Dual Review: Blood and Bullets by James R. Tuck

Format read: ebook copy provided by author
Release Date: 7 February 2012
Number of pages: 352 pages
Formats available: paperback, ebook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books a Million, Kensington

Blurb:

He lives to kill monsters. He keeps his city safe. And his silver hollow-points and back-from-the-dead abilities help him take out any kind of supernatural threat. But now an immortal evil has this bad-ass bounty hunter dead in its sights. . .

Ever since a monster murdered his family, Deacon Chalk hunts any creature that preys on the innocent. So when a pretty vampire girl “hires” him to eliminate a fellow slayer, Deacon goes to warn him–and barely escapes a vampire ambush. Now he’s got a way-inexperienced newbie hunter to protect and everything from bloodsuckers to cursed immortals on his trail. There’s also a malevolent force controlling the living and the …

Review: Blackmailed by the Italian Billionaire by Nina Croft

Format read: ebook provided by publisher
Release Date: 15 March 2012
Number of pages: 232 pages
Publisher: Entangled Publishing
Formats available: ebook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Entangled Publishing

Blurb:

Olivia Brent is happy with her quiet life in the country, until the imminent loss of her home forces her to embark on a search for her estranged father. Catapulted into a world of criminals, Olivia is out of her depth. When she meets the stunningly gorgeous and enigmatic billionaire Luc Severino, her world is turned upside down.

Jimmy Brent’s daughter was the last person Luc ever wanted to be with, but she’s the key to finding her father,the man Luc has wanted revenge on for over ten years. He’s willing to use any methods available, including blackmail, to persuade Olivia to help him find Jimmy and put the past …

Guest Post by Barbara Wallace + Giveaway

Hi there, book lovers! It gives me great pleasure to introduce to you romance author Barbara Wallace. She’s stopped by BLI today to talk a bit about her award-winning contemporary romance, Weekend Agreement (which I loved! – check out my review here), including the book’s long journey through many incarnations to its excellent present form. Please show Barbara a warm welcome!

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Stella: I’ve read on your site about your journey to becoming a published author and saw that A Weekend Agreement is the Golden Heart winner manuscript you submitted in 2007. Can you tell us about how the story came to be back then and why it only got published now? Has it changed much compared to the original prize winning version?

Barbara Wallace: It’s apropos that, the week they announce the Rita and Golden Heart finalists, I’m writing about my Indulgence release, Weekend Agreement.

Romance and Me: The Much Hated/Beloved Love Triangle

Hey Everyone!

After a little break Romance and Me is back but this time we are not talking historical romances but a much debated and controversial romance trope: love triangles!

Love Triangles seem to be “in”, wherever you turn it seems every novel or movie features them, from the Twilight saga to the new Hunger Games movie it is everywhere.

And everyone seems to have their opinion about them, you either love or hate them, there is usually little middle ground.

I would say I am pro-love triangles. Maybe it’s because until now I have only encountered ones where 

1) it was crystal clear to me with whom the heroine would end up, and

2) I was rooting for that hero.

Of course if I preferred the underdog hero maybe I’d have to revise my statement regarding love triangles (I’m …

Review: Holiday Affair by Annie Seaton

Format read: ebook provided by publisher
Release Date: 15 March 2012
Number of pages: 210 pages
Publisher: Entangled Publishing
Formats available: ebook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Entangled Publishing

Blurb:

Staid professor Lissy McIntyre believes that choosing a mate should be based on common sense, not runaway passion. And she would certainly never pick a rolling stone like Nick Richards for long-term love. But a red-hot, tropical romance? Oh, yeah. He’s got a body just made for sinning and his sizzling kisses leave her senseless.

When Nick blows into town, he’s stunned to discover that his no-nonsense new neighbor and co-worker is the same sultry creature he seduced for one night of forbidden island pleasure. He’s unaccustomed to staying in one place for long, but he just can’t seem to keep his hands off the multi-faceted woman. Will Nick break loyal Lissy’s …

Guest Post by Annie Seaton + Giveaway

Today we are very pleased to welcome Annie Seaton to Book Lovers Inc. Annie’s first two books Holiday Affair and Winter of the Passion Flower both released on March 15th! Annie is here today to talk about the inspiration for her beautiful locales in her stories.

Stella: Your descriptions of the exotic setting were very evocative and vivid, have you been to the Whitsunday Islands on a sailing trip? (If not, why did you choose this exact location? any special reason? What inspired it?) Or did any other of your own experience, travels inspire details of the novel?

Annie Seaton: I am so pleased that my description of the exotic setting in the Whitsunday Islands evoked a response and my words translated into vivid pictures for the reader

Every July for the past ten years or so, my husband and I …

The Lonely Winner Post

Hey Everyone!

As I’m squeezed dry tired (in case you were wondering what that is, that’s how an orange must feel after spending excruciating hours in the juice machine, and yep, tiredness may have affected my brain faculties ;-)) having worked all week late hours and even had to work all day yesterday, it’s a good thing that today I only have to announce one lonely winner,

the lucky person who wins a $25.00 Gift Card from the online Bookstore of her choice (as long as it can be ordered from outside the US) thanks to The Kink in Erotic Romance post series! (If you somehow missed them, you can find them HERE.) is

 Cathy M

Congratulations to Cathy and a special thank you to all those who stopped by and commented for BLI’s Kink Series! An extra special thank you to Mary …

Review: Weekend Agreement by Barbara Wallace

Format read: ebook provided by publisher
Release Date: 15 March 2012
Number of pages: 194 pages
Publisher: Entangled Publishing
Formats available: ebook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Entangled Publishing

Blurb:

Some deals were meant to be broken…

Cynical billionaire Daniel Martinetti works hard; plays harder and has one ironclad rule. Never trust a woman. Bad news for historian Charlotte Doherty who shows up at exactly the wrong time. Like every other woman in Daniel’s life, Charlotte wants something from him–the deed to her family farm. Daniel agrees, but only if he gets something in return: Charlotte’s company for the weekend!

The property is Charlotte’s only link to the mother she never knew. Desperate to keep her history alive, she’ll accept Daniel’s indecent proposal, but not without a few terms of her own. Namely, a propriety clause. No flirting. No kissing. …