Sunday, June 26, 2011

Becoming NADIA by Cyrus Keith



“What’s one more little white lie?”

There's only one thing that pretty, popular TV reporter Nadia Velasquez is missing: her memory from before the explosion that killed everyone else in the room, including the President of Nigeria. But from the moment she meets FBI agent Jon Daniels, all hell breaks loose. Friends turn into deadly enemies overnight, and no one can be truly trusted.

When Jon and Nadia investigate further, they discover the living terror that is the truth behind Nadia's existence, a truth that could mean the death of millions.



The first cover I ever saw at MuseItUp Publishing was the one for Becoming NADIA, and it took my breath away.  I looked at the cover and KNEW I had to read this book.  That was late last year.  The book was released in April and I bought it as soon as it came out.  At the time, I was busy tweaking my own self-published tome, and Becoming NADIA was such a page turner, I had to force myself to put it down in order to release and promote my own book.

Becoming NADIA was well worth the wait and lived up to every one of the expectations our beloved Cover Goddess, Delilah K. Stephans excited in me with her chilling, masterpiece cover art.  The book grips you from the first sentence and takes you on an edge-of-your seat ride that will stay with you long after you read the last page.  I will probably go back and reread Becoming NADIA when I am not so busy just to savor the suspense.  It is an action story filled with emotion and sci-fi speculation that will leave you asking what if?  If you find the cover art chilling—you should.  You definitely should.

Price: $5.95

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Sunday, June 19, 2011

Stranger on the Shore by Roseanne Dowell


Author, Jordan Blake lives in a house along Lake Erie. She’s a recluse and likes it that way. No interruptions while she’s writing. At least not until that day in October when an early lake storm brews up. Not that she minds snowstorms. Far from it. She loves them. While she’s on her deck securing chair cushions and chairs, something along the rocky shoreline catches her eye. A body? Hard to tell from where she stood. Not being one to ignore someone in need, she rushes across the yard. It’s a body all right–a male’s body. Thank God he was alive, but unfortunately unconscious. After much pulling, rolling and pushing, Jordan manages to get him to her house and finally inside.
Both of them are soaked down to their skin. Jordan can’t leave him in his wet clothes, so sets about removing them. The stranger sparks something in her she thought was long dead. Trying to ignore her feelings, she dresses him in an old bathrobe from her ex-husband. Unfortunately when he comes to, the attraction grows. Jordan tries to ignore what she feels toward the stranger, but his kisses awaken something in her. Something she’d rather wasn’t aroused. To make matters worse, the stranger doesn’t have any idea who he is. For all she knows he might be a mass murderer.


At twenty-seven pages, this is a fast paced, fully-fleshed-out short read.  Ms. Dowell establishes Jordan’s preference for a solitary existence, and then brings in a sexy, amnesiac stranger to awaken the feelings she’s been repressing her ex-husband dumped her and shattered her heart.  We fully sympathize with her reasons not to trust this man, despite his sexy looks and engaging ways–and hot kisses by the fireplace. Now why did she let that happen?  Well, she couldn’t stay locked in her office for the duration of the storm.  Not when it lasted a couple of days and definitely not when the lights went out and the fireplace was in the other room—where he was.

I highly recommend this short, sweet romance.  It’s every woman’s fantasy.




Sunday, June 12, 2011

Written in Stone by Viviane Brentanos


Dumped five days before her wedding, Cassandra Hall decides not to waste the honeymoon.  She sets off to London. What was supposed to be her dream week turns into a nightmare time of introspect, self-doubt. Then she meets James, literally falling at his feet in an attempt to save his Afghan hound from colliding head on with the traffic.

James is witty, charming, too good-looking and also--not available. Despite this, Cassie is captivated by him. What follows is a week of fun, companionship and a bonding that Cassie has never experienced.

James, sensing Cassie’s unhappiness, goes out of his way to make up for her jerk of a fiancé’s rejection.  He is drawn to her vulnerability—something he finds disturbing, threatening to shatter all he thought he knew about himself.  Cassie, he senses, is falling in love with him. He ought to back away but cannot. Cassie bravely makes her true feelings known and when he rejects her, he knows he has broken her heart. He is left confused, guilty because....James has a secret.


While our jilted bride is more relieved than upset when the stiff, soul-less man her mother foisted upon her dumps her at the altar, Ms. Brentanos nonetheless fills this book with emotion.  Although she tells herself this is just fun with a friend, Cassie’s romp with James through London turns into much more for her, despite the fact that he is very upfront about his commitment to the absent Alex.  Cassie tries to suppress her growing feelings for him and the jealousy she feels toward Alex, who holds James’ heart, but one cannot control one’s feelings—only how one acts on them.  And Cassie is beyond embarrassed when she tries to act on her feelings but James rebuffs her.

I highly recommend you have tissue nearby when you read this book.  You will want to follow Cassie on her journey of healing, devastation, and well…

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Sunday, June 5, 2011

The Pendulum Swings by L. J. Holmes



When you wake up in a strange room, that's bad, but when you wake up in a strange body, time, and everyone hates you, that's REALLY bad...and terrifying.

What do you do when your last memory is being skewered to death and your next is waking up in the body of another, thousands of years in the future?

You set out to be yourself and win over these future beings of course, because for some reason, the gods of your time have decided this is where you are supposed to live out the rest of your life.

This delightful read is available at MuseItHot.  Maybe that’s because it has some violent scenes and a truly horrifying situation at the end.  Not being terribly fond of erotica, I tend to shy away from the hot side of any publishing house, but there is no graphic sex in this book.  As for the belly dancing, even the toddler learns how to do it.  Siri is basically a kind and happy soul born in Egypt during the Roman occupation who was in love with Petronius, the Roman legate who claimed her as his slave.  She dies and awakens in the body of a woman who clearly was neither kind nor happy before driving into the tree that put her into a coma.

Siri’s natural sunshine and warmth win over everyone in the household except the man who asked his wife for a divorce and stormed from the house the night she downed several scotches, tried to follow him, and drove her car into a tree.  He refuses to believe any of the changes in her personality are real when she awakens from her coma.  Siri is distressed, but she is still in love with Petronius.  After all, to her, Egypt feels like yesterday.

I highly recommend this wonderful novella.  It's available at MuseItHot