Book Review: Beyond Fate by Jackie Weger

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Beyond Fate

Written by Jackie Weger

Published by Liquid Silver Books

Contemporary –Sweet Classic Romance

166 Pages 

“Some people hurl themselves against life.

Still others lie down and let life have its way over them.”

 

Beyond Fate—Book Synopsis

Fletcher Maitland, perennial bachelor, falls in lust and love with the beautiful new arrival in Big Mama’s fish camp. All he asks for is a cup of coffee. What he gets is more … much more.

Cleo Anderson lives her life in the shadow of her mother’s sin. As Cleo begins to fall in love with Fletcher Maitland, the demons in her past rise to taunt her, and she must choose between a life lived in guilt and shame or a future beyond fate.

Book Review of Beyond Fate

Beyond Fate by Jackie Weger is a an emotive novel written in such a way that readers everywhere can only consider Weger’s Beyond Fate a literary masterpiece.  Profoundly moving, Beyond Fate has a cast of loveable supporting characters as well as an engaging heroine and charming hero.

Big Mama, Ward, Marilyn, and especially little Katie contribute to this novel with the individual's independent characterization adding great depth to the pages of Weger’s novel.  Even the heroine’s inner voice insists on taking the stage at just the right time and place.

In Beyond Fate, Cleo is camping alone, but not for long. Due to a chance meeting, she is introduced to Fletcher, an eligible bachelor with a newly released book  For Men Only: 101 Ways to Stay Married. The book’s title and fine print command appropriate attention, but Cleo isn’t immediately impressed. Thanks in part to her inner voice and a torrid past, Cleo avoids Fletcher. In fact, she dodges him.

Weger’s hero won’t take no for an answer. He not only pursues Cleo, but he instantly recognizes there is something different about her. In fact, Fletcher soon sees his future with this woman. Cleo, however, isn’t exactly convinced, but she is intrigued. Adding to her interest, Cleo discovers Fletcher is surrounded by supportive friends. At the heart of their family is Katie, a little girl with heartwarming ideas about how she’d like to deal with her own personal challenges.

Jackie Weger’s Beyond Fate is a tender sweet romance that reminds each of us that it only takes one person, perhaps one special moment in time, to turn a person’s life around. In that one second or minute, we’re all believers again and when the time is right, we can embrace the idea of “Romance is what makes the world go around.”

There are so many other underlying lessons to be learned and ideas a reader can cherish locked between the pages of Beyond Fate. As a reader, I held fast to a number of well written lines like: “Maybe he was all he could be; maybe he was locked in” and was drawn to tears on one page while thrust into fits of laughter several paragraphs later.

Jackie Weger’s Beyond Fate is a must-buy for contemporary romance readers. While not an inspirational romance, by genre, this novel is a most inspiring work of art. As always, Jackie Weger has a way of making this writer want to focus on improvements, not just as a writer, but also as a human being. There’s just something special about a Jackie Weger book. Her words warm the soul and soothe the heart.

~Reviewed by Destiny Blaine ~

International bestselling author Destiny Blaine writes in all genres under several pseudonyms. Her pen names have earned bestselling stats at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Bookstrand, and All Romance Ebooks. You can find her on the web at www.destinyblaine.blogspot.com or follow her on Twitter at www.Twitter.com/DestinyBlaine

Book Review: Powerful Moves by Tonya Ramagos

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Powerful Moves

Written by Tonya Ramagos

Published by Siren-Bookstrand

Erotic Paranormal Romance

211 Pages

 

Powerful Moves—Book Synopsis from Publisher

As an agent with the Logistical Unit of Specialized Talents, Elena Cabot’s primary mission is to use her abilities to solve crimes against humanity that government agencies can’t. But when she joins forces with the confident, sexy, and powerful Tavius Zolan in a race against time, terrorists, and a centuries-old vampire threatening everyone and everything she holds dear, she finds herself on a mission to protect her heart.

Providing security for his family’s weapons research and development agency can keep a man on his toes, especially when a portal is opened between Tavius’s realm and Earth. But he’s about to encounter a mission that will call on every ounce of power and brains he possesses even as it stirs his blood and libido for a delectably lustful Earth-realm agent.

Book Review of Powerful Moves

Powerful Moves by Tonya Ramagos instantly swept me up into the story and did not let go until the very last sentence. The reader is immediately dropped into a future parallel world as Tavius Zolan tracks – and loses track of – Regulus Le Mort, the most evil and dangerous vampire ever known. When Le Mort leaps through a portal to present day earth, Tavius follows instantly, materializing out of nothing in front of Elena Cabot, out for a moonlight run in the woods she loves so much.

Neither one is prepared for the sudden burning sexual attraction that plagues their every step for the rest of the book, a desire that seems a perilous distraction from their very urgent task to stop Le Mort before he destroys the entire earth. Sometimes I cringe when I run into romance characters who have an instant off-the-charts physical attraction, because it can seem unreal. Tonya Ramagos accomplished much more than just make it convincing and inevitable. Her capacity to convey Tavius and Elena’s deep turmoil plunged me into their inner worlds, pulling me into a story I could not put down.

Of course, all is never as it seems, and I was unprepared for the high speed twists and turns in this stunning plot as the would-be lovers enlist their apparent allies, throw their combined brilliant brainpower into solving the perverse clues, and pursue their quarry across time and distance. I loved every minute.  

A perfect blend of suspense, fast action, explosive sexual tension and sizzling attraction that will not be denied, Powerful Moves is a well-crafted story that will leave readers both deeply satisfied and begging for more.
                                                                             

~ Reviewed by Adriana Kraft ~

Adriana Kraft is the pen name under which my husband and I co-author Erotic Romance for Two, Three or More. We have over twenty five erotic romance books published at Extasy Books, Whiskey Creek Press Torrid, Love You Divine, Logical Lust and Torquere. Pairings include straight m/f, lesbian, bisexual, ménage and polyamory, with both contemporary and paranormal settings. We’d love you to stop by our Website, browse our Blog, and sample a taste of our world, “filled with warmth, blazing hot sex, well-developed characters…not for the faint of heart.” (Romance Junkies)

Book Review: Whispering Ice by Gabriella Bradley

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Whispering Ice

Written by Gabriella Bradley

Published by eXtasy Books

Paranormal Ménage

165 Pages

What are the secrets hidden within the walls and cellars of Whispering Ice Manor? What happened to the three brothers who built it?

Whispering Ice- Book Synopsis 

 Julie realizes her dream of owning her own place in the country, but when she tells her longtime boyfriend that she bought an old haunted house, he’s not impressed with her purchase of what he calls a dump. Realizing that what she feels for Brian isn’t true love, Julie finally tells him they need to take a break from each other.

The manor was originally built in the eighteen hundreds by three brothers who mysteriously disappeared. Julie is quite intrigued with its history and decides to do more research once she moves in. As an agent for several bestselling authors, she feels there could be a story hiding there that would inspire one of them.

Little does she know what awaits her within the walls of the manor and what she’ll discover in its cellars, or that the Christmas Eve party she’s planned after the renovations are completed, will have the strangest ending!

Book Review of Whispering Ice

In Whispering Ice by Gabriella Bradley, readers gain a good grasp of the heroine’s strong character in the first few pages. Unwilling to continue in a relationship she doesn’t see developing into an everlasting commitment, Julie cuts ties with her boyfriend and plans to start a new life.

Strong and independent, Julie has a lot of work ahead of her when she moves into a mansion in need of repairs. Considered haunted, Whispering Ice Manor harbors its secrets, but as the mysteries unfold, Julie discovers a home with many hidden treasures. She follows a few clues and uncovers a dated unsolved mystery, one destined to bring her face to face with her soul mates.

Whispering Ice was a 'dream read' for this reader. A sensational paranormal novella, Whispering Ice holds incredible suspense elements which further seduced this reader as I sat on the edge of my seat with an e-reader clutched between my hands.

Without giving away spoilers, I’ll write only this—three handsome heroes are thrust back into modern day society and once they enter Whispering Ice by Gabriella Bradley, the reader is absolutely carried away by this spellbinding story.

The author penned a memorable paranormal tale with distinguished men we’d all love to meet and a heroine who knows what she wants and doesn’t mind to voice her demands.
Whispering Ice by Gabriella Bradley is a top shelf keeper and a must-read for those of you who appreciate unexpected and quite brilliant twists.
 I'm off to read another Gabriella Bradley novel. 

~Reviewed by Destiny Blaine~

International bestselling author Destiny Blaine writes in all genres under several pseudonyms. Her pen names have earned bestselling status at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Bookstrand, and All Romance Ebooks. You can find her on the web at www.destinyblaine.com or follow her on Twitter at www.Twitter.com/DestinyBlaine