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Cover Love Affair 10

It’s that time of the week again where I go from cover artist to fan girl.

Props to these amazing artists!

Here are the covers I am in love with this week!

Yes, two of them are Regina’s covers  

What book covers are you in love with this week?

Wombstone by Jessica Roscoe

Wombstone: A Vampireland NovelAuthor: Jessica RoscoeGenre: YA Paranormal (Warning - Mature Readers only 15+) Publisher: Indiana Ink Publishing

Mia Blake wasn’t the first girl to be taken by the vampires. She is kidnapped and held prisoner by Caleb, the world’s oldest and most powerful vampire. Turned against her will, Mia must find a way to free herself from Caleb’s grip and get back to those she loves. But defeating the world’s most powerful vampire isn't going to be easy…

Jessica Roscoe is the author of Wombstone, a Young Adult paranormal novel. From a young age, she delighted in the written word and would often scare her poor parents with outlandish stories filled with the supernatural and macabre. Jessica studied film and screenwriting at university before deciding that novels were her calling. The setting for Wombstone was inspired by a six-month stint in the U.S. where she worked as a lifeguard at a summer camp in Mt Freedom, New Jersey. She is currently working on the next book in the Vampireland series. Her other loves in life include good quality tea, delicious wine, reading and hanging out with her husband and baby girl.

Links
Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Wombstone-The-Vampireland-Series-ebook/dp/B00BKG8VJK/ref=la_B00BKQ5KLM_1_1_title_0_main?ie=UTF8&qid=1361753357&sr=1-1

Smashwords:
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/289085

Goodreads:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17208007-wombstone

Blog:
http://jessicaroscoe.net/?page_id=11

Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Wombstone-A-Vampirelandnovel/119054381506021

Goodreads Author Page:
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6878583.Jessica_Roscoe

Twitter:
https://twitter.com/Jessica__Roscoe

Website:
http://jessicaroscoe.net/

Once upon a time, I was just a girl. My name was Mia. I lived a long way away from here. I had a mother and a best friend and a boyfriend I was pretty sure I had fallen completely in love with. I lived most of the time in my dorm room at my high school, because despite any other excuse, I didn’t like to be alone.
I wasn’t the first girl that was taken.
Sure, I had heard all about the girls who were missing, and even though they were only ‘missing’ I knew in my heart that those girls were dead. And my heart scrunched up in agony for them, for their families, just for a moment. Until the thought was replaced by something else, something different, because I couldn’t bear to think about those poor dead girls any longer.
I felt sad for them. But more than that, I felt glad that they had been strangers – not someone I knew, and certainly not me. Things like that didn’t happen to girls like me.
They always happened to someone else, and that’s why I barely blinked as I made my way across an empty football field, through a snow–laden parking lot, to meet a fate I had arrogantly assumed was reserved for other people.
I was a stupid girl.
I paid for it.

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Morrigan Blitz and giveaway!

Title: MorriganAuthor: Laura DeLuca Genre: Young Adult FantasyTour Host: Lady Amber's ToursAmazon | Goodreads | Books A Million | Barnes and Noble | SmashwordsSynopsis:Shuffled from place to place in the foster system, Morrigan doesn't know the meaning of home. Plus, she is different. She has power over fire, the ability to move objects with her mind, and glimpse into the future. Just when she believes her life can’t get any stranger, she discovers her true identity.
Filtiarn, a knight with a dark past and a surprising secret, has been tasked with guiding the heir of Tír na NÓg through countless perils to be returned to her family. Once Morrigan has been reunited with her mother and grandmother, their triad can save the forgotten land of magic from being devoured by an ancient evil.

Laura “Luna” DeLuca lives at the beautiful Jersey shore with her husband and four children. She loves writing in the young adult genre because it keeps her young at heart. In addition to writing fiction, Laura is also the editor of a popular review blog called New Age Mama. She is an active member of her local pagan community, and has been studying Wicca for close to eight years. Her current works include Destiny, Destiny Unveiled, Phantom, Morrigan, Player, and Demon.Website | Facebook | Twitter | GoodReads | Pinterest
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Cover Love Affair 9

It’s that time of the week again where I go from cover artist to enamored fan girl. Here are some of the covers I am in love with this week!

What do you think?

What is your current favorite book cover?

Moonlit Book Blitz and Giveaway!

Moonlit
Eighteen-year-old Tanzy Hightower knows horses, has grown up with them on Wildwood Farm. She also knows not to venture beyond the trees that line the pasture. Things happen out there that can’t be explained. Or undone. Worse, no one but she and the horses can see what lurks in the shadows of the woods.
When a moonlit ride turns into a terrifying chase, Tanzy is left to question everything, from the freak accident that killed her father to the very blood in her veins. Broken and confused, she turns to Lucas, a scarred, beautiful stranger, and to Vanessa, a charming new friend who has everything Tanzy doesn’t.
But why do they seem to know more about her than she knows herself?Amazon Kindle * Amazon * Goodreads WiDo Publishing * Barnes & Noble



Praise
"Virginia's trees look like they're burning. Most of them blaze crimson or gold, but some still have a chokehold on their green. I wish they'd give it up already. Leaves are more beautiful when they're dying."
And so Moonlit begins. From here the story rolls from one twist to another with many vivid characters whose motives are hard to predict. I found myself being suspicious of everyone, wanting to tell Tanzy to be very careful. The deeper I fell into the plot, the more questions kept rising to the surface. But not to worry, all of my questions were answered. Appropriate for all ages, if you love paranormal fantasy mixed with suspense, mystery and other-worldly romance, you'll love this novel!
~Author Julie Ford
 
Prologue
The first anniversary of my father’s death was even harder on my mother. Back then, I thought she was haunted most by what she didn’t know. I refused to blame her when she raged above me on our staircase that night, drunk and sad and angry. When she made me promise I’d never ride again. When she hurled a half-full bottle of vodka at my face and it exploded on the wooden stairs at my feet. I hadn’t tried to get out of the way. She had just missed.I wanted to tell her that knowledge was no solace, that what you know can burn inside you until there’s nothing left but guilt and ash. I also wanted to protect her from losing the only piece of him she had left. So I didn’t say a word.

Author Jadie Jones
Georgia native Jadie Jones first began working for a horse farm at twelve years old, her love of horses matched only by her love of books. She went on to acquire a B.A. in equine business management, and worked for competitive horse farms along the east coast. The need to write followed wherever she went.She currently coaches a hunt seat equitation team that competes in the Interscholastic Equestrian Association, and lives with her family in the foothills of north Georgia. When she's not working on the next installment of the Moonlit series, she is either in the saddle or exploring the great outdoors with her daughter. Moonlit is her first book.Blog * Facebook * Twitter * Pinterest


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Featured Book Trailers 3

Last month I featured 8 of my favorite book trailers (As Dead as it Gets, Immortal City, Revolution 19, What's Left of Me, Before I Fall, The Rising, The Blessed and Beta). Here are some of my latest favorites along with one oldie but goodie!
What book trailers have caught your attention lately?

  

Drowning in You Blitz

 Drowning In You by Rebecca Berto
Publication date: April 12th 2013
Genre: New Adult (Contemporary Romance)GoodReads | Amazon (Paperback) | Amazon (Kindle) | Smashwords | Kobo | Barnes&Noble Secretly crushing

Crushed by a tragedy

Charlee May’s been crushing on Dexter Hollingworth since she was fifteen. Five years later, a horrific skiing disaster at Mason’s Ski Lift Resort leaves her millionaire dad critically injured and her mom dead at the hands of Dexter operating the lifts. Charlee is suddenly the sole caretaker for her little brother while their world falls apart.

Dexter couldn’t be more different from Charlee. He’s tattooed, avoids exclusive relationships and his Dad has a fair share of illegal dealings. With Dexter’s reputation, almost everyone believes he planned the Mason’s skiing disaster.

And after all these years he’s still crushing on Charlee May, the girl who’s too good for him.

When this cruel twist of fate ties Charlee’s family and Dexter’s reputation together, Charlee and Dexter wonder if their feelings are reciprocated, while Dexter discovers his dad is trying to steal the May’s millionaire fortune.

But like an addiction, one look, one touch, one taste—they’re hooked no matter the consequences.


Website | GoodReads | Facebook | TwitterRebecca Berto is the author or the dark contemporary/literary novella, PRECISE and the upcoming new adult contemporary romance novel, DROWNING IN YOU. She is also a freelance editor.

She writes stories that are a bit sexy, and straddle the line between Literary and Tear Your Heart Out. She gets a thrill when her readers  are emotional reading her stories, and gets even more of a kick when they tell her so. She’s strangely imaginative, spends too much time on her computer, and is certifiably crazy when she works on her fiction.

Rebecca Berto lives in Melbourne, Australia with her boyfriend and their doggy. a Rafflecopter giveaway

 

Cover Love Affair Week 8

As a cover artist and all around book lover there are some trends in the cover art industry that it is hard to miss but others are more subtle. For instance, my current love affairs all have slightly mutes tones as light overlays or filmed layering.

What covers are you currently having cover love affairs with? Any trends you actually enjoy seeing more of?

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