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I step into his personal space and lift my hands to his shoulder blades. I press my palms to his muscular back. His head falls forward and his chest fully inflates as he draws in a deep breath. It’s the reassuring sign that I need from him. My tongue darts from my mouth and makes a pass over my lips. I lean forward and drop one chaste kiss in the middle of his back.
“Baby, please,” I croon. “Talk to me!”
He whirls around to face me, taking me by surprise. “What do you want from me?!”
“I-I just want you to talk to me. I want to make sure we’re on the same page as far as we are concerned,” I sputter out, looking to him for the words I need to hear.
“Josephine, we aren’t on the same page. Actually, I don’t even think we’re in the same book.” The way he says it is exhaustive, like I’m irritating him or something. It cuts me like a white-hot knife. “I’m not myself; I’m out of control and I don’t know how to come back.” He runs those big hands through his disheveled hair and the expression on his handsome face is one of hopelessness. I know the look well.
I step closer to him and reach for his hand. “Before you walked into my life, I felt the floor crumbling beneath my feet. Then you showed up and I had something to hold onto. Let me do the same for you. At least let me try. Please.”

Restore Me by J.L. Mac
Published: April 29th, 2013
Reading Level: New Adult/Adult
eBook edition: 137 pages
Series: Wrecked, #2
Navigating the world alone is all Josephine Geroux has ever known. Life altering tragedy struck early on for her. She endured an admirable struggle through her youth and learned the hard way how to adapt and survive. She managed to arrive at adulthood in one piece in spite of it all.

After such chaos, maintaining a life free of complications is a priority for her.
Everything changed when a man with amber eyes came through her door and claimed her heart. She fell hard in more ways than one. The pull between Jo and Damon seemed like fate bringing things full circle.

With another devastating loss looming, Jo fights to hold on to the very thing that brought her to her knees. She finds herself torn between a promising future and clinging to a devastating past.
But that’s not the most worrisome problem on her hands.

She must convince more than just herself to let the past stay in the past, where it belongs, but on her journey to find closure and resolution, she does the exact opposite. An old wound caused by a heinous act becomes exposed for what it is. The truth is catastrophic and Jo is helpless, watching as the ruins of her fragile world endure more turmoil.

Can something conceived from tragedy and malice end well? Can something so completely poisoned conquer adversity? Jo is left to make a decision; accept the circumstances she finds herself in or fight with unwavering ferocity to restore what has been damaged.
*Restore Me is the second book in the Wrecked series*
Bio:
USA Today Best Selling Author,J.L. Mac is twenty-six years old and currently resides in El Paso, Texas, where she enjoys living near her family. She was born and raised in Galveston, Texas, until

she married her husband in July of 2005. She has two young children and is married to a soldier in the United States Army. J.L. and her family have lived all over the United States and have enjoyed each new experience in each new place. J.L. admittedly has had a long and sordid love affair with the written word and has loved every minute of it. She drinks too many glasses of wine on occasion,and says way too many swear words to be considered “lady-like.” J.L. spends her free time reading, writing, and playing with her children.

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This year we have 23 authors that I'll be featuring over 7 days and each day you'll have a chance to enter to win! There's also a scavenger hunt going on, so be sure to check out The Crossroads Tour Post to see what questions will be asked, what blog you'll be able to find the answer on and enter to win!
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1. Can you tell us a little about the Ophi line from your Touch of Death series?

The Ophi are descendents of Medusa and they are all born under the 13th sign of the zodiac, Ophiuchus. Medusa’s blood had both the power to restore life and the power to kill, so each of the Ophi in the Touch of Death series has those abilities as well. Their blood, sweat, and tears are poisonous to humans, which means they can’t be around humans without posing a danger to them. The Ophi are also feuding with Hades, the god of the underworld, because the Ophi raise the dead. So life’s not easy if you’re an Ophi.

2. There is a bit of a love triangle in Stalked by Death. Can you share with us what makes Alex and Chase different?

Alex and Chase couldn’t be more different. Other than being Ophi and both being hot, the only thing they have in common is their interest in Jodi. Though even that is different. Alex truly cares about Jodi, while Chase has other motives. (No spoilers.) Alex is what I’d call a good Ophi. He doesn’t abuse his powers, and he trains hard to learn how to use them. Chase abuses his powers every chance he gets. He’s constantly pushing his abilities to the limit and trying to make Jodi do the same. Both guys can offer Jodi something she wants, while costing her something in return.

1. The Legacy series deals with a lot of magic. What magical spell would you want to try out and would you be a good witch or a bad witch?

ANSWER: I would most definitely be a good witch. I believe that the purpose of magic is to improve the lot of living beings. That being said, the spell I wish I could do is from SEDUCTION, the third—and not yet published—book of the series, in which Katy uses magic to wash dishes after a dinner for twenty. It wouldn’t improve the lot of living beings, but it’d surely come in handy!

2. Can you tell us a little about the boarding school life Katy has to deal with in your books?

ANSWER: Boarding school kids are generally sophisticated beyond their years, so there are cliques and intrigues everywhere. I’ve tried to simplify these demarcations into two main groups: the Muffies, who are rich, spoiled, and used to getting their own way, and the witches, or townies, who have magical powers that they’ve learned to keep secret. There’s always tension when the two groups come together.

1. Can you tell us a little about the main characters in Call Me Grim?

Libbi Piper is a high school junior, an aspiring artist, and not the greatest student. She’s snarky and stubborn, but full of heart and humor. In Call Me Grim, all of those qualities combine to get Libbi into a ton of trouble.

Aaron Shepherd is the local Grim Reaper. He’s handsome, mysterious, and looking for a replacement. He hopes Libbi will accept his offer to become the next Grim Reaper, but Libbi isn’t easy to convince.

2. What is your favorite line from the book?

“A chill runs through me and my teeth chatter together. Something strange is about to happen, more strange than a crazy guy miraculously predicting my death and saving my life. I can feel the strangeness seeping through the closed door.”

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The Biology of Scary by Chloe Jacobs I’m a huge fan of Halloween. I love everything scary, but for the longest time I couldn’t watch horror movies. It’s not that they were too scary. Just the opposite, in fact. Scary movies left me bored because the cinematography could never match up to the ambition of the storyline. It was always so obviously fake I was annoyed instead of scared, which feels like a rip-off when you’ve paid the money to go to the theatre and you want to come out of there on the adrenaline high from a really good scare. Granted, movies have gotten better as the ability to make them look and sound more real advances, but what really gets me is a good scary book!
But what makes a story really scary, w hether it be a movie or a book? Of course, the answers can be found in human psychology and our own biology. The hormonal storm that trips through you just before, during and after a frightfully fun moment is like nothing else. It covers everything from anticipation to anxiety to experiencing the fear and having the adrenaline rush, to coming down afterward. Fear and hilarity are very close to each other. The same neurotransmitter is being engaged. That’s why a lot of times when you’re startled you’ll find that the very next reaction is to laugh to release that tension.

It also explains why so many of us love to be scared by movies/books/costumes/haunted houses/etc: It’s an internal roller coaster ride that delivers a safe, but chemical surge of controlled danger. Your body can’t discern between the intentional thrill you ignite by, say, parachuting for sport and the anxiety that grips you if you stumble into true peril. The old “fight or flight” reaction is a major building block of our evolution. Development and civilization might have calmed everybody down but we began to feel restless, missing the excitement of living on the edge.

In an alarming situation, your adrenal glands (which sit atop your kidneys) dump the hormone epinephrine into your blood stream. That gush triggers a series of bodily reactions including a burst in heart rate and breathing. The very exciting experiences, the anxious experiences, and the sexually stimulating experiences are so close as to be difficult to differentiate just on a physiological level. So if you’re going bungee jumping or you’re having a panic attack, being scared out of your skin, or having the best orgasm of your life, biologically speaking, it’s almost identical.

After the initial burst of adrenaline lifts, the body unleashes a wave of hormones to restore heart and breathing rates, giving you that peaceful, relaxed after-glow. People get addicted to that feeling as much as they get addicted to the excitement.

Horror is an emotion. An extreme one. And while we might lie and say we have an aversion to real violence, why does everyone crane their heads to stare at the scene of a car accident on the side of the highway? Because on some level we are drawn to it, attracted to it.

The great thing is that horror can be about reality-based situations (ie. serial killers), or it can be supernatural in theme (werewolves or aliens). It can be soft, psychological, weird, graphic, etc. There’s no limit, especially in books, because the reader isn’t hampered by limited technology and cinematography.

What do you think about scary movies v. scary books? Which is better? Do you have a favourite?

Greta and the Goblin King by Chloe Jacobs Publisher: Entangled Pub ishing (November 13th, 2012) Reading Level: Young Adult Pa perback: 400 pages Series: Mylen a Chr onicles, #1 While trying to save her brother from the witch three years ago, Greta was thrown into the fire herself, falling through a portal to a dangerous world where humans are the enemy, and every ogre, goblin, and ghoul has a dark side that comes out with the full moon. To survive, 17-year-old Greta has hidden her humanity and taken the job of bounty hunter—and she’s good at what she does. So good, she’s caught the attention of Mylena’s young Goblin King, the darkly enticing Isaac, who invades her dreams and undermines her determination to escape. But Greta’s not the only one looking to get out of Mylena. The full moon is mere days away, and an ancient evil being knows she’s the key to opening the portal. If Greta fails, she and the boys she finds stranded in the woods will die. If she succeeds, no world will be safe from what follows her back..

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