Where has summer gone? If your summer is anything like my summer, I’m sorry. See, I love summer. I love the beach and the pool. I love BBQs and ice cream. I love endless, lazy days with a good book. But real life got in its way this summer. I run a camp in my “real life”. I used to love it, but as its grown and with parents hovering over each and every day, the fun was sucked right out of it this year. But, it’s over for this season. (Happy Dance!) And for the most part, it was successful. It stressed me the f*#k out, but now I have a few days left before I prep for the school year. I haven’t read much this summer. But I’m planning to highlight my favorite summer reads this week and next (with some giveaways too!). My favorite summer read? Wasted… Read more »
Genre: Adult Suspense
Giveaway and Release Day Blitz for Hard to Let Go by Laura Kaye
“TOP PICK! Kaye brings her Hard Ink series to a spectacular conclusion that successfully wraps up the overarching mystery and brings closure to her compelling characters. Kaye really nails it with this awesome book and series!” ~RT Book Reviews EXCERPT: Taking a deep breath, Beckett knocked on the door. No answer. He turned the knob, and the door opened. “Go away,” came a strained voice. Beckett poked his head through the opening. Kat sat in a ball in the corner, her legs pulled up to her chest, her arms hugging herself tight. “Aw, Jesus, Beckett. Really?” Her face was splotchy and her eyes watery, though he didn’t see any tears. Ten-to-one she was going through some adrenaline letdown right now, too. Which no doubt made it all worse. That shit could fuck you up even when you were used to how it left you feeling drained and shaky, by how all… Read more »
Kindle GIVEAWAY and TOUR REVIEW: Relinquish by M.N. Forgy
REVIEW: This is not a Cinderella story. It’s like a dark, twisty wanna-be chick lit book. When Charlie leaves her foster family, she doesn’t look back. When her foster sister joins her, they head to Las Vegas, looking to start a new life. Money goes fast and Charlie finds herself doing the impossible, becoming a whore. By being a whore, she can breathe a bit easy. Her pimp helps pay the basic necessities. But when she meets a mysterious, handsome man, she can’t deny the attraction her body feels towards him. Landon is heir to THE finest escort business around. He can’t help himself when he’s around the new girl in town. A chance encounter leaves to a whole new life, for both Charlie and Landon. I liked this story. It was an easy read, good for the beach or pool. It’s a bit dark, harsh in that it easily… Read more »
$100 GIVEAWAY: Wasted Lust by JA Huss
EXCERPT SASHA “I still feel dizzy.” “Come here,” he says, pulling me into his lap and repositioning me so my head is cradled in the crook of his arm. “Put your feet up on the seat and just rest. It’s a good hour drive to where we’re going.” I could resist. He’s not entirely trustworthy. And he’s a stalker. That’s pretty creepy. I wonder how deep that obsession goes. I wonder if it’s safe to even be in this car with him. But his embrace feels too good to make him stop. My dress was not made for being cradled in a man’s arms. Or maybe it was? Because the slits up each side bare my thighs, and the heat of his hand on my skin stirs up the longing I’ve been pushing away for years, making me shut my eyes. His fingers stroke me gently, back and forth across… Read more »
Happy Release Day JA HUSS! Wasted Lust is releasing TODAY!
Jana’s FIVE Star Review My friends are writing glowing reviews for Wasted Lust. Tears, they say. I can’t finish my review without crying, they gush. Well, fuck. I can’t compete with that. I’m not a crybaby Smurf. There are no tears allowed in the sphere. Wasted Lust, in my mind at least, has been in the making since Slack. God. Slack. Let’s revisit, shall we? It was late 2013. I’d recently shown up on Julie’s doorstep, looking for Ford. “Hey, is Ford home?” “Who the hell are you?” “I’m Mrs. Ford Aston, Who the hell are you?” Oddly, this ended with me becoming Julie’s assistant. It doesn’t make sense to us either, in case you’re wondering. Anyway, that’s how it started and shortly after that Slack released. “Julie. This girl. She needs a book.” Visions of Sasha’s future babies were already dancing in my head. “Yeah, I don’t know about… Read more »
Happy Summer! Here are our 5 TOP SUMMER Reads so far…
I don’t know about you, but all my friends (teacher friends especially), ask me what they should read in the summer. I’m always looking for a good book, but there’s something about reading a good book in the summer that makes my day. Maybe it’s sitting outside, next to the pool, with a fruity cocktail in hand…but I especially love reading a good book in the summer. Whenever I’m asked by someone, what should they read, it always brings on a conversation, and a lot of questions. So I asked one of my book friends what HER top five are, and well, here is our SUMMER LIST, so far. We decided to keep it to books released thus far this year… so January 2015 book until now. First up… MICHELLE NEW’s PICKS… Michelle’s Top Five Three, Two, One (321)-JA Huss: This was the IT book for me. It was raw,… Read more »
$10 GIVEAWAY: James and Harper’s HEA Update
BE SURE TO ENTER yesterday’s After The HEA Giveaway about Spencer & Veronica! WANT TO VIEW the James & Harper Pinterest Board? CLICK HERE. James came onto the scene immediately after Spencer’s Guns book released. The first Dirty, Dark, and Deadly story, COME, was written especially for The BEND Anthology which I participated in with the other members of The Erotica Consortium on Facebook. Each story in the book was original and steamy, and we were so excited to release this. We had a ton of pre-orders and we were crossing our fingers that we’d make NYT with this book. And then Amazon BANNED us. Apparently they couldn’t handle the hotness. 😉 God, I laugh now, but we were so bummed! However, it all worked out in the end. We sold a lot of books – about 20,000 if I remember correctly, and even though the book was only officially… Read more »
$10 GIVEAWAY: Ford and Ashleigh’s HEA Update
BE SURE TO ENTER yesterday’s After The HEA Giveaway about Rook & Ronin! WANT TO VIEW the Ford and Ashleigh Pinterest Board? CLICK HERE. Wow, Ford Aston blew into the world of Rook & Ronin and never looked back. He appeared in the second book, Manic, as some sort of potential girlfriend stealer. Ronin hated him, Spencer ignored him. But Rook was utterly transfixed by his mere presence in the room. Sure, he wanted Rook for himself, but Ford has principles. And Ford is loyal to a fault. And that led him to heartbreak. He wanted nothing more than to drive off into the sunset and never look back. Unfortunately for Ford, it was snowing that night he left town and he ended up stuck in his childhood neighborhood of Vail, Colorado as he waited out a blizzard. He meets Ashleigh that night too. Alone in her broken down car,… Read more »
FRIDAY NIGHT FREEBIE: THREE Signed Books from Alessandra Torre
I love Alessandra Torre! We’re good friends and my two favorite books by her are Black Lies and The Girl in 6 E. If you like my books I can almost guarantee you will like Alessandra too. She writes intricate, twisted plots and super-hot sex scenes. So when I saw her at the RT convention last May in Dallas, I picked up three books to give away on the FNF. Well, this leads me to why I posted a pic of my bird below. You see, he must love Alessandra just as much as me, because he tried to read one of the books. So if you win—DISCLAIMER—my bird bit the cover of Blindfolded Innocence. It’s a small bite mark, you can see it to the right of his foot. He’s not that big, but he’s a huge troublemaker and I accidentally left him alone in my bedroom while I… Read more »
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