Release Day Launch:Three Broken Promises (Drew + Fable #3) by Monica Murphy {Excerpt + Giveaway}

Author: Monica Murphy
Title: Three Broken Promises
Series: Drew + Fable #3
Publication Date: December 31st 2013
Publisher: Bantam 
Genre: New Adult Contemporary Romance

ABOUT THREE BROKEN PROMISES

Breakout New Adult sensation Monica Murphy returns with a hot new contemporary romance—a heartfelt story of second chances, forgiveness, and redemption.

Commitment. That’s what I really want from Colin. Ever since my brother, Danny, died in Iraq, Colin’s done so much to help me, including giving me a job at his popular restaurant so I can leave my crappy waitressing job at the strip joint. But lying in bed with him every night to comfort him from his horrible nightmares isn’t enough anymore. I know he feels guilty about Danny’s death, about not going to Iraq, but I can’t keep living this double life.

Blog Tour:Out of Time (Out Of Line #2) by Jen McLaughlin {ARC Review + Giveaway}

Author: Jen McLaughlin
Title: Out of Time
Series: Out Of Line #2
Publication Date: December 3rd 2013
Genre: New Adult Contemporary

Book Summary

Desperate to keep him....

I've finally gotten everything I ever wanted: love, freedom, happiness, and, most importantly, Finn. Our love is everything I expected it to be and more. We've finally found each other, but the world seems determined to tear us apart. We thought my father was the only obstacle between us, but now it's the military. With Finn’s departure looming, we’re squeezing in every moment together before we run out of time.

Trying to make every moment count…

Being Carrie’s bodyguard was one thing. Being her boyfriend is another. Every day she’s mine is a day the sun shines in my life. Yet our time together is running out. Her father will never think a tattooed Marine will be good enough so I’ll do with whatever it takes to be worthy of her love. But the road will take me away from the girl who makes me feel alive--the girl I can't live without.

Book Blitz:Pentimento by Cameron Jace {Excerpt + Giveaway}

Author: Cameron Jace
Title: Pentimento
Publication date: December 20th 2013
Genres: Paranormal, Post-Apocalyptic, Young Adult

Synopsis

The day Iris Beaumont turns seventeen, she is threatened to be taken by the Beasts, the rulers of the new America. After the destruction of the world, the Beasts provide citizens with whatever they need in exchange for the one teenage girl they enslave every week. They call them the Brides, and they never comes back. Iris isn’t the worrying type though; she’s been defying the system since she was ten and never cared for the Beast’s rules.

Then she meets Colton Ray, who is not like any other boy she’s ever seen. His confidence and dominance are otherworldly she can’t rationalize the attraction she feels for him. Colton had one slight problem though. It’s rumored he is one of the Beast, and Iris could be the next on the Beast’s list.

Book Blitz:Insanity by Cameron Jace {Excerpt + Giveaway}

Author: Cameron Jace
Title: Insanity
Publication date: December 20th 2013
Genres: Fantasy, New Adult, Paranormal

Synopsis

After accidentally killing everyone in her class, Alice Wonder is now a patient in the Radcliffe Lunatic Asylum. No one doubts her insanity. Only a hookah-smoking professor believes otherwise; that he can prove her sanity by decoding Lewis Carroll’s paintings, photographs, and find Wonderland’s real whereabouts. Professor Caterpillar persuades the asylum that Alice can save lives and catch the wonderland monsters now reincarnated in modern day criminals. In order to do so, Alice leads a double life: an Oxford university student by day, a mad girl in an asylum by night. The line between sanity and insanity thins when she meets Jack Diamond, an arrogant college student who believes that nonsense is an actual science.

Cover Reveal:The Deep End of the Sea by Heather Lyons

Carly Stevens designed the cover with artwork from Kelsey Patton.

Author: Heather Lyons
Title: The Deep End of the Sea 
Publication Date: February 13th 2014 
Genre: New Adult Fantasy

About THE DEEP END OF THE SEA

What if all the legends you’ve learned were wrong?

Brutally attacked by one god and unfairly cursed by another she faithfully served, Medusa has spent the last two thousand years living out her punishment on an enchanted isle in the Aegean Sea. A far cry from the monster legends depict, she’s spent her time educating herself, gardening, and desperately trying to frighten away adventure seekers who occasionally end up, much to her dismay, as statues when they manage to catch her off guard. As time marches on without her, Medusa wishes for nothing more than to be given a second chance at a life stolen away at far too young an age.

Book Blitz:The Cure by Stephanie Erickson {Excerpt + Giveaway}

Author: Stephanie Erickson 
Title: The Cure
Publication date: November 14th 2013
Genres: Dystopia, Young Adult

Synopsis

“One life will make the difference.” Macey Holsinger has been hearing that promise her whole life. But it hasn’t saved anyone yet, not even her little brother.

The disease has claimed countless lives in the last hundred years, and the government is working hard to find a cure through human testing. Testing that has killed nearly as many people as the disease.

At sixteen, Macey has better things to think about than saving lives and submitting to any rule other than her parents’. As a budding artist, she has her whole life ahead of her, at least until she faces her own testing.

Questions plague Macey. Questions that make everyone else nervous. How can death be justified with more death? What’s the point of all this?

Book Blitz:Ondine by (Ondine Quartet #0.5) by Emma Raveling {Excerpt}

Author: Emma Raveling  

Title: Ondine  
Series: Ondine Quartet #0.5 
Publication date: December 19th 2013
Genres: Urban Fantasy, Young Adult

Synopsis

“I shouldn’t get involved.”

Rebellious and headstrong, sixteen-year-old Kendra Irisavie doesn’t have much respect for authority. An ondine with the powerful gift of Virtue, she uses her tough attitude and Empath magic to navigate through high school and keep others away.

Because being an ondine also means keeping secrets.

Kendra and her mother are Rogue water elementals in the middle of an ancient war. They hide among humans, their survival constantly threatened by monstrous Aquidae demons.

Along with a rigorous training regimen to mold Kendra into a lethal fighter, her mother has instituted four rules to keep her safe.

Cover Reveal:I See London by Chanel Cleeton {Teasers + Excerpt + Giveaway}

Author: Chanel Cleeton
Title: I See London
Publication Date: February 3rd 2014
Publisher:Harlequin HQN (Digital First)
Genre: New Adult Contemporary Romance

BOOK BLURB

Maggie Carpenter is ready for a change— and to leave her ordinary life in South Carolina behind. But when she accepts a scholarship to the International School in London, a university attended by the privileged offspring of diplomats and world leaders, Maggie might get more than she bargained for.

When Maggie meets Hugh, a twentysomething British guy, she finds herself living the life she always wanted. Suddenly she’s riding around the city in a Ferrari, wearing borrowed designer clothes and going to the hottest clubs. The only problem? Another guy, the one she can’t seem to keep her hands off of.

Book Blitz:Tethered (BirthRight #1) by Brandi Leigh Hall {Excerpt}

Author: Brandi Leigh Hall  

Title: Tethered 
Series: BirthRight #1 
Publication date: October 29th 2013
Genres: New Adult, Urban Fantasy

Synopsis

No matter how hard you fight it—destiny has a mind of its own!

Since foreseeing the imminent death of her parents six years earlier, Chloe has lived a simple, not-so-charmed-life away from her remaining Wiccan family.

Zero magic.

No close friendships.

While struggling to bench-press more guilt than any nineteen-year-old ever should.

But fate intervenes and forces Chloe to return home. As if being an in-the-closet-Seer wasn’t bad enough, now she has to spend summer break with the snarky sister who hates her—and the magical birthright she was hell-bent on denying for all eternity.

Cover Reveal:The Silver Rift (The Silver Rift #1) by Teal Haviland

Author: Teal Haviland
Title: The Silver Rift
Series: The Silver Rift #1
Publication Date: 2015
Publisher: Embolden Press

BOOK BLURB

More than a young woman.

More than a warrior.

More like those she hunts than she knows.

Kellen is searching, pushed by the desire to avenge her family’s death and the destruction of the world she once knew and loved, led toward North Dand where her prime target, Tassus, lives in the home that was once hers. But Kellen is also pulled by a force she doesn’t understand, and whatever it is grows stronger the closer she gets to her former home.

And so does she.

Book Blitz:That One Summer (Summer #3) by C.J. Duggan {Teasers + Excerpt}

Author: C.J. Duggan 
Title: That One Summer 
Series: Summer #3
Publication date: December 17th 2013
Genres: Contemporary, New Adult, Romance

Synopsis

Loving Chris Henderson would be wrong. Diabolically disastrous. I mean, what is there about him to love? He’s moody, bossy, brooding, a control freak, and that’s on a good day … but there was one achingly obvious fact that haunted my every thought, every minute of every day …

He sure could kiss.

As the countdown to the new millennium begins, there is one thing everyone agrees on: no one wants to be in Onslow for New Year’s Eve.

So that can only mean one thing: road trip!

Book Blitz:Camp Christmas (Camp Boyfriend #1.5) by J.K. Rock {Excerpt + Ten Lists + 2 Giveaways}

 

This is my stop during the book blitz for Camp Christmas by JL Rock. Camp Christmas is a novella which is part of the Camp Boyfriend series and is free to download on the publisher website While it is part of the Camp Boyfriend series it can also be read as a stand alone.
This book blitz is organized by Lola's Blog Tours. The book blitz runs from 17 December till 21 December, you can view the complete tour schedule on the website of Lola’s Blog Tours!
So far this series contains 3 book: Camp Kiss (Camp Boyfriend #0.5), Camp Boyfriend (Camp Boyfriend #1) and Camp Christmas (Camp Boyfriend #1.5).

Release Day Blitz:Exquisite Betrayal by A.M. Hargrove {Teasers + Giveaway}

Author: A.M. Hargrove
Title: Exquisite Betrayal
Publication Date: December 17th 2013 
Genre: New Adult Contemporary Romance

EXQUISITE BETRAYAL Synopsis

A male Romance Author… a convention in Vegas… a female book blogger… a goal to lose her virginity… what next? Find out when you mix all the above!

Fallon McKinley is headed to Vegas for the Wicked Wenches Romance Con and losing her virginity is only one of her goals. The other is to meet her favorite author of romance novels, R.T. Sinclair. What she doesn’t realize is that the sexy green-eyed god she rams into at the airport is the real R.T. When they keep running into each other, she’s shocked, but excited, because the attraction is irresistible.

Ryland Thomas Sinclair doesn’t want anyone to know his true identity. He’s the author that all women love, but everyone thinks he’s a female. He hides his persona behind the public face of his twin sister, keeping his own a secret. But after meeting the lovely Fallon, his intentions to avoid a relationship come to a screeching halt. She’s put an unwanted kink into his perfectly laid out plans. His unusual reaction surprises him because after a heart-shredding breakup a few years ago, he’s managed to avoid women at all costs.

Cover Reveal:Stakeout (Aurora Sky: Vampire Hunter #2.5) by Nikki Jefford

Cover designed by Phatpuppy Art.

Author: Nikki Jefford
Title: Stakeout
Series: Aurora Sky: Vampire Hunter #2.5
Publication date: January 14th 2014
Genres: New Adult, Paranormal, Urban Fantasy

Synopsis

Noel Harper got a second chance at life when the government recruited her as an undercover vampire informant. Since the day they brought her back from the good-as-dead, she has wanted to prove herself worthy.

When a member of her investigative unit is murdered, Noel is paired up with a vampire hunter named Dante to spy on a suspect in Fairbanks. The problem? They’re not the only ones on stakeout. Taking down murderous vampires is one thing. Dealing with the past is another. But this time, Noel isn’t letting fear win. She’s calling in help from the other side and learns a shocking secret along the way.

Release Day Launch:Give Me Something (Give Me Something #1) by Elizabeth Lee {Giveaway}

Book Blitz:Positively Mine (Freshman Forty #1) by Christine Duval {Excerpt + Giveaway}

Author: Christine Duval 
Title: Positively Mine
Series: Freshman Forty #1
Published by: Bloomsbury Spark
Publication date: December 19th 2013
Genres: Contemporary, New Adult

Synopsis

It is four weeks into her freshman year of college, and Laurel’s first test was unexpected. Discovering she’s pregnant isn’t exactly what she had planned for her first semester, and while she intends to tell her emotionally-distant father, being away at school makes it all too easy to hide.

An imperfect heroine plagued by bad choices and isolated during what should be the best time of her life, readers are sure to identify with Laurel as she confronts teen pregnancy, in secret.

Cover Reveal:Dovetailed (Immortal Essence #3) by RaShelle Workman

Cover designed by Steven Novak.

Author: RaShelle Workman 
Title: Dovetailed 
Series: Immortal Essence #3 
Publication date: This winter
Genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction, Young Adult

Synopsis

World’s divided them. Chance brought them together. Only love will save them.

In the final installment of the Immortal Essence series questions are answered, alliances are ripped apart, and the war on Kelari rages between more than just the factions. There are those who want to take over planet Earth as well. Venus must find a way to bring peace to both worlds and do so without destroying the one person she’s ever truly loved.

Blog Tour:Path Unchosen (Daughter of Ravenswood #1) by Kim Cleary {Review + Giveaway}

Author: Kim Cleary 

Title: Path Unchosen 
Series: Daughter of Ravenswood #1
Publication date: September 7th 2013
Genres: Dark Fantasy, New Adult, Paranormal, Urban Fantasy

Synopsis

When eighteen-year-old Judy Hudson discovers she’s a necromancer and sees first-hand the pain her powers can cause the dead, she just wants to deny who she is. The zombie plague is long over. She wants to find a more normal life, but that’s a challenge when a beautiful otherworldly man, who claims to be her guardian, saves her life.

Judy tries to set right the harm she inflicted on a spirit she raised, but new zombies attack—zombies raised from among the long-time dead. Someone else just like her is out there, and he’s not trying to set anything right. To save her own life, and protect the innocent inhabitants of the nearby town who’ve become her friends, Judy has to figure out who’s raising the dead and why. She must also learn to control the darkness inside her—a seductive darkness that promises her power beyond her wildest dreams.

Release Day Book Blitz:Remembering Joy (The Joy series #2) by Jenni Moen {Teasers + Excerpt + Giveaway}

Author: Jenni Moen
Title: Remembering Joy

Series: The Joy series #2
Release Date: 12/13/13

Book Summary from Goodreads

Love is patient. 

It can happen when you least expect it, where you least expect it, with whom you least expect it.

Love is kind.

But love may not grow out of kindness. It can happen with the person who hates you most because love knows no bounds. And it keeps no record of wrongs.

Love doesn’t hold a grudge.

Love forgives.

Love forgets.

But when the healing of your heart 

breaks the hearts of the ones you love …

                                                                                                                     
it may seem impossible to

Find joy.

Release Day Launch:Storm Warning (The Broken Heartland Series #1) by C. Quinn and E. Lee {Excerpt + Teaser + Book Trailer + Giveaway}

C. Quinn and E. Lee's amazing new novel in their Broken Heartland Series, STORM WARNING, is out today and we are excited to join in the release day launch for it. STORM WARNING is a thrilling Young Adult Contemporary you are not going to want to miss! Check out what we have for you today and then enter to win in the release day launch giveaway! There's also a fantastic excerpt for you. But be aware! The Storm Is Coming...

Re-Cover Reveal:Whisper (Whisper Trilogy #1) by Chelsea M. Cameron {Teaser}

Author: Chelsea M. Cameron
Title: Whisper
Series: Whisper Trilogy #1
Publication Date: June 16th 2012 

BOOK BLURB

People think I'm crazy. Maybe I am, since I've been able to talk to spirits for as long as I can remember. They are the forgotten, the souls who have unfinished business and can't cross over. I help them, or at least I try to. There's this one in particular, Jack, I call him, who's been following me around a lot. Usually they tell me what they need to do and move on. Not him.

It isn't until he brings another spirit, Tracy, the victim of an unsolved hit-and-run accident, that I know for sure he's something more than just your average spirit. Then I start seeing him. And feeling his touch. And falling for him.

Book Blitz:Fallen (Guardian Trilogy #1) by Laury Falter {Excerpt}

Author: Laury Falter 
Title: Fallen
Series: Guardian Trilogy #1
Publication date: April 1st 2009 
Genres: Paranormal, Young Adult

Synopsis

Fallen – the first book in the bestselling Guardian Trilogy…

Maggie is unaware of the terrifying fate that awaits her. It isn’t until she lands in New Orleans for a full year at a private high school and her unknown enemies find her does she realize that her life is in danger.

As a mystifying stranger repeatedly intervenes and blocks the attempts on her life, she begins to learn that there is more to him than his need to protect her and that he may be the key to understanding why her enemies have just now arrived.

Blog Tour:Seamless (By A Thread #3) by R.L. Griffin {By A Thread ARC Review + Giveaway}

Author: R.L. Griffin
Title: Seamless
Series: By A Thread #3
Release Date: December 10, 2013



Summary

Professional, successful, survivor Stella has mastered the art of appearances and conquering what life throws at her. Time after time, she chooses to fight even though she's consistently poised to break. It's that fight to get her life back, to make things right, to survive that defines who she is. She's been loved, left, lost, blown up, shot, and exploited. Physically, she's almost completely put back together. Mentally, Stella's one step from a vindictive retaliation that may or may not be her best choice.

In Seamless, Stella has no choice but to step into the ring with someone who she once loved. It's a dirty fight that will take all she has. Will she do what it takes to win? Will she make it out alive?

You'll cheer her on until you realize all is not what it seems. Appearances can be deceiving.

Release Day Launch:Unwrapped (Beachwood Bay #2.5) by Melody Grace {Teaser + Giveaway}

We are extremely excited to celebrate the release of Melody Grace's UNWRAPPED, a novella in the Beachwood Bay Series!! Fans will want to snatch this up and snuggle by the fire for a fun holiday read!  

Release Day Launch:Staying On Top (Whitman University #4) by Lyla Payne {Giveaway}

Author: Lyla Payne
Title: Staying On Top
Series: Whitman University #4
Publication Date: December 10th 2013
Genre: New Adult Contemporary Romance

STAYING ON TOP Synopsis

Sam Bradford has it all—he’s the #2 tennis player in the world, plenty of girls want to date him, and he’ll never want for money. At least, that’s what he thought until his accountant stole everything and disappeared. Interpol has no idea where to start, and neither does the American F.B.I., so Sam figures he’ll just have to take care of his body and play a few extra years to make it back.

When Blair Paddington, the accountant’s daughter and a friend of a friend at Whitman, shows up and claims she can help Sam get his money back he’s torn between wanting justice and the very real possibility that Blair is just as big a con man as her father. When she promises not only money, but justice, Sam agrees—but only if he can go along on the search.

The two of them set off on an adventure neither rich kid is prepared for—cheap hostels, the same clothes three days in a row, and nothing but a backpack of possessions—so they can fly under the radar as college lovers on a winter break. In spite of Blair’s shady family, her daring and resourceful personality strike Sam’s interest and he finds himself falling for the one girl he shouldn’t.

Release Day Launch:Sneaking Candy by Lisa Burstein {Book Trailer + Giveaway}

Blog Tour:Staying On Top (Whitman University #4) by Lyla Payne {Excerpt + Giveaway}

Author: Lyla Payne
Title: Staying On Top
Series:  Whitman University #4
Publication Date: December 9th 2013
Genre: New Adult Contemporary Romance

STAYING ON TOP Synopsis

Sam Bradford has it all—he’s the #2 tennis player in the world, plenty of girls want to date him, and he’ll never want for money. At least, that’s what he thought until his accountant stole everything and disappeared. Interpol has no idea where to start, and neither does the American F.B.I., so Sam figures he’ll just have to take care of his body and play a few extra years to make it back.

When Blair Paddington, the accountant’s daughter and a friend of a friend at Whitman, shows up and claims she can help Sam get his money back he’s torn between wanting justice and the very real possibility that Blair is just as big a con man as her father. When she promises not only money, but justice, Sam agrees—but only if he can go along on the search.

The two of them set off on an adventure neither rich kid is prepared for—cheap hostels, the same clothes three days in a row, and nothing but a backpack of possessions—so they can fly under the radar as college lovers on a winter break. In spite of Blair’s shady family, her daring and resourceful personality strike Sam’s interest and he finds himself falling for the one girl he shouldn’t.

Book Blitz:Connectivity by Aven Ellis {Excerpt}

Author: Aven Ellis

Title: Connectivity 
Publication date: October 16th 2013
Genres: Contemporary, New Adult, Romance

Synopsis

Overachiever Mary-Kate Grant (who is indeed named after an Olsen Twin) has followed every rule to the letter to pursue her dream of working in TV programming. Ripping a page from the “hard work pays off” playbook, she takes an assistant level job at a Chicago sports network to break into the industry.

MK has no time or desire for a relationship right now—she is totally focused on her career and being independent, unlike the other women in her family.

But MK’s plans are run through the shredder when she finds herself working for William Cumberland, a British media mogul who made his fortune with Connectivity, a social media site. William blows into Chicago just like the winds off Lake Michigan and purchases the group of networks MK works for—and makes her his personal assistant in the process.