Where Fiction and Reality Meet
Title: Deep Desire (Deep: Book One) Author: Z.A. Maxfield Publisher: Samhain Publishing Pages/Word Count: 196 Pages At a Glance: Not my favorite of Z.A. Maxfield’s books, but has me looking forward to Book Two in the series. Reviewed By: Lisa Blurb: There’s no leverage like seduction…until love takes a bite of his plans. As the... Continue Reading →
Title: Nothing Like Paris (Bend or Break: Book Two) Author: Amy Jo Cousins Publisher: Samhain Publishing Pages/Word Count: 249 Pages At a Glance: One of the strengths of this author is her character development skills; the guys are real, I could relate to them, and I loved joining them in this story. Reviewed By: Janet... Continue Reading →
Title: Labyrinthian Author: Sunny Moraine Publisher: Samhain Publishing Pages/Word Count: 289 Pages At a Glance: Unfortunately, this one missed the mark for me. Reviewed By: Lana Blurb: A hunter should never fall for his prey. Still nursing his latest post-mission hangover, bounty hunter Theseus jumps at a high-paying, high-risk job that sounds ridiculously easy. Yet... Continue Reading →
Series Business Hi, I’m JL Merrow and it’s great to be here at The Novel Approach as part of the Heat Trap blog tour. Today I’m going to be talking about the pains and pleasures of writing a trequel. What’s a trequel? I hear you ask. Well, it’s what comes after a sequel. *frowns* Isn’t... Continue Reading →
Title: Scrap (The Bristol Collection: Book Three) Author: Josephine Myles Publisher: Samhain Publishing Pages/Word Count: 263 Pages At a Glance: What I really enjoyed about Scrap was the characters and the plot both had depth to them. Reviewed By: Kim Blurb: When things come to a head, there’s nowhere to go but down… On the... Continue Reading →
Title: Off Campus (Bend or Break: Book One) Author: Amy Jo Cousins Publisher: Samhain Publishing Pages/Word Count: 317 Pages At a Glance: Off Campus is a wonderful, emotional, touching, and ultimately uplifting read I highly recommend. Reviewed By: Jules Blurb: Everyone’s got secrets. Some are just harder to hide. With his father’s ponzi scheme assets... Continue Reading →
Title: Jackdaw Author: KJ Charles Publisher: Samhain Publishing Pages/Word Count: 189 Pages At a Glance: Jackdaw is a wonderfully written romance between two all-too-human young men. Reviewed By: Rena Blurb: If you stop running, you fall. Jonah Pastern is a magician, a liar, a windwalker, a professional thief...and for six months, he was the love... Continue Reading →
Title: The Truth As He Knows It (Perspectives: Book One) Author: A.M. Arthur Publisher: Samhain Publishing Pages/Word Count: 289 Pages At a Glance: I can tell you to buy this novel because you see, it is, simply put, outstanding storytelling. Reviewed By: Sammy Blurb: Lies are the chains that keep you weighed down at rock... Continue Reading →
The Novel Approach is thrilled to welcome author Z.A. Maxfield today on the Deep Desire blog tour. Enjoy what ZAM has to say about her vampires, then be sure to check out the great giveaway below. Good luck! Hi! I’m Z.A. Maxfield, better known as ZAM. I want to extend my sincere thanks to The... Continue Reading →
Title: Takedown and Tap Out (Bannon’s Gym) Author: Cat Grant Publisher: Samhain Publishing Pages/Word Count: 188 Pages/168 Pages At a Glance: Score a KO and well worth reading Blurb - Takedown: Home may not be what he remembered, but it might hold what he needs. Bannon’s Gym, Book 2 An abusive father drove Tom Delaney... Continue Reading →
Title: The Reluctant Berserker Author: Alex Beecroft Publisher: Samhain Publishing Pages/Word Count: 248 Pages At a Glance: A dense, intricately plotted, and meticulously written book Blurb: Manhood is about more than who’s on top. Wulfstan, a noble and fearsome Saxon warrior, has spent most of his life hiding the fact that he would love to... Continue Reading →
Title: Secrets and Charms Author: Lou Harper Publisher: Samhain Publishing Pages/Word Count: 191 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Out and proud from a tender age, Olly Blackwood is content with life in LA, working at a Hollywood gourmet grocery. There’s only one thing missing: romance. He’s had his fill of casual hook-ups. He wants a... Continue Reading →
Title: Bad Behavior (Bad in Baltimore: Book Five) Author: K.A. Mitchell Publisher: Samhain Publishing Pages/Word Count: 366 Pages Rating: 3.5 Stars Blurb: David Beauchamp might as well be in jail. After one too many misunderstandings with the law, he’s chained to the city by the GPS and alcohol sensor strapped to his ankle. Awaiting trial,... Continue Reading →
Title: A King Undone (Noble Pleasures: Book One) Author: Cooper Davis Publisher: Samhain Press Pages/Word Count: 340 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Sometimes you have to risk everything, to follow your heart In a world where gentlemen openly court and marry fellow noblemen, the threat of scandal still lurks behind every velvet drape for kings... Continue Reading →
I am so excited to talk about my new release from Samhain, A KING UNDONE. It’s the first of my Noble Pleasures series, which I would describe as being a classic historical romance—with a huge male/male twist. Imagine….say, Lisa Kleypas or Julia Quinn or even Jane Austen. But in an alternative world where men can... Continue Reading →
Title: The Dream Alchemist (Somnus: Book One) Author: Joanna Chambers Publisher: Samhain Publishing Pages/Word Count: 223 Pages Rating: 4.5 Stars Blurb: When the sun goes down, their passion awakens…and so do their nightmares. Centuries ago, a man with Bryn Llewelyn’s dreamwalking ability would have been a shaman or a priest. In this time, he’s merely... Continue Reading →
Waking Up In Romance The Dream Alchemist is set partly in the ‘real’ waking world and partly in Somnus, my imagined world of dreams. One of my heroes, Bryn Llewelyn, is a dreamwalker. To a dreamwalker, Somnus is as real as the waking world, probably more so, in Bryn’s case, given that his constant attempts... Continue Reading →
Title: The Walls of Troy Author: L.A. Witt Publisher: Samhain Publishing Pages/Word Count: 255 pages Rating: 4.5 stars Blurb: Just when the pieces begin to add up, danger blows them all apart… MA1 Iskander Ayhan’s orders are simple: stay with Admiral Dalton’s son as a plainclothes bodyguard while the kid attends university classes. So typical—a... Continue Reading →
One of the subplots in Sleigh Ride revolves around Arthur’s nephew, Thomas, who is six years old and has a doll. Thomas appeared in the story after I’d been writing for a month. Something seemed to be missing, and then one day when revisiting the opening, Arthur started talking to his nephew, which was delightful—and... Continue Reading →
Title: Foundation of Trust (Cost of Repairs: Book Five) Author: A.M. Arthur Publisher: Samhain Publishing Pages/Word Count: 239 Pages Rating: 3.5 Stars Blurb: David Weller thought he had it all—a loving partner who gave him a ring, a steady job he didn’t hate, and so much hope for the future. But in the wake of... Continue Reading →
Title: Sleigh Ride Author: Heidi Cullinan Publisher: Samhain Publishing Pages/Word Count: Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Minnesota Christmas, Book 2 Arthur Anderson doesn’t want anything to do with love and romance, and he certainly doesn’t want to play Santa in his mother’s library fundraising scheme. He knows full well what she really wants is to hook... Continue Reading →
Title: Drawing the Devil Author: Jon Keys Publisher: Samhain Publishing Pages/Word Count: 162 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: A heart can live a lifetime in eight seconds. Ever since his father caught him with another boy and threw him out at the tender age of sixteen, Dustin Lewis has been fighting his way up the... Continue Reading →
Title: Cherry Pie Author: Samantha Kane Publisher: Samhain Publishing Pages/Word Count: 169 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: You can go home again—if you can get a foot in the door. A year after packing and moving from L.A. to Mercury, North Carolina, John Ford still hasn’t adjusted to the heat. Or to life without his... Continue Reading →
TNA: Hi, Alex, thanks so much for joining us today. Why don’t we start things off by having you tell us a bit about yourself? Alex: This is where I go 'Oh, blimey, what do you want to know?' because I'm socially inept and never know what people expect me to answer to this. How... Continue Reading →
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