Romance Book Review: Maddie Barone's Ellie's Wolf

Author: Maddie Barone

Series Connection: After the Crash

ISBN: 978-1-62210-029-3 

Genre: Sci-Fi, Paranormal, Futuristic, Erotic Romance

Publisher: Liquid Silver Books

Purchase Link: Liquid Silver | Amazon | Barnes and Noble

In continuation of the After the Crash series, author Maddie Barone moves the series five years into the future. Ellie Overdahl, Taye human cousin, has gone off and married her fiance and moved far away from her family with her husband to start a new life. She's had a baby and all seems well, until her husband dies and her husband's boss wants to sell her to woman traders. 

What Ellie never knew this who time is that she has a wolf mate, who stepped aside when he found her because she was already taken, but when Quill finds out that Ellie's husband is dead and she has been sold to traders who intend to sell her in a bride fight, Quill has to rush to save her. 

Once he wins her, the journey is far getting home and it isn't safe on the tough roads in the future when every man seems to be out to find a woman and either make a buck or have her for his own. 

The wolves are a tough bunch though and protect their own. 

In this story the author also introduces two other new couples that will find themselves in an anthology in the future. Both of those two couples seem to have exciting stories already forming. 

This is an interesting series with a twist from the normal paranormal wolf story introducing the sci-fi/futuristic element of a totally changed earth after a war breaks out in 2014, changing the future drastically, with elements of the old west coming to life. Everywhere one turns is danger and women need to be protected. 

Description:

In a post-apocalyptic world where women are rare and valuable, Ellie Overdahl is a widow far from home at the mercy of strangers. Sold to be a prize in a Bride Fight, she manages to send word to her cousin, begging for rescue.

For six years, Quill Wolfe has mourned the loss of the woman his wolf chose to be his mate. When word comes that Ellie is widowed and about to be forced into an unwanted marriage, he races to enter the Bride Fight. He has waited long enough to claim his mate, and no fighter is good enough to keep him from her. But claiming Ellie is only the beginning. It’s not just the journey home that is dangerous and uncertain.

Romance Book Review: Kylie Wolfe's Rayven’s Keep

Author: Kylie Wolfe

ISBN: 9781616504632

Genre: Science Fiction / Romance

Publisher: Lyrical Press

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Tru is in really big trouble and the only way she hopes to get out of it is by seeking help from Nick Ryven. The only problem is before she can ask for said help, he conks her over the head and with nothing else to do with gets her on his ships and leaves the planet they are on before anyone is the wiser. That's okay with Tru since that is what she needed his help with to begin with. 

The last think Nick needs now is to get tangled up in someone else's problems, but when he realizes that Tru's issues might include some of his own problems he decides to hear her out and help her get home to her family, but when he hears the whole story maybe that isn't the best place for her now.

As the two battle the elements of space, some space pirates and even drug cartels, their powerful attraction gets harder to deny, but Nick knows getting Tru out of this mess alive has to be his number one goal. 

For those who like sci-fi this book has some nice world building along with a sweet romance to go with it. Should make a nice continuing series.

Description:

The last thing he needs is the complication of a spoiled heiress.

All Tru Creighton wants is to be taken seriously by her wealthy and powerful family. When she discovers inconsistencies in one of the family holdings, she decides to prove her worth by investigating. After she’s stranded on a foreign planet with no way home and with her life in jeopardy, she puts herself in the questionable care of Nick Rayven.

Nick Rayven knows all about survival. A former soldier and refugee from a world destroyed by war, his focus is solely on carving a new place for himself and his growing business. When he finds himself stuck with Tru Creighton, his life is turned upside down by murder, drugs and an interplanetary conspiracy. To complicate matters more, her presence awakens emotions and feelings he thought long dead.

Nick’s strong sense of duty prevents him from acting on the growing attraction between them, but Tru doesn’t have the same qualms. She willingly follows where her heart leads–straight to the enigmatic, honorable man who is fighting to keep her safe. Will she be able to convince him they belong together?

A Lyrical Press Science Fiction Romance

Romance Book Review: Beverly Havlir's Tristan's Woman

Author: Beverly Havlir

Series Connection: Pleasure Planet

ISBN: 9781419926341

Genre: Erotic Romance, Sci-Fi

Publisher: Ellora's Cave Publishing

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Looking for more of his race, Commander Tristan and his men arrive of Pleasure Planet with hopes of finding some lost survivors. They have been told that two can be found here. Not realizing he had already found one of those he searches for after an night of pleasure, Tristan rushes to save her.

Ava is a half-breed and can't connect with any of the men who come to Pleasure Planet without fear of punishment. When she meets Tristan she can't help herself even though she knows it is wrong. 

Now Tristan is telling her that she is one of his kind and he is going to rescue her and her brother, but can she believe him. What choice does she have when he makes her body burn with desire. 

Hot, hot, hot. I would even say sizzling hot. I would expect anything else from an Ellora's Cave book or from Beverly Havlir who is know for her extremely erotic books. I could easily see the book expanded to balance out the erotic parts, but it works well as is too.

Description:

A half-breed and a pariah, exotic dancer Ava Summerlin dreams of leaving Pleasure Planet and finding a new home elsewhere.

Tristan, Commander of The Destroyer, is a Cyborg in search of his long lost people. He desires Ava from the moment he first sees her. But on Pleasure Planet, a half-breed is forbidden from having sexual encounters with anyone.

But Tristan’s lust will not be denied. He wants Ava and he will have her. However, everything will change when he discovers her true identity…

Publisher’s Note: Originally available in the Ellora’s Cave anthology Pleasure Planet.