May 3, 2022

Blog Tour: Reason to Believe by Rebecca Yarros

 

“I’ll take them!”
 

That’s what I tell the social worker when my pre-k student and his baby brother need an emergency foster placement. I’ll do anything to keep the brothers from being split up. But my apartment’s flooded and there’s only one house I can take them to on such short notice…his. 

Knox Daniels, my older brother’s best friend, offers his new place without hesitation. He’s not moving back to our tiny town until next month—that’s when all our hotshot firefighters are returning for their one and only chance to rebuild our fathers’ fallen, iconic crew.

 It doesn’t matter that I’ve been silently in love with Knox since we were kids. It can’t matter that we pretend that reckless prom night kiss never happened. It won’t matter that my feelings for him could destroy his lifelong friendship with my brother and threaten the certification of their hotshot crew. Because I’ll be out of his house long before he gets back.

 Except Knox just walked in…a month early. And the icing on this awkward cake? He’s gorgeous as always and I’m covered in baby puke. He takes one look at the boys and tells me we can make this work—

 We can temporarily fake a relationship to keep them from being separated by the system.
Suddenly, everything matters.


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For me, Reason to Believe was a long awaited, first full-length novel in the Legacy series. The little novellas Rebecca Yarros has been dropping here and there just have not done it for me! I can honestly say that this novel did anything but disappoint. Knox and Harper's story was not at all what I expected it to be. This is definitely not your typical dance around between two individuals, attracted to each other but separated by loyalties to a third-party brother/best friend. Knox has always been in love with Harper and his many years away has not changed that. In fact, moving back home to where his heart had stayed put only puts him back in a direct path with Harper. Brought together and bound by the tragic loss of their fathers, Harper and Knox only find themselves more entertwined as life throws yet another curveball their way. The pair rise up to the challenge, putting their hearts on the line and letting their love for two little boys go ahead of any agenda they may have had for themselves. I think their selflessness adds to the immense amount of emotions in this book. 

There is so much history right off the bat that your emotions are high right from the start of the story. If you want all the feels, you will not be disappointed. The feelings are all over the place. From the gut wrenching ultimatums to the rollercoaster ride of emotions while the pair navigate the foster system, Reason to Believe takes you for the wildest ride. If this is the start of the Legacy series, we're in for an intense ride.



About the Author

Rebecca Yarros is the Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author of over fifteen novels, including Great and Precious Things and The Last Letter. “A gifted storyteller” (Kirkus), she is also the recipient of the Colorado Romance Writer’s Award of Excellence for Eyes Turned Skyward from her Flight and Glory series.
 
Rebecca loves military heroes and has been blissfully married to hers for almost twenty years. She’s the mother of six children, ranging from kindergarten to law school, and is currently surviving the teenage years with three of her four hockey-playing sons. When she’s not writing, you can find her at the hockey rink or sneaking in some guitar time while guzzling coffee. She and her family live in Colorado with their stubborn English bulldogs, two feisty chinchillas, and a Maine Coon kitten named Artemis, who rules them all.
 
Having fostered then adopted their youngest daughter who is nonverbal and on the autism spectrum, Rebecca is passionate about helping children in the foster system through her nonprofit, One October, which she co-founded with her husband in 2019. To learn more about their mission to better the lives of kids in foster care, visit www.oneoctober.org.
 
To catch up on Rebecca’s latest releases and upcoming novels, including The Things We Leave Unfinished, which just received a starred review from Publishers Weekly, visit www.RebeccaYarros.com.


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February 21, 2022

Blog Tour: Decode My Desires by Charmaine Louise Shelton

Welcome to the titillating world of the multibillion-dollar global companies and the love affairs of the families that control them. 

Harris
Who’s the sucker now? Me, that’s who. The One really took me—not to mention my family—for a ride. I never should have given up my playboy card. Well, it’s back in hand, and I have to make up for lost time.

Kat
What’s that saying about best laid plans? Yeah, tell me about it. Hopefully my new goal to figure out Harris and what I feel for him works out better...

Can Kat redeem herself, or has she lost the opportunity for The One?

Travel with this playful pair as Kat makes her moves on Harris from sky-high penthouses on Fifth Avenue and the Sunset Strip to a private villa beside a lush Hawaiian lagoon and more in their sizzling, second chance billionaire romance.

Their love story is a standalone romance trilogy in the series. Get a glimpse of their dynamism in other books.




 Catching Up with the Series:




The second book in this series picks up right where the first left off. Kat is on the brink of being able to complete her life's mission to take down the family that left hers in despair. But, of course, what she didn't expect was to fall for one of the last playboys of the Steele-Jackson clans. In this continuation of Kat and Harris' story, we see the struggle and fallout of Kat's decisions up until now. I can't say I like Kat much more than I did in the first book but it was still an enjoyable read. The level of steaminess from the Steele-Jackson books is very much so present in this instalment so you won't be disappointed. The ending to this book, in true style of this author, leaves you wide-eyed, wondering "omg...but what happens!?!?"--can't wait for this saga to wrap up!




About the Author

  Charmaine Louise Shelton the Founder, CEO & Author of CharmaineLouise New York, Inc. loves all things classic, elegant, feminine, and of course with an erotic edge! Favorite outfit of choice is a cashmere cardigan, leather pencil skirt, and seamed silk stockings with stiletto heels. Sexy Fantasy Type: sub with a dash of Voyeur. When not writing and designing, Charmaine Louise travels and spends time with her Maltese buddies, ZIGGY and Jynger. She loves to hear from her readers info@charmainelouisebooks.com!

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January 29, 2022

Excerpt Reveal: Decode My Desires by Charmaine Louise Shelton

Charmaine Louise Shelton is coming back with the second book in Kat & Harris’ love story, DECODE MY DESIRES. Check it out and pre-order your copy coming February 22nd!

Welcome to the titillating world of the multibillion-dollar global companies and the love affairs of the families that control them. 

Harris
Who’s the sucker now? Me, that’s who. The One really took me—not to mention my family—for a ride. I never should have given up my playboy card. Well, it’s back in hand, and I have to make up for lost time.

Kat
What’s that saying about best laid plans? Yeah, tell me about it. Hopefully my new goal to figure out Harris and what I feel for him works out better...

Can Kat redeem herself, or has she lost the opportunity for The One?

Travel with this playful pair as Kat makes her moves on Harris from sky-high penthouses on Fifth Avenue and the Sunset Strip to a private villa beside a lush Hawaiian lagoon and more in their sizzling, second chance billionaire romance.

Their love story is a standalone romance trilogy in the series. Get a glimpse of their dynamism in other books.




 Catching Up with the Series:


Exclusive Excerpt

Lachlan faces us and goes on.

“The initial assessment of the information she stole shows no major impact on Jackson Corporation. The surveillance videos and audio prove I’m a hard-ass worker”—we chuckle along with him—“I empathize with her and her line of descendants’ plight.”

Lachlan pauses to glance at each of us before he continues, “I propose Kat leaves Scotland in one week and she never returns without our advance knowledge. Her family—if truly uninvolved—can remain. She can keep the money Stewart paid her since she used it to support her family. However, we will monitor her activities. Should she hack anyone else, we will press charges. Thoughts?”

Again, everyone speaks at once. But Lachlan calls for Leonie first.

“Kat’s comments about the posh life and how impressed she was by the things we do make sense now,” she says. The girls nod and murmur their agreement. “I noticed she became less guarded the more time she spent with us. She was wistful when we last spoke about the upcoming holidays in Capri and Verbier during Labor Day. Kat listened raptly. Perhaps she saw her error but didn’t know what to do to fix the situation. And for Chet to threaten to kill Kat so publicly, well… Mon Dieu!”

Aunt Lucie speaks next and agrees with Leonie’s assessment. But adds she doesn’t trust Kat, and she would have to prove herself before she could gain it back. Our mother expresses a similar sentiment.

Lachlan hears everyone out, then turns to me.

“Your thoughts, Harris?” He asks.

I nod and respond.

“On a personal level, Kat fooled me once and will not have the opportunity to do it again. From a business perspective, I take responsibility for not paying attention to Jackson Corporation’s tech activity. So, as much as I want to blame Kat, I have to share some with her. Fortunately, she didn’t access pertinent information. To press charges makes it public, and you don’t want Jackson Corporation to appear vulnerable. That would give hackers ideas. At the same time, it reflects poorly on STEELE Technology and Cyber Security’s ability to protect our clients. So, from a selfish standpoint, you should not press charges. Banish her. I did already.”


About the Author

  Charmaine Louise Shelton the Founder, CEO & Author of CharmaineLouise New York, Inc. loves all things classic, elegant, feminine, and of course with an erotic edge! Favorite outfit of choice is a cashmere cardigan, leather pencil skirt, and seamed silk stockings with stiletto heels. Sexy Fantasy Type: sub with a dash of Voyeur. When not writing and designing, Charmaine Louise travels and spends time with her Maltese buddies, ZIGGY and Jynger. She loves to hear from her readers info@charmainelouisebooks.com!

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December 29, 2021

Blog Tour: Intrigue My Desires by Charmaine Louise Shelton

Welcome to the titillating world of the multibillion-dollar global companies and the love affairs of the families that control them.

Harris

I’m the last man standing in The STEELE Quaternity—my brothers and I dubbed such by the media as the most sought-after of the world’s eligible billionaires. One by one, they fell. Suckers.

Me? I hold on to my playboy card like a life preserver in a tsunami, as my fraternal twin sister teases me. Until the day I don’t...

Kat

Those Jacksons think they’re all that. Well, they’re wrong. Dead wrong. And I’ll use whatever and whoever I can to get what I want. Revenge. My red hair, pretty face, and curvy body get ‘em every time. Including that Steele sucker.

Will Kat claim Harris’ playboy card or will her true desire destroy the Jacksons and the Steeles?

Join Harris—her mouse—as he chases his Kat from Aberdeen and the Channel Islands to Thailand and more in their steamy playboy falls for The One billionaire romance.

Their love story is a standalone romance trilogy in the series. Get a glimpse of their dynamism in other books.

 

Intrigue My Desires is available for purchase:



Review

This series has started off in a good direction but I'm just conflicted. Loving the steam-level of this book but the scheming and deceit coming from Kat is killing it for me. Is it bad that I don't want them to end up together, though, inevitably, that's what's going to happen? It's got all of the Steele-Jackson tie-ins that I was looking for--I love when a series progresses as a whole and you get bits and pieces of storyline of past characters (eeeek Haley and Lachlan have kids now!!). I will read on to Decode My Desires just to see the direction this turns but, because I don't loooooove the main characters at play here, I can't love this particular series just yet. 

A solid 3.5 stars



About the Author

  Charmaine Louise Shelton the Founder, CEO & Author of CharmaineLouise New York, Inc. loves all things classic, elegant, feminine, and of course with an erotic edge! Favorite outfit of choice is a cashmere cardigan, leather pencil skirt, and seamed silk stockings with stiletto heels. Sexy Fantasy Type: sub with a dash of Voyeur. When not writing and designing, Charmaine Louise travels and spends time with her Maltese buddies, ZIGGY and Jynger. She loves to hear from her readers info@charmainelouisebooks.com!

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December 28, 2021

Release Blitz: Intrigue My Desires by Charmaine Louise Shelton

Welcome to the titillating world of the multibillion-dollar global companies and the love affairs of the families that control them.

Harris

I’m the last man standing in The STEELE Quaternity—my brothers and I dubbed such by the media as the most sought-after of the world’s eligible billionaires. One by one, they fell. Suckers.

Me? I hold on to my playboy card like a life preserver in a tsunami, as my fraternal twin sister teases me. Until the day I don’t...

Kat

Those Jacksons think they’re all that. Well, they’re wrong. Dead wrong. And I’ll use whatever and whoever I can to get what I want. Revenge. My red hair, pretty face, and curvy body get ‘em every time. Including that Steele sucker.

Will Kat claim Harris’ playboy card or will her true desire destroy the Jacksons and the Steeles?

Join Harris—her mouse—as he chases his Kat from Aberdeen and the Channel Islands to Thailand and more in their steamy playboy falls for The One billionaire romance.

Their love story is a standalone romance trilogy in the series. Get a glimpse of their dynamism in other books.

 

Intrigue My Desires is available for purchase:



Exclusive Excerpt

“Mr. Steele? Mr. Harris Steele?”

A soft Scottish lilt says my name like I’m Bond. James Bond.

And like a Bond Girl, this one is stacked. Her prim librarian facade of low heels, stockings, a conservative suit with an A-line skirt and a waist-length jacket, pussy bow blouse, and tortoise-shell glasses fails to hide her bodacious body. Thick, glossy red hair pulled back in a no-nonsense bun. Talk about a scene at LEVELS London. Hot damn!

As my gaze takes in her long legs, grip-worthy hips, ample tits, and lush mouth, her natural beauty takes my breath away. Emerald green eyes stare back at me, unaffected—dare I say bored—by my heated gaze.

I put on my most dazzling, panty dropping smile and mimic her Scottish accent in my deep baritone timbre.

“Aye, bonnie lass. And who might ye be?”

I think I see a flash of something in the depths of those intriguing emerald orbs. But it’s gone in, well, a flash.

She squares her shoulders and peers down her nose at me.

Her attempt to show confidence only serves to push her delectable tits out.

I smirk.

Her eyes narrow slightly. Then her face blanks again.

Lady Gaga’s “Poker Face,” anyone?

“Kat, Mr. Jackson’s administrative assistant,” she responds.

Oh, fuck me. Why does this one have to work for Lachlan? Damn.

The realization wipes the flirtation from my mind in an instant.

“Mr. Jackson asked me to escort you up to his offices as a call detained him,” Kat continues. “Kindly follow me, Mr. Steele.”

Without waiting for me to acknowledge her statement, Little Kat pivots and stalks towards the executive floor’s elevator.

Okay, Little Kat may be Lachlan’s admin. But the sway of her hips and her round ass call to me like a siren’s song. I follow like she’s the Pied Piper.

The alluring scent of her perfume fills my nostrils as we stand side by side in the elevator. I guesstimate her height at five feet, eight inches in her two-inch heels since I tower over her by five.

Surreptitiously, I ogle her in my periphery. Wild thoughts of yanking the pins from her bun to free that red mane, hiking her skirt up, and hoisting her long leg around my hip as I drive my hungry ten-inch cock balls deep inside of her wet, willing pussy fill my head.

The ping of the elevator doors opening interrupts my sexy fantasy.

As I follow Little Kat, I adjust my burgeoning length. And avoid staring at her sexy strut.

She knocks on Lachlan’s doors and opens them.

“You may enter, Mr. Steele,” she says as she steps back.

“Thank you, Kat,” I say with a nod. The taste of her name sweetens my mouth.

I step inside, and she closes the doors behind me.

My hand drags down my face as I blow out a long breath.

Fuck. Me.

When I open my eyes, Lachlan stares at me with his head cocked as he continues to speak on the telephone. I shake my head and point to his en suite bathroom. He nods but watches me with a furrowed brow.

Once inside, I fully adjust my cock, then stare in the mirror.

“Did that Little Kat crawl under my skin? Fuck… Am I doomed like my brothers by one glance?” I say aloud to my reflection. Then I grin. “Hell nah! Not this playa, baby!”

I chuckle as I shake my head to dislodge that unsavory thought, rinse my face with cool water, and stride from the bathroom.


About the Author

  Charmaine Louise Shelton the Founder, CEO & Author of CharmaineLouise New York, Inc. loves all things classic, elegant, feminine, and of course with an erotic edge! Favorite outfit of choice is a cashmere cardigan, leather pencil skirt, and seamed silk stockings with stiletto heels. Sexy Fantasy Type: sub with a dash of Voyeur. When not writing and designing, Charmaine Louise travels and spends time with her Maltese buddies, ZIGGY and Jynger. She loves to hear from her readers info@charmainelouisebooks.com!

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