"An amazing story packed with excitement from the beginning to end so you never want to put it down." ★★★★★
From New York Times Bestselling author L.P. Dover comes a seductive tale of angst-ridden romance.
Fae from across the land have come to the enchanting Spring Court in hopes of winning Lia’s affection. But the future queen is not easily swayed. Trained to be a warrior, the needs of her people outweigh her own desires. Were she to give in to temptation, it would be with the two forbidden men who stole her heart long ago…
Twins Bayleon and Bastian were cursed with the powers of seduction before they were even born. One look in their eyes enthralls their victims to a blissful death. Offered the opportunity to be Lia’s protectors, their place in court comes with a steep price. They must shield their eyes and promise not to seduce any women. Failure to uphold this agreement will be punishable by death.
But not giving in to their powers takes its toll. If they don’t succumb… they’ll die. To save the men she loves, Lia gives in to her desires. How can she pick just one when her heart and soul belong to both?
Refusing to lose either of them, Lia embarks on a quest for a cure. Yet when the future queen is abducted by those who don’t want the curse broken, it’s up to Bayleon and Bastian to save their love. Can they find Lia before the curse kills them? Or will the trials they face tear the trio apart?
Cat gives this book 5 Meows with a 3 purr heat index...
This is book 2 of the Land of the Fae series but can be enjoyed on its own though it’s a good series and you do meet a few characters from the first book so if you like good high fantasy grab both books.
This is Lia’s story. She is becoming queen of her own court the Blossom Court in the Spring Court. She is in love with both her protectors (twin Brothers) and refuses to choose.
Finally, she chooses both.
Bayleon and Bastian are twin brothers cursed before birth. They have the powers of seduction but it drives women mad with a look in the eyes. They have to wear special masks because they’ve been allowed in the Spring Court as Lia’s protectors but if they seduce anyone it brings a sentence of death.
Lia wants children with them but to do so she must first try to break the curse.
I really liked all the characters.
Though MFM isn’t my favorite, this was written well and the sex scenes not overly explicit but hot enough. The relationships develop as the story goes and we aren’t just thrown into it.
What I liked most was the adventure with its twists.
So if you like High Fantasy, Fae, Elves, curses, MFM and a good adventure… this is for you.
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A world-weary Sherlock Holmes scholar loses his job and his sanity when the great detective materializes in his flat to help solve a mystery that involves a handsome male stranger. What ensues is a thrilling adventure in literature, London, and love.
Andrew Thomas just got sacked. He's permanently drunk. He's got cancer. Is inescapably gay. Was hit by a bus. And he's fallen in love with a stranger whose life he saved.
As a newly-unemployed Sherlock Holmes scholar, Andrew knows only Holmes can help him untangle the madness his life has become, but Holmes isn't real. Except he absolutely appeared in Andrew's house, told him he's in love with a man he just met…and then in a fit of pique Andrew sent him away.
Sure Holmes is probably a hallucination or a specter or a ghost, but now Andrew desperately needs his help. So to find the answer to his case and the man of his dreams, Andrew takes to chasing a fictional character through London with his very own Watson.
Cat gives this book 4 Meows...
This story was nothing that I imagined. I guess I thought a romantic mystery with some paranormal elements and I’d been wrong all around. But I’m not disappointed.
It’s a very deep introspective story with some twists.
The main character could be taken as unlikable but I actually found him interesting and myself pulling for him. He is at least redeemable and man in a big, bold beautiful way.
His only friend is a strong pushy character but needed to be for his friend.
The love interest is sweet with problems of his own and his posse of friends so much fun.
It’s a very character driven story, beautifully written and though there is a lot of Holmes facts (with some Elton John to lighten things up) the facts are imperative to the story.
If you're looking for something unique, like Sherlock Holmes and Elton John, quirky characters and twists try this!
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While strolling amid the students and scholars rushing into the University of London, I ignored the urge to check my pocket watch.
If there was ever a day to dawdle, it was today. The first day of summer that actually felt like the season it claimed to be. And the day of my personal disaster.
It wasn’t a ‘this train will split at the next station and you just sat down with your meal deal’ disaster, but it was equally inconvenient. After decades of laboring in academia, I was about to become involuntarily unemployed. Apart from that – and this might be even more important – I was also going to die.
To delay the confrontation a bit longer, I looked for a shaded place to smoke and then took long, luxurious drags on my cigarette. A cough struggled to tear itself free from my chest, but I suppressed it. Not now. Focus.
Few people knew my name or my publications. But some such people existed – people who were as fascinated by a very specific man as I was, and who seemed to value my works more than I did. The man I wrote about lived in Baker Street, and he was partly to blame for my situation. Though I liked to think of myself as a charmingly anachronistic gentleman, I increasingly felt I was just a dafter in a fine suit who lurked around public buildings. Instead of engaging in modern life, I was immersed in the world of Sherlock Holmes and all things Victorian, with the natural effect of many acquaintances leaving or going extinct. It wasn’t that I didn’t like the company of others; it was that I struggled in the company of others. And they struggled in the company of me.
You see, the fact that I knew my dearest detective had appeared on-screen in over two hundred and twenty adaptations did not give me much hope I would find out what people did for fun. But what of fun? What about achievement? Holmes is the most filmed novel character of all time – among humans, at least; Dracula has been filmed even more often. This connection filled me with joy, and I believed it could be combined in a curious way. Dracula Holmes: he investigates at night because he’s not just a detective, no – he’s also a vampire. Greedy for blood and knowledge.
I finished my cigarette and stepped from the shadows only to immediately collide with a young man in the most colorful trainers I’d ever seen. In a split-second knockout victory, he fell to the ground covered in the flyers he had been holding in his hand just seconds before.
I bent down immediately to help him. “I’m so sorry,” I said, quickly picking up his flyers from the pavement. At least those which hadn’t fallen into the grey puddle right next to us.
“It’s okay,” he said, and he looked at me. His blue eyes seemed friendly though his gaze was intense.
I quickly looked down again. To my surprise, the flyers weren’t gig announcements or takeaway adverts. In fact, they were promoting something very dear to my heart. “I like theater,” I said, handing him back a few of the flyers. “I thought theater was dead for young people.”
He smiled. “Most young people get run over by perfect strangers.
That’s why so few make it to the stage. Anyway…I’m still alive.”
That he was. Alive, handsome, and holding a slim stack of remaining flyers. Slightly crumpled.
“I’m far from perfect,” I remarked, thinking of the trouble I had caused him.
Yvonne is a bi and nonbinary writer who dedicates their free time to extending the secret Gay Agenda – in part through their debut novel A Case of Madness.
Although born and raised in the north of Germany, Yvonne’s passion for Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Who, their sassy humor, and aversion to talking on public transport made them suspiciously British from early on.
As a natural matter of cause and effect, Yvonne moved to London in 2014 and started to write (a novel for the drawer). No word was written until 2017 when the sudden question of ‘What if I could talk to Sherlock Holmes?’ came up to them.
Conducting PhD research in the world’s most extensive Sherlock Holmes collection, located in Minneapolis, USA, was a great help for answering that question. The result was not a PhD, but their debut novel A Case of Madness, originally written in German and in a bold move translated by the author themselves when nobody in Germany understood a word they were saying.
Embrace The Suck is book 8 in the OPS Protector Romance series and should be read in order.
I should have just stayed home.
I thought I could get away and relax. But that was scrapped the first day when Dash and FNG followed me on vacation. It was supposed to be a trip to reset my brain. To get away from all the women flooding work, desperate to be involved and blow stuff up, throw knives, and eat shawarma with the resident psychopath.
But they weren’t the worst part of the trip.
No, that would be the woman that shouldn’t have ever stepped foot in a desert. Whining and complaining were not supposed to happen on this trip. But it did. I should not have had to fight off a rabbit in a yurt. But I did. And that bighorn sheep…
But that was only the beginning of the worst vacation known to man. Then there were bullets, enemies coming from all directions, and the sexiest, most annoying woman directly in the center of it. And I had to protect her.
They say vacation is fun. They’ve never been on one with her.
Cat gives this book 5 Meows with a 3 purr heat index...
This is book 8. In the Owens Protection series and should be read in order.
There are several recurring characters and a secondary storyline that Carrie’s through the series.
This is Thumper’s story.
He is frustrated with all the women that is accumulating and wants a little vacation. He goes to the desert for a hike to be alone. Two of his teammates follow him and he finds him protecting a woman that he doesn’t really like.
Bree is a unique character. She is very unlikeable and all of her coworkers and even sister doesn’t like her. But this makes the story good as it adds interest plus intrigue and more humor.
The story is a suspense and also funny.
I really adore the characters, the uniqueness of each story along with the humor and romance. Watch out for the twists and shocking ending!
“Can I ask why you came here instead of…a spa?”
“A spa would have been nicer,” she panted. The path took a steep decline and she grabbed onto a boulder, leaning against it as she tried to breathe. “It’s so hot out here. I could be in a sauna right now.”
“A sauna is hot too.”
“I know that, but it’s good for your skin, your lungs…” She waved her hand in front of her face. “I feel faint.” She glanced up at the rising sun. “Is it just me, or is that sun really bright?”
Her flushed red face would be sexy if she were under me in bed, but out here in the sun, it only showed her intolerance for any kind of exertion. “It’s barely up yet. How do you expect to survive hiking out here?”
She pulled a water bottle from her pack and chugged it. “I’m always up for a challenge. Granted, this one is not exactly what I’m used to, but I’m no quitter.”
She stood, shoving her water bottle into her pack at the same time. But she was off balance and fell sideways, screeching as she fell and started to roll down the hill.
I pursed my lips and nodded as she tumbled in a very ungraceful manner until finally coming to a stop when the ground leveled out. “That seems about right.”
I'm a stay at home mom that loves to read. Some of my favorite titles are Pride and Prejudice, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, and Horatio Hornblower. I started writing when I was trying to come up with suggestions on ways I could help bring in some extra money. I came up with the idea that I could donate plasma because you could earn an extra $500/month. My husband responded with, "No. Find something else. Write a blog. Write a book." I didn't think I had anything to share on blog that a thousand other mothers hadn't already thought of. I decided to take his challenge seriously and sat down to write my first book, Jack. I was surprised at how much I enjoyed writing. From there, the stories continued to flow and I haven't been able to stop. I hope my readers enjoy my books as much as I enjoy writing them. Between reading, writing, and taking care of three small kids, my days are quite full.
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