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Chosen By Sin (Para-Ops) [Kindle Edition]

Virna DePaul (Author)
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Publication Date: December 18, 2011
Don't miss out on National Bestselling Author Virna DePaul's intriguing Para-Ops world! 

"Incredibly well-written, different, and hot." --NYT Bestseller Larissa Ione


"DePaul is amazing! Chosen by Blood is a unique, hot, spellbinding treat for all paranormal romance fans. I can't wait for the next book in the series!" --NYT Bestseller Author Lori Foster

Overview of Chosen By Sin:

An elite Para-Ops team, a wounded alpha werebeast bent on revenge, and a female vampire trying to save her adoptive dragon-shifter family.

Can they stop a group of rebel shape-shifters hoping to unleash every demon in hell?  
 
More praise: 

"If you have not yet started this [Para-Ops] series...you are really missing out."  --The Book Reading Gals

"Readers who love Lara Adrian, JR Ward will love this new Para-Ops series -- this author is a rising star." --Sue Grimshaw (Romance At Random) on Goodreads
 
Try Virna's novels if you love True Blood, Supernatural and heart-pounding thrillers! 

Virna's other titles:
  • Read the other books in the Para-Ops Series [Chosen By Blood (Book 1)
; Chosen By Fate (Book 2)]
  • If you enjoy sexy paranormals, try the paranormal novella, A Vampire's Salvation. "I only have one request--when is the next installment due?"
  • To try a contemporary romance with humor and heat, Joyfully Reviewed had this to say about This Magic Moment: "[B]eautifully written...an unforgettable hit." 
  • The contemporary novella, Wild For Him, is "well written...and steamy!"
  • And if you enjoy hot cops, try Virna's super sexy erotic romances under the name Ava Meyers (The Red-Hot Cops Series)

Editorial Reviews

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"A gripping tale!...DePaul creates the perfect blend of danger, intrigue, and romance. You won't be able to put this book down!" --NYT Bestseller Brenda Novak

Product Details

  • File Size: 413 KB
  • Print Length: 256 pages
  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 146090334X
  • Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B006O1OJ3S
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Lending: Enabled
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #31,329 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition
Shifters have begun killing each other. The shifters have always been the Otherborn that the world knows the least about. In an attempt to see this race have more peace and possibly become better rooted into human society Mahone and the Para-Ops team become involved. This assignment sends Dex to France and back into the arms of the woman he had believed to be a one night stand.

I loved Dex's book. I picked him out as my favorite character while reading Chosen by Blood. I love shifters and characters with pasts that have left them damaged always lure me in too. He did not disappoint. The readers finally get to know exactly who Dex wants revenge on and why. That was a very interesting part of the story. The reasons as to why Dex ended up spending his childhood in a were orphanage and not in the loving arms of his mother is very tragic. Dex goes into his newest assignment with gusto knowing that he will soon get to have his revenge.

Jes was introduced in Chosen by Fate. She is a scientist trying to help the Otherborn she has lived around her whole life. Jes also has an extreme case of survivor's guilt. This survivor's guilt pushes her to make some selfish and sometimes unwise decisions that can impact the lives of those around her. I liked her. She brings her own damaged baggage into the fray and owns it. She wants to save her family and there is almost nothing she will not do to see that it happens. She also brought out a different side of Dex. Reading Dex evolve into someone who can care about others and himself was incredible. She's a perfect complement to him.

Readers are not only introduced to some new characters, but a fascinating race of Otherborn is also introduced. I cannot wait to see where Virna goes with the Draci.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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I like Virna DePaul's Para-Ops series more with each book that I read, so I am so happy to have stumbled on Chosen By Sin completely by accident. Since it's not main stream pubbed like her previous two book Chosen By Blood (A Para-Ops Novel) and Chosen by Fatewhich were Berkely releases, I only clued into to it by seeing Chosen By Sin mentioned in Goodreads member's status update. (Note: Chosen By Sin: A Para-Ops Novel (Volume 3) is also available in paperback even though the two editions aren't linked together on the product page.)

Where the previous book was really a team effort, the team has split up this time around with only short glimpses - or mentions - of the past pairs, which is actually okay since wolf shifter Dex and his heroine vampire Jes have fairly significant back stories and their pasts really do color their interactions with each other. Where Dex is 'abandoned' by his family, and suffers abuse in the situation in which he was placed and Jes' parents were murdered, and even though she seems luckier since she was sent to live with the dragon shifting Draci where she grew up loved, how tragic to be an immortal fostered by a race whose lifespan is thirty years tops and to loose everyone she comes to love over and over again.

I liked Dex in the previous books even though he stood apart from the team and never let on that they mattered to him. But here Dex really surprised me (and I think he surprised himself as well) this big bad lone wolf is a protector/nurturer at the bottom of his damaged heart. His heroine Jes, who Dex views initially as an adversary due to her actions in the previous book, despite her at times dubious choices was appealing as well.

I am normally not one for getting into the smex too quickly and generally like some relationship development first, but somehow the chemistry between Dex and Jes was so combustible on their first couple brief encounters that I had no issue with them succumbing to their attraction the second that they got alone together and then taking a step back and making them work through their issues.

Other things that I liked: I really liked the Scottish Dragon shifter guy Cy, and I liked his initial attitude of making the most of the time that he has in his destined to be short life. My only nits: the demon background story wasn't super well developed and the significance of Dex being this wolf of destiny was left a bit hanging - I can sort of guess where this might come into play as things move forward with the series but I think there should have been at least a nod to that with Dex personally questioning the fact that he suffered so much for a prophecy that seemed to have misfired - though Jes does mention that she's looking more into the prophecy. There was one thing that stopped me dead in my tracks in the heat of the story - but which made total sense thinking on it afterward since the awful knee jerk reaction really did fit Dex's character, even if it was hard for me in the moment of the story.

So bottom line? I really ended up liking this latest Para-Ops entry and had to email DePaul to find out whether there would be more. DePaul's answer that she's planning on writing book 4 when her contracted commitments allow and that we will likely see Lucy or Zeph's story as another self published offering. I can hardly wait, because Lucy and Zeph >need< their stories told and I'd love to see more of Cy too, he deserves a happily-how-ever-long-he-has and I would like to see more dragonshiftery-ness.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
pleasantly surprised January 15, 2012
Format:Kindle Edition
Reviewed by Suz(Under the Covers Book Blog)

After not enjoying the second book Chosen by Fate as much as I expected to, I have been pleasantly surprised by this one! Focusing on Dex Hunter the were beast of the Para Ops team he starts to look into the mysterious shape shifters, the most persecuted species of Other, they are being connected to strange killings and the raising of dark spirits. With the help of Jesmina Martin, the mysterious vampire from Chosen by Fate, will they be able to stop what the shape shifters are planning, the unleashing of hell on Earth...

So far this has been my favourite book in the series and Dex and Jes are my favourite couple. They both have dark pasts and a lot of emotional baggage to work through before they are able to move forward. If you like your H/h to.be full of tortured heroes and their equally angsty heroines you will love this book. This also seemed to give you a glimpse into the next book, hopefully about Lucy. When I first started this series Wraith was my favourite but as the series has gone along, surprisingly it is the quiet, loyal and compassionate feline mage, Lucy, that has now become my favourite, I really can't wait to read her well deserved HEA.

The case with the shape shifters was also interesting to read about, although this was more romance driven then the other two book, the plot seemed to take a backseat to the love story, it still held my interest. But it was the development of the overarching plot of this series that I really enjoyed, I really can't wait to see what will happen with the Quorum and with Zeph.

Although I don't think this will become a favourite series it is an enjoyable read filled with enough sex and violence to hold my interest!
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So glad to have found this book! I read the first two and the novella, but when I was looking at the bookstores for this one I couldn't find it anywhere. Read more
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Great read!!!
I haven't read the first two, and that's ok. This is a great book as a standalone, but I liked it so much, I'm going to read the first two now!!
Published 2 months ago by Shannon
An Action-Packed Sexy Must Read!!
Dex Hunt's story was the best so far--action-packed, sexy, and emotional with great new characters introduced. It left me angsting for the next story (hope it comes out soon!). Read more
Published 2 months ago by Susan Hatler
4+ stars - A sinfully good choice
I like Virna DePaul's Para-Ops series more with each book that I read, so I am so happy to have stumbled on Chosen By Sin completely by accident. Read more
Published 3 months ago by melindeeloo
Another Great Addition to the Para-Ops Series!
This third addition to the Para-Ops series did not disappoint one bit, in my expectations for the continuation of the series, as well as for the characters! Read more
Published 4 months ago by Among The Muses
Another great chapter in the Para Ops series!
This is a great series....done in my favorite style of writing for a series. Taking a main character from the first story and making a subsequent book all about them. Read more
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Virna DePaul
Thanks for visiting my author page! I'm a former criminal prosecutor who loves thrilling, sexy stories about ordinary people overcoming extraordinary obstacles to find love. Like contemporary authors Linda Howard, Lori Foster, Rachel Gibson, Lori Wilde, Sandra Brown and paranormal authors J.R. Ward, Larissa Ione, Nalini Singh (and countless others on my keeper shelves), I hope to bring my readers emotional stories that make them feel and dream and wonder well-after they've finished reading them.

Chosen By Sin, Book 3 in the Para-Ops Series, releases in late December 2011. In this series, the U.S. government forms a special ops team whose members, including a werebeast, wraith, mage, and a vampire and the human female he's forbidden to love, must retrieve a stolen antidote.

I also write contemporary romantic suspense for Harlequin Romantic Suspense and HQN.

You can read more about me at www.virnadepaul.com.

You can also find my craft writing book, LOVE WRITING, here on Amazon, too!

Thanks for your interest and I hope to hear from you! virna@virnadepaul.com

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