Biting Oz (Biting Love) [Kindle Edition]

Mary Hughes (Author)

Book Description

Real vampires do musicals.
Biting Love, Book 5

Gunter Marie "Junior" Stieg is stuck selling sausage for her folks in small-town Meiers Corners. Until one day she's offered a way out--the chance to play pit orchestra for a musical headed for Broadway: Oz, Wonderful Oz.

But someone is threatening the show's young star. To save the production, Junior must join forces with the star's dark, secretive bodyguard, whose sapphire eyes and lyrical Welsh accent thrill her. And whose hard, muscular body sets fire to her passions.

Fierce as a warrior, enigmatic as a druid, Glynn Rhys-Jenkins has searched eight hundred years for a home. Junior's get-out-of-Dodge attitude burns him, but everything else about her inflames him, from her petite body and sharp mind to what she can do with her hip-length braid.

Then a sensuous, insidious evil threatens not only the show, but the very foundations of Meiers Corners. To fight it, Junior and Glynn must face the truth about themselves--and the true meaning of love and home.

Warning: Cue the music, click your heels together, make a wish and get ready for one steamy vampire romance. Contains biting, multiple climaxes, embarrassing innuendos, ka-click/ka-ching violence, sausage wars and--shudder--pistachio fluff.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Recommended Read TwoLips Reviews. "Biting Oz is a wonderfully funny and sexy novel by an equally passionate author and it's on my "TBRA" (To Be Read Again) list for sure!" Reviewed by Leanna

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Nominated Book of the Month, LASR. "I enjoyed this for the unique humor Ms. Hughes brings to all of her Biting Love books, and of course the hot and steamy passion that erupts from the page every time Junior and Glynn come together..." Reviewed by Foxglovee

Purest Delight, Guilty Pleasures Book Reviews. "...this is my favorite of the Biting Series by Mary Hughes...this book was fabulous!" Reviewed by Kitty Angel

"Author Mary Hughes has a way of blending sensuality, danger, and over-the-top oddness in a way few authors ever could, which is why I simply adore her books..." Shayna for Joyfully Reviewed

Book Description

When “Junior” Stieg is offered the chance to play pit orchestra for a Broadway-bound musical, she goes for it. But all is not emeralds and ruby slippers in the production: someone is threatening the show’s young star, and Junior must work with the star’s enigmatic bodyguard to save the production. Glynn has searched eight hundred years for a home. Junior’s body and sharp mind set fire to his senses, but an insidious evil forces them both to face the truth about themselves—and to redefine the true meaning of love and home.

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Product Details

• File Size: 541 KB
• Print Length: 302 pages
• Publisher: Samhain Publishing, Ltd. (August 14, 2012)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B0088QYAD6
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Not Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #87,680 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Reminds me of why I love Biting Nixie September 6, 2012

By Vanessa C

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

Mary Hughes has stepped up her game with Biting Oz. All of the crazy humor that I liked so well in Biting Nixie is in this book. Of course it helps that Julian and Nixie play a supporting role in this book. Junior, an only child in a family run sausage store, has dreams of performing in New York in the pit orchestra of a soon to be remake of the Wizard of Oz on Broadway. If the play ever gets any patrons to see it. The star of the show is the ward of a very rich and powerful business man. Accompanying her is a very large, very protective, and very handsome man, Glynn. The attraction is instantaneous. But Junior has no designs on becoming attached to this man, she's going to leave Meiers Corners and make it on her own. Unlike her mother she's not giving up her dreams to be tied to a man and a family business that occupies all of her time. That's why this show must make it. Hughes gives her characters funny, delightful banter both internally and with each other. Add in a bunch of corny musician one liner jokes and you have a light crazy funny read.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Read September 3, 2012

By LAS Reviewer

Format:Kindle Edition

There is an old saying in show business - the show must go on. Nowhere is that more true that when the folks in Meiers Corners decide to put on a stage play of the Wizard of Oz, and are beset with low audience turnout, repeated attempts to abduct the girl playing Dorothy, and sabotage of many sorts. Gunter Marie `Junior' Steig believes this is her only chance to escape the boring life at home - if the show is a success, the next stop is New York City and a chance for more than the sausage shop. What Junior doesn't know is that many of the residents of her little town are vampires...old, strong and powerful, and one of them wants Junior for his own. But Glynn Rhys-Jenkins knows about Junior's dreams, and he places a high value on home, having lost his long ago. When the evil Chicago vampires up the stakes, Junior and Glynn and the rest of Meiers Corner residents fight back with everything they have. Can Junior and Glynn survive the sausage wars, the cheese rebellion and the vampire attacks to save the show? Will they be able to fight the attraction growing between them? Or will Junior learn, like Dorothy, that `there's no place like home'?

Biting Oz is Mary Hughes' latest Biting Love book, and one of the hottest so far. Her tiny town of Meiers Corners is a unique society, where ancient vampires and eccentric humans coexist in peace unless the evil Chicago vampires attack. The characters are all well-defined, and the conflicts are edge of your seat, fast paced and mostly unexpected when they come. I have become addicted to the Meiers Corners gang and all that they encompass, from Nixie and Elena to Julian, Glynn and even the mysterious Mr. Elias, seldom seen but all knowing.

Gunter Marie `Junior' Steig is determined to make her move to the big city. She dreams of freedom and a life of her own, away from the sausage shop her family runs. She's falling for Glynn, but feels if she gets close, she will lose her one shot at escape. I enjoyed watching as she falls under Glynn's protection, and his affection, and slowly comes to realize that home is where the heart is, be it New York, Meiers Corners or even the cornfields of Iowa. She's smart, talented and determined, and I loved watching as she discovered she could have her dreams and Glynn too.

Glynn is a centuries old vampire, and in all those years he has never found his one soul mate...until he meets Junior. He's strong, sexy and sensitive to her desires, but finds it harder and harder to keep from claiming her as his and keeping her by his side. I like Glynn's sense of loyalty and his generosity in trying to keep Junior safe and yet give her what she dreams of most: her freedom to be who she is.

There are two recurring threads here-the growing relationship between Junior and Glynn, and the repeated sabotage by the Chicago vampires and their minions. I enjoyed this for the unique humor Ms. Hughes brings to all of her Biting Love books, and of course the hot and steamy passion that erupts from the page every time Junior and Glynn come together. I also enjoyed watching as the town united against the `outsiders' and saved not only the show, but the town as well. I recommend this for those who love a side of humor with their main course of romance.

Originally posted at LAS Romance reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Hot! August 27, 2012

By couponingwithboys

Format:Kindle Edition

Wow! That's the only thing I can think to say about this book! Can I order 1 Glynn, to go? That would be great! I was really into this book. I started it this afternoon, and was finished by 8pm. I just couldn't stop reading. It was definitely one of those "tune everyone out" books, and those are my favorite!

I liked how the book wasn't one where it was girl meets boy, girl falls for boy, happily ever after. Junior is very insecure about relationships, and she wants out of her small town. Her relationship with her parents, especially her mom, is very volatile, and she is afraid of falling in love and forgetting about her dreams. However, with a guy like Glynn, staying away was not easy! He was not going away, and she was very attracted to him.

Junior is one hilarious girl! She's not very good at jokes, but she sure tries. She is a caring daughter, and a great friend. She wants to get her big break to New York so that she can get out of this small town atmosphere. Meeting Glynn was not in her plans at all, and she is very resistant to having a relationship.

This book does have adult situations, and the rest of the series is going on my to be read list! I absolutely would recommend this book if you like paranormal books!

*I received a copy of the book to provide an honest review

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I live in the Midwest with my beta-reader alpha husband, two grandcats who demand equal lap time, a basement full of spare computer parts and several musical instruments including a romantic cello and a flute for orchestral twittering birds.

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