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Author: Stephanie Julian | Website
Stephanie Julian is the author of the Magical Seduction, Lucani Lovers and The Fringe series from Ellora’s Cave and the upcoming Forgotten Goddess series from Sourcebooks Casablanca. A former reporter for a daily newspaper, she enjoys making up stories much more than writing about real life. She’s happily married to a Springsteen fanatic and is the mother of two sons who love her even when they don’t have any clean clothes and dinner is a bowl of cereal.
Published Works & Book Reviews
The Bigger They Are...
Andy Lohani is in a serious funk. The Yeti shifter is looking for love, or at least some loving, and when he meets Jenna Durham one dark night, sparks fly. She’s beautiful, sexy and hot for him. Getting her in his bed is job one. Unfortunately, she’s Normal and he’s really…not. Accountant Jenna Durham doesn’t believe her brother’s crazy theories about Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster. But she agrees to check out a bar in northern Pennsylvania where her brother says Bigfoot hangs out. At least she’s getting an expenses-paid weekend away. When Jenna meets seven-foot blond and blue-eyed hunk Andy, she realizes she owes her brother one hell of an apology. Because she has a huge crush on the Abominable Snowman. And what he can do between the sheets is not something a girl could soon forget. But if she wants to keep him, she might have to give up her Normal life for one on the Fringe…
Reviewer: Chris
Review: Apr 27, 2012
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Erotic Romance, Shapeshifters
Andy watched his cousin fall in love and now he craves the same. It’s not easy being hairy; as in Yeti shifter hairy. His romantic options are kind of limited and when Jenna Durham shows up at a shifter bar he is instantly attracted. She’s Normal, and obviously up to something, but that’s okay. He’s good at keeping secrets, so now he just has to get her in bed.
Jenna can’t believe her twin talked her int
Goddess in the Middle
Amity, the Goddess of Health, works as a medical aesthetist, using her remaing goddess powers to help people heal their spirits. Her profession soon brings two masculine Etruscan werewolves, Remy and Rom, into her life. The two werewolves have been searching for a woman powerful enough to handle both of them, but they've never met a woman strong enough...until they meet Amity. Toegether they must use the power generated by their love to kill a vicious demon and keep him locked away forever, or risk losing everything.
Spell Bound
She's running from fate...
Shea Tedaldi is the only thing standing between her six-year-old brother and the men who killed their parents. Descendants of the ancient Etruscan magical race, Shea and her brother keep powerful secrets that make them the targets of the evil Malandante. They've been looking for a safe haven but the bad guys are gaining on them and Shea needs a hero, a guardian who won't falter in the face of danger...
He's looking for the key to break the spell...
Gabriel Borelli is a warrior born to protect the Etruscan witches living under a curse. He's dedicated to breaking the spell and avenging the murder of his father by the Malandante. He won't let anything--or anyone--get in his way. Not even the one woman who may hold the key to his quest...and his heart.
Reviewer: Kate
Review: Nov 21, 2011
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Shapeshifters, Witches
In Spell Bound, Shea Tedaldi has been on the run with her little brother for the past year hiding from Dario Paganelli and his men. She has to keep her brother from falling into his hands at all costs so she turns to Gabriel, a Grigorio, for protection and finds that he has his own reasons for hating Dario.
The romance between Shea and Gabriel started slowly but I enjoyed that - it was different, and mor
How to Worship a Goddess
Lucy is the Etruscan goddess of the moon, hunted by a powerful demon. One misstep and he will trap and consume her in his bid to escape the underworld. Lucy has stayed one step ahead of him, but she didn't count on falling for minor league hockey player John Stevenson. John's not one of her worshippers, but he is determined to win over the gorgeous woman who watches him at every game and won't give her up without a fight–even if it means releasing the beast he holds inside.
Reviewer: Sarah Dizon
Review: Dec 1, 2011
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Demons, Mythology
How to Worship a Goddess is the second novel in Stephanie Julian's Forgotten Goddess series. It follows the story of Lucy the Etruscan Goddess of the Moon. She is beautiful and charismatic and has a huge problem, there's a demon after her. If he succeeds in trapping her, he can be released from the Underworld. It has been Lucy's job to stay one step ahead of him and she had until she met John Stevenson. John
Grace in Moonlight
Kaisie Giliati is the lucani king’s best tracker. He’s used to hunting and capturing his prey with little resistance. He’s also old enough to know exactly what he wants, and the feisty redhead who stirs him like no other is at the top of his list. Too bad she’s the enemy and seemingly impervious to his charms.
Grace Bellasario has a target on her back, two children to protect from their evil father and she’s in love for the first time in her life. With a man who should hate her—a man she has no business craving. But does she ever. Grace doesn’t have a chance in hell of shaking Kaisie off her tail. Now he just needs to keep her alive to live happily ever after…
Reviewer: Chris
Review: Aug 30, 2011
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Erotic Romance, Shapeshifters
Kaisie Giliati's track record is that of a man on the move. When he was 19 he got his girl pregnant and shortly after she delivered she was dead, leaving him with an infant. Not prepared he turned to his people, the Lucani, to help him raise her. Now a 44-year-old man he's confronted with something he doesn't know how to handle. He loves a woman for the first time and he's going after her like he does eve
What a Goddess Wants
It's OK no one remembers Etruscan Sun goddess Tessa. But when a demon threatens her life, she must turn to mythology's darkest warrior for protection...
Caligo of the Cimmerians has never met a woman as warm, sunny and inviting as Tessa. Their sizzling mutual attraction quickly sweeps the two of them into a love story that's worthy of the gods...
Reviewer: KariPrintReviews
Review: Jul 8, 2011
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Fantasy, Mythology
Expect pages and pages of erotic love scenes in this newest book by author Stephanie Julian, but also expect a unique and intriguing fantasy plot that manages to carry the story through to a very satisfying ending. Sun Goddess Tess is fated to die if a nasty Underworld God has his way. So, she desperately seeks out help from a most unlikely source: a dark, dangerous, and oh-so-cynical, immortal warrior named
Moonlight Temptation
Evie Simmons has major issues. She’s got magical powers she can’t control, she’s living in a house that isn’t hers, and her best friend is a seventeen-year-old werewolf. It’d be hilarious if it weren’t just so damn depressing. Add in the sexy shifter she can’t keep out of her mind and his hot-as-hell friend and it’s a recipe for disaster.Dr. Dane Dimitriou knows Evie has had a hard time adjusting to her new life as part of the Etruscan magical community—almost as difficult as his denial of his feelings for her have been. And he’s got the perfect cure—his best friend, Ryan Maguire. Easygoing Ryan is the complete opposite of stick-up-his-ass Dane. He can act as a buffer. Dane can get close, but not too close. Yeah, good luck with that.Together, these sexy men may be just what the doctor ordered for Evie. And the doctor himself may discover the cure for what ails him has been right in front of him all along.
Reviewer: Chris
Review: Feb 28, 2011
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Erotic Romance
Every day is a trial for Evie Simmons. Her life before now has been anything but ordinary and it just keeps getting stranger. A recovering addict, she’s discovered she has magical powers and is actually a witch. In a community of people like her, she’s learning to control and wield her power without injuring herself or others. Alone now that her brother has found his mate, she’s living off o
Size Matters
Carrie Benton’s got the best job in the world working as a reporter for the Weekly News Journal. Chupacabra picnicking at the Jersey Shore? Check. Aliens in the White House? Absolutely. Bigfoot stalking the forests of northern Pennsylvania? Well, okay…but Bigfoot is so Left Coast.
Tim Sattizahn can’t believe his luck. The six-foot redhead who crashed into his forest during a snowstorm is gorgeous, funny and hot for him. Everything would be perfect except for the fact that she’s looking for Bigfoot.
And, unfortunately for Tim, she found him…
Reviewer: Chris
Review: Oct 3, 2010
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Erotic Romance
Carrie Benton goes the opposite direction of her father when it comes to her career. He’s all politics and doom, she goes for entertainment reporting for the Weekly News Journal. Sent out to the wilds to take pictures for a story on bigfoot, she hits a tree and finds herself stranded in a blizzard. She faints and the next thing she knows, she wakes in the arms of a very large man. How much did she drink
Edge of Moonlight
Etruscan wolf shifter Kaine Giliati has longed for John Simmons since he willingly agreed to wipe all memory of her from his mind. The pain in her heart is only magnified by terror-the ability to call her wolf appears to have deserted her, as well. For months after he and his sister escaped a crazed kidnapper, John has been dreaming about a beautiful woman he's never met but who seems so familiar. A woman he's shocked to find in a dark bar one night. A woman who agrees to come back to his apartment for raw, passionate sex. One erotic, stolen night reopens old wounds, uncovers buried memories and sets Kaine and John on a path filled with danger, magic and potential heartbreak.
Reviewer: Chris
Review: May 29, 2010
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Erotic Romance
Kaine Giliati has a problem. Well, several. She’s a shifter who can’t shift. She loves a man she can’t ever have. She’s developing new powers that are a legacy from her mother, who she thought was Etruscan but apparently wasn’t. All this combining at once is enough to drive a woman to drink. Which is how she finds herself in a bar confronted with John Simmons, the man she can&rsq
Moonlight Menage
For eight years, Etruscan witch Tira Belludi has longed to give herself, body and soul, to the two shifter men who hold her heart. But visions of death and fears for her sanity have forced her to keep her distance. Nic Rocca and Duke Ducati are brothers in every way but blood and partners who have each other's backs. They share a home, a job and had planned to share their life with Tira between them.until the night she saw their future and built a fortress around her heart. Now danger and death stalk Nic and Duke. And Tira must make a choice-grab love while she has the chance, or watch Nic die from afar and lose Duke forever.
Reviewer: Chris
Review: Mar 26, 2010
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Erotic Romance, Menage / Multiple Partners
Tira knew when she was fifteen that Duke and Nic would be hers, and that she would belong to them. But when her gift of foreseeing the future manifested itself when she was eighteen and showed her Nic’s death, and Duke turning from her forever as a result, she ran from the men she loved and has kept them at bay for eight years. But Nic and Duke have both been injured, Nic gravely so, and Tira has to com
Kiss of Moonlight
Plagued by nightmares. Stalked by kidnappers. Tamra McMillan needs a safe haven. When tattooed bad-ass Kyle Rossini steps into her life, the last thing she expects to find is a sanctuary from her demons or steaming hot sex. In fact, everything about him screams danger. But appearances can be deceiving. The tender possessiveness of his touch, the hunger in his eyes, the scorching sensuality of his kiss-all of it sears him into her soul and brands her as his for life. But otherworldly forces are afoot and death hovers. Etruscan werewolf Kyle is a loner. The king's assassin with a killer's instincts. The last thing he needs is a mate who could be placed in danger because of him. Until he meets the one woman who needs him more than he needs his solitude. When Tamra, battered but not broken, stumbles into his world and tumbles into his bed, she captures his heart. And nothing-not kidnappers or visions of his possible death-will keep him from her.
Reviewer: Chris
Review: Nov 15, 2009
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Erotic Romance
Having retreated to a forgotten farm that was an inheritance, Tamra McMillan is trying to recover from a horrible rape and beating. A victim, but she put her attacker in a coma. Healing in the solitude, she finds herself being visited by two dogs. A puppy and a much larger animal. She uses them to talk to and express her repressed feelings. Unknown to her, the dogs understand her
Seduced by Two
One woman. Two brothers.
It was supposed to be one night only—an escape into pleasure. A night for Nica to forget her obligations and her secrets. Through hours filled with sensually wicked exploration, an emotional connection develops with the two gorgeous brothers she had no way of anticipating. But a stranger with an ultimatum and a dangerous power forces her to reveal her own magic to save her new lovers.
Now Tanner and Jensen are drawn into a world they never knew existed by a woman whose abilities they can barely comprehend. But they won’t let the fact that they have no magic get in the way of protecting their woman. Even if it means sacrificing their lives.
Reviewer: Chris
Review: Jul 12, 2009
Genre(s): Erotic Romance, Sci-Fi / Fantasy Romance
Being called back from her life of freedom to obligation to her family and gifts, Nica is just looking for a night of escape. She finds herself attracted to, and going home with, two brothers who draw her equally. Tanner and Jensen give her the escape she’s looking for, and she doesn’t want to go. But she has to. But when a stranger confronts her outside their house and alm
Seduced by Danger
Book six in the Magical Seduction series.
A man will do just about anything for love—even kill. Four down, one to go. Michael Corsi is on the trail of the last man who made life a living hell for his lover. But first, he wants one last reminder of what he’s fighting for. He needs to see his woman and his son before he goes up against his toughest foe. And probably to his death.
Michael is the father of the son Cara never expected to have. The man who brought her a love she never expected to feel, and a passion that she can’t—won’t—live without. She’ll do whatever it takes to be sure Michael returns to her—even it means tying him to her very soul.
Reviewer: Chris
Review: Jun 4, 2009
Genre(s): Erotic Romance, Sci-Fi / Fantasy Romance
Michael Corsi is Malandante. He has the added cachet of being born evil. Then why is his heart and soul wrapped up in Cara? And the son they had together? Breaking free of his past, protecting Cara and their son, and killing the men who pursue the mother of his child are all that matter now. He’s eliminated four of the men and has one more to go, but he’s tired. He ne
Seduced by Chaos
Fifth in the Magical Seduction series
Tall, dark and handsome, the guy walks into Lacey’s bar like he’s expecting to be hit with a hail of bullets. There’s something about him that draws her but Lacey has a secret. One that could threaten her freedom, her very life if it’s exposed.
The woman behind the bar is gorgeous. She pushes every single one of Teo’s buttons and he wants her—even though he’s dangerous, a walking time bomb, and it’s only a matter of time before he explodes.
But one night of magical sex and all bets are off as Lacey’s secret catches up with her and Teo will risk everything, including himself, to keep her safe. And make her his.
Reviewer: Chris
Review: Mar 28, 2009
Genre(s): Erotic Romance, Sci-Fi / Fantasy Romance
Looking like he’s trying to avoid a fight, the most gorgeous man Lacey has ever seen walks into her bar. He’s intriguing and interests her like no man has before, but Lacey has a dark past that could mean her death if exposed.
Teo keeps to himself, always. Cursed with chaos 50 years ago by a spurned witch, he unintentionally wreaks havoc wherever he goes. But when he
Seduced and Ensnared
The third in the Magical Seduction series.
Etruscan linchetto Cam de Feo is tough, ruthless and determined to keep his magical family safe at all costs. Stella Palmer is a means to an end—nothing more. He will seduce her then use her to trap her evil uncle. At least, that’s the plan. But he never expected to fall for the beauty.
For Stella, Cam is just the right man for a white-hot one-night stand. But in the bright light of day, she quickly realizes that he has much more to offer than great sex. While the dark forces of the Mal are threatening, family secrets will be revealed and Stella will discover a hidden world—filled with love and magic!
Reviewer: Sherylyn
Review: Jan 9, 2009
Genre(s): Erotic Romance, Sci-Fi / Fantasy Romance
Cam was on a mission; he couldn't let his attraction to Stella come before his assignment. He had a job to do and that was all it was. So why was he having to fight his attraction to Stella so hard?
Stella was taken by surprise when the one man who she thought was avoiding her at the party all night came up to her and introduced himself. He said he was there to meet her. What could this hunk of man c
Seduced and Enchanted
The fourth in the Magical Seduction series.
Linchetto Rio de Feo has just met the woman of his dreams. Rosie Bianchi is smart, sexy, sweet…and cursed. She’s got an evil dead witch on her tail and a secret even she doesn’t know anything about.
Rosie can’t believe her good luck. The gorgeous guy she just met is Prince Charming material. But after one night of hot sex, Rosie wakes up with magical powers and is thrust into a battle for her life.
Love will need a little help and a little luck, but where there’s an enchanted rose hedge and three godmothers, there’s magic.
Reviewer: Sherylyn
Review: Jun 17, 2009
Genre(s): Erotic Romance, Sci-Fi / Fantasy Romance
Rosie was a boring, ordinary children's librarian, Rio was a mythical creature of fata. Rosie had a dull ordinary life with her 3 godmothers until one wonderful night when she met this amazing man who changed her world forever and rocked her world in more ways than one. Now she has powers she never knew she had, and a badie out to get her for something she didn't even do! She rewrites fairy tal
Seduced in Shadow
The second in the Magical Seduction series.
When Etruscan linchetto Antonin de Feo is employed to guard Ellie Johannson from harm, he immediately wants to become better acquainted with her luscious body. Unknown to her, Ellie is the daughter of the Etruscan God of the Woods and her father fears for her safety. When Ellie is almost kidnapped, Antonin has the perfect place to keep her safe—in his bed. He’s fallen hard for the beauty but he fears his secrets might drive her away or put her in even more danger.
Ellie cannot resist her sexy bodyguard and promptly lands in his bed. She never wants to get out of there but the dark forces of the Mal are gathering. As Ellie discovers the magical heritage of her lover, she doesn’t expect to find the magic in herself.
Reviewer: Sherylyn
Review: Jun 25, 2009
Genre(s): Erotic Romance, Sci-Fi / Fantasy Romance
Ellie can talk to animals and understand them. She has been able to all her life, although she has pretended to be normal. Little did she know this ability came from her father who is a God.
Now she has been thrown into this "magical" world full of fae, fairies, and all manner of magical beings that she thought were make believe. She even finds a friend from childhood that she thought
Seduced by Magic
Justin Johannson knows there are mythical creatures living among us. After all, he has been trying to prove their existence for ten years. Research gets a whole lot more interesting when he finds a winged woman in his bed and his sexual fantasies come to life.
Etruscan folletta Scarlata is convinced Justin is in league with an evil businessman bent on capturing her for scientific study, which is so not going to happen. She decides that Justin needs to be taught a lesson to leave her and the rest of the mythical creatures in peace — but before, she might just have a little fun of her own.
The beautiful folletta never expected to fall for a human and Justin is about to discover that true magic really does exist in the world. And in him.
Reviewer: Sherylyn
Review: Apr 25, 2008
Genre(s): Erotic Romance, Sci-Fi / Fantasy Romance
Justin Johannson has been searching for mystical creatures his whole life. His father used to tell him stories of the fairy folk and it wasn't until Justin was an adult that he learned that his father was not just telling stories, but telling true tales of his own life with the fairy folk. Justin has dedicated his life to finding out the truth and what happens? The truth finds him. He ends up having the bes
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