Untamed Flame: Winter's Grip (Aurora Immortalis #2) by Candace Blevins

 

 

Blurb:

Emmy isn’t the same dragon who arrived in Alaska desperate and defiant. In Mordnik’s endless winter darkness, she’s found something she never expected: two men who see past the chaos to the brilliant scientist beneath. She’s found a home.

In the silo’s hierarchical, decadent world of masked balls and feeding frenzies, Emmy hears her mother’s advice, given consistently since toddlerhood: Never lower your shields. Not for anyone. Especially not around vampires.

Love demands trust. Trust requires a leap of faith. And Emmy’s never been good at either.

Can she open the door? Or will winter’s grip keep her frozen, locked behind walls that protect her but leave her desperately alone?

Winter’s Grip continues The Untamed Flame Trilogy, a scorching paranormal romance featuring a dragon shifter scientist, a powerful vampire, and a submissive omega werewolf forming an unconventional triangle in Alaska’s darkest season. Perfect for readers who crave MMF romantasy with co-dominant dynamics, masked balls and decadent feeding frenzies, power exchange with mutual respect and emotional depth, found family, thesis breakthroughs, the terrifying beauty of learning to trust, reverse harem vibes, and open-door spicy scenes with bisexual characters. Cliffhanger ending, but a guaranteed HEA in book three, available April 30, 2026

 

My review:

As Emmy, Spence and Zander grow ever closer things are great but not perfect. Theres the age and power differences and the fact that Zander is chafing for Emmy to trust him enough to lower Her shields. Then there is telling Emmy’s parents. This is a bridge from the first book to the last and I look forward to seeing how they resolve their issues. Enjoyable.

 

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Vex: Devil Daddies Book 4 by Pepper North

 

 

Blurb:

The daughter of a wealthy businessman, Angel Daniels enjoys her indulgent lifestyle, even if she teeters on the edge of boredom. That all changes when the Ravagers kidnap her. Will she survive their evil plot?

Vex plays life fast and loose. He doubts the special woman he's dreamed of will ever appear, so why not take chances? The last place he expects to find the one he could love forever is in the clutches of the Devil Daddies' rivals. And that other guy who thinks he's claiming Angel? He's totally wrong for her.

The members of the Devil Daddies MC will risk all to secure two things: special acquisitions and women with a Little side.

 

My review:

When you know you know. When Vex rescues Angel from the Ravagers he knows she is the little he has been looking for. Angel never imagined a man like Vex but when she compares him to her father and her “fiancé” they come up short. This is an exciting addition to the series.

 

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Wolfseeker (Wolfseeker Trilogy Book 1) by Amy Pennza

 

Blurb:

I had a plan: finish college, escape my suffocating parents, and never look back. But everything changed the day I went for a jog and lost four hours of my life. Now the tiniest annoyances send me into rages, certain scents drive me wild, and I’m craving my steaks practically raw.

Then Jesse van der Meer shows up like he was sent by the universe to explain everything. He pulls back the curtain on a hidden world and teaches me how to live inside a body that doesn't feel like mine anymore. Somewhere between the secrets he shares and the heat that builds between us, I stop being afraid of what I'm becoming.

I should have paid more attention to why he came looking for me in the first place.

Just when I start to feel comfortable in my new skin, I discover that it’s not just Jesse’s world that has secrets. The man I’ve fallen for has been hiding a few of his own. As something dangerous closes in on us both, I'm left wondering which is more reckless: trusting him with my life, or trusting him with my heart.

Knowing what I know now, I'm not sure I have a choice either way.

 

 

My review:

Wolfseeker is a smoking hot tale of a new werewolf and the mentor who blows his mind (and other things). Their story is filled with love and danger and it looks as if life has thrown them a new curve just at the end. I thoroughly enjoyed their tale and look forward to the next installment.

 

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Bad Bunny by Lexi Davis

 

 

Blurb:

He’s not the Easter Bunny.

When Nora brings a fluffy white rabbit into her kindergarten classroom, she expects squeals, giggles, and maybe a science lesson about spring.

What she doesn’t expect is for the rabbit to bite her.
Or to shift into a six-foot-five, battle-wounded man with the face of a fallen god.
What she really doesn’t expect…
…is for him to be naked.

He claims he’s a prince.
He claims he’s being hunted.
He claims there’s an enchanted sword powerful enough to save his kingdom — and he needs her help to find it.

She thinks he’s insane.
He knows she’s his.

Bonded.
Fated.
Mates.

Sorren is not from her world.
He’s older. Wilder.
Royal. And on the run.

This Easter, the hunt begins.

Not for eggs.

For a throne.
For survival.
For her.

Because once a prince claims his mate…
He doesn’t let her go.

Bad Bunny is a steamy page-turning, heart-pounding, swoony bunny shifter fantasy featuring a possessive prince, fated mates, forced proximity, enchanted weapons, ancient magic, and a heroine who refuses to bow to destiny.
Perfect for readers who love paranormal romance, fantasy shifters, protective alpha heroes, and high-stakes romantic adventure.

 

My review:

Bad Bunny is a sweet and spicy paranormal romance.  Nora is an adorable kindergarten teacher who is much stronger than she knows. Soren is the Crown Prince in his realm and a Bunny shifter. These two were destined to meet. I really enjoyed their tale.

 

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Untamed Flame: Cold Authority (Aurora Immortalis Book 1) by Candace Blevins

 

Untamed Flame: Cold Authority (Aurora Immortalis Book 1) by Candace Blevins

 

Blurb:

The Dragon King’s oldest daughter is a certified genius. Emmy left for an Ivy League college at fourteen and published groundbreaking research at sixteen, but she wasn’t happy with the tedium of being the smartest person in the room.

To cure her terminal boredom, she’s burned through her trust fund allotments, borrowed a ridiculously expensive supercar, and slept her way through most of the planet’s top colleges — and been kicked out of every single one because she enjoys playing with the boytoys a little too… publicly.

Her parents are done with her costly whims, and they’ve exiled her to frozen Alaska and cut off her trust fund payments. She’s enrolled in a run-of-the-mill college and bound by a contract that threatens truly dire consequences for breaking the rules.

Emmy is prepared to hate every icy second of it, but she’s completely unprepared for the vampire tasked with keeping her in line. Cold, disciplined, and immortally powerful, he’s the one man she can’t seduce, can’t stop wanting, and can never have. Like her, he’s an apex predator who will never submit.

In a sunless, decadent playground where vampires reign and submission is currency, Emmy learns that fire doesn’t just destroy; it also forges. Caught between a lethal ancient poison and two men who refuse to let her go, can she survive the flames and the ice intact?

 

My review:

Emmy may be a genius but she still wants to experience life and have some fun. Well she’s had her fun and now the folks have shut her down and banished her to Alaska where she’ll have rules and consequences and no trust fund to fall back on.

This story sucked me in and kept me riveted to Emmy’s tale. I can’t wait to see where the next installment will take us.

 

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The Sailor (Alpha Cove #2) by Susan Stoker

 

Blurb:

In a sizzling return to New York Times bestselling author Susan Stoker’s Alpha Cove, a former Navy chef meets his match in a woman who holds her own in a man’s world…and he wants her to be a part of his.

Like his brothers, Zach Young has recently moved home to Maine after the untimely death of his father. In addition to helping his mom maintain Lobster Cove, the family’s beloved property, the Navy cook has big dreams of opening his own restaurant…but, for now, has reluctantly settled for a lobster shack. Not exactly what he had in mind, though a new lobsterwoman in town has made his daily trips to the docks worthwhile.

Having been literally bullied out of her last port city a little farther down the coast, Marit Phillips isn’t in Rockville long before the familiar grumblings begin…hardened lobstermen thinking a petite woman can’t possibly do the job, no matter how experienced. Fortunately, her new boss judges her based on work ethic…and the handsome cook who visits their boat every day? He seems to see things in Marit that even she doesn’t.

But as much as Zach builds her up, there’s another man in town, his polar opposite, trying to tear her down. And he proves more determined than the couple thought possible…

 

My review:

I LOVED THIS STORY! I fell for Marit Phillips alongside Zach. Marit is a petite woman in a non-traditional field. She’s smart, tough and independent. Zach is living the dream. He’s bringing his take on the local staple of lobster to the masses and they’re loving it. When he and Marit meet it’s magic. The tingle is there from the start and only gets stronger. A fantastic addition to the series.

 

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One Quick Obsession (The Cage Family Book 4) by Carrie Ann Ryan

 

 

Blurb:

“Who Hurt You?”

When Hudson Cage asked those words, I shut him out just as I did the rest of those who cared for me. It’s been a year since I made one of the worst choices of my life but now I am stronger and following the path I’ve carved myself.

As manager of the Cage Resort, I want to bring the company into a new era and show the larger than life family that I worth so much more than what my father and ex said I was.

Only to do that, I have to deal with Hudson. The man I can’t get off my mind.

And my neighbor in this small town of ours.

We fight more than we speak to one another, and his over protectiveness is starting to become far too attractive. He holds secrets within those stormy eyes and the part of me that knows it’s a mistake wants to dive deep and know more.

When one lack of control turns to another, there’s no turning back from what we could have. Yet the darkness on each of our paths are closing in.

I don’t want to love Hudson Cage, but if we don’t give in and learn to trust, we both could risk losing it all before we even have a chance.

 

My review:

Hudson is a grumpy bearded artist who likes his privacy. Scarlett is a type A driven manager of a resort. All they do is snipe at each other. When they stop fighting and start to listen to each other the conflagration is intense. These two are downright combustible. Who says opposites don’t attract?

 

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