Saturday, November 16, 2013

Just a Little Taste Book One Free

 
Title: Just a Little Taste book One (The Trilogy)

By: Scarlett Jade


 
 
 

 
 
 

Recommended for 18+ due to sexual scenes and adult language. This book includes ALL THREE novellas in one. (Love at First Bite, Once Bitten, Twice Shy, and Third Time's A Charm as a box set.)
 

 
What is true love? The kind of love that sucks you in and never lets go, because it doesn’t want to and you don’t want it to. The kind of love that can surpass anything; pasts, presents, and futures. The kind of love where it doesn’t matter that you have fangs or suck the occasional animal dry.

That’s the kind of love that is between Jeremy and Sasha.

Jeremy Parks never thought he’d find someone who would understand him and accept him for who and what he was. But, when Sasha shows up practically at his doorstep, bloodied and in danger of dying, he can’t stop the overwhelming feeling of protection that washes through him. Now, he’ll do whatever it takes to keep her safe… Even from him.

Sasha Jones didn’t know how she ended up in Jeremy’s arms, but the dangerous and extremely sexy vampire/werewolf intrigues her. She can’t get enough of him; his hands on her body,
his mouth on her own lips, his eyes boring into hers. She has a feeling that he is misunderstood, but she understands just fine… She understands that she could fast fall in love with him and his fangs. But, when destiny intervenes, their relationship suffers, slightly, battling the twists and turns of their lives and their love; including memory loss, blood lust, and even a baby.

What will happen to them?

Find out in this trilogy of stories that push you to the brink. You’ll never feel the same about vampires again, and you’ll want one of your very own too.

Remember, just because someone is different,
doesn’t mean they aren’t worth your time and your heart…

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Only For You By E.L. Todd


Title: Only For You

By: E.L. Todd

Goodreads =
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18666527-only-for-you
 
 
When Scarlet realized Penelope was dumping Sean, her best friend, she was devastated. Penelope was the love of his life, the woman of his dreams. Scarlet knew how far her best friend was going to fall and she had to catch him. Scarlet became Sean’s rock and helped him through a very painful breakup, but her own hidden desires bubbled to the surface in the process. When they finally gave in and slept together, she thought it was the start of their new relationship. Unfortunately, Sean didn’t feel the same.

Humiliated and heartbroken, Scarlet moved across the country and found what she least expected. She rekindled her damaged relationship with her brother, who she hadn’t spoken to in a year, and her brother’s best friend was attractive and interesting. Their relationship was natural and unforced, and she was immediately drawn to him. Would she be able to get over Sean, forget about him, by sleeping with Cortland, or would that just be another repeated mistake?
 
 
 

About The Author  E.L. Todd

 
My journey to this profession was slightly unorthodox. I received my bachelor's degree in biological sciences, worked as an award-winning researcher, and worked various jobs to pay the bills. While I enjoyed every moment of this adventure,
it wasn't my passion. I've been writing since I was a young girl and have read anything that I can get my hands on. When people ask me what my favorite book is, I always respond, "All of them."

After I showed my work to my closest friends and gained their confidence, I realized that this is something I could
commit my life to, something that I love. I never imagined--dreamed--that I could make a living as a writer. This is the greatest profession that I ever could have asked for, and I am so thankful for the support from everyone in my
life. How many other jobs let you work in your pajamas?

My first novel, Soul Catcher, was released in August 2013, and my second novel, Soul Binders, will be released this fall. The Saga concludes in early 2014. I hope you've enjoyed reading this series as much as I've enjoyed writing it


Social Link http://www.eltodd42.blogspot.com  

Twitter = eltodd42
 
 
 



Only For You (Forever and Always, #1)

Only For You by E.L. Todd
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

***** I was provided with an ARC copy of this book by the Author for and honest review *****

First I want to say that this is the first book, that I get to read from this author, and HOLY HELL I Love every single minute of it I couldn't put this book down at all that's how much I was into it. this book is full of comedy, romance, and drama, and I do love my books that have drama in it, I love the characters even though sometime some of them got on my nerves but I love them anyway, I have to say that I cried and laugh and got mad, while reading this book but it was all good that just made me love the story even more, and I love it how you get to see it from both point view.

The story beginnings with Scarlet, having lunch with her best friend girlfriend Penelope, when they were having lunch Penelope told Scarlet that she was braking up with Sean, Scarlet got mad and confuse she couldn't believe why would some one break up with a great man like Sean, who has a great job come from a great wealthy family and he such a sweet heart, that's when scarlet when to Sean apartment to find him down and heart broken, and that's when they started spend time together.

At the same time that Sean was feeling horrible Scarlet was keeping secrets from him, about what was going on, on her job with the perverted of her boss, but all that change when she agree to g with Sean to a dinner from his job, that night they got a little to much to drink and they both cross the line, after that night everything just when up side down from their, she end up with a broken heart and with out a job, so she move in with her brother.

I really enjoy this book and now I cant wait to read the next book, I hope that once you read it that you get to enjoy it and love it as much as I did.

Author E.L. Todd THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR GIVING ME THE CHANCE TO READ THIS AWESOME BOOK AND FOR INTRODUCING ME TO THIS AMAZING CHARACTERS. now you gain one more Fan :)




Friday, November 15, 2013

Forever Young Blog Tour‏

 
Title: Forever Young, Book 1 of The Forever Land Chronicles

Author:  Sawyer Bennett

Release date: 1/31/13

Publisher:  Big Dog Books, LLC

Age Group:  YA/New Adult

Genre: Paranormal Romance
 
 
She’s a loner, she likes to fight and, oh yeah...she has the ability to see the demons that lay beneath the faces of ordinary humans. It’s a gift Charlie Wright inherited the night her parents were brutally murdered when she was fourteen years old.

Now in her last year of high school, Charlie just can’t seem to keep herself out of trouble.  Rather than taking a one-way trip to juvenile detention, Charlie chooses to join a mysterious group called The Forever Land  Alliance.

And then her life really gets weird.

Charlie finds herself magically transported to an alternate universe. In Semper Terra, no one ages, people fly, and one stunningly gorgeous, immortal man manages to capture Charlie’s heart and awaken the adult woman she is becoming.

But it’s not all fun and games. For Charlie is training to become an Annihilator, a select group of Semper Terrans who protect mankind from all of those things that go “bump in the night”.

 It’s only when Charlie finds herself stuck in the middle of a prophecy that could bring about the end of the world that she truly begins to understand the deep sacrifices she will have to make.
 
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About The Author
 
USA Today Best-Selling author, Sawyer Bennett, is a snarky southern woman and reformed trial lawyer who decided to finally start putting on paper all of the stories that were floating in her head. She is married to a mobster (well, a market researcher) and they have two big, furry dogs who hog the bed. Sawyer would like to report she doesn't have many weaknesses but can be bribed with a nominal amount of milk chocolate.

Author social media links:
www.sawyerbennett.com

www.facebook.com/bennettbooks.com
www.twitter.com/bennettbooks

 
 
 
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Forever Young (The Forever Land Chronicles)Forever Young by Sawyer Bennett
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

***** I received an ARC copy for an honest review *****

First I have to say that I love Sawyer Bennett books and I am a fan of her work, I have read all the off series and I love it, when I started reading this book I did not know what to expect, and oh boy I am glad I got to read it I love it, and love the characters.

This book has comedy, lots of drama, romance, and a lot of flirting going on, the characters are well writing, their emotion are well developed, and this story will not get you confuse at all and it has it's twist and surprises and I love it.

Charlie Wright is a loner, she loves to fight, and when I say fight I mean she love to kick and punch, none of that girlie fight, but the raw punching kind of fights, and she has a gift that she inherit it after the death of her parents and that's is that she could see demons, she is not afraid to speak her mind and she will tell you things how they are, I love her bad girl attitude.

The story beginnings with Charlie walking down the hall of her school getting ready to go home, when she hears some one whimper she notice that it was coming from the boys bathroom, she decide to go check since she new someone was in trouble, when she wen in the boys bathroom that's when she seen them three kids picking on a young girl, and Charlie end up getting into a fight with them, from their she though that her principal was gone send her to juvenile detention, but then she met Sebastian and he took her to a hole new world, that's when the totally handsome Hottie of Caiden Gallagher, and her world comes up side down.

I love seen Charlie and Caiden go at it with their flirtation, and how Caiden make it to train her and tell her more about their land. I really enjoy reading this book and I love how this book turned out to be THANK YOU AUTHOR Sawyer Bennett for another amazing, awesome story.

Break It Up Tour

 
 
 
Title: Break It Up

Author: E.M. Tippetts

Release date: November 12, 2013

Age Group: New Adult

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Tour organized by:  AToMR Tours;
http://atomrbookblogtours.com

Goodreads - http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18134724-break-it-up
 
 
Kyra Armijo is making a few changes in her life. One of them being, she's no longer going to give it up to every guy who looks at her twice. And she's putting her hopes and dreams for her future first. When the aspirin photojournalist gets the opportunity of a lifetime to tag along with international boy band sensation, Triple Cross, she can't pass up the chance.The only problem is that she's in love with one band member,dodging the unwanted attention of another, and desperate to keep her turbulent past under wraps. Triple Cross have "nice guy" appeal, approved of by parents the world over, but have just let go their longtime manager, who controlled their clean image and media exposure with an iron fist. When Zach Wechsler, the object of Kyra's affection, begins to show interest, she has to be careful.

Surely one girl can't destroy a band that's been together for ten years... only what if she can? Kyra knows she's one bad decision away from ruining everything she's worked for, and taking the hottest act of her generation down with her.
 
About the AuthorEmily  Mah  Tippetts  writes romance as E.M. Tippetts and science fiction and fantasy as Emily Mah. She is a former attorney with degrees in philosophy, politics and economics from Oxford University and business law from UCLA, and currently lives
in her lifelong home state of New Mexico with her family. For more information  or to sign up for updates on future book releases, visit her website at


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Break It UpBreak It Up by Emily Mah Tippetts
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

***** I received an ARC copy for an honest review *****

I just finish reading this book and I like it, this is the first book that I get to read from this author, and have to say that I really enjoy it, I love the characters and how this story turned out to be, I am gone keep this short cause I don't want to give anything away.

Kyra was a wild child and she end up with a reputation, and not a good one, she is witty and she knows how to deal when crap hits the fan, she know how to turned negative situation to a positive one, now she is trying to change her way of life, but that becomes a little hard when she end up on tour with her favorite ban Triple Cross, but the attraction that she feel for Zach is to strong and its hard to deal with it and Zach is not making it any easier.

I love how supported her family is of her, and how they get to trust her and see how much she has change and become an adult, love the relationship between her and her step uncle Jason, who is a movie start, I love how they argue and go back and forth with each other.

I really love this book and I really had fun reading it love it how the characters are very well written and developed, I am looking forward to keep reading from this Author, I hope that when you read this book you get to enjoy it and love it as much as I did.

Author Emily Mah Tippetts Thank You for Introducing me to this awesome characters and this amazing book.

Thursday, November 14, 2013

Book Release Blast The Key


The Key
The True Reign Series #1
By- Jennifer Anne Davis
Expected Publication Date- November 15th, 2103
Published By- Clean Teen Publishing  

Within these pages lie kingdoms with castles and princes who fall in love with fair maidens, but make no mistake−this is no fairytale. 

His father’s kingdom is on the brink of upheaval and at the center of it all is an ordinary girl who could be the key to its undoing. When faced with the ultimate choice, will he choose the girl he’s falling in love with or the kingdom he has sworn to protect? 

An ordinary girl with an extraordinary past. All she wants is to be free. What she doesn’t realize is that freedom comes with a price she can’t afford to pay. She’s forced to accept the proposal of a prince she despises, even though her heart belongs to someone else . . . his brother. 

Seventeen-year-old Rema lives in a brutal kingdom where travel between regions is forbidden, people are starving, and looking at someone the wrong way can mean death. Nineteen-year-old Darmik is the king’s son and Commander of the King’s Army. He spends his days roving the island, doing his father’s bidding and trying to maintain control over the people.

When a chance encounter throws Rema and Darmik together, they share an instantaneous connection, but any sort of relationship between them is strictly forbidden. Darmik’s brother, the Crown Prince, notices Darmik’s interest in Rema and, in a calculated, political move, blackmails her. Faced with an impossible choice, Rema is forced to sacrifice her heart in order to save her family.

As Rema is taken to the palace with the Crown Prince, Darmik confronts the growing rumor that a legitimate blood heir to the throne exists and is trying to overthrow Darmik’s family. In Darmik’s quest to hunt down and kill the threat, he discovers that nothing is as it seems. Locked in the king’s castle, Rema finds herself a key player in a massive power struggle. When Darmik shows up, she’s not sure if she can trust him. The line between friends, enemies, and loyalty becomes blurred. As truths are unlocked, Rema understands that she just might be the key to finding the rightful heir and restoring peace to the kingdom… if she can manage to stay alive long enough.

  


Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Mine Tour

 
Title: Mine

Author: Katy Evans

Date for Re-Release of Paperback: November 5, 2013

Publisher: Gallery Books

Blog Tour Hosted by: The SUBClub Books
 
 
“I will do anything to make her MINE.” —Remington Tate

In the international bestseller REAL, the unstoppable bad boy of the Underground fighting circuit finally met his match. Hired to keep him in prime condition, Brooke Dumas unleashed a primal desire in Remington “Remy” Tate as vital as the air he breathes . . . and now he can’t live without her.

Brooke never imagined she would end up with the man who is every woman’s dream, but not all dreams end happily ever after, and just when they need each other the most, Brooke is torn away from the ringside. Now with distance and darkness between them, the only thing left is to fight for the love of the man she calls MINE.
 
Excerpt 
 
“Ladies and gentlemen, we all remember our crushed souls—our crushed spirits!—when the crowd favorite lost the championship final last year.” The  crowd boos in memory, and my throat clogs thinking about how Remy’s broken body had been carried out of the ring.“Have no fear, people. Have no fear!”

REMY!!!!!!!!!” someone screams.

“Bring him out already!” another yells.

 “Oh, we will. Have no doubt about it, we will,” the announcer somberly says, painfully drawing it out for the crowd. “After much speculation and many rumors, it’s completely official. The man is fighting this season, and he’s taking  noprisoners,  people! Here he is, ladies and gentlemen.  Here.  He.  Is! You all know who I’m talking about?”

The crowd roars, “RIP-TIIIIIIIDE!”

Who?”

“RIP-TIIIIIIDE!”

“One more time, ’cause I can’t hear you!”

“RIPTIIIIIDE!”

“That’s right, ladies and gentlemen! Here’s our favorite bad boy with that infamous smile and those deadly fists, ready to carve R.I.P. into anyone who stands in his way this year. The one, the only, Remingtoooon Tate, your RIPTIIIIIIIIIDE!!”
Wild excitement rushes through me as the crowd stands and roars like never before. “My  god, the fans are thirsty for him,” Pete breathes And so am I. My god. So am I.

Across the ring from me, women are waving panties in the air. Panties! Another lifts a sign that reads pull me under, riptide!
My mouth is dry, and a thousand and one winged things flutter in my stomach when I see a flash of red. And then, he’s closer.
Trotting out of the walkway and to the ring.

To his ring.

My body enlivens with sensations as he breaks through the crowd. Some fans have escaped their seats and make a grab for him, but he easily shoves his way through the throng, his face shadowed by the hood of his red satin robe. Remy. My Remy. The man I love with every ounce of me.

“Riptide, you put the sex in SEXY!”
“Remy, I want you to fucking impregnate me!” 
He climbs into the ring with a fluid jump, and then he removes his riptide robe, slowly, without hurrying. Hundreds of female screams ring in my ears as he goes to his corner to hand the robe to Riley, his coach’s second. Riley pats his muscled back with a smile and tells him something. Remington throws his head back as if he’s laughing and then takes the center of the ring, spreads his long, ripped arms out, and starts doing his slow and cocky I-know-you-all-want-to-fuck-me turn.I’m dying.

I will never, ever, get used to the sight of him in that ring. My heart whams excitedly into my rib cage while all my insides pulse with need, and my chest feels like a balloon about to burst in excitement. Hard, lean, and perfect, he is all dangerous, all beautiful, and all mine.

My eyes absorb every inch of what every other woman here is drooling for, and I helplessly let my gaze run up and down his perfect athletic form. My eyes lovingly caress his tan and kiss the inky Celtic bands over his biceps. I admire his torso and his long, strong legs, his sculptured arms, his narrow waist and broad shoulders. Every muscle in his perfect body is so defined
that you would know exactly where one structure ends and the next begins if you trailed your fingers along his magnificent form.

And as he turns even more, I see the washboard abs with eight squares—eight! Yes, it is impossible, but he’s got them . . . and his face. Oh god, I can’t even take it.

The scruffy jaw. The brilliant blue eyes. The sexy smirk. The dimples. He’s got a smile on his face, his expression, one that tells you he’s got a whole lot of trouble planned for the evening and you don’t want to miss it, is playful and boyish.

A collective gasp spreads out in the rows behind me as he moves to face us. The  butterflies in my stomach burst awake when those dancing blue eyes start scanning the crowd, silently laughing at all of us. He’s clearly amused by our obsession over everything Remington Tate!

Beside me, a middle-aged blonde with too much Botox jumps up and down and screams like a lunatic, “Remy! Give me a taste of that Riptide!” The impulse to drag the woman down by her hair seizes me, but at the same time, I know you can’t look at him without dissolving into a pool of lust.

He is a stud. He was made to mate. To procreate. And I want him like my next breath. I  want him more than any one of these screaming women wants him. I want every fragmented part of him. I want his body. His mind. His heart. His beautiful soul.

He says he’s mine, but I know that there’s a part of Remington Tate nobody will ever have.

I am his, but he is untamable and unconquerable. The only one who can defeat Remington Tate is himself. He’s  up there, ever elusive and mysterious, a black box of mystery without end. And I want to get lost in him, even if I never come out the same.
 
 
About Katy Evans
 
Hey! I’m Katy Evans and I love family, books, life, and love. I’m married with two children and three dogs and spend my time baking, walking, writing, reading, and taking care of my family. Thank you for spending your time with me and picking up my story. I hope you had an amazing time with it, like I did. If you’d like to know more about books in progress, look me up on the Internet, I’d love to hear from you!LinksWebsite: www.katyevans.net
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Mine (Real, #2)Mine by Katy Evans
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

***** I received an ARC copy for an honest review *****

But First I Just Want To Say Author Katy Evans THANK YOU For Introducing Me To This Amazing Characters And This Awesome, Wonderful Book.

O.M.G. Holy Smoke I don't have words to put on this review, I just have to say that I'm a fan of Katy Evans, when I read REAL the first time I was speechless, but now I don't even know what to say, I'm just more in love with MINE just like I love REAL, this is a beautiful, wonderful, story about real love, and it shows you how much one person can get to love the other, I have to say that while I was reading this book I was reading it with a Big Smile on my face I couldn't stop smiling.

In I this story you get to see much more of Brooke and Remington "Remy" Tate, love for each other, once again Brooke and Remy are back on tour for the underground fights, and Remy is determine to get his title back, but during that's happening they get to continue to struggle with some old demons that just don't want to see them happy, and trying to mess with Remy head, Brooke love to see him on the ring while he beats the crap out of other fighters, and like always Remy is always looking out to the crowed to make sure that she is watching him.

Brooke is so determined to stay by Remy side no matter what happened, and she make it loud and clear that she is not going no where and the she is his forever. I love Brooke attitude, and how she gets to calm the Lion of Remy down, love it how she express the way she feels for him, and how sometime she has to stay stronger for him.

I love it how they get to communicate picking out songs for each others. love the Hot Steamy Sex Scene between them.

This book is so full of surprises, and has some twist, I really love the characters but what I love the most is just how much you get to see how they are one big family that they have each others back.

I Have To Say This Is My Remington "Remy" Tate, He Has Blue Eyes Sometime They Are Black, He Has Tattoo, And He sport An Eight Pack, He Is Strong, Passionate, He Fights Hard And Loves Harder, He Knows What He Wants And He Get What He Wants, I love His F****** Attitude I Love It when He Is Both Way BLACK AND BLUE, And Acting Like And Angry Lion. Love it When He Gets All Dangerous, And I Love It The Most When He Gets POSSESSIVE. What Else Can You Ask For, He Has Everything.





I just hope that once you read this book that you get to enjoy it and love it as much as I did, and I cant wait to read more of this series.

Author Katy Evans I' Just Gone Say It Again THANK YOU For Introducing Me To This Amazing Characters And This Awesome, Wonderful Book.


Beside Your Heart Tour

 
Beside Your Heart

by Mary Whitney

Hosted by: Bare Naked Words

Tour Dates 14th – 18th  November

Goodreads 
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17909089-beside-your-heart?ac=1
 
 
"It's an emotional story that will take the reader back to those feelings that made the late teen years such a powerful time."

Late one night Nicki Johnson plays with emotional fire and Googles her high school love, only to find his name splashed across the British gossip columns. Back in his native England, Adam Kincaid is successful and dating a woman from an
aristocratic family like his own. With a career in politics, Nicki’s no slouch, but she knows Adam is living a world away from her life.

Yet there was a time he was no farther than the next locker. Nicki will never forget their year together in high school—the year of her sister’s death, the year her mother checked out. Adam helped Nicki through suffocating grief, and she led him
through a coming of age. Was it just high school, or was it something more?

***The sequel, Disclosure of the Heart, is due out on November 5
 
 


Author Bio   


Even before she graduated from law school, Mary Whitney knew she wasn’t cut out to be a real lawyer. Drawn to politics, she’s
spent her career as an organizer, lobbyist, and nonprofit executive. Nothing piques her interest more than a good political scandal or romance, and when she stumbled upon
writing, she put the two together. A born Midwesterner, naturalized Texan, and transient resident of Washington, D.C., Mary now lives in Northern California with her two daughters and real lawyer husband.



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Beside Your Heart (Beside Your Heart, #1)Beside Your Heart by Mary Whitney
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

***** I received an ARC copy for an honest review *****


This is a emotional story when I started reading it I did not think It was gone be this emotional. OMG this story had me crying, and feeling the same pain that the character was feeling, I really enjoy and felt in love with this book.

I love the characters, love how this is a real beautiful story, about how two teenager fall in love but to only realized that their time is limited and how they have to manage through everything including high school.

Nicki Johnson, she is a seventeen year old girl who been through so much, and is struggling to cope after the horrible accident that she had and the loss of her sister. she can even talk to her best friends about what happened that, but that all change when Adam Kincaid said hi to her from his locker that was right next to her. from their he would always tried to do something to make her happy.

I love how the story started in the present while Nicki came across some picture of Adam on the internet, that end up taking her back to the past to remembering how she and Adam felt in love. I am not gone say nothing more cause I don't want to give anything away, but I could say you really need to read this book and fall in love with it as much as I did.

Thank You Author Mary Whitney for introducing me to this heart warming story and to this awesome characters.


Sneak Peek The Boy From The Woods

 
THE BOY FROM THE WOODS
 
By Jen Minkman
 
Expected release: December 1, 2013
 
Young Adult Contemporary/Paranormal Romance 
   
Pre-order: iTunes | Kobo
 
 
  Julia has been in love with Michael for years. He’s the hottest guy in school, and she can’t believe her luck when they finally hit it off during Senior Prom. Her dream doesn’t last, though: after a few dates, he callously dumps her out of the blue. Summer vacation starts with Julia feeling heart-broken and miserable. But then she rescues Michael in the woods when he has a motorcycle accident in a heavy thunderstorm. From that point onward, her life is turned upside down. Michael has changed completely after the blow to the head that nearly killed him... and he wants her back. But why is he so different? And will she be able to trust him this time around? Can the boy who broke your heart ever win it back again..?


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Sneak Peek Excerpt
 
  Julia wiped the raindrops from her cheeks and trudged doggedly on. The rhythm of the song spurred her on and made her run faster, her heart beating wildly in her chest, tapping out an indeterminate fear.

Her hands clenched into fists and her eyes squinted against the rain falling from the sky. Only a few more minutes and she’d be home.

And then something caught her eye. She froze. In the light of a bright lightning strike setting the forest ablaze with cold fire, she saw there was someone lying on the ground. The black stain of a person on the edge of the path. A motorcycle on its side, smack in the middle of the forest trail.

Julia came to a standstill, her breath ragged. With trembling, slippery fingers, she fumbled with the player to turn off the music. She’d ended up at her favorite oak tree, the place suddenly looking sinister in the gloom. Her throat turned dry as she peered at the unconscious figure on the forest trail.
Step by step, she shuffled forward. Her eyes followed the tire tracks that the motorcycle had made in the muddy soil.

Julia’s heart stopped when she came even closer and recognized the Honda bike. No – this couldn’t be happening. She rushed the last few yards separating her from the boy on the ground. Julia fell down on her knees next to his lifeless body, her stomach filling with dread as she noticed the left side of his face was covered in blood. He’d hit his head on a sharp-edged rock. His head injury looked really, really bad. “Michael?” she whispered softly, putting a trembling hand on his forehead. “Can you hear me?” He lay very still, his lips almost blue in the macabre light of the thunderstorm flashing occasionally.

If only she could see whether he was still breathing! She couldn’t hear him breathe over the din of the rain and wind in the woods. With shaking hands, she grabbed her cell phone from her jacket pocket, setting the camera to permanent flash. The bright light illuminated Michael’s face, and tears welled up in her eyes. He looked so lifeless… so vulnerable.

 For just a moment, she forgot all about the horrible way he’d treated her. She’d wished for all kinds of nasty things to happen to him, but not this. “Michael,” she sobbed, her voice breaking. “Please, please wake up.” Her heart skipped a beat when he suddenly inhaled sharply.

She took his hand. Very slowly he opened his eyes, green like the forest leaves he was lying under, his pupils dilated and black like the treacherous darkness that had caused him to slip and fall in this severe weather. “Julia,” he whispered in a soft, yet clear voice.

She swallowed. Why did he sound so different? He pronounced her name with so much emotion that she could almost believe he was seeing her for the first time. “I’ll get help,” she managed to stutter before his eyes fell shut again, her words making him smile faintly.  


  About the Author
 
 


Jen Minkman (1978) was born in the Netherlands and has lived in Austria, Belgium and the UK during her studies. She learned how to read at the age of three and has never stopped reading since. Her favourite books to read are (YA) paranormal/fantasy, sci-fi, dystopian and romance, and this is reflected in the stories she writes. In her home country, she is a trade-published author of paranormal romance and chicklit. Across the border, she is a self-published author of poetry, paranormal romance and dystopian fiction. Her books are available in English, Dutch and Chinese. She currently resides in The Hague where she works and lives with her husband and two noisy zebra finches.  
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Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Heavenly Moments Book Tour







Title: Heavenly Moments
Author: Chris Pillot
Genre: Inspirational Poetry


Blurb:


Open these pages and take a look into the mind of a man full of inspiration and allow him to share his experiences with you one poem at a time.  Chris Pillot takes you on a spiritual journey into heavenly moments that give you a look into what true inspiration and faith are about.  With each poem you will see his beliefs, his love, and his own faith, flowing from one word to the next.

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