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28/04/2015

Tiger Tracks. ( Alaskan Tigers #9) by Marissa Dobson. Release Day.

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Tiger Tracks

Series: Alaskan Tigers Book Nine

Author: Marissa Dobson

Cover Design: Fantasia FrogDesigns

Release Date: April 28, 2015

Styx has a mission. He’s chasing after a woman who’s on the run from a vindictive Alpha. His skills as an assassin will aid him in finding her, and then he can get her somewhere safe. Mira’s intentions have been exposed: she’s a secret supporter of the Alaskan Tigers. Now she has to run for her life. She never thought wanting a better future for shifters would cost her so much. She has lost her clan and her family, but her decisions have brought her someone she wasn’t expecting—her mate. Styx believes he’s undeserving of a mate, and is having difficulty coming to terms with his former life as an assassin. No matter how much he’s done for the Alaskan Tigers, he doesn’t believe his mate would be able to overlook his past. Choices. Life is full of them, and those choices are what bring two mates together. It could also be what tears them apart.

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About Marissa Dobson…

Born and raised in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area, Marissa Dobson now resides about an hour from Washington, D.C. She’s a lady who likes to keep busy, and is always busy doing something. With two different college degrees, she believes you are never done learning.
Being the first daughter to an avid reader, this gave her the advantage of learning to read at a young age. Since learning to read she has always had her nose in a book. It wasn’t until she was a teenager that she started writing down the stories she came up with.
Marissa is blessed with a wonderful supportive husband, Thomas. He’s her other half and allows her to stay home and pursue her writing. He puts up with all her quirks and listens to her brainstorm in the middle of the night.
Her writing buddies Cameron (a cocker spaniel) and Dawne (a beagle mix) are always around to listen to her bounce ideas off them. They might not be able to answer, but they are helpful in their own ways.
She love to hear from readers, send her an email at marissa@marissadobson.com or visit her online at http://www.marissadobson.com.

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06/03/2015

Werelover, The Leopard´s Unleashed Series #3 by Dina Haynes. Cover Reveal


Release Day: March 20th, 2015
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 photo Synopsis2_zpsf1848aa2.jpg Doug has tried to distance himself from a female who killed an innocent to make him stay. Years later, her threats have riddled his mind with self-hate. Now, he seeks the taboo comforts of a human, hoping she’ll accept him, wereleopard spots and all in due time.
When his brother comes to town, he offers Doug a proposition that will change his life forever. As Doug starts to gain power and fullfill the position better than he imagined possible, the truth rears its ugly head…
A human won’t fit into the picture.
As a BBW in a city full of Botox faces, slight figures, and silicone peaks, Eve doesn’t get asked out much. She meets Doug on an animal lover’s dating site. After a rocky start, she puts her heart on the chopping block despite Doug’s unresolved girlfriend issues.
But she doesn’t know the whole story yet.
Doug refuses to walk away from her and his truth won’t stay hidden. When Eve finally comes face-to-face with it, neither will hers.

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Book 1 – Wereleper – Free Now!

Book 2 – Wereking

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Dina was a late bloomer. She didn't become a "reader" until one summer away from college, working at a failing video store in her home town, the East Bay Area of California. With several hours of downtime, she snuck her mother's book, Pet Sematary, to work and found her imagination came to life with the creepy words on Stephen King's pages. Back at university, she began to realize her own penchant for story-telling in an exchange that started with a close friend. Oddly enough, by the time she graduated with a degree in Sociology, she knew she wanted to become an actress, but her "B" plan (or maybe it was her "C" plan) was to someday write a book, or books if she planned to make any sort of living off of it. Something romance related, of course.
Flash forward 10 years (or more), when acting started to look more like a pipe dream, she picked up the pen, literally, and wrote her first book. A friend had introduced her to the Urban Fantasy genre and didn't that seem apropos; elements of horror combined with everything she liked about romance. She is happy to pursue this passion while she keeps a few contemporary romance stories on standby.
Currently, she resides in Miracle Mile, Los Angeles.

Visit Dina on her website at www.dinahaynes.com.

05/02/2015

Rogue, The Omega Group Series #2 By Andrea Domanski.


★★★★★
The Omega Group are preternatural men and women who police the Others who cause trouble.
Carter is a Navajo from the Havasupia tribe. This tribe have  the ability to shift into wolf form.  The mission Carter and his team are going on will bring him face to face with his past. Strange happenings on and around the reservation mean that Omega must investigate. 
Ancient tribal animosity, petty jealousy and lies make the job difficult.  Add in a secret government project with a mad man in control and the whole thing becomes lethal.

This is the second book in the series and it would be better to read them in order, so that you understand the team members special abilities.  All the characters are heroes in their own very different ways. There is a little gentle romance and lots of exciting action and adventure.  A marvellous fun read.



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22/01/2015

Thrown To The Wolves, Black River Pack #3 by Rochelle Paige.

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Thrown to the Wolves 3 (Black River Pack Series) by Rochelle Paige Blog Tour

Synopsis:

Annora Channing's entire world changes the moment she discovers she's a bear shifter. With mated wolves for parents, she should have been a wolf also. When the man she grew up thinking was her father realizes she isn't his daughter, he devises a plan to use her existence to his advantage in a way that will get her out from under his roof.

When her situation goes from bad to worse, Annora escapes but is badly injured in the process. Luckily, Elias Reve comes to her rescue while on his way to Wolf's Point and the daughter he lost years ago. With nowhere else to go and nobody to turn to, Annora joins him on his journey and ends up running smack-dab into the arms of her mate.

Parker Tate knows Annora is his the moment he lays eyes on her. When he manages to mate and mark her within hours of when they meet, he considers himself lucky. Then the trouble nipping at Annora's heels finds her and Parker realizes the path to claiming his mate won't be as easy as he thought - especially not with the bears involved.

This is book three in the Black River Pack series. Each novella features a different couple.


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Excerpt 1:

My heart raced at the thought of finally finding her—the woman who was destined to be my mate. My brothers liked to tease me about being a bit of a white knight because I had a habit of helping women who were in distress, but I couldn’t stop myself from doing it. Ever since our grandmother had told me that my mate would have been discarded by her family, I’d struggled with the knowledge that she could be out there somewhere, desperately in need of help, without my being able to give it to her. So I’d compensated by aiding other women in the hope that someone else would be there for my mate when I couldn’t be. If Eliza’s dream was right, then I might not have to wait much longer.
“When?” I rasped out. “Were there any signs pointing to when she would be here?”
“I can’t be sure,” Eliza said with a look of apology on her face. “But I feel like it might be this winter.”
“Thank fuck,” I whispered, a huge wave of relief rolling through me.



Excerpt 2:

The door had just started to close behind them, so I almost missed her dad’s next words. Thank fuck I didn’t though.
“Besides which, I left Annora at the table when I saw you pull up,” he explained. “Poor girl probably thinks I’ve abandoned her, and she’s still too sore to move quickly enough to catch up to me.”
“Annora,” I whispered in wonder.
My brain was catching up to my wolf as I grabbed the door and swung it open to catch up to them only to stop dead in my tracks. The scent that drifted to me was sweeter than anything I’d ever smelled before. Like cotton candy on a hot summer’s day.
Breathing deeply, I zeroed in on the curvy brunette sitting in the corner booth. She really was here. My mate.
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Crying Wolf (Black River Pack, #1)

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Shoot For The Moon (Black River Pack, #2)

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Author Bio:
I absolutely adore reading - always have and always will. My friends growing up used to tease me when I would trail after them, trying to read and walk at the same time. If I have downtime, odds are you will find me reading or writing.

I am the mother of two wonderful sons who have inspired me to chase my dream of being an author. I want them to learn from me that you can live your dream as long as you are willing to work for it.

When I told my mom that my new year's resolution was to self-publish a book in 2013, she pretty much told me "About time!"

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MY REVIEW:

★★★★★
Black River Pack #3
Annora has always had a bad relationship with her father.  Instead of the love and protection that the other she wolves got from their father's, Annora was constantly bullied and could never be good enough for him. When the day came that she found out why she knew she had to run for her life.
Parker knows his true mate is out there somewhere, and is in danger.. It is tormenting him that he can't find her to help her. He has some big surprises coming.
There is a lot of good things happening within the Black River pack .
A lovely sexy and emotional story from a very good series. 

23/12/2014

Wilder´s Mate. Bloodhounds #1´by Moira Rogers



★★★★★
This is a difficult book to put in any one genre, it's Paranormal romance, historical and a bit Steampunk. 
Satira lives in the very wild west. She has been studying under the best inventor, but he has been abducted by a vampire. The Bloodhound guild ( a group of shape shifters that work like Marshals.) that the inventor works for must send one of their bloodhounds to rescue him.
Wilder is the best and Satira persuades him to take her along. She knows how to use the special weapons that could make all the difference.  It will be a dangerous journey, not least because the new moon is just a few days away. That is not an easy time to be around a bloodhound. They have very demanding needs at the new moon. Satira and Wilder  must venture into the dead lands. A lawless area that has more undead residents than live ones.

The sex scenes are HOT and graphic. (Unfortunately a few uses of the "c" word) Not enough to put me off. An unusual and enjoyable read. With action of one sort or another on nearly every page, Good strong characters with just the right amount of vulnerability. With teasers for the next book by introducing the secondary characters.
I look forward to reading book #2

Buy from Amazon with this link.Wilder's Mate: Bloodhounds, Book 1

06/12/2014

Cover Reveal . Accepting The Bear by Josette Reuel. + Giveaway

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Malkum Nitá is a bear shifter and one of two Dásreach enforcers in the Thirteen. Due to a tortured past, Malkum never wanted a mate, but he must accept it for the Thirteen to be the next Council. However, with no one having found their mates, it was looking like Malkum's bachelorhood was safe. That is until, Kai’s mate walked into Great Spirit Tattoo with her friends. Rogue inflamed his passion from the moment she touched his tattoo and tamed the ferocious bear.

Rogue Phenix had enough of changing for other people. Life had shown her many things and she wasn’t going to chase her dreams; she was going to make them happen. And, thanks to her Book Worm friends she had found the relationships she had never had, but it’s not enough, she wants it all – her friends, a family… and a man. But, just when she thinks she’s found her destiny, her man runs scared.

Unbeknownst to the Thirteen a darkness is working against them. Working in the shadows and using human pawns, the darkness has set its sights on Rogue and her friends.

Can Malkum come to terms with his past before it’s too late?
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Meet the Author

Josette Reuel, Author
Josette Reuel spent many years in the corporate world writing stuffy computer software manuals, until one day a shape shifting dragon kidnapped her and drug her off to be his destined mate... and as the words flowed on to the page, she realized that it was time to fulfill her lifelong dream of becoming a published author.

An avid reader from her earliest memories, Josette enjoys many genres; however her current passion is anything Romance. Her love of Fantasy and the Paranormal tends to come out in all of her writing with strong alpha shapeshifters.

Finding the Dragon was her debut novel and was released September 8, 2014. It is the first in the Dásreach Council Novels. She is currently working on Forcing the Bear: Dásreach Council Novel 2.

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For anyone who has not read the first book in the series This is my Review of Book #1
Finding The Dragon.
By Josette Reuel.
Dasreach Council book 1
The Dasreach are shifters , every 20 years a new team of 13 are chosen to go through 20years of training. They are to be the council and their task is to protect the balance of the earth. By the end of that training they must also have a Mate, this mate provides the necessary balance. The current team are finding it hard to find their mates. They only have 18 months left to find them. So drastic measures are called for. Kai is the Dragon shifter , that makes him the leader. He decides to get out a globe and a set of darts to find where to look.
Alvena is a woman with no self confidence and serious trust issues. She does not even trust herself to make the right choices. T he friends she has made through a book group on facebook are the best friends she has ever had. There is a romance book conference coming up in New Orleans . Alvena is meeting two of her bookworm friends to go and enjoy the conference. Kai spotted Alvena before she leaves and knows she is his Mate, so he follows her.
Someone is trying to make sure none of the 13 get their mates, by killing the women that are possible matches. When several attempts have been made on Alvena ,Kai must try to get them back to home base ,but there is a traitor in the Dasreach who is sending the assassins to stop them. Alvena and Kai have an exciting cross country trip.

I found the intro and the prologue a little long winded , but you do need to read it. Once I hit the first chapter the story took off. It is an exciting and fun read. The girls friendship shows us that true friends are not necessarily the people you have known the longest or even the ones you see the most. They are the sisters of the heart who love you no matter what.´I am definitely going to read the rest of this series.
Buy from Amazon with this link. Finding the Dragon (Dásreach Council Book 1)

26/11/2014

UNLEASH THE NIGHT, by Sherrilyn Kenyon.

               
  ★★★★★           

 UNLEASH THE NIGHT.          

 SHERRILYN KENYON .

A Book from the Dark Hunter world.
 Maggie is missing her dear friend and study partner Nick.  He has recently died, so to remember him she and a few other friends decide to go to the bar Nick always spoke about. Maggie is the daughter of a Senator and her friends are a privileged lot, so the biker bar in the French quarter is a dangerous place. Wren is a busboy in the bar known as Sanctuary.  The bar is much more than it seems. It is a place of safety for any Katagaria (were ) that needs it.  Wren is a tigard, white Tiger/ snow leopard mix. He has lived at Sanctuary since the death of his parents, always knowing that he is flawed and a danger to anyone near him.  He keeps  to himself and tries not to be noticed. When Maggie and her friends come in Wren is drawn to her and finds he is the subject of derision from the boys who think they are better than him. Maggie stays behind when the others are thrown out, so that she can apologize to Wren. He knows he can't have Maggie but can't seem to keep away. The owners of Sanctuary are worried that Wren is going mad and will expose them to humans. They will put him down before they allow that.

 Nothing is as it seems in this story. It shows us not to judge by appearances.  Lots of excitement and great characters.
  I read this out of the series order, but apart from a couple of things I didn't know,  I think It's OK to read on It's own. 

Buy from Amazon with this link. Unleash The Night (Dark-Hunter World)