Shiloh Walker

Back Blurb:

Declan and Tori:

She was just doing her job, tracking down a nutcase who was stalking a young dancer. And then the unspeakable and impossible happened. She was bitten.

A newly turned vampire, Tori is alone and starving and she doesn't know what to do. But she knows who to turn to—gorgeous, mouthwatering Declan—a police detective who has a few secrets of his own.

Eli And Sarel:

After three long centuries of aching loneliness, Elijah Crawford, Hunter of the Council, has finally found a woman. Maybe she can replace the obsession he has for Torrance Reilly, the wife and lover of his best friend.

Sarel is a lean, red-haired, wild-eyed witch with a soul to match his. She has a thirst for justice, and a yearning for a love to fill the void inside her. Sarel has been searching for Elijah. She is here now, prowling his grounds, waiting to get into his house.

Sarel has come to kill him.

  My first Shiloh Walker book, and I really liked it. Although parts of it really frustrated me, overall, it was quite enjoyable. I'm eager to read the rest in the series.  

Copied Blurb:

Journey into the world of the Hunters—men and women of myth, of legend.

The Huntress is a story of strength, bravery, and the incredible risks a woman will take for love. Escape into the legend of the Huntress and discover how it all began.

Malachi —A legend among his own kind. Even among the Hunters, Malachi is unique…and has been from the very beginning. Once a slave, Malachi has never lived free—until a mysterious woman turns him into something he doesn’t understand. He fights, seeing it as just a different kind of bondage. Then he realizes this is his destiny. Embracing it could lead to freedom…or it could lead him into an endless hell.

Hunter’s Pride —Kennedy has returned home to Pride Mountain. Unable to forget the mysterious creatures that saved her life after a brutal attack years before, she’s determined to solve the mystery…but she wasn’t counting on this mystery…

Duncan Pride remembers the night Kennedy was attacked but can’t tell her the truth of Pride Mountain. He didn’t plan on her courage, her strength, but he can’t let her get in the way—his Pride is counting on him.

Lee Ross knows there is something different about her.  She dreams nightly of a man she longs for and then wakes up with unexplained bruises, bruises that disappear too quickly to be normal.  Who is this man of her dreams?  Is he friend or foe?  And where is this desolate world she keeps remembering? 

Life can change in a tragic instant.  It’s a fact Jazz O’Neill knows well, ever since his world was turned upside down when he was only eighteen years old.  Jazz left his hometown in disgrace and now, sixteen years later has returned.  He hopes to raise his daughter in the town he once loved, but will the past be forgiven?  Just what happened on that hot summer night?  And will Jazz get a second chance with Anne-Marie Kincaid?     

     I read Shiloh Walker's Her Best Friend's Lover (ebook) towards the end of the 2007 Challenge and really, really loved it.  But there was a lot of the H's past that related to a Nikki and Wade.  I eventually found out that Nikki and Wade had their own story ~ No Longer Mine ~ that was no longer in print.  Well, shoot!  Then, at the beginning of this Challenge, I read Shi's latest release Always Yours and loved it as well... turns out that this book, too, is a subsequent story to No Longer Mine.  Now I really had to find this very elusive book... thank heavens for eBay!   So I found, and got the book, and it sat on my TBR shelves... until my reading slump of last week.  Of course once I got into the book I was able to understand a little more about the connections to the two books that I had read previously... which I decided I had to read again in the proper order.
     Nikki Kline and Wade Lightfoot's story spans several years, a LOT of heartbreak and extreme emotional turmoil... but holy moley it grabbed my heart and refused to let go.  I read this book as close to straight through as I could; it was near to impossible to put down.  It sure gave me a lot more of the background to both the following stories ~ which I will also review here... just 'cause.   Excellent and extremely riveting story... there were times that I wanted to throttle Wade, but he redeemed himself.  Neither Nikki nor Wade loved easily, and this is a stellar tale of love lost and found again, of second chances, of love too powerful to turn your back on.

RATING:
Excellence: Excellent ~ 4.5 stars
Steaminess: Heat Wave

     I"ve been a big fan of Shiloh Walker's books since the beginning of last year when I found the first of her Berkley Sensation Hunters books... I was instantly hooked and, once I discovered that she wrote for Ellora's Cave, I started to acquire her EC Hunters books.  Well, for now, I'm all caught up on them and I've begun to branch out to her other books....  I not only have a collection of her print books, but also her ebooks.  Granted there are some that I haven't yet acquired, but it's only a matter of time.  And when I came across the Firewalkers book, not realizing that it was the beginning of a series, I got it.  I can definitely say that I'm very much looking forward to finding the other stories in this series. 

RATING:
Excellence: Good to Very Good ~ 2.5 stars
Steaminess: Inferno (ANYTHING goes)

Sadly, yet another book I did not like. I've heard such great things about all of these authors, but, I'm going to be returning this book. I got it because of Lora Leigh's story - and it was the best one, but way too short.

I have combined two books to meet the page requirement....

BEAUTIFUL GIRL by Shiloh Walker (Samhain, 156 pages)