Guest Post: Kate Noble + Giveaway

We’re very excited to welcome bestselling historical romance author Kate Noble to BLI today! She stops by to talk about the relationship between music and her writing. For Kate, certain music perfectly encapsulates the emotion and tone of a scene or story, making it into a soundtrack of sorts. Today, that soundtrack is to her latest release, If I Fall, a story of betrayal and redemption–perfect for the most poignant of music. Please give her a warm BLI welcome!

The Soundtrack of If I Fall.

Like many authors, I write to music. Plugging my headphones in and shutting out the rest of the real world helps me to inhabit the universe I’m currently mucking about in. If I’m in the middle of writing an action scene, I’ll generally queue up the soundtracks to epic movies, like Gladiator and 28 Days Later. If I’m writing an emotional scene, Jeff Buckley suddenly becomes …

Review: Under His Protection by Karen Erickson

Format read: ebook
Series: Book #1 in the Protect and Defend series
Release Date: April 2012
Formats available: ebook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, All Romance, Smashwords

Blurb:

He’ll protect her at any cost…

Protect and Defend, Book 1

Protecting the vice president’s daughter is Secret Service agent Mason Russell’s top priority. With the election looming and the party’s hold shaky, Mason’s been given an important assignment – rein the controversial party girl Blake Hewitt in.

He’d like to rein Blake in all right. Keep her under his control and naked beneath him at all times. Blake is the sexiest thing he’s ever seen but she’s strictly off limits. Though she tempts him like no other.

Banished from the capital and sent far away to the family’s vacation home, Blake seizes her chance. She’ll …

Interview with Karen Erickson + Giveaway

Today I am happy to welcome to Book Lovers Inc. romance author Karen Erickson, who besides being a prolific writer is also an adventurous one: she has experimented and written contemporary romances, historical romances, paranormal romances, fantasy romances, erotic romances, and any combination of these 😀 Karen is celebrating the release of Under His Protection, the 1st book in her new romantic suspense series featuring Secret Service agents (and let me tell you they are definitely delicious alpha males), so please give her a welcome and there is a wonderful giveaway for you if share with us your reading preferences.

Stella: Hi Karen, welcome to Book Lovers Inc! Can you please tell us a bit about yourself?

Karen: Well, I’m a mom of three, a wife to one and the owner of too many cats. I’m a native Californian who lives about an hour below …

Guest post by author Kristan Higgins + Giveaway

Today we’re happy to welcome once again Kristan Higgins on Book Lovers Inc. Kristan’s new novel, Somebody To Love was released this week. If you don’t know this author, Kristan write wonderful contemporary romances that always mix humor and emotions. I’m a big fan and I can’t recommend enough these books. Let’s give a warm welcome to Kristan and stay tuned and you can maybe win one of her books.

One of the things I really liked about writing SOMEBODY TO LOVE was that the heroine is a single mom.

This was a first for me, as I like to (cough) escape from my own angel-babies through writing (don’t tell them!). But the time had come, I thought, to delve into the issues a single mother would have in finding love.

Parker adores Nicky, her lovely, five-year-old son, who’s about to start all-day kindergarten. She has a slight …

Review: Somebody to Love by Kristan Higgins

Format Read: Ebook ARC through Netgalley
Number of Pages: 425 pages
Release Date: April 24th 2012
Publisher: HQN Books
Formats Available: Paperback, Kindle Edition, e-book
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s website, Amazon , Book Depository

Book Blurb:
After her father loses the family fortune in an insider-trading scheme, single mom Parker Welles is faced with some hard decisions. First order of business: go to Gideon’s Cove, Maine, to sell the only thing she now owns—a decrepit house in need of some serious flipping. When her father’s wingman, James Cahill, asks to go with her, she’s not thrilled — …even if he is fairly gorgeous and knows his way around a toolbox.

Having to fend for herself financially for the first time in her life, Parker signs on as a florist’s assistant and starts to find out who she really is. Maybe James isn’t the glib lawyer she always thought he …

Dual Review: The Runaway Countess by Leigh LaValle

Format Read:e-book provided courtesy of the author
Number of Pages:408 pages
Release Date:March 6th 2012
Publisher:Samhain
Formats Available: e-book, Kindle Edition
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s website, Amazon, Barnes&Noble, Kobo

Book Blurb:

Her heart longs for justice, but her body clamors for sin.

Once the darling of high society, Mazie Chetwyn knows firsthand how quickly the rich and powerful turn their backs on the less fortunate. Orphaned, penniless and determined to defy their ruthless whims, she joins forces with a local highwayman who steals from the rich to give to the poor.

Then the pawn broker snitches, and Mazie is captured by the Lord Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire. A man who is far too handsome, far too observant…and surely as corrupt as his father once was.

Sensible, rule-driven Trent Carthwick, twelfth Earl of Radford, is certain the threat of the gallows will prompt the villagers’ beloved Angel of Kindness to reveal the highwayman’s identity. …