COVER REVEAL SHANE by Jo Raven

 

Title: Shane ( Damage Control 4 )

Author: Jo Raven 

Genre: Contemporary Romance 

 

 

 

 

 

Once upon a time, my life was good. I had a family, I had a girlfriend, and hopes for the future. That was long ago, but I remember it. A hazy dream of what could have been.
That’s gone now. I lost it all. Life fucked me over, and now I’m scared of my own damn shadow. 
I’m training to be a tattoo artist, but I bet I’m not good enough. I have a roof over my head, but every morning I’m scared shitless that I’ll find myself on the street again – or worse, back in prison. 
And every time a pretty girl looks at me, every single fucking time, I know I can’t be with her. Not only because she’ll find out I’m an ex-con and run the other way, no. It’s more than that. I just can’t. The thought of anyone touching me, the thought of getting aroused from that touch brings back every damn nightmare from my past to swallow me whole.
Can’t fucking do it. 
Not even if it’s the prettiest girl on earth – Cassie. With her long blond hair and her pretty tits, her short skirts and high heels, she’s all my fantasies rolled into one. See, the fact she kissed one of my buddies? That’s good. The fact she looks at me like I’m a bug under her shoe? Even better.
Because it means she’s not interested in getting hot and sweaty with me, and that I can keep living that fantasy.
The fantasy that she wants to be with me as much as I want to be with her – even though I know it will never happen.

Standalone novel. No cliffhanger.
*Warning: this book contains graphic language, sex, and violence. Mature readers only. Not intended for young readers.*

SHANE is book 4 in the series Damage Control - a series set in the same world as Inked Brotherhood. The boys of Damage Control were taken in by Zane Madden and Rafe Vestri and offered apprenticeship and work in the tattoo shop Damage Control.
Next in the Damage Control series: OCEAN (Damage Control 5)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jo Raven is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, best known for her series Inked Brotherhood and Damage Control. She writes edgy, contemporary New Adult romance with sexy bad boys and strong-willed heroines. She writes about MME fighters and tattoo artists, dark pasts that bleed into the present, loyalty and raw emotion. Add to that breathtaking suspense, super-hot sex scenes and a happy ending, and you have a Jo Raven® story.

 

 

 

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HAPPY RELEASE DAY EXPOSURE by Kelly Moran

AUTHOR: Kelly Moran

Released: 18th January 2016

Genre: Erotic Romance

ISBN:9781310660030

My Rating: 5 STARS *****

"A sexy, emotional romance that tears up the pages." ~KIM KARR, New York Times Bestselling Author.

His best friend...His muse...His fantasy...

Noah Caldwell has spent ten years biding his time for the chance to tell his best friend Raven Crowne the truth. He wants her. With the threat that brought him to her in the first place finally behind him, they begin a hot affair he's only dreamed about. And reality is far better than fantasy. Yet beautiful Raven has her own dark history, one he's trying desperately to release from her. But as their passion deepens and turns into more, his past rises up from the shadows to claim one last victim…and Noah could lose the only person he can't live without.

*A stand-alone novel with a HEA*

"I want you. And I usually get what I want. I had to wait too long to have you already." He lifted his head, the rasp of his shadow filled the quiet as his cheek brushed hers. Her lashes fluttered to half-mast, cementing his belief she wasn't unaffected. "You live inside your head, where all the power is overruling your ability to enjoy. It's why you've been unsatisfied with your partners. I want you, and you need to learn to let go." He leaned in to whisper against her mouth, until even a tremble couldn't come between them. "It'll be so good, Raven."

Kelly’s been known to say that she gets her ideas from everyone and everything around her and there’s always a book playing out in her head. No one who knows her bats an eyelash when she talks to herself. Her interests include: sappy movies, MLB, NFL, driving others insane, and sleeping when she can. She is a closet caffeine junkie and chocoholic, but don’t tell anyone. She resides in Wisconsin with her husband, three sons, and her black lab. Most of her family lives in the Carolinas, so she spends a lot of time there as well.

I received an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

This story is a different style for Kelly Moran and she has amazed me with it so if you want a truly hot love story then check this book out - I loved it from start to finish.

Noah and Raven have been friends for ten years, theirs is a non sexual/touching friendship and it has been driving Noah mad, as he has been secretly yearning after Raven for years, Raven however has felt safe and secure with him and looks forward to his company. Until one Friday night when everything changes.

Noah has secrets and Raven has issues and this book deals with both of these with flair, it was great how you found out about both of these characters and their pasts and the bits in between.

I would definitely recommend this book as 'A MUST READ'. I must say Kelly Moran's books have always held my attention so I was pleased to receive this to review, as I love her old writing style and this new more erotic book was no exception - CONGRATULATIONS Kelly on this fabulous new book.

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Mills & Boon's MAN of the YEAR 2016

Courtney Hayles has been announced as the Man of the Year 2016

Here is the Cover reveal for IT HAD TO BE YOU, with the Mills and Boon's Man of the Year 2016 on its cover - Courtney Hayles who is a drama teacher. The judges - HELLO!'s own editor Rosie Nixon, Robin Windsor from Strictly Come Dancing aand ‘It Takes Two’ and Loose Women presenter Denise Welsch all loved his fabulous attitude and undeniable charm.

IT HAD TO BE YOU by  Barbara Hannay & Nikki Logan

(due to be released 28th Jan)

SYNOPSIS

Molly Cooper’s Dream Date

Molly Cooper has traveled all the way to London to find her dream man! The trouble is, the sexy emails with hot millionaire Patrick Knight – the man she swapped houses with – are strangely addictive. But what do you do when you realise the one you really want is a world away…sleeping in your bed?

Shipwrecked with Mr Wrong

Conservationist Honor Brier loves working in her island paradise. It’s the perfect place to lick her wounds in peace…until arrogant playboy Rob Dalton is shipwrecked on its shores. Yet Rob’s passion for life is impossible to resist – and he’s infuriatingly attractive! Could Mr Wrong actually be oh-so-right?

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I would like to congratulate Courtney for being chosen as Man of the Year 2016 and would like to wish him a fabulous year.

REAL LIFE MODERN DAY HERO MAN OF THE YEAR REVEALED TOMORROW on the cover of IT HAD TO BE YOU

 

 Following the nationwide hunt launched earlier this year to uncover a real-life modern-day romantic hero, Mills & Boon, along with a panel of celebrity judges, have now chosen their winner, to be revealed and crowned Man of the Year 2015 on January 14th '16. The proud winner will be the cover star of the Mills & Boon special Valentine's release, It Had To Be You, which features two page-turning romantic stories from authors Barbara Hannay and Nikki Logan and will be released on 26th January '16. 

  Synopis Molly Cooper’s Dream Date Molly Cooper has traveled all the way to London to find her dream man! The trouble is, the sexy emails with hot millionaire Patrick Knight – the man she swapped houses with – are strangely addictive. But what do you do when you realise the one you really want is a world away…sleeping in your bed? 

  Shipwrecked with Mr Wrong Conservationist Honor Brier loves working in her island paradise. It’s the perfect place to lick her wounds in peace…until arrogant playboy Rob Dalton is shipwrecked on its shores. Yet Rob’s passion for life is impossible to resist – and he’s infuriatingly attractive! Could Mr Wrong actually be oh-so-right?   

 So if you want to find out who is this years REAL LIFE MODERN DAY ROMANTIC HERO, then check back tomorrow to see his picture on the front of the book cover  IT HAD TO BE YOU.

***HAPPY RELEASE DAY & REVIEW*** ON THE ROCKS by KIM LAW

Sassy tomboy Ginger Atkinson would rather be captaining a deep-sea fishing boat than baking pies, yet she still wishes she had a man to bake for. Sure, the pretty redhead is happy running her late father’s Turtle Island ferry business, but everyone in the world is finding love except her. Stuck on the wrong side of thirty, she’s trying to accept singlehood by building a dream home—for one.

In high school, Carter Ridley loved to sneak off with his good friend Ginger to watch the sun rise over the ocean. But after graduation, his path took a different route. One that, unlike Ginger’s, did get him the spouse and house of his dreams. At least, until a scandal shattered everything.

Running from his heartbreak, Carter returns to Turtle Island, where he discovers that Ginger is all grown up. His teenage friend has become the woman he’s always wanted. But will Carter’s pain scare him away from a chance at happiness? Or can he be the loving partner Ginger’s been looking for?

I received an ARC of this book from Netgalley for an honest review.

If you like a book that contains great characters, its heartfelt, childhood friendships, low self esteem & trust issues, its romantic and has plenty of humour - then this is definitely a book for you.

This story revolves around Ginger - she returned home after the death of her father to run his boat business and she loves it. The only downside for her is that she can never seem to find love and she feels inadequate as a woman.

And Carter - he is called back to his childhood home to check on his younger sister who is pregnant and alone and his parents are away travelling and are worried about her and about Carter too. Carter however, is not in a good place and he is very angry with the world after his failed marriage/divorce and does not need to be babysitting his sister and can not wait to leave the island.

So here we have a woman (Ginger) who wants to find love, a woman (Julie) and her brother (Carter) who both want to be alone to get on with their lonely lives and what a story this gives us.

A little background - Ginger and Carter used to be childhood friends, lived next door to each other, they used to tell each other secrets, were always their for one another in times of need and both loved to watch the sunrise. Then time happens and college beckons and childhood friendships are lost and an unknown crush was never found out.

So swing back to now and one evening Ginger returns home to see an unknown car in next doors driveway and the blinds are closed, she gets an uneasy feeling and goes to investigate with her can of mace to see if Julie is ok. Ginger knocks and gets no answer, she then thumps but when the door is opened it wasn't Julie that opened it but Carter her childhood crush.

Both Ginger and Carter have never forgotten about their friendship and it was great to see them learn to trust one another again and with this the story evolves and we find out about the characters pasts and what has molded them into the people they are today and we see how friendships can be re- found and treasured once again. I loved how this story flowed from one part to the next, answering the questions that you have not even asked.

This is a well written Love story and I would definitely recommend it as 'A MUST READ'.

“I received a free, advance copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for my unbiased review.”

As a child, award-winning author Kim Law cultivated a love for chocolate, anything purple, and creative writing. She penned her debut work, “The Gigantic Talking Raisin,” in the sixth grade and got hooked on the delights of creating stories. Before settling into the writing life, however, she earned a college degree in mathematics and worked for years as a computer programmer. Now she’s living out her lifelong dream of writing romance novels. She’s won the Romance Writers of America’s Golden Heart Award, been a finalist for the prestigious RWA RITA Award, and served in varied positions for her local RWA chapter. A native of Kentucky, Kim lives with her husband and an assortment of animals in Middle Tennessee.

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RELEASE BLITZ for Amie Nichols' The Good One

 

 

Expectations almost cost her everything.



Title:  The Good One

Author:  Amie Nichols

Genre:  Romantic Suspense

Cover Designer:  Sara Eirew

Release Date:  January 5, 2016

River Scott is the daughter of a billionaire. She runs her father's company and does what she is told, including cleaning up after her out-of-control, socialite, wild-child baby sister. 

 

After a tragic night fifteen years ago, River feels she has no choice but to continue on the path of being the good one, keeping her sister in check and always pleasing her father. 

 

She's in a dead-end relationship, but all she wants is love, passion, and sweep-you-off-your-feet excitement. 

 

Because of her sister, she meets ex-male escort, Damian Matthews. Their attraction is by far like nothing either have experienced. He gives her everything she wants and so much more. 

 

Unfortunately, this is not the guy River's father would approve of. He approves of Ryan Lane, a wealthy, successful playboy who is ready to settle down and start a life in politics. She knows Ryan is the smart choice, but no one makes her feel like Damian does. 

 

When River starts dating Damian, a set of events are put into motion changing everything she thought she knew about her family. 

 

Can River get what she wants without losing everything and hurting the one person she has sworn to protect for the rest of her life? 

This is a standalone novel. Due to strong language and sexual situations, this book is meant for adults over 18.

 

 

"The others are waiting for us." I grab some folders off my desk and walk past him. Before I can open the door, his arms have me pinned against it. His hands flat against the wood on both sides of my head. I stop, unable to move, as he presses his front to my back. I feel his rock-hard erection against the small of my back.

 

"Damian," I cry softly. I'm shocked, a little scared, and a whole lot turned on at the same time.

 

"Do you know that this has never happened to me from just looking at a woman? Not to mention, a fully clothed one." He breathes into my hair. "In fact, since I've met you, just the thought of you makes my dick hard. It aches for you. I ache for you."

 

 

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My true passion is romance with some suspense and mystery. Giving my readers a reason to turn the page, with edge-of-your-seat thrills.

 

I love to write about sexy characters, alpha males and strong females. No matter what my story entails, know that you will leave with a warm fuzzy feeling and a HEA always.

 

Real life, well, let's face it, can kind of suck sometimes. Full of stress and so many depressing things happening in the world. Reading is a way to escape the pressures of real life. This is why I like to give my readers a promise of a happy ending.

 

In life I think the simple pleasures are the ones that make the difference: coffee, wine, and a good book, to name a few.

 

I also love all animals, a soft spot in my heart for elephants. And of course, my fur babies. Two miniature dachshunds that make me smile every day.

 

 

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SPOTLIGHT on AUTHOR CAROLE PARKES

Interviewing the Author, Carole Parkes

I was born in Liverpool, England in 1945, after the war had ended. Seventy years later, I can look back on a life that is mainly a happy one.

Question: What is your impression of your childhood?

I had a happy childhood. When I reflect on it now, I know that was mostly due to having a really loving father. I never realized it when I was a child, but my mum suffered depression which led to often repeated bouts of crying. It was my dad who we went to whenever we needed anything. He put plasters on our cuts and grazes, rocked us on his knee while he sang a lullaby, and gave us a donkey ride up the stairs to bed. It was only in later years I began to ask why mum never cuddled us or took us to bed. Now I’m older, I can understand my mum more.

Both my parent’s worked full time in factories, but they never had much money until mum’s uncle left her some in his will. They bought a holiday caravan and car, something rare in our city neighbourhood. Every weekend we would go off to the Welsh seaside and while my dad, my brothers, and I loved it, it meant a lot of extra work for mum. She had to get all the washing, ironing, shopping and housework done in the evenings after work. As she had to be in work for seven o’clock every morning, she didn’t get time to relax.

Dad always washed the dishes but the rest was left to mum. My brothers and I were too busy playing on the sand hills and in the sea to notice and, of course, in those 1950s days women were expected to do the housework. Of course, when I was young I didn’t know that mum was an only child who lost her loving dad when she was only fifteen and then lost her mum three years later. Luckily, she’d met my dad before her mum died and he made her a promise he’d look after her daughter. I think losing her parents so young led to her depression.

I laugh every time I see this photo. My knitted costume used to fill up with water like a balloon whenever I went into the sea. The weight of it would pull my costume almost down to by waist. Young as I was, it used to embarrass me.

Question: Where were you educated?

I started at Whitefield Road, County Primary school when I was five and attended there until I was eleven. I failed my 11+ examination so I went to Newsham Secondary Modern School. While there, I was one of only two pupils to pass the 13+ examination, a second chance exam to catch the late developers like myself. Although I’d chosen to attend Technical College, when I passed I was sent to the highly regarded Holly Lodge Grammar School for Girls.

I was really disappointed about this because I was interested in art, design, and crafts not in academic subjects. The other girl who passed with me was always top of the class. Despite her choosing Grammar School, she was allocated a place at Technical College. I kicked up such a stink about it my parents queried the placement. They were told I had scored higher marks than the other girl so I was best suited for the Grammar School. Personally, I always thought there must have been a mix up on this as unlike the other girl; I was never in the top six of our class.

The first year there, we had none of the lessons I craved. Art, needlework, and gymnastics were put on hold until our class of 13 plusers, as we were known, caught up to the other thirteen year olds who’d been at the grammar school for two years. Not surprisingly, I rebelled. Whenever I could I’d miss lessons and, of course, I was found out and reprimanded. I hated the school so much that I left at Easter time instead of at the end of summer term. My parents even had to pay £10 for me to leave early. I often wonder how the other girl’s life turned out after she attended Technical College instead of the Grammar School she’d set her sights on.

Question: What work did you do after school?

After school, my life was pretty humdrum apart from marrying and having three sons. I’d trained as a tailoress and then worked in clothing manufacturer’s design rooms as a sample machinist, but this was on and off. Mostly, I was a housewife and as my children were becoming less dependent, I began wondering how I would have done if I’d stayed and taken my exams. On my fortieth birthday I decided to go back into education and work for some qualifications. After gaining my ‘O’ and ‘A’ levels, I started a degree in Social Science. I thought I was finally going to get a career, but boy, was I mistaken.

Question: What events have impacted most on your life?

Obviously, my marriage and giving birth to my three children were huge events. I always believed that since they were our children, it was entirely up to us to look after them. Our roles naturally split into me as housewife while my husband went to work to earn the money. Neither my husband nor I have ever resented each other’s roles. Although he sometimes got the weekend off while I never, I had full freedom to make choices about my working day which he didn’t.

The birth of our grandchildren also figured highly in our lives. We looked after one of our granddaughters two days a week from when she was six months old until she was about five, then one day a week until last summer. Our other grandchildren live too far away for us to help with them.

The next biggest event was my husband’s heart attack which he suffered at the age of only forty three. His working life was now over, and my ambitions to qualify for a degree were put on hold because he was so ill, I was reluctant to leave him alone at home. For months he couldn’t walk from the house to the car, and we were worried he’d have another heart attack. He wasn’t expected to live longer than ten years at the most, but happily for us both, that health scare was twenty six years ago.

Another event was celebrating our fiftieth wedding anniversary this year. With my husband’s ongoing health problems we never expected to get to this point but happily we have.  We have a long way to go though to beat my parent’s marriage of seventy five years.

Question: What first inspired you to write?

I wrote my first story when my little boy wanted a bike for Christmas one year, and it was out of the question for us to give him one at the time. Looking at the knitted toys his nana always made for him, I devised a story whereby his knitted toys had a specific magic power. This made the previously ridiculed knitted toys more favourable to his friends than the bikes they already owned, and they all wanted what he had. I ended up writing a series about each one of his knitted toys. I’ve never published those, but started writing regularly then.

Question: What else have you written?

Since then I’ve written several short stories, many factual family history articles, my autobiography and my novel ‘Tissue of Lies’ which I self published. I’ve also co-written and edited a second book due to be published 23rd December 2015 and titled ‘Your Last Breath’. This last one was written with Doug Lafuze, an up and coming author from Nebraska, USA. As I live in Lancashire, England, Doug and I have never met, but we have exchanged plenty of emails over this past year. Our book ‘Your Last Breath’ only took eight weeks from inception to completing our first draft, but it has taken a further eight months to get it to publishing standard.

Question: What is your new book about?

It’s about misfit turned serial killer, Raymond Lang. He was raised in West Virginia, but fled to London when the police were on his tail. Despite other people’s perception of him, he never set out to be a serial killer. He dreams of being an author, of writing a thriller full of suspense. He’s tried many times to write about the gruesome murders he visualizes so clearly in his mind but, somehow, when it comes to writing it down, the sharp images fade and it’s as if he’s viewing the scenes through a mist.

All that changes when, by chance, he realizes what motivates him. His writing inspiration only comes in the precise moment he breathes in his victim’s last exhaling breath. If he wants to continue writing, he must release his darker side and make it happen. Now, he won’t stop this blood-lust until his novel is completed, but can he finish it before he's caught?

He’s clever, continually outwitting those chasing him. Even so, he should have known he couldn’t get away with it forever, should have seen his retribution coming, but it still takes him by surprise. Thwarted in his dream, he’s beyond furious. Now, no-one is safe...

If you’d enjoy a fast paced, suspenseful plot involving gruesome murders, blackmail, a car chase, a kidnap, and the sleazy actions of a top politician, then this book is for you. (Adult 18+)

‘YOUR LAST BREATH’ (Doug Lafuze, Carole Parkes) is available now from Amazon http://authl.it/4io?d

‘TISSUE OF LIES’ (Carole Parkes) is available now from Amazon http://authl.it/49y?d

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