Wednesday, April 28, 2021

*Book Tour & Giveaway* Cowboys Down Under by Kay Maree

 


Smooth Whiskey Whisper
Cowboys Down Under Book 1
by Kay Maree
Genre: Australian Cowboy Contemporary Romance

Cora

I was 5 when I went into the system, and I was the girl that nobody wanted, not even the mother that birthed me.
You break, being passed off from one place to another.
Every couple of months someone else proving to you once again how unlovable you really are. Each move took just a little bit more of me, a little more of my soul. My reason for living became less each time I was sent back to the agency to wait for a new family to take a chance on me. My whole life, my world was carried around in a trash bag, but what people forget to mention is that that bag breaks too never to be repaired again, just replaced with a new one.
You wait for that day that one will tear too just as much as you do, but just like many stuck in the system I was overlooked and pushed aside when I wasn’t needed anymore.

My life was in pieces... My world torn apart once again.
What did I have to lose taking a trip to the country?
Then I met him...
Nash Steel...
Rugged, Sexy and Alpha to the core with piercing grey eyes that have a smoky quality to them that I wouldn't mind getting swept away in.

But will he hold on with both hands and cherish every minute, or throw it all away the minute he gets bored with me?

Decisions... Decisions... Is he worth the risk?


Nash

I was never interested in finding a woman before.
I was happy with the land I shared with my parents, wrangling the cattle and riding my horse, but a few hours with Cora has me wanting to change my whole world to fit her into it.
Smiling, shit is about to change big time and I can’t fucking wait.
Little Miss Cora Hope better get ready to hang on tight because I'm coming for her, and I don’t think I will ever let her go once I wrangle her and brand that ass as mine.

Operation make the girl with the mood ring eyes fall for me commences...





Sassy Daiquiri Kiss
Cowboys Down Under Book 2



Lucy

Ever since I was 16 years old, I have struggled to work out where I belonged in this world.
Then I meet him...
Lucas Knight...
My little heart swooned and to be honest, who’s heart wouldn’t when meeting him?
He was well over six feet tall, muscled, with dark windswept hair and a hard sculptured jaw that could have been made by the gods themselves.
Piercing blue eyes that took the breath right from my lungs as they seemed to zero in on me and my every movement.
He is the one person I know I am meant to spend the rest of my life with.
It’s just a shame he doesn’t feel the same way.

Everyone yearns for the light of the day, the sun signifies the start of a new beginning but deep down I crave when the night comes, the soft glow of the moon as the stars brighten up the velvet night sky brings something inside me alive and all I want to do is throw my head back and howl at the moon.

It’s hard loving someone that thinks your invisible.


Lucas
Lucy Jacobson = End Game.
I’m too old, too dominant for someone like her.
She is innocence coated in Sass...
Her beauty and the light that lives inside her shouldn't be harnessed.

So why the fuck do I want to be the one to capture her and never go?




Kay Maree is a mother and a wife. Born and raised in Newcastle, NSW Australia.
Her passion was to show her children that you are never too old to make your dreams come true.
Which is what lead her to write and publish Angel Mine in 2017.
With support from her family and friends, Kay has managed to accomplish something she never thought she could.
And she just hopes you fall in love with her characters as much as she has.



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*Book Tour & Giveaway* The Edisto Trilogy by Lin Stepp-GUEST POST

 


Claire at Edisto
The Edisto Trilogy Book 1
by Lin Stepp
Genre: Christian Contemporary Romance

Standing in grief and shock at the grave of her young husband, Claire Avery wonders what she and her young daughters will do now. They live in the church parsonage they need to vacate. She hasn't worked since her marriage twelve years ago. Old issues and complications hinder relationships with her family. Struggling for answers, Claire accepts her brother-in-law's offer to stay at his beach house at Edisto to give her a season to heal and think. But even the peace and beauty of the coastal island bring new problems along with unexpected joys as Claire seeks to find her way.

Parker Avery always promised his brother Charles he would look after Claire if anything happened to him. Charles stood by him three years ago when his wife Ann died and Parker is determined now to be a help to Claire and the girls. As time passes, instead of feeling like a hero, he feels like a heel instead as he realizes he's developing feelings for his own brother's widow. To make things worse, he watches with pain and jealousy as Miles Lawrence waltzes into Claire's life. What can he expect though? It hardly seems right that Claire, even after a season of mourning, would ever fall in love with her own brother-in-law.

Return to Edisto
The Edisto Trilogy Book 2


Return to Edisto Island in the rich, Lowcountry story of a young woman's difficult decision to run from threat and danger, changing the course of her well-ordered life and, in turn, the life of the young man who loved and lost her.  

It was a long trip back to Edisto Island, South Carolina, and the beach house that shaped so much of Mary Helen Avery’s early life. Now her mind flashed between anger and hurt over the difficult situation she’d left behind at the job she loved.  Was she doing the right thing to leave? Should she have stayed to fight? She hoped at the quiet, beloved island she knew so well, she’d find the answers she needed and peace from all this turmoil.
 
J.T.’s heart took a familiar lurch when he saw the car with New Jersey plates parked at the Avery’s beach house. Even after ten years, the memory of Mary Helen Avery still tormented him.  Finding her on the porch weeping lit old fires he thought long dead. Was he a fool to hope for something more between them with all their problems of the past? Probably so, but if she stayed long enough, he’d find one more chance to try.


Edisto Song
The Edisto Trilogy Book 3


In EDISTO SONG a young woman, at the pinnacle of success, is forced to reexamine her dreams as she finds her life as a concert pianist not what she envisioned and those her life is entwined with far from what she believed of them.

Sarah Katherine Avery, becoming internationally known as a young concert pianist of great promise, finds herself at a difficult moment in her career-home in New York, getting ready for a concert with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra but feverish and ill. After pushing on for weeks through illness, her neighbor and friend encourages her to talk to her agent about taking a break for healing after this concert. Worn and disillusioned, Sarah heads over to the concert hall to talk to Jonah but the shock of what she encounters at that meeting spirals her life in a new direction.

Andrew Cavanaugh has traveled to New York from Beaufort to be a support to his boss's daughter, Sarah Katherine Avery-Suki to him-for her concert performance. A friend of Suki's since childhood years at Edisto, and always a supporter of her gift and her music, Andrew is shocked when Suki collapses on stage. He learns as he sits with her at the hospital that her life holds unhappiness none of them knew of but her answers for how to resolve her current problems threaten to send his well-ordered life right out the window.





Lin Stepp is a New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and Amazon best-selling international author, A native Tennessean, businesswoman, and former faculty member at Tusculum College, Lin has twenty-one published books, including her beloved Smoky Mountain and Mountain Home novels, all set in different Tennessee and North Carolina locations, a novella in one of Kensington’s Christmas anthologies, and three novels in her Edisto Trilogy, set on the South Carolina coast: Claire at Edisto (2019), Return to Edisto (2020) and Edisto Song (2021). Lin and her husband J.L. also write regional guidebooks, including a Smoky Mountain hiking guide, and two state parks guidebooks for Tennessee and South Carolina. Stepp’s latest novels set around the Smoky Mountains are Downsizing (2021) centered near Gatlinburg and Happy Valley (2020) set near Townsend. Lin’s title Claire At Edisto was the 2019 Best Books Award Winner in Fiction: Romance, sponsored by American Book Fest, her novel Welcome Back a finalist in the 2017 Selah Awards, and Lin and her husband’s guidebook Discovering Tennessee State Parks a 2019 Best Books Award Finalist in Nonfiction: Travel Guides with American Book Fest. Lin enjoys speaking for events, festivals, libraries, and book clubs, reading, hiking, exploring out of doors, and keeping up with her readers on Facebook, Twitter, and through her monthly blog and newsletter which you will find on her website at: www.linstepp.com

GUEST POST

What are your top 10 favorite books/authors?

I don’t have a Top #10 , I read so much. But here are ten authors whose books I love:

(1) L.M. Montgomery … the Anne of Green Gables books

(2) Jan Karon … the Mitford Series

(3) Anne Perry … the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt mysteries set in England

(4) Margaret Maron …the Deborah Knott mystery series set in NC

(5) Nora Roberts … all her earlier books, especially, like the Irish ones

(6) Deborah Smith … all her novels set in the GA and NC mountains

(7) Susan Wittig Albert … especially the China Bayles mystery series set in Texas

(8) Debbie Macomber … her sweet romances set in the northwest

(9) Julia Quinn and Mary Balogh …historic romance authors

(10) Agatha Christis … all her wonderful mysteries about Poirot, Miss Marple and more


What book do you think everyone should read?

I think an incredible book that would be a benefit for all to read is Og Mandino’s book THE UNIVERSITY OF SUCCESS. I’ve recommended it to friends, at literary festivals, and to my college students for years. An old classic still available in paperback, it offers writings by multiple famous individuals on how to live a successful life.


How long have you been writing?

I’ve always written for business, for college as a professor, and a little for fun … but I didn’t start writing seriously for publication until the early 2000s. My husband and I began working then on a hiking guidebook and the idea for novels set in the Smokies came to me while we were out exploring the trails. While out hiking we’d stop in small bookshops and stores, and as an avid reader, I started looking for contemporary novels set around the Smokies we were exploring. But I couldn’t find any. One day I asked one of the store managers, “Don’t you have any contemporary novels set here in the mountains—you know with a little romance and mystery?” He shook his head. “I don’t but I wish I did. People ask for that kind of book all the time. You’d think with the Smoky Mountains the most visited national park in America that someone would write some.” … So I did, setting each stand alone novel in a different place around the mountains. … I had about three stand-alone books completed in what I called the Smoky Mountain Series when I signed contract with my first publisher. My novel THE FOSTER GIRLS published in 2009, followed by TELL ME ABOUT ORCHARD HOLLW in 2010 and FOR SIX GOOD REASONS in 2011. More novels followed to complete the 12-book Smoky Mountain series, and then—due to reader-demand for more and the suggestion of my editor at Kensington Publishing—I started a second stand alone series called The Mountain Home Books, with more wonderful stories set around the mountains. As of April 2021, with two new novels and another guidebook publishing … I have over twenty books published. … With more coming!


Do the characters all come to you at the same time or do some of them come to you as you write?

I plan all my main and secondary characters before starting to write a book. I know them all very well before I ever begin to write … who they are, where they came from, their looks, personalities, strengths, weaknesses, problems, goals. The characters develop and come to life more as I write, but I know them as well as a loved friend or family member before I begin each book.


What kind of research do you do before you begin writing a book?

I spend about three months researching and planning a book and then about three months writing a book … and I complete about two books a year. My research process involves extensively researching the location and setting for my books, all the main and secondary characters who will people the book, and the multitude of details needed for the storyline that will thread through each novel. I usually end up with a big pile of manila folders stuffed with research notes, maps, drawings, character sketches, visual pictures of people and places, and more before I begin to write. I visit any major setting sites that will be in my novels … and I bring in as many real places as I can into all my books, making my readers feel they’ve really visited in my story settings. Many of my readers use my books as a guide for places to see, restaurants to eat at, shops to visit, and trails to hike when they travel to the mountains or the coast where my Southern novels are set.


Do you see writing as a career?

Writing is definitely a full-time career for me now. When my first book published in 2009 I was a faculty member teaching about eight to nine classes a year in a variety of psychology and research classes at Tusculum College. I also worked in a part-time capacity as the educational coordinator for a tutoring company, calling on schools in four counties. As the popularity of my books grew and as the demands of marketing, book signings, speaking events, and other aspects of being an author increased, I gradually cut back on my other career demands. …Now I write full-time.

What do you think about the current publishing market?

Covid and all the national unrest has given a big hit to publishing like many other business arenas around the United States and abroad. But serious writers have kept writing and working. It’s what we do, good times or bad. … I’ve also watched the publishing industry change dramatically since my first book published. That book THE FOSTER GIRLS published only in print at first … as eBooks were only starting to emerge in 2009 … but by the time the next book TELL ME ABOUT ORCHARD HOLLOW published in 2010, it came out in both print and eBook simultaneously. Also when my early books published there were many, many more bookstores than today. I’ve watched favorite chain stores like Borders, Davis Kidd, Cokesbury, Lifeway, and many wonderful indie stores go under with the changing times and the increased purchasing of books through online retailers like Amazon. … It is hard to say where things will be in another ten or twenty years.




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*Book Tour & Giveaway* Real of the Vampire Council by By Damian Serbu

 


The Vampire's Angel
The Realm of the Vampire Council Book 1
by Damian Serbu
Genre: M/M Paranormal Romance, Dark Urban Fantasy


As Paris devolves into chaos amidst the French Revolution, three lives intertwine.

Xavier, a devout priest, struggles to hold on to his trust in humanity only to find his own faith threatened with the longing he finds for a mysterious American visitor. Thomas fights against the Catholic Church to win Xavier’s heart, but hiding his undead nature will threaten the love he longs to find with this abbé. Xavier’s sister, Catherine, works with Thomas to bring them together while protecting the family fortune but falls prey herself to evil forces.

The death, peril, and catastrophes of a revolution collide with a world of magic, vampires, and personal demons as Xavier, Thomas, and Catherine fight to find peace and love amidst the destruction.





The Vampire's Quest
The Realm of the Vampire Council Book 2


The Vampire’s Quest brings back the beloved gay vampires, Xavier and Thomas, in the anticipated sequel to The Vampire’s Angel.

In 1822, the Archangel St. Michel orders Xavier to go on a quest to America, a quest that violates the Vampire Council’s laws to the point of a possible death sentence. Worse, Xavier must abandon his lover, Thomas. Xavier runs to his aging sister and pleads for Catherine’s help as Thomas races after them. With Thomas and the Vampire Council vying for Xavier’s soul, Xavier and Catherine struggle to obey the former priest’s divine calling before their inevitable capture.




The Vampire's Protege
A Realm of the Vampire Council Novel


A sinister vampire offers Charon a choice he can’t refuse: play a deadly game of winner takes all, losers die.

Charon relishes the competition and molds himself into a sexy vampire who defies vampire law, savoring his power and embracing the role of villain. He also loves surrounding himself with hot young men. But when an alluring vampire stalks him and threatens to turn him into the Vampire Council unless he helps with a seemingly impossible task, will Charon risk his perfectly narcissistic life on the challenge? Does he have any other choice?





The Bachmann Family Secret
A Realm of the Vampire Council Companion Novel


Jaret Bachmann travels with his family to his beloved grandfather’s funeral with a heavy heart and, more troubling, premonitions of something evil lurking at the Bachmann ancestral home. But no one believes that he sees ghosts.

Grappling with his sexuality, a ghost that wants him out of the way, and the loss of his grandfather, Jaret must protect his family and come to terms with powers hidden deep within himself.





The Vampire's Witch
The Realm of the Vampire Council Book 3


The Vampire’s Witch welcomes readers back to the world of vampires, witches, and magic.

Jaret Bachmann’s life spins out of control after a handsome stranger saves him from an attack along the bike path on Lakeshore Drive. His estranged high school sweetheart stalks him, the enraged ghost of his ancestor destroys his family, and his bike path savior-cum-lover abandons him after learning Jaret is a powerful witch, all of it sending Jaret into deep depression. Struggling to find his way afterward, Jaret searches for comfort in the unlikely friendship of a secret vampire community.
Xavier, Thomas, Anthony, and Catherine return in this, the third book in The Realm of the Vampire Council series and a sequel to The Bachmann Family Secret. Over time, Jaret’s friendship with the vampires strengthens and he forges a new family connection with Xavier, Thomas, and Catherine.  But he and Anthony are estranged and though their souls are entwined, there hearts are another matter.




Damian Serbu lives in the Chicago area with his husband and two dogs, Akasha and Chewbacca. The dogs control his life, tell him what to write, and threaten to eat him in the middle of the night if he disobeys. He has published several gay horror/romance/humorous books with NineStar Press. Keep up to date with him on Facebook, Twitter, or at www.DamianSerbu.com.



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Tuesday, April 27, 2021

*Book Tour & Giveaway* Neo Geisha by Monica L. Patton

 


Neo Geisha
by Monica L. Patton
Genre: Steamy Thriller


Philomene Doucette is a made-to-order assassin, and death never looked so good. Smuggled into Japan to carry out a kill, she finds herself enmeshed in a web of half-truths and shadow agendas. When the carnage exacts a personal toll, Philomene takes it all on--like the beautiful monster she was programmed to be.

"The characters are intriguing and the storyline pulled me in from the first page. The family dynamic, power struggles, and mystery surrounding the disappearance of... the perfect concoction for a page-turner." - Sara Fields, Book Club Moderator, The Phenomenal Women Group

**Releasing this Fall!!**











Ms. Patton is the author of Love & Southern Discomfort, an engaging musical about an old-money family, told through the prism of love lost, addiction, mental illness, and a harrowing family secret. Monica toured with the Broadway 2nd National tour of The Book of Mormon since its inception in 2012 (she was the only cast member to be in the company from day one until it closed in 2020.) Ms. Patton has worked with such notables as Jesse Norman, Diahann Carroll, and Freda Payne. She covered Eartha Kitt as the Fairy Godmother in Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella and sang opposite Jon Secada as the Narrator in the National Tour of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

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*Book Tour & giveaway* The Queen of Spades by Dana Littlejohn

 


Queen of Spades
4 Queens Book 1
by Dana Littlejohn
Genre: Contemporary Romance


Davina Ingram is one of the developers of SPADES, (southern people against detrimental environmental studies) an organization that develops the land for future generations. She moved back home to open the new location to take her mind off her broken heart...but the plan went out the window when she met Xavier Hart.




Where sensual erotic romance is always waiting for you.
I am Dana Littlejohn, author of sensual erotic romance. You will find that I write contemporary romances with just a hint of another genre to take it away from the ordinary. My stories will touch your heart and your soul and make your body feel like it's being touched, too.
Imagination will take you places your money can not. I invite you into my world with open arms to see my imagination run wild...
Come along for the ride as I go on an imaginary trip into my world. You'll enjoy every minute of this wild ride.

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