The Saucy Wenches Book Club

The Saucy Wenches are taking a brief hiatus. We'll be back in a few weeks, but in the meantime, check out some of our favorite series:

Karen Marie Moning's Fever Series

Chloe Neill's Chicagoland Vampires Series

Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series

Some of our Man Candy posts, and our book reviews. You're sure to find something to entertain you until we come back with all new posts in July.

All of it comes from the water. Everything, at the start. Didn't Darwin suggest as much? That life itself came from the ocean, in some roundabout way? Well, if not him, then his followers and subsequent researchers have certainly posited it, and with great vigor.
Life and death.
Our mother and grave, and the only thing between us is the shore.

Cherie Priest's Maplecroft, The Borden Dispatches.

It is Victorian England. Life is an endless parade of parties, lights, and gaiety for the lords and ladies of the haute ton. Blushing young debutantes forage for fortunes among the herd of potential husbands, oblivious to the monsters that lurk in the darkness. But immortal creatures of the night waltz amidst them and prey upon them, completely unrecognized. They are the Draculean race, and they have made a pact with Lucifer, some more willingly than others, for a life of eternal youth and hedonism.

And yet not all Draculia are content with their largess. Some reject the opulent lifestyle and seek a different path: a more noble purpose, something to fill the looming void, an escape from the trickery that entrapped them in a moment of weakness. They are rebels. But can they reclaim their lives as their own?

Colleen Gleason’s Regency Draculia trilogy centers around three powerful and provocative Dracule who seek redemption through love. Throw in a fearless vampire hunter, a couple of …

“I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded;
 not with the fanfare of epiphany,
but with pain gathering its things,
 packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.”
The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini

“When is your birthday?” (…)
Wide silver-gold eyes swung to him. “You don’t know?”
“No.”
Pouting, she twirled a strand of her hair. “How can you not know?”
“Do you know mine?” he asked.
“Of course I do. It’s the day you met me.” 
The Darkest Surrender by Gena Showalter

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“Does it hurt?” she asked, walking closer. “I don’t wish to hurt you, my lord. But...”

“It’s no great pain...just...as if I cannot breathe. I grow weaker the closer you come.”

She stopped, took a step back, gauging his expression. “I don’t seem to be able to stay away.” Again, the words came without her permission.

“It’s no great thing...I find I cannot breathe around you regardless.”

~ Colleen Gleason, The Vampire Voss
   (aka Lucifer's Rogue)