#DFRAT, Crimson Romance Sale, and a Loaded Kindle Fire Giveaway

Starting July 1st, Novel Thoughts will be participating in the second Digital First Read-a-Thon with Book Binge, Tracy’s Place, and The Book Reading Gals. We’re super thrilled to be cross-promoting all things digital first with some fabulous book bloggers again.

For the entire month of July, we challenge each and every reader out there to read as many digital first e-books as you can. There isn’t a set number of books you have to read. There isn’t a set list of authors that you must read. For that part of the challenge, you set the rules. The only rule we have is that the books read for this challenge have to have been published as an e-book FIRST.

We’re not talking about the e-books that are being re-released right now that were originally released in print format or part of print anthologies back in the day.  All books that were released to the public as e-books first.

You can track your reads at Goodreads by creating a DFRAT shelf. If you aren’t a member, Book Binge has created a list where you can share your reads with us. Just click here and enter your reads. 

If you’re participating, add your information here for a chance to win a $25 gift card to either Amazon or B&N.

I also invite you to share what you’re reading every Friday. Book Binge will do a post and we want to hear what you’re reading too. Check that out here.

Please remember, we’re hosting this month long read-a-thon to bring attention to the awesome books that you might be missing because you keep passing them up for those print books. There are tons of fabulous authors publishing digital books and you might be missing out. Stick around and find some new to you authors, you just might find a new favorite.

There will be heaps of authors stopping by all four blogs involved with the Digital First Read-a-Thon so really, come play with us. We’ll have giveaways, excerpts and a whole bunch of other goodies so it should be a good time. Load up those e-readers everybody, we’re going to have loads of fun come July 1st. Remember, the more you comment on all posts for DFRAT, the better your chances are of winning something!

Crimson Romance has discounted ALL their books on Amazon to $1.99 through the month of July. This is a great opportunity to stock up for the Digital First Read-a-Thon!

 

And to celebrate their anniversary, Crimson Romance is doing an awesome giveaway!

This month, we’re celebrating a special occasion! It’s a very happy birthday for Crimson Romance, which launched in June 2012.

Since then we’ve released more than 260 titles in eBook and print, and Crimson has become the place to find heartwarming, smart romances in today’s favorite genres – contemporary, historical, suspense, paranormal, spicy and more! From classic themes to fresh voices, to-die-for heroes to hip heroines, Crimson has something for every reader.

Our authors have been nominated for and won many RWA chapter awards, and received glowing praise from romance stars like Debbie Macomber, Kat Martin, and other USA Today bestselling authors.  We pride ourselves on our diverse characters and plots, and were recently voted the best multicultural/interracial romance publisher by more than 1500 readers polled in the Swirl Awards.

Now is the time stock up on steamy summer reading to stash in your beach bag, and bring with you wherever your travels may take you.

To celebrate our incredible first year, we’re giving away a Kindle Fire HD – fully loaded with EVERY book (over 250 titles) published in our first year!

This sweeps kicks off June 15^th and runs through July 15^th.

Click the banner below for all the details.

Are you ready? All blog posts at Novel Thoughts that are part of the Digital First Read-a-Thon will have DFRAT in the title and these giveaways are open for the entire month. The winners will be drawn on August 1st.

Happy reading!

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Winter Austin winner

Maria D

wins a digital copy of Retribution by Winter Austin

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Congrats! To claim your prize, please email lillie80 @ gmail.com (without the spaces). You have 48 hours to email before a new name is chosen.

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Secondary Character Love by Winter Austin

Called to the homicide of a Dallas criminal lawyer, Detective Remy LeBeau stares at a scene that drags him back into his past. To another murdered lawyer in New Orleans. A case that put Remy on a collision course with death.

 

Cody Lewis struggles with the horrific memories of her kidnapping and the need to numb the pain. The battle she puts up causes her to avoid Remy and their undetermined relationship. But the flashbacks and nightmares are proving more potent than Cody thought and she’s having a harder time resisting the cravings for alcohol.

 

As the case takes a turn in revealing a professional assassin is behind the death, Remy begins to make decisions that could cost him his job and Cody. Because the deeper he sinks, the closer the enemies of his past come to finding him.

 

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While writing my second book, Retribution, two things happened. First, I discovered some astonishing secrets that were hidden deep within two of my secondary characters. Number two thing, I had beta readers screaming for me to start writing books on those characters because they fell madly in love with them. Well, I did too, and I’m the creator. For me, as with most authors, characters are like real people and they speak to me, and sometimes kind of like the way my teenage kids do, like smart aleks.

 

I love it when secondary characters take on a life of their own and add to the layers or flavor of the story. They can either irritate the main characters to no end, or enhance their personalities. For both of my main characters they have a cast of secondary characters lined up behind them that bring out a different aspect in both. But for this post I’ll focus on just two of them.

 

For my hero, Detective Remy LeBeau, it was his partner, Detective Heath Anderson. Heath showed up in my first book years after I created Remy. Eventually this good ole Texas boy began revealing bits and pieces of himself to turn him into a force to reckon with. He kept pushing and prodding into Remy’s life and past, hoping to crack that thick block of ice around Remy. I never understood why it was so important to Heath—well, I did from the aspect that most detective partners are like brothers, they rely on that protection to make it through the job. But it wasn’t until Heath finally connected with the other main character, Cody Lewis, that the flood gates opened up. I can’t give too much away, it would ruin Retribution for you, but let’s just say, what Heath was hiding I never saw it coming.

 

Then there was Cody’s longstanding best friend, Kimberly Anne Gregory. Kim has been in Cody’s life for as long as I’ve known Cody, but she didn’t step onto the story book stage until Retribution. Kim is a whirlwind, go-getter who loves life and brings out the feminine side of Cody. Yet Kim’s life is an enigma, but I knew one aspect of it for a long time—can’t tell ya, it’d blow the secret. Oddly enough, I never planned this, but the moment Kim and Heath met in Retribution, sparks flew. And well, I had a new romance starting to bud within the main arc for Cody and Remy’s story. Because of this, I got hammered with: “You better write a book for Heath and Kim.”

 

Ha ha, I actually do have a story for them, but book 3 needs to release first.

 

I’m not the first and nor will I be the last author to have readers beg to see books for their favorite secondary characters. I’ve been getting requests for books for some secondary characters from my first book, Relentless. And believe me, I do have some general ideas for books for most of my secondary characters.

 

Now the question remains: How far will this secondary cast take my book series? I hope for a while longer.

 

About the author:

Winter Austin was once asked by her husband if he could meet some of the people who took residence in her head. She warned they weren’t all characters he wanted to meet, as killers walked among them. Needless to say, that conversation ended abruptly.

 

A lifelong Mid-West gal, Winter swears she should have been born in the South, Texas or Louisiana preferably. But then she’d miss the snowy winters.

 

Dividing her day between her four children and their various activities, a growing pet population, and her Beta-with-Alpha-tendencies Hero, Winter manages to find time to write chilling thrillers between loads of laundry.

 

Don’t worry. You won’t find any of her mouthwatering culinary dishes poisoned. Unless you’re one of her fictional creations.

 

You can learn more about Winter Austin and her current and upcoming releases by visiting her website: http://www.winteraustin.com

Or her Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/w.austin.degressofdarkness

 

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For the chance to win a digital copy of Retribution by Winter Austin, just leave a comment below. Good luck!

 

 

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Getting’ Your Married On by Theresa Rizzo

If you grow up in a less than a Leave-it-to Beaver home environment like Catherine and Thomas did without good role models, there are bound to be some adjustment issues. Heck even with good role models, there will be growing pains.

Living and melding your life with another person’s is hard—then when you add in the complications of old emotional baggage on either, or both sides, it can really be really challenging and one has to keep a sense of humor and perspective to survive those early years where a couple is feeling their way around, trying to create their own rhythm—hmmm no sexual puns intended.

But now that you went there . . . sex does serve to complicate things. Just sayin’.

Anyhow, sex aside, trying to live with another person and be a good, roommate, companion, confidant, support, lover, etc. takes work, as Catherine and Thomas found out.  And there are bound to be a bunch of missteps—like Catherine making Thomas enough breakfast for four men, and the eggs that could be used as hockey pucks that Thomas gamely tried to choke them down, while trying not to look at his watch ‘cause he never ate breakfast and taking the time to do so is going to get him stuck in traffic and make him late for work.

Catherine tries again and again to connect with Thomas, without actually coming out and telling him what she’s doing or why.  She reads magazines about how to please your man and follows that advice, but it doesn’t work out so well for her.

 

Even couples from functional families (is there really such a thing?) have their initial missteps and awkwardness in learning the marriage ropes. We all do silly things when first married in effort to be the perfect spouse.

 

What silly newlywed thing did you do in an effort to please your new spouse? What awkward/funny incident will you never live down?

 

Blurb:

He Belongs to Me is a love story . . . a tale of betrayal and deception and of a young mother’s determination to recover what belongs to her.

Forced to leave her baby and tricked into relinquishing her parental rights, four years later Catherine Boyd is back and she’ll do anything to regain custody of her son–even reconcile with the husband falsely accused of killing their son’s twin.

All in the name of love for a little boy, generations of pain and tragedy are exposed in a courtroom drama.

 

 

Short Bio-Theresa Rizzo is an award-winning author who writes emotional stories that explore the complexity of relationships and families through real-life trials. 

Born and raised in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, she currently lives outside of Boulder, Colorado with her husband of thirty years. She’s raised four wonderful children who are now scattered across the country.

 

Find Theresa On the Web:

•   Website

•  Facebook

•  Twitter

• Goodreads

Book Buy Links:

• Amazon 

• Amazon Ca

• Kindle

• Barnes & Noble

• iBookstore

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Winners!

Shannon Burdsall

wins a swag pack and a digital backlist title from Carrie Ann Ryan

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Judith Laik

wins a digital copy of The Marquess of Cake by Heather Hiestand

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Congrats! To claim your prize, please email mad @ romancereaderatheart.com (without the spaces). You have 48 hours to email before a new name is chosen.

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The Story Behind The Marquess of Cake By Heather Hiestand

While it’s true that my first sale in romance was a Victorian historical fantasy short story, I ended up writing contemporary and paranormal romance when I sold book-length fiction. You may wonder how I ended up writing a series about a bakery set in 1880s London. Here’s my story…

2010: Respiratory problems were going to be an issue for my baby, given that asthma is on both sides of his family tree. I wasn’t expecting croup to come into our lives, but it’s the baby form of bronchitis, which I’m all too familiar with. What really surprised me though, was that one of the treatments for it was plunking the young sufferer in front of the television.

I’d understood that you weren’t supposed to expose babies to TV until they were two, but here I was being told to keep my one-year-old quiet, and TV definitely worked. I didn’t want to let him watch non-family-oriented TV though. My days of watching shows like the full-of-dead-bodies Bones were over. Plus, he’d only stop crying if he was resting on my bed, rather than on his floor play area in the living room, our only room with a television. So, I downloaded the first season of Top Chef onto my laptop using Amazon credits (I didn’t have Wi Fi or Netflix back then) and curled us up on the bed. He was mesmerized and in the end came through three bouts of croup with only one trip to the Emergency Room.

Me? I came out of the croup era with a cooking show addiction, because we moved on from Top Chef to the cake decorating shows that were on every day back then. Food Network was our best friend.

I had been writing shorter fiction again, because of sleep deprivation whittling my brain power. When I thought I’d try a novel, I spoke to my friend Eilis Flynn about working together, and she suggested we give steampunk a try. (In 2013, this led to our release of Victorian vampire historical fantasy Wear Black.) I had been writing steampunk with her, then alone, but I started to envision a Victorian bakery where a young woman toiled away in the basement decorating cakes. Soon I had my heroine, Alys Redcake, a cake decorator at her father’s tea shop and emporium. She’s twenty-six and has given up on finding a husband, putting all her love and care into the cakes she decorates so beautifully.

Until one day, she bumps into a handsome man outside the bakery door, and her life changes!

My story was set during the same time period as my steampunk tales, but didn’t require an alternate history world. So in a roundabout way, I made a journey back to Victorian romance.

Here is the blurb for Marquess of Cake:

Coffee. . .tea. . .or a pastry chef sweeter than any confection. . .

Scotch trifle fit for Queen Victoria, scones with clotted cream. . .Alys Redcake knows the way to a man’s heart. Yet she is unaware that with each morsel–and flash of ankle–she is seducing the handsome marquess frequenting her father’s tea shop. Unmarried at twenty-six, Alys’s first love is the family business. But thoughts of the gentleman’s touch are driving her to distraction. . .

With his weakness for sugar, the Marquess of Hatbrook can imagine no more desirable woman than one scented with cake and spice. Mistaking Alys for a mere waitress, he has no doubt she would make a most delicious mistress. And when he finds himself in need of an heir, he plans to make her his convenient bride. Yet as they satisfy their craving for one another, business and pleasure suddenly collide. Will Hatbrook’s passion for sweets–and for Alys–be his heart’s undoing?

To read about Marquess of Cake go to http://www.kensingtonbooks.com/book.aspx/22722 You can purchase there or find all the links to your favorite etailer.

To learn more about Heather Hiestand and the stories she creates go to: http://www.heatherhiestand.com or http://blog.heatherhiestand.com or http://www.twitter.com/hahiestand

Heather is on a blog tour during the month of July. Check her blog to find out where she is. Many of the blog spots have prizes!

 

 

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For a chance to win a digital copy of The Marquess of Cake by heather Hiestand, leave a comment below. Good luck!

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Cover Goodness – Melting the Ice by Jaci Burton

Jaci Burton getting a new Play-by-Play cover is better than Christmas morning! She shared the cover for Melting the Ice and it’s just…shew. *fans self*

Carolina Preston has only one goal in mind—launching her new fashion line. She needs only one last thing to make it perfect—hockey phenom Drew Hogan. But Carolina and Drew have a history that goes back to their college days, and Carolina doesn’t want the embarrassment of her past to cloud the brightness of her future. Drew is eager for the chance to show Carolina he isn’t the boy who hurt her back then, but a man now, with the skills necessary to melt the icy exterior of her cold heart.

 

jaciburton.com

February 2014

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2nd Annual Digital-First Read-a-Thon

Once again, Novel Thoughts will be participating in the Digital-First Read-a-Thon, organized by the wonderful ladies at Book Binge.

 

From Book Binge:

Last year we took the month of June to spotlights books that are published in digital first. We feel there are a lot of hidden gems in the digital-first market that don’t get they love they deserve, which is why we created the event.

We plan to bring the DFRAT back for a second year. Due to scheduling conflicts, this year we’re moving the event to July. We are once again partnering with RR@H Novel Thoughts, The Book Reading Gals and Tracy’s Place.

July 1, we’ll be kicking off our Digital First Read-a-Thon. The idea is to promote digital first publishing by reading as many books published in digital first as possible during the month.

Authors: We’re looking for digital authors who are looking to promote an upcoming release, share an excerpt or who might be willing to offer prizes (swag, ebooks, etc) for the event.

Digital Publishers: We’re looking for a catalog of Spring and Summer releases from all digital publishing houses that we can share with the participants of the event.

Bloggers: If you’re interested in helping us promote the event, or if you’d like to participate, let me know. The more people who get involved, the better.

Readers: We hope you think about joining. This is a great opportunity to try out digital reading for the first time, discover new authors, or revisit some of your old favorites.

Please email me at dfrat @ thebookbinge.com (no spaces)  if you’re interested in participating in some way.

We’re really looking forward to taking the month to spotlight some fresh new digital content. We hope you’ll join us!

 

 

 

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Jessi Gage – Guest blog and Giveaway

Thank you for hosting me today, Mad! I’m excited to dish about the romance trope I love to hate (and hate to love) and how I gave it my own unique spin.

 

We romance readers love a good trope…or twelve. Some of my favorites include the alpha who needs a mate (paranormal), the wealthy rake marries the destitute or dishonored noblewoman (historical), the modern-day heroine falls for the historical man (time-travel), the vampire who can’t help but read people’s thoughts finds sweet relief in the special human woman whose mind is a blank to him (paranormal), and the old standby, tough chick decides love is for idiots and masochists.

 

Then there’s the amnesia trope. Some love it. Some hate it. But one thing’s for sure. It sells. People gobble it up. What’s the draw of an amnesia trope? A couple of things, I think, and I’m by no means an expert since I’ve only read a handful of books with this trope.

 

First, we love a good power imbalance. In DEAD TO THE WORLD (Charlaine Harris), the dynamic between Sookie and Eric in books 1-3 gets flipped on its head for book 4. Suddenly Sookie’s the one calling the shots and making provisions for the vampire who can’t remember who he is. It’s delicious because Eric had been such a jerk to her at times, and we get to see Sookie rise above all that and extend a grudge-free helping hand to the vampire.

 

Another thing we love about the amnesia trope is the fresh perspective it lends to the character suffering the amnesia. Suddenly a bad breakup can be looked at through a lens free of emotional pain. New discoveries can be made and new chances can be had as a result. This happened in Brynn Paulin’s FORGOTTEN FAMILY, a menage novella in which the heroine (Marina) in a m/m/f triad loses her memory. Her heroes (Kyle and Marcus) bring her home from the hospital and treat her with kid gloves. As she recovers her health, she learns that she had actually left these men, but she doesn’t remember why, and they’re not telling. It’s a great foundation for a mystery. It gives her a chance to get to know them (and their bodies, because this is definitely erotica) without the emotional burden of whatever drove their happy family apart.

 

Another way amnesia can be used to drive a novel’s tension is by giving characters a chance to overlook their prejudices. In TEMPTING THE BRIDE by Sherry Thomas, the heroine (Helena) has hated the hero (David) with the fire of a thousand suns ever since their childhood. When she suffers amnesia, she has a chance to get to know the adult David without her memory of the cocky, prank-playing child-David who made her adolescence a living hell. She gets to see what a fabulous man he has turned into, and what a wonderful father he is to his daughter who has Asperger’s Syndrome (see also the add-a-kid trope).

 

In my new release ROAD RAGE, I add my own twist to the amnesia trope. My heroine, Cami, gets in a car accident, and is in a coma in the hospital. But she takes on semi-corporeal form in the bedroom of the man who caused the accident. While she’s a “ghost” she can’t remember who she is or what happened to her. I did this to give her the chance to get to know her hero, Derek, without the obvious prejudice she’d have if she knew he was the man who acted out at her on the freeway and caused her injuries. While Derek has done something unconscionable, he is a good guy at heart, and once he takes responsibility for his anger and the bad decisions he has made, he becomes a hero worthy of compassionate Cami. I needed her to give Derek a fighting chance, and memory loss helped me do that.

 

These are some of the reasons I love a good amnesia trope, emphasis on GOOD. One of the things I loathe about an amnesia trope and one reason I’ll put down a book and not read on is when the medical aspects are overlooked. If amnesia is the ONLY symptom, I don’t find that realistic. While Cami, my heroine in ROAD RAGE got off pretty easy in that she’ll recover fully from her traumatic brain injury, I made an effort to show consequences other than just memory loss and coma. She sees a speech therapist and a physical therapist. Her head is shaved, and she’s missing a piece of her skull and therefore has to wear a helmet at all times…not very sexy, unless you’re her hero, Derek. He finds just about everything about Cami sexy, and he’s determined to be a better man for her.

 

What’s your favorite book with an amnesia trope? What draws you in or turns you off in an amnesia trope?

 

Read on to learn more about ROAD RAGE. Leave a comment to enter my giveaway of one ecopy of ROAD RAGE. I’ll choose and notify a winner on Friday. Be sure to leave your email address if I don’t know  you!

 

Blurb:

Lashing out in anger, construction worker Derek causes an accident on the freeway. His truck escapes unscathed, but he can’t say the same for his conscience. Plagued by nightmares of the wreck, his only comfort comes in the form of nightly visits by a mysterious woman who interrupts his dreams with sensual caresses and words of solace.

Cami has no idea who she is, until she wakes in a hospital bed and learns she’s been comatose due to a car wreck. Her visits with Derek must have been a dream, so why can’t she shake the feeling he was a real man who truly needed her help?

When Derek learns his mystery woman is none other than the driver of the car he cut off and she is fighting for her life, he must decide: Is he man enough to face her and ask forgiveness, or will he run away and avoid the consequences of his anger, yet again?

CONTENT WARNING: Sex with a perfect, imaginary dream girl who really isn’t imaginary

A Lyrical Press Paranormal Romance

Buy Links

Amazon
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iTunes
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Jessi Gage links

Website | Blog | Facebook Fan Page | Twitter | Goodreads

Thanks again for having me Mad!

 

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Carrie Ann Ryan interviews Maddox – Shattered Emotions

Maddox Jamenson is the Omega of the Redwood Pack, the one burdened by emotions stronger than his own. He’s spent his entire life shrouded in the secrets of his “gift” and the price he has to pay to keep it, yet the cost just escalated. He’s known a mate could be in the cards for him, but he can’t have what he wants. Not when the battles he has yet to fight could destroy her.

 

Ellie Reyes was the Central’s princess, the daughter of the most hated Alpha of all time, yet not prized. No, she’s spent her life as the toy of her brother’s sadistic torture and has endured a pain that no one else should have to even contemplate. Though when she’s rescued, the one person who could help her, her mate, turns his back on her for reasons unknown to her. As each day passes, the strength that everyone sees in her dwindles to a point that there may be no coming back from.

 

When the Centrals find a new way to attack, leaving Ellie’s only protection a mate that she doesn’t think wants her, they’ll both have to overcome their fears and fight for something stronger than their pain.  The war isn’t over and new players are coming that will decide the outcome. Maddox and Ellie’s connection will be tested even as their fragile bond is only newly forming.

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Thanks so much for having us! I’m sitting her with my latest hero, Maddox, from SHATTERED EMOTIONS. His book is the 5^th book in my Redwood Pack series and I’m so freaking excited for you guys to read this one. Maddox is the Omega of the Redwood Pack, meaning he not only feels every single emotion from the Pack, but he also has a duty to heal what he can within the den itself. He’s been in the background for each book and has done what he could to protect his loved ones, but it hasn’t been easy.

Carrie Ann: Hi, Maddox. Thanks for taking the time to sit with me.

Maddox: You know I’ll always come to talk to you. It’s my duty.

Carrie Ann: *rolls eyes* You always say that. You never do anything for yourself, but I totally understand it. So tell me, what does it mean to you to finally have your mate?

Maddox: *swallows hard* Everything. I almost lost her more times than I can count. It wasn’t all the outside forces that did it though. I pushed her away for so long…damn, I’m surprised she even stayed.

Carrie Ann: Ellie stayed because she’s your mate and despite the fact that you two needed to talk, she also needed to heal. Something you understand quite well. Tell me what life was like before you met Ellie.

Maddox: Empty. Though after I met her and still couldn’t have her, I think it felt even emptier.

Carrie Ann: Tell me more about Ellie.

Maddox: She’s…she’s strong. She’s smart, funny, caring, and sexy as hell. She doesn’t care for her own well being and I’m working on that, but damn, I love her more than life itself.

Carrie Ann: I can’t reveal any spoilers but that one thing that happened at the end, you doing okay?

Maddox: *blinks* You’ll have to read and see.

Carrie Ann: *rolls eyes* You’re worse than I am when it comes to secrets, you know.

Maddox: *grins*

Carrie Ann: Okay, now fun ones. Chocolate or vanilla?

Maddox: Chocolate for sure. Though really, I love anything that I can lick off my mate. Ellie is funny because she hides it around the house. I know she didn’t have much of it living with the Centrals so she tries to indulge herself in secret. I add more to her stash when I can.

Carrie Ann: *sighs* I love you, Maddox. Just saying. Okay, I’m going to leave you here for a bit to go and interview Ellie for another blog, but I just want to say I’m so so so happy I got to write your story in SHATTERED EMOTIONS. Now readers, let me and Maddox know if you have any questions! You know the Maddox is secretive, but we might be able to pry a few things out of him!

Excerpt:

Ellie Reyes gripped Maddox’s hand as tight as she could. Yes, it was the first time he’d voluntary touched her since he’d picked her up out of the back of the Jeep when they’d first met, but, honestly, that wasn’t important now.

She’d think about the calloused hands of a hard worker—one who helped his Pack and brothers, not necessarily in his job—and how they would feel against her skin. She’d think about what it all meant later.

Maybe later she could even relish his touch and imagine the scents of wolf and forest washing over her.

Later.

Right now, all she wanted to do was hide in a corner so the others would stop staring at her. Or, she could raise her chin at them all and show them they couldn’t hurt her. Her wolf whimpered at the thought, not knowing if that were possible. She didn’t know if she was broken or strong anymore.

She’d been hurt far more than they could ever imagine. They had no idea what she could endure. Oh, they’d all guessed and given her their pitying looks, but they didn’t know.

They couldn’t know.

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Carrie Ann Ryan is a bestselling paranormal and contemporary romance author. After spending too much time behind a lab bench, she decided to dive into the romance world and find her werewolf mate – even if it’s just in her books. Happy endings are always near – even if you have to get over the challenges of falling in love first.

Carrie Ann’s Redwood Pack series is a bestselling series that has made the shifter world even more real to her and has allowed the Dante’s Circle and Holiday, Montana series to be born. She’s also an avid reader and lover of romance and fiction novels. She loves meeting new authors and new worlds. Any recommendations you have are appreciated. Carrie Ann lives in New England with her husband and two kittens.

Carrie Ann loves hearing from readers. You can find her at:

Website | Facebook  | Goodreads | Twitter: @CarrieAnnRyan |

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***Giveaway***

Carrie Ann is giving away a special swag pack and a copy of her backlist to a lucky commenter. Be sure to leave your email to enter!

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