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Today we have author Tia Reed visiting. Welcome!

What would you like to tell readers about yourself?
* Tia Reed loves nothing better than burying her nose in a story of her own imagining, cuddling her bossy cat and rescuing chewed pillows from her hyperactive dog. She takes every opportunity to do all three when she is not teaching English as a second language. Her other hobbies usually take a back seat but include trying to tame her beast of a garden, hiking and travelling. The latter has thrown her many interesting, sometimes hair-raising experiences, which she loves twisting into stories. She was born in Malta, but lives in Adelaide, Australia.

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* Discredited journalist Ella Jerome isn’t thrilled about working at Adelaide’s fanciful tabloid The Informer. So when zoologist Adam Lowell seeks her help in finding his missing cousin, she’s cynical of his claim a monster lurks near the Church of the Resurrection. The trouble is, solving the gruesome case could be her best shot at restoring her shredded reputation.
* With her old instincts resurfacing, Ella combs the Port for clues. Experience tells her the only monsters are the human variety, and the bloodied stonemason certainly raises her suspicions. But when her investigation turns up everything from petrified remains to the headless carving of a dragon, the truth threatens to steal both her sanity and the man she’s falling for.
* After all, gargoyles can’t be anything other than harmless stone. Or can they?
~ Excerpt ~
* Ella sneaked past the kitchen and entered the adjoining room. The light from the living room reached far enough to bathe the oak dining suite in a ghostly glow. She avoided the temptation to flip the light switch, thereby revealing herself to whoever prowled outside. As the scratching became a dull pounding, she moved around the table and through the arch into the second living area she had set up as a home office. She strained to see into the darkness that blanketed her neglected garden. The thumps turned to flaps and a dark shape shot upwards, a shape she could barely delineate from the night. She moved within an arm’s length of the outside light switch and waited.
* Nothing happened. She let out a deep breath. Then she swallowed. Something large was thudding across the roof. A musty smell wafted past her nose, reminding her of the belfry at the church. Bats, she thought. Then, surely not. There was one person who would know for sure. She fetched her phone and dialled Adam as she resumed her post by the sliding door. The odour intensified as the line rang and rang and rang. She could feel her heart thumping. Her breathing had become irregular. She was about to retreat when a large shape descended outside the door. Ella screamed and dropped the phone. A vicious eye stared through the glass. Breathing heavily, she snapped on the outside light. The snarling, leonine grotesque from the church, impossibly alive, sprang into the air.
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Thank you for joining us here today, Tia Reed! It was a pleasure getting to know you and your story.

ANNOUNCEMENT! Tia Reed will be awarding a $20 Amazon or B/N GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour! So be sure to leave a comment AND use the Rafflecopter by clicking here to enter to win. Also, visit the other tour stops for a greater chance of winning!

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Today we have authors Colleen Shannon & Jannine Gallant visiting. Welcome!

What would you like to tell readers about yourselves?
* Colleen Shannon grew up in West Texas where the skies are as limitless as the tales told by its many colorful residents. Surrounded by oil men, lawyers and drillers in a community that has produced two presidents and many national leaders and businessmen, Colleen grew up reading and writing stories of every kind. After college when she married and was expecting her first child, she used a scrap computer to write her first romance. She sold it herself in less than a year, and at the age of 26 began a new career and never looked back. The strength of her first book led to her nomination by Romantic Times as Best New Historical Author. She went on to win or be nominated for many other awards, and her fifteen single title releases have appeared on numerous bestseller lists. She has well over a million books in print. Her newest series, focused on the modern Texas Rangers, is from Kensington. Colleen’s ancestor, a Texas Ranger, was one of the first people buried in Brown County cemetery, Texas. Another one of her ancestors was a signatory to the Texas Declaration of Independence.

* Jannine Gallant has taken this advice to heart, creating characters from small towns and plots that unfold in the great outdoors. She grew up in a tiny Northern California town and currently lives in beautiful Lake Tahoe with her husband and two daughters. When she isn’t busy writing or being a full time mom, Jannine hikes or snowshoes in the woods around her home. Whether she’s writing contemporary, historical or romantic suspense, Jannine brings the beauty of nature to her stories.

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~ Blurb ~
* Ranger bred, Ranger bound…
* Being a Texas Ranger is Zach Travis’s destiny. But war-weary Zach didn’t come home to Texas to take on his father’s legacy, only to heal his emotional scars…until his family’s compound is invaded by an enemy as brazen as she is beautiful. Not only does Hana Nakatomi seem willing to risk everything for the sake of her own birthright, she could be tied to the organized crime syndicate responsible for the murder of a Ranger. Yet, from the first moment Zach has the alluring thief in his grasp, he can’t deny the pulsing attraction between them….
* It’s Zach’s duty to bring Hana in for questioning. But he has his own ideas about how to capitalize on her street smarts and martial arts skills. Even as sparks fly during their pursuit of a common enemy, Zach is never sure if Hana is his ally—or his worst nightmare. One thing’s for certain: she’s the first woman to breach the walls of his battered heart….
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* Hana blinked at the sudden wash of light and for a second, the tall, muscular figure towering over her was a blur. She quit tugging, trying to get away, hoping the grip on her hair would loosen, but instead the man facing her wrapped his hand around her long hair and tugged her toward him.
* “Who the hell are you and what do you want?” the man growled.
* Hana was mute, staring up. She knew who this was: the reluctant scion of the family, Zachary William Barrett Travis the gazillionth or whatever it was. She’d seen his picture in her research. He’d upset his entire family by wandering all over the world, then joining the Army Rangers for eight years, then wandering again. He’d refused to take up his family responsibilities, reportedly to the extreme frustration of his father, who, according to the maid who’d given her firsthand knowledge of the family, wanted Zach to join the Texas Rangers.
* She’d made a mental note of how handsome he was the first time she Googled his image, but a static photo couldn’t do his vitality justice. His hair was tousled from the nightmare she’d seen him thrashing in as she slipped past his bed. His chiseled features, with that perfect cleft chin that held true generation through generation in the Travis family, reminded her a bit of Brad Pitt in the movie Troy, one of her favorites with its warrior ethos and battles to the death . . .
* Hana kept her black gaze steady on his upper half, but in her peripheral vision she noted one of his snaps had slipped open.
* “Start talking or I’m calling the police.” He pulled her a bit closer as his gaze scanned the study, looking for open cases or signs of theft, she knew.
Buy Travis Justice here…
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* The Wilde brothers have one thing in common—a thirst for adventure. But Griff Wilde is about to be taken on the ride of his life . . .
* When Griff Wilde receives a letter from a dead man sending him on a race to find a mysterious treasure, he’s not worried about the competition. After all, salvaging sunken treasure is what he was born to do. But the riddles leading to the clues are a little trickier than he anticipated . . .
* Ainslee Fontaine is ready for a change. A cross-country scavenger hunt sounds like a piece of cake after teaching in New York City. How hard could it be? For starters, travelling alone seems to have its hidden dangers, like real-life treasure hunters who ignite her deepest passions. But there’s still a hidden prize to find—unless someone stops them by any means necessary . . .
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* “Your box number?”
* “1692.” Her murmured response was barely audible.
* Twitching moustache turned Griff’s way. “And yours?”
* “1775.”
* The clerk unlocked a cabinet door and pulled down two keys. After he’d opened the first numbered compartment with Ainslee’s key and removed a long box from the wall, he directed her into a cubicle. Returning, he held out his hand. Griff slapped the key into his palm then followed the man and the box he retrieved to a second cubicle. Once he was alone, Griff flipped open the lid. A square card with the nearly illegible writing he’d come to despise rested inside the box along with the label off a tequila bottle? What the hell was that about? Not just any tequila, either.
* He recognized the brand. This one was expensive. Taking the card and label, he left the empty container on the table, grabbed his bag off the floor and headed out of the cubicle past the clerk toward the exit.
* When Ainslee rushed past the teller, he raised a hand. “Miss, wait!”
* Ainslee’s sandals tapped against the marble tile as she hurried across the lobby behind Griff. He pushed through the entrance doors and into a wave of damp heat then turned to face her.
* “Shall we go get something to eat while we hash out the clue? I skipped lunch.”
* Her eyes widened. “Clue? I don’t know what—”
* “At this point, it seems silly to pretend we aren’t both after the same thing.”
* She waved the card still clutched in her hand. It looked just like the one he’d shoved in his pocket.
* “Exactly. We’re competitors not allies.”
Buy Wilde One here…
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Find Jannine Gallant here…
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Thank you for joining us here today, Colleen Shannon & Jannine Gallant! It was a pleasure getting to know you and your story.

ANNOUNCEMENT! The authors will be awarding digital copies of both books on tour to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour! So be sure to leave a comment AND use the Rafflecopter link by clicking here to enter. Also, visit the other tour stops for a greater chance of winning!