Tuesday, September 29, 2015

RELEASE DAY LAUNCH: Seizing Control by Kylie Hillman





TITLE: SEIZING CONTROL
SERIES: BLACK SHAMROCKS MC 1
AUTHOR: Kylie Hillman
GENRE: Contemporary, Romance, Suspense, MC
RELEASE DATE: September 30, 2015

SYNOPSIS

Only daughter of the volatile President of the Black Shamrocks MC and long-suffering sister to four overprotective brothers, Madelaine O'Brien has survived circumstances that would have broken a lesser woman.

Mik 'Mad Dog' Kennedy is her salvation, her reward for continuing to fight, and the matching piece of her soul.

With her life finally happy and on track, will the reappearance of the monster from her past be the event that finally breaks her? Or will he be the catalyst she needs to put it all behind her, once and for all?

They say when life gives you lemons; make lemonade. What happens when life keeps sending you demons who refuse to stay buried? Do you lie down and accept defeat or rise to the seemingly unwinnable challenge, and start SEIZING CONTROL?

DISCLAIMER: This book contains graphic situations and as such may not be suitable for all readers.





EXCERPT

“Take her for a ride, Angel.”

I straddle my bike; turn the key in the ignition, kick up the stand and hit the starter button. She starts straight away. Hearing Benji’s bike start as well makes my smile widen. He has finally been converted back to the right side, if the whooping and hollering he is doing is any indication. I rev my bike a couple of times before Brendan moves into my eye line, surprising me. I'd totally forgotten about him.

“Brendan, borrow a helmet off Dad’s bike and come for a ride,” I shout over the engines. I probably should share my first ride with him, even though he doesn't appreciate Harley’s at all. He looks at me in disbelief and shakes his head.

“No, I’ll pass. Are you sure you can handle that bike? It’s pretty big for a girl,” he asks, disapproval radiating from him.

Before I can answer him, Mik interjects in a firm voice. “Of course she fucking can. As if I’d give her something she couldn’t handle.”

He shakes his head at Brendan with disgust and grabs a helmet off of Dad’s bike. He jogs towards me and winks.

“If lover boy’s too scared to go with you, I’ll go.”

I can hear Benji laughing like a lunatic over the pulsing of the bikes. He loves it when anyone cuts Brendan down publicly. Constantly needing to mediate between Brendan and Benji and their mutual dislike is starting to wear thin.

"I'd prefer if you didn't, Mik.” Brendan tells him in a clipped voice.

Brendan turns his attention to me, effectively dismissing him.

“It's not appropriate, Lainey.”

“Is that fucking right, lover boy?”

Mik shoots Brendan a poisonous glare, causing Brendan to turn back to him. Why does Brendan have to do this now? I swallow when Mik takes a menacing step closer to him.

“I'm Mad Dog to civvies like you, I'll have you know. And she.” Mik points in my direction. “Is not Lainey to anyone but me.”

It surprises me when Brendan blanches in the face of Mik's open hostility and takes a step back. Mik follows, obviously not finished telling him how it's going to be.

“I'll also have you know that if I want to go for a ride with her, I fucking will. If any man here wants to go for a ride with her and she wants to take them, then she will. You're her boyfriend, unfortunately, not her fucking owner so fuck you and fuck your inappropriate shit.”

I hold my breath, waiting for Brendan to lose it but he doesn't. He turns without another word and walks towards the doors.

“Fuck, Lainey, you sure can pick ‘em.” Mik tells me seriously as I'm looking around us to see how many people were paying attention to the scene that just unfolded. Hopefully the sound of our bikes drowned out most of the confrontation. Thankfully it seems as if only Joel has overheard us since everyone else is either still fawning over Benji and his bike or has disappeared back inside to the party. Joel shoots me a look of pity which has me holding back tears.

“It certainly looks like it.” I give him a shaky laugh and a shrug. I'm nearly over Brendan’s crap. There's only so many times I can speak to him about his possessiveness before I just have to give up. “He's not like that all the time.”

“I guess I'll have to take your word for it, Angel.” 


ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kylie Hillman is an Australian author who was born and raised in Outback South Australia. A love of reading as a young child developed into a love of creating stories so she could always be found either scribbling away furiously in her notebook or entranced by an open book.

Mum to two gorgeous, talented children and wife to a Harley riding Aussie bloke, Kylie spent her twenties reading multiple books from many different genres and authors, and occasionally finding the time to write a story as inspiration hit. A devastating diagnosis of severe Crohn's Disease at the age of twenty-four brought her accounting career to a screeching halt and after recovering from multiple surgeries, Kylie was left scrambling as to where her life was now headed. She began writing again as a way to alleviate the monotony of life as a stay-at-home mother to two school aged children and was finally driven to publish her first novel after falling in love with her characters and wanting to share them with others.

A self-proclaimed Queen of Sarcasm and Innuendo, Kylie also enjoys drinking copious amounts of tea, listening to 80's rock music and being taken for rides on the back of her husband's Harley when the kids are at school. She is determined to one day ride her own Harley and her biggest wish is to see a cure developed for Crohn's Disease in her lifetime.

A lover of dark romance featuring hot alphas, sassy heroines and real-life drama, Kylie's first series is based around the Black Shamrocks Motorcycle Club and contains everything she loves about the genre. Seizing Control: Black Shamrocks MC is her debut novel and is part of a series of five books following the ups and downs of the love lives of the members of the Club. The second book in the series, Making Choices, will follow in early December 2015.

Kylie is also working on a stand-alone dark MMA novel, which is expected to release in February 2016.

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Friday, September 25, 2015

RELEASE BLITZ: The Air He Breathes by Brittainy C. Cherry




Title: The Air He Breathes
Author: Romance Elements #1
Cover Design: Brittainy C. Cherry
Genre: Romance
 Release Date: September 25, 2015



Blurb

I was warned about Tristan Cole.

“Stay away from him,” people said.
“He’s cruel.”
“He’s cold.”
“He’s damaged.”

It’s easy to judge a man because of his past. To look at Tristan and see a monster.

But I couldn’t do that. I had to accept the wreckage that lived inside of him because it also lived inside of me.

We were both empty.
We were both looking for something else. Something more.
We both wanted to put together the shattered pieces of our yesterdays.

Then perhaps we could finally remember how to breathe.








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Brittainy Cherry has been in love with words since the day she took her first breath. She graduated from Carroll University with a Bachelors Degree in Theatre Arts and a minor in Creative Writing. She loves to take part in writing screenplays, acting, and dancing--poorly of course. Coffee, chai tea, and wine are three things that she thinks every person should partake in! Brittainy lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin with her family. When she's not running a million errands and crafting stories, she's probably playing with her adorable pets.




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RELEASE BOOST: Sweet Obsession by J. Daniels




Title: Sweet Obsession
Series: Sweet Addiction #3
Author: J Daniels
Genre: Contemporary/Erotic Romance
 Release Date: September 22, 2015



Blurb

***Author’s note*** Sweet Obsession can be read as a standalone novel.

Everyone knows Brooke Wicks loves to have a good time. She’s not interested in getting serious, settling down, or limiting herself to one man. So when she meets the sexy, irresistible Mason King, she sees another opportunity to let loose and go wild. But the gorgeous Aussie isn’t interested in just a quick fling with Brooke, and if she wants to get into his bed, she’s going to have to do it on his terms.

Loving fast and hard has always been Mason’s philosophy. He doesn’t want a meaningless connection, he wants it all, and he wants it with Brooke. When she makes her one desire known—to hit it and quit it—Mason wages a plan to ensure Brooke keeps coming back for more. Or so he hopes.

Getting her attention was the easy part. Keeping it might be damn near impossible.

Sweet Obsession is where the Sweet Addiction series meets the Alabama Summer series.





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Author Bio

J. Daniels is the NY Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Sweet Addiction series, and the Alabama Summer series. She loves curling up with a good book, drinking a ridiculous amount of coffee, and writing stories her children will never read. J grew up in Baltimore and resides in Maryland with her family.



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Thursday, September 24, 2015

COVER REVEAL: The Play by Karina Halle














A troubled Scottish rugby player who doesn't play by the rules.
A vivacious man-eater who's given up on love.
When it comes to Lachlan and Kayla, opposites don't just attract - they explode.

Kayla Moore has always been comfortable with her feisty, maneating reputation. At least it was fine until she hit her thirties and saw her best friends Stephanie and Nicola settle down with Linden and Bram McGregor, leaving Kayla to be the odd one out. Tired of being the third wheel with nothing but one-night stands and dead-end dates in San Francisco, Kayla decides to take a vow of celibacy and put men on the backburner.

That is until she lays her eyes on Linden and Bram’s cousin, hot Scot Lachlan McGregor. Lachlan is her sexual fantasy come to life – tall, tatted, and built like a Mack truck. With a steely gaze and successful rugby career back in Edinburgh, he’s the kind of man that makes her want to throw her vow right out the window. But Lachlan’s quiet and intense demeanor makes him a hard man to get to know, let alone get close to.

It isn’t until the two of them are thrown together one long, unforgettable night that Kayla realizes there is so much more to this brooding macho man than what meets the eye. But even with sparks flying between the two, Lachlan can’t stay in America forever. Now, Kayla has to decide whether to uproot her whole life and chance it all on someone she barely knows or risk getting burned once again.
Sometimes love is a game that just needs to be played.

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Karina Halle is a former travel writer and music journalist and The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestselling author of Where Sea Meets Sky, Racing the Sun, The Pact, Love, in English, The Artists Trilogy, Dirty Angels and over 20 other wild and romantic reads. She lives on an island off the coast of British Columbia with her husband and her rescue pup, where she drinks a lot of wine, hikes a lot of trails and devours a lot of books.
Halle is represented by the Waxman Leavell Agency and is both self-published and published by Atria Books/Simon & Schuster and Hachette in North America and in the UK.



Hit her up on Instagram at @authorHalle , on Twitter at @MetalBlonde and on Facebook. You can also visit www.authorkarinahalle.com and sign up for the newsletter for news, excerpts, previews, private book signing sales and more.




Tuesday, September 22, 2015

RELEASE BLITZ: Sweet Obsession by J. Daniels






Title: Sweet Obsession
Series: Sweet Addiction #3
Author: J Daniels
Genre: Contemporary/Erotic Romance
 Release Date: September 22, 2015




Blurb


***Author’s note*** Sweet Obsession can be read as a standalone novel.

Everyone knows Brooke Wicks loves to have a good time. She’s not interested in getting serious, settling down, or limiting herself to one man. So when she meets the sexy, irresistible Mason King, she sees another opportunity to let loose and go wild. But the gorgeous Aussie isn’t interested in just a quick fling with Brooke, and if she wants to get into his bed, she’s going to have to do it on his terms.

Loving fast and hard has always been Mason’s philosophy. He doesn’t want a meaningless connection, he wants it all, and he wants it with Brooke. When she makes her one desire known—to hit it and quit it—Mason wages a plan to ensure Brooke keeps coming back for more. Or so he hopes.

Getting her attention was the easy part. Keeping it might be damn near impossible.

Sweet Obsession is where the Sweet Addiction series meets the Alabama Summer series.






Purchase Links

AMAZON US | UK






Also Available

SWEET ADDICTION SERIES


AMAZON US / UK



AMAZON US / UK


 ALABAMA SUMMER SERIES


AMAZON US / UK



AMAZON US / UK



AMAZON US / UK



AMAZON US / UK


 

Author Bio

J. Daniels is the NY Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Sweet Addiction series, and the Alabama Summer series. She loves curling up with a good book, drinking a ridiculous amount of coffee, and writing stories her children will never read. J grew up in Baltimore and resides in Maryland with her family.



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