Tag Archives: Books

In My Hands Today…

Posted on by
Reply

Mistress by Mistake – Susan Gee Heino

Dutiful and dashing Lord Dashford decides to ward off the marriage-minded ladies of the ton by convincing the world he’s throwing away his fortune on gambling and courtesans. But what to do when his mother throws a swooning heiress at him? 

Heiress Evaline Pinchley has made a few mistakes in her life. One was letting her aunt drag her to the Dashford estate, where long-hidden secrets would ruin her. Another was believing she could sneak out to the garden – alone – to toast her birthday. But her biggest mistake of all? Not recognising her host when he begins to seduce her. 

One full moon and an empty Madeira bottle later, Evaline wakes to find herself in Dashford’s bed. Now rumours and passions are sure to run wild – unless Dashford and Evaline realise that what happened in the moonlight was no mistake…

In My Hands Today…

Posted on by
1

A Noble Killing – Barbara Nadel (An inspector Ikmen mystery)

Istanbul: the sight that greets Inspector Cetin Ikmen is horrific. The girl was burnt alive in her own bedroom. Was it suicide or murder? Alongside his troubled partner Inspector Mehmet Suleyman, he discovers that the girl had a secret boyfriend who has now disappeared. Then another body is found, a music teacher with his throat cut. Could they be connected? Soon the policemen they are on a trail of something much more sinister and terrifyingly well organised than they could ever have imagined. And the danger gets closer to home as Inspector Suleyman, in obsessive love with an unsuitable woman, is dragged into a lethal underworld that could ruin his career and even take his life…

In My Hands Today…..

Posted on by
Reply

Rushed to the Altar – Jane Feather (The Blackwater Brides Trilogy # 1)

Jasper Sullivan, Earl of Blackwater, needs a prostitute. Not in the usual way, however. His wealthy uncle’s will promises to divide his huge fortune among his nephews if each rescues a fallen woman … by marrying her! And since Jasper’s estates were already mortgaged to the hilt before he inherited them, when he catches a pretty young prostitute trying to pick his pocket, he immediately makes his proposal. 

Clarissa Astley is not at all what Jasper believes. The orphaned daughter of a prosperous merchant, she is searching the seedier districts of London for her young brother, abducted by their evil guardian, who wants the little boy’s inheritance. But she needs powerful help, and the darkly handsome Earl of Blackwater is certainly that. So she pretends to be exactly what he assumed – a risky charade for an innocent virgin. But when passion flares between Jasper and Clarissa, the deception becomes even more difficult to handle …

In My Hands Today…..

Posted on by
Reply

Nice Girls Don’t Have Fangs – Molly Harper

Maybe it was the Shenanigans gift certificate that put her over the edge. When children’s librarian and self-professed nice girl Jane Jameson is fired by her beastly boss and handed twenty-five dollars in potato skins instead of a severance cheque, she goes on a bender that’s sure to become Half Moon Hollow legend. On her way home, she’s mistaken for a deer, shot, and left for dead. And thanks to the mysterious stranger she met while chugging neon-coloured cocktails, she wakes up with a decidedly unladylike thirst for blood. Jane is now the latest recipient of a gift basket from the Newly Undead Welcoming Committee, and her life-after-lifestyle is taking some getting used to. Her recently deceased aunt is now her ghostly room-mate. She has to fake breathing and endure daylight hours to avoid coming out of the coffin to her family. She’s forced to forego her favourite down-home Southern cooking for bags of O negative. Her relationship with her sexy, mercurial vampire sire keeps running hot and cold. And if all that wasn’t enough, it looks like someone in Half Moon Hollow is trying to frame her for a series of vampire murders. What’s a nice undead girl to do?

In My Hands Today….

Posted on by
Reply

Highland Outlaw – Monica McCarthy

Handsome and dangerous, Patrick MacGregor is a wanted man, possessing the tough, tenacious spirit of his outlawed clan. He will stop at nothing to save his people from destruction, even if it means marrying Elizabeth Campbell, the daughter of his worst enemy. Yet the flaxen-haired beauty disarms him from the start. Her sweet, unspoiled softness touches the cold depths of his ravaged soul – and makes him want much more than revenge. Inside the shy and dutiful Lizzie is a passionate woman longing to emerge, a woman ready for love. So when the piercing emerald eyes and searing kisses of a stranger spark in her a desperate hunger, she surrenders to Patrick’s glorious seduction – unaware that his daring deception has just found it’s one and only chance for redemption: a love more powerful than hate.