The Seacrest

Today's featured Super Book Blast is for The Seacrest, a Contemporary Romantic Suspense fiction book by Aaron Paul Lazar. There will be no guest post or interview, but I do have a blurb and excerpt, as well as a bit about the author. I will also post links to the rest of the tour to increase chances to win one of the prizes: Aaron will be awarding at random six individual prizes to six randomly drawn commenters during the tour: For the Birds eBook(Kindle, Nook, or PDF), For the Birds Audio Book narrated by Hannah Seusy, For the Birds print book, Essentially Yours eBook (Kindle, Nook, PDF), Essentially Yours Audio Book, narrated by Hannah Seusy, Essentially Yours print book. So please leave your e-mail address when you comment. Also, "The Seacrest" will be on sale everywhere e-books are sold for only $0.99 today for the book blast.

Aaron Paul Lazar writes to soothe his soul. An award-winning author of three addictive mystery series, writing books, and a new love story, Aaron enjoys the Genesee Valley countryside in upstate New York, where his characters embrace life, play with their dogs and grandkids, grow sumptuous gardens, and chase bad guys. Visit his website at http://www.lazarbooks.com and watch for his upcoming Twilight Times Books releases, SANCTUARY (2014), and VIRTUOSO (2014).

Links:

Author’s website:  www.lazarbooks.com

Author’s collaborative writing blog: www.murderby4.blogspot.com

Author’s personal blog: www.aaronlazar.blogspot.com

Connect with Aaron Lazar:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aplazar2

Twitter:  https://twitter.com/aplazar

Goodreads:  http://www.goodreads.com/AaronPaulLazar

Amazon Author Page: http://www.amazon.com/Aaron-Paul-Lazar/e/B001JOZR2M/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1

Linked In: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/aaron-lazar/4/b50/a2a/

Google+: https://plus.google.com/106903480874581085678/posts

Twilight Times Books by multi-award winning author, Aaron Lazar:

LEGARDE MYSTERIES: http://www.lazarbooks.com/guslegardemysteries.htm

DOUBLE FORTÉ (print, eBook, audio book)

UPSTAGED (print, eBook, audio book)  

TREMOLO: CRY OF THE LOON (print, eBook, audio book)

MAZURKA (print, eBook, audio book)

FIRESONG (print, eBook, audio book)

DON’T LET THE WIND CATCH YOU (print, eBook, audio book)

VIRTUOSO (~2014)

MOORE MYSTERIES:  http://www.lazarbooks.com/sammooremysteries.htm

HEALEY'S CAVE (print, eBook, audio book)

TERROR COMES KNOCKING (print, eBook, audio book)

FOR KEEPS (print, eBook, audio book)

TALL PINES MYSTERIES:  http://www.lazarbooks.com/tallpinesmysteries.htm

FOR THE BIRDS (print, eBook, audio book)

ESSENTIALLY YOURS (print, eBook, audio book)

SANCTUARY (2014)

MURDER ON THE SACANDAGA (~2014)

STANDALONES: 

THE SEACREST (coming fall of 2013)

WRITING ADVICE:

WRITE LIKE THE WIND, volumes 1, 2, 3 (ebooks and audio books)

http://www.lazarbooks.com/forwriters.htm

AWARDS:

Double Forté 

           

2012 ForeWord BOTYA, Mystery, FINALIST

Tremolo: cry of the loon –

           

2013 Eric Hoffer Book Awards: Grand Prize Short List

           

2013 Eric Hoffer Book Awards: Honorable Mention, Eric Hoffer Legacy Fiction

           

2011 Global eBook Award Finalist in Historical Fiction Contemporary

           

2011 Preditors & Editors Readers Choice Award – 2nd place Mystery

           

2008 Yolanda Renée's Top Ten Books

2008 MYSHELF Top Ten Reads

For the Birds

           

2011 ForeWord Book Awards, FINALIST in Mystery

           

2012 Carolyn Howard-Johnson's Top 10 Reads

Essentially Yours

           

2013 EPIC Book Awards, FINALIST in Suspense

           

2013 Eric Hoffer Da Vinci Eye Award Finalist

Healey’s Cave

           

2012 EPIC Book Awards WINNER Best Paranormal

           

2011 Eric Hoffer Book Award, WINNER Best Book in Commercial Fiction

           

2011 Finalist for Allbooks Review Editor's Choice

           

2011 Winner of Carolyn Howard Johnson's 9th Annual Noble (not Noble!) Prize for Literature

           

2011 Finalists for Global EBook Awards

 Terror Comes Knocking

           

2013 Global Ebook Awards, Paranormal – Bronze

For Keeps

           

2013 Semi Finalist in Kindle Book Review Book Awards, Mystery Category

BLURB for The Seacrest:

They say it’s better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Finn McGraw disagrees.

He was just seventeen when he had a torrid summer affair with the girl who stole his heart—and then inexplicably turned on him. Finn may have moved on with his life, but he’s never forgotten her.

Now, ten years later, he’s got more than his lost love to worry about. A horrific accident turns his life upside down, resurrecting the ghosts of his long-dead family and taking the lives of the few people he has left.

Finn always believed his estranged brother was responsible for the fire that killed their family—but an unexpected inheritance with a mystery attached throws everything he knows into doubt.

And on top of that, the beguiling daughter of his wealthy employer has secrets of her own. But the closer he gets, the harder she pushes him away.

The Seacrest is a story of intrigue and betrayal, of secrets and second chances—and above all, of a love that never dies.

Excerpt from The Seacrest by Aaron Paul Lazar, copyright 2013

July 2, 2013

Life can change in the blink of an eye. This blink came when a cop car cruised up The Seacrest’s white shell driveway on a hot Saturday in July.

I’ll never forget the moment. You know how folks remember where they were when John Lennon died? Or when President Kennedy was assassinated? It was like that, every detail stamped into my brain, forever.

A fresh breeze laden with the scent of the sea rustled blue flowers in a nearby hydrangea hedge. Hot and sweaty, I stood in the blazing sun, feeling like a fool. I’d just finished weed wacking around the paddock fence posts. Unfortunately, said weed wacker had spooked Libby Vanderhorn’s favorite mare, Serendipity, who I secretly called Dippy, because she was such a loose cannon. She’d bucked three times and knocking down several fence boards. Libby was a good rider, but this time she’d landed in a sprawling heap on the soft dirt, swearing at me.

The boss’s gorgeous, stuck-up daughter didn’t mince words, and the sting of her accusations still sounded in my head. How stupid can you be, Finn? What’s wrong with you?

Libby’s father held great power on Cape Cod. Rudolph Vanderhorn sat on so many boards, I’d lost count. His father’s fish canning company made a fortune back in the eighties, and he and his daughter had enjoyed the spoils ever since. 

I stooped to pick up a hammer from my toolbox, planning to reattach the fence boards before any of Libby’s horses got hurt on the protruding nails. Curious now, I watched the Brewster Police car circle the long drive, heading toward the mansion. The local authorities stopped by every few days to discuss town matters with my boss. But today the blue light was flashing, which didn’t look like a casual visit.

A shudder went through me, and I turned cold. Something bad had happened. I sensed it.

Participating Blogs

1: Books on Silver Wings
2: Kali Erickson
3: Krystal Shannan - Where Love and Destiny Collide
4: Reviews Unleashed
5: Bunny's Review
6: Farm Girl Books
7: Bookgirl Knitting
8: Brooke Blogs
9: Room With Books
10: Stephanie's Book Shelf
11: Lisa Haselton's Reviews and Interviews
12: The Hedonistic Minimalist
13: Welcome to My World of Dreams
14: It's Raining Books
15: Straight from the Library
16: Long and Short Reviews
17: The Women's Fiction Review
18: Dawn's Reading Nook Blog
19: Full Moon Dreaming
20: Nickie's Views and Interviews
21: Novel Moments
22: Moonlight, Lace and Mayhem
23: Author Jinni James
24: A to Z Reviews
25: My Odd Little World
26: Deal Sharing Aunt
27: Musings and Ramblings
28: Enjoying the Unique Flavors of Life

Once and Forever, An Anthology

Today's post is a Super Book Blast for Once and Forever by Mary Blayney, Elaine Fox, Emelle Gamble, Lavinia Kent and Evie Owens, a Novella Collection: Regency,Contemporary Romance, Paranormal and Women's fiction. There is no interview or guest post, but there will be blurbs, an excerpt and a bit about the authors. I will also post links to the other blogs on the tour to increase the chances of winning, so be sure to leave your e-mail address when you comment, for a chance at the prize: the authors will be awarding an eBook copy of "Once and Forever" to five randomly drawn commenters during the tour, and a Grand Prize of a $25 Amazon GC to one randomly drawn commenter during the tour. 

Mary Blayney:

NY Times Best Selling author Mary Blayney’s first two romances were contemporaries published by Silhouette Books. Since 2000 she has been writing regency set historical novels and novellas for Kensington, Bantam and Berkley. Returning to the contemporary market with her novella in ONCE AND FOREVER, Mary hopes to continue to tell stories set in both the regency and the 21st century.

           

Married to a retired Coast Guard officer, Mary has lived all over the US from Alaska to Puerto Rico, but is now settled near Annapolis, Maryland within sight of the Chesapeake Bay. Her life close to the Coast Guard and its mission to search and rescue, has convinced her that life is best lived with joy, love and a generous heart. Those convictions are what she most wantS to share with her readers. Family will always play a strong part in her books since she believes that family relationships are as fundamental as the love between a man and a woman.

ONE MORE KISS:

           

“Mary Blayney’s newest Regency romance is a genuine pleasure to read”(NY Journal of Books)

           

“One More Kiss is a delightful combination of social comedy, slight mystery, and sweet romance. It’s a thoroughly charming novel, well worth a read.” . . .(NY Journal of Books)

           

MIRROR MIRROR anthology, “If Wishes Were Horses”

           

Debut at #3 New York Times Mass Market List October 2013

           

“Blayney's wish-granting coin entwines a pair of lonely adventure seekers in romance beyond their lives as a servant and a sergeant in her charming 1816 fantasy, If Wishes Were Horses. . . .” (Publishers Weekley, October 2013)

Links:

http://www.MaryBlayney.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mary.blayney

Elaine Fox

NY Times Best Selling author Elaine Fox began her career writing time-travel romances, such as Rita-finalist Traveler, and Impostor (both now available as e-books on Amazon and Barnes & Noble), then added historicals to the mix. After six books with Leisure Books, she moved to Avon to begin writing contemporary romances. Her first, Maybe Baby, hit the USA Today Bestseller list and eight more novels and four novellas followed, with several of them also reaching the USA Today list.

Most recently she participated in the anthology Mirror, Mirror from Berkley Publishers, which debuted at #3 on the New York Times Bestseller list.

Elaine lives just outside of Washington, D.C., with a small Cuban dog and a lovely Argentinean man. Elaine is trying to learn Spanish.

Review Quotes:

Praise for Beauty, Sleeping, in the anthology MIRROR, MIRROR:

“Fox introduces a charming ghostly television reporter to the woman who buys his haunted house in Beauty, Sleeping, a clever, turned-on-its-head version of Sleeping Beauty.” Publishers Weekly

Praise for HELLO, DOGGY!:

“HELLO, DOGGY! by Elaine Fox is a laugh-out-loud, character-driven story that will captivate readers from their first introduction to the lovable pooch and her dreamy owner.” Fresh Fiction

Praise for BEWARE OF DOUG:

“A must read.” Fresh Fiction

Links:

Email: authorelainefox@aol.com

Website:  http://www.elainefox.com 

FaceBook:  www.facebook.com/AuthorElaineFox

  

Emelle Gamble

Emelle Gamble was a writer at an early age, bursting with the requisite childhood stories of introspection. These evolved into bad teen poetry and worse short stories. She took her first stab at full length fiction in an adult education writing class when her kids were in bed.  As M.L. Gamble, she published several romantic suspense novels with Harlequin. She has contracted with Soul Mate Publishing for Secret Sister, published in the summer of 2013, and Dating Cary Grant, a Spring 2014 release.

Molly Harper will be released by Posh Publishing in December, 2013.

Emelle lives in suburban Washington D.C. with her husband, ‘Phil-the-fist’, her hero of thirty years,  and two orange cats, Lucy and Bella. These girls, like all good villains, have their reasons for misbehaving. Her daughter, Olivia, and son, Allen, are happily launched on their own and contributing great things to society, their mother’s fondest wish.

Review Quotes:

Praise for Secret Sister

“Along with being a very unique and captivating plot, SECRET SISTER offers a shocking turn of the paranormal kind. So if you are the type of person that wants ordinary romance in a book, you won't find that here. This is a story of friendship, family, and most of all, true love and what those things can mean. I cannot recommend SECRET SISTER strongly enough… “ Fresh Fiction, Fresh Reviews

"If you're looking for a typical women's fiction/romance, don't look here... this story has a twist of the paranormal that will have you willingly stretching your belief in order to enjoy the plot. Emelle Gamble has created a story that will tear your heart out."  Long and Short Reviews

Links:

Email: emellegamble@aol.com

Website:  http:/www.EmelleGamble.com 

FaceBook:  https://www.facebook.com/Emelle.Gamble

Twitter: https://twitter.com/EmelleGamble

Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7123746.Emelle_Gamble      

Secret Sister  http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Sister-ebook/dp/B00DUL4LQA       

  

Evie Owens

Evie Owens was born in Japan, but grew up on a dairy farm in Upper Michigan. She's waited tables and tended bar, which makes her a very good tipper, but writing is her passion. She's thrilled to be included in this anthology with some of her favorite authors.

These days, Evie lives in Maryland while her two fabulous daughters and one glorious granddaughter live too far away. Leaving her no alternative but to turn to a life of crazy cat ladyness (except for the "cat" and the "ladyness" parts).

Review Quotes:

The Psychic Detective is Evie’s first published novella.

Links:  

Email: author.evie@gmail.com

Website:  http://www.evieowens.com 

FaceBook:  Author Evie Owens

Twitter: https://twitter.com/EV_Owens

Goodreads: Evie Owens

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4909958.Evie_Owens

Lavinia Kent

Lavinia Kent never knew that most people don’t make up stories in their heads to pass the time. She still has a hard time understanding how those who don’t survive the doctor’s waiting room or a grocery store line without another world to escape into.

Growing up in New York state and Wisconsin, Lavinia graduated from Wellesley College and, for reasons that are still not quite clear, also holds an MBA from Washington, D.C.’s Georgetown University. Lavinia has remained in Washington ever since.

She lives under the gracious (and usually benign) rule of Erzsebet, the cat, along with her husband, three children, one cockatiel, two rats, and Erzsebet’s younger, subordinate tomcat, otherwise known as The Golden Snitch.

As the mother of three, Lavinia finds “leisure time” to be ever-elusive, but when she is not reading romance novels, she watches far too much HBO and reality television. It must also be noted that she has an encyclopedic knowledge of all things Buffy and Doctor Who.

Lavinia was a two-term president of the Washington Romance Writers and is proud to be a four-time Romance Writers of America Golden Heart nominee.

She was excited (and humbled and thrilled and over the moon) about the publication of her first historical Romance, A Talent for Sin, in June 2009. Her second book, Bound by Temptation,was released in February 2010.  Her third book, Taken by Desire, is available in December 2010.

http://www.facebook.com/LaviniaKent

http://www.laviniakent.com

http://twitter.com/LaviniaKent

Once and Forever -  An anthology

By Mary Blayney, Elaine Fox, Emelle Gamble, Lavinia Kent and introducing Evie Owens

From five compelling authors, five original novellas which will make you laugh and cry, and believe in a love that once found will last forever. Meet a duke, a psychic, a bodyguard and a professor…and one "guardian fairy" in absorbing stories ranging from regency and contemporary romance to paranormal and women's fiction.

Playing for Keeps by Mary Blayney

Actress Kendall Marshall is determined to get an autograph for her sick sister from famous TV personality Mike O’Hara, the Oprah Winfrey of sports. In the process she meets his brother, security consultant Steve Marshall, lands a job on O’Hara’s show and gets in the way of a man set on causing big trouble. As the stalkers attacks escalate, Steve and Kendall are thrown together and find it impossible to ignore the chemistry between them.

The Princess & the Pinot by Elaine Fox

When a beautiful woman shows up at the Vineyard Inn, wine manager Kim is certain she’s been sent by fate for the inn’s owner, Cooper. Self-effacing to a fault, Kim knows she can’t hold a candle to Principessa Bella, who also seems to know even more about wine than Kim herself, but her heart has belonged to Cooper since they shared one kiss as teenagers.

While Prin sweeps easily into the job of sommelier at the renowned inn, Kim is afraid Prin will sweep just as surely into Cooper’s arms if she doesn’t do something about it. Can she tell Cooper how she feels without losing even his friendship?

Kim is willing to try except for one problem: she’s almost certainly losing her mind. Or is that belching, swearing, smoking, farting fairy – who claims to be trying to help her – real?

Duets by Emelle Gamble

Duets offers alternating looks into the lives of two women who would seem to have little or nothing in common.

Screen star Molly Harper is on the verge of marrying a man who has swept her off her feet, thought perhaps hasn’t swept all her feelings for her first love away. Anne Sullivan, happily married for twenty-five years, is fighting to hold onto the man she loves, and hold off a confrontation that could shatter her family’s image of what they are.

Duets confronts a past secret that ties these two women’s lives together, just as chance events turn Molly and Anne’s worlds upside down. 

Never and Forever by Lavinia Kent

Never and Forever is the beginning of the love story of two people who shouldn’t belong together.  Molly, Miss Wilkes, runs an employment agency helping women of quality find positions perfected suited to their characters.  Although her father held the title of Earl for just over a week before his death, Molly has never wanted to be a lady.  She knows her place in this world – and it is not at the center of society.

The Duke of Radford also knows his place in this world – and it’s above everybody else’s.  He cannot imagine a world without all the privilege and power that comes from being Radford.  He’s had foreign princesses and heiresses dangled before him for years.  Why would he ever have interest in a simple woman who doesn’t even understand that she should want to be a duchess?

Can these two overcome the obstacles of their own beliefs and realize that love can make all things possible?

Never and forever are both a very long time.  Where will their love fit?

The Psychic Detective by Evie Owens

Psychic Martin Sterling doesn't trust cops--and the feeling is mutual. Detective Erin Healy needs more than a ghost story to save her job and reputation. Her partner is dead, a million dollars in drugs and money is missing, and all the evidence points to her.

Can a sexy psychic and a by the book cop, trapped between the living and the dead, unearth the truth? Or will a cold-blooded killer get away with it all...

Excerpt from The Psychic Detective

(Contemporary Paranormal Romance – Evie Owens The Psychic Detective)

For a long moment he just stared back at her, into her, somehow, and Erin wondered what it would be like to believe. In psychics and magic and...to really believe in anything, other than the life you were living. She had police in her blood, though. If you couldn't see it, feel it, taste it, smell it--if you couldn't measure it in some way--it wasn't real.

No matter how much you might wish it was.

But how did he know the girl was pregnant? She wasn't showing yet.

Then she remembered he'd been watching them long before he joined them at the table, and in her mind's eye she saw the way Mitra's hands closed over her abdomen. Protecting and comforting. You didn't have to be psychic to figure that out. Just observant.

And this guy was definitely observant.

Most con men were.

Participating Blogs

1: Unabridged Andra
2: Nana Prah's Blog
3: Musings and Ramblings
4: Books on Silver Wings
5: Who's Reviews
6: Diane's Book Blog
7: Reviews by Crystal
8: Welcome to My World of Dreams
9: It's Raining Books
10: Long and Short Reviews
11: Straight from the Library
12: In Shadows
13: You Gotta Read Reviews
14: Harlie's Books
15: Read Your Writes Book Reviews
16: Reading In Twilight
17: The Hedonistic Minimalist
18: Margay Leah Justice
19: Novel Moments
20: Theresa M Jones
21: The Reading Addict
22: Queen of the Night Reviews
23: Tamaria Soana
24: Reading, Writing, and Roses
25: The Simple Things in Life
26: The Pen and Muse Book Reviews
27: Dina Rae's Write Stuff
28: Nickie's Views and Interviews
29: Wake Up Your Wild Side
30: My Odd Little World
31: Snarky Mom Reads...
32: Room With Books
33: Brooke Blogs
34: Author Raine Delight's Blog
35: Brewing Passion
36: Wicked Readings by Tawania
37: Bunny's Review
38: Farm Girl Books
39: My Odd Little World
40: Desert Rose Reviews
41: Sugarbeat's Books
42: Renee Luke

Forward to Camelot...Time Travel

Today's Super Book blast is for Forward to Camelot, a Time Travel fiction book by Susan Sloate and Kevin Finn that is available now from Drake Valley Press. As a Book Blast, there is no interview or post, but I am posting a blurb, an excerpt from the book and a bit about the authors. I will also post links to the rest of the tour so you can increase your chances of winning the $25 Amazon Gift Card that Susan and Kevin will award to one random commenter. Please be sure to leave your e-mail address when you comment.

SUSAN SLOATE is the author of 20 previous books, including the recent bestseller Stealing Fire and Realizing You (with Ron Doades), for which she invented a new genre: the self-help novel. The original 2003 edition of Forward to Camelot became a #6 Amazon bestseller, took honors in three literary competitions and was optioned by a Hollywood company for film production.

Susan has also written young-adult fiction and non-fiction, including the children’s biography Ray Charles: Find Another Way!, which won the silver medal in the 2007 Children’s Moonbeam Awards. Mysteries Unwrapped: The Secrets of Alcatraz led to her 2009 appearance on the TV series MysteryQuest on The History Channel. Amelia Earhart: Challenging the Skies is a perennial young-adult Amazon bestseller. She has also been a sportswriter and a screenwriter, managed two recent political campaigns and founded an author’s festival in her hometown outside Charleston, SC.

After beginning his career as a television news and sports writer-producer, KEVIN FINN moved on to screenwriting and has authored more than a dozen screenplays. He is a freelance script analyst and has worked for the prestigious American Film Institute Writer’s Workshop Program. He now produces promotional trailers, independent film projects including the 2012 documentary SETTING THE STAGE: BEHIND THE SCENES WITH THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE, and local content for Princeton Community Television.

His next novel, Banners Over Brooklyn, will be released in 2014.

For updates and more information about Forward to Camelot: 50th Anniversary Edition, please visit http://susansloate.com/CAMELOT.html.

BLURB for Forward to Camelot:

WHERE WERE YOU THE DAY KENNEDY WAS SAVED?

On the 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination comes a new edition of the extraordinary time-travel thriller first published in 2003 with a new Afterword from the authors.

On November 22, 1963, just hours after President Kennedy’s assassination, Lyndon Johnson was sworn in as President aboard Air Force One using JFK’s own Bible. Immediately afterward, the Bible disappeared. It has never been recovered. Today, its value would be beyond price.

In the year 2000, actress Cady Cuyler is recruited to return to 1963 for this Bible—while also discovering why her father disappeared in the same city, on the same tragic day. Finding frightening links between them will lead Cady to a far more perilous mission: to somehow prevent the President’s murder, with one unlikely ally: an ex-Marine named Lee Harvey Oswald.

Forward to Camelot: 50th Anniversary Edition brings together an unlikely trio: a gallant president, the young patriot who risks his own life to save him, and the woman who knows their future, who is desperate to save them both.

History CAN be altered …

Excerpt from Forward to Camelot:

  

The man in the doorway was yawning, and his bright chestnut hair, flecked with threads of gray, was tousled. He wore half glasses down on his nose and held a thick typewritten report in one hand. His navy silk tie was pulled down, his white shirt was rumpled. His eyes, though bloodshot, focused on us politely.

    

I was face to face with President John F. Kennedy.

    

He looked at us, puzzled, and glanced around the empty hallway.

   

I knew if I didn’t speak that I’d never have another chance, but I couldn’t think of a thing to say. The President looked at us, raised an eyebrow.

    

Quick, Cady, say something. “Mr. President, my name is Cady Cuyler.” Beside me, I felt Lee start at the words. “I’ve come a long way to speak to you. Please, it’s very urgent.”

    

He was still puzzled. “Where’s my Secret Service detail?”

   

I took a deep breath. In for a penny, in for a pound. “They’re out drinking at a nightclub called The Cellar, here in Fort Worth. They left some Fort Worth firemen to guard you. They’ll be pretty hung over in the morning.”

    

Kennedy looked down at me. His eyes were a bit brighter, though it was now close to 2:00 a.m.  He looked over at Lee, who gave him a tense smile, and stood almost at military attention. He looked back at me and asked quietly, “And how do you know this?”

    

It was time. His hand was on the doorknob. Almost imperceptibly, he was inching it shut.

   

I took a deep breath. “I’ll tell you, but you’re not going to believe me.” I waited; he waited too. But he was listening; I still had a chance.

   

“I’m from the future. I don’t live in Dallas in 1963. I live in New York in the year 2000. I’m here to warn you, sir, and save you if I can. If you don’t listen to me now… you’re going to die in less than 12 hours.”

Oswald had turned to me in alarm. Kennedy’s gray eyes never left my face while I spoke. When I stopped, hoping, praying I had reached him, he glanced down for a moment, then down the hall. All was quiet, the annoying yellow lights still burning overhead. Like casinos in Vegas, it was impossible to know from the artificial light in the hotel whether it was noon or midnight.

    

“You’re right,” the President said in that distinctive accent. “I don’t believe you.” He started to close the door in my face.

    

Before he could, I was talking again, as quickly and persuasively as I could. “Why would I make up a story like that? It makes no sense. Unless it was true!”

    

His gaze was even and noncommittal, but at least he’d stopped closing the door. “Can you prove it?”

Participating Blogs

1: Reviews by Crystal
2: Sharing Links and Wisdom
3: Room With Books
4: My Devotional Thoughts
5: Andi's Book Reviews
6: Lisa Haselton's Reviews and Interviews
7: Kit 'N Kabookle
8: Reading In Twilight
9: The Hedonistic Minimalist
10: Dawn's Reading Nook Blog
11: Dina Rae's Write Stuff
12: Book Bliss
13: Shelf Full of Books
14: Hope Dreams. Life... Love
15: Full Moon Dreaming
16: Reviews Unleashed
17: Hello Romance
18: My Odd Little World
19: Deal Sharing Aunt

Broken Fences

Today's Super Book Blast is for Broken Fences, a Contemporary Erotic Romance and the first in Kelly Gendron's Troublemakers series. As a Book Blast, there will be no interview or blog post, but I am posting the blurb and an excerpt, along with the author's bio and links. Kelly will be awarding a $25 Amazon/BN GC to a randomly drawn commenter during the tour, so please leave your e-mail address when you comment. I will also post links to the rest of the tour so you can increase your chances of winning.

Kelly resides in a quiet suburb somewhere between Buffalo and Niagara Falls, NY. Her day job? Kelly works in health care representing a group of nursing facilities in the WNY area. She’s been faithfully writing for three years but did write her first book ten years ago. She put it down to raise her son as a single mom and then picked it back up when she and her son finally grew up. That's when she settled into her newly married adult life and started to seriously write again. She's dabbled with Romantic Suspense stories, but recently she's been on an Adult Contemporary Romance kick.

Links:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KelGendron

Twitter: https://twitter.com/kelgendron

Goodreads Author: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5625187.Kelly_Gendron

Goodreads Book Link: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18365232-broken-fences

Website: http://kellygendron.com/

BLURB for Broken Fences:

Colden Saint James, Dusty Owens, and a single night of passion had equaled to poor old Mr. McAllister’s broken fence. Add six years, a troublemaking photo, and there’s not a fence in Texas that’s gonna be safe.

It took Dusty Owens two years to land Colden “Saint” James, even if it was for only one night, but the very next day, he was gone. Now, years later, the “Saint” has returned, but he’s no longer the do-gooder rookie cop Dusty remembers.

Dusty Owens always had a way of making every single one of Colden’s man parts go all hard. He’d been so close to falling for the girl before he’d left Odessa. Now, due to a troublemaking photo, Colden must return to his hometown to keep her safe. Trouble is, he’s a different man—not to mention the change. Well, it’s gonna cause all kinds of problems where Dusty Owens and all of his man parts are concerned.

Long Adult Ecerpt from Broken Fences

“Just admit it. You want me.” A crooked grin tugged on his lip.

Dusty glared at him from the corner of her eye. “Okay.” She gripped the railing and swayed back. “Yes, once I wanted you—once. But like I said, let’s not dwell on the past. I’m so over you, St. James.”

The smug son-of-a-bitch’s smile broadened. He shook his head. “I’m so not convinced, Dusty girl,” he said with sparkling, playful eyes.

“Stop calling me that!”

“What?” He arched a badly behaving eyebrow. “Girl?”

“Yes!”

“Well, you are one, aren’t you?”

“Yes, but—”

“Oh, I get it,” he rudely interrupted. “Too generic? How ‘bout I call you, uh…my pretty girl? Would you like that?”

In false protest, her nose and forehead scrunched. But she could already see it. The minute that little fawning left his sexy mouth, she’d drop to her knees, ready to give the man whatever he wanted.

“No?” He rubbed his chin and released a low, sexy, “Hmm.” A second later, he lifted an a-ha finger. “Tough girl?”

Her entire face flushed with heated anger.

He grimaced. “Don’t like that either?” His eyes hooded. “I know what kind of girl you are.”

She snorted. This oughtta be good. “Yeah? And what kind of girl am I?”

“A bad girl,” he huskily drawled. “You want to be my bad girl, don’t you?”

“No!” Oh God, yes! Who wouldn’t want to be his bad… anything? The new and improved St. James was hot, and her knees were already begging to hit the floor for him. Shake it off, bad girl. Just, shake it the hell off!

“Come over here.” An arm wrapped around her waist. “C’mon.” He dragged out the words as he dragged her up to his side. “It’s all good. You can be my bad girl anytime, Dusty Owens.”

When he bent his head down, warning bells went off in her addled brain. Sissy and Jimmy could see them from where they were standing. She veered back, her hand pressing into his shoulder, “Colden!”

“Don’t be so skittish.” His lips turned up, and his grip tightened. “Where’s that brazen girl? Where’s the girl who showed up at Rusty’s Tavern with Britt Weber, the player of all plays?”

Her eyes widened. Is he really going to bring up that night?

“And after a slow, naughty bull ride performance in a very slinky white dress, I might add, that bad girl dirty danced with the scumbag.”

He even remembers my dress? God.

“Where’s that brazen girl who took a huge risk, hoping I’d come to her rescue and save her from the sleazebag?”

The night flooded into her brain, Colden pulling her out of Britt Weber’s truck. Him punching Britt, who was twelve years her senior, right in the face, and Colden chasing after her and catching up with her at old man McAllister’s fence. Crazy for him, her attempt at making Colden jealous had worked. She’d tried to keep him hot by picking a fight, but Colden hadn’t taken the bait. Without saying a word, he’d just walked up to her and kissed her hard, a kiss he didn’t break until they broke McAllister’s fence—until she’d surrendered her virtue and her heart to him.

“So? Where’s that bad girl now?” he provoked.

Dusty shook her head and told him the truth. “She grew up.” She knew it was immature to try to make Colden jealous back then. He wasn’t a kid. He was a man, and he had shown her that night just what kind of man he was, the kind she wanted to spend the rest of her life with.

“Nah.” Sturdy fingers pressed into her hipbone. “I think she’s still in there. She just needs some coaxing to come out and play.” He leaned in and huskily taunted, “Come out, come out, wherever you are! Be my bad girl and admit you wanna play.”

“In your dreams, St. James. Why don’t you get over yourself? I’ve already told you that I don’t feel anything for you—not anymore,” she lied, trying to save herself.

“I don’t believe you.” His eyes wickedly twinkled with the statement.

“I don’t really care what you believe.”

“Take your panties off.”

As angry as he was making her, her body had to respond to the command, and every muscle froze. “What?”

“If they’re bone dry,” he said, tilting to the left and dropping his voice, “I’ll believe you.”

“Colden, look where we are, for God’s sake. You’re crazy if you think I’m gonna¬—”

He tilted slightly closer, his eyes dark and daring. “Take them off.”

“I-I can’t,” she mumbled, hypnotized by his captivating, intent look and even more stunned by the crazy demand.

“Why?” The corner of his mouth lifted. “Oh, right.” His smile grew bigger. “Don’t worry. I don’t mind getting my hand a little wet.”

What? Absolutely incorrigible! “You’re an ass.”

“Well, if that’s not your excuse, what is?”

“Besides the obvious, it’s a rude a request.” She smirked at him. Yeah, that’s right, buddy. Two can play at this game. “I can’t give them to you because…” She inched closer to his tempting mouth. “I’m not wearing any.” Unable to ignore the pleasure she got from seeing the astonishment light up his eyes, her smile grew too.

“Damn, girl.” He exhaled, letting out a very noticeable whistle. His hand slid slowly down her hip, as if to confirm her claim, then roamed to her backside. “Do you know what a statement like that can do to a guy?”

“Again, I don’t care.”

“Well then, let’s make you care…”

Well, this one sounds...hot and intriguing, and I can't wait to pick up a copy for myself.

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Sweetly Bad The New BBW Series From Ellora's Cave

As a BBW myself, I love stories with more realistic sized women...after all, skinny doesn't hold the patent on love, we all want that special someone in our lives. Now, thanks to Anya Breton and Ellora's Cave, there are new books with Curve Appeal, featuring big Beautiful Women and the men who love them. No excerpt for this one, but there is a brief synopsis, and there will be a digital copy of this one for one random commenter on today's post. Please be sure to leave an e-mail address when you comment so I know where to send it. Let yours friends know about it, using this Twitter hashtag to promote this post, the series and tour: #ECLOVESCURVES 

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Sweetly Bad is available on Amazon.com, BN.com, and ellorascave.com. 

TITLE: Sweetly Bad 

AUTHOR: Anya Breton

AUTHOR WEBSITE: www.anyabreton.com 

SERIES WEBSITE: www.ellorascave.com/series/curve-appeal.html 

GENRE: A Romantica® paranormal erotic romance from Ellora’s Cave

QUICK DETAILS: In Sweetly Bad, hot and explicit sex with the right (plus-sized) woman just might redeem this book's paranormal bad boy hero. This eBook is the first selection in Curve Appeal, a new series by Ellora's Cave that celebrates big, beautiful women and the partners who love them. 

SYNOPSIS: Drew couldn’t imagine anything worse than being stranded in a two-cellular-bar town with a broken-down Ferrari…until his mother—his own mother!—marked him as a rogue Air witch and canceled all his credit cards. Now he’s kill-on-sight in the Underground, and the only person willing to help him is the curvy human mechanic who towed his car. A strangely delectable curvy human mechanic…The last thing Erica needs is a yuppie playboy freeloading in her garage. Still, she can’t bring herself to turn Drew out into the sultry heat, even if he is a bit of an ass. A gorgeous, incorrigible, everything-your-mother-warned-you-against ass. Soon the heat isn’t the only thing sultry in the garage and self-control is the last thing on her mind. They agree to a one-night stand, but Drew’s magical secrets are dangerous—and catching up to him fast. 

My Review:

Sweetly Bad is a fun and sexy story, with entertaining and liable characters, and just enough excitement to keep me on the edge of my seat, not wanting to put it down. The world is a mix of contemporary and fantasy, with human mechanic and BBW Erica coming to the aid of Drew, an Air witch of considerable power, and more than a little bit of selfishly obnoxious attitude at the beginning. When his expensive European super car breaks down in the middle of nowhere, with no access to cell coverage, he becomes frustrated and even more obnoxious. 

As Drew calls woman after woman for assistance once he has cell coverage, it becomes clear to Erica that he is a major player, but she is determined to help him, because the fees for the work will keep her little garage afloat for a long time. That is, if she can discover why all the repairs she's done recently seem to be going bad. She is determined not to sell out to her nasty ex, Jared, but isn't sure just how. And when Drew discovers what his mother has done to teach him a lesson, he realizes two things: he is on his own, with the threat of death hanging over his head, and Erica is in danger, not only from those magicals after him, but from her vicious ex, Jared, who will do anything to sabotage Erica's garage.

I really enjoyed this story. Erica is a strong woman, and she is determined to succeed with her business. She wants to see the good in everyone, even her awful ex, but even she has an eventual epiphany when Drew convinces her about Jared. She is also determined not to become another notch on Drew's considerable, if metaphorical, bedpost. Yes, she wants him, but on her terms, not his. Too bad her heart didn't follow the program, as she eventually falls for the man she finds under the spoiled and pampered exterior.

Once Drew pulls his head out of his posterior, he discovers that he needs to stop being the Witch version of a man whore, and take responsibility for his actions. I really enjoyed watching as Drew finally grew up into the man he was meant to be, and learned that only when love is given freely, with no strings, can it end up as the treasure it really is.

Do Erica and Drew find a happily ever after, as well as a screaming hot and passionate love life? Yes, but they find even more, they find friendship along with the heat, as they face the big challenges together, head on.