Book Release Blast: Stolen Art By Ruth Silver @writeawaybliss @BlushingRavyn @GHBTours

Stolen Art

By- Ruth Silver

Genre- YA Sci Fi Adventure

Publication Date- May 4th, 2015

Published By- Lazy Day Publishing

Sixteen-year-old Madeline has been living on the streets, biding her time until she's eighteen. With little to no money, she takes on a heist in hopes of making ends meet. What could possibly go wrong?

Everything.  

Getting caught is just the beginning of Madeline's adventure as she meets Weston and discovers the secret of where she came from.

   

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Promo Blast: Lucius; The Fallen (The Fallen Series # 1) By Tara S. Wood @twoodwriter @GHBTours

Lucius; The Fallen

The Fallen Series # 1

By- Tara S. Wood

Genre- Paranormal Romance/Angels

"Relish this moment in My favor. It is your last."

Six angels once sat at the right hand of The Almighty, but an ill-fated decision cast them out of Heaven. Now they serve Him on Earth, slaying demons for their redemption. They are…The Fallen.

Lucius, once revered at the side of God, fell to Earth with his brothers to pay penance and atone for his lapse in leadership. Wingless and forsaken, they have all paid a price for their complicity. Lucius' hubris is now a curse, and he cannot rest until they carry out the last of The Almighty's orders...and stop a war that has been millennia in the making.

Persephone Roberts is always in the right place at the right time, the serendipity allowing her to help people on her travels. When it leads her to cross paths with the band of hard-living fallen angels, she sets her sights on their leader, and is determined to restore Lucius' faith in their quest. And in himself.

But the ancient evil the angels strive to fight has put Persephone in its crosshairs. It will be up to Lucius and his brothers to save her and destroy the minions of the dark. Can the amber-eyed beauty with her accepting heart heal wounds that cut soul deep, and force him to reclaim a glory he once tossed aside? Is he strong enough to realize the path back to Heaven begins with her, or will he be forever...fallen?

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Trailer Reveal: Desert Fire (Valley of Death Series Book # 2) By Charyse Allan @Chaaryse4 @GHBTours

Desert Fire

Valley of Death Series Book # 2

By- Charyse Allan

Genre- YA Thriller

Expected Publication Date- May 12th, 2015

Payton survived being forced to flee her home in order to escape the Elites. Yet she's still not safe. The Elites are relentless, and they won't give up their pursuit of her that easily. With her loved ones at risk, and trusting her boyfriend Conner, the two devise a plan to ditch her family in order to keep them safe. But their plan quickly backfires and puts everyone in even more danger.

Reiley is left behind when Payton leaves. Having to prove herself as a capable assassin, she joins Cadmar in his pursuit to track and end the Elites. Except the agency anticipates their every move. In her angst to establish herself, Reiley is caught off guard and makes a deadly mistake that jeopardizes everyones lives.

Betrayal, abductions, and murder stand between Payton, Reiley, and their loved ones. Can they trust anyone in a world of treachery and destruction?

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Cover Reveal: Vanish by Nicola Marsh @nicolamarsh @NereydaG1003 #YABOUNDBOOKTOURS

Vanish

by Nicola Marsh 

Release Day: 05/26/15

Summary from Goodreads:

Seventeen year old Alyssa Wood's life is turned upside down when her boyfriend kills himself the day after she dumps him.

Blamed by the townsfolk of Broadwater and ostracised by her friends is bad enough. 

But the fallout from dealing with her mom's increasingly frequent psychotic episodes sends her fleeing to New York City to live with her aunt, a Wicca High Priestess.

Alyssa doesn't believe in magic, not any more.

She has a new life to lead: a new BFF in Seth and a major crush on Ronan, the sexy geek saxophonist who tutors music at her high school.

Can she leave her old life behind or will the ghosts of the past continue to haunt her?

Book Two:
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About the Author:

Her debut young adult novel, a supernatural thriller BANISH, released with Harlequin Teen August 2013, and her YA urban fantasy SCION OF THE SUN won the 2014 National Readers' Choice Award for Best Young Adult novel.

She's also a Waldenbooks, Bookscan and Barnes & Noble bestseller, a 2013 RBY (Romantic Book of the Year) and National Readers' Choice Award winner, and a multi-finalist for a number of awards including the Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award, HOLT Medallion, Booksellers' Best, Golden Quill, Laurel Wreath, More than Magic and has also won several CataRomance Reviewers' Choice Awards.

A physiotherapist for thirteen years, she now adores writing full time, raising her two little heroes, sharing fine food with family and friends, and her favorite, curling up with a good book!

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Release Day Blitz: Through Fire & Sea by Nicole Luiken @nicoleluiken @entangledteen @NereydaG1003 #YABOUNDBOOKTOURS #Giveaway

Through Fire & Sea

by Nicole Luiken 

Release Date: 05/05/15

Entangled Teen

Summary from Goodreads:

Mirror mirror, hear my call…

In the Fire world, seventeen-year-old Leah is the illegitimate daughter of one of the realm's most powerful lords. She's hot-blooded-able to communicate with the tempestuous volcano gods that either bless a civilization or destroy it. But then Leah discovers she's a Caller, gifted with the unique-and dangerous-ability to "call" her Otherselves in mirror worlds. And her father will do anything to use her powers for his own purposes.

In the Water world, Holly nearly drowns when she sees-and interacts with-Leah, a mirror image of herself. She's rescued by Ryan, a boy from school with a secret he'd die to protect. Little do they know, his Otherself is the son of a powerful volcano god at war in the Fire world…and he's about to fall.

As Leah and Holly's lives intersect, the Fire and Water worlds descend into darkness. The only way to protect the mirror worlds is to break every rule they've ever known. If they don't, the evil seeping through the mirrors will destroy everything-and everyone-they love…

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Parallel Worlds: 

Guest blog by Nicole Luiken

My fantasy novel Through Fire & Sea features a number of parallel worlds. There's the True World from which the four other worlds were copied and the Mirror Worlds themselves: Fire, Water, Air and Stone.

Parallel worlds are a favorite trope of mine. Here are some other fictional parallel worlds that I really enjoyed:

•  Sliders This '90s TV show dealt with a group of students and their prof who ended up "sliding" between various parallel Earths in an attempt to find their way back to their own universe. Each universe looked mostly like ours but proved to have a subtle difference. The physics prof was played by Rhys-Davies, who is actually rather tall when not shrunk down to dwarf size for his role as Gimli in LOTR
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer featured a parallel universe, in which most of the regular cast were either dead or vampires in the episodes "The Wish" and "Doppelgangland". My husband and I are rewatching this series with our fifteen-year-old son.
• Fringe. This popular SF TV show followed FBI agent Olivia Dunn as she investigated strange paranormal and fringe science phenomena with the help of Walter Bishop and his son Peter. In later seasons, it featured several different versions of Earth. In the main Earth Walter Bishop was a crazed genius, his so-called 'Walternate' was the Secretary of Defense. Big difference.
• Once Upon a Time TV show. The Evil Queen's curse removed all the fairy tale characters from their magic lands, gave them amnesia and placed them in an ordinary American town of Storybrook. I loved how each episode featured a flashback retold fairytale storyline as well as the main Storybrook plot.
• Awake TV show. This one's a little more obscure and only lasted a season, but I really liked it. Jason Isaacs (otherwise known as Lucius Malfoy) played a cop who'd been in a car accident with his family several months before. In one world, his son had died, but every time he went to sleep he would wake in a subtly-gray world in which his son had survived but his wife had died instead.

What are some parallel world stories in books, TV or movies that you've enjoyed?

About the Author:

Nicole Luiken wrote her first book at age 13 and never stopped.

She is the author of nine published books for young adults, including Violet Eyes and its sequels Silver Eyes and Angels Eyes, Frost, Unlocking the Doors, The Catalyst, Escape to the Overworld, Dreamfire and the sequel Dreamline. She also has an adult thriller, Running on Instinct, under the name N.M. Luiken and a fantasy romance series, Gate to Kandrith and Soul of Kandrith.

Nicole lives with her family in Edmonton, AB. It is physically impossible for her to go more than three days in a row without writing. 

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Release Day Book Blitz: Lola Carlyle's 12-Step Romance by Danielle Younge-Ullman @DanielleYUllman @entangledteen @NereydaG1003 #YABOUNDBOOKTOURS #Giveaway

Lola Carlyle's 12-Step Romance

by Danielle Younge-Ullman

Release Date: 05/05/15

Entangled Teen

Summary from Goodreads:

Lola Carlyle is lonely, out of sorts, and in for a boring summer. So when her best friend, Sydney, calls to rave about her stay at a posh Malibu rehab and reveals that the love of Lola's life, Wade Miller, is being admitted, she knows what she has to do. Never mind that her worst addiction is decaf cappuccino; Lola is going to rehab.

Lola arrives at Sunrise Rehab intent solely on finding Wade, saving him from himself, and-naturally-making him fall in love with her…only to discover she's actually expected to be an addict. And get treatment. And talk about her issues with her parents, and with herself. Plus she has insane roommates, and an irritatingly attractive mentor, Adam, who's determined to thwart her at every turn.

Oh, and Sydney? She's gone.

Turns out, once her pride, her defenses, and her best friend are stripped away, Lola realizes she's actually got a lot to overcome…if she can open her heart long enough to let it happen.

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Excerpt:

Hi there! Thanks so much for having me on your blog today. I thought I'd share an excerpt from my novel, LOLA CARLYLE'S 12 STEP ROMANCE with you.

The scene happens early in the book. Lola has run away from a therapy session in rehab, and snuck around trying to locate the boy she faked her way into rehab for-Wade Miller. She finds him, but unfortunately in a bad location-the bathroom. Which was really not the way she planned to see him for the first time.

I should be leaving, but my feet seem overly heavy and we're kind of…staring at each other and he is so damn beautiful it's hard to stop.

"Wait, do I…? You look familiar, except… No way, I would have remembered," he says in a tone that makes me hot all over. "But it's more like you…you seem familiar."

"You think?"

"Yeah, I'm just trying to-" He breaks off as the door starts to open behind me.

"Shit!" I say, looking for somewhere to hide.

But Wade's reflexes are fast, and in seconds, before the person on the other side actually gets in, his arms come on either side of me to push the door shut again.

Lucky me, I'm between him and it.

"Hey, what the fuck!" says a voice from outside.

"Listen, man, I need a minute."

"Wade?"

"Yeah."

"Dude, let me in."

"Come back in five. You don't want to be in here, trust me," Wade says, and mouths my roommate to me.

"Okay, whatev," the guy says. "Thanks for nothing."

And then things get quiet again. Quiet with me essentially pinned to the door by Wade. Not counting the peeing thing, this bathroom venue is turning out much better than I expected. Now if I could only breathe.

He looks down at me.

"Thanks," I say, trying to stay cool despite the record levels of hormones screaming through my veins.

"So," he says, still right up in front of me, "you said you were lost?"

I nod.

"You're really lost," he says.

"Oh?"

"It takes a special talent to get this lost. I mean, you ended up in a men's bathroom on the other side of the compound."

"It's my first day," I say, as if this explains it.

"What are you going to do on your second?"

I grin. "Don't know. You have any suggestions? Because I plan to get lost every time I have therapy."

His eyes widen and sadly, he takes a step back to look at me.

"You ditched therapy? On your first day?"

"Kind of. Yeah."

"Uh, that's not exactly the height of compliance."

"Hey, I'll comply. I'll do yoga and group and swimming and 'Vision.' I'm not going to drink or do any drugs. I just don't want therapy. I don't need it."

"At the rate you're going, you're going to have it twice a day."

"Not possible. I'm going to be way too busy doing downward dog and rock climbing. Assuming I can get back to the girls' dorms."

"You need some help?"

I draw myself up. "Do I look like I need help?"

"Uh…"

"Don't answer that," I say, and reach for the door handle.

"Let me check the hall for you at least," he says.

"No, I'm good," I say. "But you're very cute to offer, W.A.D.E. Very cute in general. They should give you a bigger part on that show of yours."

"Actually, I'm the le-"

And that's when I kiss him.

I swoop up, give him a fast but firm kiss on the lips, then pull away and open the door while he stands there, blinking.

"Hmm," I say, doing my best not to hyperventilate or, God forbid, swoon, "not bad."

"Not bad?"

"Yeah," I say with a casual shrug. "It'll do."

About the Author:

Danielle Younge-Ullman is a novelist, playwright and freelance writer. She studied English and Theater at  McGill University, then returned to her hometown of Toronto to work as professional actor for ten  years. Danielle's short story, Reconciliation, was published in MODERN MORSELS-a McGraw-Hill  Anthology for young adults-in 2012, her one-act play, 7 Acts of Intercourse, debuted at Toronto's SummerWorks Festival in 2005, and her adult novel, FALLING UNDER, was published by Penguin in 2008.  Danielle lives in Toronto with her husband and two daughters.




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