Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Then Again Blog Tour






                                                           Then Again, By Karen Stivali

                                      Review and Giveaway!!!

                                     Publication Date:  May 21, 2013   

4 Stars ****

                                
Synopsis:
Sometimes you have to lose it all to find what you really need.

Photographer Kay Turner is dealt a double whammy when she flies home for her grandmother’s funeral to find her boyfriend with another woman. Now with two losses to mourn, she retreats to her newly inherited beach house to clear her head.

Everything at the beach is familiar: the sounds of the ocean, the scent of her grandmother’s perfume—and the irresistible smile of James Margolis. The man Kay spent her adolescence pining for is every bit as charming as she remembers.

James always thought of Kay as “a nice kid”, but he feels something very different for the woman she’s become. Especially when he asks if she’d be willing to part with some of her grandmother’s recipes for his new restaurant—and they wind up sharing much more than culinary secrets.

But as their relationship deepens, Kay finds herself caught between the demands of her dream career as a travel photographer, and a chance for happiness with the one man she’s wanted for a lifetime.

Warning: This foodie romance contains sensual scone baking, a heroine who discovers one bad apple hasn’t spoiled her appetite, and a delicious hero you can’t help but crave. Blend well, serve hot.

 
   My Review: 

   This is a sweet story about Kay and James falling in love. Kay is a photographer and comes home to her apt one day to find a woman in her kitchen dressed only in her douchenozzle boyfriends shirt. Thankfully Kay is smart and immediately packs her stuff and leaves. Kay came home two weeks early because her grandmother, who practically raised her, has passed away. 

   While Kay is at the market, she runs into James. Kay has had a crush on James since they were kids but James being six years older than Kay, she never thought anything would happen. 

   When James sees Kay all grown up he is taken aback. She is not the awkward little girl in classes anymore. She is a delightfully curvy in all the right places woman who has captured his attention.

  James is soooooo sweet. I loved that he made excuses to come by Kay's house just so he could see her. Once they realize the mutual attraction, their relationship takes off from there.

    This was such a sweet romantic story with no games or drama and it has a happy ending!!! So, if you are looking for a feel good story with a side of hot lovin' then this is the book for you!

     

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About the Author:

Karen Stivali is a prolific writer, compulsive baker and chocoholic with a penchant for books, movies and fictional British men. When she's not writing, she can be found cooking extravagant meals and serving them to family and friends, who never seem to mind the excessive quantities she tends to prepare. She attributes her ability to multitask to the fact that she rarely sleeps, which gives her more hours every day. Prior to deciding to write full time Karen worked as a hand drawn animator, a clinical therapist, and held various food-related jobs ranging from waitress to specialty cake maker. Planning elaborate parties and fundraisers takes up what's left of her time and sanity.

Karen has always been fascinated by the way people relate to one another so she favors books and movies that feature richly detailed characters and their relationships. In her own writing she likes to explore the dynamics between characters and has a tendency to craft romantic tales filled with sarcasm and sexy details. Although she writes in three genres (erotic romance, contemporary romance and women's fiction) all of her stories are love stories with happily ever after endings.

Karen has published several erotic romance novels with Ellora's Cave including two award winning stories: Always You (published September 2011, First Place Winner of the RWA Passionate Plume Award - 2012)and Marry Me (published June 2012, First Place Winner in the NEC-RWA Bean Pot Reader's Choice Award - 2013).

Her works of women's fiction, Meant To Be, and its sequel, Holding On, (published by Turquoise Morning Press in August and November 2012, respectively) both made multiple  Best of 2012 lists and are rated as true gems and recommended reads.

Karen's latest release, Then, Again is a contemporary foodie romance published by Samhain Publishing.

To learn more about Karen  and all her upcoming books you can visit her website karenstivali.com where she blogs original recipes, sassy commentary on The Bachelor, and tidbits about her journey in the writing world. Karen can also be found attempting witty banter on Twitter
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Monday, May 20, 2013

THE UPSIDE OF LETTING GO COVER RE-REVEAL


The Upside of Letting Go by Nacole Stayon

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Sunday, May 19, 2013

Restore Me By JL Mac- Blog Tour


                                                                                               




                                           Restore Me, By JL Mac

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                                           5 Stars *****

Synopsis:

  Navigating the world alone is all Josephine Geroux has ever known. Life altering tragedy struck early on for her. She endured an admirable struggle through her youth and learned the hard way how to adapt and survive. She managed to arrive at adulthood in one piece in spite of it all. 

After such chaos, maintaining a life free of complications is a priority for her. 
Everything changed when a man with amber eyes came through her door and claimed her heart. She fell hard in more ways than one. The pull between Jo and Damon seemed like fate bringing things full circle.

With another devastating loss looming, Jo fights to hold on to the very thing that brought her to her knees. She finds herself torn between a promising future and clinging to a devastating past.
But that’s not the most worrisome problem on her hands. 

She must convince more than just herself to let the past stay in the past, where it belongs, but on her journey to find closure and resolution, she does the exact opposite. An old wound caused by a heinous act becomes exposed for what it is. The truth is catastrophic and Jo is helpless, watching as the ruins of her fragile world endure more turmoil. 

Can something conceived from tragedy and malice end well? Can something so completely poisoned conquer adversity? Jo is left to make a decision; accept the circumstances she finds herself in or fight with unwavering ferocity to restore what has been damaged.
*Restore Me is the second book in the Wrecked series

My Review:

 "I feel like I single-handedly destroyed what little happiness life offered me; Damon." - Jo



In Restore Me, we pick up where we left off at the end of Wreck Me. Jo feels so much guilt in how she was towards Damon the last time they spoke. If only she would have let him explain, if only she would have listened, if only she could take it all back Damon wouldn't be hurt, he wouldn't be different, he wouldn't be so cold. We get lots more of Hottie Mc.Hotterson, Damon Cole in this book. When he started off being so cold at the hospital to Jo I thought, "Oh no! What has happened to our hot, in charge, yet still caring man?" Damon struggles with the guilt from the accident that killed Jo's parents. Instead of the charismatic man we knew, Damon is like a zombie. Thankfully, Jo is determined to get her loving man back, no matter what.

"I meant what I said," I whisper. "I love you. I won't quit. I'll help you out of this."

In the beginning, instead of the seductive make you melt lover, Damon is cold and brutal with Jo. She knows he's hurting but there is still only so much she can take. 

"I won't leave him again. I'll never desert him like that again, but this treatment is hard to stomach." ...... "Do you hate me? Do You want me gone? Is this my punishment? Huh?!"


Grams is still the comic relief and doesn't disappoint. When Jo goes to visit Grams, she finds a gorgeous guy named Andy in her room. Grams openly flirts with Andy and purposefully creates odds and ends for Andy to fix in her room just so she can see him moving around. Andy, much to the irritation of Damon, takes a liking to Jo. I DO NOT trust him!!! He's off somehow. He is shady and gives me the heebee jeebies. I just know he is up to no good. Possibly the person that Damon's father, Edward, is speaking with in the Epilogue?? I guess that remains to be seen. 

Oh and Edward....Ugh! RAT BASTARD!!! I just wanted to punch his damn lights out. Seriously. Who treats their son like that? I felt myself shaking with anger when reading about all the horrible things he did to Damon. How atrocious he treated him. I hope he rots in jail and Karma comes back to bite him where it counts.


Jo snoops in the cabinets that Damon is always looking in and finds pages from his childhood diary. The information she sees is heartbreaking. She decides to be honest and confront Damon about it...and boy does she. I was holding my breath while tears were rolling down my face at the same time while reading this part. Damon is filled with this lifetime guilt that he was never good enough, that he was always doing something wrong, that he could have been better somehow. He only wanted his father's love.

From this point, Damon starts becoming more like his old self. Hot, steamy lover. Sweet loving boyfriend. Swoon! 


This book is on the shorter side but it still has all the elements we love about Jo and Damon. JL Mac will make you reach for your B.O.B. or significant other in two seconds with her ability to write freaking hot as hell love scenes. 

I have high hopes going forward for Damon and Jo...let's just hope Edward, the fucktard, doesn't screw it all up!


"I'd be lost without you. Josepine, you save me a thousand times a day in a thousand different ways and you don't even know it."



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About the Authorauthor pic_JL Mac
USA Today Best Selling Author,J.L. Mac is twenty-six years old and currently resides in El Paso, Texas, where she enjoys living near her family. She was born and raised in Galveston, Texas, until she married her husband in July of 2005. She has two young children and is married to a soldier in the United States Army. J.L. and her family have lived all over the United States and have enjoyed each new experience in each new place. J.L. admittedly has had a long and sordid love affair with the written word and has loved every minute of it. She drinks too many glasses of wine on occasion,and says way too many swear words to be considered “lady-like.” J.L. spends her free time reading, writing, and playing with her children.


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Friday, May 17, 2013

**COVER REVEAL** K.A. LINDE - FOLLOWING ME






                               **COVER REVEAL**

                                    FOLLOWING ME

                                      BY K.A. LINDE



                                 SYNOPSIS:



“I knew you were running the first time I saw you…"
Devon didn’t have a game plan when she decided to leave St. Louis on a Chicago-bound train for the summer. Just a reason. One she couldn’t share with anyone.
Not Hadley, her best friend from college, who lets her stay in the guest bedroom; no questions asked. Or Brennan, the bartender at the local restaurant they frequent, who she actively tries to avoid. Or Garrett, Hadley’s boyfriend, who befriends her when she has no one else to turn to.
"I just didn’t know what you were running from...."
Desperate to hide at all costs, Devon plunges into her new life in the city. Everyone around her starts to reveal sides of themselves Devon never expected. And just when she starts to get comfortable, her world flips upside down…
"...but I think all along you were running toward me."
4 lives.
All connected.
All with secrets that just keep following them.




EXCERPT:


Sweat beaded on Devon’s temple, and she wiped it off her forehead and out of her eyes.  The party had been going all night, and it was nice to loosen up and get lost in the music and dancing.  She hadn’t partied in so long, and she couldn’t resist when Amy had actually invited her out.  Either she was getting over her hatred for the new girl, or Devon had just been there long enough that she wasn’t considered the new girl any longer.
People were packed into the club shoulder to shoulder, many even closer than that.  The music was ear-splittingly loud.  Crazy lights traversed the warehouse-sized room, and they alternated to strobes slowing everything down to slow motion.  She hadn’t had much to drink, but she was dizzy with dehydration and the energy in the room.  Her tank top was sticking to her back, and she had long since pulled her hair up off of her neck into a ponytail.
God, I need another drink, she thought.
Her eyes moved around the room taking in as much as she could from her vantage point.  It really only ended up being the two feet encircling her.  Amy had to be somewhere inside the building.  How had she lost track of her?
Well, she knew how.  There were too many damn people in the place.  It was easy to lose track of one person, especially when that person was as short as Amy.  Still, she should have done better. She didn’t like being alone in dark places.  Whether she was surrounded by people or in a back alleyway at night, she was still alone.
She craned her head to look for her, but was having no luck.  It felt like more and more people were being crushed into the space.  How was this in line with fire code?  Surely the place would be shut down soon.
Walking in the direction of the bar, Devon tried to find Amy in the crowd.  Seriously it was getting harder and harder to maneuver through.  She was literally having to elbow people out of the way. This wasn’t okay, and it wasn’t fun.  They shouldn’t let any more people in.  Things could get out of control.
Devon looked up over the heads of people in front of her and sighed.  It felt like she was never going to reach the bar, and there was a huge line anyway.  She thought maybe the bathroom would be a better alternative…at least there she would have some privacy.
She turned to walk the other direction and slammed right into a meaty guy in front of her, who glared at her as she lost her balance and tumbled to the floor.  Someone stepped on her hand as she tried to get up.  Devon swore and hissed pulling her hand away from the ground where someone else could do the same thing.  She stood as best she could, cradling her aching hand.  It wasn’t easy pushing through people with one hand pressed between her breasts to keep from someone else smashing into it.  All it did was cause people to unknowingly smash into other parts of her.  She hadn’t made it more than a few feet toward the bathroom, and she had already been elbowed in the arm, gotten her foot stepped on, and been drunkenly body slammed knocking the breath out of her.  The club was getting dangerous.
A space opened in the crowd, and she took advantage, rushing forward through the throng of people. It took her closer to the bathroom but not close enough.  Then she felt it.  Eyes on the back of her head.  She didn’t even know how it was possible.  There were hundreds of people in the place.  No one could be focusing that intently on her, but she could swear that someone was watching her.
*****







ABOUT THE AUTHOR: K.A. LINDE




K.A. Linde graduated with her Masters in political science from the University of Georgia in 2012. She also has a bachelors in political science and philosophy. She wrote the Avoiding Series while struggling through advanced statistical modeling and writing her thesis. She enjoys dancing and writing novels that keep you guessing until the very end.
She currently resides in Georgia with her boyfriend and two puppies, Lucy and Riker.



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Thursday, May 16, 2013

LOST FOR YOU BY BJ HARVEY COVER REVEAL




                      LOST FOR YOU BY BJ HARVEY
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                                                        JULY 23, 2013

                                  SYNOPSIS:

What would you do if you were told that everything you had ever believed in and everything you had ever known, was a lie? 

Elle’s life is altered forever after an unexpected phone call and an unwelcome visitor. Trying to put her life back together, Brax’s last words continue to echo through her mind. Why she is being followed and why is she suddenly in danger? The fact that Brax knew about it all and still left her alone, breaks her fragile heart all over again. 

Brax will never forgive himself for leaving Elle at a time when she needed him the most, even if he believed it was the only way to protect her. As he makes his way back to her life, he is determined to win her back, regain her trust and help rebuild her for the second time. His return proves he is the same man, yet Elle sees in his eyes a haunted look she knows all too well. 

When a confession leaves Elle reeling, her entire life unravels around her. She begins to understand that the people she trusts the most have put her in grave danger and the people who have been protecting her actually want to cause her harm. 

Elle soon discovers that the old adage is true, you have to become lost before you can be found.






*Excerpt*


Her whole body starts to shake, so I pull her close to me again. Her shoulders are slumped over and she grabs my shirt, gripping so tight that her knuckles are almost white with strain. Once the shaking subsides I shift back, placing my fingers under her chin so that her eyes meet mine. Her eyes are red and puffy, like she’s been crying for days.

 I’ve never seen her like this. So low, so broken, so shut down.

“Baby, let me look after you. We’ll talk about everything tomorrow. I’ll tell you everything you want to know, but tonight I want to get you out of these wet clothes, wrap you up in my arms and comfort you. Will you let me do that, hon? I need you to let me help you.”

Unable to form words, Elle slowly nods, never once dropping her gaze. I strip her wet tank top off her, wrapping her towel around her chest as I pull her off the counter, carefully placing her feet on the kitchen floor. I yank her shorts down her still wet legs until she’s standing naked and exposed in front of me.

There is nothing sexual about this moment.

I take her hand and lead her into our bedroom, walking over to her drawers and pulling out a new top and pajama pants for her. I kneel down in front of her, lifting her feet one at a time as I put her legs into the pants and pull them back up to her waist. Not once has she lifted her head. She appears mesmerized by my every move.

Leading her over to the bed, I sit down on the edge and pull her into my lap as I hold the tank top in front of her. She puts her arms inside the top and I pull it the rest of the way down her body. I grab the towel and start drying her hair. I’m taking my time, wanting her to feel cherished and adored, hoping she’ll see the sincerity in my actions and not just my words, I wrap my arms around her and carry her into our bed.

“I’ll just be a minute, sweetheart,” I murmur, placing a tender kiss her forehead. I make my way into the bathroom, stripping off my wet clothes and wrapping a towel around my waist. Walking back into the bedroom, I grab a pair of boxers from the closet and put them on before crawling into bed beside her.

I move my arm around her shoulders and pull her tight into my side. She still hasn’t said a single word since I arrived. I start tracing shapes on her arm as I hold my lips to her forehead. She lays her head on my shoulder, moving one of her legs across mine as her heat cloaks me.

This is where I’m meant to be.

Where I hope Elle wants me to stay.



ABOUT THE AUTHOR




Having always loved reading, and having been befriended and inspired by some awesome self published authors and book lovers alike, I decided to start writing my first novel, Lost in Distraction in December 2012. It was a conscious decision that started with a song, then the prologue and then catapulted from there. I love music too, like REALLY love music, if there isn't music playing, something is wrong. Out and Proud Vampire Diaries fan as well. 

I'm also a wife, mother, full-time university student and I do contract work for myself from home.





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Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Allure by Nina Lane - Blog Tour - Review and Giveaway




                                                        ALLURE, BY NINA LANE
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                                                      5 STARS!!!                                                  


In Arouse, book 2, it opens with Dean and Olivia in a very compromising, very hot position, in a coat closet. Jealous! A humorous situation ensues and the story continues...


This book was mostly about Dean and Olivia trying to rekindle the passion and joy they had in the beginning of their relationship. We retrace the steps from the beginning and see how much Dean adores Olivia, how he only has eyes for her, only wants her, how he wants to make her happy, and protect her from all things. 

"You became my world the minutes I saw you Olivia Rose."


“We want our marriage to be a haven of warmth and pleasure again. We want our pure lustiness back, untainted by fear and mistrust. We want the unending spirals of bliss we can create only with each other. We want to shut the rest of the world out while locking ourselves in together”


Olivia feels like she has lost herself somewhere along the way. She had all these plans after college that never happened. Dean has taken care of her for so long, she starts to think she is nothing without him. She feels weak. Dean, however knows she is strong, stronger than most.

"You’re the strongest person I've ever met, Liv. I don’t think you even know how strong you are…” 


We get both POV's which I love. We get to go inside Dean's mind and see that he is beside himself during the rough times. He isn't sure where he went wrong in their marriage, but he feels like he is to blame.

“Why was I suddenly not enough for you? What if I fail you again?” 


Dean and Olivia have a very passionate, loving, yet destructive marriage. Their love is strong however and they are determined to make it through the hardships and the heartbreak. They go through so much, you don't think they could possibly take anymore. Dean's family certainly doesn't make things easy. There is one part in particular that I can relate to. I found myself with tears streaming down my face that wouldn't stop. My 5-yr old son came over and asked me if I was okay and didn't leave my side for a while after that. 


They are there for each other in the end when the shit starts hitting the fan in other areas. I was surprised by the ending and can't wait to see how to story enfolds. I would also like to see more about Dean's brother and maybe possibly a book for him??? :) 

I think these two will make it...I mean they have to. Two people who have the sexual connection and holy hotness that they have are made for each other! Make sure you have your significant other or B.O.B. nearby while reading this!!! 

Well done Nina Lane! I can't wait to see what's next. 


"You and me, beauty, he reminds me, his eyes gentle.

You and me, professor.”



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NINA LANE
Nina Lane is a multi-published author of elegant, romantic, and often raunchy erotica. Her recent release Arouse is the first book in the Spiral of Bliss series, and her novel, The Erotic Dark is an Amazon #1 Erotica bestseller. 

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