Following my heart, one book at a time...
We would like to announce Forever Romance as an official sponsor of Book Bash. Forever Romance is the publisher of SO many of our favorite authors including Kristen Ashley,Kelli Maine, JA Redmerski, Karina Halle and so many more!!
Thank you Forever Romance!
I would love to announce Atria Publishing as an official sponsor of Book Bash. Atria is the publisher of SO many of our favorite authors including Colleen Hoover, Jamie McGuire, Tina Reber, Raine Miller, and so many more!!
Thank you Atria!!
Congratulations to Mercedes! You have won the ARC.
K.A. Linde is giving away an advanced readers copy of her upcoming book, “Following Me” (expected release date: June 21st 2013). Plus, she lets us in on a few “behind the books” facts.
Synopsis:
“I knew you were running the first time I saw you…”
Devon didn’t have a game plan when she decided to leave St. Louis on a Chicago-bound train for the summer. Just a reason.
One she couldn’t share with anyone. Not Hadley, her best friend from college, who lets her stay in the guest bedroom; no questions asked. Or Brennan, the bartender at the local restaurant they frequent, who she actively tries to avoid. Or Garrett, Hadley’s boyfriend, who befriends her when she has no one else to turn to.
The 5th Wave
Friday night… I was all set to read one of my two top choices in my TBR list. I even had one of my Facebook friends choose my next one for me since she had read ’em both. Angsty, action packed romance, or psychological horror story of a kidnapped girl, and we all know how much I enjoy that kind of adrenaline rush. Both books are getting great responses, so either way, I was likely to come out a winner, right?
So what the heck happened, for me to go completely off of my book-radar and choose one that I had never heard of before (even though everyone else has ;)). It appears to be an extremely popular new release. It’s getting a TON of great reviews. But I hadn’t heard of it, simply because it wasn’t in the genre I normally troll for my next book-boyfriend. This one is Sci-fi YA, although my husband didn’t mention that part when he found it for me.
Mobster romance books!!! I haven’t read these yet, but it has been brought to my attention a few times…
LucyLou: the Saletti Blood series by Vana Vargas looks like a pretty good Mafia type romance. Hmmmm….
Michelle: Hi Maryse, I just finished the Saletti Blood books and even though they have violence, the mobster romance is so, so good.
About book #1:
Ayana and Novella Lachlan are identical twin sisters, living in Italy with their mother and military stepfather. Having never been separated their entire lives, they’re forced to make the choice of staying together or going their separate ways when their mother decides to return to the United States. Ayana, having met the Italian man of her dreams who happens to be the policeman she assaulted outside a nightclub, can’t bear the idea of leaving him and chooses to remain in Italy. Novella, thinking neither of them should stay, chooses to join their mother in Miami. Ayana warns her not to go. Paladio Hijuelos, fresh from a South American prison where he’s been beaten and tortured for three years, returns to Miami and finds the lovely and young Novella. He can’t help the obsession he has for her and begins to turn her entire world upside down. Vincenzo Saletti, from a powerful and feared family in Bologna, learns his baby brother is missing and must find what happened to him. What he finds is a tragedy, and the wrong girl caught up in it. Will his family give the order to end her life, or will they find a reason to spare her?
