The Rouseabout by Rachael Treasure

Kate Webster is a loveable larrikin who likes to play hard and worry about the consequences ;ater. She can't help mucking up opportunities life gives her. Rocked by her mothers death. she takes a dare at one of Australia's wildest rural events - a Bachelor & Spinsters ball. Its a dare that changes everything...….

An OK read Kate was a bit annoying at times. I liked the references to Australian country music and the description of the land.

If Only by Cherise Sinclair

This is the story of Sally and the Feds.

Sally finds a Master not tom the Shadowlands and leaves Shadowlands to be with him.  She finds he is abusive so leaves him and returns to the Shadowlands as a Trainee. The 2 Feds are now Masters at the Shadowlands. They top together and they take an interest in Sally. She has lost a lot of her cheeky, bouncy personality. She also has a job with the police  as a computer expert and gets involved in the Slavers investigation.

What I like so much about this series is not only the scenes and the sex, but mores the relationships.  The way all the relationships are a bit different, but always with that underlying D/s dynamic. How the men are always so protective and caring. The girls are their own people, willing to push the boundaries a little bit and ready to take the consequences when they do.

The books are well written and entertaining.

You're So Vein by Christine Warren

Ava Markham is beautiful, savvy, chic, and more at home with Kate Spade than with the idea of fangs and fur. She can’t get quite used to the fact that some of closest friends have crossed over to the Other side. Then one night she is attacked by a rogue vampire, and her deepest fears are realized when her body begins a dangerous transformation from human to immortal—a change she cannot survive without the help of an alluring stranger who comes to her rescue…

Vladimir Rurikovich, an elite member of the European Council of Vampires, is on the prowl for a murderous vampire fugitive on the night he saves Ava from the clutches of death. It takes just one look for Dima to know he cannot live another eight centuries without the stunning and seductive Ava—until he discovers a secret about her bloodline that could change everything… 

I didn't like Ava as a minor character in other books in this series, still don't like her in her own book. 

Secrets of a Perfect Night

This anthology of New Year's Eve celebration stories pairs Regency authors Stephanie Laurens and Victoria Alexander with contemporary author Rachel Gibson, and the collection is a rare treat. The tales begin with Laurens's scandalous Lord Dere as he arrives on Abigail Woolley's doorstep in the midst of a blizzard. Dere and Abigail share a past that neither can forget. They've both gone far too long without love and if propinquity and passion have their way, a blissful future awaits them.

The second in this trio of tales is Victoria Alexander's "The Last Love Letter." Beautiful Rachael Gresham had given all the love in her passionate young heart to handsome Jason Norcross. But treachery and greed tore them apart, their hearts shattered with betrayal and despair. Now fate has brought them together again, the truth at last revealed. Will Rachael and Jason have the courage to put the past behind and reclaim the love that has endured the long years spent apart?

In Rachel Gibson's "Now And Forever," high school friends Brina McConnell and Thomas Mack come together again at a class reunion. They may both have changed for the better on the outside, but inside, they're still as passionately attracted to each other as when they were teenagers. The fire that threatens to scorch them now is very adult, but whether it will last past New Year's Eve is anyone's guess.

Lots of brazen hussy's in these stories. I enjoyed all 3 stories.

Storm Peak by John A Flanagan

Jesse Parker, ex-Denver police detective, has returned to his hometown of Steamboat Springs, Colorado, to spend the winter working the ski patrol and taking it easy. But he is reluctantly dragged back into a world of violence and murder when a serial killer begins a killing spree in the sleepy ski town. The town's popular sheriff, Lee Torrens, asks Jesse to help her out with the investigation as the killer continues to stalk the town, leaving little clue as to his motive. Are the murders random acts of a psychopath, or a cold, calculated escalation of terror? As the two friends work together, the embers of an old union reignite, but the growing notoriety of the Silver Bullet Killer brings complications that will shake the foundations of the small town. No-one is safe. 

Murder, mystery, snowstorms and a romantically stupid hero. A light, entertaining read.

Elizabeth's Wolf by Lora Leigh

She brought him back from death and made him live again.

Dash thought himself alone, a soldier, a fighting machine and no more.

Elizabeth made him realize he was a man.

Danger surrounds the woman his soul marked as his mate, death and blood and a treachery that goes beyond even his worst nightmares. But he will protect her and what she claims as her own. He was created to kill, trained to do it efficiently, and only a man bound to her, heart and soul, will have the strength to save Elizabeth and her prized possession.

He was a lone wolf. A man alone. No pack, no family, no one to call his own until one single, innocent letter awoke Elizabeth's wolf. 

I think I've mentioned before I love a strong, wounded alpha hero who isn't afraid of a little bondage and spanking.  Really good, rather HOT read.

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

"The circus arrives without warning ... The towering tents are striped in black and white ... No color at all ... the black sign painted in white letters ... reads: Opens at night fall / Closes at dawn. 'What kind of circus is only open at night?' people ask...

Le Cirque des Reves

...The Circus of Dreams."

 Magical, mystical and marvellous. The best book I've read this year.