Isabella Louise Anderson's Blog, page 59
June 23, 2015
EXCERPT: “Conquest #1-3″
“Conquest #1-3″ by Steam Bijou
Blurb:
Ten Delicious Episodes
Brie Baggio thinks she’s ready… for marriage, kids, the whole shebang. She’s pushing forty, and even though she’s the Senior Anti-Aging Ambassador at Los Angeles’s hottest med spa, Botox can’t paralyze that nagging feeling that it’s now or never. But when she witnesses a wild act of public sex, Brie tears her marriage plans apart and composes a sexual bucket list of scenarios she wants to experience before she settles down. She has...
June 19, 2015
BOOK FEATURE: “The Cake Therapist”
“The Cake Therapist” by Judith Fertig
Blurb:
“The Cake Therapist is a delicious treat for readers, full of unexpected delights and magical storytelling. . . . I savored every detail.” –BEATRIZ WILLIAMS, New York Times bestselling author
The Cake Therapist is a fiction debutfrom an award-winning cookbook authorthat will leave you wanting seconds.
Claire “Neely” O’Neil is a pastry chef of extraordinary talent. Every great chef can taste shimmering, elusive flavors that most of us miss, but Nee...
June 18, 2015
RELEASE DAY: “The Secret Daughter”
“The Secret Daughter” by Kelly Rimmer
Blurb:
A heart-breaking decision. A lifetime of secrets. And the power of a mother’s love.
As I saw my new-born baby’s face for the first time I tried desperately to capture her face in my mind—to stamp it onto my eyelids. As she was taken from me I knew I might never see my daughter again.
37 years later…
‘You were adopted’. Three short words and Sabina’s life fractures.
There would forever be a Before those words, and an After.
Pregnant with her own ch...
BOOK FEATURE: “7 Years Bad Sex”
“7 Years Bad Sex” by Nicky Wells
Blurb:
One wedding. One curse? Disaster ever after…
A seven-years-bad-sex curse? Surely not! Yet something went wrong when rock singer Casey and drummer Alex got married on that beautiful yacht anchored off St Tropez in the south of France. Something went badly wrong. For even on their wedding night, the young couple discovers a complete and somewhat surprising inability to make love. Muddling through their honeymoon with a string of thin excuses for their pr...
June 17, 2015
Book Feature: “A Leap in Time”
“A Leap in Time” by Engy Albasel Neville
Blurb:The morning after hanging an antique painting, Lexi Carter notices strange noises in her living room. Scared beyond words, she confronts the sounds only to discover that the landscape itself has come alive. Did Roman soldiers on horseback just gallop across the thing?
She impulsively touches the painting and is sucked into the world of ancient Pompeii. Lexi meets Marcus, a Roman Adonis, who occupies her every thought, and sends her senses into a...
EXCERPT: “Unexpected Chances”
“Unexpected Chances” by A.M. Willard
Blurb:Tabitha Michaelson: the fun loving, sassy girl who lovesanything that sparkles. What you might not know is, she took an oath years agowith her brother Seth, vowing to lock their hearts and throw away the key. Shehas spent years keeping up the happy façade and not letting anyone get close.
It’s not until a chance meeting that Tabitha meets her matchin Carter Northwood.
Here’s a man whose life has been filled with lies, threats,and tangled webs of dis...
BOOK FEATURE: “Just in Case”
“Just in Case” by Elizabeth Marx
Blurb:
He’s been waiting for her all these years…
Scarlett Marbry was sixteen when her mother, an acclaimed Sacred Harp singer, committed suicide, sending her away from Crossroads, Alabama and whatever pushed her mother over the edge. Seven years later, she’s returning for her grandparents’ funeral and the letter her mother left her when she died. Not only does Scarlett have to face her deep Southern roots, but the one she left behind.
She’s never thought sh...
June 16, 2015
EXCERPT: “Leaving Eva”
“Leaving Eva” by Jennifer Sivec
Blurb:
There is a secret pain lurking within all of us, waiting to consume us if we allow it.
On the outside, Brynn Michael seems to be living the perfect life. She’s a successful businesswoman married to a handsome and devoted husband. But nobody, not even her husband and childhood sweetheart, Adam, knows the true depth of Brynn’s horror. Abandoned on the side of the road by her young drug addicted mother, then abused by her adoptive father, teenage Brynn tur...
June 15, 2015
BOOK FEATURE: “Summer by the Sea”
“Summer by the Sea” by Jenny Hale
Blurb:
They say there’s always one summer that changes you…
Summer by the Sea is a beautiful, heart-warming summer read about sisters, first love and not always getting what we want – but sometimes ending up with exactly what we need.
For Faith the one summer she can’t forget is when she fell in love as a teenager – only for her sister, Casey, to steal her man.
Now, at the request of her beloved ninety year-old grandmother, Faith has agreed to a family holid...
June 12, 2015
RELEASE DAY BLITZ: “Again, Alabama”
“Again, Alabama” by Susan Sands
Blurb:
Cammie Laroux is back in Alabama—again.
Dragged back to her small town to help her mother recover from surgery while rescuing the family event planning business should be a cinch. Even for a disgraced television chef, right? Wrong.
Among the many secrets Cammie’s family’s been hiding is the fact that their historic home is falling down. Oh, and the man hired to restore the house, Grey Harrison, is the same high school and college love of her life who th...
