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{Release Day Blitz} REBEL HEIR by Vi Keeland & Penelope Ward

Today I'm excited to help share the release of REBEL HEIR by Vi Keeland and Penelope Ward!
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How to kick off a great summer in the Hamptons:
Snag a gorgeous rental on the beach. Check.
Get a job at a trendy summer haunt. Check.
How to screw up a great summer in the Hamptons:
Fall for the one guy with a dark leather jacket, scruff on his face, and intense eyes that doesn’t fit in with the rest of the tony looking crowd. A guy you can’t have when you’ll be leaving at the end of the season.
Check. Check. Check.
I should add—especially when the guy is your sexy, tattooed God of a boss.
Especially when he not only owns your place of employment but inherited half of the town.
Especially when he’s mean to you.
Or so I thought.
Until one night when he demanded I get in his car so he could drive me home because he didn’t want me walking in the dark.
That was sort of how it all started with Rush.
And then little by little, some of the walls of this hardass man started to come down.I never expected that the two of us, seemingly opposites from the outside, would grow so close.
I wasn't supposed to fall for the rebel heir, especially when he made it clear he didn’t want to cross the line with me.
As the temperature turned cooler, the nights became hotter. My summer became a lot more interesting—and complicated.
All good things must come to an end, right?
Except our ending was one I didn’t see coming.
Rebel Heir is the first book in the Rush Series Duet. Book Two, Rebel Heart, will release six weeks later on May, 22, 2018.
Add to Goodreads ➜ Rebel Heir (Book One) Add to Goodreads ➜Rebel Heart (Book Two)Rebel Heart Pre-order links ➜ http://www.booksneakpeek.com/therushduet.html                   Vi Keeland is a #1 New York Times, #1 Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Bestselling author.   With millions of books sold, her titles have appeared in over ninety Bestseller lists and are currently translated in twenty languages. She resides in New York with her husband and their three children where she is living out her own happily ever after with the boy she met at age six. Website | Facebook Fan Group | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram            


Penelope Ward is a New York Times, USA Today and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author. She grew up in Boston with five older brothers and spent most of her twenties as a television news anchor. Penelope resides in Rhode Island with her husband, son and beautiful daughter with autism. With over a million books sold, she is a seventeen-time New York Times bestseller and the author of over fifteen novels, including RoomHate which hit #2 on the New York Times bestseller list and #1 on the Wall Street Journal bestseller list. Other New York Times bestsellers include Stepbrother Dearest, Neighbor Dearest, Drunk Dial, Cocky Bastard, Stuck-Up Suit, Playboy Pilot and Mister Moneybags (the latter four co-written with Vi Keeland). Connect with Penelope Ward Facebook Fan Group | Facebook | Website |Twitter | Instagram    

#BookTag Saturday: The Six Of Crows Book Tag

This week I started reading Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo so what better Book Tag to choose than the Six of Crows Book Tag! This particular book tag was created by Ashley at The Infinite Library! 

THIEF
1: Kaz Brekkar: A Layered or Complex Character
A: Abby Williams from Bonfire by Krysten Ritter
WRAITH
2: Inej Ghafa: A Book With A Twist You Didn’t See Coming
A. As She Fades by Abbi Glines 
SHARPSHOOTER
3: Jesper Fahey: An Author Who Never Misses The Mark
A: Wendy Higgins
HEARTRENDER
4: Nina Zenik: A Book That Broke Your Heart or Gave You All the Feels
A: Sharing Sam by Katharine Applegate
CONVICT
5: Matthais Helvar: A Character Caught Between Two Worlds
A: Claire Fraser from Outlander 
EXPLOSIVES EXPERT
​6: Wylan Van Eck: A Book That Went Out With A Bang or A Cliff-Hanger
​A: Paper Princess by Erin Watt

{Release Day Blitz} Unseen Evil and Evil Unleashed by Kelly Hashway

Today I'm helping Kelly Hashway and InkSlingerPR spread the word about the release of UNSEEN EVIL and EVIL UNLEASHED! UNSEEN EVIL and EVIL UNLEASHED are both available today! No cliffhangers necessary! Grab both books right now! -- --
About UNSEEN EVIL: 
How can you fight what you can’t see?
Seventeen-year-old Kaylan Bradford has no idea what she wants to do with her future, but dying sure as hell isn’t on top of her list. Yet everywhere she goes, strange accidents happen, each one nearly taking her life. Someone or something is after her. 
Reese, the sexy new guy in town, immediately takes an interest in Kaylan, and something about him makes Kaylan feel more alive than ever. Reese isn’t the only new face in Kaylan’s life, though. Riley is beyond gorgeous, and he saves Kaylan’s life more than once.
But Reese and Riley are both keeping secrets—secrets about Kaylan’s future. The more Kaylan discovers about herself, the more the attempts on her life begin to make sense. 
Kaylan is desperate to change her fate, but when she discovers the identity of the one who’s trying to kill her, she may not have a future at all.
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About EVIL UNLEASHED: 
Kaylan Bradford thought having her boyfriend decide her future for her was the worst thing ever. She couldn’t have been more wrong. Discovering the truth about her past sets in motion a slew of events that unleash evil on the world.
Determined to fix her mistakes, Kaylan resorts to traveling through time, but every move she makes only creates new problems for her to deal with. People are dying, and she’s to blame.
She’ll need to figure out how to battle the ultimate evil...even if it means battling herself.
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AUTHOR BIO: Kelly Hashway fully admits to being one of the most accident-prone people on the planet, but that didn’t stop her from jumping out of an airplane at ten thousand feet one Halloween. Maybe it was growing up reading R.L. Stine’s Fear Street books that instilled a love of all things scary and a desire to live in a world filled with supernatural creatures, but she spends her days writing speculative fiction and is a USA Today bestselling author. Kelly is also USA Today bestselling romance author Ashelyn Drake. When she’s not writing, Kelly works as an editor and also as Mom, which she believes is a job title that deserves to be capitalized. 
AUTHOR LINKS:Website: www.kellyhashway.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kellyhashway/
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Ashelyn’s BookBub: https://www.bookbub.com/authors/ashelyn-drake
Kelly’s BookBub: 
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{Exerpt Reveal} REBEL HEIR by Vi Keeland & Penelope Ward

Today I'm excited to bring to you the excerpt reveal for the first book in Vi Keeland and Penelope Ward's Rush Series Duet, REBEL HEIR!  BLURB:How to kick off a great summer in the Hamptons:
Snag a gorgeous rental on the beach. Check.
Get a job at a trendy summer haunt. Check.
How to screw up a great summer in the Hamptons:
Fall for the one guy with a dark leather jacket, scruff on his face, and intense eyes that doesn’t fit in with the rest of the tony looking crowd. A guy you can’t have when you’ll be leaving at the end of the season.
Check. Check. Check.
I should add—especially when the guy is your sexy, tattooed God of a boss.Especially when he not only owns your place of employment but inherited half of the town.
Especially when he’s mean to you.
Or so I thought.
Until one night when he demanded I get in his car so he could drive me home because he didn’t want me walking in the dark.
That was sort of how it all started with Rush.
And then little by little, some of the walls of this hardass man started to come down.I never expected that the two of us, seemingly opposites from the outside, would grow so close.
I wasn't supposed to fall for the rebel heir, especially when he made it clear he didn’t want to cross the line with me.
As the temperature turned cooler, the nights became hotter. My summer became a lot more interesting—and complicated.
All good things must come to an end, right?
Except our ending was one I didn’t see coming.
Rebel Heir is the first book in the Rush Series Duet. Book Two, Rebel Heart, will release six weeks later on May, 22, 2018.
Add to Goodreads ➜ Rebel Heir (Book One) Add to Goodreads ➜Rebel Heart (Book Two)

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                  “All done.” I found Gia in the yard sunbathing. Of course, she had to be lying on her stomach so I could get a closer look at her ass. It was fucking phenomenal. Like a chubby, upside-down heart from where I stood. I’d spent the last hour pretend fixing her car and picturing her riding me reverse cowgirl, those ass cheeks jiggling like fucking Jell-O while she rode me hard. I had to force my eyes to her face and clear my throat to continue. “Here are your keys. Your rotors were shot, too. In the future, don’t ride on bad brakes. It just turns a little problem into a big one.” She shielded her eyes from the sun and twisted her neck to look up at me, still not flipping over to her stomach. “Oh. Okay. Thanks. Can I make you some lunch? It’s the least I can do to repay you for hours of working on my car.” Is that ass on the menu? “No. I have to get going.” She lifted from flat on her stomach to on her knees in a yoga-like pose, taking her sweet ass time before turning over. “Are you sure?” She bit her bottom lip. “You’ve had to have worked up an appetite.” Is she fucking with me? I had an appetite alright. “I gotta run.” I sounded like a broken record, yet here I still stood. My head wanted to get the fuck out of that yard, but my traitorous feet wouldn’t move. Not even when she stood up, turned around and practically rubbed her ass against me as she held up suntan lotion. “Could you rub some sunscreen on my back before you go? I don’t want to burn.” No. “Sure.” “Thanks.” I took the sunscreen and squeezed a glob of creamy white lotion into the palm of my hand. Swallowing hard, I began to rub it into her back. Her shoulders were warm and soft with the tiniest little layer of fuzz on it. It reminded me of a peach. My mouth salivated at the thought of biting into her. “Could you do a little lower?” My breathing became labored and my cock swelled as I lowered my hands and rubbed into the middle of her back. I was breaching into dangerous territory. “Lower” she said. I knew from her breathy voice that I wasn’t the only one aroused. I lowered to just above her bathing suit bottom and rubbed lotion all over. When I finished, she turned her head so I could see the side of her face and closed her eyes to whisper, “lower.” Fuck me. I couldn’t stop myself. I reached for the creamy sunscreen and squeezed enough into my hand to cover a large person’s full body and then began to rub it into her ass cheeks. She had the most unique heart-shaped mole on her left side that was perfectly symmetrical. I ran my fingertips over it. When I trailed a pool of lotion to the top of her ass crack, and slowly rubbed it in tracing the material of her bathing suit in between her cheeks, she let out a low moan. More. Make more sounds like that.
  
   Vi Keeland is a #1 New York Times, #1 Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Bestselling author.   With millions of books sold, her titles have appeared in over ninety Bestseller lists and are currently translated in twenty languages. She resides in New York with her husband and their three children where she is living out her own happily ever after with the boy she met at age six. Website | Facebook Fan Group | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram   



           Penelope Ward is a New York Times, USA Today and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author. She grew up in Boston with five older brothers and spent most of her twenties as a television news anchor. Penelope resides in Rhode Island with her husband, son and beautiful daughter with autism. With over a million books sold, she is a seventeen-time New York Times bestseller and the author of over fifteen novels, including RoomHate which hit #2 on the New York Times bestseller list and #1 on the Wall Street Journal bestseller list. Other New York Times bestsellers include Stepbrother Dearest, Neighbor Dearest, Drunk Dial, Cocky Bastard, Stuck-Up Suit, Playboy Pilot and Mister Moneybags (the latter four co-written with Vi Keeland). Connect with Penelope Ward Facebook Fan Group | Facebook | Website |Twitter | Instagram       

Book Review: As She Fades by Abbi Glines

As She Fades by Abbi Glines
Blurb:From the #1 New York Times- and USA Today-bestselling author of the Rosemary Beach and The Vincent Boys series, Abbi Glines delivers another smoldering, compulsively readable YA romance with As She Fades. 
On the night of her high school graduation, Vale McKinley and her boyfriend Crawford are in a terrible car accident that leaves Crawford in a coma. They were supposed to spend the summer planning for college, for a bright future full of possibility. Together. Instead, Vale spends long days in the hospital, hoping Crawford will awaken. 
Slate Allen, a college friend of Vale’s brother, has been visiting his dying uncle at the same hospital. When he and Vale meet, she can’t deny the flutter of an illicit attraction. She tries to ignore her feelings, but she's not immune to Slate's charm. Slowly, they form a cautious friendship. 
Then, Crawford wakes up . . . with no memory of Vale or their relationship. Heartbroken, Vale opts to leave for college and move on with her life. Except now, she’s in Slate’s territory, and their story is about to take a very strange turn.
Glines’ millions of fans will adore As She Fades, a novel as romantic as it is full of twists and unexpected turns.
My Review:As She Fades is like a rollercoaster. You're riding along smoothly and you think you have everything figured out and then the bottom drops out from under you, shattering everything you thought you knew. And to be honest, this might be my favorite Abbi Glines novel to date just for its' uniqueness. Plus, Slate is definitely my favorite of her male leads.
The story starts out simple enough, Vale and her boyfriend Crawford get into a major car accident on the night of their high school graduation which leaves Crawford in a coma and Vale sitting vigil in the hospital every day for five weeks. There she meets Slate Allen, a frat brother of her older brother Knox, who is there to spend time with his cancer-riddled uncle. Vale doesn't want to like Slate. She knows his type - the slick, charming, manwhore type and yet as she's shown a different side of him she begins to live again and realizes that her relationship with Crawford wasn't so perfect after all.
As Vale starts college and begins to bring normalcy and routine back into her life she's no longer able to deny her growing attraction to Slate. But Slate's not the relationship type and Vale still has Crawford to think about.
Just as Vale and Slate begin to give into their feelings WHAM, part two starts and turns the entire story inside out. Forget everything, it's like you're reading a completely new story that makes sense but at the same time doesn't; like an alternate reality. 
Some may not like the way this book is plotted with the transition between parts one and two but I actually thought it was well written. The whole story is a departure from the author's other novels and I really loved it. While some of her other novels blend together with their similarity this one will stay with me, haunting me. 
My only issue with this book was where in the blurb it says, "Then, Crawford wakes up . . . with no memory of Vale or their relationship. Heartbroken, Vale opts to leave for college and move on with her life." I kept waiting for that but without giving any spoilers away, that's not the way the book is plotted. I don't know if the blurb was written that way to be purposefully deceptive, but its' a little misleading. But either way, it doesn't really affect the beauty of the book inside. 
Overall, I'm so glad I read this book and I definitely recommend it. The twists and turns were perfect and I couldn't wait to see how it ended, and the ending was satisfying.
My Rating:

(Audio)Book Review: Second Chance Boyfriend by Monica Murphy

Second Chance Boyfriend (One Week Girlfriend #2) by Monica Murphy Blurb:"Lost. Everything in my life can be summed up by that one sickening word. My football coach blames me for our season-ending losses. So does the rest of the team. I wasted two whole months drowning in my own despair, like a complete loser. And I lost my girlfriend - Fable Maguire, the only girl who ever mattered - because I was afraid that being with me would only hurt her.
"But now I realize that I'm the one who's truly lost without her. And even though she acts like she's moved on and everything's fine, I know she still thinks about me just as much as I think about her. I know her too well. She's so damn vulnerable, all I want to do is be there to help her . . . to hold her . . . to love her.
"I just need her to give me one more chance. We may be lost without each other, but together, we're destined to find a love that lasts forever."
My Review:It's been two months since Drew walked out of Fable's apartment leaving behind a note telling her he loved her. Two months since Fable found out Drew's deepest, darkest secret and stood by him anyway. He hasn't returned any of her calls or texts. But whatever, Fable is moving on. She lands a new job that pays better at a new bar and restaurant called The District and her boss believes she has potential to move forward. Then on the night of a private party at The District Drew Callahan walks back into Fable's life...
It's been two months since Drew left the woman he loves more than anything else in the world. Two months since his conniving pervert stepmother Adele made his world implode by dropping a bomb of a secret on him. He's miserable and he misses Fable so much. His therapist tells him he needs to get out more and experience life so he reluctantly accepts an invitation to one of his teammates' twenty-first birthday parties at a new bar. It'll be the best decision of his life...
Will Fable take Drew back? Will they realize they're stronger together and face their demons as a couple? Will Drew ever tell his father the truth about Adele? Will Adele ever leave Drew alone? 
This book quickly grabbed me and I was as addicted to it as I was with the first book. Drew goes through significant character growth in Second Chance Boyfriend as he works on dealing with his past and accepting that it wasn't his fault. Fable is a strong, independent character that is dedicated to her brother and seems to have the world on her shoulders and I loved her inner struggle to allow herself to lean on Drew.
Adele is a truly devious character and I loved to hate her. She's the type of character who's ending I cheer for. 
Overall, I loved this book, maybe even more so that the first book. As far as the audiobook goes, I liked the narrators, they really made me feel like I was experiencing the story. 
My Rating:

March Wrap-Up

Happy Easter! It's April already and March brought a lot of personal changes to my life which screwed with my reading, blogging, and writing schedules. I did manage to get a few things done...


READING Books I Reviewed In March:
- Gentleman Nine by Penelope Ward

- The Wicked Deep by Shea Ernshaw

- One Week Girlfriend by Monica Murphy

- See How She Dies by Lisa Jackson

-Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins

- The Heart Forger by Rin Chupeco
Books I Read In March: 
- Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins

- One Week Girlfriend by Monica Murphy
- See How She Dies by Lisa Jackson
- Chaser by Kylie Scott
- Furyborn by Claire Legrand
- Song of Blood and Stone by L. Penelope

- Second Chance Boyfriend by Monica Murphy
Books to-be-read in April:
- Heart of Ash by Kim Liggett

- Reign of the Fallen by Sarah Glenn Marsh

- Moonlight Sins by Jennifer L. Armentrout
WRITINGMarch started strong writing-wise and I hit 25,000 words in what was previously known as The Endgame and has since become Who I Am With You. Unfortunately due to unforeseen events I haven't had time to write over the past couple weeks so I'm pushing back my deadline to complete the first draft until May 1st.
BLOGGINGDespite the challenges I faced later in the month I was able to meet my obligations to participate in my usual cover reveals and release day blitzes.
PUBLISHINGNo events for March

#BookTag Saturday: The "I Dare You" Tag

It's moving day! Since I'm up to my elbows in boxes I'll make this brief. This week I'm doing the "I Dare You" Book Tag...

1. Dare you to jump backwards: Name a book you went into blindly and it let you down.  Beautiful cover, great prologue.. completely downhill from there.
2. One drink too many: Name a book that gave you a hangover. 
3. Spin the bottle: Name a book with a terrible romance or romance scene. Zach and Adria's romance could have ended up so messy if the author hadn't made it possible at the end.
 4. Mooning: Name a book that was too descriptive.  Though I liked the descriptions of the world of Caraval, at times they bordered on purple prose.
5. Scream and Run: Name a book that wasn't descriptive enough or left you confused. 
This book definitely left me confused. 6. Staring Contest: Name a book you thought was going to take forever but was over in the blink of an eye.  This book is 500-600 pages but I breezed through it about 200 pages at a time. 
Side Effects- 
7. Car crash: Name a book that started great but ended badly.  Again, this book had a killer prologue but after that I couldn't get into it.
8. Amnesia: Name a book that was forgettable or you forgot you read.  I know I liked this book but I can't honestly remember what happens in it or what the character's names are. 
9. Broken Limb. Name a book that shattered you.

Excerpt Reveal: TRUE STORM by L.E. Sterling

Today I'm helping Entangled Teen and L.E. Sterling reveal an excerpt from the third and final book in her True Born Trilogy, TRUE STORM!

Don’t Miss the Excerpt Reveal from True Storm by L.E. Sterling, which releases on May 1, 2018!
His hands still on my face. “I’m sorry,” I manage to say, trying to control a nervous need to giggle like a hyena. “Are we fighting? Maybe I didn’t notice because it’s all we ever seem to do.” 
A wicked grin lights his features. “That’s not all we seem to do,” he whispers, seconds before he replaces his thumb with his lips. 
It’s a soft kiss at first, tentative. Like someone asking your name. But it lights me up, sending fire shooting through my body, heat curling through my belly. I must sigh because Jared pulls back for just a moment, a question in his eyes and hunger written all over him. Then he claims my lips again, holding my face in his hands as the earth spins away from me.
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About True Storm:Lucy’s twin sister, Margot, may be safely back with her—but all is not well in Plague-ravaged Dominion City. The Watchers have come out of hiding, spreading chaos and death throughout the city, and suddenly Lucy finds herself under pressure to choose her future: does it lie with her handsome new friend, Alastair; her guardian, the enigmatic True Born leader Nolan Storm; or the man who makes her heart trip, her savage True Born bodyguard Jared Price?
But while Lucy ponders her path, fate has other plans. Betrayal is a cruel lesson, and the Fox sisters can hardly believe who is behind the plot against them. To survive this deadly game of politics, Lucy is forced to agree to a marriage of convenience. But is the DNA of her will stronger than the forces opposing her? And can she turn the tide against the oncoming storm? As they say in Dominion, rogue genes can never have a happy ending...
Want to read more? Pre-order your copy of True Storm (True Born Trilogy, #3) by L.E. Sterling today! Amazon | B&N | iBooks | Kobo | Entangled Publishing
About L.E. Sterling:L.E. Sterling had an early obsession with sci-fi, fantasy and romance to which she remained faithful even through an M.A. in Creative Writing and a PhD in English Literature – where she completed a thesis on magical representation. She is the author of two previous novels, the cult hit Y/A novel The Originals (under pen name L.E. Vollick), dubbed “the Catcher in the Rye of a new generation” by one reviewer, and the urban fantasy Pluto’s Gate. Originally hailing from Parry Sound, Ontario, L.E. spent most of her summers roaming across Canada in a van with her father, a hippie musician, her brothers and an occasional stray mutt – inspiring her writing career. She currently lives in Toronto, Ontario. 
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Book Mail of the Month: March

It's the last Thursday of March and you know what that means: it's time for Book Mail of the Month. March was a little light on the book mail but I did get one piece of book mail as of this post date. Let's open my mailbox and see what I got...

Week Three (March 18-24)
The Wicked Deep by Shea Ernshaw (UK Edition)
(UK Edition on Right)
Week Four (March 25-31)Anticipated Book Mail:My Apollycon 2018 Virtual Signing Order I'm really hoping this order comes by Saturday at the latest because that's moving day for me. Otherwise it might show up early next week and I'll have to come back to get it or have my mail forwarded to my new address. 
Anticipated April Book Mail:
- As She Fades by Abbi Glines
-Whimsify April Box: Heart of a Rebel
- Fairyloot April Box: Whimsical Journeys
- Signed, Personalized copy of Sky in the Deep by Adrienne Young Did you get any exciting book mail this month? Any new releases you just had to have? Let me know in the comments!