Well I have 2 reviews to post for you all today and 2 more coming that I will try my best to have written up by the weekend at least. Don't anyone pass out now LOL. I know I haven't been to up to date on my blog recently I apologize for that RL has been kicking my hinny yet again. In between work and other stuff I've had little time for my blog like I have wanted too. I shall endevour to do better tho I have learned never to promise things because that's a sure way of throwing a monkey wrench in any plans lol.  So here we go 2 reviews coming right up..... So not only is she having to lead her very human team of vampire hunters in the dangerous path of rounding up and slaying the rogue vampires she’s having to always look over her shoulder for the undead head hunters that want her to be the one on the other end of the sword.

Bones hasn’t forgotten or stopped searching for Cat since the day she walked out on him, and he is determined that he will have her back at all costs. He also wants to find her to protect her from the many who seek her death. Some who didn’t know that he was her mentor have even contacted him to take the bounty on her head, and as strong and independent as she is he knows that she isn’t able to keep all of the Master Vampires that are after her at bay. Can he find her before someone else does? And once he does find her can he convince her that she never should have left him or his bed in the first place?

I really enjoyed this book as much as the first in fact I liked it even better than I did the first installment in the series. You really get to see more in-depth feelings that spur Cat as she tries to come into her own, and you see her strengths and weaknesses as she heads her team of vampire hunters. You get to meet more great characters in this one both undead and human that are very memorable, as well as getting to see more the returning supporting cast from the first novel- Spade, Cat’s mother and Rodney and many more…

Jeaniene Frost proves more and more that she is a force to be reckoned with in the paranormal romance genre. I can’t wait to see what she throws at Cat and Bones next. If you love a good book that will keep you on the edge of your seat and you truly never know what will happen next then you have got to try this series any true vamp lover is gonna love this series as much as a vamp loves fresh blood! ;)

AND if you have a blog and help me spread the word about my new blog I will give you 2 extra entries in the contest. The winner will be randomly selected via the Randomizer at Random.org on July 2nd. Help me spread the word about the contest and the new blog and get 3 extra entries! :) Now to enter just vist the new blog and become a follower and leave a comment on the Grand Opening post and be sure to include your email so that I may contact you if you are the winner and if you have posted about the contest anywhere so that I can give you your extra entries! That's all there is to it!

I hope everyone has a great weekend and good luck in the contest!!!

Hello my friends TGIF!!!! I have some exciting news I have finally got the Grand Opening of my brand new blog design blog up! I had been meaning to do this for a while now and finally bit the bullet and did it so .... here it is folks please take a look and if you would like to help spread the word about my new diggs I would truly appreciate it! :) Be sure to let me know what you think! :)

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Ok this post is going to be a bit different from the norm it's not about books it's about my kitchen and dining room. Now my space in my dining room is not that large so I have to utilize as much space as possible. And I've recently been thinking about getting a bakers rack to make my life a little easier and have a bit more space for my pans and baking implements, a space for my cookbooks where I could just go grab them would be awesome. And I was thinking about getting something like this sometime in the near future...

I really like that it has a place for my cast iron skillets and baking pans etc. so they would be within easy reach and all. The only thing I would have to do is try to restrain myself from turning it into another bookcase for my romance novels in the dining room ROFL! Hmmmmm ....

I love the little cross on the front of this one it appeals to my vampire style... ;)

I am very pleased to welcome the talented and beautiful Claudia Dain to SRR today! Now this one is going to read a little differently. I sent in the questions to Claudia and so that there would be no spoilers etc. she wrote all of her answers back in a blog post! So without further ado here is Claudia talking all about her upcoming release in the Courtesan series Daring a Duke! (Release date - July 6th)

Claudia Dain ~ I don’t know how many other romance authors have put together Mohawk Indians, American Revolutionaries, and the British aristocracy into one romance novel, but for me, the lure was irresistible.

We often forget (I know I did) that the British and the French were hugely invested in energy, money, and resources on the North American continent for hundreds of years. The North American Indians---and I use that term because that was the term in use at the time---were not only familiar with the British and French, but used their never-ending conflict to their own advantage. The Indian tribes played the Brits and French against each other, trying to get them to kill each other off so that, with any luck, the Indians would be free of them both once and for all.

We know how that story turned out, but it got me thinking…why not a heroine who is half English aristocracy and half Mohawk? Why not a heroine who is stuck in America during the Revolution? Why not a heroine who makes her way to England during this fraught time, who is rejected by her English relatives, who must then make her way in England alone? How would she do it? She’d sell the only thing she has: her body.

That is how Sophia Dalby, ex-courtesan and dowager countess was born.

Sophia has a rich, complicated back story and I’ve loved revealing it to readers over the course of the last four books, and so much is revealed in this fifth book of the series that I think it will answer a lot of questions for readers about why Sophia is the way she is and why she does what she does. She’s an amazingly resilient woman with a very long memory, to say the least.

Having said all that, Sophia is not the actual romantic heroine of Daring A Duke; that honor goes to Jane Elliot, an American come to Regency England to visit her British relatives and Sophia Dalby, an old family friend. That’s another thing we forget about history: family ties and old friendships didn’t necessarily die during the American Revolution; they were just put on hold for a decade or two. But of course, that doesn’t mean that Jane has any interest at all in marrying an Englishman, and a duke? May it never be. Jane is from a family of Patriots and a British duke is something to be tolerated, not desired.

Until she meets him, and he’s instantly smitten with her, and he is quite handsome, and all the English girls treat him like the catch of this Season or any other…and wouldn’t it be fun to show these snobby Brits how an American girl can tame an English duke?

That’s how Daring A Duke starts. How it ends…well, Jane has never met an English duke before. She is not at all aware that playing with handsome dukes is very much like playing with fire. As for Edenham, he’s not used to dealing with an American girl with a strong independent streak. Sparks fly, flames follow.

I had a really good time changing it up in this book; in the previous books in the Courtesan Chronicles, an English girl of the aristocracy asks Sophia for help in getting her man. In Daring A Duke, it’s the Duke who asks Sophia for help in getting Jane, and it’s American Jane who asks Sophia to make sure she doesn’t wind up with the duke!

Poor Jane.

Thanks so much Claudia for the inside scoop on the series and Daring a Duke! I loved it and here is praying that we see more of Sophia in the near future!!! And the fun isn't over yet! Claudia has graciously offered to give one lucky commentor an autographed copy of How to Dazzle a Duke so you can get ready for Daring a Duke on July 6th! So leave a comment and get your name in the hat! :)

Halfway to the Grave is the first novel in Jeaniene Frost’s Night Huntress series. Catherine Crawfield has not had an easy life for starters she has always been different than other people she has know that most of her life. But she got a big shock when on her sixteenth birthday her mother told her that she was actually the result of her mother being raped by a vampire. Cat is shocked, horrified, and just plain ticked off! While it explains a lot about her special abilities and eccentricities it’s also not much fun to know that she is half vampire. From that moment on her mother begins a relentless torrent of how all vampires are evil and should be exterminated for the good of all mankind. So to avenge the wrongs that were done to her mother and to assuage some of the anger inside herself as well she declares war on the undead!

This is one I so can't wait for! Hot of the press ...take a look it's Allie Mackay's (A.k.a Sue Ellen Welfonder) next one due out in Jan. 2011. She was nice enough to let me go ahead and post it here........ and what a cover haveeeee mercy! :)


From dream to reality…

Margo Menlove loves everything Scottish. But when she wins a Highland vacation, she's disappointed by the whirlwind tourist trail she's taken on. She wants to experience the Scotland of warriors like the legendary Magnus MacBride. When she explores on her own, she picks up a beautiful stone on the shore--and awakes to the sight of MacBride himself in the heat of battle.

Magnus MacBride has seen many things while fighting the Viking hordes--but when the soaking wet, naked woman appears out of the surf, even he is taken aback. Even more stirring is a passion he hasn't allowed himself to feel in years, instead living only for vengeance. But giving in to his wild desire would place Margo in mortal danger--unless they stand together and fight for the love neither can endure without…

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Claudia Dain will be here for a special interview on June the 22nd. If you would like to ask this wonderful author any questions about writing, her books, the Courtesan series, maybe even just what it's like being a published author and what her favorite movies are etc? Whatever you would like to know! Please email me (click here) with your questions, and I will be sure to pass them along to Claudia to answer! :)

Daring a Duke is the fifth book in Ms. Dain’s Courtesan series and what a series it is! Countess Sophia Dalby is the infamous Courtesan that has kept London on its ear and a buzz with titillating liaisons and gossip for years. Her match making skills have landed four very prominent ladies with four very well placed and rich bachelors and all within a season! There is no doubt to any that what Sophia sets her hand too reaps indelible rewards for all involved!