Addicted To Sin By Monica James ~ The Sinful Pleasures Series ~ SPOTLIGHT

Addicted To Sin

The Sinful Pleasures Series  Book #1 

By Monica James

Release Date: October 8^th, 2015

Blurb:

Tell me your deepest, darkest secrets. I dare you.

Addiction comes down to one simple, primitive concept. Desire.

My name is Dr. Dixon Mathews, and I’m New York’s finest shrink. For $500 an hour, people tell me their darkest, most sinful secrets.

My own addiction? Sex.

I might be certified in solving other people’s problems, but not mine – I know I’m a lost cause. I don’t do relationships. I don’t even do the same woman twice.

But that’s all about to change, thanks to two entirely different women who awaken my deepest desires.

Who will I choose?

I know who I should choose, but I never said I was the hero of this story, or even the good guy. And besides, who wants to be good, when it feels so good being bad?

My tale isn’t for the faint-hearted. If you’re game, strap yourself in and expect the unexpected. But don’t say I didn’t warn you…

Achingly sexy and highly addictive, the first in the Sinful Pleasures Series will have you hooked. Driven to Sin coming very soon…

Genre: Adult Contemporary Romance

Publisher: Bookoture

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Buy Links:

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Praise for Addicted to Sin

Read what other authors are saying about Addicted to Sin:

'I am addicted to three things: carbs, books, and Monica James. I devoured this!' - CJ Roberts

'Wickedly sexy, provocative and daring with the right dose of the quintessential bad boy...' Heidi McLaughlin 

'Monica James is a master of story telling that holds you captive with memorable story lines, intriguing characters, steamy scenes and unexpected twists and turns. You will devour every word she offers. I am officially addicted to Dixon Mathews.' Rachel Brookes 

"This book. This book knocked me on my butt, it twisted me up in knots and consumed me until the end. Just be warned, it is not your typical romance. It's a wild ride with a naughty, naughty man." Kendall Ryan, NY Times bestselling author.

'A captivating, witty, and sexy read. Monica James has written an intoxicating novel that will leave you on the edge of your seat and thirsting for more when it's all over.' Justine Elvira 

'Monica James has created another character that I couldn’t get enough of. Dr Dixon Mathews’ kept me addicted until the very last page.' Lisa Edward 

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Author Bio:

Monica James spent her youth devouring the works of Anne Rice, William Shakespeare and Emily Dickinson. When she is not writing, Monica is busy running her own business, but she always finds a

balance between the two.  She enjoys writing honest, heartfelt and turbulent stories, hoping to leave an imprint on her readers, and her inspiration comes from every day life. She is an Amazon best selling author in the US, UK, Canada and Australia. Monica James resides in Melbourne, Australia, with her wonderful family, and menagerie of

animals. She is slightly obsessed with cats, chucks and lip gloss,

and secretly wishes she was a ninja on the weekends.

Author Links:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/authormonicajames

Twitter: https://twitter.com/monicajames81

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/MonicaJames

Website: http://monicajamesbooks.blogspot.com.au/

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Addicted To Sin By Monica James ~ Sinful Pleasures Series ~ Cover Reveal

Addicted To Sin

 Book #1 in the Sinful Pleasures Series

By Monica James

BLURB:

Tell me your deepest, darkest secrets. I dare you.

Addiction comes down to one simple, primitive concept. Desire.

My name is Dr. Dixon Matthews, and I’m New York’s finest shrink. For $500 an hour, people tell me their darkest, most sinful secrets.

My own addiction?  Sex. A good f**k really is the best medicine. 

I might be certified in solving other people’s problems, but not mine –

I know I’m a lost cause. I don’t do relationships.  I don’t even do the same woman twice.

But that’s all about to change, thanks to two entirely different women who awaken my deepest desires.

Who will I choose?

I know who I should choose, but I never said I was the hero of this story, or even the good guy. And besides, who wants to be good, when it feels so good being bad?

My tale isn’t for the fainthearted. If you’re game, strap yourself in and expect the unexpected.  But don’t say I didn’t warn you…

**Pre-order available on Amazon**

Release date: October 8th 2015

Publisher: Bookouture 

Genre: Adult Contemporary Romance

***Review Copies available on NetGalley as of September 10th*** 

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AUTHOR BIO:

Monica James spent her youth devouring the works of Anne Rice, William Shakespeare and Emily Dickinson. When she is not writing, Monica is busy running her own business, but she always finds a balance between the two.  She enjoys writing

honest, heartfelt and turbulent stories, hoping to leave an imprint on her readers, and her inspiration comes from every day life. She is an Amazon best selling author in the US, UK, Canada and Australia.

Monica James resides in Melbourne, Australia, with her wonderful family, and menagerie of animals. She is slightly obsessed with cats, chucks and lip gloss, and secretly wishes she was a ninja on the weekends.

Author Links:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/authormonicajames

Twitter: https://twitter.com/monicajames81

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/MonicaJames

Website: http://monicajamesbooks.blogspot.com.au/

Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/monicajames81/

White by Monica James ~ I Surrender Series ~ Giveaway ~ Release Blitz

Title: White

Series: I Surrender Series, #4

Author: Monica James

Genre: New Adult

Release date: May 5th, 2015

Blurb

Ava Thompson has at long last surrendered to her true love, Jasper White, and this time, there’s

no going back. They’re both determined to forget their rocky past and focus on their promise to be together forever. However, with Ava living in New York, and Jasper in L.A., their future is held in the balance on where to call home. So what’s the compromise? Ava doesn’t want to leave, and Jasper doesn’t want to stay. They’ve reached an impasse in their relationship and Ava soon realizes that for them to be together, one of them will have to give up their dreams for good. But who? And more importantly, what happens when one of them sacrifices their dreams for the other? Whatever choice is made, Ava knows they’ll both lose. Adding to the heartache are two new players who are set on breaking up the ill-fated pair for good.

Do Jasper and Ava have the strength to survive this final test of love?

Buy Links

Amazon US ~ Amazon UK ~ Amazon CA ~ Amazon AU ~ B&N ~ Kobo ~ Smashwords

Author Bio

Monica James spent her youth devouring the works of Anne Rice, William Shakespeare and Emily Dickinson. When she is not writing, Monica is busy running her own business, but she always finds a balance between the two. She enjoys writing honest, heartfelt and turbulent stories, hoping to leave an imprint on her readers, and her inspiration comes from every day life. She is an Amazon best selling author in the US, UK, Canada and Australia. Monica James resides in Melbourne, Australia, with her wonderful family, and menagerie of animals. She is slightly obsessed with cats, chucks and lip gloss, and secretly wishes she was a ninja on the weekends.

Contact Monica

Facebook ~ Twitter ~ Goodreads ~ Website ~ Pinterest

Instagram: authormonicajames

E-mail: authormonicajames@gmail.com

Other books in the series

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The Second Chances Anthology: After The Scars Compiled by Avery Hart & Hazel Robinson ~ Cover Reveal

The Second Chances Anthology 

After The Scars 

An outstanding collaboration of romantic short stories, each telling their own tales of heartache, Love and new beginnings.

With Mandy the runaway wife in ‘Beaten Heart’, Claire the broken widow in ‘After the Storm Breaks’, Arizona the broken but witty women from ‘All in’ and not forgetting the lovers looking for answers in ‘First Love’. Plus more stories and poetry from some amazing authors! 

Release date: June 2015

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Stories

All In by J.L. Drake

Quiz Date by Francesca Barker

First Love by Leigh Carver

One Last Kiss by Kerry Kijewski

Sweet Sixteen by Neeti Banga

When The Storm Breaks by Avery Hart

Beaten Heart by Hazel Robinson

Poetry

A Kiss by Hazel Robinson 

Broken and Drowning by Hazel Robinson

Heart Broken by Sucharita Venkatesh

Little Did I Know by Sucharita Venkatesh

Fight For Your Life by Angela Fardellone

Dawn Is Always Near by Angela Fardellone

Lost, Battered, Broken by Angela Fardellone 

Unquenched by Arna Sarkar

Speak of the Devil By Shawna Romkey ~ Speak of the Devil series ~ Giveaway

Speak of the Devil

 Book #1 in the Speak of the Devil series

 By Shawna Romkey

Blurb:

After dying with her two best friends in a tragic car accident, Lily comes back to life only to wind up in the middle of a war between good and evil at a time when God has disappeared.

What happens when falling in love and falling from grace collide?

After dying in a car accident with her two best friends, Lily miraculously awakens to grief and guilt. She escapes to her dad’s to come to terms with the crash and meets some people at her new school who seem all too eager to help her heal. Sliding deeper into sorrow and trying to fight her feelings for two of them, she finds out who…what they really are and learns they are falling too.

Can she find the strength to move on from the past, reconcile her feelings for Luc, figure out a way to stop a
divine war with fallen angels, and still pass the eleventh grade?

Genre: Paranormal YA

Release Date: April 15th, 2015

Buy Links:

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Book Trailer

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Excerpt:

Rain fell, not uncommon for late spring in Missouri. “If you don’t like the weather here,” my grandfather would say, “wait five minutes.” Of course, I’d visited distant relatives in Maine once before, and they said the same thing.

Julie fumbled with the wipers while I pulled the sun visor down to check my face in its little rectangular mirror, even though I’d only left my vanity like five minutes ago. The lights on either side lit up the interior of the car. I reached into my tiny party purse to find my lip gloss, which was easy to locate since I’d only packed the essentials in my bag: phone, some cash, and make-up. As I glanced at myself, I saw Mike in the reflection, smiling at me from the back seat. I stuck my tongue out at him, making him laugh, and put on the lip-gloss, fully aware of how flirty I acted. The windshield wipers couldn’t keep up with the sudden downpour. The pitter-patter turned to thumping. Hail came down in gumball-sized pellets. “Damn.” Julie jerked the steering wheel to keep The Whale off the curb.

“Slow down, Jules.”

Mike gripped Julie’s headrest. “We can pull over until it passes.”

“Yeah.” She squinted to see the road before her. I pressed my lips together to smooth out the gloss. “Damn is right. I didn’t bring a jacket.”

The Whale swerved to the right crunching along the gravel on the side of the road. I braced myself in my seat. Julie leaned up to the steering wheel and peered over it as my grandmother sometimes did when she drove. I squinted because of the stupid light up visor mirror. I slammed it shut, but Julie panicked and over

corrected, pulling The Whale to the left and careening over the yellow dotted line in the middle of the street.

“Julie!” Mike shouted.

Time slowed and ticked out in heartbeats. Ba bum. Julie cringed, her hands moving up to shield her face. Her head turned away from the highway. Ba bum. Mike reached protectively from the back seat. Ba bum. The headlights illuminated the rail of the overpass. Ba bum. The car hit the rail on the opposite side of the road with a hard thud. Ba bum. Crap. We’re going over the bridge. Ba bum.

The Whale’s nose pointed down toward the water. Ba bum. A jolt forward and my forehead slammed into the dashboard.

Ba bum.

The Whale flipped in the air. I’m upside down.

Ba bum.

Pain.

Ba bum.

Did my mom say good-bye when I left?

Ba bum.

Cold water rushed into the car.

Ba bum.

Is this it?

Ba bum.

I can’t breathe. Oh my God, I can’t breathe. I can’t see or breathe! My heart quickened. It pounded. The Whale leaned on its side under the surface of the water which rushed in fast, and I couldn’t see a damn thing.

Calm, stay calm. Don’t panic. They say when you’re drowning not to panic because you use up your air faster.

Dammit, am I drowning?
I tried to get myself upright and jerked out of my seatbelt. Luckily, it gave way. I fought the latch to open the door facing up, but the pressure of the water from Black Water River held it closed, trapping me inside.

Jesus. I know this river. It’s more of a creek. It can’t be more than fifteen feet across and ten feet deep.

I pushed at the door. Opening my mouth to scream, I swallowed water.

I couldn’t see or hear Julie or Mike. My watch ticked. Or was it my heart beating? Ba bum. Ba bum. Ba

bum.

Darkness.

Silence.

Cold.

Wet.

Defying gravity.

Nothing.

The dreams came.

Like a good sleep you don’t want to wake up from. I felt heavy and floaty. I wore this long white gauzy gown and the wind blew my dress and my hair like in some feminine hygiene commercial. I could breathe slowly and deeply. Completely relaxed and at peace, but I was alone. I floated along in a white space for a while. Drifting. Breathing. Relaxing. Had I gone to a spa? After an immeasurable amount of time, others appeared. They wore white clothing, too, and they floated like me, reaching out. They opened their arms as if to welcome me to them. I stopped and frowned. I heard no sound, and I didn’t know who these white floaty people were or why they welcomed me. They smiled, genuinely happy, and held their arms out to me. I panicked.

Where’s my mom? My family? Wait, Mike and Julie were just with me, where are they? Are those

wings? I noticed the others floating with me had white feathery wings. “Lily,” one of them called out. Holy hell. I’m dead.

About the Author:

Shawna grew up around farms in the heart of Missouri but went to the University of Kansas, was raised in the US but now lives on the ocean in Nova Scotia with her husband, two sons, one rescue dog and one overgrown puppy from hell. She’s a non-conformist who follows her heart. She’s taught English at the university and secondary levels for close to twenty years and can’t quite fathom how all of her students have grown up, yet she’s managed to stay the same.  She’s a huge geek and fan of Xena, Buffy and all kick ass women, and loves to write stories that have strong female characters.

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