Release Day Blitz for Lexxi Callahan
January 20th, 2016
THE FALL OF THE RED QUEEN
Today is the
release of the 3rd book in the Self Made Men…Southern Style Series
by Lexxi Callahan. THE FALL OF THE RED QUEEN tells the story of Madlyn, the
ruthless lawyer from SWEETENED WITH A KISS, who finally gives us her side of
the story.
Blurb:
Madlyn
Robicheaux earned her reputation as the Red Queen. She crushes her opponents
with a calculated ruthlessness that never loses. Jared Marshall is a distraction
she doesn’t want or need. Even worse, he’s a threat. If she’s not careful, he
could blow the lid off everything she’s spent ten years protecting, but
crushing Jared is proving as impossible as resisting him.
Jared
Marshall hates being a lawyer, he’d rather play with his band at Trick’s or
make cheesecake at his bakery. His one shot at avoiding the family firm rests
on convincing the Red Queen to join Marshall and Marshall. But when his
legendary charm fails, he falls straight through the looking glass where
nothing is as it seems. And the chemistry that blows up between them exposes a
shocking vulnerability that questions everything he’s ever believed about her.
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The Fall of
the Red Queen is Book 3 in the Southern Style Series. While it can stand alone,
it’s highly recommended that you read Sweetened with a Kiss first. Not a
serial. Each book in the Southern Style Series features a different couple with
standalone HEA. It's category style contemporary romance told in third person
from the point of view of both hero and heroine. It has been professionally
edited, copy-edited and proofed. Intended for mature audiences only
Purchase Links:
Barnes &
Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-fall-of-the-red-queen-lexxi-callahan/1123187330?ean=2940152808780
Self Made Man…Southern
Style Series
Book 1:
Sweetened with a Kiss - http://amzn.com/B00DCBMEQW
(available for FREE with Kindle Unlimited)
Jen Taylor has loved Stefan Sellers all her life. When he
surprised her with an engagement ring, she thought all her dreams were coming
true. But when she discovers Stefan has an agenda that she never even
suspected, she breaks off the engagement and goes to pastry school in Paris.
Now she’s back in New Orleans, and she has no intention of marrying him for all
the wrong reasons. She just has to convince him that marriage is a bad idea. If
only she wasn’t having so much trouble convincing herself.
Book 2:
Solving for Nic – http://amzn.com/B00QBDEQSM (available for
FREE with Kindle Unlimited)
Now that Lizzie Sellers is twenty-one, Nic Maretti can’t
think of a single reason why he has to stay away from her any longer. When he
sees her again at Stefan and Jen’s wedding, he decides he wants her. And what
Nic wants, Nic gets. He just gets a whole lot more than he bargained for with
Lizzie…
Book 3: The
Fall of the Red Queen
Madlyn Robicheaux earned her reputation as the Red Queen. She
crushes her opponents with a calculated ruthlessness that never loses. Jared
Marshall is a distraction she doesn’t want or need. Even worse, he’s a threat.
If she’s not careful, he could blow the lid off everything she’s spent ten
years protecting, but crushing Jared is proving as impossible as resisting him.
Excerpt:
That was
Madlyn Robicheaux.
She was good
at destroying things, even seemed to enjoy it. If he convinced her to join
Marshall and Marshall, she could continue wreaking havoc, and he could go back
to doing what he loved. So as much as he despised the Red Queen, he needed her
to take this offer. All he had to do now was convince her they were her only
option. And Jared was good at convincing people to do what he wanted.
He stopped
at a Vietnamese place without asking if she liked Vietnamese food. She didn’t
speak when he parked the car. She stayed silent as they walked into the
restaurant and were seated.
She wasn’t
sulking. She was waiting. Patiently.
Too
patiently.
Like a
spider who had finished its web and now waited for its prey to stumble into the
trap. It unnerved him more than he wanted to admit.
“So,
Maddie,” he began, determined to disturb her more than she was disturbing him.
He relished the way she flinched when he used her nickname. She didn’t like it,
which made him like it more. It was so not her. She was too hard around the
edges to be a ‘Maddie.’ “What was that about holding Robbie hostage?”
The server
arrived, and Madlyn quickly gave the girl her order while avoiding his
question.
“Same.”
Jared handed the girl the laminated menu without looking away from Madlyn. Her
eyes met his, but this time he was ready. The intensity of eye contact with her
should've reduced him to ash. Instead, it made him want to reach across the
table and rub some heat into that frozen expression.
“What do you
want?” She surprised him by glancing away first.
“After what
he did to Jen Taylor, do you really have to ask?”
“Taylor?”
Madlyn’s eyebrows lifted. “Don’t you mean Jen Sellers?”
That barb
fell short, but he didn’t let it show. “Your grandfather kidnapped her, drugged
her, and tried to annul her marriage. He’s not getting away with it.”
She didn’t
blink at the accusation, but she also didn’t deny it. “I’m confused. You don’t
mind that she’s married to Stefan? Seriously?” Her smile was pure evil. “Oh,
that’s right. You escorted her down the aisle, didn’t you? How’d handing her
over to Stefan feel?”
“She loves
Stefan.”
“So you’re
just friends?” She was laughing at him, but her expression didn’t change.
“That’s
right,” he bit out. They were just friends. He loved Jen. He’d die for her. But
he’d realized a while back he wasn’t in love with her.
Those black
eyes sized him up, searching for a weakness. When she didn’t find one, she
released a bored sigh. “It doesn’t matter. I’m not going to help you destroy my
grandfather.”
“Are you
sure about that? Because things aren’t looking so good for you.”
Her bored
expression never wavered. “Be a good messenger boy. Go back and tell your daddy
I said no.”
His head
snapped back. “Messenger boy?” Boy?
She smiled
again. Well, it wasn’t so much a smile as it was a show of even white teeth.
And while her mouth was surprisingly kissable, she’d probably bite him.
Although
biting didn’t sound awful.
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