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This week's Waiting on Wednesday meme is running one day early. My choice this week is easy. The cover for The Rift Walker , the second title in the Vampire Empire series by Clay and Susan Griffiths was unveiled this morning. My fingers can't type fast enough between being so stoked with the art and excited about the summary. My favorite vampire series of 2010, The Greyfriar , has another incredible cover to love! Thanks to Chris McGrath for the incredible art. Here's the summary : Princess Adele struggles with a life of marriage and obligation as her Equatorian Empire and their American Republic allies stand on the brink of war against the vampire clans of the north. However, the alliance's horrific strategy for total victory drives Adele to abandon her duty and embark on a desperate quest to keep her nation from staining its hands with genocide. Reunited with her great love, the mysterious adventurer known to the world as the Greyfriar, Adele is pursued by her own...

Teaser Tuesdays  is a weekly meme hosted by  Miz B  at  ShouldBeReading  where you randomly take two (or sometimes three) l ines from your current read and highlight them in a post. This week the three of us each have one book to put up. None are new  titles, one is a reprint with a great new cover, the other two are titles two of us have read and now the third is catching up. Our first tease is from A Girl's Guide to Vampires (Dark Ones, #1) by Katie MacAlister.   "I glanced between the two men, the fingers     of my right hand entwined with Raphael's, held strong and safe, my left hand tucked into Christian's arm. "Stop embarrassing me," I said in a low tone to Raphael. "Of course he's not interested in me that way."" Our second tease is from Mockingjay  by Suzanne Collins. ""Because I'm in pain," he says. "That's the only way I get your attention." He picks up the box. "Don't worry, K...

Reader Girls welcomes author Geraldine Solon to our blog today. Solon is the author of two picture books ( Chiwo and The Forgotten Dinosaurs ), one middle grade novel ( David and the Amethyst ), one collection ( Odes, Insights and Stories for all Seasons ), and her latest is Love Letters , an adult contemporary romance. Here is the summary for Love Letters : Bridal shop manager Chloe Rogers will soon marry Richard Foster—so she thinks—until suddenly, she bumps into her childhood sweetheart, Josh Goldman, whom she hasn’t seen in thirteen years. The sparks between Chloe and Josh fly, but Richard provides safety, financial security. Should she follow her heart or her head? The answer comes in a surprise twist. While cleaning her attic, she stumbles upon love letters written to her estranged mother forty years ago from a man she loved. When Chloe secretly brings them together again and sees how much time they’ve lost, she is challenged not to make the same mistake her mother made. Will...

Reader Girls welcomes author Brian Rowe today. Rowe is the author of two novels, his debut adult novel, Slate , and his YA novel, Happy Birthday to Me . Here's a summary for Slate: Hollywood casting director Vivien Slate thought she had it all, until coming home one day to find her husband cheating on her with a younger woman. With her marriage on the rocks, she decides it's the perfect time to recapture her sexual identity... by finding a younger man of her own. Vivien realizes she has a dating service right inside her own office-she's a casting director, after all. She devises a scenario to make the town believe her newest film project is as real as any other. She populates the cast with male characters spanning the ages of twenty to forty and begins holding auditions with hundreds of Tinseltown's most eligible bachelors.  Vivien stops at nothing to find her perfect younger man, even if it means leaving her morals behind and ultimately putting her life in danger. ...

Format: Kindle Edition File Size: 289 KB (115 pages) Publisher: Liquid Silver Books (November 15, 2010) Genre: Fantasy, urban, paranormal, werewolves, romance Summary: Love is born between strangers, yet built upon a bond soul deep―one Alpha’s vow to protect his mate from looming danger, all the while, mending her soul and stirring her wolfish desires. A vicious Werewolf attack in Plymouth, Minnesota leaves a young woman violated, bitten and now, transformed into a Werewolf. But Rynn Murphy doesn’t have to face this transformation alone—she has her mate by her side. And the charming Briggs is eager to ease her into this new life and mend her battered soul. With only weeks to adjust to her new fur, Rynn begins to understand what it truly means to be mated to the Beta, secondhand man to Valor, Patriarch of Wolves. Their leadership over the Alphas brings them in contact with the Montana Alpha, Hendrix. He is in a desperate state to find his abducted daughter. Valor and Briggs...

We are waiting on yet another YA paranormal title this week. Our pick is Legacy by Molly Cochran. Summary: When her widowed father dumps 16-year-old Katy Jessevar in a boarding school in Whitfield, Massachusetts, she has no idea that fate has just opened the door to both her future and her past. Nearly everyone in Whitfield is a witch, as is Katy herself, although she has struggled all her life to hide her unusual talents. Stuck at a boarding school where her fellow students seem to despise her, Katy soon discovers that Whitfield is the place where her mother commited suicide under mysterious circumstances when Katy was just a small child. With dark forces converging on Whitfield, it’s up to Katy to unravel her family’s many secrets to save the boy she loves and the town itself from destruction. (From Goodreads ) I know, another title about boarding schools and mysteries, but this sounds good and I'm not tired of boarding school stories. Legacy , 464 pages, will be published...

Last Sunday marked the beginning of what promises to be a fun week of giveaways and events: The Spring Blog Carnival hosted by the wonderful ladies at  Candace's Book Blog ,  Pure Imagination ,   Reading Angel,  and  The Book Swarm.  The Carnival already started and ends on Sunday, May 8th. We realized since we originally placed this Giveaway as a page (and not as a post) along with the side banner graphic, some of you might not have seen it so we decided to post it.  Check the list of other participating blogs to see what they're offering. Many blogs are running booths each day so make sure to check those out as well.  We're offering three books for three winners.  For US/Canada we will have the book shipped from Amazon or Barnes and Noble.  For international winners we will have the book shipped from The Book Depository (as long as they ship to your country-please check before entering).  Our giveaway books also happen to be o...