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THE RUMBLE AND THE GLORY (Sacred Trinity 1) by J.A. Huss-review

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THE RUMBLE AND THE GLORY (Sacred Trinity 1) by J.A. Huss-review

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date June 27, 2024

Collin Creed is a killer. But he’s Lowyn’s killer. And after a twelve-year separation, she wants him back.

Deep in the hills of West Virginia, three small towns have found a way to flourish in the face of extreme poverty. Disciple runs a side-show tent revival that brings in millions of dollars a year. Bishop flaunts traditional ways in the vein of Colonial Williamsburg, luring weary city people to the slow-living lifestyle. And Revenant offers them an experience of sin filled with tattooed bikers and live-music dive bars.

It’s a sacred trinity that worships the almighty dollar and everyone plays their role like a well-trained Broadway actor.

But these hills have secrets, and so do the people.

Twelve years ago, when he was just eighteen and dreaming of a future with his high school sweetheart, Collin Creed learned something about himself. Something so disturbing he left Disciple to join the Marines and didn’t once look back. But all that came to a screeching halt with the congressional hearings, forcing Collin to return home and rebuild his black-ops empire brick by brick.

Lowyn McBride’s heart broke when Collin shut her out and left town without an explanation just as they were getting ready to start their adult lives together. The death of her mother the following year was a make-or-break moment and Lowyn rose to the occasion, giving up her university education to parent her younger sister while building an empire of her own as a specialty antiques dealer.

Anger and desire, guilt and shame—the return of the enigmatic Collin Creed ignites the town and sparks an explosion of emotions inside Lowyn. But he’s not the only one with a secret in his past.

Lowyn has always played the good girl to Collin’s bad-boy reputation. But it turns out—she’s just like everyone else up in these hills—not as wholesome and pure as she looks.

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REVIEW: THE RUMBLE AND THE GLORY by JA Huss is the first instalment in JA Huss’ contemporary, adult SACRED TRINITY erotic, romantic suspense series focusing on three small towns in the hills of West Virginia-Disciple, Bishop and Revenant. This is thirty year olds, former US Marine, Black Ops agent and security specialist Collin Creed, and antiques dealer Lowyn McBride’s story line.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Lowyn and Collin) THE RUMBLE AND THE GLORY focuses on the second chance relationship between our story line couple. Twelve years earlier Lowyn’s life imploded when the man that she loved killed an intruder who was intent on kidnapping someone he loved. Fast forward to present day, Collin Creed, a former US Marine and Black Ops Agent returns to Disciple, West Virginia where the town has remained the same, with secrets deeper and darker than he could have ever imagined. Setting up a new security business called Edge, along with his former Marine buddies Amon, Ryan Desoto, and Nash Skinner, Collin is about to be thrown to wolves when the yearly Revival festival points a finger directly at our story line hero. Coming face to face with the woman whose heart he destroyed, Collin knows Lowyn is his past, his present and his inevitable future but the town of Disciple is refusing to give up its’ secrets. What ensues is the rebuilding relationship between Collin and Lowyn, and the potential fall-out as the past continues to demand reparations for the sins of our hero.

The world building is complicated and detailed. The ‘Trinity’ towns of Disciple, Bishop and Revenant are predicated and built upon religion and the Bible, and every year a ‘Revival’ is held from Easter to Christmas, featuring all of the townsfolk in acting roles, and this year’s ‘play’ focuses on the return of the prodigal son but Disciple continues to keep its’ secrets buried, and Collin is about to discover the depth to which our heroine is under their control…but …a cross has four points, and darkness is surrounding the Trinity towns.

The relationship between Collin and Lowyn is one of second chances; a rekindling romance that was destroyed when Collin enlisted, without looking back. Lowyn had struggle in the years since Collin’s betrayal but Lowyn never stopped loving the man who owned her heart. The $ex scenes are intimate and passionate without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.

There is a large ensemble cast of coloful, questionable and interesting secondary and supporting characters. We are introduced to Collin’s former Marines and business partners: Amon, Ryan and Nash; Lowyn’s sister and chef Bryn McBride; Lowyn’s childhood best friend Clover Bradley, as well as Mayor Jim-Bob Baptist, town gossip Rosie Harlow, town clerk Ester, and a large assortment of townies, and Collin’s former commander General Forbe. The requisite evil has many faces.

THE RUMBLE AND THE GLORY is a story of secrets and lies, betrayal and vengeance, power and control, family and friendships, forgiveness and love. The premise is twisted, dark, dramatic and thought provoking; the romance is compelling; the characters are sassy, spirited and determined.

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Reviewed by Sandy

 

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J.A. Huss never wanted to be a writer and she still dreams of that elusive career as an astronaut. She originally went to school to become an equine veterinarian but soon figured out they keep horrible hours and decided to go to grad school instead. That Ph.D wasn’t all it was cracked up to be (and she really sucked at the whole scientist thing), so she dropped out and got a M.S. in forensic toxicology just to get the whole thing over with as soon as possible.

After graduation she got a job with the state of Colorado as their one and only hog farm inspector and spent her days wandering the Eastern Plains shooting the shit with farmers. After a few years of that, she got bored. And since she was a homeschool mom and actually does love science, she decided to write science textbooks and make online classes for other homeschool moms. She wrote more than two hundred of those workbooks and was the number one publisher at the online homeschool store many times, but eventually she covered every science topic she could think of and ran out of shit to say.

So in 2012 she decided to write fiction instead. That year she released her first three books and started a career that would make her a New York Times bestseller and land her on the USA Today Bestseller’s List eighteen times in the next three years. Her books have sold millions of copies all over the world, the audio version of her semi-autobiographical book, Eighteen, was nominated for a Voice Arts Award and an Audie award in 2016 and 2017 respectively, her audiobook Mr. Perfect was nominated for a Voice Arts Award in 2017, and her book, Taking Turns, was nominated for an Audie Award in 2018. Johnathan McClain is her first (and only) writing partner and even though they are worlds apart in just about every way imaginable, it works.

She lives on a ranch in Central Colorado with her family.

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Sick Heart by J. A. Huss -Review, Excerpt & Giveaway tour

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Sick Heart by J. A. Huss – Review, Excerpt & Giveaway Tour

 

 

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date March 30, 2021

DARK MMA FIGHTER ROMANCE

Cort van Breda has won 35 death matches as a fighter in an MMA circuit so deep underground there are no rules and only the winner gets out alive.
They call him the Sick Heart.
They say he’s a shameless monster.
They say he’s a ruthless killer.
They say he’s as twisted as the man who owns him.
They say a lot of things about Cort van Breda.
But in our world violence is money, and money is winning, and winning is life, and life is the only thing that matters.
Except… he wasn’t meant to win that last fight.
And I wasn’t meant to be his prize.
But he did.
And I am.
And now his sick heart owns me.

WARNING: This is a sweet love story adrift in an ocean of evil. It is about two survivors dealing with their darkest secrets while they fight to change their lives. It is for mature readers only and has descriptions of deeply disturbing situations. There will be pearl clutching.

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REVIEW: SICK HEART by JA Huss is a contemporary, adult, dark, romance stand alone set in the author’s work of Rook and Ronin, and The Company. This is twenty-seven year old, underground MMA fighter Cort van Breda aka Sick Heart, and Anya’s story line. SICK HEART is a stand alone but as yet, has no direct connection to the other series.

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

Told from dual first person perspectives (Cort and Anya) SICK HEART is a tragic story of ultimate survival in a world of permeating evil. Cort van Breda has been trained from a young age to kill in a world of illegal fight clubs involving children and child slavery. His last fight was meant to free him from a twenty-two year bondage but Cort never expected to meet another warrior, another survivor, a young woman, whose own life was fodder for the corrupt and malevolent. One month together in virtual silence meant one month of watching the other persevere but all was about to come crashing down when someone else had plans to destroy them all.

SICK HEART focuses on survival and endurance; on child trafficking and slavery; on power, control, malevolence and death. J.A. Huss pulls the reader into a dark and brutal world of illegal underground fights to the death, a world fuelled by breeders and killers, perversions and control. SICK HEART is also a story of, not only existing but, of consciousness, viability, and the mortality of life. A dark, gritty, raw and haunting story that is dramatic and intense in both presentation and back story.

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I put one hand up and slowly sign, Talk to me. It’s an easy sign and she gets it, because she goes tense again, then shakes her head no. But then she repeats my signs back with modifications, pointing at me, tapping her chin with a sideways hand, and then pointing to herself. You talk to me.
I already did.
She shakes her head and makes a sign for ‘whisper.’
And now it’s my turn to go tense and just stare at her for a moment.
Because she got it right. The sign is ‘talk,’ but if your other hand is cupped on the side of your mouth, it means ‘whisper.’ Like you’re gonna whisper in someone’s ear.
Did she just… I squint at her and she frowns in response. Has she taught herself sign language?
That’s not possible. Not this fast. It hasn’t even been a week.
Then whisper to me, I sign.
She shakes her head again. And then she touches my lips with the edge of her fingertips and slowly drags them up my cheek before pulling away.
‘Kiss.’ That was the sign for ‘kiss.’
She wants me to kiss her.
I know this is a distraction. I know who I’m dealing with. A girl who has been silent so long, no one remembers her last spoken words. A girl who should be dead, but isn’t. A girl who should be anywhere but here with me, but is. A girl who four days ago didn’t know a single bit of sign language, and now knows enough to stun me silent.
So I should really know better.
I should push her. Keep going. Because I could make her talk. I know I could.
But then she leans towards me. And we’re not that far apart, so that kiss she just asked for is now an absolute guarantee.
Our lips touch and just… linger there for a breath.
And so many things go through my mind in that breath. I want to resist her offer. Push her down, roll over, and forget where I’m at and who I’m with.
But that’s just fucking stupid. I like this girl. A lot.
I want to kiss her.
And all those other thoughts earlier about not wanting sex… well. This seems like more than sex. So that’s something I am interested in.
When our lips touch everything that happens next—whether it’s today, tomorrow, or next year—everything that happens next is preordained. And there’s no way to stop it.
I cup my hands around her face, my thumbs caressing small circles on her cheeks as her mouth opens and her tongue touches mine.
There is maybe one more moment. One more chance to stop the car crash that’s coming, but it’s such a small moment, so short and tiny, it barely exists.
And what comes next is pure lust.
I open my mouth, kiss her hard. Bite her lip, grab her breasts as I drop my full weight over her.
She kisses me back. But her kiss isn’t urgent, like mine. It’s soft. And even though we’re stained with salt water, and sweat, and the wind, she tastes so sweet, I want this kiss to last forever. 


 

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J.A. Huss never wanted to be a writer and she still dreams of that elusive career as an astronaut. She originally went to school to become an equine veterinarian but soon figured out they keep horrible hours and decided to go to grad school instead. That Ph.D wasn’t all it was cracked up to be (and she really sucked at the whole scientist thing), so she dropped out and got a M.S. in forensic toxicology just to get the whole thing over with as soon as possible.

After graduation she got a job with the state of Colorado as their one and only hog farm inspector and spent her days wandering the Eastern Plains shooting the shit with farmers. After a few years of that, she got bored. And since she was a homeschool mom and actually does love science, she decided to write science textbooks and make online classes for other homeschool moms. She wrote more than two hundred of those workbooks and was the number one publisher at the online homeschool store many times, but eventually she covered every science topic she could think of and ran out of shit to say.

So in 2012 she decided to write fiction instead. That year she released her first three books and started a career that would make her a New York Times bestseller and land her on the USA Today Bestseller’s List eighteen times in the next three years. Her books have sold millions of copies all over the world, the audio version of her semi-autobiographical book, Eighteen, was nominated for a Voice Arts Award and an Audie award in 2016 and 2017 respectively, her audiobook Mr. Perfect was nominated for a Voice Arts Award in 2017, and her book, Taking Turns, was nominated for an Audie Award in 2018. Johnathan McClain is her first (and only) writing partner and even though they are worlds apart in just about every way imaginable, it works.

She lives on a ranch in Central Colorado with her family.

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Bully King by JA Huss-Review & Giveaway tour

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Bully King (Kings of High Court College #1) by JA Huss-Review and Giveaway tour

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date August 5, 2020

Bully boys.
Arrogant tyrants.
Blue-blood bastards.
Call them whatever you want.
Around here, we just call them Kings.

Fancy boats.
Lakeside mansions.
Luxe watches and bespoke suits.
The Kings of High Court College act like Gods.
And Cooper Valcourt is the worst of them.
He is the bully king.
His family owns everything.
And his mission is to put me in my place and send me packing.
But Cooper and I have a history filled with secrets.
And everyone knows that power doesn’t come from having money.
It comes from holding secrets.
And I’m holding one of his.

A very dark secret that can bring him to his knees.

Bully King is new-adult, dark, bully romance from New York Times bestselling author JA Huss featuring boys with power and girls at their mercy. It’s a campus shrouded in lies and a summer rush into an elite society that can propel a poor girl straight into the ruling class.

If… she’s willing to pay the price.

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REVIEW:BULLY KING is the first instalment in JA Huss’ contemporary, new adult, KINGS OF HIGH COURT COLLEGE dark bully romance duet focusing on the twenty-one year old, King of High Court College Cooper Valcourt, and the late gardener’s daughter, eighteen year old, Cadee Hunter.

WARNING: Due to the graphic nature of the story line premise, there may be some triggers for more sensitive readers. As the author says in her opening address to the readers: “ This is a bully romance and the hero will act accordingly.”

Told from dual first person perspectives (Cadee and Cooper) BULLY KING focuses on the summer ‘rush’ of new pledges to High Court College, a rush wherein our heroine, Cadee Hunter becomes the target of every bully and power hungry, spoiled trust fund kid that the school has to offer. Following a night of ‘debauchery’ on behalf of Cooper and his friends, Cooper Valcourt’s father Winston Valcourt, Chairman of High Court College sentences Cooper, and his friends Ax and Lars to ‘work’ at the summer rush camp knowing said sentence would filter out the powerful from the weak but Cooper struggles in the face of his father’s intended victim, a young woman who has suffered enough at the hands of Cooper and his friends.

Three years earlier Cadee’s life imploded, then her father died, leaving her mother struggling to make ends meet working in the campus kitchens. Fast forward to present day wherein, with Cadee’s mother’s death three weeks earlier, Cadee finds herself alone, facing expulsion or accepting a ‘job’ working in the kitchen for the College’s rush camp, work that disguises weeks of bullying at the hands of the wanna-be young and powerful rich and famous but all is not well behind the scenes, when the dirty truth and secrets reveal a hideous history of death, rape, power and control.

BULLY KING is a gritty, haunting, heart breaking and emotional story line of predator and prey; of the powerful versus the weak; of money and control. Cadee Hunter is a strong willed young woman, clearly not innocent or pure, who refuses to be a victim, and in this, places herself in the direct line of fire in an effort to secure one of the coveted scholarships to High Court College. As a target of some of the most horrific acts of bullying, Cadee consents to various forms of assault, both emotional and physical, claiming by acceptance she is no longer the victim, regardless of the outcome.

Cooper Valcourt is the ultimate spoiled, trust fund baby, who along with his best friends Ax and Lars, wreak havoc amongst those they consider beneath their status yet it is the havoc that now places Cooper in a precarious position, as he must prove he is worthy of wearing the Crown, a crown that comes with years of power, control, secrets and lies.

There is a large ensemble cast of destructive and ill-fated secondary and supporting characters: Ax Olson, Lars, Isabella, Sophie Bettington, Mona Monroe, Elexa Simpson, Dante Legosi, Michael Gottsworth, Roland Blanchard, Jamie Cruz, Ivan Turgenev, lead server Victor English, as well as Cooper’s brother Dane, and their father Chairman Winston Valcourt.

BULLY KING is not a story for the weak. There are questionable acts of consent, emotional, sexual and physical abuse, suicide attempts, domination and submission, all in the name of power, money and status. The trust-fund children are puppets, vying for a position of control but in the end, who will be pulling the strings when the truth is finally revealed?

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J.A. Huss never wanted to be a writer and she still dreams of that elusive career as an astronaut. She originally went to school to become an equine veterinarian but soon figured out they keep horrible hours and decided to go to grad school instead. That Ph.D wasn’t all it was cracked up to be (and she really sucked at the whole scientist thing), so she dropped out and got a M.S. in forensic toxicology just to get the whole thing over with as soon as possible.

After graduation she got a job with the state of Colorado as their one and only hog farm inspector and spent her days wandering the Eastern Plains shooting the shit with farmers. After a few years of that, she got bored. And since she was a homeschool mom and actually does love science, she decided to write science textbooks and make online classes for other homeschool moms. She wrote more than two hundred of those workbooks and was the number one publisher at the online homeschool store many times, but eventually she covered every science topic she could think of and ran out of shit to say.

So in 2012 she decided to write fiction instead. That year she released her first three books and started a career that would make her a New York Times bestseller and land her on the USA Today Bestseller’s List eighteen times in the next three years. Her books have sold millions of copies all over the world, the audio version of her semi-autobiographical book, Eighteen, was nominated for a Voice Arts Award and an Audie award in 2016 and 2017 respectively, her audiobook Mr. Perfect was nominated for a Voice Arts Award in 2017, and her book, Taking Turns, was nominated for an Audie Award in 2018. Johnathan McClain is her first (and only) writing partner and even though they are worlds apart in just about every way imaginable, it works.

She lives on a ranch in Central Colorado with her family.

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Pretty Nightmare (Creeping Beautiful #2) by JA Huss-Review tour

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Pretty Nightmare (Creeping Beautiful #2) by J.A. Huss-Review, Excerpt & Giveaway tour

 

 

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date May 12, 2020

INDIE

I have them all now. Just the way I want them.
McKay, the one who loves me deepest.
Adam, the one who protects me fiercely.
Donovan, the one who tells the truth.
They are my friends, they are my lovers, they are my world.
And Maggie belongs to all of us—no matter who her father is.
This is the family I’ve always wanted.
This is the family I deserve.
And I will do whatever it takes to keep them.

McKAY

I have a secret that could ruin everything.
But I’m not keeping that secret to hurt her.
Nathan St. James needed to go.

ADAM

I made a plan that could ruin everything.
But I did it to save us in the end.
The Company needed to come back.

DONOVAN

I told a lie that could ruin everything.
But I didn’t tell the lie to them—I told it to myself.
Carter is closer than we think.

There is something truly wrong at Boucher House on the Old Pearl River.
Some hidden evil lurking deep inside the woods.
Nothing about their blissful life is what it seems.
Because just when they think they have it all—he shows up to take it back.

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REVIEW: PRETTY NIGHTMARE is the second instalment in JA Huss’ contemporary, adult CREEPING BEAUTIFUL suspense filled, mind-bending, dark, psychological thriller focusing on four ‘friends’: Core McKay, Adam Boucher, Donovan Couture, Indie Anna Accorsi, and their neighbor Nathan St. James. CREEPING BEAUTIFUL is a spin off of, and set in the same world as the author’s THE COMPANY –Dirty, Dark and Deadly series (2017)-several characters cross-over for back story and continuity. PRETTY NIGHTMARE should not be read as a stand alone as it picks up immediately after the events and cliff hanger of book one Creeping Beautiful.

SOME BACKGROUND: At ten years of age, Indie Anna Accorsi was sold and bought by the next generation of an organization known as The Company, an organization that trained child killers and assassins to do the work of cleaning up when society has gone wrong. As Indie grows into adulthood, all is not well as she suffers with memory lapses, disappearances, psychotic breakdowns, and the attempted murder of the men that she loves.

Told from five first person points of view (McKay, Adam, Donovan, Indie and Nathan) using present day and memories from the past, PRETTY NIGHTMARE continues to focus on the dysfunctional dynamic of McKay, Adam, Donovan and Indie, a dynamic that includes sexual liaisons, ménage M/M sexual scenarios, buried secrets, lies and several missing ‘Company’ personnel, once presumed dead who have now resurfaced to take down the remaining few. Donovan continues to psychoanalyze Indie Anna; Adam Boucher searches for the classified and long buried information from his past; Core McKay hides the truth about a death in the family; and Indie needs to keep everyone together for her sake and that of the men that she loves, but their world is about to implode with the return of an enemy desperate to end them all. A long held secret reveals a darker betrayal, a secret that threatens McKay, Adam, Donovan and Indie in more ways than one; a secret I guess from the very start.

PRETTY NIGHTMARE is a psychological thriller about an embittered, flawed and broken ‘family’ –heirs to The Company; a generation caught between walking away or continuing to get pulled into the depths of depravity, manipulation, mind control and murder. PRETTY NIGHTMARE is a story of deception, delusion, and nightmares; of altered timelines, manufactured memories, and the reality of what was, what is and what will never be. PRETTY NIGHTMARE ends on a cliff hanger –you have been warned.

Click HERE for Sandy’s review of book one CREEPING BEAUTIFUL

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EXCERPT – ADAMShe holds my hand as we walk, squeezing it a little. It feels natural, but then again, weird.
This girl—woman, now, I suppose—she has been off limits to me for so long. It’s really hard to get that out of my head. And sometimes, when I look at Maggie, I see Indie.
It’s just… weird.
Indie doesn’t lead me to the front porch. She takes me around the side. “Where are we going?”
“To spy on them, of course.”
“Ahh, I don’t know.”
She stops us on the side of the house in front of the office window. “Stop being a baby. Don’t you want to be with McKay?”
And this is weird too. Since when do I talk about my feelings with Indie? With anyone, actually?
“You’re really trying hard to find an excuse, aren’t you?”
“I’m not.” It comes out defensive. “Of course I love McKay. Of course I want to be with him.”
“So what’s the problem?”
I hesitate. She just shakes her head at me and drops my hand. “Fine. Then stay here. I’ll spy.”
She turns away and continues walking along the side of the house, then looks over her shoulder one last time before she disappears around the corner.
I jog to catch up.
Fuck it.
When I round the corner, Indie has her face pressed against the glass of the family room window. The only lights on inside are the ones under the kitchen cabinets. So it’s a low light. A soft glow of yellow But it’s more than enough to see them.
Donovan and McKay are kissing.
I exhale and then heat fills me up. And I don’t remember breathing, but I exhale again. And then again. My chest rising and falling as emotions flood into my bloodstream.
“It’s kinda hot,” Indie whispers.
I have to agree. It kinda is. But it’s a lot of other things too.
They are both shirtless. And I’m not gonna lie, Donovan is just as nice to look at as McKay.
That’s not the only reason it’s hot though. This looks like a real fucking kiss. McKay is even kissing him back. And then Donovan’s hand slips down McKay’s chest, then down his ridiculous sixty-four-pack abs and rests on the waistband of his jeans.
Indie sucks in a little breath of surprise. “Damn. I didn’t think they’d… ooohh. Wow.”
Donovan is gripping McKay’s cock through his jeans. And McKay pulls out of the kiss. I have a moment of hope that he’ll push Donovan away. McKay looks down at Donovan’s hand as Donovan grips his cock and begins massaging his hand over his groin area.
But McKay doesn’t push him away. He closes his eyes and leans back against the counter. Practically giving Donovan permission to do whatever he wants.

 


 

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J.A. Huss never wanted to be a writer and she still dreams of that elusive career as an astronaut. She originally went to school to become an equine veterinarian but soon figured out they keep horrible hours and decided to go to grad school instead. That Ph.D wasn’t all it was cracked up to be (and she really sucked at the whole scientist thing), so she dropped out and got a M.S. in forensic toxicology just to get the whole thing over with as soon as possible.

After graduation she got a job with the state of Colorado as their one and only hog farm inspector and spent her days wandering the Eastern Plains shooting the shit with farmers. After a few years of that, she got bored. And since she was a homeschool mom and actually does love science, she decided to write science textbooks and make online classes for other homeschool moms. She wrote more than two hundred of those workbooks and was the number one publisher at the online homeschool store many times, but eventually she covered every science topic she could think of and ran out of shit to say.

So in 2012 she decided to write fiction instead. That year she released her first three books and started a career that would make her a New York Times bestseller and land her on the USA Today Bestseller’s List eighteen times in the next three years. Her books have sold millions of copies all over the world, the audio version of her semi-autobiographical book, Eighteen, was nominated for a Voice Arts Award and an Audie award in 2016 and 2017 respectively, her audiobook Mr. Perfect was nominated for a Voice Arts Award in 2017, and her book, Taking Turns, was nominated for an Audie Award in 2018. Johnathan McClain is her first (and only) writing partner and even though they are worlds apart in just about every way imaginable, it works.

She lives on a ranch in Central Colorado with her family.

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Tony / Alonzo (Bossy Brothers 6 & 5) by JA Huss-Review tour

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Tony / Alonzo (Bossy Brothers #6 & 5) by JA Huss-Review tour

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date May 12, 2020

Belinda Baker and I were not made for each other.

We are not soul mates, or lovers, or even frenemies.

She is the one who needed to get away.

What we had together wasn’t blind love, it was sick rage.

We were a match made in hell, it was hate at first sight, and when she walked away from me and never looked back—it was a relief.

It was bliss.

So why did I travel two thousand miles so I could be near her?

Why can’t I stop thinking about this girl I never want to see again?

Why. Am I. Here?

And what do I have to do to make her disappear for good?

Bossy Brothers: Tony features two girls falling for the wrong men and two men falling for the right girls. A family of tatted up brothers and a town filled with secrets and danger. A story of earned chances and first dates. Of coming to terms with the past and finding a way into the future. It is book six in the Bossy Brothers series and should be read after book five, Bossy Brothers: Alonzo.

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REVIEW: TONY is the sixth instalment in J.A. Huss’ contemporary, adult BOSSY BROTHERS erotic, romantic suspense series. This is Tony Dumas, Belinda Baker, Vann Vaughn and Soshee Ameci’s story line. TONY should not be read as a stand alone as it picks up after the events of book five ALONZO, and makes references to several other events in other series.

NOTE: TONY and the Bossy Brothers series is interconnected with, and makes references to several events in the previous story lines, and from the author’s other numerous series including the Rook and Ronin Series: The Company Series : Meet Me in the Dark: Three, Two, One: Wasted Lust: the Mister Series- all with connections to the author’s new Creeping Beautiful series.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Tony and Belinda) TONY follows several pathways but focuses on the unfinished ‘business’ between Tony Dumas and Rosalie Thompson. Eight years earlier, Rosalie Thompson, now known as Belinda Baker witnessed something she should not have seen in Key West, Florida, and found herself in Fort Collins, Colorado, a town whose numerous residents are currently in the American WITSEC program but eight years never stopped the hate and vitriol between Rosalie Thompson, and Tony Dumas. Rosalie aka Belinda’s return home (ALONZO #5) to Key West, Florida brought back too many memories and the anger between Tony and Rosalie, and when Rosalie (now Belinda) headed back to Fort Collins, Tony found himself sent on a mission to discover the who and what of the town where Belinda now resides. But all does not go according to plan as Tony and Rosalie’s tempestuous, hate filled relationship pulls in many of the locals, including Vann Vaughn and Soshee Ameci. As Belinda and Tony continue their heart breaking and hostile battle of malevolence and animosity, Fort Collins’ begins to reveal a few secrets of its’ own, secrets that are going to directly affect everyone involved.

TONY is an unconventional and atypical story of romance and love; a story of hostility and pain between Tony Dumas and Belinda Baker; of the developing relationships between Vann and Belinda, and Soshee and Tony. Rosalie aka Belinda is unable to forgive Tony for sins of the past, and Tony struggles with the real reason he has returned to confront the woman he once knew as Rosalie Thompson. Tony and Belinda will find love and their own happily ever after, but not with one another.

J.A. Huss pens an original story and series of secrets, lies, mystery and betrayal. The interconnected premises reveal some of the classified information, the skeletons, and the networks and relationships that will directly affect the story lines going forward including the author’s new Creeping Beautiful series. So it is with this knowledge, you have been forewarned, that all is not as it has appeared to be, or will be in the future.

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Reviewed by Sandy

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ALONZO

(Bossy Brothers #5)
by JA Huss
Release Date: January 13, 2020
Genre: adult, contemporary, erotic, romantic, suspense

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date January 13, 2020

Bossy Brothers: Alonzo is an enemies-to-lovers trope that can be read as book five or as a standalone story.

ALONZO
Tara Tanner and I are not a couple.
We don’t do real life. We don’t do real numbers. We don’t do real names.
We do phone sex, and text sex, and email sex.
Everything about our ‘relationship’ is a lie.
You call it catfishing, I call it being careful. And I do not feel bad about it. Because my life is an ocean of secrets that could all wash ashore if I’m not careful.

TARA
Alonzo Dumas is the King of Catfishermen.
Oh, yes. I know who he really is.
But he has no idea who I am.
I feed on secrets. They’re my lifeblood. He has no idea that I’ve been stringing him along, casting him a line of lies like bait, and now I’ve got him on my hook.
Watch out, Alonzo Dumas. Because I’m about to reel you in.

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REVIEW: ALONZO is the fifth instalment in J.A. Huss’ contemporary, adult BOSSY erotic, romance series. This is Alonzo ‘Lonnie Derringer’ Dumas, and Phoebe ‘Tara Tanner’ Covington’s story line. ALONZO can be read as a stand alone but I recommend reading the series in order for back story and cohesion.

NOTE: I have not read any of the previous story lines, and I felt a little lost going into this particle arc of the series.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Lonnie and Tara) ALONZO follows the enemies to lovers/ relationship of lies between Alonzo ‘Lonnie Derringer’ Dumas, and Phoebe ‘Tara Tanner’ Covington. Alonzo Dumas had been catfishing Phoebe Covington for close to two years but to both of their shock, anger and total surprise Lonnie Derringer and Tara Tanner did not exist. Phoebe Covington has been in hiding for close to two years, and meeting Lonnie Derringer online gave Phoebe something to look forward to but Phoebe’s life is about to spiral out of control, and along with her best friend Belinda (aka Rosalie) and her co-worker Vann, the trio head to Key West, Florida where Phoebe aka Tara’s life will take an ominous turn. What ensues is the building relationship between Tara and Lonnie, and the fall-out when secrets and lies, and a case of mistaken beliefs forces Tara to reconsider everything she thought was the truth, and is now a lie.

The relationship between Tara and Lonnie is predicated upon numerous lies. A two year, long distance online romance involving sexting and phone-sex begins to dissolve when our couple is hoping for something more but something more means revealing themselves to one another, a reveal that comes with heart break and pain. The $ex scenes are erotic, intimate and intense.

ALONZO is a story of secrets and lies. Both Lonnie and Tara are not whom they present themselves to be, and their equally questionable stories will eventually back fire when the truth is revealed. While Alonzo is reluctant to reveal the truth and the depths to which his secret entails, Phoebe aka Tara, is under the mistaken belief that Alonzo is involved in something seedy and dark. The slow building premise is engaging and entertaining (once you get past the long-distance, online, somewhat tedious, affair); the romance is provocative and dirty. Most of the secondary and supporting characters have been introduced in the previous story lines including Johnny, Joey and Jesse Boston.

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Reviewed by Sandy

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J.A. Huss never wanted to be a writer and she still dreams of that elusive career as an astronaut. She originally went to school to become an equine veterinarian but soon figured out they keep horrible hours and decided to go to grad school instead. That Ph.D wasn’t all it was cracked up to be (and she really sucked at the whole scientist thing), so she dropped out and got a M.S. in forensic toxicology just to get the whole thing over with as soon as possible.

After graduation she got a job with the state of Colorado as their one and only hog farm inspector and spent her days wandering the Eastern Plains shooting the shit with farmers. After a few years of that, she got bored. And since she was a homeschool mom and actually does love science, she decided to write science textbooks and make online classes for other homeschool moms. She wrote more than two hundred of those workbooks and was the number one publisher at the online homeschool store many times, but eventually she covered every science topic she could think of and ran out of shit to say.

So in 2012 she decided to write fiction instead. That year she released her first three books and started a career that would make her a New York Times bestseller and land her on the USA Today Bestseller’s List eighteen times in the next three years. Her books have sold millions of copies all over the world, the audio version of her semi-autobiographical book, Eighteen, was nominated for a Voice Arts Award and an Audie award in 2016 and 2017 respectively, her audiobook Mr. Perfect was nominated for a Voice Arts Award in 2017, and her book, Taking Turns, was nominated for an Audie Award in 2018. Johnathan McClain is her first (and only) writing partner and even though they are worlds apart in just about every way imaginable, it works.

She lives on a ranch in Central Colorado with her family.

WARNING: The excerpt is intended for mature readers 18+ due to strong language and content

 

 

“Jesus fucking Christ, Belinda!”
“What?”
“Are you blind? Or deaf? Or dumb? Or what?”
I just stare at him.
Vann takes a step forward, forcing me to take a step back too. And my step is actually a step up. He points his finger at me. I swat it away.
“I’m gonna say this once, OK? Just once.”
“Say whatever the fuck you want. I don’t care what you do.”
He climbs one step. And so do I. “I like you,” he says, climbing another step. So I climb another step. “I like your filthy mouth, Belinda Baker. I like your stupid cowboy boots. I like your pink hair.” He keeps climbing the steps, so I have to keep climbing the steps. “I like the way you road-trip.”
“What?” I’m so confused.
He’s still climbing the steps and now my back is against my front door. “I like the way you wear that glitter shit on your eyelids in the summer. And the way you wear fingerless gloves in the winter even though you complain, every single day, that your fucking hands are cold. I like the way your hair smells when you show up for work and it’s still wet. I like the way you spin on your stupid stool in front of the shop cash register and glare at the giggly sorority girls like you can’t wait for them to wake up sober tomorrow and realize they just paid a hundred bucks for a My Little Mermaid tramp stamp. I like the way you bite your lip when you’re tattooing and the way you always have a smear of ink on the side of your face by the time you’re done.”
I reach up to touch my face.
“Yes, you have ink there, right now. And I love that. Because you don’t even care enough to check the mirror after you’re done with a client to notice that you always have ink smeared on your fucking face after you tattoo someone. I like the way you kick at stones when you walk down the street like you’re some troubled teen with pregnancy issues.”
“What?” I laugh.
“I like the way you bitch, and moan, and complain that no one takes you seriously. In fact, I love that no one takes you seriously, because then they’d figure out just how awesome you are, and I’m afraid you’ll actually find someone else before I can convince you that I am good for you. I want to date you, Belinda Baker. And you know what really pissed me off tonight?”
He pauses.
I become uneasy. “Am I supposed to guess?”
“I’m not mad that you fucked Tony in the alley. OK? That’s not it. I’m angry that you gave him the chance that I deserve.”
My stomach… falls. I don’t know of any other way to describe the feeling I get when I internalize those last few words of his. Except… falling. Like the world has just been yanked out from under me. Like I’m adrift in a sea of mistakes.
Because he’s absolutely right.
“Vann—”
“No,” he says, still seething. “No.” He holds up one finger. “I’m not done. You don’t get to talk yet. I’ve been holding this in all fucking night while you laughed and joked with my goddamned brother and his stupid yoked-out army friend. Who, by the way, was leering at you the entire time.”
“He was not!”
“He so was!”
“He was lying face down, Vann!”
“I just want to say this.” He pauses again and his chest is rising and falling very quickly, like he’s really upset. And his lips are falling into a deep frown. And his face is becoming flushed with heat. “I have earned my chance, Belinda. I didn’t become your friend because I wanted to get in your pants. I didn’t get you the apprentice job because I thought we’d be good together. I didn’t drive you and Tara two thousand miles to Key West because I thought maybe you’d finally see me for what I am. I did all those things because I like you. With no expectations whatsoever. I did all those things because I enjoy you. And when we’re together, life is fun. Even when we’re running from guys called Diablo, and smuggling people on boats, and especially when we’re just hanging out doing nothing. Saying nothing. That’s my favorite time with you. Because we’re at that place now. That place where we’re comfortable. And I keep waiting for you to see how good we are. And you just”—he shakes his head—“refuse! You just refuse to even consider me. But this asshole Tony Dumas shows up out of nowhere and you give him all the considerations. You say you don’t like him—”
“I don’t!”
“You say that, but then why, Belinda? Why do you give him all the chances he hasn’t earned?”


 

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date February 19, 2020

McKAY

I wasn’t the one who broke her but I played my part. She came to us when she was ten. I raised her. I loved her. I taught her how to survive in a world of evil men. But it wasn’t enough.

ADAM

I wasn’t the one who saved her but I did my best. She needed me as much as I needed her. Bought and paid for on the auction block. But not for the reasons you think. She was my weapon.

DONOVAN

I wasn’t the one who lied to her but I hid her truth. She was broken before I got there. Wild and angry. Defiant and bratty. But she trusted me most. She loved me best. So I set her free.

Indie Anna Accorsi is a woman lost in her past. A pretty little nightmare. A gorgeous piece of misery. A mess of lovely darkness. She is creeping beautiful. And now we want her back.

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REVIEW: CREEPING BEAUTIFUL is the first instalment in J.A. Huss’ contemporary, adult, suspense filled, mind-bending, dark, psychological thriller focusing on four ‘friends’: McKay, Adam, Donovan and Indie.  CREEPING BEAUTIFUL is a spin off of, and set in the same world as the author’s THE COMPANY (2017).

Told from four first person points of view (McKay, Adam, Donovan and Indie)  using present day and several time lines throughout the past, CREEPING BEAUTIFUL covers fourteen years and follows the unconventional relationship between McKay, Adam, Donovan and Indie. At ten years of age, Indie Anna Accorsi was sold and bought by the next generation of an organization known as The Company who trained child killers and assassins to do the work of cleaning up when society has gone wrong. Throughout the years the reader is up close and personal as Indie struggles with her direction in life, a life controlled by the boys, now men, who make it their responsibility to protect Indie from herself and others but all is not well in Indie Anna’s mind, a mind destroyed and still controlled by the psychological manipulations inflicted before she was bought and sold.

J.A. Huss pulls the reader into a dark and deadly world of mind control and assassins; of family and friendships; of the manipulations of the body and soul; of one young woman’s desperate attempts to be normal when her world is anything but. CREEPING BEAUTIFUL focuses on Indie Anna Accorsi, and her relationships with the man who bought her, the man who raised her, the man who tried desperately to keep her together, and the boy with whom Indie fell desperately in love.  A mind-f*ck of epic proportions; a twisted, intricate and detailed tale of  suspense that ends on a cliff hanger-you have been warned.

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Reviewed by Sandy

ADAM
By the time that job was over I realized something.
I loved her.
I guess that’s what happens when you get used to something and then someone tries to take it away from you.
Because our trip home from Pensacola was two days later than planned and Indie Anna didn’t smile a single second of that ride.
She didn’t cry, either. But I could tell she wanted to.
And I did exactly what McKay told me to do if things went sideways. I did not yell. Not once. I just said, “It’s fine, Indie. It’s gonna be fine,” in the most soothing voice I could manage as I watched the Company doctor restrain her to the bed and fix her up.
And the game we played on the drive home was a new one called Let’s Pretend That Didn’t Happen.
Knowing what I do now, I probably wouldn’t have played that game with her.
I probably would’ve done a lot of things differently if I had known how good she’d get at pretending shit didn’t happen.
But hindsight can kiss my ass. You can’t change the past.
Indie Anna Accorsi is a beautiful little mess. She is a lovely little bundle of blonde hair and blue-eyed darkness. And even though I should have all kinds of regrets about how she came to be mine and how we came to be hers, I would absolutely do it all again.
Knowing her now, I wouldn’t change a thing.
Because if all those terrible things hadn’t happened, she would belong to him right now. She would be living in that little brick house with Nathan St. James.
She would be whole, and normal, and maybe even happier.
And my heart would be shattered into tiny shards. Millions of bitty pieces.
So yeah.
I’m a selfish piece of shit.
But I want what I want.
That’s the only way I can explain it.
Maybe she didn’t become mine the day of the auction, but the day that asshole triggered her without my permission, she did.
She is.

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J.A. Huss never wanted to be a writer and she still dreams of that elusive career as an astronaut. She originally went to school to become an equine veterinarian but soon figured out they keep horrible hours and decided to go to grad school instead. That Ph.D wasn’t all it was cracked up to be (and she really sucked at the whole scientist thing), so she dropped out and got a M.S. in forensic toxicology just to get the whole thing over with as soon as possible.

After graduation she got a job with the state of Colorado as their one and only hog farm inspector and spent her days wandering the Eastern Plains shooting the shit with farmers. After a few years of that, she got bored. And since she was a homeschool mom and actually does love science, she decided to write science textbooks and make online classes for other homeschool moms. She wrote more than two hundred of those workbooks and was the number one publisher at the online homeschool store many times, but eventually she covered every science topic she could think of and ran out of shit to say.

So in 2012 she decided to write fiction instead. That year she released her first three books and started a career that would make her a New York Times bestseller and land her on the USA Today Bestseller’s List eighteen times in the next three years. Her books have sold millions of copies all over the world, the audio version of her semi-autobiographical book, Eighteen, was nominated for a Voice Arts Award and an Audie award in 2016 and 2017 respectively, her audiobook Mr. Perfect was nominated for a Voice Arts Award in 2017, and her book, Taking Turns, was nominated for an Audie Award in 2018. Johnathan McClain is her first (and only) writing partner and even though they are worlds apart in just about every way imaginable, it works.

She lives on a ranch in Central Colorado with her family.

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