Monthly Archives:: June 2013

Cover Madness Giveaway Hop

Cover Madness Giveaway Hop Hosted by Alluring Reads and Xpresso Reads ONE lucky follower will win one of the books below. If the book is not out yet, you can ask for a pre-order via The Book Depository or Amazon. Or if this book is part of a series, you may choose the first book. Hop runs from July 1st through July 14th THE HOP The COVER MADNESS Giveaway Hop is hosted by Alluring Reads and Xpresso Reads, and it goes a little something like this: A bunch of blogs sign up to host a giveaway and then we link up together (using the Linky list below) which enables everyone who’s participating in the hop, as well as all of our collective followers, to visit each giveaway blog. This allows blogs to get new followers and followers to find new blogs! Everyone wins! The COVER MADNESS Giveaway Hop is scheduled… Read more »

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EXCERPT and GIVEAWAY: We Are Made of Stardust by Mimi Strong

WE ARE MADE OF STARDUST USA Today Bestseller AuthorMimi Strong (Mimi makes me blush!) Genre: New Adult Contemporary Romance DESCRIPTION Peaches Monroe, age 22, is the sassy, plus-sized manager of a bookstore in the small town of Beaverdale, Washington. One Saturday afternoon, she’s balancing precariously on a chair, in a bridesmaid dress, when a handsome dark-haired man comes running into the bookstore. He knocks Peaches over, she lands in his muscular arms. They lock gazes, and … She recognizes him. As the sexy vampire heartthrob she watches on TV every week. Peaches and Dalton Deangelo are completely wrong for each other. He’s only in town temporarily, working on an indie movie. She should stay away. He should stay away, too. But they’re drawn to each other. Dalton claims it’s because they’re made from the same stardust. EXCERPT Dalton’s hand landed on my knee. Hand-on-knee alert! The hand lingered on my knee, sending delicious heat into my body, including… Read more »

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COVER REVEAL: My Unexpected Forever By Heidi Mclaughlin

ebook Expected publication: September 2, 2013 I expected a life of music. I expected to raise my son. It took one look to make everything change. I never expected happiness. I never expected to find her. I never expected to feel desire. I never expected I’d be a family man. I never expected to be loved. I never expected to fall in love. They say you should expect the unexpected. I didn’t realize my unexpected would be the forever kind. Get the countdown widget below http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/countdown-pro/my-unexpected-forever Heidi McLaughling is offering My Unexpected Forever up for pre-buy for those attending the Naughty Mafia Rocks Vegas 2013. Pre-buy: http://bit.ly/11JRWEP Pre-buy My Unexpected Forever for August delivery: http://heidimclaughlin.com/buy-books/ Heidi is the author of USA Today, Digital Book World, Amazon and Barnes & Noble Bestselling novel, Forever My Girl. Originally from the Pacific Northwest, she now lives in picturesque Vermont, with her husband and two daughters…. Read more »

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GIVEAWAY and EXCERPT: Vigilante Nights by Erin Richards

Vigilante Nights by Erin Richards Publication date: July 18th 2013Genre: YA contemporary w/light supernatural element DESCRIPTION A “good boy” will do anything for vengeance when a gang rite kills his twin sister. Will Lucas win, or follow his sister Silver into the darkness? After a hideous car wreck, Lucas wakes from a coma to find that his world is gutted. Not only is his beloved twin sister, Silver, gone forever, but Lucas is broken in body and spirit. He will never be a college athlete, and is robbed of what he now realizes was the most important bond of his life. Although they weren’t identical twins, Lucas and Silver shared a bond so fierce it defied reason, and was nearly supernatural. After her death, that bond seems to endure when Lucas sees Silver everywhere he turns. Either he’s crazy, or Silver is trying to tell him something about the California gang initiation they stumbled into that cost Silver her life. Lucas is bent on… Read more »

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GIVEAWAY and REVIEW: Selling Scarlett by Ella James

SELLING SCARLETTBY ELLA JAMESNA CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE ABOUT THE BOOK Elizabeth DeVille doesn’t belong at a party like this—one where the gowns cost more than her Camry and cigars run higher than her grad school utility bills. Dragged out of seclusion by her best friend Suri, Elizabeth is merely playing dress-up, rubbing elbows with a crowd that banished her troubled family years ago. Hunter West is tired. Tired of parties, tired of pretending, and tired of trying to right a wrong that haunts him every day. Bourbon heir and professional poker player by day, by night Hunter is gambling with his life in a high-stakes game of crime and blackmail. When Elizabeth stumbles into Hunter’s den of vices, she’s a light in the darkness, a flame in the void. And, just like everything he touches, Hunter mars her in a record time. To rectify the damage done, Elizabeth needs money… Read more »

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WINNERS: Manic Cover Reveal and Friday Night Freebie

WINNERMANIC COVER REVEAL GIVEAWAYMANIC: Rook and Ronin, #2By J. A. HussNew Adult Contemporary Romance I have WINNERS of TWO contests! The WINNER of the Friday Night Freebie is: Mary Bilowus (Signed ARC of Passion Potion by Mary Beth Daniels) The WINNER of the Manic Cover Reveal Giveaway is: Isis Erb (Signed Copy of TRAGIC, Swag, Daisy Necklace) ABOUT TRAGIC Rook Walsh is TRAGIC Because life so far – just sucks. Some girls get parents. Rook got the foster care system. Some girls get Prince Charming. Rook got an abusive frog. Some girls get lucky… Rook got a second chance. And she took it. Because when fate throws you a bone – you grab it with both hands and run. Antoine Chaput knows the minute he spies Rook in his photography studio that she’s got The Look. The dark and desperate look he must have to land the exclusive TRAGIC media contract…. Read more »

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GUEST POST: Shine Not Burn by Elle Casey

Shine Not Burn by Elle CaseyPublication date: June 30th 2013Genre: NA Romance DESCRIPTIONIT HAPPENED IN VEGAS. I can’t be held responsible. Things that happen there are supposed to stay there, right? Right? Yeeeah. Not so much. … Andie’s just days away from tying the knot, but there’s just ooooone little glitch. Apparently, she’s already married. Or someone with her name is married to a guy out in Oregon of all places, and the courthouse won’t issue her a marriage license until it’s all cleared up. Tripping her way through cow pies and country songs to meet up with a man who gets around places on horseback is her very last idea of how to have a good time, but if she’s going to get married, make partner at the firm, and have two point five kids before she’s thirty-five, she needs to get to the bottom of this snafu and fix it quick … before her fiance finds out and everything she’s been working toward goes up in flames. GUEST POST – BEHIND THE SCENESI’ve had several people ask me how I’ve written so… Read more »

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REVIEW: Death Lies Between Us by Jody A. Kessler

Death Lies Between Us (An Angel Falls #1) by Jody A. Kessler DESCRIPTIONSaving the life of someone you love should not be the worst thing you have ever done, unless you are an Angel of Death. Disgruntled with his position in the afterlife and conflicted by his feelings toward his new client, Nathaniel Evans forgoes the rules and saves nineteen year old Juliana Crowson from being hopelessly stuck in Forge Creek. This alters Juliana’s destiny and she finds herself in a series of near death accidents. In the mountains of Colorado, Nathaniel comforts Juliana as she struggles to understand her paranormal abilities while coping with her brother’s drug addiction. When an ill-tempered Native American Shaman teaches her the difference between ghosts and place memories, she decides she wants nothing to do with the supernatural world. Too bad she doesn’t know that Nathaniel is part of it. Will fate… Read more »

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EXCERPT: All In by Marta Brown

All In by Marta Brown Publication date: May 28th 2013Genre: YA Contemporary Romance BOOK DESCRIPTION On the picturesque island of Martha’s Vineyard, there are two kinds of residents. Locals and Stays. Local boy, Lane McCarthy, plans on spending his summer working at the country club to save money for college in the fall, while summer stay, Ashley Whitmore, and her elite group of friends are only there to play. As the summer heat goes up on the island, so does the ante, when both Lane and Ashley must decide what they’re willing to wager in order to follow their dreams… and their hearts. With stakes as high as the surf, and hopes as high as the midday sun, will they risk everything and go all in? EXCERPT Ashley“So…you work here?”He looks around at our surroundings then runs his hand through his already messy hair.“Uh, yeah…I actually took over for my grandpa a few months ago.” He glances… Read more »