REVIEW: Trial by Fire by Jo Davis

Series: Firefighters of Station Five, #1

Publisher: Signet Eclipse

Genre: Romantic Suspense

Release:  August 2009
Format:  Mass-Market Paperbacks

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Dont get burned...
Lieutenant Howard "Six- Pack" Paxton loves three things: being a firefighter, riding his Harley, and his bachelorhood. That is, until the curvaceous Kat McKenna falls into his arms at the scene of a fire—and melts the six-foot-six tower of bronze muscle...

But just as passion ignites between them—and they explore new heights of ecstasy—a ruthless arsonist with a deadly secret and a thirst for vengeance becomes their worst nightmare.

"Jo Davis turns up the heat full blast with TRIAL BY FIRE. A romantic suspense that has it all: a sizzling firefighter hero, a heroine you’ll love, and a story that crackles and pops with sensuality and action...keep the fire extinguisher handy or risk spontaneous combustion!"
—Linda Castillo, National Bestselling Author of Overkill

“Jo Davis set the trap, baited the hook, and completely reeled me in with TRIAL BY FIRE. Heady sexual tension, heart-warming romance, and combustible love scenes just added fuel to the fire…”
—Joyfully Recommended! Talia Ricci, Joyfully Reviewed


Award-winning author Jo Davis currently writes romantic suspense and erotic suspense for New American Library, and is best known for her bestselling romantic suspense series, The Firefighters of Station Five. Her books have been finalists for the Australian Romance Readers Award, the Colorado Romance Writers Award of Excellence, and have captured the HOLT Medallion Award of Merit. Her debut erotic suspense novel, When Alex Was Bad, received a 4 ½ star Top Pick rating from RT Book Reviews and is in development as a major motion picture. She is currently at work on a new paranormal romance series for NAL. A native Texan, Jo lives near Dallas with her husband and two teenagers. Visit her website at http://www.jodavis.net/.

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REVIEW: Under Fire by Jo Davis

Series: Firefighters of Station Five, #2

Publisher: Signet Eclipse

Genre: Romantic Suspense

Release: May 2009

Format:  Mass-Market Paperbacks

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It doesn't get hotter than this!
Zack fights fires and saves lives, yet his own thirst for life has run dry-until he comes to the rescue of a sharp-tongued exotic dancer named Corrine Shannon who soon has the normally shy hero burning out of control.

But just as they are consumed by flames of passion, they find themselves under fire from two relentless enemies with fifty million reasons to succeed. Can they withstand the heat while trying to save their own lives-or will their new found romance be extinguished as fast as it began?

“Wicked fun and wildly arousing…Davis does what every great romance writer ought…”
—Michelle Buonfiglio, Romance B(u)y The Book


“Davis delivers a totally entertaining experience.”
—Romantic Times BOOKReviews


“Sizzling romantic suspense…so hot it singes the pages!”
—New York Times bestselling author JoAnn Ross


Award-winning author Jo Davis currently writes romantic suspense and erotic suspense for New American Library, and is best known for her bestselling romantic suspense series, The Firefighters of Station Five. Her books have been finalists for the Australian Romance Readers Award, the Colorado Romance Writers Award of Excellence, and have captured the HOLT Medallion Award of Merit. Her debut erotic suspense novel, When Alex Was Bad, received a 4 ½ star Top Pick rating from RT Book Reviews and is in development as a major motion picture. She is currently at work on a new paranormal romance series for NAL. A native Texan, Jo lives near Dallas with her husband and two teenagers. Visit her website at http://www.jodavis.net/.

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Under Fire is the second installment in author Jo Davis’s award-wining “The Firefighters of Station 5” H-O-T Series.


Zack Knight is the go-to-geek-guy that everyone at station five adores and goad him about his “innocence”. At twenty-six the man looks like a walking talking Clark Kent—metal rimmed framed glasses and bulging biceps to boot--but inside he still feels like the fat geeky whiz kid that was bullied by everyone he knew. Zack is the kind of guy that will do anything for anyone and give the shirt off his back while doing so. What’s not to love?

Lately, Zack has been placed in a severe financial strain. Being hounded by a Vegas mobster for is father’s quarter of a million dollars gambling debt.

Zack has sold everything, his house, cleaned out his savings and still that hasn’t made a dent in what he owes the mob boss. Making matters worse his Captain Sean Tanner—who is dealing with his own emotional issues- is riding him hard at work. His day couldn’t get any worse or so he thought. Heading into work, roads slick from the rain, pneumonia kicking in Zack barely registers the SUV before he slams into the back end.
Who would know that at that moment he would find the one woman that would change and rock his world forever?

Corrine Shannon—Cori to her friends-- has not only escaped the clutches of a sadistic abusive husband but also the dominant control of her older broth Joaquin. She fled to Sugarland to start anew. Now an exotic dancer paying her way through nursing school her life was finally on the right road. That was until Clark Kent nailed the back of her Blazer and not only set her car tail spinning but her heart.

The two most unlikely of pairs come together to find that love isn’t a one way street. Zack and Cori have their very own deep personal demons to fight. Underneath, right below the surface Zack and Cori have an all consuming fire raging in both of them. Each has a fire to be in control and independent. Each has a fire for people to accept them for who they really are. Between Zack and Cori there is a fire of unquenchable desire that only the other can fulfill and find the love they’ve always searched for.

Ms. Davis’s unique blend of erotic, romance and suspense will leave you clamoring for more. Her characters are raw with a prose so original and genuine that the reader can picture every scene with crystal clarity. Ms. Davis’s strong emotional mixture with epicurean erotic love scenes will have you reaching for the closest fire hose. UNDER FIRE is a priceless read with flesh and blood characters that wage through adversity, triumph over the bad guys and finally get their happily ever after.

REVIEW: Hidden Fire by Jo Davis

Series: Firefighters of Station Five, #3

Publisher: Signet Eclipse

Genre: Romantic Suspense

Release: December 2009

Format:  Mass-Market Paperbacks

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The scorching hot firemen of Station Five are known for cranking up the heat. Sexy rogue Julian Salvatore is no exception…
He’s more than earned his reputation as a ladies’ man, but chasing women has also been a way to outrun a terrible secret from his past. Then he meets defense attorney Grace McKenna, a beautiful ice queen who’s more than willing to give Julian her body, even if he can’t seem to melt her heart.

In the blazing heat of their passion, Grace and Julian start to let down their guard—just as a series of grisly murders rocks Nashville and Julian is targeted by the killer. As the firefighter comes face to face with his demons, he and Grace must race to uncover the terrible truth—or become the next victims.


Award-winning author Jo Davis currently writes romantic suspense and erotic suspense for New American Library, and is best known for her bestselling romantic suspense series, The Firefighters of Station Five. Her books have been finalists for the Australian Romance Readers Award, the Colorado Romance Writers Award of Excellence, and have captured the HOLT Medallion Award of Merit. Her debut erotic suspense novel, When Alex Was Bad, received a 4 ½ star Top Pick rating from RT Book Reviews and is in development as a major motion picture. She is currently at work on a new paranormal romance series for NAL. A native Texan, Jo lives near Dallas with her husband and two teenagers. Visit her website at http://www.jodavis.net/.

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REVIEW: Line of Fire by Jo Davis

Series: Firefighters of Station Five, #4

Publisher: Signet Eclipse

Genre: Romantic Suspense

Release:  May 25, 2010

Format:  Mass-Market Paperbacks

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To his fellow firemen, Tommy Skyler has it all. But the golden boy of Station Five hides a private pain. He was once a star quarterback until tragedy derailed his dream. Since then, he's struggled with his choices-including his decision to become a firefighter. His one ray of light shines in beautiful nurse Shea Ford. When a dangerous rescue lands Tommy in the ER, what better opportunity to win her over? But when a conspiracy culminates in deadly arson, Tommy realizes that a ruthless enemy is closing in, threatening to destroy the couple's love- and their lives.


Award-winning author Jo Davis currently writes romantic suspense and erotic suspense for New American Library, and is best known for her bestselling romantic suspense series, The Firefighters of Station Five. Her books have been finalists for the Australian Romance Readers Award, the Colorado Romance Writers Award of Excellence, and have captured the HOLT Medallion Award of Merit. Her debut erotic suspense novel, When Alex Was Bad, received a 4 ½ star Top Pick rating from RT Book Reviews and is in development as a major motion picture. She is currently at work on a new paranormal romance series for NAL. A native Texan, Jo lives near Dallas with her husband and two teenagers. Visit her website at http://www.jodavis.net/.

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REVIEW:   Golden boy ex-college star quarterback Tommy Skyler had it all and was on the fast track to becoming a pro-footballer. That is until it was derailed by a horrendous tragedy that took the life of his older brother, Don.   After his brother’s death his world crumbled and he decided it was best to hang up his dreams and aspirations. It’s no secret that the guys at station five question why the All American Boy with the killer smile who throws like a piston has chosen the brutal career as a firefighter.


Tommy shrugs it off in his own comical sweet boy way. How do you tell your friends—band of brothers- that you feel less than your war Hero brother? Even in death his brother is worshiped daily. His mother crushed his spirit a few days after his brothers death when in her grief she said, “Stay in school, play your game. Don’t try to be a hero like your brother.”  

Lately, twenty-three year old Tommy has been questioning whether to stay as a firefighter or go into Fire Prevention as a Certified Arson Investigator (CAI).
Landing in the hospital after being injured on a rescue Tommy comes face to face with the angel of his dreams, Nurse Shea Ford, who thinks Tommy, is just a “pretty boy”. But he’s out to prove her wrong and win her heart at any cost   She is not about to buy what gods-gift-to-women is selling. She’s gone down that road and was nearly destroyed. Unable to block out the pain of the past Shea does everything to deter Tommy’s advances. She goes as far to tell him that he’s too immature for her. But even as Shea tells herself that Tommy isn’t the one he slowly surprise Shea by proving he is the only one.

As She gives into her feelings for Tommy reaching the height of passion an arsonist is bent on blowing up Sugarland. Closing in on the lovers their ruthless enemy has them in the direct line of fire and conspires to destroy the couple’s love ---and their lives.

Ms. Davis’s unique blend of erotic, romance and suspense will leave you clamoring for more. Her characters are raw with a prose so original and genuine that the reader can picture every scene with crystal clarity. Ms. Davis’s strong emotional mixture with epicurean erotic love scenes will have you reaching for the closest fire hose. LINE OF FIRE is a priceless read with flesh and blood characters that wage through adversity, triumph over the bad guys and finally get their happily ever after.

REVIEW: If He's Wild by New York Times Bestselling Author Hannah Howell

Series:  If He's, book 3

Genre: Historical Paranormal Romance

Pub Date: May 25, 2010

Imprint : Zebra

Format : Paperback

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An enchanting new novel from New York Times bestselling author Hannah Howell that will make you believe in the power of destiny—and desire—all over again…

She Sees His Face Everywhere…
Lady Alethea Vaughn Channing is haunted by a vision of a man in danger—the same man who she has seen in dreams time and time again. She doesn’t even know his name, and yet she feels the connection between them, knows she is the only one standing between him and disaster.


…Yet They Have Never Met
But rakish Lord Hartley Greville is capable of protecting himself, as he has proven more than once in his perilous work as a spy for the crown. If he’s to carry out his duty, he’ll need to put aside the achingly beautiful woman with the strange gift. And yet, when Alethea’s visions reveal a plot that could endanger children, Hartley will not be able to ignore the destiny that binds them together—or resist the passion burning between them…

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Review: Haunting Warrior by Erin Quinn

Series: 2nd book in the Haunting series.

Genre: Fiction

Publisher: Berkley Sensation

Release: May 4, 2010

Pages: 372

Format: Mass-Market

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"Erin Quin has a notable talent for the coplex and mysterious."-Diana Gabldon

A past he couldn’t forget.

Rory McGrath’s life changed the night his father mysteriously vanished after uncovering the secrets of the ancient Book of Fennore. The trauma turned Rory from an innocent boy into a troubled, cynical man. Leaving Ireland, he shunned his family, his heritage—and the very magic that has defined his people for centuries.

A dream he couldn’t ignore.

Then the dreams begin…dreams of an ethereal beauty whose touch is more real that any he’s known. And in these dreams, she has a message—a calling for Rory to return home to a destiny that will take him beyond the realm of anything he imagined.

A woman he couldn’t resist.

Lured to the castle ruins where his father disappeared, Rory is plunged back in time, and into the body of another man—a man betrothed to the very woman of Rory’s dreams. In possession of the secrets of his past, his family, and his identity, her hold on Rory is inescapable. For she is his doom. His salvation. And his destiny.

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Some dreams come true. Some dreams are cloaked nightmares that you can never forget.

Rory McGrath has always felt disconnected from his life ever since the night he witnessed unspeakable magic rip his family apart. As a youth, Rory worked incessantly to drive a wedge between him and his family. Succeeding, at fifteen Rory is sent to live with his aunt and uncle in California, in the hopes that this might tame the rage inside him.

Years later, Rory is still wild and has had few hard knocks along the way. He’s barely recognizable, with long sun streaked hair and a Hollywood body bronzed and buffed like the sun God, Apollo.  With Rory he has a more California-dreaming state of mind and he's a lover-- not a fighter.

Recently at night Rory finds himself bombarded by visions of a vivacious seductive mystic woman from a time gone by.  She invades his dreams. Dreams so vibrant that he can't make it through the day without thinking of her velvet dark eyes or the satin fall of her hair.  Her fragrance whispering sweet and intoxicating through time for Rory to come and find her. A woman who fills his every erotic fantasy.  Is she real or has he finally lost his mind? Who is this woman that haunts his dreams day and night? Rory will soon find out.  Will he be ecstatic or enraged to finally know who and where Saraid comes from?

Saraid looks upon the giant of a man standing before her. Known throughout as Rauiri the Bloodletter, now called husband. Hoping this alliance will ease her brothers and their people from the clutches of the Bloodletter's father,Cathan Half-Beard.  There is dark magic at work as someone tries to kill Rory after he beds his beautiful bride.  Life just became trickier. Facing down their enemies Saraid senses a change in the once cruel enforcer. There is something different and unexplainable about this Rauiri.  At time she feels as if there are two different men starring back from that startling brooding face.  One moment she glimpses compassion and in a blink of an eye the battle hardened Bloodletter is standing before her.

The Book of Fennore's dark magic has ripped Rory McGrath back in time calling him to fulfill his destiny.    But with destiny comes some of life's cruel truths.  Fighting side by side Rory and Saraid uncover Rory's true purpose of being here.  They contrive to figure out why it is only Saraid that has the power to invoke the books true magical powers.

Bewitching is the first word that comes to mind when reading the second installment of Berkley Sensation author, Erin Quinn's Beauty series, "HAUNTING WARRIOR".  The story is intrinsically magnetic that harnesses all the power of good triumphing over evil.  Ms. Quinn's characters are bold and raw and draw you through a mixture of redemption and love.  Ms. Quinn's prose invites you to believe in another space and time. A ride of a read that will have you desperate for the next word.  A true gem of the first water explodes on to the literary scene with passion flowing from beginning to end.  Jaw dropping, hard hitting and an exceptionally compulsive read from the word go. Holding you spell bound until the last word.