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Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Desire (Montana Dreams #3) Blog Tour {guest post, excerpt & giveaway}


ABOUT THE BOOK

Desire
by Montana Dreams #3 
(can be read as a stand-alone)
by Cait Jarrod
Release Date: January 18, 2016
Genre: Contemporary Romance

Cadence Duvall has a heartbreaking secret. Rather than risk rejection, she pushes away the man who taught her the true meaning of desire. Two years later, her heart still hurts and the guilt remains. She heads to Bluebird Valley, Montana, and her best friend, to bury the memories of a tragedy caused by her careless actions. 

After Cadence breaks his heart, Bradley Lovett severs ties with his overbearing parents and takes a position in Florida as a horse trainer at a thoroughbred stable. An urgent phone call from his sister, begging him to help the woman he only wants to forget, sends him to Montana. When Bradley tries to help Cadence face her secrets, he finds forgiveness may be the key to their happiness.


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Meet the cast of Montana Dreams. Come live their dreams, experience their pain, their happiness, and find out why Bluebird Montana does make dreams come true.




EXCERPT
If Bradley said he didn’t like hearing Cadence’s sharp gasp, he’d be lying. The quick intake of breath revealed she was as put off at being around him as he was her. And the jolt… Christ! Her body—flinching under the cotton t-shirt, peeking between the panels of her jacket, giving him one hell of a show—brought back thoughts better left buried. Damn, this visit would be the death of him.

One call from his kid sister pulled him away from the sandy beaches on the Gulf of Mexico and threw him into hell. There, he had been free of a dark-haired, dreamy-eyed beauty that had haunted his fantasies since his first wet dream.

Just looking into Cadence’s beautiful, shocked eyes, his heart squeezed. It pissed him off; he didn’t want to feel anything. She’d kicked him to the curb after they had the best sex he ever experienced. Basically saying, “Fuck you!” He wanted no part of being here, but damn he loved his sister. So he ate crow. “You can close your mouth now.”

Cadence’s eyes returned to normal size and she did as he asked, shutting her mouth then biting her bottom lip. Do girls take a class to learn how to drive guys crazy?

“I can handle Thor.”

He searched for something flippant to say, to stop her from looking at him as if she wanted to eat him up. Then, her expression changed to disgust, and his ability to come up with a clever retort disappeared. “Take a break.”

Never, never tell Cadence what to do. He learned that in ‘Cadence 101’ at six-years-old. She was three, and he was putty in her hands. Still was, because he wanted to do whatever she asked to put a smile on her face.

She blinked, as if what he said took time to penetrate her mind. Her eyes narrowed, her hands went to her hips, and her chest heaved. Not in the heavy-panting-flushed-face-from-great-sex way, as it did the night they were together, but as if she was building steam, getting ready to let him have it. He held his ground, inched closer until the toe of his boots touched hers, and waited for the Cadence blowout.

The fire in her eyes weakened, and her posture slackened. Sadness skittered through her gorgeous features. Damn. Why the about-face? She gave nothing away, gave no clue as to why she’d climbed into such a black hole. Other than a hip that might cause her pain occasionally, the doctors had said she was good as new after the accident. So why was she so blah? “What’s wrong?”

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Author of award-winning romantic suspense Band of Friends series, Cait Jarrod won Reader Choice Awards for best HEA (Happily Ever After), suspense, and Editor's Choice.

Her heroes have been described as "every girl's dreams," the heroines as "strong, down-to-earth, and likable," the secondary characters "hysterical." The plots are "fast-paced, unpredictable and clever."

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Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Review: Burning Midnight by Will McIntosh


Burning Midnight
by Will McIntosh
Feb. 2, 2016
Delacorte Press
For fans of The Maze Runner and The Fifth Wave, this debut YA novel from Hugo Award winner Will McIntosh pits four underprivileged teens against an evil billionaire in the race of a lifetime.

Sully is a sphere dealer at a flea market. It doesn’t pay much—Alex Holliday’s stores have muscled out most of the independent sellers—but it helps him and his mom make the rent. No one knows where the brilliant-colored spheres came from. One day they were just there, hidden all over the earth like huge gemstones. Burn a pair and they make you a little better: an inch taller, skilled at math, better-looking. The rarer the sphere, the greater the improvement—and the more expensive the sphere.

When Sully meets Hunter, a girl with a natural talent for finding spheres, the two start searching together. One day they find a Gold—a color no one has ever seen. And when Alex Holliday learns what they have, he will go to any lengths, will use all of his wealth and power, to take it from them.

There’s no question the Gold is priceless, but what does it actually do? None of them is aware of it yet, but the fate of the world rests on this little golden orb. Because all the world fights over the spheres, but no one knows where they come from, what their powers are, or why they’re here.


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The brightly colored orbs appeared out of nowhere, hiding around the world. When two orbs of the same color are burned together they give you a boost and make you better in some way (better looking, smarter, taller, stronger senses, etc). The rarer the orb, the higher people are willing to pay for it. Sully, an orb dealer by weekend and regular high school student by weekday, is just trying to help his mom get by. When Sully meets a mysterious girl named Hunter, with a knack for finding orbs, the two set out to find rare orbs and cash in big...and they uncover the orb find of a lifetime, a never-before-seen Gold orb. But when billionaire businessman and orb seller, Alex Holliday, finds out what the two teens have found, he’s willing to stop at nothing to get his greedy hand on it.

Will McIntosh’s Burning Midnight is a fast-paced and thrilling YA with a complex, fascinating, and incredibly inventive premise! McIntosh spins a wildly compelling and addictive read that had me excitedly turning pages all night long. Deftly weaving together smart sci-fi elements, speculative notions, edge-of-your seat action, and just enough romance, this YA debut is so fun and entertaining. The world Sully and Hunter live in is just like ours, with the exception of the extraordinary orbs.  The brightly hued orbs, and the amazing abilities they bestow, are just such a wickedly cool idea! Through the orbs, McIntosh offers readers an insightful and thought-provoking look into our own modern society and what people are willing to do and pay to be just a little bit better and more.

Burning Midnight features four distinct and engaging young characters- Sully and Hunter, Sully’s best friend Dom, and their new friend Mandy. Sully and Dom are great, likable characters, but it’s the girls who really shine. Hunter and Mandy both possess strong, fierce, kickass, take-no-crap-from-anyone, but still vulnerable personalities, but in very different ways. Both girls are assertive and confident in ways that, unfortunately, many YA heroines are not.

Burning Midnight is full of twists and turns, and its explosive climax is made even better by excellent execution!

my final thoughts: I had such a blast reading this book! With an irresistible premise, cinematic storytelling, and smart execution, Burning Midnight is a definite must read.

MY RATING
5/5 yummy cupcakes


Will McIntosh is the author of several adult speculative fiction novels and is a frequent short-story writer. His first novel, Soft Apocalypse, was a finalist for the Locus Award. “Bridesicle,” a short story published in Asimov’s Science Fiction, won a Hugo Award for Best Short Story and was later expanded into his novel Love Minus Eighty, which was an ALA-RUSA Reading List selection for science fiction. His newest novel for adults,Defenders, has been optioned for film by Warner Bros. Burning Midnight is his first novel for young adults. Will lives with his wife and twin children in Williamsburg, Virginia, where he is working on his next young adult novel.website * twitter



Destiny (Montana Dreams #2) Book Blast


I'm thrilled to be a part of the Destiny Book Blast, celebrating the second book in Cait Jarrod's sweet and sexy Montana Dreams series...

Destiny
Montana Dreams #2 (can be read as a stand-alone)
by Cait Jarrod
Dec. 14, 2015
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Pages: 123
With the exception of one dear friend who treats her like a daughter, Autumn Wilcox keeps her heart closed off to others. Now this friend struggles with her last breaths and makes a request—for Autumn to find the elusive rainbow that will reveal her destiny. She doesn’t have faith in such tales, but for her friend, she agrees and seeks a pilot to take her to Bluebird Valley, Montana. 

After the death of his parents and his brother’s war injury, Travis Carson withdraws and his heart goes numb. He dives into work until his brother settles in Montana because of Travis’ insistence to carry out their parents’ dream of living in the mountains. He quits his search and rescue job to pursue his vision of opening a scenic tour business in Montana. So, when friends ask him on his last day of the job to give a woman a ride to the Big Sky Country state, he agrees. Simple, easily done, but the swirl of energy radiating off her has him agreeing and doing things out of his norm. He can no longer push away his feelings to protect his heart. He wants more.






Author of award-winning romantic suspense Band of Friends series, Cait Jarrod won Reader Choice Awards for best HEA (Happily Ever After), suspense, and Editor's Choice.

Her heroes have been described as "every girl's dreams," the heroines as "strong, down-to-earth, and likable," the secondary characters "hysterical." The plots are "fast-paced, unpredictable and clever."


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