell Lou about her son was after some serious thinking, after all she didn't know Lou, she didn't know if it was going to be serious or just casual. It was made in the best interest to her son, to protect her son. After all he didn't need a father, her son has a father who abandoned him before he was born and signed away his legal rights as father. Unfortunately for Joey the same man is back after nine years and wanting to meet his son and make amends. Neither Lou or Joey were looking for serious but it didn't take long before they were head over heels for each other. But between Joey's son and Lou and wanting to be a father, no matter how awesome he is at it, those issues just can't be ignored.

Overall, I love Lou. He is such a Casanova. (Don Juan was a manwhore who slept with every woman and then discarded them; where as Casanova really loved and cared about women who took the time to know them and remained friends with them afterwards.) Joey is a fantastic mom. I am so loving this series each of the guys are different enough to keep you entertained and each of their books unique to their characters. Marie Harte is so good with character development and romance, the sex is pretty hot too. I am crossing my fingers that Heller's book is soon.