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Keeper of Dragons (New Release!)

Keeper of Dragons New ReleaseReview

How would you react if you found out you were a dragon? 

Not just any dragon-the one who was fated to save all that was deemed true. 


On his 18th birthday, Cole’s once humdrum life spirals into an uncontrollable battle for life or death. First, he learns that his family isn't really his own and his birth parents are actually dragons. With that legacy comes a special calling; devoting an eternity to protecting all true beings from creatures bent on controlling the Earth and bringing an end to dragons. 


As the newly-minted Prince of Ochana, Cole is also the Keeper of Dragons and his first task is to keep the nefarious farro-fallen fairies-at bay. With no formal training, no control of his mahier-dragon magic, and fear like he’s never experienced before, will Cole be able to reach outside of his human side and embrace his destiny in time to defeat the farros? 

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Write Like a Wizard Review: The Keeper of Dragons is the perfect adventure fantasy for anyone with a big imagination. A boy gets swept into a world of magic, danger, and wonder in this debut novel by a fantastic storyteller. From the first page to the last, the reader will be captivated. The action is quick and paced well throughout the book. Dragons, fairies, and evil! This book will appeal to young adults and new adults alike. Highly recommended.
J.A. Culican is a teacher by day and a writer by night. She lives in New Jersey with her husband of eleven years and their four young children. She spend her evenings at home, with her family watching Harry Potter and Star Wars. When not home you can find her at the soccer or field hockey fields, rooting her children on.
J.A. Culican’s inspiration to start writing came from her children and their love for all things magical. Bedtime stories turned to reality after her oldest daughter begged her for the book from which her stories of dragons came from. In turn, the series The Keeper of Dragons was born.

Connect with J.A. Culican!
Email: jaculican@gmail.com
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An Unhuman Journey (Blog Tour Review)

An Unhuman Journey (Blog Tour Review)
Today we feature author, Candace Blevins and her new release, An Unhuman Journey. I enjoyed this novel and I'm thrilled to share my thoughts. Please, feel free to say hello in the comments and let us know what you think of the synopsis, cover, and teaser!
[image error] There's a war brewing between good and evil, and the chess pieces are being set...
Aaron has gone missing, and Mordecai has taken over Kirsten's training. She's learning by leaps and bounds under the god-of-old's not-so-gentle tutelage, but with Nathan in charge of Drake Security during The Dragon King's unplanned absence, everything is upside down.

The evil Celrau vampires were banned from creating new offspring, but they've bargained for permission to do so in the Underworld, where the Concilio has no authority. As part of their army-building, the Celrau vampires kidnap Kirsten and take her to the Underworld with the intention of making her one of them. Alone in another realm, Kirsten must form unexpected alliances to survive a most  Unhuman Journey .

Join bestselling author Candace Blevins on a thrilling adventure into the critically acclaimed sequel to  Only Human .

EXCERPT:

“I have a proposition for you.”I once again held my tongue and didn’t remind him there’d be no sex. “I’m listening.”“I’d like to have full access to you from an as-yet-to-be-specified Thursday evening until Monday morning, for which I will pay you ten thousand dollars.”
I opened my mouth to turn him down, but he held a hand up. “No safeword. No limits. I’ll do whatever I want, however I want, with the understanding you’ll be rested, healed, and back to normal by seven o’clock Monday morning.”
AVAILABLE ON AMAZON [image error] REVIEW:An Unhuman Journey is a fantastic adventure novel that intrigued me from the very first line. I mean, who enjoys being whipped? Such a concept made me settle into my chair and prepare for many hours of incredibly well-written characters, dialogue, and plot. The main character, Kirsten is awesome. She is strong, and yet very relatable. Her paranormal journey in this story is quick-paced and suspenseful. Not only is there a multitude of action, but there is a delicious amount of passionate scenes that are not for the faint of heart. I believe that anyone that enjoys a perfect blend of fantasy, romance, and action will adore Kirsten and her unhuman journey.5 Stars

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Candace Blevins lives with her husband of 18 years and their two daughters. When not working or driving kids all over the place she can be found reading, writing, meditating, or swimming.Candace writes Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, Contemporary BDSM Romance, and a kick-ass Motorcycle Club series.Her urban fantasy series, Only Human, gives us a world where weredragons, werewolves, werelions, three different species of vampires, as well as a variety of other mythological beings exist.Candace's two paranormal romance series, The Chattanooga Supernaturals and The Rolling Thunder Motorcycle Club, are both sister series to the Only Human series, and give some secondary characters their happily ever after.Her Safeword Series gives us characters who happen to have some extreme kinks. Relationships can be difficult enough without throwing power exchange into the mix, and her books show characters who care enough about each other to fight to make the relationship work. Each book in the Safeword series highlights a couple with a different take on the lifestyle. You can visit Candace on the web at candaceblevins.com and feel free to friend her on Facebook at facebook.com/candacesblevins and Goodreads at goodreads.com/CandaceBlevins. You can also join facebook.com/groups/CandacesKinksters to get sneak peeks into what she's writing now, images that inspire her, and the occasional juicy blurb.  Stay up to date on Candace’s newest releases, and get exclusive excerpts by joining her mailing list!
Only Human series (Urban Fantasy)Only Human
An Unhuman Journey (June 2016)
Unhuman Acts (late 2016)
 Chattanooga Supernaturals (Paranormal Romance)
The Dragon King
Riding the Storm
Acceptable Risk

Rolling Thunder Motorcycle Club ( link )
Duke
Brain
Bash Volume I
Bash Volume II
Bash Volume III
Horse
Gonzo
Nix (Novella, Summer 2016)
Ghost
Bud
Dawg

Dark erotica shorts from the world of The Chattanooga Supernaturals
Pride
Indentured Freedom: Owned by the Vampire

Safeword series (Contemporary BDSM Romance)
Safeword: Rainbow
Safeword: Matte
Safeword: Davenport
Safewords: Davenport and Chiffon
Safeword: Quinacridone
Safeword: Matte – In Training
No Safeword: Matte – The Honeymoon
No Safeword: Matte – Happily Ever After
Safeword: Arabesque



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An Interview with Author, Sydney Aaliyah Michelle

An Interview with Author, Sydney Aaliyah Michelle Today we welcome a fantastic contemporary romance author, Sydney Aaliyah Michelle. Let's pick her brain and learn about her inspiration, writing advice, and more!
Who is Sydney Aaliyah Michelle? I am a Sports Romance writer, voracious reader, tattoo lover, and movie fanatic who hails from Texas. After surviving 5 1/2 years living in China, I found the courage to finally pursue my passion and become a writer.
What is the best thing about being a writer? The best thing about being a writer is hearing from someone who has read and loved my book. I love the when a reader tells me one of my books or characters touched them. With Anxious Love, I already had a woman tell me how she was a victim of sexual assault and my main character Leah was the first character she could relate too. My favorite reviews are the ones that evoke emotions, good or bad, in my readers. I would write even if no one bought my books, but I am so grateful that people do.
How do you start writing your book?  Outlines or just let it flow?I am a plotter. I write character sketches, setting sketches. I create a scene list and try an assign a motive for each scene before I start writing. Once all that is done, I sit down and write. I try and stay as flexible as my brain will allow during the first drafts, so I give myself permission to create scenes or characters as I write if the need arises, but the planning is so important for me to get the words on the page.
Compared to when you first started writing, have you noticed any big changes in your writing style or how you write compared from then to now? I am more knowledge all around. I write better now and I know the elements that are needed to make a good story. Before I just wrote, but I am a little more systematic about it. I am also more comfortable writing certain scenes that used to make me uncomfortable such a sex scenes and creating a setting for my novels that the readers can picture.
What are some of your favorite pastimes? Do you have any hobbies or collections? I love tattoos. I have 7 body parts tattooed. I love to travel. I’ve been blessed to visit over 30 countries. I love food. I have a restaurant/chef bucket list on my blog.My goal is to visit the restaurants of all the Top Chef winners. I’ve visited 8What has been your biggest adventure to date?My biggest adventure was living in China for over 5 ½ years. I lived in Shenzhen and Shanghai running a golf academy.  After running a business in a foreign country, I feel like I can accomplish anything. It was definitely the hardest things I have ever done, but the challenge made me confident in pursuing my dreams and becoming a writer. 
What book/author inspired you to start writing?  My favorite author is Stephen King, but every book I read continues to inspire me to write.  I just read The Great Gatsby for the first time and absolutely loved the way Fitzgerald describes the setting.  Even normal every day scenes sound exciting the way he writes them. That’s my inspiration at the moment. 
What's your favorite book/writing related quote?  “The actual act of writing turns out to be the best part.” by Anne Lamott It reminds me that even though there is so much that goes into being a published writer, as long as writing remains the best part, all the rest is worth it. 
Tell us about your book:
Anxious Love is book #1 in the Love Sick Series. It is a story about trauma, isolation, courage and love.
Blurb:  Hopeful about his future after overcoming loss, Ryan Ware is living his dream life as a first round draft pick. He’s enjoying every crazy minute of fame, fortune, and gorgeous women.
Despite being the most sought-after writer in romance, severe anxiety keeps Leah Jones isolated. Having a regimented life keeps the triggers at bay that could put her back in the hospital, perhaps permanently.
A chance meeting in New Orleans, Leah’s brown eyes capture Ryan’s heart, and he vows to learn more about this reclusive beauty.
Can Leah’s anxieties withstand Ryan’s crazy life? Can Ryan learn enough about real love to be the right man for Leah?
Connect with Sydney Aaliyah Michelle Online: Website - http://sydneyamichelle.comBlog - http://sydneyaaliyah.comFacebook Page - http://on.fb.me/1C235oRGoodreads Page - http://bit.ly/Rjx9WOAmazon Author Central - http://amzn.to/11OTDoRBookbub - https://www.bookbub.com/authors/sydne... - http://twitter.com/sydneyamichellePin... - https://www.pinterest.com/sydliyah/In... - https://instagram.com/sydneyamichelle... up for Sydney's News at http://madmimi.com/signups/205190/join
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Soul Discovery (New Release)

Soul Discovery (New Release)


Sophie Saterlee has made it her mission to get her life together. Leaving behind an abusive relationship, she's bartending her way through a psychology degree. Ultimate goal? A new, stronger sense of identity.When a terrifying recurring nightmare begins to poison Sophie’s waking hours and threaten all her progress, once again she’s close to losing everything.An invitation to a tea leaf reading party sounds like exactly the kind of distraction Sophie needs. But an innocent girls' night out turns into a journey through a complex and treacherous world of magic. To survive it, Sophie must forge uncomfortable alliances with arrogant Donovan and mysterious Caine. One of them is tied to her past, and the other fills her present. Both men might hold the key to her uncertain future.   There's more going on in her little corner of the world than Sophie realizes, and the truth will change everything.
EXCLUSIVE EXCERPT

Why am I here?
I turned around, searching through the rain for the exit to the street above. The soles of my feet were numb, submerged below rapidly rising water. I lifted a foot, but had to sink it back into the dark water, the crunch of gravel now only a slight pressure against my skin. The creek was flooding into the park, water rushing toward me. Debris from the trees wrapped around my ankles as the stink of the creek wafted into the stirring air. The rain and wind battered the blanket of liquid taking over the park, while an uncomfortable tingle grew up my calves. Cold took root within my body.
A shudder skittered along my spine and crawled under my skin as my panic intensified. This wasn’t just the wind or the rain, or even the cold. The hyper-vigilance of someone watching me had my eyes open wide despite the rain.
I spun around, looking for what had me in its sights. Seeing nothing through the pouring rain but trees in the darkness, the feeling grew into an urgency to escape.
This urgency should have got me moving. Instead I froze, unable to will my body to listen to my brain.
Whatever was in that darkness was close.
Too close.
At my back.
Can I run fast enough to get away? Not with the water now up to my knees. Should I run for the safety of the stairs or confront the thing? Every muscle quivered in fear of either choice. Like a frightened child, I snapped my eyes closed, wishing for a blanket to hide under.
S.J. Cairns is a Southern Canadian, born and raised in St. Catharines, Ontario, where she lives with her bug-killing, video game playing husband of 15 years, her spunky mother-in-law, and their three snorting pugs.During days off from true chaos working as a Women’s Advocate at a busy downtown women’s shelter, you can find S.J. in her writerly lair, dipped in all things creepy, plotting against her lifetime nemesis, those deadly evil-doers: balloons.S.J. hopes to one day add her own works of fiction to her overly crammed shelves as she focuses on a five-novel series called the “Soul Seer Chronicles.”
CONNECT WITH SJ CAIRNS
Web: https://sjcairns.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SamiJoCairns
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SJCairnsauthor
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The Dark Woods Series (Blog Tour & Giveaway)

The Dark Woods Series 
Blog Tour
Book 1/Part 1: Redd’s Descent
The dark fairy tales your mother never told you about. 

 Today, we feature one of my favorite authors, CM Albert and her dark retelling of Little Red Riding Hood. I have read this book. And LOVE IT! It's a little dark, but in such a delicious way!



Celtic folklore warns its people not to enter the Dark Woods at night if you want to live to see the light of day. For Redd Kearney, he has no choice after the death of his grandmother at the hands of the vicious, mythical half-breed creatures. But what he finds is way worse than any childhood legend ever could have warned him about.  Finding himself chained up in the creature’s den, he has two choices: surrender to her evil to stay alive, or die resisting. But the stakes are high when he has a new travel companion whose virtue he needs to keep intact, and when his wife Aine’s life is threatened if he doesn’t comply and give the Alpha what her pack needs to survive. 
Can Redd surrender to his dark side without losing himself in the process? Or will Mac’s dark, insatiable desires cause his full descent before he has time to escape? 
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Redd’s Descent is a dark retelling of Little Red Riding Hood, where roles are reversed and the big bad wolf literally means to eat her victim alive. 





“Come, Bane,” Redd said, watching as Bane tracked some animal scent that caught his interest. But Bane didn’t listen this time and trotted deeper into the woods, in the opposite direction from where they needed to go. Redd checked the position of the sun and knew he didn’t have time to spare for this today. His early morning romp with Aine had him cutting it too close for comfort for them to reach the protected clearing by dusk.
Bane peered back over his shoulder and looked at Redd, barking his deep wolfhound howl. He was on the scent of something big, and Redd knew it was futile to keep walking, hoping the dog would follow.
Redd trotted off after his dog, having to almost sprint to keep up with him. He didn’t like where Bane was headed; they were penetrating too deeply into the dark woods. There was a border that needed to be respected; it was an unspoken agreement between the day folk and the creatures that were legend to roam the woods at night. “Bane!” he hollered. “Come!”
The dog kept running, and all Redd could do was trail the flashes of gray and white as Bane quickly covered the forest floor. Just when Redd feared they might be lost, he spotted the dog barking at a tree. He could see ropes tied heavily around the thick trunk of the Sessile Oak. That’s odd, Redd thought. What would someone want with a tree way out here?


But when he turned the corner and saw Bane on his haunches, whimpering at the tree, he knew something wasn’t right. He sprinted toward his dog and gasped when he got to the other side of the massive trunk. Redd ran his hands in the sign of the cross over his body, whispering, “Mother Mary, protect me.”

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Author C.M. Albert enjoys living dangerously on the razor’s edge as both author and editor. In addition to being an Amazon bestselling author, she’s had the privilege of copy-editing under her Grammar Babe business for several international bestselling and award-winning authors. Her own writing infuses a healthy blend of humor and romance, and she’s a sucker for a good villain and everlasting love. In her spare time, she and her husband wrangle their two young kids and enjoy spending time outdoors. When not writing, editing, or kid wrangling, C.M. Albert is also a Reiki practitioner, chocolate chip cookie aficionado, kindness ambassador, and seeker of naps.You can find C.M. Albert online at:Facebook/Author Page: https://www.facebook.com/cmalbertwrites Facebook/Grammar Babe: https://www.facebook.com/thegrammarbabe Twitter: https://twitter.com/colleenmalbertGoodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/13341714-colleenPinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/GrammarBabeAmazon: http://amzn.to/23e2Nn0Faith in Love: http://Smarturl.it/RemKW_Faitha Rafflecopter giveaway


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****Spell Slinger Synopsis Reveal!****

****Spell Slinger Synopsis Reveal!****Yara Ortuso always knew she'd follow in her father's footsteps as a Spell Slinger. The Ortuso clan has kept order in the West District of Allarya since the beginning of time, but a greedy king wants all of the magic for himself.

After King Loric executes her father, Yara vows to end the reign of murder and tyranny. But when the skeleton key transports Yara and her companion—a crow shifter named Hero to the distant future, she must adapt to this new world. 

The future is an alluring and mysterious place, where a handsome bar owner yearns to warm Yara's cold heart—and King Loric still lives. 

What's a Spell Slinger to do when faced with a threat that could not only ruin her chance for love but send her to the Soul Haven for all eternity? More on KN Lee's Website

The Write Asylum with Kim Chance

Today we had the lovely vlogger/author, Kim Chance! Check out The Write Asylum as we chat about vlogging, writing, and how to balance it all.

NIGHT of the STORM (Cover Reveal & Giveaway)

NIGHT of the STORM (Cover Reveal & Giveaway)





LILAE ESCAPED SLAVERY. LIAM ESCAPED DEATH.

After their dreamscapes collided, the Flame and the Storm finally meet.
An instant connection sparks between them, but their fragile alliance is threatened by the brewing war on Ellowen as a fallen god puts the pieces into place for devastating attacks that will bring him to total supremacy.
In Kryil, Queen Aria must survive a deadly plague that threatens both her people and her place on the Orenian throne.
The Tryans and fairies who survive abandon their homes to seek refuge in other realms.
The Seer—too afraid to use her powers—becomes nothing more than a shell of herself as Bellens grinds her down through torturous experiments designed to destroy her. An eccentric and unlikely assassin is her only hope of rescue.
Lilae’s bright flame is dimmed by a relentless curse that threatens to bend her to the will of the Shadow Elf who held her captive and who will use every trick he has to destroy her trust in the man she needs by her side to save the world.

Lilae and Liam were born to be strong. But, even the power of their love may not be enough to save them.

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