#CoverReveal: Phoenix Rise by @TweetsByKarina @agarcia6510

Title: Phoenix Rise

Author: Karina Espinosa

Genre: Urban Fantasy

Cover Designer: Covers by Juan

Publication Date: October 16^th, 2020

Hosted by: Lady Amber’s PR

Blurb: For someone who can’t die, it felt as if I were already dead.

He took everything from me and I don’t have the energy or fight in me

to get it back. Not that I could. What he took is long gone and never

coming back.

The pain of what he did—what I did—will haunt me for the rest of my

life. That is until I met a certain angel in the cell next to mine and

I knew I couldn’t give up yet. Everything might have been taken from

me, but I was not alone. Far from it.

To gain my freedom, I made a deal with the devil, but will that deal

burn me in the end?

#BookReview: Behind Closed Doors by @BAParisAuthor

Synopsis: Everyone knows a couple like Jack and Grace. He has looks and wealth, she has charm and elegance. You might not want to like them, but you do.

You’d like to get to know Grace better.

But it’s difficult, because you realise Jack and Grace are never apart.

Some might call this true love. Others might ask why Grace never answers the phone. Or how she can never meet for coffee, even though she doesn’t work. How she can cook such elaborate meals but remain so slim. And why there are bars on one of the bedroom windows.

Sometimes, the perfect marriage is the perfect lie.

#BookTour: A Booktiful Love by @toluakinyemi @rabtbooktours #Giveaway

Poetry

Date Published: 08 May 2020

Publisher: The Roaring Lion Newcastle Ltd

 

A Booktiful Love is a collection of poems that deal with the entirety of human experience in its various forms. Didactically rich, the poems explore ideas ranging from love, relationships, and patriotism to marriage, morality, and many other concepts pertinent to daily living.

Given its variety of themes, what unifies the poems in this collection is the simplicity and ambiguousness of language which the poet employs. The poems draw their strength from their clarity and meaning.

These are poems with a purpose. Poet Tolu' A. Akinyemi didn't shy away from this fact, as he wrote in the poems "Writers" and "Write for Rights." The poet's philosophy is evident in this collection. To him, a writer is saddled with the responsibility to use his words to teach, preach, and fight for freedom.

He writes:

"Let's change the world, one writer at a time,

Write those words till the world gets it right."

Another special attribute to this collection is the poet's experimentation with words. This is clear right from the title. The poet identifies himself as a creator of words. The reader is obliged to travel into the mind of the writer in each poem, to understand how his mind works. As readers approach the end of this collection, they not only become engrossed in its didactic richness, but also will appreciate the uniqueness of the poet's style and the sense of responsibility he carries.

#ReleaseBlitz for Tell Me You Love Me by @amandakaitlyn02 and @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Tell Me You Love Me
Series: Shattered by Love Duet #1

Author: Amanda Kaitlyn

Genre: Lesbian Romantic Suspense
Release Date: September 13, 2020

Blurb

“Tell me you love me, baby girl. Tell me this is real.” 

Phoenix was my kryptonite. 

My weak spot. 

My indulgence. 

After she left me, I was broken beyond repair. 

I didn’t think I would ever feel whole, again. 

But then she came back. 

And all my broken pieces started to piece back together, again. 

When the lies and secrets she’s kept from me come between us, I don’t know where to turn, anymore. 

Everything I’ve been taught tells me that she’s dangerous. That I should be running for the hills when she tells me who she really is. 

But my love for her doesn’t care about the risk. 

My heart was hers a long time ago. 

There was no changing that. 

For better or worse, I wanted her. 

That doesn’t mean our story will be an easy one to tell. Our love might not make it through this unscathed. Only time will tell.

#BookTour: My Life in the Fish Tank by @Barbaradee2 @mediamastersbks #Giveaway hardcover copy of My Life in the Fish Tank, bookmark, and button

 From acclaimed author of Maybe He Just Likes You and Halfway Normal comes a powerful and moving story of learning how to grow, change, and survive. When twelve-year-old Zinnia Manning’s older brother Gabriel is diagnosed with a mental illness, the family’s world is turned upside down. Mom and Dad want Zinny, her sixteen-year-old sister, Scarlett, and her eight-year-old brother, Aiden, to keep Gabriel’s condition “private”—and to Zinny that sounds the same as “secret.” Which means she can’t talk about it to her two best friends, who don’t understand why Zinny keeps pushing them away, turning everything into a joke. It also means she can’t talk about it during Lunch Club, a group run by the school guidance counselor. How did Zinny get stuck in this weird club, anyway? She certainly doesn’t have anything in common with these kids—and even if she did, she’d never betray her family’s secret. The only good thing about school is science class, where cool teacher Ms. Molina has them doing experiments on crayfish. And when Zinny has the chance to attend a dream marine biology camp for the summer, she doesn’t know what to do. How can Zinny move forward when Gabriel—and, really, her whole family—still needs her help?

#ReleaseBoost for The Best Friend Zone by Nicole Snow @GiveMeBooksPR #Giveaway (signed paperback of The Best Friend Zone)

Title: The Best Friend Zone
Series: Knights of Dallas #2

Author: Nicole Snow

Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: September 3, 2020

Blurb

From Wall Street Journal bestselling author Nicole Snow comes an intense, heartwarming, and funny standalone read where friends-to-lovers insanity is fate for two stubborn hearts.

Just friends? Is a peach pie to the face “just” a little mishap?

I know what I felt the day Quinn Faulkner saved me from death by dessert.

My best friend was always The One. The Impossible.

Older. Flawless. Brutally gorgeous. A small-town prince of summer crushes.

Leagues above a tag-along dance nerd like me.

Years later, my uncle needs a goat wrangler. I just need an escape.

What better way to flee a cheating ex and dumpster fire career?

What better way to collide with the boy who got away?

And now he's an atrociously hot, mysterious, overprotective beast.

Breathe in. Breathe out.

I'm grown up now.

Unmoved by his slayer charms and heart-stompy memories.

I can't stay to unravel his darkness—or savor his vows to protect me.

We're safely platonic.

Until the Ferris wheel incident.

Then we're alone with a tension so thick you can chew it.

Quinn kisses me like no tomorrow. Truly. Madly. All in.

I wanted to piece my life back together.

Will shattering the best friend zone leave us whole or heartbroken?

Full-length romance thriller with a Happily Ever After made of laughter, tears, and smiles. Two friends meant to be fall so hard it hurts with a little help from a scheming granny, a tribe of goats, and one big dog.

#BookBlitz: The Betrayal Incident by Marla Holt @XpressoTours #Giveaway $25 Amazon gift card + ebook copy of The Betrayal Incident

The Betrayal Incident
Marla Holt
(The Incident Series, #3)
Publication date: September 14th 2020
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance
Because of his betrayal, Phoenix walks away from the only man she’s ever wanted. Can Robin find the strength to fight for their love?
Phoenix Lambert doesn’t have time for men. She’s too busy running pop star Van Birch’s empire. But she can’t get a certain silver fox out of her head. One night together turns into two which turns into sneaking around to be together, because oh yeah, that silver fox is also her best friend’s dad.
Twice widowed Robin Birch isn’t in the market for a third wife. He has a busy law practice to run and a bid for Congress to win. But when Phoenix falls into his arms, he can’t make himself let her go–or confess to his daughter that he’s been sleeping with her best friend.
When Phoenix refuses to be his dirty little secret, Robin thinks it’s over. But their relationships with Van keep pushing them back together. Can proximity and the promise of love bring them back from the brink of betrayal?
The Betrayal Incident is the third and final installment in The Incident series. Read this steamy age gap, best friend’s father romance with a guaranteed happily ever after by Marla Holt today.

#Cover for Savage Devil by Daniela Romero @XpressoTours

Savage Devil
Daniela Romero
(Devils of Sun Valley High, #2)
Publication date: January 4th 2021
Genres: New Adult, Romance, Sports, Young Adult
It’s hard to deny a Devil …
Especially one who promises you a night you’ll never forget.
One night.
No exchanging names.
No exchanging numbers.
That was the deal we made.
I was moving away. I’d never see him again and I wanted to leave Sun Valley with zero regrets.
Only I got more than I bargained for and nine months later delivered a bundle of joy complete with ten tiny fingers and ten perfect toes.
A year and a half later, I’m back.
And this Devil is no longer the devil in my dreams. Now he haunts my nightmares.
He’s savage.
He’s sinful.
And I’m barely a blip on his radar.
I came with good intentions. Determined to tell him the truth. But with so much on the line, I’m beginning to reconsider.
Because making a deal with the devil again just might be another mistake.

#BlogTour: The Legend of Akikumo by @danihootsauthor @YABoundToursPR

Check out my stop on the blog tour for The Legend of Akikumo by Dani Hoots!

The Legend of Akikumo
by Dani Hoots
Genre: YA Japanese Fantasy
Release Date: September 15th 2020
FoxTales Press

Summary:

Ketsueki would give anything to find out why her mentor Akikumo, the last wolf in Japan, abandoned her. He left her with other kitsune at the Inari Shrine, but she doesn’t fit in. And now the other kitsune are bullying her and saying Akikumo is dead.

After causing trouble for the hundredth time, the Inari, instead of punishing her, has given Ketsueki a task: she must find out what happened to Akikumo. She quickly agrees, not realizing the delinquent son of the shrine’s head priest must accompany her.

Will Ketsueki be able to make peace with a human? Or will her years of resentment make this partnership impossible?

#ReleaseBlitz for Lucky Catch by Lea Coll @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Lucky Catch
A Quick Snap Collection Novella

Author: Lea Coll
Publisher: Lady Boss Press

Genre: Contemporary Romance
 Release Date: September 14, 2020

Blurb

Lucky Catch is part of Kristen Proby's With Me in Seattle Universe.

Lexie

I don’t date football players.

As an unproven sideline reporter, I need to show I’m more than a pretty face. And I have the perfect opportunity when my boss asks me to dig into the rookie wide receiver, Gavin Keller. Coming from a family of football stars, he’s my chance to write a huge story about the newest Keller to go pro. 

I need to get to know the man under the pads. Is he an arrogant entitled player or is there a side to him no one knows about?

The more I watch Gavin at practice and when he mentors young athletes, the more I realize he’s nothing like I thought. He’s a leader, someone the fans can rally behind. 

The more I see, the more I like him—not the player. And the looks he gives me say he feels the same.

As we get closer, I'm tempted to break my no-player rule. But if anyone finds out, it’s my job on the line. Giving in would mean losing everything.

Gavin

I've always had more to prove than any of my teammates. 

I know what everyone says about me. Since the first time I touched a ball, I've been living in the shadow of my family's football legacy. My life is focused on my game and giving back and nothing else. I'm not giving anyone another reason to talk. That's until the new reporter, Lexie Austin appears on the sidelines in her skin-tight tailored suits and sky-high heels. 

They say she’s only here because of her looks, just like they say I’m only here because of my name.

So what if everyone is as wrong about her as me? She’s more than a pretty face and I’m playing better than ever with her watching. It's starting to feel like she’s my personal good luck charm. 

She doesn’t care about my last name, my signing bonus, or my star potential. She wants to know me.

I want her in my bed, by my side, and in my life. Now I just have to convince her that if she falls, it'll be the luckiest catch I ever make.

#NerdBlast: My Life in the Fish Tank by @Barbaradee2 @JeanBookNerd #Giveaway

From acclaimed author of Maybe He Just Likes You and Halfway Normal comes a powerful and moving story of learning how to grow, change, and survive.

When twelve-year-old Zinnia Manning’s older brother Gabriel is diagnosed with a mental illness, the family’s world is turned upside down. Mom and Dad want Zinny, her sixteen-year-old sister, Scarlett, and her eight-year-old brother, Aiden, to keep Gabriel’s condition “private”—and to Zinny that sounds the same as “secret.” Which means she can’t talk about it to her two best friends, who don’t understand why Zinny keeps pushing them away, turning everything into a joke.

It also means she can’t talk about it during Lunch Club, a group run by the school guidance counselor. How did Zinny get stuck in this weird club, anyway? She certainly doesn’t have anything in common with these kids—and even if she did, she’d never betray her family’s secret.

The only good thing about school is science class, where cool teacher Ms. Molina has them doing experiments on crayfish. And when Zinny has the chance to attend a dream marine biology camp for the summer, she doesn’t know what to do. How can Zinny move forward when Gabriel—and, really, her whole family—still needs her help?

#BookReview: Love & Haight by Susan Carlton

Synopsis: It’s 1971, and seventeen-year-old Chloe and her best friend MJ head to San Francisco to ring in the New Year. But Chloe has an ulterior motive—and a secret. She’s pregnant and has devised a plan not to be. In San Francisco’s flower-power heyday, it was (just about) legal to end her pregnancy.

But as soon as the girls cross the Golden Gate, the scheme starts to unravel amid the bellbottoms, love-beads, and bongs. Chloe’s secrets escalate until she betrays everyone she cares about. MJ, who has grave doubts about Chloe’s plan. Her groovy aunt Kiki, who’s offered the girls a place to crash. Her self-absorbed mother meditating back in Phoenix. And maybe, especially, the boy she wishes she’d waited for.

#BookBlitz: The Captive King by Susan Copperfield @XpressoTours #Giveaway $25 Amazon gift card

The Captive King
Susan Copperfield
(Royal States #3)
Publication date: February 12th 2018
Genres: Adult, Urban Fantasy
In the Royal States of America, magic rules all, but life—and love—always finds a way.
At the Texas Charity Auction, money can buy anything, and Summer Cassidy is under orders to take advantage of the opportunity. While she believes the marital collar once worn by an Aztec queen belongs in a museum, it’s up to her to sell the priceless treasure to one of the elite in attendance.
Meeting Bachelor #103, a man who finds her descriptions of human sacrifice charming rather than appalling, hadn’t been part of her plans. Buying his company for a quarter hadn’t been part of her plans, either.
One coffee date, a dinner, and a curse later, Summer’s catapulted across the Royal States on an adventure that will forever change her life, alter the course of an entire kingdom, and give her a chance to earn a love capable of defying even death.

#BookReview: If You Must Know (Potomac Point #1) by Jamie Beck

Synopsis: Life turns upside down for two sisters in Wall Street Journalbestselling author Jamie Beck’s emotional novel about how secrets and differences can break—or bind—a family.

Sisters Amanda Foster and Erin Turner have little in common except the childhood bedroom they once shared and the certainty each feels that her way of life is best. Amanda follows the rules—at the school where she works; in her community; and as a picture-perfect daughter, wife, and mother-to-be. Erin follows her heart—in love and otherwise—living a bohemian lifestyle on a shoestring budget and honoring her late father’s memory with a passion for music and her fledgling bath-products business.

The sisters are content leading separate but happy lives in their hometown of Potomac Point until everything is upended by lies that force them to confront unsettling truths about their family, themselves, and each other. For sisters as different as these two, building trust doesn’t come easily—especially with one secret still between them—but it may be the only way to save their family. 

#BookBlitz: Demon by @HarleyW_Writer @XpressoTours #Giveaway a Devil's Fury MC charm bracelet

Demon
Harley Wylde
(Devil's Fury MC, #6)
Published by: Changeling Press
Publication date: September 11th 2020
Genres: Contemporary, New Adult, Romance
Farrah — I’ve spent my entire life at the Dixie Reapers MC compound — one of the perks of being the VP’s daughter. Except it’s suffocating. Leaving to start a life of my own was the only solution. I knew what it would mean if I went to the Devil’s Fury MC compound, even more so to flirt with their Sergeant-at-Arms. Getting involved would ruin the little bit of freedom I’ve found. Then I ended up in the man’s bed. Leave it to me to find trouble around every corner. My daddy is going to be so pissed, especially when I run from Demon, get snatched off the streets, and shoved into a trunk. I’m not winning at the adulting thing.
Demon — She was a one-night stand. Until the condom broke. Then I found out she’d lied to me. The hot little number in my bed wasn’t just any woman, she was the daughter of a Dixie Reaper. Maybe I shouldn’t have barked orders at her, or spanked her. Feisty little Farrah ran, pissing me off even more. When she disappeared and I realized trouble had found her, I knew I’d do whatever it took to make sure she was safe. Only after I had her back did I realize she was f**king perfect for me. Watching her handle the club wh*res was hot as hell, and she didn’t take sh*t off anyone.
I’ll make her mine — permanently.
WARNING: Demon’s book contains graphic violence and sex, bondage, spanking, bad language, and scenes that may be difficult for some readers. But it also has a heroic dog and a man who will move heaven and earth to protect the feisty, smart-mouthed woman he loves. There’s no cliffhanger and a guaranteed happily-ever-after.

#ReleaseBlitz for Personal Foul by Cala Riley @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Personal Foul

A Quick Snap Collection Novella

Author: Cala Riley
Publisher: Lady Boss Press

Genre: Sports Romance

Release Date: September 14, 2020

Blurb

Garrett "Tank" Stone lived and breathed football. As one of the best offensive linemen in the country, he thought he would start and end his career in New England. When his lifestyle injures the most important person on his team, the unthinkable happens.

Traded.

Such a dirty word. Starting over in Seattle isn't what he thought he would be doing. Especially not with the only woman who's ever turned him down.

Could this trade be a blessing or is it a curse?

Reagan Kelly's whole life has revolved around football. All she wants to do is to step out of her family's shadow and create a name for herself in the sport she loves. When Garrett Stone is traded to her team, all her carefully laid plans are blown up.

Can she fight her attraction and keep things professional or is she destined to be the next in the very long line to ride the Tank?

#BookReview: Taking Time: a Tale of Physics, Lust and Greed by @BooksMurphey @PublishingAcorn

Synopsis: The year is 2044. Housed in a secret complex beneath the eastern Arizona desert, a consortium of governments and corporations have undertaken a program on the scale of the Manhattan Project to bludgeon the laws of physics into submission and make time travel a reality. Fraught with insecurities, Marshall Grissom has spent his whole life trying not to call attention to himself, so he can’t imagine he would be remotely suited for the role of time travel pioneer. He’s even less enthusiastic about this corporate time-travel adventure when he learns that nudity is a job requirement. The task would better match the talents of candidates like the smart and beautiful Sheila Schuler, or the bristle-tough and rattlesnake-mean Marta Hamilton. As the project evolves into a clash between science and corporate greed, conflicts escalate. Those contributing the funding are mostly interested in manipulating time travel for profit, and will stop at nothing, including murder, to achieve their goals. 

Release Blitz for Lovable Lawyer by Karen Deen @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Lovable Lawyer

Author: Karen Deen

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Release Date: September 13, 2020

Blurb

Love scares me.

Yet secretly I long for it

But don’t we all.

The funny thing about life, is its habit of changing in a moment. 

A split second in time that completely blindsides you.

Lex is a cut-throat lawyer.

Always focused and in control.

There are no colors in his life. Black and white with no in between.

Cold and ruthless in his work, his life is sorted, and his path is clear.

Then the unthinkable happened.

One night my armor slipped.

I met the real him.

And I let him meet the real me.

It was wonderful.

Breathtaking

Except happy endings have a way of escaping me.

And sometimes epiphanies cause heart break.

Which means for Lex to find his happiness,

I may have to sacrifice mine.

#BookReview: Mark of the Empress (The Empire Saga #2) by @MDalto421

Synopsis: An Empress ripped back to the life she left behind.

A Prince desperate to save his people.

One child lost within another realm, the other dependent on their constant protection.

Betrayed by those closest to her, Empress Alexstrayna must figure out a way to get it all back - her throne, her people, her son. 

Fulfilling a two-thousand-year-old prophecy, Reylor, the banished Lord Steward, has stripped Alex of her rightful rule and set in motion a chain of events even he, himself, does not fully understand. Determined to strip his brother of happiness by any means possible, his actions send Alex and Treyan back to Boston and away from the Empire they called home.

Blinded by vengeance with hate running thick within her veins, the Empress must consider the ramifications of their return, for better or for worse. But when an unexpected visitor offers help assist with their attempts, Alex and Treyan need to determine how best to reclaim their Empire without more lives lost before whatever time they have left runs out.

It’s time to return to the Empire. Are you prepared to join the battle?

#NerdBlast: Dead of Winter by Lindy Ryan @JeanBookNerd #Giveaway

Eight chilling tales to read under the Cold Moon.

A tinker’s son acquires a cursed soul.

A dying woman is haunted by her own reflection.

An uninvited presence haunts a Christmas seance.

A festive holiday turns macabre.

Despite the twinkling lights and steaming cocoa, the end of the year is the darkest time of the year—a season of short days, long nights, and cold skies. In this special anniversary anthology, the authors of Black Spot Books mix Ye Olde Yuletide hauntings with modern-day holiday horrors to weave a chilling new collection of dark winter tales. From frozen forests stalked by eerie Christmas ghosts to rotting gifts of winter malice, the spirits of Christmas come home for the holidays in the Dead of Winter.