When Ashes Fall by Marni Mann Release Blitz **A Must Read!**

“When Ashes Fall is a tautly written, complex, and emotionally-charged love story that takes the reader on an unforgettable, unexpected, and deeply moving journey.” —USA Today

When Ashes Fall, an all-new standalone contemporary romance from best-selling author Marni Mann is live!

It’s been said that you can’t love two men at the same time.

You can’t split your heart, soul, and body in half.

But I’m here to tell you, you can.

Dylan Cole is like ice, sharp and unpredictable, the thunder inside a tumultuous storm.

Smith Reid is warmth, soft and gentle, perfect like a sunny day.

Both are mine.

But I can have only one.

There are two sides to this tale.

I'm here to tell you mine.

If you think this story is about a cheater, you couldn’t be more wrong.

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Best-selling Author Marni Mann knew she was going to be a writer since middle school. While other girls her age were daydreaming about teenage pop stars, Mann was fantasizing about penning her first novel. She crafts sexy, titillating stories that weave together her love of darkness, mystery, passion, and human emotion. A New Englander at heart, she now lives in Sarasota, Florida with her husband and their two dogs who subsequently have been characters in her books. When she’s not nose deep in her laptop working on her next novel, she’s scouring for chocolate, sipping wine, traveling to new locations, and devouring fabulous books.

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My Review

When Ashes Fall by Marni Mann

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

“Time would eventually tame her demons. They would still be there. They would be there for the rest of her life. But the fangs of those demons would dull, and so would its claws.”

My heart!!!! I am an absolute mess! I was crying so hard I had to stop reading because I was unable to see my kindle threw the tears! This book was an utter page turner that had me at the edge of my seat until the very last page. It was so hauntingly beautiful and poetic that I will never forget the impact this story left on me. Be prepared to be an emotional disaster while reading this book!

This book has set hell of a bar for 2019!

Quotes:

"The earth was tilting beneath me, and I couldn't find my balance. The air I was sucking in was becoming too thick."

"We all need a little hope and some people need the reminder that there will be more sunny days, especially me."

"I was in complete darkness. That was where I belonged. And that was where I stayed."

"Alix and I weren’t perfect. We had cracks. And, as the months passed, I learned some deepened while others got filled in."

"I couldn’t take the pain. It was stabbing through my chest. It was moving to my throat. It was so powerful; I wanted to gag."

"But we always hope for sunny days. Those are the easiest, the safest, the ones with the least amount of concerns."

*ARC kindly given for my honest opinion."

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Infinity by Shanora Williams Blog Tour + Review

I am going to die.

I can’t change or fix it.

It is just something that is bound to happen.

I have fought for so long that all I want to do is give up, but I can’t because I have a sweet, devoted husband.

I have a sister, who I am deathly afraid to leave behind because I am all the family she has left.

And then there’s Maximilian Grant—the ex that I can’t seem to shake or get rid of.

I want to remain a warrior, but when what’s left of my life is tested, and my love becomes a jumbled up mess, all I can think is one heart shattering thing.

How can I leave this world peacefully knowing not only is there one man that would die for me, but two?

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“I will give you one night. But only one, Max,” I said, holding up a single finger. “And we have to go to a place that I really want to go to.”

“Alright,” he sighed, running a hand over the top of his head. His hair was wavy, like dark ocean waves. “You name the time and place.”

“Tomorrow night. Eight o’clock at Craves on West 5th.” I stepped back, tucking my hair behind my ear. “And please,” I said over my shoulder as I turned away, “don’t be late.” I gave him a faint smile. To me, this was a game of cat and mouse and he’d finally caught me but he hadn’t tried to eat me just yet. I had to tamper with his ego. Get under his skin just a little bit.

Only… it didn’t work.

The legs of his stool screeched across the floor, creating an obnoxious noise. Max hopped off the stool, catching me before I could make a break for it out the back door. I spun around, landing between his warm, bulky arms, breath catching, my lips parted as I met his warm brown eyes.

His olive skin, up close like this, looked like it was made of satin. I wanted to touch his face, trace my fingertips down his firm, chiseled jawline. But I held back.

“You think you’re fucking with my head, don’t you?” Max asked quietly, his voice a murmur beneath the music.

“Not at all,” I challenged.

“What made you give in?”

“Nothing. I just think I owe you this much…”

He frowned. “You don’t owe me shit.”

“I kinda do…”

“You don’t owe me anything, Little Shakes. You don’t have to do this. I’m not forcing you.”

“Whatever,” I said, deliberately maneuvering out of his arms and pulling my satchel on top of my shoulder, “it’s just one night. Can’t do too much harm, right?”

Max scoffed, which made me frown. “Shakes, when I’m done with you, you’ll be begging for more than just one night.” He stepped forward, holding onto my wrist and reeling me into him. I clashed softly with his rock-solid body, my head tipped up, our eyes bolting. “I don’t fuck around,” he said, leaning forward to place his lips near the shell of my ear. “I want you. Bad. And now that you’ve given me this chance, I’m going to make it the best night of your fucking life. I am going to make sure this one night turns into infinity.”

I could hardly breathe. I heard every word and believe me when I say my panties were beyond wet. I was drenched for him and he’d hardly touched me. His voice, so orgasmic and deep. His body, so hard and smooth and warm. So near. So motherfucking perfect. Max knew what he was doing. And I shouldn’t have tested his ego considering I hadn’t been laid up in five months.

I admit I was a little desperate for him. I mean, he was the finest man I’d been around in months, I saw him almost every night, and he was into me. Really, really into me.

The way he held me, his hand on the small of my back and purposely near my ass, exhibited more than enough proof of how much he desired me. He was silently teasing me and slowly but surely unraveling every fiber in my body.

I wondered why, however. I was the dullest girl working at Capri. And I admit I wasn’t the cutest of them all. What was it about me that made him want the chase?

I straightened up, smiling softly as I pulled away from him and walked to the door. I felt him watching me walk away, and when I looked back a hint of a smile was tugging at the corners of those perfectly sculpted lips. As I pushed the door open I casually said, “We’ll see about that infinity thing.”

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Shanora Williams is a twenty-something that creates authentic romantic stories that, may or may not, make you question what a "Happily Ever After" truly is. After hitting the New York Times and USA Today bestsellers list at the mere age of nineteen, Shanora ventured further into the creative writing world, working even harder to create unique and memorable romances for all to enjoy.

She currently resides in Waxhaw, North Carolina and is the mother of one amazing boy, in love with her devoted man, and a sister to eleven.

When she isn't writing, she's spending time with her family, binge reading, or running marathons on Netflix while scarfing down anything sweet and salty. She also writes under the pen name S. Q. Williams.

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My Review

I was lucky enough to receive an ARC of Infinity. 

This book! (Blows nose, wiping my endless tears)

I just finished this book and I'm a absolutely blown away! 

I kid you not from the very beginning with the note from author brought tears to my eyes. 

It was such a heart felt and emotional read. 

It was phenomanl. 

It was a masterpiece. 

It was everything and more. 

You think you're ready for the end but you not. Not even a little bit. 

I can't praise this book enough!

Must read of 2016!! 

Have your tissues ready cause your going to need them!

"That's what we as people should hold onto; the joy we shared. The life we created. The countless memories. Because those memories can be powerful, and they can last infinitely."

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Cruel and Beautiful by A.M. Hargrove and Terri E. Laine is up for Preorder!!

The countdown is on! #CruelAndBeautiful is almost here...and you can preorder RIGHT NOW on Amazon and iBooks for just $0.99 (save yourself $3! Price after release will be $3.99).

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Prologue 

Are you ready for Drew and Cate? 

Coming to you, on November 12, 2015:

 CRUEL AND BEAUTIFUL by A.M. Hargrove and Terri E. Laine.

This is a New Adult Contemporary Romance standalone, full-length novel that includes mature content, not suitable for younger readers. (Rated R) 

Cate Forbes, a dedicated college student with a carefully plotted future, doesn’t know the first thing about love. When she accepts a blind date with a rumored tasty piece of eye candy, she thinks she can get by with a night of fun. Cate’s plans quickly unravel when she gets one look at the sexy… 

Drew McKnight. 

The relentless hockey-playing medical resident knows what he wants— a career in Oncology and Cate. Although he’s heard the gorgeous brunette is a little relationship skittish, a single night out isn’t what he has in mind. Determined to have her— in every way possible— he shows her just what a future with him would hold. 

Only life has other plans. The unthinkable happens and everything begins to shatter. Both in too deep, they will have to fight the cruel and hang onto the beautiful. 

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Review

"The way he looks at me, it's as if he's reading my soul."

Ugly cry 

I haven't cried so hard over a book in a good while. 

This book... Dang all the emotions right now. 

I cannot put into words how much I adore this book. 

Beautiful. Gut Wrenching. Spell Binding. Perfection. 

If you want a good angst read that will have you laughing out loud one minute, crying your heart out and swooning the next. This is the book for you. 

Can't wait for everyone to get their hands on this book! 

ARC provided by publisher in exchange for an honest review.

Cover Reveal Love Unspoken by Lisa De Jong (A Flawed Love Series, Book 2)

Love Unspoken by Lisa De Jong (A Flawed Love Series, Book 2)

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Blurb: 

I lent my heart to the bad boy, and he did exactly what I expected he would. He broke it.

And the guy I should have been with—he’s still here. He tries to take my mind off everything I’ve lost while showing me what I could have. I’m ready for a new start, to fall in love again … to do what I should have done in the first place.

Everything seems perfect.

Then the past comes walking back in. I thought I was over him, but one look and I know that’s not true. We went through too much together for those feelings to completely fade away.

When my past and present collide, how am I supposed to choose? They both love me, and I love them.

A heart will be broken … and it could be mine.

Book #1, Lies Unspoken 

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Easy Silence by Beth Rinyu

Title: Easy Silence 

Author: Beth Rinyu

Genre: New Adult, Romance 

 Release Date: July 9, 2015

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They say you never forget your first love. No matter how many more come along or how much time goes by, there will always be that one person who will be forever embedded deep inside your heart and soul. For me, that was Jaxson Callahan.

We were complete opposites. I was a senator’s daughter. My parents were always too busy keeping up appearances on the political scene to show me love, so instead they bought my affection.

He was the son of a woman who allowed men to use and abuse her as well as him, just for her next fix.

We became each other’s solace during that summer we met, creating a lifetime of memories in three short months. I provided him with a sense of hope that there was more than just the harsh reality of the life he had grown accustomed to, and he showed me a genuine love that I had been yearning for my entire life. We vowed to be together forever. I loved him and he loved me…. and nothing would keep us apart.

Nothing except the secrets that were hiding in that small seaside town.

Secrets that altered our destiny. We were never given any warning as we watched our future shake, crumble and disappear altogether, leaving us with nothing but memories of a bittersweet past.

Life can be beautiful.

Life can be kind.
And, life can be heartless…..because nothing about our situation was fair.

"I am one hundred sheets of glass shattered into a million little pieces."

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“So, did you have a good birthday?” I asked. 

“It’s just another day. Nothing special about it. I’d just as soon forget the day I was born.” 

“Why are you so hard on yourself?” I second guessed myself for asking as the words spewed from my mouth. 

“You just wouldn’t understand, Samantha.” 

My whole life I hated being called that name, but hearing him say it was kind of nice. It was as if it was his and his name only for me. I was his Samantha, and he was my Jaxson. 

“Maybe I could try. I’m a pretty good listener.” 

He took another sip of his lemonade and placed it on the table. “I really have to go.” He stood up and looked down at the ground. 

“I’m sorry. I – I didn’t’ mean to pry,” I said, standing up beside him. “It’s just, sometimes it helps to express how you’re feeling, and I’m –” He took me completely off guard when he grabbed my face in his hands, pulled me toward him, and placed a warm gentle kiss on my lips before smoothly slipping his tongue into my mouth. I was speechless as I pulled in my bottom lip still wanting to taste more of him when the kiss was over.

“You wanted me to express myself,” he whispered. “Well, that’s what I’ve been feeling from the time I walked up on this porch. I wanted to see if your lips felt as soft as they look. I wanted to get as close to you as I possibly could and breathe in your perfume that drives me crazy. And, maybe for one second of my life, I wanted to feel like I was worthy of someone like you. That’s how I was feeling, Samantha.” 

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Ever since I can remember, I have always enjoyed Creative Writing. There was always something about being able to travel to a different place or become a different person with just the stroke of a pen - or in today's world a touch of the keyboard. I am the author of The Exception To The Rule, An Unplanned Lesson, An Unplanned Life, Drowning In Love, A Cry for Hope, A Will To Change, Blind Side of Love, When The Chips Are Down and Easy Silence.

My life is not as interesting as my books or the characters in them, but then again whose life is? I'm a mom of twin teenage boys, a crazy Border Collie and a cat with an identity crisis! I guess you can say writing is my form of relaxation.

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My Review

Wow!

"I am one hundred sheets of glass shattered into a million little pieces."

Breathtaking, raw, powerful story. 

This book completely gutted me. 

It started off at a slow pace but once you get to about 40% it really took off! 

All I can say about this book is YOU NEED TO READ IT!! 

Get prepared to be cry your eyes out because your going to

Love in Rewind by Tali Alexander

“I love her against reason…against promise…against peace…against hope…against happiness…against all discouragement that could be.”

Tali Alexander has rocked my world. I would have never guessed that this was her first book. 
I fell in love with Louis and Emily story!
Their story was beautiful filled with RAW Passion.
It gutted me. 
It made me ugly cry!
I loved the intensity. Oh gawd there was plenty of it. 
Emily just out of high-school she was so incredibly sweet, beautiful and innocent.  
"I went from being a girl to becoming a woman in his arms."
I loved Emily and Sarah's friendship and their "music language."

"Every Breath You Take by The Police" I said as soon as she picked up the phone. "Are you fucking kidding me? Have you been stalking him, you idiot? He could be married or gay or both."

Louis... Wealthy, successful, and F*** was he HOTTT!! He literally talked my panties off! I love a man dirty mouth and Louis has the most perfect dirty mouth. (sigh)

"Are you trying to make me come in my pants in front of all my clients, little girl?"
"I've been jerking off to the vision of your tits in that white top for the last two weeks."

But what I loved most about him was his Passion and his love for Emily. 
"I will show you the world, and I can't wait to see everything anew through your beautiful eyes, You will not find a man who could love you more than I do."
Louise Bruel is a Dirty talking panty dropping dream. 
The Sex scenes are FREAKING HAWT!!! (fans self just thinking about them.)  
Their love for one another was electrifying. 
I loved everything about this story. 
It's was beautiful, relatable to anyone in a relationship and I'm now a huge fan of Tali Alexander!!
I can't wait to see what she writes next. 

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Volition by Lily Paradis

“You may have her bones, but I’ll always have her soul.” 

Best book I've read in awhile 

I couldn't sit this book down. 

I was hooked. 

The writing was AMAZING and made me feel as if I was experiencing it myself. 

This book is a MUST READ.

“I want to be in love. I want all-consuming, fiery, passionate love.”

This book absolutely blew me away! 
I had heard some amazing things about this but nothing, NOTHING will be able to describe how utterly amazing this book is. 
I have not fallen in love with a book like this in a long time. 
A compelling raw story about love, soul mates and choices that make YOU in life. This book will have you screaming at the characters along with wanting to ripe your heart all the while. 
This book touched me in such a way that It will ALWAYS stay with me! 
A MUST read! 


Quotes:
He’s like a raging river, and I’m swirling in the rapids. “Hayden Rockefeller.”

At the time, I remembered my father slamming on the brakes and my mother looking at him like she was glad he was the last thing she would ever see in this world.

We both reached for that light, but we could never quite absorb it. We could just bask in it while we were near her and hope it was enough to sustain us until the next time we would see her.

To me, his chaos was perfection.

I didn’t care for many people in this world, but I cared so much for Jesse Elliott. Something inside my soul recognized something inside his

“Nope, but somehow, I think I’d move bodies night and day for you, Tate McKenna.”

I didn’t know why I even tried to walk away from him because the invisible grappling hooks that spread from his soul to mine wouldn’t let me get far.

After a few seconds, he relented, and I knew he would follow me to the ends of the earth if that were where I walked.

With those words, my fate was sealed, and I got the dizzying sensation that as long as both of our hearts were still beating, I would never be free of him.

He was never going to love me the way I loved him. Our lives would never work together.

I don’t really care because I’d let Hayden take me anywhere.

Oh Lord, have mercy. When she smiled, nothing else mattered.

“You can’t have more than one soul mate,” I tell him because I’m an expert. “You can. We’re soul mates . Did you know that? In a different way. You and I, Tate Evaline McKenna, share space that no one else shares. We’re the same person in two different bodies. No one else will ever understand us the way that we understand each other.”

I hate her because Jasmine thinks her strings pull her to Jesse, but they don’t. Mine do, and mine alone. I wanted it to be Casper just like Jasmine wants it to be Jesse, but I am his, and he is mine whether we like it or not. We’re puppets of fate, and I wonder why Jasmine’s strings are free-floating.

I thought that was what destiny was telling me to do because destiny and substance abuse were confusing.

His sheets are black like my soul. Good. Black is a calming color.

I want all of him. I want to be engulfed by him. I want him to set me on fire and let me burn until I’m nothing but ashes. Then, I want him to set a flame to those ashes because he’s the only one who can.

I’ve won, and Hayden is my weapon. Old Tate is sweeping back into me, and I let her in like Louisiana welcomes a hurricane— resentfully but without alternative. New Tate never stood a chance.

The night is darkest before the dawn.

You deserve someone who will actually love you, not someone who will just make you burn inside and not in a good way.”

Hayden fills my senses and my soul.

“I love you,” he says back, like he knows I hate the word too at the end. Like it means less if you’re just the one responding. “I love you so much,” he adds with a light kiss.

“I always thought I’d be at the other end of the aisle,” I hear Jesse say, but I don’t turn around yet. “Not him.”

“Didn’t you see that, Tate? Didn’t you always see me?” “Yes,” I say between my teeth. “That was until you broke me.” “You broke me first.”

“I desire the things that destroy me in the end,”

We were like two identical pieces from different edges of the puzzle.

“When you’re in love, you don’t question it. You’re not in love with him because every time you think of him I can see your heart shattering through your eyes.”

"Absence doesn’t make the heart grow fonder. It makes you forget. It allows you to forget how that person made you feel, and it’s just a shadow and a whisper instead of an omnipresence pumping through my veins that I’ll never get past. He’s still here somewhere, inside my being, but I don’t have to acknowledge him. I don’t have to think about his laughter lines. I don’t have to think about what could have been." 

"He opened his eyes and looked over at me, and they told me we were thinking the same thing. The strings tightened one more time, and it felt like ever more of them appeared, clawing at my stomach and my chest, pulling me inexorably toward Jesse to the point where it was painful."

“I have to tell you something.” 

“So shoot.”

He intimidated me because all his attention is on me. People don’t do that nowadays. They multitask. They talk to you while they’re fidgeting with their napkin or reading the menu. 

"They give you half. Hayden gives me whole." 

"I want all of him. 

I want to be engulfed by him.

I want him to set me on fire and let me burn until I’m nothing but ashes.

Then, I want him to set a flame to those ashes because he’s the only one who can." 

“You left pieces of your soul inside me,” I tell her. 

“You left the whole thing inside me.”

"He was always a question, never an answer. He was the dark cloud that hung over my life because he was unfinished. We were like two identical pieces from different edges of the puzzle. We were the same, but we’d never fit together."  

"You have a heart and you have a soul and you have me. You’re not as awful as you think you are. You’re just not the same as everyone else.” 

“No one has hit me. My body is fine. It’s my soul that aches. It’s always been my soul."

“They say scars don’t hurt, but that’s a lie. I’m not sure what hurts worse—the ones you can see or the ones so far beneath that they’ll never really heal.” 

“Nope, but somehow, I think I’d move bodies night and day for you, Tate McKenna.” 

“We’re like oil and water, only someone put the oil on the bottom and then dumped the water in, so I’m forever trying to get over him while simultaneously going through him as the pieces of me try to connect on the other side.” 

“I didn’t know why I even tried to walk away from him because the invisible grappling hooks that spread from his soul to mine wouldn’t let me get far.” 

“I resented death because death had rejected me.” 

“I've won, and Hayden is my weapon.” 

“THERE’S A CERTAIN beauty in sleeping beside another person. You’re in their space, and they’re in yours, and you’re both at your most vulnerable.” 

“I'm free now instead of the caged wraith I was then. I know how to embrace my dark side, but it won't consume me. I know where I'm going because of where I've been.”

“I’m as perfect as a shattered mirror,” 

“Ah,” he says, “a burnt child loves the fire” 

About the Author

Lily is 22 and lives with her family. She loves reading, running, and hiking. Although she’s a Colorado native, New York City is her favorite place in the world and fosters her borderline unhealthy obsession with the Empire State Building and F. Scott Fitzgerald. IGNITE is her debut novel. 

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