Cover Reveal: Beyond Time By Sandra Bischoff @SandiBischoff @GHBTours

Beyond Time

Dark Order of the Dragon Book # 2

By- Sandra Bischoff

Genre- Paranormal Romance

Published By- Bayou Brew Publishing

Expected Publication Date-May 2014

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Cover Reveal: The Power Couple By Tyffani Clark Kemp @TyffaniCKemp @GHBTours

The Power Couple

Without Rules Series # 3

By- Tyffani Clark Kemp

Expected Publication Date- September 11, 2014

After the loss of her husband and her preterm baby, Mariss Red is finally starting to put her life back together. She's in a semi-stable relationship and her publishing business is doing well. None of that can fill the hole in her heart, but she's a survivor. Her newest obstacle? Maneuvering the hazy boundaries of an open relationship with a man who can't be bound by rules.

Sebastian Boa, The Man Without Rules, struggles to live an honorable life. Mariss meets and approves any woman he happens to bring home and things are going well, aside from the occasional miscommunication. It's bound to happen, since he's never been in a steady relationship before. But he knows Mariss is keeping something from him, and he knows it's probably another man.

A trip to Paris is meant to be a romantic break for the strange couple, but it ends up in disaster when Sebastian catches Mariss with her secret lover. Add a crazed fangirl trying to seduce Sebastian, a man who has found that rules just might work for him after all. If it means he keeps Mariss in his life. It seems The Power Couple may never catch a break.

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Book Blitz: Synchrony By Cindy Ray Hale @cindyrayhale @NereydaG1003 #Giveaway

Synchrony (Destiny #2)
by Cindy Ray Hale

Release Date: 2014

Summary from Goodreads:
When her parents discover she's been sneaking out with Isaac Robinson the forbidden Baptist boy, Mormon girl Destiny Clark decides it's time to keep their relationship quiet. As their relationship moves to shakier ground, Destiny discovers that Isaac has a terrible secret, and she is left completely shattered.

The moment Destiny feels all hope is lost, Preston Nelson, her longtime church friend and Isaac's bitter rival, arrives like a beacon of light. It isn't long before two separate disasters strike for Preston and Destiny's best friend, Hannah. As Destiny helps them through their issues, she discovers that sometimes the best way to forget about your own problems is to help a friend in need.

Just as her heart begins to mend and her friendship with Preston begins to heat up, Isaac walks back into her life, threatening to rekindle the feelings she'd hoped to bury forever. Will Destiny and Preston find the synchrony they so desperately need, or will she find a way to forgive Isaac and return to his outstretched arms?

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Excerpt:

"Destiny."

I looked up.

"I want things back the way they were with us."

I clenched my fists at my sides. "That can't happen."

"Why not? I'm doing everything I can here. Don't you see that?"

"Isaac." I sighed.

"I'm already dating someone else." There. I'd finally said it.

"What? You're pulling the 'I'm dating Preston' card again? Hannah told me you were faking that. Do you know what I think? I think you're scared to commit. You're afraid of getting hurt again. We belong together. Can't you feel that? Look me in the eyes and tell me that you don't still feel something for me."

I studied the bushes.

Isaac took my chin and turned it toward him. "Look me in the eyes."

I bit my lower lip to keep it from trembling. It was impossible to look in his beautiful eyes. I couldn't say it because my heart was overflowing with my feelings for him.

"You can't say it, can you?" He placed his hands on either side of my face, and I finally looked him in the eyes. I had to do what was best for him. He deserved better. I only had one heart to give, and I'd just pledged the entire thing to Preston.

About the Author

Cindy Ray Hale lives in a little slice of wooded heaven near Atlanta, Georgia with her husband and children. She spends way too much time following up-and-coming musicians on YouTube and dreams of joining their ranks one day. She's a bit of a health food nut and can't live without her daily green smoothies. She tries to stay sane as she juggles writing with four kids, staying active on social media, and keeping up her book blog at http://cinnamoncindy.blogspot.com/. In addition to writing and self-publishing two Young Adult Contemporary novels, she has also written articles for "New Era" magazine and The American Preppers Network.

For more information on The Destiny Trilogy and Cindy's upcoming books visit http://destinybycindyhale.blogspot.com/ or follow @CindyRayHale on Twitter.

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#Review: Spellweaver By C.J. Bridgeman @CJBridgemanUK

Spellweaver (The Spellweaver Chronicles #1)
by C.J. Bridgeman
Published October 20th 2013 by Self-published

Book Description:

Book One of the Spellweaver Chronicles

Felicity Lucas never really knew her mother. Even though they had lived together for all the fourteen years that Felicity had been alive, they had barely even had a meaningful conversation. It was a relationship that was far from perfect.

So when her mother dies in a car crash and Felicity is sent to live with her estranged father in a deprived London borough, she is determined to move on. It isn't easy - content with her solitude, she's never had friends before, but the most popular girl in her new school won't leave her alone and she's forced to attend counselling. To make things worse, it's obvious that her father doesn't want her around.

It is only after she discovers a book of spells and is attacked by a strange boy who can conjure flames in his hands that she starts to realise that her mother was far more than what she seemed. She had a great many secrets, secrets that promise to thrust Felicity into a terrifying world of magic and straight into the path of beings who are determined to destroy her...

  

My Review:

I was given a free copy of the book from the author for my honest opinion.

Felicity, a fourteen year old girl has just lost her mother in a car accident and is going to have to move in with her father. Felicity had lived with her mother all of her life but she never really knew her mother. She barely knew anything at all about her because she was never home. Felicity spent a lot of time home alone and she never had any friends. Felicity was so use to being by herself most of the time that she actually preferred it. She was kind of nervous about moving in with her father because she didn't know him. He was never a part of her life although this was not his choice it was Felicity's mom's choice.

After Felicity moved with her father in a new town, house and school she realized it wasn't much different than living with her mom. I mean she didn't really know her either and didn't have a mother daughter relationship. At her new school she met this girl Holly who said they were BFF's. Felicity had never had a friend before much less a BFF so she had no idea how this thing was supposed to work. Besides she wasn't so sure that she wanted to have someone hanging around her all the time but she came to like having friends and having someone care about you. Holly's twin brother Jamie would hang out with them too on occasion and Felicity became to enjoy having both of them around.

She met another guy that was new at her school as well in an alley one night. This guy could make balls of fire with his hands. Felicity didn't understand or know what he was doing and was very frighten of him. She also didn't know if she was losing her mind or if she saw what she thought she saw. She didn't tell her new friends about this new guy, Oliver and what he did because she thought they would think she was crazy. Yeah well she wasn't so sure herself.

Holly and Jamie were twins but they had this weird kind of relationship. Their parents were divorced, Jamie lived with their father and Holly lived with their mother. At school Holly was a very popular person among the student body but Jamie was not. He was more of a nerd kind of fellow. Holly was not real nice to Jamie in school or at least she treated him a little different that she did when they were not in school. When they were not in school Holly and Jamie were pretty close and showed their true feelings for each other.

Jamie and Holly both cared a great deal for Jamie and would help her with any type of situation she got into which was not her fault. It wasn't her fault that someone was after her and wanted her dead. Why they wanted her to die she had no idea. She didn't know who or what these people were. All she knew was that she ended up fighting for her life and trying to stay alive with Holly and Jamie's help. Now that is what I would call a very good friend indeed.

I recommend Spellweaver to anyone who loves reading about magical elements and people with magical powers. I would like to have seen a relationship build between Felicity and Jamie which never happened and would have been fantastic oh well maybe in the next book they will get together and become a couple. But hey even without the love Spellweaver is still a very great read.

About the Author:

Claire Bridgeman is a secondary school English teacher living in Norwich, England, with her husband, their 1 year old daughter Pearl, their black fluffy cat and the fly infestation currently inhabiting the conservatory. She has written many books but it was only in 2013, at the age of 28, that she felt her work was good enough to be thrust upon the general public. She thinks it's an awful shame that there isn't more creative writing in the current education system of the UK and believes that every child should be encouraged to explore the wondrous depths of his or her imagination through an artistic medium.

Bridgeman loves all things fantasy. At the age of 16 she went to see The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring at the cinema 7 times. She recently replayed Neverwinter Nights: Hordes of the Underdark just to relive the Valen Shadowbreath romance. She wishes that Alistair from Dragon Age were a real person (so she could marry him). Her favourite book series is the His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman. She met him once. He was very nice.

Her debut novel is an amalgamation of all her favourite fantasy things - a pinch of Dungeons & Dragons, mix in some Buffy the Vampire Slayer (without the vampires) and top the whole thing off with a sprinkling of Harry Potter and there you have it - the Spellweaver Chronicles. Bridgeman hopes to tell human stories as much as fantasy ones, stories that deal with common, everyday themes and feelings like love, loss, grief, friendship and bullying. She wants to explore human emotion and experience using the fantasy genre, and with urban fantasy in particular, she feels that she has found the place to plant her stories and watch them grow.

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Release Blitz: The Eternal Gift By Candy Crum @shylacolt @TheEternalGift @SparkleBookTour #Giveaway

Title: The Eternal Gift
Series: The Eternal Series Vol. 1
Author: Candy Crum
Genre: NA Paranormal Romance
Audience:  17+
Formats: Kindle/Paperback
Publisher: Candy Crum
Cover By: Megan Parker with EmCat Designs
Editor: Nathan Squiers with Literary Dark Editing
Pages: 224
ISBN-10: 061546050X
ISBN-13: 978-0615460505
ASIN: B00522J7HS
Date Published: April 11^th, 2014
 

 

 

A young girl (Kailah) discovers that she is from a lost and forgotten powerful Immortal blood line after she meets a strange new physician at work. She begins to have visions and see spirits and has trouble controlling bad things from happening when she is angry. Along the way she discovers the terrible truth about who she is and the incredible power that is locked away deep inside her. Her Immortal ancestors want to use her to destroy the vampire race. Vampires want to use her power to destroy her Immortal ancestors. But hiding in the shadows are those who have been watching her since she was born. They want to help Kailah discover who she is and help her learn to use her abilities. They simply want for her to make the right decision before it's too late. Unfortunately for them time is not on their side and the Rogue Vampires have plans for Kailah no one could have imagined.

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CHAPTER ONE (first half)

The night was cool and thick as it sheathed me in total darkness. The satin shorts and camisole that I'd gone to bed in were now damp from the moisture hanging heavily in the air. Holding my hands in front of my body, I blindly wandered around in blackness as I tried to find some kind of clue that would give me a better picture. My bare feet told me that I was standing on soft ground, the tall grass tickling my calves as I moved. It was possible that I was in a large pasture, though the clean, crisp scent of the air let me know that no large animals were near.
Thunder cracked in the distance and the ominous, coal-black clouds had even chased the moon and stars into hiding, not even the faintest glow giving away their location. It took a moment, but my mind was finally beginning to recognize this place. This was a dream world, one that I'd seen before. With every passing night, with every passing dream, I was able to travel further and further into this illusion as I tried to discover its meaning. I'd had recurring dreams before, but there was something different, disturbing about this one that seemed to speak to me. There was something that I was supposed to learn here and I needed to find it.
The wind began to pick up and I looked to the north, the same direction that I looked to every night. Lightning cascaded across the sky, illuminating the massive, empty pasture in which I stood. The momentary flash brought something to my attention that I'd never seen in the dream before. Two figures stood off in the distance, several yards between them, facing off. Even with great distance between us, I could feel the tension rolling off of them. That must be the dark, heavy feeling in the air that I'd felt: anger, hatred.
Thunder rolled again as the lightning danced across the sky. Using the display to light my path, I ran toward the figures ahead of me. As I approached, a bolt of raw, electric energy reached down from the sky and ignited the immediate area in flames. The swift turn of events stopped me short, nearly throwing me to the ground. The flames spread into a perfect circle as it surrounded both figures, blocking any further approach by me. Sharp chills cut through me from head to toe as I realized that one of them was fully controlling the blaze.
Now that I was closer, I could tell that the figures were women. One woman, maybe an inch or two over five feet tall, stood around fifty feet away, and to my right. Her long, jet-black hair reached just below her hips and whipped around in the increasing wind. As I studied her, I began to see a deep-red, transparent cloud, like an aura surrounding her. She was strong, very strong, and I could feel her overwhelming power from here.
Looking to my left, her opponent was roughly the same height; only her hair was frosty white and hung to her knees. This woman was much different. She was surrounded by an aura cloud as well, though hers was dark blue. Something about her called to me and it took everything I had not to trudge barefooted through the flames to reach her.
Rain began to fall and quickly soaked everything around us, though it was still unable to extinguish the fire. Movement brought me to attention as the white haired woman lifted her arms. The earth began to quake beneath me as it broke free all around her. She looked like a dancer as she maneuvered her body, forcing the element into submission under her power. The packed earth sailed through the air towards the dark haired woman, but she was quick to react.
In a flash, she completely disappeared from my sight, managing to dodge the attack. My eyes moved quickly as I focused to find her. My body locked up as my vision was suddenly clouded with the mysterious dark haired woman as she appeared before me, seemingly out of nowhere. Her dark, emerald green eyes and dilated coal-black pupils stared into mine, glinting in the firelight. Her raven hair seemed alive as it brushed my skin and sent tingles running through my body. Her flawless, olive-toned skin nearly glowed as she stood there, concern in her expression.
"Kailah." As her soft, sweet voice spoke my name, I inhaled sharply. Though her mouth barely moved as she spoke my name, her perfect, white teeth showed just enough for me to make out four tiny, yet still elongated, razor sharp fangs. My heart fluttered rapidly as I wondered if this woman was the creature that she appeared to be, and if so, how did she know me and what did she want with me?
"Y-yes?" I stammered.
"This is not a dream, Kailah. It's a warning." She leaned in closer. "Run," she whispered.
"Wait, what?" I asked, chills once again stabbing me like thousands of needles running from the roots of my hair to the bare, wet soles of my feet.
"Run!"
As soon as I turned to run, the dark thunder cracked overhead and the lightning began touching the ground all around me, trying to hold me where I stood. I heard a loud growl sound out from behind me, but decided not to look back. The earth began to shake again and my bare feet slid on the wet grass, the soft ground cushioning me as I fell hard on my right hip.
"Hello Kailah." The new voice sent a shiver down my spine as I looked into the icy blue eyes of the white-haired woman.
Though her hair would have suggested otherwise, she looked no older than me: around twenty. Her skin was also olive toned and absolutely flawless, just like the other woman. Though, normally, one would look to the light as salvation and the darkness as hell, I didn't think that was the case in this situation. Her crystalline blue eyes had death in them and I found myself backing away from her, toward the raven-haired beauty.
She laughed and the sound enveloped me like frigid water. "Kailah, you would choose the Vampire over your own grandmother?"
Before I could digest the words that she had unleashed on me, her attention shifted and the blue aura cloud surrounding her exploded into a barrier. Instinctively, my eyes closed and I threw my hand out as a large throwing knife bounced off the cloudy shield and headed for me.
"It is you!" she said with wonder.
My eyes snapped open and surrounding my hand was the same blue energy that surrounded the white-haired woman, only mine had a throwing knife buried in it. I couldn't stop the scream that bubbled up out of my throat as the energy dissipated and the knife fell in my lap. What the hell was going on?
Her attention shifted again and with soft, graceful movements, a lightning bolt responded as it split from the sky and reached for her outstretched hand. She caught the energy easily before throwing it at her opponent. Another loud growl sounded out only a moment before something slammed hard into the barrier. That something, I realized, was the woman she had referred to as the Vampire.
Dark red energy swelled around the supposed Vampire as she pushed against the barrier of the opposing woman. "Kailah! She can find you in your dreams! Go, now!" As soon as the order left the raven-haired beauty's lips, energy exploded from her body as the white-haired woman was thrown several feet away. "This dream is a figment of your own mind but, make no mistake, this is a premonition. You are the key to ending this war and if she finds you, it will doom all humans to a fate worse than death. Leave this realm now and prepare your mind. Your life is about to change."
 
 

Candy Crum lives in Indiana and is the Author of "The Eternal Series" and other short stories. She published her first novel, The Eternal Gift, in May of 2011 and has been publishing ever since. Candy is an avid lover of the paranormal genre, stemming from years of reading the Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice when she was a teenager. Later, she developed a deep love of the Vampire Academy Series by Richelle Mead and the House of Night Series by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast, furthering her love of the genre and pushing her to really push to finish and publish her novel.
Since then, Candy has released three other books in The Eternal Series and will release another later in 2014. Now, Candy is trying her hand at more contemporary pieces of work, like that of Lean on Me and other books she will release in 2014.
Some of Candy's interests include the usual reading and writing, music (of most types), movies (action and comedy or any combination of the two), cartoons (she loves to say that her children watch cartoons because she does), and drawing. She loves talking with her fans and loves reading the reviews that her fans are kind enough to leave for her. Always feel free to find Candy on Facebook and send her a message!
 
 

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Book Blast: OVERGROWTH BY MAC ROME @rome_mac @Shades_of_Rose

OVERGROWTH BY MAC ROME

Genre: Sci-Fi

Andrea Carlin made herself into the superheroine Overgrow in an effort to save the man she loved. She failed. Taking her first steps to love again, she begins dating the handsome Lee. But is she so strong now she must become weak to keep his love?

Excerpt:

"You!" Magmar screeched, pointing a smoldering finger at Overgrow. "It's your fault I'm here! I'm taking you down, and I'm taking him with me!"

Andrea wasn't surprised to see who Magmar meant by "him." It was assistant public defender Lee Seneca, the most junior public defender, which made him the one who consistently drew the cases of supervillains. Magmar had wrapped one steaming arm around Seneca's neck. Andrea could see what looked like elongated metal handcuffs on her wrists, but with molten metal in the area nearest her hands, and the chains between the shackles melted. She recognized them as the remains of one part of a set of power inhibitor bonds on the wrist of the arm holding Seneca. Normally, the inhibitor bonds would have covered the wearer's hands. Andrea had designed the inhibitor technology police now used to restrain supervillains like Magmar. The bonds were supposed to safely redirect energy powers from their intended target. How Magmar had been able to power up and melt the bonds, Andrea didn't know. At the moment, it didn't matter.

Magmar pointed her free hand to the ground. The earth shook. A spike of rock extended up to the height of the window where she was. She dove out, dragging Seneca with her.

The strain of what Magmar was doing showed on Seneca's face. Andrea could see his skin getting redder. She knew it could be from either being dragged by the neck or how hot Magmar's body temperature was becoming.

Dropping to her knees, Andrea grew to 120 feet tall. That gave her the reach she needed to swing her right arm hard enough to cause the projecting rock to vibrate. Magmar lost her balance as well as her grip on Seneca, who plummeted off the side of the ziggurat of stone.

Andrea somersaulted, shrinking as she did. Dropping to 50 feet tall, she sat under the plunging Seneca, who fell into the Overgrow costume's plunging neckline.

Andrea smiled as she looked down into her cleavage. "You all right, Mr. Seneca?'

After Seneca glanced around, he smiled up at Overgrow. "Never better!"

The superheroine was already looking up at Magmar. The villainess was glowing red-hot, positioning her arms to fire some sort of blast at Overgrow.

Confident, Andrea simply raised her arm as Magmar's lava blast sprayed out at her. As Andrea expected, it had no effect on her. Using her massive hand to surround the villainess, she stood up awkwardly. Andrea held Magmar up as high as she could, minimizing her contact with the source of her power.

"Amazing! How can you stand up to her lava blasts like that?"

Andrea smiled down at Seneca. "I'll explain it sometime." She wrapped her other hand around the one holding Magmar. "I'm afraid I have both hands full with this handful, Mr. Seneca. I'll need to leave you where you are for a while. Is that OK?"

Seneca grinned goofily. "Absolutely!" Andrea thought he was trying a little too hard to sound calm.

It was only about six minutes before police arrived with an inhibitor cage to contain Magmar. Andrea tossed her into the cage through its open top.

Andrea slid a finger between her boobs and beneath Seneca, gently lifting him out. "Thank you for being a gentleman in there."

Seneca shrugged. "I didn't want to wind up facing some sort of criminal charge for what I did in there, but it was certainly the biggest temptation I've ever faced!"

Andrea chuckled lightly. She looked around the area. She pointed to a rooftop immediately to the north of the building housing the public defender office. "Can I talk to you up there for a moment?"

"Sure." Seneca looked confused.

Andrea shot up to 500 feet, placed a foot over the building, then shrank to Overgrow's usual height of six-foot-four. As she reduced, she placed Seneca near her on the roof.

Seneca straightened his clothing, standing his full six-foot-two. "So, what's up?"

Andrea stood in front of him, looking awkward. She flipped her hair back over her ear. "Are you free tonight?"

Seneca blinked his eyes three times. "Yeah. I mean, yes, I am."

Andrea reached into a hidden pocket in the Overgrow costume's cape. She handed its contents to Seneca. "Come to this address tonight at 6:30. If you want to, that is."

Seneca looked at her, his eyes wide. "Overgrow, are you asking me out on a date?"

  

About The Author:

Mac Rome is a lifelong resident of the Great Lakes region of the United States. He's experienced life in the Appalachian foothills, along the Ohio river and in the flatlands of the former Great Black Swamp, and in large cities, small towns and rural areas. He's a student of ancient lore and mythology and a lover of cultural exploration, history and dialects. He writes fantasy, science fiction and romance.

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