Friday, August 28, 2015

review || TOUGH LOVE { blog tour } by Lori Foster

We are absolutely thrilled to bring you the Review & Excerpt Tour for Lori Foster's TOUGH LOVE! TOUGH LOVE is the next novel in her Ultimate Series published by Harlequin HQN. This amazing book releases on August 25th! If you haven't before, make sure you grab the other books in this fantastic series today! --InkSlinger PR

Tough Love - cover
HQN Books | September 1, 2015 | Romantic Suspense
Ultimate, book 3
★★★★

SOURCE: INKSLINGER PR

She's playing hard to get…to win the MMA fighter of her ultimate fantasies in a sultry new novel from New York Times bestselling author Lori Foster

Vanity Baker loves a good, clean match, but she's not above playing a little dirty. She's wanted Stack "The Wolf" Hannigan from day one. Seems as though the best way to corral the famously commitment-phobic fighter is to insist on keeping it casual. And her plan works—deliciously well—until Stack's past steps out of the shadows.

Stack learned early to stay free of attachments. But with sexy, forthright Vanity, he's the one always left wanting more. Then his troublemaking family comes back into the picture, threatening everything Stack cares about—Vanity included. Suddenly he realizes they're much more than friends with benefits. He's ready to go to the mat for her…but will it be in time to protect the woman who's tamed him for good?

“Foster brings her signature blend of heat and sweet to her addictive third Ultimate martial arts contemporary. Foster ably tosses out red herrings and also seamlessly lays the foundation for the next book in this series. This luscious tale will appeal to Foster’s legion of fans and attract new ones—even those who aren’t fans of professional fighting.”- Publishers Weekly 

{ about lori foster } .

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Since first publishing in January 1996, Lori Foster has become a USA Today, Publisher’s Weekly and New York Times bestselling author. Lori has published through a variety of houses, including Kensington, St. Martin’s, Harlequin, Silhouette, Samhain, and Berkley/Jove. She is currently published with HQN.

Lori hosts a very special annual “Reader & Author” event in West Chester, Ohio. Proceeds from the event have benefited many worthy causes, including the Hamilton County YWCA Battered Women’s Shelter, the Animal Adoption Foundation, The Conductive Learning Center for children with spina bifida and cerebral palsy, and The One Way Farm, Children’s Home. Each year Lori donates all proceeds from one book to charity.

You can see the benefit romance books here: http://lorifoster.com/benefit-books/

{ excerpt } .

Oblivious, Tabby said, “Mom, did you know Stack brought a woman with him?”

That got both of his mother’s eyes open. She even lifted to one elbow. “What? Who?” She looked around. “Where is she?”

“In the waiting room with Phil. You should see her. She’s beautiful, built and really nice, too.”

“Stack,” his mother said, getting her first good look at him. “Are you in a tux?”

“Be right back.”

“I want to meet her!”

Stack didn’t reply. For a woman who only moments before had been incapacitated with a headache, his mother still knew how to issue orders. Urgency made his stride long and hurried as he went down the hall, past friendly nurses and a few worried visitors, all the way to the waiting room.

Vanity had her nose in a magazine.

And Phil, fucking Phil, was seated too close beside her, talking nonstop, fake laughing, schmoozing, doing his utmost to get her attention.

Vanity ignored him—just as she sometimes ignored Stack.

But this time, as she felt his stare and looked up, she immediately put the magazine aside. Smiling, she came to him, walking right into his arms. “Hey.” She squeezed him with comforting concern. “How’s your mom?”

In that moment, Stack felt a lot of things. Too many things, damn it. At either side of her head he threaded his fingers into her long hair, anchoring her for his kiss.

Out of deference for the hospital atmosphere, he kept it brief. “She’s okay. How are you holding up?”

“Me?” She laughed, looking not just gorgeous, but precious, too. Her hand rubbed his biceps. “I’m not the one who was hurt.”

That earned her another kiss before he lifted her arm and feathered his fingertips over the soft skin above the bandage. “It’s been one hell of a day. You haven’t had any sleep.”

“Neither have you.” That sweet, teasing smile twitched into place. In the barest of whispers, she said, “But at least I had two orgasms, so all in all, for me, it’s been a pretty good twenty-four hours.”

Urges rushed through Stack. The urge to hold her. To laugh with her. To use her to chase away the endless frustration he worked so hard to hide. To maybe confide in her about how badly he wanted to demolish Phil—and why.

To somehow claim her…for more than a quick taste.

In that moment it all became clear to him. Vanity tried to control things. But he needed that control, and once he had it he’d sway her to his way of thinking.

{ review } .

My first fighting book was CAUSING HAVOC and I was absolutely hooked. That entire series was one that had me scouring Target and Barnes & Noble on release day -- I had to know more, I had to read the others. CAUSING HAVOC is still likely my favorite book of Lori's -- it was the end that got me (But WHEN YOU DARE? TRACE OF FEVER? SAVOR THE DANGER? Oh, that series...). Before reading her fighter series, though, I was a huge fan of her Buckhorns and her Law Series.

I have always enjoyed her contemporary writing, but something about her fighting series has always drawn me in. When she first announced she was doing a slight spin from SBC and starting the ULTIMATE series, I knew that I was going to want every. Single. Title.

Now, I haven't been able to read them all, but I have read about every other one. This one, though, TOUGH LOVE? This one was one that I wanted since she first started pinning pictures of Vanity. One, I loved her name, and two, Lori's vision for these characters was just down-right beautiful.

From the beginning (pre-this book) Vanity has wanted Stack -- something that she's managed to keep under a fairly thin veil. But now, at Cannon and Yvette's wedding, she's ready to take it the next level -- and while they (...both) pretend it's a simply, mutual agreement, they both realize that what they have is something that's meant to last -- if they don't let their overthinking minds get in the way.

I very much enjoyed the strong, protective man that Stack can be -- his rescuing Vanity actually reminded me of Cannon and Yvette's initial rescue, a scene that is forever engraved in my head when the name "Lori Foster" comes up.

This book was such a typical Lori Foster fighter book (not a bad thing!) -- Ms. Foster is extremely consistent when it comes to writing, and her love of the sport is evident in her portrayals of her men.

...I'm so excited to so that a certain Armie gets his chance to fall forever in early 2016!

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  TOUGH LOVE Review & Excerpt Tour Schedule
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August 19th
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August 20th
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August 22nd
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August 23rd
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August 28th
Talking Books Blog – Excerpt
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August 29th
G&T Indie Café – Excerpt
My YA NA Book Obession – Review & Excerpt
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August 30th
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Margie's Must Reads – Excerpt
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