Cover Reveal: Darkest Shadows by Allyson Gottlieb

I did a beta read for this book and it's so good! And the cover is absolutely AMAZING! Love, love, love it!

 

The missing story...

 

A would-be dictator has gone to prison.  The dimension is safe from a tyrant's control.  But not everything is as perfect as it appears on paper.

 

Tamara Kingsley is supposedly a hero.  But she's about to discover that her good deed doesn't actually mean much when it comes to rebuilding a life for herself.  No matter how hard she tries to escape it, the stigma of her past is always lurking, holding her back from fully embracing a new life.

 

And even in Alpha, Valentine hasn't given up.  He'll spend the next twenty years planning and scheming, waiting for the opportunity to rejoin the world and have his vengeance.  On the top of his hit list?  Tamara, of course.

 

 

 

Also in Darkest Shadows, there will be an exclusive short story called

Darkest Before Dawn

that takes place after the ending of Darkest Legacy.

 

 

A fast-paced, high-stakes novella

Everyone has secrets they'd prefer stayed buried. But information wants to be free... and so does Tamara Kingsley's ex-lover, incarcerated on the maximum-security prison planet, Alpha.

Tamara has done things she's not proud of, but that was years ago. Now the headmistress of the Silvermist School of Magic for Girls, she has an honest life, one that makes her happy. For the last twenty years she's fought like hell to keep it that way, and she thought she'd succeeded.

She's about to find out just how wrong she was to think her past was dead and gone.

 

 

 

 

You can get

DARKEST LEGACY

book 1 of the series

FREE Thursday 10/31 and Friday 11/1

DARKEST LEGACY Review & Giveaway Winner!

Last week I did an author spotlight on Allyson Gottlieb and her novella DARKEST LEGACY. There were all kinds of fun things going on: author interview, excerpt from the book, Tamara's playlist, a book trailer and cast pics and bios. If you missed any, check them out in the ARCHIVES.

Today, I'm giving my review and announcing the winner of the giveaway! But, first, lets take a look at the book.

Author Spotlight - Allyson Gottlieb: Recap

This was a great week. Allyson was super amazing. If you missed all the goodies we had to offer your in luck. I'm going to recap the entire week right here.

Author Spotlight - Allyson Gottlieb: Cast Photos & Bios

Today is the last day of the Author Spotlight series on Allyson Gottlieb. We get a peak at the characters of DARKEST LEGACY with photos and a little information on each of them.

It's hard to capture the complete essence of a character in one photo. But I always like to see what photos the authors pick to represent their characters. Although they might not always be the same as our own vision, it's still interesting to get an idea of what the characters might look like.

A lot of the times, for me, no matter what the character's description is in the book, I picture them completely different.

For instance, I may picture this...

when they're supposed to look like this...

 Or vice versa! (I'm weird I know!)

Now...on to the DARKEST LEGACY photos!

Author Spotlight - Allyson Gottlieb: 9/12/13 Tamara's Playlist & Book Trailer

Today we're going to get to know Tamara Kingsley a bit. She's the protagonist of DARKEST LEGACY. I think a character's playlist is a very personal thing and you can learn a lot about them.

Because Darkest Legacy has only a few characters and you get to know them so intimately, instead of just making a playlist that applies to the work as a whole I had the idea to make a series of character-centric playlists.  This is the first one, for Darkest Legacy, and it’s Tamara-centric.

Warning: there are no overt spoilers in the explanations, but they will probably make a lot more sense if you’ve read the book first.

Author Spotlight - Allyson Gottlieb: 9/11/13 Top 10 (divided by 2)

Today we're going to get a little more of Allyson. This Top 10 is very special...because it's Allyson's very first Top 10 List! Woohoo! The Gryffindor table is very excited!

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I couldn't really decide what the best Top 10 List for Allyson should be. So I gave her the choice. And...well with this being her first one, she was up for whatever!

hmm, I don't know. I love music, and TV, and movies, and food... 

pretty much anything you could throw at me, really

So, I decided to break it up a bit. Instead of doing one Top 10, we're doing TWO Top 5's! Whaaa?! Yup! That's what I said. TWO...TOP...FIVES!

Author Spotlight - Allyson Gottlieb: 9/10/13 All About the Author

Yesterday was all about the book DARKEST LEGACY. Today, we're going to get to know Miss Allyson!

Author Bio

Allyson Gottlieb was born in California, but can't wait to go away to college and trade sunshine, bikinis, and fruit smoothies for autumn leaves, winter coats, and hot cocoa. When she's not busy working on her next bestseller, she can be found devouring books, obsessing over far too many TV shows, baking, spending time with her family and friends... and occasionally doing some homework. She has been writing since second grade and has no plans to stop until she runs out of stories to tell - so basically never.

Author Spotlight - Allyson Gottlieb: 9/9/13 Cover, Blurb, Excerpt & Giveaway

This is my very first post in the PTB's AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT SERIES. It will be a week long event highlighting authors and their book(s). Usually, I will spotlight newly published or authors in process, but not always. I've got to give some love to my other Indie authors too!

I super excited because this week is jam-packed! I've got an excerpt, author interview and Top 10(ish) list, a book trailer, cast photos and playlists! And best of all...a giveaway! I know you all love giveaways, right?! Well, I do anyway!

So let's get started...

Allyson is the author of the DARKEST LEGACY SERIES. But we'll get to Allyson tomorrow. Today is all about the books!

DARKEST LEGACY is the first book of the series. It's out now and avaiable on Amazon. (You can get it >>>HERE). Book two, DARKEST SHADOWS, is in beta reading right now. Hopefully we'll get something by mid-December...but no promises!

So...DARKEST LEGACY