by Elise Faber
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Thursday, June 1, 2023
Blitz: The Art of Husbandry by Jay Hogan with an excerpt and a giveaway
by Jay Hogan
Release date: June 1st, 2023
Genres: Adult, Contemporary,
Blurb:
When life drowns you in lemons, to hell with making lemonade. I wanted to burn the whole world. But eighteen months from the day my life was torn apart, I’m tired of the anger. Tired of the nightmares. Tired of putting one foot in front of the other just trying to survive.
Three months on a high country sheep station in the middle of nowhere is exactly the reboot I need. A chance to break free. To breathe again. To find a way forward. I put my entire life on hold and head south to Mackenzie Country.
But falling for the captivating young station boss was never part of the plan. Holden Miller might be smart and sexy and push all of my dusty buttons, but we come from two different worlds. I’m not looking for a relationship. I’m not interested in love. I’m done with all that.
But Holden doesn’t care about my rules. Nestled safely in the arms of the spectacular Southern Alps, on an isolated sheep farm at the top of the world, Holden begins knitting my battered heart together one careful stitch at a time. And with every pass of the thread, every braid of the river on our doorstep, I catch a tantalising glimpse of something I’d almost given up on.
Happiness, and maybe even love.
If I have the courage to reach out and grab them.
Purchase: https://amzn.to/
Excerpt:
“Hang on, Tuck.” I lowered the phone from my ear and squinted at the dusty blue Hilux pulling in at the kerb. It had Miller Station stamped on its door, windows rolled down, and music blaring.
The driver killed the volume, pushed his sunglasses up his nose, and leaned across the passenger seat to speak through the window. “Are you Gil Everton?”
“Yep.” I raised a tentative hand in greeting.
“Cool. I’m Holden Miller. Let’s get you on board.” His full mouth curved up in a high-wattage smile that made my stomach do a weird-arse, vaguely familiar flip.
Oh boy. Attraction. Just freaking dandy. Eighteen months with my libido on military-grade lockdown, and it chose that moment to wake up and get with the program. Not only that, but I already knew Holden was gay from my conversations with Emily. Go fucking figure. It was a wrinkle I sure as hell didn’t need in my reboot plan. I hadn’t been laid since Callie’s death and I wasn’t looking to change that state of affairs anytime soon even if I had been able to summon any interest, which I hadn’t . . . for a while. So, yeah, there was that. Which was why my reaction to any man was . . . surprising.
“Gil, are you still there?” Tuck called through the phone as Holden disappeared back into the cab and the driver’s door opened.
I raised the phone to my ear again. “Yeah, but I’m gonna have to—” I stopped abruptly as a ruggedly handsome dark-haired beauty with a mass of lazy brown waves bouncing around his ears emerged from the Hilux. And since I was a hot mess but not dead, I drew in a sharp breath and whispered, “Wow.”
“What?” Tucker interrupted my gawping. “What wow? Gil?”
I cleared my throat and mumbled. “Nothing. I’ll call you in a day or two. Say hi to Gail and the kids for me.”
“They don’t like you either.”
I laughed. “They love me.”
“Fuck it. You’re right.”
“Bye, Tuck.”
“Wait, Gil. Gil!”
I hung up on Tuck’s protest and shot to my feet, by which time Holden had circled to the back of the Hilux and was busy opening the hatch. It gave me a few seconds to appreciate the way his dusty jeans hugged a pretty spectacular arse, and an equally dusty black T-shirt showed off lean muscular arms sporting a golden tan.
Holden caught my eye and that broad smile widened, no doubt because I was standing there staring at him like a total idiot. “First off, let’s exchange numbers,” he said. “I think you only have Mum’s. I tried to call to say I was running late, but whatever I had in my phone didn’t work.”
“Oh.” Shit. Great way to start. “Yeah, I ah, changed my number, sorry. I updated your mum, but maybe you’ve got my old one.”
“No problem. Here.” He gave me his phone and I corrected the number he had stored and then he sent me a text.
I called him back to make sure we were right, and Billy Joel’s “Uptown Girl” rang out through the carpark.
I bit back a smile and raised a brow. “Really? I think I should be offended.”
He chuckled. “Don’t be. Besides, it was before I met you and it kind of fits, right? You’re from the big smoke. You’ve even got your Roberto Cavalli’s on.” He pointed to the label on my jeans and heat rose in my cheeks. “Pretty fancy for a sheep station.”
I narrowed my gaze and fired back, “But you recognised the brand which says you have an eye for those things.”
He grinned. “Of course. They’re a great jean. Just don’t wear them in the woolshed.”
I laughed. “Kind of goes without saying.”
“Are those it?” He nodded to four bags of varying sizes siting in a tidy line at my feet.
I gave a mute nod, because I was well-educated like that, and wiped my hot palms down the front of my jeans.
“Great.” He sauntered over in that loose-gaited way perfected by many farmers like they had all the time in the world. About a metre away, he stopped, lifted his glasses onto his head, and a pair of dark coffee-brown almost black eyes locked with mine.
And just, damn. I was in trouble.
Then he smiled. “Welcome to Mackenzie Country, Gil.”
GIVEAWAY
Blitz-wide giveaway (INT) ends June 8
- $25 Amazon gift card
AUTHOR BIO:
Heart, humour and keeping it real.
Jay is a 2020 Lambda Literary Award Finalist in Gay Romance and her book Off Balance was the 2021 New Zealand Romance Book of the Year.
She is a New Zealand author writing mm romance and romantic suspense, primarily set in New Zealand. She writes character driven romances with lots of humour, a good dose of reality and a splash of angst. She's travelled extensively, lived in many countries, and in a past life she was a critical care nurse, nurse educator and counsellor. Jay is owned by a huge Maine Coon cat and a gorgeous Cocker Spaniel.
Find Jay in all the places: https://www.
Book Tour: Broken Dreams (Beautiful Nightmare #2) by Abbie Roads with an excerpt and a giveaway
Broken Dreams
Series: Beautiful Nightmare, #2
by Abbie Roads
Release date: May 9th, 2023
Genres: Adult, Dark Romance, Romance
Blurb:
A stalker. A killer. A v!rg!n hero who will sacrifice himself to save the woman he loves.
FBI Special Skills Consultant Lathan Montgomery has a genetic anomaly that he uses to solve cold cases, but it forces him to live in seclusion. When he saves a woman from a roadside attack, instead of her presence causing him to lose control, she soothes him. For the first time in his life, he experiences love.
But someone is watching them and planning to make them both suffer.
Broken Dreams is the second book in Abbie Roads’ Beautiful Nightmare Series of dark romantic thrillers. It features a v!rg!n hero who never thought he’d find love. If you devour true crime and romance novels then you’ll love a series that combines both in a roller-coaster ride of danger, mind games, and swoon worthy love.
Buy this dangerously dark romance today!
Trigger warning: Depictions of SA and violence.
Previously published under the title Hunt the Dawn
Purchase:
Amazon: https://amzn.to/
Excerpt:
“I thought there was something special between us. But you were only protecting me.”
“You think the only reason you’re here is so I can protect you?”
She nodded, her lip pushed out in a deeper pout.
He cupped her face in his hands and then waited for her gaze to find his. “You’re here because I need to be near you. You’re here because I couldn’t leave the diner last night without you. You’re here because I need you in my life to feel normal.”
I need you.
He sounded like a toddler with separation issues, but the words had flowed out of him on a wave of swear-on-a-holy-book truth.
“You need me?” Her gaze searched his face with all the thoroughness of a polygraph machine.
“I do.” He couldn’t have lied to her—about this. He’d already committed the sin of lie-by-omission too many times with her.
She reached up to him, placing her cool hand against the tattoo on his cheek. Reality shifted. Time got lazy and loitered along. He lost himself in her eyes—in the silver flecks swirling against the midnight-blue irises, like stars forming the mythical constellations aligning to tell their story—hers and his. A story of something eternal that had no name but was vast beyond time and place and reason.
A swell of silky heat effervesced through his veins.
Her hand slid from his tattoo into his hair. The vision, the trance, whatever it was, vanished and all he felt was the gentle tug of her hand on the back of his head, pulling him to her mouth.
The sweet pressure of their lips touching was a beautiful death—the ending of one thing, so another even more magnificent kiss could be birthed by their tongues thrusting wildly against each other.
The taste of her exploded in his mouth, permeated the air around them, surrounding him with the essential essence of her. Desire zinged along his nerve endings, converged, and swelled in his groin.
She wrenched his T-shirt from his jeans and slipped her hands inside, smoothing them up his chest, down his sides. His heart drop-kicked to his groin, back to his chest, down to his groin. He wanted more, more, more.
He tore his mouth from hers and ripped the shirt over his head. Anticipation heated his skin. Only her touch would soothe him.
But her attention wasn’t focused on him; it was zeroed in on his chest. The tattoo. He stood still, let her stare her fill. The artwork was complicated, not the kind a thing a person could take in on a glance.
He’d always referred to the piece as the Dark Seduction of Night.
From his left hip, an immense, gnarled tree ranged up and out over his chest, curling around his sides and toward his neck. Branches twisted and deformed. Trunk tumorous and knotted. Behind the bare limbs, a bloated harvest moon hung low in the sky. It was an eerily alluring picture, made more so by what was hidden in the design.
The trunk wasn’t tumorous, knotted wood. It was knees and elbows and shoulders. Bodies. Two of them. Male. Female. Entwined in an eternal embrace so impassioned that he almost felt embarrassed every time he looked at them in the mirror. And they were on his body.
“Who are they?” she asked.
“Us.” He didn’t know why he said that, but the truth of it resonated deeply within. Taking the words back would’ve been blasphemous.
She sat up, moved to the edge of the bed, and touched the tattooed outline of the male figure. Up the male’s calves, over his buttocks, his shoulders to his head. She caressed the male’s cheek as if he were in the image of a loved one. Damn, if he didn’t almost feel her stroking the skin of his actual cheek.
Goose bumps covered his skin. He was never cold. Never. But now he felt feverish and freezing at the same time. Skin chilled. Insides sweltered. Dick burning with a need for her cooling touch. As if she’d read his mind, she released the button of his jeans and wrangled down the zipper. His erection scraped against the metal—a perverse pleasure.
He stepped back, kicked off his boots, shucked his jeans. In nothing but the raw, he stood in front of her, not moving. He wanted this to be about more than just f@#*ing. He wanted this to be about her. About showing her the depth and breadth of his feelings, so she would know she would never have to be alone again. “You’re in charge.”
Giveaway:
Tour-wide giveaway (INT) ends June 8
- $25 Amazon Gift Card (INT)
- A signed paperback of Dangerous Dreams (Book 1) (US ONLY)
AUTHOR BIO:
Abbie Roads is the best-selling author of the Fatal Dreams Series and the Fatal Truth Series. Her novels have been finalists in many prestigious contests including The Golden Heart, The Greater Detroit Booksellers Best, The Oklahoma National Readers’ Choice Award, The Write Touch, The Strut Your Stuff Contest, The Aspen Gold Contest, The Gayle Wilson Award of Excellence, The Heart of Excellence Readers’ Choice Award, The Midnight Sun, The Kathryn Hayes Contest, The Chanticleer, The Daphne du Maurier, The National Readers’ Choice Award, The New England Readers’ Choice Contest, The Beverly Award, and The Maggie Award. Her debut novel Race the Darkness was Publishers Weekly Top 10 Pick for Fall and Never Let Me Fall is an Amazon Editor’s Pick.
By day Abbie Roads is a mental health counselor always focusing on the bright side. By night she writes on the dark side, putting her characters through the wringer before she gives them their happily-ever-after. She loves a good inspirational quote and is a fan of true crime.
By day Abbie Roads is a mental health counselor always focusing on the bright side. By night she writes on the dark side, putting her characters through the wringer before she gives them their happily-ever-after. She loves a good inspirational quote and is a fan of true crime.
Check out these other blogs on this tour:
May 29th
–fundinmental >> Excerpt
–Romance Book Review For You >> Review
–Versatileer >> Top 10 List
May 30th
–MacKade >> Guest Post
–Mocha Girls Read >> Excerpt
–Movies, Shows, & Books >> Top 10 List
–Breen.rb >> Review
May 31st
–Evermore Books >> Review
–Plain Talk Book Marketing >> Guest Post
–Coffee, Dogs & Books >> Review
–Read Love Blog >> Review
–ginreads >> Review
June 1st
–Iron Canuck Reviews & More >> Excerpt
–Diane’s Book Journal >> Excerpt
–The Phantom Paragrapher >> Review
June 2nd
–Reading Rebel Reviews >> Review
–Lynn’s Romance Enthusiasm >> Excerpt
–Moohnshine’s Corner >> Review
Cover Reveals: Hooked by You and Checked by You (Chicago Steel Series #1 and #2) by Jessica Buss with a giveaway
Hooked by You & Checked by You
Series: Chicago Steel Series
by Jessica Buss
Re-Release Dates: Hooked by You - July 10, 2023; Checked by You - July 25, 2023
Genre: Sports Romance
Cover Design: Karen Hulseman of Feed Your Dream Designs
Hooked by You Cover Model: Carlus Tyler Reed
Hooked by You Photographer: Eric Battershell
Checked by You: Stock Photo
HBY Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/135700173-proof
CBY Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/135699209-proof
Blurbs:
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Hooked by You -
Lucas
She’s a goddess in heels. Absolute perfection. Well, almost.
Samantha Fox is the heiress of Fox Sporting, my new management team. As one of the best wings in the NHL, I have never shied away from a challenge, and she is definitely a challenge. But if her company representing me doesn’t stop me from wanting her, the fact she’s engaged should, right?
But the noticeably absent sparkle from her left ring finger makes me question. I vow to myself that I’ll find out what that’s all about. And if she’s single, I plan to make her mine. Or at least, mine for the night. I just need one taste of the divine.
Samantha
Off-limits. That’s what he is. Lucas Bouchard is the prestigious new client acquired by my family’s company. From what I know, not only is he an amazing hockey player, he’s a humble and generous philanthropist too. Also, he’s a walking aphrodisiac.
It doesn’t matter that I’ve just broken off my engagement to a cheating, using loser. Every time our eyes lock, I find myself captivated. But he’s not for me. No matter how many times I remind myself of this, though, it doesn’t compute. Plain and simple, I want him. And keeping my distance might prove impossible.
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Checked by You -
Mika
She’s the uber-sexy, single mother living next door. Everyone tells me to keep my distance. But there’s something about her. Specifically, her eyes. They speak to me. Drawing me in like a siren. I want to know her, but she’s more guarded than Buckingham Palace. However, after one afternoon in her presence, I find myself addicted and wanting more. Willing to do whatever I have to just to make it past her defenses.
Shiloh
My next-door neighbor is an insanely hot, single professional hockey player. As if that isn’t bad enough, he’s a nice guy too. After spending an afternoon where he showed my son how to skate and took us out to ice cream, I want to let him in. My past cautions me to put on the brakes, but I find myself going full steam ahead, ignoring all the red flags waving at me.
Giveaway $15.00 Amazon Gift Card:
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Blitz: The Charterhouse of Evil (Haunting Clarisse #5) by Janice Tremayne with an excerpt and a giveaway
The Charterhouse of Evil
by Janice Tremayne
GENRE: Supernatural Suspense Horror
BLURB:
Bound to life old and new, the sins of the departed still haunt her. When wickedness infects the innocent, can she see the curse undone?
Western Australia. Clarisse Garcia is ready to return stronger than ever. With her husband by her side, the plucky spirit hunter is back on familiar territory with an assignment for Benedictine monks. And now she’s out to vanquish whatever evil is plaguing the monastic village that caused orphans to mysteriously die.
With what could be a voracious demon on her hands, Clarisse partners up with a man who grew up in the local orphanage to investigate suspicious activities. And as they dig through the monastery’s shrouded history, she discovers that some of these servants of God might not be as benign as they claim… and she may be their next quarry.
Can this driven woman end the impiety before more lives are sent to the grave?
The Charterhouse of Evil is the shocking fifth book in the Haunting Clarisse supernatural horror series. If you like bold characters, adrenaline-spiking investigations, and jaw-dropping twists and turns, then you’ll love Janice Tremayne’s malevolent tale.
EXCERPT:
Detective Ramsey flung the door open, the doorknob etching into the paster wall. He didn’t care about this room of horrors.
It was still a crime scene with broken police tape on the floor after all these years. No one had entered this room since they had found the monk’s body sprawled on the floor in a fetal position, his hands reaching for the sky as though announcing himself to his creator in his dying moments. But the detective thought it was a naïve end, as the priest had been charged with the murder of a boy in 1970. He was a criminal. A paradox to think a murderer could enter the kingdom of heaven.
“The white marking on the floor is where the priest was found dead,” Detective Ramsey said.
Clarisse tentatively stepped into the room. She felt something morbid.
“Death lives here,” she said.
“What do you mean?” the detective asked.
“Whoever died here never left. His soul remains, I mean.”
“His spirit occupies the room?” The detective raised his eyebrows.
“The monk died a shallow death, questioned his faith, and held his hands up to the Lord to save him.” She paused, held her palms in front of her, and closed her eyes. “But it was too late. He had already traded his soul with the demon and knew it.”
“A desperate attempt to avoid the confines of hell?”
Clarisse nodded. “In our hour of death, the truth always comes out, Detective. All the things we lust for in the immortal world become insignificant. Because it’s in our last minutes, as we cling to life, that we realize we have a soul.”
The detective placed his hands in his pocket. “I don’t know what to make of that, Clarisse. You’re saying we learn about the afterlife in our hour of death?”
“Yes, even nonbelievers come to terms with that.”
“And that is more frightening than death itself? To think that there is life after death?”
“And then Detective, it is too late to reverse the course of your life.”
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Janice Tremayne is an award-winning supernatural horror writer from Australia. Her acclaimed novel, Haunting Hartley, was a finalist in the Readers' Favorite 2020 International Book Awards in fiction-supernatural and was awarded the distinguished favorite prize for paranormal horror at the New York City Big Book Awards. She was recently awarded the silver medal at the IPPY Awards 2021 Australia/New Zealand/Pacific Rim – Best Regional Fiction and the Wishing Shelf Independent Book Awards 2020 Bronze Award in Adult Fiction.
Janice is an emerging Australian author who lives with her family in Melbourne. The Haunting Clarisse series has regularly reached number one in the Amazon kindle rankings for Occult Supernatural, Ghosts and Haunted Houses, and British Horror for hot new releases/bestsellers. Janice is well-versed in her cultural superstitions and how they influence daily life and customs. She grew up in a family with a cultural heritage where religious taboos and superstitions were entrenched into their way of life. This fascinated her as she was growing up and laid the foundations for developing a passion and style for writing supernatural horror novels for adult readers.
Writing the Haunting Clarisse series was spawned over a cup of coffee many years ago when she finally decided to put pen to paper, and she has never looked back. Her books contain heart-thumping, bone-chilling, and thought-provoking paranormal experiences that deliver a new twist to every tale to the delight of her readers worldwide.
author@janicetremayne.com
https://www.facebook.com/hauntingclarisse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPcZcM83p8M
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GIVEAWAY
Janice Tremayne will be awarding an Audiobook of The Infants Spirits (Book 4) Haunting Clarisse Series to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour.
http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/28e4345f4603/
Check out these other blogs on this tour:
May 29:
1: Boys' Mom Reads!
2: Celticlady's Reviews
3: Literary Gold
4: Momma Says: To Read or Not to Read
5: Welcome to My World of Dreams
6: Author C.A.Milson
7: Books all things paranormal and romance
May 30:
1: FUONLYKNEW
2: Jazzy Book Review
3: The Faerie Review review
4: Twirling Book Princess
5: Long and Short Reviews
6: Books Blog
7: Christine Young
May 31:
1: Fabulous and Brunette
2: Westveil Publishing
3: Country Mamas With Kids
4: D. S. Dehel
5: Girl with Pen
6: Inkspired
7: Let me tell you a story
June 1:
1: Iron Canuck Reviews & More
2: It's Raining Books
3:The Avid Reader
4: Dawn's Reading Nook
5: Moonlight Compass Books
6: Our Town Book Reviews
7: Page Turners and Sweet Tea
June 2:
1: Hope. Dreams. Life... Love
2: Straight from the Library
3: Stormy Nights Reviewing & Bloggin'
4: Wendi Zwaduk - Romance to Make Your Heart Race
5: The Book Countess
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