Blog Tour Excerpt & Giveaway - Serenity by India R. Adams

Serenity

(Forever, #1)
Author: India R. Adams

Publication Date: July 26th, 2016

Genres: Paranormal, Young Adult

Book Description:

To say I know where this story begins is to say I remember what lifetime started it all…and why. What I do know is this lifetime is hard and cruel…maybe like the rest. That is until I meet him–the light that shines and guides me. To where I don’t know but my soul chooses to follow regardless. I believe it has done this before. I believe I will follow him…forever. 

A destructive home life silently tears Serenity, a 16 year old girl, apart until her broken spirit is given a gift in the form of an old journal that sends her a visitor in the night. 

Away from the sun I close my eyes

and release myself into the unknown

I hope she is there

I hope she is there… 

The cloaked woman teaches Serenity that the lingering feeling of missing a part of her soul, may not be a figment of her imagination and with these words Serenity’s journey, of this lifetime, begins. 

The toll on my spirit had slowly broken me down—day by day, night by night, drink by drink, hit by hit—to the limp, fragile, lost girl that Dereck Hamilton . . . carried away.

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Cover Reveal - Soul Finder by Jacinta Maree

Soul Finder

(The Immortal Gene, #2)

Author: Jacinta Maree

Publication Date: September 16th, 2016

Genres: Dystopian, New Adult, Supernatural

Cover Reveal - The Last Winter Moon (The Cycle of the Six Moons #3) by Adelle Yeung

The Last Winter Moon

(The Cycle of the Six Moons #3)
Author: Adelle Yeung
Genre: YA Fantasy
Release Date: November 10th, 2016

Blog Tour First Chapter Reveal - Missing Piece by Uzo Okoye

Missing Piece

Author: Uzo Okoye

Publisher: Independent

Pages: 164

Genre: Inspirational/Legal Thriller

Book Description:

John Williams' picture perfect life is stripped apart, piece by piece and lies in a crumpled heap, just after he finds true fulfilment. And to make matters worse, a troubling dark secret from his past returns to haunt him. 

 

Will John accept his new reality? Is he brave enough to fight for the truth? Or will the enticement to return to his seemingly perfect past prove too much of a temptation to resist?

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Book Blitz & Giveaway - Extracted by Sherry D. Ficklin & Tyler Jolley

 

Extracted
Author: Sherry D. Ficklin & Tyler Jolley
Published by: Clean Teen Publishing
Publication Date: August 15th, 2016
Genres: Steampunk, Young Adult

Book Description:

Two opposing factions of time travelers vie for control of the future in this thrilling steampunk series opener dubbed “Interesting” and “Unexpected” by Kirkus Reviews. 

Lex and Ember—two time travelers with no memories of their lives before being recruited into the time war—are torn between the factions. When Lex accepts a mission that lands him deep within the heart of the Telsa Institute, he meets Ember, and the past that was stolen from them comes flooding back. Now armed with the truth of who they were, Lex and Ember must work together to save the future before the battle for time destroys them once again.

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Cover Reveal - Pandora by Melody Manful

Pandora

(Guardian Angels, #1.1)

Author: Melody Manful

Publication Date: November 14th, 2016

Genres: Paranormal, Young Adult

Blog Tour Excerpt & Giveaway - The Departed by Kristy Cooper

The Departed
Author: Kristy Cooper
Genre: YA Dystopian
Release Date: July 6th, 2016

Book Description:
What if someone tried to fake the rapture?

When hundreds of thousands of people disappear in the middle of the night, including sixteen-year-old Gwen's best friend Lana, no one knows why. Some believe they were taken in the rapture, while others are convinced that it can't be true. Doomsday prophecies abound that involve horrifying tales of plague, famine, earthquakes, and more.

At first, Gwen doesn't know what to think. While she is busy mourning Lana, many people around her are getting taken in by the cultish True Believers Temple, including Gwen's dad and her friend Mindy. It is clear that more and more people are going to be pressured to join this church, as it starts taking over the media and the government, gaining zealous followers all over the world.

Then Gwen starts receiving emails from Lana. She claims to have been forced into hiding with thousands of others in an underground compound. Gwen is convinced the emails are real and the only other person who also believes her is Isaiah, her moody crush. Together they resolve to find out where everyone is hiding and help set Lana free.

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Blog Tour Spotlight - From My War, To Your Peace. Love Nonna by Monika Sears

From My War to Your Peace. Love Nonna
Author: Monika Sears
Release Date: 08/15/2016
Keywords: short stories, family, jewish, holocaust, world war I & II, nazi invasion, Poland 1939
Categories: Historical/Memoir
Pages: 70
ISBN: 978-1534846241
Imprint: Veritas 
 
ONE LINER: Ravenswood Publishers are proud to present this letter telling her incredible story to her grandson and to the two grandsons who came along later.

Book Description:

Born in Poland in 1939, brown eyed, dark haired and Jewish, Monika was off to a bad start.  Her Father was marched off and shot in the first few days of the Nazi invasion.   Her Mother, not knowing what had happened to him, took her to Warsaw to try and find him.  So began the years of running and hiding.  Monika was shuttled between aunties, in Warsaw, in the country, in rat infested basements and for weeks silent under a table with a little doll, two toy armchairs and books she did not know how to read; her Mother had found a room in the apartment of a virulently anti-semitic countess and whilst her Mother could pass for Aryan, Monika could not.

Lodged with another auntie she was forced to drink, dance and sing obscene songs for even more drunken farmhands. She never raised her brown eyes.  She had learnt fear and obedience.

She walked through Warsaw burning and was thrown from the window of a train on the way to a concentration camp.

Yet in the end it came to an end and she survived.

She came to England and made a stab at childhood.  In due course she married, had children and ran an antiquarian bookshop.  She survived.

Many years later, waiting on the doorstep for her first grandson to be carried into his warm, secure home, she decided to write him a letter.

Ravenswood Publishers are proud to present this letter telling her incredible story to her grandson and to the two grandsons who came along later.

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Book Blitz & Giveaway - Beneath the Void by Elisa Dane

Beneath the Void

Author: Elisa Dane

Genre: YA Romance

Book Description:

Sadie Reynolds is drowning.

Months have passed since Ian Daniels and Newton Daily opened fire at Atwood High school, killing dozens of students before turning the guns on themselves.

Determined to pay tribute to her fallen classmates and teachers, Sadie’s thrown herself into the memorial project at the newly rebuilt school. But it’s not enough. Horrific dreams of the shooting intertwined with memories of the night her mother was murdered keep her up at night and haunt her during the day.

The constant stream of hate raining down on her from faceless social media trolls only make matters worse. Her boyfriend, Hayden brings the only source of relief when he sneaks in to sleep next to her on nights her dad is at work.

Desperate for normalcy, Sadie fills every waking moment of her day with anything to take her mind off her pain. If she’s exhausted, she’ll be too tired to acknowledge the new threat gunning for her.

BENEATH the VOID is book 2 in Elisa Dane's Fighting Chance series, a hard-hitting and unapologetically raw look at teen violence in schools and the aftermath of learning to pick up the pieces and heal.

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Release Day Blitz & Giveaway - Blood Dragons by Rosemary A Johns

Blood Dragons
Rebel Vampires
Volume 1
Rosemary A Johns
Genre: Urban Fantasy/Paranormal Romance
Publisher: Fantasy Rebel Limited
Date of Publication: 14th August 2016
ISBN-13: 978-1533679819
ISBN-10: 1533679819
Large Print Edition:
ISBN-13: 978-1533681362
ISBN-10: 1533681368
Number of pages: 294
Word Count: 80,000
Cover Artist: JD Smith

Book Description:
There are three people in this affair – and two of them aren’t human…

A hidden paranormal London lies beneath our own. Escape into the supernatural world of the Blood Lifers – where vampires are both predator and prey.

1960s London. Light is a rebel Rocker Blood Lifer with a photographic memory. And a Triton motorbike. Since Victorian times he’s hidden in the shadows. Both predator and prey. His venom is deadly. He feeds on blood. Human, of course. But when he discovers his ruthless family’s horrifying secret experiments, he questions whether he should be slaying or saving the humans he’s always feared.

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Book Blitz & Giveaway - Soul Symmetry by J.L. Weil

Soul Symmetry

(Raven #3)

Author: J.L. Weil

Publication Date: August 2nd, 2016

Genres: Paranormal, Young Adult

Book Description:

A BANSHEE.
A DEATH REAPER.
LOVE TRANSCENDING. 

War is coming. The veil between the living and the dead no longer exists. Evil is running rampant and the universe’s symmetry balances on my fingertips. No big deal. Of course, nobody knows how or when the hallows will strike, or who among us is a traitor.

Hordes of vengeful spirits are multiplying by the minute, closing in ranks. Zane is poised to strike, but it’s going to take more than his killer instincts, more than swords and shadows to vanquish the hallows back where they belong. Stakes are higher than ever, yet I am determined to protect those I care about—to save the world.

Restoring the veil isn’t as easy as a snap of my fingertips. Nothing worth fighting for ever is. Friendship and loyalties are tested to the limit, sacrifices of unimaginable proportions are made, but in the end, all that matters is whether I succeed or fail.

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Book Blast & Giveaway - The Cat Came Back by Louise Clark

Welcome to the book blast for The Cat Came Back by Louise Clark. This is a cozy mystery with some clean romance that is available now!

The Cat Came Back

Author: Louise Clark

Book Description:

Stormy the Cat, rescued by journalist Quinn Armstrong, is not what he seems.

Young mother Christy Jamieson just learned her husband, Frank, embezzled his trust fund, sold their Vancouver mansion, and ran off with a socialite. Worse, Frank's trustees are telling Christy to let them handle it. But they aren't doing anything, and Frank's enemies are coming after her and her daughter.

Desperate to find Frank and fend off his enemies, Christy asks Quinn for help. His price: the dirt on Frank. But the closer Christy and Quinn get to the dangerous truth, the more convinced they become that only the one who knows where Frank is at, is Stormy the Cat.

THE 9 LIVES COZY MYSTERY SERIES:

The Cat Came Back

The Cat's Paw (coming soon!)

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Book Blitz & Giveaway - Defective by B. Austin

 

Defective

(Outcast, #1)
Author: B. Austin

Publication Date: August 13th, 2016

Genres: Dystopian, Young Adult 

Book Description:
In a society where rebels are unwanted, the Outcasts have their own underground world. 

What type of society applies the word Defective to healthy young humans?

IT IS ALMOST A PERFECT WORLD. One government rules earth—the Commonwealth and one people—the Commoners. The pure society of the Commonwealth has but one contamination, the 1%, the Outcasts—rebellious kids and young adults who for some puzzling reason cannot or will not conform.

When Dante’s girlfriend vanishes like thousands of other Outcasts before her, he enlists the aid of friends to find her. They discover the shocking secret of what extreme the Commonwealth of Earth will go to ensure that Outcasts reform and obey the rules!

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Blog Tour Spotlight & Giveaway - Rise of a Viking by Sky Purington

Rise of a Viking
The MacLomain Series
Viking Ancestors’ Kin
Book 1
Sky Purington   
Genre:  Time-travel Fantasy Romance
Date of Publication:  August 9, 2016
ASIN:   B01FFXUWKO
Number of pages:  270
Word Count:  80,000
Cover Artist:  Tamra Westberry

Book Description:
Cybil is thrilled when she and her family inherit a million dollar ocean-side house in Winter Harbor, Maine. It’s a chance to finally bring her sisters back together and right old wrongs. But problems arise. Her gift of prophecy grows stronger. A Viking from the past haunts her. And that old ash tree in the front yard? It has taken on the otherworldly qualities of Yggdrasill, a tree that connects the nine worlds in Norse mythology. Soon caught in its power, she’s whisked back in time to tenth-century Scandinavia.

Of dragon blood and set to inherit the throne, Heidrek Sigdir tries to keep Cybil away, but the gods have other plans. A fate designed to make him pay for past grievances. Yet when he finally lays eyes on her, he wants nothing else. They share a connection unlike any other. Poignant desire. Incomparable need. Tempting change. Even so, he must let her go. She should be with his brother. Still, nothing is what it seems. A new enemy is determined to destroy all and Cybil is special to him and his people in ways nobody anticipated.

Many revelations come to light when Heidrek and Cybil are forced to journey across the rugged lands of Norway to reach the home of the seers at the peak of Mt. Galdhøpiggen. Hearts will be tested and lives forever changed. Will a new Viking King rise up and keep his people safe? Or will his endless draw to a modern day woman be his ultimate ruin?

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Book Blitz & Giveaway - Unlocked by Margo Kelly

Unlocked
Author: Margo Kelly

Genre: YA Mystery/Thriller

Release Date: October 1st, 2016

Merit Press

Book Description:

A provocative thriller involving hypnosis, mystery, love, and friendship!

Someone has been moving the stuffed pink elephant in Hannah's room. She thinks. And ants crawl over her hands, across the steering wheel, all the time. Don't they? They're what made her crash the car on the way home from the fair, and she wouldn't have freaked out, wouldn't have caused her friend's death, for no reason. But she doesn't know if a person is messing with her, if the paranormal is messing with her--or if she's just going psychotic like her dad before her.

When her friends bail, Hannah is left floundering. Not even her boyfriend Manny believes her, and new girl Chelsea is practically replacing her at school. Only artsy outsider and self-proclaimed occult expert, Plug, agrees to help Hannah find out the truth about hypnosis and demons, and even he can't help Hannah reclaim her mind from whatever's taking over. She'll have to do that herself if she wants to save her friends, her mom and herself.

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Blog Tour Promo - Sweet Carolina Morning by Susan Schild

Sweet Carolina Morning
Author: Susan Schild
Release Date: August 2, 2016
Publisher: Lyrical Press
Genre: Contemporary Women
Format: Ebook/Paperback

Book Description:
Life down South just got a whole lot sweeter in Susan Schild’s new novel about a woman whose happily-ever-after is about to begin…whether she’s ready for it or not.

Finally, just shy of forty years old, Linny Taylor is living the life of her dreams in her charming hometown of Willow Hill, North Carolina. The past few years have been anything but a fairy tale: Left broke by her con man late-husband, Linny has struggled to rebuild her life from scratch. Then she met Jack Avery, the town’s much-adored veterinarian. “And she’s marrying him.
”

Everything should be coming up roses for Linny. So why does she have such a serious case of pre-wedding jitters? It could be because Jack’s prosperous family doesn’t approve of her rough-and-tumble background. Or that his ex-wife is suddenly back on the scene. Or that Linny has yet to win over his son’s heart. All these obstacles-not to mention what she should wear when she walks down the aisle-are taking the joy out of planning her wedding. Linny better find a way to trust love again, or she might risk losing the one man she wants to be with-forever…

“Charming, funny, feisty.I totally loved this novel.” –Cathy Lamb, author of “My Very Best Friend “on “Linny’s Sweet Dream List”

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