It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? a place to meet and share what you have been and are about to be reading over the week. It’s a great post to organize yourself. It’s an opportunity to visit, comment, and add to your groaning TBR pile! So welcome in everyone. This meme started on J Kaye’s blog and then was hosted by Sheila from Book Journey. Sheila then passed it on to Kathryn at The Book Date.

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What I am Reading Now

Lena Collins has nearly adjusted to her new life with the Silenti. However, a part of her still wishes her previous life of carefree traveling had never ended.

The Silenti won’t allow her to leave Waldgrave unescorted, and she never ventures far. Some of them claim it’s for her own protection. The rest will never trust a Daray–not after the veil of lies and secrecy that the elderly Master cast over their society.

Deciding that there is only one way to make them trust her, Lena decides to embark on a mission to return an ancient–and potentially deadly–relic to the Council’s possession.

However, Lena soon discovers that not everyone is happy about the possibility of the portal’s recovery, and some of them are willing to kill to make sure that the portal is never seen again.

And before it’s all over, Lena will learn a secret so destructive that it could send the Silenti world spiraling into chaos.

What I plan to read this week

Master Daray is dead, and now Lena knows his secrets.

What she can’t figure out is why he lied, or how he managed to pull it off without anyone ever questioning him. She has been left with more questions than answers and even as the fabric of the Silenti government begins to unravel around her, she is determined to figure out who Jack Durand was, and what happened to Olesia Daray.

With Griffin gone, and bloody power struggles all around, Lena has to find the answers. Away from Waldgrave and on her own, she needs to do it before she has no home to return to.

The woman’s killing me.

I’m not the kind of man who would normally even consider blurring the lines between landlord and tenant or boss and employee, but Summer is a walking temptation. Neurotic and obsessive when it comes to work details, sure, but a damn cute temptation nevertheless.

She’s been a good tenant and an even better worker. Plus, she doesn’t simper or throw herself at me like a lot of women who find out my net worth. I’ve grown…fond of her, oddly enough.

But if she drags me out of bed in the middle of the night to talk about work one more time…

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The man’s a saint.

Not only did Jason hire me for the greatest project I’ve ever run point on, but he also let me move into an amazing loft in his building as an extravagant job-relocation perk. Sure, he can be a grouch when I accidentally wake him up to go over the project, but he’s still a saint nevertheless.

He’s been a fantastic boss and a surprisingly protective landlord. But…when did his shoulders get so wide? And why is that growling voice of his making me all weak in the knees lately?

Also, is it still considered morning wood if it happens in the middle of the night…or something more?