Book Reviews / Favorite Books I've Read: August 2018

Tuesday, 28 August 2018

Release Blitz & Giveaway! - Witness Protection Program - 10 Authors - Eight Stories & One Really Bad Man.

MASTERS OF THE CASTLE:
WITNESS PROTECTION PROGRAM

Genre: Erotic Romance, Suspense, BDSM
Publisher: Blushing Books
Publication Date: August 7, 2018

There's a killer in the castle and the hunt is on.
Ten authors, eight full-length stories.
One really, really bad man.
Where will you be when the bomb goes off?

When Master Marshall gets an emergency phone call, he can’t believe his ears. His cousin, Grace, has become the only surviving witness to a terrible murder and she is refusing police protection. Fortunately for her, as far as Marshall is concerned there is no place in the world safer than a medieval castle full of protection-minded Doms. Unfortunately for them all, the assassin hunting her from the shadows disagrees.

This steamy Masters of the Castle anthology includes the following brand new, full length books:

Taming Terri - Allysa Hart & Rayanna Jamison

Partners. Best Friends. Ex-Lovers. K9 unit Terri O’Connel and Nick Carrusso along with their playful pup, Champ, find themselves on a case that challenges all of their skills.

Embracing Eden - Maren Smith

Intimacy was vulnerability, and vulnerable was something Grimsley would never be.

Tempting Tasha - Tabitha Black

Has the Big Bad Dungeon Master finally met his match?

Controlling Carlie - BJ Wane

The only way to keep her safe is to bend her to his control…

Freeing Fawn - Golden Angel

FBI agent Dane Morgan comes to the Castle to save a life. Fawn Pike is there to take one.

Harboring Holly - Raisa Greywood

Can Agent Turner save his dream girl twice?

Capturing Cassandra - Piper Stone

She’s longed to submit to a powerful man. Her choice? The assassin she’s hunted for years.

Guarding Grace - Katherine Deane & Kate Richards

How can a blind woman be a witness?

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Saturday, 25 August 2018

Release Blitz & Giveaway! Treasures of the Deep Blue Sea by Roberta Franklin

TREASURES OF THE DEEP BLUE SEA

Roberta Franklin

Genre: Adventure Romance
Publisher: Olympia Publishers
Publication Date: July 26, 2018

Nikos and Sally, the Most Unusual Couple - first they got involved with dangerous artefact thieves, now they get mixed up in a vendetta!

Their first romantic holiday on Crete turns out quite differently for Professor Nikos and his bubbly young girlfriend-assistant Sally from what they’d expected: first they discover an ancient shipwreck with a priceless cargo of very rare artefacts, and then Sally suddenly disappears – kidnapped, as it turns out, by a Cretan family involved in a deadly generations-old vendetta!

Nikos, with the help of his Turkish colleague Hasan and a couple of brave hoteliers, tries to find a way to free Sally, end the feud, and ensure a happy ending to a Romeo-and-Juliet-like romance for the young Cretan couple trapped in this family conflict…

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Excerpt

Sally had already sneaked out of her room with the bullet packets in her hand; barefoot and tip-toed, lifting her improvised ‘skirt’ so she wouldn’t trip over it, she walked to the rifle cabinet, unlocked it and took the heavy Kalashnikov out first.

She knew that that was going to be the easiest one: she had already checked the day before where the mechanism was that released the magazine, so all it took was a bit of pressure, and the magazine came off with just a slight ‘click’. She then took the magazine with the blanks from the board and inserted it with another ‘click’. Yannis’s beloved Kalashnikov wouldn’t kill anyone now.

She put the magazine with the real bullets on the board; she had put all the ammunition there so that she would be able to work more quickly – anyway, if the kitchen door opened up now she was done for, one way or the other.

She took out the nine-millimetre shotgun and opened the break action with another clicking sound, a bit louder than the ones the Kalashnikov had emitted. She carefully removed the two large shells from the barrels with the help of her fingernails; as she placed them on the board, she looked at them for a moment and shuddered at the thought of what damage they would do if fired at a human being…

Then she took two of the harmless ones out of the package labelled ‘nine mm’ and placed them in the gun, and put it back into the cabinet. Half the job was already done.

Other Books by Roberta Franklin

Be sure to also check out THE PROFESSOR AND THE BIRD by Roberta Franklin.

While Professor Angelopoulos is working on a dig in the Anatolian desert, Sally, a young Irish motorbike rider, is blown into the camp. Even though he could be her father, they start getting attracted to each other. Then they find a rare artefact, and dangerous criminals appear on the scene…

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About Roberta Franklin

Roberta Franklin, who was born in Germany in 1973 and studied History and English Literature in Munich, now shares her time between London and Athens. She has worked in various fields – as a journalist, as Social Hostess on a cruise ship, as an insurance agent – and during the past ten years she has been working as a freelance translator and a teacher of foreign languages. But her true passion has always been writing, and her favourite genre has always been romantic fiction.

Website: https://romanceloversite.com

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Monday, 20 August 2018

Release Blitz & Giveaway! - The First Time I Saw You by Lorhainne Eckhart

THE FIRST TIME I SAW YOU

New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author

Lorhainne Eckhart

Series: The Friessens # 16
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Publication Date: July 22, 2018

When Gabriel Friessen puts up an ad looking for a roommate, he never expects to meet a down-on-her-luck gorgeous single mom with a meddling family, a crazy ex-boyfriend, and enough chemistry between them to heat the county.

Like his parents Andy and Laura Friessen, Gabriel knows what it means to face an impossible situation. What he doesn’t realize when he puts up an ad looking for a roommate he never expects to meet a down on her luck gorgeous single mom with a meddling family, a crazy ex-boyfriend, and enough chemistry between them to heat a county. The only problem is she doesn’t believe in happily ever after and sees falling in love as a mistake only fools make. But Gabriel can’t stop thinking about her, wanting her, and is determined to show her the road to love isn’t as dangerous as she believes.

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“Let me.” His hand covered hers, and he took the box from her before she could say anything. She pulled her hand back from the touch, which shot fire through her. There was no way in hell she was going to let herself feel that, so she fisted her hand and forced a smile to her face.

“You know what? I can carry my own boxes.” She forced the words out and took in the moment he registered what she’d said. He actually handed her back the box and stepped away, lifting his hands in the air. Of course, now she felt like a first-class bitch, but boundaries were imperative, and the last thing she ever planned on happening was getting sucked into another pair of dreamy eyes, a killer smile, and a rugged body she could stare at all day. No way. Been there, done that.

“After you...” he started just as the voices behind them grew louder. Her mom was walking up the sidewalk carrying nothing other than her handbag, whereas her dad was carrying two big suitcases. Her mom went on and on about something she didn’t have a clue about.

“Mom, Dad, this is Gabriel,” she called out as she stepped into the house and glanced at the clean floors and her shoes. “Is it okay if we leave our shoes on?” she said as her dad nodded and her mom shook Gabriel’s hand.

“Oh, so nice to meet you,” Chloe said. “Gabriel, is it? Tell me, what is your family name? Who are your people, and where are you from?”

Elizabeth took in what she could only assume was a thrown expression on Gabriel’s face. Yup, that was exactly what her mom was famous for.

He darted a glance back to her and shrugged. “Ah...don’t worry about your shoes.”

She kept walking, hearing him say something to her mom, who she knew would be dogging him with questions, a lot of questions. Then she’d report back to Elizabeth and everyone else exactly what she’d learned.

Other Books by Lorhainne Eckhart

In New York Times & USA Today bestselling author Lorhainne Eckhart’s big family romance series, The Friessens, each of the brothers, a cousin and now their children find love, overcome heartache, and through it all are a family that stick together no matter what differences they may have.

IN THE CHARM

UNEXPECTED CONSEQUENCES

IT WAS ALWAYS YOU

About Lorhainne Eckhart

With flawed strong characters, characters you can relate to, New York Times & USA Today Bestselling Author Lorhainne Eckhart writes the kind of books she wants to read. She is frequently a Top 100 bestselling author in multiple genres, and her second book ever published, The Forgotten Child, is no exception. With close to 900 reviews on Amazon, translated into German and French, this book was such a hit that the long running Friessen Family series was born. Now with over sixty titles and multiple series under her belt her big family romance series are loved by fans worldwide. A recipient of the 2013, 2015 and 2016 Readers’ Favorite Award for Suspense and Romance, Lorhainne lives on the sunny west-coast Gulf Island of Salt Spring Island, is the mother of three, her oldest has autism and she is an advocate for never giving up on your dreams.

Website: http://www.lorhainneeckhart.com

Blog: http://www.lorhainneeckhart.com/blog

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