Release Blitz: STRAYS by Cora Brent

Title: STRAYS

Author: Cora Brent

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Release Date: January 27, 2021

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A man like me isn’t cut out to be a dad. 

And if this kid had another option I wouldn’t try to be one now. 

But for once I’m going to step up. 

I’ll right the worst of old wrongs. 

I’ll pretend this last name of mine is something decent instead of a legacy of hard-core criminals. 

I don’t know if I’ll ever be free of my sins. 

I do know it wouldn't be wise to get close enough to find out. 

Into this chaos walks Isabella Gentry. 

She was warned to keep her distance from me. 

I was the one who warned her. 

She’s beautiful. She’s headstrong. She’s spoiled as hell. 

And she’s my freaking roommate. 

Half of me wants to turn her world upside down in the cruelest way imaginable. 

The other half wants to worship the ground she walks on. 

This can go one of two ways. 

Either I’ll decide to be the worst version of myself. 

Or I’ll surrender the past in order to build a future. 

And maybe along the way I’ll prove something. 

That the guy everyone loves to hate might be redeemable yet...

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“What are you gonna do about it, Izzy? Throw your wine at me?” 

She does. She throws her wine in my face. Or at least she tries to. The flick of her wrist comes up short when I rear back and the wine splashes on the floor, leaving her standing there with a stupid empty glass and a puzzled expression. That should have worked, her pretty eyes say. Why is this jackass not covered in my wine backwash? 

There’s no effort required to pluck the glass out of her hand. I toss it in the sink, where it promptly shatters. 

“Hey,” she complains. “That was Waterford crystal, you dick.” 

I chuckle and close in, aware that I’m hard and getting harder. “That’s your whole problem, Isabella.” 

Her eyes flash. Her lips pout. In another second she’ll be stamping her bare foot. “What the hell are you talking about?” 

“This.” I run a hand low, over the shape of my cock. She can see the rigid outline through my shorts. I know she can. She sucks in a corner of her lower lip and jerks her head to force her eyes away. 

“You’re disgusting.” 

I chuckle. “You wish you thought so.” 

AUTHOR BIO

Cora Brent was born in a cold climate and escaped as soon as it was legally possible. Now, she lives in the desert with her husband, two kids and a prickly pear cactus she has affectionately named ‘Spot’. Cora’s closet is filled with boxes of unfinished stories that date back her 1980’s childhood and all her life she has dreamed of being an author. Amazingly, she is now a New York Times and USA Today bestselling writer of contemporary romance and begs not to be awakened from this dream.

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Title: STRAYS

Author: Cora Brent

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Cover Design: Wicked by Design

Photo: Eric Battershell

Release Date: January 27, 2021

BLURB

A man like me isn’t cut out to be a dad. 

And if this kid had another option I wouldn’t try to be one now. 

But for once I’m going to step up. 

I’ll right the worst of old wrongs. 

I’ll pretend this last name of mine is something decent instead of a legacy of hard-core criminals. 

I don’t know if I’ll ever be free of my sins. 

I do know it wouldn't be wise to get close enough to find out. 

Into this chaos walks Isabella Gentry. 

She was warned to keep her distance from me. 

I was the one who warned her. 

She’s beautiful. She’s headstrong. She’s spoiled as hell. 

And she’s my freaking roommate. 

Half of me wants to turn her world upside down in the cruelest way imaginable. 

The other half wants to worship the ground she walks on. 

This can go one of two ways. 

Either I’ll decide to be the worst version of myself. 

Or I’ll surrender the past in order to build a future. 

And maybe along the way I’ll prove something. 

That the guy everyone loves to hate might be redeemable yet...

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“What are you gonna do about it, Izzy? Throw your wine at me?” 

She does. She throws her wine in my face. Or at least she tries to. The flick of her wrist comes up short when I rear back and the wine splashes on the floor, leaving her standing there with a stupid empty glass and a puzzled expression. That should have worked, her pretty eyes say. Why is this jackass not covered in my wine backwash? 

There’s no effort required to pluck the glass out of her hand. I toss it in the sink, where it promptly shatters. 

“Hey,” she complains. “That was Waterford crystal, you dick.” 

I chuckle and close in, aware that I’m hard and getting harder. “That’s your whole problem, Isabella.” 

Her eyes flash. Her lips pout. In another second she’ll be stamping her bare foot. “What the hell are you talking about?” 

“This.” I run a hand low, over the shape of my cock. She can see the rigid outline through my shorts. I know she can. She sucks in a corner of her lower lip and jerks her head to force her eyes away. 

“You’re disgusting.” 

I chuckle. “You wish you thought so.” 

AUTHOR BIO

Cora Brent was born in a cold climate and escaped as soon as it was legally possible. Now, she lives in the desert with her husband, two kids and a prickly pear cactus she has affectionately named ‘Spot’. Cora’s closet is filled with boxes of unfinished stories that date back her 1980’s childhood and all her life she has dreamed of being an author. Amazingly, she is now a New York Times and USA Today bestselling writer of contemporary romance and begs not to be awakened from this dream.

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Release Boost: Wreck by Cora Brent

 

Title: Wreck

Series: Gentry Generations #5

Author: Cora Brent

Genre: Standalone Contemporary Romance

Release Date: September 22, 2020

Blurb

THOMAS 

Not too long ago my future was all mapped out. 

Then two brutal swings of a steel bat wielded by a maniac wrecked my world. 

The adrenaline high I used to get from pitching a perfect game is gone. 

The major league dreams I counted on have vanished. 

And the peace of mind I took for granted is shattered. 

The thrills I seek out now are self-destructive. 

I know this and I can’t stop. 

What I didn’t expect is for my downward spiral to be interrupted by a shy beauty with a messy past. 

Gracie and I very different. 

And yet we’re tragically alike. 

I can prove to her that we’re supposed to be together. 

All she has to do is give me the chance. 

And all I have to do is remember how to be the guy she thinks I am. 

GRACIE 

I’ve learned the hard way that one reckless mistake can topple your house of cards. 

And I thought I was finished taking chances. 

But Thomas Gentry made it clear he was on a mission to break my armor and guys like Thomas didn’t come along every day. 

He was as charming as he was headstrong, as sexy as he was protective. 

He put all the book heroes I’ve ever drooled over to shame. 

Falling for Thomas was inevitable. 

And I was his before I understood something important. 

We both need to find a way to heal ourselves. 

Otherwise we might ruin each other forever... 

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I searched for a way to explain the schism that was me. 

The old Gracie and this Gracie. 

“Thomas, there’s a wall that cuts right through my life. It’s like I was one person before Track and a different person after. I’m not explaining well so I know that probably doesn’t make any sense.” 

He held up our joined hands. His was the right hand, his scarred hand. 

“It makes complete sense.” There was a sad sympathy in his words. Our paths hadn’t been the same at all but he understood. Before his attack he’d been the all star athlete, leader of a charmed life, destined for greatness. He’d left college, abandoned his training. He was still trying to figure out where he stood, and where to go from here. We were different, but alike in an important way. 

Transferring over into his lap felt like the most natural move in the world. He pulled me right in and when our mouths met this kiss was unlike the other ones we’d shared so far. The connection was sweeter, more familiar. We had not known each other long but we were not strangers. I liked him so much already. More than I should. 

And the physical attraction between us was ferocious. When he touched me I felt like I’d been lit on fire. Like I’d been awakened. 

We kissed and teased and it didn’t take long to escalate. I tugged his shirt up, reveling in the feel of his hard muscles beneath my palms. His hands went beneath my shirt, all the way up my back, and he groaned when he found only bare skin. We were both being aggressive, both of us trying to push the limits. He wanted me to move, to shift into a straddle, and I could feel him, hard and insistent, trying to reach me through slight layers of summer fabric. The elastic band in my hair was freed and Thomas sucked my neck hard, making me whimper and hope that he’d do more, take more. 

Which he did. 

He slipped his hands down the back of my shorts, into my panties. We moved together in torturous rhythm, grinding, teasing, mimicking the act we really wanted and couldn’t have yet. 

I stifled a gasp and buried my face in his warm neck. “I want to do this.” My hips bucked and I rode him through our clothes. The need to seek relief was almost unbearable. “I really want to, Thomas. But we probably shouldn’t.” 

“I know. We shouldn’t do this yet.” He groaned and arched one last time and I was nearly at the precipice, could almost feel how it would be to have him inside of me. 

Mind blowing. Shattering. Fucking magnificent. 

Thomas withdrew his hands from my shorts and braced them on my hips, holding me away just a little, just far enough so we could catch our breath and let the temptation ease for now…. 

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Cora Brent was born in a cold climate and escaped as soon as it was legally possible. Now, she lives in the desert with her husband, two kids and a prickly pear cactus she has affectionately named ‘Spot’. Cora’s closet is filled with boxes of unfinished stories that date back her 1980’s childhood and all her life she has dreamed of being an author. Amazingly, she is now a New York Times and USA Today bestselling writer of contemporary romance and begs not to be awakened from this dream.

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Release Boost and Giveaway ($50 Amazon gift card): Long Lost by Cora Brent

Title: Long Lost

Author: Cora Brent

Genre: New Adult Contemporary Romance
Release Date: March 11, 2020

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We should have been enemies from the beginning.

But we were children when we met and children tend to ignore such rules.

Even if the rules exist for a reason.

Because Jonathan came from a family of savage killers.

While I was born into the broken aftermath of their victims.

For one short season we were inseparable.

All it took was one terrible day to turn us into strangers.

I’ve spent a long time chasing him from my mind.

And I assumed he was gone forever.

Until he shows up here.

So far from where we started and so changed from the friend I once knew.

The gentle boy I loved has grown into a volatile man with dangerous secrets and a different name.

He won’t admit to who he is.

Or where he comes form.

Or who we are to each other.

And I knew I shouldn’t have provoked him.

I knew I shouldn’t have touched him.

Most of all I knew I shouldn’t have offered him my heart.

Yes, Jonathan and I were born to be enemies.

And maybe that’s how our story will end after all…

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Cora Brent was born in a cold climate and escaped as soon as it was legally possible. Now, she lives in the desert with her husband, two kids and a prickly pear cactus she has affectionately named ‘Spot’. Cora’s closet is filled with boxes of unfinished stories that date back her 1980’s childhood and all her life she has dreamed of being an author. Amazingly, she is now a New York Times and USA Today bestselling writer of contemporary romance and begs not to be awakened from this dream.

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Title: Long Lost

Author: Cora Brent

Genre: New Adult Contemporary Romance
Release Date: March 11, 2020

Blurb

We should have been enemies from the beginning.

But we were children when we met and children tend to ignore such rules.

Even if the rules exist for a reason.

Because Jonathan came from a family of savage killers.

While I was born into the broken aftermath of their victims.

For one short season we were inseparable.

All it took was one terrible day to turn us into strangers.

I’ve spent a long time chasing him from my mind.

And I assumed he was gone forever.

Until he shows up here.

So far from where we started and so changed from the friend I once knew.

The gentle boy I loved has grown into a volatile man with dangerous secrets and a different name.

He won’t admit to who he is.

Or where he comes form.

Or who we are to each other.

And I knew I shouldn’t have provoked him.

I knew I shouldn’t have touched him.

Most of all I knew I shouldn’t have offered him my heart.

Yes, Jonathan and I were born to be enemies.

And maybe that’s how our story will end after all…

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Cora Brent was born in a cold climate and escaped as soon as it was legally possible. Now, she lives in the desert with her husband, two kids and a prickly pear cactus she has affectionately named ‘Spot’. Cora’s closet is filled with boxes of unfinished stories that date back her 1980’s childhood and all her life she has dreamed of being an author. Amazingly, she is now a New York Times and USA Today bestselling writer of contemporary romance and begs not to be awakened from this dream.

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Cover Reveal: Long Lost by Cora Brent

Title: Long Lost

Author: Cora Brent

Genre: New Adult Contemporary Romance
Cover Design: Wicked by Design
Release Date: March 11, 2020

Blurb

We should have been enemies from the beginning.

But we were children when we met and children tend to ignore such rules.

Even if the rules exist for a reason.

Because Jonathan came from a family of savage killers.

While I was born into the broken aftermath of their victims.

For one short season we were inseparable.

All it took was one terrible day to turn us into strangers.

I’ve spent a long time chasing him from my mind.

And I assumed he was gone forever.

Until he shows up here.

So far from where we started and so changed from the friend I once knew.

The gentle boy I loved has grown into a volatile man with dangerous secrets and a different name.

He won’t admit to who he is.

Or where he comes form.

Or who we are to each other.

And I knew I shouldn’t have provoked him.

I knew I shouldn’t have touched him.

Most of all I knew I shouldn’t have offered him my heart.

Yes, Jonathan and I were born to be enemies.

And maybe that’s how our story will end after all…

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Cora Brent was born in a cold climate and escaped as soon as it was legally possible. Now, she lives in the desert with her husband, two kids and a prickly pear cactus she has affectionately named ‘Spot’. Cora’s closet is filled with boxes of unfinished stories that date back her 1980’s childhood and all her life she has dreamed of being an author. Amazingly, she is now a New York Times and USA Today bestselling writer of contemporary romance and begs not to be awakened from this dream.

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Release Blitz and Giveaway ($50 Amazon gift card): Syler McKnight by Cora Brent

Title: Syler McKnight
An Enemies to Lovers Holiday Tale

Author: Cora Brent

Genre: Contemporary Romantic Comedy
Release Date: December 19, 2019

Blurb

Maybe there’s one of us in every family.  

The guy who scorns all the rules.  

The guy who shuns expectations.  

The guy most commonly known as the ultimate villain in a cultish self help movement.

On the other hand, perhaps we’re not as common as I thought.  

But so what if I’m never anyone’s hero? 

At least I’m a good brother. That is the one thing I manage to get right.  So when my big sister is abandoned by her prick of a husband, leaving her and her four kids alone a week before Christmas, I don’t hesitate to head home.  

To my surprise, I’m not the only one who shows up.  

Katrina has always been my sister’s best friend.  She’s headstrong and hot. She’s neurotic and sexy.  She belts out old power ballads with horrible, tuneless abandon and her hair always smells like vanilla cookie batter. 

We have a long history of being at odds and she’s never appreciated my natural talent for getting under her skin.  

And then there was the time when we accidentally got naked together…

There might have been some post-wedding horniness involved.  

Combined with antique furniture abuse.  

Along with a creative application of lemon buttercream. 

It’s kind of a forbidden topic.  

Now, nearly a decade later, it’s possible I’m still using that memory to get off once or twice or twelve times a month.     

Katrina never knew that back in the day she was the one girl who really got to me.  

In the spirit of the holidays I’ve decided it’s time to settle the score.   

She already thinks I’m not one of the good guys.  

She also realizes I’ve got something she wants for Christmas.  

All she has to do is swallow her high maintenance pride and ask nicely.  

I can guarantee she’ll get more than she ever bargained for...  

  

*SYLER MCKNIGHT is a complete stand alone with:

·       Small town quirkiness

·       Enemies to Lovers (with majorly hot hate sex)

·       A sarcastic flannel-shirt-wearing anti-hero

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Cora Brent was born in a cold climate and escaped as soon as it was legally possible. Now, she lives in the desert with her husband, two kids and a prickly pear cactus she has affectionately named ‘Spot’. Cora’s closet is filled with boxes of unfinished stories that date back her 1980’s childhood and all her life she has dreamed of being an author. Amazingly, she is now a New York Times and USA Today bestselling writer of contemporary romance and begs not to be awakened from this dream.

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