Review: Prelude to a Scandal by Delilah Marvelle

Format read: e-Book provided by publisher on NetgalleySeries: The Scandal Series #1Number of Pages: 384 pagesFormats available: e-Book, Kindle, PrintRelease Date: January 1st 2011Publisher: HQN BooksPurchasing Info: Author Website, Goodreads,  Amazon, Book Depository (US), Book Depository (UK)

Book Blurb:

Lady Justine is willing to trade her good name, her reputation and her place in London’s gossip-hungry ton to secure her father’s release from prison. But when the notorious Duke of Bradford counters her offer with a proposal of marriage, the stakes grow higher still. For while the smoldering lord is famous for his conquests, the man is oblivious to both her devotion and her charms. And Justine is soon afraid she has wagered all for naught…

My Thoughts:

Prelude to a Scandal is different. Now different can either be good or bad so let me tell you about it and you’ll …

Review: Sasha’s Calling by TC Archer

Format Read: EbookNumber of Pages: 122Release Date: 26 October 2010Publisher: Loose Id LLCFormats Available: EbookPurchasing Info: Author’s Website, Goodreads, Amazon

Book Blurb:

Nothing can stop freelance thief Sasha Smirnov from saving her planet — except, Dirk, the gorgeous ambassador with polychrome eyes. Is it lust or designer pheromones? He is hot, too hot to resist — or forget. A single, sizzling kiss burns him into her memory, and her body, but she can’t afford to stop for passion, let alone love.

Sasha needs to get as far away from Dirk as possible and take the classified data she stole with her. So she stows away on a ship outward bound, only to discover Dirk’s the pilot. Now she can’t get away from him, or the system, but …

Review: "Nice ‘N Naughty", by RJ Fury

Format read: e-Book galley from Manic Readers Review DepotLength: 17 pagesFormats available: e-Book, KindleRelease Date: December 20, 2010Publisher: Noble Romance PublishingPurchasing Info: Noble Romance Publishing, Amazon Kindle Diesel eBook Store

It’s Christmas Eve, and Grady Hobart is feeling anything but “nice.” Not only is he working the graveyard shift at the Traffic Town Truck Stop, but he hasn’t had a customer in over two hours! All that changes when a comely stripper from the Booty Barn strolls in, still in costume as Mrs. Nasty Claus, complete with a black lace thong, matching bra, sheer red cape and six-inch Lucite heels!

Unfortunately, Cherry isn’t there to tempt Grady with her feminine wiles; only to buy her nightly stash of lottery tickets, one more sucker hoping to strike it right with a little bit of luck—and a heaping …

Review: "The Willow", by Stacey Kennedy

Format read: e-Book provided by author for reviewSeries: The Magical Sword Book ILength: 124 pagesFormats available: e-Book, Kindle, PrintRelease Date: July 10, 2010Publisher: Liquid Silver BooksPurchasing Info: Author Website, Liquid Silver Books, Amazon Kindle, Goodreads, All Romance Ebooks, Fictionwise, Barnes & Noble

A past of secrets, a life broken by death―awakens to a world of promise and love, but lurking danger threatens to destroy it all.

In Carson City, Nevada a tragic car accident has claimed the lives of Nexi Jones’ adoptive parents. Now, without them, her reason to live has vanished and she is determined to end her pain.

The problem with that, it’s not heaven she wakes up to, it’s the Otherworld. Nexi must reconcile the truth about her past, and her heritage as part guardian/part witch, while she begins to train to join …

Review: "Night Haven", by Fiona Jayde

Format read: e-Book provided by author for reviewLength: 48 pagesFormats available: e-Book, KindleRelease Date: September 21, 2010Publisher: Samhain PublishingPurchasing Info: Author Website, Samhain Publishing, Amazon Kindle, Goodreads, All Romance Ebooks, My Bookstore and More

Desire cuts both ways…

Nothing gives Dina more pleasure than leaving the vampires she hunts to the mercy of the dawn. And yet most humans she is sworn to protect seem all too happy to offer up their necks. She has vowed never to be like those needy creatures yet, three months ago, she allowed a vampire to kiss her. The memory still makes her body burn—and her skin heat with humiliation.

For over twenty empty years, Luke has lived in a world of dead pleasure and burning sunrise, feeding off those who long for immortality and taboo thrills. Only his art makes …

Review: "Run to You" by Sarah Ballance

Format read: e-Book galley from Manic Readers Review DepotLength: 154 pagesFormats available: e-Book, KindleRelease Date: December 13, 2010Publisher: Noble Romance PublishingPurchasing Info: Author Website, Noble Romance Publishing, Amazon Kindle, Goodreads, All Romance Ebooks

Mattie James can’t pinpoint exactly when she lost control of her life, but the moment she decided to take it back made the front page of the local paper. Desperate to dodge the fallout— and the tabloids—she jumps at the chance to spend an off-season week in a tiny resort community by the sea. Making the trip with her ex-lover is a complication she can live with; coming face to face with a dead woman is not.

The last thing Sheriff Wyatt Reed expected to find on the storm-ravaged beach was a beautiful blonde with a jealous sidekick, but one look at Mattie …

Review: Immortal Champion by Lisa Hendrix

Format Read: Ebook provided by the authorNumber of Pages: 336 pagesRelease Date: January 4th, 2011Publisher: BerkleyFormats Available: Ebook, PaperbackPurchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Book Depository (UK), Book Depository (US)

Book Blurb:

He faces a future of cold uncertainty, until her warm embrace…

Part of a Viking crew of warriors cursed by an evil sorceress, Gunnar the Red must toil through eternity as half-man, half-beast, living out his days as a great bull, while his nights are spent in human form. And though he keeps mostly to the wilds, his heart yearns for the simple comforts of man—and the chance to redeem a tragic past…

Seeking refuge from a bitter winter in the welcoming hall of Richmond Castle, Gunnar rescues two maidens when a blaze erupts—and his destiny is forever altered. For one of the young women …