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Thursday, January 7, 2021

RELEASE BLITZ: Pillaged by Tana Stone




Title: Pillaged
A Sci-Fi Alien Warrior Romance
Series: Raider Warlords of Vandar #3
Author: Tana Stone
Genre: Sci-Fi Romance
Release Date: January 7, 2021


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I was promised against my will to an imperial general. . .so I escaped. Right into the arms of an even more ruthless Vandar warlord.

I’d thought things had been bad when I’d been ordered to marry the repulsive Zagrath general. But then I’d been captured by the empire’s most deadly enemy--the Vandar raiders. With their battle kilts and tails, the raiders are known for being fierce warriors who never take prisoners. Until now.

The fear I feel when I'm taken by the menacing Vandar warlord is confirmed when I discover why he treats me like an honored guest. Taking the general’s bride is one thing, but to strike the most personal blow the Vandar must claim me as his, taking me to his bed until his mating marks appear on my skin and mark me as his true mate.

But he has no intention of forcing me. He wants to make a deal—become his willingly and I will get what I’ve always wanted—my freedom from a loveless, arranged marriage. Can I agree to a deal with the darkly dominant warlord who stokes both my fear and desire? Even if being claimed by the Vandar is only revenge for him and freedom for me, will my heart remain untouched as he pillages my body? And will the general give me up so easily, or will he come for both of us with all the firepower of the empire?







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EXCERPT

Toraan 

I eyed the human female thoughtfully. Although she was beautiful, she was clearly not willing to pleasure and obey without question. There was a spark of defiance in her amber eyes. She’d stolen a ship and escaped from a marriage she did not want. She would not submit to just anyone. The thought of her rebellion and fire made my pulse race. She was just the challenge I needed. 

I pivoted to Viken. “Take her to the chamber attached to my quarters.” 

His pupils widened even as he kept his face solemn. “The Raisa chamber?” 

I flinched at that word. My uncle, Raas Maassen, had designed his warbird with a sleeping chamber for his mate to travel with him. Although it was not Vandar tradition to have females onboard our horde ships, he had never been one to follow rules slavishly—one of the many reasons he had not seen eye to eye with my own father. But his Raisa had died before she'd joined the ship. He’d never taken another mate and never used the Raisa chamber. 

Nevertheless, it was attached to the Raas quarters I’d inherited, and now it would be put to use, even if the name did not fit. 

“Yes, Viken.” I flicked my gaze to him and then away quickly. “I prefer to question her there instead of your oblek. I believe it will be more productive.” 

My battle chief’s brow quirked slightly, before his face resumed its stern expression. He stepped forward, taking her by the arm and leading her away. 

As she passed me, I curled my tail around her forearm to stop her. I bent low, breathing in the sweet scent of her. “I will come to you soon. You should be prepared.” 

She swallowed hard, her eyelashes fluttering as she tipped her head back to look at me. 

“Prepared?” 

“You have come onto a Vandar warbird to ask us to protect you from the empire and keep you hidden from your fiancĂ©, who is an imperial admiral. We will do this at risk to our horde, but only if you are prepared to give us—me—something of value.” 

“I told you I have information.” 

I let my gaze drift to her full lips, which she licked nervously. “Yes, information. Let us hope it is as valuable as you claim, or you should consider what else you are willing to give me.” 

She lifted her chin. “You will not be disappointed, Raas.” 

I stepped back, releasing her arm from my tail’s grip, and watched Viken lead her away. I growled and jerked my head forward. 

This is all a part of your strategy, I reminded myself. Nothing more. She is nothing more than another pawn in the game. 

A beautiful, dangerous pawn.






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Tana Stone is a bestselling sci-fi romance author who loves sexy aliens and independent heroines. Her favorite superhero is Thor (with Aquaman a close second because, well, Jason Momoa), her favorite dessert is key lime pie (okay, fine, all pie), and she loves Star Wars and Star Trek equally. She still laments the loss of Firefly. 

She has one husband, two teenagers, two neurotic cats and a brand new puppy. She sometimes wishes she could teleport to a holographic space station like the one in her tribute brides series (or maybe vacation at the oasis with the sand planet barbarians). :-)

RELEASE BLITZ: Fury by Tracy Lorraine




Title: Fury
Series: Rosewood High #6
Author: Tracy Lorraine
Genre: High School Bully Romance
Release Date: January 7, 2021


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I’m infuriated by my feelings for her...

They’ve held me captive all this time.

I might have been the one that walked away, but that doesn’t mean I’m not still haunted by her— by what I did to her.

But that’s the thing about ghosts… they always return when you least expect it.

My step-sister was an outlet for my pain, but everything has changed.

Now, I’ve got nothing to lose.

If she thought I hated her the first time we met, then she’s about to get a shock.

The rage I felt didn't compare to the fury that now consumes me.

I might be empty, but I’m going to show her how it feels by taking away everything she has... one painful piece at a time.





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Tracy Lorraine is a M/F and M/M contemporary romance author. Tracy recently-ish turned thirty and lives in a cute Cotswold village in England with her husband, daughter and lovable but slightly crazy dog. Having always been a bookaholic with her head stuck in her Kindle Tracy decided to try her hand at a story idea she dreamt up and hasn’t looked back since.


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RELEASE BLITZ: Rowdy by D.M. Davis




Title: Rowdy
Series: Black Ops MMA #2
Author: D.M. Davis
Genre: Contemporary Sports Romance
Release Date: January 7, 2021


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D.M. Davis’ ROWDY is a messy, meant-for-me, sexy, contemporary romance and Book Two in the Black Ops MMA series. 


ROWDY: 

You think this is a love story. You’re wrong. It’s a massacre. 

A massacre of who I think I am, 
where I come from, 
and who I thought I’d have a future with. 

One wouldn't have me. 
The other couldn't. 
Both stole my heart. 

You think you know me. You have no idea. 


REESE: 

He thinks I'm a lion. 
I'm really a mouse, 
afraid of the demons nipping at my heels. 

No one can touch me. 
No one except him. 
I don't fear his touch. 
I crave it. 

Darkness is my enemy, 
yet his shadow doesn't scare me. 

He's the only dark I'm not afraid of. 


When their pasts threaten to topple their future, can the lion and her beast prevail, or will the darkness overtake them? 


For maximum enjoyment, it is suggested the Black Ops MMA Series be read in order to fully experience the world and the characters that inhabit it. 

Black Ops MMA Series: 
NO MERCY | ROWDY | CAPTAIN (coming Mar 2021)





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EXCERPT

“Only a kiss,” I growl. I shouldn’t be doing this. She’s not ready for me. My need for her is already too big to contain in my head. In my pants, my cock is planning ways to drill through my jeans to get to her. 
“To start.” She leans in, so fucking eager and sweet. So, so sweet. 
Fuck it. 
I aim for a center-of-her-lips, closed mouth, gentle and slow kiss. 
What I get is her tongue sweeping out to lick my lower lip the second our mouths connect. 
All sanity leaves the building. 
She wraps around me, grinding her hips as if she knows my cock is seeking its way to her. 
A gasp from her, a parting of our lips, and our tongues are tangoing like they didn’t just meet. 
Her mouth is heaven, if heaven is a fiery pit of temptation and lust. 
“Damn, Kitten.” Am I dreaming? I lean back to be sure it’s her I’m kissing. 
I’m met with a whimper and her hands sinking into my hair, drawing me back to her mouth. 
“Take what you need,” I breathe against her lips what might be my final words as she sucks my tongue and reduces the air in my lungs by half. 
Blood rushes to feed the cocky sucker in my pants, nodding like he has any idea what he’s getting himself into. 
Cocky, have you met Blue Balls? 
I think you’re about to become good friends. 
A frenemy situation. 
Her hunger unleashed, she attacks my body like a starving carnivore that’s been stuck on a deserted island and just found fresh water and red meat. All I can do is hold on, take what she’s giving, devour her taste as she eats at my lips and feeds me her tongue over and over, deliciously hard, deep, and wanton. 
She’s killing me. 
Straight out murder by kissing. 
Who knew kissing was lethal? 
What a way to go.






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D.M. Davis is a Contemporary and New Adult Romance Author. 

She is a Texas native, wife, and mother. Her background is Project Management, technical writing, and application development. D.M. has been a lifelong reader, and wrote poetry in her early life, but has found her true passion in writing about love and the intricate relationships between men and women. 

She writes of broken hearts and second chances, of dreamers looking for more than they have and daring to reach for it. 

D.M. believes it is never too late to make a change in your own life, to become the person you always wanted to be, but were afraid you were not worth the effort. You are worth it. Take a chance on you. You never know what’s possible if you don’t try. Believe in yourself as you believe in others, and see what life has to offer.

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RELEASE BLITZ: The Hot Mess and the Heartthrob by Pippa Grant




Title: The Hot Mess and the Heartthrob
Series: Bro Code #4
Author: Pippa Grant
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Release Date: January 7, 2021


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You don’t know me, but you do know me. I’m your neighborhood hot mess single mom, doing my best to keep my head above water while running my little slice of heaven and keeping my youngest from shoving marbles up his nose, which is exactly what he’s doing the first time Levi Wilson, pop star god, world’s sexiest man, and my all-time number one celebrity obsession, walks into my bookstore. 

Related: I’m writing this from beyond the grave, because I’ve died of mortification and am now residing in an alternate universe. 

I have to be. 

Because Levi Wilson came back. 

And we had a moment. 

Like, a moment moment. The kind that makes me remember that adult pleasure isn’t all about hoping the lock holds in the bathroom so your kids don’t interrupt on the rare occasion you feel like taking an extra-long mommy-time shower. 

So when he proposes a no-strings fling? 

Count. Me. In. 

Thrill of a lifetime, right? 

Surely, nothing will go wrong… 

The Hot Mess and the Heartthrob is a rockin’ fun, sexy romantic comedy featuring a celebrity panty-melter who doesn’t know what he’s been missing, a sassy single mom hanging on by a string, three adorable children who would never burst in on a woman when she’s on a toilet (ha!), and shameless ovary-busting moments between a guy who never thought he’d be a dad and a family who thought they got along just fine without him. It stands alone and comes complete with a happily-ever-after (though you’d never go wrong to read the other Bro Code series books first).







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EXCERPT

One day. I would like to go one single day without someone in my orbit making a poor life decision. 
“Stop squirming,” I order my four-year-old son, who should be at preschool, but who’s been banished for the week because of lice. 
Yep. 
Lice. 
Heaven forbid we have one issue at a time. 
Adding to my list of issues? Being that mom who can’t get her shit together while Levi Flipping Wilson is watching. And not only watching, but actively engaging in trying to help. “Hey, bud, I bet I can hold still longer than you can. Wanna see?” 
I know my agenda on any given day will include interruption for something my children do that I never would’ve expected in a million years, but that’s a lot easier to deal with when I don’t have an audience. 
Especially an audience made up of one famous man whose songs get me through the day—and night—when I don’t have enough free focus to read or listen to an audiobook, and who keeps stealing glances at me like he’s trying to figure out what kind of rabid creature I am. Normally, customers aren’t allowed back in the stockroom with me, which is where I dragged Hudson when I realized what he’d done to his nose, but leaving Levi out there with the customers who’d figured out who he was seemed like a bad idea. 
Especially when his date skewered me with a look that clearly said get him out of here or I’ll burn this place down. 
It’s a bookstore. 
Highly flammable. 
Not taking chances. 
Especially if there was a reason they were looking at maternity and early childhood development books. His date doesn’t look pregnant, but god knows that’s when pregnancy is hardest. 
Hudson finally stills, and I manage to smear a little more Vaseline gently around his nostril. “How did you get a marble in your nose?” 
“I pushed hard.” He beams. “I gots stars in there too.” 
I squeeze my eyes shut and count to two, because I know if I get as high as three, he’ll find a way to suck the marbles deeper into his sinus cavities, and I don’t know how a doctor will get that out without having to cut his nose open, and oh my god, he’s four and he’s about to be disfigured for life because I thought he’d actually sit still and listen to Yasmin reading books for neighborhood storytime while I re-stocked a few shelves. 
“How many stars?” I inquire through clenched teeth. 
“Four. Or maybe seven. Or maybe one. I forgets.” 
“You are so lucky you’re cute.” 
“Do you have a vacuum?” Levi asks. 
I twist my head to gape at him. 
He shoots a help? look at his date, then shrugs at me. “If he won’t blow it out, maybe you can suck it out. Like with one of those sucky tools the dentist uses.” 
“That’s…possibly not a terrible idea.” 
“Happens on occasion.” He grins, which makes my heart basically stop because he’s stupidly gorgeous. 
I could stare at him all day, but I have a preschooler with marbles up his nose to attend to. 
“Mama,” Hudson says, “look.” 
He scrunches his nose, which makes his nostrils swell, closes his mouth, and blows, and one shoots out and lands on Levi’s shoe. 
My son has just snotted my favorite musician’s Italian leather loafers. 
“I win! I holded still!” He breaks into his preschool dance routine, but the poor kid got his moves from me, which means to a casual observer, he probably looks like he’s having a seizure while choking on a piece of gum and tripping over barbed wire. 
Levi Wilson, however, is not fazed. He squats down to Hudson’s level. “Rematch.”






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Pippa Grant is a USA Today Bestselling author who writes romantic comedies that will make tears run down your leg. When she's not reading, writing or sleeping, she's being crowned employee of the month as a stay-at-home mom and housewife trying to prepare her adorable demon spawn to be productive members of society, all the while fantasizing about long walks on the beach with hot chocolate chip cookies.

Wednesday, January 6, 2021

COVER REVEAL: The Edge of Happiness by Kristin Turnage




Title: The Edge of Happiness
Series: Edge #1
Author: Kristin Turnage
Genre: Slow Burn Small Town Romance
Cover Design: Sarah Kil Creative Studio
Release Date: February 5, 2021


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Cassie Davis is the girl you’d look over in a crowd. She isn’t the life of the party, she’s the DD. The responsible one, the reliable one, the one you can count on. That’s who she is. 

When her best friend dies a tragic death on her watch, her life starts to fall apart. The guilt and shame take their toll. Therapists aren’t helping and her dad’s out of options. That’s until her estranged Uncle calls out of the blue, giving her dad the idea of sending her to his small NC hometown for the summer. 

Her goal is to fix herself, to find her happiness somewhere amidst the chaos. But, she’s not ready for the smooth talking, gorgeous guy that gets injected into her life. Staying away from him would be best, but when he speaks to her, she feels her hope inside come alive. When he touches her, her world that’s full of chaos and confusion, freezes. 

Ryan’s someone that’s never struggled in the looks department. His wounds are deep and he’s not looking for someone to mend them. After his long-time girlfriend cheated on him and ended up pregnant, Ryan doesn’t want to get tied down ever again. He wants to live out his life, working on his family’s farm, and that’s it. 

Parties and unattached sex are his new norm, trying to find happiness wherever he can. That’s until her eyes make him feel stupid things in his chest. Ryan doesn’t want to give himself to anyone again, but when she smiles, his world lights up. 

When they’re both on the edge of happiness, will they risk it all for each other?






EXCERPT

I let them fade away into the background as my eyes travel around, shamelessly looking around for him. I breathe a sigh of relief when my eyes find him sitting at another table talking to his friends. I wasn't expecting to meet a guy like him on my first day here. I wasn't expecting anyone like him at all. 
My body goes from ice cold to super-hot in a split second, like a rollercoaster. He is relaxing and having an in-depth conversation with whoever is sitting in front of him. His eyes look around in a break in the conversation, taking in his surroundings. He looks over my way and then back. Then he stops and his eyes slide back to mine. I can't breathe. His stare is holding me in my place. I can't even think. I just stare back at him like a dazed animal. Slowly his mouth begins to move again, carrying on the conversation like he wasn't trapped in a staring contest with me. Never taking his eyes off of me, never blinking. His stare is controlled and also purposeful. My body heat rises so high, I know my cheeks are flaming red at this point. 
I watch as the person across from him speaks, but he still hasn't taken his eyes off me. I need to look away, but I can't. Wait... Am I flirting? Yes. No. Maybe? I try to swallow the rock in my throat. 
Then his lips pull up into a grin that brings a shiver over my body. It's not a flirty smile, it’s pleasant, welcoming, and it has my head spinning.






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Kristin Turnage is an indie author that lives close to the beach in Florida with her husband, two daughters, and two cats. She has been writing for eight years and has been chasing her dream of becoming a published author for a long time. The Edge of Happiness from The Edge Series is her first published work and has turned her dream into a reality. She is excited that you are all taking this journey alongside of her.



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