REVIEW, Jacob

Since time began, there have been Nightwalkers—the races of the night who live in the shadows of the moonlight. Love with humans is absolutely forbidden, and one man makes certain to uphold this ancient law: Jacob, the Enforcer...

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Jacob

Series: Nightwalkers, book 1

Pub:  2006, Zebra Books (Piatkus)

Author: Jacquelyn Frank

Cat: urban fantasy

Format: paperback (mid); 369pp w/ 15 chapters

Whose: Jacob & Isabella

Age Range: adult                                             

            Synopsis

Jacob has heard every excuse his people give when the madness overtakes them and they fall prey to their lust for humans, and he still brings every trespasser to justice. Immune to forbidden desires, uncontrollable hungers or the curse of the moon, his control is total...until he sees Isabella on shadowy New York City street.

Saving her life wasn’t in his plans. But the moment he holds her in his arms and feels the soft explosion of her body against his, everything changes. Their attraction is undeniable, volatile—and completely against the law. And suddenly everything Jacob has ever believed is inflamed by the heat of desire.

REVIEW, All Together Dead

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All Together Dead

Series: Southern Vampire series, book 7

Pub: 2007, Gollancz

Author: Charlaine Harris

Cat: paranormal mystery

Format: paperback (mid); 323 pp w/ 19 chapters

Age Range: Adults                                           

            Synopsis

Sookie Stackhouse would really like time to get over being betrayed by Bill, her long-time vampire lover, and get use to her new relationship with sexy shapeshifter Quinn—but instead, she finds herself attending a vampire summit, the destination of choose for every undead power player around. She’s being used as a sort-of human Geiger counter for Sophie-Anne Leclerq, vampire queen of Louisiana.

    

But Sophie-Anne’s power base has been severely weakened by Hurricane Katina, and she’s to be put on trial for murdering her king. Sookie knows the queen is innocent, but others have their doubts. And there are some vamps who would like to finish what nature started. With secret alliances and backroom deals the order of the day—and night—Sookie must decide which side she’ll stand with, and quickly, for her choice may mean the difference between survival and all-out catastrophe...

REVIEW, Ruthless Game

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Ruthless Games

Series: GhostWalker, book 10

Pub:  2011, Piatkus

Author: Christine Feehan

Cat: paranormal romance

Format: paperback (mid); 376pp w/ 20 chapters

Whose: Kane & Rose

Age Range: adult                                             

            Synopsis

On a mission to rescue hostages in Mexico, the last thing GhostWalker Kane Cannon expects to find is Rose Patterson—fellow GhostWalker, fugitive, and pregnant with his child.

Forced into a breeding programme by Dr Whitney, Rose escaped with the help to Kane after she was impregnated by him, but despite Kan’s desperate need to keep her close to him, she has eluded him...until now. But does she feel the same passion for him that he feels for her?

In Motion 2.3

Starting paragraph:  Laying on the bed waiting for Adelaide to come out here after her shower, waited for that flesh smelling body that would have the same soft sent that he’s skin held from the shower before her.

Body of Darkness, book 1, chapter 8

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Bought #4

City of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare

Infamous by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Ruthless Game by Christine Feehan

Her Vampire Husband by Michelle Hauf

REVIEW, Lover Unleashed

In the darkest corners of the night in Caldwell, New York, and conflict like no other rages. The city is home to a band of brothers born to defend their race: the warrior vampires of

 The Black Dagger Brotherhood

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Lover Unleashed

Series: Black Dagger Brotherhood series, book 9

Pub: 2011, Piatkus

Author: J. R. Ward

Cat: paranormal romance

Format: paperback (full); 489pp w/ 59 chapters

Whose: Payne & Manny

Age Range: adult

            Synopsis

Payne, twin sister of the Vishous, is cut from the same dark, seductive cloth as her vampire brother. Imprisoned for eons by their mother, the Scribe Virgin, she finally frees herself – only to face a devastating injury.

    

Manuel Manello, MD, is drafted by the Brotherhood to save Payne – but when the human surgeon and the vampire warrior meet; their two worlds collide in the face of their undeniable passion. With so much working against them, can love prove stronger than the birthright and the biology that separate them?

Because they Look Cool

I think I've said it all.

it also matches well with the others in the series, which is always nice

much nicer than the angle ones, right?

Book Chat: Discarded Books #10

where I talk about the books I got

rid of and why

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Midnight Daughters

Series: Dorina Basarab, Dhampir series, book one

Pub: 2008, Onyx publishing

Author: Karen Chance

Cat: paranormal

Age Range: adults                                            

            Synopsis

Dorina Basarab is a dhampir - half-human, half-vampire. Unlike most dhampirs, though, Dory has managed to maintain her sanity. Now Dory's vampire father has come to her for help - again. Her Uncle Dracula (yes, the Dracula), cruelest among vampires, has escaped his prison. And her father wants Dory to work with gorgeous master vampire Louis-Cesare to put him back there.

           

Although Dory prefers to work alone, Dracula is the only thing that truly scares her - and when she has to face him, she'll take all the help she can get.

REVIEW, Cerulean Sins

People don’t like dealing with people who raise the dead. Don’t ask me why, but we make them nervous.

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Cerulean Sins

Series: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, book 11

Pub: 2003, Headline

Author: Laurell K. Hamilton

Cat: paranormal fiction

Format: paperback (mid); 518 pp w/ 62 chapters

Age Range: adult                                             

            Synopsis

There’s something about Leo Harlan that I don’t like. He’s asked me to reanimate his long-dead ancestor, and it seems like a perfectly ordinary case for someone like me: Anita Blake, preternatural expert, vampire hunter and raiser of the dead. So I agree—sometimes you deal with the devil not because you want to, but because if you don’t, someone else will. But what he hasn’t told me is that the corpse may hold the secret to an ancient crime that not everyone wants to be remembered....

MANGA REVIEW, IKIGAMI 1 to 4

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IKIGAMI the Ultimate Limit vol 1—4

Pub: 2005, Shogakukan Inc., Tokyo

Story & Art: Motoro Mase

Format: graphic paperback; Episode 1 & Episode 8

Age Range: [parental Advisory EXPLICIT CONTENT]

    Synopsis

Dear Citizen:

Thank you for your loyalty. You’ve no doubt noticed that the world is a troubled place. People are apathetic, lazy, unmotivated. You’ve probably asked yourself

WHY ISN’T ANYTHING BEING DONE TO STOP THIS

SYSTEMATIC DECLINE?

Rest assured that measures are being taken. Beginning immediately, we will randomly select a different citizen each day who will be killed within 24 hours of notification. We believe this will help remind all people how precious life is and how important it is to be a productive, active member of society.

Thanks you for your continued attention and your cooperation and participation....

CONGRATULATIONS! YOU HAVE BEEN RANDOMLY SELECTED BY THE GOVERNMENT... TO DIE IN 24 HOURS!

REVIEW, Definitely Dead

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Definitely Dead

Series: Southern Vampire series, book 6

Pub: 2006, Gollancz

Author: Charlaine Harris

Cat: paranormal fiction (mystery)

Format: paperback (mid); 324 pp w/ 23 chapters

Age Range: Adults                                           

            Synopsis

Sookie Stackhouse doesn’t have that many relations, so she really hated to lose one – but all the people to go, she didn’t expect it to be her cousin Hadley, a consort of New Orleans’ vampires queen – after all, Hadley was technically already dead.

           

But Hadley is gone, beyond recall, and she’s left Sookie an inheritance, one that comes with a bit of a risk – not least because someone doesn’t want Sookie digging too deep into Hadley’s possessions... or her past. Sookie’s life is once again on the line, and this time the suspects range from rogue weres to her first love, the vampire Bill. Sookie’s got a lot to do if she’s going to keep herself alive...

In Motion 2.2

Starting Paragraph: It’d been this way for months, now.

      Cadmus sighed deeply into the matrass under him. His fingers buried deep into the fur of his pet—for now—Daniel. The wolf.

Cursed Happiness, book 6, first line

REVIEW, Powerful Protectors

Tough. Rugged. Ruthless

But could the bodyguard be her lover?

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The Ultimate Hero Powerful Protectors

Series: --

Pub:  omnibus, (Mills & Boon) Harlequin

Author: Debra Webb, Carla Cassidy, Dana Marton

Cat: romance suspence

Format: paperback (mid); 632pp w/ 3 stories

Whose: Scout & Max / Kate & Zack / Kaye & Daniel

Age Range: adult                                             

            Synopsis

Keeping Baby Safe

Debra Webb

Bounty hunter Olivia ‘Scout’ Jackson was no stranger to danger—but being pregnant changed everything. And kissing Pierce Maxwell was risking more than she dared. But could she trust the devastating Colby Agency operative to protect her and the precious life she carried when he was duty bound to her enemy? Or would his loyalties change when he found out he was about to become a father?

Defending the Rancher’s Daughter

Carla Cassidy

Whoever had murdered her father was now coming after Kate Sampson. She had to be on her guard every second. Professional bodyguard Zack West offered protection...and something a lot more dangerous. The sensual cowboy had branded her with his passion. And now he was back, ready to break her heart all over again.

Protective Measures

Dana Marton

Congresswoman Kaye Miller didn’t survive the jaws of politics to fall prey to a deadly hate crime. So when sexy bodyguard Daniel DuCharme was assigned to protect her, they found themselves sharing every waking moment together. But with a killer hungry for their precious lives, can the two lovers’ battle time in order to stop a global assassination?

REVIEW, Love Mine

In the darkest corners of the night in Caldwell, New York, a conflict like no other rages. The city is home to a band of brothers born to defend their race—the warrior vampires of the BLACK DAGGER BROTHERHOOD

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Lover Mine

Series: Black Dagger Brotherhood series, book 8

Pub: 2010, Piatkus

Author: J. R. Ward

Cat: paranormal romance

Format: paperback (mid); 653 pp w/ 74 chapters

Whose: John Matthew & Xhex

Age Range: adult

            Synopsis

John Matthew has come a long way since he was found living among humans, his vampire nature unknown to himself and to those around him, and taken in by the Brotherhood. No one could have guessed his true history – or his true identity. Indeed, the fallen Brother Darius has returned, but with a different face and a very different destiny.

    

Xhex, a symphath assassin, has long steeled herself against the attraction between her and John. Having already lost one lover to madness, she will not allow a male of worth to fall prey to the darkness of her twisted life. When fate intervenes, however, the two discover that love, like destiny, is inevitable between soul mates.

MANGA REVIEW, VAmpire Knight vol 4&5

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Vampire Knight vol 4 & 5

Pub: Chuang Yi

Story & Art: Matsuri Hino

Cat: *think about it*

Format: graphic novel, paperback; 15^th Night to 24^th Night

Age Range: YA

    Synopsis

Cross Academy is attended by two groups of students: the Day Class and the Night Class. At twilight, when the students of the Day Class return to their dorm, they cross paths with the Night Class on their way to school. Yuki Cross and Zero Kiryu are the Guardians of the school, protecting the Day Class from the Academy’s dark secret: the Night Class is full of vampires.

Zero warns Yuki to stay away from Maria Kurenai, the new Night Class transfer student, although he won’t tell Yuki why. Kaname is also wary, and he sends Ichijo to watch Maria so she doesn’t start trouble. Who is this girl, and why does she have the entire Night Class on edge?

Book Chat: Dicarded Books #9

Where I talk about the books that I gave away

for whatever reason

Vampires, Werewolves, Faeries, shapeshifters

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Paranormalcy

Series: paranormalcy, book 1

Pub:  2010, HarperCollins

Author: Kiersten White

Cat: mystery

Format: paperback (mid); 335pp

Age Range: YA                                                 

            Synopsis

Evie’s always thought of herself as normal. Sure, her best friend is a mermaid, her ex-boyfriend is a faerie, she’s falling for a shapeshifter and she’s the only person who can see through paranormals’ glamour’s, but still. Normal.

    

Only now paranormals are dying and Evie’s dreams are filling with haunting voices and mysterious prophecies. She begins to suspect there is a link between her abilities and the sudden rash of deaths and even worse, that she is at the centre of a dark prophecy promising destruction to all paranormal creatures.

Series

[tb], Supernaturally, Endlessly

MANGA REVIEW, Vampire Knight 2&3

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Vampire Knight vol 2 & 3

Pub: Chuang Yi

Story & Art: Matsuri Hino

Cat: *think about it*

Format: graphic novel, paperback; chapters Sixth Night to fourteenth Night

Age Range: YA

    Synopsis

Cross Academy is attended by two groups of students: the Day Class and the Night Class. At twilight, when the students of the Day Class return to their dorm, they cross paths with the Night Class on their way to school. Yuki Cross and Zero Kiryu are the Guardians of the School, protecting the Day Class from the Academy’s dark secret: the Night Class is full of vampires!

Outside the safe boundary of the academy, Yuki is attacked by a vampire. Injured and unable to defend herself, two Night Class students come to her aid and kill the vampire. Yuki askes them why they killed their own kind, and they tell her to come to the Moon Domitory at midnight to learn the answer....

REVIEW, Narcissus in Chains

The look on my face must have frightened him, because his eyes widened, and I saw something like human fear cross his reptilian face.

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Narcissus in Chains

Series: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, book 10

Pub: 2001, Headline

Author: Laurell K. Hamilton

Cat: paranormal fiction

Format: paperback (mid); 678 pp w/ 66 chapters

Age Range: adult                                             

            Synopsis

I’m Anita Blake and I kill monsters. The last thing I want to think about through when I get home after a night out is work. But someone has abducted a wereleopard from the Narcissus in Chains club. It’s a dark world out there with shapeshifter crime and were-creature struggles. I may not have seen Jean-Claude, the Vampire Master of the City, for six months, but I need his help now, whatever the consequences. Someone is targeting the lycanthropes and we have to save them.

MANGA REVIEW, One Piece vol 61

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One Piece series, Vol 61 

Pub: SHUEISHA Inc, Tokyo

Story & Art: Eiichiro Oda

Cat: pirates

Format: graphic novel, paperback; chapters 595 to 603

Age Range: YA

    Synopsis

PARAMOUNT WAR Part 5

NEW WORLD Part 1

As a child, monkey D. Luffy dreamed of becoming King of the Pirates. But his life changed when he accidentally gained the power to stretch like rubber...at the cost of never being able to swim again! Years later, Luffy sets off in search of the “One Piece,” said to be the greatest treasure in the world....

ROMANCE DAWN FOR THE NEW WORLD      

Determined to become stronger and challenge the toughest seas in the world, Luffy and his crew decided to go into training. When they finally reunite years later, they will meet brand new enemies and adventures!

bought #3

Bloodrose by Andrea Cremer

Powerful Protectors Omnibus by Debra Webb, Carla Cassidy, Dana Marton

REVIEW, Dead as a Doornail

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Dead as a Doornail

Series: Southern Vampire series, book 5

Pub: 2005, Gollancz

Author: Charlaine Harris

Cat: paranormal fiction (mystery)

Format: paperback (mid); 295pp w/ 16 chapters

Age Range: Adults                                           

            Synopsis

Sookie Stackhouse enjoys her life, mostly. She’s a great cocktail waitress in a fun bar; she has a love life, albeit a bit complicated, and most people have come to terms with her telepathy. The problem is, Sookie wants a quiet life – but things just seem to happen to her and her friends. Now her brother Jason is about to turn into a were-panther for the first time. She can deal with that, but her normal sisterly concern turns to cold fear when a sniper sets his deadly sights on the local shifter population.

    

She’s afraid not just because Jason is at risk, but because his new were-brethren suspect Jason himself may be the shooter. Sookie has until the next full moon to find out who’s behind the attacks – unless the killer decides to find her first.

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REVIEW, Infinity

I am the power they can’t tear down.

I say I control my destiny and my life. No, nothing controls me. Ever.

 (first read: 2010)

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Infinity

Series: Chronicles of Nick series, book 1

Pub: 2010, St. Martin’s Press

Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon

Cat: paranormal fiction

Format: paperback (full size); 306 pp w/ 19 chapters

Age Range: young adults (12+)

                Synopsis

Nick Gautier thinks he knows everything. Streetwise, tough and savvy, his quick sarcasm is renowned. But his whole world is suddenly turned upside down on the night his best friends try to kill him.

     

Saved by a mysterious warrior, Nick is sucked into the realm of Dark-Hunters – immortal vampire-slayers who risk everything to save humanity – and he quickly learns that the human world is only a veil for a much larger and more dangerous one that’s filled with all kinds of evil. Nick knows he’s in real danger and he soon has a lot more to deal with than high school – all without getting grounded, suspended...or killed.

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REVIEW, Faerily Imperfect vol one

Magical Powers would be great, if they weren’t guaranteed to backfire....

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Faerily Imperfect: volume one

Series: Faerily Imperfect, books 1 & 3

Pub:  2011, Resplendence Publishing, LLC

Author: Mia Watts

Cat: erotic romance

Format: paperback (mid); 325pp w/ 2 stories

Whose: Sage & Joe / Dill & Mason

Age Range: adult                                             

            Synopsis

Sage, Dill, Willow and identical twins Flora & Fauna Harper are half-breeds. With one parent human and the other faery, they don’t fit into either realm. The faery realm is known for its trickery, but in an act of good will, each child born of the human-faery union were bestowed one magical ability. Since their magic is unpredictable—although it does seem to increase when they’re flustered—finding love just became a whole lot harder: throw in a series of normal life complications and work conflicts, and suddenly their faery “gift” feels more like a curse.

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REVIEW, The Assignment

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The Assignment

Series: the Assignment, book 1

Pub:  2006, Looseld

Author: Evangeline Anderson

Cat: erotic romance

Format: paperback (mid); 161pp w/ 18 chapters

Whose: Nicholas & Sean

Age Range: adult                                             

            Synopsis

Detective Nicholas Valenti, tall, dark and stoic, has been best friends with his partner, Sean O’Brian for six years. The two men have seen each other through divorce, disaster and danger and saved each other’s asses more time than Valenti can count. Exactly when he started seeing his blond, intense partner in another light, Valenti isn’t really sure. He only knows that he wants O’Brian in a way that had nothing to do with friendship and everything to do with possession. It is a desire he will have to hide forever because O’Brian is undeniably straight.

Just as Valenti is coming to grips with his new, unacceptable, feelings for his partner, their police Captain puts them on a new case that could blow Valenti’s cover once and for all. he and O’Brian are going undercover at the country’s largest and more infamous gay resort to bust a notorious drug lord and stop the shipments of poison cocaine that are flooding the gay bars all over the city.

Now Valenti will have to make a choice between friendship and desire. He and O’Brian will play the roles of gay men that will push the limits of their relationship to the braking point. Will their time at the RamJack forge a new bond between them or destroy their partnership forever?

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In Motion 2.1

Starting Paragraph: Okay, she said, but being that she didn’t hear the words come out she mustn’t have said them all too well, though it didn’t seem to matter for seconds after Hue stood, tall and worried in her doorway.

REVIEW, Slave Boy

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Slave Boy

Series: --

Pub:  2008, Looseld

Author: Evangeline Anderson

Cat: erotic romance

Format: paperback (mid); 252pp w/ 14 chapters

Whose: Haven & Wren

Age Range: adult                                             

            Synopsis

Haven is a Master of the Order of the Light—a revered sect of mediators and healers that roam the galaxy righting wrongs. Ten years ago he bought a ragged slave boy from Rigel Six and brought him to live at the Temple of Light on Radiant. As Wren’s master and mentor, Haven knows the young man is off limits, so he keeps his forbidden feelings for his novice under wraps, vowing never to act on them.

Wren has been in love with his master from the moment he laid eyes on him. Haven rescued him from a life of sexual slavery and his gratitude is exceeded only by his desire for the tall, broad shouldered man he calls Master.

When the pair are sent a mediate a conflict aboard the huge Tiberion war ship, Haven discovers that he must have a pleasure slave to fulfil the local customs. Wren offers to play the part but will his role as Haven’s slave boy bring back too much of his painful past? And how can Haven keep his vows of chastity when he is forced to use Wren in the most forbidden way? In a matter of life or death, both men must act on their hidden desires and hope not to lose each other forever.

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Posted #4

The Assignment by Evangeline Anderson

Slave Boy by Evangeline Anderson

Faerily Imperfect vol 1 by Mia Watts

REVIEW, Lover Avenged

As the vampire warriors of the Black Dagger Brotherhood defend their race from their slayers, one male’s loyalty to the Brotherhood is about to be tested—and his dangerous mixed blood revealed.

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Lover Avenged

Series: Black Dagger Brotherhood series, book 7

Pub: 2009, Piatkus

Author: J. R. Ward

Cat: paranormal romance

Format: paperback (mid); 719 pp w/ 74 chapters

Whose: Rehvenge & Ehlena

Age Range: adult

            Synopsis

Cadwell, New York, has long been the battle ground for the vampires and their enemies, the Lessening Society. It’s also where Rehvenge has staked out his turf as a drug lord and owner of a notorious nightclub that caters to the rich and heavily armed. His shadowy reputation is exactly why he’s approached to kill Wrath, the Blind King, and leader of the Brotherhood.

           

However, Rehvenge has always kept his distance from the Brotherhood. He’s a symphath and the revelation to this deadly secret will result in his banishment to a colony for sociopaths. And as plots within and outside the Brotherhood take their toll against Rehvenge, he turns to the only source of light in a darkening world: Ehlena, a vampire untouched by the corruption that has its hold on him – and the one thing standing between him and eternal destruction.

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REVIEW, Guardian Wolf

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Guardian Wolf

Series: Alpha Force

Pub: 2011, Mills & Boon

Author: Jennifer O. Johnston

Cat: paranormal romance

Format: paperback (sma); 281pp w/ 18 chapters

Whose: Simon & Grace

Age Range: adult                                             

            Synopsis

Spying his former lover shifting from wolf to woman provoked strong feelings in Simon Parran. And it seemed Dr Grace Andreas had a few other secrets, including membership in the elite shape-shifting unit, Alpha Force.

Having hidden his true nature from Grace for so long, Simon is unprepared to work side by side with her. But with biological weapons going missing and a suspected terrorist plot in the works, Simon must turn to Grace for help. Even if being with her would ignite all the passion he’d long repressed...

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