Mixtape- A Love Song Anthology

What if you could live inside your favorite love song?

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What’s more romantic than a love song? A mixtape full of them. Twelve bestselling and award-winning authors have curated an anthology of brand-new, standalone stories inspired by love songs, featuring a foreword written by NYT bestselling author Laurelin Paige. Press PLAY on this limited-edition collection that’s guaranteed to make you swoon.  ***MIXTAPE PLAYLIST***  Elle Kennedy: “Always On My Mind” - Willie Nelson  KL Kreig: “I Just Want To Be Your Everything” - Andy Gibb  Leslie McAdam: “Think I’m in Love” - Beck  Lynda Aicher: “Kiss Me” - Ed Sheeran  Mara White: “All I Want To Do” - Heart  Marni Mann: “S+M” - Rihanna  Nikki Sloane: “Say It First” - Sam Smith  Rebecca Shea: “Thinking Out Loud” - Ed Sheeran  Saffron A. Kent: “Guys My Age” - Hey Violet  Sierra Simone: “Hallelujah” - Jeff Buckley  Veronica Larsen: “Say You Won't Let Go" - James Arthur  Xio Axelrod: “Toothpaste Kisses” - The Maccabees

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Waiting on Wednesday #262

"Waiting On Wednesday" is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spines, that spotlights upcoming releases we're eagerly anticipating. 

Hold On by Samantha Young

Publication Date: March 12th, 2019

Summary-

From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Samantha Young… 

Autumn O’Dea has always tried to see the best in people while her big brother, Killian, has always tried to protect her from the worst. While their lonely upbringing made Killian a cynic, it isn’t in Autumn’s nature to be anything but warm and open. However, after a series of relationship disasters and the unsettling realization that she’s drifting aimlessly through life, Autumn wonders if she’s left herself too vulnerable to the world. Deciding some distance from the security blanket of her brother and an unmotivated life in Glasgow is exactly what she needs to find herself, Autumn takes up her friend’s offer to stay at a ski resort in the snowy hills of Montana. Some guy-free alone time on Whitetail Mountain sounds just the thing to get to know herself better. 

However, she wasn’t counting on colliding into sexy Grayson King on the slopes. Autumn has never met anyone like Gray. Confident, smart, with a wicked sense of humor, he makes the men she dated seem like boys. Her attraction to him immediately puts her on the defense because being open-hearted in the past has only gotten it broken. Yet it becomes increasingly difficult to resist a man who is not only determined to seduce her, but adamant about helping her find her purpose in life and embrace the person she is. Autumn knows she shouldn’t fall for Gray. It can only end badly. After all their lives are divided by an ocean and their inevitable separation is just another heart break away… 

Book Promo- Growing Flowers by Tani Hanes

Growing Flowers (Flower Series Collection)
by Tani Hanes
Genre: NA Romance
Release date: January 2019

Summary:

When they meet, Pete is a student who needs a place to live, Daisy is a young woman in a family bind who needs a husband. She’s a bred and born New Yorker, he’s from the vineyards of Tuscany, but when they meet, sparks fly, as though they were meant to be. Follow our intrepid young couple as they navigate the treacherous waters of being newlyweds, new parents, and a vulnerable family unit trying to protect themselves and their children from the threats of an indifferent and sometimes cruel world.

Through four novels and numerous bonus chapters, our favorite couple and children learn to cope with an old flame, a stalker, wrenching loss, and simply growing up. Ten years pass from beginning to end, but the time flies by as everyone gets older and, hopefully, a little wiser in this loving and rollicking family unit.

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Excerpt

"Uh, could I talk to mommy? Alone?" she asked hesitantly.

She looked at Pete to see the effect of her words. Pete blinked in surprise, leaning back a little. Clio had never asked such a thing before.

"I'm sorry," she apologized to Pete. She looked overwrought, as though she might burst into tears. "No, of course, it's okay," Pete told her, nodding for emphasis. He took the baby from his wife, seeing the love and sympathy in her eyes as he did.

When they were alone, Daisy leaned forward to stroke Clio's hair, pushing it away from her face. "What's going on, love?" she asked, smiling.

"Well," Clio began, taking a deep breath. "I was sitting in class today? Just listening?"

Daisy nodded, smiling encouragingly.

"And I just realized, right in the middle of Ms. Nina talking, that a bunch of the kids in my class are, uh, boys." Clio pretty much whispered the last word as though she were imparting a secret.

Daisy looked at her, trying to figure out what Clio meant. "Yes, they're boys, they're your classmates, they have been since kindergarten, right?" Daisy asked, confused. Clio shook her head impatiently. "No. I mean yeah, but-- you know how daddy has a--a penis?" Again, the last word was whispered.

Daisy smothered a smile and nodded.

"And so does Finn, you know?" Clio went on, looking intently at her mother.

"So, well, I was just sitting in class, like I always do, and I just realized, like out of nowhere, that all the boys in my class must have penises too!" Clio covered her mouth with both hands as she looked at her mother with horrified eyes.

Daisy again smothered a smile, ruthlessly clamping down on the huge laugh that she could feel bubbling up inside her.

"I mean, mommy, every boy in there must have one, right? Just hanging there, between their legs, while we listen to Ms. Nina?" Clio sounded like she was describing some awful nightmare.

Daisy swallowed, hard, trying so hard not just burst out laughing.

"So after that I just felt, you know, weird," Clio finished with another shrug. "I mean, I couldn't concentrate on anything, you know?" She looked at her mother for agreement and understanding. "I don't even get how all those boys could just sit there in class and act normal with that thing just, hanging there--"

"But Clio, surely you knew before today that all boys have them?" Daisy queried. "I mean, we've always been a pretty 'nakey' family, right? You've seen your daddy, and now baby Finn?" She pulled Clio to her in a lovely, scented hug.

But Clio was shaking her head. "I knew about it, mommy, but I never thought about it until now," she explained.

Now that she'd explained, Clio relaxed, and she and her mother held each other for a moment, just enjoying being close.

"Is that what they use?" Clio asked, her voice muffled from being pressed into Daisy's front. "Use?" Daisy asked.

"Yeah, when they, uh, help us get pregnant?" Clio looked up at her mother. "And when we bleed? Is it from that? Do they, you know, poke us or something?"

Daisy stroked Clio's hair as she shook her head.

"It's so easy for us to forget sometimes how young you are," she said, more to herself than to Clio. "You're so clever, so insightful and smart, but you're still only nine, you know?"

Clio nodded, grasping her mother firmly.

"Okay, Clio, my darling, my love," Daisy said. "When we bleed, it's because our bodies were preparing for a baby. It's called menstruating, or having a period. Every month or so, our bodies get all ready for an embryo, but usually there isn't one, so then we have to get rid of all that preparation, you see? Then we prepare again, and if there's no baby the next month, we get rid of it all over again."

She stroked Clio's hair and looked at her beautiful girl, with the brown eyes like jewels, and once again thanked the stars that she'd stupidly used no protection when she'd spent the night with Richard Hawkins all those years ago. Clio was nodding. "Yeah, I get it," she said. "That was the part I couldn't figure out, you know? About why sometimes

there's a baby and sometimes there isn't?" Her brows

unfurrowed, and the line between them disappeared.

"So the bleeding thing, having a period, that's going to

happen to me someday?" she asked. Daisy could detect

no fear in her daughter's voice, only curiosity. "And Francie

and Brina and Lottie?"

Daisy nodded.

"Um, when?"

"Well, it's different for different girls," Daisy answered honestly. "I think most girls mimic their mothers in that respect, but exercise and diet can play a part, too."

"When did you start?" Clio released her mother and sat back.

"I was thirteen," Daisy told her. "But you are way more active than I was, with all the swimming you do, so you might be even later."

Clio looked at her mother, and Daisy knew there was something more. She sat back and waited.

"You know, sometimes I like to be around them," Clio confessed. "Boys, I mean." And again, she put her hands up to her mouth.

Daisy smiled. "Yeah, that's going to happen, love." "Sometimes when Zeke Steiner holds my hand during dodgeball, I like it," Clio added, again using the funny whisper.

Daisy's smile grew. "Oh, Clio, I love you so much," she said, leaning forward to kiss her daughter's shining forehead.

"Do you think daddy's sad?" Clio asked. She looked worried. "I just felt funny to talk about this stuff to him, you know?"

"I know, love, and don't worry, he'll be okay," Daisy told her.

Clio got out of bed and followed her mother into the master bedroom, where Pete was already in bed, sitting with his laptop on his knees. He set it aside when he saw them.

"Finn's asleep," he told his wife, who nodded as she got in next to him.

Clio climbed over her mother to sit next to her father.

"I'm sorry," she apologized again.

Pete shook his head as he cuddled his daughter, dropping a kiss on the crown of her head. "It's perfectly okay, topolina," he assured her. "It's nice that you have two parents, I think, so you can talk to one or the other, you know?" He looked down at her. "Did you get it all taken care of? Everything okay now?"

Clio nodded and leaned up to kiss him one last time. "I love you," she told her father, smiling and making her dimple pop, melting his heart.

"I love you too, little mouse," he responded. "Now get some sleep, okay?"

Clio got out of their bed and ran lightly to the door.

"Good night," Pete called.

Clio turned, her hand on the doorknob. "Good night, dad."

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About the Author

My name is Tani Hanes, and I am a 51 year old substitute teacher. I'm from central California and am a recent transplant to New York City. The most important things to know about me are that I'm punctual, I love grammar and sushi, and I'm very intolerant of intolerance. The least important things to know about me are that I like to knit and I couldn't spell "acoustic" for 40 years. I've wanted to write since I was ten, and I finally did it. If you want to write, don't wait as long as I did, it's pointless, and very frustrating!

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THE DEEPEST LOVE CAN BE BORN FROM THE FIERCEST HATE…⁣
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Born to sit on opposing thrones.⁣
They were never meant to fall.⁣
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Tanner Ayers is the heir of the Texas Ku Klux Klan. Fed nothing but hate, violence, and intolerance from the day he was born, Tanner kills for his cause without remorse.⁣
Until he meets Adelita Quintana, the daughter of the most brutal cartel boss in Mexico.⁣
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Adelita and Tanner hate each other instantly. But there is something between them that neither can explain or deny. Hate turns to desire, desire turns to love, and for the first time Tanner sees how wrong his whole life has been.⁣
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For years, Tanner does everything he can to find a way for him and Adelita. He walks away from the Klan, his family, everything he ever believed, and joins the Hades Hangmen. But now the Hangmen are at war—not only with his own family, but with Adelita’s too.⁣
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When Adelita and Tanner are thrown together again, they are forced to fight for a love that should never have been. For a love that puts them and everyone they have ever loved in danger.⁣
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The White Prince.⁣
The cartel princess.⁣
And a future that seems shrouded in darkness…⁣
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Dark Contemporary Romance. Contains sexual situations, violence, sensitive and taboo subjects, offensive language and mature topics. Recommended for age 18 years and up.⁣

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All I wanted was a tattoo.

What I got was a broody, enigmatic demigod with an electrifying touch and a mysterious past.

We were night and day in every way possible, not an ounce of anything in common, and yet, I wanted him in the worst way.

It didn't matter that he was emotionally unavailable or that he was exactly the kind of man who would give my father a coronary should I dare to bring him home. It didn't matter that his heart was wrapped in barbed wire or that he made me promise never to fall for him.

None of it mattered because he was the most perfectly imperfect, beautifully tortured soul I'd ever known, and I was besotted, addicted to all the thrilling and wondrous ways he made me feel when we were together.

They say a single moment can change the entire trajectory of your life. But looking back, I never could have imagined all the ways my world would change the moment it collided with his.

I learned too late that he kept his past a secret for a reason.

PRICKED Buy Link (Available in KU)

https://www.amazon.com/Pricked-Winter-Renshaw-ebook/dp/B07N1465DP

He was a beast covered in vicious scars, she was the beauty he would do anything to have.

Silas always knew that he was a monster, and not just on the outside. People feared him, but he liked it that way. It gave him strength, power.

But that all changed when he walked into a deserted bar and saw her.

It was supposed to be easy; collect his money and go, but she made him want more. He struck a dangerous deal that would change their lives forever.

But all the beast could think about from the moment he saw her was: owning Olivia. 


OWNING OLIVIA Buy Link (Available in KU)
https://www.amazon.com/Owning-Olivia-Modern-Retelling-Beauty-ebook/dp/B07N12YV8F

My orders are simple.

Capture her.
Marry her.
Take her inheritance.
Get rid of her.

The bookish little recluse is worth more than she knows.

She’s an unassuming librarian.
I’m the brigadier of the Russian Bratva.
She has no friends.
I command a small army.
She’s a modest virgin.

THE BRATVA'S BABY Buy Link (Available in KU)
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Book Beginnings on Friday #22

Please join Rose City Reader every Friday to share the first sentence (or so) of the book you are reading, along with your initial thoughts about the sentence, impressions of the book, or anything else the opener inspires. Please remember to include the title of the book and the author’s name.

Chapter One

Evie

La Cienega Boulevard is a never-ending hell of snaking concrete, but it’s a necessary evil in this town. Running north to south in Los Angeles, it forms an enormous artery cutting through the “thirty-mile zone,” also known as TMZ, also known as the Studio Zone—historically containing all the early film studios. 

- Dating You, Hating You by Christina Lauren

Summary-

All’s fair in love and work. The first standalone romance by New York Times and #1 international bestselling author Christina Lauren (Beautiful Bastard) is a sexy, compulsively readable romantic comedy that dives headlong into the thrill and doubt of modern love.

Despite the odds against them from an embarrassing meet-awkward at a mutual friend’s Halloween party, Carter and Evie immediately hit it off. Even the realization that they’re both high-powered agents at competing firms in Hollywood isn’t enough to squash the fire.

But when their two agencies merge—causing the pair to vie for the same position—all bets are off. What could have been a beautiful, blossoming romance turns into an all-out war of sabotage. Carter and Evie are both thirtysomething professionals—so why can’t they act like it?

Can Carter stop trying to please everyone and see how their mutual boss is really playing the game? Can Evie put aside her competitive nature long enough to figure out what she really wants in life? Can their actor clients just be something close to human? Whether these two Hollywood love/hatebirds get the storybook Hollywood ending or just a dramedy of epic proportions, you will get to enjoy Christina Lauren’s heartfelt, raucous, and hilarious romance style at its finest.