Blog Tour: Torment and Treachery (The Black Rose Chronicles #2) by A.K. Michaels + excerpt

Title: Torment and Treachery

Series: The Black Rose Chronicles Book Two

Author: A.K. Michaels
Release Date: October 15, 2015

Synopsis

Cassius Allarde, probably the most powerful Vampire in existence, finds out how powerless he is when his newly found mate, Rose, is kidnapped. Out of all of Cassius’ vast capabilities inter-realm travelling isn’t one of them. His anger knows no bounds as he realizes the danger Rose is in, and the lengths they’ll have to go to if she has any chance at survival.

Kuan, the mysterious man who purports to be a Chinese God, is the only person who can help them. Cassius assembles a rescue team and they head to the one place he never thought he’d venture: Hell.

Will they reach Rose in time? If they do, will she still be in one piece? Read book 2 in The Black Rose Chronicles to find out.

If you like Paranormal Romance full of suspense, action and thrills, mixed with Dystopian, then this unique series by New York Times Bestselling Author, A K Michaels, is for you.

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Excerpt

Rose moaned as she tried to get up, pain lancing through her body as she forced her eyes open. 

“Fuck, fuck, fuck.” She cursed as even the smallest movement caused agony so great that she saw black spots before her eyes. “Breathe,” she commanded, as a groan escaped her lips in retaliation at the movement of her broken ribs.

She stifled the moans that were rumbling up her throat, silence and stealth were her friends now. She wasn’t stupid enough to think that fucker Razor hadn’t instructed the guards to alert him when she woke. “You need to focus, heal yourself, and then get the hell out of here,” She told herself firmly.

Rose lay back onto the soft bed, murmuring quietly a simple healing spell, and grinding her teeth when it went to work. The soft sounds of her bones knitting back together were all she heard, apart from the blood pumping so fast through her system it was echoing in her ears. Bones, bumps, bruises and split skin, were soon almost healed, gingerly rising to go to the bathroom. She rinsed her face, redid her hair with her silver sticks, then returned to redress in clean clothes, clothes that didn’t stink of her own and Razor’s blood. That’d be far too easy for Razor or his Demon guards to track, and she was definitely not going to make it easy for them to find her.

She knew what he’d do to her the next time he got her in his grip.

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Author Bio

New York Times Bestselling Author, A K Michaels, Ava, was born in Scotland quite a number of years ago and was married at a young age, and is mother to three much loved children. After the birth of her last child she went back to higher education to study, before gaining employment within the banking industry. She worked in that role for a number of years before leaving; both the job and the country.

She lived abroad for a few years before returning to Scotland and finally taking up her dream - writing.

She is the author of the Highland Wolf Clan series of books and several other series, The Witch, The Wolf and the Vampire, Supernatural Enforcement Bureau, Defender's Blood, Sabrina's Vampire, The Black Rose Chronicles, together with Lori's Wolf Pack. Her books fall into the Paranormal/Urban Fantasy genre, with The Black Rose Chronicles being Dystopian with Paranormal beings in abundance. She loves writing those particular kinds of stories where she can let her imagination run wild.

She now spends her time reading - everything from Sci Fi to Crime, Erotica to Fantasy, Thrillers to Paranormal Romance. She loves spending time with her family and, of course, writing. She also loves chocolate, her German Shepherd, Luna, and Rose Wine!

She has twitter, website and a Facebook page where she loves chatting to folks.

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Release Day Launch: Rising Storm Episode #7: Weather the Storm by Lisa Mondello

We are thrilled to bring you the Release Day Launch for Lisa Mondello's WEATHER THE STORM! 

WEATHER THE STORM is Episode 7 in the Rising Storm Series brought to you by 1001 Dark Nights. 

It's out today! 

Grab your copy of the latest episode and pre-order next week's episode while you're there!

Title: Weather the Storm

Series: Rising Storm Episode 7

Author: Lisa Mondello

Release Date: November 5, 2015

Welcome to Storm, Texas, where passion runs hot, desire runs deep, and secrets have the power to destroy...

Nestled among rolling hills and painted with vibrant wildflowers, the bucolic town of Storm, Texas, seems like nothing short of perfection. But there are secrets beneath the facade. Dark secrets. Powerful secrets. The kind that can destroy lives and tear families apart. The kind that can cut through a town like a tempest, leaving jealousy and destruction in its wake, along with shattered hopes and broken dreams. All it takes is one little thing to shatter that polish. 
Reading like an on-going drama in the tradition of classic day and night-time soap operas like Dallas, Dynasty, and All My Children, Rising Storm is full of scandal, deceit, romance, passion, and secrets. 
With 1001 Dark Nights as the “producer,” Julie Kenner and Dee Davis use a television model with each week building on the last to create a storyline that fulfills the promise of a drama-filled soap opera. Joining Kenner and Davis in the “writer’s room” is an incredible group of New York Times bestselling authors such as Lexi Blake, Elisabeth Naughton, Larissa Ione, Rebecca Zanetti and Lisa Mondello who have brought their vision of Storm to life. 
A serial soap opera containing eight episodes in season one, the season premiere of Rising Storm, TEMPEST RISING, debuted September 24^th with each subsequent episode releasing consecutively this fall.

So get ready. The storm is coming.

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Synopsis 

Secrets, Sex and Scandals … 

Welcome to Storm, Texas, where passion runs hot, desire runs deep, and secrets have the power to destroy… 

Get ready. The storm is coming. 

Bryce Daniels faces a crisis of faith when his idyllic view of his family is challenged with his son’s diagnosis of autism. Instead of accepting his wife and her tight-knit family’s comfort, he pushes them away, fears from his past threatening to undo the happiness he’s found in his present.        

Experience Rising Storm Here…

  

Rising Storm Episode 1 (Sept. 24): Julie Kenner’s Tempest Rising 

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Rising Storm Episode 2 (Oct. 1): Lexi Blake’s White Lightning

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Rising Storm Episode 3 (Oct. 8): Elisabeth Naughton’s Crosswinds  
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Rising Storm Episode 4 (Oct. 15): Jennifer Probst’s Dance in the Wind 
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Rising Storm Episode 5 (Oct. 22): Larissa Ione’s Calm Before the Storm

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Rising Storm Episode 6 (Oct. 29): Rebecca Zanetti’s Take the Storm 

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Rising Storm Episode 7 (Nov. 5): Lisa Mondello’s Weather the Storm 

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Rising Storm Episode 8 (Nov. 12): Dee Davis’s Thunder Rolls 

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About the Author

USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR, Lisa Mondello, has held many jobs in her life but being a published authors is the last job she'll ever have. She's not retiring! She blames the creation of the personal computer for her leap into writing novels. Otherwise, she'd still be penning stories with paper and pen. Her first book, All I Want for Christmas is You won Best First Book in the Golden Quill. Her books have finaled in the HOLT Medallion, and the Colorado Award of Excellence contests. In 2011 she re-released her award winning book All I Want for Christmas is You along with a re-issue of her romantic comedy, The Marriage Contract, with a new contemporary romance called The Knight and Maggie's Baby.

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Release Blitz: Tough Enough (Tall, Dark & Handsome #2) by M. Leighton + 5* review

You seriously don't want to miss MMA-champion-turned-Hollywood-superstar Rogan. Hotness!

From the author of the New York Times bestselling Bad Boys novels comes the second book in a dark, sexy contemporary trilogy.

Title: Tough Enough

Series: Tall, Dark and Dangerous Trilogy #2

Author: M. Leighton

Release Date: November 3, 2015

Synopsis 

He’s a fighter who never loses, but is he tough enough to win her heart?

There was a time when I had everything–a wonderful family, a bright future. Love. But all that was taken away in a single night, torn from me like flesh from bone. Since then, I’ve hidden away in my second-choice job as a makeup artist. But I prefer it that way, actually. I’m comfortable in the shadows, where no one can see my scars.

Kiefer Rogan literally took my breath away the moment I met him. MMA champion-turned-actor, notorious playboy, charming to a fault—he’s everything I vowed to avoid.

But he just wouldn’t stop until I opened up and let him in. Maybe I should’ve tried harder to resist him. Maybe I shouldn’t have fallen in love with him. Because I, of all people, know that everyone has secrets. Scars. And that they’re usually ugly and painful and destructive to the people we love most.

I just never guessed that they could be deadly, too.

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Andrea's Review

*ARC received in return for an honest review

Hold onto your ovaries girls, there's a new book boyfriend in town!!!

He is a sexy-as-hell and hot-as-sin MMA fighter turned Hollywood actor. And his name is Keifer Rogan.

I freakin LOVED this book, I was hooked from the traumatic prologue!! My emotions were all over the place fthroughout, my heart was racing, my palms sweating, with the tension and suspense. I was shouting and swearing in disbelief and anger at certain parts. Michelle, you really know how to write a bad guy and the bad guys in Tough Enough were sleazy and nasty!! 

Okay, now I've got that out my system...

Tough Enough is the second book in the Tall, Dark and Dangerous Trilogy and we first meet Keifer Rogan in book #1, Strong Enough. Even though it was just a teasing glimpse I knew he would be special and I wasn't wrong. Although Tough Enough could be read as a stand alone, I strongly recommend you read Strong Enough first to get the best from the plot thread and avoid possible spoilers.

As always M. Leighton has spun a heart wrenching and heart warming story with a plot to keep you in gripped in suspense until the very end and created such well developed and believable characters who stay with you long after you finish their story. You can't help the strong reactions ripping through you at her clever and jaw dropping plot twists. She has a knack of wringing out every last drop of emotion from the reader, so much so that you feel like you've just gone ten rounds in the ring - which is pretty apt in this case. 

I love Rogan, he makes my heart soar, he is so adorable and hot! He always put others well being before his own. He is always there when needed, laying his life down for those he loves...his brother, his Special Ops 'family' and Katie. 

When it comes to Katie, there is nothing he won't do for her. Katie is a make-up artist on the set of a television studio, Rogan has just joined the cast and Katie is assigned to do his make-up. Rogan takes one look at her and goes all out to attract her attention and, eventually, win her heart. Rogan is so thoughtful and endearing in the way he always tries to make her feel comfortable and at ease, he recognises a kindred soul and knows her secrets and fears run deep. He has a huge romantic streak where Katie is involved, he treats her like the precious jewel he sees her as. Oh, he melted my heart *sighs*And maan did I mention he is H.O.T?!!! 

Katie suffered an horrific ordeal at the hands of her brutal ex and it nearly killed her, literally and mentally. She spends her days, like every other since her ordeal, keeping her head down and blending into the shadows, not making waves, just trying to be invisible. It takes Rogan to see her as she really is and bring the 'real Katie' into the light and out of the shadows. Katie just wants a quiet life but she doesn't reckon on Rogan and her scheming, but funny, best friend. 

My heart hurt so much for Katie and what she endured. But for all that she has a quiet inner strength waiting to burst through, she just needs something or someone to give her a reason to fight. To live. 

Rogan and Katie were perfect for each other, they had such a sweet but passionate chemistry that burned up my kindle. I think they could be my new favourite couple, I loved them so much.

Every time I pick up a new M. Leighton novel I find myself saying, "Michelle, you've done it again. This is better than your last book." And yes, I have said the same about Tough Enough, I love, love, LOVED it!! 

I smiled, panted, sighed, laughed out loud, gasped in shock and yelled my way through this book, I loved it! 

I can't recommend this book highly enough and can't wait to get to grips with Tag in the third instalment of the Tall, Dark and Dangerous Trilogy, Brave Enough. Go 1-click Tough Enough now and meet your next book boyfriend. 

Andtrea gives this a rating of...

Tall, Dark and Dangerous series

Strong Enough #1

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About the Author

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author M. Leighton is a native of Ohio. She relocated to the warmer climates of the South, where she can be near the water all summer and miss the snow all winter. Possessed of an overactive imagination from early in her childhood, Michelle finally found an acceptable outlet for her fantastical visions: literary fiction.

Having written over a dozen novels, these days Michelle enjoys letting her mind wander to more romantic settings with sexy Southern guys, much like the one she married and the ones you'll find in her latest books. When her thoughts aren't roaming in that direction, she'll be riding horses, swimming in ponds and experiencing life on a ranch, all without leaving the cozy comfort of her office.

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Cover Reveal: Hard Ever After (A Hard Ink Novella) by Laura Kaye

You Are Invited…

To the Wedding of the Year

     

We cannot tell you how excited we are to bring you the Cover Reveal for Laura Kaye’s HARD EVER AFTER!! 

HARD EVER AFTER is a novella in Laura’s New York Times and USA Today bestselling Hard Ink Series, published by Avon Impulse. 

You can read all about Nick and Becca's happily ever after on February 2, 2016!! 

Pre-order your copy of this must-have novella today!  

 

Title: Hard Evder After (A Hard Ink Novella)
Author: Laura Kaye
Release Date: February 2, 2016

Synopsis

Justice served. Honor restored. Team reunited. 

After a long battle to discover the truth, the men and women of Hard Ink have a lot to celebrate, especially the wedding of two of their own—Nick Rixey and Becca Merritt, whose hard-fought love deserves a happy ending. 

As Nick and the team shift from crisis mode to building their new security consulting firm, Becca heads back to work at the ER. But amid the everyday chaos of demanding jobs and their upcoming nuptials, an old menace they thought long gone reemerges, threatening the peace they’ve only just found. 

Now, for one last time, Nick and Becca must fight for their always and forever, because they know that when true love overcomes all the odds it lasts hard ever after.

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About the Author

Laura is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of over twenty books in contemporary and paranormal romance and romantic suspense, including the Hard Ink and upcoming Raven Riders series. Growing up, Laura’s large extended family believed in the supernatural, and family lore involving angels, ghosts, and evil-eye curses cemented in Laura a life-long fascination with storytelling and all things paranormal. She lives in Maryland with her husband, two daughters, and cute-but-bad dog, and appreciates her view of the Chesapeake Bay every day.    

  

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Release Day Launch: Leveled (A Saints of Denver Novella #0.5) by Jay Crownover + excerpt + giveaway

We are so excited to bring you the Release Day Launch for LEVELED by Jay Crownover! 

LEVELED is a Contemporary Romance novella in The Saints of Denver Series being published by HarperCollins. 

This amazing novella releases TODAY, so be sure to grab your copy now!

 

Title: Leveled (A Saints of Denver Novella #0.5)

Author: Jay Crownover

Release Date: November 2, 2015

Synopsis

We all need a hero...let the Saints of Denver begin. 

Orlando Frederick knows what it is to be leveled by pain. Instead of focusing on his own, he’s made it his mission to help others: sports stars, wounded war vets, survivors of all kinds. But when Dom, a rugged, damaged, sinfully attractive cop makes his way into Lando’s physical therapy practice, he might be the biggest challenge yet. Lando loved one stubborn man before and barely survived the fallout. He’s not sure if he can do it again. 

Dominic Voss is a protector. The police badge he wears is not only his job, it’s his identity, so when he’s sidelined because of an injury, the only thing he cares about is getting back on the force. He expects Lando to mend his body, he just doesn’t realize the trainer will also have him working towards a hell of a lot more. As attraction simmers and flares, Dom sees that Lando needs repair of his own...if only the man will let him close enough to mend what's broken. 

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  Excerpt

He reached out and shut the medical file in front of him and leaned back in his chair. His eyebrows arched up, and he laced his fingers together and put his index fingers under his chin.

“What exactly are you after, Mr. Voss?” His voice was smooth and modulated. I was a disaster, a bundle of nerves and anxiety, and this dude was acting like we were talking about the weather, not my entire life and everything I had ever worked my ass off for.

Defiantly I spread my legs apart and slumped back in the chair across from him, making it a point to affect a posture that was as casual as his was professional. I had on a faded DPD T-shirt and a pair of jeans with a hole in the knee, and both were a little baggy since I’d lost some of my bulk being laid up in the hospital after the accident. If the guy across from me was a cherry-red Ferrari, then I was a rusted-out and battered John Deere tractor in comparison.

“I want my life back, Mr. Frederick. I want to be able to move the way I used to. I want to pass the department physical so I can go back on patrol. I want to be able to walk without needing a crutch or a cane. I want to be the way I was before I got hurt.” I was asking for the impossible and I knew it. “And please call me Dom.”

He dipped his chin down a little, and the edge of his mouth tilted up in a slight grin. Damn the man was good-looking. I blew out a breath and lifted up my hands to run them over the top of my shorn hair. I was hanging on to my sanity by a thread and my unexpected reaction to the guy that I was hanging every hope I had left on wasn’t helping matters.

“All right, Dom. You can call me Lando. That’s what my friends call me.”

I felt one of my eyebrows shoot up. “Are we going to be friends?”  

Don’t miss a Sneak Peek of BUILT, the first full-length novel in the Saints of Denver Series, in the back of LEVELED!

 

About the Author

Jay Crownover is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Marked Men and The Point series. Like her characters, she is a big fan of tattoos. She loves music and wishes she could be a rock star, but since she has no aptitude for singing or instrument playing, she'll settle for writing stories with interesting characters that make the reader feel something. She lives in Colorado with her three dogs.   

        

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Cover Reveal: Beyond Famous (Famous Novel series #3) by Kahlen Aymes

Title: Beyond FAMOUS

Series: FAMOUS Novel series, Book Three

Author: Kahlen Aymes

Release Date: November 2015

Synopsis

Cade Carlisle and Brooklyn Halloway may be Hollywood’s "it" couple, but their feelings are the real deal. They should have a perfect life, but if shooting films on opposite sides of the world and constantly being stalked by the paparazzi wasn’t hard enough, the movie studio’s ruthless publicity machine is on the verge of ripping the lovers apart.

With Social media invading their private life faster than they can cross the street, rag mags spinning lie after lie, and ex-lovers trying to push them apart, it gets harder and harder for Cade and Brook to focus on each other and keep doubt and jealousy at bay.

When a ruse set up to promote one of their films goes wrong, Cade decides he’s had enough, and nothing, not even his superstar career, is worth losing the woman he loves. But Brook’s star is on the rise and she isn’t ready to risk her momentum in the industry by bringing their relationship out in the open. For the first time, their priorities collide.

In another of Kahlen Aymes’ heart-wrenching, explosive and sexy conclusions, Cade and Brook have to decide if having it all, is worth losing everything.

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FAMOUS (Book #1) FREE NOW

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Beyond FAMOUS (Book #3)

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Other books by Kahlen Aymes

The Remembrance Trilogy & Prequel

Before Ryan Was Mine, (FREE NOW)

The Future of Our Past

Don’t Forget to Remember Me

A Love Like This

The After Dark Series

Angel After Dark (FREE Now)

Confessions After Dark

 Promises After Dark

About the Author  

Kahlen Aymes writes steamy romance novels that cross genre lines between New Adult, Adult Contemporary and Erotica. Beyond Famous will be her 10^th published books. The After Dark Series is soon to be completed on audio and two of her series are published in French.

Kahlen has been on several bestseller lists including Barnes & Noble, Amazon Top 2, Smashwords, Publisher's Weekly, iBooks and USA Today! Like many of today’s bestselling authors in her genre, she began her writing career writing Fan Fiction and won multiple awards including BEST Author, BEST WIP, Best All-Human that Knocks You Off Your Feet and several others!

Her interests include reading, as well as writing, theater arts, cooking, roller skating and going for long walks. She is the proud mom to one teenage daughter and two golden retrievers.

She loves writing, just about more than most anything else and you can count on her to deliver strong, relatable characters, deep and detailed plots, humor, and emotion overflow!

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