Release day for All for This

CONFESSION TIME: I. Am. Trembling. With. Anticipation. For. This. Book.

That's it, I said it. After books one and two, this last beauty is calling me like crazy. And it's out today! Tel me, book, buddies, have you tasted this beautiful romantic drama yet?

Released August 4, 2014

New Adult Contemporary Romance

1) LOST IN ME is FREE through the ALL FOR THIS tour!

2) ALL FOR THIS will be $2.99 on release day and $3.99 thereafter.

**ALL FOR THIS is book three in the Here and Now series. It is not a stand-alone and it’s intended to be read after LOST IN ME and FALL TO YOU.**

What if you would never remember the day you made the most important decision of your life?

That’s what they’re telling me about the day of my accident—the day I put on Max’s ring and chose him over Nate. I’m counting on the wisdom behind a decision I don’t remember making.

Max is amazing—sexy, sweet, and kind. I was starting to believe happily-ever-after might be in my future after all. Then the unthinkable happened and my world imploded. If I’m going to make this work with Max, I need my missing memories, or at least answers from about those five days before my accident.

But what does my future hold if those answers aren’t anything like I imagined?

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ALL FOR THIS excerpt

**SPOILER ALERT!** The following excerpt from ALL FOR THIS by its very nature contains spoilers for the first two books in the Here and Now series, LOST IN ME and FALL TO YOU. If you hate spoilers and haven’t read the first two books, don’t read any further.

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Nate

Her eyes flash with anger, disappointment, and heat. “Do you think you can win me with a kiss? Did you think I’m so fickle that your mouth on mine is enough to convince me to break Max’s heart?”

I step forward, blocking her between me and the counter as I lower my mouth to her ear. “I thought maybe you needed a reminder.”

“What do you want from me? You want me to admit that I want you? You know I do. You want me to tell you I’m still in love with you? It’s true.”

My heart swells and hammers at her words. I don’t know if I’ll ever feel worthy of Hanna’s love, but that doesn’t change that I want it, need it like I need air.

“Isn’t that enough? Is it like this with him? When he’s whispering in your ear, does your body hum with need? We both know I could kiss you again and make you forget him. I could kiss you until you wanted me so badly you climbed onto that counter and let me touch you everywhere, let me do anything I wanted with your body.”

“You won’t,” she says, her voice shaking slightly.

“Are you so sure?”

“You won’t,” she repeats, “because I’m asking you not to. You won’t because you’re too good not to respect that.”

“I don’t want to be good,” I growl. I step back so I can see her face—her parted lips, her smoky eyes. “I want you.”

“I’m taken.”

“What happened?” I ask, scanning her face, trying to read her shielding expression. “Between when I left LA and when I came back to New Hope, what happened to make you take him back?”

She’s silent for a minute, and I wonder if she’s going to tell me the truth. “I found out he bought me the bakery—that all my worries and insecurities about our relationship were totally unfounded.”

“I’ll buy you a hundred bakeries.”

“But I don’t want a hundred bakeries. I only want this one.”

Here. In New Hope. I close my eyes because I can’t deny that geography still stands between us.

“Please don’t kiss me again.”

“What if you ask me to?”

She swallows. “I won’t ask.”

About the Author

Once a college English professor, I now write full time. I live in rural Indiana, where, when I’m not writing, I get to hang out with my husband and two kids–a six-year-old boy and a two-year-old hellion, er, girl. Not surprisingly, reading and writing remain my favorite activities, though both come in bits and pieces these days, not the big hunks of time I enjoyed before I had children. When I’m feeling virtuous, I like to go running (I use that word liberally. I’m really, really slow) or do yoga. Don’t worry, I’m always careful to balance out such activities with a hearty serving of ice cream or a chocolate martini.

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The third book in a trilogy I love: ALL FOR THIS

I can't tell you how excited I am for this book. I've read the two previous ones and I squirmed, cried, screamed and just had an incredibly frustrating good time. I need to read this one!!

Releasing August 4, 2014

New Adult Contemporary Romance

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**ALL FOR THIS is book three in the Here and Now series. It is not a stand-alone and it’s intended to be read after LOST IN ME and FALL TO YOU.**

What if you would never remember the day you made the most important decision of your life?

That’s what they’re telling me about the day of my accident—the day I put on Max’s ring and chose him over Nate. I’m counting on the wisdom behind a decision I don’t remember making.

Max is amazing—sexy, sweet, and kind. I was starting to believe happily-ever-after might be in my future after all. Then the unthinkable happened and my world imploded. If I’m going to make this work with Max, I need my missing memories, or at least answers from about those five days before my accident.

But what does my future hold if those answers aren’t anything like I imagined?

The following excerpt from ALL FOR THIS by its very nature contains spoilers for the first two books in the Here and Now series, LOST IN ME and FALL TO YOU. If you hate spoilers and haven’t read the first two books, I recommend you don’t read any further.

EXCERPT:

Max

“How are you holding up? Did it go okay with Nate last night?”

She stiffens at his name. “He asked me to move to LA.”

Of course he did. “And what did you say?”

She blinks at me. “I’m not leaving New Hope. This is my home.”

“He wanted more than for you to move to LA.” I take a step closer. I need to touch her. I wonder if she knows she’s pulling away from me, if she can feel it like I can. It’s as if we’re connected by a thousand little threads like those in a woven rug and they’ve been breaking one at a time since the moment Nate came back into town. With every breath, I feel another thread snap. “He wanted you.”

She shrugs. “I’m already taken.”

I draw in a deep breath. She lifts her hand to my face and skims her fingers along my jaw.

I groan softly and slide my hand into her hair as I lower my mouth to hers. She’s soft and sweet, and I need more of her.

Taking a fistful of her skirt, I yank her dress up around her waist and find the cotton of her panties. She gasps, and I rub her through the fabric as her fingers curl into my back. My lips find her neck and the skin in the sensitive juncture of neck and shoulder.

“Max,” she says. But it’s not the normal breathy, needy whispering of my name. The word is a warning. A yield sign. “Max.”

My hand stills and I pull back to look into her eyes. I’m blindsided by the apology I see there. “Let’s move in together.”

“What?” She blinks at me. If she’s thinking I have the world’s worst timing with important proposals, she’s not wrong.

“We could rent out our apartments and use the money to rent a little place together. Someplace without those stairs that scare the living shit out of me every time I think of you climbing them. Someplace we can make our own.” I take her hand and squeeze. “You didn’t want to move in together last spring because you knew your mom would flip if you lived with a guy before marriage, but we’re not trying to maintain appearances anymore, are we?” She looks at the floor, and I tilt her chin back up so her eyes meet mine. “I could give two shits about appearances. I want to wake up with you in my arms, Hanna. I want to know I’m going to be right there when you need me, every time you need me. You and Claire are all that matter in my world. I want everything that matters to be what I come home to every night.”

“I’m sorry.” She steps back. “I just can’t. I’m too confused right now.”

My lungs burn as I fill them—it hurts to breathe in a world where Hanna isn’t mine.

“I know it’s not fair. And I want a future with you, but…”

“But you can’t stop thinking about him.”

“I can’t move in with you right now,” she says softly. “That wouldn’t be fair to either of us. It’s not that simple.”

“You keep saying that.”

I swallow back the rest of what I want to say right along with my anger, frustration, and the betrayal I’ve never allowed myself to feel. While I was waiting for her to take my ring, she was with another man, and I was never allowed to be angry because that man died and she needed to grieve.

I drag a hand through my hair and look at the ceiling. “Was it that simple when you made love to him?”

“Can we not do this?”

Torment is etched across her face, and I can’t stand to know I’m the one who put it there. I pull her against my chest.

“I won’t rush you, but remember something for me,” I whisper into her hair. “You put on my ring.”

About the Author

Once a college English professor, I now write full time. I live in rural Indiana, where, when I’m not writing, I get to hang out with my husband and two kids–a six-year-old boy and a two-year-old hellion, er, girl. Not surprisingly, reading and writing remain my favorite activities, though both come in bits and pieces these days, not the big hunks of time I enjoyed before I had children. When I’m feeling virtuous, I like to go running (I use that word liberally. I’m really, really slow) or do yoga. Don’t worry, I’m always careful to balance out such activities with a hearty serving of ice cream or a chocolate martini.

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Madly in love with these books: Lost in Me & Fall to You

Sometimes I fall in love with covers. Sometimes it's the synopsis that dazzles me. Then it's pure magic when the cover, the story and the book itself just collide to produce the profound pleasure of reading something you love. From now on, every time I fall in love with a book, you'll see that stamp up there.

I cannot tell you how eager I am to read the final book in this series.

Amnesia. A frightening word that's key to my immediate craziness about wanting to read a book. If you couple it with romance, a twisted mystery and two men on hot pursuit of a woman's heart, I'm overcome with excitement!

LOST IN ME, by Lexi Ryan, starts with a fat girl who has a crush on a hot guy, and then is immediately followed by a successful business woman that has achieved a body she's proud of and the boyfriend of her dreams. The only problem is she doesn't remember who she got it all. As soon as she's trying to enjoy her blessings, the pieces of the crumbled puzzle of her life get more and more scattered.

-She might not have had an accident

-She has become estranged from her twin sister

-She's got secrets that threaten her relationship with perfect Max

This story oozes sexiness. Not only from what it'd feel like to get your heart's desire in looks, job and men, but the very fact that everyone has conscious and unconscious desires that are dealt with here. We know what we want: Max enters there as the idol of Hanna's dreams. We still harbour a secret side that can only be catered to in the backstage, away from public eyes, even our own judgment. That's where Nate fills in.

He's that inner passion that cannot be denied but it's hard to acknowledge. Hanna is torn between what she accomplished before her amnesia and what deep down she craves to remember even though it can be destructive.

I loved how that dichotomy of her feelings pull her apart. The way she constantly struggles to reconcile who she is now and how she got there, all the while finding out explosive snippets of her life at the same time we do. This makes it an interesting and non-stop reading! Also, the alternating scenes of her present life and of memories of her past work really well to enhance the frustrating mystery.

The drama keeps building up, as well as the sexiness and the emotional turmoil. I was very happy with the alternating points of view from Hanna, Max and Nate, which not only add depth but also much appreciated insight into the characters' psyche, feelings and internal conflicts.

As to the two hot men, I can't deny Max is really sweet. His encounters with Hanna are quite a party, but I confess I was most curious about Nate. I've always had a soft spot for men in pain ;o)

Look at this phrase:

"If an open wound has a sound, it's the sound of his voice right now."

Isn't it just gorgeous?

As the story progresses, Hanna remembers more not only about her actions, but her passionate moments that were lurking deep inside her memory. And OMG, all I want to say is yes, yes, yes! When I reached the final chapters, I felt hopeful and surprised. The ending was so bittersweet that my heart ached. And then something else happened that could give a woman a heart attack. It was bewildering to say the least. Which is nothing compared to what awaited me in the second novel. WOW.

FALL TO YOU starts off three months before the accident that took Hanna's memory. There is so much anguish, so much heartbreak. I was beginning to fall for one of Hanna's guys, but now that I know more about the two, it's not so easy any more. We get to see what happened, filling in more details, more significance, and it all means so much now that we know the characters and what's at stake.

Despite her insecurities, Hanna is a lovely woman who deserves to be loved. Her mind is clouded by her belief that nobody can love someone like her. Ironically, most of her problems arise from the fact that she's loved by two men. both are engaging in their own way, imperfect too. Though Nate's story with Hanna is so sexy and beautiful it's hard to deny it. 

Not before long, we switch back to the present and there is a huge surprise in store for Hanna. Something that will alter everything she thought possible. And it's all so amazing! I kept changing my mind about these two gorgeous, complicated, so-in-love men. I understood Hanna's dilemma too well because it's almost impossible to choose when you find out new things that change everything from one chapter to another. And there's so much drama, beautiful romantic drama. The ending got me wretched again. I need the third book like breathing!

And here is the beauty I'm drooling for...

The lovely author

Once a college English professor, I now write full time. I live in rural Indiana, where, when I’m not writing, I get to hang out with my husband and two kids–a six-year-old boy and a two-year-old hellion, er, girl. Not surprisingly, reading and writing remain my favorite activities, though both come in bits and pieces these days, not the big hunks of time I enjoyed before I had children. When I’m feeling virtuous, I like to go running (I use that word liberally. I’m really, really slow) or do yoga. Don’t worry, I’m always careful to balance out such activities with a hearty serving of ice cream or a chocolate martini.

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Do you like books that deal with amnesia? Tell me if you have a favourite, book buddies :o)

Here and Now series: sexy new adult romance + giveaway

I'm very happy to be hosting this series. Why? Easy, 'cause I've been in the mood for New Adult romance lately. It's a genre I've discovered and now I'm relishing it with a passion ;o)

Last weekend I read the first novel, Lost in You, and I'm definitely hooked. Don't miss it! I'll bring you, book buddies, the reviews in mid-June.

FALL TO YOU

LEXI RYAN

New Adult Contemporary Romance

Release June 2, 2014

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About This Book

Fall to You is the second book in the Here and Now series. It is not a stand-alone and is intended to be read following Lost in Me. Hanna’s story concludes in book three, All for This.

Torn between two men…

When I woke up after the accident, I couldn’t remember anything from the last year—including my relationship with Max Hallowell or anything about Nate Crane. Now my memories are returning, but instead of answering my questions, they’re leaving me with more.

The man who broke my heart and wants to be my future…

Max is all I ever wanted, and now he wants to marry me. He’ll do everything he can to fill my life with love, family, and security. I need those things now more than ever. But can I trust him?

The man who stole my heart and wants to let me go…

Nate never made me promises, and I never asked him to. I’d been on the rebound, looking for a distraction, and he made me feel beautiful and wanted when I needed to feel those things most. He says he has to let me go, but what if I can’t let go of him?

With every revelation and every passing day, I feel more like Alice down the rabbit hole. I’m falling. Who will catch me?

  About the Author

Once a college English professor, I now write full time. I live in rural Indiana, where, when I'm not writing, I get to hang out with my husband and two kids--a six-year-old boy and a two-year-old hellion, er, girl. Not surprisingly, reading and writing remain my favorite activities, though both come in bits and pieces these days, not the big hunks of time I enjoyed before I had children. When I'm feeling virtuous, I like to go running (I use that word liberally. I'm really, really slow) or do yoga. Don't worry, I'm always careful to balance out such activities with a hearty serving of ice cream or a chocolate martini.

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What If You Had to Choose?: Why I Heart Love Triangles

I am so incredibly lucky. I get to spend my days writing down the stories in my head—pretty much my favorite thing to do—and then people read them and write me to let me know what they thought. After Lost in Me, Book 1 of the Here and Now Series, released, the comment I heard the most was some variation of, “I usually hate love triangles, but…” To say I made you enjoy a trope that you usually dislike, is a huge compliment, so thank you!

But personally? I freaking FLOVE love triangles! I’m addicted. My favorite movies and books all seem to be love triangles. Sometimes the “better guy” is obvious and sometimes he’s not. Sometimes there’s a love triangle and the third party isn’t even around—maybe he’s dead or overseas—but that doesn’t change the heart of what makes a love triangle story work.

Here are a few of my favorite love triangle movies:

While You Were Sleeping? How can you resist the whole forbidden chemistry with the (supposed) fiancé’s brother? The conflict is built in and everyone loves Jack and wants her to end up with him, but he’s such a freaking good guy, he’s not going to do anything to get in the way of what he thinks she wants.

She asks, “Can you give me any reason why I shouldn't marry your brother?”

And my heart just tears into two when he says, “Oh... I can't.”

Love Actually? If there’s a scene that inspires belly butterflies more than the scene where he comes to the door with those signs, I haven’t seen it! The selflessness of the guy who lets go so the girl can move on is super hot. If you haven’t seen it, here’s what the signs say:

With any luck, by next year - I'll be going out with one of these girls. [shows pictures of hot models] But for now, let me say - Without hope or agenda - Just because it's Christmas - And at Christmas you tell the truth - To me, you are perfect - And my wasted heart will love you - Until you look like this. [shows picture of a mummy] Merry Christmas.

And come on…Twilight? That whole series was 400-times more addictive because of the whole Bella-Edward-Jacob thing. (And, confession, I was totally Team Jacob, but that’s a post for another day.)

Two amazing guys in love with the heroine? Yes, please.

All of the naughty forbidden chemistry? Yes, please.

The angsty gut tugging of not knowing how she’s going to choose? Yeah. I’m all over that.

So…love triangles. Love ’em or hate ’em?

FALL TO YOU will be on special at $2.99 on release week only, then the price will increase to $3.99. 

Also, LOST IN ME will be .99 cents for the duration of the June release and tour. For anyone who hasn't started the series yet, this is a great chance to start if interested in FALL TO YOU.

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