Virtual Book Tour: Playing For Love at Deep Haven by Katy Regnery

About The Book:

Title: Playing For Love at Deep Haven

Series: Enchanted Places #1

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Violet Smith and Zach Aubrey have history…

…the kind of history he regrets and she wishes she could forget.

When a booking mistake at Deep Haven Cottage strands them together at a rental house on the Maine coast, the rocker and the writer are suddenly thrown back together after ten years apart. While Violet will do almost anything to prevent history from repeating itself, Zach wants to show her that her heart will be safe with him this time. But can Violet give him a second chance? And will Zach truly be able to change history?

Playing songs, playing for keeps…Playing for Love at Deep Haven

My Review:

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Playing for Love at Deep Haven by Katy Regnery is the first book in her Enchanted Places series.

Violet and Zach are best friends in college. Each one inspires the other. His music inspires her poetry and her poetry inspires his music. It's only a matter of time before they fall for each other. Things don't go very smoothly after Violet professes her love and nine years later is still dealing with the scars that Zach's walking out on her left on her heart.

Zach has only ever loved one woman and was too stupid to realize it until it was too late and she had already moved on. Now he feels like a sell-out and is taking a break to follow his dream. Little does he realize that his dream has been double booked into the same vacation house as him and after nine years he may get a chance to set things right.

A beautifully written tale of love and loss and overcoming past hurts. Both characters were given such depth and feeling AND they had some steamy love scenes. You won't find this girl complaining. I'm curious to see how Zach's twin sister Cora's story plays out in the next anticipated book in this series Restoring Love at Bolton Castle (Enchanted Places #2).

No one came closeto the place she still occupied in his heart, and sometimes, when her voice echoed in his head, the sudden burst of agony-of regret-could take his breath away. Angry songs came easily. Fury came easily. Sad came easily, but he hated sad.

Sad was weak and useless and he refused to write it.
As for beauty? Zach scoffed. Beauty felt impossible.
-Zach Aubrey

About The Author:

Katy Regnery, winner of the 2013 NECRWA First Kiss and 2013 Maine RWA Everything But the Kitchen Sink contests, has always loved telling a good story and credits her mother with making funny, heartwarming tales come alive throughout her childhood. A lifelong devotee of all romance writing from Edwardian to present-day, it was just a matter of time before Katy tried her hand at writing a love story of her own. 

As it turned out, one love story turned into a series of five Heart of Montana romances, following the love lives of the Yellowstone-based Lindstrom siblings. In addition to small-town contemporary romance, Katy is presently writing a paranormal romance that takes place in northern New England and the forests north of Quebec. 

Speaking of forests, Katy lives in the relative-wilds of northern Fairfield County, Connecticut where her writing room looks out at the woods and her husband, two young children and two dogs create just enough cheerful chaos to remind her that the very best love stories of all are the messy and unexpected ones.

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Promo Blitz: Connectivity by Aven Ellis

About The Book:

Title: Connectivity

Author: Aven Ellis

Published: October 16, 2013

Publisher: Soul Mate Publishing

ISBN13: 9781619353039

Overachiever Mary-Kate Grant (who is indeed named after an Olsen Twin) has followed every rule to the letter to pursue her dream of working in TV programming. Ripping a page from the “hard work pays off” playbook, she takes an assistant level job at a Chicago sports network to break into the industry.

MK has no time or desire for a relationship right now—she is totally focused on her career and being independent, unlike the other women in her family.

But MK’s plans are run through the shredder when she finds herself working for William Cumberland, a British media mogul who made his fortune with Connectivity, a social media site. William blows into Chicago just like the winds off Lake Michigan and purchases the group of networks MK works for—and makes her his personal assistant in the process.

Suddenly MK finds her career plans in jeopardy. William makes her question everything she has ever thought and has the uncanny ability to see right through her. And for the first time in her life, MK finds herself not only questioning what she wants for her career but for her personal life as well…

Excerpt:

We arrive at the hotel, one of the most expensive and sleekest in Chicago. William escorts me to the bar, which is gorgeous and sophisticated and just perfect for a glass of wine. We grab a spot near the open fireplace, and William helps me take off his coat. I sink down into a cozy chair breathe an appreciative sigh. 

“This is so much better,” I say gratefully. “Thank you for the rescue, William.” 

He studies me for a moment as he sinks down into the chair across from me. “You’re an old soul, aren’t you?” he asks slowly. 

I watch as the light from the fireplace flickers across William’s amazing cheekbones. “Just like you.” 

William stares back at me, but I already know what he is thinking. That I get him like nobody else does. I can’t explain it, but it is a feeling I have, one that is so strong and so powerful I know I’m right. 

And he understands me better than anyone ever has, too. 

“Welcome back, Mr. Cumberland,” the waitress says, dropping down two cocktail napkins on the coffee table in-between us and interrupting my thoughts. “The usual?” 

“No.” William looks at me. “What would you like to drink, Mary-Kate?” 

“A glass of pinot noir sounds really nice,” I say. 

“Then I would like a bottle of your best pinot noir please,” he says. 

The waitress nods and then leaves. 

“Hmmm. ‘Welcome Back?’” I say slowly. “Do you regularly bring the ladies to this bar, William?” 

Jesus did I just ask him that? 

William studies me. “Would you like to know, Mary-Kate?” 

“Only if you care to answer, William,” I say, matching him. 

And my pulse jumps again as I wait for his reply. Here we go. We say we are employee/boss. But we don’t speak to each other like employee/boss. And now there is this damn undercurrent of attraction, of sexual tension that I like way too much, and I feel like my whole career, my dreams, and my future could go up in flames because I am playing with a match here. 

But at this moment, in this bar, I don’t care. 

About the Author:

Aven Ellis has been writing fiction since she was sixteen. She studied communications at a large Midwestern university, and after graduation, Aven worked as a reporter for a community newspaper, followed by a stint at a public relations agency.

But writing about city council meetings and restaurant franchises was not as much fun as writing for young women trying to figure out their careers and potential boyfriends. So Aven got herself a job in television that allowed her to write at night. Connectivity is Aven’s debut novel; Waiting For Prince Harry and Chronicles of a Lincoln Park Fashionista (New Adult romantic comedy) will be published next year.

Aven lives in Dallas with her family. When she is not writing, Aven enjoys shopping, cooking, connecting with friends on social media, and watching any show that features Gordon Ramsay.

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