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April pick for Whitney in the Unleash The Mods™ Challenge
Unleash The Mods™ Challenge [2019] (a.k.a UTM™)
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✨ Blurb ✨

What happens when you wake up in a hotel suite next to a gorgeous naked man with absolutely no memory of the past twelve hours?

I guess it's true what they say. What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.

Or at least I hope it stays here. The Romantic Style convention was meant to be a weekend of raucous fun with friends, sun, and enough poolside margaritas to forget about my ex. But now, instead of meeting my fans and signing books, I'm stuck with cocky divorce lawyer Nate Wexler. He's arrogant, infuriating, and I can't keep my hands off of him. Judging by the state of our hotel room, last night was wild. I just wish I could remember it.

A pair of matching tattoos. A cheap wedding veil. A half empty box of glow in the dark condoms.

What the hell just happened?

Theme for April: Vampires
Book that Won: Glass Houses (The Morganville Vampires #1) by Rachel Caine
Auxiliary Challenge (2019): Rules & How To





From the author of the popular Weather Warden series comes the debut of an exciting new series set in Morganville, Texas, where you would be well advised to avoid being out after dark.

College freshman Claire Danvers has had enough of her nightmarish dorm situation. When Claire heads off-campus, the imposing old house where she finds a room may not be much better. Her new roommates don't show many signs of life, but they'll have Claire's back when the town's deepest secrets come crawling out, hungry for fresh blood. Will she be able to face the town's terror or will she drown like everyone else?

~~ Nominations are now closed. Thanks everyone! ~~

*Will be adding a few more books to round up the poll*

Yeap Bk #3 is already out (summer 2018) and we have no word on Bk #4 yet. If I remember correctly she was either pregnant or sick so it might take some time..

I absolutely adored the first one and can't wait to delve into this one! Yhen I will just have to wait for her to hurry up and write the rest lol :D

Dead Witch Walking (The Hollows #1) by Kim Harrison

✨ The Nominations: ✨



Dead Witch Walking (The Hollows #1) by Kim Harrison
Glass Houses (The Morganville Vampires #1) by Rachel Caine
My Lord Vampire (Immortal Rogues #1) by Alexandra Ivy
To Walk the Night (Kat Redding #1) by E.S. Moore
Blood Blade (Skinners #1) by Marcus Pelegrimas
Already Dead (Joe Pitt #1) by Charlie Huston
The Greyfriar (Vampire Empire #1) by Clay Griffith
Sunshine by Robin McKinley

Our theme/prompt for April will be:


VAMPIRES


Does your choice have blood as a dietery requirement and prefers mostly to go out at night and be all pure allure and evil? If yes, that means you have a vampire in your hands so go ahead and drop your nomination below!


Each person can nominate only ONE book!

•• You can only suggest books you haven't read yet ••


What this is, Rules & How it works can be found HERE.


Nominations: 01.03 to 07.03
Voting: 08.03 to 14.03

Bennett Mafia


There were always whispers about my roommate at Hillcrest Academy.

The wealthiest of the wealthy sent their kids to our boarding school, and Brooke Bennett had been at the top, though I never quite knew why. She was fun and outgoing, but she kept quiet about her family. The only things she showed me were photographs of her brothers.

I became fascinated with her second-oldest brother. Kai Bennett.

He was the most of them all. Smoldering. Hypnotic. Alluring.
Kai had eyes that pulled me in and a face that haunted my dreams.

Then I met him.

He came to our school with their father, and that’s when I learned what kind of family Brooke came from. They were mafia, and Brooke’s oldest brother was dead. Her father said accident, but Brooke said murder.

Three months later, her father died, and Kai became the head of the Bennett Family. Brooke left Hillcrest for good, and that was the last time I saw her.

Fourteen years later, I’m staring at her face on the television. Brooke is missing.

Two days later, Kai Bennett kidnaps me.



Expected publication: March 4, 2019

March pick for Maraya in the Unleash The Mods™ Challenge
Unleash The Mods™ Challenge [2019] (a.k.a UTM™)
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✨ Blurb ✨

Ever get a job that sucks?
My name is Iza Black and my life IS the sucky job.
I mean yeah, there are perks. Live-in maid service, free food and I get this purple, sparkly aura thing.
But there are way more bad parts.
So many people, so much pain. Sleep has divorced me completely and I'm living their nightmares now too.
I'm not sure I'm strong enough for this, that I can do what needs to be done. But I have to. Because it's my job...because someone needs to. These people need violence to meet violence. Hugs don't always fix things in our world.
Then there's Phobe. Frustrating, Phobe-the-jerk.
How does he fit into this, you may ask?
Keep reading and you'll find out.


Please be advised: **This book contains violence and other content which may be triggering to readers.**

March pick for Kylie in the Unleash The Mods™ Challenge
Unleash The Mods™ Challenge [2019] (a.k.a UTM™)
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✨ Blurb ✨

Erika

I was told that dreams were our heart’s desires. My nightmares, however, became my obsession.

His name is Michael Crist.

My boyfriend’s older brother is like that scary movie that you peek through your hand to watch. He is handsome, strong, and completely terrifying. The star of his college’s basketball team and now gone pro, he’s more concerned with the dirt on his shoe than me.

But I noticed him.

I saw him. I heard him. The things that he did, and the deeds that he hid…For years, I bit my nails, unable to look away.

Now, I’ve graduated high school and moved on to college, but I haven’t stopped watching Michael. He’s bad, and the dirt I’ve seen isn’t content to stay in my head anymore.

Because he’s finally noticed me.

Michael

Her name is Erika Fane, but everyone calls her Rika.

My brother’s girlfriend grew up hanging around my house and is always at our dinner table. She looks down when I enter a room and stills when I am close. I can always feel the fear rolling off of her, and while I haven’t had her body, I know that I have her mind. That’s all I really want anyway.

Until my brother leaves for the military, and I find Rika alone at college.

In my city.

Unprotected.

The opportunity is too good to be true as well as the timing. Because you see, three years ago she put a few of my high school friends in prison, and now they’re out.

We’ve waited. We’ve been patient. And now every last one of her nightmares will come true.


***Corrupt can be read as a stand-alone. No cliffhanger.

March pick for Whitney in the Unleash The Mods™ Challenge
Unleash The Mods™ Challenge [2019] (a.k.a UTM™)
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✨ Blurb ✨

When the new girl in town, Eliza “Izzy” Forrester decides to hit the local drinking hole, she’s not ready to meet the town’s good, solid guy. She’s definitely not prepared to engage in her very first hookup with him.

Then Izzy wakes up the next morning in Johnny Gamble’s bed and good girl Izzy finds she likes being bad for Johnny.

Even so, Izzy feels Johnny holding her at arm’s length. But Johnny makes it clear he wants more and Izzy already knows she wants as much of hot-in-bed, sweet-out-of-it Johnny Gamble.

Floating on air thinking this is going somewhere, Izzy quickly learns why Johnny holds distant.

He’s in love with someone else. Someone who left him and did it leaving him broken. Whoever was up next would be runner up, second best. Knowing the stakes, Izzy will take what she can get from the gentleman that’s Johnny Gamble. And even knowing his heart might never mend, Johnny can’t seem to stay away from Izzy.

Until out of nowhere, his lost love comes back to town. He’s not going back, but Johnny still knows the right thing to do is let Izzy go.

And Izzy knew the stakes, so she makes it easy and slips through his fingers.

But that’s before Johnny realizes Eliza moved to town to escape danger that’s been swirling around her.

And that’s why Johnny decides to wade in.

That and the fact Eliza Forrester makes breakfast with a canary singing on her shoulder and fills out tight dresses in a way Johnny Gamble cannot get out of his head.

Theme for March: Cozy Mystery
Book that Won: What Angels Fear (Sebastian St. Cyr #1) by C.S. Harris
Auxiliary Challenge (2019): Rules & How To





It's 1811, and the threat of revolution haunts the upper classes of King George III's England. Then a beautiful young woman is found raped and savagely murdered on the altar steps of an ancient church near Westminster Abbey. A dueling pistol discovered at the scene and the damning testimony of a witness both point to one man, Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, a brilliant young nobleman shattered by his experience in the Napoleonic Wars.

Now a fugitive running for his life, Sebastian calls upon his skill as an agent during the war to catch the killer and prove his own innocence. In the process, he accumulates a band of unlikely allies, including the enigmatic beauty Kat Boleyn, who broke Sebastian's heart years ago. In Sebastian's world of intrigue and espionage, nothing is as it seems, yet the truth may hold the key to the future of the British monarchy, as well as to Sebastian's own salvation....

Release Date: March 4, 2019

Goodreads: Bennett Mafia
Amazon/Kindle: no preorder because it'll go LIVE March 4th and into Kindle Unlimited as well.
iBooks/Nook/Kobo: https://books2read.com/u/bQxxrZ

Bennett Mafia


There were always whispers about my roommate at Hillcrest Academy.

The wealthiest of the wealthy sent their kids to our boarding school, and Brooke Bennett had been at the top, though I never quite knew why. She was fun and outgoing, but she kept quiet about her family. The only things she showed me were photographs of her brothers.

I became fascinated with her second-oldest brother. Kai Bennett.

He was the most of them all. Smoldering. Hypnotic. Alluring.
Kai had eyes that pulled me in and a face that haunted my dreams.

Then I met him.

He came to our school with their father, and that’s when I learned what kind of family Brooke came from. They were mafia, and Brooke’s oldest brother was dead. Her father said accident, but Brooke said murder.

Three months later, her father died, and Kai became the head of the Bennett Family. Brooke left Hillcrest for good, and that was the last time I saw her.

Fourteen years later, I’m staring at her face on the television. Brooke is missing.

Two days later, Kai Bennett kidnaps me.


From Tijan:
** a 120k full-length standalone (Not connected or related to any other of my books. Totally brand new!)

~~ Nominations are now closed. Thanks everyone! ~~

*Will be adding a few more books to round up the poll*

Ghostly Paws (Mystic Notch #1) by Leighann Dobbs

✨ The Nominations: ✨



Ghostly Paws (Mystic Notch #1) by Leighann Dobbs
I'm the Vampire, That's Why (Broken Heart #1) by Michele Bardsley
Secondhand Spirits (A Witchcraft Mystery #1) by Juliet Blackwell
Night of the Living Deed (A Haunted Guesthouse Mystery #1) by E.J. Copperman
Louisiana Longshot (Miss Fortune Mystery #1) by Jana Deleon
The Ghost of Marlow House (Haunting Danielle #1) by Bobbi Holmes
Nearly Departed in Deadwood (Deadwood #1) by Ann Charles
What Angels Fear (Sebastian St. Cyr #1) by C.S. Harris

Our theme/prompt for March will be:


COZY MYSTERY


Does your choice have murders that take place off stage, are often relatively bloodless (e.g. poisoning), while sexual activity (if any) between characters is only ever gently implied and never directly addressed and usually takes place in a small town or village were the amateur sleuth is usually a very likeable person who is able to get the community members to talk freely about each other? If yes, that means you have a cozy mystery in your hands so go ahead and drop your nomination below!


Each person can nominate only ONE book!

•• You can only suggest books you haven't read yet ••


What this is, Rules & How it works can be found HERE.


Nominations: 01.02 to 07.02
Voting: 08.02 to 14.02

February pick for Whitney in the Unleash The Mods™ Challenge
Unleash The Mods™ Challenge [2019] (a.k.a UTM™)
Unleash The Mods™ 2019 -- Tracker


✨ Blurb ✨

The FBI doesn’t usually consult with music therapists to solve their cases. But Kendra Michaels' astonishing powers of observation and analysis have made her a favorite of law enforcement agencies all across the country. Blind for the first twenty years of her life, she cares little for investigative work but can’t deny her unique skill, or the results she’s been able to facilitate. Kendra learned at an early age to become hyper-aware of her surroundings, perfecting the art of picking up the most subtle audio, olfactory, and tactile cues in the world around her. Like a secret weapon, she is in high demand.

Former FBI agent Adam Lynch, known as The Puppetmaster, has weapons of his own. He’s a notorious master manipulator, skillfully handling criminals and colleagues alike to get the results he wants. Now he needs Kendra’s special brand of help, but she’s not interested until Lynch reveals that Agent Jeff Stedler—Kendra’s ex—is missing and may have run directly into the path of a serial killer. What began as a heinous murder investigation escalates into something even larger and more frightening: a multi-million dollar conspiracy to hide a secret that’s worth killing for, again and again and again.