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Follow the tour Eerie by C.M. McCoy Genre: Mature YA/ Fantasy/ Romance Release Date: December 15th 2015 Omnific Publishing with distribution through Simon & Schuster Summary from Goodreads: Being a ParaScience freshman is a nightmare come true Asher loved her and hated her, risked his life to protect her and planned to rip her apart. The moment Hailey stumbled into Asher's world, he was corrupted by emotion. And she had no idea the danger she aroused. *** Hailey’s dreams have always been, well...vivid. As in monsters from her nightmares follow her into her waking life vivid. When her big sister goes missing, eighteen-year-old Hailey finds the only thing keeping her safe from a murderous 3,000-year old beast is an equally terrifying creature who’s fallen “madly” in love with her. Competing to win her affection, the Dream Creature, Asher, lures her to the one place that offers safety—a ParaScience university in Alaska he calls home. There, she must learn to live with a...

Enter to Win a  Print Copy of FALL OF POPPIES Fall of Poppies Stories of Love and the Great War Contributions by:  Hazel Gaynor, Beatriz Williams, Jennifer Robson,  Jessica Brockmole, Kate Kerrigan, Evangeline Holland,  Lauren Willig, Marci Jefferson, edited by Heather Webb Releasing March 1st, 2016  William Morrow Top voices in historical fiction deliver an intensely moving collection of short stories about loss, longing, and hope in the aftermath of World War I—featuring bestselling authors such as Hazel Gaynor, Jennifer Robson, Beatriz Williams, and Lauren Willig and edited by Heather Webb. A squadron commander searches for meaning in the tattered photo of a girl he’s never met… A Belgian rebel hides from the world, only to find herself nursing the enemy… A young airman marries a stranger to save her honor—and prays to survive long enough to love her…The peace treaty signed on November 11, 1918, may herald the e...

Nora & Kettle Lauren Nicolle Taylor Published by: Clean Teen Publishing Publication date: February 29th 2016 Genres: Historical, Young Adult What if Peter Pan was a homeless kid just trying to survive, and Wendy flew away for a really good reason?   Seventeen-year-old Kettle has had his share of adversity. As an orphaned Japanese American struggling to make a life in the aftermath of an event in history not often referred to—the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II and the removal of children from orphanages for having “one drop of Japanese blood in them”—things are finally looking up. He has his hideout in an abandoned subway tunnel, a job, and his gang of Lost Boys.   Desperate to run away, the world outside her oppressive brownstone calls to naïve, eighteen-year-old Nora—the privileged daughter of a controlling and violent civil rights lawyer who is building a compensation case for the interned Japanese Americans. But she is trapped, enduri...

Enter to Win a  Print Copy of THE SWEETEST CHASE THE SWEETEST CHASE Heart of the Storm #2 Sharla Lovelace Releasing Feb 23rd, 2016 Montlake Photographer Quinn Parker is getting married in a month, and she’s almost happy about it. Even though her mother is planning the whole wedding. Even though she’s secretly had the hots for Simon Chase forever. But he’s her best friend’s brother and her coworker . . . off-limits even if she were single. So she’s marrying the man who should be her perfect match—and that’s that. Simon Chase’s life revolves around his family’s storm-chasing business. The meteorologist of the bunch, he’d rather be out in the weather than reporting it—especially if Quinn Parker is along to photograph the run. He’s been hiding his crush on her for a long time, and it’s only intensified. But she’s marrying someone else—and that’s that. Or is it?  When a Chase family wedding sets the stage for body temperatures to rise and ...

Love Me, Love Me Not by Alyxandra Harvey Publication Date: February 22, 2016 Genre: YA Fantasy Dating isn’t easy when you’re in the middle of a blood feud. Anastasia Vila’s family can turn into swans, but just once she’d like them to turn into responsible adults. After hundreds of years, they still cling to the blood feud with the Renard family. No one remembers how it started in the first place—but foxes and swans just don’t get along. Vilas can only transform into their swan shape after they have fallen in love for the first time, but between balancing schoolwork, family obligations, and the escalating blood feud, Ana’s got no time for love. The only thing keeping her sane is her best friend, Pierce Kent. But when Pierce kisses Ana, everything changes. Is what Pierce feels for her real, or a byproduct of her magic? Can she risk everything for her best friend? And when the family feud spirals out of control, Ana must stop the fight before it takes away everything she love...

How Willa Got Her Groove Back by Emily McKay Genre : Young Adult, Contemporary Romance Series : Creative HeArts #2, companion series Publication : February 25th, 2016 When your life feels like a bad movie, rewrite the script. When Willa Schofer's father comes home from a business trip with an über-famous new fiancée, Willa's senior year blows up in paparazzi-fueled flames. Overnight, she has a new house, a new car, and a new soon-to-be stepbrother--the unbelievably hot, unbelievably arrogant, Finn McCain. Thank god he's constantly pushing her buttons, or she might do something irresponsible. Like fall for the jerk. Just when Willa's decided to avoid him for, oh, ever, Finn lands in the center of her senior project team. Seriously--how hard is it to shake a guy? At least her work on the project snagged the attention of the (second) hottest guy in school. He might only be into her because of her famous stepmom, and he's not quite as exciting a...

Title:    Slim Pickins’ in Fat Chance, Texas Series:  Fat Chance, Texas Book 2 Author:   Celia Bonaduce Published:  January 5th, 2016 Publisher:   Lyrical Press Genre:  Women’s Fiction, Romantic Comedy Synopsis:  It’s been a year since an eccentric billionaire summoned seven strangers to the dilapidated, postage stamp-sized town of Fat Chance, Texas. To win a cash bequest, each was required to spend six months in the ghost town to see if they could transform it—and themselves—into something extraordinary. But by the time pastry chef Fernando Cruz arrives, several members of the original gang have already skedaddled… Fernando’s hopes of starting a new life in Fat Chance are dashed when the town’s handful of ragtag residents—and a mysterious low-flying plane—show him just how weird the place actually is. His hopes of making over the town’s sole café into a BBQ restaurant for nearby ranchers threaten to turn to dust...