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Promo Spotlight and Giveaway: The Duke of Desire by Darcy Burke

Friday, March 31, 2017

I'm hosting a promo today on Darcy Burke's latest historical romance release, The Duke of Desire  (The Untouchables #4), as a part of the ongoing VBT. Also find an excerpt and some teasers. The giveaway includes a $35 Amazon GC, so don't forget to enter via rafflecopter below!!
The Duke of Desire
Darcy Burke
(The Untouchables #4)
Published: March 28, 2017
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34043010-the-duke-of-desire
Ten years ago Ivy Breckenridge’s life was ruined. She had to reinvent herself, and now, after painstakingly making her own way in the world, she’s nearly forgotten the dreams of home and family she’d once nurtured. Until one man peers into her soul and awakens every one of her hidden desires. But no matter how good he makes her feel, she can’t trust him—alone by choice is better than alone by necessity.

With a notorious reputation for training married women in the art of passion, Sebastian Westgate, Duke of Clare, is reviled by some and celebrated by others. He doesn’t allow anyone close enough to see past his charming exterior. When Ivy uncovers the man beneath, the seducer is suddenly the seduced. Enraptured by her mind and spirit, he wants more but revealing his darkest secrets is a price he won’t pay.

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Release Blitz: Fear the Beard by Lani Lynn Vale

Thursday, March 30, 2017

Today, I'm hosting a promo on Lani Lynn Vale's latest MC romance, Fear the Beard (The Dixie Wardens Rejects MC #2), as a part of the ongoing release blitz. Also find an excerpt and some teasers for your enjoyment.
Fear the Beard
Lani Lynn Vale
(The Dixie Wardens Rejects MC #2)
Publication: March 30, 2017
Model: Jacob Wilson
Photographer: FuriousFotog
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33647481-fear-the-beard 

Tally is a twenty-year-old single mother struggling to finish nursing school.  Has she made mistakes in life?  Sure, but her daughter isn’t one of them. She works hard, she studies even harder, and she’s only a few weeks away from graduating.
She’s living her life the best she knows how when she witnesses a near miss motorcycle accident between a car and a biker. A biker that happens to be the most talked about teacher at her college.
The moment she meets those startling blue, narrowly-escaped-death eyes, she realizes quickly that life as she knows it has changed.  No longer will she be content to let life pass her by, even if it puts everything she’s worked so hard for in jeopardy.

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Tommy is a highly skilled doctor.  A teacher.  A veteran.  A fully-patched member of The Dixie Wardens MC.  He’s lonely, but also set in his ways.  What will it take for this man to accept that he needs to make some changes in his life? Apparently, it’ll take a guy in a truck, who’s preoccupied with his phone rather than focused on the road, nearly plowing into him on his bike at seventy miles per hour. Oh, and a twenty-something year old nursing student witnessing the entire thing from only a few feet away.
It only takes a second, a single heartbeat in time, as he looks into her worry-filled eyes to realize that he’d give anything for a single night with her.  He may lose his job in the process, but after that one incredible night turns into an amazing weekend, he knows it’s worth the risk for the promise of her forever.

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Marriage of Mercy by Carla Kelly

Saturday, March 25, 2017

Marriage of Mercy

Carla Kelly
Historical Romance
Published in 2012

H/h - Rob Inman/Grace Curtis
Setting: Early 1800s.

Read in March, 2017.
My rating:

                                                  [spoiler alert] 

Another Carla Kelly book I picked up cause I was intrigued by the blurb. I generally don’t read reviews of her books before reading, where in most cases I wanna check the reviews first before picking up a book. Marriage of Mercy was no different. I like to enjoy Ms. Kelly’s books as it is, then decide whether I liked it or not.

Marriage of Mercy is another sweet story between a baker and an American prisoner of war. Even though for the first 60% the book was rather ho hum, the story picked up after that and the twist at the end pretty much had me there. I was wondering what the hell was happening, cause I didn’t expect any of that!

Grace or as everyone calls her, Gracie, has fallen far. From a Baronet’s daughter to a baker, not a good thing for someone whose father was once considered a peer of the realm, even if a penniless peer. Grace’s father didn’t like to bother with finances and never cared to manage however small a fortune he had, hence, when he passed away, he left his only child under a huge debt and no one to help her out of that. Her mother passed on long ago, so Grace finds herself without any money, any help, and pretty much out of her mansion only with the clothes on her back when the mansion, and everything else were sold out to clear the debt. But she isn’t the type to whine and cry. Gracie knew early on that she doesn’t have a shining future because of what a spendthrift her father was. And she hated it! She tried to make him understand and work with her so they can save some for the future, HER future. But Henry Curtis was baffled as to why she’d even bother to think of money, or earning money TBH, when they’re peers of the realm! And working to earn is so crass a thought! *eyeroll*

Release Blitz and Giveaway: Cut Wide Open by Abby McCarthy

Thursday, March 23, 2017

Today I'm hosting a promo on Abby McCarthy's latest MC romance, Cut Wide Open (Bleeding Scars MC #1), as a part of the ongoing release blitz. Also find an excerpt and some teasers for your enjoyment. The giveaway includes a signed paperback (US ONLY) or ebook of Cut Wide Open or a $5 Amazon GC, so don't forget to enter via rafflecopter below. Note that this book is free on kindle unlimited!!
Cut Wide Open
Abby McCarthy 
(Bleeding Scars MC #1)
Published: March 20, 2017
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One day you held my hand. One day you loved me.
Then you were gone.

At sixteen, I lost the only love I’d ever known. Thrown back into the foster system, pregnant and alone, I prayed that you’d come for me and save me from life’s cruelties. Only the next time I saw you, it was too late.

Doing what I needed to do to provide for my son, we were finally brought face to face. It should have been the best day of my life, but it was far from it. It was the worst.

That day a monster took me and held me captive. 

I begged for my life. I prayed for my son. I dreamt of you, the memories keeping me alive.

You finally came for me. You were my heart. My Salvation. 

But sometimes the heart is too damaged, too broken, to be saved.
And sometimes monsters have a way of coming back to haunt me.

*This is a dark story. It is intended for mature audiences. If you need a trigger warning then this book isn’t for you. I have other books of mine that I’d recommend like Current or Tainted by Crazy, but not this one.

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Book Blast and Giveaway: Second Chance Marquess by Jessica Jefferson

Wednesday, March 22, 2017

I'm hosting a promo on Jessica Jefferson's latest historical romance release, Second Chance Marquess (Second Chance #1), today, as a part of the ongoing book blast tour. Also find an excerpt for your enjoyment. Note that Second Chance Marquess is free on kindle unlimited and now on sale for .99 cents!!

Jessica Jefferson will be awarding a $25 and a $50 Amazon or B/N GC to two randomly drawn winners via rafflecopter during the tour
Second Chance Marquess
Jessica Jefferson
(Second Chance #1)
Publication: March 21, 2017
When Wilhemina Turner’s younger sister runs off with a young Lothario, she has no choice but to turn to the notorious rake who broke his promise and her heart, for assistance. George Bartlett, the Marquess of Chesterton, hasn’t forgotten the woman who hurt him so many years ago, but can’t deny her request, knowing that his brother’s reputation, and fortune, is at risk.

A series of misfortunes leave the straight-laced widow and committed bachelor stranded, sharing both close quarters and old secrets. But when morning comes, will this unlikely pair find a second chance at love?


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Blurb Blitz and Giveaway: Wilde Thing by Jannine Gallant

Monday, March 20, 2017

I'm hosting a promo, today, on Jannine Gallant's latest contemporary romance release, Wilde Thing (Born to be Wilde #3), as a part of the ongoing blurb blitz tour. Also find an excerpt for your enjoyment.

Jannine Gallant will be awarding a digital copy of the featured book via rafflecopter
Wilde Thing
Jannine Gallant
(Born to be Wilde #3)
Published: February 28, 2017 by Lyrical Press
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32797492-wilde-thing
The Wilde brothers are addicted to the rush of adventure. But one of them is about to learn no matter how often you look for danger, you don’t want danger finding you.

For extreme skier Tripp Wilde, pushing the limits is what he lives for. Unfortunately, the inherent risk takes a toll on his body. After an injury sidelines him, he ends up in the care of his little sister’s best friend, physical therapist Hannah Ryder—who has grown up in all the right ways since they last met.

Hannah doesn’t mix business with pleasure, even though she harbored a maddening crush on the irresistible Tripp years before. So, while Tripp tries every slick maneuver he knows to bed her, Hannah uses her own moves to keep the hotshot skier cooled off while trying to control her own growing desire for him.

After the pair witness what they think may be a murder on the slopes, along with the men responsible, no one believes their story. But when a series of unlikely accidents suggests they are being targeted, the two will have to trust in each other like never before if they are going to survive.

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