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November 7, 2016
Creatus Series Boxed Set by Carmen DeSousa #Paranormal #Romance
GENRE: Paranormal Romance / Urban Fantasy
Bonus! The Creatus Series Boxed Set now includes the complete five-book series!
For four thousand years, creatus have concealed themselves from the humans who hunted them almost to extinction. Unwittingly, one creatus will endanger them all …
As with most of his family, Derrick Ashton knows his future and what position he’s destined to fill within his unique society. Everything changes, however, when he breaks one of his family’s strictest laws and falls in love — with a human.
In his quest to protect the woman he can never have, a twist of faith propels him into a new role that will cause dissension among his family and endanger the anonymity that they’ve spent thousands of years protecting.
Now, he will risk everything to save the girl from humans and his own kind. The one thing he can’t save her from, however … is herself.
The Creatus series is not your normal paranormal story … it’s a realistic romantic mystery based on the myths you’ve heard your entire life. Prepare to believe.
AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Carmen DeSousa writes stories brimming with romance, suspense, a hint of humor sometimes and, of course, a few Kleenex moments. After all, what would a great story be without an emotional event setting the stage? All of her novels are sensual, but not erotic, gripping but not graphic and will make you cry, laugh, love, and hope.
Although her Creatus series clearly include supernatural beings, the paranormal dances on the edge of make believe. Carmen hopes that as you read, you’ll wonder, “Hmmm…what if?”
Carmen Social Links
Website:
http://www.CarmenDeSousaBooks.com/
Amazon Author Page:
Amazon.com/author/CarmenDeSousa
Facebook:
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Twitter:
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Pinterest:
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Goodreads:
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Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/carmen_desousa/
Retail Links for the Creatus Series Boxed Set
Creatus Series Boxed Set by Carmen DeSousa
Newly updated with the final book in the five-book series 10/11/2016
Set retails for $5.99. Books sold separately retail for $11.97.
On Sale 11/07/16 – 11/13/16 for only $0.99!
First time ever offered on sale on ALL retailers.
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November 6, 2016
12 Brand New 5 STAR Shifter Romance Stories! #ShiftersHallowsEve
“Brilliant mix of love stories!” – Wicked Babes Blog
“A box set full of women with grit and the sexy, alpha men who love them.” – A One-Click Book Addict
“Each one was different and completely unique. They were all very captivating..” – Marie’s Tempting Reads
“Not only did I enjoy the twelve stories that this boxset includes, but I found twelve new authors!” Once Upon An Alpha
Tricks and Treats…
Chills and thrills…
Become Enchanted, Haunted, and Hunted this Halloween.
12 NYT, USA Today, and International Best Selling Authors, bring you brand-new, paranormal shifter romances that are sure to make this a Shifters Hallows Eve you’ll never forget!
Featuring:
JOKER’S TRICK OR TREAT by: Audra Hart
THE WOLF’S GHOST by: Bethany Shaw
THE HAUNTED MATE by: Bryce Evans
HALLOWED DESTINY by: Candace Blevins
DARK LOVERS by: Elle Boon
TEARS FOR HER DRAGON by: Julia Mills
ONCE UPON A HALLOW’S EVE by KD Jones
HAUNTED BY LOVE by Lori King
THE VALLEY OF SHADOWS by: Melissa Bell
HUNTER’S MARK by: Melissa Snark
THE TIGER’S BRIDE by: R.E. Butler
MATE HUNT by Sydney Lea
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November 1, 2016
Dark Legends is available for pre-order #99cents #Paranormal #Romance
Everyone whispers of DARK LEGENDS, of supernatural creatures that walk the night…vampires and shifters, faeries and angels, dragons and sorcerers.
They whisper of danger. They whisper of adventure. They whisper of long-lasting love.
Preorder your copy of DARK LEGENDS today for 99c.
This Collection is packed with more than 20 full-length Urban Fantasy and Paranormal Romance reads from New York Times, USA Today, and International Bestselling Authors!
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Don’t miss this collection of more than twenty unique twists in paranormal romance and urban fantasy, providing over one million words of supernatural suspense that will transport you to new worlds with smoking hot action and heart-throttling adventure!
The DARK LEGENDS boxed set includes: Mermaids, Sirens, Shifters, Vampires, Dragons, Sorcerers, Warriors, Angels, Faeries, Demons, Witches, Psychics, Ghosts, Mythology, Folk Tales, Legends, Dark Magic, Time Travel, and More!
T.F. Walsh with Demon’s Mark
Monica Corwin with Soulless
J.L. Weil with White Raven
Laxmi Hariharan with Redemption
JA Culican with The Keeper of Dragons, The Prince Returns
Muffy Wilson and The Para-Portage of Emily
GK DeRosa with Wilder: The Guardian Series
Marilyn Peake with Shade
Kevin McLaughlin with By Darkness Revealed
Carissa Ann Lynch with Midnight Moss
Vivienne Savage with Making Waves
Anna Hub with Beyond the Shadows
HJ Lawson with Hereafter – The Immortal Soul
Emma Nichols with Blood Moon
Shelley Munro with Claimed & Seduced
J.A.Armitage with Two of Clubs
Leilani Love with Violca’s Dragon
Demelza Carlton with Ocean’s Gift
Xyla Turner with Broken Treaty
Join the Facebook Release Party to meet the authors and win epic prizes!
October 26, 2016
Halloween #Instafreebie Horror & Dark Fantasy #Giveaway 10/27-10/31
Grab your plastic Halloween jack-o-lanterns, and get ready to do some trick-or-treating! Grab FREE Dark Fantasy & Horror books via Instafreebie! More than 50 authors are offering perfect Halloween reads for FREE for a limited time!
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October 24, 2016
New Release! Shifters Hallows Eve #boxedset #99cents
Tricks and Treats… Chills and thrills…
Become Enchanted, Haunted, and Hunted this Halloween.
12 NYT, USA Today, and International Best Selling Authors, bring you brand-new, paranormal shifter romances that are sure to make this a Shifters Hallows Eve you’ll never forget!
Featuring:
THE TIGER’S BRIDE by: R.E. Butler
MATE HUNT by: Sydney Lea
HAUNTED BY LOVE by: Lori King
JOKER’S TRICK OR TREAT by: Audra Hart
THE HAUNTED MATE by: Bryce Evans
HUNTERS MARK by: Melissa Snark
TEARS FOR HER DRAGON by: Julia Mills
DARK LOVERS by: Elle Boon
ONCE UPON A HALLOWS EVE by: KD Jones
THE WOLF’S GHOST by: Bethany Shaw
VALLEY OF THE SHADOWS by: Melissa Bell
HALLOWED DESTINY by: Candace Blevins
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The Thinning of the Veil #Giveaway #SnarkologyHalloweenHop @MelissaSnark
Welcome to the Snarkology!
Thank you for following the Snarkology Halloween Hop from Oct. 26th thru 31st for the opportunity to discover fun, great books, and awesome prizes! Please bookmark the hop landing page so you’re able to return at your leisure to trick or treating the seventy-plus participating sites.
Hop Landing Page: http://www.thesnarkology.com/snarkology-halloween-hop-oct-26-31st/
After you learn about the thinning of the veil and my newly released story, Hunter’s Mark, be sure to check out the great giveaway at the bottom of my post. You can also enter in the Hopwide Giveaway for a chance to win one of several gift cards that are up for grabs.
Happy Halloween!
The barrier between the world of the living and the dead is often called “The Veil”. During the month of October, the Veil grows thinner and thinner until the evening of the 31st.
On Halloween/All Hallow’s Eve/Samhain, the separation between the spirit world and the earthly realm is little more than a diaphanous barrier. A thanatotic charge energizes the atmosphere. It’s the best time to reach out to the dead… and sometimes the dead come knocking at the doors of the living.
In many northern European cultures, particularly the Norse, Oct. 31st is the celebration of Winternights, a time that marks the end of the harvest and the time of livestock slaughter. During the festival, the Vanir gods, Freyr and Freya, are honored as well as ancestral spirits and the spirits of the land.
The wild hunt: Asgårdsreien (1872) by Peter Nicolai Arbo
Winternights is also the beginning of the darkest and coldest season. In a tradition going back to ancient times, the Germanic tribes leave a “Last Sheaf” in the field for Odin and his fearsome army. As Winternights draws to a close, the The Wild Hunt rides forth on the first of its ferocious forays. The winter fields and roads are safe for no man. It is the time of ghosts and trolls.
Travellers beware!!!
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Hunter’s Mark by Melissa Snark releases in ebook on Oct. 25th as part of the Shifters Hallows Eve boxed set. It’s 99 cents for a limited time only.
ER nurse Victoria Storm anticipates a joyous Winter Nights ceremony with her wolf-shifter pack, but a determined hunter upsets all her plans. Daniel Barrett wants her help because he suspects a ghost is behind his friend’s disappearance. As a pagan priestess and spirit-speaker, she can discover things he can’t. He’s as sexy as he is persistent–she finds him impossible to refuse. Throw in a trip to a remote Arizona town, a haunted hotel, and a lost gold mine, and their evening is about to get interesting.
Shifters Hallows Eve — #99cents #NewRelease
Tricks and Treats…
Chills and thrills…
Become Enchanted, Haunted, and Hunted this Halloween.
12 NYT, USA Today, and International Best Selling Authors, bring you brand-new, paranormal shifter romances that are sure to make this a Shifters Hallows Eve you’ll never forget!
Featuring stories by: Audra Hart, Bethany Shaw, Bryce Evans, Candace Blevins, Elle Boon, Julia Mills, KD Jones, Lori King, Melissa Bell, Melissa Snark, R.E. Butler, and Sydney Lea
Trick or Treat!
For a chance to win a $10 Amzon gift card, leave a comment on this post with the name of the sacred Norse day/festival which marks the end of the harvest.
(Hint: Read the article or check out the Hunter’s Mark blurb.)
A winner will be chosen on Nov. 1st.
The Hopwide Giveaway
Winners will be chosen on Nov. 1st.
Follow the hop for more fun, great books, and awesome prizes: http://www.thesnarkology.com/snarkology-halloween-hop-oct-26-31st/
October 20, 2016
Please vote in Créme de la Cover Contest of the Month–Wolf’s Cross
I’m doing a reader appreciation giveaway to encourage voting in the Créme de la Cover Contest of the Month. My book, Wolf’s Cross, is one of the four in the contest. The Creme de la Cover grand prize is a free full page ad in InD’Tale magazine!!
Info and signup are here:
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Please take a moment to head on over and vote. Thank you! 
*A winner will be chosen on Tuesday, Oct. 25th.
October 11, 2016
THE ONE I’M WITH by J. Lynn Rowan #Romance @Goddessfish
GENRE: Contemporary Romance
Interior designer Marissa O’Brien has sworn off long-term relationships, instead protecting herself from a broken heart by following a specific set of rules when it comes to her many flirtations and first dates. She’s content to just have fun in the world of romance, but all her rules fly out the window when she grabs the attention of a sexy, international stranger during her weekly Girls’ Night Out.
Josh Mattingly has spent the last two years trying to turn over a new leaf, focusing on his role in the family corporation and erasing his womanizing reputation. In Asheville, North Carolina, on business, the last thing he’d planned on was getting involved with a local girl. But one encounter with Marissa has him hooked. He soon falls hard for the designer, and now he’s terrified to reveal his romantic past for fear she’ll bolt.
Marissa recognizes a playboy when she sees one and tries to keep her attraction to Josh under wraps–until they share a passionate kiss that leaves both of them singed. Still, she knows their love affair has an expiration date, and everything is destined to end once Josh finishes his business in Asheville. Now, along with showing his family that he’s left his old habits behind, Josh has a new challenge–proving to Marissa that she can trust him with her heart.
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Excerpt:
After I climb up the three brick steps, I pause and face him. “Listen, Josh . . .”
Thankfully, my words halt him at the bottom of the steps. He hooks his thumbs into his jeans pockets and tips his head to one side, smirking. “Uh, oh. That doesn’t usually precede something a guy wants to hear after a first date.”
“Oh, no. I wasn’t going to say . . . Let me start over.” Closing my eyes, I draw a huge breath. Then I release it slowly, willing my skittishness to go with it, and look at him again. “People who know me—or at least know of me—will tell you I date. A lot. My friends will even tell you that, and they give me shit about it all the time.”
“There’s nothing wrong with dating a lot,” he says, frowning a little.
“No, of course not. But to most people, it seems like I, well . . .” I pause, thinking how to phrase things. “I don’t exactly have a reputation, if you know what I mean. But I haven’t dated anyone seriously in a really long time.”
A perplexed line forms between his brows. “How long are we talking?”
“Three years.”
He lets out a soft whistle.
“But like I said, I’ve dated. Nothing long term. Four or five dates at most. I just— I have my reasons.”
Josh gazes at me for a few seconds, then climbs up the first two steps to my porch. The move brings him within six inches and manages to knock the air out of me without him even touching me. We aren’t quite at eye level, but it’s close. He’s still taller.
“So we’ll take it slow,” he murmurs. “You decide when and where. We get to know each other. We have fun. And if we get past four or five dates . . .”
I don’t think I’ve breathed in the last sixty seconds. My head spins. “Then what?”
“Then . . .” He leans forward until his smooth-shaven cheek brushes mine, his lips drifting close to my ear. Sparks fly across my skin as his breath tickles my neck. “Let’s just say it’ll be a nice change of pace for both of us.”
How can a whisper feel like an intimate caress?
A series of twitches flicker down my arms as the impulse to grab ahold of him and steal a kiss races through my muscles. But before I do anything, he backs down the steps, a look of satisfaction on his face.
Neither of us says anything else as he returns to his car, climbs in, and drives away with a quick triple-beep of the horn.
I can’t move until his taillights disappear from the end of my driveway.
AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Author Bio:
J. Lynn Rowan started writing stories as a small child, usually starring her favorite cartoon characters. Most of her work through middle and high school was filled with typical teenage angst and melodrama, and usually mirrored the books she loved to read. But eventually she found her own author’s voice and decided to seriously pursue a writing career.
Historical fiction remains J. Lynn’s “first love”, but she has enjoyed the journey to becoming an author of romance and chick lit. She is a member of Romance Writers of America, the Central New York Romance Writers, and the Historical Novel Society. She is also a teacher who tries to instill a love of learning, reading, and writing in her students.
When she’s not writing, J. Lynn enjoys travelling, gardening poorly but enthusiastically, studying various topics in American history for her own expertise, and channeling Julia Child every time she steps into the kitchen.
A native of Oswego, NY, she now lives in Charlotte, NC, with her own Romantic Hero of a husband and the most adorable toddler on the planet.
Email: jlynnrowanliterature@gmail.com
Website: http://jlynnrowanliterature.wordpress.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/JLynnRowan
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/JLynnRowanLit
Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/jlynnrowan/
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UClfsVyA4LQYMA0Cq7T1rb6w
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14191767.J_Lynn_Rowan
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/J.-Lynn-Rowan/e/B012YC8PQ2/
GIVEAWAY INFORMATION and RAFFLECOPTER CODE
The author will award a $25 Amazon/BN GC to a randomly drawn commenter via Rafflecopter.
October 6, 2016
Fated and Forbidden #boxedset #KU #99cents
Over 1700+ pages jam packed with action and adventure from NYT Bestselling authors, USA Today Bestselling authors, and International Bestselling authors.
Ten heroes and heroines are up against unknown forces of darkness—good thing they all have supernatural skills and abilities—it’s just too bad that not all of them are sure what to do with them yet. Powerful allies are hard to come by and lines are blurred when it becomes difficult to tell friend from foe. Delve in to ten unique worlds full of vampires, witches, mages, dream-stalkers, fallen deities, monsters and even super heroes! Supernatural skills may be enough to save them… but only if they can figure out how to wield them in time.
About the Book
Fated And Forbidden
by Various Authors
Series
n/a; first-in-series boxed set
Genre
Adult
Urban Fantasy
Paranormal Romance
Publisher
Independent
Publication Date
September 30, 2016
Featured in Fated & Forbidden
All stories are first in a series!
Cursed by Fire by Danielle Annett: Vampires and shifters vie for control of Spokane, Washington, and Aria Naveed is right in the middle of the fire.
Message Bearer by M.S. Dobing: Seb is a fledging mage, able to manipulate reality, and he alone carries the message that could change the course of the conflict forever
Unhidden by Dina Given: It’s not always easy to differentiate between the good guys and the bad guys, especially when your heroine is a trained killer and she may be
falling in love with her evil hunter…
No More Black Magic by A.L. Kessler: Explosions, bodies and black magic are just part of a typical day at this agency.
Power Surge by E.J. Whitmer: From ordinary to extraordinary in just one week. It’s a good thing she looks great in spandex.
Brooding City by Tom Shutt: A police detective is confronted with his own past crimes as a dream-stalker even as he takes on a greater evil.
Altered by Amy Steaman: A pretty law student’s life is changed forever by a mysterious stranger when desire, possession, and treachery lead Sadie down a crooked path to redemption.
Emergence by Siana Wineland: Valkyries invade the Pacific NW, in a contagion. What’s a girl to do when she finds she’s been infected and sprouting wings happens to be a side affect.
A Time Apart by Rebecca N. Caudill: A vampire and a woman who couldn’t be more different, realize that destiny has brought them full circle.
Familiar by Frances Pauli: A beautiful small-town witch teams up with a sexy cop to take on a demon.
All for just #99Cents!
October 5, 2016
Altered by Amy Stearman #vampire
Unassuming law student Sadie Pratt leads a quiet life immersing herself in her books; outside of school, her only real form of excitement is researching the local flour mill and her link to its terrible history. That all changes one fateful night when her employer requests she meet with a mysterious client who will change her life in an unthinkable way.
Vincent Strickland has toured the country attempting to regain his holdings after serving a punishing sentence for his violent past. He is out for revenge when his path unexpectedly crosses Sadie’s, who he believes is his former lover reborn. He will stop at nothing to possess her.
Fallen deity Thayer Aubade has dedicated his life to The Creed, a secret sect charged with protecting the innocent from monsters like Strickland. When his team is dispatched to rescue Strickland’s latest victim, the scene he discovers feels all too familiar and he vows he won’t play by the rules this time.
Desire, possession, and treachery lead Sadie down a crooked path to redemption. She must rely on her intellect and inner strength for her survival… and for that of the man she loves.
Altered
by Amy Stearman
Series
Chronicles of the Creed #1
Genre
Adult
Paranormal Romance
Urban Fantasy
Publisher
Independent
Publication Date
December 2014
About Amy Stearman
Amy Stearman is an avid reader and writer of stories, hailing from the Midwest. She lives in the liberal mecca of Kansas with her husband, young son, and ornery Sheltie.
Amy holds her bachelors degrees in Human Services and Victim Studies, and a Masters degree in Social Work. That might sound pretty cool, but she accidentally ended up in marketing.
When she’s not chasing her five year old or attempting DIY home improvement, she’s jotting down story ideas and dreaming big.
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