Showing posts with label Suspense. Show all posts
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Tuesday, February 3, 2015

RELEASE DAY BLITZ: SPEND THE NIGHT, EPISODE 2 BY ELIZABETH LEE



We're celebrating the release of SPEND THE NIGHT, Episode 2 by Elizabeth Lee! Check out the excerpt and giveaway below!


Spend the Night: The Hotel Collection Episode #2 by Elizabeth Lee
Adult Contemporary Romance/Suspense

Blurb:
Someone’s playing a deadly game…



Two men vying for your attention—seems like every girl's dream come true. For Hannah Wellesley, the dream has become a nightmare. As she continues to navigate her feelings to determine which man she truly belongs with—the first love who’s become her current business rival or the enticing new chef who’s testing her sexual limits at every turn—a new set of problems presents itself. One that includes a breach in hotel security that has her fearing for her own safety and the reputation of the Wellesley-Crawford.

Soon she finds herself playing a dangerous game of cat and mouse that might just cost her everything she’s worked for—and maybe even her life.



EXCERPT

Yes.

I was finally going to find out if it was him. I knew it was. It had to be. Everything that had happened with Trent had been a mistake. Carter was the guy I wanted. He was going to take the memories of Trent away.

“Baby...” Carter mumbled against my lips, before removing them and pressing his forehead against mine. “We gotta slow down.”

“No,” I urged. “We really don't.” I pulled his lips back to mine. “I want this. I want you,” I pleaded, hearing the desperation in my voice. I needed to know the truth.

“So do I,” he assured me before taking a step back. He grabbed my hands and caught his breath. “Really I do, but I think we should slow down. I don't want you to do something you'd regret.”

“Never stopped me before,” I said with a playful wink. I hadn't let fear or regret stop me in the stairwell. Or in my apartment last night which would have been a good damn time for it to do so.

“Oh, really.” He chuckled.

“Really.” I stared up into his eyes waiting for him to just admit that it was him the night of the Gala, but he didn't. Instead, he pulled me to my feet and wrapped his arms around my waist. His head fell to my shoulder as he tightened his embrace. “This will happen, Hannah. Just not in my office with the entire staff of my restaurant waiting on the other side of the door. I'll teach you to be patient, sweetheart,” he whispered.


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Spend the Night: The Hotel Collection Episode #1 by Elizabeth Lee
Adult Contemporary Romance/Suspense

BLURBS:

Spend the Night – Episode 1



Welcome to The Wellesley-Crawford...

Hannah Wellesley has spent her entire life running the halls of her family-owned hotel, the infamous and opulent Wellesley-Crawford. Noted as one of the city's richest, most luxurious hotels in Chicago, the WC is what Hannah has devoted her life and career to.



The hotel’s Annual Masquerade Gala is the event of the year, but this year Hannah’s evening involves more than just handing out masks. After a mysterious rendezvous in a secluded stairwell with an irresistible and unidentifiable man, Hannah becomes consumed with discovering the identity of her masked lover. Just as she’s about to give up the search, two men blow back into her life with drastically different intentions. They both have secrets and uncovering them will lead Hannah down a darkly dangerous path.



Drawn to both of the intriguing bachelors, she’ll have to determine which one is after her heart and which one plans to do her deadly harm before it’s too late.


THE SERIES CONTINUES!





Spend the Night – Episode 3



All games must eventually come to an end…

Hannah's new reality is that someone is stalking her. Aggressively. The only question now is who. Fingers are pointed and accusations are made as every clue leads to her down another twisted path of questions without answers. Her feelings for both Carter and Trent cloud her judgment as the investigation delves deeper into her personal life and into her heart. Carter’s past is a mystery and Trent has every reason to try and make her seem crazy. Her loss would be his gain after all.



Hannah will have to choose, but making the wrong choice will cost much more than a broken heart.



Everyone has a motive.

But only one of them has a plan.



Expect the unexpected in the thrilling conclusion to the Spend the Night series.

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Author Bio:

Born and raised in the middle of a Midwestern cornfield (not literally, that would be weird), I’ve spent my entire life imagining stories. Stories where the right guy always gets the right girl, first kisses are as magical as they are on the big screen and anything is completely possible if you believe.

Although this journey began years ago, it recently took on a whole new life. After years of devouring hundreds of Romance, YA and New Adult novels, I had an epiphany... I should write a book. And I did it!



If I’m not reading, writing, enjoying drinks with my amazing group of girlfriends or chasing around a sarcastically funny kid, I’m probably watching television shows that were created for teenagers, while my husband teases that I’m too old to watch them.


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Monday, February 2, 2015

BLOG TOUR AND REVIEW: VERUM BY COURTNEY COLE

VERUM, the second book in Courtney Cole's psychological mind-bending NOCTE Trilogy, is here.



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My name is Calla Price and I’m drowning.



My new world is a dark, dark ocean and I’m being pulled under by secrets.



Can I trust anyone? I don’t know anymore.



The lies are spirals. They twist and turn, binding me with their thorns and serpentine tongues. And just when I think I have it figured out, everything is pulled out from under me.



I’m entangled in the darkness.



But the truth will set me free.



It’s just ahead of me, so close I can touch it. But even though it shines and glimmers, it has glistening fangs and I know it will shred me.



Are you scared?



I am.


SHANNON'S 5 STAR REVIEW:


For those (me)  that thought Nocte was intense, confusing, and a complete mind f**k - you haven't seen anything yet. Verum is all that plus more. It's darker, more intense, and it sucks you in, so much so that you'll be thinking about it for days.

Verum picks right up where Nocte left off. Calla is struggling with the death of her brother and mother; she can't quite grasp onto the coat of reality. It's just brushing by her but she can't hold on. In Verum we are all looking for the answers but will we get them?

Dare is and always will be there for her. He's supportive, caring, and so sexy but there's only so much he can tell her. The rest she has to remember on her own but her brain has blocked out everything from that time. Maybe it's protecting her from herself? Maybe it's protecting her from seeing the monster Dare really is. We just don't know; hopefully Verum reveals the answers.

We do get a few answers but they are more questions than answers. They lead into the next book, Lux. There we may find the answers to all of the haunting questions that will set Calla free and she can gain her footing back in reality.

This is a very intriguing series for me. I love the suspense, the thrill, the gamut of emotions this series entails. There may be a touch of paranormal to it but I just can't pinpoint it for sure. Ms. Cole sure knows how to reel you in and make you want to stay wrapped up in her words.


Book provided by author for honest review.




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Saturday, June 22, 2013

Blog Tour: Flames by Jessica F.F. Evans





Blurb:

Seven years ago Jenna Farley left her hometown of Cedarville, Indiana and vowed never to look back. She created a thriving business and a quiet life on the sunny beaches of Gulf Shores, Alabama. But seven years and hundreds of miles can’t keep the nightmares of her past and visions of a hellish future from plaguing her dreams.

With the fate of her first love resting solely in her hands Jenna must go back to the town she despises and risk everything for a man who is not at all pleased to find her on his doorstep talking about a murderer on the loose and asking him to trust her.

Nathaniel McGregor has put many years and many women between him and the memory of the only woman he ever loved. Now she's back and doing what she does best. Turning his life upside down and warning him of an obsessed pyromaniac hell bent on killing him. Can he trust her? Does he even have a choice? The clock is ticking, both their lives are on the line and they must work together to stop a determined killer or die.


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Bio:

Jessica F.F. Evans lives in a little village in rural Indiana with her husband, daughter and crazy large family. She spends every chance she gets on the Gulf Coast. When not writing romance novels she enjoys woodturning, hiking and passing on her love of reading to her daughter.

Flames is her debut novel. Predator is coming in September 2013 and is her second romantic suspense novel followed by her suspense novel: Under the Cajun Moon in December 2013 and her Young Adult novel: Lessons Learned by Arnold St. James in June 2014.

Thursday, June 13, 2013

Cover Reveal: Nowhere To Run by Nina D'Angelo


Nowhere to Run new cover

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Blurb:

A dominatrix is murdered; her body displayed in a show of dominance. An actress is found dead beneath the Hollywood sign.

Stephanie Carovella left her career, her friends and her home town of Los Angeles, but she couldn't outrun the demons on her past. When she is lured back by the death of her best friend she enters a world where no one's safe.

As her deepest and darkest secrets are revealed, Stephanie must find out who she can trust.

Will it be Jesse Carlisle? Her ex-lover and the man she left behind. He would give anything to have her back in his arms, but is it enough?

Or will it be Jase Devlin? Her best friend's boyfriend, and a man with secrets as dark and
dangerous as her own.


Can Stephanie find her friend's killer or will she discover that she has nowhere to run?

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Monday, June 10, 2013

Review:Delayed Penalty by Shey Stahl


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Blurb:

I am Evan Masen, a hockey player for the NHL. I spend my nights roughing up two hundred pound defensemen and spend more time in the penalty box than I do on the ice. 

That’s my job. 

One night changes everything I thought I once knew about my life on the ice. 

A girl. 

A brutally beaten girl left to die in an alley.

I don’t know why or how but something made me stay that night after taking her to the hospital. I didn’t know her, nor did I have an obligation to stay but something inside of me rooted me there telling me I should. 

And I wouldn’t have been me if I just simply left her there. 

Any man who could put his heart and soul into a game of hockey couldn’t just walk away when someone needed them. She had no one else. 

The same guy who saw determination where there was desire, now saw hope where there was once despair.
I couldn’t just leave as that wasn’t a man that put all he had into something some called just a game. I couldn’t walk away from someone holding onto life, weak and powerless to something she had no control over.

So I stayed. In a room full of family members praying for their loved ones to come through, I prayed for a girl I didn’t know, never met before, to have a beating heart. While others sorrows turned to grieving pain, I sat waiting on the words of the unknown.

Alexis says:

Every so often there is a book that comes along and just blows you away, “Delayed Penalty” did just that.  Ultimately, this book is about two strangers brought together by an awful tragedy that shapes their lives forever.

“From the moment I found you, I was never going anywhere again without you.” -Evan

Evan (Mase) is a defenseman for the Chicago Blackhawks with a heart of gold. His compassion and love for friends and family and his willingness to stick up for them is what makes him who he is. After winning a game, he stumbles upon Ami in an alley badly beaten and raped and ultimately saves her.  Right from the start, he finds himself attached to her even though he doesn’t know her.  Throughout the book, you realize that not only was Ami a victim but that Evan too was a victim.  He was the one who saved her and found her the way she was.  Because of it, his view towards women seemed to change for the better.  Not that he was ever a real womanizer but he paid extra attention to the way women were treated by his other teammates.  For me, Evan was the real heart of the book.

“I was meant to save her, and I was meant to fall in love with her, and this girl was the reason my life had the directions it had.” –Evan

Ami just moved to Chicago after losing her family and started working at the Chicago Ballet.  She ends being a victim to a heinous crime and ends up hospitalized.  Once she wakes up from her coma she meets the man who saved her that awful night.  Ami was such a strong heroine in my eyes.  She not only had to deal with the emotional and physical scars of her attack but also losing her family at such a young age.  Ami is not the type of person to let her attack define her. 

“Evan, my all heart and soul knight in shining armor defenseman took me in, saved my life when I had no one left, and showed me a love I’d never in my life imagined feeling.” -Ami

I simply loved the book and how it showed that fate has a funny way of sneaking up on you in the most unlikely circumstances.  I loved the supporting characters as well, and cannot wait to read the next book in the series. 

4.5 stars!

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Bio:

Suspenseful romance writer. Author of the Racing on the Edge Series. Published titles include Happy Hour, Trading Paint, Black Flag and The Champion. The Legend is scheduled to be released December 24, 2012.

When she's not writing, Shey Stahl can be found at the local dirt tracks in Washington watching her favorite sport, racing.

Check out her facebook page for pictures related to the series!