Reveals and archived moves only in this thread.
No chit chat :nono: :talk: or else... :whip: :whip:


ARCHIVED MOVES:
Appa starts us off by asking Cheesy to reveal Stray
Pepper asks Cherie to reveal Confessions of a Werewolf Supermodel
KathyB asks KarenDawn to reveal Magic Bites
Brat asks Noumena to reveal The Hunter's Prey
Rosie steals Stray from Appa
Appa asks Rosie to reveal Changeling
Cherie asks Lemmy to reveal Moon Fever
Three asks wss4 to reveal In the Blood
Tribeca bumped to bottom per Cherie (no check-in/no reveal)
Shelby bumped to bottom for 12 hour/no check-in/no reveal
Catsalive steals Stray from CdnBlueRose
Rosie asks shaunie to reveal The Dark Horse
Lexie steals Changeling from Appa
Appa steals Magic Bites from Kathy
Kathy asks Amber to reveal Halfway to the Grave
Amber steals Confessions from Pepper
Pepper steals Magic Bites from Appa
Appa steals Stray from Catsalive
Cats steals In the Blood from Three
Three asks Pepper to reveal Blue Bloods
Lemmy asks Lexie to reveal Twilight Dreams 2-fer
Wss4 steals Halfway to the Grave from Kathy
Kathy steals Magic Bites from Pepper
Pepper steals Changeling from Lexie
Lexie asks Mace to reveal Touch the Dark
Terra steals The Hunter's Prey from Brat
Brat steals Changeling from Pepper
Pepper asks Kathy to reveal The Witch is Dead
Lucie steals Changeling from Brat
Brat has azuki reveal Brother to Dragons
Shaunie steals Halfway to the Grave from wss4
Wss4 steals The Witch is Dead from Pepper
Pepper has cats reveal What's a Ghoul to Do
Cheesy steals Blue Bloods from Three
Three has Terra reveal Halfway to the Grave
Nou steals What's a Ghoul To Do from Pepper
Pepper steals The Witch is Dead from wss4
Wss4 steals Halfway to the Grave from Three
Three asks Luckaye to reveal Urban Shaman
Mace asks Brat to reveal A Certain Slant of Light
rebeccaljames steals Confessions of a Werewolf Supermodel from Amber
Amber steals Magic Bites from Kathy
Kathy steals Halfway to the Grave #1 from shaunie
Shaunie steals Magic Bites from Amber - and it's OUT OF PLAY!!
Amber steals What's a Ghoul to do? from noumena12
Nou steals The Witch is Dead from Pepper
Pepper asks Appa to reveal The Silver Moon Elm
karendawn steals The Silver Moon Elm from Pepper
Pepper asks Rebecca to reveal Narcissus in Chains
Azuki steals Blue Bloods from Cheesy
Cheesy steals The Silver Moon Elm from Karen
karendawn steals Changeling from Luckaye and out of the game!
Lucie steals In the Blood from Cats
Cats takes The Witch is Dead from Nou
Nou steals What's a Ghoul To Do from Amber
Amber steals Moon Fever from Cherie and makes her happy!
Cherie Steals Halfway to the grave from wss4
wss4 steals The Witch is Dead from cats and out of the game
Cats steals A Certain Slant of Light from Mace
Mace steals Halfway to the Grave (#2 terra) from Cherie
Cherie asks Three to reveal Lucinda, Darkly

My reveal:



Stray

by Rachel Vincent

I look like an all-American grad student. But I am a werecat, a shape-shifter, and I live in two worlds.

Despite reservations from my family and my Pride, I escaped the pressure to continue my species and carved out a normal life for myself. Until the night a Stray attacked.

I'd been warned about Strays—werecats without a Pride, constantly on the lookout for someone like me: attractive, female and fertile. I fought him off, but then learned two of my fellow tabbies had disappeared.

This brush with danger was all my Pride needed to summon me back…for my own protection. Yeah, right. But I'm no meek kitty. I'll take on whatever—and whoever—I have to in order to find my friends. Watch out, Strays—'cause I got claws, and I'm not afraid to use them….

My reveal is:



Confessions of a Werewolf Supermodel by Ronda Thompson

I really liked Ronda Thompson's writing after reading her short story in the Midnight Pleasures anthology. I'd actually felt it was the one story in that anthology that made it worth reading. This is a newer offering from her, just published last month, and not part of any current series. This particular book leans more towards paranormal chick-lit (à la MJD) as opposed to romance IMO.

Full review at my blog.

Description (from back cover)

She's a wolf in Chic clothing...
Supermodel Lou Kinipski seems to have it all. But beauty is only skin deep—and sometimes Lou's porcelain complexion can get a bit hairy. The only thing worse than a furry fashion faux-pas? Fangs in her million-dollar smile. That's what happened six months ago, when Lou had her first outbreak. But now that she's at the height of her career she absolutely must find a cure... So what's a single werewolf gotta do?

And she brings out the Animal in men.
Then a sexy detective comes knocking on her door. Two women who bear an eerie resemblance to Lou have been killed—something with teeth and claws tore them apart. Is it a coincidence that the grisly murders have taken place during the same time as Lou's own outbreaks? With a killer at her heels and another outbreak just a concealer-wand's distance away, Lou is soon in a race to discover truths about her own murky past. And before it's all over, she may be forced to show the world that her bark is nothing compared to her bite...

KarenDawn's Reveal

Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews



Atlanta would be a nice place to live, if it weren't for the magic...

When the magic is up, rogue mages cast their spells and monsters appear, while guns refuse to fire and cars fail to start. But then technology returns, and the magic recedes as unpredictably as it arose, leaving all kinds of paranormal problems in its wake.

Kate Daniels is a down-on-her-luck mercenary who makes her living cleaning up these magical problems. But when Kate's guardian is murdered, her quest for justice draws her into a power struggle between two strong factions within Atlanta's magic circles.

The Masters of the Dead, necromancers who can control vampires, and the Pack, a paramilitary clan of shapechangers, blame each other for a series of bizarre killings--and the death of Kate's guardian may be part of the same mystery. Pressured by both sides to find the killer, Kate realizes she's way out of her league--but she wouldn't have it any other way.

Nou's reveal:



The Hunter's Prey: Erotic Tales of Texas Vampires by Whiteside, Diane

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Acclaimed for "prose so steamy that it fogs one's reading glasses" (Booklist), Diane Whiteside's novels and short stories have kept vampire lovers begging for more. In this sizzling collection she crosses the border into the most hot-and-humid fantasies imaginable, featuring a trio of the most seductive bloodsuckers around. Look what Diane Whiteside has in mind: Two wanton sisters are ushered into a world of sweltering carnal delights that only two strapping nightstalkers can offer. A female cat burglar is caught in the act-and subjected to the most sublime punishment imaginable. A reckless party girl with an insatiable craving for midnight cocktails meets a stranger with aninsatiable thirst of his own. A generous young wife gives her husband the perfect present-a chance to indulge in his most dangerous fantasy. A love-starved widow finds herself drawn to the intoxicating rhythms of a strangely compelling musician.

Changeling by Yasmine Galenorn (Sisters of the Moon, Book 2)


Delilah, a were tabby cat by a twist of genetic fate, and her half-Fae, half-human sisters are on the front lines of a brewing war. Just recovering from a battle, and adjusting to a relationship with human cop Chase, Delilah is drawn into investigating the mysterious, gruesome deaths of the Rainier Were Puma Clan and becomes attracted to their leader, Zachary. As she fears, a new threat emerges, manipulated by an old enemy, and it will take all of their efforts, and acceptance of her fate, to bring them down. The second in Galenorn's D'Artigo Sisters series (Witchling, 2006) ratchets up the danger and romantic entanglements.Along with the quirky humor and characters readers have come to expect is a moving tale of a woman more comfortable in her cat skin than in her human form, looking to find her place in the world.

Lemonitsa's Reveal



MOON FEVER

In "Tempting Fate" by Susan Sizemore, Desiree dreams she spent a passion-filled night with sexy rock star Jon Coyote...and that he told her he was a vampire. But when Desiree discovers she is mysteriously pregnant, her erotic fantasy takes a strangely realistic turn.

An angry ghost is haunting Caroline's house in "The Darkness Within" by award-winning author Maggie Shayne. But when sexy private investigator Jim Lipton offers to help discover what is going on, Caroline suspects that he has a personal interest in her ghost -- and in her.

In "Cobwebs Over the Moon" by Lori Handeland, Manhattanite Carly Kelly is pursued by werewolves across the wintry Alaskan wilderness, and only ruggedly handsome soldier Dylan Shepard stands between her and death.

Lycanthropy takes an exotic tropical twist in "Crazy for the Cat" by Caridad Piñeiro. When scientist Jessica Morales travels to the Amazon jungle, she discovers that beneath the savage grace of her local guide, the handsome Javier da Costa, lurks a hidden wildness that is as tempting as it is dangerous.

wss4's reveal



In the Blood: The Darkwing Chronicles, Book Four
by Savannah Russe


Synopsis
Since the feds coerced sleek New York vampire Daphne Urban into spying for the U.S., she's been part of Team Darkwing. Their latest assignment: rescue the kidnapped daughters of the city's elite.

The terrorists demand gold-and access to a military secret. So Darkwing goes on the prowl in the depraved, secret vampire underworld. It's a world of passions that Daphne has always shunned, until temptation finds her. And if she wants to save the kidnapped girls, she can't get distracted...

Shaunie's reveal:



The Dark Horse - Patricia Simpson


Claire Coulter's brother is dying. To Claire's astonishment, her boss offers to pay for the the risky operation that might save him. The catch? Claire must accompany Tobias Benton on a search for the Fountain of Youth.

Despite believing Tobias is on a wild goose chase, Claire agrees—she'll do anything to save her brother. The trip is a disaster: Tobias doesn't just want Claire's company—he wants Claire. But Claire is drawn to Jack, their mysterious and sexy guide.

Although the strange and beautiful deck of tarot cards she's carrying with her predicts a positive outcome, Claire suspects everyone around her is hiding something. Especially Simeon, an urbane older man who claims to be studying snakes, but whose dark demeanor hints at a terrible past.

Claire's psychic sensitivity alerts her that all is not what it seems, but can she figure out who to trust before it's too late?

Halfway to the Grave by Jeaniene Frost



Book Description

Amazon.com

Half-vampire Catherine Crawfield is going after the undead with a vengeance, hoping that one of these deadbeats is her father—the one responsible for ruining her mother's life. Then she's captured by Bones, a vampire bounty hunter, and is forced into an unholy partnership.

In exchange for finding her father, Cat agrees to train with the sexy night stalker until her battle reflexes are as sharp as his fangs. She's amazed she doesn't end up as his dinner—are there actually good vampires? Pretty soon Bones will have her convinced that being half-dead doesn't have to be all bad. But before she can enjoy her newfound status as kick-ass demon hunter, Cat and Bones are pursued by a group of killers. Now Cat will have to choose a side . . . and Bones is turning out to be as tempting as any man with a heartbeat.

Want to know what I thought? Look at my Blog!

Blue Bloods by Melissa de la Cruz

Schuyler Van Alen is confused about what is happening to her. Her veins are starting to turn blue, and she's starting to crave raw meat. Soon, her world is thrust into an intricate maze of secret societies and bitter intrigue. Schuyler has never been a part of the trendy crowd at her prestigious New York private school. Now, all of a sudden, Jack Force, the most popular guy in school, is showing an interest in her. And when one of the popular girls is found dead, Schuyler and Jack are determined to get to the bottom of it.

Schuyler wants to find out the secrets of the mysterious Blue Bloods. But is she putting herself in danger? Melissa de la Cruz's vampire mythology, set against the glitzy backdrop of New York City, is a juicy and intoxicating read.

Lexie's Reveal:

Maggie Shayne Anthology 2-fer: After Twlight and Man of My Dreams

Title: After Twilight


from amazon.com:

Three of romance's hottest bestselling authors -- Amanda Ashley, Christine Feehan, and Ronda Thompson -- invite you to explore the dark side, to taste the forbidden, to dive into danger with heroes who fire the blood and lay claim to the soul in these striking tales of sensual passion. A man hunts for a woman. Yet what if he is no ordinary male, but a predator in search of prey? A dark soul looking for the light? A vampire, a werewolf, a mythic being who strikes fear into the hearts of mortals? When day fades into night, when fear becomes fascination, when the swirling seduction of everlasting love overcomes the senses, it must be after twilight.

Title: Man of My Dreams


Description:

Man of My Dreams is an enchanting anthology that features everything from contemporary romance to science fiction and paranormal - but whatever the genre, these stories each possess a touch of magic. Sensual, serious, adventurous and sometimes humorous, these well-crafted stories are a delight. Fantasy or reality, the women here all find the men of their dreams in unexpected ways.

Sherrilyn Kenyon, Maggie Shayne, Suzanne Forster, and Virginia Kantra combine their considerable writing talents to produce a masterpiece of magic, filled with tales that are very different in style and genre. Man of My Dreams delivers deeply satisfying stories of love, healing, redemption, and second chances.

Macewoman's reveal:



Touch the Dark by Karen Chance

This is the 1st book in the Cassandra Palmer Series

Book Description
Cassandra Palmer can see the future and communicate with spirits-talents that make her attractive to the dead and the undead. The ghosts of the dead aren't usually dangerous; they just like to talk...a lot.

The undead are another matter.

Like any sensible girl, Cassie tries to avoid vampires. But when the bloodsucking Mafioso she escaped three years ago finds Cassie again with vengeance on his mind, she's forced to turn to the vampire Senate for protection. The undead senators won't help her for nothing, and Cassie finds herself working with one of their most powerful members, a dangerously seductive master vampire-and the price he demands may be more than Cassie is willing to pay...

KathyB's Reveal



The Witch is Dead by Shirley Damsgaard

Life is busier than ever for witch Ophelia Jensen. In addition to her day job at the library, she—with the help of her grandmother Abby—is preparing to officially adopt Tink, the young medium she's taken under her wing. So when Ophelia's elderly Aunt Dot, eager for adventure, wants to investigate the murder of a funeral director in the neighboring town, Ophelia tries to say no. But then Tink's dog pulls a skull out of the woods—a skull that may belong to a murder victim.

Finding mysterious bones in the woods isn't the only strange thing that's happened to Tink lately. She's been having visions of ghastly ghosts imploring her for help. But before Ophelia can connect the apparitions with the murder, Tink is kidnapped! Ophelia and Abby will have to battle a creepy crematorium owner and an invasion from some modern-day body snatchers to find their protégé . . . or else they'll have to hold a séance just to speak to her again.

Azuki's reveal

Brother to Dragons, Companion to Owls
by Jane M. Lindskold



Sarah appears to be an autistic young woman who cannot speak - at least not in her own words, although she can remember and quote from Shakespeare and other literature she is read to. Most of the time, she is just sitting there playing with her toy dragons.

When the mental home in which Sarah resides suffers budget cuts, she is forced out into the streets. She is found by a young hacker girl named Abalone, who takes her to the Jungle, to join a gang run by Head Wolf.

Word soon gets out, however, that the asylum is looking to get Sarah back... desperately... for she possesses a rare and dangerous talent.

catsalive's reveal:



What's a Ghoul to Do? by Victoria Laurie

From back cover:
M. J. Holliday's a medium with a message - her business is helping lost souls cross over to the other side. But what if the ghosts want to stay put?

M. J. Holliday has two rules. One, she and her partner, Gilley Gillespie, work alone; and two, she doesn't date clients. But when handsome Dr. Steven Sable needs her help, the spectre-spotting sleuth is ready to break both of her rules.

It seems the hot doc's grandfather jumped from the roof of the family lodge in an apparent suicide. But Dr. Sable knows in his bones that it was foul play, and strange things keep happening at the lodge. He'll hire M. J. and Gilley - but only if he can come along. Hey, the duo needs the money - and looking at eye candy all weekend doesn't sound too bad, either...

But once they reach the lodge, the three realise they're dealing with more ghosts than just Grandpa Sable's. And the spooks keep playing nasty tricks on their human visitors. To the untrained eye, it would appear that ghouls just want to have fun. But M. J. knows they're communicating their distress - and it's up to her to figure out why...

Halfway to the Grave by Jeaniene Frost




Book Description

Amazon.com

Half-vampire Catherine Crawfield is going after the undead with a vengeance, hoping that one of these deadbeats is her father—the one responsible for ruining her mother's life. Then she's captured by Bones, a vampire bounty hunter, and is forced into an unholy partnership.

In exchange for finding her father, Cat agrees to train with the sexy night stalker until her battle reflexes are as sharp as his fangs. She's amazed she doesn't end up as his dinner—are there actually good vampires? Pretty soon Bones will have her convinced that being half-dead doesn't have to be all bad. But before she can enjoy her newfound status as kick-ass demon hunter, Cat and Bones are pursued by a group of killers. Now Cat will have to choose a side . . . and Bones is turning out to be as tempting as any man with a heartbeat.

Lucie's reveal



Urban Shaman by C.E. Murphy

Joanne Walker has three days to learn to use her shamanic powers and save the world from the unleashed Wild Hunt. No worries. No pressure. Never mind the lack of sleep, the perplexing new talent for healing herself from fatal wounds, or the cryptic, talking coyote who appears in her dreams. And if all that's not bad enough, in the three years Joanne's been a cop, she's never seen a dead body--but she's just come across her second in three days. It's been a bitch of a week. And it isn't over yet.

Brat's reveal:

A Certain Slant of Light by Laura Whitcomb



Helen died 130 years ago as a young woman. Unable to enter heaven because of a sense of guilt she carried at death, she has been silent and invisible but conscious and sociable across the generations. Her spirit has been sustained by its attachment to one living human host after another, including a poet and, most recently, a high-school English teacher. While she sits through his class one day, she becomes aware of James and he–unlike the mortals all around them–is aware of her as well. James, who also died years earlier, inhabits the body of a contemporary teen, Billy. James and Helen fall in love, he shows her how to inhabit the body of a person whose spirit has died but who still lives and breathes, and the two begin to unfold the mysteries of their own pasts and those of their adolescent hosts. Jenny, whose body Helen now uses, is the only child of strict religious parents who controlled her beyond what her spirit could endure. Billy's spirit left his body after a string of tragedies resulting from drug abuse and domestic violence. James and Helen court in both modern and old-fashioned ways; here is a novel in which explicit sex is far from gratuitous or formulaic. Whitcomb writes with a grace that befits Helen's more modulated world while depicting contemporary society with sharp insight.

This is TBR - I'll read it VERY Soon!

Appa's reveal:



The Silver Moon Elm (Jennifer Scales Book 3)
by MaryJanice Davidson and Anthony Alongi

Scaly skin, family fights...it's tough being a teenage dragon.

Jennifer was just starting to get comfortable in her own skin, scaly as it is. She should have known that, as half-weredragon, half-beaststalker, things don't stay normal for too long...

Following through on a promise made to her mother, Jennifer agrees to go to Crescent Valley, where Jennifer and her father find refuge with other weredragons, and where they meet Xavier Longtail. Xavier, a powerful elder dragon, doesn't believe in peaceful co-existence, and after he stirs up trouble in her family, Jennifer wonders if he isn't right. She's about to go nuts with all the fighting, when her ex, Skip, comes to her rescue and whisks her off to the movies, where she falls asleep...

Waking up, Jennifer finds her hometown overrun by werachnids, dangerous half-werewolves, half-spiders. Weredragons are long extinct...except for Jennifer, of course, and the ominous Xavier Longtail, and it's up to them to return the universe to normal. Can they trust each other enough to pull it off-or are they the last of a dying breed?

rebeccaljames' reveal:

Narcissus in Chains (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: Book 10) by Laurell K. Hamilton


From Publishers Weekly
Bestseller Hamilton's Anita Blake, police consultant, executioner, necromancer, private eye and wereleopard protector, returns in her amorous 10th adventure, driven more by conflicting desires for the lovers she neglected in her last outing, Obsidian Butterfly (2000), than by the urge to solve any mystery. Once again, in a world where vampires and werecreatures are protected by law, Blake attempts to resolve her libido's constant crisis. Plunged into the netherworld of a leather D/S (dominant/submissive) bar, Narcissus in Chains, by the abduction of one of her inherited wereleopards, Blake finds herself deep into shapeshifter politics and a were creature power struggle that is all a metaphor for her own inner struggle. Whom should she choose werewolf Richard or vampire Jean-Claude? Or should she take a new lover? Who cares? Blake is eventually infected by the "ardeur" from the vampire clan and tinged with shapeshifting abilities from the were clan. As she becomes more like the fantastic creatures she protects or kills, she, alas, doesn't get any more interesting as a character. Her obsessions with lust serve mainly to overwhelm a rickety plot. Blake needs to put her clothes back on and get back to work. Too much flesh and not enough plot leads to the old but so true saying, "Less is more."

Three's Reveal:




Lucinda, Darkly: The Demon Princess Chronicles by Sunny

For time out of mnd, Lucinda has dwelt in eternal darkness. As a demon dead princess, she exists in an endless, joyless realm. But she is about ot discover a need she never knew existed -- not for power, not for blood,- but for a more dangerous passion............

For centuries, Lucinda has endured her agonizing reality. As daughter of the High Lord of Hell,she rules over nothing, retrieving the occasional wayward demon and feeding off of the savage Mon�re-of whom she was a member before she died.

Then she encounters the Mon�re warrior Stefan, who offers himself to her. She is moved beyond measure by her desire for him-and soon finds herself drawn back into the heady eroticism of the Mon�re. There, she must carve out a home between the jealousy of the dead and the violence of the living, if she is to keep her newfound love-and life...

TBR but already started.

Shelbycat's reveal:



The Unfortunate Miss Fortunes by Jennifer Crusie, Eileen Dreyer, Anne Stuart

Ever wanted a charmed life? Meet the Miss Fortunes. First, Dee. Spends a lot of time trying to control her sisters, her passions and her shape-shifting! especially when gorgeous Danny James is about. Then, Lizzie. Determined to save the family from ruin, even if it means causing chaos in the cosmos (and messing with a handsome sorcerer's heart) Finally, Mare. Possessor of telekinetic powers, self-proclaimed Queen of the Universe! and manager of the local Value Video. The last thing she needs is the ex-boyfriend who broke her heart to come strolling back into town. They're about to have the worst weekend of their lives. Unless they can figure out how the hell to work their magic powers!

My reveal is Sex, lies and Vampires by Katie MacAlister.
From Booklist
As far as she can tell, Nell Harris is either going insane or she is in love. Nell thought she had been summoned to Prague to work on an inscription in a rare fourteenth-century breastplate. Instead, she is immersed in the world of the Moravian Dark Ones (think vampires) when she is swept up in the search for a boy held captive by the demon lord Asmodeus. Although Nell would like nothing better than to use her powers as a "Charmer" to help find the missing boy, the last time she dabbled in magic the consequences were dire. Then Nell meets Adrian Tomas. Bound to serve Asmodeus and forced to betray his fellow Dark Ones, Adrian desperately needs Nell to charm away his curse. One look into Adrian's haunted eyes, and Nell discovers she will do just about anything to save the soul of her new beloved. The third in Mac-Alister's wickedly sexy and wildly humorous Dark Ones series, this is another wonderfully original, practically perfect paranormal treat.