Release Day Review ~ Stage Two by Ariel Tachna (Giveaway)

Release Day Review ~ Stage Two by Ariel Tachna

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Title: Stage Two
Series: Lexington Lovers: Book Three
Author: Ariel Tachna
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Category: Contemporary, Dreamspun Desires
Pages: 224

Blurb:

Assistant high school principal Blake Barnes has everything he wants—a chance to help troubled students and an outlet for his passion for theater. Well, almost everything—he still goes home to an empty apartment. Then his high school crush explodes back into his life, the unexpected guardian of two boys in Blake’s care.

Thane Dalton has always been a bad boy through and through. Not much has changed, including his mistrust of authority figures, and no amount of institutional bureaucracy will keep him from protecting his nephews from the bullies terrorizing them. If that means butting heads with Blake, so be it.

Blake and Thane have lessons to learn: that they both have the boys’ best interests at heart, that the tension between them isn’t just confrontational, and that sparks can fly when opposites come together.

Release Day Review ~ Service with a Smirk by Ariel Tachna

Release Day Review ~ Service with a Smirk by Ariel Tachna

Title: Service with a Smirk

Series: At Your Service: Book Two

Author: Ariel Tachna

Release Date: January 13, 2016

Category: Contemporary

Pages: 200

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Pascal Larocque, a waiter at a high-end Montréal restaurant, knows what it means to love—and he knows what it means to lose. He buried the man he expected to spend his life with years ago. He’s perfectly happy with his solitude, or so he tells his friends. But a chance encounter in a neighborhood bar followed by a run-in at his apartment building turns his world upside down.

Mathias Perras is twenty-four, newly arrived in Montréal, and works two jobs so he can live on rue Sainte-Catherine in the heart of the gay district. During the day, he’s on a fast track to management at the Banque de Montréal. At night, he waits tables at a gay bar down the street. He’s burning the candle at both ends, but it will be worth it when his career takes off and he has the life he’s always dreamed of. When he meets Pascal, one more piece of that dream slots into place. Pascal is everything he wants in a lover: older, self-assured, established in his life and his career. But Pascal doesn’t look at him twice. What’s a boy have to do to get a little action?

2016 Advent Calendar Review ~ Popcorn Garlands by Ariel Tachna

2016 Advent Calendar Review ~ Popcorn Garlands by Ariel Tachna

Title: Popcorn Garlands

Author: Ariel Tachna

Category: Holiday, Contemporary

Pages: 26

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Carlos Mendez spends all year working hard at his Houston-based landscaping business, and he sends every spare penny he earns back to his family in Mexico. By the time the holidays roll around, he doesn’t have much patience for the unadulterated greed and consumerism paraded past him. But a chance meeting with his neighbor, Ned Williams, and Ned’s cancer-stricken daughter, might help to remind him of the real meaning of the season—something beyond the gaudy lights and extravagant displays—something he wants to be a part of.

Audio Book Review ~ A Matchless Man by Ariel Tachna

Audio Book Review ~ A Matchless Man (Lexington Lovers) by Ariel Tachna

Title: A Matchless Man
Series: Lexington Lovers
Author: Ariel Tachna
Narrator: John Solo
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Category: Contemporary, Dreamspun Desires
Length: 5 hours, 22 minutes
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None of the matches caught his eye as much as the matchmaker himself.

Growing up poorer than poor didn’t leave Navashen Bhattathiri many options for life outside of school. All of his concentration was on keeping his scholarships. Sixteen years later, he’s fulfilled his dream and become a doctor. Now he’s returning home to Lexington and is ready to prove himself to the world. In doing so, he reconnects with Brent Carpenter—high school classmate, real estate agent, all-around great guy… and closet matchmaker.

Brent makes it his mission to help Navashen develop a social life and meet available, interesting men. Unfortunately Navashen’s schedule is unpredictable, and few of those available, interesting men value his dedication like Brent does. Brent’s unfailing friendship and support convince Navashen he’s the one, but can he capture Brent’s heart when the matchmaker is focused on finding Navashen another man?

Release Day Review ~ A Matchless Man by Ariel Tachna

Release Day Review ~ A Matchless Man by Ariel Tachna

Title: A Matchless Man

Series: Lexington Lovers

Author: Ariel Tachna

Release Date: October 1, 2016

Category: Contemporary, Dreamspun Desires

Pages: 224

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Blurb: 

None of the matches caught his eye as much as the matchmaker himself.
Growing up poorer than poor didn’t leave Navashen Bhattathiri many options for life outside of school. All of his concentration was on keeping his scholarships. Sixteen years later, he’s fulfilled his dream and become a doctor. Now he’s returning home to Lexington and is ready to prove himself to the world. In doing so, he reconnects with Brent Carpenter—high school classmate, real estate agent, all-around great guy… and closet matchmaker.
Brent makes it his mission to help Navashen develop a social life and meet available, interesting men. Unfortunately Navashen’s schedule is unpredictable, and few of those available, interesting men value his dedication like Brent does. Brent’s unfailing friendship and support convince Navashen he’s the one, but can he capture Brent’s heart when the matchmaker is focused on finding Navashen another man?

Blog Tour ~ Checkmate by Nicki Bennett and Ariel Tachna ~ (Review, Excerpt + Guest Post)

Blog Tour ~ Checkmate by Nicki Bennett and Ariel Tachna ~ (Review, Excerpt + Guest Post)

Blurb:

When sword-for-hire Teodoro Ciéza de Vivar accepts a commission to “rescue” Lord Christian Blackwood from unsuitable influences, he has no idea he’s landed himself in the middle of a plot to assassinate King Philip IV of Spain and blame the English ambassador for the deed. Nor does he expect the spoiled child he’s sent to retrieve to be a handsome, engaging young man.

As Teodoro and Christian face down enemies at every turn, they fall more and more in love, an emotion they can’t safely indulge with the threat of the Inquisition looming over them. It will take all their combined guile and influence to outmaneuver the powerful men who would see them separated… or even killed.

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