#ReleaseBlitz for Piece by Piece by @author_k_ryan and @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Piece by Piece

Series: Riggins Brothers #2

Author: Kaylee Ryan

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Release Date: November 12, 2020

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Layla 

Owen Riggins is too good to be true... the best things in life usually are. He’s good looking, generous, and interested in me. Too bad someone like him and someone like me aren’t meant to be together. 

He’s used to the best things in life, and I’ve grown up with the worst. Building a better life means working hard and staying on track, not falling for some sexy suit with a brooding stare who is just passing through. 

Life has taught me not to trust, and even though I want him more than anything, I don’t need his charity or his love... 

Owen 

When a friend sends me to Florida to scout out a hotel, it’s the gorgeous waitress with the shy smile and the worn-out shoes I can’t take my eyes off of. 

Layla Massey is quiet, beautiful, and in need of a little help— even if she won’t admit it. A generous tip was meant to buy her some suitable shoes, not buy her love. I want to earn that all on my own. 

I’m used to women throwing themselves at me, the name, the money... but she wants neither. It makes me want her all the more. 

Little by little, she opens up and piece by piece, she’s taking my heart.

#BookReview: In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children #4) by Seanan McGuire @TorBooks

Synopsis: This fourth entry and prequel tells the story of Lundy, a very serious young girl who would rather study and dream than become a respectable housewife and live up to the expectations of the world around her. As well she should.

When she finds a doorway to a world founded on logic and reason, riddles and lies, she thinks she's found her paradise. Alas, everything costs at the goblin market, and when her time there is drawing to a close, she makes the kind of bargain that never plays out well.

#Reveal the #Cover for The Echoed Realm by @AJVrana @XpressoTours

The Echoed Realm
A.J. Vrana
(The Chaos Cycle, #2)
Publication date: June 8th 2021
Genres: Fantasy, Magical Realism, New Adult

Miya’s world ended in Black Hollow.

It’s been three years since the Dreamwalker upended her life and left her with a heavy burden. A fledgling to the ethereal realm, Miya stumbles into the nightmares of those haunted by spectres. Little does she know, one of them is coming for her, clutching a dark secret abreast.

Kai has found a new purpose with his companion, but the price is his freedom. Bound and beholden to Miya, he struggles to adjust to his new role as her vanguard.

Meanwhile, Mason discovers he may be a pawn trapped in a web of schemes. Was his time in Black Hollow an accident, or was it only the beginning of some greater machination?

As Black Hollow’s bloody stain spreads beyond its wooded borders, Miya fights to evade a past she barely understands. The Dreamwalker’s legacy is a vise grip, and it isn’t letting go. Primordial horrors draw near, fables come alive, and long-buried histories rise from the grave, ready to hunt.

Sharpen your claws and bloody your teeth. There’s fear to be sown.

#TrailerReveal: House of Bastiion by @kolarichk @YABoundToursPR

 

House of Bastiion

by K.L. Kolarich

Genre: YA/NA High Fantasy/ Adventure

Release Date: January 19th 2021

Summary:

BEHIND THE MASK O#F DUTY AND POWER, NO ONE IS WHO THEY SEEM…

Centuries after the Forgotten Wars ravaged the world and turned it to ash, the Houses of Pilar, Darakai, Boreal, and Bastiion forged an accord with the royal line of Thoarne, founding a Quadren of advisory to the throne of Orynthia. Every generation, a single Haidren from each of the four Houses is appointed to this coveted chair.

Upon her Ascension to adulthood, Luscia Tiergan takes her seat at court as al’Haidren to the House of Boreal and is quickly drawn into a maze of political traps and dark secrets. As she adjusts to her new life, Luscia uncovers a pattern of forgotten children, slain in the streets of Bastiion.

Raised on superstitious rumors about Boreal’s penchant for sorcery, Zaethan Kasim, al’Haidren to the House of Darakai, inevitably clashes with Lusica when she arrives in Bastiion. But when his position is threatened by an old rival, Zaethan is forced to set aside his hatred and form an uneasy alliance with the Boreali al’Haidren to secure his claim.

Following a disturbing stream of innocent bloodshed across Orynthia, Luscia and Zaethan discover their ideals are far more aligned than they might have imagined. But in a land of war and deceit, the path to peace should never be trusted.

#ReleaseBlitz for Forgot to Tell You Something by @MLBroome2 and @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Forgot to Tell You Something

Author: M.L. Broome

Genre: Steamy Contemporary Romance

Release Date: November 10, 2020

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Play by the Rules… 

What do you get when you mix a dive bar, a worn velvet couch, and a discussion about goats? 

The night I met Owen, obviously. 

Talk about the unexpected. I sought out my private nook in Wicked Chucks, looking for a good view of the band. Instead, I got a front-row seat to the most delicious man I’ve ever seen. 

He’s everything I never knew existed but being with him means breaking my own rules. 

I didn’t invent the rules, but I play by them. 

Rules maintain order. 

Rules keep me focused. 

Okay, rules suck, but they also keep me safe. 

Now, I have a man who wants to toss out my rule book and create a new one. Together. 

Some Rules are Meant to be Broken… 

What do you get when you combine a tiny woman with a mile-wide stubborn streak, unwavering dating rules, and a hard-hitting passion? 

My current situation. 

I went to Wicked Chucks for the music, but I met Tally instead, right after she crashed through the balcony door and into my arms. 

The first thing I realized? She’s a total klutz. The second? I was staring into the face of the woman I’d been eyeing all night, and she was even more beautiful up close. But when she started discussing blood oaths and goats, her coolness factor skyrocketed. 

No joke, this woman is made for me. She’s gorgeous, funny, and sexy without trying. 

Only one small problem—she has rules. Two of them are cake. The last one? That might be a problem.

#CoverReveal for Don't Kiss the Bride by @cariancole and @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Don't Kiss the Bride

Author: Carian Cole

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Cover Photo: Regina Wamba

Models: Michael Kemp & Cherry Albrecht

Release Date: Coming Soon

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My dream was simple. Graduate this spring, save up enough money to escape the house of horrors I was living in, and see the world in a cool RV with my cat, Gus. No strings. 

Then I passed out and face-planted in front of sexy, brooding Jude “Lucky” Lucketti, and he rushed me to the ER. It wasn’t one of my finest moments. But it was one of his. I guess you could say I was a damsel in distress, and Jude was my knight in shining armor. He became my own personal hero, turning up in all the right places at the right times. 

But in reality, I was a girl with a serious eating disorder and a lot of bad luck, and he was a hot, older construction worker with lots of muscles and tattoos. 

Under his rough exterior, he was a good guy. We became friends, and it didn’t matter that he was sixteen years older than me. We had a lot in common—like our love of rock music and vintage cars, and a mutual anti-marriage stance after coming from broken homes. 

So when he proposed, it wasn’t like you think. He figured if he married me and put me on his insurance plan, I could get the medical treatment I needed and couldn’t afford. He even told me I could move into the extra bedroom at his house. 

I said yes. 

The arrangement would be temporary. A marriage on paper and nothing else. Within a year, we’d divorce. 

It should have been easy, but it wasn’t. 

Because here I am, eighteen years-old, still in high school, and married to a man I was never supposed to fall in love with. 

I did, though. 

We had just one rule—no kissing the bride. 

Little did we know, breaking that rule on our wedding day would seal our fate forever.

#BookReview: It Only Happens in the Movies by @holly_bourneYA @Netgalley @HMHteen

Synopsis: From award-winning British author Holly Bourne comes a clever, deconstructed rom-com that proves that in real life “girl meets boy” doesn't always mean “happily ever after” . . . or does it? At turns funny, feminist, and achingly real, this read is perfect for fans of Sophie Kinsella, Patrick Ness, and Julie Buxbaum.

Audrey is over romance. While dealing with her parents’ contentious divorce, a breakup of her own, and shifting friendship dynamics, she has every reason to feel cynical. But then she meets Harry, her fellow coworker at the local cinema. He’s brash, impulsive, and a major flirt. And even though Audrey tries to resist, she finds herself falling for his charms. But in this funny, insightful, and ultimately empowering novel, love—and life—isn’t what it’s like in the movies.

#BookReview: Crave (Crave #1) by @TracyWolff @EntangledTeen

Synopsis: My whole world changed when I stepped inside the academy. Nothing is right about this place or the other students in it. Here I am, a mere mortal among gods…or monsters. I still can’t decide which of these warring factions I belong to, if I belong at all. I only know the one thing that unites them is their hatred of me.

Then there’s Jaxon Vega. A vampire with deadly secrets who hasn’t felt anything for a hundred years. But there’s something about him that calls to me, something broken in him that somehow fits with what’s broken in me.

Which could spell death for us all.

Because Jaxon walled himself off for a reason. And now someone wants to wake a sleeping monster, and I’m wondering if I was brought here intentionally—as the bait.

#ReleaseBlitz for In Her Corner by @willowjauthor and @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: In Her Corner

Series: Beautiful Boxers #2

Author: Willow James

Genre: Enemies-to-Lovers Sports Romance

Release Date: November 10, 2020

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Katie Clark can't wait to get the heck out of Walton. Practically eaten alive at the end of high school, she was ecstatic to head off for college, but had no choice about coming back to make money for vet school. When her old crush, the one who put her at the center of the bullseye a few years back, starts coming around the diner where she works, it’s like he’s poking at an old wound. That is until her feelings for him begin to surface, threatening to tarnish her life-long dream. Even though she’s counting the seconds until she can leave, the idea is starting to feel as impossible as Katie thought staying would be. 

Mike Russo just sold his company for a nice chunk of change and has only 11 months of consulting before he can cash that whopping final check. With one of the best coaches in the nation, and the time to finally start focusing on his dream of becoming a professional boxer, Mike is on his way. Until he falls for the woman whose life he all but destroyed in high school. Before she heads halfway across the country in a few days, how will he find a way to make things right and convince her to give them a chance? 

In Her Corner a sweet, steamy romance and is a standalone short read, the second in Beautiful Boxers, a small-town New England romance series. If you love possessive, strong men, curvy women and racy love scenes all wrapped up in a sweet (and sometimes sizzling) story then pour yourself a cup of tea and curl up in your favorite spot, because this one is for you.

#CoverReveal for Home by Jenny Bunting @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Home

Series: Here in Lillyvale #3

Author: Jenny Bunting

Genre: Contemporary Romance/Romantic Comedy

Cover Design: Kari March Designs

Release Date: December 4, 2020

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When your boyfriend tries to fight your grandpa and loses, you definitely question your taste in men. 

Addison is reluctantly getting back in the dating world, with the help of a new matchmaking service. Dating is impossible when your childhood friend moves in for a couple of months, you’ve had a crush on him forever, and he’s finally single. 

Kirk is back in Lillyvale, a town he hates, since his feisty and feud-starting grandma is ailing. He thought living with Addison for a short time would be easy, but, it’s anything but. Sexual tension was a lot easier to deny over the phone or on quick trips home. 

Kirk and Addison consider home to be on opposite coasts, and their one shot at a love affair might be over before it starts. 

Author’s Note: If you like sweet heroines who could be your BFF, bearded quirky guys who secretly read Twilight, kitchen counter sex and all. the. feels, be ready to feel right at home. While this is Book Three in the Here in Lillyvale series, Home can be read as a complete STANDALONE, with no cliffhanger and a guaranteed HEA. 

Please note: this book has strong language and explicit sexual situations. Reader discretion is advised.

#CoverReveal for Fall From Grace by @emily_bex and @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Fall From Grace

Series: Medici Warrior #4

Author: Emily Bex

Publisher: Foundations Book Publishing

Genre: Paranormal Romance

Cover Design: Dawne Dominique,

From Dusk til Dawne Designs

Release Date: December 7, 2020

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JR Ward and Laurell K. Hamilton fans will become enchanted with this deliciously dark and scandalous series by International Bestselling Author Emily Bex. It's everything vampire romances should be made of! 

In Book Four of The Medici Warrior Series, continue the journey with Kate and Shade, your favorite ruling vampire couple. 

Lorenzo discovers his mother isn’t the only one born with unique powers. The only problem will be learning to harness it. 

Alec makes his final bid for political power and is prepared to take down anyone who stands in his way. 

Max has lost everything, and there is nothing more dangerous than a vampire with nothing to lose. You won’t believe what happens when he returns to exact his revenge. Who remains standing, and how many will be sacrificed in their bid for power? 

"Scorching", "riveting", and hailed as "the NEXT BIG THING", The Medici Warrior Series follows the exploits of a vampire dynasty that spans four generations in a multi-genre novel with elements of paranormal, smoldering romance, and historical fiction. Get your copy today! Your vampire king is waiting...

#CoverReveal for Tongue by @klsavage_author and @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Tongue

Series: Ruthless Kings MC #8

Author: K.L. Savage

Genre: Dark Romantic Suspense/Organized Crime

Cover Design & Photo: Wander Aguiar

Model: Johnny James

Release Date: December 4, 2020

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I’m too dark for her light. 

I am who I am, and I won’t apologize for it. 

I don’t know how to be... 

Normal. 

I have my reasons. 

I've been through hell. 

I've touched the flames themselves and I've danced with the devil. 

Intimately. 

Damnation torched my soul until it was black. 

Then I see her. 

I'm enthralled, but I can't speak to her. 

She's too pure. 

Too fragile. 

Too innocent. 

She doesn't need to see my torched soul. 

She doesn't need to taste my damnation. 

I watch what I can't have. 

I swear I'll protect her. 

Even if she doesn't know I'm there. 

I get more... 

Enthralled. 

She loves books. 

I wonder if I could love them too. 

She loves wine. 

I imagine us sharing a glass. 

Imagination. What a tease. 

Enthralled. Entranced. 

Obsessed. 

She feels me there. 

Sees me out of the corner of her eye. 

I'm the reason the hair on the back of her neck is standing up. 

But I stay in the shadows where I belong. 

Until I can't. 

Until the day I see her cry. 

Those tears feel like open wounds. 

I want to heal them. 

But all she does is run. 

So I follow. 

Enthralled. 

Entranced. 

Obsessed. 

RUTHLESS. 

I won't stop until she no longer has a reason to cry. 

Even if it means I have to ride through the fires of hell one more time.

#BookTour: Everything I Thought I Knew by @shannontakaoka @JeanBookNerd

A teenage girl wonders if she’s inherited more than just a heart from her donor in this compulsively readable debut.

Seventeen-year-old Chloe had a plan: work hard, get good grades, and attend a top-tier college. But after she collapses during cross-country practice and is told that she needs a new heart, all her careful preparations are laid to waste.

Eight months after her transplant, everything is different. Stuck in summer school with the underachievers, all she wants to do now is grab her surfboard and hit the waves—which is strange, because she wasn’t interested in surfing before her transplant. (It doesn’t hurt that her instructor, Kai, is seriously good-looking.)

And that’s not all that’s strange. There’s also the vivid recurring nightmare about crashing a motorcycle in a tunnel and memories of people and places she doesn’t recognize.

Is there something wrong with her head now, too, or is there another explanation for what she’s experiencing?

As she searches for answers, and as her attraction to Kai intensifies, what she learns will lead her to question everything she thought she knew—about life, death, love, identity, and the true nature of reality.

The Lost King by Frazier Alexander #Blitz with @XpressoTours #Giveaway $10 Amazon gift card

The Lost King
Frazier Alexander
Published by: FyreSyde Publishing
Publication date: November 10th 2020
Genres: Adult, Fantasy

In an ancient place, in an ancient time…

King Athan vanishes at sea. His children, prince Thalos and princess Thara, drift apart with age, their kingdom falling into ruin. Thalos stubbornly clings to the past; Thara, resentful of her father, looks to the future. In the wake of this decline, a beautiful enchantress usurps the throne from the estranged siblings. She exiles Thalos to the edge of the world and slowly enslaves Thara’s mind.

In his exile, Thalos finds another castaway—an old comrade of his father. Together they begin a voyage in search of the lost king. Thara, meanwhile, resists the new queen’s coercive spells and finds a resistance of creatures still loyal to her father.

With a vast world of enchanted islands and beings between them, Thalos and Thara struggle to restore their family and rekindle the hope of the true king’s return.

#ReleaseBlitz for Snowed In by @jess_calla and @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Snowed In

Author: Jessica Calla

Genre: Sweet Holiday Romance

Release Date: November 9, 2020

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During a magical holiday season, Emma and Andrew keep finding themselves snowed in together as they face their pasts and fall in love.

Emma Ballard, a retired supermodel, has been the acting CEO and the face of her family’s clothing business for the past five years, living the busy corporate life in New York City. She meets the Jersey branch IT supervisor, theater-nerd Andrew Mooney, when she gets stuck in a snowstorm after an office function.

Getting to know widower Andrew, his grumpy vet father, and Andrew's adorable six-year-old twin girls opens Emma’s heart to the possibility of having love and family in her life. His opinion of Emma, the “beautiful, viper CEO” gossiped about at the water cooler, quickly changes as he discovers Emma’s wit, intelligence, and giving heart.

Although neither Emma nor Andrew are quite ready for a relationship, and canoodling is against company policy, the holiday spirit of Manhattan is magical and contagious. As fate and Mother Nature would have it, their time snowed in together gives them the chance to finally face their pasts and fall in love.

#CoverReveal for Rebel by @laurapavlov2 and @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Rebel

Series: Montgomery Brothers #3

Author: Laura Pavlov

Genre: Contemporary Enemies-to-Lovers Romance

Cover Design: Sarah Hansen

Release Date: January 5, 2021

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REBEL 

I’m always down for a good time. I’m that guy. 

I love women. I love sex. And I love my life. 

Go big or go home, right? 

My father’s death is a constant reminder of why I like to keep it simple. 

Life is short. 

Emotional attachments make you weak. 

Grieving sucks. And I have no interest in caring deeply for anyone outside of my family. 

I’m not looking for complications. 

Monroe Buckley is a complication. 

She’s driven. 

She’s focused. 

And she’s my best friend’s little sister. 

Not happening. 

But once we’re forced to spend time together…I only want more. 

Too bad she’s the one woman who is off-limits. 

MONROE 

I don’t trust most people, and I have my reasons. 

I’m passionate about my work, and I came here to do a job. 

Not date the boss. 

Getting hired at the top media company in the city is the break of my life. 

But it means working for Jack Montgomery. 

My one-time crush. 

My brother’s best friend. 

And the current thorn in my side. 

He’s exactly what I want to avoid. 

Yet he’s everywhere I turn. Even when he’s not there—he’s in my head. 

He’s a magnet for attention. 

A heartbreak just waiting to happen. 

And my heart is something I fiercely protect. At all costs. 

They say the heart wants what the heart wants... 

But my heart isn’t allowed to make that decision anymore. 

There’s too much to lose.

#BookReview: Kingdom of the Wicked (Kingdom of the Wicked #1) by Kerri Maniscalco

Synopsis: Two sisters.

One brutal murder.

A quest for vengeance that will unleash Hell itself…

And an intoxicating romance.

Emilia and her twin sister Vittoria are streghe – witches who live secretly among humans, avoiding notice and persecution. One night, Vittoria misses dinner service at the family’s renowned Sicilian restaurant. Emilia soon finds the body of her beloved twin…desecrated beyond belief. Devastated, Emilia sets out to find her sister’s killer and to seek vengeance at any cost-even if it means using dark magic that’s been long forbidden.

Then Emilia meets Wrath, one of the Wicked-princes of Hell she has been warned against in tales since she was a child. Wrath claims to be on Emilia’s side, tasked by his master with solving the series of women’s murders on the island. But when it comes to the Wicked, nothing is as it seems…

When the Rivers Rise by @joeyjoneswriter #Blitz with @XpressoTours #Giveaway $25 Amazon gift card

When the Rivers Rise
Brianna Bennett
Publication date: November 10th 2020
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance, Suspense

High school sweethearts, Niles and Eden shared a once-in-a-lifetime kind of love until an accident—and Eden’s subsequent addiction to pain medication—tore them apart. Now divorced, their son Riley is Niles’s whole world, and he’ll do anything to keep him safe.

In constant pain, chronically tired, and resentful of Riley’s relationship with his dad, Eden is a shadow of the woman she once was. When she meets Kirk, a charismatic drummer who makes her feel alive again, she’s torn between evacuating with Riley before a hurricane hits and the exciting new life that beckons.

Reese has never quite gotten over the death of her father, a cop who was shot in the line of duty. Now a detective herself, and the only special operations officer on the East Ridge, Tennessee, police force without children, she volunteers for an assignment in Eastern North Carolina to help as Hurricane Florence closes in on the area.

As a potential category five hurricane spins straight toward the North Carolina coast, their lives begin to intersect in ways they never imagined as each is forced to confront issues from the past that will decide the future…their own, each other’s, and Riley’s.

Emotions swell like the rivers in the approaching storm in this poignant story of guilt, second chances, and the lengths we’ll go to protect the ones we love.

#BookReview: Malcolm and Me by Robin Farmer

Synopsis: Philly native Roberta Forest is a precocious rebel with the soul of a poet. The thirteen-year-old is young, gifted, black, and Catholic—although she’s uncertain about the Catholic part after she calls Thomas Jefferson a hypocrite for enslaving people and her nun responds with a racist insult. Their ensuing fight makes Roberta question God and the important adults in her life, all of whom seem to see truth as gray when Roberta believes it’s black or white.

An upcoming essay contest, writing poetry, and reading The Autobiography of Malcolm X all help Roberta cope with the various difficulties she’s experiencing in her life, including her parent’s troubled marriage. But when she’s told she’s ineligible to compete in the school’s essay contest, her explosive reaction to the news leads to a confrontation with her mother, who shares some family truths Roberta isn’t ready for.

Set against the backdrop of Watergate and the post-civil rights movement era, Angel Dressed in Black is a gritty yet graceful examination of the anguish teens experience when their growing awareness of themselves and the world around them unravels their sense of security—a coming-of-age tale of truth-telling, faith, family, forgiveness, and social activism.

The Taming of a Wicked Rogue by @samholtwrites #Blitz with @XpressoTours #Giveaway $25 Amazon gift card

The Taming of a Wicked Rogue
Samantha Holt
(The Lords of Scandal Row, #1)
Publication date: November 10th 2020
Genres: Adult, Historical Romance

Forced to leave friends, family, and a life of privilege and fun, Rebecca Fortescue’s world changed overnight nearly ten years ago. Now, with the tightening of a noose, it’s changed again, but she needs to make amends for what her father did.

Which means returning, secretly, to the place where he did the most damage.

And to the residence of one Lord Leonard Moncrieff—the only man she’s ever loved.

She’s certain she won’t see him again, though. Nicknamed a Lord of Scandal Row, it’s clear to her, he’s no longer the boy she knew, and never returns home. The last thing she needs it to be distracted by a man deemed one of the most attractive men in London.

Unfortunately for Rebecca, Leo has been practically banished from London under the orders of his mother thanks to a scandal that, for once, had nothing to do with him. Now he has to spend his days playing the country gent and trying to avoid the female of the species.

It will be harder than he expected, given a sudden influx of young ladies to the area. He might be a rogue, but he has no desire to upset his delicate mother and will, albeit begrudgingly, play the dutiful son. He can avoid a few pretty faces, surely?

At least, until he discovers the beautiful Rebecca hiding in the stables. She’s in need of help, and he cannot resist, despite the fact she once shattered his young heart. The pull between them is as strong as ever but anything between them is impossible.

Or is it?