**BLOG TOUR With Giveaway** A Taste Of Utopia by L. Duarte

Title: A Taste of Utopia

By: L. Duarte

Publication Date: January 4, 2016

Genre: Romance

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Seth Phoenix knows how it feels to have lost it all. Which is why he worked so hard to gain it all back. As one of the best male escort in the country, he has it all—money, looks, and the greatest job description: to pleasure women. He wants for nothing in life. Until one day, completely captivated by a beauty and innocence he had never seen before, he marries one of his clients. Charlotte “Lottie” Cahan is a student at the prestigious Yale. As a self-professed geek, she wears thick glasses and her nose is always buried in a book. But on her 21st birthday, her best friend convinces her to go to Vegas for a night of fun. Despite her insecurities and unworldly innocence, at a whim, she marries a man she just met. What she doesn’t know is that this man was hired to give her 21 orgasms on her 21 birthday. This steamy relationship seems to be destined for forever. But the world is a smaller place than they both believed and secrets, long forgotten and abandoned, will resurface to haunt them. Can they survive? Or is this fated to be just a taste of utopia?

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Prologue

Most people celebrate their birthdays. Not me. I celebrate the anniversary of my death. That’s the date I did the one noble act of my shallow life: I died. They say memories aren’t as accurate as one would think. But I clearly remember that day. It’s etched in my brain, encoded and stored in my mind, and promptly ready for retrieval. I still remember the stench of melted plastic and burning wood. I can feel the warmth irradiating from the crumpled structure. I can perfectly picture the smoke curling up in the sky, resembling snakes rising upward under the influence of a snake charmer. I approached a firefighter holding a metal clipboard. He was making notes and assessing the damages. “Excuse me, what happened here?” He glanced up from the clipboard. His brows furrowed, silently asking me if I was seriously asking him this question. “A fire,” he finally responded with the impatient tone of someone stating the obvious. “But… but what happened?” I scrunched up my face. “Too early to determine. We do know, however, that the fire started in a stove. It appears it was some sort of explosion.” “Did anyone get hurt?” My heart threatened to come out of my mouth. Were Mom and Luna okay? “Two fatalities. A female and her teenage son,” he said, turning his back to me and resuming his notes. Though sluggish, my mind processed the information. Mom. Female body. Her son. Mom was dead. I clenched my teeth to avoid the tears burning the back of my eyes from falling. Subsequently, it hit me. They assumed the guy’s body to be me. Me. But why? A flash of Jerry placing my probation bracelet around his ankle crossed my mind. Of course. They assumed his body was mine. That’s when I should have called the firefighter back. Informed him I was not dead. Asked if he’d seen my cousin Luna. But the words lodged in my throat and I couldn’t bring them out. Petrified, I stared at the house for what could have been hours. It was destroyed. In its place were a charred skeleton and a pile of ashes. When I finally snapped out of my stupor, I decided I had to find Luna. Explain everything. Tell her I was alive, that they had misidentified Jerry’s body as mine. Altered voices caught my attention. I circled the house. That’s when I saw Caleb, my Cousin Luna’s boyfriend. The guy I was sure was the love of her life. He was arguing with an older man. Immediately, I recognized the man. He was Caleb’s dad. Also, he was the judge presiding over my drug-related case. As I approached, I heard Caleb saying, “Nothing will keep me away from Luna now, Dad. Jake’s dead. You can’t use him to separate us anymore.” I took a few steps back. Caleb’s dad was using my pending case to blackmail Caleb and separate him from Luna. I fled without them noticing my presence. I went back to the blue bench at the beach where I had passed out from drinking. I sat there for hours, thinking. I realized, I was unconsciously destroying Luna’s shot at happiness. But there was a way I could avoid further damaging her life. If I were dead, there would be no more blackmailing. Caleb and Luna could be together. Free from me. Free from my baggage of screwed-up decisions. When night fell, I hitchhiked a ride and skipped town. And I never saw my cousin Luna again…

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**RELEASE BLITZ** Hot Blooded by Jessica Lake

 

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Title: Hot Blooded

Author: Jessica Lake

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Release Date: January 30, 2016

Two natural enemies. One impossible love...

Detective Lily Morgan's never been one to let things lie. When a key witness in one of her cases is killed, Lily's determined to go as deep as necessary to find the truth - even if she has to go undercover into London's illegal underground fighting scene. Ever since she gave up a comfortable life in academia to become a detective, Lily's been all about the job - no regrets, no mercy. But solving this case needs something murkier, something far more personal... something like the shadowy spark flickering into life between her and bare-knuckle fighter Callum. And Lily's beginning to realize just how badly she might need it, too...

Callum Cross depends on nobody, at any cost. When you live your whole life in the naked lights of underground boxing rings, you learn to take work and pleasure where you can find them, not to look too closely at the shadows in the corners... and you also learn not to spend too much time near firebrands like Lily Morgan, especially when the darkness hides your own dark secrets. But Lily's also the only hint of a better world that Callum's seen in as long as he can remember. And when you swim deep enough, any glimmer at all starts to look like the way back up... Caught between sudden desire, lethal enemies, and their own conflicting agendas, Lily and Callum might be each others' last, best hope at finally finding the missing pieces of their hearts... or just enough weight to finally drown together. And with the jaws of the case slowly closing around them, there's no telling who will be caught in its teeth... Author's Note: This is a full-length, standalone novel. It includes strong language and sexual content and is intended for readers over the age of 18.

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Author, reader, baking aficionado and connoisseur of the hard-on-the-outside but tenderhearted-on-the-inside alpha male, Jessica Lake lives in Quebec, Canada. Her favorite things include chubby orange cats, the way the house smells when something delicious is in the oven, the smell of her boyfriend's chest and strong, masculine men who know how to treat their ladies right.

Jessica loves to write about real men and women and all the serendipitous, maddening and ultimately wonderful things that happen when love decides to grab us by the heart and not let go. She believes in happy endings, intense eye-contact and the little thrill that dances up your spine when the one you love touches the back of your neck.

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**BLOG TOUR WITH REVIEW** Bellissimo Rilascio by Leigh Ann Lunsford

Title: Bellissimo Rilascio 

Author: Leigh Ann Lunsford 

Genre: Romance 

When life’s light got so bright Bianca was blinded, she had to seep into the darkness in order to fight her way back. Surrounded by love so beautiful it was suffocating, she did the only thing she could to release the pain. One night changed the course of her life.

Shrouded in obscurity and difficult decisions she chooses the only person that ever mattered. Desperate to prove herself worthy to those around her she embarks on the path least expected launching into a journey she never anticipated. 

With relationships hanging in the balance and uncertainty waiting with baited breath, Bianca plummets to the depths of despair in hopes of soaring with eagles.

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I don’t even know where to start with this review.  This is an amazing read and an amazing conclusion to Dakota and Bianca.  It didn’t go in the direction I thought it would, but it couldn’t have ended in a more perfect way.

Leigh Ann has written yet another awesome book.  I should hate her for making me cry….AGAIN!

This story is full of ups and downs.  Both physically and mentally. 

I don’t want to say too much because I really don’t want to give anything away.

Bianca goes through so much.  She is amazingly strong.  She learns a lot in this book, become even stronger and loves even deeper.

I absolutely love how everything worked out for everyone. 

“Our love will grow, our love will strain.  But one thing is…our love won’t end.”

Leigh Ann Lunsford is stay at home mom turned author. She writes Romance/New Adult and loves her happily ever after in all books and movies. She lives with her husband, son, and four dogs in Fleming Island, Florida. When she isn’t writing or reading you can find her stuck in front of really bad reality shows or watching Sons of Anarchy. Leigh Ann has a filthy mouth and a huge amount of sarcasm that knows no end. She hopes to give the voices in her head an outlet with many more novels to come. 

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*BLOG TOUR* Faith's Temptation by Angie Sakai

Title: Faith's Temptation

Series: Dueling Dragons MC Book One

Author: Angie Sakai

Publisher: Booktrope

Release Date: Jan 4, 2016

Cover Designer: Rachel Mizer

Faith Landon has always lived a simple life as the coal miner’s daughter. Growing up with two brothers she was always taught to never back down and never give in to anything. Then one day something happens that changes her life forever. Now faced with the choice of fight or flight, she leaves home and doesn’t look back.

Ryder Porter was born and bred to take over the DDMC, but one choice of a patched member fifteen years ago sends Ryder and the whole MC into turmoil. Now left to clean up the mess, Ryder finds himself alone and wanting more in his miserable life than the ‘Lollie's’ and whores. He sets his eyes on Faith. Ryder loves a chase, and Faith is not his usual easy conquest.

Faith’s never been one for giving in, but will Ryder be able to persuade Faith to give in to this temptation?

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Angie, a lifelong resident of the Pacific Northwest, can usually be found snuggled up on her couch with her husband and furbabies watching Netflix or screaming herself hoarse at a rock concert. She is an avid reader and her favorite genre at the moment is Erotica. She has been writing for years as a way to cope with life and finally realized her dream of publishing her novels. She loves a great story with tough as nails characters who have a heart. The grittier, the better.

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