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Tuesday, December 29, 2020

Cover Reveal- MY NIGHTS WITH YOU by @LyricallyAdalyn With An Excerpt & #Giveaway!

 

Today Adalyn Caine and Rockstar Book Tours are revealing the cover for her upcoming adult contemporary romance book, MY NIGHTS WITH YOU, which releases March 9, 2021! Check out the gorgeous cover and enter the giveaway!

On to the reveal!


Title: MY NIGHTS WITH YOU

Author: Adalyn Caine

Pub. Date: March 9, 2021

Publisher: Adalyn Caine

Formats: Paperback, eBook

Pages: ?

Find it: Goodreads

Fresh out of college and on the cusp of a promising career in New York City, Sela Monroe falls hard for Theo Walker when they meet in the park. He’s beautiful. He’s brilliant. He’s a go-getter. He’s everything she’s ever wanted. Sela would do anything for Theo. When he calls, she always answers. When he asks her to come over, she’s there in a matter of minutes. No time is ever too late. No request is ever too inconvenient.

There’s only one problem with Sela’s relationship with Theo: he doesn’t love her back. Though Sela’s best friend, Annie, has been pleading with her to move on from Theo for months, citing his manipulative behavior and the hold he seems to have over sensitive Sela, when it finally hits Sela that her feelings aren’t reciprocated, it’s too much.

After an emotional breakdown that leaves Sela in the hospital, she struggles to cope with her emotions. She has never felt more lost or hopeless or used. Only when she begins the healing process does she realize that genuine love does exist and that sometimes in places where you least expect it.


Exclusive Excerpt!

Sitting down on the top of Theo’s steps, I hold my head up with my hands as sobs leave my throat. My heart beats slow and steady but aches so badly. I can feel the ache spreading throughout my entire body. My limbs throb yet at the same time feel like dead weight. I just want to cry the pain out. Maybe if I sit here and bawl long enough I’ll feel numb. Numb. Numb.

Right now all I need is emotional novocaine.

Yes.

Those people are full of shit.

And I don’t care what anybody says.

There’s nothing more painful than being in love with someone who doesn’t love you back.

 

About Adalyn:

Writer. Thinker. Procrastinator. Getting ready to release my novel, My Nights With You. Working on some other projects while trying to stay sane.

Twitter | Goodreads

Giveaway Details:

1 winner will receive a $10 Amazon GC, International.


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Monday, December 28, 2020

Blog Tour- The STAR PILOT Series by Eva Delaney & Vivi Clarke With Teasers & A #Giveaway!

 

I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the STAR PILOT SERIES by Eva Delaney & Vivi Clarke Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!

 

About The Books:

Title: A STAR PILOT’S FEARLESS REBEL (Star Pilot #1)

Author: Eva Delaney & Vivi Clarke

Pub. Date: November 16, 2020

Publisher: Eva Delaney & Vivi Clarke

Formats: Paperback, eBook

Pages: 256

Find it:  GoodreadsAmazon

Read for FREE With A Kindle Unlimited Membership! 

Staring down death is easy. Being trapped on a small ship with five tempting men... Not so much.

I’m the best damn pilot and smuggler in the galaxy. My specialty is messing up shit for the tyrants who conquer and destroy worlds.

When I land a secret mission that could end the centuries of war, it comes with a team of five rebels and traitors—including my ex, who’s acting like he didn't betray me in my darkest moment.

I'll have to rely on these men to survive and save the galaxy when my greatest foe returns. But getting close to any of them is a blueprint for disaster that will doom this mission—and my heart.

Somehow facing my past is the hardest thing I've done, especially when these men want to be part of my future.

A Star Pilot’s Fearless Rebel is a reverse harem space opera, featuring a bad-ass heroine, sexy rebels, and gripping space battles. It’s a combination of Firefly and Star Wars with a RH twist. It is the first in a medium-burn series.

This book was originally published as A Star Pilot's Heart. This updated edition includes swoony and exciting new chapters!

 

Title: A STAR PILOT’S DARING ROGUE (Star Pilot #2)

Author: Eva Delaney & Vivi Clarke

Pub. Date: November 16, 2020

Publisher: Eva Delaney & Vivi Clarke

Formats: Paperback, eBook

Pages: 400

Find it:  GoodreadsAmazon

Read for FREE With A Kindle Unlimited Membership!

I’m falling for my best friend, and it just might doom the galaxy.

The world’s last hope rests on my crew and me ...and everything is going wrong.

I’m trapped on a stranded ship with five maddening, tempting men. With the evil prince and his entire army closing in, I have to use every trick I know, rely on an untrustworthy bounty hunter, and lead a crew of men who are fighting over me.

Then there’s the shy techie, my closest friend, who is winning my heart. If the other men find out, it’ll tear the crew apart—and take the galaxy’s last hope of peace with it.

I need to pull off a miracle to save our asses, the mission, and my heart.

A Star Pilot’s Hero is a reverse harem space opera, featuring a bad-ass heroine, lovable rebels, and gripping space battles. It’s a combination of Firefly and Star Wars with a RH twist.

This is the second in a medium-burn series.

This book was originally published as A Star Pilot's Hero. This version includes new bonus chapters.

 

Title: A STAR PILOT’S RENEGADE SPY (Star Pilot #3)

Author: Eva Delaney & Vivi Clarke

Pub. Date: December 17, 2020

Publisher: Eva Delaney & Vivi Clarke

Formats: Paperback, eBook

Pages: 537

Find it:  GoodreadsAmazon

Read for FREE With A Kindle Unlimited Membership!

I don’t know what’s harder—trusting a renegade spy with my mission, or with my heart.

The fate of the galaxy rests in my hands, but thankfully I no longer work alone. I have my crew of five dangerous, sexy men by my side, and in the close quarters of my small intergalactic ship.

But our mission is only just getting started when jealousy runs rampant among my crew. My men can't stand the renegade spy, and neither should I.

Antares’s mischievous looks and flirty comments make my heart race. It would be so easy to give in, but how can I trust him when he has a dark past with my greatest enemy?

When we’re assigned our most deadly mission of all, Antares’s past is the key to success—but it might just break my heart in the process.

A Star Pilot’s Renegade Spy is a reverse harem space opera, featuring a bad-ass heroine, charming rebels, and gripping space battles. It’s a combination of Firefly and Star Wars with a RH twist. It is the third book in a medium-burn series.

Scroll up to read this heart-pounding romance today.

 

Teasers:







 

About Eva: 

Eva is 98% coffee. Her hobbies include writing, procrastinating writing, and feeling bad for not writing. The rest of the time, she makes up songs about her cat and dog and sings to them. They don't care for it.

Sign up for updates about her new releases and receive free bonus chapters at her website: http://evadelaney.com

Website | Instagram | Facebook | Goodreads | Amazon | BookBub

 

About Vivi: 

Vivi Clarke is the co-author of several reverse harem romance series. She's worked with Athena Wright, Eva Delaney, and Mia Harlan. Read one of her romances today!

Facebook | Goodreads | Amazon | BookBub

 






Giveaway Details:

1 lucky winner will receive a $10 Amazon GC, International.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Tour Schedule:

Week One:

12/28/2020

Two Chicks on Books

Excerpt

12/29/2020

JaimeRockstarBookTours

Instagram Post

12/30/2020

BookHounds

Excerpt

12/31/2020

BookHounds YA

Instagram Post

1/1/2021

Books a Plenty Book Reviews

Review

 

Week Two:

1/4/2021

I'm Shelf-ish

Excerpt

1/5/2021

minnesota_mailer

Review

1/6/2021

The Obsessed Reader

Excerpt

1/7/2021

Jaime's World

Excerpt

1/8/2021

Book Briefs

Review


Blog Tour- THE ANCESTOR by @LeeMatthewG With A Deleted Scene & A #Giveaway! @RockstarBkTours

 

I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the THE ANCESTOR by Lee Matthew Goldberg Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!

 

About The Book:

Title: THE ANCESTOR

Author: Lee Matthew Goldberg

Pub. Date: August 21, 2020

Publisher: All Due Respect

Formats: Paperback, eBook

Pages: 348

Find it:  GoodreadsAmazon, Kindle, B&N, iBooks, Kobo, TBD, Bookshop.org 

A man wakes up in present-day Alaskan wilderness with no idea who he is, nothing on him save an empty journal with the date 1898 and a mirror. He sees another man hunting nearby, astounded that they look exactly alike. After following this other man home, he witnesses a wife and child that brings forth a rush of memories of his own wife and child, except he's certain they do not exist in modern times-but from his life in the late 1800s. After recalling his name is Wyatt, he worms his way into his doppelganger Travis Barlow's life. Memories become unearthed the more time he spends, making him believe that he'd been frozen after coming to Alaska during the Gold Rush and that Travis is his great-great grandson. Wyatt is certain gold still exists in the area and finding it with Travis will ingratiate himself to the family, especially with Travis's wife Callie, once Wyatt falls in love. This turns into a dangerous obsession affecting the Barlows and everyone in their small town, since Wyatt can't be tamed until he also discovers the meaning of why he was able to be preserved on ice for over a century.

 

A meditation on love lost and unfulfilled dreams, The Ancestor is a thrilling page-turner in present day Alaska and a historical adventure about the perilous Gold Rush expeditions where prospectors left behind their lives for the promise of hope and a better future. The question remains whether it was all worth the sacrifice….

 

Praise for THE ANCESTOR:

 

“A story that blends the familiar and the supernatural in a manner that calls Stephen King’s work to mind. That said, Goldberg’s book possesses a flavor all its own—a distinctive mélange of the sincere and the strange.” —Kirkus Reviews

 

“Lee Matthew Goldberg is an animal—there is no other way to say it. His prose is heavyweight ambitious, as visceral as a sweaty-toothed dog at your throat. He evokes Robert Louis Stevenson as much as he does a modern thriller novelist. And I’ll be honest: I expected a crime novel, but I got a spell-binding epic, an epistolary revelation, a tale as rich as a paying gold mine. The Ancestor is more than a novel. It’s an ode to the rich tradition of adventure storytelling…seasoned with ample spice of love and violence and greed.” —Matt Phillips, author of Countdown and Know Me from Smoke

 

“In The Ancestor, Lee Matthew Goldberg masterfully weaves together a story involving family and violence set against the backdrop of an unforgiving Alaska of both past and present.” —Andrew Davie, author of Pavement and Ouroboros

 

“From the icy opening battle of man vs. wolf, you feel yourself in the hands of a master storyteller and that feeling never lets up.” —SJ Rozan, bestselling author of Paper Son

 

“This thrilling novel is rich in descriptions of the vast, snowy, and deadly wilderness of Alaska; it ably captures the type of person who chases gold.” —Foreword Reviews

 

“Beautifully written, and capturing the unforgiving grit of Gold Rush Alaska, Lee Matthew Goldberg’s The Ancestor is a thrilling page-turner with an ache in its heart. I’m a huge fan.” —Roz Nay, author of Hurry Home and Our Little Secret

 

“A suspenseful historical thriller.” —Indie Reader

 

“One of the year’s best thrillers. Blake Crouch fans will love Goldberg’s Alaskan opus.” —BestThrillers

 

A deleted scene.

Sick of Myself – Matthew Sweet

            I’m barefoot on a roof deck, maybe it’s my own, I dunno. Life has been a series of hotels recently, but I think this is that place the band rented down on the Lower East Side. Everyone hates me so they all moved out and I’m left alone in a huge loft with a fire escape that twists up to a roof with barely any railing to keep me safe. I have a joint in one hand that’s surprisingly still lit in the rain and a trusty bottle of Absolut Citron in the other. I’m wearing a baby doll pale blue dress, the one I rocked during the Grenade Bouquets set when the A&R manager said he was gonna make us stars. I once heard that when you’re looking at stars in the sky, you’re already looking at the past and they’re already dead. I’m seventeen and I can completely relate. I’m over myself and have been looking into the past so much, I might as well be dead.

            I chug from the bottle, the excess liquid spilling down my cheeks like hot tears. What lands in my throat burns and my eye twitches…I’m so bombed. My makeup has run all over my face and made me into a clown. I pity whoever will find my ghastly remains. I bring the joint to my lips and suck as the cherry flares, the smoke streaming through my nostrils. I’m a dragon in pursuit. Six stories down below, a sea of umbrellas await. I think of Kristen.

            Her spirit no longer visits and I understand. She has better things to do than deal with the living. My sister has been gone now for over a year, and sometimes I forget the sound of her voice. I wake up in the middle of the night frantic that I’ve lost it, and then a glimmer reappears—a whisper in her high pitch culling me back to sleep, aware of how my insomnia can plague. She was so proud of my success as a singer and for me to live my dream, not realizing that it was killing me as well. I don’t remember the last time I went to bed sober. I feel distant from everyone I used to care about. Evan can’t even look at me anymore. I’m Nico the Beast, a whirlwind intent to destroy.

            If you heard me on the radio, you’d be jealous. I’m that girl you wish you could be. My song like a spit in the face, a baby Courtney Love with scabbed knees, dark red lipstick, hair dyed so much it’s fried, a scowl for a smile. And then in the next song, I’m scrubbed clean, my dress full of flowers rather than ripped, my bruises bandaged, my makeup a light touch rather than an onslaught, singing about love and hope and everything that grunge is not. Because grunge is dying. Kurt Cobain solidified its end and the record companies can smell it. A future of sugary happy pop awaits. What will they do with me, with any of us? We’re already that dying star. Might as well help give them a push.

            The rain has risen in tempo, a drumbeat on my skull. The joint has gone out and I toss it into the crowd. It disappears into the ether, like I will soon. I picture my obituary, the phrase ‘One Hit Wonder’ highlighted. All I’ll ever be. But I don’t have any more songs in me. My quill is broken, my heart has followed—I’m sick of myself.

            I raise my arms like Brandon Lee in The Crow. Evan and I saw that at the Angelika, an artsy movie theater down on Houston St., which I mispronounced like it was the city Houston. We toured Manhattan that day, the first time either of us had been: hand in hand through The Met and wandering down paths in Central Park, sneaking through the Plaza and pretending I was Eloise, hot chocolates at a place called Serendipity, his blue eyes never letting me out of his sight. I never imagined I could be so in love. Only a short time ago but might as well be a lifetime, those blues will never look at me in the same way again. I’m tarnished, I’m filth. I heard a song called “Only Happy When It Rains,” and it couldn’t be truer. Miserable people feed off misery and that’s all I have to give.

            I wonder what my mom and dad will say when they have to identify my body. They’ve both found new lives with new loves that will be a shoulder for them. Maybe they’ll be relieved. Back home, my friend Winter has her own shit to deal with and brought Jeremy into her drama, so they’ll mourn but are preoccupied enough to only think of me in passing. I know that’s what they do now. They are still in high school and I’ve dropped out, promising my folks I’d get my GED, but I never did. And high school seems so pointless and far away. I’ve lived in the real world. I’ve skipped down New York City streets with crack vials crunching under my feet. Out of spite I’ve let a man inside of me whose name I didn’t even know. I’ve crowd surfed over a hundred bodies chanting my name. I thought I was in love and never want the pain of it ending ever again. I’d rather be numb. I’d rather be gone.

            My feet are cold against the tar of the roof, the toenail polish chipped and starting to fade. I give another swig until the bottle is empty. I aim to launch it into the sky, not caring who I’d hit down below. I climb onto the edge, wobbling, teeth chattering, knees knocking, singing a Matthew Sweet song to the world, to this dark city where I never belonged, so far from a home.

            “But I’m sick of myself when I look at you, something is beautiful and true. World that’s ugly and a lie, it’s hard to even want to try.

            My vocal chords are raw from the vodka and pot, my tears make everything blurry. I go to pitch the bottle and my foot slips from a slick of water. I lose my heart as it leaps out of my throat and I think I’ve gone over the edge, plummeting headfirst to my death. But I fall backwards, smacking my head on the tar. The grey clouds above go in and out of focus until they disappear entirely. My eyes have shut but I can see the night sky, and one little star, so dead but so bright, guiding me not to slip into unconsciousness, praying for my survival. Like a diamond it glows brighter, and I think that maybe it’s Kristen’s eye, somewhere up in heaven, winking at me to stay on Earth for a little longer because I haven’t finished all I intended to do, as the rain washes me pure, its drumbeat now playing Letters To Cleo’s beautiful, simmering song, “Here and Now,” while I travel back to what led me to become these twisted remains once called a girl. 

 

About Lee: 

Lee Matthew Goldberg is the author of the novels THE ANCESTOR, THE MENTOR, THE DESIRE CARD and SLOW DOWN. He has been published in multiple languages and nominated for the Prix du Polar. His first YA series RUNAWAY TRAIN is forthcoming in 2021 along with a sci-fi novel ORANGE CITY. After graduating with an MFA from the New School, his writing has also appeared in The Millions, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, LitReactor, Monkeybicycle, Fiction Writers Review, Cagibi, Necessary Fiction, the anthology Dirty Boulevard, The Montreal Review, The Adirondack Review, The New Plains Review, Underwood Press and others. He is the editor-in-chief and co-founder of Fringe, dedicated to publishing fiction that’s outside-of-the-box. His pilots and screenplays have been finalists in Script Pipeline, Book Pipeline, Stage 32, We Screenplay, the New York Screenplay, Screencraft, and the Hollywood Screenplay contests. He is the co-curator of The Guerrilla Lit Reading Series and lives in New York City. Follow him at LeeMatthewGoldberg.com

Website | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook | Goodreads | Amazon

 

Giveaway Details:

3 lucky winners will receive an eBook of THE ANCESTOR, International.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Tour Schedule:

Week One:

12/28/2020

Two Chicks on Books

Guest Post

12/28/2020

JaimeRockstarBookTours

Instagram Post

12/29/2020

BookHounds YA

Interview

12/29/2020

BookHounds YA

Instagram Post

12/30/2020

Three gals and plenty of books

Guest Post

12/31/2020

Books A-Brewin'

Excerpt

12/31/2020

Books A-Brewin'

Instagram Post

1/1/2021

Jazzy Book Reviews

Guest Post

1/1/2021

Jaime's World

Excerpt


Week Two:

1/4/2021

Adrienne Woods Books and Reviews

Excerpt

1/5/2021

I'm Shelf-ish

Guest Post

1/5/2021

The Obsessed Reader

Excerpt

1/6/2021

In The Harem

Excerpt

1/7/2021

Pine Enshrined Reviews

Review

1/7/2021

Pine Enshrine

Instagram Post

1/8/2021

Allie_reads95

Review/Instagram Post


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