Cover Reveal + Giveaway: The Heart by Rachel Higginson

I haven't had the chance to read this series yet, so I'm not even sure what it's mostly about, what I do know is that I hear pretty good things about it and it looks like it might be something that I would enjoy. So, I decided to go ahead and share this with you guys today,  because I like challenging myself to read new-to-me series/books and checking out those authors. That's a lot about what this year in reading signifies for me here on the blog and will continue to reflect, because I want to grow as reader and break out from comfort zones, be a little more diverse, and just grow up and grow into my reading. 

That will mean sharing books, cover reveals, and other things with you from time to time that I might not know much about, but am willing to definitely take the time to find out or at least read the first book in the series is like since it is being offered for free on Amazon right now and I definitely encourage you to take the plunge along with me. 

There's also an awesome giveaway going on for a paperback for a copy of The Rush and The Fall by Rachel Higginson. So, you definitely don't want to miss out on that! 

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The Heart will be released on March 26th!

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Ivy Pierce has been to Hades and back trying to escape Nix and his evil plans to use her. After a failed attempt to save her loved ones, she was forced to leave her friends, her sister and the boy she had fallen in love with, Ryder Sutton.

And yet Olympus isn’t finished with her yet.

As Nix plots to overthrow the legendary mountain, Ivy is pulled back into the twisted, manipulative world of the Greek pantheon. Thrust into the middle of an ancient feud, Ivy will learn quickly that Nix is not the only threat to her freedom and not the only god interested in using her unique skillset to resurrect the Age of Olympus.

In a deadly game between two powerful factions of Greek gods, Ivy will have to battle both fate and the Fates in order to secure her future once and for all. She will discover new powers, fight for her friends’ lives and convince the only boy she has ever loved that he can trust her again.

In the end, she’ll learn the hardest lesson of all. This isn’t a fable or a Greek myth, her life is a love story.

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Lila Felix, Author of Burden and The Love & Skate Series -- This is a magnificent ride on the mythological side--but with an exciting contemporary flare. Rachel nailed it with The Siren Series.

Mandy from I Read Indie book blog -- It is a book that keeps your interest and eager to find its secrets. Secrets that are well worth the wait. I am absolutely anticipating book 2.

A life not her own—A future already decided.

Every facet of Ivy Pierce’s life is meticulously planned out and plotted. Cynical and jaded by sixteen, Ivy’s only hope is to escape the legacy she was born into.

She has a plan, a carefully thought out, feasible plan. She just has to play by the rules until everything falls into place. Unfortunately as predictable as her life can be, she never sees Ryder Sutton coming. He tumbles into her life unimpressed and untouched by her and the life she lives. He’s an enigma to her. A gorgeous, frustrating, sincere mystery and a complete phenomenon in the ugly world she lives in.

What blooms between them is a fiercely intense attraction that cannot be ignored. Even though they would both be better off without each other—Even if both their lives depend on staying apart.

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About Rachel Higginson

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Rachel Higginson is the creator of The Star-Crossed Series, Love & Decay Novella Series, The Starbright Series, The Siren Series, Bet on Us and the soon to be released, The Five Stages of Falling in Love! She is also the co-creator of the podcast "Zach & Rachel Take Over the World."

She was born and raised in Nebraska, and spent her college years traveling the world. She fell in love with Eastern Europe, Paris, Indian Food and the beautiful beaches of Sri Lanka, but came back home to marry her high school sweetheart. Now she spends her days raising four amazing kids. In the few spare moments she has to herself, she is either reading for hours on end or writing her own stories.

Release Day Blitz: City In Embers by Stacey Marie Brown

Alright guys, I've got an exciting book that I wanted to share with you today, it's a paranormal New Adult romance novel, that looks like it's going to be pretty amazing and kind of hot! 

Gah! Look at that cover?! It's gorgeous and smoldering, isn't it? Definitely an eye catcher for me and totally part of the reason I'm not excited to read this book. Plus, it looks like it's got a kickass tough as nails heroine, and there's nothing better than that.

Also, it's not another contemporary romance, either. Score! (Not that there's anything wrong with them, but I'm just glad to see NA branching out a little bit more.) 

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Zoey Daniels has been tossed from foster home to foster home, where she grows up fast and tough. When she is placed in her “last-chance” home, she finds a reason to stay and turn her life around: her foster sister, Lexie, who is paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair. Zoey will do anything to keep her safe.

After high school, Zoey is hired by a special government agency, the Department of Molecular Genetics (DMG), where she meets the other reason to remain: Daniel, her co-worker. The man she loves.

But there is something unique about Zoey. She can see fae. Because of this, the DMG hires her to work as a Collector: catching, researching, testing, and using the fae to save human lives. The work never registers on her sympathy radar. She was raised to think of fae as beasts that feed on humans and want to destroy them.

When devastation hits Seattle, Zoey's whole world is turned upside down. The electric storm connects her to a ruthless fae, a Wanderer named Ryker, whose dealings expose them to even more trouble and danger. They embark on a journey, running and hiding from both the government and fae, both of which threaten their lives and those they love.

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Stacey Marie Brown is a lover of hot fictional bad boys and sarcastic heroines who kick butt. She also enjoys books, travel, TV shows, hiking, writing, design, and archery. Stacey swears she is part gypsy, being lucky enough to live and travel all over the world.

She grew up in Northern California, where she ran around on her family's farm, raising animals, riding horses, playing flashlight tag, and turning hay bales into cool forts. She volunteers helping animals and is eco-friendly. She feels all animals, people, and environment should be treated kindly.

Release Day Blitz: Free Fall (Loving Summer-Donovan Brothers #6) by Kailin Gow

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Although Summer has made her choice, the danger is far from over. In order to protect everyone he loves, Nat must continue living with his new identity for however long it takes, even if that means several years later.

Will the love he feels for Summer still last, even when he is no longer the Nat Donovan he used to be?

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Nat’s Letter to Summer

My Perfect Summer,

It’s been years since we’ve seen each other. I know since I left my intel tells me you have finished college, gone unto med school, and even started your own practice in Los Angeles. I am so proud of you, of all your accomplishments, and how you’ve become the woman I’ve always dreamed you would be. It makes my decision to leave years ago worth it hearing how you’re fulfilling your destiny and living life to the fullest. The only regret I have is feeling as though I’ve missed out on so much of your life. I left trusting that my good-for-nothing little brother Drew would take good care of you, and from this wedding invitation in my hand from both of you, I trust that he has.

I am honored to be the best man at your wedding. I will be there next week at Aunt Sookie’s Malibu Pad for the rehearsals. You two can count on me to be there for both of you.

Love Always,

Your Nat in Shining Armor 

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Summer has always looked forward to spending her summers at her Aunt's beach house with the Donovans. To her, summers at Aunt Sookie's beach house was magical, especially getting to spend time with the Donovans - her best friend Rachel and Rachel's brothers Nathaniel, and Drew. Here at Aunt Sookie's beach house, they can be anyone and anything they dreamed. For Summer, she had always wished to become as pretty as Rachel and for her brothers to think of her as more than Rachel's friend. For Nat and Drew, summers at Aunt Sookie's beach house meant fun and escape, a place where they go to with their mom and sister for the summer, away from city life. They never thought this summer would be different. They never thought things would change as much as they did...and it all began with them falling for and loving Summer.

About Kailin Gow

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Kailin Gow's life is sometimes more fascinating and stranger than fiction, which is being chronicled in a feature film based on a treatment optioned and in development for a release date of 2018. 

She is noted as an indie pioneer, as one of the first to publish in 2001. Breaking stereotypes, her books has crossed traditional and indie lines, gaining recognition in schools and libraries, as well as the indie community. Her action adventure young adult fantasy series, The Frost Series, an ALA YALSA Reader's Choice Nominated book series - had been optioned by an international film company and is currently in development as a game and a film at The Frost Series. Five of her fantasy/action adventure series have been optioned to be made into worldwide games.

She resides in the American West with her husband and daughter, but had lived for a decade in Texas, and briefly in England. Besides being a full-time author, she volunteers for many organizations, is active in church helping build homes for the homeless and visit orphanages. A voracious reader, when she is not writing, she loves reading an entire series in one sitting! She spends way too much time on Facebook than she is supposed to at Facebook, but loves meeting new people from all walks of life. She has over 30 Series, written under Kailin Gow, and more under her middle grade, women's fiction, and mystery pen names.

Promo Blitz + Giveaway featuring Edge by Jamie McGuire

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Reveca Beauregard had long ago been dubbed the Queen of Darkness by the dead. To the living she was known as the Pentacle Daughter, the only acknowledged female member of the Pentacle Sons MC, the most lethal biker correlation known to exist. She was rumored to be a witch. That rumor, of course, was true.

New Orleans was her home, at the Beauregard Boneyard, the safe haven the Club resided within. Only those in the inner circle were as Reveca was—immortal. To be as such you had to choose the life, and the life had to choose you. For either to occur, death came first.

Those deaths came from wars the Sons fought with both the mortal and immortal worlds, as they bent the decrees of the modern lawmen and the paranormal world at large who had no
hope of opposing the dark splendor of their vengeance.

Presently, the mysterious murder of a mortal coupled with the cold-blooded slaying of Reveca’s close friend has led the lawmen to place their corrupt accusations upon the Sons. A
forced barter with a Lord of Death has landed the Club with a soul that is set to rock the foundation the Sons as a whole stand upon.

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Jamie Magee

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Jamie Magee has always believed that each of us have a defining gift that sets us apart from the rest of the world, she has always envied those who have known from their first breath what their gift was. Not knowing hers, she began a career in the fast paced world of business. Raising a young family, and competing to rise higher in that field would drive some to the point of insanity, but she always found a moment of escape in a passing daydream. Her imagination would take her to places she’d never been, introduce her to people she’s never known. Insight, her debuting novel, is a result of that powerful imagination. Today, she is grateful that not knowing what defined her, led her on a path of discovery that would always be a part of her.

Eventide Release Day Blitz featuring Kristen Day

I'm actually excited to be part of the Eventide Release Day Blitz and get to share this lovely book with you guys. It's the fifth book in the Daughters of the Sea series and looks like it's going to be a lot of fun to read. I love fantasy type novels or novellas, which is what this one is, and I've been wanting to get into this series. This book is coming out November 4th, so definitely mark your calendars if this is the kind of series you crave.

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The age-old balance of light and dark will always find a way to be restored. At times it comes in the form of non-discriminate karma or the heavy hand of divine will. At other times that balance comes in the form of a single, teenage girl.

 My name is Fallon. I am different. I am special. My essence moves in a cadence unknown to the other Auras at the House of Eventide. It was born of the intricate dance of the moon's opposing forces; retract and advance, embrace and release. The brazen energy of the sun preys at the edges of my being; fraying its delicate balance and scorching my heart into submission. Only under the calming cover of night, can my essence shine freely.

My true identity must be kept secret at all costs. My very existence is a threat to the Aura Order I pretend to be a part of. Should my web of lies unravel, they would stop at nothing to destroy me. I am the sole descendant of the light moon goddess, Luna . I have been Chosen. This is my story.

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I am a southern belle at heart with a crazy streak that desperately tries to escape at every opportunity. I love all things nostalgic, rustic, and quirky. I’ve been told I see the world through rose-colored glasses, but I prefer to think of them as kaleidoscope glasses – swirling and morphing reality into something I can digest (who hasn’t pretended those pasty lima beans were really kiwi strawberry jelly beans?).

When I’m not writing I’m making jewelry, painting, drinking sweet tea, watching the discovery channel, or going on random adventures in the mountains of North Carolina with my amazing husband.

Book Blitz featuring Whisper by Heather Hildenbrand

Since I'm on Heather's "Hotshots Street Team", I thought it would definitely be most appropriate to share this little book blitz with you guys, featuring her brand new New Adult paranormal fantasy, Whisper. I am a PRETTY HUGE FAN of Heather Hildenbrand and have really enjoyed her Dirty Blood series a great deal. If you're looking to branch out of the normal standard contemporary romance section of New Adult fiction and read some pretty awesome and amazingly written paranormal, then Heather Hildenbrand is definitely the way to go, ya'll. I absolutely love the way that she's able to write her characters wonderfully well with fantastic growth potential, depth, and realistic flaws that lend themselves well to the story she is weaving together. 

Whisper by Heather Hildenbrand

New Adult Paranormal Fantasy

The Cherokee believe when a person dies, their soul is reborn. Life is repeated. An endless cycle of lessons to be learned, love to be found, destiny to be fulfilled. For the past six months, in every flower, every bird, I’ve imagined my parents, relieved of their human forms.

Now, after five months at the Skye View Wellness Center, it was summer. A time for parties and friends, but that’s the last thing I want to do. So when my best friend Erin convinces me to attend a bonfire at Eagle Point, I can’t handle the crowd full of sympathetic stares or drunken class clowns who would use my tragedy as a way into my heart – or my pants. The solitude of the woods offers an escape, until I stumble upon a boy, unconscious and bleeding, his pockets stuffed not with identification but with poetry illustrating the beauty of dying. I’ve seen enough death. I will not leave this boy’s side.

Even after he wakes, when the only thing he can remember are visions of events that haven’t happened yet…

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Heather Hildenbrand is the author of Across the Galaxy, Whisper, and the Dirty Blood series. She writes, reads, and fusses at her kids. Oh, and she does the laundry, lots of laundry. She's pretty good at it, too. Sometimes she even reads WHILE doing laundry – and fussing at her kids. she's a multi-tasker.

For more information on her books, release dates, or just general stalker material, um, I mean FAN material, visit her lovely website Heather Hildenbrand. She loves hearing from readers!

Likes and dislikes? She loves vintage tees, hates socks with sandals, and if her house was on fire the one thing she’d grab is her Amazon Fire TV! (oh yeah, she's a fan of puns.)

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Book Blitz featuring Honey Queen by Christina Mercer

I'm excited to share this Book Blitz for Christina Mercer's newest YA novel, Honey Queen. Gah! That cover is absolutely gorgeous and golden, don't it just make you want to curl up with a nice cool mason jar full of homemade lemonade, a cool shady spot, and your Kindle/Nook and just book binge the whole thing? It's all golden and dripping in honey, looks like the perfect fantasy paranormal read to quench your needs in the hot summer weather. A predestined curse, a handsome swoon-worthy guy, and the sting and bite of love. Oh yeah, I think I'm in! 

How about you! :)

Honey Queen by Christina Mercer

Young Adult Fantasy

Love is honey sweet, but it comes with a fatal sting . . .

Melaina Maris needs wings to fly the gap between loving Sam and her family’s ancient curse that forces carnal love and then kills the male lovers. She won’t let the same fate that killed her father befall another. She refuses to allow her goddess-created bloodline to continue. But there’s no easy way out, especially after the curse turns her into the Honey Queen—savior to honey bees—intensifying her charms.

To help her fulfill the curse’s demands in the least harmful way, her grandmother takes her to mate with terminally ill Boyd. But Boyd’s gay. And an expert in mythology. Instead of having sex, Melaina learns how she might summon the goddess who created the first ancestor bee-charmer and cursed her bloodline. Melaina's magic—tears to save honey bees from endangerment—could be enough to persuade the goddess to end the curse. But an unexpected discovery soon changes that hope, spinning Melaina into a swarm of love, friendship and death.

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Christina Mercer is an award-winning author of fiction for children and young adults. She took Writer’s Best in Show at the 2012 SCBWI CA North/Central Regional Conference, was a Semi-Finalist in the 2010 Amazon Breakout Novel Award Contest, and won Honorable Mention in the 21st Annual Writer's Digest Self Published Book Awards. She holds a degree in Accounting from California State University at Sacramento and a Certificate in Herbal Studies from Clayton College of Natural Health. Christina resides in Northern California enjoying life with her husband, two sons, four dogs, and about 100,000 honeybees.

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Cover Reveal for Fatal Abduction (IFICS #3) by Julia Crane

  

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I am excited to bring you a Cover Reveal for a series that I've had sitting on my Kindle for quite a while now, it's the IFICS series by Julia Crane. I don't want to make a habit of doing a ton of cover reveals, but I did definitely want to share this one with you guys because this looks like it's going to be an awesome Sci-Fi Dystopian series that would definitely be worth sinking into. I've actually heard some pretty good things about this series, had even planned on reading the first book, but other things had come up or I wasn't quite able to get to it. I am hoping, by the end of this year I will have read the first one at least. 

Anyway, let me tell you a little bit more about the third book in the series. :)

Fatal Abduction

by Julia Crane

Book 3 - IFICS Series

Young Adult Sci-Fi Dystopian

There’s a serial killer at large. His victims just happen to resemble Kaitlyn—dark haired, pale skin and athletic build. Kaitlyn goes undercover, attending a prestigious high school to try to lure the killer into a trap and save the lives of other potential victims. Will she be able to catch the killer before his body count rises? Or will she become the next victim?

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Freak of Nature - Book 1

Freak of Nature (IFICS #1)
Julia Crane

Donate Body to Science. Check.

When seventeen-year-old Kaitlyn checked the box, she never suspected she’d have her life–and her body–stolen from her. She awakens one day in a secret laboratory to discover that her body is now half-robot and is forced to hide her own secret: that she still has human emotions and a human mind. If the scientists who made her find out, they’ll erase what remains of who she was.

Kaitlyn finds an unlikely ally in Lucas, a handsome, brilliant scientist who can’t get over the guilt he feels knowing she was once a vibrant, beautiful young woman. He never expected a science project to affect him the way she does. As he tries to help her rediscover her past, he finds himself falling for the brave girl struggling to find her place and acceptance between the human and computer worlds.

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Fractured Innocence  - Book 2

Fractured Innocence (IFICS #2)
Julia Crane

Kaitlyn and Erik are sent on a mission to track down Vance Dasvoik, a ruthless monster. His latest thrill—abducting and selling young women.

Vance's current victim: Aaliyah, a seventeen-year-old who never imagined walking her brother home from school one evening would change her life forever.

The mission quickly turns personal for Kaitlyn when she finds Aaliyah beaten, her mind and soul fractured from abuse of the worst kind. Kaitlyn knows firsthand what it's like to be haunted by the past and resolves to bring justice to the elusive Dasvoik.

*Warning 17+ due to sexual gritty topic and language. 

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About the Author

Julia Crane

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Julia Crane is the author of the Keegan’s Chronicles, IFICS. She has a bachelors degree in criminal justice. Julia has believed in magical creatures since the day her grandmother first told her an Irish tale. Growing up her mother greatly encouraged reading and using your imagination.