Release Blitz + Review: Sacred Serenity by Audrey Carlan

Sacred Serenity (A Lotus House Novel)

by Audrey Carlan, #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling author

Genre: Erotic Romance

Release Date: 30^th August 2016

Synopsis:

Twenty-two-year-old Amber St. James’s focus is on her education. Her plan is clear―finish the elite San Francisco/Berkeley Medical School program early and become a pediatrician. She hasn’t given much thought to dating or to men in general, until she enrolls in the required human sexuality course…a subject foreign to her for religious and personal reasons.

Tantric yoga practitioner Dash Alexander is Lotus House Yoga’s most sought after sensual teacher. Women flock to him for his unique teaching style, calm nature, and wicked hot body. When he hears of Amber’s plight, he offers to help. The condition? Amber must assist in his couples’ Tantra yoga class as his partner. The sizzling attraction between the two of them is beyond anything Dash has ever experienced…spiritually or otherwise.

Through his teachings, Dash makes love to Amber’s mind and merges with her soul. Physically there’s only one problem, a secret that’s sacred. Amber St. James is a virgin…by choice.

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5Star

Tracey’s Review

Oh, my word. Just, this book. Audrey Carlan has worked her magic and won me over, and I’m not going back. In SACRED SERENITY, the second book in the Lotus House series, she has written a book that is close to my heart on so many levels.

Amber St. James’ firm faith dictates the way that she lives her life. It is the bedrock and measuring stick for everything that she undertakes. I love that Audrey manages to write Amber as a real woman with real conflict, and not as a mere caricature. SACRED SERENITY is a coming-of-age of sorts for Amber. Although she has found a way to marry her practice of yoga with her innate faith, participating in a tantric yoga class with the man that she has been crushing on for two years will have Amber examining every one of her deeply held convictions. And, I have to say, practicing tantra with Dash Alexander would likely be just the thing to have most women throwing beliefs and caution to the wind and diving right in. Just reading about the connection between the two of them as they led their class had this girl breaking out the fan and wiping my brow. Hot? Uh, yes. Spiritual? Yes, that, too.

SACRED SERENITY speaks to me, I think, because, besides the love story, Audrey is in no way demeaning any belief system, and does, in fact, celebrate the keeping of personal vows and also the opening up of oneself to allow the possibility for growth beyond expectations. Both Amber and Dash are changed by the connection between themselves, and it’s really quite a lovely thing to see.

This is my first Audrey Carlan read, but it will not be my last. I really want to go back and read RESISTING ROOTS (Book 1) and am very much looking forward to DIVINE DESIRE (Book 3), the other books in the Lotus House series. In the meantime, SACRED SERENITY is an easy 5-star read for me. It touched me on a personal level, and I’d happily recommend it as an addition to any TBR.

***ARC generously provided for an honest review.***

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Author Bio:

Audrey Carlan is a #1 New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author. She writes wicked hot love stories that are designed to give the reader a romantic experience that’s sexy, sweet, and so hot your e-reader might melt. Some of her works include the wildly successful Calendar Girl Serial, Falling Series, and the Trinity Trilogy.

She lives in the California Valley where she enjoys her two children and the love of her life. When she’s not writing, you can find her teaching yoga, sipping wine with her “soul sisters” or with her nose stuck in a wicked hot romance novel.