BBNYA Finalist Spotlight: Bloodlaced, by Courtney Maguire

blood laced banner

This year, the Book Bloggers’ Novel of the Year Award (BBNYA) is celebrating the 50 books that made it into Round Two with a mini spotlight blitz tour for each title. BBNYA is a yearly competition where book bloggers from all over the world read and score books written by indie authors, ending with 15 finalists and one overall winner.

If you want some more information about BBNYA, check out the BBNYA Website or take a peek over on Twitter: @BBNYA_Official. BBNYA is brought to you in association with the @Foliosociety (If you love beautiful books, you NEED to check out their website!) and the book blogger support group @The_WriteReads.


Bloodlaced
Youkai Bloodlines, #1
by Courtney Maguire
Publisher: City Owl Press
Length: 314 Pages
Genre: Paranormal
Age Category: Adult
Date Published: 29 September 2020

Kanjin hardly view their servants as human. Even less so when they are different.

Asagi is different. Both a man and a woman.

In the wake of his failure to protect a boy they saw as a son from their abusive master, Asagi is sold into the house of a young nobleman, Mahiro, who is the opposite of everything Asagi has ever known—gentle, kind, and generous.

Mahiro bonds with Asagi and their friendship blooms into a deep and profound love. But when Asagi is poisoned out of jealousy, Mahiro reveals himself to be youkai, a demon who feeds on blood, and he has no choice but to turn Asagi to save their life.

Asagi awakes reborn, strong, and eternally youthful. But the price for Asagi’s new life is high.

The blood of the innocent.

Just as Asagi’s trust in Mahiro falters, the boy they failed to protect, now a man, reappears.

New master, same threat.

With both a literal and proverbial monster at the door, Asagi must decide what it means to be human to protect what they loves most.

If you like Bella Forrest, P. C. Cast, AJ Tipton, or Anne Rice, you will love this beautiful dark paranormal fantasy romance.

Content Warnings: physical abuse, sexual abuse (off-page), self-harm, blood, graphic violence

Amazon CA / Amazon US / Goodreads


Author Bio

Courtney Maguire
Courtney Maguire is a University of Texas graduate from Corpus Christi, Texas. Drawn to Austin by a voracious appetite for music, she spent most of her young adult life in dark, divey venues nursing a love for the sublimely weird. A self-proclaimed fangirl with a press pass, she combined her love of music and writing as the primary contributor for Japanese music and culture blog, Project: Lixx, interviewing Japanese rock and roll icons and providing live event coverage for appearances across the country.

Author Website
Author Facebook (Author Page)
Author Twitter
Author Instagram
Author Goodreads
Author QueeRomance Ink
Author Amazon

 

Author Spotlight: Morgan Brice

morgan brice halloween banner

IG Sized HR Morgan Brice 4

Happy Halloween! Come check out The Worlds Of Morgan Brice

Get ready for the Spooky season
with a book by Morgan Brice

With ghosts, witches, demons, magic and mayhem, there’s something for everyone in the world of Morgan Brice…

Welcome to the World Of Morgan Brice 📖 https://getbook.at/MorganBrice

A series starter for everyone…

❤️ Badlands: A MM Psychic Detective Romance Adventure
📖 https://getbook.at/BadLands

🧡 Witchbane: A supernatural, second chances, thrill ride
📖 https://getbook.at/witchbane

💛 Treasure Trail: A suspenseful MM paranormal romance mystery-adventure
📖 https://getbook.at/Treasure_Trail

💚 Kings Of The Mountain: Fast cars. Outlaw country boys. Snarky werewolves, vengeful ghosts, and menacing monsters.
📖 https://getbook.at/KingsOfTheMountain

💙 Huntsman: Full of sexy shifters, hurt/comfort, sincere psychics, hot first responders, found family and fated mates.
📖 https://getbook.at/Huntsman

💜 Imaginary Lover: Beyond the Realm: Remember Book 8
📖 https://getbook.at/ImaginaryLover

IG Sized HR Morgan Brice 3


Witchbane
MM Supernatural Romance Adventure

Witchbane Book 1 Cover

Seth is used to risking his neck. He never intended to risk his heart.

Seth Tanner swore to avenge his brother’s death. But when his quest for vengeance brings him to Richmond to stop a dark coven’s next ritual murder, he’s hell-bent on keeping Jackson Evan Malone from becoming the warlocks’ next victim. He just didn’t expect to fall in love with the man he’s sworn to protect.

Evan thinks Seth is crazy. Maybe that’s true—but Seth could still be right about the danger. Evan doesn’t believe in witches, and he’s still healing from past betrayals. He might trust Seth with his life—but what happens when he starts to fall for his handsome, dangerous protector?

Witchbane is a supernatural, second chance at love thrill ride packed with hurt/comfort, deadly magic, immortal witches, determined hunters, spells and curses, true love, impressive explosions, spooky chills and sexy thrills!

Universal Link

Goodreads

Witchbane Seires Banners


Badlands
A MM Psychic Detective Romance Adventure

Badlands-Cover

A psychic and a skeptical homicide cop team up to hunt a supernatural killer in Myrtle Beach. Medium and clairvoyant Simon Kincaide owns a Myrtle Beach boardwalk shop where he runs ghost tours, holds séances, and offers private psychic readings, making a fresh start after his abilities cost him his lover and his job. Jaded cop Vic D’Amato saw something supernatural during a shootout and reporting it nearly cost him his badge. He’s still skeptical about the paranormal. But when the search for a serial killer hits a dead end, Vic battles his skepticism to ask Simon for help.

As the body count rises, Simon’s involvement makes him a target, and a suspect. But Simon can’t say no, even if it costs him his life and heart.

Badlands is a thrill-packed urban fantasy MM paranormal romance with plenty of supernatural suspense, hurt/comfort, found family, ghosts, magic, a second chance at true love, spooky chills and sexy thrills!

Badlands Book One. Intended for readers age 18 and over.

Universal Link

Goodreads

Badlands Series-4


Treasure Trail
MM Supernatural Suspense

Treasure Trail Cover

A web of lies, danger, and deception might make Erik and Ben Cape May’s newest ghosts!

Erik Mitchell traveled the world uncovering art fraud, which pitted him against spoiled billionaires, unscrupulous collectors, mobsters, and cartels. When a sting goes wrong, Erik is injured, and his relationship falls apart. He decides to stop globetrotting and buy an antique shop in scenic Cape May, NJ, rebuild his life, and nurse his broken heart.

Undercover Newark cop Ben Nolan went down in a hail of bullets when a bust went sideways after a tip-off from a traitor inside the department. When his aunt offers him the chance to take over her rental real estate business in Cape May, it seems too good to be true. Now, if he could just believe he could ever be lucky again in love.

Sparks fly when Erik and Ben meet. But a cursed hotel’s long-ago scandals resurface, setting off a dangerous chain of events that will test their bond—and might make them Cape May’s newest ghosts!

Treasure Trail is a suspenseful MM paranormal romance mystery-adventure filled with second chance love, hurt/comfort, soulmates, awesome tattoos, dangerous secrets, restless ghosts, psychic visions, helpful witches, angry mobsters, and a haunted hotel.

Book One in the Treasure Trail series.

Universal Link

Goodreads

IG Tour Tile - Blink Set 2 Teaser 3


Imaginary Lover
Beyond the Realm: Remember Book 8

Imaginary Lover Cover

“There’s no time. Remember your imaginary lover….” Cory Caldwell woke up by the side of the road with no memory of how he got there. He pieces together who he is but has no idea what happened to him. Dark visions haunt him—flashes of blood, magic, and a brutal fight. Scorching dreams of a faceless lover offer no clues.

His gut warns that something urgent is eluding him, and that time is running out. Worse is the sense of bone-deep grief, as if Cory is missing part of his soul.

Desperate for answers, he hops a bus for Fox Hollow, a town famous for psychics, mediums, and those with supernatural abilities. Then a stranger calls Cory by name and casts a furtive glance around him. “There’s no time,” the man says. “I need your help. Remember…”

Can Cory unlock his missing memories and rescue the stranger before it’s too late? Imaginary Lover is full of dangerous magic, hurt/comfort, brave monster hunters, dark curses, sincere psychics, found family, and forever love.

Imaginary Lover is the eighth book in the multi-author series, Beyond the Realm: Remember. Each book is set in its own world and can be read as a standalone novel. Join eight authors on eight very different, romantic, and magical stories as each one writes their own take on the same concept.

Imaginary Lover is set in the town Fox Hollow and includes characters from the other books in that town, but can be read as a stand-alone.

Universal Link

Goodreads

IG Tile Teaser 1


Huntsman
Fox Hollow Zodiac Novel 1

Huntsman eBook Cover

A grieving wolf. A hunted fox. Fated mates, thrown together by chance, and the looming threat of a fabled Huntsman who might tear them apart forever.

Fox shifter Liam Reynard is running from a killer. He uproots his life to find sanctuary in Fox Hollow, deep in the Adirondack Forest in New York.

When his car breaks down, sexy wolf shifter Russ Lowe comes to the rescue, and one touch makes it clear they’re fated mates. Neither man was looking for love, and both are still mending from past heartbreak. When mysterious fires and disappearances threaten Fox Hollow, Liam fears the killer is hot on his trail. Can he protect the town and his fated mate from the evil hunting him, or will an ex-lover’s betrayal cost Liam everything he loves?

Huntsman is full of sexy shifters, hurt/comfort, second chance love, sincere psychics, hot first responders, found family and fated mates.

Book One in the Fox Hollow: Zodiac series

Universal Link

Goodreads

IG Tour Tile - HA Teaser 1


Kings of the Mountain

Kings of The Mountain Cover

Fast cars. Outlaw country boys. Snarky werewolves, vengeful ghosts, and menacing monsters.

Dawson King’s family has been hunting things that go bump in the night in Transylvania County, North Carolina, since before the Revolutionary War.

Dawson was never happier than when he was racing his souped-up Mustang along winding mountain roads and hunting monsters with his best friend, Grady. Then Grady fell in love with him, which should have been perfect since Dawson had already fallen hard for Grady.

But Grady was only seventeen, and Dawson feared that sooner or later, Grady would realize his feelings were just a first crush, and then he’d be gone, leaving Dawson devastated. They both needed space to figure things out. So Dawson joined the army, while Grady stayed on the mountain.

Four years later, Dawson is coming home. He’s more sure than ever Grady is his forever love, and they’ve both agreed to begin this new aspect of their relationship as soon as Dawson gets back.

Then Grady’s father is killed in a werewolf hunt gone wrong. Grady is devastated, and he’s throwing mixed signals about moving forward. Dawson knows he needs to hold off on this new thing between them until Grady has time to grieve. But monsters never sleep, and one hunt after another throws Dawson and Grady into constant danger, while tension and unresolved feelings ripple between them.

Making it even harder, Dawson’s got a secret. He’s dreamed of death omens—which point to something stalking Grady. Can Dawson figure out who’s trying to kill Grady, save his life, and win back his heart?

Plenty of mutual pining, hurt/comfort, spooky chills, sexy thrills, and a very happy ending. The Kings of the Mountain is the first novel in the series. It is a MM romance intended for readers 18 years of age and older.

Universal Link

Goodreads

GRR Insta


About the Author:

Morgan Brice is the romance pen name of bestselling author Gail Z. Martin. Morgan writes urban fantasy male/male paranormal romance, with plenty of action, adventure and supernatural thrills to go with the happily ever after. Gail writes epic fantasy and urban fantasy, and together with co-author hubby Larry N. Martin, steampunk and comedic horror, all of which have less romance, more explosions. Characters from her Gail books make frequent appearances in secondary roles in her Morgan books, and vice versa.

On the rare occasions Morgan isn’t writing, she’s either reading, cooking, or spoiling two very pampered dogs.

Series include Witchbane, Badlands, Treasure Trail, Kings of the Mountain and Fox Hollow. Watch for more in these series, plus new series coming soon!

Author Links

Facebook Group | Pinterest (for Morgan and Gail) | Twitter: @MorganBriceBook

Sign up for my newsletter and never miss a new release

Read a copy of my Badlands short story Restless Nights here for free

Follow me on BookBub | Instagram


grr-tours-promo


Spotlight & Excerpt: Entwined Souls + Giveaway

entwined-souls-banner

Entwined Souls Cover

Celestial Affairs, Book 1

Falian thinks he’s insignificant. He’s about to discover a destiny that will affect the world. He’s about to find a love that will change it.

When Falian refuses to accept a job he has been ordered to take on, one that would involve hurting people, he embarks on a momentous journey to change his life. To his shock, Quithlade the Storm God and Bymbles, a celestial imp, decide to join him.

Falian and Quithlade grow closer, but the Storm God had a previous relationship that will have a profound effect on the tentative feelings Falian is starting to have. Quithlade is irresistible, though, with a clearly undeserved reputation for untrustworthy behaviour that makes no sense. He is kind and affectionate, with extraordinary powers including the ability to shape-shift into various different creatures.

Falian thought he knew everything about the mortal world, but he’s about to discover supernatural creatures he never knew existed and face worse danger than he thought possible.

Deities and mortals aren’t supposed to mix; they certainly aren’t meant to fall in love. Find out if Falian can get a happy ending in the first book in an epic fantasy series with an entire pantheon of deities who just can’t seem to stop getting into trouble.

Universal Link

Add to Goodreads

Cover banner with love flowers quote


Excerpt

“FALIAN FINISHED putting salve on the wound and then bound it with moss.  “All better,” he pronounced.

The child he was treating offered him a tentative smile and he beamed back at her, happy to be doing something useful for once.

The child’s master teacher patted her head and stood up. “Thank you so much, Herb Master.”

Falian did not correct her again, having done it many times to no effect in the last couple of years.  He was not a trained healer, only someone who had managed to learn enough to do such basic work.

The master teacher led him towards the door.  “I’ve hated having to ask you to come here.  You must have got into a lot of trouble for it.”

“No.  It’s fine,” he reassured her.  Any punishment was more than made up for by how right this work felt.  He was finally able to help people and it made him feel like an adult with his own role in the world.

“We won’t have to bother you again.  We’ve finally been assigned an herb master, someone who was born here and requested to return.”

Falian’s heart sank, although he forced himself to smile. The community had been too poor to get anyone skilled before, so it was good that they would have someone now.  If someone had been seriously injured or ill he wouldn’t have had enough knowledge to help them, so this was good.  It was entirely what was best for them.  “You must be relieved.”

“Honestly, I felt as if I was letting my people down by not providing anyone for such a fundamental role.”

Her candour startled him a little.  They had never before spoken like friends, but it was nice to be treated this way and he, of all people, knew what it felt like to be a disappointment to others.  “You’ve worked hard to make this a happy and productive community, Master Teacher.” The lack of any resources that would have brought them extra money was not her fault.  “No one could have done more and I’m sure your people know that and are grateful.”

She held out a purse to him.  “Please take it this time. It’s the least I can do after all the ways you’ve helped us.”

He shook his head.  “I’m untrained so I’ve done nothing to earn money.  I’ve been happy to get to know everyone here.”

“Thank you. May the Goddess of Travel guide you safely home.”

Cover with hook Instagram


Enter the Giveaway:

To celebrate the release of Book 1 in the Celestial Affairs series, Chloe is giving away 3 e-copies of Entwined Souls!

Enter the Rafflecopter giveaway for your chance to win!

A Rafflecopter Giveaway

Direct Link

Entwined Souls title w picture kiss


Clare Solomon Pic

About the Author:

Clare Solomon lives in the Highlands of Scotland, having started life in Hertfordshire in England and gradually moved further and further north. She has had a variety of jobs, including legal secretary and sales adviser, but she always wanted to be an author so she started self-publishing in 2016. She writes gay science-fiction and fantasy books under her real name. She also writes under two pseudonyms, Clare Jayne and C. J. Solomon, using these for historical fiction and non-fiction, and has published more than twenty books in total.

Connect with Clare:
Website
Twitter
Goodreads
Facebook
Pinterest


grr-tours-promo


Scroll Up