Monday, October 31, 2016

Author Interview & Giveaway - Portraits of the Dead by John Nicholl

 Portraits of the Dead

by John Nicholl

GENRE: Psychological Thriller

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Emma didn’t know how long he hid, silent and unmoving, in the large Victorian wardrobe to the side of her single bed. She didn’t know how long he peered out, salivating and drooling, between the two heavy dark oak doors, and watched, mesmerised, as she slowly drifted into fitful sleep. She didn't know what time he pushed the doors open and crept towards her in the drab grey darkness of the night.

Detective Inspector Gravel finds himself floundering when a local nineteen-year-old university student is abducted and imprisoned by a sadistic serial killer, who has already tortured and killed five young women.

A gripping page-turner of a serial killer thriller packed with suspense. If you like Rachel Abbott, Robert Bryndza and Karin Slaughter, discover John Nicholl’s chilling new thriller today.

Guest Post & Giveaway - Charm City (The Demon Whisperer, Book 1) by Ash Krafton


Charm City
The Demon Whisperer, Book One
Ash Krafton
Genre: urban fantasy * Publisher: Red Fist Fiction
Date of Publication: August 23, 2016
ASIN:  B01J42MO7Q * Number of pages:  174
Word Count: 48,000 * Cover Artist:  Ash Krafton

Book Description:
The darkness is rising and one man stands against it: the exorcist mage Simon Alliant. But in Baltimore, he finally meets his match...a part-mortal divinity with the power to whisper away demons.

Simon Alliant is an exorcist who battles demons, whether he wants to or not. Sometimes it's not so bad...he gets to play with magic, after all. But for Simon, magic represents a demon of another kind. He's addicted to magic and it takes more than a handful of charms to keep that particular demon at bay.

Chiara is part Light, part Dark, and stubbornly mortal. The woman has a way with words: she literally talks demons into abandoning their human hosts. Simon thinks that's not the only trick she has up her sleeve-and that's pretty high praise coming from a mage like him.

As intriguing as that may be, Simon has too many reasons to distrust her...one of them being his more-or-less partner, an angelic Watcher. Amidst all the celestial warnings of the rising dark comes a new prophesy that makes him wonder: is Chiara a threat to him and all of mankind?

Or will she be his salvation?

Friday, October 28, 2016

Guest Blog & Giveaway - Black and Blue (Quentin Black Mystery, Book 5) by JC Andrijeski

Black And Blue
Quentin Black Mystery, Book Five
JC Andrijeski
Genre: Paranormal Mystery / Romance/ UF
Publisher: White Sun Press * Date of Publication: 7/27/16
ISBN: 9781370573745 * ASIN: B01J4AXZ8U
Number of pages: 336 * Word Count: 101,005
Cover Artist: Jennifer Munswami * at J.M. Rising Horse Creations

Book Description:
“He’d be fresh meat here. And he didn’t have his sight...”
Black takes a new consulting gig with the LAPD, helping them find a contract killer who left a dead body behind the Los Angeles Theater. Despite Miri’s lingering fears after what happened to him during the last murder case he worked, he assures her it’s routine, that he won’t be doing fieldwork, that nothing could possibly go wrong.
Then, during his first night on the job at the Port of Los Angeles, all hell breaks loose and all bets are off.
Black wakes up in a nightmare he couldn’t have foreseen, with no way out and no idea how he got there. Robbed of his psychic sight, he can’t even call to Miriam for help, or use his abilities to figure out where he is, who took him, or what they want from him.
On the outside, Miri is frantic, working with the police and Black’s team to find him. She has even less information than Black… until a confession from her Uncle Charles brings her face to face with a much older enemy, the same enemy that may have killed her entire family.
BLACK AND BLUE is book five in the paranormal mystery romance starring brilliant but dangerous psychic detective, Quentin Black, and his partner, forensic psychologist Miri Fox.
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Excerpt & Giveaway - Unsportsmanlike Conduct (Pilots Hockey #4) by Sophia Henry

Discover why Kelly Jamieson calls the Pilots Hockey series 
“fun and flirty, warm and sweet.”

UNSPORTSMANLIKE CONDUCT
Pilots Hockey #4
Sophia Henry
Releasing Oct 18th, 2016
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The author of Delayed Penalty returns with the story of a free spirit who believes she’s found forever with a playboy on a singles cruise. Discover why Kelly Jamieson calls the Pilots Hockey series “fun and flirty, warm and sweet.” 

Kristen Katsaros wants a life full of adventure and laughter. After a difficult childhood, her motto is to live each day like it’s her last—because it just might be. So when Kristen’s parents send her on a post-grad singles cruise in the Caribbean to meet a Greek husband, she promptly hooks up with the hottest guy she’s ever met. Pasha’s decidedly not Greek, but Kristen gives him a pass because he’s got fun written all over his rock-hard abs.

Pavel Gribov, the cocky playboy of the Detroit Pilots hockey team, can score any girl he wants. But when a teammate drags him on a singles cruise, he can’t resist the chance to help out a drop-dead gorgeous damsel in distress by pretending to be her boyfriend. Before long, the fake fling turns intimate, fueled by something much deeper than lust.

Kristen and Pasha both agree to walk away once the cruise is over, but reality hits like a slap shot when Kristen finds out Pasha lied about everything. Just when she’s ready to start living again, the two stubborn survivors must decide if they can bear to lose the best thing that ever happened to either of them.


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Spotlight - A Healer for the Bear (Sarkozy Brothers) by Pia Milan


She's an ex-con with world-class surgical skills

Surgeon, Irina Nikolai is an ex-con. Out on parole for a crime she did not commit, she's lucky enough to find a chance to use her healing skills, however underground the job.

More than just a chance to heal
When old man Sarkozy, her father's long-time friend, asks her to look after his grandson, how could she say no? But meeting the enigmatic, cantankerous and supremely antagonistic Aleks Sarkozy makes her wonder if she should have declined the opportunity. Worse is the sizzling heat every time she has to touch him. And she has to touch him a lot.

He is just a patient. So she tells herself.
But she is determined to do is her job; heal the patient, get paid, leave.
It's what the patient wants. And it's what Irina wants too.
Or is it?

He's a Bear in need of more than just his wounds mended

Carpathian bear shifter Aleks Sarkozy, is angry, bitter and filled with hatred for humans. Held in captivity by The Legion for a year, Aleks was victim to unspeakable torture at the hands of one human, Nathanial.

His hatred for humans knows no bounds.
Until he opens his eyes to the vision of an angel that stirs his blood. An that vision is a human one.

She is off limits
But humans are off limits, especially when it comes to mating. So why does Aleks's need for his beautiful healer grow every time he sees her face. Why does his blood fill with heat and desire every time he smells her enticing scent?

Confused and conflicted, Aleks tries to understand his emotions, to understand the needs of his heart versus those of his brain. Can his desire for Irina override his hatred for her humanity?

*Standalone Bear Shifter Romance*

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Pia Milan is the author of sexy paranormal romance with bite plus mystery. It’s not just boy meets girl – or shifter meets human.

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Thursday, October 27, 2016

Spotlight & Giveaway - Change of Address (Hartsbridge Island) by Jordan S Brock



About Change of Address: 

Air Force sergeant Michael Baldwin wanted nothing more than to escape his family’s political ambitions, but his dream of freedom was shattered by an enemy bullet to the head. Two years later, he and his service dog, Kaylee, resist his father’s demand to join him on the campaign trail—where a photogenic “wounded warrior” is always an asset—and instead return to the family’s summer home on Hartsbridge Island. 

There Michael and his beautiful German shepherd capture the attention of Josh Goldberg, co-owner of the local bagel shop. Josh has a knack for business and a killer repertoire of his bubbe’s recipes. But lack of education undermines his confidence, and Josh’s father doesn’t share his ambition for the restaurant’s future. 

Chicken soup and bacon might be the way to Michael’s heart, but he and Josh need time to learn about everything that comes after—lessons that Governor Baldwin and his relentless ambition will do anything to thwart. Letting someone in is a tall order for two men who can’t trust themselves, but if they have any hope of a future together, that’s exactly what they’ll need to do. 

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Excerpt & Giveaway - Baron (The Knickerbocker Club #2) by Joanna Shupe

One pragmatic industrialist is about to learn 
that a man may make his own destiny, 
but love is a matter of fortune . . .


BARON
The Knickerbocker Club #2
Joanna Shupe
Releasing Oct 25th, 2016
Kensington Zebra


New York City’s Gilded Age shines as bright as the power-wielding men of the Knickerbocker Club. And one pragmatic industrialist is about to learn that a man may make his own destiny, but love is a matter of fortune . . .

Born into one of New York’s most respected families, William Sloane is a railroad baron who has all the right friends in all the right places. But no matter how much success he achieves, he always wants more. Having secured his place atop the city’s highest echelons of society, he’s now setting his sights on a political run. Nothing can distract him from his next pursuit—except, perhaps, the enchanting con artist he never saw coming . . .

Ava Jones has eked out a living the only way she knows how. As “Madame Zolikoff,” she hoodwinks gullible audiences into believing she can communicate with the spirit world. But her carefully crafted persona is nearly destroyed when Will Sloane walks into her life—and lays bare her latest scheme. The charlatan is certain she can seduce the handsome millionaire into keeping her secret and using her skills for his campaign—unless he’s the one who’s already put a spell on her . . .


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Guest Post & Giveaway - Mated to Three by Sam Crescent


Mated to Three
Sam Crescent

Release Date: October 1, 2016
ISBN: 978-1-945193-57-6
Categories: Shifters, Multiple Partners,
Paranormal
Flame: 4
Price: $2.99

Book Description:

Three is always better than one!

Reese, Alpha of the Riser Woods pack, has a crush on Bethany, a human waitress. He can’t have her, but he can’t stop looking at her.

Draco finds Bethany attractive, but he sees that his Alpha wants her and keeps his distance.

Alex, her boss, is a Bear shifter, and also an Alpha.

All three want her, but none can have her. When Bethany is attacked by a mysterious wolf, the changes in her body are instant. All three men feel her, crave her, need her. It goes against all laws, but there’s no stopping it. Bethany is mated to three men, and all of them will do everything in their power to protect her.

Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Flash Fiction & Giveaway - The Graveyard Shift (A Paranormal Romance Anthology) by Jamie K Schmidt


The Graveyard Shift
A Paranormal Romance Anthology
Jamie K. Schmidt
 

Genre: paranormal romance * Date of Publication: 6/26/16 
ISBN: 1534805680 * ASIN: B0177E5Z8S 
Number of pages: 173 * Word Count: 54,000 
Cover Artist: Jamie K. Schmidt

Book Description: 
Erotic, Sexy and Sweet tales of vampires, ghosts, mages, shifters and dreamers of dreams. 
In this anthology, you will enter an adult bookstore run by two vampires and partake in the bloodletting and sex, see a witch accidentally summon a vampire who gains power through love making, and then go clubbing with an urban vampire.  
But vampires aren't the only supernatural beings in this compelling collection of stories. Ghosts jam with their favorite rock bands. A Grail Maiden helps protect Arthur's cup, and a paralyzed cyber mercenary finds love inside virtual reality. 

Guest Post & Giveaway - Saving Jake (A Blessings, Georgia Novel) by Sharon Sala


Saving Jake

A Blessings, Georgia Novel

by Sharon Sala

There is always hope

After eight years in the Marines, Jacob Lorde returns to Blessings, Georgia, with no plans other than to hole up in his empty house and heal what’s left of his soul. But with a charming next door neighbor and a town full of friendly people, keeping to himself is easier said than done. 

As long as you can come home

Laurel Payne understands far too well what Jake is going through, after witnessing her late husband experience similar problems. She’s in no hurry to jump into another relationship with a complicated guy, but their attraction is undeniable—and perhaps exactly what both of them need.



Guest Post & Giveaway - Interborough (A Five Buroughs Story) by Santino Hassell


The Meet Cute  

One of my favorite parts of a romance novel is the scene where the main characters meet.  I want to be able to detect sparks between them from the start. Even if said sparks are sparks of annoyance that end up igniting flames of initial dislike, I want to try to figure out how these two people will end up together. 

In the Five Boroughs novels, most of the characters already knew each other. In SUTPHIN BOULEVARD, Michael and Nunzio were lifelong friends, and in FIRST AND FIRST Oli and Caleb had been introduced years ago by mutual acquaintances. Things are a little different for David and Raymond, the stars of SUNSET PARK and my new novel INTERBOROUGH.  

Rayvid is definitely a fan favorite couple in the series, but even though the start of their friendship is chronicled in SUTPHIN BOULEVARD… readers never got to see it. Readers know David tracked Raymond down on Facebook in order to get updates on Raymond’s troubled older brother Michael, and readers saw the flirtatious banter when the twosome showed up to visit Michael in rehab, but the meet cute is missing. 

If you’ve ever wondered how buttoned up yuppie David convinced grumpy, sarcastic, loves-to-be-difficult Raymond to let him tag along, you’ve clicked on the right blog post. 

 








About Interborough: 

The Raymond Rodriguez from a few years ago wouldn’t recognize the guy he is today. He’s left his slacker ways far behind him and is now juggling two jobs and school. But the balancing act doesn’t allow much time for the man he loves. 

David is doing his best to be supportive, but problems at work and his own insecurity leave him frustrated—in more ways than the obvious—whenever he goes to bed before Raymond gets home. The heat and affection between them is still there, but they barely have the time or energy to enjoy it. And it doesn’t help that Raymond is still hiding David from his colleagues. 

The stress mounts so high that a vacation in paradise is filled with turmoil instead of harmony, and culminates on their return to the five boroughs with broken promises and heartache. They have to figure out how to stop allowing their differences to overshadow their love. It’s the only way they’ll make it to forever. 

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Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Release Blitz & Giveaway - Rein In (Willow Bay Stables #3) by Anne Jolin



Rein In
Willow Bay Stables #3
Author: Anne Jolin
Genre: Contemporary Romance 
Release Date: October 25, 2016


Blurb

Aurora Daniels is the bleeding heart of her family. With a gift and a passion for helping to heal others, she has a legacy of kindness and gratitude—a modern-day saint.

Every Sunday since she turned eighteen, Aurora has driven three hours into the city of Edmonton, Alberta, where she volunteers at an equine facility that rehabilitates troubled youth by working with horses. With their increasing success rate, the facility is expanding to foster violent parolees in hopes of a more effective release into society.

Assault with a deadly weapon and attempted murder—that’s what it says under the name on his sheet. Rhys White is released on good behaviour and promises to remain under contract for community service at the Equine for Hearts facility for a court-ordered period of twelve months.

Willow Bay’s saint may have stumbled across the one sinner who can’t be saved from himself.


Will Aurora be able to rein in Rhys’s quest for revenge before it’s too late? Or will she spend the rest of her life loving a man behind bars?

Flash Fiction Short & Giveaway - Taming the Beast by Erzabet Bishop


Taming the Beast
Erzabet Bishop
 

Release Date: October 1, 2016 * ISBN: 978-1-945193-56-9 
Categories:  Shifters, BBW, Paranormal * Flame: 3 * Price: $2.99

Book Description: 
Only true beauty can tame the beast... 
Allyse Montlake needs a job and quick. But what can a curvy girl with a penchant for plant magic do in the current job market? It’s just not the kind of thing that most people put on applications these days. To help her mother with medical expenses, she has to get something that pays more than her bookstore job. When she goes with her friend Cara to a job fair, she has no idea she’s just applied for a position on Extreme Bachelor—in front of the camera and not behind the scenes as she intended. When she meets the man behind the mystique, can he love her for who she is and see the beauty behind the curves? 

Soren Rochester is a werewolf and the owner of Barks, one of America’s most successful pet store chains. He also happens to be fighting a curse from one pissed off witch, and he’s running short on time to find a mate or else. When his assistant suggests a reality television show, he reluctantly agrees. Can this beast find true love amidst the glittering dresses of the contestants, or will he find her only to lose her in a field of thorns? 

Release Blitz & Giveaway - Shifters Hallows Eve

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Tricks and Treats… Chills and thrills...


Become Enchanted, Haunted, and Hunted this Halloween.


12 NYT, USA Today, and International Best Selling Authors, bring you brand-new, paranormal shifter romances that are sure to make this a Shifters Hallows Eve you’ll never forget!


Featuring:


THE TIGER'S BRIDE by: R.E. Butler
MATE HUNT by: Sydney Lea
HAUNTED BY LOVE by: Lori King
JOKER'S TRICK OR TREAT by: Audra Hart
THE HAUNTED MATE by: Bryce Evans
HUNTERS MARK by: Melissa Snark
TEARS FOR HER DRAGON by: Julia Mills
DARK LOVERS by: Elle Boon
THE WOLF'S GHOST by: Bethany Shaw
VALLEY OF THE SHADOWS by: Melissa Bell
HALLOWED DESTINY by: Candace Blevins

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Monday, October 24, 2016

Author Interview, Guest Post & Giveaway - The Billionaire Next Door (Billionaire Bad Boys #2) by Jessica Lemmon

Only a fool would give her heart to a billionaire player like Tag-
until suddenly the one man who can't be caught is the one flirting with forever . . .

THE BILLIONAIRE NEXT DOOR
Billionaire Bad Boys #2
Jessica Lemmon
Releasing Oct 25th, 2016
Forever


Can't Buy Me Love

It's Tag Crane's job to be the life of the party. Traveling from one exotic locale to another is just part of running the luxurious Crane Hotel empire. But even paradise isn't perfect. Devising a new business strategy is keeping Tag up at night-and so is the Great Dane barking at all hours in the apartment below his. To muzzle the problem, Tag charges downstairs . . . right into the most beautiful, blond distraction he's ever seen.

Dog-sitting by day, bartending by night. It's not exactly the life Rachel Foster dreamed of. But when Tag Crane rushes in, all mountain-man shoulders and obscenely sexy smile, needing her help for the Crane Hotels, it's a fantasy come true. What's the harm in a fun no-strings fling? Only a fool would give her heart to a billionaire player like Tag-until suddenly the one man who can't be caught is the one flirting with forever . . 


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Book Blast Giveaway - Coffee, Tea or Me by Rich Amooi

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Coffee, Tea or Me
by Rich Amooi

Susie opens a tea shop next to Jack’s coffee shop and the war begins.

Jack Robbins has a booming coffee business, an eighty-year old customer who can’t keep his clothes on, and a rescue Chihuahua named Chimichanga that likes to kiss on the mouth. Life is good until the new business next door takes a bite out of his sales.

Susie McKenna has the new tea shop everyone is talking about, an over-protective brother, and a stubborn, good-looking neighbor who is trying to steal her customers.

Things really start to percolate when Jack and Susie both volunteer to help plan the downtown festival. They have to work together and soon Jack won't be able to get by without his daily fix of Susie. But can a coffee lover and a tea devotee put their competition aside to get their happily ever after?

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Guest Post & Giveaway - By Design by BA Tortuga


By Design
B.A. Tortuga

Release Date: October 1, 2016
ISBN: 978-1-945193-54-5
Categories: Shifters, Gay,
Paranormal
Flame: 5
Price: $2.99

Book Description:

When the boss is away, the cats will play.

When Robin heads to North Carolina with his boss to help design and build a new conference center, he has a bunch of surprises in store for him. The building site is in the middle of nowhere, his boss is being weirder than usual, and he meets not one, but two of the hottest men he’s ever seen in his life. If he can just get his boss Terry to leave him alone with them, Robin knows Casey and Travis could rock his world.

Casey and Travis might play, but they’ve never thought of mating with a third man. Their immediate need for Robin is something they don’t question, though. What they do want to know is how Robin can possibly be unaware he’s a cat shifter. Can they help Robin find the other half of himself and convince him he’s what’s missing in their relationship at the same time?

Saturday, October 22, 2016

Book Blast w/Giveaway - Madam President: The Secret Presidency of Edith Wilson by William Hazelgrove

 
Madam PresidentMadam President: The Secret Presidency of Edith Wilson
by William Hazelgrove


After President Woodrow Wilson suffered a paralyzing stroke in the fall of 1919, his wife, First Lady Edith Wilson, began to handle the day-to-day responsibilities of the Executive Office. Mrs. Wilson had had little formal education and had only been married to President Wilson for four years; yet, in the tenuous peace following the end of World War I, Mrs. Wilson dedicated herself to managing the office of the President, reading all correspondence intended for her bedridden husband. Though her Oval Office authority was acknowledged in Washington, D.C. circles at the time--one senator called her "the Presidentress who had fulfilled the dream of suffragettes by changing her title from First Lady to Acting First Man"--her legacy as "First Woman President" is now largely forgotten.

William Hazelgrove's Madam President is a vivid, engaging portrait of the woman who became the acting President of the United States in 1919, months before women officially won the right to vote.

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Friday, October 21, 2016

Excerpt & Giveaway - To Love and To Cherish (The Wedding Belles #3) by Lauren Layne


After 8 years of waiting...he's got 1 month to make her his.


TO LOVE AND TO CHERISH
The Wedding Belles #3
Lauren Layne
Releasing Oct 18th, 2016
Pocket Books


Sex and the City meets The Wedding Planner in The Wedding Belles, a contemporary and witty romance series about three high-powered New York City women who can plan any wedding—but their own.

Alexis Morgan has spent the past six years devoted to turning her tiny start-up into Manhattan’s premiere wedding planning company, The Wedding Belles. Now that her business is thriving, it’s time to turn towards her much neglected personal life, and Alexis approaches her relationships like she does everything else: with a plan. Not a part of that plan is Logan Harris, the silent partner in the Belles, and the one person who’s been there for her since the very beginning. But Alexis needs someone fun, and Logan’s all business, all the time—except when a late night at the office ends with an unexpected kiss that leaves the usually cool and together Alexis reeling.

Logan has lusted after Alexis since the day he walked into the tiny Harlem apartment that used to double as her office. But the ambitious wedding planner has always been untouchable...until now. Alexis has made it clear that she’s on the dating market—and equally clear that he’s not in the running. But when Alexis finds herself in need of a date for her sister’s last minute wedding in Florida, Logan knows it’s the perfect time to show Alexis that there’s more to him than numbers and spreadsheets—and beneath the pinstripes and glasses lies a hot-blooded heartthrob. As Florida’s sultry days turn into even hotter nights, Logan’s out to convince Alexis that the fling of a lifetime could just maybe turn into forever...


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