Sunday, September 13, 2015

Now and Forever 1 - Jean Joachim/ Second Look Sunday

Today's Second Look Sunday is one of my first reviews back in January 2012.
I love Jean Joachim's stories and this is the first book of hers I read!
Enjoy! 



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Do you have a first love? A High school sweetheart?  Callie did after her parents died and her barely adult sister took custody of her she met Kyle.  He looked after her.  He was raising his brother due to their parents being in jail.  He joined the military and his  final assignment to Iraq he was killed. 
Callie Mourned and after 2 years decided she was going to grad school for teaching.  Little did she know whom she would meet and where she ends up working?  It was instant attraction for both Callie and Mac.  Life was bliss after a while but will it last?

Friday, September 11, 2015

The Challenge - Kim Iverson Headlee #Promo



TITLE – The Challenge
SERIES – The Dragon's Dove Chronicles
AUTHOR – Kim Iverson Headlee
GENRE – Historical Fantasy w/Romantic Elements
PUBLICATION DATE – 7/11/2015
LENGTH (Pages/# Words) - 24 pages/6K words
PUBLISHER – Pendragon Cove Press
COVER ARTIST – Natasha Brown

The gauntlet is thrown. One must die. Refusal is not an option.

Arthur the High King of Breatein has fallen captive of a longtime enemy, the Saxon warrior-princess Camilla, who lusts to avenge the death of her betrothed at Gyan’s hands and will stop at nothing, even the black arts, to achieve her goal. Because Gyan and Arthur have grown estranged, she fears that Arthur may side with Camilla and make her his new queen.

To meet Camilla’s challenge, Gyan must face all her demons—public as well as private.


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With a shudder Gyan recalled the rumor that Camilla had enlisted demonic aid…
She banished those thoughts, and their attendant fears, by pondering the irony that Camilla had tried to strike at her through Arthur. It might have worked, once. The passion that had colored the early years of their marriage was still celebrated in song throughout Breatein and Caledon.
These days, she wasn’t singing.




Kim Headlee lives on a farm in southwestern Virginia with her family, cats, goats, Great Pyrenees goat guards, and assorted wildlife. People and creatures come and go, but the cave and the 250-year-old house ruins—the latter having been occupied as recently as the mid-twentieth century—seem to be sticking around for a while yet.

Kim is a Seattle native and a direct descendent of twentieth-century Russian nobility. Her grandmother was a childhood friend of the doomed Grand Duchess Anastasia, and the romantic yet tragic story of how Lydia escaped Communist Russia with the aid of her American husband will most certainly one day fuel one of Kim’s novels. Another novel in the queue will involve her husband’s ancestor, the seventh-century proto-Viking king of the Swedish colony in Russia.

For the time being, however, Kim has plenty of work to do in creating her projected 8-book Arthurian series, The Dragon’s Dove Chronicles, and other novels clamoring for attention. She has been a published novelist since 1999, beginning with the original editions of Dawnflight (Sonnet Books, Simon & Schuster, ISBN 0671020412) and Liberty (writing as Kimberly Iverson, HQN Books, Harlequin, ISBN 0373771347).


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ABOUT.ME PAGE – https://about.me/kimheadlee
WEBSITE  – http://kimheadlee.com
Street Team “Kim’s All-Stars” – https://www.facebook.com/groups/705479912880602/
TRIBERR PROFILE – http://triberr.com/KimHeadlee

YouTube video interview 2013 – http://youtu.be/DV5iKrEIROk
YouTube video interview 2015 – https://youtu.be/UcjvCJ-TjN8 


Rising Shadows - Bridget Blackwood Cover Reveal

COVER REVEAL
TITLE: Rising Shadows
SERIES: World in Shadows (Book 1)
GENRE: Paranormal Romance
AUTHOR: Bridget Blackwood
PUBLISHER: Booktrope Publishing
Re-Release Date: October 28th, 2015
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Labeled an Arcane, Rachel Ryan wonders if she’s human anymore. After she’s thrown headlong into the world of The Preternatural Rachel learns Shapeshifters, Faeries, and Vampires aren’t legends. They’ve been living hidden in plain sight among humans. In her quest to save a child she will set off a cataclysmic chain of events. Her actions will disrupt the carefully balanced political chess board, casting once powerful pieces to the floor. A werewolf protector, a lost princess, a mad vampire, and an exiled Fae named Winter will rise up to challenge the status quo. A war that has been brewing in the shadows for centuries is ready to explode. Rachel must choose where her allegiance lies, tipping the scales, but who is an enemy and who is a friend?
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Bridget Blackwood was born April 1984 and raised in East Texas where she met and married her high school sweetheart. In 2003 they moved to Southern Illinois, just across the Mississippi river from St. Louis, Missouri. Bridget juggles writing and being the mother of three rambunctious children. Bridget has been writing and telling stories for as long as she can remember. She loves to read romance and watch horror movies, naturally the two came together in her writing. A social butterfly, Bridget loves talking to readers through email or social media. She is on Facebook, Twitter, Goodreads.
WEBSITE: http://bridgetblackwoodauth.wix.com/book
TWITTER: @author_bridget

Thursday, September 10, 2015

Beautifully Damaged - Gina Sevani Release Day Blitz


Title: Beautifully Damaged
Author: Gina Sevani
Genre: New Adult



Beautiful and Dangerous Damon Black isn’t what Ariel Montgomery expects, not at all. Living with the all-consuming darkness of her tragic past, she’s always kept everyone and everything at a distance. And love? Impossible!
Not if she wanted her past to stay in the past or her dark secrets to remain secrets. The future was never even a real possibility, but between Damon’s lyrical voice and devastating good looks, she’s finding it hard to stay away. Their white hot chemistry has her re-thinking everything. For the first time since she’s lost her family, Ariel dreams of a life she knows she’ll never deserve.
He’s determined to win her heart, body, and soul.
But can she trust him?
Trust his promise to save her from herself?
Or will his attention be the final catalyst that breaks her forever?




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Beautifully Damaged is a super addictive new adult romance.  From the first page I fell in love with Ariel and her barbed personality.  Even if she felt she was mean those around her didn't seem to see it. She meets her match with Damon.  Once he meets her she's the only one he wants and he's out to prove it and earn her trust.  Ariel doesn't make it easy on him but slowly he get in her system and she can't let go.  Though I know this story is about Ariel, I can't help have have many more questions that were unasnwered about Damon and am hoping there's a sequel.  Beautifully Damaged is a story about learning to trust and love after living a damaged life.
I give Beautifully Damaged....

.5
4 1/2 Baskets!!!!!



Smirking jackass. Oh, so he thought I would have already fallen at his feet by now like the entire female population that constantly surrounded him.
“Is that what you think? That it bothers me that you haven’t spoken to me before? You’re mighty fond of yourself. Perhaps I should call you King Damon?”
He threw his head back in laughter. I loved the sound.
“You said it, not me, and I don’t hate you. Let’s be real clear on that.”
He looked me up and down as his eyes raked over my body then slowly moved his gaze toward my eyes and smirked at me. There it was — finally. That sexy smirk he threw to all his conquests. Poor thing, didn’t even know who he was messing with. He may have been the hottest guy I had ever seen — and maybe even the most charming — but I had way more self-control than to fall for his shit.
I hoped so anyway, because I was banking on enough control over my own body to not fall at his feet. “But you have to admit King Damon does have a nice ring to it.” I’ll play his game.“Oh my gosh! Damon-freaking-Black has actually spoken to me.” I threw my head back and fake-fanned myself. “I guess from all your lady groupies this is about the time you expect me to run out and go get your name tattooed on my body.”
Damon was sipping on his beer and sprayed some of it down the front of his shirt. He covered his mouth, all the while choking and laughing at the same time. He quickly got himself in check, much faster than I ever could if that had happened to me.
“Wow, feisty,” he murmured as he took his palms and wiped his mouth.
“Something wrong, King Damon?” I batted my eyes at him. Damon leaned into me, and how someone who was just drinking a beer, and had been inside a bar all night smelled delicious, I had no clue, but he sure did.
“Ass… since it’s my name I should get an input on where it goes, don’t you think? I want to see it too,” he whispered seductively. His eyes pierced mine. “Ariel, tell me something. Would that be your first tattoo, or do you have others?”
“You’ll never know, but I’ll tell you one thing…”
“Yeah?” He arched his eyebrows. “What’s that?”
“If I’m ever stupid enough to get a man’s name tattooed on my ass…” I paused just for dramatic purposes, just to make him think as I leaned toward him and whispered, “… I promise it won’t be yours.” The sexy facial expression he was wearing turned into a cold glare as he narrowed his eyes on me. Yup, there it was. That was how I was used to him looking at me. Game point, Ariel!
“Can it be mine, Ariel?” Xavier laughed. I wasn’t even aware we had an audience listening to our conversation. I cut my eyes toward him to tell him to shut up, and, if looks could kill, Xavier would have been on the floor from the look Damon had already thrown his way. I slid off the seat and walked away, but my feet stopped me when I heard his voice.
“Don’t be so sure princess, and by the way, that’s a mighty fine ass, very worthy of my name.”
I turned around to face him but kept walking backward. “You sure do talk a lot.” He smiled. That smile could make a girl weak in the knees.
“We can always do something else.” He winked.
I raised my hand and saluted him the best way I knew how and turned for the door.



GINA SEVANI was born and raised in beautiful South Carolina. She still lives there with her adventurous husband, beautiful daughter, and the families two dogs. She learned at an early age that she had a mad love for reading, romance, paranormal, and everything in between.
One night, as she was trying to fall asleep, fictional characters popped into her head and would not leave. Day after day she was running dialogue in her head while trying to perform daily tasks. Those characters would not shut up!
As time passed, she kept them at bay, convinced she didn’t have the ability to be an “Author”. But late one night, she sat down at the computer, deciding to see if her characters could come to life on the pages. When she finally took a breath, ten thousand words had poured out of her soul. Those words lead to her first novel “Beautifully Damaged.”
She enjoys writing and being part of the “Author World” as she likes to call it. Her main goal when it comes to writing is to make you feel something – anything. Laughter, tears, madness or to make you fall in love with the hero/heroine. At the end of the novel if you have felt some type of emotion then she feels her job is complete. Until the next story of course.





Wednesday, September 9, 2015

Quest of a Scottish Warrior: The MacLomain Series Later Years Book One - Sky Purington Blog Tour




Quest of a Scottish Warrior
The MacLomain Series: Later Years
Book 1
Sky Purington    

Genre:  Time-travel Fantasy Romance
Date of Publication:  September 8, 2015
Number of pages:  257
Word Count:  82,800
Cover Artist:  Tamra Westberry
Book Description:
Historian and ancestry website owner, Cassie first became interested in her long lost Broun clan when she realized life was about to change forever. Faced with possible blindness, she seeks out her Scottish bloodline only to discover there is so much more to it than she could have anticipated. Not only will she find answers to her questions but a doorway into the distant past via a Claddagh ring.

Saturday, September 5, 2015

#Promo Another Shot at Love - Niecey Roy




Another Shot At Love
Book 1, a What’s Love??? novel
By: Niecey Roy
Romantic Comedy / Contemporary Romance

Imogen Gorecki has a problem—her twin sister just got engaged, and guess who’s the best man? That’s right, her scum-of-an-ex-boyfriend whom she caught cheating with a bottle-blonde, with fake breasts and a stripper’s flexibility. There’s a disturbing possibility her eyes will never recover. 

Gen needs a date for the engagement party, but finding Mr. Perfect in a time crunch is proving impossible. Just when she’s about to give up, she face-plants into the crotch of the sexiest guy she’s ever met. 

Friday, September 4, 2015

When Girlfriends Find Love - Savannah Page Blog Tour


Sophie Wharton is in control. Whether life is going according to plan or throwing her for a loop, Sophie is determined to remain calm and in charge. It's no wonder she's the successful owner of one of Seattle's most charming cafés, The Cup and the Cake. Her lemon meringue cupcakes, petite French treats, and cappuccinos always leave customers coming back for more. Naturally, her camaraderie of college girlfriends are still thick as thieves a decade later. And it should come as no surprise that she has her own cozy apartment in the hip part of town and grand goals for her future.

Of course Sophie has had her share of rough times, and recently some unexpected surprises have emerged. Her best friend Claire has moved across the state, the demands of her café are mounting, and some major changes among her circle of friends are shaking things up. But it's nothing Sophie can't handle.

Thursday, September 3, 2015

Songbird - Sydney Logan Cover Reveal

It’s cover reveal day for Songbird by Sydney Logan! I am so excited to share this cover with y’all! Sydney is sharing an exclusive excerpt and giveaway with us so be sure to check it all out!

Songbird ebook
Title: Songbird Genre: Contemporary Romance
Author: Sydney Logan
Release Day: October 5th
About Songbird: One bridesmaid. One groomsman. One classic wedding hookup. But for Callie and Devin, their weekend of passion is anything but typical. Callie Franklin doesn’t do one night stands. Ever. She’s far too responsible and focused on her career to ever let herself give in to temptation. But, on the eve of her best friend’s wedding, she meets that temptation . . . And his name is Devin McAllister. Devin, on the other hand, has no problem with meaningless hookups. The very last thing he needs—or wants—is a relationship. Relationships come with strings. Relationships come with heartbreak. A late-night encounter in the hotel’s piano bar finds the two unable to resist each other.

Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Beauty and the Werewolf - Kristin Miller Blog Tour

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Synopsis: Unmated werewolves don’t normally live past three hundred years old...and billionaire Jack MacGrath is cutting it close. Sure, he has almost everything—the respect of his peers, a mansion in San Francisco, a private jet, and fast cars. But without a mate, Jack's in trouble. Then he sees her. Gorgeous, proud...and his enemy.
Isabelle Connelly is good at hiding things from her father. Like her success as a painter, or the incredibly intense attraction she has to Jack MacGrath. After all, she's royalty and falling for anyone lesser—to say nothing of a rival pack—would be, er, unseemly. Now she must choose between her duty to her family and her pack...or her perfect fated mate.

A Castle for Dragons - Julie Wetzel

Castle For Dragons by Julie Wetzel
Dragons of Eternity, The First Archive
This is a Crimson Tree Publishing Title
Genre: Adult, Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Science Fiction
Release Date: August 11th, 2015
With a dragon ravaging the countryside, the Prince of Dragons sends out his best man, Patrick Mylan. His orders—secure an abandoned castle and stop the foul beast from stealing more maidens. This shouldn't be an issue for an Elite of Eternity

But there is more going on than there seems. When other dragons are sighted in the area, the town sends their maidens to their new lord for protection. Patrick's life just became a lot more complicated. With the dragon he's hunting acting odd and a castle filled with women distracting him, how is he supposed to do the job he was sent for? And what are the ladies going to do when they find out he's the other dragon in the area?

A Castle for Dragons is a prequel novel to On the Wings of Accidental Dragons by Julie Wetzel.
Julie Wetzel is a mother of a hyperactive red headed boy, and what time she’s not chasing down dirty socks and unsticking toys from the ceiling she's crafting worlds readers can get lost it. Julie is a self-proclaimed bibliophile and lover of big words. She likes hiking, frogs, interesting earrings, and a plethora of other fun things.
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Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Indulgent, modern fairytale Romances #Sale



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Indulge yourself with modern fairytale romances for only 99¢ each.

Take home a sensual prince, a rugged rancher, or perhaps, a thrill-seeking tycoon… at this price you can afford to have all of your fantasies fulfilled.

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Monday, August 31, 2015

The Right Design - Isabella Louise Anderson Blog Tour



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Do business and pleasure mix?
In the author's debut novel comes a story about picking up the pieces, letting go of the past, and finding love along the way--even if morals are tested!
Interior designer Carrie Newman could not have envisioned a more perfect life for herself. She had a great job doing what she loved, wonderful friends, and a close relationship with her sister and brother-in-law. Add in an amazing man who she’d hoped would soon become her husband, and her life was perfect. Until one devastating decision ruins her relationship and changes the course of her life.

Sunday, August 30, 2015

Second Look Sunday/In Need of Therapy - Tracie Banister

Happy Second Look Sunday!  
Today I'm featuring one of my absolute FAVE Chick Lit books!
In Need of Therapy by Tracie Banister

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Lending a sympathetic ear and dispensing sage words of advice is all part of the job for psychologist Pilar Alvarez, and she’s everything a good therapist should be: warm, compassionate, supportive. She listens, she cares, and she has all the answers, but how’s the woman everyone turns to in their hour of need supposed to cope when her own life starts to fall apart? 

Thursday, August 27, 2015

Because of Sydney - TA Foster


BECAUSE OF SYDNEY
TA FOSTER
AVAILABLE NOW
BLURB: Determined to establish a new life far from the ghosts of her past, twenty-two year old Sydney Paige is willing to try anything to launch her reporting career and quiet the painful memories of her family back home. Money-driven Mason Lachlan knows exactly what he wants in life and how to get it. Nothing stands in the way of the successful millionaire’s next deal, not even the deeply-buried anguish he feels from being abandoned by his father and tucked away as a dark family secret. When Sydney must report the biggest land deal to hit South Padre in years, Mason becomes the focus of her story. Problems surface when their undeniable attraction for each other compromises everything they both have worked for. Can love exist when bottom lines and deadlines collide?
This is a standalone Contemporary Romance, there is NO cliffhanger!
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To celebrate the release of Because of Sydney, TA Foster has her first book on sale for ONLY $0.99
Get it NOW!