Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Best of 2019 Giveaway Hop


Val didn't have many 5 star reads last year.  Just a few.  Here they are!

Life is a mixed bag for Piper Calloway.

On the one hand, she’s a twenty-nine-year-old VP at her dad’s multibillion-dollar real estate development firm, and living the high single life with her two best friends in a swanky downtown penthouse. On the other hand, she’s considered a pair of sexy legs in a male-dominated world and constantly has to prove her worth. Plus, she’s stuck seeing her narcissistic ex-fiancé—a fellow VP—on the other side of her glass office wall every day.

Things get exponentially more complicated for Piper when she runs into Kyle Miller—the handsome new security guard at Calloway Group Industries, and coincidentally the first love of her life.

The guy she hasn’t seen or heard from since they were summer camp counsellors together. The guy from the wrong side of the tracks. The guy who apparently doesn’t even remember her name.

Piper may be a high-powered businesswoman now, but she soon realizes that her schoolgirl crush is not only alive but stronger than ever, and crippling her concentration. What’s more, despite Kyle’s distant attitude, she’s convinced their reunion isn’t at all coincidental, and that his feelings for her still run deep. And she’s determined to make him admit to them, no matter the consequences.



They call him the Duke of Ruin.

To an undaunted wallflower, he's just the beast next door.


Wealthy and ruthless, Gabriel Duke clawed his way from the lowliest slums to the pinnacle of high society—and now he wants to get even.

Loyal and passionate, Lady Penelope Campion never met a lost or wounded creature she wouldn’t take into her home and her heart.

When her imposing—and attractive—new neighbor demands she clear out the rescued animals, Penny sets him a challenge. She will part with her precious charges, if he can find them loving homes.

Done, Gabriel says. How hard can it be to find homes for a few kittens?

And a two-legged dog.

And a foul-mouthed parrot.

And a goat, an otter, a hedgehog . . .

Easier said than done, for a cold-blooded bastard who wouldn’t know a loving home from a workhouse. Soon he’s covered in cat hair, knee-deep in adorable, and bewitched by a shyly pretty spinster who defies his every attempt to resist. Now she’s set her mind and heart on saving him.

Not if he ruins her first. 


Danger inspires fierce passion when a serial killer threatens Chicago’s Ferraro crime family in this novel in Christine Feehan’s New York Times bestselling series.

Vittorio Ferraro is a man whose family loyalty knows no bounds. He would die for his siblings and the people they love, but what he really wants is to start a family of his own. Deep down, Vittorio has always known finding a woman who could ride shadows would be nearly impossible—let alone one who could accept his particular needs—and he never expected to find her in the middle of a kidnapping.…

Grace Murphy has always been drawn to Vittorio Ferraro—or at least to the billionaire’s public bad-boy persona. Now that she’s under his protection and the sole focus of his intense caring, she can’t help wanting to get as close to him as possible. But Grace knows her presence is putting the entire Ferraro family in danger. Her monster of a brother will never let her go, but Vittorio has no intention of losing the woman whose shadow matches his own.


Bound by the gods. Champions against evil. The Dark Warriors have taken their battle from ancient Scotland to the modern world—where a woman’s love is the greatest danger of all…

ENSLAVED BY DESIRE

Laura Black knows her boss is a man of many secrets—haunted by some unknowable force, driven by some unspeakable destiny—and yet it makes her crave the devilishly handsome, roguishly charming Charon all the more. When she uncovers a betrayal that will send her into a world of magic, she turns to the only one she trusts: Charon. Even when she’s in jeopardy of losing her heart…

UNLEASHED IN FURY

Charon Bruce endures a relentless yearning to have Laura for his own, an ache he knows will never be fulfilled. After the town he has protected for centuries is targeted by a ruthless Druid, he has no choice but to reveal his secret to Laura. He must fight the deadliest foe he’s ever known if he’s to keep her safe. But when Laura is captured by his nemesis, he must choose between winning the battle of good versus evil—or losing the woman he loves…


Fall in love, break the curse.

Cursed by a powerful enchantress to repeat the autumn of his eighteenth year, Prince Rhen, the heir of Emberfall, thought he could be saved easily if a girl fell for him. But that was before he turned into a vicious beast hell-bent on destruction. Before he destroyed his castle, his family, and every last shred of hope.

Nothing has ever been easy for Harper. With her father long gone, her mother dying, and her brother constantly underestimating her because of her cerebral palsy, Harper learned to be tough enough to survive. When she tries to save a stranger on the streets of Washington, DC, she's pulled into a magical world.

Break the curse, save the kingdom.

Harper doesn't know where she is or what to believe. A prince? A curse? A monster? As she spends time with Rhen in this enchanted land, she begins to understand what's at stake. And as Rhen realizes Harper is not just another girl to charm, his hope comes flooding back. But powerful forces are standing against Emberfall . . . and it will take more than a broken curse to save Harper, Rhen, and his people from utter ruin.




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49 comments:

  1. I think I'd choose A Curse So Dark and Lonely, though Shadow Warrior is also really compelling.

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  2. I'd probably pick Say You Still Love Me.

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  3. I would chhose They call Him the Duke of ruin

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  4. I would pick A Curse So Dark and Lonely

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  5. Say You Still Love Me by K.A. Tucker

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  6. I would choose Say You Still Love Me.

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  7. Id choose Say You Still Love Me since I read Shadow Warror already. <3

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  8. Tessa Dare's book
    jwisley(at)aol(dot)com

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  9. I'd pick A Curse So Dark and Lonely. Thanks for the chance!

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  10. I would choose Say You Still Love Me

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  11. If I had to choose only one book, it would be A Curse So Dark and Lonely. Thank you for this chance.

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  12. From the above books, I'd choose a Curse so Dark and Lonely.

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  13. Midnight Captive or A Curse so Dark and Lonely or Shadow Warrior
    Thanks,
    Lori

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  14. I think I will pick The Wallflower Wager.

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  15. I would choose A Curse so Dark and Lonely.

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  16. The curse of dark and lonely! :D

    mia2009(at)comcast(dot)net

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  17. I would choose Say You Still Love Me

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  18. Say You Still Love Me would probably be my choice.

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  19. I would probably choose "A Curse So Dark and Lonely"!

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  20. I'd probably choose The Wallflower Wager.

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  21. I WOULD CHOOSE SAY YOU STILL LOVE ME.

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  22. I think I'd choose A Curse So Dark and Lonely.

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  23. I would choose Say You Still Love Me in paperback. Thanks for your great generosity.

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  24. I would pick A Curse So Dark and Lonely. Thanks for the fun giveaway!

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  25. I would pick A curse so dark and lonely!

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  26. I would choose A Curse So Dark and Lonely. Thank you!

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  27. The Wallflower Wager by Tessa Dare.

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  28. Since I'm reading A Curse So Dark and Lonely, I would say Say You Still Love Me.

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  29. I've been dying to read A Curse so Darka and Lovely.

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  30. I think I would pick a curse so dark and lovely or midnight's captive they all sound great thank you for the opportunity

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  31. I think I would choose Say You Still Love Me

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  32. I would choose A Curse so Dark and Lonely

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