UNBEARABLE by Shantel Tessier: COVER REVEAL

Synopsis

Grief.
How do you survive the loss of a mother you thought didn't love you...until it was too late?

Forgiveness.
How do you forgive the person who hurt you the most?

Fear.
How do you survive the person who won’t let you go?

Jealousy.
How can your heart continue to trust the person you thought you knew?

Betrayal.
How many secrets are too many?

Lust.
How can you say no, when your body screams yes?

Passion.
How can you deny a love that has no boundaries?

Slade and Samantha's story continues...

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About the Author

Shantel is a Texas born girl who now lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma with her high school sweetheart, and their three year old little princess. She considers herself extremely lucky to be a stay at home wife and mother. When she’s not reading or writing, she spends her time with family and friends.

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SNEAK PEEK: THE BOY FROM THE WOODS by Jen Minkman

SNEAK PEEK into…

THE BOY FROM THE WOODS

By Jen Minkman

Expected release: December 1, 2013

Young Adult Contemporary/Paranormal Romance

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Synopsis

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..?

 

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. 

  

FOREVER YOUNG by Sawyer Bennett: 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

Book Description:

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 ForeverLand 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.

Review:

This book was such a different read from what I’m used to reading by Sawyer Bennett, but it certainly didn’t disappoint. Think Vampire Academy meets The Mortal Instruments. That’s right… sounds amazing already doesn’t it!

I will admit, I’m always a little hesitant to read books in different genres by the same author. I know how that sounds, but I think you have to be a really amazing author to be successful in more than one genre. Well, Ms. Bennett is clearly amazing! I absolutely adored her OFF series, but Forever Young was a breather from the sexual intensity of the OFF series. Forever Young is more of a YA, with some lustful musings of course (hello, teenager!), and I expect the sexual aspect to probably intensify as the series progresses. The romance aspect of this book is more on the sweet and sensitive side with a young heroine just discovering herself in so many ways and a considerate, mostly level-headed, gentleman type love interest.

Like many of Bennett’s characters, Charlie comes from a pretty screwed up background. She witnessed a brutal crime at a young age, and her life has been shaped by her experience. The ForeverLand Alliance provides her with an opportunity that her past has shaped her for. Unfortunately for Charlie, there are some pretty bad things that come along with the good.

Bennett did a wonderful job creating the world that Forever Young takes place in. The history of Semper Terra is detailed enough for the reader to be satisfied while leaving just enough to the imagination. The Academy is intriguing and the high school type drama that comes with such an adult type of training balances out very well. The characters are well developed with plenty of room to grow throughout the series.

I loved this book, and I am very much looking forward to more. More ForeverLand, more Charlie, and certainly more Caiden (that would be the gentlemanly hottie of the book). If you’ve loved Sawyer Bennett’s other books, but are hesitant to pick up Forever Young because of the genre change, I strongly recommend it. I mean, come on, has she ever let readers down before? You won’t be sorry, and you just might find a new book boyfriend in Caiden.

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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.

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