Release Day Blitz: Cruel and Beautiful by A.M. Hargrove & Terri E. Laine

Goodreads reviewers love Cruel and Beautiful:

"a romance that will break your heart and melt it at the same time"

"heart-breakingly good"

"This book is about love, the truest and purest kind there is."

"heartwarming and gut wrenching"

"I haven't cried so hard over a book in a good while."

"Beautiful. Simply beautiful."

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Cate Forbes, a dedicated college student with a carefully plotted future, doesn’t know the first thing about love. When she accepts a blind date with a rumored tasty piece of eye candy, she thinks she can get by with a night of fun. Cate’s plans quickly unravel when she gets one look at the sexy…

Drew McKnight.

The relentless hockey-playing medical resident knows what he wants—a career in Oncology and Cate. Although he’s heard the gorgeous brunette is a little relationship skittish, a single night out isn’t what he has in mind. Determined to have her—in every way possible—he shows her just what a future with him would hold.

Only life has other plans. The unthinkable happens and everything begins to shatter. Both in too deep, they will have to fight the cruel and hang onto the beautiful. 

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ABOUT A. M. HARGROVE

One day, on her way home from work as a sales manager A. M. Hargrove realized her life was on fast forward and if she didn't do something soon, it would be too late to write that work of fiction she had been dreaming of her whole life. So she rolled down the passenger window of her fabulous (not) company car and tossed out her leather briefcase. Luckily, the pedestrian in the direct line of fire was a dodge ball pro and had über quick reflexes enabling him to avoid getting bashed in the head. Feeling a tad guilty about the near miss, A. M. made a speedy turn down a deserted side street before tossing her crummy, outdated piece-of-you-know-what laptop out the window. She breathed a liberating sigh of relief, picked up her cell phone, called her boss, and quit her job. Grinning, she made another call to her hubs and told him of her new adventure (after making sure his heart was beating properly again).

So began A. M. Hargrove's career as a Naughty and Nice Romance Author.

Her books include Adult, New Adult and Young Adult Romances, including, The Guardians of Vesturon Series (Survival, Resurrection, Determinant, reEmergent, and the novella Beginnings); Dark Waltz and Death Waltz (The Praestani Novels); The Edge Series (Edge of Disaster, Shattered Edge, and Kissing Fire); The Tragic Series (Tragically Flawed and Tragic Desires); Exquisite Betrayal; Dirty Nights: The Novel; and The Hart Brothers Novels (Freeing Her, Freeing Him, and Kestrel).

Please find her at www.amhargrove.com.

ABOUT TERRI E. LAINE

Wife and mother of three, I've always been an avid reader. In my early years, my best friend and I would tell each other stories over the phone when we were bored. We called them our "soap operas" and generally revolved around whatever boy we liked at the time.

Over five years ago, I got this crazy idea to write a novel and try to publish it. And the rest is history. This journey has been a blessing, and a dream realized. I look forward to many more memories to come.

Find more about me and social media links at www.terrielaine.com.

Release Day Blitz + Review: Tough Enough by M. Leighton

 

You seriously don't want to miss MMA-champion-turned-Hollywood-superstar Rogan. Hotness!

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From the author of the New York Times bestselling Bad Boys novels comes the second book in a dark, sexy contemporary trilogy.

He’s a fighter who never loses, but is he tough enough to win her heart?

There was a time when I had everything–a wonderful family, a bright future. Love. But all that was taken away in a single night, torn from me like flesh from bone. Since then, I’ve hidden away in my second-choice job as a makeup artist. But I prefer it that way, actually. I’m comfortable in the shadows, where no one can see my scars.

Kiefer Rogan literally took my breath away the moment I met him. MMA champion-turned-actor, notorious playboy, charming to a fault—he’s everything I vowed to avoid.

But he just wouldn’t stop until I opened up and let him in. Maybe I should’ve tried harder to resist him. Maybe I shouldn’t have fallen in love with him. Because I, of all people, know that everyone has secrets. Scars. And that they’re usually ugly and painful and destructive to the people we love most.

I just never guessed that they could be deadly, too.

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REVIEW

 

 This book was a thrilling rollercoaster ride of love and courage, that saw two very different, but very similar characters battle their demons as they fought to hold onto each other.

 

There was a lot of mystery behind Katie's past and the reason she had built a fortress around her emotions, and I really wanted to know what had happened because I liked and cared for her so much. She was sweet but with a little bit of feistiness that simmered just under the surface. Rogan didn't quite strike me as the player he was, at first, made out to be, and I found myself instantly liking him, too - and not just because he has a killer smile and smoking hot body. He seemed like a really genuine guy and my heart kinda broke for him for the way he was treated by Kurt.

 

As the story developed, and as each of their pasts came to light, the more my heart broke for these two amazing people. I was completely shocked by what Katie had been through, and then when she revealed the extra devastation that touched her life at such a horrible time, I was close to bursting into tears. Rogan's life was anything but a bed of roses and he fought so hard to survive, and so hard to protect his brother, that I just wanted to reach into the book and give him a hug. With all their past hurts I was so happy that they found each other and were able to slowly piece together the parts that were broken.

 

This book tore into my soul and left me feeling with a beautiful sense of hope that no matter how terrible life seems, there may just be something good waiting at the end - and, to give others a chance, they may just surprise you. It was a fantastic read.

 

 

 

 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author M. Leighton is a native of Ohio. She relocated to the warmer climates of the South, where she can be near the water all summer and miss the snow all winter. Possessed of an overactive imagination from early in her childhood, Michelle finally found an acceptable outlet for her fantastical visions: literary fiction.

Having written over a dozen novels, these days Michelle enjoys letting her mind wander to more romantic settings with sexy Southern guys, much like the one she married and the ones you'll find in her latest books. When her thoughts aren't roaming in that direction, she'll be riding horses, swimming in ponds and experiencing life on a ranch, all without leaving the cozy comfort of her office.

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The End is Here. Let There Be Light. #LUX by Courtney Cole #Nocte #Verum #Initium

The dramatic series finale to Courtney Cole's bestselling Nocte trilogy!

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My name is Calla Price and I’m broken.

My pieces are all around me, floating on the wind, even as I desperately try to grasp them.

Who is dead? Alive? Insane?

What is the truth?

I don’t know.

I do know this: The darkness is strangling me. With every breath, I choke on another lie.

My mind has protected me, but that shield will soon be lowered.

All will be revealed.
Every answer to every question.

It’s all been leading to this.

Don’t be afraid.
Be terrified.

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Series reading order:

Nocte (#1), Verum (#2), Initium (#2.5), Lux (#3).

 

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REVIEW

This book will chew you up and spit you out faster than you can say LUX! It will twist you up, take you past the brink of insanity and then push you right back, until you feel you have a grasp on reality, before it sucks you right back into the madness.

I thought I had experienced it all in Nocte and Verum, but this story just took everything I thought I knew and ripped it to shreds. At times it got a bit confusing and there were plenty of WTF moments, but I loved that Cole wrote this book in such a way that it places the reader in Calla's shoes, quite literally. Never, EVER, have I experienced the emotions, confusion, sense of de ja vu, and heartache of a character, as I did with this read. It was superb, and I'm still not quite sure if I have the brain capacity to wrap my head around everything that went down.

The thing I really loved about this book was the author's note at the end of the story. The fact that Cole gives her readers the right to make up their own mind on whether what they read was real or not. Was Calla crazy? Were any of the unexplainable events that took place plausible?

This series has been one dark, completely messed up ride through crazyville. It was fascinating, thrilling, devastating and brilliant.

 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Courtney Cole is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling novelist who would rather write than eat chocolate. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Business, but no amount of working in the corporate world could quell her urge to write.

Courtney was born and raised in Kansas, home of incredibly friendly people and the most horrendous weather on the planet. Because summer days were so hot, she grew up reading stacks of books... and when she didn't like the ending, she wrote her own.

Courtney has relocated to Florida where she writes beneath palm trees. To learn more about her, please visit her website.  To sign up for her newsletter and receive exclusive sneak peeks and super-fan perks, click here.

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To celebrate the release of the final book in the Nocte Trilogy, LUX (coming October 28) the first two books in the series are both on sale for $.99! Snatch 'em up... and jump feet first into the rabbit hole.

 

THIS IS ONE SERIES YOU DO NOT WANT TO MISS OUT ON!! IT WILL TWIST YOU UP IN WAYS YOU NEVER IMAGINED!!

 

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NOCTE:

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VERUM:

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Release Day Blitz + Review: Seduced by Darkness by Karpov Kinrade #SeducedSaga

Now available! The complete, 5-book Seduced Saga from USA Today bestselling author Karpov Kinrade: An epic paranormal romance of shifters, witches, secrets, lies, mystery, suspense, and dangerous love.

 

 

The fifth and final book in Karpov Kinrade's bestselling Seduced Saga, Seduced by Darkness, is here!

 

Please note, these books must be read in order, and are dependent on each other. 

 

 

Seduced by Innocence (Book 1)

 

Rose Wintersong will kill her first love--just as she's killed others. That is the dark prophecy that has guided her path for years. So she stays hidden with her coven of witches, raised a recluse by her despotic mother, hiding herself, and her powers, from the world.

Until she meets Derek, the sexy martial arts instructor who teaches her more than self-defense.

Derek O'Conner was born into wealth and power as a Druid Shifter whose family protects the wellspring of magic that has made them who they are. But he doesn't want that responsibility and is on the run from his own destiny when he meets Rose, a shy beauty who doesn't know her own inner strength.

Neither of them realize they are from opposing families at war, or that their love could destroy everything.

Until it's too late.

Forbidden passions. Deadly secrets. A love that will stand against it all.

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Seduced by Pain (Book 2)

There's a fine line between pain and pleasure, and it's so very easy to cross.

As Rose Wintersong awakens to her own sexual nature, the darkness growing inside her threatens to consume the man she loves. Each touch puts his very soul at risk. But she thinks she's found a way to control it. Pain.

Derek O'Conner has always exercised control over his own powers, but being with Rose unleashes the beast within and challenges him to embrace his own wild magic. When they embark on a sexual path that leads them down a deadly road of pain and pleasure, Derek finds he is unable to stay away from the woman whose family has tried to destroy his.

But one night, one touch, could destroy them both and give Rose's family what they need to end the O'Conner shifter line forever.

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Seduced by Power (Book 3)

Rose Wintersong thought she could control the dark power she was born with.

She was wrong.

Now, the man she loves is trapped in a hell dimension and she will risk everything to save him. But what awaits her in hell is more than she imagined, as deadly secrets from her past come forth to claim her.

Caught between love and duty, between the past and the future, Rose must find the strength to become something more. Her metamorphosis is the only way to save her lover and his clan of Druid Shifters--and the only way to stop an unbeatable new evil from being unleashed into the world.

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Seduced by Lies (Book 4)

Everyone has secrets. Some secrets are more deadly than others.

Rose Wintersong and her friends have gone through hell and back to protect those they love. Now that life in their lush forest safehouse has returned to normal, she thinks the worst is over.

She's wrong.

A new evil is brewing in the darkness, something that threatens everyone she loves, including her new husband and his pack of shifters. When one of their best friends is nearly killed by a beast that hunts like a wolf, Rose and Derek embark on a journey to Rome to see his attacker avenged.

But secrets have a way of poisoning those we love the most. A truth Rose finds out the hard way.

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Seduced by Darkness (Book 5) 

Drake Davis has had and lost more para-powers than most people could ever dream of.

But that's nothing compared to the changes he's experiencing as a Nephilim--a being part human and part angel with a lust for blood.

He'll do anything to protect his wife and child from whatever darkness is hunting them... but can he protect them from the new darkness growing within?

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REVIEW

WOW!! What an epic finale to this amazing series that has left me breathless, broken my heart and crushed my soul, but also lifted my spirits, made me fall in love and left me giddy and excited.

The brilliance that is Karpov Kinrade is absolutely awe-inspiring. It seems that anything they touch becomes a masterpiece and I'm starting to wonder if the powers they write about are more fact than fiction. With spell-binding storytelling that captured me from the very first book and had me enthralled until the very end. I love how this duo has managed to intertwine their different series and sagas. First by bringing together their characters from The Forbidden Trilogy and The Seduced Saga, and finally introducing us to the world of The Twilight Court and the Nephilim we learn so much about in The Nightfall Chronicles.

I was so excited to jump back into the action and adventure with these much loved characters. They had been tested to the limits previously, and this book was sure to take them to their breaking point as they continued to battle an evil that threatened everything they lived for. Lies and deceit were the name of the game and I have to say I was completely taken off guard when the culprit was revealed. Looking back, there were so many hints left along the way, but I was so engrossed in the story that I never even realized until it was too late.

Epic. Spectacular. Enthralling. Magical. Wicked. Heartrending. A stellar read!!

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Release Day Blast + Review: Whipped by Karpov Kinrade #GetWhipped

 

AVAILABLE TODAY: Whipped (Hitched #2) by Karpov Kinrade!

 

 

 

I love sex. I used to be a professional Dominatrix by day and a recreational Dom by night. Now I co-own a sex shop by day. I still do the Dom thing by night, when I can. 

 

 

 

So, yeah, I love sex. But I'm not a sub. That's never been me. I like to maintain control in the bedroom. That gets me off.

But when the guy I've been chatting up online as a potential roommate shows up at my condo dripping sex and temptation… let's just say I might be open to trying new things… for him.

If his playboy ways don’t drive me insane.
And if I can do the one thing I've never done for anyone.
Surrender. 

What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas. But when you live here full time… that's not much comfort, is it?

Whipped (Vi's story) is a sexy, full-length, standalone romance in the Hitched series. These books can be read in any order, but you might also enjoy Hitched, the first book in this series.

Content Warning: This book contains sex, swearing... and did we mention sex? Lots of sex. And abs. And Australian accents.

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  REVIEW   Move over Magic Mike, Lachlan Pierce has arrived!   Vi was one of my favorite characters in Hitched, and I was so excited to find out she'd be getting her own story. And, My God was is a HOT one!!   The sexual chemistry between Vi and Lach was palpable from the get go and it was more a question of when they'd get together, than if. And when they did, it was explosive, passionate and sexy as hell.   What I really loved about this book was how fun the characters all were, and I really have to give a big shout out to Vi's parents. OMG! They were hilarious and brilliant. I also enjoyed the way Vi and Lach's relationship grew and developed, and the small changes I started seeing in each of them the deeper they fell. It was also great that neither of them was harboring some huge big secret or a dark past that would eventually threaten to tear them apart. They faced minor obstacles but were able to find their way through each.   Lach was actually such a sweet guy. At first glance he seemed to be a real player, and yes he was, but his dedication and loyalty to Vi showed him to be something completely different. I liked seeing many different sides of him. And the paintball scene was a hoot! I loved seeing this big, strong guy having his ass, and other body parts, handed to him while his girl kicked ass - for the most part anyway.   If you are looking for a fun and sexy read that will be sure to melt your ereader, this is the book to grab. It was a quick, witty read filled with characters you'll fall in love with.  

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Release Day Blast: Verum by Courtney Cole #VERUM

 

VERUM, the second book in Courtney Cole's psychological mind-bending NOCTE Trilogy, is here.

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My name is Calla Price and I’m drowning.

My new world is a dark, dark ocean and I’m being pulled under by secrets.

Can I trust anyone? I don’t know anymore.

The lies are spirals. They twist and turn, binding me with their thorns and serpentine tongues. And just when I think I have it figured out, everything is pulled out from under me.

I’m entangled in the darkness.

But the truth will set me free.

It’s just ahead of me, so close I can touch it. But even though it shines and glimmers, it has glistening fangs and I know it will shred me.

Are you scared?

I am.

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