Friday, December 28, 2012

~Cover Reveal: Date Me, Love Me, Hate Me by Jillian Dodd~


Jillian Dodd is revealing the next three covers in her Mature Young Adult romance series, The Keatyn Chronicles. The covers were designed by

 

 DATE ME (Keatyn Chronicles, #3)
Expected released date: April 2013
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 LOVE ME (Keatyn Chronicles, #4)
Expected release date: September 2013
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HATE ME (Keatyn Chronicles, #5)
Expected release date: January 2014
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Jillian Dodd grew up on a farm in Nebraska, where she developed a love for Midwestern boys and Nebraska football. She has drank from a keg in a cornfield, attended the University of Nebraska, got to pass her candle, and did have a boy ask her to marry him in a bar. She met her own prince in college, and they have two amazing children, a Maltese named Sugar Bear, and two Labrador puppies named Camber Lacy and Cali Lucy.
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~Cover Reveal and Giveaway: Sworn To Raise~

Sworn to Raise 
Terah Edun (Courtlight #1) 
Publication date: March 15th, 2013
 
Seventeen-year-old Ciardis has grown up in poverty, a cleaner in a small vale on the outskirts of the kingdom. But beneath her kingdom’s seemingly idyllic surface lies a hidden secret. Whispers of an inept crown Prince are growing ever louder—intensified by the five year anniversary of the soulbond initiations.

Amidst scandalous whispers, Ciardis finds herself chosen to train for the Companion’s Guild. She leaves her home and sets off on a personal journey to become a Court Companion. A position she’d never thought possible for a lowly servant to obtain, she must prove that she has the skills to attract a Patron.

But she must master those skills quickly. If the legends are true, only Ciardis can harness the power to raise a Prince in an Imperial Court sworn to bring him down.

This sensational series debut melds intricate storylines with remarkable characters and unforgettable magic. Sworn To Raise is ideal for fans of Kristin Cashore, Michelle Sagara, and Maria Snyder.
 
 
 



 
Terah Edun is an international development professional and author/lover of all things Young Adult Fantasy fiction. She is a native Georgian, adoptive Washingtonian, unrepentant expat currently living in South Sudan, brilliant dreamer, lover of dogs and not-so-closet geek. Her first novel, Red Madrassa, was released on November 8th and her second novel, Sworn to Raise, comes out in March 2013.
 
 
 
 
 
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The Post-Christmas Holiday Book Sale, hosted by the Indie Book Festival, will kick off on December 28 and run through December 31. All books will be .99!! The Indie Book Festival will be posting the participating books to their Facebook page as well. The Indie Book Festival website is the premier online website for seasonal ebook sales events! From Halloween to Valentine's Day – we'll celebrate it by bringing you bestselling books by today’s hottest Romance, Fantasy, Paranormal and Young Adult indie authors.
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Wednesday, December 26, 2012

~Cover Reveal: The Camp~

The Camp
Karice Bolton
Cover by PhatPuppy Art ( http://phatpuppyart.com/ )
 


Emma has always strove for perfection in her almost eighteen years of existence, but it has never been good enough. As she finds herself counting the days until she’s officially free from her parents’ reins, her stepfather hands her a plane ticket explaining that she must attend the Re-Boot Camp in the wilds of Alaska.

Once she lands in the middle of nowhere, she realizes the camp is nothing like she imagined, and she wants out immediately. That is until she meets Liam.
The camp is full of teens with dark pasts, but she finds herself drawn to Liam’s ability to see who she really is and who she wants to become. While Emma and Liam begin adjusting to a place neither want to be, frightening events begin to unfold. When people begin disappearing, it becomes apparent they can only trust one another as they fight for survival.
 
 
Karice Bolton


Karice Bolton is a paranormal romance/urban fantasy author living in the Pacific Northwest. All three books in The Watchers Trilogy are available now, Awakening, Legions, and Cataclysm. Lonely Souls, which is the first book in her new series Witch Avenue, was released in June 2012!




Karice married the love of her life who she met in high school, and she still can't get over how cute and funny he is. They have two English Bulldogs that are the cutest bullies in the world, and they use their cuteness to get what they want. Karice loves the snow and gravitates towards the stuff as often as possible! She enjoys skiing and tries really hard to snowboard, but often makes a nice little area to sit while everyone zips by on their board. She enjoys writing, and she also loves to read just about anything with print.
 




 


Sunday, December 23, 2012

~Book Promo + Giveaway: The Secret World of Alaina Downs‏~



The Secret World of Alaina Downs
Rebecca Rynecki
Release date: July 2, 2012
Genre: Fantasy/Romance
Age Group: New Adult

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When Alaina stumbles into a world that she only thought existed in her mind, she is understandably a little bit freaked out. Who wouldn't be? Characters that she had written down years ago are walking, and talking, and telling her that she is the only one who can save the princess and the kingdom of Isleen. Um...okay. As she travels down to the southern kingdom with Sir Gabriel, a really hot knight, she falls off horses, has an interaction with an evil witch, gets attacked by a sea creature, and even falls from lust into love. 

 
 Rebecca Rynecki
A graduate of Hollins University in southwestern Virginia, Rebecca now lives in the hills of Connecticut with her husband and young son. When she's not working as a librarian or plotting out the sequel, she bakes, dances around the house...and sings...really badly. The Secret World of Alaina Downs is her first book.

 

EXCERPT:

“How many girls have you tried to impress by taking them for rides on the back of a dragon?” she joked.


Gabriel reined in, guiding the dragon back to the beach. “None.”
“Oh.”
Alaina's stomach lurched up again as she felt them lean in for the landing. Gabriel nearly lost his hold on some of the hairs when he felt Alaina burrow deeper against him. “H-hold on,” he stuttered out.
“I am! I feel like I must be crushing you!”
He laughed. “It'll take a lot more than that to crush me.”
The dragon gave one last heavy flap of his wings as he descended down onto the sand. He let out a soft growl; a small puff of smoke emerged from his nostrils.
Gabriel jumped off, and quickly helped Alaina down. She stumbled against him as he pulled her away from the dragon who was starting to take off again.
“Oh, my god,” she murmured. “Wait, wait...wha-where's he going?”
“North. If I hadn't reined him in, he would've gone all the way with us on his back.”
Alaina sighed. “Wow. That was-”
“Terrifying?” he interjected.
She surprised him by running into his arms, and flinging herself around him. “Yes,” she whispered, “terrifying, and completely awesome.”
“Oh.” He was about to return the embrace when she pulled away. “Oh,” he said again.


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~Book Tour: The Gaze~

 
As a sophomore in college, Samantha Reddick meets Tony Amaya, a brokenhearted young man, whose written words she keeps as a memento of a weekend long affair. The words, written on the back of a paper placemat, become her only solid ground during a tumultuous decade that nearly destroys her, leaving her searching for answers at the bottom of the bottle. Haunted by guilt and the constant menace from a man she once loved, Samantha searches for Tony and inserts herself into his life through an online friend request to his wife, Gwen. Mutual curiosity opens the door to an unexpected friendship that becomes the catalyst of an inner battle between the better woman Samantha longs to be, and the Samantha who despises her own gaze.

 

Excerpt:

Tony didn’t look nervous at all. Meanwhile I was awash in uneasiness at the prospect of bringing him into my dorm. 

The story, all I want is the story and to find out what motivates such passionate writing, that’s all. Just the story… 

Liar…

I felt shaky while he walked. In contrast, his breathing was even as though he was so comfortable with the situation. I suddenly wondered if this particular situation was familiar to him. 

We took the stairway to the second floor. Our footfalls echoed loudly, the sound joined only by the faint buzzing of the overhead fluorescent lights.

I unlocked the door with trembling hands that jangled the keys. Somehow, I found the light switch and chased the shadows away, revealing a second hand living room set on cheap flat carpeting. I peeled off my denim jacket and threw it across a chair in the kitchen nook. When I turned, I was surprised to see him leaning against the door, held back by uncertainty. 

I held the paper placemat between us like an amulet to ward off his intensity. “Do you mind if I read it?”

He fixed his eyes on me and nodded before glancing away, his chin coming to rest on his chest.

I started reading. It was far more intense than I could have ever imagined. It was nothing but raw fury and passion, a determined declaration of love. It read of this girl that had become the center of his thoughts, the very core of his being. I could feel my heart breaking as I was overwhelmed with the strange notion that I wanted to be this Gwen of his. I wanted to know what it was to feel such passion, such love. Tears sprung in my eyes and I cried for him, for this fortunate girl… 

For me...

He didn’t ask what was wrong right away. He simply stared just past my shoulder while I made a futile attempt to dispel a sob. I muttered that this was beautiful and he gave me a sad, crooked smile as a tear rolled off the corner of his eye before he turned his face away.

I don’t know what it was about that tear, but it made me go to him like a magnet to steel and place my hands on his face. His skin was burning. There was a little stubble that only made me too aware of his masculinity.
"Kiss me," I whispered into those confused brown eyes of his. "Just kiss me." 


His hands found my wrists and his eyes stayed on mine. Need became a force as tangible as the strong winds that fuel a storm. 

I knew he was thinking I was crazy. I knew he thought of all the reasons why he should stop this crazy bitch in heat and go away. Bloody hell, I was thinking I was crazy.

A tiny voice in my head was screaming all sorts of warnings but just when I felt rejection eating away at me, his eyes fell on my lips and after one breathless moment, he leaned down and kissed me.

Molten lead would have frozen my insides in comparison. I was trembling and when I felt his breath stutter, I opened my lips in invitation. He pulled away and a disappointed moan escaped my throat, allowing reason to slowly take root in my brain. I kept my eyes on his. 

His hand held my face as delicately as a summer breeze. His thumb brushed away the tears I finally tried to blink away. His eyes seemed to glitter as they searched mine and time seemed to stop its endless march in perfect silence. 

Was this wrong? I let out my pent up breath slowly in a sorrowful sigh as electricity crackled between us.

In one swift motion, his hands brought my face up at an angle and he kissed me so hard, I lost what little restraint I had left. 

He loves someone else…

He loves her… 

Stop this!

I felt weightless. His touch was firm yet gentle. The kiss grew needier and heat traveled down into my body, setting my abdomen aflutter. My hands found the flat planes of his chest and then ran down his sides to his hips. On their way back, they pushed his shirt up. His hot skin sent a pang of need that had my heart hammering in my ribcage. 

My tickling fingers forced him to shift and pull away for a breath. I answered his smile with a lustful gaze as I brought his hands to the buttons of my uniform shirt. 

His hands ventured over my abdomen and moved up to grace the underside of my breasts, making my head swim. I shrugged the shirt off and his t-shirt joined it on the floor within seconds. 

We engaged in a stumbling waltz as we somehow made our way to my bedroom. Our clothes kept pooling on the floor, marking our passing like bread crumbs on an unknown trail. I was almost sick with need as the coarse hair of his chest made contact with my skin. When I felt him rigid on my thighs, I pulled hard on his neck, bringing him on top of me as he braced his fall with his arms on either side of me, never breaking from the kiss.

“Wait…” he panted. “I… um… I don’t have anything.”

It took a few seconds before I realized what he meant. Shame colored me a shade of red I thought would make me glow in the semi darkness. “It’s okay, I promise…” I said breathlessly. 

He gave me a dubious look that I hoped to eradicate with more kissing. His lips found my throat, my face, my shoulder, and I curled driving my hips up to meet him. He was being gentle, too gentle, I thought in frustration, when all I wanted was for him to go right through me. I grabbed hold of his hips, and then thoroughly enjoyed the feel of the muscles on his back as I pulled him into me. The sudden fullness forced me to bite my lip to keep me from crying out. It had been so bloody long…

“Kelly…” he whispered almost breaking the spell, but I was too far gone to care. 

A thin wisp of rational thought told me he was probably thinking about someone else. I wondered if he called out Kelly only to remind himself that he wasn’t with the girl behind his writing. It didn’t matter. My body overrode my mind as he moved within me. I held on tighter, needing the closeness, if only physical. 

…I’ll be no more than a transient thought in her mind, a small measure of time, insignificant. No more than a barely familiar set of notes to a song seldom remembered… 

The lines of his writing flashed through my head as my breath grew shallower. 

…No more can I feel the soft warmth of her kiss and its absence becomes me in the form of a living death… 

All I could do was accept this moment and quell my own thirst for that kind of love with what little he offered me. The kind of love he obviously reserved for the girl from his writing. 


His muscles grew taut under my touch while I held my breath as the inevitable rush of heat converged into my center from all corners of my body. I parted the kiss and screamed my ecstasy, burying my face into his chest while he grew impossibly large in me before collapsing, his own conclusion reached. We held onto each other, our breath ragged, both of us feeling each other’s tremors. If this was the one and only time I was to feel this way, then I’d go into the grave smiling to the high heavens.
 
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Javier A. Robayo is the author of THE GAZE and THE NEXT CHAPTER. He immigrated to the United States in 1988 at the age of 12 from Quito, Ecuador. He began writing as a way of learning English throughout his high school years, and studied at Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania. He lives in Connecticut, with his wife, and two daughters, where he is currently at work on his next novel.
 
 
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Saturday, December 22, 2012

~Book Review and Giveaway: As I Wake & As I Close My Eyes by Sarah DiCello~

 
 
 Sarah DiCello
Genre: YA Historical Romance with a time travel twist 
Publisher: Taylor Street Books
Number of pages: 200
Word Count: 60,000
Cover Artist: Heather Moreland
 


Readers entranced by As I Close My Eyes will once again be thrust into the enchanting life of Danielle Grayson in As I Wake, the second book in the Breaking Fate collection.

A secret of Dani’s past is revealed and she must find the answers before it’s too late. Can she change the fate of her one true love or will he suffer the same destiny for all of time?

As Dani rekindles her relationship with Ben she finds herself torn between her present day life in Sugar Hill, Georgia and a new past she has yet to discover. But something in her past makes her question the journey she has chosen. Time is running out and she is the only one who can understand the path that must be taken. But will it be enough? Has the story of Dani and Ben been written in stone never to be undone?


MY REVIEW OF AS I WAKE
 
This book picks up where As I Close My Eyes ends.  Danielle has ran away to study abroad in England.  She tells Ben that she needs a break to clear her head and think things through.  Her memories from the past are starting to take their toll on her.  After a horrific car crash, Danielle is again thrust into dreaming of the past.  This time she is someone different than before.  She is having flashbacks about New Orleans in the 1920's.  She is now the wealthy and fabulous Elizabeth.  All the people from her life as Danielle are with her again.
 
We learn a lot more about the life of Danielle in the second book.  There are many family secrets that have been kept well hidden.  It It is hard to write about this book because there is so much going on.  There are many characters to keep up with.  With a double storyline there is lots going on in the present and in the past.  This is such a fresh and wonderful storyline that you will be thinking about the books for a while. Sarah DiCello has really done a great job.  I have thoroughly enjoyed reading and reviewing her books.  I look forward to many more to come.  This book is even better than the first.
 

 


As I Close My Eyes
Breaking Fate Collection Book 1
Sarah DiCello
Genre: historical YA with a time travel twist
 
You know you are alive, but what if you are dead?
 
Danielle Grayson is a beautiful, intelligent young woman in present-day Georgia, but when she closes her eyes, she becomes someone else in a different time, one hundred years earlier in fact.

Danielle's other life is as entrancing and romantic as her current one, and the contrast between the lifestyles is intriguing and enlightening (they didn't have iPods in 19th century USA, apparently), but what starts out as being dreamlike soon becomes real and strangely familiar.
Worse, whatever happens to her as Danielle seems to change the past, if it is a true past.

And when she finds she is not alone in being able to flip between the two worlds, life, love and death become really disturbing.


MY REVIEW OF AS I CLOSE MY EYES
 
 
Danielle Grayson is your typical 18 year old college student living in the great southern state of Georgia.  Her favorite things are hanging out with her friends on the lake and getting ready to start her second year of college.  When an accident at the lake has Danielle remembering a past life, she thinks she may be going crazy.  Every time she closes her eyes she travels back in time. In her flashback everyone calls her Caroline.  Many of her family are with her also as different people.  How is she dreaming of things that happened over one hundred years ago? 
 
 She also meets the handsome and older Ben.  He looks so familiar to her.  She feels like she has know him all her life and maybe even longer than that.  With Ben's help Danielle tries to figure out just why this is happening to her.  And maybe true love does really stand the test of time.
 
First, I want to thank the author for gifting this book to me for a fair and honest review.  This is a very unique story.  It took me a little while to figure out what is going on.  I don't think I have ever read a book with such a unique storyline.  The characters are wonderful.  Danielle is such a complex character.  She has had a lot of trauma and sadness in her eighteen years of  life.  It is wonderful when she and Ben find each other.  The flashback/dream storyline is an exciting twist.  You will loose many hours of sleep finishing up this book.
 
 
 


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 About the Author:

Sarah DiCello is new to Taylor Street.
She writes fantasy / romance.
She lives in Pennsylvania with her husband, two daughters, and two dogs. She graduated from Shippensburg University with a degree in Communications/Journalism.
http://sarahdicello.blogspot.com/
http://www.facebook.com/SarahDiCelloauthor http://www.goodreads.com/sarahdicello



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Friday, December 21, 2012

~Book Review and Giveaway: I Have People by Taylor Dean~

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Contemporary Romance
Title: I Have People
Author: Taylor Dean
Date Published: 9/20/2012
 
 
Missing any memories? 
 

Holly Sinclair is happily married to the love of her life, Gabriel. Young and in love, Holly hopes to have their first child soon. Of course, Gabriel wants to wait till Holly’s health is restored, much to Holly’s dismay. She feels perfectly fine. So what if she just woke up from an eight-month coma? So what if some of her memories are missing? She remembers Gabe and that’s all that matters, right?
 
That is, until HE enters her life again . . . she forgot about HIM.
 
 
MY REVIEW OF I HAVE PEOPLE
 
Holly Noel Sinclair wakes from an eight month coma to find out that a lot has changed.  She can't remember how she wound up in the coma.  The doctor urges her to remember on her own with no help from her wonderful husband Gabriel or her best friend Angela.
 
Her husband sets out to recreate past events in her life in hopes that her memory will return.  She can remember her childhood and her wedding day but the past two years are gone.  When someone from her past returns will she finally remember what she has kept deeply hidden?  What are here husband and best friend hiding from her?  Was the past as wonderful as she remembers or is something more sinister lurking in the background?
 
Where to start with this amazing book? I have found a wonderful new author.  Taylor Dean is officially on my favorite author list!  I have never read her novels before and I have missed out.  This is one of those books you can't put down.  I lost many hours of sleep until I finished it.  I can't stop gushing about it!  It is hard to review and talk about without giving so much away.  You find out bits and pieces of Holly's life as she does.  You fall in love with the character.  The flow is perfect with the flashbacks of her life.  I would recommend this book to anyone.
 
~A special thank you to Taylor Dean for gifting this book to me for a fair and honest review.~
 
 
 
 
The Wonderful and Fabulous Taylor Dean
Taylor Dean lives in Texas and is the mother of four grown children. Upon finding herself with an empty nest, she began to write the stories that were always wandering around in her head, quickly finding that she had a passion for writing, specifically romance. Whether it’s paranormal, contemporary, or suspense—you’ll find all sub-genres of romance in her line-up. 
 
 
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