Blind Date by Emma Hart Release

 

Blind dates are the work of the devil…
I’m a serial-one nighter, and my best friend is my inner slut.
He’s temptation personified, and his best friend is definitely his cock.
Carter Hughes gave me a taste of my own medicine. He wham, bam, thank you ma’amed me into oblivion, and I hell yes, oh God, right there’d him into paradise.
I thought that would be the end—until my mother’s double booking for a consultation winds me right back up at the place I swore I’d never go again. Now I’m fighting for an interior design contract I don’t even want… Just to make a point.
If I get it, the date won’t be the devil.
Carter Hughes will be.

(Disclaimer: BLIND DATE was originally published as a short story in the ONE anthology. It has now been expanded into a longish novella, approx. 47k words.)

 

 

 

By day, New York Times and USA Today bestselling New Adult author Emma Hart dons a cape and calls herself Super Mum to two beautiful little monsters. By night, she drops the cape, pours a glass of whatever she fancies – usually wine – and writes books.

 

Emma is working on Top Secret projects she will share with her followers and fans at every available opportunity. Naturally, all Top Secret projects involve a dashingly hot guy who likes to forget to wear a shirt, a sprinkling (or several) of hold-onto-your-panties hot scenes, and a whole lotta love.
She likes to be busy – unless busy involves doing the dishes, but that seems to be when all the ideas come to life.

 

Catch Me by Jennifer Probst Blog Tour with Excerpt and Giveaway

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CATCH ME by Jennifer Probst
October 27, 2015
Steele Brothers series, #1

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CATCH ME Synopsis:

Rick Steele has avoided relationships since he caught his fiancée cheating, but when his friend refers him to the exclusive agency, FANTA-C to experience the night of his dreams, he’s not prepared for his emotional and physical reaction to his date. Tara shows him a raw passion and honesty he’s never encountered. For the first time, Rick wants more than one night, but he needs to catch her first…

Tara Denton escaped a brutal past and needs one night with a stranger to get beyond her sexual and emotional limitations. On the brink of recovering her strength and independence, she wants nothing to do with a relationship. But Rick Steele does more than rock her body…he rocks her heart. Tara has to make a choice, but is she ready to get caught?

 

BUY LINKS:
CATCH ME (Steele Brothers series, #1) 
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EXCERPT

“Do you know how beautiful you are?” he demanded.

 

Disbelief flickered in those blue eyes. “Thank you, but—”

 

He closed the distance between them. She gasped as he grabbed her hand and laid it on his straining erection. “This is what you do to me. From the moment I laid eyes on you, I wanted you. By the end of the night, you’re going to believe it, sweetheart. Make no mistake.”

 

Her entire body shuddered, and power surged through him. He wanted to make her scream with pleasure, to cry his name as she orgasmed; until she couldn’t remember the last time another man ever laid a hand on her. Possessiveness was not a natural part of him, but Rick didn’t fight the urge. Instead, he embraced the basic male tendency to hunt. Conquer. Claim.

 

Her soft hand paused, and then gently stroked him. Rick groaned, and she seemed surprised that she had caused the pleasure. Bolder, she squeezed around the fabric of his pants and followed the ridge from base to tip. He held perfectly still and allowed her to explore. She took a step closer, until her breasts pressed against his chest. Immediately, her nipples hardened into perfect tight pebbles, and Rick fisted his hands to keep from touching her. Her arms came up to hold his shoulders, and her sweet breath rushed over his lips as she arched up on her tiptoes.

 

Then pressed her lips to his.

 

The tentative kiss rocked his world. Her lips were soft and sweet. He allowed her to explore the line of his mouth, gaining confidence, until the tip of her tongue slowly pushed into his mouth. With a low growl, he opened his mouth for her, desperately trying to hold back his instinct to throw her on the bed and spread her thighs. Her tongue swept in, thrust against his in a teasing battle.

 

Rick reached out and lifted her up against him. She made a little mewling noise, but he swallowed it as he claimed her mouth the way he craved. He drank deep, drowning in her taste as the scent of strawberries and flowers swam in his head. Within seconds, her body slumped against his and she surrendered, letting him drink his fill as her fingers thrust into his hair and held his head still for her own demands. Slowly, he eased back and looked down at her face.

 

Her lips were swollen and wet. Aqua eyes held a dazed sheen as she stared back at him. “Oh, my,” she whispered. “That was so…good.”

AUTHOR INFORMATION:
Jennifer Probst –  Bio:
Jennifer Probst wrote her first book at twelve years old. She bound it in a folder, read it to her classmates, and hasn’t stopped writing since. She took a short hiatus to get married, get pregnant, buy a house, get pregnant again, pursue a master’s in English Literature, and rescue two shelter dogs. Now she is writing again.She makes her home in Upstate New York with the whole crew. Her sons keep her active, stressed, joyous, and sad her house will never be truly clean.
She is the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of sexy and erotic contemporary romance. She was thrilled her book, The Marriage Bargain, was ranked #6 on Amazon’s Best Books for 2012. She loves hearing from readers. Visit her website for updates on new releases and her street team at www.jenniferprobst.com.

Website:  www.jenniferprobst.com
Facebook Fan Page:  https://www.facebook.com/jenniferprobst.authorpage
Twitter:  
https://twitter.com/jenniferprobst
Goodreads: 
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2965489.Jennifer_Probst

 

PRE-ORDER LINKS FOR THE REST OF THE SERIES:

PLAY ME (Steele Brothers series, #2)
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DARE ME (Steele Brothers series, #3)
Barnes & Noble: http://bit.ly/1RSnReO
BEG ME (Steele Brothers series, #4)
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Right To My Wrong by Lani Lynn Vale Cover Reveal

  

 

Title: Right To My Wrong

Series: The Heroes of the Dixie Wardens MC #8

Author: Lani Lynn Vale

Genre: Adult, Motorcycle Club Romance

Release Date: February 3, 2016

Photographer: Furious Fotog

Cover Model: Chase Ketron

Nightmares.

Sterling and Ruthie have more things in common than they realize, even though from the outside it doesn’t seem like they do.

Blood.

Sterling is a decorated war hero.

Ruthie is an ex-con.

Their two worlds should’ve never collided, but fate has a way of turning life in the direction least expected. Now Ruthie has to try to come to terms with the fact that she’s in love with a biker who’s also a decorated Navy SEAL. One who leaves for months at a time with little to no advance warning, taking her heart with him each time he goes.

Pain.

Sterling has a lot of things to overcome in order to have Ruthie, the biggest being her mind.

She doesn’t think she’s good enough.

He thinks she’s perfect.

Now it’s up to him to show her just how right he can be.

“So, what’s your story?” The man at my side asked me.


I looked up from peeling the label off my beer and stared at him.


He was so beautiful, but everything I would never go for again.


Muscular.


Military.


An Alpha.


Those three things combined made for a man who always felt he knew the right way.


“What do you mean, what’s my story?” I muttered, looking back towards my label.


“Where’d you grow up?” He was a persistent bastard.


“Typical shit upbringing. My dad left my mom. My mom felt the benefits of having me were outweighed by the negatives of having me, so she gave me up for adoption. I never found anyone to take me in, so I spent twelve years in the foster system. When I turned eighteen, I was kicked out on the street, and I did the only thing I could, found a man that could support me. But he also liked to hit me. After a year of that, I killed him,” I said softly.


If knowing that fact was going to scare him off, I wanted to get it over with before I made a friend out of him. I wasn’t a fan of false niceties. I was a rip the band aid off kind of girl.


“Sawyer said you just got out,” the man continued.


I sighed and finally looked at him.


He was handsome.


So handsome that it was making me tongue tied. I wasn’t hot like most of the other women in the room. I was decent looking, but I wasn’t in his league.


Which was why I was looking at the label of my beer the majority of the time instead of at his face.


He’d been sitting beside me ever since I’d sat down, and I couldn’t figure out why.


In fact, he was downright gorgeous. Everything that made him wrong.


And the beard just made it even worse.


I couldn’t resist a beard.


Never could…and never would.


Tall with muscular arms. Wide shoulders. Deep green eyes and a messy mop of dirty blonde hair tumbling over his eyes, he was every woman’s dream.


His beard was one of those that was grown out of necessity instead of style, the kind where you were out in the desert and not near a razor kind of beard.


Which was conducive with the party we were having in honor of him coming home from his deployment in Afghanistan.


“Do you want me to leave you alone, because I’m sensing that from you,” the man said.


I sighed and looked at him, caught by those beautiful green eyes.


“Sterling, I’m one fucked up mess,” I finally said.


He grinned. “Well that makes two of us. I’m a fucked up mess molded into a ball of denial. Trust me. My fucked up mess could easily compete with your fucked up mess.”


I laughed.


If only that were true.

I’m a married mother of three. My kids are all under 5, so I can assure you that they are a handful. I’ve been with my paramedic husband now for ten years, and we’ve produced three offspring that are nothing like us. I live in the greatest state in the world, Texas.

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Baking And Babies Release Blitz

BAKING AND BABIES

(Choloholics #3)

by Tara Sivec

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Blurb:

“I’m pregnant.”

Molly Gilmore had a good life before she uttered those two stupid words. While preparing to graduate from culinary school and building up the courage to make a move on her hot, sugar-cookie-smelling pastry instructor Marco, she can’t wait to finally have the GREAT life she’s always dreamed about, instead of just the good one she’s been living.

Always known as the quiet ninja, she fully intends to stay hidden in the shadows with her nut-job family, so they have no chance to embarrass her around the man she’s crushed on for two years. Unfortunately, her family has other plans. When they yank her straight out of her comfort zone, she finds herself starring in the craziest train wreck she’s ever witnessed.

Molly ultimately gets a more exciting life that doesn’t revolve around school, but she’s pretty sure the man of her dreams won’t be sticking around long after her family gets ahold of him. There aren’t too many guys who can handle smelling like pee, having the whole world know how he masturbates, and being forced to eat an entire bag of dicks.

Join the Chocolate Lovers and Chocoholics gang for one final story about love, baked goods, making poor life choices, and remembering how important family is—even if they drive you insane.

Mostly because it’s illegal to kill them.

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About The Author

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Tara Sivec is a USA Today best-selling author, wife, mother, chauffeur, maid, short-order cook, baby-sitter, and sarcasm expert. She lives in Ohio with her husband and two children and looks forward to the day when they all three of them become adults and move out.

After working in the brokerage business for fourteen years, Tara decided to pick up a pen and write instead of shoving it in her eye out of boredom. She is the author of the Playing with Fire series, the Chocolate Lovers series, the Chocoholics series, the Fool Me Once series and Watch Over Me. Her novel Seduction and Snacks won first place in the Indie Romance Convention Reader’s Choice Awards 2013 for Best Indie First Book.

In her spare time, Tara loves to dream about all of the baking she’ll do and naps she’ll take when she ever gets spare time.

**Please note that Tara Sivec does NOT reply to emails on Goodreads. If you would like to contact her, go to her website www.tarasivec.com

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Release Day Party:

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Tara will be having a party all day on Friday to celebrate the release with several giveaways, including a Kindle Fire, special Baking & Babies swag, etc. This will take place on her Facebook Author Page: https://www.facebook.com/TaraSivec.authorpage

Baking and Babies by Tara Sivec Review

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Synopsis

“I’m pregnant.”

Molly Gilmore had a good life before she uttered those two stupid words. While preparing to graduate from culinary school and building up the courage to make a move on her hot, sugar-cookie-smelling pastry instructor Marco, she can’t wait to finally have the GREAT life she’s always dreamed about, instead of just the good one she’s been living.

Always known as the quiet ninja, she fully intends to stay hidden in the shadows with her nut-job family, so they have no chance to embarrass her around the man she’s crushed on for two years. Unfortunately, her family has other plans. When they yank her straight out of her comfort zone, she finds herself starring in the craziest train wreck she’s ever witnessed.

Molly ultimately gets a more exciting life that doesn’t revolve around school, but she’s pretty sure the man of her dreams won’t be sticking around long after her family gets ahold of him. There aren’t too many guys who can handle smelling like pee, having the whole world know how he masturbates, and being forced to eat an entire bag of dicks.

Join the Chocolate Lovers and Chocoholics gang for one final story about love, baked goods, making poor life choices, and remembering how important family is—even if they drive you insane.

Mostly because it’s illegal to kill them.

Review

‘I’m putting Marco’s penis in my mouth tonight and nothing is going to stop me.’

Well Fuck A Duck that was HILARIOUS, but honestly did I expect anything else from my favorite versatile author. Tara Sivec has proven over and over again she can go from crass humor to heartbreaking angst to suspense to erotic with the blink of an eye. I am not sure there is not a genre she couldn’t write (come on who wouldn’t love a children’s book written by her.)

‘Honesty is my middle name. Right after Lying Dickhead Asshole.’

I adore the Chocoholics series, possible even more than the Chocolate Lovers, not only because the stories are incredibly funny but because I feel like we have watched these kids grow up and fall in love. Who doesn’t want a happily ever after for kids you fell in love with. Out of all the children, Molly is the one we know the least about, often hiding behind the crazy schemes and antics of those around her she kept to herself and focused on finishing her culinary degree and making something of herself. Finally Molly gets the spotlight and I find that I absolutely adored her. Having had a crush on her teacher but knowing she can’t do anything about it while still in his class has been impossible for her. But school is done and now nothing is impossible except Molly has a secret, one that changes everything.

“Don’t knock it until you try it; pony play is very erotic,” Ava informs the group as I sit on the comfortable leather bench next to Charlotte, closing the door behind me. “The plastic hooves are a little hard to get used to at first, but once you add the tail and the unicorn horn, you really get into it.”

Marco, the Italian Stallion, rocked my world. Thrown into the crazy mix of all these overly eccentric people he proves he can give as much as he can take. But Marco isn’t forthcoming with all his secrets and what he holds back has the power to tear apart all that they built in the short amount of time they spent together. I am not sure where the quips and one liners that end up in these books come from but I am fairly convinced something is very very wrong with Tara, and we are all so happy about it.

‘Ain’t nobody got time for full-price lap dances!’

As sad as I am to see this series come to an end I feel like it is just the right place for it. Every moment along the way exciting and fun and I loved how this story helped wrap up all the previous books as well. Catching up with my favorite characters only added to the pure joy I got from reading this story. I cannot wait to see what books, stories and characters Tara has for us next.

~miranda

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Sudden Desires : Sweet Promises #1 by Shanora WIlliams Release Blitz with Excerpt and Giveaway

Title: Sudden Desires

Series: Sweet Promises #1

Author: Shanora Williams

Genre: Romantic Erotica / Erotic Suspense/ Romantic Suspense

Published: October 30, 2015

Screw the ring. 

The good life. 

My selfish wife.

I have felt abandoned by her for years. Forgotten.

Belittled. 

Neglected.

Unloved….

But, all of that has changed. 

I’ve met an incredible woman. I didn’t mean for anything to happen with her. We were only supposed to be doing business together. But that sassy mouth, fine ass, and those perky tits got to me. It was a spur of the moment thing – both of us blinded by lust. 

Is it bad to crave a woman so badly that you’ll do practically anything to hold onto her? Like make sweet promises that you know damn well can’t be kept?

Don’t be fooled. This newfound “happiness” may only be a fucking façade, and what’s worse is that I can’t let it go. 

Not now. 

Probably not ever.

Why? Because there is only so much rejection a man can take before he finally just… gives into temptation.

Check out our 4 smooches review HERE.

 

“Omg! And I had thought Tainted Black had wrecked me!! I loved this book. I loved the characters, the unique plot and the sizzling romance.” ~ Lina’s Review Book Blog

“Uh .. OMGAWD .. okay I can’t say much but you need to read this book. What a mind freak. I love Shaora’s books and was giddy to see the ARC for this one on my Kindle.”~ Ramblings from Beneath the Sheets

“This book is seriously full of (DIRTY) secrets, hidden desires, betrayal, drama, forgotten vows, mistrusts, passion, love affairs, angst, jealousy, LUST-sparks, temptation, angst, hatred, deceit, determination, self-conceited persona’s, promises, sleazy businessmen, an alpha male, a bitchy resentful wife, a sexy ‘mistress’ and a best friend who doesn’t deserve the title. Gah, so much twists and turns!”~ AdequateBookWhore

All I want is the best for Colette. All I want is for her to be happy. We were happy once. Why can’t we go back to that? 

 

My forehead drops on the marble wall of the shower. Water streams through my hair, down my chest and back. My face feels smothered with warmth, but it feels good. 

 

With my eyes squeezed tight, I try and imagine Colette and all her naked glory. The woman has a banging body. I imagine those perky pink nipples, her face when I finally get to ramming my cock deep inside her. Only… it doesn’t work this time.

 

As I pump I can’t feel myself getting hard enough because all I can hear are her negative words. All I can think of is how we truly are failing as a couple. All I can think about it the reason why… Angelina.

 

Blue eyes appear in my imagination, and I stroke harder. My cock hardens in my hands, the veins bulging as I imagine those aqua irises looking up at me while sucking me dry. Lapping her tongue around my balls, flicking it across my tip. I shudder as I start to reach the brink. My body locks, palm against the wall, and all I can hear is her calling me Mr. Boyd in that sweet little voice.

 

She wanted my cock so bad she could taste it, and I wanted a mouthful of her pussy so much I was almost willing to completely demolish my marriage to make that happen.

 

“Fuck,” I bite out, stroking faster, harder, until finally I explode in my hand, squirting all over the fucking shower wall. “Goddamn,” I groan, pressing the side of my face on the marble. God, it’s been so long since I’ve cum. So fucking long. I pant, breathing raggedly as I keep my eyes shut, still rubbing the head of my cock, releasing every drop of cum. 

 

I can’t believe myself, but it’s the pure imagination of Angelina who has just made me cum.

 

It’s her with her lips wrapped around the head of my cock, telling me to relax and to just enjoy the feel. The feel of her, right before she comes up to sit on top of my lap, allowing me to sink deep inside what I know is an eager, wet pussy.

New York Times & USA Today Bestselling author Shanora Williams considers herself a wondrous, down-to-earth author who’s all about romance, paranormal, and the historical fiction. Coffee and Oreos are her addiction. Reading is a necessity. Whenever she isn’t writing or reading, she’s most likely spending her time with family and loved ones, or watching hit TV series on Netflix.

 

 

 

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Sudden Desires: Sweet Promises #1 by Shanora Williams Review

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Synopsis

Screw the ring.
The good life.
My selfish wife.
I have felt abandoned by her for years. Forgotten.
Belittled.
Neglected.
Unloved….

But all of that has changed.
I’ve met an incredible woman. I didn’t mean for anything to happen with her. We were only supposed to be doing business together. But that sassy mouth, fine ass, and those perky tits got to me. It was a spur of the moment thing – both of us blinded by lust.

Is it bad to crave a woman so badly that you’ll do practically anything to hold onto her? Like make sweet promises that you know damn well can’t be kept?

Don’t be fooled. This newfound “happiness” may only be a f*cking façade, and what’s worse is that I can’t let it go.
Not now.
Probably not ever.

Why? Because there is only so much rejection a man can take before he finally just… gives into temptation.

 

Review

This was one of these stories that I really had to take into consideration and look at objectively because the story matter of infidelity is something I tend to avoid like the plague in my books, and it isn’t due to some terrible past where I had my own heart broken and now I’m transferring that angst, it’s just something I find incredibly distasteful to dive into when I’m looking for a happy ever after feeling.  What sort of hero can be redeemed if he has a callous and cheating heart and mind?  Well, if you take a chance on Sudden Desires, you’re bound to find out.

Although to say that Griffin is callous, is not entirely accurate.  Griffin is suffering in a loveless, fairly demeaning and disintegrating marriage and it’s through this that he has lost the man he used to be, his drive, his passion and his sanity.  When he tells you that his wife is neglectful, unappreciative and selfish, he’s right on the money but this story has so many deep, hidden, scandalous layers to it that to leave the story there would be shameful.  What was really well done of this book was the fact that we get three points of view- Griffin, his wife Collette and the other woman, Angelina.  It is no black and white, right and wrong straightforward story, there are elements at work that are just touched upon, begging for us to question them, hooking us so we need to know more but as it’s a serial, you know you aren’t going to get all the answers you demand.

Sudden Desires has more anti-heroes than you can shake a stick at, so be prepared, there will be some moments you despise, others you will love and more that you will salivate over but just know that there is a lot of darkness, kink, infidelity everywhere and a gripping suspenseful storyline playing throughout and you will either love it or loathe it.

‘He’s hardly rubbed two words together since I came in the bedroom.  I’m tired of the bullshit.  Tired of the nonsense.  I need to know if he feels the same way as I do.  Is he fed up?  Is he also tired of this charade?  Tired of pretending.  Has he finally given up on all of this?  I need to know.  I mean, even though it won’t change much, it will help something.  If he does still feel something for me, then maybe this won’t be so bad.’

Shanora is a great storyteller, her characters are diverse and complex and realistic and with Sudden Desires, she will alienate some readers but there will be hoardes more that appreciate this book for what it is, a scandalous, sumptuous and downright provocative read.

~Nicole

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The Layover by MJ Carnal Cover Reveal

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Author: MJ Carnal

Genre: Romance/ Erotica

Type: Standalone

Cover Design: Judi Perkins/Concierge Literary Promotions

Photography Credit: Eric Battershell Photography

Model Credit: Derrick Keith Shane Meachum

Release Date: December 2015add-to-goodreads-buttonThe Layover - HeadersThe Layover - Final WrapThe Layover - The SynopsisTwo Strangers. A chance encounter. One life-altering decision.

When a freak snowstorm forces pilot, Shane Saliasi, to make an unscheduled landing in Rhode Island, he has no idea that the next few hours will change everything.

Kendall Dean is frantic to get to Boston. She’s left everything behind to make a desperate plea to the one person who has the power to change her life.

When destiny puts them on the same path at The Layover Diner, a life will hang in the balance and only one of them will have the power to change their fate.The Layover - The TeaserThe Layover - Teaser #1The Layover - Author Bio11870632_1202063466485706_8949223961668873263_n

MJ Carnal is a USA TODAY Bestselling Romance Author who lives in South Carolina. Her love of the written word began while listening to her mother’s poetry as a child and has been a creative outlet ever since. When she isn’t writing, you can find her watching episodes of The Walking Dead and terrible reality television, having tea parties with her daughter, Singing karaoke for anyone who will listen and reading just about anything she can get her hands on. She has a small obsession with Dr. Spencer Reid from Criminal Minds, Sour Patch Kids, and So You Think You Can Dance.The Layover - Stalk Here

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Until I Met You by S.L. Scott Blog Tour

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RELEASE DAY: OCTOBER 23

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Their love burned bright, white hot, and strikingly blue around the edges.

Some thought them careless.

Some thought them crazy.

No one approved.

Taylor Barrett was looking for answers in a universe that had abandoned him.

Jude Boehler flooded her dark world with charisma and mystery, drawing everyone into her hurricane.

It was a most captivating of love affairs. They were shooting stars, meteors in the sky, colliding to create a spectacularly wonderful reckless romance, leaving them breathless and tethered.

But that’s what Love does.

Their souls were exposed to the chaos, bare and vulnerable. Can these two star-crossed lovers survive the madness that is life?

Goodreads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26870189-until-i-met-you

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

S.L. Scott is a former high-tech account manager with a journalism degree pursuing her passion for telling stories. She spends her days escaping into her characters and letting them lead her on their adventures.

Live music shows, harvesting jalapenos and eating homemade guacamole are her obsessions she calls hobbies.

Scott lives in the beautiful Texas hill country of Austin with her husband, two young sons, two Papillons and a bowl full of Sea Monkeys.

Her novels include Naturally, Charlie, Good Vibrations, and A Prior Engagement.

She welcomes your notes at sl@slscottauthor.com.

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Excerpt:

“Do you want ice cream?”

She hit him with one surprise after another, and he replied, “It’s freezing out here. How about a coffee?”

“I don’t like coffee.”

“Wow, a New Yorker who doesn’t like coffee.” Taking her by the arm, he stopped her. “Are you going to tell me anything about yourself?”

“I just told you I don’t like coffee. That’s something.”

He sighed. “I’m serious, Jude.”

His emotional sigh was wearing on her and she gave him the most honest answer she could. “Not if I can get away with it.”

He looked into her blue eyes. Under a bright fluorescent light of a convenience store, he could see they were tinged in green with champagne centers. They were the most unique eyes he had ever seen. She was the most unique woman he had ever met. Now he felt bad for making her unhappy, so he broke his gaze away. “Fine. I’ll limit my questions.” And just to see her smile again, he said, “Ice cream it is.”

She jumped for joy. “I know a great place a few blocks from here.”

“Should we catch a cab?”

“No, I love the snow. It’s magical.”

Looking down the street and then back to her, he started wondering when he’d stopped seeing magic in the world. He could probably guess, but he didn’t want to think about that time.

A half hour later, his hands were frozen but he still found himself eating pistachio ice cream with Jude for dinner. He bought the treats and joined her at a booth where she was contentedly licking her rocky road. As soon as he sat down, she asked, “I think you can tell everything you need to know about a person by their favorite ice cream flavor.”

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Until I Met You by S.L. Scott Review

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5 Smooches!

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Synopsis

Their love burned bright, white hot, and strikingly blue around the edges.

Some thought them careless.

Some thought them crazy.

No one approved.

Taylor Barrett was looking for answers in a universe that had abandoned him.

Jude Boehler flooded her dark world with charisma and mystery, drawing everyone into her hurricane.

It was a most captivating of love affairs. They were shooting stars, meteors in the sky, colliding to create a spectacularly wonderful reckless romance, leaving them breathless and tethered.

Their souls were exposed to the chaos, bare and vulnerable. Can these two star-crossed lovers survive the madness that is life?

Review

Every once in awhile a book comes along that reminds me exactly why I love reading so damn much; the beauty and the emotion that flows through each sentence, pours from the characters and dances across my mind and heart in complete awe and produces that giddy excitement when thinking about writing the review because you just NEED people to read this book…this is it.  Until I Met You is such a stunning and moving read, contrasting brilliantly between a sweet whimsical romance and a much more intense and overwrought one.

What starts out as one of the sweetest, most playful meetings between our hero and heroine at a ritzy glitzy society function, develops into something indefinable and oh so real within the space of one night, where your choice of ice cream could redefine the rest of your whole life.  Taylor and Jude share a soul deep connection almost instantaneously, as though one recognises the internal struggle and heartache in the other and they each cling to each other in safety, trying to obliterate the loneliness that their darker and more complex issues cause them.  It’s in this crazy, almost carefree introduction that the most unpredictable and all consuming friendship and love affair blooms and paves the way for one of several difficult fights they have, in order to work their way towards a happy ever after with each other.

This is my first S.L Scott novel and what a way to be introduced to her work.  Her writing is literally poetry in motion.  The wide scope of emotion and the depth of her words and the meaning behind them all,  took my breath away more than once, so much so that I had to bend my husband’s ear after I had read it because I had to share it with someone!

‘“One doesn’t stand before the ocean and call it handsome.  We didn’t stare at the stars last April and say it was a handsome night.  Love knows only the beauty of its power, not the intricacies of verses.  So no, Hazel, you’re not handsome.  You’re beautiful like the stars.  You’re beautiful like the ocean.  You’re beautiful like the love I feel for you.”

Powerful, visceral and completely epic, Until I Met You has got to be one of my top five reads for this year.  The characterisation is immaculate here, the complications and the pain, the sadness and the devastation all seep into you but then so too does the happiness, the strength of Taylor and Jude and the overwhelming love they have for each other.  As with any great romance there are outside elements that conspire to keep our fearless twosome apart as well as those that cannot be fought by most ordinary standards, but it is in this fight to be together, that we as the reader are given one of the greatest, most memorable and awe-inspiring romances of 2015.  S.L Scott has managed to tackle not one but two very sensitive subject matters in her protagonists, with much aplomb and intelligence, highlighting not only how serious each issue is but also how unbelievably strong and courageous you need to be to keep fighting your way out of the dark.  An absolutely sterling piece of writing.

~Nicole

 

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