• Fantasy

    Meet Sorcha Fay from A Theft of Magic #Fantasy @cara_mckinnon #RLFblog

    Meet Sorcha Fay from A Theft of Magic.

    Author Bio

    Cara McKinnon wrote her first fantasy romance at the age of six, about a unicorn couple that falls in love and has adventures (there is also pie). Now she writes about humans falling in love and having adventures, but she can’t quite stop including magic. She loves history and historical romance, so she decided to set her books in an alternate Victorian era where magic is not only real, but a part of everyday life. Cara attended the best genre writing school in the world, Seton Hill University, where she received an MFA in Writing Popular Fiction and found her writing tribe. She lives on the East Coast of the US with her husband, two kids, and an oversized lapdog named Jake.

    About the Book

    Title A Theft of Magic
    Genre Fantasy Romance
    Book heat level (based on movie ratings): R
    A woman sworn to truth. A man who deals in lies. A passion lighting the way to love…or loss.
    At the behest of the Duchess of Fay, Ronan McCarrick, thief, smuggler, and Irish revolutionary, travels to the Isle of Skye, the domain of Sorcha Fay. She is known as the Seeress of Skye, an elusive figure who rarely leaves the island. Ronan’s arrival triggers one of her defensive spells, incinerating his clothing and everything he’s carrying. Including the letter that would have told Sorcha why he has come to Skye.
    Despite an instant attraction to the naked and furious Irishman, Sorcha believes that Ronan is an interloper who has been attacking her wards for months. Even when part of his story is confirmed, she still mistrusts him. But when she discovers that two powerful objects are missing from the Fay vaults–someplace he couldn’t have been–she’ll need his help to steal them back.
    If he doesn’t steal her heart first.

    Introducing Sorcha Fay

    Welcome to Romance Lives Forever! We’re happy to have you here today.
    Name: Sorcha Fay
    Age: 26
    Gender: Female
    Birthplace: Fay House, Skye, Scotland
    Profession: Caretaker of Fay House
    Ethnicity/Species (if not human): Human
    Describe your body and build, skin tone, height and weight. Include any unique features such as dimples, freckles, or scars.
    I’m very short and very curvy. I curve out far more than I curve in! My hair is light blonde, with a streak of silver/pearl color that everyone in my family gets when they’ve used magic long enough. I’m very pale, as you might expect from a blonde, with pale blue eyes. I’ve been told they look like a summer sky.
    Who is the significant other in your life?
    The only significant thing in my life at the moment is Fay House. But I recently met a man named Ronan, and if I can trust him…
    Please tell us a little about yourself.
    I’ve spent nearly all of my life in the Highlands and the Isles of Scotland. I am in charge of Fay House, the ancestral home of my clan, but the rest of the family only comes here once a year, so most of the time I’m alone with my small staff and the tenants. Like most of the members of my clan, I can do magic, and I am known for having frequent visions of the future and very strong magical intuition.
    On what special skills do you rely?
    My magical intuition provides me with extra information about people and situations. I can usually tell when things are about to go wrong, although that doesn’t mean I can do something about it!
    Are any of your skills a source of pride or embarrassment, and if so, which ones and why?
    I have frequent visions of the future, and coupled with my intuition, I’ve been given the nickname the “Seeress of Skye.” But I dislike that name, because I can’t control my visions the way true Seers can. The visions come at their own whims, and are about wildly different things. Sometimes they give warnings, or show me scenes from my own future, but most often they are of distance times, places, and people.
    What is your family like?
    My family is big, loud, and rambunctious. It is always a bit of a shock when they descend on me at midsummer and stay for two weeks, or when I travel to a gathering for a marriage, birth, or funeral. But though I do miss them when they aren’t around, I prefer my solitude, quiet, and peace.
    Are you involved in your community?
    Very much! Our family owns all of the land in the vicinity, including the town, so everyone nearby is a tenant of Clan Fay, and a nominal member of the clan, though not everyone has sworn oaths to Le Fay, our chieftess. As the representative of the clan on Skye, I settle disputes, collect rents, and oversee any needed improvements or repairs. I am also the strongest mage in the vicinity, so if anyone needs a spell cast, they come to me.
    If someone from your past showed up, who would you most want it to be, and why?
    I would like to know who my father is. He was out of my mother’s life before she knew she was pregnant, and she never told me his name, or where I could find him. I don’t even know if he’s still alive.
    If you could make any one thing happen, what would it be?
    I would have the solicitors who manage Fay House’s finances actually open the pursestrings and allow me to invest in improvements to the house and grounds. At the moment, I am only allowed enough money to cover repairs and upkeep, but the house is in desperate need of modernization and renovation.
    When (if) you lie or are upset, what gives you away?
    It is very difficult for me to lie. When I try it, I am usually stiff and awkward about it, and stumble over my words. I also flush easily with my pale skin, and lying makes me feel embarrassed, so even if I manage to get the lie out, my cheeks and throat give me away.

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  • Military

    Support our Veterans #99cents Merry Christmas, Baby by @liviaquinn #RLFblog #romance

    Cover Love includes a cover, blurb, buy links, and social media contacts for the author. Today’s featured book is Merry Christmas Baby by Livia Quinn.
    About the Book
    Title  Merry Christmas, Baby
    Genre  Military Romance
    Author Livia Quinn
    Book heat level (based on movie ratings): PG13
    Through November all sales from Merry Christmas, Baby will go to veterans’ charities. And it’s on sale now for 99cents. It’s a win-win.
    It’s a Christmas weekend full of love and Larue social media is a twitter at the return of their hometown movie star, Ducane Beauregard Larue, and a visit by Raptors quarterback, Gino Manelli, at the only place to celebrate Christmas Eve—the Romanos’. Catch up with the characters from Larue and Thunder Point, and as a bonus get a peek at upcoming characters.
    Beau hates Christmas. It reminds him of what he can’t have. He’s been avoiding homecomings, and the biggest reason is unavoidable this Christmas – Madison Hart, who has loved Beau for most of her adult life. Whenever rumors surface about him returning home, Madison hyperventilates at the prospect of seeing him again.
    Samantha Larue’s baby is overdue and everyone is hovering including Jed, who ended their relationship last summer because kids weren’t “in his future”. But this one is in his present.
    Bad guys don’t scare Delilah Burke but Luc’s mother and five sisters have her stalling on setting a date to marry the man she loves.
    Nothing could make Buffy Romano happier than delivering a few surprises and helping the people she loves find love. Then, a Christmas Eve miracle confirms what she already knows – that with a little nudge, all her loved ones’ happily-ever-afters will happen in the not so distant future.
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    About the Author
    D.C. native, Livia Quinn, now lives and writes by the bayou in Louisiana. She’s written eleven books in her Storm Lake series, both paranormal and contemporary romance. While working as a plant manager, computer trainer, mail lady, professional singer, and small business owner she’s stocked her brain full of great characters and fodder for her stories, and loves to share them with her readers. Nothing gives her a thrill like being able to make a difference for our veterans to whom we owe everything.
    Author Social Media
    Blog: https://liviaquinnwrites.com/livias-ramblings
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  • Regency

    Scandal’s Splendor a new #Regency by @Collette_Author #RLFblog

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

    About the Author

    A bestselling, award-winning author, Collette Cameron pens Scottish and Regency historicals featuring rogues, rapscallions, rakes, and the intelligent, intrepid damsels who reform them.
    Blessed with three spectacular children, fantastic fans, and a compulsive, over-active, and witty Muse who won’t stop whispering new romantic romps in her ear, she lives in Oregon with her mini-dachshunds, though she dreams of living in Scotland part-time. 
    Admitting to a quirky sense of humor, Collette enjoys inspiring quotes, adores castles and anything cobalt blue, and is a self-confessed Cadbury chocoholic. You’ll always find dogs, birds, occasionally naughty humor, and a dash of inspiration in her sweet-to-spicy timeless romances.

    Interview with Collette Camero

    Why did you write this book?
    Scandal’s Splendor is the 4th book in my Highland Heather Romancing a Scot series and it features Seonaid Ferguson.
    She’s the youngest Ferguson sister and has waited patiently while twelve other books were written to finally have her story told. She made it clear, she wasn’t going to wait any longer.  
    What is your favorite genre to read?
    I adore historical romance, particularly Scottish, Regency, Victoria, and Medieval, though I’ll read just about any sub-genre.
    I started reading Regencies when I was thirteen!
    Who is your favorite character from fiction (not including your own)?
    Only one?
    Hmm, I’m still a bit dreamy-eyed over the Count of Monte Cristo.  
    What are you working on at the moment, and will see from you in coming months?
    I’m working on a Highlander novella for a group project and as soon as it’s finished will dive into another novella for another project.
    Brette: Intentions Gone Astray, my third Conundrums of the Misses Culpeppers releases January 10, 2017, and Passion and Plunder, the fifth book in the Highland Heather Romancing a Scot series is scheduled to release in the spring of 2017.
    Expect another A Waltz with a Rogue Novella soon too.
    Please tell us about your latest book.
    A determined Scottish lady
    Seonaid Ferguson, a lady of Craiglocky Keep, is through with London’s Marriage Mart. After learning she has the second sight, the haut ton attempts to exploit her abilities. Even though it means she condemns herself to spinsterhood, Seonaid sets a desperate course to rid herself of her gift turned curse. As she rushes home from England, a snowstorm strands her in a crowded inn with the last man she ever wished to see again. A handsome French baron who once thought her a courtesan. And just her misfortune, only he stands between her and certain harm. 
    An honorable French nobleman
    Jacques, Monsieur le baron de Devaux-Rousset, ventures to Scotland to oversee his new investment;  a silver mine near Craiglocky. Only a handsome profit will save his family’s destitute estate in France. But when the mine is beset with one problem after another, Jacques must instead search for an heiress to wed. He certainly should not be falling in love with the lovely, spirited sister of Laird Ewan MacTavish, a lass whose dowry is insufficient to restore his ancestral home. Nor should he consider, even for a moment, her risqué, but deliciously tempting scheme to rid her of the second sight.
    A danger most dire
    Matters are torn from their hands when a dangerous adversary vows to expose Seonaid as a witch, just as Jacques’s  problems at the mine escalate into deadly violence. Is it by chance, or a dark design, that both of them are beset at once …? Dare Jacques and Seonaid throw caution aside and forge a future together?

    About the Book

    Title Scandal’s Splendor, Highland Heather Romancing a Scot, book 4
    Genre Historical Romance-Scottish Regency
    Author Collette Cameron
    Book heat level (based on movie ratings): PG13

    Buy This Book

    Publisher Soul Mate Publishing
    Amazon  http://amzn.com/B01M1N6U50

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  • Sweet or Inspirational

    A Romance for Christmas by Kayelle Allen #RLFblog #HolidayRomance

    Today’s featured book is A Romance for Christmas by Kayelle Allen.

    About the Book

    Title A Romance for Christmas
    Genre Sweet contemporary romance, holiday romance
    Author Kayelle Allen
    Book heat level (based on movie ratings): PG
    A sweet feel-good holiday romance. It’s Christmas Eve, and the end of a year in which everything Dara loves was lost. Everything but her little girl and a fierce determination to survive. When a cop brings Christmas to her door, he brings another gift she never expected to get.

    Buy This Book

    Publisher Romance Lives Forever Books
    Amazon http://amzn.to/1wpW8qE
    Amazon (print) http://amzn.to/2eYIkAs

    About the Author

    Kayelle Allen is a best selling American author. Her unstoppable heroes and heroines include contemporary every day folk, role-playing immortal gamers, futuristic covert agents, and warriors who purr.

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  • Suspense

    Seduction in Sierra Leone (Men of FTI 1) @OliviaNightRead #RLFblog #RomanticSuspense

    Cover Love includes a cover, blurb, buy links, and social media contacts for the author. Today’s featured book is Seduction In Sierra Leone, The Men of FTI Book One by Olivia Night.

    About the Book
    Title: Seduction in Sierra Leone, The Men of FTI Book 1
    Genre:  Contemporary, Romantic Suspense
    Book heat level (based on movie ratings): R
    In the mangroves of Sierra Leone, two strangers raised a world apart find themselves inextricably connected. Seduction in Sierra Leone, the first in a series of three novels, is a fast-paced tale of murder, lust, and love that transports the reader to a foreign and mysterious world of danger.
    Aislinn Salameh, an American relief worker, is searching for purpose in her self- imposed lonely world. The stranger who enters her village on a blistering hot day seems more animal than human. She knows she should stay far away but can’t stop herself from being drawn to the mysterious man.
    Brandt Fairlane is haunted by the sins of his past. Detached from others, Brandt has spent his life alone. His line of work is too dangerous for the luxuries of love and family.
    When Brandt sees Aislinn and her haunting eyes, he knows he must possess her. But when Brandt’s past comes back from the dead and Aislinn is caught in the crossfire, it is up to him to keep her safe. In order to survive, they must learn to rely on one another. As they run for their lives, the heat between them becomes undeniable. Now, Brandt must not only protect Aislinn from a madman committed to stealing her away, but he also must protect her from himself. Because if Brandt steals her body and her heart, he’ll never let her go.
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    Publisher
    (e-book and paperback available)
    Barnes and Noble – http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/seduction-in-sierra-leone-olivia-night/1122341426?ean=9781622102426
    Kobo – https://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/seduction-in-sierra-leone
    iBooks-  https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/seduction-in-sierra-leone/id1020494392?mt=11
    About the Author
    Olivia Night, a fictional character herself, has always been an avid reader and writer. She found the romance genre in college and has never been able to get enough. One sleepless night, the main characters of Book One in her Men of FTI  series sprang from her head fully formed. They demanded she tell their story; so she did. As they revealed themselves, so did two other intriguing characters. Those characters convinced her to give them their own books because their stories were worth telling too. And so Olivia suddenly became a romance author. When Olivia is not writing, she has the best job in the world, which, too, will remain a secret. In her free time, she reads, write, drinks wine, or is, most likely, out emulating Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Olivia lives in one of the most diverse and vibrant cities in the U.S.—Baltimore. She lives with her cat, which she is convinced was a gladiator in his past life. Olivia plans to continue being awesome at this thing called life. Really, that’s her only goal.
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  • Contemporary

    Dirty Like Me by @JaineDiamondXO #RLFblog #contemporaryromance

    Today’s featured book is Dirty Like Me by Jaine Diamond.

    About the Book

    Title Dirty Like Me
    Genre contemporary romance / rockstar romance
    Author Jaine Diamond
    Book heat level (based on movie ratings): R
    Struggling barista Katie Bloom doesn’t even know who Jesse Mayes is until she inadvertently wins the coveted role of sex kitten in his hot new music video. But by the time she’s in bed with him, she knows his reputation.
    Love maker. Heartbreaker.
    Making out with a stranger in front of a camera crew isn’t how Katie imagined herself getting over a broken heart, but when Jesse touches her, sparks fly. The sex is fake but the chemistry is real, and soon the steamy video is blazing up the charts.
    Then Jesse makes Katie an irresistible offer: act as his girlfriend for six weeks while he promotes his new album. The only catch? Their sizzling make-out sessions will be for the cameras only.
    Which is fine with Katie, since she’s not about to trust her heart to rock’s most legendary lover. Her body? Maybe…

    Buy This Book

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    About the Author 

    Jaine Diamond is a romance author who believes in fairy tales, ice cream, and true love. She lives in beautiful Vancouver, Canada with her real-life romantic hero (Mr. Diamond) and their baby girl.

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