Release Blitz & Review: Holding Ground

 

Blurb

I’ve been a single dad for five years. Then the wrong woman rented the guest cabin behind my house, and I knew right then she was going to ruin everything.

When Baylor's mother walked out, I made a promise—I'd be enough. Just the two of us. No one to disappoint her. No one else to leave.

Then Emelia Greene rolled into Echo Lake in a Mercedes and a power suit to convince the townspeople to change what makes our small town great. She’s everything this place isn't.

Emelia's not supposed to be kind. She's not supposed to be good with my daughter. She's definitely not supposed to be the one I find myself confiding in at the end of my dock every night.

She's leaving in three months. I know that.

The problem is, I can't stop wondering what it would be like if a woman like her belonged in a place like this.

In a life like mine.

Holding Ground by @authorpiperrayne is now LIVE! Download today or read for FREE with #kindleunlimited https://books2read.com/holdingg Duet Narration by: @jasonclarkereads & @callie_dalton Also Featuring: @connorcrais @j.f.harding @aaronshedlock & Jill Smith Goodreads: https://bit.ly/40RJVRR #PiperRayne #TheMercerFamily #SingleDadRomance #SmallTownRomance #Valentineprlm @valentine_pr_ Review I love a good single parent romance Sit it in a small town with all the small town antics--- I'm sold!! This is the first book in a new series by this author team. It kicks off with a bang! We meet grumpy single dad and town champion, Elliott and watch him come face to face with Emelia-a person sure to destroy his beloved town. When it turns out they have to spend a lot of time together as her rental is repaired---yeah--she isn't so bad now is she? Great set up for the series. We meet the Mercer family and all the towns people. The setting is beautiful. The family dynamics are unique and I have a feeling each one of those men is going to fall HARD! I can't wait to read more about them. About  the Author Piper Rayne is an Amazon Top 50 and USA Today Bestselling Author duo who believes in soft places to land, big laughs, and happily-ever-afters. Piper’s the one who turns up the heat and humor—spinning tension, spark, and steam into moments that make you blush into your pillow and grin through the next chapter. Rayne’s the one who tugs on your heartstrings—mixing locker-room laughs, brotherhood banter, and the kind of heart-punch moments that hit when you least expect them. Together, they create stories that feel like family—sometimes found, sometimes blood—but always the kind that stays with you long after the final word. At the end of the day, Piper and Rayne write love stories that they hope feel real, funny, with just the right amount of steam… ones that make your heart race and your world a little warmer.

Review: Julian

Blurb:

Julian Langley has everything a man could ever want—a sprawling Manhattan townhouse, a multi-billion-dollar portfolio, and ownership of the New York Vipers, one of the most coveted franchises in professional hockey. What he doesn't have, and will never allow himself, is anyone who matters too much. Carrying a devastating loss that completely reshaped him, Julian has since built his life around the certainty that nothing will ever cost him that dearly again.

Harper Hawthorne isn't looking for a billionaire. She's looking for a way to keep the lights on. Single-handedly holding her world together since she was a teenager, Harper works two jobs, lives in a rent-controlled apartment on the Lower East Side, and sacrifices everything for her younger brother. When an unexpected phone call lands her a chauffeur job behind the wheel of Julian’s car, she takes it for exactly what it is: a paycheck.

Julian notices everything about her. Harper tries not to notice anything about him. What begins as a professional arrangement starts to crack at the edges when Harper proves, repeatedly and effortlessly, that she’s unlike anyone Julian has ever encountered before. She’s too sharp to ignore, too genuine to keep at arm's length, and entirely unimpressed by his world in a way that makes it impossible for him to stop thinking about her.

Julian doesn't do commitment. Harper doesn't believe in fairy tales. But some collisions are inevitable and some people are worth every risk you swore you'd never take again.


Julian is a slow-burn hockey romance about a guarded billionaire, the woman who got under his skin without trying, and the long road back to trusting that a second shot at love is always worth the leap.

Buy Link:

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Review

Sawyer Bennett writes books you want to re-read. I have never thought she needed to do anything more but write books. This series in partnership with Bill Keenan is over the top good! I don't know who is writing which part but the whole story is richer with Bill's input. This is the second book and can be read as a stand alone but the first book was so good--why not read them both?

Julian is the owner of the Vipers hockey team. He thinks he has it all. Until Harper happens to be his driver one day and she knocks him sideways with her intuition and straight forward approach to a his business issues. What follows is Harper becoming his exclusive driver and then just HIS.

Harper is a great lead for this story. She knows her mind and always is thinking of how she can support others before her own needs. She goes into this relationship slow moving and waiting for the other shoe to fall. Julian shows her how good they could be together and convinces her she is worth all the pampering he wants to do to her.

Loved the hockey parts of the story. This one is a little more removed form the game than the previous book. Great setting and truly great characters.

I can't wait to see what these two authors bring us next!

About  the  Author

Meet Sawyer Bennett:
New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal Bestselling author Sawyer Bennett uses real life
experience to create relatable stories that appeal to a wide array of readers. From contemporary
romance, fantasy romance, and both women’s and general fiction, Sawyer writes something for just
about everyone.

A former trial lawyer from North Carolina, when she is not bringing fiction to life, Sawyer is a chauffeur, stylist, chef, maid, and personal assistant to her very adorable daughter, as well as full-time servant to her wonderfully naughty dogs.

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Connect with Sawyer Bennett:
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Meet Bill Keenan:
Bill Keenan played hockey at Harvard University from 2005 to 2008 and professionally in Europe from
2009 to 2012. After completing his MBA at Columbia Business School, he worked for two years in
Deutsche Bank's investment banking division. He currently serves as COO of Graydon Carter's Air Mail.

Connect with Bill Keenan:
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Release Blitz & Review: Child of Ashes

 

Child of Ashes by Elizabeth Hunter is now live!

She’s rewritten history for the powerful. This time, it’s personal.

Time travel fantasy. Ancient magical orders. A forbidden investigation, a hidden son, and a slow-burn connection that defies every rule this time-traveler has lived by.

Narine Anahid Khoren has spent years keeping her greatest secret, her son Samson, a fourth-tier time traveler of terrifying power, hidden from an order that would claim him as their own.

She thought she’d bought more time to shelter him. She was wrong.

When a violent ambush sends nine-year-old Samson tumbling into the past with a dangerous enemy, Narine's carefully constructed world fractures. With her son lost somewhere in history and a shadow war brewing against the Order of the Seba Segel, she has no choice but to release the one man who knows how to find her son, an enemy she thought she’d trapped in the past.

Through it all, Jacob Martin—professor, time-traveler, and so much more—is at her side. The tension between them has been building, and now with everything at stake, the threads of their partnership will either snap… or be woven into a bond that cannot be broken.

Saving Samson will mean crossing centuries, confronting secrets at the heart of the Order, and reckoning with the true cost of power, family, and revolution.

Child of Ashes is the second book in the Seba Segel Series—an epic time travel fantasy set in the near future, where ancient mage orders, dangerous magic, and a slow-burn love story collide across the centuries.

For readers of Ilona Andrews and Nalini Singh who love found family, slow-burn romance, and time travel fantasy with real emotional stakes.

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Review

Ok. I thought I was going to have a difficult time getting back int o this world. It's been 3 years since the first book of the series - The Thirteenth Month --came out. Typically I may do a re-read but I decided to just jump into this one. I remembered big chunks of the story. I was pleasantly surprised by how the author quickly brought readers up to speed. It made me feel like I was right back in the world again. 

Book one could be fine on it's own. It doesn't necessarily have a cliff hanger but there could have been more story. I am so happy that Narine had more to tell! I love her strength and her sense of right even if the Seba Segal wants to constrain her. Ultimately la mother's love is not to be messed with.  

Her son Samson is the key in all of this. AND we hopefully get more of his story and the trilogy continues in the next book.  Time travel is the overarching trope here. And there are soooo many clues dropped about what may come.  And Gideon--I'm not fooled --he has to bee the nemesis in the end.

Fantastic read! 

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

About the Author 

ELIZABETH HUNTER is an eleven-time USA Today bestselling author of romance, contemporary fantasy, and paranormal mystery. Based in Central California and Addis Ababa, she travels extensively to write fantasy fiction exploring world mythologies, history, and the universal bonds of love, friendship, and family.

She has published over fifty works of fiction and sold over two million books world-wide. She is the author of the Elemental Mysteries, the Irin Chronicles, the Cambio Springs Mysteries, and other works of fiction.