
Love is in the Air…. Valentine’s Day Book / Ebook Giveaway
It’s that time of year again… Love is in the air… Actually, in most places, frigid temperatures are in the air. It seems even the places that should be warm are cold… I don’t know about you, but all I want to do is curl up under the covers with a good romance book. So what better way to celebrate Valentine’s Day than have a giveaway? And what a giveaway! 25 authors and I have teamed up together…. #XOXO14
HERE ARE THE BOOKS!
Book Name: DANGLED CARAT
Author Name: HILARY GROSSMAN
#pages: 281
Hilary had gotten used to dating the commitment-phobic Marc. They had a great relationship—why rush into things? But after four years together, their friends decided to take matters into their own hands, pushing Marc to propose. Unfortunately, Marc still wasn’t ready—and their friends’ meddling in the form of a faux engagement party led to a disastrous New Year’s Eve that brought their relationship to a turning point.
In this relatable, playful memoir, Hilary reminisces about her life before Marc—from the awkward teenage years to her early relationships and, finally, to the day she met Marc and realized that she really wanted to see him again. Through the ease of their early time together up until that fateful New Year’s Eve, Hilary shares the details and considers how Marc’s inability to commit led her to find an inner strength and confidence she didn’t know she possessed.
For anyone who has ever dated a commitment-phobe, who has found their patience wearing thin, or who has sat around wondering if he is ever going to pop the question while trying to remain the picture of patience and grace, Hilary’s humorous and honest story will hit home.
Available on Amazon, Ebook $2.99, paperback $9.43
Jenna has lost her best friend.
With Aimee gone so tragically young, Jenna barely knows where to turn. Aimee was the one who always knew what to do—not to mention what to wear. The two built a catering company together and had so much in common—well, except their taste in men. Jenna never understood what the successful, sophisticated Aimee saw in Wayne, with his Star Wars obsession and harebrained business schemes.
And gained her best friend’s husband…
But Aimee has left a shocking last request: Jenna now has financial custody of the not-so-merry widower. True, Wayne needs someone sensible around to keep him under control, but what was her dear departed friend thinking?
The thing is, as she gets to know Wayne better, his latest moneymaking idea actually starts to intrigue her. Her attractive new lawyer boyfriend doesn’t approve of it—but then, Wayne doesn’t approve of her attractive new lawyer boyfriend. Now Jenna has to figure out what direction her life is going to take next. And she can’t help asking herself: What would Aimee do?
Elizabeth “Lizzie” Petrie has it all. She’s rich, beautiful, intelligent, and successful. None of this matters to her mom. Les-Bi-An. That’s all her mom sees.
Even though Lizzie insists her mom’s antagonism does not bother her, Lizzie distances herself from her entire family. When her brother, Peter, calls her out of the blue to announce he’s getting married, Lizzie’s entire life changes drastically. Peter’s fiancée wants to bring the lesbian outcast back into the family. Will this desire cause Lizzie to lose everything dear to her?
Sarah, Lizzie’s girlfriend, is ecstatic about this change in Lizzie’s personal life. Sarah, the hopeless romantic, wants it all, including settling down with the fiercely independent Lizzie.
Can Lizzie be tamed? And can she survive her family and all of their secrets?

True love never dies. Emma Donohue begs to differ.
When a late night accident claims the love of her life, Emma secludes herself in memories of James. In his sandy brown hair and clear blue eyes. In their innocent first kiss and declarations of love. In their plans for a life together after college. But happy dreams can’t rid her of the guilt she carries. She can’t erase her actions the night he died. She can’t erase her reaction at his funeral. And she can’t erase the hollow void that fills her chest and consumes her heart.
The first time Emma hears James’ voice, she’s astounded. It sounds as if he’s standing right beside her, and she fears her shattered heart is trying to drive her mad. But, as she continues to hear the voice, she finds comfort in it. With the help of her best friend Shel and handsome newcomer Dane, she tries to move forward and start living again.
Until the voice in her head turns out to be more. So much more.
You know what they say.True love never dies.
Available Amazon, Barnes & Noble Ebook $0.99, paperback $9.99
Book Name: GOOD INTENTIONS
Author Name: KATHRYN R. BIEL
#pages 307
Maggie Miller is about to start her life in Boston. She’s done with grad school and has a good job as a pediatric physical therapist. Maggie sees herself as plain and ordinary, nothing remarkable. She doesn’t see that surviving a horrific car accident that killed her mother and brother as anything special. She’s had bad taste in men and is jaded, and has decided to lay low while she focuses on her career. Matt Slavin is Maggie’s best friend from college. He has an atrocious girlfriend, who hates Maggie for no reason. But he also has this good friend from home. Ryan Milan is a drop-dead gorgeous young attorney who, despite significant reservations, has relocated to Boston to start his career as a prosecutor. He is good at reading the people he’s prosecuting, but cannot read women. Maggie and Ryan dance around each other, never sure of where the other stands. After months of push and pull, they finally realize that the other is actually interested. After finally getting together, they are pulled apart by Ryan’s family tragedy, and he is unable to return to Maggie. Just when Maggie thinks she does not have the strength to rebuild again, she finds she no longer has that choice. And when they’re finally reunited seven years later, Maggie’s life is barely recognizable…
Available on Amazon Barnes & Noble, Kobo & Smashwords Ebook $2.99, Paperback $12.99
Book Name: DROWNED SORROW
Author Name: VANESSA MORGAN
#pages 191
Megan Blackwood has just lost her son in an accident. Now she has come to Moonlight Creek with her teenage daughter, Jenna, hoping that a change of scenery might help to put their lives back together. But something odd is happening in Moonlight Creek. When rain falls over the village, its inhabitants commit grisly murders, leaving the village deserted again with the first rays of sunshine. Beneath the lake’s surface, something watches… and waits… Waits to reveal a tragic past drowned in mystery and fear. One that doesn’t bode well for visitors. By the time Megan realizes that her daughter’s life is in danger, it might already be too late.
Available Amazon Ebook $3.89
Author Name: JOANN LEE
Genre: lesbian romance, #pages 251
After finding happiness, Lynn Feoras was convinced life with Alexis and Calista would be perfect. But when she and Alexis begin the tedious journey of expanding their family, she soon comes to learn that money doesn’t buy everything.
In the midst of doctor’s visits, a move to New York, and a whirlwind tour, life remains chaotic for the Feoras family. New friends emerge, old ones return, and an unexpected reappearance of someone from Lynn’s past leaves her questioning her ability to be a parent.
Will Lynn and Alexis be able to overcome the obstacles placed before them? Will their relationship crumble under the strain or will they come out on top, stronger than before?
#pages 222
.Available Amazon & Smashwords Ebook $3.99
Author: Kathryn O’Halloran
Chick Lit 240 pages
The Bad Girls’ Club: it’s about sex, it’s about dares, but most of all, it’s about friendship!
Imogen, Juliette and Beth have had a gutful of the manipulative Poppy so, when they are seated together at her wedding, their resentment not only unites them but pushes them into a risqué prank
Their problems go much deeper though. Imogen has major body issues and a lousy track record with men, Juliette is stuck in a dead-end relationship with her dead beat boyfriend and Beth is so busy trying to impress everyone else, she’s got no idea what she really wants.
It’s time to take drastic action. It’s time to rebel. It’s time to become Bad Girls.
They band together to form the Bad Girls Club and, through a series of brazen dares, push the limits of their sexuality.
But are the girls ready to finally take the final leap that will have them branded as bad girls for real? To save the club, and each other, they each have to publicly acknowledge their darkest secrets.
Join the bad girls in this steamy yet snort-laughingly funny chick lit adventure.
Available Amazon Ebook $3.54
Author – CANDY J STARR
196 pages

Bad Boy Rock Star is book 1 in this series.
Available:Amazon Ebook $3.50
.Olivia is a good woman, a good mother, a good wife. She’s got it made. She doesn’t want anything to change. Of course, it does…Swept from her perfect paper-doll life in Houston, Olivia finds herself in Chicago, alone, betrayed, and far from home. Soon everything she thought she knew about herself and her life will be challenged. She has only courage, love, and her passion for music to carry her through the maelstrom—or draw her further in.
Ash is the man who has everything—everything except healing from the losses of a lifetime. His only peace lies in the sweet flow of music pouring from his guitar.
What happens when the married woman and the sexy handsome widower are thrown together by fate?
Out of the Box Awakening is a story of shared passion and shared joy. Jennifer Theriot has written a compelling book about what happens when two people find new life and new love for themselves and for those around them.
He was the dark haired deity with a salacious smile… he was the one the girls gossiped and giggled about for months… 2,600 miles away Terence Javier didn’t have a clue his high school yearbook was being passed around an all girl choir and that he had been voted, as the more experienced girl put it, the one she would ‘most likely do.’
Thirteen years later Marissa Crandall while on a romantic island vacation, celebrating her ten year wedding anniversary, is shocked and surprised to find their dive master was none other than her old high school crush. Seeing the chance to fulfill a dream, Marissa sets out to kiss Terence.
Stuck in San Diego dealing with unreasonable clients and babysitting Marissa’s kids, a jealous Annie Harper catches the red-eye out of LAX wanting to intercept Terence and foil her best friend’s plans. This envious act uncovers a scandalous affair and in that one pivotal moment none of their lives would ever be the same.
Author Name: Shannon A. Thompson
Eric has less than a year left before his fated battle when he meets her. She’s a shade like him, but separated from the Dark – and with more power than she should have. And he can’t stay away.Jessica is new to town and desperate to figure out who, or what, her birth parents were. But she can’t find them without overcoming Eric, and she won’t let him stop her.
Minutes Before Sunset happens through the minds of two young adults as they struggle to survive their paranormal realities and find balance in their human lives.
Author Name: Christine Rains
# of pages 439

A modern day dragonslayer misses his target.
A harpy challenges Zeus for the soul of the man she loves.
A vampire is obsessed with a young woman he can’t find.
A banshee falls in love with someone whose death she has seen in a vision.
And a sweet ghost must battle a primal monster to save them all.All the stories take place at the same time intertwining their lives together on the 13th Floor.
Meghan’s love of golf gets her paired up with a man she doesn’t know. The rest of the world does. Eric Nolan is the most sought after actor in Hollywood and the most eligible bachelor in the hearts of many women. Eric draws out hidden desires Meghan never imagined and leaves an unforgettable kiss etched in her memory. One kiss from Eric leaves her questioning her decision to never love again. An emotional struggle to love again cannot stop the passion that unravels. But perhaps Meghan’s ex can. Released on early parole without her knowledge, he’s had the time to develop an obsession. Will Eric be able to keep her safe?

After 12 years on the pro. tennis tour and four years with her sort-of boyfriend, Lucy Bennett has had enough. She wants real life… and real love.
Her life, her decision. Right? Well, no one else seems to think so. With opinions on all sides, Lucy’s head is spinning. And she’s stumbling right into the arms of long-term crush and fellow player Sam. Shame her boyfriend – his arch-rival – would sooner smash a racquet over their heads than agree to a simple change of partners.
As the Wimbledon Championships play out, Lucy fights for her life on and off the courts. The question is: what will she be left with after Wimbledon?
Kate Adams has it all figured out. Five years out of college, she?s got a steady job, a home she loves in the big city, and good friends who always keep her laughing: her stylish but nosy roommate Evette, happily-married Cecie, and of course, good old Mitch, her seriously cute co-worker who?s been stuck in the Friend Zone since the day they met.
Everything is going just fine?until the night Kate crosses the line with Mitch, and the boundaries between friendship and love begin to blur. Things get even more complicated when hunky JP enters the scene. What?s a girl to do? Add to the mix a spunky little pug Kate never expected to fall for, and her neatly-ordered life is starting to look more like a dog?s dinner. Maybe her roommate has the right idea after all: forget the men, and stick with a canine companion instead.
It?s time for Kate to figure out what she really wants in life. But can she dig her way out of the mess she?s created before she ends up permanently in the doghouse?

What’s your destiny?
Book Title: CITY SOLIPSISM
Author: Zack Love
#pages – 23
Have you ever been on a train, bus, metro/subway — or any other shared space with strangers — and started to wonder what that person right next to you is thinking? Did you ever start to think or hope that maybe your temporary neighbor was somehow sharing your thoughts and/or desires? Ever sensed some sort of romantic connection or sexual tension and wished you could get into the individual’s head, to know for sure?
“City Solipsism” will take you on a journey into the mind of one commuter on a New York City subway car, riding next to and thinking about a person standing awkwardly close…The man and woman are total strangers but their proximity is almost intimate, as their hands share the same metal subway pole…
NOTE: Readers seeking the over-top hilarity of “Sex in the Title” should know that “City Solipsism” is written in a very different style. Rather than a comedic series of misadventures in New York, this short story takes more of a philosophical and psychological walk through the mind of a male New Yorker observing the woman standing next to him.
New York City, May 2000. The Internet bubble has burst, and Evan’s boss fires him with an email. The next day, his girlfriend dumps him, also via email. Afraid to check any more emails, Evan desperately seeks a rebound romance but the catastrophes that ensue go from bad to hilariously worse. Fortunately, Evan meets someone whose legendary disasters with females eclipse even his own.
To reverse their fortunes, they recruit their friends into a group of five guys who take on Manhattan in pursuit of dates, sex, and adventure. With musings about life, relationships, and human psychology, this quintessential New York story about the search for happiness follows five men on their comical paths to trouble, self-discovery, and love.
After moving to New York City to attend a prestigious acting school, the somewhat shy Elize suddenly finds herself in a roller coaster of her life, filled with VIP parties, theatre auditions, film projects and even more excitedly in a fancy Central Park overlooking Upper West Side apartment with her irresistibly gorgeous new ‘boyfriend.’
One of her friends becomes a French lingerie model and the other marries a millionaire, while Elize’s biggest success is a leading role in a young adult drama where she unfortunately has to die from an overdose in the first scene.
From a true believer in all-dreams-eventually-come true comes a heartfelt and humorous story of what it’s like to be in your twenties, hopelessly in love and trying to get established in one the toughest industries of the Big Apple.
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98 thoughts on “Love is in the Air…. Valentine’s Day Book / Ebook Giveaway”
Honestly, I wish I could win them all LOL Very very hard to choose, they all sound great and the covers are very eye catchy too! Thanks for this AH-MAZING MASSIVE giveaway to all authors XX
This Chick Reads – I know.. .Don’t they all look great!!! I am so excited to have so many authors participating…
I totally agree 😛 I want all of them .. you can never have too many books!
Hanne Arts – so true… although I have so many good ones on my kindle right now that it is making me sad I don’t have more hours to read!
My bookshelves are filled, and I try to sneak in reading whenever I get a free moment 🙂
Hanne – I know the feeling. I feel like my kindle will explode!
That Good Intentions cover looks like photos you have posted of your own beach… well, photos that didn’t have snow in them!
Sometimes – I know.. I thought the same thing when I saw it. It looks exactly like the shot I took right before a massive storm (thick, thick black clouds)
Goodness, that is an amazing bunch of good books and a great giveaway!
Brian – I know… WHen I had the idea of this giveaway I thought I’d have a few authors want to participate, I am shocked to have 21!!!
Thanks for posting. 🙂
Angel – 🙂 Good luck!
Thank you for this MASSIVE giveaway!
I entered to win… Dangled Carrat (Hilary Grossman), Chase (Jill), The Bad Girl’s Club, Terry Cat’s & Becky Monson’s novels and finally After Wimbledon. *hand hurts from clicking* I picked these books because they sounded very promising (+ fab. covers!).
Fingers crossed, good luck everyone.. and happy reading! xx M.
Maryine – Your welcome! I hope you win one of the book you picked, maybe it will make your hand feel better… sorry…
TYVM! Great giveaway. The 13th Floor. I love paranormal & this seems to cover it all!
Barbara – Thanks! 13 floor does seem to cover it all.
How do you choose? I haven’t read any of these books, yet, so I will leave it up to fate. But the giveaway is really sensational and I thank all the authors for offering it..
Vennie – I know! It is such a hard choice. So many good books! The authors are all amazing ladies. I can’t thank them enough!
Unforgettable kiss.
Tori – good luck!
Thank you for all the wonderful giveaways!!! Any of these books would be amazing to win! Even if I don’t I have a ton of new books on my to be read list!!
Stephanie – on behalf of all the authors thank you for thinking of us for your TBR list!
Good golly it is going to take me all day to enter all of those but enter I will! Great give away!!!! Thanks, Hilary!
Beth Ann- I know.. the giveaway got out of control but totally worth it. Can you believe 21 authors????
Wow!! What a great selection!
I’ll have to come back after the kids are in bed and wine is in hand.
I have a Nora Roberts I am enjoying by the fire today! 🙂
Rorybore – Entering to win good books with wine in hand.. Sounds like a perfect night to me! I set the contest up on Saturday by the fire 😉
That sure is a great give away with a lot of books. Hope you have a super day.
Marg – thanks so much… I agree, the books all look amazing (and some I have already read so I know they are amazing!)
wow… that’s a lot of books! mommy loves sex in the city! what a great collection!
Silver Meow – Tell mommy that I do too!
An outstanding collection of books. I know Unicorn’s Daughter very, very well, and it’s smashing!
William – I have yet to read it but soooo want to!
This is fantastic! Thank you so much for inviting me to be a part of it. I’m honored to be among such good company. 🙂
Christine – *smile* I am the honored one to have you part of this!
I’d love to win Out to Linch and/or Guardian. I enjoy both genres and these sound intriguing. There are several others I would love to read, but sadly I don’t have an e-reader.
Irene – Good luck! I am glad there are some print books for you 🙂
Great job! Thanks so much for inviting me and it’s an honor to be with such a fantastic group of authors.
TBM – Thank you for helping me snag some really amazing authors! Can you believe? 21 authors?
Now this is what I call a book giveaway!! Thanks for putting this together :).
Cindy – you are welcome!!! I am so excited to have so many amazing authors together!
I’m trying to win an ecopy of After Wimbeldon and the paperback copy of Out to Lunch.
Chanpreet – good luck! Both are excellent books!
This is an awesome giveaway and I’d be glad to win any of these books!!!
Jessie – Good luck! There are some really awesome reads here!
Amazing giveaway.
HMG
Heather – thanks! Good luck!
Such an awesome list of books! Thanks for inviting me to join in the giveaway! 🙂 I love the blurbs of them all, but I think Drowned Sorrow sounds incredible. I love books like that!
joann Lee – I am so glad you are part of this amazing giveaway!!! Don’t all the books look great. I wish there were more hours in the day. I want to read all of them NOW!
Awesome opportunity. Thank you so much!
Hugs from Ecuador,
Kathy
Kathy – Hugs right back at ya!
I was lucky enough to win in the last give away & it was great! Wonderful giveaway!
Lynda – thanks! I hope you get to win again!
Great giveaway, Hilary!! Dangled Carat is enroute to me in paperback via Amazon as we speak! 🙂
Mike – really? YEAH!!! Thanks so much! I hope you enjoy!
This is such an awesome giveaway!! I can’t wait to check out these books.
Meredith – thanks! There are some really good ones!
I would love to win Out To Lunch–been seeing this on many blogs; Chase – like how it’s set in New York, a place I’ve visited and would love to visit again; The Unicorn’s Daughter –love thrillers; The 13th Floor – set in haunted apartment with supernatural tenants.
Bonnie – Good luck! I am actually currently reading out to lunch and loving it….
Wow! Hilary! Great turnout so far! Your Giveaways are always the best <3
I want a 36 hour day! Then I can fit more reading in…so many great reads on one page!
Congrats on another successful giveaway!
Ange 🙂
Angela – thanks so much! My giveaways are great because I have great *big smile* authors joining me! I know how you feel… I feel the same way. I want to read all these books NOW!
I want to read all of these books!
Jessica – I know… so many good books, so little time!
I hope you like this! I put a post on the Author Extension Community website for this giveaway:
http://aecstellar.com/valentines-day-romance-book-giveaway/
~SAT
Shannon – mind? Of course not! I think it is great.. the more buzz the better!!!
Thank you for this great giveaway! <3
I'd really like to win Guardian by Sara Mack, Bad Boy Romance by Candy Starr and Cloaked in Fur by T.F. Walsh. I'd like to read them all – the whole list. But I picked out the ones that most struck my fancy. Lol. I picked these three because they are my favorite genres and the synopsis just caught my interest the most. 😀
Samantha – good luck! I love the expression “struck my fancy” 🙂
Great giveaway! Count me in next time! 🙂
Karen – Thanks so much! I will definitely count you in for next time!
well I wanted to do your contest.. but if you don;t do twitter then YOU locked all of us out.. guess you don;t want all of us to enter…
I would love to read “Out to Lunch” and all the other books!
Susan – Good luck! I am reading Out to Lunch right now and loving it!
Why? because I have always wanted to read a Stacey Ballis book!
Susan – insert smile!
It honestly doesn’t matter which book I win 🙂 I’d be happy with any! Thank you for the great Giveaway!
Nicole – good luck! I agree with you.. there are some very good books here!
Love the idea of the food theme – including recipes in books, so definitely would love to win Stacey’s “Out to Lunch”.
I mean honestly though — wouldn’t we all love to win ALL of them? LOL
RoryBore – the food theme is great – just one problem – you get sooo hungry!
Of course I would like any of them that feature dogs, and cozy mystery types. I would like to read Stacey Ballis as she is a somewhat local author.
FB has me at my liked page limits right now so I have to go adjust things and come back.
Dogs Mom – I am reading Stacey Ballis’ book right now, and if you love dogs you will love the two cuties that Out to Lunch features…
It’s awesome that you’re giving away all of these books! I’d love to win A Woman Lost or Unbreakable because I love reading about glbt characters and The 13th Floor because I really like paranormal short story compilations.
Tanya – Good luck! You picked some great books to want to read!
Thanks!
I cannot decide which book intrigues me most.. . . I guess The Unicorn’s Daughter looks interesting.
Love Noodles
Noodles – It does sound great, doesn’t it! Norma is so talented, and a sweetie. I am sure it is amazing!!!
I haven’t read any of these books, so I want them all! Bwahaha. Total romance addict; any one of them would make me happy 🙂
Kristina – “romance addict” love it! Well my fingers are crossed you win one!
I want to win all the books! Haha, I’m such a reading addict. And anyways, if you don’t have a lover to celebrate valentine’s day with, what better than to celebrate with books?
Hanne arts – good luck! I like the way you think… but even if you do have a lover, it is still a lot of fun to curl up with a good book!
OH WOW! I’D LOVE TO REVIEW THE ALL, BUT I WANT MURDER IN MOSCOW
Linda – fingers crossed you get what you want!!!!
Hello Hilary,
Thanks for the invite. How do I donate 2 paperbacks and 4 e-books?
Best Regards,
Joe Laws
Joe – thanks so much! I will email you…
This is a great comp. Thanks for putting it together xx
Bernadette- thanks for joining
Awesome giveaway. I really need to read more 🙂
…….dhole
Donna- I know… So many good books, so little time
Hi Hilary, I just wanted to thank you again for this wonderful contest. I love winning things, especially books, so I was really happy to receive your email that I won Murder in Moscow. It looks like it’s going to be a great read :).
Cindy – thank you so much for this sweet note. I had a blast doing the giveaway and I love that so many people are now introduced to so many wonderful author’s books. I hope you enjoy every page of Murder in Moscow!