Book Blitz: You Don't Know My Name

Publication Date: January 10th 2017

Genres: Contemporary & Young Adult

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Blurb:

Fighter, Faker, Student, Spy

Seventeen-year-old Reagan Elizabeth Hillis is used to changing identities overnight, lying to every friend she's ever had, and pushing away anyone who gets too close. Trained in mortal combat and weaponry her entire life, Reagan is expected to follow in her parents' footsteps and join the ranks of the most powerful top-secret agency in the world, the Black Angels. Falling in love with the boy next door was never part of the plan.

Now Reagan has to decide: Will she use her incredible talents and lead the dangerous life she was born into, or throw it all away to follow her heart and embrace the normal life she's always wanted? And does she even have a choice at all?

Find out if you are ready to join in the Black Angels in the captivating and emotional page-tuner,  You Don't Know My Name, from debut novelist Kristen Orlando!

Excerpt:

I love Malika and Harper. They make me happy. They really do. But there's something about being with them that makes me feel lonely too. I can never really be myself with them. I Can't really be myself with anybody. It's ingrained in me to lie, to stick to the cover story and blend in no matter what. And I feel guilty about that. Because they think they know me so well. they think because they can finish my sentences they know everything about me. But they only know Reagan MacMillan; the quick-talking, tough girl I created. Sometimes I wonder which parts of my personality are really me and which ones belong to the pretender.

But with Luke, it's different. There's nothing forced or strategic about our friendship. He's gotten to see glimpses of the real Reagan. And that scares the shit out of me. Because I know how quickly it could all be torn away from me. How quickly I could be torn away from him. There's no such thing as happy ending for a girl like me.

"Come on, Reagan" Harper says quietly, glancing over her shoulder to make sure Luke is still out of earshot. "You guys are so cute together. He Broke Up with Hannah months ago. I don't know what you're waiting for. I ca just tel by the way he looks at you he-"

"Harper," I interrupt as her words compress my lungs, making each breath labored and painful. I don't want to hear this. "He doesn't look at me like anything. I don't want to ruin our friendship."

"You know some things are worth ruining," Harper replies, reaching out to touch my arm with her fingertips, her nails painted darker than my gray cardigan. "You can't tell me  you haven't at least thought of starting a relationship with him or maybe-"

"There is no relationship," I cut her off again, pulling my arm away a little faster than I meant to. I snap new gloves onto my hands, pick up the scalpel, and slice into the frog's heart. "Next stomach."

"Next stomach?" Harper repeats, scrunching her forehead.

"Next subject."

Author Info:

writing is one of the great loves of Kristen Orlando's life and she has been lucky enough to make it her living, first as a television producer, Then as a marketer and now as a novelist. Kristen graduated with a B.A. in English literature from Kenyon College. She lives in Columbus, Ohio with other great love of her life Michael. You Don't Know My Name is her Debut Novel.

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Book Blitz: Swindled, Negotiations, Red

Publication Date: June 2016

Genre(s): Adult and Romance

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Blurb:

These 5,000 word short stories are the perfect serving of sizzle before bed.

Swindled - Releases June 14

Close Contact Volume 1

Newbie detective Harper Land baits international thief Magnus Declan with her best assets and discovers she's not the only one with tempting snares.

Negotiations - Releases June 21

Close Contact Volume 2

When Detroit's lead negotiator Paige Cline and Special Response Team captain Donovan Wolfe go head to head, they negotiate a fiery response.

Red - Releases June 28

Close Contact Volume 3

After losing a patient, famed neurosurgeon Alexis McCrae needs an escape and her pilot Captain Warren knows just the right spot.

Excerpt:

Swindled

"Aren't you going to cuff me?"

She didn't have anything to hold him, but still she stopped with one hand on the door.

"No, you're not," he said, drawing nearer. "You don't want anyone to know I made you come without a single touch." Looming over her shoulder, the heat of his large body shot a wave of gooseflesh across hers. "I've never seen such an honest reaction in my life, and that's a treasure too exquisite to share."

Negotiations

"Come under me. We'll work together. You'll like it." He emphasized his last point by grinding his hips against her.

A deep belly laugh rolled out of her mouth and her lips curved high.

"Men. You're either threatened by us or in awe of us. The threatened ones want to control and the awed ones want to watch. You're no different, soldier. You hate that I call the shots at a scene and see an opportunity to change that. Well, I have oodles more training in psych and for negotiations than you, and you won't issue orders to me."

Yes he would and she'd follow them. She'd beg for them.

Red

He nudged her face up from the pillowy seat. "No one's going to hear, but me, and I want to hear everything you have to say about this."

"They're not intelligible words," she panted.

"That works too."

Author Info:

USA Today bestselling author Megan Mitcham was born and raised among the live oaks and shrimp boats of the mississippi Gulf Coast, where her enormous family still calls home. She attended college at the University of Southern Mississppi where she received a bachelor's degree in curriculum, instruction, and special education. For several years Megan worked as a teacher in Mississppi. She married and moved to South Carolina and worked for an international non-profit organization as an instructor and co-director.

In 2009 Megan fell in love with books. Until then, books had been a source for research or the topic of tests. But one day she read Mercy by Julie Garwood. And Of Mercy, She was hooked!

Megan lives in Southern Arkansas where she pens sizzling suspense novels. Follow her through her sites and sign up for her newsletter.

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Review: Empower by Jessica Shirvington

Publication Date: 6th May 2014

Genre(s): Young Adult, Paranormal, Fantasy, Supernatural and Romance

Blurb:

It has been two years since Violet Eden walked away from the city, her friends, her future and - most importantly - her soulmate, Lincoln. Part angel, part human, Violet is determined to stand by the promises she made to save the one she loves.

Living in the perpetual coldness of a broken soul she survives day to day as a Rogue Grigori in London.

Even worse, she fears that this might all lead back to the night tries hardest to forget. And what was taken without her permission.

Violet is going back to New York...and she knows exactly who is going to be there.

With Phoenix in her dreams and Lincoln in her heart she knows it is only a matter of time before the final choice must be made.

Review:

The past 2 years had taught Violet The past 2 years had taught Violet not to let the everyday hiccups get to her. Sure the additional muscle would hurt, but only in the physical sense, and she could cope with that. Rolling with the punches is necessary when are a Grigori (a human-angel hybrid) a weapon against the ever increasing numbers of exiled angels on earth. For her even more so, since they gave her such a colourful nickname. She is the Keshet, the rainbow. She didn’t ask to be the rainbow but she made her choices and she stands by them.

So she is still trying to figure out exactly what being the rainbow meant, mostly she found that the desire to know conflicted with her continuing need not to think about it all. One thing she did know was that somehow she could create space with the angels. A place unknown where they are able to take form and communicate. Her angel maker (whose name she and everyone else still does not know) said it is a place for new possibilities.

Review: Stealing Parker by Miranda Kenneally

Publication Date: 1st October 2012

Genre(s): Young Adult, Contemporary, Romance and Chick-Lit

Blurb:

Red-hot author Miranda Kenneally hits one out of the park in this return to Catching Jordan's Hundred Oaks High.

Parker Shelton pretty much has the perfect life. She's on her way to becoming valedictorian at Hundred Oaks High, she's made the all-star softball team, and she has plenty of friends. Then her mother's scandal rocks their small town and suddenly no one will talk to her.

Now Parker wants a new life.

So she quits softball. Drops twenty pounds. And she figures why kiss one guy when she can kiss three? or four. Why limit herself to high school boys when the majorly cute new baseball coach seems especially flirty?

But how far is too far before she loses herself completely?

Review:

Parker Shelton has the perfect life, a life every young teenage could want. She is making her way to becoming the new valedictorian for Hundred Oaks High School, she has made the all-star softball team her junior and sophomore years and she has a lot of friends that you could ever ask for. But then her mother is involved in a scandal that rocks the whole town they live and the consequences of the scandal fall on parker and her family’s shoulders, with her mother nowhere to be seen.

Parker now has this new life, she quit the softball team, she dropped about twenty pounds in muscle and is a nice petit teenager with a flawless figurer, with the way she looks now she figures she can have her pick at guys, why have one when she can have at three or more. But when the new baseball coach is introduced to her, why would she go for high school boys when she can have her turn at a mature adult who is flirty. 

 This novel was an enjoyable read, it was a sort of quick read but didn’t happen in one sitting. Fans of contemporary novels will like this one. And if you are looking for another character to connect with or another sports-oriented novel to pluck from the shelves at your local book store or Library then Stealing Parker is right up your ally.

Review: Always The Baker, Never The Bride by Sandra D. Bricker

Publication Date: 1st September 2010

Genre(s): Adult, Romance, Chick-Lit, and Contemporary

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Blurb:

Thirty-six year old Emma Rae Travis has been baking specialty cakes and melt in you mouth pastries at The Backstreet Bakery in historic Roswell, just outside of Atlanta, for the last six years. But here's the rub about her job as a baker...Emma is diabetic. When she tastes her creations, it can only be in the most minute portions. Emma is considered an artisan for the stunning Creme brulee wedding cake that won her the Passionate Palette Award last year, but she's never even had one full slice of it.

When Jackson Drake hears about this local baker who has won a prestigious award for her wedding cake artistry, he tells his assistant to be sure and include her in the pastry tastings scheduled at his new wedding destination hotel the following week. And for Jakson, that particular day has started out badly with two workmen trapped in a broken elevator and a delivery of several dozen 300-thread count bed linens in the wrong size abandoned in the lobby. But when the arrogant baker he met a week prior in Roswell stumbles into the dining room with a platter of pastries and a buckerful of orders, he knows for certain: it's going to be a really rotten day.

Can these two ill-suited players master the high-wire act and make a go of their new business venture? Or will they take each other crashing downward, without a net? And will the surprise wedding at The Tanglewood be theirs?

Review:

Emma Rae is 34 years old and she has this fantastic talent at baking specialty cakes and pastries that just melt in your mouth kind of talent at The Backstreet Bakery in the historic Roswell, which is just outside of Atlanta for the past 6 years. But here is the kicker about her doing her job, she is a type 1 dieobetic, she is also the winner of the Passionate Palette Award last year.

Jackson Drake is a through and through business men, when he hears about his local baker who won a prestigious award for her fantastic artistry wedding cake he tells his assistant to include her in the pastry tasting schedule at his new wedding destination hotel that following week. But as for Jackson his day started out really badly.

Our 2 main charters become friends or something more in their new business venture or will everything just come tumbling down without a net to catch there fall.

Book Blitz: Leaving Me Behind

Publication Date: 24th May 2016

Genre(s): Adult, Contemporary and Romance

Blurb:

He was supposed to be a personal challenge. A Spanish lover – younger and sinfully attractive. A daring, wild experience for one night.

My liberation from my self-oppressed lifestyle was planned out carefully down to the last detail. Everything except . . . HIM.

I didn’t see it coming, not by a long shot. My plan was safe. I was going to quit my job, say goodbye to the restraints of the life I had known, and follow my dreams.

I rented a house halfway across the globe in an exotic Spanish town on the coast. I made some new friends. I reveled in luscious food and a stunning landscape. Most of all I savored my new found freedom. That is until I met HIM.

It was supposed to be a night of lost inhibitions, soon to become a sweet memory. That was my plan. 

He had something different in mind.

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Excerpt:

“A warm shiver trails from the very top of my arms all the way to my toes as his hands gently move to hold my shoulders. Slowly, they trail down, rising my skin in their wake. My breath is held and everything inside me springs tight when his body presses just enough for mine to absorb his warmth and to feel the firmness that I recently learned is part of him. He brushes my hair over my shoulder with his chin. A tidal wave of heat spirals below my waist once his warm, minty breath hovers closely, and his bristled cheek softly grazes my flushed one.

He halts for a long moment.

“What are you doing?” I croakily breathe.

“Waiting for you to stop me.” His voice is rasp and low and reaches to every single part of my alert body.

My heart and mind speed at a hazardous velocity while I struggle for my next move. The last thing I want is for him to stop. I don’t say a word but blatantly press back against him, resting my head on his drumming chest. It’s less of a spoken consent and more of a silent agreement. Whatever is starting between us is happening nonetheless, with my undeniable blessing.”

Author Info:

By teen age, Sigal already lived in three different continents where she was lucky enough to experience and visit varied places, meet unique people, which only helped fuel her overly developed imagination. Currently, Sigal calls Estonia home where she lives with her husband and three kids.

Not exactly sure where they will end up next...

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Review: Confused by Wanda Wiltshire

Publication Date: 1st March 2016

Genre(s): Young Adult, Romance and Fantasy

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Blurb:

Defeated by shattering news after only just surviving the Shadow Fae, Marla abandons both Faera and her future role as Queen. With King Telophy's aid, she returns to Earth, to the human family she knows and loves.

But nothing is ever simple.

With their immortality looming, Marla and her twin Lysander are soon plunged into a world they never knew existed, a world of magic, violence and lust, where a simple mistake could have devastating consequences.

Meanwhile the Shadow Fae are causing havoc on a breathtaking scale with Marla's loved ones facing dire peril.

Review:

Shadow creatures merged in and out of cave walls, their numbers growing as they come crawling out of the tunnels and flew through the roofs, with their blood-filled wings glittering and full-moon eyes aglow. Is what haunts Marla at night when she sleeps and it is the aftermath of surviving the Shadow Fae.

Marla is abandoning Faera and also her role as future queen all with the help of her betrotheds father the King himself, King Telophy. She returns to a place she is familiar with and people she knows and loves with all her heart, but being Marla is never plan and simple, because the thing is she isn’t simple.

Her birthday is nearing and so is her immortality she needs to make a big decision. And her twin brother Lysander are forced into a world they thought never existed, it’s a world with magic, violence and lust. Its where one mistake can have deadly devastating consequences.

This book is full of every twist and turn you can think of but it will leave you dying for more and wanting to know what happens next, but one thing is for certain you need tissues on hand ASAP especially when you are nearing the end of the book.