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Sunday, May 31, 2020

Give Me Books Presents: Cocky Hero Club; #ReleaseBlitz, #NowAvailable, #OutNow, #TBR, #Live, #Review



COCKY HERO CLUB
Release Date: May 31, 2020
@JaniceWhiteaker @JeannineColett @LaurenRunow @AuthorJWoodhull @KathrynMHearst @authorkcoop @LsmithT

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Vi Keeland and Penelope Ward are excited to bring you the Cocky Hero Club: original works from various authors inspired by Keeland and Ward's New York Times bestselling Cocky Bastard series.


PIN-UP PILOT
BY CLAIRE RAYE

Alexa Purdy has sworn off men, and he’s her worst nightmare.

Arrogant and flirtatious, and now International Airlines’ newest pilot, Jake Campbell has a panty-dropping smile and a body to match. But he’s no match for Alexa’s cold heart.

Plagued by a bad reputation and a bitter divorce, Alexa is determined to make a name for herself outside of the bedroom. As International Airlines’ only female pilot she’s had to work twice as hard and she won’t let someone like Jake bring her down. 

But she’s surprised to find he’s nothing like she expected him to be.  Even more surprising is her growing attraction to him and his obvious attraction to her—an attraction that causes her to question whether swearing off men is such a good idea after all.

But when Jake’s past resurfaces, she realizes getting close to him may be her biggest mistake of all.

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FILTHY FIREFIGHTER
BY EMMA LOUISE

He looks like he belongs on stage, stripping out of his firefighter uniform, not running into a burning building to save me. But thank God he did.

When the smoke clears and my eyes focus on my savior, one
look at his gorgeous face and tattoo-covered muscles, I know he’ll be too much for me to handle. It’s a good thing I never have to see him again, right?

Except, losing my home to a fire means finding somewhere new to live, and guess who just happens to be my new roommate? Hayden Flynn. The filthy-talking firefighter who’s been front and center of all of my dreams lately.

Our attraction is undeniable, but it’s the adventures he takes me on that has me falling for him, each new experience chipping away at the wall I’ve been hiding behind. 

He wasn’t supposed to see past my scars.

He wasn’t supposed to break me apart piece by piece, then put me back together again.

He was just supposed to be a firefighter. I didn’t expect him to end up saving my life, in more ways than one.

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DIRTY LIAR
BY JANICE M. WHITEAKER



Dexter Truitt ruined my life.

His impossibly improbable act set off a chain of events I couldn’t make up if I tried, each one stealing a little more from me.

My relationship. My business.

My reputation.

But even bad times have to come to an end. I thought that was the case when Valerie slid onto the barstool next to mine and asked me to buy her a drink. 

She was gorgeous. Driven. Smart.

And didn’t know who in the hell I was.

Didn’t know why every other woman in town avoids me like the plague.

Valerie was a ray of light when I needed it most, and I couldn’t get enough of her. Being with her made me think I could have it all again.

Showed me I could have more.

All I had to do was reach out and take it.

But all good things must come to an end too.

And our ending was one I didn’t see coming.

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LAYOVER LOVER
BY JEANNINE COLETTE
& LAUREN RUNOW

Flying the friendly skies has been more than just a job to me. It’s my home.

Ten years ago I ran away from everything I’ve known and vowed never to return. That is, until my flight is cancelled due to weather, and I’m stuck in San Francisco. 

Fate is not on my side when I end up in an Uber ride share with the one man I thought I’d never see again. 

Zack Hunt was my high school sweetheart, and the boy I walked away from without a note saying goodbye. Except, he’s no longer a boy. No, this man is gorgeous, intense, and heated at the sight of me. 

The anger searing off him is nothing compared to the way my heart pounds from seeing him again. Words are said. Feelings are crushed. But when he invites me in to his bar to hash out our past, I find myself following him in, desperate for
more. 

The line between past and present is blurred when Zack challenges me to a dare—come back home with him to see what I walked away from. 

Call me a glutton for punishment, but I do. 

Then I challenge him right back to live a day in my shoes. 

We drive home to rediscover the past. 
We fly abroad to live in the present.
When we stop moving, we realize we may never have a future. 

Layover Lover is a second chance romance, aligned by fate. Can two lost souls really find love again on a layover? Or do they need to keep flying?

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BRITISH BANGER
BY JENNIFER WOODHULL

British accents should come with a warning label. When they’re attached to deep, baritone voices that belong to sexy, cocky men, you should have to sign a waiver.

Most people wouldn’t touch short-term rental properties, but since my business partner took off with my client list, I need every deal I can get. Enter, one insanely sexy and completely exasperating Camden Reid.

The smug executive found fault with every property I showed him. Too cramped.  Too feminine. Too far from a decent pub.

His demands were ridiculous, and I couldn’t wait to be rid of him and his British bangers.

Somewhere between the first property and the zillionth, though, my attraction to Camden grew impossible to ignore.

His insane demands finally met, the arrogant Adonis proposed we christen his new temporary home.

Little did I know how addicted I’d become, or just how unforgettable my time with Camden would be.

After all, I knew we had an expiration date.

All good things must come to an end, right?

Except our ending was one I didn't see coming.

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DOCTOR HEARTBREAKER
BY KATHRYN M. HEARST


The nurses call me Dr. Heartbreaker. They say I put the hot in hot-shot cardiologist.

Not that it matters. I never stick my tongue depressor in my co-workers.

What can I say? I play by a set of personal rules.

Even if those rules eliminate 99.9% of the woman I come in contact with from my dating-pool.

Even if those rules landed me on a blind date with Emily, my childhood sweetheart, a woman I hadn’t seen since I broke her heart freshmen year of college.

Let’s just say the evening was a disaster. She took one look at me, and it was…

Date over.  Do not pass go. Do not collect your two-hundred dollars.

The thing is, I can’t stop thinking about her. She was my first kiss, and every other first that two people could share.

She’s the only woman I’ve ever loved.

How can I make her understand what really happened between us when she wants nothing to do with me?

How can I let her walk away again, when it could mean another ten years wondering…what if?

The answer’s simple. I can’t.

Unfortunately, the solution to my dilemma is a five-year-old Colombian girl with a deadly heart condition. The same little girl Emily’s non-profit organization brought to the United States to receive life-saving surgery.

When the chief of staff informs me, I need to improve my public image because my bedside manner sucks--not THAT bedside manner. I’m just fine between the sheets, thank you very much—I agree to perform the girl’s operation…

Because spending more time with Emily is worth the risk.  Even if it means I have to break every rule in my playbook.

Even if it means destroying myself in the process.

I’ll do anything for a second chance with the woman who’s owned my heart since the first-grade.

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FATEFUL FIGHTER
BY KATHY COOPMANS
Rating:  4 Stars
Told in the first person.  Alternating persons.


“I want a divorce.”

No woman wants to say those words. No woman who is still in love with her husband anyway.

Our marriage has been tested, repeatedly.

It’s been dragged through tabloids and rumors and fans that just won’t let us be.

Through it all, we’ve remained unbreakable.

We didn’t have the perfect marriage because perfection doesn’t exist.

But we had love. We had trust. We had chemistry that to this day sets everything inside me on fire.

Then one life-threatening statement creates a chain of lies that leaves me no choice but to say those horrible words.

I never thought I’d say them.

I never thought my husband would ignore me when I did.

I never thought the man I love would sever the vows we took.

I never thought I’d pack my bags and move from our home in L.A. to our getaway cottage in Hermosa Beach.

Then again, I never thought he'd choose the fate of his life over his fate with me.

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My Thoughts:

Eden Whitaker gives the reader a first hand account of what's currently going on in her life.  Mason Whitaker seems at war with himself.  Fighters come in all sizes and all walks of life.  Sometimes it's a matter of fighting ourselves.  But this is a story where we see what our couple is fighting for.

We all have our opinions on athletes and their egos and I think you'll see some of that played out here.  Some women may say that men have no clue.  So there may be some that can identify with Eden and others may decide that they can identify with Mason.  You may decide you want to pick a side while you're reading.  Usually there are two sides but with this story I feel like there's three.  The question becomes, "who are you rooting for?"

We all know how much pain fighting can cause - look at what's currently going on in the world.  There's a lot of emotion here and the author does a great job at getting her readers to feel it coming off the pages.  This was an emotional roller coaster and we can do nothing but go along for the ride.  It was a good reminder about what a good friend can do - be an ear to listen, be a shoulder to cry on, and sometimes be the voice of reason.

There have been only a few books where I wanted to spead read and now this has been added to that list.  This couple spoke to my heart and I wanted to get to the point where I could see that their world was going to be alright.  Every time I thought about the title it just made me want to read that much faster.  Then I took a breath and knew I had to slow down because I didn't want to miss a scene.  I can picture reading this book again and if I read it again then I will also need to read more of this author's work - both of which I'm looking forward to.




BRAINY BARTENDER
BY NATALIE ANN


Add one hidden past. A dash of a pretend role. A shot of steamy chemistry. Put it in a shaker, then pour for one exotic cocktail on the rocks!

Wesley Templeton was determined to not follow in his namesake’s path as a Cardiac Surgeon. Was he smart enough for it? Of course, he was a genius after all. Did he have the time and patience to master the craft? Absolutely. Was he going to let his controlling grandfather hold his trust fund over his head until he achieved what was expected of him? Hell no!

Harper Fairchild was the redheaded stepchild. Literally. Smart, nerdy, picked on, and often thought of as an outcast. Her social life was a dismal as her family relationships, so she left when she could and made a new life somewhere else.  Unfortunately she found it was hard to break the mold of what cast her as undesirable. Until she loses a bet with a coworker and has to be made-over for a blind date. When that turns into another disaster she escapes to a bar to nurse her emotional wounds, striking up a conversation with the sexy bartender and wondering if she could keep up the ruse of the confident sexy chick she was pretending to be.

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MASTER MANIPULATOR
BY NICOLE S. GOODIN


From International Bestselling Author, Nicole S. Goodin, comes a sexy new standalone novel.  

He was infuriating, arrogant and conceited. He was also my new seatmate. Fifteen hours stuck next to the definition of tall, dark and handsome, and the only thing on his mind on our trip from California to Sydney… was me.
Ky Bateman made no secret of the fact he wanted me, and I made it clear he drove me crazy.
When my resolve finally wavered, we made a bet. I lost, he won, and I found myself on the back of his motorcycle, on the adventure of a lifetime.
I never intended to fall for the master manipulator, especially when I knew I was keeping secrets that could destroy everything between us.

All good things must come to an end, right?
Except our ending was one I didn’t see coming.

Author note – Master Manipulator is a full-length standalone novel. Due to strong language and sexual content, this book is not intended for readers under the age of 18.


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CRUEL BELOVED
BY T.L. SMITH


Sign on the dotted line…

I, Carla Star, agree to marry you, Corton Whiskey, on the date supplied in the attached contract. In signing this document, I agree that I shall not, by any means, try to break this contract. I understand that if I do, the envelope held in escrow will be released to the parties identified within the contract, and I shall forfeit my right to the privacy currently afforded to me by the aforementioned Mr. Corton Whiskey.

Aubrey Bateman
Lawyer acting on behalf of Mr. Whiskey

I received this contract, hand-delivered, and I’m now staring at it in disbelief. Me, the daughter of a senator, is being bribed by a one-night stand.

If he thinks he can blackmail me with his perversions, he can damn well think again.

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Cocky Hero Club

#OutNow: We Were Once by S.L. Scott; #NowAvailable, #TBR, #Live, #OnSale, #LimitedTime


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WE WERE ONCE
By S.L. Scott

We were never supposed to fall in love.



Synopsis:

We were never supposed to fall in love.

New York Times bestselling author, S.L. Scott, crafts her signature heartfelt style into an epic and emotional, second chance, standalone romance.


I have three goals: graduate from an Ivy League university, get into medical school, and follow in my father’s well-established footsteps.  Everything was going exactly as planned until the local bad boy was delivered to my doorstep. Literally.

From the moment we meet, my old life becomes unrecognizable, but I have no regrets. I’m utterly captivated by him. His smirk. His heart. His sharp wit. He pushes me to live, to be wild, to pursue the dream I’ve always hidden inside.

To the rest of the world, we make no sense. Me, the girl from the gilded New England
coast.  Joshua, from the small city of New Haven.  To us, we’re destiny.

Together, we had it all. Desperately. Madly. In love.

Until we didn’t.

One tragic night changed everything.


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ABOUT S.L. SCOTT:


Living in the capital of Texas with her family,
Scott loves traveling and avocados, beaches, and cooking with her kids. She's
obsessed with epic romances and loves a good plot twist. Her favorite color is
blue, but she likens it more toward the sky than the emotion. Her home is
filled with the welcoming symbol of the pineapple and finds surfing a challenge
though she likes to think she's a pro.

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Bare Naked Words Presents: Stepbrother by Stacy McWilliams; #ReleaseBlitz, #NowAvailable, #OutNow, #TBR, #Live


 Stepbrother
 Step Dilemma Series, book 1
by Stacy McWilliams
Genre: Dark Romance
#Stepbrother #Release #DarkRomance #StacyMcWilliams #BareNakedWords

"Love and hate collide when two families merge!

Bailey and Cooper will take you on a crazy ride as they struggle with their attraction to each other!"




Synopsis:

The first time Bailey Walker met Cooper Christie, he tripped her up; the second time, he stole her bra and broke her cell; and the third time, he drove away, leaving her alone at the kerb. In short, he was an ass!

The problem was that he was the hottest guy Bailey ever seen, and as much as she loathed everything about him, she couldn’t help but be attracted to him.

When her mom asked her to go dress shopping, little did she know how much her life was going to change! Not only had her mom been dating Cooper’s father in secret, she was now engaged to him and the wedding date was set.

As her new step-brother, Cooper was now completely out-of-bounds. But when does love ever follow the rules?

Could they survive his father’s wrath or would love, hate and forbidden attraction destroy them both?



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Reviews 

"...on the edge reading..." Destroyed by Deception

"...hold on tight and hang on for the ride." Black Mercy 

"...captivated from the start..." Candlelight

"...kept me intrigued..." Luminosity

"brilliant paranormal story that pulls you into her world of demons and teenage romance." Ignition

“What can I say... I was left wanting more.. More Hunter, more Savannah, just more of everything.”-Pride

Meet the Author:

Stacy McWilliams is a Scottish Author who loves romance. All of her books have a romantic element and her books will keep you on the edge of your seat, make you want to throw your kindle around and her characters will make you either love them or loathe them.


Contact her on Facebook or Instagram and she will message back.

If she’s not writing, looking after her three boys or spending time with her hubs, she’s reading or watching TV shows such as Lucifer, The 100 and Supernatural. 

She’s working on new materials and is hoping to release three-four books in 2020. Also check out her Facebook page for updates on any signings she’s attending

Social media links:

Author page - https://m.facebook.com/authorstacymcwilliams/?ref=bookmarks


Instagram is - StaceMcWIlliams 

And Twitter is @stacemcw