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Kiss of a Demon King ~ Kresley Cole

This is book six in the Immortals After Dark series.

After only fifteen centuries, Rydstrom, the displaced king of the Rage Demons, meets his destined mate, only to discover that she is Sabine, the Queen of Illusions, and sister to Omort, Rydstrom’s enemy. The one who stole his crown, and kingdome, nine hundred years before. Can Rydstrom over come that fact and accept her for herself? Can Sabine trust him even though she has spent the last 500 years hating him?

February 13, 2009 Posted by theboardbitch | Kresley Cole | , , , , , , , | No Comments Yet

If You Decieve ~ Kresley Cole

This is the third book in the McCarrick series.

Ethan McCarrick has spent the last ten years being angry, and bitter, and bent on revenge for the long scar he wears along one side of his face. And then one night, while trying to protect his boss’s daughter from an assassin, he sees a woman he is drawn to. Drawn as never before, so, for the first time in his life, he begins to pursue a woman. Except things don’t seem to be going well, he discovers the next morning that she has fled the country to get away from him, and he must continue the job to protect his new sister in law.

Madeline has been leading her friends to believe things that are untrue. After her encounter with McCarrick she fled back to France, to the small flat she lives in, in one of the slums of Paris. She tries to continue her life, barely surviving and now trying to avoid the money lender who is after her.

Once Ethan learns Madeline’s identity, he comes up with a plan of how to deal with her, and in the process of carrying it out, discovers that Madeline is not the person he had thought she was, but now what should he do and can he let her go?

July 27, 2008 Posted by theboardbitch | Kresley Cole | , , , , , | No Comments Yet

If You Desire ~ Kresley Cole

This is book two in the McCarrick series.

Hugh McCarrick left his younger brother in France, wounded, but healing, to race back to London to the woman he has loved, but stayed away from, for the last ten years, because his boss, and her father sent him a message that her life is in danger. Once he reaches London, Wayland, Jane’s father, instists that Hugh marry Jane and immediately take her on a trip, to get her out of the way of an assasine bent on killing her to get revenge on Hugh and her father.

Jane has loved Hugh since she was a child, and was devistated when he left her ten years earlier without even saying goodbye, and she has not seen him since, until one evening when he shows up, dirty  and exausted from traveling hard. She fights her father’s decision that she is to be married and is set to have the marriage annulled as soon as it is possible. But she is determined to tease and torment Hugh until then.

July 24, 2008 Posted by theboardbitch | Kresley Cole | , , , , , | No Comments Yet

If you Dare ~ Kresley Cole

This is the first in the McCarrick brothers series.

Courtland McCarrick has  spent much of his adult life as a mercenary, now, it appears that one of the men who has hired him wants him dead. Instead of letting himself be murdered he jumps into a river and ends up going over a waterfall.

Annalia Llorente found a highlander on the banks of a river, unconcious and wounded. Despite knowing that Highland mercenaries were in her country to attack her people she, and her horse, managed to get him back to her home so that she could care for his injuries.

Now it appears that the man who tried to have Courtland killed is after Anna too. Can Courtland manage to keep her alive, and save from everyone including himself, since a curse on his family says that he will never marry or have children?

July 23, 2008 Posted by theboardbitch | Kresley Cole | , , , , , , | No Comments Yet

Dark Desires After Dusk ~ Kresley Cole

this is the sixth book in the Immortals series.

Cadeon the kingmaker has found his mate, unfortunately, demons are forbidden from taking mates from mortals, as they can’t survive the bonding with demons. Suddenly, Cadeon is told that he has to take the Vessel to Groot the Metalurgist, and exchange her for a sword that will kill the usurper who has his brother’s throne. Problem is, the Vessel is his mate. Can Cade really resist claiming his mate, and then turn her over to Groot, in order to restore his brother’s crown?

Holly is a mathmatics student, working on her PhD. and teaching math to jocks at Tulane. Suddenly she is drugged and captured, when she comes to, she is chained naked to an alter with several demons about to assult her. In her rage at the situation, she shrieks and calls down lightning, which kills the demons surrounding her, and begins her transition into an immortal Valkarie. But does she have to stay this way?

July 19, 2008 Posted by theboardbitch | Kresley Cole | , , , , , , | No Comments Yet

Dark Deeds at Night’s Edge ~ Kresley Cole

This is the fifth story in the Immortals series.

Conrad Wrath has hated what he is for the last 300 years, before that he had spent most of his life dedicated to killing what he is now, a vampire, and not only a vampire, but a crazed vampire who drinks from the vein. One night while looking for the brothers he has sworn to kill for making him what he is now, his brothers, and others they have enlisted capture him. They take him to an abandoned mansion to try to help him. While chained and unable to leave, he starts to see what he thinks is a hallucination, and not his first.

Neomi Laress has been dead for 80 years, no one can see her, no one can hear her. And though people have occasionally lived in her house, she has been alone since she was murdered. Now the strange crazed man that is drug into her house and chained can see her. Like the dancer she was in life, Neomi plays for his attention, only this time it may end differently.

July 6, 2008 Posted by theboardbitch | Kresley Cole | , , , , , , , | No Comments Yet

Wicked Deeds on a Winter’s Night ~ Kresley Cole

This is the fourth book in the Immortals series.

Bowen has been mourning his mate for a hundred and eighty years. Trying to find a way go get her back. When suddenly, during the Hie, a Lore treasure hunt that occurs every 200 years, he is drawn to another, almost as though he were given a second mate.

Mariketa is competing in the same hie, even though she has not yet reached immortality, and her magicks are unstable. After Bowen becomes convinced that she bewitched him to want her, he traps her in a Mayan tomb. After 3 weeks of being trapped and giving up on someone coming for her Bowen appears, he pulls her from the tomb, only to demand that she remove the curse she put on him when he trapped her.

July 2, 2008 Posted by theboardbitch | Kresley Cole | , , , | No Comments Yet

No Rest for the Wicked ~ Kresley Cole

this is the third story in the Immortals series.

Kaderin has been killing vampires for two thousand years, when one day, she finds a vampire she can’t bring herself to kill. As she stands there, unable to kill him, his heart begins to beat, letting them both know that she is destined to be his Bride. Sebastian has been a vampire for about 200 years, has detested what he is the entire time, as he was changed against his will. Now that he has met his bride, he may be changing his mind.

June 7, 2008 Posted by theboardbitch | Kresley Cole | , , , , , | No Comments Yet

A Hunger Like No Other ~ Kresley Cole

This is the second story in the Immortals series.
Emmaline is Valkyrie, who is half vampire, she has no clue who her father is, but is determined to find out. While in Paris, trying to research her history she meets Lachlain, the werewolf king, who has spent the last hundred and fifty years being tortured by vampires. They journey to his castle in Scotland and begin to learn more about each other.

June 6, 2008 Posted by theboardbitch | Kresley Cole | , , , , | No Comments Yet

The Warlord Wants Forever ~ Kresley Cole

this is the first in the Immortals series.
Myst is being held captive as one group of warriors takes over another’s fortress. Both sets of warriors are a species that is mortal enemies of Myst’s. Myst is a Valkyrie, and all Valkyries are enemies of the Vampire race. Myst soon learns that she is destined to be mated to one of the vampires, can she use it to her advantage or will she fall for him?

June 5, 2008 Posted by theboardbitch | Kresley Cole | | No Comments Yet