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Release Blitz & Giveaway: Kiss the Sky

Title: Kiss the SkyAuthors: Krista & Becca RitchieGenre: New Adult Standalone RomanceRelease Date: January 24, 2014Hosted by: Love Between the Sheets Promotions

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SynopsisVirgin. Sex addict. Daredevil. Alcoholic. Smartass … Jackass. Her five friends are about to be filmed. Reality TV, be prepared. Rose Calloway thought she had everything under control. At twenty-three, she’s a Princeton graduate, an Academic Bowl champion, a fashion designer and the daughter of a Fortune 500 mogul. But with a sex addict as a sister and roommate, nothing comes easy.

After accepting help from a producer, Rose agrees to have her life filmed for a reality television show. The Hollywood exec is her last chance to revive her struggling fashion line, and boundaries begin to blur as she’s forced to make nice with a man who always has his way.

Twenty-four-year-old Connor Cobalt is a guy who bulldozes weak men. He’s confident, smart-as-hell and lives with his equally ambitious girlfriend, Rose Calloway. Connor has to find a way to protect Rose without ruining the show. Or else the producer will get what Connor has always wanted—Rose’s virginity. 

This New Adult Standalone Romance can be described as Friends meets The Real World. Expect fist fights, drugs, sex of varying degrees, crude humor and competitive alpha males. Definitely for mature readers audiences only.

About the Authors

Krista Ritchie has a clone...or someone who looks exactly like her. If she's not writing books with her twin sister, she's pouring over entertainment news and ingesting copious amounts of pop culture. She likes tennis, that thing called the TV, and beating Becca (her clone) on Sega Genesis. She created YA Book Exchange to combat her book buying addiction and started Nawanda Files, a YA Book Blog that features books into movies news, to share her love for all things bookish. Oh, and she does something called science. Whatever that is.

Krista & Becca Ritchie write New Adult books that make you cringe, gasp, and go ooh-la-la. (If you do that sort of thing.) They are currently working on the spin-offs and final books in the Addicted series.


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Chapter Reveal: Be With Me

We are thrilled to get to share with you the first 5 chapters from BE WITH ME! This is the next book in the With You Saga by Jennifer L. Armentrout, writing as J. Lynn, and is being published by William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins. These 5 chapters should get you ready because BE WITH ME releases on February 4th! Check out all of the information we have for you below, read the first 5 chapters, and then go pre-order your copy ASAP!





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BE WITH ME Synopsis:
From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Wait
for You
Do Teresa and Jase have a real shot at getting together
or will life get in the way?
Teresa Hamilton is having a rough year—she's in love with
her big brother's best friend, but he hasn't spoken to her since they shared a
truly amazing, mind-blowing, life-changing kiss. Then she got out of a terrible
relationship. Now an injury is threatening to end her dance career for good.
It's time for plan B: college. And maybe she'll have a chance to convince Jase
that what they have together is real.
Jase Winstead has a huge secret that he's not telling
anyone—especially not his best friend's incredibly beautiful sister. Even
though he and Teresa shared the hottest kiss of his life, he knows that his
responsibilities must take priority. He certainly doesn't have time for a
relationship. But it doesn't help that all he can think about is kissing the
one girl who could ruin everything for him.
As they're thrown together more and more, Jase
and Teresa can't keep denying their feelings for each other. But a familiar
danger looms and tragedy strikes. As the campus recovers, the star-crossed
couple must decide what they're willing to risk to be together and what they're
willing to lose if they're not. . . .


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Jennifer L.
Armentrout/J.Lynn:# 1 NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY Bestselling author Jennifer
lives in Martinsburg, West Virginia. All the rumors you’ve heard about her
state aren’t true. When she’s not hard at work writing. she spends her time
reading, working out, watching really bad zombie movies, pretending to write,
and hanging out with her husband and her Jack Russell Loki.
Her dreams of becoming an author started in algebra class,
where she spent most of her time writing short stories….which explains her
dismal grades in math. Jennifer writes young adult paranormal, science fiction,
fantasy, and contemporary romance. She is published with Spencer Hill Press,
Entangled Teen and Brazen, Disney/Hyperion and Harlequin Teen. Her book
Obsidian has been optioned for a major motion picture and her Covenant Series
has been optioned for TV.
She also writes adult and New Adult romance under the name
J. Lynn. She is published by Entangled Brazen and HarperCollins.
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Cover Reveal & Giveaway: From Yesterday

Title: From YesterdayAuthor: Miriam EpsteinGenre: New Adult RomanceExpected Release Date: March 2014Cover Designer: Cover It! Designs Hosted by: Love Between the Sheets Promotions

SynopsisMoving to Miami was supposed to be enough distance from her family and her past, but Paige Kerimov can’t seem to get them out of her head. A year of self-induced solitude, nothing but school, Paige reluctantly starts to let people back into her life, including one person in particular; the insistent and attractive Brady Quinlan with whom she is paired for a project that will impact her major. She has no choice but to work with him, no matter how tough that makes it to deny her attraction to him.As Paige lets her guard down, remnants of a violent past and a tragic history start to resurface and Brady knows she is hiding something. He tries to figure her out, but she can’t let him see when the truth is that she isn’t sure if she’s in danger from anything other than herself

ExcerptA single tear drop defies me and leaks out of my right eye, traveling a jagged path down my cheek. Brady takes his hand off of mine and wipes the tear away with one finger, then cups the side of my face and pulls me a little bit closer to him. “Don’t be sad, Paige. I’ve grieved already. I will always miss her, but I have wonderful memories of my mother to take with me.”

I close my eyes and lean into his hand without thinking. I’m sad for him, yes, but I also want to know why he can speak of his dead mother with such maturity when I can’t stop conjuring the image of my dead sister. And I’m a selfish bitch for being jealous of his acceptance.

When I open my eyes again, he is looking at me with intent. His thumb moves to stroke my bottom lip and a tiny sigh escapes my throat. The table between us is quite narrow and there is so little distance keeping me from kissing him. It scares me. I feel like a bucket of ice water is being poured over my head and I snap back in my seat with such suddenness that I knock my bag over and the contents spill out on the floor under the table. Brady is still poised there with his hand extended, but the look on his face says he is disappointed. He recovers in record time and we both bend down to retrieve my things. I shove my clothing back in the bag and then I sit up too fast and smack the back of my head on the hard surface of the table. It stuns me and makes my vision swim for a minute, but I still see what is laying on the floor. The package I received earlier must not have been sealed properly because the contents have made their way onto the floor. The necklace my sister always wore, a platinum heart pendant with her Garnet birthstone in the center, is sticking out of the envelope. It is dirty; covered in a substance that I believe is dried blood, and a note is attached. The red lipstick from the mirror was used to spell out ‘I will always find you’.



About the Author
I'm pretty sure I could read before I could walk. I remember sneaking in extra reading time with a flashlight as a kid after bedtime. Remember those shiny Lisa Frank sets? I traded mine for paperbacks in the fifth grade. Some of my favorite authors include, Christopher Pike, Anne Rice, and Sylvia Plath.I write YA and New Adult. Currently, I live in South Florida. Having changed my major three times, I'm still in college and I wait tables in my spare (ha!) time.
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Book Review: Always You

Always You by Missy Johnson: I was thrilled when I was offered a graduate teaching position at the prestigious Tennerson Girls Academy. At twenty-three, this would be my first ‘real’ teaching assignment. Working at the elite boarding school, home to the daughters of some of the wealthiest people in the world, was a great opportunity that I would’ve been stupid to pass up.

One week into my new job, and I suddenly had no idea why I chose high school…I was a seventeen year old boy once, I knew how teenage girls behaved.

You can’t even imagine the hell of trying to teach thirty, hormonal driven seventeen year olds who have been cooped up, away from any male contact.

I could handle the whispers every time I entered the room. I could even handle the obvious attempts at gaining my attention. What I couldn’t handle was her…

Rich bitches and way too many rules. Was it any wonder that I hated school?

Add to that the lack of male contact, and I was going insane. Like literally. I wasn’t used to this. A year ago I was normal. I had a boyfriend, friends and a loving family. There is nothing normal about me anymore, and nobody here lets me forget that.

My name is Wrenn, and I’m only here because my aunt took me in after what happened, but my aunt also happens to be the headmistress of this academy…Can you see my problem?

I’m hated for my lack of money, and I’m hated for who my Aunt is.

Then he arrived. Dalton Reed. My new history teacher.

Slowly, he helped me see that even in the worst situations, there is always hope.
: **ARC received in exchange for an honest review.** This book is one of the reasons that I love to read. What an amazing book. I know some of plot of this book has been done before but the author put a whole new spin on it. The spunk of Wrenn had me smiling through the whole book. I devoured this book in a few hours so be prepared not to have anything to do when you start reading.

Cover Reveal: Ridge

Title: Ridge (Wild #2)Author: Adriane LeighSeries: Wild Series Genre: Erotic RomanceExpected Release Date: March 3, 2014Cover Designer: Cover It! Designs Hosted by: Love Between the Sheets Promotions

SynopsisSometimes doing the wrong thing feels so right...

I'm a player. I'm an asshole. I'm someone you should stay away from.

I have demons.
I've made mistakes.
And the biggest can't be taken back.

I've gone to hell and back in twenty-nine years and I'm only now coming to terms with moving forward, righting my wrongs, and making amends. Except not everyone deserves forgiveness. Sometimes the damage done is beyond repair.
Everyday is exactly the same. I focus on the pain, in the quest to feel and forget, but I remember everything. When I close my eyes the darkness encroaches and some days it feels like the things that kill me are the things that make me feel alive.

ExcerptI hovered over her sweet body, the soft flesh beneath my fingers like fucking silk. Her hands laced in the rungs of the headboard above her head, propping her breasts high and full for me. Her head was thrown back in ecstasy, full lips formed in a a perfect O as moans escaped her throat.

She was fucking stunning. I moved in and out of her, slowing my pace, hitting her as deep as I could, rounding my hips with each slow thrust and drag. She was everything, had been my everything for a few months, the only one that had ever gotten me.

All of me.

The me that no one else had ever seen.

Fuck of it was, she was my brother’s fiancée.

I’d fucking taken her right from under him.

I hadn’t meant to, I don’t think she’d meant to either, it’d just happened one night, and there’d been no going back.

And now here we were, months later, I was still plowing into her—taking her, owning her, making her mine—every fucking night in my bed, hearing her call my name, her eyes hazy with lust and love when I finished.

Except tonight was different.

Tonight was the last time.

Tonight I was ending it.

My heart clutched in my chest as the words floated through my head. My eyes burned with the pain of it.

I didn’t want to let her go, but more than anything, I was sick of running. And seeing my brother again had finally opened my eyes.

This was it.

This was it for us. For me and her. For the girl that had wrapped her fingers around my soul and held it so fucking tightly it was as if my every fucking breath depended on her.

Copyright 2013 by Adriane Leigh






About the Author



Adriane Leigh was born and raised in a snowbank in Michigan's Upper Peninsula and now lives amongst the sand dunes of the Lake Michigan lakeshore.
She graduated with a Literature degree but never particularly enjoyed reading Shakespeare or Chaucer.

Adriane is married to a tall, dark and handsome guy, plays mama to two sweet baby girls, and is a voracious reader and knitter.


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Book Review: Dangerous Girls

Dangerous Girls by Abigail Haas: Paradise quickly gets gruesome in this thrilling page-turner with a plot that’s ripped from the headlines and a twist that defies the imagination.

It’s Spring Break of senior year. Anna, her boyfriend Tate, her best friend Elise, and a few other close friends are off to a debaucherous trip to Aruba that promises to be the time of their lives.

But when Elise is found brutally murdered, Anna finds herself trapped in a country not her own, fighting against vile and contemptuous accusations. As Anna sets out to find her friend’s killer, she discovers harsh revelations about her friendships, the slippery nature of truth, and the ache of young love.

Awaiting the judge’s decree, it becomes clear to Anna that everyone around her thinks she is not only guilty, but also dangerous. And when the whole story comes out, reality is more shocking than anyone ever imagined...

Lori's thoughts: This is a YA that reads like an adult or NA. Not that it's graphic or anything like that. It's not as graphic as it could be, given the fact that the murder victim was stabbed numerous times, it's just...mature. I stopped reading a lot of YA because of the immaturity level. (Yes, I know, YA isn't meant to be as grown up as NA).

I enjoyed this book, and it kept me guessing until the very end. The ending. Wow, just wow. I recommend it highly!

Remember the movie, "Sixth Sense?" at the end when you discovered Bruce Willis was really dead and your mouth dropped open and you wondered WTF? Didn't see that coming! That's how I felt when I got to the end of this book. Two words: "I win."

The only thing I didn't like was the fact that as a Simon and Schuster published book, it was $9.78 for the e-book at the time of purchase. To me, that, seems crazy!

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Release Blitz & Giveaway: A Little Too Hot

From USA Today bestselling author Lisa Desrochers comes the third book in her sizzling new adult series.If you play with fire …Tossed out of college and cut off by her parents, Samantha West is in pretty dire straits. So when her rocker best friend hooks her up with a job dancing at a gentlemen's club, who is she to turn it down? Plus, there are rules to dancing at Benny's: No touching, keep your clothes on at all times, and never get closer than three feet. Unfortunately for Sam, her first private client makes her want to break every single one of them.Harrison Yates is scorching hot, but he's got a past that involves being left at the altar not too long ago. Sam is determined to make him forget about his ex, but when she makes her move, it flings her life into a spiral of chaos she never saw coming. Because Harrison Yates isn't who he seems to be. And his secret will probably get her killed.
"Every page is deliciously breathtaking, wickedly sexy and sensational. A LITTLE TOO HOT is wonderfully unique and a LOT HOT! I am a HUGE Lisa Desrochers fan."   -- KATY EVANS, New York Times bestselling author of REAL
"Lisa is brilliant at creating sizzling sexual tension and impossible circumstances that make the reader hold their breath all the way to happy ever after. Sam and Harrison are more than A Little Too Hot, they are scorching!"   -- JAY CROWNOVER, New York Times bestselling author of RULE
"Lisa Desrochers' best yet! A LITTLE TOO HOT is hotter than hot with all the emotional punch to back it up!"   -- SOPHIE JORDAN, New York Times bestselling author



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AUTHOR BIO:
LISA DESROCHERS is the USA Today bestselling author of the A Little Too Far series, courtesy of HarperCollins, and the young adult Personal Demons trilogy from Macmillan. She lives in Northern California with her husband, two very busy daughters, and Shini the tarantula. Find her online atwww.lisadwrites.com
 , on Twitter at @LisaDez, and on Facebook at  www.facebook.com/LisaDesrochersAuthor .
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Book Review & Giveaway: Knowing Jack

Knowing Jack by Rachel Curtis: I am not a slut, although I've been called one often enough. Yeah, I spent three months screwing one of my college professors, but I was crazy about the guy. Then he broke up with me.

I am not a bitch, although people like to say I am. I kept our relationship secret. I’m not responsible for telling the university administrators about it, but a lot of students still blame me for getting their favorite professor fired.

I am not a drama queen, although everyone thinks I am now. When I got a few nasty messages, I just deleted them. When I got the threat, I assumed it was someone being stupid. I still think that’s all it was. My parents worry, though, so they hired me a bodyguard. Now Jack follows me around, intimidating everyone who approaches me and looking obnoxiously hot.

This is what I am. I’m Chloe. I’m a twenty-year-old art history major. Kind of shy, although I pretend not to be. Stubborn enough to stay here for my senior year, even though everyone hates me.

And I’m stuck with Jack.

He calls me “Princess,” but I’m not a princess either.

Lori's thoughts: ** I received an ARC from the author in exchange for an honest review. **

I really enjoyed this book! It was a quick read and I liked the chemistry between Chloe and Jack. Jack's intense, brooding protectiveness made him endearing rather than borderline psychopathic, like so many of the main men in the books I've read recently. I would have liked to gotten more info on the professor/student relationship that happened prior to this book, but that's not really what this was about. A great read, one I enjoyed thoroughly.









About the Author

Rachel is a writer, a teacher, a romance reader, and a dog-mom. She loves animals and art and hot men with soft hearts under a tough exterior. She tries to write love stories that feel real, even in unlikely circumstances.

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(1) $50 USD Gift Card to Amazon or Barnes and Noble – International
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Facebook Romance Giveaway Hop!

Welcome to the FACEBOOK AUTHOR ROMANCE HOP!
Do you love discovering new authors? Well, this is a great way!
Over 30 authors have come together and are each hosting a giveaway on their facebook pages for readers!
Below you will find a linky list of author names. You can ENTER every contest!!!
Please read the links carefully. Some giveaways are US ONLY, US/CANADA, and INTERNATIONAL (INT). Also, the ones that are young adult are labeled (YA). Some are New Adult, and some are strictly for the older crowd. :)
This is a romance giveaway, so no matter that genre each book has some form of romance in it.
The giveaways are a mix of ebooks, paperbacks, ARCs, and gift cards.
Are you ready to have fun???
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Amazon Top 10 New Adult Books: January 19, 2014

Amazon Top 10 New Adult Books: January 19, 2014. These are the top 10 bestselling New Adult books as listed on Amazon.com at the time of posting! (Single titles only - No box sets.)


1. Wait for You by J. Lynn


2. Destined for Love (Love in Bloom: The Bradens, Book 2) Contemporary Romance by Melissa Foster


3. An Imperfect Witch (Witch Central Series: Book 1) by Debora Geary


4. Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire


5. Sea of Love (Love in Bloom: The Bradens, Book 4) by Melissa Foster


6. The Perfect Game: A Novel (The Game Series, Book One) by J. Sterling


7. Sisters in Bloom (Love in Bloom: Snow Sisters #2) by Melissa Foster


8. The Game Changer: A Novel (The Game Series, Book Two) by J. Sterling


9. Come As You Are by Theresa Weir


10. Holding Out (Hawks Motorcycle Club Series, #1) by Lila Rose