Heart Of Fire Book 2 in the Heart Series by Crystal Crichlow:
Charlotte is shocked to learn about her family history, and what she learns will have her fighting for her life and her heart.
Ace must make a choice between love and loyalty. One could mean his salvation. The other? His end.
As they both try to unravel the secrets of Fort Nelson and its shady Mayor, more secrets are revealed, and every stone they turn over is picked up and thrown in their faces.
A native of Barbados, Crystal Crichlow is an award winning and best-selling author who developed a passion for writing at the age of nine. She currently resides in Ontario, Canada and spends her time writing and reading YA fiction, reviewing indie books, obsessing about movies and T.V shows while working as a part-time dental assistant. She has a soft spot for anything related to Greek mythology or zombies. Red velvet cupcakes are her kryptonite.
You can find out more about Crystal by visiting her official author website: crystalcrichlow.weebly.com
A Bit Of The Dark World by Toni V. Sweeney:
When Lisa Chambers awakes in Temple General Hospital, she’s injured, widowed, and pregnant and her nightmares are just beginning. Frightening dreams of her dead husband, her baby, and grotesque creatures following a man with burning eyes spiral into wide-awake scenes even more sinister.
Daniel Walker is Lisa’s surgeon, a part-Native American whose people believed in a monstrous creature living in the waters off the Georgia coast. Drexl Von Dorff is the wealthy recluse who pulled her from the burning car, a man living on land once owned by Daniel’s ancestors. They’re bitter enemies and don’t care who knows it.
The two men are paying the new widow too much attention. Each wants her for himself, but the worse fact is…Lisa knows she shouldn’t but she can’t seem to stop herself from being interested in both…
Toni V. Sweeney has lived 30 years in the South, a score in the Middle West, and a decade on the Pacific Coast and now she’s trying for her second 30 on the Great Plains.
An accomplished artist as well as writer, she has a degree in Fine Art and a diploma in Graphic Art and produces book videos when she isn't writing. Since the publication of her first novel in 1989, Toni divides her time between writing SF/Fantasy under her own name and romances often set in the South under her pseudonym Icy Snow Blackstone.
In March, 2013, she became publicity manager for Class Act Books (US) and also Double Dragon Publishing (Canada). She reviews books for TwoLips Reviews and is also on the review staff of the New York Journal of Books. She recently had her 27th book published and has six more scheduled for release in 2013.
More on Toni can be found at The ToniVerse, http://www.tonivsweeney.com/
I must confess I was prepared to like this novel from the beginning. The cool title, the mention of Lovecraft in the dedication (I've ploughed through some very, very poor stories simply because they were set within the Cthulu mythos) and the way the story opens with a shell shocked doctor ruminating on the night's events all combined to hook me.
ReplyDeleteAlthough the novel uses Lovecraft mythology as a backdrop the work is far more intricate and developed than one would find in the works of the late and very great gentleman of Providence, Rhode Island. Some of the supernatural has faint echoes of Dennis Wheatley whilst the more erotic and thriller/ suspense elements are very much Sweeney's own.