One day a young boy appears.  She sees him sporadically and he fascinates her.  He has an allure Danica can’t explain and eventually she takes to teasing him from her bedroom window.

Blood on the Harvest Moon is a short story about the intentional loss of innocence.  Danica doesn’t know her teasing is really preparing an invitation to give up her soul and enter another realm.  The story, an offering in the horror genre, is slightly erotic, slightly creepy and definitely the stuff of nightmares.

If Stella and Audra Price write horror as their genre of choice, they should stick with it.  They have a Stephen King sense of timing.  Unfortunately for these two, Mardi Gras Publishing is now defunct, and the story lacked proper editing and formatting.  Hopefully this story will appear elsewhere and get the professional attention it deserves.  If you enjoy this genre, you should enjoy this fifteen minute read.

Part of Ellora’s Cave Torrid Tarrot series(Queen of Wands), Ashlyn Chase takes you on a hot, rocking , erotic adventure that features a group of women with supernatural abilities, snarky attitudes and real life problems with men, homones, and monthly cycles.

In Wonder Witch, the heroine, Joell, accompanied by her familiar, a cat named Crowe and her compatriots attempt to find eight male romance models who’ve been kidnapped.  The crimes against these sexy men occurred at a romance convention to boot.  Despite PMS’ing and being just plain ol’ tired from their kicking butts all over the globe, Joell convinces some of the team to help her retrieve the missing men.

The story is for the most part told from the vantage point of Crowe and it is his irreverent attitude that provides a large part of the humor in this slightly over 100 pages of erotic reading.  Missing models, a sexy cop helping Joell and company, and a frantic agent anxious to get his guys back on the runway give Crowe plenty of ammunition for his snarkiness.  Then there is the kidnapper.  His motivations for secreting the men away just adds to the fun and surprises the reader encounters with Wonder Witch.

If you’re looking for serious and heavy, this book in not for you.  But, for kick butt fun and erotic situations, you won’t miss with Wonder Witch.

The plot leaned heavily toward mediocre. Laredo, a bad ass who wants to kill the hero, Jason, sets a trap, using Jason’s wife as the bait. Disarming some of the Wasters’s tricks, Jason goes willingly toward the slaughter, Kimi at the forefront of his thoughts. Nasty gun battles ensue with lots of heads exploding leaving people “messily dead”.

Unfortunately, Laredo is stupid and not a worthy enemy of our hero who has a bit more street smarts going for him. The Wasters Laredo hires are just that–wasted characters who add little to the appeal of the story.

Illogical point of view shifts, incomplete sentences, thoughts and descriptions a character can’t or shouldn’t have as well as a lack of a clear foundation for understanding the story world further disappoint.

This is really too bad. The Gamenet series of stories had a lot of potential. Major plot and theme questions, like “Why has the population embraced the games of the Arena?”, “Why are there people with animal spirits residing within them?” and “What happened to create this alternate society?” are among a host of puzzles not answered. Gamenet: Into the Jaws of the Dragon did not deliver.

As she is readying to leave her bookstore for the last time, a homeless man she knows stumbles in injured. His attacker is quick to follow, demanding the man’s piece of green rock.  She feels the victim press the stone into her hand and suddenly finds herself in an old time ship’s cabin…of the captain whose exploits she has pored over so often and who has starred in her fantasies for so long. 

When Rand discovers someone hiding in his personal cabin on the Red Sky, he is certain that it is an assassin sent by his enemy Captain Owain Cutler.  It doesn’t take long however to discover that the person is a female and even more curiously reminds him of his late and deeply beloved wife Emma. 

Ms Storey continues to please with her heartfelt and heated romances.  In this time travel tale, we are given much excitement in battle between ships and in seduction in the bedroom…er, cabin.  A magical sistrum is behind the bringing together of Skylar and Rand.  Meanwhile, a dastardly villain of a half-brother is resolute in attempts to steal the item, triumph over his sibling, and bring the woman he insists he loves to his side.

There was a bit of stilted dialogue between the hero and heroine at the beginning when they meet, but that smooths over quite quickly to a more natural flow. We are then quickly swept away thoroughly into the story.  Tragic expectations for the romance as it seems to echo the Captain’s previous loss gives a poignancy to the account of these lovers.  Issue of whether tis better to know one’s future in order to avoid difficulties or to live life as best one can without manipulating with foreknowledge is interesting to consider and is touched upon here.

Both main characters are strong and well rounded.  Skylar’s pluck in the face of the realities of 18^th century shipboard situations on a pirate vessel will rouse admiration and mirth.  Hero, Rand, is protective, loving, and more honorable than the average brigand.  His acceptance that there are things that cannot be explained in the world is unusual and makes us more receptive to the twists and turns in the book.

For romance readers who love action and adventure in and out of the bedroom, this one’s for you…This Time Forever.

This magic drink, as well as, a beautiful Fabergé egg are instrumental in calling her elusive love of all time.  When the man she longs for shows up in her life, she will realize that she has been looking for love in all the wrong places.  After all, he’s not from around here.

Prince Tynan is from the Faerie realm.  His own search for his perfect mate has led to naught.  With permission from the Queen, he ventures forth from the Faerie Court to continue in his hunt.  His senses take him to Devon Falls, and a bit of motherly interference has him haunted with the music of love that leads right to his heart’s desire.

This is the nicely spicy second book in Raine Delight’s Holiday Series and the reviewer’s introduction to the author’s writing.  One must say that there is a good basic plot to Charmed Magic and the scenes between hero and heroine are sensuous enough to keep one turning the pages, so to speak.

The difficulty lies with dialogue that didn’t have a natural feel to it and a lack of depth in both the characters and the story itself.  A longer book would have allowed for more detail to flesh out Hailey and Tynan.  It would also likely have permitted a more creditable build up to the story and explanations for how a Fabergé egg could be purchased in a small town by someone who is not portrayed as wealthy. 

Ms Delight could have benefited from an editor who used her red pen more liberally.  All the same, the underlying talent in writing erotic romance is visible and one hopes that the future works offered will have more substance and polish.

This ying and yang flow gives a nice balance of his and her perspectives. My favorite of the bunch had to be I wish I looked like that where the author, probably Mr. Knutson, reminded the woman on his arm that he didn’t need her to look like a child trying to look like an adult. At times, the meter is a bit simplistic, and if you are looking for poetry with heavy rhyming schemes, you won’t find it here. Rather, this reads more like a stream of consciousness recollection of searching for love, getting over those awkward beginnings and finding the person you want to be with.

If you enjoy poetry, especially of a romantic bent, you will probably find a poem or two to tickle your fancy in Across a Crowded Room .