venerdì 12 dicembre 2014

BLURRED LINES - Jen McLaughlin

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Today we are revealing the cover for BLURRED LINES by Jen McLaughlin. This is the highly-anticipated adult standalone novel that is part of the New York Times Bestselling OUT OF LINE series. The book will be released on January 26, 2015.

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Once burned...

Finding my fiancée naked on my couch might’ve been a good thing, if her ex-boyfriend hadn’t been with her. For the past eight years I’ve been a witness to the power of true love, but after getting burned I’d decided there wasn’t any hope for me finding it for myself. Until I met Noelle Brandt in a hotel bar. Maybe it wasn’t the most romantic meeting, but the moment I met her I knew I had to have her. The more I learn about her, the more I know I’ll do whatever it takes to keep her.

Twice shy...

I’d already found the love of my life, but I’d lost that love forever. And I’d been lost ever since. But one night a wounded man makes all of that go away. He makes me laugh, live, and feel alive. When he tells me he has no intention of letting me go, I finally begin to believe in the power of true love again. That is, until I find out who he really is…and by then, it’s far too late to correct the mistakes we’ve already made. By the time we both know the truth, the lines have already been blurred beyond recognition.

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Her eyes drifted shut. Warning bells went off in my head. I wasn’t supposed to start anything with her, damn it. She’d been kind, and she deserved kindness in return.
That’s all I had been trying to do. Be kind.
But then she closed her eyes, and lifted up on her toes…and all my good intentions flew out the window. Lowering my head slowly, giving her plenty of time to push me away or turn her head aside, I moved closer until my lips were almost touching hers. “Tell me to stop if you don’t want this.”
“Riley…” She inhaled a shaky breath, her fists tightening on my shirt. “Don’t feel like you have to do this as a thank you.”
“I shouldn’t be doing this, because you deserve better.” I tightened my grip on her and caught her behind her waist, hauling her closer. Her large breasts pushed against my chest, and I groaned. “Never mistake this for what it is: the greedy actions of a greedy man. I want you. I know I shouldn’t take you, but yet…”
“You want to?” she asked, her wet lips begging to be kissed. “I want to, too.”
I dropped my forehead to hers. “Why?”
“I don’t know,” she admitted. She undid another button. “But I do.”
“Noelle…”
“I didn’t bring you up here for this,” she said breathlessly. “I don’t mind that it’s happening, but I didn’t bring you up here to seduce you.”
“And I didn’t come here to seduce you.” I brushed my lips across hers, barely touching. “Which is why I should stop.”
“Or not.”
She tipped her face up, and I kissed her fully, without overthinking it. The second our lips touched, the world as I knew it changed all around me. Yeah, it sounded corny as shit coming from a guy, but it was true.
So fucking true.

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We also wanted to reveal the brand new cover for FRACTURED LINES, book #4 in the OUT OF LINES series!

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Jen McLaughlin is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of sexy New Adult books. Under her pen name Diane Alberts, she is a multi-published, bestselling author of Contemporary Romance with Entangled Publishing. Her first release as Jen McLaughlin, Out of Line, released September 6 2013, and hit the New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal lists. She was mentioned in Forbes alongside E. L. James as one of the breakout independent authors to dominate the bestselling lists. She is represented by Louise Fury at The Bent Agency.
Though she lives in the mountains, she really wishes she was surrounded by a hot, sunny beach with crystal-clear water. Though she lives in the mountains, she really wishes she was surrounded by a hot, sunny beach with crystal-clear water. She lives in Northeast Pennsylvania with her four kids, a husband, a schnauzer mutt, and a cat. Her goal is to write so many well-crafted romance books that even a non-romance reader will know her name.

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The Normal Kind of Crazy - L.J.Voss

What else can Imogen Jones want in her life? She owns her own business, has two amazing best friends, and an eccentric senior citizen who raised her when her mom died. She even has her very own Mr. Darcy, even if he happens to come in the form of her pet pig. There’s even something brewing with a local coffee roaster.

But when Imogen is threatened as blackmail against the father she never knew, she’ll have to trust a handsome and frustrating FBI agent to keep her safe.
As they try to stay one step ahead of the threat, can they keep things strictly professional? Can he keep her safe until the threat passes?



Title: The Normal Kind of Crazy
Author: L.J. Voss
Publication date: Jan. 2015
Photographer: Ashlee Brooke Photography
Model: Megan Van Leeuwen
Cover Design: Bearhive




L.J. Voss lives in Utah with her husband, son, and dog. When she isn’t writing she is either curled up with a good book or spending time with her family. She enjoys DIY projects, baking, sewing, and the outdoors.


The Loner - Kate Moore

The Loner is
the first book in Kate Moore's newest series, The Canyon Club.  



Gatsby meets Persuasion in
a story of sex and money in L.A. as a self-sufficient loner, new billionaire
Will Sloan, dares to cross the divide of privilege to claim his lost love.

                                


             PRIDE

Loner Will Sloan, son of a waitress and a dead rodeo cowboy, former scholarship student, new billionaire, is back in L.A., land of palm-lined drives and fiery sunsets. His friends urge him to jump into the hot city dating scene, but a chance encounter at a school reunion revives a powerful past love. He’s never forgotten Annie James…and this time around, he swears he’ll do the walking out.



AND PERSUASION


Widowed young, Annie James believes she’s recovered from the early heartbreaks that left her single and jobless at 24. Ten years later, she’s got a job, a house, and a personal passion helping at-risk kids. Then she steps up to do a favor for a friend and help a poor boy win a scholarship to the Canyon School. Doing so unlocks the door to the past, and to the one man who could break her heart again. This time, though, love will conquer all.

“Moore is a talent to
remember.” —RT Book Reviews




e mezzo 




Will Sloan, un ricco proprietario di una azienda di computer, ha fatto i soldoni e adesso si può godere i frutti del suo meritato lavoro e dare alla madre una casa confortevole dove vivere. 
Lui e sua madre sono sempre stati soli e si sono arrangiati come meglio hanno potuto. Will, già da bambino, aveva dimostrato quanto fosse intelligente e la borsa di studio alla scuola privata Canyon è stata ben meritata. 
Non la pensava così il preside, attaccato ai soldi e interessato al prestigio della scuola, la maggior parte degli allievi erano figli di persone facoltose e ricche, tutto quello che Will non era. Messo in imbarazzo più di una volta dai suoi stessi compagni e dal preside, colui il quale aveva il compito di proteggerlo, riceve fortunatamente una piccola dose di attenzione dalla segretaria del preside: Annie James. 
Il ragazzo aveva a malapena 18 anni, lei ne aveva 22, quasi coetanea, ma certi limiti non si possono mai superare, dovevano stare molto attenti a non destare sospetti. Grazie ai sorrisi di Annie, lo scambio di risate e pomeriggi passati a guardare il tramonto, Will si sente meno solo e in un impeto di euforia chiede a Annie James di sposarlo. La ragazza, rimasta vedova da poco, rifiuta e Will ne rimane ferito enormemente.
Quasi 10 anni, dopo in occasione di una raccolta fondi per la Canyon, i nostri protagonisti si rincontrano e mentre Will prova odio e risentimento per Anni, la donna non sa come gestire l'uomo che si trova davanti a lei. E' consapevole che lui desideri solo vendicarsi per il dolore che gli ha causato, pur fatto nell'interesse di un giovane adulto con il mondo aperto davanti a lui pieno di opportunità.
Mentre Will e Annie cercano di trovare un accordo tra passione e odio, abbiamo un misterioso contesto che rende il tutto più interessante, relativamente allo stato finanziario della famigerata scuola provata. Come mai la Canyon ha bisogno di soldi? E perché il preside è andato personalmente a trovare Will a chiedere una donazione? Potrà mai dimenticare un'adolescenza piena di sopprusi e abusi in favore di una scuola che può fare ancora molto per ragazzi che potranno studiare solo con borse di studio ? Ma soprattutto, lui e Annie, adesso che sono entrambi lontani da quella scuola e lei non è sposata con figli, avranno finalmente i loro lieto fine o sarà troppo tardi? 

Will, l'ho trovato simpatico e divertente, in alcuni punti, passionale e intrigante in altri. Uomo decisamente capace, si è alzato con dignità dalla pozzanghera dove lo avevano gettato e ha creato dal nulla una ditta di computer, venduta ad una cifra astronomica . Può donare a sua madre una vecchiaia serena e una vita tranquilla dopo tutto quello che ha fatto per farlo studiare. Il suo rapporto con Annie è conflittuale ma tenero. Ci si ritrova a tifare per lui perchè riesca nell'intento di conquistare il cuore della sua amata.
La solitudine gli ha permesso di sotterrare le umiliazioni e brutti ricordi da studente, ma adesso che è diventato adulto. non è possibile andare oltre e forse creare un rapporto di amicizia con quei ragazzi che avevano esagerato con lui? 

Annie James, è rimasta vedova molto presto e il lavoro alla scuola Canyon le ha concesso di riprendere un pò di stabilità nella sua vita. Conoscere Will ma anche gli altri ragazzi, (è diventata membro onorario della classe 2005), è stato terapeutico e ha posto le basi per quello che sarebbe stato il suo futuro. Aiutare i ragazzi in difficoltà, timidi e associali è la sua vocazione. Ha cominciato alla Canyon e ha proseguito con un centro di accoglienza, dove fa la volontaria. Anche se il suo attuale lavoro è la giornalista in un giornale locale, lei vuole poter fare di più, raccontando le storie vere di questi ragazzi dotati, ma senza opportunità di studiare.
Rincontrare Will apre una ferita mai del tutto chiusa. Il suo rifiuto a quella tenera proposta di matrimonio è stata la cosa più sensata che potesse fare. E se invece si fosse sbagliata ?

Un pò lento in alcuni punti, ma tutto sommato è stata una lettura gradevole e appassionante. 
Lo stile, non mi è sembrato particolarmente scorrevole perché l'inglese l'ho trovato alquanto difficile da seguire. Ma questo è una valutazione puramente personale. 

Al di là della difficoltà di comprensione e scorrevolezza dell'inglese, il romanzo mi è piaciuto. L'aspetto misterioso/economico alla Grisham è stato un tocco di classe, una novità gradita in un romanzo con una trama già ampiamente conosciuta.
Si tratta di una serie ma ogni libro è uno stand alone, grazie mille Sig.ra Moore!! 









“Whatever committee I’m on. She has to be on it.”
“It can be arranged.”
“Arrange it.” Will turned and walked away before he did anything else stupid. He headed for the short hallway off the main patio. He hadn’t made his revenge speech yet.
He leaned against the wall opposite the door marked “Women,” tipped his head back against the stucco surface, and drew a steadying breath. He could count the number of times he’d seen her without a jacket. The lavender dress she wore offered revealing views of her person. From thin straps the neckline dipped in a simple lace-edged V. While Chambers spoke, Will’s eyes kept wandering back to that dipping V. He imagined hooking his fingers in those straps and pushing them down over her shoulders. And then telling her how over her he was. That was the plan, right?
When the door opened, he shifted, flattening a palm against each wall, blocking her way. She halted in front of him and squared her shoulders.
“Nice lace.”
She blushed instantly, and her response sent a hot flash to his groin.
She recovered quicker than he did. “Do you know why Josh Huntington threw us together tonight?”
“His deep devotion to Canyon.”
A look of disgust crossed her face. “Josh doesn’t do anything that isn’t purely in his own self-interest.”
He was glad to hear her say it. At least she wasn’t taken in by the guy. His own questions were pressing on him again. “Why did you leave Canyon?”
“Why did you come here tonight?”
He kept his palms flat against each wall. “Are you kidding? New Directions for Canyon? I’m the only guy who doesn’t see the place as a holy shrine. You want to hear my idea for Canyon? Sell it to developers, bring in the wrecking ball and the backhoes, and give hundreds of poor kids a full college ride.”
“An excellent plan. Hostile, but practical.” She tried to slip by him, and he leaned forward, bringing his face within inches of hers.
“Make me less hostile.” He reached out a hand and tucked a strand of her hair behind her ear. Her whole body shivered at the touch, and he felt gut-punched. He forced himself to press for the answers he wanted. “Why didn’t you answer that letter?”
He caught a puzzled look in her eyes, but the men’s room door opened.
“This is not the time or the place for this conversation.”
“Come with me. You can explain it.”
Voices intruded. Two men stepped into the hallway and halted. Will took his hands from the walls. Deep brown eyes pleaded with him. He took her arm, leading her down the hall.
“You were eighteen,” she said in a low voice.
“I knew my mind. You pretended not to know yours.”
“You had an amazing college opportunity ahead of you.”
“You didn’t believe in me. You believed in guys like Moreland, but not in me. You thought I wouldn’t make it.”
“You had not even begun to live. I was a widow. My husband had been dead barely a year. A year.”
“You saw where I lived,” he said quietly. “You were afraid to take a chance on a nobody like me.”
“I did what I had to do, what I thought was right. And look at you. You’ve done well. Without me. You can’t deny it.” She slipped out of his hold and headed across the patio.
A smart man would let her go. He decided to be smart.




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Kate has lived most of her life along the California coast. That experience has made her a jeans-wearing, toes in wet-sand, married to a surfer, fog-loving weather wimp, with a hint of East Coast polish from spending her college years in Boston. Family history connects her to Irish and English immigrants, Cornish miners, gold prospectors, and adventurers who sailed around Cape Horn bound for San Francisco.

When she's not reading, writing or brainstorming, Kate walks in the redwoods, feed birds, collect books, apples and leaves; she watches tele-novellas on Spanish-language TV and immerses herself in all things English. Her favorite food groups are butter, brown sugar, dark chocolate, and red wine. Kate's early literary influences were The Little Engine That CouldThe Little Red Hen, and Winnie the Pooh. Austen, Heyer, Chaucer, and Homer came later and inspired her to put that first plot on paper.

Kate's heroes are honorable, virile outsiders with some grand ambition; her heroines are practical princesses, who drive those edgy loners into love with good sense and good sex.

Her family and friends offer endless support and humor. Kate says her children are her best works, and her husband is her favorite hero.


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giovedì 11 dicembre 2014

RUIN & RULE - Pepper Winters

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RUIN AND RULE (Pure Corruption MC, #1)

Release Date: July 28, 2015

Publisher: Grand Central

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We met in a nightmare.

The in-between world where time had no power over rhyme, reason, or connection. We met. We stared. We knew.

There was no distortion from the outside world. No right or wrong. No confusion or battles from hearts and minds.

Just us. In our silent dream-world.

That nightmare became our home. Planting ghosts, raising fantasies. Entwined together in our happily skewed reality.

We fell in love. We fell hard.

In those fleeting seconds of our nightmare, we lived an eternity.

But then we woke up.

And it was over.


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Pepper WInters

Pepper Winters is a New York Times, USA Today, and international bestseller. She wears many roles. Some of them include writer, reader, sometimes wife. She loves dark, taboo stories that twist with your head. The more tortured the hero, the better, and she constantly thinks up ways to break and fix her characters.
She loves to travel and has an amazing, fabulous hubby who puts up with her love affair with her book boyfriends.


Her Dark Erotica books include:
Tears of Tess (Monsters in the Dark #1) - http://amzn.to/1lROLYN
Quintessentially Q (Monsters in the Dark #2) - http://amzn.to/1qB27Zh
Twisted Together (Monsters in the Dark #3) - http://amzn.to/1olkxsD
Debt Inheritance (Indebted Series) - http://amzn.to/1As8P4X

Her Grey Romance books include:

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Seven Sons (Gypsy Brothers #1) - Lili St. Germain




My father was most certainly NOT an innocent man. As the leader of the Gypsy Brothers MC, he was guilty of many things. But he died for a crime that he didn’t commit, framed by an enemy within who then stole his club and everything he had ever worked to protect.


Including my innocence.



When Dornan Ross framed my father, he set into motion a series of events that could never be undone. My father was murdered by Dornan Ross and his sons when I was fifteen years old.



Before my father died, Dornan Ross and his seven sons stole my innocence, branded my skin and in doing so, ensured that their lives would be prematurely cut short. That they would suffer.



I’ve just turned twenty-one, and I’m out for blood. I'm out for revenge.



But I didn't expect to fall for Jase, the youngest brother in the club.



I didn't expect that he would turn my world upside down, yank my heart out of my chest and ride away into the sunset with it.



Now, I'm faced with an impossible choice - Jase, or avenging my fathers death?





“Confucius said, “Before embarking upon a journey of revenge, dig two graves.” I planned to dig seven.” 


Seven Sons is a dark romance story.

Juliette has sworn revenge on Dornan Ross and his seven sons. After he destroyed her life at the age of fifteen, on her twenty-first birthday she sets her plan into motion Juliette changes her looks and name to Samantha or Sammie. Juliette tricks the father into letting her say at the club house while she works dancing. Things did not work out quite the way she planned. She had scars from her time in Dornan’s hands when she was younger. A young officer who was questioning her after the attack figured out that she was going to die snuck her out of the hospital and to another state. The officer Elliott soon quit the police department and started up a tattoo shop. That’s were Juliette found him telling him of her plan and begging him not to try to stop her. He had to give her a tattoo on the hip where she was scarred so she would not get recognized. Her first love had been Jase the youngest son. She remembers how she felt for him. As she goes through with her revenge Jase gives her unintentionally the information for her revenge.

Dornan was Juliette’s father’s friend. He wanted the club so he kills her father to be president of the biker club and destroys her family. Drugs, rape, murder and sex is a big part of their lives. They take what they want not what they don’t ask. Juliette (Samantha) Dornan wants for him self so he keeps her at the club house under the watchful eye of his youngest son while he goes out. She ends up being Dornan’s whore than a dancer. While Dornan and everyone go out on a ride two of his sons stay behind one gets killed.

I started this book Seven Sons by Lili Saint Germain and finished it in one day. It’s a dark romance with adult content. I did not now what to expect when starting this book but I enjoyed reading it. This is the first book of the Gypsy Brothers I have already gotten the other books Six Brothers, Five Miles, Four Score, Three Years and Two Roads. The last book One Love is to be released this month of December. When it is I will also have that one. I recommend to any one who likes dark romances and motorcycle clubs to read these books. I hope you love these books as much as I loved the first one and plan on loving the rest.



Lili writes dark, disturbing romance. Her #1 bestselling Gypsy Brothers series was created in a serial format – quick, intense episodes released frequently with some wicked cliffhangers. The Gypsy Brothers series focuses on a morally bankrupt biker gang and the girl who seeks her vengeance upon them. The Cartel series is a prequel trilogy of full-length novels that explores the beginnings of the club, to be released in 2015 by HarperCollins.
Lili quit corporate life to focus on writing and so far is loving every minute of it. Her other loves in life include her gorgeous husband and beautiful daughter, good coffee, Tarantino movies and spending hours on Pinterest.
She loves to read almost as much as she loves to write.
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mercoledì 10 dicembre 2014

Ogni tuo desiderio è un ordine, bastardo - Victory Storm



Secondo Candice, sua sorella Olivia è ambiziosa e testarda, spinta dal desiderio di diventare un’Event Manager di successo. Tuttavia sa essere anche dolce, ma per arrivare a quella dolcezza, bisogna prima trivellare a fondo quella corazza di irascibilità e spavalderia che la rende un po’ pericolosa da maneggiare. In quanto sua sorella, Candice le vuole bene, anche se la preferisce a distanza di sicurezza quando frequenta un ragazzo perché Olivia sa essere più efficace di una cintura di castità, quando vuole.

In sua difesa, Olivia può solo dire che il fine giustifica i mezzi e che bisogna lottare per ciò che si vuole e per non lasciarsi mettere i piedi in testa da qualche bastardo arrogante che osa comandarla.

Secondo Devon Pierson, Olivia è una stronza che ha osato umiliarlo al loro primo incontro e per questo deve pagare. La vuole piegare al suo volere, senza farsi trascinare dall’attrazione che prova per lei.

Cosa succederà quindi quando Olivia prenderà il posto di cameriera della sorella a casa Pierson per un mese intero? Chi la dura, la vince… e Olivia e Devon intendono vincere anche se questo significa giocare sporco, perché in guerra e in amore non ci sono regole!
Che la guerra (o l’amore) abbia inizio!