Chosen By Sin: A Para-Ops Novel [Paperback]

Virna DePaul (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2012

Chosen by Sin (Book 3 in the Para-Ops Novels!) Also available for $4.99 in E-Book on Amazon: http://amzn.to/AtaCdw The longest life isn’t always the happiest one… Five years after the Second Civil War ends, humans and Otherborn—humanlike creatures with superhuman DNA—still struggle for peace. To ensure the continued rights of both, the FBI forms a Para-Ops team with a unique set of skills. For now, werebeast Dex Hunt serves on the Para-Ops team, but his true purpose is to kill the werewolf leader he blames for his mother’s death. Biding his time, Dex keeps his emotional distance from his team members and anyone else he might care for, including a mysterious vampire he met in L.A. As a doctor, vampire Jesmina Martin has dedicated her immortal life to healing others. As a scientific researcher, she’s trying to prolong life spans, in particular those of her adoptive dragon-shifter family and the werewolf who saved her as a child. Her greatest hope lies with Dex, a werebeast she believes can gift immortality to others. Only Dex knows nothing about his gift or the fact Jesmina wants to harness it. After a passionate night together neither expects to see the other again. Weeks later, they are reunited in France and forced to acknowledge a fragile miracle—a new life struggling to survive. At the same time, they must stop a group of rebel shape-shifters hoping to unleash every demon in hell. But before Dex and Jesmina can save their child or the world, they must relinquish their secrets, face their fears, and open themselves to love. Read the other books in the Para-Ops Series: Chosen By Blood (Book 1) Chosen By Fate (Book 2) "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 "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

• Paperback: 254 pages
• Publisher: CreateSpace (January 1, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 146090334X
• ISBN-13: 978-1460903346
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #124,786 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

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! [e-mail]

Customer Reviews

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4.0 out of 5 stars 4+ stars - A sinfully good choice, January 31, 2012

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melindeeloo (sb,ca) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Chosen By Sin: A Para-Ops Novel (Paperback)

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 is also available for Kindle 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, 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 aspect 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 questioning the fact that he suffered so much for a prophecy that seemed to have misfired. 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 is 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.

5.0 out of 5 stars Another great chapter in the Para Ops series!, January 16, 2012

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Tracy Mitchell "tracymit" (Oklahoma City, Ok USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Chosen By Sin: A Para-Ops Novel (Paperback)

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. Excellent character development....lots of good twists and turns....and yes some steamy romance. A+ all the way around, I don't write spoilers in my reviews, but this series is one of the best I've read in the past year...start at the beginning and enjoy!