January’s Must Read

“Follow me,” he invites, “into the deepest, darkest parts. Where there are no limits, and all the best girls turn bad.”

When her father is killed and her mother marries a man she barely knows, Ali’s precisely planned future falls apart. Until now, her careful life has always stayed within the lines.

Thrust into a world without boundaries, her reality blurs further when she finds herself craving the attention of the one person that scares her the most.

Torn between light and dark, how long can Ali play his dangerous game, knowing full well there aren’t any rules?

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Never meet your heroes—especially if they’re dead.
Dantess wants to follow in the footsteps of his dead grandfather—a legendary priest of War—but his father forbids it. In fact, his father’s hatred of War lands him in a cell within the god’s temple.
The only way to free him is from the inside, so Dantess must choose: let his father die or defy his upbringing, become a priest, and win his father’s freedom in the temple’s deadly Game of War.
Torn between the legacies of his father and grandfather, Dantess finds that both paths hide secrets that threaten to destroy everything he cares about, including his sanity.
Percy Jackson enters the Game of Thrones in what reviewers are calling, “one hell of an action-packed thrill ride.” It’s a don’t-miss page-turner full of mysterious magic, crafty competitions, and plenty of pirates!

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Seth is a vampire. Payton is a blood slave, and he just bought her at an auction.

They call them the Blood Auctions, where vampires auction off their blood slaves to the highest bidders.

That’s fine. That’s the way of the new world. It’s run by vampires, filled with vampires, and controlled by vampires.
And the humans? Well, they’re just the food in more ways than one. They are kept as slaves to satisfy every bloodsuckers’ deepest desire.

Except for Payton …

There’s something different about her. Something that has Seth Hayden, Vampire King of the North, paying more attention than he should and offering up the highest bid.

If you like dark paranormal romance, in a dystopian world, with a slow burn romance and many, many secrets to unravel, this is for you. Skin Trade is a full-length novel and is season one of the Skin trade series. It ends on a cliff-hanger and is recommended for 18+ due to the language, gore and sexual situations.

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When creature-of-habit news editor Jenny McBeth is suddenly given a coveted promotion she is not qualified for, she finds herself thrust into a motley news crew and sent to an island off the coast of Australia. Her task: to hunt down the truth behind the British Royal family’s disappearance, whose plane lost contact over the uncharted territory. Shortly after arriving, the group realizes something is amiss, and soon it is they who become the hunted in a struggle of deception and survival.

Offshore, a group of thieves aboard a luxury cruise ship must escape to the island, unleashing unforeseen horrors; for what was once thought to be nothing more than fiction is very, very real as a well-intentioned medical experiment casts a novel virus upon the world, rapidly spreading among the island’s native tribe. A battle humankind has never known has begun, and a cure must be found before all succumb to the infected.

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