Month: June 2021
#BookTour “The Perfect Murder” by Kat Martin
Congratulations to Kat Martin on the release of The Perfect Murder! A romantic suspense perfect for the beach or pool! Read on for details and a chance to win a $25 Amazon e-gift card!
The Perfect Murder
Publication Date: Today đ
Publisher:Â HQN
New York Times bestselling author Kat Martin is back with her most thrilling novel yet in the Maximum Security seriesâThe Perfect Murder.
The eldest of the three wealthy Garrett brothers, Reese Garrett is in the middle of a major purchase for his multimillion-dollar oil and gas company, Garrett Resources. The Poseidon offshore drilling platform venture will greatly enhance the companyâs value.
But when Reese is on a trip out to see the rig, his helicopter crashes, leaving him hospitalized and two men dead. Itâs discovered the chopper was sabotaged, and Reese is determined to find out whoâs behind the crashâand whether he was the intended target. Then, when his lover, Kenzie, is accused of her ex-husbandâs murderâa man with a vested interest in the Poseidon dealâclues start pointing to a connection that puts Reese, Kenzie and her young son in the sights of a killer.
From the Texas heat to the Louisiana bayous, Reese and his brothers must track down the truth before the body count gets any higher.
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Chapter One
Galveston, Texas: Last Day of July
Seconds after the chopper lifted off the pad, Reese felt the odd vibration. Along with the pilot and co-pilot and five members of the crew, the Eurocopter EC135 was headed for the Poseidon offshore drilling platform.Â
For a moment, the ride leveled out and Reese relaxed against his seat. As CEO of Garrett Resources, the billion-dollar oil and gas company he owned with his brothers, he was always searching for the right investment to expand company holdings, the reason he was flying out to the platform.
For months heâd been working with Sea Titan Drilling, the owner of the offshore rig, to complete the five-hundred-million-dollar purchase, an extremely good value when the average price of a similar rig was around six-fifty.Â
The vibration returned and with it came a grinding noise that put Reese on alert. The men in the cabin began to glance back and forth and shift nervously in their seats. A sharp jolt, then the chopper seemed to fall out of the sky. It climbed again, began to dip and sway, dropped then climbed as the pilot fought for control.
The pilotâs deep voice rumbled through the headset. âWeâve got a problem. I donât want you to panic, but we need to find a place to set down.âÂ
There was definitely a problem, Reese thought, as the vibration continued to worsen. The chopper was out of control and the whole cabin was shaking as if it would break apart any minute. His pulse was hammering, his adrenalin pumping.
 Along with the men in the crew who rode back and forth from the rig every few weeks, he stared out the window toward the ground. They were no longer above the heliport. Clearly the pilot was looking for an open space big enough to handle the thirty-six-foot blade span. All Reese could see were the rooftops of warehouses and metal commercial buildings.
The chopper kept shaking. The crew was grim-faced but resigned. The pilot did something to take the pitch out of the rotors and the chopper started falling.
âNo need to worry,â the pilot said. âWeâll auto-rotate down. Iâve done it a dozen times.â
Auto rotate down. Reese knew the concept, the technique helicopter pilots used to land when the engine failed. The trick was to find a safe place to hit the ground.Â
Both engines went silent. The blades were flat now, the wind whistling through them, tying his stomach into a knot.
âBrace for impact,â the pilot said. Below them, Reese spotted an open flat slab of asphalt in the yard of a small trucking firm–the only possible landing site anywhere around. Trouble was it didnât look wide enough to handle the blades.Â
At the last second, the pilot flared the helicopter in an effort to slow the descent, then the ground rushed up and the chopper hit with a jolt that wracked Reeseâs whole body.
For an instant, he thought they were going to make it. Then one of the spinning rotor blades hit the corner of a building and tore free. The Plexiglas bubble shattered as the long metal blades exploded into a hundred deadly pieces, careening like knives through the air, slicing into buildings and the cabin of the helicopter.Â
Reese didnât feel the impact. One moment he was conscious, then the world suddenly went black.
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New York Times Bestselling author Kat Martin, a graduate of the University of California at Santa Barbara, currently resides in Missoula, Montana with Western-author husband, L. J. Martin. More than seventeen million copies of Katâs books are in print, and she has been published in twenty foreign countries. Fifteen of her recent novels have taken top-ten spots on the New York Times Bestseller List, and her novel, BEYOND REASON, was recently optioned for a feature film.
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#BookTour “Love Me Carefully: An Opposites Attract Standalone” by A.C. Arthur
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LOVE ME CAREFULLY
BY A.C. ARTHUR
For better or worse, this unlikely hook-up might be the perfect union.
Wedding planner Leah Graham doesnât believe in âHappily Ever Afterâ. Itâs fine for her clients to believe in fairy tales, but when it comes to her own nuptials, her feet aren’t just cold – they’re frozen. Jaded by her motherâs frequent trips to the altar Leahâs content to plan gorgeous weddings for clients such as her hair stylist, Ms. Rosie; that is until Ms. Rosie’s meddling son turns Leah’s life upside down.
Computer programmer Terrell Pierce is on the prowl for his perfect bride, but when he catches his girlfriend in bed with another man, his search comes to a screeching halt. Then, as if he needed more drama in his life, his mother announces her intention to remarry, and her groom-to-be is a suspected criminal. Finding a wife suddenly takes a back seat to proving this joker is no good for his mama!
Terrell and Leah are at instant odds – their positions clashing, their attitudes getting in the way. Still, the passion between them simmers as they travel the streets of Baltimore in search of a drug lord, then cruise the seas to Negril with the FBI hot on their trail. Love-at-fist-sight simply isn’t enough to get this couple down the aisle. But murder and mayhem might be!
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ABOUT A.C. ARTHUR
AC Arthur was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland where she currently resides with her husband, three children, grandson and an English bulldog named Vader. An active imagination and a love for reading encouraged her to begin writing in high school and she hasnât stopped since. Working in the legal field for over twenty-five years, AC has seen lots of horrific things and longs for the safe haven of a romance novel. To date, she has written in several genres: YA paranormal (w/a Artist Arthur), small town romance as Lacey Baker, and sexy contemporary and paranormal romance. With intriguing plots and sexy love scenes, AC brings a new edge to romance!
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#Featured “Lakeside Retreat : Marriage of convenience (Garcia Brothers Book 4)” by Shyla Colt
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Settle down with a wife or lose his position as a future partner in the family law firm. The stakes are high, and the terms are clear for playboy bachelor Angel Garcia. Forced to choose between a ball and chain and being cut off, he makes a plan to have his cake and eat it, too … a contract marriage.
Green witch Clarabelle King has always dreamed of taking over Whispering Acres. The lakeside retreat is a family legacy. When she finds out from her grandparents that theyâre one hundred thousand dollars in debt, and the bank is ready to foreclose, sheâs forced to resort to desperate measures. One powerful manifestation spell sends her on a path straight out of a soap opera.
Has fate conspired to bring them together, or will they simply fulfill their contract and go their separate ways?
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#NewRelease “HAN: Her Ruthless Mistake: 50 Loving States, Delaware (Ruthless Triad Book 4)” by Theodora Taylor
This ruthless crimelord’s kindness comes with a price. Possession. Complete and utter.
JAZZ: I’m a determined dreamer–at least I used to be. I put all my dreams on hold and withdrew every penny from my savings account to pay the debt my ailing father owes to a local gang.
Except, according to the gang’s slimy leader, even my life savings won’t be enough to pay the enormous debt my dad’s accrued. And his leering gaze lets me know exactly how he wants me to pay the balance.
A ruthless stranger offers to pay my remaining debt. He’s a tattooed crimelord, a cold, beautiful animal who regards me with dead eyes. The price for this kindness? Possession. The complete and utter kind.
You’re mine, he informs me when I ask him why he did it, leaving me to figure out….
Is he my unexpected savior or my ruthless mistake?
HAN: I learned from a young age that women aren’t worth much. They don’t stay. They’re not loyal. They weaken you, then disappear at the first sign of trouble.
That’s why I don’t do relationships–especially with good girls who have no place in my criminal underworld.
I should stay away from her. Let her pay me back some other way.
But I can’t. She’s golden sunshine wrapped in a sexy little package, lighting up all the dark parts of my heart. And when she asks me why I did it, two words rise without thought or reason.
You’re mine.
She thinks I’m the mistake, but it’s the other way around. I don’t do relationships. I don’t even let women spend the night. But this one…
She has me breaking all of my rules.
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#ReleaseBlitz “Harry Harambee’s Kenyan Sundowner” by Gerald Everett Jones
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Literary Fiction
Date Published: 6/29/2021
Publisher: La Puerta Productions
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Intrigue on the white sands of the Indian Ocean. From the award-winning author of Cliffordâs Spiral.
A lonely widower from Los Angeles buys a tour package to East Africa on the promise of hookups and parties. What he finds instead are new reasons to live.
Aldo Barbieri, a slick Italian tour operator, convinces Harry to join a group of adventuresome âvoluntourists.â In a resort town on the Indian Ocean, Harry doesnât find the promised excitement with local ladies. But in the supermarket he meets Esther Mwemba, a demure widow who works as a bookkeeper. The attraction is strong and mutual, but Harry gets worried when he finds out that Esther and Aldo have a history. They introduce him to Victor Skebelsky, rumored to be the meanest man in town. Skebelsky has a plan to convert his grand colonial home and residential compound into a rehab center â as a tax dodge. The scheme calls for Harry to head up the charity. He could live like a wealthy diplomat and it wonât cost him a shilling!
Harry has to come to terms with questions at the heart of his character: Is corruption a fact of life everywhere? Is all love transactional?
Harry Harambeeâs Kenyan Sundowner is an emotional story of expat intrigue in Africa, reminiscent of The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene and The Constant Gardener by John le CarrĂŠ.
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Praise for Cliffordâs Spiral (Independent Press Awards 2020 Distinguished Favorite in Literary Fiction)
We’ve seen and noted the comparison of this author by other reviewers to literary giants like Roth and Vonnegut. And we can’t disagree. Yet we feel there may be yet another strata for Gerald Everett Jones, who arguably is doing the best work of his career. We predict that he lacks only a mention in the The New York Review of Books or, better yet, Oprah, to become a nationwide best-selling author. Five-plus stars to Clifford’s Spiral, a true literary novel if ever there was one. We say in all seriousness that if you only read one novel this year, this should be it. – Don Sloan, Publishers Daily Reviews
Preacher Finds a Corpse (NYC Big Book Awards 2020 Winner in Mystery, IPA 2020 Distinguished Favorite in Mystery, Eric Hoffer 2020 Finalist in Mystery)
This is literature masquerading as a mystery. Carefully yet powerfully, Gerald Jones creates a small, stunning world in a tiny midwestern town, infusing each character with not just life but wit, charm, and occasionally menace. This is the kind of writing one expects from John Irving or Jane Smiley.
– Marvin J. Wolf, author of the Rabbi Ben Mysteries, including A Scribe Dies in Brooklyn.
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#CoverReveal “Princess and Country” by Emmanuelle Snow
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Title: Princess and Country
Series: Pink and Country â book 2 (Interconnected standalones)
Author: Emmanuelle Snow
Publisher: Smart Lily Publishing inc.
Genre: Romance / New Adult
Trope: A friends-to-Lovers, small-town, country music romance
Cover Design: Olivia Pro Design
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Release Date: July 13, 2021
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Synopsis:
Dahlia Ellis is a country music superstar who finds herself loved by her best friend and bandmate and his brother. In her heart the choice is clear. Dahlia loved both men, but sheâs only in love with one of them. Will she fight for what her heart wants knowing sheâll break someone elseâs, or will she stay away?
For Dahlia, fame, money, and beauty donât mean anything. And her story is one of love, strength, trust, and fate.
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Her love and her best friend
A passion that can’t be shared
A friendship that needs no words
A record deal that takes her all over the world.
And one fateful night that stops her world.
Country superstar Dahlia Ellis finds herself loved by both her best friend and his brother. Without leaving too many broken heart pieces behind, she must find a way to traverse through her own feelings and live her life with the one she was meant to be with, even if it means breaking a heart that loves her the most.
But life has its own game plan ready for her. Despite her best intentions, she will be sucked into a tornado of love and loss that will hurt her and the people she loves the most.
3 lifetimesâŚ
One night will change the rest of her life
One loss will shatter everything she has ever known
And one encounter will give her the courage to dream again.
Fame, love, success arenât enough to protect her heart from bleeding.
Will Dahlia be able to survive after everything she has ever known crashes and burns?
And just how many heartbreaks can she actually survive?
Princess and Country is the second book in this small-town, soulmate, country music romance series.
Itâs full of raw emotions, sizzling moments, heat, banter, and chemistry.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Smart, Sexy, and Sassy Love Stories
Emmanuelle Snow is a contemporary author of mature YA and New Adult love stories, who likes to give life to strong characters who’ll fight with all they have to reach their life goals and find their own happiness.
Emmanuelle is in love with love. Especially those complicated, deep, and passionate feelings that make a relationship extraordinary and complex, all at the same time.
In her spare time, when she’s not writing or reading, Emmanuelle likes to go on road tripsâwith her four kids and her own soulmateâwatch movies, paint, or do some DIY, always with a cup of green tea in her hand and listening to country music.
She splits her time between beautiful Canada and the small US towns she adores.
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#ReleaseBlitz “Dance With Me (Big Sky Dreamers, Book 3)” by Nan Dixon
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Contemporary Romance, Contemporary Women’s Fiction
Release Date: June 29, 2021
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A journey of healing, hope and love.
SEAN
He loves running his family pub and the expansion into brewing is his contribution to the family legacy. But he hates seeing sad women in his pub, so he flirts, charms smiles out of the unhappy ones, and his Irish accent might be a little stronger as he teaches them a jig. Sad women remind of the terrible mistake he made. When Nicole walks in, pain radiates off her. He tries to coax a smile and even gets her to dance.
NICOLE
Eight months ago her world went up in flames. Once she was a dancer and a mother. Then her husband and daughter died in a fiery crash. Now sheâs a mother without a child and a ballerina who cannot dance. Grief and guilt crush her. She retraces her daughterâs and philandering husbandâs last day. Her final stopâOâDairâs Pub. Her husband had been drinking with another woman before Nicole called and begged him to pick up their daughter.
Sean makes her smile. Makes her feel alive again. Maybe there is hopeâŚ
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Other books in the Big Sky Dreamers series:
Big Sky Dreamers, Book One
Sienna DâAmico took the biggest risk of her life and slept with Tanner, a guy she barely knew. Then he ghosts her. No last name. No phone number.
An enemies to lovers tale that will keep you turning the pages!
Stained Glass Hearts
Big Sky Dreamers, Book Two
Both homes and hearts can be restored.
This story is an emotional rollercoaster ride to healing and love.
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About the Author
Award winning author of the BIG SKY DREAMERS and FITZGERALD HOUSE series, Nan Dixon spent her formative years as an actress, singer, dancer and competitive golfer. But the need to eat had her studying accounting in college. Unfortunately, being a successful financial executive didnât feed her passion to perform. When the pharmaceutical company she worked for was purchased, Nan got the chance of a lifetimeâthe opportunity to pursue a writing career. Sheâs a five-time Golden HeartÂŽ finalist and lives in the Midwest. She has five children, three sons-in-law, three granddaughters, two grandsons and one neurotic cat.
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#FREE “Total Fitness After 40: The 7 Life Changing Foundations You Need for Strength, Health and Motivation in your 40s, 50s, 60s and Beyond” by Nick Swettenham
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Finally discover the secrets to fitness that will transform your body and mind, even if you’ve never worked out a day in your lifeâŚ
How do you feel when you look in the mirror?
Are you trapped in a body that leaves you unhappy and disappointed with what you see?
With the NIH estimating that more than 1 in 3 adults are overweight, you’re not alone.
But it doesn’t have to be this way.
Maybe you’ve resigned yourself to the thought that this is what life will be from now on. Society tells you that midlife is the time when you start to slow down and lose your physical potential, and there’s nothing you can do to stop it.
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#BookBlitz “Call Me a Woman” by Laurie Levin
I’m thrilled to share Call Me a Woman: On Our Way to Equality and Peace by Laurie Levin. Read on for book details and enter the giveaway for a chance to win a $25 Amazon e-gift card!
Call Me a Woman: On Our Way To Equality and Peace
Publication Date: April 30th, 2021
Genre: Non-Fiction/ Gender Studies
Itâs time to raise the bar.
When we give women the same respect and opportunities as men, we give the world its best chance for peace, prosperity, and survival.
Angry about sexism and misogyny and what you personally have endured? Afraid the world wonât get its act together in time to save itself?
Call Me A Woman combines Levinâs personal story, years of research, global studies, and activism.
Inside youâll discover
- The most important thing parents can do to change the world
- Our unconscious habits that perpetuate inequality
- Inspiring stories to shift resentment to empathy, hope, and action
- The 7 Habits of Equality to speed our way to gender equality and peace
- Inner peace and freedom as you become the solution
Personal interviews with: Lynn Povich, first woman senior editor Newsweek magazine; Maxine Clark, founder Build-A-Bear Workshop; Gloria Feldt, former CEO and President Planned Parenthood Federation of America, NY Times Best-Selling Author; Mark Levin, biotech industry leader, founder, and CEO; Zaron Burnett III, investigative journalist and writer.
If you are ready to become part of the solution, it is time to read
Call Me A Woman: On Our Way to Equality and Peace.
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About the Author
Laurie Levin has been a human rights advocate her entire adult life. Early in her 20âs, she headed the reproductive rights efforts for NOW-St. Louis. She was the Missouri Coordinator for a Department of Peace working alongside Marianne Williamson. She was the Missouri co-chair of Room To Readâa global non-profit that focuses on girlsâ education and childrenâs literacy in Asia and Africa. She was co-chair of the Missouri Executive Women for Hillary Rodham Clintonâs 2016 Presidential campaign.
Laurie refers to herself as a Transformation Coach as she helps others transform and master their own wellbeing. She specializes in optimal nutrition, healthy weight loss, and the leading HeartMathÂŽ stress reduction techniques. She has been a featured speaker on each of these topics at corporations, wellness events and retreats, schools and universities, hospitals, ex-convict re-entry programs, and cancer support organizations.
She has an MBA, is a Certified Coach, and HeartMathÂŽ Certified Coach, supporting clients globally to achieve their health and well-being goals.
Laurie spent 25 years in corporate America, leaving as a Vice President of one of the largest U.S. national research companies. She went on to start her own business in the health field in 200l.
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