Sunday, June 18, 2017

Salvaged (A Saints of Denver Novel) by Jay Crownover ~~*~~ Pre-order, Blog Tour & Review

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jay Crownover continues her delightfully sexy Saints of Denver series with the next thrilling standalone, SALVAGED! Order your copy today!

Hudson Wheeler is a nice guy. Everyone knows it, including his fiancée who left him with a canceled wedding and a baby on the way. He’s tired of finishing last and is ready to start living in the moment with nights soaked in whiskey, fast cars, and even faster girls. He’s set to start living on the edge, but when he meets Poppy Cruz, her sad eyes in the most gorgeous face he’s ever seen hook him in right away. Wheeler can see Poppy’s pain and all he wants to do is take care of her and make her smile, whatever it takes.

Poppy can’t remember a time when she didn’t see strangers as the enemy. After a lifetime of being hurt from the men who swore to protect her, Poppy’s determined to keep herself safe by keeping everyone else at arm’s length. Wheeler’s sexy grin and rough hands from hours restoring classic cars shouldn’t captivate her, but every time she’s with him, she can’t help being pulled closer to him. Though she’s terrified to trust again, Poppy soon realizes it might hurt even more to shut Wheeler out—and the intense feelings pulsing through her are making it near impossible to resist him.

The only thing Poppy is sure of is that her heart is in need of some serious repair, and the more time she spends with Wheeler, the more she’s convinced he’s the only man with the tools to fix it.

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EXCERPT:

I put my hands to my cheeks and held my face. I could feel heat under the surface and I could hear the rush of blood between my ears.

“Are you going to be okay? Do you need me to get you something? Should I grab Dixie?” He sounded genuinely concerned about me and that only made me shake even harder.

“No, I’m fine.” I wasn’t fine and hadn’t been in a very long time. “Dixie is in Mississippi. She took Dolly down because Church moved into the house he rented for them and she wanted the dog to get used to their new home and so she could see what it was like to have a yard.” I was babbling but I couldn’t stop the words from pouring out. “How do you move me without laying a hand on me?”

He looked up from where he was watching the puppy dig into his chow. Those blue eyes were like lasers as they cut into me from across the room. He put his hands on the counter and leaned forward. “What are you talking about?” His voice held that same even tone but there was something in it, some deeper note, that let me know he knew exactly what I was talking about.

I wrapped my arms around myself in a protective hug and met his look with a pointed one of my own. “I get stuck, frozen with fear. I end up caught between memories and reality. Most people grab my arm or touch me somewhere to get me moving again. Either that or they go around me like I’m in the way. You made me move without doing anything.”

His eyebrows shot up and the corners of his mouth pulled down in a frown. “People shouldn’t touch you unless you tell them it’s okay, even if you are in the way.”

His words had me shivering in a completely different way than I had been before and I was the opposite of cold. “I didn’t use to mind it.” The words cracked and sounded almost as broken as I felt on the inside. “I mean being touched. It was until…after.”

He lowered his gaze and I saw his chest rise and fall as he sucked in a deep breath. “The reason doesn’t matter. If you don’t like it, people should respect that. No one has a right to put their hands on you unless you want them there.”

Right there in that moment I thought I wouldn’t mind it too terribly much if he walked across the room and replaced the frail and thin arms that were currently holding me together with his thick, strong, tattooed ones. It was probably the only touch I would ever crave but I would never be brave enough to ask for it, so I cleared my throat and awkwardly made my way closer to where he was standing. I lifted myself up into one of the barstools that was across the counter from him and put my hands on the cool surface separating us and prayed they would stop shaking.

REVIEW:

I Heart Books Review

Salvaged (A Saints of Denver Novel) by Jay Crownover

Review by Theresa Esterline

Stars: 5

Patience... It has rewards!

We've all heard to the victors go the spoils meaning the winner gets extra winnings. This story is no different, both Poppy and Wheeler have had an awful go of it so far. Both are worried of the past coming back to wreck things. But both are getting good at salvaging the best parts even in the worst scenario. And now a bit about the story ...

Poppy has been thru a lot. A controlling, preacher for a father. A typical college jock that lied and knocked her up, only to knock her out when she wouldn't abort. And finally a verbally and physically abusive bible thumping idiot her father approved of. Luckily she escaped all of them to Denver. She is becoming stronger by the day. In fact the story starts with her going to see Wheeler out of the blue with a surprise.

Wheeler has his own crazy past. His mother left him at 4, he's bounced around from one foster family to the next growing up, but he's finally grounded himself. He owns a profitable business, is engaged, and has a great group of friends he considers his extended family. Then his fiance decides she prefers women and his world starts to crumble. When Poppy shows up at his garage with a puppy, things turn a shade happier. Now just to wait out her nerves!!

Favorite passages:
- She was born to be a hot rod but for reasons that were hard to think about she was living her life like she was meant to be a minivan.
- “I’m cheaper than a shrink, Wheeler, and my office is a lot more fun.”
- One of these days all those years of conditioning to heel at her commands would break.

**Jay Crownover continues her Saints of Denver series with SALVAGED, available June 20, 2017**

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**The print-at-home Doodle and Dignity excerpt will be emailed the week of June 20th.**

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Jay Crownover’s SALVAGED – Review & Excerpt Tour Schedule:

June 12^th

Aurora B's Book Blog – Excerpt

Book Angel Booktopia – Review & Excerpt

Ceres Books World – Review

Grownupfangirl – Review & Excerpt

Krista's Dust Jacket – Review & Excerpt

Panda & Boodle – Excerpt

June 13^th

Booknerd1107 – Review

Foxy Blogs – Excerpt

Happily Ever After Book Reviews – Review & Excerpt

Mustreadbooksordie – Review

NallaReads – Review & Excerpt

The Book Disciple – Review & Excerpt

June 14^th

Books to Breathe – Review & Excerpt

Prisoners of Print – Review & Excerpt

Tales of the Ravenous Reader – Review & Excerpt

The Book Maven – Review

Two Girls with Books – Review

June 15^th

Cocktails and Books – Review & Excerpt

Ficwishes – Review

Night Owl Reader – Review & Excerpt

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Thursday, June 15, 2017

Bad Penny by Staci Hart ~~~~~ Release Blitz and Review

"Witty, sexy as all hell, and addictive like no other, Staci Hart BRINGS IT with Bad Penny."

**-T.M. Frazier, USA Today Bestselling Author**

Bad Penny, an all-new romantic comedy standalone from Staci Hart is now LIVE!

Synopsis

Nothing good comes after the third date.

See, date three is the crucial point when things get real, which is exactly why I bounce out the door, twiddling my fingers at whatever poor boy I’ve left behind. Because if I stick around, one of three things will happen: he’ll profess his undying love, he gets weird and stalky, or I’ll go crazy. Like, Sid and Nancy crazy. Like, chase-him-through-the-streets-begging-him-to-love-me crazy.

Seriously, it’s better for everyone this way.

So when I meet Bodie, I figure it’ll be the same as it ever was. It doesn’t matter that he doesn’t put a single string on me. Doesn’t matter that he’s funny and smart and jacked and can play my body like a grand piano. Because even though I’m built for love, love has only carved me up like a Christmas ham.

Resistance is something I can only hang on to for so long, and he has persistence in spades. But my heart isn’t as safe as I want to believe, and neither is his. And the second I ignore my cardinal rule is the second I stand to lose him forever.

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Review

I Heart Books Review

Bad Penny by Staci Hart

Review by Theresa Esterline

Stars: 5

This bad penny has met it's match!!

This book is hilarious, frustrating, loving, and challenging all rolled into one. And let's not forget the math jokes... Penny works at Tonic, so you may recognize some of the characters, but you will not miss anything if you haven't read Tonic. And now a bit about the story...

Penny had her heart crushed in high school and has decided relationships are a bad idea. Three dates and she is out of there. Until she meets Bodie again. He had changed so much since high school she didn't recognize him at first. Bodie had a crush on Penny for a long time and now he had a chance with her. He just had to figure a way around this crazy three date rule... Between the math jokes and his easy caring way he's wormed his way in... Now to figure out how to stay!

What's 69+69? My husband didn't get it right either, you'll have to read the book to see!!

Favorite passages:

- Why choose one when you could have them all?

- He walked back in before I could think twice about it, smiling that goddamn smile that made my vagina spell his name in Morse code.

- “I’m like pi — really long and I go on forever.”

- Every second with her was perfect to the point of disbelief. A crush realized. A fantasy in physical form.

- On top of that, I’d broken a nail over that fucker. Worth it.

About the Author

Staci has been a lot of things up to this point in her life -- a graphic designer, an entrepreneur, a seamstress, a clothing and handbag designer, a waitress. Can't forget that. She's also been a mom, with three little girls who are sure to grow up to break a number of hearts. She's been a wife, though she's certainly not the cleanest, or the best cook. She's also super, duper fun at a party, especially if she's been drinking whiskey. From roots in Houston to a seven year stint in Southern California, Staci and her family ended up settling somewhere in between and equally north, in Denver. They are new enough that snow is still magical. When she's not writing, she's reading, sleeping, gaming, or designing graphics.

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Cutlass by TM Franklin ~~*~~ Cover Reveal and Giveaway

I'm so excited to share the cover of T.M. Franklin's upcoming pirate adventure, CUTLASS!

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Sarina Talbot is certain notorious pirate, One-Eyed Jack Tremayne, murdered her father and stole his prized cutlass. Out for revenge, she sneaks onto his ship disguised as a cabin boy, but Tremayne quickly catches on to her scheme. He claims she has the wrong man, and that, if they work together, he can help her gain the vengeance she seeks.

She doesn't really trust him, and he doesn't trust anyone. But they need each other to find the killer, and their uneasy alliance slowly turns to friendship, and then to more.

Add in an old journal full of cryptic clues leading to a hidden cache of Aztec gold, and Sarina and Tremayne have their hands full. Between sword fights, Crown ships, enemy pirates and a traitor on their own vessel, they'll be lucky to escape with their lives, let alone the gold.

But perhaps, along the way, they'll find a treasure even more valuable.

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T.M. Franklin writes stories of adventure, romance, & a little magic. A former TV news producer, she decided making stuff up was more fun than reporting the facts. Her first published novel, MORE, was born during National Novel Writing month, a challenge to write a novel in thirty days. MORE was well-received, being selected as a finalist in the 2013 Kindle Book Review Best Indie Book Awards, as well as winning the Suspense/Thriller division of the Blogger Book Fair Reader's Choice Awards. She's since written three additional novels and several best-selling short stories...and there's always more on the way.

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Monday, June 12, 2017

Bad Penny by Staci Hart ~~~~~~* Excerpt Reveal

Bad Penny, an all-new romantic comedy standalone from Staci Hart is coming June 15th!

Title: Bad Penny