Review: Liam’s Perfect Woman, by Beth Kery

Format Read: e-ARC submitted by author for review
Length: 224 Pages
Series: Home to Harbor Town Book #2
Release Date: July 19, 2011
Publisher: Harlequin Special Edition
Formats Available: Mass Market Paperback, Kindle, Nook, eBook
Purchasing Info: Author’s Website, Goodreads, Amazon Canada, Book Depository, Amazon.com, Borders, Barnes & Noble, eHarlequin, Books-A-Million, Powell’s, IndieBound, Chapters, Kindle, Nook, eHarlequin ebook

Book Blurb:

IT HAPPENED ONE SUMMER…

The moment Liam Kavanaugh first glimpsed the exotic beauty dancing across a moonlit beach, he was smitten. But he was in for the surprise of his life when she turned out to be Natalie Reyes! The big-city cop had returned to Harbor Town to be the chief of police. Instead, he was battling an intense attraction to the woman who was forcing him to confront his past….

The lone survivor of the …

Review: "His Darkest Salvation", by Juliana Stone

Format Read: eARC provided by Author for review
Length: 384 pages
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Series: Jaguar Warriors Book III
Release Date: July 26, 2011
Publisher: HarperCollins Avon
Formats Available: Mass Market Paperback, Kindle, Nook
Purchasing Info: Publisher, Author’s Website, Goodreads, Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, Borders, Powells, Chapters, Kindle, Nook,

Book Blurb:

In a world on the brink of chaos, passion and vengeance collide …

After six months in hell, Julian Castille has returned to the world a changed man. No longer the calm, powerful CEO, but a shifter fully embraced by the blood of his clan. Julian has one goal: find the key to the portal that stands between the human realm and unprecedented darkness—and win back the pieces of his soul. The last thing he needs is a distraction like the beautiful, enigmatic Jaden DaCosta.

Three years ago, a …

Interview: Juliana Stone + Giveaway!

It’s our great pleasure to welcome Juliana Stone, Author of the critically acclaimed Jaguar Warrior series to Book Lovers Inc. today. The first book in Juliana’s series, His Darkest Hunger, was published to rave reviews in March 2010. His Darkest Embrace, Book II in the series was published in October 2010! Juliana is here to celebrate the upcoming release of Book III, His Darkest Salvation, which will hit the stands on July 26, 2011! The Jaguar Warrior series is published by HarperCollins Avon and it chronicles the lives and loves of the Castille brothers who are jaguar shifters. Juliana also writes a time travel series for Samhain Publishing called Black Opals, and the first two novellas in that series are available now.Lea: Juliana! Welcome to Book Lovers, thank you so much for joining us here today!

Juliana: Thanks for having …

Simon & Schuster Summer Promotion + Giveaway

A Wedding Wager by  Jane FeatherISBN: 9781451654837On Sale: 6/28/11Price: $9.99/$12.99 CanAmazon, Book Depository (UK), Book Depository (US), Goodreads

Description:

The second novel in New York Times bestselling author Jane Feather’s sexy and scintillating Blackwater Brides trilogy.

Serena Grantley and her stepfather, General Heyward, have spent the past two years traveling around the capitals of Europe, running faro banks among the highest echelons of European society. Serena is indispensable to her stepfather in the business, not only as an experienced faro dealer but as a draw for the men, young and old, who find her charm and beauty irresistible.Now, much to the delight of her lovesick suitor, the Honorable Sebastian Sullivan, Serena has returned to England with the general, who plans to expand his London gambling house and line his pockets at the expense of the city’s inveterate gamesters. Serena and …

Review: "Black Ties and Lullabies" by Jane Graves

Format Read: Paperback submitted by Hatchett Book Group (Forever Romance) for review
Length: 432 pages
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Publisher: Forever, Hatchett Book Group
Formats Available: Mass Market Paperback, Kindle, Nook
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Book Blurb:

A good girl can be bad for one night . . .

Bernadette Hogan doesn’t make mistakes. Not when it comes to caring for her mother, and not at her job protecting Texas’s most eligible—and infuriating—bachelor. Maybe that’s why she’s overcome with guilt after one tiny indiscretion: a passionate fling with her boss that’s left her confused, intrigued . . . and pregnant.

but can a bad boy be good for a lifetime?

To self-made millionaire Jeremy Bridges, women are like fine wine: if held for too …

Review: Dirty Kiss by Rhys Ford

Format Read: ARC provided by the authorNumber of pages: 230 pagesRelease Date: 1 July 2011Formats available: Paperback, eBookGenre: m/m mysteryPublisher: Dreamspinner PressPurchasing Info: Goodreads, Amazon, Dreamspinner Press (ebook), Dreamspinner Press (paperback), Author’s website

Bool Blurb:

Cole Kenjiro McGinnis, ex-cop and PI, is trying to get over the shooting death of his lover when a supposedly routine investigation lands in his lap. Investigating the apparent suicide of a prominent Korean businessman’s son proves to be anything but ordinary, especially when it introduces Cole to the dead man’s handsome cousin, Kim Jae-Min.

Jae-Min’s cousin had a dirty little secret, the kind that Cole has been familiar with all his life and that Jae-Min is still hiding from his family. The investigation leads Cole from tasteful mansions to seedy lover’s trysts to Dirty Kiss, the place where the rich and discreet go …

Interview Author Lorelei James + Giveaway

Portraiture by Russell LLoyd Jensen/Sage Studios

We are very happy to welcome Lorelei James here at Book Lovers Inc today. I discovered her contemporary cowboy stories a month ago and I fell in love ASAP. Her novel are wild and fun and definitely on the steamy side. They showed me the appeal of cowboys so I’m extremely happy to have Lorelei here today, talking about her cowboys. Her newest book, Chasin’ Eight is out this week and she will tell us what makes her cowboys special. 
An extra thanks this week goes to Claudia, who helped me with the interview questions – thanks a bunch sweety. 
Stay tuned till the end for your chance to win. 

BLI: Lorelei can you please tell us a bit about yourself?

Lorelei: Hard hitting questions right off, huh? I’m a forty-something happily married mother of three daughters …

Review: Rising, Freestyle by Vivian Arend

Format Read: e-ARC provided by Author for Review
Length: 112 Pages
Series: Xtreme Adventures Book II
Genre: Contemporary Erotic Romance
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Publisher: Samhain Publishing
Formats Available: eBook, Kindle, Nook
Purchasing Info: Publisher, Author’s Website, Goodreads, Kindle, Nook

Book Blurb:

Melanie Dixon’s body may have recovered from a horrific climbing accident, but her nerve is long gone. So is the natural enthusiasm for life she took for granted. Tired of being scared, beyond ready to conquer her fears, she pulls up stakes and moves to her brother’s new hometown to start over. Her first step is the most terrifying—to tackle the wall at the local climbing center.

Derrick James is mesmerized by Melanie’s dark beauty, and equally impressed with her climbing abilities and determination. Watching her retune rusty skills spurs a desire to partner with her—on and off the ropes. Melanie’s a …

Interview with Vivian Arend + Giveaway

Please join us in welcoming Vivian Arend back to BLI today who is here to celebrate the release of Rising, Freestyle, the second novella in her Xtreme Adventures series which is available from Samhain today! Falling, Freestyle, the first story in the series released on November 30, 2010, is a sizzling hot story friends to lovers story, and the main characters are extreme alpine sports enthusiasts. Rising, Freestyle is Melanie Dixon and Derrick James’ love story and they are into extreme rock climbing.
 
Viv! Welcome back to Book Lovers Inc. thank you for joining us again today. 🙂
 
Viv: It’s great to be back!
 
Lea: Since you were here previously and talked about writing process etc. We wanted to cut to the chase and get the low down on your Xtreme Adventures series and Rising, Freestyle in particular, …

Review: Seduction & Scandal by Charlotte Featherstone

Format read: eARC provided by publisher through NetGalleySeries: Book #1 in The Brethren Guardians seriesNumber of pages: 384 pages Publisher: HQN BooksFormats available: paperback, ebookRelease Date: 1 July 2011 Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Kindle store, Book Depository

Blurb:

With the scandalous nature of her birth to live down, Isabella Fairmont dreams of a proper marriage—even if a passionless one. She saves her deepest desires for the novel she dares to pen, wherein a handsome lord with dark powers seduces her. But then her courtship with an appropriate suitor is threatened by the sudden attentions of the reclusive Earl of Black…whose pale blue eyes and brooding sensuality are exactly as she described in her book.

Isabella tries to resist the mysterious Earl of Black.

Yet as he pursues her, with inexplicable knowledge of her past …