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Oct 26, 2015

Cover Reveal Blitz: “Driven Snow” (The Pennymaker Tales, #2) By Tara Lain


Driven Snow
(The Pennymaker Tales, #2)
by Tara Lain

Blurb: 
Young Snowden "Snow" Reynaldi is brilliant, beautiful, and alone. Though he's shy, weird, and tolerated by the NorCal University students because he's a renowned whiz at chess and helps put the school on the map, that doesn't keep him from dreaming of the object of his desires, Riley Prince, championship quarterback.

 When Riley needs a physics' tutor, Snow jumps at the chance, and their relationship heats up-but Riley has to come out of the jock closet to get anywhere. Meanwhile, Snow's one true friend and mentor, Professor Kingsley, marries a woman who secretly wants the chess tournament glory and money for herself. Soon after, the professor collapses and Snow finds himself underwater-literally. In a car!

Seven frat brothers from Grimm College rescue Snow just in time for his life to get even worse, and Snow discovers the one relationship he always wanted slipping away. With evil looming at every turn, Snow must survive if only to prove he's the fairest of them all and regain the trust of his handsome prince.





Release Date: 
November 25, 2015


Available for pre-order at 




Excerpt




Snow nodded. "Now, this is pretty basic, but we can get a lot more sophisticated." He scratched out a slightly more complex set of calculations, and Riley seemed absorbed.
 
"Man, this is so dope."

"Glad you like it."

"Wish Jenkins could make physics so interesting."

"You have to create the excitement for yourself. See the potential."

Riley looked up. "You make it exciting." He smiled slowly. "You make everything exciting."

"M-me?" Snow's brain froze.
 
"Yeah. Why do you think I come see you play all the time? It's like plugging into the solar system and catching the stars in my hand."

"S-stars are gas."

"The planets, then. I've wanted to tell you this for a while. I think you're-"

The sound of a key in the lock brought both their heads up.

Nooooooo.

Like some cosmic joke, the apartment door opened and beautiful, perky, perfect Courtney Taylor walked in. "Oh, hi. Are you two still studying? Oh my gosh, Snow, you must be magic or something. No one could ever get him to study physics before. I told him, 'You have to do it, baby. The team can't do without you. Find a way to learn this shit.' And what do you know? He found you. Amazing." She walked over, pushed Riley's head back, kissed him on the lips, and plopped down in his lap. "Did you learn a lot, baby?"
 
Her knee bumped Snow's thigh, and he leaped up like he'd been shot. "Oh gosh, look at the time. Better get back to work myself. Have to study for the tournament and all." Sweet God, he had to get out of there.

Riley stood Courtney on her feet and stepped over beside Snow. "When can you help me again? I've only got two weeks. I made so much progress today. I know you're busy, and I hate to ask, but could you please-"

"Yes, of course. Just text me, okay?" He ripped out the pages they'd been working on, shoved the notebooks into his backpack, and headed for the door. He seemed to be running from everyone these days. "Bye. Bye, uh, Courtney."

Outside the door, he clambered down the steep staircase and stopped at the bottom just to breathe.
 
What were you thinking, you idiot? That somehow his girlfriend had magically transformed into a teapot?
 
He started to tell me something. He said he's wanted to tell me for a long time.
 
What are you dreaming? That he suddenly quit being straight and is attracted to a wimpy little queen like you? Spare me.

Okay. Okay.

The door to Eudora's apartment flew open, and a hand emerged, holding a glass. "Hey, cutie. Have some water."

Like it was perfectly normal to accept water while standing in hallways, he grasped the glass and drank the liquid down. Amazing how much better he felt.

She took the empty glass. "Lessons for the day. Don't sell yourself short. And don't believe everything you see. Got it?"

"I… I guess so."

"Good." She patted his cheek, and then the door closed behind her. If a caterpillar suddenly appeared saying "Who are you?", he wouldn't be even slightly surprised.



About the Author



Tara Lain writes the Beautiful Boys of Romance in LGBT erotic romance novels that star her unique, charismatic heroes. Her first novel was published in January of 2011 and she's now somewhere around book 23. Her best­selling novels have garnered awards for Best Series, Best Contemporary Romance, Best Ménage, Best LGBT Romance, Best Gay Characters, and Tara has been named Best Writer of the Year in the LRC Awards. In her other job, Tara owns an advertising and public relations firm. She often does workshops on both author promotion and writing craft. 

She lives with her soul­mate husband and her soul­mate dog in Laguna Beach, California, a pretty seaside town where she sets a lot of her books. Passionate about diversity, justice, and new experiences, Tara says on her tombstone it will say "Yes"!


You can find Tara at

               




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Oct 19, 2015

SPOTLIGHT TOUR & CHARACTER BIO: Sinders and Ash (The Pennymaker Tales Series) by Tara Lain




Sinders and Ash
(The Pennymaker Tales Series)
by Tara Lain

Blurb: 
Housekeeper Mark Sintorella (Sinders) works diligently at a resort hotel while designing clothes anonymously, hoping to get into fashion school. Then his carefully planned life is upended with the arrival of Ashford Armitage, son of the fifth richest man in America—and the most beautiful guy Mark has ever seen. Ash must find a wife or he’ll lose his grandfather’s inheritance, and he settles on Bitsy Fanderel. But secretly Ash is gay, and the guy who cleans the fireplaces sets his heart ablaze.

Further stirring the pot is the little elf of a man, Carstairs Pennymaker, who has Mark wearing his own designs and masquerading as a girl to impress the fashion investors in the hotel. When the clock strikes twelve, two beautiful princesses line up for the wedding—but one isn’t a woman. Will the slipper fit? Only Mr. Pennymaker knows for sure.



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Character Bio - Sinders

Name: Mark Sintorella (Sinders) 

Age: 22 

Hair: Black and long; his mother loved his “crowning glory” so he keeps it long but hides it under a cap 

Occupation: Works in housekeeping for a resort hotel; aspiring fashion designer, trying to develop a portfolio so he can go to design school 

Family: He comes from a large Italian family. Only his mother supported him after he came out as gay and when she died, they threw him out and he lived on the streets


Motto: Work hard, stay anonymous, don’t expect much 

Passion: Falls hard for Aston Armitage, the billionaire’s son, the moment he sees him at the hotel 

Secret Weapon: Mr. Carstairs Pennymaker, his unexpected mentor and “fairy godmother”








About the Author



Tara Lain writes the Beautiful Boys of Romance in LGBT erotic romance novels that star her unique, charismatic heroes. Her first novel was published in January of 2011 and she’s now somewhere around book 23. Her best­selling novels have garnered awards for Best Series, Best Contemporary Romance, Best Ménage, Best LGBT Romance, Best Gay Characters, and Tara has been named Best Writer of the Year in the LRC Awards. In her other job, Tara owns an advertising and public relations firm. She often does workshops on both author promotion and writing craft. 

She lives with her soul­mate husband and her soul­mate dog in Laguna Beach, California, a pretty seaside town where she sets a lot of her books. Passionate about diversity, justice, and new experiences, Tara says on her tombstone it will say “Yes”!


You can find Tara at

               



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Jul 20, 2015

SPOTLIGHT TOUR & GIVEAWAY: Desecrated Beauty (Twisted Fairy Tales, #1) By Kyleigh Castronaro



Desecrated Beauty
(Twisted Fairy Tales, Book 1)
by Kyleigh Castronaro

Genre: Paranormal Romance
Date of Publication: July 6th
Number of pages: approx. 180
Word Count: 58,883
Cover Artist: Kyleigh Castronaro

Book Description: 

Once upon a time, that’s how most of these stories start. But this isn’t one of those stories… Sure, it has the heroine and the hero but they’re not as you would expect them. Both of them have a bloodlust, one different from the other. 

Quill was born and raised as a cold killer who takes enjoyment from the kill. Nero is the son of a Viking and a 1500-year-old vampire whose never been denied his pleasures before. 

Until he meets Quill. He forces her to exchange her life for Rose’s, his indentured servant and Quill’s little sister. Drawn by her fearlessness and strength he has to have her but such a woman cannot be possessed. Both must learn to give up their carefully afforded control to let the other in. Only then may they have their happily forever after.

Sink your teeth into this dystopic re-telling of Beauty and the Beast and satiate your booklust. 



Excerpt



“I thought I might choke and die on your blood, but because I’ve already ingested some I would come back to life… like you.” She looked up at, her eyes wide with the panic that had gripped her before looking down at her feet again and taking a deep breath. She hated feeling vulnerable in front of him like this. But most importantly she hated not having all the answers like he seemingly did. 

“The process is a little more complicated than that, but you would be temporarily held in a state between beings until I decided to claim you.”

“And would you have?” She looked up, her voice quiet as she spoke. There was an underlying fear in her question. A part of her was repulsed by the idea and yet the rest of her longed to know he would have her. She needed to know he would keep her even if she weren't the feisty human woman he claimed he was so intrigued by. When had she decided that his opinion of her was that important? When had she decided at all to allow a man to determine her fate? 

Nero looked back at her unflinchingly as he moved closer to her, reaching out and tracing her lips gently before bringing his hand up along her jaw toward her ear. His fingers toyed with the hair tucked behind her ear before he shook his head at her.

“I would have to, I’m afraid to admit.”

She stared back at him in surprise, unsure of what she was supposed to say. She was far too distracted by his lingering fingers and how they gently caressed her skin, moving along it and forcing it to blossom into gooseflesh. 

Bringing herself back to the moment she swallowed hard, forcing some kind of sound from her lungs, “why?”

“Because you have enraptured me in the most illogical way. Never before has a human woman been able to hold my attention for so long. Something about you calls to me like a familiar lullaby I once knew.” He paused, seeming to gather his thoughts. “My life will last forever but trifling with a mortal can feel like an eternity in hell. Humans by nature are far too slow, uncultured, undomesticated and someone my age doesn’t have the time to break something like that. But then I met you… You, curious you, who fights back, who questions me, who doesn’t want me in the way all women who have ever looked at me have. I don’t understand it, but I want to and worst of all I want you in a way I have never wanted anyone. I don’t need others, but I need you. I feel myself longing for it and whether it would be against your will or not I would change you because I cannot live without you.”

“One day you will have to.” She whispered quietly, staring at him with a bewilderment he had grown so accustomed to.

“Not today.” He whispered back, his voice much lower than hers as he leaned in and caught her lips with his. It was a bruising kiss that she felt all the way down into her toes. It ached in a way that touched her heart and soul. She felt it flow through all her veins and consume her like a fire.



About the Author:

Kyleigh Castronaro is the author of the debut series Grace of Gods. She is a self-published author who tackles many of her projects entirely on her own. She designed the cover of her first novel, self-edited and prepared all formats of the book for publication. Originally from Milton, Ontario, she currently lives in Nottingham, England with her husband and their adorable miniature dachshund Hera.

When not writing Kyleigh enjoys spiritual development, crafting, travelling, spending time in nature, going to the movies, cooking and baking (and then eating), working on self-improvement and spending time with friends and family.

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