Monday, March 28, 2016

Blog Tour And Review: The Sleeping Serpent by Luna Saint Claire and Virginia Bowen



Title: The Sleeping Serpent 
Authors : Luna Saint Claire & Virginia Bowen 






As arousing as 50 Shades, twisted as Gone Girl, and tortured as Wuthering Heights
Immensely erotic and psychologically captivating, The Sleeping Serpent is the compelling story of a woman’s obsession with a spellbinding guru and the struggle to reclaim her life. At its heart, it is a painfully beautiful exposition of unconditional love that makes us question what we truly want.


BOOK DESCRIPTION 
Luna Saint Claire has a loving husband and an enviable career as a Hollywood costume designer. Still, something is gnawing at her. Bored with her conventional and circumscribed existence, she feels herself becoming invisible. When she meets Nico Romero, a charismatic yoga guru, his attentions awaken her passions and desires. Dangerous, but not in a way that scares her, he makes her feel as if anything is possible. Infatuated, she becomes entangled in Nico’s life as he uses his mesmerizing sexuality to manipulate everyone around him in his pursuit of women, wealth, and celebrity. Immensely erotic and psychologically captivating, The Sleeping Serpent is the compelling story of a woman’s obsession with a spellbinding guru and the struggle to reclaim her life. At its heart, it is a painfully beautiful exposition of unconditional love that makes us question what we truly want.

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Wow!! This book was completely different and kept me on my toes to see what Nico would do next.

Nico, a hot and sexy yoga instructor with an obsession with women and draws them in like a bee does to honey. Luna Saint Claire did a great job portraying him as a narcissist, who could love, but at the same time be as evil as Satan.

As a yoga instructor he is able to meet and influence women and uses them to his advantage to further himself within the social circles.

We meet several of the women Nico obsesses with starting with Luna. Luna is married to Tyler, but feels something is missing in her life. She is drawn to Nico sexually, but remains committed to Tyler. She becomes Nico's friend, until he has no use for her any longer.

Each woman is used and tossed like trash to the curb, when Nico goes off on them physically and emotionally. This is a dark erotic psychologically story with a tragic ending. Your heart goes out to the women involved and you want to slap Nico, but at the same time you want to save him.

This book shows how easily we are influenced and how a relationship can be destroyed when power and drugs are mixed.

I highly recommend this book and look forward to reading the next book from Luna Saint Claire.

5 Koala Paws






Luna Saint Claire is a costume designer and author residing in Los Angeles with her husband, a philosophy professor. She loves blues rock and Indie music, often setting her Pandora station to Damien Rice. Her personal style can best be described as eclectic bohemian. Though she now enjoys running and yoga, she spent years of her youth in the ballet studio. Her part Native American heritage informs her work as a designer and influences her storytelling.


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Book Blast: The Moon in the Mango Tree by Pamela Binnings Ewen








The Moon in the Mango Tree


by Pamela Binnings Ewen
Genre: Women’s Fiction
Release Date: March 21st, 2016

THE MOON IN THE MANGO TREE is an emotional and riveting tale based on the true life of Pamela Binnings Ewen’s own grandmother. Under the glittering lights of the palace in Siam, can a woman choose between the freedom she craves and the husband she loves with her whole heart? Can she have it all--or does she have to choose? And when you choose between two things you love, must one be forever lost? If you were enchanted by The Moonlit Garden by Corina Bowmann, you’ll be caught in the spell of The Moon in the Mango Tree.

Join Pamela Binnings Ewen and the Killion Group as we celebrate the release of The Moon in the Mango Tree with this 16 stop Book Blast from March 28th to April 1st. Included in this book blast is exclusive content, guest posts from Pamela, a spotlight of the book, reviews, and a giveaway. One GRAND PRIZE WINNER will receive a $50 Starbucks Gift Card!

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Synopsis:

The dazzling decade, the 1920's, and a beautiful young singer is torn between her fierce desire for independence--to create something of her own to give meaning and purpose to her life--and a deep abiding love for her husband, a medical missionary who will become royal physician to the court of Siam. Based on a true story, one young woman will travel from Philadelphia of the Roaring Twenties to the jungles of the Orient, to pre-war Paris and Rome, in the struggle to find her place in the world.

Available Here: Amazon



About Pamela Binnings Ewen:

After practicing law for many years in Houston, Texas, Pamela Binnings Ewen exchanged her partnership in the law firm of BakerBotts, L.L.P for writing. She lives near New Orleans, Louisiana. In September, 2013, Ewen’s novel, An Accidental Life, will be released by B&H Publishing Group. In addition, in September 2013, an updated, second edition of Ewen’s best-selling non-fiction book, Faith on Trial, will be released, including a new ‘User’s Guide’.
In addition to the new releases, Pamela is the author of four novels from B&H Publishing Group, including Secret of the Shroud, The Moon in the Mango Tree (a 2009 Christy Award Finalist), Dancing on Glass (a 2012 Christy Award Finalist, and winner of a Single Titles Reviewers’ Choice Award), and Chasing the Wind ( a Romantic Times ‘Top Pick’). The Moon in the Mango Tree was recently honored as winner of the 2012 Eudora Welty Memorial Award given by the National League of American Pen Women.
Pamela’s fiction writing grows out of her faith journey, which resulted in Faith on Trial in 1999. Faith on Trial , along with Lee Strobel’s A Case for Christ, was chosen as a text for a course on law and religion at Yale Law School in 2000. Pamela is also featured in the film Jesus: Fact or Fiction, produced by Campus Crusade for Christ. An updated second edition of Faith on Trial (September, 2013) includes a new ‘User’s Guide’.
While practicing law Pamela served on the board of directors of Inprint, Inc., a non-profit organization supporting the literary arts in Houston, Texas. Pamela has also served on the board of directors of the New Orleans Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society and she is currently a member of the Board of Directors of The Tennessee Williams Festival in New Orleans. In 2007 she co-founded the Northshore Literary Society. Pamela received the St. Tammany Parish President’s Arts Award as Literary Artist of the Year in 2009.
Pamela is the latest writer to emerge from a Louisiana family recognized for its statistically improbable number of successful authors. A cousin, James Lee Burke, who won the Edgar Award, wrote about the common ancestral grandfathers in his Civil War novel White Dove At Morning.
Among other writers in the family are Andre Dubus (Best Picture Oscar nomination for The Bedroom; his son, Andre Dubus III, author of The House of Sand and Fog, a Best Picture Oscar nomination and an Oprah pick; Elizabeth Nell Dubus (the Cajun trilogy); and Alafair Burke, just starting out with the well-received Samantha Kincaid mystery series.

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Thursday, March 10, 2016

Blog Tour: French Kiss for Hire episode 3 By Lizzy Ford, Nikki Jefford, Nana Malone, Amanda Aksel, Amanda Lance






French Kiss for Hire episode 3
By Lizzy Ford, Nikki Jefford, Nana Malone, Amanda Aksel, Amanda Lance

Luc Du'Mont's exploits as French Kiss for Hire continue as his visa's expiration looms and Serena remains out of reach...

Sensitive and sexy Frenchman, Luc Du’mont, is living the American dream. He’s spent the last four years at university on an acting scholarship. Now, with graduation behind him he’s ready to make his big Hollywood splash.

A debut that has to happen before his student visa expires in two months. Otherwise, he’ll be shipped home to France and all of his acting opportunities will sail with him.
But most importantly, he’ll lose any chance at winning blond-bombshell Serena Dawson’s heart. As the sister of his roommate she is strictly off limits. But when Serena approaches Luc for kissing advice, what can Luc say other than pucker up?

The kiss leads to much more than Luc ever imagined. When word gets out about Luc’s lip-locking skills and his unemployment leaves him desperate, Luc finds himself with a new career path: French Kiss for Hire.

Except the only client he wants is the one girl he can’t have.



In the third episode of French Kiss for Hire, we follow Luc on his date with a woman who is still hiding in the closet.  Luc is very sympathetic and supportive to her, which gives the readers insight to Luc’s personality.

We are see Luc and Madison growing friendship and the depth of Luc’s love for Serena.  This episode was sweet, but I felt the focus changed to more of Luc’s dates, rather than Luc’s getting a handle on remaining in the USA or his love for Serena.  

I hope the fourth episode will give us more interaction between Luc and Serena. How will Luc do on the audition and will Serena notice him, before its too late.

4 Koala Paws




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