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Kelly Smith Reviews: BOOK REVIEW: "Beautiful Monster" by Jeanne Bannon : Book Description:  Lev Baronovsky, a soulless creature of the night, has a problem. Carly, the love of his life has just died in an acci...

YOUR ENTRY IN THIS GIVEAWAY SUPPORTS THE AUTISTIC SELF ADVOCACY NETWORK! FIND OUT HOW AND ENTER TODAY! This month we are hosting a second giveaway. This one is for a special cause. You may have heard that April is Autism Acceptance month. If you haven't, well, now you know! So a very special team of authors has come together to help YOU donate to the cause...but wait! It doesn't cost you anything to donate! We donate for you! In fact, not only do we donate on your behalf, you ALSO get a chance to win a free kindle or $100 Paypal cash. All you have to do to show you care about this cause--all you have to do to do YOUR part to help spread awareness of the need for autism acceptance--is ENTER TO WIN A FREE KINDLE OR $100! But wait? How can that be? How are we doing this? WHY are we doing this? Very simply, the authors who sponsored this giveaway have all pitched to cover the cover of donations and prize in exchange for you helping us to spread the word! We've actually set it...

I'm happy to share author, Penny Estelle's latest novella with the world today The Bearded Dude in the Puzzle: Many years ago, in the land of kings and knights, Dozer, a powerful wizard, casts a spell over Scartin, and changes him into a tiny toy wizard and puts him inside the box of a puzzle. Centuries later, Shelly Taylor, and her two kids, Bobby and Andrea, find their lives in turmoil. They are uprooted from their home and friends and moved to a small town in Idaho.   Their parents’ marriage falls apart, and to make matters worse, for some reason the kids at their schools are shunning them. Shelly, once an advertising executive, starts cleaning houses to make ends meet.   It is in one of these old homes where the ancient puzzle is found. As the family works on the puzzle, strange things start to happen.   An evil presence is making its way to the Taylor house, intent on making sure that puzzle never gets put together, no matter the cost, an...

Beautiful Monster , a paranormal romance, will be on sale for 99 cents beginning March 21st and ending on March 23rd at midnight EST. It is the first of three in the series. " Beautiful Monster - grim in that bloody, undead way, but it would be disappointing if it wasn’t!" Beautiful Monster - The Exchange (book one) is the story of Lev Baronovsky, a soulless creature of the night and his predicament. The love of his life, a mortal, has just died and in three days will pass to the other side. Without a soul, Lev cannot cross over with her and the thought of spending eternity without his beloved is unbearable. Is seventy-two hours enough time to find a way? With the help of his brother, they must find the only one who can help - the vilest creature of all, Boris. But Boris has selfish plans of his own.   I've worked in the publishing industry for 25 years as an editor and an author. I'm represented by the Serendipity Literary Agency. I've...

Dancing with a Cowboy Lucy Baumgardner, working partner in a law firm in Philadelphia, works too hard. So says the senior partner, who just happens to be her father. When she’s forced to take a two week hiatus, she assumes two weeks of pedicures, massages and poolside relaxation with a glass of wine won't kill her. But things aren't always what one expects. To her horror, city girl Lucy ends up stuck on a working ranch with no phones, cell service, or WiFi. Her acute shock dictates she will not play cowgirl for two weeks. Making matters worse, Stace Levin, the very handsome owner /operator, does nothing to make things easy for her. Her days are filled with manual labor and one mishap after another, amusing Stace to no end. Surprisingly, he finds her not only amusing, but smart, stubborn, and very beautiful. Knowing it’s for only two weeks, Lucy slowly succumbs to the ranch lifestyle. Every day something happens to change her mind about the good looking cowboy...

Today, author Sheila Dalton has hijacked my blog to make an announcement   First, a big thank you to Jeanne for allowing me on her blog today to advertise a HALF PRICE SALE of my new historical fiction ebook, STOLEN.   From now until March 8, Stolen for Kindle is available for $2.99 U.S.   Stolen came about after trips to Morocco and Devon, England. In Morocco, I visited the underground dungeons where the Christian slaves were kept; in Devon, I saw the caves and coves where British pirates plied their trade in the seventeenth century.  Devon, England, 1633: Lizbet Warren’s parents are captured by Barbary Corsairs and carried off to the slave markets in Morocco. Desperate to help them, Lizbet sets out for London with Elinor, from the Workhouse for Abandoned and Unwanted Children, the only other survivor of the raid. The pair are soon separated, and Lizbet is arrested for vagrancy. Rescued from a public whipping by a mysterious French ...

Beautiful Monster, The Exchange (book 1) Lev Baronovsky, a soulless creature of the night, has a problem. Carly, the love of his life has just died in an accident and in three days will pass to the other side. Without a soul, he cannot cross over with her and the thought of spending eternity without his beloved is unbearable. Is seventy-two hours enough time to find a way? With the help of his brother, Alexei, they must face the vilest creature of all, Boris, an ancient one with selfish motivations of his own. CHAPTER ONE   Lev moved swiftly through the hallways, darting in and out and around what, to him, were slowly moving nurses and orderlies—those unfortunates working the midnight shift. Faster than any human eye was capable of detecting, he made it to Carly’s room in a flash. In fact, he made it there just in time, nostrils plucking the acrid scents from the air better than any dog’s. He sat on the bed beside her in the dimly lit room and ...