Book Tour ~ Wicked Player ~ by ~ Roya Carmen

Title: Wicked Player

 

Author: Roya Carmen
Release Date: June 24, 2021
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Cover Design: Calico Designs

 

 

 

 

 

 

Goodreads Review – “This book was EPIC and gave me all the feels! … I was hooked from page one! I absolutely LOVED this book! Oh the feels! Colton is my new book BF! Alpha male to the core! … This is a must read for 2021! … If I could give more then 5 stars ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ I would!”

 

The Smutbarians – “A sweet romance that had a tiny bit of a slow burn going on in it. Loved the premise of this story.”

 

 

A struggling single mom gets caught up in the web of a notorious Casanova who likes to play games.

When Clara Scott signs up for the Player’s Game, she does it only for the money. As a struggling single mom, she needs the extra cash.

Colton Rossi is beautiful, but he’s also a notorious player. Women swoon all over him. Yet Clara’s not interested in the least in a Casanova like him, nor does she have time in her life for romance.

She knows she can’t get tangled up in his games. She needs to look out for herself, and her small son too. As intoxicating as he is, she vows to pull herself away from him, but when he makes her an offer she can’t refuse, she’s drawn in further despite her best intentions.

Will her preconceptions be confirmed, or is there more to Colton Rossi than meets the eye?

WICKED PLAYER contains some coarse language and sexual scenes. For 18+ audiences.
 

 

 

 

 

He slides a finger along the length of my arm, and it feels amazing… warm and soft. And suddenly I want him to touch me everywhere. 

 

He presses his mouth against my head. “I’m glad I’ve finally got you alone,” he says. “I’ve been dying to smell your hair all night. It always smells so nice.”

 

I close my eyes, inhaling his scent too. “You smell nice too… manly.”

 

He laughs into my hair, and pulls me in closer. He’s barely touched me, and I’m already so turned on, I fear I might explode. I don’t know if it’s the drugs, or the fact that I haven’t been laid in years, or maybe it’s just… him. 

 

He presses a finger under my chin, and lifts my face to his. “You are so pretty.”

 

I love his words. I don’t know if he says them often, if they mean anything at all. But I love them anyway. I do feel pretty in his arms. I’m desperate for his kiss, but he teases, almost as if he knows how much I want it. This is a man who loves to play, and I’m his chosen toy tonight. 

 

His lips travel softly across my mouth, around my chin, down my neck, and back up again, his breath hot on my skin. I honestly don’t know how much more of this I can take. 

 

He finally presses his hot mouth on mine. His lips are just as soft and delicious as I imagined in my fantasies. And he tastes of mint. And God, he knows how to kiss. Every stroke of his tongue, every soft bite of my lips reels me in deeper, arouses me more intensely. I lose myself in him, and I feel him lose himself in me. 

 

He hikes up my thigh against his hips, and presses me against the wall of bottles. I wrap my arms around his shoulders, and hike up my other leg against him, wanting to get closer to him, craving more. I grind against him, and when he jerks up the skirt of my dress, I’m game for anything. 

 

He pulls away, tearing his mouth from mine, and I ache. I want his kiss. He travels south as he kisses my shoulder, then bites the swell of my breast. God, I want him. Now. He kneels to the floor, and his hands travel upward.

 

Oh no… the Spanx! 

 

Just then, the cellar door swings wide open and Victoria stands there, wide-eyed. 

 

Oh, shit.

 

 

 

Roya Carmen is a busy mom, romance writer, designer, bookworm, chocoholic, and hopeless romantic. There’s nothing she enjoys more than making up stories about love, and sharing them with her readers.

 

 
 

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Book Tour ~ Becoming His Wife ~ by ~ Hayley Faiman

Title: Becoming His Wife
Series: Zanetti Famiglia Series
Author: Hayley Faiman
Genre: Mafia Romance Suspense
Release Date: June 25, 2021
 
 

 

Tiziano Bianchi only wants one thing—to have a woman that cannot leave him. Unfortunately, the only way he knows how to do that is to buy one for himself.
The only person he knows who can help him with this is Gavino Santoro, the head of the Zanetti famiglia. Gavino’s help comes at a hefty price.
Maci Marshall has never been free. She’s lived a life of poverty and fear, ultimately ending in being kidnapped and given to the Zanetti famiglia to do with as they please.
One look. That’s all it took for her to decide that perhaps being kidnapped wasn’t such a bad thing. Her sense of fear takes a backseat as her desires take control. Tiziano is different. He’s alluring and dangerous, mixed with powerful and dominant.
Is the cost of what Tiziano craves too high a price to pay? Will he lose his entire birthright, betraying the Bianchi famiglia in order to get the wife he desires? Two people enter into a life-long contract—one where Tiziano is an owner and Maci his property.
 
 

 

 
 

 
 
 


 
 
 
 
As an only child, Hayley Faiman had to entertain herself somehow. She started writing stories at the age of six and never really stopped.

Born in California, she met her now husband at the age of sixteen and married him at the age of twenty in 2004. After all of these years together, he’s still the love of her life.

Hayley’s husband joined the military and they lived in  Oregon,where he was stationed with the US Coast Guard. They moved back to California in 2006, where they had two little boys. Recently, the four of them moved out to the Hill Country of Texas, where they adopted a new family member, a chocolate lab named Optimus Prime.

Most of Hayley’s days are spent taking care of her two boys, going to the baseball fields for practice, or helping them with homework. Her evenings are spent with her husband and her nights—those are spent creating alpha book boyfriends.
 
 
 

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Book Tour ~ Hanlon’s Play & Hale’s Pawn ~ by ~ Francesca Penn & King Ellie

 

Titles: Hanlon’s Play & Hale’s Pawn

Duet: The Alternate Duet 
Authors: Francesca Penn & King Ellie 
Genre: Contemporary Romance/Multicultural Romance
Release Date: June 4, 2021

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Amazon ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Review (Hanlon’s Play) – “A book I didn’t know I needed! …read this book OMG you won’t regret it”

Amazon ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Review (Hanlon’s Play) – “Don’t skip this you will love it!”

 

 

 

Amazon ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Review (Hale’s Pawn) – “This was an amazing story. I love everything about it.”

 

 

Amazon ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Review (Hale’s Pawn) – “This was truly a good read and I could not put it down.”

 

 

An arranged marriage doesn’t tie you to one person. You could’ve been arranged to anyone… but how much more different or the same would things be?

An alternate Reality or for better understanding , a parallel universe. We’re still us but not in the way you think we are.

“I’ll embed myself into your system and destroy you from the inside. You’ll lose track of time and won’t know who you f*cking are without me moving inside of you. Don’t test me… Karessa Hanlon.”

– Jagger Hanlon

 

 

An arranged marriage doesn’t tie you to one person. You could’ve been arranged to anyone… but how much more different or the same would things be?
 
An alternate Reality or for better understanding , a parallel universe. We’re still us but not in the way you think we are.
 
“You chose me and here I am showing you just what you wanted. You’re in my world now, Mrs. Ainslee Hale, I make the rules. Deal with it.”
 
~Oran Hale~
 

 

 

Francesca Penn lives in Texas with her husband and son. While obtaining her Technical Writing degree, a creative writing course and playwriting elective reawakened her desire to create stories. Her brain lives in fiction; even the songs she listens to become music videos in her head.

When she is not writing, she can be found hounding her loved ones with multiple “What-if” scenarios. As a true closet romantic, she is prone to filling up her DVR with Hallmark movies. A friend once told her that she’d trained the whole 20 plus years she’d known her to write romance since her nose was always in a love story.

Francesca believes that love is colorblind and plans to provide a mix of couples of different races and ethnicities because – to her – men are like Skittles, and we all know their motto.

 
 
 
King Ellie discovered her love for dark romance through reading and as she read more and more of them, she discovered that this was the genre she wanted to write it. The antiheroes and what others would classify as villains, she sees them as an opportunity to show what a hurt, heartbroken male who is seen as anything but can love harder. The heroines get a chance to be loved deeply and only by the antiheroes. Love isn’t always just black and white… it’s a spectrum of color.
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Book Tour ~ The Trinity Ring ~ by ~ C.A. Bleu

 

 

Title: The Trinity Ring
Series: Trinity Ring Series #1
Author: C.A. Bleu
Release: June 1, 2021
Genre: New Adult Fantasy
Betrayal, Family Secrets, New Powers…

Zara Trinity was ready to find her place in the world, but she never thought she would have the power to change it.

Her eighteenth birthday brings betrayal and family secrets to the surface that threaten to overwhelm her as she learns to wield her new powers.

Losing her mother at a young age Zara was raised by her guardian Aaron. As the leader of the Protectors of the Trinity Aaron had sworn and oath to protect her. He regretted his role in the secrets he kept, but knew it was necessary for the prophecy.

Being hunted by Dimitri, an assassin she never expected to have feelings for leads Zara down an unexpected path. Holding the fate of Humanity in her hands will she be strong enough to withstand the tests ahead?

This book is for anyone who has ever loved and lost, ever struggled between faith and doubt and battled the darkness within.

Book 1 in the Trinity Ring series…
 
 

 

 

 

Goodreads Review – “This book is a must read. C.A. Bleu combines realism with fantasy, and she manages to highlight that place where stories and real life convene.”

Goodreads Review – “Very satisfying! This is a read full of secrets, betrayal, romance and loss. I definitely recommend this book as it leaves you thirsting for more.”

Bookaholic Sisters blog – “A very enjoyable debut from a very promising new author!!”

 

 
An avid reader, C. A. Bleu lives in East Tennessee and loves being surrounded by the mountains and being in nature in general. After growing up in Ohio she moved to Tennessee to play soccer in college. With her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in social work she has been working in hospice care these past fifteen years. Many years ago, as an outlet for self care, she decided to start writing. Journaling a few minutes each day gradually turned in to so much more. She never set out to write a book, let alone publish one, but with the encouragement of her family and friends she found the courage to do just that. Book two is already in progress…follow along to see what happens next with Zara Trinity.
 
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Book Tour ~ Landing the Runaway ~ by ~ J. Haney & S.I. Hayes

Title: Landing the Runaway
Series: Runaway #1
Authors: J. Haney & S.I. Hayes
Genre: Erotic Romance Novella (15K Words)
Release Date: June 4, 2021
 

 

 

 

My world was decadent, if not lonely. Raised by an aging Blue Blooded sycophant, I couldn’t stomach the idea of a forced marriage.

So I ran.

Took on the world one, two at a time, with one goal in mind. To come.

To feel my blood boil, my heart race and my body transcend to something-anything worth living for before their private dick catches up with me.

Jumping my cruise ship to a resort town in Mexico, I thought I was good. Thought I could disappear and resume my chase of debaucheries and delights.

Then I met him.

The monster of a man that has promised to do all I need. The catch? He wants my trust and complete obedience. Can I give up control in pursuit of my desires? Can I swallow my defiance and surrender to him or will my past arise and leave me as always— wanting?

Note: Contains cameos from the main characters in J. Haney & S.I. Hayes’ Island Heir. While not required reading they do hope you may want to know Ian and Autumn’s story!
Violence
Drug Reference
Adult Language
Strong Sexual Situations

 

 

 

 

 

J. HANEY
 

 

 
 
S.I. HAYES
 

 

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Book Tour ~ Finding Love Series ~ by ~ Nikki Ash

 

Series: Finding Love Series

Titles: My Kind of Love ~ My Kind of Beautiful ~ My Kind of Perfect
Author: Nikki Ash
My Kind of Love: a secret pregnancy, military romance 
My Kind of Beautiful: a friends to lovers, surprise baby romance 
My Kind of Perfect: a roommates-to-lovers, single dad romance
 
 
 
 
 

 

Micaela
Once upon a time, a boy and a girl met and fell in love…
That’s the way my love story began, but unlike the fairy tale, it ended with me standing in the cemetery, watching my prince get lowered into the ground, along with all our dreams.
Now he’s gone and I’m lost.
Until an impromptu trip to my family’s beach house has me spending time with Ryan.
With his help, I’m learning to live again and make plans for the future.
The only problem is, we both know they can’t include him.
So, when our time is up, we do the only thing we can do—go our separate ways.
Ryan
My entire life, I’ve felt like the waves in a raging sea—crashing and breaking, never settling.
Until Micaela stormed in like a hurricane, colliding into my life and my heart.
I thought she’d be my destruction, but instead she turned out to be my calm.
The more time we spend together, the more life she breathes into both of us.
But all too quickly, our time is up and she’s ready to face her future—one I can’t be a part of.
So, I do the impossible and walk away.
But life is crazy, and love knows no bounds. You might’ve thought this is where our story ends, but the truth is… it’s only the beginning.

 

 
 
 
Lexi

 

You don’t find love… it finds you.
Alec is the steady in my crazy, the light to my dark. My best friend.
He might be the one for me, but I’m not the one for him.
He deserves to have a wife, kids, a home—the complete package.
How can I build those things with him when I feel so incomplete, afraid I’ll never be enough?
I lose myself in surfing and my art, desperate to find the meaning of my life.
Until Alec confesses his feelings to me, and a tidal wave of emotions threatens to take me under.
Because I feel the same.
But the darkness isn’t finished with me… not even close.
Alec
You can’t help who you love.
It’s always been her—my wild and carefree best friend.
I know she thinks she’s not enough, but she’s exactly my kind of beautiful.
But a girl like Lexi needs to be free, and I would rather love her from afar and keep my best friend, than love and lose her.
Then an unexpected loss shatters my world and all bets are off… proving life is too short.
No more secrets, no more waiting.
It’s time to make Lexi mine.
Mine to kiss, mine to touch, mine to love.
All. Mine.

Georgia
I’m surrounded by love, yet have no one to call my own.
But then Chase, my new roommate, is suddenly there.
He could be the perfect guy for me, if he wasn’t nursing a broken heart.
The more time I waste looking for love, the more I realize that what I want has been right in front of me all along.
Falling for Chase is the easiest thing I’ve ever done, but fighting for him is the hardest.
Because his past isn’t finished with him— not even close.

Chase
Love finds you when you least expect it.
I was only looking for a place to crash after having my heart ripped out, instead I found someone who turned my world upside down.
A girl like Georgia was looking for happily ever after, and so far my life had been anything but a fairytale.
I can walk into a burning building without thinking twice, but the spark I feel with her scares the hell out of me.
I can’t keep watching her look for someone else—not when I’m falling for her.
Just when everything starts to fall into place, I’m reminded just how messy and imperfect life can be.
When the smoke clears, it’s Georgia by my side. Life might not be perfect— but our love could be.

*My Kind of Perfect is the third and final interconnected stand-alone novel in the Finding Love series.*

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
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Book Tour ~ Last ~ by ~ Garnet Christie

Title: Last
Series: Copperslane Romance

 

Author: Garnet Christie

 

Release: May 25, 2021

 

Genre: Adult Enemies to Lovers

 

 

 

Amazon Review (KC Owens) – “Best Love-Hate I’ve ever read!”

Amazon Review – “What a fantastic debut book! It’s fun, angsty, well-written–everything I want in a contemporary romance, and everything I LOVE to see in an author’s first book.”

Amazon Review – “This book had me feeling everything!”

 

Nothing lasts—and I pray that’s true for Brett Walker.

 

I heard “nothing lasts” when my father first said it.
I understood “nothing lasts” when my mother died and my dreams of becoming a romance author also withered away.
Now, I find myself begging that “nothing lasts” with the arrival of the town’s newest alphahole, Brett.
Every word out of his foul mouth and every smirk on his handsome but cruel face ignites contempt. I dish the misery right back at him, and in those few moments of triumph, I relish those gritted teeth, and the red glow on his face.
But beneath the biting comments, there’s something we share.
A yearning for something to endure and to hurt those who have wounded us.
However, it may be too late.
Our rough start might override our new fire filled connection, and when he starts to challenge all my beliefs, I might be too scared to give myself over. But if we do work past it all, something unusual may happen––we might fall in love.
Now if he can only make me believe that it will last.

 

 

Garnet Christie is an author and Midwestern native living in the desert. Though she misses trees, Garnet admits there is an acrid beauty to the place that has been home for twenty years. A traveling enthusiast, Garnet has visited over thirty-seven states and when challenged with something new, whether it was ice skating, tap dancing, ballet, piano lessons, or horseback riding, she never backed down. Armed with that bravery, a childhood spent in the company of English teachers, and her creative soul, Garnet took to writing

She loves serving up Alpha male’s who are searching for their happily ever after, and paring them up with women who are equally, if not more, reluctant. Inspired by experiences in life, friends, family, and countless stories on television and books, Garnet writes whatever story is screaming at her the loudest.

When not writing, Garnet is found reading, dancing, and spending too much money on K-pop merch. All the above is achieved by drinking too much tea, avoiding sleep, and eating chocolate. Garnet also adores Italian food and will go to great lengths to hunt down a fantastic plate of Chicken Marsala that comes with a cannoli.

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Book Tour ~ UnCage Me ~ by ~ Hayley Faiman

Title: UnCage Me
Series: Savage Beast MC
Author: Hayley Faiman
Genre: MC, gritty
Release Date: May 27, 2021
 
 
Pamela is not like most girls. She hasn’t been waiting excitedly for her eighteenth birthday. She’s been dreading it with every fiber in her being, trying to figure a way out.
 
As the princess of the Donkey Punchers MC, eighteen does not include freedom. Instead, it’s the exact opposite. It’s an unimaginable hell.
 
Jaguar doesn’t know much, but he knows one thing, and he knows it well—betrayal. He’s been a traitor to the only family he’s ever truly had, and he hates himself for it.
 
He cannot be the man who deserves to breathe, let alone be welcomed back to the Savage Beast MC clubhouse. If he’s ever going to atone for his actions, he knows that he has to do something huge to help his brothers.
 
Things aren’t exactly as they seem. A man on the brink of death. Destruction and war on the horizon. Relationships tested, unsure if they will hold the weight of the world around them.
 
Two people scared of the uncertain future, yet when they collide, one caged bird is finally set free, and the other discovers that being bound is exactly where he needs to be.
 
 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

As an only child, Hayley Faiman had to entertain herself somehow. She started writing stories at the age of six and never really stopped.

Born in California, she met her now husband at the age of sixteen and married him at the age of twenty in 2004. After all of these years together, he’s still the love of her life.

Hayley’s husband joined the military and they lived in  Oregon,where he was stationed with the US Coast Guard. They moved back to California in 2006, where they had two little boys. Recently, the four of them moved out to the Hill Country of Texas, where they adopted a new family member, a chocolate lab named Optimus Prime.

Most of Hayley’s days are spent taking care of her two boys, going to the baseball fields for practice, or helping them with homework. Her evenings are spent with her husband and her nights—those are spent creating alpha book boyfriends.

 
 
 

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Book Tour ~ Changing Lanes ~ by ~ Winter Travers

Title: Changing Lanes
Series: Devil’s Knights 2nd Generation #4
Author: Winter Travers
Genre: MC Romance
Release Date: May 29, 2021

 

Amazon Review – “ I loved how it all played out!”

Amazon Review – “Just gets better and better”

The Readaholic – “Another thrilling read.”

Amazon Review – “She did it again!”

 

Bristol lives a simple life.

 

She works a few days a month and the rest of the time was hers. Then a handsome biker walked into her life and turned it upside down with a simple wink and nod.
All Pie has ever needed was the club and his family. But when curvy Bristol lands in his lap and shakes up the direction of his life, Pie doesn’t know which way to go.
Bristol and Pie have no problem passing time with each other but will life keep them together or will they end up changing lanes and letting one another go?

 

 

 

 

Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author Winter Travers is a devoted wife, mother, and aunt turned author who was born and raised in Wisconsin. After a brief stint in South Carolina following her heart to chase the man who is now her hubby, they retreated back up North to the changing seasons, and to the place they now call home. Winter spends her days writing happily ever afters, and her nights being a karate mom hauling her son to practices and tournaments.. She also has an addiction to anything MC related, puppies, and baking.

 

 

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Book Tour ~ Waiting for the Girl Next Door ~ by ~ Crystal Jackson

Title: Waiting for the Girl Next Door
Series: Heart of Madison Series
Author: Crystal Jackson
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: March 30, 2021

 

Layla Westerman can’t stop looking over her shoulder. After leaving an abusive relationship, she just wants to start over, but the peaceful life she had in mind will have to wait for the renovations next door to wrap up. She doesn’t trust the new neighbors, but trust isn’t exactly her strong suit anymore. Presley Westerman has her own trust issues. Between her own shady ex and helping her sister get free of hers, the last thing she’s up for is a flirtation with the birth partner of one of her patients. They just want to move on, but what if the past doesn’t want to let them go? Waiting for the Girl Next Door is the stunning conclusion to the Heart of Madison series.

 

 

Crystal Jackson is a former therapist turned author. She is the author of the Heart of Madison series. Her work has been featured on Medium, Elephant Journal, Elite Daily, Your Tango, The Urban Howl, Positively Positive, Sivana Spirit, Mamamia, and The Good Men Project. When she’s not writing for Medium and working on her next book, you can find Crystal traveling, paddle boarding, running, throwing axes badly but with terrifying enthusiasm, hiking, doing yoga, or curled up with her nose in a book in Madison, Georgia where she lives with her two wild and wonderful children. My Words are Whiskey is her first book of poetry.
 
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