Review and Excerpt Tour ~ THE SAPPHIRE HEIST by Lauren Blakely
Tuesday, August 23, 2016
✮✮✮ THE SAPPHIRE HEIST is here! The highly anticipated conclusion of New York Times bestselling author Lauren Blakely’s new contemporary romance Jewel Novel Series, this enemies-to-lovers series is filled with sex, wit, glamour, and high stakes, with a rugged, ex-military, dirty-talking alpha hero! Don’t miss this explosive and passionate series and check out all the stops on the tour! ✮✮✮
Lauren Blakely’s THE SAPPHIRE HEIST – Review & Excerpt Tour Schedule:
August 17th
Kati's Bookaholic Rambling Reviews – Excerpt
Naughty Moms' Story Time – Review
Nice Ladies, Naughty Books – Excerpt
A Bookish Mess – Review & Excerpt
A girl and her books – Review
BJ's Book Blog – Review
Socially Awkward Book Nerd – Excerpt
Little Red Reading Hood – Review
August 18th
Got Nikki? – Excerpt
Book reviews by lexi – Review
Bookalicious Babes Blog – Review & Excerpt
Collector of book boyfriends – Review
Devilishly dirty book blog – Review & Excerpt
InBookEden – Review & Excerpt
Marie's Tempting Reads – Review
Vagabonda Reads – Excerpt
August 19th
FMR Book Grind – Review
The Reading Cafe – Review & Excerpt
Guilty Pleasures Book Reviews – Review & Excerpt
I Love Romance – Review & Excerpt
Inner Goddess – Review & Excerpt
Naughty Book Blog – Review & Excerpt
Two Book Pushers – Review
What Is That Book About – Excerpt
August 20th
Book Bitches Blog – Review & Excerpt
Reading Tigress – Review & Excerpt
Author Groupies – Review
Ashley Book Blog – Review & Excerpt
Books and Things Blog – Review & Excerpt
For The Love of Fictional Worlds – Review & Excerpt
August 21st
A Brit and a Yank – Excerpt
Musings of the Modern Belle – Review & Excerpt
Mia's Book Blog – Review & Excerpt
Evermore Books – Excerpt
Nerdy Dirty & Flirty – Review
Reese's Reviews – Excerpt
Dog-Eared Daydreams – Review
Bookaholic Confessions – Excerpt
August 22nd
Quesarasera Book Blog – Excerpt
Alpha Book Club – Review & Excerpt
Angel's Book Heaven – Review & Excerpt
Stephanie's Book Reports – Excerpt
Pretty Sassy Cool – Review & Excerpt
Sassy Southern Book Affair – Review & Excerpt
Jen's Reading Obsession – Excerpt
The Pervy Ladies Book Blog – Review & Excerpt
August 23rd
Embrace the Romance – Review & Excerpt
All Romance Reviews – Review
Book Briefs – Review
Brittany's Book Blog – Excerpt
Ellesea Loves Reading – Excerpt
TjLovesToRead – Review
Mile High KINK Book Club – Excerpt
The Flare Up – Excerpt
August 24th
2 One Click Chicks – Review & Excerpt
The Book Avenue – Excerpt
My Girlfriend's Couch – Excerpt
Captain Reads A Lot – Excerpt
Krista's Dust Jacket – Review & Excerpt
Novel Addiction – Review
Sexyways of Reading – Review
The Book Sirens – Review
Four Chicks Flipping Pages – Review & Excerpt
August 25th
Beneath The Covers Blog – Review & Excerpt
Two Girls with Books – Excerpt
BFD Book Blog – Review & Excerpt
Blushing Babes Are Up All Night – Review
Reading Between the Wines Book Club – Excerpt
Smut Book Junkie Reviews – Review & Excerpt
The Read Report – Review & Excerpt
Sofia Loves Books – Review
Friends Till The End Book Blog – Excerpt
August 26th
G & T's Indie Café – Excerpt
Sizzling Pages Romance Reviews – Review & Excerpt
Book Loving Fairy – Review
Ripe For Reader – Review
Shelly's Book Corner – Review
Maari Loves Her Indies – Excerpt
Hooker Heels Book Blog – Review
Book Lovers Hangout – Review & Excerpt
THE SAPPHIRE AFFAIR & THE SAPPHIRE HEIST are being released by Montlake, which is an Amazon publishing company, and will only be available for sale at Amazon. You can download a free Kindle reading app for any smartphone or tablet here: http://amzn.to/1MIyrHi
**THE SAPPHIRE AFFAIR & THE SAPPHIRE HEIST are available for free on Kindle Unlimited!**
ABOUT THE SAPPHIRE HEIST (Jewel Novel #2):
Keep your lover close and your enemy closer…
After giving in to a fiery night of passion, island adventurer Steph Anderson and bounty hunter Jake Harlowe are back to square one. With millions in stolen jewels at stake, it’s hard for Steph not to question her new partner’s true motives—no matter how sexy he might be. Jake is hungry for more of Steph, but he can sense her growing mistrust, which only fuels his own doubts. Worse, there’s undeniable evidence that someone else is now after the jewels—and that they are both in real danger.
Fighting against their magnetic attraction is a distraction these two can’t afford. In order to survive, they’ll have to pull off one more heist—and trust each other with something even more precious than jewels: their hearts.
✦ Amazon US ✦ Amazon UK ✦ Amazon Paperback ✦ Amazon AU ✦ Amazon CA
✦ Audiobook (narrated by Sebastian York)
I was lucky enough to read this book right after reading Sapphire Affair. I’m not a patient person so not having to wait the month in between was perfect.
The second part of this series is where the action took place. There was more action, romance and enough heat to melt your e-reader. It was the perfect ending. It was thrilling and romantic and a perfect, fun summer read.
Lauren Blakely just knows how to write a great story with intriguing characters with a little depth and a lot of sex appeal. Her stories kept you entertained from the beginning to end. This series was the perfect summer read to pick up while sitting by the pool or on the beach.
EXCERPT:
A fan circled lazily overhead, stirring the gauzy white curtains
that hung by the sliding glass doors. He grabbed her hand, pulled her to the
open deck. The sun was still high in the sky and his room had a stunning view
of the endless blue water. He also had a clear view of how to resolve this
turmoil still roiling in his chest.
He had to try to talk to her about some of the harder topics. If
not, this would be Rosalinda and the Medici job all over again.
“Just look,” he said, gesturing to the vast sea.
She gazed toward the water. “It’s gorgeous.”
“It is. And I’m showing you to make a point.”
“Over the view?” She parked her hands on the railing.
He turned to her and met her eyes. “Yes. I’m showing you this
because it’s beautiful. Because you love the water. Because you are an outdoor
girl through and through. Because I know these things about you,” he said,
taking her hands and clasping them in his. He squeezed. “I know already that
the water calms you. I know the sunshine is like some kind of magic to you. And
I know you love your mother with a fierceness that can move mountains. You’re
like this warrior princess who’d go to battle for her, and even though I’ve
never met her, I can picture her. I imagine she is the gentlest, kindest
person in the world who wouldn’t hurt a fly, and you fight for her. Not because
she’s the kind of woman who won’t fight for herself, but rather because she
chooses not to. Am I right?”
Steph drew in a deep breath and nodded. A warm breeze blew by,
stirring up the ends of her pretty blonde hair. “Yes. You’re right.” Her voice
was soft.
As the waves lapped the shore in the distance, and boaters
skipped over the blue waters, he grasped her arms. “But what do you know about
me?”
She opened her lips but didn’t speak.
“Steph,” he said, fixing her with a sharp gaze, and then asked
again, needing to set her straight, desperate to avoid another on-the-job mistake.
“What do you know about me?”
“That you like ice cream?” She said it like a question, her
expression confused.
He nodded, a sliver of a smile appearing briefly. “That’s a good
start. What else?”
“That you like to tell jokes?” she asked, squinting as the sun
shone brightly overhead.
“Keep going.”
“That you’re motivated by
your family,” she said with more confidence now in her tone.
“Good. Keep going.”
“That you do what you do because of them. To take care of your
little sister and brother, and your big sister’s kid.”
“I do.”
“And that you hate when bastards get away with anything.”
He tapped his finger to his nose. Bingo. “Know what
else?”
“What?”
A knot of discomfort clogged his throat. He pushed past it,
speaking plainly, honestly. “I went out with a woman who nearly cost me a job.
Who tried to steal the artifact we’d teamed up to find,” he said, the memory
blasting through him of how foolish he’d felt when Rosalinda stole it from him.
“I trusted her. I thought she cared about me. She only cared about the prize.”
“I don’t even want the prize,” Steph said, raising her chin,
meeting his gaze. “I’m not after money. I’m after the truth.”
“But it seemed this morning that you were playing me,” he said,
his tone turning rougher. “That when you saw me at the café, you were all sexy
snuggly because you thought I’d run. And outside the gallery, you were pretending
to get cozy when you put your hands in my shorts, but you were only searching
for stones even after I told you there weren’t any.”
“I was,” she said through gritted teeth. Her expression was one
of frustration and embarrassment.
“Don’t fuck with my feelings. You know I want you. You know I
like you. Just don’t fuck with me,” he said, yanking her close to him.
“I’m not. I won’t. I’m sorry,” she said, her tone full of
contrition.
That knot unwound, and he nodded. “So tell me the
truth. Do I seem like the type of guy who’d screw you over?”
And Don’t Miss the First Book, THE SAPPHIRE AFFAIR, now available!
Order your copy today!
✦ Amazon US ✦ Amazon UK ✦ Amazon Paperback ✦ Amazon AU ✦ Amazon CA
✦ Audiobook (narrated by Sebastian York)
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