Wednesday, April 30, 2014

ON MY KNEES BY MEREDITH WILD BLOG TOUR & GIVEAWAY

         

Book: On My Knees
 
Author: Meredith Wild
 
Genre: Contemporary Romance




 
Haunted by the responsibility of caring for her troubled family, Maya Jacobs gave the only answer she could when Cameron asked her to marry him.  Years later, entrenched in a soulless professional routine, she distracts herself from the lingering regret of her decision with a “work hard, play hard” lifestyle that guarantees no man will ever find his way into her heart again.
Cameron Bridge has spent the past five years married to the military, trying to escape the painful memory of losing Maya. After fighting his own war in the desert, he starts a new life in New York City, with his siblings, Olivia and Darren, by his side.
When fate brings Maya back to him in the heart of a city filled with its own hopes and shadows, can Cameron find the girl he once loved in the woman she’s become?
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20263223-on-my-knees
 

INTRIGUING AUTHOR’S & THEIR BOOKS REVIEW:
WOW!! Get ready to experience one emotional roller coaster ride. This book had me frustrated, sad, frustrated some more, and sad than happy. It pulls you in from the beginning and does not let you go till the end.
After Maya tells Cameron that she can’t marry him, she goes a little wild. Maya drinks and parties a lot. She just puts her life on auto pilot and phones it in, not living just existing.
Cameron focused on his military career and tried to forget the love of his life, Maya. After the military, he comes home and throw’s himself into his work, still trying to forget her.
A chance encounter brings these two back together. Will Maya and Cameron get a second chance at love, is it finally time to deal with past, are they going to be able to deal with the present.
Meredith Wild has crafted a wonderful, fast-paced read. It is filled with heartbreak, sadness, and twist and turn the reader doesn’t see coming. It held me captivated from the very first paragraph. The way Meredith has written On My Knees helps the reader to really feel and experience what the character are going through. The secondary characters are just as good as the main ones and really helps to add that something to the story. I can’t wait to see what Meredith will write next.  
 
 
 
 
 


Meredith Wild is a USA Today and international bestselling author of erotic romance. She lives in Boston with her husband and three children. When she's not writing or interacting with fans, she's working with high-tech startups. 
 




 




Tuesday, April 29, 2014

I LOVED THAT ABOUT HER BY C.R. EVERETT BLOG TOUR & GIVEAWAY

            





In Love, Carry My Bags, we felt Camryn Johnson’s joy and pain during her heart wrenching and heartwarming journey through life’s circumstances, poor choices, and difficult lessons. Through her relationships with both Glenn and Reese, she became the person she wanted and needed to be. 
Now it’s Glenn’s turn. 
Glenn, who feels chronically misunderstood, shares his side of the story in the stand-alone novel
 I Loved That About Her, revealing his own inner struggles and showing what it’s like to live at the mercy of forces beyond conscious control. These forces take him and his family to the edge when college arch nemesis, Raine Babcock, wreaks havoc on their lives. Glenn shows us that all is not necessarily what it seems, even to himself. 
Walking a mile in his shoes, may change hearts and minds about the bad boy from Love, Carry My Bags that readers loved to hate. 
Recommended for mature audiences 17+ for language and sexual situations.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21801037-i-loved-that-about-her
 
 
 
So I found out this girl’s name was Camryn. I helped her carry a stack of boxes up to her apartment and stood there looking around until she told me where to stick it. Well, she didn’t exactly tell me where to “stick it.” That would be rude, and she seemed like a nice girl. She kindly told me where to put them. Sometimes I know what I want to say in my head, but the words come out wrong. It’s not until I hear what comes out of my mouth that I realize my eloquence has failed me, and sometimes that eloquence-detection system fails too, leaving me and everyone else frustrated five ways from Thursday. Goes along with the territory.
Camryn had nothing, not even a bed, only a mattress to sleep on. Funny thing was, she didn’t even seem upset about it. She actually seemed happy. I invited her to an icebreaker event at the school, told her I’d pick her up after I did a few things, but I got there late and when I knocked on her door no one answered. I decided to go without her, after all, no sense sitting around the apartment alone. Then when I walked into Kitty Hawk I saw her talking to some guy, Raine, I think his name was. I immediately didn’t like him just because he was talking to Camryn, so I walked right up to them and put my arm around her shoulder, “Sorry, I got hung up in traffic,” I said even though it was a lie. I’d simply lost track of time. The sun shines on some people and everything goes their way, but I’m not one of them. Me and the “time?” We weren’t friends. I fully intend to show up on schedule, but the rain cloud of lateness pours down on me for inexplicable reasons, and I’m running behind. We have a long, sordid history, and I’ve come up with ways to hog tie that time-bitch. Still, those ways aren’t foolproof. I’m cursed. It’s embarrassing. And I’d never admit it in a million years because it’s truly not my fault and the best way to deal with my curse is to fib. Lie is such a strong word. I explain the unexplainable with reasons people will buy without the blame being on me. I’ve had enough blame too. It sucks.
We played several games at the icebreaker, including lacing arms together while back to back. We then had to sit down on the floor and get back up, each of us standing on our own two feet again, arms intertwined the whole time. Falling down was the easy part. We pressed against each other, trying to be careful at first, but three-quarters of the way down, Camryn’s legs gave out and my weight landed us on our asses in an unceremonious plop.
“That kinda hurt,” she said, but she was laughing, so it was fine. Getting back up was more of a challenge. She leaned her back into mine, trying to get up, but not getting anywhere, obviously, without my help. I leaned into her, but ended up pushing her back down with my weight, so she pushed harder and I backed off until we found some sort of balance and stood back up, leaning on each other the whole time. It felt like a huge accomplishment.
“That was hard,” she said. She looked worn out from all the pushing and pulling between us. I felt exhilarated, having reached our goal together. I got the feeling I’d like to reach goal after goal with Camryn if it meant I’d get to touch her more often.
Our last icebreaker was a staring contest. Raine stood right next to Camryn, and Camryn stood across from me as my partner. Some homely chick stood next to me, giving me the heebie jeebies. Thankfully, she was the one staring into Raine’s eyes and not mine.
“Ready, set, go,” the event coordinator instructed. I was hell-bent on bringing Camryn down, having her blinking in no time, outlasting her. But when her gaze fell into mine, it felt as if she peered into my soul, which caught me off guard because I’d never had that feeling with anyone. I was shaken and taken at the same time. I had to look away.
“You’re determined,” I said to Camryn, making it seem like just a game, covering up my unexpected feelings. “Congratulations.” She smiled back at me, seeming satisfied with her victory. Raine had taken his partner down, but in his case, his gaze seemed cold, at least to me, but when we left for the evening, he turned on the charm for Camryn and asked for her number.
“Maybe later,” she told him. Was she playing hard to get? My job was to make sure later never came. I made sure I got to her first.

 
 
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INTRIGUING AUTHOR’S & THEIR BOOKS REVIEW:
Ok, WOW!! Where do I start with this book? If you read Love, Cary My Bags get ready for a whole new take on how you think about Glenn and Camryn, with that said be prepared to be a little frustrated and emotional. I Loved That About her is a story that helps you to see an alternative POV, to find who, and what make up Glenn.
After reading Love, Carry My Bags I really did not like Glenn. I knew he had some learning difficulties, but the way he coped with it and treated the person he is supposed to love, it just drove me nuts and made him unlikable to me. Reading his story, from his POV, helped to change my mind. I still wish he would have treated Camryn better and told her the truth way before he did, but I can understand. Glenn has ADHD and dyslexia which was extremely difficult and frustrating for him. I may not like his personality a whole lot, but C.R. Everett has written another amazing read.
C.R. Everett has crafted a book in which the reader gets to view the wonderful emotional journey of two people's life; not just the good moments, but the whole journey bad and all. She brought to light a subject, while not life threating, can still be a sensitive and troubling topic. Children get bullied for all kinds of things and not being able to read, opens doors for some people to be called all kinds of names. Not only does this traumatizes them, but it follows them into adulthood.
I Loved That about Her pulled me in from the beginning and held me captivated till the end. This book really pulls the reader into the story and lets them feel and experience what its characters are going through. I cannot wait to see what C.R. Everett writes next.
 

 



C.R. Everett was born in Northern Illinois and has lived in various places over the years, currently residing in Utah. For twenty years she worked in finance, but today devotes her time to writing. She lives with her husband, two kids, Shiba Inu, and cat. When not writing, she updates her website, connects with her readers, does the mom thing, or cleans up after unruly pets. In her free time she enjoys reading, usually at the gym while on a treadmill, baking, taking walks, enjoying nature, and going to Starbucks. Mocha is her favorite.
 
 
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LOVE, CARRY MY BAGS  
Camryn Johnson’s world is turned upside down when long lost love, Reese Dahlgren, re-enters her life at a pivotal point in her already challenging marriage. She faces an excruciating predicament: choose between a broken home for her daughter or a broken life for herself. After her parents' divorce, Camryn first meets high school basketball star, Reese, at the Harvard Milk Day Festival bed races. Reese hides baggage of his own…until Camryn melts his heart and learns secrets entrusted only to her. Still, the weight is too much to bear. Unable to cope, Reese unwittingly backs Camryn into a corner during his air force enlistment—love him from afar, or leave him. Enter aerospace engineering student, Glenn Conroy. Persistent and savvy, he woos Camryn during her junior year of college and wins her heart. Or does he? When Reese re-enters her life, further disrupting her tenuous marriage, Camryn turns to best friend, Megan, for advice, but refuses to believe Megan’s suggestion that she’s caught in a “simple” love triangle. Camryn unveils hidden mysteries and secrets as she embarks on a life-changing journey of revelation and forgiveness, transcending doormat qualities inherited from her mother, and in the process finds what life's struggles are really all about. 
C.R. Everett's heart-wrenching debut novel takes the reader on an emotion-packed journey that lingers long after the last page is turned.
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Friday, April 25, 2014

COVER REVEAL & GIVEAWAY FOR THE CLUB X SERIES BY K. M. SCOTT

Club X Series

Author K.M. Scott

Genre: Erotica

Temptation (Club X Book #1) Coming July 13

Surrender (Club X Book #2) Coming October 2014

Possession (Club X Book 3) Coming January 2015

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Club X Series Blurb:

Money, sex, secret desires. Welcome to Club X, Tampa's exclusive club dedicated to making fantasies come true. Meet the owners, tattooed, pierced, and built to please, they're three of the city's most eligible bachelors.

Cassian, the public face of Club X, seems to love the life of excess he leads, but beneath the surface craves something more. Is Olivia strong enough to handle the man he is when the suit comes off?

Stefan, the club's manager, thinks every woman is his for the taking, but he may have just met his match in Shay. Will this player finally lose when it matters most?

Kane, half-brother to Cassian and Stefan, he's big, bad, and dangerous, like the life he's led. Resigned to a life alone, he hides his heart, but for Abbi, he might take the chance at love again.

Temptation (Club X #1) Coming July 13!


Cassian March, the public face of Tampa's most exclusive nightspot, Club X, loves his life. Women, sex, and money are his for the taking, and no man indulges his desires more. He lives by only one rule—never let a woman get close.
Olivia Lucas needs a job, and if that means working at a club that specializes in making fantasies come true, then that's what she'll do. A girl's got to pay the rent, right? She never expected to fall for the gorgeous owner of Club X, though, but a man like him would never go for someone like her. Or would he?
Surrounded by fantasy, can they find love, or will their fears hold them back?
 
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22009285-temptation
 

Surrender (Club X #2) Coming October 2014!

Possession (Club X #3) Coming January 2015!

K.M. Scott writes erotic contemporary romance and thinks she has the best job in the world! A New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, she loves to write sexy Alpha heroes and the strong women they fall hard for, giving them stories that keep her readers turning the page until the very end. When she's not writing, she can be found reading or feeding her TV addiction, always with a tall glass of iced tea (or a martini) by her side. Fans can find her on Facebook, Twitter, her blog, or through email, which she loves to receive.

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Thursday, April 24, 2014

FADE IN BY M. MABIE BLOG TOUR & GIVEAWAY

 
 
 
 
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Fade In by M. Mabie


Tatum Elliot is a successful writer on a hit television show, lives in an Upper East Side apartment and loves her life. She wouldn’t change a thing. Unfortunately, she doesn’t have a choice. She's losing her sight.

Tripping over her tongue and her heels, Tatum all too quickly realizes that the things which appeared so important before are slowly slipping away leaving room for what really matters. With the support of her best friends, family and colleagues, she begins to see that there’s much more to life… and herself.

When Ben Harris enters her life as her new personal assistant, she can’t tell if it’s his good looks and charm that are working on her libido, or his kind and helpful nature working on her heart? Whatever it is, neither one of them can resist it.

As her vision fades out, a world of love and happiness just might…Fade In.

Fade In is a contemporary-romance novel about laughing through your tears and telling life to, quite frankly, “Suck it.” This novel contains sexual situations that the author may or may not have tried at home… for your safety, of course. Research is research.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18911978-fade-in

I only met her briefly on one occasion, but she left a pockmark in my mind.  She was dynamite and she had an indefinitely long fuse that never stopped burning.  Those around her never knew when she would blow up, not looking away because she was a mess who was fun to watch.
I hope she's still like that when my mind drifts back to her through the years that pass by. 
Maybe I should have shared the cab.  Got in with her.  Stayed with her.
I don't know. 
Who ever really knows that it is the first time, the first time you meet?  It's only the first time after there's a second time.  Up until then, it's just an only.  One moment to the next could alter everything.
Every decision pushes you or pulls you where you're going in life. 
At times, after running into her, when I felt like I was pushing every day to do better, to get further, make a bigger difference, and like I was getting nowhere and I was just spinning my tires, I’d think of her.
She pulls life along.  That girl was making life keep up with her.
And that's too special to forget.


Intriguing author’s & their books review:
WOW!! What an incredible read!! The first thing you need to do before reading this book is to prepare yourself for an amazing journey you are about to take along with its characters and have come Kleenex ready.
Tatum is a successful writer for hit TV show, which she works on with her best friend, Winnie. She has a successful, rich, and hot boyfriend and life is going great. Except one thing, she is losing her vision.
Ben comes along at the right time in her life. He enters her life as her personal assistant and helps her with her failing vision. He makes life easier for her and shows her she can still be independent, even if she completely loses her vision.
The chemistry between these two is absolutely amazing, it is smoking hot and just sizzles off the page. Ben helps to push Tatum out of her comfort zone and experience life. It is not all smooth sailing and they bump heads regularly. When things really start to heat and develop between and they take the next step in their relationship, a secret Ben has been keeping might just come back to bite him.
M. Mabie has crafted a wonderful, fast-paced read. It pulls you in from the first paragraph, takes you along for the ride to experience and feel what the characters are feeling, and doesn’t let go till the end. Fade In at times had me frustrated, laughing, teary eyed, laughing some more, frustrated, and teary eyed all over again. This book will take readers on an emotional roller coaster ride that will leave you stunned and a little breathless, wanting to do it all over again. I cannot wait to see what M. Mabie imagines and crafts next for us to read.
 


 

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M. MabieM. Mabie lives in Illinois, NOT Chicago, with her rock-star husband. (True story.) She loves writing for Fifty5Cents Book Blog, which she owns and operates- at the moment quite poorly. She's a proud member of the Indie Author Romance Author Chicks writing group where she maintains a high standard of professionalism and lady-like maturity- or not. She cares about politics, but won’t discuss them in public. She uses the same fork at every meal, watches Wayne’s World while cleaning, and lets her dog sleep on her head. M. Mabie has never been accused of being tight lipped or shy. She’s THAT girl.
(She doesn't usually speak in third-person, but surprisingly does when weirded-out about writing her bio.)


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