Jillian's Touch by Jax Jillian PROMO

Jillian's Touch

By Jax Jillian

Release Date: December 27th 2016

 Jillian's Touch takes readers on a journey with Nathan Long as he struggles to find Jillian, the mysterious woman who wrote him a love letter. After a near-fatal motorcycle accident, Nathan Long has received a second chance at turning his life around.  Battling depression since his parents were killed several years ago, Nathan feels lucky to be alive.  With the support of his friends, shrink, and a new girlfriend Stephanie, Nathan feels ready to move on from the suicidal thoughts and reckless behavior that was consuming his life.    But when he receives a letter from a woman named Jillian claiming to be the love of his life, Nathan's focus turns to finding out who she is, and if she is in fact real.     When Nathan finally finds Jillian, he learns that the circumstances surrounding their time together are beyond anything he could ever imagine. 

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Jax Jillian was born in Albuquerque, NM but before she turned a year old, her parents moved east to Harrisburg, PA where she was raised. After graduating high school in 1995, Jax attended La Salle University (1999, B.A., Communication), Temple University (2001, M.Ed, Sport & Recreation Administration), and Central Pennsylvania College (2005, A.A.S, Physical Therapist Assistant). She settled in Philadelphia, PA with her husband and son before she became a writer. Jax found a passion for motion pictures at a young age when she remembers “getting lost” in films, and that passion ultimately led her down the path to writing. she loves “getting lost” in her writing and particularly loves writing heartfelt love stories with a touch of tragedy which she believes is the key to truly reaching readers. Jax is the author of Larkin’s Letters and Ryan’s Letters, two contemporary romance novels that have seen early success from reviewers, with both averaging 4.8/5 stars on Amazon and Goodreads. She is currently writing her third novel and aspires to write a screenplay one day. When not writing, she works full time as a physical therapist assistant and as a mom to her three-year-old son.

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Phoebe Smith's Private Blog: A Romantic Comedy by Lynda Renham

Kindle Edition, 316 pages

Published November 10th 2016 by Raucous Publishing

Fashion conscious Phoebe Smith wants only one thing: a date for the works party in six weeks’ time. She embarks on a journey to find her man and keeps a private blog of all her disastrous encounters. But when her four-year-old nephew gets into her account, Phoebe’s problems only just begin. With Tinder calamities, a male escort and a pork pie addiction, Phoebe tackles her biggest problem: the just too irritating Harry Bloom. Come with Phoebe on her search for the perfect man and see who will accompany her to the party in this hilarious romantic comedy novel. 

My Thoughts…

Oh my… in true Lynda Renham style I was laughing out loud so many times while reading Phoebe Smith’s Private Blog.   Everything from the writings on the blog to the characters to the different locations Phoebe visits made me smile and laugh.      Phoebe starts a private blog which “brat face” manages to change to public while playing on her computer.    She tells her thoughts, her feelings, and her wishes on this blog much like you would a journal.    Then the whole world sees it.    It starts a motion again sexual harassment in the workplace, opens eyes to relationships, and points out some truths in family relationships.    

The friendships in this story really stuck with me.   Whether dealing with the loss of a boyfriend, dating a married man, becoming pregnant, or having a private blog go public these friends stuck together.    The cheered each other on, consoled them when things didn’t go their way, and pushed them to be all they could be all without ever expecting anything in return.     I loved their impromptu get-togethers, whether at Phoebe’s apartment or at a bar/restaurant.     Phoebe and her friends were TRUE BLUE friends.

The relationship between Harry and Phoebe was my favorite.     She hated him without giving him a chance because of what she read about him on the internet.       Yet, every time she ran into him she liked him more and more.      Their relationship was slow, never easy, and so enjoyable to the reader.      I liked how Harry persisted on helping Phoebe when she was in need, a car jump, a date, or a meal.      I was definitely hoping that Phoebe would open her eyes are realize that Harry was a good guy before he gave up on her.  

I definitely recommend picking up your own copy of Phoebe Smith’s Private Blog.   

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Saving Grace by Mignon Mykel PROMO POST

Date of Publication: December 19, 2016

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He calms me.
An unexpected long-distance friendship showed Gracelyn Dewey the ease of some relationships. Very few people could get past her walls and even then, fewer had the ability to see through her anxieties.
With him, she finds more—but circumstances wouldn't allow them to keep it. Instead, they find an easy friendship with one another.
Until it wasn't easy any more.
She grounds me.
In his line of work, Sawyer Meadows sees some gut wrenching things. He sees broken people, wounded people, fearful people. He loves his job, yet is losing a piece of himself in the mix.
But there was always her. Drawn to her quiet smile, he has always known she was meant to be something special to him.
A fact that became painfully evident when she found someone else to hold her.
Somewhere along the way, we lost it.
They are given one weekend together to fix their friendship.
The days can't go off without any hitches though. When her recent past and his career collide, they'll have to decide—is the distance enough to keep them apart? Or are they through letting everything else dictate their happiness?
She's my saving grace, and I plan on saving her in the process.

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Mignon Mykel is the author of the Prescott Family series, as well as the short-novella erotic romance series, O'Gallagher Nights. When not sitting at Starbucks writing whatever her characters tell her to, you can find her hiking in the mountains of her new home in Arizona.

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December
Sawyer
My brain hurt.
I was so fucking tired and my goddamned key wouldn't fit in the lock.
Cases like last night's were killer.
No pun intended.
A called in rape that turned into a missing person case which fucking unfortunately turned into a homicide. This job was going to kill me.
At the very least, it was going to kill my personality.
I finally managed to get my key in the lock and pushed through my apartment door. I dropped my backpack near the door and closed the door quietly behind me. Just because I was awake at ten on a weeknight didn't mean my neighbors were.
God, I needed a drink.
I toed off my shoes as I locked the deadbolt. When I turned, I tripped over the damn bag I put there.
"Fucking bag."
When I went to pick it up though, I was reminded of my sister.
Sydney was notorious for leaving her bag by the door—from childhood to, as far as I knew, now. I squeezed the bridge of my nose when I realized I never called her today. I called her every day, no matter what the day brought to my doorstep.
Even though I knew it was ten, I glanced at the clock, trying to figure out what she and her husband would be doing right now. It was nine in San Diego; my nephews and niece were likely already in bed. My brother-in-law was a professional hockey player, but I didn't know if he'd had a game tonight. If he did, the house would still be up. If he didn't…
Maybe they'd still be up. It was only nine.
I picked up my cell and decided to call their house phone. That way if they were out on a date or something, I wouldn't be bothering them.
As the phone rang in my ear, I picked up the television remote and pulled up the guide, trying to figure out if the Enforcers had a game tonight. I was about to hang up and just text my sister when the phone was answered.
"Hey, Soy."
Caleb.
So no game.
I turned off the television, now knowing that he hadn't played tonight and not needing the background noise to add to the stress going on in my brain. I needed quiet tonight.
"Hey, Caleb. No game?" Obviously I now knew this but sometimes making small talk with my brother-in-law was awkward. My very first impression of him hadn't been the best.
Nor had my second.
But he was a good guy in the end.
"Nah, no game. You looking for Syd? She's out."
"Shit," I mumbled.
"You forgot to call her today, didn't you?" Caleb was chuckling on the phone. Even he knew that I talked to my sister every day. When I first started doing it, after going to college, it was to keep in touch with her. Of our siblings, Sydney had always been my partner in crime. After a few years of daily calls, it became habit.
I sighed. "Yeah. Bad case."
"She's just out with Grace. You can call her cell."
Grace.
Now there was a name that had my bad mood melting away.
Not that she'd spoken to me in the last few months. Not after I pissed her off with my opinion of the douche bag she was seeing. With the exception of passing Sydney's youngest, Brielle, to Grace after she was born a few weeks back, I hadn't even seen the woman.
"I might do that," I replied. "I'm off tomorrow though so maybe I'll just video chat with you guys and the kids tomorrow. Will you guys be around?" My three-year old nephew, Brandon, got a kick out of Skype.
"Three-day weekend?"
One of the brighter spots to my job as a detective for special crimes in Salt Lake City was I worked what were called 9/17 shifts. I worked nine hours a day, for nine of ten weekdays. Of course, crimes didn't just stop at night, so that was when my eighteen hour shifts came into play, but thank God I wasn't on call this weekend. "Yeah."
"You want to come out here and keep Syd and the kids company? I leave in the morning for an east coast trip."
I thought about it. It wasn't like I had anything keeping me here for the weekend. I didn't have reports to file. My partner Troy took the time off to fuck his girl sideways to Monday, but I didn't have one of those either.
A girl.
I had a list of willing partners, but I hadn't been feeling any of them lately. I went through the motions to get her off, get me off, making sure we both found a satisfying release, but mine never quite got there.
Not to the point I knew I could get to, a point I'd gotten to once before.
And the one woman I wanted? The one I knew without a fucking doubt would do it for me? Well, I firmly shut that door and friend-zoned her years ago.
"I could probably do that." I nodded to myself as I looked around my bleak apartment. The job paid well, but there wasn't any reason for me to be in a larger place than what this one bed, one and a half bath apartment gave me. The couch pulled out to a bed if ever a friend or sibling decided to crash, which was rarer than a blue moon. The white walls were devoid of anything that would hint toward who I was.
That in and of itself probably spoke volumes.
I used to be this goofy guy, the guy cracking jokes left and right, but damn if this job didn't dim that sometimes. I needed to get away, and a long weekend with my sister and her kids would likely help.
…and maybe Grace would be around too.

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Alpha Undercover by Holly Eastman

Kindle Edition

Published December 1st 2016

The Big Bad Wolf himself has come to town...
Gage Wilson isn't the guy you call to borrow a cup of sugar. But when Hardy Gilbert asks for a favor, you don't say no. Now, Gage is putting his ex-military skills to use, going undercover in a corrupt town in Montana to expose the crime boss and his gang of thugs selling silver bullets to the highest bidder. Only problem, he's falling hard for the boss's daughter. 

Angie Cattaneo is sick of this life. It's taken everything from her and now, she's determined to hold her father accountable for everyone he has hurt and to find a way out on her own. Gage Wilson, criminal for hire, is only a temptation. A distraction that threatens to prolong her escape. But is he a temptation she can resist? Or is she doomed to a life of crime only to avoid her own heartbreak?

Gage isn't who she thinks. He's the biggest, baddest wolf she's ever seen--and he's come to clean house. Will Angie's heart be left intact when he's done? 

My Thoughts…

Oh my sexy shifters.       Gage goes undercover in a town full of shifters for the man who is selling silver bullets made to kill shifters.     What he doesn’t expect is to meet his mate.    Angie is used to set up Gage from the very beginning and they fall for each other.    

Alpha Undercover is fast and full of action and drama.      I was kept up turning the pages having to know how the story would end and if it would have a happy ending.    I had ideas on what would happen, where the story would lead and was always surprised by where Holly Eastman led her readers.      I am a reader that follows the path the author wants the reader to follow and I have never enjoyed doing so more than while reading Alpha Undercover.   

I definitely recommend picking up your own copy and become a fan of Holly Eastman just like I am.  

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C.A. Harms 2016 Yearbook! Day 1

This week we are hosting C.A. Harms 2016 Yearbook! Revisiting all the novels that she published this year. Day 1 we take a look back at Olivia's Ride and Trinity's Trust from her Sawyer Brothers Series and Rush from her Montgomery Men Series...

Title: Olivia's Ride

Series: Sawyer Brothers #4

 

Keeton Pearce hadn’t lived a life full of supportive, loving family…

In fact, it was just the opposite.

He had been on his own for so long he had no idea what it felt like to belong. He didn’t want to rehash the life he left behind, or even think about it. But the hate from his father followed him, slowly eating away at the life he had begun to build for himself.

Olivia Sawyer had been prepped on how to deal with the advances of those college men she would encounter…

After all, she had been surrounded by three alpha men who made sure she knew just how to handle herself. But when she met Keeton Pearce, all those words of warning flew right out the window.

For the first time she had nothing to say. She was caught up in those eyes and that dimple.

The Sawyer attitude no longer gave her the ability to be immune.

Neither of them counted on meeting each other. It was by chance, and no one expected that one moment would change their lives forever.

For the first time in his life, Keeton had hope.

He felt like he had found where he belonged.

But would he survive the interrogation of an overprotective father and the watchful eyes of Jackson and Noah?

Or would Keeton run for the hills, fearful of…

the Sawyer Brothers?

Title: Trinity's Trust

Series: Sawyer Brothers #5

Trinity Flores stumbled upon the Sawyer family when she needed it most. 

She was broken, lost, and looking for a new beginning. 

They gave her love that most dream of, unconditionally devoted to her well-being. 

The large, overbearing, protective, bullheaded Sawyer men vowed to keep her safe, and—of course—at times drove her crazy. 

When Chase Douglas came to town, he hadn’t expected to do anything other than help his ill grandmother. Then the new deputy caught sight of the shy, blonde-haired beauty and it was impossible not to want to know her more. But he had no idea the torment he was about to face, or the obstacles he would encounter from the Sawyer Brothers. 

They didn’t make it easy for him to win her heart. He had to prove himself first, and that just made him fight harder to prove he was the right man for her. 

Gaining Trinity’s trust was his number one goal. 

Because in Chase’s eyes, no one deserved the love of a devoted man more than the woman who captured his heart.

Title: Rush

Series: Montgomery Men #1

I was running from my husband, a man I thought I’d known. 

Running from the hell he had put me through. 

He’d nearly destroyed the woman I had once been and 

I would do whatever it took to regain my freedom. 

I would lie, and cheat. 

I would steal if it meant that I never had to go back there. 

I’d run and keep running… 

But there was one problem. I hadn’t planned for Ashton Montgomery. 

He was a distraction I couldn’t allow. Not if I wanted to stay safe. I had to remain distant, but he was relentless and had other ideas. 

I caved because I hadn’t thought it all through, not in detail. 

If I had I would’ve realized that you can only live in a fantasy world for so long before everything came crashing in around you. 

And those lives you’ve destroyed along the way, make you no better than the monster you were trying to break free from. 

How could I have been so careless? 

It wasn’t meant to turn out this way. 

But the Rush of my freedom took control and I forgot how important it was to keep the secret of who I had once been. 

And now I had nothing. 

Only the fear that the man I’d run from would find me again, and finish what he started. 

C.A. Harms is like any other addicted reader. She enjoys happy endings and HEA love stories. She hasn't always been a lover of Romance and had once been addicted to a good Mystery. Just recently she has taken on a new liking and now is a full blown Romance novel addict.

She lives in Illinois and enjoys spending time with her husband and two children. You will always find her with her kindle or paperback in hand as it is her favorite pass time.

Thank you for visiting us on Day 1 of C.A. Harms' Yearbook tour! Come back tomorrow where we revisit the Desired Affliction Series and Deceitful Choices!!

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VICTORIA By Daisy Goodwin

“Victoria is an absolutely captivating novel of youth, love, and the often painful transition from immaturity to adulthood. Daisy Goodwin breathes new life into Victoria's story, and does so with sensitivity, verve, and wit.”

–– Amanda Foreman, New York Times bestselling author of Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire and A World on Fire, and 2016 Chair of The Man Booker Prize

From the author of the acclaimed novels The American Heiress and The Fortune Hunter and the creator and writer of the forthcoming PBS/Masterpiece drama Victoria comes a brilliantly imagined and researched story of a young woman about to make her mark on her country—and the world:  VICTORIA (St. Martin’s Press, Nov. 22^nd, $26.99).

In 1837, less than a month after her eighteenth birthday, Alexandrina Victoria – sheltered, small in stature, and female – became Queen of Great Britain and Ireland. Many thought it was preposterous: Alexandrina — who took the name Victoria upon her ascension — had always been tightly controlled by her mother and her household, and was surely too unprepossessing to hold the throne. 

The men who run the country have doubts about whether this tiny teenager can be the ruler of the greatest nation in the world, and her mother and uncle have their own designs on who will hold the ruling power.  Yet from the moment William IV died, the young Queen startled everyone with her self-possession and innate grace: insisting, for the first time in her life, on sleeping in a room apart from her mother; resolute about meeting with her ministers alone.

The Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne, became Victoria’s private secretary. Perhaps he might have become more than that—though old enough to be her father, he is the first person to take her seriously. To him she is “every inch a queen.”   Everyone argued she was destined to marry her cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. But Victoria had met Albert as a child and found him stiff and critical: surely the last man she would want for a husband….

Drawing on Victoria’s diaries as well as her own brilliant gifts for history and drama, Daisy Goodwin brings the young queen even more richly to life in this magnificent novel.

My Thoughts…

Wow, who knew a history lesson could be so incredibly entertaining.      I fact checked a couple things in this book just to see how close to true history it was and it was spot on.   Yet, I did not feel like I was reading a history book.     Daisy Goodwin must have done an amazing amount of homework to be able to tell the story so true to Queen Victoria’s life.  If the miniseries that is going to be released in January 2017 is anything like Victoria, the book, I cannot wait to watch it.    

I knew nothing about Queen Victoria when I picked up my copy of Victoria by Daisy Goodwin so I had no idea what her history was or how the book would end.     I devoured her story.     The descriptions of the era, room, dresses, even hairstyles made the book play out as I read it.     With each description I read I could easily picture more and more of the life that the Queen was living.      The interactions with the other characters in the book were equally wonderful.     I enjoyed watching Victoria grow for a young girl who was unsure of what her reactions should be in situations to a strong Queen who was able to make her wishes known and they were followed without question.  

As I learned more and more about the history of the time I found myself wanting to know more about the other characters.     Victoria’s mother was interesting.   While I could not agree with the way she raised Victoria, I do believe that she loved her daughter and was trying to do what was right by her.     Lord Melbourne is someone that I would have loved to know more about.   His history and his future are questionable and I only hope he was able to find happiness again.       There are so many wonderful secondary characters that I would love to know more about.  

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More praise for VICTORIA and Daisy Goodwin:

“Highly recommended...Bestselling Goodwin always draws in fans.”

–Booklist on Victoria

“Ms. Goodwin writes deliciously.”

–Janet Maslin, The New York Times

“A shrewd, spirited historical romance with flavors of Edith Wharton, Daphne du Maurier, Jane Austen,Upstairs, Downstairs, and a dash of People magazine...Superior entertainment.”

–Kirkus Reviews (starred) on The American Heiress

“A luxurious indulgence...Goodwin writes with effortless grace, and her dialogue's subtle wit is delightful.”

–Booklist on The Fortune Hunter