#GiveAway ~ The Art of Running in Heels by Rachel Gibson ~ @rachel_gibson

The Art of Running in Heels

Chinooks Romance Series

by Rachel Gibson

About the Book:

Running in five-inch stilettos is an art form.

Leaving your fiancé at the altar on live television is a disaster. Lexie Kowalsky thought she was ready to get married in front of millions of people, but at the last minute she fled the set of television’s hottest reality show, Gettin’ Hitched. Wearing a poofy white dress and a pair of 5 inch sparkly shoes, Lexie hopped a float plane for Sand Spit, Canada. She figured no one would find her there. But she was wrong.

Sharing her flight was the Seattle Chinooks biggest star, Sean Knox. Lexie wasn’t just a reality-show runaway, she was his pain in the butt coach’s daughter. She was chaos and temptation and definitely off limits, but getting her luscious body out of that wedding gown, he couldn’t resist getting her in his bed for one amazing night.

Then a photo of Sean and Lexi breaks the internet—and suddenly they’re both swept up in a crazy plan to spin the whole story. But you can’t run from love…

Genre: Adult Contemporary Romance
Publisher: Avon Books
Publication Date: December 26, 2017







About Rachel Gibson:

Rachel Gibson began her fiction career at age sixteen, when she ran her car into the side of a hill, retrieved the bumper, and drove to a parking lot, where she strategically scattered the car’s broken glass all about. She told her parents she’d been the victim of a hit-and-run and they believed her. She’s been making up stories ever since, although she gets paid better for them nowadays.

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Giveaway:
One lucky winner will receive a complete paperback set of all seven Chinooks Romance books!

GIVEAWAY TERMS & CONDITIONS:  Open to US shipping addresses only. One winner will receive a paperback set of the entire Chinooks Romance series by Rachel Gibson.  This giveaway is administered by Pure Textuality PR on behalf of Avon Romance.  Giveaway ends 1/5/2018 @ 11:59pm EST. Avon Romance will send the winning copies out to the winner directly. Limit one entry per reader and mailing address.  Duplicates will be deleted.  CLICK HERE TO ENTER!

 

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#GiveAway - HIS COWBOY HEART By Jennifer Ryan

HIS COWBOY HEART

Montana Men #6

By Jennifer Ryan

Guest Post by Jennifer Ryan 

Meet My Hero

Ford Kendrick is a genuine nice guy, trying to do the best he can for his family, ranch, and the woman he loves, even when he sends her away for her own good. It’s a sacrifice he’s willing to make for her happiness. But when she returns broken in heart and soul, he’ll do everything he can, even if it’s to just be the friend she desperately needs. Ford isn’t about to give up on Jamie until she’s well and happy again. His patience, unwavering dedication to her recovery, and steadfast resolve to push her to be better and give her a helping hand when things don’t go her way all help Jamie to overcome her obstacles. But it’s his love through the good times and bad that bring them back together.

Excerpt:

He wanted to be the beacon in her life that brought her back from the dark world her memories sucked her into every second of the day. He wanted to give her everything they’d talked about and planned back when things were simple and easy between them. Now, just getting her to eat seemed a complicated maneuver to convince her he meant no harm and only had her best interests at heart.

She thought he pitied her. Not so. He admired her tenacity, but hated that her complicated past broke her down to the point her life became nothing but endurance.

She’d survived hell and come home, but hell followed her.

She couldn’t escape, didn’t know how, but she kept fighting. He’d help her. He wouldn’t give up on her. He wouldn’t let her suffer alone.

Ford isn’t the only hero in His Cowboy Heart. Jamie is a military vet. She’s risked her life for our country and to save her fellow soldiers. But it’s her inner strength, determination, and dedication to healing, even when she backslides, that prove heroes don’t have to be perfect, they just have to persevere.

About the Book: 

Bound by honor and by love…That’s a Montana Man.

Ford Kendrick has often
dreamed of the day that Jamie Keller would come home to Montana. After high
school, she needed to leave—and he, duty-bound to rescue his family’s ranch,
pushed her to go. The Army made Jamie a hero, but Ford still sees the gorgeous,
loving woman who lit up his whole world.

Every day since she left, Jamie has longed for Ford. One glimpse confirms it:
the sexy, dangerous-looking cowboy left a hole in her heart that nothing else
can fill. Yet the battle scars she bears—inside and out—won’t let her trust
anyone enough to get close.

Ford wants to bring Jamie back to the life they dreamed of building. But locked
somewhere in her memories is a dark truth that threatens her safety. It’s a
battle Ford won’t let her fight alone, not when he’s determined to keep her by
his side, now and always… 

Releasing Feb 21, 2017

Avon Books

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About the Author: 

Jennifer Ryan is the New York Times & USA Today bestselling author of The Hunted, McBride, and Montana Men series. She writes suspenseful
contemporary romances with outrageous plot twists, deeply emotional love stories, high stakes and higher drama. Her stories are filled with love, family, friendship, and the happily-ever-after we all hope to find.

Jennifer lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and three children. When she finally leaves those fictional worlds, you’ll find her in the garden, playing in the dirt and daydreaming about people who live only in her head, until she puts them on paper.

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#Review - Accidentally on Purpose by Jill Shalvis

It's really hard to believe but I think Accidentally on Purpose is the first book I have read by Jill Shalvis. After this book I know it won't be my last 

Elle Wheaton is a no nonsense, get the job done and get it right, independent lady that can charm her way though or kick butt her way out of any situation. I bonded with Elle quickly. She's one of those ladies that you really would like to sit down and have a drink with. I bet she has some interesting stories. 

Archer Hunt is one of those guys you would want in your corner if things went wrong. This guy can handle any situation. He's also handsome, charming, and a good friend. 

Archer has a fabulous team that works for him. These guys know how to get things done. It was interesting to read about a few of their adventures and how they went about getting what they needed. I enjoyed the scene where Elle helps them out. She has a way of getting done what needs done too. She also had a way of making Archer show that he just might be a tad bit jealous. 

Elle and Archer share a past that not everyone knows about. Elle feels guilty about their past and Archer feels like he should have done a better job. The interaction between these two range from humor, to friction, to oh my steaming hot. I really enjoyed watching their story unfold and learn the details of what had kept them apart. 

Elle receives a surprise visitor that she sure isn't suspecting, and there is someone out there causing havoc and discontent. There is danger in the air and Archer is determined to keep Elle safe one way or another. I don't want to tell you too much or spoil the story for you. I'm just going to say go grab your own copy of these book and enjoy the suspense, drama, romance, and team work for yourself. I know I certainly enjoyed this one. 

This is the third book in the Heartbreaker Bay series. I have not had the pleasure of reading the first two in the series yet so I think you will find this will stand on it's own just find. Now that I've read this one though I know I would certainly love to read the first two in the series I will also be on the look out for more books by Jill Shalvis. She has a lovely writing style and a way with a story line that I found captivating. The characters are charming and easy to bond with. Overall I just plain loved this story. 

I was given the opportunity to read this marvelous story and it has been my great pleasure to share my thoughts with you.

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#GiveAway - BREATHLESS by Beverly Jenkins

BREATHLESS

 by Beverly Jenkins

A NOTE FROM

Beverly Jenkins

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Dear Readers,

This is the second book in the Rhine Trilogy and I do hope you enjoy it. With all the issues and heartache Portia carried inside, I knew it would be difficult for her to give her heart to someone, but Kent Randolph proved to be the man for the job, even if I didn’t know he would be her hero when the story began. Hope you’ll enjoy seeing Rhine and Eddy from Forbidden and, yes, they are still very much in love.

The Fontaine Hotel is loosely based on the Mountain View Hotel founded in Oracle, Arizona, in 1895 by Annie Box Neal and her husband William “Curly” Neal, who were both of African- American and Native-American descent. The Mountain View was a combination hotel and spa and catered not only to European royalty but to wealthy visitors from places like Russia, Australia, and China, too. Look them up.

The great Apache chief Geronimo surrendered on September 4, 1886, and was promptly declared a prisoner of war. He and his people eventually wound up in Florida along with the Apache scouts the army employed to hunt him down. He died at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, in 1909. The Apache warrior Lozen, also captured in 1886, was sent to the barracks at Mount Vernon, Alabama, where she died of tuberculosis in 1887. Although her name has faded from America’s memory, her bravery and fearlessness remains legendary with her people.

I only touched briefly on African-American women and the fight for suffrage but hope to get back to it in depth sometime in the future. Until then, if you’d like to do some research on your own, here are two excellent sources:

African American Women and the Vote: 1837–1965 by Cynthia Neverdon-Morton, et al.

African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote: 1850–1920 by Rosalyn Terborg-Penn

Having the opportunity to create characters and stories that reflect my heritage as a woman of color is priceless. Representation matters.  Thanks again for the support and love. Thanks also for spreading the word about my books to everyone you know. It’s much appreciated.

Until next time, happy reading.

B.

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ABOUT THE BOOK:

As manager of one of the finest hotels in Arizona Territory, Portia Carmichael has respect and stability-qualities sorely missing from her harsh childhood. She refuses to jeopardize that by hitching herself to the wrong man. Suitors are plentiful, but none of them has ever looked quite as tempting as the family friend who just rode into town…and none have looked at her with such intensity and heat.

Duchess. That’s the nickname Kent Randolph gave Portia when she was a young girl. Now she’s a stunning, intelligent woman-and Kent has learned his share of hard lessons. After drifting through the West, he’s learned the value of a place to settle down, and in Portia’s arms he’s found that and more. But convincing her to trust him with her heart, not just her passion, will be the greatest challenge he’s known-and one he intends to win…

Release Date: 1/31/2017 

 ISBN: 9780062389022

Buy Links: 

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Excerpt: 

Portia saw the curiosity on the faces of some of the other people seated nearby and wondered if sitting with Kent would cause gossip, but she went ahead and told him about Eddy and the other ladies leaving her to help in the kitchen.

“You didn’t want to help?”

She smiled ruefully. “Let’s just say I’m better with numbers than I am with pots.”

“Can’t cook, huh?”

“No.”

“Then you’ll need a man who can.”

“Are you volunteering?”

He shrugged. “If it’ll keep you from starving to death, I suppose I can make myself available, if called upon.”

She wondered if he had this effect on all women.

“How’s the managing of that passion going?” he asked.

Her heart thumped. “Fine.” His eyes were so piercing, she trembled in response.

“You’re fibbing of course, but that’s okay.”

“I am not.”

“Uh-huh.”

She leaned closer so they wouldn’t be overheard. “I am not. One kiss was all I needed and now I’m fine, just as I said I would be.”

“Duchess, your uppity mouth’s been wanting another taste all day.”

Heat sent her senses galloping. “It has not, and stop calling it that.”

“Okay. Your sweet mouth has been wanting another taste all day.”

She almost keeled over. “I do like those high-collared blouses you wear.”

She looked down at herself.

“Makes me want to undo all the little buttons and see how you manage with my kisses against your bare throat. Curious about what scent you place there, too.”

Her eyes widened.

He smiled. “No?”

“No.”

“Okay. Just something for you to think about later. Do you want the legs or the wings?”

Her mind was stuck like it had stepped in tar. How in the world was she going to remain unmoved by his teasing ways without wanting to box his ears or wonder how his kisses would feel against bare throat?

“I’ll take the wings.”

“We have only one set of flatware. Shall I feed you or do you want to feed me?”

Scandalized by the suggestion, she forced herself not to glance around to see how closely they were being observed. “Neither,” she said. “I’ll have the wing. You can eat the rest.”

“Thought I’d ask.”

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

BEVERLY JENKINS has received numerous awards, including five Waldenbooks/Borders Group Best Sellers Awards, two Career Achievement Awards from Romantic Times Magazine, and a Golden Pen Award from the Black Writer’s Guild. Ms Jenkins was named one of the Top Fifty Favorite African-American writers of the 20th Century by AABLC, the nation’s largest on-line African-American book club. She was recently nominated for the NAACP Image Award in Literature. To read more about Beverly, please visit her website at www.beverlyjenkins.net.

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#ReRelease #SpotLight - I WILL By Lisa Kleypas

For the first time, readers can download this classic Christmas novella from one of the most celebrated historical romance novelists

 

I WILL

By Lisa Kleypas

Just in time for the holidays, readers will be able to download Lisa Kleypas’s classic Christmas novella, I WILL, for the first time in electronic format—and including a teaser to the highly anticipated Devil in Spring. Originally published in the 2001 Wish List anthology, I WILL features Andrew, Lord Drake, from Kleypas’s New York Times bestselling novel Because You’re Mine. One of the author’s most enigmatic characters, Lord Drake first appeared as an antagonist—a wastrel with no desire to settle down—but I WILL is the story of his redemption in the hands of his best friend’s spinster sister. Readers old and new will delight in this charming novella in a brand new format.

About I WILL:

Andrew, Lord Drake, has been cut out of his father’s will because of his dissolute manner of living. To be reinstated, Andrew decides to pretend that he has changed his wicked ways.

As part of his plan, he wants to convince his father that he is courting a respectable woman with the intention of marrying her. The problem is, he doesn’t know any decent women, except for his friend’s spinster sister, Miss Caroline Hargreaves. He blackmails the reluctant Caroline into helping him, and so the charade begins . . .

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About Lisa Kleypas:

New York Times bestselling author Lisa Kleypas graduated from Wellesley College with a political science degree. She is a RITA® Award-winning author of both historical romance and contemporary women's fiction. Her novels are published in fourteen different languages and are bestsellers all over the world. She lives in Washington State with her husband Gregory and their two children.

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