Thursday, 28 January 2016

✪ Sin & Suffer (Pure Corruption #2) ✪ Pepper Winters ✪ Release Blitz, Review and Giveaway ✪



"Some say the past is in the past. That vengeance will hurt both innocent and guilty. I never believed those lies. Once my lust for revenge is sated, I'll say goodbye to hatred. I'll find a new beginning."

She came from a past Arthur "Kill" Killian never forgot. She made him sin and made him suffer. She tugged him from the shadows and showed him he wasn't as dead as he thought. And with her resurrection came betrayal, deceit, and war.

But then they took her. Stole her. Imprisoned her.

Now Kill's carefully laid plans for vengeance are complete. He craves action, retribution-the blood of his enemies. War has begun. War is all they'll know until they've paid their penance. He will get her back-and rewrite their destiny . . .

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I have been anxiously waiting for Sin and Suffer since the cliffhanger at the end of Ruin and Rule. I needed to know what happened to Cleo and Kill.

And I was not at all disappointed.

Pepper Winters drew me straight back into the dark world of Kill, Cleo and Pure Corruption.

After everything they had been through in Ruin and Rule, there was nothing worse that could happen to them.... right?

Deep, dark and sexy, Sin and Suffer is a rollercoaster of a ride. I had already suffered along with them, felt their pain as they were ripped apart and found each other again , and didn't think I could take any more.

But secrets, betrayals murder and mayhem abound as their story continues.  Just when you think you know where the story is going, Ms Winters spins you around and takes you in another direction.

Dark and sexy, I enjoyed every single word of Sin and Suffer, and did not want to put it down once I started.

If you have read Ruin and Rule, you NEED to read this right away.  If you haven't read it, then get to it now, you will not be disappointed.

 









Pepper Winters is a New York Times and USA Todayinternational bestseller. She loves dark romance, star-crossed lovers, as well as the forbidden and taboo. She strives to write a story that makes readers crave what they shouldn't, and delivers complex plots and unforgettable characters that keep readers talking long after the last page is turned.

On a personal note she loves to travel, has an addiction to creme brulee, and is married to an incredible Canadian who puts up with her endless work hours and accompanies her on signings. She's also a firm believer that the impossible can become possible.



  














Wednesday, 27 January 2016

❤ Fear and Scars (Damaged Hearts #2) ❤ Emily Krat ❤ Tour and Giveaway ❤

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Title: Fears And Scars (Damaged Hearts, #2)
Author: Emily Krat
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: January 25th

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One lie can destroy everything. What will a pile of them do?

A chance encounter changed everything for Ryan and Liz. Five months later, they have an all-consuming love, a deep emotional bond, an explosive sexual chemistry, and a newfound trust. They’re engaged and on the way to their happily ever after.

The only problem is a secret from Elizabeth’s past that Ryan has been hiding.

The truth will come out. Will it set Ryan and Liz free or break them apart and destroy their dreams?

Life challenges every relationship. Ryan and Liz will learn that secrets aren’t their only problem.

“We’re strong. We’ll survive this. We can survive anything.” – Ryan.

Warning: This book contains mature themes and thus is intended for adult readers only. (18+)

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Fear and Scars starts up where Flawed and Damaged ended, so you will need to read it first.

I am not going to lie, it has been a while since I read Flawed and Damaged, and I read so much I couldn't remember what the series was about.  But a quick read of my review and I was back on track (sorry Emily!)

"People say the beauty of life is its unpredicatabiliy.  I mean, we never know what's coming next.  We plan, we wish, we dream, but we can't really predict anything.  Everything can change at any moment.

I fell in love with Liz and Ryan in Flawed and Damaged, and was happy to get the completion of their story.  

I should have known that there wouldn't be all hearts and flowers for Liz and Ryan.  After what they have already been through, I knew that things would not be easy for them.

It was a case of rinse. lather. repeat for a while with Ryan, and this frustrated me.  I could understand why he did what he did,  but I couldn't understand why such a smart guy would think it would be a different result each and every time!

But other than that, what a guy!

I fell in love with Ryan and Liz all over again as they - eventually - got back on track.

Fear and Scars is full of suspense, tears, love.  I laughed, I loved, I shed a tear or two.

This is the conclusion of Liz and Ryan's story, but I sure would like to get more of Mark and Nina in the future.

 



Excerpt
I manage to make only a couple of steps when Ryan catches me around the elbow and turns me to face him. I don’t even have time to react when he crushes me to him, lifts my face to his, and kisses me hard.

Ryan kisses me like he’s never kissed me before. With desperation, as if he’d die if he stops. His lips and tongue are demanding, hungry, almost bruising. It’s not the tentative, reclaiming kiss I expected us to have after so many months apart. No. This is a devouring, claiming, and merciless kiss. It’s an I-hate-seeing-other-men-touch-you, why-are-you-fighting-us, every-second-without-you-is-torture kiss.

Feeling fire running through my veins, I bring my hands up to cup his jaw and kiss him back with everything I am. Even if I’m not ready to admit it, being without Ryan has been an insufferable anguish for me too. No matter how hard I try to deny it, my heart still wants him with every beat it takes.

I don’t even care that we’re making a scene when my hands roam over his hard body, grabbing and squeezing.

When our lips finally part, we stare at each other, his breaths as labored as my own. I swallow. Neither of us moves as tension zings between us.

Shit, what have I done?

In a poor attempt at protecting my heart, I take a step away from Ryan and murmur, “You shouldn’t have done that.”

His jaw clenches and his eyes fill with a rush of remorse.

“I’m sorry. I shouldn’t … God, I’m such a fucking asshole. I’m really sorry.”

No, I didn’t mean that. I want you to do it again. No. I don’t.

God, I’m a mess.

“It’s okay. I mean … I did kiss you back. I…” My stammering will cost me.

His expression suddenly relaxes and a bit of a triumph flashes in his eyes. “You did.”

He cups my cheek, his thumb tracing the line of my jaw. “Let me chase away all your fears about us. Let me kiss all the scars I left on your heart.”

He’s so earnest in his plea.

“Ryan …” I whisper, feeling the walls I’ve built to protect myself crack with his every word. And his expression. God, I’m drowning in the depths of the emotions pouring out of his green eyes.

“Being apart from you, thinking I’d never hold you like this again has been hell.”

Holy, sweet Lord. What is he doing to me?

Radiating agony streams from him. “Never again I’ll make a choice for you or demean your opinion. I promise to always respect your wishes and your freedom to make decisions for yourself. No matter how strong my feelings for you are, it doesn’t give me the right to decide for you.” He pauses and gathers a deep breath. “It took me a long time to realize we have nothing without trust. I know that now. I’ll never make the same mistake again, Liz. Let me make good on every broken promise. Let me dry every precious tear you shed for me.”

He leans down, his lips hovering over mine, and whispers across my mouth. “Elizabeth, please, forgive me.”

His plea wraps around my heart and squeezes, taking my breath away. I push back the tears.

God, I dreamed about this moment for so long. Now it’s here, and I’m stunned and lost.

Before I can form a coherent thought, his lips are on mine again. This kiss is different. It’s loving and slow and begs for forgiveness. And it ends too soon.

“I know your friends are waiting for you. Call me when you’re ready for me to be in your life again. I’ll be waiting. No matter how long it takes.”

Wait. What?

My emotions choke me as I watch Ryan walk down the hall and away from me. He disappears from view, leaving me in such a state that I can hardly string two cohesive thoughts together.

Who does that? Who leaves like that? Asshole.

He was right to leave. His presence, his kisses and touches make me defenseless. I promised myself not to be so easily dazzled again, yet here I am trembling with lips swollen from his kisses. My heart thuds uncontrollably in my chest, and the urge to run after him chokes me.

I draw in a deep, steadying breath.

There are two options here. I can ask him to leave my life for good or take a leap of faith and try to make this work between us.

What do I do?


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Tuesday, 26 January 2016

♫ Rockstar Cowboys ♫ D.L. Roan ♫


Rock Star Cowboys - DL Roan


The McLendon Family Saga Book #3


The McLendon Twins have become country music gods. Reckless and charming, Carson is the life of the party. Connor loves their music, but he’s had it with Carson’s antics and life on the road. He’s ready to call it quits when their beloved Papa falls ill and they are called home to their family ranch on Falcon Ridge.

Occupational Therapist Breezy Youngblood once loved Connor and Carson to the moon and back. She was a mere girl when her world was shattered and she was forced to leave Grassland with only her broken heart. When she’s asked to return to help the McLendon patriarch recover, she’s forced to face the tragedy that destroyed her dreams of ever calling Falcon Ridge her home.

When Connor reunites with Breezy, it’s love at first sight. He believes she’s the one who can bridge the canyon between him and his twin. Carson? He wants her gone. Despite his unexpected attraction to Breezy, he knows what happened that ill-fated night and he’s not about to let her charm her way into his family’s good graces.

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énage Romance, MFM, Contemporary Cowboy, Family Saga




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Those McLendon boys from Second Chances / The Heart of Falcon Ridge (depending on whether you are an old or new reader of DL Roan's work, it is the same book, just different title) are all grown up... and boy, are the all grown up!

9 years ago Carson and Connor's world was shattered, and Carson has never moved on.  But  it wasn't just their world that changed....at that same time, the girl next door, Breezy Youngblood's world was annihilated.











Make sure you have some tissues handy, because if you are like me, you are going to need them (more than once if you an anything like me!)

Skip forward to the present, Breezy is no longer the poor girl living next door, and the McLendon twins are music superstars.  But those old feelings don't go away.

My heart broke - again - for Breezy upon her return to Grasslands.   Her attraction to her boys is still there, still off the charts, but those old feelings and prejudices between their families still run strong.

Oh boy, did I want to nut punch Carson more than once!  Or at least throw a chair at him!  He frustrated me as much as my heart hurt for him.  But when he got is sh&t together... man this girl is still fanning herself!

I love a menage story, and this one pretty much had it all for me.  I mean cowboys who are rock stars who love the same woman?  What is not to love?

I LOVED that we got to see the rest of the family all older and grown up.  I loved seeing Grey/Matt/Mason/Gabby (Con and Car's dads and mum) from The Heart of Falcon Ridge.  I always loved their relationship and was happy to see it all going strong.

I can't wait to see where the McLendon Family Saga goes next.




The story begins nine years ago.
Breezy is 14 years old and lives in a trailer with her older brother and her mostly drunk dad.
She lives for summer Sundays, when she can hang out with the McLendon family at their creek.
She's been half in love with their 17-year old twins Connor and Carson for forever.
But trailer trash like her would never stand a chance against beautiful Charlotte....
Then one day something happens that destroys even the smallest chance she might have had with them...

Now, nine years later, Connor and Carson are huge Country-Music-Stars.
But Carson has still not gotten over what happened back then.
He's hiding his guilt behind girls, drugs and alcohol.
Conner feels like he's losing his brother more and more with each day that passes.
Then the boys get called back home...
Also back home is Breezy....

Will this be a new chance for them all???
Or is there still too much hatred and anger left?




This was a really great story!
I hadn't read anything about this family before - and you don't really have to. But I might go back and do it now! ☺ I just love ménage romances ♥

I was already crying after only a few pages...
But next to the crying parts the book has LOTS of really sexy parts too.
And funny and adorable and frustrating parts.
It was the perfect ménage romance!


I will definitely read everything that comes after this book!

If you love ménage romances and cowboys and rockstars...this is SO the book for you!!!
It almost doesn't get better than this - this book was like a genre lottery win for me ☺☺☺


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Rock Star Cowboys Excerpt

Hot holy damn! It’d happened. Connor stood at the foot of the stairs and tried to remember
how to breathe.

He’d never put much stock in the lightning bolt, earthquake hoopla their dads and Papa Joe
fed them over the years about what they felt when they found Mom and Gran. Twenty-four hours earlier, he would have rolled his eyes at one of their stories, but the second he came down thosestairs and saw Breezy curled up in his brother’s arms, he knew. She was theirs. Completely.

There had been no lightning bolt, no thunder, not even a tremor. The pull to join them on
that couch, however, had been like a subtle, vivid instinct seated deep within and impossible to
ignore.

He pressed his fist into the center of his chest where the feeling was still fresh and fluttering
around like a caged bird begging to be freed. It was the most amazing feeling, comparable only
to bringing life to a new song.

The instant attraction he’d felt to her suddenly made sense. Her taste, her scent, the feel of
her beneath him, had all felt so fresh and familiar. On some elemental level his body knew she
was the missing part of him.

“You were right to cancel New York, bro,” Carson said, dousing his new revelation with a
barrel of cold reality. “No way I could sing like this anyway.”

Connor studied his twin. “What are you doing?”

“I’m going back to bed.” Carson groaned as he flopped back onto the couch and pulled a
quilt over his legs.

“No. I mean, what are you doing with Breezy?”

Carson rolled his eyes and turned his back to him. “I was sleeping.”

“Car, I’m serious.” He walked over and snatched the quilt from his twin. “What kind of
game are you playing with her?”

“I’m not playing any games.” Carson reached out and snatched the quilt back. “You were
right, okay? Is that what you want to hear?”

“Right about what?”

“Me fucking everything up, Breezy, all of it.” Carson sighed, settling back into the couch,
his face pinched in pain.

Connor tried to read between the lines, unsure of what he meant. “I don’t understand,” he said, plopping down on the end of the coffee table.

“I’ve been a dick,” Carson said, sliding farther under the quilt. “What more is there to
understand?”

That was an understatement. “Let’s start with why you’ve been a dick.”

Carson huffed, wiping his palm across his sweaty forehead. “Does it matter?”

“Hell yeah, it matters.”

“I don’t want to fight anymore, okay? I want things to go back to the way they were between
us, and for Papa Joe to get better. That’s it.”

“And what about Breezy? Are you saying you all of a sudden don’t believe the shit you’ve spouted about her for how many years now?”

“No. Maybe.” Carson stared at the ceiling, his lips pressing into a grim line. “Papa Joe told
me some things last night that don’t add up.” Between coughing spells, Carson relayed the things their grandfather had told him, including his possibly cataclysmic misconception about Ford’svisits with Charlotte.

“Damn, Car. You don’t think he beat her, do you?” He searched through his memories, but
couldn’t remember seeing any bruises. That didn’t mean there hadn’t been any.

“I don’t know,” Carson grumbled. “But if it’s true, I don’t know why she hasn’t told me to
go to hell already.”

Connor shook his head. “I talked to her yesterday. She’s just as eaten up about everything as you are.”

A contrite look swirled in Carson’s eyes before he looked away, his fingers plucking at the stitches in the quilt as he spoke. “Did she, uh, say anything else? About yesterday?”

“Shit, Car. What did you do?”

“I didn’t—”

“Did you kiss her?”

“No!” Carson snapped, searing him with a calculating glare. “Did you fuck her?”

“No.” Though, he may have if not for their Uncle Cade shooting down that drone. He’d never felt a spark, an electrical overload, like the one that arced between them. “She’s different. It’s not like that.”

 “Are you saying you want her all to yourself, then? That you don’t want to share?”

No sooner had Carson’s question reached Connor’s ears, than that very image appeared in his mind. Christ, she’d been so hot beneath him. He could only imagine what it would be likewith her between them, naked and writhing and responding to them with that same passion. His
cock responded to the fantasy and Carson took notice.

“I didn’t think so.” Carson chuckled and rolled onto his side, turning his back to Connor again.

Dammit. What was he going to say? He sure as hell wasn’t going to say no, but should he tell his brother how serious he was about her? If what he’d felt earlier was real, Carson would
have to feel it too, wouldn’t he? But if they couldn’t even share a bedroom, how the hell were
they going to share a wife?

He didn’t have a clue what was going on inside his twin’s head. Whatever he was thinking,
Connor wasn’t dumb enough to believe it was thoughts of forever. Not yet. But, if he had any
chance of making that dream a reality, they had to start somewhere, right?

“I like her, Car. I like her a lot, and I want you to like her, too, but not if you’re screwing around. Not with Breezy. She’s not like the women on the road you can fuck and forget.”

“Don’t you think I know that?” Carson grumbled into the back of the couch. “Look, I’m game for whatever you want, Con. Just let me know when and where.”

“I don’t want her to get hurt again,” Connor clarified.

“I’m not screwing around,” Carson assured him, his irritation evident in his tone even as he struggled through another round of rattling coughs. “Damn, this cold is kicking my ass.”

What was Carson thinking? What had changed? “Do you think you can truly let go of the past and see where this goes?” he asked one final time. “Look at me and tell me that’s what you want.”

Carson rolled over, letting out a long sigh before he met Connor’s questioning gaze. “I
thought that’s what I was doing.”

Connor studied him for a moment, seeing a mixture of resigned indifference and hesitant sincerity in his brother’s eyes. It was enough, for now. He gave his brother a nod of agreement
and stood. “Okay,” he said and held his brother’s gaze. “But, if you do hurt her, I’ll be the one
kicking your ass.”





   


Genre: Erotic Western Romance, Menage
Romance, MFM, Contemporary Cowboy, Family Saga

The McLendon Family Saga reading order:

The Heart of Falcon Ridge
A McLendon Christmas
Rock Star Cowboys 
Rock Star Cowboys: The Honeymoon






 D.L. Roan loves combining fantasy with the real world, giving her readers more than just a book or romance, but a true adventure in love. Her characters are always real to her and she genuinely enjoys bringing them to life for her readers.

She's a native Floridian, a rare breed in a land of snow birds. Scuba diving and hunting for shark's teeth on the beach are two of her favorite things. Oh! And building sand castles instead of snowmen in December and sending pictures of them to all her snowbound friends. She loves rainy days, thunderstorms and is an avid dog lover. Yes, size matters. She hopes to one day add a big ol' floppy Great Dane to her family of hounds.

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