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Blood Sacrifice
What would you give up for immortal life and love? By day, Elise draws and paints, spilling out the horrific visions of her tortured mind. By night, she walks the streets, selling her body to the highest bidder. And then they come into her life: a trio of impossibly beautiful vampires: Terence, Maria, and Edward. When they encounter Elise, they set an explosive triangle in motion. Terence wants to drain her blood. Maria just wants Elise . . . as lover and partner through eternity. And Edward, the most recently-converted, wants to prevent her from making the same mistake he made as a young abstract expressionist artist in 1950s Greenwich Village: sacrificing his artistic vision for immortal life. He is the only one of them still human enough to realize what an unholy trade this is. Blood Sacrifice is a novel that will grip you in a vise of suspense that won't let go until the very last moment...when a shocking turn of events changes everything and demonstrates--truly--what love and sacrifice are all about.
Caregiver
It's 1991, and Dan Calzolaio has just moved to Florida with his lover, Mark, having fled Chicago and Mark's addictions to begin a new life on the Gulf Coast. Volunteering for the Tampa AIDS Alliance is just one part of that new beginning, and that's how Dan meets his new buddy, Adam. Adam Schmidt is not at all what Dan expected. The guy is an original-witty, wry, and sarcastic with a fondness for a smart black dress, Barbra Streisand, and a good mai tai. Adam doesn't let his imminent death get him down, even through a downward spiral that sees him thrown in jail. Each step of Adam's journey teaches Dan new lessons about strength and resilience, but it's Adam's lover, Sullivan, to whom Dan feels an almost irresistible pull. Dan knows the attraction isn't right, even after he dumps his cheating, drug-abusing boyfriend. But then Adam passes away, and it leaves Sullivan and Dan both alone to see if they can turn their love for Adam into something whole and real for each other.
Penance
Bound by misery. Marked by sin. Set free by death. Barely into their teens, without homes, they dwell in neon shadows, the violent eddies of urban America. They trade their innocence for money, abuse their hopes, and then a monster comes... A monster without fangs or claws, but more deadly. Because of them, he has lost everything: his wife, his family. And he vows to clean the streets of Chicago...for good. One of the street kids and a man of the cloth form a desperate pact. Together, they will find the madman whose basement has become a chamber of horrors... PENANCE was part of Dell Abyss' remarkable horror line, lauded by none other than Stephen King.
Reviewer: Stella Blackmore
Review: Nov 29, 2011
Tween prostitutes sell their bodies in order to get by living on the dangerous city streets. A psychopathic pedophile is on the loose and plans to lure children in order to rape and kill them. One of the young boys finds hope in a priest after a traumatic event concerning said pedophile. Will they be able to find the sadistic, perverse murderer, who was gotten away with these sick acts?
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Obsessed
Psychological Horror I kill, therefore I am… Voices slam through the corridor of his wounded mind. The words of his dead sister cry out. His parents' taunts fill the silent room where he sits and waits--waits for the murderous rage, filling him with strength, driving him to kill, to touch the cold flesh, taste the warm blood--to feel alive again… A witness has seen him, but his killing only turns her on and now she wants to protect him. His wife suspects him, but the private detective she hired cannot stop him. Joe MacAree fears nothing--except that he may no longer be human. The thirst that drives him is relentless, moving deeper and deeper into his own shattering, private realm, where each murder is a delicious new gift of life, where revulsion is beauty, and the obsession will never let him go.
Reviewer: Lilyraines
Review: Sep 16, 2011
Genre(s): Suspense, Horror
I don't know if "liking" Obsessed is the right word, but it fits as far as it goes.
A portion of that feeling stems from the fact that I am picky with the horror I read and pickier still with what would stay on my "keeper" shelf. Obsessed fits into that category.
While I generally don't care for a lot of blood and violence in my reading, in this book is it well handled, there is nothing that is overly exce
Homecoming
After losing his partner Toby, Chase faces a long, painful road back to life and love. At first, he doesn’t see how he can go on, but then Chase and Toby’s old friend Mike cajoles him into returning to Chicago for the annual International Mr. Leather Competition. There Chase revisits a world of hot, casual sex that he had forgotten existed, meets a friend who cares more for him than he ever realized, and discovers the possibility that he might yet find his way home.
Reviewer: Lilyraines
Review: Jun 24, 2011
Chase has a long journey back to living life instead of simply existing after he loses his partner Toby on Toby's birthday.
Mike, their mutual friend, talks Chase into coming back to Chicago for the International Mr. Leather Competition, an annual convention.
While there Chase rediscovers things and comes to a couple realizations regarding himself, a friend, and what - and where - home might be.
I found th
Dignity Takes a Holiday
Pete Thickwhistle doesn’t live what one might call a charmed life. At age forty-seven, he’s a flamboyant gay man who believes no one knows he’s gay, still living at home with his harpy of a mother. Worse, he’s still a virgin, longing to find just the right man to make his life complete. Pete’s an upbeat kind of guy, yet he’s never learned that the answer to his motto “What could possibly go wrong?” is always: “Everything.” Pete’s road to love and happiness is full of potholes, yet he never tires of searching, despite job losses, weight battles, clothing faux pas, and disastrous vacations, parties, and dating debacles. Pete is the ultimate underdog living a television situation comedy, one named Dignity Takes a Holiday.
Reviewer: Doug
Review: Aug 24, 2011
Before I get into my review, I would like to give a warning that this book is not for the easily offended. There are topics and situations which, if taken at face value, are quite taboo. My review will not touch on those, so I simply mention that the book is not for the faint of heart.
Dignity Takes a Holiday is the fourth or fifth book I've read by author Rick Reed. Used to scary, horror-type books, this no
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