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Tightly Laced Book Release & Giveaway

8/12/2015

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TIGHT LACED

by Roxy Soulé
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BLURB:
Roxy Soulé’s debut Dragon Duchess series explores the spicier side of late Victorian England, and centers around a family of headstrong, sexpositive women who defy period stereotypes.

Oh, yes, there are Alpha Dukes aplenty, and a bevy of villains who continually torment and thwart, but at the end of the day, these heroines create their own Happily Ever After, sometimes with their lovers and sometimes despite them.

These rather short, hot books may be a bit bold for the tame reader, but if you like your stories with heat and heart – with a bit of sass, humor and spark – perhaps you will enjoy these.

TIGHT LACED (Book One of the Dragon Duchess series) releases August 11th!
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Excerpt Two:
Lacilia fingered the edges of the duke’s handkerchief. She ran the tip of her pinkie over the nubbed Scottish beast.

The embroidered dragon was impressive: a huge reptilian body covered with a mail of plate and scales from head to tail, ending in a great and deadly stinger. From gaping jaws emerged dangerous fangs and the belching of flame. The stitch work was more detailed than any Lacy had come across. The dragon’s beady eyes, a sharp spike on his nose, a forked tongue, eagle's feet and bat's wings.

From her tutors she had learned a bit about the rampants of Scotland. The dragon symbolized power, wisdom and clear-headedness.

But the duke? He certainly did not display clear-headedness. And what of wisdom? Lacy had no evidence of that, either.

So why did she tingle so, holding the handkerchief in her palm?

Why did her center suddenly throb with desire?

Would it be sacrilegious to pleasure herself on such a day?

Lacilia rose from her bed and tiptoed to her door. She peeked out into the long, dark hallway.

Biography

Roxy Soulé is a devotee of romance that features strong female heroines and the men they adore (or, sometimes, abhor!) Her short, hot "novelettes" are serial episodes that spark, ignite, smolder, and catch fire again. A pyromaniac's delight!

She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her family and her biggish dog, Ruby. She also LOVES to hear from readers. www.roxannesoule.com

Release dates:

TIGHT LACED August 11th

TIGHT LIPPED September 15th

TIGHT FISTED October 13th

With more in the queue!

Available through Amazon (initially) – link through http://roxannesoule.com/daring-duchess-series/

FB https://www.facebook.com/roxanne.soule.79

TWITTER https://twitter.com/roxysoule

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The Day of The Wave Interview & Giveaway

8/5/2015

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Becky will be awarding a $50 Amazon or B/N GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour.

Guest Blogger Interview 2

1.)                What did you want to be when you grew up?
Strangely I always wanted to be a lollipop lady - one of those ladies who stands at the side of the road and helps kids cross the street?! I think I thought they had a constant supply of lollipops! After that I fancied being a famous singer or member of a girl band, but obviously that wasn't to be. I made do with a lot of singing into my hairbrush instead!

2.)                Coffee, tea or hot chocolate?
  Is this a trick question? I don't think any writers can write without coffee!!

3.)                What genre do you typically read? Why?

I love all kinds of books, really! I do love a good heart stopping romance though, or a thriller. I'm reading The Bone Clocks at the moment and it's amazing.

4.)                Share a favourite childhood memory.

My uncle, who's not actually an uncle, more of a family friend used to design treasure hunts that would have four of us kids running round the garden looking for clues and prizes. It was so much fun. I used to love those afternoons of adventure, feeling like pirates looking for treasure!

5.)                Do you have any shameless addictions? ie. Tea, Books, Shoes, Clothes?

  I'm kind of addicted to Instagram - boring but true! I also really love playing my guitar, even though I'm not really all that good!

6.)            What do you think is the biggest challenge of writing a new book?

  Getting past the 30k mark, for sure. I think that's the hardest part as it always feels like it takes the longest. I also love the research, although it's a challenge. I spent a lot of time before starting on The Day Of The Wave making sure I got all my facts straight about the Boxing Day tsunami.

7.)            Do you aim for a set amount of words/pages a day?

  Not really, I try to write when I'm inspired, otherwise it feels like a chore. Mind you though, when I tried to write Before He Was Gone in 5 weeks it was tough to keep going. I stuck to 4000 words a day with that one!

8.)            What are your thoughts on writing a book series?

  I enjoyed writing my Before He Was... series, and I love how the characters are interwoven with each other across three books, but it's somehow not as exciting anymore as writing a damn good standalone (well, that's what I hope I've done here anyway!!)

The Day of the Wave

by Becky Wicks
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BLURB:
Torn apart by the tragedy. Thrown back together ten years later by destiny... Isla and Ben were just sixteen when the Boxing Day tsunami ripped through their beach resort in Thailand. Just days after forming a life-changing bond, both were missing and presumed dead.

Based on real life events, The Day of the Wave is a story of healing, learning to let go, and figuring out when to hold on with everything you have left.
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Excerpt One:

'Isabella,' I said to the girl in braids behind the computer. She was frantic, tapping away a million miles an hour. A line of people were behind me. All of them were bedraggled and beside themselves, like the cast of a war movie. 'Isabella from England. Izzy. I left her on the beach. Can you look again?'

'We don't have any Isabella's yet, I'm sorry,' she said. I asked a hundred times about Toby, too, and Charlie and Van and Tee, but I always got the same answer.

They'd brought in experts from everywhere - Austria, the Netherlands, Australia, Germany, and all of them I realized quickly were carrying out the gruesome tasks it took to identify the dead. Most of it wasn't even happening behind closed doors. There weren't enough doors.

After a while, no one was bringing the injured in anymore. It was just more bodies and still none of them were Toby. Still none of them were Charlie or Izzy... at least, I didn't think they were. There were panels of photos of the bodies as they were brought in, on the walls. But they were all so horribly deformed. You can't even imagine what water does. People go black, their eyes bulge out of their sockets. The only way to recognize somebody at first is by their jewelry.

They were fingerprinting the corpses, I discovered. They gave them full dental examinations and took X-rays, then they sent the DNA samples away for analysis. It was when I learned they were matching them to a missing-person's list in Phuket that I begged to be taken there, to the International Hospital. I knew more bodies were there. Maybe I'd find Toby there.

I found my mom instead. She'd just flown in and been allowed a transfer. 'My baby,' she cried when she found me, pulling me against her and sobbing. I was sixteen but her words hit hard. I felt like a baby; a useless, helpless, broken baby. Glenn stood solid like a tree behind her. He hugged me too. It was the first and last time he ever did.

We moved to a hotel, where we stayed for two weeks and I made it my job to look out for Sonthi. He was going through the same thing, only he was still searching for twenty people he loved. We played guitar at night. We knew the same Beatles song so we sang together outside, taught ourselves the harmonies to take our minds off all the tragedies. Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away, Now it looks as though they're here to stay, Oh I believe in yesterday.

Even though Sonthi didn't know the meaning of the words, I think they helped us both somehow. The yesterdays we missed were haunting everyone but at least we escaped with our lives.

I went with mom to the councilor, too, but she cried all the way through, and she cried so much at the hotel that I didn't sleep for days. I was a shell. I had no tears left. 'They're gone, they're never coming back,' mom yowled.

'We don't know that!' I yelled at her, but she yowled even more into the walls and the floor and the pillow, while a thousand other people doing the same made even the hotel feel like a funeral parlor.

We got told that DNA breaks down once bodies decompose. The longer we had to wait, the less chance we had of identifying anyone. Eventually I had to say goodbye to Sonthi and everyone at the hospital I'd gotten to know. Our flight was booked; my brother and uncle and Izzy were officially missing, assumed dead. My mom was a pale-faced Martian I didn't know anymore and she hadn't really spoken to me in days. 'Toby, my baby, Toby!,' she wailed into Glenn's expensive shirt as he helped her outside and into the taxi.

I was just about to leave for the airport when the girl in braids came to grab me. 'Ben,' she said, leaning down, putting a hand to my shoulder. I could tell by her face she had bad news. 'We found Isabella, from the UK,' she said as the tears careened down her face. 'There's only one on the list. I'm so sorry.'

It was raining when I got outside. It was a real tropical downfall; the kind of rain that lashes and hurts. I turned my face up to it and let it hit me as the wind howled. I wanted to feel the physical crash of everything that had been breaking my heart. The only thing I felt was how it wasn't rain at all. It felt like my brother and Izzy and Charlie and two hundred thousand other souls were crying.

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The Maid's Quarters Stop & Giveaway

8/3/2015

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BLURB:
1893 . . . Alice Porterman is released from her duties as a maid and travels home to help her mother care for her sickly brother. But her mother and brother are not in their family home when Alice arrives and she learns the landlord, Albert Donahue, has evicted them into the harsh Boston winter. Alice goes in search of him and is surprised at what she finds.

Albert Donahue, an up-and-coming member of Boston’s elite, made his fortune through hard work and shrewd business deals. But his dreams of a family to share it with have not come true, perhaps until an impertinent young woman enters his home and won’t leave until she speaks to him.
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Excerpt One:
Boston 1893

Chapter One

Alice Porterman looked at Mrs. McKinnell. “What do you mean Ma and Jimmy aren’t living here anymore? It is our house!”

“They’re living in two rooms at the back of the church, Alice. I would have taken them in here, but I have no room, none at all,” Alice’s mother’s closest neighbor said to her. “You better get them, girl. Jimmy wasn’t doing well the last time I stopped by. Your mam can hardly leave him to get victuals or go to work. I’ve been shopping for her when I can.”

“Thank you, Mrs. McKinnell. I’ll go right away.” Alice turned and looked at the narrow two-story home where she’d grown up. “I’ll just put my bags in the house,” she said, and started down the walk that separated the Porterman and McKinnell homes as she had just arrived from the train station coming from Washington.

“Nay, you can’t, girl. They’ve changed the locks. Your mam couldn’t even get back in to get your brother’s medicine. Leave your cases on my porch. I’ll have one of the boys carry them in and we’ll keep them here until you’re settled somewhere.”

“Thank you, Mrs. McKinnell,” Alice said, red-faced. “I will get them as soon as I get this straightened out.”

“Don’t worry, Alice. Just get your mother and brother back home where they belong.”

Alice nodded and kissed the plump, red-headed woman’s cheek. “Thank the Lord you were here to help Ma.”

“It’s nothing. Neighbors do for neighbors. Your mam would do the same for me, she would. So, your mother had Jimmy read me the letter she got from you that those rich nobs are paying you without you even working for them. La-de-dah! And look at them skirts of yours! That is fine wool, is it not, with them lacy petticoats sticking out? And a pretty little hat to boot!”

AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Holly Bush writes historical romance set on the American Prairie, in Victorian England, and recently released her first Women’s Fiction title. Her books are described as emotional, with heartfelt, sexy romance. She makes her home with her husband in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Connect with Holly at www.hollybushbooks.com and on Twitter @hollybushbooks and on Facebook at Holly Bush.
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Seduced by the Moon Tour & Giveaway

8/3/2015

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Linda Thomas-Sundstrom will award a $25 Amazon/BN gift card to a randomly drawn commenter via Rafflecopter. Follow the tour by clicking on the sidebar.

BLURB:
Can blood ties be stronger than the passions that rule the heart?

Skylar Donovan has come to her late father’s Colorado cabin to find answers to explain his death. Instead she meets a handsome forest ranger with a dark side. A stranger who is willing to protect her from an unknown assailant. A stranger who also appears in her dreams as something other than a man. He’s werewolf, and he satisfies Skylar Donovan like no mere man ever has.

Gavin Harris was bitten by a monster in the hills he has sworn to protect and now searches for that beast. But his deadly mission unites him with a beautiful blonde bent on a search of her own. Neither is safe from the evil they’re stalking—but the forbidden lust that burns between them might be the greatest danger of all.

AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Linda is the author of contemporary, paranormal romance, and urban fantasy books for Kensington, Amazon Montlake, GothicScapes, Harlequin Nocturne, and Harlequin Desire. She loves more than anything to write, and has a resident Muse who loudly sings all these stories to her.

Linda swears that all of her books come loaded with good karma for the readers, for helping to support her writing dreams.

Website: http://www.lindathomas-sundstrom.com

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/LindaThomasSundstrom

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1455986.Linda_Thomas_Sundstrom

BUY Links:
Amazon Kindle: http://amazon.com/dp/B00UFPP77G/

Amazon Print: http://amazon.com/dp/0263915638/

B&N Nook: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/seduced-by-the-moon-linda-thomas-sundstrom/1121346866

B&N Print: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/seduced-by-the-moon-linda-thomas-sundstrom/1121346866

Kobo: https://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/seduced-by-the-moon-1

iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/seduced-by-the-moon/id974843507

Harlequin: http://www.harlequin.com/storeitem.html?iid=59705
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Tightly Laced Book Release & Giveaway

The author will give a randomly drawn commenter a $25 Amazon/BN GC

The Day of The Wave Interview & Giveaway

Becky will be awarding a $50 Amazon or B/N GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour.

The Maid's Quarters Stop & Giveaway

Holly will award a $20 Amazon/BN gift card to a randomly drawn commenter via Rafflecopter.

Seduced by the Moon Tour & Giveaway

Linda Thomas-Sundstrom will award a $25 Amazon/BN gift card to a randomly drawn commenter via Rafflecopter. Follow the tour by clicking on the sidebar.

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Tightly Laced Book Release & Giveaway

The author will give a randomly drawn commenter a $25 Amazon/BN GC

﻿The Day of The Wave Interview & Giveaway

Becky will be awarding a $50 Amazon or B/N GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour.

The Maid's Quarters Stop & Giveaway

Holly will award a $20 Amazon/BN gift card to a randomly drawn commenter via Rafflecopter.

Seduced by the Moon Tour & Giveaway

Linda Thomas-Sundstrom will award a $25 Amazon/BN gift card to a randomly drawn commenter via Rafflecopter. Follow the tour by clicking on the sidebar.

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The Day of The Wave Interview & Giveaway