Hello and welcome back to another WWW Wednesday.
WWW Wednesday is a weekly book meme now hosted by Sam @ Taking on a World of Words! The rules are simple, just answer the three W’s!
The Three W’s:
What are you currently reading?
What did you just finish reading?
What are you planning to read next
If you notice last week this post was missing, I’m truly sorry. This past week was one of the busiest weeks I’ve had all summer. It was great! But now I’m back with my regular postings! I’ll tell you more about it in my August Wrap Up!
This week I’ve been working through my August Series Challenge. This month I decided to read the entire BLEEDING STARS series by A.L. JACKSON! I also had and have a few arcs to read this week.
Lets get started!
I’m just starting Where Lightning Strikes by A.L. Jackson! I am so excited to finally read Lyrik’s novel. In my honest opinion…Lyrik is the most intriguing character in this series! I am dying to get a glimpse inside his head. So far I have just read the prologue but HOLY CROW…that prologue is intense! Where Lightning Strikes is the third novel in the Bleeding Stars series!
Where Lightning Strikes
(Bleeding Stars #3)
by: A.L. Jackson
Publication Date: March 22nd, 2016
Publisher: Self Published
Format: KINDLE UNLIMITED
Synopsis:
Do you know what it feels like right before lightning strikes? How you can feel the current running through your veins? The trembles of warning that ripple through the air? It was a thrill Tamar King chased all her life until it became the very thing she had to escape.
For the last four years, Tamar King has hidden herself in an isolated world she created. She was safe. No one could touch her. Until Lyrik West walked through her door.
He’s the lead guitarist for Sunder and everything she can never have. The dark and beautiful rock star becomes everything she craves.
Lyrik’s life has been devoted to his band and that success has cost him. Bitter, hard, and filled with regret, he refuses to lose himself again, but from the moment he sees her, he wants one night with Tamar King.
The gorgeous bartender is more than he bargained for. Their attraction is consuming. Their desire overpowering. With one touch, they ignite.
But is it worth the cost of getting burned?
She’s a gorgeous nightmare and he’s a wicked dream…
WHERE LIGHTNING STRIKES, a Bleeding Stars Stand-Alone Novel
I also just started an ARC of Hate To Love You by TIJAN!!! I Love the worlds that TIJAN creates. So far I’m through Chapter One and I am loving this novel. I’m all kinds of intrigued and can’t wait to read more!
Hate To Love You
by: Tijan
Publication Date: August 28th, 2017
Publisher: Self Published
ARC received through Social Butterfly PR
Synopsis:
Rule #1: No hot guys.
It might sound ridiculous. I get it. It kind of is, but college was supposed to be my sanctuary. It was my place to start over. The rumors, the whispers, and the jealousy I endured through high school would all be gone.
No one would know me at college.
Rule #2: No drama.
I’d major in pre-law. I’d make a few loyal friends. Everything would be easy breezy. No one was going to use me or hurt me. I wouldn’t let them.
Rule #3: New year. New place. New me.
Right?
Wrong.
And all because of Shay Coleman.
Football captain and quarterback, he was the big guy on campus. The cocky guy in my political science class with a smirk. I hated him on sight . . .
. . . and he was about to break all my rules.
So far this week I’ve finished three books. The first novel I finished was an ARC of The Perfect Bastard by LK Collins. I enjoyed this novel and the ‘sexy as hell’ single dad vibe! Roan and Mia’s relationship was a whirlwind smoldering romance!
The Perfect Bastard
by: LK Collins
Publisher: Self Published
Publication date: August 16th, 2017
ARC Received through Forward PR and Marketing
Synopsis:
What is the one thing you shouldn’t do when your wife leaves you? Sleep with your best friend’s sister.
It’s too bad Roan Reddick never got that piece of advice before he fell into bed with Mia Cavalano. She’s smart, sassy, and sexy as hell. She’s also the only woman to flip his world upside down since his wife. And she’s leaving for college in two days, which is good considering he’s not looking for a relationship, not now, not with the agony that lives inside him from his past. But Roan can’t kick the craving he now has for Mia.
One choice changed everything.
After years away, Mia realizes she and Roan just aren’t meant to be. So she vows to keep her focus on her career and forget about the one-night stand that rocked her world so long ago. But when work transfers her back to Boston, a place that holds so many memories, she has no choice but to go. All she has to do is stick to her plan and keep her focus on work, which should be easy, right?
Besides, in a city of half a million people, how hard can it be to avoid the perfect bastard
The next two books I finished are ‘A Stone In The Sea’ and ‘Drowning To Breathe’ by A.L. Jackson! These two novels are Sebastian (Baz) and Shea’s story and are the first two books in the BLEEDING STARS series! I loved the hell out of these two books! All the Feels…..ALL….THE….FEELS!
A Stone In The Sea
(Bleeding Stars #1)
by: A.L. Jackson
Publication Date: February 21st, 2015
Publisher: Self Published
Format: KINDLE UNLIMITED
Synopsis:
He wanted nothing at all…
Until he found she had everything to give…
Sunder lead singer and guitarist Sebastian Stone has everything—fans, fame, and fortune. He also has a heart full of bitterness and a reputation for a short-fused temper. But an outward reputation rarely reveals the true man inside. Facing assault charges after trying to protect his younger brother, Sebastian is sent to Savannah, Georgia to lie low until the dust settles in L.A.
Shea Bentley is beautiful, kind, and hiding from the very lifestyle Sebastian has always embraced.
When the mysterious, tattooed stranger begins hanging out at the bar where she works, Shea is quick to recognize he is nothing but trouble, but she’s helpless to the way her body lights up every time his intense gray eyes tangle with hers.
They both soon find themselves drowning in a sea of desire and passion that won’t let them up for air.
Sebastian knows firsthand secrets never die, and he’s not the only one who’s hiding them.
Loving someone always comes with a price. But will it be Shea’s past that costs them everything?
Drowning To Breathe
(Bleeding Stars #2)
by: A.L. Jackson
Publication Date: September 15th, 2015
Publisher: Self Published
Format: KINDLE UNLIMITED
Synopsis:
The danger in pretending is it becoming real…
Sebastian Stone, Sunder front man and guitarist with a rap sheet about ten miles long, escaped to Savannah, Georgia, to get away from the trouble he’d caused.
Not find more of it.
The moment he saw Shea Bentley, he saw beneath all her sweet and innocence to something that went deeper.
Darker.
Their relationship was built on secrets; their love built on lies.
Sebastian never imagined how deep her secrets went.
When the past and present collide, Sebastian and Shea find themselves fighting for a future neither believed they deserved. Their passion is consuming and their need unending.
Now, holding the truth in his hands, Sebastian is faced with sacrificing everything he’s come to love to protect Shea and his family.
Two pasts intertwined.
Two lives bound.
Will their demons drown them or will Shea and Sebastian finally learn to breathe?
Drowning to Breathe is Book 2 in Sebastian and Shea’s two-part duet. Their story begins in A Stone in the Sea.
This week I plan on finishing up my August ARCs and then hopefully getting back into the Bleeding Stars series!
Make Me Want
(Men Of Gold Mountain #3)
by: Rebecca Brooks
Publisher: ENTANGLED: BRAZEN
Publication Date: August 28th, 2017
ARC received through Netgalley
Synopsis:
Abbi Haas likes them big, bad, and out of her bed the next morning. So when a smoking hot firefighter shuts down a possessive ex by pretending to be her boyfriend, she’s happy to play along—and stay for the no-strings-attached sex under the stars. But her knight with bulging biceps had better not think she’s some damsel in distress. She’ll handle her ex like she does everything: on her own.
Wildland firefighter Tyler McCall is supposed to be taking a break from danger. First step to having fun: pick up a sexy stranger by pretending he’s her man. Too bad his fake girlfriend is also his new coworker…and their little white lie has already spread. Tyler knows he should walk away before he gets burned. But he can’t stay out of trouble, and there’s no way he’s letting her go.
Mr. Big
by: Delancey Stewart
Publisher: LOVESWEPT
Publication Date: August 29th, 2017
ARC received through Netgalley
Synopsis:
He’s tortured and dark, angsty and arrogant. You want the truth? He’s kind of an A-hole.
He’s also the CEO.
Everything in my life goes according to plan, and that’s the way I like it. I got the degree. I got the job. Now I just need to prove that I have what it takes to succeed in the real world.
If there’s one thing that’s not in my plans, it’s falling in love with my boss.
Most relationships don’t start with one person calling the other out in public for being an arrogant jerk. Then again, most CEOs don’t cut their own employees in line at the coffeehouse and bark orders at people like they own the place.
Maybe pissing Oliver Cody off isn’t the right move. And now that he’s part of my world, all my plans go straight to hell.
Wait
(Bleeding Stars #4)
by: A.L. Jackson
Publication Date: August 23rd, 2015
Publisher: Self Published
Format: KINDLE UNLIMITED
Synopsis:
She is his strength and he is her weakness. And this time he won’t let her go.
Edie Evans is gorgeous.
Sexy.
Kind.
She’s also the definition of off-limits.
But that didn’t stop me from sneaking into her room to comfort her at night.
But guys like me? We destroy everything, so it should have been no surprise when I destroyed us, too.
The night I sent her running, I thought I’d never see her again.
Until I saw her standing like a vision in the crowd.
Austin Stone is dangerous.
Alluring.
Tempting.
He broke my heart and I refused to give him the chance to do it again.
It’s been years since I’ve seen him, and now I can’t do anything but stare at the gorgeous, tattooed man playing onstage. I should run. I know I should. But like a fool, I run straight back to him.
Our desire is overpowering.
Our need unrelenting.
She is my hope.
He is my weakness.
We should have known a passion this intense would burn us right into the ground.
What are you planning to read this week?
Peace Love and Happy Reading,
