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Fabled 

by Vanessa E. Eccles

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Rowena thinks the Grimm’s infamous podcasts are simply another teen fad until she finds herself trapped in a land of nightmarish storybook characters. She tries desperately to flee Mezzanine and return home, but Dresdem, Mezzanine’s wicked monarch, plans to use Rowena’s access to her world to bring dark magic and absolute rule into Georgia and beyond.

But when Rowena’s dear friend Madeline falls into Dresdem’s grasp, her battle with him becomes war, and all hopes of home are temporarily thwarted. With the help of an invisible hero, a beast, and an owl, she sets out to free Madeline from a deadening sleep. But Rowena must become her own hero when she finds herself bound by the kingdom’s darkest family. She must make the ultimate choice – align herself with her enemies or live on the run forever.

Ten Fabled Facts

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About The Author

Vanessa K. Eccles 

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• Created a Pocket (Read it later) and Evernote account...check out the past mini challenges post to see what you can do with these
• Printed my Monthly Blog Planner from Confessions of a Homeschooler click here for your FREE copy and started to fill it out with pre-planned posts e.g. tours, memes. 
• Updated my GCal blog calendar
• Fixed up my email so all my emails goes to my Gmail account. I couldn't make my blogging one on Gmail because the email address I wanted was sadly already taken ~ Email Best Practices by Heylade
• Deleted some files that I no longer need ~ Digital Decluttering
• Created 6 post templates (Review Tours + Blog Tour Guest/Author, Weekly memes etc) 
• Drafted 8 of my posts, but still have to put the main content, the review
• Did quite a bit of research into the Migration from Blogger to Wordpress and even emailed a few services that do it to ask some questions
• Visited and commented on quite a few Bloggiesta participants

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A Date with the Devil

by Kira Adams

The Monster.

In one moment, my entire life was ripped away from me. I ignored the warning signs until it was too late. Until I became the victim.

He took my life away from me; my freedom, my courage. I've lived my life in debilitating fear since that fateful day.

The Savior.

He was there the day it all went down, and he's been by my side ever since. He's been the only thing that's kept me going.

He's my best friend, but he wants more. I'm terrified to lose him. I'm terrified he'll leave.

One tried to kill me.

One brought me back to life.

I'll never be the same person again--that girl died when the match was dropped. Too much has already been stolen from me.

It's time to take back what's mine.

About The Author

Kira Adams

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The Booking Through Summer Reading Challenge hosted by KimberlyFaye Reads and Book Nerd Betsy kicked off on May 24th, 2015, but it's not too late to sign up, click on the banner or link above. Keep posted for my #BookingIt signup post.

I posted the following events last week, but just reminding y'all that the Bloggiesta is coming up this weekend, so set aside the upcoming weekend so we can all do some group blog housekeeping. 

Have you started planning the books you'd like to read through COYER? If you haven't, there's a group Facebook page with challenge participants helping each other choose books for the Scavenger Hunt and the hosts of COYER have been answering any questions you may have...so join in and start the fun by choosing your books! 

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When Cassie agrees to go on a date with her gorgeous new neighbor, she doesn’t expect the night to end with a glimpse into eternity. Within twenty-four hours she discovers not only are young women being brutally murdered around her beloved town, but an ancient evil is using her new neighbor like a puppet to do the killing.

Knowing the police won’t believe her without solid proof, she makes it her mission to find the evidence they need. Add to that how her cat has started talking to her, along with seeing ghosts around town, and it’s no surprise that she’s beginning to question her sanity.

This is the first book in the New Sight Series - paranormal series about a young woman whose eyes are opened to the hidden world around her and her compulsion to help the dead seek answers and justice.

Imaginatively entertaining with light humor and a quickening pace, C. L. Clark’s interesting new twist on paranormal fantasy is a book series that readers will not want to pass up.

Favourites with Cassiopeia Brant

Thanks for having me on your blog today. I like what you’ve done with it – pretty cool. 

What's your favourite...

Book - Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen

Movie - Anything with Katherine Hepburn

Which do you like better? 

Beach or Pool?  Beach, definitely. 

Cake or Pie?  Cake – Rich, yummy, devil’s food cake.  

Computers or Television?  Computers – I do a lot of research 

Mac or PC?  PC 

Board Games or Video Games?  Board Games with lots of friends and snacks 

Book or Movie?  Movies – black and white or the older colored ones. 

If you’d like to learn more about Cassie, Allie, and the ghosts of Kensington Falls, check out “Opening the Veil” the first book of the New Sight series available on Amazon.com

About The Author 

C.L. Clark 

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Off The Ice by Julie Cross

Junior Tate Tanley hasn’t made it off the bench since joining the hockey team as a freshman. But after the Otters’ star goalie leaves during a huge game, Tate’s got the attention of the entire town. Including Claire O’Connor, who’s mysteriously back in Juniper Falls and who he hasn’t seen in a year. But Tate hasn’t stopped thinking about Claire or what happened the night before she left.

Claire O’Connor should be enjoying college life in the big city. Instead, she’s serving drinks to handsy fishermen and taking care of her sick father back in Juniper Falls. And when she spots her best friend’s little brother, Tate, playing in a big varsity game, she’s thrown for a loop. Tate has grown up a lot: more muscles, more hotness, more…everything. But Claire’s responsibility is to her family, and she doesn’t have time for boys—especially not hockey players.

As games, parties, and town drama throw Tate and Claire together, they can’t ignore what happened last fall—and they can’t ignore what’s brewing between them now. It’s finally time for them to unravel the secrets of their past and face the future together.

About The Author

Julie Cross 

Julie Cross is the International Bestselling author of the Tempest series, a young adult science fiction trilogy which includes Tempest, Vortex, and the final installment, Timestorm (St. Martin's Press). She's also the author of Letters to Nowhere (8/13), a mature young adult romance set in the world of elite gymnastics, as well as several forthcoming young adult and new adult novels with publishers like Entangled, Sourcebooks, HarperCollins, and St. Martin's Press/Thomas Dunne Books.

Julie lives in Central Illinois with her husband and three children. She's a former gymnast, longtime gymnastics fan, coach, and former Gymnastics Program Director with the YMCA. She's a lover of books, devouring several novels a week, especially in the young adult and new adult genres. Outside of her reading and writing credibility's, Julie Cross is a committed--but not talented--long distance runner, creator of imaginary beach vacations, Midwest bipolar weather survivor, expired CPR certification card holder, as well as a ponytail and gym shoe addict. You can find her online via twitter, her personal website, email, facebook, Goodreads, or co-moderating the YAwriters section of reddit.

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Descent by Tara Fuller

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Easton doesn’t believe in love. He believes in Death. Darkness. Sin. As a reaper for Hell, it’s all he’s known for over four hundred years. When he gets slapped with the job of training the boss’s daughter, an angel who knows nothing but joy, he knows he’s in for a world of trouble.

Though he’s made it clear he wants nothing to do with her outside of work, Gwen would do anything to get closer to the dark and wounded reaper—even taint her angelic image and join the ranks of her father’s team of reapers. But in all her planning, she forgot to factor in one thing—how far the demons Easton doomed to hell would go to get revenge.

When the dangers of the Hell threaten Gwen, Easton will do whatever it takes to save her. But as the darkness closes in on them both, will he be able to save himself?

Excerpt

“What do you want, Gwen?” he whispered.

I stared at his chest, breathing hard, heart beating a frantic rhythm. “I want to touch you. And I don’t want you to stop me.” He hesitated, but when I ran my fingers over the criss-cross pattern of raised white scars that slashed across his ribs, he didn’t stop me.

“Are these from when you were alive?”He tensed, but allowed me to keep exploring him.

“Yes.” I looked up.

“Why did you keep them?”His eyes searched mine. A muscle in his jaw flexed. “So I would never forget how I got them, why I’m here...what I lost.”

“They’re beautiful,” I whispered.

He closed his eyes and exhaled harshly. He was struggling, fighting some internal battle to give me this, to accept joy in return.

I resisted the sudden, overwhelming urge to close the space between us, to press my lips to his. Something so simple, and yet it felt bigger than the two of us put together. That should have scared me. If I gave in to such urges, I could be cast out, stripped of everything that made me my father’s daughter. But it didn’t scare me. It exhilarated me. In the back of my mind I could hear Sky’s warning.

Aren’t you tempted? Gwen, what if you fall?

I was. I wanted it with every fiber of this body. Every part of me felt jittery with want and anticipation. The sweet, addictive desire rolling off him told me he wanted it, too. Easton reached up and touched my chin, his fingers like a magnet drawing me in.

“I’m about to kiss you, Red,” he said, voice rough. “You should probably stop me.”

The Series

Kissed by Death

About The Author

Tara Fuller

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