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Book Series I Want To Finish: The Black Dagger Brotherhood by J.R. Ward

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  The Black Dagger Brotherhood Series There are 22.5 books in the series with six of those being novellas. I purchased the five books in the series from Thriftbooks and of course, I was hooked. The only purebred vampire left on the planet and the leader of the Black Dagger Brotherhood, Wrath has a score to settle with the slayers who killed his parents centuries ago. But when his most trusted fighter is killed -- orphaning a half-breed daughter unaware of her heritage or her fate -- Wrath must put down his dagger and usher the beautiful female into another world. Racked by a restlessness in her body that wasn’t there before, Beth Randall is helpless against the dangerously sexy man who comes to her at night with shadows in his eyes. His tales of the Brotherhood and blood frighten her. Yet his touch ignites a dawning new hunger one that threatens to consume them both… In the shadows of the night in Caldwell, New York, there’s a deadly war raging between vampires and their slayers. A...

Review: The Sapphire Wife by Dinah Jefferies

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 Another review from the First to Read program: A sweeping, breath-taking story of love and betrayal from the Number One  Sunday Times  bestselling author of  The Tea Planter's Wife. Ceylon, 1935. Louisa Reeve, the daughter of a successful British gem trader, and her husband Elliot, a charming, thrill-seeking businessman, seem like the couple who have it all. Except what they long for more than anything: a child. While Louisa struggles with miscarriages, Elliot is increasingly absent, spending much of his time at a nearby cinnamon plantation, overlooking the Indian ocean. After his sudden death, Louisa is left alone to solve the mystery he left behind. Revisiting the plantation at Cinnamon Hills, she finds herself unexpectedly drawn towards the owner Leo, a rugged outdoors man with a chequered past. The plantation casts a spell, but all is not as it seems. And when Elliot's shocking betrayal is revealed, Louisa has only Leo to turn to... My review was short but I sti...