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Judgment Road Round Up- At A Glance Information

Today is the release day for Judgment Road! There are several blogs, interviews and information out there and I thought I would put as much as I can into on place- Here!

THE BOOK



Judgment Road landing page on my website- ChristineFeehan.com


Entire First Chapter -
Here


Judgment Road Book Trailer

Here


I'm sure there will be more soon, but I wanted to share this today.

AUDIO BOOK




At Recorded Books

RecordedBooks.com



At Audible


Audible.com


INTERVIEWS




Signature Reads-

Different, But the Same:Writing a New Series Set in the Same Area


Harlequin Junkie-

Spotlight - The Creation of Torpedo Ink

Meet the Club- Torpedo Ink

If you read Bound Together you’ll recognize many of these names. They’re members, or prospects, of Torpedo Ink. Most of the actual MC members have their legal names and then their club names or nicknames. For those who hold a position in the club I’ve included that as well.







Viktor Prakenskii aka Czar – President
Lyov Russak aka Steele- Vice President







Saava Pajari aka Reaper- Sergeant at Arms
Savin Pajari aka Savage- Sergeant at Arms






Isaak Koval aka Ice- Secretary
Dmitry Koval aka Storm
Alana Koval aka Torch
Luca Litvin aka Code- Treasurer
Maksimos Korask aka Ink
Kasimir Popov aka Preacher
Lana Popov aka Widow
Nikolaos Bolotan aka Mechanic
Pytor Bolotan aka Transporter
Andrii Federoff aka Maestro
Gedeon Lazaroff aka Player
Kir Vasiliev aka Master
Lazar Alexeev aka Keys
Aleksei Solokov aka Absinthe

Newly Patched Members
Gavriil Prakenskii
Casimir Prakenskii

Prospects

Fatei
Glitch
Hyde

Siblings within the group
Viktor, Gavriil and Casimir
Reaper and Savage
Ice, Storm and Alena (Torch)
Preacher and Lana (Widow)

The Torpedo Ink Logo/Patches And What it Means

I thought it would be fun to share what the different parts of the Torpedo Ink colors mean.



The meaning of the Cypress Tree, on the back of the Torpedo Ink Sea Haven/ Caspar Jackets:



The Cypress Tree spread out with seventeen branches. Roots tangled at the bottom with piles of skulls buried among them. Crows flying away from the tree or picking through the skulls at the roots. Each skull represented a kill.
The main trunk of the tree represents their leader, Viktor and all the branches represent those who survived.
The crows represent all those who didn’t survive that school, so they are never forgotten.
As you see it on their jacket it’s called their “colors”. The “colors” are the insignia or “patch” that a motorcycle club puts on to identify their club. A “rocker” is the framed portion you see that has the name Torpedo Ink in it on the top rocker and Sea Haven/ Caspar on the bottom rocker.

The Count Down to Judgment Road

It's exciting and nerve-wracking and fun all at once when an author releases a new series. Especially if you have a series or two that's already popular. You wonder if readers will give the new series a try. Will that like it?
I enjoyed writing Judgment Road so much and sometimes next week will start writing the next book in that series. On January 23rd Judgment Road will be released and I'm hopeful people will like it. It's very different from anything else I write.

The book trailer is out and it is a good representation of the series and the book. You can find it here on GoodReads, but here's a link to it if you'd like to watch it-

Judgment Road Book Trailer



I wanted to share the trailer with you. I'll be posting more over the next week.

Merry Christmas! Happy New Year!

I absolutely love Christmas. For me, this holiday has always felt magical. I love looking at my grandchildren’s faces when they come and see the decorations are up. I love that wonder that I get to share through them as they look at the Christmas tree. I love that my family is so giving and thoughtful of others during this holiday and I’m proud of them for the love they have for each other and for people they try to help either families they know don’t have much and they get them something, or perhaps they draw a name off the “giving tree” at one of the stores.
It’s been a challenging year, but together, we’ve worked hard and I’m proud of that work. I had 5 new releases this year and 6 re-issues. There will be even more in 2018. We’ve done Facebook Live events, blogging on GoodReads, giveaways, games and lots of fun throughout the year.
Next year I have 5 NEW books! Judgment Road is out January 23rd and is the first book in my new Torpedo Ink series, which I’m so excited about. Covert Game, Shadow Keeper, Dark Sentinel and Leopard’s Run will all be out next year.
I look forward to the New Year and wish you all a happy holiday and a very wonderful New Year!

Berkley Bookmas, My Christmas Tree and A Giveaway!

My publisher is doing something they call Berkley Bookmas and I participated by sending pictures of my Christmas tree and answering a few holiday questions. It was really fun!

Several blogs are running the article about my holiday traditions and you can participate in the $100 giveaway here- Berkley Bookmas

The blogs are wonderful to support authors and books so I hope you'll choose one to go and comment on and share your favorite holiday tradition!

Pick a blog! Check them all out if you like book blogs!

Vampire Book Club

Novel Grounds

Booked & Loaded

Coffee & Characters

Rantings of a Reading Addict

Just Another Book Bitch

The Good, The Bad and The Unread

Literary Escapism

3 Degrees of Fiction

And do celebrate with me early! Judgment Road will be out January 23rd! It's on pre-order now!


Thank you!

Catching Up with Christine

If you go to my online community you already know that I'm nearly finished writing Dark Sentinel. This is Andor and Lorraine's story. Next up is Leopard's Run.

I wanted to make sure you didn't miss anything going on online, so here are a few fun things that have happened over the last week or so.

Berkley's Bookmas! Don't miss this one!
Bookmas
A sweepstakes and some exclusives!




Talking about crazy things bought online over at HEA USA Today HEA




Another fun quick thing over at HEA USA Today about authors that other authors love
HEA Authors we love





Did you see the cover reveal for Shadow Keeper yet? You can see it HERE

Time for a Dark Celebration! And some Gifts!

I love the Christmas holiday so much! It’s always been a special time for me and for my family. I realize not everyone celebrates Christmas, but I hope you’ll celebrate your holiday with me this winter season!


WalMart is releasing Dark Celebration with a limited edition cover. You can only get this special cover edition by going to WalMart to purchase it. And, it’s a limited run, so once these are gone, they are truly gone.

Dark Celebration has always been special to me. I receive more reader requests for another reunion book than just about any other request. This book was a gift to my readers, bringing together old friends like Mikhail, Gregori and many other Carpathians from years gone-by.



Over on Facebook we’re doing a giveaway where you have a chance at winning one of eight stockings stuffed with gifts from one of the older Carpathian characters! Mikhail, Raven, Jacques, Shea, Gregori, Savannah, Darius and Tempest each have a representative stocking that reflects that character and there are a lot of goodies in those stockings! I hope you’ll stop by Facebook by November 16th to enter!
Facebook Contest

And as an added bonus, you can enter for ALL the stockings! So lots of chances to win! And the books are signed!

You can read the first chapter of Dark Celebration here-

Fun Friday- In Review

I wanted to round up a few fun things to share with you regarding my new release; Leopard's Blood.

First is The Reading Cafe Review site, which has a review, excerpt and giveaway.



The Reading Cafe Review, Excerpt and Giveaway

Here's the book trailer for Leopard's Blood. It's a bit steamy!



Leopard's
Blood Book Trailer

I love this Library Journal article, which names Covert Game and Judgment Road, but also lists many wonderful books. It's an article I think you'll enjoy!



Library Journal Article

I love RT Book Reviews and they have a great excerpt from Leopard's Blood to share!



RT Book Reviews with Excerpt





I'm new to Once Upon A Twilight, and it looks like I've been missing out! What a fun site! They have an exclusive video where I'm talking about leopards, heroines and writing!

Once Upon a Twilight Author Interview

That's the round up for this week. If you saw anything online talking about Leopard's Blood please let me know! I don't read reviews, as a rule, but anything fun is great to share!

Exclusive Excerpt of Leopard's Blood for #Horrorweek

I'm so excited that Leopard's Blood will be released on October 24th!
As part of our #Horrorweek celebration I thought I'd give you a sample from the book!



Excerpt-

She wasn’t going to text him to come to her. Joshua Tregre paced back and forth along the upper balcony of the plantation house. In the past two hours, he’d looked over toward Sonia’s home a hundred times. Evan told him repeatedly he was going to wear a hole in wood that had withstood a hundred years or more of wear and tear.

“She’s afraid, Joshua. Look at you. You’re intimidating as hell and you scared her,” Evan pointed out.

He knew that. He didn’t want to hear it. He’d been crazy with her. He couldn’t keep his hands off her. “Never thought I’d find her,” He admitted to his best friend. “Never. Not in a million years and certainly not now, not when I’ve got this mess on my hands. We’ve got a huge deal coming up and I can’t afford to be thinking about my runaway mate.” That was all he was thinking about.

Normally, Joshua was known for his cool. His utter calm. He wasn’t a hothead like so many leopards, that was why he’d been chosen to take over Rafe Cordeau’s territory. He didn’t get ruffled no matter the circumstance. Until Sonia. She was beautiful, sexy, intelligent and scared to death.

Shadow, his leopard gave him impressions of a fiery car dropping into the ocean, of Gatita and Sonia running for their lives. Gatita hadn’t shown much else, only giving the big male the impression of the two females dead and that meant they were safe. From that, he’d gleaned, someone had tried to kill them and thought they’d succeeded. That was unacceptable to him.

“She’s in trouble, Evan, big trouble and she isn’t going to tell me about it.”



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If you'd like to read the entire first chapter you can find that here-
First Chapter Leopard's Blood