☀ Permanent Spring Showers - Scott D. Southard

Thank you for joining us on the Virtual Book Tour for Permanent Spring Showers (5 February 2015, 5 Prince Publishing) an outstanding, funny and extremely well written literary fiction novel by Scott D. Southard.  - Watch out for our full review which will be published here tomorrow.

The author will be awarding a $10 Amazon/BN gift card to a randomly drawn winner via Rafflecopter during this tour.  Please do take part and comment on our post and follow the tour - the more comments you leave the higher your chances of being a winner.

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Synopsis

Professor Rebecca Stanley-Wilson is having a very bad season. Her husband has just admitted to having an affair. And it was with one of her students.

☀ The Far End of Happy - Kathryn Craft

Thank you for joining us on the Virtual Book Tour for The Far End of Happy (5 May 2015, Sourcebooks Landmark) is a powerful new novel based on author Kathryn Craft’s personal experience with a stand-off involving her husband.

Here Craft delivers “real, raw emotion” (Library Journal) exploring a marriage unraveled by mental illness; and one man’s spiral towards a violent conclusion that tests the courage, love, and hope of the three women he leaves behind.

“Framing the novel within a 12-hour period keeps the pages turning (Library Journal).” Narrating from the alternating perspectives of three women, whose lives will be forever altered by Jeff Farnham, gives an intimate look at the steps a woman will take to get the help her husband so urgently needs while desperately trying to keep her children safe.

When the emotionally troubled Jeff engages police in a deadly stand-off, his wife, mother-in-law, and mother struggle to understand why the man they love has turned his back on the life they have given him, the one they all believe is still worth living.

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☀☄ The Soul Retrieval - Ann W. Jarvie

Thank you for joining us on the Virtual Book Tour for The Soul Retrieval (23 March 2015, JazzComm Publishing) a historical suspense by Ann W. Jarvie, which will be available to download for free all day today from Amazon!

"Riveting ... The Soul Retrieval takes readers on a journey filled with mystery, suspense, love and hope. It tells of two stories, one of the past and one of the present ... When the two stories collide, the reader is placed on a roller coaster of emotions." -- Pacific Book Review

"The author has a gift for crafting striking images [...] Jarvie also strikes an impressive balance with the dialogue, refusing to pander to readers by oversimplifying, but also never getting too technical or hard to follow—a good thing in a dialogue-heavy novel." -– Kirkus Reviews

Author Ann W. Jarvie will also be awarding a $75 Amazon/BN gift card to a randomly drawn commenter via Rafflecopter.  Please do take part and comment on our post and follow the tour - the more comments you leave the higher your chances of being a winner.

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☀ Summer's Family Affair: Music City Hearts [3] - Cynthia Gail

Thank you for joining us on the Virtual Book Tour for Summer's Family Affair, the third instalment in the Music City Hearts series, a contemporary romance which will be available from 6 May 2015 from Soul Mate Publishing.

The author, Cynthia Gail, will be awarding a $15 Amazon or Barns & Noble Gift Card to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during this tour.  Please do take part and comment on our post and follow the tour - the more comments you leave the higher your chances of being a winner.

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Synopsis

Jenny Cohen defines successful independence: she put herself through college, couldn’t ask for better friends, owns a consulting firm, wears designer clothes, and just moved into her dream home... But she’s alone, except for her ailing mother whom she supports in a nursing home. As the marketing consultant for Chester, Dorsey & Tanner, she’s surrounded by male attention. Too bad it’s the overly-protective big-brother type.

☀ Vegas Miracle - Liz Crowe

Thank you for joining us on the Virtual Book Tour for Vegas Miracle (5 May 2015, Tri Destiny Publishing), a MMF Ménage Romance by Liz Crowe is re-releasing on May 5 with a fresh new look.   Below you can read a PG, short but telling excerpt from this steamy book.

The author, Liz Crowe will award a six-month Kindle Unlimited subscription , a $25  Amazon gift card and any book from her back catalogue to three randomly drawn winners via Rafflecopter during this tour.  Please do take part and comment on our post and follow the tour - the more comments you leave the higher your chances of being a winner.

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Synopsis

Ryan and Grace Sullivan have all the outward indications of a happy life: money, success, an undeniable physical attraction that quickly evolved from whirlwind relationship to marriage. But lately, Ryan's become moody and distant. As their relationship starts to crumble, Ryan discovers something about himself he can't admit just as Grace realizes the young man she encounters at an invitation only party, Henri Christophe, a celebrity chef with the most successful restaurant in Las Vegas, is her husband's lover. But Henri holds a secret himself. He wants to be more to both of them.

✍ Vegas Miracle - Liz Crowe

Genre: Erotic Romance
First Published 1 October 2011
Published 5 May 2015 by Tri Destiny Publishing
Number of pages: 144

My rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ I really liked it 

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"Ryan and Grace Sullivan have all the outward indications of a happy life: money, success, an undeniable physical attraction that quickly evolved from whirlwind relationship to marriage. But lately, Ryan's become moody and distant. As their relationship starts to crumble, Ryan discovers something about himself he can't admit just as Grace realizes the young man she encounters at an invitation only party, Henri Christophe, a celebrity chef with the most successful restaurant in Las Vegas, is her husband's lover. But Henri holds a secret himself. He wants to be more to both of them.

Trying to make their unconventional arrangement work, Ryan's deep-seated fear of relationship failure continues to thwart everyone's happiness. When he finally walks away instead of confronting the emotional connection the trio share, he returns to find their lives flipped inside out. A sought after hotel and resort consultant, Ryan has yet to meet a problem he couldn't solve. But when it comes to his own heart, Ryan may be too late."

☀ Way to Go: Way to Go [1] - Mandy Colton

Thank you for joining us on the Virtual Book Tour for Way to Go (30 April 2015, Thurston Howl Publications) a contemporary romance by author Mandy Colton, which is also the first installment in a series by the same name.

Mandy Colton will award a $25 Amazon/BN gift card to a randomly drawn winner via Rafflecopter during this tour. Please do take part and comment on our post and follow the tour - the more comments you leave the higher your chances of being a winner.

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Veronica Lane works in the travel industry in her dream job when she experiences a hellish travel day ending in the loss of her job and stranded far from home. To make the situation even worse, she drowns her sorrows in the hotel bar, and wakes the next morning to a big surprise.

☀ Dream Girl - S.J. Lomas

Thank you for joining us on the Virtual Book Tour for Dream Girl (30 October 2013, Scribe Publishing), a young adult adventure romance by S.J. Lomas.
“Told in very short chapters with alternating points-of-view, Dream Girl tells an enticing story of friendship, adventure, and determining one’s path in life.” - Randy-Lynne Wach, Review for San Francisco Book Review.

“This part-adventure/part-romance will keep readers on the edge of their seats while trying to figure out where it all will end. This will appeal to fans of the Abandon series by Meg Cabot.” - Deborah L. Dubois, Voice of Youth Advocates, (VOYA)

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ℚ The Remedy - Asher Ellis

THE REMEDY (April 8, 2015, Full Fathom Five Digital) is a gripping tale of a college vacation gone horrifically wrong.

In his début novel with Full Fathom Five Digital, Asher Ellis displays a disturbing knack for campy fun and backwoods gore.  It’s Warm Bodies and The Strain meets Spring Breakers, and definitely not for the faint of heart.

Today we have the pleasure of meeting up with author Asher Ellis and talk about his brilliant début novel, The Remedy, our favourite book of the year so far.

"Straight-A student from the University of Vermont, Leigh Swanson, knew she should never have gotten in that car.  A raucous, booze-filled weekend in Montreal sounded like a bad idea from that start.  But, following the incessant nagging from her roommate, she finally gave in— against her better judgement.  However, when a half-baked scheme to smuggle illegal substances across the border takes a turn for the worse, the gang finds themselves lost deep in the woods, terrorized by a contagious deadly fungus and hunted by a family of twisted, interbred cannibals.  And these kids are about to discover that, sometimes, the only thing worse than the sickness itself is The Remedy."

✍ Blood Is Thicker Than Water: A DCI Warren Jones Short Story [2.5] - Paul Gitsham

Genre: Mystery & Thrillers
Published 2 April 2015 by Carina UK
Number of pages: 96

My rating: ★ ★ ★  I liked it  

About the author

"It all seems straightforward.

There’s been a tragic accident: the old man fell asleep in his chair, woke up in the dark, fell and hit his head on the mantelpiece. But the Crime Scene Manager isn't happy. There are just too many details that aren't quite right and Charles Michaelson’s accident becomes a suspicious death.
And, as DCI Warren Jones investigates, he and his team discover that all is not as it appears to be in the dead man’s caring family when his son-in-law disappears. Then they uncover some dark secrets in Michaelson’s past and a motive for murder."

"Blood Is Thicker Than Water" is a novella, just under 80 pages in length, featuring DCI Warren Jones, who comes across as a very thorough, just and compassionate human being.

This police procedural is set in the UK (Middlesbury, in Beds and Herts) and is narrated in the third person, in a clean and near clinical manner - the author's scientific mind does shine through in his writing.