NEW RELEASE!! Did you know Darla writes shifter novels?

By on July 18, 2020   /   DJ Jennings, Release Day   /   Leave a comment

This week was a super-weird release day for me, as DarkNight of the Moon released everywhere.

Er… Darla. It’s “Darla’s” release.

Darla Josephine Jennings, aka “DJ Jennings,” is the main female character in my Random series (which starts with the book Random Acts of Crazy). “She” started writing shifter romance novels a while ago.

In 2014, when Random Acts of Hope came out (my 4th Random book… book #11 comes out in August, so WOW!), I made an inside joke in the book about Darla writing shifter romance novels. She and her friend Amy have a conversation about it, and after Random Acts of Hope came out, readers started asking for “Darla’s shifter romance.”

So, for fun, I decided “Darla” would write one.

In 2017, “Darla” published her first shifter romance novel, Owl Be Bear For You.

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In 2019, “she” published her second, You Shook Me Howl Night Long.

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And this week, “she” published book 3 in the Camp Shifter world, DarkNight of the Moon.

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Camp Shifter is a wild world, a mashup of ideas where shifters are known to all, and you find out you’re a shifter between the ages of 18 and 25 (either by your first shift, called The Morph, or by receiving The Letter).

You then spend a month at Camp Shifter, which is run by Danielle, Travis, and Josh (hmmmmm, who could that triad really be in a parallel, real world? Darla/Trevor/Joe from the Random series) and where new shifters learn how to be, well…

Shifters.

I have a LOT of goofy fun with this series. It’s so different from my other books that “DJ Jennings” is the author, so plenty of readers miss it.

Here’s your chance not to miss it. 😉

All three books have audiobooks coming, too (narrated by the fabulous team of Jeffrey Kafer and Heather Costa). The books are slowly making their way into various channels, but right now, you can get ALL THREE new releases on:

Chirp

Google Play

Audible

and more places will have audio, including Apple Books, as soon as their systems put them out!

So… have fun with my – er, “Darla’s”, Camp Shifter series. If you’re looking for a true escape, this is it. When you see the list of workshops campers go through to learn to be a shifter, like Naked in Public 101, or Fated Mates and Other True Myths, and meet the teachers at Camp Shifter, the fellow staff members, the campers, and experience the conflicts and tensions — and love, of course — I hope you get to sink into something that takes your mind off daily life and makes your heart race, your mind imagine, and your face smile.

<3

Julia… er, Darla. 😉

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What I’m Reading: Homecoming King by Jami Albright

By on July 7, 2020   /   #AmReading   /   Leave a comment

Now, more than ever, I need a book that will take me away from it all! Along comes Homecoming King from Jami Albright. This small-town sports romance is so much more than just a small-town sports romance. Cash and Tiger are the least likely duo to fall in love, but somehow–through hilarious paybacks and comeuppance and interference from townfolks–they learn and grow together. I loved Jami’s new feel-good, snicker-out-loud romance!

HOMECOMING KING (release date 7.7.20)

The king of the gridiron is about to get sacked by a beauty queen with a grudge as big as Texas.

Cash King rolls into Ryder, Texas looking for a little TLC and an ego boost from the townspeople who call him their favorite son. But that ain’t happening. Which is just the cherry on top of the crap sundae that is his life.

His football career is hanging by a thread.

His mom isn’t speaking to him.

His hometown is out for his blood.

And Tiger Lyons, the girl he did wrong in high school, is supervising the renovation of his new home … and living in his pool house.

How’s the league’s premier quarterback supposed to rehab his battered body and regain his starting position, when the woman who still owns a piece of his heart—and now hates his ever-loving guts—is in his face 24/7?

Don’t miss Homecoming King—a hilarious enemies-to-lovers, arrogant football player with a heart of gold, sassy heroine rebuilding her life, small-town sports romcom.

Available on Amazon/KU:  https://geni.us/HomecomingKing

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New Ebook and Audiobook Releases

By on June 29, 2020   /   #AmReading, Audiobooks, Box Sets, Upcoming releases   /   Leave a comment

Happy summertime! June 20th was the official start of the season. I’m sure this year’s summer is going to look different for many people – no pool parties, family reunions or vacations. Instead, we have Zoom parties and stay-cations. One thing that will remain the same is the joy of kicking back with a great book. I have a few suggestions to add to your summertime reading list. If you have recommendations, be sure to comment! I’m always looking for my next favorite author!

 

 

GOOD IN BED Audiobook Bundle
Audible / Audible Escape: https://adbl.co/3i05isH
Amazon/ KU: https://geni.us/GoodInBed_KU

With Audie Award Winners Sebastian York, Andi Arndt and Elena Wolfe…Four standalone romance novels with heroes who are Good in Bed.

Sweet Cheeks

It all started with an invitation to my ex-fiance’s wedding.
I should have ignored it. Thrown it away. Set it afire. But I didn’t. I replied…With a plus one. Now I have to find a date. Enter Hayes Whitley, mega-movie star who’s captured the hearts of millions, my first love, and my first broken heart. I should have steered clear when he offered to take me to my ex’s wedding. But I didn’t.

Random Acts of Trust

I’m not the kind of person who gets her cell phone caught in places that require an OBGYN and a trip to the ER.
I’m also not the kind of person who spends all her time thinking about Sam Hinton, the boy I loved in high school and who disappeared with my heart. But, apparently, I need to rethink who I am. Second chances aren’t supposed to make scars disappear and hearts mend. But, apparently, they can, if you trust enough.

Iron Crowne

Byron Crowne is a heartless billionaire businessman. He’s everything I detest, but he’s awakened desires I didn’t know I had. I want to beat him in court, but when he touches me, I need him to win my body and mark it as his. Now I might be pregnant, and there’s no way he can ever prove to me he’s worthy to be a father, no matter how hard he tries.

V-Card

When you think about how easy it is to lose keys, sunglasses and your dignity on social media, you figure it’d be a cinch to ditch my V-card. You’d be wrong. Good thing I know just the man for the deflowering job – my brother’s business partner and best friend who, I’m told, is oh-so-skilled in the sack. He has seven nights to teach me everything he knows – no strings. There’s no reason this has to get complicated, right?

 

 

A SPELL TO DIE FOR is the newest Sonoma Witches paranormal mystery.

Alma Bellrose has exorcised demons and unmasked killers. But now she has a far more terrifying challenge ahead — a witch wedding.

If she manages to survive the ceremony, she’ll have to track down a mysterious enemy who might not have a body of its own—before it leads to the destruction of her supernatural town, her friends, and herself.

GET IT NOW:
Amazon:  https://geni.us/ASTDF_Amazon
Apple Books:  https://smarturl.it/spelldieapple
Nook:  https://smarturl.it/spelldiebn
Kobo:   https://smarturl.it/spelldiekobo
Google Play:  https://smarturl.it/spelldiegp

This is definitely in the category of ESCAPE read where good triumphs over evil, so if that’s what you’re needing right now (and I know I am) HERE YOU GO.

 

 

Pre-order now: HASTY is coming on July 28…

I never thought my perp walk would lead to true love.

Then again, I never thought I’d be arrested on RICO charges and hauled away in zip ties on camera for the world to see, minutes after closing the most amazing deal of my career.

And all of it in front of my biggest rival, billionaire wunderkind Ian McCrory.

I am broke.

I am disgraced.

I am alone.

I am a sucker.

But the worst part? I have to go back to my hometown and live in my bedroom filled with relics from my childhood.

Lisa Frank never made me so mad before.

Just when I needed a rescue, I got one — in the form of help from my biggest rival.

He can’t bring back my money.

He certainly can’t bring back my reputation or my pride.

But there’s one thing he can bring back to me.

A sense of hope.

Maybe even love.

Ian sees something in me no one else does, and he’s relentless about making me see it, too. As we grow closer, I’m starting to see that while my entire life used to be a lie, the truth is staring me in the present — and it’s a truth I like very, very much, hot eyes and gorgeous smile and all.

But I have to be careful.

I can’t be too —

That’s right.

Hasty.

The final book in the USA Today bestselling Do-Over Series (Fluffy, Perky, Feisty), as Mallory’s sister, Hastings “Hasty” Monahan gets her turn at a happily ever after that starts off with an arrest.

Hers.

And ends with a surprisingly cheesy happily ever after.

Amazon (all stores): https://geni.us/HastyAMZsm
Apple Books: https://geni.us/HastyABsm
Nook/BN: https://geni.us/HastyNOOKsm
Kobo: https://geni.us/HastyKOBOsm
Google Play: https://geni.us/HastyGPlaysm

BookBub: https://geni.us/HastyBBsm
Goodreads: https://geni.us/HastyGRsm > add to your TBR list!

Audiobook to be narrated by Erin Mallon!!

 

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Last chance to get these freebies

By on June 5, 2020   /   Uncategorized   /   1 Comment

Get these Meli Raine freebies today because they won’t be available for long.

 

FREE EBOOK ~ ADD THE AUDIO FOR JUST A FEW DOLLARS WITH AUDIBLE ESCAPE OR WHISPERSYNC!

It all started with the bereavement flowers with my name on them.

Not the best way to wake up, right? I work in a flower shop. I know a funeral arrangement when I see one.

I know a killer when I see one, too. And one is standing in my hospital room right now, straight behind the man who saved my life.

I can’t tell anyone the truth, because that’s the fastest way to really die. So I do the next best thing. I “lose” my memory.

I fake my amnesia.

Pretending not to remember a brutal attempted murder has its perks. The killer is backing down, spending less time around me, loosening the noose.

The less I claim to recall, the more my rescuer, Duff, works to help me “remember.” I hate lying to him.

But he doesn’t understand that my memory is dangerous. To me. And to him.

Fooling everyone isn’t easy. It’s the hardest thing I’ve ever done.

Except it’s starting to look like I’ve been fooling myself.

In more ways than one.

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Kobo:  http://bit.ly/2YNr64A

Audiobook narrated by Sebastian York and Andi Arndt!
Available on Audible Escape and Whispersync

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Amazon audio:  https://amzn.to/31ys9T4
iTunes:  https://apple.co/2yYGPhR

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FREE EBOOK ~ ADD THE AUDIO FOR JUST A FEW DOLLARS WITH AUDIBLE ESCAPE OR WHISPERSYNC!

When you’re born without a trace, no one knows you’re a weapon.

I lie for her.

I hunt for her.

I kill for her.

And above all, I betray my mission for her.

She doesn’t know why. She doesn’t care why.

I do.

Treason comes in many forms.

Love is one of them.

Our training taught me to be a sociopath. A machine. A pawn. Nothing more than a tool for a larger goal, without attachments or feelings.

Our teachers forgot one important detail:

Pawns shouldn’t have hearts.

Yet we do.

It turns out our emotions are our greatest weapon.

And I know exactly where mine are aimed.

The first in an all-new series by USA Today bestselling author Meli Raine.

Amazon (everywhere): https://geni.us/statelessAMZ
Barnes&Noble: https://geni.us/statelessBN
Kobo: https://geni.us/statelessKobo
Apple Books: https://geni.us/statelessApple
Google Play: https://geni.us/statelessgoogle

Audiobook narrated by Joe Arden and Andi Arndt!
Available on Audible Escape and Whispersync

Audible: https://geni.us/statelessAudible
Amazon audio: https://geni.us/statelessAMZaud
iTunes: https://geni.us/tdhrjA7

Goodreads: http://bit.ly/2mSDQ8B
BookBub: http://bit.ly/2ozxs6w

 

 

FREE BOX SET WHICH INCLUDES THE COMPLETE COMING HOME TRILOGY!

DANGEROUS TO LOVE is a limited-time boxed set of TEN full-length novels by some of the most exciting Romantic Suspense authors in the business. It includes the complete COMING HOME Trilogy.

Carrie comes home to a hot mess of unfinished business as she investigates her father’s murder and finds her old flame, local police officer Mark, is not what he seems…and yet she can’t stay away

Also included in the box set:
COLD & DEADLY by Toni Anderson
DESPERATE PLAY by Barbara Freethy
ENDGAME by Dee Davis
COLD SIGHT by Leslie A. Kelly
WATCH ME by Cynthia Eden
BROKEN WITH YOU by J. Kenner
BLINDSIDED by Gwen Hernandez
HARD TARGET by Pamela Clare
COVERT EVIDENCE by Rachel Grant

Amazon (All): https://geni.us/DTLamazon
Apple Books: https://geni.us/DTLapple
Kobo: https://geni.us/DTLkobo
Nook: https://geni.us/DTLnook
Google Play: https://geni.us/DTLgp

 

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Whispersync these ebooks and audio for BIG savings!

By on June 4, 2020   /   #AmReading, Audiobooks, Savings   /   Leave a comment

The wait is over! Whispersync these four Julia Kent / Meli Raine audiobooks with your ebook purchases on Amazon and save more than 50% on each audiobook. Hear these entertaining characters brought to life by some of the most popular and talented narrators in the business:  Andi Arndt, Sebastian York, Tad Branson, Erin Mallon, and Joe Arden.

 

 

Amazon KU | Audible

I swear I am not the kind of person who gets her cell phone caught in places that require an ER trip and an OBGYN.

But apparently, I am.

I’m also not the kind of person who spends all her time thinking about the guy who got away.

But apparently, I am, too.

Starting a new life in Boston isn’t supposed to include repeatedly embarrassing myself in public, meeting a crazy blond woman who has ties to the band Random Acts of Crazy, and definitely isn’t supposed to include wallowing in a past I thought I’d left behind four years ago.

But apparently, it does.

And the drummer for the band, Sam Hinton, is the boy I loved in high school and who disappeared with my heart. Now he’s back, better than ever.

Second chances aren’t supposed to make scars disappear and hearts mend.

But apparently, they can.

If you trust enough.

 

 

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Also available on Apple Books & iTunes | Kobo | Nook | Google Play

One hundred years ago when I was young and impulsive (okay, it was five, alright? Five years ago…) I let my boyfriend take, let’s just say…compromising pictures of me.

(Shut up. It made sense at the time.)

Surprise! The sleazy back-stabbing jerk posted them on a website and, well, you can guess what happened. That’s right.

I’m a meme. A really gross one.

You’ve seen the pictures. And if you haven’t – don’t ask. And don’t look!

As face recognition software online improves, I get tagged on social media whenever anyone shares my pictures. You try getting a thousand notifications a day, all of them pictures of your tatas.

So. I’m done.

It’s time for revenge. Let him see how it feels! But how do you get embarrassingly intimate pictures of your jerkface ex who double-crossed you five years ago?

Especially when he’s a member of the US House of Representatives now?

Getting sweet between the sheets with a congressman is pretty much every political roadie’s dream, right? I’m one in a crowd.

Except to this day, he swears he didn’t do it. Pursued me for months after I dumped him five years ago. Begged me to take him back.

And I almost did it. Almost. I was weak and stupid and in love a hundred years ago.

Okay. Fine. Five.

But I still have the upper hand. Second chance romance has all the emotional feels, doesn’t it?

I can’t wait to punch him in the feels.

All I need to do is sleep with him once, take some hot-and-sweaty pics of him in…delicate positions, and bring him down. That’s it. Nothing more.

Pictures first. Revenge after. And then I win.

At least, that’s how it was supposed to happen. But then I did something worse than sexting.

I fell in love with him. Again.

 

 

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Also available on Apple Books & iTunes | Kobo | Nook | Google Play

I’m not too proud to admit that finding Mr. Right involves swiping right.

Right? Welcome to dating in avocado toastland.

Here I am, on my first blind date, ever, courtesy of a smartphone app and my two annoying best friends.

So what is Chris “Fletch” Fletcher doing, walking across the room, looking at his phone like he’s pattern matching a picture to find a real person he’s never met before?

Oh.

Oh, no.

The guy I drop-kicked in seventh grade cannot be my blind date. The guy who earned me this infernal nickname.

That’s right.

Feisty

 

 

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Also available on Apple Books & iTunes | Kobo | Nook | Google Play

It’s not against any formal rule for us to sleep together.
It is, however, strictly forbidden to have feelings for each other.
I can’t do one without the other at this point.
Which means I am doomed.
When you don’t know who you can trust, reality distorts. It twists and oozes, disintegrating and reformulating to meet whatever needs its masters demand.
Just like me.
Just like Kina.
Except everything is different now that we know who we really are.
But there’s a second reality, you see.
This one can’t be manipulated.
It just is. Solid and true, it takes our mission, our training, our orders, turning them into nothing but secrets and lies.
And this new reality means my old reality is trying to kill everything I love.
Including her.

Traceless is the second book in USA Today best-selling author Meli Raine’s new Stateless trilogy.

Here’s a bonus treat from Melanie Moreland.

Twilight was descending, the room aglow as the sun set. We devoured her delicious pasta, drank the wine, and I had swum my laps as she finished her work. After swimming, I doffed my wet trunks and wrapped a towel around my hips. I felt Emmy’s gaze follow my every move, and knowing she was watching, I moved leisurely, just thinking about her heated gaze. I poured myself a generous dollop of the brandy Greg had dropped off, and got a smaller one for her, thinking she might enjoy it. I handed her the glass and sat beside her.

“I’ve never had Courvoisier.” She eyed the glass.

“You sip it,” I explained. “Swirl the glass in your hand like this.” I demonstrated. “The warmth of your skin heats the brandy and brings out its flavor. It’s delicious.”

Read what happens next here: https://bit.ly/BentleyATasteofYou

Read Bentley and the entire Vested Interest series on Amazon/KU: getbook.at/VestedInterestSeries

Bentley is also available on audio, narrated by Maxine Mitchell and John Lane. Listen on Audible Escape.

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