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Title:  Ruined: (A Decadence after Dark Epilogue) by M. Never Publisher:  Amazon Digital Services Format:  Kindle Pages:  102 pages Genre : Erotica, romance, BDSM Synopsis:  ***Content Warning*** Claimed is a dark erotic romance. Please pay close attention to the use of the words dark, erotic, and romance. It has intense sexual situations, a Master/slave relationship, mild abuse and some violence. Reader discretion is advised. Kayne Roberts. Kayne Rivers. Kayne Stevens. No matter his name, one fact remains the same. He's the man who enslaved me, ensnared me, claimed me and ruined me...For all other men that is. My life. My love My happiness. All belong to him. I belong to no one but him. He owns me. And I own him. (68)Review:  The finale to the Decadence After Dark series, a very satisfying ending to this series.  Once again it is smoking hot and well done. Will Kanye and Ellie have children? What will happen to thier relation...

Title:  Claimed (Decadence after Dark Book 2) by M. Never Publisher:  Amazon Digital Services Format:  Kindle Pages:  269 pages Genre : Erotica, romance, BDSM Synopsis:  ***Content Warning*** Claimed is a dark erotic romance. Please pay close attention to the use of the words dark, erotic, and romance. It has intense sexual situations, a Master/slave relationship, mild abuse and some violence. Reader discretion is advised. With one look he consumed me. With one touch he marked me. With one kiss he owned me. With one whisper he claimed me. Ellie Stevens thought she had moved on from the domineering man who abducted her. Now living in Hawaii and following her dreams, no one is going to keep her down. But things aren't always as they seem. Kayne Rivers reluctantly let Ellie go, but just because she's gone now, doesn't mean she'll be gone forever. She is his, and he won't stop until he's reclaimed her as his own. (67)Review:  I had some prob...

Title:   Owned (Decadence after Dark Book 1) (A Decadence after Dark Novel) by M. Never Publisher: CreateSpace Format: I received an advanced E-book copy from the publisher in exchange for an honest review through netgalley.com Pages: 237 pages Genre : Erotica, romance, BDSM This book is due to be released in paperback on Oct. 3, 2015  but you can download a kindle version now.  Synopsis:  ***Content Warning*** Owned is a dark erotic romance. Please pay close attention to the use of the words dark, erotic, and romance. It has intense sexual situations, a Master/slave relationship, mild abuse, and some violence. Reader discretion is advised. Ellie Stevens has lusted over Kayne Roberts since he first walked into the import/export company she works for a little over a year ago. As Expo’s most important client, Ellie has always kept a safe distance from the man with the majestic blue eyes - until temptation finally gets the better of her. Impulsively, El...

Title: A Song of Shadows: A Charlie Parker Thriller by John Connolly Publisher: Atria Books Format: Advanced e-copy from the publisher through  netgalley.com  in exchange for an honest review Pages: 448 Pages Genre: mystery, thriller This title is to be released on September 29, 2015 Synopsis:  Still recovering from his life-threatening wounds, private detective Charlie Parker investigates a case that has its origins in a Nazi concentration camp during the Second World War. Parker has retreated to the small Maine town of Boreas to regain his strength. There he befriends a widow named Ruth Winter and her young daughter, Amanda. But Ruth has her secrets. Old atrocities are about to be unearthed, and old sinners will kill to hide their sins. Now Parker is about to risk his life to defend a woman he barely knows, one who fears him almost as much as she fears those who are coming for her. His enemies believe him to be vulnerable. Fearful. Solitary. But they ...

Title:  Rogue by Gina Damico Publisher:  Audible Studios Format:  Audible Audio Book Length:  9 hrs 10 min Narrator:  Jessica Almasy Genre:  YA Synopsis:  Lex, a teenage Grim Reaper, has the power to Damn souls, and it’s getting out of control. Her boyfriend, Driggs, is dead . . . sort of. She’s a fugitive, on the run from the maniacal new mayor of Croak and the townspeople who want to see her pay the price for her misdeeds. Uncle Mort rounds up the Junior Grims to flee Croak once again, but this time they’re joined by Grotton, the most powerful Grim of all time. Their new mission is clear: Fix his mistakes, or the Afterlife will cease to exist, along with all the souls in it. The gang heads for Necropolis, the labyrinth-like capital city of the Grimsphere. There, they discover that the Grimsphere needs a reboot. To do that, the portals to the Afterlife must be destroyed . . . but even that may not be enough to fix the damage. Things go from...

Title:   The Wolf in Winter: A Charlie Parker Thriller by John Connolly Publisher: Atria Format: Kindle ebook Pages: 433 pages Genre: Thriller, private investigators Synopsis:  The community of Prosperous, Maine has always thrived when others have suffered. Its inhabitants are wealthy, its children’s future secure. It shuns outsiders. It guards its own. And at the heart of Prosperous lie the ruins of an ancient church, transported stone by stone from England centuries earlier by the founders of the town… But the death of a homeless man and the disappearance of his daughter draw the haunted, lethal private investigator Charlie Parker to Prosperous. Parker is a dangerous man, driven by compassion, by rage, and by the desire for vengeance. In him the town and its protectors sense a threat graver than any they have faced in their long history, and in the comfortable, sheltered inhabitants of a small Maine town, Parker will encounter his most vicious opponents yet. C...

Title:   Shift Happens: How to Live an Inspired Life...Starting Right Now! by Robert Holden, Ph.D. Publisher: Hay House publishing Format: Paperback Pages: 267 pages Genre: Self Help Synopsis:  Shift Happens!  is about personal alchemy and inner transformation. Some people “go” through life; and other people “grow” through life. Shift Happens!  ­celebrates your unlimited potential to grow, blossom, and evolve—in spite of everything. It is a book of hope. The term  personal alchemy  describes the ability to take a piece of dirt, roll it around a few times, and fashion it into a pearl. This is what an oyster does. Personal alchemy is what your grandmother called turning lemons into lemonade. It is what old wizards described as turning straw into gold. Shift Happens!  is about staying open all hours for miracles. Success, love, and happiness are only ever one thought away at most. One new perception, one fresh thought, one act of surrende...

Title:   Hunter by Mercedes Lackey Publisher: Disney-Hyperion Format: Advanced e-copy from the publisher through  netgalley.com  in exchange for an honest review Pages: 384 pages Genre: Fantasy, YA This title was released September 1, 2015 Synopsis:  They came after the Diseray. Some were terrors ripped from our collective imaginations, remnants of every mythology across the world. And some were like nothing anyone had ever dreamed up, even in their worst nightmares. Monsters. Long ago, the barriers between our world and the Otherworld were ripped open, and it's taken centuries to bring back civilization in the wake. Now, the luckiest Cits live in enclosed communities,behind walls that keep them safe from the hideous monsters fighting to break through. Others are not so lucky. To Joyeaux Charmand, who has been a Hunter in her tight-knit mountain community since she was a child, every Cit without magic deserves her protection from dangerous Othersi...

Title:   Scorch by Gina Damico Publisher: Audible Studios Format: Audible Audio Book Length: 8hrs 17 min Narrator: Jessica Almasy Genre: YA Synopsis:  Sixteen-year-old Lex Bartleby is a teenage grim reaper with the bizarre ability to Damn souls. That makes her pretty scary, even to fellow Grims. But after inadvertently transferring her ability to Zara, a murderous outlaw, Lex is a pariah in Croak, the little town she calls home. To escape the townspeople’s wrath, she and her friends embark on a wild road trip to DeMyse. Though this sparkling desert oasis is full of luxuries and amusements, it feels like a prison to Lex. Her best chance at escape would be to stop Zara once and for all - but how can she do that from DeMyse, where the Grims seem mysteriously oblivious to Zara’s killing spree? (60) Review: I love love love this series.  This sequel picks up very soon after the last book ends.  Lex wants to go back to Croak but feels weird about leaving now...