Jan 12
The Mother Road by Meghan Quinn Release Blitz and Giveaway
We’re celebrating the release of THE MOTHER ROAD by Meghan Quinn!
THE MOTHER ROAD by Meghan Quinn
NA Romantic Comedy
Release date: January 12, 2016
Cover Designed by: Meghan Quinn
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Blurb:
Never in a million years would I have pictured myself as an axe-wielding, dragon lady, chopping up multi-colored flannel shirts into my very own plaid mulch. But here I am, chopping away my frustrations.
It all started when my brother, Paul, convinced me to go on one last family road trip across the Mother Road with him and my dad.. Just like old times, right? Wrong. What Paul fails to mention is his best man, Porter, will be joining us, who just so happens to be my childhood crush and the man who broke my heart four years ago.
What is supposed to be a fun, family bonding experience across Route 66 turns into a war of pranks, awkward moments and bathrooms full of dirty flannel shirts and day old beard clippings. Paul’s know-it-all attitude and Porter’s devilish charm brings me to the brink of my sanity on my seven day trek across the United States with three bearded men in a small 1980’s RV.
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Born in New York and raised in Southern California, Meghan has grown into a sassy, peanut butter eating, blonde haired swearing, animal hoarding lady. She is known to bust out and dance if “It’s Raining Men” starts beating through the air and heaven forbid you get a margarita in her, protect your legs because they may be humped.
Once she started commuting for an hour and twenty minutes every day to work for three years, she began to have conversations play in her head, real life, deep male voices and dainty lady coos kind of conversations. Perturbed and confused, she decided to either see a therapist about the hot and steamy voices running through her head or start writing them down. She decided to go with the cheaper option and started writing… enter her first novel, Caught Looking.
Now you can find the spicy, most definitely on the border of lunacy, kind of crazy lady residing in Colorado with the love of her life and her five, furry four legged children, hiking a trail or hiding behind shelves at grocery stores, wondering what kind of lube the nervous stranger will bring home to his wife. Oh and she loves a good boob squeeze!
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Jan 12
Hero: The Ambush by M.S. Parker Blog Tour
Series now complete. This is book 2 out of 3
Haze Welch used to serve his country in the Special Forces. Now he’s relegated to babysitting spoiled heiress Leighton Machus, the party girl with whom Haze had a one-night stand four years ago. A one-night stand he hasn’t been able to get out of his mind since. Despite her behavior, he can’t help but think there’s more to Leighton than what she portrays. And there’s definitely more to the situation than meets the eye.
I couldn’t get her out of my mind, but to save her life, I just might have to.
With Leighton in danger, Haze must decide what’s more important: his feelings, or her life.
Don’t miss book 2 in HERO, the steamy second installment of MS Parker’s first military series.
M.S. Parker is a USA Today Bestselling author and the author of the Erotic Romance series, Club Privè and Chasing Perfection.
Living in Southern California, she enjoys sitting by the pool with her laptop writing on her next spicy romance.
Growing up all she wanted to be was a dancer, actor or author. So far only the latter has come true but M. S. Parker hasn’t retired her dancing shoes just yet. She is still waiting for the call for her to appear on Dancing With The Stars.
When M. S. isn’t writing, she can usually be found reading- oops, scratch that! She is always writing.
Jan 12
Angel’s Halo: Reclaimed by Terri Anne Browning Release Blitz and Giveaway
Title: Angel’s Halo: Reclaimed
Series: Angel’s Halo MC #4
Author: Terri Anne Browning
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Blurb
Felicity Bolton finally feels like she has moved on with her life. She misses her friends and family back in Creswell Springs, but now she has new friends—a new family. She has found the peace that she lost the night she lost her unborn child. She would do anything to protect her newfound family, even if that meant facing the devil himself.
The minute Jet Hannigan walks back into her life that’s exactly what she has to do.
Jet Hannigan is officially a free man. With his parole lifted he can finally do what he’s been aching to do, go after the only woman who will ever own his heart. He’s known where she is for months and has been impatiently waiting for the day he could reclaim her. What he wasn’t excepting was to have to pull out the big guns and blackmail her into returning to Creswell Springs with him. With everything going on with Flick’s boss, and the media circus surrounding the chaos, Jet thought the safest place for her was home where he and his brothers could protect her.
Instead he brings her home to a war zone.
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Author Bio
Terri Anne Browning is the USA TODAY bestselling author of The Rocker…Series. She started writing her own novellas at the age of sixteen, forcing her sister to be her one woman fan club. Now she has a few more fans and a lot more passion for writing. Reese: A Safe Haven Novella was her first Indie published book. The Rocker That Holds Me changed the tables and kicked off The Rocker… series featuring the sinfully delicious members of Demon’s Wings. The Rocker… Series has since expanded to OtherWorld with Axton Cage and his band members. Terri Anne lives in Virginia with her husband, their three children, and a loveable Olde English Bulldog named Link.
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Jan 12
Angel’s Halo by Terri Anne Browning Review
5 Smooches!
Synopsis
Creswell Springs was a small little town in Trinity Count, California. Population 1,500—maybe. It’s a quiet town, with small town values. Its greatest income is the University just outside of the town limits… and the revenue the local Motorcycle Club brings in.
Being part of the MC that was Angel’s Halo was exactly like being part of a family.
A scary, powerful, crazy family.
It was also like its own society. There are rules, just as there are in every family, every society. But only breaking one of their rules will leave you in a broken, blood pile on the floor… No one touches Raven Hannigan.
Raven
I was the MC’s only weakness. Or so my father use to tell me as I was growing up. Mad Max Hannigan was once Angel’s Halos’ president. He made the rules and everyone was expected to follow them or come face to fist with the enforcer…
I have spent my life in the middle of the MC. I knew the rules—the penalties for breaking those rules. So I knew what would happen to him if I let him break the golden rule… But I loved him, like I have never loved anyone or anything before. I thought my love would protect him.
Of course it hadn’t. When our secret was discovered he was beaten.
So I shouldn’t blame him for leaving me…
Bash
As the enforcer I knew the consequences. Knew exactly what was in store for me when Raven’s family found out that I had dared to break my MC’s unforgivable rule. I loved her, so it didn’t matter to me. When her oldest brother delivered my punishment I didn’t scream. Didn’t groan. I took it like the man my MC had made me, and would have done it over and over again if that was what it took to be able to call Raven Hannigan mine.
But then my past reared its ugly head and I had a choice to make. One that I have only lived to regret.
Taking on the job as Angel’s Halos’ new president was my second chance. But… would my secrets destroy everything Raven and I once had?
Review
I’m a huge Terri Anne Browning fan, I’ve read and loved all of her Rockers, and this series overlaps, especially in this book, with that series. When I finished the first book in this series, Angel’s Halo, I began the wait for Flick and Jet’s story. I’ve been eagerly awaiting this book, and I was not disappointed. I should point out, however, that this series is unlike the Rockers series in that these books must be read in order and they cannot be read as standalones. Each one of the books in this series has built upon the foundation laid in the first book, and if you just jump into this series here, you’ll be missing critical details.
“If I thought Jet Hannigan couldn’t ever break my heart any more than he already had, I’d been wrong.”
Felicity “Flick” Bolton grew up in the life; best friend to MC founding family sister, Raven, and daughter to Marcie, a club whore, she’s been a part of the Hannigan family for as long as she can remember. She’s also been in love with oldest brother, and former Angel’s Halo President, Jet, for as long as she can remember. Two years earlier, following a hard break up, Flick learned she was pregnant with Jet’s baby. All was not well within the MC’s world at that time, and Flick was beaten nearly to death by the club’s then-VP, Westcliffe, in a vicious attack that caused her to loose the baby and most likely her ability to ever carry another child. Broken hearted, choosing to run from her pain, Flick accepts a job as a nanny for the Armstrong family – the Nik and Emmie Armstrong family of Demon’s Wings. She leaves Creswell Springs and Angel’s Halo behind without a trace to start fresh.
“…she was the one thing I would have gladly destroyed the world to protect.”
Jet Hannigan, the former Angel’s Halo President, was powerless to stop Flick from leaving her family – and him – behind two years ago when she came to visit him in prison to say goodbye. Two years later, he’s out and he’s served his probation. Having learned of Flick’s whereabouts accidentally, he is now headed straight to her to bring her back home. He is prepared to use whatever means necessary to get his “female” to come home with him, and he absolutely does by emotionally blackmailing her with the threat to go to the press with information that would be damaging to the Armstrong family. Desperate to protect Emmie and Nik, Flick reluctantly but angrily gives in to Jet and goes home with him.
“I was falling again. Falling hard and fast.”
Flick is surprised to learn that Jet didn’t just mean he wanted her back in Creswell Springs. No, the biker wants her back – in his life, in his arms, in his bed. Still in love with him, Flick doesn’t put up too much of a fight, but this time she’s going in expecting it to end, expecting Jet to grow bored, and she’s not risking her heart this time. Jet, however, is kicking himself for what he put the only woman he has ever loved through when he broke up with her two years earlier. He goes after her hoping that he can win her back and that he didn’t kill her love for him.
“I wanted her to be happy, but I’d hoped that she would want to be happy with me.”
Flick is struggling internally with her feelings. She’s happy to be home, she knows she still loves Jet, but she just can’t let herself believe that Jet really loves her, despite his daily declarations. Jet is nearly desperate for her to say the words back, and when she doesn’t, he decides that her happiness is what’s most important, and if he can’t make her happy, he can give it to her by letting her go back to the Armstrongs.
“Will you ride with me, baby?”
There’s a lot going on here; several plot lines are running concurrently and intersect in this book. The talented Terri Anne Browning juggled these plots well, giving her readers what they’ve been asking for in Flick and Jet’s story. As I’ve come to expect from Browning, Angel’s Halo: Reclaimed was well written, fast moving and sexy. I loved it, and I’m looking forward whatever is next in this series! 5 smooches for Terri Anne Browning’s Angel’s Halo: Reclaimed from me!
~ Danielle Palumbo
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Jan 12
Things Liars Fake by Sara Ney Cover Reveal
Title: Things Liars Fake (#ThreeLittleLies #3)
Author: Sara Ney
Release Date: Feb 1, 2016
What if…
Someone you barely knew asked you for a favor.
What if…
They needed you to be something you weren’t, in exchange for nothing. Unless you count a mouth full of lies and a half-broken heart. Faker. Pretender. Liar. There are worse things to be called.
So would you do it? Would you?
Daphne Winthrop did.
And you’re about to find out what happens in the end.
I pay, trying to scurry undetected to the condiments, juggling my cardboard snack tray awkwardly as I pluck a few napkins from the metallic holder. One, two… five napkins.
That should be enough, right?
For good measure, I pluck out two more from the holder because sometime my butter hands get out of control. I hate having buttery fingerprints.
Still clutching my ticket stub, I attempt to lift it to see which theater my movie is playing in, but fail miserably and have to set everyth—
“Daphne?”
I freeze.
Look up.
Pivot.
Standing behind me in his navy blue pea coat, Dexter Ryan smiles crookedly down at me.
He smoothes his hands down the front of his dark pressed jeans—or is he wiping sweat off his palms?—and pushes his tortoiseshell eyeglasses up the bridge of his nose.
I take it all in—every inch of him—from the preppy jacket, the glasses, the slight cleft in his chin, up to the black cable knit winter hat when he suddenly removes it. Instead of his hair being flatted by the hat, it’s unruly and a bit tousled. A rich brown, his locks are wavy, shaggy and desperately need a trim.
He finger combs it out of his face.
“It is Daphne, right?” He asks, unsure of himself.
It’s hard to hold back my groan of dismay at being spotted, but I muster up a cheerful, “Yeah. Hi. Dexter?”
He smiles then, his eyes shining behind his dark, tortoiseshell lenses. I mean—I think his eyes are shining. Maybe it’s just the reflection of his glasses?
Those dark eyes dart down to my snacks, the ticket stub grasped between two fingers on my right hand. His brows go up. “Do you need help with anything? Sorry, I’m an idiot; it’s obvious you’re waiting for someone.”
A nervous giggle escapes my lips, only I can’t smack a hand over my mouth to stop it. “Gosh thank you. I don’t need help,” I hurriedly say. “I just have to see which theater I’m in, but I’m having a hard time with…”
All my food.
“It’s just you?” His head cranes around, confused. “I’m sorry, that was rude. Of course it’s not just you. Why would it be?” His deep voice gives a forced, nervous chuckle.
Wow, this is about to get awkward. “Nope, it is just me,” I barely manage to get the words out. “I’m here alone.”
Dexter’s eyes go wide, sending his brows straight into his hairline. His mouth even falls open a little but no sound comes out.
“Great,” I joke, more for my benefit than his. “I’ve rendered you speechless.”
I follow the line of his jacket, down to the hand tightly gripping his winter hat.
“No! Shit, sorry. I didn’t mean… I don’t know what I mean.” Deep breath. “I’m here alone, too.”
Suddenly, his mouth twitches into a goofy grin, and my green eyes fly make a beeline to his lips as they form the words, “Which movie are you here to see?”
Those lips.
Huh?
Instead of formulating a response, I find myself trying not to stare at a perfectly sculpted upper lip and a full mouth surrounded by a days’ worth of five o’clock shadow. Strong jawline. Straight, white teeth. And is that line in his cheek a dimple?
Dexter clears his throat, and I watch transfixed as the chords in his neck flex when he reprises, “Which movie are you here to see?”
Huh?
“Huh?”
Jesus, I have some serious issues. And if Dexter think I’ve gone space cadet on him, he doesn’t let on; his brown eyes are kind. Friendly. Sincere without a trace of egotism. “What movie?”
Oh god. Could this be any more humiliating? The guys asked me the same question three times.
“Uh… StarGate?”
Don’t judge me! Don’t judge me, Dexter! I want to shout. I want to hide behind my massive bucket of popcorn. Yes, it’s true! I am at a nine o’clock screening of StarGate, the twenty-year-old movie turned nerd cult classic of all time.
By myself.
As in: alone.
On a Saturday night.
A pleased grin quirks, his thick brows shoot up for a second time in surprise before he clears his throat. “Me too.”
Dexter briefly glances down at his ticket stub, pushing his glasses back up the bridge of his nose with a forefinger. God, it’s such a sweet gesture I actually cock my head and stare.
Truth be told, I could probably stare at him all night.
It’s been all of three minutes and I find him charming, adorable, and unassumingly handsome. The kind of handsome that sneaks up on you.
He clears his throat again. “It’s, uh, in theater twelve. Let me just…” He reaches around me then to grab a few napkins for himself, though he’s only carrying a medium soda.
No popcorn. No candy. No snacks.
Wait. No snacks?
Who doesn’t get snacks at the movies? Who?
Self-conscious of my gluttony, I back away, wielding my embarrassing armload of junk food, face flaming hot. “I guess I should go find myself a seat. Yeah. I should go do that. The previews have probably already started and those are my favorite part…”
Stop talking Daphne!
Dexter nods and grapples for a few more napkins.
Oh brother; between the two of us, we have enough napkins to last us through Armageddon.
Things Liars Say (#ThreeLittleLies 1)
Lies, lies, lies; everybody tells them….
Greyson Keller didn’t intend to lie; it just came out that way. So when the object of that lie shows up on her doorstep, she is confused, shocked, and embarrassed.
Calvin Thompson is an Ivy Leaguer, attending University over an hour away, playing rugby and basically not giving a crap. So imagine his surprise when some guy named Greyson begins rumors online that they’re dating — the only logical solution is to drive an hour and confront him…
Be there when Greyson and Cal finally meet face-to-face because.
Sparks. Will. Fly.
Yes, sparks fly. That’s why this book is intended for those 17+
Foul language, and sexual content.
Things Liars Hide (#ThreeLittleLies 2)
Authors Note: This novella, along with all others in this series, is a standalone with no cliffhanger. You’re welcome.
Secrets, secrets, everybody has them…
Tabitha Thompson is many things, but a liar isn’t one of them. Unless you count the sexy secret she’s spent a year hiding from everyone: her friends, her family. The secret she never counted on anyone discovering…
One chance encounter.
One clumsy mistake.
One sexy discovery.
Now, only Collin Keller stands in the way of her secret–and everyone else. And he just may be the one who ruins it all…
Tabitha Thompson, you secretive little sneak…
This novella is intended for those 17+ and older: Contains foul language, cursing, and sexual content. PLEASE NOTE: This book is told through alternating POV and social media content in the form of Texts, Emails and Book within a Book….
Word Count: Approx 32,000
Retail marketing and advertiser by trade, I am a university club advisor with a passion for creating awkward fictional characters that readers can relate to. That are real. I enjoy writing fast-paced, humorous manuscripts with empowered female characters.
I love: reading, travelling, meeting new people…. latte’s, rainy days, and sweater weather.
Jan 12
Tap by Georgia Cates Blog Tour with Excerpt and Giveaway
Release Day: JANUARY 11, 2016
SYNOPSIS:
A faceless name. That’s all she was when I agreed to play a part in deceiving her. But then the unplanned happened.
We met. And all I wanted from her was a dirty weekend . . . until that wasn’t enough and I longed for so much more.
Lawrence Thorn suddenly means the world to me. And that’s a problem. She’s my business partner’s sister. Forbidden fruit. Pursuing her can mean trouble for me at Lovibond Brewery. But I don’t care.
I yearn for her skin against mine.
I crave her smell on my body.
I want to make her laugh and then hear her moan my name.
And she does for a brief moment in time.
But Lawrence wants more than I’m able to give. And it’s a damn shame because there’s no one on earth I want more than her.
An epic love.
A miserable ending.
Unless it’s not.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Georgia resides in rural Mississippi with her wonderful husband, Jeff, and their two beautiful daughters. She spent fourteen years as a labor and delivery nurse before she decided to pursue her dream of becoming an author and hasn’t looked back yet.
When she’s not writing, she’s thinking about writing. When she’s being domestic, she’s listening to her iPod and visualizing scenes for her current work in progress. Every story coming from her always has a song to inspire it.
Representation: All questions regarding subsidiary rights for any of my books, inquiries regarding foreign translation and film rights should be directed to Jane Dystel of Dystel & Goderich.
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EXCERPT:
Lawrence Thorn
My eyes follow Brou as he leaves the bench and walks away. Sheez. His ass looks great in those jeans. And it looks pretty great not in those jeans too.
I can’t believe I had my hand wrapped around his cock.
I can’t believe he came in my hand.
I can’t believe he stood in front of me naked from the waist down.
I can’t believe he touched me with his fingers between my legs and then sucked them. Fuck. That was hot.
No one has ever made me come so hard in all my life. Brou gives quality orgasms. I can’t wait to have another.
Jan 12
Tap by Georgia Cates Review
4 Smooches!
Synopsis
Craft beer and the sexy men who brew it.
A faceless name. That’s all she was when I agreed to play a part in deceiving her. But then the unplanned happened.
We met. And all I wanted from her was a dirty weekend . . . until that wasn’t enough and I longed for so much more.
Lawrence Thorn suddenly means the world to me. And that’s a problem. She’s my business partner’s sister. Forbidden fruit. Pursuing her can mean trouble for me at Lovibond Brewery. But I don’t care.
I yearn for her skin against mine.
I crave her smell on my body.
I want to make her laugh and then hear her moan my name.
And she does for a brief moment in time.
But Lawrence wants more than I’m able to give. And it’s a damn shame because there’s no one on earth I want more than her.
An epic love.
A miserable ending.
Unless it’s not.
Review
Tap just happens to be my very first Georgia Cates book. I have heard such wonderful things about the Beauty From Pain books that when I saw this one, I snatched it up. Finally, a chance to read Ms. Cates. I have to be honest, I was not blown away but I did enjoy the book.
‘I’m risking my friendship with Stout. My business relationship. Maybe even my livelihood. And I don’t care. She’s worth the gamble. I’m going all in.’
I do actually really love a book told from both point of views. I also really do adore my brother’s best friends types of books. Books with texting, yes please! Books that have smoking hot sex, check. I also was hooked from the simple synopsis. The whole beer theme sounded cool. So, this book had all of these really cool things that made for a really nice story. Plus, there was some painful angsty past stuff on Tap’s part that gave me the feels.
So, I gave this book 4 stars. It was good. I enjoyed it. Maybe I had built Georgia Cates up in my mind and that is why I am not giving this book 5 Stars but I still really enjoyed it so I don’t want to put anyone off. It is still a well written sexy good story.
“Crazy love is the best kind.”
~Amie
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Jan 12
Dirty Together by Meghan March Release Blitz
Dirty Together by Meghan March
Book Three of The Dirty Billionaire Trilogy
Date of Publication: January 12, 2016
Blurb
Dirty Pleasures
My wife.
I love saying those words.
She’s mine, and if she thinks I’m going to let her run without tracking her down and bringing her back to where she belongs–with me–then she’s about to be introduced to a new reality.
Because I’ll fight dirty to give her the happily ever after she deserves.
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About Meghan March
Meghan March is the author of contemporary and erotic romance novels.
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.
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More from the Dirty Billionaire Trilogy!
Dirty Billionaire: Available Now
I’ve got a big dick and an even bigger bank account. That’s pretty much where my bio ends.
Honestly, I don’t need to say anything else. I’ve just sold 99% of women on going home with me.
Do I sound like an asshole to you?
That’s because I am.
And guess what? It works for me just fine.
Or at least it did.
Until I met her.
Books talk about sparks flying. Fuck that shit. With her, it was like emergency flares mixed with jet fuel. Or maybe just straight up napalm.
Only one problem.
She wouldn’t tell me her name or her number when she disappeared from the hotel room after the hottest fucking night of my life.
Now I’ve had a taste of unicorn pussy–the sweetest, rarest of all pussy–and I need it again.
So what’s an asshole to do?
I took this problem to the street. A missed connection gone viral.
And when I find her? I’m keeping her.
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I did it. I married a billionaire.
My reasons are my own, but the last thing I expected was to feel owned.
I may have taken vows, but I’m still determined to be me.
Now his rules are taking over my world, but I’m not the kind of girl to just obey.
There’s only one problem: I might actually be falling for him…
I have no idea how this marriage is going to go, but holding onto a piece of myself while succumbing to his dirty pleasures is shaping up to be the ride of a lifetime.
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Jan 11
Ignite by Karen Erickson Cover Reveal
About IGNITE
Weston Gallagher is falling hard-for the wrong woman.
One night of passion has haunted him for years.
Now he’s got a second chance to get the girl of his dreams…but there’s just one problem:
She hates him.
Eight years after he stormed out of Wildwood, California, West has returned to his hometown as a firefighter. His friends and family are thrilled he’s back-with the exception of Harper Hill. His best friend’s sister is all grown up and in all the right ways. He knows she’s going to do everything she can to protect her heart and keep him at arm’s length, but West has other ideas.
He will win the girl that got away. No matter what it takes…
About KAREN ERICKSON
USA Today bestselling author KAREN ERICKSON writes what she loves to read – sexy contemporary romance. Published since 2006, she’s a native Californian who lives in the foothills below Yosemite with her husband and three children. She also writes as NYT and USA Today bestselling author Monica Murphy.