Dec 22

Sinful Empire by Meghan March Review Blitz

By Miranda Arnold in Reveals & Tours

The Mount Trilogy concludes with Sinful Empire!

What’s mine, I keep, and that includes Keira Kilgore.

It’s no longer enough to have her in my debt. No longer enough to own her body.

I want something more.

She can try to resist, but I’ll never give her up.

Nothing will keep us apart.

Not her. Not my enemies. No one.

Her debt will only be paid one way—with her heart.

Sinful Empire is the third and final book in the Mount Trilogy.

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Check out our 5 smooches review HERE.

Get ready for the darker and dirtier side of New Orleans with a brand new alpha romance from USA Today bestselling author Meghan March.

New Orleans belongs to me.
You don’t know my name, but I control everything you see—and all the things you don’t.
My reach knows no bounds, and my demands are always met.
I didn’t need to loan money to a failing family distillery, but it amuses me to have them in my debt.
To have her in my debt.
She doesn’t know she caught my attention.
She should’ve been more careful.
I’m going to own her. Consume her. Maybe even keep her.
It’s time to collect what I’m owed.
Keira Kilgore, you’re now the property of Lachlan Mount.

*Ruthless King is book one of the Mount Trilogy*

The Mount Trilogy continues with

Defiant Queen…

I’m his entertainment. His toy. Payment on a debt.

I tell myself I hate him, but every time he walks into the room, my body betrays me. How can I want him and fear him in the same moment?

They told me he’d mess with my head. Make it go to war with my body.

But I didn’t realize it would be complete anarchy.

I should’ve known better. When Mount’s involved, there are no rules.

I will not surrender. I will not show weakness. I’ll stand my ground and make it out of this bargain with my heart and soul intact.

But he has other plans . . .

Defiant Queen is the second book of the Mount Trilogy. Mount and Keira’s story concludes in Sinful Empire.

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Meghan March has been known to wear camo face paint and tromp around in woods wearing mud-covered boots, all while sporting a perfect manicure. She’s also impulsive, easily entertained, and absolutely unapologetic about the fact that she loves to read and write smut. Her past lives include slinging auto parts, selling lingerie, making custom jewelry, and practicing corporate law. Writing books about dirty talking alpha males and the strong, sassy women who bring them to their knees is by far the most fabulous job she’s ever had. She loves hearing from her readers at meghanmarchbooks@gmail.com.

Dec 22

Sinful Empire by Meghan March Review

By Miranda Arnold in 5 Smooches, Reviews

5 Smooches

Synopsis

The Mount Trilogy concludes with Sinful Empire!

What’s mine, I keep, and that includes Keira Kilgore.
It’s no longer enough to have her in my debt. No longer enough to own her body.
I want something more.
She can try to resist, but I’ll never give her up.
Nothing will keep us apart.
Not her. Not my enemies. No one.
Her debt will only be paid one way—with her heart.

Sinful Empire is the third and final book in the Mount Trilogy.

Review

We return with a bang in the final story in the Mount trilogy. After the explosive ending on the second book we pick right back up with Keira’s and Lachlan’s story as they both start to discover that what started out as a debt to be re-paid is evolving into so much more. Lachlan is determined to win over her heart and he isn’t going to let anyone or anything stop him from doing so!

“Lachlan Mount is a man unlike any other I’ve ever met, and although he’s not the first that I’ve called mine, I hope he’ll be the last.”

Out of the 3 stories in this trilogy this was by far my favourite! We have so much suspense and action and drama that kept me hooked the whole way through and I loved delving deeper into Lachlan’s personality and past.

“ I offer everything I have—including my own fucking life—to God, the devil, and any higher power who will listen if they’ll just let her live.”

It’s pretty much non stop action from the word get go. We know Lachlan has enmities and they are now going after Keira as well. This brings out the extremely fierce protective side of Lachlan and it’s through this we see how much he really adores Keira. I loved this side of Lachlan and I also loved getting to read about this past. In the first book he is such a mystery but by the end of the third we really get to know Lachlan better. Keira remains, as ever, a strong female lead and the perfect partner for Lachlan.

“ I used to avoid any connection for fear of weakness, but now I have no doubt that she’s my greatest strength. She gives me a reason to wake up every morning and rule our empire with honor. Even if it’s tarnished and dented.”

Just as in the first two books the plot is highly entertaining with action, suspense, some very hot scenes and twists and turns to keep you guessing. The chemistry between Keira and Lachlan alone is enough to call this a great romance read but we also have so much intensity and a thrilling plot. The ending is explosive with so much going on and all the pieces finally starting to come together- I’m glad we get the answers to the questions and are not left hanging like in some books. I would have loved the epilogue to go a bit further into the future but I was still very happy with the ending. Overall a steamy, intense, dramatic romance trilogy that I would highly recommend!

~bethany

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Dec 21

Bright Lights Duet by Tia Louise Cover Reveal

By Miranda Arnold in Reveals & Tours

The Bright Lights Duet, a thrilling, white-hot second-chance romance from USA Today bestselling author Tia Louise is coming January 8th with Under The Lights, and Under the Stars releasing January 22nd!

The Bright Lights Duet

Author: Tia Louise

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Release Dates:

UNDER THE LIGHTS: January 8th

UNDER THE STARS: January 22nd

Cover Designer: Letitia Hasser, RBA Designs

Photographer for Under the Lights: Wander Aguiar

UNDER THE LIGHTS (Book One)

Synopsis:

Heroes don’t last long around here…

Fall in love with the sexiest girl in New Orleans?

Check.

Prepare to die for her?

Double-check.

Larissa is the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen.

She’s the rising star of the Pussycat Angels, the hottest burlesque show in the French Quarter.

I’ll never forget the first time I saw her.

The curve of her breast outlined by sparkling rhinestones.

Slim hips wrapped in black fishnets.

Long, dark hair…

She’s the Dark Angel who stole my heart.

Her body is intoxicating, our love overwhelming.

Cat eyes and blood red lips.

Sizzling fingers on white-hot skin.

I couldn’t keep my hands off her…

But her fame had a dark side,

A sinister shadow lurking under the lights.

I would do anything to save her…

He would do anything to see me dead.

A CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE Duet, coming Jan. 8, 2018!

Under the Lights will be a LIVE release on Amazon!

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UNDER THE STARS (Book two)

Synopsis:

All around us was darkness and night…

I’m not a hero. I’m a survivor.

I had one way out, and I took it.

Now all I want is peace,

A place to pick up the pieces and start over.

But she wants justice.

Names on a list, faces in the crowd.

I vowed to help her, but it’s taking us back to the demons.

Until he appeared.

I thought he died in the fight.

I was wrong.

He’s here.

Stronger, more powerful… Sexier.

And dangerous.

The boy I loved is now the one man we have to fear most.

When he tried to save me, he had no power.

Now everything has changed, and he’ll never stop until I’m his.

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About Tia:

Tia Louise is the USA Today best-selling, award-winning author of When We Touch, the ‘One to Hold’ and ‘Dirty Players’ series, and co-author of the #4 Amazon bestseller The Last Guy.

She loves all the books (as long as they have romance), all the chocolate (as long as it’s dark), strong coffee and sparkling wine.

After being a teacher, a book editor, a journalist, and finally a magazine editor, she started writing love stories and never stopped.

Louise lives in the Midwest with her trophy husband, two teenage geniuses, and one grumpy cat.

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Dec 20

Cowboy Up by Harper Sloan Review

By Danielle Palumbo in 4.5 Smooches, Reviews

4.5 SMOOCHES!

SYNOPSIS:

New York Times bestselling author Harper Sloan returns with the third in her sultry, Western-set Coming Home series, in which the eldest Davis sibling Clay may have finally met his match—but will he be able to give up the solitary, quiet life he’s built in the name of love?

As the eldest of the Davis clan, Clayton has always tried to lead by example. Along with taking his job as head of the family business seriously, he is also determined to keep his brother and sister in line. Clay is known for being serious, silent, and stoic—completely in control of his life. And with the way he grew up, coupled with a disastrous end to the last relationship he was in, he’s just fine with his quiet, solitary life.

What he hadn’t counted on was Caroline Michaels. She’s the proverbial woman next door—the town next door, that is. Caroline hasn’t lived an easy life, but after escaping from an abusive relationship, she’s finally living for herself and no one else. The last thing the quirky, shy bookstore owner expected was a steamy one-night stand with Clay Davis.

When Caroline and Clay meet, the connection is instant, both falling into one heated night of passion before parting ways—both driven by their own reasons to deny what they clearly wish didn’t have to end. It isn’t until Caroline falls on hard times and Clay comes back into the picture that they realize just how impossible it will be to stay away from each other.

Will Clay be able to give up his rootless existence in favor of finally settling down? And, more important, will Caroline want him to?

REVIEW:

I’m a huge fan of Harper Sloan’s Corps Security and Hope Town series which both feature alpha, military heroes and intense, suspenseful plots. So, when she announced the Coming Home series, I was excited to see what she’d do with cowboys, and Sloan delivered in this series with heartwarming, sexy stories rich with emotion and plenty of small town, down-home-everyone-in-your-business drama. Cowboy Up is the third book in the Coming Home series, and my favorite of the three books.

I’ve been looking forward to Clay’s story since the series launched. More of a parent than just an older brother to his siblings, Maverick and Quinn, Clay was the stable, guiding force in their lives after their mother abandoned the family leaving them with a harsh, angry, indifferent father. His focus was on them and the family ranch. Clay’s history with his ex-girlfriend was tumultuous and left him, understandably, with an inability to trust easily. He’s convinced himself that a relationship isn’t for him, that he’ll never marry or become a father, but lately, since both of his siblings have found love, married and are expecting their own children, he’s become lonely.

Caroline left Pine Oak behind the day she graduated high school, taking off with her boyfriend to escape a stifling, overbearing and verbally abusive mother, and in the process, she wound up leaving a very bad situation for what became a nightmarish one. Five years later, she’s returned to the area after escaping that abusive relationship, and she’s living her dream of owning her own bookstore. She meets Clay, and they share a sexy night together that neither was able to forget, and it’s a few months later before they run into each other again. Clay and Caroline had explosive chemistry from the very start, something that didn’t dim in the months that they were apart. That initial meeting was what it took for them both to realize what they were missing. In each other, Clay found a woman worthy of his trust and his love, and Caroline found a man with whom she felt safe and loved.

Sloan penned a warm, sweet and sexy love story in Cowboy Up that was uplifting and hopeful. This book was something markedly different from her previous works, and it was precisely those differences that kept me rooted in place and devouring this story. Readers should be excited about this side to Harper’s writing and the possibilities of where this author will go next. Cowboy Up by Harper Sloan gets 4.5 smooches from me.

~ Danielle Palumbo

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Dec 19

The Hookup by Kristen Ashley Release Blitz with Excerpt

By Miranda Arnold in Reveals & Tours

✮✮✮From New York Times bestselling author Kristen Ashley, comes the first standalone title in the exciting, new Moonlight and Motor Oil series, THE HOOKUP! A rich, emotional love story, THE HOOKUP is available now!✮✮✮

Jump into THE HOOKUP and grab your copy today!

About THE HOOKUP (Moonlight and Motor Oil Series #1):

When the new girl in town, Eliza “Izzy” Forrester decides to hit the local drinking hole, she’s not ready to meet the town’s good, solid guy. She’s definitely not prepared to engage in her very first hookup with him.

Then Izzy wakes up the next morning in Johnny Gamble’s bed and good girl Izzy finds she likes being bad for Johnny.

Even so, Izzy feels Johnny holding her at arm’s length. But Johnny makes it clear he wants more and Izzy already knows she wants as much of hot-in-bed, sweet-out-of-it Johnny Gamble.

Floating on air thinking this is going somewhere, Izzy quickly learns why Johnny holds distant.

He’s in love with someone else. Someone who left him and did it leaving him broken. Whoever was up next would be runner up, second best. Knowing the stakes, Izzy will take what she can get from the gentleman that’s Johnny Gamble. And even knowing his heart might never mend, Johnny can’t seem to stay away from Izzy.

Until out of nowhere, his lost love comes back to town. He’s not going back, but Johnny still knows the right thing to do is let Izzy go.

And Izzy knew the stakes, so she makes it easy and slips though his fingers.

But that’s before Johnny realizes Eliza moved to town to escape danger that’s been swirling around her.

And that’s why Johnny decides to wade in.

That and the fact Eliza Forrester makes breakfast with a canary singing on her shoulder and fills out tight dresses in a way Johnny Gamble cannot get out of his head.

Pick up your copy of THE HOOKUP today!

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EXCERPT:
“Izzy?” she answered.
“Hey, I’m home,” I told her.
“Okay, well…how are you?”
How was I?
Johnny’s behavior explained by the sad fact it was the anniversary of his father’s death, but still explained, and he was coming over for dinner the next night, not to mention, after not being affectionate (at all, unless you counted sitting me on the countertop, which I kind of did) after the last time we’d had sex, he made out with me at the door of my car for a good, long, happy while—I was great.
“I’m great,” I told her, opening Serengeti’s stall and moving in, lifting a hand to pat her jaw while she moved her nose to snuffle my neck and blow at my hair.
“Damn,” Deanna muttered.
My hand arrested on Serengeti and I focused on Deanna.
“What?” I asked.
“Damn,” she repeated.
“Damn what?” I asked.
“Well, just to say Johnny Gamble is Johnny Gamble.”
A specific area in my chest squeezed at the way she imparted that obvious but still confusing information.
“What’s that mean?” I asked.
“He’s Johnny Gamble of Gamble Garages. Did he tell you that?”
No he didn’t tell me that.
And suddenly I was embarrassed about something that I hadn’t liked all along.
But it was worse since Deanna knew more about a man I’d slept with than I did.
Serengeti was getting fidgety, so I used my hand on her to lead her out of her stall, and once in the corridor, she trotted out the open bay at the back, directly into her pasture.
I moved to Amaretto as I shared with Deanna, “No, he didn’t tell me that. I mean, we talked but we were also doing other things.” I let that lie. It did, weighty between us on the phone, before I went on, “I don’t know what that means.”
Even though it seemed like I did. Something seemed familiar about that.
“You haven’t lived here long enough,” she murmured while I opened Amaretto’s stall and moved in for some quick pats before I let him loose. Louder, Deanna said, “You know the gas station in town?”
Oh yes.
That was where I’d seen it.
“He owns that?”
“That and seven more of them across three counties. None in the city, just in the counties. Some of them are like mini-mart stores. All of them sell gas and do work on cars.”
Wow.
That was impressive.

About Kristen Ashley:

Kristen Ashley was born in Gary, Indiana, USA and nearly killed her mother and herself making it into the world, seeing as she had the umbilical cord wrapped around her neck (already attempting to accessorize and she hadn’t taken her first breath!). Her mother said they took Kristen away, put her Mom back in her room, her mother looked out the window, and Gary was on fire (Dr. King had been assassinated four days before). Kristen’s Mom remembered thinking it was the end of the world. Quite the dramatic beginning.

Nothing’s changed.

Kristen grew up in Brownsburg, Indiana and has lived in Denver, Colorado and the West Country of England. Thus, she’s blessed to have friends and family around the globe. Her family was (is) loopy (to say the least) but loopy is good when you want to write. They all lived together on a very small farm in a small farm town in the heartland. She grew up with Glenn Miller, The Everly Brothers, REO Speedwagon and Whitesnake (and the wardrobes that matched).

Needless to say, growing up in a house full of music, clothes and love was a good way to grow up.

And as she keeps growing, it keeps getting better.

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Dec 19

Crave by Shanora Williams Blog Tour

By Miranda Arnold in Reveals & Tours

Crave, an all-new romantic STANDALONE from Shanora Williams is available NOW!

Crave by Shanora Williams

Release Date: December 15th, 2017

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Every Sunday morning it’s just us in a fancy hotel suite.

We fight, argue, and make up like teenagers do.

We touch, we suck, but we don’t kiss.

No, we never kiss.

His lips have been all over my body – everywhere but on top of mine.

I wasn’t supposed to need his touch.

To beg for a kiss . . . just one little kiss.

But our little arrangement has swallowed me whole.

I only crave one thing, but I know he’ll never give it to me.

Because the only way he’ll kiss a woman is if he loves her.

And my playboy boss will never love me.

Crave-AN

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Check out our 4 smooches review HERE.

About the Author:

Shanora Williams is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author who loves writing about flawed heroes and resilient heroines. She is a believer that love outweighs all, but doesn’t have a problem making her characters fight for their happily ever after.

She currently lives in Charlotte, North Carolina and is the mother of two amazing boys, has a fiercely devoted and supportive man, and is a sister to eleven.

When she isn’t writing, she’s spending time with her family, binge reading, or running marathons on Netflix while scarfing down chocolate chip cookies.

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Dec 19

Crave by Shanora Williams Review

By Miranda Arnold in 4 Smooches, Reviews, Uncategorized