Covet

September 29, 2009
Harley-riding angels battle a demon temptress in the latest paranormal romance thriller from bestseller Ward, author of the beloved Black Dagger Brotherhood series (Lover Avenged, etc.). Jim Heron, an acerbic construction worker and former assassin, has been selected by the forces of Heaven to save "seven souls at a crossroads with a choice that must be made." His first subject: Vin diPietro, a "silk-suited, M6-driving, misogynistic" jerk with a paranormal secret: "Vin saw dead people, all right. Before they died." Forgiving some hyper-masculine postering ("I sound like a Lifetime movie or some shit") and tiresome clichés ("Nobody ever said life was fun or easy or even fair," "luck had always been with him-like magic"), Ward provides the combination of fun, thrills and gratuitous sex she's best known for. Fans of the Brotherhood, clear a shelf: your next series addiction has just begun.

September 15, 2009
The hero of Wards new series is Jim Heron, a construction worker whose world is rocked one night outside a bar by a mysterious, beautiful woman in a blue dress. The next time he spots heron the arm of the man commissioning his latest projecthe trips and gets himself electrocuted. Jims near-death experience brings him into contact with four angels, who tell him he is all that stands between humanity and eternal damnation. Hes tasked with saving seven souls, the first being the man at the construction site, wealthy Vin DiPietro. Vin has everything money can buy, and hes about to get engaged to the sexy Devina, the woman Jim slept with, until he lays eyes on a beautiful prostitute named Marie-Therese and falls head-over-heels in love. Jim must determine with which woman his salvation lies, and which promises just the opposite. The opening novel in Wards new Fallen Angels series is an inventive and engaging dark paranormal romance.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2009, American Library Association.)