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#ReleaseDay – King of Temptation by Tammy Andresen

A cold, criminal, baby-daddy?

I’m a dancer, or at least, I want to be. And I’m almost there…I’ve got the interview of my dreams in New York City. I’ve scrimped and saved to pay the flight from Vegas to New York with a quick stop off to attend my best friend’s wedding in Colorado first.

Maybe it’s the high of being so close to fulfilling my goal, or maybe it’s the fact that King of Las Vegas nightclub scene, Leo Kincaid, is as powerful as he is magnetic. He’s also a known criminal with ties to the mafia.

Which is why I should have known better.

But when he offers me a night of passion like I’ve never known, I take it. It’s just one night, I tell myself. Boy, was I wrong. That’s the exact moment my life starts going down the toilet.

I don’t get the job.

When my return flight is delayed, I miss an important final, and now I’m not going to graduate.

I’ve run out of scholarship money.

Oh yeah… and I just found out I’m pregnant.

There is a reason I don’t do one-night stands. No money, no job, no degree, no daddy, and a baby on the way. I’m a real winner here.

Which is why I do something I never thought I’d do and apply for a position as a cage dancer at the hottest nightclub in Vegas, Temptation. The pay is incredible.

But not even that goes right.

Because my new boss…turns out I know him. Intimately.

And Leo Kincaid…he’s decided that he’s not done with me.

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USA Today Bestselling Author, Tammy Andresen lives with her husband and three children just outside of Boston, Massachusetts. She grew up on the Seacoast of Maine, where she spent countless days dreaming up stories in blueberry fields and among the scrub pines that line the coast. Her mother loved to spin a yarn and Tammy filled many hours listening to her mother retell the classics. It was inevitable that at the age of 18, she headed off to Simmons College, where she studied English literature and education. She never left Massachusetts but some of her heart still resides in Maine and her family visits often.

#MM – Racing Hearts by K.A. Knight

Pine Valley is a school rich in both history and legacy and is once more opening its doors to another year of students.

Evan Shaw has wanted to be a photographer for as long as he can remember, and Pine Valley is the place to go to make that happen. What he didn’t expect was to be sworn into a secret society with a dark history—or to fall in love with a man so filled with anger, there might never be hope for them.

Alek Anders doesn’t believe in love, nor does he have the time for it. He can’t chase his dreams like all the rich college kids around him, he has his family to look after and food to keep on the table. Then comes Evan. Everything he’s not, he pushes all of Alek’s buttons.

Love is fickle, though, and when students start showing up dead, they will either have to work together or fall apart to discover the truth.

Can the past be undone and hope be found even in the darkness?

Can Evan and Alek withstand what Pine Valley has in store for them, or will racing hearts be all that’s left?

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K.A Knight is a Romance author from a little town in England. She writes the monsters you love to hate. The crazier the better.

She loves her fur babies, coffee and a good book. Katie also has an obsession with monster flicks, and plans to re-watch them all!

#MC- Memphis (Satan’s Fury MC – Little Rock) by L. Wilder

Everyone said it would happen, but I never believed it.
I liked my wild nights and random hookups.
I never thought I’d want to give them up.

And then, I spotted her sitting in a hotel bar.
She was beautiful—all class and full of confidence.
A girl like her should’ve never given me a second glance.

But she did.
And we shared a night like none other.
It was all it took to have me thinking about white picket fences.

But life isn’t that simple.
It likes to throw punches.
And it was about to knock me right off my feet.

Memphis is a standalone MC romance with a group of foul-mouthed, possessive alphas who will do whatever it takes to protect the women they love. There are some heavy topics in this story, but rest assured, the HEA will have you begging for more. No cliffhanger and no cheating. Enjoy the ride!

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I am a lover of romance novels (especially MC romance), summer breaks, and unexpected quiet moments when I can write without interruptions.

#MC – Towles: Brothers of Chaos MC by Quinn Slater

Ethan “Brainiac” Towels

Tragedy changes a man. Turns a good guy into something unrecognizable. They gunned down my parents and now revenge and brutality are the only things I understand. I want blood on my hands. I want to wreak havoc on everything and everyone around me. I know I need help. I know she’s the only one capable.

April Summers

I get it. He’s much younger, too handsome, too rough around the edges. He’s part of something the town despises. He has freedom. He has all the things I don’t and I’m willing to give everything, including my marriage, to live that same life. I can help him. I know I can. Will he let me?

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Quinn Slater grew up in the Midwest where still lives today with his wife and two dogs. Besides being a writer of steamy stories, he is also a gym rat, avid traveler, and loves a good dirty joke.

#YA #sweet #Romcom – The Boyfriend Bet by Chris Cannon

Disclaimer: This Entangled Teen Crush book contains multiple PDAs, after-school detentions, and gambling on the side. Warning: betting on a boyfriend is bad for your health.

Zoe Cain knows that Grant Evertide is way out of her league. So naturally, she kisses him. Out of spite. Not only is Grant her brother’s number-one nemesis, but he has zero interest in being tied down to one girl. She’s shocked—and secretly thrilled—when they start spending more time together.

Zoe’s brother claims Grant is trying to make her his “Ringer,” an oh-so-charming tradition where a popular guy dates a non-popular girl until he hooks up with her, then dumps her. Zoe threatens to neuter Grant with hedge clippers if he’s lying but Grant swears he isn’t trying to trick her. Still, that doesn’t mean Grant is the commitment type—even if winning a bet is on the line.

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Chris Cannon is the award-winning author of the Mysteries of Mystic Hills series, Going Down In Flames series, the Crossroads Chronicles, the Boyfriend Chronicles, and the Dating Dilemma series. She lives in Southern Illinois with her husband and several furry beasts.
She believes coffee is the Elixir of Life. Most evenings after work, you can find her sipping caffeine and writing paranormal adventures. You can find her online at www.chriscannonauthor.com.

#historical #fantasy #twinsiefortheday- Baba Yaga Mask by Kris Spisak

When their Ukrainian grandmother is lost on a trans-Atlantic Flight, two sisters are swept into a quest across eastern Europe to find the woman who had always told more tales than truths.

From Poland to Slovakia to Hungary and beyond, Larissa and Ira navigate the steps of Ukrainian folk dance, the cliff-side paths of Slovak Paradise National Park, and the stark realities of war, folktales, and feminism, all for the sake of chasing who they’re starting to believe is a true Baba Yaga. Understanding their family’s roots has never been more clear.

The setting’s mythic properties drift like ghosts in the humid air, hinting of the folktales the sisters whisper like codes of bravery. The nesting dolls they discover reveal how each woman becomes stronger when tucked one, within another, within another—forgetting lies and truths to seize upon history, love, and the familial traditions that have shaped them into who they are together.

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Review by Brandy

I received this book.

Hi everyone I’m here with an audio book review this time around and I listened to this through a new
site that I have never used before. In case anyone is wondering I listened to it through audiobooks.com
and the sound quality was excellent. It does encourage you to use their app but I was able to listen to it
through their website.
This story is about Larissa and Ira and how they go to from Poland to Slovakia to Hungary to search for
their missing grandmother. The narrator is good and does a decent job of letting you know which
character is speaking and keeps the listener from getting confused. The story jumps back and forth
between the story of the search for their grandmother and their grandmother’s story of her life during
the war and how she survived.
If you like a lot of details in your stories you will like this one. The author is very good with details and
gives a good picture of different scenes in the book. I will be honest I was more drawn to the story of
their grandmother’s life during the war than the search for her when she goes missing. Larissa and Ira
have their own bit of adventure during their search but some of it just didn’t draw me in as much as the
other side of the story.
There is nothing supernatural in this story but there is a solid story about family traditions and how they
can bind a family and all its generations together. I recommend this story for older teen and up.

Kris Spisak wrote her first book, Get a Grip on Your Grammar: 250 Writing and Editing Reminders for the Curious or Confused (Career Press, 2017; HarperCollins India 2020), to help writers of all kinds sharpen their storytelling and empower their communications. Her “Words You Should Know” podcast, Grammartopia® events, and Story Stop Tour programs follow the same mission, as do her second and third books, The Novel Editing Workbook (Davro Press, 2020) and The Family Story Workbook (Davro Press, 2020). Kirkus Reviews called her debut novel, The Baba Yaga Mask (Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing, 2022), “A complex, poetic tale.”

Kris has been spotlighted in Writer’s Digest and The Huffington Post for her work as an editor and author dedicated to helping other writers. When not researching, writing, teaching, or editing, she can often be found going on hiking trips in the Appalachians, sneaking off to the Gulf coast beaches of Florida, and travelling as much as she can.

Lust in the City Author Event in Owosso, MI

Join us for our third annual multi-author book signing that will be held at the Comstock Inn in Owosso, MI. Proceeds from this event are used to sponsor a family for the holiday season. In 2023 we were able to raise over $4,200 and show true Holiday Love to a family of five! This year we want to sponsor two families!

Effective the 2024 signing – no children will be allowed under the age of 15. Due to the covers and displays associated with the books.

Friday night we will have author speed dating from 6pm to 9pm with a 15 minute break at the top of every hour to enjoy the open bar as well!

Saturday is the signing from 11am to 4pm with a dinner starting at 6 and the dancing and karaoke to follow (7:15’ish).

Tickets HERE

#YA #PostApocalyptic – Ava by Mary Ting

The final installment of the Benjamin Franklin Gold-Award-Winning series is here.
The days of hiding are over. The battle for supremacy is here. The fate of the rebels is at hand.
Ava heads to South Korea to bring down the facility that manufactures the CODE army. But she can’t do it alone. She’ll have to trust fellow conspirators and put her life on the line.
When the South rebel leader searches for missing team members, she’s captured and taken to the Korean ISAN base. There, she discovers a secret that could change the course of the war in their favor.
After the rebel mountain base is threatened, Ava has no choice but to comply with Korean ISAN demands—or end up killing everyone she loves.

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Born in Seoul, Korea, author Mary Ting is an international bestselling, multi-gold award-winning author. Her books span a wide range of genres, and her storytelling talents have earned a devoted legion of fans, as well as garnered critical praise. She is a diverse voice who writes diverse characters, often dealing with a catastrophic world.

Becoming an author happened by chance. It was a way to grieve the death of her beloved grandmother and inspired by a dream she had in high school. After realizing she wanted to become a full-time author, Mary retired from teaching. She also had the privilege of touring with the Magic Johnson Foundation to promote literacy and her children’s chapter book: No Bullies Allowed.

#WOTR24 #RomanticSuspense – High Frequency (HMT 2G, #1) by Freya Barker

When the rug is pulled from under Detective Sloane Eckhart, she leaves the Billings PD and returns to Libby, Montana.
Eight years ago she left with her pride and the promise of a future, but her heart was broken. On her return, there is no pride left, no prospects to speak of, but at least her heart is safely secured in the back seat.

Still, a bit of groveling, a kind offer of help, and a brand-new job with the sheriff’s office quickly gets her back on her feet.

High Meadow will always be home to Dan Blakely. Working with horses, being part of the HMT search and rescue team, and now building his own home right next door checks all his boxes. Only one thing is missing, but that dream walked out the door a long time ago.

Still, his life is good, steady…and perhaps a little boring.

That quickly changes when the rescue of a young, teenage girl, places the new sheriff’s detective squarely in his path. He’s not bored now, doing his best to keep her safe, even as their past holds them back while they fight for a future.

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USA Today bestselling author Freya Barker loves writing about ordinary people with extraordinary stories.
Driven to make her books about ‘real’ people; she creates characters who are perhaps less than perfect, each struggling to find their own slice of happy, but just as deserving of romance, thrills and chills in their lives.

Recipient of the ReadFREE.ly 2019 Best Book We’ve Read All Year Award for “Covering Ollie, the 2015 RomCon “Reader’s Choice” Award for Best First Book, “Slim To None”, and Finalist for the 2017 Kindle Book Award with “From Dust”, Freya continues to add to her rapidly growing collection of published novels as she spins story after story with an endless supply of bruised and dented characters, vying for attention!

Smash/Slash Author Bash in LaPort, Indiana

**Attending Author list subject to change**

Come meet some of your favorite or soon to be favorite authors at our first annual Smash/ Slash Author Bash! This is an event for Romance and Horror authors! You can fall in love and get creeped out all at once!
All proceeds benefit a local domestic violence shelter! So help us raise lots of money to help victims get back on their feet!

Tickets available HERE