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Kresley Cole is a fan favorite with the VBC team. Her Immortals After Dark series is the longest running of her series, and it’s one that most paranormal romance readers would label as essential reading. Gallery Books decided it was time to start giving the series a facelift. So, we have new cover art for three of the books: A Hunger Like No Other, No Rest for the Wicked and Warlord Wants Forever. All... 
Many of the VBC staff were big fans of Rachel Vincent’s Shifters series. It was New Adult before that term existed. Angsty shifters are pretty great. (We haven’t ever reviewed those books here, but maybe we should. Hit the comments if you want to have us to a re-read or reviews of the Shifters books.) Well, after what was probably a lot of online begging, Rachel’s decided to give us more from this world... 
We’re not ready to say goodbye to Secret McQueen, but the release of the eighth and final book is set for December 2014. Sierra Dean has always packed an emotional punch with this urban fantasy series, and from the tagline for A Secret to Die For—”No one is safe”—it looks like the final book will give us all the feelings. While I can’t share any snippets from the book just yet, I can give you this... 
Remember how much Jo loved White Hot Kiss by Jennifer L. Armentrout? It was the steamy start to a new YA paranormal romance series, and we’re big fans of that around here. So could we say no to giving you a first look at the cover for its sequel Stone Cold Touch? Of course not. Here’s the skinny on the second book: Every touch has its price Layla Shaw is trying to pick up the pieces of her shattered... 
Pamela Palmer’s next Feral Warriors novel brings the heat, folks. All of the warriors will be in danger of losing their immortality and Wulfe’s happily ever after will be hard fought. Wulfe Untamed doesn’t release until Jan. 28, 2014, but we managed to snag an excerpt for you now. Along with the cover reveal (look below). No need to thank us. Heh. Also, Wulfe Untamed is already up for pre-order at Amazon.... 
There was just too much good news this week to skip on the Book Bits. Are you ready to get excited for upcoming books? (Silly question, I know.) Terrible’s Book Has a Cover and I Love It I’ve been talking about Stacia Kane’s forthcoming short novel Wrong Ways Down quite a bit on Twitter the last few months. It’s set in her Downside world (if you haven’t read Unholy Ghosts, you need to fix that) only this... 
Amanda Bonilla brings the kickass heroines. I loved her Shaede Assassin series (read reviews of Shaedes of Grey and Blood Before Sunrise). Now she’s on to a new urban fantasy series, and I’m pretty damn excited about it. The first book of her Sentry of Evil (!) series is called Vengeance Borne, and she was kind enough to give VBC dibs on revealing the cover art and back cover copy. Vengeance Borne will... 
Things are getting nice and busy here at VBC headquarters. I’ve loved reading applications for new reviewers (you can still apply) this week, and I have a couple very good reads atop my to-read pile. More Lady Corsair and Archimedes Fox! Next month we’ll get Meljean Brooks’ novella featuring the hero and heroine of Heart of Steel, a book I adored on an epic level. Tethered is an epilogue novella, which... 
Both Jo and I fell for Amanda Carlson’s debut Full Blooded. We’re not far from the release of the second Jessica McClain book Hot Blooded, but we’re all about looking forward here at VBC. That means we’re going to go ahead and ooh and aah over the badassery that is the cover art for the third book Cold Blooded. Allow me to share: Jessica arrives back in town to find her best friend missing and the most... 
Oh, readers, this has been a crazy week. We started Character Love Letters here at VBC. All month long you’ll find love letters on the blog. Some are from readers to their favorite book characters. All are swoon-worthy. Also, I’ll be heading to the Olde City, New Blood mini-con this weekend in Florida. I have pretty new VBC trading cards on me. If you’re attending, do be sure to say hi. Now on to the news... 
