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Thursday, May 5, 2016

Book Blitz + #Giveaway: You Found Me: Complete Series by Eve Cates @just_eve_cates @XpressoReads @XpressoTours #XpressoBookTours


You Found Me: Complete Series
Eve Cates
Publication date: May 2nd 2016
Genres: Adult, Romance

After a summer spent in France with her controlling mother, Sage Forrester is returning to New York to marry her long-time beau, Nicolas Billiton. But there’s a problem, Sage and Nick don’t share much of a…spark. 
Sage wonders if she’s incapable of feeling, or if she’s just stifled in her life as a princess of the Upper East Side. Plus, there’s a secret she’s forced to keep to maintain their extravagant lifestyle. 
All of this changes when a young Australian model by the name of Cameron Wilson steps onto the elevator and takes notice of her. Her heart starts racing. There’s electricity. There’s a connection. 
And he feels it too. 
After a series of chance encounters pushes them closer and closer together, Sage is forced to make a decision between doing what is expected and following her heart. 
Or will fate have other, much more disastrous, plans?

EXCERPT:

In the golden elevator, I stand quietly as soft piano music floats from hidden speakers, and Nick presses the button to our floor. It’s as if there is absolutely nothing for any of us to say to each other as we watch the doors slowly closing us in.

“Whoa, whoa! Hold the lift!” A male voice cuts through the quiet, and before I know what’s happening, a huge man dressed in faded jeans and a faded blue t-shirt has jammed his body between the doors, causing me to gasp in surprise, and the doors to reopen. “Thanks for waiting,” he grunts sarcastically, glaring at Nick as he punches the button for his own floor. “I guess manners are an Australian thing.” His voice has this beautiful softness to it, even though he sounds annoyed. It sends a delighted chill down my spine as the screaming inside me stops. When I meet his deep blue eyes, the last thing I want to do is run.

My heart quickens.

Nick forces his hard mouth into a smile. “We didn’t see you.”

It’s as if Nick hadn’t even spoken as the Aussie’s full lips curve into a slow and sexy grin aimed directly at me. “I’m Cameron,” he says, extending one giant hand out to me as the other runs through his thick beard. With his tan skin, tousled dark hair and beard, he has the lumberjack look down perfectly.

Suddenly, all I can think about is watching him chop wood. Shirtless…

Blinking quickly, I clear the image from my mind as I slide my small hand into the gulf of his. “Sage.” I can’t stop the smile taking over as this beautiful warmth travels up my arm, and the world we were just standing in seems to fall away, replaced by nothing more than this very moment.

Keeping a hold of my hand, Cameron’s eyes seem to register the same thing I’m feeling. He grins a little wider and his thumb begins to draw small circles on my skin. “How long will you be in New York, Sage?”

I love the way my name sounds on his lips. I love the way my hand feels encased in the warmth of his. I feel light-headed, drunk, dizzy, and all at the same time. How is this even happening? How is this random person making me feel more alive than I’ve felt in my entire life?

When I open my mouth to speak, the clearing of Nick’s throat breaks into whatever it is that has us so entranced. I turn my head quickly as if woken from a dream.

“Your floor,” Nick states curtly, his lips pressed together in a hard line as he glares at the point where Cameron’s and my hands are still joined.


Author Bio:
Eve Cates is a twenty-something author of contemporary erotic romance. She loves all things naughty, demanding men and difficult situations (pass the popcorn please). Her first series, StepSister Devotion, will be told in four parts, releasing via Kindle Unlimited. 

Eve has loved writing ever since she picked up her first crayon and penned a note to her imaginary friend 'Pok'. Accused of being a 'dreamer' as she grew, she's taken that notion and turned her daydreams into stories to delight and satisfy her readers. 

When she isn't writing, you'll find her at home with her husband, four children, and two dogs. 

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Book Blitz + #Giveaway: Taming Beastie by Sedona Venez @SedonaVenez @XpressoReads @XpressoTours #XpressoBookTours


Taming Beastie
Sedona Venez
Publication date: May 3rd 2016
Genres: Adult, Paranormal, Romance, Suspense

This big bad kitty is ready to play. 
He’ll do anything to protect and claim his mate as only a tiger can. 
Curvy Hope won’t go down without a fight and will try anything to resist Elijah Beastie, a dangerous, wild, and sexy tiger shifter. 
Hope is everything Elijah wants in a mate and this sexy kitty knows just how to shatter her defenses and keep her moaning for days. 
Danger lurks around every corner when they discover her secret. True evil wants Hope for the ultimate power that she can give them, yet she doesn’t realize the extent of the force she holds within herself. 
Can true love stand the test of time? Or will temptation break their bond? 
Taming Beastie is a stand alone adventure-packed shifter romance tale. If you like steamy love scenes, heart-pounding romance, and piles of sexy shifter secrets, then you’ll love the latest romp from author Sedona Venez. 
Buy Taming Beastie today to fall for this latest shifter tale!

EXCERPT:

My fingers ached with the need to touch him. “Thank you. It’s beautiful.” I glanced away and then back. “You didn’t have to get me anything for my birthday. Besides, my birthday isn’t for another couple days.”

“I wanted to get you something that would remind you of me.” His lips curled up into a small smile.

My body craved to be touched by him, and as if he sensed my need, he suddenly leaned in, putting his nose against my neck. My lips parted as his alluring aromatic scent of expensive cigars, sandalwood, and rich earth wafted around me. I almost dropped my glass before carefully placing it on the table with trembling fingers.

He leaned away, and when he pulled a small plate over in front of me, his arm brushed the side of my breast.

Scooping a teeny portion of truffle mac and cheese onto a plate, he dug into it and held out a forkful. “Here, open up for me, darling.”

Butterflies fluttered in my stomach. “You do know I’m not a two-year-old?” I countered.

But there was something sexy about him feeding me, and it aroused my senses and body.

“Open your mouth, Hope,” he demanded in a voice that was low, seductive.

My breath quickened. Well… if you insist.

My lips parted, allowing him to slide the fork inside. Damn, it is good—in every fucking way possible.


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Author Bio:
Sedona Venez is a romance author with a dirty mind. She lives in New York City with her hot ex-military hubby--hooah--and their fur baby. She loves writing sizzling, sexy intricate stories about strong but broken characters who push limits, overcome their fears, and risk it all for love. 
You can chat with her on Facebook (www.facebook.com/SedonaVenez), Twitter (@SedonaVenez), and her kick-ass romance website, (www.sedonavenez.com). 
If you're interested in getting your hands on an advanced release copy of her upcoming books, sneak peek teasers, you can join her newsletter list (http://eepurl.com/2ixqj) and get those details delivered right to your inbox. 

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New Release Sale + #Giveaway: A Perfect Chance by Becca Lee @AuthorBeccaLee @HotTreePromos @hottreeedits



HOT, AUSSIE STANDALONE ROMANCE SERIES

Title: A Perfect Chance
Author: Becca Lee
Genre: Aussie Contemporary Romance with a hint of  MC
Release Date: May 4th
Editor: Hot Tree Editing




Chasing a ghost is easy. It's finding yourself that's the real challenge. 

Drowning in darkness, Mace struggles to move on from a past filled with sorrow. Anger is a much easier emotion to handle, one he readily embraces. Burying himself in his work and spending his nights with his brotherhood of bikers, Mace is determined to spend his life playing by his own rules.

Plagued by her own guilt, Lena desires nothing more than to break free from her past and to start afresh. But fear and anxiety threaten to keep her hostage, leaving her frustrated and stifled. The last thing she expects is another brooding man to be her possible way out.

While Lena is determined to fight for her future outside of the Deadwood MC, Mace is resolute to avoid any hope of happiness. Together, they have to decide what they're willing to risk for the perfect chance.

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Blurb Blitz + #Giveaway: In the Company of the Dead by Ciara Ballintyne @CiaraBallintyne @GoddessFish



In the Company of the Dead
by Ciara Ballintyne
GENRE: Epic Fantasy Romance (epic)


BLURB:


Ellaeva’s obligations to the death goddess leave her no time to hunt down her parents’ murderer—until both duty and revenge lead her to the lonely castle where Lyram Aharris has been exiled for striking his prince. As the castle falls under siege, Ellaeva and Lyram must fight to save themselves from political machinations and clashing gods—but the greatest threat comes from an unexpected quarter.


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EXCERPT:

His horse carried him past the girl. She was nothing but a flash of black dress and white face as he jumped. The enemy rider’s eyes opened wide an instant before Lyram caught him around the shoulders. In a tumble of legs and arms, they spilled over the horse’s rump.

Lyram crashed to the ground, knocking the breath from him and grass whipping his face. Gasping, he forced himself to his knees, then wobbled to his feet.

The woman stood observing the spectacle. Though the soldier had struck the ground mere feet from her and was already on his feet, moving towards her, her face reflected only a resigned calmness.

The man reached for her with his free hand. Time oozed with the slowness of poured honey.

“No!” Lyram choked the word into a strangled gasp, and broke into an unsteady run.

One step.

The girl brought one long-fingered white hand up in a gesture of—what? Supplication? Forestalling? Defence even.

Two steps.

The soldier seized her by the wrist. With her other hand, she reached out and touched the boiled leather plate over his chest.

Three steps.

The sword dropped from the soldier’s fingers. In one fluid motion, he crumpled at the knees and fell face-first into the knee-high grass.

Time snapped back to normal, and Lyram skidded to a stop over the motionless soldier.

The fallen man didn’t move a muscle. Dropping to one knee, Lyram reached for the man’s neck, seeking a pulse—but he stopped before touching him. The skin was blue with such intense cold that it chilled his fingers where they hovered several inches short of contact. He let his hand drop back to his side.

A shadow darkened the dim, rainy haze of the morning and he glanced up. A colourless face loomed over him, alabaster skin, midnight hair made all the darker by contrast, and eyes so black the pupils could barely be distinguished. What he’d taken for a homespun peasant dress was instead the billowing black robes of a priestess of Ahura.


AUTHOR BIO:



Ciara Ballintyne grew up on a steady diet of adult epic fantasy from the age of nine, leaving her with a rather confused outlook on life – she believes the good guys should always win, but knows they often don’t. She is an oxymoron; an idealistic cynic.

She began her first attempts at the craft of writing in 1992, culminating in the publication of her debut work, Confronting the Demon, in 2013. Her first book to be published with Evolved Publishing is In the Company of the Dead.

She holds degrees in law and accounting, and is a practising financial services lawyer. In her spare time, she speculates about taking over the world – how hard can it really be? If she could be anything, she’d choose a dragon, but if she is honest she shares more in common with Dr. Gregory House of House M.D. – both the good and the bad. She is a browncoat, a saltgunner, a Whedonite, a Sherlockian, a Ringer and a Whovian… OK, most major geek fandoms. Her alignment is chaotic good. She is an INTJ.

Ciara lives in Sydney, Australia, with her husband, her two daughters, and a growing menagerie of animals that unfortunately includes no dragons.




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Virtual Book Tour + Review + #Giveaway: The Dawning of Scarlett by Jennifer Osborn @hondagirljen @GoddessFish




The Dawning of Scarlett
by Jennifer Osborn
GENRE: YA Paranormal

BLURB:

As a pale revenant—the vampire faction believing all life is sacred—sixteen-year-old Scarlett Ellis has learned to hide in the human world. She goes to night-school, works at a coffee shop, and her uncle Chasem trains her in martial arts. No matter what, she has to be prepared, because when she turns seventeen, she’ll be of Dawning age—and her biological father Apollo vows to see her dead first. 

Expecting her Dawning to be impossible, she accepts the fact that she will become a rogue, forever hunted by revenant renegades and outcast by her own people. Scarlett thinks she’s prepared for this—until the curly-haired Nicholas Lightener walks into her life and asks her out on a date.

Torn between her feelings for Nick and the danger of the revenant world, Scarlett’s strange life is turned inside-out when she’s kidnapped and forced to do the one thing she swore she’d never do. Plus, she has no idea whose memories keep appearing in her dreams, or if they can even help her. Determined to free herself from a death sentence, Scarlett must fight to become who she was born to be.


EXCERPT:

His lips freeze in surprise for a moment, warm and tasting like salt, but they quickly yield to mine. Before I know it, his surprise melts into participation, and he kisses me back. It's all pleasantly confusing, and I feel dizzy. My blood pounds wildly in my veins and I'm worried my eyes are going to change out of excitement. But before I can pull back, he does first, and his breath is hot on my cheek.  

I keep my eyes down, for fear of what they might show. I glance up at the artery in his neck, veiled by the paper-thin skin of a human. The blood moves in thick shots and I hear his heart pounding. I feel the urge to let my canines drop and lean over to bite him. I've learned to control myself so much around humans that I'm able to push the desire down. But he gives off the most intoxicating smell. I find myself wondering what his blood would taste like. It's odd to even think about, because I don't even need blood right now, but he's somehow attracting me in a way I don't understand. It's a strange desire to bite-not to hurt, not even to drink, but to bite. I can't make sense of it.


MY REVIEW:


Scarlett is a young who wants nothing more out of life but to live a “normal life” which to her means having friends and a boyfriend. But Scarlett has been denied these things for most of her life. Scarlett has been trained by her uncle Chasem in martial arts and to always be prepared no matter what. You see in less than a year Scarlett will be seventeen years old and will be of dawning age. But her biological father Apollo will never let her live to see this day if he can stop it. He will never let her dawn.

Chasem has always known this that is why he has given his whole to training Scarlett to always be on guard and to always look over her shoulder. Instead of teaching her about the day she dawns and what that consist of he has taught her how to defend herself and to win. He has taught her never to give up no matter what.

But everything changes and starts a whole new path for Scarlett when she meets the cute Nick whom she is attacked to right way. Nick falls head over hills for Scarlett right off the bat. Nick cares so much for Scarlett that he will do whatever it takes to make her his for life. Chasem warns Scarlett that they are too young for such a commitment but Scarlett can’t seem to get this in her head. Scarlett is a person that when she cares about someone her feelings go deep and they are for life. She has a great big heart and cares about everyone and doing the right thing for everyone involved.

Scarlett is determined to live and her biological father Apollo is determined that she will not. Who will win out in the end? Will it be Scarlett? Will it be ApolIo? Is she strong enough to go up against all the revenant renegades and her father?


I do like reading a good vampire story but I think The Dawning of Scarlett tops that list by a land slide. The Dawning of Scarlett is unlike any vampire novel I have read in the past. The Dawning of Scarlett is fill with a lot of great characters both good and bad that will take you to a world that you have probably never been before. It will reach out and grab a hold of you and will not let go until you have the last page. You will be so immersed in Scarlett’s world that you will think that you are like a shadow following her around. You will feel what she is feeling. Jennifer Osborn knows how to create a story that jumps right off the page at you and swallows you up and spits you out right into Scarlett’s world.


AUTHOR BIO:

After working in the legal and technical fields for many years, Jennifer Osborn took the plunge into full time writing in 2015. She is the award-winning author of The Shilund Saga and The Sentinel’s Insurgency.  When not writing, she listens to a different muse and creates paintings and collages of all sorts.

She lives in the Cincinnati area with her husband, three dogs and two cats.

You can find out more about her at




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