2008-01-09

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2008-01-09 09:40 am

Whatever happened to Doreen Owens Malek?

Ms. Malek's awards include the 1986 Romance Writers of America Golden Medallion for Crystal Unicorn in the Traditional Category and a Romantic Times magazine award for Danger Zone. Six of her books, including Desperado, Roughneck, and A Marriage of Convenience, have appeared on the Waldenbooks Romance bestseller list.

Malek contributed the essay "Mad, Bad, And Dangerous to Know" to Dangerous Men And Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance. She also published under the name Faye Morgan.

To read more :

http://rosaromance.splinder.com/post/15437406/
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2008-01-09 09:40 am

Whatever happened to Doreen Owens Malek?

Ms. Malek's awards include the 1986 Romance Writers of America Golden Medallion for Crystal Unicorn in the Traditional Category and a Romantic Times magazine award for Danger Zone. Six of her books, including Desperado, Roughneck, and A Marriage of Convenience, have appeared on the Waldenbooks Romance bestseller list.

Malek contributed the essay "Mad, Bad, And Dangerous to Know" to Dangerous Men And Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance. She also published under the name Faye Morgan.

To read more :

http://rosaromance.splinder.com/post/15437406/
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2008-01-09 12:18 pm

Falling: An Erotic Love Story by Cameron Dane

Falling is the second on a series which tells the story of three Demon brothers, Connor, Cain and Caleb.

In the first book Connor has gained his mortality mating with a human female, Cassie. Having a woman as mate is the only way to become a full human, but Cain can't pursue this way, cause he is gay. Worst, for the Naverto Demon, his breed, homosexuality is a capital crime, punichable by death.

And so Cain for more than 150 years has avoided personal relationship, living only for the love of his horses. But now Cassie, Connor's wife, asks him to help his best friend Luke. Luke is a 25 years old cowboy who is beaten almost to death cause his former employer has found about his homosexuality. Cassie doesn't know that for Cain falls in love with Luke means death. But there is no way that Cain can't deny the feeling he soons has for Luke. Now they only can live full the days they have before the Demon Council strikes with his death sentence.

I have to admit I was a lit bit intrigued by a book which mix cowboys with demons... I don't know why but these are two genre I didn't see well together. So when I read the plot of this romance I was perplexed. But then, I put a blind vote on Loose Id and decide to give Cameron Dane a try. The lenght of the book, 350 pages, almost discourage me (I'm not particulary fond of too long book, I have this kink to be able to read a book in one night...). All conjures to make me not read this book.

But in the end I read it in only two night! it's a pretty good story, very tender and with very few paranormal elements. Really, it's more a "classical" (meaning for classical the late books about manlove between two hot cowboys...) love story than a paranormal one. Nor Cain or Luke are true alpha, they are both good beta. Maybe Luke is a bit stronger than Cain, and this was a surprise, cause given the demon nature of Cain, I was expecting him as the tougher and stronger character. But to be true Luke and Cain are very pretty balanced characters.

In the end Falling is more normal, than most of the contemporary I have read lately.

http://www.loose-id.net/prod-Hawkins_Ranch__Falling-634.aspx

Series:
1) Demon Moon
2) Falling

Reading List:

http://www.librarything.com/catalog_bottom.php?tag=reading+list&view=elisa.rolle


Cover Art by April Martinez

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2008-01-09 02:13 pm

Double or Nothing by Cassandra Gold

A pretty simple and smooth story.

Noah is a gambler. One year and half before he has found his way to the heart of Darren, a Vegas Casino owner. For three months they had an almost idilliac life, but when things got serious, Noah flyed away. Wasting his time in gambling and one night stands has proved to Noah that what he had with Darren is the only real and important thing, and now he is back to convice Darren to forgive him. He has only two weeks to win his last gamble and to do so he has to reveal all his hidden cards.

Darren is not willing to lose his heart another time. He is too near to forty to take risk and Noah has once betrayed him in the worst way. But even if he is a tought businessman, when faced with the younger man he seems to not have defence.

The story is not much complicated. It's enjoyable even if not too sexual: despite my feeling buying this one, it's more the tale of a tender wooing than of a seduction. Noah plans to conquer Darren not with sex but with love. So in the end it's more a romantic tale than an erotic one. 

http://www.cobblestone-press.com/catalog/books/doubleornothing.htm

Amazon Kindle: Double or Nothing
Publisher: Cobblestone Press, LLC (August 5, 2011)

Reading List: http://www.librarything.com/catalog_bottom.php?tag=reading+list&view=elisa.rolle
reviews_and_ramblings: (Default)
2008-01-09 02:13 pm

Double or Nothing by Cassandra Gold

A pretty simple and smooth story.

Noah is a gambler. One year and half before he has found his way to the heart of Darren, a Vegas Casino owner. For three months they had an almost idilliac life, but when things got serious, Noah flyed away. Wasting his time in gambling and one night stands has proved to Noah that what he had with Darren is the only real and important thing, and now he is back to convice Darren to forgive him. He has only two weeks to win his last gamble and to do so he has to reveal all his hidden cards.

Darren is not willing to lose his heart another time. He is too near to forty to take risk and Noah has once betrayed him in the worst way. But even if he is a tought businessman, when faced with the younger man he seems to not have defence.

The story is not much complicated. It's enjoyable even if not too sexual: despite my feeling buying this one, it's more the tale of a tender wooing than of a seduction. Noah plans to conquer Darren not with sex but with love. So in the end it's more a romantic tale than an erotic one. 

http://www.cobblestone-press.com/catalog/books/doubleornothing.htm

Reading List:

http://www.librarything.com/catalog_bottom.php?tag=reading+list&view=elisa.rolle