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BROKEN (A Forbidden Romance) by Serena Akeroyd -review tour

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🩷BROKEN (A Forbidden Romance) by Serena Akeroyd-review tour🩷

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date August 1, 2024

Forgive me, Father, for I am undeserving when blood soaks these hands that hold Your gift to me.
I am broken and find solace in the darkness.
She is pure and basks in the light.
Did You send her to be my shelter?
I made a vow of celibacy.
She remained untouched.
Did You create her for me?
I am a sin eater, a purger of evil.
She is an angel, a guardian of good.
Did You know she would be my savior?
Thank You, Father, for she is the one sin I will willfully commit.

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REVIEW: BROKEN by Serena Akeroyd is a stand alone, contemporary, adult, dark, forbidden romance story line focusing on forty year old Catholic priest, Father Savio Martin, and thirty year old writer Andrea Jura.

NOTE: Due to the nature of the story line premise, there WILL BE triggers for more sensitive readers.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Savio and Andrea) BROKEN is a complex and detailed story about two broken souls whose lives will be intertwined, not by divine intervention but by a determined young woman whose seeks the one person who may be as damaged as her.

Thirteen years earlier Father Savio Martin suffered unlike anything he could have ever imagined, and at the same time, Andrea Jura became obsessed with a man she did not know. Believing Savio was and is her destiny, Andrea went to Italy in search of Fr. Savio Martin, the man with whom Andrea would fall in love but all was not well in either of their lives, and pulled together by fate and a need to avenge those who were unable to avenge themselves, our couple would find themselves judge, jury and executioner for those who sinned in the eyes of God and the eyes of our couple.

The relationship between Andrea and Savio is one of the forbidden. Savio is a Catholic priest who struggles with his vows, having broken all but one by the time Andrea arrives in his life. Andrea is pulled into the aura that is Father Savio Martin, an aura that is dark, broken and lost. The $ex scenes are provocative and intense.

The world building is intricate and dark; gritty and dramatic; heart breaking and intense. Pain is a way of life; vengeance is an act needed to purge the world of vile and evil; love will heal the souls of two people caught in an abyss of their own lives. The premise is thought provoking, powerful and edgy; the romance is unconventional; the characters are broken, twisted and tragic.

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Reviewed by Sandy

SERENA AKEROYD

USA Today and International Best Selling Author Serena Akeroyd aka G. A. Mazurke is most known for her mafia and MC series set in the Five Points Mob Universe

Avid reader of all things romance, she first started her career as a why choose author in both contemporary and paranormal.

She eventually made her way to MF romance where she found her groove with the O’Donnelly brothers, the Satan Sinners and most recently the Valentini Family.

In her back list you can find some MM, MF, MFM and Why Choose romances. HEA guaranteed!

When not writing Serena is either reading, traveling or coloring

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A Love So Wrong by Brooke Summers-review tour

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A Love So Wrong by Brooke Summers-review tour

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date September 8, 2022

Georgina’s life is turned upside down with just one kiss.
The man she wants isn’t a man that she should be with.
After all, he’s the man that’s been a huge part of her life since she was sixteen.
But the heart wants what it wants and Georgina’s wants Wayne.
Her step-father.

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REVIEW: A LOVE SO WRONG by Brooke Summers is a contemporary, adult, forbidden, erotic, age-gap, romance novella focusing on forty-seven year old Wayne Rollins, and his eighteen year old, step-daughter Georgina.

WARNING:Due to the nature of the story line premise, there may be triggers for more sensitive readers.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Georgina and Wayne) A LOVE SO WRONG follows the quick building relationship between forty-seven year old Wayne Rollins, and his eighteen year old, step-daughter Georgina. Wayne Rollins never loved Georgina’s mother Debbie but marrying Debbie served a purpose, a purpose to protect her fifteen year old daughter. Wayne works for Grant Lomas , the head of the Lomas Crime family, and Georgina’s father is the former enforcer for the Dirty Demons MC but when Georgina’s mother Debbie doesn’t return, Wayne takes the opportunity to seduce the young woman with whom he is in love. What ensues is the sexual relationship between Wayne and Georgie, and the potential fall-out as Wayne wants forever with our story line heroine.

The relationship between Georgie and Wayne is a forbidden, age-gap romance between a man and his step-daughter but Wayne saw something in Georgie several years earlier, and his protective nature told him to take care of the woman with whom he would fall in love. The $ex scenes are intimate erotic, and intense-Georgie continues to call Wayne -daddy.

A LOVE SO WRONG is a story of obsession and love. The premise is fast paced and engaging. The conflict is limited without much struggle or contention-most of the people in Wayne’s life are well aware of his attraction and love for our story line heroine; the romance is seductive but taboo and forbidden; the characters are desperate and obsessed.

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Reviewed by Sandy

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USA Today Bestselling Author Brooke Summers is a Mafia Romance author and is best known for her Made Series.

Brooke Summers was born and raised in South London. She lives with her daughter and hubby. Brooke has been an avid read for many years.She’s a huge fan of Colleen Hoover and Kristen Ashley.

Brooke has been dreaming of writing for such a long time. When she was little, she would make up stories just for fun. Seems as though she was destined to become an author.

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A Place Without You by Jewel E Ann-Review & Excerpt tour

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A PLACE WITHOUT YOU by Jewel E Ann-Review and Excerpt Tour

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date January 1, 2019

The Law of Henna and Bodhi:
When love breaks, fall inward, fall together, and fall hard. Then let time pick up the pieces.

Everything feels temporary when you’ve experienced tragedy—until Henna Lane meets Bodhi at a music festival.

Young and spontaneous, they have a lust for seizing the moment, falling hard and fast.

When Bodhi is forced to leave without a goodbye, Henna thinks she’ll never get over him. But then she meets Mr. Malone, her sexy, new guidance counselor.

They are reckless.
They are forbidden.

When their secret is discovered, Henna has to choose between finishing school—banned from seeing Mr. Malone—or dropping out to follow her nomad dreams.

Henna chooses her dreams.

Over time, she learns that life is not a destination or a journey, some things are more than temporary, and the forbidden can never be ignored. But if she returns for him, will he still be hers?

A Place Without You is an emotional story of young love, shattered dreams, and impossible decisions.

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REVIEW: A PLACE WITHOUT YOU by Jewel E Ann is a contemporary, new adult, stand alone romance story line focusing on Henna Lane, and Bodhi Malone.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Henna and Bodhi) A PLACE WITHOUT YOU follows four years in the life of Henna Lane, and Bodhi Malone, two strangers who met a Coachella, but two strangers whose lives will be interlaced for all eternity. At eighteen years of age, our heroine fell in love with a stranger who would quickly become her guidance counsellor as Henna required one more year to complete her high school diploma. Having suffered horrific injuries in an accident two years earlier, Henna struggled with continuing pain, and the need to explore and discover at every opportunity. A close call at school finds Henna on the outside looking in when Bodhi is forced to push Henna out of his life. Fast forward two years wherein Henna will travel the world in an effort to uncover the who and what of Henna Lane. Upon her return Henna will come face to face with her past, the man who continues to star in all of her dreams, and the man who hasn’t stopped loving our story line heroine. What ensues is the growing relationship between Bodhi and Henna, and the fall-out as Henna’s confession pushes Bodhi out of her life, once again.

A PLACE WITHOUT YOU is a story of forbidden love; a student-teacher relationship that turns into something more but something that will be damaged by heart breaking loss, and personal shame. A story of family, friendship, life and death, hatred and loss, the couple that is ‘Henna and Bodhi, Bodhi and Henna’ must endure a series of storms that are difficult and exhausting, heavy and sad.

The product of an unconventional upbringing, our heroine is wiser than her years, but younger than her age; a selfish, sometimes immature young woman who lives life on the edge, an edge she has narrowly escaped on more than one occasion . Bodhi Malone is a man unable to move forward as the sins of his past are a constant reminder of what was, what happened, and what will never be. Meeting Henna Lane found our hero falling for the forbidden fruit; an addiction that would threaten everything and more.

A PLACE WITHOUT YOU is an emotional story line about two damaged souls who struggle to make their place in the world, a place that is lonely without the one that they love.

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Reviewed by Sandy

“Let’s eat before we leave. I’m sure there’s quite the spread downstairs.”
“Rich people breakfast?” I ask.
She furrows a brow for a few seconds. “Yes. I suppose so.” Rolling away, she swings her legs around and stands up, stretching like a cat.
“Do you eat rich people breakfast every morning?” My curiosity has been piqued.
After a long yawn, she cocks her head to the side, lips slightly twisted. “Shredded Wheat with cut-up banana and almond milk. Is that a rich person’s breakfast?”
I sit up, doing a bit of my own stretching, loving the way her gaze roams along my bare chest, her lips parting ever so slightly. “No. I think that’s a solid middle-class breakfast.”
“Middle. That’s average. Average is good, right?”
“There’s nothing average about you, Henna.” I stand, following her into the bedroom.
“I’m going to shower quickly, and by quickly I mean I need an hour. Do you have an hour?”
“To shower with you?” I try to play it cool, like I’m serious.
I’m a little serious.
The color leaves her face. “Oh, um …” She twists her fingers together, drawing her shoulders inward.
“I’m kidding.”
A little kidding.
Henna’s posture relaxes as her cheeks pink up again. “We could.” Her gaze darts around the room before landing on mine for two seconds only to wander around the room again.
“My clothes are at my hotel. I’ll shower there. I need to get going.”
A slow sigh deflates her chest as she tries on a smile that misses the confident mark by a few centimeters. “Okay.”
“But thanks for the offer.” I wink.
More color paints her cheeks, and it looks stunning on her. “I kinda sorta thought we’d have sex last night, but we didn’t, and that’s fine, but now I don’t know what comes next.”
Does that make me the world’s biggest idiot for not taking what she was planning on offering? Or does that make me a gentleman? I’ve already fucked her a hundred different ways in my head, so I’m going to shy away from the gentleman label.
“How about you put my number in your phone and I’ll call you later today? That feels like a good next, don’t you think?”
Henna nods and turns, walking toward the bedroom door. Digging through her purse, she retrieves her phone. When she pulls it out, a string of three condoms comes out with it. “Oh jeez.” Quickly snatching them off the floor, she shoves them back into her purse.
I don’t respond because I’m not sure what the correct response should be.
“I was conceived at Coachella.” She hands me her phone with the contact screen open, ready for my information.
Taking her phone, I give her an expectant look, but she withholds all elaboration.
“And by conceived, you mean physical conception, not merely an idea kind of conception?” I hand her phone back and give her mine.
“In the shadows behind a stage. I know more details than most people should actually know about the moment they were conceived.” She lifts a shoulder in a small shrug. “But Juni is my best friend. She’s the absolute coolest mom ever, and the story of how she met my dad is my favorite story ever.”
I nod as she keeps her chin tipped toward the screen to my phone. “Why is that?” I take my phone back when she holds it out to me.
“Yin Yang. Opposites. Laws of the universe.” She wears a satisfied smile. “My parents were temporary. I was permanent.” Holding out her arms, she inspects her henna tattoos as if seeing them for the first time. “My mom had henna tattoos on her body when she met my dad. Henna grows in intensity over a few days before fading to nothing. It’s magical and beautiful and then it’s gone. My parents say that about their love for each other. It grew quickly into something deep and intense, but over time it faded. Their love—like most everything in life—was temporary.”
“We’re temporary.”
Her empty stare shifts to meet my gaze and she nods. “Don’t sweat it. Everything is temporary. But today…” she walks into my chest, and my arms wrap around her as she looks up at me “…we should be at our brightest, our most intense.”

Jewel is a free-spirited romance junkie with a quirky sense of humor.

With 10 years of flossing lectures under her belt, she took early retirement from her dental hygiene career to stay home with her three awesome boys and manage the family business.

After her best friend of nearly 30 years suggested a few books from the Contemporary Romance genre, Jewel was hooked. Devouring two and three books a week but still craving more, she decided to practice sustainable reading, AKA writing.

When she’s not donning her cape and saving the planet one tree at a time, she enjoys yoga with friends, good food with family, rock climbing with her kids, watching How I Met Your Mother reruns, and of course…heart-wrenching, tear-jerking, panty-scorching novels.

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Secret Lucidity by E.K. Blair-Review Tour

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SECRET LUCIDITY by E.K. Blair-review tour

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date February 26, 2018

(A forbidden romance stand-alone.)

This wasn’t supposed to happen.
But it did.
This wasn’t supposed to be my life.
But it was.

I was just a typical girl, living a typical life. Nothing was out of the ordinary until tragedy threw me into a turnstile I couldn’t see my way out of. That was, until him.

I never could’ve imagined my heart falling the way it did. Hard, fast, and with unbounding beauty.

The only problem?
He was off limits.
Forbidden.

But he became my everything, and I became his, so we risked it all. It was only a matter of time until I realized that our risk came with unimaginable consequences.

My name is Camellia Hale and his is David Andrews, and this is our love story.

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REVIEW: SECRET LUCIDITY by E.K. Blair is a stand alone, YA/NA forbidden romance story line focusing on the taboo relationship between seventeen-year old Camellia ‘Cam’ Hale, and thirty-one year old high school English Lit. teacher/swimming coach David Andrews.

Told from first person point of view (Camellia) with a closing chapter by David SECRET LUCIDITY follows the taboo relationship between thirty-one year old high school English Lit teacher and swimming coach David Andrews, and seventeen-year old Camellia ‘Cam’ Hale. Rising swim star Cam Hale had everything until the day she lost it all to a drunk driver that destroyed her sense of well-being and took the life of her beloved father. Unable to handle the grief of loss, and the harrowing aftermath of whispered pity and self-loathing, Cam struggles to find her place in a world turned upside down leaving her to battle her demons alone. The one bright spot in her life, swimming, no longer harbors the appeal until new swim coach and English Lit teacher David Andrews becomes her beacon in the storm. What ensues is the forbidden romance between David and Cam, and the fall out when their relationship is discovered.

The relationship between David and Cam is slow to build as both struggle with their growing attraction to one another; the taboo of the student/teacher romance; and the potential fall-out if and when their affair is discovered. The $ex scenes are intimate and passionate, without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.

The mandatory YA story line characters are present: the adult figure in our heroine’s life is a mess; a lost cause, self-absorbed and without the capacity to parent. The requisite mean girls are alive and well; the best friend is caught between hatred and support; the one-time boyfriend is a lost puppy who is unable to let go of the girl he loves.

The dictionary defines lucidity as ‘clearness of thought’: a presumed capacity to perceive the truth directly and instantaneously, and with that in mind, perception is real when rumors begin to circulate. Our couple are well aware of the likelihood that if caught their lives and futures could be destroyed. Staying away from one another is a continuous battle, a battle they will lose in the end. Love and the heart know no boundaries including the taboo of a student/teacher relationship that will eventually damage and dismantle all thoughts of a happily ever after. The heartbreaking premise will captivate your attention; the characters are shattered and lost; the romance struggles in the face of the forbidden and the law. SECRET LUCIDITY is an emotional and powerful look at two people caught in a firestorm of controversy, disapproval and the taboo.

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Reviewed by Sandy

EK BlairE.K. Blair, takes her readers on an emotional roller coaster with her dynamic and intense writing style. Noted for her ability to create fleshed-out characters that will evoke a realm of reactions, you can be assured that her stories will linger with you far beyond the last word.

A former first grade teacher with an imagination that runs wild. Daydreaming and zoning out is how she was often found in high school. Blair tends to drift towards everything dark and moody. Give her a character and she will take pleasure in breaking them down, digging into their core to find what lies underneath.

Aside from writing, E.K. Blair finds pleasure in music, drinking her Starbucks in peace, and spending time with her friends. She’s a thinker, an artist, a wife, a mom, and everything in between.

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