Review: The Bodyguards’ Princess by Ann Mayburn

Format read: ebook copy provided by author
Release Date: 30 July 2011
Number of pages: 132 pages
Publisher: Liquid Silver Books
Formats available: ebook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon

Blurb:

Lalita Chetana, daughter of a United Nations Diplomat, survives an attempted kidnapping by a terrorist group known as the anarchists. She has a difficult time with her recovery, and her father hires two bodyguards, ex-Marines Asher Epson and Kent Warne, to keep her safe and give her time to heal. Unfortunately, even their skills can’t save her from an enemy determined to destroy her.

Hypnotized into stealing UN secrets, she is framed by the anarchists. As part of their plan to humiliate and break her father, they plant a hypnotic trigger that anytime she hears the word “bitch” she will become aroused to the point of pain. She is forced to flee and go into hiding with Asher and Kent. The …

Advent Calendar Day 23: The Restorer by Amanda Stevens + Giveaway

Welcome to the 23rd day of Book Lovers Inc Advent Calendar. Each day we will offer you one great read in a giveaway on all 24 days till Christmas.

Today, allow me to tell you a bit about a book by author Amanda Stevens: The Restorer. When I read the intriguing book description earlier this year, little did I know it’d end up being one of my absolutely favorite books of 2011. Sure, I was creeped out by the ghosty tale…but I loved every minute of it. The best way to describe this book is “atmospheric.” The language used to describe the environments, the dialogue, the emotions within the protagonist…it’s exquisite. This tale, about a woman who can (unfortunately for her) see spirits, has got mystery, the paranormal, and traces of romance. You will undoubtedly be struck by it long after you finish reading it. This book is the …

Guest Post: Embracing the Holiday Spirit Year-Round by Amanda Bonilla + Giveaway

Today at BLI, we’re very pleased to be welcoming author Amanda Bonilla! She shares with us some of the traditions and tendencies that crop up around Christmas, noting a a few great pieces of advice for one and all to consider when it comes to generosity. For our parts, we couldn’t agree more!  Stay tuned after the post for a readerly treat from Amanda.

First of all, I’d like to thank BLI for hosting me today! You guys are great! ☺

Since the time my kids were little, I’ve told them, “You don’t have to like everyone. But you do have to treat everyone with kindness and compassion.”

During the holidays, everyone adopts a “Goodwill toward your fellow man” attitude. And while this is wonderful, I believe that we should practice this philosophy year-round, rather than one month out of the year. And so, …

Advent Calendar Day 13: Addicted To You by Bethany Kane + Giveaway

Welcome to the 13th day of Book Lovers Inc Advent Calendar. Each day we will offer you one great read in a giveaway on all 24 days till Christmas.

Today you will have the chance to win one of my absolute favorite books of the year, the hot erotic romance about the handsome “addictive” Irish screenplay writer and director, Rill Pierce and the feisty Katie Hughes, Addicted To You by Bethany Kane (Beth Kery). I’ve long been a devout fan of Beth’s work and Addicted To You offers everything I’ve come to love about her stories. Complex characters, a riveting storyline, emotion, and PASSION. Katie, formerly a Beverly Hills tax attorney, quits her job, packs up her Maserati and heads to Vultures Canyon a very small Illinois town where Rill, wallowing in a well of self loathing has shunned his former illustrious career and is drinking himself to …

Advent Calendar Day 8: Three to Tango Anthology + Giveaway

Welcome to the 8th day of Book Lovers Inc Advent Calendar. Each day we will offer you one great read in a giveaway on all 24 days till Christmas.

Today you will have the chance to win a copy of Three to Tango- one of the best anthologies I ever read. It has 2 of my all time favorites authors-Megan Hart and Lauren Dane. I actually devoured their stories. And through this anthology I discovered Emma Holly and I really fell fast for her writing. You like you romance hot? This is the book for you.

Purchasing Info: Lauren Dane, Megan Hart, Emma Holly, Bethany Kane, Publisher, Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, Amazon.ca, Powell’s, Books-A-Million, Borders, Chapters, IndieBound, Goodreads, Kindle, Nook

Book Blurb: …

Review: “Devoured by Darkness” by Alexandra Ivy

Devoured by Darkness

Format Read: Paperback purchased by reviewer
Length: 352 Pages
Series: Guardians of Eternity Book 7
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Publisher: Zebra Paranormal Romance
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Formats Available: Mass Market Paperback, Kindle, Nook, eBook
Purchasing Info: Author’s Website, Goodreads, Amazon, Barnes & Nobel, Book Depository, Chapters, Powells, Kindle, Nook, All Romance eBooks

Book Blurb:

Tane is a Charon, sworn to hunt and kill rogue vampires. His new assignment seems like a waste of his talents…until he catches up with the Jinn he’s been sent to capture. Half human, half demon, Laylah has a vulnerable streak that strikes right through to Tane’s cold heart. He should be furious when she uses her powers to bind them together, preventing him from dragging her before the Commission. Instead he welcomes any reason to stay close enough to touch, to taste, to seduce…

Laylah …

Interview: Alexandra Ivy + Giveaway

Alexandra Ivy

It’s our great pleasure to welcome New York Times Bestselling Author to BLI today! Alexandra is here to celebrate the release of her latest novel Bound by Darkness, which which is a Zebra Paranormal romance released on November 29, 2011. Bound by Darkness is the Eighth novel in Alexandra’s enormously popular Guardians of Eternity series of novels and we are going to chat about her series and her latest book!

Lea: Alexandra! It is such a thrill to be able to chat with you today, thank you so much for joining us!

Alexandra: I’m delighted to be here, and thanks so much for inviting me!!

Lea: Alexandra, to start off can you please tell us a bit about yourself?

Alexandra: I actually came to writing from my love for theatre. I’ve always been a huge reader, but when I was younger I hoped to work on stage. After taking a playwriting class …

Review: "Gateway To Heaven", by Beth Kery

Format Read: e-Book purchased by reviewer
Length: Novel
Genre: Sensual Contemporary Romance
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Formats Available: e-book, Kindle
Purchasing Info: Author’s Website, Kindle, Smashwords
Book Blurb:

Life is rough when you’re gorgeous, rich, talented and so sexy that the media won’t leave you alone.

It’s certainly the truth in Christian Lasher’s case. He returns to the neighborhood of his childhood to escape the spotlight, hungering for a change in his creative endeavors. In the midst of his soul searching he meets Megan and is captured by the tantalizing hint of her hidden fires. Megan knows nothing about his wild, rebellious youth or his career as a rock star—and Christian would prefer to keep it that way.

There was much, much more to her than the role of a fragile victim.

Megan Shreve is a sculptor with creative depths and passions that tragedy had forced into …

Guest Post: My Musings on How Vampires Went from Drooling Corpses to Hot Superheroes By Beth Kery + Giveaway

Please join us in giving a warm BLI welcome to National Bestselling Author Beth Kery today. Beth is a prolific author having penned numerous novels published by Samhain, Berkley, Ellora’s Cave and Harlequin. Beth is here to celebrate the release of Silken Rapture, Book II in her Princes of the Underground series which is coming from Samhain Publishing in digital format on November 22, 2011. 

Silken Rapture is an erotic paranormal romance and Beth is here to talk about a topic near and dear to us paranormal romance lovers….vampires! Take it away Beth!

With the second book in my Princes of the Underground series, Silken Rapture, releasing from Samhain on November 22nd, I got to thinking about the evolution of vampires. Actually, I was revisiting the hilarious tongue-in-cheek article from Cracked.com, called Six Mind Blowing Ways Zombies and Vampires Explain America—if you haven’t read it, I …

Review: Wild Lilly by Ann Mayburn

Format read: ARC provided by the author
Release Date: 11 Nov 2011
Publisher: Decadent Publishing
Length: 258 pages
Formats available: ebook,
Series:Willow Creek #1
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Decadent Publishing

Book Blurb:

When Connecticut socialite Lilly Brooks inherits land in Caldwell, Kansas, she finally has the chance to break free from the gilded cage of Victorian society and chase after her dreams of excitement and romance in the Wild West. Excitement arrives with angry Indians, smelly dogs, and drunken cowboys who won’t take no for an answer. Romance comes in the form of a ruggedly handsome rancher named Paul McGregor. Too bad he calls her a whore within the first minute of their acquaintance.

Paul has spent the last three years trying to hold his family and ranch together after the death of his parents. When he saves a stunning blonde, who he thinks …