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Friday, September 30, 2016
Thursday, September 29, 2016
Blog Tour: MIA FOUND by Makenzie Smith
Title: Mia Found
By: Makenzie Smith
Publication Date: September 28, 2016
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Cover Design: Mayhem Cover Creations
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Makenzie Smith is an independent writer residing in Louisiana. She is obsessed with books, fantasy, and her daughter. If she isn't indulging in one of her infatuations, she is daydreaming. Contact her, she'd love to hear from you.
Social Media Links
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Wednesday, September 28, 2016
Monday, September 26, 2016
Blog Tour: DELIVERANCE by Kristy Centeno
Paranormal/YA/NA/Urban Fantasy/Thriller
Date
Published: March 19, 2016
Publisher: Inkspell Publishing
He’s been locked away his entire
life.
He dreams of freedom.
The only way he can accomplish his
goals is by breaking free of the chains tying him to a dark past and gloomy
existence. But there’s one catch. He’s not human.
And he’s never set foot outside his
jail.
Devoted to saving his peers as well
as his own life, he sets out to find the one person that can help him achieve
his objectives. He knows where she will be and what she will look like, but
what he doesn’t anticipate is the fact he finds himself caring for the girl
whose life he’s put at risk, more and more each day.
He has no name.
He has only known hatred and
violence before her.
However, she will teach him to have
faith in humanity, even if she can’t trust him.
Together they will embark on a
journey to bring down a corrupt system responsible for the loss of many
innocent lives. But when he finds his feelings compromised, can he still move
on knowing that doing so will put an end to the life she once knew? How far is
he willing to go to be free?
Excerpt:
I pull open the driver’s-side door, only to have it brusquely shut by a rather large, pale hand. Startled by the suddenness of the man’s appearance, I shift to my left and come eye to eye with a bulky-looking individual with dark brown eyes, and a scar that traces a fine line from his upper lip all the way down to his chin.
“Don’t attract attention, missy.” He sneers at me.
I glance down at the feel of something hard poking my ribcage and find, much to my horror, that he’s leveled a gun at my stomach. Most of the weapon is concealed by a khaki trench coat he wears.
“Keep your pretty little mouth shut and all will sail smoothly,” he warns, standing rigidly beside me. He glances briefly over the roof of the truck. “Tiger. Hello there, my dear old friend. Didn’t take you long to make friends, huh?”
I grow stiff. So these are the psychos that are after Tiger.
“Don’t attract attention, missy.” He sneers at me.
I glance down at the feel of something hard poking my ribcage and find, much to my horror, that he’s leveled a gun at my stomach. Most of the weapon is concealed by a khaki trench coat he wears.
“Keep your pretty little mouth shut and all will sail smoothly,” he warns, standing rigidly beside me. He glances briefly over the roof of the truck. “Tiger. Hello there, my dear old friend. Didn’t take you long to make friends, huh?”
I grow stiff. So these are the psychos that are after Tiger.
About The Author
Kristy Centeno is the author of the Secrets of the Moon saga and Keeper Witches series.
She
has always had a passion for books and after years of being an avid
reader, she decided to transform her desire to write into a reality and
thus, her first novel was born. When she’s not busy taking care of her
five children or holding down the fort, she finds time to sit and do
what she loves the most: writing.
Website: http://booksbycenteno.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/KristyCenteno
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/KrissyGirl122
Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/krissygirl122/
Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/KristyCenteno
Saturday, September 24, 2016
Promo Blitz: CAREFUL WHAT YOU ASK FOR by Candace Blevins
Paranormal Romance
Date Published: September 23, 2016
Publisher: eXcessica
Publishing
When
a wolf mates with a human, the child is nearly always a wolf. Briana was raised
as a werewolf, but then puberty hit and she never changed. She’s
persuaded a few wolves to bite her, but it never took. At nineteen, she’s going
to give it a final try. This time, she’ll ask someone who was bitten instead of
being born to it, to see if it makes a difference.
She
grew up welcome in the Pack until she was branded a human. Her developing
teenage psyche was wounded by their rejection, and she holds nothing but ill
will for the Pack and all it stands for. However, it’s fine for a human to
glare at the Alpha and tell him he isn’t the boss of her. Trying it as a wolf
is another story. She’s determined to make a go of it as a lone wolf, but
Randall — the local Alpha — has other ideas, despite the fact she’s property of
his brother’s motorcycle club.
Briana
was raised to be a werewolf and she finally feels whole, but the transition is
different for everyone. She understands supernatural politics, but she’s going
to have to maneuver through the highest levels of them as a brand new wolf
still struggling for control.
Excerpt:
Maggie had told me what she expected me to do before she’d changed into her wolf, so now I lay on the forest floor, buck-naked and spread eagle.
I’ve been bitten before so I knew the pain I was about to feel, and it took every ounce of my resolve to remain in place as the medium sized wolf sniffed me all over. My legs wanted to kick and then jump up and run, my hands wanted to protect my face from her, and my heart felt as if it were trying to escape my chest — but I held my breath and forced myself to stay frozen.
If this didn’t work I wasn’t sure I’d try again, but I had to give it one final attempt. I’d been raised knowing I was a wolf. I’d always felt her inside me, but then she never showed herself and I was labeled a human when I’d had my period for a year and hadn’t changed.
But my self-identity never changed. I’m a human who identifies as a wolf, but if this didn’t work — I’d have to find a way to accept my humanity.
I gasped when she bit my left thigh, held my breath while she mangled my right thigh, and couldn’t hold in my screams when her teeth tore into the skin and muscle of my left shoulder.
I’d told her where to bite me, but I hadn’t told her she could just go straight in and out without ripping. The wolf’s natural instincts are to tear as they bite, and fuck it hurt. If this didn’t turn me I was going to be scarred something awful.
She must have realized how bad she’d hurt me, because she was a little more gentle with my right shoulder, but it still hurt like hell.
Finally, Maggie’s wolf backed up a half-dozen steps and went to the ground, her eyes on me so intense it was unnerving, but I already smelled of pain and blood and I wasn’t sure how much control she had, so I tried my hardest not to be afraid.
Everything’s hazy past that point. I remember hurting, remember thrashing in the dirt, but it was days later before I have any memory of being fully in my human brain again.
About the Author
Candace Blevins lives with her husband
of 18 years and their two daughters. When not working or driving kids all over
the place she can be found reading, writing, meditating, or swimming.
Candace writes Urban Fantasy,
Paranormal Romance, Contemporary BDSM Romance, and a kick-ass Motorcycle Club
series.
Her urban fantasy series, Only Human, gives us a world where
weredragons, werewolves, werelions, three different species of vampires, as
well as a variety of other mythological beings exist.
Candace's two paranormal romance
series, The Chattanooga Supernaturals
and The Rolling Thunder Motorcycle Club,
are both sister series to the Only Human
series, and give some secondary characters their happily ever after.
Her Safeword Series gives us characters who happen to have some extreme
kinks. Relationships can be difficult enough without throwing power exchange
into the mix, and her books show characters who care enough about each other to
fight to make the relationship work. Each book in the Safeword series
highlights a couple with a different take on the lifestyle.
You can visit Candace on the web at candaceblevins.com and feel free to friend her on
Facebook at facebook.com/candacesblevins and Goodreads at goodreads.com/CandaceBlevins. You can also join facebook.com/groups/CandacesKinksters to get sneak peeks into what she's
writing now, images that inspire her, and the occasional juicy blurb.
Stay up to date on Candace’s newest
releases, and get exclusive excerpts by joining her mailing list!
Friday, September 23, 2016
Blog Tour: BROOD X by Michael Phillip Cash
Found Footage, Horror, Apocalypse
Date Published: May 4, 2013
Publisher: Chelshire, INC.
Seth is laid
off from work. His wife Lara just found out they are expecting a baby this
summer. Seth plans on documenting the entire pregnancy with his brand new
digital camcorder. During an evening home watching television, the news reports
that a swarm of cicada (Brood Ten) are expected to overwhelm the entire
Northeast. Brood Ten is vicious and ready to invade. During a sweltering summer
night, Brood Ten emerges and wreaks havoc with the electric grid, phone and
cell service, wi-fi, food and water supply. Civilization as they know it is
gone. Seth and Lara are thrown back to the stone age in their own home with
trillions of cicada trying to deposit their eggs and breed. Fast paced and
filled with tension, Brood Ten is the perfect summer read when you’re sitting
outside listening to the cicadas sing.
Excerpt:
The wail of sirens
rent the air, and Seth burst through the front door holding the camera to see
what was happening. Lara followed him out with a dishrag clenched in her hands.
“What’s going on now?”
she asked nervously.
“I don’t know,” Seth
responded. “I heard a crash.
It was loud. Look
there it is,” he pointed to the end of the block. “Stay inside.” Lara retreated
into the house.
A crowd of people had
gathered around two cars that had hit each other head on. The black BMW was
badly banged up. The chassis was nearly bent in half and steam rose from its
hood. The air bag deployed and filled the entire front of the car. The door was
open and a man was sitting in the driver’s seat, talking on his cell phone.
A silver Prius rested
atop a broken fire hydrant.
A geyser of water
roared as it shot ten feet into the air.
Sitting on the curb, a
dazed woman was holding a towel to her bloody nose. His neighbor Cathy
dashed out of her
house to comfort the woman.
“Are you OK?” Seth
wandered over to the stricken woman.
“I don’t know what
happened,” the woman replied. “I was driving and out of nowhere the whole
windshield was covered by bugs.”
“Cicadas?” Seth
inquired.
“I don’t know what
they were. But there were a lot of them. The wipers couldn’t get rid of them
quick enough. They
just kept coming.”
Seth walked away as
the woman started cry. He looked at the totaled car. A brown residue of bug
guts smeared the
windshield.
Police cars started
rolling down the street and pretty soon the chaotic mess got sorted out.
A cop walked over to
survey the scene next to Seth. He turned to the policeman and asked, “What do
you make of this?”
The officer shrugged
his shoulders and replied, “Probably just a swarm.”
***
Later that night, Lara
curled against Seth’s side, they watched the evening news.
The newscaster was
concluding a segment, “There are widespread and unprovoked bug attacks all over
the tri-state area today causing accidents and mayhem everywhere. Although it
was very disturbing, the governor is assuring everyone to remain calm. Cicadas
usually die within a day or two. He is urging people not to panic.”
“I feel so bad for
Cathy,” Lara’s blue eyes welled with tears. “She loved that dog. This is
getting scary, Seth.” “You heard what the cops said. They probably disturbed a
nest. That’s what happened in Arizona too you know, with the killer bees. They
have people there who just take out the nests for a living.”
“What about the car
accident?” Lara asked.
Seth put a finger over
her soft lips. “They told us not to be concerned. The cops were here in four
minutes, and animal control said not to blow it out of proportion. Enough!” he
kissed her lightly. “I said enough.”
About The Author
Michael
Phillip Cash is an award-winning and best-selling novelist of horror,
paranormal, and science fiction novels.
He's written ten books including the best-selling “Brood X”,
“Stillwell”, “The Flip”, “The After House”, “The Hanging Tree”, “Witches
Protection Program”, “Pokergeist”, "Monsterland", "The History
Major", and “Battle for Darracia” series. Michael’s books are on the
Amazon best-seller list and have also won numerous awards. Additionally, he is
a screenwriter with 14 specs under his belt. Michael resides on the North Shore
of Long Island.
Contact Information
Website: http://www.michaelphillipcash.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/michaelpcash
Thursday, September 22, 2016
Release Blitz: JAMISON by Niquel
Title: Jamison
Series: Spasm Rockers #1
Author: Niquel
Genre: New Adult
Release Date: September 21, 2016
Some people call it puppy love,
But I know the truth.
Even though we were kids, too young to know better,
I knew.
I was absolutely head-over-heels in love with Cody Jamison.
There wasn’t a moment in my life that he wasn’t a part of.
There wasn’t a part of me that didn’t belong to him.
And just as I was about to tell him…
He left.
Left town.
Left me.
Shattering my heart into pieces.
But now, he’s back.
Just like that.
But, we’re no longer those bright-eyed little kids we once were.
He just re-emerged,
Claiming a spot as the lead guitarist in my brother’s band,
As if nothing ever changed.
But it did.
Everything's different now.
And I won't let this asshole strum his way back in,
Reclaiming my heart,
Not without an explanation.
He’s going to have to work for it,
For me.
Cody Jamison can’t have me,
Until I have the truth.
"Oh my!!! This book was amazing." ~Paula, 5 Star Goodreads Review
"This book will take you on an awesome roller coaster of emotions from the very beginning to the last page." ~Victoria, 5 Star Goodreads Review
"This is my first book by author Niquel, but it definitely will not be my last! I absolutely loved the story of Cody (CJ) and Shannon!" ~Penny, 5 Star Goodreads Review
“Oh my God, Shan, quit being a wuss!”
“I can't, it's too high!” I yelled down at my brother, who was safe on the ground. I don’t know why I let him talk me in to doing stupid things like this.
“C’mon, Shanny, just put your foot in the holes and jump when you get to the last one,” CJ egged on.
Anytime he was around and asked me to do something, the fear inside of me went away. “Okay.”
One.
Two.
Three.
“Ouch!”
“Holy crap, are you all right?” My brother asked, as the sky spun behind his and CJ’s heads.
“My head hurts really bad.”
“Dang, I’ll go and get Mom. Can you stay with her, CJ?” He nodded his head, and then helped me sit up. He kept looking at me funny with his eyes; eyes that were the color of chocolate.
“Why are you looking at me like that?”
“I was looking at the small dots across your face. What are they?”
I placed my hands over my face, and rubbed my cheeks, wishing they would come off. “My mommy calls them ‘freckles’ and I hate them.”
“Why?”
"Because people are always teasing me about them. Mom said I got them from being in the sun too much."
"So let's call them sun kisses! The sun loved your face so much, it left little kisses behind."
I giggled so hard, that it made my head hurt more. CJ was almost thirteen, like my older brother, but he made me feel fuzzy inside.
Niquel is a self diagnosed coffee addict, lover of rice and beans, and chocolate—preferably not all together. She’s the creator of multiple stories full of love, passion, and power. She may toss in a ghost story every once in a while.
When she’s not busy taking care of her two little girls, she's writing or creating graphics or you can find her binge watching TV with her significant other.
Boston born and raised, she’s always been a creative soul: attending multiple colleges to develop her love of the visual arts.