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Thursday, February 26, 2015

✯Release✯The Blue Room #6 by Kailin Gow

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The longer Staci Atussi, now a "Blue Girl" at the most exclusive gentleman's club for billionaires, sheiks, CEOs, politicians, rock stars, movie stars, and whoever sought the discretion and utmost highest service at the Blue Room; stayed, the more she discovered about the hidden world of decadence, deceit, and danger. More twists and turns are found in Book 6 of the Blue Room, including a most shocking betrayal that can destroy Staci. The Blue Room Vol. 6 contains mature matters intended for age 18 and up.

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When Danny Blue of the Never Knights inherited his playboy billionaire father's businesses and legacy, he didn't realized his father's pet project was the Blue Room, the most elite and secret club in the highest circle. He was happy to let his half-brother Terrence Blue run the club, but with Terrence's womanizing ways and carefree attitude when it came to everything, he wasn't sure if that was a good idea.

Terrence Blue wasn't sure that was a good idea as well because it would cramp his style as a former patron of the club, but when he spotted virginal Staci Atussi starting at The Blue Room, he had a change of heart. Not only was Staci Atussi a knockout without knowing it, but she was the challenge he had been craving. For Staci Atussi, working at The Blue Room was her solution to a desperate situation, but as she became integrated into the world of The Blue Room and the mysteries surrounding its patrons and the sexy Blues, she wondered if she had traded in her desperation for something far more sinister. The Blue Room is a New Adult Contemporary Suspense Series intending for readers age 18 and up.

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Kailin Gow's life is sometimes more fascinating and stranger than fiction, which is being chronicled in a feature film based on a treatment optioned and in development for a release date of 2018. (IMDB.com - The Colorful Worlds of Kailin Gow 2018). Her true life experiences as a world traveler where she has traveled to over 25 countries, logging hundreds of thousands of miles, absorbing the cultures and collecting stories relating to places and the romance of the land, and incidents in her personal life, has inspired her to write and publish over 170 books with over 30 series.

She is noted as an indie pioneer, as one of the first to publish in 2001. Breaking stereotypes, her books has crossed traditional and indie lines, gaining recognition in schools and libraries, as well as the indie community. Her action adventure young adult fantasy series, The Frost Series, an ALA YALSA Reader's Choice Nominated book series - had been optioned by an international film company and is currently in development as a game and a film at http://www.facebook.com/thefrostseries. Five of her fantasy/action adventure series have been optioned to be made into worldwide games.

Kailin Gow has been known in The World Journal, an international newspaper, to be a phenomenon. She was profiled on the homepage of Amazon.com as an Author Success Story who overcame personal obstacles to become a bestselling author, appeared as one of Amazon's top authors for the Kindle Fire launch release, and is one of the earliest indie authors who have sold over a million books. She writes for Fast Company as a publishing expert, had appeared on a major network Television News as a bestselling author who writes fiction and non-fiction with a social conscious, and has made speeches and appearances across the U.S. and on top 15 national radio regarding self-esteem and issues relating to women.

Kailin Gow was an invited speaker and signing author at Book Expo America (BEA)2014.

Having experienced bullying firsthand and slander as a woman, Kailin Gow is an active advocate against bullying in the workplace and in schools. She has written Shy Girls Social Club Handbook Against Bullying and has helped launch Stories for Amanda where all proceeds go towards the Amanda Todd Foundation against bullying. She has written several books with the theme of abuse towards women and children, especially the steamy international bestselling The Protégé Series, which launched a book club initiative in battered women's shelters and won The Indie Excellence Awards at NIEA for Erotica in 2014.

She holds a Masters Degree in Communications Management from The University of Southern California, and degrees in Drama and Social Ecology.

She resides in the American West with her husband and daughter, but had lived for a decade in Texas, and briefly in England. Besides being a full-time author, she volunteers for many organizations, is active in church helping build homes for the homeless and visit orphanages. A voracious reader, when she is not writing, she loves reading an entire series in one sitting! She spends way too much time on Facebook than she is supposed to at http://www.facebook.com/kailingowbooks, but loves meeting new people from all walks of life.

She has over 30 Series, written under Kailin Gow, and more under her middle grade, women's fiction, and mystery pen names:

***For 16 and up***

The Frost Series - COMPLETED. Bitter Frost Series Consists of 8 full-length novels. The Wolf Fey Series - COMPLETED. Consists of 2 full-length novels and one novella. Fairy Rose Chronicles - age 13 and up. The PULSE Series - Next Book - Blood Ring (PULSE #9), releasing due to readers' demand to continue the series. Consists of 9 full-length novels and one novella. FADE Series - COMPLETED. ALL Full-length novels. DESIRE Series - All Full-length novels. Last Book, FRENZY - 2015. Fire Wars Series - All Full-length novels. Alchemists Academy - All Full-length novels. Wordwick Games - All Full-length novels. Wicked Woods Series - COMPLETED. Consists of 5 full-length novels. Steampunk Scarlett - All Full-length novels. The Phantom Diaries - All Full-length novels. Last Book, DARK VICTORY - 2015. Stoker Sisters - All Full-length novels. Last Book, SISTER OF THE STRIGOIS - 2015.

Beyond Crystal River - 2015 NEW SERIES.

SHADES - 2015 NEW SERIES. This is a high concept psychological thriller.

***For 18 and up (New Adult/Coming of Age)***

Loving Summer - All full-length novels. The Donovan Brothers - All full-length novels. Saving You Saving Me (You & Me Trilogy)- COMPLETED. Consists of 3 Full-length novels. Never Knights - COMPLETED. Consists of 3 Full-length novels. Rock Hard Love Hard - 1st book, Rock Hard Love Hard is now Available.

Sawyer House Chronicles (Spin-off of You & Me Trilogy) - Coming in 2015 Canvas - Coming in 2015

***For 18 and up (Adult/Steamy Romance)***

The Protege - COMPLETED. 3 Full-length novels. Master Chefs - COMPLETED. Consists of 3 Full-length novels. The Blue Room (Spin-off of Never Knights Trilogy) - Romantic Suspense. Barely Legal (Spin-off of The Protégé) - Romantic Suspense. The Oyster House - Artistic Romantic Thriller set in Hong Kong and England. - Coming in 2015.

For information on the series, new series and new book releases, contests, appearances, KG-Convergences, and more, sign up at http://www.KailinGowBooks.com.

✯Pre-order blitz✯ Find Me In Manhattan by Shealy James

Book Title: Find Me in Manhattan

Author: Shealy James

Genre: New Adult Romance

Release Date: March 25, 2015

Hosted by: Book Enthusiast Promotions

NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER!

Find Me in Manhattan is a stand-alone spin-off novel from the Finding Series.

Sarah Grant is finally living her dream in the Big Apple. While working to achieve her life’s ambitions, she becomes ensnared by the charming and charismatic Jameson Charmichael. Just when Jameson threatens Sarah’s safety, a dream-worthy hero falls in her lap making her question everything she had ever believed about herself.

Sergeant Michael Pearson is merely existing in this nightmare he calls life. He is attempting to have a normal existence, while struggling to discover who he is after the army. When an opportunity to be save someone arises, he doesn’t hesitate. However, Michael doesn’t realize he is rescuing the one woman in a city of millions that can make him want to truly live again.

Sarah and Michael discover a connection that runs deep, but can they find love in a city known for heartbreak?

I was never much of a talker. Words weren’t my thing. I sucked at journaling during my therapy because writing wasn’t my thing. I couldn’t describe things the way other people could, so this was especially difficult to describe…the way Sarah made me feel. It was as much terrifying as it was gratifying. It was the first time I’d wanted something to last forever and feared it couldn’t last another second. She consumed me with that first kiss, so I kissed her again wanting nothing more than to be her everything.

Shealy James is the author of the Whole Life Series (Contemporary Romance) and Finding Series (New Adult Romance). As an avid reader turned writer, she enjoys combining comedy and emotional turmoil to reach the all important happy ever after.

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✯Blog Tour Review w/Giveaway✯ A Stone in the Sea(Bleeding Stars #1) by A.L. Jackson

Synopsis

He wanted nothing at all…

Until he found she had everything to give…

Sunder lead singer and guitarist Sebastian Stone has everything—fans, fame, and fortune. He also has a heart full of bitterness and a reputation for a short-fused temper. But an outward reputation rarely reveals the true man inside. Facing assault charges after trying to protect his younger brother, Sebastian is sent to Savannah, Georgia to lie low until the dust settles in L.A.

Shea Bentley is beautiful, kind, and hiding from the very lifestyle Sebastian has always embraced.

When the mysterious, tattooed stranger begins hanging out at the bar where she works, Shea is quick to recognize he is nothing but trouble, but she's helpless to the way her body lights up every time his intense gray eyes tangle with hers.

They both soon find themselves drowning in a sea of desire and passion that won’t let them up for air.

Sebastian knows firsthand secrets never die, and he’s not the only one who’s hiding them.

Loving someone always comes with a price. But will it be Shea’s past that costs them everything?

✯✯5 Rock Stars!!✯✯

There are very few authors who I'd love to get into their mind. To see how they come up with their stories. Maybe see what is coming next for my favorite characters. A.L. Jackson is one of the few! I loved every book of hers so far. A Stone in the Sea is no different. This book had everything. A.L. Jackson has a way of making you feel for her characters. Sebastian and Shea were no different.

Sebastian AKA Baz to his friends and family. The only people he cares about and loves are his younger brother and his band mates. They care about him just as much and they keep on proving it. Baz and the rest of his band known to the world as Sunder are in hiding. Baz got in trouble protecting his brother. Their lawyer advised them to law low until it gets figured out. The guys are staying behind Baz and they take off to work on songs for the next album.

Shea who is working at her uncles bar Charlies. Shea has a lot to loose. She keeps her family close and her secrets closer. The last thing she needs is a man to ruin everything. Then, this guy comes into the bar and her mind is all cloudy. He scares her and yet he's the most beautiful guy she's every seen.

Both Baz & Shea keep trying to fight this attraction they have keep feeling. Baz not knowing what the heck is going on. He's never had this kind of attraction to a woman before. Baz knows he must stay away from her because in his words he's no good for her. He will break her. Shea keeps telling herself she doesn't need distractions like Baz but every night he shows up she couldn't be happier.

When Baz & Shea finally give into temptation man oh man is it hot and totally worth the wait. Their chemistry is off the charts it unreal. They really were made for each other in more ways then one. Baz knows he must tell Shea who is really is. He can tell she's not like other girls. But, he really wants her to see him for Sebastian Stone. Not as Sebastian Stone from Sunder.

They both don't know to expect from this. ESP since Baz time there wasn't never permanent. But, these two can't stay away from each other. When all their secrets are out in the open will be enough to keep them together? Or will it destroy them and everyone one else they care about.

Man, I couldn't believe what I was reading. It was so good. I loved watching Shea breakdown her own walls. She has felt closed off for so long. ESP from men. Baz made her feel alive and that is was OK to love again. Baz has never loved anybody the way he loves Shea. For the first time he sees life outside of the fame and everything that Sunder has given him. But, after everything that's happened will they get their happily ever after? I sure hope so!!

Excerpt:

With a smile, I turned around, then froze when my sight registered the obscured figure leaning against the wall. A strangled gasp caught in my throat, and my heart took off at a sprint, blood pounding hard in my ears.

Pushing from the wall, he stepped from the shadows, his hands again stuffed deep in his pockets.

My heart rate only increased, the energy radiating from him almost as strong as the disappointment he’d left me with when he’d gone.

I pressed my hand to my chest to try to still the panic thundering against my ribs. “You scared me.”

“I’m sorry.” The words were soft. “That’s the last thing I want to do.”

But he did. I was scared of what he was capable of doing to me, the way I knew he held the power to trounce all over this hammering heart, to hold it in his hand and crush it into a million unrecognizable pieces.

“What are you doing here?” I asked on a shaky breath.

He looked to the sky and exhaled heavily, before he leveled his gaze back on me. “The same thing I’m doing every night, Shea. Thinking about you and wondering why the hell I can’t stop.”

My stomach flipped, and I gulped for air.

“What do you want from me?”

He laughed, lifted his elbows out to his sides in a helpless gesture without pulling his hands free. “Dinner?”

Nonsensical laughter shot from me. “At three in the morning?”

“Breakfast?” he amended, a coy smile pulling at his full, crooked lips.

Tingles spread across my skin, and I ran my hands up my bare arms. “I already told you I don’t have time for distractions.”

“Come on, Shea. It’s just food. Go out with me. Just tonight.”

Somehow I knew it was a lie, even though he wanted to believe it was true.

Nervously, I glanced to the back door all the while being inexplicably drawn to this man I didn’t even know. I knew I should make a break for it, run for the safety of my little world and give him no opportunity to rip it apart.

“I am hungry,” I found myself saying. After a long night of work, it was true. But it had nothing to do with the reason I was giving in.

Because I just wanted to…

I shook my head.

That was it. I just wanted. I wanted to be in his space. I wanted to understand why he had this pull on me. I wanted him.

Even though I’d never allow myself to have him.

About The Author:

A.L. Jackson is the New York Times bestselling author of Take This Regret and Lost to You, as well as other contemporary romance titles, including Come to Me Quietly, Come to Me Softly, Pulled, When We Collide, and If Forever Comes.

She first found a love for writing during her days as a young mother and college student. She filled the journals she carried with short stories and poems used as an emotional outlet for the difficulties and joys she found in day-to-day life.

Years later, she shared a short story she’d been working on with her two closest friends and, with their encouragement, this story became her first full length novel. A.L. now spends her days writing in Southern Arizona where she lives with her husband and three children. Her favorite pastime is spending time with the ones she loves.

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Wednesday, February 25, 2015

✯Review✯ Something Like Love (Something Like Normal #3) by Monica James

Book Info

Title: Something Like Love

Series: Something Like Normal, #3

Author: Monica James

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Publisher: Limitless Publishing

Release Date: February 3^rd, 2015

Blurb

The secret’s out...

Fate has never been kind to Mia Lee, but her misfortune has driven her to seek redemption from a past filled with regret.

Mia’s future depends on uncovering her past, but sadly, the answers lay with her mother, a mother who abandoned Mia when she was only a child.

Now that Mia has finally found her kin, she’s determined to get the answers she so desperately seeks.

But those answers come with a price…

Mia’s blossoming relationship with Quinn Berkeley is the sole reason she carries on. But Quinn has a secret of his own. Will his secret destroy the one stable foundation in Mia’s life? And more importantly, what will Quinn’s secret do to him once he confesses the sins of his past?

Life for Mia and Quinn is about to explode in a way she never thought possible…

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Amazon AU- http://bit.ly/15Xc9Na

5 HUGE Stars!!!
(Wish I could give it a billion!)
Holy crap! Words cannot express how I feel after reading this book.
I don't think my emotions have ever been on such a crazy ride as they were while reading this story. Hell, this entire series has been one hell of a trip, and after three books I feel as if we have only just begun.

There was such emotional intensity that I don't think I will ever be the same after having read this. Mia and Quinn really did a number on me. Something Like Love was a fast paced, action packed, intense roller coaster ride that will leave your head spinning, heart racing, and your mind needing MORE!

Picking up where Something Like Normal left off, Mia comes face to face with her mother who abandoned her at the age of three, and her bitchy sister she didn't even know she had. Mia is searching for answers to her past, but the more she learns, the more she wishes she hadn't.

Mia and Quinn's relationship steps it up in this book. Feelings are finally admitted and things are revealed to each other about their pasts.

"If I was going to overdose on something sweet, I would much rather eat you."

We FINALLY get to learn things which we were questioning about Quinn's past and you soon learn to realize that Quinn is more broken that you originally thought. I wanted so badly for Mia and Quinn to catch a break, but every dang time I thought they were finally having a bit of good luck BAM the shit just keeps pouring on them.

Quinn has seriously taken over my heart. He is such an incredible character. There is just so much to him that we learn, and have yet to learn. While I LOVE Jasper from Monica's I Surrender series, Quinn has definitely been giving him a run for his money. He seriously turned up his game in this book and honestly, if him and Mia don't get their happily ever after by the time this series is finished, I may quit reading altogether!!!!

"Hope to live. I hope to live, Red. With you. After this is over, I hope to live a boring life…with you."

And let us not forget about Phil and Mia's father. You think the story with them can't get any more screwed up???? Well, think again. My mind was completely and utterly blown when Mia's mother dropped a HUGE bomb regarding Mia's connection to Phil. I got chills, and NOT in a make your body feel good king of way.

Monica, please please PLEASEEEEEEE tell me book 4 will be releasing soon because I just cannot take the wait to know what happens next. This must be the worst cliffhanger yet in this series. GAHHHH!

Author Bio

Monica James spent her youth devouring the works of Anne Rice, William Shakespeare and Emily Dickinson.

When she is not writing, Monica is busy running her own business, but she always finds a balance between the two.

She enjoys writing honest, heartfelt and turbulent stories, hoping to leave an imprint on her readers, and her inspiration comes from every day life. She is an Amazon best selling author in the US, UK, Canada and Australia.

Monica James resides in Melbourne, Australia, with her wonderful family, and menagerie of animals.

She is slightly obsessed with cats, chucks and lip gloss, and secretly wishes she was a ninja on the weekends.

Author Links

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/authormonicajames

Twitter: https://twitter.com/monicajames81

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/MonicaJames

Website: http://monicajames81.blogspot.com.au

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Other Books in the Series

Buy Links for Something Like Normal (Book #1)