Cover Reveal for Thorns at Sunrise by Janeen Ippolito

 

Thorns at Sunrise by Janeen Ippolito

Publication date: March 23rd 2023
Genres: Fairy Tales, Fantasy, Romance, Young Adult

Synopsis:

A young queen. Her imaginary friend. A kingdom on the verge of death.

She believes she’s crazy.

Queen Usilea has a secret–and he lives in her mind. Ever since she was six years old, her imaginary friend has been her closest companion, and her arranged marriage has been a great dread. When she learns her betrothed and the royal family have suddenly died, she feels obligated to attend the funeral in the foreign land of Absteph–and perhaps learn more behind their mysterious passing.

He only wants the truth.

Petar endures great pain to protect those he does not remember. His only solace is a shadowy woman who he loves–even though she denies that he exists. When a terrible tragedy occurs in his kingdom, that mysterious woman is his only hope of bringing justice to light. For the cage that imprisons him grows harsher every day, and he is losing the fight.

But there are thorns at sunrise.

Brought together on the barest thread of reality, Usilea and Petar must discover what really happened to the royal family. But Petar’s time is running out. Soon not even a Mender like Usilea will be able to save him.

This YA romance features a gender-swapped Sleeping Beauty in an original fantasy world on the brink of doom.

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/84263877-thorns-at-sunrise

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AUTHOR BIO:

Janeen Ippolito believes you should own your unique words—and make them awesome! She’s a multi-published author of bestselling fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. She’s also an experienced book editor and marketing strategist, plus the CEO of Uncommon Universes Press, a publishing company with award-winning books. She hosts the podcast Own Your Unique Words, which helps gutsy fiction authors grow their businesses without burning out. In her spare time, she helps her missionary husband with his youth swordfighting ministry, indulges her foodie ambitions, reads whatever books she feels like, and explores a slew of random hobbies. Her life goals include traveling to Antarctica and riding a camel while wearing a party hat. This extrovert loves to connect, so join her on social media or at janeenippolito.com

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Cover Reveal for Play by My Rules by Michelle Karise

 

Play By My Rules by Michelle Karise

Publication date: February 28th 2023
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance

Synopsis:

All I wanted was a cup of tea, but I got early morning shenanigans.
Stolen beverage order? 
Furious confrontation? 
Asked out by a thieving, sexy, tall drink of . . . 
It wasn’t the best start to my day, but it had to go up from there. Right?
Wrong.
It was my first day at my new job, and I wanted to make the best impression. I arrived at the office with minutes to spare, and who did I bump into again?
The gorgeous thief.
Harrison Cooper was the president of my company and my boss.
It was fine. Really. Resisting the heated flirtations and stormy kisses designed to bring me to my knees would be no problem.
Office romance? 
My past exposed? 
Shattered world? 
Now how do I pick up the pieces?

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/75368902-play-by-my-rules

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Apple Books: https://books.apple.com/us/book/id6445189615

AUTHOR BIO:

Michelle Karise is a type-A romance author of stories featuring black female leads and the men who love them. She spends her days organizing, planning, and executing corporate initiatives. When she’s done with her workday, she spends her evenings crafting titillating tales of infatuation, passion, and pleasure. Michelle makes her home in Missouri with her overprotective dog, Rooney.

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Release Blitz for In the Shadow of a Hoax by Maci Aurora with a GIVEAWAY

 

In the Shadow of a Hoax by Maci Aurora

(Fareview Fairytales, #2)
Publication date: January 24th 2023
Genres: Adult, Fantasy, Romance

 

Synopsis:

In the Kingdom of Kaloma, a woman is forced to rely on a man to “keep her” and is forbidden from maintaining anything of her own. It’s the law.

In the remote village of Sevens, at the northernmost point of the kingdom, there lives a family with four daughters and a son, toiling day in and day out together, hopeful a treaty with the boarding kingdom of Jast might change things.

When one daughter—at risk of being imprisoned for fighting back—hides away in the Whitling Woods. She stumbles upon a dying man and despite the risk to herself, chooses to save him. Only who he is has the power to change everything…

Tarley Fareview, idealistic and stubborn, does what she can to support herself in spite of an unjust Kaloma law. When she fights back after being attacked, she flees into the woods disguised as a boy. While in hiding, she discovers a dying man and must decide if she risks her life to save him. Unable to walk away, Tarley chooses to intervene and works to save the stranger, only little does she know that by doing so she’ll also risk the heart she promised herself she’d never give to anyone.

When the Crown Prince of Jast, Lachlan Nikolas—forced by the king to attend treaty negotiations with the kingdom of Kaloma in disguise—is attacked, his horse bolts, and they both careen over a cliff, falling to their deaths in a raging river below. Only, miracle of miracles, Lachlan doesn’t perish, and instead is given a second chance at life, but at a price. When he wakes, he’s not only been stripped of his clothes but also his identity. Saved by a strange woman—in a terrible disguise because she looks nothing like a boy—Lachlan must learn very quickly how to survive in a world where he isn’t a prince anymore and with zero skills other than his entitlement and his charm. Unsure who to trust, Lachlan must reinvent himself, learn how to survive, open his heart to discover the truth about worthiness, and discover what it means to sacrifice one’s self for true love.

 

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62695268-in-the-shadow-of-a-hoax

 

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AUTHOR BIO:

Romance author.

Lover of stories.

Maci Aurora has been writing stories since she was a child. When she was eleven, she fell in love with reading Sunfire Historical Romances about girls who made a difference in their lives and still fell in love. In high school, a friend introduced her to Lavyrle Spencer and Judith McNaught, and from there, her writing journey was cemented in telling stories about love. Having already published many novels (all of which are threaded with romance as upper YA and New Adult titles) under the pen name, CL Walters, Maci Aurora wanted to write stories that offered the same attention to story and characters but with additional steam. 

Maci writes in Hawaiʻi where she lives with her husband, their children, and their fur-babies. 

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Release Blitz for Rivals by Piper Lawson

 

Rivals by Piper Lawson is now live!

When the biggest rockstar in the world invited me into his home, there was one rule:
Don't touch his daughter.
For a kid from the wrong side of the tracks with no future, the offer should have been a dream come true.
Classy new digs.
A fancy prep school.
Someone who cares what happens to me.
Except for that rule.
The rich pricks at my new school worship me. I couldn't care less.
She's the one person who makes me feel worthwhile.
I want to save her from the turmoil eating up her picture-perfect world.
But she thinks I'm her rival: for her friends, her future, her father's love.
I should keep my distance.
Avoid rescuing her from the assholes in class.
Pretend I can't see in her bedroom window from the pool house.
There are only two obsessions in my life—music...and her.
All I have is my talent to set me free.
But my future will burn if I can't stay away.

Rivals is an epic, angsty romance featuring two people from opposite sides of the track forced together by a forbidden love that could cost them everything. For fans of high school, enemies to lovers, bully and rockstar romance.

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Narrated by: Teddy Hamilton & Rose Dioro

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Meet Piper

Piper Lawson is a Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author of smart and steamy romance.

She writes women who follow their dreams, best friends who know your dirty secrets and love you anyway, and complex heroes you'll fall hard for.

Piper lives in Canada with her tall and brilliant husband. She's a sucker for dark eyes, dark coffee, and dark chocolate.

Connect with Piper

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Cover Reveal for Love the Way You Lie by Gracie Graham

 

Love the Way You Lie by Gracie Graham

(Boys of Riverside, #1)
Publication date: February 17th 2023
Genres: Romance, Young Adult

Synopsis:

Torn between my best friend and the boy who makes my heart beat again, learning the truth might break me…

My entire life changed in an instant.

One violent moment took my mother and destroyed me.

And I can’t even remember it.

All I know is…it was my fault.

Now I’m entering senior year after hiding away from the world as long as I could.

The only distraction I have from the heavy weight of my scars is my best friend, Graham.

He’s been my rock through it all.

But when his cousin Atlas appears…my world suddenly tilts on its already unsteady axis.

Everyone warns me to stay away from the star football player with a bad boy reputation and a chip on his shoulder.

I should…

Yet from the moment I climb on the back of his motorcycle, sparks fly.

Despite all the reasons to keep him at a distance, my need for the truth about the accident drives us closer.

Until the truth destroys everything…

One-click this angsty and emotional YA small town, opposites attract, love triangle romance about two best friends and the broken boy who comes between them on the search for the truth that could change everyone’s world.

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/75332401-love-the-way-you-lie

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AUTHOR BIO:

Gracie Graham writes contemporary young adult novels and is the pen name for adult author Tia Souders.

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Book Review for Don't Open the Door by Allison Brennan

 Don't Open the Door by  Allison Brennan 

Genre:  Mystery Thriller

Publication: January 24th 2023 by MIRA

 

A child is shot while playing video games at home. His mother will stop at nothing to find out who did it—and why.

After their ten-year-old son, Chase, was senselessly murdered, Regan's life unraveled. Her corporate lawyer husband, Grant, blamed the death on Regan’s work as a US marshal. Unable to reconcile their grief, they divorced, and Regan quit her job and moved away.

Now she's back after a voice mail from her former boss Tommy said he had important news to share about Chase’s killing. Regan is stunned to learn Tommy is dead too. When she reaches out to Grant, his panicked reaction raises her suspicions. Then a lawyer with ties to her ex also turns up murdered, and the police make Grant their top suspect.

Unsure of his guilt or innocence, Regan risks everything to find Grant before the police do so she can finally get the answers to all that has haunted her since losing Chase. But the truth is not even close to what she imagines—and now she fears she has no one to trust. 

My Thoughts:  Allison Brennan knows how to write a thriller.  I devoured this book and could not wait to see what would be happening next.  The characters were realistic, with real issues and real feelings.  I really enjoyed the interactions between the characters and the history shared between the characters.  For some reason, I did not read the first book in the Regan Merritt Series, but I had no problem jumping right into this book and figuring out what was going on.   I am now going to go back and read the book.

Regan has lived a mother’s worse nightmare.   Her son, Chase, was murdered.   Her marriage did not survive the death.  The man, Tommy, who is investigating the reason Chase was killed has called her to say he has information for her.   I wanted Tommy to be her hero, to figure out why Chase had to die but unfortunately Tommy was killed before he could share what he knew.   Regan returns to Tommy’s home and finds out more than she thought.  The clues were there, the path was laid, and I walked (read) right down it.   I was sure I knew where the author was taking me, but I was not entirely correct. 

Don’t Open the Door has cemented Allison Brennan as a must-read author for me.  She is an auto purchase and recommend to everyone.  If you love a good thriller, she is the author for you.

 

Thank you Harlequin Trade Publishing and NetGalley for a copy of the book in exchange for my honest review.

 

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Meet Allison Brennan (taken from her website):  New York Times and USA
Today bestselling author Allison Brennan believes life is too short to be bored, so she had five children and writes three books a year. Reviewers have called her “a master of suspense” and RT Book Reviews said her books are “mesmerizing” and “complex.” She’s been nominated for multiple awards, including the Thriller, RWA’s Best Romantic Suspense (five times), and twice won the Daphne du Maurier award. She lives in Arizona with her family and assorted pets.

 

Release Blitz for Keep This Promise by Corinne Michaels

 

 

Keep This Promise by Corinne Michaels is now live!

 

I’m about to lose everything.

My home. My name. My future.

My husband was involved in something that could cost us our lives, and on his deathbed, he demands my daughter and I flee Britain.

I had no idea he found her biological father, Holden James, in Rose Canyon, and that’s where we’d start over.

The moment we see each other, feelings I’d long forgotten rush over me. Holden doesn’t hesitate to care for us. We find ourselves reaching for each other, even when we should hold back. His smile warms me, his arms protect me, and against my better judgment, I fall for him. All the possibilities of a future are threatened by a looming past.

I’m being hunted, and it’s just a matter of time before someone finds me guilty of crimes I didn’t commit. Whatever trouble my husband was involved in won’t evade me forever.

I am trying to keep my promise and stay for Holden, but I don’t know how long it’ll be before we have to run.

My name was Sophie Pearson, but I vanished, just like my hope to ever find love again.

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Narrated by: Zachary Webber & Mary Jane Wells

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Meet Corinne

Corinne Michaels is a New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of romance novels. Her stories are chock full of emotion, humor, and unrelenting love, and she enjoys putting her characters through intense heartbreak before finding a way to heal them through their struggles.

Corinne is a former Navy wife and happily married to the man of her dreams. She began her writing career after spending months away from her husband while he was deployed--reading and writing were her escapes from the loneliness. Corinne now lives in Virginia with her husband and is the emotional, witty, sarcastic, and fun-loving mom of two beautiful children.

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Blog Tour for Tattoo of Crimson by Sarah Chislon with a GIVEAWAY

 

Tattoo of Crimson by Sarah Chislon

(Blood of the Fae, #1)
Publication date: January 17th 2023
Genres: Adult, Fantasy, Mystery

Synopsis:

Society, suitors, and…serial murders?

As much as she desires to please her family, gently-bred herbalist Jessa Caldwell has no intention of making a suitable match—not when she’s seeking the truth about the taint of the fae that lies within her. If she’s to escape the madness brought on by fae-touch, she must devote her energies to seeking a cure.

But then mysterious tattoos begin to appear on the citizens of Avons. None recall receiving these harbingers of death, but all die at the hand of an untraceable killer days or weeks after being marked.

When the tattoo appears on her beloved mentor, Jessa seeks the Magistry with information on the case—yet they refuse to consider her findings, so she must risk both social censure and her own safety to hunt for the killer herself.

Her one possible ally represents her greatest fear—the encroaching Otherworld consuming her mind—and may well undo all her efforts to control her fae-touch. Yet if she forsakes the offered aid, the killer will go free.

Something sinister stalks the streets of her city, and she must decide…how far will she go to stop the killing?

Tattoo of Crimson, a gaslamp fantasy novel, is the first book in the Blood of the Fae series. If you like quick-minded heroines who solve cases with logic and intuition, beautiful yet deadly fae, and Otherworldly intrigues, then you’ll love this mystery set in a world of manners and mythical monsters.

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63216952-tattoo-of-crimson

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Tattoo of Crimson Playlist

Sarah Chislon

 

I love to listen to instrumental music while writing, and I have a playlist for each book. Here’s a selection of some of the songs that were on repeat while I wrote Tattoo of Crimson.

1.     Mystic Forest - Taylor Davis

2.     Butterflies and Hurricanes - William Joseph

3.     A New Journey - Taylor Davis

4.     The Fire Within - Jennifer Thomas

5.     Unsafe Haven - Simply Three

6.     The Wolf and the Moon - Aurora

7.     Into Darkness - Aurora

8.     Passion of Victory - Future World Music

AUTHOR BIO:

Sarah Chislon lives in Virginia with her husband and three daughters. When she’s not writing, she’s homeschooling her children and running a web development business with her husband. As an avid reader and a lifelong story-weaver, she delights in creating fantastic worlds and exploring them alongside her characters.

To find out more about her, visit sarahchislon.com.

Author links:
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Cover Reveal for The Scoundrel by Delta James

 

The Scoundrel by Delta James

(Club Southside, #1)
Publication date: February 17th 2023
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance

Synopsis:

Danger and desire go hand in hand…

Welcome to Club Southside. Cerberus has opened an office in Chicago over the Club. The team takes on the jobs no one else wants. They handle everything from protection, covert rescue operations, cyber-crime to reconnaissance and more. These men are driven and deadly, willing to do what is needed to complete their missions and to protect the women they love.

A fast-paced romantic suspense series of interconnected standalone books that will leave you on the edge of your seat.

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/68004108-the-scoundrel

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AUTHOR BIO:

As a USA Today bestselling romance author, Delta James aims to captivate readers with stories about complex,curvy heroines and the dominant alpha males who adore them. For Delta, romance is more than just a love story; it’s a journey with challenges and thrills along the way. 

After creating a second chapter for herself that was dramatically different than the first, Delta now resides in Florida where she relaxes on warm summer evenings with her loveable pack of basset hounds as they watch the birds, squirrels and lizards. When not crafting fast-paced tales, she enjoys horseback riding, walks on the beach, and white-water rafting. 

More about Delta, including a full list of her books and audiobooks, can be found at www.deltajames.com.

Her readers mean the world to her, and Delta tries to interact personally to as many messages as she can. If you’d like to chat or discuss books, you can find Delta on Instagram, Facebook, and in her private reader group https://www.facebook.com/groups/348982795738444.

If you’re looking for your next bingeable series, you can get a FREE story by joining her newsletter https://www.subscribepage.com/VIPlist22019.

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