Review: These Immortal Nights (Bound by Blood, Book 2) by Kelsey McKnight

 

She invited the darkness. It answered with eternity.

Evangeline Goldyn has built her life on precision. Restoring broken homes. Controlling chaos. Believing calm is something you earn. But a midnight birthday wish shatters reality and binds her soul to something ancient, beautiful, and deadly.

Alessandro Benevoglio has survived centuries of blood, art, and obsession. A Renaissance-born vampire with a collector’s eye and a predator’s patience, he has never answered a mortal summons, that is, until Evangeline’s magic reaches through time and claims him. Their bond is instant. Unbreakable. And dangerously consuming.

From the isolation of the Pine Barrens and into the heart of New York City, the bond pushes them into a forced proximity as alluring as it is damning. But as vampire hunters close in and dark magic tightens its grip, desire turns feral, and devotion threatens to turn monstrous.

Loving him could cost her life. Leaving him could cost her soul.

In a world of immortal obsession and forbidden magic, some bonds are not meant to be broken.

Only survived.

 

My Review:

I am obsessed with this book and the series.  

It all started with a Ouija board.  It was Evangeline Goldyn’s birthday and the board was used for fun.  But it summed an ancient vampire, Alessandro Benevoglio.  Alessandro and Evangeline become bound together by a curse and don’t know if what they are feeling for each other is real or not.  The curse must be broken to reveal the truth.  But in the middle of a vampire/hunter war, when death can happen in an instant, will Alessandro and Evangeline find true love, or will it all blow away in the dust?   

This is a fast paced and entertaining book that I didn’t want to end.

 

Review: The Witch and the Time Traveler (The Daughters of Time Book 2) by Leigh Ann Edwards

 

Colonial magic, a reluctant protector, and a fire that neither can extinguish…

Darian Wyndham, a powerful fire witch descended from an ancient Celtic god, has never needed a man. As a gifted blacksmith in colonial Massachusetts, she's built a life on her own terms. But her secret magic has awakened ancient demons, each determined to destroy her and the sister witches bound to her across time.

Magnus Munro can bend time itself, a gift that makes him useful to the Celtic deities and dangerous to everyone else. When handed the unwelcome assignment of protecting the fire witch, the order is as clear as the warning: guard her but do not touch her. The command, he thinks, is simple. But he can’t heed the warning—not when the same fire burns in her eyes.

Darian is drawn to the mysterious stranger, but she refuses to surrender the independence she's fought so hard to claim. Then an ancient portal fractures time itself, hurling her into the heart of the Salem witch trials. To survive, she'll have to embrace powers she's spent her life hiding… and trust the one man she refuses to need.

Together they must defy gods, demons, and history itself before the darkness hunting the daughters of the witches of time destroys everything they are destined to protect.

 

My Review: 

Amazing storytelling. 

I couldn’t put this book down.  The story is fast paced, entertaining and unpredictable.  I enjoyed seeing Darian Wyndham, a fire witch, and her guardian/time traveler Magnus Munro’s journey to true love despite the obstacles and evil entities that stood in their way.  I also liked catching up with the other witches in the series.  I can’t wait to read the next book. 

Review: Grounded In Love (Texas Hawthorne Legacy, Book 4) by Kelly Cain

 

He’s a Texas player with a red-hot career and her best friend’s ‘baby brother.’ Definitely off-limits, right?

Donovan Hawthorne is the golden boy of the Houston oil and gas industry, a self-made powerhouse who walked away from his family’s legacy to carve his own path. Charming, successful, and infamously noncommittal, Donovan has built a reputation as a man who plays hard—both in the c-suite and in situationships.

Entrepreneur Jaymes Bandeaux has always played by the rules. For half her life, she’s harbored an unwavering and unrequited love for Donovan that she’s buried under layers of loyalty, fear of getting hurt, and knowing that if she acts on her feelings or lust, she risks far more than her heart.

But when a family emergency pulls Donovan back into the Hawthorne orbit and Jaymes’ daily life, their worlds collide. Donovan needs her help. Seeing him vulnerable cracks her steely resolve, especially when he looks at her with a scorching desire she’s utterly unprepared to fight.

As family secrets surface and personal ambitions clash, Jaymes and Donovan must decide: is love worth risking everything?

My Review:

Friends to lovers with all the “feels”. 

Should he, or shouldn’t he?  Donovan Hawthorne had been in love with Jaymes Bandeaux for a long time.  But Jaymes was his sister’s best friend and already considered part of the family.  Donovan didn’t want to ruin the family dynamics by making a move on Jaymes.  But when Donovan’s father has a stroke and Donovan and Jaymes are teamed up together to work on a charity event, there is a lot of temptation, but the risk of giving in is too high to take.  I couldn’t get enough of this book.  I enjoyed seeing how they found their way to lasting love.