RELEASE DAY: Pieces of Eight by Whitney Barbetti

Release Date: May 9, 2018

Cover Design: Najla Qamber Designs

Photo Credit: Max Eremine

Synopsis

Six was always there, even when I didn’t want him.

But he couldn’t hold me together, and I couldn’t be his penance.

Loss is a phantom limb. No one can see it, but the ache torments you in the night, distracts you during the day, and leaves you fragmented. I’m half a heart, half a soul, and nothing could cure the pieces he’d left behind.

Losing him was safer than loving him. Because the love that kept us coming back again and again was nothing short of madness.

But then, isn't mad love the most honest?

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Goodness gracious, I have never been more impressed with the words and world Whitney Barbetti has created. Finishing this book, this duet, nearly broke my heart. I didn’t want this to end. I didn’t want Mira and Six to be over. I loved this book and would rate it higher than 5 stars if I could. This story was way more amazing that I could have ever hoped! I loved seeing them be separate and learning to be people without each other. It’s refreshing. I can’t go into the story… I want to but I feel too tempted to talk and feel like things would just fall out. 

All I’m going to say is that Whitney Barbetti wrote an amazing, truly amazing story and I devoured every last word. I have never wanted to restart a duet as soon as I finished it. The way Barbetti wrote is honestly pure poetic… purely lyrical. I loved how different this second story seemed from the first; again, I didn’t expect that. I’ve cried during books before but Ms. Barbetti completely tore me apart. My. Heart. It has left me reeling. There’s no way I can do this story justice in a review. But, this book… this duet, has made it to the top duet I have ever read! Barbetti left a mark on my heart, on my soul. Prepare yourself for this duet… it is going to leave you feeling raw. While I’m satisfied, or content, with the ending, I want more still.

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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About the Author

Whitney Barbetti is really, truly awful at writing in the third person, so we're just going to change this bio up a bit and write it as first person.

I am married with two boys. When I'm not changing diapers or cutting food into tiny bites, I escape to Starbucks for hours. My blood pressure actually drops the moment I walk in, hear the baristas call my name, and inhale the aroma of coffee beans. And I don't even like coffee.

I love music and have a playlist for everything. Queen is my very favorite.

I like watching creepy shows when I am home alone but then I instantly regret them once my mind starts breeding irrational fears. I try to channel my fears into my books as a way to cope.

I have about 20 bacon things in my fridge.

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RELEASE DAY: Six Feet Under by Whitney Barbetti

Release Date: April 25, 2018

Cover Design: Najla Qamber Designs

Photo Credit: Max Eremine

Synopsis

Six wasn’t the hero I needed.

But he was the man I wanted.

And it was my selfish craving, the desire to own him, that would be our undoing.

No one tells you that love is a disease. An infection that tears your heart apart, leaving you half the person you were before. A malady that leaves open wounds. An invisible disorder tracing scars in the places you couldn’t see if you weren’t looking for them.

I was sick, but love didn’t heal me.

Instead, it festered in my marrow, and drove me to unforgivable mistakes.

Six was my first mistake, but he wouldn't be the last.

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Six Feet Under (Mad Love Duet - Book 1)

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Woah, I mean, what can possibly said about Six Feet Under? I feel like I walked out of this distorted tunnel and everything is blurry from staring at the bright lights and my mind is numb… Whitney Barbetti tore my mind into shreds. My review is supposed to be a place for my thoughts and I feel like I’m still inside Mira’s head and really, that’s a difficult place to be. I know I’m not going to do this book justice and I apologize in advance. Ms. Barbetti gives us one of the most intimate, upclose and personal looks at mental disease that you can get without HAVING a mental disorder yourself!! I’ll be honest, Mira is difficult to like… no, I don’t think that’s it… it’s a struggle to really get it all. Her logic and thinking is totally skewed. However, you will empathize with Mira, you will feel for her. The woman and mom in me wants so badly to help her, to “fix” her, if you will.

Anyway, I feel like I could spend an eternity discussing Mira and I still won’t achieve anything besides saying this is the best and most accurate example of mental illness that I have seen. Six, ok Six, he was difficult to understand. He has the patience of a saint and I feel like he deserves a medal of honor. I don’t feel like I got to know Six. He’s fairly mysterious. I like how he proves all Mira’s preconceived notions wrong. 

This book is deep… so deep that I’m not sure you can see the bottom. But I loved it! I can’t wait for Pieces of Eight. I need more even though I’m slightly exhausted after Six Feet Under. I’ve read quite a few of Ms. Barbetti’s books, and I know this is the best of her work in my eyes. Her words paint this vivid picture of self destruction unlike anything I’ve ever read… including my work for my psychology degree. The words Whitney Barbetti has put on paper here is going to be making all her readers thing… wonder… and really just try and understand others. This is a vivid look inside a person dealing with some massive inner demons.

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.

Coming Soon

Release Date: May 9, 2018

Cover Design: Najla Qamber Designs

Photo Credit: Alexander Kuzmin Photography

Synopsis

Six was always there, even when I didn’t want him.

But he couldn’t hold me together, and I couldn’t be his penance.

Loss is a phantom limb. No one can see it, but the ache torments you in the night, distracts you during the day, and leaves you fragmented. I’m half a heart, half a soul, and nothing could cure the pieces he’d left behind.

Losing him was safer than loving him. Because the love that kept us coming back again and again was nothing short of madness.

But then, isn't mad love the most honest?

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Pieces of Eight (Mad Love Duet - Book 2)

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About the Author

Whitney Barbetti is really, truly awful at writing in the third person, so we're just going to change this bio up a bit and write it as first person.

I am married with two boys. When I'm not changing diapers or cutting food into tiny bites, I escape to Starbucks for hours. My blood pressure actually drops the moment I walk in, hear the baristas call my name, and inhale the aroma of coffee beans. And I don't even like coffee.

I love music and have a playlist for everything. Queen is my very favorite.

I like watching creepy shows when I am home alone but then I instantly regret them once my mind starts breeding irrational fears. I try to channel my fears into my books as a way to cope.

I have about 20 bacon things in my fridge.

Connect with Whitney

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DUAL COVER REVEAL: Six Feet Under & Pieces of Eight by Whitney Barbetti

Release Date: April 25, 2018

Cover Design: Najla Qamber Designs

Photo Credit: Max Eremine

Synopsis

Six wasn’t the hero I needed.

But he was the man I wanted.

And it was my selfish craving, the desire to own him, that would be our undoing.

No one tells you that love is a disease. An infection that tears your heart apart, leaving you half the person you were before. A malady that leaves open wounds. An invisible disorder tracing scars in the places you couldn’t see if you weren’t looking for them.

I was sick, but love didn’t heal me.

Instead, it festered in my marrow, and drove me to unforgivable mistakes.

Six was my first mistake, but he wouldn't be the last.

Goodreads

Release Date: May 9, 2018

Cover Design: Najla Qamber Designs

Photo Credit: Alexander Kuzmin Photography

Synopsis

Six was always there, even when I didn’t want him.

But he couldn’t hold me together, and I couldn’t be his penance.

Loss is a phantom limb. No one can see it, but the ache torments you in the night, distracts you during the day, and leaves you fragmented. I’m half a heart, half a soul, and nothing could cure the pieces he’d left behind.

Losing him was safer than loving him. Because the love that kept us coming back again and again was nothing short of madness.

But then, isn't mad love the most honest?

Goodreads

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About the Author

Whitney Barbetti is really, truly awful at writing in the third person, so we're just going to change this bio up a bit and write it as first person.

I am married with two boys. When I'm not changing diapers or cutting food into tiny bites, I escape to Starbucks for hours. My blood pressure actually drops the moment I walk in, hear the baristas call my name, and inhale the aroma of coffee beans. And I don't even like coffee.

I love music and have a playlist for everything. Queen is my very favorite.

I like watching creepy shows when I am home alone but then I instantly regret them once my mind starts breeding irrational fears. I try to channel my fears into my books as a way to cope.

I have about 20 bacon things in my fridge.

Connect with Whitney

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RELEASE BOOST: The Sounds of Secrets by Whitney Barbetti

Title: The Sounds of Secrets

Author: Whitney Barbetti

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Release Date: December 6, 2017

Blurb

I've been in love with him forever.

But to him, I've always been off-limits. Until the night that changed everything.

Maybe it was the alcohol. Maybe it was the secrets we shared. Maybe he finally opened his eyes and saw me.

By the time the sun rose, I’d lost him again, my heart shattering on his parting words: “It was a mistake.” So I ran. Ran until I was thousands of miles away, in a country I didn't know, surrounded by people who only made me miss him more.

I never expected him to follow me … or to pry more secrets from my soul. In exchange, he gave me more of his secrets too.

The more he let me into his heart, the more I loved him, but I’m afraid that some secrets may be too big to overcome.

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I was going to throw up from the nerves.

No, I told myself. No throwing up. Not when you’re expecting Sam to come into your room any second.

But the feeling was so strong. I popped a mint from my bedside table in my mouth, rolled it around my tongue a few times, but the urge was still there.

Oh, shit.
Was this a mistake? Was inviting Sam into my room a big fat problem? I was leaving for America tomorrow.

The printed itinerary, neatly stacked on my chest of drawers laughed at me. What was I going to do? I couldn’t let Sam come up here.

My hands fisted in my hair as I berated myself for telling him to come. What was I thinking? I wasn’t some sexual nymph, skilled in the way Sam surely was. I wasn’t a virgin, but I hadn’t actually messed around with a bunch of guys.

I didn’t know what to do. 

I walked to the door, pressed my palm flat to it. I’d lock it. Then he couldn’t come in.
He’d walk away, and we’d forget this ever happened.

Look how well that happened the last time you kissed him, my memory taunted me. Three years later, and you’re still wondering ‘what if.’

There was no reasonable escape from this situation. And, if there was, there was no escape that would make me not obsess over the ‘what if.’

It’d be okay, I told myself. Of course it would. Sex was nothing, right?

But I didn’t even believe my own thoughts. My nerves battled with my own desire. I couldn’t process a single thing.

I ran my fingers over my eyebrows or, what was left of them that wasn’t colored in, at least. I’d pulled so many out in the days leading up to the trip, needing some control over this impending trip.

I trailed my fingers to the sides of my face, tugging on my earlobes to ground me, and then, in tandem, I pulled out a hair with each hand. The immediate relief was nearly as intoxicating as the alcohol I’d consume in how it numbed my fears.

It would be okay.

I took in a cleansing breath, looking around my room for anything potentially embarrassing.

The blinds were open, so I closed them, leaving my room in soft, muted grays aside from the yellow lamp that lit up my dressing table.

My hand was on the back of the lamp to turn it off when my door creaked open.

Sam stood in the threshold, nearly taking up the entire space.

I switched the light off.

It was only a few loud heartbeats before he said, “Turn it back on.”

I hesitated.

I couldn’t see him, but I heard the creak on the floor by the door. “Turn it on, Lotte.”

Swallowing hard, I did.

The room was illuminated again in soft light, casting shadows into the angles of Sam’s face—making him look exactly as he was: dangerous.

Author Bio

I am a wife to one and a mom to two humans and one cat. I have a deep and abiding love for nachos - especially the kind with the liquid cheese, like from Taco Bell (sorry). I run on less than four hours of sleep thanks to copious amounts of Diet Coke. (Note: this paragraph is not sponsored by anyone except my hungry stomach.)

As a Navy brat, I grew up all over the country, from California and up the east coast from Florida to New England and Colorado. I currently live in Idaho, where we have lots of potatoes and windmills.

I write character-driven contemporary romance novels, heavy on the emotional connection. I LOVE love. I love writing about broken characters who find their soul mates.

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