TEASER TUESDAY: Teacher: The Final Act Author by RL Merrill, The CEO by Shealy James, and Finding Us by Debra Presley

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Title: Teacher: The Final Act Author: RL Merrill Genre: Contemporary Release Date: August 13, 2015

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Title: The CEO Author: Shealy James Genre: Contemporary Romance Release Date: August 18, 2015

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Title: Finding Us (A Nucci Securities Novel) Author: Debra Presley Genre: Contemporary Romance Release Date: July 31, 2015

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COVER REVEAL: Prince Charming by S. Celi

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Title: Prince Charming

Author: S. Celi

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Re-Release Date: August 18, 2015

Designed by:  Ashley Ruggirello

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Synopsis

School. Tests. Scholarships. Goals. Senior class overachiever Geoff Miller thought he had it all figured out. All he needed to do was make it through the next six months, graduate, and get on with his life. College at the University of Virginia beckoned him—and he just wanted to put the last horrible four years at Heritage High School in the “done” folder. But Geoff hadn’t counted on one important thing: beautiful, magnetic Laine Phillips. For years, Geoff crushed on Laine from afar. He didn’t think she even knew he existed. In fact, his obsession seemed to him like a distraction from an unhappy life in a snobby, Greater Cincinnati suburb. Until the day everything changed. And when it did, this unlikely Prince Charming got a chance to make his move on Laine.

About The Author

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Journalist. Novelist. Broadcaster. Blogger. An overactive imagination has always served Sara Celi well. Starting from age 10, with an epic tale about a soldier during the Civil War, Sara has made creating stories her life’s work. After graduating cum laude from Western Kentucky University in 2004 with a degree in Broadcast News and History, Sara Celi started her decade-long career in broadcast journalism at TV stations in Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Ohio. Her love of the written word came to fruition with the publishing of her first novel, The Undesirable, in 2013 and has since published The Palms and Prince Charming. Born in New Orleans and having lived all over the United States, Sara Celi now calls the Greater Cincinnati area home. In her spare time, she likes to read, shop, travel, run, volunteer with the Junior League, serve on the board of Wesley Community Services, and work with Cooperative for Education, a non-profit providing educational opportunities for the children of Guatemala. To keep up with Sara Celi and find out about her future works, subscribe to her mailing list, The Celi Circle. Subscribers can participate in exclusive giveaways and events. You can also follow Sara on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Order the re-release of Sara’s book, PRINCE CHARMING, on August 18th!

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RELEASE DAY REVIEW: Tracker’s End by Chantal Fernando

 

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Synopsis 

The third in a sexy romance series from the bestselling author of Saxon and Toxic Girl about the bad boys of the Wind Dragons Motorcycle Club and the women who fall in love with them.

Tracker is everything I’ve ever wanted.

I see him. I’ve watched time change him.

I’ve been patient, but he still hasn’t noticed me. Not the way I want him to. The more time I spend with the MC, the more I understand.

When you want something, you have to take it. You have to fight for it.

And Tracker is more than worth fighting for…
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Review

Tracker and Lana couldn’t be more different, but ever since their first encounter, there’s been a connection between them that Tracker is all about exploring, but Lana isn’t one to take risks, especially when the man she’s lusting after lives his life according to a code she knows nothing about and doesn’t believe she can learn because she’s unwilling to put herself out there with the risk of getting hurt.

Tracker’s all about the motorcycle lifestyle; he loves living wild and free, and he takes advantage of the privileges involved in being a fully patched brother. He’s incredibly good looking, and he easily gets what he wants because of it. But there’s more to Tracker than his hot body and his place in the Wind Dragons Motorcycle Club; it’s just going to take a special woman to get him to change his ways – someone who doesn’t give in easily and is worth changing some of his ways.

Lana lives a simple life; she’s an introvert who has a hard time trusting men due to her father’s neglect. But even though Lana seems to be shy, she’s also fierce in taking care of those she loves, and she has passion in spades just waiting for someone to explore.

To be somebody’s end, there has to be a beginning, and Tracker has his work cut out for him in order to prove to Lana that he’s worth the risk, but when Tracker decides something, there’s no stopping him from claiming what he wants, which is Lana on the back of his bike, in his bed, and his old Lady.

I absolutely love Chantal Fernando’s Wind Dragons MC series. There wasn’t as much action in Tracker’s End as the other two books, but I enjoyed the change of pace because it fits Lana’s character and who Tracker wants to be in order to have her in his life. That doesn’t mean that there isn’t conflict and angst, but it just revolves around a different set of situations.

Fernando does a great job of illustrating the chemistry between Lana and Tracker as well as Lana’s hesitancies at pursuing anything with him. I would have liked to get Tracker’s perspective a bit more because there were times I needed to know what he was thinking in order to get a clear view on why everything went down a certain way, but it didn’t detract from my enjoyed of the text.

The characters from the previous books are a big part of Tracker’s End, which I always love when reading a series, and I’m really hoping Rake’s story is next because there is definitely a lot more to him than his kink – even though I’m intrigued about that as well;)

A complimentary copy was provided by the author/publisher in exchange for an honest review.

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RELEASE REVIEW AND EXCERPT: Hard to Fight by Bella Jewel

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Release Date: August 11, 2015

Blurb

Grace is a bounty hunter who wants to be taken seriously, but her boss refuses to believe that a woman can bring down a dangerous criminal. She finally gets a chance to prove herself when she’s given the case of a lifetime: capture Raide Knox and bring him to justice.

Raide is a dangerous fugitive on the run…and the sexiest man Grace has ever met. Catching Raide won’t be easy. He’s not the kind of man to go down without a fight. Raide is more intense and frustrating than any man she’s ever had to deal with, and the instantaneous attraction that sparks between them is undeniable. One thing is for sure…it’s going to be a case they will never forget.

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Review

There’s a lot at stake for Gracie and Raide in Hard to Fight, and it’s up to them to decide what they’re willing to fight for and what they need to let go of in order to make things right.

Bounty Hunter vs. Bail Skipper

Operation Bring In Raide

Plan A: Seduce

Plan B: Challenge

Plan C: ???

I absolutely adored Gracie and her badass bounty hunting self. She’s an amazing heroine who puts a lot of pressure on herself to be the best because she’s working against a lot of people and gender prejudice to do the job she loves. She finally gets a chance to prove herself, so she knows she needs to up her game because bringing in someone as big as Raide is going to require finesse, but as readers witness in the first half of Hard to Fight, she’s having a hard time putting her plans in action, which is well played by Bella Jewel because Grace finds herself in a rather precarious position when it comes to Raide and her conflict is played out well by how unsuccessful she is with him.

Raide is a badass alpha male who’s dodging the law while trying to exact his revenge. He’s a complex man – he’s way more than just another criminal Gracie has to bring in, and she realizes that early on and walks a fine line while trying to reel him in. I would have loved to get a bit of Raide’s perspective throughout the story; it’s not that Grace doesn’t describe him in ways that readers will understand who he is, but there’s things below the surface of Raide that I wanted to understand from his viewpoint not just through Grace’s eyes.

Gracie is definitely a fighter, and Raide has proven his determination to seek justice, but there are some things that occur in Hard to Fight that regardless of how much they try to fight against them, they can’t, which is a huge problem for them because it takes them off their game plan and forces them in directions that they weren’t prepared to go, but it also allows them to experience life in ways they never thought they would with how drastically different Grace and Raide’s lives were.

Hard to Fight is a fantastic start to Bella Jewel’s Alpha’s Heart series. The cast of characters, both lead and secondary, are entertaining with their banter and chemistry and the plot line flows nicely with the various strains running together as the story gets closer to its ending. 

Bring on the next Alpha!

A complimentary copy was provided by the author/publisher in exchange for an honest review.

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Excerpt

“I’m freaking out, Kady,” I whisper down the phone. “How the hell am I supposed to get“With your mind,” she says with amusement in her voice. “And your body.”“Don’t you see? You’re looking at this all wrong. You’re expecting to be able to just go over and drag him in but you can’t do that. Whether you like it or not, you don’t have the physical power to bring a man his size in. So start thinking outside the box.”

She’s piqued my interest. “Go on. . . .”

She huffs as if my question is completely unwarranted. “Seduce him.”

I laugh nervously. “Kady, I met him and basically abused him for being a player. Then I told him girls like me never sleep with men like him, and now you’re asking me to approach him and try to make him believe I’m interested?”

I close my eyes. “Yeah, that’s not going to happen.”

“What are you going to do, then?” she challenges. “Waltz up to him and order him to come in? He’ll run before you get your damned gun from your purse.”

I laugh. “I know how to use my gun, thank you very much—I’m just not allowed to use it

“Seriously, Gracie,” she says, softer now. “Think about it. You seduce him, get him interested, then you set him up. You could do something as simple as making him drop you to

She makes a really good point.

“He’s not just going to grow an attraction to me overnight.”

“What?” She giggles. “A man isn’t just going to fall at your feet? Gasp. But seriously,

that man was undressing you with his eyes. I don’t think you’ll have a problem.”

I snort. “Shut up—he was not.”

“He was so, and you can do it. I know you can. Just drop the charm on him, and you’ll

It’s actually not a bad idea. It would be an easy way of getting Raide in without alerting him or having to wrestle him. I might be trained, but a man his size wouldn’t be easy to move.

Being a bounty hunter isn’t always easy. We have to track down criminals and bring them in for their trials, things like that. It isn’t always a walk in the park, a good deal of them run or attempt to assault us, so we’re always on our feet.

“I’ll think about it, but it is a good plan.”

I hear her clap and squeal. “While you’re at it, get some of that fine ass for yourself.”

“I think that’s against the code. . . .”

“Not if it’s kept secret.” She’s grinning—I can hear it in her voice.

I laugh, flopping down onto my couch. “You’re a rebel, Kady…”

…I hang up and lean back against the soft cushions of the couch. Seduce Raide Knox, prove my team wrong, and get the chance to expand my career. It all sounds simple, but I have no doubt whatsoever that it won’t be. Raide is a hard man, and he’s going to think I’m a great big joke when I turn up, trying to seduce him. I can only hope he’s seducible.

Things are about to get interesting.

Author Bio

Bella Jewel is a self published, USA Today bestselling author. She’s been publishing since 2013. Her first release was a contemporary romance, Hell’s Knights which topped the charts upon release. Since that time, she has published over five novels, gaining a bestseller status on numerous platforms. She lives in North Queensland and is currently studying editing and proofreading to further expand her career. Bella has been writing since she was just shy of fifteen years old. In Summer 2013 she was offered an ebook deal through Montlake Romance for her bestselling modern day pirate series, Enslaved By The Ocean. She plans to expand her writing career, planning many new releases for the future.

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BLOG TOUR STOP: REVIEW AND EXCERPT: Fourth Debt by Pepper Winters

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Blurb

Fifth Book in the New York Times Bestselling Series.

“We’d won. We’d cut through the lies and treachery and promised an alliance that would free us both. But even as we won, we lost. We didn’t see what was coming. We didn’t know we had to plan a resurrection.”

Nila Weaver fell in love. She gifted her entire soul to a man she believed was worthy. And in the process, she destroyed herself. Three debts paid, the fourth only days away. The Debt Inheritance has almost claimed another victim.

Jethro Hawk fell in love. He let down his walls to a woman he believed was his cure. For a moment, he was free. But then he paid the ultimate price.

There is no more love. Only war. Hope is dead. Now, there is only death all around them.

**Only suitable for Dark Romance lovers.

Full length book. Six in series. Fourth Debt is 85,000 words.

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Review

The game has changed. It still includes a bevy of madness, deception, and maniacal acts, but the line between enemy and friend, good versus evil has drastically changed, transforming Nila into more than just a pawn who is forced to pay the debt of her family. She is now an “instrument of destruction” whose duty is to avenge not only the Weaver women but all those who have been affected by the heartless Hawks and their devious ways.

In the first four books of Pepper Winters’ Indebted series, she has created a world where there is no clear understanding of right and wrong…where a family gets to be judge and jury of another, destroying it one by one in order to pay a debt that is meant to torture and maim. In each book, readers have witnessed the Hawks revel in Nila’s repayments and ultimately, her destruction at their hands. But what we have also been privy to is a love story that is as transforming as it is unconventional, changing the parameters of the game and forcing all those involved to adjust their game plans and determine the best ways to continue the debt inheritance.

The Fourth Debt is Nila’s transformation; it’s the book that proves that regardless of the situation she is in, she still holds power and is determined to get her revenge. Nila has endured multiple trials that have brought her to the brink of her sanity, and there have also been times where she has given up any hope that she can survive the Hawks’ cruel acts. Nila has been shattered and torn apart to the point that she feels nothing but pain and resignation that her life is over but then her resolve resurrects and once again Nila becomes the fighter she has been since the beginning.

Indebted #5 focuses on how the game is no longer simply the Hawks vs. the Weavers. Sides are colliding and plans are being put in place that deviate from any previous debt inheritances, and as much as it seems that evil is ultimately going to triumph over good, Nila’s perseverance thus far in the feud allows readers to hold on to hope regardless of how bleak the situation seems.

Pepper Winters continues to amaze me with her meticulous world building and the ease with which she manipulates the emotions not only of her characters but her readers as well. We feel EVERYTHING that Nila is forced to endure and our connection to her enables us to loathe the Hawks and their quest of destroying the Weavers. I’ve hated many antagonists in the books that I’ve read, but I have never wanted another destroyed more than I want the Hawks to be, and I will be anxiously waiting for the Final Debt in order to see justice be served to a family who feeds on the torture of others.

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FUNNY HOW LIFE plays practical jokes.

The past few days—that had to be a fucking joke, right?

No logical answer would make sense of what I’d seen, heard, and lived the past seventy-two hours.

My sister.

My best friend and twin.

This was what she’d been living with? This was how she’d been treated?

This was what she wanted to return to?

Motherfucking why? Why would she ever want to return to this insanity?

We’d been raised in a broken home, chained to an empire that absorbed us right from birth. But we were kept safe, warm, and loved. We grew up together. We shared everything.

But now…I had no fucking clue who my sister was.

But then she came to me.

A woman I never knew existed.

The most stunning creature I’d ever seen.

Only she didn’t come to me on feet or wings of an angel. She rolled into my life and demanded my help.

And for better or for worse…

I helped her.

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“LET ME GO!”

Daniel cackled like a mad hyena, his fingers stabbing into my bicep. Without breaking his stride, he stole me further away from the parlour and into the bowels of the house.

I didn’t want to go. I didn’t want to go anywhere with him.

“Take me back!”

He can’t be dead!

Just because he lay unmoving and bloody didn’t mean he was gone.

That’s exactly what it means.

I shook my head, dislodging those awful thoughts. He’s alive. He had to be.

I couldn’t tolerate any other answer. I refused to live in a world where evil triumphed over good. That wasn’t right—life couldn’t be that cruel.

It’s always been that way.

My mind filled with images of my mother. My father’s desolation. My broken childhood. Evil had puppeteered us from day one. Why should now be any different?

He’s not dead!

I swallowed a sob.

Please don’t be dead…

I fought harder. “Let me see him. You can’t do this!”

Daniel cackled louder. “Keep begging, Weaver. Won’t do you any good.”

He’s not dead!

I locked my knees, fighting him every step. “Stop!” Looking back the way we’d come, the door to the parlour seemed so far away—a bright beacon at the end of a festering corridor. “They were your brothers, you insane psychopath. Don’t you feel anything?!”

Please let me go to him. He has to be alive…

Please let my twin stay alive…

Let all of this be a nightmare!

I couldn’t cope with Jethro murdered; I’d go clinically insane if they killed V, too.

“I feel relief. I no longer have to put up with their simpering bullshit.” He flashed his teeth. “Cut did us all a favour.”

Cut will die.

He was evil incarnate. He deserved to die in excruciatingly painful ways.

I refuse to believe they’re dead.

“I said stop!” I wriggled harder, only succeeding in Daniel’s fingers tearing into my flesh. Goosebumps covered my skin while ice steadily froze my veins. Every second was endless torture. I couldn’t live without Jethro.

It can’t end like this!

“You won’t win, Weaver.” Daniel tugged harder. “Accept what’s fucking happened and obey me.”

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Pepper Winters wears many roles. Some of them include writer, reader, sometimes wife. She loves dark, taboo stories that twist with your head. The more tortured the hero, the better, and she constantly thinks up ways to break and fix her characters. Oh, and sex… her books have sex.

She loves to travel and has an amazing, fabulous hubby who puts up with her love affair with her book boyfriends.

Her Dark Erotica books include:

Tears of Tess (Monsters in the Dark #1)

Quintessentially Q (Monsters in the Dark #2)

Her Grey Romance books include:

Destroyed
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RELEASE DAY BLITZ: REVIEW AND EXCERPT: Escalation by Tessa Teevan

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Author: Tessa Teevan

Series: Clandestine Affairs #2

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Synopsis

The moment Rafe appeared on her doorstep, he was everything Brie Latham didn’t know she needed. Sexy. Mysterious. Provocative. The absolute opposite of her domineering ex. Like a white knight in the form of a rugged, handsome construction worker, he freed her from her cage, allowing her to spread her wings and find herself again. To find love again.

Just as she was ready to give in and finally admit her feelings for him, her past swooped back in, death and destruction in its path, causing her to question everything she knows.

And everything she feels.

Was their relationship all just smoke and mirrors? Was she destined to repeat the vicious cycle with yet another manipulative man, only to crash and burn yet again?

Who is Rafe Matthews, and will Brie survive long enough to finally discover the truth?

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Review 

The pieces are starting to fall into place as truths are revealed, but those discoveries only seem to further complicate things for Rafe and Brie in the follow-up to Instigation, because trust has been broken, leaving both of them wondering what happens next.

Questions still run rampant even after the conclusion of Escalation. It remains unclear where the danger is coming from and how Brie’s past comes into play with the threat to her future. No one seems to truly be who they claim, which puts Brie in an extremely precarious position, forcing her to make decisions without all the facts, only relying on her heart, which has already led her astray.

Rafe has a lot to make up for, and he needs to begin with the truth if Brie is going to allow him to remain in her life, but it’s clear that even with Rafe unveiling certain information, there’s still much to learn.

There’s no denying the passion and lust that exists between Rafe and Brie, but if there’s no trust, how can they build on their relationship?

Tessa Teevan does a great job crafting two interwoven story lines that focus on Brie and Rafe’s relationship and what’s at stake for both of them in a game where too many of the players are unclear. Progress is made on both accounts but as the secrets are revealed, the danger increases, which puts Rafe’s promise to Brie to keep her safe in jeopardy.

The mystery and suspense of Escalation will have readers coming up with their own theories throughout the text, which makes Brie and Rafe’s story a captivating read, but regardless of what their conclusions are, readers won’t know all of the truth until book 3 releases.

A complimentary copy was provided in exchange for an honest review.

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Excerpt

While I hang my head, shame and remorse fill me. I promised to protect her. And what did I do? I let her down.

I should’ve known that it would end up like this. I should’ve seen it coming. Yet my mind was clouded as my days and nights—and, soon, my heart—were filled with her, and she was all I could see. I let my guard down, and this is where it got me. Where it got us.

I never got to tell her the truth.

I never got to tell her how I feel.

I will never forgive myself if I never get the chance.

And I will spend the rest of my days hunting the man who did this to her. When I find him, I will kill him.

Because for her? I’d do anything.

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Tessa is a twenty something book junkie who loves creating books boyfriends as much as she loves reading them. Government worker by day, writer by night, she gets little sleep, but couldn’t imagine her life any less hectic. She lives just outside of Dayton, Ohio and has been married to her own book boyfriend for nine years.

If she’s not writing or looking through tons of photos of hot men, all in the name of research, then you can probably find her curled up with my Kindle, ignoring the rest of the world. Her other obsessions include red wine, hot men, country music, and all things Stone Sour.

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RELEASE WEEK BLITZ: EXCERPT AND GIVEAWAY: Better When He’s Brave by Jay Crownover

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BETTER WHEN HE’S BRAVE Synopsis

In New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jay Crownover’s third novel in her sexy, thrilling Welcome to the Point series, a woman’s search for repentance leads her to the one man from her past she can’t forget as they join forces to save their city—and the explosive love neither can live without.

Titus King sees the world in black and white. Right and wrong. Which is why as a teenager he left behind the only family he’d ever known to make a better life for himself. Now a police detective in one of the worst cities in the country, he can’t deny his life has turned into a million different shades of gray.

The new criminal element in The Point has brought vengeance and destruction right to Titus’s front door, and the difference between right and wrong is nothing compared to keeping those he loves alive. To add to his already strained moral compass, the beautiful and mysterious Reeve Black has made her way back to town, and she might be as dangerous to Titus as the guy trying to destroy the Point because he needs her—in more ways than one.

Reeve knows all about how ruthless this new threat to destroy The Point can be… and instead of running away, she wants to help. She has a lot to repent for and saving the city, plus the hot cop that she hasn’t been able to forget might just be the only way she can finally find some inner peace.

With an entire city poised on the brink of war, Titus and Reeve stand in the crossfire—and it will take two brave souls to fight for the ultimate love.

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BETTER WHEN HE’S BRAVE Excerpt

It hit me like a ton of bricks. So heavy and hard it almost took me to my knees. Roark had been going after the thing that mattered most to me from the very beginning. I cared about the people that still had a shot to make it out of the Point. I fought for the innocent and the young because I often felt like no one else was going to. Every person that Roark had hurt, had twisted, had infected in his quest to exact his revenge had been someone I’d sworn I would protect and keep safe.

It started with the kid whose neck he snapped and ditched outside of the Pit. Just some dumb jock barely in his twenties that liked to gamble, but he was just a kid and deserved a better end. Then it was the club. Before it burned to the ground, Nassir had been deliberately lured away and all the victims were just kids out looking for some trouble and fun. They lost their lives doing what kids all across the country did every single day. After that it was the girl on the dock and the armed stripper at Spanky’s. Two girls too young to be caught up in that kind of life and too young to be dead. Two girls I should’ve been able to keep safe. And lastly there was my brother. Sure, Bax was far from innocent, far from having a shot at a good and law-abiding life, but he was still my only family, my blood, and even if I had let him down in the past, I took my duty to keep him safe and keep him out of trouble to heart now. Killing Bax would have served the dual purpose of exacting revenge on the man who Roark thought was responsible for his father’s death and rubbing salt into the wound I would suffer for being unable to protect him.

The realization of how insidious and malicious as well as how fucking brilliant in his evil machinations Roark was had me shaking so hard I almost missed Brysen’s words as she whispered “Someone needs to stop him; he can’t be allowed to go after anyone anymore.”

I blew out a breath and tried to steady myself. “I’m trying.”

She narrowed her very blue eyes. “Try harder.”

No wonder Race was sprung on her. She looked like a doll but had the bite of a barracuda. She was his perfect match in that way—all golden and glossy on the outside but made of stronger, more resilient stuff on the inside. If Roark did have Karsen, I sure hoped the younger Carter was as tough as Brysen.

Just as the big, black utility vehicles with SWAT team members and the bomb technicians rolled up to the scene, the metal front doors at the front of the school clanked open and Booker came striding through with his arm wrapped around an obviously shaken and upset Karsen. The teen looked so tiny and fragile next to the giant man that it had murderous rage toward Roark thumping heavy not just through my heart but the heart of the beast that was wide awake in my chest and hungry for retribution.

Brysen let out a squeal and took off running toward the duo. I should’ve stopped her considering the building still wasn’t secure and I still had no idea where Roark was lurking, but I didn’t have the heart to keep her away from her sister. The two blondes hugged and then they were both crying as Booker was ripped away from the teen and slapped into cuffs by the same cop he has shoved over only moments before.

Karsen started yelling when the cop started to haul Booker away, but Brysen shushed her and guided her over to where I was still standing. I watched curiously as the guys dressed in black tactical gear unloaded a robot that looked like something from Star Wars and used a computer to guide it toward the front of the school. I was dying to know if they were going to find anything or if this had all been some elaborate ruse Roark had staged only to show me he had me right where he wanted me.

“Are you okay?” The teenager was crying big, fat, silent tears but she looked unharmed. She nodded and looked in the direction where the cops had taken Booker.

“Why is he getting arrested? He was the only one that came and looked for me.” Ouch. That accusation burned hot across my skin.

“He pushed a cop. They tend to take offense at that. Why were you still inside the building, Karsen? What happened?” I didn’t want to press her too hard because she was obviously pretty shaken up but I didn’t have any time to waste either.

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Jay Crownover is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Marked Men and The Point series. Like her characters, she is a big fan of tattoos. She loves music and wishes she could be a rock star, but since she has no aptitude for singing or instrument playing, she’ll settle for writing stories with interesting characters that make the reader feel something. She lives in Colorado with her three dogs.

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COVER REVEAL, EXCERPT, AND GIVEAWAY: Clutch by Drew Elyse

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Title: Clutch (Disciples’ Daughters #1)

Author: Drew Elyse

Genre: Contemporary/MC Romance

Release Date: September 15, 2015

Cover Design: Hang Le

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Once a Disciple, forever a Disciple.

Cami was born into the Savage Disciples MC, but she ventured out to build a life of her own away from the club. She’s engaged now, living a new life despite missing the bikers that raised her. Overall, she’s… fine.
Sure, fine. She’s fine with the fiancé who is more interested in position and image than the woman in his life. She’s fine with the fake people around and the suffocating passive aggression. She’s fine with the fact that she is turning to drugs to self-medicate.

A Disciple will fight like a savage for what he wants.

When Gauge tags along to visit his club brother’s daughter, he can’t believe the two women he meets: the fiery daughter of a biker and the puppet with the blank affect. And yet, they’re both Cami.
He sees the fire beneath surface, and he wants to watch it burn. He wants to rip away the man smothering her like a wet blanket. He wants to see the flames consume that cookie-cutter future-wife facade to the ground and dance with her in the flames.

When this biker clutches onto a Disciple’s daughter, there is no letting go.

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 I turned to head outside and nearly jumped out of my skin. Gauge was standing a few feet away, his gaze more intense than I had seen it all day.
 
“What are you doing?”
 
“Is that how you make yourself into the woman he wants you to be?” he asked, ignoring my question. He took a few steps closer to me, and I felt my pulse quicken.
“What are you talking about?” My voice sounded breathy even to my own ears.
 
He did not answer me right away. Instead, he continued to move towards me until he was right in front of me. He stepped in close, and I scrambled backward until I was against the wall. The moment I realized how I had trapped myself, I noticed the corner of Gauge’s lips rise. He took advantage of my mistake, coming so close that he was pressed against me. I had no where to go, no way to escape what he was doing to me.
One of his hands settled on my waist. The warmth of it seeped through top of my skirt and my satin top. The way his large hand engulfed me, made me feel more delicate than I could ever remember feeling before. The power he exuded, it was enough to consume us both until the entire clubhouse melted away. The heat that suffused my body felt dangerous, out of control. He had hardly touches me and yet he was redefining attraction.
“I’m talking about that shit you just got.” His words cleared just enough of the fog from my mind so that I could answer.
 
“I have no idea what ‘shit’ you are talking about.”
“Really, darlin’?” He smirked at me, but there was something derisive about it. Suddenly, his free hand was at my chest, reaching beneath my shirt and into my bra. I felt his work-roughened hands against the skin of my breasts. There was nothing sexual about his touch. It was quick and determined. Still, I was caught between fighting him and pleading for more.
 
Then, his hand was gone. He brought it up next to his face, the baggie of cocaine pinched between his index and middle fingers. “I know blow when I see it.”
“You would,” I accused, trying to reach up and snatch it back.
“You and I both know the club doesn’t deal in that shit anymore,” he growled. He was right, it was unfair to say that. The club had fought hard to get clean of that sort of work.
“I know. I’m sorry,” I muttered. My arms collapsed to my sides. There was no point in trying to fight Gauge. If he wanted to hold onto the baggie, he was going to. There was nothing I could do to stop him.
 
“I ask again: you use that to put up with all this stuck-up shit?”
I bristled at that. “It is none of your business.”
“That won’t give you what you need,” he said.
“And what is that you think I need?”
“Something big and powerful between those sweet thighs.”
 
Holy. Shit.
I didn’t know if he was talking about him or his bike.
I was ready to beg for either.
Or both.
At the same time.
I think my brain might have short-circuited because the next thing I knew, Gauge was nuzzling at my neck before moving up to my ear to whisper, “I’d gladly take care of you, darlin’.”
A part of me – a desperate, crazed part of me – wanted to say ‘yes’ to his indecent proposal. I had never known desire to be so all consuming. It took everything I had to keep myself from making a colossal mistake. “Gauge, I can’t.”
“Leave him. He’s no fucking good for you.”
Was he being serious? “Leave him? And then what? Ride off on the back of your bike? Be your piece for a while until you get tired of me? What do I do when you get your fill? I will not be one of the club whores!”
“Jesus, fuck!” Gauge snapped, pulling back so that his hot glare was on me. “You think I don’t know that? You think Tank would ever allow that shit to happen to you? You’re not fucking free pussy like that.”
“So, you want to give me your patch? That seems pretty extreme seeing as we just met. You don’t even know me, Gauge. I am not just going to uproot my life to be your fuck buddy and see if maybe we actually like each other.”
“What life do you even have to uproot here? The one where you walk around every day like that asshole’s puppet? A life where you keep using this shit,” he brandished the cocaine in front of me again, “until you end up so messed up on it that it kills you?”
 
I started pushing against him, trying to get away. I did not want to hear the things he was saying. “Let me go,” I snarled at him.
 
“You’re right, babe. I’m not ready to make you my old lady. I’m perfectly happy with club pussy giving me what I need when I need it, but at least I’m man enough to admit when there might be something better. I’m willing to fuckin’ try, you’re just too scared to take a chance.”
Something inside of me felt like it was crumbling apart at his words, but I would not let him see that. Instead, I lashed out again. “You know nothing about me.”
 
He shook his head in a resigned way that was so at odds with his domineering presence. “You might just be right there. I really didn’t think the woman I met earlier was a fucking coward.”

 

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Drew Elyse spends her days trying to convince the world that she is, in fact, a Disney Princess, and her nights writing tear-jerking and smutty romance novels.
When she isn’t writing, she can usually be found over-analyzing every line of a book, binge watching a series on Netflix, doing strange vocal warm ups before singing a variety of music styles, or screaming at the TV during a Chicago Blackhawks game.
A graduate of Loyola University Chicago with a BA in English, she still lives in Chicago, IL where she was born and raised with her boyfriend and her fur babies Lola and Duncan.
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RELEASE BLITZ: EXCERPT AND GIVEAWAY: Back To The Drawing Board by L.L. Collins

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Title: Back To The Drawing Board

Author: L.L. Collins

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Release Date: August 10, 2015

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Lies. Betrayal. Deceit. Carter knows them all too well. His whole life was based on them. He decided long ago that his life would be on his own terms. No one would dictate his future, since he’d had no control over his past.
Desire. Lust. Love.
Julia is the bosses’ daughter. She’s everything that Carter wants, and nothing that he thinks he needs. She’s got plans of her own, and Carter is one of them.
Both determined to control their own paths, can she show him what his future could be like if he just lets go, or will he send her BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD?

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“You seem happy,” she said. “I am,” I answered, running my fingers along the chains of the swings. “I can’t believe I get to be here and be part of this. Thank you.”She tilted her head. “Thank me? I didn’t do anything. You being here is all you.” Julia moved closer, and I stumbled when I tried to step back.

“You’re so handsome, Carter.” God, she needed to stop. I was hanging on by a thread as it was. “Kiss me.”

I blinked, trying to kick start my brain into formulating a response. What was with this woman? “Julia…”

“I know you’re going to tell me all the reasons you shouldn’t. Or can’t. How about you tell me the one reason you should?”

“And what’s that?”

She stepped so close the scent of her perfume drifted up my nose and the heat of her body made my fingers itch to pull her the rest of the way to me.

“That you want to.”

She knew me. She read my mind. No matter what I told her, my body was screaming something else, and she knew it. “I’m going to do it unless you say no,” she said. She moved closer, the high heels she had on making her much closer to looking me in the eye.

The conversation with Ethan flooded my mind, and I stepped back, forcing a smile on my face. “No, Julia. Come on, let’s go down and sit. I’m sure the dinner is about to start.”

Julia stared into my eyes for so long, I wasn’t sure she heard me or even cared what I said. When she turned and walked away, leaving me to follow her, I knew two things: one, she heard me just fine and two, I was doing nothing but continuing to upset her. I had to find a way for us to move on from this attraction of ours once and for all.

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LL Collins is a teacher who loves spending her days in the Florida sun with her husband and boys, reading, and writing. Her love of writing has found a home in the self-publishing world. The Living Again series: Living Again, Reaching Rachel, Guarding Hearts, Finding Forever, and Breaking Free: A Living Again Novella are available now in both eBook and paperback. The Twisted Series, consisting of both Twisted Souls and Twisted Paths, is available now exclusively on Amazon. LL has been writing since she was old enough to write. Always a story in her head, she finally decided to let the characters out to try to make her lifelong dreams of becoming an author come true. She has been a teacher for over ten years, a wife for 15, and a mom to two boys, 13 and 11.

 

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COVER REVEAL: The Dark Ones by Rachel Van Dyken

We are very excited to bring to you the first cover in a brand new series by Rachel Van Dyken, The Dark Ones. 
This New Adult Paranormal will be released on September 20!

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To touch a Dark One is death.

To talk to an immortal is suicide.

Yet, I’ve been marked by both.

A Vampire.

And the King of the immortals.

My life is no longer my own.

And now I know the truth, my life was never mine to begin with.

It was theirs.

It’s always been theirs.

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Rachel Van Dyken is the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Bestselling author of regency and contemporary romances. When she’s not writing you can find her drinking coffee at Starbucks and plotting her next book while watching The Bachelor.

She keeps her home in Idaho with her Husband, adorable son, and two snoring boxers! She loves to hear from readers!

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