{Release Blitz & Book Review}: OLDER By Jennifer Hartmann

 

Older by Jennifer Hartmann is now live!

Before he discovered my age, he uncovered my heart.

Bruised and abused, and victim to a loveless household, I shimmered with new life the moment he found me drowning my sorrows in a lake beneath the stars.

A chance encounter. An unspoken connection.

I was smitten; he was curious.

But, as everyone knew, fate could be decidedly cruel.

He called me Halley, like the comet.

I called him Reed.

And my best friend?

Well...she called him Dad.

Older is a forbidden, slow-burn, age-gap romance standalone, ending in a HEA.

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  Meet Jennifer

Jennifer Hartmann resides in northern Illinois with her own personal romance hero and three children. When she is not writing angsty love stories, she is likely pondering all the ways she can break your heart and piece it back together again. She enjoys sunsets (because mornings are hard), bike riding, traveling, bingeing Buffy the Vampire Slayer

 

 reruns, and that time of day when coffee gets replaced by wine. She loves tacos. She also really, really wants to pet your dog.

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If thees one thing jennifer is good at, it's tugging at your heartstrings till it sings the ballads of painful sentiments
It's love cooking in a crock pot, slow and simmering away to perfection. All the flavours of forbidden, tabboo, age gap, a second chance at life romance make it juicy, delectable read. Jennifer gives us sizzling, steamy sentiments which she put on a roasting pit...and lets the heart takes its course.

"Two strangers on a lakefront, destined for nothing. No good story ever started that way."

A chance encounter n a party night, and Alley meets Reed. Morning brings rude awakening. This relationship expired before it began. At least that's what sensibility says. But Virginal heart of Halley is now firmly beating in Reed's chest. His gaze follows her. Her breaths mingle with his. So heart rules over head.
So aware of each other's presence we could feel the air shimmering between them.
Spice was almost on the tease, emotions threatened to pour out of the eyes. 
The end broke me, then made me smile.
5 stars for moments of Blips

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[Release Blitz & Giveaway] - Shattered Stars by Shari J. Ryan

Title: Shattered Stars

Author: Shari J. Ryan

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Release Date: April 4, 2019

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“You will lose your memory.”

That’s what a doctor told me at just twenty-nine years old.

My headaches and exhaustion weren’t from overexertion like I thought.

It was more. A lot more.

Despite my unimaginable challenges,

I found love at a time I needed it most.

Layne, a rising star and popular frontman,

was unknowingly singing life into my soul through his allusive lyrics.

I lived and breathed for the mesmeric sound of his voice.

Kismet led us to a kind of love anyone would die for.

However, Layne shouldn’t be stuck loving me after I begin to forget him.

We will once again be strangers, separated by a crowd.

I can no longer promise him a future like the one he vowed to me.

Layne is determined to help me get better.

I’m determined to make him see past my illness.

The outcome … to be determined.

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Copyright 2019 - Shari J. Ryan

“Hey! What did you think?” Layne, the frontman, jogs over to us and gives Lexi a hug.

“You guys are insanely amazing,” Lexi responds. “Like, blew us away.”

“Oh yeah?” Layne asks, glancing over at me. Lexi is speaking on behalf of both of us, which gives me a free pass to avoid conversation and just take in the scene, but I feel I need to praise them too.

“You were seriously incredible. I can see why you won that battle.” I just made it sound like they were fighting a war by singing music, but if that’s the worst thing that comes out of my mouth tonight, we should all be so lucky.

“That means a lot, thank you,” Layne says, staring at me as if I look fascinating. Sometimes I feel like my past is tattooed on my forehead and everyone I meet already knows what path I’ve walked along.

Layne shakes his head to the side, shuffling the hair away from his eye. It’s weird that I want to touch his hair. It’s even weirder that he’s been talking to me and I haven’t heard a word he has said. “You okay?” When I refocus on his face, his lip is curled to the side, the side where he has the lip ring.

“I’m so sorry, I think my ears are still ringing a bit. What did you just say?” I ask him, trying to hide the fact that I was too busy gazing at him with imaginary hearts in my eyes.

“I asked how long you and Lexi have been friends?” He combs his fingers through the sides of his hair, pushing the strands away from his face and his piercing emerald eyes. With dark brows and lashes, there’s an immediate pull to his alluring stare. He’s stunning and fascinating. He also asked me a question for the second time.

“Oh, um, we have been friends since we were babies actually. Our moms are friends, so we kind of grew up like sisters.”

“That’s awesome,” he says, glancing over at Lexi, who is biting down on her bottom lip, while staring into Johnny’s eyes. How is it, some of us have the natural born instinct to flirt, while the rest of us have knees that threaten to collapse the moment anyone looks in our direction? It’s not fair. I have no game. Not that I need a game because there isn’t a game I could possibly win with my life trailing behind me like a ball and chain. I love Aly, but I could have given her a different kind of love five to ten years from now too. “Damn, I think Lexi has a thing for Johnny.”

“She does,” I tell Layne, ratting her out like an awful friend. I slap my hand over my mouth, “Crap, don’t repeat that, and I hope that doesn’t bother you ... like, I mean, if you have a thing for Lexi.” My foot can leave my mouth now.

Layne’s eyes narrow against his smile, his smile that reveals two perfectly located dimples by the corners of his lips. As the face of this band, he gives the fans a good reason to sit and watch them, but with the music I heard tonight, all the guys could be hideous and no one would care. It only helps that he’s gorgeous and he’s probably turned many local women into rock fans. “I don’t think I have to inform Johnny that Lexi has a thing for him. It seems like he’s gotten the hint,” Layne says. I glance over my shoulder again and yup, Johnny got the hint. Their lips are locked and if steam could release from hot bodies, the smoke alarms would be going off. “And I’m okay with it because Lexi and I aren’t into each other like that.”

“Huh, did they already know each other?” I ask Layne. I thought I would know who Lexi has been spending her time with, but I’ve been a little preoccupied.

Layne shakes his head, looking past me, toward them. “Nope, I don’t think they’ve officially met before tonight.”

“Well, I guess when you have no fears, you do what the moment tells you do, right?” I say.

Once again, Layne seems fascinated by the simple little remark I’ve made, and I can’t understand what it is that is so enlightening about my nervous chatter. “It’s funny you say that about fears. I wrote this song about fears, and you totally just hit the nail on the head.”

I know the song. I know it very well. It spoke to me two years ago when I heard it the first time, and it spoke to me again tonight when I heard it. “I think I’ve heard it,” I tell him, trying to sound casual about my love for his music. In fact, the song we’re both talking about is the song that drew me in as a “Divi-O Groupie.”

“You had heard of it before tonight? We haven’t performed here in a couple years.”

“Yeah, I remember it,” I tell him, biting down on the tip of my thumb.

Layne seems frozen within his star-lit smile and unblinking stare. “It’s my favorite of all our songs, but we were following trends and, you know how it goes. Oddly enough, we’ve been talking to a record label about that song, but I am talking too much and shouldn’t have said that to you, so pretend I stopped talking like thirty seconds ago.” He laughs and covers his hand over his face, showing off pen scribbles across his fingers, weaving in and out of the several rings I saw flashing around while he was running back and forth across the stage with the microphone, pouring his heart out of his lungs.

“Your secret is safe with me,” I tell him. “Now we each have something to forget.”

“Thank you,” he says, tugging at a loose curl beside my ear.

I hold my breathe when his hand comes near me, but it’s gone just as fast, hanging back down by his side.

Breathe.

“I think you got a little pen on your fingers there,” I point out, looking for a way to change the subject away from our spewed secrets. Seriously though ... a record label? That’s insane.

“Yeah, I’m a sloppy artist,” he says, admiring his smudged artwork. “I have these three or four lines of a couple songs that always seem to slip my mind so I write them on my hand, but then I end up sweating them off during the show. I think the actual method of writing the words down helps me remember though, so it became a habit.”

Okay so he’s not just drawing on his hand for the sake of looking badass, which is sweet. My heart is already flopping around in my chest like a fish out of water, but I have to toss it back because I can’t take part in this type of lifestyle. Of course, I can’t exactly go anywhere now either since Lexi is still playing tongue tag with the drummer.

Author Bio

Shari J. Ryan is an International Bestselling Author of heartbreakers and mind-benders. Shari was once told she tends to exaggerate often and sometimes talks too much, which would make a great foundation for fictional books. Four years later, Shari has written eleven novels that often leave readers either in tears from laughing, or crying.

With her loud Boston girl attitude, Shari isn't shy about her love for writing or the publishing industry. Along with writing several International bestsellers, Shari has split her time between writing and her longstanding passion for graphic design. In 2014, she started an indie-publishing resource company, MadHat Books, to help fellow authors with their book cover designs, as well as assistance in the self-publishing process.

While Shari may not find many hours to sleep, she still manages to make time for her family. She is a devoted wife to a great guy, and a mother to two little boys who remind her daily why she was put on this earth.

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[Release Blitz, Giveaway & Book Reviews]: SURPRISE BABY ! By Lex Martin & Leslie McAdam

Title: Surprise, Baby!
Standalone Companion Novel to All About the D

Authors: Lex Martin & Leslie McAdam

Genre: Romantic Comedy/Adult Contemporary

Release Date: March 12, 2019

Blurb

There’s a fine line between lust and hate.

I don’t care that Drew Merritt spent the last year transforming himself from grungy slob to sexy playboy. With messy, dirty blond hair and gorgeous eyes, his looks aren’t the problem.

His mouth is.

And the stupid things that come out of it.

But after an emergency strands us together, and he does his damnedest to take care of me… 

Let’s just say there’s one thing we don’t clash on.

And it doesn’t involve talking.

I’ve despised Drew since I met him years ago. One weekend can’t change us that much, can it?

Spoiler alert: It doesn’t.

Except he left me a little keepsake.

And in nine months, I’ll have a surprise for Portland’s most notorious player.

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Lex Martin

Lex writes contemporary romance, the sexy kind with lotsa angst, a whole lotta kissing, and the hot happily ever afters. When she's not writing, she lives a parallel life as an English teacher.

She loves printing black and white photos, listening to music on vinyl, and getting lost in a great book. Bitten by wanderlust, she's  lived all over the country but currently resides in the City of Angels with her husband and twin daughters.

Lex is represented by Kimberly Brower of Brower Literary & Management.

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Leslie McAdam is a California girl who loves romance, Little Dude, and well-defined abs. She lives in a drafty old farmhouse on a small orange tree farm in Southern California with her husband and two small children. Leslie always encourages her kids to be themselves - even if it means letting her daughter wear leopard print from head to toe. An avid reader from a young age, she will always trade watching TV for reading a book, unless it's Top Gear. Or football. Leslie is employed by day but spends her nights writing about the men you fantasize about. She's unapologetically sarcastic and notoriously terrible at comma placement.

Always up for a laugh, Leslie tries to see humor in all things. When she's not in the writing cave you'll find her fangirling over Beck, camping with her family, or mixing up oil paints to depict her love of outdoors on canvas.

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I tell you…when these two authors come together and write a rom-com, there is no holding back. 

Seriously some pretty funny scenarios written! 

 When Kendall Greer is trying to escape a unsatisfying night, who in the world in the last person she wants to run into while waiting for the elevator? 

Drew Demeritt, he’s the best friend of Kendall’s best friend and Kendall’s thorn in her side.  As if getting busted leaving a booty call by Drew isn’t bad enough, now she finds herself invited to spend Thanksgiving weekend with her friends and who will be there? No one other than Drew! 

 The weekend starts with a storm and ends with an unfortunate event and a package that will be with them forever. 

 Enemies to Lovers to Misunderstandings, all wrapped up in this good rom-com. 

 Slick...slapstick...snazzy. such is the mood and narration of this latest from L & L. Two of my fave authors. 

It's full of witty banter, Insta attraction and swoonworthy moments. I was laughing most of the time Kendall Greer and Drew 'Demerit" Demeritt are like Vaseline and sandpaper. They grate on each other's nerves....at least that's why they project. 

But insides they seem to melt whenever they're near each other. She's responsible and he's a playboy 

" I have no idea why Evie insists Kendall was so much fun growing up. That Debbie Downer’s got a stick so high up her ass, it’s lodged in her brain. She’s constantly telling me to fuck off or arguing for the sake of arguing. If I say her dress is white, she’ll say it’s cream.  Eye roll." 

 Needless to say the feeling is mutual. She thinks he's frivolous and manchildish 

One fateful day while driving together to a mountain cabin, they get stranded in a storm and ...... 

" What happens on Mount Hood, stays on Mount Hood." 

 Electricity crackles and the passions erupts and the aftermath is gonna be here in nine months

"Swimmers go to motherland and erect a flag "

I enjoyed reading the story, some hilarious lines and their chemistry just blew me away 

4 stars for butt-babies