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Book Blast: The Rebellious Countess

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This post is part of a virtual book tour organized by Goddess Fish Promotions . Helene Matheson will be awarding a $10 Amazon/BN gift card to a randomly drawn winner. Click on the tour banner to see the other stops on the tour. Society may be run by the men of the ton, but six scandalous sisters are determined to take it by storm one gentleman at a time. Máira Blair married for love, her honeymoon trip with the Earl of Dorset is a dream come true—until reality turns it into a nightmare. Máira wakes up to discover her husband isn’t an earl, but the captain of a pirate ship and what was supposed to be her honeymoon, is a voyage bound for war-torn France. If that isn’t enough to disparage her husband’s character, he abandons her in the middle of a French port where she must find a way to survive as she defends her virtue and her life. Just when she’s convinced of what kind of rogue she married, the pirate transforms into a hero on a quest to save her and the missing Earl of Astley. ...

Review Tour: Clean Win

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  Clean Win by  Kevin R. Doyle   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~   GENRE :  Myst ery   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~   BLURB:   Laura Mosby is like a lot of young women, working in a job she doesn't like, looking for a way out, and doing her best to enjoy her privacy. When she dies a violent death at the hands of an intruder, it's at first brushed off as a standard homicide. But when Lieutenant Santiago, the supervising detective, comes across evidence linking her death to a local politician, he begins to see the faint threads of a much nastier sch eme. Desperate to shield his people from potential harm, he turns to Sam Quinton, full -time gym owner and part-time private investigator, to help solve Laura's murder and help the police department evade the wrath of City Hall.   ~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~   Excerpt:   We sat there for another minute or two before I prodded the cop. “Laura Mosby.”   “Right.” Santiago sat a little straighter, as if pulling himself back on track....

Book Blast: Outsider

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This post is part of a virtual book tour organized by Goddess Fish Promotions . Monica Buchanan will be awarding a $10 Amazon or B/N GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour. Click on the tour banner to see the other stops on the tour. Monica Buchanan grew up in Jamaica. She revisits her lived experiences of abuse and neglect in early childhood and her younger adult years. Buchanan takes the reader on a palatable path that allows for reflection on one's own life. She writes about her survival journey, while looking through descriptive lens, she carefully details how exposure to early childhood abuse and neglect within her family helped form patterns, influenced choices, and shaped decisions in her adulthood. By chronicling familial stories, the roles of parents, siblings, and community, she employs a story-telling and meaning-making approach, that is both painful and entertaining. Even though as a young child I was told I was the problem, I knew intuit...

Review Tour: A Heart Restrained

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A HEART RESTRAINED   by Jennifer Wilck     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~     GENRE :  Contemporary Romance     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~     BLURB:     Caleb Zeno, a wealthy and successful media mogul, refuses to allow emotions into any aspect of his life, especially his entertainment corporation. When his company’s lifestyle website runs into competition from a small boutique company, the most logical solution is to buy out his rival.     Fiona Hamilton’s lifestyle website succeeds due to her loving and caring treatment of her clients, who have become like family to her. She has no desire to sell to anyone, much less a tattooed, muscled, automaton.     At odds professionally, Caleb and Fiona come together as a favor for Caleb’s sister. Sparks fly and sexual chemistry abounds. But Caleb can't let go of his abusive past and be the man Fiona needs, and she is unwilling to risk independence and financial security for anything less than ...