Going Under by S. Walden - Promo Blitz Tour

New Adult 

Date to be Published: March 19, 2013

Book Blurb:

Brooke Wright has only two goals her senior year at Charity Run High School: stay out of trouble and learn to forgive herself for the past. Forgiveness proves elusive, and trouble finds her anyway when she discovers a secret club at school connected to the death of her best friend. She learns that swim team members participate in a “Fantasy Slut League,” scoring points for their sexual acts with unsuspecting girls.

Brooke, wracked with guilt over her friend’s death, decides to infiltrate the league by becoming one of the “unsuspecting girls,” and exact revenge on the boys who stole away her best friend. An unexpected romance complicates her plans, and her dogged pursuit of justice turns her reckless as she underestimates just how far the boys will go to keep their sex club a secret.

(This is a New Adult fiction book with mature themes.  It contains explicit language and descriptions of sexual violence.)


Excerpt:

I left the bathroom in a hurry, turning the corner for the foyer and slamming into him. The force of the hit was so great that I stumbled backwards, nearly falling on my bottom if not for his outstretched hand. I grabbed it before going down and wobbled on my too-high heels, clutching him as I worked to regain my balance.

“God, I’m sorry!” he exclaimed.

I looked at his face then, unprepared to see something so beautiful. I think I gasped. And then I averted my eyes out of sheer embarrassment.

“I really should watch where I’m going,” he said.

He still held my hand, and I let him. I couldn’t remember who I was or where I was going. I couldn’t remember where I had just been. I only knew that a very cute boy . . . no, he was more than cute. He was gorgeous. This very gorgeous boy was holding my hand, and I had only one thought. I wanted to make our handholding more intimate. I wanted to lace my fingers with his.

“I think I should,” I mumbled.

I chanced another look at him. I made a conscientious effort not to gasp as I took in his light blue eyes. I’d never seen eyes that color. Jared Leto had nothing on this guy’s eyes, and Jared’s eyes were the color of the Mediterranean. No, the eyes I looked into now were so light blue they looked translucent. I thought if I stared a little longer I could see right inside his head, to his brain, and I don’t know why that turned me on so much. I wanted to witness the workings of his mind, the firing synapses, information traveling safely inside neurons to different parts of his body. A few made it to his hand, and they must have told him to keep holding mine because he didn’t let go.

I stared shamelessly, licking my lips at one point. He stared back just as boldly. I wanted him to like what he saw. I wanted him to think I was sexy. I wanted him to feel the same instant attraction I did. I’d never felt it before. Not really. Not even with Finn. It was unsettling, and I wondered how people functioned after being smacked upside the head with it. Instant. Physical. Chemical.

Primal.

Just rip my clothes off, I thought. Just rip my clothes off and do me right here in the hallway!

He smiled and released my hand. I thought he did it reluctantly, like his brain ordered him to and he finally acquiesced. I smiled back, a flirty grin. I pulled my ponytail forward over my shoulder and played with the strands. I bit my lower lip. And then reality came crashing down like a hailstorm, large lumps of ice banging my head and screaming at me in unison.

“YOU’RE AT A FUNERAL!”

I looked at the gorgeous guy, and my face went white.

“Oh my God,” I whispered.

He stared at me for a moment before saying, “Are you okay?”

I shook my head and started towards the sanctuary doors. He followed behind.

“I’m awful, I’m awful, I’m awful,” I whispered over and over. I didn’t care if he could hear.

What the hell was I doing? Trying to flirt with a guy at my best friend’s funeral? How could I even forget for a second that I was at a funeral? I was supposed to be carrying around heavy, black sorrow to match my black dress and black heart, not batting lashes and fantasizing about sex with a stranger. Was I so ridiculous that a hot guy could make me forget to have any kind of decency? Or shame?

I rounded the corner and saw my mother waiting for me. And then I ran to her, threw myself into her arms, and burst into a fit of tears.

“Brooklyn,” she whispered, holding me in a tight hug. “It’s okay,” she cooed as she stroked my hair.

“I’m a terrible friend!” I wailed. I saw the fuzzy outline of a boy walking past us tentatively through the doors.

“No, you aren’t,” my mother replied.

“Yes, I am! I don’t even know why I’m here! Beth hated my guts! She wouldn’t talk to me all summer!”

“Brooke,” Mom said. “I want you to calm down. Now, we talked about this. You knew it would be hard, but she was your best friend for all those years. Do you think she wouldn’t have wanted you here?”

“No, I don’t!” I cried.

“Yes, she would,” Mom said. “Now we have to go in.”

“I can’t!”

“Brooke, Beth was your best friend,” Mom said, trying for patience.

“No she wasn’t! Not after what I did! I ruined everything! I’m a freaking slut!” I sobbed, shaking my head from side to side.

“Sweetheart, don’t say words like ‘freaking’ and ‘slut’ in a church,” Mom replied.

I only sobbed louder.

“You can do this,” Mom encouraged.

I stood my ground, shaking my head violently, refusing to go in.

“Brooklyn Wright!” Mom hissed, pushing me away and grabbing my upper arm. She squeezed too tightly, and I squeaked in discomfort. There was no more tenderness in her voice. “Get yourself together. This isn’t about you. So stop making it about you. You’re going into that sanctuary and you’re going to pay your respects to your friend, and you’re going to make it about Beth. Do you understand me?”

I swallowed hard and wiped my face.

“Do you understand me?” Mom repeated.

I nodded grudgingly, and she took my hand, leading me through the doors.

Author Information:

 

S. Walden used to teach English before making the best decision of her life by becoming a

full-time writer. She lives in Georgia with her very supportive husband who prefers physics

textbooks over fiction and has a difficult time understanding why her characters must have

personality flaws. She is wary of small children, so she has a Westie instead. Her dreams

include raising chickens and owning and operating a beachside inn on the Gulf Coast (chickens

included). When she's not writing, she's thinking about it.

She loves her fans and loves to hear from them. Email her at swaldenauthor@hotmail.com and

follow her blog at http://swaldenauthor.blogspot.com where you can get up-to-date information

on her current projects.

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*Guest Posting by Toni* Shadow Throught Time Book #3 - Glimmer in Maelstrom by Louise Cusack

 

Book Blurb:

 GLIMMER IN THE MAELSTROM is the third and final novel in the “Shadow Through Time” fantasy trilogy. It follows the fate of the young Catalyst, Glimmer who has strayed far from her destiny to join the four elemental worlds the Maelstrom is tearing apart. An accidental touch of the Plainsman Memory Stone infects her with emotions for the first time in her life. Glimmer’s analytical judgement is instantly distorted and her sudden and desperate attachment to the coldest of the nobles, Kert Sh’hale prompts her to abduct him. They travel to the Fireworld of Haddash where her clumsy seduction, unwelcome by Kert, allows the Serpent of Death’s son to escape.

Glimmer’s mother Khatrene and her Guardian lover Talis struggle under the rule of Khatrene’s White Twin brother King Mihale who has been compassionless and perverse since his revival from death on the airworld of Atheyre. The only other remaining Guardian, Pagan, hopes to rekindle his betrothal to Lae, their new religious leader, but her grief at the loss of her son and her husband seems too great a barrier to cross.

On the waterworld of Magoria (our Earth) the son of Pagan and Sarah who was left behind as duty called Pagan back to Ennae – Vandal – has turned into a young man. When tragedy steals Vandal’s future his bitterness toward his father for abandoning him becomes deadly as he uses his own Guardian power to follow Pagan into Ennae to exact revenge, intent on destroying the one thing his father loves most.

Overshadowing all is the Maelstrom, inexorable, relentless, pouring elements from one world into another, causing destruction and death on an unprecedented scale. The cetaceans of Magoria and the Cliffdwellers of Ennae have ascended to the airworld of Atheyre, but those races who remain are in the deepest peril.

In the end, Glimmer must overcome her own selfish desires to follow her destiny, giving up everything she holds dear to fight the Serpent of Death and steal a future for the remnants of mankind.

Toni's Review:

I received this book from the author for a truthful and honest review.

Fantasy is my favorite genre!

In this installment we follow Glimmer through her journey to connect the Four Worlds. 

Although it is her destiny to do this, Glimmer makes a different decision than she has through all her previous attempts which is maddening to her and shocking to everyone else. I'm so in love with her younger Brother Vandal, who has inherited the Guardian gift from his Dad Talis. I know that's just WRONG, but it is the TRUTH!!! As I was reading the ending I could not stop the smile and giggle that erupted!!! I very much enjoyed this series!!!

This series is a great series for young girls.  They can see a powerful heroine which is not common among literature.  We are very accustomed to a powerful hero but a powerful heroine isn't the norm.   It is nice to see a strong female role.  Hoping that more readers will take a chance with this amazing trilogy !! 

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About the author:

 

 PERSONAL BIOGRAPHY:
One of my earliest memories is of seeing Armstrong and Aldrin walk on the moon on our grainy black and white television in 1969. While my siblings ran around the yard playing, I spent the whole day lying on my lounge room floor watching my wildest dreams come true - humans walking on another world. I was in awe of the event, and I remember it distinctly. It was the first time in my life that I thought I might like to be anything other than a writer. Although in those days there wasn't much question that a 'girl' would get to do anything exciting with her life. Not in Brisbane in the Sixties. So time passed and I went back to telling my class-mates that one day they were going to see a book with my name on the cover.

Another 'peak experience' in my life was when a Russians in Space exhibit visited our town. The show was in a big tent with all the exhibits behind rope cordons, but I begged, and the man running it let me slip past the barrier when no one else was looking so I could touch one of the sputniks that had orbited Earth. I can't begin to describe what it felt like to lay my fingers onto that pockmarked surface and know it had been in the vacuum of space - where I wanted to go. I get goose-bumps still, just thinking about it.
My elder brother's obsession with Science Fiction was another important factor in my development as a writer. Everything he read, I read. Asimov, Heinlein, Herbert, E.E.'Doc' Smith. When I was thirteen, he started sneaking pornography home and I was 'borrowing' that as well, taking it under my mosquito net at night with a torch. Perhaps that's how I developed a fascination for the psychology of sex - why people become obsessed with the object of their desire and how lust twists lives.
My family life was suburban, middle-class. When I go home to Brisbane now, summer still smells the same way as it did when I was a kid. We had a mountain near us that we used to climb - Peg's Mountain - which is still a reserve. I went there a lot with my brothers, we'd disappear for the whole day and come back for dinner. I remember Guy Fawkes night vividly and still find fireworks to be a magical thing. When I was eight I was in love with Prince Planet. When I was thirteen I fell hard for Captain James T. Kirk. He was my first big crush and I've never quite gotten over him.
In my teens I forgot about writing and started 'living' instead. I hung around with my tribe, a group of six girls who still keep in touch. We partied and had opinions - I felt very passionate about politics then. In my twenties I was an activist, first in the peace movement, and then with a big-time commitment to Animal Liberation. I protested outside rodeos with placards like "Real men don't rope baby calves", and did a lot of work towards educating people about animal experimentation. I became a vegetarian then and married.
By thirty I'd had children and I've been passionate about motherhood ever since. However, shortly after the birth of my last child I realised that the odd restlessness which had begun when my father died years earlier, wasn't going away. I went back to working part-time but that wasn't it. The problem was writing. I'd somehow forgotten that I was going to be a writer. I remembered then and I began.
For years I typed every day until I found characters who would tell me their stories, rather than me having to 'make them up'. Finally that happened and I started to get published. I don't pretend to understand the alchemy that occurs when people appear fully-formed in your mind to tell you about their lives, but I'm very grateful that it happens to me and that I'm able to share it with others. I adore the voyage of discovery that drags you along with your characters to see how a story ends. Each new day finds me in front of the computer doing what I love best, drinking heaps of coffee and creating like a mad thing.
Who needs drugs when you can write!
PROFESSIONAL BIOGRAPHY:
Louise is an International award winning fantasy author whose best-selling 'Shadow through Time' trilogy with Simon & Schuster Australia was selected by the Doubleday Book Club as their 'Editors Choice'. These novels will be released as eBooks in 2012 by Momentum Books.
Louise has been a Writer in Residence at the Queensland Writers Centre, and has tutored hundreds of writing workshops at: the QWC, the NSW Writers Centre, and libraries and schools in Brisbane and regional Queensland.
In 2006 she travelled to the U.S. to present the Queensland government's 'Queensland Writing Showcase' to New York agents and publishers at the very swanky 21 Club.
She has also worked with a production company to develop a computer game for children which unfortunately didn't get off the ground, and in 2009 attended the South Australian Film Commission 'Crossover' think tank in Adelaide to create cross-media ideas and develop projects.
Louise mentors other writers through residencies and her manuscript development business and lives by the ocean in Queensland where she walks the esplanade and writes, currently using research from her Italy trip to create a lost world adventure rich with the Renaissance detail and romance she adores. Look for that on bookshelves in 2012.

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GIVEAWAY, Review and Author Posting for Keeping Secrets in Seattle by Brooke Moss

Book Blurb:

Seattle hairstylist Violet Murphy always knew the day would come when her
best friend Gabe Parker would want to settle down. She’d secretly wished
it would be with her, but now that he’s chosen someone else—the prim,
perfect Alycia—he wants Vi to be his best man.

Healing her broken heart isn’t easy, but when Violet meets Landon Harlow,
a man who isn’t fazed by her funky style and less-than-delicate attitude,
she takes a step in the right direction. Until Gabe’s fiancé’s gorgeous
façade begins to crack, and Violet’s disturbing past comes back to haunt
her, that is. Vi now finds herself armed with a series of lies that would
break Gabe’s heart—and his engagement—if he knew their truth, and a
secret from their childhood that could change everything.

With the wedding looming, her relationships unraveling, and the bachelor
party of the century to plan, Violet must choose between a fresh start with
Landon, or confronting her painful past and risking it all for a chance at a
future with Gabe.

Angie J's Review:

I received this ARC Book from the author for a truthful review.


I don't know where to start.  I loved this book to the point I was unable to put it down.  I went to bed late after reading over half in one night AND getting up extra early to finish it the next day.  While reading this book I was soooo conflicted for Vi.  I know she loves Gabe but but but he loves a total mega, fake, phoney beeotch Alicia.  Vi  has loved him since she has known Gabe which is since Kindergarten.  You get the feeling Gabe has some "feelings" for Vi but he isn't ready to admit them????  Anyway Vi finally meets an amazing guy (on paper) and Landon does a great job being her distraction.  I was really torn...do I want Vi to move the heck on with Landon because he adores her and would be an amazing husband or does she risk everything to try and be with Gabe....seriously I think I was developing an ulcer.....I really didn't know what I wanted to happen at the end.  I mean Gabe is GABE but Landon is LANDON........I know I am rambling and you people are like "So what the hell buy the book or not?"  Trust me...BUY THE BOOK.  I can't really talk about the story because if I do I will totally give away all the amazing excitement/stress/tension/ etc of the story.

My favorite scene was Gabe's bachelor party.  I loved how well Vi knows this man.  My least favorite scene was when Gabe announces his engagement.  I thought it was pretty douchey of him to not share this news with his "best friend".  I have to mention any scene with Vi's roommates are hilarious.  They definitely show Vi what true friends are  and support her like a real life friend would.  Do they agree with her choices?  Not all the time BUT they are there when she needs them no matter what.  That is the definition of a good friend.  Now Cameron...Cameron....Cameron.....Cameron.....lets just say I believe you will understand my reluctance to speak about him but YEAH GABE!!!  Wanna know what the hell I am talking about?  Read the book!!!

Ok so I know alot of people hate epilogues but I love them.  To me they can complete a story and let you in on the HEA.  This was a great epilogue and we even get a peek at what has happened to everyone....Cameron, Gabe, Vi, And Alicia.........

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 Interview with the Author:

Hi Brooke and welcome to our crazy blog.  So we have a couple “hard hitting” questions (snort),  Are you game?  GREAT!!

Ok so when reading the book “Keeping Secrets in Seattle” I fell in love with Vi and Gabe’s fun and easy going relationship.  But when Landon entered the picture I was sooo happy for Vi even though I loved Gabe.   What celebrities would you cast to play these people in a motion picture?

 Oh, I love this question! Violet would be played by Scarlett Johannson;

 Gabe would be played by Jesse Williams;

 Alicia would be played by Alica Witt; 

and Landon would be played by a very young David Beckham.

What authors do you read when you have the time?

 Kristan Higgins is one of my favorites! I also like Meggan Connors, Lauren Oliver, Nyrae Dawn, and Tammara Webber.

If you could pick any novel to be a New York Times Best Seller, which would it be?  It can be past, present or future novels?

 Um.............Keeping Secrets in Seattle. Or possibly any one of my books. :) 

When you write do you plot or fly at the seat of your pants?

 It depends on the book. I start off as a pantser, but if I wind up struggling somewhere, I will stop and very loosely plot things out. I never go so far as to have story boards and backgrounds on all of my characters. They have to decide all that for themselves.

If you could meet any author for “pick their brain session”, who would it be?

Probably Tammara Webber. I've already met Kristan Higgins, and I was so star struck that I couldn't get through the conversation without acting like a moron, so I likely won't attempt it again. Tammara and I have tweeted a few times, and she's very chill and fun. I think she'd make a kick butt lunch date. 

Thank you so much for taking the time to chat with us.  We look forward to reading more of you in the future!!!

About the Author:

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"I write because if I don't...my head will explode, and ruin the drapes." ♥

Brooke Moss is the name, contemporary romance, fantasy YA, and women's fiction are the game.

Brooke writes complex, character-driven stories about kismet, reunited lovers, first love, and the kind of romance that we should all have the chance at finding. She prefers her stories laced with some humor just for fun, and enough drama to keep her readers flipping the pages, and begging for more!

When Brooke isn't spinning tales, she spends her time drawing/cartooning, reading two books a week (ask her who her faves are), watching movies then comparing them to books, and, of course, wrangling four kids, one hubby she lovingly refers to as her "nerd", and attempting to conquer the Mount Everest of laundry that is the bane of her existence.

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Lisa Renee Jones - If I Were You - Promo Blitz Tour

Erotic Suspense

Date to be Published: PRINT Release March 11

ANNOUNCEMENT FROM LISA RENEE JONES! 

Back in September it was announced that New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author Lisa Renee Jones sold her indie erotic series THE INSIDE OUT TRILOGY in a major deal to by Simon and Schuster.(Louise Fury, L.Perkins Agency) Since then the highly acclaimed series has sold to ten foreign countries, with more under negotiation, and now it’s been optioned by STARZ for television (Shari Smiley, Resolution.) The project is moving forward quickly, with Suzanne Todd (Alice in Wonderland) producing. 

Inspired by a real journal found in a storage unit during Lisa's eight years buying and selling units, the series embraces the dark sensuality of Shades of Grey and the intrigue with storage units that is Storage Wars in one spine tingling series packed with mystery and passion. The print version of IF I WERE YOU, book 1, hits stores March 12th. 

About book one: If Were You (print release March 2011)

One day I was a high school teacher on summer break, leading a relatively uneventful but happy life. Or so I told myself. Later, I’d question that, as I would question pretty much everything I knew about me, my relationships, and my desires. It all began when my neighbor thrust a key to a storage unit at me. She’d bought it to make extra money after watching some storage auction show. Now she was on her way to the airport to elope with a man she barely knew, and she needed me to clear out the unit before the lease expired.

Soon, I was standing inside a small room that held the intimate details of another woman’s life, feeling uncomfortable, as if I was invading her privacy. Why had she let these items so neatly packed, possessions that she clearly cared about deeply, be lost at an auction? Driven to find out by some unnamed force, I began to dig, to discover this woman’s life, and yes, read her journals—-dark, erotic journals that I had no business reading. Once I started, I couldn’t stop. I read on obsessively, living out fantasies through her words that I’d never dare experience on my own, compelled by the three men in her life, none of whom had names. I read onward until the last terrifying dark entry left me certain that something had happened to this woman. I had to find her and be sure she was okay.

Before long, I was taking her job for the summer at the art gallery, living her life, and she was nowhere to be found. I was becoming someone I didn’t know. I was becoming her.

The dark, passion it becomes…

Now, I am working at a prestigious gallery, where I have always dreamed of being, and I’ve been delivered to the doorstep of several men, all of which I envision as one I’ve read about in the journal. But there is one man that will call to me, that will awaken me in ways I never believed possible. That man is the ruggedly sexy artist, Chris Merit, who wants to paint me. He is rich and famous, and dark in ways I shouldn’t find intriguing, but I do. I so do. I don’t understand why his dark side appeals to me, but the attraction between us is rich with velvety promises of satisfaction. Chris is dark, and so are his desires, but I cannot turn away. He is damaged beneath his confident good looks and need for control, and in some way, I feel he needs me. I need him.

All I know for certain is that he knows me like I don’t even know me, and he says I know him. Still, I keep asking myself — do I know him? Did he know her, the journal writer, and where is she? And why doesn’t it seem to matter anymore? There is just him and me, and the burn for more.

EXCERPT

We begin our walk, faster this time, and the cold wind has nothing on the chill between us. Conversation is non-existent, and I have no clue how to break the silence, or if I should even try. I dare a peek at his profile several times, fighting the wind blowing hair over my eyes, but he doesn’t acknowledge me. Why won’t he look at me? Several times, I open my mouth to speak but words simply won’t leave my lips. 

We are almost to the gallery, and a knot has formed in my stomach at the prospect of an awkward goodbye, when he suddenly grabs me and pulls me into a small enclave of a deserted office rental. Before I can fully grasp what is happening, I am against the wall, hidden from the street and he is in front of me, enclosing me in the tiny space. I blink up into his burning stare and I think I might combust. His scent, his warmth, his hard body, is all around me, but he is not touching me. I want him to touch me. 

He presses his hand to the concrete wall above my head when I want it on my body. “You don’t belong here, Sara.”

The words are unexpected, a hard punch in the chest. “What? I don’t understand.”

“This job is wrong for you.” 

I shake my head. I don’t belong? Coming from Chris, an established artist, I feel inferior, rejected. “You asked me why I wasn’t following my heart. Why I wasn’t pursuing what I love. I am. That’s what I’m doing.”

“I didn’t think you’d do it in this place.”

This place. I don’t know what he’s telling me. Does he mean this gallery? This city? Has he judged me not worthy of his inner circle? 

“Look, Sara.” He hesitates, and lifts his head to the sky, seeming to struggle for words before fixing me with a turbulent look. “I’m trying to protect you here. This world you’ve strayed into is filled with dark, messed up, arrogant assholes who will play with your mind and use you until there is nothing else left for you to recognize in yourself.”

“Are you one of those dark, messed up, arrogant assholes?”

He stares down at me, and I barely recognize the hard lines of his face, the glint in his eyes, as belonging to the man I’ve just had lunch with. His gaze sweeps my lips, lingers, and the swell of response and longing in me is instant, overwhelming. He reaches up and strokes his thumb over my bottom lip. Every nerve ending in my body responds and it’s all I can do not to touch him, to grab his hand, but something holds me back. I am lost in this man, in his stare, in some spellbinding, dark whirlwind of…what? Lust, desire, torment? Seconds tick eternally and so does the silence. I want to hold him, to stop whatever I sense is coming but I cannot. 

“I’m worse.” He pushes off the wall, and is gone. He is gone. I am alone against the wall, aching with a fire that has nothing to do with the meal we shared. My lashes flutter, my fingers touch my lip where he touched me. He has warned me away from Mark, from the gallery, from him, and he has failed. I cannot turn away. I am here and I am going nowhere.

About the Author:

 

Bestselling author Lisa Renée Jones is the author of the highly acclaimed INSIDE OUT TRILOGY which will debut internationally across many countries in 2013. Booklist says that Jones’ suspense truly sizzles with an energy similar to FBI tales with a paranormal twist by Julie Garwood or Suzanne Brockmann. Alpha, military, and paranormal romance readers will want Jones’ entire series. (About the Zodius Series — Storm that is Sterling)

In 2003, award winning author Lisa Renée Jones sold her Austin, Texas based multi-state staffing agency and has since published over thirty novels and novellas across several genres. Her staffing agency LRJ Staffing was recognized many times by The Austin Business Journal and also praised by Dallas Women Magazine. In 1998 LRJ was listed as the #7 growing women owned business in Entrepreneur Magazine.

Her debuts with Blaze and Nocturne hit Bookscan’s Top 100 list and her Blaze Hot Zone trilogy made a showing on the list in 2011 also.

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Website: http://www.lisareneejones.com/

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A River So Long by Vallie Lynn Watson

 

 

Book Blurb:

 Vallie Lynn Watson's debut novel follows thirty-something Veronica as she jolts between five-star hotels in New Orleans, New York, and the North Carolina coast. Veronica's business keeps her on the move, and further strains her relationships with the already unsuitable men she's met along the way, not to mention her blink-and-you-miss-him husband. A River So Long, like Veronica's life, is a fragmented conflation of time, place, and people-she's a gypsy, and the world she inhabits is, if not blurry, at least kaleidoscopic. This remarkable novel reads like Jean Rhys run over by the twenty-first century-a rushing, threatening, constantly changing scene with a tumultuous, multiplying cast

Angie J's Review:

I was given this 125 page ebook  by the author for an honest review.

A girl I work with who told me a friend was writing a book and asked me if I would review.  I said sure.  We love the indie author and so why not help.  Now, as you may have noticed, this book isn't the normal Twinsie Talk paranormal or erotica kind of book.  It is a non-linear story which I know some people are not big fans of soooo I want to make sure you understand that before reading.

Veronica is the main character of this story and she is a HAWT MESS!!!  She is unhappily married, travels for her job and seems very disconnected from family/friends.  She thinks that sex with people will make her feel  better when it actually makes her life worse IMO.  I will admit the non-linear storyline confused me several times.  I was like "wait is this the future or the past?"    The novel doesn't have "chapters" per say but almost like a "diary page of the day".  What I mean by that is that someone took their loose leaf journal and threw the pages up in the air.  Then they picked the pages back up and made a nice neat pile.  You get fragmented images of parts of her life from all stages of her life throughout the novel.  The end of the story the author kind of wraps up everything and you are left with a better understanding BUT getting there was a little tough for me. 

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*Guest Posting by Amee P.* Black Dagger Brotherhood - Lover Mine by JR Ward

**Attention this future brother is also already claimed by our guest poster Amee P.  Please see the pictures below of JR Ward signing her "MINE" Shirt and the picture of Amee with her autographed JM book. Thank you and enjoy her review of her male of worth. Also please understand her review MAYBE slightly skewed. **

 

Book Blurb:

In the darkest corners of the night in Caldwell, New York, a conflict like no other rages. Long divided as a terrifying battleground for the vampires and their enemies, the city is home to a band of brothers born to defend their race: the warrior vampires of the Black Dagger Brotherhood.

John Matthew has come a long way since he was found living among humans, his vampire nature unknown to himself and to those around him. After he was taken in by the Brotherhood, no one could guess what his true history was- or his true identity. Indeed, the fallen Brother Darius has returned, but with a different face and a very different destiny. As a vicious personal vendetta takes John into the heart of the war, he will need to call up on both who he is now and who he once was in order to face off against evil incarnate.

Xhex, a symphath assassin, has long steeled herself against the attraction between her and John Matthew. Having already lost one lover to madness, she will not allow the male of worth to fall prey to the darkness of her twisted life. When fate intervenes, however, the two discover that love, like destiny, is inevitable between soul mates.

Amee P's Review of her Hellren's book :

I am going to start by saying, actually screaming, I LOVE THIS BOOK, THIS IS MY FAVORITE BOOK OF ALL TIME!!!!!!! I can only give 5 stars here but if I could I would give it a 100 out of 5...LOL. Most of the BDB books, I am re-reading for only the first some the 2nd time, but this book I have now read 5 times!!! This is JOHN MATTHEWS story and not only is this my favorite book he is my favorite male *sigh*! He is my favorite Male character, heck favorite character period male or female, of every book I have ever read. WHY? Well there are so many reasons and I think I shall share some of them! The fact that he is a big bad a$$ sexy vampire fighter only scratches the surface with him, there are so many parts of HIM that make me *sigh* every time I hear the two initials J and M together. Mainly he is not only strong on the outside but strong on the inside! He can not speak, he is mute, but that doesn't keep him from doing anything. He has faced horrible hardships in his life and yet his philosophy is to keep moving forward and to not dwell on the past. This is the same way I personally feel about life, so it is really hard for me not to totally fall for him!!!! He is a protector, he would never allow something bad to happen to even a complete innocent stranger. He knows what is right and what is wrong and he follows the path of being right as best he can but he is not afraid to man up to any mistakes he makes. Those are just a FEW reasons why JM is my favorite EVERYTHING!

From the start of this series JM has a major 'voice' in the world of the Black Dagger Brotherhood. You get to see a lot of the world from his POV. He enters almost as a total stranger.... He is like you as the reader. He doesn't know about the BDB or the world and you, the reader, get to find out along with him as well as feel what he is feeling. When he enters the story in Lover Eternal as a small pretrans you will be immediately captivated by his character and you will be itching for him to get his own story. It takes a while though for him to mature and get to the point where he is ready to find love, Lover Mine is the 8th book in the BDB series but it is defiantly WELL worth the wait, plus it isn't like the previous 7 books aren't amazing to read first! LOL. By Lover Enshrined, the 6th book, you already know who JM's female is going to be but being that she is 1/2 sympath and a total hard a$$ it is NOT an easy road for the two of them. At the end of Lover Avenged, book 7, Xhex disappears. Xhex is known in the series thus far as Rehvenge's best friend, the head of security at the clubs Rehvenge owns and overall just a TUFF FEMALE! Only JM's best friends, Qhuinn and Blay have an idea of the connection the two of them have before Lover Mine. When Xhex goes missing JM can not help but make it his mission to find and/or avenge her.

Not only are John Matthew and Xhex front and center in this book but the greatest villain of all time is at the head front. Lash, son of the Omega, is.........lets just say I HATE HIM....I DO NOT LOVE TO HATE HIM, I HATE TO HATE HIM! I hate him with every inch of my being! He is seriously horrible, a miserable life source set on this earth to hurt John! And hurt John he does, over and over and over again....but who will have the final say??? Well you will have to read to find out.

This book also has a lot of other things going on....you get to meet a mysterious "ghost" who we have still yet to know much about in the series. As well as Wrath, the blind king, has a new friend and she is a twist that is interesting to say the least. Also, the story between his friends Qhuinn and Blay progresses.

Lover Mine is packed full of everything you could want in a good story, action, mystery, sex, love, romance, wonder, humor....the list goes on and on. J.R. Ward is such a good author and this book proves why she is on the NY Times best selling list!!! You will not be disappointed when you read this book you will, as with all other BDB books, only be wanting MORE!

Lastly I would just like to reiterate JOHN MATTHEW is amazing, he is an unbelievable male in ALL departments! Just the mention of his name makes me speechless and involuntarily causes me to *SIGH*!
**HAPPY READING**

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