Wednesday, October 30, 2019

Defy Fate by Abigail Davies


Defy Fate (Fated Duet #1)
Release Date: October 23, 2019
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Trope: Angsty & Forbidden
Cover Design: Pink Elephant Designs
Photographer: Regina Wamba


Synopsis


Solace and suffering.
Opposites attract like magnets. They went hand in hand; just like we did.

The pain of the past encompassed my soul. It was on a path to destroy me—that was if I didn’t do it myself first.

I was drowning in the depths of my sorrow, trying to push through each day to get to the next. And then he turned up.

There was a time when he was the only beam of light within the darkness.
But he snatched that away when he left and forgot all about me.

Only now he was back, and standing at the front of my World History class.
Cade Easton was no longer the charming sixteen year old who never failed to put a smile on my face. Instead, he was my new teacher.

They said there was nothing quite like your first love. That all consuming feeling—the infatuation.

It should have mattered that I was his student, but it didn’t. And neither did the eight year age gap.

Age was just a number.
Time which would pass us both by.

Lines blurred.
Rules were broken.
And there was nothing that could stop us.

Until my past resurfaced and threatened to demolish everything we’d built. With Cade by my side, I was sure I’d conquer everything.
I just hoped he stayed there.

A thousand steps separated us, but nothing could keep us apart.
Or could it?


**Defy Fate is book one in the Fated Duet. A two-part, angst-filled, all-consuming, captivating story of forbidden love.







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Obey Fate (Fated Duet #2)
Release Date: November 6, 2019

Synopsis



I’d made promises I had no right to keep.I’d crossed lines I shouldn’t have.And I didn’t care one bit.
Coming back to my hometown to teach wasn’t meant to be like this. Falling head over heels for the forbidden girl shouldn’t have been on the cards.
But fate had other ideas.
Aria was the one shining star in an otherwise dark night. She called to me like nothing else ever had, and I was hopeless to stop it.
Until we got caught. The game was over; our secret destroyed. And there was only one thing I could do about it.
Lies came easy when I was shielding the people I loved most. Destroying myself in the process didn’t matter as long as she was safe.
But now the lines had been redrawn. Boundaries marked permanently. I’d always protect Aria—even if it was from herself.
Defying fate was simple, but I was never one to take the easy way out.
One look.One touch.One kiss.That was all it would take to walk the rocky path of obeying fate.

**Obey Fate is book two in the Fated Duet. The epic conclusion to the two-part, heart-felt, emotional, gripping journey of forbidden love.

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About the Author



Abigail Davies grew up with a passion for words, storytelling, maths, and anything pink. Dreaming up characters--quite literally--and talking to them out loud is a daily occurrence for her. She finds it fascinating how a whole world can be built with words alone, and how everyone reads and interprets a story differently. Now following her dreams of writing, Abigail has found the passion that she always knew was there. When she's not writing: she's a mother to two daughters who she encourages to use their imagination as she believes that it's a magical thing, or getting lost in a good book. If she's doing neither of those things, you can be sure she's surfing the web buying new makeup, clothes, or binge watching another show as she becomes one with her sofa.






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Monday, October 28, 2019

Review: Bad Apple by Gemini Jensen




Senior year is supposed to be the time of your life. Keyword: Supposed. 

But I’ve just been shipped off to a new school. Sentenced to hard time deep in the heart of Hicktown, USA. 
I left everything behind—my friends, my girl, my band, my ambitions. 
Besides graduating, I thought there was nothing left to strive for. 

Then, I meet her...
Pretty. Preppy. Popular. Basic. 
Most importantly, daughter of the enemy.

And now I have a new vision...
Rip away her crown. 
Knock her off her pedestal. 
Wear her down until she’s stripped bare. 
She has no idea what’s coming for her. 

They say the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, and the Creed family tree is full of bad apples. 
But me?
I’m the most rotten of them all. 

Note: This is a full-length novel that ends on a cliffhanger. Book two will be releasing before the end of the year and will be up for preorder at the release of Book One.

This series deals with subjects that may be considered taboo and/or uncomfortable for some. 
This duet in particular contains flawed characters that may be hard to swallow. If you are a safety reader, or have disliked “Bully” stories with crude anti-heroes in the past, this may not be the book for you. 





4.5 Stars
Review by Jen Skewes


Gemini Jensen is a new to me author.  When I read the blurb for Bad Apple I knew that I needed to read this one.  An enemies to lover/bully romance is one of my favorites books to read.  The best part is knowing how much you should be hating the hero, but the author does such an amazing job and you end of loving him no matter how bad he is.  And Gemini Jensen did just that.  Bad Apple is the story of the good girl cheerleader and the bad boy, bully alpha male who are enemies from the very beginning.  

True is starting her final year of high school.  She is a cheerleader who people look up to.  Always feeling the pressure to be perfect, both from her family as well as her peers.   She has the perfect boyfriend, a great best friend, and looking forward to her final year of high school. Until the tattooed bad boy name Ransom Creed walks into her class.  The creed family is known in her town as the family who causes trouble.  True has dealt with the three Creed siblings at high school, but Ransom showing up in her class was completely unexpected.  He is one of their cousins and has just moved to her town.  He hates her and seems to have some vendetta against her, but she had no idea why.  Based on the way he treats her and bullies her, she should hate him, she should be running from him and by no means should she find him attractive.  But regardless of how much of a jerk he is, she cannot deny how hot he is.  Will she find out why he hates her?  Will the growing tension between the two of them finally come to a head?  And when it does, what will happen next?

I really loved this book.  True is the typical cheerleader who people look up to, girls want to be like her,  and she just seems perfect.  When first meeting her I was a little unsure of her, but you soon see that there is so much more to her.  I honestly felt bad for her, knowing how much pressure she was under, how much her parents  expected of her and to deal with this bully at the same time.  I loved her character, her ability to not back down.  

Ransom was a complete jerk, but I loved him.  He has not had an easy life and he is just angry, and you can understand why given his family life, losing his dad and his mother being the way she is.  But deep down I think there is so much more to him under all of the anger and bitterness.  

There was this push and pull between Ransom and True that I loved.  Ransom pretending, he doesn’t care yet will do anything to piss True.  The tension between them just kept building and building and I wanted for that moment when it would finally explode.  And when it did I loved it!!!  I waited for that moment and when it came it was perfection!!! 

Bad Apple is filled with angst, a bit of suspense, a bad boy hero who is both dark and angry, chemistry that is off the charts and a storyline that had me from the very beginning.  The writing was fantastic.  I will warn you that this does end in a cliffhanger.  There is still so much more story to tell and I cannot wait to see what happens.  


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Release Blitz: No Vacancy by Stephanie Rose



Can a summer fling become the love of a lifetime?




Title: No Vacancy
Author: Stephanie Rose
Release Date: October 28, 2019




Can a summer fling become the love of a lifetime?

Perpetual good girl Caterina Longo is dependable to a fault. At 33, she’s never called in sick. Never had a one-night stand. Never taken a chance in her entire life. When she walks in on a cheating ex and sees everything wrong with her life, she takes off on a solo vacation, busting out of her comfort zone and into the arms of a guy she never saw coming.

Joe Hunter has no room for distractions. Making his restaurant a success and proving his worth to his family—and himself—is his sole focus. At least it is until a beautiful stranger, in search of fried food and a shoulder, wanders in one night.

Is two weeks of unexpected, life-altering passion all they’re meant to share? What happens when vacation ends and real life takes over?







4 Stars
Review by Jen Skewes

No Vacancy was a sweet, sexy, quick read that I really loved.  I love it when you can feel that connection immediately between the hero ad the heroine.  And I do not mean insta-love.  I am talking the connection where it feels like two people have know each other for years.  The kind of connection where you can be yourself and you just click.  That is exactly how I felt while reading Cat and joe's story.

When Cat walks in on her boyfriend with another woman on their couch, the one she just bought. she decides to take off and head down to the shore a few days early for her vacation .  She is supposed to go with her girlfriends, but she just needs some time to herself right now so she goes on her own.  She is in a strange town, dealing with the feelings that her cheating ex left her with, she's starving!!  She heads across the street to the pub to hopefully get some food, clear her head and make an amazing connection with the owner of the bar.  Well the last one was not planned but from the minute she meets him, sparks begin to fly.  They talk and eats for a few hours and then one thing leads to another and she does something that just doesn't do, have a one night stand with someone she just met.  Except this may not just be a one night stand to either one of them.

Joe moved to the shore a few years ago and opened up his own bar.  when it comes to his business he is all in which means no rooms for distractions.  Especially when Cat walks in his door.  But he can't help himself.   He is drawn to her in a way that he has never felt before.  One night with her is not enough.  He wants so much more which scares him, not even knowing where these feelings are coming from.  But on the other hand he knows that he can't give her what she wants and needs.  They live 3 hours away from each other and both are married to their jobs.  They have one week together, but what happens when the week is up and they both go back to reality?  Can they make it work?

I really enjoyed this book.  Joe is just one of those guys who has a huge heart, he's kind and caring but also very sexy with a dirty mouth.  I loved him.  I loved the connection between the two of them. When they were together everything just seemed so easy.  There was this comfort that they both felt when with each other.  And that is what I loved!!  the one issues I did have was that I was craving a bit more angst, especially when it came to the ex boyfriend.  But other than that I loved it.  It is a sweet and sexy read!!  Cannot wait for Domnic's story.







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Stephanie Rose is a bad-ass New Yorker, a wife, a mother, a former blogger and lover of all things chocolate. Most days you'll find her trying to avoid standing on discarded LEGO or deciding which book to read next. Her debut novel, Always You, released in 2015 and since then she's written several more—some of which will never see completion—and has ideas for a hundred to come.










Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Release Blitz: Defy Fate by Abigail Davies


Defy Fate (Fated Duet #1)
Release Date: October 23, 2019
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Trope: Angsty & Forbidden
Cover Design: Pink Elephant Designs
Photographer: Regina Wamba








Synopsis



Peace and Pain.
Solace and suffering.
Opposites attract like magnets. They went hand in hand; just like we did.

The pain of the past encompassed my soul. It was on a path to destroy me—that was if I didn’t do it myself first.

I was drowning in the depths of my sorrow, trying to push through each day to get to the next. And then he turned up.

There was a time when he was the only beam of light within the darkness.
But he snatched that away when he left and forgot all about me.

Only now he was back, and standing at the front of my World History class.
Cade Easton was no longer the charming sixteen year old who never failed to put a smile on my face. Instead, he was my new teacher.

They said there was nothing quite like your first love. That all consuming feeling—the infatuation.

It should have mattered that I was his student, but it didn’t. And neither did the eight year age gap.

Age was just a number.
Time which would pass us both by.

Lines blurred.
Rules were broken.
And there was nothing that could stop us.

Until my past resurfaced and threatened to demolish everything we’d built. With Cade by my side, I was sure I’d conquer everything.
I just hoped he stayed there.

A thousand steps separated us, but nothing could keep us apart.
Or could it?


**Defy Fate is book one in the Fated Duet. A two-part, angst-filled, all-consuming, captivating story of forbidden love.







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Obey Fate (Fated Duet #2)
Release Date: November 6, 2019

Synopsis



I’d made promises I had no right to keep.I’d crossed lines I shouldn’t have.And I didn’t care one bit.
Coming back to my hometown to teach wasn’t meant to be like this. Falling head over heels for the forbidden girl shouldn’t have been on the cards.
But fate had other ideas.
Aria was the one shining star in an otherwise dark night. She called to me like nothing else ever had, and I was hopeless to stop it.
Until we got caught. The game was over; our secret destroyed. And there was only one thing I could do about it.
Lies came easy when I was shielding the people I loved most. Destroying myself in the process didn’t matter as long as she was safe.
But now the lines had been redrawn. Boundaries marked permanently. I’d always protect Aria—even if it was from herself.
Defying fate was simple, but I was never one to take the easy way out.
One look.One touch.One kiss.That was all it would take to walk the rocky path of obeying fate.

**Obey Fate is book two in the Fated Duet. The epic conclusion to the two-part, heart-felt, emotional, gripping journey of forbidden love.

Goodreads


Preorder Links



Amazon Universal: https://geni.us/BeN2A




About the Author



Abigail Davies grew up with a passion for words, storytelling, maths, and anything pink. Dreaming up characters--quite literally--and talking to them out loud is a daily occurrence for her. She finds it fascinating how a whole world can be built with words alone, and how everyone reads and interprets a story differently. Now following her dreams of writing, Abigail has found the passion that she always knew was there. When she's not writing: she's a mother to two daughters who she encourages to use their imagination as she believes that it's a magical thing, or getting lost in a good book. If she's doing neither of those things, you can be sure she's surfing the web buying new makeup, clothes, or binge watching another show as she becomes one with her sofa.






Connect with Abigail



Facebook Author Page: http://bit.ly/2oHTocn
Facebook Reader Group: http://bit.ly/2Nj66fr
Goodreads Author Page: http://bit.ly/2wTNuJV
Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/2LZFc7K
BookBub Author Page: http://bit.ly/2Ci99QS







Monday, October 21, 2019

Cover Reveal: His Royal Highness by RS Grey

R.S. Grey's next romantic comedy, HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS, releases November 14th! See the gorgeous cover below and find out more about HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS!


About HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS (available November 14th)

I’ve spent eight years wishing I’d fall out of love with Derek Knightley. Blowing out birthday candles, chasing after shooting stars, making it rain spare change into mall fountains—every time it’s the same wish: forget about Derek.
But the day he walks back into my life, I realize there are two things time has yet to soften: my feelings for him and his chiseled jawline.
It’s infuriating that my heart still races when he walks into a room. I refuse to fall prey to old unrequited love, so I decide the less I’m around him, the better. Avoidance is key.
Unfortunately, Derek isn’t going to make it easy. As a teenager, I would have crawled on my hands and knees to attract his attention. Now I can’t seem to escape it.
I’m not sure why he’s bothering. He’s not just out of my league—he’s out of my tax bracket. As the sole heir to the Knightley Company, he’s as close to American royalty as you can get. As for me, I’m just a part-time princess at Knightley’s flagship magical theme park.
I spend my days playing make-believe, but Derek has no use for fairytales. His unwavering confidence makes it clear he thinks I’ll surrender in the end.
He’s just biding his time.
Making me sweat.
His Royal Highness always gets what he wants.
And he wants me.

HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS releases November 14th - you'll be able to preorder your copy for .99c a few days before release!

Keep an eye on R.S. Grey's Facebook page for the link!



About R.S. Grey

R.S. Grey is the USA Today bestselling author of thirteen novels, including THE FOXE & THE HOUND. She lives in Texas with her husband and two dogs, and can be found reading, binge-watching reality TV, or practicing yoga! Visit her at rsgrey.com

Friday, October 18, 2019

Cover Reveal: No Vacancy by Stephanie Rose



Can a summer fling become the love of a lifetime?

Title: No Vacancy
Author: Stephanie Rose
Cover Design: Najla Qamber | @NajlaQamberDesigns
Photography: Regina Wamba | @ArtistReginaWamba
Release Date: October 28, 2019

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Can a summer fling become the love of a lifetime?
Perpetual good girl Caterina Longo is dependable to a fault. At 33, she’s never called in sick. Never had a one-night stand. Never taken a chance in her entire life. When she walks in on a cheating ex and sees everything wrong with her life, she takes off on a solo vacation, busting out of her comfort zone and into the arms of a guy she never saw coming.
Joe Hunter has no room for distractions. Making his restaurant a success and proving his worth to his family—and himself—is his sole focus. At least it is until a beautiful stranger, in search of fried food and a shoulder, wanders in one night.
Is two weeks of unexpected, life-altering passion all they’re meant to share? What happens when vacation ends and real life takes over? 
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Stephanie Rose is a bad@ss New Yorker, a wife, a mother, a former blogger and lover of all-things chocolate. Most days you'll find her trying to avoid standing on discarded LEGO or deciding which book to read next. Her debut novel, Always You, released in 2015 and since then she's written several more—some of which will never see completion—and has ideas for a hundred to come.

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