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Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Release Day Spotlight: Beautiful Oblivion by Addison Moore


Beautiful Oblivion by Addison Moore
Publication Date: October 22, 2013

Official Summary:

From the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, Addison Moore:

Some people just don’t belong together, or at least that’s what the world would have them believe.

It was supposed to be just for the summer…

Reese Westfield comes from a world of old money, country clubs, cotillions, and expensive cars. She’s tired of dating Warren McCarthy just to make her father happy. Reese has long since had her eye on someone else, and this summer she’s determined to make it happen.

Growing up in Lake Loveless there has always been a strict monetary divide—there was the rest of the Lake and then there were the Waterman’s. Ace Waterman has worked for everything he has, and he doesn’t have a lot. He breaks his back doing grunt work while putting himself through college. He’s used to life passing him by.

Reese has loved Ace from afar for as long as she can remember. The summer of her freshman year she comes home with plans to land Ace in her bed at least for a few short weeks, and, if she’s lucky, forever.

Ace has loved Reese for as long as he can remember, but their friendship has never graduated beyond platonic, so when Reese comes home from her first year away and proposes the two of them have a summer fling, Ace is quick to comply. The rules: no strings, no expectations, just something hotter than the sun to set the sheets on fire.

But when their worlds collide, and neither of them is willing to admit to having true feelings, it becomes clear to Ace he’s nothing more than a dirty little secret—that the summer fling was just something meaningless to pass the time.

Reese wonders if she can ever stop trying to please her father, and it’s only through her mother’s letters that she finds the answers she truly seeks, but will they be the ones she wants to hear?

As summer draws to a close, Ace and Reese are still very much enraptured even though the time has come to douse the flame and move on—but neither one of them is prepared to leave this BEAUTIFUL OBLIVION.



About the Author:

Addison Moore is a New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author who writes contemporary and paranormal romance. Previously she worked as a therapist on a locked psychiatric unit for nearly a decade. She resides on the West Coast with her husband, four wonderful children and two dogs where she eats too much chocolate and stays up way too late. When she's not writing, she's reading.

Monday, April 22, 2013

Book Spotlight: Summer's Desire by Olivia Lynde

Hello, all! Today I am spotlighting a beautiful, New Adult, romance book by a super sweet author! Check out the steamy excerpt at the end of the post!


Summer's Desire by Olivia Lynde
Publication Date: March 20, 2013

Summary (from Goodreads):

A girl who has lost her voice, and a boy who carries a world of anger bottled up inside.

A girl haunted by soul-crushing guilt and regret, and a boy who knows he can't afford the weakness of feeling—not if he is to survive.

Summer and Seth meet by chance and become unlikely friends. In each other, they find a safe haven... and respite from the darkness haunting them both. 

Until they are betrayed.

Can they ever regain their friendship? And if they do, can they trust each other enough to take the biggest risk of all: falling in love?



Excerpt:

He pushes me gently in a reclining position. I lie back, supporting my head on the armrest. Then before I realize what's happening, he lifts my legs with one arm, sits down as well, and resettles my legs on his lap. After which he leans down toward me in a fluid motion and proceeds to scrutinize my grazed lip. 

I keep completely still, staggered at our intimate pose. Inside me though, it's the furthest thing from "still" that there could possibly be. Instead, flickers of fire are surging and sizzling in a carnival of sparks. All of a sudden I feel woozy. 

"Breathe, Sunny," he orders softly, and I let a rush of air fill my lungs. [...] 

He's started cleaning my lip with the antiseptic and I flinch a little. 

"Sorry," he murmurs and blows gently above the corner of my mouth, where my skin is stinging. His lips are so close now that I would only have to lean forward a little and I could feel them on my own. [...] 

Fortunately, he finally retreats a little, removing the temptation of his lips from my immediate reach. He's staring at me with very intent blue eyes, his gaze focused on my mouth. I know that he's only doing this to examine the small wound there—yet still I'm beset by new waves of desire flowing through me. I have trouble breathing once again. 

He touches his finger to the bow of my lower lip and moves it slowly in a sensual slide. Sweet mercy, I wish he would stop! He's driving me crazy, fraying the fetters of my control. My heart is slamming against my ribs like a sledgehammer, and my skin feels too tight. 

My lips part and his blue eyes flash with enigmatic purpose, lids dropping to half-mast. Suddenly his head is lowering toward me. The feverish excitement inside me spreads and surges out of bonds. Overcome, I look up into Seth's eyes. His lips are coming closer still, so close to mine. And for a moment the world stops breathing.

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