Blog Tour: Review and Giveaway "Rose of Thorne" by Mia Michelle

 

Blurb:

When a drunk driver tragically orphans Skylar Rose at the age of sixteen, she leaves her dreams behind and takes on the daunting task of helping her elderly grandmother raise her young sister. While other girls her age were living a typical carefree life, she was picking up double shifts at a local café and struggling to pay the bills. 

Always putting her sister’s needs and school first, Skylar has never had time to date or develop relationships. Now a senior in college, she has her sights set on an amazing internship opportunity. The last thing she needed was for a sexy distraction like Sebastian Thorne to walk into her life. 

Sebastian Thorne had been an entitled and reckless nineteen year old when he got behind the wheel of his new sports car that night. When his night of indulgence goes tragically wrong, Sebastian hesitantly turns to the one person, he knows can make everything go away…the one person he hates ..his father.

Now twenty-six, Sebastian is the young enigmatic and powerful CEO of his late father’s design company, Thorne Enterprises. With both millions in the bank and a new woman on his arm almost every night, the world never knew the dark secret he carried inside. Still plagued with nightmares from the night of that horrific accident and having to leave the beautiful girl behind, Sebastian vows to find the one that haunts his dreams. Sometimes the choice of revisiting our past opens the door to a future that we never thought possible.

Haunted by their past, these two want nothing more than to have their life given back to them. But what do you do when the person who gave you back your life, was the very one that took it from you in the first place?

* BOOK 2 THORNELESS will follow VERY VERY SOON!! Contains sexual content and abusive situations. Recommended for readers 18+ years.

Review by Janeane - ARC received for honest review

I was not sure what to expect when I signed up for the blog tour of Rose of Thorne - but wow, I am so glad I did!  What a wonderful surprise Rose of Thorne turned out to be!

Orphaned on her 16th birthday, Skylar has spent the past 7 years doing everything she can to give her younger sister Sophie, a rising soccer star, everything she could ever need.

In her last year of college, she works herself to exhaustion while praying that she gets the internship that will be the one to start her career rolling.

Sebastian Thorne - now the sexy billionaire CEO of Thorne Industries, was a reckless teenager who caused the accident that killed Skylar's parents.  He has never been able to assuage the guilt, or forget the girl he left in the accident.

He has always kept tabs on her from a distance.  Unable to keep away, he "accidentally" runs into her at her work one night, but vows to himself that he must keep away. Which he - kind of - does.

All is going well, until the day she walks into his office for a job interview.

The tension between these two is thick - and HOT!  Seriously, you would get proximity-tension just by being in the room with these two! But they keep things professional - or do they??

Enter Lucas Drake - who nearly runs over Skylar. Another sexy, rich, CEO.  Love at first sight - yeah, pretty much for Lucas.

What I want to know is - what road do I need to be crossing  to find a Sebastian or Lucas??  Damn this girl has some luck in the men department!!  These two fall hard and fast for her, and she has feelings for both, but who will she choose?

But - what will Skylar do if she ever finds out the truth?  Will Sebastian tell her the truth?

For this, you will have to buy the book and read!  I read Rose of Thorne in one sitting, just could not put it down!  The story grabbed me right from the word go, and kept me captivated till the end.

There were a couple of grammatical and spelling/typo errors but not enough that they annoyed me - which they usually do. Other than that, Rose of Thorne was very well written.

But then, it happened:

And I was all:

I know it won't be long until Book 2 - Thornless - will be out, but I want it now!!!

About the Author:

Mia fell in love with the literary world at a very young age and began putting her active imagination to pen and paper by the age of six. Over the years, she has filled up numerous shelves with her notebooks and journals of her favorite stories. Twelve years ago, Mia began drafting The Thorne Series and through encouragement of a close friend, decided to finally take the leap of faith to bring her dream to life. She openly admits to having a hopeless infatuation with her Kindle and suffers from the one-click book addiction (No intervention required). 

Mia is currently a stay at home mom who has mastered the fine art of making a PB&J sandwich in between laundry and shuttling kids to ballet and swimming. In her spare time (“What spare time?” She laughs), she enjoys photography, traveling, and having a girls night out with her pals. She enjoys the simple things in life, such as sleeping more than 3 hours per night and 10 minute showers without being interrupted by children yelling “mommy” from the other side of the bathroom door. 

Mia Michelle resides in Tennessee with her soul mate and husband of 18 years and their 2 beautiful young children. She is currently working on her Masters in Counseling and drafting her new series. 

Rose of Thorne Playlist

Demons- Imagine Dragons

I’d Die Without You- PM Dawn

Fix You- Coldplay

Love Song- Adele

Sweet Love- Chris Brown

No Ordinary Love- Sade

Kiss Me- Ed Sheeran

Angel- Massive Attack

My Valentine- Paul McCartney

Wicked Games- The Weekend

Lil’ Freak- Usher featuring Nicki Minaj

Who’s That Chick? – David Guetta featuring Rihanna

If I Lose Myself Tonight- One Republic

Kill and Run- Sia

Arms- Christina Perri

 

 

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Forever Innocent - Deanna Roy

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DEANNA ROY - FOREVER INNOCENT

• 300 Pages
• release date - 27 September - 2013
• New Adult - sexy Contemporary Romance

★★★★★

5 Stars

 

"Our baby died on prom night, and nothing was ever the same again."

Corabelle doesn’t feel like any of the other college girls. On what should have been one of the happiest nights of her life, she and her boyfriend Gavin watched a nurse disconnect the ventilator from their seven-day-old baby. During the funeral two days later, Gavin walked out and never returned.

Since then, her life has been a spiral of disasters. The only thing that has helped is her ability to black out whenever the pain gets too hard to bear, a habit that has become an addiction.

When Gavin shows up in her astronomy class four years later, he is hell-bent on getting her back, insisting she forgive him. Corabelle knows she can’t resist the touch that fills the empty ache that has haunted her since he left. But if he learns what she has done, if he follows the trail back through her past, her secrets will destroy their love completely. And once again, she’ll lose the only person who always believed she was innocent.

My Opinion:

I loved the book!

But let me tell you a little bit about it first...

 We start the book with Corabelle arriving late for her first day at the University of San Diego - Astronomy Class. What, or rather who she sees there shocks her completely. It's Gavin.
The Gavin she has known since she was a little girl - the Gavin who was her best friend through all her life. Gavin, who she fell in love with when they were teenagers. The Gavin who was the father of her son Finn. And the same Gavin who left the funeral of their boy without saying anything. He just left - and never came back. She hasn't heard from him in four years. And now he's in her class.

Gavin is just as shocked to see Corabelle in his class. They shouldn't have been surprised though. Because when they were little kids they had big dreams of one day leaving their dry New Mexico home town and go to a college near the ocean.

“Corabelle, you came to the school by the sea.”

She did, she came to San Diego about a year ago - after she kind of got kicked out of her old College. We don't yet get to know why she had to leave.

Seeing him again brought everything back - not that anything was ever far from her mind - but still. She had to get out of there fast.
She has loved Gavin all her life - she probably still loved him - but he left! He left her on the most horrible day of her life and she doesn't know how to deal with that.
Of course she missed him and she knows deep down that she wants him back - but she's broken inside. Gavin broke even more when he left. She barely made it through the last four years. She was not directly suicidal - but she has those PTSD-like moments where she just makes herself stop breathing and passes out - her most inner self probably wants to just go to sleep and never wake up again.

And now Gavin is back. Can they forget and forgive the last four years and just be together again?

“Do you believe in second chances?”

Can they go back to a time when everything was perfect..

I thought we’d be that happy and innocent forever, and that nothing would ever come between us.

the time before fate took their precious Finn and tore them both apart.

The Big Dipper rested neatly in the sky...Our baby was that constellation for us, and no matter where we looked, no matter what other stars dotted our sky, he would always be there, the biggest and brightes of them all.

Gavin wants her back - but he has secrets. He did some things in Mexico that can't be undone as easily as his grief made him do them.
Corabelle has her own secrets - about why she had to leave New Mexico.

Will they find a way to overcome their grief and their secrets and start a new life together???



 I won't tell you that ☺
I don't want to spoil your reading pleasure ☺



BUT - I could be convinced to tell you a few tiny little thingies ☺

There will be some really romantic and sexy moments

There will be moments where you should have a box of tissues close by. Or probably 2-5 boxes.

Corabelle is working in a Coffee-Shop and she made friends with one of her co-workers: Jenny - who's very protective of Corabelle.

There's also another guy who's interested in Corabelle: Austin - the whole Austin thing made me very sad :( poor guy!

Gavin works as a mechanic

We gaze at a lot of stars - both Gavin and Corabelle have that Astronomy class - but why I don't really know - Corabelle is a literature student and Gavin a geology student ☺

There will be a rather dramatic ENDING to the book - it's not a Cliffhanger - so don't worry - but it's a real WHOA-WTF ending ☺ (for me at least!)

There will be a few Butterflies in the book too ;)

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I REALLY LOVED THE BOOK!!!

I read a few non-spoilering reviews before I started reading and I can't really understand why people say that they couldn't connect with the characters... I LOVED Corabelle and Gavin. Yes - Corabelle - like 99% of all female heroines - gets on our nerves a bit with her indecisiveness. Does she want Gavin back or not?  Basically the whole book is about Corabelle running from and to Gavin ☺
But I can understand her - he left her on one of the hardest days of her young life.
I can also understand him - he just couldn't deal with his grief.

The book made me CRY SOOOOO MUCH! My kindle almost drowned!

Deanna goes back in time a few times - so that we can see how and why Finn died and all the sadness and grief surrounding that. She does that really wonderfully - unfortunately she knows what she's talking about :(

I loved that the story is set in a real place - San Diego - La Jolla - the University. I don't like to read books where we are in a fictional place or no place at all.

 
The book is a wonderfully written sexy new adult novel - with lots of feelings and grief and overcoming that grief and trying to start to live a happy life again.

Will there be a happy end??? 

Let's put it this way - THERE WILL BE A SECOND BOOK - Forever Loved!!!!!!
But Forever Innocent doesn't have a horrible Cliffhanger - it just ends - rather suddenly - I would've loved another 587 pages ☺ but as long as there's more coming - I'm happy ☺

SO - GO AND BUY THE BOOK !!!!

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ABOUT DEANNA:

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Deanna Roy is the author of Baby Dust, an adult novel about a pregnancy loss support group, and the prequel to that story, Stella & Dane: A Honky Tonk Romance. Her next book, Forever Innocent, about a couple who reunite four years after the death of their premature baby, is due out Oct. 1.
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She also writes for chldren. Her kids’ web site is here. Her iPad/iPhone story book app, Dust Bunnies: Secret Agents, was released by Polycot Labs in 2012. This app features an original story about the dust bunnies who live under the bed, who need YOUR child to save their world. The main character in the story becomes your child!
She is a regular speaker at events on writing, publishing, and on baby loss. See her event schedule.
Her short stories have appeared in several literary magazines, including 34th Parallel, Farfelu, and The First Line. Her writing credits are lengthy due to her background in journalism and freelance, but one of her favorite articles is a humorous piece about skydiving, published by The Writer in March 2009.
She’s been a waitress, a free-sample girl, backstage security for a concert venue (please don’t ask about the time she threw R.E.M. off the elevator and made them late to their own concert) , a high school teacher, an editor for a publishing company, and still works as a professional photographer.
After suffering her first miscarriage, Deanna began the web site www.pregnancyloss.info. The pages get over one million unique visitors a year, although it is her fondest wish that no one would ever need to come at all.  You can also find her Facebook memorial page for babies lost to miscarriage or stillbirth.
Deanna opened a home photography studio in 1999 to achieve a work schedule that allows her to write. She is a member of the Writers’ League of Texas and SCBWI.

The wedding dance photo at the top of the home page is her! She married Kurt in 2012. They hope to adopt a little one in 2014.

Book Blitz - Irreplaceable by Angela Graham

 Irreplaceable by Angela Graham

Genre: Contemporary Romance/New Adult

 

Synopsis:

It wasn’t his fault she lay broken and battered. He wasn’t responsible for the injuries covering her bruised body.
Her heart, however, told a different story. She endured the pain of its jagged edges as it shattered against her chest, ripping through the hope she once held. Her spirit was broken, and only one man was to blame for that.
Cassandra Clarke had known better than to trust her all to a man like Logan West. She’d thought he was different—a better man than he’d portrayed to others. A man worth risking it all for.
But she was wrong, and would never make that mistake again.
What happens when you question everything you longed to believe—deny all emotions you still hold for a man unworthy of them?

Faced with Logan’s persistence, Cassandra must find the strength to keep her guard up or risk falling again for the one man her body feels…is irreplaceable.

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Excerpt:

The walls surrounding my heart began to shudder and shake, and it took everything I had to keep it hidden.

"Mm-hmm," I replied, my lips clamped together tightly.

His pained eyes searched mine. "You have to give me something to hold onto, sweetheart…a reason to keep fighting when you repeatedly push me away."

I’m here! I wanted to shout out to the world. Wait for me, please, but I stood silent, terrified. How had I become so weak? Seeing him with that woman had pushed me over the edge. He’d want more than I could ever give him, so it was for the best if he walked away. Better to get out now before it was too late.

He nodded after a long, silent pause.

I hated him for bringing me so low, for creating a storm of brewing rage deep in my soul. I hated myself for wanting to take him in my arms and kiss him until I forgot. I had to fight through it to find a way to get him off my porch.

Finally, I opened my mouth and swallowed the rough lump that had formed, speaking in a soft voice. "I was about to take a shower, and though you seem to think that’s our new thing, I prefer to do it alone. Goodbye."

Meet the Author...

I am happily married to my husband of five years, have three wonderful children and a beautiful feline companion that keeps me company during late night writing binges.

My love of reading has been life long but it was in early 2012 when I was inspired to finally put pen to paper and write my first story. Since then I haven't been able to stop, fueled purely by my passion to write a story and create characters that readers will enjoy.

New Adult romances are my go to books to read as well as to write. They are young, fresh and full of hope. What's not to love!

"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong."
- Ella Fitzgerald

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