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Monday, 26 September 2016

Blog Tour Excerpt & Giveaway - French Fries With a Side of Guys by Rebekah L. Purdy

French Fries With a Side of Guys
Author: Rebekah L. Purdy

Book Description:
Payton Carter is one of six kids (all of which are named after famous football players), not to mention the only girl in the Carter household. With this much testosterone and no mother, it’s no wonder she’s absolutely clueless when it comes to makeup, dances, and talking to guys she’s crushing on. And now she’s about ready to start her freshman year of high school, which is nerve wrenching enough, but when she ends up running into her crush, Chance Montgomery, at her dad’s sports restaurant, she finds out that the quarterback for their rival team is moving to Aller Falls. This is nothing short of fate.

Payton realizes she has to find a way to impress Chance and get him to ask her out or at least know she’s interested in him—preferably without dropping a plateful of fries on his head, like she did last time. After taking her two oldest brothers’ advice, she decides to go out for the freshman football team, figuring that between practices and games she and her crush will surely be able to talk. And maybe talking will lead to something more permanent or at least to a first kiss. Only this plan backfires in ways she never imagined, when she beats Chance Montgomery out of the starting quarterback position. Now not only does she make him the laughing stock of the team, but also has to figure out how to avoid the snotty cheerleaders, a traitor best friend, not to mention winning games for her team. Too bad this is just the beginning of her freshman year.


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Promo Blitz & Giveaway - Captain No Beard, the series by Carole P Roman



Captain No Beard, the series
Author:
Carole P Roman
Genre: Children’s Fiction
Date Published: July 3, 2012 - December 31, 2015

Book Description:
The Captain No Beard series has nine published books in the series.  They all take place in the imagination of a young boy who pretends he and his friends are pirates.  Each book teaches valuable lessons. The Captain No Beard series can open discussions on important subjects such as sharing, bossiness, bullying, responsibility, and stranger danger. Using imagination, the crew of the Flying Dragon navigates the waters of the world, learning valuable lessons along the way.  Whether the topic is sharing, tolerance, stranger danger or bullying, the crew resolves their issues together with humor and sensitivity.

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https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5854108.Carole_P_Roman?from_search=true

Sunday, 25 September 2016

Book Blitz & Giveaway - I'm Not Afraid of Wolves by Erin Hayes

I’m Not Afraid of Wolves
(The Cotton Candy Quintet #4)
Author: Erin Hayes
Publication Date: September 22nd, 2016
Genres: Paranormal, Young Adult

Book Description:
Christine would do anything to get away from it all.

After escaping an abusive marriage and heading up a group of brand new performers, she’s tired and in need of a vacation. So when her sister Sara wants her to go camping out in the mountains of Georgia with the girls, she packs her bags for some rest and relaxation. Not even meeting a gorgeous park ranger like Colton Donnelly is going to distract her.

Except Sara didn’t tell her the real reason for the trip: she’s running away from a terrible secret. One that puts all of their lives in danger.

Now the vacation that Christine so desperately needed is ruined, but that’s the least of her worries. She has to use her wits and skills to save them all. Because she soon finds out that werewolves are very real. And they’ll stop at nothing to get their claws into her sister.

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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30357163-i-m-not-afraid-of-wolves

Saturday, 24 September 2016

Cover Reveal & Giveaway - The Light of Mytis by J.L. Tomlinson


Today we're excited to share the cover of Light of Mytis, Ardentia #3 by J.L. Tomlinson! This is a young adult fantasy and releases in December 2016. The first two books, The Empyrean Key and Veil of the Corrupter are only .99 cents for a limited time!

We hope you enjoy the cover and be sure to check out the giveaway at the end of the post!

Book Blitz & Giveaway - Shadow of a Girl by Shannon Greenland

Shadow of a Girl
Author: Shannon Greenland
Published by: Entangled: Teen
Publication Date: September 19th, 2016
Genres: Romance, Young Adult 

Book Description:
Use cash and keep moving. 

After I ran away from home, these were the two rules that dictated my life. Scoring a job as a roadie fit perfectly for what I needed. Traveling, cash, and life out of the spotlight. But when my path collides with West, the lead singer of Bus Stop, I can’t seem to stay out of his spotlight—especially since we’ll be touring together for an entire year.

West is determined to break down my walls. He won’t give up. And little by little they come crumbling. But if he knew what lurked behind them, he wouldn’t be so eager to get rid of them.

The more time we spend together, the more the lines of our friendship become blurred. He makes me dream of things I never thought possible. But while our friendship has been evolving into a romance, my secrets have been closing in. And just when I’ve decided to reveal my past to West, I’m confronted by it. The cost of my freedom could ruin the life of the guy I love…


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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31289841-shadow-of-a-girl?ac=1&from_search=true

Friday, 23 September 2016

Blog Tour Promo & Giveaway - The Embodied Trilogy by J.B. Dutton

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The Embodied Trilogy
Author:
J.B. Dutton
Genre: YA Urban Fantasy/sci-fi
Page count: Approx. 560 pages
Release Date:  July 11th, 2016

Book Description:
The Embodied trilogy is an unusual web of adventure, romance, fantasy, and science fiction.

Book one, Silent Symmetry, introduces smart, plucky Manhattan prep school student Kari Marriner, who becomes aware that mysterious aliens called the Embodied and their pseudo-religion, the Temple of Truth, have been influencing her family’s life for decades. As she falls for Cruz, a boy at school, and meets warring Embodied siblings Noon and Aranara, Kari starts to question her emotions and finds herself ensnared in a mystery that reaches further than she could possibly have imagined.

In book two, Starley’s Rust, a charismatic young English artist named Starley, who is plagued by race memories of the Embodied, convinces Kari that he can find her missing mother if she flies to Paris with him to draw out her kidnappers. But the Embodied seemed to have vanished, and now there’s a new, more terrifying visitor from the Dark Universe – a Thoth high priest in the form of a dragon. Kari soon discovers the mind-blowing extent of the Embodied beings’ involvement in human history and her own family’s tragic past.

In the trilogy’s thrilling conclusion, Diamond Splinters, Kari has a heart-wrenching choice to make: rescue her mother or save the Earth. And her only hope to figure out a solution is to team up with the one person she can never trust. When a submarine trip to the bottom of the Hudson River ends in death and disaster, Kari is scarred, both emotionally and physically. She wants to run and hide, but digs deep to find new sources of inner strength. As the storm of the century hits New York, a child’s life hangs in the balance and Kari gambles everything in a final confrontation with the genocidal Thoth.

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http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30986778-the-embodied-trilogy

Book Blast & Giveaway - Recreated by Colleen Houck

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Recreated
Author: Colleen Houck

Book Description:
From Colleen Houck, New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger’s Curse, comes Recreated, the second book in the epic Egyptian-inspired Reawakened series, in which a seventeen-year-old must literally go to hell to save the love of her life.

Lily Young thought traveling across the globe with a reawakened sun prince was a grand adventure. Now she’s about to embark on the journey of a lifetime.

When Amon and Lily part tragically, he transports himself to the Netherworld—what mortals call hell. Tormented by the loss of his one true love, he’d rather suffer in agony during Lily’s mortal years than fulfill his duty to protect humanity.

Heartbroken, Lily seeks refuge on her grandmother’s farm. Yet she can feel Amon’s pain, and she has been having dreams—dreams of Amon continually suffering.

For before he departed, Amon gave Lily something very special, an item that connects them even though they are worlds apart. Now Lily must use this object to free him, and to free their realms from darkness and utter chaos. She will do whatever it takes.

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Book Blitz & Giveaway - Imdalind Series by Rebecca Ethington

Kiss of Fire
(Imdalind, #1)
Author: Rebecca Ethington
Genres: Paranormal, Young Adult 

Book Description:
Joclyn Despain has been marred by a brand on her skin. She doesn’t know why the mark appeared on her neck, but she doesn’t want anyone to see it, including her best friend Ryland, who knows everything else about her. The scar is the reason she hides herself behind baggy clothes, and won’t let the idea of kissing Ryland enter her mind, no matter how much she wants to.
The scar is the reason she is being hunted.
 

If only she knew that she was.

If only she had known that the cursed stone her estranged father sent for her 16th birthday would trigger a change in her. Now, she is being stalked by a tall blonde man, and is miraculously throwing her high school bully ten feet in the air.

Joclyn attempts to find some answers and the courage to follow her heart. When Ryland finds her scar; only he knows what it means, and who will kill her because of it.

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Cover Reveal - The Sophisticates Trilogy by Christine Manzari


The Sophisticates Trilogy (box set)
Genre: YA Dystopian
Release Date: October 17th, 2016

Thursday, 22 September 2016

Blog Tour Spotlight & Giveaway - The Stranger by Anna del Mar



The Stranger
A Wounded Warrior Novel
Book Two
Anna del Mar
Genre: Romantic Suspense, Contemporary romance, SEAL romance, Military Romance
Publisher: Carina Press
Date of Publication: August 22, 2016
eISBN: 9781459294301
ASIN: B01EF3MHSU
Number of pages: 323 pages
Word Count: 110,000 words approx.
Cover Artist: Carina Press

Tagline:
Ex-military pilot Seth Erickson is fighting his own demons, but when he finds Summer Silva, a beautiful, warmth-loving, Miami woman stranded in the frozen wilderness, he’ll do everything in his power to keep her safe from murder, treason, and the ruthless Alaskan winter.

Book Description:
When a mysterious stranger is your only hope...

The scars of the past have left their mark, both physical and emotional, on former military pilot Seth Erickson. Off-grid in the far reaches of the bitter Alaskan wilderness, he wants only to be left alone with his ghosts. But he can’t ignore a woman in need—beautiful, stranded and nearly frozen with fear.

Summer Silva never imagined that the search for her missing sister would leave her abandoned on a wintry back road, barely escaping with her life from a cold-blooded killer for hire. Now, hiding out in the isolated cabin of the secretive wounded warrior who saved her, Summer knows she must do what she fears most. Putting her trust in a stranger is all she has left.

All defenses are down

After a fiery first night together, Seth and Summer are bound by a need as powerful as a Bering Sea superstorm—and vulnerable to enemies just as fierce. For Seth, reawakened by desire, there is no sacrifice too great, no memory too dark, to keep Summer safe. But murder and treason lurk everywhere and Summer may not survive Alaska’s ruthless winter.

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Blog Tour Promo & Giveaway - The Fourth Piece by E. Ardell

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The Fourth Piece
(Order's Last Play #1)
Author:
E. Ardell
Genre: YA Sci-fi/Fantasy
Release Date: July 8th, 2016
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Book Description:
Admitting what you are will end everything you know. Embracing who you are will start a war...

Life is great when you’re good-looking and popular…so long as no one knows you’re a vulatto. Being half-alien gets you labeled “loser” quicker than being a full vader. So it’s a good thing Devon, Lyle, and Lawrence can easily pass for human—until the night of the party. Nothing kills a good time faster than three brothers sharing a psychic vision of a fourth brother who’s off-world and going to die unless they do something. But when your brother’s emergency happens off-planet, calling 9-1-1 really isn’t an option.

In their attempt to save a brother they barely remember, Devon, Lyle and Lawrence expose themselves to mortal danger and inherit a destiny that killed the last four guys cursed with it. In 2022, there are humans and aliens, heroes and monsters, choices and prophecies—and four brothers with the power to choose what’s left when the gods decide they’re through playing games.

Book I in the Order's Last Play series

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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29058267-the-fourth-piece

Cover Reveal - My Junior Year of Loathing by Jennifer DiGiovanni


 
My Junior Year of Loathing
Author: Jennifer DiGiovanni
Published by: Swoon Romance
Publication Date: October 25th, 2016
Genres: Contemporary, Young Adult

Book Blitz & Giveaway - The Surrendered by Case Maynard



 
The Surrendered
Author: Case Maynard
Published by: Blaze Publishing
Publication Date: September 20th, 2016
Genres: Dystopian, Young Adult


Book Description:
After a financial collapse devastates the United States, the new government imposes a tax on the nation’s most valuable resource—the children. 

Surrendered at age ten—after her parents could no longer afford her exorbitant fees—Vee Delancourt has spent six hard years at the Mills, alongside her twin, Oliver. With just a year to freedom, they do what they can to stay off the Master’s radar. But when Vee discovers unspeakable things happening to the younger girls in service, she has no choice but to take a stand—a decision that lands her on the run and outside the fence for the first time since the System robbed her of her liberty.

Vee knows the Master will stop at nothing to prove he holds ultimate authority over the Surrendered. But when he makes a threat that goes beyond what even she considers possible, she accepts the aid of an unlikely group of allies. Problem is, with opposing factions gunning for the one thing that might save them all, Vee must find a way to turn oppression and desperation into hope and determination—or risk failing all the children and the brother she left behind.



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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28512298-the-surrendered?ac=1&from_search=true

Wednesday, 21 September 2016

Blog Tour Promo & Giveaway - Quanta Reset (The Shadow Ravens #3) by Lola Dodge

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Quanta Reset
(The Shadow Ravens #3)
Author: Lola Dodge
Genre: YA
Release Date: September 27th, 2016
Ink Monster

Book Description:
Quanta has escaped her laboratory prison, but that’s where the good news ends.

Life at the Shadow Ravens’ compound is a disaster. She’s drowning in visions of the dark pasts and darker futures of her fellow Ravens and is plagued by her own panic-inducing memories, but Lady Eva still expects her to “train” and “participate in missions.” Plus, the food tastes like burnt plastic.

The only bright spot is her genetic pairing to the brilliant Altair Orpheus. As their relationship grows, she’s positive that chemicals aren’t the only things drawing them together—although chemistry is definitely involved.

While they test the limits of her game-changing new ability to reset time, word arrives from Eva’s agents: Doctor Nagi is still experimenting with her DNA. If he succeeds in duplicating her power…

Forget the Shadow Ravens. The whole world is toast.


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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26796052-quanta-reset?ac=1&from_search=true

Blog Tour Excerpt & Giveaway - Brood X by Michael Phillip Cash

Brood X
Author: Michael Phillip Cash
Genre: Found Footage, Horror, Apocalypse
Date Published: May 4, 2013
Publisher: Chelshire, INC.

Book Description:
Seth is laid off from work. His wife Lara just found out they are expecting a baby this summer. Seth plans on documenting the entire pregnancy with his brand new digital camcorder. During an evening home watching television, the news reports that a swarm of cicada (Brood Ten) are expected to overwhelm the entire Northeast. Brood Ten is vicious and ready to invade. During a sweltering summer night, Brood Ten emerges and wreaks havoc with the electric grid, phone and cell service, wi-fi, food and water supply. Civilization as they know it is gone. Seth and Lara are thrown back to the stone age in their own home with trillions of cicada trying to deposit their eggs and breed. Fast paced and filled with tension, Brood Ten is the perfect summer read when you’re sitting outside listening to the cicadas sing.

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Cover Reveal - The Life Group by Maura Jortner


The Life Group
Author: Maura Jortner
Genre: YA Thriller
Release Date: January 9th, 2017
Lakewater Press