#JeffeKennedyEvent: #Excerpt The Tears of the Rose (The Twelve Kingdoms #2) by @jeffekennedy #Giveaway

  Welcome to today's postings.  Here we have a sample of book two in this amazing series. 

#JeffeKennedyEvent: #BookReview: The Mark of the Tala (The Twelve Kingdoms #1) by @jeffekennedy #Giveaway

  I really hope you enjoyed today's posts.  Here is my review of The Mark of the Tala! I hope you enjoy it. 

#JeffeKennedyEvent: #Excerpt The Mark of the Tala (The Twelve Kingdoms #1) #Giveaway @jeffekennedy

Welcome to today's post! Today we have an expert of the first full novel in the Twelfth Kingdom series. We hope you enjoy it! 

#BookReview: Never Too Late by @CarmenSense #Giveaway

   
Heartfelt, sexy, and always savvy, author Carmen Rita's new novel follows four wildly successful best friends as they tackle unforeseen challenges, struggle to keep it together--and learn how to let go... They've had each other's backs through major changes--and maximum bad news. But now Cat, Magda, Gabi, and Luz find unexpected drama from their pasts threatening their bond, along with everything they've fought to build. 
Always upfront and out-there in her career, Cat won big with her solo online interview show. However, risking romantic commitment will mean confronting her deepest fears--and a stunning secret. 
Hotshot investor Magda finally has a stable, happy life. But with her worst mistake about to go viral, how far will she push a friend--and break the rules--to stop it? 
It took a lot of self-help for sensitive therapist Gabi to start over. A sizzling new love now offers some straight-up delicious healing--but honesty can be one dangerous illusion... 
Wealthy socialite Luz will do whatever it takes to care for her newfound teenage half-sister. But a life-changing choice is putting more than their still-fragile relationship on the line... 
Now what these close friends don't know about each other will test everything they believe about themselves. And finding the courage to understand and the strength to forgive will be their only chance to come to terms, move on--and live for real. 

The Right Wife by Beverly Barton #BookReview

  In a sweeping and vibrant novel set in the post-war South, New York Times bestselling author Beverly Barton follows one young woman's journey to love and independence...

1885. All of Margaret Campbell's hopes for the future lie in Tuscumbia, Alabama. Since the death of her sharecropper father, eighteen-year-old Maggie has no resources and few allies, aside from the relatives who've agreed to take her in. With luck, she might yet make an upright gentleman of her brother, and a real lady of her rebellious little sister. And perhaps, once her siblings are settled, she'll find a decent, hardworking man to marry. But those plans are jeopardized the moment she meets Aaron Stone.

Effortlessly charming, Aaron is building an empire in the South. Maggie knows he wants the right kind of wife to overcome the shadows surrounding his birth—someone like the well-connected widow he's been courting. Someone a million miles from a penniless, outspoken sharecropper's daughter. But neither jealousy, family secrets, nor long-held prejudices will keep Maggie from following her heart.

Bright Blaze of Magic (Black Blade #3) by Jennifer Estep #Review #thanks @Netgalley

Add it to Goodreads Bad Things Always Come In Threes…

As a thief, I'm good at three things: hiding in the shadows, getting in and out unseen, and uncovering secrets. I put these skills to work for the Sinclair Family, one of the magical mobs that run the tourist town of Cloudburst Falls. 

Everyone knows Victor Draconi wants to take over all the other Families--and kill every last Sinclair. What they don't know is that I'm on to him, and no way will I let the man who murdered my mom get away with hurting all the other people I care about. Especially when I've got places to break into, stuff to steal, and Devon Sinclair fighting right by my side… 

#Review of Lions in the Garden by Chelsea Luna via @NetGalley

Published By: Kensington Publishing Corporation Release Date: March 1st 2016 Genres: Young Adult, Historical Fiction Pages: 236 Source: Netgalley Add it to Goodreads Ludmila Novakova--Mila--has barely set foot outside Prague Castle in her seventeen years. But with the choice between braving the bandits and wolves of Bohemia's uneasy roads or being married off to a disgusting old baron, she's taken what she can carry and fled. 

Escape won't be easy. Even Mila has heard the rumors of a rebellion coming against the court. The peasants are hungry. The king hasn't been seen in months. Mila's father, the High Chancellor, is well known and well hated. 

But Mila can't sit behind a stone wall and let fear force her into a life of silk gowns and certain misery. Her mother's death has taught her that much. She has one ally: Marc, the son of the blacksmith. A commoner, a Protestant--and perhaps a traitor, too. But the farther she gets from the castle, the more lies she uncovers, unraveling everything she thought she knew. And the harder it is to tell friend from enemy--and wrong from right . . .

#Review of In Place of Never by @JulieALindsey via @NetGalley

Published By: Lyrical Press, Inc Release Date: February 2nd 2016 Genres:  Young Adult Pages: 269 Source: Netgalley Add it to Goodreads A part of Mercy died the summer her sister tragically drowned. Now Mercy has a chance to discover if Faith’s death was an accident—or murder.  Her first step is to confront the lead suspects: a band of traveling gypsies—the last people who saw her sister alive. But Mercy finds an unexpected ally in Cross, the soulful musician in their ranks. He’s a kindred spirit, someone who sees into her heart for the first time in, well, forever. Yet stirring up the past puts Mercy in danger… 
 
Suddenly someone is shadowing Mercy’s every move, making her even more determined to uncover the facts. With Cross by her side, she is ready to face it all, even if that means opening up to him, knowing he may one day leave her. What she discovers is a truth that rocks the foundation of her small river town—and a love worth risking everything for….

#Review of Lost Princess (Kingdom of Cymmera #2) by Dani-Lyn Alexander

Ryleigh Donnovan’s life changed forever the day she met Jackson Maynard, a Death Dealer, and followed him home to the kingdom of Cymmera. Now she is trying to care for her sister while saving a realm she knows nothing about…
Jackson has reluctantly accepted the throne of Cymmera, in place of his father. But his world is in turmoil, the kingdom under constant threat of attack. Worse still, Jackson suspects there is a traitor among his court. A powerful prophet has suggested a way to protect the realm, but that solution may drive Jackson and Ryleigh apart forever…

When a magic relic goes missing, Ryleigh has no choice but to journey in search of it. When Jackson discovers Ryleigh is missing, he must make a choice that will either claim their destiny, or bring an end to the only home he’s ever known. 

5 Star #Review of A Second Bite at the Apple by @danabate

Sydney Strauss is obsessed with food. Not with eating it--though she does that too--but with writing about the wonders of the gastronomic world, from obscure fruit hybrids to organic farming techniques. Since food journalism jobs are more coveted than Cronuts®, Sydney pays her bills working for one of TV's biggest egomaniacs--until she's left scrambling for shifts at a local farmers' market. 
Stacking muffins for the Wild Yeast Bakery isn't going to win her any James Beard awards. But soon Sydney is writing the market's weekly newsletter, and her quirky stories gain attention from a prominent food columnist. After years of putting her love life into deep freeze, she's even dating again. And then Sydney gets a shot at the story, one that could either make her career or burn it to a crisp--along with her relationship and her reputation... 

#Review of Pushed (Sense Thieves, #2) by @Cory_Jackson

She didn’t know how far she’d go—until she was pushed.
Remy O’Malley was just learning to harness her uncanny healing power when she discovered the other,darker half of her bloodline. Now she lives trapped between two worlds, uneasy among her fellow
Healers—and relentlessly hunted by the Protectors.

Forced to conceal her dual identity, and the presence of her Protector boyfriend Asher Blackwell, Remy encounters a shadow community of Healers who will put her loyalties to the test.

Pushed to the limit, with the lives of those she loves most on the line, Remy must decide whether to choose sides in a centuries-old war—or make the ultimate sacrifice and go to a place from which she may never return… 

 About the Author

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Corrine Jackson lives in San Francisco, where she works at a top marketing agency managing marketing campaigns for several Fortune 500 clients. She has bachelor and master degrees in English, and is working on an MFA at Spalding University. She is a member of the Apocalypsies, the Bookanistas, and YA Rebels. Visit her at www.corrinejackson.com or on Twitter at @Cory_Jackson.

OMG this one was so good!  I really wish I would have had book one.  But I will deff. be grabbing it now!  And although I was a little lost to start.  I was quickly caught up with the story so far.  Remy was a great character!  She is well rounded and her and Asher make a great couple. The story was fast paced and I've heard from friends that this book was better than book one.  And well from what I've read I could understand why.  Some books just have that story that makes you want to keep reading and well this one was it!  I can't say to much about the story because its all spoiler but I will say that you so need to read this like now!   I can't wait to read book one and book three!  

 Go Into This One Knowing 

Fast paced and heard this is better than book one! 

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#Review & #Giveaway of The Tears of the Rose (The Twelve Kingdoms #2) by @jeffekennedy

Three sisters. Motherless daughters of the high king. The eldest is the warrior-woman heir; the middle child is shy and full of witchy intuition; and the youngest, Princess Amelia, she is as beautiful as the sun and just as generous.
Ami met her Prince Charming and went away to his castle on the stormy sea-cliffs—and that should have been her happily ever after. Instead, her husband lies dead and a war rages. Her middle sister has been taken into a demon land, turned into a stranger. The priests and her father are revealing secrets and telling lies. And a power is rising in Ami, too, a power she hardly recognizes, to wield her beauty as a weapon, and her charm as a tool to deceive…

Amelia has never had to be anything but good and sweet and kind and lovely. But the chess game for the Twelve Kingdoms has swept her up in it, and she must make a gambit of her own. Can the prettiest princess become a pawn—or a queen?