#BookBlitz: Pain Seeker by D.N. Hoxa @XpressoTours #Giveaway eBook copy of Pain Seeker

Pain Seeker
D.N. Hoxa
(The New Orleans Shade, #1)
Publication date: April 19th 2021
Genres: Adult, Romance, Urban Fantasy

Betrayed. 
Defeated. 
Chained. 

I used to be a sister, a friend, a ruler of the elflands that belonged to my family’s House. Now, I am a prisoner of the fae, my kind’s sworn enemy since the beginning of time. They put chains around me, thinking they can keep me from breaking free and bathing in their blood. They can’t.

The only reason I stay is because I no longer need a life. My home, my family, my dignity were all taken away from me.

But I have the fae. My captor.

He is every bit the man I was taught to hate long before I knew how to love anything. To the world, he is the ruthless Winter prince who has never lost a battle against elves in his life. To me, his pain whispers other truths.

He’s a prisoner in his castle just as much as I am.

They sent him here to kill his soul.

They sent me here to kill my body.

What they didn’t see coming was that we’d find each other. And that we’d survive.

#ReleaseBlitz for Cast Stones by @CoraKenborn @kidsversuscopy1 and @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Cast Stones

Authors: Cora Kenborn & Catherine Wiltcher

Genre: Dark Taboo Romance

Release Date: April 23, 2021

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My past is a poisoned prayer…

Whispered to me by a devil with an angel’s smile.

Twelve years ago, he stole me from the streets…

Only to leave me stranded in a nightmare.

But Luca Esposito isn’t just a painful memory.

He’s a front-page headline—an accused killer.

And I’m the public defender who set him free.

Once again, I’m trapped in his web with blood on my hands.

But I didn’t crawl out of the fire to be tossed into an inferno.

There’s a new nightmare coming.

And this time we’ll be stranded together.

They cast the first stone.

We’ll cast the last.

My Heaven. His Hell.

Our final sin.

Trigger Warning:

Cast Stones is an extremely dark and taboo romance novella with multiple triggers. This book is not for the faint of heart or easily offended. Remember, you have been warned.

This novella was originally published as part of the Possessed By Passion Boxset.

#ReleaseBlitz for Grayson's Way by @lisaeugene43 and @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Grayson's Way

Series: Forever Love #2

Author: Lisa Eugene

Genre: Adult Contemporary Romance

Release Date: April 23, 2021

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Love is patient.

Love is kind.

But love is never perfect.

Grayson and Angie’s marriage isn’t typical. Grayson suffers from schizophrenia, a mental disorder of delusion and fantasy.

Their deep love, and an unyielding bond have allowed them to endure. This gorgeous, kind, sexy man has refused to be defined by his diagnosis.

When Grayson spirals into psychosis, Angie is powerless to stop it. He retreats into a world of delusions and paranoia, distrusting everyone around him.

The danger he perceives appears to be an elaborate mental concoction, a reckoning of his tragic past and crumbling present. Are forces working against them? Are the OTHERS real or has Grayson finally succumbed to the demons in his head?

This time, can Angie be his salvation, or will this crisis leave their family in ruins?

Love is patient.

Love is kind.

Love can also be devastating.

#BookReview: Fairytale Wrath (The Cross #3) by M.H.B.

Synopsis: They say all men are monsters...

Money means power and power gives your skeletons a taste for retribution
They came for me
Suffocating me, dragging me to my knees 
Using my past and my future as a double weapon against me

…I’m not a monster…

Lily Carter envisioned a beautiful fairy tale
But perfect is an illusion
And so, a veil of nightmares stood between us and our happy ending
Leading the dormant beast inside my head to awaken after all 

But I will protect what’s mine…

#CoverReveal: Tartarus by @danihootsauthor @XpressTours

Tartarus
Dani Hoots
(Queen of the Underworld, #1)
Publication date: July 13th 2021
Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult

She will stop at nothing to bring her father back.

Chrys has searched all of the Underworld to find a way to open Tartarus and bring her father, Hades, back to life. It was her fault he was sent there and she doesn’t care if she begins the end of the world to save him. Finally finding a clue on how to open the gates to hell itself, she leaves the Underworld and searches for the god Aether.

Will Chrys get the answers she is looking for? Or will she have to live with the guilt for the rest of her eternal life?

#BookReview: The HOOK (The PAN #2) by Jenny Hickman

Synopsis: Tomorrow isn’t promised, no matter how immortal you think you are.

In the aftermath of Vivienne’s capture, she discovers she's destined to become one of the forgetful P.A.N. The devastating diagnosis leaves her questioning her relationships—and her place in Neverland. While on her second recruitment mission, she ignores a cardinal rule, and one of her fellow P.A.N. pays the ultimate price for her mistake. 

Outrage over the death spurs Lee Somerfield's growing rebellious faction to fight fire with fire, leaving H.O.O.K. in ashes and Neverland ripped apart from within.

Navigating new love and old secrets, Vivienne must now face the consequences of her actions … and decide if living forever is worth forgetting everything.

#CoverReveal for A Gorgeous Villain by @thesaffronkent and @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: A Gorgeous Villain

A St. Mary's Rebel's Romance

Author: Saffron A. Kent

Genre: Sports Romance

Cover Design: Najla Qamber

Photo: Andrew Gleason

Model: Alexander Breck

Release Date: June 3, 2021

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Two years ago, Reed Jackson betrayed Calliope Thorne and broke her heart. So she stole his most prized possession – a white mustang – and drove it into the lake for revenge.

Now, Callie is stuck at a reform school while Reed is off at college, living his life without repercussions.

Until he comes back.

With him comes back all the feelings that Callie has been trying to bury: anger and heartbreak.

But most of all, desire. At the sight of his beautiful but lying lips and his gunmetal gray eyes that still taunt and smolder when he looks at her.

Whatever though. It's not as if Callie is ever going to fall for her ex-boyfriend again. Or let him corner her in a bar one night and touch her, kiss her…

Neither is she going to kiss him back. Or worse, sleep with him.

Because that would make her naïve and foolish.

Oh, and also pregnant.

And there's no way Callie is ever going to get pregnant at eighteen and with Reed's baby, no less. The guy she hates.

The guy who taught her all about heartbreak. Who might look like a gorgeous hero but really is the villain of her story.

#CoverReveal for Until Selma by @harleystoneauth @boomfactorypub and @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Until Selma

A Happily Ever Alpha World Novel

Author: Harley Stone

Publisher: Boom Factory Publishing, LLC

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Cover Design: RBA Designs

Release Date: April 30, 2021

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Fresh out of the Army, Tavonte Jones is home on a mission to rescue his teen sister from a narcissistic creep. Running into his high school crush was the last thing on his mind, but now that he’s seen her, he’s determined to make Selma his.

Resigned to live vicariously through romance novels, Selma Black has all but given up on finding her own happily ever after when an old classmate returns, looking like a fantasy come to life and offering everything she's ever wanted.

As circumstances get complicated and dangerous, Tavonte must keep his family safe and convince the girl he’s always wanted that their real-life romance will have the perfect storybook ending.

A Dead Presidents MC crossover.

Until Selma is part of Aurora Rose Reynolds' Happily Ever Alpha World. If you loved Until December, then you will want to read Until Selma.

#CoverReveal for Raven by @klsavage_author and @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Raven

Series: Royal Bastards MC: Portland Oregon #2

Author: K.L. Savage

Genre: Dark Romantic Suspense/Organized Crime

Cover Design: Lori Jackson Designs

Photo: Wander Aguiar

Model: Josh Mario John

Release Date: December 14, 2021

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History says my family is cursed with darkness.

I’m forever bound to loneliness and love is forbidden.

He who loves will be the reason hope dies..

At least, that’s the story.

I sense loss.

I am loss.

I’m a lost soul drawn to others like me.

I sense death and bad omens.

It’s how I find her.

Blood drips and the raven sings inside me, begging me to carry her home.

And when I see her, I know the family tale is real.

Blood flows quicker the more I yearn for her.

Her moonlit skin becomes paler.

Her breaths become shallower.

But then I remember fairytales.

Love is always the reason why a curse is lifted.

Hope dies with the rest.

She’s lying there, naked, alone, bruised and cut.

I learn my foredoomed future isn’t what brings love to die, but tests its strength to live.

A serial killer wants her.

And she fought like hell to escape.

He won’t stop killing until he has her.

When I find out why?

I realize the fight just got harder to save her.

And a bond between us is truly forbidden, bathed in blood and death.

My omen.

Is she strong enough to love a curse like me?

#BookBlitz: Reclaiming Ryda by @RachelRossano @XpressoTours #Giveaway $20 Amazon gift card

Reclaiming Ryda
Rachel Rossano
(Once Upon a Duchy, #2)
Publication date: April 20th 2021
Genres: Fairy Tales, Fantasy, Romance

Rydaria lives as a prisoner in a tower library. Captured as a child, her past is a mystery. Maintaining the literary treasures within her care, she studies the world through books that give her a glimpse of the freedom she craves.

A scribe by trade, Crispin has devoted the last three years of his life seeking the lost heir of Avalene. He travels to Worthenave’s famed library in hopes of finding the key. Instead, he discovers a new mystery, a beautiful librarian who is locked in with her books every night.

As the days pass, Crispin must choose. Rydaria’s precarious situation is deteriorating. Meanwhile, his duty demands he leave before the Duke of Worthenave uncovers his quest. Still, the scribe can’t bring himself to abandon the captive in the library tower, even if it costs him his mission.

Inspired by Rapunzel and East of the Sun West of the Moon

#ReleaseBlitz for Heroin Stained Hearts by @cmradcliff and @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Heroin Stained Hearts

Series: In Vein #3

Author: C.M. Radcliff

Genre: Contemporary New Adult Romance

Release Date: April 22, 2021

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After a terrifying health scare, Ander is finally getting the help he needs.

He’s running out of options and needs the treatment.

The only thing is, he hasn’t been honest with Hadley.

One truth leads to a cascade of events that all circle back to one thing… Ander’s addiction.

Life is never easy and the road to recovery is paved with shattered glass.

Hadley’s in love with an addict that harbors more secrets than Pandora’s Box.

Ander is in love with the girl that deserves more than he can give her.

Their love was built on a mountain of lies and broken promises.

When it all comes crashing down, will their love survive?

Or will they finally fall apart?

#ReleaseBlitz for Landon by Cora Brent @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Landon

Author: Cora Brent

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Release Date: April 22, 2021

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Autumn

It’s not that I’m hiding out in this hard luck little town.

Not exactly.

But I’m twenty-six years old, I’ve had one boyfriend, and he ditched me for my sister.

So I might be a little cynical.

Then again, perhaps a high school math teacher shouldn’t expect romance.

I’d be better off sticking to the good things in life, such as my job at Emblem High, my amazing circle of friends, and my vintage record collection.

I shouldn’t waste time beating myself up over past choices or crying over the people who betrayed me.

And I definitely shouldn’t obsess over the washboard abs belonging to the guy who just moved in down the hall.

There’s no denying Landon Gentry is hot.

He is also crude, sarcastic, messy and downright exasperating.

And he used to be my student.

Yeah, my new roommate might be the last guy I should be thinking about.

If only he didn’t turn out to be so much more than I ever imagined...

Landon

The football scholarship was my ticket out of town and I never planned to come back.

However, blowing out my knee in the last game of the season spelled the end of my college days.

Still, I wouldn’t have returned if not for my little brother.

He’s lost his way since I left.

And I’m the only one who cares enough to help him find it again.

Between working two jobs and trying to steer my brother back in line I’ve got enough to focus on.

I don’t need to get distracted by a quirky schoolteacher with a great body.

But Autumn’s more than just some sexy girl who rents a house with me.

She’s gorgeous and brilliant and clueless about the fact that she’s been my fantasy for years.

Seeing her right in front of me every day is just too tempting to pass up.

Even if giving in might mean disaster for us both...

#ReleaseBlitz for Something New by @lizlovelock and @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Something New

Series: Jilted #2

Author: Liz Lovelock

Genre: Sweet Contemporary Romance

Release Date: April 22, 2021

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Pregnant, no, that can’t be right.

The little pink lines staring back at me don’t lie.

I can’t be, though, not to the one man I know my family will hate, although, at the time, I had no idea about our family's past.

He said he’d call, and he never did. Now today, of all days, he decides to show up with some lame excuse of losing my number. How ironic.

I’m officially screwed. How do I tell him, better yet, how do I tell my family?

#BookReview: The PAN (The PAN #1) by Jenny Hickman

Synopsis: Since her parents were killed, Vivienne has always felt ungrounded, shuffled through the foster care system. Just when liberation finally seems possible—days before her eighteenth birthday—Vivienne is hospitalized with symptoms no one can explain. 

The doctors may be puzzled, but Deacon, her mysterious new friend, claims she has an active Nevergene. His far-fetched diagnosis comes with a warning: she is about to become an involuntary test subject for Humanitarian Organization for Order and Knowledge—or HOOK. Vivienne can either escape to Neverland’s Kensington Academy and learn to fly (Did he really just say fly?) or risk sticking around to become a human lab rat. But accepting a place among The PAN means Vivienne must abandon her life and foster family to safeguard their secrets and hide in Neverland’s shadows… forever.

#ReleaseBoost for Captain by @dmdavisauthor and @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Captain

Series: Black Ops MMA #3

Author: D.M. Davis

Genre: Contemporary Sports Romance

Release Date: April 16, 2021

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D.M. Davis’ CAPTAIN is a heart-wrenching, sexy contemporary romance full of forgiveness, second chances, and healing, and Book Three in the Black Ops MMA series.

Sometimes you have to break to become the person you're meant to be.

CAP:

I'm a bastard by birth.

Heartless by choice.

Love abandoned me a long time ago. Good riddance.

I have my family-by-choice. I don't need more.

Until she crept in, sank in deep, latched on, and stayed.

She's as broken as the day is long.

Yet I can't resist the pull to get her in my bed, in my heart, piecing me back together—for she's not the only one broken.

CHER:

I'm over men.

Destruction and pain are all they bring.

Been there. Done that. Check please.

Yet there is one—so many years later—who looks at me like I'm a goddess.

Who makes me feel like I have something to offer, that I'm exactly who he wants.

Can two lonely souls come together to discover the broken have more pieces to love, or will they pass on finding their forever love?

The Black Ops MMA books are integrated standalones with subplots that carry through from book 1 to book 4. For maximum enjoyment, I suggest the Black Ops MMA Series be read in order to fully experience the world and the characters who inhabit it, beginning with NO MERCY.

Intended for mature audiences. Some scenes may contain triggers.

#BookReview: Almost Damned by Christopher Leibig

Synopsis: Defense attorney Samson Young has an uncanny ability to get even the so-called worst clients off the hook, as he ably demonstrated in Almost Mortal. In Almost Damned, little does Sam know that his most challenging cases are all leading up to one monumental trial, in which he will lay before the Court the visceral complexities of good vs. evil.

As Sam navigates his cases in Bennet County, it becomes increasingly apparent that his clients-old and new-are surprisingly interconnected, especially when old clients rise from the dead. Literally. He and his office are besieged by death threats and mysterious invitations, each one a clue that compels him to dig deeper into his own past. With each new discovery, Sam leads himself and his team deeper into a nether world in an attempt to bring redemption to his toughest clients of all-the descendants of the biblical Fallen Angels who have been walking the earth as humans for centuries, unable to find peace.

#CoverReveal for Embracing Today by @Kahlen_Aymes and @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Embracing Today

Series: Trading Yesterday #3

Author: Kahlen Aymes

Genre: Contemporary New Adult Romance

Cover Design: Rachel Mizer, Shoutlines Designs

Release Date: May 11, 2021

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Destiny Can’t Be Denied.

Some might call Bennett Brady a hero, but he was only doing his job. Fighting fires and rescuing people was dangerous, but that’s what he did and what he took pride in. He never failed to save the day, until the day he failed Marin Landry, and he failed her, huge. Her boyfriend died in a fire Ben was called to, and he was unable to save him; his unit arrived too late to make a difference. His head reasoned that there wasn’t anything anyone could have done differently; the place lit up like a Roman candle.

Marin was lucky to be alive, but the loss left her broken, and something deep inside Ben yearned to save her. He wanted to take her pain away, to know her, to get closer; but she was too damaged. She was beautiful, sure, but this was much more than mere attraction.

From the moment he laid eyes on the injured young woman in the back of that ambulance, his fate was sealed. Her soul called out to his; her tear-filled eyes and the ache in her voice said she needed him, and he was moved to the core. This would not be a casual fling and that was the last thing Ben wanted it to be.

As he peeled back the layers and discovered the ugly truth, he wondered why Marin couldn’t seem to leave her past behind and embrace the new and better life he so desperately wanted to give her. A terrible tragedy may have thrown them together, but Ben is unable to walk away from Marin; even when she begs him to.

Whatever it takes, he won’t rest until convinces her she belongs in his arms. Forever.

#CoverReveal for His Little Star by @MichelleKarise and @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: His Little Star

Author: Michelle Karise

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Cover Design: Najla Qamber Designs

Release Date: May 18, 2021

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Traveling to Italy for business sounded like a dream. Three glorious weeks of sightseeing and sampling the local nightlife.

Matteo Russo caught my attention from the start.

We met at a crowded nightclub. The gorgeous older man sauntered over, plied me with liquor, and whispered illicit invitations in my ear. It’s no surprise we ended up naked and horizontal in his bed.

The next morning, I made my graceful exit with a kiss, convinced it would be the last time we saw each other.

Imagine my shock when he popped up at the office. Turns out he’s the guy that’s trying to ruin my family’s business.

My job was to use whatever tools in my arsenal to force him to capitulate.

A Roman conquered my heart.

But secrets threatened to destroy us forever.

#BookBlitz: The First Starfighter: Game 1 by @luvgracegoodwin @XpressoTours #Giveaway $20 Amazon gift card

The First Starfighter: Game 1
Grace Goodwin
(Starfighter Training Academy #1)
Publication date: April 22nd 2021
Genres: Adult, Romance, Science Fiction

Starfighter Training Academy. It was just a game. The newest, hottest video game release of the year. Choose a role. Build the perfect hero who joins you on missions to save the Vega star system from the evil Queen Raya and her merciless Dark Fleet.

Play for hours? Check.
Obsess over the in-game romance between your avatar and the sexiest alien you’ve ever seen? Check.
Win? Beat the heck out of the game? Check and check.

Open your door at 3:00 in the morning to find that smoking hot alien you thought you made up in your head standing there? Um… okay.

Wake up on the other side of the galaxy with that same alien insisting you’re his… and that you haven’t been playing a video game, but completed the training program to become the first Starfighter from Earth?

Holy sh$t.

#BookTour: The Bifurcation of Dungsten Crease by Richard Hacker @RABTBookTours

 

Science Fiction

Date Published: March 15, 2021

Publisher: Del Sol Press

In the course of a morning, Dungsten Crease resurrects his neighbor’s dog, is arrested by TSA for carrying a weapon which never existed, and drowns a woman at an airline ticket counter—or could he be hallucinating? In his panic he locks himself in the men's room of a coffee shop only to find a strange man in cycling togs sharing the space. The lanky intruder claims to be Dungsten’s neurally implanted concierge unit who has two disturbing messages. Dungsten is a Shaper—an obsolete, genetically programmed tool created by a bankrupt galactic corporation to terraform planetary experiences for vacationing clients; and the woman he inadvertently killed at the airport with his Shaper abilities will be the love of his life. Attracting government agents who want to weaponize him and Galactic Business Council assassins who want to terminate him, fear drives the Shaper within to inadvertently bifurcate, a second Dungsten also now running from his pursuers. But bifurcation comes at a price: loss of appetite, swelling of the hands and feet, an erection lasting longer than four hours, loss of bladder control, rectal bleeding, psychosis, convulsions, and sudden death. To pull himself back together and if he’s lucky, survive, he must master his Shaper abilities before he becomes a victim, or worse, accidentally destroys Earth and everyone he loves along with it.