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Thursday, February 18, 2016

Blog Tour - Mated in Mist by Carrie Ann Ryan


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My Thoughts


My heart broke for Leah with the loss of her brother, but I loved that she ended up with the Talon Pack and even more so with Ryder. Ryder feels the mate call with her, but believes he is losing his mind and can't possibly burden her with that. Of course Leah is head over heels for him and can't understand why he won't be with her for more than just their friends with benefits arrangement. Then they discover something that changes everything. I loved that Leah balances him and is the perfect match for him. I also love the people surrounding them. I so enjoyed their story and can't wait to read more of this series.

I give Mated in Mist 5 hearts!




About the Book

The Talon Pack continues with an outcast witch and a wolf who can see past the darkness.

As Heir to the Talon Pack, Ryder Brentwood carries the responsibility of not only protecting his Pack, but ensuring its future. Only no one knows that as he does this, he must also shield his people from their past. When a witch with no ties bursts into his life, he must decide if he can overcome the depravity of his secrets and trust the one person who could break the fragile hold on his control.

Grieving over the loss of her twin and on the run from the unknown, Leah Helm knows she is far more alone than she thought possible. Her coven shunned her before she was born and the wolves she sought protection with are in a war of their own. When a wolf with a whisper of secrets is forced to work with her in order to protect their people, she finds she might not be so alone after all.

The world knows more than they ever have before about those shrouded in darkness, while Ryder and Leah are thrust into the center of a conflict they never should have been part of to begin with. On their journey they must not only fight those against them, but the burning temptation that is flaring between them. Fate might have paved their path, but that doesn’t mean they have to follow.


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Guest Post

Mated in Mist is out in the world! What a long strange journey these worlds have taken me. I first started my writing career with the Redwood Pack series back in 2010. An Alpha's Path (Redwood Pack Book 1) released in Dec of 2011 and since then I've released 8 full books and 6 novellas in the series. And because I wanted to see what happened when I looked at different wolves, a different Pack in the world, I started the Talon Pack series.

Wicked Wolf started it all as a bridge between the Redwood Pack and Talon Pack worlds.

Tattered Loyalties was the book that changed the world I created irrevocably.

An Alpha's Choice was the book that broke me because of who the characters were.

Mated in Mist is the book that healed me...even if it broke me a little bit as well.

The journey the Brentwoods are taking within the Talon Pack has only just begun. There are some heavy hitters coming as well as a few surprises.

I cannot wait for you to read Mated in Mist. I hope you love it as much as I loved writing it.

   

Excerpt

“Is he staring?” Leah asked.

Charlotte’s eyes danced and she looked over Leah’s shoulder. “No, but he was earlier.”

So Ryder wasn’t looking at her, but he had been. That sounded about right. He kept changing his damn mind. First he’d pushed her away before he kissed her. Then he’d said he wouldn’t mate her, but damn well claimed her in the Coven meeting. She still wasn’t sure what that had meant or exactly what the others had thought, but it had meant something. She wasn’t Pack, but he’d still said she was his. Or, at least, theirs. It wasn’t as if she wanted to marry him and have his babies, but it would be nice if he would make his choice and stick to it.

She’d told herself years ago she wouldn’t have children and wouldn’t find a man to live her life with. She’d always thought her twin would be able to do that despite the danger, but that wasn’t for her. She hadn’t wanted her bloodline to continue with her, not with all the pain she’d lived with for so long.

But letting her hands run along that wolf’s body as they both panted with need wouldn’t be such a bad thing.

Her cheeks heated, and Charlotte raised a brow at her.

“Interesting place your thoughts went, I would think.” She smiled and her whole face brightened. The woman was absolutely beautiful, though there was a sadness in her eyes that she couldn’t quite hide. Leah knew what Bram saw in the woman, though he, like Ryder, did his best not to stare for too long.

If Leah had planned to stay within the den for any amount of time, she might have asked Charlotte what the story was behind that, but she couldn’t. She didn’t know her future and what path she would take. Therefore, making friends and promises wasn’t for her. It hadn’t been the case for more years than she cared to count.

“Leah? Are you okay?”


  
About the Author 

 New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Carrie Ann Ryan never thought she’d be a writer. Not really. No, she loved math and science and even went on to graduate school in chemistry. Yes, she read as a kid and devoured teen fiction and Harry Potter, but it wasn’t until someone handed her a romance book in her late teens that she realized that there was something out there just for her. When another author suggested she use the voices in her head for good and not evil, The Redwood Pack and all her other stories were born. 

 Carrie Ann is a bestselling author of over twenty novels and novellas and has so much more on her mind (and on her spreadsheets *grins*) that she isn’t planning on giving up her dream anytime soon. 





Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Release Day Blitz - Rise by Karina Bliss





Synopsis

“You have the ability to make controversial characters sympathetic. Maybe I just want to be understood.”

Acclaimed literary biographer Elizabeth Winston writes about long-dead heroes. So bad boy rock icon Zander Freedman couldn’t possibly tempt her to write his memoir. Except the man is a mass of fascinating contradictions - manipulative, honest, gifted, charismatic, morally ambiguous.

In short, everything she sought in a biography subject. When in her life will she get another chance to work with a living legend? But saying yes to one temptation soon leads to another.


Suddenly she’s having heated fantasies about her subject, fantasies this blue-eyed-devil is only too willing to stoke. She’d thought self-control was in her DNA, after all she grew up a minister’s daughter. She thought wrong.


Outside your comfort zone is the only place worth living...

Zander Freedman has been an outlier - many would say an outcast – for most of his life. But there’s no disaster he can’t overcome, from the break-up of his band to the fall-out on his reputation. His Resurrection Tour is shaping up to be his greatest triumph - if his golden voice holds out. Contracting a respected biographer is simply about creating more buzz; Elizabeth's integrity the key to consolidating his legacy as one of rock’s greats.

All the damn woman has to do is write down what he tells her. Not make him think.

Or encourage the good guy struggling to get out. And certainly not to fall in love for the first time in his life.

Turns out he is scared of something - being known.

Rise - a redemption story of a rock star going straight(er) through the love of a good(ish) woman.



Turning a bad boy into a romance hero
By Karina Bliss

Zander Freedman, the rock star hero of Rise, has been a minor character in three previous books. I wrote him as vain, selfish and egotistical, a neglectful son, bad brother and lousy boyfriend. And yet readers loved this guy and wanted his story, possibly because of his few attractive qualities - unflinching honesty, intelligence and a keen sense of irony.

One of my biggest challenges in finding ‘the hero-within’ was Zander’s reputation for vanity. How is a reader going to fall in love with a guy rumoured to have had everything from Botox and tattooed eyeliner to hair implants?

In one scene, I had the heroine’s family voice every Yuck the reader would have around a guy with a ‘beauty’ regime. And then fall over themselves when they thought Zander was visiting. Because the guy’s still a rock god, still extraordinary. And it’s too easy to criticize a stranger. In effect, I'm asking the reader to keep an open mind.

Given that Zander is smart and ambitious it also made sense that he would deliberately exaggerate his vanity for the press. Any publicity is good publicity when this showman is promoting the band’s tour. He also takes a pragmatist’s view of maintaining his looks; keeping in shape is simply a part of his job as Rage’s frontman. And finally, I made him supremely confident in his masculinity. At one point he even says, “A real man should be able to seduce a woman in a tutu and a tiara…Actually that would be fun.”

Most importantly, I gave Zander the vulnerability attached to being a beautiful person. Women date me because of the way I look. What will happen if I stop these treatments? Who will love me as I age? The Beauty, as well as the Beast, is judged on appearances.

Of course that’s just one aspect of the reinvention of Zander Freedman. Hopefully, I’ve intrigued you enough to read about his moral make-over.



Do you have a favorite bad-boy hero? Enter the Release Giveaway and go into the draw for an e-book of Rise.


About the Author

New Zealander Karina Bliss’s debut, Mr Imperfect, won a Romantic Book of the Year award in Australia, the first of eleven books published through Harlequin SuperRomance. Her most recent release, A Prior Engagement, was a Desert Island Keeper at likesbooks.com. Her next release, Rise, is a single title, self-published contemporary which continues the story of Zander Freedman, who first appeared as a villain inKarina’s bestselling title, What the Librarian Did – a book that made DearAuthor’s Best of the Year list in 2010.Two of Karina’s books have also featured in Sizzling Book Chats at SmartBitchesTrashyBooks.

Find out more at www.karinabliss.com

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Monday, October 20, 2014

Blog Tour - The Cat's Meow by Mia Dymond


The Cat's Meow


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My Thoughts

Tess comes to work to find out that the safe is completely empty and someone has robbed the Cathouse. Ranger is part of the team who comes in to investigate. There is an instant attraction between the two, but he is holding something back from her. While investigating the theft and getting steamy with each other, they will have to work through a few things including that deception.

Who doesn't love a story with an ex-SEAL and a good mystery? I really enjoyed this one. Tess and Ranger are so good together and I loved the friends that surrounded them in their story.

I give The Cat's Meow 4 hearts!



About the Book

The Cat’s Meow SEALS, INC., Book 5

Tess Michaels, bookkeeper and human calculator, keeps business at The Cathouse clearly profitable - until the numbers begin to fade. When the profit margin drops, she realizes that there is no number more final than zero. 

 Matt Brooks, former Army Ranger and newest member of SEALS, Inc., agrees to investigate, immediately intrigued and aroused by Tess’ numerical ability. Her uncanny love of numbers strikes a chord with his own analytical mind and he soon learns that there is a whole lot more to the sexy number-cruncher than he thought. 

 Swept into a whirlwind romance, the couple works diligently to discover the cause of the profit loss. Yet when Tess becomes his prime suspect, Matt must do some quick calculations of his own to prove her innocence.



Excerpt

Ranger stood at the counter, his broad shoulders and muscled biceps on display. His low but rich, deep voice filled the air, traveling the distance to the table and teasing her nerve-endings. The young girl at the counter giggled and then shrugged as she snapped lids on two paper coffee cups. Tess chuckled under her breath. Flirt. 

 Ranger picked up the cups and then headed toward her, his trademark cocky smirk on his handsome face. Mesmerized by the picture of pure male sauntering her direction, Tess caught a flash of something on his arm, peeking from beneath the cuff of his t-shirt. Something black that she only saw once when he made a certain movement. 

 She watched closely as he placed the cups on the table and then sat opposite her, curious when she didn’t see the mark again. 

 “Do you have a tattoo?” 

 Since she was fairly confident in her observation, she expected a quick admission. Instead, he raised his eyebrows. 

 “Were you checking me out?” 

 “No, I just noticed something on your arm. Either you have a major bruise, or you have a tattoo.”

 “You were checking me out.” 

 “Okay, fine. Yes, I was checking you out.” She leaned forward and squinted at his right biceps. “Do you have a tattoo or not?” 

 “Do you?” 

 Although his avoidance somewhat irritated her, she found it extremely arousing. Two could play his game. 

 She leaned back in her chair, crossed her legs, and raised an eyebrow. “Wouldn’t you like to know?”

 “Yes.” 

 “Maybe.” 

 “You show me yours, I’ll show you mine.”

The Cat’s Meow Playlist

Livin’ On The Edge – Aerosmith

Beautiful – Christina Aguilera

Hell on Heels – Pistol Annie’s

Pour Some Sugar on Me – Def Leppard

Sweet Child O’ Mine - Guns ‘N Roses

Back in Black - AC/DC

Gorilla – Bruno Mars

It’z Just What We Do – Florida Georgia Line

Angel – Theory of A Deadman

Welcome to the Jungle - Guns ‘N Roses


Guest Post

Greetings from the hot and humid state of Oklahoma! My name is Mia Dymond and I write sexy contemporary romance novels with a twist of sass. I currently have fourteen novels available on retailers including iBooks, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Amazon, and Smashwords. 

 My most recent release is The Cat’s Meow, Book 5 in the SEALs, Inc. series. Due to popular demand, this novel is the story of Tess Michaels and Matt Brooks, the newest member of SEALs, Inc. The SEALs, Inc. team is a close-knit, kick ass and take names kind of group – and their women are just the ones to do it. 

 Set in the town of Diablo, Arizona, the private investigators / bodyguards / husbands / fathers have taken on a variety of adventures to eliminate a variety of villains, including an international terrorist, an ex-boyfriend stalker, an unethical attorney, a corrupt district attorney, and now a mob-connected loan shark. The SEALs have been busy; business is good. 

I hope you’ll enjoy The Cat’s Meow! Happy Reading!!! 

  Other Books in the Seals Series 

  Leather Lace & Rock 'N' Roll (Book 1)



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 Brains before Beauty, that's Rachel Newberry's motto, especially when her quiet, orderly life is interrupted by international rock star, Jaydon Hawke. And true to her word, brains take center stage when she discovers Hawke has a lot more on his mind than beautiful music. Targeted by a madman, Rachel puts her trust in Hawke, a move that may cost both their lives.     

  Outspoken Angel (Book 2)


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 Handbags, stilettos, and spa dates -- not retired SEAL Max Sterling's usual m.o. Until Cameron Tremaine. Duty bound, Max tolerates her sass and smart mouth until she pushes too far. Cameron doesn't need a bald, bossy bodyguard, thank you very much. Especially one oh, so delectable as Max. Except, when someone decides to silence her for good, Cameron realizes bold and brassy go hand in hand. 

  Freaky By Nature (Book 3) 


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 Former Navy SEAL and private investigator Brett Steele didn't realize there was a politically correct term for stripping until he met Holly London. Initially drawn to her long legs and curvy, toned body, Brett soon learns there is more to the "sensual dance" instructor than he thought. Holly has a colorful secret: psychic ability allows her to read aura through color. Believing she is a freak of nature, Holly avoids personal relationships and ignores her curse, rendering it a nuisance. Until the atmosphere warns her she has become the target of a madman. Faced with exposing her secret, Holly must risk trusting Brett in order to stay alive. 

  Tightly Wound (Book 4)


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 Claire Steele has spent her whole life dodging shadows. Psychic since birth, she uses her talent to chase the evil lurking in the recesses of her mind. For years, Lt. Malcolm "Shadow" Windsor has walked the fragile boundary of friendship, silently waiting for Claire to acknowledge her love for him. An ex-Navy SEAL and expert tracker, he knows patience is the key to her surrender. Until sinister forces threaten to eliminate her. Caught between love and death, Claire and Shadow must combine both talent and skill to survive. 

  
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About The Author

I write contemporary romance novels with sexy, alpha males and females with attitude to boot. I live in a zoo,hold down a full time job, and am trying to coax my creative muse from her cage. So BEWARE, the madness may rub off on you!

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Monday, July 7, 2014

Blog Tour: Author Guest Post & Review - Stupid Girl by Cindy Miles






Guest Post - Cindy Miles

From choosing a name to 3-D character: 
How Stupid Girl’s Brax Jenkins was born.

Naming characters is at the top of my list of fun things to do when beginning a new project. Names mean a lot to me. Not only are the characters, like our children in real life, stuck with the name you choose, but having certain meaning behind the name adds an edge to their character. It did for the bad boy Southie pitcher from Boston, BRAX JENKINS, in my New Adult novel, Stupid Girl.

Just another bad boy? No way. In Stupid Girl, Brax was abandoned at a Chinese restaurant on Braxton Street as a baby. That’s a pretty bad start in life for a kid. But it didn’t stop there for Brax. He was passed from foster family to foster family, some not-so-nice, raised by the judicial system, and learned the hard way how to survive on the streets. The harder it got for him, the tougher he became. He had no choice. He grew angry. Defensive. And he had no real family. What he did have was baseball. And you don’t have to necessarily love baseball to get that in order to survive you have to have something that matters. It was the driving force of Brax’s survival. His desire to be something more than a delinquent street kid with a crappy home life. All these qualities, to me, make him a 3D character. Add in his cockiness, his swagger, and his wicked fast ball? Seems like he’d be someone real.

When he meets the heroine in Stupid Girl—Olivia, whom he affectionately calls ‘Gracie’—she stuns him by not tripping all over herself to be with him like all the other girls do. Olivia is smart. Goal-driven. And despite having her own horrific ordeal the summer before her senior year—followed by her entire senior year—in high school, she prevails, determined to take the scholarship she’d earned in astronomy and make something of herself. Make her dreams come true. Her hard-working ranch family proud of her. When she first meets Brax and all his cocky swagger, she doesn’t think there’s a chance in hell they could be friends—much less anything else. They both proved to be wrong.

All of these things combined affected Brax Jenkins in a way that made him want to be a better person. Not just a survivor of the streets. Not just someone who was thrown away as a baby. But of who he wanted to be for the rest of his life. Olivia makes him whole.

And to me, that makes a character real.

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Twitter: @cindymilesbooks



My Thoughts

Olivia's worst nightmare comes true when the guy who drugged and raped her in high school follows her to college.

Olivia has gone to college with the mindset that she will be concentrating completely on her studies of astronomy. After everything she went through after trusting Kelsey, she decided never to be vulnerable like that again. No falling in love.

Then she meets Brax on the first day of school. He's quite the player and has set his sites on her. Everyone warns her to stay away from him including her roommate. She doesn't and they become friends spending quite a bit of time together. Then he kisses her and everything changes. But what about the bet? Did I forget to mention that? Yeah so did he.

I give Stupid Girl 4 hearts!



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About the Book

Only fools fall in love...

After her senior year of high school leaves behind nothing but heartache, Olivia Beaumont is sure of this: She’s no stupid girl. She sets out for Winston College, promising herself that she will remain focused on her first and only love – astronomy. But all it takes is cocky sophomore Brax Jenkins and an accidental collision with a football, to throw her entire year off course.

A quick-tempered Southie who escaped the inner city streets of Boston to pitch for Winston, Brax is known to play way more fields than just the baseball diamond. So, when his name is drawn to take part in his fraternity’s hazing dare, Brax eagerly accepts the mission to take Olivia’s virginity. But he doesn’t plan on falling hard for the sweet and sassy Texas girl who sees right through his bad-boy persona.

As Olivia and Brax battle their feelings for each other, echoes of the past year begin to surface. A boy who once turned Olivia’s whole world upside down reappears, and “harmless” pranks wreak havoc. Pretty soon the aspiring astronomer is on the verge of revealing her most difficult, heartbreaking secret. All the while, Brax must wrestle with the irrevocable dare, and Olivia struggles against all logic as she does the one thing only a stupid girl would do: fall in love.

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About the Author

Cindy Miles is the best-selling author of twelve novels, one anthology and three short stories. She also writes as Elle Jasper, and grew up on the salt marshes of the Vernon River in Savannah, Georgia.