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Monday, June 23, 2014

J.S. Scott Cover Reveal

Synopsis

Mine For Tonight

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Down on her luck, nursing student and full-time waitress Kara Foster gets a massive blow to her already desperate financial situation that will surely find her living on the streets. Needing nothing less than a miracle to save her, Kara gets rescue from an unknown, unlikely and overwhelming source. Billionaire Simon Hudson makes her an offer that is impossible to refuse, but terrifying to accept from a man that she's never met. Will the handsome, alpha billionaire really be a solution to her problems, or will he end up being a major complication and a danger to her emotional sanity?

Reclusive billionaire Simon Hudson would rather be behind a computer creating computer games than rubbing elbows with the elite and he knows exactly what he wants...until he meets Kara Foster. Something about Kara touches Simon in ways he's never experienced and definitely doesn't like. For over a year, Simon watches over Kara, but stubbornly refuses to admit his desire to possess her, not even to himself. But when she ends up in a situation that could very well be her destruction, Simon steps up to help her, not realizing that in saving Kara, he might very well be salvaging his own soul.

"Mine For Tonight" is book one of "The Billionaire's Obsession" . Books in this trilogy do not stand alone and need to be read in order. They include: 

The Billionaire's Obsession (Complete Collection)



This complete collection of The Billionaire's Obsession includes:
Mine For Tonight
Mine For Now
Mine Forever
Mine Completely

Down on her luck, nursing student and full-time waitress Kara Foster gets a massive blow to her already desperate financial situation that will surely find her living on the streets. Needing nothing less than a miracle to save her, Kara gets rescue from an unknown, unlikely and overwhelming source. Billionaire Simon Hudson makes her an offer that is impossible to refuse, but terrifying to accept from a man that she's never met. Will the handsome, alpha billionaire really be a solution to her problems, or will he end up being a major complication and a danger to her emotional sanity?

Reclusive billionaire Simon Hudson would rather be behind a computer creating computer games than rubbing elbows with the elite and he knows exactly what he wants...until he meets Kara Foster. Something about Kara touches Simon in ways he's never experienced and definitely doesn't like. For over a year, Simon watches over Kara, but stubbornly refuses to admit his desire to possess her, not even to himself. But when she ends up in a situation that could very well be her destruction, Simon steps up to help her, not realizing that in saving Kara, he might very well be salvaging his own soul.

18 + (This book contains graphic language, very steamy love scenes and lots of emotion.)

Heart Of The Billionaire (Book Two)



Author Note: This novel is the complete story of Sam and Maddie, but reading The Billionaire’s Obsession – The Complete Collection (Simon and Kara’s story) first is highly recommended to enhance your reading pleasure.

Sam and Maddie are here!

Billionaire Sam Hudson has pretty much lived his life with no apologies because he tries never to do anything that he’s sorry about…except for what he had done in the past to Dr. Madeline Reynolds. Many years and regrets later, Sam meets up with Maddie again by chance; his brother Simon is marrying Maddie’s best friend and the two of them are forced to be civil. But Sam wants to be more than polite, and he wants another chance to make things right, so he offers Maddie a bold proposition, an offer he knows she’ll have a very hard time declining even though she hates him.

Dr. Madeline Reynolds adores her best friend Kara and her fiancé Simon, but being forced into the company of Sam Hudson, because they are both in Simon and Kara’s wedding, is pure torture. She’s hated Sam for years, but when he offers her a bargain, something near and dear to her heart, she’s torn between her dislike for the man and the offer of something she’s always desperately wanted. Once, Sam Hudson nearly destroyed her, but Maddie discovers that sometimes things aren’t always what they appear to be. Is Sam really a devious heartbreaker, or is there something more to him beneath the surface?

Can two people with so many years of hurt between them learn to trust each other again?

Please note: This is an erotic romance and not appropriate for YA readers. The book contains graphic sex, language and situations not appropriate for YA readers.

The Billionaire Salvation (Book Three)


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Billionaire Max Hamilton thought he was finally starting to find contentment, more than two years after losing his wife Mia in a tragic drowning accident.

He'd been reunited with a sister he hadn’t realized existed. Finally he had family again, a reprieve from the pain and loneliness that had haunted him since his devastating loss. Yeah…he was as happy as a man could be, considering he had lost the other half of his soul and most of his heart when fate had torn his wife away from him.

Or so he believed…until the day he rescued a mysterious woman in the park, a female who somehow had managed to reignite a part of him that he thought was long dead...
Suddenly, Max's protective, dominant, possessive male instincts flare to life, leaving him at a loss as to how lightning could possibly strike twice in one lifetime. Is he truly being given another chance at real happiness, or would it be dangled in front of him, only to be taken away once again?

Find out by reading The Billionaire’s Salvation, Book 3 in The New York Times Bestselling series, The Billionaire’s Obsession. This is a complete contemporary erotic romance novel with no cliffhangers!
      
 The Billionaire's Game (Book Four)


The Billionaire's Game - The Billionaire's Obsession ~ Kade

With his professional football career over due to a tragic accident, billionaire Kade Harrison takes on the task of solving a mystery for his brother-in-law and friend, Max Hamilton. Without his former career to fill every minute of the day, Kade's looking for something to challenge him--now that he's lost the career that had meant everything to him. But what starts out as a simple favor soon becomes a whole lot more than he bargained for when the woman he's seeking slips away from him every time he gets close to finding her. When Kade does finally corner her, things start to get even more complicated. Asha Paritala is nothing like he expected, and the female he had tracked down as a favor for Max soon becomes a woman he wants for his very own, a woman who makes protective and highly predatory instincts he didn't know he had flare to life inside him. Kade soon discovers that he wants Asha's total surrender to the desire and passion that vibrates intensely between the two of them, but he also wants her trust, the one thing Asha's history makes it difficult for her to give. Can Kade convince her that some things are worth risking it all?

Caught between two worlds, Asha Paritala is homeless, broke and damaged from a life of abuse and neglect. Born of an American mother and an Indian immigrant father, Asha was raised as an Indian woman by a foster family after the death of her natural parents when she was little more than a baby. She's spent her entire life under the control of others until finally breaking free two years earlier, and she's determined to keep her freedom, even if it means she has to struggle to survive. But when she meets Kade Harrison, her resolve is tested. After Kade helps her through a bad situation, she finds herself beginning to trust Kade as she's never trusted a man before. Kade is everything she always thought a man should be, but can she lose herself in him completely when she knows she's damaged and confused. And is it really possible that she could be a lost sibling to two people like Max Hamilton and Maddie Hudson? Asha is tempted by the possibility of family, and the irresistible lure of a man like Kade Harrison. Can a woman caught between two cultures, so flawed and so backward, really reach out and take what she wants, or will the instinct to run from the pain of her past destroy the hope of happiness for her future?

Find out if two broken souls can heal each other in The Billionaire's Game, book 4 of The Billionaire's Obsession series!!

This is a complete novel with no cliffhangers. 18+ due to sexual situations and graphic language.
    


After four years of working for “the billionaire boss from hell” Ally Caldwell thinks she finally has her life on the right track. Her fiancé is out of dental school, ready to go to work at a thriving practice, and it would finally be her turn to go back and finish her college degree. Unfortunately, her carefully planned future crumbles when she finds out that her fiancé, the man she’d nearly killed herself to help get through school, has been cheating on her. With her wedding looming in the near future, Ally’s blindsided, realizing she’d never even knew the man she’d been planning to marry. Suddenly, her carefully organized life is turned upside down, and not one single thing is turning out the way it was supposed to happen. Even her boss, Travis the Tyrant, is beginning to act differently, throwing Ally into an even more confused and chaotic state of mind. Travis, the one man who she’d always counted on to be a jerk, was now the guy who actually steps up to try and help her straighten her life out again. Unfortunately, she doesn’t much care for his highhanded arrogance or his methods of “helping.” Ally wants to hate Travis. It makes her life so much simpler to fight with him than to admit to the combustible chemistry growing between the two of them. But as she begins to see more and more of the real Travis beneath his dark façade, she can’t seem to resist the dangerous lure of their unlikely attraction.

Billionaire Travis Harrison does everything he possibly can to repair the Harrison name after a scandal nearly destroyed his family years ago. He makes sure he keeps himself and his actions in check, his emotions buried under a thick layer of ice. Only his secretary and assistant, Alison Caldwell, makes him come close to losing his carefully constructed image. The obstinate female keeps shoving him closer and closer to the edge of sanity every single day. But when he finds out about her fiancé’s betrayal, his protective instincts roar to life inside him, making him want to ensure she’s never hurt again. The only problem is…Ally doesn’t want his help, and the infuriating woman does everything she can to push him away, even as the two of them are swept into an undeniable passion that neither of them can possibly ignore. Before long, Travis finds himself in ruthless pursuit of something much more important and elusive than just a business deal.
 Can these two very different, very stubborn people actually be meant to be together? Find out if Travis and Ally can let down their defenses and surrender to a love so powerful it will rock them to the depths of their souls in Billionaire Undone, Book Five of The Billionaire’s Obsession series.
  

About The Author



J.S. Scott is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of steamy romance. She's an avid reader of all types of books and literature. Writing what she loves to read, J.S. Scott writes both contemporary erotic romance stories and paranormal romance erotics. They almost always feature an Alpha Male and have a happily ever after because she just can't seem to write them any other way!

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Saturday, June 21, 2014

Sweet Addiction by J. Daniels






Book Description

 May 2, 2014
Wedding hookups never amount to anything.

Those who partake in this wicked little activity know the rules. Get in. Get laid. Get out. There's no expectation of a relationship. It is what it is.

Dylan Sparks knows the rules. She’s familiar with the protocol. And she engages in the best sex of her life with a complete stranger at her ex-boyfriend’s wedding.

Reese Carroll doesn’t care about the rules. He wants more than just one night with Dylan. And he’s too addicting to pass up.

Sweet Addiction is the story of one girl’s struggle to keep things casual, and one boy’s desire to never let her go.










Sweet Addiction was a really good book, and I really enjoyed reading this story. We start out with Dylan and her assistant Joey getting ready for a wedding, her ex-boyfriends in fact. Dylan was hired to make the wedding cake and so Dylan and Joey decide to go and just do the, have sex with a stranger at a wedding game. That’s when Dylan meets Reese and does just that, she has crazy sex in the men’s restroom and never expects to see him again. Reese is the love them and leave them type, but once he met Dylan he was in hot pursuit of her and wouldn’t let up either. Dylan tried to keep is casual with Reese, by doing things like not having sex with him in his bed or not letting him stay the night. But she soon finds out she cannot stop thinking about him and realizes she wants more. Reese is a sweet, sexy, Alpha Male that can’t keep his hands off Dylan, that was so Hot to read about as well. The Hotness of Reese? Oh My!! And he just wants to love and protect this strong independent woman. I really enjoyed her assistant Joey too! The banter between these two was so amusing. Every girl needs a gay best friend like Joey, I loved him! And then… Things start happening. The story takes a twist and there is mystery, there is…… that’s it! I am not giving anything else away. I liked how this book was written, it flowed well, there was not a bunch of grammar errors. This Author did an excellent job at telling this story, I cannot complain about a single thing. I loved it and want to recommend this book as a really good Love Story, a great romance, I wish I had a Reese in my life. It’s not a brutal BDSM book, where the Male lead is a dominant brute. Well Done….. 
I am giving this book 5 out of 5 stars.



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J. Daniels was born and raised in Maryland.

After putting her kids to bed, she escapes into her cheeky world where some of her characters kiss, and some of them do a lot more than kiss.

She is an avid reader and enjoys everything from unconventional romance to fantasy novels.

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Sunday, June 8, 2014

Interview with Nicholas Tanek



Kim Gray's
Interview with

Nicholas Tanek


The Coolest Way to Kill Yourself. 




I have had the great pleasure and honor to interview this Author, this great guy that is just too Cool, I cannot describe it.  Let me start off by talking about the things I already know about this Author.   Nicholas Tanek is an American ghostwriter from New Brunswick, New Jersey. He graduated from Rutgers University with a Bachelors in English.  He has been a ghostwriter for over 15 years.  He’s written his first Novel “The Coolest Way to Kill Yourself” which was independently published in Oct. of 2013.  Nicholas is also very much into music and use to write reviews for new music when he was younger, not to mention he owns a very large collection of music.  He has a great sense of humor, little odd, but a very funny guy and he has a way about him that causes people to gravitate towards him.  He is the easiest person to talk to and make friends with, no wonder all the women love him, I know I adore him.




So let’s get started with my questions.



Q:  When did you become so interested in music and why?

A: Ever since I was a little kid, I would listen to the radio or my brothers music, and I loved soundtracks like the Big Chill, and also the movie the Blues Brothers, both had excellent soundtracks, even the movie “All that Jazz.”  I grew up in the era of having a Walkman, or tape player, I always had headphones on and when I was in Elementary school I would always have my headphones on listening to whatever music I could get my hands on.  Even at school waiting and or riding on the school bus.  I looked forward to going to the mall on the weekends to buy music, stuff that I wouldn’t like now, or maybe have matured from, like the classis’s Led Zeppelin, the Doors, I loved that stuff.  I use to love watching this show on MTV called 120 minutes and that’s when I really got involved with alternative or punk rock, or just weird stuff.  I would love to go through my Dad’s music and make mixed tapes.  I have a huge music collection.  (This is when Nicholas showed me his CD shelf that’s on the cover of his book, as he was sitting at the same desk that is shown on the Cover) We ended up talking about a lot of the music that I liked and what I grew up listening to, which was my older sister’s music from the 60’s.  And I discovered we both love T-Rex.




Q: When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up? 

This one made Nicholas laugh.


A: I wanted to be rock star or a movie star.  It’s funny that you ask me that because I love film and I loved acting and music.  I had this whole mystique idea where I had this character that I made up when I was in the 3rd or 4th grade. I would be veryMachiavellianwhere I would fake my own death and I had the whole character in my head that I would think about when I would walk to the bus stop. I would create these characters in my head and on top of that I would create my own cable guides and write different movies and what the ratings would be, all the way down to what production company it would be in. I definitely wanted to be in the movies, or write movies or direct, anything to do with movies.  





Q: Why an English major in College?  Was it because you knew you wanted to be a writer?



A: Yes I always wanted to be a writer. I always wanted to create something. I was always good at writing essays in school. I got good grades. Now for math or science, I would really have to study hard.  I was always writing stories.  For a short time period, I thought I wanted to be a pharmacist. Thank goodness I didn’t decide to follow that though.  (This is where Nicholas goes into a long discussion about differential equations and how he studied this in college and why we shouldn’t try to count to infinity as it will drive you insane. I was blown away by this discussion. Nicholas speaks with such passion and knowledge.)








Q: We know that Lynn has inspired you to write The Coolest Way, but what is next in store for Nicholas?


A: I have already written a prequel, that I am thinking about calling Chipped Black Nail Polish. It’s another true story, basically about me right before I went to high school.  Nicholas, in The Coolest Way, is very much conceited, very hedonistic and very overly confident.  But before that, I was actually very shy and kind of dealing with depression. It was really more due to hormones, so most teenagers go through some kind of depression.  I was a media snob. Everyone in Jersey during the summer of ‘89 was very much into hair metal. That is fine if you were into that, but I wanted something different. It seemed like everyone was into the same thing and I wanted something more alternative, something more like punk rock music and hard core shows.  I met this woman named Kim. She was very interesting. She was a first love, and she gave me confidence to approach women. Before her, I did not think that a woman would even be interested in me or wanted to be with me at all.  It’s a little over 100 pages. It’s a prequel kind of supplement to the Coolest Way. It doesn’t have the same emotional intensity as The Coolest Way has. Don’t get me wrong, it does get intense. It’s very emotional, but it’s not as epic or grand as The Coolest Way. I like it and I have more work to do to tune it up a bit. It is a good snapshot of the late 80’s, early 90’s New Jersey punk rock, hard core scene.


















Q: What kind of books are you interested in reading? Or have read?

A: I do like erotica, but more classic erotica, the insanity of Hunter S. Thompson, which the movie “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” was based on, is very good. The Rum Diary was also made into a film.  I love reading Hunter S. Thompson. He is definitely someone I enjoy reading. He was someone that would put himself into the story. 

(Again Nicholas goes into a long discussion about how much he loves Hunter S. Thompson and anything he does and how bizarre some of his characters were, or how some people may not like him.  This man could talk for hours if you let him.   I thoroughly enjoyed listening to Nicholas talking to me, answering my simple questions.)




Q: Do you want to write other than Romance novels?

A: I would absolutely love to! I have been writing my whole life, some of it was for
free, and some of it was with other names, due to ghost writing.  I have this really foolish pipe dream that someone will read my work and think “Oh yeah he can help us out with this television show or this movie or something else.” It depends on the project, and I love to write anything, especially about life.  I wrote 3 screenplays when I was 14. I look back at them and think they are crap, but I would love to write more. 

(We started talking about my nephew that has passed and how he was writing a screenplay before he passed.  At this point Nicholas is trying to encourage me to finish it for him, even offering to help me with the editing process. What a sweet guy.  And he was successful. For the first time since July of 2012, I decided to just do it.  I found the screenplay and started reading it.  It has proven itself to be a difficult task, because it only makes me start wondering what was he thinking when he wrote this part? But this only proves how persuasive Nicholas can be when he wants to be.)


Quote from the book:

"Emotional women are magnificently and uniquely mind-blowing. They are usually exceptional and imaginative lovers. They are wonderful at conversation. They are open minded. They are Kinky. Right then, I knew that being with Lynn would be a wild ride."










Q: For those of us that do not know… In your book, you write about Femdom.  What is the difference between Femdom and just a male submissive? Or are they the same?

A:  Femdom is basically worshipping the superiority of women, and being dominated by a woman, being submissive towards women.  Whereas to be a straight sub, which I am not, is basically someone who is just submissive to anyone that they allow to dominate them.  For me, Femdom is about the trust between the man and a dominant woman, and the man letting himself go and allowing the woman to control the situations.  A submissive can be a male or female, and so that kind of relationship can be very different.
(There are so many ways to describe a submissive and Nicholas does describe a few, but I am not going to put that down on paper here because I don’t want to end up getting into a debate over the logistics of our discussion.  But all of this only reminds me of a quote from the book that may help explain this question as well.)
 Quote from the Book - “Femdom is a fetish that is based on the submission of the male, (and to varying degrees, humiliation) which means that for the man, it is important to be with a woman who he can trust.”






I was a little reluctant to ask this question, but Nicholas told me to ask him anything, so…

Q: Have you ever been the Master in a relationship?

A: I have had the “upper hand” in most of my relationships, not all, but most, but not so much as a Master, but I have been the dominant one.  I had a couple of relationships where I had total control - like 100% control over the woman.  I’m talking micromanaging to the point that I would have her beg me to perform certain acts on me in a parking lot, if I may get graphic. Still, it was consensual and I knew that was what she liked. I’m glad you asked me that question because The Coolest Way shows me as being the submissive male in parts of my relationship with Lynn. Still, during most of our relationship I am fighting the fact that I could be the submissive one in a sexual way. That was part of the character arch. It was a change for me. Once I gave into that, it became a very sensual relationship.  But yes, I have had relationships where I was in complete control and it was kinky and very fetish-oriented and I was ‘like’ a Master. Still, I never made anyone call me “Sir” or “Master” or anything. So, I would say I was more like the dominant one.  There are aspects of the book where I am very much the dominant male in the sexual relationship. But at the same time, some of the other sexual adventures wouldn’t fit for this book. If I included it, I feel it would have been excessive and exploitative. Everything dealing with sex or sexuality had to contribute to the story and the characters development. I chose not to include sexual episodes if they didn’t have anything to do with Lynn or if they did not contribute to the story of Lynn. 




At this point we were at the end of my slotted time with Nicholas and thus my interview was over.  I had to ask though if he liked my questions and Nicholas complimented me on the frankness of my questions and that it was different in a way that it was more like a conversation, not generic.  I was honored to have had this time with this very intriguing man and author.  Nicholas is very articulate and I could listen to him talk all night, but sadly he had to go.  I have, however, had many more opportunities to speak with Nicholas, as shortly after I did this interview with him I teamed up with Isa from Isalovesbooks blog and we started a Street Team for Nicholas.  We have been on this crazy adventurous ride ever since.  I have grown to absolutely love this man as a friend, and have had many conversions about things I would never speak to a male friend about.  Like I said before, Nicholas has a way about him that makes you just want to tell him anything he ask you.  Meeting and getting to know Nicholas has certainly been an experience to say the least.  I have come to understand so much about Nicholas, and myself for that matter.  There were several parts of his book that I could relate to very well, some more painful than the rest.  Probably why, no I am sure this is why I really loved The Coolest Way to Kill Yourself.  It’s real, it’s true and it digs deep into your soul and makes you take a closer look at your own self and what you may be holding back. 

Thank you for reading my Interview, I hope you enjoyed it.  Kim Gray.


This last question is NOT mine, but from another Interview and I feel it should be included here as well.

A very Crucial Question and Answer from one of 
Nicholas Tanek's interviews this week.


How did you come up with the title?

The title has multiple meanings. The book does not condone, promote, or make fun of suicide. It does deal with depression though. The title itself was a saying that Lynn would use all the time. Basically, it meant that you would be doing something that you loved to do, even though it could be dangerous. It was about not caring how others may judge you for doing what you love and believe in. In our world, it was kink and exploring sexual fetishes. In this case, the book is a brutally honest memoir. There are parts of this book that will upset people I know. I decided to write this book even if it killed me. Finally, there is the metaphor. As someone who dealt with depression and truly hated the person I became, love changed me. My honest relationship with Lynn killed off the selfish person I used to be and I became a kinder person who respects and nurtures the people who love me. 






Kim Gray’s Interview
with Nicholas Tanek

The Coolest Way to Kill Yourself