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The Iron Thorn (Iron Codex, book 1) by Caitlin Kittredge.

It is 1955...but not the 1955 you know. The Witchcraft Scare polarizes America. Magic is outlawed and practitioners are burned. And one girls has discovered that magic is neither fiction nor fairy tale, but very much alive...

Aoife Grayson is a month shy of sixteen, the age when everyone in her family goes mad. An orphan in the steam-powered city of Lovecraft, Massachusetts, Aoife escapes the confines of her repressive...

Welcome readers and authors,
I first want to thank my host for having me here today.
Let me tell you how I got the inspiration for Gypsy Crystal .

Once upon a time, a good friend, an author in her own right, insisted she treat me for my birthday.
I won't tell you which birthday, so don't ask.
My friend took me to a quaint little restaurant where the food was scrumptious. Lo and behold, they had a gypsy fortuneteller seated at a table in the corner. Of course we indulged in both the food and havin...

I am currently reading The Phantom Diaries by Kailin Gow, Beyond the Map's Boundary by Nibi Soto and Masquerade (Blue Bloods, book 2) by Melissa de la Cruz. This week we will be joined by some fabulous guest authors.  Lorrie Struiff, author of Gypsy Crystal , will be guest blogging Tuesday June 1st.  I will be interviewing Leanore Elliott, author of Beasts of Forever (Beasts, book 1), June 3rd.  Sam Hilliard, author of The Last Track , will also be joining us here at From the Shadows on June 7...

The Body Finder by Kimberly Derting.

Violet Ambrose is grappling with two major issues: Jay Heaton and her morbid secret ability. While the sixteen-year-old is confused by her new feelings for her best friend since childhood, she is more disturbed by her "power" to sense dead bodies—or at least those that have been murdered. Since she was a little girl, she has felt the echoes the dead leave behind in the world . . . and the imprints that attach to their killers.

Violet has never...

I was delighted to read this positive review of Shadows of Myth and Legend on Freda's Voice . 

Thank you so much for the lovely review!

 "And I'm going nowhere fast
A darker day has hold at last
Deep in a dream, I set the compass to spinning And your love has come too late
I wave from the garden gate
Wake me up when the bluebells are ringing" ~Bluebells by Patrick Wolf

















Last night I had a fantastical dream that has revealed itself again and again throughout the day.  In an effort to make the myriad images stop their spinning through my mind I've decided to put pen to paper, or rather fingers to keyboard, and share the images from de...

Hello everyone.  It's Friday!  Let's do the Hop!

The Book Blogger Hop is a weekly meme hosted by Crazy for Books .  This is a wonderful way to discover new book blogs and meet other fabulous bloggers.

I started watching the series Bloodhound: Vampire Gigolo (aka Vampire Host ) and am hooked!  Suou is a hilarious vampire who works in a host club.  Rion is a high school girl who meets Suou while searching for her friend who disappeared after leaving a frantic message on Rion's phone about a real vampire.  Suou and Rion team up to find Rion's friend forming an unlikely partnership.  Suou and Rion find themselves continuing to be put in situations of supernatural sleuthing and hilarious vampire...

Eternal Kiss of Darkness (Night Huntress World, book 2) by Jeaniene Frost.

An immortal war has been brewing in the darkness…and now one woman has stumbled into the shadows.

Chicago private investigator Kira Graceling should have just kept on walking. But her sense of duty refused to let her ignore the moans of pain coming from inside a warehouse just before dawn. Suddenly she finds herself in a world she's only imagined in her worst nightmares.  At the center is Mencheres, a...

"On the ride up to the sixth floor I examined my reflection in the tinted mirrors of the elevator.  My lips were red, raw and full from the heavy kisses.  I could still taste him.  I looked into my eyes trying to figure out who this new woman was."

pg. 110, The Phantom Diaries by Kailin Gow.


This week, rather than grab the book I was currently reading, I found my teaser in the book that just arrived in the mail.  Be sure to look for my review of The Phantom Diaries in the near future and for m...