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Conceiving Evil by Jenna Fox

Book Blitz:Conceiving Evil by Jenna FoxJan 5th - Jan 18th
Like everyone else after the economic crash, Abby Torrance was struggling financially. But then Dorian Lincoln, a political and business icon, sweeps her off her feet and into a life of promise. He’s a man who has enough power to change the world for the better, a man who can give hope to the masses, a man who can give Abby a baby.

But the road to Hell is paved with good intentions and Abby is having strange dreams that seem both a warning and a prophesy. How can she give the evil undertones of her dreams any notice when she’s busy focusing on conceiving?





Review

A short modern retelling of Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin that blends BDSM and horror. 3.5 stars. I like the style of this and if the author writes an original story, I'd love to read it.

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If you met the devil, he'd be into BDSM, right? Abby has sold her body to Dorian, a married philanthropist billionaire with a penchant for punishment. It's well written and I was enjoying it but the wrap-up was far too fast for me. Also, I recognised the plot straight away as that of Rosemary's Baby. The weird meds, the craving for raw meat, and the ex who goes nuts and kills herself are all from that book. I was hoping for a different ending or a twist.








Conceiving EvilCopyright © 2014 Jenna Fox
The breath left my lungs in a whoosh with the first smack of the flogger against my unblemished skin. My back arched, my head lifted when he slapped another across my buttocks. When I lifted my eyes to meet a smile holding no hint of emotion, I knew my dark pupils had swallowed the lighter brown of my irises. I took a moment to admire the handsome planes of his face, the arch of his brows over black eyes terrifying in their coldness. It was the look of a man who could beat me to death with the leather in his hand, but I trusted him to know my limits.I closed my eyes and slipped into a place where all I could do was feel. I revelled in the stinging, and clung to the burning of the tattoo pattern. Both sensations affirmed that I was his. Dorian’s ministrations pulled something out of my soul and replaced it with a craving for something deep and dark, something that only pain could fill. Corporal punishment filled me with a satisfaction greater than my need. I hushed the moans before they left my lips and pulled my thighs together to catch the seeping moisture. Dorian’s breathing grew harder, almost a pant as he stood too close, a restless prowler ready to give in. I clutched the carpet and gritted my teeth in silent disappointment when he dropped the flogger. His dark gaze strayed to mine as he rubbed the raised skin on my ass.I bowed my head. “Thank you, Dorian.”




Jenna Fox is a civilized hillbilly, mother, wife and multi published author of erotic romance residing in Eastern Tennessee. She enjoys reading and jotting down poetry in her spare time.  Besides juggling a busy family life, Fox reviews and critiques for other authors and crafts her own dark erotic tales. Stories always feature a mysterious alpha male with unexpected twists to shock the reader. She believes in HFN and HEA endings, although not always in a romantic or conventional way. 
Her work is born from real life experiences, an overactive imagination and a consuming caffeine addiction.  Sometimes she finds herself writing sex scenes on fast food napkins and store receipts while waiting in traffic, but she’s always guilty of keeping her mind in the gutter.  Fox is a listener of hard rock music and a watcher of classic slasher films. In short, she’s a writer, a storyteller, able to make a boo-boo all better with just one kiss and a proud, world class expert at screwing up recipes and scaring away closet monsters.  She believes in ghosts and God and is absolutely convinced chocolate soothes the savage beast.
Can be found eating Cheetos at a gas station near you. 


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Review of Untamed by Brenda K. Davies

Untamedby Brenda K. Davies
The Vampire Awakenings Series #3
Publication Date: December 27, 2014
Genres: Paranormal, Romance


Synopsis:His entire life Ethan has been keeping his more violent urges a secret from his family. They all think he is just antisocial, what they don’t know is that every day he struggles not to give into his growing desire to kill. Looking to escape for just a little bit and hoping that a change of scenery will help him, he agrees to join Isabelle and Stefan in Bermuda.What he doesn’t expect is for Emma to walk into his life and change it in ways that he had never anticipated. Just when he finally begins to find some peace in his life, a dangerous threat from Emma’s past arrives. Ethan is willing to do anything to keep Emma safe, even if it means giving into the brutality that he’s spent his entire life fighting against. Giving in a little though, may mean giving in for forever, if he is unable to bring himself back from the darkness that has always enticed him. ***Due to mature content and language this book is recommended for readers 18+*** The first book in this series, Awakened, is free. Each book in this series is a stand alone novel.

My Review: 3 1/2 stars
Emma is the typical American college student faced with a good-looking vampire Ethan who offers her a choice; mortal life without him or immortal life with him as a soul mate.  There’s a bad ex in the mix too, so Emma’s faced with danger and having to make a quick choice.

When I started reading this, I thought I’d read it before. Then I realized it was part of a story arc belonging to Passionate Bites: Hot Tales of Vampire Romance which is listed as a book by this author under a different name.

There’s a lot going for this story: it’s nicely written, the characters are engaging and there’s a workable plot.  If I were 18 I think I’d love it.  As I’m not, it was a bit too full of teenage angst for me.  Parts of it really dragged and I found myself skipping a lot of kissing scenes.

All in all it’s a fun story, nicely crafted, and I’d recommend it as an afternoon’s read. I’d give it a 3.5 so I’ll round up.
Also In the Series... About the Author Brenda loves to write adult paranormal and historical romantic fiction. When not with family, or out with friends, she's happy at home in Mass. with her husband, and energetic puppy Loki. She is currently working on the third Vampire Awakenings book and has a historical romance coming out later this summer.


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Finding Eden by Karen Van der Zee

Title: Finding Eden
Author: Karen van der Zee
Genre: Contemporary RomanceSynopsis:Deceived by the people she loves, Eden escapes New York to the exotic island of Bali to recuperate from emotional trauma and to take possession of a dilapidated tourist hotel inherited from the father she never knew.Instead of finding peace and mental restoration, she finds Nick Sterling. Not only is Nick a sexy man who disturbs her hormonal chemistry, he is determined to buy the shabby hotel from her for reasons that make her very suspicious of his motives. Who is this man? Who was her father? And why are the evil Balinese spirits invading her humble hostelry?Haunted by lies and deception, Eden struggles to find the truth, but how can she trust her own intuition and love Nick when nothing is as it should be?Excerpt:Something was wrong.
The report from the private investigator lay in front of him on the desk. Nick had read it several times now, knew the pertinent facts by heart, and yet once more he scrutinized the clean, crisp pages, hoping against hope something new would reveal itself to him. Something, somewhere, wasn’t right, if only he could see it.
Eden Passarelli was twenty-six years old, single, and lived in New York City, the report stated. She was the daughter, and only child of, Christina and Max Passarelli. Several years ago she had inherited substantial money from her maternal grandparents, and she worked with her mother in her fashion design business, a very successful venture by all accounts.
There was more, but he wasn’t particularly interested in the rest. Nick didn’t care how she spent her days and nights, what she looked like, and with whom she slept. He glanced at the enclosed photograph showing her leaving a restaurant with a man, her head slightly tilted upward, laughing. She seemed attractive, with long dark hair and dark eyes. Too scrawny for his taste, though. He preferred a more natural, healthy look. He was not charmed by women who lived on lettuce and carrots and viewed food as an enemy to keep at bay. He slipped the picture back into the folder.
Photocopies of her parents’ marriage license and Eden’s own birth certificate were enclosed. Nick studied those once again, checking the dates against some of his own, and sighed in frustration. It was all there, plain and simple. Everything seemed perfectly in order. Nothing unusual. The lawyers had been right.
There was nothing he could do.
Leaning back in his leather chair, he stared out of the floor-to-ceiling windows, which offered a magnificent view of a palm-fringed tropical beach and a wide expanse of sea and sky. Well, he was not a man to accept failure, or he wouldn’t be sitting in this office on the island of Bali. He’d still be back in the slums of Boston, or dead, or in jail.
Nick did not often think of his past. The present was better and infinitely more comfortable, even with a problem like Eden Passarelli in it.
The Passarelli file was still on his desk, taunting him with its mysteries.
He needed to apply his mind power and decide what to do about this woman. He added up the facts once more. Only one really mattered: Eden Passarelli owned the shabby little Tempat Bahagia, a budget hotel and bar, farther along the coast, all legal and above board.
It was all wrong. He could feel it in his gut.
Every problem carries inside it the key to its own solution—a piece of wisdom that had done him a lot of good over the years. His youth had been a malodorous swamp of misery and misfortune, and he had dragged himself out of it, propelled by an invincible determination not to end up like his parents. He surveyed the office, taking in the gleaming tropical hardwood floor, the priceless Balinese art work, the exquisite silk Chinese rug. He could not be farther away from the place where he had started in life, both geographically and financially.
Nick glanced back at the papers on his desk and frowned. Eden Passarelli was his problem. So she herself would have to give him the solution. He opened the file and read the rest of the information about her more carefully now.
Not surprisingly, he found that she kept company with New York’s beautiful people and led a jet-setting lifestyle. She traveled to Europe regularly and had spent last Christmas in the Caribbean, staying at a private island resort as the guest of a celebrity. Details were given about where she shopped, what restaurants she visited, what people she was seen with, what parties she attended. In the past year, however, she had not been seen in public nearly as much and for several months apparently had disappeared completely. Probably hiding in some rehab center, he thought cynically. The report painted a picture of glitz and glamour, nothing unusual for a woman with money, a woman involved in the fashion industry.
He found himself smiling at the paper.
The solution was, of course, very simple.
If this is meant to represent his actual thoughts, it should be in italics.
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About the Author:
I always wanted to write, ever since I was a child growing up in Holland. I was a dreamer, reading books and making up my own stories. I had notebooks full of stories which I illustrated with crayon drawings. My brothers burned the notebooks in the attic one day, fortunately not burning down the house. They don’t remember this now, but I do!
I also always wanted to travel. Holland is very flat and I wanted to see mountains and coconut palms and tropical beaches and deserts. I wanted to meet interesting people and learn about different cultures and see how people lived their daily lives. And then I wanted to write adventurous stories set in these exotic places
I got lucky and fell in love with a globetrotting American. I met him in Amsterdam, he asked me to marry him in Rome, and we tied the knot in a ten-minute ceremony in Kenya, East Africa, where he was a Peace Corps Volunteer. Some wedding that was! Not the stuff of romantic dreams, but really good for a laugh.
After Kenya we lived in the States for a while, then four years in Ghana, West Africa where not only our first daughter was born, but my first Mills & Boon romance as well. It took me a year to write, which is three months longer than it takes to have a baby. It was set in Ghana, and I called it SWEET NOT ALWAYS, a slogan found on a big colorfully decorated truck that transported people, goods, and live chickens.
I continued writing romances and loved the creativity of it, although it was, and is, never easy. Later we also lived in Indonesia, Ramallah (Palestine), then another three years in Ghana, and most recently six years in Armenia, which lies east of Turkey and north of Iran. Along the way we acquired a couple more kids, so now we have three.
I’ve written over thirty books now, many set in exotic locations such as Bali, Thailand, Malaysia, Java, Kenya and Ghana, as well as Holland and the US. Writing as Mona van Wieren, I received a RITA for a Silhouette Romance entitled RHAPSODY IN BLOOM.
I love the challenge of living in a foreign country where the food is different, the people interesting and life gives me endless inspiration for my writing. So, I’ll just keep going for a while.

Connect with the Author:Goodreads - https://www.goodreads.com/MissFootlooseFacebook - http://on.fb.me/1qKoBCrTwitter - @KarenvanderZee1Email - vanderzee.karen@gmail.comWebsite - http://www.karenvanderzee.com/

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Love Garage & Coach Love Release Day Blitz

The Love Brothers SeriesBy - Liz CroweRelease Date - January 5, 2015 (Love Garage & Coach Love)Hosted By - DRC PromotionsLove Garage, Book One

Antony Love is the quintessential responsible oldest brother of a boisterous, Italian/Irish family, placed in charge at a young age by his parents who are busy running the family business. He manages his siblings with a fair but iron hand, until his life is shattered by personal tragedy leaving him the shell of the man he once was.

When outspoken matriarch Lindsay Halloran Love becomes ill, the youngest brother Aiden shows up at Antony's garage, having dropped out of school (again), needing work and a place to crash. Antony provides both, with three caveats: "Don't smoke in my truck, don't be late for work, and don't mess with my girlfriend."

But Aiden Love, budding novelist, gets one glimpse of Rosalee Norris, young widow of Antony's lifelong best friend and all bets are off.

Set in horse country near Lexington, Kentucky, The Love Brothers Series is a saga of family devotion that runs as wide and deep as the Ohio River--except on Sundays when brothers Antony, Kieran, Dominic and Aiden work out their frustrations on the basketball court, Love brother style. Buy Love Garage

Coach Love, Book Two
The smoldering intensity of first love ~ the forbidden fantasy of temptation ~ the cold hard facts of real life.When one man’s hopes are dashed apart in a split second after years spent chasing a dream, he returns home to Kentucky furious at the world and everyone around him.Kieran Francesco is the middle son of the volatile, tight-knit Halloran-Love family. His role as peacemaker and the one true athlete is well established. He now faces life devoid of the sport he adores after a horrific, career-ending accident, which places him in a new and entirely uncomfortable position—that of the brother with no future.Over the course of a few tumultuous months Kieran is plunged back into life at the center of the Love family, where he must cope with one self-destructive brother, one ill-timed reconnection to an old flame and a series of bad choices that land him in more trouble than he’d ever known existed.COACH LOVE, book 2 of The Love Brothers, a family saga of sibling loyalty that runs as deep and wide as the Ohio River—at least until Sunday, when Antony, Kieran, Dominic and Aiden work out their frustrations at the weekly Love brother pick-up basketball game.
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About The AuthorAmazon best-selling author, beer blogger, brewery marketing expert, mom of three, and soccer fan, Liz Crowe is a Kentucky native and graduate of the University of Louisville currently living in Ann Arbor. She has decades of experience in sales and fund raising, plus an eight-year stint as a three-continent, ex-pat trailing spouse.

Her early forays into the publishing world led to a groundbreaking fiction subgenre, “Romance for Real Life,” which has gained thousands of fans and followers interested less in the “HEA” and more in the “WHA” (“What Happens After?”). More recently she is garnering even more fans across genres with her latest novels, which are more character-driven fiction, while remaining very much “real life.”

With stories set in the not-so-common worlds of breweries, on the soccer pitch, in successful real estate offices and at times in exotic locales like Istanbul, Turkey, her books are unique and told with a fresh voice. The Liz Crowe backlist has something for any reader seeking complex storylines with humor and complete casts of characters that will delight, frustrate and linger in the imagination long after the book is finished.

Don’t ever ask her for anything “like a Budweiser” or risk bodily injury.Connect With LizWebsiteBeer, Books & More BlogFacebook Fan PageFacebook Fan GroupTwitter FeedAmazon Author PageGoodreads PageBeer BlogSign Up for Liz Newz

Christmas Gift - The Gift: An Erotic Romance in Kiev

The Gift: An Erotic Romance in Kiev
When Tony rescues three of Kiev's most notorious mafiosi, he is showered with gifts, including Max, a Goth beauty with purple hair. At first determined to send her home, Tony quickly discovers they share a passion for clubbing and Scotch as well as a mutual horror of relationships. Is this a match made in heaven, or destined for disaster?

The Gift is a lighthearted romance of two cold hearts who find love. 

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Christmas Gift - The Degas Girl by AJ Adams

The Degas Girl
By AJ AdamsPublished 16 May 2014
Price US$3.99
#1 Paid Amazon Kindle US and UK Organised Crime category July and August 2014
He wore jeans and a turquoise T-shirt. The colour made his eyes look blue instead of green. I wasn’t fooled by his looks and his gentle ways. This man had a will of iron, and by the way he looked at me, I could see he was just as determined to control me as Angelo. He just used his tongue instead of his fists.

I’d go along with it, because anything that kept me out of the hole meant I had a chance to escape. I’d pretend to be docile, and as soon as he fell asleep or took his eye off me, I’d make a run for it.

He looked me over, frowning slightly. Suddenly I wondered if he was changing his mind. Maybe he wasn’t going to let me eat. Maybe it was a game. Maybe he’d show me the food, and then tie me up and leave me to starve while he stuffed his face. I was trembling at the thought. 

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Serenity Bishop is a work of art. Her skin a canvas, decorated with the scars of her evil captor’s twisted abuse. But her tormentor, Angelo, is about to lose control.

Zachary Schiavelli is an art thief and forger. His handsome face is merely the mask that hides a cold, calculating man whose own childhood of abuse has honed him into a remorseless killing machine.

Zachary is about to take an intense disliking to Angelo.

Sometimes you need to fight fire with fire.

In a violent tale of mob rule where violence begets violence, an unlikely alliance between two forces of nature is about to change the face of organized crime. When Serenity and Zachary collide, it’s an unstoppable force meeting an immovable object, and everyone around them is about to get caught in the crossfire.

A complete novel with no cliffhangers.

A violent tale of mob rule and dark romance. Warning contains explicit scenes of dubious consent, graphic violence and sex. Adults only.

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Christmas Gift - Last Shot at Justice by Kristi Cramer

One Tough DetectiveOne Sexy Cowboy
One Hell of a Day in Denver
Detective Mitzi Reardon doesn’t know what she did to anger her boss, but he is gunning for her. Literally. Now a prostitute is dead, and she is the prime suspect with the law hot on her heels. With nowhere to run and no one to trust, Mitzi’s only hope lies in the hands of a sexy stranger.
Blue Thomas is new in town. Denver’s bright lights and big city bustle are 250 miles and a world away from his family’s cattle ranch in Kansas, and he is out of his element. He came to find work and save the ranch from foreclosure, but on a rainy night a desperate woman finds him. Back home, he would never let anyone—never mind a beautiful woman—face danger alone. Without fully understanding what he is in for Blue pledges his help, whether she wants it or not.
As a trap closes around them, Mitzi must abandon her usual strategy of careful planning and controlled environment, instead relying on quick thinking and a bold head on approach that may just get her—and Blue—killed. Before the last bullet flies, Blue will find out just how far he is willing to go to live up to his old-school ideals.
Last Shot at Justice is Book 1 of The Boys of Syracuse, Kansas , a series of standalone novels featuring characters connected to the town of Syracuse, Kansas.
Ending: This book has <spoiler>a HEA</spoiler>.
Cliffhanger: <spoiler>No</spoiler>.
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Christmas Gift - Christina Harding's Underneath the Gargoyle

Be naughty this holiday season....

... and save Santa the trip!
Enjoy the holidays with a free gift from Christina Harding!!!

As a holiday special, download a FREE copy of Christina Harding's Underneath the Gargoyle on Smashwords! Use coupon code MK29Q at checkout. Be sure to act quickly - the coupon will expire on December 24! If you download a free copy and you enjoy what you read, please consider leaving a review with your favorite retailer.
Synopsis: Trisha is a Catholic choir member and believes nobody knows the extent of her promiscuity. Little does she know the gargoyles are watching her.
Advance Praise:  "Great first story! Paranormal/monsters aren't usually my thing but really glad I gave this one a try. I'd be lying if I said it didn't turn me on; it did, a lot. Hopefully the start of a great series of novelettes." ~5★ review by Adrian Ward on Smashwords
"...the main appeal here isn’t necessarily the plot but rather the writing. Christina Harding does a great job of letting us into the mind of the protagonist.... Harding’s masterful way with words helps paint extremely vivid pictures in the reader’s head. As soon as you finish, I bet you’ll find yourself ready for more. The fact that this is first story just makes it all the more impressive. Even if (like me) you’re not normally into paranormal erotica, I highly recommend this story." ~5★ review by Chacebook
"This was fun to read -- clever and sexy and laugh-out-loud funny." ~Editor of Underneath the Gargoyle
"A very sexy read! You won't want to miss this: father/son fantasies, supernatural creatures, and just about every kind of erotic situation you can imagine. Highly recommended!" ~5★ review by Fionna Guillaume on Smashwords
"Trisha is a naughty girl, having far more fun at church than any person should." ~5★ review by Reed James
"Christina has created a book of Erotica that will delight the lover of the genre. She writes with a style and panache that other writers of the genre will envy. Christina Harding is a bold, provocative, creative writer; absolutely and most definitely, more, more, more from her...please." ~5★ review by Billierosie on Amazon
"Underneath the Gargoyle has a solid story line and structure, with a happy ending… for the gargoyles. This was an enjoyable read that flows like a confession that goes beyond the bounds of traditional encounters." ~5★ review by Franklin Deverell on Amazon
"I thought it was steamy in the graveyard, but move past that and find her confessing of her "sins" to her boyfriend's father...Holy Smoke!! That doesn't even scrape the surface, with the rest of the story. I really enjoyed it! It was short, but there was so much that added depth to the characters and the plot. I highly recommend this one and will be reading many more from this author." ~5★ review by Booklover on Amazon
"Smoking hot erotic short! Perfect for those who love paranormal erotica as well as those who prefer the taboo. Loved it and look forward to reading more by this author about what happens under the catacombs." ~5★ review by Bella Swann Erotica on Amazon
"If you have a fetish for naughty Catholic schoolgirls (and if not, what's the matter with you?) this one definitely belongs on your to-read list.... This is a story that ends much too soon, and is indeed crying out for a sequel. Christina, if you're paying any attention to the reviews on this thing, you need to get on it now."  ~5★ review by Michael Dalton on Amazon
Stay Tuned - the sequel is coming in January!!

Christmas Gift - A Curvy Coldwater Christmas (BBW Romance - Coldwater Springs 5) by Jenn Roseton

A message from Jenn Roseton!

I have a little Christmas gift for all my readers!  A Curvy Coldwater Christmas (BBW Romance - Coldwater Springs 5) is the latest romance in the Coldwater Springs series and is free for everyone, no matter where you live! 

 What's it about? 

 When Kate is asked by her friend, Sarah McCord, to appear as Mrs. Claus in the Coldwater Springs Christmas parade, she doesn’t know what to think! After all, she’s only twenty-nine. And although she has a very curvy figure, she’s not matronly and gray-haired - yet. But when she finds out that the hunky guy she’s admired for the last few months, Flynn Winters, will play opposite her as Santa, she’s glad she agreed to take part.  Especially when the script calls for them to kiss... 

 This is a sexy contemporary romance novelette of approximately 6,800 words. Although it’s part of the Coldwater Springs series, it can be read as a stand-alone. 

 If you live in the USA or the UK you can get it from Amazon: USA: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00NQ9O64SUK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00NQ9O64S 

 If you don't live in those countries you can get it free from Smashwords in Mobi (Kindle), EPub or PDF format here: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/476817 Hope you enjoy reading it!