Cover Reveal: IDENTITY by Cleo Scornavacca

Title: Identity (Miss Taken, #2)

Author: Cleo Scornavacca

Release Date: Fall 2014

Synopsis

…………..People aren’t always who you believe them to be.


Dominick Kane and Rain Medici started their relationship with one another in the most unconventional way.

He kidnapped her.

With the kidnapping now behind them, life returns to normal, right?

Not a chance.

The push, the pull and their fights for control that we’ve come to love about Dominick and Rain still exist. And so does their passion.

People aren’t who you think they are. Familiar faces are not so familiar. The past and the present collide, opening up all of those old wounds and struggles once again.

Now, everything you thought you knew, gets blown out of the water.

Can Dominick and Rain finally heal what’s broken? Or will new discoveries push them even further apart.

Will love win out and bring them back together? Or will ghosts of the past ultimately destroy their love once and for all……………..

Miss Taken (Miss Taken, #1)

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Love........................The Ultimate Loss of Control

Rain and Raven Medici are identical twins. Although they come from a loving close-knit family their childhoods couldn’t have been more different. Raven went to school and was exposed freely to the outside world. Rain on the other hand was born with a blood disorder and denied many normal childhood experiences.

Once grown, Raven becomes a lawyer at their dad’s firm Kane & Medici in NYC. Rain along with her only childhood friend Tommy Conte, builds a very successful business as professional photographers. Traveling between Europe and Manhattan, and enjoying a world that was kept from her, Rain vows never to be controlled again.

Dominick Kane is a product of his upbringing. He’s powerful, self-assured and knows he can achieve anything he desires. Nothing gets in his way. There is only one
thing he has ever failed at. A relationship with his father Vincent Kane. Upon his father’s death, Dominick vows revenge. The events he sets in motion put him on a
collision course he himself will be unable to control.

In a bizarre twist of fate, Dominick kidnaps Raven as part of his plan for revenge. Only to discover afterward, he has taken Rain by mistake. Rain knows she can never survive being confined again. So she strikes a bargain with the devil and agrees to help Dominick get back what he feels rightly belongs to him. His father’s share of Kane & Medici.

Dominick decides to use the strong attraction growing between Rain and himself to control her in every way imaginable. Too bad no one ever taught Dominick you can’t control the heart. Nothing could have prepared him for the effect Rain would have on his.

Will this plan of revenge turn into unconditional love? Or will Dominick and Rain’s need for control ultimately destroy them and any possible chance for a real future
together......

About the Author

As far back as I can remember, I've loved books. I love reading them and finally, I've admitted to myself that I love to write them.

Since the day I started to write Rain and Dominick's story, I've never looked back, nor do I regret one single moment of it.

When I write, much of the time the story plays in my head as a movie and sometimes even includes background music. We can all use a little background music.

I try to add elements of things I love. And share them with the readers. I'll continue to create characters and stories that you can laugh, cry, love, hate and even become slightly crazy about.

Let's face it, we can all use some crazy every now and then.

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Cover Reveal: Death's Shadow by T.J. Hamilton

Title: Death's Shadow

Author: T.J. Hamilton

Genre: Dark Romance

Exclusive Paperback Release: November 29, 2014 at Sydney Author Event

Worldwide Publication Date: December 1, 2014

Synopsis

My name is Tatiana Pavlenko. I am the Russian Ballet’s Prima Ballerina. It’s been a tough journey to reach the pinnacle of my career, and it has come at a great cost … my soul.

I have been known by many names throughout my young life, but no one knows the true identity of who I really am.

War is about to break out around Russia, and it is the perfect opportunity for me to kill every man who has hurt me; who had his way with me.

The evil that’s about to strike down on Russia’s powerful men isn’t from their neighbouring countries. It’s from me, the one they call Ten' smerti … Death’s Shadow.

About the Author

TJ is an Aussie former cop turned writer. Her experiences with the seedier side to life when she was on the beat in one of Sydney's toughest areas, has given her plenty of food for fodder in her sexy tales of mystery and intrigue. Tragedy always strikes deep in TJ's stories, so her version of romance isn't like the kind your mum used to read. Nowadays her only source of action is the one going on inside her head as she enjoys a quiet life in the tropics with her ultimate leading man and beloved young family.

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Don't forget to check out T.J.'s Thyme trilogy

Release Day Euphoria/ARC Review: Red Rising by Pierce Brown

The war begins... 

Darrow is a Helldiver, one of a thousand men and women who live in the vast caves beneath the surface of Mars. Generations of Helldivers have spent their lives toiling to mine the precious elements that will allow the planet to be terraformed. Just knowing that one day people will be able to walk the surface of the planet is enough to justify their sacrifice. The Earth is dying, and Darrow and his people are the only hope humanity has left.

Until the day Darrow learns that it is all a lie. Mars is habitable - and indeed has been inhabited for generations by a class of people calling themselves the Golds. The Golds regard Darrow and his fellows as slave labour, to be exploited and worked to death without a second thought. 

With the help of a mysterious group of rebels, Darrow disguises himself as a Gold and infiltrates their command school, intent on taking down his oppressors from the inside.
But the command school is a battlefield. And Darrow isn't the only student with an agenda...

Quite honestly, I am at a lost as to what to say about this book. I glossed over other readers' reviews and have heard many good things, but the first thing that comes to mind is how bloody good this book was. Never in my years of reading, I have never read a book left me with such a bad bookhangover (it's a real thing) that I couldn't pick up another book. 

The descriptive and complex universe that made up this futuristic and dystopian version of Mars was not only imaginative, but vastly creative. Darrow has been compared to the great heroes/heroines of dystopian novels. I have no doubt in my mind that Darrow, too, will generate a big enough fan base to stand should to should to Katniss or Ender. I usually tend to root for the underdog and Darrow and the Reds are definitely underdogs in spades.

I met Pierce Brown at last year's Comic Con and received an ARC copy of his book. I love the cover. Simple, elegant, but conveys artistic rage, if that makes any sense. I was instantly captivated by the plot, dialogue/language, but most importantly, by Darrow, the main protagonist. In this gigantically complex universe that Pierce has created, society is divided into categories of people by color. I don't mean color of their skin or anything like that. At the top, there are the Golds, otherwise known as the aristocracy. Of course there are other colors that represent certain "assets" to the Mars society.

Darrow, at sixteen, is a helldiver, like the rest of his brethren. Helldivers mine into the very crust of Mars to find helium-3, a very useful resource. Day in and day out, the people work their fingers to the bone, trying to provide for their families. There is a competition between the mining communities called the Laurel. The mining community that sources the most wins enough food to eat for days. Eo, Darrow's wife, is intelligent, brave and loving. On Mars, you marry young because there's always the possibility of dying the next day. Eo was a belle of the small mining community and definitely very popular choice, but despite all of the offers for her hand in marriage, she waited for Darrow to be of "wedAge" to marry him. This little bit made the romantic in me happy. 

But all is not well in the mining community. Eo and Darrow are caught trespassing into an off-site garden with a view of the sky. My heart broke after the first part of the book. At a young age, these young people marry and try their best to survive with what little they have,but they are constantly reminded that they are and always will be expendable slaves. Through a series of events of tragic loss, Darrow's world view is suddenly crystal clear. Darrow's inner monologue shows readers the inner workings of his mind and from here on out, it's him against the very people who want to keep the Reds down.

With the help of an underground resistance, Darrow goes undercover as a Gold into the very heart of Gold territory. The only problem is that nothing is as it seems. Darrow does things that he would not have thought himself capable of and there were sections in the book where survival was all Darrow could think about. Throughout the later half of the book, I felt that Darrow was teetering between being his alter ego's identity and his true self. The internal struggle certainly adds depth to Darrow's character development. I can't recommend this book any more highly than 5 stars (of course I can, but let's keep this simple). 

Below is a giveaway that will end in 2 weeks. One winner will get an ecopy of Red Rising in the format of their choice. Same giveaway rules apply. Click the link below to find out more about Red Rising and what's up next in Darrow's quest for vengeance. Also be sure to get your copy at the links below.

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About the Author

 Photo Credit: Joan Allen

Pierce Brown spent his childhood building forts and setting traps for cousins in the woods of six states and the deserts of two. Graduating from college in 2010, he fancied the idea of continuing his studies at Hogwarts. Unfortunately, he doesn’t have a magical bone in his body. So while trying to make it as a writer, he worked as a manager of social media at a start-up tech company, toiled as a peon on the Disney lot at ABC Studios, did his time as an NBC page, and gave sleep deprivation a new meaning during his stint as an aide on a U.S. Senate campaign. Now he lives Los Angeles, where he scribbles tales of spaceships, wizards, ghouls, and most things old or bizarre.

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Me with Pierce at San Diego Comic Con 2013