#ReleaseBlitz for For Her Benefit by @NanaMalone and @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: For Her Benefit

Series: See No Evil Trilogy #3
Author: Nana Malone

Genre: Romantic Suspense

Release Date: August 18, 2020

Blurb

Tonight, I risk it all.
My fortune.
My freedom.
My love.

My so-called brothers in oath have betrayed me. Perhaps they forgot how many of their secrets I’ve been keeping.

Tonight, vengeance is mine.

But when it comes to heisting a priceless diamond there is no simple plan. There will be blood. After all, there is no such thing as a bloodless coup.

I’m not the only one risking it all. At the center of it all is the woman I never saw coming. The woman who owns my heart.

What a tangled web I’ve woven, trying to find honor amongst these thieves.

The good news is, I know who to trust.
The even better news…I know who to burn.

#BookTour: Best-Case Scenario by @DirkSayers @RABTBookTours #Giveaway

Best-Case Scenario, Act I of Nyra’s Journey

New Adult

Date Published: Nov 2018

Publisher: PhoenixPhyre

More than a year after graduating from college, Nyra is beginning to wonder when her life, professional and personal, gets started. Was it like this for her mother? She doubts it, but things were different, then. Nyra's reality is nothing like her mother's. Each generation confronts its own challenges.

Still, she's tired of feeling like she's wading through waist-deep wet cement. Buried somewhere deep in a future she can sense but not feel, Nyra can hear the siren's song of hope and hypothetical options whispering to her. She's so ready! But is the song she hears hope or just an illusion?

Best Case Scenario is the first act in Nyra Westensee's journey from student to self-aware, fully actualized woman.

#BookBlitz: Eating the Forbidden Fruit by @reppin_bpent @RABTBookTours @BookBuzznet #Giveaway

Crime Fiction / Family Drama / Women's Fiction

Date Published: March 30, 2020

Publisher: Pearl Publishing

 

Eating the Forbidden Fruit is a gritty fiction novel loosely based on true events in author Roland Sato Page life. The newcomer author delivers a personal journey into his rise and demise as a St. Louis City Police Officer. He takes the readers on a roller coaster ride of good old family memories to the nightmarish reality of being a police officer indicted on federal drug charges. During his trial, he wrote memoirs as a testimonial of redemption. Roland's case stems from the conflict of his childhood affiliation and his oath to uphold the law. What is certain one can't run from sin for karma is much faster. The author actually wrote the novel years ago however after battling Lupus he lost his motivation to complete it. Promising his mother, Fumi Karasawa, who recently passed that he would finish what he started. Roland opened his computer to complete telling his story. He also would like to encourage others with determination they too can reestablish position as a productive citizen.

 

Roland was a popular tattoo artist in the St. Louis area however once diagnosed with Lupus he lost his hand and eye coordination bringing the body art career to a halt. No other choice he had to reinvent himself transforming visual art into literary art. Writing is quite therapeutic for the newly ordained writer. The silver lining is his family support kept him going. "With tragedy comes blessings".

#BookBlitz: Shameless by @SybilBartel @XpressoTours #Giveaway $50 Amazon gift card

Shameless
Sybil Bartel
(Alpha Bodyguard #8)
Publication date: July 17th 2020
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance
Bodyguard.
Shadow.
Warrior.
The Marines trained me to be a weapon. Tactical warfare was in my blood. I didn’t think twice when I was deployed for the fifth time because I was born battle ready. Then a mission went south and left me with a medical discharge.
Too many years downrange, I didn’t fit in the civilian world. Taking a job with the best security firm in the business seemed like a solid plan…until I was assigned babysitting duty for a spoiled little rich girl. The only thing worse than the assignment was the client’s smart mouth. She thought she could run it—all over me—and not suffer the consequences. She was wrong.
Now she was about to find out how shameless a bodyguard could be.

#BookReview: Containment (Sanctuary #2) by @Missrithenay

Synopsis: They may have escaped Sanctuary, but Kenzie and her friends are far from safe.

Ex-Omnistellar prison guard Kenzie and her superpowered friends barely made it off Sanctuary alive. Now they’re stuck in a stolen alien ship with nowhere to go and no one to help them. Kenzie is desperate for a plan, but she doesn’t know who to trust anymore. Everyone has their own dark secrets: Omnistellar, her parents, even Cage. Worse still, she’s haunted by memories of the aliens who nearly tore her to shreds—and forced her to accidentally kill one of the Sanctuary prisoners, Matt.

When Kenzie intercepts a radio communication suggesting that more aliens are on their way, she knows there’s only one choice: They must turn themselves in to Omnistellar and destroy the ship before the aliens follow the signal straight to them. Because if the monstrous creatures who attacked Sanctuary reach Earth, then it’s game over for humanity.

What Kenzie doesn’t know is that the aliens aren’t the only ones on the hunt. Omnistellar has put a bounty on Kenzie’s head—and the question is whether the aliens or Omnistellar get to her first.

#BookReview: Sanctuary (Sanctuary, #1) by @Missrithenay

Synopsis: Kenzie holds one truth above all: the company is everything.

As a citizen of Omnistellar Concepts, the most powerful corporation in the solar system, Kenzie has trained her entire life for one goal: to become an elite guard on Sanctuary, Omnistellar’s space prison for superpowered teens too dangerous for Earth. As a junior guard, she’s excited to prove herself to her company—and that means sacrificing anything that won’t propel her forward.

But then a routine drill goes sideways and Kenzie is taken hostage by rioting prisoners.

At first, she’s confident her commanding officer—who also happens to be her mother—will stop at nothing to secure her freedom. Yet it soon becomes clear that her mother is more concerned with sticking to Omnistellar protocol than she is with getting Kenzie out safely.

As Kenzie forms her own plan to escape, she doesn’t realize there’s a more sinister threat looming, something ancient and evil that has clawed its way into Sanctuary from the vacuum of space. And Kenzie might have to team up with her captors to survive—all while beginning to suspect there’s a darker side to the Omnistellar she knows. 

#BookReview: Vanessa Yu's Magical Paris Tea Shop by @rosellewriter

Synopsis: Become enamored with the splendor of Paris in this heartwarming and delightful story about writing one’s own destiny and finding love along the way.

Vanessa Yu never wanted to see people’s fortunes—or misfortunes—in tea leaves.

Ever since she can remember, Vanessa Yu has been able to see people’s fortunes at the bottom of their teacups. To avoid blurting out their fortunes, she converts to coffee, but somehow fortunes escape and find a way to complicate her life and the ones of those around her. To add to this plight, her romance life is so nonexistent that her parents enlist the services of a matchmaking expert from Shanghai.

The day before her matchmaking appointment, Vanessa accidentally sees her own fate: death by traffic accident. She decides that she can’t truly live until she can find a way to get rid of her uncanny abilities. When her eccentric aunt, Evelyn, shows up with a tempting offer to whisk her away, Vanessa says au revoir to America and bonjour to Paris. While working at Evelyn’s tea stall at a Parisian antique market, Vanessa performs some matchmaking of her own, attempting to help reconnect her aunt with a lost love. As she learns more about herself and the root of her gifts, she realizes one thing to be true: knowing one’s destiny isn’t a curse, but being unable to change it is.

#ReleaseBlitz for Tackling Love by @kkellyauthor and @GiveMeBooksPR #Giveaway ($25 Amazon gift card)

Title: Tackling Love
Series: Tackling #1
Author: Kathleen Kelly
Genre: Sports Romance

Release Date: August 20, 2020

Blurb

Colton Anders

Quarterback for the New England Warriors.

Playboy, cocky, self-assured, used to getting what he wants.

Skye Hadley

Teacher at a high-profile private school.

Quiet, plays it safe, never break the rules.

Unexpectedly, their two worlds collide.

Colton tempts Skye one night and she throws caution to the wind, taking him home.

Unknowingly propelling herself into a world filled with fans, media, and an abundance of unwanted attention.

The media are grueling, but their chemistry is undeniable. Vulnerable in lust, Skye wants nothing more than to give in to her heart’s desires.

With the world watching, will Colt be able to win Skye over in this fun, sports, romance?

#Cover for The Seeker's Shadow by Isadora Brown @XpressoTours

The Seeker’s Shadow
Isadora Brown
(Shadows of Wonderland, #1)
Publication date: September 28th 2020
Genres: Adult, Urban Fantasy
When twenty-three-year-old Alice Wynter discovers there’s a chance the wrong man was sent to prison for her best friend’s murder, she’s forced to investigate. Considering she’s the only unmagicked being in the small town of Wonderland, this is much easier said than done.
All magic has been eradicated from Wonderland after the Mad Mage was banished twenty-four years ago. But some still lingers, dormant and ready to fall into the appropriate hands.
Twenty-three-year-old Alice Wynter, daughter of the chief of police, can’t wait until she can get out of Wonderland. As the only person in the entire town who doesn’t have magic, she’s never felt as though she belonged. It doesn’t help that her best friend was murdered a year ago.
When Rumpelstiltskin himself asks her for a favor, she can’t refuse. However, she soon realizes he thinks the man convicted for her best friend’s murder is actually innocent. Alice isn’t sure she wants to entertain that idea, considering the fact that her father was the officer who arrested him and the reason he was promoted to Chief of Police so quickly.
In order to obtain justice for her friend, Alice must look at the clues with an open mind to the truth. Bodies are meant to stay buried but ghosts live on – until their restless spirits are finally given peace.
With the grittiness and mystery of Riverdale and the magic and romance of Once Upon A Time, The Seeker’s Shadow is a captivating urban fantasy mystery readers are sure to be enchanted by!

#CoverReveal for If He Only Knew by Jennifer Marie @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: If He Only Knew

Author: Jennifer Marie

Genre: Contemporary Romance
Cover Design: Seven Rue

Release Date: September 16, 2020

Blurb

Luca and Finley were best friends and have been secretly in love with each other for years.

Now, on the verge of leaving, Finley is afraid to share how she feels, even though everything inside her screams that she should.

Despite being young, she has always known they were destined to belong to each other.

Luca’s sexy smirk and genuine heart are enough to brighten her days, but what she loves most is how he can speak to her with just a look.

Finley O’Brien and Luca Ferraro have been inseparable since meeting in second grade. They have secretly longed for each other for just as long but have been too afraid to cross the line that could potentially destroy everything.

With Luca’s departure looming closer, it pushes them to make a choice; finally admit their more than friendly feelings or walk away from what could be true love.

If being honest about their affections was difficult, the curve ball that is thrown their way will flip their world upside down. They say true love can conquer all, but will Finley and Luca stay true when their bond is being tested at every turn?

#BookReview: The Cry of the Lake by @CharlieTyler17

Synopsis: A gruesome discovery unravels a dark trail of murder and madness.

A six-year-old girl sneaks out of bed to capture a mermaid but instead discovers a dead body. Terrified and unable to make sense of what she sees, she locks the vision deep inside her mind. 

Ten years later, Lily is introduced to the charismatic Flo and they become best friends. But Lily is guilt-ridden – she is hiding a terrible secret which has the power to destroy both their lives.

When Flo’s father is accused of killing a schoolgirl, the horrors of Lily’s past come bubbling to the surface. Lily knows that, whatever the consequences, she has to make things right. She must go back to the events of her childhood and face what happened at the boat house all those years ago.

Can Lily and Flo discover what is hiding in the murky waters of the lake before the killer strikes again?

#CoverReveal for Overcast by @hazelgracebooks and @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Overcast

Series: B723 #1

Author: Hazel Grace

Genre: Dark Romance/Suspense
Cover Design: Black Widow Designs
Release Date: September 1, 2020

Blurb

The monster hiding in the shadows is real.
He doesn’t have horns or sharp claws, but a deep scowl, piercing hazel eyes, and a bunker deep in the woods equipped for his fantasies to play out like a horror movie.
And it becomes my reality in seconds.
My captor is out for retribution, and he thinks I’m to blame. He believes I’m the evil that shrouded his world and tipped it upside down.
Hate isn’t enough of a word for what he feels for me, and while he terrifies me, I mask my pain as best as I can.
A pointless feat because he feels my discomfort, revels in it.
And yet in the midst of his hell, I can’t seem to miss the way those eyes burn with hunger.
The kind that involves him devouring me with his tongue and teeth.
Emric is the beast in my darkest nightmares.
Until he realized that his reality is a blurred screen of the truth—mine.

#ReleaseBlitz for Defiant by Sara Cate #Giveaway ($20 Amazon gift card) @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Defiant
Series: Wicked Hearts #3

Author: Sara Cate

Genre: Steamy Contemporary Romance

Release Date: August 18, 2020

Blurb

Rafe

Hate is easy.
A hell of a lot easier than the alternative.

It’s my job to keep Wicked safe, which means getting my hands a little dirty sometimes. After I lost my best friend, I’m not pulling my punches anymore. So it’s hate that helps me win every fight and close every case.

But now the past is coming back to haunt me, and I refuse to be cornered. As for the girl who just moved in next door, hate is my only option, and I won’t go down without a fight.


Shelby

Ten years ago, he ruined my life.
Now, it’s my turn to ruin his.

I didn’t plan to move in next door to Rafe Nolan—especially after what he did to me and my brother. But now I have the opportunity to make his life as miserable as he made mine.
And for a man who is so tortured, this should be easy.
But there is a dark secret behind all that pain of his that draws me in. He’s trying to hold his power over me, but I can see him losing control.
I can use his secrets against him, but as I start falling for him, I know this is one fight I am going to lose.

#CoverReveal: Death's Legacy by @denniskcrosby @RABTBookTours @PublishingAcorn

 

Urban Fantasy

Date Published: November 17

Publisher: Acorn Publishing

 

Twenty years ago, Reaper of Souls Kassidy Simmons battled Azra-El, the Angel of Death and won—or so she thought.

Now, a number of strange and unexplained deaths are afflicting Kassidy’s quiet New York town. She wishes she didn’t care. But she does.

Her empathic abilities are expanding beyond her control, and the intense emotions are tearing apart her relationships. They’re also degrading the magical wards put in place to protect her from other Reapers and the even deadlier Wraiths—onyx-eyed henchmen of Azra-El.

 Allied with her longtime mentor and a college professor with ties to her past, Kassidy learns that the untimely deaths are regenerating Azra-El, and that the only way to stop him is with the Scythe of Cronus, the legendary weapon of the God of Death.

To save her loved ones and reset the natural order, Kassidy must journey home and confront a past she’s been running from for two decades. She’ll face-off with enemies, old and new, and through a haze of fear and addiction, Kassidy will learn the secrets of her heritage, and challenge head on the one being she fears most—herself.

#BookBlitz: Armageddon by @CB_Bauer @XpressoTours #Giveaway Jewelry and more!

Armageddon
Christina Bauer
(Angelbound Origins #7)
Publication date: June 7th 2019
Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult
Now a special edition with an all-new appendix of goodies!
Myla Lewis once fought gladiator-style in Purgatory’s Arena. Now, she’s fighting again, only this time in Hell. And the stakes have never been higher. The King of Hell, Armageddon, has kidnapped Myla and Lincoln’s young son, Maxon.
In the wake of Maxon’s abduction, all the after-realms calling for war, and no one shouts louder than Lincoln. Myla knows that a war against Hell will cost millions of lives, so she devises her own plan, involving a small attack team and a secret entrance to Hell. Will Myla save Maxon, or will her child and all the after-realms fall to Armageddon?
Don’t miss this exciting conclusion to Myla’s adventures in the Angelbound Origins series! The story continues with Angelbound Offspring and Maxon.

#BookBlitz: Pandemonium by Susanna Strom @XpressoTours #Giveaway $30 Amazon gift card

Pandemonium
Susanna Strom
(World Fallen, #1)
Publication date: August 18th 2020
Genres: Adult, Post-Apocalyptic, Romance, Suspense
The intersection of danger and desire
Kenzie Dunwitty is laser focused on finishing college and landing a job that will give her the security she craves. With a deadline looming, she disconnects to finish a paper. When she emerges, the world is sliding into chaos. Overnight, a simple flu virus has morphed into a lethal, worldwide pandemic. Kenzie seeks refuge at her prepper cousin’s compound and finds herself face to face with a deadly sexy stranger.
Ripper Solis, ex-Army Ranger and current enforcer for an outlaw motorcycle club, protects the people he considers his own. He’s not a nice guy. Not a man that a woman turns to for support and comfort. Not the bad boy hero in the romance novels Kenzie’s escaped into for years. Or is he?
As law and order break down, and the ever-present threat of the virus hangs over their heads, Ripper’s strength and resourcefulness offer an irresistible allure. Sexy and commanding, he’s everything she ever wanted. Their chemistry is combustible.
Will love save the day, or will the perilous new world obliterate their future?
Pandemonium is the first novel in the exciting new World Fallen series. Maelstrom, book two of the World Fallen series, coming October 27.

#CoverReveal for Southside High by @MichelleMankin and @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Southside High
A Full-Length Tempest Rock Star 
Romance Series Prequel

Author: Michelle Mankin

Genre: New Adult Rock Star Romance:
An enemies-to-lovers romance 
with maximum bad boy rocker angst
Cover Design: Michelle Preast, IndieBookCovers
Photo: Michelle Lancaster
Model: Lochie
Banner Design: Lori Jackson

Release Date: August 27, 2020

Blurb

My best friend and I want the same girl. But Lace Lowell is mine. She was mine first. She’ll be mine
forever. Sure, she was his friend when they were kids, long before I ever met her. But that’s in the
past. This is now. I’m Warren Jinkins. War. My name is my battle cry. I take what I want. I don’t ask,
and I want her.
I’m in love with two men. Bryan Jackson is the guitarist in our band, and War is the lead singer.
They’re sexy bad boys, the most dangerous guys in our school. All the girls at Southside High want
them. But loving two guys is a problem—especially when those two guys also love each other.  

#BookReview: The Truth Project by @DanteMedema

Synopsis: Seventeen-year-old Cordelia Koenig was sure of many things going into her last year of high school. For one, she wasn’t going to stress over the senior project all her peers were dreading—she’d just use the same find-your-roots genealogy idea that her older sister used for hers. Secondly, she’d put all that time spent not worrying about the project toward getting reacquainted with former best friend and longtime crush Kodiak Jones who, conveniently, gets assigned as Cordelia’s partner.

All she has to do is mail in her DNA sample, write about her ancestry results and breeze through the rest of senior year. Done, done and done.

But when Cordelia’s GeneQuest results reveal that her father is not the man she thought he was but a stranger who lives thousands of miles away, Cordelia realizes she isn’t sure of anything anymore—not the mother who lied, the life she was born into or the girl staring back at her in the mirror.

If your life began with a lie, how can you ever be sure of what’s true?

This title will be released on October 13, 2020. 

#ReleaseBlitz for Black Skies Riviera by @kidsversuscopy1 and @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Black Skies Riviera

Author: Catherine Wiltcher

Genre: Mafia Romance

Release Date: August 19, 2020

Blurb

They call this place the Billionaires’ Playground.

I, Aiden Knight, staked my claim the minute I arrived.

I crossed every line.

I painted their Rococo ceilings with blood. 

Now my casino is the hottest church in town,

And vice is the only confession required.

My house.

My rules.

Until the past comes calling with an offer I can’t refuse:

One week to seduce and break her…

For the names of the men who killed my father.

Issa Dubova is the queen of cloudy diamonds:

She’s a hard truth concealed beneath a pall of lies.

I’m an Armani black suit of spades:

Determined to bury both her and my demons.

I never asked to see the shape of her heart.

I never asked for her to fill the blank spaces of mine.  

But the mafia wants her secrets. 

I wasn’t the first she betrayed.

And Issa? Sweet, not-so-innocent Issa?

She’s gone and left me with a debt no sinner can pay.

#ReleaseBlitz for Eden by Nyssa Kathryn @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Eden

Series: Project Arma #2

Author: Nyssa Kathryn

Genre: Romantic Suspense

Release Date: August 19, 2020

Blurb

She thought he’d be happy to see her…

…but all she found was anger.

Why did Eden hate her?

The memory of that day haunted her. Eden told her to stay at the safe house while his team went on their mission. Then she found out he was being setup. Shylah didn’t have a choice, she had to do something.

It was a risk.

And she paid dearly.

Eden and his team had aborted just in time. They lived to fight another day. Fourteen months later and Eden was surviving. There was only one question on his mind, who had betrayed them?

Could it have been Shylah?

In the complex world of international espionage and war, love is often a causality. What will it take for her to conquer the mistrust and win him back?

You’ll adore this military romance, because the truth can be hard to believed when all you’ve know are lies.

Get it now.