Monday, 21 September 2020

✜ J. Kenner ✜ MY FALLEN SAINT ✜ #FallenSaintTrilogy1 ✜ #BlogTour #Excerpt ✜

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Fallen Saint Trilogy #1
• 15 September 2020
• Book #2 will be out in January

Readers new to J. Kenner might survive the time waiting for Devlin's 2nd book by reading Julie's first huge series! Nikki & Damien Stark's very first book → #ReleaseMe ☺ 
★★★★★
4.9 Stars
His touch is her sin.
Her love is his salvation.

Charismatic. Confident. Powerful. Controlling.

A brilliant investor with a Midas touch, Devlin Saint turned a modest inherited fortune into billions, and now operates one of the world’s foremost international philanthropic organizations. He’s a man determined to help the underprivileged, to fight injustice, and to make the world a better place. And that, at least is true.

It’s not, however, the full truth.

Because Devlin Saint is a man with a dangerous secret. One he’ll do whatever it takes to protect. And when investigative reporter Ellie Holmes turns her attention to an unsolved murder, she finds herself caught in a web of intrigue and passion as Devlin draws her closer and closer. But as the intensity and sensuality of their relationship grows, so do Ellie’s suspicions. Until she is no longer certain if the heat between her and Devlin is real, or only a facade he constructed to hide his dark and twisted secrets.


Ellie and Alex.
They used to be in love for a short while ten years ago.
She was only 16 when they met. He was a couple of years older and working for her uncle.
The uncle she was living with after both her parents had passed away.
A year later her uncle was killed and Ellie was left all alone in the world. But she still had Alex. Right? Nope. After their first night together he vanished and she hasn't seen him or heard from him since.
Now she's back home in Laguna Cortez, California, to find out who really killed her uncle and to write an article about mysterious philantropist Devlin Saint's charity organization.

Let the fun/mysterious/sexy/dangerous times begin ...

What will happen with Devlin & Ellie?
Will there be a happily ever after?

READ THE BOOK TO FIND OUT! ☺

I really enjoyed reading this.
I was a bit worried at first. One, because nobody could ever take Damien's place in our hearts. And then ... I was worried about this being a trilogy... with two possible cliffhangers! Ugh. I hate those.
But I really wanted to read this. And I loved it. And the cliffy wasn't really bad at all. I'm sure I can remember what happened until January! #Bookalzheimers
I loved Ellie and Devlin. I loved the whole setting, the mysteries, the sparks, the friends. Almost everything.
I wasn't a fan of Ellie's constant whining about how she's so mad at Alex for leaving her back then. She just does not stop with that almost until the end.
But I really loved this story. It's so full of ... so much! So much potential for an epic love story. It was sexy, mysterious, dangerous, exciting... and so much more! A great new series ... a really worthy Stark competition!!!
I can't wait to see where this story will take us in the next books.
And can someone please get Netflix on the phone for this!!!????

MY FALLEN SAINT was a very exciting and mysterious and sparky and sexy and heartbreaking first book in a brand new epic romantic suspense series! Run to your nearest amazon for your own Devlin - this one is MINE! 



♥ EXCERPT ♥

I cross the patio, clearing the south side of the building. To my left, I now have a straight-on view of the SeaSide Inn, the small hotel on the other side of PCH that has been a fixture of Laguna Cortez for as long as I can remember.
At one point, my uncle actually owned it, along with a few others around town. I even helped decorate the office, in so much as going to Home Depot and looking at paint chips counts as helping. Or decorating.
I turn the other direction so that I’m facing the ocean. The tidal pools are only a short walk away, and I take a step that direction, then stop. The tidal pools had been our place, mine and Alex’s, and I’d cherished that time among the clusters of porous gray rocks that rose out of the long, empty stretches of sand. It was the place he’d first kissed me. A place I always felt safe.
More, it’s a place I haven’t been back to since he left.
I’m not sure if it’s in defiance of or protection for those memories, but I can’t bring myself to go back now. Instead, I turn once again toward the highway and start walking forward, the south wall of the foundation on my left.
From this perspective, I can see the fourth floor balcony, and I know from the article I read about the building’s architecture that I’m looking at Saint’s private office. Not that I can see much. From where I’m standing, my view is of the underside, a hint of the balcony’s glass barrier, and only the tiniest glimpse of the glass door leading inside. Even so, I pause for a moment, imagining that Saint’s standing at his window, and that he’s watching me, too.
I frown, wondering what came up that forced him to postpone our interview. Did he leave town? Or is he right now in his office? Hell, maybe he really is at his window looking down at me.
There’s no reason he would be, of course, and so I continue walking the length of the building so I can circle around and get back to Shelby.
But with each step, that tingling sensation becomes stronger, the uncanny sensation of being watched. It’s not something I can ignore. Hell, I was raised by a cop and was on the job for two years myself before going back to school.
Mid-stride and without warning, I turn and look behind me. At the ocean. The path to the tidal pool. And the balcony off of Devlin Saint’s office.
That’s where he’s standing.
A man lost in the shadows cast by the building that shelters him.
It has to be Saint.
And he’s watching me.

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#StarkSeriesReadingOrder

1 - RELEASE ME  getBook.at/ReleaseMe
2 - CLAIM ME

3 - COMPLETE ME

3.5 - TAKE ME

3.55 - TAME ME - Jamie & Ryan 1
3.6 - HAVE ME

3.7 - PLAY MY GAME 
3.8 - SEDUCE ME 
3.9 - UNWRAP ME 
3.10 - DEEPEST KISS
3.11 - ENTICE ME
3.12 - TEMPT ME - Jamie & Ryan 2  

#4 - ANCHOR ME

4.1 - HOLD ME

4.2 - PLEASE ME
5 - LOST WITH ME
6 - DAMIEN - Damien's POV
6.1 - INDULGE ME
6.2 - DELIGHT ME

6.3 - TEASE ME - Jamie & Ryan 3
6.4 - CHERISH ME  - November 2020 


Of course there are a few connected Spin-Off trilogies happening here and there... 
First the Heated, Wanted, Ignited - very slightly connected!
Then it's Jackson Steele's trilogy, very connected:
Say My Name, On My Knees, Under My Skin
And then it's Dallas Sykes with
Dirtiest Secret, Hottest Mess, Sweetest Taboo.
And this year we'll have the Wicked Spin-Off which features a few guys we already met and see again in Anchor Me:
Wicked Grind, Wicked Dirty, Wicked Torture.



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J. Kenner (aka Julie Kenner) is the New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, Wall Street Journal and International bestselling author of over seventy novels, novellas and short stories in a variety of genres.
Though known primarily for her award-winning and international bestselling erotic romances (including the Stark and Most Wanted series) that have reached as high as #2 on the New York Times bestseller list, JK has been writing full time for over a decade in a variety of genres including paranormal and contemporary romance, “chicklit” suspense, urban fantasy, Victorian-era thrillers (coming soon), and paranormal mommy lit.
Her foray into the latter, Carpe Demon: Adventures of a Demon-Hunting Soccer Mom by Julie Kenner, has been consistently in development in Hollywood since prior to publication. Most recently, it has been optioned by Warner Brothers Television for development as series on the CW Network with Alloy Entertainment producing.
JK has been praised by Publishers Weekly as an author with a “flair for dialogue and eccentric characterizations” and by RT Bookclub for having “cornered the market on sinfully attractive, dominant antiheroes and the women who swopn for him.” A three time finalist for Romance Writers of America’s prestigious RITA award, JK took home the first RITA trophy awarded in the category of erotic romance in 2014 for her novel, Claim Me (book 2 of her Stark Trilogy).
Her books have sold well over a million copies and are published in over over twenty countries.
In her previous career as an attorney, JK worked as a clerk on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and practiced primarily civil, entertainment and First Amendment litigation in Los Angeles and Irvine, California, as well as in Austin, Texas. She currently lives in Central Texas, with her husband, two daughters, and two rather spastic cats.