Larissa Ione, Alexandra Ivy, Jacquelyn Frank, and G.A. Aiken. Kensington/Zebra, $7.99 mass market (368p) ISBN 978-1-4201-0988-7
Four well-known authors team up in this uneven paranormal anthology. Ione's "Vampire Fight Club," set in her popular Demonica world, sets a romance in the shadowy underworld of organized supernatural fight clubs. This strong offering shows off tight
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Hannah Howell, Alexandra Ivy, and Kaitlin O'Riley, Kensington, $15 trade paper (304p) ISBN 9780758247377
This trio of vampire romances starts off strong with Howell's "Highland Blood," a compelling and complex tale of a scattered clan of half-vampire children who must be rescued by humans who fear and loathe them. Adeline Dunbar, feared as a witch but...
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Kat Martin, Alexandra Ivy, and Rebecca Zanetti. Zebra, $8.99 mass market (304p) ISBN 978-1-4201-5418-4
When criminal Deke Mitchell robs a Denver, Colo., bank, he leaves a trail of love in his wake in this riveting anthology of interconnected romantic suspense novellas. Ivy’s “Redemption” reunites police detectives Tessa Ralston and Ian Sullivan, the...
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Kat Martin, Alexandra Ivy, and Rebecca Zanetti. Zebra, $7.99 mass market (360p) ISBN 978-1-4201-5114-5
The three novellas featured in this high-octane romantic suspense anthology form a captivating whole. Martin’s “Against the Heart” introduces Meri Jones, a single mother working to keep her four-year-old daughter, Lily, safe from her abusive ex....
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Lisa Jackson, Alexandra Ivy, and Lisa Childs. Zebra, $9.99 mass market (416p) ISBN 978-1-4201-5363-7
These three flawed romantic suspense novellas are linked by a fun but underutilized central conceit: that all three heroines are alumnae of the same exclusive Austrian boarding school. In Jackson’s “Retribution,” young Lucy Champagne witnesses an...
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Alexandra Ivy. Kensington/Zebra, $7.99 mass market (320p) ISBN 978-1-4201-2271-8
Though classically styled, with plenty of brooding, mysterious gentlemen, Ivy’s Immortal Rogues Regency trilogy starter (first published in 2003 as by Debbie Raleigh) stumbles over tired vampire stereotypes. The vampire Nefri used a magic Medallion...
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Alexandra Ivy. Kensington/Zebra, $7.99 mass market (352p) ISBN 978-1-4201-1137-8
Ivy’s ninth Guardians of Eternity paranormal (after Bound by Darkness) features two Weres challenged by themselves as much as they are by evil forces. Imprisoned by a demon lord for nearly all of her life and “compelled by the visions that consumed...
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Alexandra Ivy. Kensington/Zebra, $7.99 mass market (352p) ISBN 978-1-4201-2514-6
Bestseller Ivy (the Guardians of Eternity series) launches her new Sentinels series with a romance between sensitive diviner Callie Bowen and brash Kansas City, Kans., cop Duncan O’Conner. Callie usually resides in the protected dome called Valhalla,
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Alexandra Ivy. Kensington/Zebra, $7.99 mass market (352p) ISBN 978-1-4201-3755-2
Prolific Ivy (Burned by Darkness) introduces an intimidatingly hot set of protagonists for her new contemporary romantic thriller series. The five men of Houston’s Ares Security are as much a brotherhood as a tightly functioning team, after their...
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Alexandra Ivy. Zebra, $7.99 mass market (352p) ISBN 978-1-4201-3757-6
Ivy’s second Ares Security romantic thriller (after Kill Without Mercy) hits the sweet spot for readers who like their alpha males extremely but not preternaturally competent and driven to protect the women they love, and their heroines strong and...
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Alexandra Ivy. Zebra, $7.99 mass market (409p) ISBN 978-1-4201-4377-5
Ivy (Charred by Darkness) sets up a satisfying mystery in this standalone contemporary romantic thriller. Heron, Mo., along the banks of the Mississippi River, is a typical Midwestern small town, but heavy flooding breaching the levees has brought...
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Alexandra Ivy. Zebra, $7.99 mass market (364p) ISBN 978-1-4201-4381-2
Ivy’s newest contemporary romantic thriller (following Pretend You’re Safe) begins ominously in an isolated cabin in the Rocky Mountains, where Carmen Jacobs has escaped for the Christmas holidays. It’s supposed to be a place to relax and unwind...
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Alexandra Ivy. Zebra, $7.99 mass market (363p) ISBN 978-1-4201-4379-9
Suspense and romance are uneasy partners in Ivy’s uneven rural Oklahoma thriller (following 2018’s What Are You Afraid Of?). Defense attorney Ellie Guthrie is still in the early stages of establishing her own law firm in the small town of Curry,...
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Alexandra Ivy. Kensington, $7.99 e-book (256p) ISBN 978-1-5161-1094-0
Ivy’s multilayered and action-packed 16th Guardians of Eternity paranormal romance (after Conquer the Darkness) follows rowdy, badass ghost Chaaya, who’s been dead for centuries and causes trouble wherever she goes, despite the best efforts of her...
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Alexandra Ivy. Zebra, $8.99 mass market (352p) ISBN 978-1-4201-5142-8
The latest romantic thriller from Ivy (the Agency series) suffers from a formulaic love story and a lackluster supporting cast, but nevertheless manages to build to an exciting and largely satisfying conclusion. Kir Jansen returns to his small...
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Alexandra Ivy. Zebra, $8.99 mass market (352p) ISBN 978-1-4201-5550-1
For the tense fourth Pike, Wisconsin romantic suspense novel (after Unstable), Ivy spins a fast-paced tale of a small Wisconsin town with dark secrets and the unlikely couple determined to learn the truth. As a teenager on the way to a party, Lia...
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Alexandra Ivy, Author . Zebra $6.99 (349p) ISBN 978-0-8217-7937-8
Part human, part Shalott demon—the feared assassins of the demon race—bronze-skinned, golden-eyed beauty Lady Shay has blood that's a potent mix of vampire aphrodisiac and cure-all. Bound by a curse to the guardianship of a greedy...
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Alexandra Ivy, Rebecca Zanetti, Dianne Duvall, and Hannah Jayne. Kensington/Zebra, $7.99 mass market (384p) ISBN 978-1-4201-2513-9
Four paranormal novellas, tied to their authors’ popular series, explore very different ideas of love on the prowl. Ivy’s fluffy story occurs after book two in the Sentinels series. Paranormal bad boy Mika never forgot his first love, sweet Bailey....
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Alexandra Ivy, Nina Bangs, Dianne Duvall, and Hannah Jayne. Kensington/Zebra, $7.99 mass market (384p) ISBN 978-1-4201-2512-2
Seasoned authors present a tantalizing quartet of supernatural settings and lusty romances. Ivy’s “Out of Control” prepares readers for a new series set in a world of “high-bloods” and warrior Sentinels. Angela Locke, a molecular biology genius, is...
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