Release This Week - Tower of Dawn

Tower of Dawn - Throne of Glass #6 by Sarah J. Mass
Releases 5th Sept - that's tomorrow!!!

I honestly cannot believe we're up to book 6 - I really want Chaol to find a HEA or at least a peaceful and happy now!

What they say: In the next installment of the New York Times bestselling Throne of Glass series, follow Chaol on his sweeping journey to a distant empire.

Chaol Westfall has always defined himself by his unwavering loyalty, his strength, and his position as the Captain of the Guard. But all of that has changed since the glass castle shattered, since his men were slaughtered, since the King of Adarlan spared him from a killing blow, but left his body broken.

His only shot at recovery lies with the legendary healers of the Torre Cesme in Antica—the stronghold of the southern continent's mighty empire. And with war looming over Dorian and Aelin back home, their survival might lie with Chaol and Nesryn convincing its rulers to ally with them.

But what they discover in Antica will change them both—and be more vital to saving Erilea than they could have imagined. 
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My Top Ten Christmassy Books

It's that time of year again which means lots of lists...

My top ten Christmassy books & books that make think of Christmas...

The Snowman

by Raymond Briggs

How the Grinch stole Christmas! And other stories

by Dr. Seuss

'Twas the Night Before Christmas/ The Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas 

by Clement C. Moore

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens

Hogfather

by Terry Pratchett

The Nutcracker and the Mouse King

by E.T.A. Hoffmann

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia)

by C.S. Lewis

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

by J.K. Rowling

Polar Express

by Chris Van Allsburg

Letters From Father Christmas

by J.R.R. Tolkien

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Romance Festival 2014 - My Top 10 Romance Books

I'm really excited to be taking part in the Romance Festival 2014 and to be sharing with you my top 10 romance books from the authors involved.
My list is also available over on the #Romance14 website.

Right, in reverse order, here goes...

My Top 10 Romances of the Romance Festival 2014:

10. Crazy, Undercover, Love – Nikki Moore - 2014

Charley and Alex are very much on my mind because I have only recently finished reading Crazy, Undercover, Love, but also because I enjoyed their chemistry. Holy hotness!

Alex is mysterious and enchanting, but mainly I really wanted to uncover Charley’s big secret. This makes the list because I was entertained throughout.

9. Fame – Tilly Bagshaw – 2011

What is fame or celebrity? I like how Tilly Bagshaw analyses and questions the celebrity lifestyle in Fame. The Wuthering Heights references are clever and I really appreciate the no-nonsense approach.

8. Charade – Nyrae Dawn – 2013

I’m a fan of University/College stories but they can often be clichéd. This isn’t the case with Charade. From the very start (once I’d recovered from my fury) I remember being engrossed in Cheyenne’s and Colt’s story.

I hadn’t expected Charade to be as sad as it was in parts, but there are also some great lighter moments to lessen the heartache.

7. The Scandalous Love of a Duke – Jane Lark - 2014

I couldn’t have a top ten-romance list without including a historical novel. The Scandalous Love of Duke includes an almost modern heroine in Katherine and a fab historical hero in John.

I loved the Cinderella aspect of the story and found the characters and plot to be engaging and endearing. The story is surprisingly funny in places yet infuriating in others, but I loved it.

6. Rumour Has It – Jill Mansell – 2009

I’ve read quite a few ‘Girl Friday’ stories but Rumour Has It is the one that stayed with me. I liked Tilly’s bumbling attitude and the small town life Jill Mansell presents made me smile.

Jack had everything I wanted in a hero; he’s beautiful, demanding and oh-so-tempting.

5. On Dublin Street – Samantha Young – 2012

I couldn’t write a top ten list and not include On Dublin Street. Jocelyn’s story is so heartbreaking, yet manages to remain brilliantly optimistic. I loved Braden and found him charmingly annoying.

This one’s a scorcher and I wish all apartments came with a hot Scot!

4. The Edge of Never – J.A. Redmerski – 2012

The Edge of Never is a tearjerker and a really emotional romance. I think this is because both Camryn and Andrew are extremely believable and the story is really well written.

J.A. Redmerski does a wonderful job in engaging her readers and developing her characters. The journey Camryn and Andrew travel is devastating and brilliant.

3. Rule (Marked Men #1) – Jay Crownover – 2012

If you like your romances on the grittier side, then Rule is for you. I’m a big fan of Jay Crownover’s writing style and her Marked Men series. Rule is the classic story about opposites and love.

Shaw is caring, kind and patient whilst Rule is the ultimate tattooed bad boy. The reason I love this story so much is because of the intense chemistry between the leads.

2. You Had Met At Hello - Mhairi McFarlene – 2012

A friend recommended You Had Me At Hello because I’m a big fan of second chance romances. She told me I’d be torn between wanting to cheer the characters on and to shake some sense into them, well she was right! I cannot remember being as frustrated by a book couple as I was with Rachel and Ben. BUT I loved them!

Every time I read the story I find myself laughing at Ben and feeling on edge at the angst and drama. When it comes to romance You Had Me At Hello will always be on my list.

1. Wait For You – J. Lynn/Jennifer L. Armentrout - 2013

The reason Wait For You tops my list is because I love a strong female lead. Avery doesn’t need physical strength to get by, because she is a survivor. Cam never tries to control her but simply supports and encourages her; all done whilst being a bundle of swoon-worthy American hotness!

I’m a huge fan of J.Lynn/Jennifer’s writing and I love how she incorporates humour and snark into her books. Wait For You is a brilliant contemporary New Adult romance, with swagger, charm and depth!

What are your favourite romance books and authors? Who do you love and who is overrated? Who would make your list out of the authors involved?  Sound off in the comments. 

You can see the full list of programmes, events and join in the #Romance14 fun here!

InkHeart Authors Top 10 Summer Reads

If you love a steamy new adult novel, then check out this list, curated by InkHeart Authors...

Betcha can't buy just one!

For fans of Cruel Intentions and Dangerous Liaisons…

Matteo Benenati has spent his life wrapped in wealth and privilege. He is shallow, selfish, jaded—and he likes it that way.

When bold American art student Riley Tremaine crashes into his life, her light forces him to examine the dark places inside of his soul, the ones he thought he’d buried with his father. He knows he should let her go… but he’s never claimed to be a good man.

When Matteo is pitted against his unscrupulous stepsister Emilia Guerra in a bid for his late father’s empire, he must decide between honor and vice. In need of a wife—and desperate to possess her—Matteo makes Riley an offer she can’t refuse. She will be his bride—in every meaning of the word—so that he can protect his legacy.

But Matteo soon learns that Emilia’s soul is darker even than his own. And by marrying Riley, he has made her a pawn in a power struggle that could shatter their world.

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Infinite possibilities….

Infinite passion…..

Infinite danger….

His touch spirals through me, warm and sweet, wicked and hot. I shouldn’t trust him. I shouldn’t tell him my secrets. But how do I not when he is the reason I breathe? He is what I need.

At the young age of eighteen, tragedy and a dark secret force Lara to flee all she has known and loved to start a new life. Now years later, with a new identity as Amy, she’s finally dared to believe she is forgotten–even if she cannot forget. But just when she lets down her guard down, the ghosts of her past are quick to punish her, forcing her back on the run.

On a plane, struggling to face the devastation of losing everything again and starting over, Amy meets Liam Stone, a darkly entrancing recluse billionaire, who is also a brilliant, and famous, prodigy architect. A man who knows what he wants and goes after it. And what he wants is Amy. Refusing to take “no” as an answer, he sweeps her into a passionate affair, pushing her to her erotic limits. He wants to possess her. He makes her want to be possessed. Liam demands everything from her, accepting nothing less. But what if she is too devastated by tragedy to know when he wants more than she should give? And what if there is more to Liam than meets the eyes?

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Infinite Possibilities Book 2

Secrets and lies. They are everywhere: haunting her, tormenting her. In the midst of it all, he’d been her escape, her passion. The only person she’d trusted in six years. And then he’d made her doubt that trust, cutting her deeply. But as she’d once told him, she was damaged, not broken. She is ready to fight and not just for survival. She is fighting for the truth and she won’t stop until she has it, not even for…him.

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Chase Winter let the love of his life slip through his fingers and into the hands of his best friend and mafia boss of the Abandonato family. Now that he's been given a second chance to right a wrong, he refuses to let his own selfishness stand in the way. The only problem? He's not fully in possession of his heart, so when Mil De Lange — the girl who's innocence he stole and heir to the worst of the worst mafia families in the US — asks him for a favor… he says yes, not realizing that one yes has the power to destroy them all.

Mil's been in love with Chase Winter as long as she can remember, but as the years went by, love turned into hate, and now that he's agreed to help her, she's wondering if she made a fatal error. Because Chase isn't a teenager anymore. He's a hot-blooded male, bent on owning every part of her, body and soul, and he's willing to kill anyone in his path who dares stand in the way.
Secrets will finally be revealed... but make no mistake, it's going to take a lot of bloodshed for those truths to be discovered.

You've never read a New Adult Mafia story like this before. Loyalties will be tested, lovers reunited, and friendships obliterated.

Welcome to the Family. Blood in — No out.

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How did my life get so broken? It's a question Lacey St. James asks herself every day. Stuck raising her little brother in a trailer park while she works a dead end job at a grocery store, she has a stalker ex-boyfriend, a bad reputation, and no way out.

And then she meets Everett, whose presence changes her entire existence.

Everett is an outsider to her small community, in town for the summer housesitting one of the grand mansions off the Mississippi coast. When he saves her in a bar one night, she's grateful but wary of his intentions. Lacey doesn't trust most men in her life, but for reasons Lacey can't understand, Everett is completely captivated by her. He's determined to show her that life can offer more than she'd ever hoped for, if only she believes in herself. As she works with him to free herself, Lacey desperately yearns to trust him, to move on and perhaps start fresh.

But what happens when she finds out that everything he's told her about himself was a lie?

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Girl, Interrupted meets Beautiful Disaster in this thrilling and sexy debut novel, in which a college student learns her perfect life is a lie and finds new love where she least expects it—a mental institution.

Freaks, misfits, and psychopaths. Those are the kinds of people found at Newton Heights Psychiatric Hospital, and high-society girl Lucy White’s new home.

Freaks, misfits, and Jayden McCray. Jayden has his own set of rules for life at Newton Heights, and in this enigma, Lucy finds a way to live with the events that left her cheating boyfriend and best friend dead—and Lucy in the middle of the investigation into their demise.

The problem? Jayden makes her want things she’s not supposed to have, blurring the lines between fantasy and reality and making Lucy feel more at home in Newton Heights than she ever did at home. But this isn’t how her life is supposed to be…

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Only fools fall in love...

After her senior year of high school leaves behind nothing but heartache, Olivia Beaumont is sure of this: She’s no stupid girl. She sets out for Winston College, promising herself that she will remain focused on her first and only love – astronomy. But all it takes is cocky sophomore Brax Jenkins and an accidental collision with a football, to throw her entire year off course.

A quick-tempered Southie who escaped the inner city streets of Boston to pitch for Winston, Brax is known to play way more fields than just the baseball diamond. So, when his name is drawn to take part in his fraternity’s hazing dare, Brax eagerly accepts the mission to take Olivia’s virginity. But he doesn’t plan on falling hard for the sweet and sassy Texas girl who sees right through his bad-boy persona.

As Olivia and Brax battle their feelings for each other, echoes of the past year begin to surface. A boy who once turned Olivia’s whole world upside down reappears, and “harmless” pranks wreak havoc. Pretty soon the aspiring astronomer is on the verge of revealing her most difficult, heartbreaking secret. All the while, Brax must wrestle with the irrevocable dare, and Olivia struggles against all logic as she does the one thing only a stupid girl would do: fall in love.

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When Alexis Cassidy, an overweight, self conscious college sophomore, takes an au pair job in Greece, sitting for the daughter of Nikko Georgiou, a gorgeous, billionaire CEO, she knows he’s just the guy to give her the sexual experiences she’s looking for. Too bad he’s her boss, which means he’s hands off. But when she glimpses his hot neighbor through her bedroom window, she can’t help but wonder if he’d be interested in teaching a full figured girl a thing or two between the sheets, at the night club...in the hot tub.

Nikko catches the way his new au pair looks at Dimitri, his business partner/neighbor, and instantly knows what she wants. Since he and Dimitri share everything, professionally and personally, they put together a seductive plan...give Alexis the authentic Greek experience she’s after, all the while showing her that four hands are better than two.

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Geeky college student Claire Thomas suffers a humiliating rejection from the man of her dreams, and vows to learn the tricks of seduction. Her friends have the perfect tutor—Yardley College’s gorgeous king of one-night-stands, Sawyer Tremaine. Claire makes a wild proposal to Sawyer: she’ll tutor him in exchange for lessons in pleasuring a man. But she doesn’t know he’s more interested in giving her the hottest sensual pleasure imaginable than in teaching her skills.

Sawyer is the hottest and fastest rider on the East Coast illegal street bike racing circuit, but he’s fighting to escape the dangerous world and its high-stakes gambling. His psychotic ‘sponsor’ will go to any lengths to force him to ride. Can Sawyer break free and protect Claire—or will he lose her once she learns the dark secrets of his past?

Book 1, Yardley College Bikers. For readers 18 +. Previously published in the New York Times bestselling Riding Desire Box Set.

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**The first book in the USA Today Bestselling No Regrets series**

A new adult story of Love. Sex. Addiction. Blackmail. And Power...
Some say love can be an addiction. Others say it's the thing that makes life worth living. Let me tell you everything I know about love... Love isn't patient, love isn't kind. Love is a game, a chase. A thrill. Love is wild and war-like, and every man and woman must fight for themselves. At least that's how it was for me. A high-priced virgin call girl by the time I started college, I was addicted to love and to sex. Even though I've never had either. I controlled love, played it, and held the world in the palm of my hands. Then I fell down from those highs, and I'm being blackmailed for all my mistakes, forced to keep secrets from everyone, except the only guy I don't regret.

Trey.

**** With all the other women, I knew what they were. They were temporary. They were pills, they were bottles, they took away all the pain, and numbed the awful memories that wore away at my ragged, wasted heart. Until I met Harley. She's the only girl I ever missed when she walked away. But now she's back in my life, every day, and there are no guarantees for us, especially since I don't know how to tell her my secrets. What happened to my family. All I know is she's the closest I've ever come to something real, and I want to feel every second of it.
How can you love with no regrets when regret is all you know?

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You ever really think that you'll win the lottery? Meet Mr. Right? How about two Mr. Rights?

Somehow the universe is handing me everything I want (except for that lottery part...), and I don't like it. Not one little bit. Because just when you get all your dreams handed to you on a silver platter, that's when an airplane dumps its sewage on your house. Or your mama's diabetes takes a bad turn. Or your mobile phone gets stuck in your hoohaw.

(What? It happens…)

Boring old average me got everything I wanted already, moving from small-town Ohio to big-city Boston to follow my heart. So when the fancy invitation offering me a pile of money to come with the band, Random Acts of Crazy, to perform on an island resort and be their manager arrived, I thought it was a cosmic joke. Enough money to help my mama get what she needed, five days in sunny paradise, and a shot at greatness for the band? Unreal. One big shoe was waiting to drop. On my head.

Just like no one really ever finds a naked man wearing only a guitar standing by the side of the road hitchhiking and ends up falling in love with him and his friend and moving halfway across the country for true love, no one gets an invitation to come to what turns out to be a resort where people make what me and Joe and Trevor do together look like a chaste peck on the cheek. But...

Well.

I guess these things do happen.

To me.

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