Book Blitz & Giveaway - Timekeeper Rising by Allyssa Painter

Timekeeper Rising
Author: Allyssa Painter
Publication Date: August 1st, 2015
Genres: Dystopia, Fantasy, Young Adult

Book Description:

Fifty years ago, the sky cried acid and the earth vomited poison, all due to human destruction. Desperate for a savior, the people called out to the Shunned, a group of Fallen angels on Earth, and allowed them to take over. Now the Shunned rule with unspeakable cruelty, manipulating and torturing the humans in every possible way. Marked for death, Iris Ankea will do anything to end their tyranny and rescue her brother and best friend from their clutches. When she learns that she is God’s chosen Timekeeper and has the power to defeat the Shunned, she sets out with the only man who can help her, the one she thinks just might kill her. With a prophecy about her drawing ever near, Iris must race against time to discover her powers before the world, and her life, end. Can Iris force herself to embrace her role and sacrifice herself to save everyone she loves, or will she lose it all?

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Book Blitz & Giveaway - Destroying Angel by Missy Wilkinson

Destroying Angel

Author: Missy Wilkinson 

Release Date: 07/09/15

Length: 187 pages

Summary from Goodreads:

Gates McFarland’s mother has just been proclaimed brain dead by a neurologist. But fifteen-year-old Gates doesn’t believe it’s true, because she hears her mother’s voice in her head. The command is simple: Find my heart. It’s the last thing Gates hears from her mother before the neurologist pulls the plug.

After contacting the Organ Procurement Agency, Gates learns there is no record of her mother’s organ donation. She meets Dr. Ascuitto, her mother’s neurologist. A menacing figure, he threatens to institutionalize Gates if she continues her inquiries.

Determined to find the truth, Gates gets help from John Ed, a street-smart, sixteen-year-old recovering addict. Together, they navigate an underworld of body theft, interstellar drug trafficking and doctors who double as dealers. She finds herself attracted to John Ed’s musical talents and emotional strength even as she is drawn ever-deeper into an alien world accessible only by use of a hallucinogenic spore. Hostile and governed by a sinister waif named Penny, the world holds secrets about Gates’ mother’s death…and the key to Gates’ survival.

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Book Blitz & Giveaway - Castle in the Air by Jennifer Tressen

Castle in the Air

Author: Jennifer Tressen

Release Date: July 23rd, 2015

Summary from Amazon:

The Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs, Arkansas has been called "America's Most Haunted Hotel" largely because of the events of the 1930s when Dr. Norman Baker ran a "cancer treatment hospital" which he called his "Castle in the Air."

Follow the fictionalized story of Clara, the young, unwed pregnant niece of Dr. Baker who comes to help at the cancer center in exchange for room and board and finds things aren't quite what they appear to be. Caring for an ill young boy at the center she feels her maternal instincts kick in - something is definitely not right at her uncle's hospital. But what? Will she be able to piece together the clues in time to save herself and the boy? Or will be forever be doomed to reside in the Castle in the Air, where once you check in...you never leave.

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Blog Tour Character Casting & Giveaway - Widows Rule, Rule Series Book 5 by Alaina Stanford

Widows Rule
Rule Series Book 5
Author: Alaina Stanford

Book Description:
Seven months pregnant with three small children and a new job was difficult for most women even with a spouse at their side. Whitney was alone, but she was strong. She would not be broken. When her boys ask to take karate lessons like their friends, Whitney shifts her budget to accommodate them. It sounded like a good outlet for their emotions and energy. The one thing she didn’t plan on was her attraction to the soft spoken, muscular karate instructor. Whitney wasn’t looking for love, romance or a lover, especially someone so masculine, so outgoing, so handsome, so sexy as Heath Dixon. 

Instead, Whitney concentrates on work and her children. A new client, Veronica Nelson, an elderly woman with a sweet smile hires Whitney as her corporate attorney. Whitney discovers Veronica has an intellectual property rights claim against a lucrative corporation that owes her millions of dollars. Veronica client refuses to go to the police. Instead, she asks Whitney to rewrite her Will.

Shortly thereafter Veronica dies mysteriously. Thus begins a chain of events that spiral quickly out of control. Whitney discovers there are some things she cannot face alone and finds herself turning to the only man who can protect her.

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Release Day Blitz - Stop the Diet, I Want To Get Off! by Lisa Tillinger Johansen

Stop the Diet, I Want To Get Off!
Author: Lisa Tillinger Johansen
Publisher: J. Murray Press
Pages: 275
Genre: Nonfiction/Nutrition/Health

Book Description:
The Paleo.  The Zone.  The Gluten-free.  Another day, another diet.  We’re caught in a never-ending merry-go-round of weight loss plans, fueled by celebrity endorsers, TV doctors and companies angling for a piece of a $60 billion industry.  But do these diets really work?  And how healthy are they?

Registered Dietitian Lisa Tillinger Johansen examines dozens of the most wildly popular diets based on medical facts, not hype.  And along the way, she reveals tried-and-true weight loss strategies, relying on her years of hospital experience, weight-loss seminars and community outreach efforts.  With insight and humor, Stop The Diet, I Want To Get Off shows that the best answer is often not a trendy celebrity-endorsed diet, but easy-to-follow guidelines that are best for our health and our waistlines.

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Book Of The Week {Wattpad}

And the Book Of The Week Nominations are:

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Geniuses in Disguise (YA Sci-Fi)

Cursed Times - What Now? (NA Paranormal / Urban Fantasy)

Glass Slippers: A Cinderella Retelling (YA Fantasy)

Blog Tour Spotlight & Giveaway - The Sephra’s Tear by Robyn Bachar

The Sephra’s Tear
Just One Spell
Book One
Robyn Bachar
Genre: Fantasy Romance
Publisher: Robyn Bachar
Date of Publication: 06/01/15
ISBN: Ebook 978-0-9963490-1-7
ISBN: Print 978-0-9963490-0-0
ASIN: B00YPRRYGM
Number of pages: 318
Word Count: 63,770
Cover Artist: Amygdala Design

Book Description:
Just one spell will change their fates…

Cordelia is a pawn of House Dorchada—a notorious noble family comprised of thieves, assassins and dark wizards. Desperate to avoid their poisonous politics, Cordelia plotted her escape for years, but her carefully laid plans are jeopardized when her father commands her to marry an aged lord of Frostever.

With only a few short months left before her wedding, Cordelia’s salvation hinges on creating a Sephra’s Tear—a forbidden amulet that causes overwhelming lust in its victim. A black market buyer promises a life-changing amount of coin as payment for the Tear, but being caught creating it carries a death sentence.

Two wizards are needed to produce the passion to fuel the erotic spell, so Cordelia recruits the aid of peasant wizard Nathaniel Ravenwood. Nathaniel has long denied his desire for the beautiful Cordelia. As a noblewoman and a Dorchada she is as dangerous to Nathaniel as a viper, but the fortune she offers is a temptation he can't refuse.

Dealing in dark magic comes with a price, and Cordelia and Nathaniel risk losing their freedom—and their hearts. Their fates depend on the one spell that will free them, or destroy them.

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Blog Tour Excerpt - Purified by Elizabeth S. Sullivan

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Purified

Author: Elizabeth S. Sullivan

Genre: Thriller / Noir
Date Published: November 27, 2014

Book Description:
When a mutilated body of an African American girl is found in a park sandbox, the media shows no interest. Instead, their attention is riveted on the disappearance of Olivia Safra, a college student and only child of the powerful and dangerous Richard Safra. Suspended ADA, Beck Oldman, demoted to a rookie PI is assigned her first cases to find a missing teenager and Olivia Safra.

Leads connect the murders to the Safra case. The investigation into her client's private life reveals a dark side in the relationship between a father and daughter and exacts his wrath against Beck. More girls are found murdered, putting Beck in a race to stop a serial killer and stop her own client from destroying her.

PURIFIED is a thrilling story that explores many dark subjects, including what it does to those who have to live in the world of killers in order to stop them.

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Release Day Blitz & Giveaway - Guarded by Carmen Fox

Guarded
The Silverton Chronicles
Book 1
Carmen Fox
Genre: Urban Fantasy/Romance/Suspense
Publisher: Smart Heart Publishing
Date of Publication: July 31, 2015
ePub: 978-0-9931992-0-2
Paperback: 978-0-9931992-1-9
Hardcover: 978-0-9931992-2-6
Number of pages: 276 print pages
Word Count: 104k
Cover Artist: Ana Grigoriu

Book Description:
When everyone's existence depends on the lies they tell, trust doesn't come easy

Ivy’s neighbors have a secret. They aren’t human. But Ivy has a secret, too. She knows. As long as everyone keeps quiet, she’s happy working as a P.I. by day and chillaxing with her BFF Florian, a vampire, by night. When a routine pickup drops her in the middle of a murder, her two worlds collide. While Florian knows how to throw a punch, deep down he's a softie. His idea of scary? Running out of hair product. It’s time Ivy faced facts. Even with a vampire on stand-by, one gal can only kick so many asses.

For help, she must put her faith in others. A human, who might just be the one. A demon, who will, for a price, open the doors to her heritage. And a werewolf, who wants to protect her from herself.

Torn between these men, Ivy must tread carefully, because one wants her heart, one wants her body, and one wants her dead.

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Cover Reveal Book Blast & Giveaway - Triangulating Bliss by Janelle Jalbert

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Triangulating Bliss

Author: Janelle Jalbert

Genre: Women's - Paranormal - Visionary - Magical Realism

Bookvie: A Walk in the Woods - out September 2, 2015 (USA)

Who's in it:
Nick Offerman, Kristen Schaal, Mary Steenburgen

Book Of The Month: The Unheavenly Angel {Wattpad}

And the July Book Of The Month Award goes to:

The Unheavenly Angel

Author: K. May

Genre: YA Sci-Fi

Book Description (from Wattpad):

Leah Emerson has juggled school life and demon fighting since she was first attacked by the hellish beasts three years ago.  Equipped with throwing knives, angel seals, and blessings, Leah thinks she is more than capable of sending any paranormal creature back to where it came from.
   
    That is until a rogue angel nearly kills her, and Isaiah—an attractive but unbearably arrogant fallen angel fresh from the depths of Hell—saves her life. With Heaven struggling to deal with an increasing human population and revolts against the system, Leah is left to die at the hands of the rouge. 
   
    But Leah will not go down that easily.
   
    With only Isaiah to help her, Leah must search Heaven and Earth for the murderous angel's identity before he can succeed in his mission.

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Blog Tour Promo & Giveaway - Second Chronicles of Illumination by Carol Pack

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Second Chronicles of Illumination
Author: C.A. Pack
Publisher: Antiqua Press
Pages: 480
Genre: Fantasy
Format: Kindle/Hardcover

Book Description:
When an alien invasion threatens the existence of all the knowledge in the universe, eighteen-year-old Johanna Charette and seventeen-year-old Jackson Roth must rely on their wits, guts, and pluck to save the fantasy-come-to-life world of the Library of Illumination. It wouldn t be so bad if Johanna and Jackson weren t the ones responsible for breaching the portals to a dozen distant worlds. Now, outside forces are causing shock waves in the space-time continuum, and if that isn t awful enough, someone from another dimension is trying to steal a book of powerful spells created by a very famous wizard. At first, traveling to other realms in a time machine seems like a fun perk. However, discovering some inhabitants want to obliterate the teens doesn’t leave them with a warm, fuzzy feeling. Instead, they find themselves forced to sacrifice their own welfare and the safety of their loved ones for the greater good.

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Cover Reveal - Dangerous Games by D'Ann Burrow

Dangerous Games

(Secrets and Lies, #2)

Author: D’Ann Burrow

Publication Date: September 28th, 2015
Genres: Paranormal Romance, Young Adult

Book Blitz - Sun-Kissed Summer by Marta Brown

Sun-Kissed Summer
Author: Marta Brown
Publication Date: July 7th, 2015
Genres: Contemporary, Romance, Young Adult

Book Description:

Summer can change everything.

For shy, bookish Katie Quinn, it just might after an accidental mix-up at the airport on the way to visit her grandparents for the summer leaves her stuck with the wrong suitcase. One full of short shorts, high heels, and absolutely nothing she would normally dare to wear. Until she realizes her newfound look has garnered the attention of Key West’s biggest hottie, Brad-freaking-Garrison, and might just give her the one thing she’s always dreamed of—an epic summer romance.

A romance her summertime best friend only wishes he could give her. But for Oliver, getting Katie to see him as more than just some dumb jock isn’t going to be easy after he agrees to compete against Brad in a kite-surfing competition. And if Brad has any say in it, the prize is Katie herself.

With more than just a contest on the line and a friendship at stake, will this be the summer Katie finds her footing, even if it is in someone else’s shoes?  Will Oliver finally get the courage to tell Katie how he really feels and get out of the friend-zone for good? Or, like a kite in a hurricane, will everything they’ve ever hoped for be lost in the storm?

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Release Day Event & Giveaway - Bachelor.com by Kathye Quick

Welcome to the release event for Bachelor.com by Kathye Quick! 

Bachelor.com is a contemporary romance novel that released July 29th from the Wild Rose Press and is now available for purchase.

  

Bachelor.com
Author Name: Kathye Quick

Series: Book 1 – Bachelors Three Series

Original / Regular Price: $4.99 Kindle

Book Description:

Jack Reeves has loved Kinley Adams since the day he rescued her computer from a fatal blue screen. In the two years since, the computer programmer has fantasized about a life with her.  Kinley, an Engineering Assistant, has come to think of Jack as more than just a friend. One night, just when each had finally decided to reveal their feelings are deeper than friendship, a terrible automobile accident puts their confessions on hold.

Doctors have no choice but to rebuild Jack's face, and the result changes everything. Can Jack and Kinley overcome his transformation from geek to chic, a secret double life, and a horde of willing women who have discovered the new Jack Reeves? Will the frog ever become the prince and ride off with his princess to live happily ever after?

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