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Blog Tour Spotlight & Giveaway - Mariposa by Kim Wells

Mariposa
Children of Mariposa
Book One
Author: Kim Wells
Genre: Urban Fantasy/Magic Realism
Publisher: Daydreams Dandelions Publications
Date of Publication: December 24, 2014
ASIN: B00O9DCRDC
Number of pages: 293 pages
Word Count: 106,993
Cover Artist: Lawrence Mann

Book Description:
What if the best night of your life was also your last?

On the eve of a much-anticipated proposal, Meg is happier than she could have ever imagined. The future she sees for herself on that magical night is bright, one t...

Blog Tour Spotlight & Giveaway - Forbidden Forest by Tenaya Jayne

Forbidden Forest
The Legends of Regia
Book One
Author: Tenaya Jayne
Genre: YA Fantasy Romance, PNR
Publisher: Cold Fire Publishing LLC
Date of Publication: 2012
ISBN: 0988275716
ASIN: B009JVTLA6
Number of pages: 264
Word Count: 77,000
Cover Artist: Erika Doucesse

Book Description:
Born in shame. Cast from society. Shape Shifter/Elf hybrid, Forest must fight for any respect she can get. Targeted in her youth by a vampire noble who placed an illegal slave mark on her, she is forced to obey him, no matte...

Book Blitz & Giveaway - A Bucket Full of Awesome by Zainab T. Khan

A Bucket Full of Awesome
Author: Zainab T. Khan
Release Date: February 14th, 2015

Book Description:
"You know, Blake, even though we all know that cancer is a heartless dragon who wants to take everything and everyone into its fiery pit, we still fight with it. We still hope. And we clash again and again with its fire, and even though we get burned, we don't accept defeat. Humans are the most fragile yet the strongest beings on earth."
"And they are the most stubborn."
I l...

Blog Tour Spotlight - Vienna’s Will by Mark McCullough

Vienna’s Will
Author: Mark McCullough
Publisher: Createspace
Pages: 254
Genre: Memoir

Book Description:
New author, Mark McCullough, shares his inspirational journey through chronic depression and addiction in VIENNA’S WILL (www.viennaswill.com). After struggling for years to control the negative thoughts that he attempted to quiet with drugs and alcohol, Mark’s life changes when he finds the unconditional love of a little girl and her mother.

In April of 1992, Mark McCullough’s distraught parents d...

Blog Tour Spotlight & Giveaway - Dying Light by Kory M. Shrum

Dying Light
Jesse Sullivan
Book Four
Author: Kory M. Shrum
Genre: Contemporary/Urban/Dark Fantasy
Publisher: Timberlane Press
Date of Publication: November 2nd
ISBN: 0-9912158-9-3
ASIN: B014GMBV28
Number of pages: 220 Kindle/ebook
Number of pages: 465 paperback
Word Count: 79,000
Cover Artist: John K. Addis

Book Description:
In the wake of her handler’s death, Jesse has never felt more alone. Her best friend is distracted by a new love. Her mentor Rachel is missing and her boyfriend Lane isn’t returning...

Blog Tour Spotlight & Giveaway - Roman's Holiday by Susan Aylworth

Roman's HolidayAuthor: Susan Aylworth
Book Description:Four years after Roman Kincaid was catapulted into stardom as a country-western singer and A-list movie star, he is burned out: exhausted by a grueling schedule, drained by the ceaseless demands of producers and managers, weary of meeting the needs of others at the expense of his own. Leaving a sold-out show in Phoenix, he rents a car and drives north and east, landing in the Painted Desert town of Rainbow Rock.

Nearly three years aft...

Book Blitz - His Dream Role (Hot & Nerdy #5) by Shannyn Schroeder

His Dream Role
Author: Shannyn Schroeder
Series: Hot & Nerdy (#6)
Release: 12/22/15
Publisher: Kensington
Word count: 30,000 (novella length)
Format: digital
Heat level: spicy (r-rated)

Book Description:
Free Mitchell loves the theater. In his dreams he’s the one taking the spotlight. But so far he’s played against character by following in his father’s footsteps as an investment banker. When he’s masquerading as Dr. Who or Sherlock Holmes to help his brother, he feels he can escape his shy, dorky...

Blog Tour Spotlight & Giveaway - Sparked by Sheena Snow

Sparked
Metal Bones Series
Book One
Author: Sheena Snow
Genre: YA, sci-fi
Publisher: Soul Mate Publishing
Date of Publication: Dec 16, 2015
ASIN: B015FW2AF0
Number of pages: 317
Word Count: 80,000
Cover Artist: Christy Caughie

Book Description:
They weren’t supposed to have feelings.

Metal will Clash

In a not-too-distance future, robots composed of metal for bones, electric cords for veins, and synthetics for skin are now available. For purchase. Eighteen-year-old Vienna Avery’s home is going to change fo...

Blog Tour Spotlight - Gravedigger by Michael-Israel Jarvis

Gravedigger
Michael-Israel Jarvis
Genre: Fantasy
Publisher: Booktrope
Date of Publication: 31st October 2015
ISBN: 1513703102
ASIN: B0175IDQDW
Number of pages: 304
Word Count: 115,747
Cover Artist: Amalia Chitulescu

Book Description:
Dead or alive. Good or evil. Hero or fugitive.

Valo needs a specific solution to a grave problem. The human Claimfold and prigon Torzsi draw apart. War is promised in the West. Worst of all, the magi of Nagyevo are meddling with the dead.

Perin is an apprentice Gravedigger:...

Book Blitz & Giveaway - Mayan Blood (Stone Legacy #1) by Theresa DaLayne

Mayan Blood
(Stone Legacy #1)
Author: Theresa DaLayne
Release Date: December 29th 2015
Limitless Publishing

Book Description:
Their empires have fallen, but their mythology lives on…

Zanya Coreandero is a seventeen-year-old orphan with only a single friend and no hope for a normal life. Diagnosed with anxiety and night terrors, no one believes her cuts and bruises are a result of an evil entity, and not a brutal case of self-harm.

With the only home she’s ever known being the isolated institution—wh...