Book Blitz: Spin

Spin By K.J. Farnham
Publication date: April 11, 2019
Buy Link: Amazon
Genres: Suspense, Young Adult
Summary:

Sixteen-year-old Jenna Kemp is a typical high school girl, complete with a loyal group of friends and a seemingly understanding boyfriend. 

But when the demons from Jenna’s childhood resurface, she’s suddenly spinning out of control–drinking, partying–anything to numb the pain of the past. 

After distancing herself from her friends and befriending an outcast, her friends and family start questioning and judging her choices. 

But when Jenna doesn’t come home one night, her friends and family realize it’s more than just adolescent rebellion. Jenna’s mysterious disappearance proves that there’s more on the line than they realized. 

As they sift through a series of her personal diaries, the truth becomes terrifying. Will Jenna’s final diary entry reveal the greatest mystery of all–her whereabouts?

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EXCERPT:

Bonnie Kemp

I take a deep, cleansing breath as I grip the knob of Jenna’s bedroom door. It’s been thirteen days since I was last in there—a record since bringing her home from the hospital and laying her in her bassinet sixteen years ago.

“Quick in and out, Lulu. Okay?” I ask, glancing down at Jenna’s dog. Every few days, the black lab incessantly whines and scratches where the door meets the floor, eager to enter her beloved owner’s room. Today happens to be one of those days.

As soon as I open the door a crack, Lulu bolts inside, causing me to lose my grip on the knob and forcing the door to fly wide open. The energetic dog quickly gets to work sniffing every square inch of Jenna’s room, as if searching for clues that might reveal her whereabouts.

Book Blitz: Smoke City

Smoke City By Keith Rosson
Publication date: January 23, 2018
Buy Link: Amazon
Genres: Adult, Magical Realism
Summary: 

Marvin Deitz has some serious problems. His mob-connected landlord is strong-arming him out of his storefront. 

His therapist has concerns about his stability. He’s compelled to volunteer at the local Children’s Hospital even though it breaks his heart every week. 

Oh, and he’s also the guilt-ridden reincarnation of Geoffroy Thérage, the French executioner who lit Joan of Arc’s pyre in 1431. He’s just seen a woman on a Los Angeles talk show claiming to be Joan, and absolution seems closer than it’s ever been . . . but how will he find her? 

When Marvin heads to Los Angeles to locate the woman who may or may not be Joan, he’s picked up hitchhiking by Mike Vale, a self-destructive alcoholic painter traveling to his ex-wife’s funeral. As they move through a California landscape populated with “smokes” (ghostly apparitions that’ve inexplicably begun appearing throughout the southwestern US), each seeks absolution in his own way.

Now in Paperback!

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EXCERPT:

The years bled together. Each waking morning—or afternoon, truth be told, or evening—couched in a familiar bloom of panic.

After that, after Vale realized where he was, who he was, came the rest: sickness, fear, assessment of damage, all of it stitched together with the fine red thread of guilt.

Art & Artists had once called him a “relentless avatar of our contemporary, post-nuclear unease.”
He woke to the alarm, studded in fresh bruises. New scabs on his knees and his teeth loose in his mouth. His lack of memory familiar in itself.

Sunlight fell in the room in fierce, distinct bands. He stood shivering in the shower, the water lancing against him while lava, hot and malicious, compressed itself behind his optic nerves.

Book Blitz: Taken by Lies

Taken by Lies (Truth or Lies, #1) By Ella Miles
Publication date: March 26, 2019
Buy Link: Amazon
Genres: Adult, Romance, Suspense
Summary:

At 16 I was taken.
Kidnapped by a boy I thought I could love.
Then he sold me as if I were property.
For three years I endured. 

Beatings.
Torture.
Pain.
I never broke. 

I was strong, determined, resilient.
But then one day it happened…I broke.
Setting me free. 

I should have run away, found a new life, and started over.
Instead, I returned. 

To find the man who sold me.

*Content below the cut may be triggering.

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EXCERPT:

Broken.

For one thousand and ninety-five days I’ve done everything to keep myself from breaking.
Shut off my mind off during the beatings.

Escaped the depths of the darkness in the night.

Book Blitz: Aries 181

Aries 181 By Tiana Warner
Publication date: March 25th 2019
Buy Link: Amazon
Genres: Adult, LGBTQ+, Science Fiction
Summary:

A crime spree to steal aerospace technology. An intern with the brains to stop it. 

When Jess uncovers evidence that her boss is stealing technology to build his company, her coveted internship at Aries turns from dream job to catastrophe. 

Worse, her boss cons another young woman into becoming his accomplice, and the duo’s chemically enhanced skills and weapons help them become the most infamous supercriminals to sweep the tech world. 

Before they pilfer every aerospace lab in North America, Jess must use her ingenuity to stop them—risking her career, her relationships, and maybe even her life.

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EXCERPT:

The Aries Research Lab

A dead engineer was an inconvenient way to start the week.

From the passenger’s seat of his Bentley, Tony used his phone to post a new job opening.

“Get her car out of the parking lot. Torch it so it looks like tragedy struck on her way in.”

“Yes, sir,” said Reah, weaving through traffic as she took him to the Aries office.

Accidents were uncommon in the research lab. The work involved too much time behind a computer for that. But when the occasional ‘whoops’ did happen, it was an annoyance. Covering them up was a pain. Finding a willing and qualified replacement was worse.

Book Blitz: The Last Wingman

The Last Wingman (Wingmen #6) By Daisy Prescott
Publication date: March 7, 2019
Buy Link: Amazon
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance
Summary:

The Last Wingman is a standalone enemies to lovers romance. 

Jonah Kingston is the last wingman standing.
June Moxee doesn’t care if he’s the last man on earth. 

I haven’t exactly avoided relationships, but love has never been a priority. Solitude doesn’t bother me and being alone doesn’t mean being lonely. 

Until she moved to the island and I had to reconsider everything. 

June seems content running her yarn shop, knitting with the local church ladies, and avoiding me. 

She’s a temptress in a hand-knit sweater. And for some reason, she’s not a fan of mine. It might be the tattoos. Or the beard. Or the fact that we’re polar opposites. 

A woman has finally caught my attention. Too bad she thinks she hates me. Good thing I’m stubborn enough to try to change her mind.

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EXCERPT:

An old-fashioned brass bell jingles when I open the door to June’s store. The narrow space is made even tighter by the floor-to-ceiling cubbies that line the two long walls. In the back of the store, a picture window frames a view of Saratoga Passage like a painting.

Tucked in the corner near the window is a comfy-looking wingback chair, and next to it, an oversized basket filled with balls of yarn. The shop is cozy and feminine, comfortable like a sweet grandmother’s house.

A grandmother who listens to “Sex and Candy” on low volume.

Not what I was expecting.