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Contemporary romance writer, political comedy writer, ghostwriter and editor. Lover of coffee & cocktails, world traveler, off-key singer, vegan and adventurer-ish!

NEW RELEASE BOOST & GIVEAWAY!!! ~ The Professor by Rachel Renee

Title: The Professor
Series: The Cauley Files #1
Author: Rachel Renee
Genre: Crime/Mystery/Suspense
Release Date: October 16, 2018

CIA Agent Liam Cauley takes on a new identity. Sent to Italy to assist a team tasked to infiltrate and take down a rogue operative working against the United States government.
 
Establishing trust with his target is nothing short of daunting. With each new challenge forcing him into conflicting decisions, secrets that were thought to be long-since buried might teach Cauley something about himself and those he thought he could rely on.
 
Through a tangled web of treachery, Cauley’s discoveries will bring dark truths to light. 
 
The stakes are high, but this agent will stop at nothing to complete his mission. 
 
Even if that means going back to the place it all started.
 

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NEW RELEASE & EXCERPT!!! ~ Deviance by K.E. Osborn

Title: Deviance
Series: The Chicago Defiance MC Series Book 3
Author: KE Osborn
Genre: MC Romance
Release Date: October 19, 2018

I’m broken.
My fractured pieces held together by the grit of my brothers.
 
My sanity—questionable at best.
My pride—rocked every time someone says I’m a cold-blooded monster.
 
It happened when she walked away.
Forcing me to become the man I am today.
Now, she’s back with a threat on her tail, and I’m the only man who can protect her. My brothers don’t know the reason she left, but they’re about to find out.
 
This story is a hell of a ride—it’s chaotic, gritty, raw, and unrelenting.
 
Love—it breaks you.
 
Will society’s outcasts survive their deviance?

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NEW RELEASE!!! ~ Art of Survival Part 2 of 2 by Monique Orgeron

 
Title: Art of Survival Part 2 of 2
Series: A Stern Family Saga
Author: Monique Orgeron
Genre: Contemporary Romance Suspense
Release Date: October 19, 2018

 

 

If you don’t understand the instinct to merely survive, you will never understand me.
 
I’ve done my penance and paid a heavy price for my choices.
 
It was never for selfish reasons that I became the person I am today.
 
No, I can be called many things but selfish will never be one of them.
 
It was always for them. My children.
 
No regrets and no do-overs.
 
The grim reaper is knocking on my door. It’s my time.
 
I was fine with it. I knew this day would eventually come and I was ready.
 
I was tired of living a life of battles in order to survive. 
 
Then I was forced to see how overwhelmingly beautiful life is and how tragically short my days could be.
 
With limited time, I have to find a way to finish my job and get my sons ready for what is in store for them.
 
They want me to fight and I will but in return, they too must fight.
 
Am I ready for the battle of my life?
 
Will they be ready?

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RELEASE BOOST!!! ~ Absolution by Ava Harrison

Title: ab·so·lu·tion: a novel
Author: Ava Harrison
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: October 6, 2018
I was done with love.
When I opened my heart, it was for the men I couldn’t have. 
The unattainable ones. 
The ones who would hurt me. 
A vicious cycle I couldn’t seem to stop.
But I had a new resolve. 
Focus on my career.
Stay single.
And then I met him. 
Jace Montgomery. 
A wounded widower with two young kids. 
He was exactly everything I was avoiding.
So I did my best to stay away. 
But then he kissed me. 
And I fell.
Hard.
Hard for a man who would never be mine…
A man who was broken beyond repair. 
A man who would break me.

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NEW RELEASE & EXCERPT!!! ~ HeartLess by Kristy Love

Title: HeartLess
Author: Kristy Love
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: October 18, 2018
Cover Design: Emily Wittig Designs and Photography
 
Plan the wedding of the century. Get the job. To hell with the guy.
 
Bianca Fair’s hard work was paying off. After slaving for years as an event planner, the partnership of her dreams was in her grasp. The respect and admiration of her peers was only a wedding away. All of her carefully crafted plans were falling into place. Finally.
 
Enter Nash James … heartthrob … sex symbol … rock god … His band was number one on the charts, and he was number one on the freebie list of every woman alive.
 
Rock music’s “It Boy” was marrying Hollywood’s “It Girl,” and Bianca’s career hung in the balance.
 
No problem. Piece of cake. She could plan this wedding in her sleep. This was what she thrived on.
 
Too bad the last time she saw Nash James, he was skipping town after crushing her heart.
 
And no way in hell could the bride-to-be find out Bianca had loved her fiancé first.

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COVER REVEAL!!! ~ Rewrite the Stars by Charleigh Rose

Title: Rewrite the Stars
Author: Charleigh Rose
Genre: NA Romance
Release Date: October 25, 2018
Cover Designer: Letitia Hasser @RBA Designs
Cover Model: Lucas Facchini
 
Evangeline Thorne is privileged. 
Beautiful and popular, if not a little jaded. 
A chance encounter with a green-eyed stuntman sets off a chain of events that turns her perfect, little world upside down.
Short on options and desperate for adventure, she joins the traveling carnival for the summer.
Thrust into a world full of drama, deception, and secrecy, Evangeline tries to find herself and protect her heart in the process. 
 
 
Sebastian McAllister is cursed.
He knows better than to think otherwise. 
He’s content to live out the rest of his life traveling the country as one of the four Sons of Eastlake, seeking thrills the only way he knows how. 
The one thing he doesn’t see coming is the spoiled blond with stars in her eyes. 
The only problem is, the more time he spends with her, the more hope starts to stir in his dormant heart. 
 
Too bad hope is a dangerous thing when you’re a McAllister.

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NEW RELEASE!!! ~ Love on the Ranch by Ciara Knight

Title: Love on the Ranch
Series: McKinnie Mail Order Brides
Author: Ciara Knight
Genre: Sweet Historical Romance
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Cover Design: Yocla Designs
Elizabeth McKinnie will no longer accept men ruling her life. After the Civil War devastated her family home and having no way to survive, Elizabeth accepts one of the mail-order bride proposals presented to her and her sisters. She chooses a man who promises to treat her as an equal. Her sister convinces her to switch suitors, proclaiming the weather in Texas would be more suitable for Elizabeth’s weak lungs. Agreeing, she heads west to meet the mysterious cattle baron she knows little about.
Jeb Clayton grew up as a poor son of a drunkard. He has worked his entire life to ensure he never starves again. He is a man who understands cows better than women, especially after watching the fairer sex manipulate his father into an early grave. Still, he begrudgingly agrees to marry a sturdy bride to produce sons who can help build his ranch into an empire. Yet, what he sees getting off the stagecoach is a whisper-of-a-woman with undesirable birthing hips.
When Elizabeth’s and Jeb’s futures are threatened will they join forces, or will their bitterness be their end?

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NEW RELEASE & EXCERPT!!! ~ The Heart of Him by Katie Fox

Title: The Heart of Him
Author: Katie Fox
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: October 17, 2018
Cover Design: Najla Qamber Designs

 

 

Sixteen months ago, Cassidy Porter lost the love of her life.
 
Every day since has been a battle to carry on, but despite what her mother and sister say, she’s making progress—or is she?
 
When she receives an invitation to attend a banquet in honor of the organ donors and their recipients, she has every reason to guard what remains of her shattered heart.
 
Maybe this will be the closure she needs to finally mend its pieces.
 
For the last twenty-eight years, Samuel Copeland has been afraid to live.
 
Diagnosed with a genetic heart condition, he knows better than anyone that second chances don’t come along often. Since his transplant, he spends his days in the local coffee shop, watching and observing, trying to make sense of all he’s been given.
 
Grateful doesn’t begin to describe it.
 
When the opportunity to meet the person who was closest to his selfless donor presents itself—a chance to say thank you for saving him—he takes it.
 
What’s the worst that can happen?
 
Brought together by fate—or perhaps, something else entirely—the two form an unexpected bond, one that has them both asking: can two hearts be destined only to beat for each other?

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NEW RELEASE!!! ~ The Life I Never Asked For by Kira Adams

Title: The Life I Never Asked For
Author: Kira Adams
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Cover Designer: Patricia Maia from Maya’s Teasers & Designs

 

We were never supposed to be. Life threw a curveball at me, wrecking everything in it’s wake. 

 

 

 

I had it all, and in a single moment it was ripped away from me. 
 
I lost everything. I lost myself. 
 
Picking up the broken pieces of my life hasn’t been easy. Starting over is the hardest part. 
 
I didn’t ask for this life, but I’m going to make the most of it for them.

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NEW RELEASE!!! ~ Whiskey by Giulia Lagomarsino

Title: Whiskey
Series: Reed Security Series
Author: Giulia Lagomarsino 
Genre: Contemporary/Security Romance
Release Date: October 18, 2018
Chris “Jack” McKay left behind the love of his life seventeen years ago. Now, when she needs him most, he’ll give anything to help the woman he loves and her son. But not everyone at Reed Security trusts Alison and her intentions for their teammate. Especially when two gangs come after Reed Security and their families. The men and women of Reed Security are in for the fight of their lives and not everyone will come out unscathed. But they won’t go down without a fight. 
 
They’re coming for you. Run!

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