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Truth in Watercolors
(Truth #2)
by 

Kimberly Rose

Age: NA

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Release Date: May 12, 2015

Design by: Amber Shaw at Book Beautiful

~ Synopsis ~

Truth, I hide.

Truth, you seek.

Truth, I confess.

Truth, you leave.

She never meant to let anyone in, least of all him. Now that she has, she is forever changed. Capri sees her life one way. Dull.  She’s learned to dim and fade into the world around her. Until the day she agreed to more time with him.

Shrouding himself in a carefully constructed shield of humor and vibrant charm, Wes has effectively kept everyone out for most of his life. He’s successfully hidden the truth about who he really is, but then she agreed to more time with him.

Lines become crossed and reconstructed. Secrets are revealed, and infatuation is born. Will their connection be enough to paint themselves new, or will the truths of their lives be too stained to overcome.

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 ~ Excerpt ~

One drink with a guy like Dan in actuality meant one Cosmo, followed by a glass and a half of water with lemon, and two restroom breaks. Each time I returned from the ladies’ room, I’d remain standing and reach for my purse, but he’d continue right where he left off with his monologue about wanting to start his own clothing line.

“My buddy knows a guy who can do the silk screening for half cost.”

“Mmhmm.”

“So that gives me a larger budget to advertise on campus.”

‘Cause I was sure college-aged men wanted to look like Bill Gates on the bottom and Miami Vice on the top. “Mmhmm.”

“And then a guy I met on an entrepreneur Facebook group is going to help me patent my logo.”

“Mmhmm.”

“And what’s that gonna say. Douche Pricks R Us?” I jumped from my fog of boredom, spilling my water all over the table.

“Sorry, C.” Wes leaned over my back grabbing loose napkins and laying them across the stream of water. His arms were propped on either side of the table encasing me under him, and somehow leaving me more open than I’d felt all night. After successfully covering the table with layers of brown napkins, Wes moved back only to leave faint wisps of his cologne pulling lazily away from me. I fought the urge to grab onto one and reel him back in.

“And you are?” Dan asked, reminding me of what I was doing here. Wes pulled the chair that sat between Dan and me out and spun it around before sitting down with his arms draped over the back.

“Wes,” he answered sitting up proudly with a grin stretching clear across his face dimple to dimple. A smile paired with an odd garbled half-laugh escaped my mouth. What the crap was that? Thankfully the two were more focused on each other than me and didn’t notice my giggle vomit.

“Wes, this is Dan.” I nodded across the table at my date.

“Her date,” Dan said sizing Wes up.

“Uh-huh. And by date what do you mean exactly?” Wes asked, and I groaned inwardly. Here he goes.

“By date, I mean she and I are here together. Just she and I.” Dan sat up and buttoned the top button of his jacket.

“Nice blazer,” Wes commented, and I giggle vomited again.

“Nice beanie,” Dan said.

Nice beanie, indeed. Wes had the thick cotton pulled down to his eyebrows. Something about a man in a beanie, or maybe just Wes in a beanie, was utterly and completely hot. Maybe it was the way a beanie highlighted the sharp, defined edges of his jawline. Or maybe it was the way it cast a dark, rebellious shadow onto his otherwise mischievous and playful expressions. Or maybe I should stop staring at Wes in a beanie, and instead chastise him for crashing my date.

“We’re on a date, Wes,” I said reflecting how bored I’d felt before Wes showed up. So maybe chastise was the wrong verb to use.

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~ Review ~

 Kimberly Rose had me at the cover!  In keeping with her stunning cover from the first Truth Book I knew I was in for a treat! This book was exactly what I had hoped it would be.  A book that would have me so caught up in the characters that I wouldn't be able to put it down.  

The story centers around Capri and Wes.  She's loved him in secret for as long as she can remember and Wes has always had a soft spot for his best friends sister. So when circumstances throw them together in close quarters, it's only a matter of time before their feelings are revealed.

LOVED LOVED LOVED the way this story unfolded. Hidden affections under a true friendship with laughter along the way.  I seriously had more than a few laugh out loud moments while reading this book.  Trying to stake their claim to one another in no so subtle ways had me smiling through out the book.

"Okay baby, I'll see if I can find us some rope to use later, and maybe some duct tape in case I have a hard time controlling myself like last time."  ~ Capri

But the tender moments between Capri and Wes are what really stole my heart.  The level of comfort, understanding and safety that they found with one another but would it be enough to allow them to share their hidden truths.  Truths so personal that the fear of exposing them would send the other person running.

"You're so wrong. Nothing about you is blank.  You're the most vivid woman I've ever laid my eyes on." ~ Wes

Will Wes and Capri overcome their truths and find comfort in each others arms?  Grab you copy of this amazing read today and find out for yourself.  I will be looking forward to the next release from Kimberly Rose and ordering my paperback.

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See where it all began……

Truth in Wildflowers
(Truth #1)

Release Date: October 2014

~ Synopsis ~

Truth, love finds you.

Truth, love leads you.

Truth, love heals you.

Truth, love breaks you.

For college student Kensie, finding love hasn’t been easy. With a father she’s estranged from she finds it difficult to trust men, and with a past she’s ashamed of she is unable to trust herself. Kensie feels irrevocably stagnant with an unending desire to move. That is, until she meets August, and her life is set into motion.

After a tragic accident, August gave up on living. A captive to his guilt, he is unable to move on from his past. Then he finds a reason in Kensie. She awakes every dormant fiber of his being, but will she want him once she discovers he is everything she fears most?

Can Kensie let herself love August, or will the truth destroy her?

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~ About the Author ~

Kimberly Rose is a wife, mom, and writer. She found her love of writing in her teens pouring out an angst-ridden heart into journals. Kimberly self published her first book, Truth in Wildflowers, in 2014. She currently lives in Honolulu, Hawaii with her husband and daughter.

 Kimberly loves connecting with other authors, readers, and bloggers. You can find her at authorkimberlyrose.wordpress.com, Facebook, 

authorkrose@yahoo.com, or a Starbucks.

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Truth in Watercolors
(Truth #2)
by

Kimberly Rose

Age: NA

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Release Date: May 2015

Design by: Amber Shaw at Book Beautiful

~ Synopsis ~

Truth, I hide.

Truth, you seek.

Truth, I confess.

Truth, you leave.

She never meant to let anyone in, least of all him. Now that she has, she is forever changed. Capri sees her life one way. Dull.  She’s learned to dim and fade into the world around her. Until the day she agreed to more time with him.

Shrouding himself in a carefully constructed shield of humor and vibrant charm, Wes has effectively kept everyone out for most of his life. He’s successfully hidden the truth about who he really is, but then she agreed to more time with him.

Lines become crossed and reconstructed. Secrets are revealed, and infatuation is born. Will their connection be enough to paint themselves new, or will the truths of their lives be too stained to overcome.

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~ Excerpt ~

“What are you doing?” I asked him, embarrassingly close to a pant.

“I’m giving you your first tattoo.” He smirked up at me. “If you're down?”

“Yes.” I immediately replied. So, way, way down.

Wes laughed easily. “Okay. Hold still.” My eyes followed the dip of two of his fingers into the rich texture of the paint. The drag of the liquid clinging to his fingers when he pulled them out kept him connected to the pigment.

“You’re using your fingers?” I squeaked.

Wes gulped heavily and nodded his answer.

I looked up towards the ceiling of the gym focusing on the inhale and exhale of my breath. The nerves within me flickered irregularly and buzzed with the lights above me. I tugged my eyes closed, too overwhelmed to see.

Cold fingers met my bare hip bringing an instant stillness to my breath. They smeared in soft delicate circles across my waist gently kneading into my skin. My whole body tightened grasping onto itself.

“I’ll never forget,” The rumble of Wes’ voice brought me back. “That day you came in from painting out in the rain.” He looked at me from under his thick lashes. He took his fingers from my skin to dip them into another can of paint. I missed his touch immediately. “Do you remember that?”

“Yeah.” I whispered, shocked that he did too. I’ve never forgotten that night, and I imagine I never will...

After the ceremony I sat in my room at my easel attempting to release my revulsion of life’s cruelty. Only, the amount of water I kept adding to the paint wasn’t enough. The pigment didn’t bleed with the same ruthlessness it did within me. When the thunder sounded from outside my window, I’d grabbed my easel, brush, and paints, and fled to the back yard to drown in the freak thunderstorm.

“I needed more water.”

Wes’ cool touch melted into my warm skin again. My breath shuttered and the sensitivity of the place he grazed just inside my hipbone. “You were so beautiful that night.” His fingers moved in a patting rhythm back towards my side. “Your shirt was so soaked it clung to you. Especially this spot right here.” His fingers were replaced with his entire hand in one smooth motion. With my hip cradled in his hand, his fingers curled into me. I instinctively arched into his touch.

“I was a mess.” I breathed out in between obvious panting. So freakin’ obvious.

“You were so fuckin’ sexy. With paint smeared up here.” Wes touched me under my shoulder and ran a thick bead of paint up my shoulder blade to the base of my neck. My head fell to the side allowing his caress.

“And your hair was stuck across your face.” Wes hand moved up my neck until my jaw was cradled in it. I turned my head to look into his eyes. I saw the heat in them fall beneath his eyelids when they closed.

“You wanted me?” I whispered.

“Fuck, I’ve always wanted you Capri.” With his confession my eyes closed tightly, relishing his words.

See where it all began……

Truth in Wildflowers
(Truth #1)

Release Date: October 2014

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~ Synopsis ~

Truth, love finds you.

Truth, love leads you.

Truth, love heals you.

Truth, love breaks you.

For college student Kensie, finding love hasn’t been easy. With a father she’s estranged from she finds it difficult to trust men, and with a past she’s ashamed of she is unable to trust herself. Kensie feels irrevocably stagnant with an unending desire to move. That is, until she meets August, and her life is set into motion.

After a tragic accident, August gave up on living. A captive to his guilt, he is unable to move on from his past. Then he finds a reason in Kensie. She awakes every dormant fiber of his being, but will she want him once she discovers he is everything she fears most?

Can Kensie let herself love August, or will the truth destroy her?

~ About the Author ~

Kimberly Rose is a wife, mom, and writer. She found her love of writing in her teens pouring out an angst-ridden heart into journals. Kimberly self published her first book, Truth in Wildflowers, in 2014. She currently lives in Honolulu, Hawaii with her husband and daughter.

Kimberly loves connecting with other authors, readers, and bloggers. You can find her at authorkimberlyrose.wordpress.com, Facebook, authorkrose@yahoo.com, or a Starbucks.

Release Day Blitz

Happenstance 3

by

Jamie McGuire

Publisher: Jamie McGuire LLC (February 2, 2015)

Cover Design: Okay Creations, Sarah Hansen

 ~ Synopsis ~

Be careful what you wish for. You just might get it all.

Now that Erin has learned the truth about the girls who tortured her, and about the boy she loves, she finds her time before graduation dwindling at an alarming and exciting pace. What used to be summer break was now a countdown to her final days in Blackwell. Her parents, Sam and Julianne struggle with the fear that just when they’ve found Erin, they must let her go, and the tension is higher than it’s been since Erin discovered who she really was.

Finally with the girl he’s loved since childhood, Weston grows more desperate as the summer days pass. He and Erin will go to separate colleges. His biggest fear is that this means they’ll go their separate ways. Plagued with making the best of the time he has left with Erin, and finding a way to make it last, Weston finds himself in a different state of mind hourly. He is just beginning to realize that hope is like quicksand. The harder Weston struggles, the faster Erin sinks.

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See where it all began……

Publisher: Jamie McGuire LLC (May 9, 2014)

Cover Design: Okay Creations, Sarah Hansen

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#1 New York Times Bestseller Jamie McGuire returns to self-publishing with this page-turning YA account of Erin Easter, one of three Erins in the small senior class of rural Blackwell High School who not only share a first name, but also their birthday. Easter, raised by a neglectful single mom, keeps to herself and admires Weston Gates from afar. The other Erins, Erin "Alder" Alderman and Erin "Sonny" Masterson are the darlings of the community: daughters of the two wealthiest families in town, best friends, cheerleaders, and everything Easter isn't--and they never let her forget it. Alder has even claimed Weston since the 8th grade.

Weston is a well-liked star athlete, and the son of two prominent attorneys. He struggles daily with the pressures of living up to his family name and secretly empathizes with Easter's feeling that she belongs somewhere else; in a different life. Not until he begins sneaking nights out with Easter does he gain the courage to buck expectations and acknowledge his feelings ... both for his future, and for her.

A shocking tragedy rocks the tiny town, and Easter's life is turned upside down in the best way possible. But when the truth is revealed and everything she thinks she wanted falls into her lap, life only becomes more complicated.

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Publisher: Jamie McGuire LLC (September 2, 2014)

Cover Design: Okay Creations, Sarah Hansen

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 Erin Easter was now Erin Alderman, because Erin Alderman was dead.

In the second installment of this USA Today bestselling series, follow protagonist Erin, a high school senior in tiny Blackwell, Oklahoma. After a terrible accident leaves two classmates dead, Erin learns that she was switched at birth. Shortly after, she moves into the home of her true parents, Sam and Julianne Alderman, transforming Erin over night from pariah of Blackwell High School, to the only child of one of the most affluent couples in town.

Also being pursued by her childhood crush, Weston Gates, the dream she once had is now reality. But when Erin stumbles upon secrets that gives her the answers she’s been searching for, she also finds a truth she never wanted to know.

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~ About the Author ~

Jamie McGuire was born in Tulsa, OK. She attended the Northern Oklahoma College, the University of Central Oklahoma, and Autry Technology Center where she graduated with a degree in Radiography.

Jamie paved the way for the New Adult genre with international bestseller, Beautiful Disaster. Her follow-up novel Walking Disaster debuted at #1 on the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists. She has also written apocalyptic thriller Red Hill, a novella titled A Beautiful Wedding, and the Providence series, a young adult paranormal romance trilogy.

Jamie lives on a ranch just outside Enid, OK with husband Jeff and their three children. They share their 30 acres with cattle, six horses, three dogs, and Rooster the cat.

Find Jamie at www.jamiemcguire.com or on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram!

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Beautiful Redemption

by

Jamie McGuire

Release Date: January 26, 2015

 ~ Synopsis ~

If A Maddox boy falls in love, he loves forever. But what if he didn't love you, first?

No-nonsense Liis Lindy is an agent of the FBI. Deciding she is married only to her job, she breaks off her engagement and transfers from Chicago to the field office in San Diego. She loves her desk. She is committed to her laptop. She dreams of promotions and shaking hands with the director after cracking an impossible case.

Special Agent in Charge Thomas Maddox is arrogant, unforgiving, and ruthless. He is tasked with putting away some of the world’s toughest criminals, and he is one of the best the Bureau has to offer. Though, as many lives as he’s saved, there is one that is beyond his reach. Younger brother Travis is faced with prison time for his involvement in a basement fire that killed dozens of college students, and the media want a conviction. Travis’s only savior is his unusual tie to the mob. In a deal that will spare his brother, Thomas has agreed to recruit Travis into the FBI.

Liis is stubborn, defiant, and yet somehow softens Thomas’s rough edges, making her the perfect agent to accompany him to the ceremony. Posing as a couple, they must travel to Travis & Abby’s beach vow renewal and give him the news, but when the pretending ends, she finds herself wondering if they were pretending at all.

In the second installment of the Maddox Brothers books, experience firsthand the mysterious world of the elusive Thomas Maddox, and how good love can be when you’re not the first, but the last.

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 ~ Excerpt ~

“Me, too. I’m … Thomas, by the way,” he said softly. He rolled over and relaxed beside me, his head propped by his hand. Instead of getting dressed, he looked as if he were ready for conversation.

I pressed my lips together. “I’m,” Do it. Do it or you’ll just be kicking yourself later. “…emotionally unavailable.”

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~ About the Author ~

Jamie McGuire was born in Tulsa, OK. She attended the Northern Oklahoma College, the University of Central Oklahoma, and Autry Technology Center where she graduated with a degree in Radiography.

Jamie paved the way for the New Adult genre with international bestseller, Beautiful Disaster. Her follow-up novel Walking Disaster debuted at #1 on the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists. She has also written apocalyptic thriller Red Hill, a novella titled A Beautiful Wedding, and the Providence series, a young adult paranormal romance trilogy.

Jamie lives on a ranch just outside Enid, OK with husband Jeff and their three children. They share their 30 acres with cattle, six horses, three dogs, and Rooster the cat.

Find Jamie at www.jamiemcguire.com or on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram!

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Truth in Wildflowers

by
Kimberly Rose

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Release Date: October 20, 2014

~ Synopsis  ~

Truth, love finds you.
Truth, love leads you.
Truth, love heals you.
Truth, love breaks you.

For college student Kensie, finding love hasn’t been easy. With a father she’s estranged from she finds it difficult to trust men, and with a past she’s ashamed of she is unable to trust herself. Kensie feels irrevocably stagnant with an unending desire to move. That is, until she meets August, and her life is set into motion.

After a tragic accident, August gave up on living. A captive to his guilt, he is unable to move on from his past. Then he finds a reason in Kensie. She awakes every dormant fiber of his being, but will she want him once she discovers he is everything she fears most?

Can Kensie let herself love August, or will the truth destroy her?

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1.     Favorite movie/actor/actress?

Kenise: “That’s easy. Dirty Dancing. Channing Tatum, and Christina Applegate.

August: Christina Applegate?”

Kensie: “Yeah, she’s a dancer too. You’re not going to question Channing?”

August: “Well I wasn’t until you referred to him on a first name basis.”

Kensie: “Well, who are your top picks?”

August: (contemplating) “Well, for movie I’d say The Shawshank Redemption, actor definitely Morgan Freeman, and actress, well I couldn’t say. I don’t pay much attention to them since I met Kensie.” (Winks)

Kensie: (Rolls eyes)  

2.     Favorite Singer/Song?

     

       August:  “Easy , I can answer this for Kensie. Dave Matthews ‘Crush.’ “

       Kensie:  “And for you Augustana ‘Sweet and Low.’ “

       August:  “Close, I think its Augustana ‘Fire’ now.”

       Kensie:  (blushes)

3.     Place you would love to visit?

      Kenise: “Hmmm. I think I’d like to go to St. Augustine Florida. See this magical                     place that inspired your parents to make you.”

       August: “That’s disgusting. Now I have a visual in my head.”

      Kensie: (giggling) “Where would you go?”

 August: “ I would take us somewhere we could explore. Maybe a trip through    Europe, see a little but of Italy, Spain, Germany. Whatever. I just want to go with you and take it all in.”

One item you cannot live without?

August: Gummy bears.

Kensie: (laughing) “I’m sure you’d survive without them.”

August: “And you could survive without chocolate?”

Kensie: “No.”

August: “Exaclty, next question.”

Who would you like to meet dead or alive?

Kensie: “Ella.”

August: (smiles sadly.) “I’d love that.” (leans over and gives Kensie a soft kiss. Clears throat.)

Kensie: “Who would you want to meet?”

August: “I think I’d just want you to meet Ella.”

Favorite Hobby?

Kensie: “Dancing.”

August: (nods) “ Watching her dance.”

Kensie: (laughs) “No, pick something else.”

August: “Okay, making cupcakes.”

Kensie: (blushes) “Yeah that’s fun too.”

August: “That and I love playing ball with the kids at the youth center.”

Guilty Pleasure

Kensie: “Watching Mean Girls with Lennon. How can I watch it so many times and never get sick of it. It never gets old. Never.”

August: “I for one enjoy what happens when you watch Mean Girls, so I say carry on.”

August: “I’d say my guilty pleasure is…is… dancing” (coughs)

Kensie: “What? You’ve never told me this.”

August: “Cause I’m awful at it. You guys are always making fun of my sweet moves.”

Kensie: “Well you have a private teacher now. I’ll show you some new sweet moves.

August: “My own private dancer. I like.” (waggles eyebrows)

Kensie: (nudges August with her shoulder.)

9.Favorite author and book

Kensie: “Jane Austen ‘Pride and Prejudice.’ “

August: “Ditto.”

Kensie: “You can’t steal my book.”

August: “I’m sharing it, and I’d say I have a right to part favorite ownership now wouldn’t you?”

Kensie: (Glances down at her hand) “Yeah I suppose you’re right.”

10.  Favorite Color

August: “Yellow I think. Yeah yellow.”

Kensie: (smiles and rubs his knee.) “I’d say chocolate brown.”

~ About the Author ~

Kim is a binge reader, devouring books one after another. She's creates characters and stories in the same way maintaining a notebook of thoughts and ideas. Truth in Wildflowers is the first time two characters have found a home in a full-length book. 

Kim lives with her wonderful husband and fashionista daughter wherever the Navy takes them.

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