I'll be randomly drawing 3 names to give signed copies of Forever Mine next week.
How to enter: The Forever Mine ebook is temporarily priced at only $.99 on both Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
All you have to do is share the temporary price cut with a link to it on your FB, Twitter, Pinterest, just share in any way. Be sure to to either tag me or send me the link to where you posted. That's it! Your name will automatically be entered into the drawing. Easy peasy!
How to enter? SIMPLE. Copy paste the link to your review of Romero from Amazon or B&N and send it EliReyesbooks@yahoo.com with the subject "Romero review." (PLEASE INCLUDE YOUR NAME AND MAILING ADDRESS!) If you've reviewed it elsewhere copy paste that review and post it on either Amazon or B&N then send me the link and you're entered. If you've never reviewed but would like to be entered simply post an honest review on either site and send me the link and yes if you post on both sites you can send me both links and you will be entered twice! One week from today, Wednesday June 13th I will randomly pick two winners! Good luck all!!! Now you can hold him to your chest and say "I got this!" LOL And yes there will be more giveaways coming for all the other books as well!
Aren't they pretty? =) I could just stare at them all day!
So how to order? Here are the links to the CreateSpace store where they are available now. They will be available on Amazon in a few days but same price. Just click on the title of the books below. Prices are based on length of books. Obviously MYM was much longer than all the others.
Seventeen-year old Sarah’s life is turned upside down when her single
mom is sent to jail. She’s forced to move, leaving behind everything
she’s ever known, including her best friend Sydney. Lost and bitter in a
new school, her one goal is to save money and move back home. Then she
meets Angel Moreno.
Enigmatic but gorgeous, Angel is almost too
good to be true. Except for one thing, his archaic belief that guys and
girls can never be “just friends”. The problem? Sarah’s best friend
Sydney is not a girl.
With their unexpected romance
intensifying to places neither ever experienced, how long can Sarah keep
Angel in the dark about the guy waiting for her back home?
After one heartache too many, Valerie Zuniga vows to never let Alex
Moreno hurt her again. A year later, she is forced to reunite with him
at a party where one unexpected sizzling kiss tells her she’s far from
over him. No way will she allow herself to get sucked back into that
torment. She’ll resist him even if that means using the one thing
that’ll stop Alex dead in his tracks: another man.
Alex is
coming off one of the worst years of his life. He spent so much time
wallowing in self-pity, he never realized how much he’d missed Valerie.
That is, until that kiss. Now, he’s determined to get her back one way
or another, and no other man will stand in his way. Especially after
discovering that Valerie may be in danger, a danger he blames himself
for.
Her entire life, Sofia Moreno has dealt with overprotective brothers.
With her three older brothers always lurking, no boy would dare reach
out to her. Luckily for Sofia, the one boy she's got her heart set on
has always been within reach: her brother's best friend Eric, even
though his loyalty to her brothers runs deep. Sofia knows there is only
so much he can do before giving in to her.
Two years older than
her, Eric Diego has always known there would be hell to pay if he messed
with his best friend's kid sister, Sofia. Through the years, he watches
as she blooms into a beautiful young lady right before his eyes. With
teenage hormones raging and Sofia more than willing, Eric agrees to the
unthinkable: a forbidden secret romance. Feeling emotions and a feverish
passion that's new to them both, neither is ready for how quickly their
romance spins out of control.
Prim and proper middle school teacher Isabel Montenegro always runs the
opposite direction from men like Ramon Romero. A foul-mouthed,
uneducated, loose cannon has no place in her careful plans. But instead
of running away, Isabel is completely captivated. The intensity of his
nature, while a bit daunting, mesmerizes her in ways she can’t begin to
understand. She’s unwilling to walk away—even when her instincts are
screaming at her to run.
Romero has no idea what he's getting
himself into when he first kisses Isabel. Shocked at the passion she
invokes in him, he believes he can keep his usual short fuse under
wraps. Falling fast and hard for someone so flawlessly sweet only makes
him more aware that he’s far from perfect. If she is ever witness to his
biggest imperfection, he’s sure she’ll bail. But when her meddling
sister does the worst thing imaginable—bring other men between him and
his Izzy—that fuse is lit and all bets are off.
Always in control, the meticulous and professional Salvador Moreno is
thrown for a loop when the newly hired bartender Grace Zendejas suddenly
invades his family's restaurant, and infuriatingly, his every thought.
For the first time in his life, Sal is fumbling. But after recovering
from a few blunders he discovers his feelings for Grace run much deeper.
Things
begin to heat up between him and Grace, but then the ever-perfect Sal
does something even his brothers never did-screws up royally. Now he's
scrambling to cover up a mistake he knows could cost him dearly. As his
relationship with Grace grows even more serious, Sal's secret is a
ticking bomb, threatening to destroy the one thing he now lives and
breathes for-his relationship with the love of his life-Grace.
******!!!******!!!***** With a BONUS Sarah and Angel 11k word short story "Only Eight Days" .
Veronica Cruz has been through hell and back. After disconnecting with
the world two years ago to be at the side of her dying mother, she's
left alone, unemployed, overweight, and feeling a decade older than her
twenty-eight years. When her best friend coaxes her into joining the
local gym to ditch her depression and rejuvenate her life, she meets
Noah. Assigned to help Veronica lose weight, Noah is everything she
expected a young trainer to be-perfectly chiseled, supportive and
motivating. Add to that, he's incredibly sexy. He's everything she's
ever looked for in a man. What she least expected was for him to fall
for her, but he has. There's just one glaring problem: Noah is eight
years younger.
Noah Quintanilla has his eye on a boxing
title-someday. Down for a few months with an injury, his maintenance-boy
pay at 5th Street Gym won't cut it. He's finally given the opportunity
to train. The catch? His trainee is an out-of-shape woman with a free
week pass. Taking on the challenge, Noah stumbles into one of the
closest friendships he's ever known, and before he knows it, he's in
love. But Veronica's not having it-the age difference is too much. Their
platonic relationship means having to watch her date other
men-something that would make him crazy. Believing he's the man for her,
Noah sets out to prove that age is but an illusion, and there's more to
him than just a number.
And coming real soon to paperback. My latest:
Gio (5th Street #2)
Adult Contemporary
Price TBD
When tragedy strikes in the ring, Giovanni Bravo falls into a deep
depression, walking away from his dream of boxing to train instead. He
agrees to a two month get-away, helping train Felix Sanchez, his high
school best friend and now welterweight champ of the world. Once at
Felix's lavish boxing complex, he's reunited with Bianca Rubio, someone
he remembers only as the girl with the innocent doe eyes back in high
school. Her refreshing, cheerful demeanor not only takes Gio's mind off
his troubled conscience, he finds himself falling for her fast and hard.
The problem--Bianca is Felix's girlfriend.
Having a sexy, famous
boyfriend has its perks, but they come with a price. Bianca not only
has to deal with the ongoing tabloid rumors about her boyfriend hooking
up with other women, but also his constant absence when he is on the
road. So now that Felix will be in town for two whole months to train
for his next big bout, Bianca is thrilled. He's even asked her to move
into his cabin while he's there. But when he leaves for days at a time
to promote his fight, Bianca spends time getting to know Felix's
gorgeous new trainer and good friend, Gio. Increasingly drawn to his
sweet smile and smoldering green eyes, she finds herself saying and
doing things she normally wouldn't.
As it becomes more and more
difficult for each to resist the other, Gio crosses the line between
them. He hopes that one kiss will alleviate the overwhelming temptation
and clear both their systems, but it does just the opposite. Their
temptation suddenly becomes an obsession--a dangerous obsession that can
only lead to heartache--for everyone.
Fingers crossed that Amazon and B&N wont keep teasing you by taking forever to make live. =/
As I mentioned before I don't really have another juicy teaser that won't give too much away. So let me give you the blurb again so you can get a refresher on the plot.
When tragedy strikes in
the ring, Giovanni Bravo falls into a deep depression, walking away
from his dream of boxing to train instead. He agrees to a two month
get-away, helping train Felix Sanchez, his high school best friend and
now welterweight champ of the world. Once at Felix’s lavish boxing
complex, he’s reunited with Bianca Rubio, someone he remembers only as
the girl with the innocent doe eyes back in high school. Her refreshing,
cheerful demeanor not only takes Gio’s mind off his troubled
conscience, he finds himself falling for her fast and hard. The
problem—Bianca is Felix’s girlfriend.
Having a sexy, famous
boyfriend has its perks, but they come with a price. Bianca not only has
to deal with the ongoing tabloid rumors about her boyfriend hooking up with other women, but also his constant absence when he is on the road.
So now that Felix will be in town for two whole months to train for his
next big bout, Bianca is thrilled. He’s even asked her to move into his
cabin while he's there. But when he leaves for days at a time to promote
his fight, Bianca spends time getting to know Felix’s gorgeous new
trainer and good friend, Gio. Increasingly drawn to his sweet smile and
smoldering green eyes, she finds herself saying and doing things she
normally wouldn’t.
As it becomes more and more difficult for each
to resist the other, Gio crosses the line between them. He hopes that
one kiss will alleviate the overwhelming temptation and clear both their
systems, but it does just the opposite. Their temptation suddenly
becomes an obsession—a dangerous obsession that can only lead to
heartache—for everyone
Okay okay. One final LITTLE teaser.
Set up: They've been invited to dinner at Noah and Roni's. Everyone is present.
Gio’s eyes locked
with Bianca’s a few times as the dinner went on. At first, he thought he’d
imagined it. Maybe she’d just looked his way and their eyes had just so
happened to stop at the same time. But it happened several times after
that. As nervous as it made him that someone might notice he could not
bring himself to stop looking her way.
She may as well
have been glowing because regardless of where his eyes focused in an effort to
keep them off her she always stayed in his peripheral view. He was aware of her
every movement. Anytime she lifted her glass or wiped her mouth was reason
enough to look her way. It came as a bit of a surprise, but it was almost
annoying too that he had so little control over something so simple—staying
focused on whoever was speaking. What surprised
him most was how indiscreet she was. Thankfully Felix was too busy
yapping and catching up with the guys to notice her wandering eyes.
This picture is SO perfect only both their hair is actually darker than this but the scene, the way he's looking at her. *sigh* I just had to post again! =)
If you haven't got your copy yet, grab it now while it's only $.99 on Amazon. B&N is being slow to update but it will be $.99 cents there as well. Once Gio is released Noah goes back to its regular price of $3.99! Read and enjoy so you'll be up to date when the second in the series is released REAL soon!
I mentioned a hot tub scene so I thought it perfectly fitting to go with this picture for the teaser another thanks to Emily. <3
Okay set up: Though you don't get the entire hot tub scene you get the end here. This is after their long day on the slopes where things have started heating up a bit. But in an innocent playful way. *flutters lashes*
They sat in the
hot tub for another forty minutes or so but it felt way shorter than that. The
mixture of the wine and the soothing water massage of the hot tub was really
doing a number on Gio.
“We better get out
now.” Bianca suddenly declared. “One thing is for sure. You’re going to sleep
good tonight. So will I.”
Thankful to his
heavily relaxed body he wasn’t immediately at attention when she stood. That is
until she turned around and started stepping out, the wet sarong clinging to her every curve,
giving Gio a very nice view of her glorious ass. He squeezed his eyes shut, willing
the movement starting up in his shorts to stop. Think of something else. Anything
else!
“Are you falling
asleep?”
He opened his eyes
and she was now outside the tub pulling a bathrobe around herself. “No, I’m
just gonna finish up this last glass and then I’m out.”
“Okay, but don’t
go falling asleep.” she warned. “I’m gonna go change but I’ll be back to check
on you.”
Feeling a little
warmed by her concern he smiled. “You promise?”
It was official.
He was now in love with her smile. It made him feel… happy.
“I promise,” she
said softly then walked out.
As soon as he
heard her bedroom door close, he was up and out of the tub. He rushed to his
room and changed. Suddenly he couldn’t wait to be back in the same room with
her.
Once dressed, he rushed out into the game room and even though it’d been just
minutes since he last seen her his heart did this weird thing when he saw she
was already there looking so fresh and soft in her warm pajamas.
“That was fast,”
she said.
Gio shrugged. “I
just threw on my pajama pants and a t-shirt.”
He had to remind
himself where he was and who he was with because as he walked toward the corner
bar in the game room where she stood pouring herself another glass of wine he
had the incredible urge to wrap his arms around her and kiss her silly.
He stopped just
feet away from her and she turned to him. “You want another glass? I’m having
just one more and then I’m done.”
“Yeah, I’ll take
one.”
She started
pouring another glass. This was the first time he’d ever had wine and it was at
her insistence that it would do wonders to relax his muscles. At first, he’d
balked at her offer but now he had to admit it was good.
“Can I ask you
something?” That gleam was back. The one he’d
seen in her eye earlier when she licked her lips in the car.
“Uh,
yeah,” he said already trying to conjure up as much restraint as he could in
case she said anything that might push him over the edge, especially now that
he’d had a few glasses of wine.
“What do you say
to girls that show you their tongue?” The gleam was an all out smirk now.
Their eyes locked.
Did she really just go back to that? For a moment he thought it’d be better if
he didn’t tell her—make something up. But the longer he looked in those
eyes, the more he wanted her to know. “That if they’re going to show it to me,
they better be prepared to use it.”
Her eyes widened a
little but he saw something else in them that scared him, making his heart speed up—excitement. If she
licked her lips again he wouldn’t be responsible for his actions because he was
going for it. His breathing was really starting to accelerate now and he was
completely lost in her eyes.
Teaser plus some bonuses this week. First an addition to the Gio soundtrack, "Fantasy"
Next, dream casting for Bianca: Vanessa Hudgens
And now for the teaser: I call this one, "Innocent flirting" Because that's all it is right? ;) Enjoy and as always let me know what you think!
The set up: They've been on the slopes all day and Gio is beginning to feel real comfortable with Bianca. Not to mention other things... we're in her POV now so lets see how she's feeling.
She elbowed him playfully. “Actually I think we
should call it a day. You’re going to be so sore tomorrow.”
Gio made an exaggerated face of shock and utter
disbelief. She suspected he meant for it to be funny, instead it was as
breathtaking as all his other expressions were. “Are you even capable of making
any unflattering facial expressions?”
His expression dissolved, and those eyes now
stared at her, making her breath catch. “Are you?”
For the first time that day, her laugh was a
nervous one, and the schoolgirl butterflies were back en masse. She proceeded
to scrunch her face up. “See?” Then she stuck her tongue out at him, closing
her eyes.
When she opened her eyes, she expected to see
him smiling, but he was staring at her mouth, and he seemed stunned for a
moment. Then he smirked, his heavy lashes lowering over the tops of his now smoldering
green eyes. With her insides lit, Bianca was totally mesmerized. “I’d say to
you what I say to most girls when they show me their tongues, but I shouldn’t.”
Swallowing hard and trying not to let on what
his eyes and words were doing to her, she managed to stammer out, “Why not?”
“Because Felix might not like it.” His eyes
left her mouth and met hers with a smile. “Let me rephrase that. I know
he wouldn’t like it.” His eyes locked on hers for an instant, making Bianca’s
heart pound before having mercy on her and glancing away. “Let’s go.”
He started off down the small hill, leaving her
breathless and confused. She squeezed her eyes shut for a moment, making a
mental note. Never show him your tongue again.
With a deep breath, she went after him but only
because he turned to see if she was following. Otherwise, she might still be
glued to that same spot. She cleared her throat as she caught up to him and
tried to sound as casual as possible. “I was serious, you know.”
He glanced at her, his eyebrows pulled together.
“About what?”
“You’re gonna be sore tomorrow.”
He chuckled now, really reminding her of Felix
and how cocky he’d been about it his first time out. “Did you forget I work out
every day?”
“I knew you’d say that because it’s exactly
what Felix said. This is a different work out, Gio. You’re gonna feel it
tomorrow—everywhere. I promise.” He smiled, obviously not worried about it. “I
mean it. You might even consider soaking in the hot tub tonight. Felix was so
sore the next day, and he didn’t even go as long or as hard as you did.”
A sudden evil smile spread across his face, and
his eyes just about sparkled with humor. “Is that right, Bianca? So you’re saying I
went longer and harder than your boyfriend?”
Bianca felt the flush clear down her neck, but
she couldn’t help laughing and went along with her own smirk. “Yes, you did.”
She sped up and away from him, no longer able
to be that close to him knowing that her apparent crush on him was obviously
coming through loud and clear and he was now having fun with it.
“Bianca, wait up.”
At first, she didn’t wait up. She needed to
give her heart time to settle. After a few minutes, she slowed a little,
reminding herself that even though he’d been a fast learner, he was nowhere
near her level of skill. He came up alongside her. “You know I’m just teasing,
right?”
“Of course.” She glanced up at him and his
perfect smile.
“I mean I’d say something like that even in
front of Felix,” he laughed, “just to piss him off, but I hope I didn’t offend
you or anything.”
“No, not at all.” She realized she was blurting
out her auto-responses, but she wanted to be perfectly clear on this. This was nothing
more than innocent flirting. He was just being playful after having spent the
entire day with her. Secretly she was surprised, not only by how thrilling it
was but how she in no way wanted to discourage it.
The main lodge to the resort was just up ahead.
She’d been so distracted by his teasing that the time it took them to get there
just flew. “Felix says things like that all the time too. Nothing shocks me
anymore,” she lied through her teeth.
“Yeah, but he’s your boyfriend.”
She shook her head. “But I get it. You two are
funny. There’s nothing you can say that will weird me out. I promise.”
The teasing smile was back and she braced
herself.
“You’re making a lot of promises today.”
That confused her, and she searched his eyes
then he laughed. “God, those eyes of yours, Bianca.” This time he shook
his head. “Back there, you promised I’d be sore tomorrow.” She started to smile,
remembering but then stopped when she was caught in those molten eyes of his
again. “I’ve made that same promise a few times.” He stared at her a bit longer
and harder before his lip lifted into a sexy crooked smile.
Let the fantasies begin Bianca or in her case dreams! ;)
And the final bonus this week? Read the official blurb to Gio here!!
