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CAGED by Shay Savage Release Blitz

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This is not made for TV. This is the raw, brutal underground of no-holds-barred combat. Inside the cage there is nothing but me and the pain I inflict on those who dare enter. In the cage, I never have to worry about anyone but myself. Yet, when she began standing outside of the cage, everything changed. I was no longer fighting for the money or the glory – I was fighting for her.

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Excerpt #1

“Are you just stupid?” I probably would have gone on, but she wrapped her arms around herself and glared up at me.

“Stop yelling at me!” she screamed.  She turned away, but I saw her reach up with the back of her hand to swoop underneath her eyes.

Shit.

I turned slightly away from her and practically bit down on my tongue to keep myself from saying anything else.  I brought my fisted hands up against my stomach and tried to pull the tension inside of myself, work through it, and calm down.  I could hear her crying combined with choked breaths and sniffles.

“Fuck,” I mumbled under my breath.  I was starting to come off the fighting high I had been on—the tears might have helped with that—and my stomach felt tight.

After three long, deep breaths, I looked back to the girl on the ground and saw her frantically rubbing at her eyes and cheeks.  She didn’t look at me as she reached out and pulled her mostly empty bag close to her.  She looked inside and then looked around her at all her things on the ground.

“Sorry,” I mumbled.  I wasn’t all that great at apologies, and I figured now wasn’t going to be much different.  I’d obviously upset her with all my shitty comments, though.  “I didn’t mean to…I just…”

I stopped talking.  I didn’t know what to say, and I felt bad about yelling at her.  She looked at me all red-eyed with tears staining her cheeks.

“Just don’t do that shit anymore.”  I let out a big sigh.

She nodded once and then reached out to grab something off the ground near her and shoved it back into the bag.  From the amount of stuff scattered all over the street, my estimate on the size of the so-called purse wasn’t too far off.  There was an umbrella, a little flashlight, a bunch of tubes and bottles, and at least a half dozen pens.  As I looked around some more, I saw a small notebook, a paperback book, keys, a bottle of hand lotion that was nowhere near travel sized, a stack of tissues wrapped up in a Ziploc bag, two sets of earbuds, and a checkbook.  There was also a whole pile of ponytail holders, bobby pins, and those little hair-holder-things that looked like teeth.

There was shit from her bag from one side of the fucking street to the other.

She started crawling around, gathering it all up, and cramming it back inside, which gave me a fabulous view of her ass in the short-shorts style waitress uniform the place up the street usually demanded.  I could kind of see how she might have thought she could use the bag as a weapon—there had been more stuff in there than really should have been able to fit.  I looked around on the ground to see if there was an actual kitchen sink, or at least part of one, but I didn’t see anything metal.  There was something that looked like a small rock, though.

“How do you even carry that thing around?” I asked.

“What?”

“That…that purse-bag-thingy there,” I said, pointing and shaking my finger at it.  I wouldn’t have admitted it, but the whole idea of the thing scared me, and I wasn’t sure why.  I felt like if I got too close to it I might get sucked in, never to be seen again.  “It’s insane.”

Her eyes became little slits as she looked up to me.

“There is nothing wrong with my purse!” she growled.

“It’s huge,” I said.

“It has everything I need in it.”

“It has everything you and ten of your friends could need for a week,” I replied with a laugh.  “I know there are people who carry Chihuahuas in their purse, but you could fit a Dane in there.”

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When I got to the top of the stairs, I immediately saw a figure leaning against the outside of the fence and looking back and forth down the street quickly.  Each time the head turned, a long brown pony tail bobbed around, and strands of hair got caught in the chain links.  If the short-shorts and Fin’s logo on the shirt weren’t enough to go on, the gigantic, evil handbag gave her away.

“What the fuck?” I snarled through the fence.

Tria startled and looked at me, turning quickly on her heel and holding up her keys clenched in her fist.  I tilted my head to one side and raised an eyebrow at her.  What was she going to do, wave them around at me from the other side of the fence?

“I’m pretty sure that was not meant to take the place of a ride,” I said, nodding toward the keys in her hand.

“You scared the shit out of me!” Tria yelled.  She adjusted the mega-monster purse on her shoulder and ran her hand through her hair.  “The girl who was driving me got another job.  She just walked out today, and there wasn’t anyone else on my shift with a car.”

“So you’re walking down this street again?” I yelled.  I slammed my palms into the chain links, making the whole side of metal rattle.  She jumped away, stammering.

“I…I…”

I didn’t give her much chance to finish.  I was livid.

“After what happened the last time?  Seriously, Tria?”  I paced over to the edge of the building and back to the fence again.  My fingers wrapped around the links and yanked.  “You do have a fucking death wish, don’t you?”

“I do not!”

“Then why are you being so stupid?” I screamed.  I planted my feet right where they were, and my heart thumped audibly in my chest.

“I was trying to find you!” she yelled back.

“Well, why didn’t you come in the fucking bar?” I tossed my hands up into the air.  “Is there not a big ass poster right there in your face saying exactly where I am on Friday nights?”

“I tried,” Tria said with a glare.  “The bouncer wouldn’t let me in.”

“Why not?”

“I’m only twenty,” she said with a shrug.

There was something about that news that flipped a switch in my head.  I knew she looked young, but I didn’t realize how young.  The idea that she was out here on her own, trying to make a go in this place without even being old enough to get into a bar killed my anger and made me feel something a little odd as well.  Respect?  Maybe even pride?

Whatever it was, it also hardened my dick.

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About the Author:

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Shay Savage lives in Cincinnati, Ohio with her family and a variety of household pets. She is an accomplished public speaker, and holds the rank of Distinguished Toastmaster from Toastmasters International. When not writing, she enjoys science fiction movies, masquerading as a zombie, is a HUGE Star Wars fan, and member of the 501st Legion of Stormtroopers. When the geek fun runs out, she also loves soccer in any and all forms – especially the Columbus Crew, Arsenal and Bayern Munich – and anxiously awaits the 2014 World Cup. Savage holds a degree in psychology, and she brings a lot of that knowledge into the characters within her stories.

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BLOG TOUR ~ Come Full Circle by Natalie-Nicole Bates

 

 

Come Full Circle

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Natalie-Nicole Bates is a book reviewer and author.

Her passions in life include books and hockey along with Victorian and Edwardian era photography and antique poison bottles.

Natalie contributes her uncharacteristic love of hockey to being born in Russia.

She currently resides in the UK where she is working on her next book and adding to her collection of 19th century post-mortem photos.

 


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Cover Reveal of ACE: a Band of Brothers Novel

ACE by Lyra Parish

ACE a Band of Brothers novel by Lyra Parish
Coming September 1, 2015
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Synopsis

My name is Ace and I’m the Ace of Spades.
I’m not nice and I misbehave.
I will be your nightmare.
I will be your dream.
I will have you begging for more of me with each scream.

The truth is in my lyrics.
Uncontrollably controlled.
I bleed many things one being Rock & Roll.

I don’t date or make love, I fuck real hard.
Did you know the ace of spades is considered the death card?
Love doesn’t exist in my world, it never did.
Love won’t exist in my world; it’s something I forbid.

My name is Ace and I’m the Ace of Spades.
Proceed with caution, because I’m sharp like a blade.

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Tonight I would fuck the blonde in the front row. The set was nearing the end and I could feel her gaze peeling off every piece of my clothing. I liked when a woman knew what she wanted.

Blue and green lights flashed over the stage then washed across the crowd. When we made eye contact again, her tongue traced the outside of her plump bottom lip and at that moment I knew she was DTF. Her being down to fuck made this so much easier but then again, being the lead singer of the Band of Brothers made panties magically melt. I’d be her fantasy for the night.

This tour wasn’t like the others because this time everyone wanted a piece of us as if our success happened overnight. But we earned every fucking opportunity we had. I would say given but that’s bullshit. My brothers and I worked hard for every small and large success we had because that’s our nature. We were raised to not take shit for granted and to work hard. Being assholes just came naturally but we knew to give respect where respect was due.

Each show from Florida to California, all the way to New York was sold out and that felt incredible.

The drums beat on as I screamed out the next few lyrics. “I won’t let the world decide. I’ll die before that happens.” The drums stopped and the distortion was cut leaving a melodic strum of Nicolas’s guitar.

The lights faded when walked off stage leaving the crowd to themselves. Ian, Nicolas, and Liam had huge smiles covering their faces as they chugged the water the technicians handed us. This would never get old. Moments like this were the ones we lived and worked for. Once the chanting and clapping started, the four of us walked back onstage and gave the fans what they wanted, an encore.

Green and yellow lights flashed over the crowd and smoke hovered at the bottom of the stage. We played three more songs and the people sang and swayed to the lyrics and music. Some jumped up and down, feeling the full beat of the drums while others banged their heads. The feeling of having thousands of people chanting my words would never become real. More often than not, I felt like I was in a dream, one that I never wanted to wake from.

During the last song, I pointed to the blonde who continued to visually rip my clothes off with every little blink she took. By the way she was dressed in a tight pink shirt and little bitty skirt, I knew she wanted to be seen. She could have possibly had this night planned from the beginning. Randomly, I chose a few others from the crowd to join us, to dance in front of our audience, to feel the temporary power. It was something I did every show, every tour. It was a habit of sorts.

Security helped the girls climb on the stage and they shook their asses in those little pieces of material that were supposed to be skirts. It always made women feel special when they were with the band, and I loved giving them just a little taste.

A person doesn’t fully understand performing live until they have had the opportunity to look out past the stage lights and see the people. Before the song ended, the technicians led the girls’ side stage as cannons of confetti shot from the floor. Different colored pieces of paper glittered everywhere. When the final song ended, my brothers and I walked side stage where girls anxiously waited us. I smiled, popping an eyebrow at my chosen woman for the night, and she instantly came to me. I wrapped my arm around her shoulder and hers hung on my waist. My brothers stopped in the green room with the other girls, but Blondie and I walked to the bus.

“I’m Lindsey,” she whispered in my ear before we reached the end of the hallway. I smiled at her and pushed open the exit door. Groupies and fans waited near the bus and as soon as we walked up they rushed it.

“I’ll be out in a bit,” I said, smiling at them with pearly whites. “My brothers are coming out that door over there. Really soon.”

I hated to out their exit strategy, but I wanted to take my time burying my dick deep inside Misty or Christy or whatever the fuck her name was. It didn’t matter. Names never did.


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Lyra Parish loves to write, glamp, and sing obnoxiously loud at the top of her lungs in the shower. Sweet love stories (along with the dirty ones) make her gush. She is a firm believer that a person can never have too many cups of coffee, cats, or happily ever afters. When she isn’t busy writing, she can be found sipping various beverages from her non-alcoholic drink buffet, pimp slapping excel spreadsheets, or riding her bike. Lyra lives in Texas with her glassblowing, guitar-playing hubby and black cat named Nibbler.

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Release Blitz for The Scene by Roxy Sloane

 

 

 

Title: The Scene
Series: The Scene #1
Author: Roxy Sloane
 Release Date: July 15, 2015

 

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Miami. The city of sex, sin — and secrets.I came here with one mission: solve the mystery behind my brother’s death.
Somebody’s got answers. 
Somewhere, I’ll find what I’m looking for.I didn’t bet on Xavier. He’s my way into the scene — and my biggest threat.

I should keep my distance, but I can’t stay away.

I’m playing with fire, and I just pray I don’t get burned.

 

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Roxy
Sloane is a romance junkie with a dirty mind. She lives in Los Angeles with her
hot ex-military hubby and her two kids. She loves writing sexy, complex stories
about pushing the boundaries and risking it all.

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Release Blitz of Under His Discipline by Alexa Davis

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Introducing Under His Discipline, book seven of the sexy new series from Alexa Davis that will test your boundaries…

Natalie Jacobs is a reporter trying to do a story on the panty dropping Dante Devereaux, a billionaire computer hacker who sells foreign government secrets to the CIA. This story could make her career and she’s willing to do anything to get it, even if it means sleeping with the enemy. The only problem is men aren’t ever into her so getting the story could be difficult.

Dante Devereaux is a cocky alpha male who isn’t scared of anything, even the FBI investigating him for selling the United States government’s secrets to foreign governments. He knows he can do whatever he wants since he has the power to hack anyone or anything and benefit from the information and that includes Natalie Jacobs who he will do everything possible to take control of…in and out of his bed.

Little do they know that they are both completely different people than they thought.

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Cover Reveal – Chasing Love by Laura Pinks

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Title: Chasing Love
Author: Laura Pinks
Cover Reveal: July 15
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Estimated Release Date: October 2015

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Jane finds love easily for everyone but herself. Owning the highly successful dating agency, Love Games, she excels in finding the perfect match for every client. Her dedication is unstoppable, or so she thinks… A run of bad decisions will leave Jane’s business crumbling before her eyes. With no way of stopping her empire from falling down around her, Jane is confronted with some harsh decisions.

Falling for her client, the charming Andrew Blake, Jane soon realises she is in deep with no plausible way out. Little does she know that Andrew is the key to re-building her business and her faith in love. Will Jane have the courage to let him? Will Andrew be able to let go of the past in order to move to a brighter future?

Jane’s best friend Libby seems to have it all, steady income, amazing friends and a long term boyfriend, but after an argument with Jane she is left questioning everything. Setting the wheels in motion in an underhand plot to chase her dream job leaves her with some difficult choices along the way. Will she be able to let go of everything she has achieved in order to obtain everything she believes she wants?

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Laura was born in Coventry in the October of 1986 and moved to the small town of Nuneaton shortly before her first birthday. After marrying the man of her dreams in 2012 she made the big move and relocated to Southampton where she now resides with her husband, son, noisy doggy and two cats.

When she was younger she would always be found with her nose stuck in a book, escaping the realities of the ‘real world’. It has always been a dream of hers to have her work published but always ran into the same problem of never being able to finish anything she began writing. Life always had a knack of getting in the way.

After having her son Charlie her whole outlook on life changed and opting to stay at home to raise him meant she had more time to dedicate to her writing too. Laura hopes that you enjoy reading her work as much as she has enjoyed writing it.

There is not usually much spare time left after looking after Charlie, doing her writing and holding down a part time job working with children, but on the odd occasion she does have she loves anything related to crafting. Loving to be able to see something created out of nothing always makes her happy and gives her a feeling of great satisfaction.

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Passion Follows Pain by J.A. Melville Blog Tour

Passion Follows Pain
(Passion Series Book Three)
by J.A. Melville
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For most of her life, the only thing Arissa Petros has known
is abuse. She is just 19 years old when, with the help of a friend, she runs
away from her abuser. Wanting as much distance between the man who has hurt her
and herself, she travels to another state working as a housekeeper for an
elderly lady with a broken leg. Arissa’s never been away from home or another
state so everything is frightening to her. She is torn between fear of the
unknown and relief at being away from the man who abused her for so long.
 
Mrs. Appleby is kind and caring and it doesn’t take Arissa
long to settle in to her new life. For the first time ever, she feels happy and
safe, that is, until she meets one of the neighbors from over the road.
 
Lucian Andreas is the classic tall, dark and handsome man.
He wants her and pursues her despite the fact she is terrified and wants
nothing to do with him. As far as Arissa is concerned, men represent pain and
aren’t to be trusted. She has no desire to have anything to do with them ever!
 
Lucian won’t give up on her though and slowly but surely he
breaks down her defenses. He is the first man she has ever wanted to spend time
with. He makes her feel things she’s never felt before and she finds herself
longing for the touch of his lips, the strong safe haven of his arms.
 
When Lucian finds out about Arissa’s past, it only makes him
want her more, determined to prove to her that not all men are bad and that sex
doesn’t have to represent pain and humiliation. But first he has to come clean;
reveal his true identity to her. He has to tell her he’s a vampire. Despite his
initial fears, his revelation doesn’t frighten her off and in fact brings them
closer together. Lucian opens up a whole new world to her filled with passion
and excitement. That is, until tragedy strikes and suddenly everything changes
when Arissa’s past catches up with her and her life is in danger.
 
Will Lucian be able to save her in time? Can they survive?
Will their relationship handle the stresses placed on it? Everything seems
lost, that all hope is gone until that chance discovery one night. That one
thing that changes everything……

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For as long as I can remember, I’ve
loved to write, poetry, short stories just about anything. My English teachers
in school kept telling me I should write and it took me a lot of years to
finally get around to it. 

I spent too long worrying about failing as a writer before
I realized that living with the regret of never trying was
worse.

I live in a sleepy country town in Tasmania, Australia with my partner and our
three children, who aren’t so little anymore, plus a whole assortment of
animals.

Natasha’s Awakening is my first book but I have no intention of stopping now
and will continue to live my dream of being a published author. I have just
published Taming Eric which is his POV to Natasha’s Awakening.

My interests are writing of course, reading, watching movies and hanging out at
home with my family, our six cats and one dog.

You can find me on Facebook under my author page J. A Melville and my book’s
page Natasha’s Awakening.

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Stolen Innocence by S.M. Stryker Blog Tour

 
Stolen Innocence
by S. M, Stryker
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Romantic Erotica
Synopsis
What would you do? What would you do if the woman that you love,
the woman you just made love to, the woman that trusts no one with her secret,
just told you her deepest darkest secret? A secret full of demons, a secret
that would be anyone else’s nightmare. One that never in a million years would
you have guessed. Now what would you do if you came face to face with that
nightmare, the demons, the devil himself? What would you do to protect the
woman that you never expected to take such a hold of you heart? What would you
do? Would you let her walk away to save yourself or would you die for her? What
would you do?
This is a stand along novel. Due to
strong language and sexual content & sex abuse, this book is not intended
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It is warm out, and I have already drunk most of my water. I stop
by a Benson Bubbler to refill my bottle. I have Imagine Dragons playing loudly
on my iPhone. I am dancing to the music while filling my bottle, to keep my muscles
warm, not paying any attention to anything around me. I am just starting to put
the lid on my water bottle when someone taps me on the shoulder, scaring the
living shit out of me. I flinch, swinging my arms as water flies everywhere,
soaking myself and the person who tapped my shoulder. Shocked, I turn to see
who tapped me as I see water running down the face of…Oh, my God! It’s tall,
dark, and dimple.
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Shelly (SM) married her husband 28 years ago. It was important to
her to be able to stay at home to raise their four daughters.
She wasn’t an avid reader, but picked up a book a few years back and it made
her re-think about writing, more as a healing process than anything else. She
always knew, her life would make a good story…or soap opera but finding or
making the time to write was always the issue.

Deciding not to put it off any longer, in 2014 she emailed a few of her
favorite authors that gave her some very good advice; and in April of 2014, she
finally sat down one day in front of her computer and started to write. Through
lots of tears, she wrote her first book that had a large part of her life in
the story, that book was Stolen Innocence; her second book was about her
husband childhood, Never Forgotten Love.

Now she finds that she has to write, even if it gets re-written, this is her
outlet her sanctuary, and in every book, she writes there is always part of her
life written into it.

I hope you enjoy her story.

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Sound of Heartache Cover Reveal by Chelsea Roy

Sound of Heartache
Sound of Series #2
by Chelsea Roy
Expected Publication Date: July 21, 2015
Cover Designer: Mayhem Cover Creations

Synopsis

Aimee
…was cruelly yanked away from her first and only love. She’s never gotten over him and watched from afar as he rose to superstardom. She’s let fear control her and never reached out to him no matter how much she wanted to. This time is different. This time, she’s determined to see things through to the end. Will he still want her?

Brent
…tried to get over the woman who shattered his heart. If she wanted to find him she could. He never stopped hoping she would come back into his life, but after all this time he knows it’s highly doubtful he’ll ever see her again. What would he say to her anyway?

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 I live right in the middle of California’s Central Valley – so I am a Valley Girl! I have four great kids and a husband who believes in supporting my dreams, no matter how crazy they are. I have a passion for writing about challenging men and the women that take them on. And yes, I love a good glass of wine!

I’d love to hear feedback from my readers. You can reach me at chelseadroy@gmail.com and can visit me on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/chelsearoy.

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