BOOK COVER REVEAL & EXCERPT - WRONG WAYS DOWN by STACIA KANE - DOWNSIDE GHOSTS # 1.5

I am so excited for this series it is one of my fave. Stacia Kane brings it with the Downside Ghost series and here is the cover reveal for Wrong Ways Down # 1.5.

I have me some catching up to do with her series with Sacrificial Magic #5 and Chasing Magic #6.

I keep getting them from the library and running out of time to read them. So I MUST !!

Chess is one of my top three chick leads of all my reading in any genre. She is awesome and Terrible ( yes that is his name) is your most unlikely male lead. He is brilliantly written.

LOVE this cover! 

This is Urban Fantasy I think at its best. If you haven't cottoned on to this series, well, I HIGHLY recommend it.

You can check my reviews and even an interview I have with Stacia out from the left side bar. Just click on her author name and scroll down and read.

Michelle

This cover is a commissioned painting by artist Alessandra Kelley. (Sometime soon I'm planning to have Alessandra here to discuss the process and how the image went from concept to final cover). Seriously, guys, she drew this. And painted it. By hand. From scratch, as it were. Isn't that amazing?

The font is called "Dirty Ego" and was designed by Eduardo Recife at Misprinted Type.

Release date to announce SOON!

EXCERPT

His phone beeped. A text.

From Sela. “Home alone. Bored and lonely.”

He knew what that meant. She probably already had her clothes off; she usually did, when she sent texts like that. Specially when she’d been drinking some, which he guessed she had been with them shrieky dames she hung around.

“Something wrong?” Chess asked.

He glanced at her, glanced at the phone, and set it back down. He could tell Sela he was busy when he got it, be why he ain’t answered. “Naw, naw, just sayin no problems this night.”

“So what’s happening with that?”

He hesitated. He had to be careful what he told her, causen of what Bump might say, and causen he ain’t wanted to give her anything might upset her, when she already weren’t in a great mood.

She mistook his hesitation, and said real fast, “I mean, if you can talk about it. I know—”

“Naw, naw, ain’t that. Just ain’t got more to say on, dig. Almost done up. More worried on Slobag, him sneakin over here make trouble, dig.”

“He’s getting past the border streets? I thought you guys had people watching for that.”

A second’s calculation, before he made the decision. Ain’t like it mattered. Chess kept she mouth shut. And she weren’t gonna try going down there sheself; witches ain’t liked the downs. Ghosts were more powerful underground, she said. “Using them tunnels. Run all under everywhere.”

She hesitated with the water bottle right in front of her lips. The way she held it made her shirt gap at the neck; he ain’t could see the bite-mark anymore. Make-up, maybe, or maybe she did some spell or something to hide it. She could do shit like that. She could do anything. “I thought those were a myth.”

“Naw. Them real. Only no point starting fighting over em, aye? Just keepin eyes out. Figure one day we use em. Til then letting Slobag an they think them got one over, dig.”

She smiled. Aye, whatever she took were hitting her. “Are you ever not having to think about every little thing you do, and have strategies in place and shit like that?”

He cocked his eyebrow. “Like you ain’t do the same.”

“Yeah, but only when I’m working.” She looked at him, caught the raised brow, smiled bigger. “Or, well, okay, maybe not only then. But at least sometimes I’m not working. You always are.”

“Not here.” He glanced around, wished again his place were nicer. It suited him fine, and part of the reason he’d picked it was the lack of walls, the lack of places people could hide, but still. And it was cold, he thought; the back of his neck felt cold, and he reached up to cover it. “Only place I ain’t gotta do shit, aye? An ain’t gotta look over my shoulder, see who’s comin up behind, who’s giving me the try. Only place I’m relaxing, dig.”

“Yeah,” she said. Softly. All of the sudden they ain’t were teasing anymore. “I guess you have to be really careful, huh. The second you let your guard down… You never know what people are planning to do.”

He nodded. His turn to feel all awkward, he guessed. Never could decide if it made him feel good or embarrassed when she knew what he meant so fast on shit like that. When she understood what he meant. Like she knew him. She knew him better than anybody else, he figured, cepting Bump. Maybe even better than Bump.

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"Stacia Kane has upped the stakes for all those writing in the urban fantasy genre — UNHOLY GHOSTS is gripping and brilliant." --FantasyLiterature.com

"taking paranormal fantasy to another level right before our eyes." --Barnes & Noble Explorations

"UNHOLY MAGIC spits on gritty and calls its mother names." --Fiction Vixen

"The ultimate Bible of badassery." --Ann Aguirre, National Bestselling Author of SKIN DEEP

BOOK REVIEW - PREDESTINED by ABBI GLINES - EXISTENCE TRILOGY # 2 - PARANORMAL ROMANCE

By: Abbi Glines
Published By: Abbi Glines
Released: Available Now
Details: Kindle, 213 Pages

RATING : 5 DANKMAR STARS!

Blurb : Goodreads


You would think after helping save her boyfriend from an eternity in Hell that things would go back to normal. Well, as normal as life can be when you can see souls and your boyfriend is Death. But for Pagan Moore, things are just getting weirder.

The high school quarterback and reigning heartthrob, Leif Montgomery, is missing. While the town is in a frenzy of worry, Pagan is a nervous wreck for other reasons. Apparently good ‘ol Leif isn’t your average teenage boy. He isn’t even human. According to Death, Leif doesn’t have a soul. The quarterback may have skipped town but he’s still showing up in Pagan’s dreams... uninvited.

Dank has known from the beginning Leif wasn’t human. But he hadn’t worried about a simple soulless creature. Now, he realizes he made a grave mistake. Pagan’s soul has been marked since birth as a restitution, to a spirit so dark not even Death walks near it. Dank knows saving Pagan’s soul won’t be easy but Pagan is his. And he’s already proven he’ll defy Heaven to keep her. If Hell wants a piece of him too, then bring it on.


BOOK REVIEW by Michelle:

Existence ended with my mouth gaping open.

I was like WT!!

Didn’t see that one coming.

Good one Abbi!

Predestined is told from Pagan and Dank’s pov’s . I loved listening to Dank and his self discovery of emotions. I mean, he is Death. Death takes souls. He doesn’t feel. He doesn’t fall in love. He has a job to do.

Period.

Until Pagan.

Before Pagan, I hadn’t understood love. Before Pagan, taking souls had been easy. Now, I knew emotion. I knew pain and the feeling of loss and it made my purpose harder. Especially with the young ones. Even though I knew they’d get another life soon enough I understood their family’s pain as they lost someone they held dear.

I felt a wetness in my eyes and I blinked confused from the strange sensation. A small trickle of water ran down my cheek. I stared into the darkness as I held Pagan in my arms in amazement. Death had just shed a tear.


Dank just gets my heart a flutter. He is a gorgeous character who is showing us he has a heart. He just doesn't physically have one. 

I melt.

“Saved by the best friend,” Dank murmured pressing one last kiss to my neck before reaching for my backpack and opening his car door. He stepped out into the morning sunlight looking like a greek god. The jeans that hung perfectly from his hips cupped his butt deliciously. And Dank could rock a fitted t-shirt and did so on a daily basis. Today the t-shirt showing off his impressive chest was a dark blue. His black boots never changed but I liked them. They were all kinds of sexy. He looked like a bad ass even with my red backpack thrown over his left shoulder.


Leif has gone AWOL , the people that were in his life are forgetting him. But Leif seems to be appearing in Pagan’s dreams as memories.

Leif is messing with the one person that nobody will mess with on Dank’s watch.

Dank has Gee on security detail while he is serving the Creator and doing his job from all around the world. But he can’t be there to watch Pagan, to protect her from restitution from the evil Voodoo Lord .


“Listen to me Pagan, you have no reason to worry. I’ve got this. Remember what I told you. What Death protects can’t be harmed and baby,” the pad of his thumb caressed my cheek, “you’re the only thing I protect.”


“And I promise you Pagan that not one of those things is a match for me. So stop worrying. I’m Death, baby. Remember that.”


I do kinda love Ghede. He is a cracker of a character. I love his Cajun dialect. When reading it adds so much more to the story, it really puts me in Ghede’s shoes. I really loved the scenes with Ghede showing us why he is the lord of badass. Very colorful and ..well... bad. He plays the part well.

Leaning back with a sinister grin on his face was a tall figure in a black top hat, a pair of dark sunglasses and two cigarettes hanging from his mouth.

“You don like de rum do ya gurl,” Ghede stated for the rest of the table to hear.


Gee is an awesome sub character. Just love her wit and she too has fallen for Pagan’s charms. She is a gal you want on your side.


The door creaked and I lifted my eyes to see Gee stick her head back inside. “It’s called Valentine’s Day, you moron,” she announced. “If you’re going to date a human, Dankmar, you need to remember their holidays.” Gee gave me an exasperated look before closing the door once more.

“This was bound to happen sooner or later. You can’t love Death, Pagan , and not accept him . It’s what he was created for. He’s not just some sexy guy who can sing and play the guitar.”

I do kinda feel for Leif as he has sat back and watched Pagan from afar, thinking he had her in the bag. He does love her. It is just unfortunate he is born with no soul and his folks are not from good stock.

“You know Pagan , fear can turn to love.”


“Because those were the times I fell a little more in love with you.”


“Leif is the product of one of the strongest evil spirits there is. The Voodoo lord of the dead, Ghede, is powerful because of the chants and prayers he receives from humans. Leif is his creation. His child. Leif is the prince of the dead within the Voodoo religion.”


His mother was a deranged voodoo sex goddess. Great.


Dank is doing double time trying to keep up with his duties and keep Pagan from Leif and his father. Not an easy task.


“Leif is what he must be. He was created Pagan. He did his job. He isn’t sweet. He has no soul.”

I leaned forward and kissed his jaw then whispered, “Easy, big guy. We both know who owns my soul.”

“That’s right,” Dank replied then nipped at my ear, “and don’t you forget it.”

Dank will find a solution, he just has to find it.


“I’m going to find a way to fix this. Evil has a claim on your soul. Deities don’t associate with voodoo spirits. They aren’t all powerful but they can use their power over humans to cause pain. A restitution must be made in order to send them away from you. I can protect you but the spirit after you is the most powerful voodoo spirit out there. It won’t go away without a fight.”

And....Pagan is out to save her loved ones from restitution, making  Dank's job a little harder.

“Deep breaths, Peggy Ann. Take deep breaths. Don’t get his majesty over here raining down hell on all who get in his path because his girl is scared shitless.”

If that is not enough...... then we get a sniffles moment where Abbi rips our hearts out and then for good measure she throws another into the equation.

After all when a guy reads

She’s mine. That’s your one and only warning.

Dank Walker


He knows if he isn’t ready for a fight he can’t win then he’d better back the fuck off.

Dank is a most beautiful YA book boyfriend and Abbi will mess with your head with Leif. Ghede is a superb villain and Gee is the super kickass sidekick to our hero. Pagan will want to sacrifice herself and Dank won't be having none of that. 

I must keep reading this series to find out what Death moonlighting as a sexy guitar band member and a girl that is in high demand from the opposite sex ....well....I gotta know what happens. It is as simple as that. Nobody wants a father-in-law like Ghede, but sure sounds like he knows how to throw a party.

Michelle

BOOK BLITZ - EXCERPT & GIVEAWAY - ABERRANT by RUTH SILVER - YA DYSTOPIAN

Today on Novels On The Run I have a Book Blitz for ABERRANT by RUTH SILVER , a YA Dystopian. There are also some excerpts and an interview to have a read of. Throw this one on to your TBR pile. I love the cover. 

Enter the giveaway. Good luck!

Michelle

Aberrant by Ruth Silver

Publication date: April 28th 2013 (paperback)

Genre: YA Dystopian

Synopsis:

In the future Dystopian society of Cabal, the government instills equality for all and offers its citizens the perfect system. There is food, shelter and jobs for everyone. The one requirement is to follow the rules without question, including the government's match in marriage and "The Day of the Chosen", a lottery that randomly selects families to conceive children as natural means hasn't existed in generations. Following her eighteenth birthday, Olivia Parker accepts her requirement to marry her childhood best friend, Joshua Warren, and is eager to start her work assignment and new life when it all comes abruptly to an end as she's arrested and thrown in prison. The only crime committed, her existence. Olivia is unlike the rest of the world born not from "The Day of the Chosen." The truth haunts the government and puts her life in grave danger as one simple fact would destroy the perfect system.

With Joshua's help, Olivia breaks free of prison and is forced on the run. Together they set out to find the promised rebel town in search of a new home and new life together. Their situation seems less than promising as they reach the town of Haven. New rules and customs must be adhered to in order to stay. Leaving would mean most certain death in the large expanse of the Gravelands. Time is running out as the government mounts an attack to destroy Olivia and bury her secret with her. Thrown into a world unlike their own, they must quickly adapt to survive.

INTERVIEW GUEST POST:

What was the hardest part of writing Aberrant?

The hardest part was writing the characters suffering. I know that they will get through the pain - physical or emotional - and it will make them stronger, but it's still hard to torture your favorite character.


Who was your favorite character to write in Aberrant?I had the most fun with writing Olivia. She's full of so many mixed emotions and traits that we're always learning something about who she is. She's not complacent. She has a mind of her own and likes to explore the world around her. She's curious by nature and it has the tendency to get her into trouble. She's complex, which makes her three-dimensional, but also incredibly caring and supportive of those she loves.


Why did you decide on making Aberrant into a series?
I felt like I had a huge story to tell. Something that would span across hundreds of thousands of words. That may not seem like a lot but when sending your novel to agents and publishers, there's a certain word count they're looking for in new authors and in young adult/new adult titles. The only way to properly tell the story, was to turn it into a trilogy.


Do you have the second and third book planned already?
Without getting into any specifics, yes! The next book, Moirai, will be available sometime in 2014. The first draft was finished last December but with the edits and some significant changes in Aberrant, I need to make the story flow a little smoother.


Can you tell us about one of these changes in Aberrant? What was added to the story?

Down to the final edits, I was adding details and shaping each character just a little bit more. I wanted the world that they're in and the cities to feel real. I wanted you to experience it, just as Olivia has for the first time. The very end of the Aberrant, I added a glimpse at what we can expect in the second novel. That was one of the final edits that was added, among many others.

EXCERPT 

Joshua and I both headed out of the council hall with Jacqueline leading the way. The line of young men had barely dwindled. I avoided their stare, their curiosity as they slowly proceeded forward, giving the attendant their name. I wondered how they knew about me and more importantly what they knew. Jacqueline walked a few feet ahead of us, giving us privacy to talk. I silently thanked her for still respecting us and our wishes. She was probably the only one in Haven who liked us. I didn’t know if I should be relieved or angered by the recent news. I could feel the whispers, like tingles against bare skin as we walked further from council hall and rounded the corner. I was grateful to be out of sight from all those curious stares. "I guess we should consider ourselves lucky," I remarked. I didn't feel lucky. I tried to sound upbeat, but everything was quickly falling apart around us.

Joshua scoffed at the idea. "Lucky? I wouldn't go that far," he emphasized. "This is how it starts. Eventually, they'll make it a crime for us to see one another." He sounded disgusted.

"They sort of already are," I remarked, trying to understand the council's decision. "I think they just want to make sure I'm protected." Though I didn't quite understand how setting me up to meet multiple bachelors was any form of protection. It seemed as if they only wanted to keep Joshua away from me. The one person I could trust, implicitly. I knew the rules were different because I was different. They didn’t seem particularly bothered by Joshua having a girl in his room. It didn’t seem fair.

"Seems like they don't really care what we think at all," Joshua retorted as we headed into our building. "Were you okay last night? I worried when Landon escorted you out of the dormitory."

I walked slowly up the stairs, Jacqueline just a few feet ahead of us. "Aside from being locked in a room with no windows." I sighed. "At least they're giving me freedom from the tech center and a real bed. I should be grateful," I mocked. I didn't feel grateful, but I knew his mother at least tried to make it easier for me. As soon as we crested the top stair, I froze in place. The building shook with an alarming intensity as the first drone flew low overhead. The downstairs chandelier swayed and I held onto Joshua's arm and my eyes widened in terror. "What do you think is going on?" I asked watching the movement grow stronger as vibrations echoed through the dormitory. A nearby painting affixed to the wall crashed to the floor, the glass breaking. I could feel the ground quake beneath my feet as Joshua grabbed my hand, refusing to let go.

"We're being attacked." It wasn't a question. Together, we jogged briskly down the hall toward our rooms. I didn't know how much time we had. All I knew was the government was here, and they were searching for me!

EXCERPT

Joshua came into my room, ignoring all rules as he helped push the dresser further from the wall, knocking it to the floor allowing me more than enough room to grab the journal and go. I tossed it inside the pack and Joshua put the map inside before we stepped out of my bedroom. I glanced down the hall, not sure what I expected to see. To the right the dormitory had been hit, and a roar of smoke and fire filled the confined space. Jacqueline was gone. Hand-in-hand we ran in the opposite direction toward the staircase.

My eyes burned. Coughing, I refused to let go of his hand as we stepped outside. Drones weren’t the only things attacking Haven. Tanks rolled into town. A few soldiers jumped off, taking over the perimeter, guns drawn. I paused, gripping Joshua's hand as we were shrouded in smoke. Just a few feet away, a soldier lifted his weapon and unleashed fury on a group of innocent people. I covered my mouth with my hand to keep from crying out when a child no older than three hit the cement. His eyes remained open as blood seeped from his head. He didn't move. Didn't blink. It took only a moment to realize he’d died instantly. All I could do was stand there in shock.

"We have to move," I heard Joshua's voice, but it didn't register. The smoke swirled around us and gunfire erupted in every direction. He grabbed my arm. "Olivia, I need you to focus." I nodded once, trying my best to clear the cobwebs from my mind. I couldn't, though. I wanted to run out to the child and protect him, but it was too late. I was too late. They were here because of me, innocent blood on my hands. I felt the heat radiating from the dormitory and my eyes flashed back. "I need you here with me, Olive."

"I am," I insisted, knowing if I didn't focus we'd both be dead. I spotted more soldiers – their standard issue uniform and the Cabal crest on their jacket sleeve told me all I needed to know. The government had come looking for us. "Which way?" I couldn't see the exit. With the smoke enveloping us and the fear coursing through my veins, I forgot the direction we'd come from.

Goodreads: 

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17701160-aberrant

Purchase:

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AUTHOR BIO

Ruth Silver is the best-selling author of Aberrant. The Young Adult/New Adult Romantic Dystopian Adventure, Aberrant is the first in a trilogy, released April 17th, 2013. Silver first began writing poetry as a teenager and reading heaps of fan fiction in her free time. She attended Northern Illinois University in 2001 and graduated with a Bachelor’s in Communication. While in college she spent much of her free time writing with friends she met online and penning her first novel, Deuces are Wild, which she self-published in 2004. Her favorite class was Creative Writing senior year where she often handed in assignments longer than the professor required because she loved to write and always wanted to finish her stories. Her love of writing, led her on an adventure in 2007 to Melbourne, Australia. Silver enjoys reading YA/NA novels and sharing her favorite books with other readers. She also enjoys photography, traveling and of most of all writing.

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BLOG TOUR & GIVEAWAY - TRAGIC by J.A. HUSS - ROOK & RONIN # 1 - NEW ADULT CONTEMPORARY - 5 ROOK & RONIN WITH A SIDE ORDER OF SPENCER STARS!

Today on Novels On The Run I now have TRAGIC's blog tour stop with my review of this awesome book. 

J.A. Huss rocked my kazbah with this one!

LOVED IT!!!

I love her book trailers, they are edgy and energetic. Makes ya wanna pick the book up!

I am so looking forward to some more Ronin and Spencer in Manic, Ronin & Rook # 2. 

Michelle

Tragic by J.A. Huss

Publication date: May 20th 2013 

Genre: New Adult Contemporary Romance

Rook Walsh is TRAGIC

Because life so far – just sucks. Some girls get parents. Rook got the foster care system. Some girls get Prince Charming. Rook got an abusive frog. Some girls get lucky…

Rook got a second chance.

And she took it. Because when fate throws you a bone – you grab it with both hands and run.

Antoine Chaput knows the minute he spies Rook in his photography studio that she’s got The Look. The dark and desperate look he must have to land the exclusive TRAGIC media contract.

Rook is paired up with top model, Ronin, and he’s everything her abusive ex-boyfriend wasn’t. Patient, gentle, happy, attentive, and sexy! He knows exactly what to do to make Rook blush for Antoine’s camera. 

Rook’s luck changes in an instant and suddenly she’s the darling of the modeling world. It’s a dream job to go with a dream guy and all she has to do is look pretty and follow directions. But there’s always a price to pay – and Rook is about to get the bill.

New Adult Contemporary Romance *Mature Content* Recommended for ages 17+ due to sexual situations and language usage.

Trailer:

BOOK REVIEW by Michelle:

This book was not what I was expecting. I mean what was I expecting?? I didn’t read the blurb, I went on the cover.

I love the cover.

I knew it was a contemporary, but it is a contemporary with a difference.

J.A. Huss had me entranced. This was a really awesome read. The characters and sub characters had me turning the pages. Visually I saw this story play out rather spectacularly in my head. A really great Contemporary.

Rook Walsh is Tragic. Her life has led her to foster care, then to an abusive relationship, then to a homeless shelter....... to model.

But this is not your typical Cinderella story.

This is the difference.

Elise smiles. “You’re not like the others, Rook. You’re calm and quiet, and a bit tragic, if you don’t mind me saying.”



“If ever there was a girl who is crying out that she’s TRAGIC, it’s this one. Just wait until you see her.”

Rook and Ronin are the two most likable characters. Ronin is something else. He really brings it in this story. At first you are trying to work him out, what is his game? 

Ronin works for his sister Elise, and her partner the rather moody photographer, Antoine Chaput. 

Describing him as an artist should really do the trick - he’s got all the stereotypical attributes like selfish, asshole, romantic, asshole, creative, asshole, temperamental, asshole. I could go on and on, but what’s the point. He’s an asshole.

Fate has Rook getting her hands on an invite to Antoine’s studio. She has no experience and nothing to lose.

“Except for the part where you got your hands on that invitation card and met us, of course. Because maybe tomorrow you’ll see this was a stroke of luck for you.”


I had favourite scenes in this book and they were mainly with the Cherry Blossom trees.


Every single cherry tree is filled with flowers, so many flowers every bough bends under the weight. It created a heaviness that transfers across the terrace and pulls me into the scenery. Ronin catches my gaze and stops for a moment. “We’re gonna take pictures of you out here tomorrow. It will be perfect, don’t you think?”

I stare at the trees a few more moments and then mutter, " They’re so beautiful I can barely stand to look at them.”

“I know the feeling.” His boyish charms are gone now as he looks down on me with a hunger I haven’t seen on a man’s face in a very long time. “and a picture of you surrounded by those blossoms will be enough to make a guy shed a tear over the perfection of it all.”


Tragic is a campaign that Antoine is the photographer for. He has chosen Rook as the model. But what has she got herself into?

Again, this is the difference.

But Elise has power in this house. Elise, no matter what Antoine says, wears the pants in their relationship because if Elise is unhappy Antoine cannot live with himself. He falls to pieces when they fight.

So we work on her for almost half an hour inside the office. We wear her down, we make promises. We will watch Rook, we promise. We won’t push her, we’ll be careful. We promise all these things if Elise will let us keep this girl.

We want her that bad.


I don’t want to do any spoilers so I will ssshhh up .

Enter Spencer Sturgis, biker, artist. He too wants Rook for the Sturgis account.

I love Spencer.

But, again, what has innocent Rook got herself in for?

I loved how Spencer explained to Rook what his campaign was about and she got an understanding of what he was advertising, if she signed on.

I must admit, I am still unsure about what actually the Tragic campaign is advertising. I totally get the photo shoot, clothes etc but what IS the Tragic campaign? I get that Rook has a bad past which gives her the look for the campaign. But what IS Tragic. 

I think what I was most impressed with this story, was Ronin, I am still getting to know him , but he has a great presence in this book and Rook is a girl you are rooting for.

I smile because he just sniffed me.

“I’m just checking to see if you’re drunk, ma’am.”

I giggle a little.

“And if I wasn’t so tired, I’d check you for drugs as well. Pat you down until I found your hidden stash.”

“I’m naked, remember?”

“Awwww, come on, Rook! I’m trying not to think about that. Be good now, or I’ll break my promise and bother you all up. Make you all bothered...” His voice trails off, already giving in to the call of sleep.

A very smexi read in a different way.

Yes, this was a book that I loved...it was different!

Rook & Ronin..... they are dynamite when they are on the photo shoot...OMG! I love the way Ronin talks Rook the errrr, rookie model through her photo shoots and what he does!!!!!

“I’m glad you’re here,” I tell her honestly. I want to take her face in my hands and kiss her so bad, but I make myself behave. “I hope you understand that. I’m a flirt and I joke a lot but - “ I lose my train of thought as she starts breathing a little harder, making her chest rise and fall under the very sheer pale blue fabric that barely covers her breasts.”- but you stun me.”



“Most professionals would put that little bib thing on their clients, though. Right?”

“Only the ones who plan on getting their clients wet.”

“So... you don’t plan on getting me wet?”

He chokes down a laugh. “Be good, Gidget, or I’ll have to spank you.”


This book ends with the vibe of a to-be-continued. There is a villain of the story and I was kinda on edge the whole book ....waiting. When you are running from somebody, but you are a face of an advertising?? campaign, chances are the villain can now find you.

I am rather excited for Rook & Ronin # 2, Manic. Due August 2013. There is much more for Ronin and Rook to discover about each other and Spencer, well I am rather keen to see this biker lad again!

My only complaint , it was too short, I wanted to keep reading and reading and reading.....

Michelle

Goodreads:

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17404203-tragic

Purchase: 

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-Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/TRAGIC-Rook-Ronin-1-ebook/dp/B00CTUWEFI

AUTHOR BIO

J. A. Huss likes to write new adult books that make you think and keep you guessing. Her favorite genre to read is space opera, but since practically no one reads those books, she writes new adult science fiction, paranormal romance, contemporary romance, urban fantasy, and books about Junco (who refuses to be saddled with a label).

She has an undergraduate degree in horses, (yes, really–Thank you, Colorado State University) and a master’s degree in forensic toxicology from the University of Florida. She used to have a job driving around Colorado doing pretty much nothing but shooting the breeze with farmers, but now she just writes, runs the New Adult Addiction and Clean Teen Reads Book Blogs, and runs an online science classroom for homeschoolers.

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BOOK COVER REVEAL - GIVEAWAY & TRAILER - MANIC by J.A. HUSS - ROOK & RONIN # 2 - NEW ADULT CONTEMPORARY

Today on Novels On The Run I have the cover reveal for Manic by J.A. Huss. I am uber excited to read Manic, cause I have read Tragic and LOVED IT!

I have decided after reading Tragic - Ronin & Rook # 1 ( Blog tour this evening ) that J.A. Huss is becoming one of my fave Indie Authors.

Tragic was brilliant, loved it. 

It is a NA Contemporary with a difference.

Huss's book trailers are always entertaining and Manic's trailer is enough to make those that haven't read Tragic, read it.

Climb on board. 

Ronin is a smexi lad and Rook is a smart girl, but now the money is talking so who knows what she is getting herself into. All I know is Spence is very intriguing to me. Spence is the biker dude. Woot!

The book trailers kick book trailer ass. Love them! 

Michelle

Manic by J.A. Huss 

Series: Rook and Ronin #2 

Publication date: August 1st 2013

Genre: New Adult Contemporary

Synopsis:

TRAGIC is over and Rook is ready for the future—Spencer Shrike and the STURGIS contract!

It’s three months of body art modeling! That means three months of Spencer Shrike’s paintbrush all over her body, three months in front of Antoine’s camera, and three months of twenty-four hour filming for Spencer’s Biker Channel reality show.

Wait a minute…what reality show? Maybe she should’ve read that STURGIS contract a little closer? ;)

Sure, Rook’s bank account is almost overflowing, but Ronin is angry, Clare is trying to escape rehab, Antoine is a worried mess, and Elise is just trying to hold everyone together. Her new family is about to fall apart before she even gets the chance to enjoy them.

Add in a mysterious man from her past, a road trip to the famous Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, and a final show in front of the entire world where all her goods are on display, and you’ve Manic—a new adult contemporary romance that will definitely make your summer sizzle!


Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17857998-manic

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AUTHOR BIO

J. A. Huss likes to write new adult books that make you think and keep you guessing. Her favorite genre to read is space opera, but since practically no one reads those books, she writes new adult science fiction, paranormal romance, contemporary romance, urban fantasy, and books about Junco (who refuses to be saddled with a label).

She has an undergraduate degree in horses, (yes, really–Thank you, Colorado State University) and a master’s degree in forensic toxicology from the University of Florida. She used to have a job driving around Colorado doing pretty much nothing but shooting the breeze with farmers, but now she just writes, runs the New Adult Addiction and Clean Teen Reads Book Blogs, and runs an online science classroom for homeschoolers.

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BOOK COVER REVEAL - TAKEN BY YOU by CARLIE SEXTON - THE KILLER NEXT DOOR # 2

Today I have a cover reveal for TAKEN BY YOU by CARLIE SEXTON due for release 9th July 2013. Throw this one onto your TBR pile. 

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Michelle

Book cover script—Taken by You
DUE FOR RELEASE
9TH JULY 2013

How tragic it is when a caged spirit finally finds its freedom and — entranced in its ecstasy — is invited by that freedom into a cloaked dance with danger.

In Book One of this three-part epic, Kate Simmons — young and alluring, and finally out of her cage of grief — attracts more than attention. Intoxicated by her newfound independence, a blithe Kate is on her way to finding out that around the corners of life, some life-changing eye-openers await. As the story continues in Book Two and she begins to churn a dangerously turbulent trail, it is Kate who now has to snap to, to react, to outrun, or become yet another tortured victim who vanishes down the path of wrong choice.

Having already roiled the risky waters of jealousy, Kate moves in with Neil while Roger — an enamored oddity — visits his son in Germany. Upon his return and finding Kate gone, Roger’s predator mind becomes unhitched, and then unleashed, on the hunt of a lifetime. But whose life?

Step by creeping step, even as Kate’s future closes in on her, she attends — obliviously — to her new life, working through the challenges of fresh relationships, losing family members both to death and to deceit, questioning the depth of love.

Every path offers a choice. Every choice offers a consequence. And every consequence summons its due. As emotions swirl across fateful days and nights, some in Kate’s life will reach out to touch happiness in warm embraces, others to sever ties in bloody traces.

The stains of passion are frequently mistaken. The question here is who will be taken?

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BLOG TOUR - GIVEAWAY & EXCERPT - IN TOO DEEP by MICHELLE KEMPER BROWNLOW - NEW ADULT CONTEMPORARY - SAPPHIRE STAR PUBLISHING

Today on Novels On The Run on our stop of the blog tour I have an excerpt from In Too Deep by Michelle Kemper Brownlow and a giveaway for you to enter.

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Michelle

In Too Deep by Michelle Kemper Brownlow

Publication date: June 6th 2013

by Sapphire Star Publishing

Genre: New Adult Romance

Gracie has just finished her freshman year of college in Memphis when she takes a job at a local pizza joint in her home town of McKenzie, Tennessee. She is the epitome of innocence when she meets Noah. Noah is unabashedly handsome, intriguingly reckless and just cocky enough to be sexy. Gracie’s instincts tell her to stay far away from him and based on the stories she hears from her co-workers he leaves broken hearts in his wake. But still, she can’t explain her fascination with him.

Noah puts aside his bad boy ways when what he thought was a summer crush has him unexpectedly falling in love. But soon after Gracie transfers to UT Knoxville to be with Noah, their unexpected love becomes riddled with anger, deceit and humiliation.

Jake, Noah’s former roommate and Gracie’s best friend, can no longer be a bystander. Gracie’s world falls out from beneath her and when she breaks she turns to Jake for strength. As Jake talks her through a decision she’s not yet strong enough to make, together they uncover a truth so ugly neither of them is prepared for its fallout. Will Jake pull her to the surface or is Gracie Jordan finally In Too Deep?

EXCERPT

The strong force of the wave pulled me under. I gasped for air just before my face disappeared below the surface. My body rolled over and over, my arms flailed, and my head pounded into the sea bed which felt like a concrete floor. The salty water stung my eyes. I forced myself to keep them open, fearing I would slip into unconsciousness from the blow I took to the head. I knew I had to hold it together long enough for the swell to pull me back up when the wave rolled. But something was pulling me deeper. I fought with all my might, kicking against the thick water swallowing me whole. I used my arms like underwater oars and sliced through the depths trying to reach what I needed most, but I was in too deep.

“Get out!” I could barely get the words out before I had to run to the bathroom and void my gut of its contents. Noah didn’t move.

I wiped my mouth with the back of my hand and screamed, “I said, Get! Out!” I stumbled back into the room, grabbed the box of mementos I’d collected from the last year of our relationship, and dumped everything into the trashcan in the corner. Like a communal grave, there lay movie tickets, dried rose petals, a strip of photos from the boardwalk, all the beautiful letters he wrote last fall semester, an empty beer bottle, and all the rest of what was now just a reminder of the guy I thought I knew.

“Gracie, don’t…” His face fell, but he didn’t move from the edge of my bed.

“Don’t? Don’t what, Noah? Don’t break up with you? Are you kidding?” My ears burned from his admission of guilt. It hit me broadside. I wasn’t prepared for the words he had spoken just moments before.

The rush of water covering me grew cold. Icy. My body quaked. My lungs burned and begged for air. I could see light above. It glimmered and danced on the small waves my panic created. I reached for the surface. Even if I couldn’t pull myself up, maybe just feeling the sun’s warmth would stop the shivering that threatened to unravel me.

My legs gave out beneath me and I crumbled into a heap on my apartment floor. I sobbed so uncontrollably I gasped for air. I was livid. Repulsed. Crushed and torn. Noah was the love of my life, and things were just getting back to the way I longed for them to be. Back to what used to be our “normal.” Before he pledged Sigma Chi. Our relationship hadn’t been easy since I transferred to Knoxville. But our story wasn’t ready to end.

It went something like this:

Bad boy meets good girl.

First kiss.

Bad boy turns sensitive.

Love.

Good girl gives sensitive boy all of her.

Long distance.

Flowers. Love letters.

Long, sweet phone calls.

Good girl transfers to sensitive boy’s school.

Sensitive boy becomes fraternity boy.

Drunken social events.

Secrets revealed.

Fraternity boy pulls good girl under.

Good girl finds herself in too deep.

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AUTHOR BIO

Michelle Kemper Brownlow has been a storyteller her entire life. Her debut was on the high school cheerleading bus granting requests to re-tell her most embarrassing moments for a gaggle of hysterical squadmates. 

Earning her Bachelor’s degree from Penn State University in Art Education and then marrying her very own “Jake,” she moved to Binghamton, NY where she taught high school. After having two children she quit work and finished her Master’s degree in Elementary Education at Binghamton University.

The Brownlow family of four moved to Michelle’s hometown of Morgantown, PA while the children were still quite young. A few years after moving, her family grew by one when they welcomed a baby into their home through the gift of adoption. The family still resides in PA, just miles from where that high school cheer bus was parked.

Michelle has been an artist for as long as she can remember, always choosing pencils and crayons over toys and puzzles. As a freelance illustrator, her simple characters play the starring roles in numerous emergent reader books published by Reading Reading Books.

“Writing is my way of making sense of the world. When I give my characters life on the pages I write, it frees up space in my mind to welcome in new stories that are begging to be told,” says Brownlow. 

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BOOK COVER REVEAL - WICKED HOPE by TABATHA VARGO - THE WICKED TRILOGY # 2 - PARANORMAL / FANTASY ROMANCE

Today on Novels On The Run I have a cover reveal for the lovely Tabatha Vargo's new paranormal book, WICKED HOPE. 

Gorgeous cover. Check out the synopsis and excerpt to wet your whistle. Throw this on to your TBR pile.

Michelle

Title: Wicked Hope

THE WICKED TRILOGY # 2

Author: Tabatha Vargo

Release Date: Fall 2013

Genre: Paranormal / Fantasy Romance

Presented by: As You Wish Tours

SYNOPSIS:

There isn’t anything that Mage McPherson wouldn’t do for love, including steal someone’s spirit. After Adam is tragically lost to her, Mage discovers a spell that can bring him back. But things can never be that simple, and she learns the hard way that there are always consequences when it comes to magic. Adam isn’t quite the Adam she remembers and now whatever he feels, she feels...times two.

Adam Westcott knows three things. One, Mage McPherson is the love of his life. Two, thanks to Mage’s wonder spell they are now somehow physically connected. And three, there’s a part of him, right next to the heart that beats for her, that wants to kill her. The only option is to run, but it’s impossible to run away from yourself. The inner struggle within himself makes for a hard fight when yet another dark magic comes to call.

Sometimes it’s not evil that you must defeat, sometimes it’s love, and when the line between love and hate is at its thinnest, there’s no telling what can happen. But Mage won’t lose hope, even if destiny is being a witch.

EXCERPT

He’s here, just inside the electric-blue doors that mark the entrance to hell. I can sense him. The part of me that lives inside him calls to me. The connection is so strong that it takes my breath away. For a brief moment I begin to hyperventilate. Even if it wasn’t a matter of life or death, I’d still want to be here more than any other place on earth. Here, in a back alley of the city of sin.

I’m pulled towards him, so I waste no more time and push the doors open. The stench of lust and cigarette smoke invades my senses. The distinct smell of pheromones and overly sweet perfume mixes in for a very nauseating scent.

He’s knows I’m here. He can sense me the way I sense him and even though I can’t see him, I feel his eyes on me.

The loud techno music is distracting as I make my way through the crowded room. Half naked women rub themselves like horny cats against silver poles. One in particular catches my attention. She bends with the music allowing her platinum hair to fall over before she shakes it back and forth. She runs her hands up her knee high boots before throwing her head back—platinum locks thrashing around her narrow face. She looks down at me from her mini stage and mirror eyes flash with her overly seductive smile.

I turn away quickly and my eyes land on him. The moment I see him, the side of his mouth twitches into an evil smirk. Adam would never smile at me that way, and yet, there he is.

AUTHOR BIO

Tabatha's been writing since she could pick up a pencil. Her first publication was a little poem in her elementary school paper, from that point on she was hooked. When she was a teenager, she traded in her girly magazines for personalized writing notebooks.

At nineteen, she met her own personal prince charming and writing took a back burner for a while. She's now married to that prince and the mother of a beautiful seven-year-old princess/rock star. Once her daughter was born, writing came back into her life, and she finished her very first novel, Wicked Fate, in May of 2009.

She's now pursuing her English degree and she hopes to one day teach while continuing to write.

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WICKED FATE

What if you lived in fear of yourself?

For Mage McPherson being afraid of herself is just the norm. Thanks to that fear, being a loner in a small town never bothered the mysterious Mage. Once she received her secret abilities, she figured being alone was the safest way to be. That all changes during her sophomore year at Summerville High when Adam, her equally mysterious secret crush, starts to notice her.

Afraid that she might harm Adam, Mage must learn to either control or deny herself. With Adam by her side she's more powerful than she’s ever been, but is she powerful enough to defeat her worst nightmare? She learns a hard lesson about love and magic when her destiny comes to collect.

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BOOK BLITZ & TRAILER - FALLEN FOR YOU by CARLIE SEXTON - THE KILLER NEXTDOOR # 1 - ADULT THRILLER ROMANCE

Today on Novels On The Run I have a Book Blitz for Fallen For You by Carlie Sexton and her book trailer. Today is the release party for Fallen For You. Below are Carlie's links.

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By: Carlie Sexton
Published By: Carlie Sexton
Released : Available Now
Details: Digital, 195 Pages

Blurb : Goodreads

If you believe your life is the sum total of your choices, what do you do when things just don’t add up? 

You are about to find out. 

It won’t be pretty. It won’t be dull. And surely, it won’t be safe. In fact, making just one wrong choice could put evil at your bedside watching you sleep.

And so it is with Kate Simmons, a young woman who, by choosing to regain her life, actually puts it at risk by the very choices she makes. After unimaginable heartbreak stops her world on a dime, Kate falls into a three-year blackness of self blame that brings her to the edge of life, itself. As time finally brings light back through tiny cracks of renewed desire, Kate moves out of the prison she made for herself in her mother’s home to find a new reality, rooming with her best girlfriend, Charlie.

Yet, to be free is to be vulnerable, and Kate’s choices more than ever mark a splattered line between being happy and being dead.

Care to choose? Here’s your menu: 

A strangely alluring building manager so possessed with wanting you for his own, he’ll bury more than the fact he has a girlfriend; a buff college student for whom you are clearly hot, as are all the other girls on campus; a pushy lawyer who is as handsome as he is intoxicated with conquest, who doesn’t take no for an answer, who gets what he wants — always.

Sometimes, it’s whom you choose. Sometimes, it’s who chooses you. If you’re Kate, it’s both, and it puts you on a perilous road where good looks and humor are the thin masks of jealous delusion and utter violence.

You’re in trouble when the sum total of your choices is written in blood red.

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