Resisting the Rancher by Kadie Scott by Addison Moore

Resisting the Rancher
Kadie Scott
(Hills of Texas #2)
Published by: Tule Publishing
Publication date: July 30th 2018
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance

First comes marriage, then comes…

Rusty Walker has spent her entire life trying to earn her tough, ranching father’s respect and approval by learning the business inside and out. But now her uncompromising parent has decreed she must marry if she wants to inherit. Worse, her husband has to be someone who can help her run the business. As if she needs it!

Williams Hill kissed Rusty in a bar in an act of temporary insanity, and lost his heart to her on the spot. Despite the complications to his own rodeo stock business, he agrees to marry the feisty red-head, hoping to woo her once they’re hitched. But she only views him with suspicion and resentment.

Can this soft-spoken Texas cowboy convince his proud wife, who’s never known unconditional love, that she is everything he wants?

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Williams Hill dragged his hand over his face as he sat in his truck at a stoplight in Estes Park, Colorado. After two straight days of driving up from Texas, he was ready to reach his destination of the rodeo grounds in the small Rocky Mountain town. Flexing his shoulders to work out the kinks, he happened to glance over at the vehicle stopped next to him.

Everything in him froze… then released in a pent-up laugh.

The woman driving a shiny new black Ford truck was gorgeous with high cheekbones and pouty lips. Her long hair was pulled back in a ponytail, so he couldn’t quite make out the color, but her appearance wasn’t what had made him laugh.

She was clearly enjoying a favorite song—singing and dancing for all she was worth, without a care in the world for who might be watching. He chuckled again as she did a little shoulder shimmy. Adorable was the word that struck him, and he was strangely affected, an instant attraction coiling inside in a way that surprised him.

He wasn’t an instant attraction kind of guy.

Suddenly, she glanced toward him and stilled as she discovered her audience. Her eyes went wide and she sent him a sheepish grin. He smiled back and pretended to tip an imaginary hat. However, instead of another smile, she went cold on him, eyes hardening, lips thinning. She whipped her head around to face forward, her chin in the air, and didn’t glance his way again. She definitely didn’t start singing again. Not that she would have had much time, because the light changed a second later.

She was quick to hit the gas, faster on the draw than Will, who was still blinking at her abrupt about-face. He almost expected her windows to frost with the drop in temperature in there. A flash of bright pink on her back window caught his attention as she drove ahead of him. For the second time in a handful of minutes, Will chuckled. The sparkly sticker on the back of her truck read Silly Boys, Trucks are for Girls. Lips tipped in amusement, he shook his head.

At the next light, she went straight when he turned, which meant she probably wasn’t there for the rodeo. He gave a mental shrug. Wouldn’t be seeing her again. Probably for the best, since he was here to work.

Author Bio:

Award-winning contemporary romance author, Kadie Scott, grew up consuming books and exploring the world through her writing. She attempted to find a practical career related to her favorite pastime by earning a degree in English Rhetoric (Technical Writing). However, she swiftly discovered that writing without imagination is not nearly as fun as writing with it.

No matter the genre, she loves to write witty, feisty heroines, sexy heroes who deserve them, and a cast of lovable characters to surround them (and maybe get their own stories). She currently resides in Austin, Texas, with her own personal hero, her husband, and their two children, who are growing up way too fast.

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When Daddy Wasn't Looking by Lola StVil

Title: When Daddy Wasn't Looking

Author: Lola StVil

Genre: Daddy's Best Friend/Insta-love Short Story

Release Date: January 23, 2019

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Hawk Denton
My best friend would kill me if he knew the dirty things that come to mind when
I look at his only daughter. 

She's innocent. Untouched. Barley legal. She should never
be involved with greasy biker like me. But when she gets a job working in
my bar, all bets are off. I don’t care about the consequences. Lucy is
mine. I will mark her so the whole world knows she belongs to me; only
me. 

Lucy Grace

I want my first time to be with a real man--Hawk Denton. He stayed
away because he thought of me as too virtuous, but there is nothing chaste
about what I want him to do to me. And now that we will be around each other
all day and all night, I'll do whatever it takes to unleash the beast he's been
keeping at bay. 

WARNING: He's an over-the-top, possessive, "take what he wants"
Alpha. If you like that, then you're in for a nice (and dirty) ride. 
Please note: This is a safe stand alone, short story with no cliffhangers. And
yes, a very happy ending. Readers 18 yrs and up. 

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Lola StVil
is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author who writes Fantasy in
addition to Contemporary romance. She has written over a dozen books and loves
taking her readers on an emotional roller coaster ride. She is currently living
in California and enjoys staying in touch with her readers.

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The Princess of Baker Street by Mia Kerick

The Princess of Baker Street
Mia Kerick
Published by: Harmony Ink Press
Publication date: January 22nd 2019
Genres: Contemporary, LGBTQ+, Young Adult

“Always wear your imaginary crown” is Joey Kinkaid’s motto. For years, Joey, assigned male at birth, led the Baker Street kids in daring and imaginative fantasy adventures, but now that they’re teenagers, being a princess is no longer quite so cool. Especially for a child who is seen by the world as a boy.
Eric Sinclair has always been Joey’s best friend and admirer—Prince Eric to Joey’s Princess Ariel—but middle school puts major distance between them. As Eric’s own life takes a dangerous turn for the worse, he stands by and watches as Joey—who persists in dressing and acting too much like a Disney princess for anybody’s comfort—gets bullied. Eric doesn’t like turning his back on Joey, but he’s learned that the secret to teenage survival, especially with and absent mother, is to fly under the radar.
But when Joey finally accepts who she is and comes to school wearing lip gloss, leggings, and a silky pink scarf, the bullies make her life such a misery that she decides to end it all. Eric, in turn, must decide who he really is and what side he wants to stand on… though no matter what he chooses, the consequences with be profound for both teens, and they’ll face them for years to come.
Is there a chance the two teens can be friends again, and maybe even more?

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Every day’s basically the same—it’s like the lunchtime bullying plan is set in stone, and it’s only the end of September. And it’s way worse than it was last year, even though he sat alone then too. Travis gets to sit at the jock table, seeing as he’s on the county football team. He starts in on Joey as soon as he sets his rear end on the bench and drops his lunch tray onto the sticky table. For Travis, “bullying Josie” is sort of like a bad habit he just can’t kick. But I’m pretty sure he’d say it’s more like a hobby he’s real good at.
“All the way through sixth grade, Kinkaid wore a dress, like, every day after school—I kid you not.” He announces this loud enough for the jocks and the entire hot-girl table, and of course, lonely Joey, to hear. And even though Joey wasn’t hiding that he wore his mom’s purple dress after school when we all played together, blabbing about it makes me feel like we’re ratting him out.
An imaginary knife stabs into my gut and twists around. I try not to squirm and to keep my face blank, but it’s next to impossible because my belly hurts like I’m having a baby.
“You’ve got to be kidding me—he wore a freaking dress?” Miles Maroney is always the first guy to jump in whenever things start getting mean and dirty. “But I betcha Josie looked cute, if you go for gays.”
We all laugh, and I mean all of us.
I laugh even though I don’t want to. Because I still remember how it was: Joey was the Princess of Baker Street, and Travis and Emily and Lily and me all looked up to him as much as middle school kids look up to the guys on the soccer team now. Joey was the neighborhood kid with all the best ideas. None of us cared what he wore out to play—not even Travis.
“What a freaking princess!” yells Noah Mayer, and we all laugh some more because Noah is the starting forward on the soccer team, and we pretty much have to laugh at everything he says when he’s trying to be funny, or he won’t pass to us. Maybe I forgot to pay my brain bill, but I know how shit like this works.

Author Bio:
Mia Kerick is the mother of four exceptional children—one in law school, another a professional dancer, a third studying at Mia’s alma mater, Boston College, and her lone son, heading off to college. (Yes, the nest is finally empty.) She has published more than twenty books of LGBTQ romance when not editing National Honor Society essays, offering opinions on college and law school applications, helping to create dance bios, and reviewing scholarship essays. Her husband of twenty-five years has been told by many that he has the patience of Job, but don’t ask Mia about this, as it’s a sensitive subject.
Mia focuses her stories on the emotional growth of troubled people in complex relationships. She has a great affinity for the tortured hero in literature, and as a teen, Mia filled spiral-bound notebooks with tales of tortured heroes and stuffed them under her mattress for safekeeping. She is thankful to her wonderful publishers for providing her with an alternate place to stash her stories.
Her books have been featured in Kirkus Reviews magazine, and have won Rainbow Awards for Best Transgender Contemporary Romance and Best YA Lesbian Fiction, a Reader Views’ Book by Book Publicity Literary Award, the Jack Eadon Award for Best Book in Contemporary Drama, an Indie Fab Award, and a Royal Dragonfly Award for Cultural Diversity, a Story Monsters Purple Dragonfly Award for Young Adult e-book Fiction, among other awards.
Mia Kerick is a social liberal and cheers for each and every victory made in the name of human rights. Her only major regret: never having taken typing or computer class in school, destining her to a life consumed with two-fingered pecking and constant prayer to the Gods of Technology. Contact Mia at miakerick@gmail.com or visit at www.miakerickya.com to see what is going on in Mia’s world.

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Punish by Olivia Ryann

Title: Punish

Series: Protect #2

Author: Olivia Ryann

Genre: Dark Romance

Release Date: January 22, 2019

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Stolen and abducted… yet in the same stroke, saved.

On one hand, I escaped certain death at the hands of people
who have already hurt me.

On the other, now I’m trapped with him.

The rival of my abuser, who is every bit as terrifying. Dark
and sinfully handsome, he wants me.

He wants me to turn my back on the religion that has raised
me.

He wants me to spread my legs for him and him alone.

He wants to punish me. He wants to teach me to like his
lessons.

Or else he’ll kill my little sister and turn me over to the
men who controlled me before.

Either way, I will have to make sacrifices. Sacrifices that
have lasting consequences.

I walk on the knife’s edge between falling prey again and
completely losing myself.

And if I’m not careful, I may end up worse than dead...

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His lips brush my ear, his teeth touching the cartilage. Not
biting, but just so close. “You will scream my name and beg me for my cock. You
will fall from grace. Not only that, you’ll luxuriate in living with me, in the
shadows.”

Then he kisses my neck, his firm lips finding my pulse
point. He sucks at the skin, forcing his body against mine. He is so rough,
surely he will leave a mark.

 And I’m frozen, unable to move.

Thinking, not again. I can’t take it if another man does
what Father Derrik does to me. I confessed because it’s what Father Derrik said
that God wanted from me…

But where is God now?

Nowhere to be found, especially not within Dryas. 

Dryas lets me go all the sudden. I’m forced to catch myself
as I stumble a bit, righting my balance. I look at Dryas, my expression
hardening.

“You shouldn’t do that.”

He grins. “What? I shouldn’t make you fall in love with me?”

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Olivia Ryann is the dark romance pen name of Wall Street
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phrases and bits of melodic memories. She adores dominant, hard men and soft,
fragile women with backbones made of steel. She wants to put them together as
often as possible, in unconventional ways.

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Until by Danielle Norman

Title: Until

Series: Iron Orchids #5

Author: Danielle Norman

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Release Date: January 22, 2019

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In the final standalone installment of The Iron
Orchids Series, the gang returns...

I'm Stella Lang,
the opinionated, sassy boss. But I have a secret:  I'm scared. 

Scared of
rejection. 

Scared of
heartbreak. 

Scared of taking
a chance on Tristan Christakos and getting hurt. 

Because there are
bigger issues to face than my feelings.

We work
together. 

We play
together. 

Our families are
interwoven. 

If we can’t make
it work, we will hurt more than just us.

Unfortunately,
our attraction is impossible to ignore. 

Are we flirting with destiny? 

Maybe. 

But when we wind
up alone in Vegas. 

We think we have
it all…

Until a
life-altering secret lands in our hands. 

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final installment of The Iron Orchids Series but may be read and enjoyed as a
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Chapter One

Stopping in
front of the large faux-wood door that read: Staff Administration, I took a
deep breath and then knocked.

“Come in.”

One step
into the room, I froze because sitting in one of the chairs was Dr. McCreamy,
otherwise known as Tristan Christakos, the most gorgeous man to ever walk the
planet, the bane of my existence, and the best one-night stand ever. Yeah, he was
a mistake that I’d happily make or should I say do again.

Fuck.

Tristan
stood when I entered, as his damn well-bred, gentlemanly self had to do, which
only made me want to jump him even more. To make matters worse, he was wearing
a devilishly wicked smirk on his lips that made all of my parts take notice.

“Stella,
have a seat.” Louise Cameron’s back was ramrod straight as she sat in her
high-back, black pleather chair. If I were to base my visit on her posture
alone, I would say I was about to be canned.

The
hospital had a no fraternization policy. Although, they had allowed married
couples to work for the same hospital in the past, this all had to be reported
to admin, and they ultimately decided whether or not to keep both employees. In
situations like this when it was between a doctor and a nurse, they usually
ended up keeping the doctor since nurses were a dime a dozen. Was that fair?
Hell no.

I could
already feel the ire in me building and was ready to fight or at least not go
down without a fight.

I moved to
the chair opposite Tristan and plopped down. Okay, I knew that I possessed
little to no grace when I did that, but whatever, I was pissed. Turning to face
him, the heat in me rose as he continued to smirk. The asshole smirked. He knew
we were busted and he was safe. I’d never imagined him being so cruel.

But fuck a
duck if the man still wasn’t gorgeous. His eyes were the color of fresh coffee,
untainted by cream. And his skin . . . well, that was different a story, it was
cream with a dash of coffee.

“Stella,”
Mrs. Cameron began, “as you are aware, the hospital is building a genetics
study center in the hopes of being able to more easily find donor matches.
Every year, it seems that there is a bigger strain on our match and donor
resources. Not only from the state of perpetual emergency that we seem to be in
but also our advance technology in ultrasound imaging. As you know, we are able
to detect some birth defects as early as the first heart beat. We feel that it
is important as a level one trauma unit and a level-three neonatal ward that we
have this resource available to us twenty-four seven. We’ve been sending doctors
to different training sessions so they are up to date with all the current
technologies and tests.”

Tristan
cleared his throat, and I turned my attention back to him. “You may not be
aware of this, Stella, but my interest has always been with trying to negate
the rise in genetic birth defects that we see in our high-risk unit. But after
the strain on our resource bank for tissue, marrow, and blood, my research was
halted. This new genetic center will help me continue my focus.”

I listened
to Tristan’s explanation, but none of this made sense. Sure, his reasoning made
sense, but where I was lost was what in the hell any of this had to do with me.
My face must have shown my confusion because Mrs. Cameron finally slid a file
folder to me.

“There is a
pediatric genetics conference in Las Vegas next week, and we’ve been on the
waiting list. Yesterday, we found out that there had been a cancellation and
that Dr. Christakos has been invited. He has been asked to bring a nurse or
assistant, and he tells me that the two of you worked well together when you
were over in the Women and Children Center.”

I nodded
because we had worked well together, and she smiled.

“He’d like
you to accompany him to the conference and act as his assistant moving forward
as we get the genetic center established.”

Slow down
there, Polyester, he what? He wanted me to work with him?

He wanted
me to go to Vegas?

Me.
Tristan. In Vegas? Fuck yeah, where did I sign? Shaking my head, I turned to
looked at the olive skin Adonis with chocolate eyes that made me want to get on
my knees and say ten hail Mary’s and praise sweet baby Jesus.

Shit. I was
staring. Smacking my lips, I cleared my throat and then tried again. “Sure,
tell me whatever you need,” I said and watched as the corners of Tristan’s lips
pulled into an almost challenging smile. I had no clue what he was challenging
me to, but he knew better than to yank my chain because, let’s face it, I
yanked harder, and of the two of us, he was the only one with something to grab
ahold of and tug.

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Before becoming a romance writer, Danielle was a body double
for Heidi Klum and a backup singer for Adele. Now, she spends her days trying
to play keep away from Theo James who won’t stop calling her or asking her
out. 

And all of this happens before she wakes up and faces
reality where in fact she is a 50 something mom with grown kids, she's been
married longer than Theo’s been alive, and now get her kicks riding a Harley.

As far as her body, she can thank, Ben & Jerry’s for
that as well as gravity and vodka. But she says that she could never be Adele’s
backup since she never stops saying the F-word long enough to actually sing.

Danielle writes about kickass women with even better shoes
and the men that try to tame them (silly silly men).

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The Mindset Accountability Journal by Allie Hudson

Self-help, inspirational, motivational

Date Published: December 10, 2018

Publisher: Lucid Books

Are you stuck in a life you want to be different, but have no idea where to start?

The Mindset Accountability Journal will jump-start you to a life you can enjoy living every day. By establishing incremental daily habits, you will embark on a path to gratitude, self-growth, and fulfillment. This journal will help you:

·        Discover who you were meant to be

·        Shift your focus to what is good and wonderful in your life

·        Create an attitude of mindset growth

You will never regret taking charge of your life and living with gratitude. The journey is rewarding and challenging. It takes only 30 minutes each day to make progress with your future, one day at a time.

A portion of the book's proceeds will support BridgeHope, whose efforts enable survivors of exploitation and trafficking to THRIVE!

About the Author

Allie Hudson grew up in LaGrange, Ohio, and attended Moody Bible Institute, studying education. In 1991, she married Larry Sellers, who passed away of a heart attack in May 2009. In 2010, she married Michael Hudson who passed away of cancer just three years later. In January 2012, Allie lost her corporate job of 20 years because of downsizing in the newspaper business. Throughout this five-year period of three major losses, the only way she survived was to focus on God and trust that He had a plan for her life. After struggling to maintain a daily consistent practice of growth and gratitude, she began a 40-day challenge to practice gratitude and personal growth. That journey taught her the need to help other people develop a daily practice of thankfulness and inspired her to share 'The Mindset Accountability Journal' with the world.

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SwanSong by Allie McCormack

SwanSong
Allie McCormack
(Sons of the Desert, #1)
Publication date: March 4th 2019
Genres: Adult, Romance

Sarah Pendleton was born into a life of wealth and privilege, raised in the shadow of her famous soprano mother and her father, an equally famous composer. Shy and retiring, Sarah has left behind the world she grew up in to make her own life in the coastal town of Santa Barbara, California.

A visiting University professor of Arabic literature from the small oil-rich country of Taqara, Khalid Al Mansour is the eldest son of a Taqaran diplomat and an independent American artist. He’s never settled down in one place, but that’s because he’s never found what he wanted… until one evening he sees the lovely bellydancer at a small, smoky cafe downtown.

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A career medical transcriptionist, Allie McCormack is now writing from home full-time. Allie has traveled quite a bit and lived many places all over the U.S., and also a year in Cairo, Egypt as an exchange student, and a year in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia under contract to a hospital there, plus a short stint with NATO while she was in the Army. As a single mom, she raised a wonderful daughter who's recently married and there are plans afoot for grandchildren. A disabled veteran, Allie now lives in the beautiful Sorona Desert in southern Arizona with her two rescue cats and writes full-time.

Allie says: "A writer is who and what I am... a romance writer. I write what I know, and what I know is romance. Dozens of story lines and literally hundreds of characters live and breathe within the not-so-narrow confines of my imagination, and it is my joy and privilege to bring them to life, to share them with others by writing their stories."

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