With a supernatural Apocalypse on the horizon, a small coven finds an ancient ritual that may save thousands of lives. Rhylee, a witch with a talent for slaying demons, and Talon, a daywalker, are the logical ones to complete the ritual, which joins a willing human and a demon, fire and ice. Rhylee and Talon had a brief, secret affair some months before, fueled by a botched love spell. They parted before a vampire bonding occurred. Some things aren't meant to be. The Fire and Ice Ritual will have serious, lifelong effects on them. Vampire bites, sexy times and magic happen in this short romance. Written for adults.
Take a shy bookworm from Montana. Hand her a stack of her much older brother’s sci-fi and fantasy novels, James Bond books and horror comics. Later, introduce Barbara Cartland and the world of romance fiction. Get her a teaching job or two in authentic, one room Montana schools, ala Laura Ingels Wilder. Marry her off to a great guy, move her to a big city in Tornado Alley, then pop three daughters out of her in twenty-two months(one set of identical twins). Then, make her a jinx–every great genre TV show she loves gets the ax– Beauty and the Beast, Dark Angel–and Buffy and Spike never have a happy ending! She gets upset about no romance in the world, and fires up to write her own stories with happy endings. Throw this all together into a small house in Wyoming, along with a small bouncy dog and too many cats, shake constantly and pour it out onto a computer keyboard. There! You have me, Melisse Aires.
Author Melissa Aires is a good reads author. That's not to say she's an author on Goodreads. She is that. But rather, she is an author of stories that read well - good reads. She writes sci fi, fantasy, and supernatural romance. She's witty and fun. Her heroines aren't wusses and her heroes aren't arrogant pricks. The sex is just right, not too graphic a la Lora Leigh, but no 'fade to black' either. She has hit my buttons so far with everything I've read.
Her latest offering, which I picked up on a freebie promo for Kindle the other day, is Ritual of Fire and Ice", a short story of the events surrounding a sex ritual put together by a small coven to ward off some unnamed supernatural apocalypse. It's fun, it's flirty, and it reminded me of the latest product release from Gwenth Paltrow and her overrated and overpriced Goop product line.