Gypsy Brothers Series by Lili St. Germain Blog Tour - #bookreview, #giveaway & #excerpt

Gypsy Brothers Series 

Seven Sons (Gypsy Brothers, #1)

Six Brothers (Gypsy Brothers, #2)

Five Miles (Gypsy Brothers, #3)

Four Score, Gypsy Brothers, #4)

Three Years (Gypsy Brothers, #5)

Seven Sons (Gypsy Brothers, #1)

The story began with Seven Sons....

My father was most certainly NOT an innocent man. As the leader of the Gypsy Brothers MC, he was guilty of many things. But he died for a crime that he didn’t commit, framed by an enemy within who then stole his club and everything he had ever worked to protect. 

Including my innocence. 

When Dornan Ross framed my father, he set into motion a series of events that could never be undone. My father was murdered by Dornan Ross and his sons when I was fifteen years old. 

Before my father died, Dornan and his sons stole my innocence, branded my skin and in doing so, ensured that their lives would be prematurely cut short. That they would suffer. 

I’ve just turned twenty-one, and I’m out for blood. I'm out for revenge. 

But I didn't expect to fall for Jase, the youngest brother in the club. 

I didn't expect that he would turn my world upside down, yank my heart out of my chest and ride away into the sunset with it. 

Now, I'm faced with an impossible choice - Jase, or avenging my fathers death? 

                                         

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Genre: MC Contemporary Dark Romance Novella

My Seven Sons Review ...

Oh! Boy! From the start I didn't know what to think about this book from synopsis and first chapter but once I started to get into it I was sold on this dark tale.  A girl scorned is a woman seeking revenge.  Juliette has lost everything to Dorian Ross and his sons.  She lost her dad, her first love, her virginity, her dignity, her everything to these SOB's.  She will not be happy until she has her vengeance. 

But what she didn't anticipate was to sleep with the enemy and come face to face with her first love.  As Juliette gets tangled and a deceitful web she almost loses focus until she gets what she came to do at any cost.

Holy Shit this is a bit darker than most but this is the world of the MC and unthinkable things.  So many twists and turns and I think we have a winner with this series.  

4 Holy Shit Thumbs up! 

 

Lauren

 

Six Brothers (Gypsy Brothers, #2)

Then there were Six Brothers.......

I have lied. 


I have cheated. 

I have given my body and my life to the man who destroyed my family and left me for dead. 

I have killed, I have sinned, and worst of all, I have enjoyed the misery of others. 

I have licked the salty tears of a father mourning his firstborn son, and nothing has ever tasted so sweet. 

I have died, and I have been resurrected, a phoenix from the ashes. 

I know I’m going to hell. I’ll burn in the fiery pits alongside Dornan and his sons for the things I’ve done, and for the things I’m about to do. 

But I don’t care. It will be worth every lick of the devil's flames on my guilty flesh to destroy Dornan Ross. 

One down. Six to go.

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Genre: MC Contemporary Dark Romance Novella

My Six Brothers Review ... 

With one son gone and many more to go Juliette re-commits to her plan but she is on a slippery slope where her control is concerned.  With a new plan and more brothers to kill she goes all in with Dornan and his sons but things with Jase are becoming a potential problem for her.  Now that she has started this road she can't get off it now.

Lili Saint Germain knows how to get deep into the dark psyche of a psychopath when it comes to Dornan and the tenacity of revenge with Juliette

4 The Plot Thickens Thumbs up!

Lauren

Five Miles (Gypsy Brothers, #3)

Five Miles.....

My father taught me the importance of an eye for an eye—a cardinal rule, ingrained in every club member. 

A life for a life. 

Seven lives in payment for an unimaginable list of sins. 

People might wonder why I’m doing this. If this vengeance is borne from some noble cause, that I’m trying to prevent others from suffering at the hands of Dornan Ross and his sons. 

But I’m no vigilante. 

I’m doing it for me. I’m doing it because I want to. Because the look on Maxi and Chad’s faces when I killed them was a balm to my soul. 

This is the fate they have earned. The penance for their crimes. 

Two down, five to go. 

Time to send some of these brothers off with a bang. 

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Genre: MC Contemporary Dark Romance Novella

My Five Miles Review ...

Now two brothers gone but at this rate it will be years before she has her full revenge.  With this help of her savior of the past Elliot, she tries to take out the whole family at once so she can finally be free.

Even the best-laid plans can go awry. That's the thing about randomness and fate.  Freedom is a wish but not always granted and now her true identity is at risk with this faux pas. 

With all this dark finally a bit a hope and light at the end in this dark world.

4 Oh Boy! Thumbs up!

 Lauren

 

Four Score, Gypsy Brothers, #4)



Four Score ....

Love and hate aren’t all that different.

Two sides of the same coin, the yin and the yang.

Once upon a time, Jason Ross loved me. And now that he's in danger of figuring out what I've done, I see the love and the hate warring within him.

I see the way he looks at me.

The way he wonders how I could do the things I’ve done.

I hear it in the way he begs me to stop, to leave his father and this life and never look back.

But there’s only one way I’m leaving LA. 

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Genre: MC Contemporary Dark Romance Novella

My Four Score Review ...

With two more brothers dead and others in a coma, Juliette finally has a glimmer of hope with Jase but these two have shit luck when it comes to love and being together.  As Jase and Juliette grow closer their worst nightmare wakes up and secrets are revealed. 

Once Juliette stared this journey she committed but to what result.  Her hatred is overtaking her.  Gah! I am so committed to this series.  I Love it!!!

4 I'm biting my nails thumbs up!
 
Lauren

Three Years (Gypsy Brothers, #5)

And then there was Three Years.....

Every day for six years, I used to pray that I would find my way back to the boy I loved. 

Until finally, one day, I did. 

But that’s the funny thing about life. Nothing good ever lasts, not for me, anyway. You think you’re the one with the power, at least I did, but then I got careless. One tiny mistake, and now I am powerless to stop what comes next. 

People think money equals power, but all the money in my bank account, the dirty notes laundered clean that my father left for me, are useless. 

Money does not equal power. Power is held by the one with the knife in his hand, tracing shallow cuts into your skin. 

Power is held by the one who owns you. 

I had power once. 

                                                    Now, I have nothing.

 

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Genre: MC Contemporary Dark Romance Novella

My Three Years Review ...

Damn I spoke too soon as the light is vanished and was submersed with even more darkness. 

Oh boy, one thing Juliette is not, is someone who gives up. I have to give her props because now that Dornan know the truth she is living in the bowels of hell.  If you thought he was bad before than you are in for quite the surprise how evil Dornan really is.  But Juliette is a fighter to her last breathe.  Right when she is about to give up the unthinkable happens and she may be chained to Dornan forever.

  As she still fights she quickly realizes that she has allies that she wasn't even aware of.  However, once we think things will go good Dornan is like 'Chucky' and never dies and more secrets are revealed causing new pains that may not be able to be forgiven.  Gah!  I am dying to find out what is going to happen with this series with two more novellas to come.  

 4 Argh! Waiting on pins and needles thumbs up!
 

Lauren

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About the Author

Lili writes dark erotica and NA. Her debut serial novel, Seven Sons, was released in early 2014, with the remaining books in the series to release in quick succession. Lili quit corporate life to focus on writing and so far is loving every minute of it. Her other loves in life include her gorgeous husband, good coffee, hanging at the beach and running. She loves to read almost as much as she loves to write.

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Excerpt from Seven Sons

I make a strangled sobbing sound, but nothing much comes out of my throat except a dried-up, pathetic scream.

Dornan pulls me from the shower, wraps me in a towel and walks me to his bed, where he sits me down.

“Do you understand how much I care about you now?” Dornan asks with a throat full of gravel. His hands are all over me, feverish, and I don’t fight back when he presses me down onto the bed and unbuckles his belt.

I just lay there, in shock, his lips at my throat and his hands roving every inch of my shell-shocked body.

“Do you know why I did that?” he breathes in my ear as he grips my hips and slides inside me.

My breath hitches in my throat as he begins to thrust into me, and I feel a single tear roll down the side of my face.

“Because I’m yours,” I whisper into the darkness.

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Release Blitz - All or Nothing by Kendall Ryan

You’ve met Ben Shaw. Now meet Braydon Kincaid, the devil-may-care male model who nearly stole the show in Working It by New York Times bestselling author Kendall Ryan.

As one of the world’s most sought-after male models, Braydon is no stranger to the finer pleasures in life. The last thing he wants to do is limit himself, especially when it comes to women. His best friend, Ben, might’ve settled down, but Braydon doesn’t want to waste his youth on the messy complications of commitment. He wants fun. He wants easy.

Ellie isn’t looking for a casual relationship, but her tough and sassy personality instantly attracts Braydon, who proposes a “friends with benefits” arrangement. Unable to resist the powerful pull of the charming bad boy, Ellie eventually relents, though she longs for all-consuming love.

As the two spend more time together, Ellie soon realizes that Braydon’s posing skills extend off the runway. His carefully crafted façade masks a secret hurt that he’s reluctant to share with Ellie, even as they embark on a passionate affair that sends them hurtling toward a fate neither expected. Can Ellie risk her heart while she waits for Braydon to let her in, or will she be forced to demand all or nothing?

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A story of heart-stopping, toe-curling passion by the beloved bestselling author of Hard to Love, Resisting Her, and The Impact of You.

Straight-laced and well-mannered southerner Emmy Clarke is out of her depth in New York City’s fashion world, but when she lands a job as an assistant at a modeling agency it seems like the perfect mix of business and pleasure. Working under the notoriously tyrannical Fiona Stone is a nightmare, but there’s one distinct perk: ogling the ridiculously hot male models who parade through the office—particularly rising star Ben Shaw.

Ben is everything Emmy’s not: exquisitely gorgeous, highly paid, and well-traveled. He’s also got more issues than Vogue. Emmy looks after Ben on photo shoots, but she refuses to become another one of his lusting groupies. Ben finds Emmy’s refreshingly real attitude to be surprisingly attractive.

Against a backdrop of the most fashionable cities in the world, casual flirting turns into an illicit affair, but when Ben’s twisted past is revealed, and the bitter Fiona catches wind of their relationship, their careers and hearts are threatened.

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In Working It, New York Times bestselling author Kendall Ryan delivered a sexy and addictive contemporary romance about Emmy Clarke, a sweet southern girl out of her depth in New York City’s cutthroat fashion industry, and Ben Shaw, the hot male model who introduced her to a world of pleasure. But their story is far from complete…

Emmy Clarke is no quitter. Toughened by her experience working for fashion heavyweight Fiona Stone, Emmy has come a long way from her country girl roots, embracing her fast-paced and unpredictable life in New York City.

Though that life comes with more than a few complications.

First there’s the mystery of Fiona’s pregnancy, which may or may not involve Emmy’s boyfriend, superstar male model Ben Shaw. Emmy has always known that Ben comes with more baggage than she can handle—and not the Louis Vuitton kind. Yet Ben is the only man who has ever loved Emmy for who she is, and she wants nothing more than to do the same for him, even if it means forgiving his past and overlooking their wildly different lifestyles.

But when a shocking secret from Ben’s past comes to light, unraveling all of their progress, Emmy must decide if their relationship is worth the fight, or if it’s time to ignore her passion for him and let go.

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She's a sassy, yet polite Midwestern girl with a deep love of books, and a slight addiction to lipgloss. She lives in Minneapolis with her adorable husband and two baby sons, and enjoys hiking, being active, and reading.

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It's finally coming ....November 18, 2014

 

#1 Bestselling Author Sylvia Day’s New Crossfire Novel to Hit Bookstores on November 18

 

Berkley Books Will Release CAPTIVATED BY YOU in Trade Paperback

and eBook Formats Simultaneously

 

 

New York, NY: September 8, 2014 – Berkley Books, a division of Penguin Random House, announced today that it will release #1 New York Times bestselling author Sylvia Day’s CAPTIVATED BY YOU, the highly anticipated fourth novel in the global blockbuster Crossfire series, on November 18.

Sylvia Day, a veteran author of over twenty award-winning novels with a career spanning a decade, is one of the most successful commercial fiction authors writing today.  The previous three novels in her Crossfire series—Bared to You, Reflected in You and Entwined with You—are all #1 international bestsellers.  There have been 15 million copies sold of the Crossfire series worldwide.*

Bared to You (April 2012) spent 45 weeks on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list and 67 weeks on the USA Today bestseller list.  Following the phenomenal success of Bared to You’s release, Reflected in You (October 2012) debuted at #1 on the New York Times trade paperback, e-book, and print/e-book combined fiction bestseller lists.  The third novel in the series, Entwined with You (June 2013), also debuted at #1 on the New York Times trade paperback, e-book, print/e-book combined fiction bestseller lists as well as #1 on the USA Today bestseller list.

Sylvia Day and the Crossfire Series have been featured in USA Today, People, Time, Entertainment Weekly, SELF, Associated Press, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and Variety.

“We knew the Crossfire novels were special from the very beginning, and the incredible response to Sylvia’s books has been extremely rewarding.  We’re thrilled to publish the next chapter in a love story that has been embraced by readers around the world,” said Leslie Gelbman, President and Publisher of Berkley Books.

Following the relationship of Day’s iconic couple, Gideon Cross and his wife, Eva, the Crossfire series is one of the most popular series in contemporary fiction.   Its blend of romance and emotional intensity has defied genre boundaries and enthralled readers.  With the massive success of Day’s previous novels and the fervor surrounding this newest release, CAPTIVATED BY YOU is poised to be Day’s biggest success to date.

CAPTIVATED BY YOU will also be published on November 18 by Penguin Random House in Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa and India.

Sylvia Day is the #1 New York Times and #1 international bestselling author of over 20 award-winning novels sold in more than 40 countries. She is a #1 bestselling author in 23 countries, with tens of millions of copies of her books in print. Her Crossfire series has been optioned for television by Lionsgate.  Visit Sylvia at www.sylviaday.com, Facebook.com/AuthorSylviaDay and on Twitter @SylDay.

 

Kings Of Ashpalt by Alexx Andria Blog Tour - #blog spotlight, & #giveaway

   

Title: Kings of Asphalt (Club Chrome) 

Author: Alexx Andria  

Genre: Steamy romance (Motorcycle club romance)  

Cover by Kim Killion  

Publish Date: June 27, 2014 

~ Synopsis ~

USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR!

Alexx Andria delivers a motorcycle club romance between two very bad, yet sexy men and a woman with enough curves to satisfy them both.

My name is Zoe Delacourte. I thought I was going to build my future on the backs of Jax Traeger and Hunter Ericksen -- bad boys from the wrong side of the tracks, running the notorious motorcycle club, the Kings of Asphalt -- in my mind, the story had practically written itself. I was so naive. Little did I know they were going to change everything I ever knew about myself.

Jax and Hunter. I can't even say their names without trembling. 

They don't see a fat girl or a girl who might be pretty if only she'd lose some weight. No, from the moment I walked into their club, they saw a hot, sexy woman with curves for days -- and they couldn't wait to get their hands on me.

Some people call them bad men. They see the rides and the rap sheets and they slap a label on them. I don't care what they've done -- all I care about is what they're going to do to me next.

But loving them is dangerous. In fact, loving them might just get me killed.

*The following MC romance is approximately 41,000 words featuring a strong central love story, danger, and the rough, seedy world dominated by two bad boys and their curvy woman. 

      

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USA Today bestselling author Alexx Andria is the pseudonym for RITA-nominated contemporary romance author, Kimberly Van Meter. Born in a small town with a flair for the dramatic, Alexx Andria has a delightfully perverted nature that she hides behind a mischievous smile. Alexx loves being the life of the party and doesn't mind one bit being the center of attention (just ask any of her friends or family!) She loves to write about Alpha men who are wonderfully flawed and just a little dangerous and heroines who are smart and sassy, but just a little vulnerable, too.

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Damaged And Just A Little Dirty — My Favorite Hero

By Alexx Andria

Confession: I like bad boys.

Wait, I should clarify. I like bad boys in fiction. In real life, not so much. But because I write about Alpha heroes who are just a bit damaged, my secret preference shouldn’t come as a huge surprise. Perhaps it comes from my youth and that wild, insatiable fever that comes with teenage hormones. As a teen, I was irresistibly drawn to the misunderstood boy with a bad streak and I paid for that fascination. Let me tell you a story.

A true story!

We’d been friends for years — since the third grade, actually — and suddenly, as these things happen, I realized he was pretty damn cute and he must’ve felt the same about me for he asked me to prom. I did the usual prom-prep and when he was an hour late to pick me up, I feared the worst — being stood up. What I didn’t realize then was that being stood up might’ve been a blessing in disguise.

This was before cell phones (I know, I’m dating myself, right?) so I called his house and his mom said he’d just walked in the door and he was getting ready. While I’d been primping for hours, he’d been at the river! I forgave him because a). he was so cute!; b). I was dumb. Oh man, was I dumb. To make a really long story short, I ended up running through the forest in a formal dress, dragged by my bad boy as he attempted to avoid being arrested. And, well, you guessed it, we didn’t make it. My date was arrested, and my mom (horror of all horrors!) had to come pick me up. To say it was mortifying, is an understatement. I should’ve drop-kicked my bad boy after that boneheaded stunt but I hung onto him for a while longer. Long enough to make a few more bad decisions together until I finally came to my senses and left him in the past.

So bad boys in real life suck. They are bad boyfriends, worse husbands and generally, a pain in the ass because they don’t hold jobs and make a permanent dent in your sofa with their ass.

But bad boys in fiction? Smart, sexy, hot, virile, and only redeemable by that special woman made just for them. Cue the dreamy sigh.

In Kings of Asphalt, there are two foster brothers running the motorcycle club, The Kings. They’re everything you might assume of a motorcycle club leader — rough around the edges, playing fast and loose with the rules, and sexy as hell. Oh, and of course, damaged to their core and they know it. They’re in desperate need of that special woman to make them whole again but, of course, they can’t see that at first.

I love putting my characters through hell because the make-up sex is always so much hotter! But it isn’t all about the sex, right? No, there’s actually a fair amount of humor in this story and while that wasn’t planned, one of my beta readers said it was the element that helped Kings of Asphalt really stand out among the rest of motorcycle club romances out there. You tell me, what do you think?

Now, it’s time for your confession: Do you have a bad boy in your past? Did you keep him or kick him to the curb? Share!

Release Day Launch - Bang Bang (Eagle Elite Novella) by Rachel Van Dyken - #excerpt & #teasers

He was my best friend. 

Until he became my enemy. 

All within the span of one night. 

Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang. 

The rapid fire of gunshots became the soundtrack to my life. 

This is the Mafia. Lines are blurred. Choices are never black and white. And the life you thought you knew is... one giant lie. 

He was dead. 

And I didn't want his life to be in vain, so I tried to make something of myself. I tried and failed. 

Now he's back. Alive. And he wants something... 

Me. 

Nobody ever said the mafia played fair. 

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I wanted his lips more than I wanted my next breath, but how long before those lips were taken away? How long before my heart would get ripped from my chest a second time? I almost didn’t survive the first — I knew I wouldn’t live through the second.

With a jerk I pulled back and slapped him across the face. “How dare you!”

Ax swore and hit the steering wheel. “I’m sorry, I’m sorry I shouldn’t have assumed—”

“Assumed, what?” I yelled. “That I wouldn’t be completely pissed off? That I wouldn’t be shattered!” My voice wavered. “Totally wrecked forever because I’ve been mourning the loss of my best friend for five damn years only to find out he’s very much alive and suddenly wanting to play the white knight?” My body started to shake. “I died that day!”

Ax’s face twisted with pain. “Amy, I had to protect you… at all costs I had to protect you.”

“Your protection broke my heart,” I whispered.

He sighed, running his hands through his hair before answering. “Ames, sometimes what’s the best for us — is exactly what hurts the most.”

I refused to look at him. Instead I looked down, down at my bare legs, at the outfit I’d almost paraded about in before a crowd of horrible drunk men in order to make money. I wasn’t the same girl he’d left. I was damaged in the worst way. Because by saving me, Ax had taken away all purpose from my life. When I thought he’d died, my only goal was to live because he hadn’t.

And now? Now the shame of my situation was crippling.

Foster care kid.

Unwanted.

Unloved.

And completely and utterly alone. Abandoned, even by my best friend.

“Five years, Ax. And now you come for me…” I licked my lips. “I’m not vain enough to think it’s because you can’t find anyone to warm your bed at night, and I’m not confident enough to think it’s because you missed me so much you just couldn’t stay away. What do you want?”

“You.”

“Try again.”

He swore and looked away. “It doesn’t have to be like this. Had I known you were in this position—”

“What?” I snorted then bit down on my lip to keep from crying. “You would have driven here faster? You would have rescued me sooner? Pitied me more? Take your pick, Ax. Now tell me the truth. Don’t start off this new-found relationship with a lie.”

He was silent for a while then whispered, “You have something I need.”

“A brain?”

Ax’s smile nearly took my breath away “Besides that.”

I pressed my lips together and looked out the window at my dark and cramped apartment. “I have exactly one stuffed animal from my old life, the one you gave me when I was six. I have a Polaroid picture, a toothbrush, enough clothes to get me through a week and a half of living, a hairbrush, two elastic hair bands — Do you see where I’m going with this?” I sighed and ran my hands through my hair. “I have nothing you need, let alone want. Believe me.“

Ax studied my face, his expression softened as he said, barely above a whisper, “Let me be the one who decides that.”

I looked away.

“Don’t do that, Ames,” he murmured. “Don’t shut me out.”

“Five years, Ax.” I looked straight ahead. “Five years where my tears were the only thing keeping me company at night. I think you lost the right to tell me what to do.”

He swore. The car door opened. I gasped as humid air filtered in. “What are you doing?”

“Getting out of the car.” He shrugged and gestured at the building. “Going into your apartment and packing you up. We’ll stay at a hotel tonight.”

I snorted. “My apartment not good enough for you?”

“No.” He pulled a gun from his jeans, thumbed off the safety, and held it out in front of him. “I just hate getting woken up in the middle of the night with gunshots ringing out, don’t you?”

“Yeah.” I gulped, my eyes still trained on the gun.

“Guns don’t hurt people… people do,” Ax said softly. “Remember that.”

“I do.” I met his gaze. “Because in the end, it wasn’t the gun that broke my heart — it was you.”

Rachel Van Dyken is the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Bestselling author of regency and contemporary romances. When she's not writing you can find her drinking coffee at Starbucks and plotting her next book while watching The Bachelor.
She keeps her home in Idaho with her Husband and their snoring Boxer, Sir Winston Churchill. She loves to hear from readers! You can follow her writing journey at www.rachelvandykenauthor.com

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