Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Blog Tour: Crave Me by M. Robinson




BLOG TOUR
CRAVE ME
BESTSELLING AUTHOR M.
ROBINSON
COVER MODEL MITCH
MCKERSIE
COVER DESIGN THE
FINAL WRAP
RELEASE MAY 10TH


They say in order to find yourself you have to go home.
What if home was what you're running from?
Where did that leave you?
Always on the other side of the fence.
Always looking in.
Always wishing you were someone you couldn't be.
Until one day you meet her.
The one.
She was my high, but she was also...

My demise.


4.5 Stars
Review by Lisa Kane

M Robinson does it to me every time! Austin Taylor was not a favorite character of mine. He just seemed to messed up, too needy and towards the end of the other stories, just too much a junkie for me to relate to or like. But in Crave we learn why he was so messed up and how he fought to bring himself back from the abysess *** 

Briggs real name is Daisy Mitchell. If will be a long time before you find out why she prefers to be called Briggs. Orphaned at an early age she was left to the care of her uncle Alejandro Martinez, a cold ruthless man who controlled just about everyone and everything in his empire. Briggs saw things no child should every see, but she fell into a certain way of life. Her  “occupation” would have a domino effect on her later life.

We know who Austin is-we know about his car accident with Alex but what we didn’t know was the back pain he suffered would be the start of his addiction to pain killers. There are lots of holes regarding his life that are cemented in this story. He meets the mysterious Briggs and then months go by without him seeing her again. But when they are reunited he will be sucked into her world and his craving for drugs will be his biggest temptation. Briggs is partly the reason for the path his life followed. 

“Hi, my name is Austin Taylor, and I’m a drug addict.”

Theirs is one complicated, messed up relationship. She is more than aware of the feelings he has always had for Alex. 

The home that I built with him out of a deck of cards was crumbling down on me. He didn’t love me…
He. Loved. Her.

She is the ultimate enabler and he is the poster child for an addict. He blames everyone else around him and she holds so much guilt for so many heartbreaking things (and I mean ugly cry things) that she lets him get away with so much. I didn’t think anyone’s story could be as angsty as Dylan and Aubrey’s but this one is just as sad and precious and forgiving. There are so many things that cause the rift between them and yet neither one can ever be free of the other. 

“It’s not me I’m blaming.”

I think the thing I love about this series it that no one could ever say things are rushed. The stories all take place over years, decades even. The characters suffer great loss and separation. But there is always so much growth and it is believable and genuine. This series will break you, literally tear your soul apart, but that is what makes it so damn delicious. You think how can it possibly hurt anymore and then it does. But at the end, and there always is the end, you will smile and sigh and your soul will be healed. 

“See, baby, you’ve always been with me. Even when you weren’t.”






Colors
blended together making it hard to focus on one thing. I blinked a few times
and just like that…
I
saw her face.
As
if she was standing right in front of me.
Smiling.
Happy.
Laughing.
My
whole world…
My
girl.
I
felt my lips curl up slightly at the vision as I reached out for her. Wanting
to touch her, needing to hold her, yearning to kiss her. Craving, God, craving
to fucking love her.
“I’m
sorry,” I murmured out loud to no one but the illusion of my drug-infested
mind. “I’m so fucking sorry,” I repeated repentantly, longing for her to
believe me.
Aching
for her to love me again like she used to.
I
don’t know how long I sat there, staring at her beautiful face before my eyes,
subconsciously rubbing the tattooed key that was placed over my heart. I
couldn’t take it anymore, and the desire won over the haze.
It
was too powerful.
It
was too vivid.
I
grabbed my phone. “Baby,” I said into the speaker. The ringing quickly
followed, going straight to voicemail. I hung up and tried again. “Baby,” I
urged with desperation in my tone.
Still
nothing.
I
tried again and again and again.
I
would try until the end of time if that’s what it took for her to answer.
To
talk to me.
To
save me.
To
crave me.
Time
just seemed to standstill, as my life slowly played out in front of me. Trying
to balance in between the light and the darkness when all I could see was gray.
“What?!”
she screamed into the phone, finally answering after I don’t know how many
failed attempts. “What the hell do you want now?”
“Mi
cielo.” I breathed a sigh of relief.
She
ignored my term of endearment. I hadn’t called her that in such a long time.
My
heaven.
“What
do you want, Austin? Why are you calling me? We’re over! I can’t do this
anymore!”  
I shut
my eyes and let my mind wonder, allowing it to go to another place in time
where she didn’t hate me.
“I
remember the first time I made you smile,” I chuckled, as if it had just
happened.
My
nerves were on fire. The mere sound of her breathing through the phone was too
intense for me. I licked my lips, my mouth suddenly dry.
“I
remember when you used to smile just for me. Do you remember, baby? Do you
remember what my love feels like?”
I
heard her faintly breathing.
“Do
you remember my hands on you? My lips? My tongue? The first time I made you
come with my mouth? Do you remember all the times since? Tell me I’m not
forgotten. Tell me you remember, baby.”
Silence.
“I
love you, Briggs. I love you so fucking much. You’re killing me, don’t you see
that? I’m dying without you.”
“No,
Austin. You were dying with me,” she rasped, knowing that it killed her to say
that.
“The
first time I saw your face, I thought to myself, damn, this beautiful girl is
goin’ to be the death of me. You were perfect in every way. I was a cocky son
of a bitch who needed you then, as much as I need you now.” 
More
silence.
“I
had a dream about you, baby. I always fucking dream about you. In my dream you
had a ring on your finger. A ring I put there. You belonged to me. Only mine.
Forever fucking mine. You were pregnant, Briggs. You looked so goddamn happy. I
saw light at the end of the tunnel for the first time in years.”
She
sniffled into the phone.
“I
made love to you. Slow, just the way you love. Taking my time to touch every
last inch of your body. Memorizing every last bit of you. Making you come until
you begged me to stop. I didn’t.”
“I
can’t—” she tried to interject, but I didn’t let up.
“I
kissed your stomach. Our baby. Letting my lips linger there, whispering sweet
lullabies, letting her know daddy will always be there. Baby, it was so real.
For a second I gave you the one thing you so desperately wanted, the one thing
I can’t give you.”





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Blog Tour: A Right to Remain by Beth Rinyu


 Title: A Right To Remain
By: Beth Rinyu
Publication Date: May 20, 2015
Genre: Romantic Suspense

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He had a right to remain suffocated by his pain.
She had a right to remain silent about hers.

For better or for worse.
Those were the vows that I had taken with my wife six years ago. We had lived through the better and were barely getting through the worse. I tried to face our loss together, while she chose to have an affair instead.
Time apart was what we both needed.
What I didn’t expect in that time was her.
The beauty she possessed on the outside was a far cry from the scars she was harboring on the inside. She wasn’t looking for love and neither was I. She just needed someone to help her deal with the pain she had been carrying around for the past two years, and I was happy to oblige.
I wasn’t supposed to fall in love with her, but suddenly I was seeing a future that I never dreamed of right in front of my eyes….only to find that the past had other things in mind for us.
***
I always believed that we only got one true love in life, and mine was gone and never coming back.
Through the tear-filled nights and never ending days, I was slowly and tortuously coming to terms with the pain that was my reality.
And then he entered my life.
Tall, handsome, genuine and caring, he was a friend when I needed one most. Together, we were a temporary fix to our own permanent pain. Just two people helping each other to get through a very dark period in life.
But when the light begins to shine ever so slightly with each passing day, and his face is all I can see at the end of that tunnel…..do I run back into the darkness or move into the light with him?



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Ever since I can remember, I have always enjoyed Creative Writing. There was always something about being able to travel to a different place or become a different person with just the stroke of a pen - or in today's world a touch of the keyboard. I am the author of The Exception To The Rule, An Unplanned Lesson, An Unplanned Life, Drowning In Love, A Cry for Hope, A Will To Change, Blind Side of Love, When The Chips Are Down and Easy Silence.

My life is not as interesting as my books or the characters in them, but then again whose life is? I'm a mom of twin teenage boys, a crazy Border Collie and a cat with an identity crisis! I guess you can say writing is my form of relaxation.

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Monday, May 30, 2016

Review - A right to remain by Beth Rinyu





He had a right to remain suffocated by his pain.
She had a right to remain silent about hers.

For better or for worse.
Those were the vows that I had taken with my wife six years ago. We had lived through the better and were barely getting through the worse. I tried to face our loss together, while she chose to have an affair instead.
Time apart was what we both needed.
What I didn’t expect in that time was her.
The beauty she possessed on the outside was a far cry from the scars she was harboring on the inside. She wasn’t looking for love and neither was I. She just needed someone to help her deal with the pain she had been carrying around for the past two years, and I was happy to oblige.
I wasn’t supposed to fall in love with her, but suddenly I was seeing a future that I never dreamed of right in front of my eyes….only to find that the past had other things in mind for us.
***
I always believed that we only got one true love in life, and mine was gone and never coming back.
Through the tear-filled nights and never ending days, I was slowly and tortuously coming to terms with the pain that was my reality.
And then he entered my life.
Tall, handsome, genuine and caring, he was a friend when I needed one most. Together, we were a temporary fix to our own permanent pain. Just two people helping each other to get through a very dark period in life.
But when the light begins to shine ever so slightly with each passing day, and his face is all I can see at the end of that tunnel…..do I run back into the darkness or move into the light with him?
 



4.5 Stars
Review by Jen Skewes

A Right to Remain is a bit different from Beth’s other work.  And that is not a bad thing at all. In fact I loved this book for all the reasons as to why it was different.  This one is a second chance love story for both characters so it is a beautiful love story that is also weaved in with mystery and suspense.  There is also a bit more angst than I am used to from Ms. Rinyu. 

Lacey was married to Aaron who was the love of her life.  He was this beautiful and amazing man who loved her and treasured her and was the perfect man.  He was her happily ever after that she always dreamed about.  Until one day it was all taken away from her and she no longer had the love of her life.  Aaron was gone and he was never coming back and Lacey was left trying to put the pieces of her heart back together and trying to get past the pain of losing him.  She had her happily but never got her ever after.  When she moved to a new state to take a new job in hopes of being able to move on she met Quinn.  And he was hurting just as much as she was.

Quinn is going through a really rough time right now.  When their marriage was tested in a very bad way, it started to crumble.    His wife whom he loved very much was having an affair.  She wanted to work it out but how can you work out a marriage when one spouse cannot or maybe does not want to let go of the other man in her life.  And the other spouse no longer trusts you.  Quinn needed space and moved out of their house.  He lives upstairs from his grandfather’s house that he now owns.  And his new tenant has just moved in.  He meets Lacey and at first he is not sure what to make of her and her stand-offish personality, until he gets to know her and learns of her heartbreaking story. 


Lacey and Quinn are both broken in their own way.  But together they learn to slowly heal and move on from the hurt.  To move on from their past and start to live again.  They never planned on falling for each other, but they did.  Lacey still has a tremendous amount of guilt that she is carrying for more than one reason.  Quinn just wants to love and protect Lacey.  But there seem to be so many obstacles in their way that you wonder how they will make it work?  When things get bad the both seem to run and aside from that driving me completely crazy, it also in a way made me sad for them.  They both had issues with trust and I totally understand why.  They both had fears that they needed to get through in order to move on.  They weren't looking for love and instead formed a beautiful friendship that unexpectedly turned into so much more.  They came into each other's life at the right time and were just perfect together. 

Beth Rinyu has once again created characters that I fell in love with.  I loved watching their friendship slowly build into something more.  I felt for both Quinn and Lacey and all that they both had gone through.  They had so many obstacles to overcome to get to their happily ever after.  Their past came back to cause trouble causing drama and suspense.  Which is what I loved.  this book was a little different than most of Ms. Rinyu's books because of the mystery and suspense but she did an amazing job with it.  She kept you on the edge of your seat wondering what would happen next.  And the twists and turns in this book will completely surprise you.  I never saw it coming.  I loved the emotion that this book brought out and felt the connection with these two characters.  Another amazing job by Beth Rinyu.


Sunday, May 29, 2016

Blog Tour: Perfume and Promises by Ellen Faith


Blurb


Chloe Richards is a small town girl with a big heart. At least, that’s what the local folk of Rosehip Village think. But when her parents turn up on her doorstep asking for help, her secret past is about to be revealed.
Being the daughter of Hollywood royalty was never going to be easy, but at 19, Chloe Richards managed to leave that life behind along with the scandals that almost destroyed her. A fresh start was all she needed, and a fresh start was what she got in Rosehip. Girlfriend of a local bookshop owner, best friends with fiercely loyal café owner and owner of a perfume business herself, Chloe has a happy life. But her parents are about to turn her perfect life on its head. Again.
What do you do when you’re torn between loyalty and protecting yourself? Should you trust your heart when your head is telling you not to?

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About the Author

Ellen lives in the wonderful county of Yorkshire, England with her husband where she spends most of her time with her nose in her laptop, a book or plate of food.

Legal secretary and daydreamer by day, writer and serial tweeter by night, Ellen finally decided to put all the magic in her head to some use one day and put finger to laptop where The Story of Us was born and became her debut novel. Four novels later, the daydreams are still going strong, thankfully!

She loves to travel and enjoys taking her readers on a journey to escape with her, in whatever country or village she decides on next.

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