Sunday, May 31, 2020

Release Blitz - Regrets by Nicole Dykes

Release Date: May 29

Healing after a tragedy is hard enough. Doing it when you’re haunted by past betrayal and so many things left unsaid?

Feels nearly hopeless.

Is it impossible to come back from so much anguish and all the regrets? Can you ever truly mend your heart and move on?

Or are Penelope and Linc destined for a life of punishment and pain?

They're about to find out whether the line between love and hate is clear. And if moving on after loss and the sting of deception is even possible.

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Nikki's 4 Star Review

Regrets by Nicole Dykes was such a sad but fantastic read. I'm a new reader to this author and I really liked her writing style and the growth of her characters, so much so I read this book in one sitting.

Penelope is from the wrong side of the tracks, growing up in the foster care system when she meets Linc and Colt. They are from a wealthy family and soon their parents become Penelope's foster parents. There is a simmering attraction between the three of them and soon enough Penelope and Colt become inseparable, but where does that leave Penelope and Linc.

This isn't your typical cheating love triangle it's so much more than that.

Just a heads up have tissues to hand before going in.

Meet Nicole Dykes

Nicole Dykes is a wife and professional assistant/mom to two gorgeous girls. Currently residing in Kansas, she’s a lover of coffee, Kansas City Chiefs, and all things romance.

She currently has over 20 published books with her Monroe and Adamson series being the most popular. She enjoys cranking up the angst level, making her readers cry, and turning those tears into the coffee the fuels her writing.

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Saturday, May 30, 2020

Blog Tour - When the Heart Trips by Dominique Laura

Today we are celebrating the release of WHEN A HEART TRIPS by Dominique Laura by participating in the blog tour! This is a YA contemporary romance, standalone that is available now as part of Kindle Unlimited.

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Book Blurb:

I never thought I’d catch serious feelings for someone at seventeen—isn’t life complicated enough at this age?—let alone for my polar opposite. I’m the quiet, reserved bookworm. He’s the popular, confident jock at the center of every party. He’s also kind, charming, and sweet. The determined wide receiver worms his way past my defenses. I see a side of him no one else does, and he makes me feel things I’ve only ever read about. He isn’t my perfect match, but at some point, I can’t ignore what my heart is trying to say. So, what happens when a heart trips? Well, at some point, the fall is unavoidable, and I'm falling headfirst into something I didn't want in the first place. I asked for a crush, not for this.

Nikki's 3.5 Star Review

When the Heart Trips is my first book by Dominique Laura and it's a story I enjoyed reading.
It's about young love and learning to deal with the feelings associated with it. Devon and Julian are both seniors in high school and when they meet there's an instant attraction. They are polar opposites but together you see them grow and learn to love.

An enjoyable YA read, and Dominique Laura is an author I will read again in the future.

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AUTHOR INFORMATION:

I’m a Southern California girl who grew up in the suburbs of Los Angeles.

My dog is my child, and she’s my favorite. I’m an advocate for love, mental health, and happily ever afters. Sarcasm is my go-to for any situation. I write sweet, sometimes sexy romances that range from young adult to new adult to contemporary. Cows are my favorite animal, and I’m the absolute worst at talking about myself.

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Friday, May 29, 2020

Cover Reveal - Like You by Rachel Leigh

Title: Like You

Series: Redwood High #2

Author: Rachel Leigh

Genre: New Adult Contemporary Romance
Cover Design: RL Kenderson, RL Covers

Release Date: June 25, 2020

Blurb

Knox

I’ve got everything going for me—the grades, the scholarship, the goals. I’ve had it all planned out for years. Then she came along. On the outside she has it all together—on the inside she’s damaged goods. She needs me. I just have to decide if she’s worth everything I’m about to lose.

Claire

I came to this town to escape the claws of my past. A simple life in a small town—I just want to live under the radar and blend in. I was doing just that until Knox caught my eye. They say when you know, you know—that we can’t help who we fall in love with. The rules are pretty simple, so why am I breaking them all? I’m a teacher, and he’s my student—this can’t end well. More than just rules are going to be broken. I just hope his heart can be mended when it’s all said and done.

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Prologue

I shift the old beater in drive and peel out as quick as I can, leaving a trail of smoke in my path. The smell of burning rubber fills the car and it isn’t until I round the corner that the smoke diminishes. Behind me, just like my life—my past. With only the duffel bag riding co-pilot, and the stash of money I was able to get from the safe.

It won’t be long until he’s on the phone with all of his goons to start the search for his missing property—me. At least that's the way I have lived my life for the past few years, as a prisoner. His prized possession that he kept up on the shelf, out of reach and displayed with the utmost prestige.

If I so much as wore the wrong color, he’d lose his fucking mind. I never went down without a fight, and when I did, I fought hard. I’m pretty sure that’s what he liked the most, feeling the wrath of my bitterness. He felt it alright, with the head of a golf club, straight to the balls. I hit him so hard that he’s probably choking on them right now.

None of it matters anymore.

I drive for what feels like hours, though it was only two. Those two hours have put enough space between myself and the life I lived that I feel confident enough that it’s safe to pull into the next rest stop. My stomach growls as I take a sip of my cold coffee.

I pull into the first space available and my eyes search the parking lot, just to be sure he didn’t follow me.

The coast is clear.

I reach over and unzip the black bag and pull out my wallet, pulling out my new i.d. Claire Hyland—my new identity. Just the last name, anyways. I’ve been working on the name change for a while, with the plan to take off as soon as everything finalized. It’s the only way I can leave and not be found. I still can’t believe Jorge pulled this off in time. The car, the room to rent, and the interview. Apparently he has some connections with a well-known family from Redwood. It just so happens that they were in need of an art teacher.

I’m forever in his debt. He’s my best friend and the only person who knows that I left, let alone, where I’m going.

I pull out the papers he printed for me on the job.

Redwood High School

Long-term Art Substitute

I’ve never taught before. I don’t even like kids, let alone hormonal know-it-alls—but, there isn’t much out there with an arts degree. A temporary teaching position is the perfect way to live low-key, for now, anyway.

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Rachel Leigh resides in West Michigan and has three beautiful children with her husband of eleven years.
Rachel overuses emojis and lol. Coffee is her guilty pleasure, paired with a nice alpha hero romance novel. Writing is her passion. Her goal is to brighten at least one person’s day with the worlds she creates between the pages of her books.

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Thursday, May 28, 2020

Release Blitz - Something Twisted by Ace Gray

Title: Something Twisted

A Twisted World Series Standalone

Author: Ace Gray

Genre: Dark Romance
Release Date: May 28, 2020

Blurb

I’d spent my life as a plaything. A toy to be used by powerful and deadly men in whatever way they pleased. So I was just as surprised as anyone else that I had feelings left. Feelings that lead me to fight for true love while damning myself.

And that’s just where this story begins.

Desperate and alone I turned back to my childhood home. The first wicked place I’d known with the darkest villain among them. My stepfather. But I could weather his storm in exchange for safety. I had to.

What I didn’t expect to find was Niall McDonough. The only man I’d ever really loved had reappeared only to become one of them. Someone ruthless and cruel. He wants to ruin me. As my stepfather’s savage soldier he might just do it.

But then again, twelve years ago a fortune teller predicted I’d need just such a soldier to save both my heart and soul.

****This book contains graphic sex, violence, uncomfortable sexual encounters, and dub con. It's intended for mature audiences, over 18 only****

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Amy's 4 Star Review

Something Twisted is one of the best dark reads I've read this year it holds alot of depravity and death but it's a truly fascinating read and it shows you just how quickly life can change. Drea and Niall where once upon a time perfect for each other but then a turn of the card pulls them apart.

Niall's turned into a ruthless man and killer and hopes he never has to see the woman who destroyed him ever again but life's cruel and when Drea is sent back to her step-dad Mac's house that when the depravity truly begins and Mac enjoys his sick and twisted games and that means breaking Drea either by his own hands or his associates.

It's a truly gripping storyline with an amazing plot, I'd love to read more of Ardan and Ailan's story. Ace Gray wrote an amazing book.

Excerpt

“My, my, this is interesting. Perhaps Deirdre is an appropriate name after all.”

“What the shit is going on here?” My mind was clearing. Sort of.

“I’m reading your future, darling. Your dismal and sorrowful future.”

I felt like I’d been hit. Hard. And I knew what it was like to be punched, slapped, kicked… I tried to shake off the list.

“What does it say?” My words were shaky, no matter how I tried to steady them.

“You will cause much unrest in this little corner of the world.”

The hair on the back of my neck stood up. No, was on the tip of my tongue. My mom had gotten me out of a life of mobsters and murderers. I wasn’t an Ulster anymore. I wouldn’t be. I was just another teenaged girl wondering about her future.

“Rivers of blood. Chaos and pain. Betrayal all at your hand,” she mused in partial phrases. “You will need a soldier at your side if you wish to be free of it all.”

“A soldier?” I swallowed, sorrow swelling in my heart.

“Someone to wage war. Someone ruthless and brutal and savage.” She arched her eyebrow. “If you don’t find him, you both end up dead. Just like the legend.”

I rolled my eyes with a wild grunt and shoved up from the table. “Convenient legend,” I snarked under my breath.

“Heed my words or don’t, it makes no matter to me. It’s your fate and your fate alone that you have to face.” She shrugged before unwinding to stand. Incense swirled around her again as she walked toward the back corner of the room.

I shoved up from the stupid pillows on the stupid floor of the stupid Irish gypsy and started to stomp off.

“Today, lightning will strike, Deirdre of the sorrows.” Her voice seemed far away, too far away. “Take that as a sign of what’s been set in motion.”

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Ace Gray is a best selling author, self-proclaimed troublemaker and connoisseur of both the good life and fairy tales. After a life-long love affair with both books, she undertook writing the novel she wanted to read. Ten books later, she's gotten to live in the world of billionaires, twisted murders, and sweet small towns. She's made her heart race both with suspense and serious swoon and wouldn't trade one minute, one word of it.

When she's not writing, she owns a taco truck in a ski town in Colorado even though she can't cook a lick (that's all her husband). She loves paddle boarding, snowboarding, camping, basically anything outside... and hosting dinner parties (though she's only in it for the drinks). Oh, and of course, writing more words.

Ace is the author of Strictly Business, Bad For Business, Family Business, Twisted Fate, Twisted Death, A Twisted Love Story, Twisted Secrets, Of Smoke & Cinnamon: A Christmas Story, Pretty Young Things, All The Letters I'll Never Send You and All The Letters I've Ever Read. These titles are available on Amazon.

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