#BookReview: Rise of the Exiled Lady (Blood Phoenix Chronicles, #4) by Michael J. Allen @TheDScribbler

Synopsis: The Ripples of One Selfish Mistake Could Drown the World...

A phoenix has fallen, forever destroyed by the drowned druid's fury.

Blinded by his obsession, Dunham unleashes his enslaved phoenixes against Quayla. The spectacular assault reveals the faeries to mankind, endangering the Exiled Lady's campaign to reclaim her throne. Desperate, Viviane trades one monster for another, offering Vitae his heart's desire.

Terror and blood run rampant throughout Creation. Giggling faeries sell supernatural powers to murderers and madmen, reveling in the mayhem while mortal authorities struggle to contain the carnage.

Alone and outmatched, Quayla must return to where her mistake launched their pending destruction. But will facing her demons strengthen her enough to save Atlanta or destroy her once and for all.

#PreorderBlitz for Shielded Wrongs by @AdelaideForrest and @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Shielded Wrongs

Series: Bellandi Crime Syndicate #4

Author: Adelaide Forrest

Genre: Dark Mafia Romance

Release Date: October 26, 2020

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Sadie

Of all the Bellandi men, Lorenzo Vescovi should have been my safety. The one who would understand right from wrong.

But there’s a demon inside him, a cold-blooded killing machine begging to be freed from what remains of his humanity. 

I tempt him. I tease him, just by being me.

And when war erupts all around us, I have to hope I’m strong enough to withstand the flames of his possession.

Enzo

Of all the women in the world, Sadie is the one I should stay the farthest away from. The one my boss forbids me from touching.

But one look at her honey eyes, and I’m lost to the need to make her mine. 

She’s a mess of contradictions and full of jagged edges that threaten to pull me apart at the seams and unleash the beast lurking within. 

I can’t resist her rebellions. But when she’s threatened by my enemies, I’ll risk everything to keep her safe.

Even my humanity.

Shielded Wrongs is a full-length standalone novel with an HEA, but the series presents a better reading experience when following the suggested reading order.

This series contains dark elements, including an over-the-top antihero who does as he pleases. Please read at your own discretion.

#ReleaseBlitz: The Stolen Empire Box Set by @Sherry_Ficklin

                                                           Title: The Stolen Empire Boxset

                                                                Author: Sherry D. Ficklin

Genre: YA Historical Romance
Cover Designer: Strong Image Editing
Publication Date: Oct. 12^th, 2020
Publisher: Clean Teen Publishing
Hosted by: Lady Amber’s PR

Blurb: 

The Stolen Empire series is a decedent journey through the eras of Russia's most scandalous queens, Catherine the Great and Empress Elizabeth. Beginning with the humble origins of young Sophie—the girl destined to become Catherine—and culminating with her coronation, this series offers a fanciful glimpse inside the life of the dynamic, strong young woman who won the hand of a king, the heart of a nation, and, ultimately, sacrificed her own innocence on the throne of an empire. The trials and tribulations of court left their scars on young Sophie, but she faced down every obstacle with the courage and grace of a queen.

 

But before Catherine was great, there was Elizabeth, daughter of Peter the Great, whose claim to the sovereignty of Russia was thwarted at every turn. Passed over time and again, she battled a corrupt council, distant and unhinged relatives, and even her own desires to seize the throne that should have been hers.  Surviving personal tragedies, unimaginable losses, and political sabotage, Elizabeth clawed her way to the top, becoming the first woman to lead the Romanov Empire—but also the one who laid the groundwork for its eventual destruction.

 

Don’t miss this scandalous series about the tenacious women who rose up to rule in infamy, and, in doing so, changed the fate of Russia forever.

#ReleaseBlitz: The Window by @typeateacher @RABTBookTours

 

Women’s Fiction

Date Published: 10/12/20

Publisher: TouchPoint Press

 

After making the biggest mistake of her life, Olivia wasn’t comfortable anywhere — ever. Except in her dreams.

 

Is he really real? For so many years, I’ve wondered if I imagined him. I’ve lived too many years in fear of never being free. It wasn’t even about happiness. Everyone always asks, “Are you happy?” Does anyone really want happiness? We all just want to be able to breathe. We all just want to be comfortable in our own skin. I was completely comfortable in mine, until I married Christopher Brewer. After making the biggest mistake of my life, I wasn’t comfortable anywhere, ever. Well, except in my dreams.

 

Rarely do you find a book that deals with alcoholism/addiction and a fantasy element.

#CoverReveal for Broken Hearts by Andi Rhodes @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Broken Hearts

Series: Broken Rebel Brotherhood: 

Next Generation #1

Author: Andi Rhodes

Genre: MC Romance

Cover Design: Amanda Walker,

Amanda Walker PA & Design Services

Release Date: November 12, 2020

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Tillie… 

I’ve loved Isaiah for as long as I can remember, but sometimes love isn’t enough. Not when the pull of serving our country is my competition. With no other choice, I rebuild myself and focus my attention on the clients of the Broken Rebel Brotherhood, the people who need the club’s help. I even date other guys in an effort to circumvent the heartache. It works for a while but eventually, the past comes back in the form of muscles, tats and so much baggage. 

Isaiah is no longer the boy I loved. He’s a man that oozes sin and pain. His eyes tell a story that I’m not sure I’m up to hearing. Why then is it so hard to turn my back on him? And why in the hell is he the only person my soul calls out to when I’m in trouble? 

Isaiah… 

Leaving my family and Tillie was the hardest thing I’ve ever done. But duty called and I had to answer. Especially if I want to be the president of the Broken Rebel Brotherhood and fill my dad’s very large shoes. When a bombing sends me back to the only place I’ve ever called home, I mistakenly think that everything will magically be the same. 

Not only has everything changed, but Tillie has moved on. She’s become a woman I don’t recognize, a woman who spends her days proving she doesn’t need me. But I know her better than she knows herself. And danger lurks in the shadows, threatening her existence, whether she wants to admit it or not. I will stop at nothing to protect her, to show her that we still belong together. 

Fighting for my country was my duty. Fighting for Tillie is everything.

#BookReview: A Witch in Time by Constance Sayers

Synopsis: A young woman in Belle Epoque France is cursed to relive a doomed love affair through many lifetimes, as both troubled muse and frustrated artist.

In 1895, sixteen-year-old Juliet LaCompte has a passionate, doomed romance with the married Parisian painter Auguste Marchant. When her mother — a witch — botches a curse on Marchant, she unwittingly binds Juliet to the artist through time, damning her to re-live her affair and die tragically young lifetime after lifetime as the star-crossed lovers reincarnate through history.

Luke Varner, the worldly demon tasked with maintaining this badly crafted curse, has been helplessly in love with his charge, in all her reincarnations, since 19th century France. He’s in love with Nora, a silver screen starlet in 1930s Hollywood. He’s in love with Sandra, a struggling musician in 1970s Los Angeles. And he’s in love with Helen, a magazine exec in present-day DC who has the power to “suggest” others do her bidding.

In this life, Helen starts to recall the curse and her tragic previous lives. But this time, she might have the power to break the cycle…

A Witch in Time is perfect for fans of A Secret History of Witches, Outlander, and The Time Traveler’s Wife.

#BookReview: The Second Home by Christina Clancy

Synopsis: A debut novel set on Cape Cod that centers on a beloved family home and the summer that changed the lives of three siblings forever, perfect for readers of J. Courtney Sullivan and Elin Hilderbrand.

After a disastrous summer spent at her family's summer home on Cape Cod, seventeen year old Ann Gordon is left harboring a secret that changes her life forever, and creates a rift between her sister, Poppy, and their adopted brother, Michael.

Now, fifteen years later, her parents have died, and Ann and her sister Poppy are left to decide the fate of the old Wellfleet home that's been in the Gordon family for generations. While they both love the house, they decide to sell it and move forward. But then Michael re-enters their lives with a legitimate claim to a third of the estate. He wants the house. But more than that, he wants to set the record straight about that long ago summer.

Reunited after years apart, these very different siblings are forced to decide if they can continue to be a family--and in the process, they'll discover that the house might be the glue that holds them together. 

#ReleaseBlitz for Doctor Desirable by @anjelica_grace @CockyClub and @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Doctor Desirable

A Cocky Hero Club Novel

Author: Anjelica Grace

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Release Date: October 11, 2020

Vi Keeland and Penelope Ward are excited to bring you the Cocky Hero Club: original works from various authors inspired by Keeland and Ward's New York Times bestselling Cocky Bastard series.

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Leaving Colorado wasn’t my first choice. 

It wasn’t even my second. 

But when the job of a lifetime in Rhode Island presented itself, who could say no? 

I could fulfill my two years and then move back home. It was the perfect plan. 

What I didn’t count on, however, was him... 

Doctor Desirable. 

Beautiful, smart, arrogant, and such a prick. 

Staying away from him should be easy. 

It should be a no brainer. 

Never date coworkers. Period. 

Especially one who could get me fired with the snap of his talented fingers. 

The consequences to giving into temptation could be dire. 

Everything I’ve worked for could vanish. 

Getting closer to him could prove to be catastrophic… 

Or it could be just what the doctor ordered. 

Doctor Desirable is a contemporary workplace/doctor romance inspired by British Bedmate.

#BookReview: Unchained (Scion #3) by Michael J. Allen @TheDScribbler

Synopsis: Alaric’s crusade against slavery backfires when the Corollas unknowingly capture and collar him once more. Enslaved as a pit fighter side by side with his old enemy, Manc Shepherd, Alaric must survive to break his chains.

A mysterious huntress pursues Alaric, ultimately ingratiating herself with Tyne in order to get close to Alaric and complete her contract. War hero Commodore Bruce Dolan det Regis does everything he can to find Alaric—including recruit, cajole and extort Alaric’s one time friends.

Missing, beaten and bathed in blood, Alaric finds new and old allies in the pit that help transform him into a killing machine. Coming sword to sword with a refugee Alaric’s schemes sold into slavery, he chooses to defy his owner, the Dominari, in a way that reveals his location.

Enemies and allies race to the Dominari’s doorstep. They demand she turn Alaric over, refusing to divulge his identity. She pledges to kill Alaric and burn Scrics Three to the ground before surrendering her prize. When she learns Alaric’s identity, the Dominari organizes a public spectacle that forces him to kill his friends or die.

Alaric rescues Manc as he affects an escape and returns to the stars. Pelson and the others waylay Alaric en route to rebuild the destroyed Cassiopeia, revealing Alaric’s true identity. Still reeling from these revelations, Alaric witnesses the destructive atrocities of a bold, new Corollas juggernaut. 

Will Alaric choose an easy life with a family he can’t remember or rid the Protectorate of slavery once and for all with the help of a KIOSC-shortcutting hack, a new crew and the new Cassiopeia?

#BookReview: Girl Gone Ghost by @TheDawnHusted @YauponBerry

Synopsis: A cheerleader with a reputation. A ghost who wants justice. Two lives bound together until the killer is found. 

Sonora’s popularity means more to her than a new Michael Kors purse. With Fall Fling around the corner, she’s on the lookout for the perfect gown in the small Texas town. But a ghost has different plans. 

When her best friend’s body floats ashore Brushy Creek, Sonora is haunted by the corpse-like spirit. The incessant ghost refuses to leave Sonora alone. She must risk death and sanity to find her friend’s killer. If Sonora isn’t careful, she’ll be the next victim. 

Girl Gone Ghost is a standalone novel. If you like gripping suspense, sizzling chemistry, and dark secrets, then you’ll love Dawn Husted’s mystery, thriller romance. 

*Perfect for fans of We Were Liars, Pretty Little Liars, and The Sixth Sense.

#BookReview: Hijacked (Scion #3) by Michael J. Allen @TheDScribbler

Synopsis: Manc Shepherd is alive, desperate and mad as hedrin. 

Before the hunt for payback even begins, the Corollas's deadliest killers target Manc as prey. Down to his last, most treacherous allies and his father's old fighters, Manc races against death to find the hapless boy who has endangered Manc's schemes by systematically foiling ambush, assassination, and betrayal. 

Two problems stand in the way of Manc piecing back together his doomed, lifelong vendetta. Alaric Ignaree has vanished, and the kid reminds Manc of the father he is desperate to avenge. 

Manc knows Alaric's weakness, but how far will Manc blur the line between hero and villain to achieve justice? Moreover, can he kill the boy that he always wanted to become?

#BookBlitz: Saving Kimi by @hibrookestanton @XpressoTours #Giveaway Signed copy of Saving Kimi + a $25 Amazon gift card

Saving Kimi
Brooke Stanton
(Forbidden Romance, #4)
Publication date: October 13th 2020
Genres: Adult, Historical Romance, Western

From a RWA award-winning and #1 bestselling author comes a scorching new historical romance!

Scandal is second nature to outcast Kimimela Wallace…and so are the passions she can’t deny.

Fleeing a forbidden desire in the small Oklahoma town where her white father raised her, Kimi escapes to the Cheraksaw Reservation to be with her mother—and quickly finds herself in the arms of her childhood friend, Soaring Falcon. But no sooner does she arrive than her mother forces her out to make it on her own. The only thing to do is to take work she doesn’t want…as a governess for hard-hearted widower, Alex Randall. But the rumors and the reputation Kimi fled in town follow her there. And so does her curiosity as Mr. Randall stirs new desires in her when she discovers his shocking secret. Then tragedy strikes, and Kimi must risk everything to save both men. But deciding who will win her heart may mean stripping away the one thing she values most—her freedom. Can she give up one love for another, or will passion and forbidden desires lead to more than she thought possible?

#Cover for a beautiful broken life by Zoey Zane @XpressoTours

a beautiful broken life
Zoey Zane
Publication date: December 3rd 2020
Genres: Poetry, Romance

some of the best and worst things come in pairs
and two has always been my favorite number

they tried to break me
the two of them

if this was black and white
there’d be a clear winner

but it’s not
and there isn’t

there is only my story
muddled with color

#ReleaseBlitz for the Crowned & Claimed Collection by @betty_shreffler and @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Crowned & Claimed Collection

Author: Betty Shreffler

Genre: Royal Reverse Harem Romance

Release Date: October 8, 2020

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In a world where a woman's purity is the fine line between being Queen and being killed, he was given one duty--to protect my purity and above all, to protect me. Both were a battle we weren't ready for. 

USA Today Bestselling Author Betty Shreffler brings you a royal romance series full of irresistible love, passion, and forbidden romance. 

Forced by tradition, I must give myself to a man from the Royal Houses. Each one competing to be my King, all wanting what no other has had...my purity. 

To have what I truly want would risk my entire reign, but to do what is expected of me would destroy my heart. My only protection is to follow through, giving each royal the opportunity to win their prize...me in a bedroom suite and a crown atop their head.

Behind closed doors, I commit my biggest sin, loving a man I'm forbidden to have. When the time comes for me to be crowned, I'll be forced to make a choice--risk our love or risk my life. 

From the Author: This series contains mature themes as well as multiple men pursuing and having a relationship with the lead heroine. This series is packed with passionate, toe-curling romance, page-turning drama, and unexpected twists. Once you start, you won't want to put it down! 

Crowned and Claimed is a royal romance continuation series and includes all three books: 

Claimed Royalty 

Twice Claimed 

Forever Claimed

#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. 

#TitleReveal: With Shield and Ink and Bone by Casey L. Bond @authorcaseybond @agarcia6510

Title: With Shield and Ink and Bond
Author: Casey L. Bond
Genre: Upper YA Historical Fantasy
Editor: Stacy Sanford/ The Girl with the Red Pen
Publication Date: Nov. 13^th, 2020
Hosted by: Lady Amber’s PR

Blurb: 

A hard-earned shield.

 

Days before she is to take her place as a shield maiden, like her mother before her, two deaths alter the course of Liv’s future. One belonged to a witch who called her by name, the other a chieftain from the north. Vengeance for the chieftain’s death comes in a wild fury that burns her village and slaughters her family. Left for dead, Liv pleads to Skuld – norn and weaver of the future – to spare her. A deal is struck that will endow her with the dark magic needed to claim her vengeance. But this power comes at an unfathomable price…

 

Ink made from the ashes of loved ones.

 

After his home is attacked, Calder races to warn neighboring villages of the threat. Little does he know he’s traveling into the path of fate that will lead him straight to Liv. Despite being broken, angry, and overwhelmed by power she cannot contain, it’s her willingness to defend others that draws Calder to her.

 

Armor forged from the bones of those she held dear.

 

Together, Liv and Calder discover they are two sides of the same sharpened blade. Rising from the heartache and fury in their pasts, they see a future together worth fighting for. With their strengths and hearts combined, can they become a force powerful enough to defeat the fleet of darkness coming for them? Or will the thread of fate that binds them unravel?

#BookTour: Young & Broke & Educated by Alexander Baima @rabtbooktours @PublishingAcorn

Finance/Economics

Date Published: September 22

Publisher: Acorn Publishing

 

Alexander Baima graduated college with $80,000 in student debt at the age of 23 from one of the top 25 business schools in America. After college he went to work as a financial planner and serviced fortune 500 clients. He created the financial plans that brokers took credit for, and while they grossed millions a year, he made minimum wage.

At 29, his parents had a house with an $80,000 mortgage and a child – and they lived on one income. At 29, Alexander still had over $50,000 in student debt. How could previous generations have so much more than most millennials who still struggle with little hope for the future?

Young, Broke and Educated investigates the decline of purchasing power among young people, especially over the last generation. It explores in basic, easy to understand terms, how economic systems have evolved to hinder the financial success of millennials and the incentives that government, big business and banks have to prevent progressive change.

Alexander Baima, a master in the field of eCommerce and early adopter of blockchain technology, walks you through, step-by-step, what the issues are and what needs to change to ensure that millennials and future generations have access to the same type of success that previous generations took for granted.

#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?

#ReleaseBlitz for Rescued by @evan76grace and @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Rescued

An Everyday Heroes World Novel

Author: Evan Grace

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Release Date: October 8, 2020

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Evan Grace’s Rescued is a hot, intense, emotional contemporary romance written in K. Bromberg’s Everyday Heroes Worlds project.

After spending the last few years globtrotting for her travel vlog, Gwen Malone has finally decided to come home to Sunnyville, California. Her plan was to spend time with her family and friends, and decide where to go next. 

The last thing she expected was to be attracted to the tattooed police officer, Maverick Graves. At her welcome home party her sister and best friend warn her to stay away, that he’s a player and commitmentphobic. That was the plan except she saw him everywhere — sometimes with other women. That only solidified that Gwen needed to avoid him.

To Maverick, Gwen was untouchable. Yes, she was gorgeous, he was very interested, but she was his boss’s daughter and he wasn’t going to go there no matter how much he wanted to. 

A simple favor for her dad and she was in a van with him driving along the coast. When an accident traps them together things get real, quick. When they’re finally rescued they can’t seem to stay apart, no matter how hard they try. 

Things can change in an instant — will they both give in to what they really want? Or deny their true feelings, losing the other forever.

#BookReview: Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices #1) by Cassandra Clare

Synopsis: In a time when Shadowhunters are barely winning the fight against the forces of darkness, one battle will change the course of history forever. Welcome to the Infernal Devices trilogy, a stunning and dangerous prequel to the New York Timesbestselling Mortal Instruments series.

The year is 1878. Tessa Gray descends into London’s dark supernatural underworld in search of her missing brother. She soon discovers that her only allies are the demon-slaying Shadowhunters—including Will and Jem, the mysterious boys she is attracted to. Soon they find themselves up against the Pandemonium Club, a secret organization of vampires, demons, warlocks, and humans. Equipped with a magical army of unstoppable clockwork creatures, the Club is out to rule the British Empire, and only Tessa and her allies can stop them...