Girl's Heart Books Tour: A Pirate's Tale by Stacey Rourke Book Blast

The Sidekick Chronicles Vol. II: A Pirate’s Tale

Series: The Gryphon Series #3.5

By: Stacey Rourke

Published: July 19th, 2013 by Anchor Group

The call of the sea.

The promise of adventure.

For Rowan Wade, the need to return to his swashbuckling ways is enough to betray the only woman he’s cared for in over three hundred years.

With vengeance in his heart, he’s determined to exact his revenge on those that mutinied against his father.

The arrival of an unlikely ally challenges Rowan’s plans. Her goal isn’t to stop him, but to lead him on a journey of self-discovery to unravel the mysteries of the twisted path that led him to the Dark Army.

Will it be enough to make the pirate shift course? Or will he be lost forever in a rum-induced haze? Hoist ye colors and prepare to set sail with the Gryphon Series’ favorite pirate!

Girls Heart Books Tour: Vitality by M.A. George Blast

Vitality

Series-Proximity Book # 3

By-M.A. George

Publication Date-July 16th, 2013

Palta learned long ago not to expect a “normal” life.  She’d settle for onefree of close encounters with supernaturally-gifted homicidal maniacs.

Apparently that’s too much to ask.

Join your favorite Onontian royal family, as they settle into life at thepalace...only don’t get too comfortable, because things are about to take a hair-raisingturn.

Vitality is the gripping third installment in the Proximityseries.

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Blog-http://proximitybook.wordpress.com/

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Guest Post: Shannon Delany author of Weather Witch

Creating a new world

Shannon Delany

 

Sing it with me: "A whole new world..." I'm going to have that Disney tune stuck in my head now!

I loved building--well, really DISCOVERING--the world of Weather Witch. I think it is a process of uncovering something that already exists in the darkest recesses of someone's mind more than constructing something--at least in Weather Witch.

The Weather Witch world was unearthed thanks to my love of Philadelphia, storms, and ghost stories. I knew I wanted something that incorporated all those things so I found the bits of Philadelphia I love most (other than South Street), dug through the ghost stories, and asked myself: What if you could control the weather?

It's a pertinent question, especially for a farmer like myself. But the job of an author is to take it further.

What if people could control the weather? What are the risks and rewards? What would the government do?

What would the world become?

The answers are actually relatively simple--the danger of such control is HUGE. Your obnoxious neighbor's having a picnic? Rain them out. Mad at somebody? Strike them with lightning. Want to grow perfect roses? Provide just the right amount of rain even if it screws up the vegetable garden nearby.

And that's when the world starts to really develop.

Surely not EVERYONE should have such powers! They must be regulated and controlled to protect us from ourselves and each other, right? Luckily there is a government to do such things. And if control means controlling people a little more firmly than they might like... If it means enslavement... Well, surely it's for their own safety. For their own good. Right? I mean, it is only a FEW people that are Weather Witches, so what's the harm as long as you protect the majority? So what if you personally benefit? You have a hard job, finding Witches... You should be rewarded! Besides, they're only Witches...

And then you start to see the comparisons in your world and the real one. How many people said of the African slaves who helped build the farms of our country, "They're only savages..." How many said of the Irish slaving in the Pennsylvania coal mines, "Well, that just starve because of the potato famine back home..." How many stepped aside in the time of Hitler and said, "Well, it's only the gypsies. Only the homosexuals. Just the Jews. Austria. Czechoslovakia. Poland... Oh, crap!"

And suddenly you realize no matter how many different ways you try to trick out a fictional world that there's only really ONE world and it always starts here. With our world, our hearts, our souls and our fears.

That's how I unearthed Weather Witch--with what ifs. Simple enough! But what if EVERYONE could control the weather?

In a vastly different and darker Philadelphia of 1844, steam power has been repressed, war threatens from deep, dark waters, and one young lady of high social standing is expecting a surprise at her seventeenth birthday party–but certainly not the one she gets!

Jordan Astraea, who has lived out all of her life in Philadelphia’s most exclusive neighborhood, is preparing to celebrate her birthday with friends, family and all the extravagance they might muster. The young man who is most often her dashing companion, Rowen Burchette, has told her a surprise awaits her and her best friend, Catrina Hollindale, wouldn’t miss this night for all the world!

But storm clouds are gathering and threatening to do far more than dampen her party plans because someone in the Astraea household has committed the greatest of social sins by Harboring a Weather Witch.

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About the author:

Shannon Delany grew up in a community that was traditional and respectful of superstitions and old religions and was very creative. She was surrounded by arts, crafts, and other languages from a young age and enjoyed sampling everything that atmosphere had to offer. Her childhood directly impacted her fascination with myths, legends, and the paranormal and has enjoyed using that information to write her 13 TO LIFE and WEATHER WITCH novels and her short stories.

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•a Weather Witch coffee mug with special goodies (all connected to the story)

•signed copies of 13 to Life and Secrets and Shadows

•a handcrafted mask

•a special metal and crystal bookmark

•a mini top hat

•a silhouette of their own profile cut and matted by Shannon

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Cover Reveal of Skin Deep by Megan D. Martin

Title:  Skin Deep
Author:  Megan D. Martin

Series:  #1 of The Eternal Forces

Genre: New Adult Paranormal Romance
Publisher:  Dragonfairy Press
Expected Release Date:   Fall 2013

What would you do to have the body of your dreams?

Kiera hates being overweight and hides behind thick layers of clothing. One night, her friends present an opportunity that seems impossible to believe. With a single spell, she can have the thin physique she's always coveted.

But all magic comes with a price: no sex or she'll revert back to her old body. Kiera accepts the cost. It's not like she has men lined up at her door. Obeying this one tiny rule isn't difficult at all—until the night she meets Cain, a were-tiger and a soldier with the Eternal Forces.

When a slew of unexplained murders forces Kiera and Cain together, they'll have to face the horrors of their pasts. Will Kiera realize she is worth more than her outward appearance? Or will she make the wrong the choice and lose everything —including her life?

About the Author

Megan D. Martin is a multi-published author, mother, student and editor. In her spare time she enjoys decorating her house with strange things that do not match, playing her old school Nintendo Entertainment System, and buying fish for her many fish tanks.

You can find Megan on pretty much every social networking site that exists.

Blog: http://www.MeganDMartin.blogspot.com

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/authormegandmartin

Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/Megan_D_Martin

Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6656963.Megan_D_Martin

Google+: https://plus.google.com/115096823539939478098/posts

Instagram: http://instagram.com/meeegann

Vine: Meeegann

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Review: Beyond the Sun by Sandra Bischoff

Beyond the Sun

Dark Order of the Dragon Book # 1

by Sandra Bischoff

Paranormal Romance

Publication Date- April 1, 2013

Bayou Brew Publishing

Fifteen years ago Jared Bonatelli had it all. The youngest son of one of the founding families in the Conservatorship of The Dark Order he lived a life you only thought existed in novels and nightmares. He had just graduated from Oxford University and became engaged to his childhood sweetheart when he lost it all in one violent act. The very next day he found himself shipped off to New Orleans with only the money in his pocket and whatever he could fit in one suitcase. Since that night he has suffered reliving his fiancé’s murder repeatedly in his dreams. It isn't until he finds himself summoned back to New York for an emergency meeting of the Conservatorship that the comfortable world he lives in begins to crumble around him.

Alexandra Toscano has been searching for the one assignment that could catapult her journalistic career. When her editor Gene O’Hanlon drops a manila folder in her lap, Alex is immediately skeptical. At first glance the information he hands her seems like a publicity piece that is till she comes across an article he wrote some fifteen years ago about Vampires murdering a young woman in Central Park. She is ready to laugh it off as a work of fiction until he points out he was an eyewitness to the whole thing. But that wasn’t all. The girl’s boyfriend was a member of a prominent Italian family who vanished the very next day.

Now as Alex begins to dig deeper into Jared’s life she begins to question her own past. Could the answer she seeks be found in the glowing eyes of the one person she is sworn to expose? Or will they both find themselves torn apart by a world Beyond the Sun?

Links-

Goodreads- http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17725049-beyond-the-sun

Amazon Kindle- http://www.amazon.com/Beyond-The-Sun-ebook/dp/B00C4XLW8U/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1365054630&sr=8-1&keywords=Sandra+Bischoff

Barnes & Noble Nook- http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/beyond-the-sun-sandra-bischoff/1114974572?ean=2940016456324

Beyond the Sun Soundtrack

Avalon ~ I Don’t Want to Go

All 4 One ~ I Swear

Bon Jovi ~ She Don’t Know Me

Buckcherry ~ I’m Sorry

The Calling ~ Wherever You Will Go

D.H.T. ~ Listen to Your Heart

Evanescence ~ Bring Me to Life

Evanescence ~ My Immortal

Green Day ~ Boulevard Of Broken Dreams

Green Day ~ Wake Me Up When September Ends

Guns N’ Roses ~ November Rain

Incubus ~ Dig

Kelly Clarkson ~ Never Again

Lifehouse ~ You and Me

Lifehouse ~ Hanging By a Moment

Lifehouse ~ Whatever It Takes

Lifehouse ~ Broken

Nickelback ~ Gotta Be Somebody

Nickelback ~ I’d Come For You

Nickelback ~ Never Gonna Be Alone

Nickelback ~ If Today Was Your Last Day

P.O.D. ~ BOOM

Shinedown ~ Fly From The Inside

Shinedown ~ .45

Shinedown ~ Beyond The Sun

Unwritten Law ~ Seein’ Red

3 Doors Down ~ Here Without You

30 Seconds to Mars ~ A Beautiful Lie

30 Seconds to Mars ~ Capricorn

Review

It has been a long time since I have read an adult book. Young Adult books have had a hold on me but when I first saw the cover of Beyond the Sun I knew I had to break my unofficial break from adult tales and give this book a whirl.

I instantly fell in love with Jared from page one.He was strong, protective, loyal, faithful and he was damaged. That's just the type of book boyfriend I can go for. Okay besides Jared kidnapping my heart with his wounded little soul the story also grabbed me. I never wanted to stop reading. Seriously, who needs to eat?

In paranormal romance novels normally the heroines fall into two categories: TSTL and in need of a ball check. Alex was neither. I was so relieved. Don't get me wrong I did have a few grievances with the chick. One being she was ultimately going to be the one to end up with my book boyfriend. (Yes that is a silly reason to dislike a heroine but don't you dare judge me.) Okay next bone to pick with Alex is, she is a journalist and wasn't chomping at the bit for this story her boss was handing to her. I know journalist, I was one and I would have been loving the idea of this. As silly as I may think it was it has teeth to it, Also her instant biased on a group of people just because the are wealthy was very annoying. Seriously? What if he did the same because she was poor, he'd be a huge jerk but it is okay for her to do it? I just find prejudices annoying.

Besides those small things, the story was wicked solid. I was enthralled. The other characters were also very cool. I was drawn into the secondary characters. I really enjoyed reading it and look forward to reading more from Sandra Bischoff

 

Cover Whore
The cover really speaks for itself. What can I say besides it is dark, moody and makes you anxious to read the pages. Well done!

About the Author

Sandi Bischoff lives in the historic town of Cornwall, NY with her husband, son and a menagerie of Dragons all of whom have their own distinct personalities. She is a Pharmacist by profession but finally found her true calling in a simple twist of fate. A friend approached her to write for a character in a forum on a popular networking website and over the next five years her passion had found its niche. She then went on to compose a few poems and short stories which she would post on her homepage at the same networking site. Recently one of those poems was chosen to be published in a compilation called Collected Whispers.

Her first manuscript entitled Beyond the Sun was another short story gone wild. It has recently been picked up by Bayou Brew Publishing and was released on April 1st.

Author Links-

Goodreads- http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7031254.Sandra_Bischoff

Website- http://sandibischoff.webs.com/

Twitter- https://twitter.com/SandiBischoff

Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/AuthorSandiBischoff

Blog- http://sbischoff.wordpress.com

Bayou Brew Publishing- http://www.bayoubrewpublishing.com/

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Girls heart Books tour: Review- Fender Bender Blues by Niecey Roy

Fender Bender Blues

Niecey Roy

May 3, 2013

Spicy Contemporary Romantic Comedy

Her life took a wrong turn. He's driven by success. They didn't count on crashing into love...
Rachel Bennett loved her job until the day she finds herself doubting her choices. Now she's hunting for a new career, but starting over isn't easy. Her plan is simple—no distractions until she finds her dream job. She didn't plan on fate throwing her a curveball in the form of a fender bender with a sexy guy in an expensive suit.
Craig Larsen is a wealthy, successful business owner with a plan of his own: survive his current PR nightmare and stay away from his overly determined ex-girlfriend. His need for control and personal success is turned upside down when he meets Rach, a sassy redhead who can't drive.
Soon they find themselves battling with Rach's grumpy old neighbor, toilet-papering the trees of a high school nemesis, and fighting over the last slice of pizza. Can two very different people plus one fender bender equal a chance at forever?

Dream Cast: I have actually thought of this a long time ago. Yes, I was obsessed with the story for awhile and this would make a great movie.

Rach- Jessica Chastain

Craig - Josh Duhamel

Excerpt:
“Now what?”
“Nothing.” Rach sniffed.
Craig shifted to eye her warily. “Since when do you answer me with single words?”
“Since I decided I’m not talking to you,” she answered with a shrug, crumpling up the white paper wrapper from her sub.
Craig leaned his face in close to her neck and enjoyed the startled jerk of her shoulders. Her eyes opened wide in surprise. His breath shifted a few strands of hair at the nape of her neck as he whispered, “Why, because you want me?”
“You’re incorrigible,” she said, breathless, her cheeks flushed.
She’s enjoying this. The thought pleased him. Rach was on her back beside him now, her eyes closed. He glanced around the park to see if anyone was watching. No one was. He could swoop in for a kiss and no one would catch him. No one would care, he told himself. She won’t mind…
“I can feel you staring.”
Craig smiled down at her. “So what.”
She peeked at him with one green eye. “So stop it.”
“And if I don’t?” Maybe she’d tackle him, push him down on the blanket and…She didn’t. She promptly closed her eye and went back to pretending indifference.
“I’ll hit you, that’s what.”
“Not if I do this, you won’t.”
He’d only meant it to be a short kiss, but the pleasure of touching his lips to hers kept him there longer. Her tongue was velvet soft and warm against his and the slow mating of their mouths quickened his heartbeat even as he told himself, It’s no big deal, just a kiss.
She nipped his bottom lip and sent heat sliding through his body. The woman could kiss.
She whispered soft against his lips, “Now why don’t you admit that it’s you who wants me.”




Review:
This has been the best book I have read so far this year!

Niecey Roy has done something not many writers can manage, she captured the voice of a select age group. The 30 Somethings. I related so much to the heroine. I felt like Niecey spied on my friends and me because she honed in on exactly how we speak. Rachel (Rach) captures everything she should to be realistic. Her relationships were organic. Now let me talk about the romance because really that's what it is all about. Swoon-swoony swoon swoon. Some parts I got dizzy I was so giggly. Yes I got strange looks for the seemingly random laughs too. The chemistry was super hot between Craig. Even early on I was feeling the tenderness during their hilarious encounters and bantering. I can't pinpoint what makes this such an awesome read but all the components are there and amalgamate into something special. Do yourself a favor grab this book, a few snacks (because you will want food) and make a night of it.

Cover Whore:

I think the cover is easy, fun and totally channels the story. The colors are bright and super vibrant.

Links

Amazon

Wild Rose Press

Goodreads

The Author
Niecey Roy knew she wanted to be a writer from a very young age, but her moment of enlightenment came after watching the movie You’ve Got Mail. It was then she realized her place in life and happily parked her butt on writing romance. Her dream was to create sexy vixens, hunky, half naked heroes, and above all, romance; lots and lots of butterflies in the belly, breathless first kisses and happily-ever-afters.

When she’s not at her day job where she works as a legal assistant, she can be found at home at a cluttered desk, pounding her tired little fingers away on a keyboard with nothing but black pepper flavored sunflower seeds and Visine as her weapons for mass-romance-novel-creation. When her fingers need a break, you’ll find her at a table with friends, drinking a few martinis and showing off a new pair of (sometimes ridiculous) high heels. She’s usually the loudest at the table and most often the one snorting with laughter.

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