Spotlight – Fighting Love

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Abby Niles, Fighting Love, Love to the Extreme series

I’ve mentioned it before, but I absolutely adore Abby Niles’s “Love to the Extreme” novels and I’m super excited to be able to be part of her tour for Fighting Love.  Find all the details below and make sure you go check out my review here!

*****

Fighting Love

by Abby Niles

Blurb:

Talk about kicking a fighter while he’s down. 

Former Middleweight champion and confirmed bachelor Tommy “Lightning” Sparks has lost it all: his belt, his career, and now his home. After the devastating fire, he moves in with his drama-free best friend, Julie. One encounter changes everything and Julie is no longer the girl he’s spent his life protecting but a desirable woman he wants to take to his bed. Knowing his reputation, he’s determined to protect Julie more than ever—from himself.

Veterinarian Julie Rogers has been in love with Tommy since she was ten, but would love to get over the man. She’s quiet nights at home and a glass of wine. He’s clubbing all night and shots of tequila. As friends they work great. As a couple? No way in hell. She just can’t get her heart to agree. When she starts spending time with another fighter, the man who’s always treated her like a sister is suddenly not being very brotherly and enflames her body like never before.

Can two childhood friends make a relationship work, or will they lose everything because they stopped FIGHTING LOVE.

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1622660471/

Barnes and Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/fighting-love-abby-niles/1114591191?ean=9781622660469

*****

Author Info:

Abby Niles has always loved to read. After having twins and becoming a stay-at-home mom, she started doodling stories to keep her sanity. She didn’t plan for writing to become an obsession, but it did. Today, she juggles work, home life, and writing. It’s not always easy, but hey, who said life was easy? When Abby’s not writing, you can find her playing ‘Just Dance’ with her kids or trying to catch up on her never-ending to-be-read list.

Website: http://www.abbynilesauthor.com/

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/abbynilesauthor

Twitter: https://twitter.com/abbyniles

*****

Giveaway:

The author is giving away a $50 Visa Card to one winner tour-wide.

http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/1cb554240/

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Tour Schedule:

12/14:  Guest Blog – Fresh Fiction

12/18:  Guest Blog – USA Today’s Happy Ever After

1/1:  Interview- Books-n-Kisses

1/2:  Review – Live Read and Breathe Blog

1/2: 2nd spot – Guest Blog – Read Love Blog

1/3:  Guest Blog – The Reading Cafe

1/3:  Guest blog – Romance with Flavor

1/4:  Spotlight – Literal Hotties Naughty Book Reviews

1/6:  Spotlight – Ramblings From This Chick

1/7:  Spotlight – Sizzling Hot Book Reviews

1/9:  Spotlight – As The Pages Turn

1/10:  Spotlight – Book Reviews and More by Kathy

1/14:  Review – The Brunette LIbrarian

1/15:  Guest blog – Lia’s Book Haven

1/16:  Spotlight and Review – Books to Get Lost In

1/22: Interview and Review – Lusty Penguin Reviews

1/27:  Spotlight and Review – Becky on Books

1/28:  Spotlight – CS Maxwell ~ Where’s My Muse? (NS)

1/29:  Spotlight – The Book Queen’s Palace

1/29:  Spotlight – In Shadows

1/30:  Spotlight – Romantic Reads and Such

1/31:  Spotlight – A Passion for Romance

Book Review – Fighting Love

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Abby Niles, Book Review, Fighting Love, Love to the Extreme series

We’ve seen a sneak peek of this one before here, but check out what I thought of it with my new review.

*****

Talk about kicking a fighter while he’s down.

Former Middleweight champion and confirmed bachelor Tommy “Lightning” Sparks has lost it all: his belt, his career, and now his home. After the devastating fire, he moves in with his drama-free best friend, Julie. One encounter changes everything and Julie is no longer the girl he’s spent his life protecting but a desirable woman he wants to take to his bed. Knowing his reputation, he’s determined to protect Julie more than ever—from himself.

Veterinarian Julie Rogers has been in love with Tommy since she was ten, but would love to get over the man. She’s quiet nights at home and a glass of wine. He’s clubbing all night and shots of tequila. As friends they work great. As a couple? No way in hell. She just can’t get her heart to agree. When she starts spending time with another fighter, the man who’s always treated her like a sister is suddenly not being very brotherly and enflames her body like never before.

Can two childhood friends make a relationship work, or will they lose everything because they stopped FIGHTING LOVE.

I loved LOVED loved Niles’s Extreme Love and I was very excited to hear that another “Love to the Extreme” novel was coming out … and Fighting Love didn’t disappoint.  I laughed through a good portion of it and the ending brought tears to my eyes – and being able to elicit that much of a reaction definitely makes it a winner in my book.

If you’ve read Extreme Love, you’ll remember Tommy and his best friend, Julie.  Her feelings for him were pointed out, as well as the fact that he was very clueless.  But life’s thrown him a few curves and it’s going to throw him one more when suddenly the two are facing mutual feelings of a non-sibling variety.  All of the delicious trouble that could come out of this kind of situation is there in Niles’s latest, and she delivers them with a beautifully deft hand.

In Extreme Love Niles gave readers a very Alpha male hero – one that I knew not everyone was going to like – but both Caitlyn and Dante appealed to me and she made them almost leap off the page.  With Fighting Love she once again delivers.  Her characters are absolutely engrossing – they come alive in amazing Technicolor glory, full of life and confusion, complication and hope.  From the first page I felt every up and down as Tommy and Julie felt them.  And, though very much a fighter (both in the cage and in life), Tommy isn’t quite the overt Alpha that Dante was, so I think that this one will appeal to a larger audience.  (And the nice thing is you definitely don’t have to have read Extreme Love to be able to enjoy it.)  But Niles didn’t skimp on the hot-factor, so prepare yourself for another scorcher.

And I’m all over the fact that she’s hinting at two upcoming heroes (Mac and Brody) so I’ll be anxiously waiting for their stories to make an appearance.  Niles has definitely made a lifelong fan of me – her characters are just so compelling, her stories are fast-paced and well-developed, and her writing style is very addictive.  I get giddy just knowing that she’s got something new coming out.

Cover Reveal – Fighting Love and Honor Reclaimed

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Abby Niles, Fighting Love, Honor Reclaimed, Tonya Burrows

Today we get a sneak peek at Fighting Love by Abby Niles and Honor Reclaimed by Tonya Burrows.  I am VERY excited about both of these – I read the other stories in both series and absolutely loved them.  You can check out my review for Extreme Love by Abby Niles here and Tonya Burrows’ books SEAL of Honor here & Wilde Nights in Paradise here. 

*****

FIGHTING LOVE by Abby Niles

“…the cat-and-mouse chase of budding love is sweet and the sexual chemistry is a knockout” – RT Book Reviews on EXTREME LOVE by Abby Niles

Publication: December 31st, 2013 by Entangled Select

Blurb:

After the MMA scandal of the year, former Middleweight champion Tommy “Lightning” Sparks’ career is in shambles. While he fights to get back on his feet, he’s forced to swallow his pride and move in with his best friend, Julie. But righting his own wrongs won’t be his only battle. Another fighter has his sights set on Julie, and for the first time Tommy’s place in her life is threatened.

Julie Rogers fell for Tommy the day he helped her find her lost puppy at ten years old. As a thirty-two-year-old veterinarian, she still has her love for animals–and for Tommy. Over the years, she’s come to accept that Tommy will never look at her with anything other than brotherly love. After he moves in, the feelings she’s kept locked away threaten to burst through their restraints.

Terrified of losing their friendship, Julie resolves to date another fighter and let go of Tommy. But as she begins to move on, Tommy starts to see her with new eyes. Now, he’s more determined to than ever to emerge the victor and become the man she deserves, before he loses the only woman who means everything to him.

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1622660471/

Barnes and Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/fighting-love-abby-niles/1114591191?ean=9781622660469

*****

Author Info:

Abby Niles has always loved to read. After having twins and becoming a stay-at-home mom, she started doodling stories to keep her sanity. She didn’t plan for writing to become an obsession, but it did. Today, she juggles work, home life, and writing. It’s not always easy, but hey, who said life was easy? When Abby’s not writing, you can find her playing ‘Just Dance’ with her kids or trying to catch up on her never-ending to-be-read list.

Website: http://www.abbynilesauthor.com/

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/abbynilesauthor

Twitter: https://twitter.com/abbyniles

*****

HONOR RECLAIMED by Tonya Burrows

“A super sexy thrill ride guaranteed to make you swoon” – New York Times Bestselling Author, Laura Kaye on HONOR RECLAIMED by Tonya Burrows

Publication: May 27th, 2014 by Entangled Select

Blurb:

Former Marine scout sniper Seth Harlan is new to HORNET and anxious to prove he can still do his job despite an ongoing battle with PTSD. He remembers all too well what it’s like to sit inside an enemy camp, praying for rescue and waiting for death. So when a wounded veteran contacts HORNET to rescue a buddy who was left behind, all sorts of nasty memories strain his newfound stability.

When an interview with a runaway Afghan child bride leads photojournalist Phoebe Leighton to an arms deal involving a suitcase bomb powerful enough to wipe out a mid-sized town, she realizes this is one battle she can’t win on her own. Forming an unlikely alliance with a ragtag team of military and government delinquents, she meets Seth, a sniper carrying as many emotional scars as physical, who impresses her with his steely will and ignites passions within her she thought long dead.

Suddenly this mission is about a lot more than an abandoned soldier. Racing against the clock, Seth, Phoebe, and the rest of HORNET struggle to stop that bomb before it reaches it’s final destination: The United States.

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Honor-Reclaimed-HORNET-Tonya-Burrows-ebook/dp/B00FO7ZPQS/

Barnes & Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/honor-reclaimed-tonya-burrows/1117011644?ean=9781622662548

*****

Author Info:

Tonya received a B.A. in creative writing from SUNY Oswego and she’s now working on an MFA in popular fiction. She spends her time reading, writing, and exploring. A geek at heart, she pledges her TV fandom to Supernatural and Dr. Who.

She shares her life with two dogs and a ginormous cat. She’s from a small town in New York, but she suffers from a bad case of wanderlust, and ends up moving someplace new every few years.  Luckily, her animals are all excellent travel buddies.

Website: http://www.tonyaburrows.com/

Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/tonyaburrows

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/tonyaburrowsauthor