Dark Heir (Jane Yellowrock #9) by Faith Hunter

Blurb:

Shapeshifting skinwalker Jane Yellowrock is the best in the business when it comes to slaying vampires. But her latest fanged foe may be above her pay grade…

For centuries, the extremely powerful and ruthless vampire witches of the European Council have wandered the Earth, controlling governments, fostering war, creating political conflict, and often leaving absolute destruction in their wake. One of the strongest of them is set to create some havoc in the city of New Orleans, and it’s definitely personal.

Jane is tasked with tracking him down. With the help of a tech wiz and an ex-Army ranger, her partners in Yellowrock Securities, she’ll have to put everything on the line, and hope it’s enough. Things are about to get real hard in the Big Easy.

My review:

Shapeshifting skinwalker Jane Yellowrock has faced many challenges and met them head on.  As she fights bigger and badder bad guys she is discovering that the support system she has built, quite unintentionally, may be the thing that gets her through the biggest and baddest bad guy to date.  It is going to take everything that Jane, Beast and all of her friends have to take down one of the oldest vampires out there.  This may hurt a bit.

Poor Jane doesn’t get much rest but that means more action and adventure for us.  I like this Jane.  She is badass but she has grown with each book.  I think her circle of close friends has helped her tremendously.  I know they help her through the betrayal of those she thought she could trust.  I can’t wait to spend more time in her world.

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The Virgin's Night Out by Shiloh Walker

Blurb:

Sloane Redding is the shy one, the timid one. The morning of her wedding, she's dumped by the man she'd thought she'd spend the rest of her life with. Humiliated, she turns tail and runs, leaving Nowhere, Alabama for a job in the city. Sloane sets out to remake herself. She succeeds...on the outside. On the inside? Different story. She still the shy Redding. Still quiet, still more interested in standing on the standlines. But all of that is about to change.

The night before her brother's wedding, she strolls in the lone bar in Nowhere wearing wicked red and she's got one goal in mind: to show her ex-fiance just what he lost.

The night before his best friend's wedding, D.B. "Boone" Cassidy walks into the lone bar in Nowhere, Alabama with one goal in mind. Get wasted. Former military, he's spent the past few years as a security specialist and all around troubleshooter. It should have been easy to spot the trouble that night...a sexy woman in wicked red. It should have been easy. Yeah, right.

One thing leads to another and his plans to get wasted turn into a night with the sexy woman in red. Boone gets the shock of his life the next day when he shows up at his friend's wedding to find out he'd just spent the night wrapped around his best friend's little sister...and that isn't the only surprise.

Includes a bonus story, Tempt Me.

My review:

This is a fun surprise baby story.  I had some issues at the beginning trying to figure out why Sloane is still a virgin at her age and who the hell is Pierce.  Both get explained but until they do it distracted me.  After that you have to just hang on for the ride.  Whatever can go wrong does but when things go right it is a steamy good time.

I’d read the bonus story before but it was fun to reread. 

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Deadly Pursuit (Southern California Violent Crimes Taskforce) by Misty Evans

Blurb:

Her sting operation put a ruthless criminal in prison.

One year ago, rookie FBI agent Celina Davenport pulled off the ultimate undercover operation…she seduced Emilio Londano – the dangerous leader of the San Diego Mafia – and destroyed his illegal empire.

Now he’s escaped and looking for revenge.

When Londano escapes a maximum security prison and begins picking off Celina’s friends and coworkers, everyone she knows becomes a target. Including DEA agent Cooper Harris, the man who once broke her heart and is now assigned to be her bodyguard.

How far will they go to stop him?

Cooper and Celina must risk their careers – and their hearts –to turn the table on their pursuer. But will their past, with its forbidden passions and impulsive choices, put them directly in his crosshairs?

My review:

This book kept me up turning pages.  Just as I got to a place where I thought I could take a break something else would happen to keep me reading to find out what happens next.  Lots of action in this one. 

Rookie FBI agent Celina Davenport was in the wrong place at the right time and captured the attention of  Emilio Londano – the dangerous leader of the San Diego Mafia.  Working with the Southern California Violent Crimes Taskforce under the leadership of DEA agent Cooper Harris (who Celina has nicknamed the Beast) Emilio is arrested.  But he has now escaped and is looking for revenge.  Cooper and Celina have to work together to stop Emilio once again.  Cooper has resisted Celina’s advances so far can he continue to resist the one woman who has reached his soul?  More importantly can he keep her alive?

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The Dangers of Dating a Rebound Vampire (Half-Moon Hollow #3) by Molly Harper

Blurb:

In the next book in Molly Harper’s beloved Half Moon Hollow paranormal romance series, Gigi starts her first job (at Vampire Headquarters), gets over her first love, and may even fall for her first vampire!

Gigi is no longer an innocent teen. All grown up and looking for love, her family and friends worry she’ll go for the sexy, alluring vampire instead of a nice, safe human. But sexy and alluring, with a penchant for biting, could be just what Gigi wants... 

My review:

Get ready for another quirky, snarky, fun tale of love and vampires in Half Moon Hollow.  We get to revisit old friends and make a few new ones.  This book had me snorting milk through my nose.  I know better than to read and attempt to eat or drink while reading a Molly Harper book.  This one is no different.  

What happens when Gigi grows up and wants to work doing programming for the council?  Why her over protective vampire family goes off the chain.  When will they realize she is a big girl and because of her relationship with them she is better prepared than most for the job.  So what could go wrong?  Everything this is Half Moon Hollow after all.

Buy this book for a really fun read.  It can be read standalone but I bet once you’ve read it you will be backlist binging.

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Love Beyond Time (The Outsiders #1) by Rebecca Royce

Blurb:

Born one half of a perfect pair, Kal has spent his life believing his other half is gone. But when fate thrusts Isabelle into his arms, he will have no choice but to become the man he was destined to be. That is, if he can battle his own demons first.

Not willing to accept her heritage as an Outsider, Isabelle tries to hide from the truth. But when Kal’s life is on the line, she will have to step forward and embrace her powers or watch everything she has come to love disappear.

My review:

Love Beyond Time is the first in The Outsiders series by Rebecca Royce.  As with any new world there is a tendency to info dump to bring you up to speed about what folks can and can’t do in this series.  Ms. Royce avoids this but it made the book feel like one of those rides at the amusement park where you slowly climb up just to rush screaming to the bottom.  The first part of this story was a little slow but totally necessary to get to the good parts.  You have the classic battle between good and evil.  Something that Ms. Royce does very well.  I ended up staying up way past my bedtime to find out what happened.  Despite the slow start this is a fantastic read.   The characters are engaging and real (despite their abilities).  The interaction between Kal and Isabelle is hot and the other outsiders are intriguing.  You can bet I will be reading the next in the series.

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The Littlest Cowboy (The Texas Brand #1) by Maggie Shayne

Blurb:

Baby on his Doorstep!

Sheriff Garrett Brand has raised his entire brood of siblings single-handedly, and he’s done his best to teach them some values, to mold them into honorable, responsible, and trustworthy human beings. So when a baby lands on the doorstep of the Texas Brand, his first question is which younger brother is in for a butt-kicking? But the little fellow isn't named after Ben, or Wes, or Adam, or Elliot. The little feller is named after him – Garrett Ethan Brand–according to the note his mama left behind.

He’s still racking his brain to figure it all out, when a woman shows up at the ranch in the dead of night, spitting, fighting mad, and accusing Garrett of murdering her sister and stealing the baby!

Chelsea is confused, heartbroken, and too mad to think straight, and the same trouble that found her poor sister is right on her tail. But of all the places she and the baby could've wound up, Garrett thinks this ranch is the best one.

Because this is one family that knows how to pull together and trouble doesn't stand a chance against The Brands of Texas.

My review:

A fun found baby story that introduces you to the Brand family.  This book stars the oldest brother and town Sheriff, Garrett Brand.  Garrett is a gentle giant who raised his four brothers and baby sister after their parents died when he was 17.  He is super careful about not creating babies so he is confused when a baby shows up on his doorstep with his name.  He is even more confused when a New York spitfire lands on his doorstep accusing him of murdering the baby’s mother.  Together Garrett and Chelsea discover who the real father is and what happened to the baby’s mother Chelsea’s sister.  It is a dangerous, often funny, road that brings them together.

This was an Amazon freebie designed to make you want to get to know the rest of the Brands and it worked.  I just bought the second in the series.

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Stolen Vengeance (Slye Temp, #6) by Dianna Love and Giveaway

Blurb:

He's the last man she'll trust and the only one who
can save her. 


Slye Temp agent Dingo Paddock walked away from Valene Eklund seven years ago to protect her from a deadly organization, but the woman can't stay out of trouble. Valene hasn't forgiven Dingo for breaking her heart when he disappeared without a word. The last thing she'll allow is his interference with her new client, whose contract will dig her out of financial ruin. She's lucked into a deal that only comes along once, but Dingo believes the price is too high - her life - and now an organization he destroyed to keep her safe has returned to exact vengeance on him. Getting their hands on the one woman Dingo would walk through fire for? Priceless. 

If Dingo and Valene can't overcome their past and learn to trust again, multiple assassinations will
be executed, triggering an international conflict. But they can't save the world until they figure out how to save each other first. 

My review:

If you love romantic suspense you will adore Dianna Love’s latest Slye Temp.  Take an Agent who doesn’t believe anyone can love him and reunite him with the one woman who can.  Shake up his world view and add in bad guys coming at them from all sides and even your best friends are questioning you and Dingo Paddock is having a rough day.  But he will do his job and walk away from the woman whose heart he broke and keep her safe from his world.  Dingo broke Valene Eklund’s heart seven years ago and now he is back.  She doesn't want to love him but she still does.  This time she is going to keep him if the manage to get through alive.  Maybe she needs a little divine intervention. 

This book sucked me in and wouldn’t let me go until the very last page.  I think I burnt calories just reading this.

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