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Throwback Thursday {DOWN N' DERBY}

Maddox is running. By accident, he discovered long ago that he was adopted as a baby and his need to find his biological father has consumed him ever since. Now, on a road trip, determined to find his father and his sanity, and armed with locations and his cousin, Nixon, to help him, maybe he can find the answers he’s been searching for. With nothing but a suitcase and a wad of cash to get him there, lead after lead takes him further from home.But he’ll find much more than he intended.He finds Storey, a pint sized pin-up model who has learned painful lessons about guys. Her wounds run deep, but so do his. She knows what she wants, but will she recognize it when it’s right in front of her?Maddox can’t touch anyone without feeling like his skin is crawling, but just maybe his instinct to protect this amazing girl will supersede his own hang-ups. If he can brush her skin and start to feel alive inside...everything will change.
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What others are saying about it....
"Talk about tugging on your heart strings! If this book had a pinky finger, I was so wrapped around it, I don't think I'll ever be cut loose."  A.M. Hargrove (Author)
"With each book, I fall more and more in love with these characters and the author who has created them!"  Candace @ Life Betweenthe Pages
"Felix has a way of pulling a reader into a story and making them feel a part of it. So much so you find you don’t want to leave it and face reality. You find you’d rather hang out with her characters than your own real life friends. Why is that?"Mandy @ I Read Indie

Throwback Thursday {How It Rolls}

Despite the odds, Reed Wolfe is making it, by the skin of her teeth. Her dreams and aspirations will have to wait until she can get on her feet. Because right now she’s homeless and churning on a downward spiral. 

Falcon Black is existing. Not living, not thriving, just jutting along a path. But when he finds Reed, he can’t resist the urge to help her, lighten her load. But Falcon tends to go overboard, over the line, crossing boundaries he never thought he would and risking her trust in the process. 

Can she accept his love or will it end up smothering her?



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What others are saying about HOW IT ROLLS....

You WILL FALL for Falcon, can't be avoided!!  ~Marcia (goodreads)
If you love romance, then How it Rolls is a sweet, clean, feel-good romance with a different and creative twist. I thoroughly enjoyed it and highly recommend it. ~Ellen @ Always YA at Heart
Lila Felix has a style of writing that ensures you feel everything the characters are feeling. Every drop of tears, every breath of laughter, every squeeze of a hug, every beat of a heart.  ~Turn the Page

Forced Autonomy / Last Teaser

The last Forced Autonomy Teaser.
Release Date: January 3



Still wrapped in my cocoon of reminiscence, I heard footsteps coming down the hall just as I’d finished the last words to the song. The other tenants were so quiet, I could hear a pin drop. I flipped the comb in my hand, wielding the sharpened end instead of the hygienic end and darted behind my shell of a refrigerator. The footsteps continued, the sounds indicating the carrier of feet grew closer and closer. A rattle on the door sent my heart into frantic palpitations followed by a complete seizure of beats. This was no toy soldier, they came in packs and never that late. The steps outside that night were heavier, somehow they felt more determined though to most they would be nearly noiseless. I sidestepped back into place behind the fridge as the owner of the footsteps entered. A male voice, scratchy and raspy, claimed he was with the government. I may have been sheltered as a child but I’d never acquired a taste for bullshit. And he reeked of it. Then he confessed, though I could tell by the pieced together, almost quilted clothes he wore, that he was no government agent. 

Burden Cover Reveal

In the depths of the Louisiana swamps, clans of bear shifters roam freely. Hawke Turnclaw, the Alpha over all of his kind, is drowning in the legacy left to him by the Alpha before him, his own father. When he goes on a rescue mission to save a rogue Black bear from the clutches of a Grizzly clan, he finds more than just a Black bear, he finds his mate.
Echo has always been told she's an anomaly, a fluke. She's the only bear of her kind and that makes her a hindrance to her clan. She's tried to run away, but they keep her tethered through guilt and a shock collar around her neck. 
And then someone shows up claiming he's her mate.Now belonging to a new clan, will she ever be able to understand that she's so much more than just a burden?
Goodreads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19452384-burden?from_search=true
Estimated Release Date: Jan 20, 2014

Throwback Thursday {LOVE AND SKATE}

On the rink she’s tough, she’s a leader, she’s fast and she’s the epitome of a rebellious girl. But Nellie’s been hurt, only once, but it was enough to make her look at life through different eyes and off the rink she’s a timid girl who loves with no pretenses.A long time ago Owen Black was betrayed by the girl he thought he loved and the guy he called his best friend. The anguish set off a domino effect of negativity in his life and he never has fully recovered. He meets Nellie Forrester and thinks he can let it go for her. But how can you love someone when the wounds from your past are still wide open?
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What others are saying about LOVE AND SKATE....
Lord, Love and Skate had me on a roller coaster of a ride. I was laughing one minute then crying the next.  Tee @ A Diary of a Book Addict
I literally couldn't put it down. I was wrapped up in this love affair of real people, who have real issues, and don't fit to the norms of society. Kathryn @ Tsk, Tsk What to Read
A sweet romance, just enough drama to keep things interesting, and a whole lotta swoon? What’s not to love!? Mike at Fabulous and Fun

Sparrows For Free Teaser

A Teaser from Sparrows For Free, a contemporary romance coming soon.


It was the weekend I met Mara—I knew when I laid eyes on her that my life would never be the same. Of course, my naïve, cocky, self thought that meant I was gonna get laid for the first time. I think most people, if they had one wish, would go back and tell themselves to do something different. They’d make sure they didn’t do anything stupid or future altering. I just wanted to go back to that post-game party and drag Mara away from the teenager me—tell her that if she valued her life, if she valued life at all—she’d run and never look back. I would shake her if I had to, take her by the hand and pull her into another room, a car, a cab—anything. I’d scream in her face, ‘He’s gonna ruin you. He’s gonna make your life hell. He’s gonna screw up any hopes and dreams you’ve ever had. Run, Mara, run.’

Teaser Tuesday

Here is a little tease from BURDEN. 
BURDEN will be releasing Jan 20, 2014.Cover and blurb coming soon.
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“Echo, we’re home. We just went through the gate.”
I dragged in a breath through my nose and instantly smelled the difference between where I’d been and where I was. Instead of snow and ice, I smelled sunshine and rich earth. I could feel the humidity in the air, the difference in atmosphere. Not to mention, there was no longer the rank muskiness always around me.
“I knew I didn’t stink.”
The cab broke out in laughter, “Who told you that you stink?”
“Horace, all the time. I swear, I spent more hours in the shower than in bed. But the grizzlies were the ones with the funk.”That brought out a whole new round a masculine chuckles. 
“You definitely don’t stink. And please, stop talking about being in the shower in front of others,” Hawke whispered in my ear, but from the snickers behind me, I knew they’d all heard.

Throwback Thursday {HOAX}

She's spent a long time in a bubble. In an odd turn of events, Corinne is taken out of boarding school and plunged into high school where bullies reign and nice guys come in last.
But this is after she's already fallen in love with Abel over the summer.
Abel is trapped, with friends he secretly hates, but has chosen to stay with the status quo. It's just high school, right?

What do you do when the person you love sees the very worst part of you? And how do you help them when they discover their life is a hoax?

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"The only complaint I have, is that I wasn't ready for it to end. I always look forward to another Lila Felix book!!" Heather Gunter, author of LOVE NOTES 
 "I tried to guess the ending, but Lila Felix somehow always finds a way to surprise me in the sequence, emotions, and eventually outcomes of her books. That’s what I really love about Felix’s books." Maggie from The Alternative Kyrptonite 

Teaser Tuesday

Dethroning Crown Cover Reveal...

Number ten is plastered on his team jersey and on his ego. In his own mind, Crown Sterling is the shit. He dates the prettiest women, he dominates on the soccer field, he pours money out of his pockets like it’s water. Until a debilitating knee injury puts him out of commission on and off the field. He’s sent to an isolated town in Louisiana to recoup, undergo physical therapy and heal. But it’s when you’re down that you find out who your real friends are, and what they value in you, if anything at all.
All Lyra wants out of life is peace and quiet. She grew up with a regular, everyday family. When she turned sixteen, rummaging through her grandmother’s hope chest in the attic, she discovered a secret that would turn her simple, normal life into a ball of chaos that revolved around her. But while she seems to face her fears head on in her career, she lives a life that’s secure and well hidden.
A new neighbor moved in next door and he’s decided that everyone needs to listen to his rap music, shattering Lyra’s quiet existence. Enraged, she stomps to the next townhouse over and who should open the door but a man whose good looks and charming smile knock her breathless.
How good looking? Just ask him.
How charming? He’ll tell you that too.
The king must be dethroned.
And a small town girl who’s been through hell is just the one to do it.

Release Date: unknown at this time
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