Top 13 of 2013

In no particular order, here are my top reads of the past year. These books were my favorite, stuck with me and are the reason I continue to blog! 

13. Stealing Harper - Molly McAdams MY REVIEW

12.  Watch Over Me - Tara Sivec MY REVIEW

11. Epilogue - CJ Roberts MY REVIEW

10. Scars and Songs - Christine Zolendz MY REVIEW

9. Tangled - Emma Chase MY REVIEW

8. Letters to Luca - MR Joseph MY REVIEW

7. Collide and Pulse - Gail McHugh COLLIDE REVIEW PULSE REVIEW

6. Present Perfect - Alison Bailey MY REVIEW

5. Arsen - Mia Asher MY REVIEW

4. Pieces of Perfect - Elizabeth Hayley MY REVIEW

3. Wicked Beat - Olivia Cunning MY REVIEW

2. Thief - Tarryn Fisher MY REVIEW

1. My Now and Forever and My Today - HJ Bellus 

    MY NOW AND FOREVER REVIEW  MY TODAY REVIEW

Renegade Lady - COVER REVEAL

Yes, Master - Cover Reveal

Yes, Master by Margaret McHeyzer

Dark Erotic Romance

Release Date: February 19, 2014

My uncle raped me. I was 10 years old when it started. At 13 he told me I was no longer wanted because I had started to develop. At 16 I was ready to kill him. Today, I’m broken. Today, I only breathe to survive. My name’s Sergeant Major Ryan Jenkins and today, I’m ready to tell you my story.

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“Master would flog me if I did, she won’t be happy when I tell her what happened here.” “Master?” “Stella.” Oh, Master. “It’s just such a difficult situation.” “Of course it’s difficult.” She stops talking and taps her fingernails again. My eyes go to where she’s tapping, and then follow up to her face. I try to avoid her abrasive orbs. “You’re overpowered by agony and torment, and it’s slowly claiming you day by day.” I finally concede and look into Stella's eyes. Because every word she’s said, and every sentence that she’s breathed out has been so accurate about me. “Freedom,” she says as I intake a huge gulp of air at that word. “I can promise you freedom if you can promise me you’ll never lie to me.” Fuck. I want it. I think I may even deserve my very own happily ever after. Are they real? According to movies and books they’re attainable. But this isn’t a movie, or even a fucking book. This is my life. And I’m going to try to get it. “No lies, ever,” I whisper. I don't do 'normal'. I've found that the more I write, the more I like being different to other authors. I write in first person, and I love to challenge a reader. I take the normal and switch it around. For me, I really enjoy getting a reaction from a reader. So if I can evoke an emotion (regardless of if it's the emotion the reader wants) then I figure that I've done my job as an author I want to be. I really quite revel in taking people out of their comfort zones and pushing them to read something different. My genre of writing is, well quite frankly, where ever my mind goes. I won't label myself because I don't like sticking to one genre. My goal with writing is just to take people away from whatever is going on in their lives, even if it's only for a split second. I'm a go with the flow sort of person and don't really take a course of action to get where I am going. I live in the moment and don't usually worry about tomorrow because whatever life is due to bring me, I'll be happy to accept. I love my family and friends and will help anyway I can if someone needs it. I really don't like people that are nasty just because they can be, I don't believe that's necessary, I mean life's hard enough as it is! I hope you enjoy my books, I've had a hoot writing them. There's more to come..... Til next time. M xx

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Author: E.L. Montes

Book Title: Perfectly Damaged

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Genre: Contemporary Romance

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Schizoaffective disorder: a mental illness in which a person experiences a combination of mood disorder and schizophrenia symptoms.

I know about this illness—very well—because I suffer from it. It’s been four years since my diagnosis, and ever since, I’ve been living in a dark hole. Voices constantly invading my thoughts. Hallucinations. All of which force me to question if what I’m experiencing is even reality.

But here I am, still hanging on, still breathing and living through it.

That is, until he stumbled into my life. Logan Reed. I don’t want any part of him. I’ve pushed him away, but he isn’t easily deterred. I’ve told him I’m different, but he doesn’t care. He’s trying to slowly break me down. I’m trying just as hard not to let him. He doesn’t know how truly damaged I am; what will happen when he does?

I know the truth—he’ll never be able to look at me the same way again. Just like everybody else.

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Synopsis “My life was complete. Happy, content, everything neat and perfect. Then it all changed. I was sold.” Tess Snow has everything she ever wanted: one more semester before a career in property development, a loving boyfriend, and a future dazzling bright with possibility. For their two year anniversary, Brax surprises Tess with a romantic trip to Mexico. Sandy beaches, delicious cocktails, and soul- connecting sex set the mood for a wonderful holiday. With a full heart, and looking forward to a passion filled week, Tess is on top of the world. But lusty paradise is shattered. Kidnapped. Drugged. Stolen. Tess is forced into a world full of darkness and terror. Captive and alone with no savior, no lover, no faith, no future, Tess evolves from terrified girl to fierce fighter. But no matter her strength, it can’t save her from the horror of being sold. Can Brax find Tess before she’s broken and ruined, or will Tess’s new owner change her life forever?  

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Synopsis “All my life, I battled with the knowledge I was twisted… fucked up to want something so deliciously dark—wrong on so many levels. But then slave fifty-eight entered my world. Hissing, fighting, with a core of iron, she showed me an existence where two wrongs make a right." Tess is Q’s completely. Q is Tess’s irrevocably. But now, they must learn the boundaries of their unconventional relationship, while Tess seeks vengeance on the men who sold her. Q made a blood-oath to deliver their corpses at Tess’s feet, and that’s just what he’ll do. He may be a monster, but he’s Tess’s monster  

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Twisted Together (Monsters in the Dark #3)

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Synopsis “After battling through hell, I brought my esclave back from the brink of ruin. I sacrificed everything—my heart, my mind, my very desires to bring her back to life. And for a while, I thought it broke me, that I’d never be the same. But slowly the beast is growing bolder, and it’s finally time to show Tess how beautiful the dark can be.” Q gave everything to bring Tess back. In return, he expects nothing less. Tess may have leashed and tamed him, but he’s still a monster inside.

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Pepper Winters wears many roles. Some of them include writer, reader, sometimes wife. She loves dark, taboo stories that twist with your head. The more tortured the hero, the better, and she constantly thinks up ways to break and fix her characters. Oh, and sex… her books have sex. She loves to travel and has an amazing, fabulous hubby who puts up with her love affair with her book boyfriends. Her debut book Tears of Tess is followed by Quintessentially Q and Twisted Together. You didn’t think Q could stop so soon, did you? Her other two titles, Last Shadow and Broken Chance will be coming soon.  

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EMERGE

Laney Walker is a quick witted, athletic, southern tomboy who lets few get too close, using her sarcastic zingers to deflect. She also has no idea how others view her since Evan, her best friend, has coveted her since they were children. But college puts a gap between Laney and Evan that neither of them were prepared for- old relationships are tested, new ones are formed and nothing will ever be the same. Especially when in walks one Dane Kendrick, not at all the familiar, southern charmer of home, but an animal all his own.

A story of growing up, friendship, loyalty, first love, primal love...and life.

N/A Coming of Age- MATURE audiences.

EMBRACE

Evan Allen is a handsome, athletic, southern gentleman who now attends Georgia Southern University for no good reason. After what he expected to be the romantic gesture of the century, Evan is looking at no friends, a year of ineligibility on the football team, and no girl. He's starting over alone and doesn't know quite how to proceed. Certain members of The Crew refuse to let him face things by himself, taking him under their wing, and it doesn't take the ladies long to notice him, either.

Sometimes life doesn't go as you had planned. Sometimes it goes better.

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Things heat up, and not just the Georgia summertime, when Dane and Laney go head to head over plans for her new duplex. But Laney's got his number, and knows just how to coerce her bossy, domineering man. Spend the summer with the gang and find out...just how many is a crowd? The members of the Evolve Crew are getting older; so is the content. Mature audiences recommended.

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Emerge Playlist

Talking to the Moon - Bruno Mars
Collide (Acoustic Version) - Howie Day
Flightless Bird, American Mouth - Iron & Wine
This Years Love - David Gray
Hero - Enrique Iglesias
End of all Time - Stars of Track & Field
Let's Get Ready to Rumble - Crazywhite Peckawoods
The Cave - Mumford & Sons
9 Crimes - Damien Rice
I'll Be - Edwin McCain
Amazed - Lonestar
Big Green Tractor - Jason Aldean
Ho Hey - The Lumineers

Embrace Playlist

Endlessly - Green River Ordinance
I Never Told You - Colbie Cailat
The First Time Ever I saw Your Face - Roberta Flack
Red Light Special - TLC
Wonderwall - Oasis
Let Me Clear My Throat - DJ Kool
Mama Said Knock You Out - LL Cool J
Umbrella - Rihanna, Jay Z
One the Road Again - Willie Nelson
Rockstar - Nickleback
Down on Me - Jeremiah, 50 Cent
Fishin' In The Dark - Nitty Gritty Dirty Band
Your Guardian Angel - The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
Kiss Me - Ed Sheeran
Hey Pretty Girl - Kip Moore
Sideways - Citizen Cope

Entangled Playlist

Hold On, We're Going Home - Drake, Majid Jordan
Work Out - J. Cole
I Could Not Ask For More - Edwin McCain
Roar - Katy Perry
When You Say Nothing At All - Alison Krauss
Unforgettable - Nat King Cole, Natalie Cole 
Halo - Beyonce
Batter Up - Nelly
Stereo Hearts - Gym Class Heroes feat Adam Levine