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News From SL Jennings!

Check out S.L. Jennings latest update on her The Dark Light Series by S.L. Jennings Facebook Page! Niko's coming!  ♥

Here is the latest news directly from Author SL Jennings! 

"So more good news…and bad news.

Before I dive in with it, I just want to say THANK YOU to everyone for supporting THE DARK LIGHT SERIES, as well as my new standalone, FEAR OF FALLING (7/18). You all are seriously so amazing & I am grateful for every one of you. 

Ok… let’s get to the Bad News: LIGHT SHADOWS will not be released in the fall. It is being pushed back until the end of 2013/early 2014. No definite date yet. Wait, wait…before you print out my pic to use as a dartboard, there’s a reason for this! A really, really good one, too! LS will be the end of the DLS. And I want to end it on the best note possible. Which brings us to the good news…

NIKOLAI (the Dark Light novella about Dorian’s little bro) will be released in the fall instead! It will be the story of how Niko came to be…well, a cocky yet loveable little bastard. I’m really excited about it, so excited that I’ve got a snippet for you all! Enjoy!"

Make sure you add NIKOLAI to your Goodreads TBR here:www.goodreads.com/book/show/17916113-nikolai

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SL Jennings "Fear of falling" Cover Release

I am so excited for the release of this stand alone novel! 

Fear of Falling by S.L. Jennings

Release Date: July 18th, 2013

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Synopsis:

I can’t remember the last time I felt completely safe. Security seemed more like a luxury to me, reserved for those who were fortunate enough to have picture perfect childhoods. For those who didn’t bear the ugly scars that keep me bound in constant, debilitating fear. I’ve run from that fear my entire life. But when I met him, for once, I couldn’t run anymore.

He scared the hell out of me in a way that excited every fiber of my being. It wasn’t the tattoos or the piercings. It wasn’t the warmth that seemed to radiate from his frame and blanket me whenever he was near. It was just…him. The scary beautiful man that threatened to alter 23 years of routine and rituals, and make me face my crippling fear.

My name is Kami and I am constantly afraid. And the thing that scares me the most is the very thing I want.

***Inspired by true events***

Excerpt:

“Hey,” I smiled, stepping behind the bar and tying the little black apron around my waist. Dive had just opened and was completely empty aside from the day shift preparing for the lunch crowd.

Blaine turned from his task of refilling the soda dispenser and crooked a grin. I could only describe it as polite, and that fact tore me in two.

“Hey, Kami.” His deep chocolate eyes narrowed. “You change your hair?”

I twirled a lock of my honey blonde highlighted mane and shrugged. “Felt like I needed a change.” I didn’t have the guts to tell him that it was really an attempt at bribery by Angel. She knew I was a whore for spa days at the upscale salon she frequented and used my weakness to try to get me to gush about my feelings for Blaine. It didn’t fully work as she intended but I did throw her a bone: I told her I was attracted to him. It was harmless enough. Even a 90 year old deaf and blind woman would have a raging lady boner for him.

Blaine gave me the most genuine smile I had seen from him in days and I swear I felt something in my chest swell. “I like it. Makes you look…I don’t know… devastatingly sexy.”

I didn’t try to stifle the blush that I could feel heating my cheeks. I embraced it. It was the first time I had felt anything but regret in days. “Yeah?”

“Hell yeah,” he said, closing the distance between us in three long strides.

And there it was again. The smell of mint and spice and pure male. The heat that seemed to roll off his body and enfold me like a mink blanket. Those intense brown eyes that made me forget my own name and had me imagining screaming out his. Him. It was all him. Blaine somehow made me forget me. The me that wasn’t allowed to feel all these beautiful, exciting things. The me that didn’t believe in happy endings. The me that was unlovable, and in turn, could never, ever love.

“You were sexy before…unbelievably so. But the way the golden strands seem to meld with your green eyes, it just… wow. Makes it hard to look at anything or anyone else.”

I sucked in a breath of air and let it out slowly through my mouth, closing my eyes in attempt to regain some sense of composure. “Blaine…” I couldn’t say anymore. His name, occupying my tongue like his skin once did, was enough.

“I’m sorry,” he sputtered quickly, breaking me from the sweet memories of tasting him. My eyes fluttered open to him looking sheepish, rubbing the back of his neck with a tattooed hand. Shit, even that was sexy.

“I think I should explain.” He rolled the barbell in his mouth before flashing me a strained grin. “I have this habit of always saying how I feel, no matter how embarrassing it is. A long time ago, I didn’t speak my mind. I didn’t ask the right questions because I was afraid of the answers. And life shitted on me because I kept my mouth shut. So I vowed to always be brutally honest and let the chips fall where they may. I’m sorry if that makes you uncomfortable.”

I looked away, seeking refuge from his penetrating stare. It didn’t make me uncomfortable. His words, his presence, it made me anxious. It made that pesky flutter in my stomach evolve into a full on swarm of butterflies.

“It doesn’t make me uncomfortable,” I replied, speaking my truth. For once, I didn’t let fear suppress my first instinct. “But you do make me nervous.”

“Nervous?” Blaine asked, crooking a brow.

“In a good way,” I quickly recovered. Shit. Real smooth.

Blaine chuckled, and that fascinating sound chipped at the wall around my forgotten heart. “I wasn’t aware there was a good kinda nervous. But I’ll take it. Anything to see your cheeks get pink like that. You have no idea how it makes me feel when that happens.”

Speechless. I was rendered completely speechless and my cheeks had taken on a life of their own and complied with his wishes. The smile that spread across Blaine’s lips as he took in my reddened face was undeniable and I suddenly felt completely stripped bare before him. I just wanted to cover myself and hide. But Blaine wasn’t having that. Before my nerves sent me cowering in a corner, his head dipped, placing his lips at my earlobe.

“I know you said you don’t feel anything,” he whispered. “But can you honestly say that you don’t feel this? That this heat, this attraction, is all in my head? Don’t think about it; just answer. Tell me what your heart wants to say and not what your head keeps trying to make you believe.”

I swallowed down the ‘no’ that was already reflexively building in my throat and let Blaine’s proximity push away the fear. His presence did that for me; it got me out of my own way.

“Yes, Blaine,” I rasped. “I feel it.” I did. I felt all of it. I felt all of him.

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Bio:

Most known for her starring role in a popular sitcom as a child, S.L. Jennings went on to earn her law degree from Harvard at the young age of 16. While studying for the bar exam and recording her debut hit album, she also won the Nobel Prize for her groundbreaking invention of calorie-free wine. When she isn’t conquering the seas in her yacht or flying her Gulfstream, she likes to spin elaborate webs of lies and has even documented a few of these said falsehoods.

Some of S.L.’s devious lies:

THE DARK LIGHT SERIES

Dark Light

The Dark Prince

Light Shadows (Fall 2013)

FEAR OF FALLING- July 18th, 2013

Meet the Liar:

authorsljennings.wordpress.com

www.facebook.com/authorsljennings

www.facebook.com/darklightseries

Twitter: @MrsSLJ

Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/SLJennings

Book release party for "Brides of the Storm" and rafflecopter Kindle Fire give away!

So I am hosting an event for an author friend (Amanda Albright Still) on the release of her new book "Brides of the Storm".

Blurb from Brides of the Storm:

"One Too Many Brides

One bride died a year before the wedding, drowned in the waters of the Great Galveston Hurricane of 1900. One fell in love and expects a quiet wedding and a peaceful life. They are both surprised when the confused groom is suspected of a brutal murder. The gruesome death of a local prostitute occurred just after the "dead" wife returned to town. Are the two events connected?

Dash, a female attorney, must find out the truth to bring peace to her own home as her adopted daughters are now torn between their love for her and suspicion that their original mother did not die in the storm, but might return. As Dash hunts a killer, she finds the dead are more help than the living in this dangerous pursuit. "

BRIDES OF THE STORM is the second book in the ECHOES OF THE STORM, Galveston Hurricane Mystery Series.

Blurb from Echoes of the Storm:

""Delightful historical mystery with a touch of the paranormal" The storm took almost everything she had. Now, a dead woman may take the rest. Dash Gallagher, Galveston's first lady attorney, has seen plenty of bodies wash up onto the beach since the Great Hurricane of 1900, but none like this. This one was murdered. The dead woman lived such a scandalous life, that no one cares about her death, not even her family. The family only cares about retrieving a mystical treasure and hire Barker, a private detective, to find it. Dash must find the murderer and clear herself before the scandals surrounding the dead woman tarnish her. Dash may lose her career and even her children, but she must move from a past washed away in the hurricane tide and toward a future filled with danger."

The event can be found here:

https://www.facebook.com/events/370844849698927/

And the rafflecopter for a Kindle Fire and 2 signed books can be found here:

http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/share-code/YTQ0NWZlYzRkYTE1MTg3MzE1MzJhNmJhNWMwMjFhOjA=/

AND Here is the Winner List to be used during the party!

Amanda Albright Still

Random $25 Amazon Gift Card Giveaway
Winner: Whitney Baer

Rafflecopter Give Away (numbers 1-3)

1. Kindle Fire

Winner:

2. Signed copy of “Echoes of the Storm”

Winner:

3. Signed copy of “Shadow of Twilight”

Winner:

4. 4 Signed copies of “Echoes of the Storm”

Winner: Marie O'Halloran

Winner: Sue Ellen Robertson

Winner: Whitney Baer

Winner: Christina Mercer 

5. 4 Signed copies of “Shadow of Twilight”

Winner: Elliot McMahon

Winner: Marie O'Halloran

Winner: Jen Kyle

Winner: Tammy Sipe 

6. Tiara, 1901 women’s magazine, Victorian ladies visiting cards (scavenger hunt prize)

Winner:

7. Name in the acknowledgements of "Secrets of the Storm"

Winner: Donna Dearing Harms
Winner: Nicki Bland

8.Brides of the storm Tshirt! guess how many colors were used for “Big Red”

Winner:Tanya Conaway

9. Brides of the Storm Tshirt: What is the name of the Pirate that built the most haunted site in Galveston contest. 

Winner: Karey Smith



Fabio Bueno

10. eBook of “Wicked Sense”

Winner: Kris Morton



E.L.Montes

11. 2 eBooks of “Disastrous” and signed bookmarks

Winner: Mickey Platko

Winner: Amber Dawn Meeks

S.L. Jennings

12. eBook set of “The Dark Light” and “The Dark Prince”

Winner: Nicki Bland

AJ Lape

13. eBook of “Grade A Stupid”

Winner: EVERYONE Cause it's Free today!

Tina Hammond

14. eBook choice of “Red Rover” or “Blind Seduction”

Winner: Haley Allen

15. 3 signed “Red Rover” bookmarks and 3 signed "Blind Seduction" bookmarks

Winner: Donna Dearing Harms

Winner: Priscilla Shuster

Winner: Karey Smith

JD Nelson

16. eBook of “Night Abberations” and signed bookmark

Winner: Donna Dearing Harms

17. eBook of “A Night of Wickedness” and signed bookmark

Winner: Jen Kyle 

Julie Cassar

18. eBook of “Ruby Blue”

Winner: Kathleen Guardado

Ruthi Kight

19. 2 Signed copies of “Knotted Roots” with signed bookmarks

Winner: Rabsaris Flores

Winner: Tiffany Riach

20. 4 Signed Rack Cards

Winner: Teracia Loretan

Winner: Amanda C Edmunds 

Winner: Hope Eaton Smith

Winner: Kerry Erickson

Heidi Acosta

21. eBook of “Barbie Girl”

Winner: Kelly Erickson

Christiane Corbin

22. Signed paperback of “Eagles Destiny”

Winner: Amanda Edmunds 

Jill Prand

23. 5 signed bookmarks

Winner: Donna Dearing Harms

Winner: Robin Mann Nichols 

Winner: Whitney Baer

Winner: Tammy Sipe 

Winner: Kimberly Russell Shaw

Nerd Accessories

24. 2 bookmark/earring sets

Winner: Heather Cox (black victorian set)

Winner: Evita's Read's (blue music set)

My wonderful friend Rose Pressey has another awesome give away listed on her page. Go check out her website for more info on how to enter!!

http://rosepressey.com/blog/2013/04/17/pre-order-charmed-again/

Win an iPad mini!

The amazing author Rose Pressy is offering a drawing to win an iPad mini, check her website out for more information!!!!

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