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Release Blitz and Giveaway: LaClaire Nights by Dori Lavelle

Monday, May 29, 2017

Today, I'm hosting a promo on Dori Lavelle's latest steamy contemporary romance, LaClaire Nights (After Hours #1), as a part of the ongoing release blitz. Also find some teasers for your enjoyment. The giveaway includes a signed paperback of the book featured (International), so don't forget to enter via rafflecopter below! Note that LaClaire Nights is currently free on Kindle Unlimited!!
LaClaire Nights
(After Hours #1)
Dori Lavelle
Published: May 29, 2017
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34884972-laclaire-nights
Some marriages last a week, a month, or a year. Others last a lifetime. Mine ends on my wedding night, ten hours after the exchange of rings.

Our marriage vows shatter when Dustin Cardwell, the man I saved myself for, looks me in the eye and tells me I failed between the sheets.

Our marriage ends before the ink dries, before the scent of my bouquet fades, before the candles in our honeymoon suite burn out.

Three months later, I'm divorced and working as a massage therapist on the LaClaire Cruise Ship, headed for the Caribbean. I'm desperate to get away, to lick my wounds in private. I'm not looking to be another man's disappointment.

Until Bryant LaClaire invades my space and makes my panties melt. The moment our eyes meet, he makes it clear I'm his girl of the moment.

Drawing me in with his charm and good looks, he promises to repair my sexual self-esteem while satisfying his own needs. A few LaClaire nights is all he can give. Nothing more, nothing less. It’s an offer my body can’t resist.

But when my heart lures me into the heart and world of a man who carries a devastating secret, I know I’m in danger of returning home with more pain than I'd left with.

LaClaire Nights is a steamy full-length, standalone novel with a happy ending.
**WARNING: Due to sexual situations and adult content, this book is not intended for readers under the age of 18. **

The Heart of a Texas Cowboy by Linda Broday

Sunday, May 28, 2017

The Heart of a Texas Cowboy
Men of Legend #2

Linda Broday
Western Historical Romance
Published in 2017.

H/h - Houston Legend/Lara Boone
Setting: Texas, 1877.

Read in May, 2017.
My rating:

                                                    [spoiler alert] 

The Heart of a Texas Cowboy is the second installment of Linda Broday’s new series, Men of Legend. I have read her Bachelors of Battle Creek series and loved it, and now I’m loving this series as well. From book 1, I had thought Houston was the brother who had already had his HEA and won’t have a book. Who knew he had such a story to tell of his own?!

Much like Bachelors of Battle Creek, Men of Legend focuses on a family or a ‘band of brothers’ if you can call them. Even though, the brothers of Bachelors of Battle Creek series weren’t brothers by blood, these Legends brothers certainly are! The first book focuses on Sam Legend, a former Texas Ranger, who was estranged from his family because of the demands his job used to put on him. Houston is his older brother and shoulders the responsibility of the huge Legend ranch called Lone Star. They met Luke, a brother they didn’t know existed, in Sam’s story.

Sam had enjoyed his job as a Texas Ranger until he thought death had finally caught up with him. A pretty terrifying description is given at the beginning of book 1, To Love a Texas Ranger, when he’s almost hanged by a group of outlaws. When he thought he was done for, a known outlaw he’s been chasing, Luke Weston becomes his unexpected savior. Luke has been so elusive that Sam had a tough time tracking him down, unable to catch him even once despite Sam’s expertise. Yet there was this odd game was being played between the two where Luke seems to chase Sam just as much as he did. And they enjoyed it as well. Why, he couldn’t tell. Until the day Luke saved his life, Sam wouldn’t have thought he’s capable of any good deed. Now he’s willing to rethink his opinion of the outlaw.

Promo Spotlight: All I Ask by Elizabeth York

Saturday, May 27, 2017

I'm hosting a promo, today, on Elizabeth York's latest contemporary romance release, All I Ask, as a part of the ongoing VBT. Also find some teasers for your enjoyment. Note that All I Ask is now on sale for .99c only!!
All I Ask
Elizabeth York
Published: May 23, 2017
Photographer: MHPhotography
My name is Devan Anderson and I am a photographer and the by product of a cheating father and a childhood evaporated by illness. I'm stubborn, protective, but I care more than I let on. What does a girl like me do when I taste life for the first time?

I'll give you a hint. It isn't what you think.

My name is Ian Jensen and I am a Pediatric Oncologist that works day and night with kids that prove to be braver than I. I am open to Nerf gun fights, having fun, and taking control. What's a doctor who lives life by the book do when given a new chapter to live in?

Ask me again tomorrow? What happens when a photographer set to live in the dark meets the doctor that lives in the light? What happens when our world collide? 
Buy Links:
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Release Day Blitz: Behind the Wall by Jane Harvey-Berrick

Friday, May 26, 2017

Today, I'm hosting a promo on Jane Harvey-Berrick's contemporary romance novella, Behind the Wall, as a part of the ongoing release day blitz. Note that Behind the Wall is free on Kindle Unlimited!!
Behind the Wall
Jane Harvey-Berrick
Published: May 26, 2017
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35102646-behind-the-wall
Prison.
The place where dreams fade and hope dies.
That’s what it’s meant for the five years that Garrett has been behind bars. But now hope is on the horizon and he’s daring to dream again: small dreams, small hopes.
Getting his GED would be a start. If only his prison-appointed teacher Miss Ella Newsome wasn’t so damn sexy.
As Garrett and Ella start to play a dangerous game, the price could be higher than either of them have guessed.

This story first appeared in the anthology HOT FOR TEACHER in 2016. It has since been extended with new scenes, more heartache and even more heat.

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Promo Spotlight and Giveaway: The Royal Treatment by M.J. Summers

Wednesday, May 24, 2017

I'm hosting, today, a promo on M.J. Summer's latest contemporary romance release, The Royal Treatment (Crown Jewels Romance #1), as a part of the ongoing VBT. Also find an excerpt and some teasers for your enjoyment. The giveaway includes a grand prize of $100 Amazon GC, ebooks and many more, so don't forget to enter via rafflecopter below!

The Royal Treatment
M.J. Summers
(Crown Jewels Romance #1)
Published: May 23, 2017
The Crown Jewels Series is a light romantic comedy, very heavy on the laughs with a low steam level (but lots of delicious sexual tension and some swearing). This is a HFN ending with the second and third books in the series featuring the same couple.

Enough laughs to satisfy fans of Bridget Jones. Enough sparkly shoes and breathtaking ball gowns for fans of Cinderella…

Twenty-eight-year-old Tessa Sharpe, a.k.a. The Royal Watchdog, hates everything about Prince Arthur. As far as she’s concerned, he’s an arrogant, lazy leech on the kingdom of Avonia. When he shocks the nation by giving her the keys to the castle in an attempt to boost his family’s dismal public approval ratings, Tessa has no choice but to accept and move in for two months. It’s lust at first site, but there’s no way she can give in to her feelings—not if she wants to have a career or a shred of pride left when her time at the palace ends.

Ultra-private, ultra-hot Crown Prince Arthur has always gotten by on his charm. But that won’t be enough now that the royal family is about to be ousted from power once and for all. When Prince Arthur has to rely on the one woman in the kingdom who hates him most, he must learn that earning the love of a nation means first risking his heart…

Can two natural enemies find their forever in each other’s arms, or will they ruin each other to save themselves?

Get your copy today and be part of the feel-good fairy tale!

Buy Links:
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The Black Knight's Reward by Marliss Melton and Sydney Jane Baily

Sunday, May 21, 2017

The Black Knight's Reward
Warriors of York #2

Marliss Melton and Sydney Jane Baily
Medieval Romance
Published in 2016 (originally 2003)

H/h - Lord Luke D'Aubigny/Lady Merry du Boise
Setting: England, 1155 AD.

Read in May, 2017.
My rating:

                                                    [spoiler alert]

The Black Night’s Reward by Marliss Melton and Sydney Jane Baily is the second book of the Warriors of York series. Much like book 1, this one had plenty of everything going on to have me glued to it. This book wasn’t short by any means with more than 400 pages! However, I hadn’t noticed the page count until I was almost finished, so yep, I enjoyed it almost as much as book 1.

Both books are set a few years apart in the Anglo-Norman era in England, when battles and blood were the way of life... or so it seemed. Book 1, The Slayer’s Redemption, is of Christian De La Croix’s, who had earned a name as a blood-thirsty, warmonger lord but it had a lot to do with gossip. In fact, Christian didn’t fight more than any lord would fight their enemies to secure their territory and the people they care for. However, Christian was also the by blow of a Danish heathen, a mercenary who used to terrorize that part of England once upon a time. It wasn’t until much later, when he’d already been trained by his brute of a father in such a way that almost destroyed any softness in him, that Christian learned the man’s relationship with him. He was cruel, mean. He had raped Christian’s mother. So the story of his birth is as painful as the life that has been his since then. To avenge his mother, Christian killed his father and his other family, which was probably one of the main incidents behind his dubious reputation.



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