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January 16, 2015
Mirror Mirror Release Day Blitz by Renea Porter
Mirror
Mirror
By: Renea Porter
Release Date: January 16th
Hosted By: Author Sandra Love
Male/Male
Country Romance
Everything about me is a lie, except that my name is Dean.
I don’t want to be the person I feel I have to show the world anymore. I’m sick
of living a lie. What I want is to be free. Free to love who I want, not who
people think I should.When you’re not living your life on your own
terms, everything suffers. My happiness, personal relationships and even my
music. My music has suffered greatly. I sit down to write and—nothing.
My manager is pushing me to get back on the
road to create a buzz about the songs I actually have been able to write. He
says we’re picking someone up along the way to collaborate with who will help
me write again.
Ayden is everything I’m not. He’s comfortable
in his own skin. Not afraid to show his true self. He’s also a talented song
writer. Not only is he insanely gorgeous overall, but he has the deepest blue
eyes I’ve ever seen. He’s beautiful and makes me question everything.
Can I be my true self? What would happen if my
label found out about whom I really am? What would happen after the gig was up?
What would happen if I took that chance? Is love worth the fight in the end?
Cover Designer: Niquel (https://www.facebook.com/authorniquel85)
Goodreads to add to TBR: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22372685-mirror-mirror
Enter Links When Available
Renea has always had her nose inside of a book
ever since she could remember. She has wrote ever since she was young enough to
write, never showing anyone what she was writing. Initially she started writing
Coming Back to You without intending to publish, but her hubby of 15 years
encouraged her to publish it. And she did. She couldn’t imagine never writing.
Its in her blood.Her mind is always wondering, plotting and full of ideas. Even her hubs
questions her sanity sometimes, because she well her characters are real. They
feel real
Author page: www.facebook.com/AuthorReneaPorter
Amazon Page: http://www.amazon.com/Renea-Porter/e/B00IIYZ3PC
Other
Books By Renea
Coming
Back To you
Bare Hearts
Driving Layne (Unspoken Truth Book 1)
Switching Lanes (Unspoken Truth Book 2)
Outbound Lane (Unspoken Truth Novella)
Undefinable
All Available on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Renea-Porter/e/B00IIYZ3PC
All Available on Barnes & Noble
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/renea-porter
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January 15, 2015
2015 Dreaming of Books Giveaway Hop
2015 Dreaming of Books Giveaway Hop
January 16th to 26th
Thank you for stopping by my blog for the Dreaming of Book Giveaway Hop.
Thanks to Musa Publishing I will be giving away 2 ebooks. You can choose any 2 Young Adult books from Musa Publishing. Check out the books here Young Adult. To enter just fill out the rafflecoppter below.
Be sure to go by and check in at the other bloggers listed below for more changes to win.
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Merry Christmas To Me by Christin Lovell
Kelsie is a sassy, smart, and curvaceous event planner with a thing for a certain hot Brit.
Enter said sexy English man, William. Best friend to Kelsie’s brother, Ryan, for six years, he’s four years her junior, funny, available, and, it turns out, he has a thing for her too.
Discover what can happen when you skip the family Christmas scene, much to your mother’s horror, and let the bloody sparks fly.
Warning: This book contains banter, butt slapping and overuse of the word ‘bloody,’ but, like any good Christmas story, it’s full of good cheer.
My thoughts:
Kelsie is an event planner and her bothers best friend William a Brit, flirts with her all the time. Always wanting more then she is willing to give. She skips christmas with her family and spends it with Will at her home. He makes the sparks fly but can Kelsie hold on?
This author writes great books and I am happy to keep reading her stories.
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Culinary Delight ( BBW romance ) by Christin Lovell
Plus size Molly discovers her job is in jeopardy the same day her best friend, Rachel, talks her into eating at a new Puerto Rican restaurant. Turns out, the restaurant is failing already and the reason why comes storming out of the kitchen and into her life. He’s tall, dark, dreamy, and the most infuriating man she’s ever met. He pushes her buttons and is soon pushing her to her limits. There’s just something in those fiery brown eyes that keep her abundant curves wound tight and begging for release.
Can she let go of history and surrender to this sizzling alpha male, or will she leave with regrets? One thing is for certain: the night doesn’t go as any of them expect.
This is a HFN short with one sassy full figured gal, one deliciously dominant Puerto Rican and lots of culinary delight.
File Size: 1162 KB
Print Length: 37 pages
Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
Language: English
ASIN: B00HYYO0YC
My thoughts:
Molly is with her friend at a local restaurant. She can not stand the food and tells the owner so. He brings out his cousin the chef, Rico. He is just helping his cousin out as the main chef left. Molly shows Rico how to cook Puerto Rican food and he shows her other things. Her size does not matter to Rico.
A cute a quick read. The author knows how to write some great books/novellas.
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Her Xmas Present (BBW Holiday Romance) by Christin Lovell
It’s been nearly a year since plus size Libby has seen her best friend, Tyler. One look at him though and all of her old, more-than-friendly feelings return. But a good-looking guy like him couldn’t find her attractive… Could he?
Ty has been away from the woman of his dreams for nearly a year, and every day has been torture. He’s decided that he’s ready to take the leap. He had to know. Could Libby love him as more or would all their years of friendship be too much to risk?
Warning: This book contains hot chocolate, marshmallows, a sexy lawyer and a lot of naughty.
File Size: 422 KB
Print Length: 56 pages
Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
Language: English
My thoughts:
Tyler has been away for almost a year with a law firm working. He comes home and visits Libby. They have been friends since they were little. Libby adores Tyler and is glad to have him home.
Tyler is home for Libby he has loved her secretly for years. Despite her being a plus size woman he does not care.
Libby risks the friendship to see what will happen.
Another great quick story by this author I am enjoying her books.
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One Christmas: (BBW Military Romance) (One Soldier #3)
Jane has multiple strikes against her:
She’s fat.
She’s divorced.
She’s over forty.
She has enough strikes against her to make every man run, strikes that have made every man run, except one: the one she knows she shouldn’t have.
Sergeant Brad Wilcox’s fourth deployment in ten years is coming to an end. It’s time for him to decide his future. In truth, he knows what he wants; he wants Jane, but she’s sidestepped his every forward word.
With Jane’s daughter in her first year at college, and unable to make it home for Christmas, Sergeant Wilcox rolls the dice and shows up at her doorstep. Jane has carefully refuted his every flirtation via letter, but can she refuse the soldier face to face?
One thing is for certain: there will never be another Christmas like this one.
File Size: 1583 KB
Print Length: 96 pages
Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
Language: English
ASIN: B00QB97O1C
My thoughts:
Jane is an older woman who is divorced and a mom. She writes to a military person, Brad. He writes back and the letters get longer and more personal. Brad keeps getting shot down when he flirts and want to see Jane. He is 28 and she is scared to death he will have regrets and puts him off.
Brad shows up on Jane’s doorstep and things start to heat up. He showers he with love and even gets to now her college daughter. He is what Jane needs.
Another lovely quick read by this author.
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One E-mail (One Soldier #2) by Christin Lovell
It started with one e-mail.
Madelyn Maxlyn sent one e-mail to the most feminine-sounding name on the list of soldier contacts her book club president managed to get. SFC Taylor Russell was the recipient.
They exchanged seventy-seven e-mails in five months, and somewhere among those seventy-seven, they stopped exchanging words and began sharing pieces of themselves.
Taylor is returning home from war, and it’s time that they meet and discover if a soldier with two years left on his contract with the army, and a plus size woman who has an entire life hundreds of miles away from his home, have a chance at a future together.
Love doesn’t care about obstacles and risks, but surviving them isn’t always easy.
File Size: 385 KB
Print Length: 75 pages
Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
Language: English
ASIN: B00IZPH28U
My thoughts:
Madelyn and her book club decide to email so soldiers. She tried to pick a name which she thought was a female. Needless to say after several emails Taylor or Tay as he is called by Madelyn lets it known he is all male.
Taylor pays for Madelyn to fly out to his home to meet his family. His younger brother Tate is with him and can’t believe this big woman walking towards them is pretty. Taylor’s family loves Madelyn as do Taylor.
This was a quick read and sweet. I loved this read. The author does a great job with her characters.
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One Letter: (BBW Military Romance) (One Soldier Series Book 1) by Christin Lovell
It started with one letter.
Kellie Patrick sent one letter into the Middle East, to any soldier. Sergeant Daniel Rodriguez was the one who received it.
Three years and eighty-six letters later, Daniel is ready to meet the woman who got him through his last three tours of duty.
Three years and eighty-six letters later, plus size Kellie is nervous to meet the man who wrote his way into her heart. Could a sexy as sin soldier really want forever with a curvy Southern gal like her though?
File Size: 344 KB
Print Length: 47 pages
Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
Language: English
ASIN: B00DAL6PCS
My thoughts:
I really enjoyed this short and quick read. Kellie is a bigger woman and decides to write to a military man. She never expected a response from Daniel. After three years and tons of letters Daniel shows up on Kellie’s doorstep. Scared out of her mind as she is a large size woman dreads opening the door. Daniel falls in love with Kellie before he even shows up and once the door is open his heart is spoken for. A quick loving story.
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Alma’s Mail Order Husband review
Book 1 of The Texas Brides Series unravels the mystery of Jude McCann. Jude travels to the desolate desert flats along the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass, Texas, to marry Alma Goodkind. The Goodkind Ranch runs just fine since Clarence Goodkind broke his back falling off his horse. His three daughters, Alma, Amelia, and Allegra, manage the herds, guard them in their pastures, brand the young calves, and drive the cattle to the sale yards. They do all the jobs of cattle punching on the ranch without any help from anyone. All of that changes when eldest sister, Alma, decides she wants to get married and orders herself a mail-order husband.
Alma and Jude McCann get married in the little adobe church in Eagle Pass. But the minute they come home to the ranch, their plans for happily ever after run off the rails. Jude joins the sisters on the range, and conflicts develop in their approaches to managing the ranch. Alma’s new marriage puts her loyalty to her sisters to the test. At the same time, her bond with her sisters strains her budding romance with Jude. Can their marriage survive, and can the ranch survive so many competing interests and personalities? Worst of all, the sisters’ father, Clarence, instantly detects that Jude is hiding something, a secret that threatens to push this family to its limits and shatter the peace they’ve worked so hard to build.
File Size: 2780 KB
Print Length: 152 pages
Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1501065424
Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
Publisher: Mail Order Bride Dept, Gold Crown Press (July 10, 2014)
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
My thoughts:
Alma is one of three sisters living out on a ranch with their father. He had an accident and for the past 5 years the girls have been taking care of the ranch. Alma decides to get a mail order husband, Jude. He arrives and things go in all different directions. Her father thinks he is someone else and Jude tries to force his ideas.
Jude came across as very harsh to me concerning the women. At times he was loving to Alma and other times he was coming across as one that has a strong attitude.
I might check out more of this series not too sure yet. The story was just ok.
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Leather and Lace by Jessie Evans Blog Tour & Giveaway
A sexy, swoony romance from New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author Jessie Evans.
Cowboy bikers, fireworks, and romance, oh my…
Wild girl, Mia Sherman, has a secret–she isn’t as fearless as she pretends. Descended from Lonesome Point, Texas’s founding family, Mia grew up hearing tales of an old Irish curse that had followed the Shermans to America. At age twenty-four, Mia is still terrified of the stories, because they aren’t stories. They are a warning about what will happen if Mia allows love and romance into her life. The curse struck Mia’s grandmother and her great-great-whatever grandmother, and Mia knows she could be next. The first-born daughter of every generation is cursed to lose her husband on her wedding night, which is one of the many reasons Mia has sworn off relationships.
Until the fateful day Sawyer Kane rides his Harley into her life…
Rancher turned restoration expert, Sawyer Kane, can’t believe his luck when the feisty owner of the lingerie shop next to his hotel turns out to be the curator of his latest project, a ghost town he’s been sent to restore. He’s looking forward to long, hot days talking history, and hotter nights with Mia, but the redhead with the killer smile seems determined to keep him at a friendly distance. But when a dangerous man from Mia’s past arrives in town, Sawyer finds himself drawn into her inner circle, and into the legend of Lonesome Point itself.
Can true love conquer all, even a centuries-old curse? Mia and Sawyer may be the first to find out.
Look for the entire Lonesome Point series:
LEATHER AND LACE (Book 1)
SADDLES AND SIN (Book 2)
DIAMONDS AND DUST (Book 3)
The 12 Dates of Christmas: A Lonesome Point Holiday Novella
GLITTER AND GRIT (Book 4)
CHAPS AND CHANCE (Book 5)
ROPES AND REVENGE (Book 6)
Fans of Brenda Novak, Lori Wilde, and hot, alpha cowboys will love the Lonesome Point Texas series!
Sawyer searched her face in the glow of the moon, the soft light making her look even sexier than she had in the yellow bulbs strung above the farmer’s market. “I really like you. A lot.”
“I like you, too,” she said, her full lips curving at the edges.
“But I meant what I said before, about not being ready for anything serious.” The words tried to stick in his throat, but Sawyer forced them out. He owed Mia honesty, and he wanted to make damned sure they were on the same page before things went any further. “I want to make sure that’s still okay. I wouldn’t ever want to hurt you.”
Her smiled faded, but her eyes remained soft, unguarded. “You won’t hurt me.” She ambled down the stairs, stopping on the stair above his, putting them face-to-face and their lips inches apart. “I’m fine with a night, or a week, or the summer…however long feels right. And when it stops feeling right, we go our separate ways, no anger, no regrets.” She lifted her arms, twining them around his neck, sending arousal surging through his body. “This is exactly what I need, Sawyer. You are what I need, and I can’t wait to touch you. Everywhere.”
Any hope of resisting vanished as that last word feathered between her tempting lips. Sawyer closed the distance between them, claiming her mouth as his arm wrapped tight around her waist, crushing her body to his. Her breasts flattened against his chest and her body heat caressed him, making his pulse spike and a moan sound low in his throat. He wanted this woman—badly. And he was past ready for them to be alone in a room with a bed, a door, and a lock to keep the rest of the world out.
Sawyer lifted Mia off her feet, carrying her through the shop entrance before kicking the door shut behind them.
“Up the stairs,” she whispered against his mouth. “Bedroom’s up there.”
“You taste fucking amazing.” He hitched her thighs around his waist and took the stairs two at a time. “How can you taste this good after tequila and tacos?”
“How can you lift me like I weigh ten pounds?” she asked, breath rushing out as his fingers dug into the strong muscles of her ass. “God, I love your hands. I couldn’t stop staring at them today.”
“I love your ass,” he said. “And your legs, and your shoulders in that tank top, and the freckles on your nose. I’m a fan of every inch of you.”
“The feeling’s mutual,” she said, thighs tightening around his hips. “Right here. Blue door.”
Sawyer opened the door at the top of the stairs, and moved into the shadowed room. He smelled vanilla and lavender, a feminine scent that was sexy and homey at the same time. He peered over Mia’s shoulder, spotting a bed with ruffles cascading down the sides, and an odd-looking rug warming the hardwood floor beside it, but he didn’t stop to flick on the light to get a better look at Mia’s choice of decor. The moonlight streaming through the window cast enough light to see the heat in her gaze as he laid her down on the bed, and that was all the illumination he needed.
“I want to taste every inch of you,” he said, working open the buttons on his shirt. “Head to toe.”
“No toes,” she said, pulling her tee shirt over her head, revealing a white lace bra a shade lighter than the creamy skin of her breasts. “I’m not a foot girl.”
“You will be when I’m done with you.”
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, Jessie Evans, gave up a career as an international woman of mystery to write the sexy, contemporary romances she loves to read.
She’s married to the man of her dreams, and together they’re raising a few adorable, mischievous children in a cottage in the jungle. She grew up in rural Arkansas, spending summers running wild, being chewed by chiggers, and now appreciates her home in a chigger-free part of the world even more.
When she’s not writing, Jessie enjoys playing her dulcimer (badly), sewing the worlds ugliest quilts to give to her friends, going for bike rides with her house full of boys, and drifting in and out on the waves, feeling thankful for sun, surf, and lovely people to share them with.
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