Goodreads Monday: The Bourbon Street Ripper (Sins of the Father: Book 1) by Leo King

This is a weekly meme in which anyone can choose and highlight a random book from their Goodreads TBR. It was formerly featured on LaurensPageTurners and was taken over by Budget Tales Book Blog.


Goodreads Synopsis:

Twenty years after the Bourbon Street Ripper terrorized New Orleans, someone is recreating his ritualistic murders with disturbing accuracy. Detective Rodger Bergeron, who caught the original killer, must confront his guilt-ridden past while partnering with the Ripper’s traumatized granddaughter—now a mystery writer whose latest manuscript eerily predicts the murders. As bodies pile up in the French Quarter and dark conspiracies surface involving voodoo cults and crime families, the unlikely team races to unmask a killer who seems to know their every move. Some sins cast shadows across generations.

Goodreads Monday: A Night to Forget (A Night to Forget: Book 1) by Jessica Wood

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Goodreads Synopsis (there was a change in the name of the series. It is no longer Emma’s Story):

New Adult Contemporary Romance **Mature Content** Recommended for 17+ due to mature language and adult situations.

A Night to Forget is the first book in the two-book series, Emma’s Story. The second book in the series, The Day to Remember is scheduled to be released in August 2013.

What happens in Cancun doesn’t always stay in Cancun.

When Emma Anderson and her friends decided to spend their senior year Spring Break in Cancun, she expected some crazy memories to end their final college days. What Emma didn’t expect was to meet Brandon Fisher. Tall and sexy, with dimples that would make any girl swoon, Brandon Fisher was literally the man of Emma’s dreams. She couldn’t quite believe that this stranger, who seduced her every night in her dreams, actually existed.

After serendipitously bumping into each other, Emma could not resist Brandon’s pull and spent an unforgettable night with him. Passing it off as a spring break fling, Emma never expected to see Brandon again. But when she started her first day at her new job a few months later, there he was. The only problem was, Brandon didn’t even remember her.

Goodreads Monday: Murder Uncorked (A Wine Lover’s Mystery: Book 1) by Michele Scot

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Goodreads Synopsis:

Nikki Sands was like every other aspiring actress—waiting tables between jobs. But Nikki had taken serving wines to heart. She knew enough to impress Napa Valley’s golden boy, Derek Malveaux, who offered her a job at his vineyard. And though Nikki may have left her dreams of stardom behind, the world of wine is ripe with intrigue—and the seeds of sleuthing are planted…

Nikki has just set foot on Napa Valley’s rich soil when she realizes her new job may not be as safe as she thought. First off, Derek Malveaux is disconcertingly sexy. Second, his top winemaker is dead in the bushes outside Nikki’s cottage. It doesn’t take a connoisseur of foul play to know something’s taken a terrible turn…

Goodreads Monday: Emerge (Emerge Series: Book 1) by Heather Sunseri

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Goodreads Synopsis:

From the author of the Mindspeak series comes the first in a brand new dystopian romance series.

Six years ago, a highly contagious virus wiped out more than ninety-nine percent of the country’s population. The only person to contract the virus and survive, Cricket fled her identity and the safety of New Caelum, an airtight city. Now eighteen, she watches the city where the wealthy cocooned from the devastating outbreak. When the city’s rumbling incinerator wakes her one night while she and her friends are camping just beyond the city walls, she alone knows what the fiery machine means: the lethal virus is back.

Only eighteen, Westlin Layne is already being groomed to succeed his mother as New Caelum’s next president. Suddenly West’s sister develops symptoms of the deadly virus thought to be eradicated years ago. Placed under quarantine, the president confesses to West a long-held secret: Christina Black, West’s childhood friend and first love, survived the virus, and her body alone holds the precious antibodies to save his sister.

Now West must leave the city to find Christina. But Cricket has no intention of being found.

Goodreads Monday: Hidden (Hidden: Book 1) by M. Lathan

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Goodreads Synopsis

Sixteen-year-old Leah Grant has given up on being normal. She’d settle for stopping the voices in her head, intrusive visions of the future, and better odds of making it to her seventeenth birthday.

That’s the thing about pretending to be human in a world where magic used to exist – at any moment, her cover could be blown and she’ll be burned to death like the rest of the witches.

Everything changes when she loses control of her powers and flees the orphanage she grew up in. She desperately wants to be invisible but finds her face plastered on every news channel as humans panic over the possible resurgence of her kind. And now the hunters won’t give up until they find her.

Making friends for the first time in her life and falling in love with one of them drives her to discover why she is unlike any being she’s ever met – human or otherwise. The dangerous powers inside of her that would repel Nathan, her new, handsome reason for living, are priceless to some. The locked up forever kind of priceless. And to others, they are too dangerous to allow her to live.

Let’s hope she can stay hidden.

Goodreads Monday: Harbringer of Justice (The Saga of Kel’Atar Malavir, The Icarri Elf: Book 1) by S.D. Donovan

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Goodreads Synopsis

Orc tribes have united under one rule for the first time in generations. While the reclusive Icarri elves turn a blind eye on the world’s affairs, only Kel’Atar Malavir has the courage to leave his homeland and stand with his new battle-forged allies against the tides of war.

Forbidden (The Seraphine Chronicles: Book 1) by Cheyenne McCray

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Goodreads Synopsis

Stolen from her parents at birth, Liana has been kept prisoner, untouched. She is meant only for an evil, powerful man, once she’s of age. She has lived her life in fear of the time when he would finally take her. Instead of waiting for that fateful day, she has carefully laid her plans to flee.
Aric has been watching the beautiful Liana. He has sworn to protect her from the evil that awaits her, but he can think of nothing but touching her in ways no man ever has before. He wants her with a strength that is nearly overpowering, but he knows he must not follow through with those needs and desires.
Under the cover of darkness, Aric steals Liana away, out from beneath the clutches of evil when it finally comes for her.
Even though Aric is to protect Liana and forbidden to touch her, he can’t stay away from the lovely, sensual woman who lights his world on fire and draws her to him in ways no other woman ever has before.
But evil is nearly upon them, bent on taking Liana and killing Aric. Together, Aric and Liana must overcome a terrible destiny that could mean both their futures…and their lives.

Please Note: Forbidden is romantic erotica and will singe your fingertips! Forbidden was originally published with Ellora’s Cave Publishing.

Goodreads Monday: My Best Friend’s Brother (My Best Friend’s Brother: Book 1) by Chrissy Fanslau

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Goodreads Synopsis

Book One in the MY BEST FRIEND’S BROTHER Series ( YA Contemporary Romance / Romantic Comedy )

– CONTENT WARNING This book contains non-graphic sexual content and some strong language. –

When Lilly announced that her estranged brother is coming to live with her, Adonia was shocked—she had no idea her best friend even had a brother! Adonia doesn’t have long to process this revelation before Lilly jets off to vacation in sunny Florida, leaving her alone for weeks. Adonia doesn’t know how she’s going to pass the time, but that changes one morning when she’s sitting in a local book store and spots the sexiest guy she’s ever seen. Little does she know, he’s spotted her too.

His name is Luke, and he’s smokin’ hot—so hot that Adonia has dubbed him a Greek god!

Luke sweeps her off her feet, beats the tar out of her jerky ex-boyfriend at school, and is a perfect gentleman—what’s not to love about her Greek god? He’s an award-winning skier and Olympic hopeful, and he’s fallen in love with HER! But between stolen kisses, moonlight skiing and heated whispers, Adonia has the feeling Luke is keeping secrets. When she tries to get him to share, Luke clams up. Not knowing what to do, Adonia decides to back off, but has no idea that everything is about to come crashing down around her. Her love for Luke is about to be tested beyond any relationship she’s ever had! Will their love survive the test? Or will Adonia end up with nothing, just as she was starting to think she had everything?

Goodreads Monday: Priest (Priest: Book 1) by Sierra Simone

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Goodreads Synopsis

There are many rules a priest can’t break: A priest cannot marry. A priest cannot abandon his flock. A priest cannot forsake his God.

I’ve always been good at following rules. Until she came. My name is Tyler Anselm Bell. I’m twenty-nine years old. Six months ago, I broke my vow of celibacy on the altar of my own church, and God help me, I would do it again. I am a priest and this is my confession.

Priest is a standalone, full-length novel with an HEA.  For mature audiences only

Goodreads Monday: A Brush with the Moon (Foxblood: Book 1) by Raquel Lyon

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Goodreads Synopsis:

Sophie’s finally happy. Away from home & back with her best friend, she’s doing the one thing in the world she loves, art. Life’s perfect, or is it? Something’s strange about her new home. People are dying; an old house pulls her towards its doors. Sophie’s changing too; is it the recent fox bite? All becomes clear when she meets the seductive Sebastian and learns his family’s secret.