Title:
Tempted
Anthology
Release
Date: 12 August,
2014
Cover
Design: Robin Harper of Wicked
by
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Event organized
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Eleven
amazing authors have come together to bring you
this
anthology of ten full length novels and one bonus novella and all proceeds
will go
to March of Dimes, which funds lifesaving research and programs and
works
to end premature birth, birth defects and infant
mortality.
Tempted
Be Brave –
Be Real – Be Tempted
Christa
Cervone – On the Ropes
R.D. Cole
– Learning to Live
W. Ferraro
– Three of
Spades
Sarah
Goodman – Life’s Perfect
Plan
Heather
Gunter – Changing
Tunes
J.M. La
Rocca -
Lifeless
Isabel
Lucero – Living in
Sin
Alice
Montalvo-Tribue – Desperation of
Love
Megan Noelle
- Fool For
You
Mary A
Wasowski – A Changed
Life
Whitney G
– My Last Resolution (bonus
novella)
BOOK
SUMMARIES
On the Ropes –
Christa
Cervone
***Author's note*** This book is not
recommended
for readers under the age of eighteen, due to strong sexual content,
language, child abuse, and drug reference. Also, this is the first book in
a series.
A murderer’s child…A foster child…A troubled
teen…Gabriel
‘The Saint’ Vega has never had an easy life. Being shuffled from
one
foster home to another after his father murdered his mother, he found
himself
in and out of trouble with the law. Never giving a damn about himself,
let
alone anyone else, his life was spiraling out of control; fast. Until one
man and
one sport changed everything.
Frankie Carbone taught Saint how to handle his
anger
and rejection; by fighting it out in the ring. On his way to stardom,
Saint
finds himself pushed into the spotlight and into the arms of more women
than he
can ever imagine; he’s completely content with one night stands and
random
sex.
Then Salem Harris comes walking into his life
and
changes his game plan. Saint finds himself wanting Salem in all the ways
that
scare him. She is off limits; taken. But that doesn’t stop Saint from
going
after what he wants, and he wants
her.
Frankie showed Saint a new way of life with
Boxing,
but will Salem give him the one thing he's never known – love? Will
Saint
find himself fighting for the one thing he thinks he doesn't deserve or
will
Salem end up breaking his heart? Gabriel ‘The Saint’ Vega has had to fight
for
every good thing he's gotten in his
life.
** Head over to Christa’s blog for a preview of Chapter 1 from On the
Ropes **
Learning to Live
– R.D.
Cole
Being alive and living are not always the
same.
Trudy Love is used to being on her own and has
rarely
been shown affection. Between growing up in foster care and her abusive boyfriend
she has no idea what life can be. At 19 she goes through something no
one
should ever experience and is left alone once again. Six months later she
moves
to Mobile, Alabama where she meets someone whose eyes bring back memories
of the
one person she misses everyday. Too late she finds herself caught in a
storm
of emotions that are unwanted, but she's determined to fight them
off.
Jaxon Coleman has a good life, and for him to attend
one of the finest Med schools in the country and follow in his dad's foot
steps is a dream come true. However, dreams can change in life and when he meets
Trudy he knows his will never be the same. Jax knows she has secrets she is
unwilling to share, but he's never given up on something he wants and he
wants
Tru.
Can Trudy stop resisting her feelings and welcome
the chance to live a different life than she pictured or will her defiance
and haunted past eventually take her out of Jax's
reach?
After tragedy living is not easy, but with the
right
person it can be learned.
Three
of Spades
– W.
Ferraro
Dylan Cross is the type of man that enjoys
everything
female, and enjoy it he does, but always on his terms. However, his terms
are pushed to their limit when Natalie Parker proposes an offer; teach her and
her delectable little body, all about sex and
desire.
There is one catch. He has to play the part of
Natalie's
madly in love boyfriend for her dying mother. Dylan signs on, and
finds
that separating the two is harder than he thought. Natalie's days of
shyness
and lack of confidence come to a quick close as she learns what her
body
craves and demands in the bedroom.
Soon, Dylan becomes the student as Natalie
teaches
him things he didn't even know he wanted. Will Hamden's notorious
playboy,
bachelor be able to keep calling the shots, or will he find that, he,
himself,
is just another player at the card game of life, as we all
are?
Life’s Perfect
Plan –
Sarah
Goodman
Married to her college sweetheart, Elizabeth
Thomas
has the perfect life, and just about everything is going according to her
Life Plan. A senior lawyer at her firm at thirty, living in her dream home, the
only thing left to check off the Life Plan list is a
baby.
Struggling with infertility, and after several
unsuccessful
attempts to conceive, Beth’s husband, Grant, just wants life to be
normal
again. Together, they decide to give it one more try and Beth is sure
this
time it’s going to work. She’s finally going to have her perfect Life
Plan.
But when tragedy strikes, and a new plan is
needed,
will Beth be able to cope with all the changes the new plan throws at
her?
Will she be able to overcome her loss and heartache to discover the new
plan is
really Life’s Perfect Plan?
Heather Gunter – Changing
Tunes
Ashley Davis is over her high school 'bitch'
label
and has decided to reinvent herself. College offers a new beginning, a chance
to be different. After being assaulted, she's realized that she needs to change
and college is just the place to do it. Nobody knows the Ashley she used to be
and she'd like to keep it that way.
Afraid of falling into the same patterns she
decides
that having no friends, no life and focusing on school is the way to
go, but
she didn’t bank on someone like Mac as her roommate or the tall, dark
and
completely geek hot in his glasses, Zeke
Whitman.
Ezekiel (Zeke) Whitman is driven and focused
when it
comes to school. When he's forced to partner with a tall, leggy blonde
with a
slight attitude, he's thrown for a loop. With so much at stake, Zeke
can’t
afford distractions and Ashley is certainly that. From their first encounter
Zeke
sees more than just another gorgeous
girl.
As Ashley grapples with leaving the ‘old’ her behind,
she realizes that sometimes changing tunes isn't as easy as it sounds. Sometimes
you have to keep a little of the person that you were, in order to become
the person that you want to be.
J.M. La
Rocca –
Lifeless
After graduating from the University of South
Alabama,
Scarlett Moore discovers her boyfriend of five months is actually married
with a child on the way. Feeling used and heartbroken, she decides it’s time to
take her best friend Jules’ advice to move to Atlanta and live with her.
There, Jules helps her get a job at Entertainment Atlanta, where she works as an
entertainment insurance agent. It’s not Scarlett’s dream job, but it’s better
than not having a job at all, and who would mind working with famous people,
right?
Then she gets assigned to EA’s newest client,
Kade
Evans, rock star turned actor. Not only is he a drug addict, he’s also
known
for never dating the same girl twice. He’s tall, dark, and handsome, has
an
amazing voice, and good acting skills, but he’s also arrogant and
intense.
At their first meeting, the chemistry between
them is
undeniable.
The love that comes later is
unexpected.
But Kade’s life is full of secrets. His past
has now
intruded on his present and when Scarlett finds out what his secrets
are, the
real deception begins.
Isabel Lucero – Living in
Sin
**This story contains graphic sexual content
and strong
language. Intended for mature audiences
only.**
Jace Jamison is every woman’s fantasy. He’s a
mysterious
businessman willing to sweep you off your feet, a tattooed bad boy from
the wrong side of the tracks, and a sexy friend you want to take that next
step
with. Jace is everything and anything you want him to be. He’s a highly
paid
escort.
But nobody knows who Jace really is; the man
whose
dad abandoned him, whose brother was killed, and who had to take care of
his mom
at a young age. At the age of nineteen, he was living in Sin City,
ready
for a life away from stress and
struggle.
Adrienne has been having a sexual drought since
she
broke up with her boyfriend. Even then she wasn’t getting fully satisfied.
Being
an event planner, she’s constantly working at numerous events. Several
times
she’s seen a man she can only refer to as the God-like creature at her
work
functions. He’s devastatingly handsome, tall, and has beautiful eyes, but
he’s
always with a different woman. The last thing she needs is another player
in her
life.
After a few chance encounters with Jace, her
best
friend convinces her to just get some good sex out of him and not worry
about
who she’s seen him with. But what happens when she finds out that he
isn’t
dating these women because he wants to, but because he’s paid
to?
Keeping his job a secret from Adrienne seems
easy at
first, but when she begins meeting people he knows in his escort life,
and
they begin getting closer, he knows he has to tell her before someone else
does.
When their worlds entwine, and confessions are
made,
will they be able to work through it? Will she be able to push aside his
sins
and focus on the good in him? Will Jace get what he’s never had? A woman
who
wants him despite what he’s done. Or will living in sin cost him what he
never
knew he wanted?
*An erotic, contemporary romance* - *Book one in a
series, but can be read as
a
standalone.*
Alice Montalvo-Tribue –
Desperation of
Love
To the outside world, Jordan Burke appears to
have
the perfect life. A fulfilling career, family and great friends, but looks can be
deceiving. Events from her childhood, and a painful secret, keep Jordan isolated
and unwilling to commit to any man. For her, every relationship comes with
its own expiration date.
Alex Garza has lived in the shadow of his
brother’s
fame for most of his life. He's an outcast in his own family and
never
able to put his own needs first. When his brother gives up his career to
settle
down, Alex is forced to reevaluate his life plans too. Over the past
year,
his friendship with Jordan has developed into a source of comfort. Now
that he
has the time to devote to a relationship, can he convince her to take a
chance
on love or will their painful pasts and a tragic event destroy their
future?
Megan Noelle - Fool For
You
Seven years ago Danielle Hamilton left her home
in
Serenity Cove leaving behind a drug addicted mother, work-obsessed
Grandmother
and the first boy she has ever loved. Danielle promised herself she
would
never return, but now - she has no choice. The family Inn her
Grandparents
put their lives into is going under and Danielle is the last hope
they
have to save it. When she temporarily returns to her home town, she’s even
less
prepared than expected to run into her first love, Oliver Garrison.
After their encounter leaves her on edge she
decides
what is really needed is a distraction. What she doesn’t expect is the
way she
feels when she meets Corey Preston with the bad boy edge, a gentle
heart
and smoking body.
Oliver is everything she thought she ever
wanted
while Corey is everything she never thought she
needed.
Dani promised herself when she left Serenity
Cove at
18 that never again, would this be her home. However, her heart didn’t
get the
memo and for the first time in her life, she feels at
home.
But
will her demons from the past let her have
the
love she deserves? Or will she return to her life in New York - once again
leaving
her heart behind in the one place she fears to be?
Mary A Wasowski – A Changed
Life
Change is never
easy.
For
seventeen year old Nicolette Vanelle, life
is
about to change...
Relocating to California, Nicolette finds
herself
starting over. A new high school. New friends. New
life.
Attending her first Hollywood event, Nicolette
meets
bad boy Michael St. Clair, and unknowingly becomes the object of his
obsession.
Feeling overwhelmed by Michael’s attention, she
escapes
the party to go to the beach where she meets Simon Paulson. He takes
her
breath away, an inevitable connection leading to romance between the young
couple.
Nicolette and Simon’s happiness is short lived
and
their relationship is put to the ultimate test when tragedy befalls
Nicolette.
Can Nicolette find the strength and courage to
emerge
from the darkness she fell into? Will Simon's unconditional love be
enough
to bring her back into the
light?
Life can change in an instant, leaving you
changed
forever.
Whitney G
– My Last Resolution (bonus novella)
My boyfriend is an
asshole.
A pure, one of a kind,
I-wish-I-was-making-this-up
asshole.
Every year, I write "Dump his ass" as
my most
important resolution, but I've never done
it.
Until now.
Well, kind
of ...
Instead of showing up to our "secret"
engagement
party, I've shown up to the airport--ready and willing to go
wherever
the next flight is bound. Determined to keep and fulfill all of my resolutions,
I'm
proud of myself for finally striking out on my
own.
Until I never make it to my final destination.
Until
the sexy stranger who sat next to me on the plane changes everything.
Until
my "last resolution" is fulfilled a lot earlier than I
thought...
Author Bios, Pictures and Social
Media Links
Christa
Cervone
and
raised in New England, Christa is a married mother of three. She began
writing
her first book, Broken, in October 2012, as a love story to her
husband,
Frank. During the writing process, Christa managed to keep her book a
secret
from the majority of her family and friends, including her mother. She
finally
revealed that she had written a book on her personal Facebook page just
two
weeks before Broken was
released.
Broken was released in
February
2013, and within twenty-four hours of its release, it was on Amazon's
Movers
and Shakers list as well as in the Top 20 Erotica. Christa released her
second
novel, On the Ropes - Book One in the Down for the Count series, in
February
2014. On the Ropes has also climbed the charts on Amazon, hitting the
Top 10
Sports Fiction and the Top 20 Romance Sports Fiction lists. Book Two,
Going
the Distance, is slated to be released in the summer of
2014.
Christa also has several
other novels in the works, with no release dates announced at this
time.
Blog | Facebook | Twitter | Goodreads
Author | Amazon
Author
R.D.
Cole
Cole is
a lively person with a determination to make it in life. Once her mind
gets
set on an idea she pursues it with passion. As long as she has God and her
family
she feels she can conquer everyday. Besides reading and writing she
loves
to sing, dance, and go mudding on her Souped-up Can Am. Her hubby is 9
years
younger but he seems more mature than her at times and they level one
another
out. She has a beautiful daughter named Bethani who is a miracle and a
fighter.
She's the only known living survivor of Matthew Woods Syndrome and
when no
one thought she'd live R.D. said "yes she will." R.D. takes
nothing
for granted when it comes to life. "Everything can be ripped from
your
fingers before they can grasp it. So if you want something in life, do it.
Go for
it."
That same mindset has
helped
R.D. write small pieces of her life mixed in to fictional settings and
characters
that will capture your heart.
"Read on. Dream
on.
Write on." -R.D. Cole
W. Ferraro
active
children. For all of you who are familiar with the stress of this job, I
decided
to complete an item on my bucket list and write a book. When I'm not
writing,
you will find me cooking, reading, shopping or being silly with the
kids.
Sarah Goodman
three
sons. Sarah has taught off and on for 16 years teaching four and five year
olds. The other time she is a stay at home mom to her boys. Life consists of baseball,
music lessons, soccer, and car pooling. When she isn’t too busy or tired
she writes.
Heather
Gunter
Heather is a
devoted mother of three gorgeous boys. She balances spending as much time
with them as possible with writing, updating her Into the Night Reviews book
blog and her day job. Her love of animals sees her home in Canton, GA
bursting with numerous dogs and ferrets.
Heather campaigns
passionately for anti-bullying initiatives and has a strong
conviction
to reduce peoples suffering at the hands of bullies.
A talented singer,
who once dreamed of pursuing a career in that field, she has put that
goal
aside in exchange for her writing. A self proclaimed geek, whatever
spare
time she has is spent curled on the couch reading and listening to
music.
J.M. La
Rocca
J.M. La Rocca was born
in
Chicago, IL. At an early age, her family relocated to lower Alabama where she
began her love for writing. She currently resides in Pensacola, FL with her husband
and twin sons. As a stay at home mom, La Rocca was able to pursue her love
for writing. It was always an unrealized dream to write her own books.
With
the love and support from her husband Tony, family, and friends, she set forth
and fulfilled that dream.
Aside from writing she also
loves to read, listen to music, drink wine, indulge on chocolate, chase her
little ones around, and spend time with her family and friends.
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Author
Isabel
Lucero
Isabel Lucero is the
author
of The Secrets That We Keep, the Amazon bestseller, Living in Sin, and
Unforgivable
Sin. She was born in a small town in New Mexico and was lucky
enough
to escape and travel the world thanks to her husband's career in the Air
Force.
She's been married for ten years to the love of her life and Jr. High School
sweetheart.
Her husband is Author W.S. Greer and together they have two of the
best
and most beautiful kids in the
world.
Isabel's love for reading
is anything but new, she's been reading since before she was a
teenager.
She started reading books by Mary Higgins Clark and James Patterson
before
being catapulted into the indie author world thanks to a little somebody
named
E.L. James.
She currently lives overseas
and is working on book three of The Escort Series. Isabel loves
connecting
with her readers and fans of books in general. You can find her on
Facebook,
Twitter, and Instagram.
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Page
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Alice
Montalvo-Tribue
Alice Montalvo-Tribue
lives
with her husband and daughter in New Jersey. She has a bachelors degree
in
communications and is currently working on her masters degree. She spends
most of
her free time reading, writing, and when the weather permits lounging
out on
a beach.
Megan Noelle
I am Megan Noelle! I
have
been writing for many years and currently have two books out that are part
of a
series. My For You series were the first novels I published but I had to
stop
everything to write Stefan and Grey’s story in, A Broken Forever. I have
been
writing since I was old enough to hold a pen and finally pursued my dream
of
becoming a novelist. Writing is my
passion
and I am all for following one’s passions! One of my other passions is
being a
mom of my adorable daughter Peyton. When I’m not writing I’m a stay at
home
mom and a full time student. I’m getting close to finishing my 2-year
degree
and I am more than ready for a break.
There
are many things I want to do in life, but if I can write, be with
my
daughter and my family—I will be happy!
5 *NEW* Random Things You Don’t Know
About Me!
focused
solely on Diet Pepsi. And yes, I know all about aspartame, and all that
bad
stuff. But, it’s delicious.
wants
to make into a movie!
growing
up (not just Disney) and it is very difficult for me to like anything
new.
Some of my favorites set the bar too high apparently! (When Harry Met
Sally,
My Best Friend’s Wedding, Father of the Bride Part I & II, &
many
more!)
covers!
able to
write.
Mary
A
Wasowski
I call New Jersey my home
where I live and share my life with my husband Henry, and our three sons.
Every
day is a busy one around the Wasowski home. We are all running in many directions,
but at the end of the day we come together as one.
To write my first book was an
accomplishment I never thought would be realized. Dreaming of it and
actually doing it are two very
different things.
Writing has changed my
entire
life. It brings happiness and fulfilment to areas in my life that I
didn’t
even know were missing. It’s also one of the hardest jobs that I have
ever
done. It takes me away from my family, friends, and the little day to day
tasks
that once upon a time seemed normal. Now I have a writing cave. What the
heck is
that? Well it’s my second home where I write my heart out and hopefully
produce
something that will make many people smile.
Chasing the dream...one
book at a time!
You can find me on these
social media sites:
Whitney
G
A self diagnosed candy
addict,
travel junkie, and hypochondriac, Whitney Gracia Williams LOVES to
write
about characters that make you laugh, cry, and want to (in the case of
Selena
Ross) reach through your Kindle and slap
them.
She is the
"imaginary
bestselling" author of the Jilted Bride Series, Mid Life
Love,
Wasted Love, and Captain of My
Soul.
When she's not locked inside
her room, feverishly typing away on her laptop, she can be found
here:
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