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In A PROMISE BROKEN, Hilary is in need of a distraction from her wounded heart, and that distraction comes in the form of Zach Collins. The only problem is, he’s her brother’s best friend. Readers will love this standalone contemporary romance, featuring characters seen in A PROMISE KEPT and A PROMISE MADE.

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Title: A Promise Broken

Author: Anissa Garcia

Genre: Contemporary Romance, New Adult

Release Date: July 10, 2017

Publisher: AG Romance Reads LLC

Series: The Promise Series

Format: Digital and Print

Digital ISBN: 978-0-9975430-5-6
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Synopsis:

After a relationship gone bad, Hilary Matthews felt unsure about where she belonged or what to do with her life. Cue Zach Collins, a love ‘em and leave ‘em, no strings attached type of guy. The perfect distraction for her wounded heart. Just one problem. Zach isn’t some random stranger. He’s her brother’s best friend, and more than that, he’s practically family.  And to complicate matters, just when things start to heat up between them, she learns there’s more to Zach than he let on.

Zach’s job as assistant to an A-list actor allows him the luxury of women, travel, freedom and fun. But things changed the moment Hilary made her move, completely altering his world. Hilary is his fantasy come to life, his dream woman in the flesh…and his best friend’s little sister. Stepping over the line with her would not only ruin his friendship, but possibly alienate him from the only family he’s ever known.

The pressure mounts as truths are exposed. Embroiled in betrayal, lies, guilt, and heartache, Hilary and Zach must decide if the biggest emotion of all is worth the turmoil. With so much at stake, the repercussions from a promise broken would cause the battle of their lives.

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A Promise Broken Excerpt

Copyright © 2017 Anissa Garcia

I didn’t say anything. Instead my eyes roamed down his body as he approached. His jeans and shirt were perfectly snug. He sat beside me grabbing the remote, and I was hyper aware of his proximity. He smelled like fabric softener and aftershave. It was familiar and comfortable.

“Hilary,” his voice was soft as his eyes met mine. “Stop looking at me like that.”  

“Like what?” I blinked at him with innocence.

“Like you want me to make love to you,” he said breathlessly.  

My heart skipped a beat. I fumbled with my hands. “Don’t flatter yourself, Collins.” His phone trilled from his pocket. He reached in to check it, looked at the screen and hit the end button. “Who’s Isabella?”  

He hesitated. “Uh, my chef.”  

I rolled my eyes. “Bullshit. You know I can tell when you’re lying.”   

“I’m not lying,” he laughed. “She’s my chef.”

“And your fuck buddy?” His eyes closed. Yup, he slept with her. His whole body tensed. “Do you like her?”  

His eyes shot to mine. “No. I mean, yes, but…not in that way.”

The pang of possessiveness that swept through me was familiar to when Graham said he was working late, and that his co-worker was just that. “Is she pretty?” I asked quietly.  

He nodded. “Very.”  

“Oh.” Ouch, that stung more than I wish it had. I snapped out of my pity party and stood. “Well, then? Why aren’t you answering her call? You could be with her now.”  

His bewilderment was obvious as I rushed to the window. It was hot and I needed a draft, and he was right. Drinking around each other wasn’t a good idea. He watched as I yanked on edges of the glass, trying to pry the window open.  

“I told you I don’t care for her in that way.”  

“So? You don’t have to care for her in that way in order to fuck. You did it already, didn’t you?” I struggled, but it wouldn’t budge. “Dammit, the window won’t open, and it’s so hot in here.”  

“Only once,” he mumbled, as if reluctant.  

“Spare me the details, Zachary.” I tugged, becoming breathless as I fought against it. My voice pitched higher as I hit the edges with my palms. "Stupid window.”  

He drew up behind me, placing his hands over mine. I froze as his body pressed against me. We lingered, my back on his chest. Fast paced breaths escaped him. His mouth was near my ear, the humidity of his breathing caused me to tremble.  

“Gently,” he spoke affectionately, drawing the window up. The crisp air didn’t make a difference when his warm body was near mine. His hands wrapped around my waist and he squeezed for only a second as his lips descended between my neck and shoulder. He gave the skin there a sweet kiss. His lips lingered longer than they should’ve. “You’re beautiful,” he whispered. His nose grazed over my neck as he pulled away. “Graham will regret letting you go for the rest of his life.”  

Chills ran down my spine, all thoughts of Graham long vanished. My ringing body turned, needing more of Zach’s touch. His warm palms cupped my cheeks. I wanted more of him. All of him. He looked amazing tonight. I loved the way his emerald green eyes anchored on mine, promising me my darkest desires were a whisper away. His thick, dark hair swirled in waves I wanted to run my hands through. His strong touch had me reeling, and when he denied himself being a good man, instead of pushing me away, it only made feelings trickle in through the cracks of my heart.  

He backed off, headed to the stairs, escaping me, leaving me in complete need. Bitterness toward my brother was creeping over me. Zach wouldn’t lose his friend, his boss. I was a risk he wasn’t willing to take. I had to remember what Zach said when he left me that day. Hilary, this can’t ever happen. I was sure he’d stick by what he said. He was a good man, after all, and a good man didn’t break his promises, but maybe, just maybe, some promises were meant to be broken.    

Praise for The Promise Series

"Fall in love with Evan and Grace in A Promise Kept, an absolutely delicious debut from Anissa Garcia." - New York Times, USA Today Bestselling Author, J. Kenner on A PROMISE KEPT

"A super sweet, sexy romance that left me with the biggest smile on my face. I totally loved A Promise Kept!" - New York Times, USA Today Bestselling Author, AL Jackson on A PROMISE KEPT

"Anissa Garcia has the unique ability to draw out emotions that I didn't even know I had." - Devious Book Blog on A PROMISE KEPT

"This has to be the most beautifully and well written book that I have read this year!" - Danielle, Short and Sassy Reviews on A PROMISE KEPT

"A Promise Made was lovely, sweet, intriguing, and proved that true love can and will prevail. Five star contemporary romance." - Audrey Carlan,#1 NYT Bestselling Author on A PROMISE MADE

"Anissa Garcia delivers us another sexy romance with strong characters you can't help but fall in love with. She promises to be an author to watch out for and add to your must click list!" - Love Affair With Fiction on A PROMISE MADE

Other Books in The Promise Series

A PROMISE KEPT

A PROMISE MADE

A PROMISE IGNITED (a short story)

UNDERCOVER ATTRACTION (Coming soon!)

About Anissa Garcia

Anissa Garcia resides in Austin, Texas and earned her Bachelor's Degree in Speech Communications and English. She has held an array of jobs including Public Relationship Manager for Barnes and Noble. Wanting a change of pace, she moved to Los Angeles where she attended The American Academy of Dramatic Arts, and trained full-time in theatre. After working in Hollywood, she returned to Texas where she has written articles for Cosmopolitan and Lady Couture. When not writing stores, watching movies, or drinking a latte, she loves to daydream about romantic fictional men. You can find her online at  http://www.anissagarcia.com.                                                                          

Connect with Anissa: Website | Blog | Facebook | Twitter | Goodreads | Amazon

Once Upon A By Charlotte E. Hart Book Blitz!

Once Upon A

By Charlotte E. Hart

BLURB:

Alana Williams is three published authors. She has been for years, but now she wants to add another voice to her whirlwind of deadlines and unachievable targets. Trouble is, she knows nothing of her latest literary undertaking – KINK.

*****

Alana

It began as research. Just research. The technical approach. One that delivers the content necessary for a hidden culture to seem plausible, even if it’s not. Readers expect perfection from me. They want the experience. They need to be taken on a journey. That’s my job as a writer.

Blaine Jacobs is his name. He’s my research. A man who seems as logical and focused as me. A man who agrees to help. A man who, regardless of his stature in the community, seems to offer a sense of realism to this strange section of society. And even if he does occasionally interrupt my data with dark brooding eyes and a questionably filthy mouth, what does it matter? It’s just research, isn’t it? It’s not real. None of this is. Nothing will come of it or change my mind.

So why am I confused?

I’m becoming lost.

Falling apart.

And Blaine Jacobs, no matter how calm he might have seemed at first, now appears to linger on the edges of sanity, pushing my boundaries with every whispered word.

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SNIPPET #1:

There are so many stories. So many characters. And it’s become constant. It’s a hive of other people’s feelings, other people’s emotions inside me. Murder and mayhem. Sex, love and romance. Beaches and holidays, wishes and dreams. I can’t even remember my own dreams anymore. Maybe I never had any, or maybe they’ve been realized and I missed them while I was writing everyone else’s happily ever afters. I don’t know, but they’re not here anymore giving me a purpose to all this. It’s just a constant drive of forward momentum, barely giving me enough time to smell my own roses.

“Lana?”

“What?

“I was asking about your sexy Dom pants.”

“What about him?”

“Name?”

“I’m not allowed to tell you that. You know the ethics behind research,” I reply incredulously, finally breaking through the throng of people out into the small square where we afternoon sprint write. “And he most definitely is not mine, Bree.”

In fact, I doubt men like Blaine Jacobs belong to anyone.

SNIPPET #2:

He made it feel that way with his hushed obscenities in my ear and his solid frame tugging me back into it. Blaine Jacobs, in those few minutes, made the abhorrent seem plausible. He made the vile seem enlightened, enjoyable even, and he did it with nothing but his satin like tone and his sense of ownership around me. He made the distasteful more believable than normality could ever be, with just his touch.

AUTHOR BIO:

Charlotte is an erotic romance/suspense author living in the heart of the Shropshire countryside in Great Britain. She’s lived all across the United Kingdom due to her previous employment as an event manager, but finally settled in a small town that still reeks of old school England. Writing novels and poetry has now become a revolution for the soul, and she cherishes every second that she’s sitting at the laptop and tapping her way into a new character.

When not writing she enjoys socialising with close friends and travelling to all the major cities across the globe. Travel has always been a constant companion to reading throughout her life and only increases her thirst for stimulation.

With the release of The White Trilogy, and VDB Trilogy, she intends to spend the next year enjoying every element of being a published author and learning as much as she can.

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Take Your Time (A Boston Love Story) Author: Julie Johnson Blog Tour and Giveaway!!

Title: Take Your Time (A Boston Love Story) 

Author: Julie Johnson 

Genre: Romantic Comedy 

Release Date: June 11, 2017 

Hosted by: Buoni Amici Press, LLC. 

Delilah Sinclair has a certain reputation.

Maybe it's the way she walks (in skyscraper designer heels) or the way she talks (in total absence of a filter) or simply the shade of her hair (strawberry blonde). Maybe it's the string of broken hearts she's left across the city of Boston. (Sorry, boys.)

For Lila, catching a man's attention is never a struggle. It's the part that comes later – the happily-ever-after part – that always seems to trip her up. All her friends may be settling down, but this fiery redhead has no intentions of ever being tamed…

Until she meets a man just as wild.

Luca "Blaze" Buchanan is the best fighter to come out of Boston in years. Men want to be him, women want to be with him, and no one smart ever bets against him. He's more savage than knight-in-shining-armor, but that suits him just fine: he has no plans to ever allow a woman to domesticate him.

That is, until a certain sultry redhead finds herself in need of salvation. In the midst of sudden danger, their slow-burning attraction sparks into something far hotter… an inferno neither of them knows how to put out.

One thing is indisputable: no one is walking away without getting singed...

** TAKE YOUR TIME is a full-length contemporary romance about a girl determined not to settle… and the alpha who tears her careful plans into pieces. It is the fourth installment of the internationally bestselling BOSTON LOVE STORY series and can be read as a complete standalone. Due to sexy scenes, a sassy, red-headed heroine, and a bossy, unbearably sexy hero, it is recommended for readers ages 17 and up. **

                                                   

   

    

 

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  JULIE JOHNSON is a twenty-something Boston native suffering from an extreme case of Peter Pan Syndrome. When she's not writing, Julie can most often be found adding stamps to her passport, drinking too much coffee, striving to conquer her Netflix queue, and Instagramming pictures of her dog. (Follow her: @author_julie) She published her debut novel LIKE GRAVITY in August 2013, just before her senior year of college, and she's never looked back. Since, she has published five more novels, including the bestselling BOSTON LOVE STORY series. Her books have appeared on Kindle and iTunes Bestseller lists around the world, as well as in AdWeek, Publishers Weekly, and USA Today. You can find Julie on Facebook or contact her on her website www.juliejohnsonbooks.com. Sometimes, when she can figure out how Twitter works, she tweets from @AuthorJulie. For major book news and updates, subscribe to Julie's newsletter: http://eepurl.com/bnWtHH

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Book #3, ONE GOOD REASON

 
                                                          

   

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Coming of Age by Deborah Beatriz Blum Book Spotlight and Q&A!

About the Book!

The startling coming-of-age story of famed anthropologist Margaret Mead whose radical ideas challenged the social and sexual norms of her time.
The story begins in 1923, when twenty-two year old Margaret Mead is living in New York City, engaged to her childhood sweetheart and on the verge of graduating from college. Seemingly a conventional young lady, she marries, but shocks friends when she decides to keep her maiden name. After starting graduate school at Columbia University, she does the unthinkable: she first enters into a forbidden relationship with a female colleague, then gets caught up in an all-consuming and secret affair with a brilliant older man. As her sexual awakening continues, she discovers it is possible to be in love with more than one person at the same time.
While Margaret’s personal explorations are just beginning, her interest in distant cultures propels her into the new field of anthropology. Ignoring the constraints put on women, she travels alone to a tiny speck of land in the South Pacific called Samoa to study the sexual behavior of adolescent girls. Returning home on an ocean liner nine months later, a chance encounter changes the course of her life forever.
Now, drawing on letters, diaries, and memoirs, Deborah Beatriz Blum reconstructs these five transformative years of Margaret Mead’s life, before she became famous, revealing the story that she hid from the world – during her lifetime and beyond.

Author Q&A

1. Tell us about Margaret Mead; why did she make history?

     It’s always funny to be asked to explain Margaret Mead and what she did, because for years — in fact for most of the Twentieth Century— she was one of the most well known women in this country, a true American icon. So legendary, in fact, that in 1999, when the US Postal service made a series of stamps to commemorate each decade, her image, along with those of Babe Ruth and Charles Lindbergh, was chosen to represent the 1920s.  Even today, when her name is not familiar, her quotes remain profoundly relevant: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.”  And in the Library of Congress, the Margaret Mead Papers is the largest collection assembled around any one single individual.

    So how did she get there? Born in 1901, at the end of the Victorian era, she was raised in a world in which women had few opportunities.  She, like other young ladies, was expected to marry early and was not encouraged to pursue any kind of work outside the home. Margaret upended all of that. To sum her up I’d say that Margaret Mead was a firecracker. She challenged the social and sexual constraints that kept women in their place, giving them permission to express themselves in ways that had never before existed. It’s fair to say that without her, the revolutions of the 1960s — including women’s liberation and free sex — would never have happened.  She did all of this by being, of all things, an anthropologist. It's remarkable really, when you think about the changes she was able to bring about.

2. Tell us a little about Mead as a passionate young woman discovering her own sexuality. How you think it affected what she chose to study?

    The story picks up at the point in Margaret’s life when she was living in New York City, on the verge of wedding her childhood sweetheart, and about to start graduate school in anthropology at Columbia University.  She soon found out that while married life provided security, it was lacking in passion. When she was unexpectedly caught up in an affair with a brilliant older man, and then in a forbidden relationship with a female colleague, she began to question the concept of monogamy.

    She also started to test limits in her professional life.

    As a graduate student in anthropology she was expected to do fieldwork with a Native American tribe somewhere in the continental United States. Over the objections of friends, family and colleagues, she insisted on going to Polynesia. In August of 1925, she traveled 9000 miles, first by train and then by ocean liner, to a tiny speck of land in the South Pacific called Samoa. Once there she set to work to investigate the way adolescent girls in a “primitive culture” differed from their counterparts back in America. The subject coincides with issues she had been wrestling with in her own life, namely — why can’t men and women experiment with sex before marriage?

     Then a chance encounter on the ocean liner bringing her home added to the tumult in her personal life. Yet that encounter, with all of the confusing and ecstatic emotions it unleashed, built on her own sexual awakening, and positioned her to write Coming of Age in Samoa, a compelling account about young love. Although ostensibly about intimate relationships in the South Seas, it was replete with meaning for the Western world, too. The book catapulted her into world fame.

3. Why did you choose Margaret Mead as a topic?

    My interest in Margaret Mead began with my own chance encounter in the 1970s.  At the time, Mead was in her early seventies and world famous, I was a recent college grad, working as a receptionist at a small publishing company in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Late one afternoon, while I was sitting at the switchboard and counting the minutes until closing time, I heard a noise in the foyer. Looking down the hall I saw an old woman struggling to get out of a heavy overcoat. Her hair was mousy gray, her shape squat and dumpy. Surprisingly, her mere presence was causing a commotion among the men. I asked a co-worker to tell me who she was. With great reverence she whispered, “That’s Margaret Mead.”

    I’d never seen men behave that way around a woman who wasn’t beautiful. What gave this old woman so much power? Without my realizing it, a seed had been planted. I began to read about her, starting with her memoir. The ideas she floated had to do with finding one’s own unique path in the world and having the confidence to assert oneself. This resonated - it was the way I wanted to live my own life.  

4. You indicate that Margaret Mead kept the personal details of her life secret, during her lifetime and beyond. What was she hiding and how did you uncover her secrets?

   As a young woman, Margaret came to believe that she was incapable of maintaining “a single hearted devotion.” She questioned why love and intimacy need be limited to one person at a time, or, for that matter, limited to the opposite sex. Once she gave herself permission to enter a same-sex relationship, she was extremely careful to keep it a secret. For the time in which she lived, her behavior was downright taboo.  She knew, if the details of her affair ever came to light, her reputation would be ruined. She was so successful at hiding that her secrets were not laid bare until 2009, many years after her death, when her letters were released into the public domain. I was able to make digital copies of hundreds of these letters and study them. They provided a window into her mind during her formative years.

5. Thinking of all the bookclub readers who are reading this interview, if you could put together your ideal bookclub for your book – made up of other authors – who would you pick and what would you want to discuss?

    My main mentor as a writer – my father, Edwin Blum — (he co-wrote Stalag 17 with Billy Wilder) used to say that all writing is just thinking.  It took me a long time to understand this.  And now, believing this to be the case, I would be thrilled to be in a room with some of my favorite writers who I consider great thinkers.

    For me, when I take on a book project, the story is everything. That being the case I’d love to discuss the process of finding the story in a real-life situation and using letters and memoirs to get inside the heads of the actual participants, the way that two masters of narrative non-fiction do, namely Erik Larson (In the Garden of Beasts) and David Grann (Killers of the Flower Moon).

    It would also be fascinating to have some historians of women’s history there, like Doris Kearns Goodwin and Gloria Steinem, who would help us focus on the role Margaret Mead played in changing the consciousness of American women, and men.

    And finally, because I make an effort to construct my non-fiction books so they read like novels, I’d like to hear from authors Lily King (who fictionalized a later episode in Margaret Mead’s life in Euphoria), and Paula McClain (who fictionalized Hemmingway’s first marriage in Paris Wife) to explain how they straddled the line between the novel and non-fiction.

  Short of these writers joining me, I have to say that I would be equally thrilled to drop into a random book club, somewhere in another part of country, with people I’ve never met.  We could tackle the same questions and have just as good a time.

About the Author
DEBORAH BEATRIZ BLUM'S interest in other cultures and far-away lands began when she traveled the world as a writer on the television series In Search Of.... Her first book, Bad Karma: A True Story of Obsession and Murder, took her on an extended journey through India. Since then she has sold story ideas for feature films, producing several, including Clean and Sober, and has worked as a writer-director of documentaries for the National Geographic Channel, the Discovery Channel, and the History Channel. She makes her home in Los Angeles with her husband and three sons.

Breaking Autumn by Jackson Kane Book Tour and Giveaway!

Breaking Autumn by Jackson Kane

Genre: A Bad Boy Stuntman Romance 

Series: Bad Boy Stuntman #1 

Publication Date: July 10, 2017 

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 I'm Hollywood's best kept secret and I'll do anything to keep it that way. No one can know all the bad sh*t I did to become the world's most dangerous stuntman. All your favorite action heroes were trained by me, but I'm no hero. I've made a thousand mistakes in my life. The biggest one was saving Autumn Moore. Now, because of a viral video, I'm being blackmailed into doing the impossible. I have one month to take this geeky, starry-eyed YouTube celebrity, and make her a bad ass leading lady. I expected her to fall apart when I got my hands on her. What I never expected was her strength. Her beautiful innocence threatens every lie I've told myself about happiness not being for me. When I'm with her, I can feel parts of my heart that I thought were numb. But it doesn't matter. The dark past I've been trying to outrun is about to show up on my doorstep. When it does, it'll destroy us both. 

Breaking Autumn is a standalone, full-length romance with a HEA and NO cliffhangers or cheating. It's a white-knuckled, screaming hot, sex-fueled thrill ride into the dangerous world of film and stunts and was written by a real life professional stuntman, American Ninja Warrior athlete and (as of this book) cover model!