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September 16, 2013
Renewed by C.N. Watkins is LIVE!!!
Book Description:
Stefan has finally met his match.
As Jennifer consumes his life and takes away the control he desperately craves, Stefan must reevaluate everything he once thought he needed in his life.
When Jennifer finally learns the truth about Stefan her head continues to scream run. Kennedy, her crazy best friend, is convinced that Stefan is perfect for Jennifer, but Jennifer still has questions of her own. With a huge diamond ring sitting on her finger, she is forced to choose between listening to her head or listening to her heart.
Will Stefan and Jennifer make it to forever? Does happily every after really exist?
You never know what you have until it walks right out your front door…
Excerpt:
“You are the first woman I’ve ever made love to.”
His confession hit me hard.
“What do you mean?” I couldn’t believe we were discussing this in the middle of sex, but I wasn’t about to stop him from sharing something so intimate about himself.
He crawled up and laid next to me, turning me on my side so that we faced each other. He swept my hair behind my ears and calmed his breathing, “I have always been the Dom, Jen, that’s what I do best. I inflict pain and make women beg for me. All my past relationships, if you can even call them that, have been Dom and sub. I’d never given up my control for anyone, and I never planned to until you came along.
“You changed something inside of me. I’m not sure I’m ready to give up all my control, and I may never be ready, but you make me feel like it’s okay to make love. It’s okay to express how fucking in love with you I am. I want to be raw with you. I want our relationship to be happy and exciting. If I ever lost you, I would go crazy. Literally, bat shit crazy.”
We both chuckled.
“You are the light of my life. I know sometimes I may be unreasonable, but be patient with me. I promise I won’t let you down.”
Add Renewed to your TBR on Goodreads
More about C.N. Watkins:
CN Watkins is a self publisher of Awakened and Renewed. She lives in Oklahoma with her amazing husband, her beautiful daughter, two dogs, and a baby on the way. She enjoys spending time with her family, shopping, and spending time outside when she has the free time. She loves to write at night when the house is quiet so her ideas can flow freely.
Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6539909.C_N_Watkins
Facebook: www.facebook.com/CNWatkins
September 14, 2013
Wallbanger! A must read!
Synopsis:
Caroline Reynolds has a fantastic new apartment in San Francisco, a KitchenAid mixer, and no O (and we’re not talking Oprah here, folks). She has a flourishing design career, an office overlooking the bay, a killer zucchini bread recipe, and no O. She has Clive (the best cat ever), great friends, a great rack, and no O.
Adding insult to O-less, since her move, she has an oversexed neighbor with the loudest late-night wallbanging she’s ever heard. Each moan, spank, and–was that a meow?–punctuates the fact that not only is she losing sleep, she still has, yep, you guessed it, no O.
Enter Simon Parker. (No, really, Simon, please enter.) When the wallbanging threatens to literally bounce her out of bed, Caroline, clad in sexual frustration and a pink baby-doll nightie, confronts her heard-but-never-seen neighbor. Their late-night hallway encounter has, well, mixed results. Ahem. With walls this thin, the tension’s gonna be thick…
In her third novel, Alice Clayton returns to dish her trademark mix of silly and steamy. Banter, barbs, and strutting pussycats, plus the sexiest apple pie ever made, are dunked in a hot tub and set against the gorgeous San Francisco skyline in this hot and hilarious tale of exasperation at first sight.
Buy Wallbanger on Amazon and Barnes & Noble
Chelly’s Review
5 Stars
After 30 minutes of torture from Mr. Machine Gun F*cker, Caroline’s lost her “O”. She’s gone…she doesn’t exist anymore…even the likes of Matt Damon and George Clooney can’t bring her out of hiding! What’s a girl to do? The constant, “Thump. ‘Oh God.’ Thump thump. ‘That’s so good!’ Thump thump. “Oh God, Simon! Don’t stop!’,” she keeps hearing night after night through her bedroom wall of her new apartment certainly doesn’t help with the frustration. Finally fed up, and clad in a pink baby-doll nightie, Caroline decides to put an end to the torture. She stomps across hall to give Mr. Wallbanger a piece of her mind, but what she sees immediately becomes the new star in her fantasies…hellooooo Simon Wallbanger! Err um, Parker, Simon Parker. He is hotness reincarnate and described as the “Director of the International House of Os”, but such an asshole (Caroline tries to convince herself of this anyway). With all that banging going on, might he have what it takes to bring O out of hiding after six long months? Can they take their relationship from Cockblocker & Wallbanger status to friends, maybe more?
Caroline could quite possibly be my favorite female character ever – she is feisty and crass, and a major smart-ass to boot. I especially loved the internal banter between Caroline, Lower Caroline, Heart, Brain, Backbone, and Nerves. Simon is the super-sexy guy next door who comes across as cocky and arrogant, but is actually really deep and romantic, with a love for baked goods, and he “gives good woo.” Throw in Mimi and Sophia, the BFFs/mother hens, and Caroline’s protector, Clive the cat, and it makes for non-stop, hilarious good times. This is not a super emotional love story, there is no major plot line (besides a poor girl searching for her long lost O and maybe finding love in the process), but it is flat-out fun that you won’t want to put down.
I. LOVED this book! I have never had a book make me laugh out loud as much as Wallbanger did. This was my first experience with Alice Clayton, and I fell in love with her writing style and wit. If you’re looking for a fun, easy book to get lost in, try it…I promise you’ll love it! I will definitely be looking for more stories from this author!
More about Alice Clayton!
Website: http://aliceclayton.com/books/wallbanger/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AuthorAliceClayton
Twitter: https://twitter.com/alice_clayton
Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3379564.Alice_Clayton
September 13, 2013
A Post Vacationista Review!
Vacationista by Tara Simone
A broken heart. A ticket to paradise. A resort full of honeymooners …
the last thing newly single Patience De La Rosa needs if she’s to find a candidate for a casual rebound.
Her luggage catching a flight to Mauritius instead of Maui doesn’t help matters and a maxed out credit
card doesn’t buy a girl a fresh pair of panties. Then there’s the annoying weird guy, the one who’s married
to his laptop, sitting beside her at the pool.
Odds for a fling improve when three single, sexy and willing candidates cross her path. Though
Patience’s luggage may be M.I.A., her breakup baggage crossed the Pacific with her. Will Patience cast it
aside, throw caution to the tropical winds and indulge in island debauchery? Or will a tea leaf reader’s
prediction about her romantic excursions come true in unexpected ways?
Chelly’s Thoughts
5 Stars
Patience De La Rosa books a romantic trip to Maui for two for her boyfriend’s birthday, not knowing that when the time came, she would be single. Before she leaves, a tea leaf reader tells Patience that on her trip, she will meet 3 rebound guys, and with everyone telling her that is exactly what she needs to get over her ex, why not have some fun? The romantic trip for two turns into the trip from hell for a single girl at a resort full of honeymooners – her luggage never made it onto the plane with her, so she only has the clothes on her back, a teeny bikini, a maxed-out credit card, only $200 cash, and her Chanel Espadrille shoes, affectionately named Coco.
On her first day there she meets Huey, a nerdy, pasty-white Hollywood screenwriter, and he is dismissed pretty quickly as a rebound option. Then over the next few days the hilarity ensues – will the rebound guys include Quinn, the hot surfer/bartender with the Peter Pan complex? Ted, the pharmaceutical guy, who is an Italian God, but is so full of himself it’s ridiculous? Jamie Dillon, the movie star voted Sexiest Man Alive (who could also be a contender for Dumbest Man Alive)? Or maybe Stefan, the super boring, super brainy engineer who just wants to show Patience his “telescope”? They don’t have to be marriage material, she’s just looking for a rebound and maybe a free meal. All the while, Huey keeps popping up everywhere she turns…maybe he’s not a bad friend to have around – if nothing else he can keep her fed (which is proving difficult with a limited budget and outrageously priced food).
Vacationista is such a fun book, you will love following along with the adventures of Patience and Coco! It is the perfect beach read, but even in a blizzard it’ll warm you up on the inside. I had a smile on my face the entire time and read it in one sitting…I just couldn’t put it down! I loved Huey from the beginning, but I’ve always had a thing for quick-witted, nerdy guys, and the banter between Patience and Huey was non-stop entertainment. 1-Click it now, you won’t be disappointed!
“Vacationista is a sparkling romantic-comedy gem with one of the wittiest
heroines I have read in ages! Full of zingy one-liners, clever quips and
some of the best dialogue ever!” -NYT and USA Today Bestselling Author Lauren Blakely
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Excerpt from Vacationista by Tara Simone
The hotel phone rings and shakes me from my rage. Please let it be good news. Please let my luggage be here. I am so sick of wearing this peach tank top, what I wouldn’t do for a basic cotton tee. I cannot believe this shirt was ever my favorite. I answer the phone.
“Hello?”
“I need help,” a voice mumbles.
“Who is this?”
“The albino guy with the sunburn.”
“It’s six o’clock in the morning. How did you know I was awake?”
“I didn’t. I need help.”
Huey’s room is actually one of twelve cottages that sit on a small cliff beyond the pool area looking out over the ocean. I use the term cottage loosely. Each one looks to be twice the size of the cottage I shared with Dan in Encanto. Floor to ceiling walls of privacy glass provide an unobstructed view of the ocean. Under a faux thatched roof is a private lanai with hammocks and patio furniture straight from the pages of a design magazine. The door to his unit is unlocked just as he said it would be.
If the outside was impressive, the inside is jaw dropping amazing.
This is ridiculous.
The furniture is several notches above what was in Ted’s room. Really fluffy, deep cushioned cream colored sofas and chairs that I just want to jump onto and crawl up in.
“Huey?” I call out. “I’m here.”
His voice calls out from another area of the house. “I’m in the bathtub.”
Hmmm. Generally if a man calls me to the bathtub I know what to expect. But this is Huey, and even though he is calling me to the bathtub, I don’t expect him to have any ulterior motives. Because it’s Huey. He’s not manipulative. I walk past the living room and through the sliding pocket doors that lead to the bedroom. To my left, a door is half open. I approach it carefully and stand just outside it without looking in.
“What can I do to help?”
“Come in.”
“If you’re in the tub, I’d rather not.”
“Have you never seen a man naked? Or are you just afraid you’ll be so overwhelmed by my sex god physique that you will jump me.”
“The latter.”
“I thought so. That is why everything provocative is covered. You will be safe in my presence.”
I take him at his word and poke my head around the door. The tub is huge. HUGE. It’s one of those Jacuzzi tubs built for two. Huey is in it. His man parts are indeed covered from view by lots of bubbles and a tray that stretches across the width of the tub, on which sits his laptop. This is not surprising to me. What is surprising to me is that he is submerged in water and bubbles the color of dirt.
“Why is the water brown?”
“It’s tea.” He fishes around in the water and holds up three tea bags. “There are a hundred tea bags in here.”
“Why?”
“Because Google said so.”
“For the burn?”
“Yes.”
“Where’d you get the tea bags?”
“Room service.”
“So you called me because what? You need cream and sugar?”
“If I wasn’t in so much pain I’d laugh at your witty observation. But not right now.”
“Fair enough. How can I help?”
“I can’t type. My arms hurt too much to type any longer. And I have to get this done. I need you to type for me.”
“I’m not getting in the tub.”
“I wasn’t asking you to. Though now that you mentioned it, that could be interesting, the tub is built for two.”
“Is it? I hadn’t noticed.”
“Best you not get in, you won’t be able to keep your hands off me. You can sit there and type.” He points to an area of the bathroom out of my view. I step further inside the bathroom. There are two white chaises, just as fluffy as the sofa in the living room.
“There is a living room in your bathroom,” I say. “I can’t fit a towel rack in my bathroom. And you have chaises in your bathroom.”
“Technically, it’s not my bathroom. And if you help me I will buy you a towel rack that fits in your bathroom.”
“Okay, Huey, I’ll type for you under two conditions.”
“And they are?”
“One, I get to order breakfast.”
“For someone so thin, you do eat a lot. The room service menu is on the desk in the bedroom.”
“And two, I’m out of here at ten to sit by the pool.”
“Do you realize you continue to put yourself in grave danger?”
“Of what?”
“M-E-L-A-N-O-M-A”
“Wow. You can spell big words. Impressive.”
“I mean it. Why do you worship the sun? Don’t you know it’s bad for you?”
“I’m twenty-six. I am allowed a vice or two. You’re like thirty-two going on sixty. Would you relax a little?”
“I did relax. With you. In the pool. And look what happened.”
“Okay, if you’re trying to make me feel guilty −,”
“I am.”
“It’s working. I’m going to go order breakfast, want anything?”
“Orange juice.”
“Really or are you being facetious?”
“Orange juice and the buckwheat pancakes with chocolate chips and maple syrup, please.”
I don’t know why he makes me chuckle but he does. He’s so formal and offbeat at the same time. I’m fairly certain he would have been the kid in my high school who had been tormented by the cool crowd. If I had known him then, I probably would have dismissed him, just as I did the first day at the pool. But in his own odd way, he’s kind of cool and fun and funny.
“Hello,” I say into the room phone, “I’d like to place an order please.”
“Yes, Mrs. Anders, what can we get you?”
Why does everyone here think I’m married? Oh, right, because everyone here except me is part of a couple.
I hate this place.
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http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18134833-vacationista
September 12, 2013
Cover Reveal —-> Beautifully Awake by Riley Mackenzie
Synopsis:
Diagnosis: Sleep-running
Treatment: Truth
Prognosis: Beautifully Awake
Lili Porter hates the rain. Bad things happen in the rain. As a small town social worker dedicated to protecting children, she is forced to start over to escape her rural disaster. Determined to follow her father’s advice—head up and chin high—Lili finds herself in a new city, taking on a new system, this time healthcare. In doing so, she gets something she never expected, an intimate behind-the-scenes look at life in the hospital.
Lili learns that a surgeon’s hands have the power to heal more than physical wounds. And a prescription for truth can cure three years of sleep running and leave you beautifully awake.
Giveaway: 4-$25 Amazon Giftcards!
Excerpt:
“Baby, I want to sleep with you.” His voice softened. “This isn’t about sex. This is about sleeping … with you … in our bed, just sleeping, no talking. Just silence, me listening to your soft breaths. That’s truth.” And once again this man had completely disarmed me with words alone. “See you soon, baby.”
Silence filled my ear. I turned and dropped my phone on the bed.
“You’re not going to tell him, huh?” Sierra raised her eyebrows and frowned.
“I don’t know, but I’m definitely not ready tonight.”
“This thing with Dr. Hot-as-Balls is serious, isn’t it?”
I couldn’t help but nod. My gut told me she wasn’t wrong.
About the Authors:
Riley Mackenzie~Authors
Yep. That’s an “s.” There are two of us!
We’re East coast girls separated by Long Island Sound who met in Physician Assistant School and have been besties ever since. We can safely say that thirteen miles of water does not get in the way because we talk or text, no exaggeration, at least 150 times a day. No, really, we do—about everything and nothing. Shockingly, we never (we mean never) run out of things to say. Umm, ever. We definitely laugh A LOT and we’re a tad sarcastic. And if we’re being totally honest, one or two people might have, on occasion, used our names and ‘dramatic’ in the same sentence. But it’s hard to trust the sources since they married us.
It only took twelve years, two husbands, five kids, two dogs, and a two-week vacation in Cape Cod later to decide the romance world needed a splash of medicine. Write what you know.
So you can easily find us at 4 o’clock on Bank Street beach with a glass of cold Prosecco brainstorming. And guaranteed if we bump into you, literally, it’s only because our iPhones are glued to our hands (totally out of our control) either writing or editing our next novel (and yes, it is possible to do from your iPhone, we mastered it … damn those straight quotations).
When we are not working on our book or reading the latest angsty romance on our kindles, you basically name it and we have it going on. Soccer, lacrosse, golf, swimming, dance, gymnastics, football, chess, baseball, basketball, skiing, ice skating, school, homework, and more school.
Oh yeah, did we forget to mention our careers in medicine?
Needless to say, we realized fast that something had to go, so we opted for sleep. It’s completely overrated (yet so AMAZING) and delirium makes everything funnier. Good thing we share a brain and can pretty much complete each other’s sentences (definitely weird, we know), otherwise it might have taken us two years to write Beautifully Awake rather than one.
So that’s our story, who we are … just add AUTHORS to the list!
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September 10, 2013
Get away with Tara Simone’s Vacationsita!
Vacationista by Tara Simone
A broken heart. A ticket to paradise. A resort full of honeymooners …
the last thing newly single Patience De La Rosa needs if she’s to find a candidate for a casual rebound.
Her luggage catching a flight to Mauritius instead of Maui doesn’t help matters and a maxed out credit
card doesn’t buy a girl a fresh pair of panties. Then there’s the annoying weird guy, the one who’s married
to his laptop, sitting beside her at the pool.
Odds for a fling improve when three single, sexy and willing candidates cross her path. Though
Patience’s luggage may be M.I.A., her breakup baggage crossed the Pacific with her. Will Patience cast it
aside, throw caution to the tropical winds and indulge in island debauchery? Or will a tea leaf reader’s
prediction about her romantic excursions come true in unexpected ways?
“Vacationista is a sparkling romantic-comedy gem with one of the wittiest
heroines I have read in ages! Full of zingy one-liners, clever quips and
some of the best dialogue ever!” -NYT and USA Today Bestselling Author Lauren Blakely
Excerpt from Vacationista by Tara Simone
The hotel phone rings and shakes me from my rage. Please let it be good news. Please let my luggage be here. I am so sick of wearing this peach tank top, what I wouldn’t do for a basic cotton tee. I cannot believe this shirt was ever my favorite. I answer the phone.
“Hello?”
“I need help,” a voice mumbles.
“Who is this?”
“The albino guy with the sunburn.”
“It’s six o’clock in the morning. How did you know I was awake?”
“I didn’t. I need help.”
Huey’s room is actually one of twelve cottages that sit on a small cliff beyond the pool area looking out over the ocean. I use the term cottage loosely. Each one looks to be twice the size of the cottage I shared with Dan in Encanto. Floor to ceiling walls of privacy glass provide an unobstructed view of the ocean. Under a faux thatched roof is a private lanai with hammocks and patio furniture straight from the pages of a design magazine. The door to his unit is unlocked just as he said it would be.
If the outside was impressive, the inside is jaw dropping amazing.
This is ridiculous.
The furniture is several notches above what was in Ted’s room. Really fluffy, deep cushioned cream colored sofas and chairs that I just want to jump onto and crawl up in.
“Huey?” I call out. “I’m here.”
His voice calls out from another area of the house. “I’m in the bathtub.”
Hmmm. Generally if a man calls me to the bathtub I know what to expect. But this is Huey, and even though he is calling me to the bathtub, I don’t expect him to have any ulterior motives. Because it’s Huey. He’s not manipulative. I walk past the living room and through the sliding pocket doors that lead to the bedroom. To my left, a door is half open. I approach it carefully and stand just outside it without looking in.
“What can I do to help?”
“Come in.”
“If you’re in the tub, I’d rather not.”
“Have you never seen a man naked? Or are you just afraid you’ll be so overwhelmed by my sex god physique that you will jump me.”
“The latter.”
“I thought so. That is why everything provocative is covered. You will be safe in my presence.”
I take him at his word and poke my head around the door. The tub is huge. HUGE. It’s one of those Jacuzzi tubs built for two. Huey is in it. His man parts are indeed covered from view by lots of bubbles and a tray that stretches across the width of the tub, on which sits his laptop. This is not surprising to me. What is surprising to me is that he is submerged in water and bubbles the color of dirt.
“Why is the water brown?”
“It’s tea.” He fishes around in the water and holds up three tea bags. “There are a hundred tea bags in here.”
“Why?”
“Because Google said so.”
“For the burn?”
“Yes.”
“Where’d you get the tea bags?”
“Room service.”
“So you called me because what? You need cream and sugar?”
“If I wasn’t in so much pain I’d laugh at your witty observation. But not right now.”
“Fair enough. How can I help?”
“I can’t type. My arms hurt too much to type any longer. And I have to get this done. I need you to type for me.”
“I’m not getting in the tub.”
“I wasn’t asking you to. Though now that you mentioned it, that could be interesting, the tub is built for two.”
“Is it? I hadn’t noticed.”
“Best you not get in, you won’t be able to keep your hands off me. You can sit there and type.” He points to an area of the bathroom out of my view. I step further inside the bathroom. There are two white chaises, just as fluffy as the sofa in the living room.
“There is a living room in your bathroom,” I say. “I can’t fit a towel rack in my bathroom. And you have chaises in your bathroom.”
“Technically, it’s not my bathroom. And if you help me I will buy you a towel rack that fits in your bathroom.”
“Okay, Huey, I’ll type for you under two conditions.”
“And they are?”
“One, I get to order breakfast.”
“For someone so thin, you do eat a lot. The room service menu is on the desk in the bedroom.”
“And two, I’m out of here at ten to sit by the pool.”
“Do you realize you continue to put yourself in grave danger?”
“Of what?”
“M-E-L-A-N-O-M-A”
“Wow. You can spell big words. Impressive.”
“I mean it. Why do you worship the sun? Don’t you know it’s bad for you?”
“I’m twenty-six. I am allowed a vice or two. You’re like thirty-two going on sixty. Would you relax a little?”
“I did relax. With you. In the pool. And look what happened.”
“Okay, if you’re trying to make me feel guilty −,”
“I am.”
“It’s working. I’m going to go order breakfast, want anything?”
“Orange juice.”
“Really or are you being facetious?”
“Orange juice and the buckwheat pancakes with chocolate chips and maple syrup, please.”
I don’t know why he makes me chuckle but he does. He’s so formal and offbeat at the same time. I’m fairly certain he would have been the kid in my high school who had been tormented by the cool crowd. If I had known him then, I probably would have dismissed him, just as I did the first day at the pool. But in his own odd way, he’s kind of cool and fun and funny.
“Hello,” I say into the room phone, “I’d like to place an order please.”
“Yes, Mrs. Anders, what can we get you?”
Why does everyone here think I’m married? Oh, right, because everyone here except me is part of a couple.
I hate this place.
https://www.facebook.com/AuthorTaraSimone
https://twitter.com/TaraSimone1
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18134833-vacationista
September 9, 2013
Come and Get Me—–> Cover Reveal!
The final book in Jilllian Dodd’s Keatyn Chronicles Series…. Come and Get Me will release on August 31st, 2014!
Currently Book 1: Stalk Me is currently FREE on Amazon, Kobo, & iTunes! Get it now… because you’ll be hooked! Who’s team are you on? Aiden? Crush? Dawson? Brooklyn? Only time will tell who is Moon Boy!
September 8, 2013
Touch Me!
Synopsis:
Char is a focused and driven career woman who’s had a relationship she would rather choose to forget, but can’t. Riley is a pure gentleman who can easily leave the past where it belongs, behind him.
Some people believe in fate where others deem it a coincidence. Char and Riley are meant to be together, so life just happens to make sure they are in the right place at the right time.
But is that enough?
You’ll be falling in love with this dynamic duo as they find out who they are and why fate keeps making sure their lives are intertwined.
Their differences are what make them all too similar, and throughout the course of their journey there is one thing that always brings them back together…the need for each other’s touch.
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September 5, 2013
Cover Reveal —> No Turning Back (Full Circle #1) by Casey Peeler
No Turning Back (Full Circle #1)
By Casey Peeler
Release Date: September 30th, 2013
Cover Photo: Firelight Photography
Cover Design: Paperclutch
Cover Model: Cortlan Allen
Synopsis:
After getting involved with Dylan, the bad boy of the Dixon High Swim team, Charley decides to stay close to home for college. It’s just safer that way. Until she realizes it’s a mistake… just like dating Dylan. She decides to put the past behind her and leave the small hick town of Grassy Pond. There is only one problem; she makes this decision 3 weeks before Fall Semester starts.
Charley packs up her Honda and heads to Southern College. On the morning she’s about to leave, Cash walks back into her life. He has been her best friend since they were 4 and is the only one that knows the REAL Charley. She leaves her farm in Grassy Pond with all kinds of “what ifs?”
Charley decides to live her college career to the fullest. She finds a great group of friends, joins the swim team, and meets a guy named Joe. He’s got eyes that make ya wanna melt!
There is only one problem…Charley has been away from home for only 48 hours before she breaks the 2 promises she made to herself. Will she be able to overcome her past? Find new love? What will happen with Cash now that he is back in her life? Will she find what she is wanting in Jack-a-lope Joe? How will her First semester end?… Joe, Cash, or alone?
Excerpt:
As we make our way to the door, Georgia slips on the gravel. She starts laughing and the rest of us do as well once we help her up. “Y’all, I think the ground and curbs are out to get me. I mean they come out of nowhere. The next thing I know, I’m on my ass again!” Georgia is a hoot. She always makes light of situations. Hank’s Tavern is not exactly what I pictured. It’s an old, worn down, wooden shed. There are five parking spaces in front of the restaurant section of the place. The rest of the parking lot is located across the road in a gravel lot. It’s gravel, no pavement anywhere. The bouncers are dressed in jeans and Hank’s Tavern t-shirts that fit just a little snug around their arms showing off their muscles. They ask for our IDs, take a brief glance, and in we go. I will have to say, the guys don’t get in quite as easy. They get patted down and driver’s license checked. Sometimes it pays to be a female.
We enter through another set of glass doors and immediately cigarette smoke and stale beer hit my nostrils. The room is open except for a few pool tables and the bar. It is dark, lights are flashing, and the music is bumping. We do exactly what any group of girls would do, walk straight to the bathroom. You have got to kidding me! No door really! There is no freakin’ door on the last stall. After taking a few minutes to get over the negative stall and freshen up, we walk out and head straight to the dance floor.
I have to say that this is exactly redneck meets ghetto fabulous. Whoever thought a place like this would play Mystikal, Dr. Dre, Lil Wayne, throw in a little “Downtown” by Lady A and Old Crow Medicine Show? We have the best time just dancing in a big group. I notice Crystal and Lucas on the floor; she smiles and waves before continuing to do things she should be embarrassed to be doing in public. I am so thankful that I don’t have to deal with that in my room. That is one benefit to her dating an Resident Assistant… he has his own room.
By midnight, Hank’s is packed. I decide to grab a bottle of water, and as I’m about to pay, I hear that oh so sexy voice. “I got that.” “It’s okay, Joe. I got it.” “No, I insist. I was an ass earlier. I didn’t mean to make you feel bad. It’s the least I could do.” “Damn straight! I’m proud of who I am and where I’m from. I just hate when damn Yankees come down here and then try to make us look like hicks. You don’t like the way we live, then don’t cross the Mason-Dixon,” I say as playful as possible. It did tick me off earlier, but I don’t want him to think I’m a bitch. “I swear I won’t do it again, and nobody is gonna pick on you eating squirrel but me,” he says with a smile. “Okay, I’ll give ya that.” “So Squirrel, you wanna dance?” “Mr. Scaredy Cat, I’d love to.” He takes the water bottle from me and leads me to the dance floor.
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Author Info:
Casey Peeler grew up and still lives in North Carolina with her husband and daughter. Her first passion is teaching students with special needs. Over the years, she found her way to relax was in a good book.
After reading Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neal Hurston her senior year of high school and multiple Nicholas Sparks novels, she found a hidden love and appreciation for reading.
Casey has been an avid reader, blogger (Hardcover Therapy,) and now writer. No Turning Back (Full Circle #1) is her debut novel releasing this September 30th with Finding Charley (Full Circle #2) releasing Spring 2014.
Her goal is to one day be an author that is recognized nationwide like Jamie McGuire, Colleen Hoover, Tiffany King, and Amanda Bennett.
When Casey isn’t reading, you can find her listening to country music, spending the day at the lake, being a wife, dance mom, and spending time with friends and family.
Her perfect day consists of water, sand between her toes, a cold beverage, and a great book!
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9/5 Kylie Ryans on Tour @HdCoverTherapy
at the following retailers:
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Synopsis:
An up and comer trying to make a name for herself…
KYLIE never expected to be stuck on a tour bus with a pampered princess and her boyfriend’s ex.
A troubled artist struggling to hold onto his career…
TRACE thought he was finally getting to do things his way. Until the label added co-headliner Gretchen Gibson, the only person in country music with more issues than him, to his No Apologies tour.
Surrounded by tabloid rumors and people they can’t trust, Kylie and Trace need each other more than ever. But the choices they make will change everything.
Because chasing your dreams and following your heart don’t always lead you to the same place…
Casey’s Thoughts
I have been a Kylie Ryans fan since day one of opening Girl with Guitar! Kylie is full of life, put herself out there, and has fallen for Trace Corbin… enough said!
Girl on Tour picks up where Girl with Guitar ends… Kylie is now an up and coming country music star. She is going on tour with two other girls… which is going to get interesting! (Put 3 girls on a tour bus, and their is bound to be drama!)
Trace, on the other hand, is having to tour with the female version of himself. He knows this tour will make or brake his career… and it looks like the label wants to break him… hence, Gretchen Gibson!
Kylie and Trace put their relationship to the test. Will it survive? Will the media destroy it? Those are questions that I continued to ask myself. I will have to say that you see more of Kylie’s true colors within this book. She is willing to stand up for people she believes in, but then doubts the one man that she loves.
Trace tries his hardest to be the man that he should be for Kylie. He truly struggles with this both internally & externally. I just wanted to take Trace, hug him, and tell him you are good enough. You can be what Kylie deserves and much more.
This book isn’t happy go lucky. In fact, I had a mix of emotions throughout. You see Kylie grow in her self, career, and relationships with other. Trace’s old habits are put to the test, and by the end of book 2, you will smile inside for Trace…. then you just might want to tell Kylie to put her big girl panties on!
I can’t wait to see the final Chapter in Kylie & Trace’s series…. Girl in Love releasing soon!
About the Author
Caisey Quinn lives in
Birmingham, Alabama with her husband, daughter, and other assorted animals. Sheis the author of several New Adult Romance novels featuring country girlsfinding love in unexpected places. She is currently working on Girl in Love, the third and final bookin the Kylie Ryans series. You can find her online atwww.caiseyquinnwrites.com.
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September 3, 2013
Tony, Tony, Tony… A Truth Review
Book Info:
Claire Nichols endured the CONSEQUENCES of Anthony Rawlings’ vendetta. When she first arrived to his home, her goal was survival. Through strength and compartmentalization Claire captivated her captor. Her resilience in the face of his rule threatened Anthony’s well developed plan. Domination became desire and power turned to love. Their passion and adoration in a world of opulence appeared perfect. Yet, reality was a roller coaster of emotion. Claire’s world teetered on the edge of sanity as Antony monitored her every move. When given the opportunity to flee, Claire drove away. A fateful decision which set a well laid plan into motion. However, unbeknownst to either of them, there were others who saw past the perfect facade of Anthony Rawlings. There were others who saw the TRUTH. Conspiracy and unfulfilled promises result in an early prison release for Claire. Not just a release – a pardon. According to the law, her crime never happened! Will it be that easy? Faced with freedom from her past… can Claire seize it? Can she build a new life, mend her broken spirit, become the woman she once was, and seek her own revenge? Or is it all a game? And does the game master have different plans? How does Sophia Burke fit into the puzzle that is Tony and Claire? Will her presence affect the future of this well esteemed man? Can he dominate twice? Is that his goal? TRUTH continues the tumultuous saga of CONSEQUENCES, introduces new players, and uncovers more intrigue. Aleatha Romig skillfully weaves past transgressions through current deception to create a fervent world of obsessed desire. In this reality can an all-consuming relationship survive? When buried sins are discovered they threaten not only Tony and Claire’s future — but their very lives! Will the TRUTH be revealed in time?
Buy Links:
Barnes & Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/truth-aleatharomig/1113690384?ean=2940015928396
Casey’s Thoughts
Where to begin… that is the question! When Consequences ends… you are left pissed, your heart has been ripped out, and you want to make Tony pay. Truth… is everything it’s title says… it is the Truth for Consequences.
Within the Truth we see Claire grow. She becomes the strong and independent individual that I knew she held deep inside. She decides to take life head on and put her life back together without Tony… but for how long?
Within Truth, we meet new characters… one in particular will have you jumping ship for Team Tony & you will be Team Harry before you know it!
Harry is everything a girl could want… and when Claire & Harry cross that line of no return… how will it effect Claire? Is she able to get past Tony… that you will have to find out for yourself 
When it comes to Tony and his family, Claire has done her research. She has discovered part of Tony’s past, but will she really be able to let him go?
In Consequences there were “seasons” of Tony in my review. Within the Truth, the “seasons” are more of Claire.
Season 1: Freedom
Season 2: Independence
Season 3: Hope
Season 4: A Damn train wreck!
I have to say that I am Team Tony all the way. I loved Harry, but there is something deep, mysterious, & hopeful about Tony. I desire for Claire & Tony to have a normal life with no rules… maybe, just maybe!
Truth will allow you to understand Claire, but you will be on the edge of your seat waiting for Tony to arrive on the scene. When he does, you might just be surprised by his actions. You will realize that for once, we are glad that Tony keeps all kinds of tabs on Claire.
Personally, I loved Truth as it begins to explain Tony, his family, Claire, and how revenge, vendetta, & love all intertwine into one massive spider web… oh what a web we weave! Now, lets see who’s going to be Convicted on Oct. 8th??? Who’s ready?
Aleatha Romig is a bestselling author, who has been voted #1 “New Author to Read” on Goodreads July 2012 – Present! She was also #8 most followed author on Goodreads – July / August 2013.
**Stay tuned this week! Bloggers… you will finally see who is on the Convicted Blog Tour!**
