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Flirting With Chaos by Kenya Wright@1laureezy3 @Kenyawright77

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Title: Flirting With Chaos
Author: Kenya Wright
Genre: New Adult Rock Star Erotic Romance
Publisher: Omnific Publishing
Release Date: November 19, 2013
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Can two mentally unstable best friends have sex and not drown in chaos? Rain’s been washing blood off her hands for far too long.After five years, she accepts the fact that she”s still a little crazy but feels as if she’s finally gotten it all under control.Parties, drugs, and sex flood Jude’s life, and music and scandal run through his veins. He’s the son of a rock god and grandson of a jazz legend. It’s no surprise that his own star is on the rise, and with so many groupies vying for his attention, his childhood best friend Rain keeps him anchored in reality.
She’s nothing like him–an art student with no idea of her own beauty, who would rather curl up with a sci-fi novel than party in the spotlight. Everything changes when she asks him for a unique favor: she wants him to take her virginity. He’s more than willing to oblige, but things get complicated when his pervy father gets involved. Meanwhile, intense feelings rise to the surface, ones neither Rain nor Jude are prepared to deal with.
If their relationship has any chance for survival, she must finally confront the demons of her past, and he must face the addictions of the present. When the smoke clears, will they find that sex between best friends was a good idea, or will they discover they had been Flirting With Chaos the entire time?

An intricate pattern of colorful tattoos decorated both of his arms. It was a mural of his life—stars that intertwined with musical notes; guitars interlocked into microphones; nude, big breasted angels riding hulky demons. Those arms and that face had adorned the covers of magazines for years. Now he represented a legend of rock history. To obtain his interview would mean lots of money and skilled maneuvering through his agent, publicist, bodyguards, entourage, and any of the other people that walled him away from society.

Kenya Wright always knew she would be famous since the ripe old age of six when she sang the Michael Jackson thriller song in her bathroom mirror. She has tried her hand at many things from enlisting in the Navy for six years as a Persian-Farsi linguist to being a nude model at an art university.
However, writing has been the only constant love in her life. Will she succeed? Of course. For she has been coined The Urban Fantasy Queen, the Super Iconic Writer of this Age, The Lyrical Genius of Our Generation. Granted, these are all terms coined by her, within the private walls of her bathroom as she still sings the Michael Jackson thriller song.
Kenya Wright currently resides in Miami with her three amazing, overactive children, a supportive, gorgeous husband, and three cool black cats that refuse to stop sleeping on Kenya’s head at night.
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COME TO ME SOFTLY by A.L. Jackson @aljacksonauthor #cover #reveal

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COME TO ME SOFTLY by A.L. Jackson has a cover and we get to share it with you today! Isn’t it gorgeous! Read all about Book 2 in the Closer to You Series coming SUMMER 2014!!
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Title: Come To Me Softly (The Closer to You Series, Book 2)
Author: A.L. Jackson
Expected Release Date: Summer 2014
Genre: New Adult Romance




From the New York Times bestselling author of Come to Me Quietly comes
a scorching new adult romance in the Closer to You series.


A second chance at life…
A second chance at love…
Jared Holt never thought he deserved either—until he found both in the arms of Aly Moore. Aly has loved Jared for as long as she can remember, and she’s more than ready for the future they’re making together. But Jared can’t help remembering his own family. And he’ll never forgive himself for what happened to them. How can he allow himself the very happiness he once destroyed? To live a life worthy of Aly, Jared knows he has to stop running and finally put his past to rest. But when he decides to face his demons head on, he encounters more than he bargained for: a dangerous mix of jealousy, lies, and dishonest intentions. When those intentions threaten Aly, Jared loses all control, giving into the rage that earned him his bad boy reputation years before. And he’ll fight to protect her no matter what it costs…even if he destroys himself in the process.

 

I gasped when strong. arms wrapped around me from behind. Then I melted when he buried his face in my neck. Jared spun me around and pressed me up against the cool metal of my car door. His hands were on my face, in my hair, slipping down my sides before he brought them back up to force me to look at him. “Thank you.” Desperation poured from him, his hold increasing as he stared down at the shock I felt lining my face. “Thank you for fucking believing in me, Aly. For getting me.”Fear lashed across his face. Or maybe it was remorse. He swallowed hard, his voice hardened with strain. “I’m scared to think of where I’d be right now without you.”That fear that had flashed on his face coiled in my stomach. Because I didn’t know where he’d been. Had no idea where the last three months had taken him. How far. How low.I wasn’t sure I wanted to know.

“You’re here with me now.” I had to believe that was all that mattered.

He grimaced. Gripping my face, he leaned down and kissed me, hard and demanding. There was no soft affection, none of the playfulness from upstairs. This was a seal. A branding. He jerked back. A storm raged in the blue of his eyes. “Don’t think I can’t see all those questions burning in your mind, Aly. And I may not have all the answers right now, but we are going to figure this out. Do you understand me? I promise you that.”

And I saw it all there, the torment that plagued Jared, this beautiful man who had lost his way, the one desperate to find his way home.


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A.L. Jackson is the New York Times bestselling author of Take This Regret and Lost to You, as well as other contemporary romance titles, including Pulled, When We Collide, and If Forever Comes.She first found a love for writing during her days as a young mother and college student. She filled the journals she carried with short stories and poems used as an emotional outlet for the difficulties and joys she found in day-to-day life.Years later, she shared a short story she’d been working on with her two closest friends and, with their encouragement, this story became her first full length novel. A.L. now spends her days writing in Southern Arizona where she lives with her husband and three children.Look for Come to Me Quietly and Come to Me Softly coming soon.

 

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Aleena Moore is content with her life. She has goals and dreams and an easy smile. She also has a secret she holds locked inside.Jared Holt believes he doesn’t deserve to love or be loved. He destroys everything he touches. Haunted by the mistake that shattered his life, he’s fled from the memory of that pain.Jared doesn’t know why he’s compelled to return, but finds himself drawn back to the place where it all began. The exact place where it ended. When he runs into his childhood best friend, Aleena’s older brother Christopher, he agrees to share Christopher and Aleena’s apartment while he looks for a place of his own.Aleena is no longer the little girl Jared remembers from his past and evokes feelings in him he never wanted to feel again. Terrified of destroying her, he fights to keep her away. But her touch is something he can’t resist—the touch that sealed his fate.

Their pasts are intertwined and their futures uncertain. The only truths they know are the secrets they whisper in the night

 

Working It by Kendall Ryan @KendallRyan1 #review

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A story of heart-stopping, toe-curling passion by the beloved bestselling author of Hard to Love, Resisting Her, and The Impact of You.

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I am sure you read the synopsis and already know the main character, Emmy Clarke, from Tennessee is in New York. She gets a jobs working for Fiona Stone, modeling agent, bitch, and boss lady. I will say I loved that Emmy was a nice girl, had a real figure, and was NOT a virgin. Praise the Lord if I read one more book about a twenty something who was pure I would have screamed. Basically finding out that Fiona gets a new assistant every month, makes more sense. So the believable factor is there. Fiona is a typical business woman with little or no filter. She hurts Emmy and makes nasty comments, but that is her character.

653e9-whatilovedblogbacker2077229…was that Fiona was in the modeling business, so therefore she didn’t need a filter. The author was spot on! Anyone in that world is limited to time and says it, gets bold, and moves on without thinking. So I loved some of her comments about Emmy. She was sort of the woman you love to hate.

Enter Ben Shaw, Emmy’s first mistake. Fiona and her favorite communication mode, a sticky note, leads Emmy to call Ben into the office when she wasn’t supposed to. Here he is and she is smitten.

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Another LOVE, was the insiders view of how Ben was living. His diet, his image, and his life, all belonging to Fiona and his career. Being that his mom was a famous model, he was born into it. I loved the realistic ways of life that were stuck into the book.

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The photographer clicked away, in obvious joy at getting to work with such a talent. “Chin up,” he directed. “Beautiful.” Click, click. “Relax your shoulders.” Click. “Stunning. Just like that.” Click, click.

I am going to put this one as a read it now book. Make me tell you about the steam now. OK it is steamy and it is the perfect blend of steam. Not too much, nothing crazy, just wonderful fluffy, sexy, steamy fun! 

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“Great, now look off camera. Pick something to focus on,” the photographer told Ben.

His eyes found mine.

 

 

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Infinite Possibilities – The Secret Life of Amy Bensen Book 2 @LisaReneeJones #reveal

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The Secret Life of Amy Bensen Book 2

Secrets and lies. They are everywhere: haunting her, tormenting her. In the midst of it all, he’d been her escape, her passion. The only person she’d trusted in six years. And then he’d made her doubt that trust, cutting her deeply. But as she’d once told him, she was damaged, not broken. She is ready to fight and not just for survival. She is fighting for the truth and she won’t stop until she has it, not even for…him.
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It’s A Shame by C.E. Hansen @CynthiaEHansen #review

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If you have not read books one, stop and do so now. This one is a continuation so book one doesn’t leave with a cliff hanger. Trying to move on Grace and Cole deal with the aftermath. The author give you the conflicts. They get hate mail from people and on the other end of the spectrum they get sympathy. A very interesting side of the couple is brought  to light. They are very much in love and lust. There are a lot of pretty graphic scenes so I loved them. I enjoyed the sub character Michelle as Grace’s best friend  She overcomes a life threatening ordeal faster and becomes stronger. Between her and Grace I was loving their resiliency.

“When will this magic carpet ride stop? Where will we get off? I had a nagging worry this relationship had become too intense. It consumed me, consumed every waking moment” 

Cole wants to get custody of his child Kyle and while that was not in Grace’s plans, I think she started thinking about a picket fence suburban life. When things are sexy and intimate for them it doesn’t really last long.  

Grace is in the middle of another ordeal. Then she has no choice but to begin an inner conflict about Cole. She is thinking maybe he isn’t innocent  he has a temper when it comes to her. Did he take it too far? There is the ex Lauren Buckley, Mother of his child to consider. It is a page turner for sure. Michelle is attracted to Dean a detective who helped Grace. They are adorable together.

 “Each day and night I spent with Cole I fell deeper and deeper in love with him.”

 

So along with trying to repair the relations with her Mom, Grace deals with her stepfather Franklin. I get the feeling she was indifferent since she lost her real father. Franklin however a judge, is the go to person when she is in need. It brings a new dynamic that Grace is not used to. She depends on herself and now Cole, so now she needs to depend on Franklin when Cole is in a bad situation.   

There are a few parts that are laugh out loud funny. Michelle and Grace are acting like an episode of I Love Lucy when they venture to Brooklyn to try to solve a mystery. That part was hysterical to me.  

 It is a very erotic, fast paced suspense. I know my suspense and mystery lovers will agree it is a must read!

  

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C.E. Hansen is an American writer. She also writes under the pseudonyms C.E. O’Brien for her young adult series, Hero. Hansen has international rights licensed in 15 territories as of May 2013.

C.E. wrote her first romance novel at age fourteen when she discovered writing about boys and girls was way easier than actually having a relationship of her own. Since that time, her communication skills haven’t improved, but she likes to think her writing has. After earning an associates degree in literature from WC, she worked in a bus company, a law office and a wine/gourmet food shoppe, but she never abandoned writing.

She’s a proud mother of a beautiful daughter, lives in New Jersey with her husband and Maltese Zoe, and if she’s not working on her latest sexy story, you can find her reading, watching cable television, or indulging in her unhealthy addiction to chocolate.

C.E. Hansen’s debut novel IT’S A CRIME was released May 2013, her follow up novel IT’S A SHAME, will be released November 11th, 2013. If you want to read more posts like this one or follow her insane journey to debut authorhood, you can find her here…indulging in her passions…whether they be writing, eating chocolate, or twitter/facebook…

 

Bandit Storm by Marie Herman

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In the Second Installment of the Bandit Series, Zoey Aquarius D’Bandit must cope with the new realities of getting closer to the sweet taste of the justice that she’s always wanted. She now knows that they had to have been affiliated with the police, which opens up hundreds of new possibilities. And that’s just it, hundreds of new possibilities, that she now has to explore. On top of that, with the accident taking its toll on her, Zoey is now finding herself making more mistakes. Half of these mistakes causing problems for the people around her, a couple of these mistakes just plain frustrating her. Then there’s the others, all leading to the discovery of her secret….

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Bandit Flame (Bandit Series, #1) by Marie Herman

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Zoey Aquarius D’Bandit has lived with the memory of watching her adopted parents murdered at age six years old for ten years now. She remembers every detail as if it was yesterday, but the detail that she remembers the most is the eyes, his eyes, the murderer’s eyes. A case that has never gone solved, a murderer who has never gotten justice. A case that still haunts her every night she walks the streets of New York City, looking for trouble, trouble to stop, justice to be served. Since age eleven, she has been going out at night by herself to help those like her parents who have never been helped, to stop some of the present crimes from replaying her own history. To change the lives of as many people as she can. Her wits and hard training has been enough to get her out of trouble for a number of years since then. But now, as attention of some unwanted people starts to close in on her, she has to ask the question: Is it really worth it? Is she really HELPING the people around her, or just destroying any chance at a decent future for herself? As the world around her seems to keep on crumbling, hope and some people who have her back, is all she has to hang on to, is that really enough?

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Only for You by Genna Rulon @Literati_Lit @GennaRulon #spotlight

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Only for You (For You #1) is a new adult novel written by Genna Rulon. Although this is a series, each book can be read as a stand-alone novel. 
 
 
“In its purest form love is self-sacrificing, eternal, selfless, enduring, truthful, forgiving and indulgent. It also feels an awful lot like a kick to the stomach when you try to fight it!”

All Everleigh Carsen wanted to do was complete her final semester at Hensley University and begin the life she carefully planned.
When a wave of violent crime seizes campus, Everleigh is persuaded to attend a school sponsored self-defense seminar by her best friend, where she meets volunteer instructor, Hunter Charles. After Everleigh’s biting sarcasm induces Hunter to eject her from class, a tempestuous relationship is born.

Everleigh is determined to forget the striking man, but fate–that fickle shrew–continuously intervenes. Unable to escape him, she declares Hunter an enemy combatant. The only complication… Hunter is resolutely pursuing vindication…by any means necessary. Verbal warfare ensues, and despite Everleigh’s ingenious efforts, in Hunter, she has finally found her equal.

Only For You is a compelling tale of friendship, desire, and redemption—brimming with intelligent characters, witty dialogue, unexpected twists, profound sorrow, unfettered hope, and love’s unassailable perseverance.

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During her 15 years in the corporate world, Genna, inspired by her love of reading, fantasized about penning her own stories. Encouraged by her favorite authors, many of whom are indie writers and self-published, she ommitted to pursuing her aspirations of writing her own novels.Genna Rulon is an up and coming ontemporary romance author. Genna was raised in Long Island, New York, where she still resides, surrounded by the most amazing family and friends. Married to a wonderful man, who patientlytolerates her ramblings about whichever book she is currently working on, even feigning interest relatively convincingly! Genna is blessed with two little
boys who do their best to thwart mommy’s writing time with their hilarious antics and charming extrapolations.
 
 
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The Christmas Owl by Angela Muse @amuse663 @MDBookReviews

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The Christmas Owl by Angela MuseTitle: The Christmas Owl

Author: Angela Muse

Illustrator: Helen H. Wu

Publication Date: November, 2013

Publisher: Independent – 4eyesbooks

Number of pages: 36

Recommended age: 3+

Summary

A Barred owl becomes injured and must ask others for help. He promises to give back to those who have a generous heart and he is true to his word. Also check out Lil Glimmer, The Nutt Family: An Acorny Adventure, The Pig Princess, The Bee Bully, Eager Eaglets: Birds of Play, Cactus Charlie, Suzy Snowflake and Monsters Have Mommies by this author.

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I was born in California to a military family. This meant that I was the “new kid” in school every couple of years. It was hard always trying to make new friends, but I discovered I had a knack for writing. I began writing poetry in high school and really enjoyed expressing myself by using pen and paper. After becoming a Mom in 2003, I continued my storytelling to my own children. In 2009 I wrote and published my first children’s book aimed at toddlers. In 2012 I am set to release several more children’s books. Check out what I’m working on by visiting my children’s book blog.

Writing is such a wonderful creative process and I look forward to sharing more of my stories with lots of new little readers!

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