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Friday, January 6, 2023

Blanket of Stars Cover Reveal

Title: Blanket of Stars

Series: Camp Bexley #4

Author: K.K. Allen

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Cover Design: Qamber Designs

Photo: Wander Aguiar

Release Date: February 24, 2023

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All Cayson Bexley ever wanted was to fly…

Until a near-fatal crash clipped his wings, sending the injured military pilot back to his hometown and living right next door to me.

From the moment our eyes meet, the attraction is undeniable.

I mean who wouldn’t fall for that achingly gorgeous face, clean-cut demeanor, and sweet, small-town charm?

Other than our mutual love of music, we’re as opposite as two people can be.

Which is precisely why I friend-zone him the moment he shows interest.

But as time goes on, my heart softens to this man who once had it all—a literal hero floundering to find his purpose.

In the midst of my own struggles, I could certainly use a friend.

Heck, I could use more than that.

And I’m not afraid to let Cayson know it.

When I discover my hunk of a neighbor is as shy as he is inexperienced, I offer him a distraction he can’t possibly refuse.

We already share a very thin wall.

Why not a bed too?

There’s only one catch: he’ll have to promise not to fall in love with me…

A no-strings hook-up is every man’s dream, right?

What could possibly go wrong?

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❤️‍🩹 Injured military pilot + local musician

❤️‍🩹 Online dating gone wrong

❤️‍🩹 Opposites-attract (nice guy / playful girl)

❤️‍🩹 Virgin hero + ✨helpful✨ heroine

❤️‍🩹 He falls first, she's not looking for love

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❤️‍🩹 Small town, big hearts

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K.K. Allen is a USA Today bestselling and award-winning author who writes heartfelt and inspirational contemporary romance stories. K.K. graduated from the University of Washington with an Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences degree and currently resides in central Florida with her ridiculously handsome little dude who owns her heart.

K.K. published her first contemporary romance, Up in the Treehouse, in 2016 which went on to win the Romantic Times 2016 Reviewers' Choice Award for Best New Adult Book of the Year.

With K.K.'s love for inspirational and coming of age stories involving heartfelt narratives and honest emotions, you can be assured to always be surprised by what K.K. releases next.

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Reluctant Husband Cover Reveal

Title: Reluctant Husband
Series: Whiskey Men #1

Author: Hope Ford

Genre: Contemporary Small Town Romance

Cover Design: Lori Jackson

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Model: Andrew Biernat

Alternate Cover Design: Cormar Covers

Release Date: January 30, 2023

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I’m in love with Lucas Blaze, the player grandson of the woman I take care of. I’m nothing like the women he dates, so the chances of him noticing me are slim to none. Until the day he asks me to marry him.

Lucas is the youngest Blaze Brother. He works twenty-four seven, and his only use for women is to get his rocks off when he’s taking a break from putting his family’s liquor brand into every store in the country.

I don’t wear the right clothes, I don’t mingle in the same high-profile groups, and I sure as heck don’t know the first thing about pleasing a man.

But to make his Granny happy, Lucas is willing to marry me.

Our marriage is one of convenience and I know it won’t last.

But try telling that to my heart.

He doesn’t believe in love and happily ever after.

I want a love that lasts forever.

In the end, will he give us a chance? Or will he walk away holding my heart?

USA Today Bestselling author Hope Ford, brings you a standalone first book in the Whiskey Men series. If you love reading about curvy women getting the hot guy, opposites attract, jealousy trope, marriage of convenience, and small-town romance, then you’ll love Lucas and Isabella’s story.

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Hope Ford is a USA Today Bestselling author of Steamy, Sweet, Satisfying Romance.

She loves writing about small towns, swoony men, and curvy women that get their happily-ever-after. Stay up to date with new releases at authorhopeford.com

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Thursday, January 5, 2023

Filthy Lies Release Blitz

Title: Filthy Lies

Series: Filthy Feck Duet # 1

Author: Serena Akeroyd

Genre: Dark Mafia Romance

Release Date: January 5, 2023

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Star's my penguin.

She doesn't know it.

She took off. Sure. I'm mad at her. Sure. But that's her charm.

She's ornery.

Difficult.

Impossible to love, but I see her BS.

And I call her on it.

I'll chase her from the North Pole to Antarctica, this Fecker isn't about to lose his soul mate.

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USA Today and International Best Selling Author Serena Akeroyd aka G. A. Mazurke is most known for her mafia and MC series set in the Five Points Mob Universe.

Avid reader of all things romance, she first started her career as a why choose author in both contemporary and paranormal. She eventually made her way to MF romance where she found her groove with the O’Donnelly brothers, the Satan Sinners and most recently the Valentini Family.

In her back list you can find some MM, MF, MFM and Why Choose romances. HEA guaranteed!

When not writing Serena is either reading, traveling or coloring.

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Pre Order Book Blitz Bratva Jewel

View this email in your browser Thank you for signing up for the Pre-order Blitz for Bratva Jewel by Sabine Barclay. The blitz is scheduled for Thursday, January 5 so please ensure you post between 8am – 8pm ET on this date. We have provided HTML but if you would like to prepare your own post, the following information is included in this email: Banner Cover Blurb Pre-order Links Teasers Excerpts Author Bio Author Links Can you please submit the link to your post on this form so we can easily access them. If posting on Twitter, we would love it if you could please tag @GiveMeBooksPR. If posting on Instagram, please tag @sabinebarclayauthor. If you are unable to post for any reason, please let us know as soon as possible. PLEASE NOTE: If signing up for any of our events, please consider joining the Facebook group Give Me Books Event Bloggers. Thanks so much for being part of the Pre-order Blitz. 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Bratva Jewel is an interconnecting, standalone Dark Mafia Romance with a HEA and no cliffhanger. It contains extra-steamy scenes that will make your toes curl and your granny blush. This is book six in The Ivankov Brotherhood, a six-book series that’ll keep you warm at night. GOODREADS LINK: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60895748-bratva-jewel PRE-ORDER LINKS US: https://amzn.to/3Tyl2o0 UK: https://amzn.to/3TNbWEp CA: https://amzn.to/3AaT8rF AU: https://amzn.to/3ht5i8y EXCERPTS #1 He may be the hottest man I’ve ever seen, but nope. No way. No how. Uh-uh. Everything about him that makes me want to run my hands and tongue all over him is what’s telling me to stay far, far away. The aura of danger, of barely controlled strength embodies that idea of animal magnetism. But it’s also what’s likely to get me heartbroken at best and killed at worst. I know this type of man. I grew up around them. My mother says my father was like that. And that means I need it nowhere near me. But f*ck. He’s delicious to look at. Those icy-blue eyes remind me of the lakes in Siberia near my grandparents’ home. The kind that intrigues you enough to stick a toe in, then you regret it because you just might lose it. They might make me overheat now, but they’re likely to freeze my heart if I get too close. It would crumble into fractured shards, never to be put together again. Holy sh*t. Okay. I can slow my brain down a notch or two. He smiled at me in the plane—or rather smiled at my tits—and he helped me with my suitcase. It’s not like he’s luring me into bed. Though… No. I would definitely say no. It might kill me. But then again, he might too. There is no way he isn’t bratva. I don’t need to ask. No one needs to tell me. I’m a Muscovite from the Serpukhovsky District; I know when I see one. But damn. I could watch him all day. His smile was pure sex, and I don’t think he was even trying. God help any woman when he's really trying to charm her. #2 “Malyshka—” “I am not your baby girl. Why do you call me that? You have no right.” That’s a good question and an accurate point. But who am I kidding? I’ve thought of her this way since the start. I had plenty of time to consider what it would mean to bring her into my life and what that would look like. Surviving the upbringing I had meant being able to deeply analyze a situation or facts and come to a decisive conclusion quickly. I’ve played out various scenarios already today, and I already know where I want this to go. “Not yet, maybe.” “Not ever.” I take a step closer and peer down at her. She doesn’t step away, and the defiance from a moment ago slips away. I ease my arm around her waist again, and she doesn’t push at my chest or tense. I keep my voice low since I don’t want anyone to hear us. “I’ve never called another woman that in my life. But I think you could do with someone to look out for you. And if you were with Sem for five years, then you definitely deserve someone to take care of you.” “And you think that should be you.” “We both know it will be.” “Your certainty is rather pushy.” “But you aren’t disagreeing.” My free hand cups her cheek, and she closes her eyes. “How are you so gentle? No one your size should be. No one who does what you do ever is.” “Because I will never intentionally hurt you, Kitty.” I’m the one who tenses as that slips out. Her eyes snap open as her brow furrows. “Why’d you call me that?” “Instead of malyshka?” I offer her a soft smile. “That too.” “Would you let me kiss you before I answer that?” “My guess is I won’t like the explanation.” I shrug. She waits a moment, then nods. She tilts her head back before our lips meet. Holy hell. I’ve kissed plenty of women, but nothing has felt like this. Her lips are plump and soft. Her body feels amazing pressed against mine. She smells divine. Something floral. As she opens to me, I swipe my tongue inside her mouth. I can taste the gum she must have chewed earlier. There’s a hint of cinnamon lingering. She sighs as I deepen the kiss. When she slips her arms around my waist, I don’t stop her. I’ve never let a woman do that while I’m carrying my gun. I’ve always kept their hands away, so I don’t have to explain. But I’ve already felt her gun twice and seen it. Her hands wander over my back while mine slip to her ass. She’s wearing the sweater she had tied around her waist earlier. Her ass is soft and firm at the same time. I don’t know how, but I want to do things—dirty, dirty things—to it and with it. I squeeze, but not enough to hurt. She arches her back, so I tighten my grip. Each bit of extra pressure makes her press herself against me. I slide one hand up her back and fist her hair. I hold her head in place and take control of the kiss. Her fingers dig into my shoulders, and she moves like she can’t get close enough. “Is this what you like?” AVAILABLE NOW US: https://amzn.to/3tqxdc1 UK: https://amzn.to/3tp6rkj CA: https://amzn.to/3DYthnM AU: https://amzn.to/3E6RF6z All free in Kindle Unlimited AUTHOR BIO Sabine Barclay, a nom de plume also writing Historical Romance as Celeste Barclay, lives near the Southern California coast where she's a former rower and a hopeful surfer, a self-proclaimed foodie, and a lover of the outdoors. Sabine enjoys attending reader events and travels domestically and internationally for book signings and speaking engagements. Before becoming a full-time author, Sabine was a Social Studies and English teacher. She holds degrees in International Affairs (BA), Secondary Social Science (MAT), and Political Management (MPS). She channels that knowledge into creating engrossing contemporary romances that bring the steam will make your toes curl and your granny blush. 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Title: Bratva Jewel

Series: The Ivankov Brotherhood #6

Author: Sabine Barclay

Genre: Dark Mafia Romance

Release Date: January 24, 2023

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I can’t resist her. I don’t want to…

She’s tried to leave our life behind, but no one walks away from the bratva.

She can run, but she can’t hide.

I’ll be the one to catch her when she falls. And she will because she’s walking a fine line.

I’ll be there because she’s mine.

I’ll go to the ends of the Earth for her. She’ll discover her limits and realize only I can please her.

She’s my soulmate, and I’m hers. Heaven help anyone who gets in the way.

Bratva Jewel is an interconnecting, standalone Dark Mafia Romance with a HEA and no cliffhanger. It contains extra-steamy scenes that will make your toes curl and your granny blush. This is book six in The Ivankov Brotherhood, a six-book series that’ll keep you warm at night.

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He may be the hottest man I’ve ever seen, but nope. No way. No how. Uh-uh. Everything about him that makes me want to run my hands and tongue all over him is what’s telling me to stay far, far away. The aura of danger, of barely controlled strength embodies that idea of animal magnetism. But it’s also what’s likely to get me heartbroken at best and killed at worst. I know this type of man. I grew up around them. My mother says my father was like that. And that means I need it nowhere near me.

But f*ck. He’s delicious to look at. Those icy-blue eyes remind me of the lakes in Siberia near my grandparents’ home. The kind that intrigues you enough to stick a toe in, then you regret it because you just might lose it. They might make me overheat now, but they’re likely to freeze my heart if I get too close. It would crumble into fractured shards, never to be put together again.

Holy sh*t. Okay. I can slow my brain down a notch or two. He smiled at me in the plane—or rather smiled at my tits—and he helped me with my suitcase. It’s not like he’s luring me into bed. Though… No. I would definitely say no. It might kill me. But then again, he might too. There is no way he isn’t bratva. I don’t need to ask. No one needs to tell me. I’m a Muscovite from the Serpukhovsky District; I know when I see one. But damn. I could watch him all day. His smile was pure sex, and I don’t think he was even trying. God help any woman when he's really trying to charm her.

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Sabine Barclay, a nom de plume also writing Historical Romance as Celeste Barclay, lives near the Southern California coast where she's a former rower and a hopeful surfer, a self-proclaimed foodie, and a lover of the outdoors. Sabine enjoys attending reader events and travels domestically and internationally for book signings and speaking engagements. Before becoming a full-time author, Sabine was a Social Studies and English teacher. She holds degrees in International Affairs (BA), Secondary Social Science (MAT), and Political Management (MPS). She channels that knowledge into creating engrossing contemporary romances that bring the steam will make your toes curl and your granny blush.

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Errors and Exorcisms Book Blitz

Errors and Exorcisms
Annie Anderson
(The Wrong Witch, #3)
Publication date: January 5th 2023
Genres: Adult, Paranormal, Urban Fantasy

Savannah is a Hell of a city…

After a quick jaunt to the Fae realm, I’ve come home to find my city on fire, my mate nowhere to be found, and demons running in the streets. Now, I have to help close a portal to Hell while also trying to figure out why my wonky powers are destroying reality as I know it.

And I will. Right after I find my wolf…

Errors and Exorcisms is the third book in The Wrong Witch series. If you enjoy fated mates, enemies-to-lovers, and steamy paranormal romance, then this is the series for you.

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EXCERPT:

In-laws really were the worst.

Sure, most people had clashes in personality, the odd conflict here and there, but me? I got the raw end of the deal when it came to my wife’s family. Then again, Wren could have probably said the same shit about mine—and she’d have been right, considering the throat-slitting event at our first family dinner.

But at present, she wasn’t dealing with homicidal witches hell-bent on eviscerating her from the inside out, and I was, so…

When I woke up this morning with Wren in my arms, I never thought my day would end like this. We were supposed to make sure she was ready to go to the ABI. We were supposed to laugh and joke and make love and go to bed and wake up tomorrow and do it all over again.

I wasn’t supposed to run all over Savannah trying not to get us both killed.

I wasn’t supposed to realize we both wouldn’t make it out of here.

I wasn’t supposed to tell my best friend to take her away from me.

I wasn’t supposed to tell her goodbye.

I wouldn’t trade it now. Because Wren was safe, and these women would never touch her again—as long as I could hold them back.

Dodging the blade, I nearly ran into Wren’s cracked-out mother, who was doing her level best to electrocute me to death. All things considered, I was pegging Wren’s family as the raw end of the deal. Especially since they were the reason I was never going to see her again.

“What’s the matter, Fido?” Margot simpered as she clutched a crackling ball of power in her palm. “You afraid of a little shock?”

A shock? No.

Getting roasted from the inside out? Absolutely.

Several decades my senior, the Bannister witches could make me a stain on the floor if I gave them the chance. It wasn’t like our families had ever gotten along, but ever since Eloise Bannister found out I was married to her granddaughter, I’d known my days were numbered.

I just didn’t think it would be this soon.

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Annie Anderson is a military wife and United States Air Force veteran. Originally from Dallas, Texas, she is a southern girl at heart, but has lived all over the US and abroad. As soon as the military stops moving her family around, she'll settle on a state, but for now she enjoys being a nomad with her husband, two daughters, an old man of a dog, and a young pup that makes life... interesting.

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Bratva Jewel Cover Reveal

Bratva Jewel
Sabine Barclay
(The Ivankov Brotherhood, #6)
Published by: Oliver Heber Books
Publication date: January 24th 2023
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Mafia, Romance

I can’t resist her. I don’t want to…

She’s tried to leave our life behind, but no one walks away from the bratva.

She can run, but she can’t hide.

I’ll be the one to catch her when she falls. And she will because she’s walking a fine line.

I’ll be there because she’s mine.

I’ll go to the ends of the Earth for her. She’ll discover her limits and realize only I can please her.

She’s my soulmate, and I’m hers. Heaven help anyone who gets in the way.

Bratva Jewel is an interconnecting, standalone Dark Mafia Romance with a HEA and no cliffhanger. It contains extra-steamy scenes that will make your toes curl and your granny blush. This is book six in The Ivankov Brotherhood, a six-book series that’ll keep you warm at night.

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Sabine Barclay, a nom de plume also writing Historical Romance as Celeste Barclay, lives near the Southern California coast with her husband and sons. Growing up in the Midwest, Sabine enjoyed spending as much time in and on the water as she could. Now she lives near the beach. She's an avid swimmer, a hopeful future surfer, and a former rower. Before becoming a full-time author, Sabine was a Social Studies and English teacher. She holds degrees in International Affairs (BA), Secondary Social Science (MAT), and Political Management (MPS). She channels that knowledge into creating engrossing contemporary romances that will make your toes curl and your granny blush.

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Whiskey The Alpha Elite #7 Cover Reveal

Whiskey
Sybil Bartel
(The Alpha Elite, #7))
Publication date: May 23rd 2023
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance, Suspense

Mercenary.

Navy SEAL.

Unconventional Operative.

I didn’t join the Teams. I was recruited. They called me the Specialist. They said I had a unique skill set. I knew who I was.

For eight years, the Navy tried to rein me in with their tactics, techniques and procedures—operations, missions, objectives—they told me to adapt and overcome. I didn’t adapt. I did my time.

Now I worked for Alpha Elite Security. If you called me Specialist, I’d eliminate you before you took your next breath. If you recognized me, it was already too late. I lived by my instincts, and used the resources around me. No target was out of my scope…until my boss unknowingly handed me the only assignment that was.

The one woman I couldn’t kill.

Code name: Whiskey.
Mission: Eliminate.

WHISKEY is a standalone book in the exciting Alpha Elite Series by USA Today Bestselling author, Sybil Bartel. Come meet Will “Whiskey” Damien and the dominant, alpha heroes who work for AES!

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Sybil Bartel is a USA Today Bestselling author of unapologetic alpha heroes. Whether you're reading her deliciously dominant mercenaries, bodyguards or military heroes, all of her heart-stopping, page-turning romantic suspense novels have sexy-as-sin alpha heroes!

Sybil resides in South Florida and she is forever Oliver’s mom.

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Wednesday, January 4, 2023

Distracted Cover Reveal

Title: Distracted

Series: Harper Security Ops #7

Author: A.K. Evans

Genre: Military Romantic Suspense

Cover Design: Sarah Hansen, Okay Creations

Release Date: March 7, 2023

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Marriage of convenience? More like marriage of inconvenience. Especially when it turns deadly.

Ellery Cross did what she had to do to save her family from ruin. She married a man she wasn’t in love with. Worse, she married a man she knew nothing about.

But Ellery eventually learns all she needs to know about her husband. And sticking around is not an option.

As part of the Harper Security Ops self-defense and tactical training unit, Kane Ramsey spends his days teaching people how to fight back. He promises to teach Ellery the same, even if he’s the one that wants to protect her.

In a perfect world, Ellery and Kane would live happily ever after.

But she won’t be distracted by dreams of a better tomorrow. Ellery has enough to worry about right now. And getting involved with Kane would not only be foolish, it could also be deadly for both of them.

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