New On My Shelves This Week

Mailbox Monday is a gathering place for readers to share the books that came into their house during the last week.

Be warned that Mailbox Monday can lead to envy, toppling TBR piles and humongous wish lists.

Your host for October 2012 is: Marcia, the founder of this great meme.

This is a great way to plan out your reading week and see what others are currently reading as well… you never know where that next “must read” book will come from!

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I have three great new ‘virtual’ books to share with you all this week, all of them author requests and gifts…

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First up … A PDF of ‘Kiss Of The Butterfly’ a gift from its author James Lyon

Meticulously researched, “Kiss of the Butterfly” weaves together intricate threads from the 15th, 18th and 20th centuries to create a rich phantasmagorical tapestry of allegory and reality. It is about divided loyalties, friendship and betrayal, virtue and innocence lost, obsession and devotion, desire and denial, the thirst for life and hunger for death, rebirth and salvation. “Kiss” blends history and the terrors of the Balkans as it explores dark corners of the soul, from medieval Bosnia to enlightenment-era Vienna, from the bright beaches of modern-day Southern California to the exotically dark cityscapes of Budapest and Belgrade, and horrors of Bosnia.

“Kiss of the Butterfly” is based on true historical events. In the year of his death, 1476, the Prince of Wallachia — Vlad III (Dracula) — committed atrocities under the cloak of medieval Bosnia’s forested mountains, culminating in a bloody massacre in the mining town of Srebrenica. A little over 500 years later, in July 1995, history repeated itself when troops commanded by General Ratko Mladic entered Srebrenica and slaughtered nearly 8,000 people, making it the worst massacre Europe had seen since the Second World War. For most people, the two events seemed unconnected…

Vampires have formed an integral part of Balkan folklore for over a thousand years. “Kiss” represents a radical departure from popular vampire legend, based as it is on genuine Balkan folklore from as far back as the 14th century. “Kiss of the Butterfly” offers up the vampires that existed long before Dracula and places them within a modern spectrum.

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Next … Another PDF, this time the book is ‘Double Trouble’ and its author is Betty Sullivan La Pierre

DOUBLE TROUBLE, evolves around the murder of Tonia Stowell, the sister, of Nancy Gilbert who hires Hawkman, to investigate the murder.

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She fears her ex-husband, Drew Harland, released from prison early, has killed her sister and is now searching for her.

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Detective Groiler of the LAPD, helps Hawkman uncover many clues.

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A key to an extra safe deposit box is found which holds the missing Bible.

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Inside they find the clues that unlock the mysterious murder.

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And up finally for this week … A Kindle gift of ‘An Uncertain Refuge’ from its author Carolyn Rose.

A child orphaned by violence. A woman sworn to protect and raise him. A killer come to claim him. A few deadly minutes in An Uncertain Refuge.

Kate Dalton lives by the rules of honesty and fair play until she steps between a battered woman and the man intent on killing her. Amanda Blake barely survives; her ex-husband dies by Kate’s hand. The repercussions force Kate from her job at a domestic violence shelter. Fleeing unwanted publicity and yearning to break with her past, she heads to the Oregon coast, burdened by a coerced promise to Amanda—to care for the nine-year-old son of the man she killed and shield him from the truth.

For several weeks Kate holds a tattered web of lies together. Then Way-Ray’s vengeful uncle murders Amanda, an ambush journalist tells the story, and the boy bolts in horror. Aided by a dangerous man she only half-trusts, Kate searches for the boy she’s come to love. But a sadistic killer intent on claiming his kin is watching every move.

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I would love to see what great finds found their way onto your shelves this week!

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