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Unravel - Diana A Hicks

Title: Unravel You
Series: Cole Brothers #1
Author: Diana A. HicksGenre: Steamy Contemporary RomanceRelease Date: November 18, 2019


Blurb
It’s the wedding of the summer…
College graduate Valentina never expected to fall for the hot as hell and intimidating Derek Cole when she accepted his offer to rent his property.
From cottage to mansion, Valentina is certain she doesn't deserve the fairytale unfolding. But Derek gets what he wants... and he wants her. 
He’s “the one” for her, but before she says I do, she has to survive a month long trip to his family’s estate in Atlanta. Gaining approval from four brothers and an over-protective mother might just be her hardest test yet. 
For billionaire Derek Cole, this homecoming is a chance to mend the damage he caused when he walked away from the family business. Just when they think nothing else can go wrong... their past and future collide.
UNRAVEL YOU is the enthralling sequel to LOVE OVER LATTES and book one in the Cole Brothers series. A new family saga, binge reading experience: 5 brothers, 5 full-length novels in 5 months.

Praise for LOVE OVER LATTES:"Hicks' first installment of her Desert Monsoon series is confident and assured with strong storytelling, nuanced characters, and a dynamic blend of romance and suspense...A sexy and irresistible tale for fans of contemporary romance." - Kirkus Reviews

The binge reading starts on November 18th, 2019!!!Don't miss out on this suspenseful and seductive series.
Unravel You, Book 1 (Derek and Valentina) - 11/18/2019Provoke You, Book 2 (Matt and Ela) - 12/16/2019Escape You, Book 3 (Tyler and Mia) - 1/13/2020Unleash You, Book 4 (Wesley and Anabelle) - 2/10/2020Defy You, Book 5 (Zack and Rebecca) - 3/9/2020

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Excerpt
“You had a plan when you walked into my office five minutes ago. What was it?” He gripped the edge of the armrest with both hands, crossing his legs at his ankles. The tiny flame in my chest grew bigger and spread down to my core. “I had no plan.” I admitted because the extent of my thoughts when he texted was to come in here and have sex. All I could think of was touching him and feeling his weight on me again. But now I was a little pissed. He could’ve been more explicit. Like, hey, I’m just here to work, bring me the report. No sex. Get your mind out of the gutter. He could also wipe that knowing smile off his face. “What makes you think I had a plan?” I crossed my arms over my chest to cover my hardened nipples. He rubbed the side of his face. “The thigh-high stockings. You know how they drive me wild. Even if I can’t see them, I know that’s the only kind you own.” If that was true, why was he still five feet away from me? Why had he not ripped my clothes off already and had his way with me on the couch? “I have a meeting to go to.” I bolted to the door. Before I could open it, his large hand pressed against it, effectively blocking me from leaving. “I don’t think so.” His voice was deep and so full of meaning. He walked me back to the living area until my butt hit the back of the sofa. “You had a plan. Show me.” He gripped my waist and shifted so he was the one caged in. I could go, or I could stay and get what I came here for. I slipped my hands inside his suit jacket and pushed it off his shoulders. His dark gaze stayed on me as I removed his dress shirt. A low moan like a hiss escaped his lips when I ran my hands down his muscled chest. His pecs were harder than I remembered. It seemed Derek’s hard body was directly proportional to the amount of stress he had at work. The more they pinned on him, the more time he spent in his boxing ring. These past three weeks must have been hell for him.  “Now you.” His voice sounded strained. Self-control was Derek’s superpower. I gave up all pretenses and removed my blazer and silky top quickly. My skin felt hot from needing him so much. His lips parted when I finally let my skirt pool at my feet. He cradled my face and kissed me hard. “Fuck. Valentina. You came to work wearing that underneath?” His mouth was warm, and he tasted of cinnamon gum. I melted into him, fumbling with his belt. “The door.” I panted in between kisses. “I locked it.” He gripped my ass and wrapped my legs around his waist as he strode around the sofa and sat with me straddling him. “Valentina. How do you do it? How do you make me forget about everything?” He freed me from my bra and sucked on my aching nipples, switching back and forth until I couldn’t wait anymore. “I need you now,” I whispered in his ear. I didn’t care that my voice was laced with desperate desire. He cupped my butt cheeks and lifted me enough to give him room to lie flat on the cushions with his head on the decorative pillow. My thighs rubbed his sides as I rested on top of him, topless and without a clue what to do next. My confusion must have registered on my face because he placed both hands behind his head and grinned at me. His biceps bulged on either side of him. “Your show.” “What?” He bucked under me to get comfortable, as if he were getting ready to watch a movie or something. The grin that twitched his lip was both infuriating and such a turn-on. “You want me inside you. Do it.”


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Author Bio

Diana A. Hicks is an award-winning author of steamy contemporary romance with a touch of suspense.  Book two in her Desert Monsoon series, LOVE OVER LOGIC, is the 2019 Readers’ Favorite Silver Medal Winner in the Romance – Suspense genre
When Diana is not writing, she enjoys kickboxing, traveling, and indulging in the simple joys of life like wine and chocolate. She lives in Atlanta and loves spending time with her two children and husband. Connect with Diana on social media to stay up to date on her latest releases.

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Melody Grace - The Story of Us

Title: The Story of UsSeries: Sweetbriar Cove #11; Kinsella Family #2
Author: Melody GraceGenre: Contemporary RomanceRelease Date: November 19, 2019


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Discover the recipe for love in this delectable new standalone romance from New York Times bestselling author, Melody Grace!
Natalie Diaz believes that life is sweet. It’s why she’s leaving heartbreak behind to start a delicious new chapter: opening her dream candy store on Cape Cod. Goodbye, break-up blues, hello, handmade chocolate truffles! She’s determined to make her fresh start count, which means no drama, and definitely no distractions—especially not from the mouthwateringly-handsome stranger who keeps crossing her path…
Luke Kinsella wasn’t planning on falling head over heels the moment he stepped foot in Sweetbriar Cove. With his business on the rocks, love is the last thing on his mind, but one look at the mysterious brunette sends his pulse racing… And when he tries her sinfully-sweet candies, he knows one taste will never be enough. He’s used to women swooning into his arms, but Natalie is different. Sure, Luke’s smile makes her knees melt faster than chocolate in the midday sun, but she’s been hurt before. She’s determined to resist the heat burning between them and stay just friends. But as their connection deepens, their red-hot chemistry becomes impossible to ignore. 
Can Natalie take a chance and trust her heart again? And when the past she’s been running from finally catches up with them both, will these two hearts find a way to build a new future together, or will their sugar rush bring them both crashing back down to earth? 
Find out in the delicious, swoon-worthy romance from Melody Grace!
Sweetbriar Cove Series:1. Meant to Be2. All for You3. The Only One4. I'm Yours5. Holiday Kisses6. No Ordinary Love7. Wildest Dreams8. This Kiss9. Always Be Mine10. Two Hearts (Kinsella Family #1)11. The Story of Us (Kinsella Family #2)12. Back to You (Kinsella Family #3) - March 2020

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A small-town girl, Melody grew up in the English countryside before moving to Los Angeles. She is now a New York Times bestselling author of feel-good contemporary romance novels, and is also currently writing for the upcoming BRIDGERTONS television adaptation from Netflix. She has two cats. 

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Flighty. Stupid. That’s what my sisters think of me.
I’m tired of being misunderstood.
With a suitcase in hand and the ocean as my beacon, I’m charting my own path.

Yet, barely a day on the road, I almost crash and burn.
Running into Silas Palmer, a sexy-as-sin rock star, changes my life.

Silas makes me feel … Exceptional. Aimless.

He’s always known his course.
And even now, when he’s abandoning fame and fortune, he knows what he wants.
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We Vape We Vote - Grass Roots Movement

After months of frustration with the government and public health, there seems to be light at the end of the tunnel for the adult vaping community.  The CDC finally released information that Vitamin E Acetate, an ingredient used to blend black-market THC (pot), is the culprit behind the deaths and lung injuries that happened in the United States, not traditional nicotine vaping.  For more information about the culprit responsible for this, you can read an in-depth article at Leafly.  The nicotine vaping community made claims that this was the case from the beginning, and refused to watch their tobacco harm reduction (THR) community take the fall for illegal products.  That's how #WeVapeWeVote began. 


It grew to enormous proportions, to the point where media tried to say they weren't real people, but bots created on a computer program for social media.  That was proven to be a lie when over 4,000 people showed up in a quickly put together campaign on the White House lawn.  These were adults from all over the United States that believe vaping saved their lives and helped them successfully transition away from deadly cigarette smoking which kills 450,000 people in the USA alone each year.  #WeVapeWeVote became the largest Grass Roots Movement the vaping community has ever seen.  Thousands of people not only flooding social media in protest but also willing to travel to DC to show they weren't backing down from overreach from their government.  It appears to have reached the President's ears because today this is what he tweeted.



With this tweet, the community of #WeVapeWeVote took to twitter again, reminding the President that JUUL and big tobacco companies were not vaping, and they asked to have the members that represent them be present in any meetings.  People like http://www.casaa.org/ 
https://vaportechnology.org/ and physicians that have championed their belief that vaping is the successful way to quit smoking like Dr. Michael Siegel many have asked that we adopt the stance of Public Health England, where vaping devices are sold in hospitals and promoted for smoking cessation with claims of being 95% safer than combustible cigarettes.

To many people in the #WeVapeWeVote movement, JUUL (Altria) seems to have become as big an enemy to them as big tobacco, which they state JUUL is part of,  and they want them distanced from the true vaping community.  From the tweets and commentary, to a majority in the adult vaping community, is appears they believe JUUL was targeting children and that the adult vaping community wants no part of that scenario, as they voice agreement to allowing the age of vaping to be raised to 21 for use. 

What will happen with the future of vaping?  That answer is as of yet, unclear.  We know that the age limit of 21 will be established from what little information we have so far, other than that, the rest is unknown. The #WeVapeWeVote movement has proven it has the ability to be heard.  Adults have always fought against prohibition and this is proof that the American spirit is still strong when it comes to the rights of adults to choose. Thanks for joining us at Tears of Crimson. Home to Bestselling Author Michelle Hughes,and all the Friends of Crimson!

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The Solution To Youth Buying Adult Products

I was browsing Amazon today and ran across this Driver License Scanner when the solution to youth buying adult products came to me!  It's simple, the product above is $144 and something that any vape shop, alcohol package store, or convenience store could implement.  Pharmacies already use this type of product for people getting controlled prescriptions.  To purchase the product you have to scan your driver's license and that information goes into a database.  This would stop ANY underage person from being able to purchase adult products, and would also give law enforcement the ability to see if someone was purchasing an abundance of products and reselling, therefore stopping this product from being bought legally and distributed illegally.  My daughter worked in a pharmacy for three years, so this solution obviously works to keep controlled substances away from those who aren't supposed to use them.

I understand that some people are going to argue this is a violation of your rights to know if you're buying certain products, but when it comes to prohibition, I believe this outweighs the alternative.  This is such an easy answer to everything but buying adult products online, and I'm sure there are people that sell alcohol online so they already have a solution in place.  What a scanner like this does is verify age, and keep a database of purchases that go into a spreadsheet.  Problem solved.  Honestly, I don't know why some lady who doesn't even a business related to adult products had to come up with it.

If youth usage of cigarettes, alcohol and/or vaping is considered the problem, then this is the solution.  I look forward to hearing your thoughts on this idea.  You can reach me on twitter at www.twitter.com/michellehughes_ on Facebook at www.facebook.com/authormichellehughes or drop me an email at authormichellehughes @ Gmail.com   My proposed bill to congress below.


A Bill to Stop Youth Purchase of Adult Products to
Stop Underage Sale of Cigarettes, Vaping Products and Alcohol

PROPOSAL TO CONGRESS:Section 1.      This bill would require that any adult product (alcohol, cigarettes, vaping products) be required by law to have a scan of their driver’s license by the person purchasing this product.  This scan would keep a database of the purchaser on file.Section 2.      Any location selling adult products would be required by law to use this form of identification process to prevent the sale to minorsSection 3.      Depending on which type of adult product is sold, the government agency that will oversee the enforcement of the bill will be responsible for making sure this is enacted.SECTION 4.      The reason this bill needs to be in place is so that we can reduce the purchase of adult products for underage users, and to have a database of purchasers that may have the intent to resell to said underage users.   Section 5.      This bill would nullify the need for flavor bans in vaping,  and assure that anyone purchasing these products for resell to the youth could easily be identified.  This same bill would stop the underage sell of alcohol or tobacco products that don’t fall under vaping to have the same solution.

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The CDC'S Misinformation Campaign Against Vaping

Public Health created a fake panic over legal nicotine vaping products and every news media platform and a majority of politicians jumped on the hysteria without facts.  As of yesterday, 92% of all deaths and illnesses were caused by illegal, black-market, THC (pot) products and the other eight percent have not chosen to come forward and admit the truth.  Those are facts that you can research.  I said this on September 8, 2019 in this article Nicotine Vaping is Not the Culprit  and now those truths have been validated by the CDC.  30 people have now died, partly because the CDC refused to give facts that might have saved people's lives.  Smokers that might have tried vaping could die because they listened to their government as they fed them a false narrative that legal nicotine vaping wasn't safe.  

When it comes to vaping, I deal in facts, not fiction.  Cigarette smoking is a horrible addiction that takes on average, 1300 people's lives every day in America, 250,000 a year.  These are facts.  There have been zero deaths from adults using legal nicotine vaping products.  Fact.  Chantix, can't claim that number, 78 deaths have been associated with the pharmaceutical companies stop smoking drug.  The facts are that vaping has a higher success right of helping a smoker quit than any other smoking cessation product on the market and it was innovated by consumers, not big tobacco as the media would have you believe.  Feel free to read the story of how vaping was created here: https://www.vapingpost.com/who-invented-the-vape/

Even now, when public health has finally admitted there was no need for the panic they created, mainstream news has refused to stop saying vaping is responsible, and you have to dig for the THC story after all the misleading headlines.  Most of the bans that have been put in place due to the discredited information from the CDC, have been beaten in court because unlike politicians, the judicial system has to show probable cause.  This is something they haven't been able to do because it doesn't exist.  This was a witch hunt to create panic and it's so blatantly harmful, that legal action should be taken to make sure this sort of atrocity doesn't happen again.  HHS, CDC, the Surgeon General, all must be held accountable for the irreparable harm they've done to the vaping industry.  Many vaping shops have had to close their doors, creating a loss of jobs.  We can't know how many smokers will now die because of the fear-mongering lies that were spread without cause, that might have chosen vaping as a safer alternative.

This has been a public health disaster, and the politicians that grandstanded on this issue without researching facts, they should be held accountable for misleading the public as well.  The #WeVapeWeVote campaign on twitter was called out unjustly as being manipulated by bots.  The truth was it was a Grassroots movement that quickly gained momentum by adults who were watching their rights being taken away over false claims of health issues.  We have a huge issue in this country, but it's not vaping.  Cigarette smoking is a true epidemic and tobacco lobbyists have the funding to push their agenda.  Nothing has proven this more than what we have seen since early September with this fake news on legal nicotine vaping.

The bottom line is this.  Vaping, with flavors, is the right of adults to choose when they are looking for a way to stop smoking.  Taking away that right, or limiting the flavors that adults can use, cannot happen.  We've seen many groups come out and say that we need to protect the youth from using this product, and obviously, no one in the vaping community wants underage use.  Like cigarettes and alcohol, there are laws in place to restrict access to youth, and those laws should be enforced strictly.  Removing flavors from vaping would be no different than removing flavors from alcohol, and that's not something any adult would agree with.  Vaping should have never been labeled as a tobacco product because even with a tobacco flavor, it's still not tobacco.

Regulations on vaping products should be limited to making sure they are using a clean lab that is inspected for sanitation, and that they are only using the ingredients of propylene glycol, vegetable glycerin, flavor concentrates, and nicotine if included in that product.  The FDA already has a list of ingredients used in every legally sold vaping product.  Obviously, this should be marketed as an adult product, and the same legal age used for other products made for adults is already implemented.  In closing, the CDC'S misinformation campaign against vaping was the biggest public health disaster in the year 2000.  It's imperative that we make sure something like this never occurs again.





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Demand Public Health Prove That Legal Nicotine Vaping Has Harmed One Person

The facts are, the public health system has no proof that vaping legal nicotine products has harmed one single person.  Proof is found by testing the blood or urine of a person claiming to have a lung injury from vaping and showing no THC in their lab results.  Not that Mr. John Doe (or Mrs.) said he only vaped legal product, because hearsay doesn't stand up in a court of law, and it certainly doesn't apply to a person who might hide the fact that he purchased an illegal product.   With that being said, a witch hunt against vaping for adults and flavor bans began with no physical proof, and to date, the CDC, nor any public health organization has come out with any proof to the public that legal nicotine vaping has caused harm.

From a scientific standpoint, one would have to surmise that this was a poorly researched smear campaign against the tobacco harm reduction offered by vaping.  With our public health putting out information without research, the mainstream news followed up by giving false information to American's and making this fiasco go viral.  Our President, going off information from public health, which again has released no proof to the public, compounded this issue by sending out a tweet about the dangers of vaping.  What we have is a failure in public health to give accurate information and possibly even skewed facts to cause a panic. 

As of October 1, 2019, 78% of vaping lung illnesses were reported to have been from people that used THC.  Again we note, reported because without blood or urine tests they have no physical proof that the other percentage of people weren't also vaping illegal THC products.  With 78% of illnesses coming from THC, not nicotine, it's imperative that those that claim to have a lung illness from vaping be tested to show proof, or their claim is invalid. 

To delve into this further "Interviews about e-cigarette use were completed with 86 patients in Illinois and Wisconsin. Use of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)-containing e-cigarette products, the majority of which were prefilled cartridges obtained from informal sources, was reported by 87% of patients during the 3 months preceding illness." This is from the CDC and can be verified here https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/68/wr/mm6839e2.htm  and once again, pay attention to the words reported because this could easily be more if blood and urine samples were taken.

Vaping, to most adults, means the use of nicotine products, not illegal drugs, and public health is not making it clear that these are two very different scenarios.  This opens up further concerns that the average person may not know that illegal black market products are harming people, and they could very easily cause a bigger death toll if people abstain from legal nicotine products and buy from illegal vendors.  Another grave concern is that the banning of legal nicotine products will force more people to the black market for purchases, creating an epidemic. 

The CDC estimates that more than nine million people vape in the United States.  If vaping bans continue and all of these people turned to illegal products, it's easy to see the catastrophe we'd have on our hands.  Until the public health authorities have physical proof that legal nicotine vaping has caused a single death, it's in the publics' best interest that legal nicotine vaping remains available to thwart deaths from illegal products.  The burden of proof is on them.  They have a legal and moral obligation to do their jobs and stop releasing information falsely without proof to back up their findings.





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HiggyCigs DIY - The Easy Way to Mix (Giveaway)

With all the flavored vaping bans, many adults are looking for an easy way to DIY and with HiggyCigs, it's extremely easy!  By using a blended nicotine/pg/vg base and HiggyCignature concentrates, you can make a bottle of flavored e-liquid in under a minute!!!  To help get you started, I'm doing a giveaway for one lucky person here:  https://gleam.io/it9p9/higgycigs-diy-giveaway?gsr=it9p9-66MG5PSOID  (HiggyCigs has graciously offered two free empty bottles to go along with this giveaway too.)  WARNING:  This product contains nicotine, nicotine is an addictive substance (required).

If you don't want to wait and see if you win the giveaway, here are the steps to create flavored e-liquid the easy way!


Visit HiggyCigs and order a nicotine base (remember this is just like a complete bottle of eliquid without any flavor created to your vaping needs)Order your HiggyCignature Flavor shot these are pre-mixed combination flavors, you don't need to add other flavors to this.  Your bottle will tell you the percentage recommended.Order a oral syringe (the 3ml should be all you need) Order bottles.  For 30ml bottles this is the lowest price I've found.  Amazon Bottles Visit eLiquidRecipes and use their easy calculator to figure out how many ml you will need for the bottle size you choose to use.  Mix and Shake!

This is a quick, thrown together, tutorial
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National Save Vaping Day

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WHAT IS NATIONAL SAVE VAPING DAY? 

 On Monday, October 7th, we are asking vape shops, online retailers, distributors, manufacturers, and other entities that want to see vaping survive to donate some, or even all, of their profits for the day to the American Vaping Association (AVA) and the Consumer Advocates for Smoke-Free Alternatives Association (CASAA).

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