Swept Away by Toni Blake - 5 Stars

Of all the islands in the world, he had to wash up onto hers . . . Five days before her wedding to a man she admires but doesn't love, Katrina Spencer escapes to a private island. There she can let the sun warm her body as she contemplates a future without the passion she craves. Then she lazily opens her eyes, only to see Brock Denton . . . muscular, half-naked, the one who got away the one who makes her body tingle with arousal.



How Brock arrived is a mystery, but it's clear he's in danger. Kat faces danger, too, in the arms of a man who is determined to free her from her every inhibition with his hands, his mouth, and more!



Kat has five steamy days and five sultry nights to make up her mind return home to a man she doesn't love, or satisfy her wildest passions with Brock and let herself be . . . Swept Away



I loved this book. You can't go wrong with a Toni Blake book. After reading this I wanted a Brock of my own. Love the chemistry between the characters.



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My Rating: 5 Stars

Freefall by Joann Ross - 5 Stars

Emotionally and physically wounded ex-SEAL Zachariah Tremayne has returned from Iraq to his South Carolina home determined to shut out the world.

Sabrina Swann has also made a private journey home to put the tattered pieces of her own life back together after an explosion at her hotel.

But as the two rekindle their attraction from youth, a killer is lurking in the shadows, threatening to destroy everything they have fought so hard to rebuild.

This is the first book in Joann Ross's new trilogy of ex-special forces men. Can't wait for the next two. Love my special forces men, especially S.E.A.L.S.

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My Rating: 5 Stars

Laird Of The Mist by Paula Quinn - 5 Stars

PROTECTING HER WAS HIS PASSION

High-born though she is, Kate Campbell isn't afraid to draw her sword. When raiders strike, she rushes into the fray...and is lucky when a mysterious Highlander shields her from a deadly blow. Swept onto his stallion, she soon discovers that her rescuer is her clan's most hated enemy:Callum MacGregor, the man they call The Devil. Yet she cannot ignore his achingly tender touch or the way his fiery gaze leaves her breathless.

POSSESSING HER WOULD BE HIS PLEASURE

Callum MacGregor has taken many Campbell lives, but he's never saved one--until now. Mesmerized by this spirited lass, he wants her by his side, even if it means holding her for ransom. As his fingers graze her sumptuous curves and tangle in her unruly tresses, Callum realizes Kate Campbell is his most dangerous foe of all. For he can't make love to her without betraying his kinsmen and his honor...and surrendering his heart forever.

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My Rating: 5 Stars

Sighs Matter by Marianne Stillings - 3 Stars

It was a night of slow dances, heated looks, and for Detective Taylor McKennitt, the earth moved. Unfortunately, so did the lovely Claire...right on out the door. Not that it wasn't the hottest night of her life. In fact, the memory of Taylor's kisses, his touch, his...everything makes Claire want to leap right back into the sexy detective's bed. But the last thing she needs is to fall in love with a man in blue, even if he is irresistible. And determined.

Then just when Taylor thinks he's close to getting her back into his life, a deranged killer targets Claire. Now it's Taylor's duty to protect her. And in the process, he'll win her resisting heart or die trying--which is sudenly a very distinct possibility.

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My Rating: 3 Stars

No Regets by Shannon K Butcher - 5 Stars

I absolutely loved this book. But then again, I love, love, love Alpha Males.

Renowned cryptologist Noelle Blanche refuses to have blood on her hands. So when the military asks for her help in a covert operation, she refuses - until masked gunmen raid her home and threaten her life. It's up to hunky David of the Delta Force to protect her.

Action, suspense and romance a perfect trio. You won't want to miss it. Looking forward to her next one "No Control".

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My Rating: 5 Stars

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Touch The Dark by Karen Chance - 1 Star

Like any sensible girl, Cassie tries to avoid vampires. But when the bloodsucking Mafioso she escaped three years ago finds Cassie again with revenge in mind, she's forced to turn to the vampire Senate for protection. The undead senators won't help her for nothing, and Cassie finds herself working with one of their most powerful members, a dangerously seductive master vampire - and the price he demands may be more than Cassie is willing to pay.

I couldn't really get into this book because, the author jumped around alot. She kept introducing different characters and had so much going on at one time, it literally could give you a headache trying to figure it out. A disappointment for me. I will not be reading the rest of this series.

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My Rating: 1 Star (and that's being generous)

The Cursed One by Ronda Thompson - 5 Stars

Ronda Thompson has made a great series about 3 brothers with secrets. They are the "Wild Wulfs of London".

"The Cursed One" is the final book in this wonderful series....

Wed and widowed in one day, stunning socialite Amelia Sinclair's honeymoon is anything but typical. Then again, neither is Amelia -- rebellious and impulsive, marrying Robert Collingsworth was the one sensible thing she ever did. Now he's dead and she must escape the vicious creatures stalking her -- even if it means relying on a stranger. Well, maybe not a complete stranger. Amelia first glimpsed Gabriel Wulf years ago on the busy streets of London; since then he has haunted her dreams. But in the flesh, Gabriel is much more tantalizing than she ever dreamt, and much more complicated....

Gabriel Wulf, the strong one, the sensible one -- the, and the curse that plagued them, were his only priorities; there was little time for women and none for love. Now, he must protect an enticing beauty -- and not just from the dangers that prowl the woods around them. Gabriel has secrets, dark ones he's sure Amelia must never know and could never understand. But she has already awakened his heart... and the beast within. Will Amelia be the key to his salvation, or the architect of her own demise?

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Rating: 5 Stars

The Untamed One by Ronda Thompson - 5 Stars

Ronda Thompson has made a great series about 3 brothers with secrets. They are the "Wild Wulfs of London".

"The Untamed One" is the second book in this wonderful series....

Running from angry villagers and the man who ravaged her, the witch Lucinda flees into the forest to have her child. But Lord Jackson Wulf hunts her down, believing her death will break the family curse that transforms him into a monster. Instead of killing the witch, Jackson is moved by her beauty and desperate plight. And Lucinda seizes the chance to find safety for herself and her babe when a bargain is struck between this outcast woman and this doomed man and sealed by their marriage in name only.

In return for his protection, Lucinda has promised that her magick can free Jackson from his torment. But this pretty witch soon finds herself in danger of being seduced by Jackson's charms and pursued by the man who would see both her and her child dead. Can she trust a Wulf with her safety and the safety of her child? Can she trust her heart to Jackson? To surrender to a Wulf is a terrible risk, for love will either unleash the beast within the man ... or finally set him free.

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Rating: 5 Stars

The Dark One by Ronda Thomspon - 5 Stars

Ronda Thompson has made a great series about 3 brothers with secrets. They are the "Wild Wulfs of London".

The Dark One is the first book in this wonderful series....

Rosalind Rutherford knows full well the scandal she courts when she attempts to seduce the notorious Armond Wulf in fact, she's counting on it as a means to escape her sadistic stepbrother's control. Unfortunately, Lord Wulf's better instincts prevail...although not before he gives Rosalind a tantalizing taste of what she's missing. And when the opportunity arises to rescue Armond from a grim fate while changing her own, Rosalind knows she must seize it...

Armond can no more ignore the Rutherford woman than his ancestor could resist the temptress who cursed the Wulf men with a terrifying transformation that occurs at the appearance of the full moon and is set in motion by love. Now, to save her reputation and his freedom, Armond must marry Rosalind. But he vows that while they may share the pleasures of the marriage bed, she will never have his heart...

Yet as strange and mysterious events bring them closer in body and soul, Armond finds it increasingly difficult to keep his feelings for his new wife locked away. Especially when the reality of unquenchable desire and certain danger burn stronger than ever by the light of a full moon...

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Rating: 5 Stars

A Face In The Crowd: My life as an NFL Wife - Nicole Berti - 5 Stars

Nicole Berti is the wife of San Diego Charger's former Offensive Line Left Tackle Tony Berti.In this look inside her life, she answers questions everyone has about being a wife of an NFL player, and how friends, family, and fans act and react around them.

Great book for the female fans who wonder if it really is as glamorous as it seems, or if it's tougher then it seems.

Nicole goes through such things as the NFL draft, Training, Off-Season, Traveling, and of course Infidelities, Groupies and Cheerleaders.

As a fan of the NFL I found her book answering every question I had about being a wife to one of the men whom seem untouchable to regular girls.

Luckily she has a good marriage and a guy who liked her instead of a model or actress as seems every football player these days is attracted to.

I recommend reading this if you are an NFL fan. Man or woman, it is very interesting, and I could not put it down.

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Rating: 5 Stars

Southern Comforts - Joann Ross 4 Stars

Welcome to Raintree, Georgia -- Steamy Capital of Sin, Scandal and Murder.

To her fans, Roxanne Scarbrough is the genteel Southern queen of good taste -- she's built an empire around the how-to's of gracious living. To her critics -- and there are many -- Roxanne is Queen Bitch. And now somebody wants her dead.

Chelsea Cassidy, Roxanne's official biographer, knows that Roxanne is determined to keep her dark secrets buried, whatever the cost. But when Chelsea begins to unearth the truth about Roxanne's life, her search leads her back into the arms of Cash Beaudine, a man Roxanne wants for herself.

And suddenly Chelsea's investigation takes on a very personal nature -- with potentially fatal consequences.

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Rating: 4 Stars

Moon Fever - Susan Sizemore, Maggie Shayne

In "Tempting Fate" by Susan Sizemore, Desiree dreams she spent a passion-filled night with sexy rock star Jon Coyote...and that he told her he was a vampire. But when Desiree discovers she is mysteriously pregnant, her erotic fantasy takes a strangely realistic turn.

An angry ghost is haunting Caroline's house in "The Darkness Within" by award-winning author Maggie Shayne. But when sexy private investigator Jim Lipton offers to help discover what is going on, Caroline suspects that he has a personal interest in her ghost -- and in her.

In "Cobwebs Over the Moon" by Lori Handeland, Manhattanite Carly Kelly is pursued by werewolves across the wintry Alaskan wilderness, and only ruggedly handsome soldier Dylan Shepard stands between her and death.

Lycanthropy takes an exotic tropical twist in "Crazy for the Cat" by Caridad Piceiro. When scientist Jessica Morales travels to the Amazon jungle, she discovers that beneath the savage grace of her local guide, the handsome Javier da Costa, lurks a hidden wildness that is as tempting as it is dangerous.

Blood Moon & The Brotherhood - Dawn Thompson

I got these two books because I enjoyed The Ravencliff Bride & The Falcon's Bride.

However, Blood Moon and The Brotherhood were big disappointments.

BLOOD MOON - Jon Hyde-White is changed. Soon he will cease to be an earl's second son and become a ravening monster. Already lust grows, begging him to drink blood and the blood of his fiance Cassandra Thorpe will be sweetest of all.

Is that not why the blasphemous creature Sebastian bursts upon them from the London shadows? But Sebastian's evil task remains incomplete, and neither Jon nor Cassandra is beyond hope. One chance remains in faraway Moldavia, in a secret brotherhood, in an ancient ritual and in the power of love.

THE BROTHERHOOD - Joss Hyde-White leaves London for answers about who and what he is. What he finds is a carriage, and a scene of horror interrupted within. A chestnut-haired beauty lies prone, requiring his assistance. But safety is not easily provided.

On this night that brings to mind vampires and the foulest creatures of myth, it is difficult to tell man or woman from beast. From this moment forward, no one and nothing can be trusted not even his own instincts. Joss is on the road to the truth, leading to the secret of his parents, to the Blood Moon Rite of ancient Persia, to an enigmatic Gypsy and The Brotherhood.

Secret Fantasy by Cheryl Holt - 4 Stars

Orphaned at a young age and sent to live with selfish relatives, Margaret Gray has no dowry and no chance of ever marrying. When her aunt invites Jordan Prescott for a visit, hoping to entice him into offering for Margaret's spoiled cousin, the dashing war hero instead tempts Margaret into a truly decadent decision. If Margaret cannot have a husband, perhaps she dares, just once, to taste the pleasures of the flesh? Now that she's awakened to her own desires and sensations, she is drawn body and soul into a rapturous clandestine liaison.

Since his dissolute father squandered the family fortune, Jordan is required to marry an heiress in order to provide for his half-siblings. Yet no woman has ever aroused him as much as Margaret. Her sedate exterior belies a bold, curious spirit and tantalizing sexuality. A single illicit tryst becomes a month-long journey in carnal abandon, but with Jordan's visit drawing to a close, can their passion survive the dangerous scheming that threatens to keep them apart?

My rating: 4 Stars

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Stealing Sophie by Sarah Gabriel - 3 Stars

Quickly wedded and passionately bedded, Sophie is now a captive in a Highland haven of rebels and cattle thieves. Nothing in her convent upbringing prepared her for the dashing rogue who is now her husband. Held against her will, Sophie uses the only weapon at her disposal -- her saintly reputation.

Soon she tries to make Connor's life a living hell by creating heaven around him, gambling that the brigand will let her go just to escape her constant sweetness and womanly influence in his Highland lair.

Yet he does not give in -- and when his kisses and his scorching touch make her yearn for more, Sophie suspects that her own heart has already surrendered ...

My Rating: 3 Stars

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One Knight Only - Julia Latham 1 Star

She knew she would have to risk her life . . .

Daring and adventurous, Anne Kendall would give anything to join the secret band of warrior knights known as the League of the Blade, and she eagerly agrees to a perilous masquerade. But then Sir Philip Clifford, a reckless, brutally handsome knight, joins their party, bringing back memories of stolen kisses, passionate longings, and one night when she would have done anything to be his.

But not her heart . . .

Anne would prefer to concentrate on the dangerous mission at hand . . . but the glorious, savage passion that begins to develop between her and this unruly warrior may prove him to be the knight of her dreams . . . and her fantasies.

My thoughts: The picture kinds of makes me a little sick. Just because the guys arm has this huge vein popping out of it kind of disgusting. After that initial reaction, I started reading the book but couldn't get into it that much.

My rating: 1 Star

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Books I've Recently Read

The Dark One - Ronda Thompson
The Untamed One - Ronda Thompson
The Cursed One - Ronda Thompson
And, After That The Dark - Charlotte Hughes
Blood Moon - Dawn Thompson
The Brotherhood - Dawn Thompson
Secret Fantasy - Cheryl Holt
Moon Fever - Lori Handeland, Susan Sizemore, Maggie Shayne, Caridad Pineiro
Wolf at the door (The Others, Book 1 ) Christine Warren
A Face In The Crowd - My Life as an NFL Wife - Nicole Berti
One Knight Only - Julia Latham
Scenes of Passion - Suzanne Brockmann
Southern Comforts - Joann Ross
Stealing Sophie - Sarah Gabriel