Review: Improper Relations by Juliana Ross

Format read: ebook
Release Date: 23 April 2012
Publisher: Carina Press
Formats available: ebook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Audible

Blurb:

Dorset, 1858

When Hannah’s caught watching her late husband’s cousin debauch the maid in the library, she’s mortified — but also intrigued. An unpaid companion to his aunt, she’s used to being ignored.

The black sheep of the family, Leo has nothing but his good looks and noble birth to recommend him. Hannah ought to be appalled at what she’s witnessed, but there’s something about Leo that draws her to him.

When Leo claims he can prove that women can feel desire as passionately as men, Hannah is incredulous. Her own experiences have been uninspiring. Yet she can’t bring herself to refuse his audacious proposal when he offers to tutor her in the art of …

Guest post by Juliana Ross + Giveaway

Today I am very happy to welcome to Book Lovers Inc and introduce you to Juliana Ross, the author of the wonderfully spicy historical romance: Improper Relations, released by Carina Press in April. Juliana didn’t come alone, she brought as special guest the heroine of Improper Relations, so please take a seat and get to know Hannah! (and thanks to Juliana’s generosity you could even get to know Leo, the hero if you win the copy of Improper Relations offered in the giveaway) 

Recently I had the pleasure of interviewing Hannah, the heroine of Improper Relations. Don’t ask me how it was possible to reach back in time and speak directly with a woman born in 1829 – I have my ways. Let’s just leave it at that.

Juliana Ross: Thank you so much for agreeing to speak with me.

Hannah: You’re most …

Review: Invitation to Scandal by Bronwen Evans

Format Read: ebook from author
Genre: Historical Romance
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Number of Pages: 320 pages
Publisher: Kensington Brava
Formats Available: Mass market paperback, ebook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Book Depository, All Romance Ebooks

Book Blurb:

Her secrets are coming undone…

Plagued by scandalous rumors, Rheda Kerrich will stop at nothing to restore her reputation and make an honest living for herself—and she’s determined to do it without a husband. But times are hard, and smuggling is a risky though profitable trade. So when a dashing agent for the English government catches her in the act, she desperately resists his charms and conceals her illicit profession. Until she realizes he may be the key to her ultimate freedom—and unbridled passion…

Rufus Knight, Viscount Strathmore, has never had trouble beguiling the ladies of Kent. When his search for “Dark Shadow,” a cunningly elusive smuggler, …

Guest Post by Author Bronwen Evans + Giveaway

Today we are very happy to welcome Bronwen Evans here at Book Lovers Inc. Bronwen is here today to celebrate the release of her newest book, Invitation to Scandal with all of us and discuss about villains! Who doesn’t love a sexy historical romance and a discussion about hidden villains? I know I do 🙂

And as always, don’t forget to check at the end of the post how you could win your own copy of Invitation to Scandal! And also, keep in mind, that there will be a Grand Prize at the end of the Tour: a year’s subscription to RT Book Review Magazine, a $50 Amazon or B&N Voucher PLUS… a Book Basket of 30 SIGNED by the AUTHORS books!!! Quite a lot, right?

First of all, I’d like to say thank you very much to Book Lovers Inc for hosting me today. I’m thrilled to be here …

Interview Author Joely Sue Burkhart + Giveaway

We are very happy to have the wonderful Joely Sue Burkhart here at Book Lovers Inc again. Today is the release day of her newest novel, Yours To Take and Joely let us grill her about her Connagher series and its newest addition. Join the fun and ask her a question of your own for a chance to win your own copy. Please give Joely a warm welcome. 

BLI: Joely can you please tell us a bit about yourself?

By day, I’m a computer programmer for an insurance company. I’ve got three monsters (girls) ages 13, 10, and 8 and I’ve been married to That Man for 23 years. I’ve been writing since 2003 (well, I’d been writing for years before that but not seriously – that’s my writing “birthday”).

BLI: Describe a typical day of writing? Are you a planner or pantser?

Since I have an Evil Day Job, the …

New Releases: May 7 – 13, 2012

City of Lost Souls (The Mortal Instruments, #5) by Cassandra Clare

(Non-spoilery book description ^_^)

The New York Times bestselling Mortal Instruments continues—and so do the thrills and danger for Jace, Clary, and Simon.

Can the lost be reclaimed? What price is too high to pay for love? Who can be trusted when sin and salvation collide?

Love. Blood. Betrayal. Revenge. Darkness threatens to claim the Shadowhunters in the harrowing fifth book of the Mortal Instruments series.

New Releases:

Beauty (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #20.5) by Laurell K. Hamilton
Broken Illusions (Midnight Dragonfly, #2) by Ellie James (YA)
Enchanted by Alethea Kontis (YA)

Endure (Need, #4) by Carrie Jones (YA)
Hard Tail by J.L. Merrow
Hemlock (Hemlock, #1) by Kathleen Peacock (YA)

High Stakes by Chad Strong (5/11)
Hunting …

Dual review: Yours to Take by Joely Sue Burkhart

Format read: ebook provided by the author
Genre: Erotic/BDSM/Ménage/romance
Release Date: May 8th 2012
Number of pages: 177 pages
Publisher: Samhain Publishing, Ltd
Formats available: ebook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Publisher’s Website, Amazon,

Book Blurb:
All fire and gunpowder need is a stray spark…

The Connaghers, Book 3

The day one of her old clients gunned down a cop, former defense attorney Vicki Connagher lost everything—her passion for justice, and her lover, Detective Elias Reyes. The dead cop’s partner.

Even though she’s following her dream to start her own fashion line, it’s tough with heartache as her only companion. Until she brings Jesse, a wandering street artist, in from a freak Texas snowstorm. His submissive flirting brings out dominant tendencies she never knew she possessed, yet she hesitates to let him take her as far and as hard as she wants to go.

Some homeless junkie in Vicki’s house? Not on Elias’s watch. …

The Good, the Bad and the Are-You-Kidding-Me?

This week is extra special for the 2 of us. At the beginning of June Caro and I will meet for the first time. *squeee* I mean well in real. We will both attend the Love Letter Convention (June 2 -3 ) in Berlin and meet some fabulous authors. *jumps up and down* So for the next 2 installments we will highlight the covers of the attending authors. As always we only talk about the look of the cover- not about the book and its content. So take a cup of coffee and join the cover talk.

Maya Banks / Larissa Ione

Susi: Historical Romances aren’t my thing but well well, this cover is hot. he dude looks hot and I kinda like the pose. The plaid isn’t as tacky as it usually is on these covers. So I like. The title font is again a bit cliché but I will …

Review: Ricochet by Sandra Sookoo

Format read: ebook purchased by reviewer
Genre: science fiction romance
Release Date: February 28th, 2012
Number of pages: 276 pages
Publisher: Samhain
Formats available: ebook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Publisher’s Website, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo

Book Blurb:

Willa Rayes, only daughter of a legendary Lingorian fighter pilot, can fly any ship in the galaxy. Better than her brothers, in fact. But does that get her any respect? Not as long as she has breasts. Winning the Nebulon Trike will not only force her family to notice her, it’ll be her declaration of independence from men in general.

Then she meets her race partner, Stratton Sinnet. Arrogant and chauvinistic, he ignites her libido like no man ever before. And threatens to send her well-planned strategy straight to hell.

A bounty hunter by trade, Sin enters the Trike for one reason: money. Somewhere among the racers his quarry is hiding, but he’s not worried. He always gets his man, and …

Sunday Cravings

Hello my fellow Book Lovers! How was this week for you? Hope it was perfect!

This week we finally get a reprieve for all those mass book releases, but for any YA fans out there, this is yet another heavy week I’m afraid. Some of the most highly anticipated YA titles hit the shelves on May 8th among them the newest installment in The Mortal Instrument series by Cassandra Clare.

Let’s start!

Amanda: Beauty by Laurell K. Hamilton

The steamy outtake that takes readers even further into Laurell K. Hamilton’s bestselling novel, Kiss the Dead.

You’d think I’d get used to seeing such a beautiful man and knowing he was mine, but it never grew old, as if his beauty and the fact that he was mine, and I was his, would forever surprise me.

With a vampire like Jean Claude around, it’s far too easy for Anita Blake to doubt her own …