If I Loved You by Mary J. Williams **Promo Blitz** (Book One)

Contemporary Romance

Date Published: March 2016

Publisher: Brook Publications

On Sale $.99 until the end of July 

If You Only Wanted One Night Would You Take A Chance On a Man Who Wanted Forever? 

Rose O'Brian wants to spice up her love life and Jack Winston seems like the answer. Sexy, funny and a killer smile, Jack is every woman's fantasy. All she wants is one night of passion, nothing more. But Jack has a secret that stops him from taking her up on her offer, stops him from having the one thing he wants more than his next breath--beautiful Rose O'Brian. Rose has her own secrets. Emotionally scared, she's never believed in happily ever afters. But for the first time she's met a man who makes her want to open her heart, to dream of love. When Rose's past rears its ugly head can she finally let go and overcome the hurt? Can Jack convince her to take a chance and embrace a future with him? Can he show her that love is there if she will only reach out and take it?.

Other books in the Harper Falls Romance Series:

Publisher: Brook Publications

Published: May 2015

Welcome back to Harper Falls, WA, a place where love is in the air, but danger is just around the corner. Dani Wilde had already met the love of her life and lost him. Two weeks of passion and romance five years ago. Then he had walked away. Dani thought she had moved on, She dated, enjoyed the company of other men, even thought that she was keeping her heart open to the possibility of another love. But when Alex Fleming rode his motorcycle into Harper Falls, she knew she had been kidding herself. Her heart was still his. Alex Fleming knew what was waiting for him in Harper Falls. His sister, his best friend, a good job, and the woman he'd spent the last five years dreaming about--trying to forget. At the time, walking away had seemed like the only way. Now he has a second chance, but it isn't just his personal demons keeping him from Dani, his past is about to put the only woman he's ever loved in danger. He has a choice, walk away again or stay and fight. Love has a way of catching up with you. Dani and Alex are getting a second chance at their happily ever after. Now they just have to be strong enough to take it.

Publisher: Brook Publications

Published: August 2015

Tyler and Drew’s Story

He broke her heart. Now, ten years later he’s finally going to tell her why.

Tyler Jones and Drew Harper.

They came from different worlds.

They weren’t supposed to fall in love.

Teenagers on the brink of adulthood they gave into an uncontrollable attraction, sharing their hopes, fears, and their bodies. The plans they made in secret kept them going until they could leave the small town of Harper Falls and pursue their dreams.

Drew wanted to break free from his family’s wealth and influence, he wanted to make it on his own. Tyler was an artist. People in her hometown laughed at the idea of a girl with her background making anything of herself. Together they planned on conquering the world.

Without warning Drew pulled away. He left town without an explanation, crushing Tyler’s heart.

Now they’re both back where it all started and Drew can finally tell Tyler what really drove them apart. They have a second chance at love. But there are some people who will stop at nothing to keep them apart. Not even murder.

Publisher: Brook Publications

Published: October 2015

Lila Fleming.

Good sister. Good friend. Good girl.

Lila spends her life walking a straight line. No swerves. No excitement. Her future seems mapped out. A very boring future. One where her secret dreams will never see the light of day.

Then one snow-filled day, she meets a man who will shake up her routine, capture her heart, and help make all her dreams come true.

Welcome to a Harper Falls Christmas. Filled with laughs, old friends, and a happily ever after. Oh, and Cooper. A dog who will steal your heart.

About the Author

Mary J. Williams is an author from Washington State who went to school in a small town on the Columbia River. She loves writing, reading, and football.  She always wanted to write a novel and she always knew it would be a romance novel. But it wasn’t until her favorite football team lost the Super Bowl on the last play with an interception, that this dream began to come to fruition. She was so depressed that she tuned out all the media. Without television, internet, or newspapers, she had nothing else to do, so she sat down and started writing. Her first romance series, Harper Falls contains four books. Mary has released two new series in 2016, Hollywood Legends and One Pass Away (which combines her love of football with her love of romance).

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Breaking Promises by S. Briones Lim **Promo Blitz** & Giveaway!

New Adult / Sports Fiction / Romance

Date Published: May 31, 2016

Publisher: Limitless Publishing

After a devastating accident, Aurora Crane's collegiate gymnastics career comes to an abrupt end…

Fighting to piece her life back together, Aurora packs up and transfers to California State to start anew. When she arrives, her focus is on schoolwork and choosing a new career. But to her surprise, destiny has other plans…

Sucked into the world of competitive breakdancing, Aurora comes toe-to-toe with the hottest B-Boy of them all…

An arrogant hothead, Mitch Adachi—or B-Boy Kickwit as he is more commonly known—has life all figured out. He breakdances all day, practicing for upcoming competitions that are sure to challenge his skills—which means he has no time for distractions.

When the new girl steps into the scene, he sees an opportunity he can’t pass up…

Besides finding Aurora devastatingly attractive, he can’t help but notice her skills. He quickly develops high hopes for the ex-gymnast, seeing her as the perfect potential crewmember for the impending high stakes Battle of the Crews competition. All she needs is some fine-tuning.

When the two commit to a business relationship, a different kind of passion kicks into high gear. There’s no denying they groove well together, but there’s a chance mixing high-stakes competition with a fierce romance might lead to…

Breaking Promises.

EXCERPT

“Are you stalking me now? I’m seriously not in the mood,” she hissed as soon as I reached her table. She looked up at me through hooded eyes and, as if to make a point, took her fork and stabbed a cherry tomato with it until its juices bled all over her plastic plate. 

My bottom lip twitched with amusement. “Not stalking actually, just a coincidence I saw you here.” 

“So staring at me earlier wasn’t enough? You have to bother me now too?” 

Yikes! This girl seemed like a grade A level bitch. Usually, I would have shot her some deuces and left her alone, but for some reason I found the whole encounter humorous. 

“I saw you earlier during our cypher. You looked like you smelled a skunk or something,” I commented nonchalantly. 

Blood rushed up her face, causing her cheeks to turn a soft shade of pink. Something about the sight caused my dick to twitch as if it were trying to wave hello to her. God, had it really been two months since I last got laid? 

The girl sighed and rolled her eyes before dropping her gaze back down at her gross looking salad. “You know what? I don’t have the time or the patience to deal with this. Not today.” 

“What do you mean?” With a smirk on my lips, I sat down on the empty chair across from her. Her eyes immediately lifted, blazing furiously. 

“Did I invite you to sit down?” 

“We’re having a conversation. A bit rude for me to stay standing up only to talk down at you, eh?” 

“You—” She shut her eyes and took a few deep breaths, rolling her neck to the side. A horrible sounding POP soon followed, leaving me to wonder how her head was still attached to the rest of her body. After a few silent moments, which really seemed as if she were plotting my death, she spoke again. “I had a rough day. My roommate is batshit crazy and I don’t even want to go to this school to begin with. Please leave me alone so I can sulk in peace.” 

I reached out and grabbed the smashed tomato from her plate, popping it into my mouth. “Funny, I don’t want to be here either. Guess we have that in common.” 

“Are you always this annoying?” she snapped. 

“Are you always this hospitable?” I shot back with a wink. 

Placing her elbows on the table, she rested her head in her hands, rubbing at her temples. “What do you want, dude? Like I said, I’m not in the mood for this, so either speak your piece or leave. Better yet, why don’t you just leave?” 

“Why did you look like you hated what you saw?” 

She raised her head in surprise, taking her time to eye me from head to toe. I smirked knowingly as her eyes traveled from my biceps to my defined pecs. 

She stammered. “I-I have no idea what you’re even talking about.” 

Yup, she was definitely checking me out.

About the Author

Thanks to her Mom’s unwavering devotion to read a childhood bedtime story to her every single night, S. BRIONES LIM’s love for books began before she could even speak.

Raised in Southern California, Lim initially dreamt of becoming an artist. After a Psychology Degree (Summa cum Laude), a stint in Art School, and a career in Advertising/Media she is finally diving back into her first love – books. As a self-renowned bookworm, Lim’s love for reading has inspired her to pen her own novels and hopes her readers will fall in love with her stories as much as she enjoys writing them.

Her obsessions include time with family, Cherry Coke, popcorn with jalapeños, watching movies and her dogs, Tobi and Roscoe. She currently lives in Virginia with her husband.

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Baseball's Dyanasties and The Players Who Built Them by Jonathan Weeks ** Book Blast**

We're happy to be hosting Jonathan Weeks' BASEBALL'S DYNASTIES AND THE PLAYERS WHO BUILT THEM Book Blast today!

About the Book:

Title:

Baseball’s Dynasties and the Players Who Built Them

Author: Jonathan Weeks

Publisher: Rowan and Littlefield

Pages: 408

Genre: Sports History

Baseball has had its fair share of one-and-out champions,

but few clubs have dominated the sport for any great length of time. Given the

level of competition and the expansive length of the season, it is a remarkable

accomplishment for a team to make multiple World Series appearances in a short

timespan. From the Baltimore Orioles of the 1800s who would go to any length to

win—including physically accosting opponents—to the 1934 Cardinals known as the

“Gashouse Gang” for their rough tactics and determination, and on to George

Steinbrenner’s dominant Yankees of the late twentieth century, baseball’s

greatest teams somehow found a way to win year after year.

Spanning three centuries of the game, Baseball’s Dynasties and the Players

Who Built Them

examines twenty-two of baseball’s most iconic teams. Each

chapter not only chronicles the club’s era of supremacy, but also provides an

in-depth look at the players who helped make their teams great. Nearly two

hundred player profiles are included, featuring such well-known stars as Joe

DiMaggio, Jackie Robinson, Sandy Koufax, and Pete Rose, as well as players who

were perhaps overshadowed by their teammates but were nonetheless vital to

their team’s reign, such as Pepper Martin, Allie Reynolds, and George Foster.

With a concluding chapter that profiles the clubs that were on the cusp of

greatness, Baseball’s Dynasties and the Players Who Built Them is a

fascinating survey of what makes some teams dominate year after year while

others get only a small taste of glory before falling to the wayside. Written

in a lively style with amusing anecdotes and colorful quotes, this

comprehensive book will be of interest to all fans and historians of baseball.

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With a roster full of superstars, the Orioles captured three

straight pennants from 1894–1896. They followed with a pair of near misses,

placing second in 1897 and 1898. Along the way, they developed a reputation as one

of the nastiest teams in baseball. John Heydler, an umpire who would later

ascend to the NL presidency, described the Orioles of the 1890s as “mean,

vicious, ready at any time to maim a rival player or an umpire.” Infielder John

McGraw was proud of that distinction. “We’d go tearing into a bag with flying

spikes as though with murderous intent,” he boasted. “We were a cocky,

swashbuckling crew and wanted everybody to know it.”

Pirates great Honus Wagner manufactured a tall tale about a

harrowing trip around the bases against the Orioles. After driving a ball deep

into the outfield, he claimed to have been tripped at first base by Jack Doyle

and then knocked flat by Hughie Jennings at second. Climbing to his feet, he

lumbered toward third, only to find John McGraw holding a shotgun on him. “You

stop right there!” McGraw allegedly bellowed. Although Wagner’s story is

obviously apocryphal, numerous reliable accounts confirm the fact that the

Orioles resorted to underhanded tactics regularly. When they weren’t physically

accosting opponents, they were treating them to streams of verbal abuse. Baltimore

players were so free in their use of profanity that a resolution was adopted in

1898, imposing mandatory expulsions upon anyone using “villainously foul”

language.

Even the groundskeepers at Baltimore

were deceitful. Soap flakes were mixed with the soil around the pitcher’s mound

to make the hands of opposing hurlers slippery when they reached into the dirt.

 Orioles moundsmen knew to keep untainted soil in their pockets. The

infield was mixed with clay and rarely watered, creating a surface not unlike

cement. Baltimore players chopped down on the ball, creating dramatically high

hops that gave them a head start to first base (hence, the origin of the term

Baltimore chop). The outfield was ruddy and riddled with weeds. Outfielders

allegedly kept extra balls hidden out there in the event that the ones in play

eluded them.

About the Author

Weeks

spent most of his life in the Capital District area of New

  York. He earned a degree in psychology from SUNY

Albany. In 2004, he migrated to Malone, NY.

He continues to gripe about the frigid winter temperatures to the present day.

A member of the Society for American Baseball Research, he writes about the

game because he lacked the skill to play it professionally. He still can't hit

a curve ball or lay off the high heat. Baseball’s Dynasties is his fourth

nonfiction work.

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