Five days left for March and as I look at the books I'm currently enjoying I can see completing three, maybe 4. We'll see. I received a book in the mail yesterday, by a new author for me. I'll provide the synopsis for it. I'll also continue with my latest theme - Women Authors I'm Enjoying, a fantasy author this time.
New Books
"'Little escapes the notice of Mrs Olivia Strode, the well-known local historian,' teased her son. But the joke came only too true. Even before the body was discovered below Monk's Leap, Olivia found herself caught up in the fringes of blackmail. Chief Detective-Inspector Tom Pollard was to discover that the blackmailer had got the wrong end of the stick, but the blackmailer had to die -- for a start."
Women Authors I Enjoy - Kelley Armstrong
Kelley Armstrong is a Canadian Fantasy writer from Sudbury, Ontario, born their in 1968. I've highlighted Armstrong's work in a previous look at Science Fiction / Fantasy novels. She's written many series but I've been reading through her Women of the Otherworld series. It was made into an entertaining Canadian TV series, Bitten, which both Jo and I enjoyed watching. I've read 3 stories so far and have three still sitting on my bookshelf. I'll provide the synopsis of those stories.
Kelley Armstrong
"Former supernatural
superpower Eve Levine has broken all the rules. But she’s never broken a
promise—not even during the three years she’s spent in the afterworld.
So when the Fates call in a debt she gave her word she’d pay, she has no
choice but to comply.
For centuries one of the ghost world’s
wickedest creatures has been loosed on humanity, thwarting every attempt
to retrieve her. Now it has fallen to Eve to capture this demi-demon
known as the Nix, who inhabits the bodies of would-be killers,
compelling them to complete their deadly acts. It’s a mission that
becomes all too personal when the Nix targets those Eve loves
most—including Savannah, the daughter she left on earth. But can a
renegade witch succeed where a host of angels have failed?"
"Meet the smart, sexy — supernatural — women of the otherworld. This is not your mother’s coven...
Kelley
Armstrong returns with the eagerly awaited follow-up to Dime Store
Magic. Paige Winterbourne, a headstrong young woman haunted by a dark
legacy, is now put to the ultimate test as she fights to save innocents
from the most insidious evil of all.. . .
In the aftermath of
her mother’s murder, Paige broke with the elite, ultraconservative
American Coven of Witches. Now her goal is to start a new Coven for a
new generation. But while Paige pitches her vision to uptight
thirty-something witches in business suits, a more urgent matter
commands her attention.
Someone is murdering the teenage
offspring of the underworld’s most influential Cabals — a circle of
families that makes the mob look like amateurs. And none is more
powerful than the Cortez Cabal, a faction Paige is intimately acquainted
with. Lucas Cortez, the rebel son and unwilling heir, is none other
than her boyfriend. But love isn’t blind, and Paige has her eyes wide
open as she is drawn into a hunt for an unnatural-born killer. Pitted
against shamans, demons, and goons, it’s a battle chilling enough to
make a wild young woman grow up in a hurry. If she gets the chance."
"Paige Winterbourne was always either too young or too rebellious to succeed her mother as leader of one of the world's most powerful elite organizations- the American Coven of Witches. Now that she is twenty-three and her mother is dead, the Elders can no longer deny her. But even Paige's wildest antics can't hold a candle to those of her new charge- an orphan who is all too willing to use her budding powers for evil... and evil is all too willing to claim her. For this girl is being pursued by a dark faction of the supernatural underworld. They are a vicious group who will do anything to woo the young, malleable, and extremely powerful neophyte, including commit murder- and frame Paige for the crime. It's an initiation into adulthood, womanhood, and the brutal side of magic that Paige will have to do everything within her power to make sure they both survive."
I'm sure you'll enjoy if you check out Armstrong's stories. The complete listing of Armstrong's books can be found at this link.
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