Fighting to Stay by Kasey Millstead‏ @givemebooks @KaseyMillstead #cover #reveal


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December 15, 2013
“Never stay, Lacey. Promise me. Promise right now, that whenever things go bad in life, you will run. Never, ever stay.”Lacey Monroe was used to running. When things got bad, when things got dangerous, when there was a chance that she would get hurt – physically or emotionally – she did what her momma said. She ran. She kept running, until she landed in Salt Rock, Alabama. She meets Roam Cooper, the Vice President of the Mayhem Motorcycle Club and for the first time in her life, Lacey considers staying…and then, right before her eyes, her world falls apart. And she runs again.

“No more runnin’, Lacey. ‘Bout time you started fighting to stay.” – Roam.

**This is a stand-alone, full length novel with a happy ever after**


Kasey Millstead lives a quiet life in country New South Wales,
Australia, with her husband and their four young children. She enjoys baking,
singing (ridiculously out of tune) & spending time with friends and family.
Kasey has always harboured a deep love for reading and writing, and she is now
lucky enough to be living her dream of being an Author.

 
 

 

Destructive Silence by L.U. Ann #spotlight Blog Tour @authorluann


 

If you never speak of the past, can it be erased?  

Lacey Edwards has a past. 

A past which changed her life forever. 

A past she is desperate to forget.

 

Lacey is quiet and reserved compared to her best friend Becca Fox. They became instant friends when Lacey moved to Maryland nine years ago. Becca helped pull Lacey out of her internal shell to experience life. By high school, Lacey was active in the club scene and would occasionally have to drag Becca with her. One night, Lacey realized she might be able to run from her past with the help of Becca and one steamy Caine Rogers.

Lacey didn’t know, until it was too late, how feelings, honesty, heartbreak and life altering events can change a person. Lacey has Becca’s support but will that be enough?

Will Lacey sacrifice her own happiness to do what is expected?

 

 

 

L U Ann lives in Colorado with her husband and two children. She spends her day writing, attempting to tackle domestic needs around the house or hiding them from her husband. She tends to her loving four-legged friends who become much too whiny when mom locks herself in the office. Most times this results in her having to do more domestic work cleaning after their deviant behavior.

At night you’ll find her begging the kids to go to bed so she can catch up on the latest book before her sister can and then rub it in her face when she finishes it first. Yes, L U Ann is an avid reader who escapes her chaotic but wonderful home to the feisty depths of romance land in search of her newest book boyfriend. Shh, don’t tell her husband!

Destructive Silence is her debut novel. It is one of three books in The Destructive Series. Each book will hit its reader with lots of angst hoping for a happily ever after.

She is currently working on Destructive Choices, book two in the series.

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No Turning Back (Full Circle #1 by Casey Peeler @AuthorCasey #review @wrnmk_


 

 

Why not start on what I really liked. I am a Brooklyn born blogger, so in other words, I know nothing about country music or talk. I loved the southern innuendo and phrases! The music and mentions of the ringtones were equally appealing. Charley was in a long term typical teen relationship with the all around seemingly perfect Dylan. OK so he is a little bit of a bad boy, but she is happy and still “pure”. There is a party and sadly Dylan does the unspeakable. Along comes long time friend Cash to clean up. I won’t give any spoilers, but Charley handles things HER way, so for that I admire the author. I think she took an unorthodox way of handling something and wrote it out.

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This is where there is a little disconnect. I think Cash should have been brought up or mentioned before this tragic incident. It seems like he is brought in without any prior mentions and he could have been a big rival for Charely’s heart. They have known each other since they were 4 years old. So after this incident, Charley lags and finally makes a college choice.  So in rush mode putting the past where it belongs, she leaves Grassy Pond. Seriously how cute is the name Grassy Pond? I loved it.

At Southern College, she really comes into her own. It is amazing how she bounced back and accepts some friends. Of course it doesnt last when Cash walks back into her life.

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It is SO worth the trip to Southern and Grassy Pond! I say it may not be perfect, but I really enjoyed it! I thought Charley dealt with her issues in her own way and for that the author deserves a pat on the back. Not everyone crawls into a hole or goes wild. Charley did it her way!

 

How will her first semester of college end? Seriously read it

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Casey Peeler grew up and still lives in North Carolina with her husband and daughter. Her first passion is teaching students with special needs. Over the years, she found her way to relax was in a good book.  

After reading Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neal Hurston her senior year of high school and multiple Nicholas Sparks’ novels, she found a hidden love and appreciation for reading. 

Casey is an avid reader, blogger (Hardcover Therapy,) and now author. No Turning Back (Full Circle #1) is her debut novel releasing September 30th Circle #2) will release spring 2014.  

Her goal is to one day be an author who is recognized nationwide like Jamie McGuire, Colleen Hoover, Tiffany King, and Amanda Bennett. When Casey isn’t reading, you can find her listening to country music, spending the day at the lake, being a wife and dance mom, and spending time with friends and family. Her perfect day consists of water, sand between her toes, a cold beverage, and a great book!

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A Window to Love by FiFi Flowers @fififlowers #spotlight


Melissa Bennette, a young beautiful woman who has tragically lost her parents in a devastating plane crash, is set to spend another Christmas holiday alone until one night as she gazes into the dressed up holiday windows of New York City and her path crosses with the gorgeous man of her dreams.

Evan Duke is the world’s top male model, dreamed about and wanted by women everywhere, but he only has eyes for her.

This erotic tale of twists, turns and surprises stretches from twinkling lights of New York to the sun drenched beaches of Santa Monica to the art world of Paris. With each destination, the layers of their lives and closely held secrets fall away as a beautiful love grows out of the weeds of self doubt and heartbreak.

This book contains sexually explicit material and is intended for adult readers only.

 

“Art is an experience that transcends all cultural boundaries… it makes us feel!” Fifi Flowers
Fifi Flowers is an internationally known artist who paints her daydream city of Paris, adding her special flair of whimsy and fun to the iconic images of Paris. Beautiful things that surround her daily life are what inspire her to paint. Setting a mood… playing with colour… experimenting with patterns and textures… painting on canvas or archival paper.
Fifi has taken her love of Paris and romance to the pages of her first novel, A Window To Love, due out on August 11th, 2013. Fifi’s love of writing began at a very young age, and finally, during the Fall of 2012, she sat down, and instead of putting paint to paper, put her pen to paper and began her first novel. A Window To Love is the first in her series of eight romance novels.
Fifi has a bachelor’s degree in Art and a minor in Art History from California Polytechnic University. She also attended UCLA Film School for Production Design.
Fifi resides in the Los Angeles area of California… but part of her heart resides in Paris, France.

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After getting involved with Dylan, the bad boy of the Dixon High Swim team, Charley decides to stay close to home for college. It’s just safer that way. Later, she realizes it’s a mistake, just like dating Dylan. She decides to put the past behind her and leave the small hick town of Grassy Pond. There is only one problem; she makes this decision three weeks before the fall semester begins.

Charley packs up her Honda and heads to Southern College. On the morning she’s about to leave, Cash walks back into her life. He has been her best friend since they were four and is the only one who knows the REAL Charley. She leaves her farm in Grassy Pond with all kinds of “what if” questions. Charley decides to live her college career to the fullest. She finds a great group of friends, joins the swim team, and meets a guy named Joe. He’s got eyes that make ya wanna melt!

At college, she encounters a new problem. Charley has been away from home for onlyforty-eight hours before she breaks the two promises she made to herself. Will she be able to overcome her past?

Find new love?

What will happen with Cash now that he is back in her life?

Will she find what she is wanting in Jackalope Joe?

How will her first semester of college end? Joe, Cash, or alone?

  

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Hey, Char, while Cash ain’t in here. Where the hell am I staying tonight? I mean, I don’t want to intrude on y’all.” 

“Piper, you can stay in there because you know as well as I do nothing is going to happen.” She looks at me like whatever. 

About that time Cash opens the truck door and climbs in. We make our way to campus, up the stoop, and into Kluft. I am exhausted and need a shower to recoup before Hank’s tonight. As we reach the top step, I can hear Caroline, Tori, Georgia, Jenny, Anna, and Cassie in hall. They are singing to “Thrift Shop”blaring over the radio and dancing like fools in the hallway. 

Cash glances at me, “Oh lawd, what have I got myself into?” I just shrug my shoulders and pull him down the hall. All the girls take their turn putting moves on him, and of course, Anna has something to say. “Hey, Cowboy, I ain’t ever rode a cowboy before.” With a wink Cash answers back, “Sorry, Sweetheart, but I ain’t a cowboy. I’m a homegrown country boy that only has eyes for one little lady,” as he stares into my blue eyes.  

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Casey Peeler grew up and still lives in North Carolina with her husband and daughter. Her first passion is teaching students with special needs. Over the years, she found her way to relax was in a good book.  

After reading Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neal Hurston her senior year of high school and multiple Nicholas Sparks’ novels, she found a hidden love and appreciation for reading. 

Casey is an avid reader, blogger (Hardcover Therapy,) and now author. No Turning Back (Full Circle #1) is her debut novel releasing September 30th Circle #2) will release spring 2014.  

Her goal is to one day be an author who is recognized nationwide like Jamie McGuire, Colleen Hoover, Tiffany King, and Amanda Bennett. When Casey isn’t reading, you can find her listening to country music, spending the day at the lake, being a wife and dance mom, and spending time with friends and family. Her perfect day consists of water, sand between her toes, a cold beverage, and a great book!

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Temporary Bliss (Bliss #1) by B.J. Harvey @bjharveyauthor @Tantalizingblog


*Disclaimer – There is absolutely no cheating in this book. However, this book does contain descriptive and super hot sex scenes that will make you blush and leave you hot and bothered. Make sure you have you husband, partner, boyfriend or significant other nearby when reading, or else batteries. Lots and lots of batteries*


Makenna Lewis cringes at any mention of the word commitment. She doesn’t want or need a relationship, but she does like sex (who doesn’t). 
That explains Noah, Sean, and Zander, her three ‘friends with benefits’. 

They know the score, they know they’re not the only one, and each of them provide her with a different physical need that she craves and enjoys. 

Until a late night encounter with the delicious Daniel Winters turns her preconceived notion of no-commitment completely on its head. 
Soon she finds herself feeling things she vowed never to feel again, and when Daniel pushes for more than she’s willing to give, she falters. 

What do you do when something that you’ve known to be so wrong in the past feels so damn right?

If you’re Mac, you run and hide. 

But is Daniel the type of man who takes no for an answer?

Yes you can have sex, dirty sex, friendship, love and happiness in 1 book. This was it. Great characters with a lot to offer. I totally loved the writing style. It started off pretty scary with a few scenes of gripping terror and then got naughty pretty fast. Very unique. Expect to be dazzled and YEAH you need batteries or a lover!
 

Seriously read book 1 and 2 and guess what? NO cliffhanger! Only a great book. I am equally thrilled book 3 is coming. Give a recommendation, tweet and a Facebook like. Let’s share this one! 

 

Author of the Lost and Bliss romance series.

Indie Author hailing from the most beautiful country in the world, New Zealand.

Avid reader, television watcher, and facebooker. Having been writing off and on for a long time but started writing fiction in 2012. I love music too, like REALLY love music, if there isn’t music playing, something is wrong. And it’s a wide range of music too, I might surprise you.

I’m a wife to one husband, mother of two gorgeous girls, self-employed doing communications and business consulting as well as studying accounting full time.

Addicted to energy drinks, chocolate, cronuts, Vampire Diaries and pickles with mustard.


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Binary Law (Boston #1) by M.H. Grace #review @AuthorMHGrace


“I have no intentions of this journey ending anytime soon, but it starts tonight, with you and me” – Blake McCarthy

The first part of this book was so fluffy and a real cozy romance. No spoilers allowed! So the set up is a great group of guys that went through high school and college, though different places, at the same time. Blake, who has has a crush on Eleanor forever, Ben and Billy who are like brothers. Ellie has to leave her best friend Hope and her secret love Blake to move within a day. Her Dad is in the military and she gets a message to come home asap. When she does of course the news is dismal. When she arrives at her new home the only bag missing is the ones with her notebooks and cell phone. She has no way to call Hope or Blake. She ponders over and over what would have been..

the angst level is on high at this point, then the next chapter, my first jaw dropping..

6 Years later. Well they meet again

It really happens so fast and before you know it the the B’s Blake, Ben and Billy are being sued. Well guess who is representing them? Ellie. One of those moments happens and leaves the group with the addition of Georgia panicking about the future and the law suit. Ben and Georgia have been together for about 4 years and being he had come from a broken home, he didn’t want to get married. It is spoken of, but not in detail. I think that is a miss opportunity for the plot.

 I loved the group and characters were great. Sometimes the supporting characters are equally as memorable. I adored Robert, who is Ellie’s legal assistant. He is in a committed relationship with Tony who is the skip tracer/investigator. They bring a new and very exciting element to the book. I loved how they interacted and more importantly their commitment to each other. So for Ellie, she relies on the dynamic duo of Robert and Tony. I would love more of them myself.

In the end you wont believe what happens and it will keep you thinking about it long after you are done reading. Take my word it is filled with a big ole nasty legal battle, lots of love, sex, steam and an ultimate betrayal. DON’T miss it. I cant wait for book 2. This has NO cliffhanger either.

Some quotes to swoon over:

“Ellie, I want to date you and, as juvenile as it sounds, I want you to be my girlfriend. Ellie, will you be my girlfriend? Will you be my plus one, let me make it up to you for all those years we’ve been apart, will you be mine?” Read more at location 530

 Five boxes later and a gift that made my heart take a little leap, a leap closer to falling in love with Blake. Read more at location 675
 I’m going to make it my own personal promise to never let life stand in the way again. Life will never rip me away from the ones I love, not without a battle from me.

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Corrupted by Emmy Yoshida @EmmyYoshida #review


 
 

I am thrilled to report another fantastic read! This novel was a perfect blend of suspense, steamy sex, erotic nightclubs and a strong female lead. Ria Kimura was beautiful and a strong lead. Her family, especially her mom were the perfect sub plot characters. There was of course her job as a stripper which lends the backdrop. She had a wild group of friends. The author shows a side to strippers that releases the stigma behind them. It is a job! The author did a great job with the entire scenario. 

So the story is all about this mysterious, handsome millionaire Brad Harrison. He walks into the club politely sweeps Ria off her feet and before you know it she is in Australia. It turns bad faster that you realize it! I think Ria’s dad passing away and her sister being happily married has a lot to do with the quick move. She figure she can get a job in the fashion industry with her degree and live with Brad happily. He turns into a monster. His parents are powerful and when Ria meets them, they make her feel like a fool. Brad’s mom makes a mockery of her education and insinuates fashion is no place for her. I felt so super bad for her at that moment.

I suggest this to my erotic thriller lovers. What a fantastic juicy read!There is a very scandalous tale that awaits you.

Corrupted is a journey full of twists and turns that will have you addicted and begging for more.
 

 

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Born in Japan to an English mother and Japanese father, Emmy was brought up with two conflicting cultures. From a young age she rebelled against conforming to society’s rules, as a young girl in Japan she was stifled by the expectations and behaviours of those around her, until her mother decided to move back to England with her and her sisters.
 
She flourished at school particularly in English and Art and always enjoyed using her imagination. She could often be found sitting on the side of the playground, engrossed in a book while her counterparts played.
 
After finishing school she decided to study fashion at university and while studying started working at Stringfellows in London. Soon after graduating she moved to Australia where she worked as a dancer and did various sales jobs.
 
After two years of frivolity and living a life of excess she decided to move back home and eventually had her son.
 
It was while her son slept that she wrote her first novel Corrupted; a suspense novel inspired from her experiences as an exotic dancer.
 
Emmy now lives in Sussex in England with her son and is currently writing her next novel, which promises to be just as thrilling as the first.

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Corrupted by Emmy Yoshida @EmmyYoshida #spotlight


 The most charming men are usually the most dangerous; a lesson one girl is about to learn the hard way …

Ria Kimura is beautiful, wild, and naive; a deadly combination. Since her father’s sudden death she has lived her life by the motto, ” you could get hit by a bus tomorrow.”

It is this reckless attitude which leads her to the world of exotic dancing and in to the arms of Brad Harrison; a handsome Australian millionaire who quickly entices her to a new life down under, away from her troubles.

But the dream quickly descends in to a nightmare and Ria soon finds herself all alone on the other side of the world …

A dramatic Australian adventure packed with sex, scandal and suspense, Corrupted is a journey full of twists and turns that will have you addicted and begging for more.

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Born in Japan to an English mother and Japanese father, Emmy was brought up with two conflicting cultures. From a young age she rebelled against conforming to society’s rules, as a young girl in Japan she was stifled by the expectations and behaviours of those around her, until her mother decided to move back to England with her and her sisters.
She flourished at school particularly in English and Art and always enjoyed using her imagination. She could often be found sitting on the side of the playground, engrossed in a book while her counterparts played.
After finishing school she decided to study fashion at university and while studying started working at Stringfellows in London. Soon after graduating she moved to Australia where she worked as a dancer and did various sales jobs.
After two years of frivolity and living a life of excess she decided to move back home and eventually had her son.
It was while her son slept that she wrote her first novel Corrupted; a suspense novel inspired from her experiences as an exotic dancer. Emmy now lives in Sussex in England with her son and is currently writing her next novel, which promises to be just as thrilling as the first.

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