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Friday, November 16, 2018

Third Strike by BJ Harvey

Title: Third Strike
Series: Chances #3
Interconnected Standalone - Final Book in Series
Author: BJ Harvey
Genre: Angsty Contemporary Romance
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Cover Design: BJ Harvey and Najla Qamber Designs



Falling for your best friend's sister has never felt so bad yet so damn right.

From USA Today Bestselling author BJ Harvey comes the third and final standalone in the Chance series, this time it's the much anticipated story of Drew and Ashley.

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I have a long history of acting first and thinking it through later. In fact, I'm the definition of a screw up.

Case in point - I’m having a baby with a woman I can’t stand, my ex is now my best friend’s wife, and I’m in love with a woman I can never have.

My biggest secret is falling for my best friend’s sister twelve years ago.

My biggest mistake is thinking I could live without her.

And now my biggest regret is the look on her face the moment I tell everyone I’m already married to the woman they hate most.






I cross back to the VIP booth to tell Millen I’m calling it a night. He quirks a brow at my announcement but thankfully, the petite blonde draped over his side distracts him before he can question me and I have to lie to him again.
Waiting in the lobby, I call for the penthouse elevator as soon as Ash arrives. Her hands are grasped in front of her as she wrings her fingers together.
I reach out and snake my arm around the small of her back, pulling her sideways and around. Her front is pressed into mine as I walk her in and press the button for our floor. She braces her hands on my chest and looks up at me.
Cupping her jaw, I reach out and rest my other hand on her hip, making sure I have her complete attention. “This is your night, Ash. You call the shots. You say how much and how far we go, and in no way . . .” I flex my fingers to accentuate my point, “. . . absolutely no way am I going to pressure you to do anything you’re not ready for.”
“But you’ve done this before. You’re so experienced . . .”
I shake my head. “I’m not experienced at this: wanting someone so damn much that it’s a struggle to keep myself in check. I’m scared I’m the one not ready when there’s nothing I want more.”
Her eyes widen. “How can you be scared?”
I smile as her hands start exploring my chest, her shock seemingly gone, her curiosity taking over. My cock—already halfway there—goes hard as fucking stone, pulsing when she tentatively rolls her hips against mine. “Everybody remembers losing their virginity. I’ve never been someone’s first, so let’s just say there could be a little performance anxiety at play here.”
She pushes her hips forward again, this time not so shy, and gifts me with a mischievous smile. “Doesn’t feel like there are any problems in that department, but I look forward to finding out for myself.”
I kiss her, hard, fast, and dirty, filled with the promise of everything that’s to come. “What am I going to do with you?” I whisper against her jaw when we pull apart.
The final ding of the elevator signals the end of our ride.
Stepping back, she holds her hand out. With a racing heart and a warring conscience, I lace my fingers with hers and follow her into her suite.

“Let’s go, and you can show me.”




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BJ Harvey is the USA Today Bestselling Author of the Bliss Series. She regards herself as a smut peddler, suspense conjurer, and a funny romance thinker upper. An avid music fan, you will always find her singing some hit song badly and loving every minute of it. She’s a wife, a mom to two beautiful girls, and hails from what she considers as the best country in the world—New Zealand—although she currently lives in Perth, Australia.



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Spiced Holiday Kisses

Title: Spiced Holiday Kisses: A Small Town Holiday Romance Anthology
Author: Alyne Hart ~ Kara Liane ~ Harlow Layne ~ Kelsey Cheyenne ~ Larissa Gail ~ Syd Ryan
Genre: Contemporary Romance 
Release Date: November 15, 2018



Authors Alyne Hart, Kara Liane, Syd Ryan, Kelsey Cheyenne, Harlow Layne and debut author Larissa Gail come together to create a sizzling collection of holiday inspired stories. Outside the weather is getting colder, but these stories have all the heat and spice you need to stay warm!

Can a focused romance novelist and a playboy bachelor survive a snowstorm when they get stuck in a hotel room together? From Alyne Hart comes a blizzard to remember and enough heat to melt your kindle. 

Kara Liane delivers a camo-covered Christmas tale, sure to be sweet and spicy like a yummy candy cane. Get your boots in gear! 

Watch tinsel fly when the headstrong nurse gets caught under the mistletoe with the driven administrator. Can they find holiday cheer or will they end up on the naughty list? Syd Ryan depicts a night almost too hot to handle.

Kelsey Cheyenne brings a sweet and hilarious holiday tale about two friends reconnecting. It’s Thanksgiving with the family, what could possibly go wrong?

One accident, a one-night stand, two hearts and some mistletoe. Harlow Layne shows us what happens when the ball drops on New Year’s...

One dominant rancher and one headstrong veterinarian. Get snowed in for a sizzling Christmas story by Larissa Gail that will warm you up on a cold winter night.











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#Vacay by Cambria Hebert


#Vacay
Cambria Hebert
Publication date: December 3rd 2018
Genres: Contemporary, New Adult, Romance

A #Hashtag and BearPaw Resort Crossover Novella

VACATION MODE ON

#Vacay Itinerary:

—Make new friends

—Meet a big dog

—Kiss in the snow

—Don’t get lost

—Ignore the press

—Don’t make national news

—Drink all the cocoa

—Wear all the hoodies

—Eat all the food

—Get lit!

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Author Bio:

Cambria Hebert is an award winning, bestselling novelist of more than twenty books. She went to college for a bachelor’s degree, couldn’t pick a major, and ended up with a degree in cosmetology. So rest assured her characters will always have good hair.

Besides writing, Cambria loves a caramel latte, staying up late, sleeping in, and watching movies. She considers math human torture and has an irrational fear of chickens (yes, chickens). You can often find her running on the treadmill (she’d rather be eating a donut), painting her toenails (because she bites her fingernails), or walking her chorkie (the real boss of the house).

Cambria has written within the young adult and new adult genres, penning many paranormal and contemporary titles. Her favorite genre to read and write is romantic suspense. A few of her most recognized titles are: The Hashtag Series, Text, Torch, and Tattoo.

Cambria Hebert owns and operates Cambria Hebert Books, LLC.

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All the King's Horses by Kim Congram




Title: All the King's Horses

Series: Katura Chronicles #1
Author: Kim Congram
Genre: Women's Fiction/Action
Release Date: November 15, 2018




Blurb


There are three ways you become a Monarch
1. Born to it
2. Marry into the family
3. Take it

They stole it

And I had a choice: 
Fall into line, serve our new King, or fight.

My new motto?


It’s only treason if you lose.










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I took one look at the oncoming wall of people and broke the
line. There were too many; we’d be crushed, they’d be injured. It was too
dangerous. Around me, soldiers made similar calls, stepping back, moving out of
the panicked protester’s way. Some tried standing their ground, only to fall
under the first wave. 
"Fall back! Fall back! Let them through!" I ordered, screaming into
my radio. "Fall back! Let them through! Fall back!" 
Some listened, others didn't. I didn't know if they could hear me. It was
pandemonium. It was chaos. 
It was war. 
I watched in horror as a soldier, panicked, started beating a woman who’d run
into him with his baton. She desperately tried to push him away, twisting to
avoid him, trying to move towards the exit. She managed one step before his arm
came down cracking her on the head. She went down, landing on the street,
immediately swallowed by the wave of stampeding feet.
"With me!" I screamed, surging through the crowd, eyes on the spot
the woman had gone down. I prayed someone was behind me. I fought against
the people, using my shield as a weapon. I was pushed, shoved, and beaten as I
clawed my way to where she'd fallen. I stepped on her arm. Immediately pulling
my foot back, I looked down. Her face was a bloody mess, her body completely mangled
with blood and bruising. I stepped over her, bracing a foot on either side, the
soldier who'd hit her nowhere to be found. I held my shield up as still more
people streamed through the narrow entrance, eyes panicked, bodies
bloody. 


What the fuck was going on? 



My radio crackled, but I couldn't hear it over the screaming and thunder of the
crowds. A child tripped beside me. I snapped out a hand, hurling him up,
pushing him behind me. He clung to my leg, whomever he'd been with already lost
in the crowd, pushed along by the surge. 


Fuck. 



A soldier appeared beside me. The guy from earlier. 
"Colonel!" he yelled, struggled to be heard over the crowd. He
braced, lacing his arm with mine, crouching we shuffled slightly, moving to
fully cover the woman. The kid kept clinging to me, his small arms and legs now
wrapped completely around my leg. 
"She's bad," the guy said as the crowd started to thin. 
"I know." Her legs looked broken, and she had to have internal
injuries. Her face was a complete mess. 
"She won't be the only one." 
His arm flexed around mine, but we didn't move. We couldn't. We had to hold, or
we'd all go under. I could see the end of the crowd, the line of soldiers three
deep, followed by a row of trucks. 
"Shit," the soldier yelled. "This is some dystopian
shit!" 
I grunted, shifting my grip on the shield. "Pray the truck is for
casualties." 
The crowd thinned, light enough I could shift into a crouch, my hand going
immediately to the woman's neck. 
"Pulse," I reported. "Weak as shit. She's bad." 
"But alive," he pointed out. "We’ve got to get her
help." 






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Kim Congram
is a transplant to Australia’s capital, Canberra. Kim loves it for the food,
the weather, the mountains and even the roundabouts.

She is a
part-time writer, full-time worker bee and lover of all things romance. Kim
lives with the hero of her own love story and their dachshund in their house
full of books.



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Love Over Logic by Diana A. Hicks





Title: Love Over Logic

Series: Desert Monsoon #2

Author: Diana A. Hicks
Publisher: Hicks Media Group, Inc.

Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: November 15, 2018





Blurb


Attorney, Emilia Prado has been living in hiding, ever since the local
cartel killed her dad and left her and her mom for dead. But when her long lost
cousin needs help leaving her drug lord husband, Emilia knows her time for
justice has come.

Hot shot lawyer, Dom Moretti never met a case he couldn’t win. Each win
puts distance between him and an old life he wants to forget. But when Emilia,
a crush from law school, asks for his help, the life he worked so hard for
hangs in the balance.

Out to even the score, Emilia is ready to enact revenge on her father’s
killer. But will she risk losing Dom to a side of himself he thought was
dead and buried?








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“Dammit,
Emilia. Of course, my offer still stands.”
I closed my
eyes for a moment, a smile pulling at my lips before I let go of his hand.
“First things first. How are we going to get past the Dragon Lady?”
He
chuckled. A sexy sound that reminded me Dom Moretti was in my room—and we were
alone. “Your mom? She seems like a sweet woman.”
“Yeah,
until you say no to her.” When it came to the cartel, Mom didn’t fool around.
She’d seen firsthand what they could do and how fast. No way in hell she was
letting me stay in Phoenix another night, but I had to. After all this time, I
finally had a chance to go after the asshole who killed my dad.
“Why are we
saying no to your mom?” He sat on the bed, toying with the small flower vase on
my nightstand. Nervous energy.
“Because
I’m not going with her.”
“Yes, you
are. What part of there’s a hit on you do I need to explain again?
You’re leaving with your mom. Tonight.”
“You said
you were going to help me.”
“And that’s
exactly what I’m doing. I’ll allow you a continuance. Thirty days should be
plenty of time for me to find out who Levi is. If he is what you say, I’ll nail
his ass to the wall. I promise you that.”
He sounded
so convincing. If he hadn’t used his lawyer voice, I would’ve believed him. Dom
didn’t understand who my cousin’s husband was. He wasn’t just another crook. I
kneaded the numb spot below my hip bone where his bullet went through me the
day he killed Dad. The scar he’d left behind was an IOU. And it was time he
paid.
“You know
that’s not what I need from you.” I threw a pair of jeans in the suitcase,
which took up half the bed.
“You’re
wasting time.” He adjusted his weight on the mattress, moved a few decorative
pillows out of the way, and then froze. Oh, shit. “What is this?” The
infuriating smirk on his face said he knew exactly what was in the small
lingerie bag he pulled out from under my pillow. Why didn’t I hide it better?
Oh, yeah, because never in a million years did I think Dom would end up in my
room. “Wait. Don’t answer that. What I really want to know is why is my name on
it?”
“It was a
joke.”
“How long
have you had this joke?” He pressed his lips together, his chest bouncing a
little. It was all he could do not to burst out laughing.
“Your
inflated ego must be loving this, but trust me, it’s not what you think.” I
resumed the task of folding my clothes and arranging them in my luggage. Maybe
if I pretended having a dildo with his name on it wasn’t a big deal, he’d let
it go.
“There’s a
vibrator under your pillow with my name on it. You betcha my ego is loving
this.” He bit the inside of his lip, gripping the contents of the bag. Why was
this turning me on? He planted his feet on the carpet and stood, taking his
time. His prowl was a promise that the real Dom would be a thousand
times better than the chargeable device in his hand. “You want me. Why do you
push me away?”
He pressed
his chest against the side of my arm. I couldn’t turn to face him. If I did,
we’d end up doing what we had started last night at the bar.
“I’ve spent
the last ten years in hiding because of what my dad did for a living. You saw
today what Jess is going through with her husband. I don’t want that for
myself.”
“I am not
like them.” His tone was terse and cold. “But you’re right. You have your hands
full as it is. I have no right to spring my bullshit on you. So here’s what
we’re gonna—”
Shouts came
from the other side of the house. They were faint, but they unmistakably
belonged to Jess. “My cousin is here.”
“Time’s
up.” He moved so fast around the room, I felt like I was going in slow motion.
I dropped the bathroom essentials into a toiletry bag while Dom stuffed the
rest of my clothes in the suitcase and squeezed it shut.










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Diana A. Hicks is an award-winning author of steamy contemporary romance
and science fiction. Her latest release LOVE OVER LATTES, Book 1 in her Desert
Monsoon Series, was shortlisted for the 2018 Chatelaine Book Awards!!!



When Diana is not writing, she enjoys kickboxing, traveling, and indulging in the
simple joys of life like wine and chocolate. She lives in Atlanta and loves
spending time with her two children and husband.


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T-Bone by Vanessa Vale





Title: T-Bone
Series: Grade-A Beefcakes #2
Author: Vanessa Vale
Genre: Erotic Romance
Release Date: November 15, 2018




Blurb


Tucker Duke is a cattle rancher, but they don't call him T-Bone because of his steaks. And Colton Ridge? Prime cut. They're looking for a woman to share, to get between them and give her a double helping of big beef.


Ava Carter might be the new owner of the Raines Seed and Feed, but that doesn't mean she's tough as nails. She's definitely tough and has nails that are freshly manicured. When two hot cowboys set their sights on her, she realizes she doesn't stand a chance. Why should she?








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Vanessa Vale is the USA Today Bestselling author of over 30
books, sexy romance novels, including her popular Bridgewater historical
romance series and hot contemporary romances featuring unapologetic bad boys
who don’t just fall in love, they fall hard. When she’s not writing, Vanessa
savors the insanity of raising two boys, is figuring out how many meals she can
make with a pressure cooker, and teaches a pretty mean karate class. While
she’s not as skilled at social media as her kids, she loves to interact with
readers.



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