Waiting on Wednesday #48

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

Undead and Underwater

Undead 11.5

Mary Janice Davidson

March 5, 2013

Berkeley

PNR

Betsy Taylor and the Wyndham werewolves are back in three all-new outrageous novellas from New York Times bestselling author MaryJanice Davidson. 

MaryJanice Davidson “continues to put her own unique spin on paranormal romance” (Fallen Angel Reviews) in these hilarious and sexy new novellas featuring Undead Queen Betsy Taylor as she meets Fred the mermaid, an all-new female superhero, and Lara Wyndham, the daughter of the Pack leader of the Wyndham werewolves.

Ever since Debbie introduced me to Betsy Taylor I can't get enough of this snarky Queen Vampire! UNDEAD AND UNDERWATER should be extra interesting because this is a series crossover between Undead and Fred the Mermaid.

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Unbeautifully 

Undeniable #2

Madeline Sheehan

Self-Published

The first time I fell in love it was with a pair of blue eyes and a wide dimpled grin.

“Your old man loves ya, Danny girl,” He whispered. “You never ever forget that, yeah?”

I never did. And I never thought I could ever love any man as much as I loved my father. But as we grow, we change, we begin to make our own decisions and thus become independent and self sufficient and start turning away from our parents and turning to others. We form friendships, strong bonds and ties and begin experiencing life outside of the bubble we grew up inside of.

And we fall in love…a second time.

The second time I fell in love it was with a badly scarred face, the stuff of nightmares; the sort of disfigurement that mothers steer their children away from. Ugly, jagged slashes marred the skin from the top of his skull, down over his right eye, an eye that had been dug out of his face with a serrated blade. The scars continued across his cheek, over his lips and down his neck, ending at the top of his shoulder. His chest was a hundred times worse; scar tissue as far as the eye could see.

“Baby,” He said gruffly, “Man like me got no business with a girl like you. You’re nothin’ but fuckin’ beauty and I’m a whole lot of fuckin’ ugly who’s already halfway to hell.”

But he was wrong.

Everything has beauty. Even the ugly. Especially the ugly.

Because without ugly there would be no beauty.

Because without beauty we would not survive our pain, our sorrow, and our suffering.

And in the world I lived in, the world he lived in, a secret world within the world, a world of of constant crime and cruel, cold, death, there was almost nothing but suffering.

“You may not be beautiful the way you were before,” I whispered, cupping his ruined cheek. “But you’re still beautiful. To me.”

To say that I loved the first book in this series would be a slight understatement. I LOVED the shit out of UNDENIABLE. You could say I was a bit obsessed after I read it. Okay. Maybe a lot obsessed. I loved Madeline Sheehan's no holds barred approach to her story telling. Undeniable was an all-consuming story that had me enraptured right from the first page. UNBEAUTIFULLY is the story of Danny and Ripper. Danny is the daughter of Deuce, who was the hero (actually more like anti-hero) in Undeniable and Ripper, a member of Deuce's motorcycle club. I just have this gut feeling that Ripper's story will break my heart just like Zsadist in J.R. Ward's, Black Dagger Brotherhood series. They also hare scars that are eerily similar.

Madeline Sheehan hasn't announced a release date for UNBEAUTIFULLY but I'm telling you right now I am keeping a close eye out for any hint of a release date. This book is definitely one of my most anticipated reads of 2013!

Tell us what books you are anxiously waiting for?