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Tuesday, October 8, 2019

🌟BOOK BLITZ:🌟 The Sister Series by Tara Hart {EXCERPT + GIVEAWAY!}




S is for Sister (The Sister Series #1)

Release Date: August 7th 2019 by Independently Published
Genres: Contemporary, New Adult, Romance

You have no idea what it's like to be a twin--her twin.
I'm constantly reminded of how much we look-a-like, how we sound the same, how inseparable we are.

It's true that I can feel my sisters pain, just as I can sense her happiness and feel her despair.
It's this unyielding connection between her and me.

But it's more than mere looks or feelings that we have in common.
It's the people we attract.
Girlfriends, boyfriends...husbands.

Sometimes we share more than we ever intended--sometimes we share a life.

No matter how hard I try to break free, it's this magnetic pull that keeps drawing me back in.
Harder, stronger, closer.

Twins are joined by a force that I can't quite explain.
Between twins, there are no boundaries.
What's mine is hers and what's hers is mine.
And once that line is crossed, there's no turning back.
 
(Synopsis taken from Goodreads)


M is for Mister (The Sister Series #2)

Release Date: October 8th 2019 by Independently Published
Genres: Contemporary, New Adult, Romance

Just ask.
It’s the one question everyone’s itching to ask me, but no-one's got the balls to come right out and ask.

What’s it like to bang twin sisters?
Do they kiss the same, talk the same, feel the same? 
Do they leave the same lingering smell on my skin long after they’re gone?

In truth, they’re nothing alike. 
Selina and Savannah may have shared everything in this life, but in reality, they are complete opposites.

Night and day.

Twins, the word makes me sigh.

One married me, one seduced me. 
One threatened to destroy me and one promised to save me.
Or so I thought.

Then again, maybe they’re more alike than they ever let on.
Maybe Selina and Savannah had me fooled the entire time.
Or maybe I fooled them.
(Synopsis taken from Goodreads)


R is for Richer (The Sister Series #3)

Release Date: October 8th 2019 by Independently Published
Genres: Contemporary, New Adult, Romance

They painted me to be the bitch, the villain, the money digging whore waiting to get my clutches on my husband's fortune, but they got it all wrong.

You see, money wasn't my motivator. 
It was love. 

I was in love with a man that I could never be with.
That was how our story started and how I feared it would end.

Yes, I used my sister.
Yes, I cheated on Jared.

But it wasn't for nothing.
I was in love and I wanted to be set free.
I didn't do it for me.
I did it to be with him.

Every villain has their story. 
The question is, do you want to hear mine?
(Synopsis taken from Goodreads)



{EXCERPT - S for Sister}

I can feel his eyes traveling up and down my body as I turn and walk out of the room.

As I make my way to the kitchen I can hear Mom isn’t far behind, her heels clicking against the hardwood floors.

She swoops in like a hawk. “What’s going on, Savannah?” she whispers, her face just inches from my own.

I avert my gaze. “What do you mean?”

“In there.” She raises her hands in the air as if indicating the room around us. “You and Jared.”

I’m usually an expert at hiding my feelings, but when it comes to my mother, she can read me like a book.

“What are you talking about?” I keep my voice low.

She screws up her face, slight wrinkles settling in the corners of her harshly narrowed eyes. “You’ve barely been able to string a sentence together and he can’t stop looking at you.”

I shrug my shoulders. “Who?”

She scoffs. “Don’t play coy with me.” Her hands come to rest on her hips as she readies herself to give me a lecture.

It’s a stance I haven’t seen in years. It used to frighten me when I was younger, my mother being much stricter than my father. Her expectations always high and somehow I still feel she’s not proud of me.

“It’s a marriage, Savannah,” she starts. “You don’t mess with your sister’s marriage.”

Mom has been cheated on by husband number two and three, so I know she’s speaking from a deeply personal place. Her instincts in this instance are misplaced, nothing is happening between Jared and I. It’s all imaginary, on my part anyway.

“Nothing’s happening.” I meet her eyes, challenging her to question my intentions once more.

Before she can speak again, Selina saunters into the room. She has no idea what she’s walked in on and she doesn’t care to know.

“I’ll help you with dessert, Mom.” She dumps some dirty plates on the counter as she veers for the cake box. “Let’s see if Savvy did any good with her cake selection.”

She lifts the lid of the box and smiles wide. “Chocolate mud cake. Savannah you shouldn’t have.”

It’s her favorite, but that’s not the reason I bought it. It’s also George’s favorite, which Selina wouldn’t know because she doesn’t care about the small details.

I look to my mother who is standing over the kitchen sink, clasping the edge of the counter, her knuckles white from holding on so tight. She can’t bear to look at me. Her mind is made up like she’s certain something is happening between Jared and me, no matter what I say, I can’t convince her otherwise.

I turn on my heel, making my way back into the dining room where Jared sits alone. I want to turn right back around and walk out, but that would be way too obvious.

I take my seat and brace myself for the most awkward conversation of my life.

“Where’s George?” I ask.

“He’s gone to the bathroom.”

I nod as if I give a shit where George has gone, which I don’t.

“So, you’re really seeing someone?” he asks.

“It’s early days.”

“Who is he?” he asks, glaring at me from the other side of the table.

“Someone I’ve known for a while,” I say. The lies slide off my tongue easier than they should. Making up a fictitious relationship is something I never thought I’d do, but here I am, spinning lies to cover my own insecurities.

“Did you meet him through work?” Jared shoves his plate away and rests his elbows on the table, waiting, his fist supporting his chin.

“Yes,” I answer softly. Making it up as I go, or is he making it up? I can’t tell, I’m too busy squirming in my seat.

“Is it serious?” His tone is rough and throaty, and it surprises me.

I don’t know why, but the weight of our relationship seems to be resting on my answer. This will shape how he feels about me, and for some ungodly reason, that matters to me.

“No,” I say, my gaze meeting his. “It’s not serious...yet.”

I feel the tension break as Mom and Selina walk back in the room with George in tow. Mom is carrying the cake that I bought, now dressed with too many candles to count. She places the cake in the center of the table and we start a chorus of happy birthday while George smiles widely.

He waits for the song to finish before blowing out the candles. It takes him three attempts to extinguish the fire atop the cake. Grey smoke billowing around us.

Through the smoke, I can see Jared’s face. He hasn’t taken his eyes off of me once.




AUTHOR BIO:

Tara Hart writes romance stories for those searching for their happily ever after. Her upcoming releases include No Angel - a new adult novel and Lost & Bound - a stand-alone read that teeters on dark romance.

Tara was born and raised in Australia. She currently spends her time travelling around Asia finding inspiration for her next story. 

Tara loves to connect with readers, writers and bloggers. A complete introvert by nature, once she likes you– she will be your friend for life.


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🍂 Freebie Tuesday (Edition #294) 🍂




Welcome back! In honor of fall/Halloween, I will featuring spooky books as well as anything supernatural/paranormal until the end of the month. Hope you guys check out the books! 🎃

I will be tweeting random freebies that I can find on any given day so if you're looking for more free books make sure to follow me on twitter @JackieBookWorld. :) 


***Note that there will be some books that will be free for limited time only, so make sure to download them as soon as you can. Also if there is any specific genre that you guys would like me feature, let me know!  


Witchnapped in Westerham 
by Dionne Lister 
Release Date: July 29th 2018 by Dionne Lister
Pages: 220
Genres: Cozy Mystery, Paranormal
Author's Links: Goodreads, Website, Twitter


From USA Today bestselling author Dionne Lister comes an exciting new paranormal cosy mystery series. 

All it takes is one morning for Sydney Photographer Lily Bianchi's life to go off the rails and over a cliff. 

A well-dressed English woman turns up at her door, swearing she's a witch. If that’s not crazy enough, she explains Lily’s brother, James, has been kidnapped and the Paranormal Investigation Bureau needs Lily’s help finding him. 

And the craziest part? The Englishwoman tells Lily she's a witch too. Before she can say, “Where’s my coffee?” she’s on a plane bound for Westerham, England. Unfortunately, England’s not as welcoming as she hoped--she's barely arrived before she gets set up, arrested and almost shot. 

Things can only get better from here, right? Yeah, right…
(Synopsis taken from Goodreads)


          

Dollhouse
by Anya Allyn
Release Date: January 10th 2017
Pages: 311
Genres: Young Adult, Horror
Author's Links: Goodreads, Website, Twitter, Facebook


The DARK CAROUSEL series is a heart-stopping saga, a mix of the chill of American Horror Story and the fantastical elements of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.

A dark presence is collecting girls, deep in the forest. Two girls have vanished, and now a third. Cassie and her friends desperately search the forest for their friend, who went missing on a hike. When they find vintage dolls hanging from strings on branches, they should have turned back.
But they didn't. 

The dolls lead to a crumbling mansion. Beneath the mansion lies a macabre, life-sized dollhouse that is controlled by a terrifying being. In the dollhouse, you must dance until your feet bleed, sit on the toy shelf if you're bad, and if you've been very bad, you are sent to the toy box - a pitch-dark cavern that contains beings beyond nightmares.
And now there is no escape.
~
A Dark, Ghostly Gothic Horror for Ages 14 to Adult.
(Synopsis taken from Goodreads)


         

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Friday, October 4, 2019

🌟BOOK BLITZ:🌟 The Book Witch by Desy Smith {EXCERPT + GIVEAWAY!}




The Book Witch by Desy Smith

Release Date: October 4th 2019
Series: Rosewood #2
Genres: Adult, Paranormal, Urban Fantasy

There are no bodies to bury, no graves with marked tombstones. 

There are only three books, each one belonging to a member of the Rosewood family. There is only one reason for the books to be gathered all in one place—the witches who once owned them are dead.

Sage Rosewood is now the last of her line, a burden nearly as heavy as her grief. 

Kayden, the charismatic werewolf who holds her heart, tries to console her, but there is only so much his warm arms and gentle words can do when her heart aches for vengeance. She wants nothing more than to find the people who killed her family, to dispatch justice, and to bring the bodies of her loved ones home.

Walk alongside Sage in this tale of magic, mystery, and vengeance. Every chapter will leave you spellbound.



{EXCERPT}

“Who are you meeting?” Kayden questions from behind me, causing me to jump. How can someone so big, move around so quietly? “At the Mango Cafe, because it definitely isn’t your grandmother.” He tries to look at the laptop screen, but I shut it. “Who are you meeting?” He asks again, his voice more serious than before.

“Just a friend,” I respond with a lie, as I make my way back to the kitchen, and blow out the sage. I check the water on the stove, that’s now boiling, perfect. I turn the stove off and pour the water inside of my cauldron. When making spells, one should always start with fresh boiled water, from a pot, not the cauldron, I learned that the hard way.

I didn’t like lying to Kayden, honestly it felt strange, and I didn’t understand why. I would lie to my mom all the time and feel great, but with him, it makes me feel weird. I wonder if that had anything to do with me wanting to jump his bones. Anyway, if I told him the truth, he’d find some way to stop me or invite himself along, and I couldn’t have either of those. I had to do this myself. I would be the one to avenge them alone. I’m a Rosewood for freaking sake.

“You’re lying, who are you really meeting with Sage?” Kayden asks me again, as I reach for my dry ingredients, and begin cutting them into the cauldron. Due to the material the cauldron is made of, it’s the perfect vessel to combine and mix the ingredients in for any spell.

“I told you, a friend,” I lie again. “Don’t do whatever you think you’re going to do, we have laws here in the Woodlands, and The Guild would come down on you, or kill you,” Kayden warns. I would get my revenge and if I lost my life in the process, so be it.

“Good thing I’m just meeting a friend, huh,” I tell him as I lean in with the intention of kissing him again, to change this topic.

“I didn’t think I would be kissed twice, in the same night…” he trails off, as he leans in for the kiss, but pauses as his eyes glow. I know his wolf is present. Kayden moves his head backwards, making me extend my head forward.


AUTHOR BIO:


Desy Smith, MFA, is a paranormal romance author and English teacher who is on a mission to expand her readers' minds and create unique worlds that they can escape to through the power of storytelling. Her poignant writing style features sassy heroines, urban drama, angels, wolves, demons, witches, and sensual scenes.

Born, raised and based in Dallas, Desy spent most of her childhood picking apart movies and books. Her mother and her affinity for all things supernatural also really drove Desy to dabble in life's unknowns and use her imagination. Ultimately, this led her to writing stories of her own at just 10 years of age. After her release of "The Talented (The Messenger Series)" this February, she will be working on book number three, and plans on writing until her last breath.

Currently, Desy is the Founder of Floebe Publishing, where she publishes her own and other writers' short stories (of 20,000 words max) with the busy reader in mind. She also provides complimentary creative writing advice to her fellow word weavers.

When she doesn't have a pen or book in hand, Desy Smith is a movie buff and foodie with an unquenchable sweet tooth (having a gluten allergy makes things a bit tricky). She also isn't much of a whistler and has a round face (people like pinching her cheeks any chance they get). With her "carpe diem" mindset towards life, she looks forward to exposing her readers to realms unseen.


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