Singh, Nalini - Visions of Heat

[oyceter]

Faith NightStar (this is a PsyClan name, not a pretendian one, I think) is one of the world's top F-Psy; she forecasts business trends with unerring accuracy and can even be prompted by triggers, further upping her value. But lately, she's been getting visions of horrible violence, disturbing because the Silence has supposedly wiped emotion from

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[estara]

Well, you get an icy PSY male alpha in the following book, Caressed by Ice, with a changeling heroine (still no POC), and in the fourth one, Mine to Possess, the changeling hero is half-Egyptian (but raised in Singh's version of the US) - however the human heroine seems to be of Irish descent.

They stay alpha males though both sides always have emotional baggage and it's clear that both need the other to get over said emotional baggage.

This is currently my second favourite paranormal series after the Guardian series by Meljean Brook. Even more asskicking females there (and occasionally more broken ones).

Oh and in the second book of the Guardian series you may have a male European British beautiful noble (well, but he's been a vampire for a few hundred years) but the heroine is half-Indian and very much influenced by her full Indian grandmother who runs an Indian restaurant and wants to have her make an arranged marriage (okay so it's another stereotype, but dealt with in a non stereotypical way). That's in Demon Moon.

And the heroine of the first book originally came from Carthago ^^. And to be honest, there's so much world building in the first one that you might not enjoy the second one without that background, not sure. I read them in order.

[oyceter]

Oh huh, I haven't heard of Brook before, thanks for the rec!

More info, more info

[estara]

Really big on worldbuilding, but the characters carry the day with their dialogue (I do think you need to read the three novels in order, although the novellas in the various anthologies are nice, they're not necessary: unless you start to want more Colin - from the second novel - then you need Falling for Anthony).

I also love her website blog (she came from FANFICTION Batman & Wonderwoman, and she was really good! http://www.fanfiction.net/u/120310/Meljean_Brook ), especially her romance reviews with her 12 year old self http://meljeanbrook.com/blog/archives/category/missy

If you don't mind spoiling yourself, the first four chapters of the third novel Demon Night are online http://www.meljeanbrook.com/demonnight_sneakpeek.pdf

Wow and I realised she also put up the first four chapters of Demon Moon (the one with the half-Indian heroine):
http://www.meljeanbrook.com/demonmoon-peek.pdf

There is also a Demon Angel (first novel) excerpt but neither is it from the beginning of the book, nor is it four chapters long:
http://www.meljeanbrook.com/lilith.html#excerpt

Re: More info, more info

[estara]

Here are some good reviews about the first two novels, too.

http://rosario.blogspot.com/2007/01/demon-angel-by-meljean-brook.html
http://rosario.blogspot.com/2007/06/demon-moon-by-meljean-brook.html