Review: Anything For You by Jessica Scott

Format read: ebook copy provided by author
Series: Book #2.5 in the Coming Home series
Release Date: 1 February 2013
Number of pages: 42 pages
Formats available: ebook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Smashwords, Read an excerpt

Blurb:

From the author of Because of You comes an all new Coming Home short story.

Sergeant First Class Shane Garrison has spent a year recovering from his combat injuries. A year spent in the arms of the woman of his dreams. But loving Jen comes with a price: every time he touches her, he faces the uncertain fear that loving her might mean losing her forever.

Jen is a breast cancer survivor and with Shane, she’s found a man who loves her despite her scars. But her scars may be too much for their love to survive.

As their love grows, so does the risk to Jen’s life. And …

Guest post by Jessica Scott + Giveaway

Today we are very happy to welcome back to BLI Jessica Scott who celebrates the release of Anything For You, her latest novella in the Coming Home series, which revisits the hero and heroine of her first novel, Because of You (you can check out my review here). So let’s start Valentine’s Day with some virtual chocolate and a delicious romance, please give a warm welcome to Jess and don’t forget to enter the fantastic giveaway at the end! 😀

Happy Valentine’s Day! I don’t know about you but I’ll never turn down an excuse for chocolate.

What’s funny is that I actually wrote a heroine in Anything For You who doesn’t really like Valentine’s Day and is not a fan of chocolate. Jen’s a simple woman but Shane is still struggling to figure that out. He wanted to do something really special for her but instead, they end up having an …

Romance and Me: The Sports Edition

Hey Everyone!

Lately I’ve been on a special romance sub-genre kick: devouring sport romances!

I’m sure that you have come across one of those stories where the hero and/or heroine are athletes, and while I have always enjoyed reading about sexy hunks as heroes, lately I’ve discovered this new addiction of mine. Be it sexy football player like Dean Silverthorne in Candis Terry’s Any Given Christmas, or the hunky hockey players like those in Lily Harlem’s Hot Ice series or Rachel Gibson’s Chinooks Hockey Team series, the irresistibly gorgeous soccer captain in Scored by Lily Harlem or star pitcher Park Jones in Nora Roberts’ Rules of the Game (the very first sporty hero I’ve read about), I love them all!

I’m not a sport fanatic, when the Olympics, European or World Cup football …

Tour Stop: A Cast of Shadows by Hailey Edwards + Giveaway

Please join us in celebrating the release of the latest story in Hailey Edwards‘ Araneae Nation, fantasy romance series that both Alisha and Stella like a lot (to see what they thought of the first book check out their dual review). So read on to see what this new book is about and you could even win a Hailey Edwards book, so don’t forget to enter the giveaway at the end! 😉

A Cast of Shadows by Hailey Edwards

The strongest net is no match for destiny.

Book # 2.5 of the Araneae Nation series

Daraja has grown up watching her brothers journey down the river on the traditional Deinopidae rite of passage. Each returned with riches from their travels, and lovers with whom to share their lives.

Now she has reached the age where she would strike out on her own to seek her fortune—if …

Guest post by Kelley Vitollo + Giveaway

You all know that I am a fan of Vegas romances, so it is my great pleasure to bring to you Kelley Vitollo‘s brand new romance, Luck of the Draw, which you might have guessed is one! So read on to learn more about the inspiration behind the story and if you leave a comment, you could even win yourself a copy of Luck of the Draw by Kelley Vitollo!

What Happens in Vegas…

Nope. It doesn’t always stay there! Rowan definitely learns that lesson in LUCK OF THE DRAW. I’ve always wanted to write a story where a character lets loose in Vegas. Rowan is strong and fun, but letting loose like that? Totally not her thing. As mean of an author as it makes me sound, I wanted to make her squirm. I wanted to throw her into a situation that she totally wouldn’t …

Review: Wolf Nip by Vivian Arend

Format Read: e-ARC provided by Novel Sidekick courtesy of Author for Review
Length: 117 Pages
Series: Granite Lake Wolves, Book 6
Genre: Paranormal / Shifters / Erotic Romance
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Publisher: Samhain Publishing
Formats Available: eBook, Kindle, Nook
Purchasing Info: Publisher, Author’s Website, Kindle, Nook, iTunes, Goodreads.

Book Blurb:

Cat got your tongue?

Tessa Williams is looking to make her mark outside the family business, and the unusual landlocked paddle wheeler she spots in Haines, Alaska, strikes her as the perfect location. Only the owner is being difficult, refusing to sell. Still, she’s sure that replacing her written queries with a little in-person charm is all she’ll need to shortly have her Eco-tour B&B on the road to success.

Local wolf-slash-owner of said vessel, Mark Weaver, isn’t hanging on to the landmark building out of spite. There are more reasons for holding back the sale than are easily explained on …

New Releases: February 4-11, 2013

Title: How Beauty Saved the Beast
Series: (Tales of the Underlight, #2)
Author: Jax Garren
Genre: urban fantasy romance
Release date: February 11, 2013 by Carina Press

Description:

Jolie Benoit left her old life behind to become an agent of the Underlight. Training under Sergeant Wesley Haukon, she’s honing her combat skills, all the while coping with the intense sexual attraction she feels for Hauk. She keeps their friendship casual, but when his high school sweetheart transfers into their division, Jolie finds herself grappling with jealousy.

The Underlight gave Hauk a purpose, but he can’t escape his past completely. The physical and emotional scars from the fire that killed seven fellow Army Rangers will mark him forever. Jolie sends his protective instincts into overdrive, but he’s convinced he’ll never be worthy of her love.

Hauk is determined to keep Jolie from harm. But when the Order of Ananke ambushes them with a new …

ARC Review: Beautiful Bastard by Christina Lauren

Format Read:e-ARC provided from the publisher via Edelweiss
Number of Pages:320 pages
Release Date:February 12th 2013
Publisher:Gallery Books
Series: Beautiful Bastard, #1
Formats Available: Paperback, e-book, Audio
Purchasing Info: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N | Kobo | Book Depository US | Book Depository (UK)

Book Blurb:

An ambitious intern. A perfectionist executive. And a whole lot of name calling. Discover the story that garnered more than two million reads online.

Whip-smart, hardworking, and on her way to an MBA, Chloe Mills has only one problem: her boss, Bennett Ryan. He’s exacting, blunt, inconsiderate—and completely irresistible. A Beautiful Bastard.

Bennett has returned to Chicago from France to take a vital role in his family’s massive media business. He never expected that the assistant who’d been helping him from abroad was the gorgeous, innocently provocative—completely infuriating—creature he now has to see every day. …