The winner of Dark Enchantment is Gail S.! Congrats! Please email me at anyabast(at)gmail.com.
Today’s book……
New York Times bestselling author Anya Bast spins a spellbinding epic fantasy of a man and woman torn between love and war, magic and mystery, passion and revenge…
Once, Gallus Lucan was in line to inherit the Dragon Throne of Numia—until his future was crushed and his family slain by his malevolent uncle Magnus. Now Lucan has only one ambition: overthrow Magnus and take back what is rightfully his.
Branna ta Cattia is the Raven, a high priestess who has come to Numia to defeat its tyrant. It’s a journey made on the strength of her prophetic dreams, visions of ancient rituals, sacred spells, and of a handsome stranger destined to help her—all in the name of stopping Magnus’s oppression. But Branna’s stranger is more than she expected. For Lucan wants victory his own way. To hell with the consequences.
As the magic of one woman’s love and the brute force of one’s man revenge unfold, Lucan and Branna realize their destiny as spirit mates—and their fears that the ultimate cost of winning freedom could be greater than either imagined.
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Grab the nearest book to you, in the comments tell us the title and the very first line. No cheating and looking around for your choice, grab the very first one you see.
Daughter of Darkness by Virginia Andrews.
by Renee January 30th, 2012 at 2:31 am‘I know there are many my age who are ashamed of or embarressed by their parents.’
‘Dragon Actually’ by G. A. Aiken. “He’d heard the sounds of battle for quite some time.”
by Preye January 30th, 2012 at 2:59 amFirst Drop of Crimson by Jeaniene Frost
New Year’s Eve, one year before
by miki January 30th, 2012 at 3:17 amEven though they were in the basement, Denise couls still hear the sounds of the battle outside.”
Blood Fever by Karen Marie Moning
“You’re a difficult woman to find, Ms. Lane,”said Inspector O’Duffy as I opened the
by Ren Puspita January 30th, 2012 at 4:40 amdiamond-paned front door of Barrons Books and Baubles.
Reaper’s Justice by Charlotte Boyett-Compo
by Kris M. January 30th, 2012 at 5:01 am“Kasid Jaborn came awake with a start.”
Wolf Signs by Vivian Arend.
by CrystalGB January 30th, 2012 at 6:09 am6450 calories stared up at Robyn.
Grave Witch by Kalayna Price
The first time I encountered Death, I hurled my mother’s medical chart at him!!!
by Deana January 30th, 2012 at 6:16 am“Sergeant Arial Dean strode toward the command van, the beam of a flashlight bouncing ahead of her, illuminating dead brush and icy ground.”
Dragon Dance by Angela Knight
by Diane January 30th, 2012 at 6:25 amThe book next to me is Sorcery and the Single girl by Mindy Klasky. First line reads. Once upon a time I thought that being a witch would make everything easier.–Rachel
by Rachel January 30th, 2012 at 6:29 amsimply sinful by kate pearce
prologue:
My dearest james, thank you for the beautiful flowers and fruit you sent from london to celebrate our wedding anniversary.
by melissa cahall January 30th, 2012 at 6:31 amDarker After Midnight
The charges are set, Lucian.
by Jon-Anne F. January 30th, 2012 at 7:08 amgena showalter – the darkest pleasure
by eli yanti January 30th, 2012 at 7:56 amCourting Darkness
by MaDonna Lemmen January 30th, 2012 at 8:26 amThere it was—waiting for us. Home, with smoke drifting from the chimney and an array of multicolored sparkling lights surrounding the porch. From the
The Beloved Scoundrel
by JeanP January 30th, 2012 at 8:49 am“The Window to Heaven was shattered”
There’s Something About a Rebel… by Anne Oliver
by Rhonda Dennis January 30th, 2012 at 8:51 amIt wasn’t the rumble of approaching thunder that woke Lissa Sanderson some time after midnight.
Keri Arthur-Darkness Rising
by elaing8 January 30th, 2012 at 8:57 amfirst line: The house still smelled of death.
The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd
In the middle of my marriage, when I was above all Hugh’s wife and Dee’s mother, one of those unambiguous women with no desire to disturb the universe, I fell in love with a Benedictine monk.
by Jodi Kegebein January 30th, 2012 at 9:06 amThe closest too me A Million Suns by Beth Revis
by Kristina Ebert January 30th, 2012 at 9:13 amElder:
“‘This isn’t going to be easy’, I mutter, staring at the solid metal door that leads to the Engine Room on the Shipper Level of Godspeed. “
No laughing its my sons book, “The Foot Book”, by Dr.Seuss. Left foot left foot right foot right feet in the morning feet at night left foot left foot left foot right.
by Savannah Miller January 30th, 2012 at 9:49 am🙂 My house is over taken by kids books they are everywhere even on my desk!! Thanks for the chance to win
Night Maneuvers by Jillian Burns
If she ever got married in a place like this, her mother would weep and wail for a month of Sundays.
by Colleen January 30th, 2012 at 10:33 amMidnight Sins- Lora Leigh
by Amber January 30th, 2012 at 11:15 amIt would have been amusing, if it hadn’t had the potential to be so dangerous.
-Amber
Strokes by Delilah Devlin. Lily Newcomb checked her makeup in the rearview mirror.
by Linda Henderson January 30th, 2012 at 11:31 amBound by Moonlight by Nancy Gideon
by cait045 January 30th, 2012 at 11:58 am“C’mon, c’mon.”
Wild Cat Jennifer Ashley
by Lindsey E January 30th, 2012 at 12:09 pmHeights. Damn it, why does it have to be heights?
” We should start back,” Gared urged as the woods began to grow dark around them.
by carla c January 30th, 2012 at 12:23 pmFrom: Game Of Thrones. By: George R.R. Martin
in the forests of the night Kersten Hamilton
by SiNn/ beverly gordon January 30th, 2012 at 1:55 pmTears were spilling down Teagan Wyllton’s cheels as she went up the stairs
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“The two men appeared out of nowhere, a few yards apart in the narrow, moonlit lane.”
by Fedora January 30th, 2012 at 2:14 pm“Home Sweet Home” by Bella Riley
“Home.”
by Jane January 30th, 2012 at 2:40 pmEmber and Ash by Pamela Freeman
by Richie January 30th, 2012 at 3:54 pm“This is the oath we ask of you,” the Prowman said.
Every Other Day by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
The decision to make hellhounds an endangered species was beyond asinine, but I expected nothing less from a government that had bankrolled not one, but two, endowed chairs in preternatural biology (one of them my father’s) at the University That Shall No Be Named.
by Pamela January 30th, 2012 at 4:02 pmEMBRACE THE HIGHLAND WARRIOR by Anita Clenney
by Lin Lou January 30th, 2012 at 4:10 pmShe wasn’t in Scotland.
I’m here to tell you, rising from the dead just purely sucks.
Vamped by Lucienne Diver
by Rae M. January 30th, 2012 at 4:35 pmNight Reigns br Dianne Duvall
It was not the cool breeze that made the hairs on the back of Ami’s neck rise, but the low bestial growl that accompanied it.
by Tracey D January 30th, 2012 at 4:47 pmStripped by Tori St. Claire
The woman Natalya Trubachev would escort to hell lay beneath a halo of murky light, trembling in fear.
musicalfrog at comcast.net
by Patti P January 30th, 2012 at 5:41 pmLife’s a Beach–
by Asheleigh Wheeler January 30th, 2012 at 7:46 pmI was squeaky clean and my hair has been conditioned for at least two of the suggested three hours when the water went cold.
Some Like It Kilted by Allie Mackay
“Since when do the MacNeils make war on women?”
glittergirl54 at ymail dot com
by Glittergirl January 30th, 2012 at 8:27 pmIt was nine-thirty on Christmas Eve.
by Jen B. January 30th, 2012 at 8:35 pmfrom The Woman in Black by Susan Hill
When You Dare by Lori Foster
by Cheryl S. January 30th, 2012 at 8:57 pmMidnight came and went with only the quiet buzz of meager traffic along the beach.
High atop the steps of the Great Pyramid of Giza a young woman laughed and called down to him.
Dan Brown- Angels and Demons
by bn100 January 30th, 2012 at 9:28 pmTitle is destinys warrior, first line is queine elphina pressed her spine against the sapphire cushions of her thrown.
by Ruth cardoza January 30th, 2012 at 9:56 pmThis is from an ARC copy of A Sliver of Shadow by Allison Pang…
“Run, Abby.”
by Yadira A. January 30th, 2012 at 10:00 pmVisions of Heat by Nalini Singh
Clinical insanity. The number 1 cause of death for F-Psy before Silence.
The book I am currently reading 😉
by Nicole G. January 30th, 2012 at 10:05 pmThis book is one I inherited from my dad and it is always near the computer so here’s the first sentence from:
by Ilona January 31st, 2012 at 11:43 amThe Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. (Rendered into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald )
AWAKE! for Morning in the Bowl of Night
Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to
Flight: