LUCIFER’S SIN by Lisa Renee Jones

Title:  LUCIFER’S SIN
Series:  Lucifer #1
Author:  Lisa Renee Jones
Publisher:  Julie Patra Publishing
Publish Date:  03.22.2022
Category /Genre:  Contemporary Romance
Recommended for:  18+ due to sexual content
Grammar/editing:  book received as an unedited ARC / errors excused
Received from:  Lisa Renee Jones
Goodreads link: Lucifer’s Sin
Date completed: 03.02.2022
 
Description from the publisher:
They call him Lucifer for his wild side.

She called him the man she loved, she called him Luke. But then he proved he really is worthy of his nickname. Or so she thought. Nothing is as it seemed back then.

A man with a past. The only woman he has ever loved. Someone wants her dead. That someone is about to find out that yes, he is Lucifer when you dare to threaten his woman. Even if she doesn't call herself that now. He does. But all he ever really wanted to be was Luke—the man worthy of her love.
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LUCIFER’S SIN is the first book in the Lucifer Trilogy within the Walker Security series.  This trilogy must be read in the order of release.
 
His name is Lucifer, Lucas, Luke and he is sexy, silly, protective, intense, and completely alpha.  All of that proves just how complicated he is.  Reminiscent of Shrek, he comes off at times as an ogre, but he, too, is like an onion – he has many layers.
 
The tensions – Luke’s and Ana’s past, as well as the current situation – are powerful throughout this whole story.  It just never stops. 

 
It frustrated me that the past was so slowly revealed, and yet that juxtaposed with the present with its danger, fear, simmering heat, anger, and simmering heat makes the story what it is.
 
This story is a second-chance, fiancés to enemies to lovers, suspense romance as only Lisa Renee Jones can write one.  On that note, you know if ends in a cliff-hanger, because she is the queen of cliff-hangers.  It’s perfectly placed to leave you wanting more, and I do!  I will grab the next book as soon as it’s available.
 
Note:  While I received this book as a gifted ARC, my opinions are my own and are given freely.
 
Lucifer Series:
1.      Lucifer’s Sin
2.      Lucifer’s Touch (releases 04.19.2022
3.      Lucifer’s Revenge (releases 06.21.2022)
Also from Lisa Renee Jones:
·         Amber Fire
·         Need You Now
·         A Perfect Lie
·         Play with Me
·         Purple Magic
·         Santa Baby
·         Unwrapping Holly
Brilliance Series:
1.      A Reckless Note
2.      A Wicked Song
3.      A Sinful Encore
Careless Whispers Series:
1.      Denial
2.      Demand
3.      Surrender
Dance Series:
1.      Follow My Lead
2.      Winning Moves
Dirty Money Series:
1.      Hard Rules
2.      Damage Control
3.      Bad Deeds
4.      End Game
Dirty Rich Series:
1.      Dirty Rich One Night Stand
2.      Dirty Rich Cinderella Story
3.      Dirty Rich Obsession
4.      Dirty Rich Betrayal
5.      Dirty Rich Cinderella Story, Ever After
6.      Dirty Rich Bastard (Filthy #1)
7.      Dirty Rich One Night Stand, Two Years Later
8.      Dirty Rich Obsession, All Mine
9.      The Princess (Filthy #2)
10.  The Empire (Filthy #3)
11.  His Demand (Dirtier Duet #1)
12.  Her Submission (Dirtier Duet #2)
13.  Dirty Rich Secrets, Part 1
14.  Dirty Rich Secrets , Part 2
15.  Dirty Rich Secrets, Part 3
16.  Dirty Rich Betrayal: Love Me Forever
Games Played Series:
1.      Hard and Fast
2.      Hot Target
Inside Out Series:
1.      If I Were You
2.      Being Me
3.      Revealing Us
a.       His Secrets
b.      Rebecca’s Lost Journals
c.       The Master Undone
d.      My Hunger
4.      No In Between
4.5  My Control
5.      I Belong to You
6.      All of Me
Lilah Love Series:
1.      Murder Notes
2.      Murder Girl
3.      Love Me Dead
4.      Love Kills
5.      Bloody Vows
6.      Bloody Love  
7.      Happy Death Day (releases 07.19.2022)
Naked Series:
1.      One Man
2.      One Woman
3.      Two Together
Necklace Series:
1.      What If I Never?  
2.      Because I Can  
3.      When I Say Yes
Poison Kisses Serial:
1.      Part One
2.      Part Two
3.      Part Three
Samantha Jazz Series:
1.      The Poet
2.      The Girl Who Forgot (releases 06.01.2022) 
Savage Series:
1.      Savage Hunger
2.      Savage Burn
3.      Savage Love
4.      Savage Ending  
The Secret Life of Amy Bensen Series:
1.      Escaping Reality
2.      Infinite Possibilities
3.      Forsaken
4.      Unbroken
Stepping Up Series:
1.      Follow My Lead
2.      Winning Moves
3.      Watch Me
Tall, Dark, & Deadly Series:
0.5 Secrets Exposed
1.      Hot Secrets
2.      Dangerous Secrets
2.5 One Dangerous Night
3.      Beneath the Secrets
Texas Heat Series:
1.      The Truth About Cowboys
2.      Tangled Up in Christmas
Texas Hotzone Series:
1.      Jump Start
2.      High Octane
3.      Breathless Descent
Vampire Wardens Resurrection Series:
1.      Bite Me
2.      Claim Me (releases 01.2022)
Walker Security Series:
1.      Deep Under
2.      Pulled Under
3.      Falling Under
Walker Security Adrian’s Trilogy:
1.      When He’s Dirty  
2.      When He’s Bad  
3.      When He’s Wild  
Werewolf Society Series:
1.      Wicked Werewolf Night
2.      Wicked Werewolf Secret
3.      Wicked Werewolf Passion
White Lies Series:
1.      Provocative
2.      Shameless
Zodius Series:
1.      Michael
2.      Sterling
3.      Kel
4.      Damion
 

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HER SISTER’S FRIENDS by Gia Pere

Title: HER SISTER’S FRIENDS
Series:  N/A
Author:  Gia Pere
Narrator:  Tiffany Williams
Length:  15 hours 33 minutes
Audible Release Date:  11.23.2021
Publisher:  Angela Pepper Publishing
Publish Date:  11.15.2021
Category/Genre:  Psychological Thriller, Satire
Recommended for:  18 +
Received from:  Angie Pepper (as an Audible gift)
Goodreads link:  Her Sister’s Friends
Date completed: 03.15.2022
 
Description from publisher: 
She always wanted everything her big sister had.
Evie Laurent grew up in the shadow of her perfect older sister, Luna. Since they were young girls, she’d always longed to be a part of Luna’s attractive social circle.
 
Evie gets her wish later in life when she begins dating Kyle Turner, a friend of her sister’s.
 
But Kyle is not just a grown-up version of the handsome boy he used to be. The new Kyle is secretive and controlling, going so far as trying to stop Evie from purchasing her dream home - a house that seems oddly familiar to her and Luna’s entire group of friends.
 
Evie buys the house anyway and soon discovers disturbing evidence she’s been there before. But why can’t she remember?
 
If these walls could talk, the house might tell her everything.
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HER SISTER’S FRIENDS is the second book in the Domestic Thrillers series.  This can be read as a stand-alone psychological thriller.  I only wish I had read the first book because I loved this one so much.
 
Mysteries tend to be either cozy (cute) or gory.  This is neither.  It’s hellishly realistic without the blood and guts of super-realism.
 
I loved this story.  Going back and forth in time, but at the right times to keep the story moving forward.  Filling in the blanks in Evie’s mind a little at a time, her questioning nature pushes to solve the mystery of why she feels she has previously been to a house that she bought to flip for her boss.
 
The relationships between the characters were what was really real.  Sibling rivalry, hero worship (Evie idolized her sister’s friends when she was 11), and the disappointment of finding that the adults in your life were flawed when you were a child.  We all seem to find that out when we become the failing adults!
 
This new penname for Angie Pepper / Angela Pepper is for her darker musings.  I say, “muse away!”  This was fabulous.
 
Narrator:  Tiffany Williams is always wonderful as a narrator and did a beautiful job of creating unique voices for each character (though Zoe Riddle’s voice was in there as a new character – I guess that can’t be helped.)
 
 
Domestic Thrillers Series:
1.      His Last Wife
2.     Her Sister’s Friends
 
Also from Angela Pepper:

• Funny Ladies

• Love Singer

• The Mystery of Broken Shell Island & Other Fantasy Tales

Baker Street Neighborhood Romances (written as Angie Pepper):
1.      Romancing the Flower Shop Girl
2.     Romancing the Complicated Girl 
3.     Honey, We Missed Our Honeymoon
4.    Dating the Funny Waitress
5.     Boyfriend Wanted, Must Love Dancing
6.    Handful of Peaches (Peaches Monroe’s Diary #1)
7.     Whole Lotta Peaches (Peaches Monroe’s Diary #2)
8.    Everything Is Peaches (Peaches Monroe’s Diary #3)
Diamond Files Mysteries:
1.      Girl in the Shadows
Eli Carter and the Ghost Hackers series:
1.      The Cat Who Went Bump in the Night
2.     The Ghost Who Wasn’t There
3.     The Dog Who Barked Fire
Restless Spirits series:
1.      Interview with a Ghost
2.     Date with a Ghost
3.     Dancing with a Ghost
Stormy Day Mysteries:
1.      Death of a Dapper Snowman
2.     Death of a Crafty Knitter
3.     Death of a Batty Genius
4.    Death of a Modern King
5.     Death of a Double Dipper
Wisteria Witches series:
1.            Wisteria Witches
2.           Wicked Wisteria
3.           Wisteria Wonders
4.          Watchful Wisteria
5.           Wisteria Wyverns
6.          Wolves of Wisteria (City Hall #1)
7.           Wisteria Wrinkle (City Hall #2)
8.          Wardens of Wisteria (Daybreak #1)
9.          Wisteria Warned (Daybreak #2)
10.      Wishful Wisteria (Daybreak #3)
11.        Wisteria Woven (Daybreak #4)
12.       Winter in Wisteria 
12.5 Critter Calamity
13.    Wisteria Wedding
14.    Wayward Wisteria
15.    Wisteria Wildcard
 

 
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KARMA'S STAKE by L.A. Boruff, Lacey Carter Andersen, and Helen Scott

Title:  KARMA'S STAKE
Series:  Magical Midlife in Mystic Hollow #5
Author:  L.A. Boruff, Lacey Carter Andersen, and Helen Scott
Publisher:  L.A. Boruff
Publish Date:  02.25.2022
Category /Genre:  Paranormal Romance
Recommended for:  18+ due to sexual content.
Grammar/editing:  received as an unedited ARC / errors excused.
Received from:  L.A. Boruff
Goodreads link: Karma’s Stake
Date completed: 03.11.2022
 
Description from the publisher:
For the ladies of Mystic Hollow, the stakes have never been higher...

Emma always thought her best friend just didn't want love in her life. But when a guy from her past comes walking back into their little town, she realizes the truth: her best friend never got over her first love.

Only, he's not the same shy guy from high school. He's a vampire. And he's in trouble.

As the ladies band together to solve a new mystery, Emma's connection to Mystic Hollow grows stronger through her tough bear shifter, but the secrets they uncover just might leave one of the ladies with a broken heart.

That is, if they discover the truth in time.
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KARMA'S STAKE is the sixth book in the Magical Midlife in Mystic Hollow series.  Though each does stand on its own, for maximum enjoyment and understanding read them all and in the order of release.
 
This story is full of adventure, fashion, true love, and feminine giggles.  Plus, one possessive, growly, handsome bear shifter.  I loved it.
 
Beth, Carol, Deva, and Emma (Karma) are powerful witches individually, but now that they have reunited in Mystic Hollow, they are becoming an unstoppable combination.  These women are the type that have each other’s backs no matter what, and they have magic… strong magic… to back them up.
 
This series is wonderful.  There hasn’t been a bad story in the bunch, and it just keeps moving along with a stick-to-my-seat fascination. I even loved the cliffhanger – a portend of what is to come in future books.
 
Note:  While I received this book as a gifted ARC via BookSprout, my opinions are my own and are given freely.
 
Mystic Hollow Series (with Helen Scott and Lacey Carter Andersen):
0.5 Cookies and Cover Ups (Girdles and Ghouls Anthology)
1.      Karma’s Spell 
2.      Karma’s Shift  
3.      Karma’s Spirit
4.      Karma’s Sense 
5.      Karma’s Stake 
6.      Karma’s Source (coming soon)
 
Also from L.A. Boruff:
·         Blood Moon Rising (Goddess of Virtue)
Academy’s Rise Series (with Lia Davis):
1.      Hell Fire
2.      Dark Water
3.      Dead Air
Coven’s End (with Lia Davis):
1.      Kane
2.      Voss
3.      Quin
4.      Jillian
Demons and Demigods Series (with J.L. Burns):
1.      The Devil’s Delight  
2.      Chaotic Creations (releases 03.02.2022)
3.      Divine Deviations (releases 04.13.2022)
Fanged After Forty Series (with Lia Davis):
1.      Bitten in Midlife 
2.      Staked in the Midlife 
3.      Masquerading in the Midlife
4.      Bonded in the Midlife (releases 03.23.2022)
The Firehouse Feline Series (with Laura Greenwood and Lacey Carter Andersen):
1.      Feline the Heat
2.      Feline the Flames
3.      Feline the Burn
4.      Feline the Pressure
An Immortal Midlife Series:
1.      Fatal Forty
2.      Fighting Forty 
3.      Finishing Forty
Immortal Quest Series (with J.L. Burns):
1.      Realm or Ruin
2.      Echoes of Ancients 
3.      Heart and Shadow
Immortal West Series (with Kerry Adrienne):
1.      Undead (releases 03.09.2022)
2.      Hybrid (releases 05.11.2022)
3.      Fae (releases 07.06.2022)
Lucifer’s War Series (with Lia Davis):
1.      Devil’s Consort
2.      Devil’s Assassin
Magic & Metaphysics Academy Series (with Laura Greenwood):
1.      Magical Mischief
2.      Magical Mistake
3.      Magical Misfit
Meowing Medium Series (with Molly Fitz):
1.      Secrets of the Specter  
2.      Gifts of the Ghost
3.      Pleas of the Poltergeist (releases 2022)
Midlife Mage Series (with Daphne Moore):
1.      Unveiled
2.      Unfettered  
3.      Unbowed
Prime Time of Life Series:
1.      Borrowed Time
2.      Stolen Time 
3.      Just in Time  
4.      Hidden Time 
5.      Nick of Time (releases 02.23.2022)
Shifting into Midlife Series (with Lia Davis):
1.      Pack Bunco Night
2.      Alpha Males and Other Shift (releases 03.30.2022)
Southern Soil Series:
1.      Literary Yours
2.      Snow Cure
The Tales of Clan Robbins Series:
1.      Outlaw of Ladies
2.      Princess of Thieves
3.      Alpha of Exiles
An Unseen Midlife Series:
1.      Bloom in Blood (formerly War of Fangs)
2.      Dance in the Night (formerly War of Fire)
3.      Bask in Magic (formerly War of Wings)
4.      Surrender in Dreams (releases 10.12.2022)
Valentine Pride Series (with Laura Greenwood):
1.      Unicorn Mates
2.      Unicorn Luck
3.      Unicorn Truth
4.      A Platypus and Her Wolves  
Witching After Forty Series (with Lia Davis):
1.      A Ghoulish Midlife
1.1 Cookies for Satan
1.2 I’m with Cupid
2.      A Cursed Midlife
2.1 Birthday Blunder
2.7 A Girlfriend for Mr. Snoozerton
3.      A Haunting Midlife  
4.      An Animated Midlife  
4.5 Faery Odd-Mother
5.      A Killer Midlife (releases 02.28.2022)
6.      A Grave Midlife (releases soon)
7.      A Powerful Midlife (releases soon)
8.      A Wedded Midlife (releases soon)
 

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