Review: When We Were Amazing

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Title: 

When We Were Amazing

Author: 

Christine London

Release Date:

November 11, 2011

Publisher:

MuseItUp Publishing

Word Count:

approx. 80,000

Purchase Links:  

MuseItUp Publishing

Author's Website:

http://www.christinelondon.com/

Description:  

Aussie wine heir Bryan Lassiter wanted nothing more than to be a self made man. When online love Carrie Sorrell flies half way round the globe to visit him, she’d no idea his magnetism would erase both their fourteen-year age difference and her common sense. As fate and a powerful family collide to tear them apart, will she have the strength to let him go or will it be the secret she’s so carefully protected that destroys?

Joey’s Review:

Review: The Best Bad Date

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Title: 

The Best Bad Date

Author: 

Addison James

Release Date:

December 16, 2011

Publisher:

MuseItUp Publishing

Word Count:

approx. 7,000

Purchase Links:  

MuseItUp Publishing

Author's Website:

http://addisonjwriter.com/

Description:  

Susan Wells finds out when a bachelor auction leads to a date with handsome Doctor Roger Lane, and a night to remember. What could go wrong? Everything. Will love find a way through this comedy of errors? Absolutely.

Joey’s Review:

Review: Joy's Revelation

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Title: 

Joy's Revelation

Author: 

Ginger Simpson

Release Date:

September 16, 2011

Publisher:

MuseItUp Publishing

Word Count:

approx. 7,000

Purchase Links:  

MuseItUp Publishing

Author's Website:

www.gingersimpson.com/

Description:  

Joy Garrett is preparing to marry the man of her dreams and needs her birth certificate in order to get a passport for her honeymoon.  For some reason her mother wants to avoid the issue and urges her to enjoy the good ol' USA.  While pilfering in her mother's things in the attic, Joy comes across a birth certificate, and although the date, hospital and doctor are a match with her, the paper certifies someone else's birth... What secret is her mother keeping?

Joey’s Review:

Review: Painted Jezebel

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Title:
Painted Jezebel 

Author:
Jolie Pethtel 
Release Date:
September 30, 2011 
Publisher:
MuseItUp Publishing 
Word Count:
approx. 65,000 
Purchase Links:
MuseItUp Publishing 
Author's Website:
http://websd-jezebeljinxcom.webs.com/

Description:  

Publicist Finn Mackenzie has always been lucky, until an ill-fated affair with a vindictive writer leaves him one chance for redemption: a spectacular public appearance by the elusive best-selling romance author, Jezebel Jinx.

Unfortunately, the cute but kooky writer refuses to cooperate. Jezebel believes she’s cursed with bad luck. Riddled with anxieties, she never leaves her home— until the gorgeous, albeit desperate Finn whisks her away to a writer’s conference, against her will.

After the initial shock wears off, Jezebel’s dormant hormones kick into high gear around the hunky Finn.

When his ex turns up murdered and Jezebel is the prime suspect, ill-planned sexcapades are the least of their worries.

Laura’s Review:

Review: Stand and Deliver Your Heart

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Title: 

Stand and Deliver

Author: 

Killarny Sheffield

Release Date:

September 16, 2011

Publisher:

MuseItUp Publishing

Word Count:

approx 61,000

Purchase Links:  

Muse It Up Publishing

Author's Website:

http://romanceauthorkillarneysheffield.yolasite.com/about-us.php#/

Description:  

Mistress Sarah was once a woman of promise, until a greedy relative left her to fend for herself on the cold, hard streets of London.  Now, she does the only thing she can to survive and care for those she has sworn to protect.

 

Lord Byron Cobbett has given up on life after the death of his beloved fiancée.  On a trip to London to clear his family’s name he is involved in a carriage accident.

 

Sarah gets more than she bargains for when she unwittingly rescues Byron.  She must find a way to convince him to keep her secret.  Can she allow herself to love him and still keep her promise?  Will Byron stand and deliver his heart to the auburn-haired bandit and risk his own freedom?

Laura’s Review:

Review: A Trace of Love

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Title: 

A Trace of Love

Author: 

Danielle Ravencraft

Release Date:

August 19, 2011

Publisher:

MuseItUp Publishing

Word Count:

approx. 5,000

Purchase Links:  

MuseItUp Publishing  

Amazon

Smashwords

Author's Website:

http://ravencraftromance.com/

Description:  

Ophelia Martinez has a chance encounter with internationally famous rock-star, Trace Curtis. To Ophelia, Trace will always be the charming boy she met in high school. They share one night together in which Trace falls in love with Ophelia. But Ophelia knows she can’t continue to live in the past, at least not with the secret that haunts her present. 

Joey's Review:

Review: Cold, Cold Heart

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Title: 

Cold, Cold Heart

Author: 

Viviane Brentanos

Release Date:

June 2011

Publisher:

MuseItUp Publishing

Word Count:

approx. 89,000

Purchase Links:  

MuseItUp Publishing

Author's Website:

http://viviane-brentanos.blogspot.com

Description:  

A world-famous rock star, a struggling single mum afraid to love. Will this explosive mix bring happiness or disaster?

Daniel Haynes has the world at his feet- fame, fortune, so why does he feel so empty inside? What is his interest in Rachel Warner, a girl from a quiet Home Counties English town? Why does she hold the key to his happiness? 

But Rachel Warner is scared. Daniel's interest in her threatens her ordered yet unsatisfying life because she has to live with the shadow of her ex-father-in-law breathing over her shoulder. Can she let go of her fears?

Brandi’s Review:

Review: In From The Cold

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Title: 

In From The Cold

Author: 

L.J. Holmes

Release Date:

June 10, 2011

Publisher:

MuseItUp Publishing

Word Count:

approx. 26,000

Purchase Links:  

MuseItUp Publishing

Author's Website:

http://linsownfirebrand.blogspot.com/

Description:  

Mari loves men who are intimately communicating with the Grim Reaper, like her only mountain neighbor, ninety-plus year old Hector. Twelve years and now she's enjoying her solitude, till Hector ups and dies.

He leaves everything to her, with one stipulation...she must sell his cabin to collect her inheritance.

Determined to keep her world testosterone free she commands her real estate agent to not even show the curmudgeon's cabin to anyone under the age of sixty-five.

Mari must leave for her son's wedding in the mid west for one month. Necessity requires she sign temporary power of attorney for a possible quick sale over to her real estate agent. A bad, but necessary move.

He's moving in and he's her son's age with rippling muscles, and far too much testosterone. All summer, Mari hunkers inside and drools.

Determined to make this stop, she sees only one solution...jump his bones, do the deed and get the annoying SOB out of her system once and for all.

Like most well designed plans, something always happens to blow them to smithereens, and now, three agonizing days later, a huge blizzard is about to hit the mountain, isolating the two cabins from the outside world...Oh Dear!

Babs' Review:

Review: Trencarrow Secret

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Title: 

Trencarrow Secret

Author: 

Anita Davison

Release Date:

June 2011

Publisher:

MuseItUp Publishing

Word Count:

approx. 94,000

Purchase Links:  

MuseItUp Publishing

Author's Website:

http://thedisorganisedauthor.blogspot.com/

Description:  

Isabel Hart is afraid of two things, the maze at Trencarrow where she got lost as a young child, and the lake where her brother David saved her from drowning in a boating accident.

With her twenty-first birthday and the announcement of her engagement imminent, Isabel decides it is time for her to face her demons and ventures into the maze. There she sees something which will alter her perceptions of herself and her family forever.

Isabel’s widowed aunt joins the house party, where her cousin confides she is in love with an enigmatic young man who surely cannot be what he pretends, for he is surely too dashing for homely Laura?

When Henry, Viscount Strachan and his mother arrives, ostensibly to use her ball as an arena for finding a wife, Isabel is determined not to like him.

As more secrets are revealed, Isabel doubts she has chosen the right man, although her future fiancé has more vested in this marriage than Isabel realizes and has no intention of letting her go easily.

Will Isabel be able to put her preconceptions of marriage behind her and take charge of her own life, or is she destined to be controlled by others forever?

Laura's Review:

Review: Kellan's Dragons

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Title: 

Kellan's Dragons: Dragon Wars Book I

Author: 

Antonia Tiranth

Release Date:

January 1, 2011

Publisher:

MuseItUp Publishing

Word Count:

approx. 25,000

Purchase Links:  

MuseItUp Publishing

Author's Website:

http://www.antoniatiranth.com/

  

Description:  

Kellan Teague, an orphan, is whisked away from the boarding school for psions by Dr. Olivia Hutchins to take part in a military organization called The Program. She awakes to find that she has been Linked, psychically bonded to a dragon named Jericho. Jericho doesn't seem very happy to be Linked and does everything he can to push Kellan away. One of the few people to show her kindness is a guard known to her only as Drake. Kellan soon finds out that both Jericho and Drake have secrets, secrets that hold the key to her past.

Laura’s Review:

Review: Murder Is A Family Business

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Title: 

Murder Is A Family Business

Author: 

Heather Haven

Release Date:

January 1, 2011

Publisher:

MuseItUp Publishing

Word Count:

approx. 76,000

Purchase Links:  

MuseItUp Publishing

Author's Website:

http://www.heatherhavenstories.com/

Description:  

Just because a man cheats on his wife and makes Danny DeVito look tall, dark and handsome, is that any reason to kill him? The reluctant and quirky PI, Lee Alvarez doesn't think so. But the 34-year old ½ Latina, ½ WASP and 100% detective has her work cut out for her when the man is murdered on her watch.  Of all the nerve. Set in the present, Murder is a Family Business is the first in a series of humorous mysteries revolving around Lee Alvarez, a combination of Sue Grafton’s Kinsey Millhone and Janet Evanovitch’ Stephanie Plum, and rest of the Alvarez Family, detectives all. Seemingly light and frothy on the surface, the novel nevertheless explores familial love, the good, the bad and the annoying.

Completing the family is Lee’s Never-Had-A-Bad-Hair-Day aristocratic mother, Lila; computer genius brother, Richard; beloved uncle “Tio;” and her energetic orange and white cat, Tugger. When this group is not solving murders, they run Discretionary Inquiries, a successful Silicon Valley agency that normally deals with the theft of computer software. The love, humor and camaraderie shared within this family are what set this series apart from others.

Laura’s Review:

Review: Resurrection Garden

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Title: 

Resurrection Garden: Book One in the Decade Mystery Series

Author: 

Frank Scully

Release Date:

January 1, 2011

Publisher:

MuseItUp Publishing

Word Count:

approx. 95,000

Purchase Links:  

MuseItUp Publishing

Author's Website:

http://www.frankjscully.com

Description:  

Jake Turner, a scarred veteran of the charge up San Juan Hill, has been a lone drifter through much of the settling of the west.  Opportunity was growing out of the newly turned sod of the North Dakota prairie in 1904 when he stopped to take a part time job as a Deputy Sheriff, expecting to move on again when the dark parts of his past catch up to him.

An investigation into a murder of a man hated by everyone has threads that lead to his best friend, Isaac.  Jake is ambushed and almost killed, but is nursed back to health by Isaac.  While Jake follows the clues into a labyrinth of hatred, sordid crimes and missing money he becomes attached to an eight year old orphaned boy named Andy and falls in love with Isaac’s sister, Alice.   After being alone for so long with no hope or care for what tomorrow might bring, Jake finds it difficult to accept these new emotional attachments.

Jake believes in Justice, but before he had only his own life on the line.   When Andy is kidnapped and almost killed, Jake knows the killers will do anything to stop him.   In order to protect Alice and Andy, he must break their hearts and leave them and North Dakota behind.

Jake knows he’ll be back.  So do the killers.  Trap and counter trap are laid.  Jake knows there will be graves.  He just doesn’t know who will be in them.

Brandi's Review:

Review: A Wing and A Prayer

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Title: 

A Wing and A Prayer

Author: 

Ginger Simpson

Release Date:

January 2011

Publisher:

MuseItUp Publishing

Word Count:

approx. 4,000

Purchase Links:

MuseItUp Publishing  

Author's Website:

http://www.gingersimpson.com/

Description:  

First impressions aren’t always what they seem. Just ask Callie Corwin.

On a 747, Callie Corwin buckles up for her first day as a flight attendant. The full jet carries two passengers who stand out from the others, but for totally different reasons. The handsome cowboy promises to be a pleasant distraction from her performance anxiety, but the dark-skinned gentleman a few rows back sends her up her hackles. She’s been trained on how to recognize a terrorist, and he fits the very description. Will she see jolly old England or the bottom of the sea?

Deniz's Review: