#BookReview: Vengeful are the Drowned (Blood Phoenix Chronicles, #3) by Michael J. Allen @TheDScribbler

Synopsis: Past Mistakes Never Stop Haunting... 

A dark spell enslaves the phoenixes. Dunham unleashes their elemental powers against those who murdered his family while the deposed Wyldfae Queen uses them to lure even bigger prey. 

Vitae's desperate crusade to save Mare takes a darker turn, putting him at odds with Quayla. With Quayla on the run and Vitae setting up his own kingdom, the Sidhe turn Atlanta into a bloody playground. 

An unexpected ally emerges to help Quayla's fight for freedom, and a betrayal brings Vitae face to face with the Sidhe royals. With the phoenixes pitted against one another and True Death a certainty, can Atlanta's dwindling Shield prevent the Sidhe from devouring mankind?

#BookBlitz: Better Sleep Happier Life by @drbuddharaju @RABTBookTours @mkwebsiteandseo

Simple Natural Methods to Refresh Your Mind, Body, and Spirit

Sleep Disorders

Depression (Books)

Happiness Self-Help

Date Published: April 7, 2020

Publisher: Bublish, Incorporated

 

"[An] incredible self-help book. Highly recommended!" Susan Keefe, The Columbia Review of Books and Film

“Dr. Buddharaju dissects the most complex sleep science into simple practical strategies that can be put to use by anyone!” — Murali Ankem, MD, MBA, Associate Dean School of Medicine at University of Louisville

Did you know that sleep is a key component for a happy life? Research shows us it is. But with all of today’s technology and stresses, many people are getting less sleep or experiencing poorer quality sleep. This can negatively impact mood, concentration, productivity, physical health and, yes, even happiness.

As a practicing physician for more than twenty years, Dr. Venkata Buddharaju (known as Dr. Buddha to his patients) has extensive experience treating patients with sleep problems. And the number of patients he is seeing with sleep disorders is on the rise.

In Better Sleep, Happier Life, Dr. Buddharaju teaches seven simple, practical, and natural methods to help you get better sleep in order to refresh your mind and body. Filled with wisdom from his years of experience as well as simple lifestyle changes, Better Sleep, Happier Life can help you find rest and refreshment in the midst of your busy life…and reap the benefits.

#BookBlitz: Stay by Jessica Frances @XpressoTours #Giveaway $20 Amazon gift card

Stay
Jessica Frances
(In Midsummer #3)
Publication date: September 4th 2020
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, LGBTQ+, Romance
One screaming baby. One too many diaper disasters. One surprise shooter. One victim. One perpetrator. One blast from the past.
Having a surprise baby dropped at your doorstep has to be the worst kind of relationship buzzkill in history. Instead of dating, now Rocky and I have shifted into becoming exhausted parents with zero time for any kind of fun. Everything is moving so fast that something has to give. I just hope that something won’t be us.
Then, when a shooter comes after Rocky and their aim is a little too close for comfort, important questions need to be answered. Who wants Rocky dead? How far are they willing to go to make it happen? How much luck can one person have before it runs out? And where on earth did Rocky put those spare baby diapers?
With someone gunning for not only Rocky but also our relationship, one has to wonder just how many hits we can take before it all falls apart.

#CoverReveal for Mine by Brittany Taylor @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Mine
Series: Back to Me #2

Author: Brittany Taylor

Genre: Romantic Suspense/Psychological Thriller
Cover Design: Alora Kate
Release Date: October 22, 2020

Blurb

We were living in a state of ignorant bliss. Ready to move on, ready to heal.

Our plan was working until we found that small slip of paper inside our apartment. A promised message that I would never truly be free. Now, the life I thought I'd have with Logan was quickly becoming no life at all. Cutting ties with everyone I know; Logan and I decided to start a new life, hoping to leave the past behind us, along with that piece of paper.

Three thousand miles and one year later, Logan and I were still struggling with the choices we’d made. The guilt I had for leaving my best friend, Abby remained, devouring me from the inside out. But then, in a twist of fate, Abby came back into my life, offering a chance to mend our broken friendship.

But just like Abby’s unexpected return, the demons from my past quickly began to resurface. Pieces of my past continued to haunt me, forcing me to question whether the life Logan and I had built was real or whether everything wasn't as it seemed.

My past had returned, determined to prove my life wasn’t truly mine.

It never was.

#BookReview: Stolen Lives (Scion #2) by Michael J. Allen @TheDScribbler

Synopsis: Alaric’s made a new life in the Protectorate despite his missing memories. His ship’s AI, Cassii, and a successful trading venture help fill his accounts with enough credits to finish repairing his ship for a rescue mission to Earth. Or would have, had his heroics not smashed Cassiopeia once more.

His interference with the Corollas crime syndicate fills his thruster wash with more than just an angry ex-mentor. Pirates thrive on the star lanes, preying on all those who stray within their sights. Cassii’s been stolen and with her Alaric’s hopes to rescue his friends. Pirates, bounty hunters, and disgruntled plants besiege him along all vectors, preventing his capture of the scum responsible.

Alaric recruits a reluctant doctor, a pacifistic AI, and several escort pilots to help him chase down Cassii. Kindhearted decisions leave Alaric wallowing in misery. Deaths and desperation, financial losses and constant attack force him to make dark choices that threaten all.

Alaric embraces the vast interstellar emptiness, struggling to harden himself enough to thwart the Protectorate’s criminal elite. Every sacrifice he makes to rescue Cassii seems to cost chunks of his soul. Will he free her before he loses himself or will she return to find her beloved captain a worse villain than her kidnapper? 

#CoverReveal for Beautifully Flawed by @laurapavlov2 and @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Beautifully Flawed
Series: Shine Design #2
Author: Laura Pavlov
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Cover Design: Kim Mendoza

Release Date: September 21, 2020

Blurb

Elle Fiore wants a prince on a white horse.

Maverick Wallace does not fit the description.

It doesn't matter they shared the best kiss of her life, or her friends think he walks on water...and his Greek-god looks have absolutely no effect on her whatsoever.

If only she can convince her heart he's not for her.

Maverick is happy with his free and easy no-strings lifestyle.

The last thing he wants or needs is someone complicated like Elle.

He doesn't do relationships or sleepovers.

She's beautiful, but a diva with a capital D.

But something magical happens whenever they're in a room together, whether they want it to or not.

#BookReview: Ruled by Tainted Blood (Blood Phoenix Chronicles, #2) by Michael J. Allen @TheDScribbler

Synopsis: Heartache Can Pave the Darkest Paths... 

Atlanta's Shieldheart discovers an awful truth with the potential to undo the mistake that broke his Shield. While the others struggle to protect mankind from Sidhe onslaught, Vitae delves down a dark road. If he can master faerie magic, he could become Creation’s greatest shield and possibly even reclaim Mare from oblivion. 

Quayla’s self-destructive attempts to rejoin her brothers cost her dearly. Sidhe use her friends as pawns in a power struggle born out of Quayla’s past. A lost Sidhe Court emerges behind new villainy. Leveraging all the shields hold dear, the new foe manipulates Atlanta's phoenixes into becoming the ultimate Sidhe weapon. 

Embroiled in a three-sided war, the shields uncover the plot behind the chaos, but at a terrible price. Only Quayla and Vitae remain free to protect Atlanta. But locked in bloody conflict with each other, can either save the city, the Shield, or themselves?

#ReleaseBoost for The Therapist Series by @authorwsgreer and @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: The Therapist
Series: The Therapist #1

Author: W.S. Greer

Genre: Erotic Romance/Contemporary Romance

Release Date: June 2, 2020

Blurb

Sex runs the world. It’s always there, buried just beneath the surface of our everyday lives. Sex drives us, stimulates us, breathes life into us, and when we don't respect it, our relationships can struggle.

That’s where I come into play. My name is Dr. Malcolm Colson, and I’m the therapist. I specialize in relationship therapy as well as sex therapy, and my office is always humming with patients.

Sean Tillman is my newest patient, and he’s dealing with a familiar problem many men face but won’t admit—he has no idea how to please his woman. While my sessions with him are bearing fruit, my own sex life is being strangled by weeds.

I crave control, and when Ava Pierson starts to break the rules I put in place for our casual but scorching hot relationship, I’m the one grappling to keep things in check.

Sex runs my world, both at work and in my personal life. I help save my patients’ relationships, but sex may just ruin mine.

#BookReview: Duplicity (Dumpstermancer #2) by Michael J. Allen @TheDScribbler

Synopsis: ​Two weeks of freedom hasn’t been enough for Eli to rebuild his life. While he races to prepare for looming winter, a killer’s crusade to exterminate Seufert Fells’s homeless drives a knife into the city’s criminal elite. 

Forced to hunt a killer disguised by magic, Eli’s world becomes a house of mirrors. Friends become enemies. Deceptions abound, and the magic that saved Eli threatens to consume him. 

​With the serial killer targeting everything ​he ​loves, even new dumpstermancer ​ spells might not be enough. Eli may have to protect his worst enemy to defeat a killing machine with a thousand faces.

#BookBlitz: Stealing Iris by @SaharaRobertsBK @XpressoTours #Giveaway $20 Amazon gift card

Stealing Iris
Sahara Roberts
(Blood Ties, #1)
Publication date: August 17th 2020
Genres: Adult, Dark Romance, Romance
After years of being a facilitator for the elites of criminal society, I know a bad deal when I see one.
was walking away from the latest gangster wannabe, until he made an offer I couldn’t refuse.
She was beautiful and innocent, until I took that away from her.
The more I took, the more I wanted.
But something’s wrong, and Iris won’t talk.
I’m beginning to think I’m being played.
Yet I can’t shake the memory of her, the taste of her.
She’s what I want…and I’m not taking no for an answer.Discretion is my business.
**This is a Dark Mafia Romance containing mature themes, adult situations, and graphic violence. If you are not prepared to deal with this, please pass on the opportunity.
**The story started with Stealing Iris. It will end in Book 3

#BookBlitz: Revved To The Maxx by @MorelandMelanie @XpressoTours #Giveaway Signed Paperback of Revved to the Maxx + a $25 Amazon Gift Card

Revved To The Maxx
Melanie Moreland
Publication date: September 3rd 2020
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance
Maxx Reynolds needs help.
His shop, house, and life are all in a state of disarray.
In desperation, he turns to the internet to hire a new employee,
thinking it will make his life easier
What he expects is a fellow named Charly.
What he gets is a quirky, sassy, red-head named
Charlynn who runs circles around him.
And she’s all woman.
He can’t stand her.
He can’t keep his hands off her either.

#BookReview: Ashes of Raging Water (Blood Phoenix Chronicles #1) by Michael J. Allen @TheDScribbler

Synopsis: Wyldfae incursions plague Atlanta. The Georgia Shield must protect humanity from the Sidhe Courts and their twisted games. Quayla, the city’s newest and only water phoenix, gambles her life to stop the attacks and prove herself to the other phoenixes.

Quayla scours a labyrinth of half-truths and misdirection to unravel the guilty from the merely vile. Her love life is crumbling. Atlanta PD is hunting her. Every move seems wrong, and one more mistake could globally unleash panic and magical pandemonium.

As Quayla’s pursuit closes in, the Sidhe launch an assault on her Shield. Phoenixes are dying. Faeries invade their sanctum. Down to her last dregs of essence, Quayla must choose between abandoning her brothers or risking True Death to safeguard their last line of defense against oblivion.

#BookReview: Scion of Conquered Earth (Scion #1) by Michael J. Allen @TheDScribbler

Synopsis: An alien force has descended upon Earth. Fighters bombard the ruins. Monsters hunt the wastes – some humans serving the Welorin in order to indulge their petty cruelties. The last free survivors struggle against starvation and capture. It’s a world where friendship costs too dearly and heroics verge on suicide.

One young man simply can’t resist either. Welorin torture machines ravage his world, filling it with literal nightmares. Cannibalistic aerobics instructors hunt him and snatcher teams dog his every step. Alaric attempts one rescue after another, hoping someone might possess keys to unlock memories stolen by the initial assault.

An aborted rescue lands him in a three way fight between Welorin forces and interstellar raiders. He takes cover in the pirates’ ship, coercing its AI, Cassii, into helping him. Success comes with unexpected consequence as Cassii abandons her crew, his friends and Earth’s solar system.

Cassii refuses to return to Earth, decrying her former captain’s despoiling of the ship’s weapons and armor. Alaric leverages goods stolen from Earth by Cassii’s former crew into a bid at privateering. Surrounded by tech he barely understands and exotic life forms, he’s easy prey for the Protectorate’s mercenary population.

Escort Captain Manc Shepherd and the sultry pirate Tyne Ren – Manc’s onetime partner – manipulate, exploit and seduce him across the stars. Alaric’s perilous heroics complicate their tug-of-war, endangering both and Alaric’s ship – their intended prize.

Alaric must decide who he is, what he holds dear and how far he’ll go to protect both. He must choose who to trust: his mentor, his temptress or his smitten ship’s AI. The right choice could save worlds. The wrong one could throw him into a desperate battle to save thousands from his betrayer at the cost of his truest friend.

#BookReview: Fey West by Michael J. Allen @TheDScribbler

Synopsis: Fey do not forgive, and they do not forget.
​Neither do gunslingers.

A half-elven druid turned gunslinger born under a death sentence in the New World and saved from execution in the Old, Rafael West returns to his homeland, wary and perilously indebted to the high fairy who negotiated his release.

Rafe is forced to champion a dwarven railroad laying poisonous, cold-iron across the wild lands of the fey continent, but their secrets can't remain hidden much longer. If the elven tribesman that condemned baby Rafe to death for “stealing” their magic uncover the railroad’s lies, the entire continent could be plunged into full scale war.

Between the fey nobility’s intrigues, hiding the railroad's crimes, and surviving elven “justice,” Rafe will require more than luck and six-guns to succeed. If he fails. If the tribes stop Big Iron, the fairy will murder all of Rafe’s friends and then torture Rafe’s lifelong love to death. 

#BookBlitz: The Crow King by @woodscourtbooks #Giveaway 3x ebook copies of The Crow King

The Crow King
M. H. Woodscourt
(Wintervale, #1)
Publication date: September 1st 2020
Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult
Magic is against the law. He must use it anyway.
The Crow King has outlawed magic. Despite the kingdom’s edict, Gwyn plunges into the ancient and deadly True Wood to find a magical cure for his dying brother. Within the shadowed realm, he must fend off more than violent and fallen fae-like Ilidreth when he learns the king is out to stop him at whatever cost.
On his desperate quest, he is joined by a unicorn, a quirky girl, and the maddest of the fallen fae. Together they must outrun enchanted crows and enemy armies, and face the ghosts of a shattered age, all while racing to save Gwyn’s brother. Meanwhile, war brews between countries, and a secret order of mages hunts Gwyn down.
Yet none of this can prepare Gwyn for the harrowing truth behind the fall of the Ilidreth long, long ago, and what it means for his life and his homeland.

#BookBlitz: Reclaiming the Magic by @Brooklyn__Ann @RABTBookTours @BookBuzznet

Fantasy Romance

Date Published: August 2020

Publisher: Broken Angels

 

 

Vampire society knows him as the Thirteenth Elder first vampire in creation, the mages know him as an immortal high sorcerer and the Keeper of the Prophecy. Delgarias Dullahan only cares about the woman who knew him simply as "Del." Two thousand years ago, he gambled his soul for the power to marry Nikkita Leonine...and lost.

Now he is finally on her trail. But Del is not the only one searching for the missing luminite princess, and whoever finds her first will have the upper hand in the battle against the greatest evil ever known.

#BookReview: A Flood of Posies by Tiffany Meuret

Synopsis: It's 2025. Sisters, Doris and Thea, exist worlds apart, despite living within a few miles of one another. Doris with her regular home and regular husband and regular job, and Thea slinking along the edges of society, solitary and invisible. As the rain continues and the waters rise, each attempt to survive both the flood and each other while also resisting the strange pull of the monstrous, Leviathan-like creatures that have appeared to haunt the depths of the water beneath them. One year later, Thea—now calling herself Sestra, the Slavic word for sister—floats throughout a ravaged, flood-soaked world. Her former life drowned beneath metric tons of water, she and her only companion, Robert, battle starvation, heat stroke, and the monstrous creatures called Posies that appeared alongside the flood. When they run across what they assume to be an abandoned tugboat, their journey takes a new turn, and the truth about the flood and the monsters seems more intricately linked to Thea's past then she may realize.

#BookReview: The Witchbeast (Awakening, #1) by Samantha Eklund

Synopsis: For nineteen years I thought I was a human orphan in a world of magical elitists—until I was shot in the head and didn’t die.
Leaving behind my miserable life of tempting men as an escort and then robbing them blind, I find myself fighting to survive in a whirlwind world of magic and deceit as I learn the answers to questions I had never wanted to ask.

On the run with my best friend, a handsome mysterious stranger, and his best friend, it seems like the more I find out about myself, the less I want to know. In fact, I think I liked it better when I thought I was a nobody.

Whatever we’ve awoken in me is dark and bloodthirsty, and the more we learn about it and its nefarious history, the more I wonder if I’ll ever be normal again.

#CoverReveal for Come Away With Me by @ErikaKellyBooks and @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Come Away With Me
A Calamity Falls Christmas Novella

Author: Erika Kelly

Genre: Small Town Romance
Cover Design: Serendipity Formatting
Release Date: September 17, 2020

Blurb

Can the handsome loner win the heart of the single mom? He's about to find out on their Vegas road trip.

Single mom Skylar James is absolutely not interested in the broody, inked artist who works in her brother’s motorcycle repair shop. She’s focused on her four-year-old son and her thriving business as an image consultant. But when he asks her to work her magic on his widowed mom, how can she say no? She’s in—even if it means a road trip with the man who can’t take a hint.

When Jinx Costello rolled into Calamity, Wyoming, he met the woman who owned him heart and soul. Unfortunately, he hasn’t been able to convince her about their destiny. She won’t even go on a date with him. But when he sees her in action with a client, he puts his own needs aside to ask for help with his mom.

Away from her family and business, Skylar finally lets down her guard and realizes why she’s been fighting Jinx so hard: she’s wildly attracted to him. Which makes it hard to uphold her vow not to date while her son’s little.

Jinx can’t believe the woman of his dreams is finally giving him a chance. But is she just letting loose on a Vegas road trip?
Because this is it for him. She’s it.

And now he just has to prove it to her. 

#BookBlitz: Dark Energy by @AddisonBrae1 @RABTBookTours

Dark Energy (Return to Becker Circle) is a stand-alone sequel to Becker Circle

Romantic Suspense; Adult/New Adult

 Date Published: June 10, 2020

Publisher:  Tirgearr Publishing

Cybercrime doesn’t talk. It creeps in and destroys lives right under Gillian’s nose when a cryptojacking scheme lands her boss, Pinkie, in jail. Gillian had just started over with a new career, boyfriend, and confidence after escaping a vicious murder investigation that shattered her ability to trust. Then Pinkie’s arrest leaves her struggling to run his two bars while also unraveling the conspiracy.

Gillian will not let her mentor and friend go down for something he didn’t do. Neither will Jon, the most talented musician on the bar’s stage and the perfect boyfriend…until his good fortune sends her reeling. Gillian forces herself to trust the cops, people who hurt her, and known criminals. Will it be enough to free Pinkie and save her life?