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Friday, May 14, 2021

COVER REVEAL: Reckless Royal by Emily Silver




Title: Reckless Royal
Series: Ainsworth Royals #2
Author: Emily Silver
Genre: Royal Romance
Cover Design: Y'All. That Graphic.
Release Date: June 15, 2021


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I was never supposed to ascend to the throne.

But suddenly I’m first in line, and every single move I make is splashed across the headlines for all to see.

Women. Fast Cars. VIP access to all of London’s hottest clubs. They call me the Playboy Prince.

Which would be perfectly fine if my older sister hadn’t fallen in love with a commoner, putting the crown on my head and the future of the country in my hands.

To redeem my image as the reckless royal, the queen has found a suitable woman for me to marry. A woman so opposite my type, it’s laughable.

But as I get to know her, there’s something that draws me in. Her soft eyes. Her big heart. The way everyone around her falls under her spell.

I never expected to fall in love.

Losing my heart might be the most reckless thing I’ve ever done.







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“Your Majesty. Your guests have arrived.” The announcement draws my attention away from mum. Anger is boiling just below the surface like a volcano. I’m ready to erupt when a portly man with a bushy mustache enters the room. Behind him is a willowy brunette, long hair flowing around a simple black dress.
“Lord Kendall. I’m quite pleased you could join us today.” She tips her head in his direction, as he bows before her. “Your Majesty. The honour is all mine.”
“James, this is Lord Xavier Cross, Duke of Kendall.” Mum extends her hand in his direction.
The man bows to me, the woman following. “Your Highness. It’s always a pleasure to be in your presence. May I present my daughter, Zara Cross.” He motions to the woman behind him.
“Zara. I’m thrilled you could join us today.”
“Your Majesty. The pleasure is all mine.” This poor woman’s face is as equally confused as mine. Hers does hold less contempt than mine.
“Zara, it’s nice to meet you.” I try to grab her attention, but her eyes keep flitting around the room. If you’ve never been to the palace, it’s easy to be distracted by the glamour of it all.
“Please, come have some tea.” Mum motions to the small table setup in the sitting room. An unsettled feeling starts to come over me. I don’t know what’s going on today, but I can’t imagine it will be in my favor.
“Thank you, Your Majesty.” This delicate woman accepts a cup and sits. I take the empty seat next to her. Stretching out my legs, I lean back in the chair, drinking my own cup. The harsh look from mum tells me she isn’t pleased. That makes two of us. She straightens, setting her tea down.
“I’m sure you two are wondering why we’ve brought you here today.” Zara gives me a look, only a small one. “The duke and I have entered into an arrangement.”
Oh feck. This can’t be good. “And what sort of arrangement is that?”
“An arranged marriage.” Her voice is curt as she drops the bomb.






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After winning a Young Author’s Award in second grade, Emily was destined to be a writer. A lover of all things romance, Emily started writing books set in her favorite places around the world. As an avid traveler, she’s been to all seven continents and sailed around the world.

When she’s not writing, Emily is working to pay for her next big adventure, trying to learn a foreign language and reading all the romance she can get her hands on!


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COVER REVEAL: Seeking Shadows by KE Osborn

Seeking Shadows by K E Osborn is coming August 10th and we get to share the BEAUTIFUL cover with you today!

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Cover Designer: Lou Gray from Gray Creations

About Seeking Shadows

What if the woman I fell for was in love with someone else?

The man who claimed her heart is my VP, the same man I need to respect and follow his orders. But now that I'm no longer a prospect, it's difficult to find my place. What if I don’t want to play by the club rules anymore?

But then again, what if while I'm seeking shadows, I find something I wasn't prepared for? And the darkness leaves me fighting for everything I thought I'd never have...

Seeking Shadows is a part of The Royal Bastards MC Author Collaboration and is book three in the Tampa, FL Series.

Meet K E Osborn!

With a flair for all things creative, International Bestselling Author K E Osborn, is drawn to the written word. Exciting worlds and characters flow through her veins, coming to life on the page as she laughs, cries, and becomes enveloped in the storyline right along with you. She's entirely at home when writing sassy heroines and alpha males that rise from the ashes of their pasts.

K E Osborn comforts herself with tea and Netflix, after all, who doesn't love a good binge?

Turn lust into love at www.keosbornauthor.com

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COVER REVEAL: Cruel Saint by Lee Piper




Title: Cruel Saint
Series: Cruel Desires #2
Author: Lee Piper
Genre: Dark Irish Mafia Romance
Cover Design: CT Cover Designs
Release Date: June 11, 2021


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I may have been born rich, but being arrogant and elusive is no accident. Neither is the carefully cultivated plan I’ve been working on for years.

I’m going to decimate my father’s empire and everyone in it. Including her.

The coldhearted brunette with the body of a goddess and the mind of a criminal thinks she can play me. She thinks I don’t know every lie that crosses her seductive lips.

She’s wrong.

Destroying her and leaving her defenseless is going to be the sweetest part of my victory. I’ll even smile while I do it.

There’s a reason they call me ‘Saint’.







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Lee Piper loves books. When not reading, she is either writing, at the beach or eating her body weight in chocolate.


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RELEASE BLITZ: Until You by Catharina Maura




Title: Until You
Series: Off-Limits #1
Author: Catharina Maura
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: May 14, 2021


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Left without a job and evicted from the house she so carefully turned into a home, Aria is offered two choices: move back in with her brother… or take the job her brother’s best friend offers her.

Their lives weren’t meant to collide — but everything changes when Grayson realizes that Aria is the mysterious woman behind a wildly popular vigilante platform.

She’s the woman he’s been falling for online, the one whose coding skills outdo his, the one he’s been trying to track down.

It’s her. And she’s off-limits.








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Catharina Maura writes deliciously angsty romance novels that'll give you all the feels. You'll usually find her daydreaming about the characters that waltz through her thoughts, begging for a happily ever after.


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BLOG TOUR: Taggart Family Values by Lexi Blake

Taggart Family Values, compilation of previously published novellas from the Masters and Mercenaries’ world and a brand new novella from New York Times bestselling author Lexi Blake, is available now!

From Ian and Charlotte’s first meeting in Paris to a look into the future, Taggart Family Values chronicles Masters and Mercenaries’ favorite family through a series of short stories and novellas. Includes one brand new short story and one new novella. Lexi hopes readers will have a blast connecting with Ian and Charlotte and all their little monsters!

Taggart Family Values includes the novellas Paradise City, Sweet Child o’ Mine, Homecoming and Countdown. It also includes the short stories Adam Tells All, Make Lemonade, Rough Night and Stuck at the Office.

Some of the stories were previously published in newsletters and cookbooks.

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About Lexi Blake
New York Times bestselling author Lexi Blake lives in North Texas with her husband and three kids. Since starting her publishing journey in 2010, she’s sold over three million copies of her books. She began writing at a young age, concentrating on plays and journalism. It wasn’t until she started writing romance that she found success. She likes to find humor in the strangest places and believes in happy endings.

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Thursday, May 13, 2021

COVER REVEAL: A Dream of Embers by Jane Washington




Title: A Dream of Embers
Series: Tempest of Shadows #3
Author: Jane Washington
Genre: Reverse Harem Romance
Cover Design: Jane Washington & imGuss
Release Date: June 8, 2021


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“I had dreams of the sun dying like hot coal smothered by sand, suffocating in a world where darkness hunted light ... but then I woke and saw that it had risen again, and I knew we would be no different.
From this battle to the next, we would endure.”

What began as a war of force had turned to one of secrets and strategies. An army was amassing in the shadows, hidden from our eyes, slipping into our ranks until there was nowhere safe to turn, and nobody left to trust.
To win the war, I would be forced to forget the man I trusted, and to bind myself to the men I hated.
Forever.
Since the first day, the great masters have fought for control over me, fought to claim me in marriage and seize my power for themselves. Every step of the way, they’ve asked me to choose. They’ve attempted to deal and swindle the decision out of me, but I’ve managed to out-manoeuvre them at every turn, bringing me to this moment.
The moment I finally choose.
If they can take my power, I can take theirs, and if marriage is how they want to do it, then so be it.
I’ll marry all five of them, and choose myself.







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EXCERPT

"You need me,” I said.
He hummed a sound that was more of a growl, saying for the rest of them: “She thinks we need her.”
“She might be right,” Andel noted, unemotionally. “We did make our alliance somewhat obvious. There have been consequences to that.”
“And look at the thanks we get.” Helki scowled the words out, his eyes shifting over me with barely-concealed disdain.
In some ways, the six of us were a great team—but that was only because we had one, crucial thing in common. We were all willing to drive me into the ground to possibly save the world, and we were all willing to sacrifice me at any given moment in a bid to win this war. In every other way, we were the worst kind of team that had ever been assembled. Case in point: our soul-deep hatred of one another, and our inability to discuss anything at all without someone—usually Helki—completely losing their temper.
“The thanks you get?” I still had my hand fisted in Vidrol’s coat, but I was too distracted by Helki to release him. “You know exactly what I’m offering you. All of you. I’m offering the impossible. I’m giving you both of the options you deliberated over for so long. I’m offering to save this world…” I pressed my teeth together, flicking my eyes to the three figures now huddled in the corner of the room, cowering away from our tense discussion. “And I’m offering to share in the benefits,” I finally hedged. “A six-way share. A six-way partnership.”
“You can’t cram six people into a two-person carriage,” Helki ground out.
He tugged the leather tie from his hair, shoving his hands through the dark brown strands agitatedly, before tying them back up again, his eyes appearing almost black with the way his temper was building.
“Isn’t it obvious?” I forced my fingers to relax their grip of Vidrol’s coat, but he stayed for a moment, his breath stirring my hair. “I’m making a new carriage. You can get in, or you can get lost.”
Helki strode forward just as Vidrol stepped to the side—almost like one had predicted the other—and suddenly, there was a mountain of seething rage before me, wild eyes threatening to hammer me into the floor.
“Don’t start trying to throw your weight around with me, little twig. I can make you submit in a hundred different ways before the sun comes up.”
“Even if you broke my back I still wouldn’t bow to you,” I snarled.
“This again,” Andel sighed.
“Do you two need to arm-wrestle, or can we move on?” Vidrol asked blandly. “We can throw you in a pen to roll around in the mud later, but there’s somewhat of an intriguing offer on the table right now, and the adults in the room would like to discuss it.”






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Jane is a Wall-Street Journal Bestselling author who spends all of her time writing books and then telling people not to read them. Find her here: https://linktr.ee/janewashingtonbooks



COVER REVEAL: The Spark by Vi Keeland




Title: The Spark
Author: Vi Keeland
Genre: Standalone Contemporary Romance
Cover Design: Sommer Stein, Perfect Pear Creative
Photo: Jakub Koziel
Model: Alessandro Dellisola
Release Date: July 12, 2021


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Before I even met Donovan Decker, I knew his shoe size.
You see, I’d gone away for a few days, and in my haste to get out of the airport, I’d grabbed the wrong suitcase.
After checking out the expensive footwear and tailored clothes, I dialed the number on the luggage tag hoping maybe Mister Big Spender might have my bag.
A deep, velvety voice answered, and as luck would have it, he had my suitcase, too.
Donovan and I met at a coffee shop to do the exchange.
Turned out, it wasn’t just his voice that was sexy. The man holding my luggage was absolutely gorgeous, and we had an immediate spark.
He got me to admit that I’d snooped in his bag and then convinced me to make it up to him by letting him buy me coffee.
Coffee led to dinner, dinner led to dessert, and dessert led to spending an entire weekend together. Donovan wasn’t just handsome with a panty-dropping voice. He was also funny, smart, and surprisingly down to earth for a man who wore seven-hundred-dollar shoes.
Did I mention he also did my laundry while I slept?
Definitely too good to be true.
So what did I do to repay him for his kindness?
I waited until he was in the shower, then ghosted him.
My life was too complicated for such a great guy.
In the months that passed, I thought about Donovan often. But New York City had eight-million people, so what were the chances I’d run into him?
Then again, what were the chances I’d run into him a year later…when I’d just started dating his boss?







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Vi Keeland is a #1 New York Times, #1 Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Bestselling author. With millions of books sold, her titles have appeared in over a hundred Bestseller lists and are currently translated in twenty-five languages. She resides in New York with her husband and their three children where she is living out her own happily ever after with the boy she met at age six.


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