Bears Behaving Badly (BeWere My Heart #1) by MaryJanice Davidson

Blurb:

These social worker bear shifters give the term "mama bear" a whole new meaning! Bestselling author MaryJanice Davidson is back with this brand-new paranormal romance series featuring a foster care system for at-risk shifter babies and teens.

Werebear shifter Annette Garsea is a caseworker for the Interspecies Placement Agency. When a selectively mute and freakishly strong teen werewolf is put in her custody, Annette has to uncover the young girl's secrets if she's to have any hopes of helping her. And not even the growling of a scruffy private investigator can distract her from her mission...

Bear shifter David Auberon appreciates Annette's work with at-risk teen shifters, but he's not sure if her latest charge is so much a vulnerable teen as a predator who should be locked up. All that changes when he, Annette, and her motley band of juveniles find themselves dodging multiple murder attempts and uncovering a trafficking cartel that doesn't just threaten the kids, but risks discovery of the shifters by the wider world of homo sapiens.

My review:

Bears Behaving Badly is a story told as only the incredible MaryJanice Davidson can tell it.  This is a laugh out loud tale of child abuse. Yes; I know there is nothing funny about child abuse but when you have two foul mouthed social worker bear shifters fuddling their way through an investigation I dare you not to laugh out loud. I totally enjoyed watching Annette and David find their way supported by a quirkily fantastic supporting cast. Run, buy this book.

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Edge of Darkness: Episode Five "Facing Fears" - A Serialized Paranormal Romance (Paranormal Investigations Unlimited #5) by Paige Tyler

Edge of Darkness: Episode Five "Facing Fears" - A Serialized Paranormal Romance (Paranormal Investigations Unlimited #5) by Paige Tyler

Blurb:

Something wicked comes this way…
The ghost is coming for Presley today.

Logan Malone and Presley Kincaid finally catch a break when a bartender gives them the lead they’ve been hoping for. While they wait for information, Logan confides about his past to Presley, which helps break down the last barriers of doubt she’s had. Both realize they’ve got something very special together, something neither want to end.

When the call comes in with the lead they’ve been hoping for, Logan and Presley head to the local funeral home…where else do you look for the dead? What they find there is a paranormal investigator’s worst nightmare—the stuff horror movies are made of. Will they be able to fight off the evil, or will Logan and Presley die before they get their happy ending?

This is Episode 5 of 5 in Edge of Darkness from the Paranormal Investigations Unlimited Series.

My review:

This tale takes us to the climax of the Carson Del Vecchio storyline and it is everything I could have hoped for. Action, adventure and love. I loved this and am looking forward to new stories from Paranormal Investigations Unlimited.  This series kept me on the edge of my seat wanting more.

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Edge of Darkness: Episode Four "Back From The Dead" (Paranormal Investigations Unlimited #4) by Paige Tyler

Blurb:

Riddle me this voodoo clue…
An unearthly hue.

Logan Malone decides they have to start back at the beginning, so he and Presley Kincaid go visit Carson Del Vecchio’s mother. They believe something is tying his ghost to this world and maybe she kept a bit of hair from when he was a baby. That turns out to be a dead end but they do learn Del Vecchio has a half-brother whom Logan wants to question later.

Frustrated, Logan takes Presley to a supernatural nightclub to talk with an old voodoo priest, hoping to get answers. They find out since Presley died, she has a glow that supernaturals can see, which is how Del Vecchio finds her. The priest also informs them that someone must have brought Del Vecchio back from the dead in a dark ritual and gives Presley a charm to disguise her glow. But before they can get home, another brutal homicide is reported.

They hurry to the murder scene, but more than one familiar face is lurking there, and Logan decides it’s time to go on the offensive—before Presley runs out of time.

This is Episode 4 of 5 in Edge of Darkness from the Paranormal Investigations Unlimited Series

My review:

This episode ups the tension and we learn more about Del Vecchio. Logan and Presley grow closer. Presley is drawn into the paranormal world looking for answers and trying to stay alive. I’m on tenterhooks and can’t wait for the final episode.

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Cold Justice (The Asylum Fight Club #4) by Tibby Armstrong & Bianca Sommerland

Blurb:
Breaking a few rules didn’t seem like a huge deal.

With his name on several government assasination lists, Wren Gibson’s prison sentence might’ve been the shortest in hacker history, until an unlikely rescue lands him behind the sturdy brick walls of The Asylum Fight Club. Where everyone can game the rules, yet he’s forbidden from even placing his piece on the board.

But one Dom tempts him to gamble everything.

The Asylum’s resident, on-call medic, Jared “Doc” McCleod is familiar with the histories of every man who crosses the club’s threshold. Their pain, their fear… Of them all, only Wren has held on to his secrets, a fascinating contrast with how completely he gives up control. As the general on the front lines of The Asylum’s internal and external battles, it’s Jared’s duty to make certain the quiet sub with soulful brown eyes doesn’t fly under his radar for long.

Showing his hand could cost them both.

When Jared takes on the task of helping Wren recover from an unexpected injury, Wren begins to wonder. While the Dom is tending to everyone else, who is there for him? To show Jared he can be the sub he needs, he would willingly light himself on fire. For an ex-con with a target on his back, risking that kind of notice is a dangerous strategy, but...

Sometimes, getting what you want requires going all in. 

My review:

Cold Justice tells the story of two of The Asylum Fight Club’s most interesting secondary characters Doc and Wren. Jared “Doc” McCleod is perceived as an over the top sadist. Wren Gibson is a service submissive. They both have secrets. Wren’s could get them all killed. I loved watching Doc and Wren grow together and in turn helping the other Asylum Royals grow closer as well. This is a smoking hot tale with a lot of action thrown in. Good from sizzling cover to cover. You can probably read this standalone but it’s so much better if you’ve read the other books first.

1.      Flawed Justice

2.    Beyond Justice

3.    Hard Justice

4.    Cold Justice

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The Redemption of Memphis Drake by Shay Stone

Blurb:

She thought I was handing her my heart. What I really gave her was a hand grenade set to blow her world apart.

Ours wasn’t your typical love story. Ours involved lies. A lot of lies. So many that at some point, I lost track of which ones were mine and which were hers.

Falling in love with her was never part of the plan, not that I had a choice in the matter. From the moment we met, she captivated me, making me forget who I was and why I was pulling this job in the first place. I would have cut out my heart and begged her to take it if she hadn’t already stolen it, claiming it for her own. It no longer mattered who was conning whom. She made me believe the impossible—that we could be happy together.

I should have known better. Con men don’t get happy endings.

It was always going to end this way. I was going to break her heart in the cruelest way possible, leaving her no choice but to hate me. And that’s what I did, shattering my own in the process. I stayed away as long as I could, but a man can only live without his heart for so long. Now I’m determined to get her back and convince her the love we shared was real. But could she ever love a professional liar?

My review:

Wow! This is an incredible tale of love and second chances. I really liked our conman with a conscience Memphis Drake. He’s been through hell and done some despicable things but when love finds him he is going to have to overcome his past to have a future. I really enjoyed this story.

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Deadly Surrender (The Serafina: Sin City #5) by Katie Reus

Blurb:

Getting too close could end their friendship…

Good old-fashioned heartbreak sent Grace running to Las Vegas for a new start. There, she has the support of a college buddy and her social group, which includes Logan…funny, sexy, protective Logan MacNeil. They’ve become close friends, but that’s all Grace is willing to offer. Logan’s a known player, and Grace has been hurt enough for one lifetime, thanks. Getting left at the altar will do that to a woman.

Being apart could end their lives…

Logan’s reputation is more than a little exaggerated, and he’s never cared. Until Grace. She’s worth risking his heart again, if he can convince the brave, independent woman he’s not the playboy he seems. Right now she needs a friend…and a protector. Someone has already targeted them both—twice. Logan suspects he gained an enemy for his part in his boss’s recent failed business deal. But until he’s sure, he’s keeping Grace close. Achingly, torturously close… And when things turn deadly, he’ll lay everything on the line to make her his.

Author note: This book is part of a series but can be read as a stand-alone.

My review:

Deadly Surrender is a story of contrasts. Good vs evil and shades of gray. This is a bodyguard tale with a twist and thoroughly enjoyable. Everybody knows a guy like Logan. Gorgeous, always friendly, flirty and smiling but nobody takes him seriously. But he is dead set serious about making Grace his own. I really enjoyed this bodyguard to lovers story because who can resist Logan determined. I liked that he isn’t all powerful but he does his very best.

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Fake Truth (Ian Ludlow Thrillers #3) by Lee Goldberg

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The only thing more dangerous than fake news is fake truth in this exhilarating thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Goldberg.

Author Ian Ludlow writes great adventures…but after helping Chinese movie star Wang Mei defect to the United States, he becomes the accidental hero of a real-life espionage thriller. Now he’s stuck with the actress—and suffering a nasty case of writer’s block—when he stumbles into a secret Russian plot using “fake news” to outrage Americans into believing a terrifying lie.

It’s up to Ian and Margo French, his researcher-turned-spy, to discover the connection between a barbaric drug lord in Mexico, a homicidal maniac in California, a rogue citizen army in Texas, a raging TV pundit in New York, and two dead tourists in Portugal…before the president of the United States makes a catastrophic mistake that could resurrect the Soviet Union.

The only weapon Ian has against the global conspiracy, and the assassins who are closing in on him, is his vivid imagination. If his story isn’t a killer thriller, he’s dead.

My review:

The pen is mightier than the sword and the imagination is a powerful thing as Author Ian Ludlow and Margo French, his researcher-turned-spy prove in Fake Truth the latest in the Ian Ludlow Thrillers by Lee Goldberg. This is high energy, clever and tons of fun. I really enjoyed this fast paced, witty romp taken straight from today’s headlines and anxiously await Ian and Margo’s next adventure.

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