Another wonderful review for MUST LOVE VAMPIRES!

5 stars from Fang-tastic Books—yaaaaaay!  And I love this one, because she sums up the tone of my paranormals so beautifully…& in a way I sometimes have trouble describing on my own:

This has to be the sweetest vampire romance I’ve ever read.

Heidi Betts has taken vampire romance to a different level. She’s taken out the darkness and death and given us what we really crave in a romance novel—the romance.

This is a classic romance novel—the sexy main man (men in this case, since this is two stories in one) are everyday guys—who just happen to have fangs, drink blood, and have a tendency to get third degree burns if a stray ray of sunlight touches their skin.

And it was wonderful.

What a refreshing escape from all the darkness and death that usually comes with any paranormal romance or urban fantasy. Someone is always running form someone else, there’s a bad guy or guys, power struggles, and death—lots of it.

Betts strips away all that and leaves us with the basics. Man + woman + inner doubts and conflicts = standard romance with a fangy bonus.

In story one Charlotte (aka Chuck) is a journalist on a case that could make her career. She’s out to prove Las Vegas mogul Sebastian Raines is a vampire. To do this she has to get close to him. Thankfully her twin sister Chloe is a showgirl at his casino, one night she takes Chloe’s spot- and gets to closer to Sebastian than she ever thought possible.

Sebastian is out to prove that Chloe, who happens to be involved with his younger brother Aidan, is just a gold digger out for his money. He abducts who he thinks is Chloe to probe her for information. Too bad he finds himself inexplicably attracted to her much to his chagrin considering this is his brother’s girl. Or so he thinks when he glamours her. Too bad that goes kinda wrong, too.

In the second part of the book, Chloe is using her night off productively with Aidan. In the light of day though a few things are revealed that make her wonder if she was wise in her choice. But hey she had kept a secret from Aidan too so they were even, right?

But how would their secrets affect their life together?

In the end did they hit the jackpot or gamble everything away?

There’s humor (I giggled out loud several times), steaminess, and a few of those heart-stopping moments that make us crave romance novels.

Heidi Betts hit the jackpot with a sweet romance, that just happens to contain fangs.

:dancingbat   Whoo-hoo! Thank you so much, Roxanne!  That is one for the scrapbook, for sure.

Where To Buy

Amazon :: Kindle ebook :: Barnes & Noble :: NOOK ebook

Borders :: Indiebound

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It’s all fun & games until someone gets a paper cut.

How about some Dungeon fun & games today?

Sadly, all of Mistress Heidi‘s whips & chains are currently in use, so we’ll have to come up with something else. :fanglips

But here’s a game I thought a bunch of romance readers would get a kick out of…

I’m going to list all the letters of the alphabet—you know, in case you aren’t familiar with them *snicker*—& for each one, I want you to come up with a great name for a romance novel hero. :vamp

But here’s the catch—you’re not allowed to think about it, talk to anyone else, or go skim through your TBR pile.  It has to be a quick, stream-of-consciousness thing.  You may, however, jot the letters/names down on a piece of paper or cut-&-paste the alphabet into the Comment section before you start.  I’m not sure I could do it my memory, either. :jack

And remember, they shouldn’t be just any male names, but really good Romance Novel Hero names!

Okay…

Ready?

Set.

Go!

A_____

B_____

C_____

D_____

E_____

F_____

G_____

H_____

I_____

J_____

K_____

L_____

M_____

N_____

O_____

P_____

Q_____

R_____

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U_____

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Y_____

Z_____

Here are my Romance Novel Hero name choices, but no peeking until after you’ve compiled & posted your own list! :bat2

Adam … Boone … Chase (bonus points if you can name the book I already used this hero name for :fanglips ) … Dane … Ethan (ditto bonus points) … Flynn … Gregor … Heath … Ian (ditto bonus points) … Jack … Kane … Logan … Mac … Nathan … Owen … Peter (ditto bonus points) … Quinn … Rand(all) … Sam … Trace … U (fail!) … V (fail again!) … Wade (ditto bonus points) … Xavier … Y (I’m such a freaking failure! :ohcrap ) … Zane

Okay, so I couldn’t come up with decent hero names for all of them, at least not on the fly, but I think I did pretty well.

How about you?  Did you beat me (the romance author, for heaven’s sake! :show )—& think of fantastic hero names for every single letter of the alphabet?

I can’t wait to see what everyone comes up with! :play

Happy Sunday, everybody!

Don’t forget that it’s Daylight Saving Time once again, so we all need to faaaaaaaall back.  And change our clocks to match. *snicker*  (At least this time we gain an hour, huh?)

So this week, I would like to dedicate my Happy Sunday post to thanking all of my wonderful friends & readers who took a moment (or two) out of their lives to think of me after my recent surgery.  I AM HAPPY I have all of you!

THANK YOU to my good friend Shannon, who sent balloons & stuffed animals to my hospital room.  I need more stuffed animals like I need another hysterectomy, but I luuuuuurv them so much!  She told me later that she told the woman at the gift shop that I love animals & to send me something really cute.  And, boy, did they succeed.

(That’s Cobbler in the front; then the kitty Shannon sent me after my jaw surgery on the left; Truffles on the right…my real live Simon behind them doing his very best E.T. impression *vbg*; & even farther back are black-&-white Harley & solid black Pekoe, snuggled so close together you can’t even see their heads. LOL)

The minute I saw them, I grabbed Truffles (the brown puppy), tucked my arm around him, & slept with him the whole night long.  Cobbler, the kitty, got the same treatment the next night. :fanglips

THANK YOU to Darling Mary, Darling Hollie, Darling Barb, & author friend Darlene Gardner for the wonderful Get Well cards.  They were sweet & funny, & definitely cheered me up when I was feeling less than chipper!

THANK YOU to Darling Pam, who sent me a lovely Care Package, which was waiting for me when I got home from the hospital.  I may have been feeling like crud scraped off the bottom of my shoe, & all I wanted to do was take a pain killer & go to sleep, but I couldn’t resist opening the box right away to see what was inside.  And what fun it was!

(Worst picture ever, by the way.  Either I was shaky from the drugs, or my camera sucks.  Darling Pam says the card in the center—of the uber-hot centerfold chick—is Mistress Heidi.  Mistress Heidi & I concur.  And the card on the right, of the peach roses (wonder if she knows peach roses are my favorite *g*) is from Darling Mary—who has actually sent me about three Get Well cards, but that was the first, & also the only other I’d gotten so far, which is why it made it into the pic. :fangsmiley )

My only complaint is that just about all of Darling Pam‘s prezzies made me chuckle & that did not feel good so soon after the surgery.  (Very cruel of you to make me suffer like that, Darling Pam.  Mistress Heidi is so proud. :elvira )

THANK YOU to Darling Jessica for sending me a batch of her world-famous vegan chocolate chip cookies.  Yes, she gave me the recipe a while back so I could make some for myself, & I even ran out & bought all the ingredients.  But I haz a terminal case of the lazies & have never gotten around to it.  So thank you, Darling Jess for being sympathetic to my condition.  The cookies were delish (& I swear, if you didn’t know they were vegan, you would never know they were vegan!) & definitely helped me feel better.  Well, if you don’t count the fat girl guilt I suffer for every caloric indulgence. :vampire

THANK YOU to my wonderful Harlequin Desire editor, Charles, for not only cutting me enough slack to have the surgery to begin with & enjoy a comfortable recovery rather than rushing to get back to work, but for sending me possibly the cutest book ever, Crafting with Cat Hair.  Okay, as soon as I saw it, I laughed out loud…which, again, did not feel all that great—bad editor!…but it’s actually really interesting, & the author has come up with some truly adorable & creative things to make with kitteh fur.  I also love the note Charles included:  “Now might be a great time to take up a new, low-impact hobby!”  He-he.  I told him that if I do, he’ll be the first recipient of one of my cat-hair creations.  The only question is, which cat should I brush first? :eyeseeyou

THANK YOU to international reader Joanna Lee, whom I recently “met” through Twitter because she was bragging up TANGLED UP IN LOVE & I’m a complete sucker for praise & adulation. :spidey

She didn’t even know about my surgery (I don’t think), but sent me a very cool package all the way from Scotland that I have no problem pretending was a Get Well gift. :coffin   Especially since, in addition to some very cool Scottish postcards & magnets, she sent me a super-sexy Scottish mouse pad & coaster.  Ooh-la-la.  (Or whatever the Scottish equivalent might be. :show )

Please don’t be offended, Joanna, but I don’t think I’ll ever actually use these items as anything more than decoration.  I don’t want to risk bringing a single blemish to those sexy Scottish buttocks.

I think that’s everyone, but HUGE apologies if I’ve missed anyone.  If I have, I promise that when I discover my faux pas, I shall make it up to you somehow, some way. :hubba

Well, maybe not that way but somehow.

THANK YOU again to EVERYBODY for thinking of me & making my recovery a little less painful.

That was a long one, but we still want to hear what you’re thankful for this week! So get the ball rolling—share, share, share!

And we mustn’t forget to announce our latest Free Book Friday winner, who will receive a copy of Suzanne Brockmann’s Forever Blue:

:dancingbat Lois J. Bates!!! :dancingbat

Congratulations, Lois! :drinkonme Please contact me with your mailing information, & I’ll get your book out to you as soon as I can!