Blog Tour Excerpt & Giveaway - Stones and Finger Bones by Jessica Minyard

Stones and Finger Bones
(The Black Towers #1)
Author: Jessica Minyard
Publication Date: February 10th, 2015
Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult 

Synopsis: 
Aurelia Barone, Jewel of Starry Stone, harbors no illusions about the purpose of her life as heir to the throne. But after two failed betrothals, she starts to feel like nothing more than a pawn being moved aimlessly about a game board.

Until the night she loses everything.

Kidnapped by a wise-cracking mercenary with more than one identity, Aurelia embarks on a mission across land and sea to avenge her father’s death.

But an evil is rising from the ashes of memory. Insidious magic is stirring. The dregs of a once-powerful nation are thirsty for blood and revenge.

They seek to harness Aurelia. To tempt her. To manipulate her.

And if necessary, to destroy her.

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Blog Tour Spotlight - Wintergarden by T.M. Wallace

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Wintergarden

Author: T.M. Wallace 

Publisher: Brownridge Publishing 

Pages: 220 

Genre: YA/Children’s Fantasy 

Format: Paperback/Kindle 

Book Description:

Addyson Marten must travel a magical labyrinth to its center in order to reach her friend Connor and free him from the witch of the Median Realms. Both Connor and Addy must learn to use their own magical abilities to fight the growing evil in the Human and Fairy worlds. 

Wintergarden is the sequel to the Award-Winning book “Under a Fairy Moon,” (Gelett Burgess Children’s Book Awards—Fantasy, 2012, Canadian Christian Writing Awards—Young Adult, 2012.)

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Trailer Reveal & Giveaway - Ignite the Shadows by Ingrid Seymour

Ignite The Shadows
(Ignite The Shadows #1)
Author: Ingrid Seymour
Published by: HarperVoyager
Publication Date: April 23rd, 2015
Genres: Science Fiction, Urban Fantasy, Young Adult 

Synopsis: 
Sixteen-year-old Marci Guerrero is one of the best teen hackers in Seattle. However, she’d give up all her talents to know she isn’t crazy. 

Marci feels possessed by what she perceives as shadowy spectres that take control of her body and make her do crazy things. While spying on the clandestine group known as IgNiTe, she’s confronted by the leader, James McCray. His presence stirs the spectres inside her brain into a maddening frenzy. Her symptoms and ability to control them don’t go unnoticed by James, who soon recruits her and shows her the awful truth.

Half of the world’s population is infected by sentient parasites. They bind themselves to the human brain and replace the pathways for all thoughts and actions. The creatures then morph their hosts into grotesque monsters with extraordinary strengths. Winged, clawed, fanged half-humans become living nightmares. Now Marci wishes she was crazy, because the truth is worse.

She’s infected.

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Blog Tour Spotlight - Death and Desire by P.H. Turner

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Death and Desire

Author: P.H. Turner
Genre: Thriller / Suspense

Book Description: 

Ancient rituals. Up-to-the minute deception. 

Reporter Taylor McWhorter knows something is going on at the newly reopened uranium mine on the local Navajo reservation. The Native workers are being fired. Rumors of bad Native American spirits and shapeshifters mingle with the stink of leach pit mining. The rough red mountains and steep canyons hide more passes and getaway trails than any maze. And Taylor’s sources keep turning up dead… 

Until she meets Captain Trace Yazzie, head of the tribal police force and plenty to reckon with on his own. The chemistry between them is enough to incinerate Taylor’s rule about mixing business and pleasure. But with a murderer on the loose, priceless Navajo artifacts turning up in the wrong places, and Trace’s suggestion that spirits disturbed from looted burial sites might be part of the problem, Taylor can’t afford to lose her head to lust. This might be the story of the year. But unless she keeps her wits about her, it could be the last one Taylor ever tells…

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Cover Reveal & Giveaway - The Demon's Deadline by Tori Centanni

Today we're excited to reveal the cover and share a teaser for The Demon's Deadline by Tori Centanni. This is a paranormal young adult novel for ages 14+. It releases April 2nd from OddRocket.

The Demon's Deadline

Author: Tori Centanni

Genre: YA Paranormal

Cover Reveal - Bittersweet by Michele Barrow-Belisle

Bittersweet (Faerie Song Trilogy #2)

Author: Michele Barrow-Belisle

Published by: Astraea Press

Publication Date: March 24th, 2015

Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult

Blog Tour Dream Cast & Giveaway - The Crimson Gate (The Violet Hour #2) by Whitney A. Miller

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The Crimson Gate
(The  Violet Hour #2)
Author: Whitney A. Miller

Book Description:
Harlow must stop her evil counterpart in this thrilling sequel to The Violet Hour.

Harlow Wintergreen has just been named the new Matriarch of VisionCrest, the powerful religious organization previously led by her father. But there's one big problem. The real Harlow is trapped inside a Cambodian temple, and her double, the evil Isiris, has escaped confinement and is masquerading as her.

Now initiated as their leader, Isiris intends to unleash a killer super virus aimed at cleansing the planet of VisionCrest. In order to stop her, Harlow must find a way out of the temple and locate the Resistance...or the world will be destroyed.

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Blog Tour Excerpt & Giveaway - Lexi Goes on Vacation to the Outer Banks by Janice Wills Kingsbury

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Lexi Goes on Vacation to the Outer Banks

Author: Janice Wills Kingsbury

Genre: Children's Book

Date Published: October 2014

Book Description:

Ms. Janice and Mr. Rob have vacationed in the seashore town of Duck in North Carolina for 10 years. Duck is a friendly place with sandy beaches where children and dogs romp to their hearts content. This year Lexi, a new addition to their dog family, will come too. But the vacation will be like no other and as the sun sets on the beach it promises to be a long night, one the family will never forget!

Full color illustrations appeal to children and make the book come alive. The action and adventure encourage children to read to the end and learn new vocabulary. Even reluctant readers will want to finish the story.

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Book Blitz - The Letting by Cathrine Goldstein

The Letting
Author: Cathrine Goldstein 

Release Date: 12/15/14

Pages: 335

Summary from Goodreads:

What if the Devil doesn’t know he’s the Devil?

This is the question Veronica “Ronnie” Billings poses to Phoenix, her sworn enemy, the leader of the Peaceful Revolution, and the one she loves.

Kidnapped by Phoenix’s rebels, Ronnie learns how wrong she has been. She had no idea that her patriotism was wasted on a corrupt government. Ronnie was proud to be a Leader; taking hundreds of harvested girls to the Letting facility. After all, she was saving them from future Couplings and bringing them to the safety of the New World. Or so she thought…

Confused, Ronnie realizes the only way to discover the truth is to trust her heart. Together, Phoenix and Ronnie devise a plan to stop their corrupt government and preempt the dangerous rebel coup which is approaching. But when their plan goes awry, will Ronnie be strong enough to save Phoenix, her country, and herself?

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Book Of The Week {Wattpad}

And the Book Of The Week Nominations are:

Click on the book covers to sample the works.

Save Me From Eternity (YA / NA Fantasy)

 Bloodstained Masks (Fantasy)

Supremacia (Dystopian / Political Fiction)

The Last Stand (Dark Fantasy)

The Third Son (NA / Adult Fantasy)

Spring Cleaning Giveaway Hop - Paperback Book Bundle

Spring Cleaning Giveaway Hop
March 20th - 25th 

Hosted by I Am A Reader 

Several blogs are taking part, so there's lots of amazing gifts to be won. Check out the rules of the other blogs. I will contact the winner via email within 5 days following the end of the contest. Winner will also be announced on this page.

***Giveaway***

My giveaway is for a paperback Book Bundle of the books listed below.

Ends March 25th (midnight GMT).

International.

Contest is void where prohibited. Entrants must be 13 or else have parent or guardian’s permission to enter. Winners will be notified via email and will have 48 hours to respond or another winner will be selected. The winner will be posted on this page after the winner responds. Winning entries will be verified for authenticity. 

Book Bundle

Winner will receive all books listed above.

Enter the giveaway and then hop on to the next one. 

Thanks and good luck to everyone!

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Blog Tour Interview - Tagan's Child by Amelia Ford

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Tagan’s Child
Author: Amelia Ford
Publisher: Carroll Publishing
Pages: 444
Genre: Romantic Suspense Format: Paperback/Kindle

Book Description:
“His terminology struck me as odd and then I realised he was talking about Toby. I snatched my hand from his and the hairs on the back of my neck stood up like the hackles on a dog. The unease I felt when I first saw him returned…”

The day after the first anniversary of her sister’s death, twenty six year old Sophie McAllister is paid an unexpected visit from a handsome stranger who delivers some disturbing news about her eight year old nephew and ward. Just when Sophie thought her life was getting back on track, she is forced to put her trust in a man with an extraordinary secret. She begins a perilous journey that not only threatens everything she holds dear, but also challenges her innermost fears. Does Sophie have the courage to defy her enemies, face her fears and open her heart to a man who promises a future that is out of this world?

A captivating love story about one woman’s struggle to protect, let go and love.

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Blog Tour Excerpt & Giveaway - Key to Lawrence: Special Edition by Gary and Linda Cargill

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Key to Lawrence: Special Edition 
Author: the Cargills

Genre: Historical Thriller

Book Description: 
Water rushed into the four, great smoke stacks of the ship as they, too, hit the waves. Tremendous, churning whirlpools sucked victims inside. A few were ejected, blackened with soot. Propellers rose above the maelstrom. The rudder lifted higher than the smoke stacks. The ship's prow pointed down toward the deep. It looked as if the ship's nose would hit the sea bed hundreds of feet below. The Lusitania sank in only 18 minutes after being torpedoed on May 7, 1915. Dora Benley vowed revenge on the enemy. Key to Lawrence tracks the beginning of her quest for justice in this special edition of the first volume of the Edward Ware Thriller Series. It commemorates the 100th anniversary of the Great War.

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Release Day Bookvie: Insurgent - out March 20, 2015 (USA)

Who's in it:
Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort, Theo James

Blog Tour Interview & Giveaway - Across the Bridge of Ice by Ruth Fox

Across the Bridge of Ice

The Bridges Trilogy

Book Two

Ruth Fox

Genre: YA Fantasy
Publisher: Hague Publishing

Date of Publication: 31 January 2015

Number of pages: 175

Word Count: 55,000

Cover Artist: Ruth Fox

Book Description:

In 'The City of Silver Light', Keira Leichman spent the night lost in a wild snowstorm that struck Cassidy Heights. But what really happened that night? Not even Keira can be sure. What she does know is that she's been having strange dreams since the accident, and now she's stuck with a broken ankle and the possibility of never playing soccer again. That is, until she finds Jake's telescope, and is drawn across the Bridge of Ice to Shar.

Now Keira is marooned in the City of Silver Light with Daniel, Jake’s younger brother, with no way to get home. But that is the least of their worries, for the secrets they discover in Shar are more dangerous than Kiera could ever have imagined. And the fate of both their worlds are in their hands.

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Book Blitz & Giveaway - Dragon Marked (Supernatural Prison #1) by Jaymin Eve

Dragon Marked
(Supernatural Prison #1) 
Author: Jaymin Eve 
Release Date: 01/27/15
Genre: Upper YA/NA Paranormal Romance Trilogy

Summary from Goodreads:
There are supernatural prisons hidden across the globe. Contained within these fortresses are some of the deadliest criminals from the five supernatural races: vampire, shifter, fey, magic users and demi-fey.

Jessa Lebron, twenty-two, has spent her entire life in Stratford, Connecticut, one of the gateway towns adjoining these prisons which protect the fortified borders. She’s a wolf shifter, and her father leads the town council. She learns that much of her life has been hidden from her, secrets which threaten to tear apart the very fabric of her world. Especially the biggest secret of them all.

She is dragon marked.

Jessa only knows what she’s been told about the dragon marked, that they are dangerous and must be eliminated to prevent the rise of the dragon king, the powerful warmonger who had his head removed a thousand years ago. So now Jessa's on the biggest hit list of all. Dragon mark hunters are lethal and her only hope to evade detection is to keep the energy contained.

As more secrets unfold she finds herself locked up in Vanguard, the notorious American supernatural prison. Thankfully she’s not alone. Braxton, the dragon-shifter has her back. Together they must survive long enough to free themselves and the other dragon marked.

Because it’s time for the dragon marked to rise.

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