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Monday, April 21, 2014

PROMOTIONAL EVENT ~ TEACHING WILLOW: SESSION 2 by PAIGE JAMES

http://www.wordsmithpublicity.com/2014/03/tour-promotional-event-teaching-willow.html

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Thanks for stopping by the Teaching Willow: Session 2 Promo Event. I have an excerpt and teasers to share with you. Be sure to enter the giveaway!

Series: Teaching Willow: Session 2

Author: Paige James

Publication Date: April 8, 2014

Hosted by: Wordsmith Publicity

Infatuated. That’s how it began.

Desperate. That’s when it escalated.

Addicted. That’s what I’ve become.

Just when I think that I’ve discovered the one thing I wouldn’t do for Ebon, the one extreme to which I would not go, I find myself exceeding it. Looking back with regret, looking forward with dread, and living the now like it’s all I’ve got.

Because it is.

It’s pure bliss. It’s unimaginable hell. It’s all I know, all I want to know. A runaway train that I can’t stop, one that I don’t really want to.

But disaster is coming. It will turn sweet into bitter, deception into devastation. Perfection into wreckage.

Ruin. That’s what’s coming.

Ruin.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20936162-teaching-willow?from_search=true

Excerpt

Rather than answering me right away, Ebon slides his hand up from my ribs to touch my cheek. He peers deeply into my eyes, so much so that cold chills break out across my chest. This is the kind of look that, as Willow, I would’ve given anything to see on his face. “Please don’t regret letting me in. You can tell me anything, Sage. I won’t ever judge you and it won’t change the way I feel about you. You know that, right?”

In this moment, with his body heat enveloping me, his fingers resting against my face and his eyes pouring into mine like warm liquid, I do know that. I believe him.

“I know,” I whisper, trying to smile.

Ebon leans close enough to brush my lips with his. “Good, because I want to know you. Inside and out. I want to know what makes you tick as much as I want to know every place on your body that brings you pleasure.” His words are quiet and sincere. “I want to know what’s going through your head when I touch you and kiss you, but also when you watch a sad movie or hear a baby laugh.”

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Giveaway

2 - $25 Amazon Gift Cards

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About the author

My name is Paige James. I'm a fairly shy bookworm and lover of all things romantic and steamy. I'm a wife, a daughter, a sister, a friend, a drinker of wine, an animal advocate (even the ones that look like rodents) and a spinner of tales. Thank you for taking a chance on my work. You're making this working girl's dream come true.

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Thursday, April 10, 2014

BLOG TOUR: TEACHING WILLOW: SESSION 2 by PAIGE JAMES

I am excited to be participating in the tour for Teaching Willow: Session 2 by Paige James. Check out my mini-review, teasers and the tour giveaway.

Series: Teaching Willow: Session 1
Author: Paige James
Publication Date: 4/8/14
Hosted by: Wordsmith Publicity

Teaching Willow

Teaching Willow is such a cool serial, and I'm glad I gave it a try.

Willow and Ebon's story is sexy and mysterious, and yeah, a little twisty. I'm torn between wanting to have a serious talk with Willow, and giving her a high-five. In this installment, though, it's clear that Ebon has some dark secrets himself. And they have nothing to do with the Masters sisters.

This installment made me feel just as conflicted as the first, but James has a great way of selling me on the ambiguity of her characters. Teaching Willow: Session 2 was twisty and very sexy, but that ending... oh boy, Willow's world-and Ebon's- is about to blow up. I love it!

Giveaway

2- $25 Amazon gift cards

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Tuesday, April 8, 2014

PROMOTIONAL EVENT ~ TEACHING WILLOW: SESSION 1 by PAIGE JAMES + GIVEAWAY

I am excited to be participating in the promotional event for Teaching Willow: Session 1 by Paige James. I read this sexy and twisty novella and absolutely loved it.

Series: Teaching Willow: Session 1

Author: Paige James

Publication Date: March 25, 2013

Hosted by: Wordsmith Publicity

GoodReads:

Teaching Willow

My name is Willow Masters. I’m a senior in college, I’m smart and I keep to myself. I haven’t had an “incident” in over ten years. What all of these facts have in common is that none of them made any difference when it came to Ebon Daniels.

He started out as my sister’s date. I was instantly infatuated, but had no plans to do anything about it. I even managed to keep my feelings hidden when he took over my Modernist Literature class for the semester. The problems didn’t start until my sister took pages from my book—literal pages from a book I was writing—and gave them to the one person never intended to see them. That’s when the lies started. That’s also when I saw an opportunity to make my only dream become a reality.

How could a lie get me all that I ever wanted and, only a few months later, cost me everything that has ever mattered?

It doesn’t seem possible, but it is. It’s possible, it’s true and it’s tragic. In my book, there is a happy ending, but I don’t know if my life will have the same outcome.

My name is Willow Masters and this is the story of how falling in love with my teacher nearly destroyed both of our lives.

And it still might.

Class begins

MARCH 25, 2014

Don't be late!

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20936144-teaching-willow?from_search=true

Character Profiles

Ebon

Ebon is the tall, dark professor who oozes sex appeal and drives all his students crazy with his charming smile, deep green eyes and insight into the romance of the written word. He is the quintessential good guy who struggles with doing the right thing when he so desperately wants to do something else. I think what fascinates me most about him, however, is the question of whether he would make the same choices IF his past weren’t as it is, which has yet to be revealed. I’ll simply say that if it makes an appearance in his present, it could have a dramatically negative bearing on his life. It does, however, help him to resist Willow when he might not have been able to hold out for so long otherwise.

His biggest vice is his weakness for peeling back the innocent to delve into the taboo. His virtue is in how honest he is with himself.

I could see him being played by Matt Bomer, especially in the first picture where he’s on the phone. Maybe talking to Willow? He has that clean-cut look to him despite his perpetual 5 o’clock shadow and sometimes longish hair. He looks intelligent and sexy as hell, all at the same time. Who would mind any kind of lesson if he were the teacher?

http://bestof.provocateuse.com/show/matt_bomer

Character Profile

Willow

Willow is a girl with ghosts. She’s haunted and Ebon picks up on that. She fascinates him on many different levels. She has long, dark hair and blue eyes. She’s classically beautiful. Very natural. But there’s a sensuality to her that she can’t completely hide behind her studious appearance. Her sister, Sage, wears it with pride. Willow tucks it away, which gives her a mysterious, forbidden quality that eats away at Ebon. Her biggest vice is Ebon. Hands down. Her biggest virtue is her love for him. While it will cause them untold troubles, it is so pure she can’t resist it.

Something you don’t yet know about Willow is that she had some mental health issues that she fought and overcame. But can she keep old demons at bay? Or will they revisit her, threatening all that she holds dear?

I can see her in model Lauren Mellor, especially in this picture. It’s the natural Willow with that latent sensuality shining through.

http://www.fashionmodeldirectory.com/models/Lauren_Mellor/showphoto/344111/