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Official Release Day! Of Witches and Warlocks: The Dark Rising!!

Official Release Day! Of Witches and Warlocks: The Dark Rising!!

That's right!! *The day is finally here!*  No more waiting around to find out what is going on in the world of Vance and Portia ! No more frantic emails inquiring about the release date!  It's here and it's yours!  Here's the blurb, the teaser, and early reviews for your enjoyment!!

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When Portia Mullins discovers the love of her life is still alive her heart soars. But reality sets in immediately causing it to plummet when she realizes he doesn't remember his past life with her. Unwilling to give up, she embarks on a loving quest to restore his life to him.
Vance Mangum sees the beautiful girl claiming to be his wife, and while he can't remember her, he can't deny the intense pull he feels between them. Not knowing where else to turn, he agrees to give her the time she's asked for and to assist her in the effort to recover his memories.
The two quickly reconnect, but dark surprises are lurking in the wings when Vance discovers a desperate longing for something he feels he can't withstand. Will he be able to resist? Or will evil raise its head in a new form, leaving Portia as the prey of the very man her heart desires?
Darkness reigns supreme in this haunting tale of love and desperation, Of Witches and Warlocks, The Dark Rising.

Excerpt:
Before I could flip on the light, Vance suddenly grabbed me from behind, turning me to face him so he could kiss me again. I wrapped my arms around him and he pushed me backward, never breaking his kiss with me while he moved in the general direction of the door. My back hit the wall when we reached it, but he didn't stop kissing me. His hands were everywhere, in my hair, on my face, down my body, around my waist.
I disconcertedly searched for the door behind me.
"I love you," he said to me in the darkness just as my hand found the knob, and I noticed his eyes were glowing again.
"I love you too," I replied, twisting the handle. The door popped open with abruptness and we fell though the opening together onto the kitchen floor.
I started laughing and he followed suit.
"Are you okay?" he asked, his body strewn out across the top of me.
"Yes," I replied in a fit of giggles. "Are you?"
"I'm feeling pretty good right about now," he said with his sexy grin smiling back at me.
Someone in the room cleared their throat. We both glanced up to find my dad standing over us with an amused look.
"It's nice to see things are getting back to normal around here," he said. "Surely though, there are better places than the kitchen floor."
I must've blushed twelve shades of red and Vance quickly hopped off of me, unable to keep the laughter from spilling out of him. He reached a hand out, pulling me up behind him."I would say I'm sorry about that," Vance said, turning to my dad. "But I'm not." He pulled me up against him and kissed me lightly one more time before he reached out to smooth some of my tangled hair.
My dad smiled at us. "As weird as this may sound, I wasn't unhappy to see it," he replied with a knowing look. 

Praise for The Dark Rising:

"Wow! What a trip this book was … a roller coaster ride of emotions, The Dark Rising turns out to be Vance and Portia's biggest challenge yet. There are so many twists and turns in this book, you will not be able to put in down! I'm not sure how much longer I can wait until I read the final book in this series!" ~Tishia Mackey, Paranormal Opinion

"Dark and deadly dangerous. This fourth installment in the fantastic Of Witches and Warlocks series is filled with love and passion and loyalty. Twists and turns abound, leading to a completely unexpected conclusion. I just couldn't put it down!" ~ Kim Deister, The Caffeinated Diva

"Once again, Lacey Weatherford has demonstrated her ability to craft a magnificent tale that is dark and dangerous, but filled with love and hope. Of Witches and Warlocks continues with The Dark Rising and Wow! You are not ready for this one! Hold on for the ride of your life! Wonderfully written. Couldn't put it down!" ~ Beverly Sharp, The Wormhole Book Blog

"Lacey Weatherford cast a spell on me ever since she penned The Trouble With Spells. The Dark Rising is about recovery, recollection and reconnection. There is heartbreak, hope, action, and blindsiding twists to satisfy any reader, but it is Weatherford's signature style of being such an unabashedly romantic that has me firmly attached and invested in these characters." ~ Laurie Treacy, Reader Girls

"You can't help but fall in love with all the characters. There is this raw vitality in them that just appeals to us all! This epic journey is sure to leave you breathless and wondering when you decided to sit on this roller coaster of emotions!" - Sana Noor from Breathing Books

"Watch out world...while everyone has been giving gushy sighs over Edward and Jacob, a new hot bad boy has arrived on the scene. Be prepared to lose your heart all over again to the sexy confidence and swagger of Vance Mangum. If you love the romance of the Vampire Academy series, or the evil deliciousness of The Vampire Diaires, you do not want to miss The Dark Rising. This book takes the Of Witches and Warlocks series from AWESOME to EPIC!" Belinda Boring, The Bookish Snob & The Romance Reviews.

The Dark Rising is available in both ebook and print formats.  The books will be distributing over the next sevral weeks to various stores, but these links are currently active!
PRINT Createspace
EBOOK Amazon Kindle
EBOOK  New to the Of Witches and Warlocks series? Then come comment on Lacey Weatherford Books on July 19th during the Menage A Blog event and get an ecopy of book one in the series, The Trouble With Spells, for free!

Surprise...cover changes!

So, sometimes things go awry ... and somtimes helpful people make suggestions for improvement.  Well, we had both!  As a result the covers were completely redesigned ... again!  Can you tell WHY the covers were remade?  Take a look and see if you can figure it out!


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Book 4, The Dark Rising, by Lacey Weatherford

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Coming July 12, 2011

Coming Soon! Book 4 The Dark Rising!

Book four in the Of Witches and Warlocks series, The Dark Rising, will be released on July 12th, 2011 from 4 Corners Press!  In celebration of this event, Lacey will be posting teasers on this page and her social media sites, so check in everyday to see what the new teaser is!
Also, since all the books have been picked up by 4 Corners Press, they will be reproduced with a new cover design as well!  There will be a bit of a lag between now and when the print versions will be available again do to the switch, but ebook versions will still be available until then.  We are working as fast as possible to get those print versions back out there!  Thank you for your patience!
Here are the new covers!

The Dark Rising, Teaser #1:
"Vance & Portia forever, huh?"
"That's right," I challenged.
"Well, apparently forever didn't last very long 4 you, did it?"

Teaser #2:
"Think what you want, but YOU ARE HIM! I've already been through hell because of you, and I don't need you or your pompous attitude to add to it!" I turned and stormed off again, leaving him behind.
"Wait!" he called after me. I stopped, taking a deep breath trying to calm myself.
"What?" I asked, turning back around.

Teaser #3:
"Why are you doing this, Vance?" my voice quivered in anticipation.
"I'm not sure. Maybe because you need it," he replied.

Teaser #4:
First Early Review for The Dark Rising:

"Once again, Lacey Weatherford has demonstrated her ability to craft a magnificent tale that is dark and dangerous, but filled with love and hope. Of Witches and Warlocks continues with The Dark Rising and Wow! You are not ready for this one! Hold on for the ride of your life as Portia and Vance continue to battle the darkness. Will their love be enough? Wonderfully written. Couldn't put it down!"
~ Beverly Sharp, The Wormhole Book Blog, Eyota, MN.

Teaser #5:
He bent to kiss me once more, holding me in his embrace for several long heated moments.
I stood on my tiptoes so I could reach him better and he wrapped his arms around me, lifting me closer. I put every ounce of my feelings into the kiss, not holding anything back, trying to show him what his declaration of love meant to me.
He answered my intensity kiss for kiss, passion for passion until soft moans werecoming from each of us.
I lost track of time and space as our mouths tangled together, tasting, touching, and sighing as need coursed thickly between us.

Teaser #6:
Before I could flip on the light, Vance suddenly grabbed me from behind, turning me to face him so he could kiss me again. I wrapped my arms around him and he pushed me backward, never breaking his kiss with me while he moved in the general direction of the door. My back hit the wall when we reached it, but he didn't stop kissing me. His hands were everywhere, in my hair, on my face, down my body, around my waist.
I disconcertedly searched for the door behind me.
"I love you," he said to me in the darkness just as my hand found the knob, and I noticed his eyes were glowing again.
"I love you too," I replied, twisting the handle. The door popped open with abruptness and we fell though the opening together onto the kitchen floor.
I started laughing and he followed suit.
"Are you okay?" he asked, his body strewn out across the top of me.
"Yes," I replied in a fit of giggles. "Are you?"
"I'm feeling pretty good right about now," he said with his sexy grin smiling back at me.
Someone in the room cleared their throat. We both glanced up to find my dad standing over us with an amused look.
"It's nice to see things are getting back to normal around here," he said. "Surely though, there are better places than the kitchen floor."

We have a WINNER!

Congratulations to Valerie Higgins!! You are the winner of The Demon Kiss Tour Grand Prize, the four signed books and you will be written into a scene with Vance Mangum in book four!  I would like to thank everyone who entered!  I had a lot of fun with all of you on this blog tour!  Thank you so much for all of your support.  I hope you will continue reading the series and enjoying it!  Have a great day!
Winner chosen by Random.org.

The Demon Kiss Blog Tour Finale!

I just want to thank everyone who kept participating in the tour...despite all of the blogger commenting issues we had through it!  It was a lot of fun to get to "hang out" with you!  Thanks so much for all of your fun support!  I can't wait to see who will make it into the book! 
Check out your quiz scores below and then fill out the form!  Don't forget to hit submit!  You have all day to enter.  I will announce the winner on Sunday! Good Luck!
(P.S. I'm out of town at a Romance Convention this weekend so I will post as soon as I'm able.)

Quiz Scores:  For those of you who took the trivia quiz, here's the fun thing.  While my scattered brain made the quiz post, I forgot to leave a place for everyone to put their names in.  So, I have no idea who is who in the results!  In order to fix that I decided just to give everyone all 20 points.  BUT everyone got 100% except for one person and that person only missed one, so you can all give yourself the extra ten points. That's 30 points! YAY! Enter away and have fun!!

Kick Off for The Demon Kiss Tour Today!!

I just want to invite everyone to come play with us as we tour the second book in the Of Witches and Warlocks series, The Demon Kiss!! We had a great time last tour for The Trouble with Spells, with a wonderful turn out of people, a visit from actor Matt Lanter, who is the muse for Vance Mangum, and we gave away a Kindle too!

This time around our Grand Prize winner will receive signed copies of books 1-4 as well as being written into a scene with Vance in book four which will be released this summer. What better way to celebrate the days of summer than to be in a scene with a HOT bad boy!! Am I right? I hope you will join the followers of this fun event! I look forward to visiting with you!!

Today's post is on the Awesomesauce Book Club!
For the rest of the tour schedule, please visit The Bookish Snob Promotions!

Win a paperback copy of the book on Goodreads!

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Goodreads Book Giveaway







The Demon Kiss

by Lacey Weatherford


Giveaway ends May 22, 2011.
See the giveaway details
at Goodreads.



Enter to win

We Have A Kindle Winner!!

So we have a winner!! I wonder who it could be?  Is it you?  Is it me? Okay, okay!  I will quit stalling! The winner of the Grand Prize Kindle Giveaway is.....(drum roll please)......
Vivien!!Congratulations! I'm so excited for you!I just want to say thanks again to everyone for coming to check out the tour!  You were all wonderful and I loved getting to visit with you!  I hope you will come back for the next tour for The Demon Kiss beginning on May 15th!  Please feel free to keep visiting with Belinda and I at Vance Fan Inc. on Facebook too!  We love hearing from you!Sneak Peek!! The Demon Kiss Tour Grand Prize:
The Grand Prize winner will receive swag, signed copies of books 1, 2, 3, & 4, AND will be written into an interactive scene with VANCE in book four too! Want extra entries? You can get 1 more entry for every time you comment on the tour, and 5 more entries for every time you send a Tweet or Facebook link to that day's blog post. Make sure you keep track of those as you will be asked to submit verification links when you enter the giveaway.

Good Luck! May the Vance be with YOU!

The Trouble with Spell Blog Tour Grand Finale!!!

Welcome, welcome, to the to The Trouble with Spells Blog Tour Grand Finale!  (Throws confetti!)

First off, I just want to say THANK YOU, to all the wonderful bloggers who hosted this tour, to the Belinda at The Bookish Snob Promotions for putting such a fun, fabulous tour together, and to all of the fantastic followers I've met along the way!  I've truly had an amazing time getting to visit with all of you, and I find myself feeling sad to break those connections.  I hope you will come join the new book club Belinda and I have created on facebook, Vance Fan Inc ., so we can continue sharing our love of books, (and Vance) together!

So by now you have gathered the highlighted words from throughout the tour to build your phrase to enter the Kindle giveaway!  If you have them all correctly, you will see that this built a phrase from book two in the series, The Demon Kiss.  This book will be going on a week long tour that will begin on May 15th.  If you are interested in hosting a day on this tour, you can contact Belinda at The Bookish Snob Promotions for more information.  To whet your appetite a little more for this tour, here's an excerpt from The Demon Kiss:

"Don't you get it?" he asked me softly, his blue eyes streaked with shots of red in them staring deep into my soul. "I want all of you. I crave all of you. My body is demanding to have all of you, and my emotions are always right behind them. I'm always teetering on the brink of disaster. One second, I just want to sink my teeth into you; the next, I want to throw you down and have my way with you. It hurts to be away from you, but I think it might hurt more to be with you. If I slipped, just once, and did something bad to you, I'd never be able to forgive myself. I've gone too far already. That is why we're in this mess."
He stood up and paced away from me over to the opposite wall, which he slammed hard with his fist, causing me to jump as cracks appeared in the thick block, and I wondered if he had broken every bone in his hand.
"What do I do, Portia?" he asked quietly, without turning, hanging his head in frustration. "I'm completely out of control."

I hope you will join us again for this blog tour!  The Grand Prize winner for The Demon Kiss tour will win swag, signed copies of books 1, 2, 3, AND FOUR, and will be written into a scene WITH VANCE in book four also!  How's that for a grand prize??

Okay, now on to what you're all here for...The Kindle Entry!  Please follow the instructions and fill out the form below and then submit it.  The winner will be chosen by Random.org and announced here on April 24th! Good Luck to everyone!!

Here are the past quiz results to help you fill out the form.
Quiz #1:
Correct Answers:
BLHmistress
Carole
Vivien
Belinda
Angelshimmery
Krysykat
Calico Crazy
The winner for the Swag for this giveaway was Carole!! Congratulations!

Quiz #2:
Correct Answers:
Vivien
Naomi
Joanna Montoya
Val
Karla Vollkofp
Maria Cristina Marques
Krysta Banco
The winner of the free ebook copy of The Demon Kiss was Belinda! Congratualtions!

Quiz #3:
Correct Answers:
Karla Vollkofp
Maria Cristina Marques
Belinda
Naomi
Val
Judy Cox
Krysta Banco

The winner of the free ebook copy of Blood of the White Witch was Naomi! Congratulations!
Quiz #4:
Correct Answers:
Judy Cox
Krysta Banco
The winner of the free copy of the ebook s1-3 is:  Krysta Banco!! Congratulations! (Drop me a line at laceyweatherford (at) ofwitchesandwarlocks (dot) com so I can email you the coupon!)