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What A Lady Most Desires Blog Tour : Review & Giveaway

Hi everyone! I have a stop on the What A Lady Most Desires blog tour today. There is a review of the book and a giveaway for you all.

What a Lady Most Desires
The Temberlay Series # 3 
By: Lecia Cornwall 
Releasing August 26th, 2014
Avon Romance 

Blurb
On the night before the final battle against Napoleon, Lady Delphine St. James finds herself dancing with the one man she has always wanted, Major Lord Stephen Ives. He makes it clear he has no time for a lady he sees as flirtatious and silly, but as the call to arms sounds, she bids him farewell with a kiss that stirs them both. When he returns gravely injured, she is intent on caring for him, even if his surly behavior tests her patience. 

After the battle, Stephen is not only wounded and blind, but falsely accused of cowardice and theft. The only light in his dark world is Delphine, the one woman he never imagined he could desire. But she deserves more than he can give her. 

As their feelings deepen and hidden enemies conspire to force them to part forever, can their love survive the cruelest test of all? 

My Review
Lady Delphine could marry many men but she has turned them all down. She will not marry without love and her heart is set on Major Lord Stephen Ives. Stephen doesn't look at her the same way. He has had his heart broke. The call to go to war send the men to the battle field but Delphine sends Stephen away with a goodbye kiss. It is a kiss that makes him look at her different. Stephen is injured in battle and Delphine helps nurse him back to health but he is blind now. He is also facing a scandal but he has one bright spot in his life Delphine. She makes him see the beauty that is all around without his vision. As the two fall for each other Stephen believes he will never be good enough for her and pushes her away. He may have pushed her to far and into the arms of another man. Now he has to see if she is what he truly wants forever.

Delphine is a great character. She won't be rushed into marriage and even if she is a Lady she is willing to get dirty to help others. She follows her heart and tries to help many. I like her she is spunky and outgoing. Stephen I have to say took almost 80 percent into the book before I liked him. From the start he is moody and sullen and I really couldn't see what Delphine saw in him. He had some moments where he seemed sweet and caring but they were in-between his bipolar like attitude. He did turn it around and was a nice guy but I never got to feeling more than a like for him.

 If you like romances with a great female character you will really enjoy this one. Delphine made this book for me. She was simply amazing the whole book. There is a mystery going on that I figured out pretty quick but it still didn't take anything away from the book. I enjoyed seeing Delphine bring Stephen out of his funk and how passionate she is with him. She only seems to want the best for him. Seeing do whatever she could to clear his name even after he hurt her showed how great she is. I am sure many historical romance fans will enjoy this one.

4 out of 5 Stars


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Lecia Cornwall is a PRO member of the Romance Writers of America’s Seattle and Calgary Chapters. Her background includes all facets of writing, including running a successful freelance writing business specializing in direct marketing and advertising. Both history and writing have been lifelong passions. Lecia currently lives and writes in Calgary, Alberta, the heart of the Canadian West.

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Misbehavior Book Blast & Giveaway


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Matthew “Val” Taylor, the Road Captain in the club, was introduced to sex at an early age. Saved from the streets by the club’s Enforcer and President years ago, Val now lives for women and the open road. Until the night the only woman he’s ever loved is almost killed. Val determines to change his ways and be the man Zoann Donovan should have and the father their son deserves.

Zoann has loved Val for a long time. Violence and bitter betrayal forces her to ignore her feelings and distance herself not only from the sexy RC, but her beloved brother, too. Until she discovers the truth. Can Zoann ever be forgiven for all the pain she’s caused? Will Val overcome his own demons and have a future with her and their son? Who will survive in an MC filled with lust and revenge, love and hate?

Warning: This is a tale of rape, murders, deception, heartache, lies, and infidelity. The road to redemption is a tumultuous struggle where only the strong survive and justice is served…Outlaw-style.
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Kathryn Kelly is living her dream and writing books. Everyone who follows Kat on Facebook is well aware of her relationship with her mother. For those of you who are unaware, the following will offer you a taste. To live in peace, Kat acknowledges she is a mom, but prefers to keep her personal life private. In spite of her momma. Kat has always been an avid reader and still devours books in her spare time. She also enjoys football, socializing, music, eating, and jokes. In her head, she's the ultimate biker babe. In reality, she's an ordinary girl-next-door and a native New Orleanian.

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Winterkill Book Blast & Giveaway


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A beautiful reporter and a charming rancher are caught in a web of mayhem, murder…and lust.

Reporter Sawyer Cahill returns home to Cheyenne, Wyoming to report for the local station. But leaving behind the coverage of the gangland murders of San Antonio only lands her smack in the middle of the ritualistic animal mutilations. Harassed and threatened by the freak behind the bizarre murders, Sawyer plunges into her investigation, reaping the attentions of two local ranchers.

Local rancher, Jake Spooner, tangles with a tug of war relationship with Sawyer. Tormented between his smoldering desire for Sawyer and his wish to keep her safe, their passion flames in a mountain snow storm.





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Teaching and shooting news and documentaries took me to work on the East and West coasts, the Midwest and an island in the Gulf of Mexico. Born a fourth generation Texan, I live in Austin with an energetic mutt that waits patiently every day for me to come home and write.




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The Witchling Grows Up Blog Tour : Review, Excerpy & Giveaway

Hi everyone! I have a stop on The Witchling Grows Up blog tour today. There is a review of the book, an excerpt and a giveaway for you all.

The Witchling Grows Up
Family Pendragon # 1
By: Mary Moriarty 

Blurb
Dylan Pendragon is not what she appears to be. She appears to be a twenty something, hippy, new-age follower… When in fact she is a ninety-year-old, witchling from one of the oldest families connected with witchcraft.

She has yet to get any powers so to speak. But she is destined to be the most powerful witch of them all…

And she is a virgin.

Justice is a seven thousand years old Vampire. He is the oldest friend to his former king of their kind, Cormac O’ Heachthanna. There are three things that vampires love. Blood, fighting and sex and not necessarily in that order. Justice lost his wife about six thousand years ago, so he has devoted his life to keeping mankind safe… and he has had no sex in that many years.

The Dark One has one thing on his mind. Capture Dylan Pendragon and take what he thinks is his… her virginity and her power which will blossom like a rose once she is taken. He will do anything to get her and that power or die trying.

In the course of one night under a full moon two become connected and set into motion events that can’t be stopped that will ultimately bring victory for some or one and the rest will be cast into the underworld for eternity and beyond.

Can Justice show Dylan he wants to protect her without touching her? Will he listen to his heart where love that has been dormant for so long, and is waiting to be released?

Will Dylan allow Justice to protect her so she can figure out how to get her powers and be strong enough to fight the Dark One? Or will she fall and be the sacrifice that the Dark One intends her to be.


My Review
Dylan may look young but she is actually a ninety year old virgin witch. Everyone says she will be the most powerful witch every but she still hasn't come into her powers. She has a happy life except now the Dark One wants her for his own. He knows once she is no longer a virgin her power will rise and he can take it. One man stands in his way. Justice is a very old vampire and after having lost his wife thousands of years ago he has had no woman since then. Dylan makes him want something more. He wants her and not just for a while he wants forever with her. He just has to earn her trust and get her to want him back. He will do anything to protect her.

I really enjoyed the characters in this book. Dylan is a delight to read about and I love how young she appears even if she is older than that. Her dragon was a nice edition to the story and I liked seeing him. Justice seems lonely and in many ways he is. He has his fellow vampires but no one really for him. He is super great about not pushing Dylan for more than what he thinks she can handle. He is in love with her but never pushes and allows tries to protect her. The Dark One is a good name for the villain in this story. He is indeed that.

his was a great story as you got to see where Dylan came from. You get not just her story but her mom's and grandmother's. I liked that back part of the story. They are all witches and along with them you also get the addition of Vampires when Justice arrives. I liked the combo of them. They are usually enemies but they try to work together to help Dylan. Justice has his hands full not just with The Dark One but a dragon and others as well. I loved seeing them come after him because some are so tiny they really shouldn't. There is danger as Dylan is being hunted but there is also the beginning of love. I couldn't believe how it ended and can't wait to read the next one. This was an amazing start to a series.

4 out of 5 Stars


Excerpt
Early 1920s, London, Belgrave Square

Rose looked up into her Uncle’s face. She sat in bed, all ruffles and lace. A maid had just left to get her a pot of tea. Her Aunts and cousins all had left the room when William Pendragon had arrived from the continent.

“So Uncle Will what do you think of her? Isn’t she beautiful?”

Will looked down at the wee baby at his niece’s breast. It was funny, she was hundreds of years old but didn’t look a day over twenty. Now finally she had had a baby, but out of wedlock. Was that to be the way the women of his family conducted themselves?

He reached down and touched the sleeping baby’s face. “She is truly beautiful. She has that little mark, just like my beloved sister, on her chin. It looks like a flame… but no one would ever know… it would look more like a strangely shaped strawberry to mortals.”

Rose smiled. Did grandmother ever know from that mark, that would be the way she went out of this world, by fire?”

Will shook her head. “She was powerful but didn’t have the gift of second sight” He sat down on his niece’s bed, his ward of all these years. They had settled in London, had blended with all the other aristocrats. Will had made sure of that. They had rode out all the turbulence of the years unscathed. His fortunes rose and with that property being bought. He bought the two homes side by side on Belgrave Square soon after it was built. One was for him and Rose, the other for the women of his family. He had bought up a great deal of land in Cornwall and Glastonbury. Now with the new babe, he would be giving that baby a gift.

“What of the father, Rose?”

Rose kissed the baby’s forehead and smiled. “What of the baby’s father? I don’t give a fig about convention and you never have either.

“What name will you give her? Her father’s?”

Rose shook her head. “No, she will be Dylan Pendragon. She should carry on the family’s ancient name.”

William sat down. He felt old all of a sudden. He let his finger touch the babe’s silky hair.Why had he never settled? He knew because he had spent his life on revenge all these years… the sun went behind a cloud and cast a shadow over the baby. He heard Rose start to chant. Looking up he saw her eyes closed as she recited an ancient protection spell. Listening to the words he knew he would never settle. His job would be protecting the women of his family… forever.

Reaching for the babe after Rose was done. He took the baby up in his arms. Like all the females of his family she already had those bewitching eyes. Holding her up, he said his own blessing. He spoke in the Gaelic more times than not and this would be her mother tongue. “efallai y byddwch yn yr un foretold i ddod â'r holl greaduriaid at ei gilydd.”

Rose watched her uncle bless her baby. She watched as stardust fell from the ceiling and then a whirlwind came and in it a dragon.

It circled and flapped it wings, blew out fire and smoke then landed on the chair next to Rose and the baby.

William and Rose watched the beast. Though no larger than a small lap dog or crow it sounded like a lion with it purr.

Lord, why did you call me out of my sleep?

William smiled. “Because you have a job to do, one that will last for a millennium or more.”

The dragon nodded its head. I have been waiting, where is my charge?

William put the baby closer to the dragon.

The dragon looked down on the baby from his perch. Ah, the newest Pendragon. I have waited for such a time as this. She will be mine until such time her protector comes…

William shook his head. “Even then you will never leave her. Only with you will she have the power she needs. We still must watch for the darkness and never allow it to overtake.”

The dragon nodded his head. He sat looking at the babe. Then with quick movement flew to William’s arm. Getting a closer look he let his wing touch the babe. The baby sighed in her sleep and it looked like she was smiling.

The dragon looked up to William and then at Rose. It is good you called me… she is mine and I am hers, she is the one foretold who will bring all creatures together.

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I grew up in New England surrounded by a lot of history and storytelling by my father who was from the Mid-Coast of Maine. What I remember of my mother was her love of fairy tales, the wee people and poetry. So it’s no wonder I would one day write.

When I am not writing, I read. Of course I love Romance but can’t read the same genre that I write so I read mysteries, memoirs and history… I love history, especially Medieval and WWII.

I don’t generally watch TV but I love Downton Abbey.

My favorite authors… Mmmm, well let me see. Jane Austen, the late Elizabeth Peters, LM Montgomery, Loretta Chase, J.R.Ward , Sharon Kay Penman and Pamela Kaufman to name a few that come to mind.

What do I do when I am not writing? I am a mother of seven, four still at home. I have a home filled with pets, four dogs and six cats. I write seven days a week.

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Longing Blog Tour : Review & Excerpt

Hi everyone! I have a stop on the Longing blog tour today. There is a review of the book and a giveaway for you all.

Longing 
Club Inferno # 2 
By: Jamie K. Schmidt 
Releasing September 2nd, 2014
Loveswept 

Blurb
Desire never goes out of style, as Jamie K. Schmidt proves in the sizzling continuation of her Club Inferno series—perfect for readers of Fifty Shades of Grey and Bared to You.

Reeling from a disastrous love affair, model and budding fashion designer Anya Litton needs a temporary refuge, a place to lick her wounds and plan her next career move. At Club Inferno, where seductively chic men and women indulge their most intimate fantasies, she can mix business with unimaginable pleasure. Anya quickly connects with club Dom Clint Reyes, who unleashes Anya’s deepest longings over nights of burning passion.

Clint is a master at taking submissives to the heights of pleasure in Club Inferno’s opulent private dungeons. But it’s Anya who has Clint begging for more when the woman of his dreams becomes his eager partner in exploring the limits of desire. As their relationship ignites into an erotic contest of wills—and a jealous rival plots against them both—Clint prepares to fight for a future with Anya. In this complicated dance, the wrong move could end it all . . . and taking control means total surrender.

Longing is an erotic romance intended for mature audiences.

My Review
Anya is getting over an ex at Club Inferno. She teaches a few classes and tries to lose weight to get a part she really wants. At the club she has let her imagination run wild about Dom Clint. He is great looking and she never figures  he would go for a curvy woman like her. She isn't into the Dom lifestyle but knows some about it. Clint is a wonderful Dom who gives women what they want. He teaches classes there as well. He like Anya and would love for her to be part of his life. He has bigger dreams than being a stripper. He slowly brings Anya into the Dom life but only goes as far as she wants to. A woman from Anya's past doesn't want her to be happy and will do anything to keep her down. Even bring an ex into play. Anya and Clint have to see if they are good together or it would better if they end things.

I enjoyed this steamy book. Clint wasn't like some Dom's he only wants to do what Anya is willing to do. He never really pushes her a lot. He is a smart guy with big dreams. Anya has some problems with her self confidence she has to work on. She likes being curvy but she still thinks she isn't good enough to land someone like Clint. I hate how she puts herself down sometimes and how she doesn't trust Clint. I like them best when they are working together whether it is to figure out some revenge or working at heating things between them up. You see how great Clint is at one point when he passes what would be a big help to him up. If you like a steamy book with great characters I would give this  try.

4 out of 5 Stars


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Jamie K. Schmidt has published more than thirty short stories in small-press journals and e-zines. She’s an active member in the Romance Writers of America. When not writing, she relaxes with a mug of hot tea and knits or makes beaded jewelry. She sells her handcrafted items at Connecticut’s historic Dudley Farm during the summer.

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Destined Release Day Blast & Giveaway

Hi everyone! I have the Release Day Blast for Destined today. There is info on the book and a giveaway for you all.

Destined
Satan’s Rebels MC #2
By: Kira Johns
Releasing Sept 12th, 2014

Blurb
After surviving hell not once, but twice, Jade Moore is once again living, but her nights are filled with torture as she relives her time with the Condemned Warriors again and again. The only person capable of chasing away those demons is Viper, the man she has fallen deeply in love with. He is not just her hero, he is her destiny.

Viper’s troubled past makes him the cold, heartless killer that everyone fears. Then he met Jade, falling helplessly in love with her. As he helps Jade overcome her demons, he reveals his own, not knowing if he will lose her forever. But it isn't his past he should be worried about, it’s his future.

Shadow returns to Rockingham to be with the girl he has loved since they were kids, only to find she is in love with another man. He is determined to win the heart of the only girl he has ever loved, no matter the consequences. When secrets are revealed and tragedy strikes, will he put aside his desires and be the friend Jade needs?

Lives will be lost and heartache will be inevitable.

WARNING
This book is intended for Adults 18 years of age and over due to graphic scenes involving sex, language, and violence.

Destined is Book 2 in the Satan’s Rebels MC series and is not a stand alone novel. This book ends in a cliffhanger and there is no HEA (you will have to wait for Book 3 for that). Proceed at your own risk - you have been warned.


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Kira Johns was born and raised in the south, where she works as a paralegal. When she's not working or writing, Kira spends her free with her husband, children and pets. She enjoys spending time outdoors, whether on a boat or on the back of a bike. Kira, her husband and children are all avid competition shooters.

Her first book, Destroyed, was released in August 2014. The second book in the series, Destined, is set to be released September 2014, with the final book, Deserved due by the end of 2014.

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DESTROYED
Satan’s Rebels MC Book One (Novella)
Kira Johns

Jade Moore was no stranger to the MC lifestyle. Growing up the daughter of the President of the Satan's Rebels, she knew all about family and loyalty. Her world slowly crumbles when she loses not only her parents, but her brother and best friend. Her Uncle steps in and becomes the family she so desperately needs. 

But what happens when the only family you have left betrays everything you have ever known? 

Jade is drug into the Condemned Warrior world where she is imprisoned for four agonizing years. Beaten and brutalized, she wishes for death, but it never comes. 

Reaper inherited the MC from his brother, Halo, and will do whatever it takes to keep the club safe. Anything, including handing over his niece to the club's enemy. All he has to do is convince her brother, Tank, and best friend, Shadow, that she has run away. Easy. But what Reaper never expects is for Tank and Shadow to come home looking for answers years later and discovering the truth. 

Tank and Shadow return to their hometown to investigate missing funds. It's when they begin digging for the evidence, they discover a much darker secret that Reaper has been hiding. Enlisting the help of the club's Sergeant at Arms, Viper, they set out to rescue Jade and bring her home where she belongs. 

Viper's reputation is well known both inside and out of the MC. He is a cold-blooded killer, incapable of any feeling but hatred. His allegiance lies with Tank and the club. He will do whatever it takes to bring Jade home, even if it means crossing enemy lines to save her. What he doesn't expect is to fall for her. 

This book is intended for Adults 18 and over due to graphic scenes involving sex, language, and violence. This novella is book one in the Satan''s Rebels MC series.

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Burning Memories Release Blast & Giveaway

Hello everyone! Today I have the release blast for Burning Memories. There is info on the book and a giveaway for you all.

Burning Memories
Banks of Pecan Creek # 1
By: Rory Keeling 
Releasing September 10th, 2014
Three Owl Press

Blurb
Ten years ago, he saved her life … and she’s never forgiven him for it.

Claire Masters never planned to return to Pecan Creek. After a suspicious fire killed her mother and sent her own life up in flames, she was ready for a fresh start – far away from the small Texas town.

Ethan Banks never asked to be the fire chief, but it’s the family business. Asking the FBI…and Claire Masters for help is the last thing he wants to do.

When a series of fires strikes the town, as one of the FBI’s top arson investigators, Claire reluctantly returns before the fires take a fatal turn.

Now the pair is forced to work side by side, and they’re reminded the heat between them has nothing to do with fire.


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Not quite as Southern as sweet tea…but pretty close.

I’m the mom to two teenagers and two furry kids.

My blood is probably 50% coffee.

When I was in first grade, I convinced my teacher my mother made my father sleep in the barn. And the stories have just continued from there…

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