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Author: Sylvia Day | Website
Sylvia Day is the national bestselling, award-winning author of over a dozen novels. A wife and mother of two, she is a former Russian linguist for the U.S. Army Military Intelligence. Sylvia's work has been called an "exhilarating adventure" by Publishers Weekly and "wickedly entertaining" by Booklist. Her stories have been translated into Russian, Japanese, Portuguese, German, Czech, Italian, and Thai. She's been honored with the Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award, the EPPIE award, the National Readers' Choice Award, the Readers' Crown, and multiple finalist nominations for Romance Writers of America's prestigious RITA Award of Excellence.
Published Works & Book Reviews
A Hunger So Wild
Elijah Reynolds is the most dominant of lycans, a rare Alpha whose skill on the hunt is surpassed only by his primal sexuality. Vashti is the second most powerful vampire in the world, a lethal beauty with a path of devastation in her wake. They are enemies consumed with a fierce desire. But as war looms, each must decide where their loyalty lies--with their own kind or with the enemy lover they can no longer live without.
Bared to You
Our journey began in fire... Gideon Cross came into my life like lightning in the darkness--beautiful and brilliant, jagged and white hot. I was drawn to him as I'd never been to anything or anyone in my life. I craved his touch like a drug, even knowing it would weaken me. I was flawed and damaged, and he opened those cracks in me so easily... Gideon knew. He had demons of his own. And we would become the mirrors that reflected each other's most private wounds... and desires. The bonds of his love transformed me, even as I prayed that the torment of our pasts didn't tear us apart...
Reviewer: Chris
Review: May 8, 2012
Genre(s): Erotic Romance, Contemporary
Consensual Power Exchange. You learn something new every day, I always say. While Gideon and Eva respond to some aspects of BDSM, due to their pasts pain isn’t on the table. This was about the hottest, most sensual erotic book I’ve ever read. My heartbeat sped up, my breath became choppy; and that was just with the physical descriptions of Gideon. Once they started burning up the sheets I was a goner.
Guns and Roses
Murder She Writes presents a one-of-a-kind romantic suspense anthology with ten all-new, never-before-published short stories and novellas that promise thrills, chills, romance, intrigue, passion, danger, murder...and love. Penned by New York Times and award winning authors, some stories in this exclusive collection will make you laugh out loud while others will force you to sleep with the lights on.
Reviewer: Terri
Review: Mar 9, 2012
Genre(s): Romantic Suspense, Anthologies
The mystery writers of an excellent blog decided to write an anthology. Each story must have a gun and a rose. So, Murder She Writes presents Guns and Roses.
This book has ten stories written by some top notch authors. Some of them are New York Times best selling authors and they are bringing some of their favorite characters/series to this book.
The opening story, Pick Your Poison by Roxanne St. Claire s
Wish List
When Nicolas James draws Stephanie Martin's name in their law firm's Secret Santa exchange he knows he's in for a merry Christmas-if he can figure out what to give the woman he's wanted for months. When he works late and finds a crumpled piece of paper listing Steph's personal wish list, he knows he's in luck. Because all Steph wants for Christmas is him, in a number of naughty ways. And not-so saintly Nick is going to make every one of her carnal wishes come true.
Reviewer: Chris
Review: Dec 20, 2011
Genre(s): Erotic Romance, Contemporary, Seasonal / Holiday
Stephanie Martin had a marriage with a man who couldn't commit. That didn't end well. Now she's being pursued by Nicolas James, a colleague at work. He appears to be cut from the same cloth as her ex so she avoids him at all costs. That doesn't stop her from weaving fantasies around him, or foolishly writing them down in the guise of a naughty Christmas wish list. When Nick finds her list that missed the
Men Out of Uniform
The hottest thing about a man in uniform is imagining him out of it...
They may enforce the rules, but when men in uniform are off duty and under the covers, they're experts at breaking them. In this searingly sexy anthology, popular authors Maya Banks, Sylvia Day, and Karin Tabke present men in uniform-unzipped...
Reviewer: ELF
Review: Nov 21, 2011
Genre(s): Erotic Romance, Contemporary, Anthologies
Three sizzling novellas are presented in "Men Out of Uniform: Three Novellas of Erotic Surrender", penned by three fabulous authors in the field, Maya Banks (`Soul Possession'), Karin Tabke (`Wanted') and Sylvia Day (`Taking the Heat'). Each author uses her considerable talent to create a sensual tale featuring hot heroes and the women in their lives that they would go to great lengths to cherish and protec
Seven Years To Sin
The longer the resistance…
Seven years ago, on the eve of her wedding, proper Lady Jessica Sheffield witnessed a licentious scene no innocent young miss could imagine. Shocked, yet strangely titillated, she’d held her silence regarding scandalous Alistair Caulfield, and walked down the aisle as expected. But through years of serene, unremarkable marriage, Caulfield’s image remained burned into her imagination, fueling very illicit dreams…
…the sweeter the reward
Alistair ran far from the temptation of the prim debutante with the fire of passion in her eyes–all the way to the West Indies. As a successful merchant, he has little in common with the rakehell youth she knew. But when newly widowed Jessica steps aboard his ship for a transatlantic passage, seven years’ worth of denied pleasures are held in check by nothing more than a few layers of silk–and the certainty that surrender will consume them both…
Reviewer: Chris
Review: Aug 20, 2011
Genre(s): Historical Romance
Jessica is a diamond of the first water, betrothed before her coming out. Barely eighteen and her life is laid out before her. The journey to this point appears blessed but is really paved with broken dreams and pain. While her life appeared idyllic with the titled father and money, it hid abuse and despair. Marriage means freedom and the cool and collected Jessica is about to grasp it without reserve. U
A Touch of Crimson
Can a love that transcends death survive a war between angels, vampires, and lycans?
Adrian Mitchell is an angel of immense power and insatiable desire. Leading an elite Special Ops unit of the Seraphim, his task is to punish the Fallen—angels who have become vampires—and command a restless pack of indentured lycans.
But Adrian has suffered his own punishment for becoming involved with mortals—losing the woman he loves again and again. Now, after nearly two hundred years, he has found her—Shadoe, her soul once more inhabiting a new body with no memory of him. Only this time he won’t let her go.
With no memory of her past as Shadoe, Lindsay Gibson only knows she can’t help being fiercely attracted to the smoldering, seductive male who crosses her path. Swept into a dangerous world of tumultuous passion and preternatural conflict, Lindsay is soon caught in the middle between her angel lover, her vampire father, and a full-blown lycan revolt. There’s more at stake than her love and her life—this time she could lose her very soul…
Reviewer: Karla
Review: Sep 27, 2011
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Angels
Adrian Mitchell is an elite soldier that hunts down rogue angles that have subcommed to the darkness and become vampires. Along with his duties as commanding his soldiers he is also the master over a pack of lycans that are of the brink of revolution. As if Adrian doesn't have enough on his plate Shadoe re-enters his life. Her current incarnation is in the form of Lindsay Gibson a woman who has no recollect
Reviewer: Melinda
Review: Dec 7, 2011
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Angels
Adrian Mitchell has been waiting for centuries to be reunited with Shadoe. She is the only woman he has ever loved and still mourns her loss. Lindsay Gibson is Shadoe reincarnated. Something about Lindsay Gibson makes him believe in hope again after all these years. Adrian is not your typical man in the 21st century but a leader of the angels. His mission is to make sure everything is normal and all his angel
The Promise of Love
Edited by New York Times bestselling author Lori Foster-a deeply moving anthology of all-new stories!
These six stories by beloved and bestselling authors are a bounty of riches for those who enjoy reading about love and the potential it has to change our lives. As with previous collections in this series, the authors are donating proceeds to charity.
Features all-new novellas from Lori Foster, Erin McCarthy, Sylvia Day, Jamie Denton, Kate Douglas, and Kathy Love.
Reviewer: Tigger9
Review: Aug 20, 2011
Genre(s): Contemporary, Anthologies, Romance, Charitable Cause
The Promise of Love was a great anthology. Great authors and great stories are in this anthology. There is a wonderful mix of styles of writing and storylines. The theme of this anthology is women having stormy pasts and overcoming them. Most of the women have had abuse of some kind in their past that they have worked on dealing with and overcoming. The amazing thing is that the women are able to open themsel
Alluring Tales 2: Hot Holiday Nights
The holidays are heating up—with seven wickedly sensual stories guaranteed to spice up those chilly winter nights!
A psychology student goes online hoping to live out her steamiest fantasy—and ends up on a hot mystery date with a wickedly imaginative stud who brings out her inner pole-dancer. . .
A determined lady comes home, burning for her girlhood crush—a sexy lawman who totes a big gun. . .
A creative ad man's passion is aroused when he sees his buttoned-up coworker in a revealing new light—dressed in sizzling red satin on a giant billboard. . .
A professional dominatrix wishes upon a star, and her fantasy appears—an insatiable alpha male in biker boots who's literally out of this world. . .
A tall, dark, handsome warlock finds himself obsessed with his "familiar"—a sleek and sexy cat-woman who turns out to be the purr-fect lover. . .
She was always hot for big brother's best friend—and now her erotic dream is here in the taut and tempting flesh. . .
A pair of fugitive lovers finds themselves warm and toasty in a sultry Caribbean paradise—and ready for some red-hot fun in the sun. . .
Reviewer: Zollyanna
Review: Oct 20, 2008
Genre(s): Erotic Romance, Anthologies
Alluring Tales 2: Hot Holiday Nights is a compilation of wicked fantasy tales written by seven brilliant authors. Each little story is in and of its own an exciting and enchanting journey into the life of two people that have their own fantasy to work out, each colliding at just the right moment, or just the right way for the sparks to fly.
In Peaches and Cream by Cathryn Fox the couple have been set
Heat of the Night
He is a vision from every woman's erotic fantasies. Existing in the twilight beneath sleep and consciousness, Connor brings them decadent pleasures, fueled by their sexual energy. But violence and strife now tear apart both worlds, and Connor must embark upon a quest into the mortal realm . . . and into the arms of one intoxicating enchantress. Stacey Daniels has always been attracted to the wrong type of men-and the muscular, Viking-like champion on her front doorstep is no exception. She can hardly believe the wounded warrior is from another world, a world where erotic dreams are needed to survive, a world of terrible danger that has followed him to her home. Connor finds solace in her passion, but only time will tell if he can defeat the dark foe who hunts them . . . and if Stacey can surrender to the promise he offers with every electrifying touch.
Reviewer: Susan
Review: Jan 29, 2008
`Heat of the Night' brings the dream world into the real world with this steamy tale by Sylvia Day. The Dream realm has been invaded by Nightmares and its Conner's job as an Elite warrior to protect the Dreamers and the Guardians in both worlds. Connor leads a rebellion that comes about when he and others realized that the Elders of the Dream world have mislead them with lies and secrets. These deceptions
Reviewer: Jennj
Review: Feb 10, 2008
This is the second book in Sylvia Day's sexy Dream Guardian's series. Conner Bruce is now the commander of the Elite force of warriors in the Twilight Realm that defend the dream world from the Nightmares that threaten and terrorize the human race. All that he once thought he knew has come to light as being a lie as far as the Elders were concerned and when he and his team break into the Elder's sanctuary the
Reviewer: Chris
Review: Mar 3, 2008
The story is great, but as with all of Sylvia Day's books, the romance is what is really the focus. I like her alpha males, albeit a little rough around the edges. That's what makes her books such a great getaway.
There is a plot in Twilight, and Connor Bruce comes across the slipstream to warn his former captain and best friend of new dangers. He knocks on Aidan Cross' door and is confronted with Sta
Pleasures of the Night
In the Twilight between sleep and consciousness, a battle rages between Dream Guardians and Nightmares. Captain Aidan Cross is a legend, as skilled in fulfilling erotic dreams as he is with the glaive that kills his enemy. Women see Aidan as part of their fantasies...except Lyssa Bates. Exquisite, desirable, enigmatic Lyssa perplexes this immortal seducer because she sees him as he really is. And as he attempts to unravel her secrets the unthinkable occurs: Aidan Cross falls in love. Lyssa has been having the most incredible dreams about a man whose blue eyes hold the promise of decadent pleasures and tempting intimacies. And then he appears on her doorstep! This intoxicating stranger is just as irresistible as the man of her dreams... but with her surrender there is also grave danger... Because Aidan is on a mission, and the passion that consumes them body and soul could have dire consequences. Loving the mortal woman prophesied to destroy Aidan's world is not only impossible... it is forbidden...
Reviewer: Dee
Review: May 31, 2007
I enjoyed Pleasures of the Night by Sylvia Day immensely.
What happens when you go to sleep? Sylvia Day appears to have an idea there are gates where beings act as guardians against intruders like nightmares. It's a great imaginative concept and I only hope Ms Days images of guardians of dreams are true to form.
Lyssa can control some of her sleeping emotions which is uncommon and Aidan, a guardian, i
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