#BookReview: Loud House Winter Special by The Loud House Creative Team @PapercutzGN @Anniebookreader

Synopsis: Winter is about to get a whole lot more chaotic with the cast of The Loud House and
The Casagrandes. Hit the slopes with Ronnie Anne Santiago and her best friend Sid or
hit the ice with Lily who can skate like nobody’s watching. To warm up, enjoy a frothy
cup of hot cocoa—but who has a better recipe, Abuela or Mr. Chang? Decorate some
ornaments or a gingerbread house with the Loud kids—Lincoln, Lori, Leni, Lynn, Luna,
Luan, Lucy, Lola, Lana, Lisa, and Lily. Or just curl up with your favorite online game…
on a frozen computer. No matter, Luan has a puppet show to make you think of warmer
weather. All this and more with laughs, family, and lots and lots of chaos.

This title will be released on October 6, 2020.

#ReleaseBlitz for Double Dog Dare You by @AuthLaceyBlack and @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Double Dog Dare You

Author: Lacey Black

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Release Date: September 15, 2020

Blurb

Quinn

One simple text message can change everything. I found that out the hard way. One minute I’m complaining about a horrible picture of a guy’s you-know-what, and the next, I’m having conversations with a stranger. A gorgeous, rebel of a man who makes my heart skip a beat and does a number on my panties.

The only problem is we’re not looking for the same things in life. I want stability and a family, while he always has his eye out for the next good time.

Royce

She may literally be the most beautiful woman I’ve ever met. Funny, it all started with an accidental text message. About unwanted male member photos, actually, and from that moment, I was hooked. She’s the perfect woman really, except for one tiny little flaw. She’s looking for the one thing that makes me want to run for the door. Forever.

Yet, somehow, I can’t seem to let her go. She might be the one dare I actually fail.

#BookReview: The Paramedic's Choice (Extreme Medical Services #3) by @podmedic

Synopsis: Terrorists, Murder, Redemption Paramedic Dean Flynn works every day to heal the creatures of myth and legend in Elk City. When a human hate group declares war on his patients, Dean, with his angel girlfriend, and the vampire lord of Elk City, must work with all the forces of good to fight the terrorists hidden in their midst. Using magic, prophecy, and all his paramedic skills, Dean fights to save his patients, even after being framed for a murder he didn't commit. With his lifelong dreams shattered and taken away from him, can Dean find a way around the obstacles thrown in his path? Will he have the strength to make the choice when the time comes to fulfill his destiny? Enter the world of "Extreme Medical Services" with the third book in the exciting urban paranormal fantasy series. Join up with Dean. Buy "The Paramedic's Choice" now.

#BookBlitz: The Healing Touch by @AprylBaker @agarcia6510

Title: The Healing Touch

Author: Apryl Baker

Genre: NA Contemporary Romance

Publisher: Limitless Publishing, LLC

Hosted by: Lady Amber’s PR

Blurb: *** 3RD ANNIVERSARY EDITION ***

Dimitri—

I admit it. I’m a manwhore…and proud of it.

But I’m not a total asshole. The women always know where they stand. They’re a booty call—nothing more. Everything out in the open. That’s my way.

Except have a secret, one that could ruin my career. A man who writes romance novels has to be perfect, like the men in the books. It’s what fans expect.

…and I’m not.

It could all come out at Southern Book Bash, one of the biggest author signings of the year. There’s only one person I can trust, one person who will help me do what needs to be done and keep my secret hidden from my readers.

My best friend and personal assistant, Rebecca Rhodes.

But when I ask her to put her issues aside in favor of mine, she flat-out refuses, quits, and throws my world upside down.

Becca—

I’ve been in love with Dimitri since I was fifteen years old. Yes, I know what he is. I’ve never had expectations from him. He’s my best friend, and I’m okay with that.

Besides, I have my own secrets.

I haven’t left my apartment in two years—and suddenly my boss and best friend demands I leave my safe zone and accompany him into my own personal idea of hell.

But though it means drowning in panic, in the end, I can’t deny him. I have to help him. He needs me.

Dammit.

Can Dimitri and Becca heal each other and find a love they’ve both longed for? Or will an ex from Dimitri’s past ruin it all?

#BookBlitz: Stunner by @marteekakarland @XpressoTours #GIveaway $10 Amazon gift card

Stunner
Marteeka Karland
(Bones MC, #9)
Publication date: September 14th 2020
Genres: Contemporary, New Adult, Romance
Suzie — College isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Rather, the other grad students aren’t. I’m the youngest grad student at MIT and to say other students resent me for it is an understatement. To top it all off, I miss my Stunner. He’s been with me after the darkest moments of my life, helping me pull myself back together. He’s seen me at my worst, now I want him to see me at my best. Now, if he’d just return my calls, I might be able to get myself around the mean girls (and boys) at school.
Stunner– To say I’ve got ghosts in my past and skeletons in my closet is the understatement of the century. Suzie deserves a man more suited to her station than me, and she definitely deserves a man who’s not a stone cold killer. I have my uses. Protecting her body, heart, and soul is one of those. I just never expected to fall for the woman after the girl grew up.
Now, not only has she run into a foul and vindictive f*cktard, my past has caught up to me in a huge way. My past associations rise up and there may be no way to keep from being swept back up into the madness. All I truly know is that I won’t let any of it touch Suzie. Even if it means giving her up. Forever.
WARNING: Explicit violence which could be triggers for some readers. Explicit sex that might offend some readers. As always, you can expect a HEA with no cheating.

#ReleaseBlitz: Starfighter Rising by @DanSeegWrites @RABTBookTours #Giveaway

 Science Fiction

Date Published: 9/17/2020

 

The enemy wanted him. The galaxy needed him.

Sixty years ago Nolvarics nearly conquered the solar system. They were defeated by starfighters.

Konran dreamed of becoming a starfighter, but he blew his one shot five years ago. Now his life is stuck in neutral as a glorified rock hauler.

He didn’t expect to find Nolvarics lurking within the solar system. They didn’t expect him to survive the confrontation.

Now all eyes are on Konran as he is plunged into a whirlwind of space battles, peril, and conspiracy. The Nolvarics will stop at nothing to catch him, dead or alive.

Can Konran rise up and claim his destiny, or will the galaxy fall?

#ReleaseBlitz: Against My Better Judement by @btpolcari @RABTBookTours #Giveaway

Mauzzy and Me Mystery, Book 1

Mystery, New Adult

Date Published: September 16, 2020

Publisher: The Wild Rose Press

 

When freshman year at the University of Alabama draws to a close, Sara Donovan finds herself grappling with the same old question—listen to her head or follow her heart. What she ends up doing is purchasing an Egyptian

souvenir funerary mask, and after a mysterious phone call, she's certain a ring of antiquities smugglers are operating in Tuscaloosa.

With finals never far from her mind and her return to 'Bama hanging in the balance, she should be studying. Instead she launches her own investigation to prove her mask is indeed a stolen artifact, and not a cheap trinket. When it comes time to snoop, Sara is more than ready, or at least she was until a hot new teaching assistant moves in next door.

Suddenly she learns things are never as they seem. Ever.

#BookReview: The Paramedic's Angel (Extreme Medical Services #2) by @podmedic

Synopsis: Paramedic Dean Flynn is finally getting used to his Unusual ambulance patients, the creatures of myth and legend who live among us all. But with werewolves, vampires, fairies and more as his 911 patients, is he ready for an Unusual in his personal life? Ashley Moore is not just an ER nurse, she is a heavenly angel on earth, sent to help Dean solve the mystery of the hate crime attacks on his patient community. The Cause is determined to undermine the Unusual community, scare them into a starting a race war, and expose them to their human neighbors. Will Dean be able to juggle the professional challenges of serving his patients, the personal challenges of having an angel in his life, and still find those at the root of these crimes? 

#ReleaseBlitz for Diamonds are Forever by @CharmainePauls and @GiveMeBooksPR #Giveaway ($50 Amazon gift card)

Title: Diamonds are Forever
A Diamond Magnate Novel
Series: Diamonds are Forever Trilogy #3
Author: Charmaine Pauls
Genre: Dark Romance

Release Date: September 15, 2020

Blurb

My love is wasted like gemstones in the dust, walked over by an oblivious shoe. It takes many suffering years and layers of mountains to squeeze carbon into a precious stone. Now that I’m polished and hard like a diamond, he doesn’t get to kick me back into the dirt.

Men like him don’t love women like me.

They don’t love.

Period.

But he made me.

He’ll live with me.

Because diamonds are forever.

(Diamonds are Forever concludes this trilogy. Diamonds in the Dust (Book 1) and Diamonds in the Rough (Book 2) must be read to follow the story.)

#BookBlitz: Indebted by @CassyHallman & @AuthorJLBeck @XpressoTours #Giveaway 3x signed copies of Indebted

Indebted
J.L. Beck & C. Hallman
(King Crime Family Series, #1)
Publication date: September 7th 2020
Genres: Adult, Dark Romance, Romance
It was a debt to be settled, a price to be repaid.
Sold. My body, mind, and soul, are given to the most terrifying man I’ve ever met.
Enzo King.
Violent, commanding, gorgeous, and sinister.
He’s a killer, a thief, and feared by many.
He has the ability to pin me to the ground with one single look and make me feel things I don’t want too.
Feeding off my fears, he holds me captive in his mansion away from the rest of the world.
I know what’s to come.
He’ll break me.
Take from me.
Own me.
Soon enough my life will no longer be my own, but his.
Every part of my body, every breath I take, and every beat of my heart will belong to him.
He’s determined to settle the debt by taking everything from me, what he doesn’t know is that he’ll never have my soul or my love.
**This book was previously published in 2014 under the title Indebted, but has been completely rewritten with new character names, and a more in depth story line. You’re not getting the same story from before.**

#BookTour: Mystery Bones Murders by @klrandau @RABTBookTours #Giveaway

Notorious Minds Crime Mystery Thriller Boxset

Mystery/Thriller

Date Published: October 13, 2020

Publisher: Fire Quill Publishers

Frankie Shep is still mourning the deaths of her husband and young son when she finds a bone in the far corner of her Wyoming cattle ranch.

Excited to think she may have discovered an ancient Native American village, she takes the bone to a lifelong friend who is now a forensic anthropologist on contract with her county.

After a cursory inspection, he turns a blood-chilling stare at Frankie. The bone isn’t ancient. Worse, the victim could be the remains of Frankie’s mother. She disappeared from her own bed more than a decade ago.

And now her retired father is missing.

As Frankie digs deeper, she discovers the terrifying truth that a serial killer is using her land to bury his victims, all members of her family and inner circle.

And now he’s watching her.

Mystery Bones Murders is a story of love, heart-wrenching deception, and finding redemption.

#ReleaseBlitz: Summer of L.U.C.K. by @LauraStegman @intensepub @RABTBookTours

Middle-Grade Contemporary Fantasy

Published Date: 9-15-20

Publisher: INtense Publications LLC

 

Stuttering Darby is never perfect enough for her mother. Justin's been silent since his dad died. Naz is struggling to learn English. But after they meet at summer camp, mysterious calliope music from an abandoned warehouse grants them power to communicate without words. When they sneak inside, the dark, empty space bursts into a magical carnival. They're greeted by the ghost of Leroy Usher, who asks for their help convincing his family to restore the carnival to its former glory. In return, he promises to teach the kids how to find their voices. As Darby, Justin, and Naz are swept off on a series of midnight adventures via Mr. Usher's carnival rides, they discover they're capable of more than they ever imagined. With each challenge, their confidence in communicating – and in themselves – grows. Meanwhile, they scheme to persuade the Usher family to revive the carnival. But when Darby’s bunkmates trick her into starring in the camp talent show, her budding confidence falters. Can she risk being less than perfect by performing in the show and speaking up to Mr. Usher's resistant son? If not, she'll put the carnival in danger and sabotage her most important quest: to believe in herself, stutter and all.

#ReleaseBlitz: Lies Behind the Woods by Bradley Cornish @RABTBookTours

Psychological Thriller, Psychological Fiction

Release Date: September 14, 2020

Publisher: Prodigious Publishing

 

Steve Breiten is a college professor who has a long line of failed relationships behind him. All he wants is a long vacation in the mountains, free of drama and responsibilities, where he can relax, read, and maybe even start writing his book. He didn't expect a mysterious woman to walk into his office - not that woman, the one who had been kidnapped all those years ago and rescued after a tip he'd left at the police station.

Now, his plans for the summer have taken a dramatic shift. Tara Murphy is determined to show her gratitude for his actions that fateful day, and she won't take no for an answer. As the heat builds between them, Steve finds himself at a moral crossroads. He doesn't want to take advantage of this young, damaged woman. But he finds his resistance to her sexual advances fading fast.

It's only a matter of time before she leads him to the secret that lies behind the woods...

Don't miss this thrilling, fast-paced tale of love, lust, and betrayal.

#BookReview: Extreme Medical Services (Extreme Medical Services #1) by @podmedic

Synopsis: Read the book described by one reader as "Like Grimm With Paramedics." Follow the exploits of new paramedic Dean Flynn as he gets assigned to a backwater station no one has ever heard of, Station U. He soon learns that his unusual patients are far from normal. They are the creatures of myth and legend. His tough, experienced paramedic trainer Brynne is determined to teach him everything she knows. With vampires, werewolves, witches and fairies as patients, will he survive? Will they?

#BookBlitz: Marrying My Billionaire Hookup by @NadiaLee @XpressoTours #Giveaway $10 Amazon gift card

Marrying My Billionaire Hookup
Nadia Lee
Publication date: September 12th 2020
Genres: Adult, Comedy, Contemporary, Romance
If any of my over-protective brothers ask, I’m pregnant via immaculate conception. Otherwise, the baby I’m carrying could be the death of one hot billionaire…
Jo
After a succession of relationships bad enough to set a Guinness World Record, running into a ruggedly handsome billionaire feels like a sign. Edgar is from out of town, mesmerizing, and his voice reminds me of Louisiana heat. Just listening to him makes my toes curl. So I throw aside all caution and spend the hottest night of my life in his bed, knowing we’ll never see each other again.
Until a positive pregnancy test brings him back into my life. And now he only wants to marry me to do right by the baby, but here’s the thing…
I’ll never settle. I want what my parents have: true love. Nothing — not even the electric chemistry that crackles every time Edgar and I are together — will deter me from that goal.
Edgar
Love is like alcohol. It destroys clarity and impairs judgment. I’ve seen my parents making one bad decision after another in the name of love, destroying our family.
But Jo wants love before she’ll marry me. So I’ll approximate it. Unlike my father, I’ll make sure my child knows she’s cherished (contrary to what Jo thinks, I know it’s a girl). I’m too sensible to fall in love and disrupt my already well-ordered life, even though every second I spend with her feels like skydiving without a parachute…

#BookTour: Collective Darkness: A Horror Story Anthology @CollectiveDark1

Synopsis: Collective Darkness, a horror anthology, isn’t for the faint of heart 

Love horror? Then you’re in luck. Collective Darkness, a horror anthology (a collection of short stories) has twelve new and emerging authors who really know how to make your skin crawl. 

Best of all, this horrific collection is a group effort. Not only did we have authors involved, but three editors, four audiobook narrators, two marketers, and many more helping hands. This project was a labor of the most horrific kind of love, maybe something akin to our story “Feast,” a sort of sweet possession of the senses—obsession into the unknown, draining our life fluids. 

This dark collection isn’t for the faint of heart. Read… if you dare. 

#TrailerReveal: Abney Kelly & The Yuletide Shenanigans by @SJMcQuiston @YABoundToursPR

Abney Kelly & The Yuletide Shenanigans

by SamiJo McQuiston

Genre: YA Fantasy

Release Date: October 9th 2020

Summary:

Abney Kelly seems like your typical thirteen-year-old trying to find her place in the world. She’s shy, awkward, has no friends, and is bullied constantly. However things are not always as they appear, after being pushed into a clover patch, a creature who says he’s her assigned guardian whisks her off to a school in Tìr na nÓg, called Yule.

Turns out she’s a Changeling, and it’s time she learns what that means. Between making new friends, discovering that all the monsters in her nightmares are real, and starting at a new school, Abney didn’t think life could get any harder as she splits her time between the human and Fae realms.

That is until her house matron warns them about Nicholas Kringle. He is stalking his prey throughout realms and collecting the hearts of those on his so-called nice list. At a New Year’s Eve party, Abney and her new gang use an Ouija board and discover that one of their friends is on Kringle’s list.

Determined to stop their friend’s death, Abney and company set off on a chilly adventure, to try to change fate, but only one thing is for certain… This year they’ll end up on the naughty list or die trying.

#ReleaseBlitz: Paris with Life by JATauthor @RABTBookTours @hurnpubbooks #Giveaway

Humorous Fiction, Romantic Comedy 

Date Published: September 15, 2020

Publisher: Hurn Publications

 

 Forty-eight-year-old Corbett Thomas, a one-hit wonder of the 90s, now works as the lead sommelier at Napa Valley’s hippest restaurant. Set to become one of the few Master Sommeliers in the world, Corbett self-destructs during his final exam, ruining his last chance at capturing the stardom and adoration he got a taste for in his youth.

When billionaire game designer, Brogan Prescott, asks Corbett to consult on a major vineyard acquisition, Corbett sees it as a shot at redemption, until he learns of Brogan’s ridiculous vision of a virtual-reality, Woke Ant Colony Winery. Disgusted, Corbett decides to buy the vineyard himself and preserve its magic and history. Cashless, clueless, and with his reputation in tatters, Corbett enlists the help of his bass-player-turned-lawyer Seamus O’Flaherty, who may have finally lost his stomach for Corbett’s bad ideas; his uber-rational daughter Remy, who wants Corbett to uncork some family secrets he’d rather leave in the cellar; and Sydney Cameron, whose sudden appearance in Corbett’s life may repair his heart or shatter it forever.

With their help-and sometimes despite it-Corbett discovers what Brogan has known all along: a four-billion-dollar gold deposit lies beneath the vineyard. If Brogan acquires the property, the ensuing gold rush will destroy Napa Valley.

But if Corbett can get out of his own way long enough to purchase the vineyard first, he’ll be faced with the hardest decision of his life: take the fame and fortune he desperately craves, or save the soul of the valley he loves so much.

#PreOrderBlitz: Our Friendship Matters by @KimberleyBJones @RABTBookTours

Young Adult

Date Published: October 5, 2020

Publisher: Rhetoric Askew Publishing, LLC

 

Leah and Sasha are 17-year-old friends who had been close to one another since elementary school, but as the summer approaches they find their friendship tested in ways they never anticipated.

Following graduation, Sasha’s privileged life and perception of the world around her is suddenly altered when an old childhood friend persuades her to join in a campaign against an injustice after his best friend is killed by a cop.

But joining the protest has unforeseen consequences for Sasha, distancing her from Leah, who becomes jealous of Sasha’s new friends and finds herself on the opposing side, protesting alongside her group of new white friends.

As the tension mounts between the two bitterly opposed factions, a tragedy strikes and threatens to make Sasha and Leah enemies. Can they find a way to resolve their differences, putting them to the side and learn to accept each other’s viewpoints? Or is their long friendship finished for good?    

#BookReview: Highland Spy (The Mercenary Maidens #1) by @MadelineMMartin

Synopsis: Ariana Fitzroy has lost her family and her fortune. The fight for survival leads her to the shadowed card games of court where she discovers she has quite a talent for slipping cards into her favor. While the winnings are enough to sustain her at present, they will not last forever… 

Connor Grant, trainer of the fallen women from the English court and personal assassin to the king, is just as broken as the women he trains. After losing his own land and all his people in a brutal attack from a trusted friend, he has no choice but to rebuild any way he sees possible – even if it means going against everything he’s ever believed in.

After catching Ariana cheating at cards, Connor has a new trainee to instruct at one of the king’s many confiscated castles. In the dilapidated ruins, he discovers Ariana is more than she appears and falls in love with her incredibly tenacity and dedication – a love that is challenged by Connor’s chance at reclaiming the inheritance he once lost and has sought so desperately to regain.

This story is one of second chances, of realizing a strength where only hopelessness once resided – a story of rising above the bad hand one has been dealt into a life of accomplishment and love.