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.
Brought:
The Restorer (Graveyard Queen #1) by Amanda Stevens
My
name is Amelia Gray. I'm a cemetery restorer who sees ghosts. In order to
protect myself from the parasitic nature of the dead, I've always held fast to
the rules passed down from my father. But now a haunted police detective has
entered my world and everything is changing, including the rules that have
always kept me safe.
It started with the discovery of a young woman's
brutalized body in an old Charleston graveyard I've been hired to restore. The
clues to the killer—and to his other victims—lie in the headstone symbolism
that only I can interpret. Devlin needs my help, but his ghosts shadow his
every move, feeding off his warmth, sustaining their presence with his energy.
To warn him would be to invite them into my life. I've vowed to keep my distance,
but the pull of his magnetism grows ever stronger even as the symbols lead me
closer to the killer and to the gossamer veil that separates this world from
the next.
For Review:
Cinder (Lunar
Chronicles #1) by Marissa Meyer
Humans and androids
crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the
population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their
move. No one knows that Earth’s fate hinges on one girl. . . .
Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She’s a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister’s illness. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai’s, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction. Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world’s future.
Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She’s a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister’s illness. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai’s, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction. Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world’s future.
NetGalley:
Lies Beneath (Lies Beneath #1) by Andrea Cremer
Calder White lives in the cold, clear waters
of Lake Superior, the only brother in a family of murderous mermaids. To
survive, Calder and his sisters prey on humans, killing them to absorb their
energy. But this summer the underwater clan targets Jason Hancock out of pure
revenge. They blame Hancock for their mother's death and have been waiting a
long time for him to return to his family's homestead on the lake.
Hancock has a fear of
water, so to lure him in, Calder sets out to seduce Hancock's daughter, Lily.
Easy enough—especially as Calder has lots of practice using his irresistable
good looks and charm on ususpecting girls. Only this time Calder screws
everything up: he falls for Lily—just as Lily starts to suspect that there's
more to the monsters-in-the-lake legends than she ever imagined. And just as
his sisters are losing patience with him.
The Kingdom (Graveyard Queen #2) by Amanda Stevens
Deep in the
shadowy foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains lies a dying town... My name is Amelia Gray. They call me The Graveyard Queen. I’ve been commissioned to restore an old cemetery in Asher Falls, South Carolina, but I’m coming to think I have another purpose here.
Why is there a cemetery at the bottom of Bell Lake? Why am I drawn time and again to a hidden grave I’ve discovered in the woods? Something is eating away at the soul of this town—this withering kingdom—and it will only be restored if I can uncover the truth.
Dark Sins and Desert Sands (The Edge
#3) by Stephaniei
Draven
Escaping a hellish Syrian prison, U.S. serviceman Ray
Stavrakis emerged with uncanny mind-control powers and an eerie ability to
morph into a mythical Minotaur. As a half man, half bull, Ray had legendary
power, but only one woman could prove his innocence. The woman who'd driven him
to the brink of insanity with her cool-eyed interrogation and her hot-blooded
sensuality.
But
Vegas psychologist Layla Bahset had no memory of Ray or her past. Only a
feeling of being stalked by a nonhuman predator. Was it Ray…whose eyes
condemned her soul even as his hands ignited her body? Or was another evil
force at work? But nothing could stop Layla from remembering what she was…and what her evil
creator had planned for her and her soldier lover….
Banshee Charmer (From the Files of the
Otherworlder Enforcement Agency #1) by Tiffany Allee
When she’s sent to a
crime scene and finds her second dead woman in as many weeks, half-banshee
detective Kiera “Mac” McLoughlin is convinced a serial killer is on the loose.
Incubi are extinct, her boss insists. But what else can kill a woman in the throes
of pleasure? When her partner is murdered after using witchcraft to locate the
killer and Mac is thrown off the case, her frustration turns to desperation.
Certain
the killer is an incubus, Mac works behind her department’s back to chase down
slim, sometimes perilous leads. While the killer eludes her, she does discover
handsome Aidan Byrne, an investigative counterpart from the enigmatic
Otherworlder Enforcement Agency. Mac typically runs her investigations fast and
hard, but with Aidan at her side, she’s running this one “hot” as well. But
Aidan knows more than he’s letting on—something that could shatter their
blazing romance and add Mac to the killer’s growing body count…
Raven Calls (Walker Papers #7) by C.E. Murphy
Something wicked this way comes… Suddenly, being bitten by a werewolf is the least of Joanne Walker’s problems.
Her personal life in turmoil, her job as a cop over, she’s been called to Ireland by the magic within her. And though Joanne’s skills have grown by leaps and bounds, Ireland’s magic is old and very powerful…
In fact, this is a case of unfinished business. Because the woman Joanne has come to Ireland to rescue is the
woman who sacrificed everything for Joanne—the woman who died a year ago. Now, through a slip in time, she’s in thrall to a dark power and Joanne must battle darkness, time and the gods themselves to save her.
Free From Amazon:
Rocked by Passion by Jennifer T. Alli
A tormented soul...
Cursed from birth Kieron has only ever known loathing and fear, the spirit of earth that he carries within him cursing him to a lifetime of solitude. He stumbles upon Estraya, his connection to her strong and instantaneous but he fights against it knowing that it's impossible for a monster like him to touch the stars.
A kindred spirit...
Sold into slavery by her family and hunted by a man crazed with the need to possess her, Estraya trusts no one. When she meets Kieron she sees him as nothing more than a means to achieving freedom but the wall around her guarded heart falls to his gruff words, her heart seeing him for the man he truly is.
A love strong enough to move worlds.
Determined to keep his curses from the only woman to see him as a man not a beast, Kieron vows to keep her safe within his arms. But as the past catches up to the present Kieron will have to use everything at his disposal, including the curses that have caused him nothing but misery, to save the woman who has given him his first taste of the fruits of passion.
Cursed from birth Kieron has only ever known loathing and fear, the spirit of earth that he carries within him cursing him to a lifetime of solitude. He stumbles upon Estraya, his connection to her strong and instantaneous but he fights against it knowing that it's impossible for a monster like him to touch the stars.
A kindred spirit...
Sold into slavery by her family and hunted by a man crazed with the need to possess her, Estraya trusts no one. When she meets Kieron she sees him as nothing more than a means to achieving freedom but the wall around her guarded heart falls to his gruff words, her heart seeing him for the man he truly is.
A love strong enough to move worlds.
Determined to keep his curses from the only woman to see him as a man not a beast, Kieron vows to keep her safe within his arms. But as the past catches up to the present Kieron will have to use everything at his disposal, including the curses that have caused him nothing but misery, to save the woman who has given him his first taste of the fruits of passion.
'Tween Heaven and Hell (Dancin’
With the Devil #1) by Erin McCarthy
Astra Q Phelps is a Tweener,
which means she's part angel and part devil. She vaporizes devils and demons
for a living. When Astra gets the call from the big Him to aid the good side in
a battle between two rival devil courts, she finds herself battling not only
the forces of evil but her own nature as she rubs up against the sexiest, most
infuriatingly enticing devil prince and discovers he brings out her devil in
the most delicious ways.But Astra's problems don't end with a worrying jolt to her
sexual nervous system.
She is also discovering
that she doesn't really know herself all that well as she begins to uncover
magic powers that she didn't know she possessed. She might be entangled in a
prophecy that links her to her delicious devil prince in more ways than one.
Add to this spicy mix a few yummy secrets she learns about her longtime partner
and friend, Emo, and you have a tantalizing stew of problems to solve, and only
one small Tweener to unravel them all.
Reader Advisory: This book contains graphic violence.
It’s Natalie’s ten-year high school reunion and she’s reluctantly joined
the planning committee. Things start to look up, though, when she finds that
Haley Moore is on the committee—and she’s even more gorgeous than Natalie
remembered.
Ten years before, Natalie and Haley had experimented sexually together, but when high school ended, they went their separate ways. Their unexpected reunion finds them ready to make up for lost time, both in bed and out.
Ten years before, Natalie and Haley had experimented sexually together, but when high school ended, they went their separate ways. Their unexpected reunion finds them ready to make up for lost time, both in bed and out.
