#ReleaseBlitz for Rumor Going 'Round by @samanthalind1 and @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Rumor Going 'Round

Series: Lyrics and Love #3

Author: Samantha Lind

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Release Date: November 19, 2020

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When rumors start circling, 

Do you walk the other way? 

Or give them something to talk about? 

She was the one I always secretly wanted 

But it was never meant to be, 

I landed myself in the friend zone. 

He was my high-school crush, 

Who grew up into the single sexy dad, 

Putting his life on the line with every fire he fought. 

One spin around the dance floor has our friends talking, 

Wondering if we could get any closer. 

We blew the rumors off until one day, we really gave them something to talk about.

#BookReview: Priestess of the Morrigan by Stephanie Woodfield @LlewellynBooks @Netgalley

Synopsis: Become a priestess of the Morrigan and build a personalized devotional practice with this profound book on deepening your connection to her. Through stories, prayers, and rituals for groups and solitaries, Priestess of the Morrigan shows you how to serve the Great Queen and enhance your spiritual journey.

Explore the true nature of the Morrigan, discover what it means to channel her voice, and learn about her role in prophecies and curse work. Create your own unique tradition with this book's ritual-building advice and guidelines for developing a yearly cycle of celebrations. Stephanie Woodfield, a devotee to the Great Queen for over twenty years, uses her personal triumphs and challenges as beacons for your path to becoming a priestess of the Morrigan. 

#CoverReveal: Chokecherry Girl by Barbara Meyer Link @PublishingAcorn @RABTBookTours

Young Adult, Coming of Age, Multi-Cultural Fiction

Date Published: 2/16/21

Publisher Acorn Publishing

It’s 1958. Racial tension and class disparities have everyone on edge in a small Montana town. Despite their differences, three women of the community become the unlikeliest of friends.

BOBBI VERNON is a quirky teen, who will do whatever it takes to drive her teacher’s new Chevy convertible. Adding to the already volatile mix, she meets Pretty Weasel, an Indian basketball player, who calls her Chokecherry Girl. She dreams of dating him and wearing his class ring.

PATSY OLSON, after two failed marriages, is desperate to get her life back. After opening a beauty shop with a shaky bank loan, she watches Coach Vernon, Bobbi’s father, arriving for school each day. Attracted yet wary, she needs the business of the town ladies, including the Coach’s wife, Lois.

MARY AGNES LONE HILL, an alcoholic Crow Indian who was sent far away to a brutal Indian school as a child, now cleans houses for the town ladies and longs to end her estrangement with her son, Pretty Weasel.

These three women are drawn together through an illicit love affair, a stolen car, and a shooting that changes their lives forever.

#BookReview: Single and Forced to Mingle by Melissa Croce #Netgalley

Synopsis: A laugh-out-loud, tongue-in-cheek guidebook filled with hilarious and helpful advice—from how to dodge family members’ unwanted questions about babies to successfully creating a fake partner during wedding season—for anyone trying to survive and thrive in the midst of singledom. Perfect for fans of Hey Ladies! and Single State of Mind.

So, you’re single. Whether existing sans partner is a new state of being or you’ve been on this solo journey for a while, the fact of the matter is this: being single is actually awesome.

You can do whatever you want, travel wherever you want, and be your truest, most free self. But there are a lot of people out there—your mom, your married best friend, the wedding industry, society—who see things differently. To them, singledom is something to avoid at all cost, no matter how many times you tell them you love your life the way it is. The limit does not exist when it comes to telling Aunt Carol you still don’t want to be set up with her neighbor’s ex-stepson.

Now, Melissa Croce gives you the tips, tricks, and sage advice you need to graciously endure all of the cringe-worthy scenarios your single self may dread, from awkward small talk with an ex to navigating well-meaning but insensitive relatives. And it helps you truly flourish in your singledom, offering activities like quizzes aimed at helping you find a new hobby and tarot spreads for that cozy Saturday night in. Part real-world guide, part commiseration, and part celebration, Single and Forced to Mingle will steer you through the ups and downs of being single, reminding you just how good it feels to be free.

#BookBlitz: Under the Kissing Ball by @SusanCarlisle1 @RABTBookTours

 

Contemporary Romance

Published: October 2020

A Christmas kiss between friends is simple, until it isn’t…

Clarissa Chalmers Simmons’ world is in turmoil. After fleeing an abusive marriage and her divorce, all she wants is to heal and create a calm, safe environment for her children. She’s returned to her ancestral home and the comfort of family, which includes a trusted childhood friend, Roger. She finds him handsome and sweet, but too set in his ways for her taste. With Roger’s encouragement and help, Clarissa takes on a new position in the family business and gains personal satisfaction she’s never known. What she doesn’t plan on is her and Roger’s ‘under the mistletoe ball’ kiss rocking her world.

Roger Clarke, is the easy-going estate manager at Hartley Castle and a confirmed bachelor. He has always been there in Clarissa’s background but recently has become her rock-steady confidant. Despite his long-held secret feelings for the flighty, beautiful and willful Clarissa, he has never acted on them. He’s not a suitable match for her. After all he is an employee of his best friend and her brother, Lord Hartley. Even if given the chance, Roger has no desire to become the rebound guy.

Despite that, if he doesn’t act on Clarissa’s passionate reaction to his kiss, he might lose his chance of having the only woman who’s ever stirred his heart.

The Stories Stars Tell by C.L. Walters @peeledandcored #Blitz with @XpressoTours #Giveaway eBook copy

The Stories Stars Tell
C.L. Walters
Publication date: October 13th 2020
Genres: Contemporary, Young Adult

Ever felt like the sum total of your choices have fixed your story in the stars?

For Emma Matthews, she feels like all of her choices are rooted in the fear of letting down her parents… God…of never being good enough.

For Tanner James, he’s wearing an identity he has created with his friends and their pact—Bro Code—fixed in sex, alcohol and bad choices.

Both are longing for a new story they look to one another to help them write.

Follow Emma and Tanner as they rewrite stories they thought had already been written into something new. To discover sometimes painful truths about love and identity.

About the ways that love can help us lose ourselves… or find ourselves.

How love can break us… or heal us.

Wicked Idol by Becker Gray #Blitz with @XpressoTours #Giveaway

Wicked Idol
Becker Gray
(A Hellfire Club Novel)
Publication date: November 17th 2020
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance

The new girl doesn’t belong here. So why can’t I stop thinking about her? Iris Briggs a goodie two-shoes with a headmaster father who aims to ruin my school year before it’s even begun. She gets under my skin. With her demure skirts and braided hair, Iris flits around the periphery until she runs right into me, hot coffee soaking me as she looks up at me with wide, innocent eyes. We start off scalding.

In the library, we reach lava levels.

And then in the city? We go nuclear.

She’s a good girl, but I’m a Constantine. My duty is to my family. At least, it was until I started unbraiding the good girl and realizing there’s more to life than duty.

#BookTour: The Lost King by Frazier Alexander @rabtbooktours @SydeFyre #Giveaway

YA High Fantasy

Date Published: November 10, 2020

Publisher: FyreSyde Publishing

 

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 Clash by @BelleAurora1 and @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Clash

Author: Belle Aurora

Genre: Rock Star Romance

Release Date: November 18, 2020

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Connor Clash was everything I wasn't. 

He taught me how to live.

I didn't mean for things to go the way they did. 

But Connor was beautiful, and I was lonely.

Falling in love wasn't part of the plan. 

He betrayed me, and I was scarred.

Before I got the job, I didn't know who he was. 

Now I saw him every night in my dreams.

We were two people, worlds apart, holding each other at arms length.

This was not going to end well.

Connor Clash was an asshole. 

And I loved him with all of my heart.

#Cover for We Don't Lie Anymore by Julie Johnson @XpressoTours

We Don’t Lie Anymore
Julie Johnson
(Julie Johnson)
Publication date: December 8th 2020
Genres: Contemporary, New Adult, Romance

“We were never just friends…”

One year ago, I gave my heart to my best friend. He threw it in the dirt and walked out of my life without a backward glance.

Or so I thought.

When our orbits cross once more, everything I thought I knew about my relationship with Archer Reyes is turned upside down. The captivating boy I fell in love with is gone; in his place stands a haunted man with secrets burning in his eyes.

Secrets I’d do just about anything to uncover.

It’s been 365 days since I told my best friend I loved him.
365 days since he didn’t say it back.
365 days since he lied straight to my face.

WE DON’T LIE ANYMORE is a breathtaking story of forgiveness, friendship, and the fight for true love… It is the second installment in THE DON’T DUET, directly following the events of WE DON’T TALK ANYMORE.

#ReleaseBlitz for Spartan by @FrancaStorm and @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Spartan

Series: Iron Kings MC #2

Author: Franca Storm

Genre: MC Romance

Release Date: November 18, 2020

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A king to hardened, dangerous men. 

I’m the President of the Iron Kings MC. 

Their rock-solid leader. 

A tried and tested warrior. 

I don’t bend. I don’t break. I don’t lose it. 

But something’s pushing me to my limit. 

He’s still out there, the psycho who took everything from me. 

Vengeance is burning through my veins. 

I can’t move forward. 

I can’t let it go. 

Then she wedges herself into my life. 

The feisty blonde, all toughness and attitude. 

She calls to me, distracting me from my mission and easing my rage. 

But I destroy anything I touch. 

The women who get too close end up dead. 

I can’t let it happen again. 

There’s no room for love anyway while I’m holding onto so much hate. 

#BookReview: Bait and Witch by @angelamsanders @KensingtonBooks @Netgalley

Synopsis: Librarian Josie Way moved to small-town Oregon to lay low. Instead, thanks to newfound magic abilities—and a killer on the loose—she’s leapt out of the frying pan and into a cauldron of trouble . . . 

Josie Way loved working among the Library of Congress’s leather-scented stacks—until she uncovered corruption and made herself a target. As Wilfred, Oregon’s new librarian, Josie can stay undercover until the case goes to court. But life in this little town isn’t as subdued as she expected. The library, housed in a a Victorian mansion, is slated to be bulldozed. Still digesting the news that her safe haven is about to become scrap lumber, Josie discovers a body in the woods . . .

Almost as shocking, Josie learns that she’s descended from a long line of witches—and her powers have suddenly sprung to life. With help from a spoiled alley cat who just may be her familiar, Josie’s thumbing through a catalog of suspects, hoping she can conjure a way to save her library—and her life. . .

#BookBlitz: A Husband for Christmas by @nancywriter @RABTBookTours @BookBuzznet

 

Romance, Holiday Romance

Date Published: October 2020

Publisher: Satin Romance

On Sale for Only $.99 Until 12/15/2020

Can a little girl’s wish for Santa to bring her mom a new husband come true?

In 1946, Sarah Delaney writes to Santa for a husband for her mom for Christmas. She’s never known her father, who went missing during WWII so five-year-old Sarah decides it’s the perfect gift for her mother—a husband, and a daddy for her. Her mother, Rose Delaney, has been working as a banking accountant—until Jack Campbell, the man who held the position first returns from the war and her boss gives him back his job. Rose, unhappy about losing her job begins looking for another position but can’t find one that pays well enough. Jack, feeling guilty since he’s a single guy with no child or wife responsibilities convinces his boss to hire Rose as his secretary. Rose takes up the offer as nothing else is available. Within weeks, Jack falls in love with Rose, even though she refuses to date men she works with. He has big plans in his life though and pursues her until she eventually accepts his offer of marriage. Rose can’t deny she’s in love with him also, until she learns the ‘real’ reason he’s looking for a wife.

#CoverReveal for Captured by @authorsnelson1 and @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Captured

An Everyday Heroes World Novel

Author: S. Nelson

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Cover Design: Tugboat Design

Release Date: January 28, 2021

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To say I survived the unimaginable isn’t exactly accurate, because I didn’t. 

I’m alive. 

But I’m not living. 

I’m existing, clawing my way from one day to the next. 

My only saving grace is my job as a police officer, and it’s during a routine traffic stop one evening when the threads of my isolated existence begin to unravel. 

One glance from Quinn Harris and I feel like I’m dreaming. And the more chance brings us together, the more I’m powerless to stop the uneasy feeling that I’m losing control. 

She stirs up thoughts of something new and unexpected—of a life I’m no longer prepared to handle. 

*** 

I’m done with men. 

I trusted my ex and he broke my heart. 

But life doesn’t seem to want to follow my plan, which is evident the moment I meet Nolan Bennett. 

He doesn’t score high on first impressions. In fact, he is downright rude. 

But as we continue to run into each other, I start to see another side of him, and I can’t deny I’m intrigued. 

Against my better judgment, I give him a chance. 

But again, life will step in and take over. 

Only this time I don’t think either of us will survive. Not with an unknown link between us too painful to overcome.

#CoverReveal for This Much Is True by @AuthorTLouise and @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: This Much Is True

Author: Tia Louise

Genre: Single Dad/Opposites Attract Romance

Ebook Cover Design: Lori Jackson Designs

Paperback Cover Design: Shanoff Formats

Photo: Wander Aguiar

Model: Lucas Loyola

Release Date: December 14, 2020

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A smart and sexy romance about a grumpy single dad on a mission of revenge, and the girl he can’t leave behind by USA Today bestselling author Tia Louise. 

Hope 

I blame the alcohol. 

I lost my restaurant business, was forced to sell my dad’s cherished 1967 Chevy Impala, and I got a little drunk. 

Now I’m waking up with the hottest, angriest guy I’ve ever seen, speeding down the highway like a bat out of hell. 

Ice-blue eyes hit mine with stomach-clenching force… and he swerves onto the shoulder, ready to kick me out. 

Needless to say, our romance doesn’t start out sweet. 

J.R. 

Two years ago, I hugged my little boy goodbye and told him I’d be right back. 

Next thing I knew, I was arrested and sent to prison for a crime I didn’t commit. 

Until they let me out early… 

Now I’m headed home to confront the man who put me away. 

A lie put me behind bars, and I’m ready to find the truth. 

I don’t have time for a sexy girl with pale blonde hair and bright blue eyes stowed away on the backseat of my new car. 

My mission is to get my son back and clear my name. 

Love is not on the agenda. 

It never is, though, is it? 

(THIS MUCH IS TRUE is a single-dad, opposites attract, STAND-ALONE romance. No cheating. No cliffhangers.)

#CoverReveal for Bloody Union by @Author_BrookeS and @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Bloody Union

Series: Made #1

Author: Brooke Summers

Genre: Mafia Romance

Cover Design: Lee Ching, Undercover Designs

Release Date: January 21, 2021

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Marriages are meant to be sacred but when an arranged marriage turns bloody a war is started.

Makenna Gallagher’s life is anything but ordinary. After experiencing something traumatic her life changes and not for the better. When she meets the man that she is expected to marry she knows that keeping her secrets is only going to get harder. 

When Dante Bianchi sees his wife-to-be, he’s surprised. She doesn’t look anything like the sweet and innocent fourteen year old who he had agreed to marry five years ago. He looks forward to making her his. 

When their wedding ends in a gunfight, he’s surprised to see his wife handling a gun with ease and when he watches her kill a man he doesn’t know whether to be angry or turned on. 

Every family has secrets, but Makenna is drowning in hers. Will she sink or swim when hers turn deadly?

#BookReview: In Pursuit of Happiness by Freya Kennedy @Netgalley

Synopsis: 'A lovely escape that leaves you feeling warm and fuzzy inside. Just what’s needed at the moment' No1 bestselling author Jane Fallon

The world is waiting...but just outside of your comfort zone.

Jo Campbell is perfectly content in a perfectly structured life. 

Nothing ever changes in Jo’s life, and she likes it that way. 

Or at least, she tells herself she does.  

Most of the time, she manages to push down the tiny voice that tells her to chase her dream and maybe, just maybe, open her battered and bruised heart up to love.

But to chase her dreams she needs to take chances that are way out of her comfort zone and learn to not put other people’s happiness above her own.

Most of all she has to learn to trust her heart, which may just be the biggest challenge of all.

#BookBlitz: Live Vibrantly With L.J. & Her Dog George Eliot @RABTBookTours #Giveaway

 

With L.J. & Her Dog George Eliot

Humor/Chick Lit

Date Published: August 11, 2020

In this collection of original drawings, LJ Rohan with her furry and endearing canine muse, George Eliot, navigates her humorous and grateful journey through life after 50. Despite inevitable setbacks, L.J. firmly believes growing older has never been healthier, more positive, or more empowered. To quote Pearl S. Buck, “The heart never grows old.” To quote L.J., “Be Vibrant!”

#BookReview: Year of the Magickal Dragon by Virginia Chandler @LlewellynBooks @Netgalley

Synopsis: Connect to dragon spirits and walk with them through the wheel of the year using this enlightening and powerful guide. Providing seasonal meditations and rituals, Year of the Magickal Dragon shows you how to build a relationship with each sabbat's dragon spirit and how that relationship improves your magickal practice.

Virginia Chandler introduces you to eight legendary dragon spirits that are integral to the seasonal year, from the Ancestor Dragon of Samhain to the Fertility Dragon of Beltane. Discover oil and incense recipes, spells, journaling prompts, altar work, stories and historical information about the dragons, and more. Honoring and developing a bond with these dragons will improve not only your seasonal practice, but it will also empower all areas of your life as these dragons walk beside you every day of the year.

Igniting Love by @SaraOhlin222 #Blitz with @XpressoTours #Giveaway $25 Amazon gift card

Igniting Love
Sara Ohlin
(Rescue Me Series, #2)
Publication date: November 17th 2020
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance

When an embittered artist crosses paths with a young widow, the heat is on…

When personal chef and single mom Katie Walsh jumps back into the dating game, Leo Treversini’s gaze in the doorway of a local bar lights up her whole body. Bumping into him a week later, Kate thinks fate is calling—until Leo’s bitter words hit her like a punch to the gut.

Recently returned to the up-and-coming Corvallis neighborhood, metal artist and loner Leo feels the beautiful power of Katie’s eyes like the flame from his torch, but discovering his muse is married and the young mother of three daughters cuts him to the quick.

Except…Katie is widowed, which means she’s free to love again—if she can trust a man with her heart and her most precious gifts, her daughters. As Leo is free to love her, if he can overcome a past betrayal and believe in Katie’s love. Add in the meddling community, Katie’s family and teenage internet crime and it’s going to be far from easy…or even likely.

Katie’s love might be just the balm Leo’s wounded heart needs, but will he have the courage to face his crushing past to accept it?

Can the artist with the wounded heart love his muse?