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Brandon Gray is the pen name of Braden Bell (Brandon writes YA fiction; Braden writes for middle grades). Braden holds a Ph.D. from New York University. He and his family live on a quiet, wooded lot in Tennessee, where he teaches middle school theatre and music. An experienced performer, Braden enjoys reading, gardening, and long summer afternoons writing in his hammock. His most notable skill is being able to eat a full rack of BBQ ribs with one hand on long drives.

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Can a human heart overcome a demon soul?

When soul-eating demons overrun his world, Kaelis, a young seraph warrior, uses the Queen’s ring to open a portal in space and flee with the infant heir to the throne, landing on earth. Unbeknownst to him, the demon leader, Nsark, follows through the portal, determined to devour the soul of every last seraph, especially the Queen’s heir. After Kaelis hides the baby, Nsark creates the ultimate weapon by fathering a half-human, half-demon: a soul-stealer’s child. 

Sixteen years later, an awkward teen named James struggles to fit in with his peers. In a last-ditch effort, he joins the school play, where he meets Lucy. Something deep draws them together, and their friendship reveals their hidden pasts: one is an angel, one is half-demon. Lucy and James find themselves pulled into an age-old war between their peoples. Hunted by relentless enemies, and grappling with deep-seated instincts and strange new powers, they must fight for their lives, their souls, and each other.

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Top Ten List:

1. My wife

2. My kids

3. My students

4. Dr. Pepper

5. BBQ ribs

6. Amazon gift cards

7. Old Christmas movies

8. Turner Classic Movies

9. My new Amazon Firestick (love this!!!)

10. My job--teaching choir and theatre at a middle school.

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Edge of Yesterday by Sue-Ellen Welfonder and Tarah Scott Book Tour and Giveaway!

From USA Today & Internationally Bestselling Authors
Sue-Ellen Welfonder and Tarah Scott

In a place beyond rules,
daring is power,
and love is the greatest threat of all...

EDGE OF YESTERDAY

Sue-Ellen Welfonder and Tarah Scott

Genre: Historical Romance, Time Travel
Series: Edge Series, Book 1
Publisher: Broken Arm Publishing
Publication Date: December 27, 2016
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Two of Scottish romance’s most loved authors have joined pens to write a thrilling new time travel series filled with passion, danger, and intrigue. These never-before-published novels will sweep you to Scotland’s Highland Heatheredge, where magic is real, time is relevant, and there is no escape from desire…

Men are disappearing in the Highland crofting village of Heatheredge. The authorities suspect foul play, but without signs of violence—or bodies—they can’t prove a thing.

World champion swordsman Cailean Ross is living the fantasy of a lifetime as the victor of Heatheredge’s medieval reenactment Gathering. But when the fantasy turns into reality, swordplay becomes a fight to the death and he finds himself among the ‘missing’ statistics.

Julianna Mackay flees a man she fears is an evil wizard and literally runs into handsome Cailean Ross. Cailean defends Lady Julianna from her attackers. Together, they set out in search of the key to a six-hundred-year-old curse that can only be broken in medieval Scotland.

When the veil of time is lifted, Cailean and Julianna find that love may not be enough to save them or those they hold dear.

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About the Authors

USA Today and Internationally bestselling authors Sue-Ellen Welfonder and Tarah Scott have more in common than friendship. For many years, they’ve both enjoyed spending their working hours in a world of romance and adventure, bringing handsome Highlanders and their ladies to life. Now they’ve joined pens, deciding that when it comes to happily-ever-afters, two writers can stir up even more danger and desire for the characters they love. The EDGE series, Scottish time travel romances, is their first co-authored project, and launches Dec. 27th with EDGE OF YESTERDAY.

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Sue-Ellen Welfonder: http://www.welfonder.com/
Tarah Scott: http://www.tarahscott.com/


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EDGE OF YESTERDAY Fun Facts II

SEW:  In EDGE OF YESTERDAY, Cailean is astounded when Julianna uses a medicinal pocan cheann (bag of heads) to tend his wounds. The heads were those of an adder, a toad, and a newt. The authors did not make this up. Pocan cheanns were used by dipping the bag into a boundary stream and then applying the water that dripped from the bag to a wound. The practice existed in the medieval Highlands and Isles and into the 20th century.  

SEW:  Heatheredge and most other locations in EDGE OF YESTERDAY are fictitious, but all are based on actual places. One real location is Cailean’s hometown, Cumbernauld in Scotland’s Central Belt. The name means ‘meeting of the burns’ and, in distant times, was spelled as Cumyrnald. Cailean uses this version when speaking to medievals as he knows they would not know the town by its modern name. Many places in Scotland bore entirely different names in medieval days.    

TS: I use Dragon recognition voice software, affectionately known to Sue-Ellen and me as ‘the dragon.’ Why? Because the software, despite being state of the art, creates some pretty funny bloopers. For ‘wanton woman’ the dragon wrote ‘wonton woman.’ (Chinese, anyone?) One particularly funny blooper reads: ‘His eyes dropped to the thatch of golden curls between her lips.’ Needless to say, ‘lips’ was supposed to be ‘legs.’  

TS: Something I thought was really funny was our growing interest in Crows. I didn’t know it, but crows are exceptionally intelligent. Research shows that they are able to problem solve a two part problem. For example, a treat was placed in a narrow box with a glass front. The crow could see the treat. A short stick lay on the floor of the crow’s cage. The crow had to take that stick, use it to get another longer stick from inside another narrow box, then take that longer stick to maneuver the treat out of its box. Researchers were amazed that the crow understood that it had to use the shorter stick to get to the longer stick. Another interesting fact about crows is that they recognize faces and will warn their comrades about a face they recognize that they fear.  

TS: A fun fact—for me, at any rate—was the theories of time travel and alternate universes that Cailean considered when he tried to figure out where he was. With no signs of modern life, not so much an electrical outlet, a road sign, or an airplane in the sky, Cailean quickly realized that things weren’t as they should be. He’s no scientist. In fact, Cailean is an engineering professor. But he liked to watch science fiction movies and he’d read some of the classic sci fi authors, so he was familiar with the pop culture idea of time travel. None of that prepared him for the reality of fourteenth century Scotland.

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The Mood for Trouble Agent Provocateur Book 1 by Wynter S.K Blog Tour and Giveaway!

The Mood for Trouble

Agent Provocateur Book 1

by Wynter S.K

Genre: Romantic Suspense

It takes a special blend of insanity and courage to answer the call to become a United States federal agent. CIA officer Charlotte “Chase” Moreno is equal parts crazy and brave, which, when combined properly, creates one kick-ass, dead-shot, often reckless spy.

Chase and sexy, roughneck DEA Special Agent Jonathan Harper are forced to work together to bring down an international drug and weapons syndicate, and there’s one problem: they can’t stand each other. But when he comes to her rescue on their first mission together, it’s impossible for either of them to deny their growing feelings, or the heat that’s boiling just beneath the surface between them. But one sizzling, unforgettable night between them in Sin City might have just changed the tide--forever.

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Wynter S.K. is her name, and razor-sharp romance is her game. She considers herself a pioneer of the notion that crème brûlée is a good source of calcium, and has the uncanny ability to explain to you, in detail, why wine is basically salad. She’s turned vocal novelizations of her favorite TV shows (Supernatural, anyone?) into a drinking game, and frequently laughs herself into asthma attacks.

She’s mom to two furry kids, the Pushy Pomeranian and the Contemptuous Cat. Oh, and you know those idealized, Alpha male, “book boyfriend” types we all love that are super tough and sweet and hot, all in one unfair and unrealistic package? Yeah, she’s married to one. He’s a cop and a U.S. Army soldier, and after over a dozen years together, he still makes her heart go ka-thump.

Wynter S.K. is a romantic suspense writer, with a special emphasis on strong, heart-of-gold, gruff Alpha males and butt-kicking heroines—no damsels in distress over here! Her favorite pairings are two souls drawn together under crazy circumstances and recognize their soul’s counterpart in the other. Mutual healing, painful growth, and of course, lots of red-hot romps.

Wynter lives for the happily-ever-after, but if, and only if, it follows a hard-wrought battle. Wynter loves to (figuratively, of course) stab readers in the heart before making it all better again, so all you have to do is trust her to tell you a good story, and strap yourself in—it’s going to be one hell of a ride.

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In the Den of the English Lion Series Spotlight!

A Second Daniel

London 1558. An orphan from a far-off land is renamed “Noah Ames,” and given every advantage the English Crown can bestow.

London 1592. Now an experienced barrister, Noah witnesses what appears to be a botched robbery outside the Rose Theater, a crime he soon suspects to be part of a plot against Queen Elizabeth herself. Steadfast in his loyalty to the Queen, Noah must use every bit of his knowledge and skill to lure her most disloyal subject onto the only battlefield where Noah has the advantage ... a court of law – though in doing so he risks public exposure of his darkest secret, a secret so shocking that its revelation could cost him everything: the love of the only woman who can offer him happiness, his livelihood ... even his life.
 
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The Impress of Heaven

London 1600. When the Earl of Essex is removed from command and placed under arrest for reaching a forbidden truce with the Irish rebels, Serjeant Noah Ames reluctantly accepts a commission to investigate the earl’s fitness for command, and the two are pitted against each other once again. Meanwhile, Noah’s beautiful daughter, Lady Jessica, has sought to remarry into the nobility, but events have thus far frustrated her plans. One day, Noah attends a briefing where the Queen’s new commander displays maps of English military positions in Ireland. Noah’s suspicions are aroused when he sees that one map is missing a watermark appearing on all the others. When he informs his young barrister friend Jonathan of his concern, he inadvertently sets in motion events that throw Jonathan and Lady Jessica together on a journey across England into ever greater peril.

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A Dragon in the Ashes

London 1600. When an attempt is made on Queen Elizabeth’s life, Serjeant Noah Ames races to her rescue, then sets out to identify the culprit among a band of foreigners who’ve newly arrived from the Continent to join with the seditious Lord Essex. In the course of his investigation, Noah uncloaks an unmitigated rein of evil that has resulted in the murders of kings, queens, and religious minorities ... and which now threatens Noah’s life for reasons no one would ever suspect. Will he pay the ultimate price for forgetting that the past is never past?

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Neal also offers an exclusive prequel short story, “Escape,” to his fans.

Neal Roberts and his wife live on Long Island, New York, where they have two grown children. Neal is a practicing attorney and adjunct law professor, and spends as much time as possible researching his next novel while enhancing his lawyer's pallor. When he's not writing Elizabethan politico-legal novels, practicing law, or teaching, he's an editor of an international peer-reviewed publication in the field of intellectual property law. Neal is also an avid student of Elizabethan literature and politics, which subjects form the basis of his first novel, A Second Daniel. His analysis of Shakespeare's Sonnet 121 has been extensively cited by some of the most important authorities seeking to identify the true author of the poems and plays attributed to William Shakespeare.

Find out more at his website: http://www.authornealroberts.com

Ashes to Fire Author: Emily B. Martin Book Tour!

Dog Eared Publicity Presents ASHES TO FIRE by Emily B. Martin, on tour January 31 - February 10, 2017

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Title: 

Ashes to Fire

Author: Emily B. MartinPublisher: Harper Voyager Impulse

Genre: Dark Fantasy

Format: Ecopy

“You are a country.”

Those words have been the guiding force behind Queen Mona’s every move since she was a little girl—the idea that all her actions and desires were, first and foremost, decided based on what was best for Lumen Lake. It had kept her alive after the Alcoran invasion, it had driven her to retake her country, and now it is the steely resolve she needs to finally confront the despotic Seventh King, Celeno.

But when her diplomatic mission finds herself on the run through the swamps of Cyprien—accompanied by the unlikeliest group of companions—Mona discovers that while she is her country, she is also someone who has been sheltered by principles and bound by past mistakes. Now she must struggle to reshape her view of the world and face intimate new truths—not only for the good of her country, but for herself, as well.

A desperate journey to secure peace, and an even greater journey to discover herself, Ashes to Fire is the captivating and adventurous follow-up to Emily B. Martin’s Woodwalker—once more with cover art by the author herself!

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Meet the Author

I am an author, illustrator, and environmental educator.  My favorite genre to write is fantasy-adventure, while my favorite reads are usually detailed, thought-provoking historical fiction. Digital painting is my usual art medium, but I also love keeping watercolor journals and pencil sketchbooks.

Writing and art aren't my only passions.  In fact, they're not even my official expertise (at least on paper).  In 2012, I earned my Master’s degree in Parks and Protected Area Management from Clemson University.  During the summer, I work as an interpretive park ranger with the National Park Service (with the hat and everything).

I love to hike, camp, and backpack with my family, and while I call southern Appalachia home, I have a not-so-secret love affair with the Rocky Mountains.  I live in South Carolina with my husband and two daughters.

I am represented by Valerie Noble of Donaghy Literary Agency.

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Tour Schedule

Tuesday, January 31
Book featured at Books, Dreams, Life
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Wednesday, February 1
Book featured at Turning Another Page
Book featured at Mello and June

Thursday, February 2
Book featured at Bound 2 Escape
Book featured at A Title Wave

Friday, February 3
Book featured at Celticlady's Reviews
Book featured at The Dark Phantom

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Monday, February 6
Book reviewed at Deal Sharing Aunt
Book featured at A Book Lover

Tuesday, February 7
Book featured at Warrior Woman Winmill
Book featured at Voodoo Princess

Wednesday, February 8
Book featured at Authors and Readers Book Corner
Book featured at Write and Take Flight

Thursday, February 9
Book featured at I'm Shelf-ish
Book featured at Lover of Literature

Friday, February 10
Book reviewed at Cover 2 Cover
Book featured at Bent Over Bookwords

#MoBPromos Her Brother's Keeper The Jane Barnaby Adventures, book 3 by J.J. DiBenedetto Release Tour!

HER BROTHER'S KEEPER

The Jane Barnaby Adventures, book 3
by J.J. DiBenedetto

Lyrical Lights by Maria La Serra Reveal!

Lyrical Lights
Maria La Serra
Publication date: Spring 2017
Genres: New Adult, Romance

He was the oxidizer, to my metal.

The crazy thing is, I believed we could have made it but sparkles only give a brief burst of light, then you’re only left in the abyss of blackness.

He went right, and I went left.

 

When Mable Harper gets a chance to become a fashion model, she leaves her old life behind and moves to New York. However, she quickly learns the backlash of the high-pressure and competitive career that maybe she wasn’t cut out for this business. After being dropped by her agent and relentlessly unlucky in love, she spends the lasts few days tying up loose ends before returning home and that’s all she intended to do until her life collides with Simon Rowe, but the moment she meets him, she knew it could only be bittersweet.

 

Simon Rowe is a fashion photographer who marches to the beat of his drum. Never had any wish for success, only wanted to keep doing what he loved without getting tangled in the hype. Simon had suffered enough loss in the past that there was no room for anything else than his career, that is until one fateful hot summer night he meets the golden Aphrodite. He quickly comes to her rescue and realized she would be impossible to resist, but only when he gives Mable a chance, and lands her on a fashion shoot of a high-profile glossy magazine, sets the wheels in motion. Now he’s at risk of losing her for good if he doesn’t come clean about his past but that would mean confronting his deep regret. He knows he had broken his number one rule, and that’s never get involved with the people you work with.

 

When Love is on autofocus … Either a perfect picture or a miss of a promised one.

Can their love thrive under the lights?

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Maria La Serra, a fashion designer, turned writer, lives in Montreal with her husband and two children. She will try everything at least once, except for skiing, hiking or camping-okay anything relating to activities done in the great outdoors. The Proverbial Mr. Universe is her first novel.

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#MoBPromos Dealing with the Viscount by Clair Brett Release Tour!

DEALING WITH THE VISCOUNT Improper Wives for Proper Lords (Book 1) by Clair Brett

Romance Between the Pages Podcast!

Ever wondered about the personalities behind your favorite books? Victoria Danann's new podcast with Riley J. Ford has an incredible lineup of authors booked through January. No question is out of bounds. Check it out!

THIS WEEK'S BEST SELLING AUTHOR...

MANDY M. ROTH!

NY Times & USA Today Bestselling Author Mandy M. Roth is a self-proclaimed Goonie, loves 80s music and movies and wishes leg warmers would come back into fashion. She also thinks the movie The Breakfast Club should be mandatory viewing for…okay, everyone. When she’s not dancing around her office to the sounds of the 80s, she’s busy writing sexy paranormal operatives. Mandy lives in Oxford, Mississippi with her husband and three boys. She has sold well over 1 million ebooks.

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The A'vean Chronicles Book 2 By G R Thomas Book Tour and Giveaway!

Surrender

The A'vean Chronicles Book 2

By G R Thomas

Genre: Fantasy

Sophia Woodville's life is anything but ordinary. You can't be ordinary when you've discovered your'e an Earth-born Angel. Alone and suddenly powerless in the stinking heat of the Daimon realm, Sophia has been betrayed by the one person she trusted most. She must find a way to escape and continue her quest to unravel the clues left for her eyes only, fighting the Zombie-like Rogues to preserve the prophecies of Enoch. Only then can the Fallen Angels return to their homeland and humanity be released from the grip of Yeqon and his evil horde.

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Awaken

The A'vean Chronicles Book 1

SOME PEOPLE AREN'T DESTINED TO BE ORDINARY.

With a special gift held close to her heart, it was always going to be hard for Sophia Woodville to live an ordinary life.

As a 20 year old nursing grad, she thought she had her future all sorted.

However, destiny was about to intervene.

Her secret was not so secret. The gift she possessed was just a hint of something far beyond her wildest imagination.

Sophia will be pulled, kicking and screaming, into an unseen, ancient world that challenges all that she thought to be true of herself, her family and the origins of humanity.

Original sin, forbidden love and her life in constant danger.

Will Sophia survive this dark twist of fate?

Will the devil be her saviour?

Will an Angel be her downfall?

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I grew up in Melbourne, Australia in the 1970's when entertainment came in the form of sport or a good book. I chose both. An avid love affair with my pinto horse ensued as well as a healthy diet of any book I could get my hands on. English and history were always my favourite subjects so logically I studied to become a Critical Care Nurse! Books, particularly historical fantasy, have remained my number one go to for a healthy retreat from the craziness of the real world. After having a beautiful family and bringing a wonderful nursing career to a close, I finally took the time to write down one of the many stories that have been swirling around in my dreams for years. My dreamscape is rich with fantasy that both inspires and frightens me at the same time. I am pulling out those threads and spinning them into the type of stories I love to read. I'm finally letting out all my angels and demons.

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