#BookReview: Pia Saves the Day by Thea Harrison - 5 Wine Glasses

Title: Pia Saves the Day
Series: Elder Races #6.6
Author: Thea Harrison
Format: ebook
Published: June 23rd 2014 by Smashwords Edition
ISBN: 139780989972857
Links: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N
Source: NetGalley
Reviewer: Linda
Rating: 5/5

In the latest story of the Elder Races, two mates face their deadliest challenge yet—each other…

Pia and Dragos’s magical young son Liam (the Peanut), is growing at an unprecedented rate, and if that isn’t enough, he is also exhibiting new, and unpredictable, magical gifts. To protect him, the concerned parents decide to move to upstate New York.

Both Dragos and Pia relish the idea of leaving behind the city. They finally have the space to indulge their Wyr side, and Liam can grow in safety. It’s a breath of fresh air—literally—but their idyllic situation is shattered when Dragos is injured in a freak accident.

Stripped of his memory and bereft of Pia’s taming influence, there’s nothing holding back Dragos’s darkest side. And in order to restore her family and save her mate, Pia must confront the most powerful menace in Elder Races history.

It’s going to take more than a penny to fix this…

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Kennedy Ryan’s WHEN YOU ARE MINE (Top 5 List/Giveaway)

TOP 5 Must-Read Authors –  (not in any particular order)

1.       A.L. Jackson

2.       Tiffanie DeBartolo

3.       Zora Neale Hurston

4.       Bronte sisters (cheating – 2 in 1! LOL)

5.       F. Scott Fitzgerald

Up To Me by Christi Barth (Interview)

Hang up the veil ladies, our guest today has a new series! Welcome Christi Barth!

Lexi: Welcome back Christi! We have some pomegranate prosecco spritzer ready and waiting, a perfect summer drink to go with your summertime release: Up to Me, Shore Secrets #1! I am so excited you have a new series, though I will always adore your Aisle Bound series I can’t wait to hear about this one. So tell us your pitch for it and how many books are planned? 

There are (for now!) three books in the Shore Secrets series. Up To Me is the story of a hard-nosed businessman with contempt for small-town America who is forever changed by the love of a sexy hotel owner and a quirky but tight-knit community famous for its anonymous journal by the lakeshore. Don't worry - its got all the components you loved in the Aisle Bound series: a tight-knit group of friends, a gorgeous setting that is a character in its own right, steamy sex, and, oh yeah, an HEA absolutely drenched in romance.

#BooKReview: Mine to Possess by Nalini Singh - 4.5 Wine Glasses

Title: Mine to Possess
Series: Psy-Changeling #4
Author: Nalini Singh
Format: eBook/Mass Market Paperback, 328 pages
Published: February 5th 2008 by Berkley
ISBN: 0425220168
Links: Goodreads | Amazon | Kindle | B&N
Source: Purchased by Reviewer
Reviewer: Crystal
Rating: 4.5/5

Clay Bennett is a powerful DarkRiver sentinel, but he grew up in the slums with his human mother, never knowing his changeling father. As a young boy without the bonds of Pack, he tried to stifle his animal nature. He failed...and committed the most extreme act of violence, killing a man and losing his best friend, Talin, in the bloody aftermath. Everything good in him died the day he was told that she, too, was dead.
Talin McKade barely survived a childhood drenched in bloodshed and terror. Now a new nightmare is stalking her life--the street children she works to protect are disappearing and turning up dead. Determined to keep them safe, she unlocks the darkest secret in her heart and returns to ask the help of the strongest man she knows...
Clay lost Talin once. He will not let her go again, his hunger to possess her, a clawing need born of the leopard within. As they race to save the innocent, Clay and Talin must face the violent truths of their past...or lose everything that ever mattered.

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#AudioBook #Review: His Captive Bride by Shelly Thacker - 5 Wine Glasses

Title: His Captive Bride 
Series: Stolen Brides #3
Author: Shelly Thacker
Format: Paperback/Audible/ebook, 2nd edition, 334 pages
Published: December 6th 2013 by Summit Avenue Books 
Links: Goodreads | Amazon | Kindle | Audible | B&N
Source: Audiobook Jukebox 
Reviewer: Linda
Rating: 5/5

Originally published under the title Timeless.
She's swept away to a hidden island paradise filled with pleasures... and secrets.
Abducted from a trade fair by a mysterious warrior, Lady Avril de Varennes awakens on Asgard Island, an enchanted paradise cloaked in mists and mystery, kept secret from the world for centuries. Against her will, Avril weds her arrogant captor, Hauk Valbrand--even as she vows to escape. Hauk believes himself beyond the reach of love, until his fiery captive bride begins to melt his heart of ice. But soon he must reveal the stunning truth about Asgard and its people--and Hauk and Avril must choose between love and honor, duty and desire... now and forever.
This revised and expanded ebook edition includes additional scenes never before published. The ebook is significantly different from the 1998 Dell paperback published under the title Timeless.

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A Measured Risk by Natasha Blackthorne (Spotlight/Giveaway)

Hello Everyone,

Welcome to my book blitz for the .99 sale on A Measured Risk, Regency Risks Book One.
I am giving away a $25 Amazon Gift Card. To enter, please fill out the Rafflecopter at the end of this post.

A Measured Risk, On Sale .99 at Amazon and B&N June 20-22, 2014

A Measured Risk (Regency Risks #1)
by Natasha Blackthorne
ebook, 233 pages
Published April 9th 2012 by Total-E-Bound Publishing
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He is her most dangerous temptation, the only man she has ever trusted and now he is demanding her submission. Dare she take the risk?

Emotionally scarred in the horrific accident that took her husband’s life, Lady Cranfield is imprisoned by her lingering terror of horses and carriages. She longs to be closer to the fascinating Earl of Ruel, as she senses intuitively that he might be able to teach her how to overcome the terrors that hold her in bondage.

And now she’s willing to risk almost anything—her reputation, even her virtue—to find out.

But what Lord Ruel proposes startles her.
When the shy, studious and socially awkward young widow approaches him, Lord Ruel instantly senses she will be the sweetest, most submissive experience of his life—but first he must gain her complete trust. Lord Ruel makes Lady Cranfield a non-negotiable offer: His help in return for her submission and obedience.
But Lady Cranfield grew up neglected by her ducal parents, raised by servants and then later ignored by her handsome, charming husband. She’s learnt to protect her heart at all costs and she trusts no one but herself.
How can the jaded Earl of Ruel break through Lady Cranfield’s self-defences and show her how to love when he himself has spent his life avoiding that tender trap?

Erotica Romance ~ Light BDSM ~ Rubenesque / BBW ~ Regency Historical ~ Shy Heroine ~ Novel Length 86,000 Words . Contains graphic erotic descriptions and frank sexual language. As a work of historical romance fiction, A Measured Risk is not intended to be an accurate portrayal of modern BDSM lifestyles.