Romance Book Scene: Cherie Nicholls' Claiming Clara

Author: Cherie NichollsSeries Connection: Shifters of Hillside
ISBN 978-1-59578-962-4
Genre: Paranormal/ Shifters/ Werewolves
Publisher: Liquid Silver Books

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In the second book in the Shifters of Hillside, Alpha Heath's sister Clara is in full protective mode. Clara isn't a wallflower if someone makes a threat against herself or someone in her family she's more than willing to take on the challenge and show that person, or wolf, the era in of his ways. That is of course if her brother of the man who wants to be her mate, Harvey "Wall" Wallbanger, will let her.

Wall has found the woman he wants to be his mate, but for some reason he can't convince her to take his bite and now he knows she's hiding something from him. Wall won't stop until he finds out. 

Not a bad story, however, a little short. Finding out more of a background story would have been a benefit for the story. I also would have liked to see a little more of the background relationship between the couple to believe the level of commitment to the given relationship of the couple. 

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Harvey “Wall” Wallbanger—yes his mother actually named him that on purpose—likes to act the simple jock, but he isn't. He is a man who knows what he wants, and right now, he wants one Miss Clara Marsterson. When she refuses his mark to make her his mate, Wall stands unmovable in her path, demanding an explanation. Before he lets her go, she’s going to have to explain to him why she is throwing everything they have away. Wall knows she is hiding something from him and sets his mind and his body to getting the truth. After all, he is a man of many talents…

Clara is a woman who has supported her brother's rise to Alpha, stood by him through everything, and will now do what she can to protect him from those who want to cause him harm. She turns away from the only man who understands her in an attempt to save both the men she loves. To protect them no cost is too high … not even if the price is her own life.

Romance Book Review: Marisa Chenery's Miles Redemption

Author: Marisa Chenery

Series Connection: Roxie's Protectors

ISBN 978-1-59578-960-0

Genre: Paranormal/ Shifter/ Werewolf

Publisher: Liquid Silver Books

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In the final installment to Marisa Chenery's of the Roxie's Protectors series, the infamous bad boy Miles meets his mate. For hundreds of years Miles made his mission in life to find the foretold one, bring her under his control so he could be the ruler of the werewolves. That all changed after meeting his daughter and learning she was the foretold one. Miles became a changed man.

Looking for his mate wasn't something Miles was keen on doing. After meeting and falling in love with his daughter's mother years ago, a human woman who wasn't his mate, Miles had no intent of falling for another woman. After urging from his daughter however, Miles goes on an arranged date, only to be stood up by one woman, but to meet his mate at the restaurant. Now he has more of a reason to stay on the straight and narrow, but can Miles remain good, after he hears the secret his daughter has been keeping?

I'm sorry to see the Roxie's Protector series go. All the books were short and offered a quick look at each of the protectors and their trials of finding a mate and trying not to finish the mating process before they tell their mortal mates who and what they are.

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Miles knew using Dirk’s online dating service wouldn’t be the best way to find his mate and is proven right when his date stands him up. But his bad luck turns to good when his would-be mate walks through the restaurant’s doors.

Kareena has been on a dating dry streak since her fiancé of seven years dumped her the year before. She wants the hottie who sits close to her and her friends’ table to be the one to end it, but she doesn’t have enough nerve to go up and talk to him. But after meeting Miles, her life ends up going in a direction she never thought existed. And she soon learns she is the only thing that can secure Miles’s redemption.

Romance Book Review: Marisa Chenery's Dirk's Love

Author: Marisa Chenery
Series Connection: Roxie's Protectors
ISBN:  978-1-59578-916-7
Genre: Werewolf/ Paranormal Romance/ Erotic Romance
Publisher:  Liquid Silver Books

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Ooops! I can't believe I almost missed it. I was searching through the blogs today and read that Marisa Chenery's new Roxie's Protectors will be out next month, but then noticed that I'd completely missed Dirk's story.

Dirk had also seemed like the sensitive nerd of the bunch, always upstairs in Roxie's computer room with Roxie playing with some computer program or another. Now we get to finally see what Dirk has been working on.

With all of his Brother-In-Arms mated, Dirk is missing finding his mate like his long-time friends. He's come up with an idea. He's created a dating website for werewolves to find their mates. Little does he know that he's been chatting with his own mate over the phone for the past couple of weeks, but on their first meeting he can't miss the fact that Ryann is all his.

Now he has to figure out how to broach the subject of just what he is to her. Not to mention that she comes with a little baggage herself.

This series is a quick read and should be read in order, starting with the first series Wulf's Den. They are nicely written shorts making up one whole story.

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Dirk has worked tirelessly to create an online dating service to help male werewolves find their mortal mates. Having hired a mortal female to assist him, when he meets her face-to-face for the very first time, Dirk is smitten with her beauty and finds himself breathless as he realizes the very thing he’s spent a lifetime looking for—his mate—is finally within his reach. Her proximity alone sets his mating urge off in an instant.

Ryann, completely absorbed with raising her precious son for the last two years, has been without a man in her life for far too long. But when she sees Dirk in person for the very first time and he reawakens the sexual cravings of her neglected body, Ryann hungers not only for his touch but also yearns for the day her new boss will think of her as more than just his employee. She doesn’t have long to wait because it turns out Dirk has been searching for her his whole life.

Romance Book Review: Trista Ann Michaels' Fast and Furious

Author: Trista Ann Michaels
ISBN 978-1-59578-931-0
Genre: Erotic Romance/ Action/ Suspense
Publisher: Liquid Silver Books

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Allie has a problem that she just doesn't know how to get out of alive. Little does she know that her father has sent three Navy Seals her way to help her out.

When seals, Chase, Logan and Blaine are called into SECNAV's office they have no idea just what they are getting into. Taking a deal to retire for service once they get Allie out of trouble, the three men take off for Florida where Allie owns a automotive shop.

The three men have shared women before, but one look at Allie and the three know that they are in trouble because the last thing they want to do is get caught doing more than just resucing their bosses daughter. Then their is the problem that Allie turns out to be in the worst kind of trouble and undercover cop can be in with no chance to get help. Can the seals save her before the Russian Cartel does?

Talk about hot sex scenes...this book is filled with them as Allie uses her off time to explore every sexual fantasy she's ever had with the three men. In the mean time fast cars and action fill out the rest of the story as the group race against time to get Allie away from the cartel before her cover is blown.

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Allie likes things fast—cars, men, as well as every aspect of her life. She lives for the moment, which is probably how she found herself waist deep in the middle of a Russian drug cartel. As an undercover cop, she thought she had things well in hand. She was wrong.

Three Navy Seals are sent in by Allie’s father, SECNAV, to assess the situation. There’s concern Allie’s in serious danger, and her father wants her out; preferably in one piece. Chase, Logan, and Blaine are all attracted to her, but she will become much more to one of them.

Unfortunately for Allie, witness relocation isn’t an option. The Russians can always find them. For Allie to get out, she’ll have to bring them down.

Multiple partners, anal sex, violence.

Romance Book Review: Rebecca Royce's Darkest Wolf

Author: Rebecca Royce
Series Connection: Westerbelt Wolves
ISBN 978-1-59578-920-4
Genre: Werewolves/ Shifters/ Paranormal Romance
Publisher: Liquid Silver Books

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Welcome back to Westervelt Island where we find youngest brother Rex on an errand to find a witch the young princes can use to help in the fight against their evil father.

Rex has always felt like a screw up and feels that this is his last chance to convince his Alpha brother that he has the pack's best interest at heart. His mission is to find a witch. By coincidence the first witches that he comes across are the same that meet his sister in the previous book.

Liz is a cursed witch. The witch that has taken over her coven has cursed her with a face that when seen is so ugly that human flinch at the sight. She is also forced to travel with the witch's twin daughters and do their bidding her her mother and the rest of the coven will be killed.

When she meets Rex she doesn't know what to make of him, because werewolves are know to kill witches, but Rex is the only one that sees the real Liz without the curse following her. He tells her that it is because he is her mate and as such will help her break the curse. But can he save her in time before the evil witch kills those she loves?

Nice addition to the Westervelt series. Rex has always been an interesting character in the series. While each of the brothers seem to offer a different personality, Rex has always been a character that stands out. Even from the beginning when he fails to meet his older brother on time, which has Tristan being captured and sent to live in a zoo for years until his mate gets him out.

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Rex Kane has always known he was different than his brothers, down to the fact that when he shifts into his wolf form, his coat is completely black. Always in trouble, he is given one more chance by his brother Tristan, the alpha of the Westervelt pack, to bring back to their island a witch who can stop some of the magical assault that has plagued their war-torn home. Rex knows he has one last chance to set things right. Everything depends on him and he cannot fail.

Elizabeth Willow has been cursed to look so repulsive no human eyes can bear to view her. Raised in a gentle coven of witches, she is ill prepared for the realities of the harsh world she now lives in.

Raised to mistrust wolf-shifters as witch-killers, she cannot seem to help being drawn to Rex. Even if she doesn't believe she is his so-called mate. He can see her as she really is and is the first person to look her in the eyes in years. Although she is not naturally devious, she sees no choice but to use Rex to gain her own freedom and her family’s safety.

Together, Rex and Elizabeth will see just how evil the people around them can be. If they can trust their hearts, perhaps they will survive another night. If not, both of their battles will never be won.