Wednesday, December 29, 2021

Scarred Regrets Release Blitz

 




Title: Scarred Regrets
Series: Bellandi Crime Syndicate #5
Author: Adelaide Forrest
Genre: Dark Mafia Romance
Release Date: December 30, 2021


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Broken men don’t fall in love.

We linger in the darkness, consumed by the sins that define us.

Irina is the sole reason my heart beats. She’s everything that matters in a world filled with evil that a woman so good and pure should never have to see.

She’ll add another scar to my collection — this one engraved on my heart.

When she’s taken by our enemy to use for his vengeance. Even knowing she can never be mine, I’ll stop at nothing to see her safe.

The Irina I rescue isn’t the same feisty woman they stole.

Her soul is broken. Her heart is hollow like mine, because of the things she’s seen. She needs me in a way I’ve never known.

And I will destroy the man who shattered what’s mine.

Scarred Regrets is a full-length standalone romance, but the series presents a better reading experience when following the suggested order.

This series contains dark elements, including over-the-top antiheroes who do as they please. Read at your own discretion.







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Her hand brushed against a white line on her upper thigh, drawing my attention to the cluster of them and away from the place where she slid her fingers over herself. She glanced up at my face when my hand stilled, her own fingers following suit as her piercing green eyes landed on mine.
I clenched my jaw, taking my hand away from the button of my slacks to clench it in a fist at my side. “Butterfly,” I growled, a warning in my voice that sent her hurrying to grab her robe off the floor.
I closed the gap between us before I realized I’d moved, grabbing her by her pretty little neck and raising her until she stood up straight again. She stared up at me, her lips parting open and filling me with the desire to feel them on mine again. My hand tightened on her throat, her own grip shifting up to claw at the ink on the back of my hands as her breathing restricted.
I needed to be inside her. Needed to have part of me be a part of her, but considering the panic threatening my racing heart and what I’d seen on her thighs, that couldn’t happen.
Only the fact that I was very clearly in control, that my grip was on her throat and she was the one who was vulnerable, kept the demons at bay. She opened her mouth wider, my name coming out in a harsh rasp as she struggled to get enough air.
“Scar,” she begged, her body going limp until it was only my hold on her neck that kept her on her feet. If I didn’t control my impulses, the violence surging in my veins, I’d hurt her.
I’d break her.
I reached around her with my other hand, grabbing the tumbler of scotch resting on the end table next to the sofa where she’d likely sat to work herself up to her strip tease. Watching and waiting for her reaction, I drew a sip into my mouth and let it rest there.
I let the burn consume me, then I dropped the tumbler back to the table and leaned my face over hers. Tipping her neck back until her face was parallel to the ground, I tightened my grip just enough that she gasped.
Her mouth flew open in shock, another plea in her eyes as they filled with tears.
She’d find no mercy with me. No protection from the monster she’d awakened with the sight of her scars. I spit the scotch into her open mouth, watching as she struggled to swallow it at her unnatural angle.
When she finally worked the scotch down her restricted throat, something settled inside me. I was inside her. Part of her. And if I gave into the monster inside me, she would never be able to cut me out.
I loosened my grip on her throat, touching my forehead to hers while she blinked back tears. “Now,” I growled, dropping my other hand to the raised white lines covering the tops of her thighs. “What the hell are these and who do I have to fucking slaughter?”





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Adelaide fell in love with books at a young age and quickly discovered her love for writing soon after. Since then, she’s become a self-professed plot hoarder of over 300 book concepts.
After receiving her degree in Psychology, Adelaide went on to work in a therapeutic riding facility. When her daughter was born, Adelaide traded out her boots to be a stay-at-home mom. In 2019, she added author to those job duties after a lifetime of dreaming about it. 



 

Cruel Lies Release Blitz

 




Title: Cruel Lies
Series: Cruel Secrets Duet #1
Author: Faith Summers
Genre: Dark New Adult College Romance
Release Date: December 28, 2021


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He’s my villain, my monster, my forbidden path…

Caspian Ivanov and I come from the same dark world.
One where the Bratva and the secret society reign.
And, he’s the son of their ruthless leader.

“I’ll destroy you.”
That’s the last thing he said to me.
It was on the night of the Reaping.
Hard to believe we were ever best friends.
His vengeance is, however, the price I pay for keeping a secret I shouldn’t have kept.
A secret that ripped our families apart.
It made us forbidden to each other.
That’s when he became the viperous devil.
Breathtakingly beautiful but with a cold black heart.
Like any snake, he wanted to poison me.

When our paths collide at Raventhorn University, I stay away from him.
What I don’t expect is to become his obsession.
Or to be forced to become his wife.

Except, we might not get to say I do.
Because someone wants me dead.

Cruel Lies is the first part of the Cruel Secrets Duet and is NOT standalone.
It is a dark mafia/ secret society college bully romance filled with mystery, suspense, and plenty of sizzling hot steamy scenes.

Please be warned this book is DARK. It contains dubious and other triggering situations that some readers might find offensive or be sensitive to. Please don't read if any of that bothers you.

The Cruel Secrets Duet is set in the Raventhorn world.



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Faith Summers is the Dark Contemporary Romance pen name of USA Today Bestselling Author, Khardine Gray.
Warning!! Expect wild romance stories of the scorching hot variety and deliciously dark romance with the kind of alpha male bad boys best reserved for your fantasies.
Dive in and enjoy her naughty page-turners.


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The Love Prescription Pre-Order Blitz

 




Title: The Love Prescription
A Holidates Series Standalone
Author: Aurora Paige
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: January 31, 2022


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Vivienne

Dr. Maxwell Garrido is impossible.

I’ve spent a year trying to arrange meetings with the elusive pharmacist to no avail. It’s my job to recruit the brightest minds in Healthcare. But why did it have to be this arrogant man?

The constant rejection has been a bitter pill to swallow. Yet had fate stepped in with the perfect cure?

Maxwell

Driven and determined, my focus is on my work. Being named Pharmacist of the Year at this year’s National Convention is a proud achievement. While I don’t lack female companionship, this event requires a professional. Someone with class and sophistication. Finding Vivi on the Holidates app could be just what the doctor ordered.

Until the truth comes out.

This arrangement needs to stop. But if I walk away from her now, would I ever recover?







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A short story collection by the authors of the Holidates Series giving you a peek at the lives of our hot heroes and sassy heroines before they find out about the Holidates app.




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Aurora Paige is a healthcare professional by day and a FilAm writer of steamy contemporary romance with sassy heroines and sexy heroes at night. Each Aurora Paige story delivers a variety of Curvy Heroines, Multicultural relationships, Alpha Heroes, Steamy Heat, and a Guaranteed Happily Ever After.


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Summer Storm Release Blitz

 




Title: Summer Storm
Series: Hollywood Connections #3
Author: Lily Alexander
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: December 29, 2021


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She needs a place to stay. He needs a roommate.

Trina is fired after a dating-app hookup gone wrong. She finally got transferred back home where she wants to be, but on her own and between jobs, apartment hunting is problematic.

Dallas has been away from his home town for years but is ready to set down some roots. He finds the perfect apartment, but needs a roommate to make it work.

A mutual friend suggests they can help each other, and it seems like the perfect arrangement. They make sure to set solid boundaries and follow all the rules… until one night, when everything changes. They agree on no-strings, but feelings don’t care about agreements.

Because of their friendship home has taken on a whole new meaning. Will the lure of a job out of state break everything they’ve built together?








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“Smells good.” Dallas dropped a kiss below my ear on his way past me to get creamer from the fridge.
“Muffins are almost done. We’re both about to find out whether or not I can flip an omelet.”
My temperature rose as he watched me intently from the edge of the island, his forearms holding his weight, coffee mug cradled between his hands. As the tip of his tongue appeared at the corner of his mouth, I had to look away. My insides were threatening to liquefy, and a pulse started beating between my thighs.
There was no reason for a single person to be so gorgeous, especially when they were also as talented as he was at procuring orgasms. It wasn’t fair.
I saw him shift out of the corner of my eye as I poured the scrambled eggs into a buttered skillet. I added a special blend of spinach, cream cheese, and artichoke hearts, motions faltering as the warmth of his body shifted behind me.
“What—”
“Shh. Keep cooking.” His words were low and heavy, the heated breath of them caressing my lower back, his palms on my hips.
His hands slid down the outside of my legs, then under the hem of my nightshirt, fingertips stopping as he discovered I wasn’t wearing panties.
“Naughty.”
I couldn’t see his face, but I could feel his smirk. He pressed a kiss to my sensitive inner thigh. Which meant… he was on his knees. Behind me.
As my slow brain processed this information, Dallas’ warm tongue found my center without error, his strong fingers gripping my thighs.
“Oh, my God.” Uncooked egg splattered the counter as I dropped the rubber spatula. Lust roared through my body as he worked my core with his mouth, my eyes dropping closed, pleasure whipping through my body.
“Don’t you dare burn my eggs, Terror. I’m starving.”






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Lily is a Colorado native enjoying the fantastic climate of Southern California with her family and cranky cat after surviving more than a decade in hot, humid places where hurricanes get their own season and Winter is a myth.
The written word is her favorite thing - reading or writing, she doesn’t discriminate. Left to her own devices she can read about a book a day; that HEA is a powerful drug!
As an only child she grew up inventing elaborate stories for her dolls to act out. She started word processing on a computer around age 10 and never looked back. After suffering the heartbreak of catastrophic drive failure a regrettable number of times, she has finally learned to back things up appropriately and often.
Follow her antics on social media! (If she disappears for a bit around late August, don’t worry, that’s just her wanderlust kicking in. She’ll be back soon.)




Break Me Release Blitz

 




Title: Break Me
Series: Forbidden #1
Author: Ivy Arnold
Genre: Dark Age Gap Romance
Release Date: December 29, 2021


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The moment she walked into my classroom I knew she was trouble.
Beautiful and mysterious, she’s the kind of girl who is used to getting what she wants.
And what she wants is me.
I never thought I would cross that line with a student.
Until she forces me.
My life is turned upside down and there’s nothing I can do to stop her.
It’s her word against mine.
I’m trapped, cornered, a pawn in her sick, twisted little game.
I have no idea why she’s doing this.
Or when she will stop.
The crazy thing is, even with everything I stand to lose,
I’m not sure I want her to.

Book one in a series of dark, age gap novels.
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What the heck happened back there?
I close my eyes and try to remember, but I can’t navigate through the hazy mess that’s fogging my mind. I have no fucking clue how I ended up on that bed with her on top of me. The last thing I remember is getting up to leave, and then I blacked out. Then, out of nowhere, it hits me. The glass of coke.
She drugged me.
But why? What did she have to gain by drugging me and sleeping with me? Was there something she needed that she wasn’t getting? If she wanted sex so bad, I don’t doubt Lucas would have obliged. Though that thought makes my blood boil. The point is that she’s not the type of person who needs to drug guys to get them to fuck her, so why me?
As angry and confused as I am, I can’t deny that I’m at fault too. Nothing excuses what happened back there. I managed to get my hands free, and instead of pushing her away, I grabbed her ass and shoved deeper into her, as far as I could go. The stunned, excited look on her face when I filled her up haunts my thoughts even now.
I rub my forehead, the killer headache that is beginning to form behind my skull almost a punishment for my crime. I’m in a position I swore I’d never let myself get into. It’s not like I can report what happened because my body wanted it as much as she did. On some disturbed level, I think I feel relief that it happened the way it did, which is all kinds of fucked up.
Eventually, I would have messed up and crossed that line, and once I did, there would’ve been no going back. At least this way I can feel better about myself.
No.
What happened was wrong on so many levels. There’s something seriously wrong with her. And for me to sit here and justify it all like that, there must be something wrong with me.






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Ivy writes sexy forbidden age gap romances with a suspenseful twist.



Tuesday, December 28, 2021

A Summer Affair: Book 2 Release Blitz

 




Title: A Summer Affair
Series: Hotel Baron #2
Author: Mary Oldham
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: December 20, 2021


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Originally titled: Laura Takes a Lover, this title was Mary's first Golden Heart Finalist manuscript with the Romance Writers of America. It was also a Maggie Finalist with the Georgia Romance Writers.


What starts as mutual comfort through shared attraction and a passionate summer affair to forget the past lead to a future happily ever after?

Adam: When a drunk driver kills his wife and young son, he's not sure he can overcome the loss. His cousin encourages him to recuperate on the west coast, far away from New York and his memories. Adam head to Tranquility - a beautiful seaside estate belonging to one of his cousin's friends. The perfect place to heal, if only he could be so lucky.

Laura: Fresh out of a divorce from her cheating husband. As a schoolteacher, she now has the Summer to find herself again and figure out her next steps. Her best friend invites her to Tranquility to forget and to get back in shape and lose some of the baby weight she'd gained without the benefit of actually having a baby. Unfortunately, on her drive to Tranquility, a flat tire puts her on the side of the road. That's when her knight in shining armor rescues her.

As fate would have it, Adam and Laura spend time together taking their minds off of their losses, if only this Summer Affair could last forever...or can it...

Praise for Mary Oldham’s other books:

“Love this. From the very beginning you are drawn into and immersed in this love story.” Amazon Reviewer for A Paris Affair

“I could not put this down. Best I’ve read in many years.” Amazon Reviewer for A Silver Linings Wedding Dress Auction







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Mary Oldham is a multi-award-winning author, and three-time Golden Heart Finalist with the Romance Writers of America in the areas of Contemporary Romance and Romantic Suspense. Mary resides in Portland, Oregon when she is not writing by the Pacific Ocean in scenic Yachats, the Gem of the Oregon Coast.