Release Blitz: Red Card by Carrie Aarons

About Red Card

She spent five years planning a future that will never exist. He spent five years trying to erase a past he can’t forget.

London is Leah Watson’s fresh start. When she secures the perfect internship during her study abroad semester, with an infamous celebrity public relations firm, she is determined to forge her own path - one that is nothing like her life back in Oklahoma. That plan is tested when British football’s bad boy, Killian Ramsey, decides that she's the one he wants and he's playing for keeps. 

Will she put her future on hold - again - for the type of man she swore she'd stay away from?

Killian is one bloody good football player. After a tragedy shattered his entire world, the cocky and arrogant face he puts on for the media is a complete lie. When he meets Leah, his heart starts to beat for the first time in years. But when the feelings get too real, his perfectly constructed facade starts to slip. 

Will he risk it all to be with her - taking whatever penalties are thrown his way - or will he play it safe?

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PURCHASE LINKS

US:  Amazon

UK: Amazon  

EXCERPT

Trying to dash off to find the British Prince of Moodiness proves difficult in the six-inch stilettos the stylist had strapped onto my feet. I didn't wear clothing like this. I was the Oklahoma girl­next­door, cute and pretty in my sundresses and boots. I didn't do skintight, short or heeled. I could hear the snickers of the PR handlers around me as I stumbled like a baby calf off of the carpet in search of my responsibility.

Turning down the block and moving away from the mayhem, I spotted a tall figure in the shadows. I'd read enough about Jack the Ripper before coming over here to be spooked, but then I saw the shine of a metal flask being raised to the lips, and I could only take one guess as to who that was.

I marched up, as best as I could in the shoes. "You need to come back and walk the red carpet."
Killian's sky­blue eyes twinkled with sly amusement and barely restrained anger. "Oh, and you're going to make me, huh America's Sweetheart?"

The smell of what I'm sure was overly­ expensive whiskey blew across my face as he exhaled. He pretended to give an air of nonchalance, but I could read his body language better than he thought I could. He was so coiled and tense, he gave a cobra ready to strike a run for its money. Rage and sorrow poured off of him in waves, blanketing the dark side street in misery so abundant that I could feel it down to my bones. And something else. I don't know why it struck me, perhaps because the emotion was running through my veins as well. But this man...he was lonely.

"You're cheeky, I like that." He raised the flask in a salute to me and tilted his head back as the amber liquid disappeared into that appealing mouth. Damn it. This bad boy with a bad attitude was not going to ruin my career or my time here. I was done letting people decide the future for me, sweeping me along in the current just because I let them.

Release Blast & Giveaway for Call Me, Maybe by: Ellie Cahill

Synopsis

“Ellie Cahill is definitely one to watch!” raves bestselling author Cora Carmack, and this steamy, upbeat modern romance about connecting in all the best ways proves it once again.

Clementine Daly knows she's the black sheep. Her wealthy, powerful family has watched her very closely since she almost got caught in an embarrassing scandal a few years ago. So when Clementine's sent on a mission to live up to the Daly name, politely declining isn't an option. Of course, the last thing she does before boarding the plane is to grab a stranger's phone by mistake—leaving the hunky journalist with her phone. Soon his sexy voice is on the line, but he doesn't know her real name, or her famous pedigree—which is just the way Clementine likes it.

Despite all the hassles, Justin Mueller is intrigued to realize that the beautiful brown-eyed girl he met at the airport is suddenly at his fingertips. They agree to exchange phones when they're both back in town, but after a week of flirty texts and wonderfully intimate conversations, Justin doesn't want to let her go. The only problem? It turns out that Clemetine has been lying to him about, well, everything. Except for the one thing two people can't fake, the only thing that matters: The heat between them is for real.

I pushed my fingers through my hair. My heart was full of a feeling I’d had waiting for my grandmother to come out of her hip replacement surgery three years ago. Which was ridiculous considering my phone could be replaced for a few hundred dollars. I could replace both of ours with a few phone calls and a swipe of my American Express.

“I’m really sorry,” I repeated.

“Unless you did this on purpose, you can stop apologizing. We just have to deal with this.”

“Right.” I bit my lip.

“Who are you?” he asked.

My nerves jangled with familiar anxiety. But he had my phone. There was nothing I could do about it if he decided to play detective. Oh god, I’d worked so hard at keeping it clean. Had I missed anything? Anything that he could use? Finally, I said, “Clementine.”

“Clementine?” he repeated with a tone of total disbelief. It was a typical reaction.

“Yes.”

“I’m Justin. I’d say nice to meet you, but . . .”

“Yeah. Well, thanks for being cool about this, Justin.”

“No problem. Do you mind if I give your number to a few people?”

Blog Tour: Forbidden by Beverly Jenkins

About Forbidden 

USA Today bestselling author Beverly Jenkins returns with the first book in a breathtaking new series set in the Old West

Rhine Fontaine is building the successful life he's always dreamed of—one that depends upon him passing for White. But for the first time in years, he wishes he could step out from behind the façade. The reason: Eddy Carmichael, the young woman he rescued in the desert. Outspoken, defiant, and beautiful, Eddy tempts Rhine in ways that could cost him everything . . . and the price seems worth paying.

Eddy owes her life to Rhine, but she won't risk her heart for him. As soon as she's saved enough money from her cooking, she'll leave this Nevada town and move to California. No matter how handsome he is, no matter how fiery the heat between them, Rhine will never be hers. Giving in for just one night might quench this longing. Or it might ignite an affair as reckless and irresistible as it is forbidden…

My Review

Forbidden by Beverly Jenkins is an historical romance novel that tells the story of Eddy Carmicheal and Rhine Fontaine in the Old West after the discovery of the Comstock Lode of 1859. Eddy Carmicheal is woman of color born free living in Denver, Colorado with big dreams of heading further west to California with the even bigger dream of opening up a restaurant. She is all set to go after selling all of her belongings, quitting her job, and purchasing a train ticket. However, as she was leaving the train deport she was robbed of her all her money and the train ticket to her better life. With no one else to turn to she asked her sister, who laughed in her face and sent her on her way with her carpet bag and cook stove.

Luckily she ran into a friend of her deceased father who gave her a lift west, but definitely not to California.  Once at her second destination, she met a Mormon family heading west to Utah to escape religious percussion in Iowa. This family pays her handsomely to drive one of their carts and once again she is on the way to fulfilling her dream, purchasing a train ticket and is finally on her way to California.  But as misfortune or fate would have it, she is robbed yet again and left in the desert to die.

But as destiny would have it Rhine Fontaine and his business partner Jim found her near death on their way back from Reno. They gathered Eddy up and took her to Virginia City to recover. Now Rhine Fontaine, was a kind, tall, wealthy, and oh so hot, gentleman that was born a slave, but learned at the early age of 10 that he could pass as a white man with his fair skin and green eyes. So, as he nursed Eddy back to health he could not deny that there was something about this woman that has caused him to rethink everything he thought he knew and wanted of his life.

This novel was not only a love story between a man and woman, but it was truly an American Tale. This literary work was extremely well written, well researched, and beautifully told a story that you do not here often enough. At its bare essence, you have a black woman, born free that dared to dream big, even in a world that was ever changing and evolving on views of politics, race, gender, class and religion and a man who dared to go against the grain regardless of which side of the color line he chose to be on. As a white man he supported the black community by investing in their businesses and patronage and conversely as a black man he had wealth beyond any man in the entire state and a plan in place to maintain it no matter what race he chose. 

Overall, I have no other rating to give this novel except a 5-star rating, and I recommend that you run and read Forbidden by Beverly Jenkins. Not only will you be entertained by the colorful bantering between the characters and fall in love with this story, but you will actually learn something new or gain a different perspective on some aspects of American history. 

Job well done Ms. Jenkins... Job well done!!!

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About the Author

Ms. Jenkins is the nation's premier writer of African American historical romance fiction and specializes in 19th century African American life. She has over thirty published novels to date.

She has received numerous awards, including: five Waldenbooks/Borders Group Best Sellers Awards; two Career Achievement Awards and a Pioneer Award from Romantic Times Magazine; a Golden Pen Award from the Black Writer's Guild, and in 1999 was named one of the Top Fifty Favorite African-American writers of the 20th Century by AABLC, the nation's largest on-line African-American book club.

She has also been featured in many national publications, including the Wall Street Journal, People Magazine, Dallas Morning News and Vibe Magazine. She has lectured and given talks at such prestigious universities as Oberlin University, the University of Illinois, and Princeton. She speaks widely on both romance and 19th century African-American history and was the 2014 featured speaker for the W.W. Law Lecture Series sponsored by the Savannah Black Heritage Festival.

Author Links:  Website | Facebook | Goodreads | Twitter

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Blog Tour: Outside the Lines by Lisa Desrochers

About Outside the Lines

The first in an edgy new contemporary romance series that follows a family on the run, from the author of the USA Today bestselling A Little Too Far series...

As the oldest son of a Chicago crime lord, Robert Delgado always knew how dangerous life could be. With his mother dead and his father in prison, he’s taking charge of his family’s safety—putting himself and his siblings in witness protection to hide out in a backwater Florida town.

Fourth grade teacher Adri Wilson is worried about the new boy in her class. Sherm is quiet and evasive, especially when he’s around his even cagier older brother. Adri can’t help her attraction to Rob, or the urge to help them both in whatever way she can. 

But the Delgados have enemies on two sides of the mob—their father’s former crew and the rival family he helped take down. It’s only a matter of time before someone finds them. And if Rob isn’t careful, Adri could end up in the crossfire...

My Review

Oustide the Lines by Lisa Desrochers is a romance novel with mob ties that introduced the readers to Robert Delgado and the Delgado Family in witness protection as a result of hit put on their lives as well as a concession to the deal their father struck with the Feds. As part of the program they are given provisions, new identities, and a new life in a small town in Florida, sans all the luxuries of the fab life they had left behind.

Sherm, being the youngest of the Delgado clan, has a teacher by the name of Adri Wilson, who is quite intuitive and sensed a few things immediately upon meeting Sherm and Rob. The first being Rob is hot, the second being Sherm is very withdrawn and maybe Rob is the reason, and the third being that there is just something slightly off when this family is concerned.