This book was muccccccch better. i thought the first was okay, but this one really drew me in.This story takes place four months after book The first book. We met Warrior Marcus and Liaison Officer Havily Morgan in the previous book in this book we get to know Warrior Marcus and why he left his w...
Well, this book wasn't stunning, but I found that I liked it a bit more than book one. It gives me hope that I will enjoy book #3 more than the first two. The characters are interesting, and the overarching political intrigue and war is pretty cool. The characters are getting better. The worl...
I'm not one for French men as my alpha H...they always seem just a little too sensitive and their accents a bit too feminine for me to consider hot alpha hero. Coupled with the H in this tale also being blonde, never my preference, no way was I going to love this story...but I did. The h was gr...
Reviewed by CrystalBook provided by the publisher for reviewReview originally posted at Romancing the BookI hate to say this but this was the first book that I have read in this series. I guess you’d think that I was missing out on a lot of the back story but this book goes back and tells you a l...
I couldn't wait for this book to see how everything would end. I was satisfied with how it ended, but I was a little disappointed with the Leto and Grace story line. I loved Leto from the other books, but I found grace to be plain and week for him. She was passionate with him physically but she ...
I loved this book, and the premise of the characters in both physical and emotional chains. It was a great first book, with a story of smoldering love and then true heat. It took me away, and the trip was wonderful !Of course all that happened happened over a few days time, and although I often ...
I was gifted this copy of Embrace the Dark by Caris Roane for an honest review.Enter the Merhaine Realm World of vampires, trolls, fae, etc. "Mastyr" Vampire Gerrod , ruler of the Merhaine Realm and because of his magic, he is always blood starved, which only can be sated by what they call the bl...
Well this is the fourth book in this series and so much has changed since the first book Embrace the Dark and that's a really good thing. I confess that initially the vibration idea seemed a little overdone, interesting and unique yes but I just wasn't feeling it! Now terrible puns aside this ser...
While she showered, he contacted Ben to see how active the Invictus were. Fortunately, they’d concentrated their efforts in the far eastern reaches of his realm, a place near the smaller Venaset Mountain range dominated by his Shifter Brigade. Stone was already in the region and helped to direct ...
She checked her internal clock and realized she’d slept eleven hours. A wonderful aroma of meat cooking on an outdoor grill greeted her. Her stomach rumbled. Was Zane her kind of man, or what? She blinked against the fading light. But what was a vampire doing outdoors barbecuing at dusk? Maybe th...
Their hostess served a simple vegetable soup with stoneware in a beautiful shade of dark teal. Slices of flavorful herbed goat cheese, toasted sour dough bread with a hint of basil-butter, and home-grown tomato slices tasted of heaven. The flight with Malik had shifted something inside Willow tha...
It’s taken me a long time, Sandra, because I wanted a man of power for you, someone you could respect. He might be rough with you, but he’ll rise quickly in the ranks, so it will be worth it.” Sandra’s heart sank to her toes. “A wraith?” And a rough one at that? Oh, sweet Goddess, no. She felt a ...
With his arm tight around her waist and her feet balanced on his boot, the t-shirt was drawn up to the bottom of her buttocks. To anyone below, she would have been fully exposed. But Connor had taken them to an even higher altitude than before. This meant, of course, that she was frightened half ...
She wore a white linen dress of some kind and chatted with Engles. He rocked the tumbler in his hand. “And all this time you were Scorpion. I’m dumbfounded, yet in a way, not surprised. You’ve always had a clever mind. But why have you told me now?” “Because I’m drawing Reyes into my net once mor...
Collected Proverbs – Beatrice of Fourth Despite the fact that a healer worked on him, Duncan still felt like he’d been shoved through a keyhole at ninety-miles-an-hour. He hurt from both mind-dives, the one that Yolanthe had perpetrated and his own plunge that had helped him disturb the link well...
—From Treatise on Ascension, Philippe Reynard CHAPTER 11 The next morning, Parisa stood on a semicircle of pavers in front of the villa, the place where Havily had taught her to fly. Now she was trying to learn something new, but what Antony wanted her to do had her stomach tied up in knots...
Secrets. Lies.” Rosamunde heard the harsh tone in Stone’s voice and she shuddered. “It’s no wonder then you were so angry when you learned my true identity.” “Deception is evil and keeping this secret from me? I know I shouldn’t blame you, but part of me wonders if I’ll ever be able to trust you....
That was the first thing he noticed since having bonded with Lorelei. And he felt whole, as though his previous solitary life had reflected only a portion of his realm potential. And he had Lorelei in his arms, the biggest surprise of his long-lived life. But as he veered south, he felt a powerfu...
Maybe it was a false sensation, but his powerful, muscular frame made her feel safe. Right now she was nerved up like crazy. Salazar had said yes. The fashion show was moving forward. On some level she’d hoped the whole thing would fall apart—that her auburn hair wouldn’t have been enough to temp...
Eight Guardsmen ranged on either side of them, their long coats flapping behind, a sound that gave Samantha some comfort.Caldwell, an ancient place and built primarily of stone, was the largest town in the northwestern portion of Bergisson realm, and had a population of sixty thousand mixed realm...
As he waited for Sydon to appear, he could feel his rage, but for whatever reason, the wolf-warlock wasn’t moving fast. Ryan’s voice hit Fergus’s mind again. How the hell did he make himself disappear? Sydon is part warlock now. He probably used a spell, but I’ve got this. Shit. Okay, we’ll secur...
But as she turned to look back at the tracks of blood, the bruising in her leg suddenly blossomed into a mountain of pain. Sometimes adrenaline would do that, keep you from getting the full impact until it was safe. She felt the floor pushing toward her face. The next moment, strong arms held her...
She stood in the center of a banquet room where the tables were joined in a u-shape and she was the star attraction.She was naked, humiliated, and frightened. But she held her head high as one by one the vampires tried to get close to her, to touch her, yet unable to succeed because of Gabriel’s ...
from Collected Poems, Beatrice of FourthCHAPTER 14Greaves arrived at the Illinois Two Seers Fortress, and, yes, the situation with Stannett seemed to be well in hand, at least for the present. The redheaded Militia Warrior clearly hadn’t spared her whip. Stannett had only his leathers on, and his...
But that would leave two super-powered wraith-pairs free to exact whatever vengeance they wanted on the first realm-folk they encountered. Quinlan rose as well.Batya couldn’t believe how different she felt in her own skin, as though everything had changed. The bond between them felt like a steel ...
He’d faced death squads in Rotten Row. He’d had witches put their sizzling fingers up to his temple ready to kill him. He’d been cut open with a dozen sword swipes from fae and dead-talker bad guys. He’d had drugged out shifters, in wolf form, tear chunks out of his arms, legs and once his abdome...
But she couldn’t imagine what kind of surprise Gabriel had in store for her, although a hot bubble bath sounded really nice about now. Shayna knew Gabriel was a really important person in Marius’s life. He was an exiled leader of their world and a father figure for Marius and his brothers. He was...
He breathed in and caught her flowery ocean scent, one of her red canyon surprises. He knew Sedona had been submerged four times in ancient seas. He’d learned that on her tour. He’d like to be submerged in her four times right now. He almost dipped down just to get his face against her neck, to c...
Please stay … The expression in Reyes’s clear blue eyes pierced Angelica’s heart. He was pleading for her to remain with him, to help him bring down the Starlin Group, the organization that abducted tens of thousands of humans every year and sold them into slavery. She’d been with him long enough...
Collected Proverbs, by Beatrice of Fourth Duncan’s veins flowed with Rachel’s blood; he was still connected to her, and he’d taken care of her needs. For this brief moment, the world spun though the universe on exactly the right course. He even breathed more easily. The terrible serpent, living i...