Bøger af Geraldine Burrows

Winner, Paranormal Romance, Book Buyers Best Contest"A Jane Austen-esque romance skillfully injected with a magical twist." --Kirkus Reviews"... WIT AND WITCHERY lives up to the promise of its title. There's both wit and witchery aplenty, as well as drama, danger, and a steamy romance..." --IndieReaderAn IndieReader Best Reviewed Book of the MonthCan a country hedge witch outwit a rakehell lord and out-witch the Red Queen of blood magic in London?Annis Fulton is a wellborn young widow and a descendant of one of England's oldest hereditary witch families. Trained in her secret heritage by her elderly nurse, Annis's hedge witchery can't save her from marriage to a cruel, much-older man in order to reclaim her family's estate.Now happily widowed, she travels to London, where she matches wits with Lord Nicholas Ryder with whom she has a long-standing quarrel. Ryder is determined to seduce her, for no other woman has aroused his ire and desire the way she has. Annis is equally determined to thwart his desire, and the two of them wage their private duel against the glittering backdrop of the London Season.However, they soon must unite against a common foe-Belle Barlow, proprietress of London's most decadent brothel and secretly the Red Queen of blood magic in London. She and Annis are born enemies who are destined to meet and clash, for white magic must always contend against the blood-fed red.But Annis is weakened in London, where she is cut off from the natural forces of hedge witchery and where her growing love for Ryder could prove her undoing. And now the Red Queen is plotting to ensnare them both in a fiendish deathtrap from which there is no escape.89,000 words

"In her second Chloe Crandall adventure, Burrows has combined her interests in YA fiction and historical fiction to create an engaging novel that not only takes readers back to pioneer days of the Old West but also depicts the behind-the-camera facts about a TV reality show…adults will enjoy it too for its meticulous research and rousing storytelling." - BookLife Prize Quarterfinalist in the BookLife Prize Fiction Contest Sixteen-year-old Chloe Crandall lands the role of a mail order bride in a TV reality show about modern Americans recreating a wagon train journey along the Santa Fe Trail.Chloe undertakes the grueling, 500-mile slog because her long-distance crush, Zach, will be waiting for her at the end of the trail. But first, she and her wagon full of teenage mail order brides must survive the torturous, pioneer-type elimination ordeals devised by the show's producers.Along the trail, Chloe finds her romantic life complicated by a good guy cowboy and a bad boy trail biker, who's following the wagon train for his own mysterious reasons. Reasons that Chloe is determined to find out.Athough she's marked for reality show betrayal and death, Chloe has one slim chance to make it to the end of the trail--and Zach. If she can find the fortitude to take that chance...

"A razor-sharp protagonist headlines this gripping tale of mythical vampires and scarier humans."-Kirkus Reviews"...charming, compelling, and satisfying-everything a reader wants in a light romance or a two-century-old mystery."-IndieReaderAn IndieReader Best Reviewed Book of the MonthFolklorist Leah Gerard travels to Purgatory Island, Rhode Island, to study the two-hundred-year-old legend of the Vampira Mercy Randall.Aided by Randall family descendant Adam Randall, Leah hopes to learn how Mercy, like the Salem witches, became a tragic victim of scapegoating and community hysteria.To solve the centuries-old mystery, Leah must discover what happened in 1815 to make down-to-earth New Englanders start believing Transylvanian folk superstitions about vampires. The answer may lie in Adam Randall's hidden family history, and Leah finds herself increasingly drawn to him despite the rumors about his mysteriously missing wife.Leah's efforts to find the truth behind the legend make her the target of a violent cult of vampire worshipers who have descended upon the island. Cult members are willing to go to any lengths to stop her and Adam from committing heresy against their Exalted Mother Vampira Mercy Randall.What began as scholarly research becomes a desperate battle for truth and love on Purgatory Island.91,000 words