INTRODUCTION

Hi everyone My name is Victoria Zumbrum, 40 years old, married 14 years with 1 son. This is my very first blog. So bear with me. I have always wanted to have my own blog. I have always loved to read. I enjoy getting lost in a good book.
I love becoming part of the story and characters. I am hoping to bring my love of books to my readers.

I love reading different genres such as paranormal, young adult, romance, romantic suspense, mystery, Christian fiction, some horror, etc. The list goes on. I started reviewing books a couple of years ago and have done reviews for different blogs and even some authors. I really have enjoyed reviewing books and I will continue to do so. If anyone is interested in me reviewing a book for them, please contact me. I still have a lot to learn regarding my own blog so bear with me. I welcome and appreciate all followers.

Tuesday, August 7, 2018

A Promise Kept Release Blitz







IT'S LIVE!




I broke my
promise the minute I saw her.

Not in the
way you probably think, though. It wasn’t a promise to take care of her because
it was love at first sight. It was a promise to let her know, to let her know
just what happened…

Yes, she was
beautiful, perfect really, but what I saw made her ugly. So, I broke my promise
because she didn’t deserve to know.

And then I
took her because she deserved to suffer the way I had—emotionally. Alone even
when surrounded by people. Lonesome for eternity.

She’d be my
wife so she could live beside me, never finding love but only the indifference
and hate I bestowed upon her. Who would want that kind of life by choice? Who
would want to shackle themselves to a scarred man—both physically and mentally?
I didn’t give her a choice. I gave her an ultimatum, and she couldn’t refuse. And
I vowed she’d live a lonely life with a husband right beside her.

That’s the
thing about vows … Sometimes, they are broken. And promises? Sometimes, you
manage to keep them even when you don’t want to.















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DC Renee has been writing all her life, from cheesy poems in elementary school
(i'll share an example just so you know how cheesy: Flowers are my favorite
thing; they usually bloom during spring. Pink, blue, yellow and green, so many
colors that I have seen...etc.) to short stories and monologues, and eventually
fan fictions for Days of Our Lives.



It was thanks to that superbly encouraging fan fiction community that DC found
the courage to publish her first book - Let Me Go. It held fast in the top 100
Best Selling Contemporary Romance Fiction Novels on Amazon for over a month,
going as low as the top 20's. Naturally, she loves to read, but she also likes
watching hockey, dancing for fun, and loves her family.











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Eight Crazy Girls Gee Gee's Story Vol. 1







Gee-Gee's Story


Eight Crazy Girls Vol 1


by B.J. Hardy


Genre: Erotica


Release Date: August 5, 2018











Blurb:


Book one of the Eight Crazy Girls series. An apocalyptic tale of explicit sexuality, power, betrayal, revenge, and redemption. A new future awaits humanity with open legs. Meet Gee Gee, and her friends, who call themselves The Crazy Eight. As teens they led the most promiscuous lives imaginable, and though they separated this desire stayed with them all.
Gee Gee always had the irrepressible urge to dominate, especially after starting the Sex Ed instruction with her friends. They soon found they could make good money by having lots of fun, but this drove them all way over the edge, and was the beginning to their downfall. Now that she's all grown up, Gee Gee has become one of the richest, most powerful women in the world, but things are about to change drastically.








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B.J Hardy Bio and Links
The things I enjoy most in life are simplicity,

honesty, and laughter.


My passions are hiking, backpacking, and pretty much

anything to do with nature. I love to workout, training in the martial arts

most especially.


I am an avid animal lover of most any type.


If a woman can make me laugh, she has my full

attention. This is what I find most attractive.


Writing is much more than just a passion for me, it is

the breath of freedom itself. You will find my fantasies, as well as my

nightmares in the pages of my books.





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Monday, August 6, 2018

Manipulated Lives Book Tour and Giveaway



Manipulated
Lives
by
H.A. Leuschel

Genre:
Psychological Fiction

‘Realistic,
heart-breaking and utterly gripping!’ 
-
Bookneeders


'A
brilliant and important book ... I could barely put it down'
-
Nerdish Mum Book Blog

‘You
NEED to read this. Your family needs to read this, your friends need
to read this, your children … NEED to read this’
 -
JenacideByBibliophile







Five
fictional, compelling true-to-life stories about how people can be
manipulated by others.


Manipulators are everywhere. At first
these devious and calculating people can be hard to spot, because
that is their way. They are often masters of disguise: witty,
disarming, even charming in public – tricks to snare their prey –
but then they revert to their true self of being controlling and
angry in private. Their main aim: to dominate and use others to
satisfy their needs, with a complete lack of compassion and empathy
for their victim.

In this collection of short novellas, you
meet people like you and me, intent on living happy lives, yet each
of them, in one way or another, is caught up and damaged by a
manipulative individual.

First you meet Tess, whose past is
haunted by a wrong decision, then young, successful and well balanced
Sophie, who is drawn into the life of a little boy and his troubled
father. Next, there is teenage Holly, who is intent on making a
better life for herself, followed by a manipulator himself, trying to
make sense of his irreversible incarceration. Lastly, there is Lisa,
who has to face a parent’s biggest regret. All stories highlight to
what extent abusive manipulation can distort lives and threaten our
very feeling of self-worth. 










Helene
Andrea Leuschel gained a BA in Journalism & Communication, which
led to a career in radio and television in Brussels, London and
Edinburgh. She later acquired a Master in Philosophy, specializing in
the study of the mind. 


Helene
has a particular interest in emotional, psychological and social
well-being and this led her to write her first novel, Manipulated
Lives, a fictional collection of five novellas, each highlighting the
dangers of interacting with narcissists. 

She
lives with her husband and two children in Portugal.










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the tour HERE
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When time Stands Still Book Tour and Giveaway



When
Time Stands Still
by
Sara Furlong-Burr

Genre:
Romance

It’s
been nearly a decade since Elle Sloan last saw Luke Hutchins. Close
to ten years since she broke up with him over a single phone call,
providing him with little explanation. Since the end of their
relationship, Elle has done everything she could do to move on,
marrying, proceeding forward with her life, almost allowing herself
to completely forget about Luke.


Almost.

Out
of nowhere, Elle receives a phone call from Luke’s mother. Luke has
been in a horrific car accident and, a month later, has just awoken
from a coma. However, instead of celebrating, his family is stunned
to learn that Luke is suffering from amnesia and only remembers his
life as it was before his breakup with Elle. Not wanting to tell Luke
that he and Elle aren’t together anymore for fear it may compromise
his recovery, Elle is asked by Luke’s family to come to the
hospital to see him. Their hope is that she will slowly be able to
jog his memory and cushion the blow. 

Guilt-ridden
over how their relationship ended, Elle readily agrees, finding
herself transported back in time with Luke to the life they once
shared and the future they could have had together.







Sara
"Furlong" Burr was born and raised in Michigan and
currently still lives there with her husband, two daughters, a
high-strung Lab, and three judgmental cats. When she's not writing,
Sara enjoys reading, camping, spending time with her family, and
attempting to paint while consuming more amaretto sours than she
cares to admit. She's also an advocate for melanoma awareness, having
been diagnosed with stage 1b melanoma in 2017.





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Sunday, August 5, 2018

A Broken Fairytale Series Book Tour and Giveaway


Dust
to Dust
A
Broken Fairy Tale Book 1
by
S.P. Cervantes


Genre:
Contemporary Romance

A
SUSPENSEFUL SECOND-CHANCE ROMANCE!

RECOMMENDED
FOR AGES 18 AND UP DUE TO SEXUAL SITUATIONS, STRONG LANGUAGE, AND
GRAPHIC VIOLENCE.

If
faced with your worst fear, what would you do? Would you run or would
you fight? 

Camryn
Hamilton is a fighter.

A
thirty-something mother of two, Camryn appears to have it all: a
husband, plenty of money, and children she adores. When she returns
home to spend Christmas with her family, her perfect world she has
created begins to crumble, thrusting her face to face with the only
man who truly knows her.

Holden
Patrick will fight harder.

A
powerful, handsome attorney, Holden left town after his adoptive
parents’ death. In his time away he almost managed to forget the
girl who ran away with his heart. At least until a turn of fate
brought him back to Mantoloking, and back to Camryn.

But
are they willing to fight for each other?

Faced
with a tragic past that they both wanted to forget, they struggle to
protect their hearts from being broken again. Will their love be
enough to get them through another tragedy, or will they close
themselves off and run away again?




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Wished
Away
A
Broken Fairy Tale Book 2

AN
EMOTIONAL ROMANCE


RECOMMENDED
FOR AGES 18 AND UP DUE TO SEXUAL SITUATIONS AND STRONG
LANGUAGE.

Imagine
that you were married to the love of your life and had a happy
family. Now imagine everything was destroyed in an instant, making
you question who you are and how you can possibly go on once the one
person you truly love is gone. 
It
is a rare thing to find your soul mate, but Jess found true love in
Dave when they were only teenagers. They’ve built a happy life
together in a small shore town, becoming pillars of the community and
making everyone around them envious of the perfect life they have
built together. Their love is something that seems like it can only
exist in a fairy tale. But what happens when the fairy tale is
broken?

Jess
has always been the life of the party, and Dave was always there to
reel her in and keep her safe. But one night, while on duty as the
town Sheriff, the unimaginable happens, altering the directions of
their lives forever. 
Jess
is now forced to dig deep in her soul and find herself again. When
love tries to chip away at her frozen over heart, she struggles to
fight the guilt of moving on while keeping the memory of her perfect
love alive.

This
is a story about finding love, having it all taken away, and
discovering that moving on doesn’t mean forgetting the
past.

***This
is the second book of the A Broken Fairy Tale series, but can also be
read as a stand alone






**On
sale for only .99cents!!**






His
Jar of Hearts
A
Broken Fairy Tale Book 3

Joey
McMillian is a man that everyone loves. Women fall at his feet
everywhere he goes, and men want to be him. Working at the fire
department in the small shore town where he grew up, staying close to
the only constant in his life, his best friends, has been all Joey
thought he wanted in life. While his friends have all found love and
started families, Joey bounces from woman to woman, never opening
himself up to the opportunity of loving someone and being truly loved
in return.

Kat
Pierce is a fiercely independent thirty something who knows Joey’s
womanizing ways far too well. When she lands a teaching job and moves
into her cousin’s house at the shore, she finds herself with Joey
more than she would like. There’s always been an attraction between
the two of them, but Kat knows better than to act on her feelings.
Her heart has been broken before, and she knows Joey is a one way
ticket to having it broken again. 
Will
Joey and Kat find the love they are looking for? 

HIS
JAR OF HEARTS is the third book of the A BROKEN FAIRY TALE SERIES.




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sale for only .99cents!!**







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the Box Set on Sale for only $1.99 HERE!**


S.P.
Cervantes is the author of the acclaimed contemporary romance A
BROKEN FAIRY TALE series. The series allows you to connect with a
group of friends and their triumphs over tragedy. "Dust to Dust"
is a suspenseful stand-alone romance that introduces readers to this
close knit group of loyal friends. "Wished Away" is an
emotional romance that should be read before the Bad-Boy romance,
"His Jar of Hearts". The stand-alone highly acclaimed
romance called "The Wife" is now available. 


S.P.
Cervantes's new dystopian romance, AN IMPOSSIBLE WORLD, will be
released on July 25th.

S.P.
is also the author of the highly rated Young Adult Romantic Fantasy
trilogy Secrets of Shadow Hill. "Always and Forever", "The
Prophecy", and "War of Wizards" that has been
described as "Twilight Meets Harry Potter". It's not your
typical romantic fantasy.

S.P
Cervantes lives in Orange County, California with her husband and
three children, where she is a teacher. She enjoys spending time with
her family, writing, reading, and running, but is always thinking of
an idea for her next novel.








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Friday, August 3, 2018

Tales from the Forest Book Tour and Giveaway


Tales
From the Forest
by
Johanna Sarah Aldridge

Genre:
YA Mystery

The
Forest Realm is a magical world within our own. You cannot see it,
nor can you hear it, and only very few might be able to feel it. The
realm feeds the hungry, shelters the homeless, and protects the
hunted... so long as their hearts are pure.


Recently
orphaned, two heartbroken brothers are at risk of separation by the
government...

A
black Labrador leads a colony of rabbits away from danger...

A
destitute family of rats seek a new life away from the pollution of
the big city...

All
have been rescued by the realm of magic, and their lives are truly
about to change.

Come
and join us in The Forest where magic thrives, adventures are rife,
and friendships last forever.
 







Jo
was born in Colchester, Essex, in 1974 and since an early age has
always been accused of having a wild imagination. This didnt stop her
from studying for an honours degree in Cell and Molecular Biology,
training as a science teacher, then go on to train as a Biomedical
Scientist. She eventually took a post in Clinical Chemistry at Jersey
General Hospital in the Channel Islands.


Whilst holding down a
full time job, and working 28 hour emergency on call shifts, she has
managed to find the time to share that wild imagination with the
world by writing online fan fiction stories about the CW series
Supernatural.

She enjoyed it so much that, with a lot of
encouragement from her husband, she decided to write her own stories.
Not an easy task for somone dogged by anxiety and depression, and
since her diagnosis in 2013 she has also been battling with
Ulcerative Colitis.

In spite of her struggles, Tales from the
Forest, a series of short stories set in a magical realm, began to
take physical form on her laptop screen, and her black labrador
Nelson is a valiant hero in some of the stories. As an avid animal
lover, she has vowed that all proceeds from the sale of this book
series will help to set up a forever home sanctuary for stray,
elderly and abandoned dogs.

Although still working full time
at the hospital, she has turned her thoughts to the future, and now
holds a Diploma in Dog Training from the Centre of Excellence, and is
currently studying towards a Diploma in Canine Communication in order
to prepare for a life of working with rescue dogs.








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