Thursday 30 June 2016

Blog Tour: Guest Post + #Giveaway: Black Five by J. Lynn Bailey


 

 
 




Black Five
by J. Lynn Bailey 

 


Release Date: 11/17/15
Poorhouse Publishing
400 pages

 
No one ever accused Penelope Jackson of being normal, nor did they suspect the dark secret she kept. A dangerous web of deceit and secrecy unravels when news of a stranger’s death puts Penn on a collision course with the very person she’s been hiding from her whole life. Her fragile world is shaken to its core with the sudden arrival of Vacavious and she soon discovers the bizarre and magical world surrounding her seemingly ordinary life.

No one is who they claim to be, including those closest to Penn. A mysterious security detail emerges from the shadows scrambling to protect her as powerful forces await the fall of her protective veil on her eighteenth birthday. 

Penn prepares to fight against unseen evils before it’s too late. The world of Nighmerianotte and its population depends on her survival, for she is the Sanguine, the Black Five.
 




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GUEST POST
 
NIGHMERIANOTTE:
 
 Nighmerianotte is another world that overlaps the United States, Europe and Africa and is only accessible by five portals from the mortal world.
After Vacavious’s takeover, Nighmerianotte collapsed into darkness. Once a lavish, posh, beautiful place to be, run by the Demi, is now desolate because Vacavious is now barking orders.
Humanity is lost. Fear is alive and well among the Nighmerians who are still living.
 
Here is the link BEFORE the collapse of Nighmerianotte:
 
Here is the link to AFTER the collapse of Nighmerianotte:
Creatures you shouldn’t mess with in Nighmerianotte:
 
Selacs-
A rat-like rodent, slightly larger than a house cat, fester in the shadows of Nighmerianotte. If not careful, the tail, with its mouth and fangs, can devour its own body entirely. They’re scavengers, preying on anything that they can constrict, kill, and eat.
If a cat, a rat, and a snake were to breed—you’d get a Selac.
I’d try to insert a Pinterest board too, but I don’t think a picture would do it justice.
 
Morterros-
Translucent skin protects their bones, their rotting flesh. They smell like death and the prey on fear. While they have impeccable smell, their sight is awful. And although they’ve been portrayed as mindless, over time Vacavious’s has created a hybrid morterro. One that can talk and think for itself. And they work for Vacavious.
 
Fairies-
 Although most of the fairies have been captured in a jar and used to illuminate Nighmerianotte (since Vacavious’s takeover), they’re the only ones who can cross over into the mortal world using the portals, taking Nighmerians with them. And they’re the only ones who can do so. One never wants to cross a fairy.
 

Sluggles-

Comparable to the mortal world’s slug, these creatures, though, can get up to four feet long. Their upper epidermis blends to their surroundings so you can overlook them very easily. And watch out, if you get too close, they will use the only tool they have to defend themselves and that is they expel salt water from their pores and salt water is the achilles heel to Nighmerians. Sluggles hide in the underbelly of the forest only to be seen on rare occasions. But heard more often than not.

 

Grofs-

Relative in size to the mortal frog, they are deep blue and have three legs instead of two. Their blood is used in many elixirs brewed by the 202’s, the witches. And, they live for centuries.



 
 
 


About the Author

I'm a mother of two beautiful children and a wife to an adorably supportive husband. Seriously, he's adorable and tall. Really tall; he's my high school sweetheart. I'm also a mother of two fur children who are extremely needy, Leo and Vinni.

I live with my family in a small town tucked away in the redwood forest located on California's northern coast. 

I'm quite boring. But in case you're wondering, you can see what my loves, my loathes and things you may not know about me by clicking the menu above.



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Blog Tour: Excerpt: The Mermaid and the Treasure of the Bay by A. Algeri

 


The Mermaid and the Treasure of the Bay
(La Sirena #1)
by A. Algeri 
Release Date: 08/20/15
246 pages

Summary from Goodreads:
"The Mermaid and the treasure of the Bay" is the first adventure of Brinn, a young woman who had recently returned to her homeland, Nyar Kaad, after years of being away.

For her mother and sister it’s only supposed to be an episodic stay, because their intention is to return to the capital, Adaria, held by both aristocrats, by then, to be their home. Brinn, however, isn’t interested in living in the golden cage of high society and aspires to a different existence, that will push her to oppose the decisions of her family and to pursue a destiny according to her own wishes.

The accidental discovery of what looks like a map to hidden treasure, buried in Nyar Kaad, according to tradition, by pirates once dwelling in the settlement, will push her to search for the hidden riches- an undertaking that the protagonist will face courageously, at the cost of challenging her fears, the rigid social conventions, and more literal dangers to her person, venturing on a journey into the local legends and the past of her own family, until reaching an unexpected epilogue.

Set to Isara, a fantasy world inspired by the period between the seventeenth and the first decades of the nineteenth centuries, "The Mermaid and the treasure of the Bay" is a journey full of mystery in the universe where real and supernatural coexist intersecting in a subtle and insidious way, a world divided between palaces and largely unexplored expanses, an opulent capital and boundless oceans.



 


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EXCERPT


I wished that every day was like the ones before, going back to my childhood; outwardly it was as if nothing had changed: in those hopelessly far away years, in the morning after dressing as fast as possible, I ran to my parents to ask my father to take me on a long walk on the beach and then to dive into the weak but deep blue-green warm waters of the bay.
With the passing of time, for my mother it how much I liked living in Nyar Kaad had become intolerable, the place were my family came from, even if we were, at least in part, remotely originally descended from the north of the Empire. I loved the place where I was born so much that I was never able to consider our house in the far away capital where moved in the following years, as my home. I harbored wonderful memories from my childhood of long happy years, as can only exist in memories.
Naturally, the summer couldn't last forever: by the time I was a young girl, my parents had announced our imminent departure from Nyar Kaad to move to the capital. Mom had started talking to me about the important people we would have to meet once we reached Adaria, of the balls and the numerous events that were obligatory for whoever wanted to become part of high society and maybe, if we met the right people, how we might be able to be received at court.
At the time I was too little to fully comprehend the social implications of these events and I associated them only with those evenings in which my parents didn't stay home and my sister Jennifer and I would be left with the nanny, excluding those rare occasions when we had to go with mom while she and her various friends and acquaintances would talk for hours about predictable and uninteresting topics. I, along with the occasional, and according to me, unfortunate children, was forced to pass entire afternoons sitting on a sofa without practically opening my mouth.
I never wanted to leave Nyar Kaad, but my departure never depended on my consent: one rainy day at the end of the summer, when the social season of the small town had been concluded with the ending of the vacations of the rich settlers of the nearby Narim, our departure for Adaria was decided upon and we abandoned, that at the time I believed was forever, the white beaches of the province of Salaara. For a young girl even a few months can seem like an eternity and our return to our hometown at the time no longer seemed possible.
I remember painfully abandoning the Dawn's Light, our estate, the following trip and when, at the moment of disembarkation going down the gangplank that connected the ship to the dock, I found the cold autumn of the northern regions, waiting with its freezing grip ready to enclose my heart, revealing to me a nature that had become a mirror of how I felt in my soul. A cold that whispered to me about how I had been separated possibly forever from the sun and the green waters of the Nahanshe sea, whose voice, as if far away, still called me. “Brinn”, it repeated, as if it was saying my name.
Each day I waited for the much desired return to the ocean shores, whose call you could hear, scarcely whispered along the shores of the Nalach: only the seagulls, that I glimpsed sometimes in the hottest days of the brief northern summer, told me of the far away estuary where large river flowed into the sea.
I repeated to myself that I wanted to see again one day the shores of the Nahanshe Sea and when that moment arrived that I wouldn't leave again: I kept waiting for that day in the depths of my heart without letting anything undermine this certainty or suffocate this dream.
 
 
My return to the ocean shores was a wish that remained unchanged in me despite the natural succession of the years: I always refused to bury my dreams underneath my immediate needs, believed by other necessary or set them aside after giving up, coming to consider them impossible. I would never have accepted discovering one day that all my aspirations had been extinguished by an existence lost in a myriad of empty mundane gestures after being forced to turn down a path able to deaden forever the light that had illuminated my heart and to be destined to a dusty series of days one identical to the other. At that point I would have only been able to realize how much time had passed and what I had given up; I would have only been aware of an unfulfilled happiness in a past relegated to a far off time.
I wasn't willing to accept a similar future: returning to Nyar Kaad had always been my dream, jealously hidden in me, that I could see every time I closed my eyes- immobile and perfect, a moment frozen in the eternal and inconstant waves of time; the house on the sea, the very white sand, the waves that died on the shoreline, the breeze blowing off the sea every morning. And yet, as with every wish no matter how much I wished to go back to the bay and the ocean and hear its voice again with all my heart, this dream seemed to me, or least I believed so, destined to never happen.








About the Author

A. Algeri is the author of "The Mermaid and the treasure of the Bay", his first published novel. He began writing while he was a teenager, setting most of his stories in the world of Isara, a fantasy universe of his own creation.

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Blog Tour Schedule:
June 27:
History from a Woman's Perspective - http://www.historywomanperspective.com/ - Review
3 Partners in Shopping, Nana, Mommy, &, Sissy, Too! -
http://3partnersinshopping.blogspot.com – Review
Literary Musings –
www.literarymusing.weebly.com - Promo

June 28:
3 Partners in Shopping, Nana, Mommy, &, Sissy, Too! - http://3partnersinshopping.blogspot.com – Promo
The Recipe Fairy - http://recipe-fairy.weebly.com/ - Review
Zerina Blossom's Books - http://zerinablossom.blogspot.com/ - Promo

June 29:
YA Book Divas - http://www.yabookdivas.com – Review
The Avid Reader -
http://the-avidreader.blogspot.com – Promo
Happy Tails and Tales Blog  -
http://happytailsandtales.blogspot.com – Review
Just Us Book Blog -
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La tartaruga si muove -
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Reading, Writing and What Not -
http://pixiescanread.blogspot.com/ - Review
The Book Adventures of Annelise Lestrange - www.anneliselestrange.wordpress.com – Promo
Reading Addict -
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June 30:
POTL: Books, Writing and Inspiring Others - https://princessofthelight.wordpress.com – Review
I Read Indie - http://twimom101bookblog.blogspot.com/ - Promo
deal sharing aunt -
http://www.dealsharingaunt.blogspot.com – Promo
WordishWonderland –
www.wordishwonderland.wordpress.com - Promo

July 1:
My Crazy Corner - http://mycrazzycorner.blogspot.com/ - Promo
fundinmental -
http://www.fundinmental.com – Review
The Page Unbound -
http://thepageunbound.com – Promo
deal sharing aunt -
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Kovescence of the Mind -
http://kovescenceofthemind.blogspot.com/ - Review
A New Look On Books –
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Blog Tour: Guest Post + #Giveaway: Welcome to Sortilege Falls by Libby Heily

Book Blitz: Excerpt + #Gvieaway: Aligned: Volume 4 by Ella Miles


Aligned: Volume 4
Ella Miles

Publication date: June 30th 2016
Genres: Adult, Romance, Suspense

I know who tried to kill me.
The same man that raped me is the same man that tried to kill me. Twice. I have some evidence, but not enough. I want revenge, but every step I take towards getting that revenge I feel myself drifting further from Landon.
I’m going to lose him.
I’m going to lose everything that I care about. All I can focus on is revenge. Maybe then I will be able to put the past behind me. Maybe then I can truly heal. I just hope I don’t lose him and myself in the process.
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She’s pregnant.
Caroline has always held my deepest darkest secrets, but now she thinks she has another one. One that could control me. I can’t be a father though.
I’m a monster.
The baby can’t be mine. If it is, I already know my future. I’ll lose the woman I love. The only woman I’ve ever wanted.
 
 
 
SNEAK PEEK
 
I tried to get rid of the monster. I thought we could escape the darkness by starting over. I thought we could put our pasts behind us.
The demons found me, though. The urges came back. There is no such thing as redemption. I can’t be saved.
I tried to put my urges to rest. But the need to inflict pain is too strong to resist. I can’t hold back any longer.
I can’t be saved from the monster because I am the monster.
 
 
Life has drifted us I'll lose her.


ABOUT THE AUTHOR 
Ella Miles writes sexy romance with strong females that could kick your butt if you piss them off, which they often do to the men that fall for them. She's currently living her own happily ever after near the Rocky Mountains with her high school sweetheart husband. Her heart is also taken by her goofy two year old black lab that is scared of everything, including her own shadow. Ella is the author of the Aligned series. Get a free book by visiting her website. Or by stalking her on Twitter or Facebook. 

 
 
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Cover Reveal: 5 Chances by B. Austin


5 Chances
B. Austin

(Outcast, #2)
Publication date: September 13th 2016
Genres: Dystopian, Young Adult

Ivory vows to find out more about what is going on at Dead Horse Bay but she wrecked the Renegade and must find a rogue replacement, a fixer-upper boat someone threw away a long time ago. Ivory is a Smuggler, a member of one of the Outcast underground groups of New York City.
Ivory is obsessed with saving Outcasts from vanishing from the Commonwealth of Earth. She has smuggled an Outcast out of Dead Horse Bay, but can she smuggle herself in to learn more about the secrets the Commonwealth is hiding?
Or perhaps the answers she and her friends seek are in Lockup, the dreaded insane asylum Outcasts are dragged to when they have accumulated 50 demerits. At Lockup is the Mortuary, a tunnel leading into darkness. All Ivory must do to be throw into Lockup is to act even more rebellious and gain the attention of Behavior Drones and the FRE (Fanatic Rule Enforcers).
Ivory will do whatever it takes to save herself and her friends from extinction in a world where people have become immortal, except for Outcasts, the thorn in the Commonwealth’s side.
5 Chances is the second book in the Outcast series.
 
 
Sequel to:
30236750


ABOUT THE AUTHOR 
Author B. Austin writes Dystopian and Science Fiction Books. She is the author of the Young Adult Dystopian series Defective. 



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Promo: Haunting Fairytales Collection: Volume 1 by R.L. Weeks


Title: Haunting Fairytales Collection
Release date: July 29th, 2016
Publisher: Vamptasy Publishing



Reimagining The Frog Prince, Beauty and the Beast, Rumplestiltskin, Little Mermaid, and Cinderella, R. l. Weeks brings you The Haunting Fairytales Collection, Volume 1.

Edward was cursed to be a Toad after breaking Lori’s heart. Now he wants his happy ending back, and he doesn’t care how many happily ever after’s he ruins trying to get it.

Lori, now the Evil Queen, is out to make sure that, that doesn’t happen.

Stilt will use any means necessary to get what he wants after a disastrous incident which left his wife childless and heartbroken.

Belle, Ariel, James, and many more characters find themselves as pawns in a dangerous game played between Edward, Lori, and Stilt.


Tag lines:


‘Be careful what you wish for’


‘They are just pawns caught in a dangerous game played by three of the most powerful sorcerer’s in all the lands’


‘Once upon a time there was one revengeful queen, out to punish he who broke her heart. One remorseful sorcerer trying to right a wrong after an incident that changed his life for the worst and one greedy prince who will do anything he can to get what he wants’


Not all Fairytales have a happily ever after’

 



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