Category: Reviews

Guest Review: An Affair to Dismember – Elise Sax

Posted February 10, 2013 by Shannon in Reviews / 0 Comments
Guest Review: An Affair to Dismember – Elise Sax

Three months has been Gladie Burger’s limit when it comes to staying in one place: She’s always been a temp agency kind of girl, ever ready to move on. That’s why Gladie is more than a little skeptical when her eccentric Grandma Zelda recruits her to the family business in the quaint small town of […]

Review: House Rules – Chloe Neill

Posted February 10, 2013 by Shannon in Blog Tour, Reviews, Shannon / 1 Comment
Review: House Rules – Chloe Neill

In a city full of vampires, trouble never sleeps. At the tender age of 27, Merit became a sword-wielding vampire. Since then, she’s become the protector of her House, watched Chicago nearly burn to the ground, and seen her Master fall and rise. Now she’ll see her mettleβ€”and her metal β€”tested like never before. It […]

Author Interview: Karen Schreck

Posted February 9, 2013 by Shannon in Reviews / 1 Comment
Author Interview: Karen Schreck

We have Karen Schreck with us today chatting about her release, While He Was Away.Β  Help me in welcoming Karen to Cocktails and Books. Tell us about yourself. I grew up just outside Chicago, and except for a few years in Boston and upstate New York, Chicago and its environs have been my primary stomping […]

Review: Taking Charge – Mandy Baggot

Posted February 8, 2013 by Shannon in Shannon / 2 Comments
Review: Taking Charge – Mandy Baggot

Is going back Robyn s only way forward? American-born Robyn Matthers is going home. With her dad in hospital, his roadhouse in ruins and the ice hockey team slipping down the league, she needs to take charge. But does she have the strength to do it? Cole Ryan is a hockey player on a personal […]

Review: The Quintessential Gemini – Linn B Halton

Posted February 7, 2013 by Shannon in Shannon / 1 Comment
Review: The Quintessential Gemini – Linn B Halton

For twenty-one years, the focus of Katherine Dale’s life has been her work. Love interests and hobbies came and went, but what has always been there for her was her nine to five habit. Until she’s replaced. With her confidence dented, Katherine is angry at life and at herself. She’s ignored hints of “changes to […]

Review: Recipe for Satisfaction – Gina Gordan

Posted February 6, 2013 by Shannon in Shannon / 1 Comment
Review: Recipe for Satisfaction – Gina Gordan

Being the financial caretaker for her deadbeat parents isn’t the life professional organizer Sterling Andrews dreamed of. Tired of being the dependableβ€”and boringβ€”daughter, Sterling decides to have a little fun. And what could be more fun than seducing rich bad boy chef, Jack Vaughn? Except, after one scintillating night together, Sterling’s not only lusting for […]

Guest Review: Rescue from the Baron – Lara Nance

Posted February 3, 2013 by Shannon in Reviews / 0 Comments
Guest Review: Rescue from the Baron – Lara Nance

A steampunk adventure with a touch of romance.Book Two in the Airship Adventure Chronicles Lady Arabella Trunkett’s adventures continue as she seeks to rescue Rett after he’s kidnapped in Moro. Bounty hunters, eager for the fortune offered by the Baron, spirit Rett to the smuggling king’s hidden compound. Belle and her friends sail Rett’s airship […]

Review: Collide – Juliana Stone

Posted February 3, 2013 by Shannon in Shannon / 0 Comments
Review: Collide – Juliana Stone

A second chance never looked so good…Bobbi-Jo Barker has been in love with the wrong man for years. A man who doesn’t fit into the perfect, controlled life she’s created.A man who not only broke her heart but nearly destroyed her. So the fact that he’s back in town shouldn’t matter because he’s all wrong […]

Guest Review: A Knight on Horseback – Ellen Ekstrom

Posted February 3, 2013 by Shannon in Reviews / 0 Comments
Guest Review: A Knight on Horseback – Ellen Ekstrom

Putting a contemporary spin on her favorite themes of St. George, the dragon, knights and all things medieval, Ellen Ekstrom, author of The Legacy and Armor of Light, brings us A Knight on Horseback. Meet Violet Ellison – a working mother, faithful, supportive wife, aspiring author, history student and pretty much burned-out and fed up […]

Guest Review: The Demon Lover – Juliet Dark

Posted February 3, 2013 by Shannon in Reviews / 0 Comments
Guest Review: The Demon Lover – Juliet Dark

Since accepting a teaching position at remote Fairwick College in upstate New York, Callie McFay has experienced the same disturbingly erotic dream every night: A mist enters her bedroom, then takes the shape of a virile, seductive stranger who proceeds to ravish her in the most toe-curling, wholly satisfying ways possible. Perhaps these dreams are […]

Guest Review: Secret Sins – Lora Leigh

Posted February 3, 2013 by Shannon in Reviews / 0 Comments
Guest Review: Secret Sins – Lora Leigh

Sheriff Archer Tobias has watched the Callahan family struggle to find peace and acceptance in the communityβ€”despite the murders that continue to haunt them. But his darkest suspicions grow worse when Anna Corbin, a member of one of the country’s most influential families, becomes the next target… Anna knows she’s in danger. She knows she’s […]

Guest Review: The Good Father – Diane Chamberlain

Posted February 3, 2013 by Shannon in Reviews / 0 Comments
Guest Review: The Good Father – Diane Chamberlain

A beloved daughter. A devastating choice. And now there’s no going back. Four years ago, nineteen-year-old Travis Brown made a choice: to raise his newborn daughter on his own. While most of his friends were out partying and meeting girls, Travis was at home, changing diapers and worrying about keeping food on the table. But […]

Review: Vanilla on Top – CJ Ellison

Posted February 3, 2013 by Shannon in Shannon / 0 Comments
Review: Vanilla on Top – CJ Ellison

Discover your inner bad girl, and set her free… Heather Pierce is done being a wallflower, both personally and professionally. Desperate to live a different life for one night, she attends a speed dating event. Maybe here, anonymous unless she chooses otherwise, she can become someone new. When a man way out of her league […]