Cartel (Cartel #1) by Lili St. Germain - Pre-release Blitz

RELEASE DATE:  January 27th

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Excerpt #1

‘This isn’t a fairytale,’ Dornan said wryly, as he watched her bring the soup-soaked bread to her mouth.

She paused with the bread in her hand, looking around the room in mock surprise. ‘You mean, we’re not Beauty and the fucking Beast?’

He laughed.

‘Well, you’re certainly beautiful,’ he said.

‘And you’re definitely a beast,’ she countered, pushing her empty bowl away and resting back on the bed.

‘But there’s no happy ever after for you,’ Dornan added, his eyes trailing over the chains to reach the cuffs that were now permanent bracelets on her wrists.

‘No,’ she said evenly, matching his intense gaze. ‘Not for any of us. Not in this world.’

Excerpt #2

‘You do this a lot?’ I asked abruptly.

He took a step closer. I took a step back. It was timed so well, it was almost as if we were dancing some sort of macabre waltz.

He laughed when we moved in unison.

‘Depends,’ he replied, ‘on what this is.’

‘Pick up pretty girls for your daddy?’ I shot back.

Something passed over his face for a moment and settled in his eyes. Something hard. And then, I blinked, and it was gone again.

‘Sure,’ he said, and his voice had changed somehow. Become more reserved, more guarded. Damn. The only person who’d shown me the tiniest bit of normality, and I had just alienated him. As usual, I was running off at the mouth before I thought about what I was actually saying.

‘None as pretty as you, though,’ he added.

Book Summary

My name is Mariana Rodriguez.

I used to be just like you - a regular girl, with a regular life.

But it was all a lie.

Nothing about my life was normal.

It was all make believe.

It was good, while it lasted.

But now?

Reality's caught up to my family.

It was always just a matter of time.

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Gypsy Brothers Series by Lili Saint Germain

Seven Sons (Gypsy Brothers, Book One) FREE

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About the Author:

Lili Saint Germain

Lili writes dark romance, suspense and paranormal stories. Her serial novel, Seven Sons, was released in early 2014, with the following books in the series to be released in quick succession. Lili quit corporate life to focus on writing and so far is loving every minute of it. Her other loves in life include her gorgeous husband and beautiful daughter, good coffee, Tarantino movies and spending hours on Pinterest.

She loves to read almost as much as she loves to write.

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The Vigilante's Lover: A Romantic Suspense Thriller (The Vigilantes, Book 1) by Annie Winters, Tony West

The Vigilante’s Lover Synopsis:

Spies, vengeance, and one seriously well-dressed man

"If Bourne dressed like Bond and acted like Grey, you'd have Jax De Luca."
An addictive new romantic suspense series from the desk of USA Today bestselling author Deanna Roy/JJ Knight

Mia trembles as she reads the letter that arrives from Ridley Prison.

Seduction. Bondage ropes. Descriptions of things Mia has never experienced or known.

The man’s words are desperately passionate. He longs for a woman who must have given him a fake address. Mia’s address.

She plans to send the letter back. He’s a convicted felon.

But his words gnaw at her. She’s never done anything dangerous. And no man has ever talked to her like this.

So Mia writes him, pretending to be the woman he desires.

It's her one dark thrill in her dull, solitary small-town life.

The man is in prison for another fifteen years.

It's harmless. She is safe enough.

Until he escapes.

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Annie Winters and Tony West Bio

Annie Winters is the new romantic suspense pen name for Deanna Roy/JJ Knight, the USA Today bestselling author of romances and serials. She teamed up with thriller writer Tony West for a new series that combines the best of romance and a heart-stopping action

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5 Stars

Meek twenty year old Mia Morrow is hidden away in her aunt's house. After taking care of her ailing aunt, now deceased, Mia is trying to figure out her next step in life. While this plays on her subconscious, Mia mistakenly becomes pen pals with an inmate at Ridley Prison. The only contact is through letters. 

The rope sizzles as it slides along your skin, like a flame zipping up a fuse. 

The stopper know snaps into place, and you inhale sharply, 

ensnared by the bowline encircling your naked thigh.

*These letters would get anyone's blood flowing and panties dripping.*

*Oh Jax, Jax, Jax. You sweet talker you. My imagination was on overdrive.*

These letters are a series of secret embedded codes, for information and security. Jax De Luca former member of a secret group called, The Vigilante's, has been imprisoned for a fifteen year sentence. He is secretly disguising information to his friends within these letters. 

Unbeknownst to each other, Mia is fantasizing about a felon and returning his endearments with letters of her own. *Mia is playing out her fantasies within the pages of the letters she responds to and hell if the girl isn't seriously lacking some adventure* While Jax, finds it seemingly strange that his returned letters are oddly worded and does not carry any return information from his informant.

Battling her fantasies and being realistic, Mia is struggling to continue this farce just to have some excitement in her monotonous life. Saving each letter and re-reading every night, Mia dreams and fantasizes about a faceless man, with an exotic speech that gets her blood boiling. 

Knowing she will never meet this man other than through his letters, she continues to play out each fantasy and write then to him. A series of well placed knots, restrained wrists and ankles, legs spread wide; Mia falls asleep with these thoughts on her mind.

Dreaming of this faceless man, Mia is suddenly jerked awake and is staring into the eyes of Jax De Luca.

*This book has some intriguing twists and plot turns that get my mind thinking. Reverting to all those bond movies. Sean Connery- 007! Yum!. I love the intricate and detailed addition of bondage and the way it was selectively used and incorporated into both protagonists lives. Well put together and has me intrigued for book 2*

*ARC provided by Ink Slinger PR on behalf of the author for an honest review* Thanks!!

All of Me by Lisa Renee Jones - EXCERPT REVEAL

Sneak Peek Excerpt 

Entering the kitchen, I find Chris leaning on the marble countertop by the coffeepot, shirtless and in his pajama bottoms, the long strands of his blond hair a wild, sexy mess I’m pretty sure I created last night.

He glances up from the paper he’s reading, then picks up his coffee cup. “Morning, Ms. McMillan.”

“Morning, Mr. Merit,” I reply, grinning as I join him.

He offers me his coffee cup and I happily accept it, taking a drink of the perfectly flavored coffee and creamer. Sharing a cup with Chris has this sexy, intimate feel to it that always does funny things to my belly.

“Your last day as a free woman,” he comments.

“Why? Are you planning to tie me up sometime soon?”

He covers my hands on his cup. “Is that an objection, or wishful thinking?” He tilts the cup and drinks, his eyes never leaving mine.

“I plead the Fifth. It’s more fun that way.”

“That it is,” he agrees, but a sigh follows. “I wish I could do the same, but you’d better look at the newspaper.” He sets the cup on the counter, then hands me the Arts section of the local paper.

Dread fills me as I read the headline: “Acclaimed Artist and Philanthropist Chris Merit to wed Sara McMillan on Valentine’s Day in Star-studded Event in Sonoma.” I set it down. “We went to so much trouble to get the press off our backs before the wedding, and now they’ve found us! I knew when all these famous people showed up on the guest list, it was going to turn into a zoo.”

“Walker Security anticipated the press, and they’re staffed and ready for it. It’ll be fine. We’ll be shielded.”

Nerves the size of birds, not butterflies, attack my stomach.

“We should have eloped.”

“We still can. Let’s do it. Now. Today.”

“We can’t elope,” I say, sounding appalled, as if he’d suggested it, not me. “People who respect you are coming a long way to see us. And Katie has planned this for months.”

“Baby, we can do whatever we want. This is our day.”

“No. We can’t. Not this far into this. Which reminds me— you can’t stay here tonight. It’s bad luck to see the bride the night before the wedding.”

“I told you how I feel about that. We make our own luck.”

“Chris—”

He kisses me. “I’m staying here tonight, and I’m fucking you like I won’t see you ever again, just to be sure you walk down that aisle.”

“If you’re waiting for me at the end of that aisle, I’ll be there. And if you’re staying here tonight, we can use separate bedrooms.”

“Does today count as part of that eve-of-the-wedding rule?”

“Yes.”

He scoops me up and I yelp. “What are you doing?”

“I’m a renegade, baby. Let’s go break the rules.”

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Blurb

Passion. Mystery. It all collides in the breathtaking conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Inside Out series, ALL OF ME.

He's rich and famous, his past dark, but so is hers. Can they save each other? Or will the darkness tear them apart?

***

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If I Were You (bk 1): Amazon / B & N

Being Me (bk 2): Amazon / B & N

Revealing Us (bk 3): Amazon / B & N

His Secrets (bk 3.1)

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(bk 3.1 & 3.3 and includes Master Undone

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No In Between (bk 4.5)

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 About the Author:

New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author Lisa Renee Jones is the author of the highly acclaimed INSIDE OUT SERIES, and is now in development by Suzanne Todd (Alice in Wonderland, Austin Powers, Must Love Dogs) for cable TV. In addition, her Tall, Dark and Deadly series and The Secret Life of Amy Bensen series, both spent several months on a combination of the NY Times and USA Today lists.

Since beginning her publishing career in 2007, Lisa has published more than 40 books translated around the world. Booklist says that Jones suspense truly sizzles with an energy similar to FBI tales with a paranormal twist by Julie Garwood or Suzanne Brockmann.

Prior to publishing, Lisa owned multi-state staffing agency that was recognized many times by The Austin Business Journal and also praised by Dallas Women Magazine. In 1998 LRJ was listed as the #7 growing women owned business in Entrepreneur Magazine.

Lisa loves to hear from her readers. You can reach her at www.lisareneejones.com and she is active on Twitter and Facebook daily.

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Pieces of Paisley by Leigh Ann Lunsford

 Title: Pieces of Paisley

Author: Leigh Ann Lunsford

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Synopsis

Paisley Hull fell in love at sixteen; the forever kind of love: unexpected, passionate, consuming - her first. She never thought she could walk away from that kind of passion. Ignoring her heart, guided by her head, she never looked back. 

Blindsided by the beauty of a tiny, hazel-eyed vixen, Jake Grant fell head over heels in love, vowing to keep her protected and not let his past taint her. He may have been overzealous in his attempts to show her how much he cherished her but he never thought she would walk away without a fight.

Nine years later, a now divorced Jake has a chance encounter with an engaged Paisley just a few short weeks before she is set to walk down the aisle. Wondering if they gave up too easily, the two embark on a journey through the jagged edges of their past. Can they overcome the obstacles to finally become one or is it too late for their second chance?

About the Author

Leigh Ann Lunsford is stay at home mom turned author. She writes Romance/New Adult and loves her happily ever after in all books and movies. She lives with her husband, son, and four dogs in Fleming Island, Florida. When she isn’t writing or reading you can find her stuck in front of really bad reality shows or watching Sons of Anarchy. Leigh Ann has a filthy mouth and a huge amount of sarcasm that knows no end. She hopes to give the voices in her head an outlet with many more novels to come. 

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5 'Ass-holism' stars

The is my first Leigh Ann Lunsford read and this author blew me away. Her fabulous writing enabled me to capture each emotion - love, fear, anger, heartbreak, and devout sadness - that the main characters felt. Delivering a maddening and frustratingly perfect depiction of young love, getting it all wrong and growing up while living both their dreams and worse nightmares simultaneously. Learning to love, lose and ultimately forgive.

This is not just a story. Pieces of Paisley is a journey. A path to self identity, destruction and survival.  Two pieces of one heart. A journey to love.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. 

Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. 

- James A. Baldwin.

Paisley and Jake take each other into a whirlwind of emotions. They storm into each other's life when they least expect it. Jake, a twenty year old Naval officer meets innocent, sixteen year old Paisley Hull. They're ticking time bombs waiting to go off. And when these two collide.... it's explosive, magical, suffocating, calming....intense. ALL CONSUMING.

Brooding, control freak Jake falls hard for young, beautiful and fiercely independent, mature thinking Paisley. Not just lust and gorgeous bodies but the snarky and ornery attitudes and the quick witted banter between the two. It gets your blood flowing and this giddy, lovey dovey, romance feeling in the pit of your stomach with a silly girly grin on your face.

Jake and Paisley go through the pains of young love. Learning to combat the age difference and all that goes with it. Jealousy, work, school, family, insecurities and past scars. Riding the ups and downs of their relationship, Jake and Paisley take a long time of getting it wrong, until finally, nine years later, getting it Right is the only way they can move forward.