Sir Alistair Munroe, a Scottish scientist who travelled with British troops to explore the North American wildlife, was taken prisoner by Indians after the massacre of Spinner's Falls. Tortured and mutilated, he has become a recluse in his castle because people can't bear his scarred face and missing eye. But one day, Helen and her two small children turn up his doorstep. Helen was the mistress of an influential man, but can't live with being no more than a plaything to him anymore. Knowing that he would take away her children to punish and blackmail her, she takes a friend's advice and travels to Scotland to become Alistair's housekeeper. After all, how likely is it that her former lover will find her in a recluse's Scottish castle. Alistair is brought back to life by the little family and he soon falls in love with Helen, and she with him. But both find it hard to trust and open up to the other. When Helen's past is revealed and her children are kidnapped, they will have to learn to accept each other as they truly are to find happiness...

This is a very good book with two unusual and truly likeable characters, as well as good supporting characters (in particular Helen's daughter). I liked the story a lot and would recommend the whole series.

(The series is: To taste temptation; To seduce a sinner; To beguile a beast; To desire a devil)

Reynaud, an officer in the British army, was taken prisoner by Indians after the massacre of Spinner's Falls. For seven years, he was a slave, and when he finally manages to escape and get back to England, he finds out that his father died and his title and property were handed over to a distant relative because Reynaud was presumed dead.
Beatrice has always felt attracted to the portrait of a younger Reynaud and when he returns she is overwhelmed by the real man. But he is often wild and dangerous as a result of what he's gone through, and he's at conflict with Beatrice's uncle who took his title and lands. Only if he can find peace and allow himself to feel again will the two be able to find happiness. But the traitor responsible for the massacre is after Reynaud and doesn't stop at murder...

This is a very satisfying conclusion to the series. Both characters are interesting and convincing, the plot well done, it's quite erotic in places - I felt it was the best of the series. Highly recommended!

(The series is: To taste temptation; To seduce a sinner; To beguile a beast; To desire a devil)

Dieses Buch konzentriert sich auf Bauerngärten mit dem Schwerpunkt praktische Tips und Anbau / Verwertung zahlreicher Nutzpflanzen. Man erfährt ein bisschen zur Geschichte, insbesondere in Hinblick auf den Einfluss mittelalterlicher Klöstergärten auf den Bauerngarten. Es gibt einige Informationen zu verschiedenen Formen (wie werden die Beete in deutschen, schweizerischen und österreichischen Bauengärten angelegt), sowie einige Bilder von Gärten (davon vergleichsweise wenig). Praktisch finden sich z. B. die Verwendung von Kräutern in Kräutersalz oder Kräuteressig, der Bau von Zäunen, der Umgang mit Schnecken und ähnliches. Insgesamt ein nützliches und durchaus ansprechendes Buch, von dem ich mir optisch ein wenig mehr versprochen hätte. Daher nur 4 Punkte.

Katey Tyler has spent her childhood and youth in an extremely boring American village, so when she comes into an inheritance, she decides to use the money to travel around the world. And in England, she wants to visit her grandparents, who disowned her mother when she married an American commoner. But things don't go too well: When she helps the kidnapped daughter of Sir Anthony Malory, his relative Anthony Boyd thinks that she is actually the kidnapper, which leads to some rather unpleasant situations until everything is cleared up. Even their mutual attraction can't redeem him to her after this. And her relatives don't want anything to do with her since her presence might reveal a long-hidden family secret. But the Malorys do what they can to help the woman who saved their little girl and Boyd does his best to win Katey's heart. What follows are a journey by ship through the Mediterranean, adventures with pirates, and a surprising resolution to Katey's problems with her family.

This book is very charming, full of warmth and humour and nice characters. I enjoyed it and only give it 4 instead of 5 stars because it loses some steam towards the end. Otherwise it's a real pleasure. It's part of the Malory -series and definitely a lot more fun if you know those other books. They are:
1. Love Only Once
2. Tender Rebel
3. Gentle Rogue
4. The Magic of You
5. Say You Love Me
6. The holiday present
7. A Loving Scoundrel
8. Captive of My Desires

Katey Tyler has spent her childhood and youth in an extremely boring American village, so when she comes into an inheritance, she decides to use the money to travel around the world. And in England, she wants to visit her grandparents, who disowned her mother when she married an American commoner. But things don't go too well: When she helps the kidnapped daughter of Sir Anthony Malory, his relative Anthony Boyd thinks that she is actually the kidnapper, which leads to some rather unpleasant situations until everything is cleared up. Even their mutual attraction can't redeem him to her after this. And her relatives don't want anything to do with her since her presence might reveal a long-hidden family secret. But the Malorys do what they can to help the woman who saved their little girl and Boyd does his best to win Katey's heart. What follows are a journey by ship through the Mediterranean, adventures with pirates, and a surprising resolution to Katey's problems with her family.

This book is very charming, full of warmth and humour and nice characters. I enjoyed it and only give it 4 instead of 5 stars because it loses some steam towards the end. Otherwise it's a real pleasure. It's part of the Malory -series and definitely a lot more fun if you know those other books. They are:
1. Love Only Once
2. Tender Rebel
3. Gentle Rogue
4. The Magic of You
5. Say You Love Me
6. The holiday present
7. A Loving Scoundrel
8. Captive of My Desires

Katey Tyler has spent her childhood and youth in an extremely boring American village, so when she comes into an inheritance, she decides to use the money to travel around the world. And in England, she wants to visit her grandparents, who disowned her mother when she married an American commoner. But things don't go too well: When she helps the kidnapped daughter of Sir Anthony Malory, his relative Anthony Boyd thinks that she is actually the kidnapper, which leads to some rather unpleasant situations until everything is cleared up. Even their mutual attraction can't redeem him to her after this. And her relatives don't want anything to do with her since her presence might reveal a long-hidden family secret. But the Malorys do what they can to help the woman who saved their little girl and Boyd does his best to win Katey's heart. What follows are a journey by ship through the Mediterranean, adventures with pirates, and a surprising resolution to Katey's problems with her family.

This book is very charming, full of warmth and humour and nice characters. I enjoyed it and only give it 4 instead of 5 stars because it loses some steam towards the end. Otherwise it's a real pleasure. It's part of the Malory -series and definitely a lot more fun if you know those other books. They are:
1. Love Only Once
2. Tender Rebel
3. Gentle Rogue
4. The Magic of You
5. Say You Love Me
6. The holiday present
7. A Loving Scoundrel
8. Captive of My Desires

Katey Tyler has spent her childhood and youth in an extremely boring American village, so when she comes into an inheritance, she decides to use the money to travel around the world. And in England, she wants to visit her grandparents, who disowned her mother when she married an American commoner. But things don't go too well: When she helps the kidnapped daughter of Sir Anthony Malory, his relative Anthony Boyd thinks that she is actually the kidnapper, which leads to some rather unpleasant situations until everything is cleared up. Even their mutual attraction can't redeem him to her after this. And her relatives don't want anything to do with her since her presence might reveal a long-hidden family secret. But the Malorys do what they can to help the woman who saved their little girl and Boyd does his best to win Katey's heart. What follows are a journey by ship through the Mediterranean, adventures with pirates, and a surprising resolution to Katey's problems with her family.

This book is very charming, full of warmth and humour and nice characters. I enjoyed it and only give it 4 instead of 5 stars because it loses some steam towards the end. Otherwise it's a real pleasure. It's part of the Malory -series and definitely a lot more fun if you know those other books. They are:
1. Love Only Once
2. Tender Rebel
3. Gentle Rogue
4. The Magic of You
5. Say You Love Me
6. The holiday present
7. A Loving Scoundrel
8. Captive of My Desires

Wild Instinct is a sequel to Running Wild, in which a group of werewolves decided to break with tradition giving shelter to human werewolf-couples and mixed breeds. Those would usually be outcasts in werewolf society. In this anthology, three women are fighting for their lives because some very brutal traditional werewolves are after them. Three werewolves from the new pack help them. The three novellas concentrate on one couple each, always telling a love story with some erotic scenes and a bit of plot and action. That's also my problem with the book: There's really only a bit of story and not much going on when it comes to plot or character development. Sarah McCarty can write great novels with intense stories and characters. Maybe it's just that novellas don't leave a lot of room for that, but this is the first McCarty book I was mostly disappointed in. It's still above a lot of the paranormal romance novels out there, but she can definitely do better.

The Unit, a secret task force inside the US military, is sent to Israel to bring a defector from an Islamic terrorist group back to the US. Unknown to the team, they are being set up by members of the CIA who dislike the competition. They promise Israel's secret service that the Unit will give the defector to them and the misunderstanding leads to a shootout and the Unit having to go on the run through Israel and the Gaza Strip. A prime target for several terrorist groups as well as the Israelis, the Unit's chances of making it out of Israel alive and with their reputation intact are slim.

This book is okay if you don't know the series it's based on and just want a good military story. But then that's not really the audience this book is meant for. As a fan of the series I was very disappointed for the following reasons:
- The characters are in many instances not behaving as they do in the series. Jonas, the team leader, keeps nagging, trying to spread panic and making his team nervous. Carlito is on watch, knowing how dangerous the situation is, and spends the time flirting and kissing a woman they took along. You get the idea.
- I would estimate that more than half of the book isn't even about the Unit but about the characters the author invented himself. Since he doesn't seem to have bothered to become well aquainted with the series I'm not surprised. I must say that those characters are actually well-developed, but then I'm buying a Unit book for the Unit and would like to see a lot more of them than is the case here.
- The women of the Unit don't play a role at all even though the series episodes take their lives as seriously as those of the men.
- Several ideas were simply taken from series episodes, in particular the CIA plot and Carlito's affair with a woman from Israel (though she was a Jew, not a Muslim). That's not very interesting.
All in all, this is not a good tie-in to the series and I wouldn't recommend buying it.

After Lake Johnson's psychic abilities failed her, which almost cost a friend's life, she takes a holiday in Taos, New Mexico. There she meets Max, the owner of a local art gallery, who has psychic abilities of his own. Their happiness is soon disturbed when a killer comes after Max' daughter Alyssa, another psychic, and Lake. He murders women with psychic talents to 'collect' their powers. In order to save Alyssa and herself, Lake will have to use her talent, as will Max.

This book is connected to 'Angel Eyes' but can also be read on its own. I liked the characters, and the suspense plot is good, too. As with 'Angel Eyes' I feel that the author could do better and that some depth and intensity is missing. I get the impression that this may have got something to do with the publisher, Samhain, who often have authors who wrote fantastic books with other publishers, then continue to write not nearly as well with Samhain. Part of the problem may be that Samhain- books are comparatively short, which makes it impossible to write as intensely and deeply as with longer books. So this author is definitely talented and the novel not bad #maybe 3,5 stars, not quite 4#, but I know she can do better. Try her Deadly-series, if you can get it #it's just going out of print with New Concepts Publishing#. That one's fantastic.