Humpday Hello - Jenn's Fall List

Greetings and salutations my Humpday Nation! Half way through and (dirty little secret) my week is done and I am about to board a plane with Tyra for a long weekend of stressless birthday celebration for our dear friend Tina! However, for those of you who are on the downhill slide... Let me inspire you with some other ideas for fall reading. Tyra totally snaked my idea and many of my top picks - however, we each have our own personal favs so I have some extra goodness for you to ponder/read/indulge in! Oh, and a little eye candy snack to get you started!!!! Mmmmmmmm - calorie free and oh so tasty! (If you can't stand the heat - stay out of the kitchen!)

The Care and Feeding of Stray Vampires, Molly Harper, Pocket Books, 7/31/12

Iris Scanlon, Half-Moon Hollow's only daytime vampire concierge, knows more about the undead than she'd like. Running all their daylight errands--from letting in the plumber to picking up some chilled O neg--gives her a look at the not-so-glamorous side of vampire life. Her rules are strict; relationships with vamps are strictly business, not friendship--and certainly not anything else. But then she finds her newest client, Cal, poisoned on his kitchen floor, and only Iris can help.

Cal - who would be devastatingly sexy, if Iris allowed herself to think that way - offers Iris a hefty fee for hiding him at her place until he figures out who wants him permanently dead. Even though he's imperious, unfriendly and doesn't seem to understand the difference between "employee" and "servant," Iris agrees, and finds herself breaking more and more of her own rules to help him - particularly those concerning nudity. Turns out what her quiet little life needed was some intrigue & romance--in the form of her very own stray vampire.

Blood Bath and Beyond, Michelle Rowen, Signet, 8/7/12

Sarah Dearly is adjusting to life as a fledgling vampire, satisfying her cravings at vampire-friendly blood banks. But when her fiance Thierry takes a job with the Ring--the secret council in charge of keeping vampires in line--Sarah's about to get more than a taste of danger...

Being engaged to a centuries-old master vampire can be challenging--especially when he takes a job with the Ring. Thierry's in for fifty years of nonstop travel and deadly risk. It's enough to make any woman reconsider the wedding...any woman except Sarah, that is!

Traveling with him to Las Vegas for his first assignment, they encounter a child beauty pageant contestant from hell, as well as a vampire serial killer leaving victims drained of blood, potentially exposing the existence of vampires to the whole world. But when Thierry's truly ancient history comes back to haunt him, and he's accused of a crime he didn't commit, it's up to Sarah to clear his name before their immortal lives come to an end.

Rapture, JR Ward, NAL Hardcover, 8/25/12

Mels Carmichael, reporter for the Caldwell Courier Journal, gets the shock of her life when a man stumbles in front of her car outside the local cemetery. After the accident, his amnesia is just the kind of mystery she likes to solve, but she soon discovers they're over their heads with his past. Over their heads with passion, too ...As shadows walk the line between reality and another realm, and her lover's memory begins to come back, the two of them learn that nothing is truly dead and buried. Especially when you're trapped in a no-holds-barred war between angels and demons. With a soul on the line, and Mels's heart at risk, what in heaven - or in hell - will it take to save them both?

A Tale of Two Vampires, Katie MacAlister, Signet, 9/4/12

Time isn't always on a vampire's side....

Iolanthe Tennyson has had a very bad year - due in part to the very bad men in her life. So she's accepted her cousin's invitation to spend the summer in Austria to indulge her photography hobby. Rumors of a haunted forest there draw Iolanthe into the dark woods - and into the eighteenth century....

Nikola Czerny is a cursed man, forced by his half brothers to live forever as a Dark One. But his miserable existence takes an intriguing turn when a strange, babbling woman is thrown in his path. Iolanthe claims to know Nikola's daughter - three hundred years in the future. She also knows what fate - in the form of his murderous half brothers - has in store for him. If only she knew the consequences of changing the past to save one good, impossibly sexy vampire...

Wild About You (Love at Stake #13), Kerrelyn Sparks, Avon Books, 11/27/12

Handsome Howard . . .

Hunky Howard . . .

Hot Howard . . .

It's not every day that Elsa Bjornberg feels delicate, not when she hosts a home renovation show where she can effortlessly demolish a kitchen. But from the moment she meets Howard Barr, this bear of a man makes her feel like a woman. And the way he looks at her, as if she were a pot of honey he'd like to lick . . .

Howard is not like most men. For one thing, he's a shapeshifter. And he always thought his celebrity crush would never amount to anything more than drooling at Elsa on TV. When his meddling vampire employer gets involved, the star is suddenly within his grasp - and within a hair of her life. For an ancient curse forbids their newfound love, and Howard is suddenly torn between his desire for her and his desire to keep her alive.

Can you tell I like the romantic comedies?  I can't help it.  I like a little laugh and a little sass with my romance!  So this is my sampling of fall TBR hits. What are you most looking forward to this fall?? Leave a comment cause I would love to know!