COVER REVEAL - Wicked Promises (Fallen Royals #3) by S. Massery

Title: Wicked Promises

Series: Fallen Royals #3 

Author: S. Massery 

Genre: Dark High School Bully Romance 

Release Date: June 4, 2020 

Blurb 

I made a promise to Caleb, and I intended to keep it.
I just didn’t anticipate the aftermath.

One betrayal.
One lie.
One devastating cover up.

It’s all out in the open now, and this time, I’m not running away.
The secrets I hold are enough to destroy us.

The truth is supposed to set us free – but we aren’t destined for freedom.

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I wish I could say this was only ever about you, Margo. But it wasn’t.
There were so many other moving pieces. You, Caleb, your families. I sometimes want to laugh at the complexity of the situation I found myself in. How could I have known the hornet’s nest I was walking into? 

The agony you brought on Caleb’s family?
The luck of the draw.
A single spark of luck put us together.
You and me, for all eternity.
We’re bound together. And now that I have you…
Pain is inevitable.
And so is your downfall.

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S. Massery is a contemporary romance and romantic suspense author. She lives in Western Massachusetts with her dog, Alice.

Before adventuring into the world of writing, she went to college in Boston and held a wide variety of jobs—including working on a dude ranch in Wyoming (a personal highlight). She has a love affair with coffee and chocolate. When S. Massery isn’t writing, she can be found devouring books, playing outside with her dog, or trying to make people smile.

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RELEASE BLITZ & REVIEW - Wicked Saint (Sinners and Saints Book 1) by Veronica Eden

Title: Wicked Saint

Series: Sinners and Saints Book 1

Author: Veronica Eden

Genre: Dark NA High School Bully Romance

Release Date: February 10, 2020

GEMMA

He stole my first kiss… and now he thinks everything else is his.

I said no to the one person no one at this school dares to refuse.

Now I’m targeted by jealous girls, guys that compete to be the first to “break the prude”, and by him. After one kiss, the king of the school hunts me down like I’m a conquest to win. He’ll have to fight harder than that, because I’m no one’s trophy.

They all want a piece of me, but I will not bend or break for them.

LUCAS

No one refuses the king.

One case of mistaken identity and a hasty kiss turned my world upside down.

The new girl refused me. Not only that, she threw down the gauntlet. That won’t stand. No one ever says no to me. This school is mine and she’ll learn her place as a loyal follower or her life is going up in flames.

I’ll make her say yes. She’ll be screaming it before I’m finished breaking her.

I always say this whenever I read a book centered around high school students, but I'm damn glad my high school years weren't this angsty and stressful. I liked that Gemma refused to bow down to Lucas and his crew; she's already having a tough time with her family having to relocate right in time for her senior year of high school, who has time for his shenanigans? All she's about is staying behind the scenes and graduating (who can blame her)? Too bad Lucas didn't get that memo.

Lucas is the undisputed "king" of the school, and as such, whatever he says it taken as gospel, so when he has his run-in with Gemma, it's pretty much game on to make her life as miserable as possible. 

Of course we know how these books inevitably end up turning out, but still, the process of getting to a potential HEA is all sorts of nerve-wracking. Gemma is the only one to see past the facade Lucas projects, but there are some events that happen that had me on the edge of my couch yet cringing while I was reading that threaten to derail whatever change in relationship status between them.

I'll admit I wasn't exactly impressed with Gemma's twin brother Alec, who seemed more concerned with his social status than his sister's wellbeing; even after the event that occurred a year prior and prompted the family to move. But, I did like how the book managed to wrap up the story, and I'm excited to read the next book and find out why there's so much animosity between Devin and Blair.

  

Lucas smiles down at me, but there’s nothing sweet about it. The smile is all hunter, mean and precise. The smile of a hungry predator with its prey in reach.

“Because what I say fucking goes around here. If I want you to come sit in my lap, you’ll do it. Do you need another reminder of who’s in charge around here?”

Who the fuck does this guy think he is?

“Did a football hit you too many times in the head?”

A confused wrinkle appears on his forehead.

“No,” I say slowly, so he understands. “I don’t want to sit with you. I don’t want anything to do with you.”

Lucas tugs sharply on my braid. He literally pulls my hair, like the bullying boys that girls are always warned about.

A scoff of amused disbelief leaves me. “Did you really just…?”

“I’ll give you one more chance, Gemma.”

Lucas’ playful demeanor and big-man-on-campus act has vanished. Now he’s deadly serious as he stares at me.

“Or what?” Sheer astonishment at this whole situation bleeds into my voice.

“You don’t want to know that. You’re either with us or you’re against us, and you don’t want to be against us. Just accept it, like everyone else does, or you’ll face the consequences.”

With us or against us. Consequences. Lucas sounds like some power-hungry mafioso rather than a high school quarterback.

“You’ve gotta be kidding me. I said no, you bastard.” My voice raises. “Back off, or I’m going to dump my lunch tray on you! I don’t think gravy stains will go well with your expensive tailoring.”

He drops my braid, but I don’t get the chance to move back before he grips my hips, his fingers digging at my skin through the material.

I mash my lips together to withhold a grimace.

“What is your problem? You can’t just manhandle me into getting your way,” I grumble. “Do you not understand what no means? That’ll get you in trouble with the law someday when your power trip goes to your head.”

Lucas rears back with a shocked look. Then his eyes narrow to dangerous slits.

“Jesus, I’m not a rapist, you little—”

I hoist my tray threateningly and he cuts off.

“Leave me the hell alone, Lucas! I don’t want jack shit to do with you or your lousy friends!”

Hushed mutters breaks out around the room. A few phones are held up, capturing the drama as it unfolds. They’ve got proof of me denouncing their king.

It’ll be all over Snapchat and Instagram stories within minutes, spreading like a fatal forest fire across the school, no doubt.

“You’re going to regret that,” Lucas promises in a rough, dark voice.

Those proverbial gallows feel like they’re snapping around my neck and wrists.

But I won’t bend the knee in fealty to this asshole.

Who would want someone like Lucas? Not me, that’s for damn sure.

“See if I give a shit. Go ahead and throw a tantrum.” I jerk my head back at my table. “I’ll be over there enjoying my lunch.”

Before the spectacle continues, I spin on my heel to end the conversation.

Lucas hooks his foot around my ankle as soon as I take a step and fucking trips me up. I stumble, but I don’t go down. My water bottle is the only thing to topple from my wobbling tray. I meet the eyes of a few people nearby and can sense the hunger for blood.

No one’s satisfied that I didn’t crash to the floor face first into my lunch.

I bend to retrieve the water bottle and when I rise, Lucas is two steps closer, lurking right behind me like an imposing shadow.

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Veronica Eden is the author of dark new adult romances + reverse harem romances with spitfire heroines and irresistible heroes. She loves exploring complicated feelings, magical worlds, epic adventures, and the bond of characters that embrace us against the world. She has always been drawn to gruff antiheroes, clever villains, and the twisty-turns of morally gray decisions. She believes sometimes the villain should get the girl and is a sucker for a deliciously devilish antihero. Veronica Eden is the pen name of romance author Mara Townsend. When not writing, she can be found soaking up sunshine at the beach, snuggling in a pile with her untamed pack of animals (her husband, dog and cat), and surrounding herself with as many plants as she can get her hands on.

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BLOG TOUR & REVIEW - Thick & Thin (Chubby Girl Chronicles #3) by Tabatha Vargo

Title: Thick & Thin

Series: The Chubby Girl Chronicles

Author: Tabatha Vargo

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Release: January 21, 2020

Jenny Michaels

We promised to stay best friends through thick and thin, but that was before the kiss that changed it all. Before he went off to war and left me behind angry and bitter. Now he’s back, turning my world upside down, but I’m not the love-sick tomboy he left behind. And even though he always promised through thick and thin, something tells me I’m a little thicker than he had in mind. 

Joshua Black

I made promises to Jenny, but I’m not the boy I was when I left for Afghanistan. I’m broken, scarred, and not nearly good enough to hold her heart. I tried to do the right thing and stay away, but my family needs me, which means I have to go home. Jenny hates me, and maybe that’s a good thing because I only want to do right by her. That means keeping my hands off her newly rounded curves. No matter how hard that might be.

I've not read the first two books in this series, but I'm planning on going back to read those two books as well. This particular story can be read as a standalone, and it took me through some emotions. Told in dual first person POV, the first half of the book gives us Josh and Jenny in their last couple of months of high school, and the evolution of their feelings for each other. We see the hesitance of two people who've been by each other's side for 12 years having to face the reality of one going to college and the other going into the military. Events take place the summer after graduation that change the trajectory of both Jenny's and Josh's life in a way no one was prepared for.

The second half of the book brings us to the present timeframe and the changes that both Josh and Jenny have gone through over the three years of not speaking. I had much respect for Jenny because she kept her head held high despite what the hometown residents were saying about her after she dropped out of college. Both Josh and Jenny have their secrets that eventually come to light and we see them find their way back together with a sweet epilogue.

Tabatha is a New York Times & USA Today Bestselling author, best known for her sexy adult romance Little Black Book.

Tabatha writes in all genres, including adult and new adult, and isn't afraid to venture into the dark side on occasion, as she proved with her dark, prison romance, Slammer. 

She's an avid reader of all things smutty and the writer of sexy stories featuring redeemable alpha bad boys and sweet, strong women.

Her other loves include her children, her loving, supportive husband, anything historical, and wind chimes.

When she isn't writing, she's texting book ideas to herself.

Tabatha is represented by Jane Dystel of Dystel & Goderich Literary Management.

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