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Thursday 26 January 2017

Book Blitz: Return to Falcon Ridge (The McLendon family Saga #6) by D.L. Roan + 5* review + excerpt

Due to health issues this post is waaay overdue and, for that, I apologise.

I absolutely adore D.L.Roan and am totally in love with this deliciously HOT, funny, emotional and highly addictive series!!

Scroll down for a sexy excerpt and my 5* review...



Title: Return to Falcoln Ridge 
Author: D.L. Roan
Genre: Romance
Publisher: D.L. Roan
Release Date: January 17, 2017

Synopsis

Torn between his first love…and a forbidden attraction he can no longer deny. Jonah McLendon is no stranger to polyandrous love. Having grown up in a poly family, he didn’t think twice when his high school sweetheart, Chloe, revealed her secret desire for a ménage with his best friend. There was only one problem. He didn’t expect to fall for Pryce, too. Beaten within an inch of his life after Chloe exposes their secret, and Pryce having been shipped off to a religious boarding school a half state away, Jonah tells the biggest lie of his life and leaves Falcon Ridge with his heart in pieces. When he returns a year and a half later, the last thing he expects to find is his best friend engaged to the girl who betrayed them both. No longer the scared, confused kid he once was, Jonah is determined to get to the bottom of Pryce’s sham of an engagement, but the truth behind Chloe’s betrayal could change all their lives forever.



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Excerpt

Enjoy this sizzling-hot excerpt of Jonah's return to Falcon Ridge, book six in 
The McLendon Family Saga by USA Today bestselling author D.L. Roan.


   “Where’s your foreman, or the other ranch hands for that matter?” Jonah asked as he bent down and picked up a handful of bolts beside his boot and tossed them onto the workbench. “Why aren’t they out here helping you?”
   Pryce furrowed his brows as he doubled his efforts, moving with deliberate purpose, cleaning the dirt from the trailer parts and reorganizing them on the table. “They’re gone,” he said. “Most of them anyway. We can’t pay them, and no one’s going to work for my father for free, except me apparently.”
   “What about when the calving starts? You got any help coming?” Pryce couldn’t possibly think he could do everything on his own.
   “Our calves aren’t due for another two months, but I’ve got a skeleton crew lined up if I need them.”
   “If you need them?” Jonah jerked the part out of Pryce’s hand and took him by the shoulders. “You can’t do this by yourself. Forget the storm. You could lose more than your stock.” One accident and he could lose his life!
   “I’ve already lost more than you could possibly imagine,” Pryce said through his gritted teeth.
   Jonah fisted his hands into the front of Pryce’s coat and backed him against the side of the horse trailer. All the months he’d spent telling himself he was wrong, that he didn’t want Pryce, that he couldn’t want him, were nothing but wasted time. This need inside him hadn’t gone away just because he did. Every ridiculous excuse he’d meticulously crafted evaporated in a single breath. There was no other truth but the one in front of him, and he was done running from it.
   “You didn’t lose me,” Jonah breathed, their faces so close his hat tipped back and fell to the ground behind him.
   Pryce’s hot breath coated Jonah’s lips with a teasing taste of him. “But you lost me,” he said and met Jonah’s gaze.
   “So it’s true.” Jonah’s angry words sliced through the cold air between them. “You’re marrying Chloe.” Familiar resentment rose to the surface and he didn’t bother to fight it. He pressed his hips against Pryce’s, feeling the hard lie Pryce was about to tell for what it was. Even if he was in love with the traitorous bitch, Pryce couldn’t deny the truth any more than he could. “Did you tell her about us?”
   Pryce licked his lips, his body tensing in response to the seductive contact he still so obviously craved, his gaze dropping to Jonah’s mouth. “There is no us,” he breathed. “It was only one kiss.”
   “Wrong.” Jonah descended on his mouth, prodding with his tongue until he pushed past Pryce’s lips to claim the boy-turned-man the way he’d craved since the last time their lips touched.
   Pryce pushed against his chest with a protesting grunt, but his token resistance subsided when their tongues clashed in a frantic duel. Jonah pressed his weight against him, trapping him against the trailer, countering each of Pryce’s desperate strokes with his own. The long denied need for his best friend’s taste drove him to reach deeper. He gripped Pryce’s face and tipped his head back, their teeth clicking together in their haste for more. Welcomed heat flooded Jonah’s veins as he thrust his tongue alongside Pryce’s as deep as he could reach before retreating and moving in for another drugging taste. Damn, he’d needed this.
   Pryce threaded his fingers through his hair and pulled him closer. The vibrant sting to his scalp raced to Jonah’s groin and a growl rumbled through his chest. He ground his cock against the ample bulge in Pryce’s jeans, extracting a mirroring desperate groan from him before Pryce twisted away, gasping for air.
   Reluctantly, Jonah backed off, but didn’t release him. He braced his forearm against the trailer beside Pryce’s head, their feverish breaths billowing around them in a cloud of desire and lust.
   With a firm grip on Pryce’s chin, he gazed down at him, nowhere near satisfied. “Now there’s two kisses,” Jonah panted. “And you can bet your ass there will be more.” He punctuated his point by trailing his lips along Pryce’s jawline, the seductive feel of his five-o’clock stubble making them both release a shuddering breath.
   Pryce shoved him away and Jonah let him go. He hadn’t taken more than a step when Pryce cursed. “Chloe?”
   Jonah glanced back at him, then over to the open barn door where Chloe stood frozen, her eyes wide with shock.
“Chloe, it’s not what—dammit wait!” She bolted like a spooked colt and Pryce shot out of the barn after her. "Chloe!"        



My Review
*ARC received in return for an honest review

I can't get enough of this family, I'm totally addicted to them!

Return to Falcon Ridge can be read as a standalone however, I strongly suggest you start at the beginning of the series to understand the background and dynamics of all of the characters and to avoid spoilers.

I've followed the McLendon family from the very start of their journey so I kind of guessed going in that this would be a very emotional read but I was totally unprepared for just how emotional it was. What a ride I've been on! The plot moves along at a great pace and so engrossing that you don't realise how far you've read. It had me gripped from the very beginning. My heart felt like it was in a constant vice with the turmoil Jonh, Pryce and Chloe went through, especially the last 20%, which had my heart pounding so fast with the tension, I couldn't read fast enough.

Although The Hardest Goodbyes (book 5) is my favourite of the series so far, this has to be a very close second. D.L. Roan is an absolute genius at wringing every drop of emotion and feeling from you. You feel like you've been through the wringer several times by the end of one of her books but most importantly, you come away feeling like the characters are a part of your life, your friends.

I loved the connection between Jonah, Pryce & Chloe, it was heartbreaking, raw, beautiful and oh so HOT!! They were just perfect for each other. I love the way D.L. takes a taboo subject, pushes it to the limits, and beyond, and turns it into something so natural and beautiful that you find yourself falling in love with those characters and cheering them on.

I can't recommend this book, this series, enough. If you've not discovered the McLendon Saga do yourself a favour and go 1-click now, you don't know what you're missing.

My rating... 



Three hearts beat as one, for one. Always.

The McLendon men only know one way to love; together. Founders of Falcon Ridge, the largest cattle and horse breeding ranch in Montana, three generations of cowboys traverse the rocky path through the trials of their unconventional relationships and create a family legacy that will make you believe in everlasting love.

Book 1: The Heart of Falcon Ridge #FREE
MFMM Ménage Romance
"Everything inside him ached for Claira in a way that was completely unfair to the memory of his wife." ~ Grey McLendon

Six years after losing their wife, the McLendon brothers are focused on running their family ranch, Falcon Ridge, and raising their rambunctious twin boys. They've never believed they could find another woman with which to share their hearts and family.

When Matt and his twin, Mason, meet their sons' classy new teacher, hope and love aren't the only things that spring back to life. Matt is convinced she was Heaven sent to heal their family. Mason hopes he's right, but knows they have a bigger problem than convincing Claira to take a chance on their unconventional family; a much bigger, surly, older brother kind of problem.

After their wife died, Grey McLendon planned to live the rest of his life comfortably numb from the neck down, even if it killed him...and it just might if he can't reconcile his guilt, and desire for Claira, before her treacherous past catches up with her.

Book 2: A McLendon Christmas
MFMM Ménage Romance
Join Gabby and her three favorite cowboys at Falcon Ridge for a special Christmas holiday. Meet the newest tiny members of the McLendon family, catch up with all your favorite characters from DL’s ‘McLendon Family Saga’ and get a sneak peek at all the fun and excitement in store for their future.


HEAT WARNING: Contains three sexy cowboys who are still very much in love with their wife, love making love with her—together—and spare no details when doing so…every chance they get. Grey still has a dirty mouth, but thanks to Gabby’s efforts, tries to keep it clean in front of the children. It doesn’t always happen. Recommended for adult readers only.

Book 3: Rock Star Cowboys
MFM Ménage Romance
The McLendon Twins are all grown up and - oh my gawd - are they ever a double handful! The perfect combination of reckless and charming, the golden boys of Grassland have become country music gods. Carson is the life of the party. Connor loves their music, but he's had it with Carson's antics and life on the road. He's ready to call it quits when their beloved Papa falls ill and they are called home to their family ranch on Falcon Ridge; a place that holds both their hearts and the painful secret that changed their lives forever. 

Occupational Therapist Breezy Youngblood once loved Connor and Carson to the moon and back. She was a mere girl when her world was shattered and she was forced to leave Grassland with only her broken heart. When she's asked to return to help the McLendon patriarch recover, she's forced to face the tragedy that destroyed her dreams of ever calling Falcon Ridge her home. Will Connor and Carson embrace the second chance they've been given, or turn their backs on the one person who can make them whole again?

Book 4: Rock Star Cowboys: The Honeymoon
MFM Ménage Romance
No Paparazzi. No harassing media or hovering drones. Finally, Connor and Carson get Breezy all to themselves on the honeymoon of lifetime and they aren't about to let a moment go to waste.

NOTE: This novella is not a standalone. Rock Star Cowboys must be read to fully appreciate this lavish, sexy epilogue. Available in eBook format only. 


Book 5: The Hardest Goodbyes
MM Romance
Some goodbyes are cathartic—a good riddance to those things that hold us back. Some are bitter-sweet. It hurts to say the words, but we know the pain is only temporary, and we’ll soon be reunited.

Some goodbyes are forever. Those are the hardest to say.

At the height of the Cold War, a soldier and a spy begin a forbidden, unlikely affair that leads to a lifetime of love and loss, triumph and tragedy. Daniel and Cade’s ageless passion has forged an extraordinary family, and healed the hearts of those they love, but their journey was never easy.

From their first goodbye to their last, this is their story.

Book 6: Return to Falcon Ridge
Torn between his first love…and a forbidden attraction he can no longer deny.

Jonah McLendon is no stranger to polyandrous love. Having grown up in a poly family, he didn’t think twice when his high school sweetheart, Chloe, revealed her secret desire for a ménage with his best friend. There was only one problem. He didn’t expect to fall for Pryce, too.

Beaten within an inch of his life after Chloe exposes their secret, and Pryce having been shipped off to a religious boarding school a half state away, Jonah tells the biggest lie of his life and leaves Falcon Ridge with his heart in pieces. When he returns a year and a half later, the last thing he expects to find is his best friend engaged to the girl who betrayed them both.

No longer the scared, confused kid he once was, Jonah is determined to get to the bottom of Pryce’s sham of an engagement, but the truth behind Chloe’s betrayal could change all their lives forever.  

About the Author

USA Today and international bestselling author, D.L. Roan, loves combining fantasy with the real world, giving her readers more than just a romantic story, but an adventure in true love. She writes about life: the good, bad, the silly things, the hard things, and everything in between. "If I can give someone a break from all the craziness that comes with real life, make them smile, or turn a bad day into a fantastic one, then it's all been worth it." ~ D.L. Roan She's a native Floridian, a rare breed in a land of snow birds. Scuba diving and hunting for shark's teeth on the beach are two of her favorite things. She loves rainy days, thunderstorms and is an avid dog lover. Yes, size matters. She hopes to one day add a big ol' floppy Great Dane to her family of hounds. For exclusive details and free stories by D.L., visit her website www.dlroan.com and subscribe to her newsletter. She loves chatting with her friends and fans on Facebook. Check out the links in the back of her books for details about her secret fan group who get first dibs on all her sexy stories! 

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Monday 23 January 2017

Cover Reveal: The Storm (The Hurricane #3) by R.J. Prescott + giveaway



Title: The Storm (The Hurricane #3)
Author: R.J. Prescott
Genres: New Adult, Romance, Sports
Release Date: March 21, 2017

Synopsis
Marie Kelly is a survivor who doesn’t know when to quit. Against all odds, she’s living a life she never dreamed she could have. It was enough… until a stubborn boxer makes her want more.

Irish charmer Kieran Doherty has been a fighter at Driscoll’s Gym for most of his life. He’s been content to let his best friend take the spotlight, now it’s his turn to make a name for himself in the world of heavy weight champions. Falling in love is the one thing he vowed never to do, but meeting Marie changed everything.

It’s easy to imagine a happy-ever-after when the sun is shining. But when the storm comes, and all hope seems lost, they both learn that if you want something badly enough, you have to be willing to fight for it.


Previous books in the series:



About the Author

R.J. Prescott was born in Cardiff, South Wales and studied law at the University of Bristol, England. Four weeks before graduation she fell in love with a crazy firefighter and stayed in Bristol. Ten years later she convinced her husband to move back to Cardiff, where they now live with their two sons. Juggling work, writing and family doesn't leave leave a lot of time, but curling up on the sofa with a cup of tea and a bar of chocolate for family movie night is definitely the best part of her week. Her debut book "The Hurricane" is a USA Today Bestselling duet novel concluded in "The Aftermath".


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