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Emotionally Charged Reading? Yes! #cover_reveal

6/28/2021

 
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Do you love to read a story that gives you the feels? I do! I love stories where I laugh and cry along with the characters. The stories which have me on the edge of my seat from the danger... the ones which make me keep turning the pages!

PART OF HER PLAN by Catherine Peace is such a book! It is a part of the CUPID'S CAFE series and features two former friends who happen to meet up again. But this time, they each have issues which must be worked through. Angst and addiction... Ohh.. the emotional journey! 

Available for PRE ORDER, the whole series is specially priced at $1.99 for a limited time! You can get the whole set for less than $10! Five books!! Five love stories! 

PART OF HER PLAN releases on July 20th but the discount won't last that long so be sure to order your copy today!

Blurb:
An invitation to Cupid’s Café will change your life.

Lydia Rossi has The Plan all figured out. A great job at Louisville’s fastest-rising tattoo shop, a place of her own, and putting her heroin addiction behind her once and for all. So far, everything fits perfectly into the safety-focused life she’s created, though she can’t forget the one woman who made her want more.
 
Jenny Sloane’s sole focus is on convincing her brother to let her come home. She’s deceived him into thinking she’s clean, but the truth is—she likes the way she feels when she drinks. If it takes a few white lies to make it happen, she will lie until the cows come home. She doesn’t need anyone, except family.
 
A note from Cupid’s Café reunites Lydia with her former therapy groupmate Jenny, sparking attraction, but a new complication arises when Jenny moves into the same transitional living house with Lydia. Jenny’s presence threatens to unravel Lydia’s plan, and for the first time Jen’s family-only focus wavers. One moment and one mistake is all it’d take to destroy their futures, but the chemistry between them is undeniable. No strings attached becomes tangled.

Can a relationship be part of The Plan after all?
 

Welcome to Cupid's Café, a place where missed connections meet. How the invitations find them, no one knows…except for the mysterious owner, Mr. Heart.

This multi-author series focuses on protagonists struggling with real-life issues that often get swept under the rug. With Cupid’s Café, these issues find representation in the characters struggling to conquer their own problems while trying to carve a future for themselves.

From cops to artists, or social workers to photographers, Mr. Heart ensures these lost souls who believe themselves undeserving of love reconnect with their fated match.

Each couple embarks on their journey at Cupid’s Cafe, but the rest is up to them: whether damage wins or they find true love in the end.
 
READ THEM ALL
Painting for Keeps (Cupid's Cafe #1) by Landra Graf
Exactly Like You (Cupid's Cafe #2) by Lori Sizemore
Captured Memories (Cupid's Cafe #3) by Katherine McIntyre
True Colors (Cupid's Cafe #4) by Landra Graf
Part of Her Plan (Cupid’s Café #5) by Catherine Peace


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About the Author:
Catherine Peace has been telling stories for as long as she could remember. She often blames two things for her forays into speculative fiction—Syfy (when it was SciFi) channel Sundays with her dad and The Island of Dr. Moreau by HG Wells. She graduated in 2008 from Northern Kentucky University with a degree in English and is still chasing the dream of being super rich and famous, mostly so she can sit around in her PJs all day and write stories.
Catherine currently lives on a farm in South Carolina. E-I-E-I-O.
Find her at:
Facebook -https://www.facebook.com/Lexcade
Twitter -https://twitter.com/lexcade
Pinterest -https://www.pinterest.com/lexcade/
Instagram -https://www.instagram.com/catepeace/
Website -https://www.authorcpeace.com/
 

Can a College Fling be Long lasting?? #new_release

6/16/2021

 
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Who was your first crush? Was it someone from high school? Or a college mate? Thinking back... could you see yourself with them today? Do you think a college fling could become your happily ever after?

Many of us have fond remembrances of our high school or college crushes. We attend reunions hoping to see if they regret not staying with us or not taking a chance with us.

I bet none of your crushes turn out to be superstar country artists! Mine neither but Lara's did!  If you have read the Country Roads Series by Grea Warner and fallen in love with Finn and Lara, now you can read about how the two met!

All My Memories, a Prequel tells of their awkward first meeting and so much more!!

Blurb:
Before he sold out concerts and had number one hits ... 

Before she moved away to escape her past … 

Before they lost touch … 

Carefree Finn Murphy and reserved Lara Faulkner were college classmates. With fate drawing them to reunite, memories of that time eight years before takes hold of their hearts and minds.

What made these two opposites form a bond and friendship? How did bad timing stop them from having more? And what is bringing them back together after so many years apart?

Told from both Lara and Finn’s point-of-view, All My Memories is a unique and insightful prequel to the emotional, award-winning Country Roads series.

EXCERPT
Finn

She was blunt and controlled but quiet. I had never seen Lara get really emotional. She was always stoic. And right then didn’t seem any different.

If I had been told the devastating news she had just relayed to me, I would have been absolutely destroyed. I would have been crying like a baby. I brought my head down the tiniest of bits to look her more directly in the eyes. “Yeah, I know. I was with Sam when you called for Olivia.”

“Oh.” She backed up a mini-step and started playing with some coins in her hand.

“I thought I’d come see you since Olivia is in class.”

“Yeah,” was her solitary reply.

“Lar, what happened … with your dad?”

“It was an ATV accident.” She had the slightest look of disgust on her face and her voice turned harsher. “I don’t want to talk about it.”

It was then I realized, besides the basics, she never talked about her family. “You sure?”

“Finn …” Her voice dropped off and was much softer.

It made me want to hold her …need to hold her. I wanted to take all of her pain away. So I did. I wrapped my arms around her. Miraculously, she let me. She was usually so reserved and didn’t want any kind of help. So it took me by surprise … but in a good way. It felt as if we were in a cocoon, where only I could shelter her from the pain of the outside world—as if I was the one friend she needed.




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​And #free with Kindle Unlimited!

Don't forget to Check out the Country Roads Series!!

About the Author:
There really wasn't any other path. Grea Warner knew from a young age that she wanted to write. She was born to write. First it was in diaries with little metal keys and in written tales that she slipped to friends in study hall. School newspapers, a college television drama, and the soap opera world were next. After producing and writing a local show, she decided to delve into the world of the novelist. When her fingers aren't tapping out her latest book filled with angst and romance, Grea can be found hiking the trails or jamming to her favorite country artists on the radio.
 
💻Website: http://greawarner.com
💻Publisher interview: http://www.inkspellpublishing.com/grea-warner.html
✨Socials:
Twitter: @grea_warner
Instagram: greawarner
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Grea-Warner
YouTube trailer link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrz9DjROoIM
GoodReads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/17230140.Grea_Warner
BookBub: https://www.bookbub.com/authors/grea-warner
 
 

Love Series Books? #cover_reveal

6/14/2021

 
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I absolutely love series books. When I find an author that I love... and a couple I wish were me and my husband, then I have to read all the books in that series. Those favorites become my keepers and I read and reread them. 

Mindy McKinley's Baxter Boys will become your new go-to series. Remember Me is the third book in this four book series and features a sexy baseball recruiter who has a thing for librarians. The story has humor and heat! You will want to read it again and again. 

Releasing on July 6th, be sure to preorder your copy today!

Blurb:
A night she’ll never forget. A night he wishes he could remember.

High School librarian, Amy Foster is a heartbreaker. After having her heart crushed in college, she has stuck to a strict ‘love them and leave them’ policy that works surprisingly well until her most disastrous one-night-stand waltzes into her school during a college fair. Hot and arrogant, with a body of a god, Jake Baxter seems determined to break down her walls. Too bad he doesn’t remember they’ve already met.

Jake Baxter loves two things, baseball and librarians. He’s got the first wrapped up as a recruiter for the baseball team at the University of Illinois, but he’s yet to find the librarian of his dreams. When he runs smack into one at an East High college fair, Amy Foster is everything he ever wanted. Only trouble is, she swears they’ve met before and he finds himself desperately trying to make up for a night he doesn’t remember at all.

Can he convince her that he’s worth taking a second chance?



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About the Author:

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Mindy McKinley is a Contemporary Romance author, avid reader, and cellist.
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She lives in the Midwest with her drummer husband and two adorable cats. In her life outside of writing, she is a music teacher, a small business owner, and a professional musician.

No matter where she is in her busy life, her mind is always on her writing. She finds inspiration in everyday moments and joy in putting words in just the right order.

If you're interested in learning more about Mindy's writing, visit her website at www.mindymckinley.com for information on current books, upcoming projects, and a blog.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mindymckinleyromance
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mindymckinleyromance/ 
            @mindymckinleyromance
Twitter: @mindymckinleyr1

Beards or Not?? #newrelease #newromance

6/7/2021

 
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Mindy McKinley's latest release features a bearded hottie. Zach is a knight in shining armor who is good with his hands. He exudes confidence and sensuality. But the question is... Beard or Not??

I love my husband's scruff. He doesn't have a long beard but just a slight dusting of whiskers on face. Would I like him with a bigger beard?? Hmmm. I've never seen him with one but...

What about you? Do you love a man with whiskers? Does it have to be a certain length? Or do you only love a clean shaven man?

Check out Zach in all his glory in SING TO ME, Mindy McKinley's latest release! Now available in Ebook and Print!

Blurb:
Sometimes you have to listen to your heart to find your voice.

After a disastrous relationship leaves her floundering, bartender and songwriter Emmy Benson, struggles to break the emotional bonds keeping her tethered to her ex. Desperate to find her voice for her songs and finally put Aiden behind her, Emmy takes a chance on the bearded white knight who is always there when she needs him. But moving on is harder than she expected.

Zach Baxter fights to keep his head above water with the family business, since his uncle fell sick. Short on help and at constant odds with him, Zach doesn’t have time for a relationship. But from the moment he sees Emmy Benson’s bottom dangling over the side of a dumpster, he can’t stay away no matter how hard he tries. She awakens something in him he’s never felt and he’s ready to go all in. There’s just one catch. Her heart might be already taken.

Can Emmy finally break free and let Zach into her heart? Or will she lose him for once and all?

EXCERPT:
“I think there’s a very good chance.” Emmy leaned over the bar so that he had the best view possible of her breasts. If there weren’t other customers, she’d kiss him right this second because she was dying to know what his lips felt like against hers, how his beard would feel sliding against her neck. She’d fantasized enough, it was time to know.

“So, in the high nineties, you’d say?” Zach asked. She could feel the desire in his voice, and it made her nether regions curl with need.

“Mmm, no,” Emmy answered cryptically, pouring his beer. She made him wait a beat longer than necessary before sliding it to him and adding, “It’s definitely over a hundred.”

He took the beer with a wide smile. “I like those odds.” He took a drink without taking his eyes off hers. “I like those odds a lot.”

“I thought you might.” She lowered her voice. “I have a break in about fifteen minutes,” she told him before another customer pulled her attention away.

Emmy could feel Zach’s eyes on her, and she struggled to concentrate on anything other than the magnetic force that pulled her to him.

As soon as Michael came out from the back to watch over the bar, Emmy nodded at Zach, her stomach trilled with anticipation. “Meet me out back?”


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About the Author:
Mindy McKinley is a Contemporary Romance author, avid reader, and cellist.
She lives in the Midwest with her drummer husband and two adorable cats. In her life outside of writing, she is a music teacher, a small business owner, and a professional musician.

No matter where she is in her busy life, her mind is always on her writing. She finds inspiration in everyday moments and joy in putting words in just the right order.

If you're interested in learning more about Mindy's writing, visit her website at www.mindymckinley.com for information on current books, upcoming projects, and a blog.
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mindymckinleyromance
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mindymckinleyromance/ 
            @mindymckinleyromance
Twitter: @mindymckinleyr1


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