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November 12, 2022
Love You More – Julia Kent #Romcom
OUT NOW: Love You More (Love You, Maine, Book 3) by Julia Kent (@jkentauthor) #romanticcomedy #romcom #contemporaryromance
Release date: November 10, 2022
Genre: Romantic Comedy, Contemporary Romance
Cover Designer: Najla Qamber, Qamber Designs (https://www.qamberdesignsmedia.com/)
Audiobook Narrators: Erin Mallon and Teddy Hamilton (COMING SOON)
Tropes/Themes: Small Town,
Retailer Description:
Colleen Luview’s love life is cursed. No—really. The small-town nurse is notorious in her touristy mountain community. After every third date she’s ever had, the guy ends up in her emergency room.
She’s untouchable now, and it’s not her fault.
Resolved to branch out and find a way to have a life with a partner, children, meaning, and free from being a love pariah in a town devoted to it, she decides to leave her beloved Love You, Maine—where every day is Valentine’s Day—to find a bigger dating pool.
And a better nickname.
Moore Mottin hates feeling like damaged goods. Married and divorced twice before thirty, he has a fourteen-year-old from a teenage pregnancy, was cheated on during his second wedding, and now even his best friend, Luke Luview, considers him the butt of every bad-luck joke when it comes to love.
When Luke’s sister, Colleen, picks him up from the airport and a freak snowstorm forces them off the road, he rescues her from an icy pond and finds an old hunting cabin for shelter and safety. Vulnerable and shaking, the two give in to long-simmering feelings for each other, but when they’re discovered in the worst way possible, what seemed like a new lease on life turns into a life-altering mess.
Can Moore and Colleen overcome all the obstacles holding them back from a love that’s been in front of their faces all this time?
If you’re looking for a story featuring two star-crossed lovers doomed by unfair reputations, featuring a smooth-talking single dad who runs a jewelry store and his best friend’s sister, set in a small town in New England, with a calico cat named Sandwich, a heroine with a dry wit and a can-do attitude, and a hero who just wants a good relationship with his estranged child and the chance to find permanent love…then this is your book.
Grab a cup of coffee or tea, and maybe some peanut butter for your burger (what? It’s a thing…), and get your happy meter ready as you read the third book (a standalone!) in the Love You, Maine series—where love isn’t just a feeling…it’s a way of life.
✓Standalone
✓One-night stand
✓Forced proximity
✓Best friend’s sister
✓Single dad
… and a calico cat named Sandwich
Buy Links:
Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09WLZ7T4H
Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B09WLZ7T4H
Amazon AU: https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/product/B09WLZ7T4H
Amazon CA: https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B09WLZ7T4H
Apple Books: https://books.apple.com/us/book/love-you-more/id1616025157
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/love-you-more-17
Nook: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/love-you-more-julia-kent/1141629132?ean=2940186715801
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=kL5rEAAAQBAJ&PAffiliateID=1101l8zJ
Print: https://www.amazon.com/Love-You-More-Julia-Kent/dp/1638800669/
Website: https://jkentauthor.com/books/love-you-maine/love-you-more/
BookBub: https://www.bookbub.com/books/love-you-more-love-you-maine-book-3-by-julia-kent
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59694722-love-you-more
Author Bio:
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Julia Kent writes romantic comedy with an edge. Since 2013, she has sold more than 2 million books, with 4 New York Times bestsellers and more than 21 appearances on the USA Today bestseller list. Her books have been translated into French, German, and Italian, with more titles releasing in the future.
From billionaires to BBWs to new adult rock stars, Julia finds a sensual, goofy joy in every contemporary romance she writes. Unlike Shannon from Shopping for a Billionaire, she did not meet her husband after dropping her phone in a men’s room toilet (and he isn’t a billionaire she met in a romantic comedy).
She lives in New England with her husband and three children where she is the only person in the household with the gene required to change empty toilet paper rolls.
She loves to hear from her readers by email at julia@jkentauthor.com, on Twitter @jkentauthor, on Facebook at @jkentauthor, and on Instagram @jkentauthor. Visit her at http://jkentauthor.com
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Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.com/Julia-Kent/e/B00A99V268/
Excerpt (PLEASE CHOOSE ONLY ONE TO USE WITH YOUR POST):
#1
Colleen’s crush on her brother’s best friend had started in eleventh grade and ended, well…
Never.
It had ended never.
Which was why she drove two hours and ten minutes each way, totally out of her way, to pick him up at the Manchester airport today.
“Doesn’t matter,” she muttered to herself as she made the big loop around the arrivals section of the airport, half an eye out for him, the other half on her phone, waiting for Moore’s text. “Tim’s an anomaly. Not getting my hopes up,” she added, as if being down on herself would magically make some other part of her life work.
Like Moore appearing so they could get home ahead of the big snowstorm the radio announcers couldn’t shut up about.
Ever since she was a junior in high school and he was a freshman, she’d found herself transfixed by the sight of him, complete in his presence and yet in a constant state of yearning for more.
For Moore.
#2
Pulling her close, he tried to warm her. They were on the floor, about three feet from the edge of an unmade bed.
“Colleen!” he said sharply. She blinked rapidly, then squeezed his arm.
“I’m not shivering,” she said slowly, slurring. “Nee’ to ge’ warm.”
“I’m trying,” he said, looking at the fire, which thankfully was showing signs of catching. Standing, he scanned the room. A small trunk served as a coffee table, in front of two wood-frame chairs with cheap vinyl cushions.
The chance there were blankets in that trunk was good.
His attention pinged between the trunk and Colleen.
“Sit up,” he ordered her.
“Can’t.”
If he kept her talking, everything would be fine.
“Maybe you just cursed yourself,” he told her, trying to get her goat, get a rise out of her, anything to keep her talking.
“Huh?”
“Third Date Colleen. Never thought you’d end up in your own ER after a third date.” He lifted the lid of the trunk.
She blew a laugh through her nose. “Too far away from Luview for me to be in the ER.”
Score! Two big feather-down comforters, both of them a cream color with a patina that spoke more to their age than to a color palette at a textile factory. His fingers screamed as he gripped the thick, soft fabric, but he grabbed the top one and brought it to her, covering her.
As he started to wrap himself in the other one, he realized he was still soaking wet.
So was she.
Thin hints of warmth began to creep out of the tiny woodstove and he turned his attention to the fire again, blowing on it lightly, then checking the flue.
Whew. All was well. He added a few small pieces of wood he found littering the backside of the woodstack and hoped the fire would continue to take.
“I’m cold. Wet. Brain slow. Mouth slower,” Colleen whispered, with a tiny smile.
“Since when do you have a slow mouth?”
“Moore.”
His stomach dropped. Looking down at her, his down comforter on his shoulders, he panicked. Stress flooded him like he was underwater again, fumbling for her seatbelt, her life in his hands.
#3
Did his arms just tighten around her? Were his fingertips stroking her skin with a new, heightened intensity? Dreamy and light, she gave into the sensation, letting herself sigh. As her body stilled, a deep warmth, true and more real than any feeling she’d ever experienced, took over.
“I want to be free again,” he murmured against her hair, his leg moving against hers, her fingers on his chest desperate to explore.
“What does that mean to you?”
“It means this.”
In all her years of dreaming about him, and many more spent pushing those dreams away, she never imagined it would happen like this–that Moore would simply hold her in his arms, move a few inches, and bridge the gap between them with a kiss. But here it was, and it felt so good.
So right.
So perfect.
Their lips met, his arms curling around her as she turned on her side gingerly, favoring her shoulder, the comforter softer, his muscles harder, the whole of him both familiar and tantalizingly new. Their mouths were soft together, then warm and wet as the kiss deepened, his fingers in her hair now, hers on his shoulder.
Moore’s tongue asked for an invitation and she parted her lips, the line now so thoroughly crossed that there was no line any longer.
Just this kiss.
How could a kiss tell a story so long, so detailed, with so many detours and U-turns? All her wanting was in this kiss, all her time on the sidelines, all the friend-zone moments gathering to watch as Moore kissed her with growing need, their bodies pressed harder together.
They weren’t kids. She wasn’t his best friend’s older sister.
She was a fully grown woman whose life he had just saved, and she had nearly lost the chance to tell him how much he meant to her.
Now? Now she could show him.
Finally.
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November 1, 2022
Snuggle Up with These Great Books Event
Give thanks for books and authors all month long at N. N. Light’s Book Heaven Snuggle Up with These Books Event. 17 books, 15 bestselling, award-winning and top-rated authors, a huge giveaway plus authors share what they’re thankful for this year. I even share my grateful thoughts. Join in the fun!
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One lucky reader will win a $75 Amazon Card
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You must have an active Amazon US or Amazon Canada account to be eligible. Open internationally.
Runs November 1 – 30
Books from:
1- N. Jade Gray
2- A.L. Butcher
3- Anastasia Abboud
4- Konn Lavery
7- Z. Altug
8- N. Jade Gray
9- John Russo
10- Laura M. Baird
11- Konn Lavery
14- D.V. Stone
15- Katie O’Sullivan
16- Beth Henderson
17- Judy Lynn Ichkhanian
18- Jan Sikes
21- Wendy Kendall
22- Kim Janine Ligon
23- Malia Arries
October 30, 2022
Halloween Themed Books – Bundle – #Zombies
Here Be Zombies
https://books2read.com/HereBeZombies-Bundle
Brainsssss! The dead are walking, hungry and brains taste so good…
12 Tales of zombies and zombie hunters.
1. “Alice’s Adventures in Underland” by DeAnna Knippling
2. “I Hate Zombies” by Shantnu Tiwari
3. “Zomopolis” by Russ Crossley
4. “Zombie Ever After” by Carl S. Plumer
5. “Zombee A Go-Go” by Rebecca M. Senese
6. “Zombie Girl Invasion” by De Kenyon
7. “Life Among the Dead” by Rebecca M. Senese
8. “Usher Falling” by Sandra Seymour
9. “My Zombie Prince” by Russ Crossley
10. “A Chat Before Dinner” by Michael Kingswood
11. “The Island” by Will Overby
12. “Dragon Rising” by Russ Crossley
https://books.apple.com/gb/book/here-be-zombies/id1533584872?
Amazon.com https://amzn.to/36fTOxx
Amazon UK https://amzn.to/3mWwScN
https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/here-be-zombies?
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/here-be-zombies-a-l-butcher/1137764224
October 29, 2022
Halloween Themed Books #Horror #Crime – Blood and Shadows Bundle
Blood and Shadows bundle
#Horror #Crime #DarkFantasy
Volume 1 of the Shiver Series
In the shadows lurk the monsters, the killers and the supernatural. Some kill, some stalk, some haunt. All bring shivers and thrills.
A dark collection of horror, murder and blood. You have been warned!
https://books2read.com/BloodandShadowsbundle
https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/id1451567878
https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/blood-and-shadows-5
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/books/1130514477
Featuring
The Watcher by A. L. Butcher
Unfair Play by Harambee K. Grey-Sun
The Greatest Serial Killer in the Universe by Robert Jeschonek
A Reluctance of Blood by Rebecca M. Senese
Beholder by Harambee K. Grey-Sun
Echoes of a Song by A. L. Butcher
Two Fisted Nasty by Steve Vernon
Backtracker by Jason Koenig
Invasion of the Book Snatchers by Ryan M. Williams
Diary of a Maggot by Robert Jeschonek
Revenant by Steve Vernon
October 23, 2022
Halloween Themed Books – Blood Moon #Paranormal #Werewolves
Blood Moon Bundle #Paranormal #Shifters
When the sun has set, when the moon is full, the shapeshifters gather—wolves, cats and totemic creatures, nightmares and revelations.
Seeking answers, seeking revenge, seeking a cure to affliction, seeking blood, seeking answers or seeking love—a gathering of beasts abounds. Dare you walk beneath the moonlight?
https://books2read.com/BloodMoonBundle
https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/blood-moon-114
https://books.apple.com/us/book/id1480472420
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/blood-moon-rebecca-m-senese/1133631597
By Howl and Claw – Rebecca M Senese
Spirit Dancer – Douglas Smith
Big Bad Wolf- Annie Reed
Badlands – Michelle Lang
Family, Pack – Michael Jasper
Serpent’s Foe – J.M. Ney-Grimm
The Night Mischief Became a Real Cat – Annie Reed
Silver Light – Rita Schulz
Wolf Warlock – Meyari McFarland
Stolen By the Werewolf – AJ Tipton
Beware the Easter Moon -De Kenyon
Moon Spell – Rita Schulz
Swift Six Character Interview – Augustus Thorne #Horror #Halloween
Name: Augustus Thorne
Which book/world do you live in? I live within an alternate present-day world where The Cambion Journals are a part of your reality . . . albeit we’re hidden in plain sight
Tell us about yourself: (Name, race/species, etc.) My name is Augustus Thorne, and I am a Cambion. A human-demon hybrid plagued with a terrible craving to feed on the life-force of those around me. I was born during the November of 1760 to a wonderful human woman, Rosemary, whose patient guidance during my early years helped me to learn to resist the urge that would turn me into a fiend.
How do you see your world? As a foul light to be extinguished at the earliest opportunity.
What part do you play in this tale? I am the main protagonist. And you will follow the rollercoaster ride that is my everyday life as I hunt demons around the globe and deal with the fallout of my actions. Yet I couldn’t care less, I won’t rest until every last Succubus and Incubus is dead.
Do you consider yourself a good person/creature? Most certainly not. I’m a monster, cursed with a hunger I can barely control. Nobody in their right mind should come near me. But they do, to their cost.
Do you follow any religion? I worship on the altar of lives lost and dead scumbags. And I am unwavering in my devotions to sacrifice as many of the demondim as I can to the cause.
What is your favourite food? You and your most insidious, secret desires. The stronger the better.
Links to book etc
Amazon
Swift Six Set 3 – Character
Name: Augustus Thorne
Which book/world do you live in? I live within an alternate present-day world where The Cambion Journals are a part of your reality . . . albeit we’re hidden in plain sight
Tell us about yourself: (Name, race/species, etc.) My name is Augustus Thorne, and I am a Cambion. A human-demon hybrid plagued with a terrible craving to feed on the life-force of those around me. I was born during the November of 1760 to a wonderful human woman, Rosemary, whose patient guidance during my early years helped me to learn to resist the urge that would turn me into a fiend.
How do you see your world? As a foul light to be extinguished at the earliest opportunity.
What part do you play in this tale? I am the main protagonist. And you will follow the rollercoaster ride that is my everyday life as I hunt demons around the globe and deal with the fallout of my actions. Yet I couldn’t care less, I won’t rest until every last Succubus and Incubus is dead.
Do you consider yourself a good person/creature? Most certainly not. I’m a monster, cursed with a hunger I can barely control. Nobody in their right mind should come near me. But they do, to their cost.
Do you follow any religion? I worship on the altar of lives lost and dead scumbags. And I am unwavering in my devotions to sacrifice as many of the demondim as I can to the cause.
What is your favourite food? You and your most insidious, secret desires. The stronger the better.
Links to book etc
Amazon https://amzn.to/3RYfenj
October 22, 2022
Halloween Themed Books – Blood on the Cobbles Bundle #Horror #Crime
Blood on the Cobbles #Crime #Horror
From legends of murder, and undead killers walking, to missing girls, deadly diseases, suspense and gore aplenty; from sleuths and detectives, murder and vengeance enter into a world of crime, clues and mayhem.
12 authors weave tales both long and short of crime and suspense.
A collection of short stories and novels.
https://books2read.com/Bloodonthecobblesbundle
Featuring:
Courageous – Russ Crossley
Who Unkilled Johnny Murder? – Robert Jeschonek
What Leads A Man to Murder? – Joslyn Chase
Nice Man Jack – Baby Ice Dog Press
By Dawn’s Bloody Light – DeAnna Knippling
Expressway Thru the Skull – M.E. Purfield
Six Crime Stories – Robert Jeschonek
Double Edged – Jessie Kwak
The Disappearance of Wicked – Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Body Language – Harvey Stanbrough
Tales of Twisted Crime – Russ Crossley
Crime du Jour – Diane R. Thompson
Justice Served – Russ Crossley
The Economic Hitman – Eugene Lloyd MacRae
The Sound of Murder – Kari Kilmore
https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/blood-on-the-cobbles-1
https://books.apple.com/us/book/id1513274635
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October 20, 2022
Halloween Themed Books – The Ghost of Prince Akhmose #SupernaturalFiction
Title: The Ghost of Prince Akhmose
Author: Erika M Szabo
Genre: supernatural fiction
Main character description:
Layla Lockhart was born in Egypt and when her American father gets a great job offer, they move to the States. She becomes an Egyptologist who understands and speaks the ancient language. She’s renting an apartment with her best friend. When the ghost of a Prince invades their relatively boring life, things jump from boring to dangerous in no time.
Synopsis:
A powerful curse cast thousands of years ago by the Grand Vizier. Tanakhmet cursed Prince Akhmose to never enter the Field of Reeds, the heavenly paradise. Why did he want him to linger as a restless ghost among the living, forever?
By reading the hieroglyphs, Layla, a young Egyptologist, inadvertently breaks the curse and frees the ghosts of both Prince Akhmose and the Grand Vizier whose thirst for revenge is stronger than ever.
With Layla’s help, can Prince Akhmose finally cross into the afterlife? Or perhaps, because of the charms of the mortal woman, he doesn’t want to…
Brief Excerpt:
Layla Lockhart, a petite slender woman emerged from the bathroom bare feet slapping against the wooden floor. Her faded Hello Kitty pajamas swished softly as she walked towards the kitchen, eyes swollen from sleep. Her long hair swayed behind her, still messy from the restless night.
The smell of frying bacon filled the air and her stomach rumbled at the scent. The small TV was on in the living room. The cheerful voice of the channel six weather reporter announced, “Another beautiful, sunny morning, the temperature is a balmy sixty degrees.”
“How could anyone be so damn cheerful in the morning?” Layla mumbled walking into the kitchen, raking her fingers through her tangled, long, jet-black hair. “Ouch!” she exclaimed as her hand got caught in a snag.
“Top o’ the mornin’ to you, too!” her roommate called out and smiled at Layla with spatula in her hand.
“Sheesh, Mara! You don’t have to yell.” Layla rubbed the back of her neck as she made her way to the table. “What would I do without you?” her expression softened looking at the redhead woman as she sat down.
“You’d go hungry, a lot. That’s for sure!” Mara laughed as she filled Layla’s plate with fried eggs and crispy bacon. She winked before turning her eyes to her plate, her curly untamable mane moving as if it had a mind of its own. Unlike Layla, Mara was a morning person. As soon as her eyes opened and feet touched the floor, she was ready to go. “Eat up! You have a long, busy day ahead of you.”
Mornings were always rough for Layla, she needed some time to shake the grumpy, morning mood. Sighing, she plopped down onto the squeaky kitchen chair, “Yeah, another boring day at a boring job.”
Why should readers buy this book?
If you like action packed novellas with lively characters and a ghost from Egypt who’s hoping that a girl he meets is the reincarnation of his long lost love, this story is for you.
Link:
https://books2read.com/The-Ghost-of-Prince-Akhmose-by-Erika-M-Szabo
October 19, 2022
Halloween Themed Books – Bundle #Vampires
Nightly Bites Vol II
More short stories about vampires mingling in the pages of this anthology. Vampire Apocalypse vs. Last Vampire Survivor. Vampires with hemophobia or Asperger Syndrome. Vampires in the past and in the future, walking through the centuries because they can. Undead but immortal unless you manage to kill them. Merciless killers or merciful death givers – and even a little, shapeshifting vampire who doesn’t feed on blood.
Available on Amazon, Kobo, Barnes and Noble, I tunes
Universal Link https://books2read.com/b/bQBDB0
Paperback http://amzn.to/2FRNBI1
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/nightly-bites-volume-2-barbara-gtarn/1128179846
THE STORIES
The Blood is on the Wall by Felicia Fredlund
Bloody Aversion by Rebecca M. Senese
Chuck the Cross by Ezekiel James Boston
Jesslyn by Joleene Naylor
In the Shade of the Slowboat Man by Dean Wesley Smith
Legacy of the Hunted by Russ Crossley
The Raven by Barbara G.Tarn
She-devil of the Spanish Main by David Miller
So Many Nights, So Many Sins by A.L. Butcher
The Aswang Who Ate Stardust by Kate Pavelle
