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Mystic, Urban Fantasy by Gabi Stevens @GabiStevens #RLFblog #urbanfantasy
Welcome to Romance Lives Forever. I’m Kayelle Allen, author and owner of this blog. Today’s guest is Gabi Stevens, author of Mystic, an urban fantasy.Mystic by Gabi Stevens
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Book heat level (based on movie ratings): PG 13
How could a good deed go so wrong?
Trask Sinclair enjoys his life as a famous author living in New York City. His greatest adventures come from the characters in his books. But after stepping in to protect a woman on the run–a woman with eyes that speak of hidden depth, intrigue, and loneliness–Trask is suddenly pulled into a world he never could have written.
Allys Joel sees the future when she touches someone. That’s why a Wall Street firm held her prisoner for sixteen months. Escaping, with Trask’s help, puts both their lives at risk. When conventional travel proves impossible, they must journey cross-country to get to the safety of the mysterious town of Mystic, Wyoming. As they fight for their lives, their freedom, and a possible budding romance, they must come face to face with the reality–and secrets–that may change their lives forever.
Where to buy Mystic
Publisher http://boroughspublishinggroup.com/books/mystic
Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Mystic-Gabi-Stevens-ebook/dp/B0789J6XCT/
Barnes and Noble https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/mystic-gabi-stevens/1127661074
iBooks https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/book/mystic/id1326352012?mt=11
Kobo:https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/mystic-20
Smashwords https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/768483Gabi Stevens Social Media
Gabi Stevens/Gabi Anderson was born in SoCal to Hungarian parents. After spending time in boarding school, college, and studying abroad (Germany), she spent seven years in the classroom trying to teach eighth graders the joys of literature. An award winning author, Gabi writes in New Mexico where she lives with her robotics engineer husband, three daughters, and two dogs. She loves to play games (She’s appeared on Family Feud and Jeopardy!), has a wicked addiction to reading, avoids housework and cooking, and doesn’t travel nearly as much as she would like to.
Website http://gabistevens.com/
Twitter https://twitter.com/GabiStevens
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Initiation: It’s never just another day at the office Paula Millhouse @pmillhouse #RLFblog #UF #PNR
Paula Millhouse, welcome to Romance Lives Forever. I’m Kayelle Allen, author and owner of this blog. Happy to have you here! Please tell us about your book.Thank you, Kayelle, for having me on the blog today. I love what you do for the Romance/UF/PNR/Sci-Fy genres, and how you connect readers with great books!
Hunters’ Watch Brigade: Initiation by Paula Millhouse
Genre: Urban Fantasy (with a heavy dose of paranormal romance on the side.)
Book heat level (based on movie ratings): Rated R (for some hot romance, magic, and suspenseful scenes)
It’s never just another day at the office…
Demigod Samantha Silverton, a full-time monster hunter in the Hunters’ Watch Brigade, is on a mission to hunt down a scorned mermaid with her familiar Max when she finds out she has bigger fish to fry. Her mother—a powerful witch—has been abducted. And the most likely villain is her mother’s enemy, Francesca Rosencratz.
Being a familiar to a sexy monster hunter has its perks, but Max wants more. He might look like a cat, but he’s also Sam’s best friend…and the man who loves her. But in order to defeat Francesca, he’ll have to shift into his human form, something he’s avoided. Because once he’s officially a shifter, he’ll have to join the Brigade. And that could take him away from Sam for good.
But Francesca’s becoming more and more dangerous. She and a mysterious ally are working to take down the Brigade, and take over the paranormal community. Sam will have to dig deep if she’s going to save her mom. But Max will have to risk even more…to save Sam.
When supernatural creatures go rogue, who are you going to call? The Hunters’ Watch Brigade!
Why did you write this book?
This is the book of my heart.
One day I broke all the rules and started writing in first person, multiple point-of-view, and the Hunter’s Watch Brigade came to life.
The first book, Initiation, tells the story of a snarky monster hunter heroine who goes up against all odds to rescue her family from monsters, find her One True Love (who turns out to be her best friend), and incorporates all the things I like to read. Fantasy. Romance. And suspense.
I picked on the Greek pantheon in this book. My main character Samantha is a half-ling daughter to Poseidon. He makes a couple of appearances in this story, and I LOVED writing him. I’m an Aquarius girl who was born in the site of water, so it felt normal as anything including him in the story. Just wait until you visit his castle under the sea with Sam and Max.
I also explored what it means to fall in love with your best friend. I love this romance trope, and Sam and Max have some pretty intense issues to solve along their romance road. I think readers will cheer for them. They’re a very dynamic couple who fought hard to find their love story. They even surprised me.
The climax is amazing, and I knew what the scene looked like as soon as I wrote the very first words. Seeing this book go to print is an achievement. I can’t wait to share it with everyone, and I hope you’ll tell a friend.
What is your favorite genre to read?
Urban Fantasy and Paranormal Romance.
I like books where justice does exist, magic is the norm, and a hot romance demands a happy ever after.
Who is your favorite character from fiction (not including your own)?
Sam from the Hunters’ Watch Brigade series of course.
She’s a half-ling daughter of Poseidon who joined up with her vampire handler, Shade Vermillion, and her cat-shifter best friend Max to police the universe for bad supernaturals. She shows exemplary spunk while she fights a mermaid, reconciles family issues with her sister Cyn, and works hard to rescue her mother from Francesca Rosencratz, a powerful witch with a vendetta.
Does Sam win in the end? We’ll let the readers decide.
What are you working on at the moment?
Sharing Hunters’ Watch Brigade: Initiation with the world of readers. Do feel free to tell a friend, and thank you in advance. Marketing a book is hard work, and word of mouth still seems to be the best way to share books. If you’d like to read and review a copy you can do that now at Net Galley.
My amazing editor Brenda from ImaJinn Books and I are working on revisions for HWB Book 2. It’s been fun to expand the Hunters’ Watch Brigade world. I’m plotting several more books where readers can enjoy following their favorite pair of sexy paranormal agents as they police the universe for bad supernaturals.
What books will we see from you in coming months?
My agent, Sharon Belcastro, was wise enough to see the potential in this series.
Hunters’ Watch Brigade Book 2 is scheduled to release in the Summer of 2018, and we expect Book 3 to be out this year too. BelleBooks/ImaJinnBooks is an amazing publisher, and I think readers will enjoy what we have in store for you. Check back on my website for upcoming news. https://www.paulamillhouse.com
Where to buy Hunters’ Watch Brigade: Initiation
Publisher ImaJinnBooks/BelleBooks http://www.imajinnbooks.com
Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Hunters-Watch-Brigade-Paula-Millhouse-ebook/dp/B079HLXT5M
Barnes and Noble https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/hunters-watch-brigade-paula-millhouse/1127912441
Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38315520-hunters-watch-brigade
Google Play https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Paula_Millhouse_Hunters_Watch_Brigade_Initiation?id=VvlJDwAAQBAJ
iBooks https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/hunters-watch-brigade-initiation/id1343458133?mt=11
Kobo https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/hunters-watch-brigade-initiation
NetGalley https://www.netgalley.com/catalog/book/131945
Paula Millhouse Social Media
Paula Millhouse was born and raised in Savannah, Georgia, where Spanish moss whispers tales in breezes from the Atlantic Ocean to her soul. As a child, she soaked in the sunshine and heritage of cobblestones, pirate lore, and stories steeped in savory mysteries of the South.
She lives in the mountains now, but honors her Southern heritage as a story teller by sharing high-heat adventures with her readers. Escape your daily routine with books where justice does exist, true love is worth fighting for, and happily ever afters are expected.
Website https://www.paulamillhouse.com
Blog https://paulamillhouse.com/blog-posts/
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Newsletter: https://paulamillhouse.com/paula-millhouse-books-newsletter/
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Is It True: Mystic by Gabi Stevens @GabiStevens #RLFblog #urbanfantasy
Welcome to Romance Lives Forever. I’m Kayelle Allen, author and owner of this blog. Let’s play Is It True with today’s guest, Gabi Stevens, author of Mystic, an urban fantasy. This is a game with yes and no questions. Writers can elaborate on answers as much as they choose.Mystic
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Book heat level (based on movie ratings): PG 13
How could a good deed go so wrong?
Trask Sinclair enjoys his life as a famous author living in New York City. His greatest adventures come from the characters in his books. But after stepping in to protect a woman on the run—a woman with eyes that speak of hidden depth, intrigue, and loneliness—Trask is suddenly pulled into a world he never could have written.
Allys Joel sees the future when she touches someone. That’s why a Wall Street firm held her prisoner for sixteen months. Escaping with Trask’s help puts both their lives at risk. When conventional travel proves impossible, they must journey cross-country to get to the safety of the mysterious town of Mystic, Wyoming. As they fight for their lives, their freedom, and a possible budding romance, they must come face to face with the reality—and secrets—that may change their lives forever.
Is it true:
this is your first book?
Not true. Mystic is my fourteenth published book, but only the sixth under the name Gabi Stevens.
this book is part of a series?
True. This is the first of a planned series about the mysterious town of Mystic and its inhabitants.
you lost sleep while writing this book?
True. But then again, I’m a poor sleeper.
you did research for this book?
True. I spent time in a friend’s RV, which plays a role in the story. I contacted the Cheyenne Airport for information about flights, planes their airport could handle, and private jets. And I read extensively about goats, King Arthur legends, and animal communication. Try tying all those things together.
some characters in this book are not human? (pets for example)
Definitely! I don’t want to spoil anything, but creatures play a big role in this book.
this book has more than one genre?
True. It’s a little romance, a little humor, a little fantasy.
you speak more than one language?
True. In addition to English, I am fluent in Hungarian and German, and I studied Latin for many years.
you grew up where you live now?
Not true. I grew up in SoCal, went to boarding school in Colorado, college in New York, Germany, and California, and grad school in Illinois. Finally I ended up in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
you love to read?
True. I believe my day is wasted unless I have read something that day. It’s an addiction. If I run out of books, I’ve been known to read my husband’s engineering periodicals.
you are never late?
True. I am on time always. Can’t help it.
you love pizza?
Not true. While I eat pizza sometimes, I’d rather have a burger any day.
you love sushi?
True. I would eat sushi everyday if I could.
you have a pet?
True. Two dogs presently—a cockapoo and a boxer mix.Where to buy Mystic
Publisher http://boroughspublishinggroup.com/books/mystic
Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Mystic-Gabi-Stevens-ebook/dp/B0789J6XCT/
Barnes and Noble https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/mystic-gabi-stevens/1127661074
iBooks https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/book/mystic/id1326352012?mt=11
Kobo:https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/mystic-20
Smashwords https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/768483Gabi Stevens Social Media
Website http://gabistevens.com/
Twitter https://twitter.com/GabiStevens
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Gallowglass by Jennifer Allis Provost @parthalan #RLFblog #urbanfantasy
Welcome Jennifer Allis Provost author of Gallowglass, a new urban fantasy.Why did you write this book?
I originally set out to write this book almost ten years ago. I was researching Celtic myths when I came across a book written in the seventeenth century called The Secret commonwealth of elves, Fauns, and Fairies, which was notorious because the author—one Robert Kirk–had supposedly angered the fairies by revealing their secrets, so they captured him and imprisoned him in a tree. (For real. Go ahead, Google it. I’ll wait.)
Anyway, I couldn’t stop thinking about Robert, wondering if he was really stuck in the tree or if he got to wander around Fairyland, and eventually I decided that he’d become the Seelie Queen’s personal assassin, her gallowglass. And here we are today.
What is your favorite genre to read?
Urban fantasy and paranormal romance.
Who is your favorite character from fiction (not including your own)?
Does R2D2 count?
What are you working on at the moment?
I’m finishing up the sequel to Gallowglass, Walker, and working on the fourth installment of my epic fantasy series, The Chronicles of Parthalan. I’ve also got a Secret Project brewing, which has supernatural elements I’ve never worked with before. Exciting times!
What books will we see from you in coming months?
Walker (Gallowglass #2), Golem (Parthalan #4) and the aforementioned Secret Project.
Please tell us about your latest book.
Genre urban fantasy, paranormal romance
Book heat level (based on movie ratings): R
Karina didn’t set out to free the Seelie Queen’s gallowglass. Now she’ll do anything to keep him.
After Karina and her brother, Chris’s, lives fall apart in separate yet equally spectacular ways, they leave New York behind and head to the UK. Karina buries herself in research for her doctoral thesis, all the while studiously not thinking about the man who broke her heart, while Chris—who’d been a best-selling author before his ex-fiancée sued him for plagiarism—drinks his way across the British Isles.
In Scotland, they visit the grave of Robert Kirk, a seventeenth- century minister who was kidnapped by fairies. No one is more shocked than Karina when a handsome man with a Scottish brogue appears, claiming to be the Robert Kirk of legend. What’s more, he says he spent the last few hundred years as the Gallowglass, the Seelie Queen’s personal assassin. When they’re attacked by demons, Karina understands how dearly the queen wants him back.
As Karina and Robert grow closer, Chris’s attempts to drown his sorrows lead him to a pub, and a woman called Sorcha. Chris is instantly smitten with her, so much so he spends days with Sorcha and lies to his sister about his whereabouts. When Chris comes home covered in fey kisses, Karina realizes that the Seelie Queen isn’t just after Robert.
Can Karina outsmart the Seelie Queen, or is Robert doomed to forever be the Gallowglass?
Publisher Bellatrix Press
Amazon http://amzn.to/2qaTKuM
Barnes and Noble http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/gallowglass-jennifer-allis-provost/1126185405?ean=2940154110164Kobo https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/gallowglass-4
Jennifer Allis Provost Social Media
Jennifer Allis Provost writes books about faeries, orcs and elves. Zombies too. She grew up in the wilds of Western Massachusetts and had read every book in the local library by age twelve. (It was a small library). An early love of mythology and folklore led to her epic fantasy series, The Chronicles of Parthalan, and her day job as a cubicle monkey helped shape her urban fantasy, Copper Girl. When she’s not writing about things that go bump in the night (and sometimes during the day) she’s working on her MFA in Creative Nonfiction.
Web and blog https://authorjenniferallisprovost.com//
Twitter https://twitter.com/parthalan
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Cry Me a River by @liviaquinn #RLFblog #urbanfantasy
Cover Love includes a cover, blurb, buy links, and social media contacts for the author. Today’s featured book is Cry Me a River by Livia Quinn.About the BookTitle Cry Me a River, Destiny Paramortals, Book2Genre Urban fantasyAuthor Livia QuinnBook heat level (based on movie ratings): PGMayberry or Middle Earth? – The Paramortals have a saying, “One meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it.” Our new sheriff said it differently, “Paramortal, my A$$!”My name is Tempest Pomeroy. For nineteen years I denied my heritage, until my brother’s genie bottle went missing. Time is running out for River, and the attraction that was growing between me and Sheriff Jack Lang derailed after a series of shocks sent us both reeling, and he got his first glimpse of my Paramortal “talents” – a few measly bolts of lightning aimed at his—in his general direction. In the course of the investigation we’ve gonr from attraction to suspicion, support to friendship, romance to oh-my-god-get-away-from-me revulsion.Jack’s an ex-Navy pilot. He says he wants to know “everything”. My ex-lover, but after we answer Jack’s questions, he’ll either join us, or grab his daughter and take the first jet out of Middle Earth.He might help me save my brother and discover the whereabouts of my parents, but he probably won’t still want to take me to the Mardi Gras ball, once he knows “everything”. There’s a lot of everything.Buy This BookAmazon http://amzn.to/1OXQNohARe http://bit.ly/CMR-AReNook http://bit.ly/1K9HjyHCreateSpace http://amzn.to/1nbPGVgGoodreads http://bit.ly/1l0XDLuiBooks http://apple.co/2gnAHrgKobo http://bit.ly/1UlmNmHAbout the AuthorHi, I’m Livia Quinn, a DC native living on the bayou. With a life long fascination (read that: phobia) of storms, and living in Louisiana where severe weather is a part of life, it was only natural that it would play a big part in my world. My former jobs as a mail lady, computer trainer, plant manager, professional singer, business owner and salesperson have stocked my brain full of quirky characters and I can’t wait to share them with my readers.Author Social MediaWebsite: http://liviaquinn.comBlog: https://liviaquinnwrites.com/livias-ramblingsTwitter http://twitter.com/liviaquinnPinterest http://pinterest.com/liviaquinnGoodreads http://bit.ly/22VXuevAmazon Author page http://amzn.to/1T5qmhNGoogle+ http://bit.ly/2guNZn9Linkedin http://bit.ly/2dbYAP2Instagram http://instagram.com/liviaquinnauthorIndependent Author Network http://bit.ly/2dlAr8LLivia Quinns Facebook Reader Group http://bit.ly/2gBFQ12 -
Winter’s Curse (Season of the Witch Book 1) by @AprilLWood #RLFblog
Today’s featured book is Winter’s Curse (Season of the Witch Book 1) by April L Wood.
About the Book
Title Winter’s Curse (Season of the Witch Book 1)Genre Paranormal Urban FantasyAuthor April L. WoodBook heat level (based on movie ratings): PGBefore the light is reborn within the womb of darkness and the Sun returns, will Winter reverse the curse?
When High Priestess Iris Rose-Thorne bets her granddaughter’s womb in a broom flying contest–and loses, Winter wonders where the real danger lies: from the Witch Hunters she fled from the far North or her shady grandmother.
She finds safety with Turmeric of the Wormwood clan. His eagerness to protect her warms her frozen heart. But her love for him defies the Segregation Curse of Old, cast by the Elders to preserve ancient clan bloodlines.
Can they find a way around the Segregation Curse of Old to be together?
And with time running out as the Winter Solstice nears, will Winter be able to reverse the curse on her womb? Or will she agree to her fate and remain barren?Buy This Book
Barnes and Noble http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/winters-curse-april-l-wood/1125023137About the Author
April L Wood is a debut author, book blogger for A Well Read Woman Blog, an author interviewer, a professional beta reader, and a caffeinated book reviewer. When she is not glued to her computer or pressing her nose in a book, she is busy obsessing over her gardens to the point of insanity, feeding wildlife, and propagating her ever-growing collection of African violets. She lives in a beautiful historic Tudor-Colonial filled to the brim with her family, two cats, and three dogs.
She is currently writing Spring in Summerland, Season of the Witch Book 2, and A Diamond in The Rough, Book 1 of the Precious Gems series.Author Social Media
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