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Book Blitz: The Friend Request

2/28/2018

The Friend Request
by Charles Soto

Synopsis

Chase has it all. Owner of a successful business, social standing and respect, killer looks and not the fiancé of any man's fantasy. His life is in control, just the way he planned; but everything is not as it appears. His brother, also his business partner and closest friend, is angrily rejected when he attempts to tell Chase the Truth. As Chase blindly races toward an empty future based on lies and deceit, his brother makes the dangerous decision to protect him.
Carly, a single and struggling mom, has always sacrificed personal happiness in an effort to protect her son. Lonely and stuck in a dead-end job, her life revolves around her special needs child; until the abusive father threatens to take him. Carly decides to take a chance on life and accept a friend request from her high school sweetheart. Can she let down her defenses and open her heart, or will the past cloud her future? Will a simple Facebook friend request bring Chase and Carly the happiness they so desperately desire, or will secrets from their past threaten to keep them apart ... forever.

About the Author

Charles Soto is a moving and unconventional fiction author of Heartache & Sin, The friend Request, Pride and a Prayer and the ghostwriter of the Auto-Biography, Frias with Love (Where we come from, where we went).
Along with his diversity as an author and his capabilities of writing in a profound array of genres, his talents as a sculptor and expertise in the painting and decorating field has enabled him to supervise such projects as the MGM Grand Casino and Hotel in Las Vegas, NV., Pantageous Theatre in Downtown Minneapolis, MN., as well as many more iconic Structures.
Charles Soto was born in Las Vegas NV., and throughout his childhood was raised in the Bay Area of Alameda County on the outskirts of San Francisco, CA. He now lives in Northern Minnesota with his wife of thirty years and their two daughters.

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Book Blitz: Deadlines

2/8/2018

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Dead Lines
by Grace Hamilton
Genre: Science Fiction/ Post-Apoc

Synopsis

911 operator Jim Parker wants—more than anything—to be useful again. When a catastrophic EMP strikes, and he’s the last person a kidnapped girl speaks to before the lines go dead, he knows he can’t let her down. Especially when the circumstances are so similar to his own daughter’s disappearance. With the world falling apart around him, he wants to do nothing more than retreat to his prepper cabin. But with a fresh lead on his daughter, and another innocent girl’s life on the line, the disgraced cop will do everything in his power to track them down.

Finn Meyers has lost Ava, her best, and only, friend in the world, but she knows where the
missing young woman might be—and perhaps Parker’s long lost daughter. Now, Parker must form an uneasy alliance and tackle his own internal demons as the two begin a perilous journey that will take them to the headquarters of a mysterious cult in Indiana.
But what they find along the way will shatter all their preconceptions—and threaten the world as they know it. Can a has-been and a has-not save the innocent, and stop a disaster from happening?

About the Author

Grace Hamilton wasn’t always a prepper. But after being stuck in a mountain cabin for 6 days following a flash flood, she decided she never wanted to feel so powerless or have to send her kids to bed hungry again. Now she lives the prepper lifestyle and knows that if SHTF or TEOTWAWKI, she’ll be ready to help protect and provide for her family.

Combine this survivalist mentality with a vivid imagination (as well as a slightly unhealthy day dreaming habit) and you get a prepper fiction author. Grace spends her days thinking about the worst possible survival situations that a person could be thrown into, then throwing her characters into these nightmares while trying to figure out “What SHOULD you do in this situation”

It’s her wish that through her characters, you will get to experience what life will be like and
essentially learn from their mistakes and experiences.

Grace is a proud momma-bear to four kids and wife to a wonderful husband.

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Website: www.gracehamiltonbooks.com
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Excerpt

Southern Indiana, 2306 hours
Countdown: 25 seconds until Event.
James Parker rubbed the sandy grit out of his eyes and stared at the monitors in front of him. Three screens—low light, supposedly easy on the eyes—sat at his station along with a computer, telephone, and emergency communications radio. But he was suffering from a hangover headache pounding dully behind his temples, and it hurt to use his eyes, even in such dim lighting.
His hand, big and calloused, massaged a five o’clock shadow rapidly heading towards full-on homeless scruff. He wanted another Vicodin, but had promised himself not to take too many at work. Mostly, he kept that promise. Mostly.
The light in the room was muted, more a soft ambience with the illumination designed to be easy on an operator’s eyes, and the soft glow of computers reflected like silvered mirrors from each station. From all around him, the white noise of the call center was a light murmur of background conversations punctuated by the alerts of incoming calls. Parker leaned back in his comfortable chair and eyed the clock.
Fifteen minutes to quitting time.
He lifted a hand to Kevin Oaks in a lazy gesture of greeting as the man, his relief, came in through the door of the “vault” and meandered towards the coffee maker on the table in the corner.
Right behind him, though, Parker’s supervisor Annie Klein burst through the door, resembling a squat lead ball fired from a musket. An old, not well taken care of musket. Her arms, pudgy bowling pins topped by raptor claws of fingers, clutched her iPhone and a thick pile of official manila folders.
Avoiding eye contact, Parker sat up and spun around to more fully face his row of monitors. His conversations with the indefatigable Ms. Klein inevitably ended in a poor fashion. He’d already earned two written warnings for insubordination, and HR had informed the union that he was currently under investigation. Yay.
He couldn’t afford to lose another job. His pension and retirement benefits were closely tied to his employment with the city. After how he’d left the department, getting fired from this job would vastly reduce his options. Besides, when the factories had closed down and moved to Mexico, they’d taken the greater part of employment options with them. Try as he might, he couldn’t see himself working as a barista, jumping to fetch absurd coffees for uppity IT techs half his age.
He sighed. “Because I’m old,” he muttered.
An indicator light blinked on. He moved his foot and nudged the pedal, opening the line.
“911,” he said into his headset mic. “What is the nature of your emergency?”
“Please help!” a young woman’s voice cried into the line. “Please help, something horrible is going to happen!”
“Calm down, miss,” he said. “Let me help you.” He’d taken enough calls by now to know whether it was the real thing or not. This felt real.
Automatically, his voice went down a register, sliding from gravely baritone to an almost basso profundo. It was a habit left over from working domestic disputes and suicide interventions as a law enforcement officer. It helped in his new career.
He went on, “I need your name, ma’am.”
His eyes went to his screen and he quietly cursed. She was on a cell; the caller locator software had the 812 area code, but that was it so far. He could have figured that much out on his own by her southern Indiana accent alone. Go Hoosiers, he thought.
“They’re going to do something at Stapleton Mall, the Church!” the girl half-sobbed.
He winced internally at the location, the reminder of his daughter, but pushed the feeling away quickly. He possessed an instinct, a residue left over from working patrol. This girl was fighting to hold it together; he could hear it in the timbre of her voice. She wanted to be brave, she was fighting to be brave, but she was utterly terrified.
“They’ve already killed a girl... I guess you’d call them a cult,” she went on. “But the Church kidnapped me, and Casey, Jesus, they killed Casey!” The words burned through the signal into his ear and he heard the raw anguish and terror in her voice.
Parker’s stomach clenched. This was no hoax.
He eyed the caller ID screen—nothing. Goddamn satellites. He frowned. He inhaled through his nose, calming himself. Since Sara had disappeared, such actions were only effective at work. Outside of the call center, it took Ativan, 4mgs at a time, to calm him. Usually with a Steel City Lager chaser. Sometimes something stronger.
“Tell me your name,” he repeated. His voice remained steady, calm. He might be all this girl had until he could dispatch officers to her 20. He didn’t want to fail her. Didn’t want to fail another girl the way he’d failed Sara.
“It’s Ava,” she choked out. “It’s Ava Tablot—”
The line went dead.

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Promo: Beyond Scandal and Desire

2/3/2018

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Beyond Scandal and Desire
Sins for All Seasons, Book 1
by
LORRAINE HEATH

Genre: Historical / Regency Romance
Publisher: Avon
Date of Publication: January 30, 2018
Number of Pages: 320

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At birth, Mick Trewlove, the illegitimate son of a duke, was handed over to a commoner. Despite his lowly upbringing, Mick has become a successful businessman, but all his wealth hasnâ€™t satisfied his need for revenge against the man who still wonâ€™t acknowledge him. What else can Mick do but destroy the dukeâ€™s legitimate sonâ€”and woo the heirâ€™s betrothed into his own unloving arms . . .

Orphaned and sheltered, Lady Aslyn Hastings longs for a bit of adventure. With her intended often preoccupied, Aslyn finds herself drawn to a darkly handsome entrepreneur who seems to understand her so well. Surely a lady of her station should avoid Mick Trewlove. If only he werenâ€™t so irresistible . . .
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As secrets are about to be exposed, Mick must decide if his plan for vengeance is worth risking what his heart truly desires.

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â€œFor the first book in the Sins for All Seasons series, Heath returns to the world of dark London â€” a world she understands as well as Dickens. Heath illuminates the cityâ€™s underbelly with a powerful romance of healing and redemption. Her talents for drawing readers into the era with her well-drawn, three dimensional characters and realistic dialogue sets her novels apart. The unexpected twists and turns of the plot guarantees it will be placed on your keeper shelf.â€ -- RT Book Reviews/ â€œTop Pickâ€ Review

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Lorraine Heath always dreamed of being a writer. After graduating from the University of Texas, she wrote training manuals, press releases, articles, and computer code, but something was always missing. When she read a romance novel, she not only became hooked on the genre, but quickly realized what her writing lacked: rebels, scoundrels, and rogues. She's been writing about them ever since. Her work has been recognized with numerous industry awards, including RWAs prestigious RITA. Her novels have appeared on the USA Today and New York Times bestseller lists.

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He knew the moment Lady Aslyn spotted him. She stopped walking, tipped up her parasol slightly along with her chin and smiled softly as though sheâ€™d been kept indoors all day because of the rainâ€”and the sun had suddenly made an appearance.

Drawing his horse to a halt, he dismounted with ease, removed his hat and waited for a more public acknowledgment from her.

â€œMr. Trewlove.â€

â€œLady Aslyn, what a pleasure it is to find you in the park this afternoon.â€

â€œAnd you, sir. I thought I might have seen you yesterday.â€

What a bold chit she was. Heâ€™d not expected the subtle reprimand. â€œI had business that kept me away.â€ He cast a furtive glance at the servants hovering nearby, all appearing to be ready to pounce if he made an untoward movement. He resettled his gaze on the lady. â€œBut you occupied my thoughts.â€

A lovely blush rose up her neck to encompass her face and make her cheeks more pronounced. He had the fleeting thought that he was looking forward to discovering if the flush began at her toes. And he would discover it. Before the month was done, he intended to have her in his bed. She would be to him whatever the woman who had given birth to him had been to his fatherâ€”and heâ€™d throw the similarities into the dukeâ€™s face. Looking at her youth and innocence now, he refused to feel remorseful about the role she would play in his gaining satisfaction. Heâ€™d given the duke the opportunity to publicly recognize him, and the damned man had ignored each missive.

â€œMight we stroll together for a while?â€ he asked.

Her blush deepened, but she looked slightly uncomfortable as though uncertain where to go from here. She gave a barely perceptible nod. â€œI suppose thereâ€™s no harm in walking together for a few minutes.â€

Guilt nagged at him. Was he a blackguard for using a girl who seemed far too innocent to be out alone among the wolves?

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Review: Too Good to Be True

2/1/2018

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Too Good to Be True
by Kristan Higgins

Synopsis

When Grace Emerson's ex-fiancé starts dating her younger sister, extreme measures are called for. To keep everyone from obsessing about her love life, Grace announces that she's seeing someone. Someone wonderful. Someone handsome. Someone completely made up. Who is this Mr. Right? Someone...exactly unlike her renegade neighbor, Callahan O'Shea. Well, someone with his looks, maybe. His hot body. His knife-sharp sense of humor. His smarts and big heart.

Whoa. No. Callahan O'Shea is not her perfect man! Not with his unsavory past. So why does Mr. Wrong feel so...right?

Review

I wanted to LOVE this book. It has a 3.9 rating on Goodreads, which I think is pretty good. And I didn't hate it. Definitely. I think it was just lacking some things that I've come to anticipate and enjoy in my romance novels.

So, Grace is this lovely human. Seriously - I loved her. She's a history teacher who likes to do civil war reenactments and who has a penchant for wanting to see Gone with the Wind on the big screen. She's geeky, and I love her. Grace was recently left by her fiancé because her fiancé...well, falls in love with Grace's younger, and seemingly perfect, sister. Grace is the kind of person who will shoulder the pain so that the people she loves will be okay. Cue, new next door neighbor Callahan. Cal has some secrets of his own, and quite a different perspective (now) about shouldering the pain for those you love. The two do not get off to a good start, and it involves a hilarious scene with a field hockey stick haha.

This book had my catnip all over. Geeky girl. Check. Hot and broody-ish next door neighbor. Check. Humor. Check.

So, why didn't I love it?

Well, the thing that stood out the most was that we only get Grace's POV. My ultimate catnip is getting both hero and heroine's POVs. I don't know why. I just love it - especially if there is a misunderstanding between them (which always happens in romance novels). I also think that if I had Cal's POV, it would have helped me understand when exactly he starts feeling something more for Grace. I mean - he was so broody and it takes A WHILE to feel any kind of warmth from him. I felt as clueless as Grace did at times, and maybe that was the point, but I prefer to feel what he's feeling.

I also SERIOUSLY disliked Grace's sister. She's the sweetest thing in all honesty - but UGH. Read it and let me know what you think. Please.

Oh! OH! The second biggest reason why I couldn't give it a higher rating - lack of sexy times! It was a more, fade to black cinematic sexy times book and NOOOO. NOOOOOOO. lol I mean, it was sweet and still sexy, but COME ON.

So - even though I'm a bit miffed because the sexy times needed just a bit more sexiness, I definitely recommend this book. And it would actually be great for someone who would rather not read about sex in a romance. It's still steamy, but without any of the "graphic scenes" you'd get, in let's say, a J.R. Ward book. There's also a lot about family, and trust and it was truly a lovely book - just not what I wanted at the time I picked it up.

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Book Blitz: The Friend Request

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