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Thursday, August 17, 2017

VIOLATED BY CAROLYN ARNOLD

Sometimes the past should stay there…

“OMG! Violated by Carolyn Arnold has been the most thrilling and exciting story that I have read in the longest while. I can’t believe that I have never heard of this author before now…. This is the fifth book in the [Brandon Fisher FBI series] and there is no need to read the previous books prior to reading this one. However, I can assure you that after reading Violated, you will be clamoring to get your hands on the other books in the series.”
–Totally Addicted to Reading

Do you have regrets over some decisions you’ve made and wish that you could go back and change things? Or do you have a hard time letting go of the past? FBI agent Paige Dawson has been dealing with a hurt inflicted over twenty years ago, but the wound hadn’t even scabbed over when a turn of events has it reopen.

Just like a lot of college students, she had a wild spring break vacation in Cancun, but it got too far out of control. Her close friend was drugged and raped by three guys. The violation destroyed a young girl’s life and a suicide attempt left her in a vegetative state for most of her adult life up until recently when the girl’s mother made the call to pull the plug. The funeral is enough to drown Paige in guilt and the past overwhelms her.

If only she had seen the rape coming so she could have stopped it. If only she could have done more and had the boys held accountable years ago.

But as a college student there was only so much Paige could do, and even as time passed by as an FBI agent, any leads on their identification met with a dead end. So when Paige finally gets a solid lead to follow, she throws caution to the wind and sets out to California on “vacation,” her new boyfriend in tow. But she gets far more than she’d planned on… The man she intended to confront turns up brutally murdered. And, Paige, well, the local police peg her as the killer.

Violated shows the importance of living in the now without obsessing over the past and what can happen when we give the past power over us. This book also touches on a modern-day topic (one I can’t reveal without spoiling the book), and conveys the deeper message that we all have the right to be true to ourselves regardless of society’s approval or disapproval.

Can Paige figure out these life lessons, though, before her career is destroyed along with her future? I invite you to board a jet to California and find out. Go ahead, no passport required.

Book Overview:
Sometimes the past should stay there…

The murder is one of the most heinous FBI agent and profiler Brandon Fisher has ever seen. But that’s not why he and two members of the team are rushing to California. The Bureau is interested because the prime suspect is one of their own, Paige Dawson.

But Paige didn’t go to Valencia to kill anyone. She had set out on “vacation”—her new lover in tow—only to confront the man who raped her friend twenty-some years ago. While the hands of the law are tied, she wants him to face the fact that he destroyed a young woman’s life and know that, as an FBI agent, she’ll be watching his every move. Yet, instead of accomplishing her goal, she wound up in the back of a police cruiser.

Now Paige must face off with a hard-nosed detective determined to stick a murder charge to a fed. But with the trained eyes of the FBI on the case, it’s becoming more and more obvious that the evidence lends itself to a serial killing, not an isolated incident. And as long as the local authorities are focused on Paige, the real murderer is still out there, possibly waiting to strike again…

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About the Brandon Fisher FBI series:
Profilers. Serial killers. The hunt is on. Do serial killers and the FBI fascinate you? Do you like getting inside the minds of killers, love being creeped out, sleeping with your eyes open, and feeling like you’re involved in murder investigations? Then join FBI agent and profiler Brandon Fisher and his team with the Behavioral Analysis Unit in their hunt for serial killers.

This is the perfect book series for fans of Criminal Minds, NCIS, Silence of the Lambs, Seven, Dexter, Luther, and True Crime.

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About the Author

Carolyn Arnold

Carolyn Arnold is an international bestselling and award-winning author, as well as a speaker, teacher, and inspirational mentor. She has four continuing fiction series and has written nearly thirty books. Both her female detective and FBI profiler series have been praised by those in law enforcement as being accurate and entertaining, leading her to adopt the trademark, POLICE PROCEDURALS RESPECTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT™.

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WOW! This was JUST the book I needed! Violated was so much better than I ever could have expected. I kind of NEED the first four books now. Violated was my first experience with Carolyn Arnold and I can tell you right now that she has made it onto my “Must Buy” list! Now, while I want to go back and read the other Brandon Fisher series books this isn’t something you have to do to read Violated. It can be read just fine by itself. I’ve been in a rut with books lately… there just hasn’t been any really good books that have pulled me, you know, sucked me in without a choice. This is what has made me want to read the other four books.

There was quite a few characters, but, Arnold made it so all the characters were people… they had their strengths and weaknesses… they were like real people, so it really made them relatable. Paige was extremely likable for me! This was a difficult story at times… the scenes were so graphic at times. It felt real. My favorite part of this book might have been getting inside the killer’s head. I love getting their perspectives especially when it’s countered with the hunters. Anyway, I really found the killer’s thought process interesting. He was so precise, so thought out, like everything was planned specifically. Usually I only enjoy a dual fist person POV but this book had first and third person POV. I liked it. We get a dual POV with Brandon and the killer and everyone else is in third person… it really was interesting. I felt like I got so much more out of it. I was more surprised that I didn’t get lost or overwhelmed. But Arnold changed perspectives flawlessly.

I received an ARC of this book with the hope that I would leave an Unbiased Opinion. I was not required to leave a review, positive or otherwise, and my opinions are just that... my opinions.

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Monday, August 27, 2018

RELEASE DAY: Love Online by Penelope Ward

Synopsis:

From New York Times bestselling author Penelope Ward, comes a new, sexy STANDALONE novel.

We met in the least likely of places. It started out innocently enough. I was “ScreenGod” and she was “Montana,” but of course, those weren’t our actual names, just the virtual cloaks we hid behind.

Logging in at night and talking to her was my escape—my sanctuary.

Her real name was Eden, I’d soon come to find out.

From the first time we connected online, I found myself transfixed.

She was an addiction.

At first, we knew nothing about each other’s real identities…and she was adamant that we keep things that way. Anonymity had no effect on our unstoppable chemistry, though. If anything, it allowed us to open up even more in ways we may not have otherwise.

Eden was funny, intelligent, gorgeous—everything I’d ever wanted in a woman.

But I couldn’t really have her.

I had accepted things would have to stay the way they were—until the day I found a clue that led me straight to her.

So I took a chance.

And that was when our love story really began.

Photo/Cover Details:

Cover designer: Letitia Hasser, RBA designs

Cover Model: Eddy Putter

Cover Photography: Nicole Langholz

LINKS TO LOVE ONLINE:

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