RELEASE BLITZ of Stepping Over The Line by Laura Marie Altom

Title: Stepping Over the Line 

Author: Laura Marie Altom

Publisher: Loveswept
Genre: NA Contemporary Romance

Release Date: May 31, 2016

Blurb

If you love the stepbrother romances of Sabrina Paige, Caitlin Daire, and Krista Lakes, you’ll fall hard for Laura Marie Altom’s tale of forbidden love—a red-hot novel in her Shamed series featuring two tortured souls with an unbreakable bond.

As the chief legal counsel for dot-com billionaire Liam Stone, Garrett Marsden has grown accustomed to being universally loathed. In fact, he welcomes it. Because the bigger the fight, the easier it is to run from his desire for someone he can never have: his stepsister. But when Garrett flies back to Julep, Mississippi, for Savannah’s med school graduation, a steamy encounter makes all his wildest dreams come true—and leads to his undoing. Because that’s when he meets Savannah’s boyfriend. . . .

Five years later, Savannah Boudreaux couldn’t be happier as a small-town Southern doctor and single mom to a young son. There’s only one thing missing. Her stepbrother, Garrett, has just been released from prison, and although he may be a free man, he’s become a bitter shadow of the kind and caring man who once came to her rescue. Now Savannah will cross the line to save Garrett from himself: to prove that he can live his life, love whoever he wants . . . and be a wonderful father to their son.

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Laura Marie Altom is the author of more than forty books in three different genres. Now that her kids are in college, Altom spends her days writing and chasing after a menagerie of pets: a mini long-haired dachshund named Cocoa, a Yorkie named Chewie, a mutt named Sweet Pea, a giant kitty named Foxy, and Domino—a black-and-white stealth cat she rarely sees. She’s happily married to her college sweetheart (go Hogs!), and when night falls, she steals a few romantic moments for herself with her own hunky cover stud. 
 

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Girls On Fire by Robin Wasserman

About Girls on Fire

• Hardcover: 368 pages
• Publisher: Harper (May 17, 2016)

Three girls went into the woods; two came out. It sounds like a joke, or a riddle. But it was only, would ever after be, the rest of our life. Shortly after Halloween, 1991, the local high-school basketball star is found in the woods near Battle Creek, Pennsylvania, with a bullet in his head and a gun in his hand—a discovery that sends tremors through this conservative community, already unnerved by growing rumors of satanic worship in the region. In the wake of this incident, bright but lonely Hannah Dexter is befriended by Lacey Champlain, a dark-eyed, Cobain-worshipping bad influence. Lacey forges a fast, intimate bond with the impressionable Dex, making her over in her own image—and unleashing a fierce defiance with unexpected and harrowing consequences. By turns a shocking story of love and violence and an addictive portrait of the intoxication of female friendship, Girls on Fire is an incendiary and unforgettable snapshot of girlhood: girls lost and found, girls weak and strong, girls who burn bright and brighter—and girls who flicker away.

My Thoughts…

Girls on Fire is unique.   I truly picked up the book with no idea what to expect.    I read the synopsis’ but I do not read other reviews until I finish writing my own so I can make my own opinions.     This is a story about a good girl being lead by a bad girl.   This is also a story about how lives can change when friends come into your life and the influences that friend can have for you.   

I wanted to be invested in the story.   I tried.  Yet, through the book I kept thinking where are the adults?  The teachers, parents, police officers, or anyone else.    These girls are running the town, staying out all night, causing trouble, and looking for trouble yet no adults seem to notice.   I understood what was happening with Lacey.   Her mom just didn’t care.   But what about Hannah’s parents?      Maybe I could not get past this because I have a teenager and a college student and I would notice if they were acting out as Hannah and Lacey were.  

This may sound like I don’t like the book.  I did.   Girls on Fire is not a quick and easy read.   It is slow and dark.     I enjoyed the story, needed to keep reading, and had to finish.     I am sure many will love this book, some will like it, and some will not like it.    This is certainly not a book for everyone.     I would recommend you pick up and form your own opinions.    I certainly did. 

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About Robin Wasserman

Robin Wasserman is a graduate of Harvard University and the author of several successful novels for young adults. A recent recipient of a MacDowell fellowship, she lives in Brooklyn, New York. Girls on Fire is her first novel for adults. Find out more about Robin at her website and connect with her on Twitter.

Sweet Agony by Jessie Lane RELEASE BLITZ

Title: Sweet Recovery

Series: Sweet #2/Ex Ops #4

Author: Jessie Lane

Genre: Romance

Release Date: May 30, 2016

He broke her heart… now he has to pick up the pieces.

Lucas Young met the woman meant for him when they were just children. He spent years pushing the sweet, innocent Ginny away for one reason or another instead of claiming what was his, breaking her heart in the process.

Five years later, he runs into Ginny, only he no longer recognizes the person she has become. The good-hearted, free-spirited girl he loved is now a shell of who she used to be, living the sort of life she never wanted. And Lucas is driven to find out why.

However, uncovering Ginny’s secrets will prove to be dangerous for them both.

Will he be able to piece back the broken woman who used to love him with every fiber of her being? Or did he push her away for good?

Warning: This is the second book (50,000+ word novel) in a three-part serial spin-off from the Ex Ops Series. Each of the three books will feature a piece of Lucas & Ginny's story and leads directly into the next installment. IN OTHER WORDS, THIS STORY ENDS ON A CLIFFHANGER. Also, be forewarned this story will make you laugh, cry, and possibly throw your e-reader at the wall... AGAIN. <- You've been warned.

As I crossed the dark, smoky room, I still couldn’t believe my luck. The chances that the very woman I had been looking for over the last five years being here at the same time I was were probably astronomical. Yet, there she was, dancing on top of a table with her eyes closed and her head tipped back as she swayed to the music, looking like sex and sin.

 

I was nothing but dirty, jagged pieces left raw from years at war, both on the inside and the out. And the only person who could glue me back together was less than ten feet away from me, giving the light of her smile to someone else. I had never wanted to murder someone so badly in my life.

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Perhaps it was foolish to jump so blindly back in love with a man who had shredded me into almost non-existence before, but I couldn’t help myself, not when it came to Lucas Young. On one hand, he was my kryptonite. On the other, he was my Holy Grail. The last thing I should want, yet the very thing I needed. The literal, breathing contradiction of my life. The only person who could destroy me with a word and build me back up with no words at all.

Jessie Lane is a best-selling author of Paranormal and Contemporary Romance, as well as, Upper YA Paranormal Romance/Fantasy.

She lives in Kentucky with her two little Rock Chicks in-the-making and her over protective alpha husband that she’s pretty sure is a latent grizzly bear shifter. She has a passionate love for reading and writing naughty romance, cliff hanging suspense, and out-of-this-world characters that demand your attention, or threaten to slap you around until you do pay attention to them.

Ex Ops Series: Secret Maneuvers #1 - Available Now Stripping Her Defenses #2 - Available Now Mission Delivery #2.5 - Available Now Sweet Series (Lucas Young): Sweet Agony #1/Ex Ops #3 - Available Now Sweet Recovery #2/Ex Ops #4 - Available Now Sweet Eternity #3/Ex Ops #5 - COMING SOON (July 2016)

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Who Do You Love by Jennifer Weiner

Who Do You Love by Jennifer Weiner  is part of the SheReads Fall book selections.     SheReads is a community of bloggers that as a group help promote specific books.   We share reviews, thoughts, and our feelings after reading books suggested to us by the wonderful people who run the SheReadsOrganization. 

Hardcover, 388 pages

Published August 11th 2015 by Atria Books

Rachel Blum and Andy Landis are eight years old when they meet late one night in an ER waiting room. Born with a congenital heart defect, Rachel is a veteran of hospitals, and she's intrigued by the boy who shows up all alone with a broken arm. He tells her his name. She tells him a story. After Andy's taken back to the emergency room and Rachel's sent back to her bed, they think they'll never see each other again.

Rachel, the beloved, popular, and protected daughter of two doting parents, grows up wanting for nothing in a fancy Florida suburb. Andy grows up poor in Philadelphia with a single mom and a rare talent that will let him become one of the best runners of his generation.

Over the course of three decades, through high school and college, marriages and divorces, from the pinnacles of victory and the heartbreak of defeat, Andy and Rachel will find each other again and again, until they are finally given a chance to decide whether love can surmount difference and distance and if they've been running toward each other all along.

With honesty, wit, and clear-eyed observations about men and women, love and fate, and the truth about happy endings, Jennifer Weiner delivers two of her most memorable characters, and a love story you'll never forget. 

My Thoughts…

Wonderful characters, heart tugging emotions, and a love story are exactly what Jennifer Weiner gives her readers in Who Do You Love.  Rachel and Andy meet when they are too young to understand that bond between them.   Their lives change, their paths continue to cross, yet the timing is never quite right for them to become the couple they deserve and want.     The obstacles between them sometimes seem insurmountable.    The love they feel is bigger than anything else in their lives.    

I enjoyed how the story is told from both Rachel and Andy’s points of view.   The chapters alternate and the stories are sometimes similar and sometimes very different.    By writing in this format Jennifer gives the reader an unique man/boy’s view of love, friendship, and life.   I really enjoyed Andy’s side of the story.    Rachel’s side of the story was what I felt was typical for a teenage girl heading towards womanhood.     As she grew up she stayed typical to what a woman would feel or how they would react to the events going on around them. 

I am a Jennifer Weiner fan.   Who Do You Love is another shining example of why I am a fan.    I recommend checking out this book. 

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