#ReleaseBlitz for Beauty and the Bruiser by Josie Blake @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Beauty and the Bruiser

Series: Philadelphia Tyrant Hockey #1

Author: Josie Blake

Genre: Contemporary Hockey Romance

Tropes: Single Dad/Nanny, Grumpy/Sunshine

Release Date: May 26, 2023

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Nanny for a professional hockey player? Please. More like beauty for the beast.

The job is straightforward. Single dad Duke York needs a caretaker for his seven-year-old daughter during the hockey season, bonus if that person can help her with her school work. His team is rebuilding, and he plans to retire at the end of the year. This is his last chance to make a run at the cup. Right now, I have the time and the education to do this work.

Except there should be a disclaimer in the job description about Duke. He’s hot as sin, and the grizzled hockey veteran takes brooding to the next level. I need the cash, though, and the job offers housing as part of its compensation. Since I have nowhere to live—again—it’s the perfect situation. But I didn’t expect to find such a fascinating man under Duke’s gruff exterior, and the more I get to know the father and daughter duo, the more I risk losing my heart to them both.

My real life has never included any fairy-tale endings. But maybe this temporary job could be the beginning of all of our happily ever afters…

BEAUTY AND THE BRUISER is a full-length, sexy hockey romance with a happily ever after. If you like Beauty and the Beast vibes, a grumpy cinnamon roll single dad hero, and slow burn chemistry, you should try this first book in the Philadelphia Tyrant Hockey series!

The Philadelphia Tyrant books contain mild adult language and open-door sexual scenes/situations. Every story can be read as a standalone.

#ReleaseBlitz for Hawk by @JessicaAmesAuth and @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Hawk
Series: Manchester Chapter

Untamed Sons MC #5

Author: Jessica Ames

Genre: MC Romance

Release Date: May 26, 2023

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Hawk

I am a nomad, moving between chapters of the Untamed Sons Motorcycle Club, trying to find a place to belong. I never wanted to settle down and make roots, not after what happened in my past, but then I meet Wren. She's the sister of one of the Manchester brothers and she should be off limits for that reason, but what starts as a bit of fun quickly turns serious for me. I didn't expect to fall for her or come to love her kids as if they were my own, but this little family is fast becoming my world. When their lives are threatened I do the only thing I can: I go to war with their enemies.

Wren

I never thought I would become the target of a gang, but they want to hurt Brewer and they plan on using me and my kids to do it. Hawk is a distraction I don't need, but I find myself getting lost in him to forget the drama unfolding around me. It started as a one time thing, a fling with no strings attached. I should have known better. I never expected him to come back for more, but now that Hawk has had me he's not willing to walk away. When I find myself in the crosshairs of dangerous men I realise the only person who can protect me is the man I'm trying so hard to deny.

#BookTour: The Mercenary of Urga by Jonathan Harries @RABTBookTours #Giveaway

 

Tale of the Sica, Book #5

 

Action Adventure / Crime

Date Published: 04-11-2023

 

Great-uncle Leon, the most successful assassin in our family’s 2000-year-old history, is back.

It’s 1920, the Great War is over, and the death rattles of the White Russian armies echo across Europe and Asia as they crumble one by one before the advancing Bolsheviks. It seems that Leon’s days with the British Secret Service Bureau are over.

But when a battalion of British soldiers is shanghaied by a diabolical Baltic baron hellbent on conquering Mongolia and backed by an international organization of fascists, Sir Mansfield Smith-Cumming, head of the SIS, sends his number-one assassin to take care of business.

From London and Paris to the Crimea, Georgia and war-ravaged China and Mongolia, Leon and his accomplice, the beautiful Countess Catherine von Merenberg, are plunged headfirst into a maelstrom of horror to rescue the British troops and stop the reign of the Bloody White Baron.

#BookBlitz: 81 and Still Learning by @KathrynFCameron @RABTBookTours

 

With love to 10-year-old Kathryn

 

Memoir

Publication Date:‎ February 23, 2023

Publisher: ‎Mindstir Media

 

I am eighty-one now and still learning! As I look back over the years, I wonder what ten-year-old Kathryn (me) would think if she could see our life in advance. Kathryn, I think you would have been pleased and I am going to enjoy my conversation with you every step of the way. I want to share my learnings, musings, and stories with you. Kathryn, let me bring you up to date. It is hard to believe seventy-one years have gone by since I was your age.

Kathryn, I don’t mean to imply that life is perfect now or that I no longer have upsets. Being able to ask myself, “Who do I want to be in this situation?” and having some learnings to turn to have been powerful for me.  And so at 81 years of age it is important to me to share those learnings hoping they will be found helpful to those between your(my) age at 10 and my age today.

#SaleBlitz: The Concert by Lawson McDowell @RABTBookTours

 

Young Adult

Date Published: February 2023

 

 

In the heat and oilfields, John and his pals believe a rock concert is the answer to their discontent, never realizing the trip will transform them forever—if they survive it.

In 1966, John Pierce and his friends are discontented teens shackled by life in a West Texas oilfield boomtown. As they swelter in summer heat amid thousands of oil wells, desperation creeps in.

When news of an electrifying rock concert captures their hearts, they leave on a quest for music, girls, and self-indulgence. No one warned them about the nightmarish occurrences they could face on their dream trip.

Based on a true adventure in an out-of-the-ordinary setting, THE CONCERT is an unforgettable exploration of friendships and dangers looming along the stepping stones to adulthood.

#CoverReveal for The Sex Variable by Emi Leon @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: The Sex Variable

Series: Romancing the Geek #2

Author: Emi Leon

Genre: Steamy Romantic Comedy

Tropes: Forbidden Love/Women in STEM/Age Gap

Cover Design: Melody Jeffries

Release Date: June 15, 2023

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What’s a little secret when the chemistry is off the charts?

Everyone has a dream. Mine is to make perfume, where the science of aroma converges with the art of experience.

To fund my new business, I join a paid drug trial that’s for her pleasure, if you know what I mean. I figure the risks are worth it, but the one variable I didn’t factor in is biochemist Dr. Bradley Zimmer.

After taking my first dose, I literally run into the man of my dreams, a hot geek, who catches me. His disastrous style can't hide the kindness behind his glasses, and he’s irresistibly appealing. But I’m running late, so I don’t get his name.

When our paths cross again, it’s like magic between me and the gorgeous geek aka Bradley. Despite our age gap, every touch between us is electric. I’ve never felt like this. Is it real or is this the trial’s little blue pill for v@ginas?

But after I learn dating Bradley is off-limits as a trial participant, I have to decide: perfume or my hotty scientist. I want both, so when he mistakenly assumes why I’m at his pharmaceutical company, I don’t correct him.

What’s a little secret when the chemistry is off the charts?

But, like any explosive reaction, the truth invariably comes out… Can we survive the unexpected results of this love equation?

Sex, science, scents, and secrets—a formula designed to either ignite passion or combust spectacularly.

#ExcerptReveal for Silenced by Serena Akeroyd @SerenaAkeroyd and @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Silenced

Series: The Forgotten Boys #1

Author: Serena Akeroyd

Genre: Dark Mafia Romance

Trope: Hades & Persephone Modern Retelling

Release Date: June 1, 2023

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A Hades and Persephone modern-day retelling.

I sit on a throne of sins.

Silent in the shadows, untouchable like the King of the Underworld himself.

Few even know the sound of my voice, but those who fear me call me Monster. My men just call me Pakhan.

To her, I am Nikolai.

Her savior. Her captor. Her lover.

With hair as bright as the sun, a face that could sink a thousand ships, and more curves than I can handle, Cassiopeia. Is. Everything.

But she’s in danger.

And safety comes with a price tag.

She can fight that, can even fight me, but I’m her Hades and I won’t let my Persephone go…

This is book one of The Forgotten Boys, a Russian Mafia series set in the Five Points' Mob Universe

#CoverReveal: Smooth Hoperator: A Fake-Relationship Romance by @sstewarttw @XpressoTours

Smooth Hoperator: A Fake-Relationship Romance
Sylvie Stewart
(Love on Tap, #2)
Publication date: July 6th 2023
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance

SMOOTH HOPERATOR: A FAKE-RELATIONSHIP ROMANCE

After tanking my career in politics, I’m looking for new direction. But my GPS must be broken because it keeps leading me to a kooky librarian’s front steps.

It’s not easy, but I’m doing my best to let go of my old ambitions and embrace the simple life of slinging beer at my family’s brewery. But some powerful players from my past are determined to cause problems for me and my family.

When a chatty local librarian with the wardrobe of a third grader and the optimism of Spongebob begins sticking her nose into my business, I want to tell her to get lost. As fate would have it, though, Sunny and her ill-tempered grandfather are my only remaining option to get free of my past for good.

It will take some convincing to get this goofy, goat-loving librarian on board with my risky plan. But if she’ll do things my way, I’ll return the favor by playing her fake boyfriend to make her true love finally take notice and fall head over heels.

But the deeper we get into this venture, the more I realize there’s nothing fake about Sunny at all. Including the way I’m beginning to feel about her.

#BookTour: Our Song by Lynda Smith Hoggan @RABTBookTours #Giveaway

Memoir

Date Published: 10-11-2022

Publisher: She Writes Press

 

In 1972 rural Pennsylvania, the author, a white college student, fell head over heels in love with an African-American friend of a friend. With their schools hours apart, they forged an intimate connection such as neither had ever had through letters. But racist parents, a jealous friend, and their own mistakes caused them to lose each other. Forty years later, they might have another chance.

#ReadWhatYouLoveChallenge June 2023 #HappyPrideMonth! with @Crossroadreview @inklingsbook @bookaddictjess @bookbrewbistro

We're back again with monthly challenges!! I hope this time we really keep these going.  I know in the past we have been touch and go with these.  But I am really hoping to do this every month now.  In conjunction with my bookclub and the bookstore I work for.  This should be a blast!!! So join us each month for new and exciting prompts!!!! 

#BookBlitz: Drink Wine and Be Beautiful by @Kimberlyinrome @XpressoTours #Giveaway $25 Amazon gift card

Drink Wine and Be Beautiful
Kimberly Sullivan
Publication date: May 26th 2023
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Women’s Fiction

Italian Tales of love, betrayal, longing, desire – and hope

Italy serves as the backdrop for stories of Italian women and expatriate women living in Italy.

A freak snowstorm in Rome changes the travel plans of two women, touching their lives in ways they could never have imagined. An ambitious Italian professional working in Brussels rails inwardly at her privileged boss, until fate presents her with a rare opportunity. A long desired trip to Bali, Indonesia serves as a needed chance for introspection. A cautious housewife in Rome thinks back to a fateful missed connection in Florence. A first-time mother feels debilitating guilt for not bonding with her newborn, until an elderly neighbor provides her with a new perspective.

The twenty-one stories in this collection follow women’s lives as they confront betrayal and love, alienation and community, despair and-ultimately-hope.