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Every gentleman has his secrets...

London 1821
After years of marriage to a selfish man who preferred gambling to his young bride, Jane, the widowed countess of Stanwell, now seeks what she was long denied-a satisfying lover. Naturally, a lady needs a list of eligible candidates, which doesn't include the dangerously handsome (if far too arrogant) Gareth Ramsey...until he steals a sinful kiss from Jane's all-too-willing lips.

Reputed as an arrogant barrister, Gareth's real occupation is as a spy in the service of His Majesty, and his suspect is on Jane's list of possible lovers. With her life in danger, there's no safer place for Jane than with him-and in his bed. But Jane is as distracting as she is infuriating, and keeping her by his side while he pursues his mission might just endanger them both...

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Books in the Crown’s Secret Service series in the order they should be read:

A Spy Unmasked

At the Spy’s Pleasure

Book Blitz : Ara by B.R. Eddy

Ara

by B.R. Eddy

Release Date: Fall 2014

339 pages

Ara Vertrees is an advisor to the King in Jimalia, a thriving island nation in the middle of a vast ocean. Her macaws are trained to fly home to the palace to repeat confidential information. When their messages become more and more troubling, she finds herself in the middle of a crisis she never expected. Ara's story is full of adventure, friendship, mystery, love and loss. Join Ara and her companions as they fight pirates, uncover deception, find love and fight for Jimalia.

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Message from the Author

My name is Brit and I was born and raised in Santa Cruz, California. My work with animals brought macaws into my life. They frightened me, moved me, hurt me, loved me and made me grow. I hope that my novel will help people understand these birds better! They are breathtaking and intelligent, but do not make good pets for most families. They require a lot of space and attention, can be very destructive and can easily outlive you. They can be incredible companions to the right people. Please keep all these things in mind when considering a macaw as a pet!"

Excerpt 

A bell tinkled in the distance. Sprigg peeled his gummy eyes open. It was night, he tried to remember what woke him. A bell, the aviary bell. His heart skipped, this would be a breaking point for him. Ara’s system would fail today. There was no one to deliver the message to, so did Sprigg just feed the bird? That could destroy the bird’s behavior. He sighed and rubbed his eyes, then rose to put on his slippers. May as well see who it was. He lit a candle and went to the aviary. A scarlet macaw sat on a low perch, waiting. Faint light from the distant sun grayed the sky. Sprigg held his candle up to the macaw to see who it was. Beautiful bird, long tail, high forehead, sprinkles of green on his nape... It was Seven. He just stared at the bird, who lifted up one foot hopefully. Sprigg mechanically took the bird on his arm as he began to realize that this bird had been with Ara, the Prestige hadn’t landed in Bastal before being hijacked. Seven had either found a way off the ship and flown home, or Ara was alive. Sprigg felt his keel bone, the bird’s weight was perfect, evidence that he’d been carefully maintained. Chills ran up his back. His breathing quickened, he wanted to believe it so badly. Ara could be alive. This bird could hold the answers to his burning questions. He was fully awake. Now if Seven did have a message, how was he to extract it? He left Seven in the aviary and went to prepare a diet. He had to hear the message somehow, he had to know what had happened.  With the diet in hand, he fetched Seven, left Reef in the apartment and headed to the conference room where messages were received. Sprigg stood there alone with Seven. The sun was nearly to the horizon. Seven fluffed up his feathers and looked around. Sprigg wondered if there was some secret prompt that Ara had never told him about. A few moments went by before Seven hunkered down on his arm and shat on the floor. Sprigg frowned and waited until the sun was nearly clear of the eastern sea. Seven remained silent. This wasn’t working at all. He had to do something crazy. Nothing was more important than hearing Seven’s message. As a servant, he was familiar with the secret passages and stairways built for service crew. His heart beat madly as he made his way straight for the dungeon. He took narrow brick passages. Seven seemed uneasy about the unlit path and gripped Sprigg’s arm hard. Sprigg pushed the narrow door open and peeked into the dungeon hall. It was obviously in disuse from Victor’s peaceful reign. Lord Heldey was the only prisoner in the last cell across from Sprigg. The rest were empty. He looked up the hall where torch lights lit up the hall, surely there were guards up the stairs there. Flynn noticed Sprigg with the bird and sat up. Sprigg winced, he was a mess. He’d obviously received a beating at one point. His clothes were bloodied and torn, his hair was a mop on his head. He looked ten years older, but oddly more manly than Sprigg had ever perceived him. Sprigg took a breath and glanced up the hall again before silently crossing to where Seven could see the prisoner. Seven was trembling nervously and Sprigg’s hope for hearing the message was dwindling fast. Lord Heldely remained silent, as expected before hearing a message. They waited, but Seven just clutched Sprigg and kept his secrets. Sprigg felt so desperate, but this wasn’t working. He turned to go. 
“Wait!” Flynn hissed, gripping his cell bars, “I’m innocent! They’re going to hang me for a crime I’d never commit, you have to help me!” Sprigg shushed him sharply, “Be silent! I have to fast this bird. I’ll return tonight, I swear it.”

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Coming May 19th is the fifth novel in the Lucky Thirteen series, ONCE UPON A SEAL from New York Times and USA Today best-selling author, Suzan Butler! Read how a small town girl starts to change her perceptions after conversations with a reclusive former Navy SEAL.

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Maddie Benson has spent her entire life in Sugar Falls and has never ventured—nor wanted to venture—beyond her small town’s safe borders. But when her delivery job takes her to the doorstep of one very reclusive, former Navy SEAL, Sebastian McIntyre, her small town perceptions are challenged with every conversation they have. It’s not long before she’s losing herself—and her heart—to the mysterious man behind the door.

Bastian’s scars are deeper than the surface. They’re embedded into his soul, and he’s content to keep them buried. But the second Maddie ends up on his doorstep with her sparkling smile and her sunshine hair, his quiet new life shatters and she just might be able to excise the demons he’s tried hard to keep tucked away—if he lets her in.

When Bastian’s old life comes haunting them, he knows he should let her go. But the light she shines on his soul keeps the darkness within him at bay. Letting her go may take more strength than he has, and keeping her close could get her killed.

On Sale in Print and Digital: May 19, 2015
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Author Bio: Suzan Butler writes adult contemporary romance and has a penchant for Dr. Pepper, ice hockey, and world domination. She lives in Texas under a not-so-secret identity with two monsters, writing naughty books and planning the next step in her evil plans into the twilight hours of the night because that's when it's quiet in the house. She loves to hear from readers.

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Joshua and the Lightning Road

Title: Joshua and the Lightning Road

Publication date: May 19, 2015

Publisher: Month9Books, LLC.

Author: Donna Galanti

Stay away from the window, don’t go outside when it’s storming and whatever you do, do not touch the orb.

Twelve-year-old Joshua Cooper’s grandpa has always warned him about the dangers of lightning. But Joshua never put much stock in his grandpa’s rumblings as anything more than the ravings of an old man with a vast imagination. Then one night, when Joshua and his best friend are home alone during a frightful storm, Joshua learns his grandpa was right. A bolt of lightning strikes his house and whisks away his best friend—possibly forever.

To get him back, Joshua must travel the Lightning Road to a dark place that steals children for energy. But getting back home and saving his friend won’t be easy, as Joshua must face the terrifying Child Collector and fend off ferocious and unnatural beasts intent on destroying him.

In this world, Joshua possesses powers he never knew he had, and soon, Joshua’s mission becomes more than a search for his friend. He means to send all the stolen children home—and doing so becomes the battle of his life.

Donna is the author of the Joshua and The Lightning Road series and the Element Trilogy. She is a contributing editor to International Thriller Writers the Big Thrill magazine and blogs at www.project-middle-grade-mayhem.blogs..., a cooperative of published middle grade authors.

 Visit her at www.donnagalanti.com and www.ElementTrilogy.com. Donna wanted to be a writer ever since she wrote a murder mystery screenplay at seven and acted it out with the neighborhood kids. She attended an English school housed in a magical castle, where her wild imagination was held back only by her itchy uniform (bowler hat and tie included!). There she fell in love with the worlds of C.S. Lewis and Roald Dahl, and wrote her first fantasy about Dodo birds, wizards, and a flying ship (and has been writing fantasy ever since). She’s lived in other exotic locations, including her family-owned campground in New Hampshire and in Hawaii where she served as a U.S. Navy photographer. She now lives with her family and two crazy cats in an old farmhouse and dreams of returning one day to a castle.

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Giveaway Information:  Winner will be drawn June 19, 2015

·         Five (5) winners will receive a digital copy of Joshua and the Lightning Road by Donna Galanti (INT)

Joshua and the Lightning Road Random Excerpts 

1.
“One hundred. Ready or not here I come!” I said with more courage than I felt, pushing the attic door open.
Inky black swallowed me up. I darted my flashlight about, but its small, round light didn’t reveal much. The mustiness of old things hidden away filled my nose. Bo Chez, hurry home. The hair prickled on my forearms as the stairs screeched with each step and the landing loomed in front of me. Could a ghost with an axe be waiting to chop off my head? I took a deep breath, waiting for a blade to fall, but the only thing lying in wait was a dusty bookshelf.
“Finn-man, I know you’re up here.” I flicked the flashlight around the room, its cold metal warming in my sweaty palm. Thunder crashed over my head and my ears popped.
One more step forward.
“Got ya!” Finn jumped up, his shadow against the window. I tripped and landed hard on my butt. My flashlight twirled across the floor.
Then a blue arc of light struck the window. Glass exploded. Finn’s mouth froze in a wide ‘O’. I yelled and reached out to pull him down, but another zap of light blinded me. Finn screamed. Rain splattered my face, stinging with each drop. White dots floated in the air. Something gray billowed past me carrying a familiar, rotten stench that made me gag. A knobby hand grabbed me. I bit it and shoved it away, gagging again, and the hand dropped me back on the floor with the taste of salty dirt on my tongue. An angry howl blasted the air.
Zap. Zap.
Daggers of light shot everywhere as sharp glass cut into me.
“Finn!”
He floated in the shadows. Light erupted all around him, his eyes round with fear. The sky boomed overhead, and a deep laugh bellowed out as if the thunder itself were taunting me.
“Next time it’s you, boy,” a raspy voice said.

Swoon Romance YA Wednesdays: Twelve Steps by Veronica Bartles Book Blitz with Giveaway #ReadSwoonRepeat

Welcome to this week’s

Swoon Romance YA Wednesdays!

This week features the

Twelve Steps by Veronica Bartles!

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Sixteen-year-old Andi is tired of being a second-class sibling to perfect sister Laina. The only thing Andi’s sure she has going for her is her awesome hair. And even that is eclipsed by Laina's perfect everything else.
When Andi’s crush asks her to fix him up with Laina, Andi decides enough is enough, and devises a twelve-step program to wrangle the spotlight away from Laina and get the guy.

Step 1: Admit she’s powerless to change her perfect sister, and accept that her life really, really sucks.

Step 4: Make a list of her good qualities. She MUST have more than just great hair, right?

Step 7: Demand attention for more than just the way she screws things up.

When a stolen kiss from her crush ends in disaster, Andi realizes that her twelve-step program isn’t working. Her prince isn’t as charming as she'd hoped, and the spotlight she’s been trying to steal isn’t the one she wants.
As Laina’s flawless façade begins to crumble, the sisters work together to find a spotlight big enough for both to shine.

Twelve Steps by Veronica Bartles
Publication Date: March 25, 2014
Publisher: Swoon Romance

  

As the second of eight children and the mother of four, Veronica Bartles is no stranger to the ups and downs of sibling relationships. (She was sandwiched between the gorgeous-and-insanely-popular older sister and the too-adorable-for-words younger sister.) She uses this insight to write stories about siblings who mostly love each other, even while they’re driving one another crazy. When she isn’t writing or getting lost in the pages of her newest favorite book, Veronica enjoys knitting fabulous bags and jewelry out of recycled plastic bags and old VHS tapes, sky diving (though she hasn’t actually tried that yet), and inventing the world’s most delectable cookie recipes.

Veronica is represented by Jessica Sinsheimer of the Sarah Jane Freymann Literary Agency, LLC

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