Tuesday, August 29, 2017

Crane (Lost Valkyries MC #1) Release Day +Review

“CRANE” LOST VALKYRIES MC #1 
From the writer of “Areion Fury MC”, “Broken Deeds MC”, & “Wicked Throttle MC” Esther E. Schmidt is proud to introduce her fourth MC series; Lost Valkyries MC. This series will involve short stories (each of them standalone), “Crane”, will be kicking off this whole new series.  

Title: “Crane”  
Series: Lost Valkyries MC #1  
Author: Esther E. Schmidt  
Cover Design: Esther E. Schmidt  
Model/ Photographer: Nathan Hainline  
Release Day: August 29th, 2017  


Faya 
My eyes close and I brace for the pain. Except it doesn’t come. It always comes. Wait for it my mind tells me, making me brace some more. I hate waiting for it, when that happens it’s always so much worse.  

Crane
 The job was to prevent her from testifying. I’ve already been paid because my ass isn’t moving before the cash is in place. That’s right, I have a spotless reputation. A hitman who gets the job done. Any job, any time. Once I’ve given my word, and the cash is exchanged, it’s a done deal. No matter the consequences or obstacles, I will get it done. Something that the woman strapped to my back will find out firsthand.

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Another fantastic book Esther. I love all her books and this one was no different. This is a fantastic, steamy, quick read. Crane is a little different than some of Esther’s characters. He is a nomad biker and a hitman. He was hired to do a job, he was paid, and now he intends to do the job like always. Faya witnessed something she shouldn’t have. Now she finds herself faced with Crane. I was intrigued to see how this story panned out and I wasn’t disappointed. Both Crane and Faya are strong characters. Crane is used to people doing what he wants and being scared of him. Faya knows what Crane is and that her time has come. Why go out crying when you can go out with sass. They are perfect for each other and I can’t wait to read more books in this series. A must read.
 


 

A Marshall's Courage (A Rescue Novella Series, Book 1) Release Blast


Title: A Marshall’s Courage
Series: A Rescue Novella Series; Book 1
Publish Date: August 26, 2017
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Cover Design by: MadHat Books

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Blurb
Daniel
Danger is a part of life, at least in my line of work. I serve. I protect. I take down the men and women that would endanger the innocent. My Marine training led me to believe this would be an easy job. It was until Elayna Hart was dropped in my lap. After that, it was all up in the air.

Danger struck, and I had no choice but to do whatever I could to keep her safe. The attraction between us made it harder to focus, until I did the only thing I could. I ran away with her. We were off the grid with only two others for back up. If anyone came after her, we’d die to protect her.

Elayna
Life is full of challenges - ones I have been able to meet head on. My path was straight until him - then it went upside down. Now I’m on the run from a man that wants to do more than crush my heart. My only hope is that the men who have agreed to protect me can do just that.

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Excerpt
Being a witness to a robbery shouldn't destroy your entire life, but it certainly wrecked mine. It may not have been so bad if I hadn't have recognized the man holding the gun. The man who shot an innocent man for no reason other than stupidity and greed. His face had been shielded by a ski mask, but that deep baritone gave him away. The moment “Hurry the fuck up or I’ll blow your head off” left his lips, I gasped, uttering his name in what I thought was a silent rebuke. He looked my way and the man behind the register tried to grab the gun.

My world flashed in multiple colors as I watched in horror. The guy’s hand reached out, Jonathan jerked back, and with a twitch of his hand the man's head blew back, a coating of red spraying against the back wall. He was dead. I screamed and Jonathan attacked me. His hand wrapped around my throat, and I fought unsuccessfully to get out of his grip. Some noise distracted him for a moment, and I was able to hit his arm and slip out of his hold, barely.

The sound of the sirens made him think twice about attacking again. He ran off, but not before warning me to stay quiet, or I was dead. Why he didn’t just shoot me right then and there, I don’t know.

© Barb Shuler 2017


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What Other’s Are Saying
Love this book. There are some amazingly funny scenes, some heartbreaking scenes and some gut-wrenching scenes as well. This book has it all, from loving and passionate to suspenseful and scary. ~ Mindy, Goodreads Reviewer

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My Own Nightmare ~ Somewhere I Belong ~ Shatter Me Whole
Genre: Dark Suspense/Thriller ~ Romantic Suspense

Wrangled By Love
Genre: Cowboy Contemporary Romance

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Each book in these series’s can be read as a stand alone
All of the above books are available in KU

~Meet Barb Shuler~
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I’m a Carolina Girl by right and a Texan by birth. Best of both worlds. I have the brass sass to keep up with my Texas sized temper. Living and working in both states i’ve learned a lot about hard work, adapting to your surroundings and making the best of the path that you have been led down. My grandma Dollie once told me I would know what I was meant to do when it happened. She was right, as always.
As with most book lovers, I am an avid reader. Reading has always been a hobby - a passion, really and a way to get lost in other people’s lives, their drama and other worlds. It’s a private movie in your imagination that you get to cast and navigate through, at your own pace. Reading helps to expand the perimeters of one's mind. That is what got me into writing. Writing has been something that I have done since I was a kid. If I had paper, I was writing. Nine out of ten times it made no sense but what are words if they are not to be used to your advantage? Words are a part of us all. Why not use them, right?
During the day I work as a ‘desk jockey’ and help the residents of my county navigate themselves around our little, but not too little country town. By night I am either blogging with my best friends, doing PA work for some of my favorite authors or fighting with the voices in my head. They can be stubborn at times. It’s a blessing and I am cherishing every moment. Tomorrow is never guaranteed so I want to make sure I live the day as fully as possible. For what is my creation, can become someone else's treasure.

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Monday, August 28, 2017

Combust (Savage Disciples MC #5) Blog Tour




Once a Disciple, forever a Disciple.


Man whore.


Ex-con.


All-around asshole.



Daz is called a lot of seedy things.



But his brothers know there’s more to him



even if it is buried deep beneath the surface.




A Disciple will fight like a savage and never give up.




As a stripper, Avery is no stranger to judgment.



That doesn't stop her from assuming Daz is nothing more than a hot body, though.



But when tragedy lets her see behind the cocky-jackass exterior,



there's no denying the truth.




For this biker to go down, there has to be more than sparks—he needs full combustion.



Daz
The bastard sun woke me at what had to be not long after dawn.


Seeing as it had to be after two before I’d finished fucking Avery for the final time—on her hands and knees since her body couldn’t keep up with her greedy fucking pussy—the early wakeup call could fuck right off.


I wanted to move to shut the blinds, but Avery was sprawled partly on my chest. I wasn’t averse to keeping a woman in bed with me overnight. Some guys who were looking to get tied down might not have let that shit fly, but I found the benefit of a warm, welcoming woman in the morning was worth the risk she might not know the score.


Right then, though, my dick wasn’t stirring. It was too fucking early, and Avery had worn him out. That alone was a novel experience. Never, not once, had a woman satisfied me so completely. Avery was just a fucking natural.


Even her perky, bared tits pressed against me didn’t get me past a half chub. My dick was too sated to rise to the occasion.


I couldn’t say whether that was fucking fantastic or scared the shit out of me.


While I was trying to puzzle that shit out, Avery groaned and brought a hand up to shield her eyes. Cracking one lid, she glared at the window with a ferocity that shouldn’t have been sexy. That half stock I’d been rocking started to perk up.


Apparently, he wasn’t fully worn out after all.


“You and your dick distracted me last night before I remembered to close the blinds,” she grumbled.


Grabbing her hand, which made her shut her eyes as I stole her shield, I brought it down to press against said dick. “Could distract you again.”


“Too early,” she denied, but she didn’t move her hand away either. My cock cozied up into her touch and I bit back a groan.


“He disagrees.”


“Your cock gets its own vote?”


“He, sugar,” I corrected. “Show him some respect.”


That lost me her hand on my dick and gained me a slap in the gut.


“Close the blinds and I’ll show him some respect later.”


“How come I have to get my ass up to shut the blinds when you were the one who bought a house with east-facing windows in the bedroom?” I grumbled even as I did just that.  “Bad fuckin’ call, babe.”


“I didn’t realize that was east. I viewed the house in the middle of the afternoon,” she argued. “Besides, I bought this place based on the kitchen. The bedroom just had to be here.”


Pulling the drapes—blackout ones, good but unsurprising with the hours I knew she worked—and darkening the room to give us both some relief, I told her, “That’s some jacked logic. The bedroom’s where all the best shit happens.”


She peeked her eyes open again, keeping them that way when she’d verified I’d blocked out the damn light. “You’ve eaten my cupcakes.”


Fuck me, but she was right. She created some serious magic in that kitchen.


“Fair point,” I conceded, collapsing back onto the bed.


I rolled toward her, pulling her body into mine and maneuvering my leg so it was bent between hers, the warmth of her pussy against my thigh.


“Too fuckin’ early. Back to sleep.”


Avery’s body was stiff for a minute, but I stayed put and quiet. She took a bit, but she let whatever was fixing to crawl up her ass go, settled in, and we both fell asleep again.


Drew Elyse spends her days trying to convince the world that she is, in fact, a Disney Princess, and her nights writing tear-jerking and smutty romance novels. Her debut novel, Dissonance, released in August of 2014.


When she isn’t writing, she can usually be found over-analyzing every line of a book, binge watching a series on Netflix, doing strange vocal warm ups before singing a variety of music styles, or screaming at the TV during a Chicago Blackhawks game.


A graduate of Loyola University Chicago with a BA in English, she still lives in Chicago, IL where she was born and raised with her boyfriend and her prima donna pet rabbit, Lola.

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