In My Mailbox (43)
In My Mailbox is something was
that started over at The
Story Siren and I think it’s
pretty awesome. It’s a way to showcase the books that you gotten through
different places. Books you gotten in the mail, brought from a store, borrowed
from the library, received to write a review, or they can be
in eBook form. Here's a link to see how it all started.
From A Friend:
Ash by Malinda
Lo
In
the wake of her father's death, Ash is left at the mercy of her cruel
stepmother. Consumed with grief, her only joy comes by the light of the dying
hearth fire, rereading the fairy tales her mother once told her. In her dreams,
someday the fairies will steal her away, as they are said to do. When she meets
the dark and dangerous fairy Sidhean, she believes that her wish may be
granted.
The day that Ash meets Kaisa, the King's Huntress, her
heart begins to change. Instead of chasing fairies, Ash learns to hunt with
Kaisa. Though their friendship is as delicate as a new bloom, it reawakens
Ash's capacity for love-and her desire to live. But Sidhean has already claimed
Ash for his own, and she must make a choice between fairy tale dreams and true
love.
Entrancing, empowering, and romantic, Ash is
about the connection between life and love, and solitude and death, where
transformation can come from even the deepest grief.
Brought:
Hidden (Otherworld
Stories #10.4) by Kelley Armstrong
Hiking through the snow, holiday baking and
playing board games by the fire – what’s not to love about an old-fashioned
family Christmas?
Werewolves Elena
Michaels and Clayton Danvers want to give their four-year-old
twins, Kate and Logan, something their parents never had: a nice, normal
holiday. No Pack responsibilities, no homicidal half-demons or power-hungry
sorcerers to deal with – just the four of them, alone, at a chalet outside
Ontario’s Algonquin Park.
Then a strange werewolf shows up at their door…while the town is buzzing
about a young man, back from college, found half-eaten in the woods. And
there’s the missing little girl …
With
all the signs pointing to a rogue mutt with a taste for human flesh, Elena and
Clay have no choice but to investigate. But are they the hunters – or the
hunted?
Taming Mad Max by Theresa Ragan
Max Dutton, a starting NFL linebacker for the Los Angeles Condors, is
certain he’s going to die young since his father and grandfather both passed
away at an early age. Believing his life will be cut short, Max tries to live
every moment to its fullest. For this reason, Max shies away from forming close
relationships. What would be the point of falling in love and starting a family
only to leave them as his father left him and his sisters? When Max discovers
he has a thirteen-year old daughter though, it throws all his years of planning
and preparation for an early death into a tailspin.
Nutrition expert, Kari Murphy, used to think Max Dutton, aka Mad Max,
was to die for, but she’s older and wiser now. The last time Kari reacted with
her heart instead of her brain, she conceived the thing she loves most in
life…her daughter, Molly. As much as she dislikes Max Dutton for taking her
declaration of love and throwing it in her face fourteen years earlier, she
knows that if it wasn’t for him her life would be meaningless. And that really
ticks her off, especially when she’s hired by the NFL franchise to follow Max
around for a couple of weeks and give him healthy-eating advice, foolproof
facts about carbohydrates and tasteful tips on cooking and shopping smart.
Kari doesn’t want to be anywhere near the man, but what
choice does she have? Her career is on the line.
Lonely Alpha by Ranae Rose
When Mandy leaves the city behind and embarks on a retreat to
the Great Smoky Mountains, she expects to spend the week alone with nature and
a stack of novels. Instead, she ends up trapped on a remote mountain by a big
game hunter who’s hell-bent on bagging a werewolf.
Lonely
alpha wolf-shifter Jack, the last of the once-strong Half Moon Pack, is his
target. Jack is determined to keep Mandy safe while hunting his hunter, but
being around Jack brings out a wild side Mandy never knew she had. As silver
bullets fly, so do sparks. If they can manage to defeat their attacker, Mandy
will still have one problem to contend with: Jack is convinced that she’s his
mate.
After Midnight (The Youngbloods #1) by Lynn Viehl
Ever
since the death of their parents, Catlyn Youngblood and her two older brothers
have shared a nomadic existence, always moving from place to place. When they
at last settle for good in the sleepy backwoods town of Lost Lake, Florida, Cat
thinks she might finally have a normal life.
While riding her horse late one night, Cat meets an
enigmatic boy named Jesse Raven. Even more strange than her overpowering
attraction to him is Jesse's apparent aversion to daylight. Only under the
cover of darkness can they meet. As Cat and Jesse's bond grows stronger, Cat
discovers an incredible secret about the Ravens' and her own family's pasts--a
secret that could destroy their love. Their families, knowing the truth,
conspire to keep them apart. But Cat and Jesse will risk everything to be
together . . . including death.
Taming Her Wolf by Eve
Langlais
Dumped by his
girlfriend, Gareth doesn’t think things can get any worse until he’s captured
by some vampires. But he’s not about to become an all-you-can-eat-buffet
without a fight.
With great age comes boredom, which suits Helen just fine until she goes looking for a new blood servant and finds herself intrigued. The wolf she brings home might want to tear her to pieces, but she’s determined to tame him. What she never expected was for him to turn the tables and capture her heart.
With great age comes boredom, which suits Helen just fine until she goes looking for a new blood servant and finds herself intrigued. The wolf she brings home might want to tear her to pieces, but she’s determined to tame him. What she never expected was for him to turn the tables and capture her heart.
Despite the taboo nature of their relationship, he can’t kill her and
she can’t let him go. Together, they will defy those who would deny their love,
and kill the ones that threaten it.
Alpha's Mate by Caryn
Moya Block
A trip to Moscow brings
Siberian werewolf, Dmitry Volkov, and his pack members out of hiding. He’s
looking for answers to the pack’s breeding problems. But he never expected to
find them in the delectable Violet Anderson. With rogue werewolves causing
problems in the pack, can he bring a fragile human woman home as his mate?
Wildlife photographer Violet Anderson is stopping in Moscow, before she goes on assignment to shoot the elusive Russian Gray Wolf. When she meets Dmitry at a local hotspot, the sparks fly. The animal magnetism tells her she might have just met the man of her dreams. But Violet has a couple of secrets of her own, and following a wounded animal to its lair has never been a safe thing to do.
Wildlife photographer Violet Anderson is stopping in Moscow, before she goes on assignment to shoot the elusive Russian Gray Wolf. When she meets Dmitry at a local hotspot, the sparks fly. The animal magnetism tells her she might have just met the man of her dreams. But Violet has a couple of secrets of her own, and following a wounded animal to its lair has never been a safe thing to do.
For Review:
Until Next Time (The
Angel Chronicles #1) by Amy Lignor (pdf)
How does a girl choose between the one who
steals her heart and the one who owns her soul?
Matt and Emily were created for a specific job. Raised and trained as the ultimate angel/warrior team, they are sent down to save, defend, judge and forgive, depending on the 'life' they've been assigned. What they don't realize is that the power of human emotions, such as love, anger, passion and fear can take over even the best of souls, causing them to make mistakes and follow paths that lead to confusion and heartache.
When the reason for their training is finally revealed, the angel/warrior team find themselves thrust into a world they know nothing about. Matt takes over the life of Daniel, a young man with a great deal of baggage. Emily becomes Liz, a girl living in a remote village who relies on nothing more than her own strength to survive. A violent storm erupts one night, and framed in the window of Liz's establishment is a frightening face. Let in by the soul of a Good Samaritan, the two visitors bring with them a past full of secrets that could literally change an angel's path and a warrior's plans.
Matt and Emily were created for a specific job. Raised and trained as the ultimate angel/warrior team, they are sent down to save, defend, judge and forgive, depending on the 'life' they've been assigned. What they don't realize is that the power of human emotions, such as love, anger, passion and fear can take over even the best of souls, causing them to make mistakes and follow paths that lead to confusion and heartache.
When the reason for their training is finally revealed, the angel/warrior team find themselves thrust into a world they know nothing about. Matt takes over the life of Daniel, a young man with a great deal of baggage. Emily becomes Liz, a girl living in a remote village who relies on nothing more than her own strength to survive. A violent storm erupts one night, and framed in the window of Liz's establishment is a frightening face. Let in by the soul of a Good Samaritan, the two visitors bring with them a past full of secrets that could literally change an angel's path and a warrior's plans.
From murder to redemption, this angel/warrior team must find a way to
keep the faith they have in each other in a world that's ripping them apart.
Torn (Trylle Trilogy #2) by Amanda
Hocking
When
Wendy Everly first discovers the truth about herself—that she’s a changeling
switched at birth—she knows her life will never be the same. Now she’s about to
learn that there’s more to the story…
She shares a closer connection to her Vittra rivals than
she ever imagined—and they’ll stop at nothing to lure her to their side. With
the threat of war looming, her only hope of saving the Trylle is to master her
magical powers—and marry an equally powerful royal. But that means walking
away from Finn, her handsome bodyguard who’s strictly off limits…and Loki, a
Vittra prince with whom she shares a growing attraction.
Torn between her heart and her people, between love and
duty, Wendy must decide her fate. If she makes the wrong choice, she could lose
everything, and everybody, she’s ever wanted…in both worlds.
From Library:
Darker After Midnight (Midnight Breed #10) by Lara Adrian
In the dark of night, a blood
war escalates within the hidden world of the Breed. After existing in secret
for many long centuries, maintaining a fragile peace with the humans who walk
beside them unaware, a single act of retaliation has put the entire vampire
nation at risk of discovery. It falls to the Order—a cadre of Breed warriors
pledged to protect their own and humankind alike—to stop Dragos, the power-mad
vampire at the center of the conflict, before his push for domination can
explode into catastrophe. At the center of the Order’s quest is Sterling Chase, once a morally rigid enforcer of Breed law, now a warrior fallen from grace, whose biggest battle is the one he wages against his own savage nature. With addiction beckoning him toward eternal darkness, Chase’s path to redemption has never seemed more out of reach. But when his eyes meet those of Tavia Fairchild, a beautiful witness who identifies him at the scene of a mission gone terribly wrong, Chase finds himself drawn to the woman—and convinced she is something much more than she seems.
Pulled into a vortex of intrigue and danger she can neither resist nor
understand, Tavia is uncertain whom to trust. And while everything sane and
logical warns her against getting close to Chase, she cannot deny that the
handsome, deeply haunted male stirs something primal and ravenous within her.
But even as she surrenders to her cravings, nothing can prepare her for the
shattering truth of who—and what—she truly is.
As the Order’s enemy mobilizes for the battle of the ages, Dragos and his Minions unleashing a hell on Earth like nothing ever seen before, Chase and Tavia are thrust into the heart of the violence. With time running out and the streets running red with the blood of innocent lives, both Breed and human, together Chase and Tavia must find a way to defeat Dragos once and for all—or die trying.
As the Order’s enemy mobilizes for the battle of the ages, Dragos and his Minions unleashing a hell on Earth like nothing ever seen before, Chase and Tavia are thrust into the heart of the violence. With time running out and the streets running red with the blood of innocent lives, both Breed and human, together Chase and Tavia must find a way to defeat Dragos once and for all—or die trying.
Stolen Away by Alyxandra
Harvey
For
seventeen years, Eloise Hart had no idea the world of Faery even existed. Now
she has been abducted and trapped in the Rath of Lord Strahan, King of Faery.
Strahan was only meant to rule for seven years, as Faery tradition dictates,
and then give up his crown to another. But he won't comply, and now chaos
threatens both worlds.
The only one who can break his stranglehold on the Faery court is his wife. . . Eloise's aunt Antonia. Using Eloise to lure Antonia, Strahan captures his wife, desperate to end the only threat to his reign. Now Eloise must become the rescuer. Together with her best friends Jo and Devin, she must forge alliances with other Fae, including a gorgeous protector named Lucas, and Strahan's mysterious son, Eldric-who may or may not betray them.
The only one who can break his stranglehold on the Faery court is his wife. . . Eloise's aunt Antonia. Using Eloise to lure Antonia, Strahan captures his wife, desperate to end the only threat to his reign. Now Eloise must become the rescuer. Together with her best friends Jo and Devin, she must forge alliances with other Fae, including a gorgeous protector named Lucas, and Strahan's mysterious son, Eldric-who may or may not betray them.
NetGalley:
Dead of Night (The Youngbloods #2) by Lynn Viehl
True love
. . . and an undying obsession.
Catlyn Youngblood has a secret life. Despite being a
natural-born vampire hunter like her two older brothers, Cat has fallen for
Jesse--an ageless boy from a centuries-old vampire clan.
Cat's job cataloguing rare, mystical texts at a bookstore
allows her to meet with Jesse alone every evening. But when girls who look
disturbingly similar to Cat start disappearing from town, Cat and Jesse
discover frightening clues to their whereabouts within the book collection.
Together, they must stop a crazed man from realizing his dark scheme-- one that
would claim Cat's life.
Wrong Side Of Dead (Dreg City #4) by Kelly Meding
Monster hunter Evangeline Stone woke up on the
wrong side of dead this morning—and now there’s hell to pay. Barely recovered from her extended torture at the hands of mad scientist Walter Thackery, Evy can use a break. What she gets instead is a war, as the battered Triads that keep Dreg City safe find themselves under attack by half-Blood vampires who have somehow retained their reason, making them twice as lethal. Worse, the Halfies are joined by a breed of were-creature long believed extinct—back and more dangerous than ever. Meanwhile, Evy’s attempts at reconciliation with the man she loves take a hit after Wyatt is viciously assaulted—an attack traced to Thackery, who has not given up his quest to exterminate all vampires . . . even if he has to destroy Dreg City to do it. With Wyatt’s time running out, another threat emerges from the shadows and a staggering betrayal shatters the fragile alliance between the Triads, vampires, and shapeshifters, turning Evy’s world upside down forever.
Gift from Author:
Set Up For Love by Virna DePaul, Susan Hatler, & Delilah Sloan
Friends Don't Let Friends Date Badly...Three
stories. Three authors. Three kinds of romance. Sweet. Sassy. Sexy.
Sweet: The Boyfriend Bylaws by Susan Hatler: Will a woman have to follow her best friend's narrow dating rules in order to find lasting love? Melanie Porter has been dumped-again. When others accuse her of "being in love with being in love," she agrees to let her best friend, Patti, step in and direct her dating life with The Boyfriend Bylaws.
Sassy: Blind Date/Check Mate by Delilah Sloan: Should a woman who's unable to forget her first love give "happily ever after" one more try? Shelby Winters' one great love went sour. If she can't feel that way again, why bother? When her best friend sets Shelby up on a blind date with Logan, the one who broke her heart, he pursues her relentlessly, forcing her to make a choice: give her heart what it's always desired and risk total devastation or shut Logan out and lose her only shot at happiness. To Shelby, it's a lose-lose situation. Or is it?
Sexy: Wild For Him by Virna DePaul: Can an uptight prosecutor and a laid-back defense attorney find love despite their opposing agendas? Bryn Donovon became a prosecutor for a reason and defense attorney Daniel Mays seems to take his job about as seriously as he does his love life. While straight-laced Bryn can't deny she's attracted to the southern charmer, she's determined to keep her distance. Instead, she ends up finding something she'd lost long ago a willingness to risk all for love.
Sweet: The Boyfriend Bylaws by Susan Hatler: Will a woman have to follow her best friend's narrow dating rules in order to find lasting love? Melanie Porter has been dumped-again. When others accuse her of "being in love with being in love," she agrees to let her best friend, Patti, step in and direct her dating life with The Boyfriend Bylaws.
Sassy: Blind Date/Check Mate by Delilah Sloan: Should a woman who's unable to forget her first love give "happily ever after" one more try? Shelby Winters' one great love went sour. If she can't feel that way again, why bother? When her best friend sets Shelby up on a blind date with Logan, the one who broke her heart, he pursues her relentlessly, forcing her to make a choice: give her heart what it's always desired and risk total devastation or shut Logan out and lose her only shot at happiness. To Shelby, it's a lose-lose situation. Or is it?
Sexy: Wild For Him by Virna DePaul: Can an uptight prosecutor and a laid-back defense attorney find love despite their opposing agendas? Bryn Donovon became a prosecutor for a reason and defense attorney Daniel Mays seems to take his job about as seriously as he does his love life. While straight-laced Bryn can't deny she's attracted to the southern charmer, she's determined to keep her distance. Instead, she ends up finding something she'd lost long ago a willingness to risk all for love.
Free on Goodreads
Accidental Fate by M.A. Stacie
When Leo Sommers opens the door to his record store, the last thing he
expects to find is a screaming baby -- a baby that turns out to be his. Flung
into parenthood, he struggles to care for the one week old. Unable to contact
the baby's mother, he battles the incessantly crying baby alone. Until he
literally crashes into his savior.
Erin Miles gets out of her car to trade insurance details with the man who has rear-ended her car, she receives more than she expected. Instantly, she's drawn to the tattooed, exhausted man holding the squalling bundle. She sees how much Leo loves his son and offers help. Erin's patient and gentle caring for Leo and Joe soon develops into something far more than either of them had expected.
Erin Miles gets out of her car to trade insurance details with the man who has rear-ended her car, she receives more than she expected. Instantly, she's drawn to the tattooed, exhausted man holding the squalling bundle. She sees how much Leo loves his son and offers help. Erin's patient and gentle caring for Leo and Joe soon develops into something far more than either of them had expected.
Caught up in a whirlwind romance, they are on the cusp of exploring their
new relationship, when reality hits them in the face.
Free From Amazon:
Enchantment (Channie #1) by Charlotte Abel
Sixteen year old
Channie Kerns leads an idyllic life of seclusion and magic deep in the Ozark
Mountains ... until her family is forced to flee for their lives.
They leave everything and everyone behind to start over in Louisville, Colorado. Magic is forbidden while they are in hiding, but Channie can't resist the temptation to enchant a group of local boys. When her overbearing parents catch her flirting with these "sex-crazed, non-magical delinquints,” they slap a chastity spell on her to protect her virtue.
They leave everything and everyone behind to start over in Louisville, Colorado. Magic is forbidden while they are in hiding, but Channie can't resist the temptation to enchant a group of local boys. When her overbearing parents catch her flirting with these "sex-crazed, non-magical delinquints,” they slap a chastity spell on her to protect her virtue.
The spell is triggered by lust, so just navigating the halls at her new
school is an ordeal. She can't even touch a boy she's attracted to without
blasting him with a jolt of magical energy that feels like a taser.
When Channie falls in love with Josh Abrim, a BMX racer with dangerous secrets of his own, she rebels against her parents and turns to dark and forbidden magic to break the chastity spell ... with disastrous results.
When Channie falls in love with Josh Abrim, a BMX racer with dangerous secrets of his own, she rebels against her parents and turns to dark and forbidden magic to break the chastity spell ... with disastrous results.
For Everything by Rae Spencer
Clay Savage, the ebony
haired lead guitarist of the rock band Distracted has wanted dusky eyed Lily
Travis since the moment he met her over a year ago. No matter what he said or
how hard he tried Lily insisted on keeping their relationship as nothing more
than causal friendship. Weary of her excuses and only wanting a chance Clay
resorts to manipulation and cons Lily into being his weeklong date.
Now that Lily can no
longer avoid him or conceal herself as a wallflower Clay determinedly pursues
her only to stumble upon the horrific secret she conceals. Faced with trauma of
her past and the shame she wrongfully bears, Clay must now prove to Lily he can
protect her and convince her they have a chance For Everything.
Taken by the Cowboy by Julianne
MacLean
HERO AND PROTECTOR Former bounty hunter, expert gunslinger, and the toughest sheriff Dodge City has ever known, Truman Wade is a real man from the tip of his black Stetson right down to his spurs and leather boots. He’s never met his match in a gunfight, but he’s never met a gorgeous, gutsy woman from the twenty-first century either…
TORN BETWEEN TWO WORLDS
Newly single after a rocky breakup with her self-absorbed fiancé, newspaper columnist Jessica Delaney crashes her car in a lightning storm and soon finds herself dodging bullets in the Wild West. Before the night is out, she’s tossed in jail for a murder she didn’t commit, and if things don’t seem complicated enough, the impossibly handsome sheriff in charge of her arrest has danger written all over him - and a sexy swagger to die for. Jessica knows she needs to get home, but when Sheriff Wade’s enticing touch sets her passions on fire, she begins to wonder if fate has other plans for her, and soon she must choose between the life she longs for in the future… and the greatest love she’s ever known.
Newly single after a rocky breakup with her self-absorbed fiancé, newspaper columnist Jessica Delaney crashes her car in a lightning storm and soon finds herself dodging bullets in the Wild West. Before the night is out, she’s tossed in jail for a murder she didn’t commit, and if things don’t seem complicated enough, the impossibly handsome sheriff in charge of her arrest has danger written all over him - and a sexy swagger to die for. Jessica knows she needs to get home, but when Sheriff Wade’s enticing touch sets her passions on fire, she begins to wonder if fate has other plans for her, and soon she must choose between the life she longs for in the future… and the greatest love she’s ever known.
Scent of Passion (Rutledge Werewolves #1)
by Elizabeth Lapthorne
Sophie
Briggs threw caution to the wind for one night, and found herself six weeks
later staring at a scary line on her positive home pregnancy test. Now the
biggest problem she has to face is whether or not to contact the father, a man
she hardly knows. He may not know about her and the baby, but she is learning
lots about him. Her nightly dreams are hot enough to ignite the bed sheets!
Artemais Rutledge, as Alpha Werewolf for his Pack, had
been searching for his True Mate for more years than he cared to think about,
and felt certain he had found her that one night with Sophie. His biggest
problem is claiming her and making her his for all time.
When Artemais finally catches up with her, the sparks
certainly fly, but she isn't as pliable as he believed. All he needs is to
marry her and settle her in his house with their baby, explain he's a werewolf,
and try to stop his brothers from finding out what a tough time he's having of
it all.
He's certain it will be a piece of cake, if he could
simply stop wallowing in her scent and get his head (the one on his shoulders)
screwed on straight for more than a few seconds at a time.
3 comments
Okay... took a while to get past the blog header... jealous! Also, love the cover of Torn! LOVE!
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Lindsay :)
Turning the Pages
Wow, you got a ton this week! And it all looks great! I hope you enjoy it all :)
ReplyDeleteHere's my IMM!
Until Next Time! I haven't read it yet, but I did feature it in Shelf Candy and posted for the tour yesterday. I am looking forward to what you think of it among your other reads. Enjoy.
ReplyDelete-FABR Steph@FiveAlarmBookReviews