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Fallen Angels Series by J. R. Ward (Books 1 to 4)


Covet (Fallen Angels#1)Covet (Fallen Angels#1)


Redemption isn’t a word Jim Heron knows much about—his specialty is revenge, and to him, sin is all relative. But everything changes when he becomes a fallen angel and is charge with saving the souls of seven people from the seven deadly sins. And failure is not an option. Vin DiPietro long ago sold his soul to his business, and he’s good with that — until fate intervenes in the form of a tough- talking, Harley-riding, self-professed savior. But then he meets a woman who will make him question his destiny, his sanity, and his heart—and he has to work with a fallen angel to win her over and redeem his own soul.


Crave (Fallen Angels#2)


Crave (Fallen Angels#2)Seven deadly sins. Seven souls that must be saved. One more no-holds- barred battle between a fallen angel with a hardened heart and a demon with everything to lose.

Isaac Rothe is a black ops soldier with a dark past and a grim future. The target of an assassin, he finds himself behind bars, his fate in the hands of his gorgeous public defender Grier Childe. His hot attraction to her can only lead to trouble-and that's before.


Envy (Fallen Angels #3)Envy (Fallen Angels #3)


Seven deadly sins. Seven souls to save. And a man and a woman treading the lines of danger, desire and deliverance ...As the son of a serial killer, homicide detective Thomas DelVecchio Jr grew up in the shadow of evil. Now, on the knife-edge between civic duty and blind retribution, he atones for the sins of his father. Hired to monitor Veck is Internal Affairs officer Sophia Reilly, whose interest in Veck is both professional and arousingly personal. But Veck and Sophia have a common interest. He's Jim Herron, a mysterious stranger enlisted to save the soul of a killer's latest victim, one precariously hovering between heaven and hell. Before Herron's job is done, Veck and Sophia will be inexorably drawn into a battle of good against evil, where the risk is nothing less than total damnation.

Rapture (Fallen Angels #4)


Rapture (Fallen Angels #4)

Mels Carmichael, reporter for the Caldwell Courier Journal, gets the shock of her life when a man stumbles in front of her car outside the local cemetery. After the accident, his amnesia is just the kind of mystery she likes to solve, but she soon discovers they're over their heads with his past. Over their heads with passion, too ...As shadows walk the line between reality and another realm, and her lover's memory begins to come back, the two of them learn that nothing is truly dead and buried. Especially when you're trapped in a no-holds-barred war between angels and demons. With a soul on the line, and Mels's heart at risk, what in heaven - or in hell - will it take to save them both?

After reporter Mels Carmichael hits a disheveled man with her car
outside the local cemetery, she pays a visit to the stranger in the hospital. The only thing he remembers of his past is seeing a name written on a headstone: that of Jim Heron—a fallen angel charged with rescuing souls from the seven deadly sins. Now, as Mels struggles to help this mysterious stranger rediscover himself, Heron himself returns to prepare for a battle between good and evil.


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Down To You by M. Leighton

Down To You by M. Leighton
The scorching tale of one girl, two brothers and a love triangle…that’s not. Olivia Townsend is nothing special. She’s just a girl working her way through college so she can return home to help her father run his business. She’s determined not to be the second woman in his life to abandon him, even if it means putting her own life on hold. To Olivia, it’s clear what she must do. Plain and simple. Black and white. But clear becomes complicated when she meets Cash and Nash Davenport. They’re brothers. Twins. 

Cash is everything she’s always wanted in a guy. He’s a dangerous, sexy bad boy who wants her in his bed at any cost. He turns her insides to mush and, with just one kiss, makes her forget why he’s no good for her. Nash is everything she’s ever needed in a guy. He’s successful, responsible and intensely passionate. But he’s taken. Very taken, by none other than Marissa, Liv’s rich, beautiful cousin. That doesn’t stop Olivia from melting every time he looks at her, though. With just one touch, he makes her forget why they can never be together. 

Black and white turns to shades of gray when Olivia discovers the boys are hiding something, something that should make her run as far and as fast as she can. But it’s too late to run. Olivia’s already involved. And in love. With both of them. Both brothers make her heart tremble. Both brothers set her body on fire. She wants them both. And they want her. How will she ever choose between them?


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Delusion in Death by J. D. Robb (In Death Book 35)

Delusion in Death by J. D. Robb (In Death Book 35)
After years on the force, Eve Dallas didn't think she could be shocked anymore... until now.

It was just another after-work happy-hour bar downtown, where business professionals unwound with a few drinks, complained about the boss, maybe hooked up with someone for the night. Until something went terribly wrong. At first it was just a friction in the air. The noise intensified. The crow seemed oppressive. some sharp words were exchanged, some pushing and shoving. 

Then the madness descended. And after twelve minutes of chaos and violence, eighty people lay dead.

Eve Dallas is trying to sort out the inexplicable events. Surviving witnesses talk about seeing things—monsters and swarms of bees. They describe sudden, overwhelming feelings of fear and rage and paranoia. When forensics makes its report, the mass delusions make more sense: it appears the bar patrons were exposed to a cocktail of chemicals and illegal drugs that could drive people to temporary insanity—if not kill them outright.

But that doesn't explain who would unleash such horror—or why. Eve's husband, Roarke, happens to own the bar, yet he's convinced the attack wasn't directed at him. It's bigger than that. And if Eve can't figure it out fast, it could happen again, anytime, anywhere. Because it's airborne....


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Deep Down by Lee Child (A Jack Reacher Short Story)

Deep Down by Lee Child (A Jack Reacher Short Story)

Deep Down by Lee Child (A Jack Reacher Short Story)

An original short story about Jack Reacher, available exclusively as an ebook, following the success of last year's Second Son.

Early in his military career, Jack Reacher is ordered undercover in Washington, to discover which one of four women, all staff officers on fast track careers, is leaking secrets.

The suggested method: get close to each in turn.

The obvious problem: the most receptive will be the guilty one, with an agenda of her own ... to kill the investigation -- and the investigator.




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Dark Storm by Christine Feehan


A DARK STORM IS ON THE HORIZON...

Return to Christine Feehan's "steamy and dreamy" (Publishers Weekly) world of her New York Times bestselling Carpathian novels as roiling passions collide in a perfect storm of dangerous desire that only a precious few can hope to outrun...

Awakening after all this time in a world of absolute darkness and oppressive heat, Dax wonders in how many ways the world above must have changed. But it is how he has changed that fills him with dread and loathing. Buried alive for hundreds of years in a volcano in South America, Dax fears that he has become the full-fledged abomination that every Carpathian male fears, a victim of the insidious evil that has crept relentlessly into his mind and body over the centuries.

But there are some things that never change.

His name is Mitro, the vampire Dax had hunted all these long centuries. Once at the side of the prince of the Carpathian people he is the epitome of everything malevolent, and perpetrator of one of the most shocking killing sprees known to man -- and beast. Even his friends and family weren't safe from Mitro's bloodlust. Neither was Mitro's lifemate, Arabejila, an extraordinary woman with extraordinary gifts.

But now that Dax has re-emerged, so too has Mitro. The ultimate battle between good and evil has been re-engaged. Between Dax and Mitro, a violent game has begun -- one that has marked Riley Parker, the last descendent of Arabejila, as the reward.


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Century Trilogy by Ken Follett (Book 1 and 2)


fall of giants

Fall of Giants
This is an epic of love, hatred, war and revolution. This is a huge novel that follows five families through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for votes for women. It is 1911. The Coronation Day of King George V. The Williams, a Welsh coal-mining family, is linked by romance and enmity to the Fitzherberts, aristocratic coal-mine owners. Lady Maud Fitzherbert falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German Embassy in London. Their destiny is entangled with that of an ambitious young aide to U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and to two orphaned Russian brothers, whose plans to emigrate to America fall foul of war, conscription and revolution. In a plot of unfolding drama and intriguing complexity, "Fall Of Gaints" moves seamlessly from Washington to St Petersburg, from the dirt and danger of a coal mine to the glittering chandeliers of a palace, from the corridors of power to the bedrooms of the mighty.


Winter of the World picks up right where the first book left off, as its five interrelated families—American, German, Russian, English, Welsh—enter a time of enormous social, political, and economic turmoil, beginning with the rise of the Third Reich, through the Spanish Civil War and the great dramas of World War II, up to the explosions of the American and Soviet atomic bombs.

winter of the worldCarla von Ulrich, born of German and English parents, finds her life engulfed by the Nazi tide until she commits a deed of great courage and heartbreak. . . . American brothers Woody and Chuck Dewar, each with a secret, take separate paths to momentous events, one in Washington, the other in the bloody jungles of the Pacific. . . . English student Lloyd Williams discovers in the crucible of the Spanish Civil War that he must fight Communism just as hard as Fascism. . . . Daisy Peshkov, a driven American social climber, cares only for popularity and the fast set, until the war transforms her life, not just once but twice, while her cousin Volodya carves out a position in Soviet intelligence that will affect not only this war—but the war to come.

These characters and many others find their lives inextricably entangled as their experiences illuminate the cataclysms that marked the century. From the drawing rooms of the rich to the blood and smoke of battle, their lives intertwine, propelling the reader into dramas of ever-increasing complexity.


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Black Knights Inc. Series by Julie Ann Walker (Books 1 to 3)

The series: Black Knights Inc. is a group of ex-military men and women work under the guise of a custom motorcycle shop, but behind closed doors they carry out supersecret government missions. Author Julie Ann Walker says it is Sons of Anarchy meets 007. And, of course, there's lots of sexy romance along the way.

Why you should read this series: I love male camaraderie, and Julie Ann Walker has created a group of alpha men, all ex-military, who give each other a hard time, make each other laugh, and will risk their lives for one another in a heartbeat. Paired with some strong women who give back just as hard, this series has lots of action, humor and some nice sexual tension.

Hell on Wheels (book one, out now): Ex-marine Nate Weller's best friend died while they were on a mission together, and Nate has never recovered. He carries a deep, dark secret around, pushing everyone else away. But when his late friend's sister arrives at Black Knights Inc., with a bad guy on her tail, he pushes aside his guilt to get to the bottom of her problems. Ali isn't stupid and knows her brother was mixed up with something secretive before his death. Luckily, she turns to Nate and his friends for help, and she slowly chips through Nate's brooding, cold exterior to win his heart.

In Rides Trouble (book two, Sept. 4): Boss man and former SEAL Frank Knight has had a crush on much younger motorcycle mechanic Becky Reichert ever since he bought into her business to use as his cover years ago. They annoy each other to no end, yet underneath there is a fire burning between them, but they are both too stubborn to act on it. When Becky is vacationing with her friend in the Indian Ocean and they get kidnapped by Somali pirates, Frank and his team have to save the day. As they recover from various injuries, they finally have a chance to admit to the other what their true feelings are.

Rev it Up (book three, October 2012): From the back cover: Career soldier Jake "The Snake" Sommers has made a few mistakes in his life, but none so terrible as forsaking the only woman he's ever loved. But he's finally conquered his inner demon, the one that thirsted only for blood. So, now he's back. And he's not leaving without Michelle. Unfortunately, her enemy has other plans. Plans to see her dead.

Michelle Carter has never forgiven Jake for abandoning her all those years ago. Now he's suddenly back, after she's finally begun to make a life for herself. But her safe, orderly world is about to be blown apart. With a psychotic Las Vegas mobster gunning for her, she has no choice but to turn to Jake. Only there's more at stake than her life. As they all head for a showdown, something that was never meant to be revealed is suddenly thrown into the light. And with a secret this hot, there's bound to be an explosion.

Mandi Schreiner started romance review blog  Smexy Books in 2009. She is obsessed with reading romance novels and collecting fictional boyfriends.

By Mandi Schreiner, USA TODAY

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Because you are Mine Complete Series by Beth Kery

Because you are Mine Complete Series by Beth Kery

Because you are Mine Complete Series by Beth Kery
From NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY Bestselling Author Beth Kery comes Because You Are Mine, an exciting tale of erotic obsession. When they met, the instant attraction was unmistakable…a purely, exquisitely physical charge. Succumbing to their desires is the easy part. But when passion opens the door to an intimacy neither has known, can a man known for being unbendable learn to love?


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16 Lighthouse Road by Debbie Macomber


16 Lighthouse Road by Debbie Macomber16 Lighthouse Road is actually five stories intertwined, with some getting more pages than others. Olivia Lockhart is the link to the other stories, though her story isn’t necessarily the focus. She is the divorced family court judge who hears yet another divorce petition in Cedar Cove, Washington. This one, however, is different. The two filed a prenuptial agreement making divorce difficult and Olivia has the feeling that this couple isn’t really ready to split up. So she refuses the petition.

Cecilia and Ian Randall, the young couple who request a divorce, have plenty of problems in their marriage - Ian is in the Navy and gone for long periods of time when he can’t contact his wife. One of those times Cecilia gave birth prematurely and then had to deal with the death of their baby alone. Their need to deal with that grief and with their marriage makes up a central part of the book.

There are other stories, however. Olivia’s daughter, Justine, has to cope with deciding between what seems safe and allowing herself to love someone who won’t be a comfortable choice. Olivia meets a new man years after the last man she loved divorced her and re-married. Olivia’s mother, Charlotte, fights to make her dead friend’s last request meaningful to his remaining family. Olivia’s good friend, Grace, has to face the disappearance not just of her love but, quite literally, her husband.

Trust is a central issue in each story - trust in another, trust in love, trust lost and trust found. The author works yet another facet of love and trust into each relationship and story she introduces. The main story is that of the newlyweds, Ian and Cecilia, who are hurting from their daughter’s death and their decision to divorce. The sudden roadblock they get in the way of their separation leads them to an almost-reconciliation before Ian is sent away on duty again. Their e-mails and letters to each other show how they begin to learn about each other, including how to trust. Both Ian and Cecilia have to forgive the other and, more importantly, themselves, before they can move on to a real marriage.

Ultimately, though, the book leaves an unsatisfactory feeling. Maybe there are too many stories, most of which are not necessarily compelling. Ian and Cecilia’s is developed the most and has some nice touches, but Olivia’s love story seems to be skimmed over and Grace’s story (which presumably will be part of a sequel) is left frustratingly in limbo. Justine’s character is annoying and makes the reader nearly wish she didn’t have a HEA since she seems to have no idea what to do with one. Charlotte’s story is touching but, once again, very brief. These seem to be more brief vignettes, loosely linked, than a fully developed intertwining of the characters.

16 Lighthouse Road would have been a better book if a few stories had been dropped out - or left for a sequel - so the reader could get to really know the characters rather than being merely introduced to them.

--Irene Williams




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