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COVER REVEAL November Sky (Hardest Mistakes #2) by Dannielle Wicks

November Sky (Hardest Mistakes #2)by Dannielle Wicks Release Date: 05/19/15Limitless Publishing
Summary from Goodreads:A HEARTBREAKING LOSS.

A LOVE THAT TRANSCENDS MORTALITY.

A STRUGGLE BETWEEN HOLDING ON AND LETTING GO…

KRISTIAN REED is only seventeen years old when his girlfriend, JESSICA SCOTT, dies in a tragic accident. Devastated and burdened with guilt, he finds it impossible to move on.

Six years later, he’s not doing any better. He’s accepted a prestigious internship at a big city new station, but he’s still losing himself in alcohol and women to numb his pain.

BAILEY NICHOLS is assertive and annoying, but something draws her and Kristian together. Her brother hates him, but Bailey is used to getting what she wants. She knows the pain of losing people you love, and she's determined to break through Kristian’s emotional wall and prove they belong together.

Jessica is caught between worlds. She can't let go of Kristian, but she's not meant to be here, and her lingering is threatening everyone and everything around her as she begins to lose herself to the darkness.
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About the AuthorDannielle Wicks currently lives in the town of Kingaroy, Queensland in Australia. She is a TV show nerd and lover of cars. She’s always had a love for writing, even in school. She used to hide her writing notebook inside her textbooks just so the teacher wouldn’t notice what she was up to. She loves reading, especially paranormal romance. When she’s not writing or working, she competes in Speedway Sedan Racing across the state.

All of the books in the HARDEST MISTAKES series are based on a different main character, so you don't really need to read them in order, although all the characters link back to each other in some way...
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WHAT WOULD YOU DO TO GET REVENGE? Hell To Pay (Crime Files Book 1) is out NOW

An extract from Hell To Pay (Crime Files Book 1) 

She took a few more steps into the living room and walked straight into hell…



Chapter 1

I’m cold, colder than I’ve ever been in my entire life and I don’t know why. Slowly, I open my eyes, tentatively at first because even opening them a fraction feels like someone's shoving red-hot pins into them. The light is so bright.

What’s with the light anyway?

Has Michael wandered in, blootered on some poncy new beer and left the light on, after collapsing in a heap onto the bed?  I’ll brain him if he has. I’m no good to anyone when I don’t get my eight hours.

Pulling myself up in bed, I reach out my arm to nudge him awake so I can give him a right mouthful. My hand finds empty space.

Where is he?

My eyes sting as I prise them open – it’s as though there's been an accident with false lashes and I've glued my eyelashes together - and that’s when I realise I’m not in our flat. The reason I’m freezing is because I’m wearing a tracing paper thin hospital gown: the kind that shows off your backside when you’re being whisked off to x-ray.

A tidal wave of panic hits me and I jerk into full consciousness.
What’s happened to me?
I try to remember, but my brain’s all bunged up as if the top of my head's been removed and the cavity filled with cotton wool.
My arms are bandaged up. Have I been in an accident?  If I have, I don’t remember. Maybe I hit my head.


I take in my surroundings. If I’m in hospital, it’s no ordinary one. For one thing, my room’s more like a cell. There’s a bed and a table bolted to the floor, but no personal stuff: photos, or cards, or stuffed animals from people wishing me well. Does anyone even know I’m here?


I grope for a call button to get a nurse, but there isn’t one. What the hell? This place is a prison.


Staggering out of bed, I fight the wave of nausea and dizziness that make me want to yell at the world to stop moving because I want to get off the carousel. The tile floor is stone cold and there are no slippers by the bed. My feet are ice blocks. Why don’t I have any socks or tights on? 


Before I reach the door, there's a jingle of keys, then a key scrapes in the lock. Holding my breath, I brace myself for what’s coming.


A woman I don’t recognize with brown hair tied back in a ponytail appears. She’s dressed in a nurse’s uniform and there’s a small smile playing on the edge of her lips.
"Good, you’re awake, Nancy."
She sounds pleased, as if we’re bosom buddies, when I’ve never seen her before in my life.
"Where am I?"
My voice comes out as a rasp as though my throat’s been sandpapered down.

The nurse puts a hand on my shoulder. "Let’s get you back into bed, Nancy."
I do as she says. I’m worried if I don’t lie back, I’ll faint.
"You’re in Parkview Hospital," she says, as she fixes the pillows so I can sit upright.
I know all the hospitals in Glasgow, but I haven’t heard of that one. I ask her what kind of hospital it is and she tells me it’s a psychiatric facility. The reason I haven’t heard of it, is because they don’t publicize it. Perhaps because it’s full of nutters they want to keep away from society. The prospect terrifies me because that would mean they must think I’m cuckoo. Why else would I be here? 


I suck in my breath. When I ask her if this is a nut house, she presses her lips tightly together as she tells me no one refers to psychiatric hospitals in that way any more. Suitably chastised, I mumble an apology not because I think one’s needed, but because she’s the one with the keys.


"Why am I here?"
I’m dreading the answer, but I need to know. I don’t feel any different. Surely if I’d lost my mind, I'd know.
"You had a breakdown."
The way she says it, she could be talking about the weather.
She asks me if I want anything and I tell her a pair of proper pajamas, a dressing gown and slippers would be nice because I’m an ice block. If she gets in touch with Mum, she’ll bring me in some stuff.


Her smile’s still there, but breaks down around the corners of her mouth. There’s something she’s not telling me, because she’s worried how I’ll react. There’s fear in her eyes. I notice she’s wearing a lucky heather brooch, the same one I got for Mum. I’m staring at it as she tells me she’s going to fetch a doctor, when a memory stirs inside me and no matter how hard I try to push it away, someone’s taken their finger out the dyke and the water’s rushing in.


Blood, blood everywhere. Dad’s slumped in his favorite armchair, head bent forward as if in prayer (he never prayed a day in his life); a single bullet hole in his head. I know it’s him, even although his face has been beaten to a pulp: his blood staining the fireside rug my mum was so fond of. Even in death, my dad has a presence. He fills a room with the sheer weight of his personality. Discarded nearby is the baseball bat they used on him. It’s covered in blood and something sticky and dark brown, resembling raw mince.

All material is copyright of the author Jenny Thomson (C) 2013



RELEASED APRIL 28TH FROM LIMITLESS PUBLISHING 




Order links for Hell to Pay (Crime Files Book 1) on Kindle

Amazon.com

Amazon.co.uk

Amazon.ca

Amazon.com.au

****Coming soon in paperback***
Books 2 and 3 coming out on May 12th and May 26th.

WIN the first book in the Crime Files series, Hell to Pay

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Hell, yeah.
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Here’s a wee taster –
Nancy Kerr refuses to be a victim—even when she walks in on her parents’ killers and is raped and left for dead…
Fourteen months later, Nancy wakes up in a psychiatric hospital with no knowledge of how she got there.
Slowly, her memory starts to return.
Released from the institution, she has just one thing on her mind—two men brought hell to her family home.
Now they’re in for some hell of their own…


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Categories: Mystery/Thriller, Pre-Orders. Tags: Crime, Crime Files, Criminal Supense, Detective, Hell To Pay, Jenny Thomson, Murder, Mystery, Revenge, Suspense, Thriller.

WHAT WOULD YOU DO TO GET REVENGE? Hell To Pay (Crime Files Book 1) is out today

An extract from Hell To Pay (Crime Files Book 1) 
She took a few more steps into the living room and walked straight into hell…


Chapter 1
I’m cold, colder than I’ve ever been in my entire life and I don’t know why. Slowly, I open my eyes, tentatively at first because even opening them a fraction feels like someone's shoving red-hot pins into them. The light is so bright.
What’s with the light anyway?
Has Michael wandered in, blootered on some poncy new beer and left the light on, after collapsing in a heap onto the bed?  I’ll brain him if he has. I’m no good to anyone when I don’t get my eight hours.
Pulling myself up in bed, I reach out my arm to nudge him awake so I can give him a right mouthful. My hand finds empty space.
Where is he?
My eyes sting as I prise them open – it’s as though there's been an accident with false lashes and I've glued my eyelashes together - and that’s when I realise I’m not in our flat. The reason I’m freezing is because I’m wearing a tracing paper thin hospital gown: the kind that shows off your backside when you’re being whisked off to x-ray.
A tidal wave of panic hits me and I jerk into full consciousness.
What’s happened to me?
I try to remember, but my brain’s all bunged up as if the top of my head's been removed and the cavity filled with cotton wool.
My arms are bandaged up. Have I been in an accident?  If I have, I don’t remember. Maybe I hit my head.


I take in my surroundings. If I’m in hospital, it’s no ordinary one. For one thing, my room’s more like a cell. There’s a bed and a table bolted to the floor, but no personal stuff: photos, or cards, or stuffed animals from people wishing me well. Does anyone even know I’m here?


I grope for a call button to get a nurse, but there isn’t one. What the hell? This place is a prison.


Staggering out of bed, I fight the wave of nausea and dizziness that make me want to yell at the world to stop moving because I want to get off the carousel. The tile floor is stone cold and there are no slippers by the bed. My feet are ice blocks. Why don’t I have any socks or tights on? 


Before I reach the door, there's a jingle of keys, then a key scrapes in the lock. Holding my breath, I brace myself for what’s coming.


A woman I don’t recognize with brown hair tied back in a ponytail appears. She’s dressed in a nurse’s uniform and there’s a small smile playing on the edge of her lips.
"Good, you’re awake, Nancy."
She sounds pleased, as if we’re bosom buddies, when I’ve never seen her before in my life.
"Where am I?"
My voice comes out as a rasp as though my throat’s been sandpapered down.

The nurse puts a hand on my shoulder. "Let’s get you back into bed, Nancy."
I do as she says. I’m worried if I don’t lie back, I’ll faint.
"You’re in Parkview Hospital," she says, as she fixes the pillows so I can sit upright.
I know all the hospitals in Glasgow, but I haven’t heard of that one. I ask her what kind of hospital it is and she tells me it’s a psychiatric facility. The reason I haven’t heard of it, is because they don’t publicize it. Perhaps because it’s full of nutters they want to keep away from society. The prospect terrifies me because that would mean they must think I’m cuckoo. Why else would I be here? 


I suck in my breath. When I ask her if this is a nut house, she presses her lips tightly together as she tells me no one refers to psychiatric hospitals in that way any more. Suitably chastised, I mumble an apology not because I think one’s needed, but because she’s the one with the keys.


"Why am I here?"
I’m dreading the answer, but I need to know. I don’t feel any different. Surely if I’d lost my mind, I'd know.
"You had a breakdown."
The way she says it, she could be talking about the weather.
She asks me if I want anything and I tell her a pair of proper pajamas, a dressing gown and slippers would be nice because I’m an ice block. If she gets in touch with Mum, she’ll bring me in some stuff.


Her smile’s still there, but breaks down around the corners of her mouth. There’s something she’s not telling me, because she’s worried how I’ll react. There’s fear in her eyes. I notice she’s wearing a lucky heather brooch, the same one I got for Mum. I’m staring at it as she tells me she’s going to fetch a doctor, when a memory stirs inside me and no matter how hard I try to push it away, someone’s taken their finger out the dyke and the water’s rushing in.


Blood, blood everywhere. Dad’s slumped in his favorite armchair, head bent forward as if in prayer (he never prayed a day in his life); a single bullet hole in his head. I know it’s him, even although his face has been beaten to a pulp: his blood staining the fireside rug my mum was so fond of. Even in death, my dad has a presence. He fills a room with the sheer weight of his personality. Discarded nearby is the baseball bat they used on him. It’s covered in blood and something sticky and dark brown, resembling raw mince.
All material is copyright of the author Jenny Thomson (C) 2013



RELEASED APRIL 28TH FROM LIMITLESS PUBLISHING 


Order links for Hell to Pay (Crime Files Book 1) on Kindle

Amazon.com

Amazon.co.uk

Amazon.ca

Amazon.com.au

****Coming soon in paperback***
Books 2 and 3 coming out on May 12th and May 26th.

Cover Reveal - Love Always, Damian by D. Nichole King (Love Always #2)

They say time heals all wounds.What a load of bull. It’s been four years, and Kate’s voice still echoes in my mind. Every. Damn. Day. I numb her memory when it taunts me. In college, I drown her out with booze and easy lays. I can’t do what she asked. I can’t let her go.Not even when Lia shows up, freaking ripping what’s left of me to shreds. Caring about someone isn’t worth the deadness that follows after they’re gone. I didn’t ask for this. Didn’t ask for her.And I sure as hell didn’t plan to miss her when she walked out of my front door. Now, if I want to keep her, I have to straighten myself out and earn her. I can’t screw this up.Because if I do, I’ll lose more than just Lia.I’ll lose my life.
Love Always, DamianD. Nichole King(Love Always #2)Published by: Limitless PublishingPublication date: May 26th 2015Genres: Contemporary, New Adult, Romance

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Guest Bloggers required

I’m doing a release day promo for the first book in my Crime Files series, Hell To Pay and I’m looking for fellow authors and bloggers to post on the day the book is released – April 28th. Is that something you think you can do?
I could either send you something of your choice or there’s a release day blog post, please sign up here. 

If you sign up there, html will be provided for quick and easy post by the PR company I’m using. I know, I’ve gone all Hollywood, mainly because my head isn’t really in the game. My dad recently passed away and after a long battle with cancer (he was brought home to die and I helped to look after him) and I only got back from looking after my mum a few days ago (my dad's funeral was on April 1st, which would have appealed to his sense of humor).
I’d really appreciate it if you could do a blog post.

FACEBOOK BOOK PARTY INVITE. MY PARENTS ARE OUT! EVERYBODY WELCOME.

PARTY INVITE. MY PARENTS ARE OUT! EVERYBODY WELCOME.
I’m holding a Facebook launch event for the first book in the Crime Files series, Hell To Pay on Saturday May 2nd from 1 pm to 9 pm EST (that’s 6pm to 2am in the UK) 
And I would love it if you would come.
So, what will be happening then?
There will be –
**PRIZES
**FUN
**LAUGHS
**GUESTS GALORE
THE VENUE - https://www.facebook.com/events/1417899068518517/

To be added as a guest, please friend me first as I've had problems with unwanted FB guests before. You can reach me at https://www.facebook.com/jennifer.thomson.121  


If you’re an author, can I ask a teenie, weenie favour. I need one more guest poster for 12pm-1pm EST (that’s 5pm-6pm in the UK). As well as having a great opportunity to promote your own work, you would also promote Hell To Pay in your allocated one hour slot, as well as having some fun along the way.
If you’re interested, here’s the sign up sheet https://docs.google.com/…/1oC-NtKPOQnBmn27_OF8RMMIJoa…/edit…
Here’s a bit about the event -
★★★HELL TO PAY★★★ Crime Files #1
Author: Jenny Thomson
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
Publisher: Limitless Publishing
Book is being Released On April 28th
This will be the first book released in the Crime Files Series.
Synopsis:
Nancy Kerr refuses to be a victim - even when she walks in on her parents’ killers and is raped and left for dead…
Fourteen months later, Nancy wakes up in a
psychiatric hospital with no knowledge of how she got there.
Slowly, her memory starts to return.
Released from the institution, she has just one thing on her mind - two men brought hell to her family home.
Now they’re in for some hell of their own…
★★★AUTHORS & BLOGGERS★★★
TO BE ANNOUNCED...
12:00 - 1:00 pm EST: Kick off the Event
1:00 - 2:00 pm EST: Elisabeth Popolow
https://www.facebook.com/ElisabethPopolowWriter/timeline
2:00 - 3:00 pm EST: Lydia & Crystal HEA Book Tours PR & More Alongside Crystal @ Book Junky Tours HEA Book Tours, PR & More
3:00 - 4:00 pm EST: Lynn Stookes
https://www.facebook.com/AuthorLynnStookes
4:00 - 5:00 pm EST: K.D. Carrillo
https://www.facebook.com/kdcarrilloauthor
5:00 - 6:00 pm EST: Olivia Snow
https://www.facebook.com/ByOliviaSnow
6:00 - 7:00 pm EST: Jenny Thomson
https://www.facebook.com/jennifer.thomson.121
7:00 - 8:00 pm EST: Evan Grace
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Evan-Grace/626268640762539
8:00 - 9:00 pm EST: Author C.A. Harms
https://www.facebook.com/AuthorCAHarms

FACEBOOK PARTY INVITE. MY PARENTS ARE OUT! EVERYBODY WELCOME.

PARTY INVITE.MY PARENTS ARE OUT!EVERYBODY WELCOME.
I’m holding a Facebook launch event for the first book in the Crime Files series, Hell To Pay on Saturday May 2nd from 1 pm to 9 pm EST (that’s 6pm to 2am in the UK) 
And I would love it if you would come.
So, what will be happening then?
There will be –
**PRIZES
**FUN
**LAUGHS
**GUESTS GALORE
THE VENUE - https://www.facebook.com/events/1417899068518517/


If you’re an author, can I ask a teenie, weenie favour. I need one more guest poster for 12pm-1pm EST (that’s 5pm-6pm in the UK). As well as having a great opportunity to promote your own work, you would also promote Hell To Pay in your allocated one hour slot, as well as having some fun along the way.
If you’re interested, here’s the sign up sheet https://docs.google.com/…/1oC-NtKPOQnBmn27_OF8RMMIJoa…/edit…
Here’s a bit about the event -
★★★HELL TO PAY★★★ Crime Files #1
Author: Jenny Thomson
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
Publisher: Limitless Publishing
Book is being Released On April 28th
This will be the first book released in the Crime Files Series.
Synopsis:
Nancy Kerr refuses to be a victim - even when she walks in on her parents’ killers and is raped and left for dead…
Fourteen months later, Nancy wakes up in a
psychiatric hospital with no knowledge of how she got there.
Slowly, her memory starts to return.
Released from the institution, she has just one thing on her mind - two men brought hell to her family home.
Now they’re in for some hell of their own…
★★★AUTHORS & BLOGGERS★★★
TO BE ANNOUNCED...
12:00 - 1:00 pm EST: Kick off the Event
1:00 - 2:00 pm EST: Elisabeth Popolow
https://www.facebook.com/ElisabethPopolowWriter/timeline
2:00 - 3:00 pm EST: Lydia & Crystal HEA Book Tours PR & More Alongside Crystal @ Book Junky Tours HEA Book Tours, PR & More
3:00 - 4:00 pm EST: Lynn Stookes
https://www.facebook.com/AuthorLynnStookes
4:00 - 5:00 pm EST: K.D. Carrillo
https://www.facebook.com/kdcarrilloauthor
5:00 - 6:00 pm EST: Olivia Snow
https://www.facebook.com/ByOliviaSnow
6:00 - 7:00 pm EST: Jenny Thomson
https://www.facebook.com/jennifer.thomson.121
7:00 - 8:00 pm EST: Evan Grace
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Evan-Grace/626268640762539
8:00 - 9:00 pm EST: Author C.A. Harms
https://www.facebook.com/AuthorCAHarms

Why is it when women get revenge they're called man-hating bitches, men are called heroes?

We need more strong women like The Walking Dead's Michonne in fiction.I wrote Hell To Pay because I was sick of the way women are portrayed in
fiction. Whilst TV shows like The Walking Dead (has there ever been a more kick
ass woman in a TV show as Michonne) and Person of Interest (hey, we're spoilt
with three strong women in one show) have cottoned onto the fact that women are
just as likely to punch a mugger as hand over their handbag, fiction seems to be
trailing behind with far too few exceptions like the excellent Detective DD
Warren series by Lisa Gardner and Tess Gerritsen's Rizzoloi and Isles.

In Hell to Pay, office worker Nancy Kerr comes home to find her parents
tortured and murdered. The culprits, two men repeatedly rape her and leave her
to bleed to death on the floor after they've repeatedly stabbed her. Nancy has a
breakdown and when she recovers she has just one goal - to get revenge on the
men who ruined her life.

The response I've had has fallen into two camps -
the overwhelmingly positive with people saying it's about time women got
revenge just like men (and many of the readers saying that have been men) and
the ones who dismiss Nancy as a man hating bitch.
The second opinion surprises me and after spending time thinking about why a woman who goes after her parents killers and the men who raped her and left her for dead, should be described as "man hating," I've come to the conclusion that women just aren't meant to get their revenge.
Nope, they're meant to turn the other cheek and forgive their attackers and just move on with their lives. They're certainly not allowed to use violence. 
I've interviewed women who've survived rape and the one thing that seems common to
 them all is the guilt they feel. When they were attacked, they were powerless. There was nothing they could do, yet they blamed themselves. They believed there was something they could have done; they should have fought more. For some of them that feeling was so intense that they took their own lives or became terrified to go
out. 
Out on April 28th

That's why I wrote Hell To Pay, the first in a series of books I've
called Die Hard For Girls. I wanted to have some escapist fiction where a woman
does get her own revenge, because let's be honest here, the conviction rates for
rape are pitiful.
Why don't you read Hell To Pay and tell me whether Nancy Kerr is really a "man-hating bitch" or an avenging warrior?
I'd be interested to know what people think.
You can read an excerpt here

There's somebody outside the door...Introducing Don't Come for Me (Crime Files #3) (out May 26th)

THERE'S SOMEONE AT THE DOOR...

Crime thriller, Don't Come for Me is based on something that's probably happened to us all.

You're alone at night, in the bathroom when you hear a noise outside the door.

And there's this tiny part of you, the primaeval part of you that thinks there's someone outside that door.



SOMEONE WAITINGTO GRAB YOU
SOMEONE WAITINGTO ROB YOUR HOUSE
In almost every case, there will be nobody outside that door. Or, it'll be your cat/dog who's knocked down some furniture.

But, what if someone is out there?What do they want?Who are they?
That's how the idea for Don't Come For Me came about.

You can find out what's outside Nancy Kerr's door, by reading Don't Come for Me.

Released May 26th, 2015 from Limitless Publishing (Book 3 in the Crime Files)





Check out the other books in the Crime File series