a look at J.R. Gray & 'Ever So Madly' @theoriginalgray @evernightpub #NA #SciFiRomance

Today we have author J.R. Gray visiting. Welcome!

What would you like to tell readers about yourself?

* When not staying up all night writing, J.R. Gray can be found at the gym where it's half assumed he is a permanent resident to fulfill his self-inflicted masochism. A dominant and a pilot, Gray finds it hard to be in the passenger seat of any car. He frequently interrupts real life, including normal sleep patterns and conversations, to jot down notes or plot bunnies. Commas are the bane of his existence even though it's been fully acknowledged they are necessary, they continue to baffle and bewilder. If Gray wasn't writing…well, that's not possible. The buildup of untold stories would haunt Gray into an early grave, insanity or both. The idea of haunting has always appealed to him. J.R. Gray is genderqueer and prefers he/him pronouns.

What are you going to tell us about today?

~ Blurb ~ * Love is for peasants, nobles marry for power. These are the rules Jocelynn has lived by. She is expected to be the poised and perfect vision of relentless power. Set to inherit the House of Akillie she was bred to rule. Men have never turned her head, until now
* Madden achieved the impossible, the first in over a century to escape the life of hard labor and earn a place among the elite. With the chance for a fresh start, he has to stay focused, not damn himself by falling for the one girl forbidden to him.
* Madden was an experiment in freedom, and she didn’t mean to fall. But now she can't live without him. Some choices are easier than others, while some aren’t choices at all. He’s worth running from everything she’s ever known.
* Jocelynn turns to a formidable group of rebels to escape her fate. But with a war to be won, the rebels have their own agenda. Drowning in a game of power and politics, Madden and Jocelynn can’t trust anyone if they want make it out alive. ~ Excerpt ~ * A grin spread over his face. "Like that?"
* I bit down on my lip and nodded as he slid lower replacing his hand with his mouth. My lips parted in a silent gasp as he hooked his thumbs in my shorts inching them lower.
* "Yes…" My toes curled as I pulled my knees up, opening up for him further. "Too much."
* He explored my stomach with his mouth, blowing his hot breath over my skin. My eyes slid half closed as I toyed with his hair.
* "If you keep saying too much, I'm going to start thinking you want me against your will.” He glanced up as me as he pushed my shorts even lower still with his chin.
* "It's not that…" My words trailed off turning into a soft moan when he bit at my hip.
* "Then what is it?" His voice was low and husky, laced with need.
* I had visions of us hot and sweaty, all wrapped up in each other. I flushed all over at the thought of how he would feel against me.
* "It's…" I pressed my eyes closed, tilting my head back. "I'm afraid no one else will ever feel this good, that this is my only chance, and you're five hundred light years away." Buy Ever So Madly here... Amazon US | Amazon UK | Amazon CA Find J.R. Gray here... Amazon Author Page | Blog | Facebook | Goodreads | Goodreads Ever So Madly | Newsletter | Pinterest | Tumblr | Twitter | Website ~ Giveaway ~ ENTER HERE to WIN a $20 dollar Amazon gift card!
Thank you for joining us here today, J.R. Gray! It was a pleasure getting to know you and your story.

Jason Werbeloff & 'Defragmenting Daniel: The Organ Scrubber' @JasonWerbeloff @GoddessFish #SciFi #Thriller

Today we have author Jason Werbeloff visiting. Welcome!

What would you like to tell readers about yourself?

* Human. Male. From an obscure planet in the Milky Way Galaxy. Sci-fi novelist with a PhD in philosophy. Likes chocolates, Labradors, and zombies (not necessarily in that order). Werbeloff spends his days constructing thought experiments, while trying to muster enough guilt to go to the gym.
* He's written two novels, Hedon and The Solace Pill, and the short story anthology, Obsidian Worlds. His books will make your brain hurt. And you'll come back for more.

A look into...

~ Blurb ~ 7 stolen organs.
1 vengeful victim.
A gruesome sci-fi thriller.

* Organ scrubbing was a bloody job, but somebody had to do it. Daniel, an orphan from the Gutter, was put to work scrubbing kidneys at aged twelve. The job had its perks: a warm bed, Law and Order reruns, and an all-you-can-eat Mopane worm buffet.
* Until the Orphanage stole Daniel’s parts, and sold them on the organ market.
* Now Daniel has grown up, and yearns to become whole again. The cybernetic organ replacements just aren’t the same – he needs his parts back. But the new owners of his organs won’t give them up. Not without a fight.
* Just how far will Daniel go to regain his missing pieces? And how much more of himself will he lose along the way?

Defragmenting Daniel is a cyberpunk crime thriller that will unnerve you. Every part of you.

“A work of great imagination. Powerful and gripping.” | “A stark and moving experience.” – ReadersFavorite.com, 5 Star Review

The Organ Scrubber is the first fragment of the Defragmenting Daniel trilogy: Fragment 1 – The Organ Scrubber | Fragment 2 – The Face in a Jar | Fragment 3 – The Boy Without a Heart ~ Excerpt ~ * “Don’t worry about stepping on the limbs,” said Shoulders. “They’re crunchy underfoot, but you get used to it. Forensics cleared the scene before we got here.”
* Kage knelt down. Examined a hand. Such small fingers. He shivered.
* “Told you. No forensic traces on any of the limbs. No need to examine them. The vic fell from above.”
* Kage looked up. In silhouette above the mobile spotlights, he could barely make out the ceiling. But there it was, a few yards up. He thought he saw square outlines of light perforating the concrete ceiling every five yards or so, stretching ever deeper into the vast underground hall.
* Shoulders was on the move, ascending the mountain of human limbs. Kage followed. He scrabbled up the pile of arms and legs, toes and fingers, elbows and knees. He was surprised how yielding they were. How they bent under his weight. But Shoulders was right. He couldn’t ignore the crunch of breaking bones.
* “Why’d we legalize this?”
* Shoulders threw him a look. “Why not? They’re Gutter kids. This way at least the Bubble gets to have its fun without anyone getting hurt.”
* One of the hands twitched, and Kage almost lost his footing.
* Shoulders held Kage by the wrist. “Woah, you don’t want to be doing that. Those fingernails will rip you open if you land badly. Happened to Jensen just before you got here. Poor guy almost lost his cheek.” Shoulders shone a victory smile.
* “Thanks,” mumbled Kage.
* “Vic’s just on the other side of that ridge.” Shoulders pointed to a mound of limbs that looked a little fresher, a little more plump and moist, than the rest.
* Kage trudged on behind the Detective. Climbed the hillock of arms. Had to grab hold of more than one to ascend it.
* “What … what do they do with them?” asked Kage, breathing heavily under the mask. Beads of moisture condensed on the curve of his lower lip.
* “Do with what?”
* “The body parts?”
* “I hear they send the fresh ones for scrubbing. The rest …” Shoulders shrugged. “The vic’s over here.”
* More mobile spotlights, their metal poles staked in the pile of flesh around the body.
* Kage looked for the flashing red light at the bottom-right corner of his vision. Recording. Good.
* He knelt down. Pulled out a pair of gloves from his leather jacket pocket. He shuddered to think what the jacket would look like after this mess. But that wouldn’t matter if he solved this case. It was the Mayor’s brother. Captain Weeks would pay plenty to the investigator who solved this. Buy Defragmenting Daniel: The Organ Scrubber here... The book will be free on Amazon for 4 days, August 24 – 27 2016. Find Jason Werbeloff here... Amazon Author Page | Facebook | Goodreads | Newsletter | Sound Cloud | Twitter | Website Thank you for joining us here today, Jason Werbeloff! It was a pleasure getting to know you and your story.

ANNOUNCEMENT! Jason Werbeloff will be awarding a $15 Amazon or B/N GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour! So be sure to leave a comment AND use the Rafflecopter below. Also, visit the other tour stops for a greater chance of winning!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

a look at Sarah Marsh & 'Precious Cargo' @SM_fiction @evernightpub #preciouscargo

Today we have author Sarah Marsh visiting. Welcome!

What would you like to tell readers about yourself?
* Sarah Marsh was born in British Columbia where she still lives, she has only recently began her writing career finding it the perfect outlet for taking the edge off a nine to five office job. She’s been a science fiction and romance junkie for years and when her imagination started to take the characters she’d read about even further in their adventures she decided to try writing something of her own.
* Sarah’s also a former pastry chef and spends a lot of time cooking and baking for friends and family as well as painting and knitting. Her biggest weaknesses are animals of any kind…she even loves the ones that wake you up at four in the morning because they can almost see the bottom of their food dish.
* When it comes to life in general she’s a big believer that laughter is the best medicine and that there’s no such thing as too much love, which is why she’s such a sucker for a happy ending.

What are you going to tell us about today?

~ Blurb ~ * What would you do if you woke to find yourself confronted with an entirely new universe? Alison Baker deals with it the best way she knows how, one day at a time.
* Alison wakes in the midst of a nightmare, complete with monsters included. She winds up being rescued by three alien males but when it comes to her future she’ll need to learn to open up her mind and her heart if she hopes to survive the virus that her kidnappers infected her with.
* Clan Drogan are quite content with their lives and careers, when their ship gets attacked by pirates and they are forced to protect themselves, their spoils of war come in the most unexpected of packages. They’ve never met any female like Ali before, and her sweet and caring nature draws them to her like a moth to a flame. But they have commitments of their own when it comes to their future, will the three of them be able to decide once and for all if their intended mate back home is the right one for them? Or will they follow their instincts and see where their attraction to Alison leads?
* Ali knows that Conn, Kal, and Tannen are meant for another woman, but she can’t seem to help herself when it comes to falling for the three charming men. They introduce her to pleasures she’s never even imagined; how could just a taste ever really be enough? When they finally arrive on the men’s home planet of Dolak, she sees first hand that her competition for their hearts is fierce and not about to go away quietly.
* Will she find the strength to stand up and fight for what she wants? ~ Excerpt ~ * Kal had been trying all morning to get some work done, but his mind kept wandering back to delectable little Ali, and eventually he just quit what he was doing and went to track down her and Conn to see what they had gotten up to. He certainly hadn’t been expecting to find what he had when he’d walked into the observatory, but the sight of the two of them half naked, kissing on the couch brought his cock to full attention in a matter of seconds.
* “I see I’ve arrived just in the nick of time.” Kal smiled as he walked up to the couple and ran a finger gently along Alison’s flushed cheek. “Is there room for one more?”
* He loved the way her blush got brighter as she bit her lip and nodded yes to him. Conn lifted his head from nibbling on her neck, and Kal slowly leaned in to take the other man’s mouth in a sultry, deep kiss. Alison’s breathing became even more rapid and her eyes went heavy with lust as she took in the scene before her.
* Kal had his suspicions that Ali would enjoy seeing him with Conn and Tannen, and it seemed he was correct. The aroma of her desire was filling the room, causing their own pheromones to increase in return. Their sweet little Alison couldn’t have been a better match for them if she’d come straight from their wildest fantasies. It seemed that his plan to convince his two bond mates of that fact was coming to fruition without much interference from him at all. He stopped for a moment to watch as Conn continued to grind himself against the woman below him, drawing sweet whimpers from her lips.
* “Get naked and get over here,” Conn said to him after he broke the kiss, and returned to torment Alison with kisses on her neck as Kal rounded the couch and began to undress.
* Just as last night, Kal could feel her eyes roaming over his skin as he took off his clothes, and a thrill went through him at the thought that she admired what most of his people saw as a defect. The only other two beings in his life that had ever looked at him that way were Tannen and Conn, and once he’d found them, he’d vowed never to let them go.
* Kal loved the sound of her gasp as he took his briefs off along with his pants this time, revealing his long, hard cock that was aching for both her and his Captain.
* “Isn’t he beautiful?” Conn whispered in her ear, as they both watched Kal undress, with rapt desire. “It always takes my breath away to see the contrast of his skin against my own.”
* Ali looked from one to the other, a slow smile forming on her beautiful lips, and Kal could only hope that she was imagining them entwined in each other’s arms.
* “He is,” she finally agreed on a sigh, as Kal finished and moved towards them.
* Conn finally released her arms, only to move his hands down her torso, and he began to slowly raise the shirt that had been covering her.
* “May I?” Conn asked, looking deep into her eyes for permission to remove the barrier. Buy Precious Cargo here... All Romance eBooks | Amazon | Evernight Publishing Find Sarah Marsh here... Blog | Facebook | Twitter | Bookstrand | Amazon | Facebook Street Team Thank you for joining us here today, Sarah Marsh! It was a pleasure getting to know you and your story.

a look at April Zyon & 'Chevon's Mate' @AprilZyon @evernightpub #SciFi #Erotic

Chevon's Mate

Space Wars 5

by April Zyon

Published by Evernight Publishing

Cover and Banners by Simply Defined Art by Jay Aheer

About Chevon's Mate:

Laura Troxell was a Craegin woman who had everything in place for a long and loving life. She was engaged to the man of her dreams, had a brother that adored her and a position she absolutely loved. Well, that was until her world fell apart and the truth about her brother and fiancé came to light. Dumping her ex had her taking a nice long trip on a pleasure cruise around the Craegin universe, including traveling close to the neutral zone with Imarian space. It was thrilling and fun all in one. It was a non-stop party until someone decided to dump her like the proverbial trash, thankfully they, at least, dumped her in a life pod instead of just shoving her out of an airlock.

Chevon von Janus was a man who held his duty to train the next soldiers very seriously. He was a man that was a stickler for the rules, even when it came to an unknown life pod coming toward them from the neutral zone. Everything went by the letter in saving whoever was in the pod, he just never expected for the person to be a woman, a Craegin woman at that, but more than anything he hadn’t expected her to be his soul bonded mate. Talk about a surprise to the by the books commander.


The combustion between the two was felt immediately. However Laura had another secret to tell him, one that she was certain the Craegin’s wouldn’t want the Imarian’s to know about and when she did it certainly did heat up the war that was already sizzling between their peoples.


Chevon first has to keep Laura safe from his crew and then he has to work with old friends to figure out how to keep all of them safe. Life was going to get very interesting for these two very quickly. But no one ever said that love was easy, at least not when you were from two different cultures, cultures that happened to be at war.

Good thing that they had such amazing friends ready to go to the mat for them or their love would never know the light of day.

** read to the end for a link to the complete first and second chapter of the book **

General Purchase Links for my books:

All Romance Ebooks - https://www.allromanceebooks.com/storeSearch.html?searchBy=author&qString=April+Zyon

Amazon - http://www.amazon.com/April-Zyon/e/B00N2CC3QM/

Barnes and Noble – http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/april+zyon?_requestid=1373957

Bookstrand - http://www.bookstrand.com/april-zyon

Evernight Publishing - http://www.evernightpublishing.com/april-zyon/

Smashwords - https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/aprilzyon

iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/april-zyon/id916028407?mt=11

About April:

April is a lover of all things romance, and a writer with an imagination that goes on for miles and miles. Writing for Evernight Publishing is a dream come true for her and something she wants to continue for the rest of her life.

Living in the great state of Indiana I'm now 42, married with 2 children aged 20 and 18 as of 2016 so life is always going. I live with the husband, both kids, my mom and her (our) puppy as well. :)

I work third shift and work odd hours and days so generally when I am awake no one else is, so I write :)

That's about it for me!

 

My Social Media Links:

Blog – https://april-zyon.blogspot.com/

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/april.zyon.author

Facebook Fan Page - https://www.facebook.com/april.zyon.fan.page/

Facebook Reader Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/moirahonor.readergroup/

Goodreads - https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8509166.April_Zyon

Google + https://plus.google.com/112813890022691516603

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/april_zyon/

Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.com/aprilzyonauthor/

Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/user/aprilzyon/

Romance Authors Tribe on Triberr - http://triberr.com/pages/tribe-overview.php?tid=73217

Triberr - http://triberr.com/AprilZyon

Tsu - http://www.tsu.co/aprilzyon

Tumblr - http://aprilzyon.tumblr.com/

Twitter - https://twitter.com/AprilZyon

Website - http://april-zyon.com/

** Sign up for my newsletter for exclusive content, giveaways and more! http://eepurl.com/01Eef **

The books of Space Wars...

*** Coming sometime in 2016 The Royal Mate, the final book of the Space Wars series. ***

Read the complete first and second chapter of Chevon's Mate by clicking here... (use password AprilZyon)

Jeremy Flagg & 'Nighthawks' @writeremyflagg @GoddessFish #Dystopian #SciFi

Today we have author Jeremy Flagg visiting. Welcome!

What would you like to tell readers about yourself?

* I’m high school graphic design and marketing teacher, at a large suburban high school in Massachusetts. Working as a high school educator and observing the outlandish world of adolescence was the inspiration for my first young adult novel, “Suburban Zombie High.”
* My inspiration for writing stems from being a youth who struggled with reading in school. While I found school assigned novels incredibly difficult to digest, I devoured comics and later fantasy novels. Their influences can be seen in the tall tales I spin.
* I took the long route to becoming a writer. For a brief time, I majored in Creative Writing but exchanged one passion for another as I switched to Art and Design. My passion for reading about superheroes, fantastical worlds, and panic-stricken situations would become the foundation of my writing career.
* I participated in my first NaNoWriMo in 2006 and continue to write an entire novel every November. Now I am the NaNoWriMo Municipal Liaison to the Massachusetts Metrowest Region. I also belong the New England Horror Writer’s Association and to a weekly writing group, the Metrowest Writers.

Today Jeremy Flagg will be talking about a character from Nighthawks.
* Conthan Cowan is a small piece of who I was many years ago. He’s twenty-six when the story begins for him and he’s an artist trying to make a name for himself in the New York art scene. He has a great group of friends who jostle, joke, and support him as he gets his first gallery show. He’s hopeful, he’s sarcastic, and most of all, the future looks bright for him.
* Then I put him through the ringer. Conthan quickly sees that his life as he’s known it is going to change forever. He no longer has time to be innocent and naive to the world around him. He’s thrust into a dangerous situation and he has to find a way to survive. His survival is less about him fighting his way out of harm, but more trying to figure out what he is and isn’t willing to do for his own safety. As his morals are tested, he finds himself stepping down off this self-righteous pedestal and getting his hands dirty. He finds himself doing things he would have originally said were wrong. Conthan has to face his definition of right and wrong.
* I love Conthan because we get to watch his descent from an idealist to a more practical version of himself. The stressors he’s faced with are far beyond anything he had ever imagined before and he’s finding ways to cope with it. The ways he copes aren’t what he expected and when pushed too far, he discovers there is a dark side to his personality that he had never encountered before.
* What Conthan taught me as I wrote Children of Nostradamus: Nighthawks is that there is seldom a situation that is strictly black and white. That fine line that we are often determined to not cross is flexible and we need to compromise. However, there are things that happen to him throughout the story that show us that sometimes, that line is imaginary and needs to be shattered entirely. This idea that our superheroes are strictly good or bad is a myth and he discovers what he originally thought would be cut and dry isn’t.
* The book looks at his humanity and what he is willing to sacrifice to protect those he cares about. His darker self is discovered and I can see that each person has that and only in times of peril will they have to assess their own humanity. I have no idea what is in store for Conthan as the series continues, but I see him blurring the line between good and bad and pushing the boundaries of what he is willing to do to save himself and those he loves. A look into...

~ Blurb ~ * Twenty-six-year-old painter Conthan Cowan takes art to a shocking frontier…
* His debut exhibit features the transformation of his high school friend, Sarah, as she went from a shy, soft-spoken girl to a Child of Nostradamus—an individual gifted with extraordinary abilities. Living in a society where the Children of Nostradamus are captured by the government, Conthan’s exhibit draws attention from officials and protesters alike.
* A government psychic may be dead, but that doesn’t stop her from manipulating the future…
* The deceased White House aide is only remembered for her failed assassination attempt on the president decades before Conthan was born. Foreseeing her own death, she scribed letters to bring together specific Children of Nostradamus on a mission that will change the world.
* On the night of the gallery exhibition, Conthan receives one of those letters…
* Whispers from the past direct him to visit Sarah, the subject of his paintings, who like many Children of Nostradamus, is being detained in a government research facility. It’s there he finds himself aligned with a rogue group of Children on a mission to prevent a dark future.
* As a dark future unfolds, there's only one hope to stop the destruction of the world...
* The Children of Nostradamus. ~ Excerpt ~ * “…Seabrook, New Hampshire is gone. If you’re just tuning in, the Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant has just exploded. We have no word yet on what caused the explosion, but we do know there was a catastrophe resulting in failure of the systems at the Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant.”
* “God help them,” said the woman at the news desk.
* He could hear Elizabeth gasp at the announcement. His mind was moving a million miles an hour. His wife, still covered in sweat and grime from giving birth, his newborn son, his office calling him to alert him to the news, all of it caused his head to swim. He was unsure of what his next move would be.
* The television flickered and turned to static. Mark reached up and smacked the side of the box. The static began to take the shape of a person. He stepped back to see the solid outline of a man on the TV.
* “United States of America,” said a voice through the static, “land of the free and home of the brave. We are calling out your discreet operations. We know all about The Culling. Individuals who for years have been in your employ, using their more-than-human abilities to further your goals, will not die in vain. Killing empaths, slaughtering clairvoyants, and the genocide of telepaths will be responded to in kind.”
* “Eleanor,” he said in a hushed voice as he realized what they were talking about.
* “The United States has declared war on the wrong people. We can see you coming. We can hear your plans. We will not be eliminated. You’ve seen our reach.” Buy Nighthawks here... Amazon Find Jeremy Flagg here... Facebook | Goodreads | Instagram | Twitter | Website | LinkedIn Thank you for joining us here today, Jeremy Flagg! It was a pleasure getting to know you and your story.

ANNOUNCEMENT! Jeremy Flagg is giving away to one randomly chosen winner via rafflecopter a $50 Amazon/BN.com gift card! So be sure to leave a comment AND use the Rafflecopter below. Also, visit the other tour stops for a greater chance of winning!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Celeste Prater & 'Fueled by Lust: Sotarios' @Celeste_Prater @GoddessFish #SciFi #EroticRomance

Today we have author Celeste Prater visiting. Welcome!

What would you like to tell readers about yourself?

* I was born and raised in a small town between Dallas/Fort Worth and Austin. Wanting to see more than her small Texas town, I joined the Marines, which satisfied my craving to see more of the U.S. and my drive to see if I could be one of the few and the proud.
* A firm believer in educating the mind, I’ve achieved several advanced degrees, the latest being a master’s of science.
* My true love is writing erotic romance, especially about alien hunks that know how to treat their females. Drusus, Severus, Cato, Lucien, Caelius, Maxim and many more have swirled in my dreams until I had to bring them to life and allow them to find love within the pages of the Fueled by Lust book series.
* Book 1 DRUSUS was nominated as Top 5 Finalist and placed 3rd in the 2014 RWA Passionate Ink’s 9th Annual Passionate Plume Book Contest in Erotic SciFi/Fantasy Category, Book 2 SEVERUS achieved BEST BOOK review rating and won April 2014 BOOK OF THE MONTH Reader Poll at LONG AND SHORT REVIEWS, Book 3 CATO won the May/June 2014 BOOK OF THE MONTH, LUCIEN won the September 2014 BOOK OF THE MONTH, and MAKAR AND BARUCH the SEPTEMBER 2015 BOOK OF THE MONTH Reader Poll at LONG AND SHORT REVIEWS. All currently released books in the series have made it into the Top 5 Bestseller Lists at Bookstrand.com within days of release as well as making it into the Top 10 Hottest New Releases in Erotic Science Fiction on Amazon.
* I would like to give a big shout out to my gorgeous model, George Lukashevsky, the 2013 IFBB Arnold Classic first place winner, and the awesome cover photographer, Felix Mizioznikov. You can catch George on Instagram @georgewinner2013 and Facebook at George “Bear” Lukashevsky.

A look into...

~ Blurb ~ * With an ex from hell haunting his dreams, Sotarios Numida can’t catch a break. Thinking a trip to Earth to seek offspring of the Unfortunate One Hundred might clear his head—he thought wrong. Instead, destiny leads him right to the one woman that forces him to face his past and a secret he’s horrified to admit.
* Raine Holter is tough, focused, and dealing with a secret of her own. The last thing she expected to find during her usual daily grind was her soulmate. Especially one that can’t seem to make his mind up on whether to grip her close or shove her away. Undaunted, this little spitfire plans to thaw Sotarios’s frozen heart even if hers has to take a few beatings before he sees the truth.
* Book 8 in the Fueled By Lust Series yanks you right back into the lives of the sinfully sexy Insedi. One fast paced, jaw dropping, breath stealing, hell of a ride. ~ Excerpt ~ * Flinching at the stab of light to her retina, Raine looked up and spotted a gleaming-black SUV parking by the stairwell. Leaning closer she peered through the glass, unable to trust her eyes.
* “Is that him? Oh, man. It is.” Heart thudding, she scrambled to finish cleaning up the blob of hair she’d been slowly moving around the room and threw the broom behind the counter. Assured she didn’t have any remnants clinging to her T-shirt or jeans, Raine felt confident enough to approach the door again. He was still sitting in the car.
* “Good grief. How is it possible for him to be more gorgeous than he was last night?” Hands pressed against her belly, Raine realized she hadn’t been this nervous in years. She couldn’t get over how quickly he caused her internal organs to start flipping all over the place. As soon as she’d gotten a good look at his beautiful sapphire-colored eyes, she’d thought her skin was going to buzz right off her body. Five minutes into speaking with him and she knew she was a goner. Especially when he’d gotten all growly from spotting her injuries. That was so freaking sweet. From just the little interaction she’d had with him last night, she could tell he wasn’t a dumb jock. Far from it. She whispered, “Been around enough of them to know the difference, that’s for sure,” and discovered how close her nose was to the glass. Quickly passing a palm across the oval mist, she backed up a few steps and tried to act civilized.
* Skin tingling as she watched him step out of the car, Raine tried to keep from blinking. She didn’t want to miss one single frame.
* “Damn, would you look at that?” His powerful body was clad in a dark-blue muscle shirt, faded jeans, and the killer biker boots he’d had on last night. The sun twinkled off the silver chain circling his thick neck and cast a warm glow against his tanned skin. “Oh, just kill me now. That’s way too much perfection.” Buy Fueled by Lust: Sotarios here... Amazon | Barnes & Noble | BookStrand | iTunes | Kobo Find Celeste Prater here... Facebook | Google+ | Instagram | Pinterest | Tumblr | Twitter | Website | You Tube Thank you for joining us here today, Celeste Prater! It was a pleasure getting to know you and your story.

ANNOUNCEMENT! Celeste Prater will be awarding a $20 Amazon or B/N GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour! So be sure to leave a comment AND use the Rafflecopter below. Also, visit the other tour stops for a greater chance of winning!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

a look at #HPeterAlesso & 'Commander Henry Gallant' @GoddessFish #SciFi

Today we have author H. Peter Alesso visiting. Welcome!

What would you like to tell readers about yourself?

* As a scientist and author specializing in technology innovation, H. Peter Alesso has over twenty years research experience at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). As Engineering Group Leader at LLNL he led a team of scientists and engineers in innovative applications across a wide range of supercomputers, workstations, and networks. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy with a B.S. and served in the U.S. Navy on nuclear submarines before completing an M.S. and an advanced Engineering Degree at M.I.T. He has published several software titles and numerous scientific journal and conference articles, and he is the author/co-author of seven books.
A look into...

~ Blurb ~ * He thought Alaina loved him, but now she’s found someone else. A tidal wave of loss and grief swept over Henry Gallant, leaving him undecided about what to do next, or how to move forward.
* Despite his sorrow, he goes on a dangerous mission to an invading aliens’ home world in the Gliese-581 star system. There he uses a neural interface to penetrate their communication network and steal a high ranking alien’s identity. Through this artifice he learns about their history and society, and discovers a way to hinder and possibly defeat them.
* A side-effect of linking into the alien network—which was created for autistic savants—is that Gallant’s mind was stimulated and enhanced to the point where he begins to experience superintelligence abilities.
* Upon returning from his mission, there is concern that Gallant might pose an even more serious threat than the aliens. While he struggles to fend off those who doubt his loyalty, he fights to win back Alaina.
* This is the fourth book of The Henry Gallant Saga, but it can be read as a standalone story. ~ Excerpt ~ * Alaina told him to leave.
* Gallant thought they were in love, but now she’s found someone else.
* He’s racked his brain—sifting through the wreckage of their relationship—trying to piece together what went wrong.
* A tidal wave of loss and grief has swept over him, leaving him undecided about what to do next, or how to move forward—which is ironic because he’s always prided himself on his ability to reach difficult decisions during a crisis. Is this a crisis? Maybe it’s worse because his brain is numb and won’t process facts or ideas—it just kept replaying the breakup over and over again. *** * TWO MONTHS EARLIER . . .
* The Warrior was Henry Gallant’s first command. It was the culmination of everything he’d worked for since entering the academy. Her rocket-shaped hull was over a hundred meters long, equipped with stealth technology, an antimatter sub-light engine, and a dark matter FTL drive.
* The ship was on course for Elysium, a warm-water planet with oceans coving ninety per cent of its surface and dotted with numerous islands supporting abundant life including birds, mammals, reptiles, and a multitude of plant life. Home to a displaced United Planets’ colony, it was the second of five planets orbiting Tau Ceti, a mustard-yellow dwarf star about 11.5 light-years from Earth.
* Sitting in the command chair, Gallant noticed that the bridge was unusually quiet despite the background hum of machinery and the chatter of the bridge crew. There were no alarms, or sirens, or exclamations of concern, all of which was a good thing, but in his heighten state of anticipation he was left with an eerie sense of emptiness.
* He could barely contain his excitement at the prospect of seeing Alaina for the first time in nearly a year. His mind was alive with memories—many of which included Alaina’s alluring figure—quickening his pulse. There was nothing auspicious or dramatic about the images—it was just their sheer untimeliness and incongruity that was troubling.
* Standing up abruptly, he shook my head to cast off my distracting torpor.
* All eyes on the bridge turned toward him.
* Chagrinned, he drew a breath and sat back down. Buy Commander Henry Gallant here... Amazon Find H. Peter Alesso here... Website | Facebook | Goodreads | YouTube
Thank you for joining us here today, H. Peter Alesso! It was a pleasure getting to know you and your story.

ANNOUNCEMENT! H. Peter Alesso will be awarding a $20 Amazon or B/N GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour! So be sure to leave a comment AND use the Rafflecopter below. Also, visit the other tour stops for a greater chance of winning!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Houston Havens & 'Intimate Betrayal' @HoustonHavens @GoddessFish #SciFi #EroticRomance

Today we have author Houston Havens visiting. Welcome!

What would you like to tell readers about yourself?

* Erotic romance author Houston Havens, a former successful model enjoying an adventurous jet-set lifestyle, intrigues her readers with a mix of the past, present, and future, and sexy blends of futuristic science fiction, paranormal fantasy, and western romance, always with love everlasting. A tenacious Irish lass filled with passion and mystery hopes her sultry stories will entertain and fascinate those who dare to take the journey. She’s also a social media junkie with an award winning blog. http://houstonhavens.wordpress.com

A look into...

~ Blurb ~ * Kindise Wyatt escapes her Star Rider captor and returns to Earth. With the help of a sexy Old World Mole and his mysterious friend, she's determined to uncover the whereabouts of her lover. Instead, she finds nothing but betrayal and her captor in pursuit.
* On the lam after betraying his evil ruler, ex-Dirt Dweller and drifter Jaden Valenti confirms his name is on a hit list. Finding what he believes will be safety amongst the Airbornes, he recreates himself and hides his past until trouble walks back into his life in the name of Kindise Wyatt, the woman he was ordered to assassinate and didn't.
* Due to the obsessions of a Fae woman Sori gave up his hardearned royal title and left his homeland of Elfame. Love is the furthest thing from his mind until he is sent in Jaden's place to pick-up some cargo...human cargo in the form Kindise Wyatt. He feels the Fae magnetism of his soulmate in her. Problem is; she's in love with someone else.
* Will Jaden fulfill his orders to kill Kindise and get his name removed from the list, or will his secret be exposed and betray the friendship he has with Sori? Does Sori help Kindise find her lover, or will a love between them have a chance to flourish before a fatal attraction and a determined captor rip their love asunder? Will Kindise find true love or will betrayals at every turn crush the fight out of her? Can she find her inner strengths to keep fighting and lead The Freedom Fighters to defeat the Dirt Dweller elites, once and for all? ~ Excerpt ~ * She found him to be more tempting than the fruit but she wasn't about to let that little secret out. A part of her felt guilty for thinking the way she was. After all, she was in love with Lytell, wasn't she? Of course she was! She wouldn't have come all this way at the risk of her safety if she wasn't. She didn't care what Tessla said on the flight down here about her longing to find Lytell only because he gave her things she never had and doused her with male attention. "Oh, is it real?"
* "From Sori's own hydro-garden. Want a bite?"
* "Yes." When she was close enough to reach for it, he teasingly pulled it back. She looked up into his twinkling eyes and her stomach fluttered. Damn it. I didn't have this kind of reaction with Talut. Well…he never teased. But still…I love Lytell, so why all the unsettling emotions with Jaden?
* "I'll give you a taste if you tell me one thing."
* "What's that?"
* He stepped into her personal space holding out the berry. Her breaths quickened as she reached for it again, but instead of getting the sweet fruit, she inadvertently grabbed his fingers. Every cell in her body ignited at the connection, forcing her to back up several steps. She should have retreated because of the invasion of her space, but she hadn't, she did it out of fear of the unexpected attraction she was experiencing.
* His deep voice was nearly a whisper and dripped with seductiveness. "Tell me what the draw was to Lytell?"
* She held her hand up like a shield to stop any future advancement on her space, though he hadn't made another move toward her.
* "Not was, Jaden. Is." She tilted her chin up feeling that timeworn need to defend her lover--again.
* "He's highly intelligent, interesting, and confident." Buy Intimate Betrayal here... Amazon Find Houston Havens here... Amazon Author Page | Blog | Booklikes | Facebook | Goodreads | Google+ | Newsletter | Pinterest | Tsu | Tumblr | Twitter | Website | YouTube Thank you for joining us here today, Houston Havens! It was a pleasure getting to know you and your story.

ANNOUNCEMENT! Houston Havens will be awarding two winners a choice of one of the first three books in the Psychic Menage series to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour! So be sure to leave a comment AND use the Rafflecopter below. Also, visit the other tour stops for a greater chance of winning!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Michael Leon & 'Cubeball' #MichaelLeon @GoddessFish #SciFi

Today we have author Michael Leon visiting. Welcome!

What would you like to tell readers about yourself?

* I worked with national and international organisations as a business analyst in Australia and overseas. I authored many business books analysing the foodservice and food retail industry in Australia, Europe and Asia, as well as agribusiness global trends. I also ran a consultancy business that assisted Australian enterprises to develop new markets in Australia and overseas.
* I commenced writing science fiction novels full time in 2009. It was a life-long interest of mine. I have written five novels - all exploring contemporary social issues in future speculative worlds. They are: Shadow Dance; Extinction; Cubeball; Titan Sages and Alive. My novels blend speculative science, new age and poetry. Readers of novels such as Carl Sagan’s Contact would enjoy my novels.

A look into...

~ Blurb ~ * A naturally gifted ex-national champion and a savant with a computer-like mind compete against the world's best in the 22nd century's most popular sport - CUBEBALL - the chess-like, technology-enhanced, snooker of the future where the world stage is dominated by gambling, drugs and massive audiences. ~ Excerpt ~ * Unlike the real Mars settlement, Mons City was surrounded by a vertical city. Skyscrapers impossible to build on Earth or Mars dwarfed the largest mountain in the solar system. Mons City consisted of two cities, the Left Bank and Right Bank. Each city was built at the base of Olympus Mons, forming the largest boulevard ever digitally designed. Two parallel lines of skyscrapers extended thirty kilometres out from the Martian mountain and five kilometres apart. There was only one way in to Mons City and that was through the boulevard. Hover lines crisscrossed between the two cities making a Tokyo train station look like a country town. Twenty two million gamers (most online from their home) competed in this game. Around fifty thousand actually entered the game from Velvet Underground. Most of them were there to hide from the real world or rest and recover from the demands of the game. About another thousand were like Mickey, looking for someone. It was a melting pot of technology, human energy, drugs and dreams. So much had been won, lost or wasted in this boulevard of broken dreams. Mickey slowed as he entered Mons City. Buy Cubeball here... Amazon | BookPOD | iTunes Find Michael Leon here... Blog | Goodreads | Website Thank you for joining us here today, Michael Leon! It was a pleasure getting to know you and your story.

ANNOUNCEMENT! Michael Leon is giving one randomly chosen winner via rafflecopter a $50 Amazon/BN.com gift card! So be sure to leave a comment AND use the Rafflecopter below. Also, visit the other tour stops for a greater chance of winning!

a Rafflecopter giveaway