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Friday, October 1, 2021

PRE-ORDER BLITZ: Hearts Unleashed Anthology by Various Authors




Title: Hearts Unleashed
A Limited Edition Paranormal &
Urban Fantasy Romance Collection
Genre: Paranormal/Urban Fantasy Romance
Release Date: October 12, 2021


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Lose yourself in the magic...

Hearts Unleashed brings you 20+ BRAND NEW tantalizing tales of paranormal romance and urban fantasy in this thrilling collection of heart-pounding books featuring Shifters, Vampires, Witches and more.

Unleash your heart, indulge your senses, and satisfy your cravings with this fantastic collection of supernatural fiction featuring sensual heroes and sassy heroines, crafted by some of your favorite bestselling and award-winning authors.








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CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS


C.D. GORRI
GINA KINCADE
ERZABET BISHOP
CARRIE PULKINEN
JULIA MILLS
LIA DAVIS
SKYE JONES
LANEY POWELL
FIONA STARR
CECILIA LANE
JULIE MORGAN
L.A. MCGINNIS
LORI KING
THERESA HISSONG
REBECCA HEFNER
AMANDA KIMBERLEY
AMY PENNZA
P. MATTERN
N GRAY
MARIE MASON
SIREN ALLEN
JULES CRISARE
MELISSA BELL
ZOE FORWARD
ELLE BOON





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RELEASE BLITZ: Coven of Love Anthology by Various Authors




Title: Coven of Love
A Halloween Romance Anthology
Genre: Contemporary & Paranormal Romance
Release Date: October 1, 2021


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Beware: Scary-hot romance ahead!

Ever wonder about the things that go bump in the night – Halloween night to be exact?
Well these romance authors have added a dash of love to their cauldrons this Halloween to bring you nine tales of contemporary and paranormal romance that will get your cauldron bubbling.

Journey with JD Park, Shanna Swenson, Marla Holt, DL Gallie, Nicole Rodrigues, K.O. Newman, M.L. Broome, Melissa Williams, and Sutton Fox as we weave magically romantic tales of curses, witches, black cats, vampires, ghosts, and even paranormal dragon shifters. Covering tropes from friends-to-lovers to fated-mates and everything in between, these stories are sure to steam up your holiday and have you howling for more.

**ALL proceeds from this anthology will go to the nonprofit charity, American Humane, to help animals in need.








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SHANNA SWENSON
JD PARK
MELISSA WILLIAMS
SUTTON FOX
M.L. BROOME
K.O. NEWMAN
NICOLE RODGRIGUES
DL GALLIE
MARLA HOLT

RELEASE BLITZ: Perfect Sinner by Maggie Cole




Title: Perfect Sinner
The O'Malley Family
Series: Mafia Wars #7
Author: Maggie Cole
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Release Date: October 1, 2021


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I’m the mafia princess Nolan O’Malley hates to love.

The moment we collide, he wants to destroy me.
He should. My blood is that of his arch enemy.
I’m unsure if the war raging inside him or me is stronger.
Instead of running away or ending me, he keeps me close.
He watches my every move, and monitors each threat my estranged family delivers to me.
The close quarters we share only get smaller until there is no more distance between us.
Yet I still am who I am.
Time and again he saves me from every dark demon.
When we think the one person who wants to ruin me is dead, she isn’t.
This time, she won’t win. I’m coming after her.
Except my actions have unintended consequences.
And I should have known he’d come after me.
After all, he’s my perfect sinner.

”Perfect Sinner” is the seventh jaw-dropping installment of the “Mafia Wars” series. It’s an enemies to lovers Dark Mafia romance, interconnecting stand-alone, and guaranteed to have an HEA.







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EXCERPT

Sunlight shines through the window. I never pulled the shades down and realize Nolan must have his blackout curtains pulled down in his room. It's later than I assumed. Pills cover the floor next to my bed. My phone is off, and I panic. I quickly turn it on. It's one of Orla's rules. My phone is to stay on at all times. While it's firing up, I kneel and pick up the pills.

"What are you doing?" Nolan's voice growls.

I inhale sharply and freeze. I close my eyes, embarrassed. I avoid looking at him and clear my throat. "Cleaning up my mess."

The screen of my phone illuminates, and he races over and snatches it off the bed. "You're getting a new phone number."

"No. I can't. It's her rule. She's going to come after me for turning it off last night," I fret. I finally look at him, and my pulse picks up. As embarrassed as I am, Nolan, in nothing but boxers, is a hard man to tear your eyes away from. His torso of ripped perfection has Celtic knots with a large cross tattooed down the side. The same side has Celtic arrows pointed down and outlining his V.






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Maggie Cole is committed to bringing her readers alphalicious book boyfriends. She's been called the "literary master of steamy romance." Her books are full of raw emotion, suspense, and will always keep you wanting more. She is a masterful storyteller of contemporary romance and loves writing about broken people who rise above the ashes.

Maggie lives in Florida with her son. She loves sunshine, anything to do with water, and everything naughty.

Her current series were written in the order below:
All In (Stand alones with entwined characters)
It's Complicated (Stand alones with entwined characters)
Together We Stand (Brooks Family Saga - read in order)
Behind Closed Doors (Read in order)
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RELEASE BLITZ: Damaged Soul by Emma Creed




Title: Damaged Soul
Series: Dirty Souls MC #4
Author: Emma Creed
Genre: MC Romance
Release Date: October 1, 2021


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‘Bound not by blood but loyalty.
We live, we ride, and we die
by our own laws’

Becoming a Soul saved me from myself.
My compulsions are an asset to them, and a curse to me.
Doing my duty for the club provides me with the release I need,
But beneath the surface my demons still lurk.

Rogue’s fierce, strong and unpredictable,
and when she reaches out to the club
I’m the only one who can help her.

She can sense the monster inside me,
She also has the ability to summon it.
And now I’ll have to control them both in order to protect her.







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EXCERPT

After driving out to the roughest part of town to the address Skid gave me, I grab the baseball cap from the dash and slide it backward over my head. When I let myself into the small but well-kept bungalow, the metallic stench hits me before I’ve even fully opened the door. I recognize it straight away, it's fresh, barely a few hours, I'm guessing, and I tie my black bandana around my face to cover my nose. When I’m inside, I’m shocked at how much there is of it. Whoever’s blood it is, is splattered all over the walls and ceilings, it’s soaking into the carpet, and I see no sign of the body it belongs to.
“You’re the one who likes cleaning up, right?” The sweet voice distracts me from my assessment of the room, and I follow the blood-smeared trail on the carpet to a set of hot pink painted toes.
I raise my eyes up the slender, milky-colored legs to her cut-off denim shorts and a white tank top that’s soaked with blood.
Rogue’s pale skin is marred with crimson freckles. There’s a long smear of blood on her left cheek which looks like it’s been made by a finger, and she’s wearing the most haunting smile on her lips.
My cock likes what I’m seeing far too much to be discreet about it.
“I made a start.” She runs her blood drenched hand through her ice blonde hair, streaking the strands, before she twists a lock of it around her fingertip like she suddenly became shy or somethin’.
Another look around the room has me wondering if she’s seeing the same scene as I am. Shock can do crazy shit to a person.
“Where’s the body?” I ask cautiously, she probably ain’t in the right frame of mind, there’s no guessing what she might do next.
“Grimm, ain't it?” She ignores my question, holding out her blood contaminated hand like she actually expects me to shake it. I stare at it for a while, then look up at her like she’s fucking crazy.
“Oops, sorry.” Her giggle travels straight to my dick, and I watch in disgust as she attempts to clean her palm by rubbing it on her shorts before she holds it out again.
Her cuteness seems so genuine that I have to question her sanity. When I shake my head at her, she shrugs and casually steps aside for me. It allows me to continue following the bloody trail to where a body lays.
“Fucker managed to crawl himself that far,” she says, stepping over the average-sized male corpse that’s lying face down in front of us. A pool of syrup thick blood already congealed beneath it.
I nod my head while trying to pull together a plan of action. I’ve seen much worse, but never by the hands of someone so small. I can’t help being impressed.
“He made the mistake of putting me in a position where it was him or me… I chose me,” she explains looking down at him, and when her head tips sideways and she releases that adorable giggle again, my cock twitches.






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Emma Creed lives in England and enjoys behaving like a princess to her extremely tolerable husband all whilst raising 3 boys and mini princess in the making.

When she isn’t entertaining the voices in her head, she spends her free time with a glass of white wine and a good book. Emma has been an avid reader since she was a little girl and with a little encouragement to take the leap into writing, she discovered that she loved it.

When she isn’t locked in her writing cave making up stories she can be found chatting on social media and wasting hours scrolling through TikTok. 


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RELEASE BLITZ: Filthy Crown by Eleanor Aldrick




Title: Filthy Crown
Series: Crown Brothers #1
Author: Eleanor Aldrick
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: October 1, 2021


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JACK

Tragedy strikes, again.

Four years after suffering the loss of our parents, our brother is murdered right alongside his beautiful wife, the devastation leaving their three children orphaned.

Not only have I lost my brother but now I’m forced to take on his two kids and seventeen-year-old stepdaughter, Penelope.

But Pen is far from the little girl I remember. No. She’s all woman, with soft curves and plush lips—all things I shouldn’t be noticing.

I have three months before she turns eighteen. Three months before she leaves for college. And three months to make sure whatever threat against her life has been thwarted.

Too bad for me, those three months will be nothing but torture laced with temptation, threatening to break my resolve.

Can I come out of this unscathed, or will this lust drag me into the pits of hell where I belong?

PENELOPE

Lies, deceit, and death. It’s all I’ve ever known.

And trusting someone? Out of the question.

Unfortunately, teenager me didn’t get the memo and I stupidly gave my crush-riddled heart to Jack Crown.

He was older, wiser, and apparently a manwhore.

I was his brother’s stepdaughter and way too young. Not on his radar, and justifiably so.

But that didn’t stop me from falling for the only man who’d ever shown me real affection. No. I stupidly let myself trust him, thinking he’d always be there. The one constant in my crappy life.

I was wrong.

Now, four years later, tragedy strikes again. By life’s irony I’ve landed on his doorstep with only one thing to prove.

I’m not the little girl he remembers, and I sure as f*ck don’t need him anymore.







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Writing about yourself is hard. Writing about yourself in the third person is even harder.

Instead of giving myself all kinds of accolades and touting my writing prowess (or lack thereof), I’ll just share some of the bits that make me who I am. Sound good? Good.

Reading has always been a big part of my life. Growing up, my mother would walk into my room well into the wee hours of the morning only to have to tell me to put my books away and sleep.

If you're a bibliophile like me, I’m sure you can relate.

I never stopped reading nor did my love for it diminish. As time passed, my reading tastes evolved and I found myself devouring romance novels left and right (find me on Goodreads). So naturally, when I found myself unfulfilled with my learned profession, I turned to writing the books I loved to read.

It started as a hobby but with my husband's encouragement, it grew into what it is today, the start of my new, and very much loved career.

I hope that my story serves as an inspiration and that regardless of where you are in life, you are able to follow your dreams and give yourself your very own happily ever after.

With Love,
Eleanor Aldrick


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RELEASE TOUR: Just For a Moment by Kate Carley

Returning home stirs up all of the old memories and heartache Grace Holland would rather forget, but now that she’s back, she finally has a chance to put her demons to rest. Sparks fly when Aarron Beckett agrees to work on her granddad's old plane. Fall for this hard-working hottie in Just For A Moment by Kate Carley, a Return to Hometown Romance, the next book in the Blue Collar Romance Series.

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From author Kate Carley comes a blue collar, return to hometown romance with heat, heart and a happily ever after. For Grace Holland, coming home to Oak Bend isn’t easy. The journey stirs up old memories, including the heartbreaking reason her family left town. But now that she’s inherited both her granddad’s old Victorian home and a World War II aircraft that he’d been working desperately to restore, Grace is ready to face down the demons of her past—if the people in Oak Bend will let her. Aaron Beckett’s life is a balancing act. His aircraft mechanic business is booming and being a single parent of a young daughter keeps him on his toes. But when Gracie Jane Holland, granddaughter of his late friend, steps into his aircraft hangar, Aaron’s well-managed life soars out of control, and every free thought begins and ends with that beautiful blonde. Even with plenty of excuses to avoid each other, sparks fly while they work together to restore an old fighter plane. And just for a moment, it feels as if they’ve found a deeper, more sustainable connection—until well-meaning half-truths threaten to tear them apart. When her past and present collide, nothing can prepare Grace for the storm of hatred that pours down on her. Ruthless words leave her questioning whether staying in Oak Bend and putting her heart on the line is worth the pain. Can this small town ever be home again? Escape to Oak Bend, where blue-collar hotties work hard and love even harder, especially when it comes to landing their happily ever after.

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Excerpt

Copyright 2021 Kate Carley

“Beck, I’ve heard so many great things about you. It’s nice to finally meet you.” “People been talking?” Beck chuckled again, but he was studying her face, assessing her with those stunning eyes. “My grandfather, Win Ross. I’m Grace Holland, and he left instructions that I should reach out to you. That you would have something for me.” Beck tilted his head a bit to the left, a tender expression passing over his face. “Gracie Jane. I figured you’d be stopping by here at some point. I was sorry to hear about Win’s passing. Everyone in town loved him. And I felt blessed to call him my friend. God, I miss him every day.” “Thanks for saying that, Beck. I miss him, too. And it’s just Grace now. I think my granddad was the only one still calling me Gracie Jane.” “He did.” Beck nodded. “He talked about his granddaughter all the time. He was so proud of you and how you started that company of your own.” As he spoke about her granddad, Beck’s eyes softened and his voice warmed. Talking about the most important man in her life with someone she’d just met felt bittersweet. But according to her granddad, Beck was one of his dearest friends. “I remember how proud he was when I told him about my new business venture.” “A website design business. What’s it called again?” “Holland Designs.” “Right.” He bobbed his head. “Win said you had more work than you could do in a lifetime.” “That sounds about right.” “I’m sorry I didn’t make it to the memorial. I searched for information but never found anything.” Grace bit her lower lip and then shook her head. The memorial had been a point of contention between her and her mother. “There wasn’t one.” “Yeah, he always said he didn’t want anything like that, but I wondered if his family would have one anyway.” “No. My mom and I…We just wanted to do exactly what he wanted.” Grace’s mother had an entirely different interpretation of what Edwin Ross had wanted. “And his wish was to not have people standing around, staring at him.” Beck chuckled softly. “I remember Win saying that.” Several unpleasant tasks still remained to be accomplished today, and they dampened the joy Grace generally experienced reminiscing about her granddad. “My granddad left something here for me. Do you have that?” “Right.” Beck pointed toward the corner of the enormous hangar. “It’s in my office.” With quickened steps, Grace kept pace beside Beck. “This place wasn’t here before. I mean, when I used to live here, there was the airstrip, but there weren’t many hangars. Maybe two or three.” “It’s become a thing. Owning a plane. Faster than the ferry if you’re crossing Lake Michigan. Lots of people around the county can afford it. And none of the other towns in the area have an airstrip.” Stopping at the door to his office, Grace watched while Aaron walked to his desk and lifted a heavy-looking silver paperweight shaped like an airplane. He plucked a key from underneath and went to a tall wooden cabinet in the corner. With a twist of his wrist, he unlocked the door. From her position outside his office, she could see the small black safe. He entered a code, and the door swung opened. Shifting the contents around, he produced a manilla envelope. Then, Beck reversed his steps until he was standing in front of her again, presenting her with the envelope. The strained expression on his face was exactly how Grace’s heart felt in the moment. A deep ache—one of loneliness and sorrow—created by the loss of a precious soul. Slowly, she reached for the envelope. “Thank you, Beck. Thank you for keeping my granddad’s wishes safe for him. For me.” “Yeah, no problem.” Beck pinched his lips together and glanced around before meeting her eyes again. “So, are you ready for your tour?” “Tour? Now? No.” Grace shook her head, fighting a choking feeling at the back of her throat. A tour—wasting time, wandering around—wasn’t part of her plans for today. Not even for a few minutes. “No. I don’t need a tour. But thanks for this.” She lifted the envelope to indicated she had all she needed at the moment. Again, he tilted his head the slightest bit to the left and then gave a gruff grunt. “Suit yourself,” he said. Like a switch had been flipped, his tone turned dark and sarcastic, and Grace had no idea why. “See ya around, Gracie Jane.”

About Kate Carley

Kate Carley broke onto the indie publishing scene in 2016 with her debut novel, Challenged, a 2017 RONE award winner. Since then, she has released ten additional titles that explore small town, family sagas in both the romantic suspense and contemporary romance genres. Kate took a meandering path to get to the point of published author, including a short stint as a computer systems designer and an extraordinary journey as a home-schooling mom. After more than a dozen years of teaching her kids, Kate opened the front door, pointed the youngest in the direction of the local high school, and focused her attention on writing romance novels. Now that her four children are off writing their own adventures, Kate is free to drift along in her fictional world, plotting the rise and fall of her characters. She has a passion for black coffee, dark chocolate, and red wine. Not necessarily in that order. Kate lives in the Midwest with her family.

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About The Blue Collar Romance Series

Escape to Oak Bend where blue-collar hotties work hard and love even harder. From broody carpenters to sexy electricians, these eight standalones are packed with small town feels, heat, and heartwarming happily ever afters. Enjoy your favorite tropes written by an amazing group of authors: Jaymee Jacobs, Alexa Rivers, Evelyn Sola, Kate Carley, Tracy Broemmer, Mila Nicks, Claire Wilder, and Moni Boyce. Fall head over heels for swoon-worthy book boyfriends who aren’t afraid of a little hard work for that happily ever after.

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