New Release + Review: Exploited by A. Meredith Walters – Zero Day Series – Book 1

Posted on 07/25/2017 by shellbellereads

Exploited

A Zero Day Romance – Book One

By A. Meredith Walters

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Synopsis

In this pulse-pounding novel from the bestselling author of Butterfly Dreams, a vigilante hacker plays a seductive game with the agent who’s chasing her online—and sharing her bed in real life.

At first glance, I’m nothing out of the ordinary. I am a daughter. A sister. A friend. When you look at me you won’t see anything that warrants suspicion. I don’t look like a criminal.

My name is Hannah Whalen, but most people know me as freed0mov3rdr1v3, or “Freedom Overdrive”—one of the world’s most prolific and notorious hacktivists. My goal—my purpose—is to shed light on the evil that lurks behind the corporate and government lies we have been force-fed for too long.

My story begins with the best possible intention. Devoting my life to exposing the corrupt. The dishonest. The unethical. For that, they label me a cyber-terrorist. Wanted by the FBI, I’ve always been one step ahead.

Until I fell in love.

Because I’m sleeping with the man who’s hunting me. And he has no idea that I am his prey. Now I have to decide what’s more important: my freedom or my heart.

Note: Exploited ends on a cliffhanger. Hannah’s story continues in Aftermath.

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Michel’s Review

Exploited by A. Meredith Walters is the debut book in the new Zero Day series. This new series has a fresh storyline which focuses on cyber crimes and the elite underworld of hackers. With the stroke of a key a person’s life can be ruined. Corporations can be bankrupted. Powerful secrets can be revealed. The almighty hacker has the power to destroy the world without a warning.

Freedom Overdrive… aka freed0mov3rdr1v3… has gained notoriety in the cyber world as the hacktivist exposing powerful corporations known for their corrupt misdeeds and control over the ordinary peoples lives. This cyber vigilante’s actions are untraceable and has eluded the FBI for years. Freedom Overdrive’s activities have waned in the past two years but suddenly resurfaced in a big way and once again gaining attention in the cyber world as well as the FBI.

Hannah Whelan is Freedom Overdrive. She’s on a mission to destroy those who have destroyed ordinary people and ordinary families. Her motivations are pure. She covers her tracks and is untraceable. On the surface she’s appears to be an ordinary person that no one really notices. She lives her life quietly, doesn’t socialize, doesn’t have friends or family relationships, and never allows anyone to become close with her. Her focus is revenge for her family. Her secret world behind the keyboard is expertly hidden and off the radar. When she steps outside her perfectly structured domain and teams up with another hacktivist, TOx1cwrath, it becomes the biggest mistake of life. Her perfectly structured world spirals out of control.

Hannah targeted FBI agent Mason Kohler to stay one step ahead of the FBI. What she didn’t count on was falling in love with Mason. She also underestimated his brilliance and dedication to his job. She also underestimated her shadow partner TOx1cwrath.

Between her relationship with Mason and her partnership with TOx1cwrath, her life is spiraling out of control. Her lies are catching up to her. Her over inflated ego is blinding her. Her new shadow partner has outsmarted her and is destroying her with her own weapon of choice, the keyboard. One stroke and Hannah is exposed. Mason knows who she is. Her shadow partner, TOx1cwrath, has set her up. Who is TOx1cwrath? Can she outsmart him and take him down before it’s too late. Can she let go of her love for Mason to save her skin or will she be ruined by her own inflated ego?

I found this book very intriguing. It had a different plot line that kept me turning the pages. A. Meredith Rogers did an excellent job portraying the cyber world without making it too overly complex for readers to follow. There were a few blips in the overall plot that left me scratching my head wondering what I missed because there wasn’t enough explanations. One was why she targeted Mason in the first place because at that point her endeavors were untraceable. The other thing that threw me off track was the build up of some of the potential characters who could possibly be TOx1cwrath. There just wasn’t enough background to understand the hostility or motivations. While Hannah was a different kind of book character I will say that she really wasn’t a nice person. She treated people with indifference or hostility. I had a hard time seeing the connection between her and Mason. The one thing that kept me intrigued and turning the pages was all the possibilities that haven’t been revealed at this point. My faith in A. Meredith Walter’s writing ability kept me invested in the story because she is known for creating complex characters and unpredictable plots. I want to see what comes next because I feel this book is only scratching the surface.

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Zero Day Series

Coming January 16, 2018

Aftermath – Book Two

Pre Order: Amazon

Synopsis

Can a thrilling love affair survive a scorched-earth cyber-war? The chase is online in the explosive conclusion to the Zero Day series from New York Times bestselling author A. Meredith Walters.

Spoiler alert! The following reveals crucial plot points from Exploited.

I thought I had been so careful. I had planned, plotted, played the role, always staying hidden from the man who was hunting me. But now Mason Kohler knows who I really am. The cat has found the mouse—the agent has found the hacker.

And the worst part is, he thinks our love story is a lie.

I fell for him from the beginning. That was always real. But it doesn’t matter now. Mason’s waging a war against his heart, and he’s determined to bring me down at all costs. So now I live in fear, all because I was betrayed by someone I foolishly chose to trust.

See, all that time I thought I was exposing corruption, I was unknowingly conspiring with the worst kind of evil. Now, to prove myself to Mason and save what we have, I have one last hope. One obsession. I must learn the identity of my true enemy—the anonymous individual known as Toxicwrath—before it’s too late.

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The New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Contemporary and Paranormal romance including The Find You in the Dark and Bad Rep series as well as the upcoming stand alone romance, Reclaiming the Sand, and a dark new adult series for Gallery Books.

A. Meredith spent ten years as a counselor for at risk teens and children. First working at a Domestic Violence/Sexual Assault program and then later a program for children with severe emotional and mental health issues. Her former clients and their stories continue to influence every aspect of her writing.

When not writing (or being tortured with all manner of beauty products at the hand of her very imaginative and extremely girly daughter), she is eating chocolate, watching reality television that could rot your brain and reading a smutty novel or two.

A. Meredith is represented by Michelle Johnson with the Inklings Literary Agency.

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Cover Reveal: One Day Soon by A. Meredith Walters

Posted on 01/08/2016 by shellbellereads

He found me in blood and tears.

I stayed with him through darkness and fire.

We loved each other in the moment between innocence and bitter truth.

We were the kids easily ignored, who grew into adults we hardly knew.

We weren’t meant to last forever. And we didn’t.

He ran away.

I tried to move on.

Yet I never stopped thinking about the boy who had fought to keep me alive in a world that would have swallowed me whole. He was the past that I buried, but never forgot.

Until the day I found him again, years after believing I had lost him forever.

And in cold, resentful eyes, I saw the heart of the man who had been everything when I had nothing at all. So I vowed to hold onto the second chance that was stolen from the children we had been.

Sometimes fate is ugly. Life can be twisted.

And who we are can be ruined by who we once were.

For two people who had survived so much, we would have to learn how to hold on before we were forced to let go.

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The New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Contemporary and Paranormal romance including The Find You in the Dark and Bad Rep series as well as the upcoming stand alone romance, Reclaiming the Sand, and a dark new adult series for Gallery Books.

A. Meredith is represented by Michelle Johnson with the Inklings Literary Agency.

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Release Blitz + Excerpt + 5 Star Review: Desperate Chances by A. Meredith Walters – Bad Rep Series – Book 4

Posted on 09/30/2015 by shellbellereads

Sex changes everything.

And love can turn into an enemy…

Mitch Abrams, the bassist for the popular rock band
Generation Rejects, has been in love with Gracie Cook for years. But Gracie, a
complicated girl with a lot of baggage, was too blind to see how she felt about
the man who had always stood by her.

Until one night of passion brought them closer than they had
ever been before.

Feeling off balance and out of control, Gracie does the only
thing a girl with self-destructive tendencies can do: end things with Mitch
before they can really begin.

So Mitch moves on. With his band, his friends, and a new
girlfriend.

Yet he can’t seem to forget about the girl who threw his
heart away.

Gracie, who is still struggling to build a life after
crashing to the bottom, finds it hard to forget about her one night with Mitch.
And even as she tries to convince herself it was only sex, her heart knows
differently.

But life is full of chances and desperate moments. And when
Mitch and Gracie are thrown back into each other’s lives, will they seize at
the opportunity to do things right?

Or will the rock star and the less than ordinary girl crash
and burn?

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Michel’s Review

It’s been a wonderful journey reading the Bad Rep series by A. Meredith Walters. Readers have embraced the band members of Generation Rejects. From the beginnings as a local hometown bar/ college band to professional recording artists. Along the way they have met some dynamic women, fallen in love, and found there is more to life than their music careers.

Desperate Chances is the final book in the Bad Rep series. Mitch Abrams and Gracie Cook are finally going to get their happily ever after. It has been a hard road and a lot of heartache. Gracie had problems with alcoholism and anorexia. She had to crash and burn before she could give her love. She had to learn to lover herself. The one person that always had her back was Mitch. His friendship was the only solid truth in her life. Shortly after she became clean and sober she slept with Mitch. The morning after she panicked because of all of her issues. She wasn’t ready to take their relationship to the next level. She hadn’t healed enough to love Mitch completely. She broke his heart into a million pieces.

Mitch was devastated by Gracie’s rejection. He finally moved on and became involved with someone else. Someone that would always be there for him. In his head it felt right but in his heart it felt wrong.

One year later Gracie has finally come to terms with herself and her past mistakes. Her biggest regret was losing Mitch. She misses their deep abiding friendship. She misses Mitch. She has realized that she has always been deeply in love with Mitch. Now it’s too late. He has someone else.

The heart wants what the heart wants. Both Gracie and Mitch are going to realize they were meant for each other. They will have to learn forgiveness and compassion towards one another. They will have to completely surrender their hearts and souls to one another. They will have to take desperate chances.

Desperate Chances is my favorite book in the series. Not only do Gracie and Mitch get their happily ever after, the other members of the band will get theirs too. This series comes full circle. They are all going to move on to the next phases in their lives. It’s been a great journey and their final show is a standing ovation.

BAD REP

PERFECT REGRET

SEDUCTIVE CHAOS

The New
York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Contemporary and Paranormal
romance including The Find You in the Dark and Bad Rep series as well as the
upcoming stand alone romance, Reclaiming the Sand, and a dark new adult series
for Gallery Books.

A.
Meredith spent ten years as a counselor for at risk teens and children. First
working at a Domestic Violence/Sexual Assault program and then later a program
for children with severe emotional and mental health issues. Her former clients
and their stories continue to influence every aspect of her writing.

When not
writing (or being tortured with all manner of beauty products at the hand of
her very imaginative and extremely girly daughter), she is eating chocolate,
watching reality television that could rot your brain and reading a smutty
novel or two.

A.
Meredith is represented by Michelle Johnson with the Inklings Literary Agency.

FACEBOOK GOODREADS AMAZON AUTHOR PAGE WEBSITE TWITTER

Happy Release + 5 Star Review: Follow Me Back by A. Meredith Walters – Twisted Love Series – Book 2

Posted on 06/03/2015 by shellbellereads

Follow Me Back

Twisted Love Series – Book 2

By A. Meredith Walters

Synopsis

The sequel to Lead Me Not, this dangerously sexy second installment in the Twisted Love series continues Aubrey and Maxx’s love story, from New York Times bestselling author A. Meredith Walters—who “writes the most beautifully flawed characters that still have you swooning” (Sawyer Bennett, USA TODAY bestselling author of the Off series).

Aubrey Duncan has loved…and lost. Should she follow a heart that’s betrayed her or a head that tells her to let go?

Maxx Demelo’s addiction almost destroyed him. It ruined his life and, most importantly, his relationship with the only girl he ever loved.

He has vowed to become the man Aubrey Duncan deserves. Even if he has to tear himself apart to do it. So he enters rehab, trying to fix the parts of him that are shattered as he longs to be healthy and whole.

Aubrey lost everything because she chose to listen to her heart. Now she has sworn to put herself first, to heal in the only way that she can…far away from Maxx and his demons.

But just as Aubrey is starting over, Maxx is released from rehab and thrust back into her world, determined to prove how much they still need each other. And the chaos that had defined them threatens to unleash once again…

But a heart, no matter how broken, is impossible to ignore.

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Michel’s Review

Follow Me Back by A. Meredith Walters is the sequel to Lead Me Not in the Twisted Love Series. It is the conclusion to Aubrey Duncan’s and Maxx Demelo’s tumultuous relationship. Their forbidden relationship was on a very destructive path that led to the ruin of both of them as individuals and as a couple. Follow Me Back is the aftermath and consequences from their helter skelter relationship.

Maxx Demelo is a drug addict. He has finally hit rock bottom. He overdosed and very nearly lost his life. Now he is dealing with the recourse of his addiction. He is also dealing with the loss of Aubrey and his relationship with his younger brother. He has destroyed everything good in his world. His overdose was a wake up call. He could not handle his life without the drugs. The drugs defined his art, his popularity, his persona, and his relationships. Now he is in rehab and facing the truth. He has not only destroyed himself but his loved ones as well. He sincerely wants to regain his life. He sincerely wants to end his addiction. He wants a relationship with his brother. He wants Aubrey’s love. It may be too late for all of it but he is going to do everything in his power to win them back. He is going to earn their trust and deserve their love.

After Maxx nearly died from the overdose Aubrey’s world crashed. The university found out about her secret relationship with Maxx. She has been dismissed as a councelor from the support group on campus. She has been put on academic probation and withdrawn from the counselling program. Her academic career is in the toilet. She is going to have to jump through hoops to regain her place in the program once again. One of the conditions to regaining that position is that she cannot have anything to do with Maxx Demelo. She cannot have anything to do with any of the members of the group. Like Maxx, Aubrey feels the loss. She loved Maxx with all her heart. She was devastated when she found out that not only was he using again, he was an addict. She almost died inside right along with Maxx when he overdosed. Now she has to pull herself together and move on in life in a positive and constructive manner. She has to hold onto her anger for Maxx otherwise she is going to end up right where she started.

Maxx is going to do everything in his power to get Aubrey back in his life. This time he is going to do it the right way for her and himself. He is going to prove that he is not a lost cause and that he can be the man she needs.

Maxx will struggle with his addiction. He will have to face the harsh realities of life. He will have temptation thrown in his path at every turn. He will have to be strong when the chips are down. He will find it harder and harder. In the end it will be up to him how his life unfolds.

Aubrey tried to resist Maxx but when she sees that he is really working on staying clean and sober it changes things. She allows herself to interact with Maxx. She allows herself to once again fall in love with him. The one thing she struggles with is her trust. She doesn’t know if she can ever trust him again. She is also facing some truths in her own life. She is facing her sister’s death, her bad relationship with her parents, and her own personal goals in life.

Together Aubrey and Maxx will struggle to rebuild their lives. In the end they will find out things about themselves, their relationship, and their path to happiness. Life isn’t easy. Life is a challenge. What is important is how you face those challenges.

A. Meredith Walters did an amazing job writing this sequel. She did not sugar coat the realities of being a drug addict or co dependent. She allowed these characters to experience the pain, the hardship, and the realities in their lives. She also allowed these characters to grow as individuals and become stronger better people. She allowed them to face the truths and build a new life without ever forgetting their old lives.

I highly recommend the Twisted Love series by A. Meredith Walters. It is a reading experience that will touch the reader.

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The Twisted Love Series

Lead Me Not – Book 1

In this dangerously sexy novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Find You in the Dark, a straight-laced college student meets a handsome but enigmatic stranger who lures her into an underground club scene, where she finds it difficult to resist temptation…

Aubrey Duncan understands loss. She knows what rock bottom looks like, and she is determined to crawl back up to the top after the sudden death of her younger sister. She blames herself for her part in the tragedy, convinced that she could have done something, anything, to help her.

In her effort to gain redemption, Aubrey starts fresh at Longwood University and facilitates an addiction support group, hoping she can support someone else in the way she failed her sister. But what she doesn’t count on is an all-consuming fascination with group member Maxx Demelo, a gorgeous, blond, blue-eyed enigma who hides dark secrets behind a carefully constructed mask. He only reveals what he wants others to see. But Aubrey glimpses another Maxx hidden below the surface—a Maxx who is drowning in his own personal hell.

As Aubrey and Maxx develop an attraction too intense to ignore, he pulls her into the dark underbelly of the city club scene, where she is torn by her desire to save him and an inexplicable urge to join him in his downward spiral. Worst of all, she is beginning to love everything she should run away from—a man who threatens to ignite in her a fire that could burn her alive…

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Follow Me Back – Book 2

Aubrey Duncan has loved…and lost. Should she follow a heart that’s betrayed her or a head that tells her to let go?

Maxx Demelo’s addiction almost destroyed him. It ruined his life and, most importantly, his relationship with the only girl he ever loved.

Aubrey lost everything because she chose to listen to her heart. Now she has sworn to put herself first, to heal in the only way that she can…far away from Maxx and his demons.

But a heart, no matter how broken, is impossible to ignore.

Buy: Amazon / B & N / ITunes / Kobo

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Author Bio

A. Meredith spent ten years as a counselor for at risk teens and children. First
working at a Domestic Violence/Sexual Assault program and then later a program
for children with severe emotional and mental health issues. Her former clients
and their stories continue to influence every aspect of her writing.

A. Meredith is represented by Michelle Johnson with the Inklings Literary Agency.

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Happy Release : Chasing The Tide by A. Meredith Walters – Reclaiming The Sand Series – Book 2

Posted on 12/16/2014 by shellbellereads

***The powerful continuation of the story that began in Reclaiming the Sand- a tale of love and forgiveness and learning to over come a past that has come to define you.***

Bully and Victim

Friend and Lover

Past and Future

Ellie McCallum and Flynn Hendrick’s story was as painful as it was devastating. But they were able to find within each other an unlikely yet beautiful love. Despite the obstacles that tried to keep them apart.

And together they rose out of the ashes of their tragic history.

Now years after their life changing reunion Ellie is back in Wellston, having just graduated from college and ready to start her future with the man who taught her how to love. However, returning to a town that held so much bitterness and anger was the last place she wanted to start over.

But for Flynn, who is now an art professor at the community college and firmly rooted in the place that gave them their beginning, she’d do just about anything.

Yet it’s difficult building a life when you’ve only just learned how to live.

And love, no matter how strong, doesn’t always conquer all.

Ellie and Flynn must learn how far they are willing to go to stay together. Or whether the ghosts of the past will consume them both.

Because finding a happily ever after is harder than it seems. Particularly when you’re fighting against the one thing that could destroy you.

Yourself.

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From the New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author of Find You in the Dark and Bad
Rep comes a story of forgiveness, redemption and finding love in the most
unlikely of places.

*THIS IS A STANDALONE WITH NO CLIFFHANGER!*

Bully and victim.

Tormenter and tormented.

Villain and hero.

Ellie McCallum was a bully. No connection to anyone or anything. A sad and lonely
existence for a young woman who had come to expect nothing more for herself.
Her only happiness coming from making others miserable.

Particularly Freaky Flynn.

Flynn Hendrick lived a life completely disconnected even as he struggled to become
something more than that boy with Asperger’s. He was taunted and teased,
bearing the brunt of systematic and calculated cruelty, ultimately culminating
in a catastrophic turn of events that brought Ellie and Flynn’s worlds crashing
down.

But then Flynn and Ellie grew up.

And moved on.

Until years later when their paths unexpectedly cross again and the bully and the
freak are face to face once more.

When labels come to define you, finding yourself feels impossible. Particularly for
two people disconnected from the world who inexplicably find a connection in
each other.

And out of the wreckage of their tragic beginnings, an unlikely love story unfolds.

But a painful past doesn’t always want to let go. And old wounds are never truly
healed…and sometimes the further you try to run from yourself the closer you
come to who you really are.

Author Bio

A. Meredith spent ten years as a counselor for at risk teens and children. First
working at a Domestic Violence/Sexual Assault program and then later a program
for children with severe emotional and mental health issues. Her former clients
and their stories continue to influence every aspect of her writing.

A. Meredith is represented by Michelle Johnson with the Inklings Literary Agency.

FACEBOOK GOODREADS AMAZON AUTHOR PAGE WEBSITE TWITTER

Cover Reveal: Chasing The Tide by A. Meredith Walters

Posted on 09/18/2014 by shellbellereads

RELEASE DATE: DECEMBER 16 2014

***The
powerful continuation of the story that began in Reclaiming the Sand- a tale of
love and forgiveness and learning to over come a past that has come to define
you.***

Bully and
Victim

Friend
and Lover

Past and
Future

Ellie
McCallum and Flynn Hendrick’s story was as painful as it was devastating. But they were able to find within each other
an unlikely yet beautiful love. Despite the obstacles that tried to keep them
apart.

And
together they rose out of the ashes of their tragic history.

Now years
after their life changing reunion Ellie is back in Wellston, having just
graduated from college and ready to start her future with the man who taught
her how to love. However, returning to a town that held so much bitterness and
anger was the last place she wanted to start over.

But for
Flynn, who is now an art professor at the community college and firmly rooted
in the place that gave them their beginning, she’d do just about anything.

Yet it’s
difficult building a life when you’ve only just learned how to live.

And love, no matter how strong, doesn’t always
conquer all.

Ellie and Flynn must learn how far they are
willing to go to stay together. Or whether the ghosts of the past will consume
them both.

Because
finding a happily ever after is harder than it seems. Particularly when you’re
fighting against the one thing that could destroy you.

Yourself.

From the
New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author of Find You in the Dark and Bad
Rep comes a story of forgiveness, redemption and finding love in the most
unlikely of places.

*THIS IS
A STANDALONE WITH NO CLIFFHANGER!*

Bully and
victim.

Tormenter
and tormented.

Villain
and hero.

Ellie
McCallum was a bully. No connection to anyone or anything. A sad and lonely
existence for a young woman who had come to expect nothing more for herself.
Her only happiness coming from making others miserable.

Particularly
Freaky Flynn.

Flynn
Hendrick lived a life completely disconnected even as he struggled to become
something more than that boy with Asperger’s. He was taunted and teased,
bearing the brunt of systematic and calculated cruelty, ultimately culminating
in a catastrophic turn of events that brought Ellie and Flynn’s worlds crashing
down.

But then
Flynn and Ellie grew up.

And moved
on.

Until
years later when their paths unexpectedly cross again and the bully and the
freak are face to face once more.

When
labels come to define you, finding yourself feels impossible. Particularly for
two people disconnected from the world who inexplicably find a connection in
each other.

And out
of the wreckage of their tragic beginnings, an unlikely love story unfolds.

But a
painful past doesn’t always want to let go. And old wounds are never truly
healed…and sometimes the further you try to run from yourself the closer you
come to who you really are.

AMAZON

B&N

The New
York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Contemporary and Paranormal
romance including The Find You in the Dark and Bad Rep series as well as the
upcoming stand alone romance, Reclaiming the Sand, and a dark new adult series
for Gallery Books.

A.
Meredith spent ten years as a counselor for at risk teens and children. First
working at a Domestic Violence/Sexual Assault program and then later a program
for children with severe emotional and mental health issues. Her former clients
and their stories continue to influence every aspect of her writing.

When not
writing (or being tortured with all manner of beauty products at the hand of
her very imaginative and extremely girly daughter), she is eating chocolate,
watching reality television that could rot your brain and reading a smutty
novel or two.

A.
Meredith is represented by Michelle Johnson with the Inklings Literary Agency.

Yourself.

Release Blitz: Lead Me Not by A. Meredith Walters

Posted on 08/05/2014 by shellbellereads

Lead Me Not

By A. Meredith Walters

Synopsis

In this dangerously sexy novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Find You in the Dark, a straight-laced college student meets a handsome but enigmatic stranger who lures her into an underground club scene, where she finds it difficult to resist temptation

Buy: Amazon / Barnes and Noble / ITunes

Author Bio

A. Meredith is represented by Michelle Johnson with the Inklings Literary Agency.

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Paperback Release Blast: Light in the Shadows by A. Meredith Walters

Posted on 07/15/2014 by Saucy Southern Readers

Synopsis

In the bestselling sequel to Find You in the Dark, A. Meredith Walters continues the emotional story of Maggie, Clay, and the power of unconditional love.

How do you keep going when you feel like your life is over?

Maggie never thought she’d see Clay again. So, she attempts to put her life back together after her heart has been shattered to pieces. Moving on and moving forward, just as Clay wanted her to. Clay never stopped thinking of Maggie. Even after ripping their lives apart and leaving her behind to get the help he so desperately needed. He is healing…slowly. But his heart still belongs to the girl who tried to save him.

When a sudden tragedy brings Maggie and Clay face-to-face again, nothing is the same. Yet some things never change. Can the darkness that threatened to consume them be transformed into something else and finally give them what they always wanted? And can two people who fought so hard to be together, finally find their happiness? Or will their demons and fear drive them apart for good?

The thing about love is that even when it destroys you, it has a way of mending what is broken. And in the shadows, you can still see the light.

EXCERPT

“I was very close to running out the side door and never looking back. Drive straight to the airport and jump on the first available flight out of fucking Virginia.

I had almost talked myself into it when I felt a stirring in the air. It was an intense humming that took my body completely by surprise. The hairs rose up on the back of my neck and I just knew.

She was here.

Maggie.

And just like that, the fuzzy black faded and way and everything clicked into place. My heart thudded into overdrive and my palms started to sweat, so I shoved them into the pockets of my slacks.

Of course she came. I knew she’d be here. And though I tried not to allow myself the hope of seeing her, I couldn’t deny that I had longed for it all the same.

And here she was, looking the same, only better. Her dark hair looked shorter and was pulled back in a low ponytail. She wore a black wool coat over a dark green dress. She looked beautiful and perfect and the embodiment of everything I had always craved.

She walked into the church, flanked by her parents. I barely noticed them or the fact that Rachel and Daniel followed close behind. My eyes were only for her. I knew I should go to Ruby. But I couldn’t make myself move. I stood there, rooted to the spot, not sure if I wanted Maggie to see me or not, even as I screamed at her in my head to look at me.

Please.

As much as I missed her and dreamed of this moment, I was scared of it. Too much had changed. Yet after I saw her, my heart and body reacted the same as they always had. She had been my crutch and now she was something else entirely, a painful reminder of all the ways I had screwed up. But watching my gorgeous girl move through the crowd of people, I only saw the person I had pinned my future on. And that was both exhilarating and terrifying.

About The Author

A. Meredith is represented by Michelle Johnson with the Inklings Literary Agency.

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Seductive Chaos by A. Meredith Walters Blog Tour + Review

Posted on 05/13/2014 by Saucy Southern Readers

Synopsis

Cole Brandt was the self-centered and philandering lead singer for Generation Rejects

Vivian Baily was a flaky, attention seeking drama queen.

Apart they were challenging…together they were complete and total chaos.

Cole and Vivian were two people who should never have been together.

Yet they crashed into each other at every turn.

Their relationship was anything but stable. But it was passionate. It was messy. It was hopelessly seductive. And it might possibly drive them both insane.

They fought. They made up. They screamed. They made love.

They hated and they loved in equal measure.

And now that Generation Rejects are starting to hit it big and the band is on the road, temptation and massive egos could very well spell the end of their roller coaster.

If only they could stay away from each other.

But Vivian has finally reached her breaking point. Tired of their endless cycle, she is ready to say goodbye to Cole for good.

Yet Cole isn’t one to go away quietly. Particularly when he is starting to realize exactly what he stands to lose if Vivian walks away.

As his world begins to turn upside down, Cole realizes that the one person who can hold him together is the girl who may no longer want him.

Love can be a comedy of errors, particularly for two people who never seem to get the timing right.

And In the crazy world of rock and roll, the hardest lessons to learn just might be the ones with the sweetest rewards

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“I tilted my face under the warm spray and leaned back as he wrapped his arms around me. He gently kissed between my shoulder blades and ran his nose upwards to the base of my skull.

“I missed you,” he murmured into my skin.

Just when I was okay with resigning myself to what we were, to being just fine with the lack of real emotional connection, Cole had to go and do things like that.

He peppered me with soft kisses, hugging me tightly.

“I really love you being here when I wake up. I wish you could be here every morning.” I could feel him smiling against my back and I wanted to bash his head in.

He really needed to shut the hell up.

Emo mushy crap was taking things too far. I didn’t need to engage my heart in this already sticky situation.

But this was Cole. He could be this amazing, beautiful person when he wanted to be. In the aftermath of sex he said things that sent me reeling. And I couldn’t help but allow my mind to wander to possibilities.

I hated him for it.

“You smell and taste unbelievable. There needs to be an AA program for this. Vivian Anonymous. Sign me up because I can’t get enough of touching you.” Cole ran his tongue along my wet skin and I couldn’t help but moan.

“Stay with me another night. Please,” he begged.

I wanted to give in. God, did I want to. When he was like this it was hard to deny him anything. But I couldn’t pretend that what we had was something else. That the two of us were ever destined for more than a temporary physical relationship.

If I started thinking like that, I was setting myself up for a hell of a fall. And I wasn’t sure I’d survive the impact.

Cole was an egotistical manwhore. That was what I needed to remember right now. If I didn’t stay, he’d have someone else ready and willing to take my place.

He may ask me to stay but he’d be just fine if I didn’t. Our hearts were not involved here.

I snorted inelegantly. “What would all the groupies say if I was here again tonight? I don’t want to cramp your style,” I scoffed, leaning my head back on his shoulder.

Cole’s hands came up to cup my breasts, kneading and rubbing in a way that made me weak in the knees. He played my body against me each and every time.

“Why do you have to say stuff like that, Viv? You know when you’re around, there’s no one else. I don’t want anyone but you,” he admonished, his teeth scraping along the side of my neck, making me shiver, despite the warmth of the shower.”

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Tracey’s Review

4 Stars

Cole Brandt is the hot sexy lead singer of Generation Rejects. Vivian Baily is a fan, and then some. Separately, they’re the center of attention. Together, they are chaos.

Cole and Vivian have a history; to say that it is complicated is an understatement. Cole is the front man for up and coming band Generation Rejects. He is the epitome of the bad boy rocker, singing hard and partying harder, with women lining up to be with him. Vivian Baily has been there with Cole since the beginning, and is more than a little tired of competing with all of his ‘conquests.’ She and Cole are combustible, both in bed and out. But the drama is getting old, and she’s finally over Cole and their crazy relationship. Cole finds himself missing Viv, and in more than a physical sense. Life on the road is getting crazy, and relationships are tested, with the future of all that he’s worked for hanging in the balance.

‘Seductive Chaos’ is a light and entertaining read. The characters are a little young for me, but it was still easy to relate to the issues that they were dealing with. In typical NA fashion, they were so busy denying what they felt that they kept getting in their own ways, and there were times that I just wanted to grab both Viv and Cole and shake some sense into them. At the same time, I found myself laughing out loud at their antics, and I mean literally laughing out loud (earning head shakes from the husband). Any book that causes this reaction is a good solid read for me, and one that I have no trouble recommending. And because I enjoyed ‘Seductive Chaos,’ I’m looking forward to checking out ‘Bad Rep’ and ‘Perfect Regret,’ the other two books in the ‘Bad Rep’ series.

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A. Meredith is represented by Michelle Johnson with the Inklings Literary Agency.

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