Mysteria Lane (Berkley Sensation)
Following 2006'sMysteria, this collection of steamy and sassy stories returns to supernatural suburbia in entertaining style. In "Disdaining Trouble," Davidson introduces the devilish Desdaine triplets, whose encounter with a wishing well has too many repercussions to quite fit into the short format. Shay, the top-ranking she-demon in the devil's army, strikes up a steamy romance with a demon hunter in Grant's "The Nanny from Hell." Showalter's "A Tawdry Affair" combines revenge and red-hot sex when frustrated love-witch Glory uses a magic pen to write fantasies that come true. In Cast's "It's in His Kiss...," hapless teacher Summer can't seem to control her magic, her classroom or her feelings for a flirtatious fairy and a handsome vampire. Several characters fromMysteriamake appearances, but new readers will have no trouble appreciating these charming tales.(Nov.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.