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Imagine becoming a bestselling novelist, and almost immediately famous and wealthy, while still in college, and before long seeing your insufferable father reduced to a bag of ashes in a safety-deposit box, while after American Psycho your celebrity drowns in a sea of vilification, booze, and drugs.

Then imagine having a second chance ten years later, as the Bret Easton Ellis of this remarkable novel is given, with a wife, children, and suburban sobriety--only to watch this new life shatter beyond recognition in a matter of days. At a fateful Halloween party he glimpses a disturbing (fictional) character driving a car identical to his late father's, his stepdaughter's doll violently "malfunctions," and their house undergoes bizarre transformations both within and without. Connecting these aberrations to graver events--a series of grotesque murders that no longer seem random and the epidemic disappearance of boys his son's age--Ellis struggles to defend his family against this escalating menace even as his wife, their therapists, and the police insist that his apprehensions are rooted instead in substance abuse and egomania.

Lunar Park confounds one expectation after another, passing through comedy and mounting horror, both psychological and supernatural, toward an astonishing resolution--about love and loss, fathers and sons--in what is surely the most powerfully original and deeply moving novel of an extraordinary career.

A Tale of Two Brets: An Amazon.com Interview with Bret Easton Ellis
In his novel Lunar Park, Bret Easton Ellis takes first-person narrative to an extreme, inserting himself (and a host of real characters from the publishing world) into the haunting story of a drugged-out famous writer living in the suburbs trying to reconnect with his wife and son and reconcile his damaged past. Ellis is at the top of his game in Lunar Park, his first novel since 1999's Glamorama, delivering a disturbing and delirious novel about celebrity, writers, and fathers and sons (not to mention a cameo from notorious Ellis creation, Patrick Bateman). Amazon.com senior editor Brad Thomas Parsons spoke with Ellis in a Seattle to Los Angeles phone call to talk about the fact and fiction behind Lunar Park, New York versus LA, '80s music, and the whole "American Psycho thing."

Read the Amazon.com interview with Bret Easton Ellis

Less Than Zero (1985)
Published when Ellis was a junior at Bennington, Less Than Zero is the mesmerizing first-person chronicle of Clay, our laconic, zoned-out guide to a subculture of over-privileged nihilism in early '80s Los Angeles. He travels back home from Camden College (a thinly veiled Bennington) for Christmas break and re-enters his circle of jaded friends--including his ex-girlfriend Blair, and his best friend Julian, who's now hustling to support his drug habit--and a parade of Porches, late-night parties, cocaine, and casual destruction.

Ellis on Ellis: "I don't think it's a perfect book by any means, but it's valid. I get where it comes from. I get what it is. There's a lot of it that I wish was slightly more elegantly written. Overall, I was pretty shocked. It was pretty good writing for someone who was 19."

The Rules of Attraction (1987)
A line-up of Camden College students share the narrating duties in The Rules of Attraction, Ellis' sex-fueled, drug-baked second novel. There's Lauren (who's in the midst of losing her virginity as the book opens), who longs for her boyfriend Victor, currently traveling through Europe; Lauren's ex, Paul, a bisexual party boy who hooks up with hard-drinking closet-case Sean (surname Bateman--that's right, younger brother of Patrick), who also has the hots for Lauren. Less than Zero's Clay makes a cameo appearance as well as a passing glimpse of Ellis' Bennington classmate Donna Tartt's murderous Classics majors from The Secret History.

Ellis on Ellis: "It might be my favorite book of mine. I was writing that book while I was at college. Sort of like the best of times, the worst of times. There was a lot of elation, there was a lot of despair. It was just a really fun book to write. I loved mimicking all the different voices. The stream of conscious does get a little out of hand. I kind of like that about the book. It's kind of all over the place. It's casual. It's scruffy. That's the one book of mine that I have a very, very soft spot for."

American Psycho (1991)
Shopaholic sociopath Patrick Bateman's killer grip drags readers into a bloody, brand-name, urban nightmare as the 26-year-old Wall Street yuppie executes his grooming habits and eviscerates strangers with equal élan. Simon & Schuster dropped the too-hot-to-handle American Psycho which was then published as a paperback original by Vintage Books. Ellis received death threats while the book was boycotted, sliced up by reviewers, and went on to become a bestseller. Mary Harron's 2000 film version starred then little-known British actor Christian Bale, who would later suit up as the Dark Knight in 2005's Batman Begins.

Ellis on Ellis: "It was good. It was fun. It was not nearly as pretentious as I remember I wanted it to be when I was writing it. I found it really fast-moving. I found it really funny. And I liked it a lot. The violence was... it made my toes curl. I really freaked out. I couldn't believe how violent it was. It was truly upsetting. I had to steel myself to re-read those passages."

The Informers (1994)
Ellis returns to early '80s Los Angeles ennui with The Informers, a loosely connected collection of stories of the bored, rich, and morally depraved, written around the same time as Less than Zero. Sex, drugs, and gratuitous violence take center stage, with characters including an aging, predatory anchorwoman, a debauched rock star tearing through Japan, and a pick-up artist vampire. While some of the vignettes echo better Ellis works, ultimately the stories don't add to much as a whole. Book critics are less than receptive to Ellis' post-American Psycho offering.

Ellis on Ellis: "Those were written while I was at Bennington. I wrote a lot of short stories between 1981 or 1982 or so... The Informers more or less kind of represented probably the best of those stories. I wrote a lot of really bad ones, but those are the ones that worked the best together."

Glamorama (1999)
Actor-model Victor Ward (who first made an appearance in the Ellis oeuvre in The Rules of Attraction) is the narrator of Glamorama, Ellis longest novel yet. Ellis offers bold-faced names and celebrity skewering in the first half of the book as Victor tries to open a Manhattan club while cheating on his supermodel girlfriend and double-crossing his partner, but the second half takes a violent, paranoid turn as Victor is sent to England and unwittingly lured into a sadistic ring of international terrorists (posing as supermodels) leaving a bloody trail across the globe.

Ellis on Ellis: "[T]he book wasn't necessarily about terrorism to me. It was about a whole bunch of other stuff. It's definitely the book that I can tell--I don't know if other people can tell but I can tell as a writer--is probably the most divisive that I've written. It has an equal number of detractors as it does fans. It doesn't really hold true with the other books. It was the one that took the longest to write, and the one that seemed the most important at the time. It's an unwieldy book... I like it."

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Bret Ellis, the narrator of Lunar Park, is a writer whose first novel Less Than Zero catapulted him to international stardom while he was still in college. In the years that followed he found himself adrift in a world of wealth, drugs, and fame, as well as dealing with the unexpected death of his abusive father. After a decade of decadence a chance for salvation arrives; the chance to reconnect with an actress he was once involved with, and their son. But almost immediately his new life is threatened by a freak sequence of events and a bizarre series of murders that all seem to connect to Ellis’s past. His attempts to save his new world from his own demons makes Lunar Park Ellis’s most suspenseful novel.

In this chilling tale reality, memoir, and fantasy combine to create not only a fascinating version of this most controversial writer but also a deeply moving novel about love and loss, parents and children, and ultimately forgiveness.

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I hated this book.......2007-08-20

So why the 5? The book is perfectly constructed, the characters are real, the choice of making the author the main character and his books important to the plot brilliant; the horror is spectacular. You are sucked into the vortex. But I hated this book. I was disgusted by the Ellis person, real or imagined, and his wife Jayne. They are failed persons: using drugs, prescription or felonious, alcohol, the works. But it's the utter narcissistic existence they live which is the real horror. The demon of Ellis' alter ego is apparently taking over the lives and home of this family. Jayne, the wife, is an actress concerned mainly with keeping family life on an even enough keel to be able to pursue her career and not be alone. While paid help are raising the kids. The little girl Sarah is on meds and so is the son Robby- so as to cause as little trouble to the parents as possible. To my thinking the demons were/are present from the beginning of Ellis life, and he's destined to have them as his only constant companions. The author chucks us a thin bare bone of hope and love (?) in the last few pages of the book. Thanks.
Like many, I wonder what author Ellis is doing today. Why has his book tour been cancelled? Then again, I don't want to know anything further about this character, this author, this person, this mind. I'll never read another of his books, I'm certain.

Time for retirement?.......2007-08-10

Like many, I was so impressed by Bret Easton Ellis's first three novels that I was prepared to read anything with his name attached to it. I stuck by him after the tediousness of The Informers and the absurd and overlong Glamorama because, for the most part, his writing was as good as ever - he was just losing his thematic edge. Unfortunately, Lunar Park represents a further step into banality as not only is its plot ludicrous and its theme largely irrelevant to society at large, but for the first time Ellis's writing appears awkward.
Lunar Park tells the story of a celebrity novelist making a tentative attempt at fatherhood and a life in the suburbs. As the novel progresses it becomes apparent that his house is haunted by the ghost of his father, his daughter's doll is possessed by an evil spirit, a string of murders copycatting American Psycho are being committed, his son may or may not be kidnapping his classmates, the oil leaking from his BMW is the blood of JFK, the nuts in Snickers bars hatch into the things from the Alien movies, he eats an undercooked Whopper blah blah blah who cares. Terrifying, right?
It is ironic that there is so much that can be said about Lunar Park while the book itself says so little. Ellis zig-zags haphazard through the themes of father-and-son, overmedicated society, fiction-into-fact and supernatural occurrence, but spends so little time on each and links them so clumsily that it is impossible for the reader to gain any insight into them, assuming that Ellis himself had any insight to impart to begin with. The supernatural portions that dominate the last third of the book are particularly cringe-worthy as Ellis makes a self-confessed - and poorly advised - homage to Stephen King despite the obvious incompatibilities of their styles. There comes a point when the absurdity of Ellis using his hyper-realistic style to recount the occasion on which a possessed mechanical toy bird grew fangs and gnawed at his trousers becomes apparent. The blurb's conceit that this is an autobiography of sorts is really just a poorly conceived vice to mask Ellis's comprehensive failure to create a suspension of disbelief in his fiction.
It is strange that despite using himself as the lead character and musing on his reactions to his father's death, Ellis still cannot create any sort of emotional resonance within his work. This is a particularly salient failing as one of Lunar Park's primary drives is the assumption of empathy on behalf of the reader, predominantly in relation to Ellis's own character. Ellis begins the book by characterising himself as being only slightly less vacuous than Victor Ward and only slightly more sensitive than Sean Bateman, yet come part two we are immediately meant to empathise with this self-absorbed idiot because he's making some small attempt at self-betterment. This is a stark departure from Ellis's previous novels in which such characters were always presented, rightfully, as objects of derision.
Plot has not traditionally been the focal point of Ellis's novels either, however in Lunar Park it forms the unsteady structure around which the rest of the story is awkwardly plastered. Multiple plots and sub-plots are created and dropped on a whim and ultimately fail to combine into any sort of cohesive whole because the connections that Ellis eventually draws between them are so patently stupid. The lame anagram in the doll's name, the unknowable significance of the house's address, the dumb coincidence in the Harrison Ford movie. It's like, please baby, spare me.
Towards the end of the novel there is a scene in which Ellis (the character) writes the death of Patrick Bateman. The symbolic significance is not hard to grasp. Ellis wrote American Psycho over a decade ago so let's just move on. The problem with this is that American Psycho was an insightful, entertaining, devastatingly funny, razor-sharp social satire. It is one of the best books I have ever read. Lunar Park is self-indulgent drivel. Despite his relentless shallowness Patrick Bateman was a remarkably complex character while the Bret Easton Ellis of this novel can be read clearly straight up-and-down like so many other clichés - daddy daddy why don't you love me - and his problems are simply uninteresting. So if Ellis wrote Lunar Park to cleanse himself of his past, where to from here? Let's hope that it's somewhere much closer to Earth.

Disappointing.......2007-07-17

The metafiction aspect of this work was about the only thing that kept me turning the pages to the end. As a long-time fan of Bret Easton Ellis, reading about the main character's outrageous life in the literary brat pack of the 90's was a fun romp, but the story itself was a bit tedious.

a quick read ... a long afterthought.......2007-07-12

Clearly his best book yet. A metafictional horror story or a suburban gothic memoir written by a deranged heir of Schopenhauer and John Rechy. His technique is impressive as he sustains a Klein Bottle of a novel that reads like William Burroughs and John Irving channeled by Vladimir Nabokov. The last twenty pages not only provide a sublime lyrical coda, they exemplify suberb contemporary prose.

Whether it's really "true" or not, it's atleast truly great..........2007-06-16

Unfortunately, it's not very often that I find a book with a plot line so engrossing that I'm itching to get home from work just to read it, or tempted to hide it behind my text book in class. The last experience I had like that was with Chuck Palahniuk's Invisible Monsters, back in 2003.

Anyways Lunar Park is supposedly a true story of the "posession" and hauntings that the author, Bret Easton Ellis, experienced after writing, and producing into a movie, the book American Psycho. The book is intro'd by a quick story of Ellis' overnight fame & success, up until the point of his long-term relationship with a famous actress. They break up for a time, then she takes him back in to help him get out of the rut he's been in, with drugs and whatnot. She has 2 children of her own, one of which is Ellis' son, and the emotional deficits & awkward tension between the family members is overwhelming, almost nauseating. Ellis can't help but be reminded of his own broken relationship with his father, never reconciled before his death.

The rest of the book roll out slowly and steadily, with never a dull moment once the hauntings begin. The paint starts chipping off their brand new house, to reveal a pink stucco like the house of his childhood. He catches glimpses of a character (who looks alot like Patrick Bateman in the American Psycho movie) driving around in the old car his father used to drive. His step daughter's doll "comes to life" at night, proven by claw marks in the walls and eventually, on the children. Also tied into the plot is the dissappearance of local boys, all around Ellis' son's age.

And that's barely scratching the surface. What makes it most honest is the way in which Ellis reacts to everything, in a very normal way, the way you or I would react.

It's terrifying, gripping, sharp-witted, emotional, frustrating, twisted... the list goes on, it's everything I need in a good novel to keep me up past my bedtime (although I'll admit, sometimes I kept reading because I was just too afraid to put the lights out!).

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Too much of nothing.(The March)(Shalimar the Clown)(Lunar Park)(The Diviners)(Indecision)(Book Review) : An article from: New Criterion Max Watman Manufacturer: Thomson Gale ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books | Classics | Comic | Contemporary | Literary General | Politics | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | e-Docs | Formats | Books Political Science | Nonfiction | Subjects | e-Docs | Formats | Books General | Nonfiction | HTML | Formats | e-Docs | Formats | Books Political Science | Nonfiction | HTML | Formats | e-Docs | Formats | Books ASIN: B000CFWJ4S Release Date: 2006-03-28

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Average customer rating: Love Dark Hunters Good fun Great Series Loved, loved, loved them

The Sherrilyn Kenyon Dark-Hunter Boxed Set, No. 1: Night Embrace / Dance with the Devil / Night Pleasures Sherrilyn Kenyon Manufacturer: St. Martin's Paperbacks ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback Contemporary | General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books Fantasy, Futuristic & Ghost | Romance | Subjects | Books Science Fiction | Science Fiction & Fantasy | Subjects | Books | Adventure | Alternate History | Anthologies | General | Graphic Novels | High Tech | History & Criticism | Series | Short Stories | Space Opera Literature & Fiction | Boxed Sets | Formats | Books Romance | Boxed Sets | Formats | Books Science Fiction & Fantasy | Boxed Sets | Formats | Books Similar Items: Fantasy Lover (Dark-Hunter, Book 1) Kiss of the Night (A Dark-Hunter Novel, Book 5) Seize the Night (A Dark-Hunter Novel, Book 7) Sins of the Night (A Dark-Hunter Novel, Book 8) Night Play (A Dark-Hunter Novel, Book 6) ASIN: 0312942214 Release Date: 2006-10-03

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Love Dark Hunters.......2007-10-04

Love those Dark Hunters! She (Kenyan) is one of the best paranormal romance writers ever... right up there with Christine Feehan!

Good fun.......2007-07-28

This set was my introduction to the Dark-Hunter series and I have to say that I am hooked. The story-lines and the character development were far superior to what I was expecting. And heck, they are a fun read.

Great Series.......2007-04-04

A fantastic fictional series. This boxed set inspired me to order several other books from Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark Hunter Series. I am very pleased with this purchase.

Loved, loved, loved them.......2007-03-09

This was my first taste of Sherrilyn Kenyon and her Dark-Hunter series and now I am waiting with baited breath for my next shipment to get here so I can continue reading her series. I have been an avid Laurell K Hamilton reader and after reading all the current books in both of her series was left desperate and depressed with nothing to read.... THEN I found the Dark-Hunter series!!! I love how each book is devoted to a Dark-Hunter. Getting to know each of them "intimately" and then seeing them make little guest appearances in the next book makes for an awesome read. These are the kind of books you find hard to put down once you start reading. I would recommend this series to anyone who loves the paranormal, adventure, romance-erotica genre. A+, 5 stars, 2 thumbs up!

Average customer rating: What a Pervert! Okay I handle reading about rape but ripped and baby killing BO-RING! NOT your usual romance, VERY DARK disgusted

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the #1 New York Times bestselling author's first historical romance.

Kidnapped and taken to the beautiful city of Genoa, Cassie Brougham finds love in the arms of her captor, while she is betrothed to another man.

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Coulter's debut historical romance, reissued for the first time since its original publication, has been updated and edited for new readers. The story involves an 18th-century lord who will stop at nothing to win over the heart of a beautiful woman on the eve of her wedding to another man.

Customer Reviews:

What a Pervert!.......2007-09-29

This was a horrible book!

Anthony is a sadistic pedophiliac who had been "watching [the heroine] from afar". He had even gone so far as to have her tutored in a language he wanted her to speak.

It sickened me that the character was made to fall in love with her rapist.

"Love" does not justify rape or whipping a woman or any of the other sick things in this book.

Okay I handle reading about rape but ripped and baby killing.......2007-09-13

When I read review for this I thought okay so the hero rapes her in some old fashion woman taking fashion I can read that. I was tempted to read it. Well that wasnt the issue with me, although it was a far cry from sexy his rape was nothing compared the her being torn apart later in the book. Unless you enjoy hearing about women being sewn back together after a rape or a baby being killed I strongly suggest you dont read this. I admit I was enjoying the book and really getting into it but that part, that chapter, put that to a dead stop what a waste of a good book. I was enthrawled and enjoying myself and had it all ripped away from me in that later chapter - what a waste of my time what a waste of some good writing. Unless you want to go from "into a great book" to wanting to burn it in 2 seconds flat I suggest you avoid it.

BO-RING!.......2007-07-09

Boring, boring, boring! Positive reveiwers convinced me to buy this book, but I shouldn't have bothered. Rape scenes weren't even an issue. It was the story itself! It sucked!!

The main problem is that Coulter doesn't execute properly to portray a genuine 'love story.' Romance lacked depth--Cassie and Anthony had almost zero chemistry! The characters were shallow--especially Anthony! He was so wooden and hardly displayed any real emotion. He was written as a calm, condescending, and cavalier individual. He was too cold and too in control of his emotions. I hated that. Though Anthony's rape scenes with Cassie weren't totally offensive in my eyes (I've read worst!), his actions didn't make him a real "hero" either.

So the romance was lacking. However, there were some interesting moments in the book. First off, the gang rape scene. While very disturbing I thought it was actually the most exciting and provocatively written sequence of the entire book! It was quite erotic, (don't know if this was Coulter's intent). Also, Cassie's reunion with Edward (her fiancé) was another interesting twist, but the relationship ended predictably. In addition, the ending was especially delightful. Finally, Anthony showed some life! He cracked a couple witty comments and wasn't his usual cardboard self. Very refreshing, but alas, way too late.

I rarely give out 1 star reviews. (In fact, this is my first one ever!). Yet I'm just so upset and deeply disappointed that I didn't get the darkly intense romance as promoted by positive reviewers. Instead, this book is boring, banal, and insipid. Others obviously enjoyed it, but I agree with fellow 'unhappy' reviewers. Save your cash and look elsewhere. Or just borrow the book from the library.

NOT your usual romance, VERY DARK.......2007-05-09

If you can read this book knowing its not your fluffy romance then you won't feel too disappointed. I rated this book 4 stars because it kept my attention and it actually had a plot! However, if sexually disdurbing plots bother you I highly would suggest you skip this book.

What you'll find in this book..

Hero rapes heroine ( the norm for 80s book )
Heroine gets gang raped ( pretty detailed )
Heroine has sexual relations with another man, the "other" man... by choice

So, as you can see it is not your typical fluffy romance and if you can tolerate a plot like this then I dont think you'll find this book boring.. Infact, I thought it was a great book. One of this authors best, a FICTIONAL book.

disgusted.......2007-01-16

im usually a big fan of catherine coulters books but this book just left me speechless and disgusted. beyond what the character had to handle from the so-called hero, the rape scene just was inexcusable. i didnt and dont understand what went through coulters head when she decided to put such a brutal and descriptive gang rape--it left me nauseous and disturbed.
i was, and am, incredibly disappointed in coulter for this book. honestly when i first read the scene i was waiting for the hero to come to the rescue because it was truly too unbelievably vile. i shudder that coulter made use of such a terrible topic in her novel, something that shouldnt be talked about to sell books.

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ECHOES OF TERROR: A Madman's Manuscript; Three in a Bed; Masque of the Red Death; Dracula; The Furnished Room; The Forsaken of God; The Werewolf; The Midnight Embrace; The Devil's Wager; The Monkey's Paw; The Seventh Pullet Mike; Spencer, John (editors) (Charles Dickens; Lord Halifax; Edgar Allan Poe; Bram Stoker; O. Henry; William Mudford; Frederick Marryat; Matthew Lewis; William Makepeace Thackeray; W. W. Jacobs; Saki) Jarvis Manufacturer: Chartwell Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Dickens, Charles | ( D ) | Authors, A-Z | Horror | Genre Fiction | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books Gordon, John | ( G ) | Authors, A-Z | Horror | Genre Fiction | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books Jacobs, W. W. | ( J ) | Authors, A-Z | Horror | Genre Fiction | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books Poe, Edgar Allan, | ( P ) | Authors, A-Z | Horror | Genre Fiction | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books Stoker, Bram | ( S ) | Authors, A-Z | Horror | Genre Fiction | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books Dickens, Charles | Classics | British | World Literature | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books General | Dickens, Charles | ( D ) | Authors, A-Z | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books Hardcover | Dickens, Charles | ( D ) | Authors, A-Z | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books ASIN: 0890093423

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Eleven classic tales of terror by Saki, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allen Poe, Lord Halifax, O. Henry, W.W. Jacobs, and others, with vivid illustrations.

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Classics!.......2007-01-28

I remember finding this book in my mom's collection back when I was about 7 or 8 yrs old, and it's probably the reason I became a horror reader. The stories are all well-known classics (The Monkey's Paw being my favorite of the bunch), but it's the artwork that makes this a must-have. Each story is beautifully/grossly illustrated, and if they wouldnt scare guests, I'd frame the pages themselves! (Ya I'm sick!) If you can find it, get it!

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Devil's Embrace Catherine Coulter Manufacturer: Signet ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000FPZ0NM

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Ten Dark Hunter Series: Fantasy Lover; Night Pleasures; Night Embrace; Dance with the Devil; Kiss of the Night; Night Play; Seize the Night; Sins of the Night; Unleash the Night; Dark Side of the Moon (Dark-Hunter) Sherrilyn Kenyon Manufacturer: St. Martin's ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000RT3UPQ

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Ten titles from Kenyon's very popular Dark-Hunter series.

Average customer rating: Great Paranormal Read!

Devil's Embrace Victoria Chapman Manufacturer: Shadowrose Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1890785091

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Jane's life takes a mysterious turn when the very handsome Nick Devilin moves into the loft above her apartment and starts solving her problems. He is gorgeous, seductive and oh-so-helpful--but he's not quite what he seems. And Jane needs help. The police suspects her boyfriend of being a serial rapist, the FBI is shadowing her every step, and her job hangs by a thread. But things are about to change: Her enemies disappear in ingenious ways, her boyfriend leaves town, and Nick asks her to spend two weeks with him on Paradise Island. She finds love in his arms and wins a fortune gambling at the casinos. But the nagging doubt remains: Is Nick the answer to her dreams, or her worst nightmare? And what about Patrick, the handsome FBI Agent who has more than a professional interest in Jane? What will he uncover about the devilishly clever Nick who holds Jane in his spell?

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Great Paranormal Read!.......2007-06-23

Victoria Chapman has created a masterpiece with all the elements we look for in a romance novel.

We have a dark brooding hero. Well, there are two heroes--you pick your favorite, and I'll pick mine .

The story is about Jane, a woman that has problems galore. Her job is threatened, her boyfriend is a cretin, and life isn't looking so hot when she meets the neighbor.

Ah, the dark brooding neighbor. But is he more than he seems to be? Jane's enemies start to disappear, and her luck suddenly improves.

And, what about Patrick, the handsome FBI Agent... Oh, the possibilities! If you want a good read, this is it!

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3 by Catherine Coulter, Riptide, Devil's Embrace, Earth Song Catherine Coulter Manufacturer: Jove, Onyx ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback General | Romance | Subjects | Books General | Coulter, Catherine R. | ( C ) | Authors, A-Z | Romance | Subjects | Books Hardcover | Coulter, Catherine R. | ( C ) | Authors, A-Z | Romance | Subjects | Books Paperback | Coulter, Catherine R. | ( C ) | Authors, A-Z | Romance | Subjects | Books ASIN: B000O7IRU4

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RIPTIDE--"Fast-paced twists and turns...A ripping good read."DEVIL'S EMBRACE--18th Century setting for a wedding at which Anthony kidnaps the woman he wants on the eve of her wedding.EARTH SONG--An impulsive and beatiful heroine flees her father's castle when she hears she is to be wed to the repellent Baron.

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Devil's Duology - Devil's Embrace - Devil's Daughter Manufacturer: signet ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback ASIN: B000IAGIXA

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Two (2) massmarket paperbacks.

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Devil's Embrace Catherine Coulter ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback ASIN: B000JED1D0

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