A Girl’s Guide to Guns and Monsters

Elizabeth and Anna’s Big Adventure, in the A Girl’s Guide to Guns and Monsters Anthology

Thirteen urban and paranormal tales of strong women, armed with weapons they are not afraid to use, as well as fists and feet of fury, who face monsters and bad guys-and are not above rescuing men in the process.

At the Scene of the Crime

Better Lucky Than Good, in the At the Scene of the Crime Anthology

With the long-term success of procedural shows dominating prime-time television, the readership for a forensic anthology extends well beyond traditional mystery readers. [Read more…]

Behind the Mask

Behind the Mask

I should have known when I woke up pleasantly sore in a strange apartment with a man wrapped around me that my life was about to get complicated. It wasn’t going to mean anything , I’d lied the night before when, intoxicated by pheromones and champagne, I let him take me home. As I’d gathered up my clothes and planned my escape I’d assured myself it had been a momentary lapse, that I’d never see him again. Apparently that, too, had been a whopper. Because here he was, on the other end of a Glock 19, and he was pointing it at my chest.

“Police! Don’t move.”
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Blackout
by Samantha Sommersby

Blackout

Blackout
by Samantha Sommersby

 

Publisher: All Romance eBooks, LLC
Genre: Contemporary Romance, Erotic Romance
Release Date: November 1, 2014

You just never know where you’re going to find love. . .

Ashley and Curt get trapped together in an elevator. As the temperature rises, they begin to reveal themselves in more ways than one!

Blood Bond

Anna Strong Vampire Chronicles, Book 9

Anna’s relationship with shapeshifter Daniel Frey has given her hope for a future with him and his son. Especially when Frey proposes. But before she can celebrate, Anna must fly to France to be at the side of her dying mother. There she learns that not every vampire accepts her Chosen One status. And one such vamp is about to go rogue—by leading his followers in a fight to usurp humanity.

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Blood Drive

Anna Strong Vampire Chronicles, Book 2

Anna Strong is a vampire caught between two worlds. She clings to what makes her human, her family, her job, her lover. But the pull of the undead is a siren song becoming impossible to resist. [Read more…]

Breath

Breath

Forbidden, Book 4.5

Breathe , I told myself. Just Breathe .

It’s funny how things that you normally do without conscious effort become all but impossible when your world crashes in on you. I remembered it being that way when my mother died, I remembered it being that way when I found out that my ex-husband was cheating on me, and I remembered it happening the day that I had the accident in Yosemite, the day that a pack of wild wolves sprang from the woods, cutting across the trail I’d been hiking, the day that he found me. And now, he was here.
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Captured

Salvation takes teamwork…

A Fallen Siren Prequel

Join FBI Agents Emma Monroe and Zack Armstrong.
She’s a Siren. He’s a Werewolf.
Their mission is redemption.

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Chicks Kick Butt

Superman, in the Chicks Kick Butt Anthology

Chicks are awesome–and never more so than when they are kicking some serious vampire/werewolf/demon/monster butt.

Chicks Kick Butt is an anthology that features one of the best things about the urban fantasy genre: strong, independent, and intelligent heroines who are quite capable of solving their own problems and slaying their own dragons (or demons, as the case may be). [Read more…]

Chosen

Anna Strong Vampire Chronicles, Book 6

It’s been a year since bounty hunter Anna Strong became a vampire, but she is about to discover that her greatest powers have yet to be unleashed…Though Anna has become use to the idea of being a vampire, she is finding her urges are becoming stronger and harder to handle. [Read more…]

Coming Together: Under Fire

Fiery words to ease the burn of loss caused by the 2007 Southern California wildfires.

This multi-author anthology of erotic fiction & poetry edited by the dynamic writing (and now editing) team of Alessia Brio & Will Belegon contains Samantha Sommersby’s short story – Rising Phoenix.

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Crossroads

Anna Strong Vampire Chronicles, Book 7

The death of Anna’s old vampire mentor is causing ripples in the mortal world. His forensic report has brought up some anomalies, and people are asking questions—questions no vampire wants to answer… [Read more…]

Cursed

Salvation takes teamwork…

A Fallen Siren Novel, Book 1

Meet FBI Agents Emma Monroe and Zack Armstrong.
She’s cursed. He’s damned.
Together, they make one hell of a team.

[Read more…]

Dead But Not Forgotten

Love Story, in the Dead But Not Forgotten Anthology

There’s more to Sookie Stackhouse than you ever knew…

The #1 New York Times bestselling Sookie Stackhouse novels by Charlaine Harris spawned a hit TV show and captivated fans around the world—including other authors. Now this group of writers, specifically chosen by Charlaine, pays tribute to “the southern, mind-reading belle who gets mixed up in the world of vampires and magical creatures” (The Kansas City Star) with a collection of fifteen all-new stories about your favorite residents of Bon Temps.

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Forsaken

Their Mission is Redemption…

A Fallen Siren Novella, Book 3

Join Agents Emma Monroe and Zack Armstrong.
She protected him. He loved her.
They can trust one another with their lives, but what about their hearts?

[Read more…]

Haunted

Anna Strong Vampire Chronicles, Book 8

Anna’s shape-shifting friend Culebra finally opens up to her about his life before he owned Beso de la Muerte, a bar catering to supernatural clientele. As if summoned by the conversation, Culebra’s past returns in the form of an old buddy cashing in a favor… [Read more…]

Hexed

Blood Debt, in Hexed

Four of the bestselling names in romance and fantasy come together in this collection of thrilling novellas featuring powerful women who know how to handle a hex or two… [Read more…]

It Was Always You

It Was Always You

I stared into the flames of the fire and listened as the wind howled and the thunder roared outside. Lightning cracked and the rain poured down on the rooftop. It had been months since Lee had surrendered to Grant and months since the death of President Lincoln. The state’s Government was now restored. We had new senators and a new governor, and little by little order was returning. The men who had fought in the war and lived had returned home, most of them missing an arm or a leg. They sought pardon, re-pledged their loyalty to the union between the states, and began to rebuild their lives.
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It’s Magic

It's Magic

Forbidden, Book 2.5

The air is unseasonably cold and the streets are covered in a dense fog, courtesy of the thick marine layer that seems to have crept inland from the coast. I hang back in the shadows, away from the lone streetlight and survey the familiar neighborhood. It’s as black as pitch outside, but I can see my quarry clearly. She’s standing on the sidewalk bathed in moonlight, her skin translucent, the long thin column of her neck beckoning to me. Almost as if she can sense my desire she sweeps her hair behind her shoulders and the loose spill of fiery red curls tumble down her back.

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June in August

Sometimes it’s the guy you’ve known forever that you forever want to be with. 

June Monroe grew up next door to Wiley Patton. When he left for Vietnam she was just fifteen and hopelessly in love. Now three years later he’s returned from war and little June is all grown up.

 

 

Legacy

Anna Strong Vampire Chronicles, Book 4

Anna Strong was a tough-as-nails bounty hunter until the night she was attacked by a vampire – and changed forever…Since then, Anna has struggled to adapt to her supernatural status while clinging to the vestiges of her humanity. Avery—the sinister vampire who transformed her—is dead, and Anna learns that she’s entitled to his vast fortune.

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Many Bloody Returns

The Witch and the Wicked, in the Many Bloody Returns Anthology

From cakes to stakes, a celebration of everyone’s favorite bloodsucking subculture by a baker’s dozen of favorite authors. Each of these thirteen original stories offers a fresh and unique take on what birthdays mean to the undead. [Read more…]

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Once Upon an Heiress (Part 1)
by Samantha Sommersby

Once Upon an Heiress

Once Upon an Heiress
(Part 1)
by Samantha Sommersby

 

Publisher: All Romance eBooks, LLC
Genre: Contemporary Romance, Suspense Romance, Erotic Romance
Release Date: December 1, 2014

Mystery, danger, true love, and the best birthday present ever.
(A Serial Novel Told In Three Parts)

Socialite turned social worker Cassandra Cartwright has sworn off love. It’s been two years since her too-good-to-be-true husband ran off with her millions, leaving her emotionally and financially devastated. Cassie’s friends, believing that it’s time she put her past behind her, hire Jason Gregory to arrange for a special birthday dinner.

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Paradox

Anna Strong Vampire Chronicles, Book 10

Anna Strong seems finally to have achieved the right balance between her vampire and human lives. She’s looking forward to a normal summer with her husband and step son when an old enemy from the past appears—the vampire Chael—and what he reveals changes everything. Someone is writing Anna’s story under the guise of fiction and threatens to expose the vampire world unless Anna grants the author what she desires most…a vampire existence of her own.

Life becomes even more complicated when her business partner, David, and their boss become victims of a Ponzy scheme. But it’s more than money at stake. Someone is killing off the investors one by one. It’s up to Anna and David to find out who before their boss becomes the next victim.

Reading Guide for Cursed by S.J Harper

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INTRODUCTION

Meet FBI Agents Emma Monroe and Zack Armstrong.

She’s cursed. He’s damned. Together, they make one hell of a team.

Emma Monroe is a Siren, cursed by the gods and bound to earth to atone for an ancient failure. She’s had many names and many lives, but only one mission: redemption. Now that she works missing persons cases for the FBI, it could be just a rescue away. Unless her new partner leads her astray.

Special Agent Zack Armstrong just transferred into the San Diego Field Office. He’s a werewolf, doing his best to beat back the demons from his dark and dangerous past. As a former Black Ops sniper, he’s taken enough lives. Now he’s doing penance by saving them.

Emma and Zack’s very first case draws them deep into the realm of the paranormal, and forces them to use their own supernatural abilities. But that leaves each of them vulnerable, and there are lines partners should not cross. As secrets are revealed and more women go missing, one thing becomes clear: as they race to save the victims, Emma and Zack risk losing themselves.

FIRST IN A NEW SERIES!

 

ABOUT SJ HARPER

 

Sommersby_Stein_600S.J. Harper is the pen name for the writing team of Samantha Sommersby and Jeanne C. Stein, two friends who met at Comic-Con in San Diego and quickly bonded over a mutual love of good wine, edgy urban fantasy, and everything Joss Whedon.

Samantha Sommersby left what she used to call her “real life” day job in the psychiatric field to pursue writing full-time in 2007. She is the author of more than ten novels and novellas including the critically acclaimed Forbidden series. She currently lives with her husband and cocker spaniel, Buck, in a century old Southern California Craftsman. Sam happily spends her days immersed in a world where vampires, werewolves, and demons are real, myths and legends are revered, magic is possible, and love still conquers all.

Jeanne Stein is the national bestselling author of The Anna Strong Vampire Chronicles. She also has numerous short story credits, including most recently the novella, Blood Debt, from the New York Times bestselling anthology, Hexed. Her series has been picked up in three foreign countries and her short stories published in collections here in the US and the UK. She lives in Denver, CO where she finds gardening a challenge more daunting than navigating the world of mythical creatures.

 

AN INTERVIEW WITH SAM AND JEANNE

 

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DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

  1. Justified or not, Demeter blames the sirens for the capture and rape of Persephone. How is this an echo of  society’s propensity to hold women responsible for the exploitation of women?
  2. From ancient times, young men have sought to become accepted, valued, and to prove their manhood by becoming warriors. Yet modern sensibilities are more ambivalent about war, naked aggression, and the role young men should play in our society. Discuss Zack’s exploitation.
  3. Discuss the mystique of the anti-hero. In what ways is Kallistos a foil for Zack?
  4. Talk about the parallel drawn between substance abuse and the inability of some vampires to control their bloodlust. One key difference is that vampires can’t abstain from drinking blood. What other similarities and differences can you identify?
  5. How do you feel about having blood supplied through Emporiums: Is it a massive misuse of humans for profit? Or a brilliant solution to ensure a consistent, safe, and non-violent food source for vampires?
  6. Who are the villains and who are the victims in terms of the organ-harvesting plot?

 

Reckoning

Their Mission is Redemption…

A Fallen Siren Novel, Book 2

Join Agents Emma Monroe and Zack Armstrong.
She’s sacrificed. He’s suffered. They’ve both been betrayed.
Now it’s time for a reckoning.

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Refuge

Refuge

The leaves in the trees fluttered in protest as a fierce rumble of thunder shook the mountains. Lightning split the rapidly darkening sky, opening it up. Rain poured down hard and fast, stinging my exposed skin. The inn where I was staying was a good three miles behind me, but up ahead was a covered bridge. It promised shelter, refuge from the storm.

The white cotton dress I was wearing had become drenched, transparent, and was molded to my body. I broke into a run. The sound of the slap of my sandals against the pavement, the smell of the surrounding pines, and the feel of the cool rain in the middle of the hot summer day took me back to a time when my life was simple and uncomplicated.
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Retribution

Anna Strong Vampire Chronicles, Book 5

With Belinda Burke, a powerful and deadly witch to track down, the last thing Anna needs is additional trouble with Williams. Warren Williams is the ex-chief of police in San Diego, and a current leader in the local supernatural community. [Read more…]

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Shelter from the Storm

Not everyone has to go looking for love…for a lucky few, love finds them.

In any other circumstance, Jennifer Jones’s first meeting with Maclain Moore would have been called serendipity, a happy coincidence. She’s looking for a new roommate; he’s looking for a place to live. It doesn’t hurt that he’s sexy as hell, either.

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Skin

Skin

I had always thought that painting would be my greatest passion. Then I met Rose.

I first laid eyes on her at a show in Paris. She’d come to see my paintings. She never spoke with the artist; she explained when I introduced myself to her. She wanted her critique to be pure, her opinion unvarnished. When we shook hands I held on to hers a little too long.

“Have dinner with me,” I said. “We don’t have to talk.”
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Smokin’

Smokin'

“What are you doing? You said you’d quit,” said Sharon as she pulled the cigarette right out of my mouth. The sun had set a few hours ago. But it was springtime and still warm. Sharon was fresh from a bath and I had just come back from my evening run.

“I did. I’ll quit again right after this,” I told her, reaching for the pack of cigarettes I’d left on the counter. She beat me to it. Damn she was fast. “Hand them over,” I said, trying to sound bored instead of desperate.
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The Ascension

There’s only one way to safeguard the future—fight free of the past.

Forbidden, Book 2

Byron Renfield is a master of climbing the social ladder. He’s successful, handsome, independently wealthy…and a vampire. As a member of an elite group of immortals, the Dominie, Byron’s spent centuries isolating himself from humanity in order to pursue redemption. It’s a good plan…until Violet Deeds comes along.

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The Becoming

My name is Anna Strong. I am a vampire.

Anna Strong Vampire Chronicles, Book 1

Thirty year old Anna Strong is a bounty hunter—tough, confident, at the top of her game. But when she is attacked one night in a parking lot, her life is inexorably changed. She awakens in the hospital to find she has become Vampire and her destiny is no longer with the living, but among the undead. [Read more…]

The Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance, Vol II

The Ghost of Leadville, in The Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance, Vol II

Note: The eBook version, published by Constable & Robinson, is titled Love Bites
This exciting follow-up to the wildly successful Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance contains 30 short stories of hot blood, midnight pleasures, and inhuman passions. [Read more…]

The Revolution

Experience the magic…

Forbidden, Book 3

Twenty-five years ago Dell Renfield’s father started a revolution, and Dell plans to finish it. Sorcerer, vampire, secret weapon, he’s spent a lifetime training for his fate. The one distraction he isn’t equipped for? Special Agent Alexandria Sanchez. A woman he desires above all others—and a woman he dare not get close to.

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The Sacrifice

There’s a fine line between mysticism and madness… one they must cross to win.

Forbidden, Book 1

London psychiatrist Wesley Atherton is a man of science. He doesn’t believe in love at first sight… until he finds himself inexplicably drawn to a green-eyed American beauty he bumps into on the Tube. Just his luck, Katherine, a fashion design intern, has an engagement ring on her finger.

[Read more…]

The Soldier and the Spy

Nothing could tear them apart…not even the ravages of war.

It’s 1917 and Lieutenant Jackson Crawford is in Arabia on an important mission. A seasoned soldier sent to ensure a victory that will secure British interests in the Suez Canal, Crawford was prepared for resistance from the prince; he was prepared for the crude weapons, the hellish sun, and the never-ending sand. What he wasn’t prepared for was Harvard bred archeologist turned spy Lillian Barton Drake.

[Read more…]

The Temptation

There’s a fine line between man and beast…one only the heart can cross.

Forbidden, Book 4

A year ago, Jacob Madison got more than he bargained for during a rock-climbing trip to Yosemite. A freak accident left him badly injured, at the mercy of the elements—and the wolves who rescued him. If it hadn’t been for them, he’d be dead. He’d also still be human. Now he’s back, hoping to find out who he is and what he’s become. Instead, he finds smart, sexy Allison Connelly.

[Read more…]

The Union

The Union

Forbidden, Book 3.5

The woman had the power to turn me inside out with just one look.

“You never stop surprising me,” I told her this morning before leaving her bed. Truer words were never spoken. Here she was, now sitting across from me during an official briefing. Why am I surprised? Because Alex doesn’t work for the PSF, the Preternatural Special Forces. Alex is human.
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The Watcher

Anna Strong Vampire Chronicles, Book 3

For a newly made vampire, Anna is a hard case. That’s why she’s become a Watcher—one of the enforcers who keep supernatural criminals in check and deliver just punishment when necessary. But Anna is still fighting to control the raging fury of the vampire within her… Her self-control is tested when her lover—a DEA agent—disappears. In The Watcher, Anna is forced to battle a witch with ulterior motives, a vengeful Mexican drug lord, a psychotic hit man nursing a grudge and her own demons. But if there’s one thing Anna has learned to handle, it’s trouble.

Touch of Fire

He’d brave the fires of hell just to hold her…

Firefighter Garrett Flint rescues the beautiful Nicole from a burning building, and then breaks all the rules by taking her into his home and into his heart.

 

 

VAMPIRES: THE RECENT UNDEAD

The Ghost of Leadvill, in Vampires: The Recent Undead

The undead are more alive today than ever. Immortal? Indeed! Nothing has sunk its teeth into twenty-first century popular culture as pervasively as the vampire. [Read more…]

Whedonistas: A Celebration of the Worlds of Joss Whedon by the Women Who Love Them

MY (FANTASY) ENCOUNTER WITH JOSS WHEDON, in Whedonistas: A Celebration of the Worlds of Joss Whedon by the Women Who Love Them

In Whedonistas, a host of award-winning female writers and fans come together to celebrate the works of Joss Whedon [Read more…]

Wonderland
by Jeanne C. Stein

Wonderland by Jeanne C. Stein

Wonderland
by Jeanne C. Stein

 

Publisher: Jeanne C. Stein
Genre: Mystery
Release Date: June 24, 2014

Mackenzie Regan gave up everything to vindicate her parents’ murder. Now she’s face to face with the two men responsible and what she chooses to do next will change all of their lives. Forever. On the Caribbean Island of Anguilla, Mackenzie finds the answers she seeks. But instead of bringing her satisfaction and closure, they open the door to an even bigger puzzle. In the end, revenge does not turn out to be as satisfying as she had hoped.