• Regency

    Cover Love: Captain’s Bluestocking Mistress @EricaRidley #RLFblog #regency

    The Captain’s Bluestocking Mistress 

    Cover Love includes a cover, blurb, buy links, and social
    media contacts for the author. Today’s featured book is The Captain’s Bluestocking
    Mistress/

    Captain Xavier Grey’s body is back amongst the beau monde, but
    his mind cannot break free from the horrors of war. His friends try to help him
    find peace. He knows he doesn’t deserve it. Just like he doesn’t deserve the attentions
    of the sultry bluestocking intent on seducing him into bed…
    Spinster Jane Downing wants off the shelf and into the arms of
    a hot-blooded man. Specifically, the dark and dangerous Captain Grey. She may not
    be destined to be his wife, but nothing will stop her from being his mistress. She
    could quote classical Greek by the age of four. How hard can it be to learn the
    language of love?

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    About the Author

    Erica is a USA Today best-selling author of historical romance
    novels. Her latest series, The Dukes of War, features charming peers and dashing
    war heroes who return from battle only to be thrust into the splendor and madness
    of Regency England.
    When not reading or writing romances, Erica can be found riding
    camels in Africa, zip-lining through rainforests in Costa Rica, or getting hopelessly
    lost in the middle of Budapest.

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  • 5 Easy Questions,  Paranormal

    5 Easy Questions: Anita Cox author of Pursuing Grace @AuthorAnitaCox #RLFblog #PNR

    Pursuing Grace 
    Anita Cox author of Pursuing Grace answers five easy questions
    to help readers get to know her better.

    Author Bio

    International best-selling author, Anita Cox has been writing
    general fiction for nearly a decade. In 2012 she strapped on a new name for a new
    genre and jumped head first into writing erotic romance.
    Anita Cox’s erotic debut series Dirty White Candy was picked
    up by Liquid Silver Books in 2013. In 2014, she became a Director for the Erotic
    Author’s Guild. Her altruistic nature found its purpose, assisting other erotic
    authors with issues specific to the genre.
    Genres/subject matter you can expect to see from Anita: Contemporary,
    Ménage, Erotic Romance, Paranormal Romance, Erotic Suspense and all things naughty.
    What’s your favorite hashtag
    to watch on Twitter?
    Because I find the 1st Amendment very important, I watch #notchilled
    Describe the perfect vacation.
    I get to take the perfect vacation every year. The husband and
    I rent a small cabin and spend an entire week on a lake. There’s no cell phone reception,
    no television, no laptop. It’s just us having a ton of fun and relaxing as we escape
    the insanity of day-to-day life. We may or may not be competitive about the actual
    fishing part.
    Tell us about your favorite
    toy as a child.
    Outside. I know, that’s not very exciting but I enjoyed playing
    outdoors using my imagination. I grew up on a family farm and played with my cousin
    daily. I was usually Spiderman and he was a random bad guy. I don’t know how I managed
    not to get impaled by rusty metal while “scaling” barrels and anything
    else I could find.
    What are your hobbies?
    Fishing remains my most favorite hobby. It has been an excellent
    skill to teach my daughter and try to teach my son ( who doesn’t care how to tie
    a proper fisherman’s knot.) I also really enjoy gardening. Next to making babies,
    it’s the best way to create life.
    If the heroine of your
    latest book called you on the phone, what would be a perfect ringtone for her?
    Barracuda by Heart

    About the Book

    Title: Pursuing Grace, Shifter Chronicles, Prequel
    Genre: Erotic Paranormal Romance
    Author: Anita Cox
    Book heat level (based on movie ratings): R
    Though Grace McGovern just graduated college, she’s restless,
    and to top it off, she finds herself single and unsatisfied with relationships in
    general.
    Roman intends to claim Grace and make her his mate and part of
    his pack. He’s searched for her for five years and now she’s within his longing
    grasp, apart from one minor problem. She has no idea she’s a wolf.
    As Grace tries to identify and cope with her inner wolf, she
    also needs to figure out the unprecedented and undeniable pull Roman has on her.
    Could he finally offer her the fulfilling relationship for which she’s been yearning?

    Buy This Book

    Publisher: The Prequel is self-published, but the series is in
    the hands of Syn Publishing. This book is also FREE.
    Barnes and Noble http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/books/1121380307?ean=9781508658412
    Are https://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-pursuinggrace-1748291-348.html

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  • Character Interviews,  Historical

    Character Interview: Arthur from Dawnflight @KimHeadlee #RLFblog #historical

    Dawnflight 
    The character interview allows a hero or heroine to tell
    readers about himself or herself. Today’s interview is with Arturus Aurelius Vetarus
    — better known to us as King Arthur.

    Interview with Arthur

    Tell us about yourself, please.
    I am Arturus Aurelius Vetarus, Dux Britanniarum—that is to say,
    my name is Arthur son of Uther, and I command the army that defends the northern
    Brytoni territory of the Isle of Brydein from Caledonian, Saxon, Scotti, and Angli
    threats. I am Roman by my father, and descended from the Aurelii emperors: Antoninus
    Pius, Hadrian, and Marcus Aurelius. My mother is Ygraine, chieftainess of Clan Cwrnwyll
    of Brydein—though the circumstance of my birth prevents me from becoming chieftain
    after her.
    Authors call what you want but cannot have “the conflict”
    — what is yours?
    When I followed my late father to become Dux Britanniarum, what
    I had wanted was to be granted an exception for my illegitimacy by the elders of
    Clan Cwyrnwyll so that I could be designated my mother’s heir. But that desire became
    as nothing the day I met Gyanhumara, Chieftainess of Clan Argyll of Caledonia. I
    knew she was the woman who would share my vision for a united Brydein and help me
    bring it to pass. But she was betrothed—by a stipulation of my own treaty with her
    people—to Urien, my greatest political rival, a man who will stop at nothing, including
    war, to achieve what he wants.
    I cannot bring such a calamity upon those I have sworn to protect.
    Perhaps you might be wondering why I do not simply void the betrothal
    clause. I could—for any man of aristocratic status. As a bastard, I do not qualify
    under the treaty terms. The day I had drafted that accursed document, I had never
    thought that in half a year I would be meeting the woman I crave more than breath
    itself.
    What can you not do (but need to do) during this story?
    Some of my advisers might argue that I should kill Urien and
    be done with the matter. The fact is that Urien’s father and mine were great friends
    and allies, and Chieftain Dumarec has graciously extended that support to me. Dumarec’s
    men form the backbone of the legion I command, and killing Urien would kill that
    alliance.
    But if there is another way to make Urien pay for his disrespectful—and
    sometimes hurtful—treatment of Gyanhumara, I swear by all that is holy that I shall
    find it.
    Tell us about your significant other, that person who makes
    living worthwhile.
    Gyanhumara is a chieftainess of the Caledonian people by birth,
    and a warrior and leader of warriors by training. Her clan, Argyll, led the southernmost
    Caledonian clans to attack the Brytoni settlement at Abar-Gleann, though Gyanhumara
    herself did not fight in that battle. If she had, I would have worded that damned
    betrothal clause far differently, I assure you.
    I do not love her because she is gorgeous, or wealthy, or intelligent,
    or amusing, or amazing, or skilled with a sword, or because a union with her will
    help to strengthen the fragile peace between our peoples. Indeed Gyanhumara is all
    of those things, and more. But take away all those attributes, and she would still
    be the woman for whom my heart thrums its most joyous song.
    What would that person say about you?
    Hah! Probably that I am secretive, private, and unreadable—because
    I must strive to keep my feelings for her buried. I would shout my love for her
    from the very gates of heaven itself, but not one moment before I determine how
    I can nullify her betrothal to Urien without inviting disaster.
    What special skills do you rely on?
    Uther and his best general, my cousin Merlin, taught me strategic
    and tactical thinking, as well as the ability to recognize good counsel and abilities
    within others. I credit these skills as the reason I was able to defeat Gyanhumara’s
    people in my first battle as Dux Britanniarum. No doubt they attacked because I
    was untried as a leader of men, and although I despised the loss of life on both
    sides of that conflict, it pleased me to prove the Caledonians wrong. Yet it pleased
    me even more to turn former enemies into valuable allies.
    My foster brother Cai would likely name as a “special skill”
    my ability to bring out the best in men with but a word, a nod, sometimes no more
    than a brief touch. I cannot explain why this is so, but I have observed the results
    myself and know that Cai is right. And I am grateful for this ability of mine, for
    I need all my soldiers to function at their very best in order to help me keep Brydein
    safe.

    About the Author

    Kim Headlee lives on a farm in southwestern Virginia with her
    family, cats, goats, Great Pyrenees goat guards, and assorted wildlife. People and
    creatures come and go, but the cave and the 250-year-old house ruins—the latter
    having been occupied as recently as the mid-twentieth century—seem to be sticking
    around for a while yet.
    Kim is a Seattle native and a direct descendent of twentieth-century
    Russian nobility. Her grandmother was a childhood friend of the doomed Grand Duchess
    Anastasia, and the romantic yet tragic story of how Lydia escaped Communist Russia
    with the aid of her American husband will most certainly one day fuel one of Kim’s
    novels. Another novel in the queue will involve her husband’s ancestor, the seventh-century
    proto-Viking king of the Swedish colony in Russia.
    For the time being, however, Kim has plenty of work to do in
    creating her projected 8-book Arthurian series, The Dragon’s Dove Chronicles, and
    other novels under her new imprint, Pendragon Cove Press.
    Why did you choose this character for the interview today?
    I have written an “open letter” guest post as Arthur,
    but this is the first time he has ever been called upon to conduct an interview.
    Are any sequels planned for this book?
    Oh yes! In fact the first sequel, Morning’s Journey, is already
    on sale. I have a total of eight books planned for The Dragon’s Dove Chronicles,
    though Arthur will be just a “gleam in the eye” in one of them.
    Why should readers who haven’t picked up one of your books
    before give this one a try?
    Oh, where to begin? How about with terrific writing and an exciting
    plot? Furthermore, in all of Arthurian literature, Dawnflight features the only
    Guinevere character (Gyanhumara, or Gyan as she prefers to be called by family and
    close friends) that a reader can truly like, for a change. Dawnflight can be read
    as pure escapism, but it also contains layers of meaning for those readers who like
    to delve deeper. And this edition features a Tolkien-esque invention of languages
    to further enrich the world inhabited by Gyan and Arthur and their families, friends,
    allies, and enemies.
    Is there anything you’d like to say to your readers?
    Thank you so very much for all your clicks and buys and reviews
    and follows and shares and fan mail and every other type of support I haven’t mentioned!

    About the Book

    Title Dawnflight
    Genre historical romance with fantasy, military, and spiritual
    elements
    Author Kim Headlee
    Book heat level (based on movie ratings): PG
    Among the misty lochs and glens of ancient Scotland, duty wages
    war against love on the battlefield of opposing cultures and agendas. When Gyanhumara
    and Arthur meet, they recognize each other as soul mates. Arthur’s treaty has preserved
    Gyan’s ancient right to marry any man, providing he is a nobleman—but Arthur himself
    does not qualify. And the man to which she is betrothed, the ambitious Urien, shall
    not be so easily denied by his greatest political rival. If Gyan and Arthur cannot
    prevent Urien from plunging the Caledonians and Brytons back into war, their love
    will be doomed to remain unfulfilled forever.
    But there is an even greater threat looming. The Laird of the
    Scots wants their land and will kill all who stand in his way. Gyan, Arthur, and
    Urien must unite to defeat this merciless enemy who threatens everyone they hold
    dear.
    Book trailer: http://youtu.be/mHOESkv-R_c

    Buy This Book

    Amazon Print http://www.amazon.com/dp/1939051134
    Barnes and Noble http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dawnflight-kim-d-headlee/1003548584?ean=2940016289618
    Audible Audiobook http://www.audible.com/pd/Romance/Dawnflight-Audiobook/B00E8IAZIW
    iTunes Audiobook https://itunes.apple.com/us/audiobook/dawnflight-dragons-dove-chronicles/id681882480

    Author Social Media

    Blog http://kimiversonheadlee.blogspot.com/
    Twitter https://twitter.com/KimHeadlee
    Facebook https://www.facebook.com/KimIversonHeadlee
    Pinterest http://www.pinterest.com/kimheadlee/
    Goodreads http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/845537.Kim_Headlee
    Amazon Author Page http://www.amazon.com/Kim-Headlee/e/B001KE2LK2
    Google+ https://plus.google.com/+KimHeadlee
    LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/kimheadlee/
    YouTube http://www.youtube.com/user/gyanhumara
    Video Interview: http://youtu.be/DV5iKrEIROk
  • Suspense

    Cover Love: Twisted Love JoAnne Myers @scooterismine #RLFblog #truecrime

    Twisted Love 
    Cover Love includes a cover, blurb, buy links, and social
    media contacts for the author. Today’s featured book is Twisted Love by JoAnne
    Myers.
    Twisted Love: 12 cases of love gone bad. It’s a chilling
    reality that homicide investigators know all too well: the last face most
    murder victims see is not that of a stranger, but of someone familiar.
    The End of Autumn-To keep from paying child support
    for his three children, Rodney Williams, plots with his parents to kidnap his
    estranged wife, 25-year old Autumn, in broad daylight. This 2011 crime shocked
    the small community of Logan, Ohio.
    Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing-In 2011, 53 year old Russell
    Strothers and his teenage accomplice find their victims through Craigslist and
    strike with calculating and deadly force.
    A Senseless Killing-This 2010 case uncovers how a 40
    year old likable barmaid was lured to her death after she rejects her young
    admirers sexual advances.
    The Death of Innocence-This 2011 murder case involved
    4 year old Marcie Willis, and her evil stepmother 25 year old Cheryl, from the
    small bedroom community of The Plains, Ohio.
    The Girl Not Forgotten-This cold case took 26 years
    to solve, but brought justice for 13-year-old Holly Buford, and put serial
    rapist, 40-year-old Stanley Snead, behind bars.
    The Possession-When 29-year-old Valerie Harris severs
    the penis of her sexually abusive father, it makes national news in 2007.
    Home Town Hero-When deaf students are murdered in the
    prestigious Rose Brick College of the Deaf in 2008, everyone is shocked when
    discovering the killer is one of their own.
    The Spell Caster Murders-When 42 year old Fortune
    Teller Sally Vu and her 21-year-old daughter Veronica are discovered murdered
    and physically desecrated, in 2001, evidence points to revenge and a spell gone
    wrong.
    All For the Family-In 2003, as a way to erase her
    22-year-old husbands criminal past, 19 year old Molly Abbott devises a ghoulish
    and desperate strategy.
    Thicker Than Water?-When 52 year old Kim Michaels is
    found dismembered inside her burned out home in 1996, officers find the crime
    more confusing than a jig saw puzzle.
    Mail Order Murder-The last thing the beautiful
    Russian mail order bride Anna dreamed of in 2001, was being murdered by her
    controlling and older American husband.
    Where’s Christopher?-When four year old Christopher
    Ellis goes missing in 1991, numerous excuses and an odd odor emanating from the
    backyard raise eyebrows.

    Buy This Book

    Black Rose Writing: http://www.blackrosewriting.com/other/twisted-love
    Author Bio
    I have been a long-time
    resident of southeastern Ohio, and worked in the blue-collar industry most of
    my life. Besides having several novels under my belt, I canvas paint.
    When not busy with
    hobbies or working outside the home, I spend time with relatives, my dogs
    Jasmine and Scooter, and volunteer my time within the community. I am a member
    of the International Women’s Writing Guild, Savvy Authors, Coffee Time Romance,
    Paranormal Romance Guild, True Romance Studios, National Writers Association,
    the Hocking Hill’s Arts and Craftsmen Association, The Hocking County
    Historical Society and Museum, and the Hocking Hills Regional Welcome Center. I
    believe in family values and following your dreams. My books along with my
    original canvas paintings, can be found at:
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  • Contemporary

    #amreading Hidden Desire #8 Vespian Way #SFR by Barbara Donlon Bradley @barbbradley #RLFblog

    Hidden Desire 
    This quick interview includes info about the author, and introduces
    the story.

    About the Author

    Writing for Barbara Donlon Bradley started innocently enough.
    Like most, she kept diaries, journals, and wrote an occasional letter but she also
    had a vivid imagination and wrote scenes and short stories adding characters to
    her favorite shows and comic books. As time went on she found the passion for writing
    to be a strong drive for her. Humor is also very strong in her life. No matter how
    hard she tries to write something deep and dark, it will never happen. That humor
    bleeds into her writing. Since she can’t beat it she has learned to use it to her
    advantage. Now she lives in Tidewater, Virginia with two cats, one mother in law
    – who’s 87 — her husband, and son.

    Interview with Barbara Donlon Bradley

    Why did you write this
    book?
    Because if I didn’t, I think my characters would have beaten
    me up in my sleep. This is the 8th book in a series I’ve been working on.
    What is your favorite
    genre to read?
    I like reading what I write which is SF/futuristic but I also
    edit for a publisher so I’m reading a lot of different genres. It’s something I
    enjoy and it makes me a little sharper when I edit my own work.
    Who is your favorite character
    from fiction (not including your own)?
    Wow – I have to pick just one? Hmmm, I’ve always loved Thomas
    Covenant the Unbeliever – I loved the series so much I bought the books in hardback
    back when I was young and broke.
    What are you working on
    at the moment, and will see from you in coming months?
    I am finishing the edits on book 9 of my series titled Timeless
    Desire. I changed the timeline leaving only two people who know what happened and
    their job is to set it right. Then I’m working on the next book in the series, editing
    a werewolf book I wrote several years ago and have a short story I want to write
    about dragons.
    Please tell us about your
    latest book.
    Heather wants to fight beside her people, not watch from a safe
    distance. So when her brother comes up with a way to disguise her she jumps at the
    chance. Now she can try out for an elite team to help defeat Reasta, who has a stronghold
    on their planet. No one knows who she is, including her mate, who has also been
    disguised. They must find each other, qualify for the team and help rescue the elders
    without being found out.

    About the Book

    Title Hidden Desire
    Genre SF/Futuristic Erotic Romance
    Author Barbara Donlon Bradley
    Book heat level (based on movie ratings): R

    Buy This Book

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    Barnes and Noble http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/Barbara-donlon-bradley
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  • Contemporary

    Tyburn by Jessica Cale @JessicaCale #RLFblog #historical

    Tyburn 
    Cover Love includes a cover, blurb, buy links, and social
    media contacts for the author. Today’s featured book is Tyburn by Jessica Cale.
    Genre Historical Romance
    Book heat level (based on movie ratings): R
    Sally Green is about to die.
    She sees Death in the streets. She can taste it in her gin. She
    can feel it in the very walls of the ramshackle brothel where she is kept to satisfy
    the perversions of the wealthy. She had come to London in search of her Cavalier
    father. Instead, she found Wrath, a sadistic nobleman determined to use her to fulfill
    a sinister ambition. As her friends are murdered one by one, survival hinges on
    escape.
    Nick Virtue is a tutor with a secret. By night he operates as
    a highwayman, and any day that doesn’t end in a noose is a good one. Saving Sally
    means risking his reputation, and may end up costing him his life.
    When a brutal attack throws them together, Sally must choose
    between the tutor and the highwayman; between new love and an old need for revenge.

    About the Author

    Jessica Cale is a historical romance author and journalist based
    in North Carolina. Originally from Minnesota, she lived in Wales for several years
    where she earned a BA in History and an MFA in Creative Writing while climbing castles
    and photographing mines for history magazines. She kidnapped (“married”)
    her very own British prince (close enough) and is enjoying her happily ever after
    with him in a place where no one understands his accent.

    Buy This Book

    Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Tyburn-Southwark-Saga-Book-1-ebook/dp/B00PQV6H9Q/

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