Nothing is as it seems. When celebrity artist Eleanor West and her daughter Victoria take a winter holiday in Antigua it’s with the idea of recharging their batteries before Eleanor’s upcoming exhibition. But when beach boy Tyrone walks into their lives, nothing will ever be the same again…

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Antigua… the Caribbean at its most luscious, its most beautiful… silver sand, cobalt sky, warm turquoise sea… and a bunch of complete strangers, who only have one thing in common: they’re single. Some are looking for romance, some for something more. But they’ve all chosen to spend their holiday with people they have never met before. And pretty soon, some will become good friends, some enemies and some lovers. And many of them will experience things they never expected, including their tour manager Eve, who perhaps has the biggest shock of all. A story that will make you laugh and make you cry with just the right number of twists to keep you turning the pages as you get to know all the members of the group as they, in turn, get to know each other.

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Eileen Holloway is the obese,single mother of two demanding teenage boys. Her life is a daily struggle to keep ahead at work, to pay her mortgage and to deal with her overbearing, heavy-drinking mother. Until one day when Eileen’s life is turned upside down when she takes part in a reality weightloss TV show, Barbara’s Beautiful Bodies, which promises to change her life ‘for better and for ever’. Eileen is suddenly a celebrity who is recognised everywhere she goes and who loses a staggering amount of weight. But once the series is over, once she’s out of the limelight, how will Eileen cope with her new image and her new life, when food has always been what’s got her through the day?

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Elaine Spires is a diverse novelist as well as an award-winning playwright and actress.

Extensive travelling and a background in education and tourism perfected Elaine’s keen eye for the quirky characteristics of people, captivating the humorous observations she now affectionately shares with the readers of her novels.

She wrote her first book What’s Eating Me in 2010. It was originally a play, a one-woman show performed as a monologue with a child actor – Elena-Beth Carter playing Eileen as a child in the background and Elaine performed it on the London and Edinburgh fringes. She loved the character of loved Eileen so much that she decided to expand the story into a book.

Her second novel was Singles’ Holiday, set on her beloved Antigua… the Caribbean at its most luscious, its most beautiful… silver sand, cobalt sky, warm, turquoise sea… and a bunch of complete strangers who only have one thing in common: they’re single!

And her third novel Sweet Lady, again set in Antigua, will amaze you with a massive twist which goes to show that nothing is as it seems!

When Elaine is not writing her ideas into her next book or play, she enjoys going to the theatre, visiting the cinema, eating out with her friends and she also loves to read! Elaine spends her time between her homes in Hadleigh, Essex and Five Islands, Antigua (W.I.)

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Olivia Germaine has already found love. Devoted wife, loyal friend, determined career woman – she’s created the life she always envisioned.

But when Olivia locks eyes with a handsome stranger across a crowded room, he peers a little too closely and sees emotions she thought she’d buried long ago.

David Dylan, alleged playboy and eternal bachelor, challenges Olivia to confront the life she’s built and to make decisions that could either lead to happiness . . . or regret.

Will Olivia be able to draw the line between lust and love?

And can David respect that line?

“Jessica Hawkins has proven herself to be a contender in the race for the most captivating and sexy contemporary romance series…” — Autumn After Dark

“I haven’t been so engrossed with a series and felt it deep in my core since Fifty Shades of Grey!” — Seductive Romance Reviews

Jessica Hawkins grew up between the purple mountains and under the endless sun of Palm Springs, California. She studied international business at Arizona State University and has also lived in Costa Rica and New York City. Some of her favorite things include traveling, her dog Kimo, Scrabble, driving aimlessly and creating Top Five lists. She is the helpless victim of an overactive imagination that finds inspiration in music and tranquility in writing. Currently she resides wherever her head lands, which lately is the unexpected (but warm) keyboard of her trusty MacBook.

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If you did not read book 1 and 2 WHAT is wrong with you? I fell in love with Jordan and Ani in book 1. Then came Sebastian WOW!! So the story there was mind-blowing and not at all your typical break up. This is the third and NOT final (happy to say) book in the Boston Harbor Romance Series. Now Jordan Winthrop is back in Book III of The Boston Harbor Romance Series with his own love story. Ginger is still here waiting for an entire year to either sink or swim. She is very stubborn, like Ani and generally want to win on her own. She is so strong sometimes independent but always full of spice. She has the best phrases from down home.

I liked Jordan in book one because he was a fighter. He knew how he felt for Ani, but he also always knew that she was never really all his. There was always something broken that he couldn’t ever replace. The author created a character with Jordan who has just the right amount of bitter and not too much resentment. He was well-balanced and a pleasure to read.

Some of the humor about Ginger was not lost on me. She is teased throughout the book for her pearls. The best parts of their steamy scenes was her lingerie. If she was crisp, ironed and pretty she was wearing a thong and garter belt  under her starched skirt. I absolutely loved it!

Again the author does a great job of creating a strong bond of family. Throughout the series there is that bond. The animosity between Jordan and Sebastian comes front and center at several points bringing the angst level up to high. Now when the angst really heats up is between Ani and Ginger. Another great obstacle has been hanging over Ginger’s head, her ex is going to be released. She is at a corner in her life that was going to happen but now the date is looming and she is in panic mode.

Now in the middle again is Sawyer and Bobby. I will say hotter than ever! She is my all time favorite character. Her huge giving ways tend to cause trouble, this book shows just how much trouble she can cause. You will enjoy a few throw down fights, some more tequila from Remmi and steamy scenes.

The newest trying dilemma is the Raffi situation. She is becoming more like Ani and her teens are going to be a big trying time. I really loved the way that Ani and Jordan are so supportive. The writing was superb. I tried to go slow and enjoy it but how could I? I wanted more of Sawyer, Ani, Sebastian and Jordan. The family bond grows with all of them including the Hector’s. Maria and Ginger are planning a future and I cant wait to find out what their ventures will mean to them all.

Just some of my favorite quotes:

“Your eyes give everything away, Mississippi, and your blush is the cherry on top of the cake.” Jordan

“Yeah, but I don’t count. I’m a bi-sexual girl with pink hair and tattoos. I clearly have questionable morals and trampy taste in clothes,” Sawyer laughed, glancing down at her crochet dress and purple suede fringe boots. Sawyer (I LOVE her)

“I’ll have to spread the word that he’s only dining on Mississippi catfish these days…” Jackson

“Ginger wraps herself around me like she’s trying to find a way inside. When she looks at me I see her whole heart staring back.” Jordan

PLEASE please read the series, support a great author and you wont be disappointed. Warning: This book contains smoldering hot sex scenes between a gorgeous pediatric neurosurgeon and a sassy southern girl from the Mississippi Delta, plenty of humor, a little heartbreak and the happily ever after for Jordan that all his fans have been waiting for!

Is Ariel Ellman great? yes

A kick ass writer YES

Most of all she is the cover QUEEN!!

LETICIA by Lindsay Anne Kendal

 Release Date: April 14, 2014
Paperback, 320 pages 
Genre: YA / Fantasy / Paranormal

Leticia has a dark secret, and somebody somewhere knows what it is. After being tormented and brutally attacked, it becomes obvious they want her dead. A mysterious group comes to her aid. They want to fight by her side and help her win the war someone has declared on her.

Together, they present a force to be reckoned with. Love, loss and longing put strains on the alliance. Not only must they fight their enemies, but their own fears and desires. Leticia must also face a harsh reality.

If she wants a happy future, she must first confront her past.

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“My heart raced as our lips parted and his tongue danced with mine. My mind was lost in the arms of the man I hoped would now be mine.”

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My mind… it’s an overactive, jumbled up and scary place to be. I’ll be honest, 99% of the time I don’t live in the real world. Let’s face it, the “real” world is a stressful, violent and sometimes boring place to be. The worlds I live in aren’t governed by corruption, greed, envy, etc. They are free, happy and sometimes darn right weird.

My family tells me I wake up a different person every day – they’re probably right. I have about thirty characters talking to me and giving me ideas on what to write. So it’s hardly surprising.

Everyday life bores me for the most part. Moans and groans, people worried about finances, studying, jobs and so on. I do have those thoughts, but I tend to block them out and live with my characters. I prefer to be surrounded by magic and demons, mythical creatures and alternate worlds, rather than “real” everyday issues. I guess that’s just my way of dealing with things.

I’m a very deep thinker. I often space out and know nothing of what’s going on around me. Unless it’s to do with writing, graphic art, history (especially old buildings), photography or the weird and wonderful – I tend not to have an interest in it. I find it extremely difficult to concentrate on anything outside those areas. I much prefer to be creating something from nothing.

I guess I’m anti-social too. I love my friends and family, but I don’t see people all the time. I much prefer my own company (bearing in mind I have characters speaking to me all day every day, so I’m not lonely, lol). Most of my dearest friends live very close by, with exception of the few who live across the sea from me. I speak with them over email, Facebook, Skype, etc. But other than that, I’m a “keep myself to myself” kinda person. I love speaking with people over the internet, but face to face, I get a little anxious. I’m just not a confident person, well, not in the “real” world.  

“He stayed close to me for a few more seconds. I let my hand fall so it was now against his chest. I looked him straight in the eyes, getting lost in them for a moment. I could feel his heartbeat, hard and fast. I so desperately wanted to kiss him.”

“I have lived in Droylsden, Manchester, all my life. I live with my parents, my younger sister, Cheryl and her little girl Faith.

I never knew what I wanted to do with my life until I began writing. This is my dream. I get most of my inspiration from music, I’ll sit there listening to it and suddenly I’m no longer in the room. My stories play like videos in my mind, then I go and write them down.

I’m a very dark person, I love anything spooky, supernatural, or unexplainable, and so that’s the genre I want to write in for the rest of my life.

I love watching scary films, although I find it very hard to find one these days that actually frighten me.

I also love getting creative with graphics. I’ve designed over twenty book covers so far. I create promo art and even book trailers.

I have had a love of photography from being a child. I have literally thousands of photographs which I have taken over the years. Now, I have a professional DSLR camera and I’m looking to do photography as well as my graphics as a sideline project.”

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Title: Fall With Me

Author: Julie Particka

Publisher: Entangled Embrace

Pub. Date: April 28, 2014

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How can I label this book? Well it was really cute, really sexy and had a great plot. So trying to tell you how poor Jenna gets into this situation is so pitiful. So Jenna comes home after recently graduating college and her boyfriend of 3 years was caught cheating. Poor Jenna as if things cant get worse it was her longtime best friend Lacey. This was the part that pissed me off. I just dont get how Lacey could do this. Well Jenna goes home and is going to work with her Dad who has a contracting business. Sutton who is Lacey’s brother works there too. Jenna has a big crush for far too long on Sutton. It doesnt take more than a look to get Jenna to forget Adam and remember the lust she felt for Sutton.

The plot really heats up with a plan to break Lacey and Adam up. So much drama! I was annoyed, so that is how you know the author created a good character with Lacey! How did she expect Sutton to just get Jenna to talk to her. It is bad enough what she did but to think she could forget almost 3 years with Adam and forgive.

If you like a fluffy romance then this is it. If you like drama and plots that are devious, then again this is for you! It does have a few racy scenes which prove to be quiet fun and very entertaining!

Title: Above

Author: Isla Morley

Genre: Woman’s Fiction

Publish Date: March 3, 2014

Publisher: Gallery Books

Event organized by: Literati Author Services, Inc.

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In ABOVE chosen for the March 2014 Indie Next List, award- winning author Isla Morley crafts a stunning and harrowing novel about a Kansas teenager who is abducted and locked away in an abandoned missile silo by a conspiracy theorist who believes the end of the world is coming.
Blythe Hallowell is sixteen when she is abducted by a survivalist and locked away in an abandoned missile silo in Eudora, Kansas. At first, she focuses frantically on finding a way out, until the harrowing truth of her new existence settles in—the crushing loneliness, the terrifying madness of a captor who believes he is saving her from the end of the world, and the persistent temptation to give up.
But nothing prepares Blythe for the burden of raising a child in confinement.

Determined to give the boy everything she has lost, she pushes aside the truth about a world he may never see for a myth that just might give meaning to their lives below ground. Years later, their lives are ambushed by an event at once promising and devastating. As Blythe’s dream of going home hangs in the balance, she faces the ultimate choice —between survival and freedom.

ABOVE is a riveting tale of resilience in which “stunning” (Daily Beast) new literary voice Isla Morley compels us to imagine what we would do if everything we had ever known was taken away. Like the bestselling authors of Room and T he Lovely Bones

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About the author: Isla Morley grew up in South Africa during apartheid, the child of a British father and a fourth- generation South African mother. She now lives in Los Angeles with her husband, their daughter, and an assortment of animals. Her critically acclaimed debut novel Come Sunday was awarded the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for Fiction and was a finalist for the Commonwealth Prize. It has been translated into seven languages

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Hunted by a crooked FBI agent who killed her parents, Lucy has taken on one disguise after the next.

But Zach knows exactly who she is and in spite of mounting evidence indicating her guilt in her parents’ death, he knows she’s innocent.

Convinced that it’s time to put her years on the run behind her, Zach and Lucy vow to fight back, clear her name, and take down the real killer.

With support from Zach’s loyal friends and his uncle, an investigative reporter, they set out on a dangerous mission hoping that the truth…will set them free.

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Lucy Tate is on the run. After witnessing the brutal murder of her parents, she’s spent five years in hiding — taking on different personas and faking her way through life. The authorities can’t be trusted, so she remains in the shadows, always one beat ahead of the man who is forever hunting her. That is, until she meets Zach Schultz, a senior at Monte Vista High and the one guy she can’t bear to leave. Suddenly her natural instincts to lie, steal, and run are overshadowed by something else…the desire to stay. It’s her
one shot at a normal life.

Curious by nature, Zach is immediately drawn to the new girl at school. How can a person look both confident and vulnerable all in the same moment? Determined to learn more about her, he tries to get close, but is thrown into a world of lies and confusion. The only thing that becomes apparent is that discovering the truth may get him killed.

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Melissa Pearl was born in Auckland, New Zealand, but has spent much of her life abroad, living in countries such as Jordan, Cyprus and Pakistan… not to mention a nine month road trip around North America with her husband. “Best. Year. Ever!!” She now lives in China with her husband and two sons. She is a trained elementary teacher, but writing is her passion. Since becoming a full time mother she has had the opportunity to pursue this dream and her debut novel hit the internet in November 2011. Since then she has continued to produce a steady stream of books. Recently she signed with Evatopia Press and her first Evatopia book is coming out in February 2014 – True Colors, The Masks Series #1. She is very excited to be trying out new things this year while continuing to publish under her own name as well. She has six books planned for 2014 and is excited about writing each and every one of them.

“I am passionate about writing. It stirs a fire in my soul that I never knew I had. I want to be the best writer I can possibly be and transport my readers into another world where they can laugh, cry and fall in love.”

If you enjoyed Me Before You by JoJo Moyes, One Day by David Nichols, or The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks – then make time for Kelly Rimmer’s stunning, heartbreaking novel Me Without You.

A story of how love can break our hearts – and heal them.

A year ago I met the love of my life. For two people who didn’t believe in love at first sight, we came pretty close.

Lilah MacDonald – beautiful, opinionated, stubborn and all kinds of wonderful in ways that words could never quite capture. The woman who taught me to live again.

My Lilah, who gave me so much, and yet kept from me a secret that she knew would break my heart.

My name is Callum Roberts, and this is our story

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Esther feels like her family of four has become a family of three with a live-in social work project. She is never more aware of her failure to fit in than at her eighteenth birthday party, when the guest of honour becomes the odd one out. One impulsive act of rebellion will change everything – whether or not Esther is ready to deal with the consequences.

Cheryl lives a drama-free life – and its killing her. Motherhood has been a disappointment and the days are melting into one another, one endless blur of nothingness, funded by welfare payments and a small town that seems to be shrinking in on her. Escaping the monotony is becoming a matter of life or death.

Carla is beautiful and wealthy, and ambitious to the core. She’s new in town to find a fresh start, and it doesn’t take much effort to line up a suitable job, then partner and home. The question for Carla is, can a promising future cancel out a shadowed past?

Their lives couldn’t be more different – but Esther, Cheryl and Carla will all discover that finding peace will come at a cost…someone might have to die.

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