My Wishlist: The Haven & the Alex Croft Novels by K. Price

Hi all! And welcome to another segment of my bi-weekly Wish list! I hope you will like this week’s wishlist

This week I chose as my Wish list is…

The Haven series and The Alex Croft novel by Kalayna Price

I just discovered this series by accident when I was looking up another book. It certainly piqued my interest. I hope you will like my pick for this week’s wish list.

Anyway here’s the blurb for the first book:

Once Bitten (Haven #1)Published: January 9th 2009by Bell Bridge BooksPaperback, 276 pagesISBN 0980245397 ISBN13: 9780980245394Click Here for a sneak peak excerpt

Vampires and Shapeshifters.

Kita Nekai, on the run and the smallest of her shifter clan-a calico cat among lions and tigers-is being hunted. She was expected to accept her role as her father’s successor whether …

Review: Married By Morning by Lisa Kleypas

Format Read: Print Number of Pages: 352 pages Release Date: May 25th 2010 Publisher: St. Martin’s Press Formats Available: Ebooks, Paperback Purchasing Info: Good Reads, Author Website, Amazon, Book Depository

Book Blurb:

For two years, Catherine Marks has been a paid companion to the Hathaway sisters–a pleasant position, with one caveat. Her charges’ older brother, Leo Hathaway, is thoroughly exasperating. Cat can hardly believe that their constant arguing could mask a mutual attraction. But when one quarrel ends in a sudden kiss, Cat is shocked at her powerful response–and even more so when Leo proposes a dangerous liaison.
Leo must marry and produce an heir within a year to save his family home. Catherine’s respectable demeanor hides a secret that would utterly destroy her. But to Leo, Cat is intriguing and infernally tempting, even to a man resolved never to …

Review: When Marrying A Scoundrel by Kathryn Smith

Format Read: eARC

Number of Pages: 384
Release Date: May 25, 2010
Genre: Historical RomancePublisher: Avon Books
Formats Available: MMPB, ebook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Amazon, Author’s website

Book Blurb:

A lady must be prepared for anything . . . when marrying a scoundrel.

Sadie Moon once thought she was in love. Then her dashing husband left her to seek his fortune, and she had no choice but to transform herself from a heartbroken waif into London Society’s favorite fortune-teller. But even she could not have foreseen Jack’s return—until their paths cross in the last place either would have expected: London’s most exclusive house of pleasure.

Now wealthy and successful, Jack Friday has everything he’d ever dreamed of . . . except Sadie. He swears he will never trust the woman who broke her promise to wait for him, though his passion for her burns as …

Review: Tiger by the Tail by Kaye Chambers

Format Read:  eBookNumber of Pages: 106Release Date: April 15, 2008Publisher: Samhain Publishing, Ltd.Formats Available: eBookPurchasing Info: Goodreads, MBaM, Author’s website

Book Purchased by me for this review.

Book Blurb:From exile to queen-whom can she trust?An On the Prowl story.

Alexandra “Sasha” DeStephano has long been exiled from her own kind, thanks to parents who had no wish for her to grow up in the “tiger mafia”. Now that she’s been issued an engraved invitation to appear before the society elders, she finds herself plunged into a dangerous battle for power, urged on every side to give up her birthright to make room for a new regime.

On every side, that is, except Colton Reyes, a rogue alpha. Cole plants the idea in her mind that, under the current leadership, the tiger society is headed down a one-way street to disaster. And she is their only hope.

Spurred …

Interview: Author Lisa Mantchev

Today we’re happy to welcome Lisa Mantchev, author of Eyes Like Stars and Perchance to Dream on Book Lovers Inc. I’m guessing the fairies followed her so let’s hide the cupcakes everyone!

The HEA Lover: Lisa, can you please tell us a bit about yourself?

Lisa: I am a temporally displaced Capricorn with a fondness for dessert.

The HEA Lover: Describe a typical day of writing? Are you a planner or pantser?

Lisa: A typical day writing involves not just writing, but emailing, conducting interviews for blogs, posting links on Facebook and Twitter, and trying to keep my daughter suitably occupied while I work.

As for the planning vs. pantsing question, I’d say I’m a weird hybrid of both… I outline extensively, but the outlines are fluid during drafting (often getting rewritten several times) and then my drafts usually undergo extensive …

Review: Beautiful Creatures by K. Garcia & M. Stohl

Format Read: Hardcover

Number of Pages: 563 pages
Release Date: December 1st 2009
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Formats Available: Hardcover, Paperback, eBook
Purchasing Info: BookDepository, Book Website, GoodReads

Book Blurb

Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small Southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, and she’s struggling to conceal her power and a curse that has haunted her family for generations. But even within the overgrown gardens, murky swamps, and crumbling graveyards of the forgotten South, a secret cannot stay hidden forever.

Ethan Wate, who has been counting the months until he can escape from Gatlin, is haunted by dreams of a beautiful girl he has never met. When Lena moves into the town’s oldest and most infamous plantation, Ethan is inexplicably drawn to her and determined to uncover the connection between them.

In a town with no surprises, one …

Interview: Author Leslie Dicken

The Crazy Lover: First of all, We’d like welcome you to Book Lovers Inc.!

Can you tell us a little bit about yourself?

Leslie Dicken: I’m a wife and mother of three kids. A teenager and twins. I live in Maryland, the DC suburbs. I still work a full-time job. That’s the boring stuff. 😛

The Crazy Lover: What’s your favorite book at the moment?

Leslie Dicken: The most recent books I read were Tessa Dare’s first series. They were awesome. I have so many books on my shelf I still need to get to!

The Crazy Lover: What do you think is the difference between a reader and a real Book Lover?

Leslie Dicken: A “reader” will read when they are told to (for school, for instance) or because they need something to do while on a long plane ride. …

Review: The Better Part of Darkness by Kelly Gay

Format Read: PaperbackNumber of Pages:  394 pagesRelease Date: November 24th, 2009Publisher: PocketFormats Available: Mass Market Paperback, eBookPurchasing Info: GoodReads, Author’s Website, Amazon

Book Blurb:Divorced mother of one, Charlie Madigan, lives in a world where the beings of heaven and hell exist among us, and they aren’t the things of Sunday school lessons and Hallmark figurines. In the years since the Revelation, they’ve become our co-workers, neighbors, and fellow citizens.

Charlie works for ITF (Integration Task Force). It’s her job to see that the continued integration of our new “friends” goes smoothly and everyone obeys the law, but when a new off-world drug is released in Underground Atlanta, her daughter is targeted, and her ex-husband makes a fateful bargain to win her back, there’s nothing in heaven or earth (or hell for that matter) that Charlie won’t do to set things right.

My Thoughts:Sometimes there is nothing like a …

Review: Beauty Tempts the Beast by Leslie Dicken

Format read: eBookNumber of Pages: 196 pagesRelease Date: May 4th, 2010Publisher: SamhainFormats Available: eBook (paperback on May 4th)Purchasing Info: GoodReads, Author Website, Amazon.comBook Blurb:

“Is the enemy of her enemy a friend-or a beast?
Lord Ashworth is scarred by a night of terror years ago that left his face in ruins and his life in shreds. He hides in Silverstone Manor, using rumors that paint him as a horrible, murdering monster to keep visitors at bay. Yet he can-t shake the feeling that the rumors might be true. He tells himself it-s better this way. If his memories ever resurface, at least he …

Guest Post: Author Lori Handeland + Giveaway

We are really honored today to have Lori Handeland here. She’s the author of the Nightcreature Series and her new urban fantasy series, The Phoenix Chronicles, has a new release next week. Chaos Bites is book 4 in this series and I can say that I’m counting the days till I can get my hands on this one.

So please give her a warm welcome. And don’t forget the Giveaway at the end of the post.WHY SHAPESHIFTERS?

Shapeshifter legends have been around as long as the art of storytelling. I’ve always been fascinated by shapeshifter legends, which can be found in every culture, and have made use of them in both my paranormal romance series, The Nightcreature Novels and my urban fantasy series, The Phoenix Chronicles.

Though I often …