I'm a sucker for a great cover. Sometimes I think I write just so Damonza and Liliana Sanches will make covers for me. Covers are a promise to the reader. They promise the quality of the tale inside the pages. Books need to live up to their covers and covers need to live up to their books. For this hop, I want to share with you some of my favorite covers. I've provided novel blurbs and Amazon links to these amazing promises tucked inside such beautiful images. Don't forget to enter the hop-wide giveaway below. The details for my giveaway are listed below.
London, 1861. Impoverished noble Cara has a simple mission after the strange death of her father - sell off his damned collection of priceless artifacts. Her plan goes awry when aristocratic beauties start dying of broken hearts, an eight inch long brass key hammered through their chests. A killer hunts amongst the nobility, searching for a regal beauty and an ancient Egyptian relic rumored to hold the key to immortality.
Her Majesty's Enforcers are in pursuit of the murderer and they see a connection between the gruesome deaths and Cara. So does she, somewhere in London her father hid Nefertiti's Heart, a fist sized diamond with strange mechanical workings. Adding further complication to her life, notorious crime lord, Viscount Nathaniel Lyons is relentless in his desire to lay his hands on Cara and the priceless artifact. If only she could figure out his motive.
Self-preservation fuels Cara's search for the gem. In a society where everyone wears a mask to hide their true intent, she needs to figure out who to trust, before she makes a fatal mistake.
Click to Amazon: The Grave Winner by Lindsay Loucks
While the town goes beehive over the news, Leigh bikes to the local cemetery and buries some of her mom's things in her grave to keep her there. When the hot and mysterious caretaker warns her not to give gifts to the dead, Leigh cranks up her punk music and keeps digging.
She should have listened.
Two dead sorceresses evicted the prom queen from her grave to bury someone who offered certain gifts. Bury them alive, that is, then resurrect them to create a trio of undead powerful enough to free the darkest sorceress ever from her prison inside the earth.
With help from the caretaker and the dead prom queen, Leigh must find out what's so special about the gifts she gave, and why the sorceresses are stalking her and her little sister. If she doesn't, she'll either lose another loved one or have to give the ultimate gift to the dead - herself.
Click to Amazon: The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon
West Hall, Vermont, has always been a town of strange disappearances
and old legends. The most mysterious is that of Sara Harrison Shea,
who, in 1908, was found dead in the field behind her house just months
after the tragic death of her daughter, Gertie. Now, in present day,
nineteen-year-old Ruthie lives in Sara's farmhouse with her mother,
Alice, and her younger sister, Fawn. Alice has always insisted that they
live off the grid, a decision that suddenly proves perilous when
Ruthie wakes up one morning to find that Alice has vanished without a
trace. Searching for clues, she is startled to find a copy of Sara
Harrison Shea's diary hidden beneath the floorboards of her mother's
bedroom. As Ruthie gets sucked deeper into the mystery of Sara's fate,
she discovers that she's not the only person who's desperately looking
for someone that they've lost. But she may be the only one who can stop
history from repeating itself.
I love all my covers but I was really excited about the cover for my forthcoming novel Lady Macbeth; Wyrd Queen of Scotland. This cover is by Liliana Sanches. The novel will be released later this summer:
Coming Soon!
Something wicked this way comes . . .
Gruoch is born to rule, but long before she becomes Lady
Macbeth, ancient forces claim her soul.
Marked by the old gods of Pagan Scotland, Gruoch learns
arcane wizardry from the Wyrd Sisters and meets her true love, a druid named
Banquo. But when powerful forces play with her fate, Gruoch finds herself
married to Macbeth and the reigning Queen of Scotland, for better or worse. Can
she fulfill her destiny without blood on her hands?
In this retelling of Shakespeare’s classic work, Lady Macbeth leads readers through an unforgettable tale of magic, love, and inescapable destiny.
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1) Meri B.
ReplyDelete2)I love, love, love the cover of S.L. Jennings' Fear of Falling! it's absolutely gorgeous! Also loved the cover of Cora Hawkes' Rocked under, but that could be just because I loved the book so much haha :) oh and Alexandra Adornetto's Halo is also incredibly gorgeous!
thank you for this fantastic giveaway! =)
Thanks for stopping by and for sharing your favorite covers, Meri! I'll check them out :)
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ReplyDeleteI love the covers of the London Steampunk series by Bec Mcmaster. They are so beautiful.
I love Bec's covers too, Steph! Thanks for stopping by and good luck!
DeleteI have signed up as Wanda Craighead. I really like Gena Showalter's cover for Black and Blue.
ReplyDeleteOohh, just took a look. That's lovely! Thanks for stopping in!
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ReplyDeleteThe cover for CLOUD ATLAS by David Mitchell is incredibly beautiful.
I like that one too, Mary! Best wishes in the giveaway
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ReplyDeleteRight now my favorite cover is Bound to the Fallen.
http://www.amazon.com/Bound-Fallen-Prophecy-Stevie-Cole-ebook/dp/B00I78HDFW/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1402156444&sr=1-1&keywords=bound+to+the+fallen
Those are really eye-catching, thanks for sharing, and good luck in the giveaway!
DeleteCongrats, Melissa, you are my winner!
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DeleteSigned up under evamillien at gmail dot com. There are so many great ones out there, that I don't really have a favorite.
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping in, Eva! May the odds be ever in your favor :)
DeleteI love the covers from Kristen Painter's House of Comarre series
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Oh, let the check that out! Thanks for entering :)
DeleteMy favorites are the covers of the Night Huntress series by Jeaniene Frost.
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That's a great cover! Thanks so much for entering!
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And some of my favorite covers are from Laurann Dohners New Species series
Very cool covers! Thank you for stopping by and for entering!
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ReplyDeleteMy favorite cover is These Broken Stars! Thanks for the giveaway!
I love that cover too!
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ReplyDeleteI don't have one favorite cover, but I do think the Steampunk genre tend to have the most striking, visually interesting and detailed covers.
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I'm partial to them myself ;)
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ReplyDeleteand I don't have a certain cover that I like more than other but I love eyecatching covers, with vibrant colors and lovely dresses
I like the big dress covers as well :)
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ReplyDeleteI'm not sure which cover is my favorite. There are so many that are awesome and eye catching! I really like the ones you posted too!
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ReplyDeleteMy favorite color is red (as it's the color of love). As a romance novel lover, I love to see book covers with shades of red in the background as well.
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It is very eye catching! Thanks for stopping by and good luck!
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