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31 Jan 2013 Dual Review: Kissing Kendall by Jennifer Shirk
Format Read: e-book copy provided from the publisher for review
Number of Pages: 202 pages
Release Date: December 7th 2012
Publisher: Entangled Publishing (Bliss)
Series: Maritime City, #2
Formats Available: e-book, Kindle Edition
Purchasing Info: Goodreads | Author’s Website | Publisher | Amazon | B&N | Kobo
Book Blurb:
Kendall Grisbaum is finally taking charge of her life—pouring her heart into opening a new bakery business and even allowing her best friend Georgie to play matchmaker for her. Trouble is, the one guy she secretly wants is Georgie’s older brother, Brad, who is decidedly off limits.
Brad can’t seem to get his little sister’s best friend out of his mind. He and Kendall used to be close friends, too, and as a local policeman, Brad can’t help but play protector, looking out for Kendall. When he offers to help her renovate her new …
Guest Post + Giveaway: Win All Four Books In The Red Rock Pass Series by Moira Rogers
We are delighted to welcome back Moira Rogers to BLI today for the next stop of their blog tour in celebration of the release of Haunted Sanctuary, the first book of the Green Pines series. Haunted Sanctuary is published by Samhain and available now in digital format from multiple outlets. Be sure to check Moira’s generous Giveaway details at the end of the post! 🙂
About the Authors:
Moira Rogers is two people, a pair of best friends who collaborate to the extent that sometimes they might as well be one person. (Or perhaps share one brain between the two of them.)
How do you make a Moira Rogers? Take a former forensic science and nursing student obsessed with paranormal romance and add a computer programmer with a passion for gritty urban fantasy. Toss in a dash of whimsy and …
Romance and Me: The Office Romance
Hey Everyone!
In today’s post I’d like to talk to you about another trope I like a lot: office romances!
There is just something so exciting about having colleagues, or a boss and his/her employee try to fight their attraction and then sneak around trying to keep their relationship secret 😀 For me “office romances” don’t necessarily mean the hero and heroine have to work in an actual office/boardroom, I expand this category to any two people working together and falling in love: they could be co-workers in a hospital, bartender and restaurant owner, wedding planner and cameraman, etc. My only requirement is that somehow their meeting was due to them having to do work together.
When thinking of the different “office romance” stories I looked through the books I’ve read and made a compilation of the office romance books I have …
Review: Scent of Magic by Maria V. Snyder
Format Read: eARC from Netgalley.
Number of Pages: 414 pages
Release Date: December 14, 2012.
Series: Healer #2.
Genre: Urban Fantasy.
Publisher: Mira.
Formats Available: ebook, paperback
Purchasing Info: Author, Goodreads, Powells, Book Depository.
Book Blurb:
As the last Healer in the Fifteen Realms, Avry of Kazan is in a unique position: in the minds of her friends and foes alike, she no longer exists. Despite her need to prevent the megalomanical King Tohon from winning control of the Realms, Avry is also determined to find her sister and repair their estrangement. And she must do it alone, as Kerrick, her partner and sole confident, returns to Alga to summon his country into battle.
Though she should be in hiding, Avry will do whatever she can to support Tohon’s opponents. Including infiltrating a holy army, evading magic sniffers, teaching forest skills to soldiers and figuring out how to stop Tohon’s most horrible creations …
30 Jan 2013 Dual Review: The Boss’s Fake Fiancée by Inara Scott
Format Read: e-book copy provided by the publisher for review
Number of Pages: 165 pages
Release Date: October 14th 2012
Publisher: Entangled Publishing (Indulgence)
Formats Available: e-book, Kindle Edition
Purchasing Info: Goodreads | Publisher | Author’s Website | Amazon | B&N | Kobo
Book Blurb:
Is she his worst nightmare…
No relationships, that’s billionaire Garth Solen’s rule—especially not with a woman like his new employee Melissa Bencher, who thinks with her heart and not her head. But all bets are off when Melissa tries to make her jerk ex-boyfriend jealous by suggesting that she’s dating her gorgeous boss. How could she have imagined all the trouble one impulsive act could cause?
…or a dream come true?
To protect his ailing grandmother, Garth is forced to play the part of Melissa’s adoring fiancé. Now they’re trying on rings and posing …
Review: Lycan Unleashed by Tiffany Allee
Format Read: ebook received from the publisher
Number of Pages: 115 pages
Release Date: January 13, 2013
Publisher: Entangled Publishing
Series: From the Files of the Otherworlder Enforcement Agency #3
Genre: Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance
Formats Available: ebook
Purchasing Info: Amazon | B&N | Kobo | Author’s Website | Publisher’s Website | Goodreads
Book Blurb:
Detective Astrid Holmes is a sensitive, a human capable of feeling the energy of otherworlders. When she is dispatched to the horrific murder scene of a local vampire, she expects it to be just another day on the job. But when evidence is stolen on her watch, she is removed—not only from the investigation, but from her job as a member of the Chicago police department’s paranormal unit.
Astrid’s only hope of reinstatement lies with her ex co-worker and almost-lover, Lycan Mason …
New Releases: Jan. 28 – Feb. 3, 2013
Title: ‘Til the World Ends
Authors: Julie Kagawa, Ann Aguirre, Karen Duvall
Genre: urban fantasy romance (anthology)
Release date: January 29, 2013 by Harlequin Luna
Description:
Dawn of Eden by Julie Kagawa
Before The Immortal Rules, there was the Red Lung, a relentless virus determined to take out all in its path. For Kylie, the miracle of her survival is also her burden-as a doctor at one of the clinics for the infected, she is forced to witness endless suffering. What’s worse, strange things are happening to the remains of the dead, and by the time she befriends Ben Archer, she’s beginning to wonder if a global pandemic is the least of her problems….
Thistle & Thorne by Ann Aguirre
After a catastrophic spill turns the country into a vast chemical wasteland, those who could afford it retreated to fortresses, self-contained communities run by powerful corporations. But for Mari Thistle, life on the …
Guest Post by Heather McCollum + Giveaway
Good morning, book lovers! This morning I hope you’re ready to take your romantic hearts back to a time long past, to place where honor was strong, and passion was stronger–that’d be the 16th century Scottish highlands of Heather McCollum’s HIGHLAND HEARTS series! We’re pleased to welcome her today to tell us a bit about what captures (and challenges) her about writing the stories in this exciting series. Let’s give her a warm BLI welcome.
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Thank you so much for having me here today! I’m very excited to talk a little about Highland Heart (HH), my short novella that was just released by Entangled Publishing. HH is set in 16th century Scotland, fifteen years before my full-length novel Captured Heart (CH), even though it was written after it.
Yes, HH is a short novella. After I had finished writing CH, my wonderful agent found an opportunity …
Review: Master of Love by Catherine LaRoche
Format read: ebook
Series: N/A
Genre: Historical Romance
Release Date: Dec. 3, 2012
Number of pages: 336 pages
Publisher: Pocket Star (Simon and Schuster)
Formats available: ebook
Purchasing Info: Amazon | B&N | Kobo | Book Depository US | Book Depository (UK)
A sexy historical romance featuring a genteel book dealer who is commissioned to organize an impressive personal library in the home of London’s most notoriously seductive lord.
Dominick Avery, Viscount Rexton, has a brilliant mind, yet is so intoxicatingly handsome no one ever takes his intellect seriously. He cultivates a wicked reputation as Lord Adonis, Master of Love, until his uncle sends him an irresistible bequest of books, on the condition he accept also the prim librarian who comes with them.
Miss Callista Higginbotham struggles to support her quirky household as a rare book dealer and librarian, while tottering on the dangerous edge …
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Format read: ebook
Series: N/A
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: Dec. 18, 2012
Number of pages: 54 pages
Publisher: Entangled Publishing
Formats available: ebook
Purchasing Info: Amazon | B&N | Kobo | Book Depository US | Book Depository (UK)
Tessa Stoneman hasn’t been able to get long-time friend and business partner Nicholas Boone out of her head since they shared a single kiss in college. Even when she dated Nicholas’s best friend. Now that she’s giving up her position at GameNerdz to strike out on her own—and now that she’s single—maybe it’s the right time to see if there’s still something between them.
Nicholas knows once Tessa leaves the company she helped found, they might drift apart. Before she starts her own company in the new year, he wants to woo the woman he fell in love with during college. So he …
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