Blog Tour {Excerpt & Giveaway} Maybe by Amber L. Johnson

  Maybe

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Amber L. Johnson

Release Date: February 12 , 2015

Published by The Writers Coffee Shop

Genre: FICTION / Romance / General / Contemporary / Erotica

ISBN e-book: 978-1-61213-371-3

Available from: Amazon, Kobo, Barnes and Noble, and TWCS PH

~~SUMMARY~~

Emily Portman loves her job. A writer for Breakout! Magazine, she shadows and showcases up-and-coming bands. When her next assignment takes her to Austin, Texas, she can’t wait to add the city to her map of places she’s visited. Places she’s left without looking back. Her plan is to keep moving on, and the last thing she needs is a man holding her back. She’s not going down that road again. Tyler Macy is stuck in a rut. Despite his exceptional talent as a musician, he has chosen to take a backseat with his music and let others grab the limelight. Wounded and mistrustful, he doesn’t appreciate his friends’ efforts to bring him back to center stage. Emily comes onto the scene and sees his full potential, but he fights to stay in the shadows, shutting her out before she can add to the scars another woman gave him. For Tyler to find his music again, he needs to accept the help that Emily and their friends offer. When he discovers that his muse lies underneath Emily’s skin, it is still not enough to keep her from walking away. Neither will admit what they really want until it is too late. Emily is once again thrown in Tyler’s path when she is assigned to join them on tour. Despite the pain in his past, Tyler sees that she is worth it, even if she’s stolen both his heart and peace of mind. In order for them to be together, they both must discover whether the music and their passion are enough to overcome the obstacles that separate them. Maybe finding love is worth the risk.  

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~~EXCERPT~~

Walking toward him is like trudging through the deepest mud, but I hold my head high, my hands in my pockets and strides long. When I'm less than a foot away, his head turns toward me without lifting his chin, and he looks up from under his brows. The white smoke from his cigarette causes his eyes to nearly close before he pulls it from his lips and exhales upward into the air. I'm struck by how incredibly handsome he is in black wool and new jeans. I want to know if his skin feels hot under his clothes and if his back feels the same when I scratch fingernails across his spine. My fists clench in my coat pockets at the thought. This is going to be so much harder than I'd been prepared for.

~~ABOUT THE AUTHOR~~

A true child of music, Amber's parents surrounded her with the loudest beats they could find, molding her into a girl who found inspiration and meaning in lyrics and chords. Raised on John Hughes movies, Luck Dragons, and pirate ships, she dreamed of love and adventure. When Amber began to create her own world, she envisioned a place where Happy Ever Afters do exist. Since then, she has authored several romance novels, all of which focus on songs and the way they can touch people's lives. Music may not be able to fix a broken heart, but it can provide one hell of a soundtrack for healing. A full-time wife and mother with a full-time job, Amber finds her muse in everyday life and the people who bring her inspiration.      

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Praise for Maybe

"The characters are fun, likable, and well done. It's such a feel good story with a wonderful romance. Honestly, if you want a good, easy read with a cast of characters that will make you laugh and cry, and a romance that will sweep you off your feet then give this book a read. You won't regret it. " - Jennifer

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Cover Reveal for You and Me 4Ever by Isabella White {Giveaway}

Title: You and Me 4Ever 

Author: Isabella White 

Series: The 4Ever Series  (Book 1)

Genre: Contemporary/Erotica

Publisher: Fire Quill Publishing 

Cover Designer: Sandra Valente

Release Date: Mar 2015

Blurb/Synopsis

At 24 years old, Holly Scallenger has the perfect life. Everything a girl could want; a beautiful man, a stunning home, as well as being in the midst of preparing for the wedding of her dreams. This all vanishes the night she catches her fiancé, Brandon Morgan, in bed with her worst nightmare, Donna Sinclair, just a week before Holly is set to walk down the aisle.

Attempting to recover from his betrayal, Holly swears off the affections of men in order to pick up the pieces of her crumbling life. Unfortunately, meeting Jake 'Hooligan' Peters is not part of her plan. The tall, dark-haired and handsome as hell med student, sweeps Holly away from the pain of her past and reveals to her the bright future that lays ahead. That is, until she falls pregnant just as Jake begins his internship at P&E; his family's hospital.

Will this love at first sight lead her to the fairytale she has always craved? Or, will she fall victim to a betrayal of the heart yet again?

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Isabella White was born and raised in South Africa, where she still lives with her husband and two beautiful little girls. She always knew she was going to be a writer, but it only started to really happen about four years ago. In her free time―if she gets any because moms don’t really have free time―she loves to spend it with friends, whether it’s a girl’s night out, or just watching a movie. She’s a very chilled person. Her writing career started with Firebolt, book one in the Dragonian series under the pen name of Adrienne Woods. Her other series, Dream Casters, will be released mid-2015. She also writes in different genres, The Pregnancy Diaries, You and Me 4Ever has a total of 3 novels. More to come in the Pregnancy Diaries soon. And then, she has a paranormal series by the name of the Aswang series, which will consist of about ten novels. And if that wasn’t enough, there is another series, Guardians of Monsters, which will be released in 2016. Both novels are written under another pen name called Kristen Ping.

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Book Tour {Guest Post & Giveaway} Death & The Red Headed Woman by Loretta Ross

Death & The Red Headed Woman by Loretta Ross

Death and the Redheaded Woman (An Auction Block Mystery)

Paperback: 264 pages

Publisher: MIDNIGHT INK (February 8, 2015)

ISBN-13: 978-0738743936

Synopsis

Auctioneer Wren Morgan is cataloging the contents of the Campbell house, an ante-bellum mansion with a Civil War-era lost jewels legend. She was hoping to find something interesting, but the naked dead guy on the stairs is an unwelcome surprise. When the body turns out to belong to a small-time criminal with ties to a more recent jewel heist, Wren suddenly finds herself face-to-face with Death.

Death Bogart (pronounced "Deeth") is a disabled Marine combat vet, down on his luck and trying to start over as a private eye and part-time bounty hunter. The stolen jewels he's searching for are the final evidence needed to convict a murderer -- and the reward money could turn Death's life around.

In Wren, Death finds a friend and a willing ally -- someone to help him learn to overcome his new physical limitations, and possibly even a second chance at love. But Death and Wren aren't the only ones searching for treasure. Two ruthless men are also on the hunt, and they will do anything to eliminate the competition. To survive, Death and Wren will have to solve two mysteries spanning a century and a half and outwit a pair of cold-blooded killers.

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My first book, Death and the Redheaded Woman, is set in the fictional town of East Bledsoe Ferry, Missouri. While the location is made up, it's based on the small towns that surround my rural home, and there really is a place called East Bledsoe Ferry.

In the 1800's, Bledsoe Ferry provided a way across the Osage River at Warsaw, below Kaysinger Bluff. When Harry S Truman Dam went up in 1970, the land immediately below the dam on both sides of the river became a park. The west park contains the municipal ball fields and is a popular destination, but I prefer East Bledsoe Ferry Park. It's a triangular piece of land, nestled below a wooded bluff, with the Osage River to the west and the upper end of Lake Of The Ozarks to the east.

I wrote much of the first draft of Death and the Redheaded Woman at a picnic shelter overlooking the lake. My favorite place to sit is just a hundred yards or so from the boat ramp, and I fully expect to someday see someone sink a truck. The boat ramp area is also where returning fishermen clean their catch and dump the remains back in the lake, which attracts scavengers.

There's nothing to inspire a scene with a dead body like looking up to find yourself being watched by a flock of vultures.

A mile or so to the south of the Ferry Park, Warsaw's only remaining swinging bridge crosses the Osage. At the east end of the bridge, a big, square building with a two-story deck overlooks the river. Right now it's a bar and before that it was a bonds office, but when I was writing my first book it was a Chinese restaurant and was the inspiration for the Chinese restaurant where my main characters, Wren Morgan and Death Bogart, have lunch and read fortune cookies in chapter seven.

In other parts of the book I mention a character from Coldspring and a baseball game played at Tebo. Both place names really exist. Coldspring is the name of the road which, when it crosses Missouri state highway 7, becomes the Dam Access Road.

Tebo is the Anglicized version of the French Thibeaux or Thibaut. It dates back to the French occupation of Missouri in the first half of the eighteenth century and all three spellings are still common in the area. There is a Tebo Creek and a Thibaut Point and my parents are buried in the Tebo Baptist Cemetery at Leesville.

There's a mention in the book of "the Barker arm of Tebo Creek". Barker Creek is a smaller creek that feeds into Tebo Creek. If you ever visit Truman Lake, you'll find that the signs on bridges tell you what arm of the lake you're crossing. When the dam went in, water backed up on the Osage River and also along its many tributaries, creating a sprawling lake with a coastline longer than California's seashore. On a map it looks kind of like a bizarre lizard climbing up the state.

The Tebo arm and the Barker arm make up the northernmost portion of the lake. They're in a marshy lowland that's kept as a Wildlife Management Area by the Missouri Department of Conservation. There's also a Little Tebo Creek, and this is where Thibaut Point is located.

In my book, East Bledsoe Ferry is located in Rives County. Rives County is the old name of Henry County, where I live. When the county was organized in December of 1834 it was named in honor of William Cabell Rives, a Virginia politician who had studied under Thomas Jefferson. In 1841, because Rives had changed his political stance in ways which, to be perfectly honest, I'm not really clear about, the name of the county was changed to Henry after Patrick Henry.

The name Rives survives in a short, oddly-oriented street called Rives Road. (When I was in grade school my older brother, Danny, briefly owned a popular steak house on Rives Road. Unfortunately, it burned down after only about a year in business.)

The historic Campbell House in my book is inspired by several beautiful antebellum houses that survive, and the events that involved the historic Campbell family were based in reality as well. Henry County is only one county away from the Missouri-Kansas state line, scene of so much violence from the 1830's through the end of the Civil War. Indeed, the county to the west is Bates County, which was in the center of the district devastated by General Ewing's wildly unpopular General Order 11.

Faced with the task of fighting guerrilla-style Confederate marauders such as Quantrill's Raiders, Ewing ordered all residents of the district he commanded to turn over their grain to the military and evacuate their homes. Those who could prove loyalty to the Union would be allowed to move into the fortified cities, all others were required to leave the district. After the deadline, Union forces burned all remaining standing grain and any buildings deemed big enough to be useful to the enemy. What the soldiers spared, natural wildfires often did not. There is little left in Bates County now that predates the war.

Missouri painter George Caleb Bingham, who was a member of Ewing's staff, begged him to rescind the order. When he refused, Bingham painted a famous painting called Martial Law, showing weeping citizens being driven from their homes by a pitiless cavalry officer said to be modeled on Ewing. Before the war, Ewing had had political ambitions. After issuing General Order 11, there was never any chance that he'd be elected to office.

The naked dead man on the stairs at the beginning of the book is entirely a product of my imagination. I don't know if that will comfort of disturb you, but I do hope that, if you read my book, you enjoy it.

About This Author

Loretta Ross is a writer and historian who lives and works in rural Missouri. She is an alumna of Cottey College and holds a BA in archaeology from the University of Missouri - Columbia. She has loved mysteries since she first learned to read. Death and the Redheaded Woman will be her first published novel.

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Giveaway ~ Her by Felicia Johnson

Title: Her

Author: Felicia Johnson

Series: Standalone

Genre: YA/Fiction

Publisher: 8th Street Publishing

Release Date: June 2013

Edition/Formats Available In: eBook & Print (Soon to be a Movie)

Trigger Warnings: Borderline Personality Disorder, Eating Disorders, Depression, Child Abuse, Self-Harm

Blurb/Synopsis: 

In many ways, Kristen Elliott is a normal, seventeen-year-old girl. Kristen loves her family. She works hard academically, and tries to please her mother. She takes on the additional responsibility of caring for her twin siblings, Nick and Alison. She idealizes her best friend, Lexus, who not only seems to lead the perfect life, but also catches the attention of John, the boy Kristen secretly loves. However, as is the case with many teenagers, Kristen feels frustrated, isolated, and confused.


In other ways, Kristen is not like other kids her age. She knows something is wrong with her. Kristen feels like an utter failure. She is unable to please her abrasive mother, and scared to confront Jack, her abusive stepfather. She is also unable to protect Nick from Jack, making her fell all the more helpless. Adding to her problems, she knows she will never be as beautiful as her best friend Lexus. Kristen finds solace in self-injury, and the company of Mr. Sharp, her imaginary friend who encourages her feelings of self-loathing.


After a failed suicide attempt, Kristen is placed in the Bent Creek mental hospital, where she is diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder. While in the hospital, she meets a group of peers suffering with their own mental illnesses, and a compassionate staff of doctors and counselors. From there, Kristen begins her journey to survival. She discovers the circumstances that brought her to this breaking point, struggles to understand her mental illness, and fights to be a survivor against her own worst enemy: her self-blame.


Kristen’s tale of endurance illustrates the complex illness of Borderline Personality Disorder. Readers – including those suffering from BPD and their friends and family – can glean insight into the illness from Kristen’s humanity. Her story is an example of how, if we try to push the past away, we are either doomed to repeat it or let it haunt us to our graves.


Stop and think, and you’ll discover that you probably know someone who is going through this right now. Yes, 1 out of every 4 people struggles with mental illness – the dark secret so many live with.

One of the most corrosive aspects of living with mental illness is the urge to keep it a secret. Felicia Johnson learned that secrets can be lethal, and courageously shines a light on a diagnosis rarely talked about: borderline personality disorder, or BPD. Your audience will appreciate her candour and this opportunity for insight.


In Felicia Johnson’s book Her, we walk in the shoes of a girl suffering with borderline personality disorder, share her hopes and struggles as she desperately tries to understand what is happening. It is an example of how if we try to push the past away, we are either doomed to repeat it or let it haunt us to our graves. This powerful and compelling story enables those suffering from BPD, and their friends and family, to turn the abstract concept of BPD into a more real understanding.


Meet Kristen Elliott, a normal seventeen-year-old who loves her family and friends and strives for their approval. But Kristen knows something is wrong with her. In her pain and isolation, she finds fleeting solace in self-injury, and the company of Mr. Sharp, her imaginary friend who feeds her feelings of self-loathing.


After a failed suicide attempt, Kristen is placed in a mental hospital and diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD). There, she discovers the circumstances that brought her to this breaking point, struggles to understand her mental illness, and fights to be a survivor against her own worst enemy: her self-blame. It is a story of endurance, survival and finding hope from within.


The story is inspired by Felicia Johnson’s own life of survival and her childhood best friend, Holly who, at fifteen, committed suicide – a silent victim of untreated Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) stemming from the trauma of childhood abuse. While Holly lost her battle with depression and BPD and at 15 years old took her own life, we can make a difference in showing teens that they are not alone on this journey and there is light at the end of the tunnel. Her also illuminates the harsh reality of child abuse in the home and the long term psychological effects it has on everyone involved.”


Through Her, Felicia Johnson helps to bring the understanding of BPD within reach of many young people and families afflicted by it, and continues to help many come to terms with mental health issues they face.

“We need help in turning this book into a movie, so we can reach thousands more and change the perception of mental illness and enable those who need the help to get it, help those going through this and also help families of those going through this to understand what their loved ones are facing. My goal is to help put an end to stigma on mental health and provide hope to those who seek help.”


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FELICIA JOHNSON is a child abuse survivor, writer, sought-after speaker, mental health worker, and youth advocate. She loves ice cream, and seeing her little sister, Laura, smile. She is an active youth mentor at Youth Villages Inner Harbour and has been a volunteer with the Personality Disorder Awareness Network (PDAN). Johnson readily engages an audience with the moving story behind her latest book, Her. It is the story of a young woman with Borderline Personality Disorder who courageously peels back the layers of her complex and serious mental illness in a desperate attempt to understand it. 

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