Monday, April 22, 2019

Blog Tour: The Mister by E. L. James

Beautiful and mysterious she possessed little more. . .

Than a dangerous and troublesome past.

THE MISTER, the highly anticipated new love story from #1 New York Times bestseller E L James is available now!

London, 2019. Life has been easy for Maxim Trevelyan. With his good looks, aristocratic connections, and money, he’s never had to work and he’s rarely slept alone. But all that changes when tragedy strikes and Maxim inherits his family’s noble title, wealth, and estates, and all the responsibility that entails. It’s a role he’s not prepared for and one that he struggles to face.

But his biggest challenge is fighting his desire for an unexpected, enigmatic young woman who’s recently arrived in England, possessing little more than a dangerous and troublesome past. Reticent, beautiful, and musically gifted, she’s an alluring mystery, and Maxim’s longing for her deepens into a passion that he’s never experienced and dares not name. Just who is Alessia Demachi? And can Maxim protect her from the malevolence that threatens her? And what will she do when she learns that he’s been hiding secrets of his own?

From the heart of London through wild, rural Cornwall to the bleak, forbidding beauty of the Balkans, The Mister is a roller-coaster ride of danger and desire that leaves the reader breathless to the very last page.

Download your copy today:

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ABOUT E L JAMES

E L James is an incurable romantic and a self-confessed fangirl. After twenty-five years of working in television, she decided to pursue a childhood dream and write stories that readers could take to their hearts. The result was the controversial and sensuous romance Fifty Shades of Grey and its two sequels, Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed. In 2015, she published the #1 bestseller Grey, the story of Fifty Shades of Grey from the perspective of Christian Grey, and in 2017, the chart-topping Darker, the second part of the Fifty Shades story from Christian’s point of view. Her books have been published in fifty languages and have sold more than 150 million copies worldwide. E L James has been recognized as one of Time magazine's "Most Influential People in the World” and Publishers Weekly’s "Person of the Year.” Fifty Shades of Grey stayed on The New York Times Best Seller List for 133 consecutive weeks. Fifty Shades Freed won the Goodreads Choice Award (2012), and Fifty Shades of Grey was selected as one of the 100 Great Reads, as voted by readers, in PBS’s The Great American Read (2018). Darker has been long-listed for the 2019 International DUBLIN Literary Award. She coproduced for Universal Studios the Fifty Shades movies, which made more than a billion dollars at the box office. The third installment, Fifty Shades Freed, won the People’s Choice Award for Drama in 2018. E L James is blessed with two wonderful sons and lives with her husband, the novelist and screenwriter Niall Leonard, and their West Highland terriers in the leafy suburbs of West London.

For more information about E L James, visit:

Website: https://www.eljamesauthor.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ELJamesAuthor/

Twitter: http://bit.ly/2XTO0TM

And Instagram: http://bit.ly/2TO6vdd

Sunday, April 21, 2019

LIFT Auction: Bidding Now Open!

The LIFT 4 Autism Auction is open for bidding!

Get your bid on here!

charityauction.bid/lift4autism

"My oldest was diagnosed with autism in 2009 just days before my husband left for Afghanistan. He was gone for eight months while I navigated the autism world alone with a two-year-old and a baby. I turned to romance books to keep my sanity. I found out about LIFT and felt so empowered that the community that helps keep me sane as I walk through autism was raising money for autism!"

-- Michelle, Romance Reader & Autism Mom

A banquet for the bookish, the online auction features more than 300 signed paperbacks, hardcovers, full series sets, out-of-print covers, foreign editions, cannot-even-buy event tickets . . . and MORE, all donated by authors, publishers, bloggers, readers. Just people who wanted to be a part of something to help autism families.

Since 2016, LIFT 4 Autism, a charitable initiative organized each April by authors Ginger Scott and Kennedy Ryan, has raised over $100,000 to benefit families living with autism. All proceeds go to non-profit organizations serving the autism community. This year’s charitable partner is Kulture City, whose programs serve the autism community with compassion and generosity.

Every item up for bid is deeply appreciated! We have highlighted just a few that we anticipate being hot commodities here: http://bit.ly/LIFT19High

★ Here’s some FAQ about the auction and the bidding process that may prove helpful★

http://lift4autism.com/auctionfaq/

Winning bidders will be emailed with payment instructions.

★And if you don’t win your bid, you can STILL be involved!

Make a tax-deductible “no amount is too big or too small” donation to our Kulture City Fund: https://bit.ly/2JLKLuP

Buy LIFT Gear like t-shirts, mugs, sweatshirts, mugs, etc…

https://teespring.com/stores/lift4autism

Kulture City, with its emphasis on acceptance, accessibility and inclusion, is innovating service to the autism community. In addition to partnering with the NBA and other organizations to make stadiums sensory-friendly, they provide much-needed safety resources through their lifeBOKS program and equip autists with tablets to bridge communication gaps and open new opportunities for learning through their tablet: KULTURE program. We are so very honored to stand with Kulture City in their compassion and ingenuity.

Wednesday, April 17, 2019

Blog Tour: Cipher by Larissa Ione + Review & Excerpt!

In the war between good and evil, sometimes the biggest battles take place inside the soul…and the heart.

From New York Times **and USA Today bestselling author Larissa Ione, comes CIPHER, a passionate and spellbinding novella from the Demonica Underworld Series, brought to you by 1,001 Dark Nights! Be sure you grab your copy today!**

About CIPHER:

**From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Larissa Ione comes a new story in her Demonica Underworld series…**

It’s been seven months since Cipher, an Unfallen angel who straddled a razor thin line between good and evil, woke up in hell with a new set of wings, a wicked pair of fangs, and a handler who’s as beautiful as she is dangerous. As a laid-back cyber-specialist who once assisted guardian angels, he’d been in a prime position to earn back his halo. But now, as a True Fallen forced to use his talents for malevolence, he must fight not only his captors and his sexy handler, but the growing corruption inside him…before the friends searching for him become his enemies and he becomes his own worst nightmare.

Lyre is a fallen angel with a heart full of hate. When she’s assigned to ensure that Cipher carries out their boss’s orders, she sees an opportunity to take revenge on those who wronged her. All she has to do is appeal to Cipher’s burgeoning dark side. But the devastatingly handsome fellow True Fallen has other ideas — sexy ideas that threaten to derail all Lyre’s plans and put them in the path of an approaching hell storm.

Danger and desire explode, even as Cipher and Lyre unravel a sinister plot that will fracture the underworld and send shockwaves into Heaven itself…

Every 1001 Dark Nights novella is a standalone story. For new readers, it’s an introduction to an author’s world. And for fans, it’s a bonus book in the author’s series. We hope you'll enjoy each one as much as we do.

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“Ione has made a major name for herself with her amazing Demonica series.” ~ Romantic Times Book Reviews

EXCERPT:

Lyre watched Cipher try to get his powers and wings under control for just over twenty-four human hours.
It hadn’t gone well. His wings seemed to have minds of their own and his fallen angel gifts were powerful but unpredictable, like natural disasters spawned by a child’s imagination.
Finally, after he exploded a tree with a superheated stream of blue light and nearly fried himself with the blowback, she called down to him.
“You hungry?” she yelled. “Because I could eat.”
He let out a frustrated shout accompanied by a stomp of his foot, and a crack appeared in the ground under the sole of his boot. A deafening boom and a slow rumble started up, and within seconds the crack lengthened and began to widen as the walls collapsed and chunks of earth tumbled into the fissure.
That couldn’t be good.
“Run!” she shouted
He sprinted toward her, away from the growing gap. And then, suddenly, he spun around and ran toward it.
“Cipher! No!” What the hell was he doing?
She extended her wings, ready to go after him as he leaped across the fissure. He wasn’t going to make it to the other side of the sheer cliff face. Not if his wings wouldn’t work—
His great wings flapped, lifting him easily skyward. He banked and soared in a glorious, elegant arc. A shout of pure joy rang out as he flew toward her, reminding her of the excitement she’d felt the first time she’d tried out her fallen angel wings. Hers had taken a year to grow, but it had taken only minutes to get them working. Cipher had to be thrilled to finally have his under control.
Folding her own black leather wings against her shoulders, she watched him come in for a landing, but as he did, one wing went rogue, freezing in a closed position. He clipped a tree and went into an unrecoverable spin before hitting the ground and tumbling to a stop next to her.
She coughed at the resulting cloud of dust. “That was graceful.”
He eyed her from where he lay sprawled in the dirt. “Tell me you got that on video.”
She didn’t want to be charmed, but she laughed anyway. Humor was something she missed since entering Sheoul. No one had a sense of humor here. And those who did seemed to have found it puddled on the floor of a torture chamber.
“No such luck,” she said.
“S’okay. But I’ll bet it would have gone viral.” Wincing, he shoved to his feet and tried to push his left wing into the retraction position. “I don’t get it. I can’t control these things. It’s like they’re fighting me. They don’t feel right.”
They didn’t look right, either. Marred by what seemed to be scars and ragged edges, they weren’t like any newbie wings she’d ever seen.
“Hmm. Maybe they were damaged by the restraints.” She moved around behind him, silently admiring his broad, muscular back. It would look even better with scratch marks from her fingernails after a long, sweaty round of sex.

REVIEW:

3.5 stars

***

Cipher is a good addition to one of my favorite paranormal series. This is Cipher and Lyre's story. Cipher is a fallen angel and a computer whiz. A careless mistake has landed him in hell, where Lyre is his handler. Lyre, herself, is also a fallen angel, who purposely got herself sent to hell so she could wreak revenge on her enemies. But as they spend time together, the two of them unravel an evil plot to ruin the world and have to fight to save themselves and escape hell. Along the way, they fall for each other, of course.

I enjoyed this book. I really liked both Cipher and Lyre and I definitely felt their love by the end. They are both good beings, not evil, despite their fallen status. I did feel like, for a novella, the romance between the couple did not get going for a little too long. The first half was a bit slow. I also found there is quite a bit of focus on the ongoing series story arch and not quite as much focus on the couple. Still, this is not a bad book. Cipher is a quick, easy, entertaining read. It has moments of suspense, sexiness and sweetness. I really liked the interesting story and writing. I found Cipher and Lyre to be a fun characters and well-matched.

Overall, I enjoyed this book. I am very much looking forward to the next book in the series and anything else Ms. Ione writes in the future!

Larissa Ione’s CIPHER – Review & Excerpt Tour Schedule:

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April 11^th

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April 16^th

Coffee Books Life Blog – Review

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Romancing the Readers – Review

April 17^th

A Hopeless Romantic’s Booklandia – Review & Excerpt

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April 18^th

Aly's Miscellany – Excerpt

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April 19^th

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About Larissa Ione:

Larissa Ione is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author. An Air Force veteran, she traded in a career as a meteorologist to pursue her passion of writing. She now spends her days in pajamas with her computer, strong coffee, and supernatural worlds. She believes in celebrating everything, and would never be caught without a bottle of Champagne chilling in the fridge…just in case. She currently lives in Wisconsin with her U.S. Coast Guard husband, her teenage son, a rescue cat named Vegas, and her very own hellhound, a King Shepherd named Hexe.

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Monday, April 15, 2019

New Release: Until Mayhem by Layla Frost + Review!

Until Mayhem

by Layla Frost

Series: A Hyde and Until Series Crossover

Publisher: Boom Factory Publishing, LLC

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43617759-until-mayhem

Blurb:

She was my princess. I was her psycho. Two worlds colliding with a BOOM.

There was a sh*tstorm brewing. Whispers. Rumbles. A rot—fueled by greed and protected by corruption—that’d seeped like sewage, eating away at everything it touched. The only people I trusted were my brother by blood, my brothers by patch, and the crazy Irish-Scottish bastard I did jobs for.

That was why, when the hot-as-hell blonde started trailing my brothers and me, I had to act.

Maybe Ophelia Kline was working with the enemy—playing me with lies from that damn mouth. Or maybe she was innocent—caught in the spread of toxic rot.

Either way, she was mine. And when push came to glock-in-the-face, I wouldn’t let her go.

Because all good relationships start with a BOOM and a little kidnapping… right?

Buy Links:

https://books2read.com/u/brYeyZ
https://amzn.to/2UDfDlh

Review:

4-4.25 stars
****

This was such a good book! Unti Mayhem is Ophelia and Judge's story. Judge is the president of the Mayhem motorcycle club. He and a few of his MC brothers are at a grocery store when Ophelia spots them. She sees how hot Judge is and is drawn to him so much that she can't keep her eyes off him in the store. But Judge thinks that she is tailing him and that she was possibly sent by his enemies to spy on him or worse. So, like all smart bikers do, Judge decides to kidnap Ophelia and take her to his MC headquarters to find out what's really going on. Ophelia can't believe her wandering eyes have gotten her into this mess, but she is willing to make the most of it and fix the misunderstanding. As the two spend time together, sort out their differences and learn to trust each other, Judge is struck by the Boom for Ophelia and decides he isn't going to let her go no matter what.

I loved Ms. Frost's take on a motorcycle club and bikers. It was so fun to see such a badass biker as Judge get the Boom! He was so hot and sexy but still sweet to Ophelia. I really liked both Judge and Ophelia. She was a sassy sweetheart that found herself in an unexpected predicament and made the most of it. Once they figured out that they could trust each other, these two were so hot and fun together. They started their relationship with a slow burn, but once they got going, they were on fire. They had great banter and sass with each other and they ended up being such a cute couple. I really liked the side characters and the other bikers and would love to see more from this MC. The story and writing was very good and thoroughly entertaining.

Overall, Until Mayhem had sweetness, sexiness, humor and suspense. I really enjoyed it! I look forward to more from Ms. Frost in the future!

Layla's Social links:

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Email: laylafrostwrites@gmail.com

New Release: Until the Tequila by Brynne Asher + Review!

Until the Tequila

by Brynne Asher

Blurb

Tequila: a distilled beverage made from the blue agave plant and, in Mary’s case, a truth serum. It took one night. No, it took one dinner, a bevy of cocktails, and a woman who’s been skirting me for months. Then, everything changed. Because the tequila did what it does best, Mary’s words flowed faster than the magic liquid she was shooting with salt and lime. Mary had demons—ones she thought were buried. She thought wrong. She can’t hide from her past or from me. Not anymore. I’m Evan Hargrove and I’ll turn the world red before I let anything happen to her. This is a Killers Series Crossover Novella written for the Happily Ever Alpha World of NYT Bestselling Author, Aurora Rose Reynolds. Warning: This book contains naughty words and sexy bits. If you aren’t eighteen, step away from the purchase button, turn around, and walk away. We’ll pretend this never happened and I won’t tell your parents.

Buy Links:

Amazon Smart URL: hyperurl.co/lxnauf
All other retailers: https://books2read.com/u/bW9p0z

REVIEW:

4 stars

****

This was a good book! Until the Tequila is Mary and Evan's story. We met Mary and Evan in Brynne Asher's other Killers series books and in this book we learn that Mary is best friends from childhood with July Mayson (from Aurora Rose Reynold's book Until July). Evan is the tasting room supervisor at the winery and Mary is a hairdresser and good friend to many of the winery staff. They two have circled each other and flirted in the past, but Mary has been a bit resistant to starting a relationship. Evan finally convinces her to go out with him, but she is so nervous she drinks too much tequila and gets terribly drunk. She accidentally spills some secrets about her past while intoxicated and what Evan learns about her only strengthens that he wants to love and protect Mary forever. He must convince her to give an HEA with him a chance.

I really liked Evan and Mary. Evan is a great guy. He really adored and never gave up on Mary. She did resist him for awhile, but she eventually gave in. They were very sweet together. This book was an entertaining, easy read. There was sweetness, sexiness, and a dash of humor and suspense. I really enjoyed it!

Overall, this was a good little novella! I really love the Killers series and have enjoyed the books in the Happily Ever After kindle world. I am looking forward to whatever Ms. Asher comes up with next!

About the Author

Brynne Asher lives in the Midwest with her husband, three children, and her perfect dog. When she isn’t creating pretend people and relationships in her head, she is running her kids around and doing laundry. She enjoys cooking, decorating, shopping at outlet malls as well as online and is always seeking the best deal. A perfect day in “Brynne World" ends in front of an outdoor fire with family, friends, s’mores, and a delicious cocktail.

New Releases: Aurora Rose Reynold's Happily Ever After World

Title: Aurora Rose Reynolds'
Happily Ever Alpha World

Authors: Various
Publisher: Boom Factory Publishing

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Release Date: April 16, 2019

Introduction

As a reader, I look for books that are sweet with low angst and have an over-the-top alpha male. I have always loved reading about couples that find each other at the beginning of a book and fall in love page after page, never really having a true separation. Never finding enough of those kinds of stories on the market, I decided to write my own. It was then the Until Series and the “BOOM” was born.

The Until Series is now published in ten languages, and the series, has sold millions copies worldwide. This series has taken on a life of its own, and readers from all over the world are constantly asking for the next installment, which is why I have opened my world to some of my favorite authors.

If you are a fan of the Until Series you are going to love each and every one of these books. Whether you are reading about one of your favorite secondary characters, catching a glimpse of one of the Maysons or visiting one of the local stores or coffee shops. And if you haven’t read any of my “Until” books but love alpha males, strong women and sweet romance I promise you are going to love these books.

BOOM FACTORY PUBLISHING