Bella Andre Summer of Love Contest

I have a special treat for romance (or beach) fans today. As a part of Bella Andre's The Summer of Love Book Tour, I have a beach bag of gifts to give away to one lucky reader. This includes the print edition of The Look of Love ($5.99 paperback), the first novel in The Sullivans contemporary romance series. Even if you read it on your Kindle, you may want to pick up the print edition if you don't win, as it contains additional scenes not in the digital edition.

Book Description
Expanded Edition! More Story! More Sullivans!

Fans of Bella Andre's Sullivan Series will love this long-awaited print edition of THE LOOK OF LOVE. It features a longer, more-detailed story with all the emotion and sensuality that readers love. Not to be missed!

Sometimes one look is all it takes
Chloe Peterson has vowed never to make the mistake of trusting a man again. Her reasons are as vivid as the bruises on her cheek. So when her car skids off a wet country road straight into a ditch, she's convinced the gorgeous guy who rescues her must be too good to be true.

As a successful international photographer, Chase Sullivan has his pick of beautiful women. He's satisfied with his life—until he finds Chloe and her totaled car on the side of the road in Napa Valley.

With every loving look—and every sinfully sweet caress—the attraction between them sizzles, and Chloe can't help but wonder if she's met the man who may be the exception to her rule….

So, what do you have to do to enter the contest?

Just leave a comment here (on this post), along with an email address that I can use to find you, if you are the lucky winner. The winner will receive a fabulous beach bags filled with summertime essentials from hot brands such as O.P.I., Evian, Not Your Mother’s Hair Care, and Unisun Eyewear. I just received my gift box and the bag is great (it will really hold up to abuse, I believe), as are the contents. Since this will be mailed to you direct from Bella's publicist, you will need a mailing address in the United States.

I'll keep the contest page open until the end of the month - that gives everyone two days to find this post and leave a comment (don't worry if it doesn't show up right away, as I have moderation turned on for comments). If you want an extra entry into the contest, then promote this post on Facebook, Google+ or Twitter and leave a second comment here, along with a link to your promotion (for Twitter, leave your twitter ID); be sure to use these hashtags: #BellaAndreSummerOfLove #win #giveaway .

Be sure to also visit the Harlequin Facebook page and create a Summer of Love mixtape "for a chance to win a trip for YOU and THREE friends to Las Vegas!" *No purchase necessary. Ends May 31, 2013.

Daily Deal - Blissful Lies (P)

Blissful Lies ($9.99 $8.99 Kindle), a movie tie-in novel by Jennifer Brown Thomas [Helm Publishing], is today's Deal of the Day at at Diesel E-Books, where it's discounted to $2.00 (8 copies left).

Book Description
Blissful Lies tells a heart-wrenching story exploring the enviable bonds of five best friends who, in the midst of growing up together, are just starting to realize how much they still have to learn about life. They quickly find the limits of their relationships are tested when secrets and lies rapidly interrupt their picture perfect existence, threatening the stability of years of friendship. At the center of their universe is mother to one group member and Brown-Thomas University Chancellor, Addison Hamilton. Uncertainty in her own life leads her down a path of no return as she finds herself a little too involved with someone many years her junior. While each person is forced to take responsibility for their hidden secret, they wonder if ultimately, it’s just too much to move forward as the ‘family’ they once claimed to be. Join us on the journey, which allows true love to surface despite obvious obstacles, fearful hatred to emerge with a vengeance and betrayal of even the most loyal of friends. As lives are left in tattered pieces, everyone is forced to choose…. Will the group fall apart at the seams or will the strong bonds of everlasting friendship withstand the fire of deceit?

Get the book from Diesel; be sure to check the sales price, as the Deal of the Day often sells out. Deals change at 11AM Eastern Time, USA.

Nook Daily Find 5/29

Confessions of a Scholarship Winner: The Secrets That Helped Me Win $500,000 in Free Money for College. How You Can Too. ($2.99 Kindle, B&N), by Kristina Ellis [Worthy Publishing], is the Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle.

Book Description
How ANY student--including YOU!--can win scholarships and earn free money for college!

On the first day of high school, Kristina Ellis's mom--a single, working mother who lost her husband to cancer--informed her that she could not financially support her after graduation. Kristina would need to find her own way to pay for college.

As an average student with less-than-impressive test scores, Kristina realized she would have to sell herself to scholarship committees if she wanted to stand out. That's when she devised the plan that led to her receiving over $500,000 in scholarships--enough to pay for her full education at a top- 20 university, all the way through her doctoral degree, and make her dreams come true.

How she made it happen--and how you can too!--is the focus of this book. In Confessions of a Scholarship Winner, Kristina shares not just her little-known secrets for scholarship success but
her incredibly inspiring story.

Kindle Daily Deals 5/29

Amazon's Android Free App of the Day is Next Word.

Today's Kindle Daily Deal is Under the Lake ($1.99), a stand-alone thriller by Stuart Woods [Simon and Schuster], with the companion audiobook for $3.99.

Book Description
A mesmerizing psychological thriller about the dark underside of a Southern town and its inhabitants.

In the beautiful mountains of North Georgia lies a lake built by an obsessed man at a terrible price. This placid body of water has brought prosperity to an isolated community, and with it, two strangers who intermingle with the insular local folk, strangers probing into crimes against nature from generations past that cannot remain submerged beneath the waters' surface.

Under the Lake marks the eagerly awaited return to the South of his Edgar Award-winning novel Chiefs. John Howell, once a top investigative journalist, comes to this backcountry town on the run from a once promising personal and professional life that has somehow gone sour. What he finds is a mystery so deep, so complex, so bizarre, that he cannot concentrate on the book he has come here to write.

The story begins with his entanglement in a subtle, but relentless battle waged by the autocratic town father and the local sheriff against an outcast family, ravaged by its origins. Howell is further drawn in by his involvement with two women - an ambitious young reporter on the prowl for corruption, and a shy backwoods beauty, forsaken by the world because of her family's ill kept secret. Then, without warning, visits from an otherworldly young girl haunt Howell as his rustic cabin becomes a spectral theater offering strange and frightening images of a hideous event of long ago.

Today's Kindle Romance Daily Deal is Anew ($0.99), the first novel in the YA Archers of Avalon series by Chelsea Fine [self-pub/"Firefall Publishing"]. Each of the books in this series has a hundred or more 5-star reviews (and nearly no negative reviews), plus continuing with the series is reasonably priced: Awry ($2.99) and Avow ($3.99).

Book Description
Three curses. Two brothers. One love triangle.

Sometimes love is meant to be. But sometimes...love is the death of you.

Fans of The Vampire Diaries and Once Upon A Time will fall head over heels for the desperate characters and endless mysteries in Anew!

Today's Kindle SciFi/Fantasy Daily Deal is Seven Kinds of Hell ($1.99), the first novel in the brand-new Fangborn series by Dana Cameron [47North], with the companion audiobook also $1.99. This is the type of novel I'd pick up when browsing at the bookstore just on the strength of the cover and probably buy to take home after reading the blurb on the back or only a page or two from the front; I read more of the sample than that and it has joined my TBR pile.

Book Description
Archaeologist Zoe Miller has been running from a haunting secret her whole life. But when her cousin is abducted by a vicious Russian kidnapper, Zoe is left with only one option: to reveal herself.

Unknown to even her closest friends, Zoe is not entirely human. She’s a werewolf and a daughter of the “Fangborn,” a secretive race of werewolves, vampires, and oracles embroiled in an ancient war against evil.

To rescue her cousin, Zoe will be forced to renew family ties and pit her own supernatural abilities against the dark and nefarious foe. The hunt brings Zoe to the edge of her limits, and with the fate of humanity and the Fangborn in the balance, life will be decided by an artifact of world-ending power.

Zoe’s mission takes her and her friends across the globe on a frenetic quest for no less than Pandora’s Box.

Today's Kindle Kids Daily Deal is The Dyno-Mite Dog Show ($1.99), by Louise Bonnett-Rampersaud [Two Lions].

Book Description
Knock. Knock. Listen up! Agnes and The Secret Knock Club are doing a community service project at The Brookside Retirement Village. But will the dog show (and canine wedding) be a success? Or a dog-gone disaster? Especially after Principal Not-Such-a-Joy’s dog goes missing

The author of The Dyno-Mite Dog Show has donated this book to the Worldreader program.

Age Level: 6 and up; Grade Level: 1 and up

UK Kindle Daily Deal 5/29

The Likes of Us: Stories of Five Decades (£0.99 UK), by Stan Barstow [Parthian Books], is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the US edition is $6.59).

Book Description
A classic selection of the best of Stan Barstow's stories, covering the last five decades of British life. A group of young tearaways on a night out that begins with horse-play and ends in tragedy; the loneliness of a drunken miner's wife; a war-shocked ex-sailor forced beyond endurance, a widower is brought to grief by a woman outside his real understanding, and a factory worker finding his way through the physical world of his marriage. Real and involving, Barstow's stories are urgent slices of life, men and women struggling and succeeding to come to terms with The Likes of Us. Along with Alan Sillitoe and John Braine, Stan Barstow was considered one of the pioneers of the 1960s school of northern literary realism, paving the way for contemporary authors like Nick Hornby.