Cover Reveal: LOVING CARA by Kristen Proby

Title: LOVING CARA
Author: Kristen Proby
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Age group: Adult

~Synopsis~

CHEMISTRY WAS NEVER THIS SEXY IN HIGH SCHOOL.

In her sizzling new series, USA Today bestselling author Kristen Proby sets the stage for a passionate reunion under the breathtaking Montana sky.

Cara Donovan’s summer tutoring job is turning out to be a challenge—and not just because of her troubled twelve-year-old student. It’s his uncle Josh who’s the real problem. If problem is the word for an irresistibly cocky, muscle-bound rancher with a taste for tight Levi’s and shameless flirtation...

Cara is nothing like the wallflower Josh King remembers good-naturedly teasing in high school. This Cara is gorgeous, confident, fun. From the moment the fiery teacher steps foot on his family’s Lazy K Ranch, the stubborn playboy is determined to corral her. So what happens when his luscious lover takes over the reins?

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~Excerpt~

“Where are your jeans?” Josh asks as he meets me at my car the following morning.

“These are jeans.” I pull my tote bag out of the car and walk toward the front door of his house. “Is Seth here yet?”

“No, he’ll be a few minutes. I have him feeding the dogs at the big house.”
 “Okay.”

“Those are not jeans.” He’s scowling down at my denim shorts like they’re the devil incarnate.

“They’re denim.”

He narrows his chocolate eyes at me, but I see the humor there, and the butterflies take up residence in my belly again.

I love riling this guy up.

“Fine, they’ll have to do. Go ahead and get settled, Seth will be here in a minute. I have to ride out with a few of the guys to repair a fence, so I’ll see you at lunch time.” He pulls on some gloves and settles his green baseball cap on his head backwards again.

“You don’t wear cowboy hats?” I ask without thinking.

“Not usually. I have one, if you’d rather I wear it.” He smirks.

“No, just curious,” I mumble and head toward the house.

“Don’t leave before I get back. I have plans for you.” He grins wide, winks, and saunters off toward the massive barn that sits between his house and the big house.

Well, isn’t that view nice? His Levi’s hug his ass perfectly and sit low on his hips, and as he walks I can see his buttocks and thighs flex.

Dear God, I’m lusting after a rancher.

About the Author:

KRISTEN PROBY is the USA Today bestselling author of the popular With Me in Seattle series. She has a passion for a good love story and strong characters who love humor and have a strong sense of loyalty and family. Her men are the alpha type—fiercely protective and a bit bossy—and her ladies are fun, strong, and not afraid to stand up for themselves. Kristen spends her days with her muse in the Pacific Northwest. She enjoys coffee, chocolate, and sunshine. And naps.
You can reach her in: Website | Twitter | Facebook | Goodreads

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Cover Reveal: STINGER by Mia Sheridan

So... Anyone who is stalking me knows that I love my Mia banana.

And anything she writes, I read. Like even her FB and Twitter posts and whatever.

I LOVE HER. End of.

And when I found out she's writing a new A Sign of Love book, I've gone crazy.

When I woke up at 6:00 AM on the morning of 16th (my time, I am in the Philippines and I don't know how to use GMT EST or other shits so you figure it out. Haha!), I almost fell out of my bed when I saw that I have an email from her containing the book cover and blurb of her new novel. What a way to start my day!

So I am going to stop gushing about it because I've done that already when I send Mia an email.

Enjoy this beautiful cover and blurb! - NIKKI xx 

Stinger

A Sign of Love Novel

Mia Sheridan

Fall 2013

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Grace Hamilton was the girl with a plan. She knew exactly where her life was going and prided herself on always achieving her goals. It was who she was, and how she lived her life. She never stepped outside the lines, and never considered what she might desire and whom she was actually trying so hard to please. Until him…

Carson Stinger was a man who didn't play by any rules except his own. Working in the adult entertainment industry, he didn't care what others thought, and took each day as it came, no direction, no plan. He knew what women wanted from him and believed it was all he had to offer. Until her…

When circumstances forced them to spend several hours together, they walked away changed. But for two people who never should have meshed, overcoming the reality of their vastly different lives wasn't possible. At least not yet…

Mia Sheridan is an avid reader, and now writer of romance and erotic novels. She live in Cincinnati, Ohio with her husband who is a police officer and her biggest fan (not necessarily in that order). They have four children here on earth and one in heaven. When she's not sitting on her couch with her head buried in her Kindle, she can be found writing or doing anything creative from building a patio, to sewing pillows. The wild hairs she get know no bounds. Leo is her debut novel, but her head is swimming with more… 
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Cover Reveal: FINDING IT by Cora Carmack

Finding It

Losing It #3

Cora Carmack

Release Date: October 1st 2013

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Most girls would kill to spend months traveling around Europe after college graduation with no responsibility, no parents, and no-limit credit cards. Kelsey Summers is no exception. She's having the time of her life...or that's what she keeps telling herself.

It's a lonely business trying to find out who you are, especially when you're afraid you won't like what you discover. No amount of drinking or dancing can chase away Kelsey's loneliness, but maybe Jackson Hunt can. After a few chance meetings, he convinces her to take a journey of adventure instead of alcohol. With each new city and experience, Kelsey's mind becomes a little clearer and her heart a little less hers. Jackson helps her unravel her own dreams and desires. But the more she learns about herself, the more Kelsey realizes how little she knows about Jackson.

PREVIEW: KEEPING HER by CORA CARMACK

Okay, who wouldn't want some Garrick?! YOU? Oh no, maybe you're just confused. I'm pretty sure all of us want a little piece of him. Don't cha, huh? Don't cha? *wink*

Well here it is!
 
Preview Package: Cora Carmack's KEEPING HER by AvonBooks
 
Also, Cora will be having a Goodreads chat on June 26th! Clickity here!

Aaaannnnddd there'd be some FAKING IT book club on Cora's Facebook page on the 27th! This is your chance to ask the questions you've been dying to ask! LOL

WAITING ON WEDNESDAY: Killing Sarai by J.A. Redmerski

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event that is hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine and spotlights upcoming releases that we are eagerly anticipating.

Like in my In My Mailbox post, I'm saying this again: This is my first time to do such meme. Haha! Can you now see how a noob I am? :)

So for my "Waiting on" pick is Killing Sarai by the NYT best-selling author J.A. Redmerski... Just because I can't get enough of bad-ass books like this one. ;)

KILLING SARAI

Release date: June 20

The Blurb

Sarai was only fourteen when her mother uprooted her to live in Mexico with a notorious drug lord. Over time she forgot what it was like to live a normal life, but she never let go of her hope to escape the compound where she has been held for the past nine years. 

Victor is a cold-blooded assassin who, like Sarai, has known only death and violence since he was a young boy. When Victor arrives at the compound to collect details and payment for a hit, Sarai sees him as her only opportunity for escape. But things don’t go as planned and instead of finding transport back to Tucson, she finds herself free from one dangerous man and caught in the clutches of another. 

While on the run, Victor strays from his primal nature as he succumbs to his conscience and resolves to help Sarai. As they grow closer, he finds himself willing to risk everything to keep her alive; even his relationship with his devoted brother and liaison, Niklas, who now like everyone else wants Sarai dead. 

As Victor and Sarai slowly build a trust, the differences between them seem to lessen, and an unlikely attraction intensifies. But Victor’s brutal skills and experience may not be enough in the end to save her, as the power she unknowingly holds over him may ultimately be what gets her killed. 

This is their story…

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The flash of a silver blade catches my eye. I panic when I glimpse the knife in his hand and start to twist my body awkwardly. But he holds me down, putting the weight of his hand on the small of my back, the hand with the knife wrestling with my left shoulder. 

“What are you going to do?!” I shriek. 

“Victor, no!” 

I thrash around more violently, trying to roll over onto my back so that I can get up. Suddenly he’s lying fully on top of me, and his closeness, the warmth of his breath on the side of my neck, takes my breath away. My entire frame solidifies beneath him and then begins to relax, melting into his body as his voice dances along the shell of my ear. 

“I will be gentle,” he whispers and my skin shivers from my ear down the full length of my spine. 

He presses himself into me from behind, his hardness obvious behind the thin layer of his pants that separates us.

“I promise,” he says onto my ear. “But it has to come out. Do you understand? Do you trust me?” He presses his hips toward me again and I feel me moving against him involuntarily. I shut my eyes when the tingling sensation between my legs moves through my back and into my eyelids. 

“Yes,” I whisper. “I trust you." 

“Good,” he says softly and slowly raises himself off of me. 

I remain very still, thinking so much more about Victor and what he just did to me than the more imperative threat. A part of me doesn’t even care about what he’s going to do, that he’s about to cut into me with a knife, that it’s going to hurt like hell. And perhaps that’s the only reason he did what he did, knowing somehow that he could control my mood, my emotions, with the hope that he might touch me more than he already has. I feel like a toy and Victor knows every button on me which to push, to touch, in order to make me do whatever he wants, feel whatever he wants me to feel. And I don’t mind. I don’t know how he did it, but I don’t mind at all. 

“Bite down on the pillow if you have to,” he says. 

I reach up and grab the nearest pillow towards me, crushing it against my chest. I squeeze my eyes shut tight. 

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She gets up from the bed and my head falls to the side to see her as she approaches. Not knowing what to do, unable to read her because I’m confused by her actions, I don’t speak. She lies down beside me. Her knees are drawn up and pressed together, her hands hidden between them, and she looks at me. 

“You should get back into your own bed,” I say. 

“I just want to sleep here. It’s not what you think. I’m just afraid.” 

“You fear nothing,” I say, looking back up at the ceiling. 

“You’re wrong,” she counters. “I fear everything. What tomorrow will bring and if I’ll be alive to see the end of it. I’m afraid of Javier or anyone else coming through that door and killing me in my sleep. I’m afraid of never being able to live a normal life. I don’t even know what normal feels like anymore.” 

“There is a stark difference between fear and uncertainty, Sarai. You fear nothing but are uncertain of everything.” 

“How can you believe that?” She seems truly confounded by my assessment of her. 

I look at her and answer, “Because you didn’t go to the police. Because you made no effort to contact anyone else that you knew and you have had dozens of chances to do so. Because you got back in the car. With me. A killer. Because you know that I will kill you without thinking twice about it and I would not be remorseful, yet you’re lying next to me. Here in this bed. Alone and willingly.” 

I reach over and pull the gun from the floor beside the bed and before she knows what’s happening, the barrel of it is pressed underneath her chin, forcing her head backward. I push my body against hers, our shoulders touching, the weight of my gun hand held up by her chest. My eyes study hers, the question and surprise within them, although faint. I look at her mouth, her soft and innocent lips pressed together gently. 

I lean over and whisper onto the side of her mouth, “Because you’re not shaking, Sarai.” And then slowly, I pull the gun away, never removing my eyes from hers. 

“I am not Javier,” I say. “You are mistaken if you believe you can manipulate me as you did him.” 

She appears offended, though it’s very faint in her eyes, I see it. It is exactly the reaction that I wanted. That I needed, to know that the accusation is untrue. 

Without argument, she looks away from me and rolls over onto her other side. She doesn’t get up and move back to her bed. 

And I don’t force her. 

“I wasn’t with Javier willingly,” she says with her back to me.  “I don’t have any reason to manipulate you.”  

A minute of quiet passes; only the shuffling of feet moving down the carpeted hallway outside the door disrupting it. 

“I’m glad you came back,” she says softly. “And Victor…I should tell you, I’ve been a liar for the past nine years of my life. Everything I said and did and expressed was a lie. I like to think I’ve mastered it by now.” She pauses and I don’t have to wonder long where she’s going with this. “I’ve noticed that every time you talk to that man, Niklas, about me, that you’re lying to him.” She cranes her head backward to see me behind her. “Thank you for helping me.” 

And then she turns away again and says nothing to me for the rest of the night.

RELEASE DATE: JUNE 20, 2013  

On release day June 20th, KILLING SARAI will be ON SALE for $1.99 for Amazon Kindle and at Barnes & Noble for Nook! One day only, folks! So snag your copy on the 20th before it goes up to regular price on the 21st! 

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COVER REVEAL: April Showers by Karli Perrin

Release Date: June 14, 2013

Genre: New Adult

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The Blurb

What happens when your head and your hearf pull you in completely opposite directions?

April Adams is about to found out.

When April enrolls at Manchester University, it feels like a whole new life. New city, new house, new friends... New crush.

Isaac Sharpe is the hottest guy on campus - with an even hotter reputation. After a chance meeting, April quickly finds hersekf wrapped up in all that he is. But what if all that he is isn'twhat it seems?

Caught up in a battle between what she wants and what she thinks she needs, April meets Lukas Roberts. Lukas is the security blanket that she craves so desperately and she fins solace in their friendship. But what happens when she finds more than she bargained for?

April has always been a big believer of fate, but will she learn that she's in control of her own destiny before it's too late?

Join April as she embarks on a life chaning journey of love and loss, which will have you laughing and crying until the very end.

 

Author Bio

Karli Perrin is a 25 year old English Languange & Linguistics graduate from Manchester. She has always been a big lover of books and is currently writing her first NA novel - April Showers.

She is a big believer of fate and is a sucker for a happy ending. She honestly believes  that there is a reason why you are reading this right now (apart from the fact that you are awesome!)

Her ultimate goal in life is to live in a house made entirely out of books with her best friend, who also happens to be her fiancé.

...Hogwarts is plan B.