#CoverReveal for Cruel Knight by Sasha Leone @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Cruel Knight

Series: Brutal Reign #3

Author: Sasha Leone
Genre: Dark Mafia Romance

Cover Design: Cassie Chapman

Opulent Swag and Designs

Release Date: May 24, 2021

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The mafia is my life, but she is my obsession…

We used to be so close. The devil and his angel.

Inseparable… until our demons tore us apart.

One forbidden kiss. That’s all we got. Then it was over.

In this cruel world, there are no second chances.

But when I see Tara tied up on stage at a devil’s auction,

No one is going to outbid me.

She’s been trying to escape our past for so long,

Now, the darkness has finally caught up.

I’ve found her.

I’ve bought her.

And I’m not letting go until she understands that she’s mine.

… Even if that means becoming the very monster she’s running from.

My former best friend has become my captive,

It’s the only way to set her free.

*Cruel Knight is a standalone Dark Mafia Friends to Enemies to Lovers Captive Romance with mature themes and a happily ever after. It is the third book of the Brutal Reign series.

#CoverReveal for The Dark Series by Danah Logan @GiveMeBooksPR #Giveaway ($15 Amazon gift card)

Series: The Dark Series

Author: Danah Logan

Genre: New Adult Contemporary

Romantic Suspense

Cover Design: Danah Logan

IN THE DARK

Releasing May 11

My name is Lilly McGuire.

I accepted a long time ago that my older brother is no longer part of my life. It’s been over two years, and I still have no clue why he stopped talking to me.

Everything was great. Then he left for football camp the summer before I was going to join him at Westbridge High. When he came back, he pretended I didn’t exist, leaving the room every time I’d enter. Eventually, he stopped coming home altogether and basically moved in with his best friend, Wes. Our parents never said a word.

Now, just when I’m content again with my life, I choose the wrong topic for my journalism assignment. Or is it maybe the right one?

I get sucked into a ten-year-old case of missing girls, and with every passing day, I get pulled in deeper and deeper into a world that makes me question everything I believed to be the truth. When I finally decide that I’m simply losing my mind, something unexpected happens, and I have to make a choice that will determine not only my entire future, but also my safety.

My name is Rhys McGuire.

My life is based on secrets, and two years ago, I had to make a choice. I stayed away, but I’ve kept watching.

Now, fate has thrown me a bone, and the decision is mine again. Stay quiet or come clean? Continue the charade or tell her everything that’s been tearing me apart since I was seven years old?

The choice is mine, but do I really have one? If she finds out, I could lose her forever. The ones she has trusted most will be the ones that have betrayed her—maybe even beyond repair. I want to believe that she would forgive me, but could she move past all of the lies?

In the Dark is the first book in a series of secrets, love, friendship, betrayal, AND more secrets.

**AUTHOR’S NOTE:

Dear Reader, In the Dark is the first book in a trilogy within The Dark Series and ends with a CLIFFHANGER.

This series is intended for MATURE readers. Please be aware that as the series progresses, THE BOOKS could contain TRIGGERS some readers may find bothersome.

#CoverReveal for Mercy by @klsavage_author and @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Mercy

Series: Ruthless Hellhounds MC #1

Author: K.L. Savage

Genre: Dark Romantic Suspense/Organized Crime

Cover Design: Lori Jackson Designs

Special Edition Cover Design: Najla Qamber Designs

Photo & Model: Wander Aguiar

Release Date: May 5, 2021

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To understand me, you have to understand my pain.

You have to understand where it all started...

I see her differently now.

My friend, Michelle Douglas.

It’s the summer of 1994 where the love of the 80’s still holds on for dear life.

She’s wearing a black ACDC shirt that hangs over the shoulder and she is hanging out with a group of friends.

I don’t know what it is about her right now, but in this moment, everything has changed for me.

Everything about her calls out to me.

I think it always has. It always will.

Her love isn’t easy to get, but I’m determined to get it.

There’s one problem.

She’s promised to another.

An abusive man that doesn’t know he has the entire world right in front of him.

We fall in love realizing we have always been in love.

She’s going to leave him.

I have the rest of my life planned out. My future is Michelle.

I just need to survive the war.

I need to come back to her.

But when I do…

Nothing is the same.

And everything has changed.

Life.

Love.

Shows no mercy.

#BookReview: Kate in Waiting by @beckyalbertalli

Synopsis: Contrary to popular belief, best friends Kate Garfield and Anderson Walker are not codependent. Carpooling to and from theater rehearsals? Environmentally sound and efficient. Consulting each other on every single life decision? Basic good judgment. Pining for the same guys from afar? Shared crushes are more fun anyway.

But when Kate and Andy’s latest long-distance crush shows up at their school, everything goes off script. Matt Olsson is talented and sweet, and Kate likes him. She really likes him. The only problem? So does Anderson.

Turns out, communal crushes aren’t so fun when real feelings are involved. This one might even bring the curtains down on Kate and Anderson’s friendship. 

#BookReview: The Repeater Book of the Occult: Ten Tales from the Darkside by Tariq Goddard

Synopsis: A selection of Repeater authors choose their favourite forgotten horror stories for this new anthology, with each also writing a critical introduction for the story of their choice.

Edited by novelist and Repeater publisher Tariq Goddard and "horror philosopher" Eugene Thacker, The Repeater Book of the Dead is a new anthology of horror stories, selected and introduced by Repeater authors.

Includes selections from Repeater authors like Graham Harman, Leila Taylor, Carl Neville, Adrian Nathan West and Rhian E Jones, with forgotten horror classics from authors such as W.W. Jacobs, Mark Twain and Sheridan Le Fanu.

#ReleaseBlitz for Demon Fire by @mjohnstonwriter and @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Demon Fire

Series: Angel Fire #3

Author: Marie Johnston

Genre: Paranormal Romance

Release Date: April 12, 2021

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She betrayed her kind and was exiled from her realm. When Sierra is dumped in a snowy forest before an impending blizzard, that should be the end of the newly fallen angel.

Boone wanted isolation. He wanted peace. He wanted to be left the hell alone. But a last-minute trip before he’s stormed in for days turns up more than spare wood and a rabbit in his snares. He finds an unconscious and bloody woman.

Sierra’s realm might have erased her existence, but that doesn’t mean she’s been forgotten by those who want to use her for their own means. Demons have found her, and sticking around puts Boone at risk, the one man who makes her think she might deserve more than shame.

Boone’s not going to let his fallen angel go. But going on the run with Sierra means discovering a terrifying new world, one with monsters that aren’t much different than the ones that killed his family. He’d barely survived then. Would this time end up killing them both?

#BookReview: We Can't Keep Meeting Like This by @rlynn_solomon

Synopsis: A wedding harpist disillusioned with love and a hopeless romantic cater-waiter flirt and fight their way through a summer of weddings in this effervescent romantic comedy from the acclaimed author of Today Tonight Tomorrow.

Quinn Berkowitz and Tarek Mansour’s families have been in business together for years: Quinn’s parents are wedding planners, and Tarek’s own a catering company. At the end of last summer, Quinn confessed her crush on him in the form of a rambling email—and then he left for college without a response.

Quinn has been dreading seeing him again almost as much as she dreads another summer playing the harp for her parents’ weddings. When he shows up at the first wedding of the summer, looking cuter than ever after a year apart, they clash immediately. Tarek’s always loved the grand gestures in weddings—the flashier, the better—while Quinn can’t see them as anything but fake. Even as they can’t seem to have one civil conversation, Quinn’s thrown together with Tarek wedding after wedding, from performing a daring cake rescue to filling in for a missing bridesmaid and groomsman.

Quinn can’t deny her feelings for him are still there, especially after she learns the truth about his silence, opens up about her own fears, and begins learning the art of harp-making from an enigmatic teacher.

Maybe love isn’t the enemy after all—and maybe allowing herself to fall is the most honest thing Quinn’s ever done.

#CoverReveal: A Light to Kill By @mikeljwilson @RABTBookTours @PublishingAcorn

Book 3 of the Mourning Dove Mysteries Series

Mystery, LGBTQ

Date Published: August 3, 2021

Publisher: Acorn Publishing

Emory Rome is back in A Light to Kill By, the third book in the Mourning Dove Mysteries series – a follow-up to the international bestsellers Murder on the Lake of Fire and Death Opens a Window.

Moments after construction tycoon Blair Geister’s death, a mysterious wandering light kills someone else on her Southern estate. Is the avenging spirit of the millionairess on a killing spree, or are other forces threatening those in her inner circle? As the will is read, suspicion and jealousy arise, and fingers point to the heirs of her fortune. Private investigator Emory Rome and his Mourning Dove partners accept an invitation to stay at Geisterhaus and unravel its secrets before more lives are lost.

#BookBlitz: Juche (The Demon of Yodok, #1) by @AdriaCarmichael @RRBookTours1

Demon of Yodok

Genre: YA Dystopian

A highly addictive Young Adult Dystopian Survival series that will keep you glued to the pages.

JUCHE [dʒuːtʃe]

Just when Areum, daughter of a privileged family in the totalitarian state of Choson, thought she was free from her personal prison, her world collapses around her as her family are taken away in the middle of the night to a hell-like camp in the mountains where people who have strayed from the righteous path are brutally re-educated through blood, sweat, tears and starvation.

There she has to fight for survival together with the family she hates and is forced to re-evaluate every aspect of her life until then – her deep resentment toward her twin sister; her view of her father in face of the mounting evidence he is a traitor with the blood of millions of fellow countrymen on his hands; and even her love and affection for the Great General – the eternal savior and protector of Choson, whom she had always considered her true father.

#BookReview: Energy Healing for Empaths by Lisa Campion

Synopsis: The practical skills you need to keep your energy safe and secure!

Do you struggle with drawing and maintaining boundaries when dealing with the people in your life? Are you highly sensitive and attuned to other’s feelings and energy, to the point where you can’t tell where their energy ends and yours begins? Do you have trouble protecting yourself from “energy vampires?” If so, you’re probably an empath—and in need of some guidance. Fortunately, there are practical ways to stay balanced and keep your energy safe and secure.

From energy healer and psychic trainer Lisa Campion—author of The Art of Psychic Reiki—this healing guide will help you cultivate the energy management skills you need to cope with energy vampires and narcissists, increase your own vitality, and fully embrace your unique gifts. You’ll learn all about:


The three types of energy vampires and how to spot them
Basic energy management skills to keep your energy strong and robust
Practical ways to protect your time, energy, and money from an energy vampire
When to cut your losses and get away, and what to do when you can’t
Psychic self-defense—how to handle a psychic attack
What to do if you’re an energy vampire
And how to diagnose a spiritual issue—not all energy vampires are people!
  If you’re empathic or highly sensitive, it’s almost second nature to put others needs before yourself or take on the problems of the world. But what about your happiness? Energy Healing for Empaths offers everything you need to heal your energy and maintain healthy boundaries with others—so you can be happy, healthy, and in control of you. 

#BookTour: Flame of Normandy by @miriamnewman @RABTBookTours #Giveaway

 

Historical Romance

Date Published: March 03, 2021

Publisher: DCL Publications

Forced into a political marriage with a man she terms “a half mad half Viking,” Catherine Broussard is caught up in her father’s malice, her husband’s ambition and the Norman Conquest of Anglo-Saxon England.

#BookReview: The Iron Raven (The Iron Fey: Evenfall #1) by Julie Kagawa

Synopsis: You may have heard of me...

Robin Goodfellow. Puck. Prankster, joker, raven, fool… King Oberon’s right-hand jester from A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The legends are many, but the truth will now be known as never before, as Puck finally tells his own story and faces a threat to the lands of Faery and the human world unlike any before.

With the Iron Queen Meghan Chase and her prince consort, Puck’s longtime rival Ash, and allies old and new by his side, Puck begins a fantastical and dangerous adventure not to be missed or forgotten. 

#ReleaseBlitz: The Walls of Orion by @TDFoxAuthor @RABTBookTours @PublishingAcorn #Giveaway

 

Young Adult, Science Fiction, Urban Fantasy

Date Published: April 13, 2021

Publisher: Acorn Publishing

Orion City has been on lockdown for ten years. Courtney Spencer, a disillusioned barista doomed to live a “normal” life in a quarantined fishbowl, is certain she’ll never see over the Wall again. Until one rainy evening, Courtney unintentionally befriends W, an eccentric customer who leaves a switchblade in the tip jar. The unexpected acquaintance soon opens the door to a frightening string of questions that flips everything she knows upside down. Stumbling into a world of secrets, lies, and disturbing truths, Courtney grapples with a burning temptation to look again at the Wall. Surrounded by citizens trained to ignore its looming shadow, Courtney no longer can. Intrigued and terrified to expand her world, Courtney finds herself toeing a knife’s edge between the law and justice, learning quickly that the two are not always compatible. She wants to cling to her morals. She also wants to stay alive. But most of all, she wants to see a certain customer again, despite everything in her whispering W is dangerous. In a gritty urban clash of hope and fear, passion and survival, The Walls of Orion explores the edges of light, dark, and the gray in between.

#BookReview: Blessing of Luna (Wolfgods #1) by Blaise Ramsay

Synopsis: Damien Pierce wasn’t like normal people. Since he was young, he learned that he had the uncanny ability to heal himself almost immediately after suffering minor injuries. At fifteen he astounded the small town of Big Timber, Montana when an SUV hit him only to find he survived the encounter without suffering any major injuries. After moving away for ten years, losing his mother and slipping into a deep sense of depression, Damien’s father moves them back home.
Enter Jillian Styles, the immortal, beautiful Lycanthrope that has been looking for the soul of her long lost lover, Lucius Wolf, who after many years of being reborn simply vanished into the tides of time. When Jill first sees Damien, she knows immediately that he is the one she had been looking for. She begins pursuing him, hoping that he would remember her as he did with each time his soul was reborn into a new body. The problem is, he has no idea who she is! 
When an old enemy begins re-igniting the flames of a centuries old war, Damien must come to grips with a cruel fact that he is not human while nurturing feelings for a woman he’d long tried to deny.
Can Jillian and Damien hold onto their love for one another while trying to protect both sides of their families from the wrath of a very angry and vindictive god?

#ReleaseBlitz: Tiger Stripes by @byhannahrenae @RABTBookTours @hurnpubbooks #Giveaway

 

Memoir, Nonfiction, Mental Health

Date Published: April, 12th, 2021

Publisher: Hurn Publications

Four psychiatric wards

Three rehabs

Two jail cells

And a suicide attempt…

Hannah was told she would not make it to 25 with the way she was living. She had struggled with mental illness her entire life, but at 22 her demons came to a head at the grips of severe substance abuse, life-changing trauma, and two major deaths in her life.

Hannah’s struggles land her places no one ever hopes to grace; jail and psych wards lead her to the brink of death. Running out of options she’s left with two choices: live or die. This heart-wrenching memoir combines recovery with bittersweet romance told in a raw presentation that immerses the reader into the author’s dark state-of-mind in every page.

Tiger Stripes is going to add a valuable voice to the conversation about women’s mental health issues.

#BookBlitz: Cruel Devil by Daniela Romero @XpressoTours #Giveaway

Cruel Devil
Daniela Romero
(Devils of Sun Valley High, #3)
Publication date: April 30th 2021
Genres: Contemporary, New Adult, Romance, Sports

Dominique Price hates me.
He wants me.
He can never have me.

At least that’s what I tell him.
Good looking, arrogant, football God, everything comes so easy for him. I won’t be just another game to win.
It doesn’t matter that I want him.
It doesn’t matter that with just one look, he takes my breath away.

He’s my brother’s best friend and officially off limits.
But when he touches me, I forget what we’re supposed to be.
Acquaintances. Enemies. Nothing.
And I dream of what we could be.
Friends. Lovers. Everything.

If only everyone’s expectations weren’t standing in the way.

#BookBlitz: ISAN by @MaryTing @XpressoTours #Giveaway $10 Amazon gift card

ISAN
Mary Ting
(International Sensory Assassin Network, #1)
Publication date: May 1st 2018
Genres: Dystopian, Science Fiction, Young Adult

THE WORLD HAS CHANGED.

SCIENTISTS WARNED IT WOULD HAPPEN.

Meteors devastated the Earth. World Governments developed plans to help surviving citizens. The United States disbanded and salvageable land was divided into four quadrants—North, South, East, and West—governed by The Remnant Council.

Struggling to survive, seventeen-year-old Ava ends up in juvenile detention, until she is selected for a new life—with a catch. She must be injected with an experimental serum. The results will be life changing. The serum will make her better. To receive the serum, Ava agrees to join a program controlled by ISAN, the International Sensory Assassin Network.

While on a mission, she is abducted by a rebel group led by Rhett and told that not only does she have a history with him, but her entire past is a lie perpetuated by ISAN to ensure her compliance. Unsure of who to trust, Ava must decide if her strangely familiar and handsome captor is her enemy or her savior—and time is running out.

#BookReview: Cemetery Boys by @aidenschmaiden

Synopsis: Yadriel has summoned a ghost, and now he can’t get rid of him.

When his traditional Latinx family has problems accepting his gender, Yadriel becomes determined to prove himself a real brujo. With the help of his cousin and best friend Maritza, he performs the ritual himself, and then sets out to find the ghost of his murdered cousin and set it free.

However, the ghost he summons is actually Julian Diaz, the school’s resident bad boy, and Julian is not about to go quietly into death. He’s determined to find out what happened and tie up some loose ends before he leaves. Left with no choice, Yadriel agrees to help Julian, so that they can both get what they want. But the longer Yadriel spends with Julian, the less he wants to let him leave.

#BookReview: The Castle School (for Troubled Girls) by @AlyssaSheinmel

Synopsis: When Moira Dreyfuss's parents announce that they're sending her to an all-girls boarding school deep in the Maine woods, Moira isn't fooled. She knows her parents are punishing her; she's been too much trouble since her best friend, Nathan, died―and for a while before that. At the Castle School, isolated from the rest of the world, Moira will be expected to pour her heart out to the odd headmaster, Dr. Prince. But she isn't interested in getting over Nathan's death or befriending her fellow students.

On her first night there, Moira hears distant music. On her second, she discovers the lock on her window is broken. On her third, she and her roommate venture outside...and learn that they're not so isolated after all. There's another, very different, Castle School nearby―this one filled with boys whose parents sent them away, too.

Moira is convinced that the Castle Schools and the doctors who run them are hiding something. But exploring the schools will force Moira to confront her overwhelming grief―and the real reasons her parents sent her away. 

#BookBlitz: The Other Side of Magic by Ester Manzini @XpressoTours #Giveaway 10x ebooks

The Other Side of Magic
Ester Manzini
(Parliament House)
Publication date: April 6th 2021
Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult

For fans of Of Fire and Stars by Audrey Coulthurst

In a world inspired by 16th century Italy, magic is a common occurrence. Everyone in the realms of Epidalio and Zafiria is gifted with it at birth, but with every spell cast, their power wanes.

Gaiane Asares is the result of an accurate selection by her mother, the queen of Zafiria. She’s infinitely powerful; a weapon of mass destruction kept segregated in a tower and used against her will to conquer Epidalio.

Meanwhile, in Epidalio, Leo was born with no magic at all, a rarity. She lost her home and family when Zafiria attacked, and her resentment toward the invaders still burns.

Gaiane manages to escape her gilded cage, and the two girls cross paths. But when war threatens the land again, their loyalty will be put to the test. Will they manage to overcome their differences in the name of freedom?