Release day!!!

January 21

It's been an emotional day today. My birthday, growing older sucks by the way, I don't recommend it, and the release of my first book A Reason To Breathe. Jack has been in my head for 15 years, sitting, festering, needing to come out. I'm thrilled so many of you loved Jack and Jenn. And I'm honored you took a chance on this unknown author. Jenn is the type of woman I would have loved to have been, feisty, sure of herself and takes no crap from anyone. Jack...well Jack is a man I dreamed up after reading a novel years and years ago. There was a sheriff, I remember that much, but the idea of being a heroine in a romance novel stuck with me and took hold. I told myself all those years ago, "If something happened to my hubby, I would move my kids to Colorado and look for a small town sheriff" (I was in my twenties so don't hold that against me) don't we all read books and wish we were the heroin? So, from there Jack grew in my head. Feels good to finally get him out..... And now you know my secret Just don't tell my husband. Thank you to everyone for you support and birthday wish's. next to my children being born and marrying my husband, my own hero, this has been the best day in my life!!! Love you all...♥♥♥

Review By A is for Alpha B is for Books: Book Blog for A Reason To Breathe

Synopsis 

Love at first sight was never so dangerous.

Jack Gunnison has a problem, well, two actually, one is 5'5" and the other is a Killer.

Jennifer Stewart needs a change after losing her husband and, sending her daughter off to college. 

Moving to the high country of Colorado to restart her life and, follow her dreams, Jenn gets more than she bargained for when she attracts the eye of a killer.

Together, Jack and Jenn must figure out his identity, before he strikes again.

**Mature readers only due to erotic content and language.**

My Review

Alright all you book lovers out there…get ready. Everyone talks about the fighters, the bad boys, the firemen and the Billionaire CEO’s… Well step aside all you book boyfriends, there is a new Sheriff in town…literally. He’s hot, he’s sexy, he’s controlling, and he may be the Sheriff but to Jenn…he’s Just Jack. 

~~~~~~~~I FREAKING LOVE JACK! ~~~~~~~~

I mean seriously, have you ever read a book that made your face hurt. Well this will do it for you. My face hurt for hours from all the smiling and laughing I did while reading A Reason To Breathe. I couldn’t read it fast enough and yet I wanted to go back and reread what I just read. It’s that crazy good. 

Jenn, a widower and mother of a teenager girl who just went off to college decides it time to live her life for herself. She decides to follow a life long dream and move up into the mountains of Colorado to “live with the bears” as she says. She is a journalist and on the search for a story that will land her the job she really wants instead of writing about the latest bake sale. Jenn has a 20 year old daughter Bailey and I absolutely love the relationship they have. It reminds me a lot of my relationship with my mom. Bailey is awesome. I love her attitude and fierceness…she’s a lot like her mom and they are more like best friends. 

Jack is the Sheriff…Hott damn. Yes, realize I spelled "hot" wrong but with Jack…he deserves the capital "H" and extra “t”. That fine piece of male is all Man and all Alpha. I so could not get enough of Jack. He’s known as sort of a man whore. It’s not that he doesn’t want commitment it’s just that he hasn’t’ found that someone who is willing to deal with his crazy schedule and love him for who he is instead of trying to change him. 

“Share? I’m not sure I’m ready for any type of relationship, Jack.”

“Babe, You may not be ready, but that’s not going to stop me from changing your mind.”

Gunnison County has a serial killer on its hands and being the Sheriff that puts Jack right in the middle…and being a reporter…that has Jenn always on the trail for new information. Jack can’t stand reporters but the sexy brunette with big brown doe eyes has him reeling. What is it about her that makes him so crazy he can’t decide whether he wants to stick her in lockup or rip every piece of clothing off of her? 

“Oh God, Jack, what are you doing to me?”

“Making you burn for me.”

 This book is beyond 5 stars. It’s so Fan-Freaking-Tastic that you will be left with the biggest book hanger known to man. I finished this book a half hour ago and still have a silly grin on my face that I’m sure won’t be going away anytime soon. 

“Ride my hand, baby, feel the burn and scream my fucking name,” he ordered in a voice that could only be described as sexual possession.”

To say this book is hot is an understatement. Jenn if feisty and speaks her mind. She is independent and after living the past twenty years to please her family she isn’t about to let someone boss her around. She moved to Colorado to follow her dream, for independence and to live her life how she wants. Jack, well jack gets his way…ALWAYS! He’s not used to people, especially women, not listening to him. Women are always falling at his feet to do what he wants. He’s not used to being told no. Well, Jenn is about to change that. His bossiness may leave her with her temperature rising but she isn’t about to let him tell her what to do. 

“I can’t get you out of my mind,” he growled.

“Jack.”

“I’m dreaming about you, your legs wrapped around my back while I pound into you.” 

“Oh, God.” 

“You’re wet in my dreams, dripping for me, I need to feel that slick heat suck me in, and clamp tight around my cock.” 

“Please, Jack, fuck me,” I begged 

“I’m not gonna fuck you, I’m gonna devour you till you scream my name.” 

Jack and Jenn are so amazing and fun to read. Their relationship is full of pushes and pulls and will leave you giddy for more. They are like a drug you won’t be able to get enough of (hence the book hangover you are going to have after reading A Reason to Breathe).

“I’m going to possess you, every fucking inch.” Breathing fast, I nodded and begged, “Please.”

“I need to taste you and make you scream,” Jack growled at my ear and then moved my panties and ripped them off my body.

Despite having a serial killer on the loose this book is so funny. I couldn’t stop laughing. It’s a natural kind of funny which is my favorite. It’s filled with witty banter and playfulness. I absolutely loved it. 

This is most definitely a reread book for me. There is no way one dose of Jack and Jenn will be enough. This may be a debut novel for C.P. Smith but honestly, it’s so good you would never imagine this is her first book. The writing is fantastic, the storyline is invigorating, and the Alpha-ness in this book is out of this freaking universe. The sex scenes are smokin’ but not overdone.

Thank You C.P. Smith for your awesomeness and Please…Please…continue writing such amazing stories like this. You have created a huge fan in me, and I can’t wait for more.

★★☆ 5 Megawatt Brilliant Stars ☆★★

Reviewed by Alissa Evanson

Publishing date has been set!

Jack and Jenn are in the hands of an awesome Beta...I've set the publish date for January 21st...my Birthday. Can't wait to share their story. 

Jack stood from his chair and grabbed me by the elbow as I tried to leave, and swung me around. His jaw was tight, and he looked pissed. He didn’t speak; his eyes were focused, like he was thinking something through, then without warning, he grabbed my face and kissed me. Sucking in my breath as his mouth connected with mine, I breathed in his scent of mint and coffee. I resisted as first; something about the kiss felt like he was trying to kiss me into submission. But there was only so much my body and mind could take of this man, so I melted after a moment and Jack felt it, and responded. He shoved one hand in my hair and jerked my head to the side, so the angle for the kiss got deeper. His other hand slid down my back and grabbed my ass, squeezing once, then pulling me into his hips. I gasped as my front met the evidence of his attraction, and damn if I didn’t, without even thinking, rub myself up and down that man slightly. He moaned in my mouth as my hips met his and then deepened the kiss. Even his tongue battled for dominance, and I found I was inclined to let him win. Slowly the kiss ended, and Jack moved from my lips to my neck, nipping and kissing his way to my ear.
“Jesus, what are you doing to me?” He whispered.
“Nothing,” I gasped, when his tongue circled my ear.
“Baby, if that’s nothing, you’re gonna kill me when it means something.” ~A Reason To Breathe

Coming in the Fall 2014

 Slo Ride

            It’s a real jolt to your ego when you get up one day and realize you’re not young, and not really old, think like you’re thirty and act like you’re thirty. Then one day you go to a bar, thinking you look good, see a hot guy sitting there, toss what you think is a flirty grin, only to find out it’s not cause you’re not thirty…. you’re fucking fifty…and he’s not fifty… he’s thirty, and he’s wondering why his mother is flirting with him? Cleary I wasn’t flirting with my son, but you get the picture. I need someone to explain where my youth went?

             Scratch that, I know where it went; car pools, soccer games, homework assignments, and late nights waiting for your so-called husband, to get home from the office. Or more to the point, waiting for him to get home from fucking his most recent thirty something bimbo with the fake boobs, that never sag, cause she didn’t bother to get married and have kids, stretching her once hard body into a chubby mass of stretch marks that will never, I mean EVER fit a size 8 again…or 10 or oh, god, even a 12.

 I sacrificed my body for the greater good…. my beautiful, wonderful, drive me to the brink of drinking, kids. I wouldn’t change a thing about them…but I’d seriously have to consider a surrogate if I’d known then, what I know now. Unlike a rubber band, our bodies do not snap back once you push those round, pink, bundles of joy out. Considering 80% of the female population went the same route as me, stretching their bodies out for the greater good, and their loving, cheating husbands…I was not alone in this.

But I was alone in life. I was fifty, starting over, and to put the icing on the “over the hill” cake, I color my hair every six weeks to hide the gray. Jesus, when did I become my mother?    

 Kids raised, no grandchildren yet, thank god. Nothing says your youth is over like being called Nana or Grammy or god forbid, Grandma…. Don’t get me wrong, I’ll love my grandkids when I have them, I’m just not settled enough in my realization of being old…or older, to jump for joy at being a grandmother.

A Reason To Breathe Cover Reveal

Cover Reveal

Jack and Jenn are having fun torturing me daily with their banter and bossy ways.I'm aiming for the first few weeks of the year, release date, end of January at the latest. Thank you again for all your support. I absolutely couldn't have made it this far without you all. Wishing you and yours a very Happy Thanksgiving. Safe travels my friends, I love you all!

Here we go!!!

     Excited to announce that Jack and Jenn's story is complete and being edited and tweaked. The process of getting a work of fiction to the point of being ready to publish, is way harder than writing and coming up with the story! All of this is an exciting experience for me.

     Thank you all for your support and ideas while writing this story, and of course the encouragement you gave me to do so. Best writing team on the internet. Love you all and look forward to sharing any success this book might have with you.