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August 13, 2015
The Soul Stone by Jamie Marchant
It’s day number two for me this week at Geeks – I’ve got a fun guest post from Jamie Marchant herself and a giveaway too. Whee!
August 12, 2015
Book Blog Tour: Beauty and the Bachelor by Naima Simone
I’m at Geeks today with a spotlight, excerpt, and giveaway of the new one by Naima Simone. Hope to see you there. 
August 6, 2015
August 5, 2015
A Virtual Vacation
Happy Wednesday, people! I’m at Geeks today talking about summer vacation (or lack thereof). Hope you join me!
Image courtesy of Buzzfeed
July 31, 2015
Cover Reveal: Serena’s Fall by MK Smith
I am so psyched to introduce to ya’ll a fabulous new writer on the scene: MK Smith. You’ll have to wait a few more days to get your hot little hands on his debut (preorder buttons below), but put August 4 on the calendar, people. You won’t want to miss this one. Isn’t the cover killer?
Genre: Urban Fantasy Romance * Publisher: Champagne Books *
Date of Publication: August 4, 2015 * ISBN: 978-1-77155-198-4 *
Number of pages: 267 * Word Count: 94K * Cover Artist: Trisha FitzGerald
Available for preorder at Champagne Books * Amazon * B&N * Kobo
Book Description:
Betrayed by her once-upon-a-naive-time friends, Serena, the last Water Fey, can’t touch any man she would ever want without dooming him to a hero’s brutal death. So she lives outcast among her own kind, caring for orphaned Fey children, casualties of an ancient war that broke magic and doomed the Fey to possible extinction.
Now her friends are back, desperate to use her powers to stop the return of the greatest evil the Fey have ever faced. Prophesy says if she doesn’t magic-up a hero and bond him to a mysterious, mystical sword, the human world will be the next to fall.
Two potential heroes surface—Lance, the free spirited surfer, and the doomed warrior Gramm. Both men want her, both need her, and both have a claim to her heart.
But Serena’s tired of human heroes dying because some Water Fey said so. With her combat boots strung tight and her corset even tighter, maybe it’s time to weave some new lines of destiny. Goth style.
I couldn’t stand still. I paced alongside the boxes and ran my nails down the cardboard. If I were a cat, my hair would have stood on end, and my tail would have twitched.
Chloe said nothing. Her eyes darted between Rachel’s and mine but couldn’t find a place to land.
I waited for her to say something brilliant, but I didn’t expect anything would make me want to be part of her Alice in Wonderland insanity. This was Morían. Morían Le Fey. The walking genocide who painted the White Isle in blood, broke the flow of magic, and decimated every Fey clan this side of the veil in a single night—oh, and started a war that killed millions of humans.
Sure, we’ll handle her.
Heat radiated out from my core, and my skin tingled as if I were breaking out in a cold sweat. But Water Fey didn’t sweat. I tugged at my corset and wished I had laced tighter. We didn’t stand a single chance in all the nine hells at fighting one of the most powerful Fey in history.
“Well, I’m listening. But this is beyond crazy. We’re eighteen years old, not one hundred eighty. We’re barely old enough to even have powers by Fey standards. And the Incarnates, the most powerful Fey from each clan, who stopped her last time were thousands of years old.” I hoped I wasn’t sneering too loud.
Rachel ignored me and threw her best you’re wasting my time look at Chloe. “So, where is she staging her comeback?” Her tone said she wasn’t expecting much of an answer.
“The vision’s…complicated.” Chloe focused on Rachel, with less naked hostility, but her voice rose sharply. She chewed her bottom lip. Complicated my ass. She was hiding something.
“So you don’t know.” Rachel went right for the kill. “Was it even your vision?”
Chloe stomped her right foot. “Yes. It was.”
The proximity alarm sounded in my head. Crash imminent, I decided to speed it up so I could go home. Chloe’s moment to take the lead had passed. If she had straight answers she would have spoken up by now. She had to be hoping we could roll back to the days when—details irrelevant—we’d have done anything for each other.
Those days were gone.
MK Smith writes urban fantasy with attitude, telling stories filled with quirky imperfect characters trying to survive life, friendship, and each other. Part Choctaw, all storyteller, a neighbor taught him to love fantasy when she gave him his first book. Since then he has flown on dragons, carried baleful magic in faraway lands, fought supernatural powers, and lived the melancholy of the eternal elves. But the Fey are closest to his heart. And he loves telling their stories round the fire or at his keyboard late into the night. And he’ll keep telling those stories until he becomes a story himself.
Twitter * Facebook * (My web page and blog are delayed but my developer promises them soon…)
How could you resist reading after that last line in the blurb? This one’s absolutely going on on my TBR list. How about you? Are corsets and combat boots your choice of heroine attire?
July 30, 2015
July 29, 2015
Book Spotlight: Castle in the Air by Jennifer Tressen
I’m at Geeks today with a ghost story…woooooooo. Hear the rattle of chains? There’s a giveaway too, so stop on by people!
July 23, 2015
Giveaway and Book Blitz: For No Apparent Reason by S.K. Derban
Over at Geeks again today with a giveaway and spotlight on a mystery romance by S.K. Derban…stop by and say hey!
July 22, 2015
Murder, Mystery and Dating Mayhem by D.E. Haggerty
I’m picking up some double duty at Geeks for a time, so I’ll be there on both Wednesdays and Thursdays. No rest for the wicked, right?
Today is a spotlight on what looks to be a hilarious romantic comedy (there’s a giveaway too), so I hope you drop in!
July 15, 2015
Giveaway, Guest Post, and Review of Broken Mirror by Jessica Aspen
I’m at Geeks today with all sorts of goodies from Jessica Aspen. Get your fantasy geek on and drop on by for a chance to win.
