Review: Lost Souls

Lost Souls by Delilah Devlin

My rating: 4 of 5 stars



Enjoyable book. We see more or Cait and Sam rather than a new couple as many sequels do. There is an interesting dynamic between Cait & Sam, her ex-partner and ex-husband. And Lost Souls moved their new, after divorce, relationship further towards possible reconciliation and we saw more of Sam's motivations.

The new "full-moon case" they had was a doozy and not something I had ever read before. It is kind of nice reading something other than weres and vamps.





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Review: Dire Desires

Dire Desires by Stephanie Tyler

My rating: 3 of 5 stars



I really like the world the Dire Wolves live in but the writing style of the Dire books drives me nuts. I felt like I was being told everything that was going on instead actually seeing it, if that makes sense. Once I got past the 1st half of the books either I got used to it or the style changed because the last half was better than the first.

I love the Sydney Croft books (with Larissa Ione) and I enjoyed Tyler's SEAL books so I can't figure out why the Dire books bug me so much.



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Review: True Love

True Love by Jude Deveraux

My rating: 4 of 5 stars



How lucky can a girl get, three really great books in a week. Whistling Past the Graveyard by Susan Crandall, this one and Forgotten Sins by Rebecca Zanetti (review coming up.)

I loved this book. It started out just a little slow as I got used the the author's writing style but once I got into it I couldn't put it down.

I have to admit here that I'm a Montgomery / Taggart family fan from way back when and that might have influenced my opinion a little but only a little.

Technically this is the first in a new series called Nantucket Brides. Hero is "new generation" Montgomery and various Montgomerys & Taggarts make a well thought out appearance.

I really enjoyed visiting Nantucket and feel like i could find my way around were I to visit, and this book really makes me want to visit.

The interaction of the characters seemed very realistic and held true throughout the book.

This one is defiantly on the list for a reread right before the next one comes out, whenever that is, I've been unable to find that info which is driving me crazy.



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Review: Talon/Xavier

Talon/Xavier by Alexandra Ivy

My rating: 3 of 5 stars



I enjoy this series but the stories are so short and almost always end on a bit of a cliffhanger which is getting a little annoying.



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Monday's Featured Set - Maggie Osborne backlist bundle

Maggie Osborne backlist bundle

Not connected by characters.
Brides of Prairie Gold - The twelve women from Chastity, Missouri, meant trouble for wagon master Cody Snow. He was used to transporting guns and whiskey, not mail-order brides. Then he looked into the beautiful, defiant eyes of Perrin Waverly, a woman who had a past as painful as his own.
Silver Lining - When Low Down single-handedly saves the mining town of Piney Creek from the pox, the surviving men promise her whatever she desires in gratitude for her heroism. But when Low Down asks for a baby of her own, the miners are forced to draw lots to decide who has the dubious honor of marrying this courageous but unrefined woman.
I Do, I Do, I Do - The tale of three women who discover by accident that they are married to the same man. Jean Jacques Villette is just a guy who can't say no; he's also the thief who stole their money as well as their hearts.
The Bride of Willow Creek - Ten years ago Angie Bartoli eloped with Sam Holland. But before their impetuous marriage even began, they were torn apart by chance. For Angie, the gold band on her finger is a constant reminder of the man she could never forget.
Prairie Moon - Living on a run-down farm at the edge of a small Texas town, Della Ward is haunted by the bittersweet life she once lived with an adoring husband who died too soon. Once a laughing, carefree soul, Della is now a widow with only guilty memories for company. Until the day she sees a rugged stranger riding across the prairie toward her house.
Foxfire Bride - Fox is a woman as feisty as they come. Once the most sought-after scout west of the Rockies, she led folks through wild, unexplored terrain - until a gunshot wound ended her guiding career. She's living a calmer life when a handsome stranger appears with an urgent request to take him to Denver immediately.

Author Backlist bundles - Featured Sets July 15 to July 21, 2013

This week Mostly Romance is featuring Author Backlist bundles.

Backlist Bundles are connected only the the author, they have different themes, unrelated characters and may even have different publishers.

If you have favorite author or a just discovered author and you want to read previously published books that may not be on the shelf of your local bookstore a Backlist bundle will fill that need.

Author bundles for this week are:

Maggie Osborne

Lucy Hancock

Jayne Ann Krentz / Amanda Quick / Stephanie James

Margaret Way

Bonnie Drake / Barbara Delinsky

Joan Smith Regencies

10% off all sets in the Backlist bundles category and an additional 10% coupon with purchase of a featured set.

2176 series by Susan Grant; Kathleen Nance; Liz Maverick; Patti O'Shea - Friday's Feature

2176

Legend of Banzai Maguire ~ Day of Fire ~ Shadow Runners ~ Power of Two ~ Scarlet Empress

Susan Grant; Kathleen Nance; Liz Maverick; Patti O'Shea 

In the 21st and 22nd Centuries, the United States changed and grew. Now the United Colonies of Earth dominate the globe. But a mysterious voice is broadcasting treason, inciting revolution and referring to the "ideals of 1776" - and to an enigmatic figure named Banzai Maguire. 

 

THE LEGEND OF BANZAI MAGUIRE - The year: 2006. The mission: routine. Or so U. S. A. F. Pilot Bree "Banzai" Maguire thinks. Then she's shot down over enemy airspace, captured and put in bio-stasis. When she wakes, everything's changed. It's one hundred and seventy years later. 2176: the world is in crisis, and Banzai's a hotly contested prize. Once, her job was to protect democracy; now a mysterious voice claims she must bring it back.
DAY OF FIRE - Canada: For over a century it's been closed off, quarantined. Now, in 2176, its people thrive. The country still needs peacekeepers, though - and the Mounties are there. "Be It All. Do It All." Those are the high-tech police force's twin mottos. They're Day Daniels's mottos, too.
THE SHADOW RUNNERS - Newgate, Australia: In the 22nd century, history repeats itself. Part penal colony, part dumping ground for toxic waste, the land is controlled by "the Parliament," a gang of dissipated self-styled aristocrats. To survive here, you have to know the tricks. Like Jenny Red. She's been Down and made it out to tell the tale.
THE POWER OF TWO - To find Banzai, the UCE assigns Cai. She's the "anchor," the techie half of a Quandem: a pair of elite operatives intended for just such covert action. Neural implants allow her to sit back in a control chair and feed information to her partner, the dark-souled Jacob Tucker.
THE SCARLET EMPRESS - Shot down over Korea, modern-day U. S. A. F. Fighter pilot Cameron "Scarlet" Tucker is put in bio-stasis. She wakes 170 years later to find her best friend survived, too - the "legendary" Banzai Maguire is being held for treason in the country that was once her beloved United States.

Friday's Feature - The Fates by Kristine Grayson

The Fates by Kristine Grayson (Katherine Kristine Rusch)

What happened to Sleeping Beauty and Prince Charming after the Happily Ever After? Find out in Utterly Charming & Thoroughly Kissed. See what other fairy tale characters appear in the books of the Fairy Tale Romances series (The Fates.)

Utterly Charming - From the diary of Nora Barr. I can't believe the day I've had. Just when I finally get a client, he turns out to be a nut case! Not only has he been arrested for torching a neighborhood, but he also claims to be the magician who knocked out the Sleeping Beauty a thousand years ago!
Thoroughly Kissed - Emma awakens to an entirely different world than the one she lived in a thousand years ago, and although she's the real Sleeping Beauty, her life is no fairy tale. After parting ways with her supposed Prince Charming, she's determined to be a normal girl.
Completely Smitten - My name is Andrew Vari, and I'm short (very short), and not exactly handsome. Actually, that's only partly true. My real name is Darius, and if you caught a glimpse of my true form, you might just swoon. It was my arrogance about my looks and magical powers that got me into this fix.
Simply Irresistible - My name's Vivian Kinneally, and I can't believe this is happening to me. I just moved here to Portland, Oregon, to take over a business left to me by my favorite aunt - nothing earth-shattering... or so you'd think, right? I've always been a little bit psychic - but my powers never hinted at what was to come when I let three gorgeous, terrified women into my home.
Absolutely Captivated - The name's Sinclair. Zoe Sinclair, P.I. My stomping grounds are the neon-lit streets of Las Vegas, where anything can happen. In my half century here, I've seen plenty. Now might be a good time to mention that I'm a 150-year-old mage, though I don't look a day over thirty.
Totally Spellbound - L.A. psychologist Megan Kineally has always had her feet planted firmly on the ground, which is more than she can say for her pampered clients. So she has to wonder what she's now doing hanging around in Vegas with her brother, Travers, his mysterious new fiancée, his son, Kyle, and three loopy women who call themselves The Fates.

Review: Whistling Past the Graveyard

Whistling Past the Graveyard by Susan Crandall

My rating: 5 of 5 stars



What a fabulous book. I have always really enjoyed everything Crandall has written so I automatically added this one to my list without even looking to see what it was about. After I got it and looked at the synopsis I was surprised and not sure I would enjoy it. I read the first page and was even more unsure.

Boy, was I wrong.

I read in one sitting and frankly, couldn't put it down.

Crandall does a wonderful job bringing Starla to life. Starla is a nine-year-old growing up in Mississippi in 1963. She lives with her grandmother while her mother is becoming a country music star in Nashville and her father works on a oil rig in the gulf. She has the normal dreams of wanting to live with both her parents and when she runs away decides that she will go to her mother and then her father will come and they will live happily ever after. Not surprisingly, it's not that easy.




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Maggie Shayne's Wings in the Night, Wednesday's Feature

Wings in the Night by Maggie Shayne

I loved this series. In fact, I wanted to read the first three books so badly that I ordered the 3-in-1 anthology from Australia as a present for myself.

First three were from the short-lived Silhouette Shadows line and were some of the few that had Vampires back when you didn't find vampires in every other book you picked up.

Wings in the Night: For centuries, loneliness has haunted them from dusk till dawn. Yet now, from out of the darkness, shines the light of eternal life... Eternal love.

• Twilight Phantasies, SSH-18
• Twilight Memories, SSh-30
• Twilight Illusions, SSh-47
• At Twilight
  • Beyond Twilight
  • Born in Twilight
• Twilight Hunger
• Embrace the Twilight
• Two by Twilight
  • Twilight Vows
  • Run from Twilight
• Edge of Twilight
• Blue Twilight
• Prince of Twilight
• Demon's Kiss
• Lover's Bite
• Angel's Pain
• Twilight Prophecy
• Vacation with a Vampire
  • Vampires in Paradise by Maggie Shayne
  • Immortal by Maureen Child (Not connected to Wings in the Night)
• Twilight Fulfilled

Innerworld by Marilyn Campbell

Tuesday's Featured set is Innerworld by Marilyn Campbell

From a secret world to outer space to time travel, this series has everything that I love in paranormals.

Pyramid of Dreams - She was a stranger to his futuristic world, an outsider in the rainbow-hued crystal city who must not be allowed to return to her home. Yet though Aster would never be accepted by his people, Romulus found himself irresistibly drawn to the beautiful pariah. His fierce ambition made a formal joining with her impossible, but the fever of mating drove him to tangle his hands in her silver-blonde hair, to taste her melting lips, to teach her the exquisite pleasures of his exotic brand of sensuality. How could he deny himself a future with her in this land of desire and delight where even the wildest dreams could become reality?
Topaz Dreams - Fierce and cunning, Falcon had always denied his emotions, believing they would sap his incredible strength. Then the empath set out to find the ring that could destroy his futuristic world, and he ran into an unexpected setback - a beauty who roused his untested desire.
Stardust Dreams - Cherry Cochran, a beautiful actress from earth who witnesses a murder, is suddenly swept toward the remotest stars in the spaceship of her mysterious abductor, the handsome Gallant Voyager. Cherry does't know if this sexy space tracker is using her in a game of interstellar intrigue. She is only aware of the fierce attraction they have for each other and of her burning desire for his love. But can she save him from the lures of the voracious queen of a hostile planet, whose apparent lust for Gallant is meant to obscure a deadly danger?
Stolen Dreams - Shara Locke, Innerworld's scientist, is a beautiful woman with important secrets. When handsome archeologist Gabriel Drumayne seeks her out, he is aware that she has a device to make travel into the past possible... and he is aware that she is about to embark on just such a perilous journey. Her mission is to save Earth from a future plot to destroy it.

Imperium by Kathleen Morgan - Monday's Feature

Imperium by Kathleen Morgan

Heart's Surrender ~ Knowing Crystal ~ Crystal Fire ~ Firestar ~ Heart's Lair ~ Firestorm

It has been quite a few years since I've read this series and it must have been before Byron because I know I read one of the last ones first. I remember thinking when I read the last page, there have to be other books about these characters and went on a hunt. It was a lot harder to track down connected books back then.

To my mind this series had it all, outer space, other planets, and Cat People!

Receive a 10% off coupon for your next order with purchase of today's Featured set in addition to 10% off all the sets in this weeks Featured Category, Paranormal sets.

Heart's Surrender - She is Rissa, the proud, beautiful daughter of the Lord Commander of the warrior planet, Bellator. He is Morigan, leader of the Cat People, celebrated for his extraordinary telepathic powers and legendary lover's skills - sworn to vengeance against Rissa's invading race.
The Knowing Crystal - Exiled to a harsh land of criminals and renegades, Teran had learned to survive by his wits, his skills as a warrior, and his raw strength. There was but one hope to escape. If he surrendered the key to his govern collar, he would be allowed to leave Carcer... As a slave of the most beautiful femina he's ever seen.
Crystal Fire - Determined that Brace must join her quest, Marissa rescued him from unjust imprisonment, then nursed him back to strength, never telling the arrogant male that he was just a pawn to exchange for her sister's freedom.
Firestar - From the moment Meriel lays eyes on the virile slave chosen to breed with her, the heir to the Tenuan throne is loath to perform her imperial duty and produce a child. Yet despite her resolve, Meriel soon succumbs to Gage Bardwin - the one man who can save her planet.
Heart's Lair - He was the finest male specimen she'd ever seen - tawny, powerful, perfectly formed. Yet Liane's job was not to admire his nude body, but to penetrate the secrets of his mind. As she prepared herself for the mind seek that would reveal the lair where his rebellious followers were hidden, Liane never imagined that she would soon be as much a helpless captive as the Cat Man before her.
Firestorm - She is Raina, the beautiful feminist leader of the Sodalitas - chosen for a dangerous mission to save her people from alien invaders. He is Teague, the magnificent grand master of the battle arts - and a warrior monk who has never known the ecstasy of a woman's touch.

Paranormal Featured Sets week July 8, 2013 to July 13, 2013

The Paranormal books at Mostly Romance run the gambit from Aliens and Outer Space to Vampires, Psychics and Time Travel.

This week we are going to feature some of our favorite paranormal sets and tell you a little about why we like them.

Here is a list of the the sets for this week:

Monday: Imperium by Kathleen Morgan

Tuesday: Innerworld by Marilyn Campbell

Wednesday: Wings in the Night by Maggie Shayne

Thursday: Grail Keepers and Madonna Key by Evelyn Vaughn; Cindy Dees; Lorna Tedder; Carol Stephenson; Sharron McClellan; Jenna Mills

Friday: The Fates by Kristine Grayson

Saturday: 2176 by Susan Grant; Kathleen Nance; Liz Maverick; Patti O'Shea

All sets in the Paranormal Sets category will be 10% off during the sale and purchase of the Featured set will also get a 10% coupon on your next order.

The Wedding Trail by Rae Muir - Saturday's Featured set

Saturday's Featured Set: The Wedding Trail by Rae Muir

10% off this set and all Frontier sets.

The Lieutenant's Lady, HH-383 - Lieutenant Matthew Hull was dashing, tall and heartbreakingly handsome. He was also the son of a disreputable river squatter and no husband for a lady. And Tildy Maclntyre knew the escape he offered her from a loveless marriage led straight into a snare of passion that no true lady should desire.
Twice a Bride, HH-414 - A Grand Passion was the sole reason Rachel Godfroy would ever marry, she'd boasted. But soon the trials of the trail west had bound her all unwillingly to Will Hunter - the stranger who ended her girlhood and roused her restless heart.
Hawken's Wife, HH-450 - Could a man who'd lost, his past offer a woman a future? Until he saw Meggie Maclntyre riding bareback before the wagons like some Amazon of the prairie, Hawken hadn't pondered the question. Now life on the trail eking out an existence as a mountain man seemed as empty as his stolen memory...!

Lawless Women by Cheryl Anne Porter - Friday's Featured set

The Lawless Women by Cheryl Anne Porter

10% off this featured set plus a coupon for 10% off your next order.

10% off all sets in This weeks Featured Category: American Frontier.

Three courageous sisters searching for justice... and finding passionate love.
Hannah's Promise - When Hannah Lawless comes home to her parents' ranch to find her mother and father have been brutally murdered, she vows to find the killers. Travelling to Boston to stay with the high-society family that disowned her mother, Hannah realizes that she will need the help of handsome Slade Garrett to find the answers to her questions.
Jacey's Reckless Heart - Jacey Lawless is a different kind of lady - fast with a gun, a natural on a horse, and wild of spirit. Her father had once been a desperado; her mother a Boston heiress. Now driven by grief after their parents' deaths, she and her sisters take a blood oath to find the killers. Jacey rides to Tucson to find out more about her father's old gang - and which one of them stole a precious family keepsake, and left a spur behind at the murder scene.
Seasons of Glory - With her parents recently murdered and her two older sisters off looking to bring the killers to justice, 18-year-old Glory Lawless is alone for the first time in her life. When Glory has difficulty running the family ranch, her nanny asks Riley Thorne - handsome neighbor and son of the rival Thorne family - to help out, Glory's pride is wounded. Why would a Thorne set foot on Lawless land? Could Riley's family have had a hand in the death of Glory's parents? And lastly, could Glory love the enemy?

Mostly Romance Thursday's Featured Set Burkes by Marjorie Farrell

10% of your next order with purchase of today's Featured Set, 10% off all Frontier sets

Burke set by Marjorie Farrell

Desert Hearts - Arizona and New Mexico, 1863. The beautiful young widow of a kindly but aging cavalry officer, Elizabeth Woolcott is drawn to a handsome Irish immigrant, Sergeant Michael Burke, but their love is threatened by mounting tensions between settlers and the Navajo who are being pushed from their homeland. Yet even through the perils of riots and chaos, Elizabeth and Michael passionately risked everything for love.
Journey of the Heart - After two years at a proper Eastern school, beautiful and vivacious Caitlin Burke returns to her family's New Mexico ranch to find the valley she loves vastly changed and greedy cattle rancher Nelson Mackie scheming to take over their spread. Even more upsetting, her beloved horse, Night Sky, badly injured in a terrible accident, has been placed in the caring hands of wrangler Gabe Hart.

Windfall by Emily Carmichael, Wednesday Featured Set

Featured Set for Wednesday: Windfall for Emily Carmichael

Outcast - Olivia Baron scandalized the prissy matrons and knockabout cowboys of rugged Elkhorn, Montana, by practicing medicine. She knew how to be a good doctor. But she didn't know how to be a woman until she met Gabe Danaher. A tough, handsome miner, Gabe had witnessed his Indian wife's murder by white men. Now, he was like a stick of dynamite waiting to go off. Olivia Baron would light the fuse.
Gold Dust - Katy O'Connell, the hellion daughter of OUTCAST's hero, is up to her old tricks, only now she's grown from a twelve-year-old imp into a beautiful woman, with a woman's instincts and a woman's problems. Restless for adventure, she takes off for the gold fields of the Klondike after duping Chicago news correspondent Jonah Amstrong into hiring her as a guide.
Windfall - Unlike her wild hellion twin sister Katy, Ellen O'Connell has always been the perfect daughter, a goody-two-shoes who always chastised her twin for undisciplined and unconventional behavior. Then, however, Ellen finds a passel of trouble on her own. Now a grown woman and a graduate of Cornell medical college, she travels to Paris for clinical study, and there falls from grace with a thud that jars her very existence.

Loving Mercy / Loving Miranda bundle by Teresa Bodwell

Our Tuesday's Frontier Featured set is Teresa Bodwell's Loving Mercy / Loving Miranda.

10% off any set in the Frontier theme and a 10% coupon off next order with purchase of Loving Mercy / Loving Miranda set.

Loving Mercy - Mercy Clarke had no trouble getting a hundred head of cattle to Abilene. Getting back home through five hundred miles of untamed frontier is something else again, especially with a handsome gambler like Thad Buchanan tagging along. He swears to pay her in gold if she guides him to Fort Victory, but she doesn't quite trust his fine manners and gentlemanly ways. And then there's that look in his eyes - he could make her forget that she's sworn off men for good....
Loving Miranda - Miranda Chase can't refuse when her pregnant sister Mercy asks her to return to their Colorado ranch, even though her sister's new family is a painful reminder of everything Miranda knows she'll never have. She'll travel to the ends of the earth to protect Mercy's newfound happiness - even if it means sweet-talking Benjamin Lansing, whose claim to Mercy's ranch reaches beyond money. But despite Miranda's distrust of the man, the sweet words come easily, as do the kisses....

MostlyRomance Monday Featured Set

Monday's Featured set


Men of Honor by Kathryn Fox

Reunion - As she journeyed across the northern frontier to join her fiancé, Lauren often thought of the hardships she would face as the wife of a Canadian Mountie. But she never imagined that her first challenge would be her own betrothed, for Adam McPhail now seems distant, cautious, not the same loving suitor who won her heart two years before. Shaken and confused, Lauren wonders if the marriage she's dreamed of has ended before it has begun. The Seduction - Fame, fortune, and critical acclaim awaited aspiring journalist Samantha Wilder, if she could just uncover a scandal that would shake up the Northwest Mounted Police. Heading to the Yukon Territory, she was certain that with all the gold dust flying around, at least one of them had to be on the take. She just needed to know where to look. But even cynical Sam was shocked when clues led to Inspector Duncan McLeod, whose integrity seemed as solid as his sterling reputation. The Healing - Pregnant, broke, and on the run after killing her violent lover in self-defense, Jenny Hanson needs a safe haven. Hoping to hide from the authorities amid the chaos of the Gold Rush, she heads for Dawson City - only to hitch a ride with the very man sent to bring her to justice. North West Mounted Policeman Mike Finnegan is a man who left behind a troubled past to serve the law. He's also a man offering her the protection and love she has been yearning for.