Excerpt Blast: If I Didn’t Have You

📖 We are celebrating the 𝗲𝘅𝗰𝗲𝗿𝗽𝘁 𝗯𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘁 today for 𝗜𝗳 𝗜 𝗗𝗶𝗱𝗻'𝘁 𝗛𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗬𝗼𝘂 (𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗕𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗟𝗼𝘃𝗲 #𝟳) 𝗯𝘆 @giulialagomarsinoauthor releasing in 𝗢𝗡𝗘 𝗪𝗘𝗘𝗞 📆
➜ https://mybook.to/IfIDidntHaveYou

“Whoa, whoa, whoa!” Ben came running over, his voice filled with horror. “Woman, what in the hell are you doing?”
“Cleaning house,” I grinned.
“Fine, clean the house. Clean the whole damn thing, but my bucks stay on the wall!”
I thrust my fists on my hips, glowering at my husband. “Benjamin Parker, I will not look at those beady eyes for one more minute!”
“You don’t have to! Just close your eyes! Problem solved!”
“I can’t very well close my eyes when I’m painting.”
“Painting?” His face twisted in confusion.
I may have forgotten to inform him of my plans.
“Or writing.”
“What the hell are you gonna write?”
“A book,” I grinned. “It’s going to be amazing.”
“Since when do you write?”
My smile dropped into a scowl. “Since today. Well, probably next week since I still have to paint the room.”
A frown appeared as he thought it over, then realized what I meant, and that frown quickly turned into a scowl. “Now, hold on a minute—”
“You hold on a minute, Benjamin Parker!”
“Would you stop last naming me?” he snapped.
“I need a place to write—”
“That’s my den,” he shouted, pointing toward the house.
“And it’s about time you learned to share. I’ll be taking over.”
“That’s not the definition of sharing.”

#IfIDidntHaveYouExcerptBlast #IfIDidntHaveYouGiuliaLagomarsino #ExcerptBlast #GiuliaLagomarsinoExcerptBlast #TheLastBestPlaceForLove

Hosted by Enticing Journey Book Promotions

Cover Reveal: Petals & Thorns

✨It’s cover reveal day for Petals & THORNS by @authorsterlingbrown releasing October 13th!

 

#PreOrderHere

https://a.co/d/05KVztlt

 

Why you will love this book…

🥀forced proximity

🥀enemies to lovers

🥀forbidden romance

🥀fairytale retelling

🥀off-limits

🥀broody firefighter/feisty doctor

🥀protective MMC

 

Romance author Sterling Brown debuts with a modern, suspenseful and spicy fairytale retelling of Beauty and the Beast.

 

It would be the perfect fairytale, love story for Isobel and Lucas. There's only one problem: he needs to release her as his hostage first.

 

Isobel Castillo is a woman that has it all: a thriving medical career, a close-knit family and a very public relationship. When her fiancé, Michael Gaston, takes a bid for mayor and her father receives a Nobel prize, the spotlight is forced upon her. Despite expectations, she feels suffocated by the attention and wants so much more than the life they've got planned.

 

With her relationship in a downward spiral and the press on her back, Isobel yearns for a break from reality. Her wish gets unintentionally answered when she finds herself kidnapped along with her father. Their abductors give him an ultimatum; help expand their drug empire, effectively threatening thousands of lives, or watch his daughter lose hers. Isobel's only saving grace is that the man in charge of babysitting her is already second guessing his actions.

 

When Lucas Adams willingly got involved in Isobel's kidnapping, his grief and unresolved rage were clouding his judgement. As much as she pushes his buttons, he doesn't have any intentions of hurting her...or letting anyone else. And unbeknownst to Isobel, he's having trouble stifling the feelings that bloom when he's around her.

 

Their time alone together allows for Isobel to not only test the boundaries of her confinement, but also her heart. When she discovers the real reason for Lucas' involvement in her kidnapping, her entire world gets turned upside down.

 

✨INFLUENCERS: Sign up to release events here: https://bit.ly/PETALSTHORNSSIGNUP

 

#coverreveal #forbiddenromance #sterlingbrown #spicyromance @theauthor.agency

 

Cover Reveal: Savage Truce

    SAVAGE TRUCE BY MICHELLE HEARD Release Date: September 7th   Photographer: Michelle Lancaster Cover Model: Chad Cover Designer: Okay Creations     Genre/Tropes: Forced/Arranged Marriage / Power Imbalance / Forced Proximity / Touch her and die / He falls hard / Years of pining / Age Gap / Plus-size Heroine OTT Possessive/Protective /Obsessed Hero / Who Did This to You? / Hidden Identity / MMC takes revenge for her! / Caretaking/Hurt-comfort / Found Family / Virgin MFC / Second Chance at First Love SERIES: Heart of Crime Series, Book 1 - A complete standalone BRATVA Romance     CHECK OUT THIS STUNNING COVER! We are honored to share the cover reveal for SAVAGE TRUCE by Michelle Heard, releasing September 7th!   Make sure to preorder this all-new mafia romance TODAY!   PREORDER IS AVAILABLE!! Amazon: https://geni.us/jq7ag           BLURB   I was born into Bratva royalty, but that never made me a princess. My entire life I’ve been mocked and ignored, and the only place I’ve ever felt like myself was at the theater, with a needle in my hand and beautiful fabrics around me. That’s where I met him. A stranger with a missing button, clear blue eyes, and a voice that made the world feel less cruel for one stolen night. We only exchanged our first names and talked the night away over warm coffees and pastries before my life came crashing down around me. Years later, my grandfather is dead, the Bratva is at war, and I’m imprisoned because of my family. I’m broken, bruised, and forgotten until the new pakhan comes to inspect his prisoners. Rodian Volkov. The man I never forgot. Only now, he isn’t a stranger with gentle hands and friendly eyes. He’s become savage just like the rest of the men who bend the knee to him. He’s now the monster I fear. When he tells the Bratva he’s marrying me to bring peace, I’m too terrified to argue. Because saying no to the pakhan is never an option.           About Michelle Heard: Michelle Heard is a Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Bestselling Author who loves creating stories her readers can get lost in. She resides in South Africa with her son where she's always planning her next book to write, and trip to take.   Connect w/Michelle: Website: https://michelleheardauthor.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MHeardAuthor FB Readers Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/118971435201074 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/authormichelleheard Amazon: https://amazon.com/author/michellehorst Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/18108320.Michelle_Heard BookBub: https://www.bookbub.com/authors/michelle-heard TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@authormichelleheard Newsletter Signup: https://preview.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/p6m4o4

Teaser: Xoxo

✨TEASER: XOXO by @authormandymuse releasing August 31st! 

#PreOrderNow 

https://a.co/d/0evUq2XR 

Why you will love this book…

🩷Why Choose

🧳MMFM

🩷Runaway Bride

🧳Travel Romance

🩷Bi-Awakening

🧳Serendipitous

I never imagined being a runaway bride, but here I am, putting on my running shoes, hiking up the white dress, and bolting to Europe with my veil fluttering behind me. 

 

For once, I wasn’t going to be the agreeable, dutiful daughter who had been forced into an arranged marriage. I wasn’t going to keep sacrificing myself for my parents’ approval. 

 

Violeta Vega, party of one, checking into rock bottom. 

 

Running away to Europe had seemed like a good idea. It was supposed to be carefree, but my heartbreak turned the River Thames dull until whispers of an app piqued my interest. Meeting eligible bachelors across Europe wasn’t on my itinerary, but there’s no harm in swiping left and right. 

 

Famous last words. 

 

Ending my rendezvous by sneaking out and leaving nothing behind but a note signed “XOXO” wasn’t the magic I had hoped for. That is, until I meet three best friends who can’t keep their eyes off me—and each other.

 

Levi is sweet and makes Paris my favorite destination. I can’t help but want to soothe Ruwon’s deep-seated wounds as we sail on their yacht off the coast of Greece. And Matteo? As much as he can’t stand me, we can’t deny our chemistry in the French Alps. Falling for one man while healing a broken heart seems like a bad idea. Falling for three? It’s either stupidity or serendipity.

 

When the past I left at the altar comes back to tear us apart, I cross my heart and hope that I make the right choice.

✨INFLUENCERS: Sign up here to promote this awesome release: https://bit.ly/XOXOSIGNUP

#coverreveal #mandymuse #mmfmromance @theauthor.agency

Teaser: Love, But Wilder

✨TEASER: LOVE, BUT WILDER by @the_cassiegraham releasing August 25th! 

#PreOrderHere 

https://a.co/d/04MY20tz 

Why you will love this book…

💜 Paranormal romance

🔮 Magic/Witchcraft/Witches

💜 Monster hunters

🔮 Found family

💜 Ghosts/demons/dragons

🔮 Hurt her and die

💜 Monsters with a moral compass

🔮 Open door/high spice

From Cassie Graham, comes an all-new retelling of her original novel, Enchanting Wilder.

Love, But Wilder is re-imagined and re-edited with 50,000+ added words!

A witch, McKenna Sawyer, doesn’t know what happened to her seemingly (para)normal life. After her parents go missing, the only path forward is to continue running her family’s flower and metaphysical shop, Petals and Potions. And at night, she warns mortals of their impending deaths via dream-jumping. She thought her existence would start and end in Summerson, Massachusetts with her corgi Familiar, Pepperoni, but as months pass without her parents, she starts to feel as if her life is meant for more. Foreign emotions claw at her skin, begging her to do something different—be someone different.

Just as she begins to lose hope, McKenna is assigned Declan Wilder, a self-assured and complicated monster hunter. When they meet face-to-face, they realize their paths are more entangled than they realized and that the red-eyed demon they witnessed in Declan’s dream isn’t a harbinger of death, but a key to unlocking the secrets to McKenna’s parents’ disappearance.

A journey of self-discovery and passion, McKenna and Declan, along with their siblings, begin to uncover deep rooted mysteries that have been put in place by the people they love most. Together, they must face who they truly are, and amid all the chaos, stay true to their hearts.

It’s a love story, yeah, but it’s a lot wilder.

✨INFLUENCERS: Sign up here to promote this awesome release: https://bit.ly/LBWSIGNUP

#cassiegraham #paranormalromance @theauthor.agency

Teaser: Crows Calling

An Inspiring Journey into our Better Natures

Literary/Eco-Fiction

Date Published: 10-01-2025

Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group Press

Earth’s animals are fed up with humanity’s mindless damage to our common home. Will a young girl and her family heed their call?

Ten-year-old Luz sets out on an overnight camping trip, accompanied by her spiritual mentor. Peering through a canopy of California redwoods, Luz witnesses a council of animals confronting the menace of climate change. Led by a lustrous—and talkative—American Crow named Koro, the animals weigh their options. Some, like Koro, want to collaborate with humans. Others doubt humanity’s good intentions. The conversation compels young Luz, innately in tune with the natural world, to fight passionately in its defense.

At once a work of fact-based activism and a moving coming-of-age, Crows Calling immerses the reader in a richly-drawn family and community who, despite their differences, decide to dedicate their lives to the care of Grandmother Earth. They are not alone. Rather, they are accompanied by a colorful cast of savvy planimals—bears, coyotes, trees, and even chickens—with long memories and ancient ways of healing. However, some damage cannot be undone. Natural disasters, public apathy, and greed threaten everything that Luz and her friends are working for. Can the cross-species alliance find unity and resolve the climate crisis?

Excerpt

Chapter 1

Before we go any further, I really should introduce myself. I am Koro—a lustrous female American Crow. Surely, when strolling in woods or along an urban lane, you have admired my family’s elegant, iridescent plumage and thrilled to our melodious song. You know of our prodigious memory, of our cleverness spearing hapless grubs from sodden logs with a favored twig.

The glint you see in my ebony eye is a tear shining for my grandmother—the earthly incarnation of generosity, whose bounteous lands and waters make room for every new arrival. Of late, however, one family—relative newcomers—has been pushing her limits, leaving their garbage everywhere and abusing the other guests. They run their noisy engines at all hours. Noxious smoke belches from their cooking fires. Every day, more and more of them come, crowding into other families’ spaces, destroying the homes of many of my friends.

Recognizing our Crow persistence, Grandmother Earth called us to help her get those inconsiderate tenants to clean up their act. Peering into the chasm of the coming Meltdown, I am proud to be on precious Grandmother’s team. My cawcus is responsible for majestic Northern California. The land we cover is a patchwork sprawl of asphalt and forest, garlic and strawberries, oranges and avocados, cattle and sheep raised sustainably and otherwise, bears guttering in their occult tongue, sweet jasmine brandishing her shameless perfume, and sixteen million busy humans.

Through wildfires, drought, floods, extreme heat, even earthquakes, Grandmother is pleading directly with humans. Some hear her message. Take Makah Andrews, professor of International Environmental Policy at Monterey University. Makah’s one of the good ones, trying to use the system to turn itself around. That’s the aim of “Team Grandmother”—a successful turnaround.

What’s that I hear? Ah, please allow me to introduce my most trusted teammate, Ursula, a beautiful California Black Bear who lives around here. Ursula, tell the folks what we’ve been hearing from other nonhuman parts of the natural world, from other planimals, as we call ourselves. Our fellow creatures are getting nervous. Some are angry. That’s why we’re organizing a Congress. …

About the Author

Bruce McConnell is an agile and accomplished shapeshifter, having flourished as a poet, roofer, artist-blacksmith, mechanical engineer, tenor, business consultant, national security official, non-profit executive, and peacemaker. A collection of his poems, Living from Here, was published by Anvil Press (US). He recently moved to Ashland Oregon to feel closer to his relatives in the natural world. Crows Calling is his first novel. He is working on a second novel set in Southern Oregon.

A leading player on global peace and security issues at the intersection of governments, business and civil society for over thirty years, McConnell is the former President and CEO of the EastWest Institute. He serves on the board of The Stimson Center, in support of peace, security, justice, and prosperity for all living beings.

From 2009 to 2013, McConnell served in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, where he was Deputy Under Secretary for Cybersecurity. He was a member of the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition Team. From 2000-2008, he created, built and sold two consultancies that provided strategic advice to clients in the technology, business and government sectors. In 1999-2000, McConnell led the International Y2K Cooperation Center, which was sponsored by the United Nations and the World Bank.

McConnell holds a Master of Public Administration from the Evans School for Public Policy at the University of Washington and a Bachelor of Sciences from Stanford University. He serves as a business advisor to various technology companies.

Contact Links

Website

Facebook

Goodreads

Instagram

LinkedIn

Purchase Links

https://mybook.to/CrowsCalling

Amazon

Barnes and Noble

Bookshop

Teaser: Horsfall

Gay Paranormal Romance

Date Published: August 21, 2026

What started out as a regular job assignment quickly escalated into something more for Oliver Philip when he meets twin Shire horse shapeshifters Bayard and Marshall Stoddard.

 

Hired to perform a safety audit on Horsfall Ranch, Oliver never expected his life to be turned upside down, but he’s game for anything. Happily throwing himself into a relationship with both Bayard and Marshall, Oliver quickly discovers a world of intense pleasure, laughter and comfort.

Unfortunately, storm clouds are gathering on the horizon and Oliver must find the strength to fight for the two men he can’t live without.

 

EXCERPT

 

Excerpt from Tail of Two Brothers

Oliver Philip inhaled deeply, turning his head from side to side to capture as much of the scenery as he could. He couldn't imagine living out here. It was so crisp, so clean. And it was only about twenty minutes outside the city limits too. Hell, it took him longer than that to drive from one end of the city to the other.

He slowed his car, counting the kilometers as they clicked by. "Ten point five, ten point six, ten point seven, and there's the turn off. Exactly where he said it'd be."

Turning into the narrow paved lane, he left the gravel road behind. His client had given him exact directions to the ranch, directions Oliver had needed. It was a little too easy to get lost on the township roads out here. It didn't help that the damn signs were so small. He was used to driving out in the country, but still, this wasn't like trying to find some gas plant. It was kinda hard to miss those.

Horsfall Ranch might be close to the city, but it wasn't exactly easy to get to. Thick brush lined the lane he was practically crawling down, set at the base of tall trees that were obscuring his view to either side. At least the lane was in excellent condition, although he couldn't see anything in front of him but more trees.

He drove around a curve in the road, and suddenly the whole thing opened up. He had to stop the car just to take it all in.

Horsfall sat smack dab in front of him, down a slight incline. The rolling foothills were a picturesque backdrop, with the Rocky Mountains as a steady line marching across the back end in the distance. He could make out the white tops on the mountains; there were only a few wisps of cloud breaking up the blue sky. Great day to be out of the office.

"Damn, I love my job."

Pressing his foot down on the gas pedal, Oliver pulled up to the black wrought iron gate barring his path. Pressing the intercom beside his window, he waited, nervously tapping his fingers on the wheel.

"Hello?" a male voice responded.

"Hi. This is Oliver Philip. I'm here to meet with Bayard Stoddard."

"Sure thing. He's down at the main complex. I'll let him know you're here. Just keep on the road, and you can't miss him."

"Thanks."

The gate opened up slowly, and he made his way through. A small farmhouse sat to the left of the gate, with a big black dog lying on the front porch. He sleepily raised his head, watching Oliver drive past. Oliver chuckled, seriously tempted to stop the car and get out. He absolutely loved animals.

A second house sat back further from the road, a little bigger than the first. He wondered how many people actually lived here. Truth be told, he didn't know much about ranching life. He'd done a bit of research on the company before coming down here, like he always did before accepting a new job, but a website didn't give you much information about the day-to-day workings of a place. Besides, the Horsfall website talked more about their horses than anything else, and most of that information had gone right over his head.

Speaking of which, who knew there would be so many buildings? A large rectangular building stood in front of him, with several smaller ones set around. An empty paddock sat to the right, and he could make out an open barn with machinery just behind the main building. Several gas tanks stood beside the open barn. At least he knew what those were. He felt a little out of his element coming here.

A man stepped out of the large building in front of him. Spying the trucks parked to the right, Oliver pulled his little blue car between two dusty pickups. He opened the door, grabbing his briefcase from the passenger seat. The man had come around to meet him and was now standing at Oliver's back bumper.

Jesus, he'd like to have this man do more than just stand at his back bumper. He was tall, towering over Oliver by at least half a foot. Tanned and devastatingly handsome. Oliver just about swallowed his tongue looking at him. This was what Oliver fantasized about late at night when he was all alone. Fuck, the man was fulfilling almost every one of his dreams physically.

He had a black cowboy hat slanted low on his forehead, and his muscular frame was encased in dusty blue jeans and a worn blue plaid shirt. For a minute Oliver was certain the big man was going to pop the seams on that shirt. It strained across a colossal chest that just begged to be explored.

The cowboy held out one tanned hand. "Mr. Philip, I'm Bayard Stoddard. We spoke on the phone. Thanks for coming out here."

 

About the Author

Jade's writing is as eclectic as her reading tastes. She's also been known to accept writing challenges from friends and family just to see their reactions. She's a firm believer that love and romance are universal concepts, no matter a person's gender identity or sexual orientation.

 

Author’s Website

 

Publisher on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok: @changelingpress

 

Pre-Order Today