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Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Hump Day Blurb Share!


This Wednesday meme is all about the blurb. Can a few tempting words of introduction grab a reader's attention? Let's find out! In comments, tempt us with the blurb off your book jacket.
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12 comments:

Maggie Le Page said...

THE TROUBLE WITH DYING by Maggie Le Page - currently FREE on all digital platforms!

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Here's the blurb:

When Faith Carson wakes up on a hospital ceiling looking down on her body in a coma, it’s a bad start to the week. A very bad start. She has no idea who she is or how she got there or why, and the biggest mystery of all is why she married the schmuck who wants her ventilator switched off.

As if that’s not enough Faith has a dead gran haunting her, a young daughter missing her, and one devilishly delicious man making her wish she could have a second chance at life. And maybe she can, if she finds a way back into her body and wakes up by Friday. But if she doesn’t, this will be her last bad week—ever.

Nate Sutherland decided long ago he’d settle for friendship if he couldn’t have Faith’s heart. But now, as she nears death, he’s going to have to listen to his feelings in a whole new way—and act. Because if he doesn’t, this week will be the worst damn week of his life. He’ll lose everything he’s ever loved.

(This book is intended for readers aged 18+.)

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Available at all the usual digital outlets, including:
Amazon - FREE FOR A SHORT TIME!

Maggie's website

Martha O’Sullivan said...

Martha O’Sullivan’s Chances trilogy is available now from Red Sage Publishing. Second Chance, the trilogy opener, is a reunion/love triangle romance that keeps the shores of Lake Tahoe blazing hot long after the sultry summer sun has set. Chance Encounter, the trilogy's second installment, heats up San Francisco’s chilly days and blustery nights with white-hot passion and pulse-pounding suspense. And in Last Chance, the conclusion of the trilogy, lifelong friends-turned-lovers melt the snow-packed Sierras into lust-fueled puddles despite the single- digit temperatures of the Lake Tahoe winter.

The Chances trilogy by Martha O'Sullivan. Available at: marthaosullivan.com

http://eredsage.com/store/OSULLIVAN_MARTHA.html


Anonymous said...

Book I of The Lake George Series by Charlotte Daly is available now! Memories of You:
Three years ago Zoe’s happily-ever-after shattered when her husband was murdered and she was brutally raped. In an attempt to reclaim her life and bury her demons, Zoe sets out for picturesque Lake George, New York, and a visit to the treasured family cottage she recently inherited. But what she finds is a rundown shack.

The neighboring resort owner, Jason Rolland immediately invites Zoe to stay at his upscale lodge. He’s determined to get rid of the eye-sore next door, the last reminder of his less-than-perfect childhood. Now, he needs to charm the red-haired beauty into selling. A challenge he’s definitely up for.

Zoe is attracted to the tall, dark-haired charmer with the intoxicating blue eyes, but is Jason the man who can help her heal or will his player past break her fragile heart?

Available at LachesisPublishing

Charlotte Daly Website

Anonymous said...

That's http://lachesispublishing.com/?product=memories-of-you

Barbara White Daille said...

The Sheriff's Son by Barbara White Daille (just re-released this week in Larger Print and a new e-book version):

Why is Tanner Jones back in town?

Seven-year-old Kevin has been a handful for single mom Sarah Lindstrom. And when the new sheriff shows up holding Kevin by the scruff of his neck for egging his car, she knows she's lost control.

Sheriff Tanner Jones has no idea Kevin is his son. He lost the right to that information when he abandoned Sarah soon after graduation. Just because he's back in town doesn't mean he can waltz into her life—and Kevin's. But Sarah can't deny the feelings she still has for Tanner, or how her son is benefiting from his attention.

When Tanner finds out the truth, what will he do?


Larger print, exclusively at Harlequin:
The Sheriff’s Son-Harlequin
(Original e-book version also available at major e-tailers, including Amazon.)

www.BarbaraWhiteDaille.com

Thanks, EQ!

Laura Strickland said...

This is for "Ask Me", my Candy Hearts Romance releasing TODAY from The WIld Rose Press!

Alone on Valentine’s Day, Leo Rankin attends the library’s Blind Date With a Book event hoping for something he can take to bed with him that night, and finds himself competing against Gerri Webb for the last remaining book. Wild child Gerri is not his usual type. Yet he feels an immediate, sizzling attraction and agrees to share the book and its accompanying bag of candy hearts.

The whole idea of a Blind Date With a Book is to go off genre, so Gerri doesn’t mind when their flirty conversation suggests they unwrap each other rather than the mystery book. When a candy heart advises, “Ask Me,” she asks Leo back to her apartment. She never expects button-down Leo to hit all her buttons, but by the next morning she fears her heart’s in danger. Can one night spent off genre translate to real life?

Buy link Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Ask-Me-Candy-Hearts-Romance-ebook/dp/B019X88Z0G/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1454506668&sr=8-1&keywords=ask+me+%28a+candy+hearts+romance%29

Author web page: www.laurastricklandbooks.com

Thanks, Laura Strickland

Linda Andrews said...

Love flies with the speed of an arrow.

How's a girl supposed to stay single with the entire town wants her married?
Alessa Lombard has a plan to avoid the marriage trap. It's not that she's opposed to marriage—wedded bliss is fine…for other people. All she needs is the help of the town's newest bachelor to help pull off a fake romance, and the family curse won’t have a chance to ruin her life.

Determined to fall in love, Sloan Dugan immigrates to the magical town of Amores. Surely, in a town devoted to love, he'll find a woman who doesn't use trickery and deceit.

But Cupid has other plans. Alessa and Sloan will find themselves playing the game of love whether they want to or not. Will winner take all? Or lose everything?

That's Amores by Linda Andrews
http://www.amazon.com/Thats-Amores-Dugan-Brothers-Book-ebook/dp/B00BFNDZW6/

Janice Croom said...

Looking for a great read?
Curl up on the couch with Kadence MacBride in Death of an Idiot Boss.

Not your average sleuth.
“I peeled the newspaper from my butt, emerged from the tow truck as a queen would from her carriage and glided in the building."

Not your average mystery.
Ever since he'd tap danced on her last nerve, Kadence had dreamed of smacking her new boss upside his head, but she never dreamed somebody would do it for real and thrust her into the nightmare of murder suspect. The key to solving the murder lies within the African-American community she'd largely abandoned in her climb up the corporate ladder. Can she go home again?

If you like a sleuth with attitude. You’ll love Kadence MacBride.
Free with Kindle Unlimited and Amazon Prime.


Death of an Idiot Boss, look inside the book on Amazon
Visit Janice Croom’s web site to see more of her books.

Rosemary Gemmell said...

The Highland Lass - Scotland in the present and past!

Eilidh Campbell returns to her Scottish roots from America with one main aim: to discover the identity of her real father. But her mother’s past in Inverclyde is a mystery with family secrets, a book of Robert Burns’ poems with a hidden letter and a photograph link to the Holy Loch at Dunoon when the American Navy were in residence.

Staying with her childhood friend, Kirsty, while searching for answers, Eilidh begins to fall in love with handsome Scot Lewis Grant, but just how free is he? Together they trace the story of Highland Mary and Robert Burns, with its echoes to her mother’s story. In short alternate chapters, Highland Mary tells her own story from 1785-6. From Dunoon, to Ayrshire and culminating in Greenock, Eilidh finds the past is closer than she realises.

Amazon US
Website

Paty Jager said...

Thank you for this opportunity to share my new release!

DAVIS: Letters of Fate

Widowed with two small children and a ranch to run, Mariella Swanson knows she needs help, but isn’t sure her heart, or neighbors, will accept her marrying a stranger. When the greenhorn shows up, smoking a pipe and wearing a derby hat, she can’t help but wonder if agreeing to this marriage may prove to be her biggest mistake.

When Davis Weston receives a letter from his sister asking him to marry a friend, he scoffs at the idea. However, losing his wife and son has left him a lonely man, and the whispers from others that he didn’t do enough to save his family has gone on long enough. His arrival in Oregon may be worse—these neighbors are doing more than whispering. Guns and horses aren’t his forte. He’s willing to learn, but is he willing to love again?

Historical western filled with steamy romance and the rawness of a growing country.

http://patyjager.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html

Sherry Ewing said...

Bestselling author Sherry Ewing presents the continuing saga of the MacLaren’s from her FREE eBook If My Heart Could See You in A Knight To Call My Own.

When your heart is broken, is love still worth the risk?

Lynet of clan MacLaren knows how it feels to love someone and not have that love returned. After waiting for six long years, she has given up hope of Ian’s return. Her brother-in-law, the Devil’s Dragon of Berwyck, is tired of waiting for her to choose a husband and has decided a competition for the right to wed Lynet is just the thing his willful charge needs to force her hand.

Ian MacGillivray has returned to Berwyck Castle in search of a bride and who better than the young girl who cared for him all those years ago. But Lynet is anything but an easy conquest and he will need more than charm to win her hand in marriage.

From the English borders to the Highlands of Scotland, the chase is on for who will claim the fair Lynet. The price paid will indeed be high to ensure her safety and even higher to win her love.

Don’t miss out on Sherry’s other novels: If My Heart Could See You, a medieval romance and the beginning of her series; For All of Ever: The Knights of Berwyck, A Quest Through Time Novel (a medieval time travel romance) and Only For You, its sequel.


Amazon Buy Link

Sherry Ewing Website & Blog

Kris Bock said...

Whispers in the Dark is on sale for $.99 – 76% off!

Whispers in the Dark: Kylie Hafford craves adventure when she heads to the remote Puebloan ruins of Lost Valley, Colorado, to excavate. Romance isn’t in her plans, but she soon meets two sexy men: Danesh looks like a warrior from the Pueblo’s ancient past, and Sean is a charming, playful tourist. The summer heats up as Kylie uncovers mysteries, secrets, and terrors in the night. She’ll need all her strength and wits to survive—and to save the man she’s come to love.

Whispers in the Dark is romantic suspense set in the Four Corners region of the Southwest. Reviewers give it a 4.3 star average: “A great read with a strong plot line & likeable characters!” Get your Kindle copy today, on sale for $.99 Feb. 1-7!

Whispers in the Dark