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The blog of Urania Sarri, author of paranormal romance.
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Tuesday, November 21, 2017
Tuesday, October 17, 2017
Free books coming your way: Get Cozy with Sweet To Sexy Free Romance Books
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Friday, October 13, 2017
Tuesday, October 3, 2017
Saturday, August 19, 2017
THE SWORDS OF AN ANGEL IS LIVE!
BUY THE E-BOOK NOW!https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074LBN36Tspecial price: 0.99$ for a limited time!You are invited to the release party! August 20, 12:00 pm -06:00 pm EDT Join now! |
Keep being distracted by reading,
Monday, August 14, 2017
Beguiled (The Deadlock #2) A time-travel romance.
As the release of THE SWORDS OF AN ANGEL approaches, have put Beguiled on discount and with a fresh new cover!
$1.99 on Amazon
GATE DEADLOCK (The Deadlock #1 is still FREE!)
BLURB
The war between the present and the future has started. Compelled to cooperate with the forces of the future in order to gain Christopher back, Emma has taken on a new mission. The portal that connects the two worlds must be relocated otherwise there is no hope for humanity. But there are so many obstacles she has to overcome; Christopher has given up on their love, her best friend has been kidnapped and the life-changing truth about her family is revealed. Worst of all, a new, unexpected menace under the name Frederick, Christopher’s evil double, threatens their lives.
Will she be able to secure the future of mankind and claim the love she has fought so hard for? What if Christopher has decided to sacrifice himself again in order to save her?
In “Beguiled”, the second book of the “Gate Deadlock” series, love knows no deadlocks.
What Amazon reviewers are saying:
"My first thought to share - AMAZING!Is it possible to enjoy a 2nd more than the 1st? Yep, yep it is! This one like Gate Deadlock was hard to put down. I really enjoyed reading. So much suspense, keeps you on the edge of your seat...."
"I loved both books for different reasons but the best end is the one on Beguiled. I swear if the author hadn't given us some hints I would have thrown my ereader at the wall and curl up into a ball and not speak to anyone for a while. I can't explain it but I had strong feelings about Christopher...".
''Another great read. Picks up where the first left off and again is well written with great characters.''
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Saturday, August 5, 2017
Urania's suggestions for distraction: Relocation Without Dislocation by Ndeye Labadens
Urania's suggestions for distraction:
Relocation Without Dislocation: Make New Friends And keep the Old (Travels and Adventures of Ndeye Labadens Book 2)
by Ndeye Labadens
SYNOPSIS
Moving? Noooo!
Pain — Worry—- Stress —- Expenses
Relocation can be hard.
Don’t let moving defeat you!
You are leaving your friends and perhaps your family behind. Even if you are looking forward to moving, the logistics and the loneliness can be overwhelming. Especially, if the culture you are moving to is different from that to which you are used to.
This handy guide shows you how to move without hustle, pain, worries and uncontrolled expenses. Being prepared and aware of potential problems will help your move go much more smoothly.
Ndeye has moved several times in five different continents, this book provides many tips and resources for students, entrepreneurs, employees, and volunteers considering moving, but are overwhelmed at the prospect.
It is a great idea to network before you move.
Today's technology makes this possible.
Take the fear and anxiety of relocating by following this excellent advice.
With Ndeye’s help, you will move like a pro!
Ndeye’s from her experience shows how to enjoy the move, settle in quicker make new friends, richness your adventure while keeping the old ones. Through networking and other options detailed in this book.
Pain — Worry—- Stress —- Expenses
Relocation can be hard.
Don’t let moving defeat you!
You are leaving your friends and perhaps your family behind. Even if you are looking forward to moving, the logistics and the loneliness can be overwhelming. Especially, if the culture you are moving to is different from that to which you are used to.
This handy guide shows you how to move without hustle, pain, worries and uncontrolled expenses. Being prepared and aware of potential problems will help your move go much more smoothly.
Ndeye has moved several times in five different continents, this book provides many tips and resources for students, entrepreneurs, employees, and volunteers considering moving, but are overwhelmed at the prospect.
It is a great idea to network before you move.
Today's technology makes this possible.
Take the fear and anxiety of relocating by following this excellent advice.
With Ndeye’s help, you will move like a pro!
Ndeye’s from her experience shows how to enjoy the move, settle in quicker make new friends, richness your adventure while keeping the old ones. Through networking and other options detailed in this book.
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READER'S FAVORITE REVIEW
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ndeye Labadens is a multi-best-selling author, blogger and Vlogger, entrepreneur and World Traveler. She enrolled in a doctorate in Business Administration (DBA). With strong followings on Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram and Twitter at @labadensndeye allowed her to detail her travels and experience to the enthusiastic audience.
Ndeye works as a consultant at www.lannconsultings.com. She helps other authors and small business owners.
STAND BY! I WILL UPDATE THIS POST WITH MY REVIEW VERY SOON!
Keep being distracted by reading,
Thursday, August 3, 2017
COVER REVEAL GIVEAWAY: THE SWORDS OF AN ANGEL
Today I am hosting the cover reveal for my new release.
I hope you will enjoy the wonderful cover the trailer video I've made, the teasers and the playlist that inspired me.
There is an awesome giveaway at the end of this page, so don't forget to enter.
I am counting on all of you to share this blog post!
Enjoy!
Title: The Swords of an Angel
The Guardian's Fall Chronicles, Book 1
Author: Urania Sarri
To Be Published: August 20th, 2017
Genre: New Adult, Paranormal Fantasy
Book and Cover design by MaeIDesign & Photographywww.maeidesign.com
SYNOPSIS
Do miracles happen? Who decides who lives and who dies? What toll does the salvation of a human life take on the brave?
Madison is no ordinary girl. Her parents were lost in a hurricane flood where she came very close to death herself. She can’t remember anything about her life before that.
She is now an academy student at Berksworth Hills where she has moved with her two friends, Blue and Megan, with whom she shares a special bond.
Her life changes once more when she meets the mysterious and brooding trainer, Jerome, an extraordinary creature with peculiar nutritional habits. They are swept up in a passionate romance that unveils the truth about almost everything and everyone around her, forcing her to reconsider her whole life. Because once her true nature is revealed, Madison will become Jerome’s mortal enemy.
Advance Reader Copy Requests:
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Advance Reader Copy of The Swords of an Angel
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Advance Reader Copy of The Swords of an Angel
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TEASERS
TRAILER VIDEO
LISTEN TO THE SWORDS OF AN ANGEL PLAYLIST
FOLLOW THE SWORDS OF AN ANGEL
Thank you! You have successfully subscribed to our newsletter.About the author
Urania Sarri lives in Korinthia, Greece with her husband and sons. She holds a BA in English Language and Literature and an Msc in Teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL). She is now finishing her studies for a PhD in Linguistics. She specializes in teaching English to children and young adults and she totally adores her job. While doing so, she takes any opportunity to convey to her students the passion of reading. She is fascinated by paranormal stories and appreciates good romance whenever she gets her hands on it!
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Giveaway Details:
3 WINNERS!
Enter to win:
- a $20 Amazon gift card (one winner)
- A FREE ebook set of The Deadlock, my paranormal, time-travel series:
Good luck!
Saturday, July 29, 2017
THE SWORDS OF AN ANGEL, UPCOMING RELEASE BY URANIA SARRI
Here's the trailer I made for my upcoming release
THE SWORDS OF AN ANGEL.
NA/YA Paranormal Fantasy Romance
ENJOY!
Listen to THE SWORDS OF AN ANGEL PLAYLIST
READ MORE out more about my new novel!
BLURB
Madison is no
ordinary girl. Her parents were lost in a hurricane flood where she came very
close to death herself. She can’t remember anything about her life before that.
She is now an academy
student at Berksworth Hills where she has moved with her two friends, Blue and
Megan, with whom she shares a special bond.
Her life changes once
more when she meets the mysterious and brooding trainer, Jerome, an
extraordinary creature with peculiar nutritional habits. They are swept
up in a passionate romance that unveils the truth about almost everything and
everyone around her, forcing her to reconsider her whole life. Because once her
true nature is revealed, Madison will become Jerome’s mortal enemy.
In The Swords of an
Angel, miracles do happen, but there is always a reason.
ASK ME FOR AN ARC COPY
https://uraniasarri.com/ |
My review on Fractured Love by Ella James. Urania's Reviews
Ella James did it again! She wrote another love story that kept me up at night, turning pages to find out how that fractured love could be mended.
What kept me up? First of all, I admire Ella for her skill to write two books in one; because this is how I
see Fractured Love.
see Fractured Love.
At first, I expected to read a couple of chapters as a flashback to the heroes’ history. It was a wonderful surprise to find that Ella stayed in that history long enough to get me hooked, reminding me of her older books on young love, the books that made her one of my favorite authors.
I loved how Ella linked that story with present time, allowing the reader to see how the characters developed through time. Yes, there were some (deliberate) gaps that had me wonder about joining the dots and be able to understand Evie’s attitude as an adult.
I don’t know if Ella intended to make us like l Landon more than Evie. She has the remarkable capacity of entering the male character’s mind and make us empathize with him, by so skilfully presenting how his character evolved from the traumatized child to the successful doctor.
I have to add that I really liked how Ella portrayed the doctors’ culture; how she answered the questions that cross our mind about how it feels to treat a patient who turns out to be the person you care about, how some incidents break their hearts, how they make through the day.
In a nutshell, yes she did it again; she made me feel the teenager’s heartbreak, she made me angry, then sad, then curious and of course she made me blush.
My rating:
Thursday, July 27, 2017
Book tour giveaway:The Brandon Fisher FBI Series, by Carolyn Arnold
Title: The Brandon Fisher FBI Series
Author: Carolyn Arnold
Publisher: Hibbert & Stiles Publishing Inc.
Genre: Thriller, Police Procedural
Profilers. Serial killers. The hunt is on. Do serial killers and the FBI fascinate you? Do you like getting inside the minds of killers, love being creeped out, sleeping with your eyes open, and feeling like you’re involved in murder investigations? Then join FBI agent and profiler Brandon Fisher and his team with the Behavioral Analysis Unit in their hunt for serial killers.
This is the perfect book series for fans of Criminal Minds, NCIS, Silence of the Lambs, Seven, Dexter, Luther, and True Crime.
Read in any order or follow the series from the beginning: Eleven, Silent Graves, The Defenseless, Blue Baby, Violated, Remnants.
Grab your copy of the first book, Eleven, for FREE on Kindle and Nook!
CAROLYN ARNOLD is an international best-selling and award-winning author, as well as a speaker, teacher, and inspirational mentor. She has four continuing fiction series—Detective Madison Knight, Brandon Fisher FBI, McKinley Mysteries, and Matthew Connor Adventures—and has written nearly thirty books. Her genre diversity offers her readers everything from cozy to hard-boiled mysteries, and thrillers to action adventures.
Both her female detective and FBI profiler series have been praised by those in law enforcement as being accurate and entertaining, leading her to adopt the trademark: POLICE PROCEDURALS RESPECTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT™.
Carolyn was born in a small town and enjoys spending time outdoors, but she also loves the lights of a big city. Grounded by her roots and lifted by her dreams, her overactive imagination insists that she tell her stories. Her intention is to touch the hearts of millions with her books, to entertain, inspire, and empower.
She currently lives just west of Toronto with her husband and beagle and is a member of Crime Writers of Canada.
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Sometimes the past should stay there…
“OMG! Violated by Carolyn Arnold has been the most thrilling and exciting story that I have read in the longest while. I can’t believe that I have never heard of this author before now…. This is the fifth book in the [Brandon Fisher FBI series] and there is no need to read the previous books prior to reading this one. However, I can assure you that after reading Violated, you will be clamoring to get your hands on the other books in the series.”
–Totally Addicted to Reading
–Totally Addicted to Reading
Do you have regrets over some decisions you’ve made and wish that you could go back and change things? Or do you have a hard time letting go of the past? FBI agent Paige Dawson has been dealing with a hurt inflicted over twenty years ago, but the wound hadn’t even scabbed over when a turn of events has it reopen.
Just like a lot of college students, she had a wild spring break vacation in Cancun, but it got too far out of control. Her close friend was drugged and raped by three guys. The violation destroyed a young girl’s life and a suicide attempt left her in a vegetative state for most of her adult life up until recently when the girl’s mother made the call to pull the plug. The funeral is enough to drown Paige in guilt and the past overwhelms her.
If only she had seen the rape coming so she could have stopped it. If only she could have done more and had the boys held accountable years ago.
But as a college student there was only so much Paige could do, and even as time passed by as an FBI agent, any leads on their identification met with a dead end. So when Paige finally gets a solid lead to follow, she throws caution to the wind and sets out to California on “vacation,” her new boyfriend in tow. But she gets far more than she’d planned on… The man she intended to confront turns up brutally murdered. And, Paige, well, the local police peg her as the killer.
Violated shows the importance of living in the now without obsessing over the past and what can happen when we give the past power over us. This book also touches on a modern-day topic (one I can’t reveal without spoiling the book), and conveys the deeper message that we all have the right to be true to ourselves regardless of society’s approval or disapproval.
Can Paige figure out these life lessons, though, before her career is destroyed along with her future? I invite you to board a jet to California and find out. Go ahead, no passport required.
Just like a lot of college students, she had a wild spring break vacation in Cancun, but it got too far out of control. Her close friend was drugged and raped by three guys. The violation destroyed a young girl’s life and a suicide attempt left her in a vegetative state for most of her adult life up until recently when the girl’s mother made the call to pull the plug. The funeral is enough to drown Paige in guilt and the past overwhelms her.
If only she had seen the rape coming so she could have stopped it. If only she could have done more and had the boys held accountable years ago.
But as a college student there was only so much Paige could do, and even as time passed by as an FBI agent, any leads on their identification met with a dead end. So when Paige finally gets a solid lead to follow, she throws caution to the wind and sets out to California on “vacation,” her new boyfriend in tow. But she gets far more than she’d planned on… The man she intended to confront turns up brutally murdered. And, Paige, well, the local police peg her as the killer.
Violated shows the importance of living in the now without obsessing over the past and what can happen when we give the past power over us. This book also touches on a modern-day topic (one I can’t reveal without spoiling the book), and conveys the deeper message that we all have the right to be true to ourselves regardless of society’s approval or disapproval.
Can Paige figure out these life lessons, though, before her career is destroyed along with her future? I invite you to board a jet to California and find out. Go ahead, no passport required.
Book Overview:Sometimes the past should stay there…The murder is one of the most heinous FBI agent and profiler Brandon Fisher has ever seen. But that’s not why he and two members of the team are rushing to California. The Bureau is interested because the prime suspect is one of their own, Paige Dawson.
But Paige didn’t go to Valencia to kill anyone. She had set out on “vacation”—her new lover in tow—only to confront the man who raped her friend twenty-some years ago. While the hands of the law are tied, she wants him to face the fact that he destroyed a young woman’s life and know that, as an FBI agent, she’ll be watching his every move. Yet, instead of accomplishing her goal, she wound up in the back of a police cruiser.
Now Paige must face off with a hard-nosed detective determined to stick a murder charge to a fed. But with the trained eyes of the FBI on the case, it’s becoming more and more obvious that the evidence lends itself to a serial killing, not an isolated incident. And as long as the local authorities are focused on Paige, the real murderer is still out there, possibly waiting to strike again…
But Paige didn’t go to Valencia to kill anyone. She had set out on “vacation”—her new lover in tow—only to confront the man who raped her friend twenty-some years ago. While the hands of the law are tied, she wants him to face the fact that he destroyed a young woman’s life and know that, as an FBI agent, she’ll be watching his every move. Yet, instead of accomplishing her goal, she wound up in the back of a police cruiser.
Now Paige must face off with a hard-nosed detective determined to stick a murder charge to a fed. But with the trained eyes of the FBI on the case, it’s becoming more and more obvious that the evidence lends itself to a serial killing, not an isolated incident. And as long as the local authorities are focused on Paige, the real murderer is still out there, possibly waiting to strike again…
Available in e-book, paperback, hardcover.Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Apple iBooks | Kobo | Google PlayFor more retailer links visit: http://carolynarnold.net/Violated.
About the Brandon Fisher FBI series:Profilers. Serial killers. The hunt is on. Do serial killers and the FBI fascinate you? Do you like getting inside the minds of killers, love being creeped out, sleeping with your eyes open, and feeling like you’re involved in murder investigations? Then join FBI agent and profiler Brandon Fisher and his team with the Behavioral Analysis Unit in their hunt for serial killers.
This is the perfect book series for fans of Criminal Minds, NCIS, Silence of the Lambs, Seven, Dexter, Luther, and True Crime.
This is the perfect book series for fans of Criminal Minds, NCIS, Silence of the Lambs, Seven, Dexter, Luther, and True Crime.
About the AuthorCarolyn Arnold is an international bestselling and award-winning author, as well as a speaker, teacher, and inspirational mentor. She has four continuing fiction series and has written nearly thirty books. Both her female detective and FBI profiler series have been praised by those in law enforcement as being accurate and entertaining, leading her to adopt the trademark, POLICE PROCEDURALS RESPECTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT™.
And don’t forget to sign up for her newsletter for up-to-date information on release and special offers at http://carolynarnold.net/newsletters.
Sunday, July 16, 2017
Read The Deadlock series on Wattpad.
If you are on Wattpad, go check The Deadlock series. I've added some chapters for you! If you find yourself hooked, here's the buy link:
Gate Deadlock is still FREE so you get two books at the price for one!
Wednesday, July 12, 2017
TRAILER VIDEO: THE SWORDS OF AN ANGEL NA PARANORMAL FANTASY ROMANCE
For a notorious procrastinator like me, I've done pretty well!
I have sent out ARCs (if you want to receive your copy for an honest review fill in THIS FORM ), emailed my newsletter, I've made teasers, even made an inspirational playlist
Today I finished the video trailer. Watch and share, please!
Release date for THE SWORDS OF AN ANGEL is going to be August 15th.
CLICK HERE IF YOU WANT TO BE NOTIFIED ABOUT THE RELEASE
Blurb
Do miracles happen? Who decides who lives
and who dies? What toll does the salvation of a human life take on the
brave?
Madison is no ordinary girl. Her parents
were lost in a hurricane flood where she came very close to death herself. She
can’t remember anything about her life before that.
She is now an academy student at
Berksworth Hills where she has moved with her two friends, Blue and Megan, with
whom she shares a special bond.
Her life changes once more when she meets
the mysterious and brooding trainer, Jerome, an extraordinary creature with
peculiar nutritional habits. They are swept up in a passionate romance
that unveils the truth about almost everything and everyone around her, forcing
her to reconsider her whole life. Because once her true nature is revealed, Madison
will become Jerome’s mortal enemy.
In The Swords of an Angel, miracles do happen,
but there is always a reason.
Madison is no ordinary girl. Her parents were lost in a hurricane flood where she came very close to death herself. She can’t remember anything about her life before that.
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