Virtual Tour: Broken Play By Samantha Kane

Perfect for fans of Shayla Black and Lexi Blake, the deeply sensual new Birmingham Rebels series introduces an unforgettable team of chiseled football gods—and the daring, provocative games they play behind closed doors.

Birmingham Rebels offensive linemen Beau Perez and Cass Zielinski are inseparable, on and off the field. Cass, the captain with the cowboy swagger, is a loose cannon. Beau, the veteran tight end, is cool under pressure. And ever since they were caught on tape in a steamy threesome, their exploits have fueled more than a few tabloid headlines—and naughty fantasies.

Marian Treadwell knows all about the video. And now that she’s the Rebels’ new assistant offensive coach, she can’t look at Beau and Cass without picturing their hard, naked bodies—with her pressed in between. Marian would like nothing more than to indulge those impulses, but she knows better than to get too close to her players, a bunch of adrenaline-fueled alpha males who don’t always follow the rules.

Just the thought of sharing the gorgeous yet guarded Marian drives Cass wild. At first, Beau isn’t sure she’s right for them . . . and lately, all he desires is a little alone time with Cass to explore their new intimacy. But it’s only a matter of time before Cass breaks through both of their defenses. Because when seduction is the game plan, he always plays to win.

Broken Play is intended for mature audiences.

I have had a weird streak of really good arc’s and then I will have a ton that I either do not finish or rate extremely low.  I have sadly been on the bad and do not finish streak as of late.  So going into Broken Play I will admit I honestly kind of thought this will be another one to add to the bad streak, but I couldn’t have been more wrong!  It was extremely hot and I really enjoyed it.  Hello it’s about football players, a ménage and possibly some m/m action.  Of course I loved it, it had three of my favorite things! 

Broken Play will have you changing your panties more than once.  I am serious here people, these scenes and the buildup are some that will have you all hot and bothered.  The connection that Cass, Beau and Marian have is electrifying.  This isn’t just about a ménage, so let me get that perfectly clear right now.  It is also about friendship, trust, healing and opening your mind to new scenarios.  I enjoyed the introduction of the other characters as well, they played a large part in the book and I am curious to see what the author has planned for them.  I hope the next book comes out soon because I really do want to read more about these bad boys of football.

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Release Blitz: The End Game By Kate McCarthy

“Professional athletes are pillars of their respective communities. They are heroes in the eyes of boys and girls and are expected to conduct themselves in a manner that positively represents their community.”

The public loves a good scandal. Seeing someone fall from the pinnacle of success makes a great headline. No one knows that better than I do. What started out as a promising career in college football, spiraled into scandal and shame.

But being a hero is easier said then done. Especially when there are those who expected to see the great Brody Madden fail. I craved nothing except being the best—willing to do anything to prove them wrong. But I went too far, and I tried too hard, and it broke me.

“At the time of going to print, Jordan Elliott was unavailable for comment.”

I met Brody Madden in my senior year of college. An Australian native on an international scholarship, I was the female soccer sensation with stars in her eyes and no room for a hotshot wide receiver with a chip on his shoulder.

But a heart bursting with ambition and a driving fire to succeed isn’t made of stone. I became his strength, his obsession, and the greatest love of his life. Only I wasn’t there when he needed me most.

This is a story about love and a game that takes everything. Where the path to glory is paved with sacrifice. Where pressure makes you, or breaks you, and triumph is born in the ashes of failure. Where two people’s end game will change everything.

I am a huge sports fan, obviously this is extremely apparent if you not only have read my reviews but glanced at my Goodreads “read” list.  I will admit hockey and football are not only my two favorite real life sports, but some of my favorites to read about as well.  Now the book has to be good, just because it is sports themed does not a good book make.  I have had to become more picky and more skeptical when I see it’s a sport themed book and an author I am not familiar with.  But Janna isn’t the best part finding new authors and new series to read you may ask?  Yes it is, but when you are a sports fan you know certain things about the sport portrayed, you have this standard that must be met because you know the sport.  Now The End Game has football, but it also has a sport that I am really not familiar with, that sport being soccer.  So I was intrigued and a little curious how two people from two totally different sports would come together.

It worked!  The End Game was a really good book, one that I would read over again.  There was angst, drama, love, sports, and all the pains that love can have when your relationship is a long distant one. I wanted the relationship between Jordan and Brody to work out, at one time I was praying that it would.  Relationships are hard, long distance ones are harder and the couples who don’t just give up are the ones who I always want to make it.  Now was everything perfect between them?  No it wasn’t but no relationship is perfect.

I think if I had a complaint, it was that the book was a little long.  There could have been some things possibly cut out and the book still would have worked well for me.  This is an author that I need to keep my eye on, I have a feeling I may have found a new one to add to my must read list.

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Shutting the door, I walk up the slight incline behind Brody. He sits down at the top of the crest and pats the grassy spot beside him.

“You didn’t mention this part when you explained our date.”

“I can’t give away all my secrets now, can I?”

The grass is a thick blanket on the ground and when I stretch out flat, the rich, earthy scent of soil sweeps over me. My eyes lift to the sky and that’s when I get it. It’s perfectly clear and millions of stars are scattered diamonds twinkling above us—bright and magical.

“Besides,” Brody adds as he lies down beside me and sweeps out his arm, encompassing all of it. “How do you explain that?”

He’s right. You can’t. “It’s beautiful.”

“Is this what the stars are like for you back home?”

“No. Back home it’s different.”

“Different how?”

Homesickness swamps me. As beautiful as Texas is, it’s not Australia. Somehow the stars are always brighter where you belong. “Because there’s no place like home.”

“You’re wrong.”

I turn my head and stare at Brody. He’s not looking at me. His head is tilted toward the sky, eyes riveted on the beauty above him. My gaze follows the line of his profile. From the curl of his hair to the perfect line of his nose, down to the mouth I want kissing me right this very instant.

“Home’s not a place where you live. It’s a feeling.” His hand nudges my own. An invitation. I twine my fingers with his and he squeezes them lightly. “Whether it’s where you are, like the football field, or who you’re with.” Brody turns his head, looking at me when he says that. It’s comforting because it unites us somehow, like it’s slowly becoming us against the world. “You can be anywhere, Jordan. Home will follow you if you follow your heart.”

My breath hitches from the beautiful simplicity of his words. Before I can talk myself out of it, I roll over and straddle him. My knees hug his hips, and he stares up at me from my seated position. My pulse pounds a heavy beat in the silence. Thump, thump, thump. It’s so loud in my ears I’m sure he can hear it.

“Show me,” I breathe. A gleam lights his dark eyes, and he sucks his lower lip inside his mouth. He knows what I’m asking, but I spell it out anyway. “Show me one of those wicked things.”

In a move that steals the air from my lungs, he takes both my hands and pulls me down against the broad width of his chest. I’m rolled over and underneath him before I can blink. The squirm in my hips is instinctive, the ache between my thighs relentless.

“Careful what you ask for,” Brody says roughly, every exquisite inch of his body pressing down on mine.

“Why?”

His lips curve. “Because when I give it to you, it won’t be enough.”

My fingers trail down the side of his face, grazing the firm jaw, cupping his cheek in my palm. Foreboding swamps me. I’m falling hard into uncharted territory, and all I see is a broken mess at the end. How is this going to end well for either of us?

“You’re an arrogant man, Brody Madden,” I whisper.

He brings his face to mine, so close I see the brilliant gold in his eyes, like flecks of light in the dark. “And you, Jordan Elliott, will be the woman who brings me to my knees,” he whispers against my lips.

“Show me,” I beg on a shaky breath.

Brody’s lashes lower and he presses a kiss to the corner of my mouth. I tilt my chin upwards, inviting more. Rather than take my lips like I ache for him to do, he shifts sideways and begins nipping at my jaw. His breath is a rasp when he reaches my earlobe, taking it between his teeth. A sharp pinch from his bite forces a whimper from my throat.

“More?” he asks, drawing back to look at me.

“Is that even a real question?”

Brody chuckles as I slide my hand up and around his nape, dragging his mouth down to mine. He groans and kisses me gently, once, and then twice.

“Brody,” I whisper, and he kisses me again, forcing my mouth open hard like he can’t hold himself in check anymore. My hair is loose and he fists chunks of it in both hands while his tongue rubs against mine, hot and aggressive. It’s almost too much, and when I jerk away I’m left gasping.

Brody doesn’t pause. He ducks his head to my neck, his tongue tasting its way down. He finds my pulse point and sucks. It’s fierce and my back arches involuntarily. His mouth shifts further down, moving on before he leaves a mark.

Sitting up, he takes the neckline of my dress in both hands. Five dainty buttons hold it together. A single wrench will rip the flimsy fabric in two. He pauses and looks at me, inhaling raggedly. “Jordan … I don’t want to ruin it.”

My brow furrows. I glance to the hands poised on my dress. They’re tense, veins straining under his skin. My head is lost in a fog when my gaze returns to his face. “Ruin my dress?”

Brody groans, a deep sound of regret and frustration. “Us.”

“You don’t want to ruin us?”

He draws his hands away from the neckline of my dress. “No.”

“How would you do that?”

“I don’t know. I just get this feeling I’m going to.” He shifts away, moving off me and rolling to his back. I turn my head. Brody’s gaze is back on the stars. I watch his throat work as he swallows, the pulse in his neck pounding visibly. “All I’ve ever wanted is to be the best. Whatever it takes. I’ll do anything. That’s how I’ll ruin us, Jordan. How can something so sweet survive a sentiment so dark?”

I roll to my side, holding my head in my hand. Cupping his face with the other, I nudge gently until he’s looking at me. “I won’t let you.”

Brody’s voice is urgent, his eyes fierce. “Promise me.”

I can’t shake the apprehension. It’s set in my bones and when I speak it feels like a lie. “I promise.”

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Kate McCarthy is an Australian, living in the pretty sunshine state of Queensland with her two kids and two dogs, Rufus and Pete.

She loves to bake sweet stuff and eat it too. With an exciting degree in business, she works as an accountant by day, and an author by night. In between family life, she is most often found in bed reading, or at the beach, still reading.

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Review Tour: Red Zone By Sherri Hayes

After a case ended badly for Rebecca Carson, she’s losing her mind sitting around her apartment waiting on her superiors to allow her to return to work. Since she was a teenager, the only thing she’d ever wanted was to join the FBI. Now that dream was in danger. 

Gage Daniels has made a pretty good life for himself. A nice house. A career he loves. As a professional football player, he’s used to getting almost everything he’d ever want with just the snap of his fingers. This includes women. A well-timed smile is usually all it takes to attract the opposite sex, especially in Nashville. 

When a stalker threatens Gage, the team owner calls an old friend, Rebecca’s ex-partner Travis Hansen, to help protect his star quarterback and find the person responsible. Hansen offers Rebecca the job, and she jumps at the chance. It’s work, and it will get her out of her apartment. How bad can it be?

Posing as Gage’s girlfriend, however, isn’t as easy as it seems. The man is relentless. Rebecca must work to protect Gage while staving off his advances. She’s there to do a job, nothing more. The last thing she wants is to be another notch on a hotshot athlete’s belt.

As the stalker continues to up the ante, Rebecca finds it harder and harder to keep her distance from Nashville’s star quarterback. He isn’t what she expected in one of the city’s most notorious playboys. Now all she has to do is keep him safe until they can find his stalker, and hope she doesn’t lose her heart in the process.

Red Zone takes the whole stalker and protector angle to a different level, one that I really enjoyed.  Normally it is the men protecting the women from psycho fans, stalkers, abusive exs and such but this time it is the woman who protects the man.  Now don’t start thinking that this guy is weak or anything like that.  That is so not the case, he has a stalker.

Did I mention that he is a quarterback and she is playing the role of his girlfriend?  No?  Oops sorry, actually I ‘m not sorry because I want you to go get this book and read these details for yourself.  Yeah I know kind of makes writing a review sort of not necessary if I tell you each and every detail so that’s why I am not telling everything, just enough to make you intrigued, curious and interested in picking up the book and finding out for yourself why I enjoyed this one as much as I did.  This is the third book I have read from this author and once again I found myself hooked and not wanting it to end.  I think you all will enjoy this one as well, so add it to your TBR piles and find out for yourself all those details I didn’t give.

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Review: #Selfie By Cambria Hebert

It’s all about the #Selfie.

She was the one girl I never wanted.

Until I had her.

One night.

One mistake.

Something we both wanted to forget.

I got rid of the proof. The one piece of evidence that could remind us both.

At least, I thought I did.

When it shows up on the school Buzzfeed, rumors fly. Friendships are tested and the feels get real.

I don’t do relationships. I don’t open my heart.

Especially for a girl everyone knows I hate.

What happens during spring break, stays in spring break.

Until it follows you home.

If you have read this series from the start, then you know that Braeden and Ivy are like oil and water, cats and dogs, in other words these two don’t mix.  There is a very fine line between love and hate and that line can sometimes become invisible when the chemistry between two people is so explosive that you can’t wait to see what sparks will fly when they ignite. 

Braeden is a no strings attached, doesn’t do relationships, only having a good time type of guy.  He isn’t an ass about it, he is straight forward.  He doesn’t do the feels.  He is a great friend to not only Romeo but is more like a big brother to Rimmel, so when he lets someone in, the women he sleeps with as an exception, then you are there for life with him.  There is a reason why he doesn’t want a relationship and it in a way is a very valid one, but at the same time I hated the reason why.  He thinks Ivy is a high maintenance bitch and makes it well known that he hates her, or does he?  I loved Braeden.  I love his loyalty, his sense of humor and I loved how protective he is of those he cares about.

Ivy is trying to change.  After an incident that leaves her with nightmares she is determined not to be the old good time Ivy.  Her friend got hurt because of her actions and that is something she lives with every single day.  She hates Braeden just as much as he does her, but when they are on spring break she starts to see him in a new light.  But, her other best friend had a thing for Braeden and she doesn’t want to hurt her, but sometimes  shit happens and your best intentions are thrown out the window.  Ivy actually surprised me.  She wasn’t my most favorite character in the first three books but I think deep down I knew we would find out the real Ivy as time went on and we did.  Sadly though she gets beat down emotionally and I felt so bad for her when certain truths came out.

There are some seriously shocking moments in #Selfie.  Some that I didn’t see coming up until it was revealed.  Remember #Buzzboss?  Remember all the shit #Buzzboss started in Rimmel and Romeo’s relationship?  Well it goes to a whole new level for Braeden and Ivy and you will be absolutely shocked when you find out the truth behind the hashtag.  Let’s just say that if I could give #buzzboss their own hashtag it would be #pieceofshitloserassholespinlessbitchwhoneedstobebitchedslappedwithabat.  Yeah that’s a long one isn’t it lol.

Cambria Hebert has written a series that I just can’t get enough of.  I have loved each and every book and I am already looking forward to whatever she may have for us next.  And in honor of the series and its name here are my hashtags for the #Hashtag series: #greatseries #mustread #fanforlife #lovedit  #wantmore #itsallabouttheselfiebaby 

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Blog Tour: #Player By Cambria Hebert

Players gotta play.

Hate is like a poison. It contaminates everything.

So does doubt.

Even though I deny what I overheard, even though I insist it isn’t true, the seed of doubt has been planted. I can’t help but be tormented with the endless what-if’s that have taken over our lives.

Romeo and I were happy in love. The future stretched before us brighter than any star in the darkest sky. Now everything is broken. Literally broken. Romeo’s entire career is at stake, my entire future is threatened… and my past?

It’s coming back to haunt me.

To haunt us.

Romeo says we’re in this together and right now the only sure thing is us. But how far can a love so new be pushed? The lengths we will have to go to save each other puts everything at risk.

Romeo is a #player but how much of the game can one person play?

If you haven’t read #Nerd or #Hater yet please. PLEASE, stop and read them first before reading my review because while I don’t ever intend to give spoilers away from previous books, it happens.  Just know that you need to read #Nerd and #Hater first or you will be lost.

I am sure like the rest of this blog’s readers, we all buy books and say it is going to be one of the next ones I read and yet it keeps getting pushed further and further down your TBR pile.  Unfortunately for me this happens more than I like to admit especially since it tends to happen because I am reading a book for a tour or blitz and this is what happened with #Nerd, the first book in this series.  It had been sitting on my kindle just waiting for me to open it and read about Romeo and Rimmel.  So when #Player came across to sign up for a review I finally had my excuse to read this series about a nerd and a hot football player, and let me tell you, once I started I read them all back to back to back.  I won’t go into #Nerd and #Hater because this is a review for #Player, but just know that each book has left me with a smile on my face even when I wanted to throw my kindle with the cliff hangers.

Romeo and Rimmel’s relationship has gone through so much more than anyone should have to deal with.  Secrets and actions of others have tested the strength of their love and relationship.  The one thing that stayed true and strong was Romeo wanting to protect Rimmel and Rimmel wanting Romeo to be happy.  Even when others made nasty comments and placed some doubts in Rimmel’s head, all Romeo did was love her and the same went for Romeo.  Were there some eye rolling moments?  Yes, I did roll my eyes at certain things but they didn’t take away from me being totally hooked into finishing these books.  The secondary characters were another thing I loved because they helped make the story even better.

I am so glad that I finally read this series and there is more to come even though Romeo and Rimmel’s story is finished we get to see Braeden’s story in #Selfie, and I love his smart ass just as much as I loved Romeo and Rimmel.  Cambria Hebert has cemented myself as a fan with #Player and I hope that the rest of this series will leave a smile on my face like the first three have.

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Cambria Hebert is a bestselling novelist of more than twenty books. She went to college for a bachelor’s degree, couldn’t pick a major, and ended up with a degree in cosmetology. So rest assured her characters will always have good hair. 

Besides writing, Cambria loves a caramel latte, staying up late, sleeping in, and watching movies. She considers math human torture and has an irrational fear of chickens (yes, chickens). You can often find her running on the treadmill (she’d rather be eating a donut), painting her toenails (because she bites her fingernails), or walking her chorkie (the real boss of the house). 

Cambria has written within the young adult and new adult genres, penning many paranormal and contemporary titles. Her favorite genre to read and write is romantic suspense. A few of her most recognized titles are: Text, Torch, Tryst, Masquerade, and Recalled.

Cambria Hebert owns and operates Cambria Hebert Books, LLC. Email: cambriahebert@rocketmail.com

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