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Aluve' my friends
Christine

Rogue by Danielle Steel

Maxine is a well known Psychiatrist and an expert on childhood trauma & adolescent suicide it is her passion as well as her three children of whom she adores. Her marriage to the handsome entrepreneur Blake Williams was may have been something that most women would fawned over to Maxine it was just an adventure in her life. He had done well in providing for his family but his quest for never-ending fun as well as his work drew him away from his family for weeks at a time. He was not anywhere Maxine could find him when their youngest son Sam rolled off the changing table at eight months old and broke his arm and hit his head. Maxine had tried fervently for two days to find him finally catching up with him in Cabo he was on his way to Venice. He flew straight home when he got there she flew into his arms crying and told him she couldn’t do this anymore and wanted a divorce. He didn’t want to get a divorce, he asked her why didn’t she quit and fly around with him, and they could get more help. She said then she would never see her kids just like he didn’t now. Why didn’t he quit and stay at home with them more often, he said that he couldn’t imagine staying cooped up all the time. In the divorce settlement he gave her the apartment in New York, the house in Southampton and a gracious settlement that she turned down and took child support instead, also she had use of his yacht/sailboat once a year for one week a year for vacations. They still remained close friends; Blake still traveled all over the world and visits the children as often as he did when they were married. He buys houses, invests in risky business ventures and continues to have fun. While Maxine continues to grow her successful psychiatric practice and being invited to speak at conferences and be on panels and the like. While her daughter is having a sleep over of a few of her friends and her sons are over at their friends spending the night. She gets a call that one of her teen patients had tried to commit suicide a second time this time it was a very lethal dose of sleeping pills and he seemed more serious this time than he had last time. After she gets back from the hospital that night she checks on the girls and notices beer bottles in the closet. She sits them on the dresser so her daughter will know that she has found them. The next morning she goes into her daughters room and wakes them up Tells her daughter about it and that her friends should get dressed and leave and that she is on restriction for a month. When she returns back to the hospital to she Jason her patient that has tried to commit suicide, his mother is even more distraught and has talked to her doctor who said he would talk to Maxine to see if he could persuade her to let Jason come home instead of an institution. When Maxine received the phone call from Dr. West he acts like a royal pain concerning Jason and his condition just thinking he is trying to get attention by his actions and really acts like a royal jack ass on the phone. She told him to let her handle her patients and he should handle his. She moved Jason to a private facility so he could be watched where he still tried to kill himself again over night proving she was right and causing Dr. West to call and apologize for second guessing her actions with the teen. During Thanksgiving they have lunch at her parents and dinner at Blake’s since he is able to be home for a few days so she eats there that night and drops the kids off. Shortly after the holidays she gets a call from Dr. West to take her to Lunch to get to know her better. This is a bit awkward for her but she takes the offer. Lunch turns into, may I take you to dinner turns, into can I see you again for another dinner turns into, now they are dating. Which makes the kids especially Daphne her daughter upset. Although Sam the youngest doesn’t seem to be upset either way he is happy to see his mother happy and so is Zelda her live in housekeeper. Charles West likes Maxine a lot and seems to get along well enough with Zelda and Sam although he would like to have Maxine all to himself. Around Valentines Day they decide they will get married but not to tell the kids till June and have the wedding till August in her house in Southampton. From the time they tell the kids in June till the time they have the rehearsal dinner in August things seem to be slowly deteriorating with Charles and Maxine. Her two older children still have not warmed to him at all especially Daphne and she still does not want to go to the wedding. Maxine herself has no clue how to bring it all together as one cohesive unit but she is trying the best she can. Danielle Steel once again brings us a award winning book that deals with matters of the heart and everyday happenings with family and marriage. Things that we all would or should take into account in our everyday happenings. She really knows how to look at both sides of the heart so to speak. She is one of the brightest, talented authors I have had the privilege to review and will always be happy to do so.

A Drop Of Red by Chris Marie Green

Chris Marie Green brings us the fourth book in the Vampire Babylon series A Drop of Red. Dawn, Kiko and Frank are back again this time they are in London England, on the trail of the next vampire underground, and to find out why some girls have been disappearing. Dawn is still struggling with her new life and how it has changed. Their Boss is actually two beings in one Costin who is a soul traveler, Costin needed a healthy host to survive. His arrangement with Jonah had gone awry when Dawn decided to save Costin’s life and trap him in Jonah’s body. Costin is in a constant struggle with Jonah to keep him at bay. This is something else Dawn must struggle with since she made him this way, since it was the only way she could save him was to turn him and when she killed Benedict it changed her back to almost human again. Costin brings in a new person to the team as sort of a replacement to Bresei, who is now one of their spirit friends due to an accident in the previous underground hunt. Dawn doesn’t know quite what to think, but Kiko doesn’t like her at all and perceives her as a threat to him & his job since she is a psychic as well. Although her field of expertise is tailored to hearing, and sensing spirits, and Kiko’s is seeing visions through touch of objects or people. Through Kiko’s vision and some of the sounds that Natalia was hearing they are led through a few interviews to an all girl school. They get a tour of the school by pretending they are scouting schools for their sister for when they move to England from the United States. They bring the friends with them to keep an eye out for vampires or a possible underground entrance. The friends’ find four vampire girls and Kiko doesn’t get a reading off of the ones he bumps into as they are walking down the hall. They planned a reconnaissance mission for that same night to the school. Frank, would scout ahead using his vamp senses for danger and any underground openings, Dawn & Kiko would bring up the rear, and Natalia would stay behind monitoring with Costin since she had not been trained in combat fully yet. Costin has them start at a vacant building as an easy access point to the campus. Frank clears the building first while they have the friends keeping an eye on the girls; which are napping in a common room. The team started moving slowly up the tree line when they were notified that Della had gone to her room to get a book. Della looked out the window which was cracked sniffed and then opened the window sniffed again and looked directly in the team’s direction which was over 800ft away. The other girls joined her in the room she was gesturing and pointing in the team’s direction with no lips moving denoting that they had telepathic abilities. The team started hearing dogs barking in the background when they did one of the friends told them that the needed to get back to the car as soon as possible that the dogs had been summoned. They didn’t get to get back to the car they made it back to the abandoned building and Breisi helped them to the roof letting them know that there were feral animals at the car. A friend then lets them know the girls have left the dorm room and that they couldn’t slow them down because. The girls stopped ten feet from the building and started questioning the team, Frank played it off as if he were the teams master and they were the servants. He was an American vampire looking for others of his kind. The girls still didn’t like them being there and there was a small argument among the girls and then one of the girls starts to change into something tailless sphinx cat-wolf like creature. Dawn mind pushed her and bound her hands above her head. Natalia broke the communication silence saying she heard the front door but it was shut but the house alarm was disarmed. This alarms Dawn thinking about Costin, and what could be going on now. Chris Marie Green will have you riveted to your chair with this book in the Vampire Babylon series. You won’t realize you have read as much as you have until the book is done. This was a great addition to the series and I cant wait for the next book in the series if there is going to be one.

Apologies to Everyone

I apologize to everyone I haven't been posting my reviews lately I have been so busy and backed up. I haven't been in the best of health and neither has my hubby but I promise to get that taken care of and back to posting asap Reviewers honor. lol . Starting on Tues I will post a few of my back reviews and a couple of new ones that I have sent in. Also any of you authors that are reading this that want to have me read your books don't hate to get in touch with me through www.nightowlromance.com Just tell Tammie that you want me to review a book and she will send it right over to me.

Aluve and happy writing
Zollyanna

Before Dawn Breaks

Alexandria Lyons is an assassin the best in her field, she works for the government. When hired to take out a gentleman, she can not do it because he his with his family. She calls her friend / psychiatrist who she confides in that she thinks she is going soft. Her friend tells her she is just being human. When she was sent to make another hit yet again this time she is dressed as a lady plumber, to gain access to the apartment. But before she could do her job and make the hit the gentleman put two and two and letting her know that the water hat been fixed and that her cover was blown, the other gentleman in the apartment with him aimed a grenade launcher at her she shot him but not before he got a shot off at her. She jumped back into the hallway but the blast threw her into the wall making her loose consciousness as she hears the elevator doors chime open and someone walk towards her. When she hit her head on the wall it made her loose her memory, so to keep her safe, from the people that are now looking for her because of the suitcase and the information she knows John Mayer son of the head of the agency and Sharon who was her Psychiatrist before she had her accident both are taking care of her. Alex is now under the identity of Camilla Angelson who is a writer and a recent graduate student. Now that the agency has locked on to who Camilla is, it is up to Sharon & Josh to jump back into action and let her know who she really is. They need to make sure their lives stay intact before they are tied to they money laundering scheme that Alex uncovered before her accident which involves the new presidential candidate Josh helps Alex to remember her past as Alex and not Camilla. Rae Lori is a bright and talented author; her characters are full and vibrant. She makes you feel like you are right there in the middle of the action. She also knows just the right amount of this n’ that to add in for a perfect hot n’ steamy romance. I will definitely be adding this to my Rae Lori section on my keeper shelf.

Happy Reading my Friends

Zollyanna

Desprate Tigress by Jade Lee

Shi Po has tried to reach heaven, immortality which is the Taoist ideal she has devoted her life to it. But it has been denied to her. Two white barbarian women Joanna Crane and Lydia Smith had found immortality while she had not. When General Kang visits her home looking for a monk, who is no longer there he is upset. That she has housed him and, is under the impression that she kept him prisoner and forced a white woman on him. She knows that this monk is son and reveals this to him which makes him all the angrier. Her husband Kui Yu is no home at this time but has been sent for. General Kang is also highly irritated that Kui Yu is not there to receive him. Or arrives quickly after he does Kui Yu does not even show up before the General leaves. The General and his men leave the home in disarray looking for the Monk and the white woman to ensure he is not there before he leaves. When he does not find them he advises Shi Po that if he finds other wise she will pay for it. When Kui Yu arrives she explains all to him and that he also had her brother executed because of the feud with his son. Although the General said that he was executed for training rebels of the White Lotus Society. When Kui Yu he found her in meditation in her private room sitting in front of tools for her suicide. He talked her out of it, their dinner was quiet until Aunt Mei Ting arrived. In an uproar, because of the arrival of some of Shi Po’s girls coming to her aunts house in search of some refuge from the soldiers and now her aunt was upset and in fear that she herself would be arrested and wanted to know exactly what Shi Po was being visited by an upset general for. She explained to her aunt that she did not have what the General wanted nor did she know where he was. Her aunt told her to find it she told her Aunt there was no more danger because the monk and the white woman were both gone. But her Aunt thought differently and advised her to leave Shanghai disaster befell there family. Her aunt stated that the general may very well come and take them in the middle of the night and she would be lucky if she was killed. Kui Yu escorted Aunt Ting out of their home to the front gate. When he returned he asked Shi Po if she thought there was any danger she said not that both the monk (the general’s son) and the white woman were gone. Kui Yu was not quite sure himself. He told her he had gold hidden near by, she said not they would be fine, that she new exactly what to do. He said for her to handle her “woman’s business” and he will and his “mans Business”. She had planned to go ahead with her suicide and had chosen his next wife Little Pearl. But before she could execute this plan completely her husband interrupted her and stopped her once again saying she was breaking her promise to him. As they lay in that room sleeping much later they were awakened by General Kang’s soldiers and were ordered to an audience with General Kang. Her husband was treated as a common thief and she was made to ride in front of a smelly soldier. When they arrived they were separated Kui Yu was treated as a friend in a way. Kang offered to have Shi Po disappear, arrested and discredited since she has caused him this problem. He refused and says that if she has been anything other than a normal wife he will deal with her in his way in time. The general told him that with all the secrets women have she is able to fake virginity on the wedding night. This upset Kui Yu and he lased out saying to release him so he could be free to see and spend time with his wife. Once the General questions Shi Po both are locked away in a cell with questions on if they will be let out. Jade Lee has brought us another stunning addition to her Tigress series it is as in depth and steamy as the previous ones before it. A definite keeper like the others.

Aluve my friends
and keep reading
Zollyanna

Hungry Tigress by Jade Lee

Joanna Crane was tired of being her rich daddy’s showpiece and wanted to do something food for the people of China. She went in search of China’s Boxer Rebellion what she actually found instead was anti- foreigner bandits who seemed to want to kill her than let her join them. She is saved by a Shoalin Monk, who turns out to be much more but before she can reveal what she believes he truly is he cuts off her voice temporarily. He the took her to the Tigress Shi-Po telling her that Joanna wishes to learn the Tigress ways in secret from the greatest Tigress in China, then all that was left was to deliver his message to the Tigress about her brother, along with his gift to her family. Then return to his family in Peking & honor his family, but all did not go as planned. When he shows the scrolls to Shi Po’s husband Kui Yi sees the blood on the scrolls, and states that he has brought evil tidings to the home and tells on of the servants to get his mistress that they are accepting an imperial gift. Then Zou Tun explained he was the last surviving Monk of her Brother’s Monetary. Soldiers had come in the middle of the night believing they were training revolutionaries from the White Lotus Society; her brother’s last dieing wish was for her to have the sacred scrolls. Shi Po asked him if he wished to learn the other side of what the scrolls had to teach and if not was he to discharge his task. He said he could not discharge his task that was given to him by his master. He said he would stay and learn and therefore finish the task set forth upon him. Shi Po told him since he had brought a barbarian into her home she would be his partner. He asked her if she meant to shame him. Her husband also gave a slight reaction but, it was not noticed because she had left the room. When Joanna awakened her throat was very sore and she couldn’t talk and if she tried to breathe deep it hurt worse and felt like it was closing up on her. When she saw Zou Tun she panicked and the breath got worse he told her to calm and breathe shallow and the pain would lessen and she would be able to breathe normally, otherwise her throat would contract and cut off her air supply. He explained they were both captives in a way. He explained that if they tried to escape they would be stopped at the door of their room. But if they did these particular exercises they would be able to leave sooner, Joanna did not like the idea of these exercises, and tried to attack him at one point he pinned and tied her to the bed. He explained to her just what the exercises were and that he would help her with hers. Shi Po was not happy with the first nights results, she informed him she would do the barbarians exercises herself Zou Tun did not like this as he had told Joanna he would protect her at all costs. He advised Shi Po that no he would take care of this himself that her assistance was not needed. Zou Tun explained that to Joanna once more and she agreed this time to the exercises and promises of escape.

Jade gives us yet another amazing Tigress book in the Tigress Erotic Romance series. Zou Tun and Joanna Crane’s story is another hot and steamy tale and yet another perfect example of how Jade Lee is a exemplary writer. She never ceases to amaze as with this addition to the series each character she adds to the series adds new depth and new light to the series. Each book can stand alone but also interlocks with the other books. It is one that goes next to the others in the series on my keeper shelf.

Aluve my friends
and keep on reading
Zollyanna

Fantasyland

Michele Bardsley puts together a sizzling array of small stories that are sure to arouse your fantasies. From pirates to voyeurs and exhibitionists this little island will help you fulfill your fantasies in fantasyland. Each of these five couples differs wildly from the other in their wants, lusts and desires.

Ile de plasir will offer you all the pleasure you could want and more. Greg and Carrie soon find this out when they arrive on the Isle for their anniversary. The phrase “the more the merrier” can help to indulge in their fantasies.

The Voyeur Village on the Isle of Fetishes will help to bring out the Watcher in you. Jake and Rhiannon find out the true meaning of what you see is what you get.

On Pirate Island You can have all your Pirate Dreams come true, be captured by a scurvy captain, sail on a replica of a pirate sloop under starry skies, and truly act out any of your pirate fantasies. Sam helps Lissa to realize love can come from the lease expectant places, most likely right in front of your face and you are just blindfolded to it, or maybe it just blindfolded you.

The Isle of Dark Delights will dip into the dark side of your fantasies. If you are a Domme or a Dom or a Submissive we have everything to cater to you including our nightly slave auction. Claire has a fear against bondage and men thanks to her ex-boyfriend, although she really would like to try it she was afraid things would go wrong again. Her Boss Lucius has a real attraction to her and feels that he can let out her primal side if he could only break her icy side. The island shows them both what give and take truly means.

The Isle of Romance can help you find adventure and romance Perfect for sparking romance or if you are looking for companionship like our sizzling bookstore owner Glenna Rosemont make an appointment with a fantasy date. Her date with hunk Sean O’Malley turned out to be much more than she can handle or is he everything she could hope for and more? But who is Sean is wrestling with feelings of his own with Glenna.

Bardsley pulls us another stunning set of fantasy tales out one after another and never ceases to amaze us. This collection is just another of her great works that will go into my collection of best works shelf.

aluve my freinds
Zollyanna

It's that time again

It's that time again!


Go cast your votes for any of the books you have read or any of the ones I may have reviewed that you noticed here or your favorite authors.!!NOR 2007 Awards Rock!!!!!!

Tragedy

Recently while writing a review for an Author whose book will be coming out in October I happened upon her website while gathering information ... it is a really great book by the way, when you read this next piece that i put in please go out and support this author .click the link and read her site and support this author this is such a tragedy in my opinion. The reason I say this is because it shows me that not enough people are reading book, Tragedy ,I say Tragedy!!!! Especially a great author such as this one. ... This author does great work please spread the word go read the page I point you to and point your pages there as well blog about it or just send your freinds to it as well.

click here----> Mari Mancusi

we all need a bit of help with things some times....

Aluve' my friends

Zollyanna

Shelfari

If you have not seen Shelfari you have got to do so it is a great community tool to greet your freinds and get them reading the same books you do. I would have to say it is sort of like an Online Book club. I have a few freinds my self some of my authors that I have reviewed have decided they would like to keep in touch with me through this, plus I have met some new friends that ready the same books as I do as well. It is great it can be linked through your e-mail depending on if you use g-mail, yahoo or what the type is .... check it out. NOR and I are there you should be too.

Aluve' my friends

Zollyanna

Don't forget !

Don't forget to keep track of what is going on here and at NOR I am consistently having new book reviews going up here and their so please check back consistently ... The Night Owl Romance Link (NOR) is to your right ---> and so are a bunch of other links. Don't forget to read consistently ....

Aluve' my friends

Zollyanna

Reading and Reviews

I have been a bit behind in my writing but not in my reading but in a way they go hand in hand. You will see I do have a review up. Three more scheduled to be put up and,another I am currently reading to review after those . Hold your breath here, then still four more to review after that one. No, make that 6 I have one that is in electronic format and another that is sitting in a bag that my sweet husband bought me. Plus 2 that are on my to be bought list when they come out this year that go with a collection I already have. So if you like to read keep watching that sight I have a ton of reviews coming at you you may be wanting to pick them up at your local bookstore or online with the one in electronic format.

Aluve' my friends

~Zollyanna