Waiting On: My Funny Demon Valentine by Aurora Ascher & Book Recommendation: The Merciless by Danielle Vega @dvalentinebooks

This weeks Waiting On is by the actor of Sanctuary of the Shadow which unfortunately I didn't enjoy but this one sounds really good.  So I am excited to check it out!!  

This weeks Recommendation is one that I have read and DIE HARD LOVED!! If you love those old 80s horror movies then The Merciless is so for you!! 

#ReleaseBlitz for Stay Toxic by Lani Lynn Vale @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Stay Toxic

Series: Semyonov Bratva #1

Author: Lani Lynn Vale

Genre: Mafia Romance

Tropes: Forced Proximity/Antihero

Release Date: January 7, 2025

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There was right, there was wrong, and then there was the in-between.

The place where normal people reside, understanding that there are two sides to every coin. People that do bad things for good reasons. People that do bad things for bad reasons.

First, I knew that Shasha Semyonov was a bad man. One that did bad things for bad reasons. That didn’t mean that I was rational when it came to him.

He was toxic to my health, yet I wanted him anyway.

They say the first step to healing is admitting when you have a problem.

My problem happened to be six feet two inches tall, two hundred and twenty pounds, and bearded to perfection.

Oh, and he was also the scariest guy I knew.

Meanwhile, I was the laughingstock of the city.

The woman who was cheated on by her boyfriend with her best friend, and it was captured live while a band played in the background, perfectly accenting the humiliating video.

There was no way that Shasha Semyonov would notice me.

Right?

Wrong.

I’d definitely been noticed.

#BookTour: The Bloodgrove Apprentice by Nathan C. Ashford @RRBookTours1

The Bloodgrove Apprentice

Publication Date: August 27, 2024

Genre: YA Fantasy

• Found Family
• Friendships
• Furry Friend (Cat)
• Cozy Village Life
• Violence & Revenge
• Elemental and Mind-based Magic
• Mentorship
• YA Fantasy Coming-of-Age

In a shattered world where magic is forbidden, a war is brewing and only one thing is certain:
Blood. Will. Rain.

Brynna has lived her whole life in relative peace and isolation— until the Revenants, a malevolent cult wielding forbidden magic, annihilate everything she holds dear. Her life now burned to ash and her parents slain, Brynna narrowly evades the slaughter, fleeing into Bloodgrove Forest.

Friendly faces emerge within the village of Bloodgrove, including the local blacksmith, who gives Brynna an opportunity to make a new life as his apprentice.

But she can’t escape her fate so easily. Haunted by nightmares and tormented by the local ruffian, Brynna is growing increasingly restless and finding it difficult to cope with her need for revenge.

Brynna can’t run from evil forever. Will she and her newfound friends survive, or become victims of the Revenant's bloody reign of terror?

#ReleaseBlitz for Lonely Heart by A.K. Evans @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Lonely Heart

Series: The Westwoods #4

Author: A.K. Evans

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Tropes: Brother's Best Friend/Workplace Romance

Friends to Lovers/Small Town

Release Date: January 7, 2025

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Being a Westwood isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

Sure, Ivy loves her family, their business, and knowing she’s got a secure future. But there’s a downside, too.

Love.

Ivy’s convinced she’ll never have the happy ending her three older brothers have found. But she’s determined to put herself out there anyway.

Marco Kingston doesn’t have a care in the world. He loves his life, his job, and his family. He even loves his best friend’s family, the family he works for.

Despite his closeness to the Westwood family, Marco’s never considered the possibility of something more meaningful with Ivy.

But when a horrifying event leaves Ivy abandoning her search for love, Marco steps up in ways neither of them anticipated.

And Ivy starts to believe that maybe there’s hope for her, after all.

#ReleaseBlitz for Devoted Enough by Kelly Elliott @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Devoted Enough

Series: Love in Montana #9

Author: Kelly Elliott

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Tropes: Small Town/First Love/Enemies to Lovers

Strong Heroine/It's Always Been You

Release Date: January 7, 2025

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Nathan Shaw has been keeping a secret since high school. It was so tightly intertwined with someone else’s that exposing the darkest facts meant he couldn’t keep the other to himself.

He’s had years of holding onto those truths. This also means he's had to push away the one person who means more to him than anything—and in the process, all it does is make her think that he despises her like all of the other people in her life.

But that's so far from the truth about his feelings that he holds so close to his heart.

Haven Larson has had an awful childhood growing up with an abusive father and a mother who tries her best, but sometimes the best can't protect you from the monsters that hide in darkness.

One night, protecting her from those monsters, fell on the one boy she had loved for as long as she could remember. And now she knows that he can't stand to be around her after discovering her secrets—or can he, because every time they are together, the sparks ignite and threaten to combust.

    

But it will take their darkest secrets being exposed in order for their feelings to come to light.