Zoe Dawson

It's all about the happily ever afters.

Book Lovers’ Buffet: Bouquet of Books Sale!

May 1-3, 3 days only! 150 books, great authors for only .99 each!  Visit www.bookloversbuffet.net 

Here’s a snippet of The Beckoning of Beautiful Things by Calinda B.

“Turn on the Lights.  Let your electricity flow.”

“Are you sure?”

“Just try it. We can stop it if it gets to be too much.

She swallowed, closed her eyes. Pigment infused with electricity. Brilliant electric flashes. Northern lights. Lightning storms. Sensation surged through her limbs, and her eyes shot open. Electromagnetic impulses arched and sizzled along her skin with a color display like the Aurora Borealis. The color drops splashed to the ground with a hot sizzle. “Mega wow.”

“How does it feel?”

“It’s shooting up and down my neck.  It’s like your mouth sliding up and down my neck, buzzing with current.”

And here is a snippet of my WIP, Hounded, Book #3 in the Going to the Dogs Series. Available in June!  Leashed, Book #1 is part of the sale and is only .99!  See where it all started.

She rose, smoothing out the full skirt of the apple motif dress she wore.  The rows of different apples made her feel like a demented snow white.  She was sure Snow never wore razor blade earrings though.  One of the guys punched him in the shoulder and he smiled and headed her way.

“Hey,” he said as he approached, sweat running down over the tantalizing planes of his cheekbones, to his hard jaw.  Normally she wouldn’t find that intriguing, but it slipped down his thick neck and rode along his clavicle, soaking into his t-shirt.

“Did you know the clavicle is the only bone in the human body that lies horizontally?”

“Huh?”

Oh God.  Had she said that out loud?  The…clavicle…um…collarbone.  She reached up and slid her fingertips along the ridge of bone, his skin moist, warm and soft.  Then she wanted to smack herself in the head.  She jerked her hand away.  What possessed her to touch him?  Compulsion.  Sheer stupidity.  Her awkward social skills?

“I like your clavicle, too,” he said softly and there went her lungs again, compressing from his g-force-like voice.  In that dress and those kick ass heels, you look like a bad ass Betty Boop.  Good enough to eat.”

Some of the featured authors are:

Me, of course!

Lisa Kessler

Laura Kaye

Gemma Halliday

Amanda Brice

and many more!

There will be prizes as well! Enter here!

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Comments

  2. Stacy Juba says

    Thanks so much for the opportunity to share, Zoe! These are my books in the sale:

    Sink or Swim:
    After starring on a hit game show set aboard a Tall Ship, personal trainer Cassidy Novak discovers that she has attracted a stalker. Can she trust Zach Gallagher, the gorgeous newspaper photographer assigned to follow her for a local series? As things heat up with the stalker and with Zach, soon Cassidy will need to call SOS for real.
    http://bookloversbuffetdotcom.wordpress.com/mystery-suspense/

    And 2 from the young adult page: http://bookloversbuffetdotcom.wordpress.com/young-adult/

    Dark Before Dawn: When teen psychic Dawn Christian gets involved with a fortuneteller mentor and two girls who share her mysterious talents, she finally belongs after years of being a misfit. When she learns her new friends may be tied to freak “accidents” in town, Dawn has an important choice to make – continue developing the talent that makes her special or challenge the only people who have ever accepted her.

    Face-Off: Brad’s twin brother T.J. has gotten himself out of the fancy prep school his father picked for him and into the public high school Brad attends. Now T.J. is a shining new star on the hockey team where Brad once held the spotlight. And he’s testing his popularity with Brad’s friends, eyeing Brad’s girl and competing to be captain of the team. The whole school is rooting for a big double-strength win…not knowing that their twin hockey stars are heating up the ice for a winner takes all face-off.

  3. Teri Thackston says

    There are loads of wonderful books & prizes at the Booklovers’ Buffet, including my paranormal award-winning romance WAIT UNTIL MOONRISE.

    http://bookloversbuffetdotcom.wordpress.com/paranormal/

    Unseen. Unheard. Untouched. Welshman Nicholas Pierce is cursed to endure a lonely eternity surrounded by the living residents of Beaumarith Castle. But two hundred-plus years into his hellish existence, Bria Leighton arrives…and she can see him! Can he convince her that he’s real—not a ghost—and that she is the one true love who can save him…before the sorceress who cursed him destroys Bria, too?

  4. Lois Winston says

    Thanks for spotlighting the Book Lovers’ Buffet sale. I’m taking part in the sale, too, with HOOKING MR. RIGHT, one of my award-winning contemporary romances, written under my Emma Carlyle pen name. HOOKING MR. RIGHT is a story about a guy, a girl, and a matchmaking cat. And because some people believe the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach, there are also some mouth-watering recipes included! HOOKING MR. RIGHT is on sale for both Kindle and Nook with links on the contemporary page of the Book Lovers’ Buffet: http://bookloversbuffetdotcom.wordpress.com/contemporary/

  5. Gemma Juliana says

    Thanks Zoe for opening your blog up to us for this sale! The Book Lovers Buffet has 150 books reduced to .99 each for three days only, May 1-3!
    My two books in the sale are:

    The Sheikh’s Spy
    Olympia risks her life to alert Sheikh Adnan of Zahiria that his own life is in danger, but neither of them is prepared for the new danger of losing their hearts to each other.
    http://bookloversbuffetdotcom.wordpress.com/mystery-suspense/

    To Kiss A Leprechaun
    Lorcan, prince of the fairies, has waited hundreds of years for the one woman who can break the witch’s curse and release him from the ugly spell that traps him. A secret enemy is still intent on keeping them apart…
    http://bookloversbuffetdotcom.wordpress.com/young-adult/

  7. Carolynn Carey says

    Thanks, Zoe. I’ve been thrilled with the books I’ve found by other writers on Book Lovers Buffet. I have two sweet contemporaries set in Tennessee: MY CUPCAKE, MY LOVE, which is set around Valentine’s Day, and PROGNOSIS FOR HAPPINESS about two doctors who reconnect years after they were adversaries in high school.

  9. Chantilly White says

    Zoe, thank you so much for opening your blog and allowing us to post our blurbs here! I am also participating in the 99-cent sale, with my contemporary romance, Cupid’s Mistake:

    Party-girl Allison Kelly has it all–great friends, a flourishing business, and an active sex life. She’s beautiful, busy and blissfully fulfilled. Life has been anything but a party for Benjamin Turner. Orphaned at fifteen, widowed at twenty-three, he traveled the world on self-imposed exile, but he couldn’t outrun the loneliness. He’s looking for stability. She wants a good time. Will Cupid’s arrow find its mark this Valentine’s Day, or will their pairing prove to be Cupid’s biggest mistake?

    Check out all the great contemporary romances on the Book Lover’s Buffet! http://bookloversbuffetdotcom.wordpress.com/contemporary/

  10. eahoornaert.com says

    Many thanks, Zoe, for letting us highlight the books we have on the Bouquet of Books sale. May the ghost of Shakespeare send fertile dreams to your imagination! My 99c books in the sale are science fiction with romantic elements:

    The Trial of Tompa Lee – Abandoned to cruel alien justice—trial by combat against 300 accusers!—only Tompa’s enemies (including the hunky cop who arrested her) can help.

    The Midas Rush – All shepherd Tresky Buffrum wants is a taste of adventure. Instead he finds a mysterious virgin bride, mad murderers, and aliens who are either gods … or demons.

    http://bookloversbuffetdotcom.wordpress.com/fantasy-horror-scifi-timetravel/

  11. Jill Hughey says

    Thanks for letting us visit, Zoe. There are many delicious historical romances on the Buffet, including REDEEMED, set in Charlemagne’s Empire. Doeg requires two things in a wife. Philantha has only one requirement in a husband, but it challenges the barriers Doeg has maintained for decades around his heart and body.

    http://wp.me/P1Z92v-38

  12. Sharlyn D. says

    Zoe,

    Thanks for letting us highlight our book buffet books on your blog! I have two in the mix:

    New Release – TAKE YOUR TIME
    Content to hide behind her camera, Maddy Adams often feels more comfortable observing life rather than actively participating in it. For the past five years she’s focused only on her studies and building her photography career. The summer after her college graduation, Maddy returns to Lake of the Pines for her sister Liv’s wedding. While she’s happy her sister has found love again, Maddy wonders if she’ll ever find love herself. Her college roomie keeps pressuring her to go out with her older brother, who happens to be vacationing at the same lake. Maddy doesn’t want to go on another blind date, but after blowing it with the gorgeous man she met on the beach she doesn’t have anything to lose. Or does she?

    ABNA Quarter-Finalist – TAKE A DEEP BREATH
    Liv Reynolds can’t remember when anxiety and panic didn’t play havoc on her life. Recently divorced from a man who wouldn’t or couldn’t understand her, she retreats with her daughter to her grandmother’s summer cottage on Lake of the Pines. Liv has fond memories of the summers she spent there with her grandparents. Always a safe haven, she hopes to spend the summer relaxing, healing and finding herself again. In the midst of a panic attack, she finds herself face-to-face with Cameron Preston, the boy with whom she’d spent her childhood summers. In love with him back then, she never found the courage to tell him and they drifted apart…Her heart leaps at the second chance for love. Confusion swamps her as she tries to figure out why Cam keeps pulling away… Can Liv rekindle their old friendship and to turn it into something more?

    http://bookloversbuffetdotcom.wordpress.com/contemporary/

  13. Marlie Bridges says

    Thank you, Zoe, for posting about the sale! I’m also participating with:
    YOU BELONG TO ME
    Erin Reilly wants to live life on her own terms far away from her psychotic ex-husband, Daniel. However, when she moves half-way across the country, pulls her life together, and falls in love with corporate lawyer Colin Marshall, Daniel follows her.
    Colin’s belief in love and desire for a family were abandoned with a woman’s betrayal. And he questions his own capacity for love, until he meets Erin and is willing to test the boundaries of his heart.
    Through a series of devastating events engineered by Daniel neither of them believes they can ever achieve their dreams.
    But Colin proves he is willing to make the ultimate sacrifice for love and help Erin discover the strength and courage she needs to conquer her fears and the monster who tries to destroy them both.
    Erin wants the American dream. Colin wants to give it to her.
    But can they escape the nightmare that threatens their very lives?
    http://bookloversbuffetdotcom.wordpress.com/mystery-suspense/

  18. Opal Carew says

    Thanks for featuring the book buffet… I have 4 books on sale, under my alternate name AMBER CAREW:

    VIRGIN SPY by AMBER CAREW
    Trust and betrayal while undercover

    Angel is experienced in a lot of things, but love isn’t one of them.

    Angel has been deep undercover in the mob for too many years. Love is the last thing on her mind. Until Frank walks into her life once again. She almost fell in love with him four years ago, but had to betray him to the mob to protect her cover. He barely got away with his life, and now he hates her.

    Too bad they’ve been partnered to work together. As man and wife.
    http://bookloversbuffetdotcom.wordpress.com/mystery-suspense

    CAPTIVE LOVER by AMBER CAREW
    Surrender control to sexy stranger

    The intensely sexy stranger was everything she wanted in a man, and everything she hated. He was intelligent, passionate, and compelling. Authoritative, domineering, and stubborn. And he would stop at nothing to convince her to surrender to him, body and soul.

    Even though she sensed he would never hurt her, his ability to bend her to his will terrified her. She vowed never to surrender control. But ultimately, would she have a choice?
    http://bookloversbuffetdotcom.wordpress.com/fantasy-horror-scifi-timetravel

    VIRGIN WIZARD by AMBER CAREW
    Overwhelmed by a dominating stranger

    For some reason, Fate has been messing with Lucinda’s love life.

    By all known wizard lore, she should have bonded with her mentor Rand, but there’s simply no chemistry between them. When she gets “The Call”, which shouldn’t happen for her, she is faced with an incredibly sexy, entirely naked man in an alley in Paris. Getting “The Call” means she is supposed to be his mentor… and his one true love. Clearly Fate thinks her life is a joke.

    Now she is stuck mentoring a man who is utterly domineering, overwhelmingly masculine, incredibly irresistible and, according to her most trusted friend, extremely dangerous.
    http://bookloversbuffetdotcom.wordpress.com/fantasy-horror-scifi-timetravel

    I DREAM OF GENIE by AMBER CAREW
    Genie’s decision: heart versus duty

    Dawn has suffered centuries of loneliness cooped up in a brass bottle. Now she has fallen in love with her new master, Luke, a stupid thing for a genie to do.

    Luke still loves his ex-fiancee and realizes the beautiful genie he frees from an ancient bottle may be the key to winning Evelyn back. How can Dawn reconcile what her heart desires with what duty demands of her?
    http://bookloversbuffetdotcom.wordpress.com/fantasy-horror-scifi-timetravel