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Release Blitz: Burn Up by Jackson Kane

Saturday, November 30, 2019

I'm hosting a promo, today, on Jackson Kane's latest MC romance release, Burn Up (Steel Veins #2), as a part of the ongoing release blitz tour. Check it out!
Burn Up
Jackson Kane
(Steel Veins #2)
Publication: November 30, 2019
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48408533-burn-up
She didn't see what was coming.

I shouldn't have let down my guard.

For five long years, I echoed the words honor, loyalty, and brotherhood off my prison cell walls. It's all that's kept me going. Now on the outside, seeing my club all twisted up, all I want is my freedom, freedom from everything—including that brotherhood.

Pres wants one last ride out of me then all my debts are paid.

Bullets, fire, a goddamned army, nothing will keep me from finishing this run! Except for the one thing I hadn't counted on.

A girl named Maya.

Burn Up, a motorcycle romance set in the Steel Veins Motorcycle Club, is filled with heat, nail-biting violence, and heart-racing adventure. Burn Up has been reedited, packaged, and is complete with NEW material.

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The Unlikely Spy Catchers by Carla Kelly

Friday, November 29, 2019

The Unlikely Spy Catchers
St. Brendan #2

Carla Kelly
Historical Romance
Published in 2019

H/h - Durable "Able" Six/Meridee Six
Setting: England, 1804.

Read in November, 2019.
My rating:

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The Unlikely Spy Catchers is the book 2 of Carla Kelly’s ongoing historical romance series, St. Brendan. My love for this series began with a short novella that you can also call a prequel to the series, which was featured in an anthology. It was titled ‘The Christmas Angle’. Even though I’d bought book 1 first, I read in a few reviews that Able and Meridee’s love story began in that novella. I was really glad to have that nugget of information because I absolutely adored that story. It was just...... So good. :) Our hero is a nerdy genius but he’s also super hot and attractive. And our heroine is just the perfect match for him.

Born in a street behind a church in Scotland, where his supposed mother died right after his birth without even giving him a name, Durable Six has come a long way. The name he’s got is the aftermath of becoming a nameless orphan left unclaimed in a workhouse of Dumfries, where his life was everything that was never nice, loving or pleasant. He’d shortened the silly name to Able later in life to give it some semblance of normalcy. After his initial resistance to death–hence he surpassed the first 5 ‘Durables’ and became number Six that lived—Able fought to survive. He fought hunger, abuse at the hand of his so-called teachers but most of all, he fought death to stay alive.

Able joined Navy to escape the appalling workhouse so I doubt he had any big ambition but as Sailing Master Able Six at 26 he’d already climbed the ladder of success when it comes to HRM Navy. At least as far as success is concerned for a total nobody like him. No one ever heard a person becoming a sailing master at the age of 22 but Able had become what no one has been before. Hell, he’s someone so unique that no one probably had seen anyone like him in the past decades, maybe more, and likely won’t see another for a long time to come. Able Six, what you can describe in the simplest terms possible, is a genius. A polymath; Someone with photographic memory. He’d basically experience anything and remember every single crisp detail. His mind is always whirring. It never stops.

Book Blast and Giveaway: When You Close Your Eyes by Roxanne D. Howard

Today, I'm hosting a promo on Roxanne D. Howard's latest release, When You Close Your Eyes, as a part of the ongoing book blast tour. Also find an excerpt for your enjoyment.

Roxanne D. Howard will be awarding a $20 Amazon or B/N GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour.
When You Close Your Eyes 
Roxanne D. Howard
Published: January 28, 2019 by Wild Rose Press
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43040840-when-you-close-your-eyes
Dreams are the perfect shelter for fantasies, safe havens to step inside without changing our daily lives. For Lark Braithwaite, all that is about to change. During the last six months, Lark has dreamt of a mysterious Irish lover who knows what she wants and gives her exactly what she needs. In her waking life in busy London, things aren't as ideal as her long-term relationship with her controlling fiancé Charles has hit a dry spell.

When Lark is called home to Oregon for her father's funeral, she comes face to face with the demons from her past, but she never expects to meet her dream lover in the flesh. Niall O'Hagan steps straight out of her fantasies and into her life, and the powerful connection they share rocks her foundation. Although she's dealing with the bitterness of her fiancé's betrayal and his jealousy, Niall soon stirs Lark's awareness of her superficial existence and reawakens her sexuality....and her soul.

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Promo Spotlight and Giveaway: A Rake's Rebellion by Cynthia Breeding

Saturday, November 23, 2019

Today, I'm hosting a promo on Cynthia Breeding's latest historical romance release, A Rake's Rebellion (Rake Trilogy #3), as a part of the ongoing VBT. Also find a long excerpt for your enjoyment. To enter the paperback giveaway of A Rake's Redemption (open Internationally), please check out the details below.
A Rake's Rebellion
Cynthia Breeding
(Rake Trilogy #3)
Published: November 11, 2019 by Entangled Amara
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48407537-a-rake-s-rebellion
After a night of debauchery, Lord Barclay wakes up to find a woman in his bed. That's not unusual, but this one is fully clothed. When she tells him they are married, he is instantly cold sober and looking for a way out.

Miss Sarah Vincent, an orphan raised in an American convent, didn’t ask for this marriage. She’ll be damned if it’s in name only. But seducing a man? How ever will she do that?! Good thing her friend lent her a copy of The Kama Sutra….

Brice starts to wonder what has come over his young wife. She’s suddenly taking charge of him, and their house, and no longer the timid woman he assumed her to be.

Despite his aversion to this marriage he’s starting to want his wife…in every way possible.

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Diamond in the Rogue by Wendy LaCapra

Friday, November 22, 2019

Diamond in the Rogue
Lords of Chance #3

Wendy LaCapra
Historical Romance
Published in 2019[ARC review]

H/h - Graham Laithe, the Earl of Rayne/Lady Julia Stanley
Setting: Regency.

Read in November, 2019.
My rating:

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Diamond In the Rogue by Wendy LaCapra is the third installment of her Lords of Chance series and it was amazing! Yes I’ll go ahead and say it the first thing. I’ve been going through some rough patches in my personal life for the past few months and needed a distraction badly. This book gave me that and more. I’ve been a fan of this series since it began and the installments never ceased to amaze me in the least. I always applaud Wendy’s writing style and her lovely narratives that hook you right into the story. But this book was just chock full of surprises I didn’t see coming. In retrospect, I should’ve expected at least some of them.

Lords of Chance is a Regency set series with 3 peers of the realm, who are also old friends, as the center of the storyline. They go by sobriquet taken from the game of card—Spades, Clubs and Diamonds. Lord Markham came as the extra addition to the group; as Hearts to complete the circle. He’s also the youngest and often jokingly called as the ‘pup’. But unknowing to him, in the beginning of the series he was being groomed by our Spades for an ultimate purpose. No, nothing nefarious but that didn’t mean it was any less important to Spades’ own existence.

In his story, in book 1 Scandal in Spades, we found Giles Langley the Marquess of Bromton, in a dilemma. A big one TBH. He had a very serious family issue that he needed to take care of. It involved the survival of the Bromley bloodline and Giles was ‘trained’ to become someone who’d do anything in his power to keep that bloodline flowing to the next generation. But there was a dark twist in his story which led him to find a proper (or improper, didn’t matter) solution to his aforementioned dilemma. And that’s how Markham came into the picture. Help came in the form of Markham’s elder sister Katherine, the scandalous spinster who made the Regency ‘headlines’ a few times in her life; not because she wanted to make any headline, but because she seemed to had bad lucks where Beaus and fiancés were concerned. But her meeting to Giles was the thing of magic; full of spark and chemistry that both felt and were unable to deny. Both were scared to fall but fall they did despite everything. I love LOVED that book.

Release Blitz: Cathedral by Addison Cain

Thursday, November 21, 2019

I'm hosting a promo, today, on Addison Cain's latest dark romance release, Cathedral (Cradle of Darkness #1), as a part of the ongoing release blitz. Check it out!
Cathedral
Addison Cain
(Cradle of Darkness #1)
Publication: November 18, 2019
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48198054-cathedral
I sold my soul to win her.

First to her devil of a father, then to the true devil himself. The price exacted nothing less than eternal fealty. A boon I’d gladly relinquish a thousand times over to possess the love of my dark Princess.

Though she may hate me. Though my desire chars my bones black. I will love her forever.

Virginal, devious, cruel, kind, she’s desperate for freedom. Used, wounded, coddled, and spoiled—the only immortal who can walk in the sun—will be mine.

So long as I can remove her father from his ancient throne and place something far worse upon that seat of power.

Publisher’s Note: Cathedral is a standalone novel in the Cradle of Darkness series featuring in an HEA. The horror prequel, Catacombs, will enrich the experience of this book but is not necessary. 

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