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REVIEW and GIVEAWAY: ACCESS UNLIMITED (ACCESS #3) by ALICE SEVERIN

April 28, 2014

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We are thrilled to celebrate the release of Alice Severin’s ACCESS UNLIMITED, the third book in the Access Series! Scroll down for a fantastic giveaway from this amazing author!!

Synopsis:

They say you never know someone until you take a trip with them. But this isn’t a holiday – this is the comeback tour for Tristan Hunter. His brilliantly crafted debut solo album is getting a lot of attention thanks to Lily Taylor, the music journalist. She’s there to write up the tour, if what goes on backstage can even be printed. One thing she won’t be writing about is her passionate relationship with the star. They want to make it work, but there are a lot of obstacles to romantic bliss on a tour bus.

AC Clark, the guitarist from Tristan’s old band Devised, is also along for the ride. No stranger to excess, AC has a lot of memories about the bad old days, and he’s ready to share. Lily is learning fast what happens on the road, stays there…but some secrets are too big to hide. And Tristan knows the stage will take everything he has – and push him right to the edge. When past and present collide, it might be a crash no one recovers from. . .

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Review

Tristan and Lily are back in this haunting, gritty and very sexy installment in the Access Series trilogy. Although technically a standalone novel, I highly recommend the first two books in the series, Access All Areas and Access Unrestricted, which introduce the brilliant but troubled rock star Tristan Hunter and rock journalist Lily Taylor. This series offers an incredibly detailed and nuanced look behind the scenes of the music business told from the viewpoint of Lily.

In this book, Lily has agreed to go on tour with the world-famous Tristan and his band. Life on the road is a grueling and exhausting succession of endless hotel rooms, demanding fans and constant pressure from the record label. Tristan is a perfectionist and Lily soon learns that his ultimate focus is on the his music and the numerous details of performing live night after night.

“As I watched him move, watched him shut the door, and heard the sound of the shower starting, I realized that he never stopped working. That even now he would be thinking of the sound check, and what to ask for, what to tell the band, remembering to get someone to fetch the girl from the front of the stage.”

“Not for the first time, it struck me how lightly he carried enormous responsibility that he placed upon himself, to get it all right.”

Tristan and Lily had a sometimes-volatile relationship in the earlier books and Tristan constantly battled some serious addictions. He is more focused in this book but still exhibits some of the same insecurities and desperate need for love that makes him one of my favorite characters. Lily must deal with Tristan’s deep connection with his lifelong friend and bandmate AC, who is battling his own demons.

Access Unlimited provides a harsh look into the perils of stardom and fame and also is an incredibly written description of life on the road. I absolutely loved the relationship between Tristan, AC and Lily and could not get enough of these three together! Alice Severin is a gifted and talented writer and these characters stayed with me long after I finished this book. I really hated to say goodbye to Tristan, Lily and AC and would love to read more about them in the future!

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About the Author:

Alice Severin is the author of Access All Areas, Access Restricted, and the latest in the series, Access Unlimited.

She draws a great deal of inspiration from London, where she found like-minded people backstage and behind the scenes in the music business. She has been a delivery driver, a baker, a teacher, a copywriter, and a performance artist, among other things.

Alice Severin now lives in NYC and is sustained by loud music through headphones and messages from fans around the world.

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Categories : 4.5 Stars, Contemporary Romance, Giveaway, Rocker Tagged : Access Unlimited, Alice Severin

EXCLUSIVE Tristan Scene from ACCESS UNLIMITED by ALICE SEVERIN + GIVEAWAY

February 14, 2014

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Our very sexy Valentine’s Week continues with an EXCLUSIVE, very hot teaser from the upcoming ACCESS UNLIMITED (Access Series #3) by Alice Severin! We hope you enjoy!

Tristan – Access Unlimited

The phone beeped. I tried to ignore it, but I found myself squinting through half-closed eyes at the dark room. What the hell time was it? It felt middle of the night late, too far away from the night to be part of it, not yet feeling the distant change of light and wind that would mean dawn. It beeped again. Two were harder to dismiss. I flung out an arm from the sheets and knocked the phone to the floor. Fuck. Eyes shut, I moved over and did a tired sweep of the carpet next to the bed. There it was. I grabbed it, and rolled over on my back. I blearily looked at the bright white of the numbers. 3:37. Who was texting me? I pressed the little green square with the 2 in the corner, like an angry exponent. The message window opened and I froze. Watch me, said the first message. Then I tapped at the picture to make it fill the whole screen, and it still wasn’t big enough. Tristan. Taking a selfie. I wondered for a minute if the phone was wet, as wet as he was. He was leaning against the tiles in the shower, the water splashing on to his torso, which was sleek and shining, rivulets flowing down the muscled core of his body, to land and hover in the neatly trimmed tight curls that partially hid his balls from view. Nothing else was hidden though, and the blood-flushed tip was coated lightly with water, and something else, something that showed his excitement in posing like this. Pressing send. Knowing the effect it would have. On anyone. The phone beeped again, and the next picture scrolled into view, his hand firmly grasped around the hard flesh. His eyes were less amused now, dark circles, slightly unfocused. A minute passed. The phone beeped. This time the photo was blurred, his eyes closed tight, his hand another blur within the photo, movement. I felt my face grow warm, the familiar sinking heat spreading down. He was a statue, the muscles taut and flexed in his shoulders and arms, the dip of the lines by his hips a rigid indent. Another minute, a beep and the new photo appeared. His eyes were wide open now, and his lips were wet and full, slightly open, as though he had been taken by surprise. His hand was still tight around himself, pulling out the last tremors of furious pleasure. The evidence was captured as it struck him, adding to the sticky wet sheen that covered his heated skin.

I shut my eyes for a moment. It was almost too much. Then the phone beeped again. It was a message this time.

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Categories : Contemporary Romance, Events, Giveaway Tagged : Access All Areas, Access Restricted, Alice Severin

Christmas Greetings and Giveaway!!!

December 24, 2013

We asked a few of our favorite authors to stop by with some very special holiday greetings and exclusive teasers!!! We want to say how incredibly thankful we are to these amazing and talented writers who participated in this Christmas post. We LOVE you all!

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Tristan
Access All Areas (The Access Series Volume 1)
Access Unrestricted (The Access Series Volume 2)
ACCESS UNLIMITED (The Access Series Volume 3)- COMING JANUARY 2104!!

by Alice Severin

Tristan Hunter

He took my hand. “I imagined this,” Tristan said. “I imagined us together, just the two of us, like this.” He laughed. “Isn’t that stupid? But I could see us, holding hands, lying on the bed, on the tour bus.” He rolled over and carefully draped a long leg over mine. “Maybe not just holding hands, though.”

I looked at the little door leading to the rest of the bus, out to where the bunks were. I frowned at him. “The rest of them, can they hear us? You’ve done this before?”

Tristan ignored my question, and instead kissed me, gently, tracing the line of my cheekbone with his lips. Then he looked up at me, teasingly, from under his long eyelashes. “Why, are you shy? They know what we’re going to do.” He ran his finger slowly up my bare arm. “I’ll be very quiet, if you will.” He caught my hand and brought it up to his mouth, covering it, his eyes flashing with amusement.

It went beyond understanding how Tristan made every time feel new again, like we were starting over, right from the first desperate need to be touched. I closed my eyes. It felt good, so good to feel the weight of his body on me. His hands were warm and strong, and soon I forgot about the people on the other side of the door, the bus, the tour, and everything except the feeling of his skin on mine.

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Luke
I Love You to Death (I Love You #1)
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I Love You Always (I Love You #3) – Coming 2014!!

by Natalie Ward

Luke:

She’s lying on her stomach beside me, propped up on her elbows, her feet in the air and crossed at the ankles. But it’s her back I can’t take my eyes off. The smooth, lightly freckled skin of her shoulder blades. The long groove of her spine and the slow rise of her butt. The bikini she wears is tiny, small scraps of black material held together by strings.

I reach my hand out and lightly run my fingers down her spine, knowing how much she loves it when I do this. Her skin is so warm and smooth, so unbelievably soft under my fingertips. When I reach the base, I trace a line against the edge of her bikini bottoms, across the small of her back, before running my fingers slowly up her spine again. There’s a string tied across her back, and right in the middle is a complicated knot that I am dying to undo.

Not here though, that’s just for me, later.

Instead, I run my fingers slowly along the string, from one side of her back to the other. I feel the deep rumble of her laugh at something Mia has said and my heart flips in my chest at that sound. The sound of her laughter, something I never thought I’d get to hear, is now music to my ears. It happens more and more every day and I’ll never get tired of hearing it.

I slide my fingers up from the string and between her shoulder blades, to the nape of her neck. I gather her long brown hair and push it to the side. I watch my fingers as they trace an outline of freckles across her shoulders, before running them back up her neck again. I lean in and softly kiss her shoulder, leaving my lips pressed against her warm, soft skin as I run my fingers ever so slowly back down her spine again.

It’s almost unbearable how much I want her right now, but at the same time, so unbelievably good.

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Jay Mayard
Beneath the Burn
by Pam Godwin

DELIVER – COMING FEBRUARY 2014

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Jay Mayard

Charlee, you taught me that the true meaning of the holidays is either you’re on the good list, or you’re bent over my knee getting your ass spanked. Come over here, baby. I think it’s beginning to burn a lot like Christmas.

~Jay

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Untangle Me (Love at Last #1)
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Kayden: The Past (Love at Last 0.5) – coming January 2014!!

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We hope you all enjoyed these special holiday messages from these lovely authors. We love our authors and readers! Merry Christmas and all the best in 2014!

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Categories : Giveaway Tagged : Access All Areas, Access Unrestricted, Alice Severin, Beneath the Burn, Chelle Bliss, I Love You to Death, Kayden, Natalie Ward, Pam Godwin, Untangle Me

Access Restricted (The Access Series) by Alice Severin

February 22, 2013

Access Restricted“You see all of me, but you finish at my eyes. Like you know that’s where what you’re looking for will be.” – Tristan

Access Restricted, the sequel to Access All Areas, picks up with Tristan Hunter, gorgeous rock star, and Lily Taylor, rock journalist, as she accompanies him on his comeback tour to London. This book explores the perils of fame and superstardom as people close to both of them try to tear them apart. (Plus Lily has her own insecurities to deal with.)

We are in a total book hangover after finishing his book. My heart was in my throat and I felt totally drained while reading most of this book! I absolutely love Tristan and I loved the author’s exploration of behind the scenes in the rock world and in the music industry. Alive Severin has the most gorgeous writing style, I enjoyed every word.

I don’t know how Ms. Severin does her research but she really puts the reader right in the middle of the journalism and music industry. She is an incredible storyteller.

I loved getting inside Lily’s head and was yelling at her not not be so insecure. Tristan is an incredible character, a sensitive, tortued musician.

This is really a story of betrayal, trust and forgiveness, I loved the journey that Alice Severin took us on with this book. Almost everyone we meet in the book (except for a few people) has an ulterior motive.

LOVED the sex scenes; they are HOT. There is a very powerful connection between Tristan and Lily. I did not want this book to end. It is going on my top 10 of 2013. And it’s only January!

We can’t wait for Book Three.

“Don’t ever believe the people who said they never did anything for power money or power or position, when they are in positions with money and power.” – Tristan


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