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Wednesday, January 20, 2016

THE FALL OF THE RED QUEEN RELEASE DAY

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:


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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