Weekly Recommendations: Books by Monique O'Connor James

Enjoy the look at all of Monique's books! I definitely recommend them all.

Synopsis:

Jess denies God. In his infinite wisdom, he’s taken everyone she’s ever loved. Moving to the French Quarter was a ploy to erase the guilt she felt for rebuking her faith. Perhaps, if she hadn’t met Justin, an angel preoccupied with getting back into God’s good graces, and drowning in his hatred for humanity, her plan would have worked.

Justin’s general disdain for the human race makes him difficult to like, but some higher power has appointed him her keeper. Justin’s convinced he can mend her broken relationship with her maker, but in the process he learns a thing or two about his own humanity.

Never mind falling in love, that’s not supposed to happen. In fact, it may even be forbidden. Jess just wants Justin to understand her plight, and he wants to protect her from a world she doesn’t know.

If neither are equipped to save the other, then whose soul will live and whose will perish?

Link to my review: http://kristinasbooksandmore.blogspot.com/2011/11/keepers-by-monique-oconnor-james-review.html

Synopsis:

Dixie Chauvin’s new house in The French Quarter was once the first brothel built in New Orleans outside of the Red Light District. She is tickled with her new acquisition that is until, she discovers that some of the past residents are still staking a claim to the prop-erty.

Blake is her guardian angel, but he’s let his feelings for her go far beyond his duty to protect her. He wrestles with his loyalty to his job and the rules he must follow and his need to reveal himself to the girl he loves.

Soon, they are caught in a battle to save the soul of a girl who’s been held captive in the house for over a hundred years. Dixie is so set on freeing the ghost that she travels back in time in hopes of finding out how the beauty met her end. 

Can Blake and Dixie’s love survive the terror of fighting for the girl’s freedom? 

Along with her best friend Emily, and Blake’s brother, Lathan, Dixie is thrust into the past to uncover the details of a murder, and a life of neglect and abandonment. Will the clues lead them to the truth and a way to rid the house of the apparitions who haunt it? Or will the horror of what happened drive the group apart?

Journey into a world of brothels, gambling, and political payoffs where sometimes even a guardian angel can’t protect their charge.

Synopsis:

A gunshot echoes thrusting Darby Lambert into a near death experience. Inside the confines of an ambulance, she meets “the man in white light”. He takes away the guilt, but makes her question everything. 

“You will see them,” he whispers, as he catapults her back into the real world where she is plagued with dreams of demons, nurses, and rock stars. 

Why has He sent her back? Does she have the courage to rectify her sins? Given the chance, could you erase it all?

Link to my review: http://kristinasbooksandmore.blogspot.com/2011/10/jamais-vu-by-monique-oconnor-james.html

Synopsis:

Darby Lambert thinks she has it all figured out. After all, she changed the horrible events of her life by tweaking her dreams. What else could go wrong?

The universe can never be altered without ramifications, and now the people she knew so well are not who she thought they were, her past is not the past she remembers, and friends are not friends.

Can she uncover the truth about who she is without further damaging those around her, or will she choose to change her dreams again to find her place in the world?

Synopsis:

New Orleans is teeming with warring witch clans. Their world goes unnoticed by the people of the city,unseen by the masses. Nixon was one of those people, oblivious to the battles brewing around him. That is, until his eighteenth birthday.

Abandoned and on his own after the deaths of his parents...he'd grown used to being alone. Now he's discovering strange powers, learning secrets about his ancestors, and falling for the wrong girl--or is she the right one? In this new world he can trust no one...even the dead tell lies. Friends are enemies, 
and enemies hide the truth. Who can he trust? What's real and what's illusion?

Synopsis:

Jolie Bourque is trying to finish her thesis and get on with her life. She wanders into Folette, Louisiana, a place plagued by ghost sightings, convinced the residents are all crazy. No one wants to help her, no one except, Hutch Landry and his brother, Tucker. 

Will she find the monster that is preying on the town's children? Can she stay sane surrounded by madness? What are her ties to the small town? How will she choose between the brothers?

This is the nightmare that is her life and all just a part of Becoming Jolie.

Synopsis:

When six kids are at a party, partaking in a little too much fun, one of them is killed. The Mulligan Man, a character straight out of folklore appears offering them the chance to fix all the wrongs. In order to complete the deal, the teenagers must find out the truth of what happened, perform a random act of kindness, and become friends.

If they meet these stipulations, he will allow them to bring their friend back from the dead. In the process they learn not to judge, to stay away from drugs and alcohol, and that love can bridge even the boundary of death.

Giveaway:

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Have you read any of Monique's books? If so, which ones. If not, which ones would you read?

Happy Reading!

Kristina