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Deadly Is the Kiss
SOME FLAMES ARE ETERNAL Tasked with protecting humanity from harm, the last thing Ashe Granger was searching for on his mission was his destined mate. Then, a mysterious darkeyed beauty reluctantly offered him shelter. A spark of danger—and a soul-deep recognition—ignited a burning, carnal need… Since her family’s exile, Juliana Sabin had borne full responsibility for their safety. So when evil struck, she had no choice but to ally herself with the sexy guardian vampire. Now, months later, Ashe is back and tempting Juliana to reveal her darkest secrets…and desires. For the killer stalking the shadows isn’t acting alone—and he won’t rest until his deadly cravings are fulfilled.
Reviewer: Talina
Review: Mar 28, 2012
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Vampires
Plot & Characters:
Deadly is the Kiss is a spine tingling paranormal romance that will pull at your heart strings and leave you with a need for more Rhyannon Byrd! I can't believe I waited so long to try this author. What was I thinking!
Deadly Is The Kiss is the first of a spin-off series from a well loved and known series titled Primal Instinct published with HQN. It's not entirely necessary that you rea
Reviewer: Valerie
Review: Mar 16, 2012
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Vampires
Of all the Primal Instincts books, this one is my favorite and I think possibly the most emotional. Ashe Granger and Juliana Sabin are both secondary characters from the earlier books in the series and the main characters of Deadly Is the Kiss. Both characters have a mysterious past and were drawn to each other from their first meeting. Both hid it well, and in fact Juliana believes that Ashe’s only feeling
Rush of Pleasure
Dangerous passion and primal instincts…
With his sinister good looks, Noah Winston is the one man— a human with Casus ties—who Willow Broussard has never been able to resist. Once enemies, then lovers, Noah broke her heart. Yet the powerful witch and paranormal private investigator can't turn him away when he needs her help in protecting his family, him—and the world—against their enemy…
As Noah and Willow work together, the secrets of their turbulent past are slowly exposed, each startling revelation drawing them closer. But when the enemy finally makes a move, Noah will need more than witchcraft and magic to survive. He'll need his friends, one hell of a plan and the undying devotion of a tenacious witch whose love is eternal…
Reviewer: Valerie
Review: Jul 24, 2011
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Witches
This book came as a surprise because I did not realize more books were coming in the Primal Instinct series. I couldn't imagine what was next, what could possibly have been left undone, after the last book. However Rhyannon Byrd has proven adept at finding another aspect of the story to explore and enjoy.
This book focuses on Noah Winston and Willow Broussard. Noah was in love with Willow in the past, but e
Rush of Darkness
DESTINED TO BE ENEMIES…
Raine Spenser is on the brink. Held prisoner because of her abilities, Raine—a powerful psychic as well as vampire— desperately needed a savior. But the last one she expected was the green-eyed soldier who’d once hunted her kind. Since her rescue, she’s tried to forget Seth McConnell, unable to cope with the strange, simmering attraction that draws her to the compelling human.
But their goals—find the Kraven who held Raine captive and destroy him—are the same. The ever-growing web of danger surrounding them draws these two unlikely allies closer together, and anger slowly turns into an explosive passion they’re finding harder and harder to deny....
Reviewer: Valerie
Review: Feb 26, 2011
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Shapeshifters
Rhyannon Byrd’s Primal Instinct series just keeps getting better. In her 7th installment, the story focuses on Seth McConnell and Raine Spenser. Raine, recently rescued from the Casus, she is driven by her need for revenge. Seth has a troubled past, made even more troubling by the fact that his current allies are comprised of the kind of the people he once hunted. He has had to make a lot of changes
Reviewer: ELF
Review: Mar 18, 2011
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Shapeshifters
A Rush of Darkness by Rhyannon Byrd is the seventh book of her Primal Instinct series and focuses on Raine Spenser, a hybrid of the Deschanel vampires and the Alacea psychics and the former vampire hunter, human Seth McConnell, who has formed a bond with her. Raine was rescued after being tortured and raped by the Casus who murdered her younger sister and has made it her mission to hunt and kill those r
Touch of Temptation
Only their desire could save them.
THE MORE DANGEROUS THE DESIRE…
THE MORE DELICIOUS THE SURRENDER
Kellan Scott, the Lycan shape-shifter, has vowed to redeem his playboy past…even allowing himself to be captured by his enemies to save a woman he’s never met. Once imprisoned, stealing into Chloe Harcourt’s cell is the easy part— withstanding her irresistible beauty is next to impossible.
Chloe has struggled to keep her unusual powers over other people’s emotions in check, never trusting that any man could truly love her for herself. Until her mesmerizing rescuer awakens a primal craving for contact.
Their all-consuming passion is their strongest weapon against their sadistic captor. But Kellan’s biggest battle may still lie ahead: to convince Chloe he’s worthy of her undying love…or die trying.
Look for more titles in the primal instinct series.
Reviewer: Valerie
Review: Aug 25, 2010
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance
Kellan Scott's story is one of the most anticipated of the Primal Instincts series. Kellan is a bad boy, the best kind of bad boy, a reformed one..although, most of his cohorts have not noticed this yet. Touch of Temptation picks up where Touch of Seduction and Touch of Surrender left off. Chloe Harcourt and Kellan are drawn together from the beginning, but neither is sure the other truly has feelings for th
Reviewer: Vicci
Review: Oct 29, 2010
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance
"Touch of Temptation" Book 6 in the Primal Instinct series by Rhyannon Byrd, is an erotic tale brimming with sexual intensity in the face of the ever present war between the Watchmen and the Casus.
The novel pickups up where "Touch of Surrender" book 5 ended with the focus switching to the events surrounding Kellan Scott's quest to free Chloe Harcourt from the fortress stronghold of the Krevan.
One o
Touch of Surrender
With his auburn hair and lean build, Kierland Scott looks more man than lycan. But his wolf instincts are aroused by the gray-eyed Morgan Cantrell. Not because of her beauty, but because of her long-ago betrayal, a fateful choice that made their love impossible.
Now, however, the two Watchmen must team up, leaving the placid Lake Country for the forests of Scandinavia. To rescue Kierland's brother, they must track a vampire—and use their combined shape-shifting sensitivities in a battle that will take them beyond death. As the two learn to seek together, they begin to understand the history that has driven them apart. But they will have to overcome death itself, if their shared passion is to have a chance.
Reviewer: Lilyraines
Review: Aug 9, 2010
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance
Kierland Scott wants to stay away from Morgan Cantrell because of what he thought was a betrayal that happened ten years before the story begins. Circumstances - aside from work - dictate otherwise as she is the only one able to lead Kierland to his brother, Kellan. Not only that, the only person who would be able to guide them through the territory they will need to go through is the man Kierland thinks Morg
Reviewer: Vicci
Review: Aug 25, 2010
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance
"Touch of Surrender” Book 5 by Rhyannon Byrd, is a steamy hot novel filled with animalistic passion and relationship misunderstandings that lead to insecurities, major soul searching and ultimately love.
While “Touch of Surrender” is Book 5 in the series “Primal Instinct”, I was a bit hesitant to pickup a new series in the middle of the saga, but I was really happy that &ls
Second to None
Length: short novel
For eight long years, Jason Hawkes has bided his time, waiting for the chance to snare Remy Frost for his own. When fate finally delivers a panting, wide-eyed Remy right into his arms, he intends to never let her go. His objective—to convince the wary redhead that he wants her forever. And lucky for Remy, this ex-soldier is ready to play “down and dirty” to get what he wants.
Publisher’s Note: Previously published in the Down and Dirty anthology.
Reviewer: Chris
Review: Apr 19, 2010
Remy Frost has known Jason Hawkes since she was a teenager. He’s the man she measures all others against. And she can't have him. An explosive encounter when she was younger had him shoving her away. That pain is what keeps her from letting him close again. She can’t go through that again, and everyone knows he’s a short term kind of guy.
Jason Hawkes did the right thing eight years ago and
Edge of Desire
Sheriff Riley Buchanan is a good man…but a man possessed. Plagued by vicious and uncontrollable impulses, he lives in fear of surrendering to real love. Even after years apart, he still craves one woman, Hope Summers, above all others, and will do anything to protect her from harm—even tempt fate.
Hope is a woman with her own secrets. For months she has eluded her abusive ex-husband, a ruthless creature who won't rest until Hope and her kind are destroyed. Hope's fantasies are still haunted by Riley, the one man who might help her, and the man whose searing touch she cannot forget. But surrendering to their long-denied passion could mean the destruction of everything they hold dear….
Reviewer: Deidre
Review: Jul 19, 2009
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance
Riley Buchanan is a sheriff of a small town, he has been living on the straight and narrow for years, in an attempt to make up for what he believes his fate is. He has had visions of his fate for years and has pushes away the one woman he loved to keep her safe as he is terrified of injuring innocents once he becomes Merrick and begins fighting in the war against the Casus. As he begins to search fo
Edge of Hunger
Ian Buchanan has always felt the unknown—the deep, impenetrable darkness that lives within him. Yet he is determined to lead a "normal" life, ignoring the unsettling dreams in which he succumbs to his wildest desires.… Until psychic Molly Stratton tracks him down, claiming to share his sensual nightmares.
The petite Molly even has the bite marks to prove it. And she's also received a message from Ian's deceased mother: an enemy is near. And it's time for the creature inside Ian to finally awaken. A creature with an insatiable hunger that must be controlled before it overtakes them both….
Reviewer: Deidre
Review: Jun 20, 2009
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance
Ian Buchanan has been determined to lead a “normal” life, not believing the superstitious nonsense that his mother and then sister have been sprouting off in the years. He finally left home to get away from their portents of terror and doom. Ian tries to ignore his unsettling dreams of doing unimaginable things, until Molly shows up, claiming to be sharing his dreams.
Moll
Edge Of Danger
Saige Buchanan travels the world studying her dark past, guided by a strange gift that enables physical objects to tell her their secrets. Yet nothing can protect her from her family's sadistic enemies. Until—in her hour of greatest need—she encounters a mysterious, impossibly sexy shape-shifter. Sent to find the woman whose darkness has yet to awaken, Michael Quinn battles his primal hunger for Saige. He alone can help her lay claim to her full powers. Yet in doing so, he will destroy her innocence, and mark her as his forever….
Reviewer: Deidre
Review: Jun 20, 2009
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance
Saige Buchanan is travelling the world, compelled by her strange gift to attempt to find the ancients artifacts that will save them all in the battle with the Casus. She has been studying her family’s history and past to determine how to fight in this upcoming unbelievable war and as she showed trust in the bazaar history it drove a wedge between Saige and her brothers. Saige is in Brazil hunt
Half Wild
When two gorgeous studs fall out of the sky, Jerri and Sam think they've hit the jackpot. By all appearances, the handsome twins are intensely attracted to the two best friends.
Travelers from a desolated future devoid of women, Kar'Four and Deuce are dying to experience sex for the first time, as well as warmth, passion and love. But the men hide a secret they're afraid to share. One that threatens their chances to finally know the love they've hungered for their entire lives. The truth is that they're not completely human. Cloned from a combination of human and animal DNA, these mouthwatering males are half wild.
Publisher Note: This book was previously available on the authors' web site under the title Janus Palace. It has been revised and expanded for Ellora's Cave.
Reviewer: Connie
Review: Aug 24, 2008
Genre(s): Erotic Romance, Sci-Fi / Fantasy Romance
Half Wild doubles the fun, featuring twin brothers Kar’two “Deuce” and Kar’four “Four” paired with best friends Jerri and Sam. Traveling back from the future, the brothers are responsible for stopping a chain of events that will alter the future of the entire human race. Luckily, they fall right into the laps of two women who are strong enough to handle the brother’s
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