Veronica Courtesan Review Tour +Review

Title: Veronica COURTESAN 

Author: Siobhan Daiko 

Genre: Erotic/ Historic

I watch him watching us, imagining how he would take me.

I send him the message with my eyes.

This is who I am. 

I am Veronica Franco. 

I am a COURTESAN.

I court the cultural elite for fame and fortune, giving my body to many. 

And I’m good. So very good. After all, I was taught by my mother, and mother always knows best. 

How else to please the future King of France than with the imaginative use of Murano glass? How else to fulfil the desires of all yet keep my sense of self-worth?

But when disaster strikes and my life begins to unravel, I’ll have to ask myself one question:

Is it too late to give my heart to just one man?

Set in Venice 16th Century.

Advisory: sensuously erotic. 18+

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This book is very steamy and I enjoyed reading it.  Veronica was given few choices in life and then married off to a man more than twice her age.  He beat her every day until she finally made a choice for herself.  She decided to become a courtesan like her mother once was.  Her mother helped her and her husband tried to interfere at first but quickly came to see reason.  Veronica’s first client, Jamcomo wanted exclusivity and she granted it to him.  She quickly realized it wasn’t that different from being married.  She wasn’t his courtesan she was his mistress.  Veronica’s mother helped her get a few other clients.  Jacomo wasn’t happy about this and took his leave.  Veronica learns many things by entertaining all these different men.  Veronica finds that she is quite the poet and wishes to visit the literary salon.  However she must find the right man and get him to take her.  Soon enough one of her lovers helps her finds said man and he agrees to help her.  Veronica finds herself with three regular men, who each in their own way love her and she loves them in return.  One of them wishes to have exclusively but she refuses him; refuses to belong to any one man again.  She loves her life the way it is.  She doesn’t wish to lose him but he must find a way to share her.  This book was interesting to read.  It wasn’t just sex there was a great story line.  Veronica is forced to make many decisions that affect not only her but her children and the people who work in her home; while courtesans are excepted and better than prostitutes to most but everyone.  She must be careful of what she does outside of her home and who sees what she does inside her home.  It was a different time and different things were acceptable and the punishments for what was not acceptable were different.  I could only imagine what it was like to be alive during that time.  I look forward to reading the next book in this series.  I also look forward to reading other books by Siobhan.

Siobhan Daiko is an author of romantic historical fiction and a new series of erotic novellas featuring famous courtesans – strong women who held their own in a man’s world. A lover of all things Italian, Siobhan lives in the Veneto region of northern Italy with her husband and two cats. After a life of romance and adventure in Hong Kong, Australia and the UK she now spends her time, when she isn’t writing, enjoying the dolce vita near Venice. 

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"Didn't anyone ever tell you what happens to BAD girls? Well... let Pretty Boy show you."

Agent Christopher Gibson has everything a man in his position could want. A successful career as one of the FBI's most credited undercover field agents, with no personal ties to hold him back. He tried that once, it didn't go over too well.

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Nothing other than a hot, sexy, torrid love affair that was left in the past- torn apart by the different directions their lives were headed.

Now, months later, Jess finds herself in a perilous position. The past that once brought "Pretty Boy" Chris Gibson into her life has now come back to haunt her, threatening everything that she's worked for.

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The third book in the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Wedding Pact series.

Libby St. Clair believes in fate--so much so, she's willing to pin everything on a curse a fortune teller placed on her and her two best friends when they were kids. The curse, that each of them will marry before thirty, have a disaster of a wedding, and end up with a man other than her original fiancé, has come to fruition for both of her friends, who are now deliriously happy. But Libby's attempt to quick-start the curse by proposing to her wrong-for-her boyfriend ends in a wild dash from the altar. She's rescued by her friend Noah, the only person who understands her impulsive decisions--because he's the same way.

Having spent most of his adulthood fleeing responsibility and commitment, Noah McMillan is finally ready to grow up. Of course, figuring out how is still a work in progress. When he realizes he's in love with Libby, he flies to Kansas City to put a stop to her wedding. But Libby's already pulled a runaway bride. Eager to cheer her up and prove that he can be the man she deserves, he takes her on a madcap car trip that will bring them all the way to the City of Sin.

In Vegas, those who risk it all either win big or lose everything, so what will happen if Libby and Noah take a gamble on love?

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Crossing The Line (Kismet Series Book 1) Re-Release Blitz

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Title: Crossing the Line

Series: Kismet Series Book 1

Author: Samantha Long

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Victoria doesn't have time for love after a bitter divorce. She's too busy. Her twin daughters are approaching puberty and her interior design business is expanding. So when Nick enters her life, she has to remember why she's too busy for a little lust. Which is difficult considering he's the contractor hired to redo her office. Besides, his tattoos and MMA past make him a poor candidate for a woman who's trying to level out her life.

Nick thinks Victoria's hot but doesn't want to get involved with a woman who has kids, much less one that's been hurt by a man. Too much baggage. He's sworn off relationships, tending to stick with one-night stands. Victoria is a client, one he doesn't want to cross the line with, but the more he's near her, the quicker his resolve weakens. 

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120 days... The average number of days someone stays at Last Resort.

17 weeks. Surrounded by love, laughter and support.

4 months more time than they had before they walked through the door.

Real estate developer Ethan McGregor’s life was changed forever when his younger brother told him he was dying of cancer. Ethan was ready to do whatever it took to save Evan, but Evan had other plans.

Say goodbye…

Samantha Truman runs the privately-funded Last Resort. Watching her parent’s drive and determination to live longer than the doctors gave them was the inspiration for the resort. It is her heart and soul--she lives to make sure that each day is precious, and one more sunrise or sunset can make all the difference the guests at Last Resort need.

After finding his brother’s journal, and discovering more about Last Resort, Ethan is determined to find out if this place is one of those “too good to be true” places that turn out to be a scam. But he was not ready for Samantha Truman, he was not ready for everything to change, for his point of view in life to be so incredibly altered, for the world to turn its axis. There are, after all, some things Ethan can’t control, who to fall in love with is one of them.

How much can change in 120 days?

 

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Heron Blue by Sun Kil Moon

Bloodstream by Stateless

Long & Lost by Florence + the Machine

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