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Wednesday, 16 September 2015

The Heights Series Blitz for Lauren Stewart



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Job security isn’t something Addison is all that concerned with. Death, however? Yeah, death is a major concern.

After Addison finds a nearly-dusted vampire in the garbage outside her building, her ability to stay off the paranormal radar is deader than the vamp. Almost as dead as she’ll be if anyone thinks she put him there. Even though she’s basically shoving a stake into her own chest, she has no other choice but to get him indoors before he dusts in front of a human. And just when she thinks life couldn’t possibly get any worse, she finds out who he is.

As vampire king and Prime to all races of supernatural beings in this zone, Rhyse gets what he wants when he wants it. But after being ambushed, he wakes up chained to a bed with a hole in his chest and, unfortunately, he needs help to discover who tried to kill him. His only ally is his captor, someone unaware she has the power to bring down their entire world.

While a prophesized war brews in the Heights, Addison and Rhyse must decide which carries more risk—trusting someone who could destroy you or trusting someone who could love you?

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The Heights not only protects the secrecy of vampires, shifters, demons, angels, and other supernaturals, it protects the humans unaware of the world hidden within their own.

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Review:

4 out of 5 stars Kindle Copy for Review

Addison finds her life as a human seer was a lie when she finds herself saving the life of a vampire lying near her doorsteps with a wooden stake in his heart.  She knew she should have ignored the body but she takes him into her place to recover.

Turns out he was not just an ordinary vampire but a vampire king and Prime of all North America.  Rhys finds himself chained by his captor whom he is attracted to and usual gets what he wants with his mental abilities. Unfortunately his captor has the power to bring down the world without her knowledge.

As a prophesized war brews in the Heights, they must decide whether trusting someone who can ultimately betray you or in love.  The two fight their attraction and other forms set on destroying them.


Can these two find happiness together as they fight on opposing signs?   Will they get their chance to be together or must they be apart for the greater good?   What will happen when Addison decides to leave?  Will she ever be able to return to Rhyse in one piece?

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“What would you give up for freedom?” “Everything.” “Even if it wasn’t yours?”

For three years, Keira lived in hell on earth, kept and tortured by a psychopath. He should’ve killed her. Because now she’s looking for payback, to see his face when she shoves a stake into his chest, to feel his dust under her boot. Then she’ll finally be free…of everything but the memories, scars, and nightmares. Unfortunately, when a demon starts hunting the same prey, Keira’s life becomes less about getting revenge and more about fighting temptation.

For three tours above the earth’s crust, Davyn has been as close to heaven as a demon can be. In a few weeks, he’ll go home to be reforged, stripped of all the humanity he’s accumulated and reminded of exactly what he is. Of course, in the depths of hell, nobody “finds themselves” through group therapy and happy pills. It’s not all bad news though—before he goes, at least he gets to kill a vampire. Maybe a human too, if that stubborn little hunter keeps getting in his way. After all, a nice ass can only buy so much of Davyn’s patience.

Two people from opposite sides of a war will discover the price of freedom and what they’re willing to pay for it. But in the Heights, nothing is ever fair. For something they both want, one of them will pay with their eternity.

Review:



4 out of 5 stars Kindle Copy for Review

While Addison is feeling guilty from an attack that killed many of her seers, she relies on her fellow seers Parker and Keira a hunter to handle things.

For three years she was kept and tortured living a nightmare and now she wants revenge.  She wants to kill Lamaze who should have killed her.  Unfortunately she is not the only one who wants him dead.

Davyn a demon also wants to be the one to kill him.  He has become used to the good life on earth after three tours and knows he will have to go back to being a demon in hell.  But first he wants to kill Lamaze a vampire who made his life unpleasant.


The two of them clash as they plan to kill Lamaze.  The chemistry heats up between these two different people as they go after the vampire.  Will they survive their attraction and their encounter with the vampire?   Can they manage to stay alive or kill each other?  Heat once again heats up in the Heights.

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Lauren Stewart lives in Northern California with two of the most amazing children that the world has ever seen. She reads almost every genre so, naturally, her writing reflects that. With every book, every story, you'll find elements of other genres--fantasy, mystery, romance, paranormal, suspense, YA, women's literature, all with a touch of humor because what doesn't kill us should make us laugh.

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Tuesday, 15 September 2015

Finding Charity

It's finally time to unwrap Finding Charity!


Finding Charity
A Novella by Jody Pardo



Cover Photography and Design by Shelton Cole of SC Photo
Cover Models: Jami Watts aka Jurnee Lane and William Scott

Cover Reveal: August 27, 2015
Release Date: September 15, 2015





Mark Lyon was a beast in the boardroom. Building websites and branding corporations for success was his specialty, and he was good at it. Mark worked hard to earn his place at the top of his field. He let nothing stand in his way, not even Christmas.

Charity Clarke captured Mark's attention with her dirty mouth at first meeting, but her giving spirit stole his heart without notice. When she goes missing, will finding Charity be the gift with enough love and hope to save them both?

Review:


4 out of 5 stars Kindle Copy for Review

Mark Lyon is a work alcoholic striving his corporate to the top.  Christmas is just another as he plans to work even if it falls on a Sunday.

But then he meets Charity Clarke who captures his attention right before Christmas with her dirty mouth as they quickly end up in bed.  But the next morning she leaves him a note telling him she is volunteering at a local church run soup kitchen.  He finds himself also volunteering to his dismay.

When she suddenly goes missing on her way to volunteer again, can he find Charity before she gets hurt?  Will Charity be the one to bring love to Mark in this holiday season as he learns about giving?  A sweet story set among Christmas bringing the gift of love and giving.


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Jody was born and raised in New York City and is an only child of an English professor. After 9/11/2001 and a line of duty injury, she left her role as an EMT with FDNY-EMS for a quieter life. She pursued Bachelor's degrees at Arizona State University in Molecular Biosciences and English. Her love of books and introduction to the Indie book world led to many wonderful friendships, and the drive to write and publish was ignited. Jody loves to travel and meet new people and has lived in four states and has visited 48 out of 50 US states.

Jody is a single mom to her daughter Ariel Elizabeth and her cat, Bullet.









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Tuesday, 8 September 2015

Kandi Steiner - Palm South University Episode 3

Title: Palm South University: Episode Three
Author: Kandi Steiner
Release Date: Sept 8, 2015
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Drama. Lies. Sex.

Welcome to Palm South University.

The weather isn’t the only thing heating up in South Florida. At a school where fraternities and sororities don’t exactly play by the rules, relationships are bound to be tested. Parties and sex are definitely key ingredients in the Palm South recipe, but what happens when family issues, secret lives, and unrequited love get tossed in the mix?

Follow Cassie, Bear, Jess, Skyler, Erin, Ashlei, and Adam as they tackle college at a small, private beach town university. Written in television drama form, each episode of this serial will pull you deeper and deeper into the world of PSU.

Where the sun is hot and the clothes are scarce, anything can happen.
“Stay with me tonight,” Hayden whispers into the back of my neck just as I pull a loose white t-shirt over my sports bra. He wraps his arms around my middle and pulls me back into him, pressing his hard on against my ass and forcing me to exhale a long, needy breath.
“I can’t,” I turn toward him, wrapping my arms around his neck. “I have class early in the morning and a sisterhood event tomorrow night. I have to get some sleep or I’m not going to make it.”
“Sleep is overrated.” He holds me tighter and nips up my neck to my earlobe, pulling it between his teeth. Hissing, I place my hands on his chest and try to put distance between us.
“You’re killing me.”
“I could be pleasuring you if you’d come home with me.”
Kandi Steiner is a Creative Writing and Advertising/Public Relations graduate from the University of Central Florida living in Tampa with her husband. Kandi works full time as a social media specialist, but also works part time as a Zumba fitness instructor and blackjack dealer.

Kandi started writing back in the 4th grade after reading the first Harry Potter installment. In 6th grade, she wrote and edited her own newspaper and distributed to her classmates. Eventually, the principal caught on and the newspaper was quickly halted, though Kandi tried fighting for her “freedom of press.” She took particular interest in writing romance after college, as she has always been a die hard hopeless romantic (like most girls brought up on Disney movies).

When Kandi isn’t working or writing, you can find her reading books of all kinds, talking with her extremely vocal cat, and spending time with her friends and family. She enjoys beach days, movie marathons, live music, craft beer and sweet wine – not necessarily in that order.
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Monday, 7 September 2015

Unbroken by Lisa Renee Jones

Amy & Liam get married in this beautiful conclusion to the Amy Bensen Series!


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From New York Times bestselling author Lisa Renee Jones comes the fourth and final part in the sexy, suspenseful The Secret Life of Amy Bensen series—finally revealing the long-awaited wedding between Amy and Liam. But with the explosive secret they’re hiding, will their enemies ever let them live happily ever after?


For six long years I lived on the run, in fear and devastated by loss. That began to change the day I met Liam Stone, who is so much more than his money and power, and even the protection he has offered me. He is passion. He is friendship. He is love and happiness, and the man who made my enemies his own. And now with his help, the secret that drove me into hiding is buried, our enemies contained. Liam and I can finally start our life and put this behind us. The nightmare is over. Unless…it’s not.


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“Hands back over your head,” he orders, his hands falling from my body, promising he won’t touch me again until I comply.
I do as he wishes, crossing my wrists above my head, staring down at him, and he is naked and beautiful, the kind of man who can make a woman beg. This woman. Because I hurt in all the places he’s still not touching me. “Please, Liam,” I whisper.
Satisfaction flickers in his gaze, as if my plea is what he’d been waiting for. He tangles his fingers into my panties, holding my stare as he oh so slowly drags them downward. They fall to my ankles and he presses his mouth to my belly, one palm on my upper thigh, his thumb flicking ever so gently on my clit. I try to suck in air but fail as over and over that thumb teases me, the delicate friction driving me insane, enough to make me burn, but not enough to let me breathe.
“Liam,” I gasp, and again, it seems to be another plea he seeks as it has barely left my lips when his fingers slip into the wet, swollen flesh of my core and enter me. And his mouth, his gifted, amazing mouth, replaces his thumb and closes down on my now throbbing nub. The wait is over as he suckles and licks, and when my knees tremble, his hand is on my hip, holding me steady, the way he has from the moment we first met.
Somehow I keep my arms over my head, when what I want is to reach down and touch Liam. Oh how I burn to touch him. A burn that radiates through my sex and suddenly I am on the edge of the sweet, blissful place that is release. I suck in a breath that lodges in my chest, my body tensing, and then I’m there, so very there, tumbling into a place that can only be called perfection. I lose everything. Worry. Time. Pain. And when I come back to the world, Liam is holding my hips, keeping me from falling.
He kisses my belly again but this time he lingers there, his cheek settling where his lips were seconds before, as if he’s holding on to me, making his claim that he won’t lose me real. There is vulnerability in the act, the kind that he shows no one else.
No one but me. He shows me. He trusts me the way I do him. And I have never felt so loved and complete as I do in this moment.
He’s different now, the edge that was there moments before shifting to something equally dark, but free of sharp corners. My heart squeezes with the impact of what he feels, and the way he dissolves the loneliness of my past. I reach for him, my fingers slipping into the thick, dark strands of his hair. He lifts his head to fix me in a deep, dark stare, cupping both my hands in his to bring them to his lips. I sink to my knees in front of him, my hand flattening over his heart.
“I love you,” I whisper.
He cups my face. “I love you, too, but baby, I won’t apologize for protecting you.”
There are a million things I could say in that moment but he is already kissing me, deeply, passionately, the moment of tenderness transforming into something hungrier, hotter. Suddenly, we are clinging to each other, trying to get closer, hands all over each other as we tumble to the ground, lying side by side. Still kissing, still trying to get more of each other, he shifts our bodies, his thick erection pressing between my legs into the slick heat he’s created.
His mouth leaves mine but our foreheads are pressed together, and we do what we’ve said we will do. We breathe together, and it’s intense and wonderful and I swear I can feel him everywhere, in every part of me.
He pushes inside me, driving deep, and his hand slides up my back, molding my breasts to his chest. “This is where you belong. With me. That’s what matters.”
“Yes,” I whisper. “With you.”

Review:
4 out of 5 stars Kindle Copy for Review
In the final conclusion after six years of hiding Amy finds herself faking the death of her brother Chad.  Knowing he is alive this time around but still finds it difficult.

Now that things have settled down a bit, Liam asks her to marry him.  She accepts and they want a quiet wedding on New Year.  To have a new life and beginning at the start the year.
But as their wedding soon approaches enemies start to come out of the woodwork, can they be trusted and what do they really want?  Do they want to harm her brother Chad once again?
Will Amy and Liam make it down the altar or will there be interferences along the way?  Will they ever be free from her past?

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For More information on The Secret Life of Amy Bensen series page including: buy links, and excerpts for the previous two and also upcoming releases.  Visit Lisa’s website here: http://bit.ly/AmyBensen

Saturday, 5 September 2015

BETTER DATE THAN NEVER BOX SET (BOOKS 7-10) by Susan Hatler.


Better Date than Never Boxed Set (Books 7-10)
by Susan Hatler
Series: Better Date than Never, #7-#10
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: July 13, 2015



Better Date than Never Boxed Set (Books 7-10)

This book bundle includes four contemporary romance books (one novel and three novellas) from the bestselling series, Better Date than Never. Dating is so much easier when you have good friends to lean on. . . .

(Driven to Date, Book 7)
When Jill Parnell’s promotion is nabbed by nepotism, she is offered another position on the partner-track, by pretending to date Ryan—the man who got her job.

(Up to Date, Book 8)
Ginger Nielsen donates her decorating services to a charity auction and now must work for the one man with the power to break her heart.

(Déjà Date, Book 9)
Melinda Morgan must complete her dad’s challenging Carpe Diem list in time to buy her beloved neighborhood bakery, but her plan gets complicated when the owner’s son, who broke her heart, comes back to town.

(Date and Dash, Book 10)
Mary Ann Nielsen, an impulsive blonde beauty, accidentally bids on the wrong auction item and must use her winning bid to go on a reality TV dating show and pretend to be in love with sexy but irritating risk management analyst Trevor Brooks in order to win enough money to buy back her beloved grandmother’s bracelet.

Also be sure to get the USA Today Bestseller, Better Date than Boxed Set (Books 1-6). Happy reading!!



Driven to Date, Book 7

I felt way too extravagant in the sexy, glittery gold, off-the-shoulder gown the sales woman had chosen. And people kept staring—mostly men. Sigh.

As I entered the ballroom, an usher appeared holding out his black tuxedo-jacket covered elbow. “Friend of the bride or groom?”

“Both.” Placing my hand on his arm, my eyes flicked up to his, and an electric jolt ran through me. Sexy hazel eyes. Dirty-blond hair. And a sensual smile. Ethan’s groomsman was hot. He even had a tan going on even though we were at the beginning of October. Maybe he’d just returned from a vacation. Where he was surfing. Because his upper body told me he used those muscles a lot.

His eyes crinkled as if he could tell exactly what I was thinking. “Since I can’t seat you in the middle of the aisle, why don’t I take you to the best available row? Unless you’re waiting for your date?”
A zing heated my belly. This guy was smooth.

“He’s coming later.” I tilted my head, smiling back at him. The lie had rolled off my tongue easily, because this guy screamed bad boy and I had enough problems.


4 out of 5 stars Kindle Copy for Review

This box contains four different stories that are connected to each other but not necessary involved in the storyline.  Stories that are humorous when love is involved.

Driven to Date, Book 7
We meet lawyer Jill Parnell who promotion is taken by nepotism as she tries to keep the attraction between them at bay.  But when another offer finds her using him as boy friend material what will happen when they spend more time together?

Up to Date, Book 8
Ginger Nielsen donated her interior decorating skills to charity but soon that is not all she finds herself donating.  Can she manage not to get her heart broken along the way?

Déjà Date, Book 9
When Melinda Morgan finds herself receiving a letter from her dad who died when she was fourteen things were about to change.  In order to receive her inheritance she must fulfill a Carpe Diem list which would give her enough money to buy a local bakery.  Can she manage to fulfill the list one which includes the return of a former love with the aid of marshmallow fudge?

Date and Dash, Book 10

Impulsive Mary Ann Nielsen finds herself bidding on the wrong auction after getting into a car accident.  She finds herself winning a reality TV dating show with risk management analyst Trevor Brooks who happens to be the guy car she hit.  Mary Ann must find a way to win, in order to get the chance to buy back her grandmother’s bracelet.





Susan Hatler is a New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author, who writes humorous and emotional contemporary romance and young adult novels. Many of Susan's books have been translated into German, Spanish, French, and Italian. A natural optimist, she believes life is amazing, people are fascinating, and imagination is endless. She loves spending time with her characters and hopes you do, too.