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Wednesday, 22 May 2013

Girl With Guitar Release Day Celebration

Join us in the Release Day Celebration of Girl with Guitar by Caisey Quinn. Today is a special day for Caisey, apart from her debut novel going live it's also her birthday and to celebrate she has given us ANOTHER teaser...secret & steamy were her words! AND another giveaway (at bottom of page).




Happy Birthday Caisey from MakeMyDayBookClub xx







Synopsis

After Kylie’s dad dies in a freak accident, he leaves her with nothing other than her crazy stepmother, Darla, and the ability to play guitar. When Darla kicks Kylie out and she loses her job all in the same day, she hops a bus to Nashville determined to make her late father’s dreams come true. Waitressing and saving her pennies to record a demo, her big break comes when she’s asked to join a tour going down the tubes with once platinum album-selling country music superstar Trace Corbin. But touring with Trace is hardly a dream come true since he’s pretty much drinking his career down the drain. If Kylie can’t pull Trace out of his rut, he’ll pull her and her dreams down with him.


Add to Goodreads here


Available for purchase here: Amazon UK | Amazon US 

***Anyone who buys the eBook during Release Week will be purchasing a special signed copy that won't be available after May 29th with ALL of those profits being donated to the Red Cross Oklahoma Disaster relief efforts. For more details please visit Caisey's page here  ***

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Teaser #2

When they reached the sunroom, Trace was a perfect gentleman—much to her frustration. He handed her a towel, then did not so much as glance in her direction as he stripped down to his boxer briefs and wrapped a towel around his waist. She, on the other hand, couldn’t get enough. The sight of his bare skin had her synapses firing like AK-47 rounds. 
He was thick and muscular and had just a hint of a farmer’s tan. Back muscles rippling with each movement reminded Kylie of the horses her grandparents had. Something clicked in her head as she realized what it was that had her practically panting after him. He was loaded, like probably obscenely wealthy, but he did all the work around the farm himself. Still took care of his sisters. Himself. Had callouses on his hands like her daddy did, because he wasn’t afraid of hard work. Okay, and yeah, he was hot as hell and could sing a girl’s panties right off of her.
She peeled her wet clothes off slowly—hoping he’d turn and look, but he just picked up what she’d dropped and darted out of the room. She kept her drenched bra and panties on and wrapped the towel around herself. She was feeling majorly insecure due to the “not at all interested” vibe Trace was radiating in her direction.
Kylie headed towards the master bedroom with the intention of using that bathroom to shower, but changed direction at the last minute. Since Trace was gone, she’d go ahead and add her bra and panties to the laundry. Borrowing Rae’s clothes was one thing, but the thought of wearing someone else’s underwear freaked her out.
She padded barefoot back towards the sound of a whirring washing machine. Trace was still nowhere to been seen when she finally found the laundry room. She dropped her towel and tossed her bra in the machine. She had just begun to slide her underwear down when the sharp intake of breath alerted her to the broad frame that darkened the doorway.


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About Caisey Quinn

Caisey Quinn is a wearer of cowgirl boots, writer and avid reader of New Adult romance, lover of wine, and is addicted to chai tea lattes. She’s the brand spanking new author of soon to be released books including Girl with Guitar and Keep Me Still. (Which may or may not include spanking).
Caisey lives in Birmingham, Alabama with her husband, daughter, and other assorted animals. She is currently hard at work on Girl on Tour, the next book in the Kylie Ryans series. Girl with Guitar is her first novel.

Visit her online at:
Website | Twitter | Facebook Goodreads | Email



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Tuesday, 21 May 2013

A Love Like This ARC Winners

As promised 3 lucky winners have been picked at random to receive an ebook ARC of Kahlen Aymes' A Love Like This-the final instalment of The Remembrance Trilogy

Congratulations to
Lea Jerančič
Susan George
Keisha

Winners have 24 hrs from time of posting to email us with your kindle email addresses to pass on to Kahlen so she can send you your ARC.
makemydaybooks@gmail.com

P.S.
We have tried unsuccessfully to get in touch with the above winners so we are putting the ARCS up for grabs again, details to follow in a separate post.

Wednesday, 15 May 2013

Girl with Guitar Cover Reveal & ARC Giveaway

Yaaay, have got a treat for you all!! Not only do we have for you the gorgeous cover of Caisey Quinn's debut novel, Girl with Guitar, but we also have a sneak preview to get your juices flowing (did we really just say that?).
We were lucky enough to be given an early copy to read, a link to the reviews is below.
WAIT...that's not all!!!  We're giving away a digital ARC to celebrate the cover release, courtesy of Caiseyherself, details at the bottom of the page.





eBook cover


Paperback cover

Cover designed by Emily Mah Tippetts
Title: Girl with Guitar
Author: Caisey Quinn
Genre: New Adult
Release Date: May 22


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Synopsis

After Kylie’s dad dies in a freak accident, he leaves her with nothing other than her crazy stepmother, Darla, and the ability to play guitar. When Darla kicks Kylie out and she loses her job all in the same day, she hops a bus to Nashville determined to make her late father’s dreams come true. Waitressing and saving her pennies to record a demo, her big break comes when she’s asked to join a tour going down the tubes with once platinum album-selling country music superstar Trace Corbin. But touring with Trace is hardly a dream come true since he’s pretty much drinking his career down the drain. If Kylie can’t pull Trace out of his rut, he’ll pull her and her dreams down with him.


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 Click on the link to see what everyone is saying  Goodreads Reviews 

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TEASER

“Evenin’ y’all,” Kylie drawled into the microphone. “I had a song I was gonna sing and then my friend Tonya, she might be your waitress, she told me it sucked—so I guess I’m just gonna play this here guitar and see where it takes us.” She grinned at the audience and then leaned closer to the mic once more. “Oh, and I go right back to serving after this, so if you don’t clap when I’m finished, I can’t be held responsible for what might happen to your drink between the bar and your table.” Kylie winked and strummed a few cords. “Okay, here we go.”
Laughter? Did she hear laughter? She thought she did.
I know you wanna tie me down, know you wanna put a ring on it, but I ain’t never been that kinda girl, not for all the money in the world.
Kylie launched into her modified version of Trace Corbin’s latest hit, Not That Kinda Man.  It was the famous bachelor’s latest lovin’ and leavin’ single and she was attempting to turn the thing on its ear. He’d written and sang it as a sad break up ballad and Kylie had remixed and reworked it into the single girl’s party anthem.
You wanna own me but you don’t know me. Guess what darlin’? When you wake up I’ll be gone.
Kylie flashed her sexiest grin and wiggled a little at the crowd. Then she shouted, “Sing it with me girls!” into the mic and picked up the tempo, launching into the chorus.
Several waitresses, Tonya included, stopped what they were doing to sing along. Not that Kylie could really see them, but the girls in the crowd joined in too. She sang to the guitar player, whose name she was pretty sure was Andy, and he played right along, smiling and winking at her the whole time. Well I’m not that kinda girl, don’t wanna play these games, not gonna wake up in your bed or take your name. She gave Andy a playful smack on the ass and he blew her a kiss. Shrieking whistles radiated from the audience.
The music hummed and pulsed against her and somewhere in Kylie’s mind a little voice said, Holy shit you’re doing it!  
When the number was over, she practically flew off the stage, painfully aware of the pounding in her chest. Oh well, if I have a heart attack and die right this moment, I’ll die happy. The applause was loud enough to be heard over the ringing in her ears and she wanted it more than oxygen.
Clive was leaning on the bar, shaking his head but smiling. Tonya shot her two thumbs up. Kylie let out a little squeal of happiness and sent a silent thank you up to her daddy, feeling certain she was higher than any drug could ever take her.
She would let Tonya go home early tonight and do the rooms herself. She had enough energy to clean ten green rooms. When she told Tonya that, the woman hugged her. Hard. “You knocked ‘em dead, girl! That was amazing!”
“Yeah, well, I got some really good advice,” Kylie told her, unable to keep the permagrin off her face.
The next act stepped out of the shadows and took the stage. Kylie heard a deep male voice with a sexy southern drawl say, “Damn. Just my luck to have to follow that.”
The audience was still shrieking and screaming and Kylie knew she’d done well, but seriously?
“I apologize for standing y’all up a few weeks ago. Musta got my dates mixed up. Probably time to fire that manager of mine,” the handsome man on stage drawled.
Who was this guy? Whoever he was, the women in the audience were going crazy over him.
“Well, since that good looking waitress stole my number, guess I’ll have to sing something else. Where is that girl anyways?”
Oh God. Oh God, please no. Kylie’s heart sank and her high evaporated instantly. She turned to face the man on stage. Trace freaking Corbin was standing there with a guitar in one hand and the other to his eyes, scanning the crowd for…her. 


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A Little Bit About The Author

Caisey Quinn is a wearer of cowgirl boots, writer and avid reader of New Adult romance, lover of wine, and is addicted to chai tea lattes. She’s the brand spanking new author of soon to be released books including Girl with Guitar and Keep Me Still. (Which may or may not include spanking).
Caisey lives in Birmingham, Alabama with her husband, daughter, and other assorted animals. Girl with Guitar is her first novel.

Visit her online at:



>>>>>>> GIVEAWAY <<<<<<<

The winner can choose either mobi or ePub format
GOOD LUCK!!!


Tuesday, 14 May 2013

Until I Break Release Day Romp




Omigod, Omigod, OMIGOD!!!! 
This is our first Release Day Romp  we've taken part in and we are SOOO excited because we get the chance to pimp out our wonderfully awesome friend Michelle Leighton and her equally awesome new novel, 
Until I Break.
So without further ado, scroll down and give your eyes a treat!! 



***Warning - what you are about to read could lead to increased heart rate, raised temperature and continued "fanning" of one's self. Continue at your own risk!***


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THE BOOK

"I’m intrigued. Tempted beyond what I’ve ever been before. To know her, to open her up. To break her."

In love, sometimes what you fear most is exactly what you need.

Laura Drake is an author. She writes bestselling paranormal romances that continue to top the charts. She is sharp. She is confident. She is in control. 

And she doesn’t exist.

Samantha Jansen is the woman behind the wig, the woman most of the world doesn’t know exists. She is shy. She is insecure. She is nothing like her main character or her alter ego. She is scarred—deeply scarred—by a past she can’t let go of and a present she can’t make peace with.

Samantha’s dreams are consumed by one man, the broken hero from her books. Mason Strait is both her wildest fantasy and her most terrifying nightmare. 

When Samantha meets Alec Brand, a corporate consultant, it is as though Mason has come to life. Alec is handsome to a fault, as elegant as he is arrogant, and more intense than any man has a right to be.

Samantha is soon sucked into a world that mirrors the fiction she writes. Just like her main character, Daire Kirby, Samantha finds herself unable to resist the forbidden lure of Alec. And just like Daire, she also finds that she is faced with taking a chance on a man who could either set her free or destroy her.

The scale tilts toward destruction when Samantha finds out that Alec is as much a work of fiction as Mason. And he has scars of his own, scars that could ruin them both.


**This book may be read as a stand-alone, as the story of Alec and Samantha comes to a conclusion in this book**

Available here: Amazon UK | Amazon US | B&N


THE REVIEWS




Click on Andrea's review
















Goodreads






Simone's review

After reading Until I Break  I have been left totally floored by this story. I have not been able to pick up another book all week and keep finding my thoughts trailing back to it.
This story is definitely a lot darker than other books that I have read of Michelle Leighton's but damn its HOT and Spicy!! This book took me a day and a half to read, it would have been sooner if real life didn't get in the way!!
This story captivates you right from the first page and sucks you into a dark and sexy love story. I love Michelle's style of writing. I never want to put my kindle down when I have started one of her books, so I knew from the first page of Until I Break I was hooked already.
I loved the way the story was told by both characters POV and that they both had dark pasts they needed to comes to terms with, so that they could have a normal relationship with someone.
I found myself crying one minute, laughing the next, with my heart skipping a beat at those sexy scenes and will blush when ever I see an ice cube and I suddenly have the urge to go horse riding!! Alec style!!
I have been totally "Branded" by this book and have the scorch marks to prove it!! Yes it is that HOT!!
Alec has taken top spot on my book boyfriend list! Alec is my kind of Brand!!
This story took me on an emotional roller coaster which I would gladly get back on in a heart beat!!


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THE HOT VIDEO

Check out this "Alectrifying" trailer and prepare to be "Branded"!!


Until I Break Fan Made Trailer 
made by the talented Rosette
of


Well?......What are you waiting for? Get your copy NOW!!!
Amazon UK | Amazon US | B&N


A huge THANK YOU to some very talented Minxes (you know who you are) for the HOT graphics we used.

Friday, 10 May 2013

A Love Like This Cover Reveal & ARC Giveaway

We are jumping around with excitement, it's here finally!! The cover reveal for A Love Like This,  the long awaited conclusion to The Remembrance Trilogy  by Kahlen Aymes. Not only do we have this gorgeous sexy cover for you to feast your eyes on but we have a giveaway too!!!
**Scroll down for the giveaway**





Title: A Love Like This
Author: Kahlen Aymes
Release Date June 24 2013


https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17260056-a-love-like-this?ac=1


Synopsis
Settled in New York City, Ryan and Julia Matthews seek to enjoy their idyllic newlywed life together. Julia’s high-profile job at Vogue and Ryan’s promising career in medicine will surely set them up for everything they could ever want. Their only obstacle seems to be finding enough time to spend together.


When a scuffle at Ryan’s hospital puts his life in danger, a colleague steps in to save him but is critically injured in the process. In a heroic and unwavering effort, Ryan manages to save her life, but her injuries irrevocably change her future forever.

What happens next will push Ryan beyond human endurance, when he is forced to decide how much he will pay for his new friendship and Julia, what she is willing to sacrifice in order to spare herself the unspeakable pain of watching someone else try to replace her in Ryan’s heart.

Join Ryan and Julia in the heart-wrenching conclusion to the unforgettable story of an incredible love…
worth every single sacrifice…

For there is nothing more sacred than… A Love Like This…



The Remembrance Trilogy books 1 & 2 

BOOK ONE

Synopsis

Julia Abbott and Ryan Matthews have been inseparable best friends since the moment they met. Each fight an internal battle, unwilling to risk their incredible friendship, but unwilling to quell their deep (but secret) longing for the other. On the verge of Ryan's departure to Harvard Medical School and Julia's for her new job on the opposite side of the coast, they are forced to face the undeniable truth of their deeper feelings and find themselves enthralled in a passion like neither has ever known.

In the face of forced separation, great distance, and others who try to come between them, Ryan and Julia work to build the shared future they both dream of. When their lives begin to finally gel, Julia is offered a promotion that will jettison her career to new heights but threatens to tear them apart. Ryan is left angry and bereft at Julia's impending departure, but in light of all that she has sacrificed for him, he can hardly deny her, and Julia is faced with the most difficult decision of her life.

The Future Of Our Past is the beginning of an incredibly beautiful and heartbreaking romance, full of passion and intensity that will leave you spellbound and gasping for the next installment of Ryan and Julia's story.

Amazon UK | Amazon US

BOOK TWO

Synopsis
Ryan Matthews has everything he ever wanted. Close to graduation from Harvard Medical School and on the verge of marrying his gorgeous and accomplished girlfriend, Julia Abbot,t his dreams are about to come true and all of their sacrifice is finally at it's end.

When tragedy strikes, their relationship is hurled into turmoil that leaves Ryan devastated. His sorrow drives him to keep his distance from Julia yet leaves him aching; consumed with desire and love he refuses to let manifest.

Julia is inexplicably drawn to the beautiful stranger everyone tells her is her best friend. As they grow closer, she longs to build a future with Ryan, but his agony over the loss of the heart-stopping memories she no longer shares, leaves him unable to trust that she could truly love him without their brilliant past.
When love so unforgettable has been forgotten, will Ryan find enough faith to believe that Julia's heart will remember, even when her mind can't.

The second book of The Remembrance Trilogy follows Ryan and Julia's quest to recapture their stunning past and build an even more beautiful future. Their journey will leave you speechless, breathless, aching, laughing, crying and shouting for Joy that you'll never want to end.

Amazon UK | Amazon US

About The Author

Kahlen is an award-winning author of sizzling hot, deeply moving contemporary romance. Her stories are filled with intense love, sizzling passion and heartbreaking emotion, breathing life into her characters that leaves her readers captivated as they step into the pages. She lives near Omaha, Nebraska with her daughter, Olivia and their three dogs. Creative by nature, she enjoys the arts, music and theater... But the love of her life is writing! 

Represented by Elizabeth Winick-Rubinstein of McIntosh & Otis Literary Agency, the first two books in her series; The Remembrance Trilogy are available now. Come and experience Ryan and Julia's mad, mad love.





***** GIVEAWAY *****

We have 3 digital ARCs of A Love Like This to give away from the lovely Kahlen Aymes!!! (must have a kindle email address)
For a chance of winning one just leave a comment below, the winners will be picked at random May 20th

Tuesday, 7 May 2013

Until I Break (A Twisted Novel)




In love, sometimes what you fear most is exactly what you need.

Laura Drake is an author.  She writes bestselling paranormal romances that continue to top the charts.  She is sharp.  She is confident.  She is in control. 
And she doesn't exist.
Samantha Jansen is the woman behind the wig, the woman most of the world doesn't know exists.  She is shy.  She is insecure.  She is nothing like her main character or  her alter ego.  She is scarred—deeply scarred—by a past she can’t let go of and a present she can’t make peace with.
Samantha’s dreams are consumed by one man, the broken hero from her books.  Mason Strait is both her wildest fantasy and her most terrifying nightmare. 
When Samantha meets Alec Brand, a corporate consultant, it is as though Mason has come to life.  Alec is handsome to a fault, as elegant as he is arrogant, and more intense than any man has a right to be.
Samantha is soon sucked into a world that mirrors the fiction she writes.  Just like her main character, Daire Kirby, Samantha finds herself unable to resist the forbidden lure of Alec.  And just like Daire, she also finds that she is faced with taking a chance on a man who could either set her free or destroy her.
The scale tilts toward destruction when Samantha finds out that Alec is as much a work of fiction as Mason.  And he has scars of his own, scars that could ruin them both.


Andrea's Review

I want to say thank you Michelle, for gifting me this ARC. It was my ABSOLUTE pleasure to read.
I feel totally bereft now, that is how Until I Break  has left me. Michelle Leighton has taken a walk on the dark side for her latest novel but damn, what a walk!! It took me a day to read, only stopping to refill my gin glass, lol. And boy, did I need it. Each time I try to describe this novel I end up hitting delete because quite simply, there are no words to say how I felt except WOW!!!!!!!
Michelle has a way of writing that reels you in from the beginning, keeps you there til the very last word and way beyond. I know I'll still be in my little "BrandBubble" for days, if not weeks to come.
Until I Break  is a lot darker than Michelle's usual work but still as tense as ever and with the twist that I'm coming to expect from her. It's also WAY hotter too! I want to go horse riding the Alec Brand way and I'll never look at an ice cube again without having flashbacks to a certain scene!!
The story is told from both POV, Samantha and Alec both bear scars from their past and both have ghosts they need to lay to rest if they want to carry out a "normal relationship" with anyone, Alec's being a lot darker than hers. He thinks he can help her confront her "issues"and then leave. She is inexplicably drawn to him but, is she confusing Alec with her fictional but equally broken man, Mason? They embark on a relationship, of sorts, that takes them on an emotionally charged journey and to try and overcome both their fears and hangups of their "tainted" pasts and issues of trust. I totally fell in love with Alec, scars and all. My heart broke but also melted for him throughout the book and I'm sitting here still thinking bout him. I went through every emotion possible in one day and when I finished the book I was sobbing, THAT is how powerful Michelle Leighton's words are to me.
I'm still sitting here trying to form the words to describe this book but if I have to sum it up in one sentence it would be this:
An emotional and beautifully touching story of two broken souls reaching out in the dark and finding each other.

If you only buy one book this month please jump on the "BRANDwagon" and make it Until I Break.
I've definitely been "Branded" and I bear the scorch marks...gladly!

 He's like Aurora Borealis-colorful, fascinating lights twinkling in the dull, black expanse of my eternal sky-and I can't help but fixate on him.


His voice is like smooth, rich caramel, pouring over my skin, oozing into every crevice, invading every cell.

"Just know that the next time you look at me this way, I'll feel compelled to do something about it."




Read about the story behind Until I Break on Michelle's blog.


The Story Behind The Book

Friday, 3 May 2013

Pretty Little Lies - Cover Reveal

Feast your eyes on this gorgeous cover!! Pretty Little Lies  is the debut novel from up and coming new author Jennifer Miller. Be sure to put it on your Goodreads TBR list.




Author - Jennifer Miller
Genre - Adult Contemporary Romance
Release Date - June 12, 2013

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17692810-pretty-


Synopsis 

A little lie can change the course of everything. . .

Like every other eighteen-year-old in love, Olivia has dreams of spending forever with the love of her life. Luke is all she’s ever wanted – until she overhears something she was never meant to. In a matter of seconds, Olivia’s heart is shattered. Olivia handles it the only way she knows how - she runs- leaving behind her family, friends and the boy she loves.

Seeking comfort and an escape, Olivia finds it in resident bad boy Deacon. He’s everything Luke isn’t – and that’s fine with Olivia.

Now, seven years later, Olivia is older, wiser and headed back to Chicago looking forward to a fresh start and reconnecting with her best friend Pyper. What she doesn’t expect, is to come face to face with the boy she left behind and discover that even though she may have left, her feelings for him didn't.

Can Olivia put aside the pain in her heart and trust Luke? Will the ties to her past ever let her go, or will she continue to let her life be affected by pretty little lies?


Pretty Little Lies Teaser




The Gen on Jennifer

Author Jennifer Miller was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois but now calls Arizona home. Jennifer’s love of reading began when she was a small child and only continued to grow as she entered adulthood. Ever since winning a writing contest at the young age of nine when she wrote a book about a girl with a pet unicorn, she’s dreamed of writing a book of her own. Quickly learning that dreams don’t just fall into your lap, she knew she had to chase them herself and not be afraid to dream a little bigger. Most importantly, she is a wife and mother and is very lucky to have a family that loves and supports her in all things. She also has an unhealthy addiction to handbags and chocolate covered strawberries, neither of which she cares to change. For more information about Jennifer and her books please visit www.jennifermillerwrites.com









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