Hot Blooded: Dark Hunger / Awaiting Moonrise / The Night Owl / Seduction's Gift

by Christine Feehan

Overview

A bound man with a voracious appetite...A werewolf with human desires...A shape-shifter with one basic need...An immortal lover with a passion for mortal women. These are the stories of Hot Blooded.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780786588671
Publisher:	Penguin Group (USA)
Publication date:	11/14/2006
Sold by:	Penguin Group
Format:	eBook
Pages:	368
File size:	434 KB

About the Author

Christine Feehan is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Carpathian series, the GhostWalker series, the Leopard series, the Shadow Riders series, and the Sea Haven novels, including the Drake Sisters series and the Sisters of the Heart series.

Maggie Shayne is the New York Times bestselling author of the Brown and De Luca Novels and the Wings in the Night Novels.

Emma Holly is the award winning, USA Today bestselling author of more than thirty romantic books, featuring billionaires, shifters, faeries and just plain extraordinary folks. She loves the hot stuff, both to read and to write!

Angela Knight is a New York Times bestselling author and former newspaper journalist. She lives with her family in South Carolina.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan who does not disappoint."—Under the Cover Book Reviews

"Emma Holly who may shock the uninitiated."—Publishers Weekly

"Angela Knight who seduces readers with [her] stories."—Sensuous Romance Reviews

"New York Times bestselling author Maggie Shayne who satisfies every wicked craving."—Suzanne Forster

Editorial Reviews

The Barnes & Noble Review
Make room for these sexy nightstalkers on your bedtime reading table. Authors Christine Feehan, Maggie Shayne, Emma Holly, and Angela Knight conjure up handsome shapeshifters, Carpathians, werewolves, and vampires in these four original stories. Feehan's tale, set in the jungle, features an animal activist who liberates more than just animals when she frees an all-but-forgotten human prisoner. Shayne's story, set in the bayou, stars a brilliant young professor whose fieldwork calls for very hands-on research. In Emma Holly's story, set in Vermont, a beautiful young baker gets more than yeast to rise when she gets to know the mysterious, pale-faced owner of the local B&B. And Angela Knight's heroine, a gutsy young cop, takes a dare to the max when she bets she can bed a vampire just a few times without risking conversion -- or her heart. Ginger Curwen

bn.com

Four gorgeous nighttime predators bid farewell to bachelorhood in this uneven quartet of sensual paranormal romances. Surprisingly, Feehan's "Dark Hunger," depicting the romance between an immortal Carpathian and a spirited shape-shifter, is the weakest of the lot. Feehan struggles with the short form; she tries to cram everything she would normally put in a novel multiple conflicts, a full cast of characters and an abundance of love scenes into a mere 100 pages, and the result is a frenetic tale lacking emotional intensity, plausibility and focus. The stories improve progressively, however, with Shayne delivering a tightly wrought werewolf romance in "Awaiting Moonrise" and Holly offering a sexy, shockingly kinky romance ("The Night Owl") between a vampire and a smalltown baker. The most inventive of the four is "Seduction's Gift." Knight imagines a magical world where Magi, immortal champions of humankind commonly referred to as "witches" and "vampires," wield their powers to save humanity from itself. These immortal champions include the legendary King Arthur, Guinevere and the hero of this tale, Lord Lancelot du Lac, assassin and High Court seducer. All the stories suffer to some degree from an overabundance of lust and sex and a dearth of emotional connection, but fans of the genre aren't likely to mind. (Sept.) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Publishers Weekly

#1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan is...
“The queen of paranormal romance.”—USA Today

New York Times bestselling author Maggie Shayne...
“satisfies every wicked craving.”—Suzanne Foster

USA Today bestselling author Emma Holly...
“may shock the uninitiated.”—Publishers Weekly

New York Times bestselling author Angela Knight...
“seduces readers with [her] stories.”—Sensuous Romance Reviews

From the Publisher