Beg for You by Sherilee Gray

Title: Beg For You

Series: Rocktown Ink #1

Author: Sherilee Gray

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Release Date: July 11, 2019

Ten years. Ten endless years I've waited to destroy the man who tore my family apart. But I never thought I'd get the chance... until his daughter walked into my tattoo parlour, looked me in the eye — and had no damned clue who I was.

I never planned on falling for Cassandra Deighton. She's silk scarves and manicures. I'm scars and rage. Yet I can't resist when she begs for more, my ice queen who burns with enough heat to sear the soul.

I need to end this. Before she finds out who I am. Before she gets hurt.

But I'm not the only one with secrets. We both have our scars, and if the truth comes out, we could lose everything…

Cal

She didn’t recognize me.

But then my name wouldn’t have tipped her off. Cal was a nickname, a shortened version of my surname Calero. Cassandra wouldn’t know that, Chris had called me by my first name, Joel.

Through a small gap, the only piece of glass door not covered in pictures, I watched Cassandra Deighton get into her car and shut the door.

Jesus. Even after ten years she still seemed as untouchable as she had then. That coating of frost she’d made sure I felt whenever I was around her hadn’t thawed. The only time I’d seen her soften was around her horses. Daddy’s perfect angel. She’d been an ice queen in the making back then. Is that who she was now?

What would her father say if he knew she was getting inked up? If he knew who was going to be decorating her rich-girl skin?

I gripped the handle. I needed to go out there before she left, put a stop to this, tell her that I’d made a mistake, that I couldn’t fit her in after all. But I couldn’t make my damn feet move. I fucking stood there and watched her drive away.

The last time I’d seen her she’d been walking up the stairs in her house, dressed to the nines, dolled up for one of her father’s fancy dinner parties. She hadn’t seen me, had missed the night’s entertainment when I’d been escorted from the property, whispers and looks of accusation following me as I was dragged out and told not to come back.

The poor Rocktown kid, the bad seed who had led Lyall Deighton’s perfect son astray then dared to show his ugly face at their doorstep and remind them of what had happened. All I’d wanted was to see if Cassandra was okay. I knew she’d been hurt, but I had no idea how badly.

That was the first time her father publicly blamed me for Chris’s death.

My fist collided with the doorframe, a rough growl erupting past my lips, rage a twisted knot in my gut. I should have followed her from my shop. I should have told her not to come back.

Would you be able to even form the damn words to tell her to take a hike?

I felt my skin heat and gritted my teeth. Yeah, I’d seen the horrified look on her face when she’d gotten a good look at me, the tilt of her head when my speech was slow, measured. It pissed me the fuck off. Frustration, the kind I hadn’t felt in a long time, settled in my gut. The TBI—traumatic brain injury—I’d suffered when I was thrown from the car had changed my whole life, and even after all this time I still had moments when I struggled with my speech. The words didn’t always come easy and I had to think hard, get them right in my head, before I spoke.

“Fuck.” Of all the tattoo shops Cassandra could have strutted her snooty ass into, she’d chosen mine. Why did I agree to work on her? I’d lost my motherfucking mind. Shit, if she knew who she’d asked to cover those scars…

Sherilee Gray is a kiwi girl and lives in beautiful New Zealand with her husband and their two children. When she isn't writing sexy, edgy contemporary and paranormal romance, searching for her next alpha hero on Pinterest, or fueling her voracious book addiction, she can be found dreaming of far off places with a mug of tea in one hand and a bar of Cadburys Rocky Road chocolate in the other.

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Murder in Palm Beach by Bob Brink

Murder Mystery 

Publisher: Precipice Press

The doorbell rings in the home of a prominent Palm Beach citizen, quickly followed by a shotgun blast that shatters a window, cracking the calm of a cool January night. Rodger Kriger falls to the floor, mortally wounded, leaving a wife and six children.

Murder in Palm Beach: The Homicide That Never Died is closely based on a sensational, real murder that happened in the posh ocean-side town in 1976. In the thin guise of fiction, the book contains shocking new information never before made public. Author Bob Brink, an award-winning journalist, was a newspaper reporter in the locale where the  assassination occurred. It made media headlines for 15 years.

An ambitious prosecutor pins the deed on Mitt Hecher, a hoodlum and karate expert. At Hecher’s trial, fellow jail inmates testify that he confessed. He is convicted and sentenced to the brutal and anarchic state prison at Raiford, where a stabbing a day and a killing a week are the “mean” average.

Judges repeatedly frustrate Hecher and several attorneys working without fees to get a new trial, as investigators pursue myriad scenarios. Meanwhile, his wife contracts a deadly disease.

Was Hecher innocent, and if so, who did it? Did the sons of a wealthy Cuban kill Kriger? Were the operators of a gambling enterprise out to get him? Was a love triangle the basis for the shooting? Did a vicious underworld figure do the bidding of a criminal gang? Was a prominent politician behind the slaying? Those are the questions seeking answers amid the exploration of issues of justice and power.

Murder in Palm Beach is the saga of a battle between a man whose swagger has sent him spiraling to the bottom and powerful, sinister forces determined to keep him there. It is a narrative of redemption wrapped in a mystery tale reeking with power, sex, and violence. It also contains a heart-rending love story.

 Excerpt

“Johnny Traynor?” “Who’s this?”

Palladin did not remember him sounding timorous. “An acquaintance from way back. Tom Palladin.”

“Oh, yes. I remember. Haven’t seen you around for a long time.”

“I had a little difficulty finding your new number. Finally got it from a friend of yours, Davey Ross.”

“Oh, yeah, I moved inland a few years ago.”

“You used to live near the Shore Club. I thought you liked hanging out there. Why would you want to leave the neighborhood?

“Well … to tell the truth, things got a little dicey.” “You talking about the Kriger murder?”

“Well … uh … yeah, sort of.”

“I’d like to get together with you and chat about that. I have some new information.”

“Yeah, I guess so. I don’t know if I have anything that will help you.”

“Where do you live?”

Traynor gave directions to a duplex apartment on the west side of West Palm Beach.

“How about two p.m. tomorrow?” Palladin asked.

“Yeah, that’s okay. I’m working on a guy’s car, and I’ve got plenty of time to finish it.”

“See you then.”

The neighborhood was seedy. Most of the houses were small, run-down, wood-frame structures. Early-model cars and trucks, the paint usually fading, occupied driveways, littered lawns, or sat on the street in front. Patches of dried grass sprinkled with pale green contrasted with splotches of bare, sandy earth, like the shabby clothes of a tramp with tatters that revealed his skin. Traynor’s duplex was the only property on the block that didn’t look slummy to Palladin: a white, concrete-block structure with sidewalks leading to two screen doors opening to wooden front doors. Prosaic, but the grass was mostly green, and the car in the driveway, only a few years old, looked well-cared-for.

He parked on the street and walked to the unit on the right.

Opening the screen door, he knocked.

It  struck  Palladin  like  a  light  flipped  on  in  a  dark   room.

Something was different about the man who opened the door. “Come  in,”  Traynor  said.  He  gestured  toward  an  armless,

cushiony chair. “Sit down. Want a beer? Or Coke? I mean, you want a Coca Cola?” Paladdin noticed he was unsteady.

“Thanks. Are you renting here?”

“No. I bought the duplex and rent out the other half. Gives me a little income.”

“Your place doesn’t look bad. Best one on the block.”

“I’ve gotta keep it up in order to rent it out. I rent it month-to- month and charge a big rate. A lot of my renters are people with criminal backgrounds like me who can’t find anyplace else. That’s why I bought this place. Nobody would rent to me.”

Palladin could see what had changed in the man. No longer exuding cocky self-confidence, he appeared timid, almost frightened. Sitting on the couch, smoking a cigarette, his hand trembled. Then it hit Palladin. Coke. The quick clarification of the offer of Coca Cola. Traynor was a cocaine addict.

“Let me tell you why I called. I found out something from a couple of sources. I know who shot Rodger Kriger.”

Palladin saw Traynor blanch. He looked without seeing at Palladin, then raised the cigarette to his lips with a shaky hand and took his time inhaling. He turned his head to blow the smoke away from his guest.

“I think you know who it is, too.”

Traynor leaned forward to the glass-topped coffee table

and snuffed his cigarette out in a small plastic ash tray. He straightened and looked away from Palladin, who noticed his face was grave.

“If it gets out that I told you this, I’ll prob’ly get killed.” He turned to look at Palladin. “You understand? You have to agree not to publish this.”

Palladin said he wouldn’t publish Traynor’s name, but would use the information he provided to dig for details about the murder. Traynor said he was okay with that.

“I drove the getaway car.”

About the Author

Bob Brink is a journalist who worked with the Palm Beach Post, The Associated Press in Chicago, Milwaukee Journal, Tampa Tribune, Joliet Herald-News, and Palm Beach Media Group (magazines). His byline has been on thousands of news stories, features, and entertainment reviews.

He has been a freelance writer for several years, and is the author of several books. To promote his current novel, MURDER IN PALM BEACH: The Homicide That Never Died, he has a website, www.bobbrinkwriter.com. From the site, he blogs on three passions: grammar, alternative health care, and socio-political issues.

Brink’s first book, A TALE OF TWO CONTINENTS: Jetting Across the Globe to Have a Baby, is a short memoir that he ghost-wrote for a woman. Almost simultaneously, he authored BREAKING OUT, a coming-of-age novel about a troubled young man. Recently, he compiled a book of short stories titled THE WAY IT WAS: Short Stories and Tall Tales.

Brink has won numerous writing accolades and several awards, including three for Palm Beach Illustrated, which won the Best Written Magazine award from the Florida Magazine Association after he became copy chief and senior writer.

He was a reporter for the Palm Beach Post when the crime that MURDER IN PALM BEACH is based on occurred. It was an enormously sensational event that was featured six years later on a national TV show, and made newspaper headlines for 15 years. A karate expert went to prison for the deed, but many doubted his guilt. A newspaper reporter spent years investigating, and made shocking discoveries about the assassination and the person behind it.

Besides dabbling in short-story writing over the years, Brink immersed himself in learning to play the clarinet and tenor saxophone. He performed many years with an estimable, 65-piece community symphonic band, and played a few professional big band gigs. He relegated music to the back seat after embarking on writing novels. He is a fairly proficient ballroom dancer and a health enthusiast.

A product of Michigan and Iowa, Brink has a bachelor’s degree in English from Drake University in Des Moines and completed graduate journalism studies at the University of Iowa.

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MY SOUL TO GIVE by M. A. Fréchette

MY SOUL TO GIVE

A Demon’s Love

Book One

M. A. Fréchette

Genre: paranormal romance

Publisher: M. A. Fréchette

Date of Publication: September 21, 2019

ISBN: 978-1-9991360-5-5

ASIN: B07T9XZS2S

Number of pages: 342

Word Count: 92,000

Cover Artist: M. A. Fréchette

Tagline: Her soul for revenge—an easy choice. But is the price too high?

Book Description:

With a fatal bullet in her gut, Celina Leviet has only seconds to make a fateful decision. Join her murdered husband in death, or make a deal with a demon.

She doesn’t know how or why Mekaisto found her, but she doesn’t hesitate. In exchange for her soul, he’ll let her live long enough to wreak revenge. The catch? She must kill the murderers with her own hands.

The contract sealed, her skin carrying Mekaisto’s brand, Celina digs into her husband’s past. But every new revelation unravels everything about the man she loved. His company never existed. His family history was a lie. And he belonged to a shadowy religious order whose members know too much about demons.

Her emotions in shreds, she finds Mekaisto’s seductive charms harder to resist. But her dead husband’s secrets aren’t the only betrayal. As the final, shocking truth comes to light, she struggles with the darkest of choices—break her vow and surrender to the unknown, or succumb to the devil she knows.

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Excerpt:

She left the bathroom and headed to the kitchen. The criminal investigation team was outside, and some tension left her shoulders. A few dishes lay on the counter, so she put them away, her mind numbing. It was pointless since she wouldn’t be living here anymore, but the act of doing something familiar let her mind relax for a few seconds.

I’m leaving this place. Thomas won’t be with me anymore.

He’d been stressed after he’d got that phone call and she was too late to find out what had bothered him. She’d never be able to help him deal with whatever it was.

“What are you doing?” Kai asked.

She cleared her throat to make sure her voice wouldn’t crack too much. “Putting my dishes away.”

Kai’s arms wrapped around her from behind and she squeezed the plate in her hand, holding her breath. Somehow, affection from him was worse than if he held a knife to her throat.

His hand rested on her chest. “Strange how love is all inside a human’s mind, and yet your heart is the organ aching.”

She tore herself away from him. “I wouldn’t expect a demon to understand.”

“What makes you think I—”

“Look, I don’t want to talk about it with you. I’ve suffered enough.” The plate in her hand shook, and her fingers cramped as she tried to hold it steady.

“No, you have not suffered enough. You’d have chosen to die if you knew what’s coming.”

“Don’t talk as if you know how I feel, you fucking demon.” Her tears cooled the heated flush of her rage, and she hurled the plate at him.

Kai lifted his hand and the crockery shattered into fine dust at his feet. His eyes locked onto hers, and without a word, he grabbed her wrist and dragged her outside.

“What are you doing? Where are you taking me?” Her voice rose higher as she tried tugging away from him.

He stopped near the edge of the woods and faced her, his glowing eyes silencing her questions. His hand rose and black smoke seeped from the ground, sticking to everything it touched. Kai pulled her against him and clicked his fingers.

The smoke seeped into the surface of all that it covered, and her eyes widened. The plants and flowers withered and died, everything turned ashen as though burned. He went back to the house and she followed, glancing back at the destroyed area of the forest. Though no words were exchanged, she knew he had shown her what he could do as a warning. He wouldn’t just threaten her next time she attacked him.

Going back to the master bedroom, she grabbed a bag out of her closet to pack. Thomas’ clothes hung in front of her, and a lump in her throat constricted her breathing. She swallowed hard, trying to make it go away. Grabbing hold of a sleeve, she waited for Thomas to come up behind her to get ready for work. But no one was in the house except for her, and the demon.

About the Author:

M. A. Fréchette writes the darker side of romance.

Being an extremist, she loves both the dark aspects of life and everything sweet. All her stories are either set in Canada where she lives or in alternate worlds she made up while living within her imagination. When not writing, she thinks of the next scene or plot while enjoying her work as a cover designer. Although she has a fascination for monsters, with a bachelor degree in criminology, she understands there’s no need to create the paranormal; humans are capable of inflicting nightmares of their own.

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Till I Found You by Michelle Fernandez

Till I Found You
Michelle Fernandez
Publication date: September 3rd 2019
Genres: Adult, Romance, Suspense

Former Navy SEAL, Julian “Booker” Cruz, joined an elite security ops agency with one goal in mind: to forget his past. With the overload of work, there’s no time for romance, nor does he want it. His rule—don’t mix business with pleasure. Until one assignment puts that rule to the test. Chloe Channing is not to discover his undercover role as her protective detail from an unknown psychopath. But as their days pass together in tropical paradise, it becomes difficult to keep his desire from compromising everything. Including her safety.

All Chloe wants is to remember, but so much of her memory was lost after her assailant left her unconscious. On a summer trip with friends at her family’s estate in the Bahamas, she yearns for the quiet respite from a previous heartbreak and her tortured nightmares. She never expects a man like Julian to help her find emotional peace and physical healing. But as she falls deeper, her flashbacks slowly come together, and they include glimpses of one handsome, mysterious, yet all-too-familiar face: Julian’s.

Is Chloe’s mind playing tricks on her again… or has she met this man before?

Even if Julian could let go and risk it all, could he ever forgive himself enough to fall in love again?

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Michelle is a wife, mother and an avid reader of multi-genres. She's always been passionate about reading and impressed by the influence it has on people. Which is why she started writing in the first place. Romance suspense is her most favorite genre. The damsel heroine and the alpha gentleman hero are who she writes about. It started as a hobby. One chapter turned into ten, then a novel was born. Making up worlds and characters for readers to fall in love with, is the most rewarding for her. May her words give you the 'feels' and may it be an unputdownable book!

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Lacewood: A Novel of Time and Place by Jessica James

5*
Jessica James had me from page one with this book. I loved everything about this book the couple of ghost sightings, the genealogy, the shadows of the past, the mystery, the friendship, the healing ETC

The story is described so clearly you can see everything in your minds eye as if you are actually there. The book was not overly described with useless descriptions f people, places, and things that lend nothing to the story. I personally really appreciate that.

Reluctant New York socialite Katie McCain decides to take a detour on a return trip from Washington DC home to New York. Her Grandmother passed away several years ago when Katie was a teenager. Katie remembers spending time with hr Grandmother as the happiest time in her young life. While on the detour Katie runs across Lacewood Mansion in the middle of nowhere. The Mansion and grounds are abandoned and over grown, but something about the place beckons to Katie and impulsively she buys it.

Katie decides to restore the home and do as much as possible by herself. A she beings she starts finding clues from thee past of the family who lived there 150 years before. The more
she discovers about the family the more she feels at home in  Lacewood.

This is where we meet hometown hero Will Durham. Home from the war with a bit of PTSD and a lots of remorse after not being able to save his best friend. Will is sullen and hard to read for Katie but he decides to help her with restore the house if he can live in the caretakers cabin. Katie agrees. This is also where the love story begins.

The book is broken down into 3 parts. Part 1 is the build up to the love story. Part 2 is Annie's story. Annie is the past owner. Than Part 3 is the end of the book and the culmination of the first 2 parts and their love story.

The Outlaw MC: Bad Boy Blake The Outlaw MC: Bad Boy Blake by Tanya Colt 3.39 avg rating — 217 ratings published 2014 After going through a divorce, Melissa turns her life upside down. Leaving for a new city and a new life, she meets Blake. Bad boy Blake. He’s a young, dominant biker and is ready to show Melissa a li ...more Preview by Tanya Colt

3*

This book took less than a 1/2 hour to read. Which I did not realize when I decided to read the book, My on fault. I love MC based books but this one left me flat. It was very rushed so I did not have time to connect with the characters at all. The book is named Bad Boy Blake, being as the book is named for him you would think you would get back story on him but no. The book is written from Melisa's side, you do get a bit of her back story. There are 2 sex parts in this book. Thy are hot and very graphic. I have to say I would not of handled the 2nd scene like Melisa did at all I would of killed Blake personally. If you want a quick hot read grab this book. You could be through it before your lunch break ends.

Pirates and Petticoats Series by Chloe Flowers

If
You Give a Smuggler a Secret

Pirates
and Petticoats Book 1

by
Chloe Flowers

Genre:
Historical Romance Adventure 

*NOTE:
This is the *sexy version* of the novel The
Heart of a Tempest, (Book 1 of The Hearts of Adventure Sweet
Romance Series).

If
you give a smuggler a secret, He'll demand a kiss to keep it...

A
lady plotting her way out of an arranged marriage.

A smuggler with
a cryptic invitation to a clandestine meeting.

A group of pirates
out for revenge.

It’s the perfect storm.

She’s
acting a charade and he knows it. The question is~will he demand
compensation for keeping her secrets?

Silly
question. Of course he will. The bigger question is~will she be able
to afford the cost of his silence?

From
the moment he discovered her with a sword in one hand, dagger in the
other sparring in a hidden meadow, smuggler and ship’s captain
Landon Hart has been intrigued by that independent, spirited tempest,
Keelan Grey. But, he isn’t prepared for the impact she has on his
tightly-guarded heart, or the trouble she manages to attract.

From
the moment he happened upon her secret training, Keelan knew Landon
Hart was going to be a storm on her horizon. With an assassin killing
off members of her family one by one, and a father trying to arrange
a marriage between her and a vile plantation owner, Keelan had enough
on her plate without an exasperating, rakishly handsome, ship’s
captain getting in the way of her plots and schemes.

When
Landon’s own dangerous secrets collide with Keelan’s, it’s the
perfect storm.

If
you enjoy historical romance and action and adventure, entwined with
charismatic characters and a rich, entertaining plot you’ll love
The Pirates & Petticoats Series. 

(Want
sweet romance instead? Read Chloe Flowers’ The Hearts of Adventure
Sweet Romance Series!)

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The
Heart of a Tempest

The
Hearts of Adventure Book 1 

*NOTE:
This is the *clean and wholesome version* of the
novel If You Give a Smuggler a Secret, (Book 1 of The
Pirates & Petticoats Series by Chloe Flowers).

A
lady plotting a way out of an arranged marriage. A smuggler with a
cryptic invitation to a clandestine meeting. A group of pirates out
for revenge. It’s the perfect storm.

She’s
acting a charade and he knows it. The question is~will he demand
compensation for keeping her secrets?Silly question. Of
course he will. The bigger question is~will she be able to afford the
cost of his silence?

From
the moment he discovered her with a sword in one hand, dagger in the
other, smuggler Landon Hart has been intrigued by that independent,
spirited tempest, Keelan Grey. But, he isn’t prepared for the
impact she has on his tightly-guarded heart, or the trouble she
manages to attract.

From
the moment he happened upon her secret training, Keelan knew Landon
Hart was going to be a storm on her horizon. With an assassin killing
off members of her family one by one, and a father trying to arrange
a marriage between her and a vile plantation owner, Keelan had enough
on her plate without an exasperating, rakishly handsome, ship’s
captain getting in the way of her plots and schemes.

When
Landon’s own dangerous secrets collide with Keelan’s, it’s the
perfect storm.

If
you enjoy historical romance and action and adventure, entwined with
charismatic characters and a rich, entertaining plot you’ll love
The Hearts of Adventure Sweet Romance Series. (Want
sexy romance instead? Read Chloe Flowers’ Pirates & Petticoats
Series!)

**Only
99 cents!!**

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Chloe
supports the National Breast Cancer Foundation.

Chloe
Flowers is an award-winning author and the recipient of the
University of Akron, Wayne College 2018 Writer of the Year Award. She
writes small town contemporary women’s fiction, and historical
women’s action and adventure romance novels about scoundrels,
pirates, and spunky, independent heroines.

Chloe
keeps bees, and identifies her hives by the different flowers she
paints on them. Her pets have always been named after her favorite
characters or action heroes: Indiana, Luke, Gimli, Thelma, Rocket,
Forrest, Al Giordino, Severus, Mushu, Mérida, Gibbs, Jack…Dead
Pool (he’s a goldfish).

Chloe’s
biggest fault is the apparent inability to say “no” whether it’s
in response to a call for aid or a double-dog-dare to hike home
through 30 acres of a snow-covered forest at midnight…during a full
moon. It was early morning during said adventure when she came upon a
group of sheriff’s deputies searching for a lost girl. So, of
course she offered to help (turns out, they were searching for her).

She
is a member of the Romance Writers of America, Northeast Ohio Romance
Writers and RWA Contemporary Romance Writers, The Beau Monde Romance
Writers group, where she served as secretary 2017-2019.

She
has given workshops and presentations on creating a critique group,
how to provide effective critiques, story structure, marketing and
self-publishing lessons to writers groups, library patrons and school
children.

In
2014, she started her own small publishing company, Flowers &
Fullerton. Currently, she’s the publisher of record for authors
Sheridan Jeane, Heather Knight, H.O. Knight as well as herself.

Chloe
has a weakness for good red wine, Calvin & Hobbes comics, pie,
dark chocolate and brown-eyed guys with beards, which is probably why
she digs pirates, men in uniform and treasure hunters and writes
about action and adventure and of course romance, which is the
greatest adventure of all.

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