Release Blitz: Dashing through the No by Tara Sivec

 

Twas the week before Christmas and all through Summersweet,
Tess Powell was annoyed and wanted to retreat.
With a BIC in her hand and a frown on her face,
everyone knew she needed a break from this place.
Wanting the holiday to be nothing but the best,
Bodhi took his girlfriend to the mountains to rest.
While visions of fire happily danced in Tess’s head,
soon she would see she had everything to dread.
Crying kids, singing hippos, and a stalker with a van,
definitely wasn’t part of Bodhi’s evacuation plan.
But all he wanted for Christmas was for her to say yes,
to the question he kept asking with zero finesse.
With some help from new friends and their holiday cheer,
Tess and Bodhi get much more
than they asked Santa for this year.

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𝗗𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗼 (𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘄𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝗜𝘀𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 #𝟯) is LIVE EVERYWHERE!⁣

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‼️This book will be going into KU next weekend, and will only be available on Amazon after that point‼️

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Dashing through the No is an entertaining, witty story and it’s about Bodhi and Tess.

Bodhi is this easy going dude who is a little outrageous alot of the time. Tess certainly keeps him on his toes, especially with her stubbornness and certain tendencies.

These two are a match made in heaven and definitely balance each other out. 

Outlandish parts that made me laugh hard, great friendships and some funny surprises made this book so up my alley.

Just the sort of book one needs especially this year! Kudos to Ms Sivec for writing this witty wonder! Kinda also made me want to deal with Christmas this year now.

About the author

Tara Sivec is a USA Today best-selling author, wife, mother, chauffeur, maid, short-order cook, baby-sitter, and sarcasm expert. She lives in Ohio with her husband and two children and looks forward to the day when all three of them become adults and move out.

After working in the brokerage business for fourteen years, Tara decided to pick up a pen and write instead of shoving it in her eye out of boredom. She writes in a wide range of genres including Romantic Comedy, Romantic Comedy/Mystery, Romantic Suspense, New Adult Drama, Contemporary Romance and Psychological Thriller. Her novel Seduction and Snacks won first place in the Indie Romance Convention Reader's Choice Awards 2013 for Best Indie First Book and she was voted Best Indie Author in the Indie Romance Convention Reader's Choice Awards 2014.

In her spare time, Tara loves to dream about all of the baking she'll do and naps she'll take when she ever gets spare time.

https://tarasivec.com/

Release Blitz & Excerpt: Otterly Scorched by Tara Sivec

Otterly Scorched Links:

Amazon: mybook.to/OtterlyScorched

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Kobo: https://bit.ly/OtterlyKobo

iBooks: https://bit.ly/OtterlyiBooks

Bookbub: https://bit.ly/OtterlyBookBub

Goodreads: https://bit.ly/OtterlyScorchedGR

Blurb:

It’s been a lot of years and another lifetime since Dax Trevino was a playboy detective for the Franklin Police Department. He’s been through hell and back, and now he just wants to be left alone, so he can cuddle his otters.

When two of his babies are kidnapped in the middle of the night, and Claws and Effect Pet Detectives are called to the rescue, quiet, broody Dax never expects to be tackled and handcuffed by the only woman he ever regretted being a douchebag to all those years ago.

Harley Blake has spent her entire life taking care of her accident-prone father with a fondness for dead animals, and her forty-year-old brother who refuses to grow up. The last thing she needs is another complication in her life, and Detective Douchebag is at the top of the list.

Dax might not be a cop anymore, and he might have outgrown his one-and-done player status, but that doesn’t mean she’s going to get burned a second time and fall for his charms. The infuriating man already branded a mark on her heart years ago, making sure she’d never forget him. Besides, she has a case to solve for the guy, and this is just business.

But the sarcasm starts flying, there are a gaggle of adorable otters who need to be cuddled, a Bandit Von Trash Panda who just wants to play poker, pot brownies, and squirrels dressed for a wedding... at a funeral. Things are heating up—and not just from the small tree fire after the grenade went off—and this man is suddenly simplifying her life instead of making it worse.

Harley knows she won’t escape this time without being Otterly Scorched.

Excerpt:

“A gentleman should be polite and courteous on a date, while being firm and manly by listening to what his date would like to eat and then ordering it for her,” Dax informs me, holding his pointer finger up to the waiter while he grabs his water glass and chugs half of it before setting it back down on the table.

            “Why are you talking like this?”

            “Like what?”

            “Like... you’re Google, and I just asked you how to go on a first date. In 1952.”

            Dax quickly picks his menu back up and looks down at it.

            “Chicken parm sounds good.”

            A few more previously dead brain cells join the smart living one, and I tell the waiter to give us a couple minutes. The confused young man walks away, and I lean forward to rest my elbows on the table, take the menu out of Dax’s hands, and set it down on the table off to the side.

            “Dax Trevino. Did you google how to go on a date?” I ask softly, never knowing before this moment that my heart could actually feel like it’s melting in my chest.

            Dax sighs, leaning forward in his chair to cross his arms and rest them on the table with me until our faces are a few inches apart.

            “You’re goddamn right I did.” He nods with conviction, all of the nervousness finally gone from his face now that the truth is out. “Harley, I don’t know what the hell I’m doing here either. I’ve never dated anyone. I’ve never wanted to date anyone, or make them feel special or like a princess on a date. I know you’re not really the princess type, but I want to do this right, and I’m fifteen steps into Twenty-Five Ways to Date Like a Gentleman. I’ve had my car detailed, I’ve taken extra time to properly groom myself, I’m wearing an outfit that gives me confidence, I’m maintaining eye contact, and I’ve prepared a list of topics for us to discuss in case there’s an uncomfortable lull in dinner conversation.”

            Dax reaches over, grabs my fingers, and tugs my hand to his mouth, kissing the top of it.

            “Now, let me order dinner for you without you stabbing me, and then just sit there like a good girl and let the nice man I paid play the violin right next to our table and make it super awkward while we eat the main course.”

Otterly Scorched is a witty story with quirky characters and fun animals!
It was such a refreshing easy to read story that made me laugh and want to be friends with the characters!
The antics in this book are rather funny and the banter was very entertaining!
When Harley and Dax meet when Dax’s Otters go missing, needless to say the adventure and drama is on big time! Ridiculous moments ensue and there is also sizzling chemistry between Harley and Dax!
Can Dax let bygones be bygones? Can Harley let someone take care of her for a change?
I really enjoyed reading Otterly Scorched!

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Audiobook review: Heidi’s Guide to Four Letter Words by Tara Sivec & Andi Arndt

Heidi’s Guide to Four Letter Words

Cowritten by USA Today best-selling author Tara Sivec and award-winning narrator Andi Arndt, a hysterically funny, heartfelt romance about starting over and taking chances.

Nothing good ever comes from drinking a box of wine alone. So when I decided to entertain my drunken self by setting up some hand-me-down podcasting equipment and reading the steamy parts from romance novels, I never thought anyone would actually listen. The fact that I admitted my huge crush on my sexy next door neighbor made the whole thing even more mortifying. But sometimes life surprises you, and that’s how my podcast, Heidi’s Discount Erotica, was born.

Now I, Heidi Larsen, a sweet former kindergarten teacher in Waconia, Minnesota, lead a scandalous double life reading erotic novels to the listening world. And with each episode, I find myself embracing my new alter ego more and more. Now I’m starting to feel more comfortable in my own skin and do things I never would have dreamed of - like kissing my neighbor.

Look out, Waconia, because Heidi’s on the loose! She’s in your ears, in your hearts, and down your pants...wait, that didn’t sound as good as it did in my head. Well, you get the picture, don’tcha know!

BUY LINK:

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What a outrageously entertaining audiobook! Andi is so talented at narrating all the characters in this funny story! Yes it was quirky and all I hear now is Welcome to heidis discount erotica do do do!! The do do do got me every time!! I giggled alot!!
The storyline was so out there which is rather awesome to be quite honest, as who doesn’t love to listen to something incredibly fun to listen to?? Sometimes you just need an audiobook just like this!!
Tara certainly has a knack for great rom com and adding in Andi to the book made it amazing! Great job ladies!!!

Release Day & Review by Marina: Just My Type by Tara Sivec!!

Just My Type

Romantic Comedy

*Spinoff of The Simple Life, but can be read as a standalone

Amazon: mybook.to/JustMyType

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Kobo: http://bit.ly/JMTkobo

iBooks: http://bit.ly/JMTapple

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Goodreads: http://bit.ly/2JO6rqj

Live in the best small town in the world? Check.
Have the greatest job ever working on my family's pumpkin farm? Check.
Marry the town pharmacist and have a nice, quiet life with our son? Check-check.

"Oh, I'm sorry. Did you say you were happy? LOLOLOLOL!" ~ Life

Ember Hastings never thought she'd be dragged away from White Timber and everything she loved, thrust in the middle of a big city she hated, or have her husband of nine years say, "I can't do this anymore," all within the span of three months, yet here she is.

She misses her family, she misses the farm, and she misses having a backbone and caring whether or not the stain on her shirt is chocolate or shit. She works from home doing transcription. Does she really need to shower or leave the house?

Baker Matthews has been bringing everyone down lately with his grouchy attitude. His job is stressful and sometimes depressing, but he wouldn't change anything about it. When a glitch with the transcription company he's using mistakenly sends him notes he wasn't supposed to see, Baker finds himself laughing out loud for the first time in months.

He's never met a woman who says whatever she's thinking and doesn't fawn all over him when she finds out what he does for a living. Until Ember Hastings comes barreling into his life, calling him Shit Mouth and asking if he has any balls.

But she wants to keep this professional. She made him pinky swear, and you don't mess around with pinky swears. Baker will have to get creative if he wants to prove to Ember that he's just her type.

Excerpt:

“Well, I’m good and truly fucked.”

“If you can say the F-word all the time, I can say penis whenever I want,” Lincoln announces as I look up from my phone to find him standing in front of me with his backpack on and his teeth freshly brushed.

“Okay, fine.” I shrug, grabbing my keys from the counter and choosing to deal with this problem right now instead of the Shit Mouth one. “But since I’m the adult, I’ll test it out first, okay there, penis? Did you pack your penis in your backpack? Did you study for your penis test?”

“Moooom,” Lincoln whines as I usher him out the front door.

“What’s wrong, penis? I thought we were cool with penis,” I say as we get into my car and buckle up. “Turn on the penis and find a good song. I bet it will be a song about pe—”

“Okay!” Lincoln finally shouts with a laugh. “It’s not cool when you say it. It’s kind of gross. I won’t say it all the time anymore.”

Well, I’m not going to win Mother of the Year anytime soon, but that’s one problem solved.

We spend the rest of the car ride to school coming up with names for the dog I’m caving on more and more each day, none of which have anything to do with the male anatomy, thankfully. It’s not until I’ve dropped my car off at home and headed back out on foot for my Monday morning coffee ritual that I start worrying about problem number two.

“Jesus, just read the email, Ember. What’s the worst it could say?” I mutter to myself as I lock up my front door and walk down the porch to the sidewalk, my cell phone practically burning a hole in my back pocket with that unread email waiting for me.

I called the client Shit Mouth. I accused him of not having any balls. And steroid use, just because he owns a gym. He’s going to rip me a new asshole.

“It’s not like this was my fault. He never should have seen my notes. I did nothing wrong,” I mutter to myself again as I reach into my back pocket and pull my phone out when I get to the end of my front walkway and turn right.

You did so much wrong. He’s going to murder you. He has your email address now. He could hire himself a hacker and find out where you live. I really need to stop watching Dateline.

Before I can give myself any more time to freak out, I quickly open the email as I walk and hold my breath, wondering if he’ll just call me a bitch, or go right for the kill and whip out the old C U Next Tuesday. Honestly, for a guy who owns a gym and “looks like he works out,” he better bring the big guns, or I will have lost all faith in ’roid rage.

Dammit, Ember! That’s what got you into this mess in the first place.

My breath leaves me in a whoosh, and I come to a stop in the middle of the sidewalk when I read the email. And read it again. And one more time, just to make sure I’m not seeing things.

To: Ember Hastings

From: baker83@gmail.com

Subject: Shit Mouth Transcription

She twirls her hair around her finger every fucking time she laughs.

I said purple, clear as day. Get the shit out your ear.

My balls are where they always are. Slung over my shoulder, because they’re too big to carry. (GIGGLES)

I have never, nor will I ever, use steroids. Drugs are bad. Needles are scary. Shut up. Big, manly men can have fears too, GOD.

She is definitely not a professional interviewer. Does Dan Rather drop his pen every fifteen minutes so he can bend over and show people his cleavage? More importantly, does Dan Rather have cleavage?

But seriously, DO I sound like I have shit in my mouth? I feel like you’re lying.

Not Necessarily Shit Mouth, a.k.a. Baker

5 stars plus

Absolutely hilarious and punny!! This book had me hooked from the first page! Outrageous characters with witty banter that had me snort laughing alot!
Then part way through i couldn’t see through tears of laughter!!!
Where does the author come up with gold like this! She should bottle it! No word of a lie, tears are running down my face!!
Goodness me this book is an absolute delight to read and just what I needed! And what to say about the characters, Ember had a problem with foot in mouth, everything that she spoke was rather witty but also out there!! Sarcasm, quirky Emails, texting, spoken words were just downright entertaining!
Then theres Baker, goodness me, he was swoonworthy and came up with momentus dates! I loved him! I could read about these characters forever!
So much to love about this book! Will there be more?? I sincerely hope so!
Brilliant! One of the best Rom com's I've read this year!

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Release Blitz & Review by Robin: The Story Of Us by Tara Sivec

 THE STORY OF US by Tara Sivec (June 11, 2017; Forever Yours eBook; $3.99)

How much can a man take before he breaks?

1,843 days. That's how long I survived in that hellhole. They tried to break me, but I resisted. And I owe it all to the memory of warm summer nights, the scent of peaches, and the one woman who loved me more than I ever deserved to be loved. Now, I'll do anything to get back to her.

Only Shelby Eubanks isn't the girl I left behind all those years ago. She's someone else, a stranger. My Shelby-my little green-eyed firecracker-would never give up her dreams, would never disappear into her mother's ambitions. But I won't give up on her. On us. I may be broken, and scarred, and not the man I used to be, but I will do whatever it takes to remind her of the story of us.

Buy the Book!

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What as crazy emotional read. This is one of the best second chance romances I have read in a long while.

Eli and Shelby had a passionate young love but life and circumstance had them parting ways. Eli comes home from the Army and will stop at nothing to win over Shelby's heart.  The problem is Shelby is not as naive and innocent and is much more world weary. He does everything to remind her of their story.

These characters take a little bit to get to know, but the story is well written and an emotional rollercoaster. Absolutely worth the read!!

About the Author

Tara Sivec is a USA Today best-selling author, wife, mother, chauffeur, maid, short-order cook, baby-sitter, and sarcasm expert. She lives in Ohio with her husband and two children and looks forward to the day when they all three of them become adults and move out.

After working in the brokerage business for fourteen years, Tara decided to pick up a pen and write instead of shoving it in her eye out of boredom. Her novel Seduction and Snacks won first place in the Indie Romance Convention Reader's Choice Awards 2013 for Best Indie First Book and she was voted as Best Author in the Indie Romance Convention Reader's Choice Awards for 2014.

In her spare time, Tara loves to dream about all of the baking she'll do and naps she'll take when she ever gets spare time.

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