Book Blitz & Giveaway: Dead Man’s Trigger [Max Maguire Vampire 01] by Kat Huddleston

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   Max had discovered it was great fun to play with his food. He was hunting with George when he ran across a former gang banger turned hit man who liked to call himself Jack King. Max remembered him from his time on the streets and killing King seemed like a really good idea once the hunger set in. Max’s conscience found the game appalling, but the hunger driving him just ate it up.
   He saw King coming out of a restaurant and recognized him right away. He was wearing a trench coat, making him look like a Black mobster. King was headed down the street, probably to his car. Max started shadowing him, while George hung back a bit to let Max do his thing. King spotted his tail almost instantly. He was a pro and he knew he was in trouble. The area was too populated for Max to take him right there, but a good chase would add some spice to the game.
   King dropped his keys and Max knew he was checking him out, sizing up the situation. His gun was probably out, waiting. Max had never been shot before, but hey, why not? It wasn’t like it was going to kill him.
   King stood and walked between the cars lined up along the street. Max followed him. King wasn’t afraid yet. He still felt he had control of the situation. He turned toward a car, as if to open the door, but Max saw the gun in his hand. He was about ten feet away when King turned and pointed the weapon at him. It was a .45 and had a silencer on it. Max was glad of that. It wouldn’t do to wake the neighbors.
   “Do you want something from me?” King asked, ready for a fight.
   Max smiled and walked a little closer. He held his hands out to show he wasn’t holding a weapon.
   “Yes, I do. Are you going to shoot me? I don’t have a gun.”
   “That depends on what you want. Who sent you?”
   “Jimmie Large. I thought we might have a little chat.” Max leaned up against the trunk of a car.
   “Jimmie’s dead.”
   “I know.”
   “He died of a heart attack.”
   “Really? I thought I killed him,” Max said. King looked surprised. He caught sight of George lurking
in the dark, and took a long breath.
   “No loss, either way.”
   “No, it wasn’t,” Max said.
   “What do you want?”
   “A little conversation. Maybe a bite later.”
   “I just ate.”
   Max turned to face him and smiled. He brought his fangs out. “Funny, I haven’t.”
   King looked horrified. He was expecting a hit, not a horror movie. He raised his gun and pulled the
trigger three times. The bullets hit Max in the chest and tore through his body. Max heard them hit the
pavement behind him. It hurt like hell for a moment and Max staggered back a bit. He looked down and
watched the bullet wounds heal. He touched one of the holes in his shirt.
   “Ouch, that hurt... You ruined a perfectly good shirt.”
   “It’s a vest. It’s got to be a vest.”
   King took aim at his head, but Max wasn’t ready to let his brain be turned into Swiss cheese, even if it
would probably heal. He focused on King and he suddenly had him by the throat. He took King’s gun and put it in his pocket, and then released him.

   “I’d hate to have you mess up my hair,” Max said.
   King fell back, terrified. The hunger inside Max was so happy. The man scrambled back. “What are
you?”
   “You know what I am.” Max saw him reach for his ankle, no doubt headed for another weapon. “You
shoot me again and I’m really going to get pissed off... You don’t want that.”

Who Knew Immortality Could Be So Short?

When high school history teacher Max Maguire begins to suspect one of his brightest students is in trouble, he ends up walking down the wrong alley. Suddenly, he’s staring down the fangs of a beautiful, powerful, and utterly merciless vampire named Jade.

As Max’s life takes a dark turn he’s forced to learn how to survive in Jade’s twisted world. But if Jade thinks her hostage is going to play nice, she really should have read his resume. This former Special Forces sniper might just have to dust off some very lethal muscle memory.

While Max plots exactly how to kill the most dangerous predator on the planet, he discovers there’s another group of vampires that have their own plans for Jade. Before he knows it, Max is caught in the crosshairs of a vampire war that neither side can afford to lose.

And there’s one thing neither side knows… Max has a secret of his own.

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Kat Huddleston has never met a perfectly ordinary day she couldn't improve with a vampire, a monster, or an alien invasion.

The result is Dead Man’s Trigger, the first book in her Max Maguire Vampire series, about a former Special Forces sniper turned high school history teacher turned vampire. He has military training, a talent for sarcasm, and a complicated relationship with being dead. Or is it undead?

Kat likes her supernatural creatures intelligent, her heroes complex, and her humor dark. Her vampires don't sparkle.

A Chicago-based writer, teacher, and award-winning artist, Kat spent a couple of decades writing about sci-fi TV and movies for the Syfy Channel’s website and Sci Fi Magazine. She's also written short stories and screenplays, taught fused glass, and created artwork that can be found in several galleries. Occasionally, she pretends she can concentrate on one thing at a time.

When she's not writing, painting, or melting glass in the name of art, Kat lives with her two cats, Jax and Nicky. They provide moral support, quality control, and unsolicited keyboard supervision. So far, neither has offered to help with marketing.

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Cover Reveal: Safe Haven [Fury Verse 03] by Hazel St. Lewis!

He knows my name.

He knows I loved Blackwood.

But he still knows nothing at all.

For ten years, I’ve hunted the monsters who destroyed my life. For ten years, I was the Ghost men feared in the dark. But now my world is caving in. Because if Severin didn’t betray me, then everything I thought I knew is a lie.

I am unraveling. Piece by piece. But I will not break.

⸻

She’s alive.

My little dandelion. Moy oduvanchik.

She’s alive.

And I betrayed her.

I slept with another woman. I’m engaged to that woman. But worst of all, I never came for her. I never rescued her.

And that is my biggest sin.

So now, I will hunt down every last man who ever laid a hand on her. I will destroy them all.

I lost her once, but I will never lose her again.

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Hazel St. Lewis is a Romantasy author. Diagnosed with dyslexia at a young age, she struggled to read and write, but fantasy stories inspired her to start storytelling. Unfortunately, now, she is a little too obsessed with morally gray characters. When she isn’t writing, she can be found playing with her hoard of cats (too many to count…it’s a problem), singing songs to said cats, or painting.

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Book Blitz & Giveaway: Finding Zaide by Kim Deister!

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   I found the new photographer wandering around the top floor, occasionally lifting her hands and moving them around in what looked like a rather lame fight with a ghost. My own skills in photography started and ended with my phone’s camera, but I’d been doing this job long enough to know exactly what she was doing and that I shouldn’t interrupt. She was framing shots in her mind’s eye to find interesting plays of light, good angles, unique backgrounds.

   A stepstool stood nearby, so I sat on it to wait for her, watching her as she moved around the open space. She’s younger than I expected. Even though I’d known when I hired her that she was younger than the more established photographers we usually used, I’d still somehow had it in my head that she’d be older than she clearly was. But now that I saw her in person, I realized that she had to be about my age, give or take a year or two.

   Young or not, however, she looked the part of a creative type. Her chocolate brown hair was pulled up into a messy bun, skewered into place by three jewel-toned chopsticks. The sunlight filtering through the dirty windows glittered off the one ear I could see from where I sat, the cartilage armored by a stack of tiny silver hoops, a bigger one threaded through her nostril. She wore a pair of olive green Army-esque cargo pants with a black camisole left loose over them. On her feet were a pair of purple Chucks that had probably seen better days. More silver encircled her fingers, her wrists, her neck. Tattoos encircled both arms from wrist to shoulder. Another tattoo, a peacock, nestled its head just beneath her ear, the rest of it disappearing beneath her top. What I could see of it was beautiful. Then she turned toward me, and I realized she was beautiful.

   My mouth went dry as our eyes met. The world instantly dropped away, and I forgot how to breathe. Then she smiled brightly, and the world settled back into its rightful place. My breath stuttered, and I fervently hoped she hadn’t noticed the effect she’d had on me. What the hell is wrong with you, Mara? Get your shit together. She crossed the room toward me, dust motes flying up in her wake. When she stopped in front of me, I almost lost my ability to breathe all over again.

   Zaide Rossi was even more beautiful up close.

Life had gotten comfortable for Amara Addison, maybe too comfortable. Fabulous job, great friends, even an amazing ex-boyfriend who was her ride or die for life. Then Zaide Rossi sauntered into her life and suddenly everything changed. But no matter how crazy life became, finding Zaide made every last moment of chaos worth it.

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My name is Kim and my last name, Deister, is pronounced “Die-ster.” I always tell my husband I should have kept my married name, Ingram. So much easier to to pronounce!

I am a writer thoroughly in love with words. Reading them, writing them… I love that words can take you outside of your world and let the unimaginable become imaginable. I love them so much that I decided I needed to create some worlds and stories of my own!

Besides being a writer, I am an Army veteran (and Army wife) and a mom to four sons. I grew up in northern New York in a tiny college town called Potsdam. Over the years, our Army life has taken us all over the place and I have been lucky enough to work and live in some pretty amazing places. Right now we live in Hawaii on the island of O’ahu, minutes from the North Shore.

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Release Day Blitz: Babygirl by Lucy Lennox!

They say I’m Demere University’s Golden Boy.

The Senator’s perfect son and heir.

The kicker who never misses.

The man who doesn’t make mistakes…

Until I do, and my fall from grace lands me in a dorm room with Elliot Vaughn.

Vaughn is reckless and rough.

Solid muscle wrapped in ink.

He runs an illegal fight ring.

He breaks rules like it’s his job.

And since he hates my guts, Vaughn’s decided to break me.

He brings people home—men, women.

Locks eyes with me across the room while he ruins them.

Whispers teasing words that burrow into my brain.

Calls me names no straight man should respond to.

He steals my focus. Annihilates my control.

Makes me want things I can’t afford to want.

Like those rough hands on my skin.

Like giving up everything they say I am for a future that’s all my own.

Like choosing to be his babygirl, even if it destroys us both.

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Lucy Lennox is the USA Today bestselling author of over fifty gay romance titles including the GoodReads Hall of Fame winner Wilde Love. Born and raised in the southeast USA, she is finally putting good use to that English Lit degree she earned before the turn of the century. Lucy enjoys naps, pizza, and procrastinating. She stays up way too late each night reading romance because it’s simply the best.

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Book Blitz & Giveaway: If You Were Mine by A.S. Kelly!

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   After about half an hour, I’m standing outside the cafeteria, peering through the window to make sure he’s really inside, waiting for me. But when I see him, sitting at one of the tables, intent on reading the newspaper, the urge to turn around and run away almost gets the better of the strange, inexplicable desire to sit at that table with him.
   He lifts his head from the newspaper and scans the room. Then his eyes land on me, watching him from the other side of the glass, as if he suddenly realises someone is there.
   I wave at him like an idiot, take a deep breath, walk to the cafeteria door, pluck up courage, and push it open. I cross the space between us with his eyes still on me, and join him at the table. He folds the newspaper and sets it aside the moment my hand touches the back of the chair in front of him.
   “You didn’t get anything.”
   “I was waiting for you.”
   I grip the back of the chair without thinking.
   “Do you want to…?” He points to the same chair.
   I’d like to, yes. To sit here with you. To talk, maybe even smile at you, to understand who you are and why you keep appearing in my life when I least expect anything to happen. And I wish I didn’t feel guilty towards those who are no longer here, just for thinking and wanting all these things.
   “Everything okay?” he asks, after realising I’ve been standing in front of him, just staring.
   “I don’t know,” I say honestly.
   “And do you maybe want to find out?”
   “I don’t know that either.”
   He nods slowly, as if turning my words over in his mind.
   “All I know is that I want to sit down.”
   He sketches a half smile.
   “With you.” I don’t know if I’m still breathing as I say it. “I want to sit here with you.”

Levi Anderson has never felt more alone. Since saying goodbye to his husband, he has drifted between long shifts at the hospital and quiet, empty hours in his apartment, surrounded by boxes he can’t bring himself to unpack. He refuses to face the pain — or imagine a life without him.

Shay Miller has never been more furious. In one devastating moment, he lost the man he loved, his job, and the home they shared. He’s barely holding himself together. He’s tried to start over, but deep down, he knows he can’t move on until he lets go of the past — and stops hurting himself.

When fate brings Levi and Shay together, they immediately see how different they are and can’t imagine ever being drawn to one another. Levi is still learning how to live again, while Shay is learning how to forgive.

Yet, with this stranger who’s appeared out of nowhere, Levi slowly begins to open up and trust again. And with this man, terrified of letting himself go, Shay starts to long for someone he can protect and love.

For the first time, the future feels possible for both of them. But Levi doesn’t know Shay has lied about who he is — or that he’s hiding a secret capable of destroying everything, leaving Levi to hate the man he loves for the rest of his life.

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A. S. Kelly was born in Italy and now lives in Dublin, Ireland, with her husband, two children, two cats, and many plants.

She worked as a literary translator for several years before she began writing full-time. Today, her books are available in English, Italian, and Spanish.

A. S. Kelly writes emotional, heartfelt romantic fiction. Her most popular series are The O'Connor Brothers and From Connemara with Love.

She enjoys yoga, running, and swimming. She also loves gardening, photography, and reading mystery and crime novels.

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Release Day Blitz: Best Laid Plans [Raven Souls MC 07] by Candice Wright!

I thought I’d found my happily ever after until I realized it was all a lie.

But to escape the man I’d loved, I had to kill the woman I once was.

Knowing he’d hunt me to the ends of the earth, I assumed someone else’s identity, reshaping all my good, bad, and ugly parts to fit her mold.

My history, my experiences, even my name, all belong to her.

I thought it was enough, but after years in hiding, I’m still not safe.

See, hunters don’t forget about their prey; they lie in wait, setting traps, patiently waiting for you to fall. Only this time it’s not me that falls. It’s the MC.

My secrets kept me safe, but they made the club a target, and though I didn’t pull the trigger, a brother’s blood still coats my hands.

If the club casts me out for what I’ve done, I’ll be at the mercy of the man who won’t think twice about killing everyone I care about, including the man I’m falling for.

All because he wants to love me…to death.

And if he can’t have me, no one can.

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Candice Wright is the international bestselling author of the Underestimated Series. Hailing from the UK, Candice lives with her three slightly unhinged children and the long-suffering partner. When she isn’t busy raising the next generation of crazy, you can find her sitting at the computer writing words she hopes will resonate or snuggled up reading stories by the authors that cultivated her love of the written word.

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Book Blitz & Giveaway: After the Fall by Wendy Roberts!

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   When the blade of death whittled my family of three down to only me, I ran. Grief had scraped me empty, so fourteen months ago I fled to a shack in the northeastern Washington wilderness. I was seeking sanctuary and hoping the pines would mend my shattered soul. Maybe that was too much to expect of the trees. At least they didn’t judge the monument to my failure; a recycling bin overflowing with wine bottles.

   The morning light struggled through my grimy windows and poked at my hangover. I took my coffee mug outside and stood on the splintered porch of the small cabin. The air was deceptively still and heavy, carrying the sharp scent of sunbaked pine needles and the silent, shimmering threat of an approaching scorcher of a day. My cabin sat at the dusty elbow of two dirt roads. Between my door and the ditch was half an acre of thigh-high, dewless grass that stood stiff and dry alongside leggy wildflowers and a single tree.

   The western hemlock tried for the heavens at nearly two hundred feet, and it was the area under the tree that drew my critical gaze. A woman sat in the tall grass, back against the tree. What was someone doing way the hell out here?

   With an eye roll I left the house and stormed toward her.

   “Hey!” I shouted.

   The strap of her checkered sundress had fallen from one shoulder and as I reached her, I lifted a hand to tap her arm. As my finger got close, a cloud of flies lifted and re-settled into gaping, torn flesh. The wind shifted direction and a thick miasma of putrid decay stung my nostrils. I stumbled backward as my stomach lurched.

   Dead!

   I couldn’t stop the tremor in my jaw; my teeth clattered together as I whispered broken words, “I-I should check to be sure . . .”

   But my voice trailed off because nothing that smelled like that could be anything but gone.

Amber clings to the wreckage of a shattered life; a hermit drowning in the ghosts of what used to be.

When someone dumps a mutilated body on her wilderness property, a cryptic clue makes her the prime suspect. To clear her name, she must confront the dark secrets of her tragic past while a shadowy executioner is closing in.

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Wendy Roberts is an armchair sleuth, fan of all things mysterious but a huge chicken at heart. Her mind is often in the secretive, cloak and dagger world of intrigue while her physical presence is usually at home or on the road in her camper van. Wendy resides in Vancouver, Canada where she happily writes about murder and is always at work on her next novel.

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