Spotlight – Accidentally on Purpose

03 Friday Feb 2017

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Accidentally on Purpose, Heartbreaker Bay series, Jill Shalvis

Today we get the latest from the oh-so-awesome Jill Shalvis. Make sure you check out the first three books – Sweet Little Lies, The Trouble with Mistletoe and One Snowy Night.

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From New York Times bestselling author Jill Shalvis comes the next sexy, standalone novel in the Heartbreaker Bay series…

Accidentally on Purpose

Heartbreaker Bay series

by Jill Shalvis

Blurb:

There’s no such thing as a little in love . . .

Elle Wheaton’s priorities: friends, career, and kick-ass shoes. Then there’s the muscular wall of stubbornness that’s security expert Archer Hunt—who comes before everything else. No point in telling Mr. “Feels-Free Zone” that, though. Elle will just see other men until she gets over Archer . . . which should only take a lifetime . . .

There’s no such thing as a little in lust . . .

Archer’s wanted the best for Elle ever since he sacrificed his law-enforcement career to save her. Their chemistry could start the next San Francisco earthquake and he craves her 24/7, but Archer doesn’t want to be responsible for the damage. The alternative? Watch her go out with guys who aren’t him . . .

There is such a thing as . . .

As far as Archer’s concerned, nobody is good enough for Elle. But when he sets out to prove it by sabotaging her dates, she gets mad—and things get hot as hell. Now Archer has a new mission: prove to Elle that her perfect man has been here all along . . .

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And don’t miss the previous books in Jill Shalvis’s Heartbreaker Bay Series, SWEET LITTLE LIES, THE TROUBLE WITH MISTLETOE and ONE SNOWY NIGHT, now available! Grab your copies HERE!

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Excerpt:

#TrainWreck

Elle made a move to snatch the knife from Archer’s fingers but the bastard held firm. She started a tug-of-war with him before remembering that she no longer let anyone see her sweat and forced herself to go still.

Not that Archer let go. “You still have it,” he said, a whisper of surprise in his voice.

The equivalent of a full-on double take from the man who was all but impossible to shock.

And yes, of course she still had the knife. Did he really think she wouldn’t? She didn’t blush very often but she felt heat rush to her face now. Regret, partly.

Mostly full-blown mortification.

She’d very carefully taught herself to be strong and confident and to never look back.

Ever.

Sentimentality didn’t have a place in her life. Or so she told herself. So why then had she been carrying the small packet knife Archer had given her the night he’d saved her all those years ago? Especially since the thought of how she’d tried to repay him—and God, the humility of how she’d actually offered him the only thing she’d had, that being her body, which he’d turned down flat—still made her face flame. The worst part had been when he’d vanished like it’d been nothing to him, when to her it’d been everything.

She might not know why he’d done what he had but she still wasn’t leaving here without that knife. It was a badge. A reminder of who she’d been and who she was now.

Neither of them had moved. Around them the night life in the pub went on. Laughter, conversations, more dancing…all oblivious to this tight, little cocoon of just the two of them crouched in front of the bar. They might as well have been completely alone for all the attention anyone paid them.

Balanced with apparent ease on the balls of his feet, Archer leaned in even closer if that was possible, close enough that his knees touched hers. Close enough that she could see every single gold spec in his hazel eyes. Every single black-as-ink eyelash framing those eyes. He was hours past a five o’clock shadow and a muscle ticked in his square jaw.

A rare tell from a man who could be a stone when he wanted.

The rest of him was as big and bad and intimidating as ever. His large body blocked out everything behind him and although he could be terrifyingly scary when he wanted to be, he never was with her. With her he was careful. Cautious.

Distant.

And she hated that most of all.

This time when she tried to tug the knife from his long fingers, he let her. Rising, she stared down at him. “We done here?”

He rose to his feet too. And just looked at her.

“Well?” she asked.

“We’re never done,” he said.

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Author Info:

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jill Shalvis lives in a small town in the Sierras full of quirky characters. Any resemblance to the quirky characters in her books is, um, mostly coincidental. Look for Jill’s sexy contemporary and award-winning books wherever romances are sold and click on the blog button above for a complete book list and daily blog detailing her city-girl-living-in-the-mountains adventures.

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Tour Info:

January 25^th

Nice Ladies, Naughty Books – Excerpt

A geordielass’ honest blog on reviews – Review

Bookaholic & Kindle – Review

Dreamland Teenage Fantasy – Review

East Coast Book Chicks – Review & Excerpt

Feed Your Fiction Addiction – Review

HotPreasedBooks – Review & Excerpt

Shelf_Life – Review

With Love for Books – Review & Excerpt

January 26^th

Adria’s Romance Reviews – Review & Excerpt

Books and Tequila – Review & Excerpt

Cara’s Book Boudoir – Review & Excerpt

Erotica Book Club – Review

Fiction Fangirls – Review & Excerpt

I Love Romance – Review & Excerpt

Lightning City Book Reviews – Review & Excerpt

Reading Between the Wines Book Club – Excerpt

January 27^th

Abibliophobia Anonymous Book Reviews – Excerpt

Maddy’s Reading – Review & Excerpt

It’s All About the Romance – Excerpt

Once Upon A Page – Review & Excerpt

Red Hot + Blue Reads – Review & Excerpt

Romanticamente Fantasy Sito – Excerpt

Shannon’s Book Blog – Review & Excerpt

WickedGoodReads – Review

January 28^th

Ramblings From This Chick – Excerpt

21st Century Once Upon A Times – Review

Adventures in Writing – Excerpt

Deluged with Books Cafe – Review & Excerpt

From the TBR Pile – Review & Excerpt

Literary Misfit – Review & Excerpt

Margie’s Must Reads – Excerpt

Reading Shy With Aly – Review & Excerpt

January 29^th

A crazy vermonters book reviews – Review

JordansBookReviews – Excerpt

The Reading Belles – Review

Book reviews by lexi – Review

Books are love – Review & Excerpt

Cocktails and Books – Review & Excerpt

Fictional Rendezvous Book Blog – Excerpt

Happily Ever After – Review

January 30^th

Book Munchies – Review & Excerpt

Books and Things Blog – Review & Excerpt

Always YA at Heart – Review & Excerpt

Dog-Eared Daydreams – Excerpt

Embrace the Romance – Review & Excerpt

Pink Lace & Silver Buckles Book Blog – Excerpt

Pretty Sassy Cool – Review & Excerpt

Romancing the Readers – Review

Writing My Own Fairy Tale – Review & Excerpt

January 31^st

As The Book Ends – Review

Bound By Books Book Review – Review

Kelsey’s Corner Time – Review & Excerpt

Marieke’s Books – Review & Excerpt

Melissa’s Eclectic Bookshelf – Review & Excerpt

OMGReads – Review & Excerpt

Pardon My Blurb – Review & Excerpt

The Readdicts – Review & Excerpt

V’s Reads – Review & Excerpt

February 1^st

Bridget’s Book Bungalow – Review

Evocative book reviews – Review & Excerpt

I Heart YA Books – Review & Excerpt

Jennifers Taking A Break – Review & Excerpt

Melena`s Reviews – Review & Excerpt

Reading With Tasha – Review

Short and Sassy Book Blurbs – Review

The Racy Lit Reader – Review

Two Book Pushers – Review

February 2^nd

Ever After Book Reviews – Review & Excerpt

I’m A Sweet And Sassy Book Whore – Review & Excerpt

JOJO THE BOOKAHOLIC – Review & Excerpt

Renee Entress’s Blog – Review & Excerpt

Smut Book Junkie Book Reviews – Review & Excerpt

Talking Books Blog – Excerpt

What Is That Book About – Excerpt

TjLovesToRead – Review & Excerpt

Sofia Loves Books – Review & Excerpt

February 3^rd

BJ’s Book Blog – Review

G & T’s Indie Café – Excerpt

Once upon a romance – Review

Romantic Reads and Such – Excerpt

Shelly’s Book Corner – Review

The Silver Dagger Scriptorium – Excerpt

Wrapped Up In Reading – Review & Excerpt

WTF Are You Reading! – Review & Excerpt

Spotlight – Bare Bones

02 Thursday Feb 2017

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Bare Bones, Liah Penn

Today we have something special for those of you who like a little mystery with your romance – enjoy!

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Bare Bones

by Liah Penn

Blurb:

Love and Suspense – Southern Style

When a skull is found buried in the courtyard of the Art House during renovations, executive director Meredith O’Neill is forced to halt the over-budget and oft-delayed project. Working with architect Kieran Ford has been a nightmare, despite his icy good-looks and brilliant design. Now that the Art House is declared a crime scene, the entire project is threatened. Forced to work together in close proximity, Meredith and Kieran soon find the tensions between them changing into something else entirely. Still, she can’t help but wonder how long the heat between them will last, especially when Kieran was once so cold.

Kieran is donating his time and talents to the Art House renovation, but working with Meredith is driving him crazy, and his pro bono project is quickly going south. When the skull of a child is discovered, Kieran must confront his own loss as well as keep the project, and Meredith, on task. Keeping his emotions in check proves to be impossible, and Kieran soon realizes that he is falling for Meredith. When he is framed for a crime, Kieran must learn to trust again. He and Meredith form an uneasy alliance as they seek answers to the mystery at the Art House. But someone is intent on destroying the historic building . . . and won’t hesitate to harm anyone who gets in the way.

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Excerpt:

The skull was small, that of a woman or child, the lower jaw separated in the dirt, as if the mouth had been open during the internment process. The foreman scraped away at the mud revealing a few bone fragments. The clenched hand, turned upward, was disarticulated from the arm, as if the skeleton had thrust its fist in anger at the gods. The man jerked back. It was definitely a human skull. And this was no cemetery.

“Call the police,” he said to his worker. “And you better call the architect, too.”

Meredith stood over the hole, her four-inch heels sinking into the red clay, her linen dress sticking to her body, slick with perspiration. She could clearly see bits of bone and the smooth curve of the skull. There were a few longer bones scattered about and what appeared to be a hand, balled up and reaching to the sky. The grave was shallow, only a few feet deep, and it was a wonder that the bones hadn’t appeared sooner. Meredith placed her hands on her hips, resisting the impulse to jump into the hole and free the remaining skeleton from the dirt and cradle it in her arms.

“It’s got to be human.” The foreman wiped his brow with a dirty towel. Red clay smeared his forehead like dried blood.

“It’s a child,” Meredith said. She crouched down, looking closer. Yes, it had to be a child. She cleared the muck from the back of her throat. Digging her fingers in the mounded dirt, she felt the soil clump together before she released it. The resting place for this poor soul. “I called the police. Did you call the architect?”

The foreman nodded. The courtyard was quiet, the digger now stopped, the work crew standing idly by, their heads hung in deference to the grave.

Meredith stood up and brushed the morsels of clay from her fingers. “I suppose we’ll be delayed again.” She didn’t know what else to say. Turning her back on the hole, she saw the crowd of workers part and the architect trudged toward her, his sleeves rolled up in the heat, his expression that of exasperation. “Hello, Kieran,” she said. She offered her hand to him even as her back stiffened. Although he was the project manager on this job, he was still the last person she wanted to see.

“I halted the work. I’m sorry. I know we’re behind schedule already…” He flung a tube of blue prints to the ground. He had a sheen of perspiration in his forehead, which he wiped away impatiently. Dressed in khakis and a button-down shirt, he looked as wilted as Meredith felt.

“The police are on their way.” Meredith stepped back as Kieran gave her a look and then made his way to the edge of the dig site and looked in.

“Shit.” He ran his fingers through his fair hair, the strands sticking together and becoming disarrayed. “I’ve seen this before. In Mosul. That’s definitely human.”

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Author Info:

Liah Penn is an author and attorney who resides outside of New Orleans, Louisiana
with her husband and two sons. A former prosecutor, she has worked on an Indian reservation, on the Mexican border and as a small town lawyer.

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Spotlight – The List

01 Wednesday Feb 2017

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Tawna Fenske, The List

This one has the potential for all sorts of sexy mahem 🙂

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The List

by Tawna Fenske

Blurb:

It all starts with a list.

A sex list.

Cassie Michaels comes up with a list of naughty experiences to impress her sisters and finally convince them—and herself—she’s not just a boring soil scientist. Unfortunately, it also makes Cassie a liar if she doesn’t tick off at least some of the kinky exploits before her sister’s bachelorette party. Luckily, she’s found just the man to help her, starting with number four—sex with an anonymous stranger.

As the owner of a chain of computer shops, Simon Traxel doesn’t deal with mundane repairs, but when a brunette with killer green eyes and a list of sexploits frozen across her computer screen shows up at one of his shops, he’s ready to get a little hands on.

Simon’s more than willing to have some fun helping Cassie turn her made-up adventures into reality. Between steamy public romps that go hilariously awry, and sexy antics with kitchen utensils, getting through a to-do list has never been this much fun. But nearing the last few items means nearing the end of their time together, and Simon isn’t ready to let her go…

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Excerpt:

“Okay, really quickly,” he says. “I’ve created a link to your new backup system right here. I updated your antivirus protection and did a thorough cleaning of the keyboard. You’ll want to watch out for this X key, though. It’s still a little sticky.”

I nod. “I’ll try not to type too many words with an X in them.” The second I say that, I think of half a dozen.

Excite.

X-rated.

Fixate.

Sex.

Climax.

He looks up at me then, and I could swear the same words just flitted through his mind. There’s a knowing expression in those brown eyes, and I’m positive he read the list. He had to, right?

Or maybe I imagined the look, because he’s back to pointing out some feature he updated on the laptop. Something about RAM or ROM or whatever. I can’t hear anything he’s saying over the voice in my head chanting, “Did he read it? Did he not read it?”

He turns and asks if what he just showed me makes sense, and I nod like a dummy. For all I know he just gave me a recipe for snickerdoodles or told me where Jimmy Hoffa is buried. I have no clue. He holds my gaze, and I try to blink away the panic.

I can’t take it anymore.

I have to defuse the tension or I’ll explode.

I finally blurt it out. “Look, Simon—I’m feeling a little flustered because I know you saw The List on my monitor when I dropped off the computer, and it’s really nice of you to pretend you didn’t see it, but obviously, you did, and I feel like I should explain that it’s probably not what you think it is.”

I drag in a deep breath to wash down that big mouthful of crazy. He looks up from the laptop then, a bemused expression in those light brown eyes. “What do I think it is?”

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Author Info:

Tawna Fenske is a USA Today bestselling author who writes humorous fiction, risqué romance, and heartwarming love stories with a quirky twist. Her offbeat brand of romance has received multiple starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, one of which noted, “There’s something wonderfully relaxing about being immersed in a story filled with over-the-top characters in undeniably relatable situations. Heartache and humor go hand in hand.”

Tawna lives in Bend, Oregon with her husband, step-kids, and a menagerie of ill-behaved pets. She loves hiking, snowshoeing, standup paddleboarding, and inventing excuses to sip wine on her back porch. She can peel a banana with her toes and loses an average of twenty pairs of eyeglasses per year.

Connect with Tawna:

Author Website: www.tawnafenske.com

Author Blog: http://tawnafenske.blogspot.com/

Author Twitter: https://twitter.com/tawnafenske

Author Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TawnaFenskeBooks/

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