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Cross Your Heart: A Broken Heart Novel (Broken Heart Vampires)

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Just like her past books in this series, this book was fun to read. I work hard and enjoy books that let me relax and just enjoy the story line. This is one of those books.

If your looking for historical accuracy, intense characters, or the like....this is not your book.

If you just want a good read that is light hearted, with a little romance thrown in (don't forget the "Vampire" element)....then this will be fun.

B&N made a wondrous error and handed over my copy of Cross Your Heart the Thursday before its release. Wanna guess what I stayed up Thursday night doing? Take a WILD guess. Yeah, I was up until around 3am reading it straight through. I will go back in the near future and read through it slowly, but I can tell you now that Michele delivered - again - with her Broken Heart series.

The Setting - is still Broken Heart, Oklahoma. A few years have come and gone since everyone became undead and things are sort of settling into a normal routine of sudden-life-or-death and peace-and-quiet. This time around, you get more of a sense of where the town came from; those deep down roots behind why the town is cursed. You know what curse I'm talking about.

The Characters - oh Lord have mercy! It took me a little bit to get into the "hoity-toity" voice of cultured Elizabeth Bretton. I was so used to the sarcastic, down and dirty kind of women like Phoebe and Jessica that Elizabeth kinda threw me at the beginning. I had a scare two chapters in that, *gasp*, I might not like Elizabeth! Never fear. She wins you over though it's totally Tez you're rooting for. Come on, sexy smexy were-jag? And he goes all cave man to her social etiquette. It's a riot on the page. Other staples of the Broken Heart community appear, as well as some distant relations no one ever expected to visit.

The Plot - seven books into a series, a very connected series where each book builds off of another, you really have to wonder what else you can do? But Michele pulls it out of a hat in Cross Your Heart. I was a little skeptical when I read that it was a ghost story, kinda a mystery thing. Mysteries are okay, but I don't usually like them as much as adventure stories. However, there is so much of the history of Broken Heart twined around the mystery that it helps give the whole series a more grounded feel.

If you're looking for an light and fun paranormal romance, look no further!! "Cross Your Heart" is another great addition to the Broken Heart series by Michelle Bardsley. Elizabeth, a Turned Vampire, meets Tez, a were-jaguar and it's love and lust at first sight. Ghostly attacks, 100 year old bones, and town curses - it can all be found in "Cross Your Heart".

If you looking for an enjoyable read, you found it in this book.

Couldnt put it down! I love this series! It just keeps getting better and better! Elizabeth and Tez are great together! Absolutely a must read.

I have read the entire Broken Heart series and love it. If you want an entertaining, fun read with twists and turns this book, or the series, will not disappoint. The only negative is the wait until the next installment.

If you like this series youll like this book. Its fun quirky and sexy just like all the others before. Would have given 5stars but it could have been longer. But still awesome check it out

Pros: First let me say that I thoroughly enjoy the Broken Heart series. Character interaction makes me laugh. An easy read. I will definitely buy the next book in the series.

Cons: I few too many dropped & added words - needed to be edited better.

One thing got too me though (NOT enough to ruin the book!!). Did anyone else catch the error in Numbers on Page 206??

Michele Bardsley has continued her winning ways with Cross Your Heart. Another funny but oh, so sexy, "vampire meets her mate" book, but not your everyday mate. He's a jaguar! This was one of her better written stories because it has more plot and story behind the town of Broken Heart. Now that 5 years have passed since Broken Heart became paranormal we are getting to know more of the early history of the town. Can't wait for the next one.

Cross Your Heart: A Broken Heart Novel by Michele Bardsley
Paranormal Romance - Sept 7th, 2010
4 Stars

Cross Your Heart is a romantic paranormal mystery with comical elements. It is well written and the situations the heroine (Elizabeth) gets into, although terrifying, have laughter relief. You cannot put this book down because you're having too much fun reading it.

Elizabeth is: cursed, childless, widowed and undead. But being miserable doesn't keep an independent woman depressed for long and she finds a home and acceptance in Broken Heart, Oklahoma; a parakind community. She leads a normal life even if it was during the night hours.

Elizabeth is surrounded by vampires, shape shifters and the random witch, but when a ghost, shadow or demon threatens her, there seems to be nobody she can call. Determined to help herself she discovers in the woods the old bones of a murdered woman that she believes are from her dreams. But at the burial site, she is attacked and then saved by a stranger named Tez.

Tez Jones has been a lone wolf, or were-jaguar, into his adulthood. He's hidden his true nature until he is invited to set up roots in Broken Heart. Following a beguiling scent he arrives just in the nick of time to save Elizabeth. He knows the truth. She is his soul mate. Meeting up with her later at the Old Sass Café, he introduces her to two female were-cats. His welcoming party. Their current alpha is dying, and they want Tez to take over the pack. Tawny is not about to relinquish her position as first alpha and sets her sight on making Tex her mate. Elizabeth, as a vampire, is no competition, or she'll see to it that she's the only contender. Turns out he's not just a sexy, delicious face and hunky body. He's a homicide detective for the Tampa Police Department. Just what they need to solve a hundred year old homicide.

He moves into Elizabeth's home. He is determined to make her his mate even though there are strict rules against their species mixing. The vampires' biggest rule is when one takes a mate; they are bound by one-hundred years of faithful undying love. Elizabeth, as a human, has been there, done that; didn't work out. But oh, how she wishes she was wrong!

I enjoyed how the author puts the storyline into a small town with lots of side characters. She does a good job in keeping their relationship and purpose straight, and explaining the dynamics of the citizens, and the defense of the community without stretching too much believability or pushing the facts at us.

I also liked Elizabeth. She is a more mature character with a spunky and naïve attitude. There is sex. There is a romance, but not pages after pages, nor one after the other. There is a story line and plot without the romance being all that the novel is about. Her character is still learning things about the relationship with the other characters. I imagine if I was pushed to such extremes...actually I wouldn't be as nice.

Reviewed by Jackie from the Bookaholics Romance Book Club

If you haven't read the Broken Heart series, I highly recommend checking it out. Michelle Bardsley creates a paranormal world full of humor, great characters, and interesting plots.

I was so excited for Cross Your Heart, and it definitely lived up to my expectations. This is book seven in the series, and like all the others, it absolutely didn't disappoint! Each book in this series has managed to pull me into the story from page one. In this book we meet Elizabeth Bretton, a very prim and proper vampire who ends up with a ghost after her. Then we meet Tez, a hunky, flirty were-jaguar - pretty much the complete opposite of Elizabeth. The banter between the two of them is hot, as well as funny! Then again, Bardsley always gives her readers great, steamy scenes as well as plenty of some good laughs!

Together Elizabeth and Tez, along with the other residents of Broken Heart that we've met in previous books, try to solve the problem of the ghost and the mystery that goes with it. Something is causing strange behavior and fighting within many of the loving couples in Broken Heart. Is it the ghost, or something more sinister?

In case you couldn't tell, I love this series, and loved this book. I'm already looking forward to the next one! :) Definitely a fun read.