Book Spotlight, Interview & Excerpt City of Thieves by Audrey Cuff Ed.D.

Title: City of Thieves
Author: Audrey Cuff Ed.D.
Series: Ashley Brown Series
Genre: Ethnic
Publisher: Wild Child Publishing
Publication Date: August 28 2012




When Ashley Brown was five years old, her parents left her in the care of her grandma, though her mother promised to return for her. At fourteen, Ashley is still living with her grandmother in Highland, a city on the outskirts of Maryville, a place known as the "ghetto."
Ashley has shadowy memories of her mother taking her to her favorite place, the library. Reading a good book allows Ashley to escape her poverty and crime infested community. One afternoon after listening to the Mayor's press conference, Ashley discovers that the Mayor is taking away the community library. In spite of being put on punishment for a week by her grandma for defending herself from the school bullies, Ashley feels it is worth the risk to sneak out of her apartment to mail a letter she has written to the Mayor about keeping the library open.
Every day homeless people approach her and beg for something to eat or for money. The most frequent requests come from two disheveled individuals Ashley has nicknamed "Orphan Annie" and the "business-man bum." As if escaping the homeless people isn't enough, there are a bunch of bullies who harass Ashley. One day, the bullies chase her into an alley. They force her to the ground and Ashley is afraid of what could have happened next. This is one time Ashley wished she listen to her grandma.

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Giveaway, Review & Excerpt Tragedy of Knowledge by Rachael Wade

Title: The Tragedy of Knowledge
Author: Rachael Wade
Series: The Resistance Trilogy
Genre: Paranormal Romance/Fantasy/Vampires
Publisher: Rabbit Hole Press
Release Date: October 25 2012
Edition: Ecopy
Source: Author for Honest Review & Blog Tour
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After arranging a hopeful but risky alliance during their visit to the Amaranthian realm, Camille, Gavin, and the resistance don't have much time to recover from their failed mission. Forced to create a new strategy to achieve their goal, they embark on a different mission—one that possibly holds the missing key to their quest for victory, and their deadliest one yet.

As they attempt round two to restore peace and freedom for their kind, they must rely on help from the living, the bayous, and beyond to decipher allies from enemies, good magic from bad, and whether the source claiming to lead the way to their destiny can be trusted. Racing against the clock to solve the mystery of their fate, they find the battle has come right to their doorstep, and this time, everyone must pay a price.

Review Submission Therapy by Katie Salidas & Willsin Rowe

 Title: Submission Therapy
Author: Katie Salidas & Willsin Rowe
Series: Consummate Therapy Series
Genre: Erotic
Publisher: Excessica
Release Date: Nov 2012
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Billionaire CEO of Blakely Incorporated, Natasha runs her empire with an eagle eye for every detail. She’s an obsessive, compulsive, micromanaging hard-ass, consumed by the need to control every aspect of her life and her business.
But underneath that seemingly strong façade, Natasha is a swirling mess of anger, anxiety and sexual addiction. Only her therapist, Dr. Benson, knows how close she is to burning out...or exploding. He insists on a radical form of treatment – Submission Therapy – knowing that it’s her only hope.
Skeptical but intrigued, Natasha agrees to attend the first session. What she finds there is an erotically-charged environment that will forgive none of her habitual bad behavior. And a steely-eyed man who seems to read her every desire - even the ones she won’t admit to herself.
Will Natasha learn what it means to submit? Or will she allow her brittle pride to rob her of what she truly needs?

Review NPH: A Rebel Without A Claus by Candace Jane Kringle

Title: North Pole High: A Rebel Without A Claus
Author: Candace Jane Kringle
Genre: YA/Holiday-Christmas
Publisher: Elf Published Books
Release Date: October 2 2012
Edition: Kindle
Source: Author for Blog Tour & Honest Review
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MEET SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD CANDYCANE CLAUS. She's the most popular girl at North Pole High. Her father is world-famous. And everyday is Christmas. What more could any girl want?

BOYS! And the new boy, Rudy Tutti, is hot chocolate. But he hates anything to do with Christmas!

When Candy and Rudy are forced to work together on a school Christmas-tree project, her world is turned upside down: Her grades start to suffer, she loses her taste for ice cream, and now the two North-Star-cross'd teens must contend with her overprotective father — Santa Claus — before Christmas is ruined for EVERYONE!

Spotlight Aria by Geoff Nedler

 Title: Aria: Left Luggage
Author: Geoff Nelder
Genre: Science Fiction/ Medical Drama
Publisher: LL Publications
Release Date: July 30 2012



A silvery case is found in the external struts of the International Space Station (ISS). It is opened on Earth releasing a virus that causes retrograde amnesia at the rate of a year’s memory per week. No one is immune. It is tragic – as after a week or so people forget where their new homes and jobs are, and children lose speech, medicines are not produced. Yet there is humour – who’s that you wake up next to, and did you both make out? Ryder realizes what’s going on in time to persuade a handful of professionals to barricade themselves in a remote Welsh valley. The uninfected crew of the ISS join them. Can they survive intruders? This is a human disaster yet with romance, betrayal, survival, mystery and an exploration into what is so important in life it must be preserved.

Giveaway & Review ReAwakened by Ada Adams

Title: ЯƎAwakened
Author: Ada Adams
Series: Angel Creek (#2)
Genre: YA/Paranormal/Vampires/
 Werewolves/Shifters
Publisher: Self Published
Release Date: November 27 2012
Edition: Ebook
Source: Author in Exchange for Honest Review and Blog Tour
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Becoming a vampire guardian was Dawn Fairchild’s ticket out of the Scarlet House. Fresh off a successful mission, life in Angel Creek should have been great. But when her sort-of-maybe-boyfriend, Sebastian, disappears on a quest to help a beautiful vampire from his past, Dawn finds herself amidst a web of danger, lies, and deceit.

Joining forces with Razor, an enigmatic rebel lacking both a verbal and a physical filter, and her band of Misfits—Brooke, Sophie, Hunter, and Seth—Dawn is thrust into a race against the clock to solve the mystery surrounding brutal Born kidnappings and come to terms with the sudden discovery of her own unique powers. With time ticking away and Born vampires’ lives in jeopardy, it quickly becomes evident that someone—or something—desperately wants Dawn and is willing to shed any amount of blood to get her.

Dawn has only one chance to face her demons and overcome all obstacles standing in her way as she embarks on the biggest mission of her life—one that threatens a deadly outcome for all involved.

Giveaway & Review Realm of Secrets by MaryLynn Bast

Title: Realm of Secrets
Author: MaryLynn Bast
Series: Heart Of A Wolf Series ( Schadoh's Tale)
Genre: Paranormal/ Werewolves/Vampires/Fae
Publisher: Werewolf Tails Publishing
Release Date: October 26 2012
Edition: Kindle
Source: Author for blog tour and review.
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Schadoh Aphenithea has always looked up to her older sister and willingly follows in her footsteps, venturing out into the new realm where humans and other strange creatures exist.
Unexpectedly, Schadoh meets Dakota who turns out to be her best friend and protector. With the threat of vampires invading Loxy and Earth, she will need all the help she can get when the portal to her realm is closed. She is forced to remain in the earth realm and live as a human. Something she finds is not quite as easy as it looks from the wall of mists. Schadoh must learn to coexist in the earth realm while keeping the secret that other realms exist.

Cover Reveal Kiss Me by Jillian Dodd

Title: Kiss Me
Author: Jillian Dodd
Series: The Keatyn Chronicles (#2)
Genre: YA-New Adult/Contemporary Romance
Publisher: Self Published
Release Date: December 14 2012

I've always written scripts for my perfect life. 

But no way could I have ever scripted this.

My life is so far from perfect, it’s not even funny.

All because of a stalker.

I'm at a boarding school where I have to lie about who I am. 

I can't see my family.

I’m tutoring a hottie god that tortures me with his smile. 

The most popular girl already hates me.

But there’s this boy. 

This hot, sweet, sexy boy. 

So I'm going to stop trying to script my life and just live it.

Because who knows how long I have left.

Jillian Dodd grew up on a farm in Nebraska, where she developed a love for Midwestern boys and Nebraska football. She has drank from a keg in a cornfield, attended the University of Nebraska, got to pass her candle, and did have a boy ask her to marry him in a bar. She met her own prince in college, and they have two amazing children, a Maltese named Sugar Bear, and two Labrador puppies named Camber Lacy and Cali Lucy.
She is the author of the That Boy Trilogy and The Keatyn Chronicles Series.

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Giveaway & Review Reflections by Susan Griscom Writing As Regan Walsh

I want to welcome the lovely and beautiful Susan Griscom with her latest release Reflections ( A Whisper Cape Novel ).

Title: Reflections
Author: Susan Griscom writing as Regan Walsh
Series: A Whisper Cape Novel (#2)
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Publisher: Amber Glow Books
Release Date: Kindle Copy was Available on Oct 9 and Print Copy Nov 24
Edition: Kindle Copy
Source: Author for Honest Review
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 Gerry has loved Maia from the very first moment he laid eyes on her and now that she’s pregnant with his child, he’s over the moon with happiness. Likewise, Maia is overjoyed about having Gerry’s baby, but when she starts seeing and hearing an old woman who warns Maia about the pregnancy, Maia starts to think she is losing her mind. But Maia’s nightmare has only just begun...

A most sought after beautiful woman, the talented lead singer in an up and coming rock band, sets her sights on Gerry determined to rekindle an old flame. But murder befalls the sleepy town of Whisper Cape once again, creating suspicion and betrayal, and a love once considered invincible, begins to crumble and fall apart.

Review A Heart For The Ocean by Taylor Lakke

Title: Taylor Lakke
Author: Taylor Lakke
Series: Serenity (#1)
Genre: YA/ Teen Romance/ Paranormal
Publisher: Self Published
Release Date: October 8 2012
Edition: Kindle Copy ( Mobi )
Source: Author for blog tour and honest review.
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Madison McKinsey is an average fifteen year old girl who attends a normal high school in Winter Haven, Florida. Her job is to deliver newspapers to the people in her town, but one day she reaches in for a newspaper and everything changes when she encounters a mystical phenomenon. She travels through time to a place that normal humans don't know about. She meets Landon Cayne, an older boy who takes her on adventures to the strange seas of this world. She helps him in his quest.
It doesn't take long for Madison to see that Landon is different. He makes her soul sing. She can't help but feel that she is destined to be with this not-so-normal boy, in this not-so-normal world.

Giveaway & Review Locked by S.V. Richard

Title: Locked
Author: S.V. Richard
Series: Locked
Genre: YA/Suspense
Publisher: Wild Child Publishing
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Edition: Kindle Copy (Mobi)
Source: Publisher for BTS Blog Tour and Exchange for honest review.
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Tristan’s old home old home is not what it appears, and her friends have no idea what this visit will turn into. When the room Tristan’s mother always kept locked is opened, chaos breaks loose. One by one, they are locked away.

Will anyone survive?