Book Trailer: Disarmed by Aliza Mann [Coming Soon]

Contemporary Romance

Coming Soon from Soul Mate Publishing

Book Summary:
Jessie Workings was no better for the battle upon returning home from his fourth tour. Having had to deal with the consequences of the Afghan war, his emotional stability was called into question by his commanding officer, leading to some much needed rest and relaxation, albeit in the form of a mandated psychological evaluation. There was , however, a bright side of being forced to come home and deal with the battlefield that was his mind. Mavis.
The memory of Mavis VanHorn had warmed him during those bitter nights on tour and now he would see his high school sweetheart once again. Jessie’s only concern was his inability to provide her with what she wanted more than anything — a deeper, and more committed, relationship with him. For years, he’d skated by with offering only scraps of his love but this time, he wonders whether it will be enough.
As he deals with confronting his darkest guilt and sorting through his feelings on returning to the Marine Corps., all that he’s ever really known, can he explore a more meaningful relationship with Mavis? If he can’t, will Mavis stand for continued exclusion from his life after all these years? In answering these questions, Jessie struggles with the most difficult battle he’s ever faced. The one for his heart.
Buy links:
• Author page: http://smpauthors.wordpress.com/meet-aliza-mann/
• Book page: http://smpauthors.wordpress.com/meet-aliza-mann/disarmed-by-aliza-mann/

Latest Trailer: A Man to Trust by Cheryl Yeko

Romantic Suspense

Coming soon from Soulmate Publishing

Book Summary:
 

Angela barely survived an abusive marriage and didn't mourn the death of her husband in a drug deal gone bad. But can she survive losing her heart to the handsome detective who thinks she's a criminal? Jake soon discovers the beautiful widow is not what she seems. As his distrust of her ebbs, his desire to possess her grows.

Passions soon collide when he's entrusted with her safety after she's targeted by an unknown enemy. Now it's up to him to keep both her and their chance at happiness alive.

Author website: http://www.cherylyeko.com

Buy link: http://www.soulmatepublishing.com

Latest Trailer: Ask No Tomorrows by Rita Hestand

 

Ask No Tomorrows is a sweet historical romance by author Rita Hestand

Book summary:
Book 3 of the Dreamcatcher series.
When Sam Tanner met Riley Morgan he had no idea what he was about to get into. She seemed nothing more than a little misfit that needed protection. But Sam always was a sucker for a hard luck story. What could he do, the girl mesmerized him?

Author website: http://www.ritaphestand.com

Buy links:

• Smashwords (e-book):  www.smashwords.com/books/view/205562
• Amazon (Paperback): www.amazon.com/Tomorrows-Dreamcatcher-Series-Book-ebook/dp/B008M0U7SK/ref=sr_1_21?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1342885622&sr=1-21&keywords=Rita+Hestand+books

Latest trailer: Steamrolled by Pauline Baird Jones

Genre: Science Fiction Romance
Blurb:
With all of time at risk, it's a bad time to fall in love...unless it's the only time...
Robert Clementyne is going on a transmogrification machine hunt. He fears finding the machine will be as difficult as pronouncing the name. How can the steam-powered device perform as advertised, and how useful can any information be, coming from a steampunk themed bowling alley/museum?
It's pretty crazy, but he's been there, done that, and thinks he can handle it.
And then he meets the proprietor/curator...Emily Babcock.
Emily grew up in crazy, still lives in it—hey, it's her freaking zip code. So no worries when Robert and his team walk into her bowling alley. The first visitors ever to her museum.
But neither of them is prepared for what happens when they open the door to the past...and the future. With a side trip through Roswell...and a face-to-face meeting with an evil genius/wannabe—who is on his way to becoming evil overlord-of-everything...

Author website: http://www.paulinebjones.com

Latest Trailer: Kicking Ashe by Pauline Baird Jones

COMING SOON

Genre:
Science fiction romance/space opera

Blurb:
When you save Time's tush—or its version of one—it ought to cut you a break, not kick your tush some where and some when. Though boo yah on providing a hot guy in leather to pull that tush out of the impact crater that Ashe so did not make despite the somewhat damning evidence to the contrary.
So, the sitrep:
• She's stuck on primitive planet
• Time Tracker suit down
• Lurch (her nanite) unable to connect to any tech (see primitive above)
• Surrounded by a bunch of buccaneer types who haven't been around nubile, young women cause it's against their law
• The one guy (Vidor Shan) she'd like to kiss on the mouth is off limits (time rule)
• Someone gunning for Shan from somewhere in time
• And, oh yeah, some really strange meteorites are making landfall in some very strange ways.
Seems Time has a new hobby: kicking Ashe (and shame on It for doing it when she's down).
Not that she plans to stay down. Or give up the guy.


Author website: http://www.paulinebjones.com

Taming Temptations

The need to curb a desire can bump up the temptation's level in one's life; like the craving for chocolate while dieting, or the urge to have excessive sex while partner/spouse/lover is out of town. Too much of a good thing, is bad.
What makes it harder to resist temptations is the conceived theorization to just-have-it, whatever ‘it’ may be. I knew a girl who believed plastic surgeries were her way to happiness; a nose job here, a lift there, a tuck in that corner, and voila! She would feel all different, all new. She did look all different and all new!
Loneliness and inactivity can weaken us enough to succumb easily to temptations.
Leading a busy life leaves no time for, let’s say, bingeing on chocolate. Yes, there will be the occasional morsels here and there, but they won’t come close to the quantities consumed while watching TV, for example.
Think of all the ‘anonymous’ groups; there is strength in numbers; solidarity brings people together to develop a solution, a way out, a distraction.
However, there are those odd temptations, the ones that are more delicious if they remain untamed.

Magnolia Colby, in Untamed Temptation, my shapeshifter romance, suffers her fears and doubts alone, never possessing the valor to find more of or about her kind. She’d chosen that path out of consideration for other’s safety, but ended up almost sacrificing herself out of self-imposed unknowingness. She had attempted to control the untamed, her otherness. Add to that, her attraction to Alex, who had failed—no, refused, to resist her.
Tangled in her emotional turmoil, the Amazon jungle, and her self-doubt, Magnolia must choose between surrendering blindly to the untamed temptation churning within her heart, or taking a chance on Alex to find her true soul and peace with him.

His to Possess

After watching the trailer for His to Possess, several people asked me where I got the book’s idea from.

The simple and honest to God answer is, I have no clue.

However, I have to say, writing H2P felt right and left me exuberated in a good way.

Stories are sometimes written to express a thought, or a believe, to entertain and, let’s face it, to sell. But with H2P, it was a matter of rightness for me. I only figured it will be short, but beside that, knew nothing else about it. The idea just washed all over me and left me with the desire to do nothing but to breath life into the characters, their emotions, and surrounding.

This might surprise people a bit, since this is a sweet romance and I’m known for my addiction to horror (just check out the other post about Zuphreen and you’ll know what I mean), however, as a rule, I do not say NO to a story. When I get the idea I write it in my folder for “Ideas” and file it aside. His to Possess refused to remain in that folder, it actually never reached it. I started by sitting to write the idea and in no time the story was finished.

I have to face the fact that I can’t claim that I write horror only. Untamed Temptation is a shapeshifter paranormal romance, His to Possess is a ghostly encounter paranormal romance, Zuphreen is pure horror through and through, and Intricate Entanglement is a twisted mix of horror and thriller.

Devine Destines took a chance on my baby (His to Possess) by making the wise decision :-) to publish it and introduce it to the whole world. For that I’m forever grateful.

Martine Jardin developed a marvelous cover that fits the story’s mood to the T. Let me tell you, that cover made making the trailer even easier.

Here is a short introduction to the story.

Stacy is a sweet young woman who is faced with one major crisis without any possible solution. She’s left with the only option of living her life quietly. Jeremy on the other hand didn’t have one—you’ll have to find out whether I’m talking about a life or a quiet one *_*

But when they meet, a spark flares to life in their hearts. Now they have to face the challenge of staying together.

Will they be able to accomplish the impossible? You might think you know the answer, but I’m sure I will be able to surprise you somewhere down the line in the story.

Delivery—sorry I mean, release date is scheduled for May 1^st, 2010, and I can’t wait for you to have a look at it.

That’s my baby.