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Hi everyone My name is Victoria Zumbrum, 40 years old, married 14 years with 1 son. This is my very first blog. So bear with me. I have always wanted to have my own blog. I have always loved to read. I enjoy getting lost in a good book.
I love becoming part of the story and characters. I am hoping to bring my love of books to my readers.

I love reading different genres such as paranormal, young adult, romance, romantic suspense, mystery, Christian fiction, some horror, etc. The list goes on. I started reviewing books a couple of years ago and have done reviews for different blogs and even some authors. I really have enjoyed reviewing books and I will continue to do so. If anyone is interested in me reviewing a book for them, please contact me. I still have a lot to learn regarding my own blog so bear with me. I welcome and appreciate all followers.

Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Rope Burn The Boot Knockers Ranch #5 by Em Petrova



























Title: Rope Burn


Series: The Boot Knockers Ranch #5





Author: Em Petrova


Publisher: Samhain Publishing


Genre: Contemporary Western Romance











 Release Date: September 29, 2015











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She wants to turn up the heat. He’s got the skills to whip her into a frenzy.



TV food show host Tabbart Tracy works hard to give viewers her best recipes. But while her fans are legion, her personal life is colder than a meat locker. Most men just want her to serve up some pie—in the nude.

One glance at her assistant’s sexy brother, though, and her body skips straight from low simmer to rolling boil. Especially when she tracks him down at a stud ranch. Where he’s the stud.

When a certain little TV foodie personally requests Stowe’s company for a week, he’s flattered as hell. She needs to give up some control, and as a sex therapist otherwise known as the “Dom from Down Under”, Stowe has the leather, rope, and paddles to do it.

Just as Tabbart melts into a puddle under Stowe’s hands, her worst fear chills her back to reality: someone recognizes her. Worse, her Master frowns on opening her checkbook to make it all go away. But trusting him means hanging onto their connection with both hands—while he takes her for the ride of her life.






Warning: This book contains a TV chef looking for some R&R (as in rough and raunchy) and a whip-wielding Aussie cowboy Dom intent on showing her she can take the heat. As hot as—and anywhere—she wants it.






























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Then she saw it—a glimpse of black. A pickup truck with the door hanging open. She barely had time to conjure the words of the greeting she’d prepared when her door opened and a big male arm reached inside. Sprinkled with dark hair, a thick leather watch strapped around the wrist.





Her mind was wiped clean as she looked into a set of very dark eyes staring at her from under the black hat she’d come to know so well. The upward curl of his lip made her heart turn over painfully, then gallop out of control. She sat there like an idiot.





He gripped her hands and pulled her to her feet. She locked her knees to keep from falling over, then Stowe’s trim backside moved away from her. He opened the trunk of the car and hauled her luggage out.





When he spun and fixed her in his gaze again, she released the breath she’d been holding. Her pulse pounded in her ears. God, she was acting like a young girl with her first crush. She was a grown woman. She was…





At a sex ranch with the man of her fantasies.





Her pussy clenched.





“This all you got?” he drawled in that hot accent.





“Y-yes.” Stutter activated.





He grasped her forearm as he passed. The warmth and roughness of his hand on her bare arm scalded. Sweat broke out on her forehead. He opened the passenger door of the truck for her and guided her inside, then dumped her suitcase in the bed.





Her hand twitched to shove her glasses up and get a real look at him, but she couldn’t blow her cover. She watched as he swaggered back to the silver car, pulled his wallet from the back pocket of worn jeans—molded to his fine ass—and took out some bills. He handed them to the driver through the window. Then he tapped the car roof twice and the driver moved off in a new cloud of dust.





I’m alone with him. 





In the middle of nowhere. He could do anything to her. Strip her, fuck her. God, she wanted both.










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Em

Petrova lives in Backwoods, Pennsylvania, where she raises four kids and a

Labradoodle named Daisy Hasselhoff. Her dream is to buy an old pickup and

travel small-town USA meeting people and hearing their stories. Her heroes are

hardworking—in bed and out—and she is known for panty-scorching erotic romance.














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Heaven Sent by Avelyn Paige









Bloody…broken…barely surviving…

Danae “Dani” Espinoza is on the run and desperate to escape the demons of her past. Plans to hide out in a sleepy Los Angeles suburb turn into a pipe dream as she is drawn into the secret filled world of the local motorcycle club. Dani soon learns that her secrets and lies are nothing compared to those kept behind the clubhouse doors. Trying to avoid the suspicious Vice President, she must keep a low profile in order to survive. The trouble is he has other ideas. 




Bike…babes…and booze…

Tyler "Hero" Tobias has simple needs. Being the Heaven's Rejects MC Vice President, he has all three at his disposal. But he has his own ghosts that keep him awake at night. When Dani arrives at the clubhouse, he knows he should stay away but there is something about her dark beauty and the mystery that surrounds her that makes him burn. There are secrets in her eyes and lies in her smile and he knows he should put his club first, but Hero’s heart and loyalty are about to be tested. 


Can an angel with blood-covered wings and the devil himself resist temptation or will they risk bringing hellfire down on everything that they love?





Cold.
All I can feel is a deep chill blanketing my body. My eyes open to complete
darkness as a
voice calls to me. Its muffled tones send
shivers down my spine with every garbled word. A sense of familiarity floats
around me as its words become clearer.
“Run, Dani,” it pleas from beyond the black
veil shrouding the room. “Escape while you can,” it continues. Panic courses
through my veins. Where in the hell am I? Why can’t I see anything? The pleas
go unanswered as my voice fails to render sound.

“Help!” I scream internally, “Please, fucking
help me!”

The voice’s call fades with each word. “You
need to get the hell out of here, Dani. You need to move. Find a wall and
escape,” I coach to myself. A cold chill of air sweeps into the darkness
encompassing me as I try to feel the place around me. My fingers plunge into a
dense, sticky liquid as I crawl forward causing my body to slide with each
movement. A hard surface is finally inching its way under my fingers.

Crawling upwards, I splay my hands against the
cool wall. “You’re on your feet, Dani. The hardest part is over now. Time to
find a door or a light switch, something to get us out of here,” my internal
coach continues.

Keeping close to the wall, I finally find a
switch. Flicking it upwards, the light shines brilliantly. As my eyes adjust to
the light, my hands come into my vision. A scream barrels out of my throat when
I see the sticky, red blood covering my hands and clothes. My heart races as I frantically wipe
the blood away. Blood begins to pool at my feet, inching toward me. Rushing
away from the blood, I fall backward into a solid, but warm obstacle. Before I
can turn around, hands grasp my arms as a person’s hot breath trails down my
neck.

“Hello, Dani,” a different voice whispers in
my ear. “Welcome to Hell. You’re mine now,” the voice crackles as my body is
pulled into black oblivion. 







Avelyn Paige is a born and raised Indiana girl. She may be a Hoosier by birth, but she’s a Boilermaker by choice! Avelyn lives in rural Indiana with her pastor husband, 2 spoiled cats, and one very odd looking dog. She’s an oncology research scientist by day and a writer and book review blogger by night. She enjoys reading anything she can get her hands, baking, and spending time with her friends and family. 

Never intending to ever write her own book, the idea behind the Damaged series came to her on a drive to work early one morning thinking about her father who’d recently passed away. His strength during his cancer and rare blood disease battle inspired Avelyn to do something she’s never thought about before. She’s excited to see where this wild ride takes her. 






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BOOK INFORMATION

TITLE – One With the Darkness
SERIES – The Companion Series
AUTHOR – Susan Squires
GENRE – Regency Paranormal Romance
PUBLICATION DATE – October 6, 2015
LENGTH – 341 pages
PUBLISHER – Independent
COVER ARTIST – Rebecca Poole, Dreams2Media



BOOK SYNOPSIS

New York Times bestselling author Susan Squires invites you into the world of two lovers who share a seductive past and a dangerous desire…

DIVIDED BY CENTURIES

Contessa Donnatella di Poliziano has power, beauty, and—as a vampire—eternal life. Her overwhelming regret is a mistake she made centuries ago when she chose not to transform her one true love, Jergan, into a vampire too. Donnatella’s choice has deprived her of the only true love she’s ever known. But just as all seems lost, the discovery of a 300-year-old note leads her to a gift left by her old friend, Leonardo da Vinci: a machine to take her back in time to rewrite the history of her heart…

UNITED BY OTHERWORLDLY DESIRE

Once back in time, Donnatella’s memory of the intervening years is lost. Yet when she sees the breathtaking barbarian slave, Jergan, from afar, she feels like she has always known him. The instant attraction she feels draws them together. For Donnatella, the romance is tantalizing, awakening a passion that feels both old and new. But as the two fall in love again, a new danger threatens to tear them apart. Now Jergan’s love for Donnatella will be tested in a most perilous way—and if he fails, the two lovers will be separated again…for eternity.

“Squires combines extreme sensuality with dangerous drama.”
Romantic Times BOOKreviews

“ONE WITH THE DARKNESS is one of the finest, innovative vampire novels I've read.”
--Romance Junkies


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Susan Squires is a New York Times bestselling author known for breaking the rules of romance writing. Whatever her time period, or subject, some element of the paranormal always creeps in. She has won multiple contests for published novels and reviewer's choice awards. Publisher's Weekly named Body Electric one of the year’s most influential mass market books and One with the Shadows a Best book of the Year. Time for Eternity, the first in the DaVinci time travel series, received a starred review from Publisher's Weekly.

Susan has a Masters in English literature from UCLA and once toiled as an executive for a Fortune 500 company. Now she lives at the beach in Southern California with her husband, Harry, a writer of supernatural thrillers, and two very active Belgian Sheepdogs, who like to help her write by putting their chins on the keyboarddddddddddddddddddddddd.

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Monday, September 28, 2015

Review of Into the Crossfire (First Force Series Book 1) by Cindy McDonald

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BOOK INFORMATION

TITLE – Into the Crossfire
SERIES – First Force Series Book #1
AUTHOR – Cindy McDonald
GENRE – Romantic Suspense, Romance, Military Romance, Black Ops
PUBLICATION DATE – August 4, 2015
LENGTH (Pages/# Words) – 240 pages
COVER ARTIST – Dawne Dominique





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BOOK SYNOPSIS

It had been four years since ex-Navy SEAL, Jack Haliday, had an explosive run-in with a biker gang wounding their leader, Gunner. During those years Jack had acquired everything he ever wanted: a beautiful wife, an adorable daughter, and a lovely home in the suburbs—everything was as perfect as it could get, until Gunner returned to twist Jack’s world inside-out with a vengeance that he could never have prepared for. Critically injured, he found himself surrounded in the security of First Force International and in the care of their head medic, Dr. Rayne Lee, a beautiful and compassionate woman who knows firsthand the sharp slice of loss and grief.

Now Jack has a score to settle and he’s got some new friends to help him, but in the end, can Rayne help to ease his grief and encourage him to start a new life with team First Force?




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EXCERPT

Closing her eyes, Rayne took in a braced breath. “My name is Rayne. And I know all about the nightmares where the ones that you love are murdered in front of your eyes and you are powerless to stop it.” Her voice fell away.
Jack’s head snapped toward her.
She busied herself cleaning up the implements that she had used to suture him while she spoke. “My husband and I were on a medical mission in Peru three years ago. The Peruvian government had taken down a guerrilla group known as the Glory Road near the Amazonian Valley. They had killed or arrested approximately one-hundred members of the group. Matt and I were part of a small medical unit that went in to care for the women that had been held as sex slaves. They were in terrible condition, dehydrated, starved, and beaten. Anyway, Matt, me, and my four-year-old daughter, Sierra, were housed in one of the tiny shacks in a camp. One night, the camp was attacked by the guerrillas they hadn’t captured. It was a slaughter.” Rayne’s voice hiccupped. She needed to catch her breath. She sank onto the edge of the bed.
Jack watched her intently while she fought to muster composure.
Finally, she continued, “They killed my husband and my daughter, but for some reason they spared me and several of the women who had been rescued. I wished that they hadn’t. I was their prisoner for seven horrible months. I prayed for death every night. Uncle Walt and his team rescued me. It’s been a long road back to becoming a functioning human being.”
Hesitating, she wrung her hands together. She found the courage to look him in the eye. “So you see, Jack, I have a complete understanding of what you’re going through.”




CHARACTER BIOS

Jack Haliday: Jack is one hot ex-Navy SEAL. He is represented one the cover of the book by one very hot British rugby player and model, Stuart Reardon. Tall, muscle bound with a thick nest of dark wavy hair and a one-thousand megawatt smile that brings women to their knees. Does Jack know that he’s gorgeous? Sure, but he doesn’t let it get in the way of helping people in trouble and comforting those who need it most. Jack loves his family. He is madly in love with his wife, Laura, and that little daughter of his, Lil, is the apple of his eye. This man had it all. He was in love with his life, and when it is suddenly ripped out from underneath him, his life becomes one objective: revenge!

Dr. Rayne Lee: Four years ago, Dr. Rayne Lee lost her husband and daughter, Sierra, to a group of hostile guerrillas in Peru. It has taken great constitution to rebuild her life and to join her uncle’s international security firm, First Force, as the head medic. Now, just as she thought that her life was getting back to some semblance of “normal” a handsome man and his adorable daughter are brought into her care. Her motherly instincts kick in immediately as she take little Lil Haliday under her caring wing, but what is it about Jack Haliday that’s getting under her skin, and can she help him to get passed the grief and start a new life with First Force?

Lil Haliday: Lil is a curly-top cutie with a personality that draws everyone to love her instantly. Just a little tyke and at the age of four, her bravery in the face of a horrible tragedy is an inspiration to the men who make up the covert team of First Force. Like her father, Jack, and Dr. Rayne Lee, Lil is a regular character in the First Force Series—she’ll be there to entertain you and the other characters throughout the series.

MY REVIEW:

INTO THE CROSSFIRE IS BOOK 1 IN FIRST FORCE SERIES.  WHAT AWAY TO START A NEW SERIES.  FROM THE VERY FIRST PAGE, I WAS DRAWN INTO THE STORY.  I COULD NOT PUT THE BOOK DOWN.  YOU WILL BE ON AN EMOTIONAL ROLLER COASTER THROUGHOUT THE STORY.  YOU WILL FEEL JOY, SADNESS, ANGER, LOVE AND HAPPINESS.  AT TIMES, THE STORY BROUGHT TEARS TO MY EYES.  I WAS VERY IMPRESSED WITH THE AUTHOR, CINDY MCDONALD'S WRITING SKILLS.  SHE KNOWS HOW TO DRAW YOU IN A STORY AND MAKE YOU FEEL ALL OF THE CHARACTERS EMOTIONS AND FEELINGS.  IT WAS AS IF YOU WERE ONE OF THE CHARACTERS IN THE STORY.

WE ARE INTRODUCED TO JACK HALIDAY, HIS WIFE, LAURA AND HIS CUTE AND ADORABLE DAUGHTER LIL.  JACK IS A COP WHO WENT UNDERCOVER IN A GANG SEVERAL YEARS AGO.  HIS COVER WAS BLOWN AS A RESULT OF SAVING ANOTHER POLICE OFFICER.  SEVERAL GANG MEMBERS WERE ARRESTED BUT THE GANG LEADER WAS NEVER LOCATED.  NOW THE GANG LEADER GUNNER IS BACK AND SEEKING REVENGE ON JACK.  GUNNER GOES AFTER JACK AND HIS FAMILY.  UNFORTUNATELY, HE LOSES HIS WIFE AND ALMOST DIES.  HIS NEIGHBOR AND LEADER OF FIRST FORCE RESCUE JACK AND HIS DAUGHTER.  THEY TAKE THEM BACK TO HEADQUARTERS TO PROTECT THEM.  JACK AND LIL MEET RAYNE WHO NURSES JACK BACK TO HEALTH.  RAYNE KNOWS WHAT JACK  IS FEELING.  SHE KNOW WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO LOSE SOMEONE YOU LOVE AND TO SUFFER TERRIBLY.  WILL RAYNE BE ABLE HELP JACK HEAL?  WILL JACK GET THE REVENGE HE SEEKS?  WILL FIRST FORCE HELP JACK GET HIS REVENGE AND MAKE GUNNER PAY FOR KILLING HIS WIFE?  YOU WILL HAVE TO READ INTO THE CROSSFIRE TO FIND OUT.

RAYNE AND JACK DEFINITELY HAD A CONNECTION.  IT WAS DEVELOPING SLOWLY BUT YOU COULD FEEL IT.  THEY DEFINITELY KNOW LOVE AND LOSS.  I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING A ROMANCE BLOOMING BETWEEN THEM.  I ABSOLUTELY LOVE JACK'S DAUGHTER, LIL.  SHE IS SO CUTE AND ADORABLE AND BROUGHT SOME REAL LIFE TO EVERYONE'S LIFE SHE TOUCHED.  IT WAS NICE TO SEE HER BONDING WITH DR. RAYNE AND ALL THE TEAM MEMBERS OF TEAM FORCE.  LIL AND JACK WAS ACCEPTED INTO THEIR FAMILY.  SHE DEFINITELY ADORED HER NEIGHBOR AND DR. RAYNE.  THAT WAS SO PRETTY OBVIOUS.

I ABSOLUTELY LOVE INTO THE CROSSFIRE.  I REALLY DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN I DECIDED TO READ INTO THE CROSSFIRE. I AM GLAD I DID. I WAS NOT DISAPPOINTED AT ALL.  IT WAS ONE OF THE BEST STORIES I HAVE READ IN A LONG TIME AND I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO READING THE NEXT BOOK IN THE SERIES AND ANY OF CINDY MCDONALD'S BOOKS.  I HIGHLY RECOMMEND YOU READ INTO THE CROSSFIRE AND THE REST OF THE BOOKS IN THE SERIES.  YOU WILL NOT REGRET IT.  5 STARS



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AUTHOR BIO

For twenty-six years Cindy’s life whirled around a song and a dance. She was a professional dancer/choreographer for most of her adult life and never gave much thought to a writing career until 2005. She often notes: Don’t ask me what happened, but suddenly I felt drawn to my computer to write about things that I have experienced with my husband’s Thoroughbreds and happenings at the racetrack—she muses: they are greatly exaggerated upon of course—I’ve never been murdered. Viola!

Cindy’s first book series, Unbridled, was born. Currently there are five books in the series.

Cindy is a huge fan of romantic suspense series’, especially with a military ops theme. Although she isn’t one to make New Year’s resolutions, on New Year’s Day 2013 she made a commitment to write one. Most recently, Secret Cravings Publishing has picked up her First Force Series. Currently available: Into the Crossfire, coming very soon: Book #2, To the Breaking Pointe, Book #3 Into the Dark, and 2016 will bring Book #4 To the Brink.

People are always asking Cindy: Do you miss dance? With a bitter sweet smile on her lips she tells them: Sometimes I do. I miss my students. I miss choreographing musicals, but I love writing my books, and I love sharing them with my readers.

Cindy resides on her forty-five acre horse farm with her husband, Bill, and her Cocker Spaniel, Allister, near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.




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Q: Can you tell us a little about yourself to start?
I’ve spent most of my life doing plies at the ballet barre. I was a professional dancer for twenty-six years—I’ve choreographed musicals, operas, and of course many dance routines for my dance school’s recitals. In 2011 I published my first book: Deadly.Com—it was the first book in my Unbridled Series—Thoroughbred racing steeped in murder, suspense, and romance! I’ve got to admit it: Since publishing my first book I’ve been hooked on writing since! Dust never settles on my computer!

Q: Describe your book in 3 words?
Smokin’ hot suspense!

Q: Out of all of your books do you have a favorite character or couple?
Jack Haliday—actually Jack was born (if you will) in my first series, Unbridled. I introduced the ex-Navy SEAL turned police detective in book 3—Dangerous Deception. What can I say? I fell in love with the character! He made another appearance in book 4, Against the Ropes, and I couldn’t resist letting him ride along one more time in book 5, Shady Deals. That’s when I decided to give him his own series—a black ops series, and so the First Force Series came to be, and I love writing it!

Q: Are you currently working on a new book at this time?
Oh yes, I’m always writing. At this time I am working on book #4 of the First Force Series, To the Brink. The manuscripts for books one through three are already in Secret Cravings hands and should be releasing within the year.

Q: Did you always want to be a writer? If not what did you want to be?
I always enjoyed writing and even dabbled at writing a book as a teen, but really never took the concept very seriously. Truth be told—I wanted to be a movie star! C’mon, who doesn’t want to be a movie/rock star? Problem was—I was serious! Oh well, it was okay, I ended up becoming a professional dancer/choreographer for twenty-six years. I enjoyed my job. I loved my life, but in 2011 I traded in my dancin’ shoes for a laptop—I miss dance very much, but I love writing!

Q: Do you have a favorite playlist that you listen to when you write?
To be honest, I usually write in silence, but if I should listen to music its usually easy jazz or classical.

Q: Of all of the books you have written do you have a favorite & why?
Thus far I have written eight novels. I think my favorite is Into the Crossfire—I love the characters, and I love some the heartfelt scenes that I’ve written in this book.

Q: When you aren't writing what do you do to relax and have fun?
I love to go to wine tastings. I love wine festivals, too. I belong to a wine tasting group, and have recently traveled to the Bordeaux area of France—so much fun!

Q: What are your favorite types of heroines? Do you like the damsel in distress who needs saving or the kick-ass variety? Why?
I like strong heroines. That said I like my heroine to get themselves into some trouble—even if that means she’s made a dumb mistake—because, let’s face it, we all do! I hate whiney or helpless heroines—not my style at all!




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Sunday, September 27, 2015

Review of One With the Night by Susan Squires

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BOOK INFORMATION

TITLE – One With the Night
SERIES – The Companion Series
AUTHOR – Susan Squires
GENRE – Regency Vampire Paranormal Romance
PUBLICATION DATE – August 11, 2015
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PUBLISHER – Independent
COVER ARTIST – Rebecca Poole, Dreams2Media




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BOOK SYNOPSIS

Far from the glittering lights and shallow bustle of 1822 London lies another world—a realm of shadows and secrets, where desire holds dominion and passion know no limits…

ONE DESIRE

Jane Blundell’s keen intellect and wit have always set her apart from her marriage-minded peers. But such differences are nothing compared to the change that comes upon her when she is infected by a blood sample in her father’s laboratory. Suddenly her veins resonate with a terrifying, exhilarating power. Dr. Blundell takes Jane to the Scottish highlands to research a cure, where she collides with the only man who can understand her hunger—and slake her unending desire…

ONE DESTINY

Callan Kilkenny has returned to England from Marrakech, still filled with self-loathing at the deeds he committed in the name of a beautiful, depraved vampire. Now that he has tracked down Dr. Blundell in hopes of a cure, he has also found a kindred spirit in Jane. Her passion and her blood call to Callan, fueling a carnal need that shocks them both with its intensity. But others have come in search of the cure too…for reasons that are deadly. And to save Jane and the rest of their kind, Callan must risk everything—even his last chance at redemption…

ONE WITH THE NIGHT

“When it comes to combining extreme sensuality with dangerous drama, no one does it better than Squires.” --Romantic Times BOOKreviews

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There was no denying her. She ran her long-nailed fingers through his hair as he sat, naked, beside the chaise on which she lay draped. His hair was as dark as hers. But her eyes were almost black, while his were light gray-green, his skin fair against her golden glow. She had chosen him for his coloring. How long would he pay for the sins of some French and English crusaders long dead? Until he died. He had prayed for death so often. Blood oozed from various cuts and punctures in his body, but she was careful not to kill him.
Heat poured from a dozen braziers and a low fire in the center of her tent. She liked heat. His skin was damp with sweat. He fixed his gaze on the intricate carpet, trying to avoid what would come. But she willed him to raise his gaze. For the thousandth time he struggled. He clenched his fists and grunted, panting.
Her laughter tinkled over him like shards of broken glass. “You know you cannot win out, English.” He wasn’t English. She twisted his head up by his hair and showered compulsion over him. The need to obey her surged through him. His gaze jerked to her face.
Her eyes glowed with more than firelight as she chuckled. How could laughter frighten him so? His chest heaved from the effort to resist her. The fine skin between her breasts gleamed with perspiration. Her nipples peaked under the diaphanous fabric of her burgundy gown. He found his own desire rising, whether he would or no.
His stomach clenched in despair as he lifted his chin to bare his throat to her. She would use him to slake several thirsts tonight. She was always thirsty.
She bent to his throat. He shuddered at the familiar twin pains just under his jaw. She stroked his nipple as she sucked at his neck and then slid down onto the rug beside him so she could grasp his swollen member.
“You still resist me," she whispered inside his mind. “How can I make you truly mine?”
She rocked against him, her breasts pressed to his chest. He moaned, partly with desire, partly in dread. He didn’t want to know the answer to that question.

MY REVIEW:

ONE WITH THE NIGHT IS A PARANORMAL LOVE STORY FILLED WITH ACTION AND SUSPENSE.  WE ARE INTRODUCED TO JANE AND CALLAN.  BOTH SEEKING CURES TO BEING A VAMPIRE.  JANE WAS ACCIDENTALLY INFECTED WITH BLOOD AND CALLAN WAS TURNED BY A VAMPIRE.  JANE'S FATHER IS WORKING ON A CURE FOR HIS DAUGHTER, JANE.  CALLAN IS HOPING THAT JANE'S FATHER FINDS A CURE SO HE MAY FINALLY BE HUMAN AGAIN SO HE CAN KILL HIMSELF. HE VOWS TO PROTECT JANE AND HER FATHER.  I LOVE SUSAN'S DIFFERENT INTAKE ON THE VAMPIRE.  I LIKE THAT BLOOD IS NOT THEIR MAIN FOOD SOURCE.  THEY CAN EAT FOOD JUST LIKE HUMANS.  MOST VAMPIRES ARE BETRAYED AS BEING THESE BLOOD THIRSTY CREATURES WHO CRAVE HUMAN BLOOD.  THEY ARE EVIL, SINISTER, HAVE NO EMOTION AND WILL KILL FOR WHAT THEY WANT.  SUSAN'S VAMPIRES ARE SO ENTIRELY DIFFERENT.  YES THEY STILL CRAVE HUMAN BLOOD BUT THEY CAN MAKE A CHOICE TO BE EVIL OR GOOD.  JUST LIKE HUMANS WHO ARE GOOD AND EVIL.  VAMPIRES HAVE FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS JUST LIKE HUMANS BUT THEY NEED TO LEARN TO CONTROL WHO THEY ARE.

I FOUND JANE TO BE A BREATH OF FRESH AIR.  SHE WAS VERY STRONG AND CARING PERSON WHO ALWAYS TOOK CARE OF EVERYONE ELSE.  JANE ENJOYED BEING A MIDWIFE AND WOULD SNEAK OUT AND HELP THOSE WHO NEEDED HER HELP.  SHE LET HER FATHER DEFINE WHO SHE WAS BECAUSE SHE WANTED TO MAKE HIM HAPPY.  I THOUGH HER FATHER TOOK AWAY HER CONFIDENCE AND KEPT HER FROM BEING THE WOMAN SHE WAS.  JANE MEETS CALLAN, A VAMPIRE WHO HAS BEEN ABUSED AND USED BEYOND MEASURE. HE BELIEVED HIMSELF TO BE EVIL.  BUT CALLAN WAS JUST A LOST SOUL WHO NEEDED TO FORGIVE HIMSELF.  JANE IS THE PERFECT PERSON FOR CALLAN.  SHE CAN HELP HIM HEAL AND MOVE ON.  AS CALLAN AND JANE GET TO KNOW ONE ANOTHER, CALLAN REALIZES HE IS FALLING IN LOVE WITH JANE.  CALLAN REALIZES THAT JANE IS INNOCENT AND GOOD PERSON.  HE WILL DO WHATEVER HE CAN TO PROTECT HER.  CALLAN DOESN'T CARE WHAT HAPPENS TO HIM.  HE HAS TO PROTECT THE WOMAN HE HAS FALLEN IN LOVE WITH.  WILL JANE'S FATHER FIND A CURE?  WILL CALLAN BE ABLE TO PROTECT JANE FROM OTHER VAMPIRES?  YOU WILL HAVE TO READ ONE WITH THE NIGHT TO FIND OUT.

I REALLY ENJOYED ONE WITH THE NIGHT.   I WAS INSTANTLY DRAWN INTO THE STORY.  I LOVE READING ABOUT VAMPIRES AND I LOVE HAVING ROMANCE IN THE STORY.  THIS BOOK WAS ALSO FILLED WITH ACTION, SUSPENSE AND EVEN SOME MYSTERY.  SUSAN KEPT YOUR ATTENTION THROUGHOUT THE STORY.  THERE WERE SO MANY OBSTACLES JANE AND CALLAN HAD TO FACE.  THE AUTHOR KEPT YOU ON THE EDGE OF YOUR SEAT BECAUSE YOU DID NOT KNOW WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN NEXT.  I HAVE READ TWO OF SUSAN SQUIRES' BOOKS IN THE SERIES INCLUDING THIS ONE AND I HAVE ENJOYED BOTH OF THEM.  I HIGHLY RECOMMEND YOU READ ONE WITH THE NIGHT AND ANY BOOK BY SUSAN SQUIRES.  SHE IS A VERY GOOD WRITER AND YOU WILL FALL IN LOVE WITH HER CHARACTERS AND THE STORY. I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO READING MORE BOOKS BY HER.  5 STARS      




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AUTHOR BIO

Susan Squires is a New York Times bestselling author known for breaking the rules of romance writing. Whatever her time period, or subject, some element of the paranormal always creeps in. She has won multiple contests for published novels and reviewer's choice awards. Publisher's Weekly named Body Electric one of the year’s most influential mass market books and One with the Shadows, the fifth in her vampire Companion Series, a Best book of the Year. Time for Eternity, the first in the DaVinci time travel series, received a starred review from Publisher's Weekly.

Susan has a Masters in English literature from UCLA and once toiled as an executive for a Fortune 500 company. Now she lives at the beach in Southern California with her husband, Harry, a writer of supernatural thrillers, and three very active Belgian Sheepdogs, who like to help her write by putting their chins on the keyboarddddddddddddddddddddddd.

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The Princelings of the East by Jemima Pett

BOOK INFORMATION

TITLE – The Princelings of the East
SERIES – The Princelings of the East
AUTHOR – Jemima Pett
GENRE – MG/Fantasy/Scifi
PUBLICATION DATE – November 2011 (paperback June 2015)
LENGTH – 158 Pages/ 37,300 Words
PUBLISHER – Princelings Publications
COVER ARTIST – Danielle English



BOOK SYNOPSIS

The Princelings of the East is an adventure set in a world of labyrinthine castles, bustling inns, and the curious Isle of Hattan.

Princelings George and Fred leave the security of their isolated castle to solve the problem of the Great Energy Drain, meeting the dubious businessman Hugo, the young barkeeper Victor, the impressive Prince of Buckmore, and other movers and shakers. Who should these two innocents trust? Their wits and teach other, for sure, but when something comes between them, each is left to his own devices, and some of those devices are very strange indeed – and time is of the essence.

The Princelings of the East is the start of a saga where friendship and intelligence are rewarded, even in the face of treachery and deceit.


EXCERPT


Fred sat staring at the tunnel, lost in thought. George waited. This might take a while. He could hear soft sounds of crackling flames in the fire on the other side of the wall, and in the distance the occasional pitter-patter of footsteps echoing down the corridors. He wondered what would happen if they ventured out of this castle into the tunnels. When he had been out in the marshes, he’d never gone a long way from home; the castle was always visible in the distance, light glinting on its spires. He’d never been out overnight, either. He identified a strange feeling inside him. They might be on the edge of a Great Adventure, but he wasn’t sure he wouldn’t rather be safely tucked up in bed.

Fred stirred. “We need to go and investigate this Great Energy Drain,” he said. “We must find out whether it is a widespread phenomenon, and whether the causes are known.”

George nodded; this was elementary procedure for an investigation. “And then?” he asked.

“And then,” answered Fred, “we shall come up with some ideas for how to solve it.”

“Good idea!” said George, knowing that you can never know exactly how you are going to do something until you have made the preliminary investigation and tested out a few theories. But the aim was set, and all they had to do now was decide... to go or not to go?



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AUTHOR BIO

I’ve been writing since I was 8 years old. I still have a small booklet I found in my mother’s box of treasures, written in a very childish hand, entitled The Little Stream. It reads very much like the story of Smetana’s Vltava, or The Moldau as it was called when I was young, so I must have been into classical music at an early age (I blame my brothers’ influence). My early fiction attempts failed for want of suitable inspiration: I couldn’t get characters or plot that seemed interesting, and my first attempts were derided by a ‘friend’. I had the bug for writing, though, and wrote articles and event reports for newsletters and magazines whenever I got the opportunity. My career in business and in environmental research kept me chained to a desk for many years, but also gave me the opportunity to write manuals, reports, science papers, blogs, journals, anything and everything that kept the words flowing. Finally the characters jumped into my head with stories that needed to be told….

I now live in a village in Norfolk, UK, with my guinea pigs, the first of whom, Fred, George, Victor and Hugo, provided the inspiration for the Princelings stories.

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GIVEAWAY PRIZES

1 x $25 gift card/PayPal cash (paypal cash is much easier for me to deliver)
1 x set of the six Princelings of the East paperbacks
5 x 1 signed print of a chapter illustration of the winner's choice (approx. half letter-sized/A5, unmounted)



OTHER BOOKS IN THE SERIES



 TITLE – The Princelings and the Pirates
SERIES – The Princelings of the East
AUTHOR – Jemima Pett
GENRE – MG/Fantasy/Scifi
PUBLICATION DATE – January 2012 (paperback June 2015)
LENGTH – Pages 181 / Words 39,000
PUBLISHER – Princelings Publications
COVER ARTIST – Danielle English

BOOK SYNOPSIS

The second book of the Princelings of the East series shows our heroes, Princelings Fred and George, enjoying life with their inventions at Castle Buckmore. Oblivious to the kidnap of a princess from Chateau Dimerie, they are despatched there by Prince Lupin to discover why the wine hasn't been delivered and solve the case of the missing messengers.

What follows is the stuff of nightmares. Captured by pirates, sent off on different ships, Fred endures hardship and shipwreck while George has a dangerous night escape. They discover treachery at their home castle, and lead the people they have rescued to safety, only to end up fighting for their lives in the Battle of Dimerie.

EXCERPT

“Right, you lubbers!” said the black guy. “My name’s Frankie and if you know what’s good for you you’ll listen hard, work hard and keep your mouths shut.”

He passed round eight bits of stale biscuit and a bucket of fairly clean water and a scoop. They each took a drink, and some of them nibbled the biscuit. George found his stomach settled down a bit, and tried to see whether Fred and Victor were among the party in the darkness. He rather thought they weren’t, and frowned. The haughty guy refused the biscuit, saying it was disgusting, and one of the other guys took it off him, and wolfed it down.

Frankie waited for them to recover their senses a bit more, then started talking again.

“You are now aboard the Golden Guinea, the prettiest barque that ever sailed the seven seas. You will do as you are told, you will work hard, and if you don’t, you will walk the plank. That means you will find yourself swimming, possibly in shark infested waters, a thousand miles from the nearest land. You won’t last long.” And he laughed again. It was not a pleasant laugh.

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TITLE – The Princelings and the Lost City
SERIES – The Princelings of the East
AUTHOR – Jemima Pett
GENRE – MG/Fantasy/scifi
PUBLICATION DATE – May 2012 (paperback June 2015)
LENGTH – Pages 270 / Words 58,600
PUBLISHER – Princelings Publications
COVER ARTIST – Danielle English

BOOK SYNOPSIS

Book 3 in the Princelings of the East series is the completion of the trilogy. A mystery is uncovered in the Prologue (which is unravelled in Book 5), then the story moves to more familiar territory as our heroes, Princelings Fred and George, wait at Castle Buckmore for the arrival of Princess Kira from Dimerie in a flying machine. George's power plant invention is overtaken by his enthusiasm for flying, but Fred is upset by Kira's strange behavious after the visit a legendary 'lost' castle in the middle of a forest.

What is the secret of the Lost City? Are the old wives' tales, of a civilisation ruled by females where no male dare set foot, true after all? Will Fred and his friend escape with their lives? How many times can Princess Kira be kidnapped in one story? The path of true love runs anything but smoothly in this tale of love, bravery, cruelty and loss.

EXCERPT

A strange noise crept into their consciousness, a sort of buzzing. It changed tone, skipped a beat and sometimes stopped altogether. The princelings looked out, straining to see what was making the noise. Fred stared down the road as far as the bridge; George gazed up into the sky as if he was dreaming.

“There ….there..they..ther….” he stuttered and pointed for Fred to locate.

“What?” said Fred, following the direction and wondering why he was pointing into the sky. There was some sort of bird flying towards them.

“I w-wond-ered … a ffly-ing ma-ma-sheen.” In his excitement, George was having trouble getting any words out at all. He slipped off the window seat and went over to a pile of papers beside his bed. He selected one near the top of the pile and brought it back to Fred.

“M. Bleriot demonstrates flying machine at Fortune,” read the headline. Underneath was a picture of a very dashing French person with a helmet and goggles standing next to a funny tube with two boards sticking out of it on either side.

Fred glanced at it, held it close to look at the machine in more detail and dropped the paper to look at the sky. A very similar machine was now approaching the last stretch of road before it turned to come into the castle itself.

“Oh my goodness,” said Fred, his eyes wide in panic. “She’ll be killed!”

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