Sweet Magik by Penny Watson (Klaus Brothers #2) Wild Rose Press (Nov 2011) Ebook, 302 pages Paranormal Romance Yes, that’s right.. this is an adult book and one of the main characters is the son of Santa! As I hadn’t read the first in this series I was rather dubious as to how this was going to pan out, but it actually worked quite well. Oskar Klaus is a snowboarding, green haired, heavily tattooed hunk that people tend to treat as eye candy and something of a playboy instead of taking…

Mistletoe Cowboy (Spikes & Spurs #5) by Carolyn Brown Sourcebooks Casablanca (Oct 2012) | Ebook, 352 pages Western Romance Carolyn (aka BCC), knowing my soft spot for sexy cowboys, asked me to read this as part of our SmeXmas event. One look at the cover and I was drooling like a kid with her nose pressed against the window outside a candy store. All the elements were for a really hot, sexy read. A hot stud of a cowboy and the firecracker granddaughter of the former owner, stuck in the cabin during…

All I Want for Christmas is You by Lisa Mondello (Fate with a Helping Hand #1) | Self-Published (Aug 2011) Kindle, 200 pages | Contemporary Romance All I Want for Christmas is You opens to a little girl Kristen sitting on Santa’s knee asking for a daddy for Christmas. This Santa is unlike any Santa you’ve ever met as he wants to help this little girl get a daddy. I want to meet a Santa like this, one who can make the impossible possible. Santa turns out to be Kyle, a single, young, good looking,…

A Clockwork Christmas (Anthology) by Stacy Gail, P. G. Forte, Jenny Schwartz, J. K. Coi Carina Press (Dec 2011) | Ebook, 353 pages Steampunk Romance A Clockwork Christmas is a collection of steampunk tales all a bit heavy on romance rather than on steampunkiness. CRIME WAVE IN A CORSET by Stacy Gail Cornelia Peabody is a master thief but everything comes undone when Professor Cuddington confronts her in her own home and attaches a device on her wrist that will kill her on Christmas day if she doesn’t retrieve the Faberge egg that she…

HER FEARFUL SYMMETRY by Audrey Niffenegger PUBLISHER: Scribner RELEASE DATE: 29 September 2009 FORMAT: Paperback, 402 pages GENRE: Paranormal, Ghost Story Six years after the phenomenal success of The Time Traveler’s Wife, Audrey Niffenegger has returned with a spectacularly compelling and haunting second novel set in and around Highgate Cemetery in London. When Elspeth Noblin dies of cancer, she leaves her London apartment to her twin nieces, Julia and Valentina. These two American girls never met their English aunt, only knew that their mother, too, was a twin, and Elspeth her sister….

BESEIGED (The Outcast Chronicles #1) by Rowena Cory Daniels PUBLISHER: Solaris RELEASE DATE: 26 June 2012 FORMAT: Paperback, 672 pages GENRE: Fantasy Sorne, the estranged son of a King on the verge of madness, is being raised as a weapon to wield against the mystical Wyrds. Half a continent away, his father is planning to lay siege to the Celestial City, the home of the T En, whose wyrd blood the mundane population have come to despise. Within the City, Imoshen, the only mystic to be raised by men, is…

X THE UNKNOWN by Shaun Hutson PUBLISHER: Hammer Books RELEASE DATE: 5 July 2012 FORMAT: Paperback, 368 pages GENRE: Horror In a quiet field in Buckinghamshire, a huge crack has appeared in the earth’s surface. And people are dying. Incinerated beyond recognition. At the same time, hospitals have noticed an increase in catastrophic deformities in foetuses, and cancer levels soaring. Dr Adam Royston, a scientist working at the nearby military base, thinks he knows what it is; a creature as old as the earth that slumbers for centuries, then wakes to feed…

Hot & Haunted (Anthology) by Saranna DeWylde, Lauren Hawkeye & Megan Hart Avon Red (Oct 2012) Ebook, 100 pages Paranormal Romance Ok, so this isn’t a scary anthology, but it does contain lots of scary zombies, werewolves and a creepy love scene, so it still fits in with our All Hallows Eve month, right? ;D NOTHING ELSE MATTERS by Megan Hart I’ve heard so much about this author and have many of her novels on my kindle, but I just haven’t got around to reading them yet. When I received Hot & Haunted…

KRONOS by Guy Adams PUBLISHER: Hammer Books RELEASE DATE: 22nd Nov 2011 FORMAT: Paperback, 280 pages GENRE: Horror When a young girl in the village of Durward is found emaciated, drained of all youth, Dr Marcus summons former comrade-in-arms Captain Kronos, who arrives with hunchbacked assistant Professor Grost in tow. Cast out from her clan for dancing on a Sunday, gypsy Carla has hitched a ride with the pair, whom she discovers to be vampire hunters. Vampires exist in many forms, and a spate of attacks indicates that Durward is…

THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE by Shirley Jackson PUBLISHER: Penguin Classics RELEASE DATE: First published 1959 FORMAT: Paperback, 246 pages GENRE: Paranormal Four seekers have arrived at the rambling old pile known as Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of psychic phenomena; Theodora, his lovely and lighthearted assistant; Luke, the adventurous future inheritor of the estate; and Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman with a dark past. As they begin to cope with chilling, even horrifying occurrences beyond their control or understanding, they cannot possibly know what…

COLD SPARKS by Catherine Cavendish and Peter Giglio PUBLISHER: Etopia Press RELEASE DATE: 15th March 2012 FORMAT: Ebook, 232 pages GENRE: Paranormal, Horror Two chilling novellas of horror by Peter Giglio and Catherine Cavendish… Cold Revenge Some dinner invitations are best ignored… For no apparent reason, Nadine, Maggie, Gary, and Nick are invited to dinner at the lavish home of top fashion writer, Erin Dartford. But why has she invited them? Why doesn’t she want her guests to mingle? And just what is it about the mysterious Erin that makes…

HANDS OF THE RIPPER by Guy Adams PUBLISHER: Hammer Books RELEASE DATE: 6th Aug 2012 FORMAT: Paperback, 288 pages GENRE: Horror A deeply unsettling tale of manipulation and terror. A new, modern-day novelisation of the classic Hammer film, Hands of the Ripper. He is raising the poker again and Anna bites her lower lip so hard she chokes a little in the blood that runs down her throat… On a cold, wet night recently widowed psychology lecturer John Pritchard visits spiritualist Aida Golding with his son. Although wary something has driven him…

Embrace (The Violet Eden Chapters #1) by Jessica Shirvington | Paperback, 367 pages Sourcebooks Fire (March 2012) Paranormal YA There is an unknown battle on earth and exiled angels want to make mere mortals their slaves, only there are Grigori sent to hinder their conquest, protecting humans from the exiles, which allows humans to have free-agency and not merely to be used as exiles puppets. Grigori are humans with angel essence and at seventeen these dormant powers mature, the human then needs to make a choice, deny the angel essence and…

THE LAST MAN STANDING By Davide Longo PUBLISHER: MacLehose Press RELEASE DATE: 5th July 2012 FORMAT: Paperback, 352 pages GENRE: Dystopian Italy is on the brink of collapse. Borders are closed, banks withhold money, the postal service stalls. Armed gangs of drug-fuelled youths roam the countryside. Leonardo was a famous writer and professor before a sex scandal ended his marriage and career. Heading north in search of her new husband, his ex-wife leaves their daughter and her son in his care. If he is to take them to safety, he…

Shattered Magic by Rebecca York (Chronicles of Arandal #2) Carina Press (Aug 2012) Ebook, 78 pages Paranormal Romance Warning: may contain spoilers Wow, this was a quickie! When Carolyn said Rebecca York’s Shattered Magic was going to be quite a short one, I didn’t expect it to be quite so short. We are introduced to Rowan as she runs away from her life in Valleyhold. She is betrothed to Telman, a man well respected within her community, and something of a hero to the village elders. Rowan and her sister Willow have a…