Review: "Tropical Sin" by Lexxie Couper

Format Read: e-ARC provided by Author for Review
Length: Novella – 87 pages
Series: Bandicoot Cove, Book 3
Genre: Erotic Contemporary Romance, Ménage a trois
Release Date: September 6, 2011
Publisher: Samhain Publishing
Formats Available: eBook, Kindle, Nook
Purchasing Info: Publisher, Author’s Website, Goodreads, Kindle, Nook

Book Blurb:

It takes more than a rock star to rock your world. Sometimes you need a friend.

McKenzie Wood is Australia’s star gossip mag journalist, and she’s just spied the story of a lifetime: rumor-shrouded rock star, Nick Blackthorne—who thinks he’s incognito at Bandicoot Cove resort. The word is Nick’s a sex addict about to come out of the closet, and who better to lure Nick out than her BFF, Aiden Rogers—a pulse-poundingly gorgeous firefighter who is always there when she needs him, no matter the challenge.

Aiden admits it’s pretty damned pathetic that he can rush into burning …

Review: Hold Me by Lucianne Rivers

Format read: ebook provided by publisher through NetGalleySeries: Book #1 in the Caldwell Sisters seriesRelease Date: 2 August 2011Number of pages: 69 pagesPublisher: Entangled PublishingFormats available: ebook, paperbackPurchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon

Blurb:

Still reeling from her mother’s death, news anchor Jane Caldwell’s life is upended further when she learns the father she lost twenty years ago is still alive. Her mother’s will unleashes a manhunt—the Caldwell sisters must find their father, or their mother’s estate will not be settled, and their questions about his disappearance will remain unanswered.

Jane’s search leads her to Guatemala to investigate a man who claims to be her father and heir to the family fortune. Needing a translator, she enlists enigmatic Harrison DeNeuve, a sexy ex-patriot with a penchant for wearing dark sunglasses in public.

As Jane struggles to reunite with her would-be father, Harrison fights to suppress his desire for …

Review: Black Gold by Vivian Arend

Format Read: e-ARC provided by Novel Sidekick courtesy of Author for Review
Length: 171 Pages
Series: Tahkini Wolves, Book 1
Genre: Paranormal / Shifters / Erotic Romance
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Publisher: Samhain Publishing
Formats Available: eBook, Kindle, Nook
Purchasing Info: Publisher, Author’s Website, Goodreads, Kindle, Nook

Book Blurb:

Their wolves are howling at the moon. Their human halves are on different planets.

Lone wolf Shaun Steven’s automatic response to the words “happily ever after”? Kill me now. Yet with all his friends settling down he’s begun to think there may actually be something to this love-and-roses crap.

One thing’s for sure: his dream mate will have to out-cuss, out-spit and out-hike him. So he never expected the one to push his forever button would be a blue-blooded Southern debutante with a voice as dark and velvety as her skin.

When Gemmita Jacobs steps off the …

Review: Deadly Descent by Kaylea Cross

Format read: ebook provided by publisher through NetGalley
Release Date: 5 September 2011
Publisher: Carina Press
Formats available: ebook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon

Blurb:

Devon Crawford is an officer; Air Force Pararescueman Cam Munro is enlisted. Dev flies medical evacuations; Cam jumps into danger zones to save lives. Dev wants to return home from Afghanistan with her heart untouched; Cam will do anything to win the woman he loves.

Reaching for happiness in a war zone is the last thing Captain Devon Crawford plans, but she can’t ignore the feelings she’s hidden for so long. Cam’s sexy charm and wicked kisses weaken her resistance, but she’s too afraid of losing him to give in.

When Dev’s helicopter and crew are shot down and set up as bait by a notorious warlord, Cam risks all to save the team. What he doesn’t know is that the trap is set for …

Review: "Body of Sin" by Eve Silver

Format Read: e-ARC provided by NetGalley courtesy of HQN Books

Length: 224 Pages
Release Date: August 23, 2011
Publisher: HQN Books
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Series: Otherkind Book 4
Formats Available: Mass Market Paperback, Kindle, Nook, eBook
Purchasing Info: Author’s Website, Goodreads, Book Depository, Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, eHarlequin, Books-A-Million, Powell’s, Chapters, Kindle, Nook

Book Blurb:

Once the favorite son of the Lord of the Underworld, Lokan Krayl held enviable privileges and powers. Powers that led to a devastating betrayal—murder.

Resurrected by his immortal brothers, Lokan is still trapped in purgatory. He has no way to contact his family. He has no answers. In order to find the truth about his death and who killed him, he must escape his prison. And there’s only one way out: through the twelve gates of his eternal enemy, Osiris.

But Lokan has help. …

Review: Deacon’s Touch by Callie Croix

Format Read: e-Book purchased by reader

Length: Novella
Release Date: August 26, 2011
Publisher: Wild Rose Press
Genre: Contemporary Erotic Romance
Formats Available: Kindle, eBook
Purchasing Info: Author’s Website, Publisher, Goodreads, Kindle, Nook

Book Blurb:

After her own engagement goes to hell, workaholic Jessica Talbot dreads her friend’s bachelorette party at a dude ranch in Nowheresville, Texas. But the outlook for the weekend brightens when Deacon Dumen picks her up at the airport. The sexy cowboy awakens every dormant sexual fantasy with nothing more than a friendly smile and a handshake.

Ex-Air Force Pararescueman Deke Dumen doesn’t know what to make of the sexy yet reserved brunette who breaks through the walls he built after an injury ended his career and a divorce soured him on relationships. As a guest at his family’s ranch Jessie is off limits, but the Dom in him rebels …

Review: Paradise Found by Vivian Arend + Exotic Indulgence by Various

Format Read: e-ARC provided by Author for Review

Authors: Vivian Arend, Lexxie Couper, Jess Dee
Length: Free Read – 31 Pages
Series: Bandicoot Cove, Book 1
Genre: Contemporary Erotic Romance, Ménage a quatre
Release Date: August 23, 2011
Publisher: Samhain Publishing
Formats Available: eBook, Kindle, Nook
Purchasing Info: Publisher, Author’s Website, Goodreads, Kindle, Nook

Book Blurb:

It’s time for an indulgence, or two…or three.

There’s something magical about Bandicoot Cove. It’s where Kylie Sullivan’s dream of managing a luxury, five-star resort is about to come true. And it’s where people tend to fall in love. Kylie should know. She’s fallen hard—for three very different men.

There’s Brad, who knows just how to relieve her stress and send her body on a crash course through pleasure. Hemi, her untamed Maori, who awakens her primitive side. And Finn, the sexy bartender whose specialty is Screaming …

Review: Cipher by Moira Rogers

Format read: ARC provided by authorRelease Date: 6th Sept 2011Publisher: Samhain PublishingFormats available: ebookPurchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Samhain, Barnes and Noble

Book Blurb:

Fourteen months ago, Kat Gabriel’s life changed forever when she used her empathy as a weapon. Now she can’t escape the weight of those deaths–or the loss of the easy friendship she and Andrew once shared. Obsessed with her mother’s violent past, Kat is determined to learn the truth of her inner-darkness by understanding her legacy.

Since the attack that turned him into a wolf, Andrew Callaghan has done everything possible to make himself stronger. More capable of protecting Kat–both from the supernatural world that forced her to kill, and from their own volatile connection. Pushing her away hurt them both, but he’s finally made himself into the protector she needs.  As Kat’s quest …

ARC Review: Romancing the Countess by Ashley March

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Format Read: ARC provided by the publisherNumber of pages: 310 pagesRelease Date: September 6th 2011Formats available: Paperback, eBookPublisher: Signet (Penguin)Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Amazon, Book Depository (US), Book Depository (UK),  Author’s website

Book Blurb:

Sebastian Madinger, the Earl of Wriothesly, thought he’d married the perfect woman-until a fatal accident revealed her betrayal with his best friend. After their deaths, Sebastian is determined to avoid a scandal for the sake of his son. But his best friend’s widow is just as determined to cast her mourning veil aside by hosting a party that will surely destroy both their reputations and expose all of his carefully kept secrets…

Leah George has carried the painful knowledge of her husband’s affair for almost a year. All she wants now is to enjoy her independence and make a new life for …

Review: Red by Kait Nolan

Format read: ebook provided by author for reviewRelease Date: 14 August 2011Formats available: ebookPurchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Smashwords, Barnes and Noble, All Romance EBooks, Amazon UK, Amazon DE,

Blurb:

Every fairy tale has a dark side…

Elodie Rose has a secret. Any day, she’ll become a wolf and succumb to the violence that’s cursed her family for centuries. For seventeen years she’s hidden who and what she is. But now someone knows the truth and is determined to exterminate her family line. Living on borrowed time in the midst of this dangerous game of hide and seek, the last thing Elodie needs to do is fall in love. But Sawyer is determined to protect her, and the brooding, angry boy is more than what he seems. Can they outsmart a madman? And if they survive, will they find a way …