Susan Krinard graduated from the California College of Arts and Crafts with a BFA, and worked as an artist and freelance illustrator before turning to writing. An admirer of both Romance and Fantasy, Susan enjoys combining these elements in her books. She also loves to get out into nature as frequently as possible. Susan lives in Alburquerque, New Mexico with her Freanch-Canadian husband, Serge, a dog, and a cat.
"Body & Soul"
Bantam Book, August 1998 Reviewed on 8/18/00 | |||||
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Jesse Copeland, an expert in mountain rescues, has returned to Manzanita after years in the Peace
Corps. Despite an indomitable courage that sent her rappelling down cliffs, she is haunted by the nightmares and shadowy
half-memories surrounding her mother's mysterious death. Now she is determined to find out if her mother's "accident"
was murder. What she finds instead is a man as transparent as air - sensual, muscular, his blue eyes burning into hers
as she cries out one word from a place deep within her: David. David Ventris, Lord Ashthorpe, late of His Majesty's Light
Dragoons, is, simply put, a ghost. He's waited two centuries to be called back to earth by the woman he wrong. He knew
her as "Sophie," a wondrous lady who sparked passion so blazing that time could not dim the flames. Now he is being given
the chance to guard her from danger and get back his soul - if only she will believe him real and not madness. If only she
will love him enough to create a miracle... and give him life again.
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"Touch of the Wolf"
| "Once A Wolf"
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| "Secret of the Wolf"
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"Touch of the Wolf"
Bantam Book, October 1999 Reviewed on 11/9/99 | ||
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Braden Forster, Earl of Greyburn, has devoted his life to restoring the purity of his clan's werewolf blood. He spent years searching in vain for a distant American cousin, a woman whose pure wolf bloodline is a vital link in his family's heritage. Braden had thought Cassidy Holt was lost forever - until she appeared one rainy night on the steps of his London mansion... her raven hair in disarray, her skin scented with sunlight and sagebrush. As Braden whisks young Cassidy to his family's secluded country estate, both can sense their undeniable attraction. But Cassidy soon learns that they can never satsify their mutual passion; Braden has already betrothed her to another. Her only hope of claiming the one man she'll always love is to unravel the dark and lustful secrets of his past. |
"Once a Wolf"
Bantam Book, July 2000 Reviewed on 8/8/00 | ||
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In the unspoiled expanses of the American West, Tomás Alejandro Randall was called El Lobo, the desperado and sworn enemy of powerful finacier Cole MacLean. Few humans knew his true identity: heir to a wolf bloodline that made him as much an exotic beast as a devastatingly attractive man. It was Tomás's plan to lure Cole MacLean's elegant fiancée, Lady Rowena Forster, from her New York mansion to the wild frontier. There he planned to seduce the golden-haired beauty as revenger for the destruction of his family by MacLean's hands. But once she was in his possession, El Lobo found himself unable to resist the call of his own untamed passion - a passion that would claim the beauty for his own. As for Lady Rowena, she desperately hid her own wolf heritage behind an icy, controlled exterior. Yet the famous "Lady Ice" found her inhibitions melting and her true nature emerging in the presence of this handsome desperado. Both knew the danger of their pairing, but their wild hearts would risk everything - even death - for a chance at everlasting love. |
"Secret of the Wolf"
Berkley Book, October 2001 Reviewed on 11/2/02 | |||||
Amid the lush vineyards and majestic hills of Napa Valley, hypnotist Johanna Schell has founded Der Haven - a
sactuary for those who know the pain of being "different". For desperate, frightened people whose souls are lost to grief.
For lonely, tortured men like Quentin Forster. Frightening spells of amnesia have plagued Quentin for years, and Johanna
wants nothing more than to ease his unspeakable pain - and find out if his claim to werewolf blood is just a delusion.
But she is horrifies to discover that under hypnosis, the tender, thoughtful man becomes violent, vengeful... evil.
And now - caught in the balance between reality and illusion, truth and deception, simple desire and absolute destruction -
she must find the courage to trust him. To love and save him.
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"Star Crossed"
Bantam Book, August 1995 Reviewed on 2/1/99 | |||||
At sixteen, Lady Ariane Burke-Marchand had loved Rook Galloway with all the passion and
pain of unrequited love. It didn't matter that the handsome Kalian was separated from her by birth and caste and
mansion walls. All she knew was that this exotic, mysterious creature called to her in ways she couldn't fathom or
resist. But that was eight years ago, before the deadly riots that pitted Marchand against Kalian and turned the man
she worshipped into an enemy she loathed. Convicted of murder and sentenced to life on the harshest prison planet
in the league, Rook seemed gone from her life forever... until Ariane realized that to put the past behind her she
needed to see him once more. Now as Ariane prepares to meet the smoldering gaze of the man who has haunted
her dreams, she doesn't know that she is about to become Rook's unwitting pawn, hostage to his searing passion --
and his desperate hunger for revenge...
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"Twice a Hero"
Bantom Books, June 1997 Reviewed on 9/22/97 | |||||
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MacKenzie "Mac" Sinclair is cursed. So is the whole Sinclair family. Ever since her great-great-grandfather
Peregrine returned from an expedition to the Maya ruins with half of a mysterious pendant--and without his partner,
Liam O'Shea. That's why Mac's beloved grandfather, on his deathbed, wants her to undertake a solo expedition, to
return the pendant to the ruins of Tikal and to find a way to atone for whatever part Peregrine played in Liam's disappearance.
But when Mac braves the hot, steamy, primitive jungle, something extraordinary happens: she blunders into the arms
of Liam O'Shea, an eerily familiar explorer, in 1884. Now she's in for more adventure than she bargained for.
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"Prince of Dreams"
Bantum Books, February 1995 Reviewed on 9/22/97 | |||||
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Diana Ransom couldn't take her eyes off Nicholas Gale, a gorgeous, green-eyed stranger.
But when she finally approached him, her reasons had little to do with the way he made her feel. Diana suspected
that this brooding, enigmatic man is responsible for the disappearance of her fragile young cousin, Keely. Desperate
to find her and determine the mystery behind Nicholas's hypnotic charm, Diana will follow him into the velvety darkness
and awaken all her passions. For Nicholas is a vampire with the power to enter a woman's dreams and fill her nights
with untold rapture. But Nicholas's brother, also a vampire, is out there. And he is out for revenge against Nicholas
and he's using Keely and Diana to get it. So together Diana and Nicolas must risk everything for a love that promises
to be forever.
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"Prince of Shadows"
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"Prince of Shadows"
Bantum Books, August 1996 Reviewed on 8/22/97 | ||
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Alexandra Warrington was looking for refuge, when she came back home to her cabin in the Minnesota woods. She was also going to study the wolves that lived in those same woods. As a child Alexandra had meet and played with a wild black wolf, named Shadow, and cherished that summer as the greatest time in her life. But that was no ordinary wolf and he's come back to be with Alexandra. Kieron Holt was a werewolf. As Alexandra helps Kieron try to get his memories back, the two fall in love. But Kieron's not the only one with problems, Alexandra hid from society and felt that she was a monster. The reason, she was in a horrible accident that left her scarred on the inside and outside. Alexandra and Kieron find out that they are a perfect mismatch. |
"Prince of Wolves"
Bantum Books, Sept 1994 Reviewed on 9/15/97 | |||||
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Joelle Randall came to Lowell to search for the remains of plane that her parents crashed.
But when she meet Luke Gévaudan, she realized that this mysterious stranger was going to change her life.
When Luke figured out how much they had in common, he tried to stay away from Joelle. But nature and their
growing love was against them. As Joelle came to terms with what she was, she and Luke must also deal with
the love they feel for each other.
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