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From Chelsea/VBC: Magic and warriors are hitting all the right buttons with the VBC team lately. So I’m pleased to have Stacey Kennedy on the site today. Her second book in her Magic and Mayhem series Witches Be Burned releases on May 19, and it looks super good. We managed to snag an exclusive excerpt of the book just for you guys, and peek at the end of the post for a giveaway, too. Thank you so much... 
From Chelsea/ VBC: We know you love sexy shifters. Today we’re pleased to turn the blog over to author Sharon Ashwood. She writes some great shifter romance. She’s going to give you the skinny on her upcoming release Possessed by a Wolf (yes, please). The novel releases on Friday, and you can pre-order here. We also have an awesome signed book giveaway at the end of the post. Let’s turn it over to Sharon... 
From Chelsea/VBC: Today we have Dani Harper here at VBC to teach us the essentials about faeries. Her latest Grim Series book Storm Warned just released, and in it the hero and heroine have to protect both the human and fae worlds. Seems like these tips would come in handy there. You’ll find a sweet giveaway at the end of the post. Enjoy! My new Grim Series is bringing ancient faery legends into... 
Faith Hunter’s latest Jane Yellowrock novel Dark Heir releases in just over a week (April 7, pre-order it), and VBC knows many of you are ready for more Jane and Beast kicking ass. Though, the fanged foe in this one is going to give our heroine some serious trouble. To help with the wait until the book hits shelves, we have an exclusive excerpt from Dark Heir, and if you want more check out the blog tour... ![C.T. Adams on World Building in The Exile [+ Giveaway]](http://vampirebookclub.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/The-Exile-Cover-Image-860619_200x200.jpg)
From Chelsea/VBC: If you’ve read VBC for some time, you’ve probably noticed how much we love clever and detailed world building. It’s our jam. So, we were really excited to hear that C.T. Adams—half of the writing duo Cat Adams (Blood Singer novels)—had a new urban fantasy set in a world where magic is real and not a super secret. We reached out to her to find out what drew her to writing in this world... 
The VBC team has fallen for Leigh Evans’ Mystwalker series. We love her take on werewolves and magic, and from the get-go we were all sold on Hedi. Heroines that bring the snark go over well here. To celebrate the release of the fourth and final Mystwalker book The Danger of Destiny (get it now), we have an exclusive excerpt from the novel (because you deserve a sneak peek) and we’re giving away the... 
The reviewers here at VBC are big fans of Chloe Neill’s Chicagoland Vampires series. The series continues to get better with each novel, and the latest twists have us asking all sorts of questions about what’s to come next. Dark Debt, the 11th Chicagoland Vampires book, releases today, and we’re pretty much in love with it. We’ll have a full review later this week, but we have an exclusive taste of the... 
Welcome to Red London, and the start of V.E. Schwab’s tour for A Darker Shade of Magic. Before we get to the good stuff—a quick question with the author and an excellent giveaway—I want to say VBC is super excited about this book. It’s got magic and smuggling and underhanded deeds and a protagonist we love. We’ll have a review later on (the novel releases Feb. 24), but just add this one to your to-be-read... 
We love us some sexy shifters here at VBC, and Katie Reus delivers them. We’re fans of her Moon Shifter series (our review of Alpha Instinct), and pretty excited about the upcoming release of her fifth book Hunter Reborn on Feb. 3 (pre-order it). So excited, in fact, that we have an exclusive excerpt to share with you. And, yes, there’s a sweet giveaway at the end of the post, too. EXCERPT FROM HUNTER... 
Note from VBC/Chelsea: The VBC team is super intrigued by Kristi Charish’s upcoming novel Owl and the Japanese Circus (releasing Jan. 13, 2015), so we were very excited when she agreed to write a post for us. Today she’s going to delve into the differences between paranormal romance and urban fantasy, and we’ve got a copy of her book for one lucky reader. Paranormal Romance or Urban Fantasy? We’ve all... 
