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Monday, June 16, 2014

New Release: Perfect Kind of Trouble by Chelsea Fine. #giveaway


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We are thrilled to bring you the Release Day Launch for Chelsea Fine's PERFECT KIND OF TROUBLE!  PERFECT KIND OF TROUBLE is a New Adult contemporary romance novel in the Finding Fate Series, and not to be missed!


BUY LINKS:
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And don’t miss Book 1 in the Finding Fate Series…
 

 
PERFECT KIND OF TROUBLE Synopsis:


Perfect Kind of Trouble ebookSometimes when perfect falls apart, a little trouble fixes everything . . . 

 

Twenty-one-year-old Kayla Turner has lost everything. After spending most of her life taking care of her ailing mother, she just wants to spot a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel. So when her late father-a man she barely knew-leaves her an inheritance, she finally breathes a sigh of relief . . . until she learns the inheritance comes with strings. Strings in the form of handsome playboy Daren Ackwood, her father's protégé. To see any of her inheritance, she's forced to team up with him. From his expensive car to those sexy dimples, Kayla's seen his type before. But Daren isn't who he seems to be . . .

 

Struggling to make amends for his family's mistakes, Daren has a life more Oliver Twist than Richie Rich these days. He's beyond grateful that James Turner included him in his will, but working with Turner's princess of a daughter to fulfill his cryptic last wish is making Daren wonder if being broke is really so bad. Still, she's just as beautiful as she is stubborn, and the more time he spends with Kayla, the less it feels right being without her. Soon Daren and Kayla begin to wonder if maybe the best gift Kayla's dad could have left them . . . was each other.

 

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EXCERPT:

 

Still handcuffed together, we carefully maneuver our linked wrists and open the old train door. Inside, the boxcar is completely empty except for a single, folded piece of paper.

 

I scowl. Will this scavenger hunt for money ever end?

 

“What do you suppose it is?” Daren nods at the piece of paper in the back of the train car.

 

“A check for a million dollars?” I say hopefully.

 

The only way to reach the paper is to climb inside. Which won’t be easy since my chest barely reaches the bottom of the train car and we can’t climb in one at a time because, you know, we’re attached to one another.

 

I frown. “How do you want to do this?”

 

Daren scratches his jaw. “I’ll hoist you inside first then I’ll jump in. Come here.” He turns me around to face him and I step into the circle of his arms.

 

The summer sun burns down on us. I stare at his chest where his T-shirt pulls tight against the hard muscles of his pecs and a trickle of sweat slowly slides down the back of my neck.

 

The corded muscles of his neck ripple as he turns his head. “Hold on to my wrists. Then I’ll lift you up.”

 

He places his big hands on my waist and his thumbs slide under my shirt, grazing the bare skin of my stomach. A warm zing shoots down my belly.

 

I snap my eyes to him. “Did you do that on purpose?”

 

“Do what?” His expression is neutral but there’s a glimmer in his eye.

 

I eye him shrewdly as I wrap my hands around his wrists.

 

He glides the pads of his thumbs over my stomach again and another, more powerful, zing darts straight down my belly and between my legs as I suck in a breath.

 

“Cut it out,” I say.

 

“Cut what out?” His eyes dance with amusement.

 

“You know what.”

 

“I have no idea what you’re talking about.” A mischievous grin spreads across his face and I can’t stop the smile that starts to play at my own lips.

 

“Daren...”

 

His eyes lock on mine and the twitching low in my belly starts up again. Then his gaze drops to my mouth and hunger lights his eyes.

 

I absently part my lips, my thoughts suddenly hazy.

 

Leaning in, he whispers, “Now do you want to kiss again?”

 

His words flutter over my ear like soft, warm butterflies beating their wings against my sensitive skin and a shiver runs through me.

 

The answer is yes. I do want to kiss him again. It felt so good to have his mouth on mine last night. To feel him up against me.

 

But I don’t answer.

 

He brushes his thumbs over the naked skin of my belly again, but this time dips them inside the waistband of my skirt and skims the lacey top of my panties.

 

I inhale sharply, tightening my fingers around his wrists as my nipples harden and heat builds in my core. I rub my thighs together, trying to alleviate the ache slowly building between my legs but it’s no use. I’m already a tight puddle of need.

 

How come this beautiful man can make me melt with just a simple touch? And how come it’s always so difficult for me to snap out of his sexy gaze?

 

I blink away from Daren’s pretty brown eyes and playfully whisper, “No,” before shifting back a few inches.

 

His eyelids, heavy with desire, open fully as he scans my face and throat with a smile. “Liar.”

 

I smile back, grateful he doesn’t try to convince me otherwise. I’d no doubt give in if he did. Because Daren affects me.

 

Every other guy on the planet is just that: a guy.

 

But Daren is a force. And I am a feather.

 

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ABOUT CHELSEA FINE:

Author PhotoChelsea lives in Phoenix, Arizona where she spends most of her time writing stories, painting murals, and avoiding housework at all costs. She’s ridiculously bad at doing dishes and claims to be allergic to laundry. Her obsessions include: superheroes, coffee, sleeping-in, and crazy socks. She lives with her husband and two children, who graciously tolerate her inability to resist teenage drama on TV and her complete lack of skill in the kitchen.

 



 



 

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Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Happy Release Day to Best Kind of Broken by Chelsea Fine!! Excerpt and Giveaway.

 
 

We're extremely excited to participate in spreading the word about Chelsea Fine's BEST KIND OF BROKEN!  BEST KIND OF BROKEN is a New Adult contemporary romance and is the first book in the Finding Fate Series. It's available TODAY so after reading these hot teasers and entering the giveaway be sure to go out and grab your copy!!


SOMETIMES MOVING ON MEANS MOVING IN

Pixie Marshall wishes every day she could turn back time and fix the past. But she can't. And the damage is done. She's hoping that a summer of free room and board working with her aunt at the Willow Inn will help her forget. Except there's a problem: the resident handyman is none other than Levi Andrews. The handsome quarterback was once her friend-and maybe more--until everything changed in a life-shattering instant. She was hoping to avoid him, possibly forever. Now he's right down the hall and stirring up feelings Pixie thought she'd long buried . . .

Levi can't believe he's living with the one person who holds all his painful memories. More than anything he wants to make things right, but a simple "sorry" won't suffice--not when the tragedy that scarred them was his fault. Levi knows Pixie's better off without him, but every part of him screams to touch her, protect her, wrap her in his arms, and kiss away the pain. Yet even though she's so close, Pixie's heart seems more unreachable than ever. Seeing those stunning green eyes again has made one thing perfectly clear--he can't live without her.


"By turns humorous and heartbreaking, Best Kind Of Broken has become one of my favorites!"

--- CORA CARMACK, New York Times bestselling author of Losing It.

 

"You'll fall for Pixie and Levi, just like I did!"

--- JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT (J. Lynn), #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wait For You

 

"Tangled with friendship, history and heartbreak--not to mention a huge dose of

humor--Chelsea Fine's New Adult novel is not to be missed! Beyond an

incredibly HOT read, Pixie and Levi's longing for each other will have

you rooting for them till the very end."

--- JAY CROWNOVER, New York Times bestselling author of Rule

 

"This book destroyed me. Tore me into little tiny pieces. But somehow with

lots of laughs and some very steamy times, Chelsea put me back together

again! Chelsea Fine's style is witty, visceral and fresh. All I wanted

to do was crawl inside this book and live with the characters. And now

all I want is MORE."

--- CHELSEA M. CAMERON, New York Times bestselling author of My Favorite Mistake

 

"Sandwiched between laugh out loud moments and some serious heat, Best Kind of Broken is an unforgettable story of loss and forgiveness that will leave your heart aching."

--- LISA DESROCHERS, USA Today bestselling author of A Little Too Far

 

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EXCERPT:

 

Levi is so distracting. His arms are all raised, and his shoulders are all broad, and he’s fixing crap, and it’s just…it’s just…annoying.

 

With a huff and a puff and some choice words in my head, I grab my sliced bell peppers and force my feet to the stove. I throw the vegetables into a frying pan, grab a wooden spoon, and ignore Levi’s close proximity.

 

My body hums.

 

I ignore that too.

 

I steal a glance in his direction and watch as the corded muscles in his forearm flex as he unscrews something on the fire alarm box. Why does he have so many muscles in his forearm? That can’t be healthy.

 

I drop my eyes to the frying pan and focus on bell peppers, because bell peppers are interesting and they don’t have backs the size of Alaska or copious amounts of forearm muscles.

 

The forearm muscles that I’m not thinking about lightly brush my shoulder and the humming inside my body knots together and zips around like a bumblebee on crack.

 

I casually turn down the heat on the stove, like that’s the reason I’m suddenly a human vibrator, and go back to stirring. Levi goes back to screwing.

 

Bell peppers.

 

I’m thinking about bell peppers.

 

He brushes against me again, except this time his forearm grazes my breast and my body immediately goes wild like I’m some love-starved teenager and the humming dives low in my belly and the stove gets hotter and my breaths get shallow and suddenly bell peppers are the sexiest vegetable on earth.

 

From the corner of my eye, I catch his Adam’s apple bobbing with a nervous swallow, which can only mean one thing. The boob brush was an accident.

 

Well crap.

 

If he had been trying to cop a feel with his Hulkish forearm, I could have responded with some kind of snarky “you’re a pervert” comment. But it wasn’t on purpose and somehow that makes it sexier and now the cracked-out bumblebee is buzzing in my nether regions and my hands are starting to tingle and why the HELL is this stove so hot?

 

I turn the burner down another notch and take a slow, deep breath. I have a boyfriend. A great boyfriend. So this sexual frustration I feel around Levi is nothing to get my bee-loving panties in a bunch about. I just need to calm down.

 

Levi lowers his arm for a moment, his eyes still on the alarm, and stretches his neck.

 

Ah, the neck stretch. The universal sign of stress. Well at least I’m not alone in my frustration. My hot, distracting, pants-are-so-inconvenient frustration.

 

Wait, what?

 

Who said anything about pants? I am NOT thinking about pants—or lack thereof. Damn you, bell peppers!

 

I toss the wooden spoon to the side and move back to the counter where the threat of being turned on by a handyman or, you know, a sautéed vegetable is much less severe.

 

I bite back a groan. What was I thinking, living under the same roof as Levi? There’s no way I’ll survive the summer.

 

Hell, I can barely survive breakfast.



 

ABOUT CHELSEA FINE:
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Chelsea lives in Phoenix, Arizona where she spends most of her time writing stories, painting murals, and avoiding housework at all costs. She’s ridiculously bad at doing dishes and claims to be allergic to laundry. Her obsessions include: superheroes, coffee, sleeping-in, and crazy socks. She lives with her husband and two children, who graciously tolerate her inability to resist teenage drama on TV and her complete lack of skill in the kitchen.

 



 



 


 



 

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Friday, February 21, 2014

Read an excerpt from Chelsea Fine's upcoming Best Kind of Broken.


We are so excited to get to share you a huge excerpt for Chelsea Fine's upcoming New Adult Contemporary Romance, BEST KIND OF BROKEN. The first book in the Finding Fate Series, Chelsea is sharing part of the book with the world early!







But first, check out all of the information about BEST KIND OF BROKEN and Chelsea Fine! 


 
 
SOMETIMES MOVING ON MEANS MOVING IN
Pixie Marshall wishes every day she could turn back time and fix the past. But she can't. And the damage is done. She's hoping that a summer of free room and board working with her aunt at the Willow Inn will help her forget. Except there's a problem: the resident handyman is none other than Levi Andrews. The handsome quarterback was once her friend-and maybe more--until everything changed in a life-shattering instant. She was hoping to avoid him, possibly forever. Now he's right down the hall and stirring up feelings Pixie thought she'd long buried . . .

Levi can't believe he's living with the one person who holds all his painful memories. More than anything he wants to make things right, but a simple "sorry" won't suffice--not when the tragedy that scarred them was his fault. Levi knows Pixie's better off without him, but every part of him screams to touch her, protect her, wrap her in his arms, and kiss away the pain. Yet even though she's so close, Pixie's heart seems more unreachable than ever. Seeing those stunning green eyes again has made one thing perfectly clear--he can't live without her.


"By turns humorous and

heartbreaking, Best Kind Of Broken has become one of my

favorites!"

--- CORA CARMACK, New York Times bestselling

author of Losing It.



"You'll fall for Pixie and Levi, just like I did!"

--- JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT (J. Lynn), #1 New York Times bestselling

author of Wait For You



"Tangled with friendship, history and heartbreak--not to mention a huge

dose of humor--Chelsea Fine's New Adult novel is not to be missed! Beyond an

incredibly HOT read, Pixie and Levi's longing for each other will have

you rooting for them till the very end."

--- JAY CROWNOVER, New York Times bestselling

author of Rule



"This book destroyed me. Tore me into little tiny pieces. But somehow with

lots of laughs and some very steamy times, Chelsea put me back together

again! Chelsea Fine's style is witty, visceral and fresh. All I wanted

to do was crawl inside this book and live with the characters. And now

all I want is MORE."

--- CHELSEA M. CAMERON, New York Times bestselling

author of My Favorite Mistake



"Sandwiched between laugh out loud moments and some serious heat, Best

Kind of Broken
 is an unforgettable story of loss and forgiveness that
will leave your heart aching."

--- LISA DESROCHERS, USA Today bestselling author

of A Little Too Far




BUY LINKS:
 
 
Barnes and Noble

 


ABOUT CHELSEA FINE:




Chelsea lives in

Phoenix, Arizona where she spends most of her time writing stories, painting

murals, and avoiding housework at all costs. She’s ridiculously bad at doing

dishes and claims to be allergic to laundry. Her obsessions include:

superheroes, coffee, sleeping-in, and crazy socks. She lives with her husband

and two children, who graciously tolerate her inability to resist teenage drama

on TV and her complete lack of skill in the kitchen.



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Monday, February 3, 2014

Excerpt Blast: Best Kind of Broken by Chelsea Fine.


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We're sharing an excerpt from Chelsea Fine's BEST KIND OF BROKEN! BEST KIND OF BROKEN is a New Adult contemporary romance and the first book in her new Finding Fate Series, published by Grand Central Publishing (an imprint of Hachette). It is being released on March 4th, 2014 and something you need to add to your TBR pile ASAP!

 

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BEST KIND OF BROKEN Synopsis:

 

Pixie and Levi haven't spoken in nearly a year when they find themselves working―and living―at the same inn in the middle of nowhere. Once upon a time, they were childhood friends. But that was before everything went to hell. And now things are... awkward.

 

All they want to do is avoid each other, and their past, for as long as possible. But now that they're forced to share a bathroom, and therefore a shower, keeping their distance from one another becomes less difficult than keeping their hands off each other. Welcome to the hallway of awkward tension and sexual frustration, folks. Get comfy. It’s going to be a long summer.

 
Excerpt:

 

“I will pee on your bed.” This is my big, scary threat.

 

Levi used all the hot water again this morning, so I marched into his room in a rage.

 

I never go into Levi’s room. It’s a personal rule of mine. Our relationship—if you can even call it that—works because it’s simple. We never talk about the past. We sometimes argue. And we always stay out of each other’s business.

 

But here I am, in the business of Levi’s room, gripping my towel as cold, wet hair drips down my back. I haven’t had a hot shower for four days. Four days. This nonsense has got to stop.

 

“You seem stressed.” Levi, whose jeans are so low on his bare hips that I can tell he’s going commando, tilts his head. “You know what you need? A nice hot shower…oh wait.” He gives me an impish smile.

 

I might just pee on his bed right now.

 

“Joke all you want, Levi. But the next time you’re out fixing a broken window or a fire alarm, I will sneak into your room and pee on your bed.”

 

I’m dead serious here. And yes, I know it’s completely childish for a nineteen year-old to threaten such a thing, but I’m fresh out of maturity this morning. If I don’t get a hot shower tomorrow, I really will pee on his bed. Or at least find a cat to come pee on his bed. But either way, there will be urine on his sheets and I won’t feel bad about it.

 

The impish smile grows. “I can think of better things for you to do in my bed, Pix.”

 

Silence.

 

If his plan was to make me uncomfortable by flirting with me, it totally backfired. Because the second those words left Levi’s mouth, his body stiffened in awareness and the space between us became electric. So now we’re staring at each other’s lips and we’re both breathing heavier than necessary, and neither of us is really dressed.

 

I shift in my towel and feel the material slip a bit as I pull my eyes from his mouth and try to coax my face into a look of something less come-and-get-me and more ew-you’re-pathetic.

 

I’m gearing up for my comeback—which will be brilliant and kick-ass as soon as I nail it down—when his eyes drop to my chest, and all the air leaves the room.

 

He’s not looking at my cleavage.

 

He’s looking at the raised red scar peeking out from the top of my towel. The scar that cuts diagonally across my torso, running from my left hip bone to the top of my right breast. The scar I normally keep hidden under strategic shirts and dresses.

 

It’s hideous and jagged, but I don’t hide my scar because it’s ugly. I hide it because it’s a reminder of pain and loss. And Levi’s eyes are fixated on it.

 

Pain. Loss.

 

My heart starts to pound and I no longer care that my shower was cold or that we have weird sexual tension. I don’t care about Levi’s forearm muscles or the way the bathroom smells like his soap.

 

I care about my scar and what it means. It hurts me. It hurts him.

 

It’s the only thing we still have in common, the only thing we absolutely avoid, and now it’s glaring at us; marked on my skin in permanent red; rising along with each of my breaths.

 

The horror in his eyes has me hollowed out and helpless, and I have no words. I numbly turn and head down the hall to my room, shutting myself inside a millisecond before my body starts to shake. I lean against the door and try to take a deep breath.

 

I’m fine.

 

I’m fine.

 

I hear Levi’s bedroom door slam closed with a heavy thud and the vibration runs down the wall and shakes against my back.

 

He’s not fine.

 

I’m not fine.

 
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About Chelsea Fine:

 

Author
PhotoChelsea lives in Phoenix, Arizona where she spends most of her time writing stories, painting murals, and avoiding housework at all costs. She’s ridiculously bad at doing dishes and claims to be allergic to laundry. Her obsessions include: superheroes, coffee, sleeping-in, and crazy socks. She lives with her husband and two children, who graciously tolerate her inability to resist teenage drama on TV and her complete lack of skill in the kitchen.

 
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