Monday, February 29, 2016

Cover Reveal: Unspoken Words by H.P. Davenport



UNSPOKEN WORDS
 (The Unspoken Love Series, Book #1) 

RELEASING MAY 2, 2016



SYNOPSIS:

Two lives…as close to perfect as they can be.

Camryn Townsend has everything she’s always dreamed of…an amazing family, supportive friends, and the perfect job. Everything a girl could want. Or is it? A trip back to her childhood home threatens to unravel her web of perfection.

Her problem…she’s in love with her best friend and she’s too scared to sacrifice their friendship for a love she’s always wanted. 

Jamie Banks’ life is the epitome of perfection. His company is thriving, his band is on the cusp of stardom, and the girl he loves is returning home.

His problem…the girl he loves has been his best friend for as long as he can remember and he’s not sure he’s ready to sacrifice his best friend for a lover. Pursuing a relationship with the possibility of losing her has him second-guessing everything he knows.

Unspoken words are the only thing standing in their way.







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 “Yo, you like what you’re seeing? The girls sure have formed a fan club out there,” Christian yells across the table. He is being such a ball breaker today. What the fuck? Do I have ‘I’m in love with your sister’ written on my fucking forehead?  

“You gonna let those guys try and make a move on the girls, or are you going show them what you got?” he continues with a raised eyebrow challenging me.

Sitting here at the table watching the girls dance is killing me. My fists are clenching under the table as I notice guys approaching the girls. The girls aren’t paying them any mind until one dude walks up behind Camryn. He stands there, eyeing her up like she’s a freaking piece of candy. He hasn’t touched her yet, but the idea of him being that close to her has my blood boiling. My jaw begins to clench, and my body tenses. I look over at Christian, and he has this shit eating grin on his face. 

Not being able to stand it anymore, I grab my beer and take a long swig. It’s nearly empty, so I motion to Lincoln to order me another one then I head to the dance floor. Camryn’s back is toward me so she doesn’t see me approaching, but Morgan does and she has a huge smile on her face.







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Paralegal by day, romance genius by night! When I'm not tending to my furry children and my handsome husband, I am seamlessly carving beautiful stories from my mind in my comfy PJs in New Jersey.






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Sunday, February 28, 2016

Blog Tour: Bare Your Soul by Rochelle Paige


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Title: Bare Your Soul
Author: Rochelle Paige
Genre: Contemporary Erotic Romance
Release Date: February 22, 2016

BLURB:
Angelica Rose's mom always told her that desperate times called for desperate measures. Walking into a strip club and asking for an audition certainly qualifies as desperate, but when her mom's battle with cancer ends months before Angelica is due to start college, she doesn't feel like she has much choice.
The moment Morgan Cadwell sees her on his stage, he knows she's the one woman who could make him break all the rules. There's no way he's going to let Angelica dance for other men, so he hires her as his live-in personal assistant instead.
Morgan's offer lets Angelica keep her clothes on...but little does she know that, in the end, he'll make her bare her soul instead.
Warning: This book is about an alpha caveman and a sweet but fierce virgin heroine who fall ridiculously fast in insta-love. If you're okay with that, then enjoy!


3.5 stars
Review by Lisa Kane

Angelica is a high school student who has just lost her mom to cancer. Her dad walked out on them and never looked back. Her plan was to start college in the fall but most of that money went to pay the overwhelming amount of bills that piled up during her mom's illness. She has no real skills and her dream is about to go up in smoke. 

She notices a high end strip club near the campus of the college she plans on attending. She never thought she would have to resort to stripping, but what can she do? She's never worked a pole before but she thinks all her years of gymnastics will pay off. 

She's told to come back the next day and when she shows up the owner, Morgan is there and not happy to see her. Morgan makes it a rule never to get involved with the help but he seems to be god smacked over Angelica. He demands that she get off the stage and drags her to a back room where he tells her to give him a lap dance. It must have been the best lap dance he's ever had, since it seems to have changed his whole way of thinking. 

I knew the second I saw this girl was going to be trouble. 

From that point on Morgan claims his "angel" as his and makes her move in with him. He hires her as his assistant and is convinced she needs to live with him. There are shopping trips for clothes, a car and anything else her heart desires. Of course he is going to pay for her college too. 


"Yes, I want it."
I didn't expect my whole life to change forever when I said those four words to Morgan.

The intensity of the insta love in this story surprised me. Pretty much from their first meeting, Morgan changed his whole life for a girl he just met. Spent literally thousands of dollars on her and stopped seeing other women. The sex in the story is hot and erotic and was what kept me reading this story. If you look past the parts that are a bit over the top and focus on the sex, you'll enjoy this read. 

"I've never felt like this before, but I have no doubt that you were made for me, my Angel. Mine and mine alone."

EXCERPT:
“Hey, I thought there was no touching in lap dances?” I tried to protest.
“There will always be touching between you and me,” he answered.
I knew it shouldn’t get to me. I didn’t know this guy and I was acting a part to try to get a job. But holy hell his words and his touch were turning me on and confusing me. If I was honest with myself, I’d admit that there was crazy chemistry between us and maybe—just maybe—I was using this situation to my advantage to see what happened.
“There is no you and me,” I retorted as I tilted my body away from him.
“There will be,” he insisted.
Some of my uncertainty must have shown on my face because his hands gentled and he ran them from my hips to my back and stroked softly. He lightly tugged on the material but it didn’t fall any further. “Show me more.”
I could feel his cock hard underneath me, my pussy resting over it and driving me more than a little wild. I’d never been in a situation like this before. His dark eyes burned into mine and I threw all caution to the wind as I undid the rest of the buttons on my dress. It fell, the material gathering around my waist. Morgan held my eyes as his hands moved away from me to grasp my dress and toss it to the ground.
He practically growled as his gaze roamed over my body. I’d chosen my lingerie carefully this morning, choosing the nicest set I owned. It was white lace, so I was worried it made me look too innocent when I’d picked it out, but I didn’t have a lot of choices. Now I was thrilled with my selection because it fit the role I was playing to perfection.
“Maybe if you’re very good for me I’ll forgive you for being naughty,” he said as he trailed a finger down my chest and snapped the front clasp of my bra open.
His action surprised me, and I moved my hands to cover my chest without realizing what I’d done. He quirked an eyebrow at me in a subtle challenge, like he’d known all along that I wouldn’t be able to stay in character. Taking a deep breath, I remembered the role I needed to play if I wanted this job and forced my arms back down.
“What if I want to be bad for once?” I asked as he slid my bra straps down my arms.
It was like he’d woven a seductive spell around me, making me forget why I was here and all of my troubles. I’d never felt anything like this before. My skin was on fire, goosebumps running along my flesh. My panties were damp and I couldn’t stop myself from rubbing lightly over his length. My body was tightening in anticipation of what would come next.
“As long as you’re with me, you can be as bad as you want to be, Angel,” he whispered before closing his mouth over one of my nipples. Each hand held one of my breasts, squeezing lightly. He plucked at the other one with his finger and thumb, making it pucker with need.
“Ohmigod,” I gasped at the sensation, closing my eyes so I could pretend this wasn’t actually happening.
“Look at me,” he ordered, and my eyes popped back open to find him staring up at me. “You keep your eyes on me, Angel. I want to see every single thought that runs through your head. No hiding.”

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Friday, February 26, 2016

Cover Reveal: Collared by Nicole Williams



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When a seventeen-year-old girl vanishes,
A community is shaken.
Parents turn desperate.
Friends hold vigils.
And the boy who loves her searches.

When a year goes by,
The community is recovering.
Parents feel hopeless.
Friends feel helpless.
And the boy who loves her continues his search.

When ten years go by,
The community has forgotten.
Parents cling to the past.
Friends move toward the future.
And the boy who loves her . . .
Brings her home.
Jade Childs spent ten years in captivity, but now that she’s back, the real battle for survival begins. The media shadows her. Flashbacks haunt her. Her old life evades her. Her so-called new life rejects her. She spent too many years in the dark to recognize the light. She spent too long repressing her feelings to remember how to express them. She spent a decade abandoning hope and cannot dare letting it back into her life. Jade’s not just defined by what happened to her—she’s collared to it.

When the twenty-seven-year-old woman is found,
A community wants to know the story,
Parents want to forget the story,
Friends want to be a part of the story,
And the man who still loves her faces the greatest challenge yet: letting her go.

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 He holds my eyes, not letting them wander away from him. “Why have you been avoiding me?” I wander my room, not sure where to go now that he’s here. I’m not sure where I fit now. I’m not sure where I belong in his life. “You know why,” I say quietly. “I want to hear you tell me.” “Why?” “So I can change your mind.” His hands slide into his front pockets, and the sunlight catches on his dad’s watch and casts golden beams through the room. It lights up like someone just lit a million candles at once. “I can’t do that unless I know exactly why you don’t want to see me.” He wants a reason? I’ll give him a whole list of them. “Because I don’t want to drag you into my mess of a world any more than I already have. Because I don’t want to smear you through the mud on the media’s march to burying me. Because I don’t want to hurt you—again—and because I want to protect you.” “I can protect myself from them.” I shake my head and cover my chest with my hand. “To protect you from me.” Torrin’s jaw hardens. He works it loose the moment after. “I don’t need protection from you.” “Everyone needs protection from me. There’s something dark in me now, Torrin, and I can’t get it out. It’s growing, spreading, and I don’t want it to infect the people I love.” He pushes off the closet doors and crosses the room before I know he’s coming. “There is nothing dark in you, Jade. Nothing.” He backs me into the wall and stares at me, unblinking. “There is light and good in you. There always has been. There always will be.” “That’s gone. He took it from me.” “No, he didn’t.” Torrin’s hand slams into the wall beside my head. “It’s still there. You had to bury it to keep it safe, but it’s still there. You’ll find it. I know it.” I want to believe him, but that doesn’t make it true. “You can’t find what isn’t there, Torrin.” “Dammit, stop talking like that,” he says, his jaw tensing. “It’s there. I know it.” “I’ve tried. I can’t find it.” Even as I say it, I start to feel different. It’s because of him being so close, saying what he is in the way he is. He’s the tether that keeps me from floating away. His eyes lower to mine. “I’ll help you find it.” I feel my heart again. My lungs. Everything else. I feel it waking up. “What makes you so sure you can find it?” “Because when I look in your eyes, I still see it.” His other hand fits against the wall beside my head. “Because when I’m close to you like this, I can still feel it.” He leans a little closer, and I feel something too. “It’s there, Jade. It’s not gone. He took ten years of your life—ten years.” The corners of his eyes crease as an emotion fires in his eyes. “Don’t hand him the rest of it by believing that kind of shit.”





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Nicole Williams is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of contemporary and young adult romance, including the Crash and Lost& Found series. Her books have been published by HarperTeen and Simon & Schuster in both domestic and foreign markets, while she continues to self-publish additional titles. She is working on a new YA series with Crown Books (a division of Random House) as well. She loves romance, from the sweet to the steamy, and writes stories about characters in search of their happily even after. She grew up surrounded by books and plans on writing until the day she dies, even if it’s just for her own personal enjoyment. She still buys paperbacks because she’s all nostalgic like that, but her kindle never goes neglected for too long. When not writing, she spends her time with her husband and daughter, and whatever time’s left over she’s forced to fit too many hobbies into too little time.
Nicole is represented by Jane Dystel, of Dystel and Goderich Literary Agency.
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Blog Tour: The Ground Rules Undone by Roya Carmen


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The Ground Rules were impossible to follow. It was hard not to become completely consumed by the beautiful and enigmatic Weston Hanson. The heart of a romantic was not fit for this kind of exchange. So, when it ended, I was shattered, but it was all for the better…or so we thought.

The Ground Rules were rewritten, and then bent. We lied to ourselves. We told ourselves we could handle this. Not a single one of us realized just how big this was...just how devastating it could become.

And now, there are no Rules.

Lust… infatuation…blinds you. It can tear everything apart. But sometimes, life needs to be completely torn apart before it can be mended – not just cracked at the edges, but utterly shattered, before you can truly see the mess you’ve become.

I love them both, but I can’t have them both. While one pulls me in, the other pushes me away. And when both eventually open their hearts, I must make the hardest decision of my life.

And now there are no Rules. We are Undone.

4.5 Stars
Review by Lisa Kane

I can't say how anxious I've been for this last installment. When the second book ended, Mirella and Weston had ended things but Mirella (Gabe calls her "Ella") had her world rocked and not in a good way. 


We lived such an idyllic life. Such a perfect life. But it wasn't good enough for me, was it? 

The first quarter of this story is Mirella coming to grips with her life. She knows she should come clean with both Gabe and Weston, but she just wallows in self pity and I was losing my patience with her. But then a little further into the book, I had more sympathy for her and wanted to throttle both Weston and Gabe. I can understand Gabe's reaction but he comes pretty close to crossing the line. I have never been a fan of Bridgett's. She is so self centered and exists in her own bubble but she managed to surprise even me by the depth of her shallowness. Weston-don't get me started on this man. Where are your balls? I guess if Dora was going to explore where they were hiding, I would suggest she start with Bridgett's purse. Surely she would find them there. But each man still holds power over Mirella and her feeling are all over the place.

"You've got to stop this. You know the power you have over me. And you take advantage of it. You play me. You manipulate me with your beautiful face and your beautiful words."

Once Ella takes things into her own hands, this book really starts to come alive. Each person's reaction is so over the top and so not what I expected. Mirella is so plagued with doubts and guilt, and the guys are so in their own heads weighed down by their feelings. Who is Mirella going to choose and frankly is it really up to Mirella at this point? My Team Gabe position kept flip flopping because Weston is just so caring and open and honest about his feelings. But then Gabe would suck me back in-he is the foundation for their marriage, the one who Ella can turn to in the storm. Who should she be with and why isn't it me who is in this position with these two gorgeous men?

"The truth is," he goes on with an unfading intensity in his eyes. "I never imagined you could fall for him."

The whole time I was reading this series, I kept thinking how can this story end? If Mirella ends up alone, that's going to really hurt. If she ends up with Weston; poor Gabe, he is going to be devastated. Sharing children between them will force him to have to see Mirella and Weston more than he would want. If she ends up with Gabe, Weston is so addicted to her that she will never be free from him. He talks a good talk about staying away from her, but he never walks the walk.

Loving someone you can't have is torture; an invisible, unassuming, soft agony, a constant feeling of longing, a void.

There is a whole passage between Gabe and Ella and why they became involved with Bridgette and Weston. It is brutally honest and answered so many questions I had, while hurting my heart at the same time. 

But Ms. Carmen has managed to end this story in a way I could never have foreseen. Well played oh wise, clever sage. While there was a part of me that was left unsettled (avoiding giving out spoilers for this book is like walking through a mine field) at the ending, it was really the only way this story should have played out.


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Gabe buries his empty bottle of beer in the sand. And he studies me. His gaze lingers on me for what seems like an eternity. “Where have you been this weekend, Ella?”
I look up at him, not able to say a word.
“You seem distracted…distant. Are you not having a good time?”
I smile at him. “I am. It’s been the best trip.”
“It’s been great,” he agrees, looking up at the dark sky. And then he turns to me with a playful smile. “But I think it’s been missing a little something.”
I can’t help but smile. I know exactly what he’s saying.
He sits up and pulls off his fleece throw. “You think you have room on that chair of yours?”
I smile at him. “I don’t know…you’re a pretty big guy.”
He laughs. “I think you can make room,” he says with a wicked smile. “I think you want to make room.”
“Oh do I, now?”
He bites his lip. “Oh, you do,” he says as he stands and joins me under the purple blanket. The warmth of his body against mine feels amazing. I hadn’t realized how cold I was.
“Much better,” he says, his eyes glued to mine.
“Much better.”
Suddenly I find myself speechless. It’s so wonderful being close to him like this again. I try to forget about everything else. I just want to enjoy being next to him. He shoots me a playful grin – the kind of smile that says it all. Unsuspecting, he’s so carefree, so happy and it absolutely tears me apart. Maybe just tonight, I can pretend it’s just us two, like it used to be. I can let go of everything else and give him the fun wife he’s known forever. I don’t need to drag him down with me just yet.
I want him to kiss me. We haven’t kissed in ages. We haven’t touched each other in forever. I crave him, and I’m sure he craves me just as much.
He leans in and presses his mouth against mine. His kiss is soft and warm, and perfect. I trail my finger along the rough scruff on his face. I relish the feel of his tongue on mine. This is the kind of kiss which is really hard to stop. I get lost in it and savor it a little longer.
And when the sensation of his kiss travels to my sex, I finally manage to pull away. “You…better be careful…kissing me like that,” I warn him, the words caught between ragged breaths. “That kind of kiss usually leads places.”
His smile is playful. “That’s exactly the point.”
I smile a nervous grin. “We can’t…here…they can see us. Everyone can see us.”
“It’s pitch dark,” he whispers against my ear. “No one can see.”
The feel of his warm hand on the inside of my thigh is very distracting. “I don’t think…” I can’t really see us having sex here and now. Because I know the way I feel. Despite the crushing guilt, my body desperately wants him, craves his familiar touch. I’d lose control – I just know it. And people might definitely see that.





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Mom, writer, book junkie, doodle addict and hopeless romantic. I have been writing for over ten years, finding my passion for romance in 2008. When I'm not spending time with my family, I enjoy reading, painting, and writing - there is nothing I enjoy more than sitting down at my laptop and making up my own stories - and if those stories should include beautiful men, a little romance, and a few steamy scenes, all the better!

I write contemporary and erotic romance under the pen name Roya Carmen.

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