Apr 01

Hardball by CD Reiss Review

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Synopsis

Perfect ass.

Perfect arms.

Perfect swagger.

They call Dash Wallace the Diamond King.

He’s the hottest commodity in baseball and in the bedroom.

When he runs the bases, every woman’s eyes are glued to his stunning body and a smile that puts the night lights to shame.

I’m no queen. I’m a regular girl with a regular job. I just watch him on TV and from the bleachers, season after season.

Girls like me grab a guy like that one in a million times.

My number just came up, and he is as spectacular in bed as he is on the field.

But there’s not a woman in the world who can distract Dash Wallace from the game. Not for a moment. Not even me.

Until the night I do. And everything changes.

Review

‘When I looked around he was gone. Good thing. There was nothing more offensive than a man blessed with good looks when he should have been given courtesy.’

WOW! OK so I went into this book expecting to like it but instead I LOVED it. Every. word. It was sexy, engaging, humorous, dramatic, perfect and flawed. Not only was I invested in the story but I felt a personal connection to the characters. Dash Wallace has suffered from many psychiatric issues since he was a small child, anxiety, aggression, OCD just to name a few but through all this he still persevered and became a star in his chosen field. As the mom of a child who suffers and survives with all of these syndromes this book was a breath of fresh air. It gave me hope for his happy future and for a moment made me feel less alone in the struggles of raising a difficult child.

Vivian Foster is a school librarian determined to make a difference. A longtime baseball fan she quickly volunteers to go with some of the underprivileged kids to meet some professional baseball players. Dash Wallace is sex personified but his personality quickly cools her crush on him. But a missing glove has him showing up at her library and soon he two are working together to find the glove and getting closer by the moment. She finds there is so much more depth to Dash than she could have ever guessed but with the depth comes problems she never had guessed.

“I can’t decide how to fuck you,” he said. “I want to take you in every position. I want to fuck you like an animal and a saint.”

Now, let’s talk sex. CD Reiss is an expert at putting out some of the steamiest sex scenes I have ever read. I have read many different sports books but this was by far the sexiest. Verging on erotica and falling into the style we have come to love and expect from CD Reiss, Hardball felt like a complete new twist on the sports romance.

‘I crave his touch and his laugh, his Shakespeare quotes and his attention. Even his awkwardness. Everything.’

There is no denying that CD Reiss is a phenomenal author, anyone who has read her work can attest to that. Personally, I believe that with Hardball she has really upped her game, not only was the writing and story on par with her other work the attention to detail in Dash’s personality felt real and personal. He wasn’t an easy character to love and I am sure he wasn’t an easy character to write but in the end she made not loving him impossible and for that this book deserves all the stars.

~miranda

Apr 01

Catching Serenity by Eden Butler Blog Tour with Excerpt and Giveaway

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TITLE: Catching Serenity (Seeking Serenity Book 4)

AUTHOR: Eden Butler

GENRE: Contemporary Romance

BLOG TOUR: April 1 – 9

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SYNOPSIS

It began with a look.

Just one, thrown my way. A mad, dizzying rush of desire cracking across the patio, bouncing around my friends, ignoring everything but the heat bubbling between his eyes and mine.

That’s when Quinn O’Malley came into my life.

We were inevitable.

We were senseless.

He wrecked me.

He saved me.

I still haven’t recovered.

Sayo McIntyre didn’t want the complications that came with Quinn O’Malley.

But life doesn’t care what we want. It gives us what we need.

CATCHING SERENITY is the last full-length novel in the Serenity Series.

This is a multi-media novel with illustrations from RN Laing. Trigger warnings: real damn life.

 

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CATCHING SERENITY EXCERPT

“Sayo.”

It isn’t a question. It’s not a demand. Somewhere in the middle, something in his tone, there is truth. It reaches across the room, keeps me rooted in place. He’d warned me before, admitted he’d take and give and would offer no apologies. But in this tone of his is something that sounds an awful lot like need, a lot like possession.

I should walk away. No looks back. No second thoughts. Just leave him, leave this warehouse and forget that he ever touched me.

“Sayo,” he says again and this time that voice is closer. He’d moved like a whisper across the room and I hadn’t noticed.

Two steps more and Quinn is behind me. Three more and he rushes forward, forcing me to the wall, bracing myself with my palms flat. “Quinn…”

“No,” he says, leaning against me so I can’t move. “No, love, you stay still and answer a question for me.”

“Back off.”

He does, only to slip his hand to my chest, to slide his fingers under my bra and cup my breasts. “You’re so hot and cold with me, I never know who you’ll be when you come to me.”

Moving my head, I catch Quinn’s gaze over my shoulder. “You never give yourself to me, O’Malley. Never.”

He shifts, withdraws his hands to twist me around by the hips, not leaving much room between us, still holding me to the wall. “You might not like what you see in the real me. I don’t much like him myself…”

If I thought he’d continue his awkward interrogation, I was wrong. His grip lessens, his body relaxing into mine and suddenly he moves his forehead against mine, breath hot over my face, smelling of warm beer.

“You want him? The blonde? You want to be rid of me, Sayo?”

“Quinn…” I try, wishing he didn’t smell quite so good. Wishing that I didn’t remember how much I love the way his arms wrap around me, how the stubble from his face tickles my chest when he rubs it there. I wish I knew how to walk away, to take what had happened between us for the lesson it was.

I wish I didn’t want him so badly.

“Quinn…” I try again but he stands too close, feels too close and then our defenses weaken, they crumble and his mouth is on mine, his hands, mine, are everywhere, insisting, skilled, aching.

Bodies molding together.

Skin to skin, no room for regret.

There is only this sensation. This man. This moment.

Quinn touches me, takes me to floor, barely shoving my jeans off, hardly moving his pants down his hips before he hovers over me, sliding his hard dick against me.

“You don’t want this anymore?” he asks, his breath shaking, his hands sure as he guides himself over my pussy. “Can you walk away from this, love?” He slips inside me in one fluid thrust and I gasp, gripping hold of his shoulders as he kisses up my neck. “Because I damn well can’t.”

Words flit into my mind, defenses that are likely logical, seem reasonable, but I don’t speak them. Not with how well Quinn touches me, how he treats my body like a playground he’s only just discovered.

He is deep inside me, and I’m not sure how to be rid of him. I’m not sure I want to be. But Quinn is a man of few promises. As much as I crave this, he is a wild card I’m not sure I want to play.

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ABOUT EDEN

eden author picEden Butler is an editor and writer of Fantasy, Mystery and Contemporary Romance novels and the nine-times great-granddaughter of an honest-to-God English pirate. This could explain her affinity for rule breaking and rum.

When she’s not writing or wondering about her possibly Jack Sparrowesque ancestor, Eden patiently waits for her Hogwarts letter, edits, reads and spends way too much time watching rugby, Doctor Who and New Orleans Saints football.

She is currently living under teenage rule alongside her husband in southeast Louisiana.

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Mar 31

Finn by Ahren Sanders Release Blitz and Giveaway

Title: Finn

Release Date: March 31, 2016

Author: Ahren Sanders

Genre: Contemporary Romance, Standalone, HEA 

I thought I knew what love was, but I didn’t have a f*%king clue. Now, I’m in the fight of my life to win over the woman who owns my soul. ~ Finn Black

The face of an angel…

The heart of a saint…

One look, one smile, and I didn’t stand a chance. The instant my eyes landed on Presley Chambers, I was a goner. She was a force of nature that turned my world upside down. Sweet, sassy, and sexy as hell, she brought me to my knees.

But she isn’t just any woman, she’s a gift, she’s a goddess, she’s my disease… and I’ll fight like hell to erase her fears.

Sometimes fate has other plans. Now our future is in her hands.

I can only hope she’ll give us the chance we both deserve.

The idea that someone could possess me was insane… until I met Finn Black.~ Presley Chambers

The face of Adonis…

The heart of a hero…

Finn Black infiltrated my safe world the minute he breathed my name. He broke down my barriers and convinced me to take a chance. For the first time ever, I was living my life with a man who promised me a future only dreams are made of.

Sometimes the line between love and longing are tested.

He’s asked me to trust him, to trust us, but the fear of losing him became too much.

Now I must decide if I’m willing to take a leap of faith, and hope he’ll be there to catch me.

“No words to describe how much I loved this book. Easily a top 5 read of this year.” – 5 Star Review from Renee Entress Book Blog

 

“I absolutely loved loved… It….It definitely is a must read!!” – 5 Star Goodreads Review

 

“Words can not begin to describe how much I love this book! Ahren Sanders is one of my must read authors.” – 5 Star Review from Amazeballs Book Addict

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Ahren spent her formative years living in an active volcano. There her family made collectible lava art. She studied rock collecting at the Sorbonne in France. There she met the love of her life-her pet pig Sybil. She returned to the states and started writing. She is happily married to a guy who used to live under a bridge and she met while pole-dancing. They have one amazing daughter.

 

Now, meet the real me. I grew up in the south and consider myself a true “Southerner”. Most of the special locations mentioned in my books are reflections of my favorite places. Living on the Florida coast, my family spends a lot time at the beach, which is where I usually can be found with a book in my hand.

 

Check out Ahren’s Facebook page for details on how to enter to win a Kindle Fire! Giveaway runs until April 7, 2016. Don’t miss out!” 

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Mar 31

Stripped by Allie Juliette Mousseau Release Blitz

Title: Stripped

Author: Allie Juliette Mousseau

Genre: Romantic Comedy Standalone

Release Date: March 29, 2016 

Stone Wright is Foreplay’s hottest act. While entertaining at the popular L.A. strip club known for catering to the feminine wild, the fever-inducing Aussie with the sex-saturated accent and moves to match is preparing for the audition of a lifetime on the sensational hit reality show Then Prove You Can Dance.

When retired principal dancer and ballerina Emilie Cartier stumbles into his dressing room, she’s still reeling from the one wrong spin that altered her entire life and obliterated her dreams.

After a humiliating public, albeit meteoric, orgasm—the kind so desperate to escape, it took over her body without her brain’s permission—and a second, more intimate and deliriously deliberate one, Emilie makes a deal with Stone: he helps her get her dancing mojo back and she readies him for his national audition.

But she insists he keeps his wily, wandering hands to himself and his dirty mouth shut. Of course, that’s going to be an extremely hard challenge—one of herculean proportions.

Emilie is not prepared for Stone—the way he spins her mind dizzy, rocks her body into sweet oblivion or dirty dances into her every daydream—and falling in love with him is so definitely not an option.

The closer Stone gets to Emilie, the more he realizes he’d do anything to make her his own. Problem is, he’s a real f*ck-up with relationships. And that means he’s dangerously close to becoming her next major f*ck-up.

What happens when all of the emotional layers—along with the stage props, their dancewear and every last shred of their clothes—are ultimately stripped?

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Allie Juliette Mousseau is a USA Today Bestselling Author.

She can always be found writing, playing in puddles with her children, hiking with her husband, or adventuring somewhere in the world. Her favorite place to write on warm days is outdoors, but when the weather gets too cold, she’ll be inside at her desk inspired by the mountain view from her home office in Montana where she lives with her loving husband, children, and golden retriever. She loves to travel and lived for three years in her RV with her family while visiting the national parks and forests of the U.S. and a couple Canadian provinces. She is excited to add all of Canada and Alaska in the near future!

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Mar 30

Finding Forever by Linda Oaks Review

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Synopsis

What if forever was never meant to be?

Kara Thorn had always been the confident one until the fateful day her heart was shattered. She lost the one person she thought would never walk away….

Devon McGraw, the man who had promised her forever.

When Kara returns to her hometown for a wedding, fate intervenes throwing her and Devon together once again. Their chemistry is stronger than ever before, but Devon is not the same guy that Kara fell in love with. The man he’d become had a past, and it was complicated.

He wanted a week, but Kara wants forever.

Will Kara forgive Devon’s past or will her own ruin any chance of her finding forever?

REVIEW

A story of second chances and first loves. Kara is left devastated when Devon leaves her so unexpectedly, with no reason and completely broken but when she finally has the courage to talk to him again it seems Devon had his reasons and all is not as it seems; guilt, secrets, true love and hope combine to create a beautiful love story.

“I always thought it would be me. I would be the first, but it never happened that way. Life rarely worked out as planned. All those so called plans that everyone seems to preach about have a way of going to shit pretty fast when you least expect it.”

Kara was a beautiful person. A lovely woman who was an amazing friend, always there for others no matter what was going on with her life and also has courage and strength even when she was broken inside.

“Instead, the one person I’d trusted more than I trusted myself had shattered my heart. He’d tossed me aside like yesterday’s trash and never looked back. The problem was, I looked back enough for the both of us.”

Devon was a slightly broody make lead but still a man who could make you swoon. His love for Kara was so beautiful and so strong that he was willing to sacrifice his happiness to ensure hers which is so beautiful!

“I didn’t see anyone but him. There was only this man. The man who drove me crazy. The man who made my heart skip a beat. The man I loved more than my next breath…”

Just like the other book in this series (although each book can be read as a standalone) we find ourselves entranced and in the middle of a beautiful but complicated love between two people who each have their own internal struggles; struggles they must overcome if there is any hope for a happily ever after, one both characters deserve.

~Bethany

 

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Mar 30

Save Your Soul by Rochelle Paige Release Blitz

Save Your Soul

Body & Soul Series #2

Rochelle Paige

Genre: Contemporary

Erotic Romance

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99 CENTS

Available on Kindle

Unlimited

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Brecken Kane had been damn good at his job in the military. The

experience served him well when he moved into the private sector. Brecken’s new

security business is booming, and he’s settling into civilian life. Little does

he know his newest client’s request to save his daughter will change

everything.

Hadley Gresham knows she isn’t likely to make it out of the jungle

alive. She’d distanced herself from her parents after she learned her dad made

his money selling illegal arms. Kidnapped by his competitors, she knows there’s

little chance he’ll be able to save her.

Luckily for Hadley, her father hires Brecken. He’d never leave an

innocent woman behind, let alone the one he quickly comes to consider his.

Brecken might be Hadley’s rescuer, but she’s the one who saves his soul.

Warning: This book has an alpha hero who races to the rescue of

the virgin heroine. If you like insta-love and hot sex in the steamy jungle,

then this story is for you!

Please note: This is the second novella in the Body & Soul series,

but it can be read as a standalone. Each book in the series features a

 

 

 

REVIEW

 

Check out our 4.5 smooches review HERE.

 

EXCERPT

When I’d glanced at the

photo my client had shown me of his daughter, my hesitation ceased to exist.

Only one thing mattered—saving Hadley from the men who’d taken her. The sight

of her broad smile and bright green eyes staring up at me from her picture

froze me in my tracks. Brown hair so dark it almost appeared black, flowed over

her shoulders, stopping just above her tits. Her perky, luscious tits which

looked huge on her tiny frame. I got a hard-on from seeing her picture while

sitting across from her father and discussing her kidnapping. It was insane.

I’d never had a reaction like this to a woman, let alone from a damn picture at

a time like this.

It was almost as insane as

the feeling of possessiveness which swamped me when Whit whistled softly under

his breath while glancing at her picture. We’d been together since boot camp,

and I’d been lucky when he decided not to re-up at the same time as me. It

meant I was able to open my security firm with Whit at my side, just like I’d

started my military career. At his sign of male appreciation, I wanted nothing

more than to demonstrate exactly what I’d do if he ever laid a hand on her.

“Back the fuck off,” I

hissed at him, sending his eyebrows into his hairline before he moved to the

wall and leaned against it. I was sure to hear about this later, but I didn’t

give a fuck. She was mine, but first I needed to get her out of this mess.

 

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BOOK 1 OF THE BODY & SOUL SERIES

**Also available on

Kindle Unlimited**

99 CENTS

BARE YOUR SOUL

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ABOUT ROCHELLE PAIGE

 

Rochelle

Paige is an Amazon bestselling author. She absolutely adores reading. Her

friends growing up used to tease her when she trailed after them, trying to

read and walk at the same time. She loves stories with alpha males, sassy

heroines, hot sex and happily ever afters. She is a bit of a genre hopper in

both her reading and her writing. So far she’s written books in several romance

sub-genres including new adult, contemporary, paranormal and romantic suspense.

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Mar 30

Save Your Soul by Rochelle Paige Review

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Synopsis

Brecken Kane had been damn good at his job in the military. The experience served him well when he moved into the private sector. Brecken’s new security business is booming, and he’s settling into civilian life. Little does he know his newest client’s request to save his daughter will change everything.

Hadley Gresham knows she isn’t likely to make it out of the jungle alive. She’d distanced herself from her parents after she learned her dad made his money selling illegal arms. Kidnapped by his competitors, she knows there’s little chance he’ll be able to save her.

Luckily for Hadley, her father hires Brecken. He’d never leave an innocent woman behind, let alone the one he quickly comes to consider his. Brecken might be Hadley’s rescuer, but she’s the one who saves his soul.

Review

Save Your Soul is the follow up book to Bare Your Soul. Both are standalones but have intertwining characters. Save Your Soul is so far definitely my favorite in this series of sexy and fast reads. Rochelle Paige is a quickly becoming master at delivering a quick and steamy story that you cannot put down.

Breckan Kane is on a mission to save kidnapped Hadley. Hired by his father he is determined to get her out of there safely but once he sees a photo of the beautiful and innocent Hadley he is also determined that she will be his.

“When I’d glanced at the photo my client had shown me of his daughter, my hesitation ceased to exist. Only one things mattered – saving Hadley from the men who’d taken her.”

When I go into stories like these I go in with different expectations than full length dramatic books. I know they will get sexy super fast and I that most everything about it will be a bit over the top (the plot, the hero, the amount of time it takes to fall in love.) These are qualities in these short erotic stories I look for and am happy to have found them all and much more in Save Your Soul. Super steamy with a surprising action packed plot if you like fast and sexy tales with a sassy heroine who can hold her own that pick this one up.

~miranda

Mar 30

Ginger’s Heart by Katy Regnery Blog Tour with Excerpt

Ginger’s Heart by Katy Regnery

Date of Publication: March 22, 2016

Blurb

“I finished Ginger’s Heart last night, and I am completely and utterly in love.” –Mia Sheridan, NY Times bestselling author

Once upon a time there were two cousins:
one golden like the sun,
one dark like midnight,
one a protector,
one a predator,
one a Woodsman
and
one a Wolf…
both owning equal,
but different,
parts of a little girl’s heart.

In this modern retelling of “Little Red Riding Hood,” the woodsman and the wolf are cousins, and Little Red is the girl with whom they both fall in love.

Beautiful Ginger McHuid, daughter of Kentucky’s premiere horse breeder, grows up on her family farm, best friends with Cain Wolfram, the son of her father’s Stallion Manager, and Cain’s cousin, Josiah Woodman, son of a local banker. Throughout their happy childhood, the three are inseparable friends, but as they mature into adults, complicated feelings threaten to destroy their long history of friendship and love.

Ginger’s Heart

 

Check out our 4 smooches review HERE.

*****

This is a standalone novel inspired by Little Red Riding Hood. New Adult Contemporary Romance: Due to profanity and very strong sexual content, this book is not intended for readers under the age of 18.

(The next standalone a modern fairytale novel, Don’t Speak, inspired by The Little Mermaid, will be released in 2017.)

Available From

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About Katy Regnery

Katy Regnery, award-winning and Amazon bestselling author, started her writing career by enrolling in a short story class in January 2012. One year later, she signed her first contract for a winter romance entitled By Proxy.

Now a hybrid author who publishes both independently and traditionally, Katy claims authorship of the six-book Heart of Montana series, the six-book English Brothers series, and a Kindle Worlds novella entitled “Four Weddings and a Fiasco: The Wedding Date,” in addition to the standalone novels, Playing for Love at Deep Haven and Amazon bestseller, The Vixen and the Vet.

The Vixen and the Vet is included in the charity anthology Hometown Heroes: Hotter Ever After, and Katy’s novella “Frosted” appeared in the Jan ’15 anthology, Snowy Days Steamy Nights. Additionally, Katy’s short story, “The Long Way Home” appeared in the first RWA anthology (Feb ’15), Premiere.

Katy lives in the relative wilds of northern Fairfield County, Connecticut, where her writing room looks out at the woods, and her husband, two young children, and two dogs create just enough cheerful chaos to remind her that the very best love stories begin at home.

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Excerpt from Chapter 12 of Ginger’s Heart, a modern fairytale, by Katy Regnery. All rights reserved. Used with permission.

An hour later they stopped by the Glenn River, eight miles downriver from Ginger’s house and two from the distillery where Cain had partied last night.

“We should water them,” he said, reining in Thunder and dismounting with the ease of a lifelong horseman.

She reined in Heath, who nickered in protest, and grinned down at Cain who reached up for her. His hands lingered for an extra moment on her hips as she slid down the front of his body. Leaning her head back, she stared up at him, daring him to pull her closer, to kiss her, to admit that this whole “friends” thing was bullshit on fire. But, he clenched his jaw, cleared his throat and dropped his hands.

“Thanks,” she murmured, her voice husky in her ears as he stared down at her, his eyes flinty and dark.

Taking Heath’s reins with a grunt, he turned away from her, leading the horses to the river’s edge and leaving her to follow behind. She leaned down to pick up a flat stone and skipped it across the slow moving water.

“Not bad,” said Cain.

“You were always the best.”

“Nah,” he said. “Woodman was better.”

“Nope,” she countered, picking up another stone. “Woodman was good, but you were better. Remember that Fourth of July that you skipped eleven times? Eleven times. It was a record.”

Satisfied that the horses were calm and drinking their fill, Cain leaned down and grabbed a rock of his own, skipping it over the dark water.

One-two-three-four-five-six-seven…

“Wow!” she said, clapping lightly. “You’ve still got the touch!”

He turned to her, grinning. “You always get excited about the littlest things. What’s it like gettin’ a kick out of everythin’, Gin?”

“What’s it like gettin’ a kick out of nothin’, Cain?” she asked, her voice full of sass.

“I’m gettin’ a kick out of you right now, princess.”

A charge zapped between them as the words left his mouth, and her breath hitched and held for just a moment, but she looked down and picked up another rock. She was enjoying today too much to go back to Awkwardland.

She skipped her rock, which sunk after three measly hops.

“Remember when you saved my Cabbage Patch doll from certain doom in this river?” she asked him.

He screwed up his face as her. “Wasn’t me. Must have been Woodman.”

“It was you!” she insisted. “Not Woodman!”

“Savin’ a dolly? Please. That has Woodman written all over it. I couldn’t have cared less if it drowned.”

“But I cared,” she said softly. “Which is why you saved it.”

“Fine. Have it your way,” he said, sitting down on a large rock near the water’s edge.

She sighed, squatting down to wash her hands in the clear water before looking back at him. “Why do you do that?”

“Do what?”

“Let Woodman take credit for all the good things?”

He shrugged, looking away from her, out at the water. “I don’t.”

“You just did. Twice.”

He sighed, giving her a long-suffering look. “If somethin’ good happened, chances were, it was Woodman’s doin’.”

“How do you figure?”

“He’s the better man, Gin,” said Cain, his eyes severe, his words deliberate.

She stood up slowly, turning her body completely to face him. “Do you really believe that?”

He looked away. “It’s the truth.”

“Cain. Cain, look at me.” Her words didn’t feel like enough so she beseeched him with her eyes too. “You’re just as good a man as he is.”

“Ha!” scoffed Cain, standing up and moving away from her. “Not in this life, princess.”

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Mar 30

Ginger’s Heart by Katy Regency Review

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4 Smooches!

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Synopsis

Once upon a time there were two cousins:
one golden like the sun,
one dark like midnight,
one a protector,
one a predator,
one a Woodsman
and
one a Wolf…
both owning equal,
but different,
parts of a little girl’s heart.

In this modern retelling of “Little Red Riding Hood,” the woodsman and the wolf are cousins, and Little Red is the girl with whom they both fall in love.

Beautiful Ginger McHuid, daughter of Kentucky’s premiere horse breeder, grows up on her family farm, best friends with Cain Wolfram, the son of her father’s Stallion Manager, and Cain’s cousin, Josiah Woodman, son of a local banker. Throughout their happy childhood, the three are inseparable friends, but as they mature into adults, complicated feelings threaten to destroy their long history of friendship and love.

Ginger’s Heart 

*****

This is a standalone novel inspired by Little Red Riding Hood. New Adult Contemporary Romance: Due to profanity and very strong sexual content, this book is not intended for readers under the age of 18.

(The next standalone a modern fairytale novel, Don’t Speak, inspired by The Little Mermaid, will be released in 2017.)

*****

Ginger’s Heart is part of the a modern fairytale collection, which will include five standalone, unrelated novels:

The Vixen and the Vet (Beauty & the Beast) – available now
Never Let You Go (Hansel & Gretel) – available now
Ginger’s Heart (Little Red Riding Hood) – available March 22, 2016
Don’t Speak (The Little Mermaid) – available 2017
Swan Song (The Ugly Duckling) – available 2018

REVIEW

OK.  I have a few things to say about this book but I want to be very clear right now before I get started.  I really liked this book.  I gave it four stars.  Which means I found it very enjoyable.  I loved the angst and drama.  And man there is a wicked love triangle and those are always my weakness.  And gosh, it was ridiculously sexy and there was so much sexual tension that I was on the edge of my seat.  All of these are amazing things that I loved about this book.  The writing is also third person from three different people’s point of view and this author is one of the few authors that I don’t mind reading even though third person is my least favorite to read.  Her writing is sing songy, brilliant, and just gorgeous and this book was no exception.  The characters.  Well, I loved them all.  Which is hard because this is a love triangle after all.  A BIG ONE, at that.

“Couldn’t choose between the two of you if my life depended on it!  That’d be like choosin’ between my hands and my feet!”

But I loved both Cain and Woodman for Ginger.  I mean, there is an obvious winner through out most of the story because you can really tell who Ginger’s heart belongs to but still it is hard won.  Their story spans decades really and it was so incredibly hard.  So many miscommunications and so many heart breaks.  Ugh.  It hurt but it was one of those that hurt so good.

“I’ve always known!  It’s always been you.”

This story really is fantastic and I loved it.  I wanted to make sure I conveyed how awesome this story is before I say this.  I had one huge problem for me that really made this book a bit difficult for me to keep reading and that is that it was very repetitive.  Basically I got almost every interaction and every conversation from all three characters point of view and this kind of made the book lag for me.  It is a very long book and I honestly feel like maybe 30% of it could have been omitted.  Which is why I bumped it down one star because otherwise this would have been a 5 star book for me.  Bummer but these things happen.  Still a great story that is definitely worth the read.

“And for you, darlin’, Id wait until I read out of days.  And when I ran out of days, I’d wait for you in heaven.  And when you got there, through every eternity, I’d wait for you and your lion’s heart to give me another chance, to choose me again.”

~Amie

 

 

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Mar 29

Hardball by CD Reiss Release Blitz

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Release Date: March 29th

Genre: Contemporary/Sports Romance

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Praise for HARDBALL:

“Dash Wallace is a dirty talking, sexy professional baseball player who falls hard for the girl next door, but beware… your heart will take a beating as you watch him struggle with sticking to all he’s ever known at the risk of losing the best thing that ever happened to him. Hardball is one of those books that will suck you in and won’t let you go until you devour every last, juicy bite.”

— Sawyer Bennett, NY Times Bestselling Author

“Fiery hot and enticingly realistic, CD Reiss’s captivating writing, complex characters and explosive love scenes make Hard Ball an irresistible modern day romance.”

— Katy Evans, NY Times Bestselling Author

HARDBALL heart and soul

Synopsis:

Perfect ass.

Perfect arms.

Perfect swagger.

They call Dash Wallace the Diamond King.

He’s the hottest commodity in baseball and in the bedroom.

When he runs the bases, every woman’s eyes are glued to his stunning body and a smile that puts the night lights to shame.

I’m no queen. I’m a regular girl with a regular job. I just watch him on TV and from the bleachers, season after season.

Girls like me grab a guy like that one in a million times.

My number just came up, and he is as spectacular in bed as he is on the field.

But there’s not a woman in the world who can distract Dash Wallace from the game. Not for a moment. Not even me.

Until the night I do. And everything changes.

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Hardball is a SMOKING HOT, SEXY romance with a touch of angst and a ton of heart from CD Reiss. It’s a fun, witty, full-length standalone meant for the over-eighteen crowd.

Check out our 5 smooches review HERE.

SBPR HB Now available

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About the Author:

CD Reiss Profile

CD Reiss is a USA Today bestseller. She still has to chop wood and carry water, which was buried in the fine print. Her lawyer is working it out with God but in the meantime, if you call and she doesn’t pick up she’s at the well hauling buckets.

Born in New York City, she moved to Hollywood, California to get her master’s degree in screenwriting from USC. In case you want to know, that went nowhere but it did give her a big enough ego to write novels.

She’s frequently referred to as the Shakespeare of Smut which is flattering but hasn’t ever gotten her out of chopping that cord of wood.

If you meet her in person, you should call her Christine.

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