Book Review: Choosing Me: Love Letters from a Poet by Bill Weber

Choosing Me: Love Letters from a Poet

Sex... Bombarded with imagery in advertising, on TV, in the movies, sex has become commonplace and ordinary. Even in our romantic relationships, we have too often let the flames of passion die to a flicker.

Yet sex is naturally healthy, good for loving relationships, and even spiritually enriching. Rendered in exquisite language, the poems in this volume open new windows into the sensual magic and mystery of sexual pleasure. They allow us to rediscover the sacredness of both the body and the act of lovemaking.

Inspired to write these poems by a desire to express the depths of meaning and the physical expression of making love, poet Bill Weber paints vivid pictures in words that far transcend old clichés and masterfully express the transcendent dimensions of sexual pleasures.

Book Sale: Beautifully Broken by Laura Lee

Beautifully Broken by Laura Lee

This book sale also includes an excerpt and book playlist.

I KNEW HE WOULD RUIN ME FROM THE MOMENT WE MET. 

Everything about the man screamed confidence. Sensuality. Intelligence. Worldliness. But it was how he saved me that ruined me most. 

Through him, I learned to end my path of self-destruction. I no longer needed to numb the pain with mindless one-night-stands and drunken blackouts. He made me feel worthy. Treasured. Optimistic about my future. 

Here I stand four years later, in a coffee shop a world away, still broken…but beautifully so. My scars no longer hold me back. Instead, they give me strength and enrich my appreciation for the good things in life. I have hopes and dreams…faith that anything is possible. I am no longer the lost little girl fighting for survival. I have direction. I have courage. I am not without possibility.

I’ll always have Gavin to thank for that—Mr. Cooper, I remind myself. That’s who he is to me now: just a former teacher. I know what you’re thinking, but don’t worry. I was eighteen when we first met. Legally, we did nothing wrong. Morally? Well, I guess that depends on how flexible your morals are. 


My name is Kat and this is my story.

Blog Tour with Excerpt: Ten Reasons To Stay by Candace Knoebel

Ten Reasons to Stay by Candace Knoebel

This blog tour includes an excerpt.

One day a week—Thursdays—my husband and I could do whatever or whomever we pleased. Protection was non-negotiable. And no matter what, we had to be home by midnight. 

Jack was the one who wanted an open marriage, but we were supposed to keep things simple. No strings. No commitments. It seemed so easy…until it wasn’t. 

Devilishly handsome Cole Blackwater was only supposed to be a fling, but everything about him made me feel alive. Wanted. Seen. When I realized he was my husband’s boss, I should have broken things off right then…but I didn’t. 

One day a week, I could pretend that I was his and he was mine…until Cole wanted more. 

But how could I decide between the man I’d promised to love, honor, and cherish, and the man who tempted me to break every single vow I’d made?

Blog Tour with Review: Deal Takers by Laura Lee

Deal Takers by Laura Lee

This blog tour includes a review and giveaway.

MY DICK CAN BE A REAL BASTARD SOMETIMES.

When he takes charge, I’ve been known to do a lot of stupid shit, despite the fact that I have a genius IQ.

Case in point: How I met the woman of my dreams.

Now, I’m going to let you in on a little secret: I don’t regret that moment of idiocy one bit. It may have been one of the most embarrassing moments of my life, but you know what they say about first impressions, right?

Well, I can guarantee that I made quite the impression that evening. (Don't worry; I’ll tell you all the gory details later.) 

Most days, she acts like she hates me—probably because I behave like an ass— but we both know the truth: Rainey O’Neil wants me just as much as I want her—she just doesn’t want to admit it. Good thing I’ve never been one to back down from a challenge.

 *Deal Takers is the second installment in the Dealing with Love world but can be read as a standalone.

Cover Reveal: But First, Coffee by Sarah Darlington

But First, Coffee by Sarah Darlington

She's the boss.

I'm only a barista in her company.

I really don't give a f**k about her one way or the other.

And then there's Doug Maddox, a man with a lot of power over me. He's blackmailing me. Making me spy on her. I'm supposed to find her weaknesses and destroy her. But the closer I get, the more the lines between us start to blur.

She's sweet. She's kind. She's sexy as hell.

Why am I the only man who see's this?

So now I'm stuck - between keeping my sister safe against Doug, because that's what's really at stake here, and these feeling's I can't deny for a woman who shouldn't mean anything to me.

I know what I have to do. I'll destroy her.

It doesn't matter if I have to destroy my own heart in the process.

Book Sale: Heart of the Fae by Emma Hamm

Heart of the Fae by Emma Hamm

Beauty and the Beast meets Irish Mythology in this sweeping retelling of the beloved fairytale.... 

Once upon a time… 

A plague sweeps across the emerald hills of Uí Néill, leaving a young midwife’s father with months to live. To save her people, Sorcha makes a deal with a dangerous Fae. She must travel across the sea, through merrow and kelpie lands, to find a forgotten king on a crumbling throne. 

Born king of the Seelie Fae, Eamonn fought battles unnumbered to uphold honor, duty, and freedom… until his twin brother sank a blade between his shoulders. Crystals grew from the wound, splitting open skin and bone. His people banished him to a cursed isle for his disfigurement, now king of criminals and fools. 

With the help of brownies, pixies, and will-o’-the-wisps, Sorcha battles to break through his crystalline shell and persuade him to take back his stolen throne.

This determined beauty could come dangerously close to stealing his beastly heart.

Book Review: Between Sea and Stars by Chantal Gadoury

Between Sea and Stars by Chantal Gadoury

This review includes a book trailer.

A Legend,

A Magical Shell

A Girl Who Dreamed Of Something More...

Lena, a Merrow girl, lives in the Skagerrak sea with her father, Carrick and her brother, Javelin who tells her of the legend of the Merrow Queen murdered by her human lover when greed takes over. But what's worth spilling the queen's blood? Gifted from Poseidon, himself, a magic shell gives any human the ability to control both land and sea.

When Javelin is called to join a clan of Merrow soldiers bent on protecting their waters from human invasion, Lena resists Merrow law and ventures to the shore with no choice but to swim to land.

With newfound legs, Lena is whisked away on a new adventure with new friends and new trouble. Everyone seems to want something from her as intrigue lurks around every corner.

Trying her best to hide who she is and remain safe from the dangers of the human world, will Lena finally find where she belongs, or will she be swept into a strong and stormy current by lust, greed, and jealousy?

Cover Reveal: Flirting with Fire by Piper Rayne

Flirting with Fire by Piper Rayne

Everyone knows that if you play with fire you’ll end up getting burned… 

What happens when you attend a first responder’s bachelor auction with your best friends? Well, if your name is Madison Kelly like me, your friends end up bidding on a date for you with your high school crush. 

That’s right. Even back when I was ‘Fatty Maddie’ to all my classmates, I had eyes for the quarterback of our football team. Not like I was the only one. 

Mauro Bianco may fight fires for a living, but he still sets my heart ablaze. One look at the rugged, muscular man he’s turned into and I want to slide down his pole. 

One date. That’s all I’m committed to. A few hours and I can tuck him back into that tattered old shoebox in my closet. 

As always, the universe has other plans. I never would’ve predicted that in a matter of days he’d turn from my dream guy into my enemy.

Cover Reveal: Belle: Part 1 by Liz Meldon

Belle: Part 1 by Liz Meldon

This cover reveal includes a giveaway.

Rule #1: Never fall in love with the client.

Belle

I’m terrified.

I’ve never done this before—two months on a private island, isolated from the rest of the world, just me and my new client.

A client who wants my unwavering submission.

What if I’m a horrible submissive? What if I fail?

Worst of all—what if I fall for the man I know I can’t have?

Protect your heart, Belle, I tell myself. Protect it when he smiles at you, kisses you, binds you. Don’t let Dean Donahue have it, as tempted as you are to surrender it.

Because escorts don’t get fairy tale endings. We get paid.

Dean

I’ve wanted her from the first moment I saw her.

Belle Bennet, escort. Darling Belle, sweet girl, on her knees, bound and gagged, writhing in pleasure—or pain. The choice is mine.

She is mine. Perfect in her naivety, she’s the submissive I’ve been waiting my whole life to claim.

And for the next two months, I intend to have her—mind, body, and soul—any damn way I see fit.

Blog Tour with Excerpt: Everything Under the Sun by Jessica Redmerski

Everything Under the Sun by Jessica Redmerski

 This blog tour includes and excerpt and giveaway.

Thais Fenwick was eleven-years-old when civilization fell, devastated by a virus that killed off the majority of the world’s population. For seven years, Thais and her family lived in a community of survivors deep in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains. But when her town is attacked by raiders, she and her blind sister are taken away to the East-Central Territory where she is destined to live the cruel and unjust kind of life her late mother warned her about. Atticus Hunt is a troubled soldier in Lexington City who has spent the past seven years trying to conform to the vicious nature of men in a post-apocalyptic society. He knows that in order to survive, he must abandon his morals and his conscience and become like those he is surrounded by. But when he meets Thais, morals and conscience win out over conformity, and he risks his rank and his life to help her. They escape the city and set out together on a long and perilous journey to find safety in Shreveport, Louisiana. Struggling to survive in a world without electricity, food, shelter, and clean water, Atticus and Thais shed their fear of growing too close, and they fall hopelessly in love. But can love survive in such dark times, or is it fated to die with them?

Release Day Blitz with Review: Nine While Nine by Stasia Morineaux

Nine While Nine by Stasia Morineaux

This blog tour includes a review and giveaway.

Isabeau Finne’s perfect world utterly unravels when she meets Death's right-hand man one fateful night, spiraling her life into a world of chaos and the impossible.

Suddenly, she is no longer Isabeau and becomes part of the most secretive inner-workings of Death itself, as well as an otherworldly dominion of ancient magic.

Now beings—which we were taught as children were merely fictional creations of wildly whimsical minds—are edging their way into her world as well.

Buggans and Kobolds and Vargs…oh my!

She yearns for the simplicity of her old life—this one is full of dangers, unanswered questions, and cryptic dreams.

After one particularly anomalous dream in which she learns of the Nine While Nine Legacy, things become truly precarious.

Now, someone sees her as a risk…a threat…and wants to eliminate her.

Fortunately, she falls under the protection of Gideon—unless she leaves his territory—which is the one thing she wants the most…and wants the least.

  **An unprecedented new origin of the Fae story in this dark urban fantasy series**

Book Review: The Empress of Konin by M.D Loveheart

The Empress of Konin by M.D. Loveheart

"She was a woman desired by all, but only one could have her."

A hush falls over the kingdom of Konin when Emperor Abasi falls ill after returning from a war that's lasted over a decade. Konin has been left without a leader when Abasi's illness spirals into a sudden death. Isis, the Empress of Konin by blood, is the only leader that the country has let, and she's presented with a new challenge when her rule is opposed by powerful men. She's left to pick up the pieces that have fallen in place after Abasi's death while convincing her kingdom that she's fit to rule, and the only reprieve that she'll get from this madness is the company of a handsome servant with eyes that she could drown in. The addition of a manly distraction makes for a new, hectic world that's dangerous for more than one reason.

Book Review: Testament of Feats by K. H. Jones

Testament of Feats by K. H. Jones.

A vigilante, cursed to be unseen and forgotten, Night Scream collects blood debts as Jaws for the Dogs Clan. When fellow ranger Warhold disappears, Scream roams into unfamiliar territory to seek answers. He finds the lost survivors of the destroyed Ravens Clan as well as the death-cult Bones Clan practicing horrific rites. Neither explains Warhold's absence or the dark forces assaulting Scream at every turn. 

"There was a time on the earth

When the ancient and the new strived against each other,

When the seen and the unseen world

were not strange to each other,

When good and evil were not so clearly divided,

And when a Stained Hero walked the land."

Book Review: Starstruck by S. E. Anderson

Starstruck by S. E. Anderson

This review also includes a book trailer.

After an incident with a hot-air balloon causes college-dropout Sally Webber to lose her job, she sets off to find direction in her life. Crashing into a teleporting alien, however, is not on her to-do list.

Now she's on the run from TV-drama-loving aliens, and things are just getting started. Zander won't stop reeling her into life-or-death situations to save her planet, as he waits for his laser-wielding sister to search the universe for him. Though Sally isn't quite sure if he wants to save Earth from annihilation, or just quell his curiosity of all things human.

Now she's got to find lost alien emissaries, as well as a job, and stop the planet from getting incinerated in the process. But with Zander as her roommate, what could possibly go wrong?