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“Forbidden Magic is escapism in its truest form…I forgot about the laundry pile! The characters? Unforgettable. The chemistry? Scorching! You’ll read it again and again. A yummy hot fudge sundae of a book!”
--MaryJanice Davidson, New York Times Best Selling Author of the Undead series

"Cheyenne McCray has written a sexy adventure spiced with adventurous sex."
--Charlaine Harris, New York Times bestselling author

"McCray does a remarkable job of blending the familiar and the fantastical, creating a rich paranormal world with sexy and engaging characters."
--Kelley Armstrong, New York Times bestselling author

"Erotic with a great big capitol E. Cheyenne McCray is my new favorite author!"
--Bertrice Small, New York Times bestselling author

"Forbidden Magic is a fabulous faery tale. The writing is sharp; the story hot!"
--Virginia Henley, New York Times bestselling author

"Cheyenne McCray had crafted a novel that takes the imagination on an exciting flight. Full of fantasy, with a touch of darkness, a great read for anyone who loves to get lost in a book that stretches the boundaries!"
--Heather Graham, New York Times bestselling author

“Not for the faint of heart! FORBIDDEN MAGIC is Charmed meets Kim Harrison's witch series but with a heavy dose of erotica on top!”
---Lynsay Sands, New York Times bestselling author

“McCray’s magical tale will thrill and entrance you!”
---Sabrina Jeffries, New York Times bestselling author

"Cheyenne McCray's Forbidden Magic is an intoxicating blend of luscious eroticism and spine-tingling action that will have you squirming on the edge of your seat."

--Angela Knight, USA Today bestselling author

"Magical mayhem, sexy shapeshifters, wondrous witches and warlocks---In Forbidden Magic, Cheyenne McCray has created a fabulous new world. You won't be able to get enough!"
--Lori Handeland, USA Today bestselling author

"Explosive, erotic, and un-put-downable. Cheyenne McCray more than delivers!"
--L. A. Banks, bestselling author of The Vampire Huntress Legends series

"Fans of dark paranormal fantasy will enjoy the fast-paced, spine-tingling twists and turns of Cheyenne McCray's Forbidden Magic."
--Toni Blake, author of In Your Wildest Dreams

"Cheyenne McCray's Forbidden Magic is a rich mix of witches, demons, and fae in an epic tapestry full of conflict and desire...."
--Robin Owens, author of Heart Choice

"Chock-full of emotion and action, Cheyenne McCray's Forbidden Magic will find a spot on the keeper shelf of every reader who enjoys a touch of the paranormal along with her erotic romance. I highly recommend it!"
--Ann Jacobs, author of A Mutual Favor

"Cheyenne McCray has written a tempting, exciting novel rich in magic and pleasure."
--Lora Leigh, author of The Breed Next Door

"McCray's knowledge of Fae, Fomorii, elves and ancient Irish magics shines in this book of witches, warriors and dangerous desires".
--Linnea Sinclair, author of Gabriel's Ghost

"Cheyenne McCray delivers a scorching tale of modern witches and ancient Fae, a winner rich with lore, fantasy, gritty action, and heart-gripping romance."
--Annie Windsor, award-winning author of Sailmaster's Woman

“This modern day tale meets ancient world paranormal isn't just a book, it's an event. The elements all come together in this paranormal romance. You start reading for the story and end up reading for the characters. You're left at the edge of your seat needing more until the very last satisfying word. You won't be able to put it down once you start reading!”
--Sheila English, CEO of Circle of Seven Productions

Product Description

Cheyenne McCray’s paranormal romances seduce with an award-winning combination of heat and fantasy. Now, she weaves the first tale in an enthralling new series sizzling with dark magic and dangerous desires. Prepare to be spellbound by Forbidden Magic...

D’Anu witch Silver Ashcroft knows she walks a perilous line by practicing gray magic. But it’s the only way to protect herself from the evil that surrounds her. After the horrors she has witnessed, Silver thinks she is ready for anything...until the most intensely arousing being she has ever encountered swiftly—and sensuously—proves her wrong...

Hawk is a Tuatha D’Danann warrior—powerful beings descended from the Fae. And for him duty has always come before pleasure. Then, clad only in moonlight, Silver Ashcroft welcomes him to her city of San Francisco and makes his blood sing with a passion beyond compare. She is the embodiment of fantasies he never knew he had, but the terrifying reality of his mission lurks in every shadow...

Only the strongest will survive the upcoming battle, and the forces of darkness are more powerful than ever. Now, warrior and witch must trust in their hearts above all else—for to claim victory, they first must claim each other...

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Product Details

Mass Market Paperback: 416 pages
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks; 1st edition (November 29, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 031293761X
ISBN-13: 978-0312937614
Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.2 x 1.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (80 customer reviews)

Amazon.com Sales Rank: #19,488 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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spellfire ball, warding bells, scrying cauldron, gray witchcraft, gray magic, legion leader, snake bracelet, inverted pentagram, white witchcraft, other witches

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San Francisco, Silver Ashcroft, Great Guardian, D'Anu Coven, Tuatha D'Danann, Old One, Forbidden Magic, Janis Arrowsmith, Moon Song, Victor Ashcroft, Ancient Druids, Golden Gate Park, Queen Kanji, Book of Shadows, While Hawk, After Silver, Massachusetts Coven

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In Your Wildest Dreams (Warner Forever) by Toni Blake in Front Matter
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3.0 out of 5 stars Only Okay, December 18, 2005

By	WYM19 "wm19" (Canada) - See all my reviews

The plot has been neatly summarized elsewhere, so I'll just cut to my own thoughts on this book. The heroine, Silver, is very one-dimensional. She spends every minute either as an emotional, barely-functioning basketcase in some ethical crisis (she's so tempted to go to the dark side, she's usually crying or hating herself) or she is relaxedly happily bonking the hero, Hawk. The two extremes is too much to make the character believable. Hawk is cardboard hero fare - strong, handsome, kind, loving. The only thing that distinguishes him from other heroes is that he has beautiful wings and likes cookies. He is strong and loving, but he is so plain in his personality that I wouldn't be interested in meeting him in real life. The chemistry between them was not very good, and the story lacks the tension between the characters that I find in other paranormal series (like Aisling Gray, Anita Blake, Kim Harrison, Sherrilyn Kenyon, etc.). They quickly fall in love, quickly fall in bed, and when she's not a crying wreck or they're fighting demons, they're busy bonking again. Their dialogue is very wooden.

The demons are the bad guys. There's a parallel plotline with a demon named Junga who inhabits a human woman's body. There are long sex scenes where Junga is involved in (a) a threesome, (b) a foursome, and (c) a sadist-masochistic scene, with other bad demons and warlocks. Hm, didn't the author start out in on-line erotica? This may explain the graphic, repeated and pointless sex scenes between the villians. The ending is very open-ended. Perhaps the biggest disappointment was that there was absolutely nothing humorous or mischievous about the characters. It was all straightforward how-do-we-kill-the-demons and bonk-me-now. The characters were all one-dimensional, and I wasn't really interested in any of them.

I note that there are some very polished and glowing reviews on amazon.com. So polished and positive... I can only assume that those reviewers aren't acquainted with the more interesting paranormal novels out there.

On the good side, the story is imaginative, there are various animals kept as familiars, there is lots of fighting and death and the cover is nice. I think the author needs to downplay the crude and graphic sex scenes, and work on having some interesting/humorous/memorable dialogue in her stories.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Did I Read The Same Book?, December 13, 2005

By	mayfayre "mayfayre" (New Jersey USA) - See all my reviews

I finished "Forbidden Magic" and the book didn't live up to the glowing comments of the other authors on the front page of the book, not by a long shot, and those comments were the reason why I bought the book. No way is this book comparable to the ones by Kelley Armstrong or Kim Harrison in regards to engaging the reader in the characters and the story's universe.

The author threw in some Celtic mythology buzzwords, but I didn't get any sense that it was more than surface research. The world building was superficial and rather formulaic, the dialog was rather silly at times (a dying spouse says haltingly, "You've always been the witch of my dreams"), the primary characters are stereotypes, the secondary characters are underdeveloped, and the author seems to follow the maxim, "when in doubt, throw in a sex scene". I lost track of the number of them by the end. It didn't seem to matter what was happening or what was about to happen, every time the hero and heroine got within three feet of each other he hardened and her juices started flowing. I just started to roll my eyes by the second third of the book.

The book ended in an obvious lead-in to a sequel, but I won't be buying it because the author failed to make me really care if the heroine is ever going to find her sister, or if the demons are going to take over San Francisco.

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2.0 out of 5 stars SO glad that I didn't buy this, May 9, 2006

By	Circejane (Michigan) - See all my reviews

Amazon kept recommending this based on other books I've bought (Kelley Armstrong, Kim Harrison, and Patricia Briggs, to name a few), but after reading a number of crummy Amazon recommendations, I checked it out from the library to try. Thank god that I didn't buy it. I love this genre, but unfortunately this book is a classic example of poorly done supernatural fiction. I am loathe to write bad reviews, as each book is a very personal part of an author, and presumably a labor of love, and therefore I usually simply don't review books that I don't like. But it seems that SO many mediocre books are coming out lately, plastered with jacket blurbs from good authors, that reviews are sometimes the only way to avoid another $7 mistake.

What the previous reviewers have pointed out is true--the story starts out with an interesting premise, and the characters have potential, but then the train stops abruptly before it ever gets out of the station. The characters become (or remain) two-dimensional at best, there are gaping plot holes, inexplicable behaviors, and a pretty unsatisfactory ending which obviously sets us up for a sequel. It's basically impossible to suspend your disbelief throughout the book--you keep getting jerked back to reality thinking, "WTH? Why did he/she/they do THAT? That makes no sense" or "Why are they able to do that? Oh, I see, Yet Another Convenient Magical Power".

The sex scenes are for the most part pointless, doing nothing to further the plot and very little to titillate the reader. While I'm not a fan of Barbara Cartland-esque euphemisms for genitalia, I don't want to read repetitive scenes that sound like they were lifted from letters to Hustler, either, especially between the hero and heroine. Even LKH at her porniest writes more interesting sex, although she's gone over the top as well. The sex should drive the plot, not attempt to fill the crater-sized holes in it. When you find yourself flipping through pages to get to the end of a sex scene, you know that the book has some serious problems.

If one is looking for really well-written supernatural fiction, I highly recommend the authors that I mentioned above, and also Marjorie Liu (Tiger's Eye, Shadow Touch), Robin McKinley (Sunshine) and Rachel Caine (her Weather Warden series). Other good but not Buy In Hardcover authors--the second stringers-- are J.R. Ward (Lover Eternal and Dark Lover), C.E. Murphy (Urban Shaman), and C.T. Adams and Cathy Clamp (their second book, Moon's Web, is far better than the first one, but it's a series so read both).

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1.0 out of 5 stars Trashy romance masquerading as fantasy
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