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Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Cover Reveal - CLEAR: A Death Trippers Novel by Jessica Park

Check out the gorgeous cover for CLEAR: A Death Trippers Novel by Jessica Park!

Title: CLEAR: A Death Trippers Novel
Age: NA
Genre: Parnormal Romance
Author: Jessica Park
Cover Designer: The Cover Lure 
Release date: February 17, 2015
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Blurb:
Stella Ford’s grasp on reality is already loose, and it’s about to come undone.

When the college junior flees Chicago and leaves her toxic family behind, she heads for coastal Maine to find the one person who brought her peace years ago: Sam Bishop. But the Sam she once knew now has painful secrets.

Stella is determined to heal them both. Healing, however, is a challenge when the walls of her everyday existence collapse. And when Sam’s best friend is his worst enemy.

When the line between life and death blurs.

When an end is just a beginning.

When lust and rage rule.

Yet during extraordinary chaos, there can be extraordinary love, even if that love comes with a twist.

Welcome to death tripping.

A thriller, a paranormal, and a passionate romance, CLEAR crosses genres and breaks boundaries.



Jessica is the author of LEFT DROWNING, the New York Times bestselling FLAT-OUT LOVE (and the companion piece FLAT-OUT MATT), and RELATIVELY FAMOUS. She lives in New Hampshire where she spends an obscene amount time thinking about rocker boys and their guitars, complex caffeinated beverages, and tropical vacations. On the rare occasions that she is able to focus on other things, she writes.

Please visit her at jessicapark.me and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/authorjessicapark and Twitter @JessicaPark24


Tuesday, January 27, 2015

BEAUTIFUL REDEMPTION by Jamie McGuire is LIVE!



We're celebrating the release of BEAUTIFUL REDEMPTION by Jamie McGuire!



Title: Beautiful Redemption
Author: Jamie McGuire
Release date: January 27, 2014

If A Maddox boy falls in love, he loves forever. But what if he didn't love you, first?

No-nonsense Liis Lindy is an agent of the FBI. Deciding she is married only to her job, she breaks off her engagement and transfers from Chicago to the field office in San Diego. She loves her desk. She is committed to her laptop. She dreams of promotions and shaking hands with the director after cracking an impossible case.

Special Agent in Charge Thomas Maddox is arrogant, unforgiving, and ruthless. He is tasked with putting away some of the world’s toughest criminals, and he is one of the best the Bureau has to offer. Though, as many lives as he’s saved, there is one that is beyond his reach. Younger brother Travis is faced with prison time for his involvement in a basement fire that killed dozens of college students, and the media want a conviction. Travis’s only savior is his unusual tie to the mob. In a deal that will spare his brother, Thomas has agreed to recruit Travis into the FBI.

Liis is stubborn, defiant, and yet somehow softens Thomas’s rough edges, making her the perfect agent to accompany him to the ceremony. Posing as a couple, they must travel to Travis & Abby’s beach vow renewal and give him the news, but when the pretending ends, she finds herself wondering if they were pretending at all.

In the second installment of the Maddox Brothers books, experience firsthand the mysterious world of the elusive Thomas Maddox, and how good love can be when you’re not the first, but the last.


About the Author:

Jamie McGuire was born in Tulsa, OK. She attended the Northern Oklahoma College, the University of Central Oklahoma, and Autry Technology Center where she graduated with a degree in Radiography.

Jamie paved the way for the New Adult genre with international bestseller, Beautiful Disaster. Her follow-up novel Walking Disaster debuted at #1 on the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists. She has also written apocalyptic thriller Red Hill, a novella titled A Beautiful Wedding, and the Providence series, a young adult paranormal romance trilogy.

Jamie lives on a ranch just outside Enid, OK with husband Jeff and their three children. They share their 30 acres with cattle, six horses, three dogs, and Rooster the cat.

Find Jamie at www.jamiemcguire.com or on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram!

Website: http://www.jamiemcguire.com/
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★☆★Kick by Carmen Jenner Release Day $50.00 Giveaway★☆★


Happy Release Day to Carmen Jenner!
Kick is LIVE!
I am one clicking Kick today.  This new biker book is hot and dark.  The early reviews are really good!  Check out Carmen's giveaway below.



Blurb
When I was ten, my father indoctrinated me into the family.
A brotherhood who would fight, protect, and give their lives for one another. A club whose ties ran thicker than blood, murkier than the dirt and grime that tainted my soul. Stronger than the bonds that connected me to my own family.
A band of brothers, where loyalty was kept and paid in a currency of blood.
When I was twenty-seven, I betrayed that brotherhood.
I’ve spent every day since running, avoiding paying back that debt.
My name is Daniel Johnson.  I have betrayed everyone I ever loved.
And I’ll betray her too.
This is my story—if you’re screwed up enough to want to read it.

Warning: KICK contains graphic violence, profanity, drug use, and explicit sexual situations of a taboo nature. Intended for an 18+ audience only. Not intended for pussies.

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Excerpt:
I take a deep shuddering breath, close my eyes and stretch my hand towards him. His touch is gentle this time, far more gentle than I’d ever thought someone with so much uncontained violence to him could be.
“Spread your fingers,” he commands. I do, and he lifts the roll of tape, presses the edge to my skin and begins winding it over my knuckles. I close my eyes. The strident sound of it stretching out from the roll makes me want to flee. It makes me want to run as far from his touch—from any man’s touch—as I can possibly get.
The feel of the tape against my flesh, binding, holding, is so much worse. I tug on my hand, but he won’t let go. My heartrate skyrockets, and sweat beads erupt over my brow and upper lip. I’m in that room again, struggling, screaming, trying to fight them off, and failing.
 Biker knows it, too. His dark eyes challenge, they dare me to run, but they also implore me to stay. It’s ironic that the only thing keeping me here, keeping me grounded, is the man who abducted me.
He holds my gaze. I don’t know exactly what is hidden in his dark blue one, but it suffocates the panic within me, douses it like water flooding flames. He bends his head to my hand. Taking the paper tape in his mouth, he rips it with his teeth.
I still. I soften. His gaze doesn’t leave mine, not even once. Not even when he starts in on my wrist, gently biting through each piece of tape before pressing it down with his rough hands. I’m mesmerised by his mouth, the piercing, and the soft, full lips. The light catches a silver chain around his neck, something I’ve never noticed before—but then I try not to make a habit of staring too closely at him. Not now, though. Now I watch every twitch, every blink, every intake of breath, and every inch that is swallowed up by his mouth moving closer to my flesh.

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Welcome to Sugartown
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Enjoy Your Stay
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Greetings from Sugartown
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Welcome to Sugartown Website:
http://www.welcometosugartown.blogspot.com.au/


Carmen Jenner
Carmen Jenner is a thirty-something, USA TODAY Best Selling Author, doctor, pilot and CIA agent.  She's also a compulsive, flagrant prevaricator who gets to make things up for a living.

While Sugartown may not technically exist, Carmen grew up in a small Australian town just like it, and just like her characters, she always longed for something more. They didn't have an Elijah Cade, though.
If they did, you can be sure she would have never left.

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Check out my review of Past Heaven.  This is such a great celebrity romance.  Don't forget to enter Laura's gift card and ebook giveaway.



Title: Past Heaven
Author: Laura Ward
Age: Adult
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: January 26, 2015
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23474355-past-heaven
Book Trailer Link: http://youtu.be/1HY_MRgdkX0

Not every love story has a happy ending. Some just change your life.

Liz Atwater’s happily ever after was torn from her the instant her husband, Jack, was murdered. She is forced to pick up the shattered pieces of her life and raise her three young sons alone.

Reynold Carter’s picture perfect Hollywood life ended the moment the paparazzi got hold of his girlfriend’s cheating scandal. As he watches his life unfold in the tabloids, he comes to a crossroads in his career and his purpose.

When Reynolds takes on the challenge of a new project, his world collides with that of Liz. Neither of them expected their professional relationship to evolve into friendship, or love.

But life is never simple.

Faced with complications from family, friends, and colleagues, Liz and Reynolds are left to decide whether two people from such different worlds can find happiness together.

Can they get past the pain, fear, and guilt and risk their hearts to love again?

Not every love story is just a happy ending. Some completely change your life.


About Laura Ward
LAURA WARD is the author of New Adult novel, NOT YET, She lives in Maryland with her loud and very loving three children and husband. Laura married her college sweetheart and is endlessly grateful for the support he has given her through all their years together, and especially toward her goal of writing books. When not picking up toy trucks, driving to lacrosse practice, or checking spelling homework, Laura is writing or reading romance novels.

Contact Laura:
Facebook: www.facebook.com/LauraWardAuthor
Twitter: www.twitter.com/laurarosnerward
Instagram: _Laura_Ward
Goodreads:  https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8328712.Laura_Ward
Email:  laurawardauthor@yahoo.com

Purchase Past Heaven
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Review of Past Heaven
Past HeavenPast Heaven by Laura  Ward
My rating: 4.5 of 5 stars

Title:  Past Heaven
Author: Laura Ward
Series: Standalone
Release Date: January 26, 2015
Rating: 4.50 stars
Spoiler-free review

Reynolds Carter is a 40-year-old hot Hollywood a-list actor who finds out his starlet girlfriend cheated on him. He is sick and tired of his fast, fake and empty Hollywood existence. After doing some soul searching, Reynolds decides to write a screen play about health care do-gooder Jack Atwater. Liz Atwater is a widower and a typical suburban mom.  It’s only been a year since Jack was murdered and Liz is still in mourning, but she’s wildly attracted to Reynolds.  Reynolds doesn’t like kids (Liz has three) and usually dates hot models and actresses. Reynolds and Liz’ undeniable chemistry could light up the Hollywood sign.  Can they find love or will former ghosts of the past stop them from finding their own heaven?

Past Heaven is a nice celebrity/normal girl story. It did take me a little while to get into this book while learning Jack’s story. Past Heaven isn’t a smutastic read…but had the right amount of heat. Reynolds is wayyyy too perfect... like crazy perfect. Liz was great, relatable and very real. The Hollywood sticky-sweet ending went down as I anticipated.  Great book.

This review appears on www.kindlecrack.net, www.facebook.com/kindlecrack, Goodreads, Amazon, Pinterest, TSU, Google+ and Twitter. A review copy of this book was kindly provided by the author in exchange for an honest review.


Facts about Past Heaven:
Past Heaven is an endearment my husband told me when we fell in love. That we found a love that was “past heaven.”
My father helped to shut down the last state-run institution for people with disabilities in Maryland. He is my inspiration behind Jack Atwater’s character.
My brother has developmental disabilities and when he was born, doctors told my parents he should be institutionalized. They disagreed and moved across the country to find a school that would accept him. Today he is married to a woman with Down syndrome, lives in a home with his wife, and works a full time job.
Jacksonville, Maryland is the setting for the majority of Past Heaven. This is where I live and Hydes Field, Bagelemeister, and Strapasta are all places my family frequents. My kids also attend the local elementary school like Liz’s children.
My favorite restaurant is Woodberry Kitchen, where Liz and Reynolds have their celebratory dinner!
The Warren agency, written about in the book as the place where Jack worked, is modeled after the ARC Baltimore, an agency that provides services to my brother and countless other individuals with developmental disabilities.
Cindy was my absolute favorite character to write!

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Monday, January 26, 2015

★✫★$100 Amazon Gift Cards & FREE Book Are Up For Grabs★✫★



★✫★$100 Amazon cards & FREE book!★✫★  Get Indebted (Book #1) by J.L. Beck  Inevitable (Book #2) will go live today (hopefully). #giveaway #freebie #newrelease #romance #amreading #giftcard

Are you looking for a deliciously dark erotica romance? A romance that has so much suspense you’ll be turning pages to find out what happens next?

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★☆★This Book is HOT - TWO Release Day Giveaways - Throb by Vi Keeland★☆★


Throb by Vi Keeland is LIVE!  Read my review and  enter to win a $50.00 Amazon gift card from Vi and ebook from me. Vi's giveaway at the end of this post.

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THROB
(A standalone novel)
Release date 1/26/15
A Contemporary Romance novel 
New York Times & USA Today Bestselling Author Vi Keeland 

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Blurb
The rules:
No dating.
No sex outside of the game.
No disclosing the terms of the contract.
Rules were made to be broken, right?

Eight weeks ago I signed a contract.  One that seemed like a good idea at the time.  A handsome bachelor, luxury accommodations, and a chance to win a prize my family desperately needed.  There were some rules though.  Lots of them actually.  Follow the script, no dating, sex, or disclosing the terms of the deal.  After my self-imposed moratorium on men the last year, it wouldn’t be hard to live up to my end of the bargain…so I thought.  Until I realized the deal I’d made was with the devil…and I was in love with his dirty-talking brother.

Excerpt

Every girl needs three things
 1.  A flutter in her belly when she meets him for the first time.
 Meet Cooper
 My lips brush the top of her hand lightly, my tongue sneaking out to fleetingly touch her skin.  The brief contact stirs an ache inside me.  This woman tugs at something—more than arousal—something that makes me want to slow down time just to spend a few more minutes standing here.
“Did you just…” she stammers a bit.
“Did I just what?”
She squints at me.  “You know.”
“Do I?”
“I felt your tongue on my hand.  You…you licked me.”
I’d been dying to run my tongue along her neck all evening, although I hadn’t really meant to be so crude about it.  It just sort of …happened.  “I wouldn’t say licked, maybe just a little taste.”
“So you tasted me?”
My entire body suddenly has interest in this conversation.  “I suppose I did.  But it wasn’t nearly enough.  That brings us back to my invitation for dinner.  Tomorrow night?”
“I can’t.”
“The day after then?”
She laughs and shakes her head.  The sound makes me smile.
“Good night, Cooper.”  She pulls the driver’s side door shut and leaves me standing there…for a full five minutes after she’s gone.

2.  A best friend to talk about him to.
 Meet Sadie

“And?”
“And I kissed him when we were in his office.”
“How was his office?”
“Really?  That’s what you want to know.  Not how was the kiss or aren’t you in breach of your contract?  How was his office?”
“You can tell a lot about a man by his office.”
I gulp another unladylike sip from my wine glass.  “His office was beautiful.  Sleek, overlooking the city.  It oozed power.”
“Nice.  Bet he fucks like he owns you.”
The thought of what he’s like in bed is enough to make me lose my train of thought.
“Go on,” Sadie prods.
I don’t continue immediately.
“You forgot what you were up to because you were thinking of him fucking you like he owns you, didn’t you?”  My best friend smirks knowingly.
“Shut up.”  I pause.  “Anyway, I don’t know what I’m going to do.”
“Well, him.  Obviously.”
“I wish it were that easy.”

3.  A gentleman that turns into a bossy dirty talker in the bedroom.
Cooper – behind closed doors.

“You haven’t even begun to see bossy yet.  Tonight I’m going to tell you to do things, and you’re going to do them.  When I tell you to open wider, or take my cock deeper, you’re going to listen.  You know why?  Because since the moment we met, all I’ve wanted to do is make you feel good.  Hell, I don’t even need to get off physically.  Because I’m going to get off watching you every minute.  So, yeah, I’m going to be bossy.  Now let’s put the rest of this behind us.  Do you want to be with me tonight?”
After that prelude, I nod my head fast.  I’m no fool.  Who wouldn’t?

Review of Thob
ThrobThrob by Vi Keeland
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Title:  Throb
Author: Vi Keeland
Series: Standalone/No Cliffhanger
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Rating: 4.50 - 5.00 stars
Spoiler-free review

Did you ever think about why people go on TV shows like The Bachelor? Are they really looking for love or do they have another agenda?

Kate is a gambling woman and betting that she can win the Throb bachelor show to have enough money to help her family. The night before she's set to go back on the show set, she meets Cooper.  The problem is that this hot bachelor isn’t on the show. If Kate wants to win, she has to abide by the shows rules:

No dating.

No sex outside of the game.

No disclosing the terms of the contract.

Cooper is a dirty talking studio executive who falls for the bachelorette.  Kate is falling for Cooper, but she knows that she is on this show for a reason and she doesn't want to jeopardize her chance at winning. While she has incredible chemistry with her off-screen bachelor, she is also rocking some on-screen chemistry with the show's resident heartthrob, rock star bachelor. Lust, lies, jealousy, cat fights and sex are scripted on and off camera.  Who is going to walk away the real winner?

I loved this sexy and sweet story.  Vi always has a way of creating likable characters and engaging plot lines.  This unique made for TV romance was seriously HOT. Kate and Cooper’s reality show love story unfolded in such an enjoyable way...making me feel like I was a fly on the wall behind the scenes of this show.   I also loved the great “supporting cast" of characters including Kate’s best friend and the bachelor himself.  Once again Vi managed to fog up my Kindle screen with another smoking blistering hot book. Throb ends with a great HEA and no cliffhanger.  Go one click this one.

This review appears on www.kindlecrack.net, www.facebook.com/kindlecrack, Goodreads, Amazon, Pinterest, TSU, Google+ and Twitter. A review copy of this book was kindly provided by the author in exchange for an honest review.


About the Author:
Vi Keeland is a native New Yorker with three children that occupy most of her free time, which she complains about often, but wouldn't change for the world. She is a bookworm and has been known to read her kindle at stop lights, while styling her hair, cleaning, walking, during sporting events, and frequently while pretending to work.  She is a boring attorney by day, and an exciting smut author by night!

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Sunday, January 25, 2015

★☆★ Deep. Dark. Deadly Secrets★☆★ Around The Bend - by Britney King

I need to read this new military romance by Britney King.  Check it out below.

★☆★ Deep. Dark. Deadly Secrets. What if we decided to let the whole world in on our dirty little secrets @britneyking_ ★☆★

#AroundTheBend #MustRead #MilitaryRomance #ContemporaryRomance

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New M/M Romance - Cover Reveal - There You Stand by Christina Lee

I love the Between The Breaths series. I can't wait to read this new m/m romance.  



Book Summary

From the author of All of You and Before You Break comes a new Between Breaths romance about the silent, inked up skateboarder and the tattoo artist who unravels him piece by piece…

Tattoo artist Cory Easton has worked long enough at Raw Ink to know, just by looking at a dude, what his body art reveals, what makes him tick, what even makes him scared. Until he meets the quiet and remote Jude York—so unreadable, so unreachable, and so unlike anyone else, he can’t help but arouse Cory’s curiosity.

As captivating and complex as his ink, Jude is a mystery—and Cory’s falling fast and hard under his spell. Against his better judgment to steer clear.

The rumors of Jude’s past overshadow him—whispers of prison and an unmentionable secret that’s kept him in the protective shadows of a local motorcycle club. As Cory probes deeper, he wonders how much he really wants to know. Especially since Jude has awakened something inside him that has been buried too long—and has him feeling completely alive for the first time in forever…

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Saturday, January 24, 2015

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Friday, January 23, 2015

★$25.00 Gift Card Giveaway★Cover reveal★Excerpt★ The Way We Fall by Cassia Leo

Cover reveal/excerpt/giveaway for The Way We Fall by Cassia Leo. I'm looking forward to this release.  Add this one to your reading list!

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Title:  The Way We Fall
Author: Cassia Leo
Genre: Contemporary romance
Release Day: February 20th

About The Way We Fall:
From New York Times bestselling author Cassia Leo comes a twisted and passionate love
story that pushes the boundaries of loyalty.

Maybe we shouldn’t have fallen so fast and so willingly.

Maybe we shouldn’t have moved in together before we went on our first date.

Maybe we should have given our wounds time to heal before we tore each other to shreds.

Maybe we should have never been together.

Houston has kept a devastating secret from Rory since the day he took her into his home. But the
tragic circumstances that brought them together left wounds too deep to heal. Five years after the breakup, Houston and Rory are thrust together by forces beyond their control. And all the resentments and passion return with more intensity than ever.

Once again, Houston is left with a choice between the truth and the only girl he’s ever loved.
The Way We Fall is the first book in The Story of Us Series, which follows the tumultuous love story of Rory and Houston. The sequel, The Way We Break, will be released Spring 2015.

Available for $0.99 only during preorder and for the first 48 hours after release.

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Exclusive Excerpt:

“I need to talk to you about the work situation,” he says as he follows me out. “I got the contract, but I want to make sure you’re okay with this before I sign it.”

“You want to know if I’ll be okay working with you?”

I slide the key into the doorknob and Houston places his hand over mine to stop me from turning the

knob. “I can’t go in there with you. Please stay out here until we’re done talking.”

I shake his hand off and turn around to face him. “There’s nothing to talk about. You have to sign the
contract. The way I feel about working with you shouldn’t matter.”

“But it does matter. I don’t want to upset you. You were there first.”

I can’t help but laugh. “So this is a territorial thing? You think because I was there first that I have some sort of right to keep you out?” His left eyebrow shoots up the way it always does when he’s confused and it nearly renders me mute. “Houston, if I didn’t work there you wouldn’t think twice about signing that contract. So that’s what you should do. Just… please stop making this into something it isn’t. We hardly know each other anymore, and that’s the way it’s going to remain.”

He swallows hard as he lets this sink in. “I guess you’re right. I’m sorry I bothered you. I only wanted to… Never mind. I’ll get going. I have to get up early to go sign that contract. Not that you care.”

He shakes his head in disappointment as he walks away and I’m glad I don’t have anything solid in my hand other than Skippy’s leash or I might throw it at the back of his head. So I’m the one who doesn’t care? Ugh. Typical Houston and his endless psychological games.

Maybe I should have told him to walk away from the contract, but that would have meant admitting that he still has a strong hold over me. It also would have been the truth and the truth has never gotten me in trouble. In fact, the truth is something my previous relationship with Houston was sorely lacking. Nevertheless, I don’t need to right the wrongs we made while we were together. I don’t need to tell Houston that the sight of him makes my throat dry and my stomach flutter. He doesn’t need to know that I still go to sleep with scenes from our life together playing on repeat in my mind. Or that sometimes I wake up with his name tumbling from my lips, the remnants of dreams where he never left and nightmares where he hovers just out of reach.

Before Wednesday, the last time I had seen Houston was the day after he met me at the Planned
Parenthood clinic. I didn’t ask him to come, and I don’t know how he found the date and time of my
appointment, but he was there when we pulled into the parking lot. Lisa, a girl from my Social Inequality class whom I’d had coffee with a couple of times, had graciously agreed to take me to the clinic. The moment I saw him leaning against his truck, I knew I had to send Lisa home. Houston would insist on taking me back to the apartment after the procedure, to watch over me.

It was the last thing I wanted, to have Houston doting over me after terminating the pregnancy. But it
was also the only thing I wanted. It was as if he was performing the last rites on our dead relationship.

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About Cassia Leo:
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Cassia Leo loves her coffee, chocolate, and
margaritas with salt. When she’s not writing, she spends way too much time watching old reruns of
Friends and Sex and the City. When she’s not watching reruns, she’s usually enjoying the California
sunshine or reading – sometimes both.

Come chat with her on:
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★★ COVER REVEAL & GIVEAWAY ★★ Finding Us by Debra Presley


I am super excited to be sharing this post.  This new book is by one of my favorite bloggers -  Debra Presley at The Book Enthusiast.  Check out Finding Us and don't forget to enter Debra's Amazon gift card giveaway below.


#BookEnthu #CoverReveal #DebraPresley #FindingUS #NucciSecurities #Giveaway #ContempRomance
Finding Us (A Nucci Securities Novel) by Debra Presley
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: March 2015
Hosted by: Book Enthusiast Promotions (http://bookenthusiastpromotions.com @BookEnthuPromo )

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Synopsis:
Pop star Abby Murphy has fame and fortune and handsome boyfriend and guitarist, Sean. That changes the night she finds him in the arms of another woman. But Sean won't accept the breakup, and she soon finds out he's working with her mother, who's also her manager, to keep him in her good graces.
As Sean ratchets up his threats against her, Abby turns to her bodyguard, Danny Nucci, who will do everything in his power to keep her safe.
But when Abby realizes her feelings for Danny run much deeper than she'd like, she pushes him away as much to keep her own independence as to protect him from Sean's machinations.
When Abby finally finds the strength to confront all that is wrong with her life, she seeks refuge with Danny, but is it too late? Has she pushed him away one too many times for him to trust her now? Or can he put his own demons aside to help repair them both?

#MeettheAuthor
Debra is a native New Yorker who made her escape to the suburbs. She often visits her hometown to enjoy a bagel with butter from her favorite deli, because there’s no better bagel than a New York bagel. When not in search of bagels, Debra spends her time running Book Enthusiast Promotions, an online promotions company that helps indie authors spread the word about their books. She’s also the owner of The Book Enthusiast blog.
She started writing lyrics in her wall-to-wall NKOTB bedroom at the tender age of thirteen while dreaming of the day she’d become Mrs. Jordan Knight. That dream never came to fruition, but she has continued to write. Now she’s working on her first novel.

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Thursday, January 22, 2015

Throb by Vi Keeland - Pre-Release Review


I was lucky to receive an advanced reader copy of Throb by Vi Keeland.  Check out my review and look for Kindle Crack Book Reviews pre-release  ebook giveaway! This book is crazy HOT!



Early Review of Throb by Vi Keeland- HOLY HOTNESS!
ThrobThrob by Vi Keeland
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Title:  Throb
Author: Vi Keeland
Series: Standalone/No Cliffhanger
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Rating: 4.50 - 5.00 stars
Spoiler-free review

Did you ever think about why people go on TV shows like The Bachelor? Are they really looking for love or do they have another agenda?

Kate is a gambling woman and betting that she can win the Throb bachelor show to have enough money to help her family. The night before she's set to go back on the show set, she meets Cooper.  The problem is that this hot bachelor isn’t on the show. If Kate wants to win, she has to abide by the shows rules:

No dating.

No sex outside of the game.

No disclosing the terms of the contract.

Cooper is a dirty talking studio executive who falls for the bachelorette.  Kate is falling for Cooper, but she knows that she is on this show for a reason and she doesn't want to jeopardize her chance at winning. While she has incredible chemistry with her off-screen bachelor, she is also rocking some on-screen chemistry with the show's resident heartthrob, rock star bachelor. Lust, lies, jealousy, cat fights and sex are scripted on and off camera.  Who is going to walk away the real winner?

I loved this sexy and sweet story.  Vi always has a way of creating likeable characters and engaging plot lines.  This unique made for TV romance was seriously HOT. Kate and Cooper’s reality show love story unfolded in such an enjoyable way...making me feel like I was a fly on the wall behind the scenes of this show.   I also loved the great “supporting cast" of characters including Kate’s best friend and the bachelor himself.  Once again Vi managed to fog up my Kindle screen with another smoking blistering hot book. Throb ends with a great HEA and no cliffhanger.  Go one click this one.

This review appears on www.kindlecrack.net, www.facebook.com/kindlecrack, Goodreads, Amazon, Pinterest, TSU, Google+ and Twitter. A review copy of this book was kindly provided by the author in exchange for an honest review.



4.5 sexy rock stars!!! Hotness!


Release Week Giveaway - A Million Tiny Pieces by Nicole Edwards


I cant wait to get my hands on this steaming hot, erotic menage romance by Nicole Edwards.  I know this book is going to rock....Nicole writes some smutastic books.  Enter her giveaway for a signed copy or eBook copy below.

Visit Nicole Edward’s website each day January 18th – 24th to view exclusive content for A Million Tiny Pieces! http://nicoleedwardsauthor.com/ 



Title: A Million Tiny Pieces
Author: Nicole Edwards
Genre: Adult, Erotic Ménage Romance
Release Date: January 20, 2015

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Blurb:
Mia Cantrell is happy to be rid of her lying, cheating, ex-husband. With her divorce final, Mia is moving on, grasping the reins of life once more. She’s learning to deal with the shattered remains while putting one foot in front of the other, taking control of her own decisions, and ultimately living one day at a time. Too bad the universe has put a hiccup (or two) in her well thought out plan.

Phoenix Pierce is putting the pieces back together after the death of his father. Between his multi-million dollar company, the NHL team he now owns, and the endless supply of women willing to share a bed for one night of uninhibited sex, he finds himself going through the motions. Until he meets Mia. Although he’s on a mission to win her, that doesn’t solve his problem of the other person he wants… the man he has denied himself for years.

Tarik Marx doesn’t think anyone could ever fill the void in his life the way Phoenix unknowingly has. That is until he meets Mia. Thanks to a fractured childhood, Tarik has to face a bigger problem: he doesn’t know how it feels to be loved. His past adds additional complexity when Tarik finds himself trying to figure out how he can have them both.

Is it possible for a million tiny pieces to come together again? And if they do, will that make the bond even stronger than before?

Erotic Ménage Romance
Mature Audiences





Author Bio:

New York Times bestselling author Nicole Edwards launched her professional writing career in July of 2012. Having been an avid reader all of her life and a huge fan of creative writing, it seemed the likely path for her to take. Since then, she has released fifteen books and has no plans to stop. As her full-time career/hobby, Nicole writes steamy contemporary and erotic romances.

Nicole is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author who was born and raised in Texas. Married with three kids and four dogs, she has plenty of interaction to keep her imagination brewing. Her books have been featured in USA Today’s Happy Ever After segment as well as Indie Reader’s best seller list. She has forged her way as an independent author.

Although she has a bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, she prefers to be hiding out in her writing cave, talking to the fictional characters that have built up in her head over the years.

When she isn’t writing or plotting her next book (sometimes translated to “playing on Facebook”), Nicole loves to read and spend time with her family and her dogs.

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Wednesday, January 21, 2015

SALE ALERT - When We Collide by A.L. Jackson - Only 99 Cents!

I love this author and this series.  If you are looking for a beautifully written emotional read this is it! One-click this one for only 99 cents.




Synopsis
From the New York Times bestselling author of Lost to You and Take This Regret comes a gripping new tale of loss and love.
William has spent six years running from his past and the last eight months trying to rid his mind of the dreams that increasingly haunt his nights. Trapped in a world of false ambitions and feigned affections, William knows he’s reached a breaking point and something’s going to give.
Maggie had lived her entire life without hope until one man showed her what it meant to be loved. He’d been her light in a lifetime of darkness. Six years ago, that darkness stole him away. Without him, she’s surrendered herself to an existence she doesn’t know how to escape.
When the family William left behind is struck by tragedy, he is called back to the one place he’s sworn to never return to again.
In a moment that will change his life forever, William comes face to face with the girl who, with one look, captured his heart. He is unable to ignore the buried desires and the hope for the future they’d once believed they’d have.
Now William is ready to fight to take back what had been stolen from him six years before.
But he never imagined what that fight might cost him.

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When We Collide Excerpt ~ Copyright 2012 A.L. Jackson
“You know him?” Amber asked.
I glimpsed the confusion on her face.
William.
My secret, my heart.
The beautiful man I’d lain with for hours under the stars, our lives poured out in a torrent of stories and words. The way he held me while I shared the ones that hurt me the most. How he touched me, the way he made me feel incredibly safe. How that hold had escalated from safety to ecstasy as the soft pads of his fingers would dance across my lips when he locked himself to me, the perfect weight of his body, the expression on his face when he came.
The heartbreak in his eyes when I told him goodbye.
I knew it all.
“Yeah.” My voice was soft. “I know him.”
Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Exclusive EARLY Release - Beautiful Redemption by Jamie McGuire

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#ThomasTuesday #BeautifulRedemption #ItsClassified

Synopsis:
If A Maddox boy falls in love, he loves forever. But what if he didn't love you, first?
No-nonsense Liis Lindy is an agent of the FBI. Deciding she is married only to her job, she breaks off her engagement and transfers from Chicago to the field office in San Diego. She loves her desk. She is committed to her laptop. She dreams of promotions and shaking hands with the director after cracking an impossible case.
Special Agent in Charge Thomas Maddox is arrogant, unforgiving, and ruthless. He is tasked with putting away some of the world’s toughest criminals, and he is one of the best the Bureau has to offer. Though, as many lives as he’s saved, there is one that is beyond his reach. Younger brother Travis is faced with prison time for his involvement in a basement fire that killed dozens of college students, and the media want a conviction. Travis’s only savior is his unusual tie to the mob. In a deal that will spare his brother, Thomas has agreed to recruit Travis into the FBI.
Liis is stubborn, defiant, and yet somehow softens Thomas’s rough edges, making her the perfect agent to accompany him to the ceremony. Posing as a couple, they must travel to Travis & Abby’s beach vow renewal and give him the news, but when the pretending ends, she finds herself wondering if they were pretending at all.
In the second installment of the Maddox Brothers books, experience firsthand the mysterious world of the elusive Thomas Maddox, and how good love can be when you’re not the first, but the last.



Monday, January 19, 2015

Post-Apocalyptic Kindle Crack - Review: Thicker Than Blood by Madeline Sheehan & Claire C. Riley

I'm still freaking out from this zombie madness!  Check out my review of Thicker Than Blood.



Title: Thicker Than Blood
Authors:  Madeline Sheehan & Claire C. Riley 
Release Date: January 12, 2015
Post Apocalyptic/Dystopia

A true friendship never dies.

Leisel and Evelyn lost everything. Husbands. Families. Friends. Lives that made sense. All they had left was each other, and a friendship that could withstand anything…

Even an apocalypse.

Until one fateful night, the marginal safety they’d come to rely on comes to a vicious and brutal end. With the help of Alex & Jami, both unlikely allies, Leisel and Evelyn are able to escape their shattered sanctuary only to find themselves face-to-face with a much altered, much crueler life where they have to find the way—and the will—to stay alive in a world they no longer recognize.

Traveling across a broken and infection-ridden country; the road-weary group are pitted against endless violence, improbable circumstances, and the ultimate loss.
Everything comes at a price—especially safety, the cost of which could very well strip them of the one thing they’ve tried so hard to cling to: their humanity.

Yet along with all the trials they’re forced to endure, there’s also hope in the form of love. Having loved Leisel from afar, Alex attempts to put the pieces of her fractured heart back together.

But in such a savage world, is there room for love?

In a place of nightmares-made-reality, where the living should be feared far more than the dead, an unbreakable friendship and a love amongst all odds can mean the difference between life and death.

There are friends…

Buy Links:

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Review of Thicker Than Blood
Thicker Than BloodThicker Than Blood by Madeline Sheehan
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

4.5 end of the world stars!

Title:  Thicker Than Blood
Author (s): Madeline Sheehan and Claire C. Riley
Release Date: January 12, 2015
Rating: 4.50
Cliffhanger: no
Spoiler Free Review

I usually don’t read zombie/post-apocalyptic/dystopia books…but I jumped at the chance to read this one from Madeline Sheehan and Claire C. Riley.  Both writers happen to be talented, and I wanted to see what their collaboration could bring to the table.

I just can’t get over this story and how incredible the writing was. This writing team created some serious post-apocalyptic kindle crack. Thicker Than Blood is a story of friendship and survival in one hell of a dark and disturbed world. Since I don’t usually read this genre, I can’t compare this book to similar titles.  All, I can say, is that this writing team rocked it.  I felt like I was a fly on the wall observing the end of the world--it felt real.  This action packed book is a page turner.  TTB had a great mix of stomach-churning suspense, action, and romance!  Would I pick up another zombie book? It’s unlikely…UNLESS it’s the next book in this series!  I’m still freaking out. One-click this one!

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Friday, January 16, 2015

$50.00 Amazon Gift Card Giveaway & Cover Reveal - A Stone in the Sea by A.L. Jackson



We are excited to share the cover of this brand new series by A.L. Jackson
A Stone in the Sea will Release on Feb 23


He wanted nothing at all…

Until he found she had everything to give…

Sunder lead singer and guitarist Sebastian Stone has everything—fans, fame, and
fortune. He also has a heart full of bitterness and a reputation for a short-fused temper.

But an outward reputation rarely reveals the true man inside. Facing assault charges
after trying to protect his younger brother, Sebastian is sent to Savannah, Georgia to lie
low until the dust settles in L.A.

Shea Bentley is beautiful, kind, and hiding from the very lifestyle Sebastian has always
embraced.

When the mysterious, tattooed stranger begins hanging out at the bar where she works,
Shea is quick to recognize he is nothing but trouble, but she's helpless to the way her
body lights up every time his intense gray eyes tangle with hers.

They both soon find themselves drowning in a sea of desire and passion that won’t let
them up for air.

Sebastian knows firsthand secrets never die, and he’s not the only one who’s hiding
them.

Loving someone always comes with a price. But will it be Shea’s past that costs them
everything?


Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23348621-a-stone-in-the-sea

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Bio

A.L. Jackson is the New York Times bestselling author of Take This Regret and Lost to You, as
well as other contemporary romance titles, including Come to Me Quietly, Come to Me Softly,
Pulled, When We Collide, and If Forever Comes.

She first found a love for writing during her days as a young mother and college student.  She
filled the journals she carried with short stories and poems used as an emotional outlet for the
difficulties and joys she found in day-to-day life.

Years later, she shared a short story she’d been working on with her two closest friends and, with
their encouragement, this story became her first full length novel. A.L. now spends her days
writing in Southern Arizona where she lives with her husband and three children. Her favorite
pastime is spending time with the ones she loves.

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