Some of my favorite books

I decided to add my fave books as some personal recommendations. Now although I write YA and love to read it, not everything in this list will be suited for young adults, please use discretion when purchasing these books.





On the same night of her friend’s tragic death, Claudia Emerson encounters another world, Crossroads, through her dream. There, she learns about a mix breed of angels and humans, who possess supernatural powers. Among those with these powers, lies evil, known as the fallen. Mystified by her ability to enter this place called Crossroads, certain that the fallen will be after her, she is assigned a guardian angel named Michael. Aden, the fallen leader, is convinced that Claudia holds the key to help destroy Crossroads. Her dream becomes a nightmare as more secrets are revealed, about who she really is, and the true identities of the people she loves most.

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As the alkins head back to Crossroads, Claudia leads her normal life; but not for long. Having a special soul, Claudia attracts danger, and she soon finds out who Gamma asked to watch over her. The Twelve, known as Divine Elders on Earth, are very much involved when they find out that Aliah, one of the God’s first angels, escaped from the Abyss when the gates were opened by Aden. Needing Claudia’s soul to escape the only place Aliah can reside–a place between Heaven and Earth–he sends his demons in search of all Claudia Emersons on Earth. Taking her soul will enable him to be released from Between and cross over to Crossroads, which would give him immense power. As more secrets are revealed Claudia learns about the venators—nephilim, demon hunters. Now two opposing forces must work together in order to save Claudia and humanity from the most dangerous angel ever created. But along the way, trust becomes a big issue. Will love be enough to keep Claudia and Michael together? Who will make the ultimate sacrifice? Who will betray them all?

Amazon purchase link http://www.amazon.com/Between-Crossroads-Saga-ebook/dp/B006VXE1H8/ref=sr_1_2?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1328557320&sr=1-2







Angel, hero, monster, devil--we all become what we really are. I Am Wolf --The journey of a boy about to become a man who inherits his ancestors gift and must learn the right way to use it. He falls in love with Alaynee and begins to feel like he is normal again. When their world is shattered by the kidnapping of Alaynee's little brother, Jonah breaks the cardinal rule of his gift and bites the kidnapper, creating a creature called the unnatural. This sends him and all his friends on an adventure across the states to a place in Tennessee. There they find not only must they stop the unnatural creature, but they must save Cara--the girl the creature is after. Jonah must ask himself the most important question of all, would you sacrifice yourself to save another?


Amazon Link: http://www.amazon.com/Am-Wolf-Children-Nox-ebook/dp/B0070PBFLQ/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1328558117&sr=1-1









Haunting in my desires
Thrilled by what is flawed. 
I see now that which before could not be seen. 
The gray matter of us all


The soul 
The light 
The sparkle of the infinite night. 


Seeking only to be heard
cause we are all dead or dying. 
And there in lies the truth of that 
which I am buying. 


I'm gonna live forever 
in the dark of night. 
Alive but dead 
Dead but alive 
Does it even matter? 
I'm lost now in a day dream 
of my own creation. 
Living 
And 
Dead
Am I the soulless light?
A young love destroyed, an entire village murdered. The year, 1363-the plagued ravaged the land in every corner of Great Britain accept one lonely isle called The Isle of Ely. The bishop, sure the village had consorted with the devil sent his Templar Knights to investigate. Their hearts thirsted for blood. They killed every living person in the village. 


Julia's soul, so angered by the actions of the knights, is given a power in death she did not posses in life. She must decide if revenge is worth the price she will pay. 




Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/Soulless-Light-ebook/dp/B005MEKQR6/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1328558248&sr=1-1






Nickolas Grant doesn’t know what to do when he finally realizes that he needs Morgan Becky for more than just his secretary. He doesn’t trust her… not with his love not even his friendship.


Morgan has not had an easy life and finds it difficult to trust others. She needs to get her life in order, not fall for her handsome boss with a stiff spine and foul temper.


When they come together in fiery passion and biting words, no one is safe, not even them. 

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Devin Grant is having a crappy day. He lost his case, wrecked his car and got a ticket. Then instead of going straight home as he wants to, his brothers make him stop at a out of the way diner and have breakfast. He takes his rotten mood out on the pretty little waitress/cook.


Ronnie Frey is working her way through law school and doesn’t need crap from a rude gorgeous man. When Devin leaves her a huge tip, she tracks him down through his brother and returns it. 


Both of them are too stubborn and smart to give in until Devin shows her passion and love beyond anything she’s ever known. Now a different kind of heat forms between them. Until Ronnie’s family shows up and kidnaps Devin. Then hell hath no fury like a woman whose love is harmed.


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Caitlynne O’Malley is a great detective in Chicago . And a clean one. But her partner wasn’t and nearly killed her because of it. So she goes home to recuperate and to stay with her beloved Uncle and Aunt in Ohio. While there she has to save little Meggie Grant from certain death from a speeding truck, and Cait ends up hurting herself again. When she ends up at the hospital from her injuries she meets Meggie’s daddy, Spencer Grant. And the sparks immediately start to fly .

Spencer has a home with his little girl, a wonderful intrusive family that he loves, and a job that makes him happy. Not only is he not intimidated by the gun toting cop, he finds himself oddly attracted to the beautiful woman. But Cait has vowed to never let herself fall in love. But when she is being hunted, her family makes a choice – live or die to protect Caddy-did and the little girl they've grown to love too.
When Meggie is taken, Cait only has one chance to save her for Spencer, get her back to him at any cost. Cait has made a promise and is determined to keep it. Even at the cost of everything she loves.
O'Malley has a love that defies everthing. But is it enough? Meggie loves the hard-hearted woman, but can Cait love her in return?
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Byron has everything. Good looks, money, a great career as an artist and a secret he thinks his family doesn’t share. 


Byron likes to play games, but not the kind you expect. He is owner of a specialized club called Tightly Bound and he enjoys playing the role of Dom. The only thing that is missing from his life is a submissive of his own and someone to love. 


During the traditional Grant winter fundraiser, Taylor a young and beautiful friend of Jamie's gets ill from a bite she received at a different club. Byron realizes he may have found a match in her and he recognizes characteristics in her that are common to a submissive. He soon offers her a private invitation to his club, where he can meet her in a place they are both comfortable. Soon Byron realizes he wants much more than a submissive, he wants love. Her love.


But the people she works for are crooks and Taylor just happens on to their scheme and is afraid she’ll turn out like one of the characters in the movie, The Firm – A dead woman. Going to Ronnie Grant she gets the help she needs, but is it enough? Is it too late?


Byron and Taylor come together in ways that both amaze and astound even them. But can their love and that of his family save her?


Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/Byron-Grant-Brothers-ebook/dp/B005PQC368/ref=sr_1_7?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1328558779&sr=1-7


Dane Wallace’s psychic vision of a murder keeps her parked on a park bench night after night in order to rescue a hapless victim—a man whose face she can’t see clearly. Her intensions are to rescue the man and get back to her private life.
Jamie Grant, a strong, handsome college professor, is unaware of the danger lurking around the corner. He’s taken by surprise by two assailants and an unlikely rescuer, a tall gorgeous stranger.
Dane has had a hard life with people closest to her not believing in her abilities and punishing her for something she couldn’t help. Dane may have foreseen the murder attempt, but couldn’t foresee the consequences of her interference—losing her heart to Jamie. 
The hot sex is great, but can she really trust the man? Will her natural abilities that have caused her scorn and ridicule from others do the same with Jamie or bring them closer together?


Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/Jamie-Grant-Brothers-ebook/dp/B006N3I2EO/ref=sr_1_8?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1328558779&sr=1-8


Connor had to get help for his momma. Mr. O had hurt them both bad this time but they still got away. And Connor was determined that he would never catch them again. Now if only he could get to the clinic to get some medicine they could move on.


At seventeen, Charlotte or Charlie to her friends was tossed out of her home because she’d gotten ‘soiled’ her mother said. A slut like her didn’t need to be around her good friends from the church. Charlie didn’t care, she had Connor and that’s all that mattered. Until one night a man decided that he wanted her. When he took her then five year old son hostage, she had no choice but to move in with him. Over the next few years she and Connor lived in horror.


Damon just wanted to go to dinner with his brothers and celebrate his birthday. When a call from the lobby where his practice was came to tell him about a runaway, he simply let Morgan handle it. That was until an urgent call with her sobbing brought him to her. The little boy had been beaten and badly. And his momma he told Dr. Damon ‘was way worser’.


Charlie had no trust for the handsome doctor and the tight knit family. But no matter how hard she tried to not get close to them, they pulled both her and her son into their hearts. She was so afraid that when Mr. O found them he’d hurt the Grant Brothers as well.


What she didn’t expect was just how much the love of one man could do for you and the help of a family, especially one like the Grants could be so loving.


Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/Damon-Grant-Brothers-ebook/dp/B0072W2ZEI/ref=sr_1_3?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1328558779&sr=1-3


Sara Temple goes to work one day and finds a group of rogue Vampires is going to kill her boss and his pregnant mate. In trade for her life, she agrees to save the life of the newly appointed—extremely handsome Master Vampire Aaron MacManus.

Sara has been protecting the Queen of Magic for years, since the explosion that caused her to lose her unborn child. On the run from the Council of Magick, she tries to keep a low profile and watch over the Queen who nearly went to Fade—a place of certain death to her kind.

Aaron discovers that Sara is his mate— which neither of them is very happy about. Their discovery of each other and the magic that both have, brings them closer than any other couple ever known. A sensual and sexual meeting of their minds is explosive and erotic.

Together they can save Magic—all magic for mankind, they can bring a kiss of vampires together to bond and trust that was something they’d never had before.

Theirs is a love story that will span centuries, if they don’t kill one another first…
 

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The second book in the Aaron’s Kiss series finds Colin Larimore being literally run down by his future mate. Mistakenly, he believes that the Fates have played a horrible trick on him to give him a mate that would sell her own children in order to feed a drug habit.
Shade Doe is homeless and is a thief to survive. She doesn’t want to be either, but without an address she can’t get a job, without a job she can’t afford to get an address. It’s an endless cycle. When she befriends two small children and gets deeply entrenched into their troubled lives, she has to use her magic to try and save them.
Through a series of misconceptions and angry words, Colin and Shade come together with their magical abilities and blades to save each other and the children. But will it be enough? 

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Dominic Marshall is sick to death hearing about Pete. The way the women keep going on about him Dominic swears that the first time he sees the guy he's going to punch him in the nose, then drain him. There is no way in Dominic's mind that any one person could be that great.


Piccadilly Bartholomew or "Pete" to everyone who knows her is in trouble. She had to do some work for the man she'd just broken into his 'secure' computer system by telling him not only how she did it, but also show him how to fix it. In the mean time, she meets Duncan to help him with a computer purchase.


When Pete has to deliver the twins of Sara's in a restaurant, Dominic decides to claim her as his mate and make her his. Pete thinks Dominic is nuts and has no problems telling him so.


Her family finds her and has decided to come and fetch her home. With her powerful magic and their black magic they are going to breed her with the most powerful being alive. But they didn't expect a pack of werewolves, several thousand vampires and the Queen of Magick to be with her.


Sparks, steamy sex and magic bring Diminic and Pete together and their combined strengths. But will it be enough to take on someone as powerful as a former King?


Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/Natural-Magick-Aarons-Kiss-ebook/dp/B005XO3B3G/ref=sr_1_2?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1328558779&sr=1-2


Sam Hunter lived a double life. On the surface she was a baker, but behind the scenes she smuggled people away from abusive situations. Being the owner of Sam’s Baked Goods gave her a place to call home, a place that was untouched by her secret life.


Tucker James was a vampire fleeing from his cruel maker. He came to Aaron’s Kiss in hopes of swearing allegiance to Aaron MacManus and becoming a member of his Kiss. He just wanted to be a part of a realm of vampires that didn’t starve their subjects and beat them.


Sam’s peaceful life is shattered when her secret life comes back to haunt her in her own shop. To protect an innocent, Sam winds up shot and loses consciousness. 


Sara MacManus, Aaron’s mate, just happened to be there when things went bad. She sensed Sam’s powers and had Sam taken to Aaron’s Kiss. Sam was dyeing and the only thing that would save her was blood, vampire blood. 


From the moment he caught her scent, Tucker knew that Sam was his mate—the very beautiful dying woman lying on the bed needed his blood—and while he wanted her with every fiber of his being, keeping her safe wasn’t an option. His own maker wanted him back. 


With Sam’s special brand of magic she can save the big vampire but he isn’t ready to take it. He’s terrified of Marta, his maker, and not so much what she’ll do to him but what she could and would do to his very lovely, stubborn mate.
She was wanted by everyone...

All she wanted was to be left alone, or at least that's what Desiree Dupuis thought she wanted. She was born a very powerful witch. It figures the one back fired spell she cast would make her a very wanted woman. Drake, the Vampire King, wanted her for her magic. Jason Hargrove, the witch hunter, wanted to see her burn. Caleb Jenkins, the shape-shifter, wanted to possess her. Mica Sinclair, the Rogue Vampire...Well...Mica wanted her heart.

Danger and adventure awaits...

Desiree had no trouble finding danger, suspense, lies, deceit, and most of all romance...She found love where she least expected, but at what cost? Are the risks too great?
After being tugged in four different directions, all Desiree wanted was to Court the Darkness.


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Betrayed by one of her peers . . .

Vicky Phillips almost lost her life due to a purposefully vicious betrayal by one of her peers. The time has come for her to face her past and face her peers with the truth. She now needs her boyfriend, Luke Wolfburn, more than ever.

Evil walks the halls of Wickford High . . .

Temptation is everywhere. It would be all to easy to take the wrong path. Is she strong enough to resist the temptation? All the betrayal may leave her Furiously Tempted . . .

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The first day of school anywhere is never fun . . . At first glance, Wickford High, seems like a normal Catholic School. But Vicky Phillips soon discovers that there is nothing normal about Wickford High… or its occupants… She is the new kid at a new school, and is having the absolute worst day of her life, until she meets the hot, sexy, wolf shape shifter, Luke Wolfburn. Luke makes the disaster she calls her life bearable. Dark secrets that must be kept hidden . . . It seems that everyone at Wickford High has their secrets. Vicky has her own secret, a secret that her mother died for. She all too soon discovers that you can't run from your past. It will always come back to haunt you...


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In The Wake Of A Tragedy, A True Love Is Born...


Life isn’t easy in the South in 1860. Bree Montgomery’s life is set in turmoil by the tragic deaths of her parents. Forced to leave her friends and home in the big city of Charleston, she moves to the small rural town of Willstown, Alabama, to live with her aunt. She now lives so far out in the country that there’s not a neighbor in sight. She is convinced that her life is ruined. That is, until she meets the gorgeous, Gabriel March, a young man with a stubborn will and a fiery temper to match her own.


A battle of wills is fought as the two stubborn personalities collide. In the aftermath, they are left with a love so strong that the only thing that can separate them is...a Civil War. 


Bree's life is thrown into turmoil again. Will her will be strong enough to survive it? Or will she be thrown into a Desire Everlasting?


Amazon Link: http://www.amazon.com/Desire-Everlasting-ebook/dp/B005PQ59GE/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1328559942&sr=1-1





Keira Jameson used to lead a normal life, she just had a gift, passed down through the generations of her family. 


Now, after hearing voices, having strange dreams of others calling out to her, and her grandfather's last words haunting her, she sets out to find other families like hers. Along with her best friend Lily, the only person outside her family to know about her gift, Keira begins a hunt for her ancestors. A chance meeting with a young man, Lucian Turner, sets them on the right track, but their discoveries change the way Keira will see herself for ever more. 


Fear, superstition and heritage are shaping Keira's future and she must face her enemies, even if this could mean losing her life. 


Through loss and love her destiny becomes inescapable. 


Part Buffy-style horror, part tender romance, Bloodlines will have fans of the genre on tenterhooks waiting for the next instalment of this gripping and hell-raising tale.

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