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Innocence Lost by Helen Johnston
Blake is an Elder vampire, meaning he is born one. Not made by another vampire. Being an Elder he is one of the Council members that governs their world. his word is the law. He has been searching for his Queen all his life, and being over four hundred years old, that’s a pretty damn long time.. He thinks the search is over, when he is foretold he will meet her. and they do meet, but she is cruelly snatched from his arms by his enemies.
Siobhan is kidnapped and kept in a secure and secret place. She is taught many things, the sensual pleasures she wanted only Blake to teach her. Her sexuality is awakened by strangers and she longs and craves for Blake to rescue her.
Blake is able to send in a couple of people from his Order to protect her while he is unable to. Unbeknown to him, his brother is still alive and where she is being kept, Blake thought he had died long ago. He has turned into a very mean and controlling vampire. But Blake’s love for her never dims.
After everything Siobhan has been through she is worried that he couldn’t love her still. Siobhan loves Blake and he is her only true love, as she is his.
The story unfolds and continues in Book Two: Innocence Reclaimed and Book Three: Innocence Reborn.
Threads of Betrayal by Monica Koldyke Miller
Reagan Burnsfield has no interest in finding himself a wife. But that’s exactly what he must do when a lumber contract falls through and threatens the family business. Marrying the beautiful debutante Amanda Bruester for her dowry will solve his short term need as well as give him the wife of his dreams.
His courtship is hindered until they are arrested after stumbling upon bounty hunters hotly pursuing runaway slaves. In the ensuing scandal, Amanda chooses marriage over betraying her Aunt Gabriella’s illegal activities in the Underground Railroad.
Yet, despite being properly wed, another suitor, Derrick Banning, is determined to break apart their hasty marriage. He fancies it is he, not “that arrogant lumberman,” who should be enjoying Amanda’s wealth. While snowed in at his lumber camp, Amanda discovers papers that imply Reagan’s offer of marriage wasn’t the sacrifice she thought it to be. Despite his assurances that he acted to protect her, Amanda begins to doubt everything about him.
To complicate matters, mysterious scratches on Reagan’s back seem to point to infidelity, further proving he’s the untrustworthy knave Derrick claims him to be. When a prostitute’s body is found in his office and Reagan is arrested for murder, Amanda flees to her aunt’s house until the mystery can be solved.
Passionate Encounters by Tory Richards @ToryRichards
Pretty divorcee Emma Stuart is ready to begin her new life in a new home down on the lake. She hasn’t sworn off men, but she isn’t looking to replace her cheating ex anytime soon. Until a mistake lands the small town’s sexy detective on her door step. The attraction is instant, and explosive, and soon they’re as involved as two people can get.
Mike Denton isn’t looking for any complicated relationships. He’s too busy raising a teenage daughter on his own. But the moment he looks into Emma’s pretty eyes he knows he’s in trouble. The curvy temptress keeps him in a constant state of arousal, and manages to break down his willpower with little more than a smile. He lusts after her body, but will he be able to keep his emotions in check?
Demon Inhibitions by Gary Starta @scifiauthorGary
Chasing a soul stealer, psychic investigator Caitlin Diggs travels through a portal to another reality & witnesses her fugitive kill her alternate self in DEMON INHIBITIONS. Assuming her alternate’s life as an FBI agent of the Preternatural Crime Division, Diggs believes she’ll capture the soul stealer until she finds he may be part of a plot to segregate humans & demons
Into Eternity by Navarra Knight
When Lyssandria Barron goes to Tuscany on holiday, she never thought she would meet the man of her dreams…but dark secrets and forbidden passions would keep the star-crossed lovers apart. Follow their journey through the heart of Italy and entangle yourself in a love-story for the ages.
The Laird Returns (Highland Loyalties, Volume 3) by Veronica Bale
Volume three, The Laird Returns, concludes Veronica Bale’s gripping debut Highland Loyalties trilogy.
Tensions rise in the Highlands as the Scots fight for their independence from English tyranny. But amidst the chaos, Robbie MacGillivray and Jane Sewell are able to carve out a sliver of happiness for themselves, however brief and intermittent their time together may be. The odds are against them: he is the dispossessed chief of Clan Gillivray; she is the young, English wife of his enemy, Lord Reginald D’Aubrey, Baron of Dunloch.
Those odds will eventually topple their precariously balanced happiness. Infuriated by the MacGillivray chief’s royal pardon, Lord Reginald will stop at nothing to bring the chief of Clan Gillivray to his death. Caught in the middle of the conflict, Jane must decide, once and for all, where her loyalties lie – with her English King, Edward the Longshanks, or with her love, her Highlander?
And what will she do when the true laird of Dunloch returns?
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Conundrum by Susan Cory
“An exciting, engrossing tale of greed, deceit and
murder” THE KIRKUS REVIEW
When a Harvard Architecture School superstar plunges off the balcony
at a graduation party, the police see an accident, not foul play. But
fellow-student Iris Reid knows that any jealous member of the ruling clique
would have relished pushing him off. Twenty years later, a reunion is
luring the same cast of characters back to Cambridge. The opening night
dinner is being held in a Modernist house that Iris has designed. She hopes
to untangle the events that led to her friend’s death. But the murderer has
other plans. When a long-ago boyfriend turns up dead the night of the
dinner, all the incriminating evidence points to Iris. What began as an
attempt to avenge her old friend turns into a desperate race to avoid being
framed by the clever killer—a killer capable of twisting the truth into a bloody
conundrum.
Uniting the Clans (Highland Loyalties Trilogy, Volume 2) by Veronica Bale
Author Veronica Bale continues her debut trilogy with the anticipated second volume in the Highland Loyalties series.
Robert MacGillivray, chief of Clan Gillivray and outlaw, has fled his former home of Dunloch Castle to avoid capture by Lord Reginald D’Aubrey, the English baron who has sworn to bring him down. His departure leaves the young and naive Jane Sewell, Robbie’s love … and Lord Reginald’s English bride, vulnerable.
Day after day Jane waits for word of Robbie, growing more and more despondent when nothing is to be heard – until the day that Robert MacGillivray resurfaces in a bold and daring move to reunite and strengthen his clan.
What does this bold move mean for Jane? Will her loyalties remain with Lord Reginald as her husband, or will she find them swaying towards Robbie once more?
Bride of Dunloch (Highland Loyalties Trilogy, Volume 1) by Veronica Bale @VeronicaBale1
Author Veronica Bale’s debut novel, Bride of Dunloch, is a gripping story of love and conflict in the time of the first Scottish War of Independence, and of one young girl’s struggle to determine for herself what is right and what is wrong.
In the watery grey light of a late spring dawn, two forces meet to oppose one another at the main gate of Dunloch Castle, an imposing structure nestled deep in the Scottish Highlands. On the attacking side are the MacGillivrays—a clan dispossessed of its ancestral lands and home because its members would not swear loyalty to the English King Edward the First. Dunloch is theirs, and they will take it back—by any means necessary.
So is the world in which Jane Sewell, a young and naive English girl of noble birth whose hand has been given away in marriage, finds herself. It is a land that is as bloody and brutal as it is beautiful. But when she stumbles upon a wounded Scottish warrior from the enemy MacGillivray clan, her compassionate nature will not allow her to abandon him. Against her better judgement, she resolves to help him in secret.
As tensions at Dunloch intensify, however, Jane finds herself torn between her duty—and her heart. For in these Scottish Highlands, loyalties can change as quickly as the weather …
