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A Spectacular supernatural YA debut full of wit and romance from the talented mother-son writing team Syrie James and Ryan M. James!

Claire Brennan is desperate to stay put for the rest of high school. So there's no way she's going to tell her paranoid mom about her psychic visions warning that she's in danger.

Alec MacKenzie chose Emerson Academy as the ideal hiding place where he could escape his duties as an angelic watcehr to be normal for once. But he didn't count on falling in love with Claire, a half angel whose very existence is forbidden.

When the threat to Claire's life becomes clear, how far will Alec go to protect her?

Reviewer: Shannschoice
Review: Jan 17, 2012
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Contemporary, YA / Teen, Angels
Claire Brennan is tired of packing up and moving every couple of years. She's found a place where she's comfortable at Emerson Academy, has made good friends in Erica and Brian and even has a crush on school hottie, Neil. When she starts having weird psychic moments after touching someone she keeps this information from her mother, positive this would send her mother into a packing fit and Claire enrolling

Nocturne

When Nicole Whitcomb’s car runs off a Colorado mountain road during a blinding snowstorm, she is saved from death by a handsome, fascinating, and enigmatic stranger.

Snowbound with him for days in his beautiful home high in the Rockies, she finds herself powerfully attracted to him and soon comes to realize that the feeling is mutual. But there are things about him that mystify her, filling her with apprehension—and Nicole can’t shake the feeling that he doesn’t want her there.

Who is Michael Tyler? Why does he live alone in such a secluded spot and guard his private life so carefully? What secret—or secrets—is he hiding?

Nicole has secrets of her own and a past she is running from—but Michael understands her better than anyone she has ever known. Soon, she is falling as deeply in love with him as he is with her.

But as the sexual tension between them builds, the clues mount up. When Nicole learns the terrifying truth—that her host is an ages-old vampire who is torn between his love for her and his desire for her blood—there’s nowhere for her to run but into the blizzard raging outside, and he’s the only one who can save her life.

Filled with unexpected twists and surprises, Nocturne is a page-turning, haunting, and deeply romantic story of forbidden love that will grab your heart and not let go.

 

Reviewer: Lexile
Review: Jan 10, 2011
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance
First thing--when I originally finished the novel, I had no idea a 'sequel' was (hopefully) in the future. I only recently learned about this in an interview the author had given for another site. This changed how I felt about the ending because the ending to the book? It felt right and it definitely fit with what we learned about the characters, their motivations and their overall worldview. It was just...I

Dracula, My Love

Acclaimed author Syrie James approaches Bram Stoker's classic Dracula with a breathtaking new perspective-as, for the first time, Mina Harker records the shocking story of her scandalous seduction and sexual rebirth. Who is this magnetic, fascinating man? And how could one woman fall so completely under his spell?

Mina Harker is torn between two men. Struggling to hang on to the deep, pure love she's found within her marriage to her husband, Jonathan, she is inexorably drawn into a secret, passionate affair with a charismatic but dangerous lover. This haunted and haunting creature has awakened feelings and desires within her that she has never before known, which remake her as a woman.

Although everyone she knows fears him and is pledged to destroy him, Mina sees a side to him that the others cannot: a tender, romantic side; a man who's taken full advantage of his gift of immortality to expand his mind and talents; a man who is deeply in love, and who may not be evil after all. Yet to surrender is surely madness, for to be with him could end her life. It may cost Mina all she holds dear, but to make her choice she must learn everything she can about the remarkable origins and sensuous powers of this man, this exquisite monster, this . . . Dracula!

Reviewer: Kittybooboo13
Review: Jul 16, 2010
Genre(s): Paranormal / Supernatural
This book is advertised as a Companion Book and it definitely is! Dracula, My Love is a book, which dovetails nicely with Bram Stoker's Dracula. What I liked about this book is the smooth reading. It had a lot of moments of tension (sexual and otherwise), action (later on), and provides the background of Mina, Dracula, and the rest. If you haven't read Dracula, this book will make you want to delve into it. A

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