Welcome!

It’s great to see the growing popularity of paranormal romance and urban fantasy genres. We’ve been readers of these books from the days when all we could get were Anne Rice and a few aliens stranded on earth! Thankfully we now have a banquet of choice before us with many fantastic books out there and more coming all the time.

However one thing about this popularity is that it has also encouraged a whole range of really BAD books – you know, ones where having a pair of fangs or a buff bod gives the man the right to be an alpha male in the fine tradition of Tarzan claiming his mate! Oh really? I don’t think so! We’ve moved on from the 1950s and you’re more likely to get a whack across the ear if you try any of that ridiculous posturing around here.

But at the same time there are so many terrific authors writing fascinating engrossing books that draw us into their worlds and give us a ride of a lifetime.

So, check out our reviews and recommendations and we’ll do what we can to help you find your way through the ever increasing range of books out there to find the ones that will make your heart pound and your imagination soar.

So welcome to our world – it’s fun, it’s addictive and we love it!

Authors After Dark Conference

I often say how much I enjoy Jackie Frank’s novels ... and so I’ve decided to go to her Paranormal Weekend this year. From 23-26 October I’ll be in upstate New York with about 20 paranormal romance authors. I can’t wait! I’ll be sure to send back lots of info and I’ll be collecting goodies to give away to our customers!

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Highlights of Recent Releases - the ones we've read and can highly recommend

A Rush of Wings: Adrian Phoenix

This is a wonderful debut novel – part FBI serial killer mystery and part vampire urban fantasy – and completely tough and unrelenting in its pace and action. Dante is initially annoying but intriguing and ultimately claims your interest completely – while Heather makes for a believable investigator caught in conspiracies she could never have imagined. There are some rough edges expected in a debut novel, but this is obviously the start of a powerful and fascinating new urban fantasy suspense series.
FBI Special Agent Heather Wallace has been tracking a sadistic serial murderer known as the Cross Country Killer...and the trail has led her to New Orleans, Club Hell, and Dante. But the dangerously attractive musician not only resists her investigation, he claims to be nightkind: in other words, a vampire. As the shocking secrets of his past are revealed, the danger increases...

Through the Veil: Shiloh Walker

From the very beginning this book had me hooked. The science fiction elements marry well with the paranormal romance themes to give us an action packed and clever take on a world on the verge of destruction and the band of warriors who are the last line of defense. Typical of Shiloh Walker, there is a lot of steamy sex, but thankfully the storyline and the worlds she has created balance this out.
All her life, Lee Ross has tried to forget the odd dreams that have plagued her, of monsters creeping through the night and a man fighting demons by her side. But the bruises she wakes with are all too real to ignore . . . Then the man from her dreams, Kalen, appears and insists that her destiny lies in his world, the world of her dreams. To save their people, he must convince Lee to give up everything she knows, follow her heart, and cross over into the Under Realm-even though once she does, she'll never be able to return . . .

Rapture: Jacquelyn Frank

The name says it all! This second book of the Shadowdwellers series is even better than book one: Ecstasy. The politics, shifting alliances, anonymous attacks and betrayals all bring a heightened tension to the story that is already incredible with it’s two main characters, ex slave Daenaira (do NOT piss her off!) facing off against Magnus, the Shadowdweller’s High Priest. This series just gets better and better. But, this book also has the longest sex scene I’ve ever read – give it it’s own chapter and be done with it! Whew!
The Shadowdwellers live in a realm of darkness and sensuality, where order is prized and sin must be punished. Yet for Magnus, the head priest of Sanctuary, salvation rests with the one woman who can entice him to break every rule...But beneath Sanctuary's calm surface, an enemy is scheming to unleash havoc on the Shadowdwellers, unless Magnus trusts in a union ordained by fate, and sealed by unending bliss

ANGEL’s Blood: Nalini Singh

I love the books that Nalini Singh gives us. Without fail we get strong women, flowing dialogue, complicated plot twists and very good writing. ANGEL’s Blood delivers this and a whole lot more! This is a compelling trek into the world of the absolutely powerful and the lengths they will go to maintain that power. Five stars from me!
Nalini Singh introduces readers to a world of beauty and bloodlust, where angels hold sway over vampires.
Vampire hunter Elena Deveraux is hired by the dangerously beautiful Archangel Raphael. But this time, it’s not a wayward vamp she has to track. It’s an archangel gone bad. The job will put Elena in the midst of a killing spree like no other—and pull her to the razor’s edge of passion. Even if the hunt doesn’t destroy her, succumbing to Raphael’s seductive touch just may. For when archangels play, mortals break.

Coyote’s Mate: Lora Leigh

I think that either you love Lora Leigh – or you’re mad (oops sorry!) I remember reading my first of her Breed books and being shocked by the suffering of her characters, the emotional connection I felt to the story – and a little taken aback at the eroticism in the book (this was a few years ago and my first Lora Leigh, so give me a break!) Coyote’s Mate is a wonderful addition to this fascinating and tough world – and with Bengal’s Heart due out soon, I am happy happy happy!
For six years Anya Korbin worked with Del-Rey Delgato the genetically altered rebel known as the Coyote Ghost to free a group of coyote women kept in her father's lab. As Anya matured into a woman, she and Del-Rey grew close but then he broke his promise and killed her father. Now she must deal with her desire for the one who betrayed her.

Fangs But No Fangs: Kathy Love

After the intensity of some of the good books out there it’s a delight to sit back and enjoy another book in Kathy Love’s Immortality Bites series. This is a book that makes you grab for the chocolate while settling in for a good old fun read.
If I hadn't seen it for myself, I'd swear it couldn't be true: my brother, Christian, living in a trailer park and working at a karaoke bar. We're talking about the snob who'd probably sniff the plasma packets and send 'em back in a huff if the blood type wasn't the right vintage. But after centuries of living in the undead fastlane, he's made up his mind that this is exactly where he needs to spend the rest of eternity, atoning for his many, many, sins. But sometimes things just don't work out like you think they will. Sometimes your hell can turn into your heaven. And thanks to Christian's chatty neighbour and boss, Jolee, things seem to be getting a whole lot nicer in Shady Fork Mobile Estates.

Seduce the Darkness: Gena Showalter

The next adventures of Alien Investigation and Removal gives us the unrepentantly arrogant Devyn with his confidence in his amazing attraction and sexual prowess - and Bride,the woman who brings him down! Oh this is such fun! And thankfully at the end Devyn is still as much of a rogue as ever. This sounds like light fluff but actually there’s also a great blend of action, emotional depth and interesting danger.
Devyn is a king, a warrior and an unrepentant collector of women, able to charm anyone anywhere. Except Bride. Bride McKells is a street-wise fighter but uneducated in the ways of the vampire and desperate to find another of her kind. Together they will enter the seedy world of slave auctions, battle a powerful alien queen whose diseased blood turns humans into cannibals and discover a passion unlike any other. But in the end, Bride must choose between the man she's come to love and the family she's always longed for.

Reviews

Karen Chance – an author we love – most times!

If we think of gritty Urban Fantasy – odds are we’ll hold up Karen Chance as an icon for the genre. Her Cassandra Palmer series has all the elements of intelligent writing, complex social and political structures, dangerous threats, betrayals, battles against evil – plus a cast of paranormal beings that defies a short description. There’s more sexual tension than actual romance, because nothing in this world is easy! But Cassandra is believably kick-ass while still someone you can feel a connection to. Karen Chance’s writing is lyrical, graphic, reflective ... and very well done.
I’ve just had the chance to read her latest book Midnight’s Daughter, which is a new story arc set within the same world and a crossover of characters, but with Dorina Basarab as the main character. Maybe it was that I was getting tired of Cassandra and her clairvoyancy, but I just loved Dorina. Check out the full review on our website but regardless, if you like your world tough and action packed, your characters interesting and well explored and the possibilities of the world endless – then check out Karen Chance.

Sherrilyn Kenyon - Born of Night

If you liked the Dark Hunter series, I don’t think you’ll be disappointed, and if you didn’t, I think you’ll find yourself pleasantly surprised with the latest trilogy from Sherrilyn Kenyon: “The League”.
These are not light books; there is a lot of detail, a lot of emotion, and well, just simply a lot of story to cover. Born of Night is a big book with a detailed storyline that is trying to introduce us to a whole new world. Sherrilyn Kenyon does it very well.

Born of Night takes the tortured soul idea that we saw in Dark Hunter and takes it up a notch. Our guy is the strong silent type, brooding without sulking, manly without being overbearing, mysterious without hiding. Just lots of yum.
I do, of course, have a couple of niggles:..read more...

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