Cover Reveal & Giveaway: Immortal Hunter by Kait Ballenger

Immortal Hunter
(Execution Underground, #2)
By: Kait Ballenger
Publisher: HQN Books
Release Date: Jan. 2014
Genre: Paranormal Romance

Goodreads

As an exorcist, David Aronowitz grew up the target of demonic
assassins. Now he’s a member of the Execution Underground
and hellspawn everywhere fear his name. But when a demon
slips into the seductive body of the only woman he’s ever loved,

David must confront the heartbreak of their past to save her.
The piece of her heart Allsún O’Hare gave to David so long ago
left her trapped between two worlds: the Fae and the human.
And when David comes to her rescue, fate reunites her with her
greatest temptation—and her biggest mistake.

Now, as they’re swept together into a wicked game with the
demon who controls her, David must decide if saving Allsún’s
life is worth sacrificing his own—and the future of humanity itself.

What do you think of the cover? I like how not only do the titles link together (Shadow Hunter, Twilight Hunter, Immortal Hunter) but the covers do as well. If you are a fan of PNR then you have got to check out this debut author. I read the prequel to the Execution Underground not too long ago and if you haven't seen my review, check it out.
Shadow Hunter

Kait Ballenger is a full-time paranormal romance author, wife, professional bellydancer, and graduate student living in Central Florida. SHADOW HUNTER, the debut prequel of her sexy paranormal romance series, the Execution Underground, about an international network of supernatural hunters who fight to protect humanity alongside the powerful women they seduce, releases in an anthology titled AFTER DARK along with NYT Bestselling author Gena Showalter's novella THE DARKEST ANGEL in July 2013.

Website | Facebook | Twitter

Twilight Hunter (ARC)
By: Kait Ballenger
Genre: Paranormal Romance

Goodreads | Amazon | B&N

Hunters of the supernatural, the Execution Underground are an elite group tasked with protecting humanity...but what happens when danger collides with desire?

Jace McCannon has one loyalty: the Execution Underground. Despite his mixed blood, his hatred for the werewolves he hunts is legendary. But in his search for a sadistic killer, Jace finds himself face to face with a stunningly seductive packmaster…and longing for a night with his mortal enemy.

Nothing can stop Frankie Amato from defending her kind--or catching the rogue responsible for killing women in her territory. For that, this alpha female needs Jace’s skills more than she wants to admit. But as their investigation exposes evil truths, need burns into a passion that dare not be fulfilled. For to do so will have deadly consequences for them both.

  a Rafflecopter giveaway

Cover Reveal & Giveaway: The Sound of Letting Go by Stasia Ward Kehoe

The sound of Letting Go
By: Stasia Ward Kehoe
Publisher: Penguin Group
Release Date: Feb. 1, 2014
Genre: YA (verse)

Goodreads

For sixteen years, Daisy has been good. A good daughter, helping out with her autistic younger brother uncomplainingly. A good friend, even when her best friend makes her feel like a third wheel. When her parents announce they’re sending her brother to an institution—without consulting her—Daisy’s furious, and decides the best way to be a good sister is to start being bad. She quits jazz band and orchestra, slacks in school, and falls for bad-boy Dave.

But one person won’t let Daisy forget who she used to be: Irish exchange student and brilliant musician Cal. Does she want the bad boy or the prodigy? Should she side with her parents or protect her brother? How can she know when to hold on and when—and how—to let go?

 Stasia Kehoe grew up dancing and performing on stages from New Hampshire to Washington, DC. She now writes books for young adults and choreographs the occasional musical.

 Website | Facebook | Twitter

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Cover Reveal & Giveaway: Skin Deep by Megan D. Martin

Skin Deep

(The Eternal Forces, #1)

By: Megan D. Martin 

Publisher: Dragonfairy Press

Genre: New Adult Paranormal Romance
Release Date: Fall 2013

Goodreads

What would you do to have the body of your dreams?

Kiera hates being overweight and hides behind thick layers of clothing. One night, her friends present an opportunity that seems impossible to believe. With a single spell, she can have the thin physique she's always coveted.

But all magic comes with a price: no sex or she'll revert back to her old body. Kiera accepts the cost. It's not like she has men lined up at her door. Obeying this one tiny rule isn't difficult at all—until the night she meets Cain, a were-tiger and a soldier with the Eternal Forces.

When a slew of unexplained murders forces Kiera and Cain together, they'll have to face the horrors of their pasts. Will Kiera realize she is worth more than her outward appearance? Or will she make the wrong the choice and lose everything—including her life?

Megan D. Martin is a multi-published author, mother, student and editor. In her spare time she enjoys decorating her house with strange things that do not match, playing her old school Nintendo Entertainment System, and buying fish for her many fish tanks. 

Website | Facebook | Twitter

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Cover Reveal & Giveaway: Into the Fire by Amanda Usen

Into the Fire
By: Amanda Usen
Publisher: Indulgence
Release Date: June 10, 2013
Genre: Romance

Goodreads | Amazon | B&N

Jackson Calabrese has a lot of nerve. He beat Lila Grant in the Culinary Academy competition using her recipes. Now, he’s opening a restaurant and wants her help? Fine, she'll fix his menu, but it's going to cost him.

Heir to the Calabrese restaurant empire, Jackson can buy anything he wants, except creativity, so he buys Lila's instead. He can craft perfect paella, but to take New York by storm he needs her innovative spark.

Skillets aren't the only things hot in the kitchen, and an uneasy truce ignites into passion. They’re great in bed, but Jackson doesn't trust her, and Lila is contemplating revenge. The restaurant opening approaches, the menu is completed, and the tables are set for one final act of betrayal. How can love bloom in the midst of such a hot mess?

I have puzzle piece #3 for the cover. Make sure to stop by the other blogs participating in the cover reveal to get the other pieces to the cover. Oh and before I forget...

A spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go down.

Amanda Usen knows two things for certain: chocolate cheesecake is good for breakfast, and a hot chef can steal your heart. Her husband stole hers the first day of class at the Culinary Institute of America. She married him after graduation in a lovely French

Quarter restaurant in New Orleans, and they spent a few years enjoying the food and the fun in the Big Easy. Now they live in Western New York with their three children, one hamster, two guinea pigs, a tortoise, and a new-to-them beagle. Amanda spends her days teaching pastry arts classes and her nights writing romance. If she isn’t baking or writing, she can usually be found chasing the kids around the yard with her very own hot chef husband.

Website | Facebook | Twitter

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Cover Reveal & Giveaway: Hot Redemption by K.D. Penn

Hot Redemption
By: K.D. Penn
Publisher: Dragonfairy Press
Release Date: Summer 2013
Genre: Erotic Cyberpunk Romance

Goodreads

Epic and his brothers don’t rob strip clubs for fun or fame, but to use the electric currency to take care of their family. With androids and robots flooding the job market, it’s almost impossible for humans to find work. Besides, stealing comes easy to the gang, until Phoenix steps into their lives, snatching away their bounty and fogging up Epic’s mind with her seductive scent.

Shots blare. A chase ensues. Both sides refuse to yield. And the small compromise that comes is
brought by chains and a promise for a bigger hit--on a planet far away from earth.

Can Epic and Phoenix work together to rescue themselves from poverty?

Or will they find another type of redemption, one lathered in lust and warmth, pleasure, and the type of undemanding love that no human can live without?

K.D. Penn is the pseudonym for the writing team of Kenya Wright and D.T. Dyllin. 

Kenya

Website | Facebook | Twitter

D.T.

Website | Facebook | Twitter

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Cover Reveal, Interview & Giveaway: Broken Gates by D.T. Dyllin

Broken Gates
(P.J. Stone Gates Trilogy, #2)
By: D.T. Dyllin
Publisher: Dragonfairy Press
Release date: May 24, 3013
Genre: New Adult/Paranormal Romance

Goodreads

P.J. Stone is a Seer who saw too little, too late.

In the past, her biggest worries were boys and school—but war has a way of changing things. Now, the alien Riders are trying to overrun the world. As the last of their kind, P.J. and her friends must find a way to save humanity before there’s nothing left to save.

After choosing a mate, P.J. hoped she'd have time to enjoy her love life. But with everything changing so quickly and major secrets revealed, who knows what the future will bring?

Welcome back to Book Sniffers Anonymous! I'm so excited to share the latest cover of the P.J. Stone Gates Trilogy.
Hello! *waves* I never get tired of visiting my favorite Book Sniffer on her blog, even though you're really not anonymous. lol

I was wondering, do you get a say in what your covers look like?
Actually yes , I do. One of the many reason why I love Dragonfairy . Although I think the cover artist Lindsay Tiry might not agree with me having a say being a great thing. I kind of drove her nuts with this cover. I emailed her constantly with my ideas and tweaks. "Can you maybe put more glass on the eye? Can you make it more sparkly? Hmmm...maybe use different stock eye? That shade of purple is a bit 'off' can you make it more violet and less indigo, but only on the side..." But I also help out. I found all the model stock images for both covers, and the dragon stock image for the Broken Gates cover. Don't worry, I already have "notes" for the third cover.

What made you want to do eyes for the covers?
I'm big into symbology. Hello...P.J. is a Seer. lol

I noticed that there's a different leading man on the Hidden Gates cover than on Broken Gates.
Is one Khol and the other Bryn? And who's the blonde chick?
I'm giving clues about the content of the book with the models. I don't want to say too much for that reason, but I will say the chick does not have blonde hair, but white hair. For more info. you're just going to have to read the book.



There are so many SciFi elements that blend together in this story, between the seer's world, dragons, aliens and then you mixed in the steamy romance on top of it all. How on earth did you come up with this trilogy?
I've talked about this several times on different blogs before, but I dreamt about P.J. and her world. I know a ton of author's say that but I get most of my coolest ideas that way. Some of the added elements that got tossed in there came to me from various places...like my dragon tattoo. *shrugs* Besides that...well...I have a crazy imagination but really I just wanted to write something I would enjoy.

When I first came across P.J's story it was a self-published book but it's recently been published through Dragonfairy Press. What's it like making the switch?
In a nutshell, it's nice to not feel completely alone, you know just you and your book against the world. I like having a "team". But Dragonfairy Press is a super cool place to be published with, they let me have a lot more freedom than a lot of publishers would. Although I have had to make compromises on some things. Over all, I think we work well together because they're just as obsessed with some of the details as I am. And sometimes when I'm floundering they give me a push in the right direction. I have nothing but good things to report about signing with Dragonfairy. I got very lucky. 

For those who've read Hidden Gates, can you give our readers a hint or sneak peek of what happens in Broken Gates? I know you can't reveal anything huge but maybe just a little juicy detail that we get to look forward to?
Ummm...this is a toughie. Hmmm...Jenna changes her hair color? No? Not enough? How about...don't get comfortable with any of the relationships from Hidden Gates, because things are always changing in P.J.'s world. That's it. That's all you're getting. Muahahahaha! (That's my evil laugh.)

Thanks again for stopping by. I can't wait until Broken Gates comes out.
Thanks again for having me and for being a part of the cover reveal! Now go sniff some more books! :) 

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Cover Reveal: Twisted Summer by Lucy V. Morgan

Twisted Summer
By: Lucy V. Morgan
Publisher: Self-Published
Release Date: March 31, 2013
Genre: New Adult

Goodreads

"You have to understand that we never meant for it to happen. We knew it was stupid. We knew it was wrong..."

Eighteen-year-old Danni Warren has big plans for her last summer before college: a cool job, a concert she wouldn’t miss for the world, and spending time with her beautiful girlfriend, Esme. But after one hell of an argument, Danni’s mother packs her off to stay with her estranged step-uncle, Gabe, in his lodge on the coast. So begins a weekend of the worst punishment imaginable: no phone signal.

With his sun kissed good looks and sarcastic manner, twenty-nine-year-old Gabe isn’t anything like Danni expected. She wants to hate him—he’s her punishment for standing up to her mother—but between surfing lessons and beach hikes, they grow close. Maybe too close.

Now Danni’s questioning everything: old family secrets, her future, her strained relationship with Esme. One sun stained afternoon, Gabe and Danni go too far. And then everything else falls apart…

 Lucy writes sharp contemporary fiction. She is a Lyrical Press author and a screenwriter. When not torturing her characters, she swims a lot and reads a lot more. She's still trying to kick her dirty Pepsi habit. 

Lucy is working on two new novels and her paranormal television series, BLOOD FIZZ POP, has been optioned by Midsummer Films.

Initially, Lucy thought that talking about herself in the third person would seem pretentious, but finds she is DRUNK ON THE POWER. She will now be going for a lie down.

Website | Goodreads | Twitter

Cover Reveal & Giveaway: Handcuffed in Housewares by Nikki Duncan

Four years ago today, on a day not unlike today, Nikki Duncan signed her first publishing contract with Samhain Publishing.

That story was kicked off by a one sentence story idea tossed out as a challenge. With its inception, the Sensory Ops series was born.

Since that story, Nikki was also challenged, by her first editor, to write contemporary novellas. Now, with 13 books available, she's revealing the cover of what will be her 14th book. To celebrate the anniversary and the cover reveal, Nikki is also sponsoring a giveaway.

 a Rafflecopter giveaway  

Cover Reveal: Embracing the Flames by Candace Knoebel

Embracing the Flames
(Born in Flames Trilogy, #2)
By: Candace Knoebel
Publisher: 48fourteen
Release Date: unknown
Genre: YA Fantasy

Goodreads

The Stone of Immortality has been protected under the watch of the Draconta for as long as time has existed. That is, until the betrayal of a Fate. Now everything is about to change.

Aurora Megalos accepted her destiny without blinking-even if it meant succumbing to her dragon side. Deemed the Progeny, she left the ordinary life she knew and has done everything in her power to learn the ways of her new realm and what it means to be part dragon. But when her mentor, Astral, suddenly disappears, she is forced to take the reins. With war on the brink, she sets out on an epic journey to not only find her mentor, but to stop her Arch Enemy, Zordon, from attaining the Stone of Immortality. But what she discovers about him along the way is far worse than she could’ve ever imagined. She will be tested and pushed to the limit. Lives will be lost, love will be questioned, and a battle will begin.

  Candace Knoebel had dreamed of being a dancer ever since she could remember. With a love of all things art, she saw herself moving to New York and pursuing her passion as an artist. But all that changed on October 10th, 2002 when she met the love of her life. Her dreams diverged and after marrying her high school sweetheart and having two beautiful children, she realized she missed her creative side.

Growing up alongside the Harry Potter series, Candace found herself missing the epicosity of a story that pulls you in and won’t let you go. In 2009, she began dreaming up characters that would mold her first novel. Through lunch breaks and late nights, after putting her kids to bed, she built a world where she could escape the ever-pressing days of an eight to five Purgatory. She found her calling in life and knew this was more than dancing could’ve ever meant to her.

Once complete in 2010, she began the grueling process of finding a publisher. With relentless determination, she was finally able to realize her dream in December of 2011 when 48fourteen offered her a publishing contract. With a HUGE yes and a happy dance, she now continues her Trilogy.

Website | Facebook | Twitter

 

Cover Revaeal: The Dragon Empire by Heather McCorkle

The Dragon Empire
By: Heather McCorkle
Publisher: Compass Press
Release Date: Feb. 2013
Genre: YA Fantasy

Goodreads

On Yacrana, dragons stand at the top of the evolutionary ladder instead of humans. Such an advanced species is not without its issues though.

There's trouble in the Dragon Empire, the kind that could start a war between dragons and the races of people. Hidden factions of dragons believe they should rule the lesser races, not simply stand aside and allow them to develop as they will. Having lived so long in peace, the Emperors turn a blind eye, many oblivious that such attitudes even exist.

Despite being only an architect class, emerald dragon, Grendar is willing to risk banishment and death to stop that which his rulers refuse to see. The hope of peace lies not within the scaled breast of a dragon however, but within the hands of a group of people. But if the hidden factions have their way, these people won’t live to fulfill such a destiny. With a reluctant seer at his side, Grendar must leave his precious Empire for the outside world to save those that will one day save his kind.

 I am an author of fantasy, in all its many sub-genres. Living green, saving endangered species, helping other writers, and supporting fabulous authors are a few of my passions. I am also a volunteer for the IS Foundation which works to make the world a greener place. When I'm not volunteering, writing, or surfing my social networking sites, I can be found on the slopes, the hiking trails, or on horseback. As a native Oregonian, I enjoy the outdoors almost as much as the worlds I create on the pages. No need to travel to the Great Northwest though, you can find me here, on my blog, and Monday night's on Twitter where I co-moderate the #WritersRoad chat.

Website | Facebook | Twitter

Cover Reveal: Raksha by Frankie Rose

Raksha
By: Frankie Rose
Publsher: Self-published
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Genre: YA Dystopian


Goodreads

She has no name.

She has her knives; her training; her halo.

The first and second give her the tools and the skill to defeat the opponents she is pitted against each month. The third frees her from pain and fear. From any kind of emotion at all. Everything is as it should be. Everything is as it should be, until…

FearPainAngerHappinessDesireGuilt

Love.

When a newly-named Kit escapes the Sanctuary after killing her best friend, the last thing she needs is another knife in her hand. Or Ryka, the damaged, beautiful blonde boy, who she refuses to let save her. Still learning how to process the onslaught of her new feelings, the sights and sounds of Freetown are overwhelming and strange. There are a hundred differences between her old home and her new one, but one thing remains starkly similar: the matches. Yet where the blood in the Sanctuary landed only on the colosseum floor, Kit will quickly learn that a river of red runs through Freetown’s very streets.

Freed from the oppression of a society who stole her right to feel, the true horror of her old life leaves Kit wondering if she really has been freed at all. Would she be better off without the crippling horror of all the blood on her hands, or is the love of one boy worth living through all the pain?

Raksha is the call of the dead. It is the rumbling chant for fresh blood from the other side, the demand for sacrifice. The colosseum is behind Kit. The fighting pits await

 

 Frankie Rose was born in the United Kingdom, but now lives with her husband in sunny Australia.

She officially makes things up for a living, and when she's not doing that, she is generally making paper birds out of receipts and old lists or taking photographs that make her smile.

Website | Facebook | Twitter