Book Monster Reviews is happy to welcome Larissa Reinhart back
on the blog today for her STILL LIFE IN BRUNSWICK STEW Blog
Tour.
Larissa Reinhart loves small town
characters, particularly sassy women with a penchant for trouble. STILL LIFE IN
BRUNSWICK STEW (May 2013) is the second in the Cherry Tucker Mystery Series.
The first, PORTRAIT OF A DEAD GUY, is a 2012 Daphne du Maurier finalist, a 2012
The Emily finalist, and a 2011 Dixie Kane Memorial winner. Expect HIJACK IN
ABSTRACT and a Cherry Tucker novella in THE HEARTACHE MOTEL out in November and
December 2013.
Today we are helping Larissa promote STILL LIFE IN BRUNSWICK STEW, the newest release in her Cherry Tucker Mysteryseries.
Let's check out the Series Spotlight below to learn more about it….
In Halo, Georgia, folks know
Cherry Tucker as big in mouth, small in stature, and able to sketch a portrait
faster than kudzu climbs telephone poles -- but commissions are scarce. So when
the well-heeled Branson family wants to memorialize their murdered son in a
coffin portrait, Cherry scrambles to win their patronage from her small town
rival.
As the clock ticks toward the
deadline, Cherry faces more trouble than just a controversial subject. Between
ex-boyfriends, her flaky family, an illegal gambling ring, and outwitting a
killer on a spree, Cherry find herself painted into a corner she'll be lucky to
survive.
Cherry Tucker’s in a stew. Art
commissions dried up after her nemesis became president of the County Arts
Council. Desperate and broke, Cherry and her friend, Eloise, spend a sultry
summer weekend hawking their art at the Sidewinder Annual Brunswick Stew
Cook-Off. When a bad case of food poisoning breaks out and Eloise dies, the
police brush off her death as accidental. However, Cherry suspects someone
spiked the stew and killed her friend. As Cherry calls on cook-off competitors,
bitter rivals, and crooked judges, the police get steamed while the killer
prepares to cook Cherry’s goose.
Larissa is
giving away a $20 Visa card and an e-book of Portrait of a Dead Guy (the first
in the series) to one lucky winner at the end of the tour.
TO ENTER:
Complete the tasks in the Rafflecopter form below and mark as
"done".
Book
Monster Reviews is excited to welcome Eleri Stone to the blog today for her
WITCH BOUND Blog Tour!
Eleri
Stone was born and raised in New Jersey. She graduated from the University of
Iowa, married her college sweetheart, and settled in the Midwest where she
still lives with her husband and their three children. A lifelong fan of
fantasy, she started reading romance as an adult and was instantly captivated
by the strong female protagonists, character-driven storylines and guarantee of
a happy-ever-after. Writing fantasy and paranormal romance, she is the author
of the Lost City Shifters series (shapeshifter paranormal romance), the Twilight
of the Gods series (paranormal romance) and the Spellcraft series (fantasy
romance).
Today
we are helping Eleri promote her newest release WITCH BOUND, which is the second book in her Twilight of the Gods
series. Let's take a look at the Series Spotlight & Guest Post below so we
can learn more about this great new series.
Private investigator
Grace tracks a kidnapped child to middle-of-nowhere Iowa. Encountering a
strange creature she knows can’t be a local animal, she doesn’t need her
psychic abilities to figure out the sleepy town is not what it seems. When she
meets the intriguing Aiden, she’s plunged into a world of Norse gods and fire
demons where the Wild Hunt still rides the night.
Aiden
needs Grace’s help to cross the portal between worlds and rescue his daughter.
Grace is unlike any woman he’s ever met. He’s drawn to her courage, distressed
by her vulnerability and doubtful of her motives. But he knows that her visions
are the key to defeating the enemy and bringing everyone home alive.
Grace
wants a future with Aiden, even if it means she’ll never have a normal life.
When a test run to the portal takes a terrifying turn, they must learn to
finally trust each other or Aiden’s daughter, and their chance at love, will be
lost forever…
Raquel Lindgren knows what her future
holds. An arranged marriage. A new home in Ragnarok, Iowa, with another clan of
refugees from Asgard. She should be happy. But there's a mental block
preventing her from tapping in to her true abilities as a witch. And she's more
attracted to the best man than she is to the groom…
Fen can't believe he's falling for
his best friend's future wife. As a hound, a wolf shifter, his duty lies with
the pack. He's seen too many hounds destroyed by love, and he's sworn never to
take a mate, never to have children of his own. He can't deny his desire for
Raquel, but she deserves more than he can offer her.
Raquel's been raised to trust in
magic, her clan and her destiny. But when a vengeful demon threatens to break
out of Asgard and destroy the clan, Raquel learns she must trust in love if she
is to take the future into her own hands.
Twilight Of The Gods 101
Hi Book Monsters!
Thanks for having me here today to talk about the Twilight of the Gods series
and my new book Witch Bound.
What do you need to
know about the series in order to jump right in?
1. Twilight of the Gods
is about a clan of Norse demigods living in the American Midwest. The premise
is that Ragnarök, or the Norse apocalypse, already happened to Asgard centuries
ago but earth survived the destruction. Some of the Æsir(Norse gods) managed to
escape and settle on earth in places where the wall between worlds is thinnest.
Now they guard the connection points between worlds to prevent the demons that
destroyed Asgard from coming here.
2. The Æsir
descendants, while not as powerful as they once were, all have special
abilities. Before Odin died, he cast a spell gifting the refugees with certain
of his attributes—wisdom, magical skill, the ability to shapeshift—and these
gifts now run in family lines.
3. The most powerful
members in each clan form the wild hunt. When the wall between worlds thins at
new moon and full, the demons are able to break through the protective wards
that guard the portal. Because these magical surges disrupt electrical and
mechanical equipment, the Æsir have to use horses and swords forged with the
magic of their home world in order to track and kill the demons.
Demon Crossings is about Aiden, the chief of clan Ragnarok,
who leads the hunt into Asgard to search for his missing daughter and Grace,
the tracker who helps him despite the fact that she’s blissfully unaware of her
heritage until she rolls into town a few weeks prior.
Witch Bound is about a young witch, Raquel Lindgren, who
is promised in an arranged marriage to one of the huntsmen. Moving to Ragnarok
to fulfill the contract, she expects a certain amount of upheaval in her life.
What she doesn’t expect to find is the vengeful demon set on destroying her new
clan, a cranky old witch worried about losing her position, and a sweet and
sexy shapeshifter named Fen who is not
the man she’s supposed to marry.
So what is Twilight of
the Gods all about? Norse demigods, sword-wielding warriors, witches and
shapeshifters all living in secrecy in small town middle America. If you’re
looking for something a little bit different in paranormal romance, I hope
you’ll give it a try.
Eleri is
giving away a $50.00 gift card to Amazon or B&N (winners choice)
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INTERNATIONALLY
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ENTER:
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forget to stop by the other participating blogs to learn more about Eleri and
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Book
Monster Reviews is excited to welcome Cerece Murphy back to the blog today for
THE RED ORDER Blog Tour!
My mother tells me that when I was a little girl, I
would always ask for a book rather than a toy when I went to the store, but up
until two years ago, I never considered that I could write a novel. As a
lifelong lover of stories (bedtime and otherwise), I have enjoyed literary
fiction and movies as a window into other worlds, perspectives and experiences.
Though I have written poetry since I was twelve years
old, in my professional life my writing has focused on program design,
evaluation and fundraising for community-based and international non-profits.
Having grown up in what other people considered a “bad neighborhood”, economic
development in poor communities is something I am very passionate about.
The first creative endeavor I ever wrote that was
longer than two pages was an eight-page fan fiction piece for The X-files. It
took me ten years before another awesome series (The Twilight Saga) inspired me
to try my first short story, Spirit to Flesh. Two months after I finished that
story, an image of a man named Marcus who could see the future flashed though
my mind. Shortly after, I began to research and write what is now Order of the
Seers.
I am currently a full-time mother of two children, a
wife, and a part-time writer. In addition to completing the Order of the Seers
trilogy, I have two other projects that are in varying stages of development: a
children’s book series entitled Enchanted World: 5 tales of Magic in the
Everyday and a book on understanding marriage/relationship advice for single
women entitled More than the Ring.
Today
we are helping Cerece promote her new release THE RED ORDER, which is the second book in her Order of the Seers
series. In case you are not yet familiar
with this series, we've posted a Series Spotlight below to catch you up.
What would you do if
you held infinite power in the palm of your hand?
Order of the Seers poses this question within a story that fuses action,
mystery, romance, and adventure in a science fiction novel that keeps you at
the edge of your seat.
Order of the Seers begins with the journey of Liam and Lilith Knight, a brother
and sister who are hunted by The Guild, a ruthless world organization that
seeks to capture and exploit Lilith’s unique ability as a Seer to envision the
future. Soon after they are forced to leave their home, Lilith and Liam
discover that she is not alone. Other Seers like Lilith are routinely kidnapped
and enslaved by the Guild for the purpose of consolidating wealth and power
around the world.
But from within the organization, Marcus Akida, a captured Seer with powerful
visioning capabilities, quietly plots his daring escape with the help of a
beautiful and tortured Seer named Alessandra. When the escaped Seers are drawn
to the same remote commune in Iowa as Liam and Lilith, they each find a place
where they can rebuild their lives and rediscover their passion for life and
love. As the Guild’s efforts to find them intensifies, the Seers ban together
with outlaws from the commune to fight back against the organization that
threatens their lives – setting off a chain of events that will unleash the
full power of the Seers and change everything we know about the true potential
that lies dormant in each of us.
The Quest to Control
the Power of the Seers Continues…
After successfully
destroying the Guild’s Purification Center in Chicago, The Lost Seers, led by
Joel Akida and Lilli Knight, embark upon a world-wide mission to save their
kind from the tyranny of the Guild and unveil their greatest weapon – The
Restoration Project. Developed in secret, The Restoration Project
has the potential to awaken the supernatural ability within every man, woman,
and child on earth and bring down the very foundation of the Guild’s power and
authority.
But the Guild has other
plans. Driven by the necessity for control, Crane Le Dieu creates
The Red Order, a new league of clairvoyants whose sole purpose is to hunt down
and annihilate the Lost Seers. Without the Guild’s mind-controlling
drugs, The Red Order is able to develop its gifts far beyond the capacity to
see the future, honing their skills to become the ultimate threat against the
Lost Seers. But the question remains – will the power of The Red
Order be enough to defeat them?
The Red Order continues the
epic battle for freedom which began in Order of the Seers,
revealing the secret motives behind an organization that exists to exploit and
a renegade movement that seeks to usher in the next phase in human evolution.
BOOK TRAILER:
"Top 10 Things Readers Should Know About The Order of the
Seers Series"
Thanks
Carla for letting me break-it-down!
In
David Letterman style, we go from 10 to 1….
10.
The Order of the Seers sci-fi trilogy is about a group of people who can see
the future and are enslaved for that ability.
Book 1 follows the Seers journey as they escape the organization that exploits
them, reclaim their power and, ultimately, fight back.
9.
Book II, titles Order of the Seers: The Red Order picks up right where Book I
leaves off with the Seers taking on a larger mission to free the world from the
tyranny of the Guild by unleashing the genetic potential that lies dormant in
every man, woman and child on earth.
8.
No, this is not a “hard-core” sci-fi series.
7.
Yes, there is definitely romance to be had in both books. ;-)
6. Order of the Seers was written for the 18 and
over crowd. Characters in this book have been known to say bad words and have hot
sex.
5.
Even if you don’t read science fiction, if you like action, adventure and
suspense, you’re probably going to enjoy this.
