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~NEW RELEASES FOR TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 2013~

An Interview with Coleen Kwan - Author of Real Men Don't Quit

Coleen Kwan has been a bookworm all her life. At school English was her favorite subject, but for some reason she decided on a career in IT. After many years of programming, she wondered what else there was in life — and discovered writing. She loves writing contemporary romance and steampunk romance.
 Coleen lives in Sydney, Australia with her partner and two children. When she isn’t writing she enjoys avoiding housework, eating chocolate, and watching The Office.

Where you can find Coleen:

Website | Facebook | Twitter | Goodreads

Review: Real Men Don't Quit by Coleen Kwan

Real Men

Don’t Break Hearts

by Coleen Kwan

Roxanne St. Claire ~ Barefoot in the Sun Interview & Giveaway

Cozy Mystery Book Tours Fantastic 4 Cozy Mystery Giveaway

Cozy Mystery Book Tours is having an AWESOME contest.

An Interview with Nancy Warren

A Little More About Nancy Warren:

Nancy Warren is a USA Today bestselling Harlequin and Kensington author who got her big break when she won Harlequin's 2000 Blaze Contest.  Her sensuous, humorous romances have won numerous awards and appeared on the Waldenbooks bestseller list.

 

Awards and lists are great, but nothing beats the thrill of hearing from readers.  Most have commented on how much they enjoy the mixture of humor and sexuality in Nancy's books—which is good, because she works darned hard to put them in there.

 

Nancy holds an honors degree in English literature and lives in the Pacific Northwest.  She spends her days sensibly employed inventing men who combine amazing sexual prowess with sensitivity to a woman's needs, and women who aren't afraid to fight for their dreams.

The Marlowe Girls Blog Tour - Guest Post by Beth Fred

Tour Schedule

Beth Fred's The Fate of A Marlowe Girl - Review

The Fate of a Marlowe Girl (Novella)

When twenty-four-year-old Tiffany escapes her sister Kammy's too wild Cancun bachelorette party, she finds herself in a bar with the unwanted attention of a gorgeous local named Luke.

 

Luke may be charming but Tiffany is leaving in two days and doesn't need any complications.  But complications are exactly what she gets when the cops show up to raid Kammy's party.  When Kammy is arrested, Tiffany agrees to have dinner with Luke, so he'll help her get Kammy out of jail.  Kammy's arrest forces her to spend an extra day in Cancun, meaning she'll miss a crucial meeting, and as an accountant in tax season, she is already drowning in work.  Not to mention, every second she spends with Luke makes it harder to leave.  With Luke, Tiffany is almost ready to forget about work.

 

Will the airport be their final goodbye?

Urgent: One Nanny Required Winner

The winner of Olivia Logan's Urgent: One Nanny Required giveaway is:

Secretninja89

The winner has been notified and has until Saturday, April 27th to respond, or another winner will be selected.  Thank you to everyone who entered.

Inspiration Behind Tempting Cameron by Karen Erickson

Bestselling romance author Karen Erickson writes what she loves to read — sexy contemporary romance and sensual historical romance. Digitally published since 2006, she currently writes for Samhain Publishing, Entangled Publishing’s Bliss & Brazen Imprint and Avon Impulse. A native Californian, she lives in the foothills below Yosemite with her husband and three children.

Where you can find Karen:

Website | Facebook | Twitter | Goodreads | Pinterest

Julie Prestsater - Straddling the Edge Character Love & Giveaway

Julie is a high school teacher by day, and a writer by night. She writes both young adult and adult romances. When she's not writing, she can be found out and about with her family, reading, and watching football. As a reading intervention teacher, she prides herself on matching her students with great books to encourage them to become life-long readers.
 

Connect with Julie Prestsater:

Website | Twitter | Facebook | Goodreads

A Fine Romance by Christi Barth - Review

They say you form your first impression of someone within thirty seconds of meeting them.  Or, in Mira Parrish's case, within thirty minutes of not meeting them, when said person is supposed to pick you up from the airport and never shows.  This is not a perfect start to her new life.  Her friend Ivy is depending on her to run a new romance store, and Mira can't afford to let her down.

 

Sam Lyons should probably apologize.  But every time he sees Mira—which is often, since his family owns the bakery next to her shop—he can't resist antagonizing her.  There's something about the sexy, straitlaced woman that drives him crazy.  He can't get involved, though.  He has too much baggage to be any good in a serious relationship.

 

Despite his teasing attitude, Mira finds Sam too sweet to resist.  (His hot body may be a factor.) But if there's going to be anything permanent between them, they'll need to let go of their pasts and look to the future…

Toni Aleo's Blue Lines - Assassins Book Four Cover Reveal

It’s Cover Reveal day for

Toni Aleo’s

Blue Lines (The Assassins Series Book Four)

Lynnette Austin's Somebody Like You Guest Post & Giveaway

Tour Schedule

Toni Aleo's ~ The Assassins Hockey Hop ~ April 23rd - May 1st

The weather might still be cold and freezing in some places, but Toni Aleo and Random House/Loveswept are here to warm you up and get you a little hot in the process:

Allie Boniface - The Promise of Paradise Author/Character Interview

Harvard grad Ashton Kirk is headed for a promising law career when scandal breaks apart her family.  To escape, she changes her name and rents an apartment in the small town of Paradise, New Hampshire, where no one knows who she is.

 

Ash hopes for solitude, but all bets are off when Eddie West, the town’s most eligible bachelor, moves in downstairs.  The sexy auto mechanic loves his women and his cars shiny, sleek, and fast, and when he meets his new housemate, he wastes no time getting friendly.  But Eddie is nursing his own recent loss, and the last thing he wants to do is let someone new into his life or his heart.

 

Can two people from different worlds find common ground and a place to fall in love?  Or will Ashton’s past and Eddie’s scars keep them apart just as summer heat brings them together?  Is it possible to find your soulmate in the place you least expect?

For You by Mimi Strong Promo

For You

by Mimi Strong

Genre: New Adult Contemporary

Christine Feldman - Spotlight & Interview

Christine S. Feldman writes both novels and feature-length screenplays, and she has placed in screenwriting competitions on both coasts.  She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her ballroom-dancing husband and Molly the beagle.

Connect with Christine:

Website | Facebook | Goodreads

The winners are.....

The winner of Nadia Scrieva's Alaskan Nights giveaway is:

Jessie L.

The winner of Maya Cross' Locked (The Alpha Group One) giveaway is:

Timitra

 

Both winners have been emailed and have until Monday, April 22nd to respond.  Thank you to everyone who entered.

Just the Messenger by Ninette Swann Promo & Giveaway

When Graciela Merced fumbles a package she’s delivering for her mysterious and sexy boss, Gene Hardy, she finds out he’s more than just a wealthy photographer.  Prepared to lose her job, she confronts him…and ends up embroiled in the tricky takedown of a powerful drug cartel pushing cocaine into the heart of New York City.

Marco Valencia is an undercover agent, working against time—and against Gene Hardy—to crack Angel’s Drug Cartel before the story makes it to the press.  When Hardy’s luscious Venezuelan messenger literally falls at his feet, he has no idea just how well he’ll get to know the beauty or how difficult it will be to drop her.

Hardened by experience, Gene Hardy takes his undercover work seriously, and charges a hefty price.  When Grace makes a careless mistake and hurls him back into the visage of Marco Valencia, he must either fire her, or involve her in a twisted plot that could kill them all.

As the two men battle over their feelings for Graciela—and their attraction to each other—one thing becomes perfectly clear.

Grace is much more than just the messenger.

It's a menage book with high heat, but packed full of action and mystery, too!

Ninette Swann's Just the Messenger Character Interview

Ninette Swann is a journalist turned novelist who writes her books from sunny Florida in between parenting, freelancing and editing.  She writes all genre of romance, including contemporary, thriller, suspense, and dystopian.  Her books include Hit and Stay, Body Combat, Finding Home, Just the Messenger and Direct Combat.

Connect with Ninette Swann:

Blog | Twitter | Facebook | Goodreads

Susan Rae's Ice Blue Guest Post

When lives are on the line, sometimes the wrong thing is the right thing to do.

 

Born into a Chicago cop family, Angela DeLuca gets her rush from saving lives while her brothers get theirs from catching the bad guys. A tough beauty with a heart perhaps too big, she champions the underdog because, as the youngest of six siblings, she often felt like one.

 

ICE Special Agent Troy Deavers became a cop to prove he wasn’t like his father—a southern politician who brought his family down with greed and corruption. He doesn’t suffer victims well. At first intrigued by Angela’s passion, he soon fears that the fire in Angela’s heart will be her undoing.

 

What happens when Troy falls in love with the lovely but infuriating Angela, the Chicago paramedic who insists on protecting a young witness and her unborn baby—a witness who could break his case wide open?

 

You met the DeLuca family in heartbeats, now come to know them even better in ICE blue.

Urgent: One Nanny Required Promo & Giveaway

Hotshot Hollywood Director Nick Trenton, needed a nanny and fast. It certainly hasn't helped that his son had run off all the others he had employed and with a big shoot coming up in LA for three weeks he was running out of options. Then along comes Rania George- sweet shop owner and one of the few people his son didn’t want to give the slip. Yes, she seemed to dislike him from the get-go, but he could work around that. He loved his son and would do anything to get the lovely Miss George to say yes to his plan.

Rania was used to children hanging outside her sweet shop but seeing one alone on a dark night was a first. What sort of parent would let their child wander the streets at night!

That was until she met his Hollywood Director Father. No wonder his son was wandering the streets alone, his father was probably too self absorbed to notice. She’d learnt from an early age that anything Hollywood related was bad news. Okay so he was attractive but she had vowed from to stay away from anything, and she meant anything Hollywood. Not that it helped when his cute as a button son captured her heart so easily nor when she was being offered to babysit said son for a huge amount of money. Only catch was she had to fly to Hollywood and spend three weeks in the company of his devastatingly attractive father.

The question was after all her experiences with Hollywood, was she willing to risk it all…

START A NEW SERIES AT A GREAT LOW PRICE!

Macy Beckett’s

Sultry Springs Series

Review: Tempting Cameron by Karen Erickson

For Cameron McKenzie, Chloe Dawson has always just been his younger sister Jane’s best friend—a pesky annoyance who followed him around and acted like he hung the moon.  It isn’t until Jane’s wedding to her firefighter beau Chris that Chloe reappears in his life…and she isn’t pesky or annoying anymore.  In fact, the beautiful Chloe tempts him beyond reason.  But Cam knows he’s damaged goods—not nearly good enough for Lone Pine Lake’s resident good girl.

 

Chloe’s always dreamed of a future with the dark, brooding Cam, and after they share an explosive kiss, she wonders if her dream could be coming true.  Cam’s never stuck around his hometown for long, though, so she makes him an offer: one sweet summer romance with no strings attached.  This good girl’s ready for an adventure…one that just might end up lasting a lifetime.

His Southern Temptation by Robin Covington Giveaway

Some women are bad. Some women are a bad idea. The best ones are both…

A former Black Ops assassin, “Lucky” Landon has had more near-misses than a man should ever have. Now he’s out of that business and settling into the simple life in his small hometown. So the last thing he ever expected was to end up at gunpoint. Or that the woman holding the gun would be his best friend’s little sister and Lucky’s on-again/off-again lover.

Taylor Elliott is Trouble, and she likes it that way. And seeing Lucky again? Well, he’s been her dirty little secret for the past few years and everyone knows that secrets in a small town are almost impossible to keep. But Taylor has bigger problems on her plate. Like the local mob boss who wants her dead.

And right now the only thing standing between Trouble and disaster is a hottie named Lucky…

Cover Reveal: Trophy Husband by Lauren Blakely

Presents: Trophy Husband by Lauren Blakely Cover Reveal

New Winner of A Charming Wish by Tonya Kappes

(NEW.... The previous winner didn't respond, so a new winner has been selected.)

The winner of A Charming Wish from Tonya Kappes is:

Mimsey

Cindy, please contact me within 48 hours to claim your prize.  If I don't hear from you, then another winner will be selected.

Review: Hurricance Lily by Rebecca Rogers Maher

Lily Sawyer flees her controlling, wealthy family in New York City for a solitary existence on Cape Cod. Three months later, a mounting anxiety binds her to the house she can no longer leave.

 

With hurricane season approaching, Lily hires Cliff Buckley—an angry carpenter with an immediate disgust for his elitist employer—to storm-proof her house.

 

Cliff soon discovers they have more in common than he thinks, as well as a raging spark between them could either destroy—or save—everything they care about. The question is, can either of them survive Hurricane Lily?

Drowning in You by Rebecca Berto Blurb/Excerpt Blitz & Giveaway

Presents:  Drowning in You by Rebecca Berto

Blurb Blitz & Giveaway

A Prior Engagement by S.L. Scott - Promo

Living in a world built on pretenses, Everleigh Wright discovers how carefully orchestrated her Upper East Side life has been. Trapped in an arrangement for social prestige and financial gain, she finds life is not as idyllic as she once thought.

William Ryder leads a life rich in family support and endless determination. While attending university in Manhattan, he becomes enamored with a classic beauty who holds many secrets beneath her quiet propriety. William falls head over heels crazy for her, and she falls for him and his unfaltering optimism and kindness.

William and Everleigh may come from different worlds, but their attraction is instant and their love undeniable. Hoping love conquers all, they will find out if their love is unstoppable when faced with the consequences of breaking a prior engagement.

“Right here, right now is all that matters.”

Welcome to Paradise by Rosalind James Promo

WINNER OF THE TONYA KAPPES GIVEAWAY

The winner of A Charming Wish from Tonya Kappes is:

Cyndi Tefft

Cindy, please contact me within 48 hours to claim your prize.  If I don't hear from you, then another winner will be selected.

Review: Locked (The Alpha Group Book 1) by Maya Cross

Locked: The Alpha Group Book One

 

Who is Sebastian Lock?

The bar Sophia Pearce is in doesn’t look like much. The wine is bad and the decor worse. But when a sudden attack of curiosity leads her to sneak past security and into the back room, she discovers something unimaginable. The most lavish party she’s ever laid eyes on, in the most unlikely of places.

 

But that’s nothing compared to what comes next, to the man she meets back there. Sebastian Lock. Gorgeous, commanding, and radiating charm, he is exactly the sort of silver-tongued rake Sophia has sworn to avoid. Unfortunately, he doesn’t care much for her promises.

 

Every instinct tells her to run, but the chemistry between them is as inescapable as gravity. Soon, he’s opening her eyes to a whole new world of pleasures, pleasures she never thought she’d enjoy.

 

There’s just one problem. Sebastian is more than he seems. Between the famous company he keeps and the almost paranoid secrecy of his employers, he’s a puzzle Sophia can’t quite solve, and his insistence on keeping things casual forces her to confront the demons of her past.

 

Can she learn to trust again? Or will Sebastian’s privacy tear them apart?

 

The Alpha Group Trilog is intended for readers aged 18 and over.

To Catch a Bad Guy by Marie Astor Excerpt Tour & Giveaway

BLURB:
Janet Maple’s stellar career ended with a layoff and her boyfriend of five years told her that he wants to be just friends.  When she lands a job at one of New York’s premier boutique investment firms, Janet begins to hope that her luck is finally turning for the better.  Not only is she happy with her new paycheck, but things also seem to be looking up on the personal front, as the company’s handsome attorney expresses keen interest in Janet.  However, her euphoria is short-lived, as Janet soon discovers alarming facts about her new employer’s business tactics.  When her boss dismisses her suspicions as groundless, Janet finds herself confiding to a cute IT engineer, Dean Snider.  The closer she gets to Dean, the more Janet is tempted to break her rule of not dating co-workers, but what she doesn’t realize is that everything she knows about Dean, including his occupation and even his name, is a lie.