Bitterroot: Part 1 is available now!

There is nothing quite like a new release--I get so excited and nervous and silly every single time. This one is no different. Except that it is.... Werewolves AND vampires!??! 

If you know me or have read any interviews I've given on the subject, then you know that vampires have always scared me. I've been too afraid to write them and get them wrong somehow. So, I've refrained. and finally--I've done it. Owen is delicious and moody and slippery and mysterious--and deadly. I hope you like him!!! I want to hear from you guys! Please let me know your thoughts after reading! Then again, being a werewolf girl myself, Carter holds a special place in my heart too. Who is your favorite?? I can't wait to hear!

BITTERROOT Part 1

by Heather Hildenbrand & SM Reine

Seventeen year-old Regan Vuk has lived her whole life under the shadow of her future: the pack alpha. She is fast, smart, and determined. According to her own pack members, she is a shoo-in. But Regan’s dad has a secret.

Seventeen year-old Charlie spent her adolescence drifting from place to place with a mother desperate to hide her illegitimate daughter from the unforgiving reality of werewolf pack dynamics. All Charlie has ever wanted is to know her father--and the family that's been kept from her all these years. But most of all, she wants a place to belong in the world. Where she doesn’t have to pretend she can’t sprout fur and paws at will. Being kidnapped on her way home from prom was not she Charlie had in mind.

When Charlie finds out the only way to fit in with her new family is to defeat her long-lost sister for the role of alpha, she refuses. That is until she learns that the strange and alluring vampire she's befriended, Owen, is the same vampire prince that's been promised the winner.

Regan has no doubt that, although she loathes the vampires, it will be her who "wins" Owen.

Only problem: Charlie's already fallen for him.

Bitterroot is a Young Adult Paranormal with a dose of sibling rivalry... Who will you root for?

Just .99 for a limited time! 
Get it for: Kindle / Nook / iBooks

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Happy reading!

Seven 11 blog hop: Broken Blood is available now with chances to win!

So excited it's finally here!!! 

Amazon US   /   Amazon UK   /   Apple      /      B&N

 Lots of chances for goodies, too. First, this one is ONLY available if you're on my Love Birds newsletter list. Click on the top right of my site to sign up and then complete the instructions below to get entered!

SECOND chance to win...

Purchase and leave a review, email me the link, and get FREE swag in the mail!

And last, Ash over at Morning Books and Coffee is sponsoring a Grand Prize: KINDLE PAPERWHITE giveaway in honor of Broken Blood!! Second prize is a wolf's tooth necklace and a signed swag pack.

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And, because this is also the monthly 7-11 blog hop....

From Broken Blood: a 7-line teaser

A thousand words passed between us in a single fleeting stare. Alex looked away first, scuffing his toe and making a big deal out of inspecting my room. “It’s not bad,” he said finally. I wasn’t sure who he was trying so hard to convince.

I looked down at the comb I’d dropped at my feet and wished like hell its teeth were of the flesh-eating variety instead.

“You’re one of them,” I said, and the eerie calm I felt at hearing myself speak the words scared me more than realizing their truth.

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Visit these other fantastic authors for more 7-line teasers:

YA-friendly:

Felicia Tatum

Bethany Lopez

Adult:

Amanda Aksel

SC Ellington

Justine Winter

Steph Nuss

True Confessions: A Blog Hop of Giveaways (paperbacks, not VCards)

The Losing It Collection is OUT TODAY!
And it was such a blast to write but there were definitely funny moments too. We're a group of authors that writes mostly YA and we're breaking out into SEXYTIME. Some of us for the first time!

Yep, our first time. We'll never forget it...

We want to share some of our struggle with you because writing beyond the "curtain call of YA" is a little awkward for us! In fact, these admissions deserve a tour...and lots of giveaways!
Here's mine but read on for other True Confessions and chances to win!

Confession: The Most Awkward Thing About Writing My Losing It Scene Was When:

I had to think of the words to describe BODY PARTS. So awkward... Especially when your kids walk in and out of the room asking for juice and "Mom, are you done and ready to come spend time with me yet?" 

No, I need to think of a sexier adjective for BONER and I'll be right there...

Oy.

I really hope you enjoy my short story from the collection, the night Tara and Wes get ONE HOUR together, no interruptions, no rules, no responsibilities. Bow-chick-a-wow-wow...

One Hour (Tara and Wes) is available as part of Losing It: A Collection of VCards, available now wherever ebooks are sold!

Kindle   /   B&N   /  Apple  


And now the giveaway! My short story, One Hour, takes place between Book 4 and Book 5 in the Dirty Blood series. Book 5 is coming in March so make sure you're caught up. Just in case, I'm offering a paperback of book 4 so you're all set for #5 when it gets here!!

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>>> Read all of our confessions and enter to win paperbacks and swag at every stop! <<<

Kristina Circelli (US)
Melissa Haag (INT)
Ednah Walters (INT)
Nikki Jefford (INT)
Stacey Wallace Benefiel (US)
Helen Boswell (US)
S.T. Bende (US)
Amy Miles (US)
S. M. Boyce (US)
Milda Harris (INT)
K. A. Last (INT)
Ginger Scott (US)
Julia Crane (US)
Tish Thawer (US)
Misty Provencher (US)
Alexia Purdy (US)
Tamara Rose Blodgett (US)
A.O. Peart (US)
Bethany Lopez (US)
M.R. Polish (US/UK)
Julie Prestsater (US)


Want to get down and dirty with the authors of Losing It? Join us in the Champagne Room on Facebook. Must be 18 or older to request entry.

Losing It: A Collection of VCards

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Amanda Havard's Survivor Series: New release and iPAD giveaway

My good friend and complete ROCK STAR, Amanda Havard, has a new book out today. Aaaack!! So excited for this one! I read the first two books in the Survivors series last summer when I first met Amanda in Nashville at UtopYA con 2012. She is seriously aca-mazing and so much fun, so brilliant, and so full of great energy to be around! I fell in love with her person over drinks on the patio of the Holiday Inn where she schooled me on how she'd created her very own interactive book app called the Immersedition--and then came home and read her books and fell in love with her words. 

Book 3 in her series, Body & Blood, is out today. I had the privilege of reading this one a couple of months early as an ARC and it is sooooo good!! Sexy and witchy and magical. You need to pick this one up! Lots of hot book boyfriends to choose from too! I am #TeamEverett and a little bit #TeamMark as well.

About BODY & BLOOD:

How many answers you seek are just a part of you, waiting to be found?

The game has changed.

Fresh from her first brush with mortality, a fragile Sadie Matthau is playing human with Cole Hardwick while the Survivors endure unimaginable tragedy. Wrought with the first deaths of their own kind, a tyrant who will torture them, and an opponent more terrifying than anyone could have foreseen, the Survivors are facing their end.

Told from three points of view, The Survivors: Body & Blood is a bloodcurdling, mind-bending, heart-stopping ride. As Sadie and the Winters uncover more enemies, more history, and more answers, they find themselves brought closer together and ripped further apart. And all the while, a haunting Alexander Raven lurks at the edge of Sadie s lifeline, at the darkening fringes of her mind.

As the Survivors descend into chaos, Sadie realizes a painful truth: the deepest of secrets leave the darkest of marks.

Caught between a terrifying fantasy and her own grim reality, Body & Blood is the story of Sadie s dance with her demons, future, past, and present.

 

And did I mention how awesome Amanda is? She even wrote her own soundtrack for the series!

BODY & BLOOD SOUNDTRACK INFORMATION:

The Body & Blood Soundtrack Sessions follow Amanda Havard as she talks about each song found on the soundtrack for the third book in THE SURVIVORS SERIES, Body & Blood, and performs exclusive acoustic versions of each song. Want more Survivors soundtrack music? Check out the rest of the B&B Sessions, the original songs written exclusively for the series, and the full soundtrack!

Introduction & First Episode 1: http://youtu.be/iWpRBI6PiKU

Amanda's giving away a rock star level prize for the launch of Body & Blood. Enter here:

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About AMANDA HAVARD:

Amanda Havard thinks in stories. She writes books and songs, tells stories to people over coffee or in elaborate iPad apps, in short films or subtle photographs. Stories are her life. THE SURVIVORS: BODY & BLOOD is her third novel, and is an amalgamation of all of her storytelling love combined. Originally from Dallas, Texas, she now lives in Nashville, Tennessee, a place where creativity drips from the sap of the trees, radiates from the attitude of the population, and seeps from the concrete. The inventor of the Immersedition™ interactive book app, Havard is always looking for the next best story-- and the most innovative way to tell it.

Links:

Twitter

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Facebook

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YouTube

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Goodreads

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Pinterest

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Tumblr

http://thesurvivorsseries.tumblr.com/

Websites

www.amandahavard.com

www.thesurvivorsseries.com

www.immersedition.com