BOOK ALERT: Seductive Secrets by Lynne Connolly **June 10, 2008**
May 16, 2008
Seductive Secrets (Secrets Trilogy, Book 1) by Lynne Connolly! Isn’t that just an amazing cover? I lurve it! If you are wondering it is by Anne Cain. You can see it, a touch bigger at the bottom of the post, you know, in case you missed it *g* (excerpt is coming!)
Hopefully Lynne will have some nifty news soon… because older series, Richard and Rose, she has pulled from Mundania Press and she is shopping it again to get it back into print.
Tags: Anne Cain, Book Alert, coverawesomeness, eBook, Historical, Lynne Connolly, Samhain, Seductive Secrets, The Secrets TrilogyREVIEWS: Wolf Unbound by Lauren Dane *and* Standoff by Lauren Dane
May 14, 2008
Sandy M’s reviews of Wolf Unbound (Cascadia Wolves, Book 4) & Standoff (Cascadia Wolves, Book 5) by Lauren Dane
Contemporary Paranormal Romance eBooks published by Samhain 1 Jan 08 & 4 Mar 08
I’m the typical reader who needs to read a series of books in order. However, reviewing books doesn’t give you that luxury very often. I’ve never read Lauren Dane before and suddenly I had the last two books in her Cascadia Wolves series in hand and once I started reading, I didn’t care one iota I hadn’t read the first three books before beginning these two.
Tags: 2008, Cascadia Wolves series, Contemporary, eBook, January 2008, Lauren Dane, March 2008, Paranormal, Samhain, Sandy M, Standoff, Wolf UnboundReview: Life on the Move by Megan Reilly
May 8, 2008
Shannon C.’s review of Life on the Move by Megan Reilly
Contemporary young adult fiction released by Samhain 29 Apr 07
I love it when a book packs the kind of emotional wallop that leaves me sitting in my chair well after I’m done, stunned into speechlessness. When that book is only about 150 pages long, I consider that amazing. A quick word of warning–this is a young adult novel, and it’s not an easy story to read, so people expecting a traditional HEA will be disappointed, but if that doesn’t matter so much to you, this is definitely worth a try.
Tags: 2008, April 2008, Fiction, Grade A, Life On the Move, Megan Reilly, Review, Samhain, Samhain Publishing, ShannonC, young adultReview: Fortune’s Deception by Karen Erickson
May 1, 2008
Laura J’s review of Fortune’s Deception by Karen Erickson
Contemporary Romance Ebook released 4 March 2008 by Samhain Publishing
After winning a record jackpot in the lottery, Brittany Jones and her friends have hired financial planner Charles Manning to advise them. Unfortunately for him, Brittany is driving him crazy in more ways then one. She spends her money like it’s going out of style and he is worried that she’s not being responsible enough. But she also drives him crazy physically even though she’s not the type that he is usually attracted to. When Brittany comes to him for financial advice, he’s shocked to learn that there may be more to Brittany than what he originally thought.
Tags: 2008, Contemporary, eBook, Fortune's Deception, Grade B, Karen Erickson, Laura J, March 2008, Red Hot, Review, SamhainReview: In Heat by Leigh Wyndfield
April 23, 2008
Shannon C.’s review of In Heat by Leigh Wyndfield
Science Fiction Romance eBook released by Samhain 4 Apr 08
Science fiction romances are some of my favorites in the paranormal romance subgenre of doom. Sometimes they work really well. Sometimes they really miss their mark.
Leigh Wyndfield’s In Heat is a nice but flawed edition to the genre. We start out with Jax, our hero, who has a problem. See, it’s time for his once-yearly mating heat, and he needs a woman. So he buys a slave for an outrageous sum, intending to use her to slake his sexual hungers and leave her in the morning. This premise leaves my inner feminist, who is a mouthy bitch, stomping around and muttering to herself.
Tags: 2008, April 2008, eBook, Grade C, In Heat, Leigh Wyndfield, Review, romance, Samhain, Sci-Fi, ShannonCReview: The Last Man on Earth by Raine Weaver
April 16, 2008
Shannon C.’s review of The Last Man on Earth by Raine Weaver
Contemporary Erotic Romance ebook released by Samhain 4 Apr 08
This book is cute. Cute works extremely well for some readers. But this particular reader has only a charred lump of coal where her heart should be, so the cuteness of this story wasn’t so much charming as it simply grated on my last nerve.
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EXCERPT: Met By Chance by Lynne Connolly
April 14, 2008
Met by Chance (released 5 Feb 08 by Samhain) is the most recent historical romance release by the prolific Lynne Connolly 
It is the third book in the Triple Countess Trilogy. Read Sandy’s review, then read on for an excerpt!
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Review: Nothing Stays In Vegas by Moira McTark
April 12, 2008
Laura J’s review of Nothing Stays In Vegas by Moira McTark
Contemporary Erotic Romance ebook released by Samhain 18 March 08
While preparing for her sister’s upcoming wedding, Lara spends the few weeks prior to the wedding emailing the best man coordinating wedding details. These emails have become more personal over time and Lara feels very attracted to the man on the other end. Finally, Lara gets her chance to meet Cal, but before introductions can be made, Lara’s sister Dette, informs Lara that while on “break” from her fiance she slept with Cal in Las Vegas not knowing that he was her fiance’s best man. Because Lara and Dette look so much a like, and real names were not used, Dette begs Lara to be the woman that Cal was with in Vegas. While Lara wants to be honest, she knows Dette deserves happiness and agrees to help her. But as she gets to know Cal better, Lara has to decide between her happiness and her sister’s.
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Review: Cowgirl Up and Ride (Rough Riders, Book 3) by Lorelei James
April 10, 2008
Sandy M’s review of Cowgirl Up and Ride (Rough Riders, Book 3) by Lorelei James
Contemporary Western Romance released by Samhain on 18 Mar 08
I’ve read a couple of reviews (including our own Teddypig) of this book lately that criticize the fact that this story looks into the lives of other McKay family members and that detracts from the story of the hero and heroine. I beg to differ with ya’ll. This is a series about the McKay family and when tragedy strikes a family, it affects the entire family. So having parts of each book about that family is certainly fine by me. The few parts of this book that do delve into the other family members’ lives aren’t that many and aren’t that lengthy at all anyhow.
Tags: 2008, Contemporary, Cowgirl Up and Ride, Grade A, Lorelei James, March 2008, Review, Rough Riders, Samhain, Sandy M, WesternReview: Private Maneuvers by Denise A. Agnew
April 8, 2008
ShannonC’s review of Private Maneuvers by Denise A. Agnew
Romantic erotic suspense ebook released by Samhain 1 Apr 08
Private Maneuvers is the third book in Denise A. Agnew’s Hot Zone series. It follows Male Call and Unconditional Surrender although you don’t need to read either of those to understand what’s going on. (And I say this as the type of reader who, when reading series, absolutely has to stick to reading order.)
Unfortunately, the fact that I was able to follow this story without having read the rest of the series is among the few things that did work for me about this book.
Tags: 2008, April 2008, Denise A. Agnew, eBook, Erotic, Grade D, Private Maneuvers, Review, romance, Samhain, ShannonC, Suspense
