Millennia ago, he fell from heaven for her.

Can he face her without falling again?

Fascinated with ancient civilizations, seventeen-year-old Mia Crawford dreams of becoming an archaeologist. She also dreams of wings—soft and silent like snow—and somebody trying to steal them.

When a horrible creature appears out of thin air and attacks her, she knows Michael Fontaine is involved, though he claims to know nothing about it. Secretive and aloof, Michael evokes feelings in Mia that she doesn’t understand. Images of another time and place haunt her. She recognizes them—but not from any textbook.

In search of the truth, Mia discovers a past life of forbidden love, jealousy and revenge that tore an angel from Heaven and sent her to an early grave. Now that her soul has returned, does she have a chance at loving that angel again? Or will an age-old nemesis destroy them both?

Ancient history is only the beginning.

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Book Details:

Title: The Watcher

Author: Lisa Voisin

Publisher: InkSpell Publishing

Publication date: March 4, 2013

ISBN13: 9780985656225

Pages: 541

Excerpt:

He pulled the car over to the side of the road and parked it without speaking. As the rain thrummed against the roof of his car, my heart stuttered anxiously against my ribs, like a hummingbird flapping its tiny wings.

He took a deep breath and his voice was thick when he said, “If I misled you…”

My heart stopped, and I blinked at him as heat filled my face. He hadn’t misled me. The feelings I had for him were one hundred percent my own doing. I should have known better.

“I’m not available,” he continued, “the way you want me to be.”

What did he mean, the way I wanted him to be? Any way I could be with him would be fine. Anything was better than not speaking at all. And then the pieces came together: gorgeous and unavailable. He had a girlfriend. Oh God! Why hadn’t I seen the signs before? He didn’t flirt with anyone because he was in love with someone else.

Not caring about the rain, I opened the door and dashed out of the car.

Michael caught up with me and grabbed my arm. I pulled it away.

“It’s wet,” he said. “I’ll take you home.”

Tears burned my eyes, making me grateful for the heavy rain that washed them away, cooling my skin. “I’ll walk.”

“Come on,” he said, “don’t be foolish. You’ll catch a cold.” A wet strand of hair clung to my face. He brushed it aside, so gently, and a deep current trembled through me, compelling me toward him. It was all I could do to hold my ground. His eyes widened and he stepped back. In that moment, I knew he felt it too.

I glared at him. How dare he touch me? Why did he care? Why did he pay attention to me at all?

He shook his head sadly. “Mia, I’m…”

Taken. I know. I shook my head, not wanting to hear any more, and there was this look he gave me, a mixture of pain and something else—something forbidden—that made me want to kiss the rain from his lips.

About the Author:

A Canadian-born author, Lisa Voisin spent her childhood daydreaming and making up stories, but it was her love of reading and writing in her teens that drew her to Young Adult fiction.

A self-proclaimed coffee lover, Lisa can usually be found writing in a local café. When she’s not writing, you’ll find her meditating or hiking in the mountains to counteract the side effects of drinking too much caffeine!

Though she’s lived in several cities across Canada, she currently lives in Vancouver, B.C. with her fiancé and their two cats.

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Links (if the shortened versions don’t paste into your blog post):

Website: http://www.lisavoisin.com.

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/lvoisin @lvoisin

Blog: http://lisavoisin.wordpress.com

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Parallel by Lauren Miller

Publish: May 14 2013

Purchase: Amazon

Synopsis:

Abby Barnes had a plan. The Plan. She’d go to Northwestern, major in journalism, and land a job at a national newspaper, all before she turned twenty-two. But one tiny choice—taking a drama class her senior year of high school—changed all that. Now, on the eve of her eighteenth birthday, Abby is stuck on a Hollywood movie set, miles from where she wants to be, wishing she could rewind her life. The next morning, she’s in a dorm room at Yale, with no memory of how she got there. Overnight, it’s as if her past has been rewritten.

With the help of Caitlin, her science-savvy BFF, Abby discovers that this new reality is the result of a cosmic collision of parallel universes that has Abby living an alternate version of her life. And not only that: Abby’s life changes every time her parallel self makes a new choice. Meanwhile, her parallel is living out Abby’s senior year of high school and falling for someone Abby’s never even met.

As she struggles to navigate her ever-shifting existence, forced to live out the consequences of a path she didn’t choose, Abby must let go of the Plan and learn to focus on the present, without losing sight of who she is, the boy who might just be her soul mate, and the destiny that’s finally within reach.

Review:

You know how excited you feel when you read a synopsis for the first time and think. ‘Wow, I so have to read this!”? That is how I felt when I read the blurb for Parallel because it sounded kind of similar to the movie Sliding Doors. Unfortunately, this book ended up not working for me and was not as enjoyable as I had hoped.

I am not saying that this was a bad story, just one I had a really hard time keeping track of. I have never been a real fan of a book that switches back and for a lot and that is just what this book does. It slowly became a very confusing mess and I felt like I was fighting to keep everything straight.

I don’t know if I had connected better with the characters or felt the romance wasn’t so much like the usual ‘love triangle’ then maybe I would have enjoyed this more. All I do know is I was happy when I finished this so I could move on to another book. And that is not a feeling you want to have…

To Katie With Love by Erica Lucke Dean

Published: April 29 2013

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Synopsis:

Banker Katie James has a serious thing for romance novels. She’d almost rather settle for a fictional boyfriend than risk her heart on a flesh-and-blood man. Besides, the only real guy she’s remotely interested in is her rich, unattainable client, the mysterious Cooper Maxwell.

Looking less like the ultra-conservative man she knows and more like a drop-dead sexy character from one of her books, Cooper crashes Katie’s 29th birthday party. But one too many drinks lands Katie in uncharted territory… Cooper’s bedroom!

Drunk on love, Katie dives headfirst into the relationship only to discover that Cooper is keeping secrets… dangerous ones. As if things couldn’t get worse, her meddling mother makes a surprise visit, digging up a whole new set of problems.

Who would have guessed having an assassin for a boyfriend would be the least of her worries?

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Review:

Such a cute and quirky romance! I can totally see myself doing the some of the things that Katie James does because she is that kind of character. She is normal woman who can’t find her Prince Charming so she goes home to her imaginary cat and rereads her favorite romance novels. Then how she deals with falling for Cooper, I totally get her!

All during the book I kept going back and forth. Was Cooper a spy, does he worked for a secret government agency or maybe he was a hit man after all. I have to say what he really does is so completely not what I had expected. What surprised me even more was the way this book ended, I did not expect that!

So if you are looking for a fun romance that keeps you on your toes, well you will enjoy To Katie With Love!

Author:

After walking away from her career as a business banker to pursue writing full-time, Erica moved from the hustle and bustle of the big city to a small tourist town in the North Georgia Mountains where she lives in a 90-year-old haunted farmhouse with her workaholic husband, her 180lb lap dog, and at least one ghost.

When she’s not busy writing or tending to her collection of crazy chickens, diabolical ducks, and a quintet of piglets, hell bent on having her for dinner, she’s either reading bad fan fiction or singing karaoke in the local pub. Much like the main character in her newest book,To Katie With Love, Erica is a magnet for disaster, and has been known to trip on air while walking across flat surfaces.

How she’s managed to survive this long is one of life’s great mysteries

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When twenty-one-year-old Leah Carter’s latest one night stand burglarizes her apartment, her roommate forces her to attend therapy for sex addicts. Leah insists she isn’t a sex addict; she just doesn’t do relationships. After all, sooner or later, everyone lets you down.
At first, the group sessions are little more than an education on how to be promiscuous. Until she meets the newest addict—blue eyes, killer body, and a smile that tempts relapse.
Psychology student Will McLean is posing as a fellow addict while researching a case study on unusual addictions. But the more he learns about Leah, the more certain he is that his desire to break through her walls and unearth her secrets has nothing to do with his assignment.
As the uncertainties spike alongside the sexual tension, the only thing Leah knows for sure is that falling in love would be disastrous. Too bad love might be one addiction she can’t kick.

TERRA by Gretchen Powell

About the Book

A broken and desolate Earth. A young girl struggling to survive. A lost boy with a powerful secret.

A discovery that will change everything.

In the distant wake of a plague that has decimated the Earth’s population, humanity is split in two: The rich and powerful live in skycities that float overhead, while those who remain on the ground have gathered in settlements strewn across a dying planet. Eighteen-year-old Terra Rhodon is a terrestrial–a denizen of the barren groundworld–who makes her living as a scav. Long abandoned by her father, her caregivers gone, Terra supports herself and her younger brother, Mica, by scouring the earth for discarded scraps and metals to recycle for profit. One day, while on a routine scavenging run, she discovers something that shocks her home settlement of Genesis X-16. When the value of her discovery is revealed, Terra’s world is turned upside down.

Terra suddenly finds herself asking questions no one will answer. Her search for the truth leads her to Adam–a beguiling skydweller unlike any she has ever met. But Adam has secrets and a quest of his own, and with him by her side, the world Terra thought she knew begins to unravel. Soon her discoveries unearth a terrifying conspiracy that has the potential to shatter everything–a revelation that will test the bonds of loyalty, family, and love.

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Chapters 1 & 2 are available to read online: http://www.gretchenpowell.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Terra-Sample-Chapters.pdf

Interview:

I am so excited that I get to ask author Gretchen Powell a few questions today…

1. Was Terra an easy book to write?

Yes and no. The timeline for TERRA was almost exactly one year, from concept to publication, which is craaaazy fast for a book, really. So on the one hand, it was easy, because once the words started flowing it was hard to get them to stop. But on the other hand, the words didn’t always flow. Sometimes I had to kind of force them out, and writing in general can be difficult, frustrating, and seemingly hopeless at times. So it really was both easy and hard — but either way, it was a true labor of love.

2. How did you come up with the title?

TERRA was actually my working title throughout the whole process, and then when it came time to pick the “real” title, I just couldn’t top it. I like the duality of it — it’s the main character’s name, but it also represents what the book is really about on one level: the Earth.

3. What books/authors have influenced your writing?

I’ve been hugely influenced by Suzanne Collins and The Hunger Games — I think that much is clear in that I took on a dystopian novel in the first place. But some of my other inspiration has come from JK Rowlings, Maggie Steifvater, and even old science fiction novels by Heinlein and the like.

4. Is there anything you find particularly challenging in your writing?

I find that I’m much better at writing fast-paced, adrenaline-pumping action scenes than anything else, really. So those scenes would come flying out almost faster than I could type them, but the stuff in-between? Oyyyy, talk about difficult. Usually, I’d end up skipping over some of the connecting parts and just going straight to the next action scene. Then I’d come back to work on the missing parts some more later.

5. If you could meet any of your own characters, who would it be?

Oh, easily Adam. Haha, if he actually existed in real life, you can bet that Terra would have some SERIOUS competition for him and those blue, blue eyes. I love all my characters, of course, but if I could translate anyone from the book into real life, it would absolutely be him, hehe.

6. What book are you reading now?

I’m ashamed to say I haven’t had much time for reading lately (blasphemous, I know!) but I have a whole bunch on my to-read pile. First up is finishing my fellow self-published author Megan Thomason’s novel daynight and then there’s Cinder, The Adoration of Jenna Fox, and Under the Never Sky to tackle!

About the Author

Half-Chinese and the daughter of a US diplomat, Gretchen Powell spent her childhood growing up in far-off places. She made it all the way to her mid-twenties whilst maintaining her deep-seated love for young adult novels, so she decided to write one of her own.

Her creative process involves copious amounts of Sour Patch Kids and sleeping fitfully. Her many interests include anything with polka dots, Harry Potter, and playing the ukulele.
When she isn’t crafting devastated futuristic worlds and fiery heroines, Gretchen also writes a healthy living blog, entitled “Honey, I Shrunk the Gretchen!”
She lives in Northern Virginia with her two adorable miniature schnauzers. They wear many sweaters.

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The Tour Schedule

Week One

May 6^th – Parajunkee (http://www.parajunkee.com) – Guest Post

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May 7^th – Caught Between the Pages (http://caughtbetweenthepages.wordpress.com) – Guest Post

May 8^th – Poisoned Rationality (http://www.prationality.com) – Interview

May 9^th – Lost in Books (http://imlostinbooks.blogspot.com) – Guest Post

May 9^th – My Book Addiction (http://mybookaddiction.com) – Review

May 10^th – Moonlight Gleam’s Bookshelf (http://www.moonlightgleam.com) – Interview

May 10^th – Library of a Book Witch (http://www.booklovewitch.blogspot.com) – Review

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May 13^th – Jenna Does Books (http://jennadoesbooks.com/) – Guest Post

May 13^th – Buried Under Books (http://cncbooksblog.wordpress.com/) – Review

May 14^th – The Best Books Ever (http://www.thebestbooksever.com) – Interview

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May 15^th – Seeing Night Reviews (http://seeingnight.blogspot.com) – Review

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May 17^th – Burning Impossibly Bright (http://burningximpossiblyxbright.blogspot.com) – Review

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Frederick is a demon. Born in Maryland in the early 1980′s, he hasn’t a clue where he came from or why, but feels an irresistible desire to occupy a human body. Once inside, he finds the previous occupants’ consciousness and memories forever erased, an inevitable side effect that gives Frederick pause when switching bodies, but not so much as to truly halt his ongoing enjoyment of human lives. In various bodies, he travels the world for decades–aimless–sampling cultures and experiencing life from the points of view of males, females, young, old, rich, poor.

Now, Frederick has an urge to return to his roots in America, explore the mystery of his origin, find someone to love, and settle down for a while. In his hometown, his mission bears fruit much faster than he expected, as person after person presents themselves, and following his impulses, he is lead directly to love, tragedy, answers, and the humanity he never knew he wanted.

Warm Place to Call Home (a demon’s story)

By Michael Siemsen

Genre: Paranormal Romance with Urban Fantasy Undertones

Publisher: Fantome Publishing

Released March 4, 2013

244 Pages

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AUTHOR BIO

Michael Siemsen struck it big with his debut novel, The Dig, a paranormal archaeology thriller that reached Amazon and Barnes & Noble’s Top 100 Bestseller lists, and spent weeks as the #1 Science Fiction book in 2011. Its success allowed him to escape his soul-leeching job and work as an author full-time. The sequel, The Opal, was released a year later, and the third and final book is in the works. His new novel, released in March of this year, A Warm Place to Call Home (a demon’s story) is a departure from his Matt Turner Series.

Michael has been featured by Barnes & Noble, been reviewed on several major blogs and sites such as Penny-Arcade and Boing Boing, and received a glowing recommendation from author Charlaine Harris.

He is currently at work on the prequel to A Warm Place to Call Home (which should be released this winter) while enjoying spending more time with his family, lazy dog, and mentally-unstable cat in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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