REVIEW - SILK & SCANDAL

"Bored and alone, she falls into scandal. Mired in his studies of the law and aware of the need for circumspection, Thomas feels forced to sever their ties. But now Lady Nicola is back…and she won’t let him ignore her."

Author: Cassandra Dean
Pages: 35 pages
Publisher: Decadent Publishing on June 2013
Form: E-book (from tour for an honest review/)
Genre: Sweet Historical Romance
Series: The Silk Series #1
Amazon: Buy / $6.19 (Kindle) ( EU price, click to see yours )
Barnes & Noble: Buy / $2.99 (Nook)
Decadent Publishing: Buy / $2.99 (E-book)
Excerpt: Teaser

"Eight years ago…
Thomas Cartwright and Lady Nicola Fitzgibbons were friends. Over the wall separating their homes, Thomas and Nicola talked of all things – his studies to become a barrister, her frustrations with a lady’s limitations.

All things end.
When her diplomat father gains a post in Hong Kong, Nicola must follow. Bored and alone, she falls into scandal. Mired in his studies of the law and aware of the need for circumspection, Thomas feels forced to sever their ties.

But now Lady Nicola is back…and she won’t let him ignore her."  ~ From Goodreads

This was a sweet little historical romance featuring a bold, take charge "scandalous" young woman who realizes what she's been feeling all these years for her best friend Thomas is in fact love. And how her scandalous past now stands in the way of her true happiness.

I was expecting a erotic romance so I was surprised when this baby was sweet romance. I personally thought this was too short for a sweet romance because sweet romance has to be built on character interaction, the effort in establishing this through letter exchange through 6 years ( if I recall right ) helped a lot of the story back drop and telling what their relationship had been like. But it didn't quite work for me.

I really loved the idea of this story and would have loved to have read a full length novel of this because Cassandra Dean's writing is funny, entertaining and captivating. This was a quick read that I happily returned to after putting the book down. Silk & Scandal had the fun story, romantic tone of forbidden emotions, entertaining writing and great plot going for it!

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DEMON UNTAMED (GIVEAWAY)

Demon Untamed takes readers on a sensual journey that weaves through the first three books in the Shadow Quest series.

"Struggling to survive in an unforgiving universe, Ethan has sacrificed his life in pursuit of a single goal: Follow his king’s orders and save their people from the ravenous Kayadon overlords.  For so long, he’s maintained his title and dark reputation as a notorious pirate to put into motion his king’s intricate plot. He thought of nothing else…until he met her - the fiery demon who tempts him like no other.

After witnessing her father’s brutal murder by the hand of pirates, Sonya has developed a special kind of hatred for their kind. When Ethan, otherwise known as the Pirate King, boards her ship and invades her space with his encompassing presence, she finds herself fighting to keep her distance. Yet she wonders if she even wants to - when he threatens to seduce her mind, body, soul…and most frightening of all, her heart."

Free Sample: Chapter 1 - 3 

       Sonya stood to face him. His expression displayed a mix of irritation and amusement. “I know the concept of a hard day’s work is difficult for you to understand, pirate, and you’re functioning on a damaged moral compass—”

       “My moral compass may be damaged, but at least I’m not a slave to my baser needs.”

       She stilled. “And you’re saying I am.”

       “You are a demon after all. Your kind are notorious for their debauchee and barbarous natures.”

       She choked out a laugh, “My people are barbarous?”

       “You said it.”

       “And this coming from a pirate.”

       “You know nothing of it!” he snapped.

       “And you know nothing of me!”

       “I know more than you think. And even if I didn't  I had you pegged purely by the manner in which you dress yourself.”

       That gave her pause and she resisted the urge to look down at herself. Her outfit was no more revealing than any other female on the ship. In fact, compared to some, she could be considered downright modest. Her skirts, she had to admit, were on the short side, but that was only to accommodate her tail, and nobody had ever commented on it before. Not that it mattered what anyone else thought of her, especially not some hypocritical pirate.

       “Get out of my pub before I smash your face into the wall,” she hissed.

       Instead, he took a step closer, goading her. Something in that action fired her blood in a way she’d never felt, and the pace of her heart increased with a surge of excitement. Sonya was used to people backing down when she issued a threat, they never willingly opened themselves up for attack.

       She tilted her head at him with renewed interest.

Sassy excerpt, right? Definitely makes me want to open the book!

Ms. Kiersten Fay is giving away 

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Kiersten Fay has been a fan of the paranormal all her life, from watching sci-fi and supernatural television shows with her eccentric mother, to reading almost every type of romance she can get her hands on.
Before becoming an author Kiersten worked as a ninja graphic designer, and while she loved it, her true passion was in writing paranormal romance. Currently Kiersten is working on her steamy romance series called Shadow Quest, based loosely on mythology and lore, with a little sci-fi thrown in.

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TOP OFF TUESDAY #4 (IT'S A GAME OF CAT AND...)

What better way than to top off a good book 

than with a GREAT Cover!

Every week, Amanda from On a Book Bender, Christi from Smitten with Reading,and Felicia from Geeky Book Blogger want to see those Top Off Tuesday covers that grab your attention!  Please play along and tell us your favorites ( old, new, or not yet released ).

Every once in awhile there are covers that just make you say Oh My! Sometimes it is good, sometimes it is bad, and sometimes it is head scratching. The point of Top Off Tuesday is to show you the ones with their Tops Off! Seriously y’all hunting out Top Off Tuesday covers is one of my favorite pastimes and you should join the fun!

OMG! OMG! OMG!

I just discovered this this week but Cat and Bones are back!!! I'm deliriously happy and deliriously upset that I have to wait till next January for this baby!

There’s always one more grave to dig.

Lately, life has been unnaturally calm for vampires Cat Crawfield and her husband Bones. They should have known better than to relax their guard, because a shocking revelation sends them back into action to stop an all-out war…

A rogue CIA agent is involved in horrifying secret activities that threaten to raise tensions between humans and the undead to dangerous heights. Now Cat and Bones are in a race against time to save their friends from a fate worse than death…because the more secrets they unravel, the deadlier the consequences. And if they fail, their lives—and those of everyone they hold dear— will be hovering on the edge of the grave.

Are you excited? I'm excited! :D

STARE ME DOWN - PROMO

"A Dom stuck in anger management classes meets his match in his court appointed therapist. Their attraction is off the charts. Unfortunately though, the timing is bad for both of them. Or at least it is until he discovers his little vanilla doll isn't vanilla at all. Then it's a matter of timing be damned. He can't keep his hands off her. A definite problem as she has a past to deal with and he has a goal to seize. So when the present rears its ugly head they are both blindsided. Now they’re forced to stare each other down if they hope to have any chance of a future together."

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COLD WARRIORS - PROMO

"Left in cryogenic stasis for nearly a century, Caitlin Driskoll is awakened and drafted into a war she knows nothing about. Expected to defend a world where her kind is despised and expendable, she discovers love and respect from the one man who can’t be associated with her.

Lieutenant Colonel Medoro Keegan has spent a lifetime in the Marines. With no family to speak of, the Corps and his ship, the USS Blanchard, are all the loved ones he needs…until Caitlin sparks a fire within, that threatens to consume him if he doesn’t walk away.

Will he choose a life of certainty in the only world he knows or give it all to Caitlin and run the risk of losing someone, yet again?"

Clare Dargin is a an author of Science Fiction and Military Science Fiction Romance. She has been writing stories all of her life before being published in 2007. She is a great fan of all things science fiction and romance and loves promoting the genre.

She is an educator by profession and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in English from a major mid-western university. She presently resides in the Midwestern United States and is pursuing a graduate degree. In the future she hopes to expand her writings to include non-fiction, historical romance, and contemporary novels.

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