CarolKat Reviews Secrets Exposed: Tall, Dark and Deadly Series Prequel by Lisa Renee Jones

Publisher: Lisa Renee Jones
Series: Tall, Dark & Deadly Boxed Set, book.5
Format Read: Kindle Bundle
Source: Owned by reviewer
Release Date: January 7, 2013
Buying Links: Smashwords | Amazon*  | Barnes & Noble
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Blurb from Goodreads:

This set includes 3 full sized novels (195,000 words)

The Walker Brothers…

Tall, dark, and deadly, these three brothers run Walker security. Each brother is unique in his methods and skills, but all share key similarities. They are passionate about those they love, relentless when fighting for a cause they believe in, and all believe that no case is too hard, no danger too dark. Dedication is what they deliver, results are their reward.


Book 0.5 Secrets Exposed

Her enemy is her passion, her passion is her enemy.

Lindsey Paxton was once the number one defense attorney in New York. She fought for those who were innocent, but charged. Her instincts were her lifeline, never failing her, as they guided her in her choices of who to defend. Or so she thought. Until she won a case she would forever wish to have lost. Her client, an accused rapist, kills and rapes a woman only a day after being set free. Destroyed by her role in the woman's death, Lindsey blames her father's controlling ways for what she has become, and runs from her career and life. Years later - the past becomes the present . . . Her father has cancer, and Lindsey is forced to leave her career with the Washington branch of the FBI. She finds herself facing the responsibility of running her father's law firm with the reluctant help of hotshot attorney Mark Reeves, a man who sparks her temper while also managing to tempt her body, her mind, maybe even her heart. With his help she finds herself fighting the emotional battles of the past, tempted to trust both him and her instincts. Now, faced with a case inherited from her father so similar to her career-ending one, she now must decide if her instincts will lead her down the path to saving an innocent man or setting free another killer. But while she fights her own battles, someone watches, wanting from the past what he had failed to get the first time . . . Lindsey.

Quote-Tastic #16 - In the Worst Possible Way

Anna at Herding Cats & Burning Soup has created a new weekly meme. Join us every Monday and share a favorite quote that's grabbed ya for one reason or another. 
 

Everyone's welcome to join in. Authors, bloggers, readers. The more the merrier!

Just grab the button and toss up your post :) 

Want to join along? Click on the link above. Leave me a link in your comment and I will check out your quotes! Don't have a blog? No worries, just leave your favorites in the comment section.

I read an ARC over the weekend that I really liked; I'll post the review next month. Since it IS an ARC, the material is not final and could change between now and the final version. "Cursed" by S.J. Harper is the first in a new UF series that features two FBI agents who happen to be supernatural beings, and they get involved.

He reaches out with one hand, brushing his fingertips down the side of my neck before tracing a painstakingly slow path along the edge of  my gown's neckline - starting in front of my shoulder and ending at the zipper. 

"You're sure you want this?"

I've had sex with plenty of men during my lifetime. A good many of those men have been quite imaginative. Some have even been memorable. With a few, it still hurts to think about. I've been here many times before. So, what is it about this man that makes me ache so?

Do I want him? I shiver. "In the worst possible way."

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Sunday Book Share #51

 

 

I'm participating in The Sunday Post, hosted by Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer; Showcase Sunday hosted by Books, Biscuits and Tea; and Stacking the Shelves, hosted by Tynga's Reviews. These  memes allow book bloggers the chance to share print and digital books they've received, and different posts and events at their blogs.

I had a lovely, quiet, restful week off. Tomorrow is our preparation week for the new school year. We'll form into our new teams, have meetings and trainings, and get the rooms ready. I'm with the same age groups as last year so that'll be good, exhausting but good. :) Caffeine, here I come! :D

The Friday 56

This is a fun meme to do hosted by Freda's Voice. If you'd like to join on the fun go to The Friday 56.

Rules:
*Grab a book, any book.
*Turn to page 56 or 56% in your eReader.
*Find any sentence that grabs you.
*Post it.
*Link it here.

I've been seeing this meme around for a year or two year and decided to join in.

This week I'm reading A Brother's Honor by Brenda Jackson, a contemporary romance.

 

The first full paragraph from page 56:

Their grandfather had flatlined immediately after his last words to them, and they'd finally had to accept that Richard Granger was now gone from their lives. It had been hard going to Sutton Hills to deliver the news to Hannah and even harder to notify  his father and make funeral arrangements without him.

What are YOU reading?

Jax Reviews Sojourner by Maria Rachel Hooley

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Series:  Sojourner #1

Format Read: Nook Book

Source: Reviewer owned

Release Date: December 2010

Buying Links: Amazon*  Omnilit  Barnes and Noble

* affiliate link; clicking & purchasing results in a small commission for the blog.

Blurb from goodreads: 

Seventeen-year-old Elizabeth Moon has been dreaming of her murder her entire life, and in those dreams, a dark presence is there, watching. When she returns home to Hauser’s Landing, the very place her father disappeared, she comes in contact with a gorgeous boy named Lev Walker, and it’s not long before she’s falling in love. But there’s something wrong with Lev. When she realizes he’s the eerie watcher in her dreams, she’ll have to discover the truth. Is he a guardian angel or a sojourner, an angel of death who has come to collect her soul?

Cat Thursday - A bed of one's own.

 

Welcome to the weekly meme hosted by The True Book Addict that celebrates cats; their foibles and humorousness and the joy they bring. You can join in by posting a favorite LOL cat pic you made or came across, cat art or share with us pics of your own felines, then post your link up at The True Book Addict. 

 A friend shared this pic on facebook, saying her furbabies needed this. I laughed and said mine wouldn't use it. I had two cat beds I bought for him, he used them maybe a dozen times in three years before I finally got rid of them. Granted, they weren't as nice as this one. :D I do like the storage options. :)

How about your cat, would he or she use a bed like this?

Excerpt from Sweet Proposal by Celia J. Anderson

Books and chocolate, a perfect combination. :) Although I usually have a cat and iced tea while I read (the cat is sleeping next to me, I'm not eating him; he's too fuzzy! lol) Author Celia J. Anderson adds her spin to it with a hot Jacuzzi; books, chocolate and a Jacuzzi, that's hard to resist!

When she’s not marking children’s work, or writing stories involving pants, Celia spends far too much time on Facebook (Celia Joy Anderson) and does a lot of walking to counteract the cooking, eating and drinking which form another of her hobbies. She blogs as part of the Romaniacs online writers’ group - http://theromaniacgroup.wordpress.com and tweets as @CeliaAnderson1. Her own website was recently launched thanks to Lucy Felthouse – http://celiajanderson.co.uk and she has an author page on Facebook (Celia J Anderson)

Her ultimate dream is to have her children’s books published too. Usually sea-starved in the depths of the Midlands, she can often be found wandering happily around Brighton visiting her two daughters and pretending to collect ideas for her next book.

Blog Tour Review of Can't Help Falling In Love by Bella Andre

Publisher: Harlequin MIRA
Series: The Sullivans #3
Format Read: print ARC
Source: Meryl L Moss Media in exchange for an honest review
Release Date: July 30, 2013
Buying Links: Amazon*  | Book Depository* | Barnes & Noble
* affiliate link; clicking & purchasing results in a small commission for the blog.

Blurb from goodreads:

How much is worth risking?

Gabe Sullivan risks his life every day as a firefighter in San Francisco, but he knows better than to risk giving his heart again. Especially not to the woman he saved from a deadly apartment fire and can't stop thinking about.

Megan Harris owes everything to the heroic firefighter who saved her and her daughter. Everything except her heart. Because after losing her pilot husband, she has vowed to never suffer through loving and losing a man with a dangerous job again.

 But when Gabe and Megan meet again, how can he possibly ignore her courage, determination and beauty? And how can she deny not only his strong bond with her daughter but also his sweetly sensual kisses, challenging her to risk everything she's been guarding for so long?