Monday, 25 March 2019

Release Blitz: Running Hurt by Saffron Blu




Title: Running Hurt
Author: Saffron Blu
Series: Running Hearts (#1)
Cover Designer: Marisa from Cover Me Darling LLC
Genre: Contemporary Romance | Rockstar Romance

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A concert.
A superstar.
A wayward girl.
What could possibly go wrong?

Saxton, the lead singer of Running Hearts, has one rule.
Don’t. Do. Fans.
But a chance meeting with Aimee Jonas smashes that rule to bits.

Being knocked out by Dominic Saxton wasn’t part of Aimee's game plan.
She falls hard and fast, in more ways than one.

Rockstar love is complicated.
But guilty love is impossible.

And in the end, they might be running hurt.




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Author Bio


Saffron Blu is a romantic at heart. Spending her time writing stories where souls collide,
all while looking for her own soul mate. 
The mountains and beaches of SE Queensland, Australia, is where Saffron calls home.
Her characters are the loudest when she’s got her music blaring, drowning out the real
world.


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Friday, 22 March 2019

Blog Tour: Breaking Out by Megan Lowe


Author: Megan Lowe
Title: Breaking Out
Series: Rocking Racers #7
Genre: Contemporary Sports Romance
Release Date: March 2, 2019
Publisher: Hot Tree Publishing
Cover Designer: Claire Smith
Photographer: CJC Photography
Models: Daniel Rengering and Lauren Summer

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Christian Ryan knows love when he sees it. Having watched his uncles and father fall in love right in front of his eyes, he’s confident Nia Matthews is his forever girl. Absolutely nothing will stand in his way of making Nia his.

Nia Matthews has loved Christian Ryan her whole life. He’s her best friend, her lover, her everything. But she yearns for more. She yearns for a life outside of Booker, a life of her own.

When it comes to light just how apart the two are, the distance seems insurmountable. Will they break up, break out, or realise that sometimes the best things come from the most unexpected circumstances?
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When I was three years old, I literally saw my aunt and uncle fall in love right in front of me. I thought things would be the same for me: one day I’d see her and bam! We’d fall in love and ride off into the sunset. Only it wasn’t like that. The girl I love has had my heart since I was ten years old and today I’m going to ask her to marry me, to be mine forever.

I know people might say we’re young, but I love her, she loves me, and I know we’re it for each other.

Nia Matthews is… well, she’s my everything. When we were younger, she was my friend. Along with her twin brother, Ryder, she was my best friend. Her parents, Cole and Knley, have been part of our team basically forever. Cole was one of our Ryan Racing riders, then when an accident cut his racing career short he became our technical director. They’ve always been around, always been an honorary part of the Ryan family.

Then things started to change. We got older, I watched all of my uncles fall in love, then finally, my mum and dad. I was surrounded by love. One day I heard Nia and Aunt Knley singing, and I was struck. Maybe I did get my bam! moment after all. I heard her sweet voice and I was hooked. I knew that day I was going to marry her.

We started dating after my last year of high school. Even though Nia was fourteen, it was never weird between us; shit, it wasn’t until two years into our relationship that we started sleeping together. I think our parents were wary, but they also saw how I looked at her, how I treated her, like she was the most precious thing on the planet, because she was. She is. And today I’m going to ask her to be mine forever. I’m twenty-seven, and not getting any younger. I want Nia to be my wife. I want to start a family with her and all that entails. Like everything in my life, I want it, and I want it now. I’m a racer, and as a racer, I can’t compromise. Compromising on safety means I can get hurt or die. Compromising on speed means I don’t win. It’s the little things that you think won’t really matter that can make the most difference. That’s why I won’t yield. I won’t settle on the track and I won’t settle when it comes to Nia. That is, if my cousin ever leaves.

“Hart, babe, I love you. You’re my favourite cousin, but I really need to be somewhere.”

Hartley is Uncle Jax and Aunt Bentley’s daughter. Well, one of them. Aunt Bentley can’t have kids, so they applied to adopt one from South Korea. Only once they got there to pick up Emerson, Hartley wailed and wailed, so after a huge kerfuffle and a much longer trip than they anticipated, they adopted her too. It’s been a theme in Hartley’s life ever since.

“Don’t make me go back there,” she begs as she lies on my couch. “My dad’s being a total caveman. I can’t take it!”

“I’m sure it’s not as bad as it seems,” I reply.

“He’s being totally unreasonable, not letting me go to Nicky Sims’s party.”

I know Nicky Sims. I also know his parties, and Uncle Jax is right not to let his eighteen-year-old daughter go, even if she is legally an adult.

“Maybe he’s right not to let you go,” I say and brace myself for the shrieking to start.

“What?” she demands on cue.

“I know Nicky Sims, Hart,” I say. “I also know his parties. They’re full-on. You don’t need to be partying that hard, or with that crowd.”

“Oh please,” she says, crossing her arms over her chest. “Like you and Nia weren’t going to worse. Plus, she was younger than I am now when you guys got together.”

I sigh and run my hand through my messy mop of dark brown hair. “Yes, Nia was young when we got together, but our parents knew we were responsible and could be trusted.” I raise an eyebrow.

“I can be trusted,” Hartley insists.

“Really?” I ask.

“Yeah, totally.”

“So you almost driving your mum’s car through the garage wall and into the house, that’s trustworthy?”

“It was an accident.”

“You were ten and couldn’t see over the steering wheel.”


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Megan Lowe is a lost journalism graduate who after many painful years searching for a job in that field, decided if she couldn’t write news stories, she would start listening to the characters whispering stories to her and decided to write them down.  She writes primarily New Adult/Contemporary Romance stories with Sport and Music themes. She is based on the Gold Coast but her heart belongs to New York City. When she’s not writing she’s either curled up with a good book, travelling or screaming at the TV willing her sporting teams to pull out the win.

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Release Blitz: Blindsided (Fake Boyfriend #4) by Eden Finley

Release Date: March 20, 2019
Cover Design: Kellie Dennis / Book Cover by Design
 

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𝐌𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫:
When Talon left to play pro ball six years ago, the hole in my chest confused me. I focused my heartache into making my own NFL dreams come true, and by the time I was drafted, the longing I had for my best friend was buried deep. Now he wants everything to be like it was in college, but we can’t have threesomes and be reckless like we once were. The media storm would be enough to break both our careers. That’s not my biggest concern though. The torch I had for him burns brighter after so long apart, and there’s nothing I can do about it. Marcus Talon is straight. I need to stay away from him. 𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐧: Years ago, Miller and I made a pact that we’d win a Super Bowl together. When I’m offered a position on his team in Chicago, I don’t hesitate. I move across the country to chase a dream that’s a decade old. Only, now that I’m here, he’s avoiding me every chance he gets. If he was anyone else, I’d cut my losses. But this is Shane Miller—the guy who makes everything better just by existing in my universe. The guy I’d do anything for. The guy who’s more to me than a brother, a friend, or even a teammate. I’m not going to let him get away.
 

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5 of 5 Stars

With each book of the fake boyfriend series I find myself becoming more and more invested in this group of athletes. The morning I finished this book I should have been getting the kids ready for school... I'm pretty sure everyone got lunches. 
I absolutely FLOVED this story and that's saying a hell of a lot because I wasn't one of those fans that was super excited about getting Talon and Miller's story. I don't know what it was but I just wasn't. Maybe it's because I fell for Noah in Trick Play and didn't think anyone could out do him as a character. Well except maybe Jet...now he's a character I'm looking forward to hear more about. 
Anyway, back to Talon and Miller. They give me all the feels. Their insecurities showed and I loved that about them. I can't say much more without spoilers so all I'm gonna say is... read it. You won't regret it. 

About the Author

 
Eden Finley is an Amazon bestselling author who writes steamy contemporary romances that are full of snark and light-hearted fluff.
She doesn’t take anything too seriously and lives to create an escape from real life for her readers. The ideas always begin with a wackadoodle premise, and she does her best to turn them into romances with heart. With a short attention span that rivals her five-year-old son's, she writes multiple different pairings: MM, MMF, and MF. She's also an Australian girl and apologises for her Australianisms that sometimes don't make sense to anyone else.  

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Tuesday, 19 March 2019

Blog Tour: Inebriated by Katey Taylor


Title: Inebriated
Author: Katey Taylor
Genre: Young Adult Romance
Release Date: February 26, 2019
Cover Designer: RMGraphX

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Barely seventeen and as pretty as can be: the summer is their playground. Cait and her best friends Steph and Allie take on San Francisco’s party scene with fake IDs and short dresses. 

When Cait meets Adrien Cross, the charismatic lead singer of her favorite indie band, she’s introduced to a hedonistic world of liquor and lust that she never wants to leave. But then that world spirals out of control and the harsh realities of reckless living take a toll on Cait and the ones she loves. What will be left when the makeup masks wash off, the bottles are empty, and Cait begins to lose her grip on everything? 

Katey Taylor’s heart-wrenching debut novel will have you strapped into the intense rollercoaster ride of Cait’s life and one chaotic summer that will change it all. 



We all try our hardest to be perfect creatures. Some call it vain but sometimes the obsession for perfection can be a disease.
Allie was waving back at us to join her. The cute boys introduced themselves and said they would show us the direction to Swank if we followed them. I was starting to feel dizzy and leaned against one of the boys for balance. I can’t remember his name or really anything after that. I must have blacked out everything from that point on. 
A loud truck horn pulls me back to reality, reminding me where I am, alone and in desperate need to get home. I open my wallet and pull out the credit card my parents gave me to use on food, clothes, basic essentials, and emergency situations. This is definitely an emergency situation in my book. My mother rarely checks the card statements, but I don’t think she’d be pleased to see a fifty-dollar cab charge home from San Francisco in the wee hours of the morning or pleased at my current situation. But I need to get out. So, I muster every bit of strength I have to pull myself up and take off my four-inch heels to stagger down the block for a cab driver. Lucky for me, San Francisco never has a shortage of cabs, and I’m able to flag one down quickly. Through his thick accent, the scruffy cab driver asks where I need to go. 
“I need to get to Calaveras.” 
He checks me out in the rearview mirror and laughs. “You’re far away from home. Rough night?”
  Don’t remind me. I force a smile, then catch a glimpse of myself in the mirror. I look like death. My perfectly applied makeup is all off with just the residue of black mascara smeared under my eyes. Closing my eyes, I let out a sigh and slouch down, pressing my head against the cool glass window. I promise myself I will never let this happen again. 



Katey Taylor is the author behind the emotionally wrenching Young Adult Novel Inebriated. Katey's passion for storytelling stemmed not long after she first learned to write with a pencil. Every story she writes is infused with a piece of her heart and her absolute muses of music and travel. She's a San Francisco Bay Area native living in a house that sits on a bayside lagoon with her husband and two cats. Follow Katey on Instagram @kateyltaylor or visit www.kateytaylor.com.

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Monday, 18 March 2019

Release Tour: Lost Wolf by Rachel M. Raithby

The bestselling fantasy romance continues!

Title: Lost Wolf
Series: New Dawn #4
Genre: YA Fantasy Romance (Shifter Romance)
Cover Designer: Creation Inspire
Editor: Hot Tree Editing
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The alliance holds strong after the last attack, but bad blood threatens to jeopardize the treaty and test the bonds formed between the River Run and Dark Shadow packs.

Tyler never meant for one night of fun to turn into a secret relationship, yet he can’t… won’t give Regan up, even if it means lying to his alpha or leaving the pack that is his home. His family.

Regan felt the spark between her and Tyler from the start. He woke her from a half-life, pulling her from the darkness of her past, which threatens to extinguish the love between them before it has a chance to begin.

Lines are being blurred, allegiances tested, and as hearts break and tears fall, will Tyler and Regan’s love bring them all together or be a step too far and destroy the packs for good?

Blog Tour: At War with a Broken Heart by Dahlia Donovan


Author: Dahlia Donovan
Title: At War with a Broken Heart
Genre: M/M/M Romance
Release Date: February 26, 2019
Publisher: Hot Tree Publishing
Cover Designer: Soxsational Cover Art

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What's the perfect recipe for an emotional MMM romance?

One autistic coffee shop owner, one morose mug maker, and a mostly cheerful police detective.

Fie Morogh Russell goes off to war with a broken heart and returns with a shattered spirit. He hermits away in Bideford, Devon, making mugs, with his service dog, Haggard, for company. Post-traumatic stress turns every memory into a minefield, and life is dismal with one or two rare exceptions.

Davet Heuse drags his younger brother to Bideford for a new start. Both autistic, the two siblings have fought hard to enjoy freedom by the seaside. While Davet runs a coffee shop from his tiny house, his brother pursues his dream at university.

Detective Sidney Little has transitioned from military service to the police force easily. His unrequited crushes and his estranged father are the only points of frustration in his life. He hasn't quite figured out how to deal with either problem.

When a tragic accident brings Davet's world crashing down around him, can Fie and Sid help him through the pain of loss?

In this May-December romance with a twist, three men struggle through one obstacle after the other to somehow find themselves in love on the other side.
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“Would you stop ignoring me?”

“No.”

“Morrie.”

“How about you quit butchering my name? If you insist on using my first one that no one else uses, stop making me sound like a five-year-old schoolboy. It’s Morogh, though you know I prefer Fie.” Morogh Fie Russell scowled at the former love of his life over the top of his reading glasses. He hadn’t seen Edmund in close to eight years, not since Fie’s return from Afghanistan. War hadn’t been kind to him, leaving him a changed man in many ways. “I’ll ignore you if I want, as I didn’t invite you inside.”

“I refuse to call you by a name that sounds like it belongs in Jack and the Beanstalk. What were your parents thinking?” Edmund took a few steps towards Fie, grimacing when he stepped into a stray bit of wet clay. “I wanted to talk. How do you stand it out here in Bideford? I’m surprised you didn’t move back to your family’s farm in Scotland. Devon doesn’t seem your sort of place.”

“You refused to call me anything at all for years. And how is where I live any of your business?” Fie honestly didn’t want to revisit their failed relationship. “What’s changed? Did your latest fling kick you out?”

“I missed you. Us, even.” Edmund gestured towards Haggard, Fie’s blue merle border collie service dog, stretched out across a blanket in his corner of the pottery shed. “I can help. What can your old mutt do that I can’t?”

“Help? You broke me. You lost the right to put me back together.” Fie wiped absently at the sheen of sweat on his brow; he hadn’t even gotten close to his kiln yet. Why am I suddenly overheating? “Sod off with you back to your posh London penthouse.”

“I’m sorry.”

“Hell.” Fie dragged a hand roughly through his greying hair. His dark brown eyes examined Edmund and found him relatively unchanged. Still as selfish as ever. He’d missed seeing the fault in his ex-lover’s personality until far too late. “Well, I hope the apology made it all better for you. I still feel like shite.”

“I’m sorry.” Edmund was trying for heartfelt, but it came out sulky to Fie.

“You sent me off to war with a broken heart.” Fie stood up suddenly, knocking his stool over. He dwarfed Edmund with his tall, bulky, almost bearlike frame. “Now I’m shipping you off to London. I imagine it’s far less dangerous than disarming explosives in the desert, and you’re certainly not as emotionally shattered as I was.”

Getting up from his sleep, Haggard trotted over to plop himself down next to Fie. As if timed by the dog and his music player, strains of his Merle Haggard playlist started up. He reached down to pick up his chair and sat on it.

Staying calm had become such a difficult concept for him since his return. Fie had lots of pamphlets about post-traumatic stress; he’d never read most of them. He’d taken to the dog better than the therapy.

“I can’t believe you’re just going to throw away what we had.” Edmund had never been the most 
self-aware individual. “Why won’t you even try?”

“You do remember you dumped my arse? Right?”

“How can you listen to this American rubbish?” Edmund changed the subject rapidly, likely in an attempt to give himself time to think.

“It relaxes me.” Fie glanced over at the clock on the wall. “Was there anything else? I’ve got to get started on some new mugs.”

There wasn’t anything else.

All their words had been said. Fie certainly remembered every painful, callous moment. He’d gone to Afghanistan with a gaping hole in his heart and returned with an even larger one.



Dahlia Donovan wrote her first romance series after a crazy dream about shifters and damsels in distress. She prefers irreverent humour and unconventional characters. An autistic and occasional hermit, her life wouldn’t be complete without her husband and her massive collection of books and video games.

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Author: Eden Finley Book: Unspoken Vow Series: Steele Brothers (#2) Genre: MM Romance 𝙃𝙚’𝙨 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙄 𝙬𝙖...