Mostly Romance Royal Wedding sale

In celebration of The Royal Wedding all books in the Contemporary:Royalty, Historical:Royalty and Weddings categories are 10% off for the next 3 days only!!
Also Romantic Suspense sale ends Friday April 29th at midnight CDT.

Here is the "fine print." Books must be in one of the above categories and discount does not apply to shipping. That's it - have fun shopping.

Demon Song by Cat Adams

Demon Song, sequel to Blood Song and Siren Song by Cat Adams (C. T. Adams and Cathy Clamp) in the Urban Fantasy genre continues the story of part Siren, part Vampire bodyguard Celia Graves.

Having discovered, in the previous books, her Siren heritage, in Demon Song she is learning to live with the repercussions in her personal life because of it, with the cops all wanting charms to protect them from mind manipulation - one of her abilities as a Siren - and not knowing if a guy is really interested or just influenced by her Siren charm. Celia is also continuing to deal with the consequences of the vampire attack that didn't quite turn her but forced her into a liquid diet and a lot of sunscreen.

Celia's life takes a romantic turn as her dating drought appears to be coming to an end. But are they really interested or is it just her Siren heritage?

This was pretty much unputdownable for me and I can't want to see what happens in the next book.

Romantic Suspense sale

Can't think of anything to write about today so we'll offer a sale instead.

In celebration of finishing my reading of the Deadly series by Cynthia Eden all books in the Contemporary:Suspense category are 10% off for the next 3 days only!!

Here is the "fine print." Books must be in the Contemporary:Romance:category and discount does not apply to shipping. That's it - have fun shopping.

Cynthia Edens' Deadly series

Deadly Lies by Cynthia Eden. Loved it and really enjoyed the whole series, Deadly Fear and Deadly Heat are the first two in the series.

Heroes &/or Heroines of all three books are members of the FBI's Serial Services Division, a new group put together to hunt serial killers.

Normally, I'm pretty good at figuring out the villain but the plotting in all three really had me fooled and isn't that the best measure of good romantic suspense? I really hope there are more to come in the Deadly series.

I first found Eden with the paranormal books in her Night Watch and Others series'. If you like Vamps and Weres with a few Demons thrown in these are worth tracking down.

Now to decide what to read next. Shiver of Fear and Face of Danger by Roxanne St. Claire; Red Mortal by Deidre Knight; Deadly Dreams by Kylie Brant or Magic on the Hunt by Devon Monk. Or maybe something from my massive TBR pile.

Ann Aguirre's Shady Lady.

The latest in Ann Aguirre's Corine Solomon series is Shady Lady, following Blue Diablo and Hell Fire. Devil's Punch will be available April 2012.

Corine Solomon has the "gift" of psychometry, the ability to touch something and know its history, and sometimes, its future. This gift comes in handy in her Mexican Pawn-Junk-Treasure shop but hasn’t always been a bonus in the rest of her life. The Corine series is not your typical romance with boy meets girl and they live happily ever after. It is more contemporary Urban Fantasy, no vampires or werewolves in sight, although there are demons. It is really hard to describe the book without giving away plot points so I'm just going to say that I enjoyed Shady Lady, although one part made me sad, and I'm looking forward to the next one, hoping the sad spot is resolved in a happier way.

I first found Aguirre after rave recommendations for her first book, the Sirantha Jax series starting with Grimspace in the Romantic Science Fiction genre. Next Jax book, Aftermath, will be available Sept 2011.

Aguirre also writes Paranormal Romantic Suspense as Ava Gray, with latest in series, Skin Dive available July 2011. She has jumped into the YA Urban Fantasy market with Enclave also an April 2011 release. And she has teamed with Carrie Lofty to write Apocalyptic Romance as author Ellen Connor, with Nightfall, the first in the series available July 2011. Midnight and Daybreak will follow in Sept and December 2011.

With all these different genres to read in is it any wonder I love this author?

Cliffhangers

So what is the deal with cliffhangers? Yet another young adult book ends in a cliffhanger which wouldn't be so bad but it's a year until the next one. I really enjoyed the book but I won't remember the details by the time the next one is available, I guess I just read too many books. I do understand there are time and publishing constraints. And in the case of most of the young adult books I read they also write adult books that I wouldn't want them to stop writing so they could finish a young adult series. It's a conundrum, I guess.

The latest to annoy me with a cliffhanger was The Gathering by Kelley Armstrong. I really enjoyed the characters and I would really like to find out more about the secrets of the world she has created for this series. But I'm going to have to wait about a year.