tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70194889757509361102024-03-13T14:51:00.950-04:00High on BooksJasminehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10866849626951436909noreply@blogger.comBlogger158125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7019488975750936110.post-51002336300451452312014-04-25T08:38:00.003-04:002014-04-25T08:48:35.648-04:00[Review Tour - Review & Giveaway] Nash ~ Jay Crownover<br>
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<strong>Title: </strong>Nash (Marked Men #4)</div>
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<strong>Author:</strong> Jay Crownover</div>
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<strong>Genre:</strong> New Adult/ Coming of Age</div>
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<strong>Publication Date:</strong> April 29, 2014</div>
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<strong>Publisher:</strong> William Morrow Paperbacks, an imprint of HarperCollins</div>
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<b><i>Will their past determine their future?</i></b></div>
Saint Ford has worked hard to achieve her childhood dream of becoming of nurse. Focused on her work and devoted to her patients, there’s no room for love. She doesn’t need a guy making waves in her calm, serene life—especially when he’s the unforgettable hottie who nearly destroyed her in high school. Dark, brooding Nash Donovan might not remember her or the terrible pain he caused. But he turned her world upside down . . . and now he’s trying to do it again.<br>
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Saint has no idea that Nash isn’t the cocky player he once was. Uncovering a devastating family secret has rocked his world, and now he’s struggling to figure out his future. He can’t be distracted by the pretty nurse he seems to meet everywhere. Still, he can’t ignore the sparks that fly between them —or how she seems so desperate to get away from him. But the funny, sweet, and drop-dead gorgeous Saint is far too amazing to give up on—especially since she’s the only thing in his life that seems to make sense.</div>
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When Nash discovers the truth about their past, he realizes he may have lost her heart before he could even fight for it. Now, Saint has to decide: is Nash worth risking herself for all over again?</div>
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I'm supposed to share interesting details about myself so that my readers get to know me so here we go in no particular order: I'm an natural redhead even though I haven't seen my real hair color in years, I'm a big fan of tattoos and have a half sleeve on either arm and various other pieces all over the place, I've been in the bar industry since I was in college and it has always offered interesting insight into how men and women interact with each other, I have 3 dogs that are all crazy, I live in Colorado and love the snow, I love music and in all reality wish I could be a rock star not a writer or a bartender but I have zero talent so there is that. I love to write, love to read and all I'm interested in is a good story with interesting characters that make the reader feel something. Thanks for taking the time to check my stuff out...<br>
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<div>Let's start off with saying that I absolutely love this series. I think it is one of my favorite series ever, even if I have only read 2 of the books from this series, Rome and this one. </div><div><br></div><div>Nash is one of the most well written books ever unlike this review.:) It hooked me from the start and I wasn't able to put it down. I just love the characters even the side characters. I am also incredibly happy that this book is written in dual POV. Dual POVs just rock! It helps me connect with both the characters. </div><div><br></div><div>Let's talk about Saint. She is totally awkward, can't really connect with people, doesn't know how to talk to people, a nurse, kinda hates men ( because of her dad and her past with Nash) and she cries when having sex. In other words, I just love her. I really like people who are awkward around others cause personally I am the same. But I don't hate men, I like them! Especially the really hot ones.:) </div><div><br></div><div>So Saint is like, well, a saint. She is really kind to her patients and just incredibly good at her job. This is also seen during Rome. If I ever needed a nurse I want her to be it!</div><div><br></div><div>Now let's talk about Nash. Hot hot hot sexy and sweet Nash!!! Even if Nash looks like a really bad boy with all his tats he is one of the sweetest male I have ever read. He is probably in my top 3 book boyfriends. Even with everything going on with his dad he still had time for Saint making him the best boyfriend ever!!! Yes, I just want to wrap him up, hide him in my closet and keep him for myself.:) Seriously though, he is the sweetest ever!! </div><div><br></div><div>Let's just say that I love EVERYTHING about this book. So read it!! Darn it! READ IT!! LOVE IT!! </div><div><br></div><div><b>6 FREAKISHLY HOT TATTOOED MAN!</b></div><div><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-_omoOF2nyx8/U1pZn2KLUEI/AAAAAAAABm0/PJp8pifZco0/s640/blogger-image-1740573039.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-_omoOF2nyx8/U1pZn2KLUEI/AAAAAAAABm0/PJp8pifZco0/s640/blogger-image-1740573039.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-C-8T76F7DKc/U1pZmDIoFUI/AAAAAAAABms/YYPte8ZvigU/s640/blogger-image--1996425158.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-C-8T76F7DKc/U1pZmDIoFUI/AAAAAAAABms/YYPte8ZvigU/s640/blogger-image--1996425158.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-C2wG4z-u-FA/U1pZhR1GpDI/AAAAAAAABmc/DIHYdxj6Kio/s640/blogger-image--1772032845.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-C2wG4z-u-FA/U1pZhR1GpDI/AAAAAAAABmc/DIHYdxj6Kio/s640/blogger-image--1772032845.jpg"></a></div><br></div><br></b></div><div><br></div>
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Jasminehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10866849626951436909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7019488975750936110.post-18227440090272094252014-04-13T09:52:00.001-04:002014-04-25T08:21:49.294-04:00[Review] Desire ~ B.L. Wilde<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-UgAv_HCCbLI/U0qWfKkJH7I/AAAAAAAABl8/n4HWYhSwC5s/s640/blogger-image--795965898.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-UgAv_HCCbLI/U0qWfKkJH7I/AAAAAAAABl8/n4HWYhSwC5s/s640/blogger-image--795965898.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Jade has worked as a Seductor in a secret organization for five years now. Her main job? To earn the trust of her targets and secure the object or information her company was hired to steal—by any means necessary. She’s damn good at it, too. </span></p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">With five years left on her contract, she is handed an assignment that turns her world upside down.</span></p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline;">Oliver Kirkham is the attractive, young CEO of Kirkham Industries, a weapons manufacturing company, and is currently in possession of some very important blueprints—blueprints that could change the way war, as we know it, works. He’s extremely focused and doesn’t have time to date, at least until he comes to the rescue of a shy but v</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">ery alluring Jade Gibbs.</span></span></p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">What happens when one night of passion turns into more? Will Jade allow her feelings for Oliver to get in the way of her mission? Or will she do what she was hired to do and secure the steal?</span></p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline;">Goodread link; </span><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18488643-desire" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18488643-desire</a></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><b>Amazon Link: </b>http://www.amazon.com/Desire-Seductors-B-L-Wilde-ebook/dp/B00H0NPXDE/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1397396576&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=Seduced+b.l.+Wilde</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><b><i>Tif's Review</i></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This book was AMAZING. If you haven't read it yet, BUY IT NOW!!! I just cannot explain how good this book was. It was the perfect blend of everything!! Also, it had a lot of sexiness in it...what more could ya ask for?<br><br>I honestly don't know why this book isn't trending right now. It should be. Honestly, it's the next best thing to Tangled by Emma Chase. Oliver was just waaaaay too hot and sexy to be real and Jade is the perfect kick-ass heroine for this story.<br><br>The storyline flows smoothly throughout the whole book. You could really tell what Jade's intentions were at the beginning and how they eventually changed. I thought B.L. Wilde did a wonderful job on the first novel in this exciting series. I am now super stoked for the next book to come out!<br><br>If your reading something else, drop it and read this book instead. It is that good!!!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>5 PERFECT STARS </b></span><br style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-1UKakw3lTSk/U0qWg2ZdRgI/AAAAAAAABmE/kpMS2Qc4dX0/s640/blogger-image-328086539.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-1UKakw3lTSk/U0qWg2ZdRgI/AAAAAAAABmE/kpMS2Qc4dX0/s640/blogger-image-328086539.jpg"></a></b></div><b><br></b><p></p></div>Jasminehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10866849626951436909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7019488975750936110.post-72639410772311616822014-04-12T11:08:00.003-04:002014-04-14T09:49:36.510-04:00[Review] Play ~ Kylie Scott<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-s2Sh8W1NuUY/U0lRQ86HFJI/AAAAAAAABk0/AzVYdXl_z2k/s640/blogger-image--1728969177.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-s2Sh8W1NuUY/U0lRQ86HFJI/AAAAAAAABk0/AzVYdXl_z2k/s640/blogger-image--1728969177.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong>Kylie Scott returns with the highly anticipated follow-up to international bestseller <em>Lick.</em></strong></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mal Ericson, drummer for the world famous rock band Stage Dive, needs to clean up his image fast—at least for a little while. Having a good girl on his arm should do the job just fine. Mal doesn’t plan on this temporary fix becoming permanent, but he didn’t count on finding the one right girl. Anne Rollins never thought she’d ever meet the rock god who plastered her teenage bedroom walls—especially not under these circumstances. Anne has money problems. Big ones. But being paid to play the pretend girlfriend to a wild life-of-the-party drummer couldn’t end well. No matter how hot he is. Or could it?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Purchase link</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Amazon: </b></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">http://www.amazon.com/Play-Stage-Novel-Kylie-Scott-ebook/dp/B00H0V069M/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1397313811&sr=1-1&keywords=Play</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i>Tif's Review</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Play by Kylie Scott was such an easy and funny read. The first book, Lick, was great too but this one was just SUCH a fun read. Mal's humor made me crack up so many times. <br><br>This book was much lighter than the first book. It didn't have really deep tones to it but it still gave me a lot of angsty feels too. Though Mal and Anne's relationship started as a "fake" one, it progressed into something serious. I love how they made the progression from fake to real flawlessly. There was not too much drama when it came to that portion of the book. <br><br>You may think New Adult means no steam, but this book had a lot of that too! <br><br>I'll obviously give this book 5 stars. 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The Internet bubble has burst and Evan, a computer programmer, is fired with an email from his boss. The next day, his girlfriend dumps him, also via email. Afraid to check any more emails, Evan desperately seeks a rebound romance but the catastrophes that ensue go from bad to hilariously worse. <br><br>Fortunately, Evan meets Sammy -- someone whose legendary disasters with females eclipse even his own. To reverse their fortunes, they recruit their friends -- Trevor, Yi, and Carlos -- to form a group of five guys who take on Manhattan in pursuit of dates, sex, and adventure. <br><br>When Evan, a closet writer, falls desperately in love with a Hollywood starlet, he schemes to meet her by writing a novel that will sweep her off her feet. Sammy knows nothing about publishing but is confident of one thing: Evan's book should have the word "sex" in the title. <br><br>With musings about life, relationships, and human psychology, this quintessential New York story about the search for happiness follows five men on their comical paths to trouble, self-discovery, and love.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><b>Amazon link: </b>http://www.amazon.com/Sex-Title-Comedy-Dating-Romance-ebook/dp/B00G2JM0D8/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1397314760&sr=1-1&keywords=Sex+in+the+title</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i>Jasmine's Review</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">**Book provided by the author in exchange for an honest review**<br><br>Having the word "sex" in the title really does make people curious and want to read it. But just so you know there really wasn't that much sex in the book so the title kinda gives you the wrong thought. <br><br>It actually took me quite a long time to finish this book and there are reasons for that which I am about to tell you.<br>1. I was incredibly busy with school. School sucks!<br>2. There were really slow parts that made me reluctant to pick the book up again<br>3. The transition confuses me sometimes. Like I'm not sure if there was a flashback or if it is happening at the same time and sometimes I'm not sure which character's head I'm in. So yah, that sucks..<br><br>Maybe because of these reasons I didn't really find the humor a lot of people are talking about. But there are also some things that I really like.<br>1. The uniqueness of the book. You don't really find books with a plot like this. Personally I NEVER read a book quite like this. There is even one not so good looking guy which rarely happens.<br>2. It feels more like a biography ( btw, I hate biographies but this is different) because it feels so true to life, like these things can actually happen. And in this book, there is no certainty that they would end up with someone unlike almost every book out there where you are pretty sure who will end up with whom. So in other words this book shows reality and how life really works and not everyone gets an HEA.<br>3. Sometimes it gives you a new perspective in life. And there are seriously a lot of terms I would never have thought off like the SQ (Sexual Quotient). I can never think of something like that.<br><br>Overall, this book had a slow start but it came through in the end.:)<br><br><b>3.5 Stars</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-9dM1bIZ5gBE/U0lWzKIcNOI/AAAAAAAABlk/8T9yaFO-vTk/s640/blogger-image--1108572086.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-9dM1bIZ5gBE/U0lWzKIcNOI/AAAAAAAABlk/8T9yaFO-vTk/s640/blogger-image--1108572086.jpg"></a></div><br></b></span></div>Jasminehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10866849626951436909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7019488975750936110.post-70305145134746777802014-04-12T10:56:00.001-04:002014-04-12T11:08:07.878-04:00[Review] Pulled Beneath ~ Marni Mann<div><div class="separator" style="font-weight: bold; clear: both;"><a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-c9pLB5HSHCA/U0lTh_TPGtI/AAAAAAAABlA/53528T85dc8/s640/blogger-image-1872679052.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-c9pLB5HSHCA/U0lTh_TPGtI/AAAAAAAABlA/53528T85dc8/s640/blogger-image-1872679052.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="font-weight: bold; clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div id="ps-content" class="bucket" style="padding: 5px 0em;"><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em;"><span style="font-size: 17px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Book Description</span></h2><div id="bookmetadata" class="buying" style="font-weight: normal; padding: 0.25em 0em;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span id="pubdatelabel" class="byLinePipe">Publication Date:</span> <span id="pubdatevalue" style="font-weight: bold;">March 18, 2014</span></span></div><div class="content" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0em 25px;"><div id="outer_postBodyPS" style="overflow: hidden; z-index: 1; height: auto;"><div id="postBodyPS"><div style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">What happens when you uncover years of secrets and find out everything you thought to be true was a lie? <br><br>Drew Stevens finds her world turned upside down when her parents are brutally murdered. Soon after, she learns she inherited a property in Bar Harbor, Maine, from recently deceased grandparents that she believed had died when she was a baby. <br><br>Drew travels north to settle her grandparents' estate, but finds more questions than answers as the truth starts unraveling. What she didn't expect to find was Saint, whose reputation is as tumultuous as his past. But the very thing that brings them together is the same thing that keeps them emotionally caged.<br><br>With Saint's scars so deep and Drew's so fresh, can the pair heal from their painful wounds or will they be pulled beneath the darkness of their pasts?</span></div><div style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-weight: bold; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Amazon Link:</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; display: inline !important;"><div id="ps-content" class="bucket" style="padding: 5px 0em; display: inline !important;"><div class="content" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0em 25px; display: inline !important;"><div id="outer_postBodyPS" style="overflow: hidden; z-index: 1; height: auto; display: inline !important;"><div id="postBodyPS" style="display: inline !important; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">http://www.amazon.com/Pulled-Beneath-Marni-Mann-ebook/dp/B00IH8QAWY/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1397313982&sr=1-1&keywords=Pulled+Beneath</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><b><div><b><br></b></div>Tiff's Review</b><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">**ARC provided by the author in exchange for an honest review**</span><br style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This book is the perfect new adult story. Just the right amount of angst, romance, drama and (of course) sexiness. Reading it makes you want to live in Maine. <br><br>Drew, the protagonist of the story, travels to Maine after the horrific murder of her parents. She finds out that her grandparent's actually left their house to her in Bar Harbor. When she gets there, she meets Saint! <br><br>Saint is the "mysterious" guy in Bar Harbor. He lives on a boat and fishes for lobsters. He also has wicked tattoos and the perfect bod. What more could a girl ask for? <br><br>I have to say though, the beginning of the book was pretty slow. It kind of dragged for me there and I ALMOST gave up on it, but I'm tellin' ya it was all worth it in the end. </span><br style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>4 and a half angsty stars! </b></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-zdjeYwAp2To/U0lTluO2LBI/AAAAAAAABlI/vUVlvQ0U3hE/s640/blogger-image--1896373951.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-zdjeYwAp2To/U0lTluO2LBI/AAAAAAAABlI/vUVlvQ0U3hE/s640/blogger-image--1896373951.jpg"></a></div><br></b></span></div>Jasminehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10866849626951436909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7019488975750936110.post-48735931336069049772014-04-01T10:14:00.001-04:002014-04-01T10:14:36.365-04:00[Review] Twisted ~ Emma Chase<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-xD5BqTsXG-4/UzrJveTT4oI/AAAAAAAABhI/EQmbnjr15R0/s640/blogger-image-1275173760.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-xD5BqTsXG-4/UzrJveTT4oI/AAAAAAAABhI/EQmbnjr15R0/s640/blogger-image-1275173760.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div class="gmail_default" style="display: inline;"><b>Summary</b></div><br><br>Falling in love is easy. Staying in love is hard. In this heart-pounding follow-up to <i>Tangled</i> by <i>New York Times</i> bestseller Emma Chase, Kate reveals that there is trouble in paradise, when unexpected circumstances force her and Drew to "renegotiate" their relationship.<br><br>There are two kinds of people in the world. The ones who look first, and the ones who leap. I’ve always been more of a looker. Cautious. A planner. That changed after I met Drew Evans. He was so persistent. So sure of himself—and of me.<br><br>But not all love stories end happily ever after. Did you think Drew and I were going to ride off into the sunset? Join the club. Now I have to make a choice; the most important of my life. Drew already made his<b>—</b>in fact, he tried to decide for the both of us. But you know that’s just not my style. So I came back to Greenville, Ohio, alone. Well, sort of alone...<br><br>What I've come to realize is that old habits die hard, and sometimes you have to go back to where you began before you can move ahead.<div class="gmail_default" style="display: inline;"> <b><br><br><br><br>Buy Links<br><br><a href="http://books.simonandschuster.com/Twisted/Emma-Chase/The-Tangled-Series/9781476763620" target="_blank">Simon & Schuster</a></b><br><br><b>Amazon</b></div><b> </b><br><div class="gmail_default" style="display: inline;"><ul><li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Twisted-Tangled-Emma-Chase/dp/1476763623/ref=la_B00CWDV0MA_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1391631046&sr=1-2" target="_blank">Print</a></li></ul><ul><li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Twisted-Tangled-Emma-Chase-ebook/dp/B00EB9ZA24/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=1-2&qid=1391631046" target="_blank">eBook</a></li></ul><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="display: inline;"><b>Barnes & Noble</b></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><ul><li><div class="gmail_default" style="display: inline; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000"><a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/twisted-emma-chase/1116310538?ean=9781476763620&itm=1&usri=emma+chase" target="_blank">Print</a> </font></div></li><li><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; display: inline; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000"><a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/twisted-emma-chase/1116310538?ean=9781476763637&itm=1&usri=emma+chase" target="_blank" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Nook</a></font></div></li></ul><div class="gmail_default"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Chapters</b><br></span></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div class="gmail_default" style="display: inline;"><ul><li><a href="http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/twisted/9781476763620-item.html?ikwsec=Home&gcs_requestid=0CJDf79eotrwCFQL15wodumcAAA" target="_blank">Print</a></li></ul></div><div class="gmail_default" style="display: inline;"><br><div class="gmail_default" style="display: inline;"><b>IndieBound<br><br></b><ul><li><a href="http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781476763620" target="_blank">Print</a><br></li></ul></div><div class="gmail_default" style="display: inline;"><b>BAM<br><br></b><ul><li><a href="http://www.booksamillion.com/p/Twisted/Emma-Chase/9781476763620?id=5916453543635" target="_blank">Print</a></li></ul><ul><li><a href="http://www.booksamillion.com/p/Twisted/Emma-Chase/Q40057737?id=5916453543635" target="_blank">eBook</a><br></li></ul><b><br></b></div><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/twisted/id683814651?mt=11" target="_blank"><b>iTunes</b></a></div><br><br><br><br><b><br></b><div class="gmail_default" style="display: inline;"><b>Emma's Social Media</b></div><br><br><div class="gmail_default" style="display: inline;"><a href="http://twitter.com/emmachse" target="_blank">Twitter</a></div> <br><div class="gmail_default" style="display: inline;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Emma-Chase/203871846413267" target="_blank">Facebook</a></div><br><div class="gmail_default" style="display: inline;"><a href="http://www.emmachase.net/" target="_blank">Website</a></div><br><div class="gmail_default" style="display: inline;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17977710-twisted" target="_blank">Goodreads</a></div> <br><br><br></span><div class="gmail_default" style="display: inline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Bio</b><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-6cpvjY1jqLI/UzrJyOY5idI/AAAAAAAABhY/RPZEHQoYkSw/s640/blogger-image-1921686175.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-6cpvjY1jqLI/UzrJyOY5idI/AAAAAAAABhY/RPZEHQoYkSw/s640/blogger-image-1921686175.jpg"></a></div><br>By day, Emma Chase is a devoted wife and mother of two who resides in a small, rural town in New Jersey. By night she is a keyboard crusader, toiling away the hours to bring her colorful characters and their endless antics to life. She has a long standing love/hate relationship with caffeine. <br><br>Emma is an avid reader. Before her children were born she was known to consume whole books in a single day. Writing has also always been a passion and with the 2013 release of her debut romantic comedy, Tangled, the ability to now call herself an author is nothing less than a dream come true. </span><br></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="gmail_default" style="display: inline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><b><i>Jasmine's Review</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">I don't care what other people say. I still love this book! Not as much as the first though. The first one was soooo much better. But this is good too just not Emma's best.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">It's still funny, even if it was less than the first book. But I cried a lot more in this book so YEY, I felt something! It's heartbreaking what they had to go through because of a stupid misunderstanding.I hate that this had to happen to them but things have to happen. Sucks! But I still think it's not as bad as other say it is, but it's just my opinion.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Overall, I prefer Drew's POV, Tangled. It might have something to do with the fact that I'm a girl and I like reading male POVs to figure out how guys think, and Drew is way funnier.</span></div><div class="separator" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div class="separator" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">4 Broken Hearts</span></div><div style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-Bvu-T8M4eAs/UzrJw9i4q1I/AAAAAAAABhQ/cvUtvqVFzBA/s640/blogger-image--292204074.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-Bvu-T8M4eAs/UzrJw9i4q1I/AAAAAAAABhQ/cvUtvqVFzBA/s640/blogger-image--292204074.jpg"></a></div><br></div></div>Jasminehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10866849626951436909noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7019488975750936110.post-1160671924595802552014-03-29T08:00:00.000-04:002014-03-29T11:42:54.202-04:00[Blog Tour - Dream Cast, Excerpt, & Giveaway] Flawed Perfection ~
Cassandra Giovanni<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-d5I4uGnILXQ/Uzbp6LWgt7I/AAAAAAAABgo/wDGy5_IyZtA/s640/blogger-image-1546052578.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-d5I4uGnILXQ/Uzbp6LWgt7I/AAAAAAAABgo/wDGy5_IyZtA/s640/blogger-image-1546052578.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-gF0Cd34b0gk/Uzbp8IYzx3I/AAAAAAAABgw/nOvKkwhSbsA/s640/blogger-image-259489248.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-gF0Cd34b0gk/Uzbp8IYzx3I/AAAAAAAABgw/nOvKkwhSbsA/s640/blogger-image-259489248.jpg"></a></div><br></div><br></div><br><p></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2"><br></span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">Bobby Beckerson was the American All-Star hockey player--he was the spitting image of perfection to his family. Goofy, sweet and undeniably gorgeous, he had everything but the one girl he wanted: River Ahlers.</span><span class="s2"><br></span><span class="s2">River Ahlers is successful in everything but love. She's been in love with Adam Beckerson since they were kids. Worst of all she's stuck right in the middle of the brother's dueling over everything and anything, and she doesn't even know she's the ultimate prize.</span><span class="s2"><br></span><span class="s2">Adam Beckerson was a boy with a guitar, a smile that sunk girl's hearts and a stone wall around his own. He was anything but perfect, and no matter how hard he tried he was nothing compared to Bobby. Sweet, damaged, with boyish good-looks, nobody thought Adam loved anyone but himself.</span><span class="s2"><br></span><span class="s2">Bobby loved River, River loved Adam and Adam only loved himself--or so everyone thought. Then one night everything changes, and as it threatens to destroy everyone involved a tragedy strikes that will break them all...</span><span class="s2"><br></span><span class="s3" style="font-weight: bold;">GENRE: New Adult Contemporary Romance</span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3" style="font-weight: bold;"><br></span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img src="x-apple-ql-id://71523943-F344-4016-B307-194D48547BA2/x-apple-ql-magic/40109AC8-F1FB-4EB5-99A5-BC1E492EDA9D.jpg" class="s4" style="width: 360px; height: 70px;"></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: start;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-xo40P41tmWQ/Uzbp4tr7pLI/AAAAAAAABgg/u1ox1T57IEI/s640/blogger-image--683477098.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-xo40P41tmWQ/Uzbp4tr7pLI/AAAAAAAABgg/u1ox1T57IEI/s640/blogger-image--683477098.jpg"></a></div><br><p></p><p class="s5" style="text-align: start; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Paperback and Ebook</b><br>Amazon:http://<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Flawed-Perfection-Beautifully-Cassandra-Giovanni-ebook/dp/B00IU3SHP4/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1394154571&amp;sr=8-6&amp;keywords=cassandra+giovanni" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0">www.amazon.com/Flawed-Perfection-Beautifully-Cassandra-Giovanni-ebook/dp/B00IU3SHP4/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1394154571&amp;sr=8-6&amp;keywords=cassandra+giovanni</a><br>Barnes &amp; Noble:http://<a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/flawed-perfection-mrs-cassandra-l-giovanni/1118872924?ean=9781494263959" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1">www.barnesandnoble.com/w/flawed-perfection-mrs-cassandra-l-giovanni/1118872924?ean=9781494263959</a><br><br><b>Ebook Only</b><br>Kobo:http://<a href="http://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/books/flawed-perfection-1/KZK330SzsEiy1ag070_5vg?MixID=KZK330SzsEiy1ag070_5vg&amp;PageNumber=1" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="2">store.kobobooks.com/en-us/books/flawed-perfection-1/KZK330SzsEiy1ag070_5vg?MixID=KZK330SzsEiy1ag070_5vg&amp;PageNumber=1</a><br>Google Play:https://<a href="http://play.google.com/store/books/details/Cassandra_Giovanni_Flawed_Perfection?id=Ptj4AgAAQBAJ" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="3">play.google.com/store/books/details/Cassandra_Giovanni_Flawed_Perfection?id=Ptj4AgAAQBAJ</a><br><br><b>Author Direct</b><br>Signed Paperback : <a href="http://www.cgiovanniauthor.com/store" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="4">www.cgiovanniauthor.com/store</a></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img src="x-apple-ql-id://A498175C-4A4B-4461-AC6A-AA3422C1D866/x-apple-ql-magic/2E4819B6-A091-443D-95FC-A18FD1247155.jpg" class="s6" style="width: 426px; height: 65px;"></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-jV0m2xSAN9k/Uzbp-rs7edI/AAAAAAAABg4/p9kQnEWmYmo/s640/blogger-image-92308280.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-jV0m2xSAN9k/Uzbp-rs7edI/AAAAAAAABg4/p9kQnEWmYmo/s640/blogger-image-92308280.jpg"></a></div><br><p></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">Cassandra doesn't remember a time when she wasn't writing. In fact, the first time she was published was when she was seven years old and won a contest to be published in an American Girl Doll novel. Since then Cassandra has written more novels than she can count and put just as many in the circular bin. Her personal goal with her writing is to show the reader the character's stories through their dialogue and actions instead of just telling the reader what is happening. In 2012 she became a published Young Adult author, releasing </span><span class="s7" style="font-style: italic;">In Between Seasons (The Fall, #1)</span><span class="s2"> and the Amazon bestselling thriller, </span><span class="s7" style="font-style: italic;">Walking</span><span class="s7" style="font-style: italic;"> in the Shadows. </span><span class="s2">In 2013 she branched out by using her artistic illustrating talents to publish her first Children's novel, </span><span class="s7" style="font-style: italic;">The Adventures of Skippy Von Flippy: Tales of Friendship (Skippy Tales, #1).</span><span class="s2"> Cassandra released her first New Adult novel, </span><span class="s7" style="font-style: italic;">Love Exactly</span><span class="s2">, which became an Amazon Bestseller </span><span class="s2">overnight in June of 2013. She's currently working on her new </span><span class="s2">New</span><span class="s2"> Adult Contemporary Romance, </span><span class="s7" style="font-style: italic;">Beautifully Flawed</span><span class="s2">. The first novel in the series, </span><span class="s7" style="font-style: italic;">Flawed Perfection </span><span class="s2">is scheduled to be published on March 7, 2014.</span><span class="s2"><br></span><span class="s2"><br></span><span class="s2">Besides being a writer, Cassandra is a professional photographer known for her automotive, nature and architectural shots. She is the owner of </span><a href="http://giodesignstudios.wordpress.com/"><span class="s8" style="font-weight: bold;">Gio Design Studios Photography</span></a><span class="s3" style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span class="s2">and </span><a href="http://gdsmarketing.wordpress.com/"><span class="s8" style="font-weight: bold;">Gio Design Studios Publication Marketing</span></a><span class="s3" style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span class="s2">. She is currently studying to receive a degree in Marketing. Cassandra is happily married to the man of her dreams and they live in the rolling hills of New England with the other loves of her life their dogs, </span><span class="s2">Bubski</span><span class="s2"> and Kanga.</span></span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: start;">Facebook: </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/cassiegiovanni" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0" style="text-align: start;">www.facebook.com/cassiegiovanni</a><br style="text-align: start;"><span style="text-align: start;">Twitter: @cgiovanniauthor</span><br style="text-align: start;"><span style="text-align: start;">Website: </span><a href="http://www.cgiovanniauthor.com/" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1" style="text-align: start;">www.cgiovanniauthor.com</a><br style="text-align: start;"><span style="text-align: start;">Goodreads:</span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6094287.Cassandra_Giovanni" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="2" style="text-align: start;">https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6094287.Cassandra_Giovanni</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It was painful to watch and hear him singing that song; to know that was how he felt in this very moment. That was how he felt so many times over.</span></p><p class="s4" style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3">A break came in the singing and he looked away from me and down to the strings as he slapped them with his thumb. I knew he didn’t need to look away. He knew the song by heart, and his voice came again, clear, strong— angry. Just like the singer from the band, he dragged out the </span><span class="s5" style="font-style: italic;">alone</span><span class="s3"> until it ended in a growling scream.</span></span></p><p class="s4" style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">His shoulders collapsed under the pressure of the words, and his knuckles turned white from holding the guitar neck too hard. I knew he was crying.</span></p><p class="s4" style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I stood slowly and pulled his head to my stomach, running my hands through his hair to comfort him.</span></p><p class="s4" style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He didn’t respond to my touch at first, but then as I continued to run my hands through his hair, he caved, wrapping his arms around my waist as his back wracked with a silent sob.</span></p><p class="s4" style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I’ll never be enough, River, never enough for them,” he finally whispered, his voice cracking.</span></p><p class="s4" style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He pulled away from me with one arm still around my waist, fingers tangled in my back belt loop while the other wiped his face.</span></p><p class="s4" style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Why do you always try to be enough for them?” I asked. He was more than enough for them, but they were too blind to see it.</span></p><p class="s4" style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He shook his head as his chest rose with a deep breath before his red eyes met mine.</span></p><p class="s4" style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Don’t you always try to be the enough for someone else?” he whispered back.</span></p><p class="s4" style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The truth in his words silenced me. I’d always tried to be enough for them too—to prove I could be enough for him. It just never seemed to work.</span></p><p class="s4" style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I don’t know what you mean,” I finally responded.</span></p><p class="s4" style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">His eyes fluttered as his tongue ran over his parched lips. He stood, free hand moving the bass guitar behind him, one arm still around me.</span></p><p class="s4" style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He let his fingers run up my arms as he leaned his lips to my ear.</span></p><p class="s4" style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“You’ll always be too good for me,” he whispered, sending an electric shock up my spine. He knew. 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<br>Jasminehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10866849626951436909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7019488975750936110.post-69093627951051298422014-03-27T07:34:00.001-04:002014-03-27T07:34:33.525-04:00[Release Blitz] Play (Stage Dive, #2) ~ Kylie Scott<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: black;">Title: <em>Play (Stage Dive, #2) </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Mal Ericson, drummer for the world famous rock band Stage Dive, needs to clean up his image fast—at least for a little while. Having a good girl on his arm should do the job just fine. Mal doesn’t plan on this temporary fix becoming permanent, but he didn’t count on finding the one right girl. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Anne Rollins never thought she’d ever meet the rock god who plastered her teenage bedroom walls—especially not under these circumstances. Anne has money problems. Big ones. But being paid to play the pretend girlfriend to a wild life-of-the-party drummer couldn’t end well. No matter how hot he is. Or could it?</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Lick (Stage Dive, #1)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.31999969482422px; text-align: left;">No one would suspect shy Lily Calloway’s biggest secret. While everyone is dancing at college bars, Lily stays in the bathroom. To get laid. Her compulsion leads her to one-night stands, steamy hookups and events she shamefully regrets. The only person who knows her secret happens to have one of his own.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.31999969482422px; text-align: left;">Loren Hale’s best friend is his bottle of bourbon. Lily comes at a close second. For three years, they’ve pretended to be in a real relationship, hiding their addictions from their families. They’ve mastered the art of concealing flasks and random guys that filter in and out of their apartment.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.31999969482422px; text-align: left;">But as they sink beneath the weight of their addictions, they cling harder to their destructive relationship and wonder if a life together, for real, is better than a lie. Strangers and family begin to infiltrate their guarded lives, and with new challenges, they realize they may not just be addicted to alcohol and sex.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px;">“Our selfishness wedges between us. Neither of us is willing to give up what we love for each other. Not yet. And I’m not sure what it’s going to take to let go of our addictions.” - Addicted To You. *whooosh* me being blown away by the truth in there.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px;">Addicted To You by Krista & Becca Ritchie is not just a love story. It is a story of addiction and personal demons. It is a story of family and how much we hurt those we love. Because Addicted To You shows important lessons we romantics need to learn: sometimes love is not enough.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px;">He's addicted to alcohol.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px;">She's addicted to sex.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px;">They are self destructive, a bomb just ticking. But bombs will always have collateral damage. As much as you try to blow up alone, someone's bound to get hurt. This novel is a full display of that.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px;">“Our love should have mended all the pain and the hurt. Instead, we’re met with more complications, more consequences, more frowns and furrowed brows.” ~ Addicted To You</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px;">Lily has a problem. Sex is her constant - and always will be. Her life is made up of a string of forgettable one night stands. But her best friend Lo pushes her, forces her to see that HE is there. Their "relationship" doesn't have to be fake.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px;">Loren "Lo" Hale has a problem. Alcohol is the only thing he could depend on. It is his crutch, his lover, his friend. He has the worst temper and could say such hurtful words. But the only person Lo could really love is Lily.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px;">What I loved about this book is its cynicism and evasion. Lily and Lo hated the world and lived in their own bubble. They hated each other's addictions but had to deal with it. They were broken and lost in their addictions. A typical love story would be them getting together, then POOF, bye bye demons. But it wasn't like that.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px;"> It made it harder.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px;">They didn't WANT to change or give up what they had. Their love for each other wasn't enough because they didn't love themselves. It took self acceptance, love for themselves, and reality to really change. This was a heartfelt book that didn't make the effort to sugarcoat the hardships with addiction.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px;">There were a few editing issues though. Just a few. The following are some of the problems I've found:</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px;">-Discrete vs discrete</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px;">-Taught vs taut (this seems to be really common among authors)</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px;">-Lauren vs Loren (weird, since this is the main character's name)</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px;">-People, persons</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px;">I know, I'm being so picky. It's just a bit bothering, so it's a personal thing. Read it though. The quality of this NA book surpassed my expectations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white;">FULL NAME: Leonardo James Maddox III</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: white;">AGE: 21</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: white;">NATIONALITY: American, of Irish descent </span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: white;">GENDER: male</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: white;">WEIGHT: 180</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: white;">HEIGHT: 6'1"</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: white;">EYE COLOR: steel blue</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: white;">DISTINGUISHING FEATURES: Tattoos (most notable angel-wings spanning his shoulders) and his impeccable taste in fashion</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: white;">HAIR COLOR: black</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: white;">HAIR STYLE: thick, shorter on sides, longer on top</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: white;">COMPLEXION: fair </span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: white;">CURRENT RESIDENCE: New York City</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: white;">OCCUPATION: Heir to the Maddox Hotel Corporation </span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: white;">HOMETOWN: New York City, NY & Blue Creek, VA</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: white;">PARENTS: Leonardo Maddox Jr. (Father) </span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: white;">SIBLINGS: None</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: white;">HOBBIES/PAST TIMES: baseball, fashion, skiing, sailing, traveling, drinking</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: white;">TALENTS: golfing</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: white;">FAVORITE TYPE OF MUSIC: country (believe it or not)</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: white;">FAVORITE TYPE OF FOOD: Steak, lobster, anything cooked by Reed Ryder himself</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">AGE: 21</span><br /><span style="color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">NATIONALITY: American</span><br /><span style="color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">GENDER: female</span><br /><span style="color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">WEIGHT: 105</span><br /><span style="color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">HEIGHT: 5'0"</span><br /><span style="color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">EYE COLOR: gray</span><br /><span style="color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">DISTINGUISHING FEATURES: changing hair color, snarky attitude</span><br /><span style="color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">HAIR COLOR: ? (Natural hair color: blonde)</span><br /><span style="color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">HAIR STYLE: long, natural wave</span><br /><span style="color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">COMPLEXION: fair </span><br /><span style="color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">CURRENT RESIDENCE: Blue Creek, Virginia</span><br /><span style="color: #181818; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">OCCUPATION: Student, </span><span style="line-height: 17.98611068725586px;">Virginia</span><span style="line-height: 18px;"> Tech</span></span><br /><span style="color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">HOMETOWN: Blue Creek, VA</span><br /><span style="color: #181818; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">PARENTS: Reed Ryder (Father), Carol Ryder (Mother, </span><span style="line-height: 17.98611068725586px;">deceased</span><span style="line-height: 18px;">)</span></span><br /><span style="color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">SIBLINGS: Maggie Ryder (identical twin)</span><br /><span style="color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">HOBBIES/PAST TIMES: partying, golfing, hanging out with her BFF Steph Mallory</span><br /><span style="color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">TALENTS: golfing</span><br /><span style="color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">FAVORITE TYPE OF MUSIC: Country</span><br /><span style="color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">FAVORITE TYPE OF FOOD: Steak, lobster, anything delicious!</span><br /><span style="color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">FAVORITE TYPES OF DRINKS: whatever, she's a college student on a budget</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 18px;">FULL NAME: Maggie May Ryder</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="color: #181818; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 18px;">AGE: 21</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="color: #181818; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 18px;">NATIONALITY: American</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="color: #181818; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 18px;">GENDER: female</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="color: #181818; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 18px;">WEIGHT: 115</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="color: #181818; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 18px;">HEIGHT: 5'0"</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="color: #181818; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 18px;">EYE COLOR: gray</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="color: #181818; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">DISTINGUISHING FEATURES: impeccable style and social charm</span></span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="color: #181818; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">HAIR COLOR: naturally platinum blonde</span></span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="color: #181818; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 18px;">HAIR STYLE: long layers, straight</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="color: #181818; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 18px;">COMPLEXION: fair </span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="color: #181818; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 18px;">CURRENT RESIDENCE: Blue Creek, Virginia</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="color: #181818; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">OCCUPATION: Student, </span><span style="line-height: 17.98611068725586px;">Virginia</span><span style="line-height: 18px;"> Tech</span></span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="color: #181818; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 18px;">HOMETOWN: Blue Creek, VA</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="color: #181818; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">PARENTS: Reed Ryder (Father), Carol Ryder (Mother, </span><span style="line-height: 17.98611068725586px;">deceased</span><span style="line-height: 18px;">)</span></span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="color: #181818; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 18px;">SIBLINGS: Clara Ryder (identical twin)</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="color: #181818; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">HOBBIES/PAST TIMES: shopping, traveling, cars/driving, working at her father's country club</span></span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="color: #181818; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 18px;">TALENTS: golfing, math (she's a mechanical engineering major at Tech)</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="color: #181818; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 18px;">FAVORITE TYPE OF MUSIC: R&B, Pop, Top 100</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="color: #181818; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 18px;">FAVORITE TYPE OF FOOD: Sushi</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="color: #181818; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">FAVORITE TYPES OF DRINKS: a dry white wine, or on occasion a margarita </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 18px;">FULL NAME: Dean Robert Harvey</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="color: #181818; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 18px;">AGE: 23</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="color: #181818; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 18px;">NATIONALITY: American</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="color: #181818; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 18px;">GENDER: male</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="color: #181818; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 18px;">WEIGHT: 215</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="color: #181818; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 18px;">HEIGHT: 6'5"</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="color: #181818; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 18px;">EYE COLOR: light brown</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="color: #181818; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">DISTINGUISHING FEATURES: muscular build, charming smile</span></span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="color: #181818; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">HAIR COLOR: brown</span></span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="color: #181818; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 18px;">HAIR STYLE: short</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="color: #181818; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 18px;">COMPLEXION: tan</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="color: #181818; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 18px;">CURRENT RESIDENCE: Blue Creek, Virginia</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="color: #181818; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">OCCUPATION: Bar Restoration/Bar Owner</span></span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="color: #181818; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 18px;">HOMETOWN: Not applicable. Previous residence: Tampa, Florida </span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="color: #181818; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">PARENTS: Dean Mitchel (Father), Monica Harvey (Mother)</span></span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="color: #181818; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 18px;">SIBLINGS: None</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="color: #181818; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">HOBBIES/PAST TIMES: bar restoration, sports, building things/home projects</span></span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="color: #181818; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 18px;">FAVORITE TYPE OF MUSIC: classic rock</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">FAVORITE TYPE OF FOOD: BBQ, hamburgers, apple pie </span></span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="color: #181818; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">FAVORITE TYPES OF DRINKS: sweet tea</span></span></span><br />
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Jasminehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10866849626951436909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7019488975750936110.post-2497241338357336672014-03-13T09:53:00.000-04:002014-03-14T10:38:26.025-04:00[Blog Tour - Review & Giveaway] Lawyers in Love ~ N.M. Silber<b><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-5Xw6rA6UJ2I/UyMUUrCrl6I/AAAAAAAABdw/VROp646819Y/s640/blogger-image--1748748405.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-5Xw6rA6UJ2I/UyMUUrCrl6I/AAAAAAAABdw/VROp646819Y/s640/blogger-image--1748748405.jpg"></a></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-sGgybeeabNY/UyMUNfO0lfI/AAAAAAAABdg/9PFO1gNlS7Q/s640/blogger-image-735045819.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-sGgybeeabNY/UyMUNfO0lfI/AAAAAAAABdg/9PFO1gNlS7Q/s640/blogger-image-735045819.jpg"></a></div><br></b></div>Title:</b><i>The Law of Attraction </i><i>(Lawyers in Love #1</i><i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">)</i><div>
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<b>Genre:</b> Sexy Romantic Comedy/Light Adult Contemporary Romance (18+)<br>
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<b>Publication Date:</b> July 23, 2013<br>
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<b>Publisher</b>:<a href="http://mendlevypub.com/">Mendelssohn Levy Publishing</a><br>
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Once upon a time two lawyers fell in love across a courtroom …<br>
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Gabrielle Ginsberg was a public defender with plenty of nerve and Braden Pierce was an assistant district attorney with a whole lot of swagger. Gabrielle wanted Braden and Braden wanted Gabrielle.<br>
And Cameron wanted Gabrielle.<br>
And Marla wanted Braden.<br>
And Cole wanted Gabrielle.<br>
And Mrs. Mason wanted Braden.<br>
And an anonymous letter writer wanted to keep Gabrielle and Braden apart.<br>
Together Gabrielle and Braden discovered many important things, like which doors at the courthouse actually locked, and that desks could be useful for more than writing. They also found out that the path of love was not always smooth, and it was sometimes trod upon by some really wacky people, like a confused fanny grabber, an eighty-two year old pothead and a gentleman who threw a wine and cheese party in his pants. Could true love overcome a lack of privacy, interference by jealous rivals and the insanity of the criminal court system?<br>
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<i>NOTICE: This book contains explicit descriptions of sexual situations and mature language. It is intended for readers over the age of eighteen.</i><br>
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Gabrielle and Braden have fallen in love and face a bright future together if they can just survive all of the crazy people they encounter, like anonymous napkin droppers, UFO enthusiasts, crooked businessmen, nude drunk drivers, and a woman who tries to break into jail. When the gavel falls will the verdict be happily ever after?<br>
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Once upon a time ... N.M. Silber was a criminal defense attorney who got up each morning, donned her power suit and sensible pumps, downed a gallon of coffee and set out to "fight the good fight" while trying to not go insane. Having a dark sense of humor and a sarcastic wit helped -- a lot. Another thing that helped was reading. As escapism was the goal, she liked to read romance novels, especially really funny ones and really sexy ones. Then one day something beautiful happened -- she read one that was both funny and sexy at the same time. She hung up her power suit, put away her sensible pumps, and moved her coffee mug to her computer. Now she writes funny and smutty romance novels herself and she lives happily ever after.<br>
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<b></b><div><br></div><b><i>Jasmine's Review</i></b></div><div><b><i><br></i></b></div><div>The law of attraction was actually the first book I read this year. And it was TOTALLY WORTH IT! These are the kind of books that you would never get tired of. I could read these books over and over and still find them as hilarious as the first time if not more. Usually I like dual POVs but for this book I was able to appreciate it even more because it is only in Gabrielle's POV. And let me tell you, she is one of the most awkward, clumsy, and hilarious person I have ever met (fictional and nonfictional). And if you don't know, which you probably don't, <b>I LOVE AWKWARD, CLUMSY, AND HILARIOUS PEOPLE!</b> I also love that the other characters are pairing off!! I just love it when that happens. As you can see I am overusing the word love because this is the only way I can explain this series, I JUST LOVE IT! One of my favorite things about this series is the stupid cases they get. There should be a movie made on cases that are mentioned in the book. Anyway, I am absolutely out of words I'm just laughing my ass off. Also, there is an added mystery that just makes you keep on reading! In other words it is just <b>PERFECTO!</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>5 Gravels? (Is that what you call the hammer thingy in court?):D</b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Dq2lnwr76pc/UyMUXM-H5OI/AAAAAAAABd4/295g0TnelSA/s640/blogger-image--1182072430.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Dq2lnwr76pc/UyMUXM-H5OI/AAAAAAAABd4/295g0TnelSA/s640/blogger-image--1182072430.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>FYI gravel is just a bunch of tiny rocks and when you search "hammer thing used in court" that picture comes out.:)</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><br></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>GIVEAWAY!!!!!</b></div><br></div><div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">My innocence was shattered one steamy October night, when I sold my soul to the devil to pay for a week in a dirty motel room.<br />Thinking I could rid myself of him, I fled the safety of the nomad lifestyle I had embraced my entire life for the security of a small upstate New York town, alongside my big sister Star.<br /><br />What I never anticipated was a green eyed stranger that would steal my heart and never look back. And a dark eyed man on a motorcycle, who would teach me how to trust again. Both of them completely shattering every wall I ever put up to keep men out of my vulnerable world.<br /><br />I am Paisley Bloom, and this is my devastating story.</span></div>
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There’s a difference between a bad boy and a boy who’s bad . . . meet Shane Baxter.<br />
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Dovie Pryce knows all about living a hard life and the tough choices that come with it. She’s always tried to be good, tried to help others, and tried not to let the darkness pull her down. But the streets are fighting back, things have gone from bad to worse, and the only person who can help her is the scariest, sexiest, most complicated ex-con The Point has ever produced.<br />
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Jasminehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10866849626951436909noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7019488975750936110.post-92120497843161462012014-03-01T09:58:00.003-05:002014-03-01T09:59:18.975-05:00[Blog Tour - Review & Giveaway] Yes, Master ~ Margaret McHeyer<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My uncle abused me.<br />
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I was 10 years old when it started.<br />
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At 13 he told me I was no longer wanted because I had started to develop.<br />
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At 16 I was ready to kill him.<br />
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Today, I’m broken.<br />
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Today, I only breathe to survive.<br />
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My name’s Sergeant Major Ryan Jenkins and today, I’m ready to tell you my story.<br />
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<i>“Master would flog me if I did, she won’t be happy when I tell her what happened here.”</i><br />
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<i>“Master?”</i><br />
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<i>“Stella.”</i><br />
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<i>Oh, Master.</i><br />
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I startle awake as I leap off the bed and sprawl on the floor.<br />
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“Ry!” Mason yells from the other side of the door. I jump up off the floor and swing the bedroom door open.<br />
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“You scared the shit out of me, Mason.” I run my hand over my eyes and face trying to wake up. “What do you want, man?” But I’m met with silence. When I look over at Mase, he’s staring at my body. He’s mouth’s open and his eyes are so wide. He rakes his stare down my body, then back up again. He lifts an eyebrow as he ogles me. I look down and notice I’m completely naked. I fell asleep on my bed with just the towel wrapped around me and he scared me with his bashing that now I’m standing before him totally exposed.<br />
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He’s not moving away, and neither am I.<br />
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“Mason.” I lower my voice as he looks up at me and just stares.<br />
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He can see straight through me, totally bare and open, for him to see all my secrets.<br />
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“We need to leave in an hour,” Mase says as he takes a step closer to me.<br />
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I can feel his heat, and my body instantly reacts to him.<br />
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<i>Don’t be a coward Ryan, just reach out and touch him.</i><br />
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His brown eyes turn from a hard brown into a molten chocolate as we stand a mere step apart from each other.<br />
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Our breathing is labored and rapid.<br />
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Mason reaches forward and brings his hand up to my chest, but before he touches me, his demeanor changes and he retracts it, dropping it beside his body.<br />
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“I can’t,” he whispers as he turns away from me and goes into his bedroom.<br />
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My head spins as I close my door and stand completely ashamed in my room.<br />
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He doesn’t want me.<br />
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Why would he?<br />
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I’m broken.<br />
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I don't do 'normal'.<br />
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I've found that the more I write, the more I like being different to other authors. I write in first person, and I love to challenge a reader.<br />
I take the normal and switch it around.<br />
For me, I really enjoy getting a reaction from a reader. So if I can evoke an emotion (regardless of if it's the emotion the reader wants) then I figure that I've done my job as an author I want to be.<br />
I really quite revel in taking people out of their comfort zones and pushing them to read something different.<br />
My genre of writing is, well quite frankly, where ever my mind goes. I won't label myself because I don't like sticking to one genre.<br />
My goal with writing is just to take people away from whatever is going on in their lives, even if it's only for a split second.<br />
I'm a go with the flow sort of person and don't really take a course of action to get where I am going. I live in the moment and don't usually worry about tomorrow because whatever life is due to bring me, I'll be happy to accept.<br />
I love my family and friends and will help anyway I can if someone needs it. I really don't like people that are nasty just because they can be, I don't believe that's necessary, I mean life's hard enough as it is!<br />
I hope you enjoy my books, I've had a hoot writing them. There's more to come.....<br />
Til next time.<br />
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M xx<br />
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So this was Hot, Intense, and Dark! Haven't read a book like that in a while... A loooong while.<br />
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Just so you know I do not like BDSM, AT ALL!! So I never finished Fifty Shades. Don't hate!!!!:) I'm sure I'm not the only one. Anyway, this does contain BDSM but there are reasons why I was able to tolerate it. Which I will state, now.:)<br />
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<b>1.</b> There was not a lot of pain. Pain hurts. Whether it's real or fictional. IT HURTS so I don't like it happening to anyone.</div>
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<b>2</b>. His submission to Stella was his way of dealing with the pain. He did not join that lifestyle because he liked her and that was what she wanted but because he thought it was the way to save himself from his past. So in other words he did not join that lifestyle for her but for himself.</div>
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Those are pretty much the reasons why I also like the book.:)<br />
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Ryan has been through a lot in the past with his uncle and all. And that's why he is broken inside. Like REALLY broken inside. He doesn't know himself anymore and it is killing him. Literally, he drinks too much. I do really like his daughter. Sweet little Lani.:)<br />
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This story focuses more on Ryan and less on the problems with the other characters. Which seriously makes me curious... A lot. Like how did Stella start that lifestyle? Or what is wrong with Mason?<br />
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I read Margaret's other books so I was actually expecting a sudden twist in the end so when there wasn't I was surprised. So either way, Mrs. Margaret McHeyzer, you did it again! You gave the unexpected.<br />
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Jasminehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10866849626951436909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7019488975750936110.post-5029766621587470552014-02-22T20:21:00.001-05:002014-02-22T20:21:13.889-05:00[Release] On the Rocks ~ Sawyer Bennett<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> <a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-IL3ei4G0XOw/UwlM9gnLu9I/AAAAAAAABYc/hLbnHqswYYQ/s640/blogger-image-830408499.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-IL3ei4G0XOw/UwlM9gnLu9I/AAAAAAAABYc/hLbnHqswYYQ/s640/blogger-image-830408499.jpg"></a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">NEW SERIES</span></div><p class="s4" style="text-align: start; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3" style="font-weight: bold;">BY </span><span class="s5" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">USA </span><span class="s3" style="font-weight: bold;">TODAY </span><span class="s3" style="font-weight: bold;">BESTSELLING AUTHOR</span></span></p><p class="s4" style="text-align: start; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span class="s3" style="font-weight: bold; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">SAWYER BENNETT</span></p><p class="s4" style="text-align: start; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s4" style="text-align: start; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span class="s3" style="font-weight: bold; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">ON THE ROCKS</span></p><p class="s4" style="text-align: start; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span class="s3" style="font-weight: bold; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Last Call, #1</span></p><p class="s4" style="text-align: start; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span class="s3" style="font-weight: bold; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Adult Contemporary Romance</span></p><p class="s4" style="text-align: start; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3" style="font-weight: bold;">Releasing </span><span class="s3" style="font-weight: bold;">February 17</span><span class="s6" style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;">th</span><span class="s3" style="font-weight: bold;">, 2014</span></span></p><p class="s4" style="text-align: start; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><br></p><p class="s10" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s8">He left to travel the world for fame and glory, but only after spurning Gabby Ward and crushing her young heart. Now Hunter Markham has come back home to the sand and salty breeze of the North Carolina Outer Banks so he can open up Last Call, a beach bar nestled among the dunes of the Atlantic.</span><span class="s8"> </span><span class="s9"><br><br></span><span class="s8">Gabby Ward is not happy that Hunter has returned. Bitter over his rebuff years before, she’s content to stay far away from him and his dangerously charming ways.</span><span class="s8"> </span><span class="s9"><br><br></span><span class="s8">Gabby’s well-schemed plans to ignore Hunter go up in flames when he presents an offer to her that she simply can’t refuse, throwing them together in a common quest to each reach their goals. Working together day in and day out proves to be problematic for Gabby, who soon realizes that the feelings she had for him are still very much alive. Hunter struggles to reach through to Gabby’s cold heart, all while starting a new career away from his life as a top ranked, professional surfer.</span><span class="s9"><br><br></span><span class="s8">What starts out as a mutual business arrangement soon turns into a passion that neither of them can continue to deny.</span><span class="s8"> </span><span class="s9"><br><br></span><span class="s8">Hard choices lay ahead for both of them when Hunter is offered a once in a lifetime opportunity to return to the pro surfing tour.</span><span class="s9"><br><br></span><span class="s8">Choices that could destroy what they have built or take them further than they ever had dared to hope.</span></span></p><p class="s10" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s12" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s8">Goodreads - </span><span class="s11"><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20343102-on-the-rocks">http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20343102-on-the-rocks</a></span></span></p><p class="s12" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-5iUP8LMoec8/UwlM_u4JcCI/AAAAAAAABYk/8jgdJwCg_FU/s640/blogger-image--2078874706.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-5iUP8LMoec8/UwlM_u4JcCI/AAAAAAAABYk/8jgdJwCg_FU/s640/blogger-image--2078874706.jpg"></a></div><br><p></p><p class="s12" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Rocks-Last-Call-Series-ebook/dp/B00I0EG7NM/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1391278419&sr=8-2&keywords=on+the+rocks" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s7" style="font-weight: bold;">Amazon</span></a><span class="s3" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-weight: bold;"> | Barnes and Noble</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s12" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-weight: bold; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-whIu0jJh9A0/UwlNB4yjF1I/AAAAAAAABYs/2k5SPAAR5sg/s640/blogger-image--1148222200.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-whIu0jJh9A0/UwlNB4yjF1I/AAAAAAAABYs/2k5SPAAR5sg/s640/blogger-image--1148222200.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div>About the Author</span></div><p></p><p class="s16" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s13" style="font-style: italic;">USA Today</span><span class="s14"> </span><span class="s15">Best-Selling author, Sawyer Bennett, is a snarky southern woman and reformed trial lawyer who decided to finally start putting on paper all of the stories that were floating in her head. She is married to a mobster (well, a market researcher) and they have two big, furry dogs who hog the bed. 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Marchant Radcliffe, owner of the exclusive Love Inc. brothel outside Vegas, is no stranger to darkness. He lost his sister in childhood and his parents in college. Since his best friend helped him finance the Love Inc. ranch almost ten years ago, Marchant has drowned himself in business—and he’s thrived, despite the heavy secret that has plagued him since his parents’ deaths.</div>
Then, after ten years of good fortune, Marchant’s skeletons start to peek out of the closet, tossing him down a trail of ruin that begins with arson and could end with murder. Because he’s kept his struggles private, he has no one to pull him back from the brink.<br />
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After a breakup with her longtime fiancé, Suri, the daughter of one of Silicon Valley’s tech tycoons, has nowhere to go except her BFF’s new penthouse in Las Vegas. The last thing Suri is looking for is a man, but after drowning her woes in wine on the flight over, she stumbles into a torrid make out session with a beautiful stranger—who just so happens to be Marchant Radcliffe, a playboy and a literal pimp.<br />
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Despite an immediate attraction, Suri writes Marchant off as exactly the sort of guy she should avoid. Until Love Inc. goes up in flames, Marchant winds up at the bottom of a swimming pool, and Suri is the only one around to pull him out.<br />
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What happens when what you see isn’t what you get? What do you do when destiny is too alluring to resist and too dangerous to survive?<br />
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Ella James is a Colorado author who writes teen and adult romance. She is happily married to a man who knows how to wield a red pen, and together they are raising a feisty two-year-old who will probably grow up believing everyone’s parents go to war over the placement of a comma.<br />
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Her best friend Marla convinces her to attend one last party—a college party—where she can be among strangers and evade the whisperings about her heartbreaking loss of her twin that follows her everywhere she goes. She meets Lincoln Presley, Stanford’s famous baseball wonder and has a little fun at his expense—when she lies about her age and who she really is—intent on being someone else for the night and escaping her tragic story.<br><br>His only focus is baseball, but he can’t forget the girl he saved on Valentine’s Day…<br>At 22, Lincoln Presley’s star is on the rise—about to finish at Stanford and expected to be taken early in Major League Baseball’s upcoming draft—his cousin’s party serves as a welcome distraction. But then, he sees the girl from Valentine’s Day that he saved from that horrific car accident and can’t quite hide his disappointment when she appears to look right through him and not remember him at all. He vows to learn her name at least before he leaves. What’s the harm in getting to know this girl? What’s the worst that can happen?<br><br>They share this incredible connection, but fate soon tests these star-crossed lovers in all kinds of ways…<br>And yet, despite the lies being told to protect the other, and the trappings of fame that continually separate them, and in lieu of the deception by those they’ve come to trust the most; one truth remains.<br><br>This much is true.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Goodreads: </b><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18334339-this-much-is-true?ac=1">http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18334339-this-much-is-true?ac=1</a></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br><b>Purchase</b>:<br>Amazon: <a href="http://bit.ly/TMITamz">http://bit.ly/TMITamz</a><br>Kobo: <a href="http://bit.ly/TMITkobo">http://bit.ly/TMITkobo</a><br>Barnes and Noble: <a href="http://bit.ly/TMITBandN">http://bit.ly/TMITBandN</a><br>Apple iBookstore/iTunes <a href="http://bit.ly/TMITiTunes">http://bit.ly/TMITiTunes</a></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></div></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>AUTHOR BIO</b></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-xenqdO8fQfY/Uv49FvXEFOI/AAAAAAAABKY/NGJqnDUsM74/s640/blogger-image-1149363246.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-xenqdO8fQfY/Uv49FvXEFOI/AAAAAAAABKY/NGJqnDUsM74/s640/blogger-image-1149363246.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dark. Edgy. Contemporary. Romantic. Were we describing me? Or my fiction? Sorry. I drink too much...coffee, not enough water. I swear too much for God and my mother, and I slip these into my fiction. Sorry. I'm impatient, a perfectionist, a wordsmith, a dreamer, which ends up being good and bad. I'm a workaholic; ask my fam-dam-ily. I've written four novels in as many years: SEEING JULIA, NOT TO US, & WHEN I SEE YOU, as well as my latest release THIS MUCH IS TRUE. If you love angsty, unpredictable love stories, I'm yours. ♥ </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><u>Author Links:</u><br>Goodreads <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/998458.Katherine_Owen">http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/998458.Katherine_Owen</a><br>Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/KatherineOwen01">https://twitter.com/KatherineOwen01</a><br>Facebook <a href="http://www.facebook.com/KatherineOwenAuthor">http://www.facebook.com/KatherineOwenAuthor</a><br>Website: <a href="http://www.katherineowen.net/">http://www.katherineowen.net</a></span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><b>Aly's Review</b></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Whew! This Much Is True is a looooooooong novel, this much is true. (Ha. Ha. Get it? Okay.)</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Katherine Owen wrote a book with depth and heart. This wasn't a sweet read with one complication in their love story. It was filled with mistakes and heartbreak, yet also encompasses the growth of a character. Each situation wasn't just an interesting plot twist for the readers; it was also a situation for the characters to slowly, albeit surely change. It was edgy and dark. This contemporary fiction shows reality in a book. There was no easy way out inside a tangled web of lies.<br><br>Tally was strong and independent. She was passionate, especially about ballet. There's a fierce dedication in her that isn't so easily found. <br><br>Linc. He's got a big heart. He wasn't the perfect hero. He was flawed - so so flawed - yet he was real. He believed in Tally, but he was pushed away far too many times. He was confused which future did he really want.<br><br>Rob Thorn was one of the most interesting characters in the book. There was a play in love triangles but it wasn't the "pick one!" type of cliche. The reader always knew that Tally would end up with Linc, but Rob kept her grounded and safe.<br><br>Okay, so in obviously babbling. Katherine Owen made her characters so complex and had them go through so much change that it's hard to explain it all.<br><br>There were parts of the book that bothered me. Some misuse of apostrophes, commas, colons, or semi colons were a part of this. It's definitely a minor thing, so if you don't mind those mistakes, go ahead!<br><br>If you're looking for a feel-good book with some steamy scenes, this isn't what you should read right now. This Much Is True is so different from the typical NA books I've read. But if you're looking for a book that you'll return to - no matter how long it is - this is yours. <br><br>Oh! Some tips. Take your time with it. I respect that the author didn't chop the story line and end it with a cliffhanger. Don't tire yourself over how looooong is left, but notice the gradual change in the characters. This is a sobering book. Whew.<br><b><br>Ta-da! 4.5 toe shoes.</b><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-ds4QT0V8wQk/Uv49Jn6YlPI/AAAAAAAABKo/TyjA7WR01lc/s640/blogger-image--1785305932.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-ds4QT0V8wQk/Uv49Jn6YlPI/AAAAAAAABKo/TyjA7WR01lc/s640/blogger-image--1785305932.jpg"></a></div><br>Keep reading!<br>Aly</span><br style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Giveaway</b></span></div><div><a href="http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/d04251329/">http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/d04251329/</a></div></div><br></div>Jasminehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10866849626951436909noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7019488975750936110.post-58414819271464650422014-02-08T11:01:00.000-05:002014-02-08T11:01:00.351-05:00[Blog Tour - Excerpt, Top 5, & Giveaway] The Song of The Fireflies ~
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My heart started to bang against my rib</span><span class="s3"> </span><span class="s3">cage. I peered down as far as my sight could penetrate the darkness, but took a step back upon realizing that if she had fallen there was no way I’d be able to see from way up here.</span></span></p><p class="s5" style="text-indent: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3">She had to be somewhere around close</span><span class="s3"> </span><span class="s3">by. She </span><span class="s6" style="font-style: italic;">had</span><span class="s3"> to be.</span></span></p><p class="s5" style="text-indent: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3"><br></span></span></p><p class="s5" style="text-indent: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Bray?” I called out again. “Where the hell did you go?”</span></p><p class="s5" style="text-indent: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p class="s5" style="text-indent: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Still no answer.</span></p><p class="s5" style="text-indent: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p class="s5" style="text-indent: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3">Panic set in quickly.</span><span class="s3"> </span><span class="s3">I stood there as still and as quiet as I could for several long seconds in case she was </span><span class="s3">coming </span><span class="s3">through the woods, but I heard nothing. I arranged both hands around my mouth and shouted, “BRAY!” and my voice echoed through the wide</span><span class="s3">-</span><span class="s3">open space. </span><span class="s3">But still nothing.</span><span class="s3"> I felt sick to my stomach. She wouldn’t have left like that way out here. And if she did, I would’ve seen her on the path coming down as I was making my way back up.</span></span></p><p class="s5" style="text-indent: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3"><br></span></span></p><p class="s5" style="text-indent: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3">I ran toward the tree line, searching for any sign of her</span><span class="s3">,</span><span class="s3"> </span><span class="s3">f</span><span class="s3">or another path she </span><span class="s3">might </span><span class="s3">have taken. I refused to believe that she </span><span class="s3">had fallen </span><span class="s3">off the edge.</span></span></p><p class="s5" style="text-indent: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3"><br></span></span></p><p class="s5" style="text-indent: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3">Just as I noticed another path through the woods that seemed to head south and I started to go toward it, I heard footfalls in the leaves. I didn’t wait to see if it was her, I ran </span><span class="s3">blindly</span><span class="s3">straight into the woods</span><span class="s3">.</span><span class="s3"> </span><span class="s3">A </span><span class="s3">skinny branch slapp</span><span class="s3">ed</span><span class="s3"> me across the forehead on my way, but I didn’t stop.</span></span></p><p class="s5" style="text-indent: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3"><br></span></span></p><p class="s5" style="text-indent: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Bray and I nearly crashed into each other.</span></p><p class="s5" style="text-indent: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p class="s5" style="text-indent: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3">“Shit, baby! Where the hell did you </span><span class="s6" style="font-style: italic;">go</span><span class="s3">? Scared the </span><span class="s6" style="font-style: italic;">hell</span><span class="s3"> out of me!” I started to pull her into a hug, but something about her was off and I stopped. She didn’t respond or even raise her head to look at me.</span></span></p><p class="s5" style="text-indent: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Are you all right?”</span></p><p class="s5" style="text-indent: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p class="s5" style="text-indent: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I took her hands into mine. Hers were shaking. Her whole body was shaking.</span></p><p class="s5" style="text-indent: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3">I cupped her face in my palms and raised her head so that she’d look at me. She was crying</span><span class="s3">,</span><span class="s3"> and something in her eyes…I couldn’t place it, but it haunted me. I wondered if she even knew I was standing right in front of her. Her hair was messy</span><span class="s3">,</span><span class="s3"> with pieces of leaves stuck within a mass of strands. Dirt was smeared across her left cheek. She looked like she’d been in a fight.</span></span></p><p class="s5" style="text-indent: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3"><br></span></span></p><p class="s5" style="text-indent: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3">I touched her split lip, where a thin line of blood glistened near the corner. “Bray</span><span class="s3">,</span><span class="s3"> you’re scaring me. What happened to you?” I shook her gently and then more aggressively when she still didn’t respond. “What happened? Talk to me!"</span></span></p><p class="s5" style="text-indent: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3"><br></span></span></p><p class="s5" style="text-indent: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Her lips trembled and more tears seeped from the corners of her eyes. And then as if a floodgate had been opened, she started screaming through her tears, “It was my fault! Elias! Oh my God!”</span></p><p class="s5" style="text-indent: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p class="s9" style="text-indent: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s7">“</span><span class="s8" style="font-style: italic;">What happened?</span><span class="s7">” I roared, scared for her and for myself, my heart about to burst through my chest.</span></span></p></div>
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<strong>Title:</strong><em>Shadows on the Mirror (Sarah Fortune Mystery #1)</em></div>
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<strong><strong>Author:</strong> Frances Fyfield</strong></div>
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<strong>Genre:</strong> Mystery, Crime Thriller</div>
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<strong>Publish Date:</strong> February 4, 2014</div>
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<span id="freeTextContainer9732416655529694289">Sarah Fortune is bored to death – but few know, and less would guess, how the beautiful and successful lawyer escapes the stultifying tedium of her career. Since the death of her unfaithful husband, she has been moonlighting as a generous mistress, offering intimate company to lonely men. Sarah is satisfied with her routine. But then she meets Charles Tysall, an important client of the firm, whose charisma and enormous wealth conceal an implacable will and a misogynist’s mad aggression. Soon Sarah finds herself implicated in a murder when a decaying body is found of the coast. Inexorably, Sarah is hurdling towards a confrontation where there will be no escape from the shadows, no turning from the face of lethal obsession…</span></div>
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<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><p class="s4" style="text-align: start; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">WHAT’S THE TOUGHEST CRITICISM YOU’VE EVER RECEIVED?</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: start;"><span class="s5" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s5">From the first Agent to whom I sent a </span><span class="s5">full-length</span><span class="s5"> script, these lines</span><span class="s5">;</span><span class="s5"> ‘We could be in business here, if only you delete all the introspective crap and cut it down by a third.’</span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: start;"><span class="s5" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">She was right. I cried for three days and then did it. The story is all that matters. I have kept mine lean every since. They aren’t about me; they are about my characters.</span></p></div>
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Thanks everyone for joining us for all the fun over the past week. So, the big question is “What’s next? What’s going to happen in the third book?”<br />
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<strong><i>How long can you keep a secret from the one you love? How can you possibly say the words that will rip both your worlds apart?</i></strong><br />
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Finally able to face her fears of abandonment, Olivia Adler begins to prepare for the next phase of her life. But Alexander Burnham is still holding on to all the secrets about Olivia’s past, trying to protect her. As days go by, Olivia is slowly starting to remember her past and Alexander realizes it’s only a matter of time until she puts all the pieces together and figures out who he is…<br />
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And who she is...<br />
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But if she remembers, her life could be in even more danger than it already is. And Alexander cannot have that happen. When the shadows of Olivia’s past threaten not only her life, but also those around her, will Alexander finally put Olivia’s needs ahead of his? Will she be able to put all the pieces of her past together in order to save her own life and those she’s close to? Can she figure out who she can trust and who is threatening her very existence? Gorgeous Chaos is the explosive conclusion to T.K. Leigh’s <i>Beautiful Mess</i> series.<br />
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Oh hell… While we’re talking about<em> Gorgeous Chaos</em>, here’s a little snippet…<br />
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<em>A tear started to run down Alexander’s cheek as he continued talking, bringing Olivia’s body flush with his, holding her face in his hands. “This is what we do, Olivia. This is who we are… We fight. We piss each other off. But at the end of the day, we realize that no matter how mad and angry we are at each other, there is something much bigger at work here. You can stay angry at me all you want, love, but you know, deep down, that you cannot live without me. You love me just as much as I love you and nothing will ever come between that.” He wiped the tear that had fallen down Olivia’s cheek as he stared into her eyes, searching for an answer.</em><br />
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<em>“I can’t do this right now,” she said quietly, turning away from him and down the long corridor…</em><br />
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- Gorgeous Chaos (Copyright 2014 T.K. Leigh - Anticipated Release Date May 5, 2014)<br />
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<em>How can you continue living when you’re living a lie? How can you convince your body to stop feeling, your soul to stop caring, and your heart to stop beating?</em><br />
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Haunted by her past, Olivia Adler flees Boston for a beach in Florida, leaving everyone behind, trying to shut the world out. Remaining a relative recluse in her self-imposed prison, she tries to turn everything off, wanting to feel nothing. But a new acquaintance won’t let that happen. After being away from Alexander for a month, his voice constantly ringing in her head, reminding her that her inability to confront her demons will not only destroy her, but also him, can she really be expected to want to feel again when it brings nothing but pain?<br />
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Back in Boston, everywhere he turns, Alexander Burnham is reminded of Olivia… His Olivia… He tries to dull the ache left in his heart the only way he knows how… in the bed of a beautiful woman. But Alexander isn’t about to lose his Olivia. After a clue comes to light regarding Olivia’s whereabouts, can he convince her to return to Boston with him? When a force that has laid dormant for months resurfaces, can Alexander still protect her from the unknown danger? And when Alexander comes face to face with a shadow of both his and Olivia’s past, will he be able to tell her the secret that is threatening to tear them apart?<br />
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<em>A Tragic Wreck</em> is the continuation of T.K. Leigh’s heart-breaking <em>Beautiful Mess</em> series.<br />
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<em>What happens when you lose everyone that promised they would always be there for you? How can you protect the few pieces of your shattered heart that remain?</em><br />
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Olivia Adler is a woman with a troubled past. After losing her parents at the young age of six and being raised by an uncle who she lost years later, she refuses to get attached to anyone, including friends. For the past decade, she has been able to remain unattached to any man, too worried about losing someone to get too close. Until Alexander Burnham walks into her life one night and changes everything. But he has issues of his own. And he’s keeping a secret that could turn her world upside-down. Will Olivia let Alexander in enough for him to get close and protect her from a force threatening her very existence, or will she push him away, scared of letting Alexander in, in order to protect her heart?<br />
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<em>A Beautiful Mess</em> is the first installment of a three part series sure to captivate the heart with a story of secrets, courage, and love.<br />
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T.K. Leigh, otherwise known as Tracy Leigh Kellam, is a producer / attorney by trade. Originally from New England, she now resides in sunny Southern California with her husband, dog and three cats, all of which she has rescued (including the husband). She always had a knack for writing, but mostly in the legal field. It wasn’t until recently that she decided to try her hand at creative writing and is now addicted to creating different characters and new and unique story lines in the Contemporary Romantic Suspense genre.<br />
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Her debut novel “A Beautiful Mess” has garnered relative praise, having been an Amazon Best Seller, an Amazon Top-Rated book. Recently, the book was named by <i>The Guardian</i> as a top reader-recommended self-published book of 2013 as well as a 2013 Reader’s Favorite in <i>Publisher’s Weekly</i> in addition to being named an Amazon Romance Editor’s Fan Favorite for Top Debut Author and Best Page Turner.<br />
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<a href="http://brandyjellum.blogspot.com/">Escaping Reality One Book at a Time</a>Jasminehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10866849626951436909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7019488975750936110.post-28633574525376929332014-02-07T09:08:00.002-05:002014-02-07T09:49:54.544-05:00[Blog Tour - Review & Giveaway] Rumor Has It ~ Elisabeth Grace<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-OODnUCd2tf0/UvTyhyER5cI/AAAAAAAABIw/fmohP1k9tr0/s640/blogger-image--485150837.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-OODnUCd2tf0/UvTyhyER5cI/AAAAAAAABIw/fmohP1k9tr0/s640/blogger-image--485150837.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br></div><div style="text-align: center;">
<a href="http://xpressobooktours.com/2013/11/25/tour-sign-up-rumor-has-it-by-elisabeth-grace/">Tour Schedule</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-o1l0koKWZjU/UvTyf0JGsnI/AAAAAAAABIo/r8DTjkXyHY4/s640/blogger-image-1773947065.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-o1l0koKWZjU/UvTyf0JGsnI/AAAAAAAABIo/r8DTjkXyHY4/s640/blogger-image-1773947065.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Rumor Has It by Elisabeth Grace <br>(Limelight #1) </span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Publication date: December 6, 2013<br>Genres: Contemporary, New Adult, Romance</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Synopsis:</b></div><div style="text-align: start;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br>All publicity is good publicity, right? Unless you’re recent college grad Ellie Wagner and an embarrassing video of you and your boyfriend goes viral. Every man in your life abandons you, but who knew a one-minute clip of your latest doomed relationship would brand you a slut, prevent you from getting your perfect job, and force you to keep doing the one thing you swore you’d never do again…live with your mother.<br><br>But staying with mom and her latest boy-toy (is this husband number four or five?) until your life turns around might not be all bad. Especially when you fall – literally – at the feet of a sexy, green-eyed stranger who offers you freedom and a life of luxury on a gold-rimmed platter.<br><br>There’s only one little problem – the man of your dreams is none other than Mason Nash, the latest hip-hop star busting up the music charts. Fame and fortune are his calling cards and he’s vying to steal the show on a new reality TV series that will catapult him into mainstream stardom. Hello spotlight.<br><br>The man behind the famous persona is perfect for Ellie in every way, but can she overcome the ugly pitfalls that come with Mason’s celebrity status? Or will she be forced to choose between the man she loves and the independent life she longs for? After all, fame and fortune aren’t always what they seem and not all publicity is good publicity…</span></p></div></div>
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Happy Friday! I hope y'all have enjoyed hanging out and following this little blog party this week as you reacquaint yourselves with Olivia and Alexander. I think a lot of people root for these two to succeed as a couple so much because of the history and connection there. Alexander has loved this girl his entire life and who couldn't just swoon over that?<br />
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As a reward for sticking with me all week, what do you say to a bonus scene from A <em>Beautiful Mess</em>?<br />
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Well, you’re in luck. Here it is. This is what is known as Chapter 23,<i> Something You Feel</i>. It happens the night after Alexander and Olivia finally reconcile. The first part is in the published version. And then it gets a little steamy (which is not in the published version.)<br />
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<strong>THIS EXCERPT CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE AND EXPLICIT SEXUAL SITUATIONS. 18 AND OVER ONLY.</strong><br />
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“Come. I want to show you something,” Alexander said to Olivia after they finished eating their dinner of salmon, roasted red potatoes, and asparagus. They had spent all day together after Alexander took Olivia back to her house to gather some things she would need for the weekend.<br />
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They had gone to Olivia’s gym later in the morning after eating a breakfast of egg white omelettes with broccoli, spinach, mushrooms and feta cheese that Olivia had made. Alexander thought that she was a fantastic cook. The dinner reaffirmed that thought.<br />
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Olivia had spent most of the day snuggled up on Alexander’s couch reading a book on her e-reader and scratching Runner’s belly as he cuddled next to her. Alexander sat on the other end of the couch going over case reports. He disappeared into his study every so often, closing the door to make a phone call. Olivia didn’t mind. She figured there were some things he was working on that were classified.<br />
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“Where are we going?” she asked when Alexander grabbed her hand, pulling her along with him down the stairs.<br />
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“You’ll see,” he winked. Olivia smiled at the twinkle in his eyes. He was so excited to show her wherever it was they were going.<br />
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He led her down a hallway past two spacious guest bedrooms before stopping outside a door. Beaming from ear to ear, he opened it, allowing Olivia to enter before him. She couldn’t believe her surroundings. In the middle of the enormous room stood a beautiful Steinway baby grand piano. Dozens of guitars hung on the walls. There were also amps, a drum kit, and various other instruments scattered throughout the room. It was a musician’s dream come true.<br />
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“Why do you have all this?” she asked. “Do you play?”<br />
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“Yeah. You could say that,” he replied, running his hands through his hair. “I started fiddling with the piano and guitar when I was a little boy. A family friend taught me.” Alexander remembered Mrs. DeLuca teaching him how to hold a guitar. He remembered her showing him how to curve his hands around the keys of the piano. And most of all, he remembered hearing her daughter sing those beautiful melodies. “You can feel free to come down here anytime you’d like.”<br />
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Olivia walked over to the piano, running her fingers over the keys, the cool ivory always a comfort to her. She saw a Martin guitar set on a stand next to the piano. She picked it up and checked its tuning, noting it was perfectly in tune. It must have been played recently. She wasn’t expecting Alexander to have such a beautiful music room.<br />
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“And the walls are totally sound proof so you don’t have to worry about disturbing me or anything.” Alexander sat down on a love seat against the wall, watching as Olivia fiddled with the guitar. “Play something for me, Love.”<br />
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Olivia smiled as she sat down in a chair in the middle of the room, bringing the Martin guitar with her. She remembered a song that she and Mo used to play quite a bit during her college years. When she was at B.C., she would often invite Mo and the guys over for beers to hang out with Kiera and some of their friends. Usually late at night, after lots of drinks had been consumed, Mo and Olivia would break out a few of her guitars and entertain their late night guests. This song was one of their favorites.<br />
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Olivia took a deep breath and closed her eyes as she began playing a beautiful melody. Alexander had heard the song before when he accompanied his brother to a Zac Brown Band concert. Her voice filled the room, the acoustics perfect, mesmerizing Alexander as she played the guitar, focusing solely on the music as if nothing else mattered. She sang an ode to the guitar she held against her body. As he listened to the lyrics, Alexander thought how appropriate the song was. Almost as if she could be talking about herself or the guitar she so lovingly played. Almost as if telling him how much she needed music in her life.<br />
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Halfway through the song, Alexander stood up and grabbed one of his other guitars. He watched Olivia’s hands, getting the chords he needed to join her. Sitting in the chair next to her, he played with her, singing along to the chorus as she continued belting out the lyrics. Olivia opened her eyes, smiling at the sound of his soft, sultry voice next to her.<br />
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She finished the song and Alexander leaned over, placing a gentle kiss on her lips. “That was fantastic, Olivia. Did you study music in college?” He knew the answer, but she didn’t know that.<br />
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“No, actually.”<br />
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He looked at her, feigning surprise.<br />
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“I know. Everyone thought I would. I mean, I was constantly involved in music groups all through middle school and high school. Everyone thought it was what I would study. But I actually have a degree in exercise physiology.”<br />
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“Ah,” Alexander said. “Hence the health club.”<br />
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She smiled. “Yeah. I don’t know why I chose that. I mean, I was worried if I studied music, I’d start to hate it. And I didn’t want to hate music. Anyway, music isn’t something you study. It’s something you feel.”<br />
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Alexander flashed back. He remembered Olivia’s mother saying those exact words to him as he learned to play guitar and piano all those years ago. And those words had stayed with him ever since.<br />
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“What? What is it?” Olivia asked, noticing a distant expression on Alexander’s face.<br />
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He quickly returned his attention to the beautiful brunette sitting next to him. “Nothing. Give me that,” he said, placing his guitar on the ground and doing the same with the Martin guitar Olivia held in her hands. The atmosphere in the room became heated as Alexander stared into Olivia’s brown eyes, his heart racing from her beauty.<br />
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“Come here.” He raised himself off the chair and held out his hand for Olivia.<br />
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She looked at him skeptically before placing her hand cautiously in his.<br />
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Smiling, he led her over to the baby grand piano, turning around to face her.<br />
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Noticing the expression on his face, Olivia scrunched her eyebrows. “What? Why are you looking at me like that?” Her breathing became ragged in anticipation. She had seen that expression on his face before, most recently the previously night when he brought her back to his place. She knew what he wanted. And she’d be fooling herself if she said she didn’t want the same thing at that moment.<br />
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He placed his hands on her hips and lifted her on top of the closed piano lid.<br />
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“What are you doing?” Olivia asked.<br />
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Alexander leaned in, brushing his lips against her neck, inhaling her scent. “God, you smell amazing, Olivia. Anyone ever tell you that?”<br />
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She closed her eyes, lost in the sensation of Alexander’s lips on her skin. “You may have mentioned it once or twice.” She threw her head back, giving him better access to her neck, her body lighting on fire when he began to nibble on her ear. She moaned out in response.<br />
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“I want you. Right here. Right now, Olivia,” Alexander said forcefully, bringing her body closer to his as she sat on the piano. “Do you want that?”<br />
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She nodded. “Yes, Alexander.”<br />
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He brought his lips to hers, kissing her full on the mouth, his tongue tangled with hers. Running his hands up and down her back, he groaned into her mouth.<br />
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Olivia pulled him into her, wrapping her legs around his waist, slowly teasing him with her body. She felt his arousal grow and she couldn’t help but smile.<br />
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“What’s so funny, Miss Adler?” Alexander asked, pulling out of the kiss and giving Olivia a mischievous grin.<br />
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“Oh, nothing.” She pulled his tee shirt and crushed her lips back against his. “I just love how turned on you get. And I know I’m the one who does it to you,” she whispered breathlessly into his mouth before invading it with her tongue once more.<br />
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Alexander couldn’t take much more of it. He needed to feel her naked flesh against his or he knew he was going to lose his mind. Pulling out of the kiss, he ripped his tee shirt over his head. “Enough of this. I need you,” he panted.<br />
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Olivia grinned. “Losing control so soon, Alex? I was kind of enjoying just kissing you. Maybe I don’t want to have sex right now.”<br />
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Alexander placed his hand on her back and pulled her closer to him, feathering his lips against hers once more before trailing kisses across her neck and down her collarbone. She moaned with pleasure. Slowly roaming her body with his hands, he slipped one underneath the waistband of her yoga pants. He found that sweet spot and could feel how wet she was. “Oh really, Olivia? Doesn’t feel like you don’t want me inside you right now.” He lightly clenched his teeth onto her neck, sucking gently. “From the feel of things, I’m pretty sure you want me to fuck you just as much as I want to.”<br />
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Olivia moaned at the feeling of Alexander’s fingers slowly toying with her overly sensitized clit and his mouth gently sucking on her neck. In the past twenty-four hours she had more mind-blowing orgasms than she could remember, and she was ready to explode again from just his touch. And that scared her and thrilled her.<br />
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“Tell me you want that, Olivia,” he whispered against her skin. “Tell me you want my cock inside you, thrusting in and out, pushing you higher and higher until you can’t take it anymore and you shatter into thousands of pieces all because of how I can make you feel.”<br />
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She nodded, certain that Alexander could probably make her cum from his words alone. “Yes. I want that. I want to feel you inside me.”<br />
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“Good,” he responded curtly, removing his hand from her pants. “Lie on your back.”<br />
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She raised her eyebrows, wondering what he had planned.<br />
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“Just do it, Olivia.” He brushed her lips with his. “For once, stop being so stubborn.”<br />
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She smiled, nodding. “Okay.” She leaned back, Alexander supporting her back with his arm until she was flush with the top of the piano.<br />
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He reached up and lifted her ass, lowering her pants down her legs before kneeling on the ground and placing her legs on his shoulders. “God, Love. You’re so fucking wet. And I do this to you. Don’t you ever forget it,” he said before pressing his tongue against her clit, slowly circling her.<br />
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Olivia moaned, knowing that she would never tire of the feeling of Alexander’s mouth on her most sensitive part. She began slowly thrusting against him, the sensation overwhelming her once more. It felt incredible and it all seemed so unreal. Never had anyone else made her want to fall apart as quickly as Alexander could. Her breathing increased as he gently slid a finger inside her, stretching her out.<br />
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“You like that?” Alexander asked against her clit, the vibrations of his voice making her squirm.<br />
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She nodded feverishly, her body tightening in anticipation of what she knew was about to happen. She was on the brink of another incredible orgasm and she wanted to fall apart but also wanted the incredible feeling of Alexander’s tongue on her to last as long as humanly possible.<br />
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“You’re about to cum, aren’t you, Olivia?” he asked thrusting even faster with his fingers. “You always tighten up and your breathing becomes heavy.” He looked at the beautiful woman panting on top of his piano. “And I fucking love that I can make you cum so fucking hard and quick.” He returned his tongue to her, sucking gently on her clit as she convulsed around him, her orgasm lasting longer than any orgasm she had ever had.<br />
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After several long moments passed, Alexander stood up, helping Olivia down from the piano. “Now comes the fun part,” he winked, turning her body away from his, trailing kisses down her shoulder blades. “Hold onto the piano for support. And bend over.”<br />
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Olivia turned her head, looking over her shoulder at Alexander as he stripped out of the remainder of his clothes.<br />
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His expression turned heated. “Just do it,” he said, pressing his hand on her stomach and pulling her against his naked body.<br />
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She gasped at his erection on her back.<br />
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“Or you’ll regret it,” he whispered against her neck.<br />
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Shivers ran through her body as she felt Alexander’s chest against her, his lips barely touching her skin. It was such a unique feeling, her nerves on fire from his deep voice, his amazing touch, and his sensual words.<br />
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Nodding her head, she bent over and braced herself using the piano, thinking that Henry Steinway and his sons would be rolling over in their graves at the thought of what she and Alexander were about to use their beautiful instrument for.<br />
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She immediately felt Alexander’s fingers between her legs, toying with her clit once more. Closing her eyes, she reveled in the feeling of his expert hands pleasuring her once more. It was mind boggling to think that she just had an amazing orgasm and was ready for another one.<br />
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“You like that, Olivia?” Alexander asked as she moaned out in gratification.<br />
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“Yes,” she exhaled, her breathing becoming ragged once more.<br />
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“Good,” he replied, removing his fingers from her. “And don’t you ever forget how good I make you feel.”<br />
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She panted, hating that he had her so worked up and left her wanting.<br />
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“Now hold on tight. This is going to be fast and hard.”<br />
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Olivia’s heart raced in anticipation. She liked the sound of that.<br />
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Almost instantly, she felt Alexander plunge into her, setting a fast pace as he held onto her hips, helping to keep her upright.<br />
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“God, Love. You feel so fucking amazing,” he grunted out as he thrusted into her, his brow becoming damp with sweat. “You drive me crazy. You know that?”<br />
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Olivia moaned in response, knowing that he did the same to her. No one ever set her off like Alexander did. No one ever filled her and pushed her so close to the edge in a matter of seconds and she was both frightened and overwhelmed at the idea that she finally found someone who could satisfy her in the bedroom and elsewhere.<br />
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“You look beautiful from this angle, Olivia.” Alexander reached around and toyed with her clit slowly, bending down to gently nibble on her shoulder blade. “I love the way you taste,” he said, slowing his pace down, withdrawing slowly before flexing back toward her, gradually filling her to the brim.<br />
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“Fuck,” she exhaled, the fullness overwhelming her. She was so close.<br />
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“And I’m not just talking about your pussy, Olivia,” he explained, pushing back into her before withdrawing yet again. “Your skin, when it’s salty with sweat from me fucking you tastes fucking divine.” He continued toying with her clit as he leaned down and bit her neck, gently sucking on her skin once more.<br />
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Olivia screamed out as Alexander quickened his pace, thrusting mercilessly inside her.<br />
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“Come on, Olivia. Let me feel it. I know you want to come again. Don’t deny your body.” He feathered kisses against her neck, lowering his voice. “And don’t deny me the incredible sensation of feeling your body shudder around me,” he whispered, pulling on her earlobe with his teeth.<br />
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Olivia couldn’t take it anymore. She yelled out Alexander’s name as she came undone, spiraling down from yet another amazing orgasm, wondering if Alexander would always have the same effect on her.<br />
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“God, I love making you cum, Olivia,” Alexander grunted before thrusting into her one last time and finding his own release. He held onto her stomach, helping to support her as they both attempted to regulate their breathing.<br />
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“Holy shit,” Olivia said, finally finding her voice several moments later.<br />
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Straightening up and picking Olivia up in his arms, Alexander planted a long kiss on her lips. “I will never tire of being inside you, Olivia. So I hope you’re ready for the ride.”<br />
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She smiled, running her hands through his hair. “Oh, Mr. Burnham. I’m certainly prepared for the ride. Again. And again. And again.” She giggled as she thought of the double entendre.<br />
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“God, I love that sound.”<br />
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<em>How can you continue living when you’re living a lie? How can you convince your body to stop feeling, your soul to stop caring, and your heart to stop beating?</em><br />
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Haunted by her past, Olivia Adler flees Boston for a beach in Florida, leaving everyone behind, trying to shut the world out. Remaining a relative recluse in her self-imposed prison, she tries to turn everything off, wanting to feel nothing. But a new acquaintance won’t let that happen. After being away from Alexander for a month, his voice constantly ringing in her head, reminding her that her inability to confront her demons will not only destroy her, but also him, can she really be expected to want to feel again when it brings nothing but pain?<br />
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Back in Boston, everywhere he turns, Alexander Burnham is reminded of Olivia… His Olivia… He tries to dull the ache left in his heart the only way he knows how… in the bed of a beautiful woman. But Alexander isn’t about to lose his Olivia. After a clue comes to light regarding Olivia’s whereabouts, can he convince her to return to Boston with him? When a force that has laid dormant for months resurfaces, can Alexander still protect her from the unknown danger? And when Alexander comes face to face with a shadow of both his and Olivia’s past, will he be able to tell her the secret that is threatening to tear them apart?<br />
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<em>A Tragic Wreck</em> is the continuation of T.K. Leigh’s heart-breaking <em>Beautiful Mess</em> series.<br />
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<em>What happens when you lose everyone that promised they would always be there for you? How can you protect the few pieces of your shattered heart that remain?</em><br />
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Olivia Adler is a woman with a troubled past. After losing her parents at the young age of six and being raised by an uncle who she lost years later, she refuses to get attached to anyone, including friends. For the past decade, she has been able to remain unattached to any man, too worried about losing someone to get too close. Until Alexander Burnham walks into her life one night and changes everything. But he has issues of his own. And he’s keeping a secret that could turn her world upside-down. Will Olivia let Alexander in enough for him to get close and protect her from a force threatening her very existence, or will she push him away, scared of letting Alexander in, in order to protect her heart?<br />
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<em>A Beautiful Mess</em> is the first installment of a three part series sure to captivate the heart with a story of secrets, courage, and love.<br />
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T.K. Leigh, otherwise known as Tracy Leigh Kellam, is a producer / attorney by trade. Originally from New England, she now resides in sunny Southern California with her husband, dog and three cats, all of which she has rescued (including the husband). She always had a knack for writing, but mostly in the legal field. It wasn’t until recently that she decided to try her hand at creative writing and is now addicted to creating different characters and new and unique story lines in the Contemporary Romantic Suspense genre.<br />
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Her debut novel “A Beautiful Mess” has garnered relative praise, having been an Amazon Best Seller, an Amazon Top-Rated book. Recently, the book was named by <i>The Guardian</i> as a top reader-recommended self-published book of 2013 as well as a 2013 Reader’s Favorite in <i>Publisher’s Weekly</i> in addition to being named an Amazon Romance Editor’s Fan Favorite for Top Debut Author and Best Page Turner.<br />
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When she’s not planted in front of her computer, writing away, she can be found running and training for her next marathon (of which she has run over fifteen fulls and far too many halfs to recall). Unlike Olivia, the main character in her <i>Beautiful Mess </i>series, she has yet to qualify for the Boston Marathon.<br />
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<a href="http://brandyjellum.blogspot.com/">Escaping Reality One Book at a Time</a>Jasminehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10866849626951436909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7019488975750936110.post-6793016353335393992014-02-06T09:32:00.000-05:002014-02-06T09:32:00.275-05:00[Release Week Blog Party Day 4 - Giveaway ] A Tragic Wreck ~ T.K. Leigh<a href="http://tkleighauthor.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/blog-party.jpeg"><img alt="BLOG-PARTY" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-648" src="http://tkleighauthor.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/blog-party.jpeg?w=500" height="129" width="500" /></a><br />
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****SPOILER ALERT - DO NOT CONTINUE READING IF YOU HAVE NOT YET READ <b>A BEAUTIFUL MESS</b>*****<br />
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<em> A Tragic Wreck</em> is a much more emotional read than <em>A Beautiful Mess</em> is. In my first draft of the story I never had Olivia leaving Alexander. But the more I thought about it, the more that didn’t make sense given her character. This is a girl who, throughout her life, was so scared to get close to people. So we needed to see her suffer an immeasurable loss, and a loss that she caused, to make her realize that her ways needed to change. So that’s why I had her leaving. She wasn’t the type of person to change her ways overnight and immediately jump into a relationship. We needed to see the turmoil within caused by her own actions. And that’s what we see while she’s in Florida and then when she returns to Boston. The first half of the book is very emotionally charged and the reader can really feel the character’s emotions; the ups and downs. We cry when they cry. We laugh when they laugh. I loved writing this part of Olivia and Alexander’s story and I hope you enjoy reading about it and it brings you at least some temporary closure in certain respects.<br />
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<em>How can you continue living when you’re living a lie? How can you convince your body to stop feeling, your soul to stop caring, and your heart to stop beating?</em><br />
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Haunted by her past, Olivia Adler flees Boston for a beach in Florida, leaving everyone behind, trying to shut the world out. Remaining a relative recluse in her self-imposed prison, she tries to turn everything off, wanting to feel nothing. But a new acquaintance won’t let that happen. After being away from Alexander for a month, his voice constantly ringing in her head, reminding her that her inability to confront her demons will not only destroy her, but also him, can she really be expected to want to feel again when it brings nothing but pain?<br />
<br />
Back in Boston, everywhere he turns, Alexander Burnham is reminded of Olivia… His Olivia… He tries to dull the ache left in his heart the only way he knows how… in the bed of a beautiful woman. But Alexander isn’t about to lose his Olivia. After a clue comes to light regarding Olivia’s whereabouts, can he convince her to return to Boston with him? When a force that has laid dormant for months resurfaces, can Alexander still protect her from the unknown danger? And when Alexander comes face to face with a shadow of both his and Olivia’s past, will he be able to tell her the secret that is threatening to tear them apart?<br />
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<em>A Tragic Wreck</em> is the continuation of T.K. Leigh’s heart-breaking <em>Beautiful Mess</em> series.<br />
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<em>What happens when you lose everyone that promised they would always be there for you? How can you protect the few pieces of your shattered heart that remain?</em><br />
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Olivia Adler is a woman with a troubled past. After losing her parents at the young age of six and being raised by an uncle who she lost years later, she refuses to get attached to anyone, including friends. For the past decade, she has been able to remain unattached to any man, too worried about losing someone to get too close. Until Alexander Burnham walks into her life one night and changes everything. But he has issues of his own. And he’s keeping a secret that could turn her world upside-down. Will Olivia let Alexander in enough for him to get close and protect her from a force threatening her very existence, or will she push him away, scared of letting Alexander in, in order to protect her heart?<br />
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<em>A Beautiful Mess</em> is the first installment of a three part series sure to captivate the heart with a story of secrets, courage, and love.<br />
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T.K. Leigh, otherwise known as Tracy Leigh Kellam, is a producer / attorney by trade. Originally from New England, she now resides in sunny Southern California with her husband, dog and three cats, all of which she has rescued (including the husband). She always had a knack for writing, but mostly in the legal field. It wasn’t until recently that she decided to try her hand at creative writing and is now addicted to creating different characters and new and unique story lines in the Contemporary Romantic Suspense genre.<br />
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Her debut novel “A Beautiful Mess” has garnered relative praise, having been an Amazon Best Seller, an Amazon Top-Rated book. Recently, the book was named by <i>The Guardian</i> as a top reader-recommended self-published book of 2013 as well as a 2013 Reader’s Favorite in <i>Publisher’s Weekly</i> in addition to being named an Amazon Romance Editor’s Fan Favorite for Top Debut Author and Best Page Turner.<br />
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When she’s not planted in front of her computer, writing away, she can be found running and training for her next marathon (of which she has run over fifteen fulls and far too many halfs to recall). Unlike Olivia, the main character in her <i>Beautiful Mess </i>series, she has yet to qualify for the Boston Marathon.<br />
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Welcome to Day 3!!!! A question I get a lot is how I came up with the idea behind these books. Well, it’s hard to really pinpoint where the idea came from. I had a rough concept in my head but it was nowhere near what the story ended up being. A lot has changed since I began writing and I’m very happy with the way everything has turned out. There will be lots of twists and turns. You will get some questions answered by the end of <em>A Tragic Wreck</em> but not all of them. It is a three-book series, although when I was writing Alexander and Olivia’s story, I thought it would be a stand-alone piece until I stepped back and saw I had a 325,000 word manuscript. So I chose to break it into three books.<br />
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So I hope you’re all enjoying <em>A Tragic Wreck</em> and for those of you who have already finished it, I hope you got some of your questions answered and the ending left you a little more satisfied than the ending of <em>A Beautiful Mess</em>. For those of you who haven’t finished it yet, I hope you’ve stocked up on tissues… I think the most heartbreaking part of this part of their story is both of them being surrounded by constant reminders of what they had both lost through everything.<br />
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<em>How can you continue living when you’re living a lie? How can you convince your body to stop feeling, your soul to stop caring, and your heart to stop beating?</em><br />
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Haunted by her past, Olivia Adler flees Boston for a beach in Florida, leaving everyone behind, trying to shut the world out. Remaining a relative recluse in her self-imposed prison, she tries to turn everything off, wanting to feel nothing. But a new acquaintance won’t let that happen. After being away from Alexander for a month, his voice constantly ringing in her head, reminding her that her inability to confront her demons will not only destroy her, but also him, can she really be expected to want to feel again when it brings nothing but pain?<br />
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Back in Boston, everywhere he turns, Alexander Burnham is reminded of Olivia… His Olivia… He tries to dull the ache left in his heart the only way he knows how… in the bed of a beautiful woman. But Alexander isn’t about to lose his Olivia. After a clue comes to light regarding Olivia’s whereabouts, can he convince her to return to Boston with him? When a force that has laid dormant for months resurfaces, can Alexander still protect her from the unknown danger? And when Alexander comes face to face with a shadow of both his and Olivia’s past, will he be able to tell her the secret that is threatening to tear them apart?<br />
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<em>A Tragic Wreck</em> is the continuation of T.K. Leigh’s heart-breaking <em>Beautiful Mess</em> series.<br />
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<em>What happens when you lose everyone that promised they would always be there for you? How can you protect the few pieces of your shattered heart that remain?</em><br />
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Olivia Adler is a woman with a troubled past. After losing her parents at the young age of six and being raised by an uncle who she lost years later, she refuses to get attached to anyone, including friends. For the past decade, she has been able to remain unattached to any man, too worried about losing someone to get too close. Until Alexander Burnham walks into her life one night and changes everything. But he has issues of his own. And he’s keeping a secret that could turn her world upside-down. Will Olivia let Alexander in enough for him to get close and protect her from a force threatening her very existence, or will she push him away, scared of letting Alexander in, in order to protect her heart?<br />
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<em>A Beautiful Mess</em> is the first installment of a three part series sure to captivate the heart with a story of secrets, courage, and love.<br />
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T.K. Leigh, otherwise known as Tracy Leigh Kellam, is a producer / attorney by trade. Originally from New England, she now resides in sunny Southern California with her husband, dog and three cats, all of which she has rescued (including the husband). She always had a knack for writing, but mostly in the legal field. It wasn’t until recently that she decided to try her hand at creative writing and is now addicted to creating different characters and new and unique story lines in the Contemporary Romantic Suspense genre.<br />
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Her debut novel “A Beautiful Mess” has garnered relative praise, having been an Amazon Best Seller, an Amazon Top-Rated book. Recently, the book was named by <i>The Guardian</i> as a top reader-recommended self-published book of 2013 as well as a 2013 Reader’s Favorite in <i>Publisher’s Weekly</i> in addition to being named an Amazon Romance Editor’s Fan Favorite for Top Debut Author and Best Page Turner.<br />
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When she’s not planted in front of her computer, writing away, she can be found running and training for her next marathon (of which she has run over fifteen fulls and far too many halfs to recall). Unlike Olivia, the main character in her <i>Beautiful Mess </i>series, she has yet to qualify for the Boston Marathon.<br />
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Happy Official Release Day!!!! WOOT! I didn’t think this day would ever get here. The official release date for <em>A Beautiful Mess</em> was October 8, 2013. My ARCs were finished in mid-August and shortly after they had been distributed, I started to receive great reviews. So I debated whether to hold off and publish on my originally scheduled date or to just go ahead and hit that little publish button early. I had no idea how to promote or market my book yet. Hell, I would have been happy if ten people purchased my book, so I didn’t understand how to build hype. So I hit that little publish button on August 27th, publishing <em>A Beautiful Mess</em> way ahead of schedule.<br />
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Little did I know on that date that it would garner the praise and support that it did. It’s still a little overwhelming to hear how much people love Mr. B. and swoon over his devotion to Olivia. There are so many amazing moments in <i>A Tragic Wreck</i> that just makes us feel these characters’ pain even more. This one gets me every time…<br />
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<em>A little girl lay in a hospital bed. Tubes were attached to her and a machine measuring her heartbeat maintained a steady rhythm. That’s all Olivia heard for days, the constant beep…beep…beep… Voices sounded around her. She recognized some of them and desperately willed her eyes to open, but she couldn’t muster the strength. She felt something against her arm. Mr. Bear. Pulling the bear closer, she cried, wondering if anyone could even see the tears that fell from her eyes.</em><br />
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<em>Hours passed. Maybe days. Olivia had no idea. She felt a small hand, not much bigger than her own, take hers. It had to belong to a child. “Olibia. You need to wake up now. Please,” the voice begged. Olivia tried and tried to open her eyes, but she couldn’t.</em><br />
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<i>- </i>A Tragic Wreck (Copyright 2014 T.K. Leigh)<br />
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<em>How can you continue living when you’re living a lie? How can you convince your body to stop feeling, your soul to stop caring, and your heart to stop beating?</em><br />
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Haunted by her past, Olivia Adler flees Boston for a beach in Florida, leaving everyone behind, trying to shut the world out. Remaining a relative recluse in her self-imposed prison, she tries to turn everything off, wanting to feel nothing. But a new acquaintance won’t let that happen. After being away from Alexander for a month, his voice constantly ringing in her head, reminding her that her inability to confront her demons will not only destroy her, but also him, can she really be expected to want to feel again when it brings nothing but pain?<br />
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Back in Boston, everywhere he turns, Alexander Burnham is reminded of Olivia… His Olivia… He tries to dull the ache left in his heart the only way he knows how… in the bed of a beautiful woman. But Alexander isn’t about to lose his Olivia. After a clue comes to light regarding Olivia’s whereabouts, can he convince her to return to Boston with him? When a force that has laid dormant for months resurfaces, can Alexander still protect her from the unknown danger? And when Alexander comes face to face with a shadow of both his and Olivia’s past, will he be able to tell her the secret that is threatening to tear them apart?<br />
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<em>A Tragic Wreck</em> is the continuation of T.K. Leigh’s heart-breaking <em>Beautiful Mess</em> series.<br />
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<em>What happens when you lose everyone that promised they would always be there for you? How can you protect the few pieces of your shattered heart that remain?</em><br />
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Olivia Adler is a woman with a troubled past. After losing her parents at the young age of six and being raised by an uncle who she lost years later, she refuses to get attached to anyone, including friends. For the past decade, she has been able to remain unattached to any man, too worried about losing someone to get too close. Until Alexander Burnham walks into her life one night and changes everything. But he has issues of his own. And he’s keeping a secret that could turn her world upside-down. Will Olivia let Alexander in enough for him to get close and protect her from a force threatening her very existence, or will she push him away, scared of letting Alexander in, in order to protect her heart?<br />
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<em>A Beautiful Mess</em> is the first installment of a three part series sure to captivate the heart with a story of secrets, courage, and love.<br />
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T.K. Leigh, otherwise known as Tracy Leigh Kellam, is a producer / attorney by trade. Originally from New England, she now resides in sunny Southern California with her husband, dog and three cats, all of which she has rescued (including the husband). She always had a knack for writing, but mostly in the legal field. It wasn’t until recently that she decided to try her hand at creative writing and is now addicted to creating different characters and new and unique story lines in the Contemporary Romantic Suspense genre.<br />
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Her debut novel “A Beautiful Mess” has garnered relative praise, having been an Amazon Best Seller, an Amazon Top-Rated book. Recently, the book was named by <i>The Guardian</i> as a top reader-recommended self-published book of 2013 as well as a 2013 Reader’s Favorite in <i>Publisher’s Weekly</i> in addition to being named an Amazon Romance Editor’s Fan Favorite for Top Debut Author and Best Page Turner.<br />
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When she’s not planted in front of her computer, writing away, she can be found running and training for her next marathon (of which she has run over fifteen fulls and far too many halfs to recall). Unlike Olivia, the main character in her <i>Beautiful Mess </i>series, she has yet to qualify for the Boston Marathon.<br />
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