Tactics, v.1 by Sakura Kinoshita

Tactics, v.1 by Sakura Kinoshita

Kan is a folklorist who also happens to be an exorcist.  He sees yokai, or spirits.  But instead of exorcising them he befriends them and tries to help them.
This volume he finally meets the most powerful yokai of them all and names his Haruka.  This binds Haruka to Kan so that he has to do whatever Kan wants.  They work together to rescue several yokai on display in a show and then help a young man being chased for his father's work on hypnotism.
I enjoyed this manga.  It was fun to have a main character that cheerfully manipulated and blackmailed his "friends" into doing what he wanted them to do.  Yet he did because he truly wants them to be his friends.

Tempt Me at Twilight by Lisa Kleypas

Tempt Me at Twilight by Lisa Kleypas - 373 pages

Poppy Hathaway wants nothing more than to find a husband and settle down to a normal life, unlike her family which is very unconventional.  So she is thrilled when Lord Michael Bayning indicates he wants to marry her.  Unfortunately, his father doesn't agree.  When he breaks off the relationship Poppy takes a moment of comfort with Harry Rutledge and finds herself compromised.  Now she has no chance but to marry the secretive, manipulative man.  Then she discovers that she set up the whole thing just to marry her.
I enjoyed this book.  I liked the characters and and the set-up of the story.  A great addition to the series.