Cover Reveal: I Breathe You by Lori L. Clark

When a tragic accident leaves Rhane Evans -- lead vocalist for the rock band Fate's Crazy -- permanently unable to speak above a whisper and kills the love of her life, she moves across the state to pick up the pieces. Shattered, Rhane struggles to understand what happened the night of the accident, an accident everyone blames her for, even though she wasn't driving the car.

Enter Ian Callahan. He's the one person who may have a more tumultuous past than Rhane. Though they try hard to deny the sizzling attraction between them, it proves nearly impossible. When Ian's troubled past threatens to tear them apart, they begin to believe happiness isn't in their cards.

Because Fate's Crazy that way...

Publication date:  July 2013

About the author:

I read, I write, I run 1/2 marathons for fun. Ten things about me:

1. I'm an only child.
2. I love dogs!
3. I was born in Iowa City, Iowa and lived in Iowa my whole life until January 2007.
4. I worked as a professional psychic reader for 2 years.
5. I'm a Pisces Sun, Leo Moon with Aquarius rising.
6. I've written 5 books and am in the process of brainstorming a 6th.
7. I don't look or act my age!
8. I ran my first 1/2 marathon at age 50.
9. I love 80's hair band music.
10. My day job is as a claims payment analyst for one of Fortune 500 Magazine's "Top 100 places in America to work."


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Release Event & Giveaway: Killing Sarai by J.A. Redmerski

From the author of the New York Times, USA Today & Wall Street Journal bestselling novel, THE EDGE OF NEVER, comes a story of passion and survival…

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Sarai was only fourteen when her mother uprooted her to live in Mexico with a notorious drug lord. Over time she forgot what it was like to live a normal life, but she never let go of her hope to escape the compound where she has been held for the past nine years.

Victor is a cold-blooded assassin who, like Sarai, has known only death and violence since he was a young boy. When Victor arrives at the compound to collect details and payment for a hit, Sarai sees him as her only opportunity for escape. But things don’t go as planned and instead of finding transport back to Tucson, she finds herself free from one dangerous man and caught in the clutches of another.

While on the run, Victor strays from his primal nature as he succumbs to his conscience and resolves to help Sarai. As they grow closer, he finds himself willing to risk everything to keep her alive; even his relationship with his devoted brother and liaison, Niklas, who now like everyone else wants Sarai dead.

As Victor and Sarai slowly build a trust, the differences between them seem to lessen, and an unlikely attraction intensifies. But Victor’s brutal skills and experience may not be enough in the end to save her, as the power she unknowingly holds over him may ultimately be what gets her killed.

This is their story…

I raise the gun a little higher, settling the barrel at the back of her head, but not touching it. I don’t want her to be afraid before she dies and although I know she fears nothing, death is something we all fear in our final moment even if only the smallest part of us is conscious of it. I don’t want her to fear it at all and she can’t if she doesn't know that it’s happening.
“How old were you when you became what you are?” she asks.
Caught off guard by the question and maybe more-so by the shifting of the mood, I hesitate before answering.
“I was nine.”
She sniffles and wipes her eyes with the hand near her cheek.
“You were very young,” she goes on. “I guess in a way like me, you never had a chance to live a life of your choosing. I guess maybe we aren't really so different from each other.” She pauses. “Except I might be more like your brother than I care to admit. He’s as angry as I am.”
I release my finger from the trigger and slowly, so she doesn't know, move the barrel away from the back of her head.
“It must’ve been hard growing up with Niklas,” she says.
I set the gun back on the bed next to me and before I know what I’m doing I’m cradling the back of her head in my hand again.

About the author:

J.A. Redmerski, New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of THE EDGE OF NEVER lives in North Little Rock, Arkansas with her three children and a Maltese. She is a lover of television and books that push boundaries and is a huge fan of AMC’s The Walking Dead.

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Review: Beg (Songs of Submission #1) by C.D. Reiss

Goodreads blurb:

This novella is the first in a series

My name is Monica. I’m a singer born and raised in Los Angeles.
I've stopped dating. When I cut a record, or win a Grammy, maybe then I’ll be with someone, but every man in my past has done everything he could to make me submit myself to him, and it’s gotten in the way of my career. I won’t do it again.

But there’s Jonathan. He owns the high-rise hotel where I work, and he is gorgeous and charming. I refuse to fall in love with him, even though when he asks me to submit to him, I want nothing more.

****GRAPHIC LANGUAGE, SEX, AND ADULT SITUATIONS****

First things first, I don’t like Monica! You wanna know why? I will show you why.

“I loved Gabby. She was like a sister to me, but sometimes I wished for a less burdensome friend.”

That’s just not right! Her friend has a depression, tried to kill herself, she is now showing the same behaviors that she did when she tried to kill herself, and Monica wishes for a less burdensome friend!? What the hell! And one more thing, when she has to choose between going home with Gabby and make sure she doesn't do anything bad and going to Jonathan’s house to sleep with him, what do you think she chose? She chose going to Jonathan’s house. I just think that that is not right, I would never do something like that and that is why I don’t like Monica. If you have to choose between making sure your best friend is okay and sleeping with a guy that you barely know, you choose your best friend.

Well, moving on... Jonathan, I was impressed that he had red hair. I was not excepting that, I never read a book that the guy had red hair. I tried searching for some pictures of guys with red hair and I didn't really find many good ones, so I had a hard time imagining Jonathan.

At first I didn't like him either because he looked shy or something.

“H-Hi,” I stammered. “I’ll be your server.” I smiled. That always worked. Then I thought happy thoughts because that made my smile genuine, and I watched Drazen move his gaze from my smiling face, over my breasts, to my hips, stopping at my calves. I felt as if I were being applauded again.
He looked back at my face. I stared right back at him, and he pursed his lips. I’d caught him looking, and he seemed justifiably embarrassed.”

Aren't you supposed to look at her, see that she saw you looking and smirk, like that was exactly what you wanted to happen? Well, I guess I’m just used to things this way...
Anyway, as I read the book, I found that he is not so bad.

I read some parts of other reviews before I started reading the book, and many people said that the sex scenes were hot, so I was excited to read them. But when I did I found that it was too short. She was saying that she thought that she couldn't take four more hours of that and I was thinking “What did you do that was so special?”. There was a part that I think is very... what’s the word? Interesting maybe?

“When I looked down at him, his eyes were closed with intensity as he flicked his tongue over my clit.” (....) “We kissed. He tasted perfectly of whiskey and desire. I wanted him. I wanted every inch of him”

You do know that you are tasting yourself right? Is good to know that she finds that her taste is perfect...

It was exactly at 96% that I thought it was getting interesting, so because of that I will continue to read the books because even though I don’t like Monica and had a hard time finding Jonathan sexy, I’m interested in knowing what will happen next.

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