Cover Reveal and Giveaway: The Light of Day by Kristen Kehoe

Today I am excited to announce and share the cover of The Light of Day by Kristen Kehoe. Isn't it lovely? The Light of Day is a New Adult contemporary. This is an installment in the Beyond the Horizon series, not a sequel and does not need to be read after Beyond the Horizon. Release date is October 2014. 

 The first two chapters can be read at www.kristenkehoe.com.
 

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About the Author:

Mom, Wife, Coffee Addict, and Book Lover

I am a writer of YA/NA contemporary novels.  I write about those crazy ages of 18-23 because there is nothing scarier than being told to grow up and decide what to do with your life and who to be so suddenly.  I write about love because it’s my belief that love, in one form or another, saves us all at some point in our lives.  I am married to a man who understands and believes in me, and mother to a beautiful baby girl and a neurotic Great Dane Puppy.
 

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An American Girl in Italy by Aubrie Dionne: Book Review + Giveaway

Kinky Vanilla Romance is pleased to share An American Girl in Italy by Aubrie Dionne.

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An American Girl in Italy by Aubrie Dionne

182 pages

An Italian paradise is the last thing she wants… but the one thing she needs!

Surely any girl would kill for the chance to tour Italy’s most famous cities for the summer? To experience the warmth of the Tuscan sun, the culinary delights of the pizzerias and caffés and to stroll along the cobbled streets of the City of Love itself… Any girl apart from ambitious oboist Carly Davis that is! For her, the Easthampton Civic Symphony’s latest European tour is one massive inconvenience. She can’t even put her smartphone down long enough to snap a picture of the Coliseum. Only, there’s one Italian attraction that Carly hadn’t quite expected to be a part of the tourist route…

Tour guide Michelangelo is as dark and delicious as Carly’s morning espresso. And when she needs a few lessons in the language of love to land her an important gig, he’s a more than capable tutor.

But with her promising career back in Boston, can Carly really afford to lose her heart in Italy?

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My Rambles:

An American Girl in Italy is a delightfully sweet romance that will make you want to start planning a trip to Italy ASAP.

Carly is a talented classically-trained musician who is very career-minded. She is all about business when she arrives in Italy with the Easthampton Civic Symphony on a tour. She is packing an oboe and a bad attitude. If Michaelangelo's name doesn't make you swoon, his bio will. He's an Italian tour guide and vineyard owner who is dedicated to his family and business. He felt almost too good to be true.

I love stories where the relationship starts off rocky. I enjoyed watching Carly and Michaelangelo's attraction grow as they opened their hearts and minds to the possibility of romance. It happens kinda quickly, but makes sense with the story (it is a two-week tour). Aubrie Dionne does a great job of setting the scenes in Italy. I especially liked the secondary characters in the story. They were fleshed out and really added to the book (unlike some other books that I have read recently - SMH).

An American Girl in Italy is well-paced and easy to read. I would describe the book as a light romance or women's fiction with a touch of romance. I think that it would be a good weekend read or beach read for fans of sweet romance and fans of Italy.

My recommendation? Pack your virtual bags and take a trip to Italy by reading the book.


NOTE: This post is part of the book tour hosted by CBB Book Promotions. I received a free copy of the book in exchange for an honest review.

About the Author:

Aubrie Dionne is an author and flutist in New England. Her books have received the highest ratings from Romance Times Magazine, as well as Night Owl Reviews and Two Lips Reviews. She has guest blogged on the USA Today Happily Ever After Blog and the Dear Teen Me blog and signed books at the Boston Book Festival, Barnes and Noble, and the Romance Writers of America conference. Her writings have appeared in Mindflights, Niteblade, Silver Blade, Emerald Tales, Hazard Cat, Moon Drenched Fables, A Fly in Amber, and Aurora Wolf. Her books are published by Astraea Press, Spencer Hill Press, Entangled Publishing, Inkspell Publishing, Lyrical Press, and Gypsy Shadow Publishing. When she’s not writing, Aubrie teaches flute and plays in orchestras.
 

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Wild Iris Ridge by RaeAnne Thayne: Book Review + Giveaway

Welcome to my tour stop for Wild Iris Ridge by RaeAnne Thayne. This is an adult contemporary romance published by Harlequin.
 

 

The tour runs July 21-31 with reviews, author interviews and guest posts.
 

Make sure to check out the Tour Page & Schedule.

 

Wild Iris Ridge by RaeAnne Thayne

Release: July 2014
Imprint: Harlequin HQN
ISBN: 978-0-373-77859-1
Pages: 352

 

Description
 

A big-city, high-powered advertising executive and a small-town firefighter learn that no matter where you started or what you’ve lost, if you open your heart, you can find joy and love again. WILD IRIS RIDGE is the latest book in USA TODAY bestselling author RaeAnne Thayne’s charming Hope’s Crossing series.

 

Lucy Drake and Brendan Caine have only one thing in common. And it's likely to tear them apart. Because it was Brendan's late wife, Jessie—and Lucy's best friend—who'd brought them together in the first place. And since Jesse's passing, Brendan's been distracted by his two little ones… and the memory of an explosive kiss with Lucy years before his marriage. Still, he'll steer clear of her. She's always been trouble with a capital T.

 

Lucy couldn't wait to shed her small-town roots for the big city. But now that she's back in Hope's Crossing to take care of the Queen Anne home her late aunt has left her, she figures seeing Brendan Caine again is no big deal. After all, she'd managed to resist the handsome fire chief once before, but clearly the embers of their attraction are still smoldering…

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About the Author

 

USA TODAY bestselling author RaeAnne Thayne loves words. This led her to a fifteen-year career in journalismas a newspaper reporter and editor. But through it all, she dreamed of writing the kind of stories she loved best, romance, and has since published more than 40 titles. RaeAnne finds inspiration in the rugged northern Utah mountains, where she lives with her hero of a husband and their children. She loves to hear from readers and can be reached through her website, RaeAnneThayne.com.
 

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My Rambles

 

 

Wild Iris Ridge by RaeAnne Thayne is book is the seventh and final installment of the Hope's Crossing series. This is the first book that I have read by RaeAnne Thayne. I was able to follow the storyline easily despite not having read books one through six.

I was initially drawn to this book by it's cover. Is it lovely?  I would love to have a reading chair inside of that flower garden. And Thayne's writing style is as lovely as the cover. I planned to read Wild Iris Ridge over a week's time, but got so engrossed that I read it over a weekend. This story contains frenemies, young children, wayward siblings, and puppies - all in need of saving to some degree. I got caught up in pulling for their happily-ever-afters.

I really enjoyed the build up of the romance between Lucy and Brendan. Their dialogue was smart, funny, and relatable. Although there are no graphic sex scenes (or sex scenes at all for that matter), their sexual chemistry was palpable. Frenemies to lovers is hard to pull off, but Thayne does it successfully with tenderness and humor.
 

Readers love books that stir their emotions. This book does just that.

 

When I finished Wild Iris Ridge, all I could do was sigh. My to-be-read list instantly expanded by seven books. I enjoyed reading about the Caine family and the townspeople of Hope's Crossing so much that I am going to read the previous books in the series. I am also looking forward to the release of Snow Angel Cove (book one in Thayne' new Haven Point series) this fall.  

If you are a fan of romances involving small towns, widowers, or kids, then Wild Iris Ridge is a sweet romance that you won't want to miss. It is a story about surviving tragedy and seizing second chances.

 

So what are you waiting for? Enter to win a book from the Hope’s Crossing series right now! 

 



 

NOTE: I read this book as part of a CBB Book Promotions Tour. I received a free copy from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.


 

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Cover Reveal and Giveaway: Neurotica by Eliza Gordon

I am excited to share the cover for the adult romantic comedy, Neurotica by Eliza Gordon.

It comes out in August.

NEUROTICA by Eliza Gordon

 

If you find yourself talking to Jayne Dandy, keep the conversation on Star Wars and rubber ducks—best not to mention men, dating, or S-E-X. Because Jayne is fine with the way things are: writer of obituaries and garage sale ads by day, secret scribe of adventures in distant galaxies by night. But her crippling fear of intimacy has made her the butt of jokes since forever, and hiding behind her laptop isn’t going to get her lightsaber lit.
 

After her therapist recommends that she write erotica as a form of exposure therapy, Jayne joins forces with pen and paper to combat the demons that won’t let her kiss and tell. Unexpectedly downsized at work, she adopts a pseudonym and secretly self-publishes one of her naughty books to make ends meet. When her adorable, long-time friend Luke, co-owner of the popular Portland food truck LukePiewalker’s, hears she’s been demoted, he insists on hiring her to sling éclairs and turnovers at his side. Her secret must be kept, but sparks ignite between them, sending Jayne and her X-Wing into a tailspin that will either make her face down her neuroses or trigger a meltdown of Death Star proportions.

About Eliza Gordon

A purveyor of fictions, Eliza Gordon has excellent taste in books, shoes, movies, and friends, and questionable sanity in the realm of love. Best leave that one alone. http://www.elizagordon.com/

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Author Karen Kincy Discusses Storms of Lazarus, Insta-love, & Writing (+ Giveaway)

 

Today we're bringing you an interview with Karen Kincy, author of Storms of Lazarus.  

This is the second book in the Shadows of Asphodel series.  This is a new adult dieselpunk romance and releases in July.  Check out the stunning cover, the author interview, and then enter the giveaway!

 

Storms of Lazarus (Shadows of Asphodel #2)

Sometimes escape is impossible. Sometimes love isn't enough.

 

 

1913. Christmas Eve. Ardis hardly expects a quiet holiday with Wendel, between fleeing Constantinople and hiding from an ancient society of assassins. And they owe a debt to a certain archmage.

In Königsberg, Prussia, they work with Konstantin on the next evolution of Project Lazarus. Wendel once called Königsberg home, the city now besieged by the Russians and their clockwork engines of war. This may be Wendel’s last chance to save his family and find redemption, but he's tormented by nightmares and tempted by laudanum. Ardis fears her love isn’t enough to save Wendel. Her hands are full piloting the automatons, and she's terrified to tell him a secret of her own. Will they—and their love—survive the storms of war?

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Author Interview
 

What came first, the characters or the story itself?
 

The characters came first. This is going to sound very Twilight, but I dreamed about the first scene in the book, where Wendel is bleeding out in the snow. And when I woke up and wrote down the scene, the rest of the characters and the story itself soon followed.

 

What about your characters surprised you while writing?

 

How quickly they had chemistry on the page. I know readers dislike "insta-love," but for Ardis and Wendel it felt like the right thing to do for their personalities. Yes, there's definitely lust in there, but it leads to something deeper. (Confession: I believe in insta-love in real life.)

 

What was your favorite chapter (or part) of Shadows of Asphodel to write and why?

 

I really liked writing the scene in the cafe with the French toast, because of the banter between Ardis and Wendel.

 

Do you have an ideal reader in mind when you write? If so, please describe that reader.

 

My ideal reader is someone who wants intelligent romance and a pretty gritty fantasy plot in the same book. Someone who wants two badass characters to meet and fall in love while fighting side by side in an intricate dieselpunk world. And this reader should appreciate steamy sex scenes. Really, any reader who genuinely gets the book works for me. 

 

Tell us your most rewarding experience since being published.

 

Every time a reader tells me they loved my characters I feel that first-page-of-a-new-book excitement all over again.

 

How did you celebrate the sale of your first book? 

 

Pizza. ;)

 

What’s your biggest challenge as a writer? How did you overcome it, or how are you working to overcome it?

 

My biggest challenge as a writer is doubt, and it's something I'm sure all writers struggle to overcome. If I stopped doubting myself, I doubt I'd ever improve. Of course, there should be limits--it doesn't help to angst over reviews or stop drafting out of paralysis. Fans and good reviews help a lot. Trolls and bad reviews, not so much. Still learning how to deal with those.

 

Do you prefer to write in silence or with music?

 

Music! I can't concentrate in silence.

 

Finish the sentence- one book I wish I had written is….

 

I wish I'd written Harry Potter, because then I would be a really awesome writer and know how to do some killer worldbuilding. I mean, damn.

 

If you could travel in a time machine, would you go back to the past or into the future? 

 

The past! I'd be highly tempted to go back to 1913, the year of my book, and do some research for my alternate history world. Because I'm a researchaholic. And there were some really sexy men's suits back then.

 

If someone wrote a biography about you, what do you think the title of the book should be? Why?

The title should be Boneheaded because it's true. ;)

 

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About the Author:
 

Karen Kincy (Kirkland, Washington) can be found lurking in her writing cave, though sunshine will lure her outside. When not writing, she stays busy gardening, tinkering with aquariums, or running just one more mile. Karen has a BA in Linguistics and Literature from The Evergreen State College.

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InkHeart Authors Sale Promo & Giveaway - Adult Romance

InkHeart Authors presents two boxed sets for your summer reading pleasure!
 

Make sure to download both the Sexy and Sweet AND the Steamy and Sizzling Set - 21 books for $5.98!
 

***Available for ONE MONTH ONLY***

 

Sexy and Sweet Summer Reads 
 

Available for only $2.99 at:
 

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 Falling Into Forever by Elena Aitken  

Secrets cause Kari to run, Rhys is determined to catch her, can she find the courage to trust again?  

A Daughter’s Place by CJ Carmichael  

For the sake of her child, a single mother must face the father who disowned her, the ex-boyfriend who hurt her and the neighbor she's always loved in... 

Tempt Me Cowboy by Megan Crane  

Chelsea Collier is a good girl schoolteacher who’s never done a bad thing in her life, but bad boy newcomer Jasper Flint is definitely a bad thing worth doing…  

His for the Weekend by Janelle Denison  

After nine years apart, one forbidden kiss between past lovers leads to one hot weekend, but when their time together is over, will Rachel walk away from Luke again, or can he convince her to stay and be his forever?  

Unspoken by Lauren Hawkeye  

Once, Ellie Kendrick was the only thing that Dominic Gabriel wanted... now she’s back and her version of what happened between them so long ago makes him question everything he knows about himself as a man...  

Weekend with the Tycoon by Kaira Rouda  

When wealthy tycoon Blake Putnam invites employee Samantha Jones to a family wedding on Indigo island with no strings attached he knows it’s risky business, but neither of them expects what happens next. 

Sweet Reunion by Melanie Shawn   

Sometimes first love deserves a second chance.  

The Start of Something Good by Renee Vincent writing as Gracie Lee Rose 

Who knew Mr. Right lived right next door? 

Where Their Hearts Collide by Zoe York  

When the girl next door meets the man of her dreams...at exactly the wrong time. 

 

Steamy and Sizzling Summer Reads
 

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The CEO's Fantasy by RG Alexander 

Dean and Sara agree to a month of indulging their most forbidden fantasies--but when reality is better than his wildest dreams, will the CEO break his own rules to keep her?

Wicked All The Way by Shayla Black 

When a gruff military man with a desire to control seduces a skittish divorcee bent on finding her independence, will she give in to more than their sizzling chemistry?

The Dom Who Loved Me by Lexi Blake 

Sent to steal her secrets, he soon craved her submission. 

The Male Stripper by Opal Carew 

Her ultimate sexual fantasy brought to life....not one, but two sexy male strippers for one night of torrid passion she'll never forget. 

Elemental Pleasure by Mari Carr and Lila Dubois

There is passion and power in three.

Grif by Bianca D’Arc 

Grif is far from home when he meets a sexy, magical woman in desperate need of his help. 

Web of Desire by Cathryn Fox 

When the captive suddenly becomes the captor, Ally finds herself tangled in a web of desire—of her own making. 

Allure by Nina Lane 

In Book Two of the sexy Spiral of Bliss trilogy, Liv and Dean West's passionate romance is put to the test as they struggle with an unexpected family crisis. 

One Hot Fall Term by Sharon Page 

College freshman Mia fights to make a long distance relationship work with her gorgeous hometown boyfriend Ryan--but billionaire's son Jonathon plans to seduce her away. 

Dare to Love by Carly Phillips 

When a man who requires dominance falls for a woman who needs independence, can they survive the fallout? 

The Great Escape by Suzanne Rock 

Gianni loves dominating Sienna during her sessions at the Ecstasy Spa, but when his ex-lover returns and wants in on the action, all three of them uncover a bond that forces them change their views about love.

Through My Window by Jayne Rylon

What happens when a sex worker fall in love with a client but doesn't plan to quit her job?

Rocked by Cari Quinn and Taryn Elliott 

Love definitely wasn't on the setlist.

 

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Cover Reveal: Storms of Lazarus by Karen Kincy (+ Giveaway)

Today we're bringing you the cover reveal for Storms of Lazarus by Karen Kincy.  

This is the second book in the Shadows of Asphodel series.  This is a new adult dieselpunk romance and releases in July.  Check out this stunning cover and then enter the giveaway!

 

Storms of Lazarus (Shadows of Asphodel #2)

Sometimes escape is impossible. Sometimes love isn't enough.

 

 

1913. Christmas Eve. Ardis hardly expects a quiet holiday with Wendel, between fleeing Constantinople and hiding from an ancient society of assassins. And they owe a debt to a certain archmage.

In Königsberg, Prussia, they work with Konstantin on the next evolution of Project Lazarus. Wendel once called Königsberg home, the city now besieged by the Russians and their clockwork engines of war. This may be Wendel’s last chance to save his family and find redemption, but he's tormented by nightmares and tempted by laudanum. Ardis fears her love isn’t enough to save Wendel. Her hands are full piloting the automatons, and she's terrified to tell him a secret of her own. Will they—and their love—survive the storms of war?

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Shadows of Asphodel (Shadows of Asphodel #1)

 

 

She never asked for the undying loyalty of a necromancer.
 

1913. Austria-Hungary. Ardis knows better than to save a man on the battlefield. Even if he manages to be a charming bastard while bleeding out in the snow. She hasn’t survived this long as a mercenary without some common sense.

When she rescues Wendel, it isn’t because he's devilishly handsome, but because he's a necromancer. His touch can revive the dead, and Ardis worries he will return from the grave to hunt her down. Besides, a necromancer can be useful in this world on the brink of war.
 

A gentleman of questionable morals, Wendel drops to one knee and pledges his undying loyalty to Ardis. She resists falling for him, no matter how hot the tension smolders between them. Especially when she discovers Wendel's scars run much deeper than his skin, and it might be too late to truly save him from himself.

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About the Author:
 

Karen Kincy (Kirkland, Washington) can be found lurking in her writing cave, though sunshine will lure her outside. When not writing, she stays busy gardening, tinkering with aquariums, or running just one more mile. Karen has a BA in Linguistics and Literature from The Evergreen State College.

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Teaser Tour: Fractured by Leanne Pearson (+ Giveaway)

Fractured is a New Adult Contemporary Romance by Leanne Pearson.

 

It was just released on June 1st, 2014. 

 

To celebrate the release of Fractured we have a teaser tour for you all to go along with a great giveaway!

 

 

 

 

Fractured by Leanne Pearson

For twenty three year old Katrina Smith, the events of one day irrevocably changed her life. Life in Christchurch, New Zealand, couldn't have been better. She was in love with a wonderful man, had a job she enjoyed, and had her life mapped out before her... What dawned as a typical summer’s day, changed into a day of devastation and overwhelming loss. An insidious danger lay beneath the benign land surface, seismic tension, like a ticking time-bomb, was counting down to a catastrophe. And Kate and her boyfriend, Daniel, were in its path. It took mere seconds for the world to be ripped out from under her. Suddenly, Kate was deluged by a vortex of Post Traumatic Stress, guilt and crippling anguish. Dominic Dell’Antonio, an American marine working in New Zealand, was a man hiding from his own demons which lurked behind depthless blue eyes that read so much, yet yielded so little. He kept himself aloof and isolated. Nightmares regularly plagued him. As Kate slipped under a suffocating wave of heartache, she blocks out the world behind self imposed walls, drowning in the torrents of grief. Quiet, yet commanding, Dominic connects with Kate on some inexplicably deeper level. He wants to protect her. He wants to make her his. Two damaged and guarded souls drawn together through tragic circumstances. Two lonely hearts drawn to one another to find comfort.

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TEASER

 

He leans across the table and moves the hair out of my face to touch my cheek. I inwardly cringe; my ugly scar now fully exposed.

"So easy to coax a blush outta this gorgeous face, ain’t it?" he murmurs.

My cheek tingles where his fingers brushed across it and butterflies take flight in my stomach. Oddly, I have the urge to cry though, as his touch stirs memories of a forgotten longing: The yearning to be touched intimately. Held. Comforted. That must be it. I'm lonely. It's the only logical explanation for the confusing feelings I’m experiencing around this man.

"My face is scarred, Dominic. It's an ugly reminder I have to look at every day."

Dominic takes my hand in his, and my breath hitches. He pins me with his eyes.

"It's not somethin' I even notice, sweetheart. It's invisible to me. What I do see is an exquisitely beautiful woman who has experienced unimaginable loss and hurt, but she survived. Don't allow this to define you. Every time you look in the mirror, let that scar be a reminder that you've been given another chance at life."

"I can't, Dominic. Every time I look at it, it reminds me of what I've lost."

About the Author

Leanne Pearson grew up in Durban, South Africa. She later immigrated to New Zealand, where she now lives with her husband and two children. During her down time, if she's not reading, she can be found relaxing outside, sipping on an apple cider, soaking up the sights and sounds of rural New Zealand. Leanne has had a few feature articles published in the newspaper over the years and has had a flair for creative writing from a very young age.

 

 

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