Tuesday, June 10, 2014

***NEW RELEASES THIS WEEK- JUNE 8TH-15TH***

 

SINFULLY RELEASE DAY



Author: Leighton Riley
Cover Designer: Ashley Christin
Release Date: June 10, 2014



Synopsis

Payton wrote a self-published book regaling her encounters with men while visiting Las Vegas. To her horror, life changes in more ways than one when someone finds out her true identity.

Ryder, a successful publisher, is determined to find and sign Reece Edwards. Using what little information he can find on her, he sets out to find her, feeling it will definitely be worth the chase.

While on his search for Reece, Ryder meets Payton and the chemistry is explosive. Payton has done well with not allowing anyone to get close to her, but something is different with Ryder. Ryder can’t get Payton out of his head, but he is still on his mission to locate Reece.

With two tragic pasts, Payton and Ryder each have demons to overcome. Will they be able to put those demons to rest or will it be all for nothing?



Review
Every woman that has ever had that 'creepy feeling' down your neck, can relate with this book! What do you do if you are being stalked? Do you take it seriously or is it just playful fun? Payton doesn't know what to make of the scary mystery letters, but can she figure it out before it's too late?

I liked this story line from page one and loved the steamy erotic scenes that Payton has throughout the book! Payton and Ryder's spark left me feeling the heat and I couldn't wait to see how their relationship would work out. This book was exceptional in the details it provided with character development and I was sad to see the book end. I will be excited to hear about Tristen's story and hopefully happy ending *wink*wink*! 


***WARNING: 18+ ONLY. EXTREME PHYSICAL VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSULT***

Reviewed by Maggie Wadsager


I only gave 4 stars because there were some areas during the book that were not evenly paced and would leave me feeling a little bored.



About the Author
Texas born and raised, I found my love for dirty books rather recently.  I work in real estate for my normal job and I write contemporary romance.  I plan on having Sinfully be the first of three in its series.  I would like to do a standalone after, but we’ll see!  I love sweet tea (made right!), cookie cake, and anything with chocolate and peanut butter.  I have a few guys at my gym that are my TDF’s (tall, dark, and fuckable) but also have a HSB (Hot Sauna Boy), because let’s be honest, they’re my motivation while I’m there!   I go to Las Vegas often but I swear I don’t have as much fun as Payton does.  Although, if I found myself a Tate there, I might change my opinion! 
Authors such as Katy Evans, SE Hall, Angela Graham, Jasinda Wilder, and Jillian Dodd have been a large influence on me and I’m forever grateful.  I decided to write Sinfully on Black Friday in November 2013, on a whim.  I thought I’d get bored after a few pages but was captivated by the characters and it developed into something I am truly proud of.  When it comes to book boyfriends, I love those who are strong but with a little imperfection or tragedy in their past (Remy, Kellan, Q, Twitch are just a few of my favorites).  I LOVE talking to my readers so feel free to message me on Facebook. 


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Blog Tour & Giveaway - Falling Back Together - Kristen Hope Mazzola


Title: Falling Back Together (Crashing #2)
Author: Kristen Hope Mazzola
Release date: May 20 2014

Synopsis
18+ New Adult romance
*** Sequel of Crashing Back Down ***

“I don't know if it’s fate, coincidence, or my curse, but I'm still breathing, and my breaths are for you.”

Mags McManus is far from a normal woman in her mid twenties. Being a war widow, a business professional, and a brokenhearted train wreck only skims the surface of the layers of who Margret McManus truly is. Waking up in a hospital bed, alone and confused, Mags once again has to pick up the pieces of her shattered heart. With her best friends by her side, Mags slowly starts to learn the answers she so desperately longs for. But is everything going to continue to spiral out of control? Or is there a light at the end of this dark, twisting tunnel where all the broken pieces can finally fall back together?

A portion of all royalties from Falling Back Together are donated by the author to The Marcie Mazzola Foundation.




Prologue: Walker
Red Georgia clay turned into gravel of a familiar road as it crunched under the tires of my beat-up Ford pickup. The night air was speckled with stars blanketing the rolling hills of my family’s damned homestead.  I never thought I’d come back here. As I off the gas and gently pressed the brake in, my vehicle came to rest just about a mile away from their double-wide trailer. I started to feel the panic settle into my chest again.  I knew that leaving her had been the wrong move, but I’d had no other options.  Fucking chicken-shit.
                Slamming my palms onto the steering wheel, I let out a load, broken scream.  My skin burned from the scratches and bites, my eyes burned from the tears, and my throat burned from the pleading.  All I wanted was to turn around.  Run back. Turn back time.  Explain. Love her.  The sight of rage on her face was enough to keep me put—staring down the life I never wanted to return to, like a damn loaded gun pressed right down the throat of my sanity. She hated me, and I’d known it right when I saw that journal gripped in her beautiful fingers. I’d crushed her with all the words I’d been too scared to let leave those pages. How else was she supposed to freaking act? This was for the best.  Being out of Margret McManus’s life for good was something that needed to happen.  Not for my sake, but for hers.  I’d destroyed her.  The one person I truly loved and who truly loved me back… Her pain was completely my fault.
There are only so many lines a guy could cross without tempting fate, and I wasn’t the kind of man to play with that kind of fire. Mags was Randy's and I was gonna have to deal with that in my own way. Here goes nothing. It’s time to pull this trigger.        
The last mile down the road was the hardest.  Memories flashed of the torture, beatings, name calling, drug binges. I fucking hate this place.  I pulled up next to my stepdad’s and brother’s trucks, turned off the engine, and hopped out. It was like ripping off a damn bandage that was twenty years old and the wound was still not healed, oozing and festering with years of hate soiling the edges.
                I could hear Mom’s screeching and cackling from the front porch and the distinct sound of a shotgun cocking. “It’s Walker,” I called through the shut door. “Chet, put the freaking gun away. If you shoot me, so help me God, I will kill you.”
                The trailer door swung open to reveal my fat, graying, toothless mother, who smelled like she had forgotten to bathe again—this time, for weeks.  I was just glad to see that the lights were still on.  Tears filled her eyes as her face twisted into a semi-smile.  I knew that was the best she could do.  Her faded pink shirt had the hugest ever-loving pit stains, and damn her for going in for a hug.  As I hesitated, I could hear my punk-ass little brother, fresh out of the pen, hissing his awful laugh in the background.  After holding in my breath, scared the weeklong stench of sweat and body odor emanating from my deadbeat mother was going to make me pass out, I walked into the double-wide’s poor excuse for a living room. 
                The same faded green carpet lay limp and patchy on the creaking floor, trapped under the old red-blue plaid couch Dad got at Goodwill a few weeks before he’d decided enough was enough.  My heart ached for the ten-year-old me, crying in that very spot for him to come back. Mags has no idea how much we are alike, how much our baggage matches.
                Chet, my miserable, old, shit-for-brains stepfather shoved off from leaning against the entertainment center and made his way over to attempt a handshake.  He was so loaded that he missed my hand, jabbing me right in the ribs.  His eyes were slits as he slurred, “What the fuck do you want?”
                “Nice to see you too, Chet. Thought I’d come home to visit and check on the station. That’s all.” I rubbed the back of my neck, knowing they could smell the bullshit on my breath. “It’s been a while since I made sure everything was all right up this way.”
My cell buzzed in my pocket. Digging it out, I saw Buck’s goofy-ass grin light up on my screen.  I ignored it and turned the damn thing off.  There was no way I was ready to face that music yet. Looking around at the six eyes glaring at me, I knew that this was not my smartest of moves.
“So how the hell have y’all been?”
                Silas’s bloodshot eyes and sweating brow told way too much about the amount of meth pumping through my little brother’s system.  He hawked his load of dip out from his lower lip and took a swig of his beer, sneering at me. “Big-time war hero forgets about his roots then stumbles back up the mountain on a whim.  Somethin’ ain’t sittin’ right with that, brother, so why don’t you enlighten us as to why you really came on home?”
                There was something about my slimeball for a brother that irked me, just like the rest of the people in the room. So I turned on the heels of my boots and made my way for the door.  He was right; this shit didn’t add up in my head either.  Unfortunately, my wide mother took up the entire doorway.  She had her feet planted firmly and her arms crossed over her chest.
“Walker Cameron Eastman, you go sit on the couch next to your daddy and have a visit with yer momma.  Don’t mind Silas. He just missed you is all and has a funny way of showin’ it.” She glared at her youngest with laser beams that would kill, given the chance. 
                My eyes narrowed and my jawline hardened as I spoke through gritted, grinding teeth. “That man ain’t my father just as much as y’all ain’t my family. Blood don’t mean shit when it all hits the fan.” I stood toe-to-toe with the densest person on the planet. I knew she couldn’t understand why I hated her—and the rest of them, for that matter—but I had figured it out a long time ago. She enjoyed getting under my skin. And damn her for being so fucking good at it.
                “Go wash up. Supper will be done in a minute.  At least have a meal with us.”
                I let my head hang as I walked into the back hallway to escape into the bathroom, like I had done countless times in my youth.  Being with the scum of my past was awful, but nothing would compare to the feeling of hurting Mags again. I knew that this was my fate and all I deserved for everything I’d put my North through.
As I made my way back into the living room, the sound of Chet’s snoring rang out over the Bulldogs’ announcers blaring through the television speakers. I slumped down in a chair at the dining table, staring blankly as little blurring purple and red dots jetted across the screen.
“Man, y’all need a new TV.”
Silas snickered from the chair next to me as he shoved up. He made his way into the kitchen and dove in the fridge to get another Bud.  He raised an eyebrow, asking if I wanted one.
“Yup. I’m here. Might as well.”



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About the Author
You want to know more about me? Well, let's see...
I am just an average twenty-something following my dreams.  I have a full time "day job" and by night I am author.  I guess you could say that writing is like my super power (I always wanted one of those).  I am the lover of wine, sushi, football and the ocean; that is when I am not wrapped up in the literary world.
Please feel free to 
contact me to chat about my writing, books you think I'd like or just to shoot the, well you know.
A portion of all my royalties are donated to 
The Marcie Mazzola Foundation.

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Cover Reveal - Private Affair by Danielle Torella


Releasing July 1, 2014
Synopsis
Tess Martin finally feels she has it all. She’s engaged to her sexy Brit boyfriend Ben Mitchell. Then she is offered the job opportunity of a lifetime, when requested by a hot new sexy rock star to go on tour with him as his lead photographer, how could she refuse? One catch, Ben doesn't get to join in.

When being forced apart, can their newly found trust be enough? Who is this up and coming sexy rocker and what’s up with him and Tess? And when they think they've been through enough pain, will tragedy strike again?

Ben has his own issues with his cheating ex and now his best mate acting strange and distant. Not to mention his baby sister, Caroline’s attempted suicide and Ben wants to know, who or what is to blame?

When your life has been full of liars and backstabbers, who can you trust especially when you're in the public eye...

You never know who could be watching.

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Hi! I am Danielle live in Western New York with my husband and two sons. I never knew I had a dream to become a writer until I started becoming obsessed with reading in the last two years. The obsession began with Twilight and then matured to Fifty Shades. While used to reading mainstream best sellers, found a new love for indie authors. I love to do paintings related to the books I read and eventually turning into Pushy Girl Paintings and now do work for other indie writers and readers. My first book idea started from a dream I had one night and became obsessed with the story and started writing. Now having arguments with the people in my head and loving every moment of it, even when they take control of the story.














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Shauna Allen Cover Reveal for Cupid's Last Stand

Cover Reveal for Cupid's Last Stand
by Shauna Allen!


It's finally here! The cover reveal for Cupid's Last Stand, Shauna Allen's fourth and final book in the Cupid Chronicles series.
Genre: Contemporary/Light Paranormal Romance
Release date: June 24th


Cupid’s Last Stand blurb:
Tristan Blackfeather . . .
The wounded boy has grown into a man, and his ghosts continue to haunt him. Now, faced with the ultimate betrayal, he makes a break for it, only to find himself face-to-face with his first love . . . the one he never truly forgot.
Darby Deveraux . . .
Squelching every desire of her soul, she’s existed the best she can in spite of the hand life has dealt her. Now, the boy who shattered her heart has come roaring back into town, demanding a second chance . . . does she dare?
One last shot . . .
Luckily, an old friend is there to help guide these two together. But is their Cupid Michael up to one final mission? Can your first love be your last?
 ***Releasing June 24, 2014 and to be available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iTunes, Kobo and Createspace. Buy links available soon.

Shauna grew up an only child with two open and loving parents in Central Texas. She’s married to her high school sweetheart and is the mother to three awesome teenagers, including one she’s about to send off to the Air Force. She is the award-winning author of the Cupid Chronicles series, includingCharlie’s Angel and Cupid’s Last Stand. Shauna also writes emotional Contemporary YA novels as SC Montgomery, works as a freelance editor, and is personal assistant to two NYT Bestselling authors. She loves all things sexy, sassy, and Gerard Butler.
Shauna would love for you to visit her at her website and blog at: www.shaunaallen.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/shauna.allen.12
Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6916632.Shauna_Allen
You can also sign up for all the latest Shauna Allen news with her Angel Kisses Newsletter here! http://eepurl.com/D_RcP
And please learn more about her YA alter-ego at: www.scmontgomery.com
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Praise for Shauna Allen’s Cupid Chronicles:
Tattoos, cupids, and bad boys: Shauna Allen delivers one heck of a read. Fresh, sassy, and witty—she brings a new voice to romance that readers are gonna love!
New York Times Bestselling Author, Christie Craig

A charming romance from start to finish. Shauna Allen's fresh, new voice makesInked by an Angel a must read.
Harlequin Romantic Suspense and Zebra author, Melissa Cutler
The Halo Effect . . . doesn’t disappoint. Shauna has an amazing ability to write compelling characters that are real and relatable.
Christie Palmer Reviews – 4 ½ of 5 Stars
With a cupid in the mix love finds a way to conquer all things . . . I must say that I loved the book and the characters in the book. I hope we see more from this talented author.
Night Owl Reviews – 4/5 Stars
A well-written, clever romance with a twist, Inked by an Angel reminds us that love exists in the unlikeliest places, and that we may need a “guardian angel” to help us find what was meant to be all along.
Gillian’s Tattooed Book Reviews – 4/5 Stars
Holy smoke! Shauna Allen has done it again! I fell in love with the Cupid Chronicles from the first book and that was it for me . . . Shauna did not disappoint with Wounded Wings and from the first two sentences I kid you not I was in love.
Reese’s Reviews: My Addiction to Fiction – 5/5 Stars

Storm of Ekkos by Heather Allen Release Blitz

Available from 10 June - Storm of Ekkos is the latest release from Heather Allen!!



Title: Storm of Ekkos
Author: Heather Allen
Genre: Paranormal Young Adult
Publication Date: June 10, 2014
Publisher: Heather Allen



What if Earth isn’t the only planet out there with life as we know it? What if one choice in the history of humans could change the entire course of the world?

Hadley Morrow, a sixteen year old inhabitant of Ekkos makes a choice. She must redeem herself and prove she is really meant for more. Her life has meaning beyond the choices of her parents. But the boy on the mountain changes everything. He is in the wrong place at the wrong time and her actions set into motion a journey to find herself and discover more about her future and the planet she calls home.

Elijah Weston, a sixteen year old member of Earth leaves his house to escape the small existence that he calls his life. He finds that everything is closing in on him and he needs a way out. The girl on the mountain changes everything. He is in the right place at the right time and because of her his life takes on meaning beyond what he can comprehend.

When Elijah meets Hadley everything he believed about his life and the world is turned upside down. Will they be able to overcome the future already set before them and change both worlds or will their choices be for nothing? Has everything already been written?





Heather Allen is the author of The Just Breathe Trilogy, Feeling This, The Sound of Shooting Stars and her recently released New Adult novel, Let Go about an MMA fighter. And now the first book, Storm of Ekkos in her new Paranormal Young Adult Saga. Heather finally realized her dream of becoming an author just over a year ago with her mermaid trilogy. She savors every moment on this journey and the wonderful friends she has met along the way. She has many more books planned. Ideas pop up faster than she has time to write.

Heather currently resides in the sunny state of Florida with her husband and three children. She holds degrees in education from The University of Central Florida and Nova Southeastern University. She is a hopeless romantic who loves to read just about anything. While writing she indulges in coffee and Jelly Belly jellybeans. When she isn’t teaching, writing or reading, Heather can be found at the beach or out on the water boating.