Sunday Wrap-Up #33

Sunday Wrap-Up is all about sharing the books and book related items that I’ve picked up recently. I also recap what went on last week and let you in on what’s coming up. I link up my post to Sunday Post, Bought, Borrowed & Bagged, Showcase Sunday, and Stacking the Shelves.

 
Last week on BSA:
The Concealing by D.E.L. Connor (Spotlight & Giveaway)
Fighting for Infinity by Karen Amanda Hooper (Spotlight & Giveaway)
Breakable by Tammara Webber (Review)
Stupid Girl by Cindy Miles (Review)

This week on BSA:
A Dark and Stormy Night by Suzie Quint (Review)
Stay by Allie Larkin (Review)
The Boy Who Sneaks in my Bedroom Window by Kirsty Moseley (Review)
Thoughtless by S.C. Stephens (Review)
Ghouls Rush In by H.P. Mallory (Review)

 

 

This week I went on an adventure. I looked up used bookstores in my area and found a few. You see, I was on a mission to find a fist edition Outlander by Diana Gabaldon. I love that book and currently own the first copy I read/borrowed from the library when the library put on their sale shelf, as well as the anniversary edition. Unfortunately I did not find a copy but I wound up walking away with a couple of books and a really cool wrist cuff that had me thinking of a certain character for a popular series.

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Then Came You
By: Jill Shalvis
Genre: Contemp. Romance
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Veterinary intern Emily can’t believe she wound up in the small town of Sunshine, Idaho, instead of the Los Angeles clinic she had always imagined. Now she has to put her plans to move to L.A. on hold for a whole year while she fulfills the obligation of her vet school scholarship.

Then Wyatt, her gorgeous one-night stand from a Reno vet conference, introduces himself as her new boss. And Emily is just as drawn to his seductive looks and quiet strength as she was on that very steamy night. She soon learns that Wyatt isn’t just a laid-back doctor, but a delicious alpha male tempting her away from her carefully laid-out plans…

 

 

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Straddling the Line
By: Jaci Burton
Genre: Erotic Romance
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Trevor Shay has it all—a successful football and baseball career, and any woman he wants. But when he finds out his college mentor’s daughter is in trouble, he drops everything to come to her aid.

Haven Briscoe has finally landed a dream job as a sportscaster for a major network. But she hasn’t been able to move past the recent death of her beloved father, and it’s affecting her career. A plum assignment following the daily life of sports superstar Trevor Shay might be just the inspiration she needs…

Trevor will do anything to spark life back into Haven, including letting her into every aspect of his world. The chemistry between them flames higher than one of Trevor’s home runs and faster than his dashes to the end zone. But as they grow closer, Haven stumbles onto Trevor’s closely guarded secret, one he’s hidden his entire life. And despite his protests, now it’s Haven’s turn to put everything on hold to help Trevor. Will he let her in and trust her with a secret that could blow his professional and personal world apart?

 
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Darkness Bound
By: JT Geissinger
Genre: Paranormal Romance
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Tough, smart, and seriously ambitious, reporter Jacqueline “Jack” Dolan despises the secretive clan of shape-shifters known as the Ikati—and has become determined to destroy them. After she writes an editorial arguing for their extermination and turns public opinion against them, the Ikati vow to fight back. They plot to send one of their own to seduce the reporter, then blackmail her into writing a retraction.

Women practically fall at the feet of hulking, handsome Hawk Luna, and Hawk relishes the idea of conquering and destroying the fiery redhead who’s caused so much trouble for his kind. The last thing he expects is to develop real feelings for her, but their liaison awakens a hunger in him that he cannot deny. He kidnaps Jack and brings her to his Amazon jungle colony, but the two lovers are soon embroiled in deadly colony politics and threatened by a looming global species war.

As the danger around them grows closer, Jack and Hawk’s forbidden passion may build a bridge between two ancient enemies—or cost them both their lives.

 

 

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Unleash the Night
By: Sherrilyn Kenyon
Genre: Paranormal Romance
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An orphan with no clan that will claim him, Wren Tigarian grew to adulthood under the close scrutiny and mistrust of those around him. A forbidden blend of two animals – snow leopard and white tiger – Wren has never listened to anyone when there was something he wanted. Now he wants Marguerite.

Marguerite D’Aubert Goudeau is the daughter of a prominent U.S. senator who hates the socialite life she’s forced to live. Like her mother before her, she has strong Cajun roots that her father doesn’t understand. Still, she has no choice but to try and conform to a world where she feels like an outsider. But the world of rich and powerful humans is never to meet the world of the Were-Hunters who exist side by side with them, unseen, unknown, undetected. To break this law is to call down a wrath of the highest order.

In order to have Marguerite, Wren must fight not just the humans who will never accept his animal nature, but the Were-Hunters who want him dead for endangering their world. It’s a race against time and magic without boundary that could cost Marguerite and Wren not just their lives, but their very souls…

 

 

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No Mercy
By: Sherrilyn Kenyon
Genre: Paranormal Romance
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Live fast, fight hard and if you have to die then take as many of your enemies with you as you can. That is the Amazon credo and it was one Samia lived and died by. Now in contemporary New Orleans, the immortal Amazon warrior is about to learn that there’s a worse evil coming to slaughter mankind than she’s ever faced before.

Shapeshifter Dev Peltier has stood guard at the front of Sanctuary for almost two hundred years and in that time, he’s seen it all. Or so he thought. Now their enemies have discovered a new source of power- one that makes a mockery of anything faced to date.

The war is on and Dev and Sam are guarding ground zero. But in order to win, they will have to break the most cardinal of all rules and pray it doesn’t unravel the universe as we know it.

 
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I popped into a local boutique shop while book hunting and found this awesome bracelet. I’ve been looking at ones like this on Etsy but they all look crappy and cheaply made. The second I saw it I had to have it. I didn’t even care that it was a lot of money and that I’m not really a jewelry person. It was a wrist cuff that I’d been wanting and was absolutely perfect for this book nerd.

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5 Thoughts on “Sunday Wrap-Up #33

  1. Following from the Sunday Post linkup. Love the quote at the beginning of your No Mercy synopsis. The bracelet ROCKS as well!

  2. Love the wrist cuff!
    I love searching out new bookstores. Every year I think I’m going to do a bookstore tour and visit all of them I haven’t yet been to.

  3. Kristin@Blood,Sweat and Books on 12 May, 2014 at 5:36 pm said:

    I love the cuff!! I’d rock it. Looks like you picked up some neat books this week. Love used bookstores you never know what your going to find!!

  4. I love that bracelet! Darkness Bound sounds interesting. I hope you enjoy all these! Happy Reading!
    Here are my newest additions.

  5. I’m sorry you couldn’t find the edition of Outlander you wanted, but visiting used bookstores is fun. Enjoy your books and reading, Kristin.

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