Tuesday, January 28, 2025

#BookBlitz: Harleigh Sinclair and the Kingdom of the Bristol Skull by @tamaragrantham @XpressoTours $25 Amazon gift card

Harleigh Sinclair and the Kingdom of the Bristol Skull
Tamara Grantham
(The Harleigh Sinclair, #4)
Publication date: February 4th 2025
Genres: Adult, Paranormal, Romance

An Egyptian ankh. An Inuit mask. A Skinwalker’s scythe.
Three Neotact artifacts have been found. Only the shield and sword remain.
My name is Harleigh Sinclair. I have a gift to find lost artifacts, though there are some who call it a curse…
When I discover a riddle etched inside a goldstone skull, it may be the clue I need to discover not only the Viking shield, but the famed sword of King Arthur, Excalibur.
After my father was attacked by a Blood Raider over a decade ago, and his sword stolen, my life’s mission has been to find his attacker and bring justice to our family. But before I can find the attacker, I must first discover the original four artifacts before the Blood Raiders obtain them first.
With the aid of the insufferable and dangerously handsome Jagg Ransom, plus my sister and a team of handpicked experts, we follow the riddle’s clues. Our search leads us from a Viking museum in Norway, to underground crypts in Bristol, England, and finally to a forest haunted by a legendary hellhound. But we’re not alone.
The Blood Raiders have gotten desperate. And they’ve been following us. If we don’t find the shield first, they’ll attain more power than we can comprehend, and not only will we fail, but we’ll be doomed to die at their hands.

Monday, January 27, 2025

#BookReview: Tempting Fate (Duplicity Trilogy #1) by Bella Faust




THE COMPLETE DUPLICITY TRILOGY IS NOW AVAILABLE TO BINGE READ! 

That's over 3,250 pages of realistically dark redemption traumance, filled with angst, betrayal, and lust set within a love triangle that everyone but the three stubborn souls involved saw coming years ago.

Tempting Fate is the first book in the Duplicity trilogy.

This steamy and taboo tale is full of the intense emotional themes that dark romance readers adore while playing into forbidden, age gap, and second chance tropes. If you are a fan of heartbreak and redemption, and enjoy a good grovel from your morally grey heroes, the Duplicity trilogy will tick all of your boxes... 


Almost five years ago, I played a stupid game, and just like the adage warns, I won a stupid prize.

A lifetime supply of trauma. 

Caught in the crossfire of an underworld battle that I wasn’t privy to until it was too late, I have found solace in the arms of my first love and peace in my deepening bond with my fiancé’s best friend. Between Zeke and Slash, I am over-protected, a little sheltered, but mostly happy. My dad’s motorcycle club acts as my buffer from reality. The escapades of my friends and my four brothers keep me safely entertained within my comfortable bubble.

Life is simple.

Life is good.

Until my violent ex-boyfriend is released from prison, and our lies and secrets blow up in our face once again… 

Zeke leaves me.

Slash declares his love.

And I find myself caught in the middle of another stupid game.

Reader discretion is advised, as this dark redemption traumance contains potentially triggering content. Please also be aware that this story is set in Australia and is written in UK English with liberal use of Aussie slang and vernacular.


#ReleaseBlitz for Heart of a Wolf by CJ Ravenna @GiveMeBooksPR




Title: Heart of a Wolf
Series: Viking Wolves #1
Author: CJ Ravenna
Genre: Gay Paranormal Romance
Tropes: Enemies to Lovers/Time Travel/Fated Mates
Found Family/Mating of Convenience
Release Date: January 27, 2025


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How to get over a breakup:
1: Go to Iceland
2: Get sent back in time
3: Get abducted by a hot, moody Viking werewolf
The tour guides sure didn’t prepare me for this…

Kieran

After my boyfriend cheats, my best friend spirits me away to Reykjavik for a scenic getaway. I think this may be just the escape I need to get over the jerk.

What was supposed to be a beautiful boat cruise ends in chaos when I find myself transported to the age of the Vikings. Before I can catch my breath, I’m taken captive by Wulfric, a powerful and terrifying Viking warrior. But he’s not just a fearsome fighter. He and his clan are Ulfhednar, wolf shifters.

Humans are the natural enemies of Wulfric’s pack and the longer I linger in his time, the more dangerous my already precarious situation becomes. Despite our mutual dislike, Wulfric vows he will keep me alive until I can return to my time… but only if I let him claim me as his mate.

Turns out, there’s a thin line between love and hate. Passion erupts, burning hot enough to melt the glaciers. As I see a soft and loving side to this strong, wounded warrior, I begin to wonder just where it is I call home.

Can Wulfric’s past be my new present?

Heart of a Wolf is book 1 in the Viking Wolves series and features enemies-to-lovers, mating of convenience, a dash of time travel, mental health rep (PTSD and GAD), and a happy-ever-after.


#BookBlitz: Übermensch by D.L. Scarpe @RABTBookTours


 

Historical Fiction

Published: 1/15/2025

 

 

A murdered boy. Tortoiseshell eyeglasses. A letter written by a young man to another that reads like a lover's spat. One portable Underwood typewriter. Two confessions.

Will Babe and Manny live or die?

 

It's the early 1920s and arrogant teenagers Noah "Babe" Lieberman and Roman "Manny" Loewe have it all: money, brains, freedom. They reside in the same affluent Chicago neighborhood, come from successful, respectable families, and enjoy privileged lives. Both are intelligent prodigies who graduated high school early. But Roman, an extrovert, is handsome and popular whereas Noah is average-looking and spends most of his time with birds and books. After meeting, they embark on a wild journey of vandalism, burglary, and arson. Their personal relationship escalates, and their criminal acts morph into more sinister behavior as the two flout the laws of the "common" man and live their version of the Übermensch, or "superman" as defined by Friedrich Nietzsche.

One hundred years ago, the world was stunned to learn that Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, two wealthy, brilliant university students, had confessed to kidnapping and murdering fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks. Why did Leopold and Loeb do it? For "pure love of excitement, or the imaginary love of thrills, doing something different," they said.

 

D.L. Scarpe's Übermensch fictionalizes the Leopold and Loeb case, focusing on the reason why the gifted teenagers' lives took such an unexpected turn, destroyed three families, and captivated the country in what was dubbed at the time as the "crime of the century."

#CoverReveal for My Dark Prince by Parker S. Huntington & L.J. Shen @GiveMeBooksPR




Title: My Dark Prince
Series: Dark Prince Road #3
Authors: Parker S. Huntington & L.J. Shen
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Tropes: Enemies to Lovers/Second Chance/Amnesia
Sleeping Beauty Retelling/Fake Relationship
Release Date: February 9, 2025


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From Wall Street Journal bestsellers L.J. Shen and Parker S. Huntington comes a twisted second-chance romance between a prince haunted by a dark secret and his reluctant Sleeping Beauty.

Oliver
I don’t usually trap women with amnesia into marriage.
But I guess there’s a first time for everything.
When the woman of my dreams falls into my lap, I can’t help but wonder what else she can do in that position.
She’s here. In my house. At my mercy.
And she thinks we’ve been lovers the entire decade we spent apart.
Briar and I have always been unfinished business.
Now it’s time to seal the deal.

Briar
I’m marrying a beautiful monster.
A crooked fraud. America’s wealthiest bachelor.
He claims we’re in love, yet all I taste in our kisses is hate and lust.
I don’t remember why or how.
But I do remember he’s the enemy.
Now, I’m stuck inside a nightmare.
And Oliver will do anything to keep me in the dark.

Authors’ Note: My Dark Prince is a standalone enemies-to-lovers Sleeping Beauty retelling, in which a damaged billionaire with a dark past and his childhood sweetheart fall in love—literally. It is set in the decadent Dark Prince Road universe.