Flirting on Ice by Veronica Forand & Susan Scott Shelley

Flirting on Ice

by Veronica Forand & Susan Scott Shelley

Genre: Romance

Publisher: Entangled Publishing

Release Date: November 17, 2014

Mr. Perfect has found his kind of trouble…

Professional hockey player Zac Elliott is in top form. He’s having the best season of his career, the local fans can’t get enough of him, and he’s in the middle of the most successful contract negotiations of his career. When the sexy little spark between Zac and the team owner’s daughter blazes to life, no matter how forbidden, he can’t resist.

Philanthropist Heather Ryan can’t keep her hands off of Zac. If her father finds out, it could end Zac’s career and ruin her reputation. What they share is deeply passionate and intensely private...until the press exposes their illicit relationship.

Now the fans have viciously turned against Heather, Zac’s game is faltering, and even his team has deserted him. The only way out of the penalty box is for Zac to play hockey like life— and love—depends on it...

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Veronica Forand is an attorney and an award-winning writer of romantic suspense.

She’s lived in Boston, London, Paris, Geneva, and Washington, DC and currently resides near Philadelphia. An avid traveler, she loves to roam across continents with her husband and kids in pursuit of skiing, scuba diving, and finding the perfect piece of chocolate.

Veronica is represented by Michelle Grajkowski of 3 Seas Literary Agency.

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Susan Scott Shelley is an award-winning author of contemporary romance and romantic suspense.

She currently resides outside Philadelphia with her very own Superhero and spends her days writing about tough heroes, smart heroines, and love being the strongest magic there is.

In addition to writing romances, she is also a professional voiceover artist. Her favorite things include running, sports, hard rock and old Hollywood movies.

Susan is represented by Michelle Grajkowski of 3 Seas Literary Agency.

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Review time!!!! The Ugly Princess by Henderson Smith and Brew by Davids Estes

The Ugly Princess: The Legend of the Winnowwood by Henderson Smith
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

"In the tradition of The Princess Bride (with somewhat less whimsy) and The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making, Smith's debut is a fairy tale in a new world.... The twists along this charming road make for an enchanting journey." -- Kirkus Reviews -- 


The Ugly Princess is an unusual fairytale that centers on an ugly, brave princess who teaches us the true meaning of beauty. Princess Olive is not like most princesses. She is the last generation of Winnowwood, an enchanted people with magical powers, dominion over nature, and the ability to communicate with animals. They are a people as ugly as they are extraordinary, and Olive is one of their ugliest. Her face is covered in bumps and warts, and her own father despises her for her ugly appearance. Olive has lived most of her life confined to the castle, away from the public eye. But when war breaks out between her kingdom and its neighbor and her father is captured, Olive courageously steps up to help him despite his cruelty. In transit, she is kidnapped by a band of highwaymen led by the mysterious Black Bart, and then kidnapped again by an even greater enemy force determined to overtake the entire mainland surrounding her father's kingdom. Will anyone come to rescue Olive? Does she have within herself what it takes to break free and save her people? A story that teaches us that there is more to a person than meets the eye, The Ugly Princess encourages young women to look within themselves to find beauty and power, and to open their eyes to their own magic. This coming-of-age must-read is based on the multi-award-winning screenplay of the same name. 


Review:

Would like to thank the author and The group Never Too Old for YA & NA for gifting me this book for a honest review.

I have been so busy these days that I havent requested a book through goodreads in a long time, but when I saw this book up for review I had to read it. I soon as I started reading I was hooked. I am a big fairy tale kind of girl, espically if there is some twits.

The main character is Olive the last of the Winnowwood and she is determined to stay a Winnowwood, she has refused to give up her powers like so many before her and even her mother and sister have given up their powers to be beautiful. While Olive is very powerful she is also very ugly, the more she uses her power the uglier she becomes. Even though she is saddened about being ugly she stays strong within. She loves her friends the animals so loyal to her.

She really gave it all, even while her father is so cruel to her she is there to save him and his kingdom.

This story was so very well written, a very refreshing read. Henderson Smith showed us something powerful that beauty is not what is on the outside but what is within ourselves. Olive may have been ugly on the outside but she was so beautiful within.

 I loved that we did not get your regular main character that she was different. Then there is Bart and from the start you cant help but like him and Bart wasnt you regular guy either he was not your good looking guy, but he was a great guy, he saw the beauty within Olive and stood by her all the way.

Omg!! and that ending.....

  I loved it. I actually guessed what was going to happened, but I loved it. Thank you again!!!

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Brew by David Estes
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Salem’s Revenge strikes without warning or mercy, ravaging the powerless human race under the forces of united gangs of witches, wizards, and warlocks. During the slaughter, Rhett Carter's foster parents and sister are killed, and his best friend and girlfriend are abducted by a gang of witches calling themselves the Necromancers, who deal in the dark magic of raising the dead. Rhett’s sword-wielding neighbor with a mysterious past saves Rhett from becoming another casualty of the massacre and teaches him the skills he needs to survive in this new world.

Rhett is broken, his normal high school life of book blogging and football playing shoved in a witch-apocalyptic blender. The only thing he has left is his burning desire for revenge. Armed with his new witch hunting skills and a loyal, magic powered dog named Hex, he sets out into the unknown with one mission: hunt and destroy those who took away everyone he ever loved. 

But Rhett isn’t just a witch hunter; he has secrets of his own that he has yet to discover, secrets that his enemies will stop at nothing to keep him from.

And discovering the truth about himself is the human race’s only hope.


Review

Hi, I would like to thank Never too old for YA & NA group and David Estes for gifting me this book for a honest review!!!

I have read Fire country and Moon Dwellers still trying to finish both series, but I loved both books, now David gives us another great series to read.

We are introduced to Rhett a high school student, he is nerdy, and on the football team. He is a sweet teddy bear of a guy, but gets bullied a lot, luckily he has his bestfriend Xave to defend him, both of them growing up in foster care. Rhett also has a girlfriend Beth, great gal, all three very close.

There has been news that witches and warlocks are real and are being put to death. Rhett is happy with his foster family and how things are going for him, then in one night everything is taken from him when the witches and warlocks attack back and we have a Witch Apocalypse.

 Rhett is saved that night by his neighbor Mr. Jackson and he trains Rhett how to defend himself against the witches. But Mr. Jackson has a lot of secrets and when Rhett finally pushes and gets some answers, he wasn't expecting that and decides to go on his own to get his revenge on the Necromancers the group of witches that killed his family and friends. On his journey he happens finds Laney and her younger sister Trish, both hiding out in a restaurant.

I loved Laney she is a smart mouth, who doesn't back down. She really cares for her sister and later for Rhett. There is Hex the dog and what a great companion he is. We really see Rhett change from how he was in the beginning before he lost everything, he hated violence, but now he is hard and can kick some serious butt. But he wasn't afraid to break down and have a good cry either.

So toward the end of the book we get some big shockers, some things are revealed!!!

We get a great start to a new series, very well written, great action, I was never bored. If you are fan of the Walking Dead like me :) then this book is right up your alley.


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THE HUMAN FORGED

By Anthony J Melchiorri

Science Fiction Thriller

In 2094, stealing a person’s identity is virtually impossible when every medical record, government document, and bank account is tied to their DNA via a personal Chip. Implanted beneath the skin, this microscopic device also augments people’s real world senses with a network of information, sending data and communications directly to the AR lenses in their eyes or the receivers in their ears. 

Nick, a former Army Specialist, is about to find out what happens when that vital connection is severed.

Venturing into an underground rave in an abandoned Estonian prison, Nick is encouraged to live life naturally, untethered by technology. But all is not as it seems. 

Nick is abducted and cut off from the rest of the world, including his fiancée. 

He unwittingly becomes embroiled in a biotechnological nightmare and embarks on a dangerous adventure to return home. 

The only person that might be able to help him is a man Nick never knew existed—his clone.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

I grew up in Normal, Illinois. After a regular (it’s hard, but I refuse to make a pun of it) childhood in Normal, I left for the University of Iowa to get a degree in Biomedical Engineering. But, I couldn’t give up reading and writing and there really wasn’t enough of that in engineering (unless you’re into thick, no-thrills books on thermodynamics and polymer physics). I picked up a second degree in English while working on the Biomedical Engineering degree and have since counted myself fortunate for making that decision. Iowa City, North America’s only official UNESCO City of Literature, is a thriving hotbed of writers and readers, with some of the best visiting the city for their renowned workshop or famous authors dropping by to read a story they’ve written and chat.  I had the opportunity to meet plenty of great writers and storytellers that inspired me to keep writing, even when I graduated and entered a doctoral program at the University of Maryland for Bioengineering.

Today, when I’m not writing and reading, I’m primarily working on tissue engineered blood vessels, gearing my work for children with congenital heart defects. I get to work with awesome 3D printing technologies and am always astounded by the rapidly advancing technologies coursing through the veins of universities and research settings. Much of my writing has been inspired by those advancements and my conversations with other researchers, scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, and many others interested in our evolving world.

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Author Interview:

1.      What career would you be doing if you weren’t an author?

Fortunately, I’m actually a bioengineer by day and an author by night and that’s exactly the career I’d be doing if I weren’t writing. Right now, I’m working on my doctorate in bioengineering and enjoying the laboratory research that entails. Medical research provides me fascinating avenue to explore the realms of science and apply my technical skills to helping improve medical therapies, especially medical devices. It also provides me tons of fun ideas to explore as an author!

2.      To see is your novel published and out in the world for readers everywhere to read is a great accomplishment. What would the next big accomplishment be for you? Seeing your novel turned into a movie/TV show? Making it on a highly ranked best sellers list?

This probably just a pipe dream, but every time I write, I imagine what that scene would look like on the big screen. I believe that thinking that way also inspires how I write. I try to include details and actions that paint a picture of a scene, while still leaving much to the reader’s imagination. And sometimes, I find myself listening to music and think, “Wow, that would be the perfect accompaniment to such-and-such scene!”  At this stage in my career, it’s so hard to imagine what it would be like to see your novel made into a movie, but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t dream about it!

3.      Do you ever get writer’s block? If you do, what do you do to get past it?

While I sometimes find myself fumbling for words, I’ve managed to prevent writer’s block by planning out my stories and organizing them far before I start actually writing them. However, I will oftentimes find that the events and characters decide to diverge significantly from where I intended the story to go, but I’m usually able to adjust the outline of my book or story accordingly. I also find that spending a few minutes after a long writing session to plan out my writing for the next day helps me to hit the ground running. This is extremely useful because I think that the hardest part of writing is usually just starting to write. But once I get that first sentence or two down, I can get back into the groove and churn out several pages at a time.

 

 

 

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THE DAMNED

By Jennifer Snyder

Mature Young Adult

Releasing December 2, 2014

Cover designed by Once Upon A Time

To Pre-order: Amazon | Google Play | Smashwords

Cole Porter knows his home life isn’t ideal, but when a situation arises and he’s forced to pack up and move on, he realizes it’s better to be in a position where you understand the ins and outs rather than to be tossed into the unknown.

Emory Montgomery is as close to perfect as she can possibly be—good grades, beautiful, poised, popular—but having it all isn’t always enough. Perfect has its drawbacks, and even the most flawless people crack under its pressure.

There are people who come into our lives for a reason, when everything else is shattered, burned, and bruised. Sometimes their purpose is clear, but often the smoke and the brokenness conceal the light.

THE DAMNED can be read as a standalone novel.

Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22886049-the-damned



                                              NEW COVER FOR THE UNLOVED

Mature Young Adult

Released July 2012

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Sometimes the love our heart needs to heal can be found in the familiar eyes of a childhood friend...

Julie Porter learned the hard way that trust is something which must be earned and not something to be given out lightly, those who say they love you are those who hold the power to hurt you most, and best friends can help you survive anything—until they move away.

Nick Owen knows a thing or two about a hard life. At a young age Nick learned how to take a hit and to make lemonade out of the lemons life tossed his way. Returning home after nearly two years of being away, all Nick cares about now is protecting his mom from the abusive hands of his father and catching up with his best friend—the girl who lived across the street, the girl he can’t seem to stop thinking about.

Finally reunited after two years apart, Nick and Julie are about to learn that age does nothing to protect you from life’s trials and tribulations, heartache and loss, but maybe together they’ll find a way to survive.

Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15763978-the-unloved

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About the Author

Jennifer Snyder lives in North Carolina were she spends most of her time writing New Adult and Young Adult Fiction, reading, and struggling to stay on top of housework. She is a tea lover with an obsession for Post-it notes and smooth writing pens. Jennifer lives with her husband and two children, who endure listening to songs that spur inspiration on repeat and tolerate her love for all paranormal, teenage-targeted TV shows.

SHATTERED SOUL was my debut novel and no, you haven’t seen the end of me yet…

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Cover Reveal Time!!!! Rise by Karina Bliss

Adult

Contemporary Rockstar Romance

Release:

January 28, 2015

“You have the ability to make controversial

characters sympathetic. Maybe I just want to be understood.”

Acclaimed literary biographer Elizabeth Winston writes about

long-dead heroes. So bad boy rock icon Zander Freedman couldn’t possibly tempt

her to write his memoir. Except the man is a mass of fascinating contradictions

- manipulative, honest, gifted, charismatic, morally ambiguous.

In short, everything she sought in a biography subject. When in

her life will she get another chance to work with a living legend? But saying

yes to one temptation soon leads to another.

Suddenly she’s having heated fantasies about her subject,

fantasies this blue-eyed-devil is only too willing to stoke. She’d thought

self-control was in her DNA, after all she grew up a minister’s daughter. She

thought wrong.

Outside your comfort zone is the only

place worth living...

Zander Freedman has been an outlier - many would say an outcast –

for most of his life. But there’s no disaster he can’t overcome, from the

break-up of his band to the fall-out on his reputation. His Resurrection Tour

is shaping up to be his greatest triumph - if his golden voice holds out.

Contracting a respected biographer is simply about creating more buzz;

Elizabeth's integrity the key to consolidating his legacy as one of rock’s

greats.

All the damn woman has to do is write down what he tells her. Not

make him think.

Or encourage the good guy struggling to get out. And certainly not

to fall in love for the first time in his life.

Turns out he is scared of something - being known.

Rise - a redemption story of a rock star going

straight(er) through the love of a good(ish) woman

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23512995-rise

About

the Author

New Zealander Karina Bliss’s debut, Mr Imperfect, won a Romantic Book of

the Year

 award in Australia, the first of eleven books published

through Harlequin SuperRomance. Her most recent release, A Prior

Engagement,

 was a Desert Island Keeper at likesbooks.com.

Her next release, Rise, is a single title, self-published

contemporary which continues the story of Zander Freedman, who first appeared

as a villain inKarina’s bestselling title, What the Librarian

Did –

 a book that made DearAuthor’s Best of the Year list

in 2010.Two of Karina’s books have also featured in Sizzling Book

Chats at SmartBitchesTrashyBooks.

Find out more at www.karinabliss.com