Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Return to Poughkeepsie by Debra Anastasia ~ Blog Tour and Giveaway

 
 



Summary:

Beckett Taylor is a murderer. His calling, his craft are destruction and intimidation—whether he wants it that way now or not. He left Poughkeepsie to keep his brothers safe, to keep Eve safe. Set up with happy lives to live, they’re better off without him, right?

But all his willpower crumbles when he hears his brother Blake’s frantic voice on the phone. An unknown enemy has moved in on his old territory, and Livia’s been taken. In an instant, Beckett knows it will take an attack only he and Eve can execute to bring her back. All his self-imposed embargoes are torn to shreds, perhaps along with the new man he’s struggled to become.

“Brother, call Eve. I’ll be there soon.”

In this emotional and action-packed sequel to Poughkeepsie, Debra Anastasia conjures a tale of love at its most raw and ragged. With Beckett and Eve, how could we expect anything less? But even when it’s messy, not magical, true love perseveres. Real love finds a way—for better or for worse until death does part.

Review

Okay, I'm a flunky.....I'm about 50% done with Return to Poughkeepsie, I had a sick little one and with the Holidays thrown in there not a ton of extra time to read.  What I can tell you is I am hooked! I am loving it so far! Debra Anastasia is an amazing storyteller and I love how we get to see what is happening in the lives of all three brothers.

*Full review to come 


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Bio:


Debra Anastasia is busy, just like every other mom. There's dinner, the dogs, the two kids, the two kids, and her ongoing battle with...ahem... digestive issues, which combined with her adolescent boy sense of humor makes for colorful and sometimes cringe-worthy social media updates. Her first love and crowning achievement is her thriving career as the weirdest mom on the block.
Her writing started a decent handful of years ago when--along with the animals and humans in her house--the voices of characters started whispering stories in Debra's ear. Insomnia was the gateway to plots that wouldn't give up, wouldn't let go. Now they stalk her everywhere. Halfway through making lunches, a twist takes hold and--fingers full of peanut butter--she finds somewhere, anywhere to write it down.


She's eternally grateful to Omnific Publishing, which has now published four of her books: two in the Seraphim Series and two in the Poughkeepsie Brotherhood Series, as well as her novella, Late Night with Andres. That one is special because 100% of the proceeds go to breast cancer research. (So go get it right now, please!) She also very much appreciates her open-minded readers, who embrace everything she has to offer, with a focus on anti-heroes and bathroom humor.Debra lives in Maryland with her family. You can find her at DebraAnastasia.com and on Twitter @Debra_Anastasia. But be prepared.


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Monday, December 30, 2013

Your Exception by Bria Starr ~ Blog Tour and Giveaway

For more fun & giveaways, come join our Facebook Release Party & Blog Tour Event ~ Friday, December 20th – CLICK HERE

Happy Release Day to Bria Starr on her debut novel “Your Exception". Make sure to enter the GIVEAWAY below!

Author: Bria Starr
Book Title: Your Exception
Genre: New Adult/Romance
Blog Tour Manager: Brandee’s Book Endings
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Logan Kalford was Wren Summers’ dream come true.
All I’d ever wanted was to fall in love and be loved in return.
Logan stole my heart when I least expected it. He was sexy, adventurous, and the way he played guitar left me weak in the knees. He made me happy. He made me think I’d found the one. And he made me believe in happy endings.
I knew he was my forever. I thought he knew it too.
I was wrong.
He destroyed everything I thought we had and shattered my dreams of us. He left me heartbroken. He made me doubt myself.
And he didn’t even seem to care…
Now I must let go. But how can I when he still consumes me?
How do you walk away from what you know was real?
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About the Author:

Bria Starr grew up in a small town in Minnesota and continues to live there with her husband and beautiful baby girl. She’s a stay at home mom who is very close with her family, loves junk food, and is always cold. Her favorite things include reading books, writing, listening to music, and watching too many movies.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Bria-Starr-Author/180078098828468
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Congrats to Bria Starr on releasing her debut novel “Your Exception". Make sure to enter the GIVEAWAY below!

Author: Bria Starr
Book Title: Your Exception
Genre: New Adult/Romance
Blog Tour Manager: Brandee’s Book Endings
__________________________________________________________________________

Logan Kalford was Wren Summers’ dream come true.
All I’d ever wanted was to fall in love and be loved in return.
Logan stole my heart when I least expected it. He was sexy, adventurous, and the way he played guitar left me weak in the knees. He made me happy. He made me think I’d found the one. And he made me believe in happy endings.
I knew he was my forever. I thought he knew it too.
I was wrong.
He destroyed everything I thought we had and shattered my dreams of us. He left me heartbroken. He made me doubt myself.
And he didn’t even seem to care…
Now I must let go. But how can I when he still consumes me?
How do you walk away from what you know was real?
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About the Author:

Bria Starr grew up in a small town in Minnesota and continues to live there with her husband and beautiful baby girl. She’s a stay at home mom who is very close with her family, loves junk food, and is always cold. Her favorite things include reading books, writing, listening to music, and watching too many movies.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Bria-Starr-Author/180078098828468
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Friday, December 27, 2013

Conflicted Love by Lola Stark ~ Release Day Blitz and Giveaway








Conflicted Love
Book #2 Needle's Kiss Series

Synopsis

(Conflicted Love is book #2 in the Needle's Kiss series and should be read AFTER Tattered Love to fully grasp the story.)

Trip’s life motto is simple: get in, get off, get out. His lifestyle works for him, that is until he finds himself in an unexpected situation with the one girl he can't seem to get out of his mind.

Teeny has been strong for too long. One amazing crazy night, with her best friend's cocky colleague, leaves her with more than just unwanted feelings and cravings she just can’t seem to quench.

She's knocked up.

He's freaked out. 

Life is about to get crazy for two people who can't stand to be close, yet can't seem to pull apart. Tension and confusion turn into mood swings and midnight snacks. How can things ever go back to simple times when every direction leads to chaos?




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Excerpt

I threw my leg over my bike and started for her. The streetlight out front was busted, causing the place to be darker than normal. There was just enough light that as I walked behind her, I could see her sexy little ass encased in those prissy jeans she always wore. I caught up to her at the bottom of the stairs and reached out to grab her arm before she made it any further. Next thing I knew, Teen spun, her fist flying right into my nose; at the same time, she drove her knee up into my groin, dropping me like a sack of shit to the ground.

“F*ckkkkkkkk” I moaned, cupping my junk, rolling up onto my knees, and trying to get my breath back. Pain shot up into my stomach with each attempt.

“Oh, it’s just you.” Teeny breathed hard. I looked up at her through narrowed eyes.

“Oh, it’s just…F*ck, Princess. What the hell’d you do that for?” I wheezed.

“Well, you deserved it. You don’t sneak up behind a chick and expect not to get hit. Now, get up, dipshit. You’re making a scene,” she hissed, looking around the complex.





Needle's Kiss Series
by Lola Stark


Book #1 
Tattered Love


Synopsis

When ex-Special Ops bad-ass Mace walks into Needle's Kiss tattoo parlour, he never expected to find the girl who would turn his life upside down.

Hard as nails Scarlett has been unlucky in love: she’s been burnt, chewed up and spat out. Reluctant to have another relationship, can she keep her wits about her when hot-as-sin Mace walks into her tattoo parlor? Or will he break her down and leave his mark within her ink?

What starts out as a little fun, turns into something so much more.

Can Scarlett look beyond Mace's devastating past or will his demons come back to haunt them both?

Content warning: contains steamy, anywhere-goes sex, an alcohol induced embarrassing night out and two headstrong lovers taken on a whirlwind of crazy.





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About the Author


Lola Stark lives in Australia. Is an at home mummy with no filter raising a hoard of minions and a husband who sometimes appears not to have grown up. Lola has loved to read for as long as she can remember. When not wrangling the family she can be found sitting at her computer , writing, facebooking or just generally messing around.


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Thursday, December 26, 2013

Always You by Missy Johnson ~ Release Day Blitz and Giveaway


 
 
I was thrilled when I was offered a graduate teaching position at the prestigious Tennerson Girls Academy. At twenty-three, this would be my first ‘real’ teaching assignment. Working at the elite boarding school, home to the daughters of some of the wealthiest people in the world, was a great opportunity that I would’ve been stupid to pass up.

One week into my new job, and I suddenly had no idea why I chose high school…I was a seventeen year old boy once, I knew how teenage girls behaved.

You can’t even imagine the hell of trying to teach thirty, hormonal driven seventeen year olds who have been cooped up, away from any male contact.

I could handle the whispers every time I entered the room. I could even handle the obvious attempts at gaining my attention. What I couldn’t handle was her…

Rich bitches and way too many rules. Was it any wonder that I hated school?

Add to that the lack of male contact, and I was going insane. Like literally. I wasn’t used to this. A year ago I was normal. I had a boyfriend, friends and a loving family. There is nothing normal about me anymore, and nobody here lets me forget that.

My name is Wrenn, and I’m only here because my aunt took me in after what happened, but my aunt also happens to be the headmistress of this academy…Can you see my problem?

I’m hated for my lack of money, and I’m hated for who my Aunt is.

Then he arrived. Dalton Reed. My new history teacher.

Slowly, he helped me see that even in the worst situations, there is always hope.
 
 



I enjoyed this story, I quickly became invested in Dalton and Wrenn's relationship and cheering for them along the way. But, I have to be honest, I did not like the ending and I didn't get enough closure on the story. That being said, it was still a 4 star read for me, but with just a little more, it could have been a 5 star.
 
“Live each day like there is no tomorrow, but don’t forget to live each day like there was no yesterday either. Live in the present, for it is a gift from God. That’s why it is called the present.” ~ Emily Austen

In this Always You, we meet Wrenn and Dalton.  Wrenn has lost her family to a horrific accident a year earlier.  Wrenn moves in with her aunt, the headmistress at a prestigious prep school. Wrenn is just trying to survive until she graduates...she's smart, mature, beautiful and has a promising future ahead of her.  She has one friend at school and the rest of the girls are not very nice to her.  They don't even know her story, they just judge her because her aunt is the headmistress. 

When Wrenn meets Dalton Reid, her new substitute teacher there is an instant connection between the two of them. The chemistry is smoldering, and it's not long before they can't deny or resist their feelings.  Unfortunately, they have more to overcome than just the student/teacher relationship.  Will Wrenn and Dalton get their HEA?
 
“Whether you realized it or not, since that first time we met all those years ago you’ve inspired me to be more than I thought I ever could be. It was Always You…”

Always You was a beautiful, emotional, heartbreaking love story about taking a chance on true love....even if you know that time may be limited.  I do have mixed feelings about the storyline, but it is definitely worth reading.
 
*Reviewed by Brandi



 
Missy lives in a small town in Central Victoria with her husband, and her confused pets (a dog who think she's a cat, a cat who thinks he's a dog...you get the picture).

When she's not writing, she can usually be found looking for something to read.

 

 
 
 
 

 
 



Monday, December 23, 2013

Quintessentially Q by Pepper Winters ~ Blog Tour and Giveaway









Title: Quintessentially Q

Series: Monsters in the Dark, Book #2

Author: Pepper Winters

Genre: Erotic/Dark Contemporary Romance

Release Date: December 15, 2013

Hosted by: CBL Book Tours

 
Purchase Links:

Amazon: http://amzn.com/B00HBF3FPO

Amazon UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00HBF3FPO

B&N:

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/quintessentially-q-pepper-winters/1117678552

Smashwords: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/388134

Createspace: https://www.createspace.com/4422810

GoodReads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18398089-quintessentially-q




SYNOPSIS:

“All my life, I battled with the knowledge I was twisted… fucked up to want

something so deliciously dark—wrong on so many levels. But then slave fifty-eight

entered my world. Hissing, fighting, with a core of iron, she showed me an existence

where two wrongs make a right."

Tess is Q’s completely. Q is Tess’s irrevocably. But now, they must learn the

boundaries of their unconventional relationship, while Tess seeks vengeance on the

men who sold her. Q made a blood-oath to deliver their corpses at Tess’s feet, and

that’s just what he’ll do.

He may be a monster, but he’s Tess’s monster.



Review

OH MY GOD! I'm speechless, really....I asked for dark...I got dark! I asked to be shocked....boy, was I not only shocked...I found myself cringing at times! I also have to mention the covers of this series....cover love!!!! This series is deliciously intense, erotic, twisted, dark, passionate, and tragic.....a perfect escape from real life! 5 stars.

"You’re my obsession, I’m your possession. You own the deepest part of me."

QQ picks right back up where Tears of Tess left off.  Tess is back with Quicy and they are trying to give a real relationship together a chance. Things are awkward at first, Q is trying to keep his dark tendencies locked down and Tess wants them unleashed.  Within days of their reunion their world is turned upside down, leaving Tess broken and Q unable to fix her. Q is savage, he will stop at nothing to bring the woman he loves back from the brink of destruction, but is it already too late?

“You’ll never be free of me. I’ll never be free of you. It’s fate who decides, and fate gave us each other.”


Looking for a book to make you feel every emotion, shock you, entertain you, and leave you thinking gahhhhh...what the freak did I just read? This is the series for you! This series is right at the top of my favorite dark/gritty reads.


*Reviewed by Brandi


AUTHOR BIO:

Pepper Winters wears many roles. Some of them include writer, reader, sometimes

wife. She loves dark, taboo stories that twist with your head. The more tortured the

hero the better and she constantly thinks up ways to break and fix her characters.

Oh, and sex… her books have sex.

She loves to travel and has an amazing, fabulous hubby (who speaks French—hot!)

who puts up with her love affair with her book boyfriends. She loves to hear from

her readers so hit her up at pepperwinters@gmail.com


AUTHOR CONTACT INFO

Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/pepperwinters/boards/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Pepper-Winters/539976006062848

Twitter: https://twitter.com/PepperWinters

Blog: http://pepperwinters.wordpress.com/Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7151973.Pepper_Winters 



Title: Tears of Tess

Series: Monsters in the Dark, Book #1

Author: Pepper Winters

Genre: Erotic/Dark Contemporary Romance

Release Date: November 18, 2013


Purchase Links:

Amazon: http://amzn.com/B00EV9LSJI

Amazon UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00EV9LSJI

B&N: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/tears-of-tess-pepper-winters/1116793584

iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/tears-of-tess/id695859976?mt=11

Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/352510

Createspace: https://www.createspace.com/4393891
GoodReads: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18134894-tears-of-tess






TEARS OF TESS SYNOPSIS:

A New Adult Dark Contemporary Romance, not suitable for people sensitive to grief,

slavery, and nonconsensual sex. A story about finding love in the strangest of

places, a will of iron that grows from necessity, and forgiveness that may not be

enough.

“My life was complete. Happy, content, everything neat and perfect.

Then it all changed.

I was sold.”

Tess Snow has everything she ever wanted: one more semester before a career in

property development, a loving boyfriend, and a future dazzling bright with

possibility.

For their two year anniversary, Brax surprises Tess with a romantic trip to Mexico.

Sandy beaches, delicious cocktails, and soul-connecting sex set the mood for a

wonderful holiday. With a full heart, and looking forward to a passion filled week,

Tess is on top of the world.

But lusty paradise is shattered.

Kidnapped. Drugged. Stolen. Tess is forced into a world full of darkness and terror.

Captive and alone with no savior, no lover, no faith, no future, Tess evolves from

terrified girl to fierce fighter. But no matter her strength, it can’t save her from the

horror of being sold.

Can Brax find Tess before she’s broken and ruined, or will Tess’s new owner change

her life forever?Title: Twisted Together


Series: Monsters in the Dark, Book #3

Author: Pepper Winters

Genre: Erotic/Dark Contemporary Romance

Release Date: Early 2014

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19015729-twisted-together


Twisted Together Synopsis:

“After battling through hell, I brought my esclave back from the brink of ruin. I

sacrificed everything—my heart, my mind, my very desires to bring her back to life.

And for a while, I thought it broke me, that I’d never be the same. But slowly the

beast is growing bolder, and it’s finally time to show Tess how beautiful the dark can

be.”

Q gave everything to bring Tess back. In return, he expects nothing less. Tess may

have leashed and tamed him, but he’s still a monster inside

 
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Sunday, December 22, 2013

Quintessentially Q by Pepper Winters ~ Blog Tour and Giveaway





Follow the Tour here: http://bit.ly/1cVkiiP


Title: Quintessentially Q

Series: Monsters in the Dark, Book #2

Author: Pepper Winters

Genre: Erotic/Dark Contemporary Romance

Release Date: December 15, 2013

Tour Organized by: As the Pages Turn


Purchase Links:

Amazon: http://amzn.com/B00HBF3FPO

Amazon UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00HBF3FPO

B&N:

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/quintessentially-q-pepper-winters/1117678552

Smashwords: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/388134

Createspace: https://www.createspace.com/4422810

GoodReads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18398089-quintessentially-q




SYNOPSIS:

“All my life, I battled with the knowledge I was twisted… fucked up to want

something so deliciously dark—wrong on so many levels. But then slave fifty-eight

entered my world. Hissing, fighting, with a core of iron, she showed me an existence

where two wrongs make a right."

Tess is Q’s completely. Q is Tess’s irrevocably. But now, they must learn the

boundaries of their unconventional relationship, while Tess seeks vengeance on the

men who sold her. Q made a blood-oath to deliver their corpses at Tess’s feet, and

that’s just what he’ll do.

He may be a monster, but he’s Tess’s monster.



Review

OH MY GOD! I'm speechless, really....I asked for dark...I got dark! I asked to be shocked....boy, was I not only shocked...I found myself cringing at times! I also have to mention the covers of this series....cover love!!!! This series is deliciously intense, erotic, twisted, dark, passionate, and tragic.....a perfect escape from real life! 5 stars.

"You’re my obsession, I’m your possession. You own the deepest part of me."

QQ picks right back up where Tears of Tess left off.  Tess is back with Quicy and they are trying to give a real relationship together a chance. Things are awkward at first, Q is trying to keep his dark tendencies locked down and Tess wants them unleashed.  Within days of their reunion their world is turned upside down, leaving Tess broken and Q unable to fix her. Q is savage, he will stop at nothing to bring the woman he loves back from the brink of destruction, but is it already too late?

“You’ll never be free of me. I’ll never be free of you. It’s fate who decides, and fate gave us each other.”


Looking for a book to make you feel every emotion, shock you, entertain you, and leave you thinking gahhhhh...what the freak did I just read? This is the series for you! This series is right at the top of my favorite dark/gritty reads.


*Reviewed by Brandi


AUTHOR BIO:

Pepper Winters wears many roles. Some of them include writer, reader, sometimes

wife. She loves dark, taboo stories that twist with your head. The more tortured the

hero the better and she constantly thinks up ways to break and fix her characters.

Oh, and sex… her books have sex.

She loves to travel and has an amazing, fabulous hubby (who speaks French—hot!)

who puts up with her love affair with her book boyfriends. She loves to hear from

her readers so hit her up at pepperwinters@gmail.com


AUTHOR CONTACT INFO

Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/pepperwinters/boards/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Pepper-Winters/539976006062848

Twitter: https://twitter.com/PepperWinters

Blog: http://pepperwinters.wordpress.com/Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7151973.Pepper_Winters 



Title: Tears of Tess

Series: Monsters in the Dark, Book #1

Author: Pepper Winters

Genre: Erotic/Dark Contemporary Romance

Release Date: November 18, 2013


Purchase Links:

Amazon: http://amzn.com/B00EV9LSJI

Amazon UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00EV9LSJI

B&N: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/tears-of-tess-pepper-winters/1116793584

iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/tears-of-tess/id695859976?mt=11

Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/352510

Createspace: https://www.createspace.com/4393891
GoodReads: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18134894-tears-of-tess






TEARS OF TESS SYNOPSIS:

A New Adult Dark Contemporary Romance, not suitable for people sensitive to grief,

slavery, and nonconsensual sex. A story about finding love in the strangest of

places, a will of iron that grows from necessity, and forgiveness that may not be

enough.

“My life was complete. Happy, content, everything neat and perfect.

Then it all changed.

I was sold.”

Tess Snow has everything she ever wanted: one more semester before a career in

property development, a loving boyfriend, and a future dazzling bright with

possibility.

For their two year anniversary, Brax surprises Tess with a romantic trip to Mexico.

Sandy beaches, delicious cocktails, and soul-connecting sex set the mood for a

wonderful holiday. With a full heart, and looking forward to a passion filled week,

Tess is on top of the world.

But lusty paradise is shattered.

Kidnapped. Drugged. Stolen. Tess is forced into a world full of darkness and terror.

Captive and alone with no savior, no lover, no faith, no future, Tess evolves from

terrified girl to fierce fighter. But no matter her strength, it can’t save her from the

horror of being sold.

Can Brax find Tess before she’s broken and ruined, or will Tess’s new owner change

her life forever?Title: Twisted Together


Series: Monsters in the Dark, Book #3

Author: Pepper Winters

Genre: Erotic/Dark Contemporary Romance

Release Date: Early 2014

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19015729-twisted-together


Twisted Together Synopsis:

“After battling through hell, I brought my esclave back from the brink of ruin. I

sacrificed everything—my heart, my mind, my very desires to bring her back to life.

And for a while, I thought it broke me, that I’d never be the same. But slowly the

beast is growing bolder, and it’s finally time to show Tess how beautiful the dark can

be.”

Q gave everything to bring Tess back. In return, he expects nothing less. Tess may

have leashed and tamed him, but he’s still a monster inside
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Friday, December 20, 2013

The Redhead Plays Her Hand by Alice Clayton ~ Blog Tour






Summary:


The third sexy novel in USA TODAY bestselling author Alice Clayton’s playful and erotic Redhead series continues the sizzling romance between actress Grace Sheridan and Hollywood’s hottest leading man Jack Hamilton.

Grace has landed the lead in a new TV series—but when the director asks her to lose fifteen pounds, she goes public with her weight struggles and suddenly develops a huge fan club who support her right to have curves. But between that and the public’s continuing fascination with her “are they or aren’t they” relationship with Jack, Grace begins to wonder if anyone’s really interested in her because of her upcoming TV series, or if it’s all speculation about the size of her ass and her bedroom partner.

Meanwhile, Jack is voted the Sexiest Man Alive and becomes a little too enamored with the party-hard lifestyle. Grace vows to give him the space he needs to find himself, but then he begins to spiral down from lovable Brit to Hollywood brat. People are talking, but are Jack and Grace? Her career is on the rise, and his continues into the stratosphere, but will she be able to catch him if he falls? Will they ever be able to just be a couple who can hold hands when they walk down the street?


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