Mistletoe Menage by Molly Ann Wishlade

It is 1816. Anne Blackburn is a wealthy and voluptuous thirty-two year old widow and she moves in the social circles of London’s ton.

Anne has sworn never to marry again. However, she yearns to find out more about the pleasures of the flesh and the passion she experienced six years ago before she married. 

Edward Moore loved Anne. When he left London to seek his father’s blessing to marry her, Anne was approached by Lord Moore’s lawyer. He told her to forget Edward or he would be disinherited. 

She married Alfred Blackburn to set Edward free. 

Now there is an artist in London with a mysterious patron. Mr. Guy Harper provides the ladies he paints with erotic extras. Anne commissions a portrait and gets more than she could have imagined in her wildest dreams. 

But will her mistletoe ménage become a painful humiliation or lead to her very own happy ever after?

I would like to thank author Molly Ann Wishlade for sending me a copy of this book in exchange for a fair and honest review.

Anne Blackburn is a gorgeous woman who has been let down in the past but numerous men and has sworn off them until the Guy Harper enters her life and shows her pleasures she never knew in her marriage.

I really liked Anne from page one and Guy is a smoking hot character to die for.  I loved both characters and also Edward.  This book as with all of Anne's books has more depth than just the erotic parts to the story.

If you like a historical short read with am erotic theme then this book is for you.  I really love the Molly's writing and the steams are very steamy, if you wear glasses then make you sure you have a cloth handy to wipe off the steam.

Molly Ann Wishlade has always been an avid reader and writer of stories. She regularly indulges her love of romance and passion by getting lost in the delicious worlds created by romantic novelists. When not reading, she's busy with her current WIP, usually her next highly erotic tale about sexy and saucy heroes and their lady loves - and sometimes their gorgeous male lovers too.

She wants to take readers on the rollercoaster that is life through the creation of vivid characters, relationships and worlds.

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Twice Upon a Time by Hope Irving

Twice Upon A Time by Hope Irving

Publication Date: October 31st, 2015

Genre: New Adult Paranormal Romance

Once upon a time, there was the wandering soul of Morgann, an 8th century Irish calligrapher-monk longing to be reunited with his soul mate. Deirdre was his forbidden love, a witch with whom he wrote a coveted book.

Under her spell, the souls of the star-crossed lovers travel from bodies to bodies until they find each other. Eventually.

That became his quest: unearth her new body and trigger her memory, for she is clueless about whom she once was. Unfortunately their story didn't get a chance to become a fairy tale yet it still turned out as a famous urban legend referred as The Black Angel Book. 

Twice upon a time, not so long ago, there was me, rational and devastated Rose. I needed to get a grip, said my French mum after my year of numbness due to a painful break-up that led me to cut my wrist daily, to feel something, anything.

So she sent me off to the free-spirited village of Provincetown, Massachusetts, to spend the summer with my American relatives. And just like that, I wasn’t myself any longer. Because someone pulled me out of the darkness and bewitched me, somehow.

I couldn’t wait to jump his bones… but why was he holding back?

He couldn’t wait to welcome me into his world… but was I ready to question my convictions and acknowledge that my self-inflicted cuts were now healing in record time?

How could I have imagined he was longing for his own unorthodox fairytale to come true? Frantically.

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Hope Irving is the proud mother of a lovely and witty young lady, and the lucky wife of a loving and supportive husband. She's a debut indie author who lived in Paris, France, most of her life and also in the US, where she graduated with a master degree.

She loves Nutella and Camembert cheese (not together), carrot cake and cinnamon Altoids. 

Her favorite fictional characters are Eric Northman (Sookie Stackhouse series, Charlaine Harris) and Sean Bateman (The Rules of Attraction, Bret Easton Ellis). 

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Break the Spell by A.M. Bostwick

Break the Spell by A.M. Bostwick 

 Published by Fiery Seas Publishing 

 Published in September, 2015 

 Genre: Young Adult

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Alone. On the run. Until she came along. When Allison Evans walks out of high school the last day of her senior year, she has no idea that her carefully guarded life is about to unravel. Ethan Knight is on the run. Accused of dealing drugs and armed with nothing but a bad reputation and his motorcycle, he takes refuge for the weekend inside the old high school. Thinking no one will find him and no one does. Until Allison. Panicked and left with no other choice, Ethan takes her captive. It should be a nightmare, but together, both of their lives take an unexpected turn. It’s time for them both to stop running from their problems.

  

 A.M. Bostwick writes Middle Grade and Young Adult novels. Her debut middle grade novel, The Great Cat Nap, earned the 2014 Tofte/Wright Children’s Literature Award from the Council for Wisconsin Writers. An early draft of her young adult novel, “Break the Spell,” was a finalist in the 2013 Wisconsin Romance Writers of America Fab 5 Contest. She holds degrees in both art and earth science. A.M. Bostwick lives in northern Wisconsin with her husband, dog and thrill-seeking cat.

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 Storm clouds gather above me. I zip my jacket sleeves. I’m always leaving, but I never have anywhere to go. Where the hell are you, Steve? Why am I the one with all this cash? Why is this all up to me? He isn’t exactly beating a path to get to me and answer my questions. I shake my head and saddle up. Screw him. Damn it, I have to stop swearing so much. Get on the road again, I tell myself. Stay moving. Cursing is the least of my worries. Where to go? Where do I have left to go? Motor loud, iPod louder, pounding out my favorite band. My Darkest Days. You’re out for blood and you can smell the fear. Miles and miles pass beneath me. The sky grows darker, threatening clouds silently rolling in. The single headlight illuminates my road to nowhere. These roads I’ve traveled all my life. It’s impossible for me to get lost, I know them so well. This both comforts and frustrates me. Lightening flickers across the sky on the western horizon. The music moves through me like electricity. You need poison, like it’s the only thing that keeps you alive. I’m two counties away now, down cracked and twisting county roads. The Wisconsin River snakes downstream alongside me - black, cold, dangerous. Inviting. Just a little bad habit that you hide from your friends. What the hell am I supposed to do? Ozone is in the air. Thunder rumbles. Chicken Little had been right. The sky is going to fall. Stay tough, Ethan. Said you didn’t want it, but you’re in a sick and twisted affair. I push the throttle in further. The Harley responds. A strike of lightening briefly lights up the eerie gray sky, thunder cracks, and the rainclouds break open. I can’t outrun the storm. I’m forced to slow as the road gets slick beneath my wheels. The drops are needles against my skin. I’m soaked in seconds. One taste and it can take control of your life. It hits me. Your dirty little drug, that you never get enough of. I know where to go. I know where to hide. Where they will never find me. You won’t be alone tonight. It will buy time. Which I sorely need right now. As the rain pelts down, I decelerate the bike on the highway, make a u-turn in the middle of the road and gun back toward Oakdale. Following the storm. You won’t be alone tonight.   

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Safkhet Publishing proudly presents 
THE TROUBLE WITH WORDS
by Suzie Tullett
a romantic comedy which releases today! 

 

Promises – easy to make, hard to keep.

Having long made a promise to her husband, young widow Annabel has no intentions of breaking it. What she does plan to do, though, is have a baby. Not the easiest of tasks for a woman with a deceased other half, and having explored all her options, her only choice is to take the unconventional route. Setting out to find her own donor, Annabel meets Dan. Single, fun-loving and definitely not looking for commitment, this unruly blonde, blue-eyed man seems perfect for the job. 

Dan wants nothing more than to find his dream woman. But with a mother intent on sabotaging his every relationship, he can't help but think he's destined to remain single. Of course, he knows his mother doesn't really want him all for herself, why else would she keep insisting he meet Maeve? Why else would she insist Dan promise to find himself a wife before she meets her maker? 

Forced to negotiate matters of love, life and death, Annabel and Dan seem the answer to each other's prayers. But will they really be able to keep the promises they made? And is having a baby really the solution? 

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How you developed the characters in The Trouble with Words and if they took a different route from what you had originally planned?

When it comes to writing novels, I always, always, always start with my characters. It’s their story I’m telling so I have to know everything about them. I don’t just give them names and an appearance; I make notes on everything from their professions, to their backgrounds, to their earliest memories and even their favourite colours and star signs. Character profiles are my way of getting into my characters’ heads and making sure I stay there.

As you can imagine, this means I knew all I needed to know about my hero and heroine in The Trouble with Words, well before I began writing the manuscript. For example, I knew that Annabel drove a classic, little mini, lived in row of tiny cottages and that although she’d loved and lost, what a love it had been. I also knew that Dan was colour blind, hated being the centre of attention and that one of his earliest memories involved the death of the family’s pet dog.

Needless to say, much of this character development never actually reaches the page, but it does give me a level of understanding I wouldn’t otherwise have.

Whatever book I’m writing though, it’s from here that I start to think about the inciting incident; the one thing that happens to turn my characters’ lives upside down, which inevitably leads me to the plot line. And because I’m clearly a plotter and not a panster, as well as having an in-depth knowledge of my characters and their lives, I have to have a good idea as to where the story is going. Hence, the need for a chapter breakdown.

I appreciate all this work might seem a bit unnecessary to some, but I love each of these stages. My imagination gets to run riot no matter where in the writing process I happen to be.

That’s not to say things don’t change though. Characters sometimes take over no matter how much preparation has been done. They lead their authors down a different route and to some extent this is what happened with Dan and his mother. Whilst the two of them seemed happy with the relationship I’d drawn for them, they kept insisting I upped the stakes. Of course, it was only when I began to listen that I realised they were right.

However, this also signalled Gerry’s demise, something I found quite sad considering how much fun she was to write. In fact, such was her character I’d go as far as saying she deserved a book all of her own. Maybe I should do an E.L.James and re-write The Trouble with Words, except this time from Gerry’s point of view? Although I suppose that would only mean having to say goodbye to the woman all over again.

Suzie Tullett is an author of contemporary humorous fiction and romantic comedy. As well as The Trouble with Words, her novels include Going Underground and Little White Lies and Butterflies, which was short-listed for The Guardian's 2013 Not the Booker Prize. She has a Masters Degree in Television & Radio Scriptwriting and worked as a scriptwriter before becoming a full-time novelist. And when she's not tapping away on the computer creating her own literary masterpiece, she usually has her head in someone else's.

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