tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-516606232418322742024-03-18T01:43:01.635-04:00Itching for BooksShane @ItchingforBookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13299725578226281943noreply@blogger.comBlogger1167125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51660623241832274.post-80410963879816107502021-05-27T06:00:00.006-04:002021-05-27T06:00:00.238-04:00May Wrap-Up ~ Mini Reviews<p><b style="font-family: helvetica;"></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3z4vuVkyvKI2-7Qz0bpexy48Td8W6y7SObUvK-vYm1yEWtdVfhMkMJOqHfFAAuUDG_mc_nEjlTohLoEPjOBPjSzGmQtffS5Y1JWM4jixvRQxmtFrbm0RTpdsZuapk_hu0_GKDXotabQ/s1478/MTTcover_v1.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1478" data-original-width="924" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3z4vuVkyvKI2-7Qz0bpexy48Td8W6y7SObUvK-vYm1yEWtdVfhMkMJOqHfFAAuUDG_mc_nEjlTohLoEPjOBPjSzGmQtffS5Y1JWM4jixvRQxmtFrbm0RTpdsZuapk_hu0_GKDXotabQ/w250-h400/MTTcover_v1.jpg" width="250" /></a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Release date:</b> March 11th 2021<br /><b>Purchase:</b> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08YRRJHJK/">Amazon<br /></a><b>Add on </b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57387835-maybe-this-time"><b>Goodreads</b><br /></a><b>My Rating: </b>⭐⭐⭐</span>⭐</div><p></p><div><br /><div style="background-color: #f1dbe4; border: 2px dotted rgb(189, 189, 189); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; padding: 10px;"><div style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><b>Blurb:</b></span></div><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"></span></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">This wasn't what "keep your friends close" was supposed to mean. But now that the line has been crossed, can they ever make their way back to the twenty-year friendship they've been building?</span></div><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">Or, better question - Is that what either of them really wants?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><b>~MINI REVIEW~</b></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div style="text-align: center;">Another entertaining short story from Ms. Jones.</div><div style="text-align: center;">While there were times I forgot who was who in regards to the side characters, it didn't affect my interest in the story.</div><div style="text-align: center;">I liked the main characters and the fact that they had years of friendship prior. It's understandable why Des would be nervous and them moving forward as more than friends, but I liked that she gave it a chance and allowed herself the romance.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><b><div style="text-align: center;">FOLLOW THE AUTHOR</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div></b></span></div></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><a href="http://beingmrsjones.com/" style="color: #1b54ff; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">WEBSITE</a> | <a href="https://www.instagram.com/beingmrsjones/" style="color: #1b54ff; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">INSTAGRAM</a> | <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BeingMrsJones/" style="color: #1b54ff; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">FACEBOOK</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/beingmrsjones" style="color: #1b54ff; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">TWITTER</a></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c9c1c0_09e2357f815a4a53ae4fa0ce9000d2e8~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_324,h_480,al_c,q_80,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01/ARFatesDemandBookCover6x9_MEDIUM.webp" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="324" height="400" src="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c9c1c0_09e2357f815a4a53ae4fa0ce9000d2e8~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_324,h_480,al_c,q_80,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01/ARFatesDemandBookCover6x9_MEDIUM.webp" width="270" /></a></div>Release date:</b> March 18th 2021</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Publisher:</b> Romig Works<br /><b>Purchase:</b> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08XZR2HMN">Amazon<br /></a><b>Add on </b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57335094-fate-s-demand"><b>Goodreads</b><br /></a><b>My Rating: </b>⭐⭐⭐</span>⭐⭐</div><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: left;"></p></span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /><div style="background-color: #f1dbe4; border: 2px dotted rgb(189, 189, 189); padding: 10px;"><div style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><b>Blurb:</b></span></div><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14.85px;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"></span></span><br /><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; text-align: center;">Stepping into the city limits, the vibes of New Orleans infiltrate the thoughts and feelings of each unsuspecting individual.</span></div><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Twinkling lights.</div></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Copious amounts of alcohol.</div></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;">And</div></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Ghost stories of lore.</div></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;">As Emma waits for a business meeting, those ingredients are there, in the heavy air and circulating through her bloodstream. Until everything changes.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Everett Ramses is tall, dark, and mysterious.</div></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;">He’s more than that.</div></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;">According to him...he is Emma’s fate.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;">And he has a demand.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Will she run, or will she find out what fate’s demand has in store?</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;">“FATE’S DEMAND” is an intriguing meeting to whet readers’ appetite for more of an all-new dark-romance world, Devil’s Deal, by New York Times bestselling author Aleatha Romig. Get ready to love and hate, to swoon and swear...Rett Ramses will bring out all the emotions.</div></span></div></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div></span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><b>~MINI REVIEW~</b></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Impeccable!<br />Great writing and absolutely intriguing.<br />This short is a fantastic setup for the duet, and I cannot wait to read those books. I'm already invested in Rett and Emma.</span></div></div></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><b><div style="text-align: center;">FOLLOW THE AUTHOR</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div></b></span></div></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><a href="https://www.aleatharomig.com/" style="color: #1b54ff; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">WEBSITE</a> | <a href="https://www.instagram.com/aleatharomig/" style="color: #1b54ff; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">INSTAGRAM</a> | <a href="https://www.facebook.com/AleathaRomig" style="color: #1b54ff; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">FACEBOOK</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/AleathaRomig" style="color: #1b54ff; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">TWITTER</a></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGW8Ddh_kb8b-4S-RHHugcA2WVDjUOvXzvtrYlHxXi7ljYcWqLjiOu0pSl1NfsiIpmm1jHK9O5SZvmj-1l0lOdkAsB-Lh2jNqNITzznBjXbb7QqflYY1GG5D79vgceskgUFj_hhTEyPg/s475/57507897._SY475_.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="317" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGW8Ddh_kb8b-4S-RHHugcA2WVDjUOvXzvtrYlHxXi7ljYcWqLjiOu0pSl1NfsiIpmm1jHK9O5SZvmj-1l0lOdkAsB-Lh2jNqNITzznBjXbb7QqflYY1GG5D79vgceskgUFj_hhTEyPg/w267-h400/57507897._SY475_.jpg" width="267" /></a></div>Release date:</b> March 22nd 2021</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Purchase:</b> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08ZVWDB6B">Amazon<br /></a><b>Add on </b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57507897-breaking-the-bully"><b>Goodreads</b><br /></a><b>My Rating: </b>⭐⭐⭐</span>⭐⭐</div><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: left;"></p></span></span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /><div style="background-color: #f1dbe4; border: 2px dotted rgb(189, 189, 189); font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 10px;"><div style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><b>Blurb:</b></span></div><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14.85px;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"></span></span><br /><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">We’re from different sides of the tracks, but Allie James has always owned me. Heart and soul. After years of pining for her in the halls of our high school, I finally touch her one night in an open field beneath a storm, receiving a miracle I never expected—she needs me in return. Or so I think. As soon as she finds out I’m a handyman, she cuts me off. But I’m not letting the richest girl in school break my heart without consequences. She will pay…</span></div><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">But I’ll pay a far worse price when I find out why she really left me hanging without a word. And after unfairly bullying my sweet girl, I’ll sell my soul to win her back.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div></div></span></div></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div></span></span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><b>~MINI REVIEW~</b></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></div></span>So raw, emotional, and gritty!<br />I truly liked this short story. Every moment struck me and stayed.<br />Both characters endured a lot, and I was happy that they had something deep and passionate between them.<br />Wonderful story, Jessa!</span></div></div></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><b><div style="text-align: center;">FOLLOW THE AUTHOR</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div></b></span></div></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><a href="https://www.jessakaneauthor.com/" style="color: #1b54ff; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">WEBSITE</a> | <a href="https://www.facebook.com/jessakaneauthor" style="color: #1b54ff; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">FACEBOOK</a></span></div></div></span></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS0nxTuDB_TZdXSGXBYAMHTOluJtrx-Hd9qhcJS3gxkBAjZKwhmAV1MasadcOgiCXHTHyEEaBUGMxnPqwaKONpzhznNndYPVezdjopf3h3GFHZXabQBp4t0rKP0ObM3QtpeQX8EC-W5Q/s347/Sacrificed+to+the+Beast.webp" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="347" data-original-width="234" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS0nxTuDB_TZdXSGXBYAMHTOluJtrx-Hd9qhcJS3gxkBAjZKwhmAV1MasadcOgiCXHTHyEEaBUGMxnPqwaKONpzhznNndYPVezdjopf3h3GFHZXabQBp4t0rKP0ObM3QtpeQX8EC-W5Q/w270-h400/Sacrificed+to+the+Beast.webp" width="270" /></a></div>Release date:</b> July 11th 2019</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Purchase:</b> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07V6Q6B8R">Amazon<br /></a><b>Add on </b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49450553-sacrificed-to-the-beast"><b>Goodreads</b><br /></a><b>My Rating: </b>⭐⭐⭐</span>⭐⭐</div><p style="text-align: left;"></p></span></span></span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /><div style="background-color: #f1dbe4; border: 2px dotted rgb(189, 189, 189); font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 10px;"><div style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><b>Blurb:</b></span></div><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14.85px;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"></span></span><br /><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Someone has been terrorizing my small town—a huge, horrifying beast, to be exact. He won’t stop rampaging until the villagers sacrifice an innocent. Lucky me! I’m the chosen one. I’ve been tied to a tree in a wedding dress and left as an offering to the cruel ruler of the hills. But once the beast approaches, I glimpse the lonely human beneath the wild hair and mountainous body. Yes, he’s very much a man…a man who will stop at nothing to claim me as his mate.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div></span></span></span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><b>~MINI REVIEW~</b></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></div></span></span>Jessa Kane knows how to write an entertaining short story. This held my attention from beginning to end, and I enjoyed it. It's funny, wild, and steamy, and I highly recommend this if you're in a slump and in need of something quick and hot.</span></div></div></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><b><div style="text-align: center;">FOLLOW THE AUTHOR</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div></b></span></div></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><a href="https://www.jessakaneauthor.com/" style="color: #1b54ff; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">WEBSITE</a> | <a href="https://www.facebook.com/jessakaneauthor" style="color: #1b54ff; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">FACEBOOK</a></span></div></div></span></span></span></div></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></div></div>Shane @ItchingforBookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13299725578226281943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51660623241832274.post-1486990874169241142021-03-09T15:22:00.002-05:002021-05-19T15:21:17.242-04:00New Release~Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert<span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLWwtQaJ3Lr9aH7ej-7R5iptMRvoHwYnfEbzQERpwvDJ1yyzzTRVbVvKDDDeUoDx8qLMOanlhtogpOxnMv1yZnfQJgBOyj__-DGGY9vHp0ggdTMlWB1iP4mqzFjiRfee3m6F2LHhmaUA/s1808/talia.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1808" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLWwtQaJ3Lr9aH7ej-7R5iptMRvoHwYnfEbzQERpwvDJ1yyzzTRVbVvKDDDeUoDx8qLMOanlhtogpOxnMv1yZnfQJgBOyj__-DGGY9vHp0ggdTMlWB1iP4mqzFjiRfee3m6F2LHhmaUA/w424-h640/talia.png" width="424" /></a></div>Release date:</b> March 9th 2021<br /><b>Series: </b>The Brown Sisters #3</span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Publisher:</b> Avon<br /><b>Purchase:</b> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B089SYX5F5" target="_blank">Amazon</a> | <a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/act-your-age-eve-brown-talia-hibbert/1137150045" target="_blank">B&N</a><br /><b>Add on</b> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56670610-risky-encounters" target="_blank">Goodreads</a></span><div><br /><div style="background-color: #EFFAFA; border: 2px dotted rgb(189, 189, 189); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; padding: 10px;"><div style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><b>Blurb:</b></span></div><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"></span></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><b><i>In Act Your Age, Eve Brown the flightiest Brown sister crashes into the life of an uptight B&B owner and has him falling hard—literally.</i></b></span></div><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Eve Brown is a certified hot mess. No matter how hard she strives to do right, her life always goes horribly wrong—so she’s given up trying. But when her personal brand of chaos ruins an expensive wedding (someone had to liberate those poor doves), her parents draw the line. It's time for Eve to grow up and prove herself—even though she's not entirely sure how…</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Jacob Wayne is in control. Always. The bed and breakfast owner’s on a mission to dominate the hospitality industry—and he expects nothing less than perfection. So when a purple-haired tornado of a woman turns up out of the blue to interview for his open chef position, he tells her the brutal truth: not a chance in hell. Then she hits him with her car—supposedly by accident. Yeah, right.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Now his arm is broken, his B&B is understaffed, and the dangerously unpredictable Eve is fluttering around, trying to help. Before long, she’s infiltrated his work, his kitchen—and his spare bedroom. Jacob hates everything about it. Or rather, he should. Sunny, chaotic Eve is his natural-born nemesis, but the longer these two enemies spend in close quarters, the more their animosity turns into something else. Like Eve, the heat between them is impossible to ignore—and it’s melting Jacob’s frosty exterior.</span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: start;"><br /></span></span></div></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVSAmojyc22bv12y3qMXnrW5CfRDJcwKR3Ni-1GxerD0M-sYm48HLXBq-uydEkStBK96MdwVoNRD0xgMSrT1liimnvU_4OLXEuo0CeRdpW8NMw9stD91f4nqkkWdLFJwFKJgiOMO4mxg/" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVSAmojyc22bv12y3qMXnrW5CfRDJcwKR3Ni-1GxerD0M-sYm48HLXBq-uydEkStBK96MdwVoNRD0xgMSrT1liimnvU_4OLXEuo0CeRdpW8NMw9stD91f4nqkkWdLFJwFKJgiOMO4mxg/" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img data-original-height="668" data-original-width="700" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVSAmojyc22bv12y3qMXnrW5CfRDJcwKR3Ni-1GxerD0M-sYm48HLXBq-uydEkStBK96MdwVoNRD0xgMSrT1liimnvU_4OLXEuo0CeRdpW8NMw9stD91f4nqkkWdLFJwFKJgiOMO4mxg/w320-h306/image.png" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br />About the Author</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; text-align: left;">Talia Hibbert is a USA Today bestselling author who lives in a bedroom full of books. Supposedly, there is a world beyond that room, but she has yet to drum up enough interest to investigate.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; text-align: left;">She writes sexy, diverse romance because she believes that people of marginalised identities need honest and positive representation. Her interests include beauty, junk food, and unnecessary sarcasm. She also rambles intermittently about the romance genre online.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; text-align: left;">Talia self-publishes via Nixon House and is represented by Courtney Miller-Callihan at Handspun Literary.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.taliahibbert.com/" target="_blank">WEBSITE</a> | <a href="https://www.instagram.com/taliahibbert/" target="_blank">INSTAGRAM</a> | <a href="https://www.facebook.com/AuthorTaliaHibbert/" target="_blank">FACEBOOK</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/TaliaHibbert" target="_blank">TWITTER</a></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div></div></div>Shane @ItchingforBookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13299725578226281943noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51660623241832274.post-86851020051425576412021-03-03T17:17:00.001-05:002021-05-19T15:21:30.357-04:00Book Spotlight~Risky Encounters by Shane Morgan (me)<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Hey there! Just doing a spotlight on my most recent release!</span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /><b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjb_Z-4kKqKSlxDcCMS3wpSW4dBpgRPTUSn8cyLmnxiKmFzE_W1ZuuXpqkUGBq5-XmmY_cuXfvH0DSOlNSZPxdvi1DgoMA1kCDG60YnaTkH8Ir9PHhp5otDpKUNKgLUqY6eEKv7JiYog/s2048/ebook-cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1311" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjb_Z-4kKqKSlxDcCMS3wpSW4dBpgRPTUSn8cyLmnxiKmFzE_W1ZuuXpqkUGBq5-XmmY_cuXfvH0DSOlNSZPxdvi1DgoMA1kCDG60YnaTkH8Ir9PHhp5otDpKUNKgLUqY6eEKv7JiYog/w410-h640/ebook-cover.jpg" width="410" /></a></div>Release date:</b> February 9th 2021</span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Series:</b> <i>Risks & Betrayals Duet #1</i><br /><b>Purchase: </b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08VHWSGXT">Amazon</a><br /><b>Add on</b> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56670610-risky-encounters">Goodreads</a></span><br /><div><br /><div style="background-color: #ebe7f3; border: 2px dotted rgb(189, 189, 189); font-size: 14.85px; padding: 10px;"><div style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><b>Blurb:</b></span></div><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"></span></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; text-align: start;"><i><b>One unforgettable night forges a connection steeped in passion and danger.</b></i></span></div><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: start;"><br style="font-size: medium;" /><span style="font-size: medium;">It started as a dare that led to a steamy kiss.</span><br style="font-size: medium;" /><span style="font-size: medium;">Trisha Hartman never expected to end her birthday night-out throwing herself in the path of a bullet to save a man she doesn’t even know.</span><br style="font-size: medium;" /><br style="font-size: medium;" /><span style="font-size: medium;">Alexander Westerfield is blown away by a fiery moment with a beautiful stranger. Considering she hurried off right after, he convinced himself the woman had no further interest. Then she does something quite heroic that causes him to desire her more.</span><br style="font-size: medium;" /><br style="font-size: medium;" /><span style="font-size: medium;">The chance of a romance proves to be difficult when threats arise at every turn, and exposing the culprit behind the plot seems impossible. But after several attempts on Xander’s life, doubts start to set in, and he wonders if he may have placed his trust in the wrong person.</span><br style="font-size: medium;" /><b><br style="font-size: medium;" /><span style="font-size: medium;">*Note: This is not a standalone. This book is part of a duet and it ends on a cliffhanger. So keep that in mind if you dislike those but still want to read the book.</span></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>~Teaser~</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">My feet carry me forward.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Neither of the men notices my approach.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I'm about to interrupt their conversation, but the incoming SUV catches my attention as a gloved hand reaches out the back window.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I instantly spot the dark object.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>A gun.</i></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It's aiming at blue-gray eyes.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Get down!" I scream, hurrying to him.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I grab his jacket.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A loud pop rings in the air as we tumble together.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Frantic cries bellow around us.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Tires screech as the vehicle speeds off.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">My breathing is erratic while lying on top of the man I don't know, yet I just risked my life to save his, possibly because of an epic kiss.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A kiss that clearly robbed me of my damn senses.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy7CxzASvdVGwI277nNsnw8uHm4oS52NmUZRLKzYZi9usg2EjzZTiH82F5VU0TuSWj8MjJET_eAlWz-v-SQSSFzaNgnqI9MQ-Py5LWhnWq5mulEnCsNweYLGiI3-A8oDIFGa2wHaYsOg/s500/graphicAVAILABLENOW.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy7CxzASvdVGwI277nNsnw8uHm4oS52NmUZRLKzYZi9usg2EjzZTiH82F5VU0TuSWj8MjJET_eAlWz-v-SQSSFzaNgnqI9MQ-Py5LWhnWq5mulEnCsNweYLGiI3-A8oDIFGa2wHaYsOg/w640-h640/graphicAVAILABLENOW.png" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiExjCLgeTYy1037mVRTF67u2pMXDyfpIKuKkGZ2pdgbqle8jQ1tKCSvl63KdqNtrMUuwDfo_MrRIDcm8H3RuhcWNV3NHtv7aRdohqilOddqcj0yUwqGQflqxG9dEKnVEro7J35GWa_xQ/s2048/20210228_150144.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1753" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiExjCLgeTYy1037mVRTF67u2pMXDyfpIKuKkGZ2pdgbqle8jQ1tKCSvl63KdqNtrMUuwDfo_MrRIDcm8H3RuhcWNV3NHtv7aRdohqilOddqcj0yUwqGQflqxG9dEKnVEro7J35GWa_xQ/w343-h400/20210228_150144.jpg" width="343" /></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="background-color: #ebe7f3; border: 2px dotted rgb(189, 189, 189); font-size: 14.85px; padding: 10px;"><div style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><b style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">About Shane Morgan (me lol)</b></div><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: start;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In case you didn't know, I'm also a self-published author of YA/Adult Contemporary Romance, Fantasy, and Suspense. I currently live in Rhode Island with my husband, and I spend my days blogging, writing, reading, listening to music, and watching movies.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Sign up for the mailing list!</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://bit.ly/3rHtl3F" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/3rHtl3F</a></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>JOIN MY FB GROUP:</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; 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font-weight: 400;" /></div></div></b></span></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div></div></div>Shane @ItchingforBookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13299725578226281943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51660623241832274.post-37298564918544487802021-03-02T17:36:00.004-05:002021-05-19T15:21:43.493-04:00February Wrap-Up~Mini Reviews<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">These are all the books I read in February!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><b></b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgflpeWmntzJx7UTRQBjZ2s-2iLbWIjr_cjjCYPGsC3-zRIGlstU9GV6HFUffqBESTGp_qfAWCGiNnf0NaezAWK7vtq9s6dJSdNIharrRhgKvGZFQW-I5NWQmcSC2SfpKktsmWAOwAQZw/s475/55924329._SY475_.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgflpeWmntzJx7UTRQBjZ2s-2iLbWIjr_cjjCYPGsC3-zRIGlstU9GV6HFUffqBESTGp_qfAWCGiNnf0NaezAWK7vtq9s6dJSdNIharrRhgKvGZFQW-I5NWQmcSC2SfpKktsmWAOwAQZw/s16000/55924329._SY475_.jpg" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><br /></b><b>Release date:</b> November 3rd 2020<br /><b>Publisher:</b> Warm Hues Creative<br /><b>Purchase:</b> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08MTFGXTJ">Amazon</a><br /><b>Add on</b> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55924329-it-s-the-chase-for-me">Goodreads</a></span><div><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">My Rating:</span></b> ⭐⭐⭐⭐</div><div><br /><div style="background-color: #EBE7F3; border: 2px dotted rgb(189, 189, 189); font-size: 14.85px; padding: 10px;"><div style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><b>Blurb:</b></span></div><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"></span></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In my defense, I wasn't the one who messed up.</span></span></div><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; text-align: start;">And if that hadn't happened, I wouldn't have run into him the first time, in the first place.</span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: start;">But then there was the second time, in the second place.</span></div><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: justify;">And then the third time, in the third place.</div></span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Then the fourth... you get it, right?</div></span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: justify;">I really wasn't trying to get involved with him like that, but the happenings kept happening, and well... what had happened was...</div></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: start;"><br /></span></span></div></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><b>~MINI REVIEW~</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; text-align: left;">It's The Chase For Me: A Heights Story was quite enjoyable. January frustrated me at times, but overall, it's an entertaining short story. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; text-align: left;">I'm loving these books by Ms. Jones!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><b><br /><div style="text-align: center;">FOLLOW THE AUTHOR</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></b></div></b></span></div></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><a href="http://beingmrsjones.com/" target="_blank">WEBSITE</a> | <a href="https://www.instagram.com/beingmrsjones/" target="_blank">INSTAGRAM</a> | <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BeingMrsJones/" target="_blank">FACEBOOK</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/beingmrsjones" target="_blank">TWITTER</a></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; text-align: start;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxSgI0gITilmRsTio6oKojMPclRQd8HK3lSEFEY21DZPEt6Js79GiazB9aih1w_VHCAumnO46tN74QpRuvM43uZ9LBY8kLl-1hxQdPNolXYYtYHP7SszeCqvpSlubX_yDcon3vRtyRpA/" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img data-original-height="475" data-original-width="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxSgI0gITilmRsTio6oKojMPclRQd8HK3lSEFEY21DZPEt6Js79GiazB9aih1w_VHCAumnO46tN74QpRuvM43uZ9LBY8kLl-1hxQdPNolXYYtYHP7SszeCqvpSlubX_yDcon3vRtyRpA/s16000/image.png" /></a></div><br />Release date:</b> February 14th 2021<br /><b>Purchase:</b> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08WPBQ4ZF">Amazon</a><br /><b>Add on</b> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57092305-the-marriage-contract">Goodreads</a></span><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: start;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">My Rating:</span></b> ⭐⭐⭐⭐</div><div style="text-align: start;"><br /><div style="background-color: #EBE7F3; border: 2px dotted rgb(189, 189, 189); font-size: 14.85px; padding: 10px;"><div style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><b>Blurb:</b></span></div><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"></span></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Boring. Invisible. Pretty for a plus size girl. Those were all the things I felt about myself, thanks to my chosen career as an accountant and society’s depiction of the perfect female. For once, I wanted to be something, no someone, different. So, I booked a trip to Vegas for my birthday. Then, walks in Soul Matthias, treating me and my body as anything but ordinary. He lit a fire inside of me. However, it wasn’t real.</span></span></div><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br style="font-size: medium; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: start;">Player. Bad boy. High risk. That’s what the blogs depicted me as. That’s what baseball owners banked on to lowball my contract extension. I didn’t care about social media, but I definitely cared about my money. I had to get my act together. Then, struts in Alexa Livingston. A breath of fresh air, someone completely different than what I had ever been used to. But what we had wasn’t real. It was just a marriage contract. Or was it?</span></span><br style="font-size: medium; text-align: start;" /></div></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><b>~MINI REVIEW~</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div style="text-align: center;">Short and fun read!</div><div style="text-align: center;">I liked both main characters, and the plot was intriguing. It's a great short story if you're in a funk and looking for a romance that's unconventional and quick.</div></span><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;"><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><b><div style="text-align: center;">FOLLOW THE AUTHOR</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></b></div></b></span></div></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><a href="https://shaydavispens.com/" target="_blank">WEBSITE</a> | <a href="https://www.instagram.com/authorshaydavis/" target="_blank">INSTAGRAM</a> | <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Shay-Davis-Pens-117310236335465/" target="_blank">FACEBOOK</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/ShayDavisPens" target="_blank">TWITTER</a></span></div></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div></div></div></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium; text-align: start;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-zKyrYDCJi6EQiOUf8b5hLWJSIXVOnjl6j4n1cSb9TwtE7lCd4YuyLEf5YghdTVHMGolyGvfpB58O3q_p2GE5YWdxBXwhyphenhyphenuArgHCybUCfP3hFa3oBCi5-gp4lw7zVcGnlo7bYKTuoRg/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="475" data-original-width="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-zKyrYDCJi6EQiOUf8b5hLWJSIXVOnjl6j4n1cSb9TwtE7lCd4YuyLEf5YghdTVHMGolyGvfpB58O3q_p2GE5YWdxBXwhyphenhyphenuArgHCybUCfP3hFa3oBCi5-gp4lw7zVcGnlo7bYKTuoRg/s16000/image.png" /></a></div><br />Release date:</b> December 21st 2020<br /><b>Purchase:</b> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08R5WBZV7">Amazon</a><br /><b>Add on</b> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56378433-secrets-lies">Goodreads</a></span><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: start;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">My Rating:</span></b> ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐</div><div style="text-align: start;"><br /><div style="background-color: #EBE7F3; border: 2px dotted rgb(189, 189, 189); font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.85px; padding: 10px;"><div style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><b>Blurb:</b></span></div><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; text-align: start;">My picker is off. I always fall for the bad boys, the players, the men with "red flag" written all over their gorgeous faces. I should've learned my lesson after having my heart eviscerated into tiny, unrecognizable pieces. But no, not me. That would be way too simple, and my life is nothing but.</span></div><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; text-align: start;">Luca Fiore is Manhattan's Prince. He's sex in a suit personified, and he's also my stepbrother. I've moved back to New York, and he's offered me a place to crash until I find a place of my own. What could possibly go wrong?</span><br style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; text-align: start;" /><br style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; text-align: start;">My subconscious screams, "EVERYTHING!"</span><br style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; text-align: start;" /><br style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; text-align: start;">With his piercing gray eyes, sharp jaw, and dark hair, Luca makes me weak in the knees. And I would gladly get on my knees for him.</span><br style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; text-align: start;" /><br style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; text-align: start;">Five years ago, I left home with a broken heart and a lifetime worth of sins. Now, I'm back with a naïve hope that I can make things right. How I expect to do that when I have no intention of confessing my sins remains to be seen. One thing is for sure. I have to stay away from the one person who was why I left home in the first place — the man who once called me his Achilles. His flower. His secret. His stepdaughter.</span><br style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; text-align: start;" /><br style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; text-align: start;">I'm not the good girl in a love story. I don't deserve a happily ever after. I have secrets on top of secrets on top of secrets. I've sowed, and I've reaped, and something tells me karma isn't done with me yet.</span></div></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><b>~MINI REVIEW~</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div style="text-align: center;">What an emotional rollercoaster!</div><div style="text-align: center;">These characters are flawed with a capital F, and I liked that. This story is well-written, intriguing, and full of crazy moments. This is my first experience with Tia's work and it certainly won't be the last.</div></span></div></div></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: start;"><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><b><div style="text-align: center;">FOLLOW THE AUTHOR</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></b></div></b></span></div></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><a href="http://tiasirrah.com/" target="_blank">WEBSITE</a> | <a href="https://www.instagram.com/authortiasirrah/" target="_blank">INSTAGRAM</a> | <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TiaSirrah/" target="_blank">FACEBOOK</a></span></div></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: start;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ_YdNOmekI8MANrsl7Q6jQGRxYbbJe8ybbCqqlCun5FnlvWaTX3QKImPEfXFmqRLJsyTRWs1AYtwlm8S3OKgEj7zRFNbh57FxlWWBetza0f1_Qo1AurcZ6xga2OEWRvCE8iscU6k-cw/" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img data-original-height="475" data-original-width="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ_YdNOmekI8MANrsl7Q6jQGRxYbbJe8ybbCqqlCun5FnlvWaTX3QKImPEfXFmqRLJsyTRWs1AYtwlm8S3OKgEj7zRFNbh57FxlWWBetza0f1_Qo1AurcZ6xga2OEWRvCE8iscU6k-cw/s16000/image.png" /></a></div><br />Release date:</b> August 14th 2020</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium; text-align: start;"><b>Series:</b> Rose & Thorns #2</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium; text-align: start;"><b>Publisher:</b> Warm Hues Creative<br /><b>Purchase:</b> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08FYSY7LX">Amazon</a><br /><b>Add on</b> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54958957-the-rose-that-got-away">Goodreads</a></span><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: start;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">My Rating:</span></b> ⭐⭐⭐⭐</div><div><br /><div style="background-color: #EBE7F3; border: 2px dotted rgb(189, 189, 189); font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.85px; padding: 10px;"><div style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><b>Blurb:</b></span></div><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">As a rose abandoned in the desert, she's made a vow - she'll never go back to the way things were... a promise that was easier to keep before a thorn showed up. (This is not a book centered around a love story.)</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div><div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><b>~MINI REVIEW~</b></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Christina C. Jones has easily become a favorite author!</div><div style="text-align: center;">I really liked the first book and so I wanted to continue the series. Once again, very interesting. I'm so curious about the Garden though. Would love a book about that point in time and what went down with all the roses and the thorns.</div></span></div></div></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: start;"><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><b><div style="text-align: center;">FOLLOW THE AUTHOR</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></b></div></b></span></div></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><a href="http://beingmrsjones.com/" target="_blank">WEBSITE</a> | <a href="https://www.instagram.com/beingmrsjones/" target="_blank">INSTAGRAM</a> | <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BeingMrsJones/" target="_blank">FACEBOOK</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/beingmrsjones" target="_blank">TWITTER</a></span></div></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: start;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcXQ3NRtViBOcZxLaYVT_VM7C9Vm2kKZUzlfFIOEGTCMPkdXzDkDuW0HgyfYCsQElQQDBoONR_1s5SwiFPrQCN7J0Pbt8lLImyYz4Yq0RFWAjssDHoznKn4LUKUnhXIb3v_DkPiYTL6g/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="475" data-original-width="317" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcXQ3NRtViBOcZxLaYVT_VM7C9Vm2kKZUzlfFIOEGTCMPkdXzDkDuW0HgyfYCsQElQQDBoONR_1s5SwiFPrQCN7J0Pbt8lLImyYz4Yq0RFWAjssDHoznKn4LUKUnhXIb3v_DkPiYTL6g/s16000/image.png" /></a></div><br />Release date:</b> January 2nd 2021</span></span></div><div><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium; text-align: start;"><b>Publisher: </b>Foster & Black<br /><b>Purchase:</b> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08RXW574V">Amazon</a><br /><b>Add on</b> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56527530-deep-woods">Goodreads</a></span><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: start;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">My Rating:</span></b> ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐</div><div><br /><div style="background-color: #EBE7F3; border: 2px dotted rgb(189, 189, 189); font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.85px; padding: 10px;"><div style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><b>Blurb:</b></span></div><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"></span><br /><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">I was barefoot, sobbing, running for my life. But the men hunting me made one mistake: they chased me into *his* woods.</span></div><div><br style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;" /><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Cal Whittaker. Big, gruff and gorgeous, he’s made his home in the heart of the forest and has barely spoken to another person in six years. He deals with the men chasing me with a brutal efficiency that hints at a dark past. I should be scared...but when I look into his eyes, I feel a soul-deep longing I can’t explain. And the way he looks at me, like he just wants to push me up against a tree and tear my clothes off...</span><br style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;" /><br style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;" /><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">He offers me shelter on his smallholding. I’m used to the big city but I’ll have to learn a whole new way of life: a cow for milk, a wood stove for warmth and no one but the two of us for miles in any direction. I learn that Cal’s carrying a guilt that won’t let him get close to anyone...but neither of us can fight the attraction and in his tiny cabin, it’s impossible to keep our distance.</span><br style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;" /><br style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;" /><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Even in the forest, though, we may not be safe. My escape has threatened a conspiracy so vast, so evil, that the men behind it won’t stop until they’ve silenced us. They know where we are. And they’re coming.</span></div></div><div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><b>~MINI REVIEW~</b></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Thrilling!</div><div style="text-align: center;">I thoroughly enjoyed this woodsy and adventurous romance. Add the intensity of suspense and it makes the story even more exciting. I'm definitely reading the books that follow this one because I want more of Cal and the other men.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: start;"><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><b><div style="text-align: center;">FOLLOW THE AUTHOR</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></b></div></b></span></div></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><a href="https://helenanewbury.com/" target="_blank">WEBSITE</a> | <a href="https://www.instagram.com/helenanewburyauthor/" target="_blank">INSTAGRAM</a> | <a href="https://www.facebook.com/HelenaNewburyAuthor" target="_blank">FACEBOOK</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/helenaauthor" target="_blank">TWITTER</a></span></div></div></span></div></div></span></div></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div>Shane @ItchingforBookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13299725578226281943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51660623241832274.post-8795585191202829222020-09-08T00:00:00.003-04:002020-10-22T17:22:58.422-04:00Paperback Release: Dawson's Fall by Roxana Robinson<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Roxana Robinson’s sixth novel, Dawson’s Fall, continues her interrogation of American morality. With each novel, Robinson has addressed the ethical complexities of contemporary life: in This is My Daughter, she explored the moral consequences of divorce; in Sweetwater, the moral consequences of stewardship of the planet; in Cost, the obligations of the family, and in Sparta the moral consequences of war. In Dawson’s Fall, Robinson investigates the moral consequences of slavery, and charts the path of its fell legacies, racism and violence. </div>
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The great-great-great niece of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Robinson has spoken out on public issues: the environment, the rights of authors (as the President of the Authors Guild, from 2014–2017), and on war, pacifism and violence. With this book she continues to explore a central American question: the importance of ethical principles. </div>
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In this provocative and moving novel, we see America at its most fragile, fraught, and malleable. Set in 1889, in Charleston, South Carolina, Robinson’s tale weaves her family’s journal entries and letters with a novelist’s narrative grace, and spans the life of her tragic hero, Frank Dawson, as he attempts to navigate the country’s new political, social, and moral landscape. </div>
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Dawson, a man of fierce opinions, came to this country as a young Englishman to fight for the Confederacy in a war he understood as a conflict over states’ rights. He later became the editor of the Charleston News and Courier, forging a platform of influence in the editorial column and emerging as a voice of the New South. With his wife and two children, he tried to lead a life that adhered to his principles: non-violence, equal rights, and the rule of law. But he couldn’t control the political currents among his community. After two decades of wrestling with questions of equality, justice, and civil rights, his newspaper began to lose readership, and he was plagued by financial worries. Nor could Dawson control the personal currents among the community, or a threatening neighbor who embroiled his family in a dangerous contretemps. In the end, Dawson―who stood for his country in many ways―was felled by the violence he so vehemently opposed.</div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">Roxana Robinson is the author of ten books: six novels, three story collections, and the biography of Georgia O'Keeffe. Four of these were New York Times Notable Books.</span></div>
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Robinson was born in Kentucky, but grew up in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. She attended Bennington College and graduated from the University of Michigan. She worked in the art world, specializing in the field of American painting, before she began writing full-time. Her most recent novel, Sparta, won the James Webb Award for Distinguished Fiction from the USMC Heritage Foundation and was short-listed for the Dublin Impac Award. Her previous novel, Cost, was named one of the five best novels of the year by the Washington Post, and received the Fiction Award from the Maine Publishers and Writers Association. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Harper's, Tin House, Best American Short Stories, and elsewhere. She was twice a finalist for the NBCC Balakian Award for Criticism and has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. She teaches at Hunter College, is a former member of the board of PEN, and was the President of the Authors Guild from 2014-2017.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">~Praise for Dawson's Fall~</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">“Acclaimed writer Roxana Robinson delves into her own family history
as she sets her sights on the Civil War at its very heart, South Carolina, with
spectacular results. Like Charles Frazier’s <i>Cold Mountain</i>, her own <i>Dawson’s
Fall </i>will be a revelation to many readers in its profound and nuanced
depiction of Southerners’ widely varied feelings about the Civil War and its
aftermath. The past springs brilliantly to life in this tragic and compelling
story, as accurate and fully realized a depiction of daily life and the
extraordinary events of this time as has ever been written.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">“<i>Dawson’s
Fall</i> is a riveting historical account of one man’s struggle against a wave
of violence and injustice during Reconstruction. The research that Roxana
Robinson has done to deliver this story is nothing short of masterful and
revisiting this terrifying and ugly chapter in the history of the South could
not be more timely. Robinson's complex characters, her knowledge and loyalty to
truth, and her rich depiction of time and place preserve not only her family story
but that of American society and all that threatens humanity.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">“Roxana Robinson tells the moving story
of her great grand-parents, who lived in Charleston after the Civil War, her
great-grandfather an Englishman and editor of the city paper. She draws on
letters, journals and newspaper articles about them and adds her own novelistic
grace to make them come to life. With a fine eye for detail, she describes the
horrors of the post-war period of racism and violence they could not escape.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>Shane @ItchingforBookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13299725578226281943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51660623241832274.post-55819816490625709992020-08-31T10:24:00.001-04:002020-11-24T01:20:32.640-05:00New Release: The Art of Us by Symone West<span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiMYStmIv_b3uXRCcksaa6oaeAkwOQ-zP7COPJsvNJ6dUSawnD_vnP6IIBl6KgwCmF-JnjrY4og4o-gRFGy0Q9F54qlcCdSVgHMbWteh11ThZPmYt5Mr6q5a7giSrMy6ZRz0JarXnJKg/s2048/THEARTOFUS-EBOOK.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1311" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiMYStmIv_b3uXRCcksaa6oaeAkwOQ-zP7COPJsvNJ6dUSawnD_vnP6IIBl6KgwCmF-JnjrY4og4o-gRFGy0Q9F54qlcCdSVgHMbWteh11ThZPmYt5Mr6q5a7giSrMy6ZRz0JarXnJKg/s640/THEARTOFUS-EBOOK.jpg" /></a></div>Release date: August 31st 2020<br />Genre: YA Romance<br />Purchase: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08GYT3HM2/" target="_blank">Amazon</a></span><br /><div style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><b style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></b></div><div><div style="background-color: #e0e3f0; border: 2px dotted rgb(189, 189, 189); padding: 10px;"><b style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 14.85px;">Synopsis via <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54856185-the-art-of-us" style="color: #1849dc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Goodreads</a>:</b><div style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">An interracial YA Romance with a bit of edge.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Kayla McNeil won an art scholarship to attend a prestigious academy.</div></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: justify;">She’s excited to improve her craft and determined not to let anything thwart her focus.</div></span><span style="text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: justify;">But Kayla never anticipated gaining the attention of the guy who ignores everyone else.</div></span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Brandon Decker hates to be touched.</div></span><span style="text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: justify;">His reaction is frightening to others.</div></span><span style="text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Even when it’s an accident.</div></span><span style="text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Brandon harbors deep pain from his past, which affects his ability to open his heart to anyone. Yet, something about Kayla allures him.</div></span><span style="text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Her fearless and artistic nature can either calm the monster inside or push it further.</div></span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><span style="text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The more they get under each other’s skin, a connection develops that neither can explain. It brings forth an indescribable desire and the possibility of love. But monsters don’t always stay gone. They have a way of crawling out of the dark, threatening any speck of happiness.</span></div></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFjn3C9NL7tudRbdaxW3KsMUHPGZ50Hh5zRnHdnPYmCMq2LFLfqFA5m9dEUOYS-kuwCbHvyE0XCQFqzoC8Aut0Xt1Z5M0yZU_SZoaVVokcw26KrO-RagLf7CGemcz7_-xwFdHspYC9jA/s1500/teaser1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1153" data-original-width="1500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFjn3C9NL7tudRbdaxW3KsMUHPGZ50Hh5zRnHdnPYmCMq2LFLfqFA5m9dEUOYS-kuwCbHvyE0XCQFqzoC8Aut0Xt1Z5M0yZU_SZoaVVokcw26KrO-RagLf7CGemcz7_-xwFdHspYC9jA/s640/teaser1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 14.85px;"><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></div><br /></span><div style="font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>About the Author</b></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Symone West is the author of <i>Dry Spell</i> and <i>A Very Warm Christmas</i>. She writes unconventional sweet and sexy, sometimes dark, coming of age and adult romance.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/authorsymonewest" target="_blank">FACEBOOK</a> | <a href="Instagram.com/authorsymonewest" target="_blank">INSTAGRAM</a> | <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Symone-West/e/B07T3G4X14" target="_blank">Amazon</a> | <a href="https://bit.ly/2XgVn8s" target="_blank">ARC LIST</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span>Shane @ItchingforBookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13299725578226281943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51660623241832274.post-14772342430914069882020-08-25T00:13:00.017-04:002020-08-28T23:59:31.578-04:00New Release & Guest Post~Dark Was The Night: Blind Willie Johnson's Journey to the Stars by Gary Golio<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3eVYubKVl-DC9ivy4c9hvQ3iwsOe4Lk_qp-AbVnR5YwS0LNcpIAgVAPQUXy7ygcwvznW66VuPBv71cwqGiWHxuns34RLThv2iQ41JWt3jcrCKRrOrwEOnnNoHNjy9zMNoeT2vhSp78w/s1109/darkwasthenight.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1109" data-original-width="857" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3eVYubKVl-DC9ivy4c9hvQ3iwsOe4Lk_qp-AbVnR5YwS0LNcpIAgVAPQUXy7ygcwvznW66VuPBv71cwqGiWHxuns34RLThv2iQ41JWt3jcrCKRrOrwEOnnNoHNjy9zMNoeT2vhSp78w/w494-h640/darkwasthenight.jpg" width="494" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Release date:</b> August 25th 2020</span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Illustrated by:</b> E.B. 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<b style="font-family: helvetica;">Synopsis via <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49195431-dark-was-the-night" target="_blank">Goodreads</a>:</b><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The poignant story of Blind Willie Johnson--the legendary Texas musician whose song "Dark Was the Night" was included on the Voyager I space probe's Golden Record</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Willie Johnson was born in 1897, and from the beginning he loved to sing--and play his cigar box guitar. But his childhood was interrupted when he lost his mother and his sight. How does a blind boy make his way in the world? Fortunately for Willie, the music saved him and brought him back into the light. His powerful voice, combined with the wailing of his slide guitar, moved people. Willie made a name for himself performing on street corners all over Texas. And one day he hit it big when he got a record deal and his songs were played on the radio. Then in 1977, his song--"Dark Was the Night"--was chosen to light up the darkness when it was launched into space on the Voyager I space probe's famous Golden Record. His immortal song was selected for the way it expresses the loneliness humans all feel, while reminding us we're not alone.</span></div></div></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpuV2CB-bzpdUoQz1FNS9mFfNDJiUVlbSnRqFdBsSxjv3nNA4lwvjmUXDjK5y5mb9e5n5rCJZfND59EZbyDssJ2pHkgLm3sjENjpjjOmZG4PofOutcKlUCe1h7c0-jClwzjxGa-kHMhA/s626/guestpost.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="179" data-original-width="626" height="92" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpuV2CB-bzpdUoQz1FNS9mFfNDJiUVlbSnRqFdBsSxjv3nNA4lwvjmUXDjK5y5mb9e5n5rCJZfND59EZbyDssJ2pHkgLm3sjENjpjjOmZG4PofOutcKlUCe1h7c0-jClwzjxGa-kHMhA/w320-h92/guestpost.png" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I've been a blues fan for a long time. Early on in my teens, when I listened to Hendrix and a lot of the 60s groups (Paul Butterfield, Cream, Animals), I was hooked on their American blues roots, what inspired them, and gave their music its spark.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Funny thing about those English groups like Cream and the Stones--Hendrix was the first Black American blues man they'd ever met, though Jimi took those roots and sprung some new flowers.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Many years later, in 2002, I wrote my first book for kids about Jimi because I was playing electric blues myself, and appreciated the traditions I heard in his work. Then in 2015, I read two long articles about Blind Willie Johnson--a blind Texas gospel singer and slide guitarist whose music was also steeped in the blues. I was fascinated by the course of his life, and how--three decades after he died--his unforgettable song, "<i><b>Dark Was the Night</b></i>," ended up being rocketed into space on the <i><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Voyager I</span></i> space probe's Golden Record (along with Beethoven, Chuck Berry, Bach, and the sights and sounds of Earth).</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">It's a great story about the surprising turns a life can take--especially when you might think that someone's story has come to an end. Willie had some hit records back in the late 1920s but was pretty much forgotten until Reverend Gary Davis started telling young blues guitarists about him in the 60s.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Then Carl Sagan came along in 1977 with <i>Voyager</i> and asked musicologist John Lomax to help him refine his choices for the amazing Golden Record (kind of like the first CD-ROM). Lomax included Willie's "<i><b>Dark Was the Night</b></i>" because he felt it was the embodiment of human loneliness. Something extra-terrestrials would need to know about Earth people if they ever happened upon the space probe and its Golden Record.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Amazing to think that, right now, <i><b>Voyager</b></i> is out there beyond our solar system (still transmitting!), and on it is the song of a blind man, telling us not to be afraid of the dark. And if that ain't the heart of the blues, I don't know what is!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><img alt="Gary Golio" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1302898667p5/3410248.jpg" /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>About the Author</b></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Gary Golio is the author of several best-selling and award-winning musical picture-book biographies, including Jimi: Sounds Like a Rainbow, When Bob Met Woody, and Spirit Seeker: John Coltrane’s Musical Journey. Gary Golio lives in Hudson Valley, New York.</span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://garygolio.com/" target="_blank">www.garygolio.com</a></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: merriweather, georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: merriweather, georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: merriweather, georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div></div>Shane @ItchingforBookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13299725578226281943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51660623241832274.post-18927344046030232762020-07-31T16:34:00.001-04:002020-08-13T19:03:05.340-04:00COVER REVEAL: Make A Scene by Mimi Grace<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCtTPn0NIWpH3iY9uYrPPuMkdp4bPHGdi3CxOuMHIl1TVsJPEn5sCivsi98EIvaMx91NtYZFb2tdaTZFdct-P8u8yeOCKES5mT54moALhICpnVBZoSsie1eJTTbj9eFYmU9jlmQWHBbA/s2048/EeRSSZ8UMAARb8b.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1280" height="800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCtTPn0NIWpH3iY9uYrPPuMkdp4bPHGdi3CxOuMHIl1TVsJPEn5sCivsi98EIvaMx91NtYZFb2tdaTZFdct-P8u8yeOCKES5mT54moALhICpnVBZoSsie1eJTTbj9eFYmU9jlmQWHBbA/w500-h800/EeRSSZ8UMAARb8b.jpg" width="500" /></a><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-weight: bold;">Release date:</b><b> </b>September 16th 2020</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><b>Preorder Now:</b> </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/#" style="text-align: justify;">http://books2read.com/MAS</a></div></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></span></div><div style="background-color: #f8effb; border: 2px dotted rgb(189, 189, 189); font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: helvetica;">Synopsis via <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54698575-make-a-scene" target="_blank">Goodreads</a>:</b></div><font face="helvetica"><br style="text-align: start;" /><span style="text-align: start;">Faking this relationship should be a piece of cake.</span><br style="text-align: start;" /><br style="text-align: start;" /><span style="text-align: start;">Retta Majors is having a bad day. But that’s to be expected when your ex gets engaged to your cousin. Instead of (totally) freaking out, Retta decides to attend the wedding with her amazing, faithful, and handsome boyfriend.</span><br style="text-align: start;" /><br style="text-align: start;" /><span style="text-align: start;">One problem.</span><br style="text-align: start;" /><br style="text-align: start;" /><span style="text-align: start;">He doesn’t exist.</span><br style="text-align: start;" /><br style="text-align: start;" /><span style="text-align: start;">Duncan Gilmore is living his dream. His boxing gym is open for business, and he’s focused on success. The last thing on his mind is a relationship. That is until the beautiful baker next door makes him an offer so bizarre, he can’t refuse. One weekend of pretending to be Retta’s boyfriend should be easy.</span><br style="text-align: start;" /><br style="text-align: start;" /><span style="text-align: start;">However, shared kisses and some flirting start to blur the lines in their fake relationship. When their performance draws to a close, will they go their separate ways or return for an encore?</span><br style="text-align: start;" /><br style="text-align: start;" /><span style="text-align: start;">Note: This novel is a standalone.</span></font></div><br style="text-align: start;" /><br style="text-align: start;" /><b><font face="helvetica">About the Author</font></b></div><font face="helvetica">Mimi Grace credits romance novels for turning her into a bookworm at twelve years old. It didn’t matter if those stories included carriages or cowboys, she could be found past her bedtime getting lost in a couple’s journey to happily-ever-after.<br /><br />She wants to evoke the same feelings in others with her fun and sexy books (think of them as confetti & spice for your bookshelf).<br /><br />Besides romance novels, she loves generous servings of mint chocolate chip ice cream, long-running reality competition TV shows, and when she correctly spells “necessary” the first time.</font><div><font face="helvetica"><br /></font></div><div><font face="helvetica"><a href="https://mimigracebooks.com/" target="_blank">WEBSITE</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/MimiGraceBooks" target="_blank">TWITTER</a> | <a href="https://www.instagram.com/mimigracebooks/" target="_blank">INSTAGRAM</a> | <a href="https://www.facebook.com/mimigracebooks/" target="_blank">FACEBOOK</a> | <a href="https://www.bookbub.com/authors/mimi-grace" target="_blank">BOOKBUB</a></font></div><div><font face="helvetica"><br /></font></div><div><font face="helvetica"><br /></font></div>Shane @ItchingforBookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13299725578226281943noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51660623241832274.post-63668104055094884062020-05-26T00:00:00.000-04:002020-05-26T00:00:06.361-04:00New Release: Flawed Melodies by Symone West<div style="text-align: justify;">
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I have never veered off course or considered fighting for what I want. Until faint music lures me into his bedroom, and all of a sudden, things start to shift.</div>
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Three years ago, my girlfriend left me with a broken heart and a member short in my band. Since then, I’ve sworn off love.</div>
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I thought I’d learned my lesson, but here comes Faith and her innocence, waltzing into my room and life uninvited.</div>
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Faith has not only erased my writer’s block but is shattering the guard around my heart, one beautiful harmony at a time.</div>
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The more Jaxon and Faith swim in the depths of music, writing lyrics and creating melodies, the more their words flow straight from the heart. But will they overcome obstacles so that love may have a chance? Or is music their driving force and demise?</div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Arrogant. Cruel. Ruthless.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Then he kissed me and instead of the ice-cold gaze I was accustomed to, I saw passion burning behind his dark molten eyes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I was pulled into the story instantly and wanted to see how it would play out. It certainly felt like a game between the two, one of burning lust and longing. And t</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">he main characters have their moments where I either love them or want to snap at them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Nadia Morroe has a lot going for her, except for a happy relationship. When it comes to an end, she’s neither surprised nor hurt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">He lures her in with his piercing gaze and unraveling touch, then pushes her away with the reminder he’s not looking for commitment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Jacob Hunter was never into attachments.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But Nadia has him second-guessing his decision and wishing he could have more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Every moment shared together leaves him feeling guilty. He doesn’t want to make Nadia suffer. But he can’t stop himself from falling.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Time is precious, and both come to understand that in the most painful way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Symone West is the author of <i>Dry Spell</i> and <i>A Very Warm Christmas</i>. She writes unconventional sweet and sexy, sometimes dark, coming of age and adult stories.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><strong>A Falling Stars stand-alone romance from A.L. Jackson</strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">TITLE: KISS THE STARS</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A Falling Stars STAND-ALONE NOVEL from NYT & USA Today Bestselling Author, A.L. Jackson . . .</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A single mother.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">An up-and-coming drummer with a sordid past.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Their paths never should have crossed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But when a senseless crime rocks Mia West’s entire world, she agrees to spend the summer hiding out at her rock-star brother’s mansion in Savannah until the storm blows over.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">What she never expected was the gorgeous, brooding drummer living in the guest house.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">His darkness a lure.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She knows better than to go after what will hurt her most.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Leif Godwin has two focuses in his life: his band, Carolina George, and seeking retribution for what was stolen from him.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Mia was never supposed to be a part of the equation.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Her eyes an appeal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Touching her is nothing but a sin.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But will loving her destroy them all . . .</span><br />
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Devin was turning into a clone of his deadbeat lowlife father—fighting, getting wasted, and screwing his way through every girl in town. I’d been hiding a secret crush on him for years. Afraid to tell him how I felt in case I ruined everything. So, I kept quiet and slowly watched him self-destruct with a constant ache in my heart.</div>
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Where Devin was all brooding darkness, Ayden was the shining light. Our star quarterback with the bright future whom everyone loved. But something wasn’t right. He was so guarded, and he wouldn’t let me in.</div>
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When Devin publicly shamed me, Ayden took my side, and our awesome-threesome bond was severed. The split was devastating. The heartbreak inevitable.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">USA Today bestselling author Siobhan Davis writes emotionally intense young adult and new adult fiction with swoon-worthy romance, complex characters, and tons of unexpected plot twists and turns that will have you flipping the pages beyond bedtime!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Sydney is sure about guys like Parker.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The wealthy and entitled ones.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This one hates the way she looks at him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Parker Prescott is determined to prove her wrong.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">He chases Sydney.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She pushes him away until she can no longer fight her feelings.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The ice starts to melt.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Her defenses lower the more she learns about him. He’s not just another player.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Like her, Parker has issues he’s dealing with.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But she’s still so afraid to let him in.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And Parker fears he may never truly win her heart.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Can Sydney accept her intense feelings and trust that Parker won’t hurt her, and will she be there for him when he needs her the most?</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #990000;">In the power struggle between two elite groups, one feisty girl will bring them to their knees…</span></b></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Twisted Betrayal, the next story in the dark, bully romance Rydeville High Elite Series from USA Today bestselling author Siobhan Davis is available now!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-weight: 400;">He thinks he’s broken me. That I’m finally under his complete control. But I’m biding my time, gathering intel, making plans, and waiting for the perfect opportunity to strike. So, when an unexpected savior appears—offering me a way out—I grasp it with both hands. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-weight: 400;">But the man I love refuses to let me go, and he’s hell-bent on protecting me at all costs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-weight: 400;">Kaiden’s betrayal fuels the anger flowing through my veins, and now our roles are reversed—I’m the hunter, and he’s my prey. I enjoy torturing him, lying to him, and letting him believe in false truths that were never our reality.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-weight: 400;">Until the stakes are raised, and I’m forced into playing their game again. Only this time, it’s not just my life hanging in the balance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-weight: 400;">I thought he’d done his worst. That he didn’t have the power to hurt me anymore.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-weight: 400;">But I was wrong.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-weight: 400;">This time, it means war, and I’m taking no prisoners.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">USA Today</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> bestselling author Siobhan Davis writes emotionally intense young adult and new adult romantic fiction with swoon-worthy romance, complex characters, and tons of unexpected plot twists and turns that will have you flipping the pages beyond bedtime! She is the author of the international bestselling </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kennedy Boys, Saven, </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">and</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> True Calling</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> series’. </span>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Siobhan’s family will tell you she’s a little bit obsessive when it comes to reading and writing, and they aren’t wrong. She can rarely be found without her trusty Kindle, a paperback book, or her laptop somewhere close at hand.</span>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Prior to becoming a full-time writer, Siobhan forged a successful corporate career in human resource management. </span>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">She resides in the Garden County of Ireland with her husband and two sons.</span></span>
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Shane @ItchingforBookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13299725578226281943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51660623241832274.post-29682441480186308392019-08-02T13:17:00.000-04:002019-08-02T13:17:00.970-04:00Review: Say You Still Love Me by K.A. Tucker<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: start;">On the one hand, she’s a twenty-nine-year-old VP at her dad’s multi-billion-dollar real estate development firm, and living the high single life with her two best friends in a swanky downtown penthouse. On the other hand, she’s considered a pair of sexy legs in a male-dominated world and constantly has to prove her worth. Plus she’s stuck seeing her narcissistic ex-fiancé—a fellow VP—on the other side of her glass office wall every day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: start;">Things get exponentially more complicated for Piper when she runs into Kyle Miller—the handsome new security guard at Calloway Group, and coincidentally the first love of her life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: start;">The guy she hasn’t seen or heard from since they were summer camp counselors together. The guy from the wrong side of the tracks. The guy who apparently doesn’t even remember her name.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: start;">Piper may be a high-powered businesswoman now, but she soon realizes that her schoolgirl crush is still alive and strong, and crippling her concentration. What’s more, despite Kyle’s distant attitude, she’s convinced their reunion isn’t at all coincidental, and that his feelings for her still run deep. And she’s determined to make him admit to them, no matter the consequences.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I don't even know where to start this review. This is the seventh book I've read by K.A. Tucker, my first that is not romantic suspense, so I went in not knowing what to expect from her straight contemporary style. But from beginning to end, I was utterly enthralled. Say You Still Love Me is a fun and beautiful story filled with silly, youthful moments and emotions that will surely leave you wanting more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">At first, the business aspect was a bit hard for me to get into with how the story opened, but I understood the significance of seeing Piper in her element and how hard she worked at her father's company. She also wasn't doing any of it by force. She truly loved her job and everything it entailed. So that was interesting in itself, along with the fact that she matured into a strong woman who knew what she wanted and wasn't afraid to speak her mind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Kyle was a fun and wild guy back at camp; full of mischief and enjoyed adventures. Understandably, he tamed those characteristics a tad to make something of himself as a man. With everything involving his family, he had a lot to prove, mainly to himself. And I got why he'd feel undeserving or out of place when it came to Piper's world and her status. But I liked how throughout the story, since meeting at camp, she focused on their moments together, instead of financial situation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I think what I love the most about the story is the intensity between the two, and how life can send you on all these different paths only to eventually lead you back to someone you are meant to be with. I believe in second-chance love, especially if the timing wasn't right in the beginning, but you've reached a place where things are now not exactly perfect, but steady. And despite the horrible situation that happened back at camp, it actually caused both Piper and Kyle to grow from that and develop a better understanding of each other and the love they feel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Again, a beautiful story that will make you swoon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">K.A. Tucker writes captivating stories with an edge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">She is the USA Today bestselling author of 17 books, including the Causal Enchantment, Ten Tiny Breaths and Burying Water series, He Will Be My Ruin, Until It Fades, Keep Her Safe, and The Simple Wild. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Her books have been featured in national publications including USA Today, Globe & Mail, Suspense Magazine, First for Women, and Publisher's Weekly. She has been nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Romance 2013 for TEN TINY BREATHS and Best Romance 2018 for THE SIMPLE WILD. Her novels have been translated into 16 languages.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A good daughter who’s been through hell with a mother who keeps chasing happiness with the wrong kind of men. Surprise isn’t the word for it when Toya learns her mom is engaged to a man she’s never even met.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This is yet another crazy decision that Toya would have to help her mom recover from when things fall apart. But nothing prepared her for the scorching hot son of her mom’s fiancé. Something about his brooding blue eyes, a cocky smile, and visible brokenness keep pulling her to him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">An enigmatic bad boy who hasn’t dealt with the pain from his mother’s death. He suppresses it with alcohol, pills, and regular hookups. But none of these things satisfy the need in his heart, only leaves a deeper hole to fill.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Varen is convinced he’s a lost cause and will never be able to let go of the all-consuming grief, but his new stepsister’s sweet and captivating personality causes a spark so strong, despite his bad habits and fears, he finds it hard to stay away from her. Bit by bit, he starts to feel alive again, and now that he’s found happiness at last, he will fight to hold on to it no matter the cost.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">My name is Andrew Joyce and I write books for a living. Shane has been kind
enough to allow me a little space on her blog to promote my new book, </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07RZPMVP5"><i><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Mahoney</span></i></a><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">. So I thought I might entertain you
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">My first book, <i>Yellow Hair</i>, was a
164,000-word historical novel. And in the publishing world, anything over
80,000 words for a first-time author is heresy. Or so I was told time and time
again when I approached an agent for representation. After two years of
research and writing and a year of trying to secure the services of an agent, I
got angry. To be told that my efforts were meaningless was somewhat demoralizing,
to say the least. I mean, those rejections were coming from people who had
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“<i>So you want an 80,000-word novel?</i>” I said to no one in particular,
unless you count my dog, because he was the only one around at the time.
Consequently, I decided to show them City Slickers that I <i>could</i> write an
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">I had just finished reading Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn for the third
time, and I started thinking about what ever happened to those boys, Tom and
Huck. They must have grown up, but then what? So I sat down at my computer and
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West. Then I sent out query letters to literary agents.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">A few weeks later, the chairman of one of the biggest agencies in the
country emailed me. He loved the story and suggested a few changes. They were
good suggestions, and I incorporated about 80% of them into the book. We signed
a contract and it was off to the races, or so I thought. But then the real fun
began: the serious editing. Seven months later, I gave birth to Huck and Tom as
adults. And just for the record, the final word count was 79,914. The book went
on to reach <i>#1</i> status in its category
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The rest, as they say, is history.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Now we come to the
crux of the matter. My readers really enjoyed the book. Reviewer after reviewer
said they would love a sequel, but given how I ended the story, I could not
envision that being possible. Then I started getting emails and phone calls
from my agent, badgering me to continue the adventure. At first I ignored him.
Finally, to stop the badgering, I started <i>MOLLY
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">After I got done with Huck, Tom, and Molly, I turned my attention to my
first novel, the one I couldn’t sell to an agent. I whittled it down from
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Andrew Joyce left high school at seventeen to hitchhike throughout the US, Canada, and Mexico. He wouldn't return from his journey until years later when he decided to become a writer. Joyce has written five books. His first novel, Redemption: The Further Adventures of Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer, was awarded the Editors' Choice Award for Best Western of 2013. A subsequent novel, Yellow Hair, received the Book of the Year award from Just Reviews and Best Historical Fiction of 2016 from Colleen's Book Reviews.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Although this journey began years ago, it recently took on a whole new life. After years of devouring hundreds of Romance, YA and New Adult novels, I had an epiphany... I should write a book. And I did it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If I’m not reading, writing, enjoying drinks with my amazing group of girlfriends or chasing around a sarcastically funny kid, I’m probably watching television shows that were created for teenagers, while my husband teases that I’m too old to watch them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Hannah Wellesley has spent her entire life running the halls of her family-owned hotel, the infamous and opulent Wellesley-Crawford. Noted as one of the city's richest, most luxurious hotels in Chicago, the WC is what Hannah has devoted her life and career to.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The hotel’s Annual Masquerade Gala is the event of the year, but this year Hannah’s evening involves more than just handing out masks. After a mysterious rendezvous in a secluded stairwell with an irresistible and unidentifiable man, Hannah becomes consumed with discovering the identity of her masked lover. Just as she’s about to give up the search, two men blow back into her life with drastically different intentions. They both have secrets and uncovering them will lead Hannah down a darkly dangerous path.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Drawn to both of the intriguing bachelors, she’ll have to determine which one is after her heart and which one plans to do her deadly harm before it’s too late.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Although this journey began years ago, it recently took on a whole new life. After years of devouring hundreds of Romance, YA and New Adult novels, I had an epiphany... I should write a book. And I did it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If I’m not reading, writing, enjoying drinks with my amazing group of girlfriends or chasing around a sarcastically funny kid, I’m probably watching television shows that were created for teenagers, while my husband teases that I’m too old to watch them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A girl who can speak to gods must save her people without destroying herself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A boy with a monstrous secret waits in the wings. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Together, they must assassinate the king and stop the war.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In a centuries-long war where beauty and brutality meet, their three paths entwine in a shadowy world of spilled blood and mysterious saints, where a forbidden romance threatens to tip the scales between dark and light. Wicked Saints is the thrilling start to Emily A. Duncan’s devastatingly Gothic Something Dark and Holy trilogy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">EMILY A. DUNCAN works as a youth services librarian. She received a Master’s degree in library science </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">from Kent State University, which mostly taught her how to find obscure Slavic folklore texts through </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">interlibrary loan systems. When not reading or writing, she enjoys playing copious amounts of video </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">games and dungeons and dragons. Wicked Saints is her first book. She lives in Ohio.</span></div>
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<i>“Prepare for a snow frosted, blood drenched fairy tale where the monsters steal your heart and love ends up being the nightmare. Utterly absorbing.” - Roshani Chokshi, New York Times bestselling author of The Star-Touched Queen<br /><br />"Full of blood and monsters and magic—this book destroyed me and I adored it. Emily is a wicked storyteller, she’s not afraid to hurt her characters or her readers. If you’ve ever fallen in love with a villain you will fall hard for this book." - Stephanie Garber, New York Times bestselling author of Caraval<br /><br />"This is the novel of dark theology and eldritch blood-magic that I’ve been waiting for all my life. It’s got a world at once brutal and beautiful, filled with characters who are wounded, lovable, and ferocious enough to break your heart. A shattering, utterly satisfying read." - Rosamund Hodge, author of Cruel Beauty and Bright Smoke, Cold Fire<br /><br />“Wicked Saints is a lush, brutal, compelling fantasy that is dark, deep, and bloody—absolutely riveting! With a boy who is both man and monster, mysterious saints with uncertain motives, and a girl filled with holy magic who is just beginning to understand the full reaches of her power, this gothic jewel of a story will sink its visceral iron claws into you, never letting go until you’ve turned the last page. And truthfully, not even then -the explosive ending will haunt you for days!” - Robin LaFevers, New York<br />Times bestselling author of the His Fair Assassin trilogy </i><div>
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<i>“Dark, bloody, and monstrously romantic. This is the villain love interest that we&#39;ve all been waiting for.” - Margaret Rogerson, New York Times bestselling author of An Enchantment of Ravens<br /><br />"Seductively dark and enchanting, Wicked Saints is a trance you won’t want to wake from. Duncan has skillfully erected a world like no other, complete with provocative magic, sinister creatures, and a plot that keeps you guessing. This spellbinding YA fantasy will bewitch readers to the very last page." - Adrienne Young, New York Times bestselling author of Sky in the Deep</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Evelyn Harris.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Loving (nosy) family. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The problem? Her love life is going nowhere. After a few failed relationships, laughable blind dates, and online dating fiascos, Evelyn is about ready to give up on love and commit entirely to her career.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Things change when she meets James.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">James Westbrook.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Wants to be taken seriously as an architect.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But a scam involving a former friend has rocked his reputation, both professionally and personally. Plus, he’s avoided commitment after a broken engagement two years ago.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">When the opportunity to work again finally comes around, James feels grateful. He puts an end to occasional hookups and focuses on rebuilding his career.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">He never anticipated meeting Evelyn.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">These two were on the verge of saying ‘screw it’ to love. But with so much spark between them, fate becomes harder to fight the more time they spend together at work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Will James and Evelyn give this office romance a chance or will fear destroy their possible happiness together?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Shane Morgan is the author of several novels, including Unresisting, Impossibly Love, Finding Julian, and The Right Song. She lives in Rhode Island with her husband. Aside from writing, Shane enjoys listening to music, watching movies, and traveling.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; line-height: 115%;">Evelyn finished her wine and set the empty glass next to her
laptop. “Thanks for inviting me over. Surprisingly, I feel more relaxed here
than I do at the office.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; line-height: 115%;">Then stay</span></i><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; line-height: 115%;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; line-height: 115%;">“Glad you’re comfortable.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; line-height: 115%;">Our eyes remained linked for a while, until I lowered mine to her
full lips, swallowing hard as the memory of kissing them rushed me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; line-height: 115%;">I blinked the vision away, wanting to respect Evelyn’s wishes and
her job.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; line-height: 115%;">“More wine?” I offered, standing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; line-height: 115%;">She shuddered a tad and looked at her empty glass. “No, um, I
should get going.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; line-height: 115%;">Please stay</span></i><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; line-height: 115%;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; line-height: 115%;">Evelyn closed her laptop, packing it away into her bag. I brought
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; line-height: 115%;">She stood as I walked back to the desk. “Thank you for dinner and
for a different space to work.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; line-height: 115%;">“You’re welcome.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; line-height: 115%;">I could see apprehension within her fluttering eyes. She was more
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; line-height: 115%;">Evelyn gnawed at her bottom lip as her eyes slowly glanced over me.
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You don’t have to fight</span></i><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; line-height: 115%;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; line-height: 115%;">“I should go,” she said again, opening her eyes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; line-height: 115%;">Please don’t
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; line-height: 115%;">Was she as conflicted as I was?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; line-height: 115%;">“See you tomorrow,” she said softly, barely meeting my gaze before
she stepped out of my apartment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; line-height: 115%;">A sigh of regret gushed from my lips. Seconds later, I turned to
go shower, but urgent knocking made me halt in my steps. I spun around and quickly
opened the door.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; line-height: 115%;">My brows shot up. “Evelyn?”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><b>Release date: </b>September 24th 2019</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;" /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><b>Publisher:</b> Simon Pulse</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;" /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><b>Pre-order:</b> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1534445420/ref=x_gr_w_bb?ie=UTF8&tag=x_gr_w_bb-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1534445420&SubscriptionId=1MGPYB6YW3HWK55XCGG2" style="color: #1849dc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Amazon</a></span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;" /><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; text-align: start;">"A book that knocks you off your feet while dropping the kind of knowledge that’ll keep you down for the count. Prepare to be slain.” —Nic Stone, New York Times bestselling author of Dear Martin and Odd One Out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; text-align: start;"><i>Ready Player One</i> meets <i>The Hate U Give</i> in this dynamite debut novel that follows a fierce teen game developer as she battles a real-life troll intent on ruining the Black Panther–inspired video game she created and the safe community it represents for black gamers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; text-align: start;">By day, seventeen-year-old Kiera Johnson is an honors student, a math tutor, and one of the only black kids at Jefferson Academy. But at home, she joins hundreds of thousands of black gamers who duel worldwide as Nubian personas in the secret multiplayer online role-playing card game, SLAY. No one knows Kiera is the game developer, not her friends, her family, not even her boyfriend, Malcolm, who believes video games are partially responsible for the “downfall of the black man.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; text-align: start;">But when a teen in Kansas City is murdered over a dispute in the SLAY world, news of the game reaches mainstream media, and SLAY is labeled a racist, exclusionist, violent hub for thugs and criminals. Even worse, an anonymous troll infiltrates the game, threatening to sue Kiera for “anti-white discrimination.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; text-align: start;">Driven to save the only world in which she can be herself, Kiera must preserve her secret identity and harness what it means to be unapologetically black in a world intimidated by blackness. But can she protect her game without losing herself in the process?</span></div>
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<a href="https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1537475733p5/18443440.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Brittney Morris" border="0" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1537475733p5/18443440.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Brittney Morris is the author of SLAY. She holds a BA in Economics from Boston University because back then, she wanted to be a financial analyst. (She's now thankful that didn't happen). She spends her spare time reading, playing indie video games, and enjoying the Seattle rain from her apartment. She lives with her husband Steven who would rather enjoy the rain from a campsite in the woods because he hasn't played enough horror games. Brittney is the founder and former president of the Boston University Creative Writing Club, and her work has been published in The Boston University Chimaerid Literary Magazine. She is a four-time NaNoWriMo winner and a 2018 Pitch Wars mentor.</span></div>
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