Always Looks Twice offers a different spin on a familiar premise: the psychic heroine investigating a serial killer. In this case, most of the characters are Native American, and the story goes way past the standard serial killer plotline, venturing deep into paranormal terrain with black magic, shapeshifters and other dark forces at work. While…
Evelyn Vaughn’s Grailkeepers series continues in Her Kind of Trouble. This is another thrilling, action-packed ride that proves Vaughn is one author who really “gets” what a Silhouette Bombshell book should be. Maggi Sanger is on a mission to locate long-missing grails, cups with magical properties that were made centuries ago to contain the powers…
When Kimmer Reed left her dysfunctional family in western Pennsylvania, she decided she would never go home again. Discovered by the Hunter Agency, a small private investigative/security firm (it’s a little ambiguous in the book), and trained as an agent, she’s dismayed when her most recent case takes her right into the place she never…
Erica Orloff’s Urban Legend is one of the more entertaining of the early Silhouette Bombshells. It’s also somewhat uneven. The end result is a book that’s a fun read, but not entirely satisfying. Tessa Van Doren is a vampire. Nearly a century ago in Shanghai, she lost a lover to his opium addiction. His death…
I’m not giving A.K.A. Goddess keeper status because of its rich and vivid characters. It’s not that kind of book. I’m not giving it keeper status because of its romance, even though the love story is more intriguing and better developed than most romance novels I’ve read this year. It’s not the best written book…
Like other novels in Silhouette’s new Bombshell line, A Perfect Cover is not a romance. It’s a suspense novel starring a smart and resourceful female heroine, working undercover to solve a series of ugly murders. It’s pretty darn good. The book opens with a couple of episodes out of the life of our first-person-narrator, Lacie…
Justine Davis’ Proof and Carla Cassidy’s Get Blondie are two of the launch titles in Silhouette’s new Bombshell line featuring “kick-ass” heroines and varying levels of romantic sub-plot. Indeed, interaction between the male and female leads in one of September’s Bombshell titles is minimal. As a teenager Alexandra Forsythe attended Athena, a little known private…