Only The Lonely by Susan Gabriel

This book was generously mailed to me by Laurie Saunders for review and I was absolutely thrilled to be able to do this for her and Black Velvet Seductions. 

 Summer "Solstice" Stone is a late-night DJ on WKZM with a show that is called "Only the Lonely". Summer takes calls from lonely people and has conversations with them and tries to make them feel less lonely. She is also a "Perceiver". She can tell when someone is a vampire.


Summer is on the air one night when a gentleman calls named Lucien. She senses that he may be more than just a lonely caller. He mentions things that noone would be able to know.


She meets Lucien and falls head-over-lust for him. At first it is just a tryst, but then becomes a love hold on Summer. She has fallen so in love with Lucien, irregardless of what he is.

This has some very steamy scenes and really makes one want to bed a hundreds-year-old vampire. Summer shows no fear about bedding this beast, rightly so.

This is a very good story. Well-written and definitely worth the read. You feel for Lucien and the trials that he has to live by.

http://www.susangabriel.com/

Looking For A Love Story by Louise Shaffer

This book was sent to me for review from Romance Junkies.

Jake has asked to have a "talk" with his wife, Francesca. Francesca is coming off of a wild ride as a best-selling author about 2 years ago and has been approached about writing a new novel. Jake and Francesca were married with all the surrounding publicity about her first book.
Francesca knew and loved the fact that Jake was a photographer to the stars and the up-and-coming, including her when she was just getting known. She loved him because of his shallowness.

Francesca learns of Jake's goings-on with one of her best friends and publishers and ends up alone. She is trying without success to write another novel to compare to the popularity of the first one.

She gets desperate enough to advertise her services as a ghost writer for anyone looking to use those services. "Chicky" responds to her ad and hires her to write the story of her parents, who were performers in Vaudeville in the 1920's.

This is where the story takes off. We are drawn into the '20's and get to know the story of Ellie, Joe & Benny, all performers with different agendas for their futures. We are taken into the personalities, desires and politics involved in getting to the top of the Vaudeville ladder.

Louise Shaffer has written a very enjoyable book with characters that you really feel strongly about, whether it be you like them, disregard them, or don't like them. The story-within-a-story is the very best part of this book. You will have the pleasure of two stories wrapped into one.

http://louiseshaffer.com/