New York

I think the back cover says it all for this book: "Three sizzling reads in Hot City Nights."  Sandra Marton, from the Presents line, Sarah Mayberry from the Blaze line, and Emilie Rose from the Desire line have written three stories that are hot, sensual and steamy. 

Back cover:  Love rules the night, but what will the daylight bring...?

Hot City Nights by Sandra Marton, Sarah Mayberry and Emilie Rose

• New York: Lincoln becomes guardian of his infant niece and hires Brazilian Ana to be the Nanny. 

If you have to pick one work of non-fiction to read this year, “Garlic and Sapphires” should be it. Reichl worked as a food critic in Los Angeles and then New York; this tale encompasses the lengths she went to in order to be able to fairly judge a restaurant’s quality.

Imagine you're a writer of mysteries, and you invent the perfect Hero: a Regency lord who is everything you want in a man.  Then imagine that somehow, you're in danger and he comes to life and rescues you.  That is the premise of this delightful series.  This is the first of the Maggie/Saint Just novels I've read, but I'm going to be looking for the rest of them.  In this entry, one of Maggie's books has been optioned for a made-for-TV movie, and she, Saint Just, his valet Sterling, and a couple of their friends fly to England where the film is to be shot in a country home.  When the screenwriter is murdered and the entire company is trapped by rising flood waters, this turns into a house-party mystery (Maggie suggests "Ten Little Indians).  When the lights go out, anyone could be next...

The Greek’s Christmas Baby by Lucy Monroe

First of A Bundle of Christmas Babies ebundle 

Dec 2005, 192 pgs 

    I finally, finally finished Lover Enshrined, J. R. Ward's sixth novel in her Black Dagger Brotherhood series ~ powerful, powerful story!
     And it was far more than I had hoped. I'm rather flummoxed at present and need to digest the story, and what happened and what's been set up to happen. But, OMG!!!! As usual the WARDen has done an amazing job with not only the Brothers, but also with the vampire world in general....
    Speechless!    

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06/08/08     (finally not speechless any longer) 
     J. R. Ward has written another blockbuster in her BDB series.  With every novel we're taken further into the lives of the vampires in Caldwell, NY as well as the lives of the Brotherhood, their shellans and those around them.  The Black Dagger Brotherhood are an extremely dynamic group who stand together; whose lives are intertwined with each other to a marked degree; who, one by one, are finding their life-mates and experiencing the healing power of love. 
     In Lover Enshrined, J. R. Ward takes us deeper into the background of the race and the creators of the vampires and the Lessers. We're also given, I think, a much better look at what may be ahead for the Brothers and those that they protect. Fabulous, fabulous story, about which I can't say enough or, if given a chance, would say far too much.  But one thing that needs to be said:

           VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY HIGHLY RECOMMEND!!!!!

RATING:
Excellence: OUTSTANDING (and then some) ~ 5.0++ stars
Steaminess: Sensual to Yummy

Andrea has a secret, and she's hanging on to it tight as she gets riding lessons from surly, hardened cowboy Hank Ledbetter. But the sexy rancher might just pry that secret out of her with those knee-melting smiles. 

Great book with a truly unique premise.

Murder. Obsession. Intrigue. And werewolves. This was a fantastic and believable tale of gut-wrenching proportions.

Awww!  Another great title by Michele Dunaway!  I loved the "homecoming" theme.

I also thought that the H/h was extremely realistic in many different aspects!  This is a story that most of us can relate to on more than one level.