Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill at Breaking The Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases we're eagerly anticipating. In my case not so patiently waiting for the new releases, which I lack.
This weeks book has a beautiful cover and sounds amazing. My Choice this week is
Sybella has always been the darkest of Death’s daughters, trained at the convent of Saint Mortain to serve as his justice. But she has a new mission now. In a desperate bid to keep her two youngest sisters safe from the family that nearly destroyed them all, she agrees to accompany the duchess to France, where they quickly find themselves surrounded by enemies. Their one ray of hope is Sybella’s fellow novitiates, disguised and hidden deep in the French court years ago by the convent—provided Sybella can find them. Genevieve has been undercover for so many years, she struggles to remember who she is or what she’s supposed to be fighting for. Her only solace is a hidden prisoner who appears all but forgotten by his guards. When tragedy strikes, she has no choice but to take matters into her own hands—even if it means ignoring the long awaited orders from the convent. As Sybella and Gen’s paths draw ever closer, the fate of everything they hold sacred rests on a knife’s edge. Will they find each other in time, or will their worlds collide, destroying everything they care about?
Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill at Breaking The Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases we're eagerly anticipating. In my case not so patiently waiting for the new releases, which I lack.
This weeks book has a beautiful cover and sounds amazing. My Choice this week is
Death wasn’t the end, it was only the beginning… A divided nation. Four Queens. A ruthless pickpocket. A noble messenger. And the murders that unite them. Get in quick, get out quicker. These are the words Keralie Corrington lives by as the preeminent dipper in the Concord, the central area uniting the four quadrants of Quadara. She steals under the guidance of her mentor Mackiel, who runs a black market selling their bounty to buyers desperate for what they can’t get in their own quarter. For in the nation of Quadara, each quarter is strictly divided from the other. Four queens rule together, one from each region: Toria: the intellectual quarter that values education and ambition Ludia: the pleasure quarter that values celebration, passion, and entertainment Archia: the agricultural quarter that values simplicity and nature Eonia: the futurist quarter that values technology, stoicism and harmonious community When Keralie intercepts a comm disk coming from the House of Concord, what seems like a standard job goes horribly wrong. Upon watching the comm disks, Keralie sees all four queens murdered in four brutal ways. Hoping that discovering the intended recipient will reveal the culprit – information that is bound to be valuable bartering material with the palace – Keralie teams up with Varin Bollt, the Eonist messenger she stole from, to complete Varin’s original job and see where it takes them.
I've been in a little bit of a reading funk for a while. I do have some amazing books on my list I can't wait to read, and I'm hoping to get to them this winter. I'm currently doing the Winter Coyer reading challenge. So my list today is all books on my current reading list that fall under the guidelines for coyer.
7. Queen Takes Knight by Joely Sue Burkhart - I've been wanting to start this vampire Reverse harem picked it up a while back and think it's perfect for my winter reading list.
Do you listen to music while you are writing your blog posts? If so, what genre of music do you listen to?
Answer: Yes, I tend to listen to punk covers or listen to the tv while I blog. I find it harder to focus when it's quiet. I think a lot of that is due to the fact that the house is always loud. Between dogs and kids, it's hard to find any quiet except in the am before anyone wakes up and it's just to quiet at that point. One of my favorites bands to listen to is Our Last Night. They have a collection of cover songs that they have done as well as original music. They have so many great ones but this one is my favorite. I have them all on my playlist so when I'm in the mood for music I tend to listen to them first.
Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill at Breaking The Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases we're eagerly anticipating. In my case not so patiently waiting for the new releases, which I lack.
This weeks book has a beautiful cover and sounds amazing. My Choice this week is Girls with Sharp Sticks
The Girls of Innovations Academy are beautiful and well-behaved—it says so on their report cards. Under the watchful gaze of their Guardians, the all-girl boarding school offers an array of studies and activities, from “Growing a Beautiful and Prosperous Garden” to “Art Appreciation” and “Interior Design.” The girls learn to be the best society has to offer. Absent is the difficult math coursework, or the unnecessary sciences or current events. They are obedient young ladies, free from arrogance or defiance. Until Mena starts to realize that their carefully controlled existence may not be quite as it appears.
As Mena and her friends begin to uncover the dark secrets of what’s actually happening there—and who they really are—the girls of Innovations will find out what they are truly capable of. Because some of the prettiest flowers have the sharpest thorns.
Created by Tynga's Reviews Stacking the Shelves is a weekly post that we share our newly added books and swag. Just a couple off my wishlist this week.
Genre: Romantic Suspense Release Date: November 25, 2018
Blurb
VINCENT ACERBI
His name brings bile to my throat. Not because he ordered the hit on my life.
The man makes me sick, makes fire course through my veins for all the damage
he’s done to Drago—his son, my love, the father of my children.
Sins may be committed in the name of justice—because I will save my future
husband. I will save my family from the devil they share DNA with. And I will
save my badge from the disgrace placed upon it.
In the end, he will know he crossed the wrong woman. I will bring that man to
his knees if it’s the last thing I do.
N. E. Henderson is the author of sexy, contemporary romance.
When she isn’t writing, you can find her reading some form of romance or in her
Maverick, playing in the dirt.
Enter into the violent world of the Cartel,
where death and romance go hand in hand. AJ Adams novels are all self-standing
and so you need not read them all - although it would be awesome if you did!
Title:The Bonus Series: Zeta Cartel #1
Author: AJ Adams
Genre: Dark Romance
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Blurb
Chloe is a seasoned
drug courier who finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time. Facing a
lingering and painful death at the hands of the Zeta cartel, Mexico’s most
brutal organised crime syndicate, she persuades their enforcer to claim
her.
Ex marine and dark ops expert Kyle Suarez is chief enforcer for the Zeta
cartel. Ruthlessly efficient, he is feared by his enemies. When he claims
Chloe, he simply expects to enjoy a well-deserved and disposable bonus.
Has Chloe made a huge mistake, or will her choice prove her salvation - and
his?
Warning: This bad boy dark romance contains explicit scenes of dubious consent,
graphic violence and sex. It is for adults only.
“You’re the big boss.” She looked up at me and smiled. She
was dressed in a cheap cotton shirt and jeans that should be on the burn pile,
but that smile was pure gold. This girl had guts.
She’d heard about our policy protecting bystanders. Of course it doesn’t apply
to anyone whose eyewitness testimony can put me in a courtroom. Well, try to
put me in a courtroom. In Mexico nobody would dare accuse me, and I’ve enough
resources in England to guarantee a police investigation would come to nothing,
but it’s not my style to take chances. Solitaire would be going into the ground
along with Escamilla.
“Mr Vazquez,” Solitaire gave me her best smile. “I don’t expect something for
nothing.” She dropped her voice. “You’d like me,” she whispered. “I’ve heard
about you. We’re the same.”
“Are we?”
“Yes, I can make you very happy.” She brushed my hand over her cheek and then
kissed my palm. “I’m a very good girl,” she said quietly. “Unless you prefer a
naughty one?”
She sucked my thumb, and I was instantly rock hard.
----------------------------
When cartel boss Arturo Vazquez discovers his girlfriend Gina is a DEA rat and
his deputy Escamilla is staging a take-over, Arturo fixes his problems by
killing everyone - except for Solitaire, Escamilla’s unwilling mistress.
Solitaire is intelligent, tough, and shares Arturo’s interest in BDSM. Arturo
falls head over heels but someone is leaking information - and the evidence
point at Solitaire.
Songbird is a complete and self standing novel in the Zeta series. Warning:
This bad boy dark romance contains explicit scenes of dubious consent, graphic
violence and strong language. It is for adults only.
I could’ve strangled her. She knew it too because she
stepped away quickly. “Touch me and I’ll have you!” she snarled.
“Bruja mala leche! What the fuck do you think you’re playing at! You can’t push
me around!”
“Sure I can.” Her eyes were slate grey, the same colour as the sky, and just as
cold. “I need help, and you’re going to give it.”
“What the hell are you talking about?”
“I’ve got a situation. I need someone who isn’t afraid of murder and mayhem.”
I should have charmed her, offered to help and maybe it would have settled it,
but I was too mad to even consider it. “Help you? Over my dead body!”
She shrugged. “We can do it that way, too.” She took out her phone. “I’ll call
you soon, hopefully within the hour. If you still refuse, I call Smith.” The
eyes were hard. “I’d rather not shop you, because I hate that bastard, but I
will if you make me.”
I gave her my number. I mean, I wanted to kill her, but in London they notice
things like bodies in the street. Especially if you’re careless enough to do it
in broad daylight next to a cop shop.
Quique is having a bad time. Back in Mexico his marriage has fallen apart and
his wife has made him a laughing stock by cheating on him. Now he’s in London
and finding himself out of his depth with a complex commercial deal. To make
things worse, Natalia Truelove, a chef and pub manager, is blackmailing him.
Quique is ready to commit murder and he’s pretty sure who his first victim will
be.
Dirty Dealings is a self standing and complete novel in the Zeta cartel series.
Warning: This bad boy romance contains strong adult language and themes as well
as graphic violence and fully depicted love scenes. It is for adults only.
Rip Marston is a merciless killing machine. After a decade
of hunting his prey, Rip joins the Zetas. The job offers protection as he
practices his dark arts, but the Cartel are wary of the monster in their
midst.
Finding a badly beaten unconscious girl, Rip sees an opportunity. Posing as her
saviour will please the cartel - and provide him with his very own helpless
captive.
Isabella Maria Franco is beautiful, wilful and used to making hard choices.
Having grown up in the comfortable but lethal embrace of the Gulf cartel, she
rejected a life of violence. But when a dark presence from her past returns,
her world falls apart.
Betrayed and beaten, she escapes, only to find herself in a living nightmare.
Surrounded by her enemies, one man stands between her and death. Terrified by
her sadistic captor, she has little choice but to submit.
But embracing his darkness leads to consequences neither anticipated.
WARNING: This bad boy dark romance contains dubious consent, graphic violence,
sex and probably every trigger you can think of. It is for adults only.
AJ Adams
married her best friend and moved to the tropics where they are living their
own Happily Ever After. She believes writing is not so much a passion as an
obsession.
She writes
twisted stories of love, mayhem, and murder as AJ Adams and sweet romance novels
with strong women and very hunky men as Ellen Whyte, her IRL name.
When she's
not writing, she's cooking and gossiping with her friends. She is also personal
maid to rescue cats Target, Guido and Swooner.
The thought
of Jaime moving to Los Angeles both unnerved and thrilled me. “Won’t you be
lonely living all the way out here in a big house all by yourself?”
He remained
silent for a long time, staring out to the Pacific. Then, without warning, he
spun me around so that we were face-to-face, just a breath apart. He lifted his
sunglasses on top of his head, and his eyes, the color of the late afternoon
sea, gazed deep into mine. My heart hammered as he tipped up my chin.
“I don’t
plan on living here alone. I’m tired of living in a hotel where people come and
go. I’m looking for someone special to share my life with…and I may have found
her.”
My heart
pounded. My voice abandoned me. Words were trapped in my throat.
“Gloria,
I’ve never had a relationship before. I’ve fucked a lot of women, but none of
them has meant a thing to me. They’re just mindless, faceless fucks. You’re
different, angel. I can never get your face out of my head. When I’m away from
you, all I want is to be with you. And when I’m with you, I can’t get enough of
you. I want to breathe the air you breathe and kiss the ground you walk on. I
want to go to sleep with you in my arms and wake up to you on my chest. And I
want to fuck you every way I know how. Make you fall apart and then put you
back together. Over and over. There will never be enough ways to show you how I
feel about you. Or words to tell you.”
He paused
and inhaled deeply. My blood was ringing in my ears as he exhaled and softly
said, “Gloria, you make me fall apart too.”
This was
all too much for me. My emotions were in turmoil, and my mind was in meltdown.
I gripped his shoulders before my knees gave out. Tears were forming in my
eyes… and at last words. “Jaime, are you saying you want a real relationship
with me?” You love me?
He
nervously played with my braid. “Yeah, angel, that’s what I’m trying to say. I
guess it’s not my best pitch. I don’t do relationships well.”
I quirked a
little smile. “Neither do I.”
He looked straight
into my eyes. “Do you want to give it a try?”
My fingers
toyed with his toi et moi ring. “An official you and me?”
“Yeah…Well?”
My mind was
spinning and my heart was thudding. Jesus Christ. Was I ready for a
relationship with this beautiful, romantic, sexy god? Could I handle it? The
timing couldn’t be worse with the stock crisis and my job at stake. It might
work. It might not. And there was still the long distance factor to deal with.
Skyping sex did not make for a relationship. Was I just setting myself up to
get hurt? He had a fucked a lot of women. And I was just one of them. I mean,
he hadn’t said he loved me. And hell, I’d only known him for a little over a
week though it felt like a lifetime.
Jaime’s
sultry voice brought my mental ramblings to a halt. He tugged on my braid.
“Come on, angel. The suspense is fucking killing me.”
“Yes,” I
finally breathed. “But there’s got to be rules. Like—”
Cupping my
face, he cut me off. “Gloria, there’s only one rule. Don’t ever leave me. The
rest are meant to be broken.” On the loud crash of a wave, his lips crashed
onto mine. Every part of me melted into him as he wrapped me in his arms and
claimed my mouth with his. Oh, the power of a kiss! The power of this man!
Nothing else existed. Our tongues twirled and swirled, dancing in unison to the
music of the sea. His hard body pressed into mine, arousing every erotic fiber
of my being.
Nelle
L’Amour is a NEW YORK TIMES
and USA TODAY Bestselling
Author who lives in Los Angeles with her Prince Charming-ish husband, twin
college-aged princesses, and a bevy of royal pain-in-the-butt pets. A former
executive in the entertainment industry with a prestigious Humanitus Award to
her credit, she gave up playing with Barbies a long time ago but still enjoys
playing with toys with her husband. While she writes in her PJs, she loves to
get dressed up and pretend she’s Hollywood royalty. She writes juicy stories
with characters that will make you both laugh and cry and stay in your heart
forever
