Guest Post: A Perfect Storm by Lori Foster + Giveaway

Today, we are really honored to be the next stop in The Perfect Storm Blog Tour! I had the chance to read and review the Perfect Storm and let me tell you, I loved it to pieces 🙂 Lori Foster delivers a story full of romance and action and introduces a couple of characters that I promise you won’t soon forget!

So, Lori Foster is stopping by Book Lovers for a brief Q&A and a giveaway of her newest release at the end of the post. For more information check at the end of the post 🙂

Q: What is, in your opinion, the key to a great romance in real life?

A: I’ve only had one real romance – my oh-so-wonderful hubby – so I can only speak from my own experience. He’s my best friend, always there for me, supportive beyond belief, committed to our family, hilariously funny, very, VERY aware …

Guest Post: Do you believe that sex magic is real? by K.D. Grace + Giveaway

It is my great pleasure to welcome to BLI today and introduce to you to fantastic erotica author K.D. Grace whose novel The Pet Shop was one of my favourite reads of 2011 (you can read my review here)! K.D. is celebrating the release of her latest novel Body Temperature and Rising which is the first book in the Lakeland Heatwave trilogy, a contemporary paranormal erotica series. Please give her a warm welcome and read on, you could win one of her books at the end! 😉 

Do you believe that sex magic is real?

Since the kind of magic practiced by the witches in my novel, Body Temperature and Rising, is sex magic, I was asked the other day in an interview for a blog post, if I believed that sex magic is real. My answer was something along the lines that I believe …

Review: Firelight by Kristen Callihan

Format Read: Mass Market Paperback
Length: 372 Pages
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Genre: historical paranormal romance
Series: Darkest London, #1
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Formats Available: Mass Market Paperback, eBook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Book Depository, Author’s Website, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo Books

Book Blurb:

London, 1881
Once the flames are ignited . . .

Miranda Ellis is a woman tormented. Plagued since birth by a strange and powerful gift, she has spent her entire life struggling to control her exceptional abilities. Yet one innocent but irreversible mistake has left her family’s fortune decimated and forced her to wed London’s most nefarious nobleman.

They will burn for eternity . . .
Lord Benjamin Archer is no ordinary man. Doomed to hide his disfigured face behind masks, Archer knows it’s selfish to take Miranda as his bride. Yet he can’t help being drawn to the flame-haired beauty whose touch sparks a passion he hasn’t felt in …

Review: In the Garden of Iden by Kage Baker

Format Read: Paperback
Number of Pages: 294
Release Date: 1997; Rereleased 2005
Publisher: Avon; Tor
Series: The Company #1
Formats Available: Hardback, Trade, Mass Market, Ebook, Audio
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, BookDepository –  Powells–  Amazon – 

Book Blurb:

In the 24th century, the Company preserves works of art and extinct forms of life (for profit of course). It recruits orphans from the past, renders them all but immortal, and trains them to serve the Company, Dr. Zeus. One of these is Mendoza the botanist. She is sent to Elizabethan England to collect samples from the garden of Sir Walter Iden.

But while there, she meets Nicholas Harpole, with whom she falls in love. And that love sounds great bells of change that will echo down the centuries, and through the succeeding novels of The Company.

My Thoughts:
I just went on a crappy-book binge. I am highly suspicious of new books right now. They …

Review: In the Service of the King by Laura Kaye

Format Read: e-book provided by publisher
Length: 78 Pages
Publisher: Harlequin Nocturne
Genre: paranormal romance
Series: Vampire Warrior Kings, #1
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Formats Available: e-book
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Publisher Website, Amazon, Barnes & Noble

Book Blurb:

Kael, Warrior King of the Vampires, loathes the Night of the Proffering. He needs the blood of either his mate or a human virgin to maintain his strength, but hasn’t enjoyed the ritual since he lost his mate centuries ago. Kael doesn’t want a new companion, yet his resolve is tested when he lays eyes on his new offering, Shayla McKinnon. He is drawn to Shayla’s beauty and poise…and the submission she offers. She is eager to give him anything he wishes, including her innocence, to please him. Will Kael give in to their overwhelming desire—even if it means risking Shayla’s life?

My Thoughts:

There’s a question that oft asked about fictional tales. The plot or the characters: what’s more …

ARC Review: Alpha Instinct by Katie Reus

Alpha Instinct by Katie Reus

Format Read: e-ARC provided courtesy of Publicist for Review
Length: 216 Pages
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Series: Moon Shifter Book I
Release Date: February 7, 2012
Publisher: NAL Signet Eclipse
Formats Available: eBook, Kindle, Nook
Purchasing Info: Publisher, Author’s Website, Amazon, Books-A-Milliion, Powell’s, Barnes & Noble, Goodreads, Book Depository, IndieBound, iBookstore, Kindle, Nook

Book Blurb:

Fear has a scent. So does desire…

Ana Cordona has been a strong leader for the lupine shifters who survived after all the males and most of the females in her pack were mysteriously poisoned. As tough as she is, with no Alpha male, the pack is vulnerable to the devious shifter Taggart, who wants to claim both their ranch and Ana as his own. When Connor Armstrong comes back into her life, promising protection, it’s almost enough to make Ana forget how he walked …

Review: The Bro-Magnet by Lauren Baratz-Logsted

Format read: ebook provided by author through Netgalley
Release Date: Dec 11th 2011
Number of Pages: 482 pages
Publisher: TKA Distribution
Formats Available: ebook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple

Book Blurb:

Women have been known to lament, “Always a bridesmaid, never a bride.” For Johnny Smith, the problem is, “Always a Best Man, never a groom.” At age 33, housepainter Johnny has been Best Man eight times. The ultimate man’s man, Johnny loves the Mets, the Jets, his weekly poker game, and the hula girl lamp that hangs over his basement pool table. Johnny has the instant affection of nearly every man he meets, but one thing he doesn’t have is a woman to share his life with, and he wants that desperately. When Johnny meets District Attorney Helen Troy, he decides to renounce his bro-magnet ways in order to impress her. With the aid and advice of his friends …

Review: One Wicked Night by Kelly Jamieson

One Wicked Night by Kelly Jamieson

Format Read: e-book provided courtesy of Author for Review
Length: 249 Pages
Genre: Contemporary Erotic Romance, ménage à trois
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Publisher: Samhain Publishing
Formats Available: eBook, Kindle, Nook
Purchasing Info: Publisher, Author’s Website, Goodreads, Kindle, Nook, Kobo, All Romance eBooks

Book Blurb:

The boys are back in town…

Ten years ago, Kaelin Daume spent a steamy summer home from college secretly hanging out with town bad boy Tyler Wirth and his best friend Nick Kernsted. The connection was warm, complicated, and came to a crashing end when she walked in on her two forbidden friends with another woman. The shocking scene of sex and bondage has haunted her boring, oh-so-vanilla life ever since.

The fallout from that night tore Tyler’s life apart. He left Mapleglen, disowned and disgraced, to build a successful advertising career and a unique …

Interview: Kelly Jamieson + Giveaway

Kelly Jamieson

Please join us in welcoming multi-published author Kelly Jamieson to BLI today! Kelly writes contemporary romance, erotic romance and romantic suspense that evoke a range of emotions and are always hot, but always with a love story she hopes will move readers. Kelly’s writing has been described as “emotionally complex”, “sweet and satisfying” and “blisteringly sexy”. Kelly books are published by Samhain, Ellora’s Cave, Amber Quill, and Wild Rose Press. She is here to celebrate the release of her latest Samhain Publishing novel, One Wicked Night, which became available for download on October 25, 2011! Kelly also has a new publication coming from Samhain on Valentines Day, called Rule of Three!

Lea: Kelly! Welcome to Book Lovers, I’m so excited to be talking to you today about One Wicked Night! 🙂

Kelly: Thank you so much for having me here!

Lea: To start off, can you please …

Guest Post: Character Profile by Laura Kaye + Giveaway

Today at BLI, we’ve got the immense pleasure of welcoming back the ever-fabulous Laura Kaye, author of numerous romance novels that span across subgenres. She stops by to talk about a very special person: Shayla McKinnon, the main character in her latest release, In the Service of the King. Shayla is an intelligent, complex, beautiful badass with a hell of a story to tell. Read on to find out more about her and her world! Please give Laura—and Shayla!—a warm welcome.

Character Profile: Meet Shayla McKinnon

Author Laura Kaye

If you like heroines who go after what they want, you’re really going to enjoy meeting Shayla McKinnon, the heroine of my dark erotic vampire romance, In the Service of the King, which releases February 1 from Harlequin Nocturne.

Where is Shayla from?
Shayla’s family is Irish, but she currently attends university at Oxford and studies Celtic history and culture.

How old is Shayla?
Shayla …