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Welcome to our blog. We are today's stop on the After Dark Blog Tour hosted by J. Taylor Publishing . It is great to have author Emi Gayle back on our blog. The last time we hosted was for one of her adult paranormal books, today we are featuring the second book in her Young Adult series, The 19th Year , which is Day After . I recently finished reading the first book, After Dark , and started on the second. Today, we have an excerpt, a guest post, the book trailer and a giveaway. My reviews will be up soon. Thanks for stopping by. Day After (The 19th Year, Book 2) by Emi Gayle YA paranormal*Paperback/eBook, 328 pages  Release Date: May 6, 2013 by J. Taylor Publishing Demon crypts. Vampire lairs. Glowing angels. Sexy sirens. The stuff of fiction.  Or so Winn Thomas always thought.  Since being accepted into the fold of the supernatural, he knows better. None of what he imagined is true, but everything he feared is, and binding himself to his...

When You Were Here  by Daisy Whitney YA contemporary*Paperback/eBook, 264 pages Expected publication: June 4th 2013 by Little, Brown Purchase: Amazon | Barnes and Noble Filled with humor, raw emotion, a strong voice, and a brilliant dog named Sandy Koufax, When You Were Here explores the two most powerful forces known to man-death and love. Daisy Whitney brings her characters to life with a deft touch and resonating authenticity.  Danny's mother lost her five-year battle with cancer three weeks before his graduation-the one day that she was hanging on to see. Now Danny is left alone, with only his memories, his dog, and his heart-breaking ex-girlfriend for company. He doesn't know how to figure out what to do with her estate, what to say for his Valedictorian speech, let alone how to live or be happy anymore. When he gets a letter from his mom's property manager in Tokyo, where she had been going for treatment, it shows a side of his moth...

Faking It (Losing It #2)  by Cora Carmack New Adult contemporary romance* Paperback/eBook, 304 pages Expected publication: June 4th 2013 by William Morrow & Company Mackenzie “Max” Miller has a problem. Her parents have arrived in town for a surprise visit, and if they see her dyed hair, tattoos, and piercings, they just might disown her. Even worse, they’re expecting to meet a nice, wholesome boyfriend, not a guy named Mace who has a neck tattoo and plays in a band. All her lies are about to come crashing down around her, but then she meets Cade. Cade moved to Philadelphia to act and to leave his problems behind in Texas. So far though, he’s kept the problems and had very little opportunity to take the stage. When Max approaches him in a coffee shop with a crazy request to pretend to be her boyfriend, he agrees to play the part. But when Cade plays the role a little too well, they’re forced to keep the ruse going. And the more they fake th...

Tour Schedule     Moonlit  Eighteen-year-old Tanzy Hightower knows horses, has grown up with them on Wildwood Farm. She also knows not to venture beyond the trees that line the pasture. Things happen out there that can’t be explained. Or undone. Worse, no one but she and the horses can see what lurks in the shadows of the woods. When a moonlit ride turns into a terrifying chase, Tanzy is left to question everything, from the freak accident that killed her father to the very blood in her veins. Broken and confused, she turns to Lucas, a scarred, beautiful stranger, and to Vanessa, a charming new friend who has everything Tanzy doesn’t. But why do they seem to know more about her than she knows herself? Amazon Kindle * Amazon * Goodreads *  WiDo Publishing * Barnes & Noble Praise   "Virginia's trees look like they're burning. Most of them blaze crimson or gold, but some still have a chokehold on their green. I wish they'd give it up already. ...

Hello! We hope you're enjoying your weekend. We are today's stop on The Earth Is For Dancing Blog Tour hosted by Reading Away the Days Blog Tours . There's an excerpt from this Young Adult novel and a tour-wide giveaway. The Earth is for Dancing by Lorca Damon YA contemporary*Paperback/eBook, 258 pages Published June 9th 2012 Purchase: Kindle | Print Sam is a fifteen-year-old drug orphan living with her custodial grandmother who is stricken with late-stage Alzheimer's. She struggles to fill the role of caregiver to her grandmother while keeping her little family a secret from the authorities who would send Gamma to a state facility and Sam to foster care. Just because her life isn't hard enough, there are still boys to have crushes on, essays to write for horrible English teachers, and a squad full of bullies to torment her on a daily basis. Excerpt: A little while later there was a knock on the back door and a faceless hand held out a ...

Cat loved Gabe from the time she was five years old. She thought it would be easy: fall in love with your childhood sweetheart, get married and live happily ever after. But as the years go on, the fairy tale soon falls apart. At twenty, Gabe – penniless, unable to find work, and drinking himself into a bad reputation – leaves New Orleans, believing that Cat is better off without him. She doesn’t hear from him for three years. Not until her bachelorette party, when he sends her a $400 bottle of Champagne the night before she’s set to marry Cort Belrose, a wealthy restaurateur that Gabe despises. It seems the past three years have treated Gabe well. He’s now mysteriously wealthy and the picture of a perfect Southern gentleman – a gentleman who is quietly seeking vengeance on the man who forced him out of the city and stole the woman he loved. With Gabe’s return, the sweltering heat of New Orleans becomes even more stifling as Cat struggles with the truth about he...

On this Saturday, we are one of today's stops on the Live For You Blog Tour . Our review is below and there's a tour-wide giveaway to enter. Have a wonderful weekend! Live For You (Boys of the South ~Book 1) by Marquita Valentine  New Adult Contemporary Romance Release date: May 29, 2013 Tour organized by: AToMR Tours Purchase:  Amazon  |  Barnes and Noble  |  iTunes On the surface, twenty-two year old Cole Morgan is exactly what any girl would be proud to take home to meet her parents: He’s charming, intensely handsome and goal-oriented...Only he has some secrets of his own, which include provoking bar fights and a former drug-addict of a mother slowly wasting away in a medical facility.  At barely twenty, Violet Lynn is Country Music's hottest star, until one night of partying gets out of control. Violet ends up in jail and on TMZ. Suddenly, she’s the girl least likely to be invited anywhere. Sick of the drama and keeping...