{{Xpresso Book Tours}} Book Blitz + Giveaway x2: BECAUSE OF LUCY by LISA SWALLOW

Because of Lucy by Lisa Swallow 

Publication date: August 28th 2013

Genres: Contemporary, New Adult

Synopsis:

*Recommended 17+ due to strong language and sexual content*

Ness’s parents are shocked when she turns down her place at Leeds University and takes on a full-time job in a call center. Determined to begin her adult life the way she wants, Ness moves to Leeds to live with her best friend Abby.

One night she meets Evan, who is everything she hates about guys. He may be hot but he’s also drunken, arrogant, and on top of that, he apparently has sex with girls and forgets about it. But Evan isn’t what he seems and Ness soon discovers they have more in common than she thought.

Evan is struggling to escape from his past too, and when Lucy appears she threatens his new relationship with Ness. Unsure if she can deal with the effect Lucy has on Evan, Ness makes a decision about her future which pulls them apart.

When their new lives don’t go as planned, Ness and Evan are both faced with difficult choices. All because of Lucy…

{Cover Reveal} GRIMNIRS by EDNAH WALTERS

Book Title: Grimnirs
Series: A Runes Novel
Author: Ednah Walters
Release Date: December 2nd 2013
Genre: YA Paranormal Romance
Publisher: Firetrail Publishing
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[Review] CATCHING LIAM by GENNIFER ALBIN

Title: Catching Liam

Author: Gennifer Albin

Release Date: July 8th 2013

Genre: New Adult, Contemporary Romance

Twenty-one year-old Jillian Nichols only has one rule when it comes to boys: catch and release. Boy-catching isn't just a game for Jillian and her friends, it's a lifestyle. After all, boys might be good for a dance or a drink and certainly a little under-cover action of the scandalous variety, but expect much else and you're bound for heart ache.

So when her best friends and fellow boy catchers start dropping like flies junior year, Jillian is determined to keep boys in her bedroom and out of her heart. Until she meets Liam McAvoy, the kind of guy that sticks around to make waffles and who can't—or perhaps won't—take a hint. 

Study abroad student Liam doesn't want to be another notch on Jillian's bedpost. Actually he has much more interesting ideas for Jillian and her bedposts, but his student visa's set expiration date means he can't promise her forever. That doesn't mean he's going to walk away from the challenge of discovering why Jillian is hell-bent at keeping people at a distance. 

Before long, neither is sure who is catching who—or if they're playing for keeps. Jillian knows one thing though: falling in love will not only break the only rule of boy-catching, it could also break her heart.

#Spotlight : Chasing Stars by L. Duarte

Hope sprouts from the recognition that the person with real flaws and qualities dormant 

inside me is capable of love.

Amazon
Book Description
Publication Date: July 10, 2013

As a pampered Los Angeles teen, Portia McGee once created a bucket list with her best friends Tarry and Niki. Though falling in love topped their list, it was the last thing she could ever imagine doing. Through the rejection of her parents, Portia learned early in life that love is elusive. 

Now a famous and frivolous A-list actress, Portia has a Hollywood pedigree sealed in gold by a celebrity actress mother and New York mogul father. When Portia’s latest role requires an elaborate temporary tattoo, she meets Will, a gifted tattoo artist with a tortured past. The attraction is electric and immediate, but Will refuses to take the encounter to the next level—a decision Portia associates with the ring he so clearly wears on his wedding finger. Those old, familiar feelings of rejection take hold, and Portia now realizes that she must face the past in order to forge a new future. As their deep bond ignites in Portia an unexpected spirituality, can she finally free herself to once again chase the stars of her early days? Both richly glamorous and rich in meaning, Chasing Stars is a sparkling celebration of how faith and love can conquer even the most challenging of circumstances to uplift the human soul.

Chasing Stars is the debut work of romantic fiction by L. Duarte that charts the improbable, rousing romance between two star-crossed lovers, and the journey both must take to open their hearts to renewed hope and lasting love. At once soulful and playful, it’s certain to transport anyone who still, deep down, has faith in the abiding power of second chances.

AUTHOR'S NOTE: Chasing Stars is intended for mature readers, containing sexual content and strong language.

 "Though we had all the money most people can only think of, we were the rejects of the plastic city of LA, where artificial is the norm and the normal is outdated"

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{{AToMR Tours}} Blog Tour + Giveaway: [Review] PRICE OF A KISS by LINDA KAGE

Title: Price of a Kiss

Author: Linda Kage

Release date: September 4, 2013

Age Group: Mature New Adult

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Book Description:

I don’t care what my cousin says; I am not the queen of impossible relationships. I mean, just because my last boyfriend tried to kill me and left a bit of a scar on my neck, then forced me to move across the country and legally change my name to Reese Randall to escape him, does not mean—

Oh, who am I kidding? For a freshman in college, I have to have the worst dating track record ever.

It’s no wonder love is the last thing on my mind when Mason Lowe enters my life. But the chemistry between us is like bam! Our connection defies logic. And he’s just so freaking hot. Being around him makes me feel more alive than I’ve ever felt before. I even like bickering with him. He could be my soul mate…except for one glitch.

He's a gigolo.

{{Xpresson Book Tours}} Book Blitz + Giveaway: RECKLESS LONGING by GINA ROBINSON

Reckless Longing by Gina Robinson 

(Reckless #1) 

Publication date: September 23rd 2013 

Genres: Contemporary, New Adult

Ellie Martin hates her beautiful, man-crazy mother. Her mother’s wild and wanton behavior has left Ellie with a deep longing. To escape. To belong. To know who her real dad is. To really be loved. Her mother finally crosses a line thatsends Ellie running, escaping to college with one, focused goal–to find and confront her bio dad, who doesn’t even know she exists. Then she meets Logan. Hot, charming, and troubled. He turns her world upside down and puts all her plans in jeopardy.

Logan Walker is hiding a shameful and painful secret. One that nearly cost him everything. When he meets the beautiful and mysterious Ellie at a Week of Welcome event, something inside him awakens and he finds himself drawn to her.

But the attraction they both feel for each other is as delicate as the web of secrets they each hide behind. And as the truths are revealed, their reckless longing may not survive the fallout.

{{Xpresso Book Tours}} Trailer Reveal: WELCOME TO SUGARTOWN by CARMEN JENNER

Welcome to Sugartown by Carmen Jenner 

Publication date: November 3rd 2013 

Genres: Contemporary, New Adult

Synopsis:

Ana Belle never wanted anything more than to hang up her apron, jump on her Vespa and ride off into the sunset, leaving Sugartown in the dust.

Elijah Cade never wanted anything more than a hot meal, a side of hot arse and a soft place to lay his head at night where he could forget about his past.

But you know what they say about wanting: you always want what you can’t have.

Nineteen year-old virgin Ana is about to discover that’s not quite true because a six foot three, hotter than hell, tattooed, Aussie sex god just rode into town. He’s had a taste of her pie and he wants more– no really, Ana bakes pies for a living, get your mind out of the gutter.

She’d be willing to hand over everything tied up in a big red bow, there’s just one problem; Elijah has secrets dirtier than last week’s underwear. Secrets that won’t just break Ana’s heart, but put her life at risk, too. When those secrets come to light, their relationship is pushed to breaking point.

Add to that a psychotic nympho best friend, an overbearing father, a cuter than humanly possible kid brother, a wanton womanizing cousin, the ex from hell, and more pies than you could poke a … err … stick … at.

And you thought small towns were boring.

Welcome to Sugartown.

*Content Warning. Intended for a mature 18+ audience. Contains explicit sex, oodles of profanity and a crap-tonne of AWKWARD

{{CBB Book Promotions}} Blog Tour + Giveaway: [Review] FINDING ESTA by SHAH WHARTON

Title: Finding Esta

Author: Shah Wharton

Release Date: December 19th,2013

About the Book:

Luna yearns for love and acceptance, and for an end to her own chronic isolation. Unable to touch, she settles for the lover’s caress of a stranger who visits her dreams, and her only friends in the world are Shadows – spirits who reside within in her fragile mind, seeking refuge from the Shadow Lands. Always eager to earn parental respect, she attempts to solve a twenty-year-old child abduction case by travelling to Esta’s family home in Cornwall, situated on an abandoned cul-de-sac.Searching for clues to Esta’s tragic fate, she finds much more than she bargained for.

More alone than ever and desperate for answers, Luna struggles to retain a sense of identity, and the light grip on reality she’s been used to. Will she find Esta, and if so, will Luna live to tell Esta’s story?

Book trailer:  http://youtu.be/tfUUr2NjvSk
Find the Book: Amazon | Goodreads

Print Edition Links:

Createspace | Amazon  |  Amazon France | Amazon Germany | Amazon Italy |Amazon Spain | Amazon United Kingdom

eBook Edition Links:

Amazon.com | Amazon.co.uk  and internationally:

Barnes & Noble | KOBO | Sony| iBOOKS | SMASHWORDS 

Read 100 Pages of Finding Esta Free: on Goodreads or the first four chapters on Google Docs, here. 

{{Xpresso Book Tours}} Book Blitz + Giveaway: WATERBORN by KIMBERLY JAMES

Waterborn by Kimberly James 

Publication date: September 6th 2013

Genres: Fantasy, New Adult, Romance

Synopsis:

“You don’t have to choose. You can be both. The girl with the charm, the girl without. They both suit you.”

Caris Harper lives a charmed life. Literally.

When her dad offers to take her to the Emerald coast of Florida for summer vacation, Caris jumps at the chance. The chance to get answers to questions she’s always been too afraid to ask. The chance to be normal. Isn’t that what her dreams have been telling her, that here in the place of her birth she can be normal? But from the first moment the wind caresses her face and the sun touches her skin, the charm begins to fade, revealing a girl Caris never knew existed, one that is anything but normal. The long-buried Song that awakens is only the beginning of a transformation that will challenge her ideas about loyalty and family.

Noah Jacobs is a waterbreather—a species of human fully adaptable to life in the water. Like his older brother Jamie, Noah wants to prove they can use their abilities and be heroes in service to their country. When a simple mission goes wrong and Jamie goes missing, Noah exiles himself to the Deep in a desperate search. MIA is a classification Noah is not ready to accept. But instinct can’t be ignored. Not when he hears her Song. Caris is not what he expects and Noah is determined to get her out of his head. Instead he finds himself acting as her mentor and the more time they spend together, the more Noah realizes he just wants Caris.

When a startling truth threatens their newly formed trust, Noah straddles the line between love and obsession while Caris struggles to find a balance between the girl she thought she was and the young woman she wants to be.

{{Itching For Books}} Blog Tour + Giveaway: [Review] THE RIGHT KIND OF WRONG by JADE EBY

Title: The Right Kind of Wrong

Author: Jade Eby

Published Date: June 27th 2013

BOOK DESCRIPTION:

Nothing stays hidden forever. 

Kara Pierce has held onto the same dream since she was a little girl: to be the next Katie Couric.

Vince Gage, a budding filmmaker whose I-don't-give-a-shit attitude cancels out his charm, almost ruined it for her once, and now he’s back, threatening to do it again.

When the two of them are paired together for a college competition with a $20,000 prize, the only thing they agree on is winning.

They return to Iowa where Kara grew up to research her grandfather's service in World War II, instead they find themselves in the middle of a family scandal kept quiet for far too long. As Kara and Vince investigate the scandal deeper, they realize the price of uncovering the truth is so much more than they bargained for.

{{YA Bound Book Tours}} Book Blitz Kickoff +Giveaway: EMBRACE & HOLD TIGHT by CHERIE COLYER

Embrace (The Embrace Series #1)
by Cherie Colyer
Release Date: 12/20/11
Omnific Publishing

Summary from Goodreads:
Madison is familiar enough with change, and she hates everything about it. Change took her long-term boyfriend away from her. It caused one of her friends to suddenly hate her. It’s responsible for the death of a local along with a host of other mysterious happenings. But when Madison meets a hot new guy, she thinks her luck is about to improve.

Madison is instantly drawn to the handsome and intriguing Isaac Addington. She quickly realizes he’s a guy harboring a secret, but she’s willing to risk the unknown to be with him.

Her world really spins out of control, however, when her best friend becomes delusional, seeing things that aren’t there and desperately trying to escape their evil. When the doctors can’t find the answers, Madison seeks her own.

Nothing can prepare her for what she is about to discover.
Dangerous, intoxicating, and darkly romantic, Embrace is a thriller that will leave you spellbound.

{{New Release}} HOPELESS FOR YOU by HAYDEN HILL

HOPELESS FOR YOU by Hayden Hill is now out.

{{Xpresso Book Tours}} Book Blitz + Giveaway: THIS MUCH IS TRUE by KATHERINE OWEN

This Much Is True by Katherine Owen 

Publication date: August 11th 2013

Genres: Contemporary, New Adult, Romance

Synopsis:

Fate brings them together
Fame & lies keep them apart
One truth remains…

She’s become the Paly High girl with the most tragic story…
At 17, Tally Landon just wants to graduate and leave for New York to pursue ballet. Her best friend Marla convinces her to attend one last party—a college party—where she can be among strangers and evade the whisperings about her heartbreaking loss of her twin that follows her everywhere she goes. She meets Lincoln Presley, Stanford’s famous baseball wonder and has a little fun at his expense—when she lies about her age and who she really is—intent on being someone else for the night and escaping her tragic story.

His only focus is baseball, but he can’t forget the girl he saved on Valentine’s Day…
At 22, Lincoln Presley’s star is on the rise—about to finish at Stanford and expected to be taken early in Major League Baseball’s upcoming draft—his cousin’s party serves as a welcome distraction. But then, he sees the girl from Valentine’s Day that he saved from that horrific car accident and can’t quite hide his disappointment when she appears to look right through him and not remember him at all. He vows to learn her name at least before he leaves. What’s the harm in getting to know this girl? What’s the worst that can happen?

They share this incredible connection, but fate soon tests these star-crossed lovers in all kinds of ways…
And yet, despite the lies being told to protect the other, and the trappings of fame that continually separate them, and in lieu of the deception by those they’ve come to trust the most; one truth remains.

This much is true.

Tackle Your TBR Readathon- YA Romantics Challenge

Jen @ YA Romantics has a picture challenge ( if a book looked like shoes, makeup, ect.) for Tackle your TBR Readathon hosted by Tressa's Wishful Endings

Here is my Picture:

*Pictures found on goodreads and google*

{{Xpresso Book Tours}} Cover Reveal: TEMPT by CAMBRIA HEBERT

Title: Tempt

Series: Take It Off series - Note: the Take It Off series is a series of stand alones. Each book is its own story.

Author: Cambria Hebert

Published Date: October 14th 2013 

Genre: New adult contemporary - due to graphic language and sexual content this book is recommended for readers 18+.

Cover Designed by: Mae I Design

{{Ink Slinger PR}} ReDesign Cover Reveal: PLAYING WITH HER HEART by LAUREN BLAKELY

Title: Playing With Her Heart

Author: Lauren Blakely

Published Date: August 18th 2013

Genre: New Adult, Contemporary Romance

{Super Tale-Spinners} [Review] I LOVE MY HEALED HEART (Omnibus Edition) by SABRINA LACEY

Title: I Love My Healed Heart (Omnibus Part 1-4)
Author: Sabrina Lacey
Published Date: September 2,2013
Genre: Erotic Romance 

Synposis via Goodreads
I Love My... Omnibus Edition brings you all four of Jessica's books, in a single volume. It's for those of you who wanna dive in and read the whole steamy story now. 

I Love My Healed Heart contains, respectively: David Sucks (bonus story: the days of the actual breakup) - I Love My Breakup - I Love My Office Fling - I Love My Freak Out - I Love My Destiny 

When David cheated on me, it sent my whole world crashing down, and by "my whole world," I mean ME.

But sometimes the best thing for us, is horrible crushing heartbreak. I wish it didn't have to be that way, but that's what happened to me. 

What I thought was the worst thing that's ever happened... turned out to be the absolutely, most amazingly, best. 

This is my story of how I learned to trust myself again,

xx, Jessica

{{Book Nerd Tours}} Book Blast +Giveaway: THE PRODIGAL by MICHAEL HURLEY

Title: The Prodigal
Author: Michael Hurley
Published Date: June 1st 2013

BOOK SYNOPSIS:

Pride, betrayal, forgiveness . . . and the eternal sea. The Prodigal tells the mystical tale of four people on Ocracoke Island whose destiny is tied to an abandoned schooner, thought to have been lost at sea more than a century ago, that one day drifts ashore. 

Marcus O’Reilly, a renegade Catholic priest, must confront his inner demons. Ibrahim Joseph, a Bahamian fugitive, must face his past. 

Aidan Sharpe, a fallen lawyer, struggles with self-doubt and his growing affection for Molly McGregor, a fearless towboat captain who cannot find the courage to love. They will all be drawn into a 2,000-year-old mystery that unfolds with the reappearance of the ship.

{{Xpresso Book Tours}} Tour+ Giveaway:[ Review + Author's Interview] LOVING YOUR LIES by PIPER SHELLY

Loving Your Lies by Piper Shelly 

Publication date: January 2013

Genres: New Adult, Paranormal, Romance

Synopsis:

Julian is drop-dead gorgeous, annoyingly provocative, and he’s fast becoming her best friend. But he also has a secret that makes the little hairs on her arms stand on end…

My name is Jona Montiniere, and that’s pretty much the only good thing to say about me.

I’m seventeen, I’m snarky, and I’m a crap-load of trouble. Or so they say. But what did they expect from me really, when they dumped me in an orphanage at age five? That I’d grow up to become the new first lady? Nah, I think it’s much more fun to raid Camden Market in London with my friend, Debby. She’s cool. She lives on the street. I learned so much from her.

The only thing she missed to teach me was how to tend to a vineyard. And yeah, that’s what I’m going to do for the next 6 weeks, courtesy to this darn judge, who sent me off to France after I was caught stealing again. Fair enough, the vineyards are okay, and so are my aunt and uncle, who I haven’t met up ‘til now. What isn’t okay, and I mean it, is that I have to live in the same house with my mother, that god-awful dragon, who spurned when I was only a child. And now she wants me back? Demands my forgiveness? Why, because she’s about to die of cancer? Uh-uh. Sorry, but that’s not gonna happen. I want no contact with that woman, thanks.

But what’s Julian got to do with all of this? About my age, he’s too young to be my mother’s lover. So why doesn’t he leave her side? Ever. He’s different, as in the paranormal kind of different, but he’s sa-woon-worthy gorgeous. He obviously has secrets, but he’s also get-under-my-skin charming. In short, he’s a riddle to me. But he likes me, and that’s scaring the shit out of me. I sure won’t let anyone come too close.

So now I’m wondering only two things: How did he manage to hold me in his arms after only three days? And how the hell do you keep an angel earth bound?

{{Xpresso Book Tours}} Book Blitz + Giveaway: AFTER THE FALL ( Broken Angel #2) by L.G.CASTILLO

Title: After the Fall (Broken Angel #2) 

Author: L.G. Castillo 

Publication date: September 15th 2013 

Genres: New Adult, Paranormal, Romance

Synopsis:

There’s a Spanish proverb that says, “From the thorn and the pain, a flower is born.” Naomi Duran never really understood what that meant until she became an archangel.

Finally reunited with the love of her life, Naomi thought she had everlasting love and happiness in Heaven. Even with the rebellious Lash by her side, she learns that life as an archangel isn’t easy.

When secrets of the past are finally revealed, tempers flare, brother is pitted against brother, and Naomi and Lash face the greatest threat to their relationship: choosing among love, family, or duty.

In the end, can this family of broken angels forgive past mistakes, or will they carry the thorn in their hearts forever, ripping their family apart?

{{InkSlinger PR}} Ember Blog Tour + Giveaway: [Review] DARKER DAYS by JUS ACCARDO

Title: Darker Days

Author: Jus Accardo

Publish Date: August 19th 2013

Genre: Young Adult, Paranormal, Fantasy

Darker Days

A little sin can be deadly...

Jessie Darker goes to high school during the day, but at night she helps with the family investigation business.

Cheating husbands and stolen inheritances? They’re your girls—but their specialty is a bit darker. Zombie in your garage? Pesky Poltergeist living in your pool? They’ll have the problem solved in a magical minute. For a nominal fee, of course...

When gorgeous new client, Lukas Scott, saunters into the office requesting their help to find a stolen box, it sounds like a simple case—until the truth comes out. The box is full of Sin.

Seven deadly ones, in fact.

They’ve got five days to recapture the Sins before they're recalled by the box, taking seven hijacked human bodies with them. Easy peasy—except for one thing...

There’s a spell that will allow the Sins to remain free, causing chaos forever. When the key ingredient threatens the life of someone she knows, Jessie must make the ultimate choice between love and family—or lose everything.

Where to Purchase:

Amazon | Kobo

{AToMR Tours} Blog Tour + Giveaway: GOOD INTENTIONS (Welcome to Paradise #2) by S.L. SCOTT

Title: Good Intentions (Welcome to Paradise, #2)

Author: S. L. Scott

Expected release: September 9, 2013

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Age Group: New Adult

Tour organized by: AToMR Tours

Book Description:

Two words sum up my summer in paradise: Evan Ashford. 

I have a life back home I must return to, though my heart battles this reality. What started as a carefree summer fling has become so much more. Evan has become so much more. He’s become everything. Cupping his face, I stare into his deep blue eyes, wanting to lose myself once more... needing to know he feels this too.

Although our connection won’t stop the summer’s end from rushing toward us or silence the demons Evan battles, I have faith our love can overcome the obstacles that will undoubtedly arise from us choosing to be together. I still worry… Will our good intentions be good enough? But I’m all in, willing to take the risk, knowing he can destroy my heart if I’m wrong.

Like a riptide, I was forever changed by one woman: Mallory Wray.

Our eyes meet and we spend a moment looking into the others’, reading the fear and the love that mingles within. I move slowly down and kiss her forehead, her nose, her eyelids, her cheeks, and her chin before I kiss her lips again—soft and gentle, not rushed, but sensual. She smiles and I die inside knowing that I won’t get to see her face every day. I’ve been spoiled by this sweet angel giving me all her days and nights. I possessively take hold of her wrists and like so many times before, the air stills as our connection intensifies. I can’t help myself when it comes to her.

I kiss her.

Rain pours down harder and I wrap my arms around her, engulfing her body, her love, her soul.

{{Itching For Books Tours}} Cover/Trailer Reveal: THE HOLDOUT by LAUREL OSTERKAMP ( + Giveaway!)

Title: The Holdout

Author:Laurel Osterkamp

Release date: September 12th 2013

Publisher: PMI Books

Genre: New Adult-Contemporary-Romance