Heart of the Vampire (The Vanderlind Castle Series #2) Review and Giveaway

Author: Gayla Twist

Genre:  YA Paranormal Romance

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Book Blurb: Aurora Keys is heartbroken, struggling to forget the beautiful and enigmatic Jessie Vanderlind, who has told her it is too dangerous for them to be together. And he may be right. Jessie is, after all, a vampire. But that doesn't make forgetting him any easier.

Just as Aurora is starting to pull her shattered life back together, Jessie reappears at her window with a warning: there are many vampires who want to see her dead—and him locked in a coffin for a hundred years. Aurora and Jessie are accused of staking a vampire for the sake of a human and must fly to Budapest to plead their case in front of a vampire tribunal. Their only hope of survival is to convince the world’s oldest vampire family that they are desperately in love—and have been for nearly 80 years.


My Rant: 

Heart of the Vampire was romantically sweet. The book picks up exactly where Call of a Vampire left off. Viktor is dead and now there are vampires out to avenge his death. Jessie and Aurora now have to take a trip to Budapest for a tribunal to see if they would vote Jessie and Aurora guilty or innocent of the charges of murder. This story was amazingly written. I was engaged and emotional strapped to both Jessie and Aurora. The romance they have between each other is completely innocent but undeniable because they have that connection to each other. The love both the characters shared is heartfelt throughout the book.

Cover Reveal: The Darkest Joy by Marata Eros

Title: THE DARKEST JOY

Author: Marata Eros

Expected release date: February 18, 2014

Genre: Dark Romantic Suspense

Age Group: New Adult

Publisher:Simon & Schuster

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Book Description

A sexy and poignant new adult novel from New York Times bestseller Marata Eros, about two lost souls who find each other in the wake of tragedy, only to learn that love may not be enough to heal the wounds of a dark and tortured past...

Twenty year-old Brooke Starr has escaped the aftermath of a brutal tragedy by abandoning her music studies and moving north to take a summer position as a part-time deck hand on a deep-sea fishing boat. When her survivor’s guilt becomes unbearable, Brooke realizes there's only one thing she can do to finally erase the pain.

Deep sea fisherman, Chance Taylor, has just wrapped his guitar set at the local saloon when he sees the silhouette of a young woman in repose, the full moon highlighting her shadow as she plummets from a pier too high for diving... into water too cold to survive. Without thinking, he plunges in after her, saving Brooke from drowning.

As Chance works to save her from her own emotional fragility, Brooke finally begins to learn how to save herself. But when

Review: Lethal Obsession by Shandra Miller

Title: Lethal Obsession (Book #1)

Author: Shandra Miller

Genre: Erotica

Series:  Lethal Obsession Trilogy

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Book Blurb: Angela Martin is like everyone else. She wants acceptance. Love. Passion.

For five years she’s lived with the pain of knowing her husband cheats on her. She’s dealt with the heart-rending rejection by rebuilding her life around her work, becoming the first woman detective in the history of the Moose Creek, N.C., police department.

Then she stumbles upon him. A man who reawakens desire, who makes her feel more alive than she believed possible by pulling her into a world of bondage and dominance, devotion and trust taken to a new level, fear mingling with desire, a craving stronger than any drug.

Soon women start turning up dead in Moose Creek, bound and tortured, tied in ways that Angela finds startling familiar. Angela’s heart tells her that her newfound love cannot be the killer, her detective instincts tell her otherwise, and her obsession with this new lifestyle draws her back to him, even at the risk of her life.

LETHAL OBSESSION is a tale of sex and bondage, love and fear, desire and suspicion, with an ending that will leave you breathless, craving more.

*****

My Rant: 

When the author contacted me to review her book, I was skeptical.I did not think at all that this book would appeal to me. I was so wrong. I loved it. It was exquisitely dark but with a twist. When you begin to read the book your thinking that you are getting a book that is centered around kink. I mean less be honest it is but not in the way you think. There is quite a mystery that is attached to the story that really gets your blood pumping.

Cover Reveal: On The Run by Marylynn Bast

Title: ON THE RUN 

Author: MaryLynn Bast

Series: Heart Of a Wolf Series

Genre: Paranormal

Publisher: Werewolf Tails Publishing

Release Date: TBA

Blurb/Synopsis: 

With the Wolf Council after her, Amber is on the run. Leaving Blake behind, her true love, she’s never been in one place long enough to make any other friends and when she actually meets Giovana, Amber is happy, but leery. 

With good reason.

Fire Burns Blog Tour and Review

Title: Fire Burns

Author: Trista Day

Series: The Unforgiven Series

Genre: YA Paranormal Romance

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Blurb/Synopsis: Callie Demasi just started her senior year at Crystalport High and her life couldn't be any more ordinary. Then the nightmares start, and a strange creature tries to attack her in her sleep. If that isn't bad enough, her body starts to do things she never imagined were possible; like hold fire in the palm of her hand. It seems that the only person who knows what's really happening to her is a ghost creature named Draven - if she can keep him from disappearing on her. It's not until after her best friend Zilla is kidnapped, and she meets the handsome and arrogant Cole, that Callie begins to put the pieces together. Will her newfound powers be strong enough to save the life of her BFF, or will they both be doomed to the same fate?

Do You Want Some Swag? Enter A Brutal Tenderness Giveaway.

One of my favorites,  Marata Eros,  New York Times best selling author is doing big things. When I say big I mean Huge!  To celebrate her upcoming release of A Brutal Tenderness, a companion novel to A Terrible Love,  she has decided to give away some swag. That's right swag. Who doesn't want swag? I know I do. So if you are like me a fan, enter the ABT giveaway below.

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Release Date: August 26, 2013

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Book Blurb: There are two sides to every story. In this dark and sexy companion novel to the New York Times bestseller A Terrible Love, experience the sizzling passion and pulse-pounding suspense through FBI agent Cas Steele’s eyes as he hunts down a psychopath...and falls for the killer’s prey.

ARC Review of A Brutal Tenderness by Marata Eros

Title: A Brutal Tenderness

Author: Marata Eros

Genre: New Adult , Contemporary Romance

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Release Date: August 26, 2013

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Book Blurb: There are two sides to every story. In this dark and sexy companion novel to the New York Times bestseller A Terrible Love, experience the sizzling passion and pulse-pounding suspense through FBI agent Cas Steele’s eyes as he hunts down a psychopath...and falls for the killer’s prey.

Cas has been charged with an unsavory task: manipulate the hauntingly beautiful Jewell MacLeod—a woman he has every reason to hate—and slowly gain her trust in order to use her as bait to lure in a killer. But as the killer draws closer, Cas realizes that he can’t deny the scorching chemistry that ignites between him and Jewell, even if giving into his physical desire for her means jeopardizing his mission...and opening himself up to the possibility of a real and terrible love...



My Rant:

A Brutal Tenderness was breathtakingly beautiful. This book is much more than a companion novel to a Terrible Love, it is the missing piece to an unrelenting love story. Marata brings the story full circle by telling it from Cas's POV. Cas is displayed as an open book and he lets us into his world, his emotions, and his un-quenching love for Jewell. 

Talking about Cas just gives me goose bumps in a good way. His personality is hardcore and raw but what makes Cas appealing is his  heart and his dedication to his friends and the people he loves. He is the ultimate good guy with a twist. 

In the first few paragraphs you are gripped so tight by his persona. Cas wheels you in and life as you know it outside the book begins to fade

Promo: Lethal Obsession by Shandra Miller

Title: Lethal Obsession (Book #1)

Author: Shandra Miller

Genre: Erotica

Series:  Lethal Obsession Trilogy

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Book Blurb: Angela Martin is like everyone else. She wants acceptance. Love. Passion.

For five years she’s lived with the pain of knowing her husband cheats on her. She’s dealt with the heart-rending rejection by rebuilding her life around her work, becoming the first woman detective in the history of the Moose Creek, N.C., police department.

Then she stumbles upon him. A man who reawakens desire, who makes her feel more alive than she believed possible by pulling her into a world of bondage and dominance, devotion and trust taken to a new level, fear mingling with desire, a craving stronger than any drug.

Soon women start turning up dead in Moose Creek, bound and tortured, tied in ways that Angela finds startling familiar. Angela’s heart tells her that her newfound love cannot be the killer, her detective instincts tell her otherwise, and her obsession with this new lifestyle draws her back to him, even at the risk of her life.

LETHAL OBSESSION is a tale of sex and bondage, love and fear, desire and suspicion, with an ending that will leave you breathless, craving more.

*****

An excerpt:

I am going to die.

Because I’m stupid.

That was the final lucid thought Angela was able to form before emotion replaced rational thinking. His hands – gentle yet deliberate in the way they had already worked the rest of her clothing from her body – unfastened first one strap that hung over her shoulders, then the other, and Angela felt her face flush as the chemise fell, leaving her nude.

Just Released: Broken By Jamie Loeak

Title: Broken
Author: Jamie Loeak
Series: The Outsiders
Genre: YA Contemporary
Publisher: Self-Published
Release Date: August 3 2013
Blurb/Synopsis:

Carter Daniels is a typical runaway.

Unsure of who he is or where he's going, Carter is only sure of one thing; his past is going to stay in the past. But when he gets pulled into the popular crowd at Mason County High School, he's forced to choose: tell the truth about who he is or lie.
Lie.
And it seems to be working. His parents wanted to get him that crappy apartment because they're never home. He crashed his car so he doesn't have one. His weekends are filled because he has to spend time with his parents.
But when Carter is forced to open up to an outsider because of an English assignment, everything changes. There is something he sees in her, an undeniable connection. A need to discover what lies behind those sad eyes. But will Carter lower his defenses in order to get past hers? Will he let her in, or will he choose to stay broken?

Excerpt

"Normal, as in what happened today with the sign? And Lane and Brooke cornering you in the bathroom? Is that normal for you?"

Vandelya blushes. She clearly didn't want me to see that, but she can't do anything about it now.

"I want to stop them. I can't let them hurt you like that, Vandelya."