Blog Hop: Midwinter's Eve Giveaway Hop

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December 21st - 31st

Hey Loves,

The year is almost over and 2014 has been full of amazing books! Sound off below on what some of your favorites were and why you liked them for a chance to win a book of your choice. And don't forget to check out the rest of the stops on the blog hop for more chances to win!

Book Blitz: Where Dead Bodies Lie (Body Dowser #1)

Where Dead Bodies Lie (Body Dowser #1) by Kat Cazanav 
Age Group: Young Adult
Genre: Paranormal
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Buy Links:

Amazon ♥ B & N

Book Description:

For as long as I can remember, I have been told to follow three important rules; Always guard my ability Never share my secret And pretend to be normal.

However, those three little rules don’t make my life easier. I still find dead people and deal with strange visions. Not to mention, an attraction to a boy who doesn’t exist. Whenever we cross path’s he mists away like smoke on a mirror. He drives me crazy, that Kaff Cooper.

As a flock of dead crows fall from the blackened sky, Kaff becomes the only one who can see the truth straight to the dark underbelly of who I actually am.

My hands feel the pull to extract the forsaken, the lost, the forgotten. It comes as naturally as breathing and there is no stopping it.

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Excerpt:

She deposited a small pink Victoria’s Secret bag in my lap. “I ran out of wrapping paper so I had to regift in a used bag but I figured if this kept Clyde and me from getting burned in the kitchen, why not give them to you.” She smiled. “Anyway, this is more protective.”

Way too much information. I tore at the hot pink tissue, dug to the bottom, and plucked out the most hideous brown oven mitts I had ever seen. I looked up, annoyed. “I can’t wear these. They’re . . . they’re. . . .”

“Say it.”

Release Day Event: Sugay and Spice Anthology

Sugar and Spice Anthology

RELEASE DAY BLITZ

December 19, 2014

Sugar & Spice and everything nice...or is it? This collection of sweet and sexy romances is sure to warm your heart *and* get it racing.

Maverick by Anna Cruise
International surf sensation Kellen Handler has it all – fame and fortune and more women than he can count – but he's riding his own personal wave toward disaster. Can PR genius Gina Bellori rescue his reputation...and his heart?

Fever by Melissa Pearl
Two showers and one song that will change their lives forever...singing in the shower will never be the same after Ella and Cole hear each other for the first time. Is it possible for two people to fall in love after one duet together? And can they find each other before life-changing decisions will set them on opposing paths?

Escaping Me by Elizabeth Lee
The last thing Cole was looking for was a girl like Whitney, and she sure didn't expect anything serious with the town's bad seed. Sometimes the one you think isn't for you turns out to be just the person you need.

Book Blitz: A Different Kind of Love (The Friessens: A New Beginning #3)

A Different Kind of Love (The Friessens: A New Beginning #3) by Lorhainne Eckhart
Age Group: Adult
Genre: Romance
Release Date: September 23, 2014
Buy Links:

Amazon ♥ B & N

Book Description:

A Different Kind of Love b> brings back the couple that started it all. Brad & Emily. You fell in love with them in The Forgotten Child. 

Now years later they face an entire new set of challenges with their pre-teen autistic boy. 

And when his mother returns now wanting a relationship with the boy she abandoned, it brings an added new set of complications they hadn’t counted on. 

She says she’s changed, but can Brad and Emily believe her?



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Excerpt:

“Mister Neil, when are you expecting your guest?” Ana asked. The short, plump Mayan woman was their housekeeper and cook, and she moved a plate of cookies onto the sofa table.

“Any minute now,” Neil replied as he glanced at his watch before noticing Candy where she lingered beside the bookshelf. “Candy, I didn’t hear you come in,” he said. His gaze lingered on her as he took in what she was wearing. His expression was questioning. This was the first time she had chosen something different than what he’d set out for her. Before, it had been helpful for him to pick out her clothes when she didn’t know what to wear, but now it seemed as if he was dressing her up to meet a mistress. She said nothing.

“Your parents, will they be meeting this woman, as well?” Ana asked.

Neil turned to Ana, distracted, and said, “No, not yet.” He stepped around the sofa, closer to Candy, and Ana took that moment to slip out of the room. “Why aren’t you wearing the dress that I set out for you?” he asked.

“I didn’t want to wear a dress. What’s wrong with what I’m wearing?”

“You’re not wearing makeup, so what have you been doing for the past hour?” He sounded annoyed.

Book Blitz: Spark Rising

Spark Rising by Kate Corcino
Age Group: New Adult
Genre: Science Fiction
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Buy Links:

Amazon

Book Description:

All that’s required to ignite a revolution is a single spark rising.

Two hundred years after the cataclysm that annihilated fossil fuels, Sparks keep electricity flowing through their control of energy-giving Dust. 

The Council of Nine rebuilt civilization on the backs of Sparks, offering citizens a comfortable life in a relo-city in exchange for power, particularly over the children able to fuel the future. 

The strongest of the boys are taken as Wards and raised to become elite agents, the Council’s enforcers and spies. Strong girls—those who could advance the rapidly-evolving matrilineal power—don’t exist. Not according to the Council.

Lena Gracey died as a child, mourned publicly by parents desperate to keep her from the Council. She was raised in hiding until she fled the relo-city for solitary freedom in the desert. Lena lives off the grid, selling her power on the black market.

Agent Alex Reyes was honed into a calculating weapon at the Ward School to do the Council’s dirty work. But Alex lives a double life. He’s leading the next generation of agents in a secret revolution to destroy those in power from within.

The life Lena built to escape her past ends the day Alex arrives looking for a renegade Spark.

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Excerpt:

In Spark Rising, Lena Gracey trusts the wrong man to keep her family safe, and it costs her freedom. In custody, she tries to stay one step ahead of the Agents determined to learn what they can about her rare power. When her mother is brought in as a means to control her, Lena will do whatever it takes to keep her safe, and only one man in the room is smart enough to be worried.

“What do you want me to tell you?”

Lucas cocked his head, and his mouth twisted at the corner. “Tell me?” His voice still had the purring, pleased burr beneath it. Lena gritted her teeth. “What do you want to know?”

Promotional Event: Tortured Souls (The Orion Circle #1)

Tortured Souls (The Orion Circle #1) by Kimber Leigh Wheaton
Age Group: Young Adult
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Release Date: July 28, 2014
Buy Links:

Amazon

Book Description:

Sometimes Rest in Peace isn't an option

Kacie Ramsey sees ghosts—and it's ruining her life. Her mother left, her father blames her, and no matter how hard she tries, she can't keep the ghosts away. Now a new power has emerged. Nightly visions of grisly murders and a relentless predator draw her to the brink of insanity.

When the phantom appears at a party, Kacie's longtime crush, Logan, saves her. He invites her to join the Orion Circle, a group of supernatural hunters with chapters in schools all over the country. Through the Circle, Kacie learns to embrace her spiritual powers, and for the first time in her life she feels in control rather than a victim.

But the Foxblood Demon will not give up so easily. A demented serial killer in life who trapped the souls of the thirteen children he murdered, imprisoning them within the walls of his mansion. Now in death, he plots his return while drawing power from the pure souls of the children. He recognizes something in Kacie he's never seen before—a medium powerful enough to provide a vessel for his tainted soul.

Kacie can't ignore the tortured souls of the children crying out to her every night. With Logan at her side, she will fight the Foxblood Demon. But can they banish this powerful phantom, or will Kacie lose not only her body, but her eternal soul to the monster.

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Excerpt:

“Are you ready?” Logan asks in a soft murmur.

Closing my locker, I nod and smile at him, trying to hide my anxiety. Why did I agree to go to this club meeting? What if they sacrifice goats to some pagan god or something? Laughter wells up within at the absurd image of an animal sacrifice occurring on the third floor of the Sciences building.

Besides, it couldn’t be a goat—it would have to be a cat or a fetal pig since that’s what the AP biology class is dissecting this year. I guess it could be a crawfish or an earthworm since the regular biology classes dissect those.

My laughter finally bubbles out when I picture figures in black robes sacrificing an earthworm to their pagan god. I feel Logan’s eyes on me. When I glance at him, he has a strange, indecipherable look on his face.

“Are you alright?” he asks, concern clouding his features.

“Yeah, just a little nervous,” I reply, fighting another blush that threatens to form.

Book Blitz: Feel

Feel by Karen-Anne Stewart
Age Group: New Adult
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Release Date: December 2014
Buy Links:

Amazon

Book Description:

The one whose emotions I can’t feel is the one who makes me feel the most. 

I was a sensitive, at least that’s what I was told by the boy who saved me from the overwhelming emotions that consumed my soul, the boy who saved me from myself when my gift became stronger. 

Through the years, he was my redemption, my reason to take my next breath…then, he was gone.

Jensen always told me I was strong, but I didn’t believe him until I was forced to be strong on my own, and I kept breathing without him. I’ve taken 42 million breaths since the moment he sent me away. Now, four years later, he’s standing in front of me, and I can barely breathe.

This isn’t just a story about the abilities I possess; it’s a story about something much stronger…the love of the man who possesses every part of me.

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Excerpt:

A deep warmth fuels my excitement for him. I remember that name. He said that about me after he taught me to ride, saying I’m reckless on rails with how I take the turns. From the look of that same warmth swimming in his eyes, he realizes I’ve caught the meaning. “Congratulations! Really, Jensen, that’s amazing! I’m so happy for you for fulfilling your dream of opening your own bike mechanic shop,” I beam.

 “I can’t wait to see it.” I pause, giving him a quizzical glance, “Where exactly is Reckless on Rails? So much has happened since seeing you again but I don’t even know where you live.”

“On a small ranch just outside of Fairfield, California,” he replies, equally excited. “The house is small, but it’s secluded. My closest neighbor is a mile away.” He turns that sweet, sexy grin on me,

“Too far away for you to feel, pretty girl.” If any part of me was left broken, he just fixed it. More damn tears fill my eyes and spill down my cheeks. “You were thinking about me when you picked your home?”