So I really have no business reading IID because I'm only halfway through the series and I'm not supposed to read for long stretches of time...but the allure of IID won out.
Stayed up with it until my eyes started to tear and go all blurry. Eve and Roarke are very real characters, with their complex layers and the hurdles they have to cross. Some of the scenes that stood out for me in IID: Eve confiding in Mira about her marital problems, and Eve giving a couple well-aimed punches (absolutely hilarious...you have to read the book to find out why...don't want to give away too much here hehehe).
I'm not a big romantic suspense reader--never was one--and I'm not into graphic violence so my being such a fan of this series says a lot about Ms Roberts' incisive writing. From the start, the evolution of the Eve and Roarke relationship has been the main draw for me and the homicide investigation is more of a side dish. Still, Ms Roberts manages to score quite a few times with me and I'm happy to report that IID is one of them. I've also grown very fond of secondary characters like Summerset, Mira, Feeney, Peabody, Mavis, McNab and Nadine.
Incredible Ebook Offer - INNOCENT IN DEATH by J D Robb
Fictionwise is currently offering 100% Micropay rebate on the latest Eve Dallas book, Innocent in Death (Payment by credit card). Offer expires March 4. Those who want this in ebook better hurry!
Teresa Medeiros is one of the most talented and personable authors in the romance genre. Her writing is sensual and evocative, bringing to life not just the sights and sounds of a scene but also reaching deep into the emotions of the reader's heart.
On March 5, Ms. Medeiros will be having an evening chat at The Romance Room from 8pm to 9pm EST. This is a Yahoo group where you can choose to receive emails in your inbox or read the messages from the group page. Members can send in their questions for Ms. Medeiros in advance. Two questions will be chosen at random each week from the questions received.
Also running from now through March 2 are random weekly drawings for a free ebook from the featured author of the week. UPDATE: The final ebook drawing has been extended to March 5 midnight.
Interested? Join now. If you can mention to the group you were referred by me, that would be greatly appreciated because they are holding a separate drawing for referrers. :)
To celebrate her ten years in the business, author Michele Albert is offering her first book Absolute Trouble in ebook for free! Absolute Trouble won the Romance Writers of America's 1997 Golden Heart Award for best unpublished contemporary romance.
Also, you can now get the previously out-of-print All Night Long as an ebook for just $1.25. I can personally vouch that All Night Long is entertaining and wonderful all round and totally deserving of the coveted Desert Isle Keeper status from All About Romance. In fact, as an ebook convert, I'm making a point to buy a copy for my ebook collection.
Will Tiernay is an operative with Avalon, a top-secret army of mercenaries who recover stolen art and antiquities. When his new assignment -- tracking down an art forger at a museum reproductions company -- leads him directly to his former lover, Mia Dolan, he discovers he wants her more than ever. But Mia is his prime suspect.
THERE ARE THINGS YOU CAN'T CONTROL
Mia had always imagined Will to be married with a houseful of kids back home in Ohio. So she's shocked to discover that he's a very single journalist researching the inner workings of Haddington Reproductions. More shocking is their chemistry -- as irresistible now as then. But Mia suspects Will is hiding something.... Is this truly a second chance at passion? Or will his real mission draw them so deeply into an underworld of danger and deception that they'll be lucky to escape alive?
TOUGH ENOUGH Michelle Albert Pocket, March 2007 Mass Market Paperback, 384 pages ISBN-10: 1-4165-3139-4 ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-3139-5
Succubus (n) - An alluring, shape-shifting demon who seduces and pleasures mortal men.
Pathetic (adj.) - A succubus with great shoes and no social life. See: Georgina Kincaid.
When it comes to jobs in hell, being a succubus seems pretty glamorous. A girl can be anything she wants. The wardrobe is killer, and mortal men will do anything just for a touch. Granted, they often pay with their souls, but why get technical?
But Seattle succubus Georgina Kincaid’s life is far less exotic. Her boss is a middle-management demon with a thing for John Cusack movies. Her immortal best friends haven’t stopped teasing her about the time she shape-shifted into the Demon Goddess get-up complete with whip and wings. And she can’t have a decent date without sucking away part of the guy’s life. At least there’s her day job at a local bookstore—free books, all the white chocolate mochas she can drink, and easy access to bestselling, sexy writer, Seth Mortensen, aka He Whom She Would Give Anything to Touch but Can’t.
But dreaming about Seth will have to wait. Something wicked is at work in Seattle’s demon underground. And for once, all of her hot charms and drop-dead one-liners won’t help because Georgina’s about to discover there are some creatures out there that both heaven and hell want to deny…
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Richelle Mead has an M.A. in Comparative Religion and a passion for all things wacky and humorous. She lives in Seattle with her husband and four cats. Late-night musings and updates about the next Succubus novel can be found here.
SUCCUBUS BLUES Richelle Mead Kensington Books, an imprint of Kensington Publishing March 2006/Fiction/Trade Paperback/Original $15.00 ($21.00 Canada)/0-7582-1641-6 Author Residence: Seattle, WA
1. Which psychic power would you most like to possess? The ability to teleport over great distances
2. If you could see the future, what would you like to see? I want to see if we've learnt to coexist with nature.
3. Imagine you woke up one day and could shapeshift - what would you shift into? A phoenix
4. What kind of a paranormal creature would you invite over for dinner if there were no limits on who you could ask? A dragon
5. Which future innovation do you wish would hurry up and get here already? i.e. flying cars, a transporter, computers with artificial intelligence, an auto chef? Oh, definitely an auto chef! Yummy meals at the program of a button, what more can a woman want?
This meme was begun by Nalini Singh to get the word out about her next book, Visions of Heat (releasing March 6). Want to play, too, and enter to win a $50 Amazon voucher plus an ARC? Click here for details.
I recently found out about Romance Novel TV, a hot, new site that produces fantastic video clips of interviews with romance authors.
Available now are interviews with Nora Roberts, Eloisa James, Rebecca York and Christina Dodd, with more in the works! Isn't this just too exciting for words?
I don't usually read inspirational romances but I'm glad I didn't give this a miss because it turned out to be quite simply one of the best books I've read last year.
Rori has been in love with Nate for as long as she could remember. Devastated by his betrayal, she ran away from home at the age of sixteen. Now Nate is back and he wants a second chance. Can two people from different worlds have a real chance at happiness? Rori captured my heart right from the start with her pureness of spirit, generosity of heart, tarnished innocence, wariness and uncertainties. Nate is a kind and honourable man who is not infallible and this just makes him more real to me. Suffice to say the book brought tears to my eyes many times. I cannot recommend this story enough.
FALLING STAR Karen Wiesner Mainstream Romance Available now from Hard Shell Word Factory ISBN: 1-58200-110-3 (electronic-$6) ISBN: 0-7599-0083-3 (trade paperback-$11.01) Limited quantities-$2.98 disk (HTML or PDF)
NIGHT RISING (Vampire Babylon Book One) by Chris Marie Green
Those who loved Buffy should take a look at this book teaser!
Welcome to Hollywood-after dark...
Stuntwoman Dawn Madison is a girl with attitude-and a lot of issues, mostly about living up to the legacy of her mother, a world famous movie star whose untimely death left Dawn to be raised by her dad Frank, nobody's notion of single-father-of-the-year. Now that she's grown up, she and Frank aren't on the best of terms, to say the least.
Still, he is her dad, and when he vanishes while investigating the bizarre sighting-caught on film-of a supposedly long-dead child star, she comes home to Tinseltown to join the search for him. Working with his colleagues-a psychic short in stature but big in dreams, a beautiful Latina techno-geek, and the P. I. firm's never-seen boss-she discovers an erotic and bloody underground society made up of creatures she thought existed only on screen.
They are devious. They are deadly. And some of them are dangerously attractive...
NIGHT RISING, Vampire Babylon, Book One 2/6/07, Ace Trade, 0-441-01467-4 www.vampirebabylon.com
So I really have no business reading IID because I'm only halfway through the series and I'm not supposed to read for long stretches of time...but the allure of IID won out. 
Teresa Medeiros is one of the most talented and personable authors in the romance genre. Her writing is sensual and evocative, bringing to life not just the sights and sounds of a scene but also reaching deep into the emotions of the reader's heart.
Succubus (n) - An alluring, shape-shifting demon who seduces and pleasures mortal men.
1. Which psychic power would you most like to possess? The ability to teleport over great distances
NOTE: This is Book 1 in the Angelfire Trilogy
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