Week Blitz + #Giveaway: Riverview Series by Melissa A Hanson @mahwriting @RABTBookTours

YA Clean Romance

"A Healing Heart" - Riverview Series Book 1 - Updated 7/4/2015 (orig publish 2012)

On a bitter cold winter night Bailey Walsh's family was killed in a traffic accident. Two years later as she lives with her aunt and uncle in Southern California, Bailey is still plagued by the nightmares of that terrible night. Everywhere around her are reminders of what she lost. Even her aunt, in a cruel twist of fate, is not just her mom's sister, but her identical twin.

Babysitting Riley, a spunky two-year old, is a sweet distraction and one constant light in her life. One day as she takes Riley to the park she meets Collin McKenna, a senior at her high school and her life is changed forever as he helps her find herself and realize her life is worth living.

As the romance between them grows her broken heart begins to heal. However, still nagging in the back of her conscious is the fear that her new found happiness could come crashing down and she could lose everything she loves, yet again.

Outside forces begin to tear them apart and Bailey must learn to trust in herself and realize that she is worthy of happiness. That sometimes love and healing comes in unexpected forms.

A story about first love, life's unexpected tragedies, and the miracles that make it possible to move forward.

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YA Clean Romance / New Adult

"A Healing Spirit" - Riverview Series Book 2 - 8/16/2015

A freak ski accident brings nineteen-year old Mia Kinney within minutes of death. Hurt and scared, Mia is calmed by the southern drawl and clear green eyes of her rescuer. 

Twenty-one year old Dylan Blackburn is one of the first Ski Patrol members on the scene. As his patient is airlifted to the local trauma center, he can't shake her from his thoughts.

As Mia fights for her life, Dylan, is haunted by the blonde hair beauty, and knows he needs to make sure she's going to be okay.

With a troubled past Dylan has vowed never to completely open himself up to another girl, but Mia continues to knock down every wall he's constructed. When his past arrives at his front door and threatens once again someone that he loves, will Dylan be able to save Mia yet again? Or will he be too late this time?

A story of love, friendship, and the determination to turn a horrible experience into something worthwhile

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About the Author

Melissa A. Hanson lives in Southern California with her husband and two sons. Growing up in Southern California, inspiration for the city of "Riverview" is based on her hometown. Melissa enjoys scrapbooking and reading when time permits.

A Healing Heart was her first completed novel, and is book 1 of the Riverview Series. It is Bailey & Collin's story.

A Healing Spirit, book 2 has now been released and is book 2 of the Riverview Series. It is Mia & Dylan's story.

Each book is a stand-alone novel.

Book 3 of the Riverview Series is in the early stages and will be Natasha's story.

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Cover Reveal + #Giveaway: Lost & Found by Teri McGill @HotTreePromos

Is it possible for a heart to be … Lost and Found?

Title: Lost & Found
Author: Teri McGill

Series: My Heart is Yours, book 3 (Standalone)
Genre: Contemporary Romance

Release Date: February 13, 2016

Cover Designer: Lousia at LM Creations

Editor: Hot Tree Editing

              For over a decade, Tag Coleman has been struggling to exorcise his demons.
                 Constantly haunted by his first love’s death, he aches for a second chance at happiness, but guilt screams one undeniable fact: he does not deserve it. Can Tag’s shattered soul ever find forgiveness and allow him to love again?

              Emery Lawson’s one and only goal is to uncover the truth surrounding a tragic accident that took her cousin’s life. She embarks on a journey to find the one person who could be responsible, with unexpected, life-altering results.

              When your soulmate — the love of your life — is lost, what are the chances of ever finding another? Is it possible for a heart to be … Lost and Found?

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Release Day Blitz: Shield of the Summer Prince - World of Ruin #2 By Erik Scott de Bie @erikscottdebie @GHBTours

Shield of the Summer Prince

World of Ruin #2

By-Erik Scott de Bie

Genre- Epic Fantasy, Adventure

Published By- Dragon Moon Press

Publication Date- December 11th

Bloodbreaker

Though the knight Ovelia Dracaris swore to defend the Blood of Denerre with her life, hers was the dishonored hand that felled the Winter King.

Shroud

After five years as a spymaster, Ovelia resurfaced in a desperate quest for justice that cost her everything: love, her sight, and almost her life.

Shield

Blinded and exiled, Ovelia wards her only remaining friend on his quest to save the burning city of Luether, hoping to find what has eluded her for so long: redemption.

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Virtual Tour + #Giveaway: Casablanca: Appointment at Dawn by Linda Bennett Pennell @LindaPennell @GoddessFish

Casablanca: Appointment at Dawn

by Linda Bennett Pennell

GENRE: historical fiction with romantic elements

BLURB:

Casablanca, 1943: a viper’s nest of double agents and spies where OSS Officer Kurt Heinz finds his skill in covert operations pushed to the limit. Allied success in North Africa and the fate of the First Allied Conference—perhaps the outcome of the war—hang on Kurt’s next mission. The nature of his work makes relationships impossible. Nonetheless, he is increasingly torn between duty and the beautiful girl who desperately needs his protection and help.

Sarah Barrett, U.S. Army R.N., is finished with wartime romance. Determined to protect her recently broken heart, she throws all of her time and energy into caring for her patients, but when she is given a coded message by a mysterious dying civilian, she is sucked into a vortex of danger and intrigue that threatens her very survival. The one person who can help Sarah is Kurt Heinz, a man with too many secrets to be trusted.

Books:

Al Capone at the Blanche Hotel from Soul Mate Publishing

Confederado do Norte from Soul Mate Publishing

When War Came Home from real Cypress Press

Casablanca: Appointment at Dawn available 8/28/15 from the Wild Rose Press

Buy link for Al Capone at the Blanche Hotel: Amazon

Buy link for Confederado do Norte: Amazon

Buy ink for When War Came Home: Amazon

Buy link for Casablanca: Appointment at Dawn: Amazon

EXCERPT:

“I’m Heinz. What do you want?”

“Oh. It’s you.”

“Yeah?”

“From the restaurant on New Year’s Eve.”

Kurt was silent for a moment, then it came back to him. “I remember. Sarah, right? You’re the girl who refused to dance with me.”

A red flush crawled from her throat onto the apples of her cheeks. “Yes. I’m sorry if I was rude.”

“I’ve been cut dead before. I got over it.”

The girl’s eyes glittered. “I’m sure you did. Are you going to keep me standing here on the doorstep for everyone to see?”

“Why? I’m not expecting company. Would it be a problem?”

“It certainly might if the people who tore my apartment apart followed me here.”

Kurt looked into her eyes with complete attention for the first time since opening the door. Whatever had happened to this girl, she looked terrified and angry. Not a particularly good combination for the covert activities he and Phelps were up to.

Kurt made a quick decision. He stepped back and pulled the door wide while raising his voice.

“You better come inside and tell me why you think what happened to your apartment has anything to do with me.”

When they stepped into the living area, Phelps had disappeared. Kurt gestured toward the sofa and the girl sat down.

Propping himself on the sofa’s arm, he looked down into her frightened eyes.

“Now tell me how I can help you, Miss, uh…” “Barrett, Sarah. US Army. RN.”

“Well, Nurse Barrett, what can I do for you?”

The girl stuck her hand in her coat pocket and whipped out a scrap of paper that she waved in his face.

“By telling me what’s on this paper and why it’s so important that somebody took a knife to my furniture.”

Author Interview:

10 favorite places to visit

Only ten? Shoot, this is easy as I love to travel! In the UK: London, Yorkshire Dales, York, the English Lake District, Cotswolds, Scotland (all parts) In Europe proper: Germany: Telgte, Rotenburg; Austria: Strasburg; Czech Republic: Prague; Norway: Oslo, Geiranger   So many places, so little time!  

What is your favorite time period?

I love the late 19^th through mid-20th centuries, but if the historical story is interesting, I will like it regardless of period.

What is your writing process? For instance do you do an outline first? Do you do the chapters first?

I am a plotter with pantser tendencies. Before I begin writing a novel, I generally have the main character arc(s), story arc, ending, and some major scenes set. The remaining details and inclusions simply reveal themselves as I write. I begin at chapter one and go through to the end. This is not to say that nothing previously written ever gets changed. If I get a great idea while writing a later chapter that affects earlier action, I go back and make the appropriate changes. This is why I love Scrivener. The chapters and their summaries are all right at hand; therefore, changes are easily made.

Do the characters all come to you at the same time or do some of them come to you as you write?

The main characters are in place before I start. Secondary characters often reveal themselves during the writing process.

Pick a favorite event in time that you would like to visit. 

Example: Salem Witch Trials, Civil War, The shooting of Abraham Lincoln ect…..

Tell us why you would like to visit this event. Would you like to visit just to see and know what really happened or would you like to visit as a participate in the event?

I would love to have been a fly on the wall during that First Allied Conference in Casablanca in 1943. This is where Roosevelt convinced the other Allies that there could only be unconditional surrender by the Axis powers. I would love to hear the discussion about how Roosevelt envisioned what would happen if the Allies were to accept any other type of surrender. Even in 1943, there were highly placed German officials and generals who wanted to sue for peace terms. Scary thought that without the policy of unconditional surrender, Hitler might have been allowed to return to a regular life after serving a little POW time. YIKES!

I also would like to have been a fly on the wall when it was discovered that a German translator had made a critical mistake with an intercepted Allied communication. The communication talked about the conference’s location, but the translator got it mixed up. He decided Casablanca, Spanish for white house, was the White House in Washington, D.C. Can’t you just see the temper tantrums that must have ensued after the mistake was discovered? I wonder if the translator survived.

Taking historical events, like I did in Casablanca: Appointment at Dawn, and playing “what if” with the facts is what makes writing historical fiction so much fun!  

AUTHOR BIO:

I have been in love with the past for as long as I can remember. Anything with a history, whether shabby or majestic, recent or ancient, instantly draws me in. I suppose it comes from being part of a large extended family that spanned several generations. Long summer afternoons on my grandmother's porch or winter evenings gathered around her fireplace were filled with stories both entertaining and poignant. Of course being set in the American South, those stories were also peopled by some very interesting characters, some of whom have found their way into my work.

As for my venture in writing, it has allowed me to reinvent myself. We humans are truly multifaceted creatures, but unfortunately we tend to sort and categorize each other into neat, easily understood packages that rarely reveal the whole person. Perhaps you, too, want to step out of the box in which you find yourself. I encourage you to look at the possibilities and imagine. Be filled with childlike wonder in your mental wanderings. Envision what might be, not simply what is. Let us never forget, all good fiction begins when someone says to her or himself, "Let's pretend."

I reside in the Houston area with one sweet husband and one adorable German Shorthaired Pointer who is quite certain she’s a little girl.

"History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up." Voltaire 

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Book Blast: The Thomas Flarety Novels by Erik Buchanan @erik_buchanan @GHBTours

True Magics

Thomas Flarety # 3

By- Erik Buchanan

Genre- Fantasy

Published By- Dragon Moon Press

Rumours of Magic and War...

Thomas Flarety, Captain of the Student Expeditionary Company and hero of the battle for Frostmire, thought that convincing the Academy to take Eileen as their first female student in more than 200 years would bring him trouble enough. Then stories of Thomas’s magic reached Hawksmouth.

Now, Thomas’s friends have started disappearing. The king has ordered Thomas to keep his magic hidden and to find the other magicians in the city. The Cult of the Daughter wants Thomas for one of their own. The Archbishop wants Thomas to surrender to the Inquisitors and redeem his soul, and preachers are raging in the streets against witchcraft, the Academy and the king.

With Hawksmouth falling into chaos and the Academy divided against itself, Thomas must save his friends, find the other magicians, and decide what to do with his magic before the struggle between the king and the archbishop turns into an all-out war that will destroy everyone and everything he loves.

    

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Blog Tour: Unpretty By Victoria Escobar @VEscobarWrites @GHBTours

Unpretty

By- Victoria Escobar

Genre- Young Adult Paranormal

Being plain and average would be a step up for Sidonie. The book nerd, gamer geek with larger than average jeans doesn’t really fit in anywhere. Add a drunk father and a dump in the projects and she’s pretty much guaranteed to be a social pariah. There would never be a happily ever after in her future, unless her books counted. Instead, she has accepted her lot and surrounded herself with friends who genuinely love and support her.

Music. Art. Creating. That’s what made Sidonie remarkable. As she began to find a chance of happiness in her gifts, dark forces start to impact her future. A magical world she had no idea even existed could alter the course of her life forever—if it didn’t cut it short entirely.

   

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Book Blitz + #Giveaway: Cadence Duology by Katie Hamstead @katieteller1 @YABoundToursPR #YABOUNDBOOKTOURS

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Book Blitz + #Giveaway: Just a Few Inches by Tara St. Pierre @AuthorTaraStP @YABoundToursPR #YABOUNDBOOKTOURS

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Reviews Blast - Spotlight: Whispers By H.K. Savage @HKSavage @GHBTours

Whispers

By- H.K. Savage

Genre- NA Romantic Paranormal Suspense

Publication Date- December 9th, 2014

**ABNA Quarterfinalist**

“Your daughter is special”

Special, that was an interesting word for it. More like broken. Broken and scared she was losing her mind. Or maybe she’d already lost it. Thoughts, images, ideas that had no business in the mind of a child raced through her brain, taking over her consciousness until all she could do was shut down and let them run. There was no room for her. Maybe there wasn’t really a “her” underneath all the noise. The only thing that tethered her to her body, to the here and now was the pain. Careful always to hide the marks, Natalie relied on her knife to feel alive.

Sent to a college she couldn’t remember applying to on a scholarship she didn’t try for, Natalie clung to the hope that she could hide her madness from the family it was destroying. Alone at last she would finally have some modicum of peace, right?

Luka took the assignment reluctantly. In his Senior year, she was the last “special” student he would have to work with before heading off to intern and hopefully land the job, start the life his family had planned for him. The same one they wanted for his sister before she took her life.

Two broken souls with a rare ability in common, Luka and Natalie form a friendship that promises to heal them both until fate intervenes. Faced with a lie so great it threatens all Natalie has come to believe, she must make a choice: lie down and accept it or fight for those she loves.

   

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Cover Reveal: Retribution By Natasha Knight @NatashaKnight13 @StarAnge13

Title: Retribution

By: Natasha Knight

Publication Date: January 12, 2016

Cover Design: Mayhem Cover Creations

Genre: Romantic Suspense

Adam

Payback’s a bitch — or it would be for Elle.

Fifteen years ago, my sister was kidnapped. For months, she’d endured hell. Somehow, she’d survived it. Someway, she’d escaped her captors. But it hadn’t mattered. In fact, it had been like losing her twice, because six weeks after she came home, she was dead, and the man responsible was alive and well, oblivious to her fate, ignorant to what he had coming.

Fifteen years I’d been waiting for this moment, all that time, planning, preparing, readying to put things into motion. To finally make the SOB pay for what he’d done.

Killing him was too easy. Too quick. No. There was a much better way to exact revenge.

Take what he loved best.

Break it.

Break her.

I just didn’t realize that in the process of destroying the girl, I’d destroy myself.

Elle

“I only want your pain.”

I hadn’t understood what those words meant, not really. Not until he made me understand.

I noticed Adam the very first day he moved into my building. He was a badass on a bike in a thousand-dollar suit. When he looked at me, it was with a hunger just this side of obscene. One glance from him and I was lost.

Our meetings were strange, accidental. Too coincidental. There was something about Adam. Something I couldn’t put my finger on.

Something I couldn’t resist.

He told me I didn’t know him. He warned me to run as far from him as I could. He was moody. Dark. I’d found it romantic. I didn’t know, and I wouldn’t realize until it was too late that he’d meant for me to heed his warnings. That some part of him had hoped I would run, that I would escape him.

For too many years, vengeance had fueled him. It had taught him hate. The object of that hate? My father. And me? I was the means to my father’s end. Adam would destroy my father by destroying me. 

I accused him of being a monster, of being no different than those who took his sister, but even in the harshest moments, all I could see in his eyes was pain. And like a fool, all I wanted was to touch that darkness.

To make it light.

Retribution is a full-length, complete Dark Romantic Suspense novel. No Cliffhanger. Intended for mature readers. 

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Natasha Knight is the author of several BDSM and spanking erotic romances all of which explore the mind of the Dominant male and the submissive female, discovering just beneath the surface of each story that key element of love. Her characters are as human as she: powerful but vulnerable, flawed, perhaps damaged but with an incredible capacity to love.

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