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31/10/2016

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Hi Everyone,  I would like to dedicate this Halloween to my mum.  She always considered herself a white witch.  If she was still alive she would be 86 years old now.  Her personality didn't fit with the time she was born to.  I hope, since she has been gone for ten years now,  she is on to a life that will fit her better. 
She was a very intelligent woman who loved fun.  It wasn't until her mid to late forties when she lived on her own that she really discovered who she could be.  Then she found the much younger man that was the one she needed.  This modern world of the internet and indi published books would have been ideal for her.  She wrote,  painted and was generally artistic.  I haven't inherited her talents unfortunately.  The picture above that I found on Pinterest fits her personality so well.  A good witch with a little bit of wicked.  I miss you mum.  Xx

The Earl (A Devil´s Duke #2) by Katharine Ashe. ARC Review + Giveaway.

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THE EARL

by Katharine Ashe 
Devil’s Duke #2 
Publication Date: October 25, 2016 
Genres: Adult, Historical Romance, Avon, Harper Collins

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Synopsis: How does a bookish lady bring an arrogant lord to his knees? Entice him to Scotland, strip him of titles and riches, and make him prove what sort of man he truly is. Opposites… Handsome, wealthy, and sublimely confident, Colin Gray, the new Earl of Egremoor, has vowed to unmask the rabble-rousing pamphleteer, Lady Justice, the thorn in England’s paw. And he’ll stop at nothing. Attract. Smart, big-hearted, and passionately dedicated to her work, Lady Justice longs to teach her nemesis a lesson in humility. But her sister is missing, and a perilous journey with her archrival into unknown territory just might turn fierce enemies into lovers.

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Colin Gray,  the new Earl of Egremoor has been part of a secret club for years.  They have been helping find missing people.  Sometimes those people didn't want to be found.  There is a person writing pamphlets ridiculing the club and his alter ego in particular.  With the death of his father, he needs to finish the club and make a proposal.  
Lady Emily Vale is the eldest of happy family of sisters, one of whom is missing.  She has been more or less betrothed since birth to a man who was her best friend as a child but who has avoided her for years.  
This is a lovely story where both our protagonists have a very firm opinion about life,  but still have very much to learn about truth.  They have both lived with secret personalities doing what they thought was right.  Our hero is not quite the typical Lord he is believed to be.  Our heroine has put herself so far outside the normal sphere of her rank in life so that she can try to affect the politics of the time.  
They set off separately on a mission that turns into a joint one of discovery and lots of danger.  
An intriguing and exciting historical romance with more than the usual share of adventure.  
This is part of a series that can each be read as a stand alone.  I think I know the protagonists of the next book and cant wait to read it.  A thoroughly enjoyable story I loved it.  


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DON'T MISS THE ROGUE, BOOK #1 IN THE DEVIL'S DUKE SERIES BY USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR KATHARINE ASHE!

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Synopsis: Lady Constance Read is independent, beautiful, and in need of a husband—now. The last man on earth she wants is the rogue who broke her heart six years ago, never mind that his kisses are scorching hot… Evan Saint-André Sterling is rich, scarred, and finished with women—forever. He’s not about to lose his head over the bewitching beauty who once turned his life upside down. But Constance needs a warrior, and Saint is the perfect man for the job. Only as a married woman can she penetrate Scotland’s most notorious secret society and bring a diabolical duke to justice. When Constance and Saint become allies—and passionate lovers—he’ll risk everything to protect the only woman he has ever loved.

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ABOUT USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR KATHARINE ASHE

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Katharine Ashe is the award-winning author of historical romances that reviewers call “intensely lush” and “sensationally intelligent,” including How to Be a Proper Lady, an Amazon Editors’ Choice for the 10 Best Books of the Year in Romance, and My Lady, My Lord and How to Marry a Highlander, 2015 and 2014 finalists for the prestigious RITA® Award of the Romance Writers of America. Her books are recommended by Publishers Weekly, Women’s World Magazine, Booklist, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, Barnes & Noble, and many others, and translated into languages across the world. Katharine lives in the wonderfully warm Southeast with her beloved husband, son, dog, and a garden she likes to call romantic rather than unkempt. A professor of European History, she writes fiction because she thinks modern readers deserve grand adventures and breathtaking sensuality too. For more about Katharine’s books, please visit www.KatharineAshe.com or write to her at PO Box 51702, Durham, NC 27717.

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A Faery´s Kiss ( A Winter Love Story) by Ariel Marie. Paranormal Romance Excerpt Reveal.

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A Faery’s kiss
By Ariel Marie
Release date: November 19, 2016
Cover by: Ariel Marie
Genre: Paranormal Romance

Blurb:
The twenty-fifth day of December is fast approaching. It is a day that is celebrated throughout all of Faery. It signifies the birthday of the beloved Princess, Noelle Bogosian, who on this year will turn thirty years old. With her impending birthday, her father, the king, has deemed it time for her to marry. The king has reinstated the Royal Tournaments, a series of competitions that would allow warriors near and far to compete for his daughter’s hand in marriage.

Noelle, being the loyal daughter that she is, has agreed to her father’s outlandish idea of finding her a husband. She will do anything for Faery and knows that finding a suitable husband will help secure Faery’s future. But for Noelle, she’s ready to test out the legend of a Faery’s kiss. She’s been ready to find that one special Fae to spend all of eternity with.

Will the legend prove true and reveal her one true love or will the victor of the tournament be the one that she will spend an eternity with?

WARNING: The book contains content for readers 18 years and older.




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She desperately needed to speak to her friend. Not that a tokota could speak, that would be crazy, Noelle thought to herself with a laugh. But he was certainly a great listener.

Marric and Noelle’s relationship dated back to one winter morning when Noelle was fifteen and she came upon a lost small black and white wolf-looking pup. The little furry ball yipped and ran over to Noelle and they had been friends every since.

A snort greeted Noelle from behind her. She turned with a smile, finding a large black figure standing behind her.

Marric.

That small fur ball had grown into a massive alpha tokota. Marric was well muscular and with each step that he took toward Noelle, she could see the predator in him. But she knew that he would never hurt her. Tokota’s were very loyal to their companions. He was a massive beast that could easily accommodate her on his back as a passenger.

“It took you long enough,” she murmured as he pushed his snout into her hand. “Well, hello to you too,” she said with a laugh.

Another snort at her comment. She ignored it, allowing a large grin to spread across her face as she ruffled her fingers through his fur. She knew he was looking for the treats that she always brought.

“I have a problem, Marric,” she admitted. He pulled back and his dark eyes settled on her. He sat back on his hind legs, ready to listen to her. “My birthday is coming up. December twenty-fifth, I’ll be turning thirty. Do you know what that means?”

Marric cocked his head to the side as if waiting for her to answer. Of course he didn’t know the workings of the laws of Faery. She sighed and shook her head.

“According to the laws of Faery, I must marry. My father, the king, will be having the Royal Tournaments to find a husband for me. Males from all over Faery will come to compete in the tournaments to win my hand in marriage. You would think that this was the medieval times. This is the twenty-first century.  A young Fae woman should be able to decide when it’s time for her to get married, not the governing body of our realm.”

Marric’s eyes didn’t waiver from Noelle as she spoke. Even without words, Noelle felt comforted by her friend’s presence. Maybe it was the chance to get her worries out in the open and off her chest that gave her relief, but deep down, Noelle was sure that it was Marric.

“But I’m sure that you’re just bored with my complaints,” she said with a hard laugh. She let loose a giggle as Marric butted her with his head. She wrapped her arms around his large neck and buried her head in his thick fur, squeezing tight before she let go.

“Ok, I’ll do it. For my family. For Faery,” she whispered, accepting what her family needed from her and what Faery would need from her.

Copyright © 2016 by Ariel Marie
**This is a sneak peek into the unedited version. This is not the final copy as some things may change. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.




Meet Ariel Marie:
Ariel Marie is an author who loves the paranormal, action and hot steamy romance. She combines all three in each and every one of her stories. For as long as she can remember, she has loved vampires, shifters and every creature you can think of. This even rolls over into her favorite movies! She love a good action packed thriller! Throw a touch of the supernatural world in it and she’s hooked!

She grew up in Cleveland, Ohio where she currently resides with her husband and three beautiful children. Want to know more about her and her books? Visit her website www.thearielmarie.com

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When A Laird Finds A Lass (Highland Fairy Tale) by Lecia Cornwall. +Giveaway.

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When a Laird Finds a Lass

by Lecia Cornwall Highland Fairy Tales
Publication Date: November 1, 2016
  Genres: Historical, Romance
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She is his greatest enemy and his only salvation… Malcolm MacDonald, a lawyer in Edinburgh, unexpectedly inherits his father’s title of Laird of Dunbronach, forcing him to return to a place he hasn’t seen since he was a small child. To gain the trust of a wary clan, Malcolm must act upon their insistence that he cast aside his English betrothed and marry a Highlander. However, they have one condition—no lasses of the barbaric clan MacLeod. When he finds an unconscious woman in the sea, he brings her back to his clan but not before doing the one thing that could save her life—hiding her all too telling MacLeod plaid. When she wakes with no memory of who she is, Malcolm vows to keep the little he knows about her identity a secret. As new dangers threaten his clan, the mysterious lass teaches Malcolm some very important lessons about how to be a Highlander and a laird. But secrets never stay secret for long, and when she finds her plaid, her memory returns and she flees. Malcolm is forced to make a difficult choice to win her back, facing his darkest fears and his worst enemy for a chance at true love.

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About Lecia Cornwall

Lecia Cornwall lives and writes in Calgary, Canada in the beautiful foothills of the Canadian Rockies, with five cats, two teenagers, a crazy chocolate lab, and one very patient husband. She’s hard at work on her next book. Come visit Lecia at www.leciacornwall.com, or drop her a line at leciacornwall@shaw.ca.


Gravity, by A.B.Bloom. YA, Paranormal Romance. + $10 G.C.Giveaway.

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Gravity

by A.B. Bloom 
Publication Date: October 31, 2016 
Genres: Young Adult, Paranormal, Romance
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They are calling it the End of Days. The world is plunging into darkness, the days growing shorter and the nights longer. Meteor showers are falling to the earth and there are some who would take advantage of the growing darkness. For sixteen year old Bronte Bell, her problems are closer to home. Since her birthday she’s become weaker, her bones breaking, her hair falling out and plagued with constant migraines. No one can explain why. Until a mysterious new boy arrives and tells her that everything is not as it seems. She is not what she seems. Drawn into a war that divides the sky, Bronte is torn between her desire to save the world and her growing connection with Nick. But she will have to let go of reality as she knows it, if she is to accept her role in destiny before the Hunter, who has been tracking her since birth, finds and destroys any chance she has of making the choice which is her birthright to make. Her destiny will change everything . . .

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About A. B. Bloom

Anna Bloom is a contemporary romance writer who writes about life as it happens. Combining a busy schedule of looking after two small children whilst working in a local school and completing The Uni Files series. Anna’s main aim in life is to create the perfect book which makes a reader laugh and cry at the same time, hopefully causing a convulsive (impossible to ignore) donkey noise. It’s a work in progress! Anna also spends a lot of time imagining kissing hot guys – all in the name of her art.

Black Widow, (Black Widow Series #1) by Jenni Moen. Cover Reveal.

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  “I bet I could make you fall in love in a week.” The offer seals Scott Russell’s fate. After a bitter betrayal and an ugly divorce, the detective is forced to make a fresh start. His new position in a quiet suburb should be a walk in the park compared to his years in Chicago. However, he quickly learns that small towns come with their own issues, with citizens who are slow to forgive and even slower to forget. The town’s wealthy and reclusive author is a mystery to most. To Scott, she’s just another nameless girl on the train. With a reserved smile and shoes worth more than a month’s rent, his only concern is she might be out of his league. “I can give you seven days, but not my heart.” The acceptance is one more in a string of lies. Celeste Smythe doesn’t believe in love at first sight. Relationships take time and sometimes even that isn’t enough. Not with the secrets she harbors in her guarded heart. Yet fate keeps pushing her toward the handsome and absurdly persistent man, and resisting may be more than she can endure, no matter the risks. When the week is over, Scott may think he knows her. Celeste may know she loves him. But when the truth is revealed about the town’s most talked about citizen, he may discover he’s put more than his heart on the line.

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Jenni Moen lives in her hometown in Oklahoma with her husband and three crazy, exuberant kids who have the potential to burn the house down at any moment. When she's not chauffeuring kids around town, performing her mom duties as a short order cook and maid, or vacuuming for her fastidious husband, she hammers away at her keyboard. Sometimes that means she's up to no good. But every now and then a new book is born.

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30/10/2016

Lessons in Purrsuasion (Chicago Catastrophe #2) by Rory Dale & Anya Nowlan. ARC Review.




An ex-SEAL werelion just seeking peace + a feisty, curvy woman with something to prove + a pregnancy no one could have expected = Suspenseful shifter romance you can't miss!

Stone Calloway thought he left behind his life of violence once he hung up his sniper rifle and settled into an easy routine. But just like this werelion ex-SEAL doesn't know when to relax, the world doesn't know when to leave him be, either. Called in to help an old friend get back his sister, Stone begrudgingly steps back into the world of organized crime, shifters hunting shifters, and everything that comes with it. He would have never guessed that the right woman could make him see all of it differently...

Selina Rozack wanted nothing more than to run her business in peace, but the curvy woman never stood for injustice and that got her in trouble with the wrong people. Or, well... the wrong shifters! The Crimson Claws, a shifter mob organization, is after her, and they're not the only ones. Stuck between two men who both think of her as theirs, Selina has to fight tooth and nail to prove that she's her own woman. The fact that one of the men is impossibly sexy and completely irresistible doesn't help at all. With a surprise pregnancy thrown into the mix, things start looking grimmer by the day... But maybe that's exactly what she needed? A blessing in disguise.

Can Stone show Selina that he's not just another possessive shifter out to claim her, and can she see him as more than an assassin? Or will the Crimson Claws catch up with them both before they can make up their minds, robbing them of their futures and their baby...

Lessons in Purrsuasion is a full novel with a happy ever after ending and no cheating! It can and should be read as a standalone!
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Selina Rozak is just a baker that works in the family bakery.  Unfortunately in this Chicago there is a shifter mob who are demanding money for protection from the businesses.  Her father has refused to pay.  That has put her in the sights of a particularly nasty tiger shifter who wants her for himself. 
Stone Calloway is an ex navy.   SEAL and a lion shifter . A friend has asked him to try and get his sister back from the men who kidnapped her.  That turns out to be just the start of their problems. 
This is an all action, romantic suspense with the added flavour of shifters.  There is a lot of danger,  bullets and fur flying,  but we still get time for the romance. 
This is part of a series but easily read on it's own.  I loved this very exciting book and can't wait to read the next one. 


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Anya Nowlan loves growly bears, hot sex and writing about both. The sexier and naughtier the better. She mostly writes paranormal and fantasy novellas and novels, focusing on shifters and their lucky mates. Her stories are often bite-sized, just what you need to soothe that craving for brave women and strong alphas with a big side-order of some smuttiness.

Anya lives in Boston with her boyfriend and several dogs of varying sizes and levels of mischief. She can't go through a day without chocolate and has an unhealthy addiction to purses, but every girl is allowed her little vices, right? 

If you have enjoyed her shorts or want to just shoot the breeze a little, don't hesitate to contact Anya via e-mail: anya.nowlan@gmail.com

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RORY DALE: 
Rory Dale has always loved big burly men and fairytales. Though life is sometimes tough, Rory likes to tuck herself away with a hot, raunchy book and life the life of fantasy and make the hardships taste that much sweeter. That’s what started her on the path to writing as well – the need to share her own little dreams with others! It just so happens that these dreams include plenty of hot men, heartwrenching conflicts and sizzling, pantymelting sex!

Rory lives in Colorado with a cat, a grouchy goldfish and a stack of books so high it’s sometimes hard to determine where the room ends and the books begin. There isn’t a handsome bear of a man in her life yet but until he shows up, she’s just going to write about her dream man until he steps in the door one day!

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Zadri: Dragons of Preor #5 , by Celia Kyle as Erin Tate. ARC Review.


What’s a single, pregnant woman supposed to do when her family wants that baby gone? Go to Preor Choosing Station Tau and hope a dragon shapeshifting alien is her mate, of course.

Delaney Cole found her mate among the Preor only to watch him die—through his own eyes thanks to the Knowing. Now, what’s she supposed to do when she discovers that her second mate is the male who’d killed her first? It doesn’t matter that he’s gorgeous, that his peach scales invite her touch, and his thick muscles make her fingers tingle with the need to caress him. She shouldn’t want such a violent, deadly male, but… she does.

Zadri was born a son of Syh, orphaned and unwanted, and he never imagined actually having a mate. Yet, Delaney is his. Yes, he was the one to rip out her first mate’s throat, but now that he has experienced the Knowing with her, he will not let her go. Her lush curves, inner strength, and unborn young belong to him—wholly and until he takes his final flight.

When others attempt to rip her from his life, he will explain the gravity of their error. Slowly. Painfully. He only hopes he can reach her before they escape.

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Defence Master Zadri sen Syh has been keeping watch over the pregnant human . She has been unconscious, and suffering nightmares since he killed her mate in battle.  It is not only guilt that has kept him at her side. 
Delaney Cole comes from a very wealthy family, but her parent's reaction to her unplanned pregnancy caused her to look elsewhere for help. 
This is part of a series that is best read in order to fully understand the characters.  Our hero is a dragon shifter alien from the planet of Preor.  He is also an emotionally damaged and very sexy man.  Our heroine's pregnancy is causing her no end of problems, but all she really needs is acceptance. 
An exciting and emotional story from a series that I am hopelessly addicted to.  I loved it. 

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Celia Kyle would like to rule the world and become a ninja. As a fall-back, she’s working on her writing career and giving readers stories that touch their hearts and *ahem* other places. Visit her online