✯RELEASE BLITZ✯: Inside Game by Collette West {EXCERPT + GIVEAWAY!}

Inside Game 
by Collette West
Genre: Adult, Contemporary Romance
Expected Publication: July 10th, 2015

Third baseman Drake Schultz is the undisputed bad boy of the New York Kings. So it's no surprise when Major League Baseball suspends him for taking performance-enhancing drugs. Furious with their superstar, the front office issues an ultimatum: either work with their sober companion or kiss the rest of his quarter-billion-dollar contract goodbye. Cocky and arrogant, Drake resists being saddled with a live-in babysitter—even one he's insanely attracted to.

Drake is Eva Sloane's first celebrity client as a substance abuse counselor, and she knows she's in trouble when he starts tempting her at every turn. The way he looks at her is as hot as sin, but she refuses to become his new drug of choice. Slowly, she helps him realize he has to face the demons from his past and heal his tortured spirit before he can even think about satisfying any craving he has for her.

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{Excerpt}

But she doesn't turn the light on. Instead, she shoves the covers aside and crawls into bed next to me. I don't move because she's not here for anything more. I'm on top of the comforter, and she's underneath it. There's a barrier separating us from doing something I'd later regret. Not that I don't want to be with her again. It's just that I feel so unworthy of even touching her right now.

She rolls over onto her side, and I'm still sprawled out on my stomach. We're facing each other, but we don't say anything. We just lie here together in the silence, her hair spread out across my pillow. My bandaged arm is between us, a reminder of the tragic turn of events of the last few days. We stare into each other's eyes until I see the worry lines around her mouth begin to relax.

"Will you go somewhere with me tomorrow?" she asks on the verge of sleep, her eyes half closed.

"Where?" I mumble.

"Somewhere that feels like home."

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{About the Author}

Collette West grew up as somewhat of a jock-nerd hybrid. Entering the world three weeks premature, her dad nearly missed her birth because he had seats behind the dugout for a sold-out, highly-anticipated match-up between two of baseball's biggest rivals. Not to be outdone, her book-loving mom taught her how to read by the time she was three. A love of the game coupled with an appreciation for the written word were instilled in Collette's impressionable brain from a young age. No wonder her characters believe in the philosophy: sports + romance = a little slice of heaven. 

Splitting her time between the Pocono Mountains and Manhattan, Collette indulges her inner fangirl by going to as many games as she can from hockey to baseball and downloading every sports romance novel in existence onto her iPad. When she's not clicking away on her laptop, she enjoys walking her dog in Central Park, satisfying her caffeine craving at the Starbucks on Broadway and keeping an eye out for Mr. Right. But above all, she loves dishing with her readers. Email her at collette_west@yahoo.com. 

She is the author of NIGHT GAMES, GAME CHANGER and GAME ON. 

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REVIEW: The Italian's Deal for I Do by Jennifer Hayward

The Italian's Deal for I Do
by Jennifer Hayward
Release Date: March 17th 2015 by Harlequin
Series: Society Weddings #1
Pages: 192
Genres: Romance, Contemporary
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The Irresistible Italian: Married for Business

He's conquered global markets and immeasurable hearts, but to regain control of the fashion empire that's rightfully his, Rocco Mondelli must prove his playboy days are over. His secret weapon? Supermodel-in-hiding Olivia Fitzgerald…and the power to ruin her if she refuses to play his loving fiancée!

But returning to the world stage revives Olivia's old demons, and instead of walking down the aisle toward her gorgeous groom—she flees! The world holds its breath: Can the indomitable Rocco get his wayward bride to the altar on time?

The world's sexiest billionaires finally say "I do"!(Synopsis taken from Goodreads)

My Review:

The Italian's Deal for I Do was such a quick read filled with romance that is going to leave you wanting for more.

We all have pasts and things that we want to get away from, in this particular case Olivia Fitzgerald has had her fair share of demons that she wishes they would leave her alone. After a devastating ending to her modeling career, she disappeared very suddenly without telling anyone where she was going. Now she is in Milan under the care of her dear friend and designer of one of the most well-known design houses in the world. With the hopes of finally leaving everything behind, she is determined to do anything possible to make her dreams of becoming a fashion designer come true. But nothing could have prepared her for the loss she was going to experience after finding out that her friend had passed away, leaving her without his support.

Crushed and feeling hopeless, Olivia finds herself at the mercy of the irresistible Italian stranger whose looks seem to have an effect on her that she hasn't experience before. After meeting for the first time and learning a bit about him, things start to spiral out of control when after a very heated make-out session he tells her who he really is and what he wants from her. Now she has to decide whether going back to her old life is worth the risk of having her dream come true or if Rocco Mondelli's proposal is going to destroy what little of her life she has left.

Rocco Mondelli is powerful, as the CEO of the House of Mondelli, he has taken the fashion house into a whole new level after his grandfather made him CEO. But with great power comes great responsibility and the board is not happy with him being a world class womanizer. After the passing of his grandfather, Rocco learns that his grandfather only left him with fifty percent of company and not sixty as he was once told. That leaves him with not a lot of power within the company and he is willing to do just about anything to change that. When he finds out that his grandfather had gotten a very expensive apartment in Milan, he soon finds out that the supermodel in hiding has been living there for a while, and he is not too happy about it. With the intention of learning how she is connected to his grandfather, Rocco sets out to find her, but the minute he sees her the immediate attraction that he feels towards her is undeniable. Not wanting to fall for her charms, he bows to see her as a business asset to get what he wants instead of act on what he feels towards her. But the more he spends time with her, the more he starts to realize that she is not what he expected her to be, and that makes his decisions that much more difficult when he finds himself falling for her that much more.

I truly enjoyed reading the book, it was quick and the background stories of each of the main characters made the book that much more interesting. Olivia is your typical model, she has the looks that a lot of fashion houses would kill to have representing their brands, yet her life had her traveling all over the world which meant that she did not have a stable home from an early age. Having a mother who was also a model did not help her at all because she felt neglected and alone after her father left them. When she got into the modeling world, everything was fun and exciting for her, but with all the money that she got Olivia entrusted her mother with all of it and then her world came crushing down when she found out that her mother had spend it all. With the problems that she already had, she couldn't handle living in New York, so she decides to get away only to stumble against yet another obstacle, but this time she is determined to move on and destroy her demons once and for all. I found myself feeling for Olivia, she has had a rough past even though she has lived a very glamorous live style.

On the other hand, Rocco lost his parents as a very young age, that made him grow faster because he had to look after his younger sister. His father lost it after his wife (Rocco's mother) passed away, and after losing their home and drinking his life away, Rocco's grandfather took care of them from then on. His grandfather has had a great deal of influence in Rocco's life, and his passing has hurt him yet again that his judgment can get a bit cloudy as he struggles to finds himself. I absolutely loved Rocco's character, he is caring and charming. He is there for Olivia in her darkest moments and that is what made me really like their more personal scenes. The story plot flows nicely and the characters that we get introduced in the story gave the book more personality. I would say that the beginning was a bit too slow for me, I started to get into it after a couple of chapters, but the ending made everything that much better. Overall, I highly recommend reading this book if you like sexy Italian man and stories full of romance and steamy scenes. :)

My Rating: 4.5/5

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✯BOOK BLITZ✯: How to be a Mermaid by Erin Hayes {TEASERS + GIVEAWAY!}

How to be a Mermaid by Erin Hayes

Release Date: July 7th 2015

Series: Falling in Deep Collection, #10

Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult

All Tara ever wanted was to be a mermaid.

So she takes a year off between high school and college to don a fake tail and tour aquariums across the country in a professional mermaid troupe.

Everything's great until she meets a gorgeous real-life merman named Finn. Suddenly, what she thought was a dream turns out to be a nightmare -- she's turning into a mermaid herself. For real.

Yet when she returns to the sea to seek out Finn and reverse her transformation, she finds herself in the middle of an impending war between the land and sea. Tara may have always wanted to be a mermaid, but now it's sink or swim. In order to survive, she has to learn how to be one, too.

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AUTHOR BIO:

Sci-fi junkie, video game nerd, and wannabe manga artist Erin Hayes writes a lot of things. Sometimes she writes books, like the fantasy mystery novel Death is but a Dream, the sci-fi middle grade book Jacob Smith is Incredibly Average, and the Her Wolf paranormal series.

She works as an advertising copywriter during the day, and she moonlights as an author. She has lived in New Zealand, Texas, and now in Birmingham, Alabama with her husband, cat, and a growing collection of geek paraphernalia.

You can reach her at erinhayesbooks@gmail.com and she'll be happy to chat. Especially if you want to debate Star Wars. 

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