review || LOVE ON A SUMMER NIGHT { release day } by Zoe York

ZoYo Press | November 24, 2015 | Contemporary Romance
Pine Harbour, book 4
★★★★★

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Never say never. Especially not to a determined bad boy.

Zander Minelli is exactly the wrong kind of man. He’s dark, dangerous, and knows far too much about sawed-off shotguns. Faith Davidson finds him irresistible. The widowed single mother knows she should dip her toe back in the dating pool with someone solid and dependable. Definitely no tattoos. But every time she looks up, the brooding soldier is watching her, and she can’t help but wonder what it would be like to let herself have a taste…

Small town summer nights have never been hotter—and one transplanted city-girl’s heart has never been more fragile.

This book is the fourth story in the Pine Harbour series, but can be read as a standalone romance. The main characters were introduced in the previous books. No cliffhanger.

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review || CRAZY { blog tour } by M. Dauphin

Self-Published | November 18, 2015 | Contemporary Romance
★★★★

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A single father, Benton is learning to live with the loss of his wife while also learning how to raise a baby on his own. Gabby has a dark past that she fights every day and has plenty of people to help get her through the lonely nights. When the two get together, one of them just wants to move forward and the other just wants to forget. Sometimes forgetting isn't as easy as it sounds, though. Benton will do anything he can to help Gabby, even if it means putting everything he's worked for on the line. Will she recognize his efforts before it's too late or are they both a little too crazy to make it work?

*18+ only* *Stand alone full length novel. This story is a spin off of characters from M. Dauphin's best selling novel Just GO*

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review || 120 DAYS { release day } by M. Stratton

M. Stratton | November 17, 2015 | Family Life
★★★★

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120 days... The average number of days someone stays at Last Resort.
17 weeks... Surrounded by love, laughter and support.
4 months... More time than they had before they walked through the door.

Real estate developer Ethan McGregor’s life was changed forever when his younger brother told him he was dying of cancer. Ethan was ready to do whatever it took to save Evan, but Evan had other plans.

Say goodbye…
Samantha Truman runs the privately-funded Last Resort. Watching her parent’s drive and determination to live longer than the doctors gave them was the inspiration for the resort. It is her heart and soul--she lives to make sure that each day is precious, and one more sunrise or sunset can make all the difference the guests at Last Resort need.

After finding his brother’s journal, and discovering more about Last Resort, Ethan is determined to find out if this place is one of those “too good to be true” places that turn out to be a scam. But he was not ready for Samantha Truman, he was not ready for everything to change, for his point of view in life to be so incredibly altered, for the world to turn its axis. There are, after all, some things Ethan can’t control, who to fall in love with is one of them.

How much can change in 120 days?

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release day ! { BANGED : anthology }

TITLE: Banged: Rock Stars, Bad Boys & Dirty Deeds 

AUTHORS: Lexxie Couper, Zara Keane, Madelynne Ellis, Amber Lin & Shari Slade, Ainsley Booth, Cari Quinn & Taryn Elliott, and Sadie Haller & Elizabeth Briggs 

RELEASE DAY BLITZ: November 17, 2015 

HOSTED BY: S.B.B. Promotions

review || STILL WATER { book tour } by A.M. Johnson

Blue Tulip Publishing | October 13, 2015 | Contemporary Romance
Forever Still, book 2
★★★★★

SOURCE: SBB PROMOTIONS

After being rejected by his childhood best friend, Todd Dixon turns his back on love and all its false promises. Three years later, he's living in a new city, making a name for himself with his bar, record label, and one night stands.

Lily Spring knows nothing but the music that flows through her veins, but after one night of betrayal that ended in tragedy, her entire life falls from under her right along with her musical dreams. Now, she finds herself living in a new state with a sister she barely knows and a dream that she MUST fulfill.

He's everything she doesn't need.

Stubborn as hell, sexy as sin, with a reputation as wicked as his body. To make things worse, he's her new boss and the ticket to what she's always wanted.
When two fates collide and passions burn high, will the fire die or will it simmer into a slow burn becoming much more than either of them thought possible.
This isn't just a love story.

This is a story of hope, repentance and second chances.
Are you ready?

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review || FIX YOUR MAKEUP { blog tour } by S.J. Sawyer

S.J. Sawyer | August 28, 2015 | New Adult Romance

Like A Lady, Part Three

★★★★

SOURCE: S.B.B. PROMOTIONS

It’s a summer fling; just keep telling yourself that and you’ll be alright. This thing with Mason Pierce, it’s just a fling, something fun to pass the time. He’s a rebound from the disastrous breakup, a band-aid, a patch over a wound that will help the hurt heal, right? ~Red

If someone had told me two months ago that I’d be spending the summer with Red Summers in my arms, I’d have called them crazy, but here I am and here she is. Life is just about as perfect as it can be. Except, it feels like she’s pulling away instead of drawing closer. Everyday, it seems that Red is putting more and more distance between us, and I don’t understand why. ~Mason

“I’ve loved you since you were ten years old. Hell, I may have loved you before that, but I don’t remember. I’ve only ever wanted you, Red. I’m never going to want anyone else,” I vow. “Just you.”

  

release day { ! } DECEIVED

Self-Published | August 18, 2015 | New Adult Romance
Whiskey Nights, book 3
★★★★1/2

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A hotel room.

A blindfold.

An invitation that goes horribly awry.

Now that Seren Flanagan has graduated from college and returned to Creekview, Tennessee, she’s getting reacquainted with her old high school friends, including Cade Mayfield. She had a crush on him in high school but lacked the courage to act on it.

Luckily, she’s not the same shy girl who used to admire him from afar. Knowing what she wants, she sets a plan in motion to capture his attention by inviting him on a trip to Ireland.

But things don’t always go as planned—a lesson that Seren will soon learn the hard way. 

DECEIVED is the third book in the WHISKEY NIGHTS series. Since each book focuses on a different couple, they can be read as stand-alones, but many readers may prefer to read them in order for maximum enjoyment

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SILENTLY BROKEN { cover reveal }

eek! The entire series got a makeover!
I love it so much -- great upgrade :)
Let me tell you -- I've read SILENTLY BROKEN already and 
It.
Is.
FANTASTIC.
I am going to miss Lili and Zane... (surely they're not done!)

Silently Broken by Maegan Abel

Broken, book 3

To Be Published: September 15,  2015

Genre: New Adult Romance

Zane Tishler has never been the All-American picture of happiness. Every time he seems to get his feet under him, someone or something has to rip away his chances at healing. His girlfriend and son are missing after a devastating fire that left the home they shared in ruins, along with his life. How long can someone cling to hope without the two most important people in their life?

Liliosa Cortez has always been a runner. It’s how she’s survived as long as she has. But there comes a point when you just can’t run anymore. Lost in a world darker than she could’ve ever imagined, she has to figure out how to live with the choices she’s made. Both those she made years ago and those she makes now. She has to act fast if she’s going to save the ones she loves. That’s what matters. Even more than her own life.

Zane and Lili were finally finding their very own happily ever after when tragedy struck. What happened the day of the fire? Where are Lili and Conner? How can Zane and their family deal with this deep of a loss? What happens when your world is turned upside down and guilt eats at you during every waking moment?

What do you do when all hope fades and leaves you Silently Broken?

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review || DELICIOUS DECEPTION { blog tour } by Tami Lund

Crimson Romance | Date, 2015 | Contemporary Romance
Tough Love, book 3
★★★★

SOURCE: S.B.B. PROMOTIONS

Emily Kate Boudreaux runs a restaurant located on a bayou in Texas, because it’s what her family expects of her. She’d rather pursue her living as an artist. Then sexy chef Connor Rikeland walks into her life and turns it upside down. Soon, Emily Kate’s restaurant is a roaring success, she has time to paint to her heart’s content, there’s a hunky guy warming her bed, and she’s having visions of happily ever after.

Connor Rikeland is used to women throwing themselves at him, and he’s been known to use relationships as a bargaining chip in his climb up the ladder. He wants a culinary career in the spotlight—and Cajun cooking isn’t his ticket to fame even if Emily Kate is unlike anyone he’s ever met.

Not to mention Connor has a few secrets that have put him on the wrong side of her brother’s FBI case. When the pieces of just why Connor is hanging out in a backwoods town begin to surface, Emily Kate must decide what’s real, what’s a lie, and what’s worth risking her heart over. Because deception or not, life with Connor is delicious.

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review || PREPARED TO FIGHT { blog tour } by E.J. Shortall

E.J. Shortall | June 25, 2015 | Sport Romance
★★★★1/2

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Live each day as if it were your last. Worry only about yourself. Work hard and never, ever fall in love. That’s Olivia Buchanan’s motto and she stands by it every day.

Feisty, headstrong and confident, recent graduate Liv is fighting to succeed in the male dominated field she has chosen as her career. As an architect for her best friend's father's respected London based company, her chance to shine and become recognised comes when she lands the prestigious account for GO Sports and Leisure.

Armed with her plans and determination, Liv is ready to deliver the presentation of her life. That is, until he walks in. The mysterious personal trainer from the gym. The only man to have ever made her heart flutter. But he isn't all he seems.

When MMA fighter, Nathan Oakes offers Liv a business proposition to join him in Southern France, she’s left questioning his motives and wonders if she should refuse. She’s also equally intrigued by the prospect of what the trip could do for her career.

Liv has no time for a relationship. Nate doesn’t want one. When forced to live side by side, feelings are stretched and emotions are battled. Can they keep their professional and personal lives separate, preventing them from falling into something they both need to avoid?

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review || SEARCHING FOR ME { blog tour }

  

Searching For Me by Kaydee Mavericks 

Publisher: Self-Published (5/19/2015)

Genre: Age of Romance 

Hosted by: SBB Promotions

Rating: ★★★1/2

People looking at my life would think ‘wow she’s so lucky’ but I’m far from it. Five years ago my entire world changed. The older I get the more I start to think that maybe what I know about my family is all an illusion. Maybe the family business isn’t just what it looks like on the outside, but the cause for my devastation when I was sixteen. 

I never thought five years later my world would start to unravel around me. Some parts amazing, other parts a nightmare. 

The amazing part was hard to let in. He was everything I wasn’t looking for but turned out to be everything I needed and more. 

The nightmare was… well let’s just say a nightmare. Something I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy. I knew I would need to fight with everything that I had to make the nightmare go away. 

My name is Gabriella Ashford and this is my story.

    

review || ROXY { blog tour }

Roxy by Stevie J. Cole

Publisher: Amazon Digital (4/6/2015)
Series: Pandemic Sorrow, book 3
Genre: Erotica
Source: SBB Promotions

Rating: ★★★★

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My life had been no fairy tale. Actually, growing up, it had been something more like a nightmare, which is why I ended up so hard. When you don't want to hurt having the ability to be numb is your best defense mechanism. And for a long time all I was doing was existing.

Jag Steele, the lead singer of the international rock band Pandemic Sorrow, was the epitome of everything I despised: arrogant, entitled, but the thing I hated most about him was that he was an addict. Drugs had been the demon that had ruined everything in my life, and anyone who had a love affair with them pretty much made my stomach turn. It brought up memories I wanted to stay buried. Needless to say, I wasn't exactly a fan of Jag.

Funny thing is, people aren't always who you expect them to be. Never in a million years would I have thought the night I meet Jag would have any significance on the rest of my life, but it did.

I found out that sometimes something that screams utter destruction might actually be your saving grace.

Some people may say our story is too screwed up to be a romance, but for two broken people, we made the pieces fit together perfectly.

review || STILL LIFE { blog tour }

Still Life by A.M. Johnson 

Release Date: April 13, 2015 

Book Tour: April 20 – May 1 

Hosted by: SBB Promotions

Loss… a word Elizabeth Haddington knows only too well. Despite the tragedies she’s endured, she’s been able to rise from the adversity she’s faced and begin her life again. Being a self-assured and strong woman, she knows she doesn’t need anyone to make her whole.

Hate, pain, and twisted memories are all Sawyer Bryant’s ever known. He’d slowly lost who he was and what he should’ve become. His only escape was the military… Eight years later, as an ex-Navy SEAL, he’s forced to confront his father and their disturbed and violent past.

Then one day, his life is turned upside down, when he glimpses a woman singing in her car at a set of traffic lights. Thinking he’d never see her again, amazingly he finds her performing with her band at the local bar. This chance encounter brings these two lost souls together. Once Sawyer gets a taste of her melodic voice, there’s no turning back.

For Elizabeth, when she meets Sawyer… she realizes she’s fallen hard. But is this really love she’s feeling or does love build slowly over time? What happens when fate turns things around on you, creates flashes you can’t turn from… moments that will shape your life?

They are faced with the choice of darkness surrounding them or to rid themselves of the guilt and pain and move toward the light.

This story is about life’s moments. How they can make you or break you, and one man’s hope that…  Love, won’t judge him.

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STILL LIFE { release blitz }

Still Life by A.M. Johnson 

Release Date: April 13, 2015 

Release Day Blitz: April 16, 2015 

Hosted by: SBB Promotions

Loss… a word Elizabeth Haddington knows only too well. Despite the tragedies she’s endured, she’s been able to rise from the adversity she’s faced and begin her life again. Being a self-assured and strong woman, she knows she doesn’t need anyone to make her whole.

HHate, pain, and twisted memories are all Sawyer Bryant’s ever known. He’d slowly lost who he was and what he should’ve become. His only escape was the military… Eight years later, as an ex-Navy SEAL, he’s forced to confront his father and their disturbed and violent past.

Then one day, his life is turned upside down, when he glimpses a woman singing in her car at a set of traffic lights. Thinking he’d never see her again, amazingly he finds her performing with her band at the local bar. This chance encounter brings these two lost souls together. Once Sawyer gets a taste of her melodic voice, there’s no turning back. For Elizabeth, when she meets Sawyer… she realizes she’s fallen hard. But is this really love she’s feeling or does love build slowly over time? What happens when fate turns things around on you, creates flashes you can’t turn from… moments that will shape your life?

They are faced with the choice of darkness surrounding them or to rid themselves of the guilt and pain and move toward the light. This story is about life’s moments. How they can make you or break you, and one man’s hope that… Love, won’t judge him.

sale blitz || sex unlimited

    

      

SexUnlimited.com led me to forty one year old Brisban Calloway. All I wanted from him was one night of no strings attached SEX. What I got was more than I ever bargained for. 

This is the complete serial. Volumes 1, 2 and 3 of The Unlimited Series.

review || FOR THE LOVE OF ASH { blog tour }

 

 

For The Love of Ash by Taylor Lavati

Publisher: someone (3/9/2015)

Genre: New Adult

Source: S.B.B. Promotions

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Rating: ★★★★1/2

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Maggie Larken is a reformed party girl. After her parent’s death, she’s left to raise Asher, her nine-year-old brother.

Luke Wilson has done everything his parents have ever asked of him. A new teacher, Luke constantly questions where his life is headed. When Luke and Maggie meet, neither is in the market for a relationship. But sometimes life has other plans. Both navigate new waters as they try to decide where their priorities should lie, while also seizing what they want. In this heartbreakingly real tale of love, Maggie and Luke discover what being a family truly means.

review || BROKEN { series }

BROKEN SERIES

Broken Holidays, book 0.5 amazon || review
Perfectly Broken, book 1 amazon || review

Unforgivably Broken, book 2 amazon || review

review || INDELIBLE « & UNFINISHED! » { blog tour }

Unfinished by Shae Scott

Publisher: Shae Scott (5/4/2014)

Series: Unfinished, book 1

Genre: New Adult, Contemporary Romance

Source: S.B.B. Promotions

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Sometimes life begins with a second chance.

On graduation night, Ally Montgomery walked away from her best friend, Owen. One night changed them forever. One night, one decision to cross the line of friendship, one decision to walk away.

She never forgot him.

Ten years later, Owen finds her.

And this time, they're not letting anything go unfinished.

Indelible by Shae Scott

Publisher: Shae Scott (2/2/2015)

Series: Unfinished, book 2

Genre: New Adult, Contemporary Romance

Source: S.B.B. Promotions

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in•del•i•ble

adjective

making marks that cannot be removed.

Not able to be forgotten or removed

Permanent, lasting, ingrained, enduring, unforgettable, haunting

Some people stay with you. Sometimes love won’t let go. Some marks on the heart cannot be erased.

When Owen walked away from Ally he thought he was doing what was best for her. That’s what he told himself. It was a decision that he regretted instantly. Now, he has to figure out how too change his ways and win her back. This will be the hardest fight of his life. But she is worth it. She is everything.

Ally isn’t the same girl that Owen left six months ago. She shut down. It was survival. She can’t go back. She can’t let him back in. Losing him was too hard to go through the first time. But he keeps showing up, saying all the right words, doing all the right things. Will she be able to resist him? Can a person really change? Is he worth the risk to find out?