Release Day Blitz: Dark Instincts (The Phoenix Pack, #4) by Suzanne Wright

Happy release day to Dark Instincts and enormous congrats to Suzanne Wright! I absolutely love this series so hardcore! It's one of my most favorite paranormal shifter series. Thinking back, I can't really remember how I came across it. I think I was just browsing and I stumbled upon book one, back in its indie stage, with the old cover and instantly fell in love.

I can't wait to dive into Roni and Marcus's story! Check out the awesome excerpt I've got for you below so you'll know what I'm talking about. (Crazy amazing!) But first . . .

Caged in Winter Blog Tour: Author Interview + Giveaway

Welcome to my stop on the Caged in Winter Blog Tour hosted by Berkley. For today's stop, I've got an awesome interview with Brighton Walsh that I can't wait to share with all of you as well as the tour wide giveaway, so stick around and don't miss a second of any of it!

About the book:

Title: Caged in Winter (Caged in Winter, #1)
Author: Brighton Walsh
Publisher: Berkley
Release date: November 4, 2014
Age group: New Adult
Genre: Contemporary Romance

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In this emotional and sexy New Adult debut from Brighton Walsh, the only thing more frightening than commitment is hope...

Aspiring chef Cade Maxwell is immediately, viscerally attracted to Winter Jacobson. But it’s not her mouthwatering curves he’s drawn to—it’s the strange emptiness in her eyes. When Cade saves her from a drunken customer with grabby hands, he’s shocked at her response...

Winter doesn’t need Cade’s help. After a lifetime of getting by on her own, she’s happy to rely on herself. She’s exactly seventy-six days away from graduating college, and if she can hold it together that long, she’ll finally be able to rise above the crappy hand she was dealt.

But now, every time she turns around, Cade is there, ready to push her, smile at her, distract her from her plans. Winter knows she can’t afford to open up—especially to a man she’s terrified to actually want...

Release Day Blitz: Insidious by Aleatha Romig

Happy release day to Insidious and congrats to Aleatha Romig!

About the book:

Title: Insidious (Tales from the Dark Side, #1)
Author: Aleatha Romig
Publisher: Romig Works
Release date: October 21, 2014
Age group: Adult
Genre: Dark Contemporary/Erotic Romance

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Dark desires... Deadly secrets... Devious deceptions... Nothing is exactly as it seems in Insidious, the new erotic thriller from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Aleatha Romig.

When a powerful man is willing to risk everything for his own satisfaction, only one woman can beat him at his own game: his wife. Or so she thinks...

“Let’s start with you calling me Stewart. Formalities seem unnecessary.”

Stewart Harrington is rich, gorgeous, and one of the most powerful men in Miami. He always gets what he wants. Anything is available to him for the right price.

Even me.

Being the wife of a mogul comes with all the perks, but being Mrs. Stewart Harrington comes with a few special requirements. I’ve learned to keep a part of myself locked away as my husband watches me submit to his needs. But the more he demands of me, the more beguiled he becomes and that’s to my advantage. So I keep fulfilling his fantasies and following his rules because he doesn’t know that what he’s playing is really my game. And winning is everything, right?

Insidious is a stand-alone novel and the first Tales from the Dark Side title. Due to the dark and explicit nature of this book, it is recommended for mature audiences only.

Release Day Blitz + Giveaway: The Certainty of Violet & Luke by Jessica Sorensen

Happy release day to The Certainty of Violet & Luke and all the congrats to the amazing, Jessica Sorensen!

About the book:

Title: The Certainty of Violet & Luke (The Coincidence, #5)
Author: Jessica Sorensen
Publisher: Self
Release date: September 16, 2014
Age group: New Adult
Genre: Contemporary Romance

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Violet Hayes’s life is a mess. Between her stalker, Preston, refusing to leave her alone, her parents’ case still being unsolved, and falling behind in school, she always feels on the verge of losing it. When some unexpected news comes her way, it’s the final straw and she ends up doing something that almost costs her life. Thankfully, she survives and makes a promise to herself to put her life back together and to try and figure out exactly how she feels about Luke Price, the one person that’s always there for her.

But as a recovering alcoholic and gambler, Luke has his own struggles to overcome. He’s also fallen in love with Violet, but fears telling her the truth, that it will scare her away or worse, she won’t reciprocate the feeling. Plus, there never seems to be a right time to say it, either the case, Preston, or life getting in the way.

Can the two of them ever get enough peace in their lives to conquer their fears and finally tell each other the truth about how they feel?

Release Day Blitz + Giveaway: Damaged Goods by Nicole Williams

Happy, happy, happy release day to Damaged Goods and all the congrats to the amazing, Nicole Williams!
About the book:

Title: Damaged Goods (The Outsider Chronicles, #2)
Author: Nicole Williams
Publisher: Self
Release date: September 9, 2014
Age group: New Adult
Genre: Contemporary Romance

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When Liv Bennett said good-bye to her sinkhole of a hometown, she planned to leave that chapter of her life behind forever. But forever turned out to only be three years.

After her addict of a mother up and disappears, Liv returns to what she considers her own personal hell smack in the middle of nowhere Nevada to take care of her two younger sisters, and she promptly reinstitutes the golden rule that got her through her first nineteen years of life without getting knocked up, roughed up, or messed up: don’t date the local boys and, god forbid, don’t fall in love with one of them.

It isn’t long before that golden rule is put to the test.

Will Goods grew up in the next trailer over, but the wild, careless boy who used to tear up the town with his three brothers has morphed into someone else so completely, he’s almost unrecognizable. The quiet, contemplative man who works on cars every night and takes care of his mentally ill mother every day is nothing like the local boys Liv grew up avoiding.

But when Liv considers suspending her golden rule just this once, she finds out something about Will that will change everything.

Will Goods isn’t who he used to be—he’s not even the man Liv thinks she’s gotten to know over the summer. He’s become someone else entirely.

He’s become...

Damaged Goods.

Release Day Blitz + Giveaway: Rock Addiction by Nalini Singh

Happy release day to Rock Addiction and congratulations to Nalini Singh!
About the book:

Title: Rock Addiction (Rock Kiss, #1)
Author: Nalini Singh
Publisher: TKA Distribution
Release date: September 9, 2014
Age group: New Adult
Genre: Contemporary Romance

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A bad boy wrapped in a sexy, muscled, grown-up package might be worth a little risk...

Molly Webster has always followed the rules. After an ugly scandal tore apart her childhood and made her the focus of the media’s harsh spotlight, she vowed to live an ordinary life. No fame. No impropriety. No pain. Then she meets Zachary Fox, a tattooed bad boy rocker with a voice like whiskey and sin, and a touch that could become an addiction.

A one-night stand with the hottest rock star on the planet, that’s all it was meant to be...

Fox promises scorching heat and dangerous pleasure, coaxing Molly to extend their one-night stand into a one-month fling. After that, he’ll be gone forever, his life never again intersecting with her own. Sex and sin and sensual indulgence, all with an expiration date. No ties, no regrets. Too late, Molly realizes it isn’t only her body that’s become addicted to Fox, but her heart...

Book Review: Torrent by Gemma James

Title: Torrent (Condemned, #1)
Author: Gemma James
Publisher: Self
Release date: July 21, 2014
Age group: New Adult
Genre: Dark Contemporary/Erotic Romance

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She sent an innocent man to prison. Now, eight years later, he's returning the favor...

I’ve been obsessed with Rafe Mason since I was thirteen. The twisted part of this story is that I still want him, even now.

Now that he's holding me captive on an island.

Rafe has his reasons for doing what he's doing, and if I'm honest, I can't blame him. I’m the girl who sent him to prison for a heinous crime he didn't commit.

But now he's free and the tables have turned... now he's the one driven by obsession.

Torrent is a New Adult Dark Romance with disturbing themes and explicit content, including sexual scenes and violence that may offend some. Intended for mature audiences. Part one of the Condemned series. This is not a stand-alone read. Approximately 43,000 words.

Release Day Blitz + Giveaway: Better When He's Bad by Jay Crownover

Happy, happy, happy release day to Better When He's Bad and aaallll the congrats to the amazing, Jay Crownover!

About the book:

Title: Better When He's Bad (Welcome to the Point, #1)
Author: Jay Crownover
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
Release date: June 17, 2014
Age group: New Adult
Genre: Contemporary Romance

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New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jay Crownover returns with a heart-stopping new series... Welcome to the Point.

There’s a difference between a bad boy and a boy who’s bad... meet Shane Baxter.

Sexy, dark, and dangerous, Bax isn’t just from the wrong side of the tracks, he is the wrong side of the tracks. A criminal, a thug, and a brawler, he’s the master of bad choices, until one such choice landed him in prison for five years. Now Bax is out and looking for answers, and he doesn’t care what he has to do or who he has to hurt to get them. But there’s a new player in the game, and she’s much too innocent, much too soft…and standing directly in his way.

Dovie Pryce knows all about living a hard life and the tough choices that come with it. She’s always tried to be good, tried to help others, and tried not to let the darkness pull her down. But the streets are fighting back, things have gone from bad to worse, and the only person who can help her is the scariest, sexiest, most complicated ex-con The Point has ever produced.

Bax terrifies her, awakening feelings she never thought she’d have for a guy like him. But it doesn’t take Dovie long to realize... some boys are just better when they’re bad.

Release Day Blitz + Giveaway: Intoxicated by Monica Murphy

Happy release day to Intoxicated and congrats to Monica Murphy!

About the book:

Title: Intoxicated (Billionaire Bachelors Club, #3.5)
Author: Monica Murphy
Publisher: Avon Impulse
Release date: June 17, 2014
Age group: Adult
Genre: Contemporary Romance

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New York Times bestselling author Monica Murphy wraps up her sexy Billionaire Bachelors Club series with a wedding to remember. But this time, they're not bachelors anymore, and the groom... is one of them.

It's Gage and Marina's wedding day, but wedded bliss seems a long way off: Ivy's just gone into labor. Marina's missing her matron of honor. And Bryn's giving Matt the silent treatment.

It's up to Archer, Gage, and Matt to make sure this day goes off without a hitch. But between brides and babies, there's the not-so-little issue of the million-dollar bet to attend to. If only they can figure out who won... and who's paying up. Is everyone a winner? Or will someone leave broke—and brokenhearted?

Release Day Blitz + Giveaway: There's Wild, Then There's You by M. Leighton

Welcome to our release day celebration for There's Wild, Then There's You by M. Leighton! Be sure to check out the exclusive excerpt and don't forget to enter the giveaway!

About the book:

Title: There's Wild, Then There's You (The Wild Ones, #3)
Author: M. Leighton
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Release date: June 3, 2014
Age group: New Adult
Genre: Contemporary Romance

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He’s someone she can’t trust...

She’s someone he thinks he knows...

Violet Wilson is a wallflower. Shy, serious, and accident-prone, she’s got a bad habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. The night she’s forced to pose with her friend might just be the worst time of all—that’s when she meets Jet Blevins. She knows better than to get involved with someone like him, but he touches her in ways she never expected, never wanted before.

On the outside, Jet is a typical rocker, an arrogant lead guitarist who unapologetically lives a wild lifestyle. But on the inside, he’s battling demons and using the stage to escape the troubles of his past and the addictions of his present. Until the night he sees Violet standing at the back of the room. She brings his life into focus. She knows his secrets. She’s the girl he can’t forget, and the one thing he craves more than his addiction.

But can they ever hope to have a future when their very foundation is nothing but lies?

Release Day Blitz: Devil's Game by Joanna Wylde

Happy, happy, happy release day to Devil's Game and congrats to Joanna Wylde!
About the book:

Title: Devil's Game (Reapers MC, #3)
Author: Joanna Wylde
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Release date: June 3, 2014
Age group: New Adult
Genre: Contemporary Romance

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Liam “Hunter” Blake hates the Reapers MC. Born and raised a Devil’s Jack, he knows his duty. He’ll defend his club from their oldest enemies—the Reapers—using whatever weapons he can find. But why use force when the Reapers’ president has a daughter who’s alone and vulnerable? Hunter has wanted her from the minute he saw her, and now he has an excuse to take her.

Em has lived her entire life in the shadow of the Reapers. Her overprotective father, Picnic, is the club’s president. The last time she had a boyfriend, Picnic shot him. Now the men in her life are far more interested in keeping her daddy happy than showing her a good time. Then she meets a handsome stranger—a man who isn’t afraid to treat her like a real woman. One who isn’t afraid of her father. His name is Liam, and he’s The One.

Or so she thinks.

Release Day Blitz + Giveaway: There's Wild, Then There's You by M. Leighton

Happy, happy, happy release day to There's Wild, Then There's You and all the congrats to the wonderful, M. Leighton!
About the book:

Title: There's Wild, Then There's You (The Wild Ones, #3)
Author: M. Leighton
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Release date: June 3, 2014
Age group: New Adult
Genre: Contemporary Romance

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He’s someone she can’t trust...

She’s someone he thinks he knows...

Violet Wilson is a wallflower. Shy, serious, and accident-prone, she’s got a bad habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. The night she’s forced to pose with her friend might just be the worst time of all—that’s when she meets Jet Blevins. She knows better than to get involved with someone like him, but he touches her in ways she never expected, never wanted before.

On the outside, Jet is a typical rocker, an arrogant lead guitarist who unapologetically lives a wild lifestyle. But on the inside, he’s battling demons and using the stage to escape the troubles of his past and the addictions of his present. Until the night he sees Violet standing at the back of the room. She brings his life into focus. She knows his secrets. She’s the girl he can’t forget, and the one thing he craves more than his addiction.

But can they ever hope to have a future when their very foundation is nothing but lies?

#ALLLINEDUP (Rusk University) Spirit Week Scavenger Hunt

Welcome to day two of All Lined Up's Rusk University Spirit Week Scavenger Hunt! The hunt will be taking place all week and if you missed day one, have no fear! You can still collect Monday's clue one, two, and three in time for the Rafflecopter!

Be sure to collect all three clues and enter them into the Rafflecopter for your chance to win! There will be a new clue each day this week, so be sure to check out the event every day to see where to find the first clue!

Release Day Blitz + Giveaway: All Lined Up by Cora Carmack

Happy, happy, happy release day to All Lined Up and aaallll the congrats to the awkwardly, Cora Carmack!
We are thrilled that Cora Carmack’s highly anticipated All Lined Up is finally here! All Lined Up is a New Adult Contemporary Romance novel being published by HarperCollins’s William Morrow Paperbacks imprint and is a part of Cora Carmack’s Rusk University series!

Release Day Blitz + Giveaway: Long for Me by Shiloh Walker

Award-winning author, Shiloh Walker, is back with a hot new series that’ll leave you yearning for more! Happy release day to Long for Me and congrats to Shiloh Walker!

Long for Me is the third and final novella in the Secrets & Shadows series that introduces readers to the Bell siblings and sets the stage for the highly anticipated mass market print release of Deeper Than Need, book one in the Secrets & Shadows series coming from St. Martin’s Paperbacks on June 3, 2014!

About the books:

Title: Long for Me (Secrets & Shadows, #0.7)
Author: Shiloh Walker
Publisher: St. Martin’s Paperbacks
Release date: May 13, 2014
Age group: Adult
Genre: Contemporary Romance

In Long for Me by Shiloh Walker, Christina Bell remembers what it was like to be part of a loving family. The youngest of the Bell children, she simply cannot believe that her dad, or anyone else she loves, had a hand in her mother’s disappearance. She’s looking forward to moving on and spending more time with her sexy best friend, Guy Miller, who she is starting to see in a whole new light.

Their attraction sizzling and love deepening, Christina feels confident in her life and ability to handle what comes her way... But when Nichole’s body is found—and the mystery of her death slowly reveals itself—Christina is left not knowing who to trust. What if Guy, her one true desire, proves to be her biggest danger?

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Release Day Blitz: Tempting the Bodyguard by J. Lynn

Happy, happy, happy release day to Tempting the Bodyguard and enormous congrats to J. Lynn!

About the book:

Title: Tempting the Bodyguard (Gamble Brothers, #3)
Author: J. Lynn
Publisher: Entangled: Brazen
Release date: May 12, 2014
Age group: Adult
Genre: Contemporary Romance

He can protect her from everyone except himself.

Alana Gore is in danger. A take-no-prisoners publicist, her way with people has made her more than a few enemies over the years, but a creepy stalker is an entirely different matter. She needs a bodyguard, and the only man she can ask is not only ridiculously hot, but reputed to have taste for women that goes beyond adventurous.

Chandler Gamble has one rule: don't protect anyone you want to screw. But with Alana, he's caught between his job and his increasingly hard libido. On one hand, Alana needs his help. On the other, Chandler wants nothing more than to take the hot volcano of a woman in hand. To make her writhe in pleasure, until she's at his complete mercy.

She needs protection. He needs satisfaction. And the moment the line is crossed, all hell will break loose...

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Release Day Blitz + Giveaway: Dare to Resist by Laura Kaye

Happy release day to Dare to Resist and congrats to Laura Kaye!
Dare to Resist is the prequel novella to the sexy wedding event of the year! The Wedding Dare series brings together five New York Times bestselling authors, one sizzling story of how the bride and groom fell in love, and four super sexy tales of bridesmaids who hope to get lucky in lust—or maybe even love—at their friend’s wedding. Here’s the story that starts it all!

Release Day Blitz + Giveaway: Happenstance by Jamie McGuire

Happy release day to Happenstance and congrats to Jamie McGuire!

About the book:

Title: Happenstance
Author: Jamie McGuire
Publisher: Jamie McGuire LLC
Release date: May 9, 2014
Age group: Young Adult
Genre: Contemporary Romance

#1 New York Times Bestseller Jamie McGuire returns to self-publishing with this page-turning YA account of Erin Easter, one of three Erins in the small senior class of rural Blackwell High School who not only share a first name, but also their birthday. Easter, raised by a neglectful single mom, keeps to herself and admires Weston Gates from afar. The other Erins, Erin "Alder" Alderman and Erin "Sonny" Masterson are the darlings of the community: daughters of the two wealthiest families in town, best friends, cheerleaders, and everything Easter isn't—and they never let her forget it. Alder has even claimed Weston since the 8th grade.

Weston is a well-liked star athlete, and the son of two prominent attorneys. He struggles daily with the pressures of living up to his family name and secretly empathizes with Easter's feeling that she belongs somewhere else; in a different life. Not until he begins sneaking nights out with Easter does he gain the courage to buck expectations and acknowledge his feelings... both for his future, and for her.

A shocking tragedy rocks the tiny town, and Easter's life is turned upside down in the best way possible. But when the truth is revealed and everything she thinks she wanted falls into her lap, life only becomes more complicated.

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Release Day Blitz + Giveaway: Rush by Nyrae Dawn

Happy, happy, happy release day to Rush and aaallll the congrats to Nyrae Dawn!

About the book:

Title: Rush
Author: Nyrae Dawn
Publisher: Forever Yours
Release date: May 6, 2014
Age group: New Adult
Genre: Contemporary Romance

This New Adult, Male/Male romance will capture the audience who fell in love with Nyrae Dawn's Games Trilogy.

For the love of the game.

Brandon Chase has always defined himself by one thing: football. Tough and athletic, he is a great college player who enjoys the hard hits and the sweaty grind of the gridiron. But when Brandon is injured, only one person can help him get back on track—a forbidden love he's desperately tried to put behind him.

Alec Andrews has never quite forgiven Brandon for walking away when their friendship turned into something more. But he can't deny help to one of his closest friends. As the two spend the long, hot summer working together, their old attraction comes flooding back.

Now as Alec thinks about coming out to his conservative family and Brandon considers revealing he's a gay football player, the two men must be strong to fight for a love that could be the greatest rush of their lives.

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Release Day Blitz: Misunderstandings by Tiffany King

Happy, happy, happy release day to Misunderstandings and enormous congrats to Tiffany King!

About the book:

Title: Misunderstandings (Woodfalls Girls, #2)
Author: Tiffany King
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Release date: May 6, 2014
Age group: New Adult
Genre: Contemporary Romance

Just when she thought things were going up...

Two years after a devastating breakup, Brittni Mitchell has moved on from Justin Avery—or so she tells herself. But when she returns to Seattle for her best friend’s engagement party, Brittni finds herself the victim of a disastrously timed elevator breakdown. She’s trapped with the last person she wants to face, and forced to recount the past she desperately wants to forget.

She’s going to have to look back...

When Brittni left her podunk hometown for a big city college experience at the University of Washington, hooking up with a guy like Justin Avery was not part of her plan. Between Justin’s attention-grabbing tattoos, cigarette smoking, and bad boy attitude Brittni quickly chalked him up as “Mr. Wrong.” But his charm was unrelenting, and Brittni’s decision to give Justin a chance quickly turned into the worst choice she ever made.

So that she might be able to move forward.

Now she’s stuck with Justin—literally—and the complicated web of misunderstandings that tied up the truth for two years is about to unravel.

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