Wednesday, July 31, 2013

[Pat's Review]: "Outside the Lines"


Outside the Lines by Kimberly Kincaid
Publisher: Curtis Brown Digital (July 28, 2013)
Series: Lines, 3
Genre: Contemporar Romance


As an ivy-league ER doctor who eats double shifts for breakfast (and lunch…and dinner), Blake Fisher has little appetite for anything other than work. Being on the staff at Brenstville Hospital means taking care of people, a need Blake understands all too well from losing his brother to cystic fibrosis eight years ago. When he’s asked to coordinate a carnival fundraiser for the cause, he jumps at the chance to help others with the disease…until it lands him side by side with the one woman he never thought he’d see again: his ex-fiancĂ©e.





Streetwise and rough around the edges, Jules Shaw is no stranger to earning a living through hard work. But when her job as the restaurant manager of Mac’s Diner puts her shoulder to really broad shoulder with Blake Fisher, she nearly balks. She’d rather dodge and deflect than admit the real reason she broke things off, but the catering contract for the carnival means big business for Mac’s, and feeding people is Jules’s lifeblood.

As Blake and Jules join reluctant forces, they quickly rediscover the spark between them. But the possibility of a future together hinges on coming clean about the past, with potentially devastating consequences. Can Blake and Jules overcome their drastically different backgrounds and learn to love again, or will they always be outside the lines?





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Tuesday, July 30, 2013

[Cover Reveal}: "Only For You"

You already know I'm a huge fan of Marquita Valentine's books. Don't believe me? See the proof here, here, here, here, here... oh and shorties here and here. *smirks* I told you!

I can't wait to share my thoughts on her newest, Just Desserts(SEBASTIAN!). My review will post August 14th.

Until then, I'm happy to help spread the word about her newest cover reveal--Only For You!






Only For You by Marquita Valentine
Expected Publication Date: September 2, 2013
Series: Boys of the South, 2
Genre: New Adult Contemporary
 

Loose ends left loose for too long tend to strangle.
Cole and Violet knew it wouldn’t be easy. They knew their relationship would take work. But when the press finds out about Violet Lynn’s newest boyfriend, they start digging.  And when his past come to light, exposing all of his family’s secrets, their relationship begins to fray.
Country Music’s Golden Boy, Jaxon Hunter, has it all, except the girl that got away. What she saw, she really didn’t. What she thought happened, he allowed her to believe for reasons so insane that no one would ever have believed him if he had confessed. But now that everything’s out in the open, he’s going to do his damndest to convince her that he’s the only one for her.
Now Violet must choose between Jaxon— her first love and the guy she thought had cheated on her—and Cole—the guy who helped her heal and love again.
 Or will one of them make the decision for her?


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Nationally Bestselling author, Marquita Valentine, writes small town romances that are anything but small. Lisa Kleypas, Carly Phillips and Rachel Gibson are her favorite contemporary authors. Marquita met her husband aka Hot Builder at Sonic when they were in high school. She suggests this location to all of her single friends in search of a good man -- and if that doesn't work, they can console themselves with cheesy tatertots. She lives in North Carolina in a very, very small town with Hot Builder and their two children.
 


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I don't usually like seeing only the heroine on the cover (you know me, I love a sexy man cover!), but it totally works for this one! I love the simplicity of it, and her eyes (I want!). I think the cover perfectly matches the story inside; beautiful and captivating! I cannot wait to read Only For You. Is it September yet?





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Monday, July 29, 2013

Blog Tour: Interview with Mary Ann Rivers+ Giveaway!


WELCOME TO THE BLOG, MARY ANN! :)





Mary Ann Rivers was an English and music major and went on to earn her MFA in creative writing, publishing poetry in journals and leading creative-writing workshops for at-risk youth. While training for her day job as a nurse practitioner, she rediscovered romance on the bedside tables of her favorite patients. Now she writes smart and emotional contemporary romance, imagining stories featuring the heroes and heroines just ahead of her in the coffee line. Mary Ann Rivers lives in the Midwest with her handsome professor husband and their imaginative school-aged son.




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Kame: Hi Mary Ann – thank you so much for having TBQ's Book Palace as one of your blog hop stops.  We are so excited to have you with us today.


Mary Ann: Thank you! I am so glad to be here.



K: I think novellas hold a special spot in the book world.  When you need just something to take your mind away for a short time, a novella can be the right choice.  Did you set out for The Story Guy to be a novella or did it just turn out to be novella length when the story was finished?


MA: I knew I was writing a novella. I like constraints as a writer and gave myself the novella as a page constraint to explore what I could fit around what is actually a very simple plot and still maintain pacing and romantic tension.

What’s more, I was exploring Brian’s story at a particular turning point or crossroads in what is for him, a very involved and complex story. Except—without the benefit of his point of view.

I wanted Carrie’s voice to dominate, this woman who had in many ways drifted a little, had lost track of herself, a little, but who nevertheless, had all the tools to full engage with her own life—loving friends and family and an interesting education and a job she loved. I’ve found myself where Carrie is when we meet her, rich with resources but unmoored. I wondered what would happen if she met someone who had extraordinarily limited resources but yearned for what Carrie could have easily—friends, contacts, intimacy outside of that he had with his sister. After all, he knows how to love, too.

So while the backstories of these characters might have filled a novel, I was looking at one particular slice—a time with a run of insomnia and frustrations for Carrie and a gathering of uncertainty and fear for Brian. Brian posts his ad because he’s constructed it as a way to cope and compartmentalize—the kissing hour is a way for him to try to fit in what it is he really wants, which IS a partner, someone to share a life with. He started his complicated journey right out of law school, very young, and hasn’t had an opportunity to figure out how to get what it is he needs, even as he knows what he wants.

Mostly, I wanted to write something very romantic. I wanted to show a man who has a need for romance in his life. In spite of the limits he sets in it, Brian’s ad is very romantic, and dramatic. It calls to Carrie, who we discover, is ready to try some romantic gestures of her own. I wanted to write something with that kind of big gesture romance, a little mystery, something about those kind of gestures and how they happen. So the novella gave me focus, so I think about those things.



K: I just loved the opening to The Story Guy. Carrie is surfing online listings looking at furniture.  My sister is the queen at finding the best quality used furniture online for a steal, I myself have never found anything I wanted or at a price I was willing to pay.  How about you?


MA: My beloved dining room table. It’s a ten-foot long, mid-century modern, mahogany table. Huge. There just me and my husband and our little son so we can all have projects out at the same time. It was 100.00. We have these black steel turn-y stools all around it, like those industrial work stools? And we can all sit at it and have our space and work and still have an end to eat dinner at. It’s perfect. PERFECT. It’s the only piece of furniture I care about in the whole house except for my bed, and I never see my bed.



K: I thought Brian’s online post was very well worded, enough to get me answer back if I was single, an interesting way for Brian and Carrie to meet. Could Brian and Carrie meet any other way, or was their path to love not possible if they met in line getting tea?


MA: Brian would have been very interested in Carrie if had met her in line for tea, maybe even paid for her tea, probably even have flirted with her, in his way. Maybe, maybe if things had been going well at home he might have tried a date or two. We know he has before. I think, though, both of them in this book were at a particular point where they both needed a little drama to give them a push. The ad. The pergola. Their late-night IM sessions in the dark.



K: I understand why Brian has the job he has for the story line, but could Carrie have had another career besides a librarian?


MA: Carrie is, of course, incredibly smart, and so I think she could do lots of things very well. We know, though, she loves a story, has a relationship with information and how to give people access to information. She loves people, thinks they’re interesting, and seeks them out. She’s lonely, but she’s not isolated.

We learn Carrie’s story for why she’s a librarian, but we also see the values of librarians—access, people, analysis, story—really live in Carrie and contribute to what she needs to pursue a relationship with Brian. I don’t’ see her, for example, having some particular “type,” when it comes to a partner, she finds all kinds of people worthwhile. She says she has friends of multiple generations, loves her artsy city, her parents. She’s not always been a little lost, she’s just going through something, a funk. So Brian’s story blows a little of the dust away, fires up those things that are a part of her life and who she is and why she chose her profession.

Also, so may of us love librarians, and what they do. If Brian had “dozens of replies” I wanted a way he very easily would pick one. “Oh! A librarian!” Is what I imagine him thinking.



K: I think that is great that Carrie is a librarian and that she loves her job enough to proclaim it to the world with her “Reading Is Sexy” bag and that wonderful “accessory” that Brian thought was so HOT (avoiding a slight spoiler).  I think those of us who love to read like it when we have characters that we can identify with, and I am not a librarian but I can identify with a female character who loves to read!


MA: Yes! Absolutely! Also, when I’m not writing at my fabulous dining room table, I’m writing at the public library that inspired the one in the book.



K: Brian and Carrie are great characters.  Your secondary characters are fantastic and written so well also.  It must be tempting in a novella to skimp on the secondary characters. Which secondary character was your favorite to write in this novella?


MA: Justin is pretty awesome. He’s young, but has a kind of confident wisdom about things, mainly because when we meet him, he’s happy in his relationship and finishing an internship that leads to his dream job as a librarian. He’s the source of the idea of a story guy, of the idea that all of us are the result of all kinds of different sorts of love—daisy love, orchard love—and that this is worth celebrating until you find your partner, your true love. I think happy friends in our lives are reminders of what makes us happy, and are good foils when we’re not feeling like ourselves. Carrie appreciates, too, that Justin’s youth and disposition mean he’s what she calls a “romance atheist,” someone she can trust to tell her if she’s off her rail.

I also find Shelley and her goats awesome. I have a fondness for the scene when Carrie calls her and she’s tipsy on homebrew beer.



K: I think the concept of a story guy is a person’s life is fantastic.  I have never heard of story guy’s in a person’s life; but as I look back I can pick out one or two in my past. Justin was the perfect character to introduce this idea to Carrie.  Did a friend share the story guy concept with you before you started writing, or was it something that came to you during the writing process?


MA: In the book, a story guy is a “good guy with a bad story doing something stupid,” which, at one time or another, is all of us. All of us are somebody’s story guy, sometime. No one ever put it to me quite this way, but I’ve talked to friends about people in our lives, romantic entanglements, that even at the time felt a little overdetermined not to work out, and still we pursued the relationship because something about it felt interesting and alive and engaging.

So I knew that Justin would be both young enough and interested in Carrie’s decision enough to latch onto the high drama of the situation and encourage her to see where it would go. Which, makes it sound like Justin isn’t a good friend, except that he is, he cares about her, so what might he say? He knows stories, he’s a librarian, too. He’s had a history with guys who made him feel alive and engaged even as he knew that it wasn’t probably meant to be. “A story guy,” he ends up telling her. Someone to light up just a few paragraphs of her own story in neon pink, so she could look back and all the interesting places in her life.

More importantly, this gives Carrie an in—she loves stories too, and she wants to make something happen in her own story. She’s ready for her story guy, and she already has this great beginning.



K: I read a lot, (The Story Guy is the 80th book/novella I have read so far in 2013) and this is one of my favorites.  It is tied for first with your friend Ruthie Knox’s novella Making It Last. Both moved me and I was thinking about the themes in both of these novellas long after I finished.   Brian’s selfless choices are not easy ones, and many would not make the same choices as he did; and for so many years.  Is there someone in your life who inspired Brian?


MA: First, I agree with you—I love MAKING IT LAST, and I hope it’s a story that everyone reads. I’m totally honored you would mention me alongside Ruthie’s book as your favorite. It’s no secret that we’re friends, but her book is wonderful, and an important story.

Second, yes. Absolutely yes. I’m a pediatric nurse practitioner and I’ve also been a caregiver, myself, so in a personal and emotional way, brought some things to bear on Brian. In my work, families invite me into that space of their lives, with their loved ones, ask me to guide them on the things that I can. I’m a part of a lot of little decisions, and big ones too. There is someone, someone I’ve known for a long time, whose loved one is my patient, and because I’ve been alongside them for so much, talked with them, worked with them, tried my best with them, I’m very invested. They helped me with Brian, have read the book. That part of the book is a private dedication. This book is not some large commentary on the experience, because actually, it is very much an individual experience, and I can’t stress that enough. It’s Brian’s story with it, and I brought to it all that I knew the best that I could, and like I said before this is just one moment in a long period of time for Brian. At other times, his experience doing what he’s doing would have been different. We know he’s seriously dated, for example. In many ways, Brian would not, I don’t think, describe his experience as selfless when he as at a point where he has so few choices.



K: One last question before the speed round questions that everyone who stops by TBQ answers; will we see more of Brian and Carrie in future books or novellas, even as secondary characters?


MA: You’ll see Carrie as a walk-on in my novel that releases in January. You’ll know Brian’s on the phone with her by the expression on her face.

Other sightings are always possible.


Speed Round:


A day on a secluded island OR a day at the spa?
Secluded island. No question. I don’t even know what happens at a spa. It sounds demanding.

Reading a spicy romance novel OR a sweet “my-heart-skips-a-beat” one?
I’m going to cheat and ask that I read some spicy sweetness.

Which would you rather have an affair with: a sexy highlander OR a devilishly handsome English lord?
Um. If I am going to have the decadence of an affair, I am not going to choose. I am going to buy one of those unlimited UK train passes and have my fun with both. (Hehe-- I completely stand behind his decision, by the way. TBQ)

Hot summer days OR cold winter nights?
Cold winter nights.

Where would your dream house be: in the city, where all the action is OR nestled in the mountain where you can enjoy the quiet and the wilderness?
City. And it wouldn’t be a house, it would be an apartment so I don’t have to take care of a yard, and there would be a stoop, for gossiping and drinking.

If you could live in any time period, past or future, which one would it be?
I like it here.

Cover Lover OR Blurb Fan?
Blurbs.

Steamy Novella OR Sweet Novel? (aka, Quickie or Slow Build Up?)
I do like the slow build up.

Quick—name the one food that you cannot live without?
Toast.

And finally, tell us 3 unique/wacky/fun things about yourself:

*I’m a cellist, though I’ve found I can learn most string instruments pretty easily.
*I have such a dramatic presentation of synesthesia I was once included in a large research study. Among many other manifestations, every letter and number I see in print is a different color, gender, and personality, and this can change with the font/handwriting or with letters in names I use a lot.
*I regularly correspond with dozens of people. Few could manage my level of penpal madness. Some of these people are famous.


Kame: Thank you so much Mary Ann for stopping by the blog today.  I loved The Story Guy and I look forward to reading more of your work in the future. For anyone who might be interested would you mind sharing the link to the site readers can get their own “Reading Is Sexy” tote?


Mary Ann: Absolutely! This is an independent, small business with lots of fascinating products based out of the Pacific Northwest. There is also Reading Is Sexy t-shirts, mugs, and stickers. Buyolympia.com


Thank you so much for hosting me! I hope your visitors will find me on twitter @maryann_rivers, my website maryannrivers.com, or at wonkomance.com.




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The Story Guy by Mary Ann Rivers
Publisher: Loveswept (July 8, 2013)
Genre: Contemporary Romance
In this eBook original novella, Mary Ann Rivers introduces a soulful and sexy tale of courage, sacrifice, and love.

I will meet you on Wednesdays at noon in Celebration Park. Kissing only.

Carrie West is happy with her life . . . isn’t she? But when she sees this provocative online ad, the thirtysomething librarian can’t help but be tempted. After all, the photo of the anonymous poster is far too attractive to ignore. And when Wednesday finally arrives, it brings a first kiss that’s hotter than any she’s ever imagined. Brian Newburgh is an attorney, but there’s more to his life . . . that he won't share with Carrie. Determined to have more than just Wednesdays, Carrie embarks on a quest to learn Brian’s story, certain that he will be worth the cost. But is she ready to gamble her heart on a man who just might be The One . . . even though she has no idea how their love story will end?


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Thanks so much for stopping by today, Mary Ann! I thoroughly enjoyed reading your interview with Kame (great job!). I'm adding The Story Guy to my list! 

What are your thoughts on novellas? Some love 'em, some hate 'em... Which side are you on? 


When they're done right, I like them, especially if they are used inbetween full length novels in series. 



Enjoy!   



Until Next Time,


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*TBQ's Book Palace is a member of both the Amazon and Barnes and Nobles affiliates program. By using the links provided to buy products from either website, I receive a very small percentage of the order. To read my full disclosure on the matter, please see this post!

Sunday, July 28, 2013

Lusting for Covers (135)


Lusting for Covers is a weekly meme, held on Sunday, that allows bloggers to share their current cover obsession with fellow book lovers.

This meme is hosted by TBQ @ TBQ's Book Palace.

To view complete instructions on how to participate, as well as grab the HTML code for the graphic, see this page first!



Once you are ready to join the fun,

please fill out Mister Linky below with

your name/blog name and the direct

link to your Lusting for Covers for this

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Saturday, July 27, 2013

[Kame's Review]: "Playing the Part"

Playing the Part by Robin Covington
Publisher: Entangled: Brazen (June 10, 2013)
Genre: Contemporary Romance
 
After publicly self-destructing over a heartbreak a year ago, bestselling romance writer Piper James is now making nice with her publisher by agreeing to teach Hollywood's favorite action star how to act like he's in love. Only playboy Mick Blackwell has no clue what love looks like. When a seductive heat ignites between Piper and Mick, she jumps at the chance for a bit of fun between the sheets, but with two stipulatons: she's kept out of the public eye and things end when she returns to New York. Only Mick keeps changing the rules on her. Tempted by America's favorite bad boy, Piper is wondering how far she's willing to bend...

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 

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Friday, July 26, 2013

[Cover Reveal]: "Secret"


I am thrilled to help share Brigid Kemmerer's newest cover today! If you don't know already, I am a huge fan of her YA Elemental Series. My favorite remains Spark, with Spirit a very close second. I cannot wait for Nick's story (below); I'm curious to see where Kemmerer takes the series...






Secret by Brigid Kemmerer
Publisher: K-Teen (January 28, 2014)
Series: Elemental, 4
Genre: YA Paranormal Romance
 
Nowhere is safe. Not even home…

Nick Merrick is stretched to the breaking point.

Keep his grades sky-high or he’ll never escape his hometown.


Keep his brother’s business going or the Merricks will be out on the street.

Keep the secret of where he’s going in the evenings from his own twin—-or he’ll lose his family.

Keep his mind off the hot, self-assured dancer who’s supposed to be his “girlfriend’s” partner.

Of course there’s also the homicidal freak Quinn has taken to hanging around, and the Elemental Guide counting the hours until he can try again to kill the Merrick brothers.

There’s a storm coming. From all sides. And then some.

Nick Merrick, can you keep it together?



 

 
 

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Love the cover! :) What are your thoughts on it?
 
Have you read Brigid Kemmerer's books yet? Don't focus on the 'YA' part, just focus on me telling you this---they rock! I cannot stop recommending, talking about, or even thinking about, this series; it's just that good!






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Until Next Time,



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*TBQ's Book Palace is a member of both the Amazon and Barnes and Nobles affiliates program. By using the links provided to buy products from either website, I receive a very small percentage of the order. To read my full disclosure on the matter, please see this post!

[Kame's Review]: "The Story Guy"

The Story Guy by Mary Ann Rivers
Publisher: Loveswept (July 8, 2013)
Genre: Contemporary Romance
In this eBook original novella, Mary Ann Rivers introduces a soulful and sexy tale of courage, sacrifice, and love.

I will meet you on Wednesdays at noon in Celebration Park. Kissing only.

Carrie West is happy with her life . . . isn’t she? But when she sees this provocative online ad, the thirtysomething librarian can’t help but be tempted. After all, the photo of the anonymous poster is far too attractive to ignore. And when Wednesday finally arrives, it brings a first kiss that’s hotter than any she’s ever imagined. Brian Newburgh is an attorney, but there’s more to his life . . . that he won't share with Carrie. Determined to have more than just Wednesdays, Carrie embarks on a quest to learn Brian’s story, certain that he will be worth the cost. But is she ready to gamble her heart on a man who just might be The One . . . even though she has no idea how their love story will end?


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Thursday, July 25, 2013

[Musing Maddie's Review]: "Facade"


Facade by Nyrae Dawn
Publisher: Forever (July 2, 2013) [E-book]
Series: Games, 2
Genre: New Adult (Contemporary)
 
Can love save them?

After her father commits a crime that shatters her family, eighteen-year-old Delaney Cross is tired of pretending everything is all right. Packing up her car, she sets out to find the people her father hurt. Her search leads her to places she’s never been—and into the arms of Adrian Westfall.

To the outside world, Adrian is a sexy, charming ladies’ man. But his playboy persona is just an act. Secretly his soul is tortured by a memory too painful to share. Only Delaney seems to see through his façade to the real man underneath. And for the first time in his life, Adrian feels he can begin to open up about his past.

Together, Adrian and Delaney share a passionate love they never expected to find. Yet both still harbor their own secrets. When the dark truth is finally revealed, will it bring them closer together—or tear them apart forever?
 
 
 
 
 
 




 
 

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Wednesday, July 24, 2013

[Musing Maddie's Review]: "Losing Hope"

Losing Hope by Colleen Hoover
Publisher: Atria Books (July 8, 2013)
Series: Hopeless, 2
Genre: New Adult (Contemporary)
 
In the follow-up to Colleen Hoover’s #1 New York Times bestseller Hopeless, the charming and irresistible Dean Holder tells the passionate story that has melted thousands of hearts.

In Hopeless, Sky left no secret unearthed, no feeling unshared, and no memory forgotten, but Holder’s past remained a mystery.

Still haunted by the little girl he let walk away, Holder has spent his entire life searching for her in an attempt to finally rid himself of the crushing guilt he has felt for years. But he could not have anticipated that the moment they reconnect, even greater remorse would overwhelm him…

Sometimes in life, if we wish to move forward, we must first dig deep into our past and make amends. In Losing Hope, bestselling author Colleen Hoover reveals what was going on inside Holder’s head during all those hopeless moments—and whether he can gain the peace he desperately needs.
 
 
 
 




 
 

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[Cover Reveal]: "Surrendering to the Alpha"


Surrendering to the Alpha by Lia Davis
Series: Ashwood Falls, 3
Genre: Paranormal Romance


She's given up hope of peace, yet the Alpha's touch offers promises too hard to run from.


Ashwood Falls’ leopard Alpha, Keegan Andrews holds onto the pain of his deceased mate as his own personal hell—a reminder that not all things are what they seem. The Pack Scribe, Addyson Lewis is no exception. She’s intrigued him like no other since the day she stumbled into Ashwood territory about twenty-five years ago. When he discovers that just being near her calms the storm inside him, he can’t stay away even if it means exposing her to the evil she tried to escape.
 
Over a hundred years of psychological torture at the hands of the rogue Onyx Pack has left Addyson with no memories of her life before captivity and with the inability to control her psychometric nature. Anything or anyone she touches sends her into their darkest past and secrets, causing her pain she wouldn’t wish on anyone. Without the ability to control it, she’s forced to deny her leopard the connection she craves from the Pack that welcomed her with love and without judgment. That is, until the day Keegan involuntarily touches her bare skin and she finds the peace she’d craved for far too long.



~Releasing it in digital and print on September 10, 2013~


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Oh, loving this cover! :) I haven't tried any of Lia's books yet--do you have a favorite?
 
 


Enjoy!




Until Next Time,



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*TBQ's Book Palace is a member of both the Amazon and Barnes and Nobles affiliates program. By using the links provided to buy products from either website, I receive a very small percentage of the order. To read my full disclosure on the matter, please see this post!

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

[Review]: "Deeper We Fall"



Deeper We Fall by Chelsea M. Cameron
Publisher: DRC Publishing (January 24th, 2013)
Series: Fall and Rise, 1
Genre: New Adult Contemporary
 
Two years after her best friend was involved in a car accident that caused a traumatic brain injury, Lottie Anders is ready to start her freshman year of college. Ready to move on. Ready to start forgetting the night that ripped her life apart.

Her plans come to a screeching halt when not one, but both brothers responsible for the accident end up back in her life again.

Zack is cruel, selfish and constantly rubbing what happened to her friend in Lottie's face.

Zan is different. He listens to her awkward ramblings. He loves "To Kill a Mockingbird" as much as she does, and his dark eyes are irresistible. His words are few and far between, but when he does speak, she can't help but listen.

The trouble is, Zan was the driver in the accident, and now Lottie's discovered he lied to her about what happened that night. Now she must decide if trusting him again will lead to real forgiveness, or deeper heartache.





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Monday, July 22, 2013

[Cover Reveal]: "I'll Be Home for Christmas"


You know Kame and I are big fans of Jessica Scott's Coming Home series, and today I'm proud to help reveal the cover for her upcoming novella -- I'll Be Home for Christmas. Guess who's story it is? CARPONTI! YES! :D Can. Not. Wait!





I'll Be Home for Christmas by Jessica Scott Publisher: Forever Yours (November 5, 2013)
Series: Coming Home,
Genre: Contemporary Romance




Sergeant Vic Carponti takes everything as a joke, even the war. And yet, as he leaves on this latest deployment, even the resolute struggles to keep everyone around him smiling. As Carponti faces his darkest fear, it is his wife Nicole's steadfast love and support that will get him through.






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Love this cover--love all of her covers, actually! :D

Have you read any of Jessica Scott's books yet? I highly recommend them--funny, yet very emotional and sexy!







Enjoy!   



Until Next Time,



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*TBQ's Book Palace is a member of both the Amazon and Barnes and Nobles affiliates program. By using the links provided to buy products from either website, I receive a very small percentage of the order. To read my full disclosure on the matter, please see this post!

Brazen Bash!





Brazen Books, who brought us Wrong Bed Right Guy, Officer Off Limits, Seducing Cinderella, and Tempting the Player - to name just a few - is turning 1 this month, and they’re celebrating in a big way. They’ve got a ton of great things going on this week, including Twitter parties, FB events, and even a huge sale!  Full deets below:









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Wow---I may need to hide my debit card until this sale is over (July 28th)! :D

Have you read any of the book released by Brazen? Do you have a favorite? Which one (or ones!) should I buy?
I've only read one (so far!) and that was Tessa Bailey's Protecting What's His (which I really liked!). I have many of the books from Brazen on my wishlist. What about you?





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