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COVER REVEAL!! ~ Ruthless by Dani René

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Title: Ruthless

Series: Sins of Seven

Author: Dani René

Genre: Romantic Suspense

Release Date: May 28, 2018
Cover Designer: Raven Designs

I’m an asshole.

And I make no apologies for it.

My life has been spent drenched in the blood of my enemies.

Our family legacy, left only to me when my brother walked away.

Women are pawns in a game for pleasure. Nothing more.

Until her. Madison Parker.

I’m enthralled. Captivated.

But my past is far too dark.

Pushing her away is my only option.

Yet her stubborn, sassy mouth and beautiful eyes weaken me.

I save her as much as she saves me.

Then blood is spilled once more, and I’ll forever live with the guilt.

Can light find its way through my darkness?

Can she truly be the salvation for this ruthless heart?

Dani is an international bestselling author and proud member of the Romance Writer’s Organization of South Africa (ROSA) and the Romance Writers of America (RWA).

A fan of dark romance that grabs you by the throat and doesn’t let go. It’s from this passion that her writing has evolved from sweet and romantic, to dark and delicious. It’s in this world she’s found her calling, growing from strength to strength and hitting her stride.

On a daily basis, she has a few hundred characters, storylines, and ideas floating around in her head. From the feisty heroines she delivers to the dark, dominant alphas that grace the pages of her books, she promises light in a world filled with danger and darkness.

She has a healthy addiction to reading, TV series, music, tattoos, chocolate, and ice cream.

For any inquiries, please contact me at info@danirene.com or my PA at danirenepa@gmail.com

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BOOK TOUR! ~ The First Sin by Jillian Quinn

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Title: The First Sin

Series: Sins of the Past #1

Author: Jillian Quinn

Genre: Dark Mafia Romance

Release Date: April 30, 2018

Once upon a time, I fell in love with a blue-eyed boy who promised me forever

We fell hard and fast, even though our relationship was forbidden.

Loving Angelo Morelli wasn’t my first sin.

It wouldn’t be my last.

Our families were friends before they were enemies, fighting for power in the city.

I was their bargaining chip, a pawn to be used by the most powerful men in Philadelphia.

I just didn’t know it.

Angelo was my white knight in a world full of darkness.

But someone had to pay for the sins of the past.

Too bad that person was me.

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“I liked the flow of this book, it moved fast but the pieces we were given were all important to the overall story.” – Nerdy, Dirty & Flirty

“Okay, this book totally is something else! You’d never see this kind of a plot coming!” – Becca

“All consuming and enthralling….” – Summer’s Eve Reads

Jillian Quinn is an international bestselling romance author who likes her females just as alpha as their swoon-worthy male counterparts. As a lover of all things bookish, Jillian has a serious book-hoarding problem and runs a blog in her free time. When she’s not reading, writing, or blogging, she’s obsessively fangirling over hockey players and can be found wherever she can catch the next hockey game.

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COVER REVEAL ~ Master of My Heart by Marissa Honey

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Title: Master of My Heart

Series: Finding Sabrina Part 2

Author: Marissa Honeycutt

Genre: Dark Romance w/ PNR Elements

Release Date: May 29, 2018

When life goes wrong, can it ever be made right?

Five years ago, Sabrina left Boston anticipating her short stay back home to be full of joy and hope. Instead, she became the leading role in her own living hell. Nothing more than a shadow of her former self, she escapes a malevolence determined to break her, and returns to Boston, trying to regain a semblance of the girl she once was.

The girl without nightmares.

The girl without shame and fear.

Five years ago, Chase lost his heart and has compared every woman he encounters to the green-eyed beauty he met on the yacht. His life didn’t turn out quite the way he expected, but he has grown stronger through his trials. Now, a marriage deadline is looming and the woman he wants seems to be a ghost trapped in his past.

Fate brought them together. Evil tore them apart.

Can Chase lead Sabrina into the light before she’s lost to the darkness forever?

***Please note this is Part Two of a four-part series. It must be read in order, or nothing will make any sense.

Maybe it was better that Sabrina was lost to him. She’d been so innocent, so naïve, so young. He had been, too. Back before things changed. Killing people changed you. Even if it was for a good reason, it still changed you. It tainted your soul. Could he ever hope to find a woman who would understand that and not judge him for it? He wasn’t a bad man, he knew that deep down inside, but sometimes he felt like it. His career path wasn’t an easy one. Was it even fair to ask any woman to be a part of his life?

He didn’t have a choice. He had to find someone. Soon. But how could he find someone to marry in four months?

Author of Gut-Wrenching Darkness

“If Stephen King got together with Tom Clancy and wrote an erotica book…,”

…is how Marissa describes her books when asked. She doesn’t seek to write any particular genre, style, or length, only following her gut instincts and the lead of her characters. The Life of Anna crosses many genre lines including erotica, suspense, psychological thriller, horror, political conspiracy, paranormal, and romance. Marissa’s story of Anna began with a dream about being kidnapped with Adam Savage from Mythbusters (Yes, really). Over the next year and a half, it morphed into the story that is now known as “The Life of Anna.” She has also published Distorted Hope, which is based on her kidnapped dream. Abandoned Grace was published last year as a side story to The Life of Anna.

Marissa stays busy running her household, fending off two adorable kittens, and interacting with her readers on social media. She is a self-proclaimed geek and is striving to learn the basics of graphic design. She is also actively pursuing a more natural lifestyle, which includes essential oils, natural cleaning products, and whole, organic foods. Marissa’s addictions include the Science and History Channels, anything chocolate mint, vintage books, cute kitty cats and laughter.

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NEW RELEASE! ~ Clinched by Nikki Ash

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Title: Clinched: A Single Dad Romance

Author: Nikki Ash

Genre: Contemporary/Single Dad Romance

Release Date: April 28, 2018

Charlie is everything I want and didn’t realize I need. It’s clear to me now that the woman I met at the club is only one layer of the woman I’m falling for. I’m a fixer by nature but for the first time I wouldn’t fix a thing. I want her just the way she is. Broken pieces and all. Who needs the fairy tale when we can have the reality.

Tristan is everything I want, yet don’t deserve. He’s loving, protective, smart, an amazing father, and he’s on to me. That’s why I need to speed this story up and tell him everything, so we can flip to the end of the book, and him and his daughter can move on to the next story. One where they get a happily ever after. Because there’s no story I’m a part of that ends in any way but tragedy.

“Holy Hell! Oh. My. God!

I don’t even know where to begin with this book!

To say I loved it is a HUGE understatement.” – Justlovemybooks.com blog

“I could not put this book down!! I read every chance I got.” – Shannon

“Oh my gosh what a story I simply fell in love with Tristan and Charlie …..” – Heather Dee

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Nikki Ash resides in South Florida where she is an English teacher and mom by day and a writer by night. When she’s not writing, you can find her with a book in her hand. From the Boxcar Children to Wuthering Heights to the latest Single Parent Romance, she has lived and breathed every type of book.

Reading is like breathing in, writing is like breathing out. – Pam Allyn

While reading and writing are her passions, her two children are her entire world. You can probably find them at a Disney park before you would find them at home on the weekends!

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SALES BLITZ!! –> The Mafia and His Angel Pt. 3 by Lylah James

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Title: The Mafia and His Angel Part 3

Series: Tainted Hearts

Author: Lylah James

Genre: Mafia Romance

Release Date: November 21, 2017

Ayla

My wings were ready to fly, but he clipped them. Feather by feather, until I had nothing left.

Then my savior came.

He waged a bloodbath to find me. He loves me. He wants his Angel to be free.

But how can I fly again when my wings are broken?

Alessio

This war isn’t over. If he thought he could break her and just disappear, he was wrong. I am going to find him and break him like he broke her.

I made a vow to my Angel.

I promised to let her fly…I promised to save her soul.

And I never break my vows.

Lylah James lives somewhere in Canada. She is usually pretty busy but she uses all her spare time to write. If she is not studying, sleeping, writing or working – she can be found with her nose buried in a good romance book, preferably with a hot alpha male.

Writing is her passion. The voices in her head won’t stop and she believes they deserve to be heard and read. Lylah James writes about drool worthy and total alpha males, with strong and sweet heroines. She makes her readers cry – sob their eyes out, swoon, curse, rage and fall in love. Mostly known as the Queen of cliffhanger and the #evilauthorwithablacksoul, she likes to break her readers’ hearts and then mend them again.

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NEW RELEASE! –> Queen of Diamonds by Natalie Bennett

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Title: Queen of Diamonds

Series: Old Money Roulette Trilogy

Author: Natalie Bennett

Genre: Dark Erotic Romance

Release Date: April 20, 2018

His enemy. His partner. His whore.

His mind games. Her morals.

The road to hell…

Well, there is no road to hell.

I already live there.

I was forced to partake in a rigged game of seduction, manipulation, and murder.

Mateo Remmington is my formidable opponent.

He makes the devil look like a saint.

He’s immoral.

He’s ruthless.

He’s a goddamn king.

King of a clandestine empire who sits on a throne covered in innocents’ blood.

I’ve become his obsession.

He’s becoming my deadly addiction.

And if I make one wrong move he’ll end my life.

Natalie Bennett is the creator of erotic stories that always come with a warning label. She writes about depraved alpha a**holes and women that love to hate them. Her books don’t follow any specific tropes, have no set word counts, and tend to deviate from traditional HEA’s.

When she isn’t in front of her computer she’s spending time with her husband and their three little boys.

Natalie is an avid fan of caramel frappes, horror movies, Shameless, and of course, reading.

You can find Natalie on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

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BOOK TOUR –> Love and War by Charisse Spiers

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Title: Love and War Volume 1

Series: Shadows in the Dark

Author: Charisse Spiers
Release: February 22, 2018

Genre: Dark Erotic Romance

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The f*cking lights. They are all I can remember. Everywhere I turn I see them. They haunt my dreams, and now my reality. She liked the lights. I do remember that. It was part of her life, and in turn a part of mine, until the day I forgot it all.

They say your childhood paves the way to adulthood, and maybe it does. I know mine was lit up in flames. I walked the roads of Hell until I figured out that the only way to survive was to exist under a cloak of darkness—to deal with the devil himself. It was the only way to escape the pain, the torment. But the nightmares are still very real. They’ll never leave me alone. The shadows of solitude follow me wherever I go.

Weapons—they can be anything I need them to be. Unlike people in my life, they are predictable, dependable. Without any effort they can cause so much destruction, but also so much peace. Through the internal chaos, the anger that won’t cease, and the constant noise, everything is silenced with the pull of the trigger.

Ink—I’ve loved it since I can remember. It defines me. It’s my release. When I feel like I’m about to blow I turn to the needle. It is the one high I need. I brand people. It’s what I do. Kross Brannon is the best there is when it comes to tattoos. The success of my company proves it.

But I never teach. Those that work for me learn from someone else. I’m a solo artist. Always have been and always will be…but then I looked up and saw her, standing in my shop, beautiful, tattooed, and her soul screaming for me to reach out. She was a force of nature I couldn’t turn away.

That’s the moment everything started falling into place…

Note from the author: Dark Romance. Please be advised there may be emotional triggers for some. If you do not like dark themes this book may not be for you. Suitable for ages 18+ due to content.

I found books when I was going through a hard time in life. They became my means of escape when things got bad. I realized quickly how much I loved to take a backseat to someone else’s life and watch the journey unfold. That began my journey with books in November of 2012. I constantly had a book open on my Kindle app. Never in a million years would I have imagined myself as a writer, because I never thought I was creative enough. I’m living proof that things will fall into place when they’re meant to be. People will make their way into our lives when we don’t expect it, setting the path for what we are meant to do. Never give up on people. Never stop taking a chance on others. Someone took a chance on trusting me with her work when she didn’t know me from a stranger on the street and gave me the opportunity of a lifetime as our relationship progressed, which led me to editing and writing as well. This is my dream I never knew I had. As soon as I sat down and gave writing a shot, it was like the floodgates opened. Now, I am lost in a world of fiction in my head, new characters constantly screaming for their stories to be told. Continue to dream and to go for them. No one ever found happiness by sitting on the sidelines. Sometimes we have to take risks and put ourselves out there. Thank you for all of your support, and may there be many books to come. XOXO- C

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NEW RELEASE!! –> Psychopath’s Prey by VF Mason ~ #giveaway

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Title: Psychopath’s Prey

Author: VF Mason

Genre: Dark Romance

Publication Date: April 17, 2018

Once upon a time she became mine.

Mine to hunt.

A criminal psychologist and a serial killer.

The love between them shouldn’t exist.

Or so the world thinks.

Her mission is to find him.

His single obsession is to catch her.

The hunter and the prey.

Let the games begin, and may the stronger one win.

ENTER TODAY

V.F.Mason always loved reading books and had quite a few fights with her momma over the genre she liked (romance, duh!) She studied filmmaking and thought that would feed her desire for stories, but that didn’t happen.

Finally, when she was tired of all those voices in her head, she sat down and wrote a book. It was a huge decision to make and she thanks her friends and family for supporting her in it.When she is not writing, she can be found with her friends doing all sorts of crazy things or reading recent romance books that were written by her favorite authors.

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NEW RELEASE!!! –> Keep From Falling by Amy Vanessa Miller ~ Excerpt BELOW!!

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Title: Keep From Falling

Series: Misfits Book 1

Author: Amy Vanessa Miller

Genre: Contemporary New Adult

Release Date: April 13, 2018

At the beginning of her senior year, Bree Porter had everything figured out. She knew who she was, what she wanted, and where she was going.

The only thing she didn’t know was how to tell the world that her childhood bestie, Skylar Hale, was also her secret girlfriend.

But only months before Bree and Skylar are set to start their lives together away from the narrowed minds of Markson Grove, Bree meets Evan Daniels and everything changes.

One glance. That’s all it takes for Bree to begin questioning everything she thought she knew about herself.

Skylar Hale has been running from her past for years. She won’t speak about it to Bree— she won’t acknowledge it at all— because it’s dark and scary and connected to a name that makes her tremble to her core.

Now the perfect life she created with Bree is on the verge of collapse, leaving her haunted by a past she’s desperate to forget and back to a world she never thought she’d see again.

*This book contains violence, coarse language, sexually explicit scenes, drug abuse, and illegal situations. Intended for mature reading audiences only.*

I look to the ground. “What are you doing, Evan?” I ask uneasily.

He sighs. “I don’t know,” he says. “I don’t know what you want. This is really weird for me. Because I know what I want, and I know that you know what it is.”

“What is it you want?” I ask, even though he’s right, I already know the answer.

“To be with you, to kiss you, to touch you. All the time.”

I stand there in silence for a long while, knowing what I want to say but knowing that if I say it, everything will change and I won’t be able to take it back.

“I think I want those things too,” I whisper softly, still looking to the ground.

He takes a deep breath. My words have surprised him and it seems like he’s trying to decide something now. I peer into his eyes, attempting to read him, and the moment that they make contact, his lips are on mine in a breathtaking kiss.

He lets go of my hand in order to place his hands on either side of my face. His lips are hot and moist, and so soft. The minute he opens them slightly, I begin to kiss him back, slowly at first, and then with an urgency I can’t begin to describe.

Evan’s body responds to this urgency right away, and he picks me up off of the ground and sits me on the hood of his car. I wrap my legs around him and I can feel him pressed up against me in a way that makes everything down there tingle. He begins to kiss my neck while caressing my breasts; I throw my head back and let out a gasp.

And then I think of Skylar.

“We can’t do this,” I say as I break the connection and I push him off of me gently.

He’s breathing heavily and his cheeks are red. “I know,” he says. “I’m so sorry.”

Amy Vanessa Miller is a Canadian independent author known for her shockingly edgy Misfits series.

She loves to push the boundaries with her writing and has always been a fan of angsty stories.

She is happily married to a loving and supportive man whom she’d be lost without; they have one son, two cats, and a dog together.

When she isn’t being mom and wife, or working at her day job, Amy can be found either curled up on the couch with a good book, writing imaginary characters for others to fall in love with, or binge watching TV shows on Netflix.

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COVER REVEAL! –> Outcasts by Natalie Bennett (Giveaway inside!)

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Title: Outcasts

Series: Badlands #3

Author: Natalie Bennett

Genre: Dark Erotic Thriller

Release Date: May 12, 2018

*Grimm*

Pariah.

Dark Messiah.

Harbinger of death.

My reputation has always preceded me.

I’m a brother to the queen of the Badlands.

I’m one of the few confidants to her fiancé–the devil himself.

And those whispered rumors that I’m a silent killer, a true harvester of souls?

They’re true.

People never see me coming. I don’t discriminate, I show no mercy, and I feel no remorse.

My only loyalty is to my family and when someone important to them goes missing, I vow to do whatever is necessary to track her down and bring her back.

But the person I find is not the same woman who was stolen away.

Something’s different about her.

Something I find myself drawn to as we fight our way back to hell.

*Arlen*

Stubborn.

Reckless.

Original family disappointment.

My reputation has never preceded me.

I’m supposed to be this spoiled, rich b*tch who does everything her daddy tells her.

I was forbidden to even think about the Badlands.

But money means nothin to me and my paradise was a pretty cage I refused to be trapped in.

I fought my way out, I found a new family, and even though sh*t got tough sometimes it all worked out in the end.