Disclaimer: I received a free copy of the book in exchange for an honest review.
Cursed
Series: The Chosen Book 1
Genre: Fantasy
Heat Level: 5 Flames , Heated Desires
Coming Dec 31st, 2013
Locked in a demonic curse, Carmella Ramirez has lost the will to love. Once she was the star of the Ramirez Samba School and lived a charmed life. Now, thanks to an old enemy’s thirst for revenge, she’s the school’s reclusive seamstress and living in the dangerous ghetto of Rio de Janeiro. But that’s the least of her problems. When the sun sets, a succubus overtakes Carmella’s body and uses her beauty to lure men to their death. As the corpses pile up, those controlling Carmella plan to sacrifice her to their demonic god and blame her for the killings.
Her only hope is Sean Kalmus—a world famous musician and warrior of the Celtic god of Music, Maponus. While in Brazil to work the Carnival, Sam’s orders by Maponus to find and rescue Carmella turn into something more than they ever could have imagined when Carmella captures Sean’s heart.
With Sean’s help, Carmella will have to call on her strength, his magic and their love to break herself free before she becomes known as Brazil’s most notorious serial killer.
Ann Mayburn is a great writer. I couldn’t put it down. It has everything a reader would want in a book. It has romance mixed with a bit of magic and some demons. This is the first book in the series. I look forward to reading more of Ann’s books. I highly recommend it to those readers who enjoy reading fantasy that includes romance and magic.
Author Bio
Ann is Queen of the Castle to her wonderful husband and three sons in the mountains of West Virginia. In her past lives she’s been an Import Broker, a Communications Specialist, a US Navy Civilian Contractor, a Bartender/Waitress, and an actor at the Michigan Renaissance Festival. She also spent a summer touring with the Grateful Dead(though she will deny to her children that it ever happened).
From a young age she’s been fascinated by myths and fairytales, and the romance that often was the center of the story. As Ann grew older and her hormones kicked in, she discovered trashy romance novels. Great at first, but she soon grew tired of the endless stories with a big wonderful emotional buildup to really short and crappy sex. Never a big fan of purple prose, throbbing spears of fleshy pleasure and wet honey pots make her giggle, she sought out books that gave the sex scenes in the story just as much detail and plot as everything else-without using cringe worthy euphemisms. This led her to the wonderful world of Erotic Romance, and she’s never looked back.
Now Ann spends her days trying to tune out cartoons playing in the background to get into her ‘sexy space’ and has learned to type one handed while soothing a cranky baby.
Her site is here.
Diane Riggins 