Happy Wednesday!!
We’re doing something new for the next eight weeks. I had so much fun revisiting Luca Minaldi as I wrote the second half of his story, that I decided I wanted to re-visit ALL of my men. Lol. So, for the next eight weeks, I’ll be highlighting one of my leading men each week.
This week, because his story just came out, I’m highlighting Luca Minaldi.
This is the Luca that lives in my head:
That’s Daniel di Tomasso, folks, and he’s beautiful. 🙂
There are tons of reasons why you should want to get to know Luca. Here are a few:
He’s beautiful. He’s refined. He’s sexy and tortured. Did I mention beautiful? He runs a shipping company in Malta, and he’s from a prominent Maltese family. He thinks he cursed (is he??) and so he thinks he’s dangerous (is he??). His dark eyes smolder.
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Master writer Anne Rice returns to the supernatural realm with her newest release, The Wolf Gift. Reuben Golding was a nice, normal young man who loved to write and was working as a journalist for the San Francisco Observer. While on assignment one day in Mendocino County, California, Reuben stumbles upon the house of his dreams. It’s for sale, and after spending the day with the owner of the estate, Reuben has made up his mind to buy it. That night, he wakes to the sound of screaming and finds himself face-to-face with the dead body of the woman of the house, her murderous brothers, and a creature he has only heard of in fairytales – a giant man wolf. For reasons unknown to him, the man wolf does not kill him but leaves him bitten and wounded on the kitchen floor of the home. Reuben is taken to the hospital, where his recovery is unusually fast and he experiences some unnatural changes. Reuben had been infected by the man wolf and is now a creature of the night himself. He must face the challenges, moral ramifications, and danger that comes with accepting the Wolf Gift. How will he become accustomed to his new strength, the enhanced senses, and the unrelenting voices of the helpless calling to him in the night for vengeance?
The Innocent is the second novel by Taylor Stevens that follows fearless heroine Vanessa “Michael” Monroe. Monroe’s best friend Logan contacts her from across the globe to ask for her help concerning his dark past involved in a religious cult called “The Chosen.” Even though Logan is openly gay, he reveals to Monroe that he has an 8-year-old daughter, Hannah, who has been kidnapped by the cult and he needs Monroe’s help to find her and bring her home. Monroe accepts the challenge of infiltrating this cult and finds herself in the middle of much more than she anticipated – including drug lords, high-ranking government officials, and the unspoken horrors of child abuse.
Beauty is a woman, but she is like no woman you have ever seen before. She was born of a human mother and a Lizarian father. Her body is scaled and she has a strong blue tail. Because of her unique looks, Beauty has always perceived herself as ugly. Readers follow Beauty on her quest to find the real meaning of beauty and the many life changing experiences she encounters along the way. It takes friendship, love, struggles, and battles for Beauty to finally understand that there is more to beauty than the outer appearance.
In the winter of 1973, a volcano eruption buried an entire Icelandic town under ash and lava. Now over 30 years later, some of the homes are being excavated for historical purposes. What no one expects to find in the basement of one of these homes are corpses that have been hidden underground since the eruption occurred. Markus Magnusson, who lived in the home as a child, comes under suspicion for killing his childhood crush and it seems that the murders from the past are somehow connected to the murder in the present.
The first in a trilogy, Hocking’s novel Switched is a great YA fantasy read about a girl named Wendy who has never felt like she fit in anywhere. To make matters worse, her own mother tried to kill her when she was six years old, claiming that Wendy was a monster. One day at her new school, Wendy notices a quiet, handsome new guy named Finn. Little does she know that meeting Finn would change her beliefs about herself and would also change her life forever.
Under the Never Sky takes the reader into a dystopian future where people are confined to Pods – giant domes where they are forced to live. Life is comfortable in the dome for Aria, until she is accused of a serious crime and exiled into the wastelands outside. Fearing the electric storms that strike the earth as well as the stories of cannibals and savages that she has heard, Aria must find her way to her mother in order to clear her name and live on the inside once more. On her journey of survival, Aria meets an Outsider named Perry. They don’t trust each other, but form an uneasy alliance in order to get what they both seek. Little do they know that the other will hold the key to their salvation and a love they had never imagined possible.
Healing with Words is a memoir of a woman’s battle with cancer and her struggle to understand and heal her life afterwards. Diana Raab is diagnosed with breast cancer at the early age of 47 and manages to beat it, only to be diagnosed with an unrelated and incurable cancer 5 years later. Raab comes to use her journaling as a way of healing and validation. The book includes several personal journal entries as well as poems that have been written by the author and she has included writing prompts for readers to journal about their own cancer stories.
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