Tuesday, April 30, 2013

New Releases 2013 (Apr 30)




Headed for Trouble (Troubleshooters) [Mass Market Paperback]

Product Description

New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Brockmann, whom USA Today calls “the reigning queen of military suspense,” breaks out a rapid-fire collection of pulse-pounding, heart-tugging stories and novellas featuring the intrepid men and women of Troubleshooters Inc., fiction’s hottest ultimate counterterrorism squad.


Tough-as-nails Troubleshooters operative Sam Starrett learns the agony of loving someone in danger — and the hell of waiting on the home front — as his wife, Alyssa, hurtles into a foreign hotspot that’s about to boil over.

Navy SEAL Frank O’Leary’s ill-fated holiday reunion with his older brother takes a turn for the better — when a chance encounter on a rainy New Orleans street gives Frank a reason to be thankful after all.

In a maze of tunnels deep beneath a military base in Germany, Jules Cassidy, Alyssa Locke, and their comrades in arms match wits with terrorists on a mission with explosive consequences.

Plus more never-before-released adventures featuring Jenk, Izzy, Gillman, Lopez, Kenny, Savannah, and other members of SEAL Team 16 — along with Suzanne Brockmann’s exclusive interviews with her beloved characters.

Looking for the best kind of trouble? You’ve found it! 









Against the Edge (Raines of Wind Canyon) [Mass Market Paperback]

Product Description


A child he's never met. A danger he's never known.

That he's a father is news former navy SEAL Ben Slocum was not expecting. But once the initial shock wears off for the confirmed bachelor, he takes in the rest of what social worker Claire Chastain tells him: that his son is missing, abducted by a man who wants revenge against Claire and Sam's dead mother. And that Ben is now the child's only hope.

As Ben and Claire band together to track the two down, their concern for Sam draws them closer, each fighting feelings there's no time to explore. Because when their search takes them too close to Sam's abductor and his cohorts, the danger hits home — the son he's desperate to save, the woman he's desperate to love Ben's got one chance to take back what's his, and in one gunshot he could lose it all.

Bare It All [Mass Market Paperback] 
Product Description 

A cop's craving to know more about the woman next door could prove fatal in the steamy new novel from New York Times best selling author Lori Foster.
As the person responsible for taking down a brutal human trafficker, Alice Appleton fears retaliation at every turn. No one knows about her past, which is exactly how she prefers it until the sexy cop next door comes knocking.

Detective Reese Bareden thinks he knows what makes women tick, but his ever-elusive neighbor keeps him guessing like no other. Is his goal to unmask Alice's secrets? Or protect her from a dangerous new threat? One thing is certain: their chemistry is a time bomb waiting to explode. And with no one to trust but each other, Reese and Alice are soon drawn into a deadly maze of corruption, intrigue and desire — and into the line of fire. 


Midnight Secrets: The Wildefire Series [Mass Market Paperback]

Product Description

AT THE STROKE OF MIDNIGHT, THE HEAT BEGINS

On a hot southern night, with a storm on the horizon, a family is shattered. Three beautiful daughters — Savannah, Samantha, and Sabrina Wilde — go on with their lives, each significantly changed, as they bear the memory of the murder-suicide that killed their parents. For years, they have stayed away from Midnight, Alabama. Until Midnight calls them home.

Savannah is the first one back, when a grueling case in Nashville leads the young prosecutor to seek shelter in the quiet of the once grand Wilde mansion. But when she finds letters casting doubt on her family’s dark, shameful past, she realizes that peace in Midnight is a shallow façade and sinister secrets lurk beneath the surface. Zach Tanner, once the town’s bad boy, is now the new police chief and still has a wild hold over her. Zach can feel it, too, but he hurt Savannah once. As teenagers, they broke every rule together. Now it’s his job to keep her safe, even though he isn’t sure who her enemies are — or which ones might be his own.

Monday, April 29, 2013

New Release 2013 (Apr 29)








12th of Never (Women's Murder Club) [Hardcover]

Product Description

It's finally time! Detective Lindsay Boxer is in labor while two killers are on the loose.

Lindsay Boxer's beautiful baby is born! But after only a week at home with her new daughter, Lindsay is forced to return to work to face two of the biggest cases of her career.

A rising star football player for the San Francisco 49ers is the prime suspect in a grisly murder. At the same time, Lindsay is confronted with the strangest story she's ever heard: An eccentric English professor has been having vivid nightmares about a violent murder and he's convinced is real. Lindsay doesn't believe him, but then a shooting is called in - and it fits the professor's description to the last detail.

Lindsay doesn't have much time to stop a terrifying future from unfolding. But all the crimes in the world seem like nothing when Lindsay is suddenly faced with the possibility of the most devastating loss of her life.

Product Details
Hardcover: 432 pages
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (April 29, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 031621082X
ISBN-13: 978-0316210829

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? (Apr 29)


What Are You Reading is a weekly Monday Meme that is hosted by Sheila from One Persons Journey: http://bookjourney.wordpress.com

Post the books you read last week, book currently being read and books you plan on finishing this week.

Last week I read:

1.  Shadow Woman - Linda Howard
2.  Wicked Lies - Lisa Jackson

I’m currently reading:

1.  Rage: Faces of Evil - Debra Webb
2. Follow Her Home - Steph Cha

Here's the link:

http://bookjourney.wordpress.com/2013/04/28/its-monday-what-are-you-reading-186 

Saturday, April 27, 2013

Something Wicked [Hardcover]



I've finished "Something Wicked" by Lisa Jackson and Nancy Bush.

Product Description

YOU SENSE HIM Some refer to it as the Colony. To others, it’s a cult. But few locals in the Oregon coastal hamlet of Deception Bay have ever been invited to the inner sanctum of Siren Song. Even the sisters who live here, far from strangers who might recoil at their unnerving psychic abilities, don’t know all the terrors buried within its walls.  YOU FEAR HIM Eight months into a surrogate pregnancy for her sister, Kristina, Detective Savannah Dunbar just wants to wrap up paperwork before taking medical leave. But her department’s investigation into a brutal double homicide has suddenly become much more complex — and personal. And now there are disturbing rumors about the Colony, its matriarch, and a long history of bitter secrets.  BUT YOU CAN NEVER STOP HIM Death has come to Siren Song before. But this time there will be no refuge and no remorse. For everything born in wickedness must die that way — and a killer will not rest until he has claimed them all.

Product Details
Hardcover: 361 pages
Publisher: Kensington Pub Corp (T) (February 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 075828750X
ISBN-13: 978-0758287502


My Review:

In Deception Bay there is a cult with some very deep and dark secrets and a killer is on the loose.

Detective Savannah Dunbar is a surrogate for her sister and brother-in law and is in her last trimester.  She is about to go on maternity leave when people are getting murdered left and right.

I kind of thought it was of weird that she started having an attraction and having sex dreams about her brother-in-law. 

It was unbelievable that after giving birth in a car during a blizzard that she is at work the next day in tip top shape.

This series is a little slow moving with interesting story lines and intriguing deep dark secrets the cult wants to keep.

3/5

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Waiting on Wednesday


Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection are:







Headed for Trouble (Troubleshooters) [Mass Market Paperback]

Product Description

New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Brockmann, whom USA Today calls “the reigning queen of military suspense,” breaks out a rapid-fire collection of pulse-pounding, heart-tugging stories and novellas featuring the intrepid men and women of Troubleshooters Inc., fiction’s hottest ultimate counterterrorism squad.


Tough-as-nails Troubleshooters operative Sam Starrett learns the agony of loving someone in danger — and the hell of waiting on the home front — as his wife, Alyssa, hurtles into a foreign hotspot that’s about to boil over.

Navy SEAL Frank O’Leary’s ill-fated holiday reunion with his older brother takes a turn for the better — when a chance encounter on a rainy New Orleans street gives Frank a reason to be thankful after all.

In a maze of tunnels deep beneath a military base in Germany, Jules Cassidy, Alyssa Locke, and their comrades in arms match wits with terrorists on a mission with explosive consequences.

Plus more never-before-released adventures featuring Jenk, Izzy, Gillman, Lopez, Kenny, Savannah, and other members of SEAL Team 16 — along with Suzanne Brockmann’s exclusive interviews with her beloved characters.

Looking for the best kind of trouble? You’ve found it! 









Against the Edge (Raines of Wind Canyon) [Mass Market Paperback]

Product Description


A child he's never met. A danger he's never known.

That he's a father is news former navy SEAL Ben Slocum was not expecting. But once the initial shock wears off for the confirmed bachelor, he takes in the rest of what social worker Claire Chastain tells him: that his son is missing, abducted by a man who wants revenge against Claire and Sam's dead mother. And that Ben is now the child's only hope.

As Ben and Claire band together to track the two down, their concern for Sam draws them closer, each fighting feelings there's no time to explore. Because when their search takes them too close to Sam's abductor and his cohorts, the danger hits home — the son he's desperate to save, the woman he's desperate to love Ben's got one chance to take back what's his, and in one gunshot he could lose it all.






Bare It All [Mass Market Paperback]

Product Description

A cop's craving to know more about the woman next door could prove fatal in the steamy new novel from New York Times best selling author Lori Foster.

As the person responsible for taking down a brutal human trafficker, Alice Appleton fears retaliation at every turn. No one knows about her past, which is exactly how she prefers it until the sexy cop next door comes knocking.

Detective Reese Bareden thinks he knows what makes women tick, but his ever-elusive neighbor keeps him guessing like no other. Is his goal to unmask Alice's secrets? Or protect her from a dangerous new threat? One thing is certain: their chemistry is a time bomb waiting to explode. And with no one to trust but each other, Reese and Alice are soon drawn into a deadly maze of corruption, intrigue and desire — and into the line of fire.







Midnight Secrets: The Wildefire Series [Mass Market Paperback]

Product Description

AT THE STROKE OF MIDNIGHT, THE HEAT BEGINS


On a hot southern night, with a storm on the horizon, a family is shattered. Three beautiful daughters — Savannah, Samantha, and Sabrina Wilde — go on with their lives, each significantly changed, as they bear the memory of the murder-suicide that killed their parents. For years, they have stayed away from Midnight, Alabama. Until Midnight calls them home.

Savannah is the first one back, when a grueling case in Nashville leads the young prosecutor to seek shelter in the quiet of the once grand Wilde mansion. But when she finds letters casting doubt on her family’s dark, shameful past, she realizes that peace in Midnight is a shallow façade and sinister secrets lurk beneath the surface. Zach Tanner, once the town’s bad boy, is now the new police chief and still has a wild hold over her. Zach can feel it, too, but he hurt Savannah once. As teenagers, they broke every rule together. Now it’s his job to keep her safe, even though he isn’t sure who her enemies are — or which ones might be his own.

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Shadow Woman: A Novel [Hardcover]



I've finished "Shadow Woman" by Linda Howard.

Product Description

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

From Linda Howard comes a thrilling and sensual new novel of romance, suspense, intrigue and memories that can kill.

SHADOW WOMAN


Lizette Henry wakes up one morning and makes a terrifying discovery: She doesn’t recognize the face she sees in the mirror. She remembers what she looks like, but her reflection is someone else’s. To add to the shock, two years seem to have disappeared from her life. Someone has gone to great and inexplicable lengths to keep those missing years hidden forever. But the past always finds a way to return.

Strange memories soon begin to surface and, along with them, some unusual skills and talents that Lizette hasn’t a clue about acquiring. Sensing that she’s being monitored, Lizette suddenly knows how to search for bugs in her house and tracking devices in her car. What’s more, she can elude surveillance — like a trained agent.

Enter a mysterious and seductive stranger named Xavier, who claims he wants to help — but who triggers disturbing images of an unspeakable crime of which Lizette may or may not be the perpetrator. With memories returning, she suddenly becomes a target of anonymous assassins. On the run with nowhere to hide, Lizette has no choice but to rely on Xavier, a strong and magnetic man she doesn’t trust, with a powerful attraction she cannot resist. As murky waters become clear, Lizette confronts a conspiracy that is treacherous and far-reaching and a truth that, once revealed, may silence her and Xavier once and for all.

About the Author

Linda Howard is the award-winning author of many New York Times bestsellers, including Shadow Woman, Prey, Veil of Night, Ice, Burn, Death Angel, Up Close and Dangerous, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Cover of Night, Killing Time, To Die For, Kiss Me While I Sleep, Cry No More, Dying to Please, Open Season, Mr. Perfect, All the Queen’s Men, Now You See Her, Kill and Tell, and Son of the Morning, and co-author (with Linda Jones) of Blood Born. She lives in Alabama with her husband and a golden retriever.

Product Details
Hardcover: 336 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books; First Edition first Printing edition (January 1, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0345506936
ISBN-13: 978-0345506931


My Review:

Linda Howard is one of my favorite authors but I kind of prefer her early romantic suspense books!

This book had more suspense than romance though there is one intertwined within the story of a woman who is trying to figure out who she is and her mystery man.

Lizzy was a great heroine because she can take care of herself without knowing what is going on.  I'm just glad she was a helpless heroine who needed to rely on the hero to save her.

Xavier was an alpha male who wasn't too arrogant and he always had eyes and ears on Lizzy.

3.5/5

Monday, April 22, 2013

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? (Apr 22)


What Are You Reading is a weekly Monday Meme that is hosted by Sheila from One Persons Journey: http://bookjourney.wordpress.com

Post the books you read last week, book currently being read and books you plan on finishing this week.

Last week I read:

1.  NightWatcher - Wendy Corsi Staub
2.  Stolen - Shiloh Walker

I’m currently reading:

1.  Shadow Woman - Linda Howard
2.  Something Wicked - Lisa Jackson

Here's the link:

http://bookjourney.wordpress.com/2013/04/21/its-monday-what-are-you-reading-185 

Saturday, April 20, 2013

Stolen: A Novel of Romantic Suspense [Mass Market Paperback]



I've finished "Stolen" by Shiloh Walker.

Product Description

This thrilling and super sexy novel from bestselling romantic suspense author Shiloh Walker will appeal to fans of Allison Brennan and Linda Howard.

Shay Morgan has stayed hidden for a long time. Living a reclusive life in Earth’s End, Alaska, she’s as far away as she can get from the trauma of her childhood and the man who hurt her long ago. But terror takes over Shay’s life yet again when an unknown stalker steals away the fragile peace she’s built for herself — targeting not only her but the one man who’s ever managed to get past the walls she’s built around herself.

Elliot Winter has lived through being falsely accused before — it ruined his military career. Now it’s happening all over again. And this time, his accuser is a twisted impostor who’s targeting his ex-girlfriend, Shay. Despite a fierce mutual attraction, Shay and Elliot broke up because Shay couldn’t let her guard down, couldn’t let Elliot in. But now they both need to trust each other to confront a psycho who seems to know all their secrets.

About the Author

Shiloh Walker is the bestselling author of If You Hear Her, If You See Her, If You Know Her, Chains, Fragile, and The Missing. She loves reading and writing anything fantasy and nearly every kind of romance. Once upon a time she worked as a nurse, but now she writes full-time and lives with her family in the Midwest.

Product Details
Mass Market Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books (October 30, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0345531906
ISBN-13: 978-0345531902


My Review:

Shay Morgan has painfully distanced herself from her childhood trauma.  She lives in Alaska as a reclusive successful author.  Her website is the only touch with the outside world and she doesn't like being in the spotlight.  She is unwillingly allows anyone to get close to her and is the reason why she and Elliot are no longer a couple.  Someone is impersonating her and spreading lies about Elliot.

Elliot Winter is Shay's ex-boyfriend and is a bookstore owner.  He couldn't believe it when his favorite author Shane Neil came into the store and autographed books, left bookmarks and gave him an ARC of her upcoming book.  When Shay confides in him that she is indeed Shane Neil he doesn't believe her at first but he realizes things aren't adding up and he decides to help her figure out who is pretending to be her.

The mystery suspense was well written and had many twists and turns.  Elliot is a guy you would love to find in real life because he's handsome, smart and takes care of people who he loves, etc.  Lorna is the friend you would love to have in real life because she's caring, supportive and gives great advice.

3/5