Release Week Blitz- BOUND BY SECRET by Elena Lawson With An Excerpt & Giveaway!

I am so excited that BOUND BY SECRET by Elena Lawson is available now and that I get to share the news!

If you haven’t yet heard about this wonderful book by Author Elena Lawson, be sure to check out all the details below.

This blitz also includes a giveaway for a finished copy of book 1 in the series and $10 GC courtesy of Elena and Rockstar Book Tours. So if you’d like a chance to win, enter in the Rafflecopter at the bottom of this post.

About The Book:

Title: BOUND BY SECRET (The Queen's Consorts #2)

Author: Elena Lawson

Pub. Date: November 16, 2018

Publisher: Elena Lawson

Formats: Paperback, eBook

Pages: 221

Find it: Goodreads, Amazon

I'll be the first to admit it...my rise to power hasn't gone entirely as planned.

I'm still getting over Thana's betrayal and the news of the Mad King when a long-lost war hero reappears at court. He's beguiled the nobles, but I'm not so easily swayed or quick to trust.

At least amidst all the chaos has been one constant; my males. They've been there at every turn, and I'm falling deeper in love with them every day.

But the secrets are starting to pile up and weigh on all of us. Our forbidden romance and the matter of my multiple graces being the least of them...so why do I feel like the secrets others are hiding could be even more destructive than my own?

My males would give their lives to protect me, but I don't think they realize how much I'd sacrifice to ensure that never happens.

BOUND BY SECRET is the second installment in The Queen's Consorts series, a medium-burn reverse harem fantasy romance!

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About Book 1:

Title: CLAIMED BY NIGHT (The Queen's Consorts #1)

Author: Elena Lawson

Pub. Date: July 26, 2018

Publisher: Elena Lawson

Formats: Paperback, eBook

Pages: 714

Find it: Goodreads, Amazon

Trapped on an island, Liana’s life has been a boring montage of skipping stones and listening to lectures, waiting for her mother to die.

Now the wait is over. The Queen of the Night Court has been assassinated, and the ship has arrived to ferry Liana back to her birthplace and claim her throne.

But not everyone at Court wants Liana to rule.

To make matters worse, she worries her ancestors haven’t graced her with magic, and an ungraced Queen could never keep her crown. Overwhelmed and filled with self-doubt, Liana finds solace and protection in the arms of four Fae warriors.

Charming, devoted, and maddeningly eager to please—it’s clear the males crave more than just royal favor. They want her… and they’ll do whatever it takes to keep her safe.

Can Liana’s warriors help her claim her rightful place as Queen, or will she fall to the denizens of Night?


*CLAIMED BY NIGHT is the first book in a new reverse harem fantasy series featuring four irresistible Fae warriors and a Queen on the verge of becoming legend. Intended for Mature YA and up.

Excerpt:

If only he’d take off that ridiculous armored vest, I’d have a full view of his perfectly sculpted chest. But then, I don’t think we’d be playing chess anymore—at least, not the kind you played on a checkered board.

I swallowed back the hint of warmth spreading through me at the thought of Kade bared before me, swallowing air in a way I hoped he wouldn’t notice. I watched him consider the chess pieces before him, and I knew from where he looked what he would do, but it would be his end, he just didn’t know it yet.

Kade clenched his jaw, reaching out to move his bishop into the perfect place for me to check his king.

“I wouldn’t,” I warned, and he groaned in frustration, placing the bishop back to where it had been.

His shoulders relaxed as he realized once again that no matter where he moved, I would end the game within two turns. “You are maddening, you know that?”

I barked a laugh, “And you’re just mad you got beat by a female—sorry, that you keep getting beat by a female.”

Kade’s lips shifted into a coy smile. “One of these days, I will win. You’ll see.”

I put the pieces back into formation, “I doubt it.”

He chuckled low, standing from the armchair to stretch out his stiff muscles, “Oh, do you?”

“I do.”

“How about a deal then, since you’re so cocky?”

I considered what he could be after but could only think of one thing. Heat pooled between my thighs.

“If I win,” he said, his voice taking on a husky tone that vibrated through the air, settling over my skin like a warm blanket after coming in from the cold, “If I win, I get you.”

My lips were suddenly dry. I licked them. Kade growled in response to the gesture. When I didn’t answer right away, he added, “You don’t have to agree, if you don’t want to. I enjoy playing with you whether or not there’s a reward.” He winked.

He really had no idea, did he? How badly I wanted him. If I was being honest, how badly I wanted all my men. Alaric, the contemplative. Tiernan, the lionheart. Finn, the scholar. And Kade, the flame. They were all pieces to my broken puzzle of a self. Bits of my soul I lost along the road to finding my crown and accepting my duty.

I needed them to feel whole.

“I accept the challenge,” I said to Kade, rising to meet his wide-eyed gleaming stare, “But you have your work cut out for you, Kade.”

A delicious, slow smirk spread over his lips, crinkling the tan skin around his honey-amber eyes. His gaze roved along my frame, taking in my neck, my breasts, the curves of my waist and hips, setting on a spot somewhere just below my navel.

Swallowing, I offered him my hand, but not as his queen, as his equal. As a man does another man when a bargain has been struck. His smile faltered, replaced with an earnest respect. He put his hand in mine and shook it, once, hard, before he pulled me against his warm, solid chest.

About Elena:

Elena lives in a small town in Canada with her family. She writes reverse harem fantasy romance stories full of feisty heroines, unforgettable heroes and spellbinding romance. When she comes out of her writing cave, she can be found obsessively rearranging her bookshelves, drinking wine somewhere sunny, or cooking overly fancy meals for her family and friends.

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Giveaway Details: All International

1 Winner will receive a signed paperback of book 1 CLAIMED BY NIGHT, and a $10 gift card, International.

Ends on November 30th at Midnight EST!

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Release Day Blitz- BLURRED LINES by Lauren Layne Book Game on The Chapters Interactive App & A Giveaway!

Lauren Layne has partnered with Chapters App to bring her amazing romance books to the video game world.

Lauren’s books start coming out in the app today with the release of Blurred Lines. Watch the book trailer! 

Chapters is an app you can download in your phone’s app store for free. You can play your favorite books and make choices affecting how the characters react to the situations you’ve already read about!

To celebrate Lauren Layne’s upcoming release schedule in Chapters five winners will win 100 gems of in game currency to buy outfits and look super hot for your dates with the boys you love.

Just download the app using the links below and comment your email on this post that you downloaded the app. Someone from Chapters will email you and talk you through getting your gems!

Download Links:

iPhone: https://app.adjust.com/mpx7h2s

Android: https://app.adjust.com/2hsctxz

This winter there are five more books being released and a ton more in the new year!

v  Blurred Lines: 11/15 (Love Unexpectedly 1)

v  Walk of Shame: 11/19 (Love Unexpectedly 4)

v  After the Kiss: 11/21 (Sex, Love, & Stiletto 1)

v  Only With You: 12/13 (The Best Mistake 1)

v  Good Girl: 12/20 (Love Unexpectedly 2)

v  Irresistibly Yours: 1/21 (Oxford 1)

What do you think about video games made from books?

Giveaway Details: All International

20 Winners will receive 100 Coins for use in the Chapters App, International.

Ends on November 23rd at Midnight EST!

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Exclusive Cover Reveal- NAVIGATING THE STARS by Maria V. Snyder With A Giveaway!

Hey everyone! I am sooooo freaking excited about this!!! I am helping Maria V. Snyder reveal the cover for her new YA Sci-Fi Book NAVIGATING THE STARS today! It's absolutely gorgeous and I adore her and her books! Check it out and make sure to enter to win a copy of NAVIGATING THE STARS when it comes out in December!

Now on to the reveal!

Title: NAVIGATING THE STARS
Author: Maria V. Snyder
Publication Date: December 1, 2018
Publisher: NAVIGATING THE STARS
Pages: 464
Find it: Goodreads

Navigating the Stars is the first book in a new science fiction series. 

Terra Cotta Warriors have been discovered on other planets in the Milky Way Galaxy. And Lyra Daniels' parents are the archaeological Experts (yes with a capital E) on the Warriors and have dragged her to the various planets to study them despite the time dilation causing havoc with her social life. 

When one of the many Warrior planets goes silent, and looters attack her research base, Lyra becomes involved in discovering why the Warriors were placed on these planets. And, more importantly, by who.

About Maria:

Maria V. Snyder changed from being a meteorologist to a novelist in 1995, when she began writing to keep her sanity while raising two children. Since then, she has published numerous freelance articles in magazines and newspapers, and teaches fiction-writing classes at the local college and area libraries. The classes give her the wonderful opportunity to encourage fellow writers, and to keep improving her craft.

Born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Maria always had a fascination with big storms. Dreaming of chasing tornados, Maria earned a bachelors of science degree in meteorology at Penn State University. But she discovered, much to her chagrin, that forecasting the weather wasn't one of her skills. In order to chase tornados you had to predict where they might form. Creating fantasy worlds where she has complete control of the weather was more agreeable to her.

Maria's research on food-tasting methods with an expert chocolate taster, her husband, turned out to be a delicious bonus while writing Poison Study.

Maria has a brown belt in Isshinryu Karate, and enjoys playing volleyball and the cello. Traveling in general and via cruise ship in particular are her biggest distractions from writing. Maria has traveled to Belize, Canada, China, Costa Rica, Europe, Mexico, the Caribbean and through the Panama Canal.

Maria lives with her husband, son, daughter and yellow lab, Hazelnut, in Pennsylvania where she is at work on more LUNA novels. She is also pursuing a master's degree in writing popular fiction from Seton Hill University.

Where you can find Maria:

Website/Blog/Facebook/Goodreads

1 winner will receive a paperback of NAVIGATING THE STARS(will be shipped in late December), US Only.

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Blog Tour- WEST by Edith Pattou With an Excerpt & Giveaway!

I am happy to be hosting a stop on the blog tour for WEST by Edith Pattou! I have an excerpt to share with you today check it out and enter to win the giveaway below!

About The Book:

Title: WEST (East #2)

Author: Edith Pattou

Pub. Date: October 23, 2018

Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers

Formats: Hardcover, eBook, audiobook

Pages: 528

Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, Audible,  B&N, iBooks, TBD

In the sequel to the beloved high fantasy East, Rose sets off on a perilous journey to find her true love when he goes missing in a thrilling tale of danger, magic, adventure, and revenge.

When Rose first met Charles, he was trapped in the form of a white bear. To rescue him, Rose traveled to the land that lay east of the sun and west of the moon to defeat the evil Troll Queen. Now Rose has found her happily-ever-after with Charles—until a sudden storm destroys his ship and he is presumed dead. But Rose doesn’t believe the shipwreck was an act of nature, nor does she believe Charles is truly dead. Something much more sinister is at work. With mysterious and unstoppable forces threatening the lives of the people she loves, Rose must once again set off on a perilous journey. And this time, the fate of the entire world is at stake. 

Now on to the excerpt!

Rose

“’Tis a north wind,” came a voice beside me.

“Is it?” I said.

“Yes,” said Sib, “with a bit of west mixed in.”

I turned to smile at Sib, who had come to stand beside me at the ship’s railing. Sib was one of the so‐called “softskin” servants who had escaped Niflheim after the destruction of the Troll Queen’s ice palace. Three years had passed since she came to live with Charles and me in Fransk.

We had become fast friends, and in many ways, I was closer to her than to any of my siblings, except my brother Neddy, of course. Her true name was Sibhoirdeas, but she said that most who had known her called her Sib.

“That’s Neddy’s direction,” I said with a smile. “Northwest.”

Sib returned my smile, for she knew all about the unusual birth direction superstition of my mother’s family that had been so much a part of my growing up in Njord, that the direction a woman faced when giving birth shaped the personality of the child. My mother never wanted a north‐facing bairn, who would be wild and headstrong with a love for adventuring, but that’s exactly what I had been. Mother, however, had refused to accept this and was determined that I should be an east‐born child. I didn’t learn of my true north nature until I was older.

“This northwest wind suits you,” Sib said. “Though perhaps not as well as a pure north wind.

But you look happy, Rose.”

I nodded. It was our sixth day on the ship called Guillemot,  which was taking us to Trondheim. It was my first visit home since Winn’s birth and only the second since Charles and I had been married.

“I will be seeing my family soon,” I said. “And Winn will meet his grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins.”

I smiled down on the sleeping face of my bairn, who was swaddled in a sling over my shoulders. It still made me catch my breath, looking at those almost translucent eyelids lined with golden lashes.

I gazed out over the expanse of Njordsjoen again. It was choppy, a deep blue almost to blackness, but this too made me catch my breath. The open sea. How I had missed it, the salty wind in my face, the call of the gulls.

These past three years had been happy ones for my white bear and me, carving out a life for ourselves in Fransk. Yet there were moments now and then when that old restlessness would overtake me, and I would be driven to strap on my boots and go wandering through the countryside.

Charles understood. “If it wasn’t for your wild nature, I would still be a white bear. Or worse,”

he once said to me, when I had finished apologizing for being gone overlong.

Even after the birth of Winn, my white bear accepted my wanderlust. He would just brush my forehead with his lips and say, “Off with you.”

I loved our bairn with all my heart, knew from the moment I kissed that wrinkled, damp face for the first time that I would have given my life for him. But at the same time, it was perhaps the hardest test I had ever faced, balancing my wild, northern nature with that love. Because that is the truth of a bairn, that they need you, body and soul, and I was tethered to him in a way I had never known.

Charles felt the same way, but for him being tethered was exactly what he wanted. Having roots, a home he could call his own, after almost one hundred and fifty years of roaming the world as a white bear, was all the happiness he desired.

It was odd, I suppose, that I still sometimes called him White Bear, but I did. Charles didn’t come easily to my tongue. It was as if that person taken from his life by the Troll Queen so long ago was something of a stranger to me, and in some deep down way, I would always think of him as a white bear.

I would occasionally slip. The first time I actually called him White Bear after we were wed, he flinched. But then he smiled.

“So be it,” he said, pulling me to him. “After all, it was as a white bear that I first loved you.”

“And I you,” I whispered into his shoulder.

I’m embarrassed to say, however, that most often I called him such things as “my love” and

“dear.” Hardly words I would ever have imagined myself saying back when I was young and wild, climbing trees and falling into ponds.

Sib broke into my thoughts, telling me that she had just checked on Estelle and that the herbal remedies Sib had given her had done nothing to relieve the girl’s seasickness.

“Poor Estelle,” I said. And indeed Estelle had had a rough time this past year. When her mother, Sofi, had died unexpectedly of a wasting sickness, there were no relatives left to care for her, her uncle Serge having emigrated to Spania. Charles and I were happy to bring her into our family. We loved her dearly, and she was a resilient girl. Still, the loss of her mother had been hard.

We thought a journey to Njord would be a welcome distraction, and because she had always longed to see the world, Estelle was thrilled at the prospect. Until we boarded the Guillemot. With the first roll of the ship, she had been laid low by seasickness.

About Edith:

Edith Pattou is the author of Ghosting, a contemporary novel for young adults, told in free verse. She also wrote three award-winning fantasy novels for young adults – East, a retelling of the Norwegian folk tale "East of the Sun and West of the Moon," and the two Songs of Eirren, Hero’s Song and Fire Arrow. She is also the author of the New York Times bestselling picture book, Mrs. Spitzer’s Garden.

She was born in Evanston, Illinois, grew up in Winnetka, and was a teenager in the city of Chicago where she attended Francis W. Parker School. She completed her B.A. at Scripps College in Claremont, California where she won the Crombie Allen Award for creative writing. She later completed a Masters degree in English Literature at Claremont Graduate School, followed by a Masters of Library and Information Science at UCLA.

She has worked for a medical association, a clothing boutique, a recording studio, the Playboy Foundation, a public television station, a school library, two public libraries, two advertising agencies, and two bookstores.

She has lived in Chicago, Los Angeles, Denver, Durham, NC, Cambridge, England, Stockholm, Sweden, and currently resides with her husband, Charles, in Columbus, Ohio.

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Giveaway Details:

3 Winners will receive a finished copy of WEST, US Only.

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Tour Schedule:

Week One:

10/15/2018- Rhythmicbooktrovert- Review

10/16/2018- A Backwards Story- Interview

10/17/2018- Forever Lost in Literature- Review

10/18/2018- Mythical Books- Excerpt

10/19/2018- Patriotic Bookaholic- Excerpt

Week Two:

10/22/2018- Read. Eat. Love.- Review

10/23/2018- Dani Reviews Things- Excerpt

10/24/2018- Adventures and Reading- Review

10/25/2018- BookHounds YA- Interview

10/26/2018- Jena Brown Writes- Review

Week Three:

10/29/2018- Ace Reads- Excerpt

10/30/2018- Novel Novice- Excerpt

10/31/2018- All the Ups and Downs- Excerpt

11/1/2018- Rockin' Book Reviews- Review

11/2/2018- Paws and Paperbacks- Review

Week Four:

11/5/2018- Smada's Book Smack- Review

11/6/2018- if the book will be too difficult- Excerpt

11/7/2018- Vesper Dreams- Excerpt

11/8/2018- Oh Hey! Books.- Review

11/9/2018- Two Chicks on Books- Excerpt

Make sure to grab book 1!

Blog Tour- FIANNA'S AWAKENING by Ron C. Nieto With An Excerpt & Giveaway!

I am happy to be hosting a stop on the blog tour for FIANNA'S AWAKENING by Ron C. Nieto! I have an excerpt to share with you today check it out and enter to win the giveaway below!

About The Book:

Title: FIANNA'S AWAKENING (Warriors of Myth and Legend, #1)

Author: Ron C. Nieto

Pub. Date: November 13, 2018

Publisher: Ron C. Nieto

Formats: Paperback eBook

Pages: 96

Find it: Goodreads

Outcast. Betrayer. Chosen. 

After five years being a Fianna, Aisling O’Malley still has to prove herself every day. The sins of the father weigh heavily on her shoulders, and no matter what she does, her fellow warriors regard her as the undeserving one. It doesn’t help that one of the four mythical treasures of Ireland has turned up under her nose, leaving her none the wiser. If by any chance the touted Spear of Lugh up for auction is indeed the legendary Spear of Victory, she needs to get her hands on it before anyone else does—and be spectacular enough about it to make the rest of the Fianna forget she almost missed the artifact in the first place. 

Exile. Betrayer. Forgotten. 

After spending twice as long undercover as he ever lived at home, Ronan no longer knows where he belongs to or where he’s actually exiled from. He can’t return to his people, not unless he collects the four artifacts of power the Tuatha Dé lost when they were forced to leave Ireland, and three millennia after the fact, he’s pretty sure they’re going to remain lost. Except one of those ancient treasures has landed in his lap—or could land in his lap, if he brings himself to work with the spunky young woman who wants to hire him to consult on the Spear’s authenticity. 

Can two broken people learn to trust one another? And even if they can, will it be too late to save Ireland… or themselves?

Now on to the excerpt!

 “If you’re hoping I’ll tell you whether you’re about to bid for a magical spear or not, I should warn you this is a loss of time.”

Aisling waved a hand. “Magical. Legendary. Same thing.”

Ronan shook his head, staring at her profile. “You aren’t very interested in what happens tonight, are you?”

He saw her jaw tighten for a moment. A nerve touched. Before he had time to figure out which one, she grinned.

“If that was an offer, I promise I’m very much interested in what might happen tonight.”

The flirting threw him for a loop. When they had met, he’d accepted it, followed along. But it had all ended when she’d learned he was in fact the professor she was looking to hire and when he’d learned why she wanted to hire him.

Hadn’t it?

“The spear,” he blurted. “The auction, I mean. How do you plan to bid for it?”

“It’s not hard, I’m told. You raise your hand and offer to throw money at whoever is running the show until he gives you what you want.”

“That’s not…” quite what I meant, and that smirk you can barely contain tells me you know it. “There will be many interested bidders, willing to throw a lot of money for the spear, even if it’s a fake.”

“If it’s a fake, we let them. If it isn’t, we outbid them.”

Ronan stared at her again. Off-the-rack suit, beaten car, attitude in spades, and not a lot of class and glam to sugarcoat the package.

“Do you even understand the kind of money we’re talking about?”

Again, that tensing of her jaw. The almost-there smirk wavering. She drove a few moments longer in silence, until Ronan thought she wasn’t planning on answering at all.

“I do,” she confirmed at last.

Then she found a parking spot and killed the engine, conversation over.

It wasn’t the parking lot of Pebbleton’s. It wasn’t the parking lot of anywhere. Just a street, gloomy and not very reputable-looking.

“Where are we?”

“Pebbleton’s is that way.” She pointed. “Two streets over. I don’t want to park on the doorstep.”

Ronan didn’t ask why, although the question burned on his lips. He stepped out of the car and followed her, across a wider street, then around a corner toward an unassuming squat building finished in naked concrete with a gaudy wooden door that wouldn’t have looked out of place in an Edwardian English manor. When they approached the door, a figure peeled from a pool of shadows and cut them off. The man was about as tall as Ronan himself, but twice as burly. He was wearing a tailored suit cut to accommodate his thick arms, and Ronan would bet good money on it being designed to hide a sidearm as well. He greeted them with a quiet grunt, playing every bit the part of intimidating thug.

Aisling reached for the inner pocket of her jacket, the movement putting a tense frown on the guard’s brow, but rather than producing a weapon, she flourished a thick black card embossed in glittering gold.

A pretentious eyesore, and their ticket in.

With a nod, the guard stepped back into the darkness. Aisling resumed her walk, no words exchanged, and Ronan followed close by her side. When they arrived at the monstrosity of a door, it swung open on silent hinges of its own accord.

“Fancy,” Aisling commented as the well-lit foyer came into view. Hardwood floor, crystal chandelier hanging from a ceiling not high enough to support it, a marble statue of a satyr captured mid-prance tucked against the curve of a stairwell. “But kind of…” she trailed off, searching for the right word.

She sounded amused. Ronan was horrified.

“Tacky?” he supplied. “Chintzy? Bawdy? Dowdy?”

“I was going for pretentious,” she said, laughter in her tone. “But I suppose those will do.”

About Ron:

Ron C. Nieto is a fantasy and romance author who has been writing in her secluded fortress for the longest time. Recently, she had a talk with her cat and decided that she should share her creations, because it was selfish to hoard them all for herself.

If you would like to know more about her, please visit her website.

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Giveaway Details:

1 winner will receive a $10 Amazon Gift Card, International.

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Tour Schedule:

Week One:

11/5/2018- Books a Plenty Book Reviews- Review

11/6/2018- Texan Holly Reads- Excerpt

11/7/2018- Parajunkee- Excerpt

11/8/2018- Good Choice Reading- Excerpt

11/9/2018- Two Chicks on Books- Excerpt

Week Two:

11/12/2018- Am Kinda Busy Reading- Review

11/13/2018- Oh Hey! Books.- Interview

11/14/2018- BookHounds- Review

11/15/2018- Adventures Thru Wonderland- Review

11/16/2018- Don't Judge, Read- Interview