Shooting Star ⭐️ Release Tour

★✩★ RELEASE TOUR ★✩★

SHOOTING
STAR

By
XANA JORDAN

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★✩★ AVAILABLE IN KINDLE UNLIMITED ★✩★

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BLURB:

 

Music and all it entails has
intrigued me since I was old enough to remember. The lights, the fans, the
makings of a new musical sensation.

 

 

Being an agent for a record
label allows me to be involved with every aspect of the industry. Seeing
artists reach their dreams and full potential makes me feel more alive than I
can ever imagine.

 

 

At least it does until a
beautiful brunette auditions for a spot opening for one of my bands.

 

 

The moment her sultry voice
reaches my ears I know she’s perfect for my band. Then, I see her face as she
sings and know she is perfect for me.

The Boss’s Daughter ❤️ Release Boost

 ★✩★ RELEASE BOOST ★✩★

THE BOSS’S DAUGHTER

By LM MOUNTFORD

Series: Sweet Temptations 2

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55303031-sweet-temptations

Genre: Dark Romance | Erotica

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The Boss’s Daughter

The Boss’s Daughter

 He thought his temptations were over, but they were only just beginning…  

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Until last week, Richard Martin was just another middle-aged guy. Married to a wife he loved, father to a son he adored, stuck in a dead-end job, just counting the days go by…

Then everything changed.

He made a mistake.

Now to save his marriage, he’s going to have to pay the price.

There’s just one problem, Scarlet Holmes.

His Supervisor.

She loves to play games with her staff and now, seeming very aware of his little secret, she wants to play a game.

And she always gets what she wants.

Because she just so happens to be The Boss’s Daughter.

The Boss’s Daughter is the sinfully tempting and long-awaited sequel to L.M. Mountford’s debut, Sweet Temptations: The Babysitter.  It can be read as a standalone, but it’s highly recommended you read Book 1. Full of tension and grippingly intense scenes, this next instalment in the Sweet Temptations Series reminds everyone by he has been dubbed The Lord of Lust.

 

Author Bio:

A self-confessed Tiger fanatic, L.M. Mountford was born and raised in England, first in the town of Bridgewater, Somerset, before later moving to the city of Gloucester where he currently resides. A fully qualified and experienced Scuba Diver, he has travelled across Europe and Africa diving wrecks and seeing the wonders of the world.

He started writing when he was 14. Under the pseudonym Dark Inferno, he has written more than thirty Fanfiction stories.

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Muses & Melodies 💛 Teaser Reveal

 

MUSES & MELODIES (Hush Note #3) by Rebecca Yarros
Release Date: October 6th

 

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Blurb:
If I can keep Hush Note’s leading guitarist, Nixon Winters, on the straight and narrow for the next six months, I’ll finally get my own band to manage—assuming we don’t kill each other first.

The egotistical, irritating rock star is fresh out of rehab, but it’s obvious his demons followed him home—and now I’m sleeping down the hall. I’ve watched him self-destruct every summer, and with album deadlines and tour dates looming, I can’t let it happen again. My career is in his hands.

But tattoos can’t cover every scar, and I’m starting to see through his trademark, irresistible charm to the damage beneath.

Everyone wants the rock star.
I’m falling for the man.

If he doesn’t let me in,
he’ll never break the cycle—
And when these six months are up,
I might be the one left broken.

 

 

About the Author:

Rebecca is a Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author of over fifteen novels, and is always ready to bring on the emotions. She’s also the recipient of the Colorado Romance Writer’s Award of Excellence for Eyes Turned Skyward from her Flight and Glory series.

She loves military heroes and has been blissfully married to hers for eighteen years. She’s the mother of six children, ranging from kindergarten to law school, and is currently surviving the teenage years with two of her four hockey-playing sons. When she’s not writing, you can find her at the hockey rink or sneaking in some guitar time. She lives in Colorado with her family, their stubborn English bulldog, and a feisty chinchilla. Having fostered then adopted their youngest daughter, Rebecca is passionate about helping children in the foster system through her nonprofit, One October.

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Fanged Love ❤️ Teaser Reveal

FANGED LOVE by Mimi Jean Pamfiloff & Kylie Gilmore

Release Date: October 13th

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Blurb

From USA Today bestselling authors, Mimi Jean Pamfiloff and Kylie Gilmore, comes a hilarious, sexy, Vampire Romance about the girl next door and an ancient prince who’s lost when it comes to modern women.

WANTED: MODERN WOMAN WHO APPRECIATES TRADITIONAL COURTSHIP WITH FANGS.

Greetings. My name is Prince Bozhidar, and I am an eight-hundred-year-old vampire.

Correction.

I am an eight-hundred-year-old, virile, confident, and very sexy vampire—so I’m told. I have wealth, looks, and everything an immortal man could ever want.

Well, except love. But no matter. I am not a one-neck sort of man.

Yet the virginal woman across the road sets my senses afire. And she needs my help with her family’s failing winery. My own is quite successful.

My honor demands I help this enchanting female, and when I do, my heart begins beating anew. She is my mate. Strangely, my gifts of seduction do not seem to work on her.

Perhaps I need to fit in with modern dating customs to win this modern woman.

And then there’s the small matter that she doesn’t believe in vampires.

There is no fighting destiny, sweet Stella. You will be mine.

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About Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

MIMI JEAN PAMFILOFF is a New York Times bestselling author who’s sold over one million books around the world. Although she obtained her MBA and worked for more than fifteen years in the corporate world, she believes that it’s never too late to come out of the romance closet and follow your dreams.

Mimi lives with her Latin lover hubby, two pirates-in-training (their boys), and their three spunky dragons (really, just very tiny dogs with big attitudes) Snowy, Mini, and Mack, in the vampire-unfriendly state of Arizona.

She hopes to make you laugh when you need it most and continues to pray daily that leather pants will make a big comeback for men.

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About Kylie Gilmore

Kylie Gilmore is the USA Today bestselling author of the Rourkes series, the Happy Endings Book Club series, the Clover Park series, and the Clover Park STUDS series. She writes humorous romance that makes you laugh, cry, and reach for a cold glass of water.

Kylie lives in New York with her family, two cats, and a nutso dog. When she’s not writing, reading hot romance, or dutifully taking notes at writing conferences, you can find her flexing her muscles all the way to the high cabinet for her secret chocolate stash.

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Crashing Hearts 💛 Release Blitz

Title: Crashing Hearts
Series: Oakport Beach #1
Author: Emily Bowie
Genre: Small-Town Romantic Comedy
Release Date: September 23, 2020
BLURB
Crash Jennings is gorgeous, unexpectedly charming and around every corner I turn. Just what I need to shake off my misfortune. Besides, what’s the harm in having a summer fling? They’re short, sweet and over before the leaves change.
Until, I learn he’s my new boss.
Suddenly, the uncomplicated, is very complicated, and when trouble hits, I’m too far gone to protect my heart.
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AUTHOR BIO
Emily Bowie is from a small town in Western Canada. She has been making characters come to life through her writing since she was old enough to put her thoughts on paper. She loves her white wine cold, her heels red, and her books spicy. 
She married her high school sweetheart and they have two amazing children.
She is the author to the Bennett Brothers Series.
Recklessly Mine, Recklessly Forbidden, & Recklessly Devoted.
When she is not writing she can be found reading a good book, making digital scrapbooks and being physically active—whether it is at the gym, going for a walk, or playing /keep up with her children.
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After Piper’s life self-destructed, she finds herself accepting a job in Oakport Beach however nothing could have prepared her for her patient or for her new boss.

Crash has built a successful life for himself in his hometown and has surrounded himself with a great group of friends. From their first meeting he knew that Piper was special and the chemistry between them ignites but they are about to find out that convincing her to stay may not be their biggest obstacle.

Sweet and sexy Crash and Piper were so much fun together and with the great cast of secondary characters I am looking forward to more stories set in this town.

Reclaim 🌈 Cover Reveal

Reclaim, an all-new emotional and gripping second chance romance from USA Today bestselling author Aly Martinez is coming November 12th and we have the beautiful cover!

Choices. Everyone makes them. From mundane to unimaginable, one choice can change the trajectory of your entire life.

My mother’s choice was to abandon us with our abusive father.
My brother’s choice was to go to prison for killing the boy who assaulted his soulmate.
Camden Cole’s choice was to fall in love with a shattered girl who had absolutely nothing to offer him but heartbreak.

It was one summer beneath the trees, but with Camden, I had a place where I belonged.
A friend who was always waiting for me.
A boy who I caught staring at me more often than not.

He was mine, but when the world closed in and secrets exploded all around us, it was my choice to let him go.

Choices. Everyone makes them.
But mine would ruin us all.

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Cover Designer: Hang Le
Photographer: Wander Aguiar

About Aly
Originally from Savannah, Georgia, USA Today bestselling author Aly Martinez now lives in South Carolina with her husband and four young children.
Never one to take herself too seriously, she enjoys cheap wine, mystery leggings, and olives. It should be known, however, that she hates pizza and ice cream, almost as much as writing her bio in the third person.
She passes what little free time she has reading anything and everything she can get her hands on, preferably with a super-sized tumbler of wine by her side.

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Flight or Flight🌸Preorder

Is sacrifice his ultimate destiny? He’s not giving up with out a fight.
Fight or Flight by Janine Infante Bosco is coming October 10th!


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Once upon a time, my father’s best friend gave up his life to save me and my mom.
That’s a debt a man can never fully repay, but my father gave it his best shot.
When Joss and Brooklyn showed up at Big Nose Kate’s, it was Bones they were hoping to find.
Instead, they got us and a death certificate.

Without Bones, I wouldn’t be here today.
Without my dad, Brooklyn would have wound up alone.
And without Brooklyn….well, I would’ve given up.

I’m Eric Montgomery, and until Brooklyn Richardson came into my life, I believed sacrifice and integrity were a man’s creed.
That becoming a soldier was my destiny.
Enlisting in the United States Army nearly broke me.
But it also taught me how to defend, honor and fight.
And loving Brooklyn gave me something to fight for.

*Originally featured as a novella in Drafted, the #TNTNYC20 exclusive paperback anthology, Fight or Flight is a full-length romance novel and the first installment in The Tempted Series Generation 2.0.*

About Janine

Janine Infante Bosco lives in New York City, she has always loved reading and writing. When she was thirteen, she began to write her own stories and her passion for writing took off as the years went on. At eighteen, she even wrote a full screenplay with dreams of one day becoming a member of the Screen Actors Guild.

Janine writes emotionally charged novels with an emphasis on family bonds, strong willed female characters, and alpha male men who will do anything for the women they love. She loves to interact with fans and fellow avid romance readers like herself.

She is proud of her success as an author and the friendships she’s made in the book community but her greatest accomplishment to date would be her two sons Joseph and Paul.

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Unfriend Me💚Release Blitz

 

Title: Unfriend Me
Series: Jobs From Hell #3
Author: Marika Ray
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Release Date: September 23, 2020
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It’s hard to tell your best friend you’re in love with her when she’s busy dating everyone but you.

Amelia
I’ve been called a smart-mouthed, tattooed firecracker with a penchant for
running straight into trouble, but after coming off the worst break up in
history, all I want is to get my life together. No more trouble, no more
surprises.

So when my best friend changes the rules on me, I’m not sure how to react.
Though my body sure knows how to react seeing him without his shirt on. Where
did all those muscles come from? And when my ex comes back to town to wreak
havoc, my lofty plans go right out the window.

Titus

I fell in love with Amelia in the sixth grade when I pulled her off another
girl in a hair pulling fight. And she put me directly in the friend zone. We’ve
been through everything together from ER trips after skateboarding mishaps to
fighting off a peacock with a mean streak. But the one thing I’ve never told
her is how I really feel. Now that Amelia is single again, it’s time to make my
move. But Amelia has never gone down without a fight involved, and this will be
no different.

Either she’ll fall in love with me like I hope, or Amelia will unfriend me forever.

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EXCERPT


I stepped closer to the window, seeing our overflow dirt parking lot. And then my gaze slid left where I saw Titus standing by a huge pile of wood and drywall that he’d ripped out of the guest room. His T-shirt was off and there was a healthy dose of sweat dripping down his torso. He twisted off the cap to a water bottle and chugged the whole thing, his Adam’s apple working to hypnotize me. When was the last time I’d seen him without a shirt?
Because that? That specimen with six-pack abs and a chest you could bounce quarters off of wasn’t the Titus I remembered. He’d always been lanky, which made sense, given his extraordinary height. And he’d always had muscles because he was athletic in school and his job required strength. But holy wow. What the hell had happened over the last year?
My nose hit the cold glass and I jumped back, rubbing it as I pondered the changes in Titus when I hadn’t been looking. The steady hum in my gut also gave me pause. Was that…lust?
My brain screamed at me to walk away and quit staring at him, but my body was having nothing of it. We were gonna pull up a chair and stay for the show for as long as the show lasted. Better yet, why not go out there and see it up close?
Good judgement had always been a weak spot in my character, but I never shamed myself for it. I went with impulses, so what? Sometimes they worked out great. Other times, not so much. But the way I figured it, you never got some excitement in your life unless you made the leap. And right now, I wanted some excitement in the form of a half-dressed Titus. I’d worry about what it all meant later. Much later.
“Yo, T!” I hollered as soon as I turned the corner outside and stepped off the blacktop onto the dirt.
Titus swiped the sweat from his forehead with his bulging bicep. His face lit up in an easy smile when he saw me. “Hey, Lia. Almost done here.”
I sauntered over, not looking where I was going. “Yeah, I see that.”
There was a bead of sweat sliding down right between his pecs. A fascinating journey of bumps and valleys.
A throat clearing had me looking up. Titus had a playful look in his eye, his mouth tugging into a smile. “Are you undressing me with your eyes, Amelia Waldo?”
I guess I was, but he didn’t have to call me out like that. “Are you kidding me? You can’t walk around half-dressed and then blame a girl for looking. If I was half-dressed, wouldn’t you be looking at me?”
Titus took a giant step forward and flicked the collar of my shirt. He didn’t even touch me, but I could feel it all the way to the tips of my toes.
“Hell, yeah, I would. I’d ogle you until my eyes bled.” His gaze flicked down the length of my body and suddenly I needed to squeeze my thighs together.
“Are we actually doing this? We’re flirting? You and me?” I whispered it, afraid to say it too loud. Like the volume of my voice would make it something real I couldn’t take back.
Titus shrugged slow and lazy, his eyes heating further. That finger still toyed with my shirt. If he didn’t stop, I might melt into a puddle at his feet.
“I don’t see why we shouldn’t. You’re hot, I’m hot. Kind of makes sense to flirt.”
I smirked. “Wow. Nice ego you got there.” I studied him seriously. “You don’t worry about harming our friendship?”
Titus’s eyelids slid down and I wondered what it would be like to kiss him. He had to be a good kisser after kissing the entire female population of Auburn Hill.
“Sometimes friends make the best lovers.”

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Marika Ray
spends her time behind a computer crafting stories, walking the beaches of
southern California, and making healthy food for her kids and husband whether
they like it or not. Prior to writing novels, Marika held various jobs in the
finance industry, with private start-up companies, and then in health &
fitness. Cats may have nine lives, but Marika believes everyone should have
nine careers to keep things spicy.

Marika
enjoys writing all types of fiction novels, based on what inspires her. Right
now she’s working on a new steamy RomCom series along with sweet romances to
make your heart explode. All her books come with a money-back guarantee that
you’ll smile at least once with every book.

More
information can be found at
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A Wright Christmas 🌲 Cover Reveal

Release Date: November 17
A new second chance single dad stand alone romance set in the world of the Wrights from USA Today bestselling author K.A. Linde…

 

At seventeen, I left Isaac Donoghue behind to become a professional ballerina.

 

When I return home to dance in the Nutcracker, I never expect to run into him. Let alone on my first day in town. 

I can’t help but admire him in a crisp suit with his toned soccer body, chiseled jawline, and all too familiar piercing green eyes. I thought nothing could surprise me more.

 

Until his five year old daughter runs out of the ballet studio.

 

I’m only in town for a month. I shouldn’t get involved with anyone, especially the ex I’ve been pining after for years. 
Especially now that he’s a single dad with a daughter to consider.

 

But where Isaac is concerned, I’ve never been able to stay away.

 

With the help of some Christmas magic, maybe we finally have a shot at our second chance.
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K.A. Linde is the USA Today bestselling author of the Avoiding Series, Wrights, and more than thirty other novels. 

She has a Masters degree in political science from the University of Georgia, was the head campaign worker for the 2012 presidential campaign at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and served as the head coach of the Duke University dance team. 

She loves reading fantasy novels, binge-watching Supernatural, traveling, and dancing in her spare time.
She currently lives in Lubbock, Texas, with her husband and two super-adorable puppies.
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Summer nights and star-crossed lovers! From USA Today bestselling author Sarina Bowen.

Once upon a time, he gave me a summer of friendship, followed by one perfect night. We shared a lot during our short time together. But he skipped a few crucial details.

I didn’t know he was a rock star.

I didn’t know his real name.

Neither of us knew I’d get pregnant.

And I sure never expected to see him again.

Five years later, his tour bus pulls up in Nest Lake, Maine. My little world is about to be shattered by loud music and the pounding of my own foolish heart.

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Kira was attending college in Boston when she endured a traumatic event, so she has returned to her hometown for the summer to recover and help her father out at the store that he owns.    When a sexy stranger comes into town and offers friendship and understanding they spend the summer falling in love and spend one night together before their lives take them in different directions.

Jonas is a successful musician who has never forgotten Kira or the summer they spent together as she knew and loved him for being John and never knew who he really was.   Five years later he is struggling so he and his band decide to return to the town that held so many happy memories and even though he was hoping to see her he never expected that she would be there as well or the surprise that she had been keeping since they were last together.

The chemistry and connection between them is stronger than ever but if they are to have a future together they not only need to deal with the past but with their very different lifestyles as well.

Not only are Kira and Jonas captivating characters but there are a great cast of secondary characters including her brother Adam, their daughter Vivi and the bandmates.    This is a story about two people who have always belonged together who finally get their second chance.    I listened to the audiobook version of this story and the narrators were a perfect choice as they drew you in and had you feeling a personal connection to the characters and what they were going through.