New Release: Forgotten Tomorrow by Renee Ericson

Forgotten Tomorrow

by Renee Ericson
Publication Date: June 3, 2016
Genres: New Adult, Contemporary, Romance

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What if a love, once lost, came around for a second chance?

Ruby Miller’s future was on track when she entered her freshman year of college at the University of Chicago. Everything seemed easy, possible, and full of hope, especially with Brent by her side.

However, life didn’t go as planned and obstacles arose setting her on a very different path from the one she had envisioned. Now, five years later, she’s piecing her life back together and moving on from everything that once tore her apart.

What happens though, when the one person who carries every memory of Ruby’s happiest and darkest moments appears unexpectedly before her? Will she carry on or dive into the depths of his arms and their forgotten tomorrow?

*Forgotten Tomorrow is a New Adult standalone novel previously published as Forgotten Yesterday and Deciding Tomorrow.

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Family really is a pain…especially when your father is an addict.

For the last two years, high school senior Ruby has been her own rock and solace. She has learned to depend only on herself and hides her family's issues by keeping herself somewhat unnoticeable. Despite her isolation, Ruby has intrigued the affections of someone unexpected. She finds herself loving life once again as his persistence sparks a romance awakening a well-protected heart.

While Ruby’s relationship with her father is constantly teetering, her new-found affection continues to blossom into something more than she ever thought possible. Soon, Ruby comes to realize that opening up your heart means being susceptible to love and disappointment.

Young Adult - Teen

*Suitable for ages 14+

**This book contains mature content including profanity, drug/alcohol use, and sexual situations/language.

About Renee Ericson

Renee Ericson is the author of More Than Water and the These Days series.

Originally from the Midwest, she now resides in a small town just outside of Boston with her husband and three children.

Most winters, Renee can be found on the slopes of the White Mountains skiing with her family. During the summer months, she likes to spend every spare minute at the beach soaking up the sea air. All those moments in between, she is talking to imaginary characters and caring for her children.

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That First Kiss

by J.C. Valentine
Night Calls #2
Publication Date: June 18, 2013
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Erotic, Romance

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Synopsis: Mercurial and charming, Tate Larson is a rising author and playboy who has a different woman on his arm every night of the week. Focused on his work, Tate has no plans to settle down any time soon. That is until he meets his pretty new assistant, Piper Donovan.

Desperate to escape the promise of backwater living, Piper ditched her Alabama hometown and never looked back. That was almost two years ago. Now that she is out of a job and her bank account is running on fumes, she’s desperate to find a job, fast. She finds the break she is searching for when she lands a position at Bookish Temptations. A little dancing and a lot of drinks with the girls seem the perfect way to celebrate. After a brief but explosive encounter with a man she was never supposed to see again turns out to be the same man she will be bending over backwards to please, her every instinct tells her to run. But when running means leaving the life she has struggled so hard to create, Piper decides her only option is to continue working for the devastatingly sexy Tate Larson…even if it kills her.

Unable to deny their growing attraction, they struggle to keep their distance in a relationship that requires anything but.

EXCERPT- THAT FIRST KISS

Where was his goddamn assistant? For the hundredth time, Tate Larson glanced to the door watching another suit enter and approach the counter to place his order.

Checking his watch again, Tate gritted his teeth and dropped his eyes back to the screen before him. So help him God. Felix promised he had found a good one this time. He swore this was the one. Foolishly, Tate had believed the man, though why he did was beyond him. The last dozen or so certainly hadn’t worked out, so why should this one? Was it too much to ask for a person to be on time these days? Well, Felix was going to be pissed to hear that he fired this one on the spot. He didn’t tolerate incompetence well.

The bell over the door chimed again, announcing another arrival. Pausing mid-sentence, his fingers hovering over the keys, Tate lifted his eyes to the door once more, pausing on the pretty little thing that stepped inside.

Dressed as a professional in a nice buttercream blouse and fitted pencil skirt, he was unable to keep his eyes from wandering over her luscious curves. She wasn’t as tall or slim as the women he normally chose, but there was just something about her that drew the eye. Maybe it had something to do with the woman he had hooked up with at the club over the weekend—lush lips, curvy body and bedroom eyes. Exactly the type of woman he went for and actively avoided.

He was still reliving that moment nightly, hell, daily.

He never should have kissed her. It went against his personal code of never kissing a one-night stand. But kiss her he had and now he was suffering the memory of that kiss and the way the woman tasted endlessly.

Glancing around, he noticed that half the men in the shop had paused what they were doing to take notice of the woman, too.

He watched curiously, studying her form, the way the morning sunlight created a total body halo making her look positively heavenly, the way her eyes darted around the room nervously, landing on each man only long enough to disregard them and move on. Hmm, why only the men, he wondered as those innocent brown eyes snagged on him.

Oh, hell no.

Tate straightened from his slouched position and dropped his feet from the chair in front of him to the floor with a dull thud.

It couldn’t be.

This had to be some kind of trick. Some sick twist of fate. Two things occurred to him at once: He was looking at the object of his current fantasies—the woman he had screwed in a women’s bathroom and hadn’t been able to shake from his memory since—and he was pretty damn sure she was his new assistant.

He knew she recognized him by the way her mouth dropped open in a small O and her brown eyes widened. She started toward him, her steps faltering only slightly before she visibly pulled herself together. His eyes narrowed as the woman stopped in front of his table and peered down at him.

“Hey, fancy meeting you again.” She smiled, showing off pretty white teeth that weren’t exactly perfect but still managed to set off her smile. His gaze lingered on her full, pouty bottom lip, remembering how it had tasted against his tongue.

“Yes, fancy that,” Tate replied tightly. “Piper was it?”

Dressed the way she was, looking the way she did, he never would have figured her for the business type. Judging from their first encounter, he pegged her as easy, just some bimbo, good for taking to bed and not much more.

Okay, that wasn’t entirely true. She seemed different from the women he normally screwed. Compelling him to kiss her was proof enough of that. Not that he would have minded taking this woman to bed, though. Hell, he already had her once bent over a bathroom sink, but he needed an assistant just now. What he didn’t need was the aggravation of working with a woman who he’d already slept with. Sitting back, he folded his arms over his chest and propped his foot up on the chair across from him.

“Ah, you remembered.”

“What can I say? I’m good with names, and I never forget a pretty face,” he replied smoothly.

She blushed, which oddly pleased him. Too bad he was going to have to wipe that pretty look off her face. “So, what are you doing here?”

“I’m supposed to be meeting my new assistant,” he said, looking up at her meaningfully, “but they’re late.”

Brows pinching, Piper frowned at him. He knew the exact moment that she put two and two together. “You’re Tate Larson?” she screeched.

He pursed his lips. “I am. Are you the assistant?”

She swallowed, her hands twisting nervously in front of her. “Yes, that’s me.”

“Good. You’re fired.”

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Synopsis: Burned, Felix Sinclair has all but vowed never to get seriously involved with another woman as long as he lives. After a long day's work, Felix Sinclair is looking forward to getting back to his luxury apartment in the city. When he detours onto a road less traveled in order to shave off some travel time, the last thing he expects is to wind up stranded in a roadside ditch in the middle of a downpour--or to fall into the arms of a beautiful woman.

Recently divorced, jobless, friendless and utterly alone, Poppy Montgomery is struggling to convince herself that single life is what she wants--needs. Then a handsome stranger staggers into her life and sparks fly. Riding out the storm together is bound to stir up heat, but once it passes, will they be able to walk away?

AUTHOR’S NOTE: STRANDED is the first in an interconnected series of erotic romance. Each book can be read as a stand alone, but you will find that each new character has been previously introduced in some way. As an introduction to the series, STRANDED is a novella, but rest assured each new addition will be a full length novel worth sinking your teeth into.

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ABOUT J.C. VALENTINE

J.C. Valentine is the USA Today and International bestselling author of the Night Calls and Wayward Fighters Series and the Forbidden Series. Her vivid imagination and love of words and romance had her penning her own romance stories from an early age, which, despite being poorly edited and written longhand, she forced friends and family members to read. No, she isn’t sorry.

J.C. earned her own happily ever after when she married her high school sweetheart. Living in the Northwest, they have three amazing children and far too many pets and spend much of their free time together enjoying movies or the outdoors. Among the many hats she wears, J.C. is an entrepreneur. Having graduated with honors, she holds a Bachelor’s in English and when she isn’t writing, you can find her editing for fellow authors.

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Rose Petal Graves by Olivia Wildenstein

The story is about Catori, everyone calls her Cat. One day while away at college she gets a call from her father. The absolute worse has happened her mother has suddenly passed away. Cat returns to Rowan. Rowan is a small town that was founded 2 centuries ago by the Gottwa Indians and are Cat's ancestors. 

When Cat arrives home she finds the medical examiner on her porch. This may sound strange to some but Cat's home is in the middle of the cemetery and is used to store the bodies until the funerals.

Cat does not believe that her mother passed away from a heart attack and begins searching for answers. Things go from sad to weird very quickly.

I am giving this book a 4 star rating because of the ending. A book should never been ended mid story. It like cutting it off mid chapter. I would never end anything where this book ended. It just stopped at a very important part and one of the most suspenseful parts of the book. It kind of ruined the whole book for me I am very sorry to say. I was very in to the book and then it just stopped. I do not read a lot of series that can not be read as stand alones, but even the ones I have read at least ended one story and hinted to the next. 

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I love this rolling laundry sorter cart. I do have a small bathroom and my laundry room is down some stairs so the cart itself does set stationary in my bathroom. I love how the 3 different bins lift off and are easily carried to my laundry area. I love that I don't have to touch each and every piece of dirty laundry or have to sort it. I have one bin is set for whites, one for dark clothing, and one for light colored clothing. Even my husband can handle putting his dirty clothes in the right bin. When the bin is full I pick it up with the metal handles and carry out to the washer.

The whole cart is very light weight. The bins themselves are made out of a canvas type material. The bins actually just hang onto the cart so there is nothing crazy to have to do on laundry day, just pick up the bin and go. The bins each hold one full load of laundry.

There is also a net underneath That I lay the really nasty clothing on. My husband comes home covered in grease some days from work and I do not want to put those clothes in with any of my other laundry. I will also lay a piece of clothing on the net that has a stain and needs pre-treated. Laundry soap, dryer, sheets, pre-treaters and stuff like that could also set on the shelf.

The cart is one 4 very sturdy wheels. Not the plastic kind. These are metal. The 2 back wheels have locks on them so that the cart does not move around until you are ready to move it.

My only problem I had one one of the back wheels fits too loosely in the pre-drilled holes and does not stand up straight. This is not a huge problem for me since I will not be rolling it around.

I put this cart together by myself in less then 10 minutes. This cart comes with everything you need including all of the hardware and a allen wrench so you won't need a tool box to put it together. Would of been quicker but I kept dropping the included allen wrench when screwing the screws in.

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I am in love with this wedding ring set. My actual wedding band is a 8 mm band and now that it is summer it tends to stay damp under my band and sometimes my finger will break out from the dampness.

I wear a 7 1/2 but with no 1/2 sizes to choose from I purchased the size 8. They fit great with just a bit of looseness. I have been wearing these rings in place of my actual band for about a week now. The spot on my finger has cleared up very nicely and the rings are awesome. They looks so pretty on my hand, I love them.

I actually wore these to the beach over the weekend. The Grand kids and I  played in the sand and in the water. The rings came away from the beach as beautiful as when they arrived. The white gold plating has not come loose anywhere.

The main stone on the engagement ring is a 1.5ct Swarovski Crystal. It is surrounded by twists of tiny stones and the wedding band also has the same twists of tiny stones. The rings are very comfortable on my finger and the 2 bands together are skinnier then my actual wedding band, I hated not being able to wear my wedding rings when my finger got sore, but now that I have this I don't have to go ringless to let my finger heal.

The rings come shipped in a very nice gift box and would make a great gift. You also get a small shining cloth.

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NBTM: Less Than Human by Allen Long

Less Than Human

by Allen Long

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GENRE: Memoir

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BLURB:

In Less than Human, Allen Long tells the story of his often nightmarish childhood in the wealthy suburbs of D.C., the wonders and mysteries of teenage love, his ill-advised journeys into corporate America and a hellish marriage, and ultimate breakdown.  And yet, his story is mostly one of triumph.  He draws strength from the joys of fatherhood, he finds true love in his second marriage, and through working with psychotherapists and leading a life rich in self-examination, he overcomes both child abuse and the resulting PTSD, finally learning that instead of being less than, he is, indeed, human.

Less than Human follows an unconventional path, arranged as much by theme and association as by chronology.  These stories take many forms, from driving narrative to lyrical reverie, at times evoking mythic overtones, and this variety, along with an unflinching confrontation with the conditions and consequences of childhood abuse, create its own form of suspense--in what direction will this book take us next?

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Excerpt Three:

When I was in my twenties, I frequently wished my father would die and I had nightmares in which I yelled at him, telling him how much I hated him.  As I aged and made progress in psychotherapy, these dreams became more violent.  In addition to shouting at my father, I stabbed or strangled him to death.  Eventually, I stopped dreaming about my father.  

However, in 2012, Jamie, one of my brother Danny’s two sons, told me that he and his twin brother Rick hated going to our parents’ house alone on weekends when they were kids because invariably my father harshly spanked them.  I was outraged my father was still hitting children while in his sixties and my mother did nothing to protect them, just like before.  Had they learned nothing over the decades?

With this outrage came a new series of nightmares. In the most vivid one, I’m yelling at my father in the living room of my childhood home.  My father looks at me with eyes of utter evil and spreads his arms and shoulders in an odd and unnatural way that causes them to transform into a large pair of black wings.  While I look on with horror, my father morphs into a giant vampire bat and I wake up terrified.

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AUTHOR Bio and Links:

Allen Long was born in New York City and grew up in Arlington, Virginia.  He holds a B.A. in journalism from Virginia Tech, an M.A. in fiction writing from Hollins University, and an M.F.A. in fiction writing from the University of Arizona.  He has been an assistant editor at Narrative Magazine since 2007, and his fiction and memoirs have appeared in a wide variety of literary magazines.  He lives with his wife near San Francisco.

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Interview with Allen Long

As a kid did you write or make up stories?

Yes, I’ve been telling stories for as long as I can remember.  When my brother and I were kids, we had our own rooms, but we spent every summer sleeping in twin beds in our basement.  I told him a story every night that I made up on the spot.  In sixth grade, my teacher asked me to write a short story a week instead of completing the regular English assignments.

Where does most of your Character inspiration come from?

I think about what each character wants most in life and how his/her personality has been shaped by his/her environment and life experiences.

Do some qualities of your characters come from real people?

Yes.  Sometimes they come from friends, family, or people I’ve met or heard/read about.  Also, bits and pieces of myself often get woven into my characters.

What was the inspiration for your book?

My book is a memoir, so my life story was my inspiration.  My book is about how I overcame child abuse, PTSD, and a nightmarish marriage to finally find true love with my second wife Elizabeth.  We’ve been married twenty years.  The book also captures the most dramatic high and low points in my life.  Other subjects covered include the corrupt business world, teenage love, fatherhood, and a nervous breakdown.

What is your favorite spot to write?

I like to write in my upstairs study on a PC in silence.  I like for the house to be empty or for my wife to be absorbed with her cooking downstairs.

What advice would you give budding writers?

First, focus on producing the highest possible quality of work that you can.  Polish until you believe your story is virtually perfect and you can’t make it any better. It helps to work with an editor skilled in the use of language as well as story content and structure. Then turn your efforts toward getting the story published.  When I was young, I wanted to finish a story as quickly as possible so I could send it to magazines.  Now I work patiently on a story until I feel it’s perfect.  One story took me five years to complete!  However, since I’ve been following this approach, I usually have my story or memoir accepted by a magazine within about six weeks of me sending it out.

Second, realize you’re going to have to write a lot of drafts of your story to get it right.  I’m an assistant editor at Narrative Magazine, and one of the primary reasons I reject stories is that author’s take too long to get the story off the ground.  For example, I’ll read a story where the author warms up for about six or seven pages before the story really starts to pop.  All of this warming up material should have been eliminated or condensed or moved in subsequent drafts so the story takes off on page 1.  I sent the first chapter of my book to my publisher.  The editor-in-chief read the first two pages of my manuscript and requested to see the entire book because he liked how fast my book gets off the ground.

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