Apr 4, 2015 | April 2015, Barbara Devlin, Blog
The Lucky One (Brethren of the Coast, Book 6) by Barbara Devlin is pure magic and worth the wait! Daphne Harcourt is desperate to keep her father’s whereabouts known and her family from falling into ruin. Even when faced with desperation and despair, she tries to keep the truth hidden. Nautionnier Knight Dalton Randolph usually gets what he wants, but has met his match when he inquiries who’s been pilfering from his precious ship and personal possessions?
Convinced that Daphne knows the truth, Dalton informs her of a precious family heirloom that’s gone missing. In doing so, he “accidentally” tells her of it’s magical tale. Unfortunately she’s not so willing to disclose it’s whereabouts or who might have it. Both have things in the past they’d like to keep hidden and some will wish for these scandal and secrets to be told. Will they trust each other enough to confess? What will happen to their families when the information is exposed?
If you are looking for a book that has hot chemistry, a fantastic plot and every page will draw you into the next, then this book is for you! When you pick up a Brethren of the Coast Series book you are guaranteed they will have sexy knights, mischief, intrigue and an amazing adventure.
I love this series so much that I bought it on Amazon for $0.99 – don’t miss out! Download it now and set sail with a few Sexy Knights! There are six books and a novella – check out my previous reviews to find a few ;).
Novella
Book 1
Book 2
Book 3
Book 4
Book 5
These books will set your heart on fire and make you tingle, are for 18+
Author Info:
Bestselling author Barbara Devlin was born a storyteller. A Texan, through and through, Barbara hasn’t been without a book in her possession since she was in kindergarten. She wrote her first short story, a really cheesy murder-mystery, in high school, but it was a Christmas gift, a lovely little diary with a bronze lock, given to her in the fifth grade that truly inspired her love of writing.
After completing part of her undergraduate studies at the University of London, where she developed a love of all things British, Barbara returned home and began a career in banking. But the late 80s weren’t too promising for the financial industry, and every bank that hired Barbara soon folded. So she searched for a stable occupation, and the local police department offered the answer to her prayers.
Initially, Barbara wasn’t too sure about her new career in law enforcement, but she soon came to love being a police officer. And then one uncharacteristically cold and icy day in December 1998, Barbara was struck by a car and pinned against a guardrail while working an accident on a major highway. Permanently disabled, she retired from the police department and devoted her time and energy to physical therapy.
Once Barbara got back on her feet, she focused on a new career in academia. She earned an MA in English and continued a course of study for a Doctorate in Literature and Rhetoric. She happily considered herself an exceedingly eccentric English professor, until success in Indie publishing lured her into writing, full-time, featuring her fictional knighthood, the Brethren of the Coast.
Apr 3, 2015 | April 2015, Blog, Eloisa James
Four Nights with the Duke (Desperate Duchesses), by Eloisa James, is her best book yet! Emilia “Mia” Gwendolyn Carrington has found herself in an unfortunate situation and is determined to make things right for her family. When she proposes marriage to the Duke of Pindar, Evander “Vander” Septimus Brody, he’s absolutely shocked. Fifteen years ago she swore that she’d never go near him again, ever.
When she presents her terms and conditions for this happy and blessed union, Vander counters her proposal, and the games begin. Will either of them agree? Both have everything to lose if they don’t give in.
All Mia secretly wants is to be loved, but protecting her family must come first. They both have secrets that can destroy them, each assume they have the upper hand. Will time heal old wounds? Too many people have been betrayed, how long will they live with the fear and guilt?
This was my favorite book to date by Eloisa. I could not put it down! It had everything that I love about her books – fantastic and well defined characters, vivid and colorful details putting the reader right into the middle of their world, and a heroine that is a force to be reckoned with! The chemistry is sizzling and is a must read! Check out the following excerpt and discover a taste of this decadent treat.
EXCERPT
Prologue
Spring, 1787
~ A Music Recital ~
The Duke of Villiers’s townhouse
At fifteen, Emilia Gwendolyn Carrington already had a pretty good idea of what hell was like. Mia’s governess had taught her all about Dante’s nine infernal circles.
Mia’s first circle had required her to make her debut at fifteen, under the aegis of a hired chaperone, because her mother was dead. Her second circle had added a far worse indignity: her charming, widowed father was conducting a flagrant affaire with a married duchess that everyone in the fashionable world knew about.
She had entered the third circle over the last year or so, when against all reason, she had fallen desperately in love with the same duchess’ son, Vander. He was the most sensitive, intelligent boy in the world (or so Mia thought). And he was beautiful too, with a face that resembled the stone angels that guarded baby’s graves.
The remaining circles of hell? All six?
They were revealing themselves in rapid succession. Mia had begged her father to attend the Villiers musicale on the chance that the object of her adoration, Evander Septimus Brody, future Duke of Pindar, would be present. It seemed probable since the Duke of Villiers’s eldest son, Tobias, was best mates with Vander.
As it turned out, the house was indeed overrun with boys on holiday from Eton and among the horde was Vander, who roundly ignored her. Mia didn’t mind that: she was happy worshipping him from afar. He was too godlike for someone like her.
Besides, it wasn’t as if he danced attendance on any other girl. He and the other Etonians spent their time swigging brandy although it was not yet noon, cursing loudly, and generally pretending to be far older than their fifteen years. Mia finally retreated to the library, a tranquil room with book-lined walls.
She was searching the shelves for anything resembling her favorite novel, Eliza Heywood’s Love in Excess, when she heard, to her horror, the sound of boys approaching. Even worse, she quickly recognized the voices as those of Vander and his friend Tobias, who seemed to be calling himself Thorn these days.
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Author Info
A New York Times bestselling author, Eloisa James is a professor of English literature who lives with her family in New York, but who can sometimes be found in Paris or Italy. (Her husband is an honest to goodness Italian knight!) Eloisa’s website offers short stories, extra chapters, and even a guide to shopping in Florence. Visit her at www.eloisajames.com.
Apr 2, 2015 | April 2015, Blog, Kathy Lyons
The Makeover Mistake, by Kathy Lyons, is fresh, witty and seriously sexy. Thea Danelle is the editor-in-chief at Fresh Fiction trying to make a living and help new and unknown authors. When her prospects start disappearing to her competitor she can’t figure out what went wrong.
Michael Chang is completely frustrated at the corporate image and just wants to be a regular guy. When he goes undercover to figure out what one of his employees is up to, he finds himself enchanted by a frumpy editor who’s in dire need of a makeover. Michael is intrigued by something. Althea is just the thing he needs to find his normal, or is she? What will happen when she discovers who Michael really is?
This is one steamy novella that’s NSFW. Proceed with caution it’s pretty hot and may offend. For mature audience 18 +
Author Info:
A USA Today Bestseller, JADE LEE has been scripting love stories since she first picked up a set of paper dolls. Ball gowns and rakish lords caught her attention early (thank you Georgette Heyer), and her fascination with the Regency began. And as a Taurus, she lives to pit a headstrong woman against a tortured hero just to watch them butt heads on the way to true love. Flesh wounds are rare, but the healing and laughter are real.
Now an author of more than 30 romance novels, she finally gets to set these couples in the best girl-heaven of all: a Bridal Salon! This way she gets to live out all her wedding fantasies, one by one. (Let’s be honest, what girl has only one idea for her dream wedding?) For more on the Bridal Favors series, visit Jade on the web at her website, Facebook or Twitter.
And don’t forget Jade’s other name, KATHY LYONS. That’s Jade’s lighter, contemporary side. She writes for Harlequin Blaze merging hawt sex and funny relationships into really great reads.
Apr 1, 2015 | April 2015, Blog, Gina Lamm
Kiss The Earl (Geek Girls), by Gina Lamm from Sourcebook Casablanca, is a blend of time travel and self discovery filled with adventure, magic mirrors, and meddling friends. When Ella Briley asks her friends for help finding a date for a work event, they are excited and ready to help. Instead of taking a modern day approach to matchmaking, they feel she needs a little push and take drastic measures.
However, it’s more of a shove as they send her back two hundred years into the past to meet her date. With nothing more than the clothes on her back she’s lost, confused and clearly out of place. The dashing Patrick Medowfair, Earl of Fairhaven, sweeps her off her feet as she comes to terms with her new reality.
A terrible case of mistaken identity will bring these together and their introduction is anything but graceful. Ella must figure out what happened as she’s desperate to find her way back to modern day society. When she injures herself, her pride prevents her from asking Patrick for help. Realizing he’s the only one she can turn to, will Ella have a change of heart? Will she find the courage to divulge everything before she loses it all? What will he do when she tells him her crazy story? Assumptions are made as these two worlds collide as Patrick must decide if he should put his heart before family obligation?
I received this ARC for a fair and honest review and absolutely loved it! In fact, I’m adding all of Gina’s Geek Girl series to my wish list, ASAP. A fabulous series from a must read author! Take a look and discover for yourself how fabulous this book is…
An Excerpt
Ella moaned. What an awful headache. She must have drunk way too much—that was the only explanation for the pounding in her temples and the roiling nausea in her guts. Tequila? No, she’d sworn never to touch the stuff again after Comic-Con last year. She’d thrown up on Stan Lee’s shoes. Not good.
She tried to blink, but her eyelids were too heavy. Her face was pressed against something warm, and she turned her nose into it and breathed deep. Mmmm. Sandalwood and musk. Smelled like a man. That was impossible, though, wasn’t it?
“Are you awake, Amelia? Thank the good Lord. You’ve been unconscious for hours, but I’ve been unable to stop. Your father would murder us both were he to catch us. And why did you pretend to be frightened? There was no need for that to further our story. I did not even see your maid. Where was she hidden?”
Ella’s eyes flew open and she jerked backward. That male voice was totally unfamiliar and completely British. Pain wrenched through her wrists. She was tied up? What the hell?
She looked around wildly. The moonlit countryside passed her slowly, until she looked down and saw the flashing hooves beneath her. Then it seemed like she was hurtling through space, heading straight for the sun in a spaceship stuck on light speed.
She was tied to a strange man on top of a running horse. Ho. Ly. Crap. It was several seconds before she could even speak; shock had her frozen. But when she could finally form words, she didn’t hesitate to use them.
“Who are you? Let me go!”
Ella tried desperately to free her arms. Why had the psycho tied her wrists around his waist? What was happening?
Her kidnapper turned halfway, alarm in his voice. “You’re not Amelia? Oh God, what have I done? My most sincere apologies, madam.” Pulling back on the reins, he continued as the horse began to slow, “Who are you?”
“I’m pissed as hell, that’s who I am! Now let”—she yanked her wrists backward—“me”—she leaned back and thrust her heels out—“GO!”
It was the kick that did it. The shiny black bus beneath them had had enough, apparently. Screeching to a halt, the horse shrieked angrily. After a hearty buck from the beast, Ella and her abductor were flying through the air, only to land with a thud in the cushioning softness of a muddy ditch.
Ella hissed in a breath as her abductor’s weight descended on her arm. Fortunately, the angle of the ditch kept most of the weight from crushing her, and the way he rolled forward was certainly helpful. Clomping hooves disappeared into the distance.
“Why did you do that? Are you quite mad?” The man’s voice was angry, but no less polished for the emotion.
“Angry? Yes. Insane, no, but I’m pretty sure you must be,” she countered, with another yank at her bindings. His grunt of discomfort pleased her in a bloodthirsty kind of way. “You’ve snatched a total stranger off the street, concussed her, and tied her to you like some kind of woman-cape. You’re not going to Buffalo Bill me or anything, are you?”
“The question has been answered. You are, indeed, a madwoman. I had been slowing my mount to untie you, but your manic contortions have left us without transport.”
She bit back her retort as he began untying her wrists. Once her bonds were free, she yanked her arm from beneath him and struggled to her feet, nearly overbalancing on her high heels as they sank into the damp grass. There was no time to regret her choice of footgear, though. She swallowed the bile at the back of her throat and glared down at him.
“Where am I? And who are you?”
Ella waited for his answer, rubbing her wrists as the man stood, his back to her. Her tongue darted out to wet her lips, and she watched as he straightened his coat before turning to face her. His brilliant-green eyes glittered dangerously as he replied.
“I am Patrick Meadowfair, Earl of Fairhaven. And you, my dear woman, are not who I expected you to be.”
BIO:
Gina Lamm, a bellydancing, wisecracking, marshmallow-addicted geek, loves nothing more than penning funny, emotional tales of love, lust, and entertaining mishaps. Married to a superhero, she lives with her beloved family in North Carolina, surrounded by tobacco farms, possums, and the occasional hurricane. She also writes erotic romance for Ellora’s Cave under the pen name Regina Cole. Visit www.ginalamm.net
These books will set your heart on fire and make you tingle, are for 18+
