He clamped his mouth over her nape and sucked. She writhed under his roving hands and lips. She felt the flesh of her neck grow warm under his mouth and teeth, her blood rising to the surface. He pulled back.
"You marked me," she whispered.
"Damn right, baby. You look beautiful wearing nothing but my kiss." He slapped her ass hard. She cried out and snapped upright.
"Stay down," he said into her ear, low and seductive.
She broke out in goose bumps. Her mind tumbled with passion for him. With his welt rising on her bottom and his love bite in her throat, she was more his than when she'd worn his necklace.
In her days as an actress in movies and television, award-winning author Melodie Johnson Howe had front row access to observe all of Hollywood’s quirks and foibles. Appearing on-screen with such leading men as Clint Eastwood, Alan Alda, and James Caan as the ever-seductive blonde bombshell, she quickly learned just how cut-throat a world the movie business can be. And while she chose to walk away from Hollywood to pursue a career as a writer, the city of glitz and glam never left her.This August, Howe returns to her roots with a Hollywood-inspired thriller and her first novel in nearly a decade: CITY OF MIRRORS, a masterfully written tale of corruption, greed, dysfunctional relationships, and good old fashioned revenge.Diana Poole is a forty-something actress desperate to rebuild her career after years out of the spotlight. Hollywood can be a brutal and unforgiving place for a middle-aged woman, but she is running out of money and acting is the only work she knows. As the daughter of Nora Poole, a recently deceased movie-star, Diana is quite familiar with the cruelty of Hollywood and the lengths people will go to for success. So when an old friend and movie producer offers her a role playing young starlet Jenny Parson’s mother in his next big film, she puts her ego aside and jumps at the opportunity. But an actress should never get her hopes up. Jenny Parson is trouble. Her late night partying and poor work ethic is running the film into the ground and threatening Diana’s big shot at a comeback.Diana’s problems only intensify when she discovers Jenny’s murdered body the day after a heated exchange on set. With more than just her career on the line, Diana decides to fight back and goes in search of Jenny’s killer. An unintentional sleuth, she proves to be quite good—perhaps too good—as her quest to bring the killer to justice also uncovers scandalous secrets about those she holds closest to her heart. It all leads to a shocking conclusion that could only happen in the cutthroat world of Hollywood.“Hollywood is filled with wonderful ghosts for me,” says Howe. “CITY OF MIRRORS is the novel that brings my writing life and my acting life together. Diana Poole is another side of me just as that young actress who now re-runs on television is. But of course neither really is me. They are only reflections in a city of mirrors.”
Nick Sorrentino knows everyone in the supernatural world considers him the Pack’s playboy, the pretty but not very useful werewolf whose only reputation involves his amorous exploits.
Usually, Nick couldn’t care less what anyone outside the Pack thinks of him. But when it affects his hunt for Malcolm Danvers, a psychotic bogeyman from the Pack’s past, it matters.
Necessity forces Nick to team up with mercenary half-demon Vanessa Callas to run Malcolm to ground in Detroit. Together, they discover Malcolm is more deadly than ever. And he wants to play.
It’s time for Nick to prove he’s not just a lover.
He’s a fighter.
To Anna, horses were more than a fascination, they were everything. Luckily, she had the opportunity to spend every summer on her grandmother's horse ranch in Colorado. Life was perfect, until she received the devastating news that her grandmother had been tragically killed. Anna knew she was the only member of her family who could take over the ranch and hopefully find new homes for her grandmother's beloved Arabians.
Anna wasn't alone for long. Her grandmother had hired a local teenage boy to help tend the horses for the summer. Anna didn't stand a chance against Cody's quiet charm and the two rapidly become friends. However, even with the responsibilities of the ranch, Anna quickly discovers the secrets her grandmother had been hiding and a legacy that sends her on an adventure she never thought possible. An adventure in the saddle of a horse that wasn't a horse at all. Sabaska, her grandmother's favorite Arabian, was a Traveler; a magical being that could travel between worlds. With Anna at the reins, they find themselves trapped in a fight against evil with the highest of stakes… Their very survival.
