Jun 11, 2023

#BookReview #Childrens #AlbertChoi #AnnaChoi #BettinaBrasko

 

There is a lot of excitement around the house for Little Aiden as he spends the day playing with Mommy and helping her with chores. Just like Little Aiden, toddlers go through many emotions throughout their day. It is important to accept these emotions and let your little ones know that you love them regardless of what they go through.

"I love you when you are crying."
"I love you when you are 
happy."
"I love you when you are 
angry too."

 

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Author Bio: Albert and Anna are the parents of Aiden, the adorable little boy featured in the Little Aiden series. They enjoy spending time together at their neighborhood parks and playgrounds. Inspired by Aiden's daily adventures, they have set out to write a series of Children's books based on values they would like to teach Aiden. 


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Little Aiden: A Love Book For Toddlers

Written by Albert and Anna Choi

Illustrated by Bettina Brasko

Review by Heidi Lynn’s Book Reviews 


First, I want to thank both Albert and Anna Choi for providing me with this book so I can bring you this review. 


Ohh how can you not fall in love with Albert and Anna Choi’s son Little Aiden?! He is just the cutest little baby ever!! In this book Little Aiden: A Love Book For Toddlers Albert and Anna have help from the very talented Bettina Brasco as she shows us why we should fall in love with him. This is one of the cutest children series I have ever read and feel readers of all ages will get a kick out of it. 


Albert and Anna would like to dedicate this book to their son Aiden. 


I could not stop smiling throughout this book! Not to mention there were some scenes where I was just laughing out loud at. I could see why they went there but omg it was too funny!! I can see other little kids wanting to try to help.


It was too cute in the one picture where Anna was holding up her last book and Aiden in the next scene reading it. I thought that was very clever!


Needless to say I am a fan of Albert, Anna, Bettina and of course Little Aiden! I can’t wait to see what else this series has instore for him! 







Jun 9, 2023

#BookBlitz #CasanovaCowboy #JamieSchulz #XpressoTours

 

Casanova Cowboy
Jamie Schulz
(The Montana Men Series, #2)
Publication date: June 6th 2023
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance

She’s used to the glitzy, big-city life. He hides behind country-boy charm.
Will these total opposites spark unquenchable flames of attraction?

Izabel Silva is wary of men. After escaping an awful relationship and a workplace betrayal, the talented marketer seeks refuge with an old friend in small-town Montana. And though worried she’s falling in with another control-obsessed hunk, she accepts the kindly neighbors’ invitation to stay with them and their flirtatious son.

Zack MacEntier longs to live down his reputation. With his ranch’s bank accounts at rock bottom, the one-time lady’s man isn’t ready to take on a gorgeous and strong-willed Latina. But when his mother volunteers him to show the lovely newcomer around, the loyal cowboy is secretly glad of an excuse to spend more days in the fierce woman’s company.

Taken aback by local prejudice, Izabel’s concerns over Zack’s stubborn protective streak start to fade when he comes rushing to her rescue. And even as the brave rancher fears that he has nothing to offer the beautiful outsider, their growing passion has placed them firmly in danger’s crosshairs…

Can they survive the unexpected threat and claim a scorching love?

Casanova Cowboy is the steamy second book in the Montana Men romantic suspense series. If you like determined women, heroes with hidden depths, and slow-burn chemistry, then you’ll adore Jamie Schulz’s fiery path to happily ever after.

Buy Casanova Cowboy to flirt with trouble today!

* No cliffhangers. Though the stories intertwine in places, each book is a standalone suspenseful, western romance with adult content. The perfect read for fans of strong heroines, broken heroes, cowboys, horses, slow-burning love, and small-town romance!

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EXCERPT:

Her mind filled with thoughts, and scents, and images of this man, of Zack. She welcomed the hungry nature of his kiss and the hard strength of his body, and she wanted more.

Without breaking the kiss, she slid her hands down his chisel chest and tugged at the navy material of his T-shirt until it came free from the waistband of his jeans. Greedily, she slipped one hand inside and she groaned at the hard heat that flexed beneath her fingers. Needing to touch him, to see him, Izabel sat back and jerk the rest of his shirt from his jeans. Frantically, she pulled and pushed it upward until Zack lifted his arms and allowed her to haul the shirt over his head.

She couldn’t seem to catch her breath. The masculine beauty she’d unveiled sucked it all from her chest as her eyes took in every work-hardened crest and valley of his well-built body. The breadth of his shoulders, the thick layers of muscle that made them and his brawny arms bulge and flex when he moved. The perfect plane of his pecs and the ridges of his belly. Her nails rasped over the dusting of dark, curling hair on his chest, her fingers following its path as it narrowed into a line that disappeared under his jeans.

“Izabel?”

She looked up, startled by the strangled sound of his voice. His cheeks were flushed as his breath heaved in through parted lips, and his soulful whiskey eyes were hooded and full of passion as he stared back at her.

“You are gorgeous, Zack.”

He smiled, but when she swiveled and got to her feet, apprehension filled his face. “What are you doing?”

Reaching for the closure of her jeans, her mouth curled suggestively as she popped the button and slowly lowered the zipper.

Zack’s lips tipped up at the corners and appreciation washed over his expression.

Once she’d shed the jeans, Izabel crawled back onto his lap, but straddled his legs this time.

“Did you think I was going to leave?” she asked, flicking her nails over his nipples. Her grin grew when he sucked in a breath and his eyelids closed briefly. When they opened, he cupped her butt cheeks in each of his huge hands and drew her against the large bulge in his jeans.

“I thought so, yes.” He ducked his head and his lips found her neck. “I thought you might leave me with this,” he said as he lifted his hips and pressed himself against her core.

She moaned as he nibbled the tender column of her throat, drawing gasps of pleasure from her. When he found a sensitive spot at the base of her neck, a sharp pang of desire shot through her belly. Lust electrified her, zapping along nerve endings and driving her need for him…for Zack.

“What do you want, Izabel?” His voice sounded rough against her skin. “Tell me what you need.”

“You, Zack. I need you,” she gasped. “I want to see you. I want to feel your skin on mine. I want you to make love to me. Right now!” She reached for her blouse and quickly unbuttoned the first two buttons, but frustrated with how long it took, she reached down and yanked it over her head.

Zack’s passion-filled eyes had followed her movement, but now she sat back and watched as his gaze devoured her. From the disarray of her curly hair to her small breasts and down to the plain white bikini underwear she wore, he soaked it all in as his chest rose with each rapid breath. Slowly, almost reverently, he traced the gentle swell of her breasts above the lace edge of her bra with his fingertips. The touch sent a shiver through her body as need pulsed hot and wet between her thighs.

“Oh, God, Zack,” she cried, the ache from his simple touch so acute, she had to grip his shoulders to keep from tumbling to the ground. Her head dropped back onto her neck and she sighed. “What you do to me…”

“Tell me, goddess,” he said with a throaty growl as his hands bracketed her face and pulled her in for another soul-melting kiss.

“You’ve lit a fire inside me,” she said when he let her up for air. “You give me strength when I feel week. You make me feel strong and beautiful and wanted. You make me want…more.”


Author Bio:

Jamie Schulz lives in the beautiful Pacific Northwest with her family, her husband, and their fur babies. Writing has always been a big a part of her life, and she hopes to one day reach the best sellers lists.

Cowboys, ice cream, and reading almost any kind of romance are among her (not so) secret loves. To her, every one of her stories, no matter how dark, must have a happy ending, and she strives to make them impossible to put down until you get there.

She balances her free time between reading her favorite romance authors--in genres ranging from erotica and dark romance to sweet historicals and contemporary romance--and spending time with her family.

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#BookBlitz #BabeintheWoods #JudeHopkins #XpressoTours

 

Babe in the Woods
Jude Hopkins
Published by: The Wild Rose Press
Publication date: June 7th 2023
Genres: Women’s Fiction

It’s September 1995, the first year of the rest of Hadley Todd’s life. After living in Los Angeles, Hadley returns to her hometown in rural New York to write and be near her father. In addition to looking after him and teaching high school malcontents, Hadley hopes to channel her recent L.A. heartbreak into a play about the last moment of a woman’s innocence. But she seeks inspiration.

Enter Trey Harding, a young, handsome reporter who covers sports at the high school. Trey reminds Hadley of her L.A. ex and is the perfect spark to fire up her imagination. The fact that Trey is an aspiring rock star and she has L.A. record biz connections makes the alliance perfect. She dangles promises of music biz glory while watching his moves. But the surprising twist that transpires when the two of them go to Hollywood is not something Hadley prepared for.

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EXCERPT:

“Have you ever fallen in love?”

He winked at her. “All the time.”

She’d have the last word, something she realized was important to her. “I think it’s wrong, all these women you lead on. Don’t you? I mean, they may get attached, fall for you. But you seem to use them, to see what you can get out of them for your own purposes. I think that’s wrong, They’re human beings, after all. With feelings.”

He turned around, his eyes drained of any light. “They use me, too. It’s not like they’re not getting anything out of it.”

“What am I getting out of this?” she asked him, if not rhetorically.

He stood on one hip, a move that made him appear more rakish than usual. “I really don’t know, Miss Todd. I wondered that myself. I thought perhaps you were bored or intrigued. Or maybe you’re a control freak.” He took a step toward her so he was within half an inch of her face. “Or maybe you’re just like the rest and can’t resist me.”

Hadley stood her ground. “How do you know when it’s over? The moment when love, or lust, turns into something else. Something not as passionate?”

“I don’t think about it,” he said, returning her gaze. “It’s something that happens. Maybe it’s not one moment. It just is.”

He turned around and walked out of the room.

Author Bio:

Women's fiction—with a splash of romance, albeit tempered. I was once an adjunct professor in English at various universities, expecting a lot of my students. But the need to write something besides comments on student essays gnawed at me. I wrote poems and essays, one of which appeared in the L.A. Times. One day, I took out my old self-help book manuscript from a cobwebby drawer and began the process of turning it into a novel. That novel became Babe in the Woods, coming out June 7, 2023. I was a runner-up in the 2018 Personal Essay Contest by Proximity Magazine, judged by Hanif Abdurraqib. Besides the essay in The Los Angeles Times, you'll find me on Medium, including The Belladonna, The Writing Cooperative and others, and have had poems published in Timber Creek Review and California Quarterly, among other journals. My publications can be seen on my website: judehopkinswriting.net/. Thanks for visiting!

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#BookBlitz #TheLakeHouse #BellaEmy #XpressoTours

 

The Lake House
Bella Emy
Publication date: June 9th 2023
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance

From USA Today Bestselling Author Bella Emy comes a new heart-wrenching story of heartbreak, loss, and finding love once again.

Giuliana

Happily ever after.
That’s what I thought I found.
But the clock struck twelve before I even knew it, leaving me in nothing but rags and tears.
Silver Mist has always been the one place to bring me comfort and serenity.
But on an unexpected summer day, Declan Bell walks on in and changes my perspective of love forever.
Am I ready to say goodbye to my past and welcome a new beginning?
Starting over is never easy, and I’m not sure I can do it without getting hurt again.

Declan

Happily ever… what?
I thought true love didn’t exist, thanks to my ex-wife.
She cheated and walked out, leaving me alone to raise our daughter.
My baby girl made my life complete.
I was fine and things were going well.
I couldn’t complain.
That was all until Giuliana Bianchi, the girl I had fallen in love with from way back when, came marching back into town.
I realized I didn’t know real love and how much more complete my life could be until I saw her beautiful smiling face.
But is she ready to jump back into a relationship after everything she’s been through?
Starting over is never easy, but if we can find a way to be together, I feel like it could be.

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Author Bio:

Bella Emy is a USA Today Bestselling Author.

***To stay up to date with all things Bella, including all exclusive content, make sure you sign up for her newsletter here: http://bit.ly/BellaNL

She loves all books, but her favorite genre to read, as well as write, is romance. Bella loves creating heartbreaking stories that will deeply touch her readers, but in the end, a good HEA is usually the turnout.

Whenever Bella is not typing away on her computer with a nice hot cup of coffee, she loves spending time with her family and friends. Her favorite places to go are the movies, the beach, or just on a good plain old road trip. Some of her must haves are coffee, chocolate, pizza, music, & movies.

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#CoverReveal #CuspofRedemption #OliviaPreya #XpressoTours

 

Cusp of Redemption
Olivia Preya
(The Cusp Series, #2)
Publication date: August 2023
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Mafia, Romance

Salvatore de Marco

It was always about her.
Taking care of her.
Making sure she had everything she needed.
School. Apartment. Living expenses.
I took care of it all. For her.
And I’ll never regret the decisions I made to keep the smile on her face.

But she left me once, and I’ll be damned before I let her leave again. As the Cafarelli family enforcer, I can provide her with more than I could before–money and protection. I’ll do everything in my power to protect her from whatever demon made her run the first time. But what if it turns out the demon was me?
If there’s one thing I know, it’s that our connection is undeniable; I can feel how hot she is for me.
Even if she won’t admit it.
Yet.

Naya Okpara

It took a long time to get to where I am now.
From foster kid to private investigator, I do whatever it takes to get the job done.
Even if that means working for the Cafarelli family.

I thought he was long gone—a distant memory tainted by a figure from our past. But time and distance did nothing to ease my hunger for his touch. Nor did it erase the betrayals that shattered me.
When the man who lights my skin on fire appears before me, I’m forced to face the realities I spent years avoiding. Now, Salvatore and I are working for the same family, and I can’t let the connection of our past ruin my future.

But what if he is my future?

Cusp of Redemption is book two of the Cusp series but can be read as a standalone. It has a guaranteed HEA, swoon-worthy anti-hero, and badass heroine. This is an interracial mafia romance containing explicit sex scenes, graphic violence, and is recommended for readers 18+.


Author Bio:

Olivia Preya is a romance fanatic and author living in Toronto, Canada. She writes about what she loves—love, spice, and panty-dropping men with a soft spot for the love of their lives. When life gets a little tough or bland, she finds that fictional men are the best medicine.

Olivia considers herself to have two personas, like Wonder Woman, but with a pen––corporate marketing specialist by day and spicy romance author by night. She also likes to embrace all forms of sensuality, from pole dancing and erotic novels to good food; she believes that sometimes the best things in life are a little sinful.

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#CoverReveal #MidnightRapture #AnyaSummers #xpressotours

 

Midnight Rapture
Anya Summers
(Dungeon Singles Night, #12)
Publication date: June 27th 2023
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance

Rescued by a hot, kilt-wearing Scot…

Freya’s on the run from her abusive ex-boyfriend. She’s exhausted and terrified, but if she stops, she knows he’ll find her – and their infant daughter – and make her pay. Desperation drives her to do something she shouldn’t, that she knows is fundamentally wrong…

… and sure enough, she gets caught red-handed. All she can do is beg for mercy.

When Jasper catches the gorgeous new maid with her hand in his wallet, his first instinct is to call the police. But Freya’s tearful plea strikes a chord deep within him, and instead he finds himself offering her the protection of his name and family.

Their union is meant to be on paper only but Jasper soon finds himself enthralled by his new bride. He starts a campaign to seduce her into his bed, never expecting her to wiggle her way into his heart.

And when her past threatens her very existence, he will stop at nothing to keep her safe.

Fall headlong into this steamy, fake relationship, stand-alone romance between a fierce Scottish businessman and a single mother as they navigate the road of love with all its pitfalls.

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Author Bio:

Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Anya grew up listening to Cardinals baseball and reading anything she could get her hands on. She remembers her mother saying if only she would read the right type of books instead binging her way through the romance aisles at the bookstore, she’d have been a doctor. While Anya never did get that doctorate, she graduated cum laude from the University of Missouri-St. Louis with an M.A. in History.

Anya is a bestselling and award-winning author published in multiple fiction genres. She also writes urban fantasy, paranormal romance, and contemporary romance under the name Maggie Mae Gallagher. A total geek at her core, when she is not writing, she adores attending the latest comic con or spending time with her family. She currently lives in the Midwest with her two furry felines.

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Jun 5, 2023

#BlogTour #Promo #TheGirlsofSummer #KateBishop #RandomThingsTours

 


EXPLORING THE COMPLEX NATURE OF CONSENT, MEMORY, AND POWER, THIS IS THE MOST ANTICIPATEDCOMMERCIAL DEBUT OF 2023. 

COMBINING HEADY NOSTALGIA WITH UNCOMFORTABLE REALISATION AS A WOMAN COMES TO TERMS WITH ASUMMER AFFAIR FROM HER TEENS

‘A mesmerising, unsettling and gripping debut’ 
CATHERINE RYAN HOWARD

‘It's been a long time since I've read such a compelling debut. Beautifully written, transportive, and thought-provoking, THE GIRLS OF SUMMER sizzles with suspense. It's the book I'll be recommending that all my girlfriends pack for their holidays this summer.’ 
LUCY CLARKE, bestselling author of THE CASTAWAYS

‘Atmospheric and powerful ... Bishop has crafted a haunting, tense psychological debut, and a final reckoning that will stick with me’CAROLA LOVERING, author of Tell Me Lies

‘Scorching and sexy, it lures you in then shakes you up. A very timely read about consent and control. LOVED IT.’ NIKKI MAY, author of WAHALA

THE

GIRLS

OF

SUMMER

Katie Bishop

25th May 2023 | Bantam Press | Hardback | £14.99 | pp.352

'That place has been my whole life. Everything I thought I knew about myself was constructed in those few months I spent within touching distance of the sea. Everything I am is because Alistair loved me.'

Rachel has been in love with Alistair since she was seventeen. 

Even though she hasn't seen him for sixteen years and she's now married to someone else. 

Even though she was a teenager when they met.

Even though he is twenty years older than her. 

She's found it impossible to let go of their summer together on a remote, sun-trapped Greek island.

Until now.

When Rachel unexpectedly reconnects with a girl that she knew back then, she is forced to re-examine her memories of that golden summer and confront the truth about her relationship with Alistair and about her time working for an enigmatic and wealthy man on the island. And when Alistair returns, the pull of the past could prove impossible to resist… 

The Girls of Summer flips the concept of “the one that got away” on its head. Interrogating what it means when we are forced to reframe a narrative that is so central to who we are that we aren’t sure who to be when it turns out to be false. 

Ultimately, it questions whether it is better to face up to this truth, and all the pain that comes with it, or to keep it hidden in the dark?

‘Thought-provoking, timely and gripping, The Girls of Summer is the book of the summer’ SARAH TURNER, bestselling author of THE UNMUMSY MUM

‘Smart, tense and on-the-nose about shame and coercion and the way we force our own painful histories into a narrative we can live with.’ TAMMY COHEN

Engrossingly dark ... it simmers with the seductive power of first love against a backdrop of truths too horrible to confront. This is a powerful story of exploitation and retribution; I loved it’
LOUISA REID, author of THE POET

‘An absolutely scorching debut deftly mixing the glamour of an island holiday with shadows of coercive control.’ ALICE CLARK-PLATTS, author of THE FLOWER GIRLS

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

KATIE BISHOP is a writer and journalist based in Birmingham, UK. She grew up in the Midlands before moving to Oxford to work in publishing in her early twenties. Whilst working as an assistant editor she started writing articles in her spare time, going on to be published in the New York TimesGuardianIndependent and Vogue.

Katie started writing The Girls of Summer during the first UK COVID lockdown, after becoming increasingly interested in stories emerging from the #MeToo movement. The novel is inspired by her own experiences of backpacking, and by her interest in how personal narratives can be reshaped and understood in light of cultural and social changes.

In 2020, Katie moved back to the Midlands, and now lives in Birmingham with her partner. She is a full-time writer.

Katie says: “My novel explores themes of consentpower, and memorythrough the story of a woman reliving a memorable summer in her late teens. Through her emerging memories the novel explores abuse and victimhood, and how victims can rewrite narratives of trauma.

I was initially thinking about writing a book that encapsulated some of the nostalgia and excitement of ‘the one that got away’, but at a time when the #MeToo movement was evolving quite rapidly I started to reflect on my own past relationships differently. 

Myself (and a lot of women that I spoke to) were starting to understand their formative relationships and sexual experiences in a different light. I started to think about how I could use the idea of ‘the one that got away’ to explore this reckoning, and how it feels to realise that a relationship that profoundly impacted you could be interpreted in a different light.


The Girls of Summer is a book for every woman. One of the things that I have found most interesting about bringing The Girls of Summer into the world has been the conversations that I’ve had along the way. Almost every woman that I talk to about the book has their own story, their own personal reckoning. An experience they are reminded of that, as an adult, they have had to make peace with. 


The #MeToo movement bought about solidarity and empowerment, but it also opened up vast wells of trauma, shame and pain. We have all seen women coming together to shoulder this burden, and to help each other through this. I hope that The Girls of Summer reflects both the horror and the hope of this collective experience.

Katie Bishop is available for interviews, written pieces, and events.

For more information, please contact Milly Reid or Hana Sparkes


mreid1@penguinrandomhouse.co.uk | 07425677221 | @MillsReid11
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Jun 2, 2023

#BlogTour #PsychologicalThriller #HerHusbandsSecrets #EmilyShiner #InkubatorBooks #ZoolooBookTours

 

A cheating husband. A vengeful wife. And a plan that goes terribly wrong.

 

When Eloise discovers her husband Jared has fathered a son with another woman, Tina, there’s no way she’s forgiving him. But divorce will leave her with nothing, thanks to a prenup. 

Instead, she takes her time plotting a murderous revenge with the help of her loyal cousin Ricky. Her plan is simple – she’ll kill Jared and set Tina up to take the fall.

 

That way she'll stay free to inherit what she really loves: Jared's money. And with Ricky's help, it all seems possible.

 

What Eloise hasn't counted on is Ricky's unpredictable state of mind. Driven by a dangerous obsession with Tina, he’s slowly disconnecting from reality. Instead of following Eloise's plan, he thinks up one of his own. One that leaves Eloise in a place she never thought possible, even in her worst nightmares.


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 Emily Shiner always dreamed of becoming an author but first served her time as a banker and a teacher. After a lifetime of devouring stacks of thrillers, she decided to try her hand at writing them herself. Now she gets to live out her dream of writing novels and sharing her stories with people around the world. She lives in the Appalachian Mountains and loves hiking with her husband, daughter, and their two dogs.

 

 


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Her Husband’s Secret
Written By Emily Shiner
Review By Heidi Lynn’s Book Reviews


First, I want to thank Emily Shiner, Inkubator Books and Zooloo Book Tours for providing me with this book so I may bring you this review. 


DANG!!! Emily Shiner’s psychological thrillers keep getting better and better!! Her Husband’s Secret is soooo twisted and intense!!! She really knows how to write an addicting story that will keep you up way past your bedtime! This book is a must read!!! Go put it on your TBR list today!!


From the get go Rodney creeped me out big time for so many reasons why! There is always a character in a book that rubs me the wrong way and he was it.  


However, Luke was one of my favorite characters in the whole book.  I love the bond that he had with his Mom and their Sunday outings. My heart just ached when he cried at school seeing so many Daddies with their kids and wondered who his was. I wanted to reach into my Kindle and give him a huge hug! 


This story was incredibly intense, twisted, mind bending, full of secrets and revelations! Oh and the ending was unbelievably explosive! 





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