Bella J.'s Blog, page 2
April 15, 2021
The Musician is releasing soon!
THE MUSICIAN is releasing May 3rd.
Are you ready for Elijah?
All I can say is...He's not Saint. He's not Gian. He's not Castello. He's beautifully unique, and I'm not even sure he carries the alphahole label. 🤔
But I love him, and I hope that once you meet him, you'll love him too.
PREORDER: getbook.at/TheMusicianBellaJ
Are you ready for Elijah?
All I can say is...He's not Saint. He's not Gian. He's not Castello. He's beautifully unique, and I'm not even sure he carries the alphahole label. 🤔
But I love him, and I hope that once you meet him, you'll love him too.
PREORDER: getbook.at/TheMusicianBellaJ
March 23, 2021
The Musician COVER REVEAL
It's here! It's here!
I am so excited to finally share the GORGEOUS cover of The Musician.
This dark romance is releasing on May 3rd on Kindle Unlimited.
🎵 COVER DESIGNER: TRC Designs
🎵 PHOTOGRAPHER: Wander Aguiar
🎵 MODEL: Andrew Biernat
🎵 PREORDER: https://getbook.at/TheMusicianBellaJ
Isn't it STUNNING???
It's perfect - THAT is Elijah 100%!
I am so excited to finally share the GORGEOUS cover of The Musician.
This dark romance is releasing on May 3rd on Kindle Unlimited.
🎵 COVER DESIGNER: TRC Designs
🎵 PHOTOGRAPHER: Wander Aguiar
🎵 MODEL: Andrew Biernat
🎵 PREORDER: https://getbook.at/TheMusicianBellaJ
Isn't it STUNNING???
It's perfect - THAT is Elijah 100%!
March 10, 2021
The Musician RELEASE DATE
I'm excited to announce that THE MUSICIAN is set to release on Kindle Unlimited on May 3rd!
[ b l u r b ]
For years, I watched her. Drank her in as she performed in front of an empty theatre, pretending every seat was occupied, the cello settled between her legs as her dainty fingers made love to the strings…one beautiful note after the other.
She thought she was alone, that no one heard her play. But I did. I heard every note, every tune, every vibrato. It drowned out the voices. Silenced the demons. It gave me peace.
I’d hide in the shadows so I could get high on the music that stemmed from her soul. It was entrancing. Beautiful. Utterly hypnotic.
She has no idea that I exist—that I live for the nights she performs for me, and me alone. But she will.
Soon she’ll realize how important she is to me.
My cellist.
My soloist.
My Requiem.
You can add The Musician to your TBR - http://bit.ly/TheMusicianTBR
BLOGGERS - https://bit.ly/TheMusicianTOURS
BOOKSTAGRAMMERS - https://bit.ly/3tbPWWP
[ b l u r b ]
For years, I watched her. Drank her in as she performed in front of an empty theatre, pretending every seat was occupied, the cello settled between her legs as her dainty fingers made love to the strings…one beautiful note after the other.
She thought she was alone, that no one heard her play. But I did. I heard every note, every tune, every vibrato. It drowned out the voices. Silenced the demons. It gave me peace.
I’d hide in the shadows so I could get high on the music that stemmed from her soul. It was entrancing. Beautiful. Utterly hypnotic.
She has no idea that I exist—that I live for the nights she performs for me, and me alone. But she will.
Soon she’ll realize how important she is to me.
My cellist.
My soloist.
My Requiem.
You can add The Musician to your TBR - http://bit.ly/TheMusicianTBR
BLOGGERS - https://bit.ly/TheMusicianTOURS
BOOKSTAGRAMMERS - https://bit.ly/3tbPWWP
March 1, 2021
SNEAK PEEK - The Devil's Vengeance
🌹 EXCERPT REVEAL 🌹
Have you grabbed your copy of The Devil's Vengeance yet? It's available on KU, but below, you can check out a sneak peek!
🌹 One-Click - https://amzn.to/2JFQe6W
🌹 GoodReads - https://bit.ly/TDV2Goodreads
🌹 BookBub - http://bit.ly/37Ug6oK
Be sure to start the Vows & Vengeance Duet with book 1, THE DEVIL'S VOW, as that is where the journey begins: http://mybook.to/TheDevilsVow
[ e x c e r p t ]
My father and Emilio were in deep conversation when Darion stepped in next to me, staring out the same window. “She sure has a great love for flowers, doesn’t she?”
“Do not pretend like you know her.”
“I know her about as well as you do, brother.”
“No, you don’t. All you had was this weird friendship—if you can call it that.”
“So, are you saying because I didn’t sleep with Daniela, I don’t know her?”
I scoffed and turned to face him. “Since you put it that way, I guess the better way to say it is,” I took a step closer, “you’re alive today because you didn’t sleep with her.”
“Oh, my God,” he muttered, placing his hands in his pants pocket. “You’re still intimidated by me.”
I recoiled. “What?”
“Even though I left—”
“You fucking disappeared.”
“Whatever. The bottom line is, I left. I left because I knew you didn’t want me around. You didn’t approve of my friendship with Daniela.”
“Because I know whatever you’re feeling for my wife doesn’t stop at just friendship.”
Darion pulled his lips in a straight line, his eyes drowning in guilt. He didn’t even attempt to deny it. My little brother just stood there saying nothing, not even a single motherfucking word to dispute my allegation of him lusting after my wife. The fact that he remained silent was like rubbing sandpaper over an open sore, aggravating the ire that already threatened to burn me alive from the inside out.
Have you grabbed your copy of The Devil's Vengeance yet? It's available on KU, but below, you can check out a sneak peek!
🌹 One-Click - https://amzn.to/2JFQe6W
🌹 GoodReads - https://bit.ly/TDV2Goodreads
🌹 BookBub - http://bit.ly/37Ug6oK
Be sure to start the Vows & Vengeance Duet with book 1, THE DEVIL'S VOW, as that is where the journey begins: http://mybook.to/TheDevilsVow
[ e x c e r p t ]
My father and Emilio were in deep conversation when Darion stepped in next to me, staring out the same window. “She sure has a great love for flowers, doesn’t she?”
“Do not pretend like you know her.”
“I know her about as well as you do, brother.”
“No, you don’t. All you had was this weird friendship—if you can call it that.”
“So, are you saying because I didn’t sleep with Daniela, I don’t know her?”
I scoffed and turned to face him. “Since you put it that way, I guess the better way to say it is,” I took a step closer, “you’re alive today because you didn’t sleep with her.”
“Oh, my God,” he muttered, placing his hands in his pants pocket. “You’re still intimidated by me.”
I recoiled. “What?”
“Even though I left—”
“You fucking disappeared.”
“Whatever. The bottom line is, I left. I left because I knew you didn’t want me around. You didn’t approve of my friendship with Daniela.”
“Because I know whatever you’re feeling for my wife doesn’t stop at just friendship.”
Darion pulled his lips in a straight line, his eyes drowning in guilt. He didn’t even attempt to deny it. My little brother just stood there saying nothing, not even a single motherfucking word to dispute my allegation of him lusting after my wife. The fact that he remained silent was like rubbing sandpaper over an open sore, aggravating the ire that already threatened to burn me alive from the inside out.
February 22, 2021
The Devil's Vengeance is LIVE on KU!
I cannot believe this day has arrived...
The CONCLUSION to Gian and Daniela's rollercoaster love story is HERE!
🌹 The Devil's Vengeance - https://amzn.to/2JFQe6W
If you have not read book one, THE DEVIL'S VOW, stop right here and grab your copy as book two picks up right where book 1 ends.
🌹 Book 1: http://mybook.to/TheDevilsVow
In celebration of this duet coming to an end, I am having a few author friends stop by my reader group to party with us all! Make sure you join if you haven't because there will be some amazing giveaways happening!! The fun starts at 7pm EST.
JOIN HERE: https://www.facebook.com/groups/21587...
The CONCLUSION to Gian and Daniela's rollercoaster love story is HERE!
🌹 The Devil's Vengeance - https://amzn.to/2JFQe6W
If you have not read book one, THE DEVIL'S VOW, stop right here and grab your copy as book two picks up right where book 1 ends.
🌹 Book 1: http://mybook.to/TheDevilsVow
In celebration of this duet coming to an end, I am having a few author friends stop by my reader group to party with us all! Make sure you join if you haven't because there will be some amazing giveaways happening!! The fun starts at 7pm EST.
JOIN HERE: https://www.facebook.com/groups/21587...
February 3, 2021
The Devil's Vengeance - PROLOGUE
Gian and Daniela story is coming to an end...
I'm not sure I am ready for this. Their journey was intense and gut-wrenching, to say the least.
Scroll down and you'll be able to read the PROLOGUE of THE DEVIL'S VENGEANCE which is set to release on the 22nd on Kindle Unlimited.
Preorder available: https://amzn.to/3tzuSKS
If you have not read book one, THE DEVIL'S VOW, stop right here and grab your copy. https://amzn.to/3rdDy7w Do not read the the sneak peek below as it picks up right where book 1 ends.
PROLOGUE
Daniela
The pain took over.
It would start with a warmth, a warning of what was to come. It wouldn’t be long before it turned hot, taunting me with flames that would engulf me right before the searing ache reminded me I was in hell.
Yesterday I fought.
Today I surrendered.
There was only so much one’s mind could take before it shattered.
Maybe tomorrow I’d be able to fight again.
Maybe tomorrow I would have the strength to spar with the devil once more.
Maybe tomorrow I would not wake up.
Maybe tomorrow I would be free.
So many maybes, yet there would ultimately be only one outcome.
I closed my eyes and tried to ignore the ache in my shoulders. My muscles burned from the strain of having my wrists tied to my ankles, my face planted against the filthy sheets. It smelled like sex and lust, the semen stains smeared with blood.
He liked making me bleed. Loved the sound of my screams. But today I didn’t have the energy to make a sound. I hardly had the strength to breathe.
All I could do was remain still while he fucked me from behind, sliding in and out of me like he was invited. But he wasn’t. He was never welcome inside me.
My tears soaked through the sheets, the damp fabric rubbing against my cheek with every thrust. Even though my mind was lost, I could still hear him.
“Fucking you gets better and better.”
“Seeing you bleed makes me hard.”
“God, your cunt is begging me to come inside you.”
“You’re my filthy whore now.”
“I’ll make you break for me every day for the rest of your life.”
“Only me. Only I can love you.”
“I’ll fuck you until there’s nothing left of him inside you.”
Gian. My husband. The man I longed for every time I closed my eyes. How poetic it was the way our palpable hate bloomed into a passionate love—a love that filled me to a point where I thought I’d burst.
But I should have known better. I should have known nothing that felt so good, so real, would ever last for someone like me. Someone who had been born merely to be traded. I wasn’t born to find happiness. I wasn’t born to live a life of smiles and laughter, and it was because of my fate that I knew I had to protect hers.
Alessa. My baby sister.
But I failed, and now I was paying the price by having my humanity stripped from me in the most violent way. Over, and over, and over again.
Through the haze of defeat, I felt him violate me with the devil’s lust. His nails clawed at my flesh, his cock hard and merciless.
Was it days? Weeks? Months? Years? I lost my grip on reality, and time was stolen from me. If it weren’t for the memories, I’d never have believed I had a life before this. Before him. His possession was absolute, his cruelty unyielding. And I knew he would not stop until he had taken every drop of my existence.
While the rope gnawed at the flesh around my ankles, slicing through the skin of my wrists, I forced myself to breathe, to let the oxygen fill my lungs so I could live to fight another day.
Tomorrow.
Maybe.
I'm not sure I am ready for this. Their journey was intense and gut-wrenching, to say the least.
Scroll down and you'll be able to read the PROLOGUE of THE DEVIL'S VENGEANCE which is set to release on the 22nd on Kindle Unlimited.
Preorder available: https://amzn.to/3tzuSKS
If you have not read book one, THE DEVIL'S VOW, stop right here and grab your copy. https://amzn.to/3rdDy7w Do not read the the sneak peek below as it picks up right where book 1 ends.
PROLOGUE
Daniela
The pain took over.
It would start with a warmth, a warning of what was to come. It wouldn’t be long before it turned hot, taunting me with flames that would engulf me right before the searing ache reminded me I was in hell.
Yesterday I fought.
Today I surrendered.
There was only so much one’s mind could take before it shattered.
Maybe tomorrow I’d be able to fight again.
Maybe tomorrow I would have the strength to spar with the devil once more.
Maybe tomorrow I would not wake up.
Maybe tomorrow I would be free.
So many maybes, yet there would ultimately be only one outcome.
I closed my eyes and tried to ignore the ache in my shoulders. My muscles burned from the strain of having my wrists tied to my ankles, my face planted against the filthy sheets. It smelled like sex and lust, the semen stains smeared with blood.
He liked making me bleed. Loved the sound of my screams. But today I didn’t have the energy to make a sound. I hardly had the strength to breathe.
All I could do was remain still while he fucked me from behind, sliding in and out of me like he was invited. But he wasn’t. He was never welcome inside me.
My tears soaked through the sheets, the damp fabric rubbing against my cheek with every thrust. Even though my mind was lost, I could still hear him.
“Fucking you gets better and better.”
“Seeing you bleed makes me hard.”
“God, your cunt is begging me to come inside you.”
“You’re my filthy whore now.”
“I’ll make you break for me every day for the rest of your life.”
“Only me. Only I can love you.”
“I’ll fuck you until there’s nothing left of him inside you.”
Gian. My husband. The man I longed for every time I closed my eyes. How poetic it was the way our palpable hate bloomed into a passionate love—a love that filled me to a point where I thought I’d burst.
But I should have known better. I should have known nothing that felt so good, so real, would ever last for someone like me. Someone who had been born merely to be traded. I wasn’t born to find happiness. I wasn’t born to live a life of smiles and laughter, and it was because of my fate that I knew I had to protect hers.
Alessa. My baby sister.
But I failed, and now I was paying the price by having my humanity stripped from me in the most violent way. Over, and over, and over again.
Through the haze of defeat, I felt him violate me with the devil’s lust. His nails clawed at my flesh, his cock hard and merciless.
Was it days? Weeks? Months? Years? I lost my grip on reality, and time was stolen from me. If it weren’t for the memories, I’d never have believed I had a life before this. Before him. His possession was absolute, his cruelty unyielding. And I knew he would not stop until he had taken every drop of my existence.
While the rope gnawed at the flesh around my ankles, slicing through the skin of my wrists, I forced myself to breathe, to let the oxygen fill my lungs so I could live to fight another day.
Tomorrow.
Maybe.
January 11, 2021
Did someone say FREE?
I'm sneaking out of my writer's cave to let you know that I have not one, not two, but FIVE freebies this week - and they are all series starters! So, if you've been wanting to start a series of mine you haven't sunk your teeth into yet, now's your chance. 😉
🍒 Depraved - dark mc (American Street Kings, book 1): http://mybook.to/DepravedKings
🍒 Blood and Lies - dark mafia (Twisted Duet, book 1): http://mybook.to/BloodAndLies
🍒 Mafia Princess - erotic, suspense, mafia (Royal Mafia, book1): http://mybook.to/MafiaPrincessAmazon
🍒 Regret - suspense (Shattered Secrets Duet, book 1): http://mybook.to/RegretAmazon
🍒 Ruin - standalone drama (Resplendence, book 1): http://mybook.to/RuinAmazon
Free for a limited time only - Jan. 11-15!
🍒 Depraved - dark mc (American Street Kings, book 1): http://mybook.to/DepravedKings
🍒 Blood and Lies - dark mafia (Twisted Duet, book 1): http://mybook.to/BloodAndLies
🍒 Mafia Princess - erotic, suspense, mafia (Royal Mafia, book1): http://mybook.to/MafiaPrincessAmazon
🍒 Regret - suspense (Shattered Secrets Duet, book 1): http://mybook.to/RegretAmazon
🍒 Ruin - standalone drama (Resplendence, book 1): http://mybook.to/RuinAmazon
Free for a limited time only - Jan. 11-15!
January 5, 2021
The Rise of Saint - EXCERPT
Have you read the SINS OF SAINT TRILOGY? Here's a sneak peek into book 1, THE RISE OF SAINT, available NOW on Kindle Unlimited! https://amzn.to/2L3i1iw
He drew a lazy circle around my nipple before moving down. “You walk around dressed to tease me, wearing something as flimsy as this bikini, fabric I can easily tear off so I can have my way with you. Have I not hurt you enough?” He let his finger linger on the naked flesh around my navel. “Have I not proven to you that I’m not a good man?”
My breathing became labored, and I clenched my thighs when I felt his cock harden against my hip. Anticipation flared, a throbbing need between my legs desperate to be filled.
I shifted so his hard length pressed perfectly against my ass and watched as his eyes turned from man to hunter. Animal to predator. “Have I not proven to you that I’m stronger than you thought the day you took me?”
“Strong, yet so naïve.” Abruptly, he forced his hand between my legs, cupping me hard, his expression fiercely primal. “I can smell your arousal, Mila. It clings to you, and it’s fucking tempting me. That is why I need to be careful with you.”
“I don’t understand.”
“There is so much you don’t understand, segreto.” His hand pressed harder against my heat, as if to show ownership. “So much you don’t know.”
“Then tell me,” I urged. “Tell me everything. Tell me your secrets.”
He shook his head and removed his hand from between my legs, my body instantly mourning the loss of his touch. I stared at him in question, but he gazed out over the ocean. “Marina Piccola. They say it is here where the sirens attempted to seduce Ulysses while on his journey back home…to his wife.”
“Ulysses?”
“The Latinized name for Odysseus.” He traced a finger down the small of my back as I lay against him. “After fighting with the Greeks in the war against the city of Troy, he started his voyage back home.” His voice trailed off, his eyes still gazing out across the ocean.
“Attempted to seduce?”
Saint’s lips curled at the corners. “Ulysses ordered his men to plug their ears with beeswax as to not hear the sirens’ alluring singing.” He looked at me, eyes hard and dark. “If they hadn’t, the sirens would have seduced them and lured them all to their deaths.” The tenor in his voice lowered, thickened, and he stared at me as to tell me I was the siren whose call could ruin him. I shook my head lightly.
“Why are you telling me this?”
He shrugged and looked back into the distance. “Never trust something that has the power to make you lose control.”
He drew a lazy circle around my nipple before moving down. “You walk around dressed to tease me, wearing something as flimsy as this bikini, fabric I can easily tear off so I can have my way with you. Have I not hurt you enough?” He let his finger linger on the naked flesh around my navel. “Have I not proven to you that I’m not a good man?”
My breathing became labored, and I clenched my thighs when I felt his cock harden against my hip. Anticipation flared, a throbbing need between my legs desperate to be filled.
I shifted so his hard length pressed perfectly against my ass and watched as his eyes turned from man to hunter. Animal to predator. “Have I not proven to you that I’m stronger than you thought the day you took me?”
“Strong, yet so naïve.” Abruptly, he forced his hand between my legs, cupping me hard, his expression fiercely primal. “I can smell your arousal, Mila. It clings to you, and it’s fucking tempting me. That is why I need to be careful with you.”
“I don’t understand.”
“There is so much you don’t understand, segreto.” His hand pressed harder against my heat, as if to show ownership. “So much you don’t know.”
“Then tell me,” I urged. “Tell me everything. Tell me your secrets.”
He shook his head and removed his hand from between my legs, my body instantly mourning the loss of his touch. I stared at him in question, but he gazed out over the ocean. “Marina Piccola. They say it is here where the sirens attempted to seduce Ulysses while on his journey back home…to his wife.”
“Ulysses?”
“The Latinized name for Odysseus.” He traced a finger down the small of my back as I lay against him. “After fighting with the Greeks in the war against the city of Troy, he started his voyage back home.” His voice trailed off, his eyes still gazing out across the ocean.
“Attempted to seduce?”
Saint’s lips curled at the corners. “Ulysses ordered his men to plug their ears with beeswax as to not hear the sirens’ alluring singing.” He looked at me, eyes hard and dark. “If they hadn’t, the sirens would have seduced them and lured them all to their deaths.” The tenor in his voice lowered, thickened, and he stared at me as to tell me I was the siren whose call could ruin him. I shook my head lightly.
“Why are you telling me this?”
He shrugged and looked back into the distance. “Never trust something that has the power to make you lose control.”
December 17, 2020
Cover Reveal - The Devil's Vengeance
Gian is coming 2/22/21!!
PREORDER: https://amzn.to/2JFQe6W
Read book 1, The Devil's Vow: https://amzn.to/3goeerk
#Bloggers & #bookstagrammers, HEA PR has events lined out and there are PAPERBACKS up for grabs! - https://bit.ly/TDV2tours
PREORDER: https://amzn.to/2JFQe6W
Read book 1, The Devil's Vow: https://amzn.to/3goeerk
#Bloggers & #bookstagrammers, HEA PR has events lined out and there are PAPERBACKS up for grabs! - https://bit.ly/TDV2tours
December 15, 2020
SERIES ANNOUNCEMENT
Coming 2021......
👑 WHITLOCK DYNASTY SERIES 👑
Being a Whitlock in New Port Beach is like being born with a royal crown, money to burn, and an ID that reads “untouchable.”
The Whitlock siblings own everything, rule everything, they are everything. But everyone knows money is the root of all evil, and nothing is ever as it seems.
Welcome to Monarch Hills Academy, ruled by the Whitlock Dynasty.
👑 #1 Wicked Heir - Releasing APRIL 2021
👑 #2 Immoral Knight - Releasing JULY 2021
👑 #3 Entitled Duchess - Releasing SEPTEMBER 2021
Add the Series to your TBR!
➳ https://bit.ly/WickedDynastySeriesTBR
VOTE for each book on Goodreads on the Most Anticipated Romance Novels of 2021 list!
➳ https://bit.ly/2K6HzLd
#PREORDER
👑 Wicked Heir - http://mybook.to/wickedheir
👑 Immoral Knight - http://mybook.to/immoralknight
👑 Entitled Duchess - http://mybook.to/entitledDuchess
***Whitlock Dynasty is an Upper Young Adult/New Adult series of three complete standalone novels. NO CLIFFHANGERS! Due to sexual content and graphic language, this series is recommended for mature readers. Novels will be released earlier than indicated on pre-orders.
👑 WHITLOCK DYNASTY SERIES 👑
Being a Whitlock in New Port Beach is like being born with a royal crown, money to burn, and an ID that reads “untouchable.”
The Whitlock siblings own everything, rule everything, they are everything. But everyone knows money is the root of all evil, and nothing is ever as it seems.
Welcome to Monarch Hills Academy, ruled by the Whitlock Dynasty.
👑 #1 Wicked Heir - Releasing APRIL 2021
👑 #2 Immoral Knight - Releasing JULY 2021
👑 #3 Entitled Duchess - Releasing SEPTEMBER 2021
Add the Series to your TBR!
➳ https://bit.ly/WickedDynastySeriesTBR
VOTE for each book on Goodreads on the Most Anticipated Romance Novels of 2021 list!
➳ https://bit.ly/2K6HzLd
#PREORDER
👑 Wicked Heir - http://mybook.to/wickedheir
👑 Immoral Knight - http://mybook.to/immoralknight
👑 Entitled Duchess - http://mybook.to/entitledDuchess
***Whitlock Dynasty is an Upper Young Adult/New Adult series of three complete standalone novels. NO CLIFFHANGERS! Due to sexual content and graphic language, this series is recommended for mature readers. Novels will be released earlier than indicated on pre-orders.
