Thursday, August 15, 2013

The Letter - Sandra Owens

5
Title: The Letter
Author: Sandra Owens
Genre: Historical Romance/Regency
Heat Level: Spicy
Number of Pages: 366
Publisher: Wild Rose PressTitle: The Letter
 
Blurb:
THE LETTER is the story of a betrayal that wasn’t. Even so, it still tore apart two lovers for eleven years.

On the eve of their wedding, Michael Jeffres, Earl of Daventry, found his betrothed— the woman who meant as much to him as the air he breathed—in bed with his cousin, Leo. Diana remembers nothing of that night. All she knows is that she was forced to marry Leo and then spent the next eleven years in hell.

When the two lovers are brought back together by a letter from Leo a year after his death, Michael and Diana must struggle through all the lies and secrets before they can find a love that far surpasses the one of their youth.

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Wanton Wednesday

Happy Wanton Wednesday!
Today I'm going to feature some faves of mine!
This series is very different and unique.
Don't miss the TOUCHED GIRL SERIES by Robyn Jones



4+ Stars
YA Paranormal Romance
When five-year-old Anna Pierce is offered a chance to have nightmare-free nights for the small price of her voice, she jumps at it. Silence has to be better than all-consuming dreams about blood and death and fangy monsters. The bargain she strikes comes with a secondary benefit, visions of a person's future potential. The combination of visions and silence changes her very nature and soon she's diagnosed with autism. Twelve years of living in her head comes to a screeching halt the moment Peter Davis pulls her out of an icy river. 

Her new life has her twirling, tiptoeing, and crashing through unfamiliar territory, one filled with a cranky grandma, a knocked up cousin, an unpleasant cousin, a bunch of mostly good vampires, and the boy who rescued her. 

To top it all off, the deal she made at five is no more. Anna is expected to talk, to figure out her resurfacing nightmares, and to control her ever-growing powers. And she'd better get it done soon because if the good vamps want a piece of a living, breathing Touched girl, the evil ones simply want. They'll take Anna for their very own.



5 Stars
YA Paranormal Romance
How much can a soul take before it breaks? Anna Pierce has a vampire boyfriend, a driver's license, real friends for the first time since she was five, and now she faces one of her biggest challenges, senior year at a mostly all girls Catholic high school. Sure, she's a member of the talking crowd now, but she'll never be like everyone else. How can she when the first of her kind has camped out in her dreams? Little dead girl Emily decides Anna's destiny can wait no longer. It's time for this generation's Touched Girl to hunt. Trained in a virtual dream landscape to destroy all in her path, Anna must choose between her destiny, the one beat into her on a nightly basis, and her legacy, the one instilled in her by her parents. Along the way, old enemies remain dutifully obsessed, new foes lurk in the shadows, and odd Little Duckie Anna Pierce sets out to be social. Approximately 89,900 words, Soul Bender is book 2 in a four book series.

Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Out of Focus - Nancy Naigle


$3.19 on Kindle

Print

Romantic Suspense
In OUT OF FOCUS, Kasey Phillips thinks her biggest problem is deciding whether to photograph Cody Tuggle’s honky-tonkin’ tour, until an accident on Route 58 claims the life of her husband. 

In a desperate race against time as a hurricane threatens the eastern seaboard, they search for her three-year-old son who is missing from the wreckage.

A community and friends rally to help, but someone knows more than they are telling.

~~Don't miss Pecan Pie and Deadly Lies, Cody Tuggle's story, available for pre-order now. Release Date 9/24.~~

Monday, August 12, 2013

Dangerous Embrace - Dana Mason Spotlight


$3.99 on Kindle
Print
4+ Stars
Romantic Suspense
Tobi's Review
Sarah Jennings wants nothing more than a quiet life--alone.
Raised by an eccentric mother, their life on the road only taught her how to run away from hard times. When she finds herself in an abusive relationship, this lesson serves her well. 

Eight years later, she’s settled back in her hometown and less fearful than she’s ever been in her life. She’s a first grade teacher, and with few friends and less family around, she has what she wants, a quiet life under the radar where she can be free of her past and live quietly. Until one night and one brutal act of violence changes everything. 

Injured and afraid, Sarah wants to run again, but Mark Summors refuses to let her go.

Mark was born and raised in Santa Rosa. He married his high school sweetheart and never questioned his life, until he found his wife with another man. Now divorced, he wants something more. He's passionate about his job, he wants to protect people, and he devotes his life to it. This time he's protecting more than just another client, he's protecting his future; at least, Sarah Jennings will be his future, once he convinces her she loves him.

When Sarah agrees to let Mark help, she doesn’t anticipate just how important of a role he’ll play in her future or how the violence in her past will come back to threaten them both.

Dangerous Embrace Playlist!
Like many other writers, I love to listen to music while I write. All of my stories have a playlist that fit the story and inspired me while I crafted the plot. Sometimes it’s an emotional reaction to the music that’s inspiring and sometimes it’s the lyrics. Below is my playlist for Dangerous Embrace. This list was built up slowly as I wrote each chapter. Every song has a place in the story and a theme that fits somewhere. . .at least in my eyes and ears. It a wide range of music, but that just provides even greater inspiration. If you want greater detail into the songs and where they inspired me within the story, you should follow my Dangerous Embrace Playlist series.
  1. Bring Me To Life – Evanescence
  2. Miles Away – Years Around The Sun
  3. Home – Phillip Phillips
  4. Gotten – Slash (Featuring Adam Levine)
  5. Shadow of the Day – Linkin Park
  6. Sorry – Buckcherry
  7. So Far Away – Staind
  8. Sweetest Goodbye – Maroon 5
  9. Time is Running Out – Muse
  10. Stop and Stare – One Republic
  11. Drive – Incubus
  12. Ain’t No Sunshine – Bill Withers
  13. By The Way – Theory of a Deadman
  14. Let Go – Everest
  15. Broken – Lifehouse
  16. You Run Away – Barenaked Ladies
  17. Misery – Maroon 5
  18. Perfectly Lonely – John Mayer
  19. If today was your last day – Nickelback
  20. Into the ocean – Blue October
  21. Its Not Over – Daughtry
  22. You & Me – Lifehouse
  23. Everything – Buckcherry
  24. All the Right Moves – One Republic
  25. F**Kin’ Perfect – P!nk
  26. Breathe – Faith Hill
  27. Secret – Maroon 5
  28. Rescue Me – Buckcherry
  29. Learn You Inside Out – Lifehouse
  30. Fallin’ For You – Colbie Caillat
  31. Same Mistake – James Blunt
  32. Soul Meets Body – Death Cab for Cutie
  33. What If You – Joshua Radin
  34. Realize – Colbie Caillat
  35. Whatever It Takes – Lifehouse
  36. She Will Be Loved – Maroon 5
  37. What Have You Done – Within Temptation
  38. All I Need – Within Temptation
Do know of a song that you think fits the theme or tone of Dangerous Embrace. If so, I love for you to share it with me.



Don't miss the 2nd book in the series!

Hottie McTottie Monday

Happy Hottie McTottie Monday!
Today I'm featuring Megan Smith's LOVE SERIES
I've read the first book and dying to jump into the second.
It's getting closer to the top of my TBR pile! 
Hunter is a Definite Hottie McTottie and this is a Must Read series!



$.99 on Kindle (Sale ends today 8/12/13 Usually $2.99)
4 Stars
New Adult Romance
**A USA TODAY BEST-SELLING NOVEL**

MacKenzie Cahill has dealt with overbearing and overprotective brothers her entire life, making it near impossible to enjoy her teenage years. Having a boyfriend was practically impossible until she met a guy that wasn't afraid to stand up to them - Dominic. He was sweet, thoughtful, and everything MacKenzie ever wanted in a man.

Saturday, August 10, 2013

Sultry Saturday

Happy Sultry Saturday!
Today I'm featuring Desiree DeOrto's short story
A STROKE OF LUCK



4+ Stars
Romance 
When you work in an all-night diner, you never know who will walk in the door.

Katie Jones doesn't believe in love at first sight. After divorcing her abusive husband, she doesn't believe in love at all. But when Jacob Richmond walked into Bud's Diner, her disbelief was put to the test.

Jacob came to Kansas to find inspiration. He was searching for the subject that would be the muse for his next masterpiece. He wasn't expecting to find himself completely consumed by a waitress who had more baggage than he thought possible.

When love at first sight just doesn't cut it, your burning desire can't be controlled. Sometimes you need just a little luck to put it all together.

He was searching for inspiration....
She was searching for an escape...
But with a Stroke Of Luck, anything can happen.

Don't miss Desiree DeOrto's other book!!!  I gave it 5 baskets!!!!! (I'd give it 10 if I could)

Sale!

Happy Saturday y'all!
I'm going to share some sales with you!
Some are one day only some for the weekend so grab then while you can!




The Forgotten Ones
$.99 (Limited Time)
4 Stars
New Adult Fantasy
Allison O'Malley's plan is to go to grad school so she can get a good job and take care of her schizophrenic mother. She has carefully closed herself off from everything else, including a relationship with Ethan, who she's been in love with for as long as she can remember.

What is definitely not part of the plan is the return of her long-lost father, who claims he can bring Allison's mother back from the dark place her mind has gone. Allison doesn't trust her father, so why would she believe his stories about a long forgotten Irish people, the Tuatha de Danaan? But truths have a way of revealing themselves. Secrets will eventually surface. And Allison must learn to set aside her plan and work with her father if there is even a small chance it could restore her mother's sanity.



The Practice Proposal
$.99 TODAY ONLY
4+ Stars
Sports Romance
Liza Sutherland isn’t looking for love. Not from a charity-auction date she didn’t even bid on and especially not with Nationals first baseman Cole Collins, the guy she obsessed over as an awkward teenager. She won’t get involved with a notorious player, no matter how attractive Cole is.
Cole Collins is up for contract renegotiation, but after too many late-night parties, he’ll need some positive publicity before he can make the roster. His agent, Frank, pitches Liza as the perfect prop…only Cole didn’t account for Liza no longer being just a teenager with a crush. She’s gorgeous and smart and he’s instantly hooked.
When Frank makes Liza a deal she can’t refuse—a bet she will fall in love with Cole or a cool half mil goes to charity—the game is on. But neither bet on the real feelings that surface. Could a fake fling turn into an official forever?



Twenty-Eight and a Half Wishes
$.99 Limited Time
4+ Stars
Mystery/Romance
For Rose Gardner, working at the DMV on a Friday afternoon is bad even before she sees a vision of herself dead. She's had plenty of visions, usually boring ones like someone's toilet's overflowed, but she's never seen one of herself before. When her overbearing momma winds up murdered on her sofa instead, two things are certain: There isn't enough hydrogen peroxide in the state of Arkansas to get that stain out, and Rose is the prime suspect.
Rose realizes she's wasted twenty-four years of living and makes a list on the back of a Wal-Mart receipt: twenty-eight things she wants to accomplish before her vision comes true. She's well on her way with the help of her next door neighbor Joe, who has no trouble teaching Rose the rules of drinking, but won't help with number fifteen-- do more with a man. Joe's new to town, but it doesn't take a vision for Rose to realize he's got plenty secrets of his own.
Somebody thinks Rose has something they want and they'll do anything to get it. Her house is broken into, someone else she knows is murdered, and suddenly, dying a virgin in the Fenton County jail isn't her biggest worry after all.



Friday, August 9, 2013

Freebie Friday

Happy Freebie Friday Y'all!
Sit back grab some books and enjoy.
I can only guarantee these books will be free Friday 8/9/13
However, It never hurts to check!

4+ Stars
New Adult Fantasy
Life. Love. Death.

Banished for a crime she didn’t commit, Karis must learn to live her life alone – and in a world that’s not her own. Cursed on an island of loneliness, forced to endure nearly a century without a friend, the woman once destined to be Queen must find a way to return to her world and save her people from an evil influence.

After many years, one man is strong enough to survive the cursed barrier that keeps her from leaving the island. She needs him so she can return to her world; he needs her to put together the pieces of his broken memory. Side by side, Brady and Karis feel their loneliness slip away.

Every day their love grows stronger, but will their bond survive the battle between worlds? In Book One of The Ageless Series, M.R. Polish takes readers into a world where myths are real, deception lurks in the shadows, and destiny brings two lost souls together to fight as one.



Elusive
Free
4+ Stars
Mystery/Suspense
Zoe Hunter loves living on the edge. Free-spirited and spontaneous, she’s built a life stringing together various freelance gigs that keep her bank account barely in the black.

But when her ex, Jack, goes missing along with several million dollars from his business and the FBI zeros in on her as a person of interest, Zoe’s life goes from delightfully unpredictable to downright frightening.

Plunged into a world of fake identities, deception, and murder, she’s afraid to trust anyone. Zoe impulsively skips town in a search for answers that takes her from Las Vegas to Italy, but instead of tracking down answers, she only uncovers more questions.

Who was Jack? Is he dead or did he fake his disappearance? And, what was he mixed up in—art theft, the mafia, espionage, or all three?





Goddess Legacy
Free
4 Stars
YA Fantasy
Legacy Kore is an average seventeen year old with your basic insane crush on the hottest guy in school... rather Adin Shepard was the hottest guy in school before he graduated a couple of weeks ago. Now it's summer vacation and she's not sure when she'll get to see him again. Until he shows up at her surprise seventeenth birthday party. Cue saliva glands--it's time to drool.

But her giddiness is cut short when her guardian delivers an emotional blow, telling Legacy her mother hadn't died when she was baby, but that she'd left for Legacy's protection all those years ago. After the initial shock, she expects some story about how her mother was in the Witness Protection Program or something else just as crazy, but when she's told that her mother is a Greek Goddess and that Legacy is changing into one too, she thinks her guardian needs a trip to a mental hospital. Legacy a goddess? Um, yeah. Right. And her BFF is the Easter Bunny.

While trying to make sense out of something that was impossible to believe, Adin asks Legacy out on a date. She is thrilled that her fantasy might become a reality, but when she meets the new guy in town, River, she discovers everything isn't always as it seems, and the legacy she wants just might not be the legacy she is destined to have.



Bluegrass State of Mind
Free
4+ Stars
Romantic Suspense
McKenna Mason, a New York City attorney with a love of all things Prada, is on the run from a group of powerful, dangerous men. McKenna turns to a teenage crush, Will Ashton, for help in starting a new life in beautiful horse country. She finds that Will is now a handsome, successful race horse farm owner. As the old flame is ignited, complications are aplenty in the form of a nasty ex-wife, an ex-boyfriend intent on killing her, and a feisty race horse who refuses to race without a kiss. Can Will and McKenna cross the finish line together, and more importantly, alive?