Saturday, October 31, 2015

Sangria Saturday: Halloween Sangria (#Wine #Recipe #Sangria #Halloween)


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With "blood" red wine and frozen grape "eye balls," this Sangria makes the perfect Halloween beverage! 


Halloween Sangria

Read an #Excerpt of All Hallows Eve (#1001DarkNights) by Heather Graham




23799729All Hallows Eve 
(Krewe of Hunters #17.5)
by Heather Graham 
Kindle Edition, 125 pages
Published October 27th 2015 by Evil Eye Concepts, Incorporated
Salem was a place near and dear to Jenna Duffy and Samuel Hall—it was where they'd met on a strange and and sinister case.

They never dreamed that they'd be called back. That history could repeat itself in a most macabre and terrifying fashion.

But, then again, it was Salem at Halloween. Seasoned Krewe members, they still find themselves facing the unspeakable horrors in a desperate race to save each other—and perhaps even their very souls.


Friday, October 30, 2015

Top 10 Halloween Costumes with Kate SeRine of Stop at Nothing (#Giveaway)




Top 10 Halloween Costumes for Kyle and Abby

Halloween is my favorite holiday! I love everything about it—especially all the fun and creative costumes people come up with. Kyle Dawson and Abby Morrow, the main characters in my new novel, Stop at Nothing, are definitely the kind of people who’d know how to do it up right at Halloween. Here are a few of the costumes ideas that I thought might work for them:


1) A prison inmate and sexy cop – Kind of an obvious one here, considering they’re both in law enforcement, but fun nonetheless. Kyle would be the inmate that Abby has captured. Odds are it’d be a little on the kinky side later on when they get home because, you know, handcuffs…

Thursday, October 29, 2015

#Review: Shattered by Cynthia Eden - 4.5 Wine Glasses




24403669Title: Shattered
Series: LOST #3
Author: Cynthia Eden
Format: Mass Market Paperback, 384 pages
Publication: October 27th 2015 by Avon
ISBN: 006234966X
Links: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N
Reviewer: Crystal
Source: edelweiss
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 Wine Glasses

In New York Times bestselling author Cynthia Eden's latest novel featuring the Last Option Search Team (LOST), one agent is forced to face her past as she uncovers secrets about the man who may be the key to her future.

Criminal psychologist Dr. Sarah Jacobs is all too familiar with the kind of bad boys who belong behind bars. But the dark, dangerous man she meets in the New Orleans underworld is a new kind of ruthless, and all too irresistible.

Jax Fontaine doesn't claim to be a good guy, but he's loyal to his own code and brutally honest about what he wants. He and Sarah may be worlds apart, but when they're skin to skin, nothing matters but the heat between them.

And when a deranged killer targets Sarah, Jax will do whatever it takes to keep her safe. 


Crystal's Thoughts:
The third installment in Cynthia Eden's captivating LOST series explodes with dark anticipation, edgy intrigue, and sexy romance!

Happy Book Birthday to Take The Storm (#RisingStorm) by Rebecca Zanetti!




26277446Take The Storm 
(Rising Storm #6)
by Rebecca Zanetti
ebook
Published October 29th 2015 by Evil Eye Concepts, Inc..
Secrets, Sex and Scandals … 

Welcome to Storm, Texas, where passion runs hot, desire runs deep, and secrets have the power to destroy… Get ready. The storm is coming.

Marisol Moreno has spent her youth taking care of her younger siblings. Now, with her sister, Ginny, in crisis, and her brother in the throes of his first real relationship, she doesn’t have time for anything else. Especially not the overtures of the incredibly compelling Patrick Murphy.

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

#Review: Shadows Strike by Dianne Duvall - 5 Wine Glasses







22891495Title: Shadow Strike
Series: Immortal Guardians Book 6
Author: Dianne Duvall
Format: Kindle
Published : August 25, 2015
ISBN : 9781420129823
Links: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N
Reviewer: Becky
Source: Amazon
Rating:  Five Wine Glasses

The Immortal Guardians protect the innocent in secret. Sometimes the secret gets out...

U.S. law enforcement agent Heather Lane can read minds. But not the future. The dream of battle and blood that recurs every night must be a fluke, some obscure terror from her own mind. What its significance might be, she can’t guess: an attack from seven psychotic vampires at once, only separated from nightmare by an eighth very different immortal. A handsome, brave man fighting at her side, a man she misses when she wakes.

Then the dream comes true. Heather is flung into a war between predators and protectors of humanity, the man from her dreams beside her again. Except now that she’s awake, she isn’t sure she can trust Ethan, or the shadow organization he represents. The U.S. military doesn’t trust either of them. But against an onslaught of evil like the one that’s coming, it will take everything they have just to survive...

Becky's Thoughts:

Wine Wednesday: What do California, New York, and Florida have in common?

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Fact: 
California, New York, and Florida (Woot!) lead the United States in wine consumption.

Read an #Excerpt from Shattered by Cynthia Eden! (#Giveaway)




24403669Shattered 
(LOST #3)
by Cynthia Eden 
Mass Market Paperback, 384 pages
Published October 27th 2015 by Avon
ISBN 006234966X
In New York Times bestselling author Cynthia Eden's latest novel featuring the Last Option Search Team (LOST), one agent is forced to face her past as she uncovers secrets about the man who may be the key to her future.
Criminal psychologist Dr. Sarah Jacobs is all too familiar with the kind of bad boys who belong behind bars. But the dark, dangerous man she meets in the New Orleans underworld is a new kind of ruthless, and all too irresistible.

Jax Fontaine doesn't claim to be a good guy, but he's loyal to his own code and brutally honest about what he wants. He and Sarah may be worlds apart, but when they're skin to skin, nothing matters but the heat between them.

And when a deranged killer targets Sarah, Jax will do whatever it takes to keep her safe.

#Spotlight: Walk Through Fire by Kristen Ashley (#Giveaway)




24199806Walk Through Fire 
(Chaos #4)
by Kristen Ashley 
Kindle Edition, 615 pages
Published October 27th 2015 by Forever
Millie Cross knows what it's like to burn for someone. She was young and wild and he was fierce and even wilder-a Chaos biker who made her heart pound. They fell in love at first sight and life was good, until she learned she couldn't be the woman he needed and made it so he had no choice but to walk away. Twenty years later, Millie's chance run-in with her old flame sparks a desire she just can't ignore. And this time, she won't let him ride off . . .

Bad boy Logan "High" Judd has seen his share of troubles with the law. Yet it was a beautiful woman who broke him. After ending a loveless marriage, High is shocked when his true love walks back into his life. Millie is still gorgeous, but she's just a ghost of her former self. High's intrigued at the change, but her betrayal cut him deep-and he doesn't want to get burned again. As High sinks into meting out vengeance for Millie's betrayal, he'll break all over again when he realizes just how Millie walked through fire for her man . . .


Tuesday, October 27, 2015

#Review: Autumn Thorns by Yasmine Galenorn - 4 Wine Glasses

 



24586291Title: Autumn Thorns
Series: Whisper Hollow #1
Author: Yasmine Galenorn
Format: Ebook/Mass Market Paperback, 336 pages
Published: October 27th 2015 by Jove
ISBN: 0515156248
Links: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N
Reviewer: Crystal
Source: NetGalley/Publisher
Rating: 4 out of 5 Wine Glasses

In an all-new series, New York Times bestselling author Yasmine Galenorn invites readers to Whisper Hollow, where spirits walk among the living and the lake never gives up her dead…

Fifteen years ago, I ran away from Whisper Hollow, Washington, a small town on Crescent Lake in the Olympic Peninsula. But truth is, if you were born here, you can never really leave. I’m Kerris Fellwater, and when I returned, I inherited my grandmother’s house—and her gift. As a spirit shaman, it’s my responsibility to drive the dead back to their graves, because around Whisper Hollow, people—and secrets—don’t always stay buried.

When I was little, I was told my mother ran off. But now it looks like she was murdered. With the help of my mysterious neighbor Bryan, we begin to unravel the mystery of her disappearance, and in doing so, unearth a dark force seeking to bury Whisper Hollow. Now I must work with the dead, rather than against them, because our enemy will do whatever she can to destroy the town, and she means to start with me.




Crystal's Thoughts:

Happy Book Birthday to Surviving Ice by K.A. Tucker! (#Giveaway)






25110836Surviving Ice 
(Burying Water #4)
by K.A. Tucker 
Paperback, 352 pages
Expected publication: October 27th 2015 by Atria Books
ISBN 1476774250
The USA TODAY bestselling author of the Ten Tiny Breaths series and Burying Water—which Kirkus Reviews called “a sexy, romantic, gangster-tinged page-turner”—returns with a new novel packed with romance, plot twists, and psychological suspense.

Ivy, a talented tattoo artist who spent the early part of her twenties on the move, is finally looking for a place to call home. She thinks she might have found it in San Francisco, but all that changes when she witnesses a terrible crime. She’s ready to pack up her things yet again, when a random encounter with a stranger keeps her in the city, giving her reason to stay after all.

That is, until Ivy discovers that their encounter wasn’t random. Not at all…

Monday, October 26, 2015

#Review: The Houseparty by Anne Stuart - 3 Wine Glasses






26834928Title: The Houseparty
Author: Anne Stuart
Format:  Paperback & eBook, 165 pages
Published: September 28, 2015 by Bell Bridge Books
ASIN: B015X3CZK6
Links: Goodreads  |Amazon | B&N
Source: NetGalley
Reviewer: Kimberly
Rating: 3 out of  5 Wine Glasses

He was so coldly handsome, it was positively criminal. Why, his icy blue eyes made Elizabeth's heart flutter at their very first meeting. No doubt about it, the rumors were right: this stony-faced soldier, Michael Fraser, was a traitor, a spy, a scurrilous French agent. Yet her hapless cousin had invited him for the weekend! What mad mischief might this cur cook up in the course of a three-day houseparty full of distinguished guests? Now ELizabeth is surely scandalized, for she hears that this stealthy spy has been querying the servants about her. Her own brother is off on a secret mission against Bonaparte--that must be the reason for Michael's monstrous attentions. If only his gaze weren't so penetrating, his voice so hypnotic, his kiss so treasonously sweet. She never imagined a French agent could be this dangerous!


Kimberly’s Thoughts:

Top 5 Reasons Delia Fell in Love with Drake with Setta Jay of Searing Ecstasy! (#Giveaway)

Setta Jay's Guardians of the Realms series returns with the long-awaited and much-anticipated story of Drake in Searing Ecstasy


Thank you so much for having me here today.  I’m excited about SEARING ECSTASY’S release.  This is book seven in The Guardians of the Realms series, an erotic paranormal romance novel for those eighteen and over.  My editor and I strive to make each title standalone, but with such a large world and several plots twists it would be easier to follow if started somewhere within the first three novels. If you haven’t started them and would like to, we’ve arranged a sale price of $0.99 on book one, Ecstasy Unbound.  You’re also welcome to pick up The Guardians of the Realms (Books 1-3) bundle at a special discounted price of $2.99.  


Here are the top five reasons Delia fell in love with Drake:

Releasing Your Inner Wild Child with Terri L. Austin of His Kind of Trouble (#Giveaway)




Releasing Your Inner Wild Child

My name is Monica Campbell and I’m a reformed wild child. Growing up in Vegas, trouble was easy to find and hard to resist. But these days, I’m a responsible job-holding, tax-paying, tooth-flossing citizen. I don’t dance on tables or sneak off to dive bars. I even had that unfortunate tattoo permanently removed. I’ve changed my ways for good. Most importantly, I’ve sworn off bad boys. I’ve had my fair share of them, believe me, and men who look like trouble usually are. Now I only date serious men with life goals and steady paychecks.

Sunday, October 25, 2015

Sexy Snippets: Autumn Thorns by Yasmine Galenorn


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#Spotlight: Missing Dixie by Caisey Quinn



A NOTE FROM CAISEY QUINN

When I look back on the year it took to write this series, it feels like a blur. A beautiful, bright, neon lit blur. I have to confess that I didn’t know exactly how the Neon Dreams series would end when I began writing it. I knew the band would finally make it big. I knew that they would never want to share their backstory but that it would be a story worth telling. What I didn’t know was how real their hearts and souls would become to me. While Liam may not be Dixie and Gavin’s biological son, I did learn this year that family truly does come in the form of people who love and support you in both the best and worst of times and that it’s not always comprised of people who are related by blood or marriage. Liam was born from that discovery.

When Dallas went on the road and Dixie stayed behind, some people were outright angry. I was. At both of them. I was confused about why this felt right. I didn’t know Liam existed yet. I didn’t know he was going to be wandering by an old house in the backside of Amarillo alone and afraid. I didn’t realize that Dixie had to be there giving piano lessons to other kiddos so that Liam would hear and be drawn to her.

Everyone was exactly where they needed to be—even when I hadn’t yet realized it.

So my first big thank you is for you, for those of you who read this series and allowed me to figure it out as I went. For each of you who leaves a review somewhere—anywhere—and tells a friend to read it, thank you times two. Times ten. Times infinity, as my daughter says.

#Spotlight: Cage's Misconduct by Nikki Worrell






23958978Cage's Misconduct 
(NHL Scorpions #3)
by Nikki Worrell 
Published (first published September 28th 2015)
Dalton ‘Cage’ Booker is the number one goalie for the San Diego Scorpions. Most people describe him as willful and stubborn—sometimes even difficult to control. More often than not, words fly out of his mouth without the benefit of passing through his brain first. And women love him.

Karen LaGrange, little sister of the former enforcer for the Scorpions, lives in Canada, where she works with special needs children. After losing her job to downsizing, she makes an extended visit to San Diego, forming a friendship with the errant goalie.

Through frequent reminders that they are friends without benefits, Karen struggles to keep their relationship platonic, but the more she shuts him down, the more he wants her.

Can Cage convince Karen to slip under the sheets with him, or is he destined to be firmly entrapped in the friend zone?