Here is a list of all the books I have read in November. Click the link in the title to add to your Goodreads shelf.
The Dragon Lord's Fated Mate (Dragon Chronicles #1) by Ana Calin
I'm a dragon, and I'm here on a mission.
Finding my fated mate in Acatia Riley, my target's fiancée, is the last thing I need.
The last thing I want.
And the only thing I can think about.
The more I try to stay away, the more she pulls me in. She wants me, too, but she doesn't know the beast inside.
My passion can destroy her. My lust literally burns, and she is only human.
I have to keep my distance even if it tears my guts out.
But mortal danger threatens to wipe out the world, and I'm the only one who can keep her safe. The question is, can I save her from myself?
Our rating 3.5 stars ✮✮✮✬
The Dragon's Prisoner (Dragon Chronicles #2) by Ana Calin
A dragon on a mission. A woman he can use. A game of fate that could destroy them both.
When every-woman’s-wet-dream Bastian Steel first walks into my life, it’s to use me against my ex. I’m the bastard’s only weakness, and Bastian has every intention to exploit it.
I’d tell him no, fight to resist him, really, I would, if he didn’t make me such an enticing offer. One no one could resist.
I resent the cocky bastard, but I don’t really have a choice.
Not even when he asks me to strip for him, those devilishly black eyes eating me alive.
He’s a thug, cruel and unyielding, but he’s also my master—or so he proclaimed when he took away my freedom.
Soon, I'm hooked on him. Still, I’ll die before I let it show.
I’m Vienna Marten, and I had many powerful bastards in the palm of my hand before Bastian Steel.
True, none if his caliber. None as sinfully sexy. None as darkly powerful.
But if this is a power struggle, I’ll win it, or I’ll die trying. Our rating 3 stars ✮✮✮
Claimed By Drago Wolf (Magnificent Beasts #1) by Ana Calin
Drago Wolf is a muscle-bound, cocky, leather-wearing beast. He's also a pro at what he does - kicking ass at underground fight clubs, and messing with women's heads for money. I swear I was determined to resist him, but I just couldn't. Not when those eyes like midnight wandered all over my body, and those rock-hard arms pinned my hands above my head. I was wet mid-thigh before he even kissed me.
I gave in to temptation, certain he'd just zip up and hit the road afterwards. But guess what. He emerged convinced I was The One.
Now my public image hangs by a thread. I depend on local investors to keep my dad's legacy going--medical research labs against deadly diseases. Just imagine those people finding out I'm screwing a male escort....
Drago
I came to Darkwood Falls for a gig. Some chicks paid big bucks for their frigid girlfriend to screw a leather-studded pack of muscles for her birthday. A highlight for her, nothing special for me, right?
Wrong.
Turns out, the frigid girlfriend is The One. Hell, I never even believed the ancient lore. No werewolf has met their fated mate in centuries.
But when I part Arianna Parker's thighs for the first time, all bets are off. Before I know it, I'm addicted to her. I begin stalking her, and I won't stop until she's mine.
For that I'll have to get her cheating ex, Sullivan, out of the way. He wants her back and, like me, he'll do anything to get her. Problem is, kicking his ass would only cause Arianna more trouble.
But when my own natural enemies step into the picture, putting Arianna's life in danger, the gloves are off. I'll kill them all, including their supporter Sullivan, and I'll claim Arianna for good - or I'll die trying.
Our rating 2 stars ✮✮
Taken By Nero Wolf (Magnificent Beasts #2) by Ana Calin
Princess
Imagine this. A guy slips a sex drug into my drink, and my new boss saves me. Now my boss is the only one around to scratch my itch, but that's a big no no.
You see, my boss is an alpha werewolf that women swoon over, a handsome beast that I'll mean nothing to. Yet the drug has gotten to my head. I'm dying to feel his big werewolf dick inside of me, and I'll beg if I have to. But when I wake up the next day....
I wish the ground would split open and swallow me. How could I let Nero Wolf bang me on the hood of his Porsche like that? And what the heck am I hoping for now? He can never be mine, and not only because he roams the woods as a big black beast with golden eyes at night. But because he zipped up, and won't look back.
Only he does. He says there's an evil plot behind the drug in my drink, the hand of a villain, and he wants to know--who and why? He's cool and reserved as we work together, but he goes ballistic when a new guy makes a move. I can't help wondering.... If our night together was nothing to him, why is he glaring at men around me like he could rip them apart?
Nero
The choice was simple - bang Princess Skye, or watch her die. I had many women before her, and she shouldn't have been special.
But the moment I dipped myself inside of her, the world tilted. Now it's enough to catch a whiff of her, and I grow hard. I lurk outside her door at night, breathing in her scent and jerking off. Damn, how I want to make her mine for good, but as alpha of my pack and protector of this town I have powerful enemies. They'd hunt her down and kill her. I have to turn my back on her, but....
Someone had a deadly sex drug put in her drink, and I have to protect her until we find out who and why. But the more I'm around her, the more I crave her. I might save her from the villain who manipulated her drink, but in the meanwhile I'll become an infection in her life. Soon I realize - she'll have to kill me to ever be free of me again.
Protected By Conan Wolf (Magnificent Beasts #3) by Ana Calin
Janine
Conan Wolf is a huge guy with boulder-like muscles and a scarred face, who just proclaimed himself my bodyguard. He looks more like a warlord, but I guess that's part of the package, right?
I'm one of the Fated Females of Darkwood Falls, which makes me a target for the bad guys, so I'm not exactly surprised the werewolves ruling this town want to keep an eye on me. But when I get an invitation to Europe from a Venice werewolf Lord, I have to wonder--why does he want to meet me of all people, and why do I get his letter on the very day Conan became my bodyguard?
One thing is clear, I can't travel to Europe without my protector. But by the time we land on the other side of the world I'm already crushing hard on him. I'm hoping for a one-night stand, at least, but Conan is a battle-hardened bastard with a cold heart, and maybe I should just accept that. But, if he doesn't want me, why does he stare at me the way he does?
Conan
A rich needy bachelorette. That's what I thought Janine Kovesi was until the pack made it my job to protect her. Nothing special at first. I'm centuries old, and I've met so many women nothing can impress me anymore. But, against all odds, Janine is different. The more I stare at her, the less I can look away. The mystery of those cobalt blue eyes pulls me in.
Damn it, I can't let this happen, I can't imprint on her. I would need her like air then, I'd crave her like a madman, I'd become weak. And I'm responsible for the defense of the entire pack, I can't afford to be weak. I need to stay focused, hard, cold.
But then the tables turn, and I have to make a choice. Either I imprint on her, or another man does--a man with an agenda to misuse her hidden superpower, and force my own dark secret up to light. A secret that's bound to destroy someone once it claws its way back up from where I buried it--me or Janine.
Our rating 3 stars ✮✮✮
Achilles Wolf is bad news. He's the youngest of the Wolf brothers, and cocky as f*ck.
And who can blame him? He's a mean ass shifter bursting with testosterone, used to the favors of older rich ladies and young floozies alike. I'd never give such a man satisfaction. But as destiny will have it, I need him. With my ex husband dead, I want to take over his seat in the Council and find out who had him murdered. I need Achilles' protection, and with him as my bodyguard 24/7, resisting him gets harder. No. I'll die at the hands of my enemies before I let this wolf become my Achilles' heel.
Achilles
Protecting the rich widow Melanthe Skye is nothing but a job to me. At first. Melanthe is a cold beauty with enough strength of character to crush a king, and yet there's something deliciously vulnerable about her. F*ck, I want to possess that beauty. I want to see this woman kneel in front of me, submit to me. The Ice Queen, giving in to her knight. I promise that I'll submit her to my lust if it's the last thing I do. And when I'm done, and her enemies are dead, I'll claim the ultimate prize. I'll have her do the one thing she swore she'd never do.
Our rating 3 stars ✮✮✮
The Dog Share by Fiona Gibson
Suzy Medley is having a bad day…
… when a shabby terrier turns up at her door. Just like Suzy, Scout has been abandoned, although only Suzy has been left with a financial mess and a business in tatters thanks to her ex.
Suzy takes Scout in and her chaotic world changes in unexpected ways: strangers have never been more welcoming and her teenage kids can’t wait to come home to visit.
Then a chance encounter on a windy Hebridean beach makes things more complicated, because Suzy isn’t the only one who needs a friend.
Scout has plenty of love to go round… but does Suzy?
Our rating 4 stars ✮✮✮✮
Hold Back The Tide by Melinda Salisbury
Everyone knows what happened to Alva's mother, all those years ago. But when dark forces begin to stir in Ormscaula, Alva has to face a very different future - and question everything she thought she knew about her past...
Our rating 4 stars ✮✮✮✮
Prince Of Midnight (Dracula's Bloodline #1) by Ana Calin
Let me tell you a secret - Dracula had a brother. This is true. They called him Radu the Handsome, but his beauty was deceiving, and it hid a deadly secret...
With high ambitions as a journalist, Juliet Jochs travels to the Carpathians to investigate a mysterious and unnaturally beautiful prince. She suspects that he's a dangerous man, and that this mission may cost her life. But, as the prince's masks begin to peel off, she fears she may lose her sanity.
Prince Radek's dark powers suck Juliet into a whirl of hypnotic desire--no woman has ever resisted his lures. But something is different about her, special, and he's growing dangerously addicted to her. She must keep her head above the water if she is to save herself, run away and not look back before he consumes her completely. But can she resist opening the last door to his most terrible secret?
Our rating 3 stars ✮✮✮
Prince Of Obsession (Dracula's Bloodline #2) by Ana Calin
Carpathian prince Radek the Handsome no longer turns into a monster at nightfall. But does that make him any less wicked than his brother, Lord Dracula?
Three nights before their wedding, reporter Juliet Jochs storms out of Prince Radek’s castle, determined never to return. Five years later, she makes a terrible discovery—the true reason why Radek broke her heart, and its connection to Dracula.
The Prince and Juliet meet face to face again when he comes on business to her city. He tries to keep cool when she probes his shady dealings, but his craving for her grows obsessive and even dangerous, striking with a vengeance after their time apart. Stalking her from behind mirrors at night, he can barely contain his lust. But can he afford to lose control now that he’s so close to attaining the very goal for which he sacrificed Juliet years ago?
Our rating 3.5 stars ✮✮✮✬
Dracula exists.
For centuries he's been lurking in the underworld, searching for the one woman whose blood can make him invincible--
Dracula's Grail.
A shadow stalks librarian Ruxandra Len, a demonic power from a past she can't remember. Intrigued when she discovers that her bloodline leads back to the notorious Prince Dracula, she travels to the Carpathians to learn more. But what she finds is a truth darker than legend.
The Prince of Blood fascinates Rux. His dark energy weaves a web of enchantment around her, making her crave him. But just as the Dark Lord thinks she's ready to surrender her blood, the deepest shadow of her past emerges. Can Vlad Dracula defeat an even older, darker legend, and protect the woman who means the world to him in more ways than he likes to admit?
Our rating 3 stars ✮✮✮
Prince Of The Damned (Dracula's Bloodline #5) by Ana Calin
Lord Vlad Dracula has just one weakness--his wife, Ruxandra.
So when a mysterious vampire tries to assassinate her, Vlad tears his throat open. But the vampire's blood starts a strange process in Lord Dracula's body, enhancing his killer instincts and making him dangerous even to the one woman he'd die for--Rux.
Dracula changes, his inner demons boiling to the surface--control, jealousy, bloodlust. His desire for Rux grows dangerous and suffocating, and his thirst for blood insatiable. Rux must unmask the invisible foe that drives her husband ever deeper into darkness, before his evil plan makes Dracula self-destruct. The question is--will she survive long enough to do it?
Our rating 3.5 stars ✮✮✮✬
Tristan DeKnight is Lord Dracula's left hand. He's hard, ruthless, and never fails in his missions. But when he's sent to deliver a secret potion to Isolde Serpaint, Dracula's extended family, things go terribly wrong.
Tristan meets Isolde's abusive husband, Mark, and all bets are off - they've met before, and they owe each other a debt of blood. Problem is, Tristan is trapped among Mark's men, a lone vampire among serpents. To make things worse, circumstances force him and Isolde to drink the love potion that was meant for someone else. Soon, they are sucked into a forbidden love affair that may cost them both their lives.
Our rating 3 stars ✮✮✮
There's a fine line between hate and love.
The seductress vampire Irina turned young scholar Lazarus into a vampire many years ago. He hates her for it, but now they're forced to work together on a mission to discover the secret to human immortality. Yet as Lazarus goes discovering Irina's terrible past and what turned her into a princess of seduction centuries ago, the line between hate and love blurs dangerously. Can Lazarus save Irina's doomed soul, or will he go down with it?
Dracula's son is one the most dangerous vampires that ever walked the Earth. They call him Michael the Bad because the only thing that matches his wicked good looks is his vicious nature. Every creature of the Underworld knows better than to cross him, but Angelique Serrano is only human. Now he's got a score to settle with her - but will he do it when he realizes that she's the key to destroying his oldest and most dangerous enemy?
Our rating 3.5 stars ✮✮✮✬
Vampire prince Michael the Bad has a reputation—his breathtaking looks, his force, his control. But there’s a part of him that’s very different. A hell spawn lurks inside him, one that he’d rather keep forever dormant. But the time has come for Michael to face his strongest enemy, and for that he needs to become the beast.
Problem is, the beast will demand something in return—to consume Michael’s fated mate, Angelique Serrano.
In order to win against his oldest enemy, Michael has to give himself completely over to the demon, and sacrifice Angelique to its dark desires. If he doesn’t, the war is lost, along with both their lives. Will Michael the Bad find a way to save his lover, or will he give in to evil, and forever become The Devil’s Son?
Our rating 3 stars ✮✮✮
Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden’s wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to seek the truth. He hires Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently trapped by a libel conviction, to investigate. He is aided by the pierced and tattooed punk prodigy Lisbeth Salander. Together they tap into a vein of unfathomable iniquity and astonishing corruption.
An international publishing sensation, Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo combines murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue into one satisfyingly complex and entertainingly atmospheric novel.
Our rating 5 stars ✮✮✮✮✮
How did you two meet?
The quintessential question asked to every couple. And the answer is usually some bubbly, lovey dovey tale of being struck in the bum by Cupid’s arrow.
My meet cute (well not so meet cute) is slightly different. I was trolling a wealthy neighborhood in Beverly Hills, searching for someone to take me as their bride, you know, to make my arch nemesis jealous who consequently just fired me.
He was stomping around the block like some sort of gorgeous ogre, mumbling about a business deal gone wrong and attempting to finagle his way out of it.
And that's when we bumped into each other.
There were no sparks.
Not even a hint of blossoming love.
But next thing I knew, I was scarfing down free chips and guac, listening to this man lay out all of his problems which led to his big ask . . . he wanted me to be his Vivian Ward, you know, from Pretty Woman--minus the frisky behavior.
We're talking about living in a mansion, intimate double dates, and pretending we were head over heels in love . . . and engaged. Can you imagine?
The absolute audacity.
But people do crazy things when they’re desperate. And I reeked of desperation. So, I struck up a deal.
My one big mistake, though . . . big . . . HUGE? I accidentally fell for the incomparable Huxley Cane.
Our rating 4 stars ✮✮✮✮
“Our Dragon doesn’t eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley. We hear them sometimes, from travelers passing through. They talk as though we were doing human sacrifice, and he were a real dragon. Of course that’s not true: he may be a wizard and immortal, but he’s still a man, and our fathers would band together and kill him if he wanted to eat one of us every ten years. He protects us against the Wood, and we’re grateful, but not that grateful.”
Agnieszka loves her valley home, her quiet village, the forests and the bright shining river. But the corrupted Wood stands on the border, full of malevolent power, and its shadow lies over her life.
Her people rely on the cold, driven wizard known only as the Dragon to keep its powers at bay. But he demands a terrible price for his help: one young woman handed over to serve him for ten years, a fate almost as terrible as falling to the Wood.
The next choosing is fast approaching, and Agnieszka is afraid. She knows—everyone knows—that the Dragon will take Kasia: beautiful, graceful, brave Kasia, all the things Agnieszka isn’t, and her dearest friend in the world. And there is no way to save her.
But Agnieszka fears the wrong things. For when the Dragon comes, it is not Kasia he will choose.
"She went home with someone else that night?"
Hearing the disbelief from my best friend's mouth makes the events of my failed date sting that much more.
I would like to make it known, I have a lot more swagger than what it seems. I don't normally ask a girl out, have her fail to recognize it's a date, and then give me a high five--as if I'm her wingman--and take off with someone else.
No. Normally I'm the one taking the girl home but with Stella, it's been one failed attempt after another and frankly, I'm done trying.
But thanks to my best friend getting married in Hawaii right before the school year starts, I'm stuck on a tropical island, watching Stella parade around in what she claims is a bathing suit.
Unfortunately, that's not the worst of it, just the tip of the iceberg. Because what I think is going to be a relaxing vacation, avoiding the one girl I can't seem to make it work with, has turned into a spectacle of being recruited as Stella's doting fake fiancé so she can save face with an old "friend" from high school.
Now I'm navigating through purgatory while trying not to get turned on by the way she holds my hand or kisses my jaw. It's all fake, that's what I keep telling myself, even though it feels entirely too real.
All synopsis taken from Goodreads or Amazon
