Cursed
Book One in the Fallen Siren Series
Release Date October 1, 2013
Meet FBI Agents Emma Monroe and Zack Armstrong.
She’s cursed. He’s damned. Together, they make one hell of a team. Emma Monroe is a Siren, cursed by the gods and bound to earth to atone for an ancient failure. She’s had many names and many lives, but only one mission: redemption. Now that she works missing persons cases for the FBI, it could be just a rescue away. Unless her new partner leads her astray.
Special Agent Zack Armstrong just transferred into the San Diego Field Office. He’s a werewolf, doing his best to beat back the demons from his dark and dangerous past. As a former Black Ops sniper, he’s taken enough lives. Now he’s doing penance by saving them.
Emma and Zack’s very first case draws them deep into the realm of the paranormal and forces them to use their own supernatural abilities. But that leaves each of them vulnerable, and there are lines partners should not cross. As secrets are revealed and more women go missing, one thing becomes clear: as they race to save the victims, Emma and Zack risk losing themselves.
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My Review
Emma and Zack are both seeking a form of redemption for their past.
Emma is a siren, a seductress, cursed for a past failure. She uses the power of glamour to hide her true self from others. She can compel people to tell the truth. She uses her magic like a profiler uses his intuition and S J Harper’s writing makes it so believable. Emma specializes in finding missing persons.
Zack is a werewolf and a Special Agent trying to make up for the lives he took in his former life.
When they team up, their skills reach a higher level.
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By the second page I was laughing and loving the writing style.
“….good romp with a guy just because he goes furry a few days every month.”
Cursed runs the gamut of magical creatures in the supernatural world – werewolves, vampires, Gods, devils, demons, shapeshifters…..
Cursed is a story, where the supernatural and reality exist side by side. The writing is so believable that I got lost as I teamed up with Emma and Zack to find out what was happening to the missing women.
I love a good mystery. Toss in some romance to round out the story and I am hooked.
The details of how they go about collecting information is just like watching the crime shows – Criminal Minds, CSI and NCIS – checking phone records, emails, even Facebook. Patience is a key necessity for an investigator and it pays well to have an extra little something for interrogation, like magic.
I loved the blend of reality and supernatural.
The characters are easy to relate to. We all have personal problems and Emma and Zack are no exceptions, theirs just had an extra supernatural element. There are hate crimes and politics. They read like current events.
“…what kind of bad guy would break into someone’s house to fix breakfast?”
“Wait. I know this one….a cereal killer?”
“What are you? Agents of the FBI’s X-files Bureau?”
4 STARS – Would Highly Recommend To Others
I was given a first edition paperback for a review for the tour. I am looking forward to reading more books in the Fallen Siren Series.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
S.J. Harper is the pen name for the writing team of Samantha Sommersby and Jeanne C. Stein, two friends who met at Comic-Con in San Diego and quickly bonded over a mutual love of good wine, edgy urban fantasy, and everything Joss Whedon.
Samantha Sommersby left what she used to call her “real life” day job in the psychiatric field to pursue writing full-time in 2007. She is the author of more than ten novels and novellas including the critically acclaimed Forbidden series. She currently lives with her husband and cocker spaniel, Buck, in a century old Southern California Craftsman. Sam happily spends her days immersed in a world where vampires, werewolves, and demons are real, myths and legends are revered, magic is possible, and love still conquers all.
Jeanne Stein is the national bestselling author of The Anna Strong Vampire Chronicles. She also has numerous short story credits, including most recently the novella, Blood Debt, from the New York Times bestselling anthology, Hexed. Her series has been picked up in three foreign countries and her short stories published in collections here in the US and the UK. She lives in Denver, CO where she finds gardening a challenge more daunting than navigating the world of mythical creatures.
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Ooh, I still can’t get over the sirens! You don’t see those very often! Certainly not in correlation with the FBI.
I have not read much about sirens, but I loved Cursed.This was a great book and I look forward to reading more of their work
I had a feeling you’d like this one. I’m going to have to get this one!
Another well done review Sherry. You definitely got my enthusiasm up!!
Thanks Laura. I know you would like it too. ^_^