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For the Love of Murphy: A Sweet Romance Anthology by Lisa A. Adams, Michelle Ziegler, Annabelle Blume, Rebecca Hart, London Saint James Publisher:   Roane Publishing Release Date: March 17, 2014 Key Words: Adult, Romance, Sweet, Contemporary, Anthology No Wrong Turns  by  Lisa A. Adams Jessica Brannah is escaping from her last heartbreak with a loaded car and a new address. But, when Murphy's Law finds her stranded in a back country town, she realizes there's no outrunning love. Falling For You  by  Michelle Ziegler Darci’s ready to move on. Too bad the dating pool stinks. Until, a ghost from her past resurfaces—the man she missed out on in college.  Andrew was the one man she’d always loved, but neither of them ever made a move. But, old feelings aren’t the only thing resurfacing of late. Darci’s ex comes crawling back at the most inappropriate time, and with all the testosterone flying, she might not end up with ...

We have a treat today for our readers. Like Lisa Desrochers' A Little Too Far series? Here is a Special Playlist Feature for her second novel in the series, A Little Too Much . There's also a giveaway! A Little Too Much   ( A Little Too Far, #2)  by Lisa Desrochers  New Adult Contemporary Romance Paperback/eBook, 416 pages  November 12, 2013  William Morrow Impulse  In the follow-up to Lisa Desrochers’ explosive New Adult novel A Little too Far, Alessandro Moretti must face the life he escaped and the girl he loved and left behind. Twenty-two year old Hilary McIntyre would like nothing more than to forget her past. As a teenager abandoned to the system, she faced some pretty dark times. But now that’s all behind her. Hilary has her life on track, and there’s no way she’ll head back down that road again. Until Alessandro Moretti—the one person who can make her remember—shows up on her doorstep. He’s even more devastatingly go...

Shelly Crane's Wide Open is now available! This is the second book in her Wide Awake New Adult contemporary romance series. We have a First Chapter reveal for our tour stop and a giveaway. Please dive in into Ms. Crane's latest novel. Wide Open (Wide Awake #2)  by Shelly Crane New Adult contemporary romance Paperback/eBook, 259 pages Published January 7th 2014 (first published January 5th 2014) Milo is trouble.  He lives it, breathes it. He embraces anything that numbs and takes his mind somewhere else, a world where his mother is herself and not just a shell, and his brother didn't almost kill her, severing any relationship they had. But more importantly, Milo drowns out the guilt for leaving his mother and not being able to forgive his brother. He drowns his pride and moves on to another girl and another party, pretending that life isn't moving on around him and he's stuck in the same place. He's stuck in the past and doesn't k...

Stolen Wishes (New Hope #1.5)  by Lexi Ryan New Adult contemporary romance Novella, 91 pages Published January 7th 2014 by Ever After, LLC (first published January 3rd 2014) Cally…   A sexy smile. Intense blue eyes. A goodness that makes him want to save me from these rumors when no one else would care. I didn't ask for a hero. William Bailey was never supposed to be anything more than a wish, a dream, an unrequited crush. Not for a girl like me--a girl whose fractured family has stolen her chance at a decent life. William…  Since the death of my parents, I've always done what’s expected of me, what's "best" for me. Until Cally. The moment her haunted eyes meet mine, the fractured pieces of my heart feel whole again. I don’t just want to save her. I need her to save me. Stolen chances. Unbroken wishes. Two lonely souls grasping for hope in the darkness.  **This novella takes place seven years before the events in WISH I MAY and...

About AFTERPARTY: A toxic friendship takes a dangerous turn in this riveting novel from the author of Where It Began. Emma is tired of being good. Always the dutiful daughter to an overprotective father, she is the antithesis of her mother—whose name her dad won’t even say out loud. That’s why meeting Siobhan is the best thing that ever happened to her…and the most dangerous. Because Siobhan is fun and alluring and experienced and lives on the edge. In other words, she’s everything Emma isn’t. And it may be more than Emma can handle. Because as intoxicating as her secret life may be, when Emma begins to make her own decisions, Siobhan starts to unravel. It’s more than just Dylan, the boy who comes between them. Their high-stakes pacts are spinning out of control. Elaborate lies become second nature. Loyalties and boundaries are blurred. And it all comes to a head at the infamous Afterparty, a bash where debauchery rages and an intense, inescapable confrontatio...

Unbreak Me (New Hope #1)  by Lexi Ryan  New Adult contemporary romance Paperback/eBook, 234 pages Published May 24th 2013 by Smashwords (first published May 23rd 2013) New Adult contemporary romance. Due to sexual content and heavy subject matter, this book is intended for mature readers. “If you’re broken, I’ll fix you…” I’m only twenty-one and already damaged goods. A slut. A failure. A disappointment to my picture-perfect family as long as I can remember. I called off my wedding to William Bailey, the only man who thought I was worth fixing. A year later, he’s marrying my sister. Unless I ask him not to… “If you shatter, I’ll find you…” But now there’s Asher Logan, a broken man who sees the fractures in my façade and doesn’t want to fix me at all. Asher wants me to stop hiding, to stop pretending. Asher wants to break down my walls. But that means letting him see my ugly secrets and forgiving him for his. With my past weighing down on me, ...