Where Fiction and Reality Meet
Title: There’s Something About Ari Author: L.B. Gregg Publisher: Riptide Publishing Pages/Word Count: 95 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Buck Ellis’s future seems pretty damn bright. With a full college scholarship in hand, he’s going to ditch Bluewater Bay and pave the way for his kid brother Charlie to do the same. The only fly... Continue Reading →
Title: Buck Baxter, Love Detective Author: Geoffrey Knight Publisher: Wilde City Press Pages/Word Count: 90 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Welcome to Wilde City, 1924—a crane on top of every skyscraper, a party in every club, a romance on every dance floor, a shooting every night, a broken heart on every street corner and a... Continue Reading →
Title: Let It Be Author: Cheryl McIntyre Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 134 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: I’m the happy one. The dependable one. The shoulder. The anchor. The pillar. The rock. The matchmaker. I’m the one you call when you’ve had a bad day. When you need to vent, or scream, or cry. I... Continue Reading →
Title: The Circus of the Damned Author: Cornelia Grey Publisher: Riptide Publishing Pages/Word Count: 274 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Magician Gilbert Blake has spent his entire life conning drunkards in the seediest pubs in the darkest towns, careful to hide the true depths of his power. But when he spends a little too much... Continue Reading →
Greetings, everyone, and welcome back to a look at what we’ve got coming up in the week ahead, but first I’d love your feedback. You may have missed it, but earlier this week I wrote a blog post about ratings. For two days, the review team here at TNA and I had long conversations about... Continue Reading →
Title: Hunter’s Claim (A Pack of His Own: Book One) Author: Emily Carrington Publisher: Loose Id Pages/Word Count: 247 Rating: 3.5 Stars Blurb: Luis Delgado, psychic vampire, is in lust with a half werewolf who thinks Luis is a monster. Luis can deal with lust. That’s one of the fun parts of being a psychic... Continue Reading →
Title: Hunter’s Claim (A Pack of His Own: Book One) Author: Emily Carrington Publisher: Loose Id Pages/Word Count: 247 Rating: 3.5 Stars Blurb: Luis Delgado, psychic vampire, is in lust with a half werewolf who thinks Luis is a monster. Luis can deal with lust. That’s one of the fun parts of being a psychic... Continue Reading →
Title: Falling for Ramos Author: Sue Brown Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 226 Pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: A glimpse of a group of businessmen in a newspaper tells Colin Hess his old love, Alejandro Ramos, is back in London a decade after they split up. They met by chance as students, when Colin was... Continue Reading →
Title: Facing Demons (Scars: Book Three) Author: Lynley Wayne Publisher: MLR Press Pages/Word Count: 379 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: When demons from his past interfere with his present, Cam knows Seth is the only one he can trust to help him face them. At the age of fifteen, Seth Dempsey gave his heart to... Continue Reading →
Title: Accidental Contact and Other Mahu Investigations (Mahu #7.5) Author: Neil Plakcy Publisher: MLR Press Pages/Word Count: 187 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Sex, mayhem and justice in the Aloha State as openly gay Honolulu homicide detective tracks murderers, missing people & a dog with unusual appetites. From murderers to missing babies to a shaggy... Continue Reading →
Title: Drawing the Devil Author: Jon Keys Publisher: Samhain Publishing Pages/Word Count: 162 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: A heart can live a lifetime in eight seconds. Ever since his father caught him with another boy and threw him out at the tender age of sixteen, Dustin Lewis has been fighting his way up the... Continue Reading →
Title: Trapped in Oz (Tales From Kansas: Book Three) Author: Andrew Grey Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Martin Long has plans and dreams, but they are derailed when his parents move and must sell their house. In need of a place to stay, fast, he answers an ad for a roommate,... Continue Reading →
Title: Cherry Pie Author: Samantha Kane Publisher: Samhain Publishing Pages/Word Count: 169 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: You can go home again—if you can get a foot in the door. A year after packing and moving from L.A. to Mercury, North Carolina, John Ford still hasn’t adjusted to the heat. Or to life without his... Continue Reading →
Title: A Package Deal Author: Jaxx Steele Publisher: Totally Bound Pages/Word Count: 66 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: One drunken night turned Phillip’s life upside down. Could James be the man to turn it right side up? A drunken decision in college during dare week changes Phillip Drake’s life forever. In less than two years,... Continue Reading →
“The only difference between saints and sinners is that every saint has a past while every sinner has a future.” – Oscar Wilde Title: Between Sinners and Saints Author: Marie Sexton Publisher: Amber Allure Pages/Word Count: 282 Pages Rating: 4.5 Stars Blurb: Levi Binder is a Miami bartender who cares about only two things: sex... Continue Reading →
Title: Semper Fi Author: Keira Andrews Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: Rating: 4.5 Stars Blurb: The war is over. The battle for love has just begun. As Marines, Cal and Jim depended on each other to survive bloodshed and despair in the Pacific. Relieved to put the horrors of war behind him, Jim went home to... Continue Reading →
Title: The Replacement (Broken #6) Author: Kol Anderson Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: Novella Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Season finale. Find out what happens to Aaron and how "The Replacement" aka Carter Bennett is doing under a new owner. Review: I know I'm going to sound like a broken record here, but Kol Anderson never ceases... Continue Reading →
I’m so delighted to share the cover for my new holiday novella Holding the Edge. Thanks to Dar Albert for the wonderful artwork. Holding the Edge is the sequel to Cold War, my figure skating romance from earlier this year. Dev and Misha are back and trying to make their secret relationship work in the... Continue Reading →
Title: One Indulgence Author: Lydia Gastrell Publisher: Loose Id Pages/Word Count: 252 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: When Henry Cortland, the Earl of Brenleigh, comes to London to fulfill his duty and take a wife, he also decides to first fulfill his most secret and suppressed desires. He wants to spend just one night with... Continue Reading →
Title: Shaking the Sugar Tree Author: Nick Wilgus Narrator:: Wayne Messmer Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Run Time: 8 hours, 52 minutes Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Wise-cracking Wiley Cantrell is loud and roaringly outrageous—and he needs to be to keep his deeply religious neighbors and family in the Deep South at bay. A failed writer on food... Continue Reading →
Title: Weatherboy Author: Theo Fenraven Publisher: Voodoo Lily Press Pages/Word Count: 154 Pages Rating: 4.5 Stars Blurb: After fifteen-year-old Tuck finds a Maya artifact while on vacation in Guatemala, his whole life changes. To his surprise, he discovers he can make it rain and snow. A local weatherman happens to be around when Tuck creates... Continue Reading →
Title: Death Gets a Boyfriend Author: Sophie Bonaste Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 139 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Death is in a lonely business. Since the beginning of time he’s been reaping souls then returning home to his little condo in the sky. It’s not a bad job. There are perks. But Death would... Continue Reading →
Title: Meant for Him (Meant for Each Other: Book Two) Author: D.H. Starr Publisher: Ai Press Pages/Word Count: 203 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Another hot guy from Greenwich Village is about to meet his match. That is, if he doesn’t mess things up…this time. After the failure of his relationship with Jeremy, Andrew Jamieson... Continue Reading →
Title: Line in the Sand (Herc’s Mercs: Book Two) Author: Ari McKay Publisher: Torquere Press Pages/Word Count: 104 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Alec “Red” Davis is Hercules Security’s director of operations, a man who is brave and honorable and yet also a stickler for following the rules. When Cade Thornton says that Alec is... Continue Reading →
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