LIVE – EYE CANDY (Anthology) – by Helena Hunting, J. Daniels, Tara Sivec, Bella Jewel, and Tijan

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EYE CANDY

by Tijan, J. Daniels, Helena Hunting, Bella Jewel, and Tara Sivec

SMP Swerve

Publication Date: September 5, 2017

ISBN: 9781250148230

Price: $3.99

EXCERPTS

GETTING DOWN by Helena Hunting

One eyebrow quirks as he asks, “You two playing dress-up?”

I grin. I assume it must look incredibly evil considering the makeup I’m currently sporting but am not allowed to see yet. “We’re practicing for Halloween.”

His mouth tilts in a smirk. “Fuck yes you are.”

Oh yeah. I’m getting so lucky later. I don’t think I’m changing out of this costume, as difficult as it might be to sit in all night considering the massive wings attached to my back. I’ll make it work. Bancroft is very well acquainted with my love of all things Halloween and horror.

“What’s happening in there?” Armstrong elbows Bancroft in the ribs so he can poke his head in the door.

He edges inside the bathroom and his eyes go wide as they move over Amie. I suppose I can understand why. I’ve managed to get her into a pair of red satin booty shorts and a tight T-shirt. Her bra is very, very visible through the thin fabric. Her amazing legs are on display. Her hair is pulled up into two pigtails. If I wasn’t 100 percent sure she wasn’t even close to Bancroft’s type, I might be inclined to make her cover up. But he’s not into leggy blondes. He’s into somewhat petite brunettes. He also likes the sass, which I have an abundance of.

“What’re you wearing?” Armstrong asks. He sounds very much like he’s sucked on a helium balloon for shits and giggles.

Amie looks down at herself, as if she doesn’t understand his concern. She does. Fully. We talked about how he wouldn’t approve of this costume at all before they arrived. Which is the exact reason I suggested she continue to wear it.

I’m not actively trying to interfere in my best friend’s relationship, but I’m not fully convinced he’s the perfect fit for her, either. He’s far too trust – fund – pickle – up – ass.

SO MUCH MORE by J. Daniels

“Oh my God, look at that.” She points at what’s supposed to look like bodies wrapped in blood-stained sheets. There’s a group of them stacked together on the ground near an overturned wagon.

I think I hear something—a moan or a word I can’t make out. When we get closer, the body on the bottom of the pile begins to jerk and scream for help.

“Jesus,” I grunt.

Tessa gasps and squeezes my hand.

“Isn’t this supposed to be for kids?” I ask, brow furrowed as I watch the guy’s legs smack against the dirt. “Nolan would freak out seeing this.”

“Yeah, seriously. There were a lot of kids in that line.” Looking over at me with wide eyes, she shrugs. “Maybe this is the scariest thing we see?”

A chainsaw starts in the distance, startling Tessa. She stops on the path as several women scream, and squeezes my hand to the point of pain when a young boy runs toward us with his mother close behind.”

“What the fuck?” I squint through the fog.

When the boy gets closer, I can see how frightened he looks—like Chase when he has those night terrors.

Eyes wide with panic, mouth open and ready to scream, a steady stream of tears spilling down his face.

Jesus. This could scar him for life.

“Sweetheart, it’s okay! It’s not real!” the mother yells as the two of them run past us. “They aren’t really burning people alive! I promise!”

Tessa and I share a look.

“Um, why don’t we walk a little faster,” she suggests, tugging on my hand. “Come on.”

The path bends around a tree, and we move quicker now, Tessa not even bothering to look at the haunted displays around us. She clings to me with her arms squeezing my waist and her head smashed against my ribs, keeping her eyes focused ahead”

Description

A frightfully good time! Dive into these Halloween novellas from bestselling authors Tijan, J. Daniels, Helena Hunting, Bella Jewel and Tara Sivec. Featuring stories set in the worlds of their popular series.

Tijan’s Fallen Crest crew are back for a weekend of mischief that takes a sinister turn; all four couples from J. Daniels’ Alabama Summer series gear up for Halloween in their own sexy ways, with a special surprise at the end; Helena Hunting’s characters from Shacking Up plan a Halloween gala that features a few ghouls and witches; Bella Jewel brings the chills and thrills in her suspenseful take on Halloween night; and Tara Sivec gathers the Holiday family together one last time as they try to make this ghostly holiday one to remember—or one they’d rather forget…

Cozy up with a mug of hot cider on a dark night and fall under the spell of this Halloween anthology!

Buy Links

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071LSXZSC

B&N: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/eye-candy-tijan/1126552560?ean=9781250148230

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Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=beolDwAAQBAJ

Author Bios

Bella Jewel is a USA Today bestselling author of over 18 e-books, including the popular Alphas Heart eOriginal series with St. Martin’s Press. She lives in North Queensland where she’s working on her next novel.

Tijan is a New York Times Bestselling author of the Carter Reed Series, the Fallen Crest Series, and the Broken and Screwed Series among others. She lives in north Minnesota.

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of PUCKED, Helena Hunting lives on the outskirts of Toronto. She writes contemporary romance ranging from new adult angst to romantic sports comedy.

Tara Sivec is a USA Today best-selling author and the Best Indie Author in the Indie Romance Convention Reader’s Choice Awards in 2014. She lives in Ohio with her husband and two children.

J Daniels is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Sweet Addiction series, the Alabama Summer series, and the Dirty Deeds series. J grew up in Baltimore and resides in Maryland with her family.

Authors Links

Tijan

Website: http://www.tijansbooks.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Tijansbooks/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/TijansBooks

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tijansbooks/

J Daniels

Website: http://authorjdaniels.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jdanielsauthor

Twitter: https://twitter.com/JDanielsBooks

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/authorjdaniels/

Helena Hunting

Website: http://helenahunting.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/helena.hunting69/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/helenahunting

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/helenahunting/

Bella Jewel

Website: http://bellajewelbooks.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AuthorBellaJewel/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/BellaJewel73

Tara Sivec

Website: http://tarasivec.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TaraSivec.authorpage

Twitter: https://twitter.com/tarasivec

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/authortarasivec/

BLOG TOUR – JED HAD TO DIE by Tara Sivec

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Jed Had to Die by Tara Sivec

November 1, 2016

Genre: Romantic Comedy

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Synopsis

The happiest day of Payton Lambert’s life was the
day she graduated high school and watched Bald Knob, Kentucky get smaller and
smaller in her rearview mirror. She wanted more for her life than a tiny town
where everyone knows your business and you can’t find a decent cup of coffee
for at least forty miles. Twelve years later, an unexpected phone call in the
middle of the night has her packing up her life in Chicago and racing back home
to the one person she ever regretted leaving behind.Upon her return, she sees that Leo Hudson, the scrawny boy who followed Payton
around like a puppy and could recite cow insemination facts in his sleep, is
long gone. Leo is still hot on her heels, but now he’s wearing a sheriff badge
and dead set on solving a murder that may or may not involve Payton…along
with half the town. In a place where the biggest crime happened the day someone
kicked a few of his cows, people are pointing fingers, rumors are spreading
like wildfire, and Payton swears she’s only making out with the sweet-talking, studly
sheriff to distract him from the secrets she’s keeping.When you’ve been tased, peed on by a yippy dog named Bo Jangles, and can’t stop
picturing what Sheriff Hudson looks like naked, it will be a tough job making
everyone agree that…Jed had to die.

Review

WRAPPED UP IN READING’s REVIEW OF JED HAD TO DIE

Author Profile

Tara Sivec is a USA Today best-selling author, wife,
mother, chauffeur, maid, short-order cook, baby-sitter, and sarcasm expert. She
lives in Ohio with her husband and two children and looks forward to the day
when they all three of them become adults and move out.

After working in the brokerage
business for fourteen years, Tara decided to pick up a pen and write instead of
shoving it in her eye out of boredom. Her novel Seduction and Snacks won first
place in the Indie Romance Convention Reader’s Choice Awards 2013 for Best
Indie First Book and she was voted as Best Author in the Indie Romance
Convention Reader’s Choice Awards for 2014.

In her spare time, Tara loves to
dream about all of the baking she’ll do and naps she’ll take when she ever gets
spare time.

Tara loves tackling new genres
so there’s something for everyone! Currently, she has books in the following
categories:

Romantic Comedy
Romantic Suspense
Erotic Romantic Suspense

Romantic Mystery/Comedy

Contemporary Romance
Psychological Thriller

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REVIEW – JED HAD TO DIE by Tara Sivec

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SYNOPSIS:

Wait, one person?? Make that two. When the hell did Leo Hudson become sheriff of Bald Knob and get so hot? The scrawny Future Farmer of America who followed Payton around like a puppy and could recite cow insemination facts in his sleep is long gone. Leo is still hot on her heels, but now he’s wearing a badge and dead set on solving a murder that may or may not involve Payton…along with half the town.

You steal a few wine coolers in high school and make one little comment about cutting off a man’s balls when you come home, and suddenly, you’re suspected of killing him.

In a town where the biggest crime happened the day Jethro Snell kicked a few of his cows (an honest mistake when you’ve had a few jars of homemade moonshine), people are pointing fingers, rumors are spreading like wildfire, and Payton swears she’s only making out with the sweet-talking, studly sheriff to distract him from the secrets she’s keeping.

When you’ve been tased, peed on by a yippy dog named Bo Jangles, and can’t stop picturing what Sheriff Hudson looks like naked, it will be a tough job making everyone agree that…Jed had to die.

*****Dee’s Review*****

4 STARS****

(ARC kindly provided by the author in exchange for an honest review)

Well, my belly hurts from laughing so hard, and my heart feels happy from swooning so much over Mr. Hot guy, Leo.

Laughs, romance, and tons of coffee, what else can we ask for????

Jed Had To Die was totally delicious, a book not to miss.

Payton Lambert lives and breathes for coffee. She left her hometown of Bald Knob, Kentucky after she graduated High school, and opened up her own precious coffee shop; Liquid Crack in Chicago. She hated the small town, where everyone knew her business, and nobody had any appreciation for her wild spirit or good coffee. So, she left and never looked back.

Until one day, while she’s trying to plan her new business venture; franchising, Liquid Crack. She gets a call from Bald Knob’s hospital, informing her, that her former best friend, Emma Jo is in the hospital.

Payton runs to be with her best friend, and when she gets there, she learns of her sad reality. Emma Jo has been married to a wife abuser who gets off on beating her up whenever he pleases, the problem is, Emma Jo’s husband Jed, is the town’s mayor, and everyone loves him. Immediately Payton starts to formulate a plan for her friend to leave her abusive husband, but it won’t be so easy, as a few things will get in her way; mainly wine, poisoned blueberry pies and a mystery murder.

In the midst of all the craziness Payton has encountered a very fine male specimen, aka Mr. Hot guy/ Thor lookalike/Mr. Granite chest. Later she learns who he really is; Leo Hudson. He is the former geek, dungeons and dragons guy, from her old High School. Payton can’t believe the sweet geeky guy she used to protect from bullies has grown into the hot and sexy town Sheriff.

Leo and Payton fight, flirt and fight some more. Their chemistry is wild and they can barely contain themselves in front of each other. But there’s a murder to solve, a town to appease and many cups of coffee to drink before Payton goes and murders someone in the ridiculous town, she loves to hate.

Tara Sivec never fails to make us laugh until we cry with her books. Her writing style is always an awesome combination of humor and romance, that entertain the pants off anyone who reads her stories, and that’s why she is one of my favorite authors.

Get this book and let this author take you on a hilarious journey of a woman who swore she would never come back to her small town, not knowing her heart had stayed back and is now ready to claim her.

COVER REVEAL – JED HAD TO DIE by Tara Sivec

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JED HAD TO DIE COVER REVEAL

NEW ROMANTIC COMEDY/MYSTERY from Tara Sivec

Releasing November 1^st 2016 (ebook, paperback, and audible)

Blurb:

You steal a few wine coolers in high school and make one little comment about cutting off a man’s balls when you come home, and suddenly, you’re suspected of killing him.

When you’ve been tased, peed on by a yippy dog named Bo Janges, and can’t stop picturing what Sheriff Hudson looks like naked, it will be a tough job making everyone agree that…Jed had to die.

Amazon Paperback Pre-order: https://www.amazon.com/Jed-Had-Die-Tara-Sivec/dp/1682304329/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1469892750&sr=8-1&keywords=jed+had+to+die

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29902146-jed-had-to-die

Tara’s Bio:

Tara Sivec is a USA Today best-selling author, wife, mother, chauffeur, maid, short-order cook, baby-sitter, and sarcasm expert. She lives in Ohio with her husband and two children and looks forward to the day when all three of them become adults and move out.

After working in the brokerage business for fourteen years, Tara decided to pick up a pen and write instead of shoving it in her eye out of boredom. She is the author of the Playing with Fire series, the Chocolate Lovers series, the Chocoholics series, the Fool Me Once series, Burned and Watch Over Me. Her novel Seduction and Snacks won first place in the Indie Romance Convention Reader’s Choice Awards 2013 for Best Indie First Book and she was voted Best Indie Author in the Indie Romance Convention Reader’s Choice Awards 2014.

In her spare time, Tara loves to dream about all of the baking she’ll do and naps she’ll take when she ever gets spare time.