Dare to Hold Preorder Contest:
From the
fabulous Carly Phillips:
Huge contest - with lots of goodies!
Dare to Hold
is releasing on April 14th and I'm SO excited.
To share in
the excitement and to give back to my wonderful readers, I'm holding a BIG
pre-order campaign contest. I've set a goal to have 8,000 preorders by release
day, and I need YOUR help to reach my goal.
First up -
is to hit my first goal of 5,000 preorders (lofty I know!)
Once I hit
that number I'll be giving away a $25 gift card to Amazon and I'll post the
first three chapters of Dare to Hold on my site for everyone to enjoy!
But that's
not all - I've set "milestones" to happen along the way with some
terrific prizes that include:
$50 Amazon Gift Card
$100 Amazon Gift Card
$250 Amazon Gift Card
5 Early E-copies of Dare to Hold
Signed copies of ALL the Dare books
Tea/Drink/Lunch with me for one lucky
winner at RWA in New York or NINC in St. Pete’s Florida (don’t’ worry if you
can’t attend either event, you’ll have your choice of a gift card to an online
retailer that allows e-gift cards for $200)
And if we
surpass my preorder goal, I have a super exciting grand prize that I'll
announce later.
How to
enter? Share this post with your friends, like this post, comment on this post
AND fill out the form at the bottom of this post.
Once I reach
each goal, I'll pull a winner from the list and share with everyone!
Preorder:
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New Dare to Love Kindle World Books:
6 new Dare
to Love Kindle World books just released – check them out:
Mari Carr – One Daring Night
Joni’s had better birthdays. Catching her boyfriend at a
fancy restaurant with some bimbo certainly wasn’t what she’d wished for when
she blew out the candles. Newly unattached, she’s ready to embrace singlehood
by going wild, being reckless, maybe even indulging in some meaningless sex.
Depressed with his shallow love life, Eric
Bryant is commiserating with his friend, Alex Dare, over a meal at his favorite
restaurant. He vows to marry the next woman he sleeps with—just before a
firecracker confronts her cheating boyfriend at the next table. Intrigued, Eric
offers to buy her a beer. Joni agrees on two conditions: She wants tequila, and
complete honesty. Eric promises nothing but the truth.
After one daring night, what happens when two
people with such similar hungers want such different futures?
Erin Nicholas: A Dare Worth Taking
Sometimes there’s no escaping
Destiny…
When Miami Thunder star receiver Jax Elliot fell
in love with Destiny Duncan, it felt right. He didn’t care that she was a
trainer from the Thunder’s biggest rivals. Didn’t care about this boss or hers,
didn’t care what the fans or the media thought. Destiny was the best thing to
ever happen to him—until he started dropping the ball. Literally. And he was
forced to make a choice. The woman he loved. Or the game he loved.
He chose poorly.
Months later, in need of a trainer he can trust,
Jax turns to the woman he still wants above all others. Things quickly turn
physical—the sex between them more explosive than ever—and the physical quickly
becomes emotional. One thing hasn’t changed: Jax and Des are still deeply in
love. But something else remains the same as well. He still can’t catch a damn
ball with Destiny in his head.
It’ll take a Dare—or three—to help Jax
understand it’s not about catching every ball…it’s about knowing the woman he
loves will always be there to catch him.
Sami Lee: Twice as Daring
Publicist Abby Lehman likes her job—until she finds herself
working as a glorified babysitter for cocky-as-the-devil NFL star Sam Cormack.
Sam is unpredictable, unruly, impossible—and also impossibly sexy. It has taken
all Abby’s willpower to keep from throwing herself at him like one of his
groupies. When her boss insists she accompany Sam to a black tie restaurant
opening, things heat up even further. And when she finds out Sam has also been
lusting after her she throws caution to the wind and indulges in a hot tryst
with him that threatens her career as well as her heart.
Sam knows he screwed up with Abby and curses his
impulsive nature. Making love to her was something he’d wanted for a long time,
but he should have taken things slower with her, made sure they got to know each
other. Now she thinks he only wants her for sex, just when Sam’s realizing
she’s the first woman to make him want the real deal in a long time.
Can he make her believe he’s ready to put his
playboy days behind him and start something real with his Miss Right?
Cari
Quinn: If You Dare
He’ll help her speed right past her limits…if she dares.
Pop princess Peyton Pryor wants just one night
to break out of the mold she’s been stuck in for way too long. Successful
beyond her wildest dreams, she can’t help wanting more—to write her own music,
to head into edgier territory, to have some fun. Particularly the naughty kind
that doesn’t match her pristine, sanitized image.
An illicit joyride in a borrowed Porsche leads
her straight to ex-Detective and current romantic suspense author Noah Keaton,
who has been feeling itchy about his own mold lately. After turning his back on
being a cop, he’s been on the straight and narrow for far too long. If Peyton’s
hungry for experience, he’s just the man for the job. Because he’s hungry for
her.
Maybe this time, one dare will become so much
more…
Rhian
Cahill: Her Daring Mistake
There’s something familiar about the gorgeous woman across
the crowded club. When he “accidentally” bumps into her, Alex Dean is shocked
to discover what it is: The tall, leggy blonde is none other than Sadie
Emerson, his college math tutor—and the subject of more fantasies than he could
count. Years later, she’s looking better than ever. He has to have her.
Tonight. Immediately.
Does it really matter that she thinks she’s
going home with his buddy, Alex Dare?
Apparently it does. Because she sneaks away the
morning after. Twice. First, when she discovers her mistake, then when she
decides her upcoming more to New York makes them a two-day stand at best. But
the sex is off-the-charts combustible, and Alex is already seeing stars,
hearing bells…envisioning houses and picket fences and other things he’d never
considered.
Now all he has to do is convince Sadie his
feelings are real. His shy wallflower might consider him a daring mistake—but
Alex has never been more certain.
Taryn Elliott – Double Dare
A blind date from hell turns into a dare that changes
everything.
Jewelry designer Presley Warren is sick of
spending every single night alone. The crushing weight of running her family’s
business leaves little time for the designing she loves. It’s no surprise that
dating is last on her to-do list. In a moment of weakness she agrees to let her
best friend set her up.
In a funk, millionaire Vance O’Neal is dragged to
the first home game of the season for the Miami Thunder. He literally runs into
a gorgeous blond as soon as he walks into the stadium. She’s light and laughter
and the first woman to pull at him in years. One problem—she’s already taken.
In a twist of fate, he’s seated next to Presley at the game. Her date shows his
true colors as a rude, self-involved jerk so Vance can’t help himself when the
Halftime Kiss Cam pans onto them. He dares her to kiss him—in fact, he double
dares her to take a chance on a stranger.
He’s convinced her to start with one night—now
he wants a shot at forever.
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BELLA ANDRE – Can’t Help Falling in Love (The Sullivans)
MELISSA FOSTER – Seaside Dreams (Seaside Summers)
LAUREN BLAKELY – Trophy Husband (Caught Up in Love)
VIOLET DUKE – Love, Tussles, and Takedowns (Cactus Creek)
SAWYER BENNETT – On the Rocks (The Last Call)
CARLY PHILLIPS – Dare to Desire (Dare to Love)
ERIN NICHOLAS – Out of Bounds (Boys of Fall)
MELANIE SHAWN – Actually Love (Crossroads)
JESSIE EVANS – Diamonds and Dust (Lonesome Point Texas)
CRISTA MCHUGH – Falling for the Wingman (The Kelly Brothers)
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CAN'T HELP FALLING IN LOVE
by Bella Andre
Gabe Sullivan’s captain, Todd, stepped into the room.
“How’re you feeling, Gabe?”
“Good, Captain.”
He moved to sit up straighter on the bed and Todd shook his head. “You’re fine just like that. I know your skull must hurt like hell.” He nodded back to the doorway. “Are you ready to see Ms. Harris and her daughter, Summer?”
No, he thought, he’d be better off never seeing those eyes again.
He’d thought about Megan and her daughter one too many times for comfort. Not just because he was reviewing the rescue, trying to look for what he could have done differently, to have gotten them out faster and more safely—but because he hadn’t been able to forget her strength, how hard she’d fought to stay conscious, and what a fighter she’d been every single second of the harrowing journey from her burning apartment.
Still, he understood that fire victims often felt compelled to say thank you to the men who had saved them. Especially in a case like this, where they’d just barely held death at bay.
“Sure.” He began to nod, but a sharp shooting pain stopped him halfway into the movement.
Catching his grimace, Todd said, “I’ll ask Megan and her daughter to come back later.”
Her name fit her, Gabe had found himself thinking one too many times. Megan was pretty and strong all at the same time. It would be better to think of her as Ms. Harris. Although, he had to wonder, was there a husband? And if so, where had he been during the fire and why wasn’t he here with them now?
“No,” he said, “it’ll be better if I see them now.”
She’d say thank you, he’d tell her he was happy to see her and her daughter doing so well, and that would be that. No more being haunted by her eyes, by the surprising strength she’d shown him as she’d crawled on the floor of her apartment and down the stairs.
A couple of minutes later, Todd walked back in with the mother and daughter. Ignoring the pain in his head, Gabe sat up higher and forced a smile on his face.
And then, his eyes locked with Megan’s and his smile froze in place.
My God, he found himself thinking before he could shove the thought away, she’s beautiful.
The last time he’d seen her face it had been through a thick haze of dark smoke and the knowledge that one wrong move meant their lives were over. Her eyes were just as big and pretty, her limbs looked as lean and strong as they had when he’d been helping to move her along the floor, but now he could see the softness in her, the sweet curves of her breasts and hips in her T-shirt and jeans. He couldn’t stop staring at the startling green of her eyes, the silky dark hair falling across her shoulders, and the way her pretty young daughter was a carbon copy of her, the only difference their hair color, one dark, one light.
She seemed just as stunned as he and for a long moment, the two of them just stared at each other in silence until her daughter ran over to him and threw her arms around him.
LOVE, TUSSLES, AND TAKEDOWNS
BY VIOLET DUKE
She felt his eyes on her before she saw him.
Her body recognized the intensity of that stare as if it were hardwired to her directly.
The guys were all but forgotten now. Hell, the whole room faded away like white noise as she watched Hudson climb into the ring.
Lia enjoyed watching him move. There was nothing hurried about his motions; he always seemed relaxed and confident, efficient and ready. He wasn’t intimidating in that built-like-a-fridge way her friends who’d played football in college were. Rather, he was leaner. But infinitely harder. More etched out of wood than molded out of clay. As such, running into his chest was literally like running into a wall.
A hard, sexy wall lined with bricks.
“You’re killing me.” His voice simmered, soft and low, with a lazy smile curving his lips to show his words were more compliment than complaint. It took just one glance at the throbbing pulse in the muscular column of his neck for Lia to know he wasn’t nearly as unaffected as he sounded.
Then all analysis of the man scattered when he went and peeled his shirt up over his head, sending those granite-etched muscles of his back rippling and expanding. His eyes tangled with hers as he toed off his shoes and immediately, Lia felt a surge of adrenaline override any female reaction she’d normally have to the sight.
Because the man was doing something so much better than flirting.
He was inviting her to play.
No gloves. No strike pads.
With a slow grin, she snagged her teeth around the Velcro bindings on her MMA gloves and started stripping off the boxing tape underneath as well.
This was exactly the kind of sparring she’d been craving for weeks now.
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