To celebrate its release, I’m giving away a $25 GC to an etailer (winner gets to pick). All you have to do to enter is comment below. Also, I’m also giving away a $15 Amazon GC to a random reviewer who posts a review on the site in the next 7 days. The goal is to reach (and surpass) a total of 30 reviews in that time.

An ex is an ex for a reason

To Rebecca Winters, it’s not just a saying or the title to a catchy tune, it’s a rule she staunchly lives by. Especially since the breakup with her ex. What’s the point in trying to fix the “unfixable”? Besides, only a girl hell-bent on more heartbreak would go back to the guy who bailed on her when she needed him most. But saying no to Scott is becoming more difficult than surviving the breakup itself. And unfortunately for her, the kind of pressure he’s exerting is making her rule all too easy to break.

Scott Carver has given up trying to get over his ex. He’s still in love with her and their year apart has done nothing to change that. Yeah, he knows he screwed up. Just how royally, he wasn’t aware of until now. So when Becca agrees to give him a second chance, he grabs on to it with both hands. But it’s clear the only way things will ever truly be right between them is if he comes clean…about everything. He can only pray the truth doesn’t send her running—for good this time.

Excerpt

“That ass hit me in the back. Is that the kind of guy you’re hooking up with these days. Pansy-ass jerks whose idea of fighting is knifing a guy in the back.” His nostrils are flaring so I know Scott’s in a rage. “What the hell were you doing with him, Bec? You don’t even know the guy.”

“Well how do you think you get to know someone.” I know I’m being a bitch but it’s like I can’t stop myself from trying to hurt him. Hit him where he’s vulnerable.

His eyes darken and his hand whips out grabbing my wrist. Before I know it I’m being hauled into his arms, my breasts pressed up against his hard chest. “If sex is what you’re looking for, I’m right here. You don’t have to get it from some guy who’s been with half the girls in the school. You know me and I know you and sex is the one thing that was always good between us.” Despite the sexy growl of his voice and his erection hard against my stomach, I can tell by the hard glint in his eyes that he’s still angry.

He’s turned on and pissed off. The throbbing between my legs renews. But I know I can’t let anything happen between us. No matter how much I might want to.

“If I wanted to have sex with you believe me, you’d know,” I lie. I so do want.  “Now I just want you to get your clothes on and get out of my apartment.” I pull out of his arms and his hands drop from my waist to his sides.

If he was about to say something, my words stop him. Several moments of silence follow as we stare at each other. With his expression wiped clean of emotion, his bristled jaw firm and his mouth unsmiling, he’s nearly impossible to read.

After a few more beats, Scott shakes his head, which does little to disturb his bedhead hair. “We need to talk.” His voice is rough and low. He’s not asking, it’s a demand.

My stomach drops. I’m conscious of what I’m not wearing: things like a bra, pants and underwear that don’t leave both my butt cheeks bare. Of course, then there’s the lack of Scott’s clothing, the erection he can’t hide and the fact that he looks just as good tousled as he does all dressed up or in worn blue jeans. This is not a good place for me to be. Which is why I’ve done my best to avoid him since last summer. Since I broke it off.

I clear my throat and try to collect my thoughts. “Well I don’t want to talk,” I say and make a move to go around him.

He grabs my arm just below the elbow. I shiver at the contact, briefly closing my eyes. I can’t let him know how he still affects me so I turn my head when he pulls me firmly but gently toward him. “Talk to me, Becca,”

His low plea has the power to make me forget. But only for a short time. How am I going to learn from my mistakes if I continue to make the same ones with the same person?

God, this is just too hard. I shake my head in denial because I can’t see there’s anything more to say.

They say there’s a thin line between love and hate

College freshman Olivia Montgomery is thrilled at the chance to start over, escape the rumors that plagued her in high school. And she can finally put her juvenile crush, Zachary Pearson, where he belongs–in her past. Then her unrequited love strolls into her French class, shattering Olivia’s newfound peace, and the feelings she’d thought buried for good come rushing back. Now she can’t shake her unwanted attraction to the one guy who can twist her stomach into knots with just a smile…but has never given her the time of day.

Zach’s good looks may have always gotten him his pick of girls, but it’s the star quarterback’s skill on the football field that gives him his pick of the Big Ten colleges. To escape the crushing demands of his win-at-all-costs father, Zach opts for a private university in upstate New York where…his present and past collide. And the one girl he’s always wanted but can’t have–and a class trip to Paris–turn out to be the ultimate game changer that has him breaking every one of his rules.

What I will miss: the daily interaction I have with you and your enthusiasm for romance and the written word.

What I won’t miss: the work and countless days required to keep this site going.

Remember, sometime in February I’ll be setting up a blog on my personal website. Not sure how often I will post, but if you’re in the neighbourhood, please stop by and say hi.

Okay, now for the big moment.

The winner of the iPad Mini is…

CLARA

Congratulations, Clara!!! You will receive an email with instructions of how to claim your prize and other stuff like an inscription should you like one.

Thank you everyone who participated. And a huge thanks to all the loyal followers of this blog for your months and years of patronage. Hopefully, I’ll be seeing you around this place we call cyberspace.

Best,
Bev

AMBER E.

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RUSH by Maya Banks

GLITTERGIRL

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GOING UNDER by Lauren Dane

CHELSEA B.

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A DUKE NEVER YIELDS by Juliana Gray

BROOKLYNSHOEBABE

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WHEN SHE SAID I DO by Celeste Bradley

JOSIE  CUSUMANO

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ONE GOOD EARL DESERVES A LOVER by Sarah MacLean

JACKIE HERNANDEZ

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HIP CHECK by Deirdre Martin

KOURTNI

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THE AUTUMN BRIDE by Anne Gracie

EBONY MORTON

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SEX AND THE SINGLE FIREMAN by Jennifer Bernard

ANN SHEIRING

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WALKING DISASTER by Jamie Maguire

MARJANA

Congratulations to all the winners!!  Please email your snail mail address to me at contests at theseasonforromance dot com and don’t forget to include the title or item you won. You have one week to collect your prize.

**Print books are stricted to US addresses only. 

Comment to enter to win one of the 3 (three) books below. Click cover for blurbs, buy links and excerpts.

**US residents only 

The winner of THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING WICKED by Victoria Alexander and JAKE by R.C. Ryan in the Language of Love Gets Three New Covers is…

ROSEMARY K.

Congratulations, Rosemary! Please email your snail mail address to me at contests at theseasonforromance dot com and don’t forget to include the title or item you won. You have one week to collect your prize.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Laurens has returned to another utterly irresistible branch on her beloved Cynster family tree . . .

The only thing more troublesome than a Cynster man . . .

. . . is a Cynster lady who believes love is not her destiny. Famously known in London society as “The Matchbreaker,” Henrietta Cynster’s uncanny skill lies in preventing ill-fated nuptials—not in falling victim to Cupid’s spell.

But then she disrupts one match too many and feels honor-bound to assist dashing James Glossup in finding a suitable bride for a marriage-of-convenience.

A task infernally complicated by the undeniable, unquenchable attraction that flares between James and Henrietta, who continues to believe she will never fall . . .

PRE-ORDER

KindleNookiBookKobo ]]> http://theseasonforromance.com/wordpress/2013/01/giveaway-and-then-she-fell-arc-by-stephanie-laurens/feed/ 59 http://theseasonforromance.com/wordpress/2013/01/language-of-love-gets-two-new-covers/ http://theseasonforromance.com/wordpress/2013/01/language-of-love-gets-two-new-covers/#comments Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:01:23 +0000 Beverley Kendall http://theseasonforromance.com/wordpress/?p=10287 It may look like I’ve been shirking my duty in the last several days but honestly I’ve been working hard. First, trying to juggle writing two books simultaneously. The other is getting Kim Killion everything she needs to make me some lovely covers. As usual, Kim doesn’t disappoint. But I’m left in a bit of a pickle, my first cover WHEN IN PARIS... is now sticking out like a very lovely sore thumb. As in Sesame Street’s One of these things is not like the others. Which means I’m going to have to give WHEN IN PARIS... a cover makeover…and here it is.

New LOOK!

eNovella – Rebecca & Scott

Novel – April & Troy

To celebrate two fabulous covers to add to my Language of Love series, I’m giving away an ARC of JAKE by R.C. Ryan and THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING WICKED by Victoria Alexander. Comment to enter to win.

**US residents only

MARLENE BREAKFIELD

LAURIE G. 

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Congratulations, ladies! Please email your snail mail address to me at contests at theseasonforromance dot com and don’t forget to include the title or item you won. You have one week to collect your prize.

Beyond that, I will go into author-mode. I will create a blog on my personal website that I will use to give away the odd book and prize, and keep my fans up-to-date on the progress of my books. I thoroughly enjoyed meeting all of you through The Season site and blog and enjoyed working with the publicists at all the publishing houses. I hope to still interact with my fans on my personal blog.

Best,
Bev