Friday, May 17, 2013

Cover Reveal+ Spotlight: Damaged 2 by H.M. Ward








Title: DAMAGED 2 (Damaged, #2)

Author: H.M. Ward

Expected release date: June 24, 2013

Genre: Romance

Age Group: New Adult

Cover reveal organized by: AToMR Tours




The steamy sequel to the New York Times bestselling New Adult novel DAMAGED by H.M. Ward.

Home isn't supposed to be dangerous, but for Sidney it is. Returning home means that she has to face her past. It's not just the man who hurt Sidney that makes it horrible, but the family that didn't believe her. They were dead to her, but now that her mom is really dying things seem different. It's a chance to set things right.

What Sidney doesn't realize is that she's dragging Peter into a collision course with his past. Peter must deal with the demons haunting him if he wants to move forward with Sidney. He's willing to give up everything for her, even wade deeper into his past life to help her move forward. But, Peter isn't sure if he can get over what happened to him in New York.


A little about the author
NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, DIGITAL BOOK WORLD, & USA TODAY Bestselling author H.M. Ward is a native New Yorker living in Texas. She loves purple, glitter, and Disney World. Her bestsellers include THE ARRANGEMENT series, SCANDALOUS, and DEMON KISSED.

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VBT Tour + Giveaway for Cream by Zenobia Renquist


Zenobia will be awarding 1 $25 Starbucks Gift card to a randomly drawn commenter during the tour, so be sure to leave a comment, so you can drink all the coffee you can!



  

She’s entered a world where blood, sex, and cash rules everything around her.

What do a four hundred-year-old vampire and a mid-level necromancer have in common? Money. Jeliyah needs it to pay off the people who trained her and Teaghan enjoys killing to get it. Together they hunt rogue vampires—assuming Teaghan can focus on something other than getting her in bed and Jeliyah doesn’t put a bullet in him first.

The uneasy partnership promises to be lucrative until Teaghan and Jeliyah get on the wrong side of a feud. Jeliyah is forced to use forbidden magic and finds herself bound to a man she should hate—but whom she can’t stop fantasizing about.

Every second they stay alive fuels a growing desire Jeliyah is unwilling to deny. Is it the magic? The danger? The only way to get the answers she craves is to outrun the enemy or kill them. She knows Teaghan’s preference but it’s Jeliyah who must put their mind-blowing sex aside and make the choice that will decide both their fates.


A little about Zenobia Renquist



Zenobia Renquist lives in her imagination. When not traveling through her fantasy worlds, she can be found in Hawaii living with her husband and two cats.

She is an Air Force brat turned Air Force wife, which means she’s accustomed to travel and does it whenever possible (so long as she doesn’t have to fly). Her favorite pastime is torturing her characters on their way to happily-ever-after for the enjoyment of her readers.

On the few occasions her muse flees the scene of the crime, Zenobia likes to read (comics, manga, and romance), go to the movies, play a few levels of whichever puzzle game has hijacked her interest or experiment with a new chain maille weave.

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Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Author Spotlight: Vivien Sparx





Her Master’s Kiss – Blog News Releases

           Finding a good author can be a challenge these days; there are so many e-books available to the kindle reader.

                   If you love reading erotic romance stories, with a distinctive BDSM twist, it’s even harder!
                But Vivien Sparx is one writer that should be on your list of must-buy writers!

          Sparx has an easy-to-read style, and writes wonderful descriptions. She has way with words that immerses her readers into each scene and the atmosphere of the moment, with just a few well-chosen sentences.
         Vivien Sparx is the author of the phenomenally successful, ‘Her Master’s Kiss’ series of stories. She has also written two other BDSM titles, and has a total of eight mainstream books now available from Amazon.

                          (She also has five very, very sexy erotica titles, also available through Amazon)

                Sparx writes erotic romance well; her characters are solid, and very real. They act and speak like real people, and their circumstances and emotions are ones we can all relate to.

                     The situations Sparx writes about deal mainly with submission and domination. She takes the stereotyped characters you might have yawned past in other stories and brings them alive with dramatic dialogue and intense sexual energy that comes right off the page.

          In less than a year, Vivien Sparx has become one of Amazon’s regular Top 100 erotic romance authors – and ‘Her Master’s Kiss’ has enjoyed almost six months in Amazon’s Top 500 List of bestselling books – that’s an amazing record, and a testament to the young Australian writer whose descriptive writing has been likened in quality and power to Stephen King by one blog writer!

              If this is your first introduction to Vivien Sparx, then downloading a copy of her mega-seller, ‘Her Master’s Kiss’ from Amazon is the ideal way to find out why so many thousands of new readers are discovering this writer’s talent every day.

Vivien Sparx –make sure she is on your ‘must-read’ list!
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Monday, May 6, 2013

Review: A Taste of You by Sorcha Grace






A Taste of You

Sorcha Grace


April 28, 2013









She didn’t know how hungry she was…Beautiful and talented Catherine Kelly is intent on starting over as a food photographer in Chicago. With her painful past buried over 2000 miles away, she’s focused on her career and is hungry for little else. Until she meets William Lambourne, a wealthy bachelor with arresting blue-grey eyes filled with enough tragedy to match her own. William urges Catherine to step out from behind her camera and fully taste all that life has to offer, stirring an appetite in her she never knew she possessed - and it’s one only he can satisfy.

He couldn’t wait to feed her…A gourmand who takes great pleasure in food and in women, William Lambourne is rich, powerful, and gorgeous -- and as talented in the kitchen as he is in the bedroom. Longing for a woman to truly savor, William finds his match in Catherine. From the moment he meets her, he is determined to discover the perfect recipe to unlock Cat’s resolve, awaken her senses, and make her his own.

Theirs is a meal worth savoring…William is as mysterious as he is passionate, but as Catherine begins to fall for the stormy-eyed billionaire, she knows she must reveal her own dark secrets. But first, William must win Cat’s heart to ensure their pasts don’t undo them.

Book 1 in The Epicurean series, A Taste of You will leave you ravenous for more of Cat and William’s story!

Review


A Taste of You follows in the same vein as Fifty Shades and Bared To You but with a slightly different twist.  A culinary twist.  If you love food and sex, than you’ll definitely love A Taste of You.
I was slightly annoyed to be reading the same theme over again after reading Bared To You and Fifty Shades, and countless other books with billionaire heroes and damaged heroines.   But what those authors did not put in their books was the sense of taste, and aside from the sense of touch, taste is the next highest sense that you have.
Sorcha Grace had me blown away by the sensual and erotic scenes that Catherine and William shared, but I was also stunned to realize I was actually enjoying the story.   It was filled with captivation, suspense, and delight.  I couldn’t wait to get to the last page to find out if theirs would truly be a happily ever after.
 This is Sorcha’s first in a delectable new series involving food and erotic delights.  And I really cannot wait for the second epicurean delight from this author.

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Cover Reveal + Giveaway: Blind Attraction by Eden Summers



Coming on May 28th, the first book in the Reckless Beat rock star series.






He can seduce with a single glance.

Peering down at a sea of fans, rock star, Mitchell Davies can’t deny the innocent beauty of a woman in the front row. He’ll stop at nothing to get to know her. When a public altercation leaves her weak and defenseless, he takes the opportunity to be her savior.

She’s been sheltered from the world.

Alana Shelton wants to spread her wings and experience life away from her restrictive upbringing. But she isn’t prepared for a gorgeous stranger to sweep her off her feet while at her most vulnerable.

Attraction will bring them together, but their pasts will try to tear them apart.
He wants to teach her how to trust, but she’ll show him how to love. In a glamorous world of rock-and-roll, only time will tell if they’re up for the challenge.

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Saturday, May 4, 2013

Review: Freed by Kenya Wright





Freed
Kenya Wright
April 19, 2013
Vampire King Series bk 3











Blood paints the Quiet King’s castle. Humans and vampires flee the city. War will come. The only questions are where and who will be on what side?


Brie, Samuel, and Ian return for the final installment of the Vampire King trilogy where all mysteries are solved and further secrets are revealed.


Excerpt


I closed the distance between us and pressed my dick against the curve of her succulent ass. “No. We can talk to Leeta through the door.”

“Get away from me.” She slipped away.

I seized her waist to stop her. “I’m so sorry.”

“You don’t get to touch me anymore.”

I held my growl in. The deep animal sound lodged in my throat. My fangs exploded out of my mouth, but luckily her back was still to me, so she couldn’t see.

She cracked the door open. “What’s wrong, Leeta?”

“You look better and you’re up,” Leeta said.

“What do you want?” I asked through clenched teeth. My dick begged to be closer to Brie, to have me rub the throbbing tip against her. I imagined kneeling down behind her, parting her buttocks with my hands, and licking that sweet cunt from behind. Hot flesh would surround my tongue. Her arousal would pour down around me and I’d lap it up along with that special bud between her thighs.

“Ian is our friend.” Brie shrugged. “If he says he was trapped in a room with dominas, I believe him.”

“But he’s demanding to see you.” Leeta’s voice rushed out in a strained tone.

“Ian? What about Ian?” Claws ripped through my fingertips.

“Did you not hear a word?” Brie glanced over her shoulder. Her gaze snapped to my hand as I caressed the head of my dick. When did I grab it? I don’t remember touching myself.

“I didn’t hear anything.” I released myself.

“Get sex off of your mind.”

The muscle in my jaw twitched. My groin heated. For an odd reason, the more she fought me, the more I yearned to fuck her.

“I’m fine.”

“Tell the guards to stop pointing their swords at Ian and let him into our room,” Brie said.

Part of me was thrilled she said our room. The other part plummeted into rage at the thought of Ian, another vampire king, so close to her.

Why did she want him inside here? Is she planning on trying to replace me or make me jealous? I’ll kill him right as he steps over the threshold. I’ll spray his blood all over the room. And then I’ll take her right there, on top of his body, so she will know never to push me too far.

“I don’t think that’s a good idea, Brie,” Leeta whispered.

Brie let out an exasperated breath. “Why not?”

“He’s carrying a dead woman in her hands. The corpse from the Quiet King’s bedroom.”

“His first queen.” Brie twisted her lips to the side. “Don’t worry about that. Let him in.”

The door closed. Brie turned to me and adjusted the sheet so it covered more of her. “Why do you have your claws out?”

Because you’re about to flaunt your lover in front of me.

I retracted the claws and stalked around her. My hooves banged against the floor. “Who is he to you, queen?”

Panic spread across her face, but she remained where she stood and formed her hands into fists. I picked a feisty one. She’ll never stand down, even when she’s supposed to. I’ll have to teach her.

“Ian is only Ian to me.” Her bottom lip quivered. “Nothing else. Why don’t you go into the bathroom and put a towel on or—”

Within seconds, I picked her up, slung her on the bed, and got on top of her. “And what will you do with him when I’m gone?”

A sharp point pierced my stomach. The bite of her dagger burned into my flesh. I cried in pain. When did she grab it? Where did it come from? She’s so fast now. She got to that dagger too quickly.


Review



               I just finished the last book in another series that I did not want to end.  Freed by Kenya Wright was passionately and intensely erotic (as you can probably see from the above excerpt).  Sometimes it went past the boundaries that I would have liked, but more on that later.

Kenya Wright started her Vampire King series with Escape, continued with Captured, and it ends with Freed.  In Freed we see Brie resurrected into a Blood Mage after Samuel’s mother killed her, Samuel  obviously went apeshit on anyone and everyone that conspired against them.  Now Brie has insurmountable powers, powers that make her lust for Samuel insane.  Lust that makes her need more than one king inside of her;  to make her cumming complete she needs Ian as well.  I was shocked…and a little turned off when Ian joined in Samuel and Brie’s need for each other.  It was one thing for him to watch every now and then, but it threw me for a loop when he joined in at Brie’s request and Samuel’s compliance.  And it probably only turned me off because Samuel was so insistent that no one touch his Queen, not even to shake hands.  And that total turn around for Ian although I knew it was coming still shocked me.

That being said, with the help of the enemy tribe, the Mage Samuel, Ian, and Brie were able to kill the Quiet King and restore peace to the land.  

There are a lot of surprises in store for the reader, one being Samuel’s transformation as well as Ian’s.
I was happy that I got to read one book after another in this series, that is really unheard of.  Most of the time you have to wait probably a year before you get to see what happens next with the characters you’ve invested your heart and soul in for 384 pages or so.  But with this series, I never forgot who grabbed my heart and why;  one of the beauties of self-publishing.

As I conclude my journey with Samuel and Brie, I can’t help but want to read more of Kenya Wright’s work.  I will be hoping it is just as passionate and sexually intense as the Vampire King books were.



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Friday, May 3, 2013

Review: Lord of Wicked Intentions by Lorraine Heath


Lord of Wicked Temptations

Lorraine Heath

Avon

April 30, 2013

Lost Lords of Pembrook Bk 3









Lord Rafe Easton may be of noble blood, but survival taught him to rely only on himself and to love no one. Yet when he sets his eyes on Miss Evelyn Chambers, and earl's illegitimate daughter, he is determined to have her, if only as his mistress.

After her father's death, Evelyn Chambers never imagined she would be sold to the highest bidder, yet circumstances give her little choice except to accept the lord's indecent proposal. Rafe is wealthy, as well as ruthless. Yet his coldness belies deep passion and deeper secrets. If she must be his, Evelyn intends to lay bare everything the Lord of Pembrook is hiding. But dark discoveries threaten to destroy them both until unexpected love guides the last lost lord home.

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The last book in The Lost Lords of Pembrook series by Lorraine Heath was in my opinion the best yet.  I think I connected with Rafe just for the simple fact that he was the youngest and that he felt abandoned by his older siblings.

    I don’t know if I liked Evelyn Chambers in the beginning when her father would not let her out of the house for the simple fact that she was born a bastard.  She was portrayed as far too innocent for my liking, and she progressed into a seasoned lady far too fast in my opinion but Rafe was her teacher so I guess she had to learn quickly.

   The passion and the sexual chemistry were just right for the couple and I so enjoyed the fact that the characters from the last two books in the series were featured as well in this last book.  I was delighted with the sex scenes over all; the sex in the beginning was highly erotic for the fact that there was no contact except where there had to be contact to consummate.   After the confessions of I love you’s from both parties, (full on contact was initiated) the sex was still very passionate.

   The suspense of the book I knew was not going to be very climatic, but it was still had you wondering if they were going to find Rafe in time.  I was mildly surprised that Heath had it go so far, usually the hero is rescued just in the nick of time.  But I think that is one of the last reasons why I liked Rafe’s story so much.
Rafe’s forgiveness of being left behind all those years ago is resolved in the final chapters when he is rescued but Sebastian’s inability to forgive himself for leaving his brothers behind when he was supposed to protect them will make your heart cry for him.

All in all, I thoroughly enjoyed Rafe’s story as I knew I would.


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