Tuesday, August 27, 2024

#ReleaseBlitz: Whiskey Kisses by Rochelle Allison #TheIndiePenPR


Blurb 

  Caught between family loyalty and their affection for one another… Tristan I always get my way. 

  Fighting is my life. In the ring, on the street, there’s no problem that can’t be solved with my fists. When an injury puts me on the sidelines, my family sends me down South on business. They want me to take over Doyle Whiskey, a job they claim is perfect for me. And it is, until the owner’s daughter stumbles back into my life. Evie’s not the shy, awkward girl I knew as a kid. She’s beautiful and fierce, and she doesn’t need me. Until she does. 

Just because I can’t step into the ring, it doesn’t mean I’ve forgotten how to fight. Especially for a girl like Evie. Evie Our marriage might be a sham, but our friendship isn’t. 

  When my father’s debts land him in hot water, there’s a lot more than just money on the line. My freedom is at risk, and if I don’t figure something out, I could end up married off as payment. But then Tristan shows up to take over our distillery. He’s as gorgeous as ever, but he’s not the sweet, mischievous boy I crushed on as a kid. He makes deals and takes what he wants and when he sees that I’m in danger, he takes me, too. In marriage. I know he’s protecting his own interests by protecting me, but it doesn’t matter. I’ve wanted him my whole life, and I’ll do whatever it takes to protect him right back. 

  Because the queen’s the most powerful piece on the board. 

  Whiskey Kisses is a steamy, dark, Irish mob romance. Marriage of convenience, m/f, friends-to-lovers, forced proximity. It's the second book of the Gangland Hearts trilogy, which should be read in order. Recommended for mature audiences

#TeaserTuesday: Katherine by AK Nevermore @RABTBookTours


 

Maw of Mayhem MC 4

A Maw of Mayhem Shifter MC Romance

 

Action Adventure, Dark Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Suspense

Date Published: August 30, 2024

Publisher: Changeling Press


 

Voted in as prez and back at the clubhouse, Grimdarke James has won back the Maw of Mayhem MC, but his problems are far from over, and his migraine isn’t helping. Neither is the arrival of a rival MC, a wolf pack, or the crime lord en route.

And Reaper’s still on the loose.

Grim definitely can’t seem to catch a break, and neither can Kit. Now that she’s been officially introduced to the club as Grim’s ol’ lady, it’s up to her to get a handle on the mollys. Will she be able to keep them in line and prove she’s the rightful queen of Mayhem, or will someone else try to usurp her throne?

#BookBlitz: Carved From Wood by Brendan O’Meara @cutfstone @XpressoTours $25 Amazon gift card

Carved From Wood
Brendan O’Meara
(Crafting Humanity, #2)
Publication date: June 6th 2024
Genres: Dystopian, Young Adult

James and his team head South after witnessing the BlankZone decimate the city of Midway. Their self-ascribed mission is to explore the most dangerous place on the planet – the new BlankZone border in the Southern Federation.

While conspiracies drive the narrative in the North, James and his team set out to learn about the Federation’s mysterious aggressors. Jump back into the adventure as James and his friends discover new families, build allies, and come face to face with the enemy threatening their existence. Secrets, lies, and manipulation are exposed as James gets closer than he ever imagined to their greatest threat.





#CoverReveal: In the Light of a Crystal Dawn by Cary Ash @RRBookTours1



We are thrilled to present the cover for In the Light of a Crystal Dawn by Cary Ash. Pre-order today! Stay tuned for an excerpt reveal!

In the Light of a Crystal Dawn (The Raya Sage Chronicles Book 1) 
  Expected Publication Date: December 19, 2024 
  Genre: Dark Fantasy Romance 
  There's a darkness in her, an ancient power that Demons and Angels alike are drawn to, and a mysterious blue-eyed stranger who is either the light in the shadows of her mind, or the instrument of her destruction. 


 When twenty-six-year-old criminal attorney, Raya Sage, is stopped on the street by a fortune teller who declares her next birthday the day Raya would become the end of the world, it seems like just one of those crazy things that happens to people in downtown Austin, Texas. But when the woman seizes, and then disappears on the ride to the hospital, Raya can't shake the lingering creepiness factor, and is haunted by the encounter for the months that follow. Flash forward a few months, to her birthday, to one of the biggest verdicts of her career, and the moment she sees her first Demon. It's as if the day she turned twenty-seven, a veil is lifted. She can see them and they can see her, and they all want her dead. That's when a mysterious blue-eyed stranger, who calls himself Marcus, saves her life, and whisks her away to a world, filled with Nephilim and Demons, a world he claims is where she belongs. Where he is an Overseer, a king of sorts, who leads brave warriors who protect humanity from all those things that go bump in the night. He declares Raya is one of the most special of their kind. And her crystal blue eyes are not birthmarks, as she was told from a young age, but are the mark of a rare Crystal Seer. As Raya tries to adapt and understand her new life, and a world where the Nephilim kingdom shadows and protects humanity, she grapples with the strange familiarity and intense attraction she feels with Marcus, that feels as if it stretches beyond time, that he claims he cannot explain. Or is it simply that he chooses not to explain? Nothing she will soon discover is as it seems, including her. For there is a darkness in her, an ancient power that Demons and Angels alike are drawn to. Raya soon comes to fear what she believes Marcus already knows—that she might truly be the end of the world if she doesn't fight her way to the light. And that the connection he shares with her is as dangerous to the Nephilim as it is to all of humanity. 

  The Light in the Crystal Dawn, the first book in the Raya Sage Chronicles, introduces you to a world filled with the magic of Angels, and the darkness of the monsters they hunt, where secrets and lies, and a passionate forbidden romance has world altering consequences. Perfect for fans of The Serpent in the Wings of Night and A Court of Thorns and Roses.


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Monday, August 26, 2024

#BookReview: Masquerade by @OOSangoyomi @ForgeReads




ABOUT THIS BOOK:
Set in a wonderfully reimagined 15th century West Africa, Masquerade is a dazzling, lyrical tale exploring the true cost of one woman’s fight for freedom and self-discovery, and the lengths she’ll go to secure her future.

Òdòdó’s hometown of Timbuktu has been conquered by the the warrior king of Yorùbáland. Already shunned as social pariahs, living conditions for Òdòdó and the other women in her blacksmith guild grow even worse under Yorùbá rule.

Then Òdòdó is abducted. She is whisked across the Sahara to the capital city of Ṣàngótẹ̀, where she is shocked to discover that her kidnapper is none other than the vagrant who had visited her guild just days prior. But now that he is swathed in riches rather than rags, Òdòdó realizes he is not a vagrant at all; he is the warrior king, and he has chosen her to be his wife.

In a sudden change of fortune, Òdòdó soars to the very heights of society. But after a lifetime of subjugation, the power that saturates this world of battle and political savvy becomes too enticing to resist. As tensions with rival states grow, revealing elaborate schemes and enemies hidden in plain sight, Òdòdó must defy the cruel king she has been forced to wed by re-forging the shaky loyalties of the court in her favor, or risk losing everything—including her life.

Loosely based on the myth of Persephone, O.O. Sangoyomi’s Masquerade takes you on a journey of epic power struggles and political intrigue that turn an entire region on its head.