Cover Reveal & #Giveaway for Winter's Bride by Nellie C. Lind

Welcome to my stop on the Cover Reveal, presented by IndieSage Promotions, for Winter's Bride by Nellie C. Lind.  Please leave a comment or question for Nellie to let her know you stopped by. You can enter her tour wide giveaway, for a $5 Amazon GC and a digital copy of Angel in Chains, by filling out the Rafflecopter form below.  

Winter's Bride

by Nellie C. Lind

The Elders of the Seasons #1

Publication Date: August 18, 2015

Genres: Erotic, Fantasy, Romance

About the book:

The Winter Lord is a man like no other. He rules the world together with the Summer Lady, the Autumn Lord and the Lady of Spring, and that alone says that the Winter Lord is the wrong man to fall in love with, but Dawn loves him anyway.

The last thing Dawn expects is to be put inside the Winter Lord's prison because of a minor dispute. When he visits her and asks her to marry him, Dawn knows that nothing will ever be the same again.

Her entire world is put into a spin, but soon, she realizes that things aren't as they should be. The winter lord is hiding something, and when the truth is revealed, she understands that only one thing can save her life ... Love.

This is a passionate and erotic love story for adult readers. It takes place in a magical fantasy world where the Elders rule the seasons.

About Nellie C. Lind

Nellie C. Lind was born in Poland and moved to Sweden when she was 5 years old. Today she lives in Stockholm with her son. She runs a publishing house for a living, makes book covers and writes paranormal romance, fantasy and sci-fi books for adults. It's all about hot angels, gods, cyborgs and a lot of love!

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Virtual Tour, Review & #Giveaway for Perfect Touch by Elizabeth Lowell

Welcome to my stop on the Virtual Tour, presented by Tasty Book Tours, for Perfect Touch by Elizabeth Lowell.  Please leave a comment or question for Elizabeth to let her know you stopped by.  You can enter her tour wide giveaway, for a print copy of Night Diver (which I loved), by filling out the Rafflecopter form below.  You can also follow all of the stops on Elizabeth’s tour by clicking on the tour banner above, the more stops you visit, the better your odds of winning.

Perfect Touch: A Novel

By Elizabeth Lowell

Publisher:  William Morrow

Release Date: July 28, 2015

Genre:  Romantic Suspense

Length:  368 Pages (730 KB)

Format:  eBook/Print

ISBN:  978-0062328342
ASIN:  B00P6TVQ8K

About the book: 

Sara Medina is a designer and art dealer from San Francisco. She matches her clients desires with fine and folk art from the world over--living up to her thriving business named Perfect Touch. She still remembers her rural childhood of hard work and poverty on the family dairy farm, but she keeps it firmly in the past as she searches out new artwork and artists that are on the breaking edge of acclaim. After she experienced the cultural riches San Francisco had to offer, she decided her life would be that of an urban career woman rather than a working mom commuting from the suburbs. With the intensive hours and travel required to grow her business to the next level, she has no time or energy left for romantic or family entanglements.

Jay Vermillion recently inherited Vermillion Sky, a ranch that nestles up to Wyoming’s Grand Teton Mountains--and the estates of the rich and restless. As a returned veteran of numerous deployments over the course of two wars, he finds himself wrestling with the demands of a ranch that has been run down during his father’s long illness. Between the urgent need to modernize and revitalize the Vermillion Sky, as well as an unexpected and vicious fight with his former stepmother over the custody of now-valuable paintings that were part of his father’s estate, Jay has no time for finding a wife and creating a sixth generation of Vermillions to ensure the family legacy continues.

When Jay hires Sara to appraise and market his father’s cache of paintings by Harris “Custer” Armstrong, neither one expects the explosive results of their eventual meeting in Jackson, Wyoming. In addition to a mutually inconvenient attraction, they a discover double murder at the edge of the ranch lands and a potential betrayal even closer to home. All trails lead to Custer’s artworks as valuable enough to kill for, especially an unknown painted rumored to be called The Muse.

As Sara and Jay unravel the motive for the killings, they both discover that love, like murder, doesn’t wait for a convenient time. On the heels of that soul-shattering realization, Sara is targeted for murder. Suddenly, the war-weary soldier finds something he is once again willing to die for…

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Sara’s phone chimed and vibrated in her hand. She looked down, saw her partner’s phone number, and connected. For a few minutes Piper Embry would take Sara’s mind off the cold and the man whose deep voice wove through her dreams.

“Bought any great rugs lately?” Sara asked.

“I’ve got my eye on some that have me checking Perfect Touch’s bank balance.”

“What happened to consignment?”

“I’m working on it,” Piper said. “What’s this message you left about Wyoming?”

“I wrapped up the Chens early and came to Jackson.”

“I thought you were getting tired of flying all over the place.”

“I am.”

“But you’re still lusting after those Custers? Or is it Jay Vermilion of the incredible voice?”

“Wait until—if—I get my hands on those paintings,” Sara said, ignoring Piper’s teasing. “They will wring the hearts and pocketbooks of at least five of my clients, and go a long way toward reducing my world travel.” Chilly air swirled hard against her, blowing her hair into a nearly-black cloud around her face.

“What’s that sound?” Piper asked.

“Wind. Spring here is long on bluster and short on cherry petals.”

Sara glanced around quickly, looking for shelter. All she saw was another odd arch leading into another part of the park. Or maybe out of it. Whichever, she opted to stay in the sun.

“You okay?” Piper asked. “Your voice is different. Kind of strained.”

“You know me too well. My room was robbed. Computer and coat are gone. But I’m fine. Don’t have time right now for some junkie’s drama. In five minutes the judge is supposed to finally deliver herself of a verdict on the Vermilion case.”

Elizabeth Lowell’s exciting novels of romantic suspense include New York Times Bestsellers: Dangerous Refuge, Beautiful Sacrifice, Death Echo, The Wrong Hostage, Amber Beach, Jade Island, Pearl Cove, and Midnight in Ruby Bayou. She has also written NYT best-selling historical series set in the American West and Medieval Britain. She has more than 80 titles published to date, with over 24 million copies of her books in print. 

She lives in the Sierra Nevada Mountains with her husband, with whom she writes novels under a pseudonym. Her favorite activity is exploring the Western United States to find the landscapes that speak to her soul and inspire her writing.

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A fan of romantic suspense, I jumped at the opportunity to read and review Perfect Touch by Elizabeth Lowell.  Having recently finished listening to Night Diver, her book from last year, I couldn’t wait to see what Ms. Lowell did with a story set in the mountains of Montana with a modern day rancher and an art dealer who are brought together by the contested ownership of family paintings.  Clearly an art lover herself, Ms. Lowell does a tremendous job bringing her characters, the location and the art in question to life.  I even found myself longing to spend time on the fictional ranch she developed for the story (and I too am a city gal).

Ms. Lowell does a great job developing the characters of Sara Medina and Jay Vermillion right from the start.  They are both likeable, easy to understand and are hard-working people who represent a great work ethic.  I easily connected with both of them and was rooting for them to get together right from the start.  Sara is beautiful and has a great gift for explaining artists and their art.  She really brought the paintings in the story to life and makes you want to break out your own set of brushes.  While Jay is not handsome in the traditional sense of the word, he’s got an incredible physique from his years on the ranch and in the military.  He’s also a very striking man with great eyes and a good personality unless you push him too far.  He does what’s right because it’s right and is willing to defend what’s his and his country.  He’s my kind of book boyfriend!

The secondary characters are also well developed and all contributed something to the story.  I especially liked how Ms. Lowell developed Jay’s ex-stepmother Liza Neumann and his half-brother Barton, I disliked them from the start and pretty much hated them to the end.  They were perfectly nasty characters, just as she intended them to be.  The mystery and suspense in the story are well done and there were plenty of twists and turns.  The pace is just perfect and I found myself quickly turning pages to discover what would happen next.

Will Jay and Sara be able to sell the paintings he has inherited for enough money to keep the ranch going for future generations?  Will Sara decide that Jay is the man she wants in her life and be willing to move to Montana and live on a ranch? You’ll have to read Perfect Touch to find out.  I really enjoyed it and look forward to reading Ms. Lowell’s next book.

My Rating:  4.5 out of Stars 

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Release Blitz & #Giveaway for A Pirate's Command by Meg Hennessy

Welcome to my stop on the Release Blitz, presented by IndieSage Promotions, for A Pirate’s Command by Meg Hennessy.  Please leave a comment or question for Meg to let her know you stopped by.  You can enter the tour wide giveaway by filling out the Rafflecopter form below.

A Pirate's Command 

by Meg Hennessy 

Secrets of the Bayous #2

 Publication Date: July 28, 2015 

Genres: Historical, Romance 

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About the book:  

His secrets could destroy her... 

New Orleans, 1817

Colette Kincaid once knew such love and delicious passion in the arms of her pirate husband, Donato de la Roche. Yet Colette could not continue to live as the wife of a pirate, when reunited with her family. So she fled, taking their son with her and reconciling herself to never seeing her husband again...

Until their son is taken.

Donato is convinced his wife is behind his son's disappearance-just as she is convinced he is the villain. Now they're unable to leave each other's side as they seek their child, forced to confront the desire that still smolders between them.

But Donato knows that soon he must face the secret about Colette he's been hiding for so long. And it's a secret for which there is no forgiveness...

About Meg Hennessy

Meg Hennessy read her first historical romance when Rosemary Rodgers', Sweet Savage Love, swept the college campuses. She won't admit how many years ago that was, but was forever hooked on the genre of happy-ever-afters. Meg grew up immersed in the culture of her father's old Southern family and writes with a Southern flavor. It was her sense of wonderment when visiting her grandmother's home as a child that now bubbles upward into her writing of today, creating steamy nights of intrigue and romance.

She had been writing for years, but seriously pursued publication in 2009. Seeking authenticity for her first novel, she researched hundreds of books, visited numerous battlefields, and toured antebellum homes. When it came to putting pen to paper, Meg found her story-telling voice, as her heroine simply stepped into Shadows of a Southern Moon, winning the 2010 EPIC Award for best Historical Romance and launching her writing career.

Meg lives amid the beautiful rolling hills of southeastern Wisconsin. Besides writing and spoiling her much-loved horse, she enjoys backyard birding, nature walks, and admits to being a gardening addict. Having spun stories for years, she enjoys seeing her dream come true as her characters spring to life and step within the beautifully bound pages of a romance novel.

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Release Bliz & #Giveaway for Mind Over Matter by Kaia Bennett

Welcome to my stop on the Release Blitz, presented by IndieSage Promotions, for Mind Over Matter by Kaia Bennett.  Please leave a comment or question for Kaia to let her know you stopped by.  You can enter the tour wide giveaway by filling out the Rafflecopter form below.

Mind Over Matter 

by Kaia Bennett 

Loose Ends #3 

Publication Date: July 28, 2015 

Also in this series: #1 Crush, Closer 

Genres: Contemporary, Erotic, Interracial, Romance

Buy Links: Amazon - Nook - Kobo - iBooks - Smashwords

About the book: 

They said they would try.

They said they would give their love a chance.

But when the mistakes of Gabriel's past clashed with Nicole's hopes for the future, they realized love wasn't enough. They tied up the loose ends of their broken hearts and walked away.

Now,

Gabriel's career is on a meteoric rise and he is back to his bachelor ways. He told Nicole he couldn't promise forever and did his best to let her go, but these days he wonders if he spoke too soon.

Nicole has a new life, a new man, and she refuses to look back. To everyone around her though, not looking back looks an awful lot like running scared from the past.

With Jackie and Ian's wedding approaching, a reunion between the best man and the maid of honor is to be expected. What they don't expect is for the olive branch of friendship to catch fire with a love and need that is stronger than even their best intentions.

They called it quits. But is it really over?

They still love each other. But does that even matter when they've made up their minds that there's no going back?

*NOTE* Mind Over Matter is the third and final book in the Loose Ends series.

 

 

Also in the Loose Ends series....

Closer 

by: Kaia Bennett 

Loose Ends #2 

Publication Date: March 31, 2015 

Genres: Contemporary, Erotic, Interracial, Romance 

Buy Links: Amazon - Nook - Kobo- iBooks - Smashwords

About the book: 

After a whirlwind week of hot sex and growing affection, Nicole and Gabriel were forced to part ways and to return to real life. For a while they danced around each other, meeting up when they could, the distance between them rivaled only by their desire to be together again.

Now these lovers are no longer star-crossed. They’re in the same city at the same time and can finally indulge their insatiable passion.

At least until Gabriel’s increasingly popular band goes on tour. But the ticking clock of his budding music career isn’t the only obstacle to contend with.

A blast from Gabriel’s wild past, a guy that kept Nicole warm in Gabriel’s absence, and fear of what the future holds all converge just as they’ve begun to realize this might be love…

Author's Note: This book contains strong language and sexual content with dark elements, some of which readers may find uncomfortable.

#1 Crush 

by: Kaia Bennett 

Loose Ends #1 

Publication Date: December 1, 2014 

Genres: Contemporary, Erotica, Romance 

Buy Links: Amazon - Nook - Kobo - iBooks - Smashwords

About the book: 

Nicole Langley’s #1 Crush has always been Gabriel Roberts, but settling for being a friendly acquaintance has had to be enough.

Gabriel has always seen Nicole as his good friend’s very pretty, but extremely off limits baby sister.

Then a hot summer day and an even hotter discovery pushes them over the lines of friendship, over the lines of unrequited desire, and into each other's arms.

Will they indulge and move on? Or will this crush turn into something more, something deeper?

Something that leaves loose ends begging to be tied…

   

 

About Kaia Bennett

 

 Kaia Bennett is a native of New Jersey, a college graduate and U.S. Army veteran who loves music, movies, astrology, tattoos, martial arts, animals and, of course, the written word. She heard the siren call of the writer as a teenage girl, but took her sweet time answering it until she had lived and loved enough to share her work with the masses. She is an erotic author who loves to write stories with diversity, depth, realism and viscerally hot encounters that flirt shamelessly with the taboo. A lover of all genres and a voracious reader, she aims to write stories that are transformative for her characters and readers alike.

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