Crystal Tide is now live on Amazon! Get your book 2 of the Tides of Atlantis series for only $0.99 today!

Desires and Passion are brewing in the Tides - as unexpected as a hurricane and as old as an ancient land.

Join the forming crew of Poseidon’s defenders against the Underworld in book two of Amanda V. Shane’s Tides of Atlantis series!

Happy Wine Wednesday everyone! Since we are almost to release day, our wine / romance novel pairing this week features Crystal Tide, book two of my Tides of Atlantis series and the beautiful Fleur de Mer Rose by Cotes de Provence. If you've been following my posts, you know that I am all about purple right now to match the cover of Crystal Tide. I was so excited to find this bottle that not only has a light purple label but a sea theme too (there are even mermaids embossed on the front!)  Be sure to preorder your copy of Crystal Tide on Amazon today and be ready to slip into the Tides of Atlantis world with a glass of Fleur de Mer for a perfect summer wine and read pairing experience!
I hope you all enjoy your Wine Wednesday and wish you very happy reading!

Desires and Passion are brewing in the Tides - as unexpected as a hurricane and as old as an ancient land.
 
“That’s the funny thing about will…sometimes your own bumps up against that of another’s.”  ~Xieran Amphere, Crystal Tide
 
 
Devastated by the loss of both parents and running scared after a break-in at her home, Kay Laurens jumps on the first plane out of Denver heading south to Miami. There she meets up with, of all people, a love psychic for answers. On the tip of the Bermuda Triangle, she is swept up into the dark world of an ancient cult and sent on the ride of her life. Then her incense induced visions come to life in the form of an inter-world travelling, suspicious and sinfully hot immortal agent for Mt. Olympus.
 
Xieran has no memory of who he was before being stolen by Hermes. The Greek god uses him to enter Earth’s sphere under the guise of an affluent art dealer in search of an elusive artifact which, if he can find, will win him his freedom. When his latest mission is brought up short by a female grad student breaking into his complex travel system, he can’t help but be suspicious. It makes no difference that he finds her more and more irresistible with each encounter. With demon outbreaks, nefarious characters working in the Underworld and a power struggle of epic proportions going on, no one can be trusted.
 
As they are thrown into the Tides together, Kay and Xieran set out on a whirlwind adventure, racing through the streets of Rome, Miami and even Western Australia to chase down the answers that will win them their freedom from the overbearing gods. Will they come to terms with destiny and conquer the evil taking over the Tides, or will they succumb to the passion growing between them?
 
Join the forming crew of Poseidon’s defenders against the Underworld in book two of Amanda V. Shane’s Tides of Atlantis series!

​Last Tuesday book tease before release day!

Meet Kay Laurens, Colorado grad student sent through the mystic Tides on the ride of her life to find herself caught between two men....Xieran her fierce captor from the Tides portal and King Amphere, the dream lover of her fantasies.
On Mt. Olympus she is...

          …prisoner to a forbidding male who’d walked straight out of her own hallucination and had made her body react with his rough touch in ways she couldn’t bear to think about. ~Crystal Tide, Tides of Atlantis

Preorder Crystal Tide today on Amazon for only 99 cents!

Here is the last Crystal Tide aesthetic board before release day! A very big thank you to my special friend (who wishes to remain nameless) :) for putting these together for me. She has an artistic eye whereas I do not so I count myself very lucky to have her in my life for this and so many other reasons. Enjoy your week everyone and be sure to stay tuned to the blog as we get closer to July 27th and the release of Crystal Tide!

Preorder Crystal Tide, Tides of Atlantis today for only 99 cents!
www.amazon.com/dp/B07DYXVWHK

It's that time again, the long awaited cocktail from Crystal Tide is finally here! Every Tides of Atlantis book will have its own mixed drink from Ramone's Party Cove. If you would like your very own drink recipe card, join the Amanda V Shane mailing list. All mailing list readers receive recipe cards prior to book releases and other fun things like free books!

Since this drink is so simple, the recipe card includes instructions for a Hot Pepper Infused Vodka and the sweeter Blackberry, Black Pepper Cocktail. I had a lot of fun looking through recipes and when I came across the sultry, purple blackberry, black pepper cocktail, I had to include it. It’s a perfect late summer drink and, if you’ve been following any of my social media lately you know that I’m all about purple right now to match the cover of Crystal Tide. ( Find me on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter to see if I can keep a Tide of purple flowing till release day!)

Here is a short excerpt from Crystal Tide to set the scene. Kay (Karina) Laurens is a post grad from Colorado. Xieran is Tides travelling immortal from Mt. Olympus:
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“Is this a martini?” She squinted at her glass. “Is that a pepper in there?”
Shaking the drink, she swirled the long red chili around in the icy vodka
“A Ramone’s specialty,” the blonde waitress chimed in but she was looking at Xieran. “We like hot and spicy here.”
She shifted to move Xieran’s drink across the table for him, giving him a generous view of her cleavage in the process. Karina cleared her throat. The waitress turned her way and shrugged.
“Careful,” she said, “it’s got a pretty good kick.”
Then she sauntered away, hips swaying.
Karina sniffed at the glass, grimaced, then took a sip and coughed.
 “Sorry,” she said, “I’m more used to keg beer and Boone’s.
Xieran took a drink from his own glass.
“I think you’re education has been a little lacking, Miss Laurens.”
She cocked her head at that then licked her lips. The spice from the pepper had already plumped them a bit.
“You know, you’re the second guy to tell me that lately.”
He narrowed his eyes. The idea of another man trying to “educate” her on anything didn’t sit well but he didn’t let on.
“You should come to Xieran’s Institute for Higher Learning.” He said.
Her eyes widened. He was having fun teasing her, trying to take her mind off of the horror she’d witnessed earlier. He’d ordered the spicy drink as a distraction as well. The way his words made the pulse at her throat flutter underneath the silken skin of her neck suggested that his tactics were working. She liked the idea of being under his tutelage too. Very much.
 “And what would I learn there?”
“All sorts of things,” he answered, reaching across the table to run his fingertip along her collar bone. “Fine things,” he said, delighting when her breath faltered, “grown up things.”
 
~The idea made her hot all over, or maybe it was the pepper in her vodka.
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Muy Caliente!

Preorder your copy of Crystal Tide for only 99 cents today on Amazon (the price goes up after release weekend)

Just a little teaser from Crystal Tide to start off the weekend! 

​She didn’t know how it had happened, it must have been the magic of Atlantis, but in one moment, their memories aligned and they both knew the same unbelievable truth. They’d found each other in a dream world, a place so illusive that to meet someone there defied fate.

​Desires and Passion are brewing in the Tides - as unexpected as a hurricane and as old as an ancient land.
 
“That’s the funny thing about will…sometimes your own bumps up against that of another’s.”  ~Xieran Amphere, Crystal Tide
 
 
Devastated by the loss of both parents and running scared after a break-in at her home, Kay Laurens jumps on the first plane out of Denver heading south to Miami. There she meets up with, of all people, a love psychic for answers. On the tip of the Bermuda Triangle, she is swept up into the dark world of an ancient cult and sent on the ride of her life. Then her incense induced visions come to life in the form of an inter-world travelling, suspicious and sinfully hot immortal agent for Mt. Olympus.
 
Xieran has no memory of who he was before being stolen by Hermes. The Greek god uses him to enter Earth’s sphere under the guise of an affluent art dealer in search of an elusive artifact which, if he can find, will win him his freedom. When his latest mission is brought up short by a female grad student breaking into his complex travel system, he can’t help but be suspicious. It makes no difference that he finds her more and more irresistible with each encounter. With demon outbreaks, nefarious characters working in the Underworld and a power struggle of epic proportions going on, no one can be trusted.
 
As they are thrown into the Tides together, Kay and Xieran set out on a whirlwind adventure, racing through the streets of Rome, Miami and even Western Australia to chase down the answers that will win them their freedom from the overbearing gods. Will they come to terms with destiny and conquer the evil taking over the Tides, or will they succumb to the passion growing between them? 

Happy #TeaserTuesday! Here is a little tease from Crystal Tide. Only a short time left before release day, don't forget to pre order your copy on Amazon!

Caught between two men – well, kind of, one was the man holding her hostage, insisting that she was part of some nefarious cultists’ crime ring the other was a fantasy.
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When she looked up, he was right in front of her. He’d put on a new shirt but his sleeves were still rolled up and the top few buttons were undone. That tattoo on his arm was tribal or something. Whatever it was, the sight of it lacing over his bronzed skin made her heart beat faster. Up close, she felt heat emanating from within his powerful body. He studied her face for a second then reached up to stroke her cheek. She turned into his hand and closed her eyes as an array of conflicting emotions rolled through her. He was her captor, holding her against her will, her savior of an hour ago, the sexy King from her dreams and the warm sensual male sending a riot of sensations through her body with a single touch. She was supposed to hate him but… she didn’t want to, at least not right now. Was that wrong? Couldn’t she have just one moment with him in reality?
 
Xieran or King Amphere – enemy or dream lover…..can she have them both?
Find out on July 27th! Preorder Crystal Tide, book 2 in the paranormal romance Tides of Atlantis series on Amazon!

Happy Wine Wednesday everbody! Whew, we are finally to the middle of the week. My pairing for you today is purely a circumstance of when a couple just looks really good together. You know the kind - two exceptionally beautiful people that, as a combined unite, are just without-a-doubt, head turning hot. That's this pairing. I took this gorgeous bottle of Ecco Domani Pinot Grigio and put it with fabulous Author K. Marie's Wreckless Engagement from her super sexy, super exciting Russian Engagement series for an overall summer look. If you're looking for hot summer reads and a pretty bottle of wine try these two out. You know you want to, you can't stop looking at them...they're too freakin sexy!
As always, happy Wine Wednesday and happy reading!

*wine bottle label designed by Christian Siriano

You just couldn't make this s*%t up if you tried...
A hot man, a one-night stand. Five days in Miami, that was the plan.
Things went sideways real-quick.
How could what started off as a five-day girls' trip have careened so quickly out of control?
I found myself in a fix.
Just a small-town girl from a boring little city, my life might have even been described as charmed. Until it suddenly wasn't.
My knight in all black armor swooped in to save my distressed damsel like a move right out of the super-hero playbook.
The man was a ridiculous cliché.
Tall, dark, handsome and mysterious? Check!
Garland wore power like a suit, possessed an ego on steroids, never minced words, and avoided messy entanglements like the plague.
Prince Charming? Nope!
He still drew me like a magnet.
Only, he was way out of my league. A man like him could never be serious about a woman like me.
But, he didn't seem to mind slumming. Heck, I guess everybody's got to make a charitable donation sometimes.
And the man is nothing if not a giver. His words are seductive, his touch addictive, his mouth magical, and his body a weapon.
I never stood a chance.
Then a snap decision has life altering consequences, and my world shifted in ways I couldn't have imagined.
Bodyguards, paparazzi, and high-stakes might have been more than I bargained for.
Oh, did I mention I was already engaged...to another man?

Follow Camry as she sets off on a head-spinning journey that started out as a vacation, but ended up in crazyville. If you like both romance and adventure, WRECKLESS ENGAGEMENT is the book for you.

***For Age 18+. This book contains nudity, language, and adult situations***

A little teaser from Crystal Tide, Tides of Atlantis. Don't forget to pre order your copy!
www.amazon.com/dp/B07DYXVWHKwww.amazon.com/dp/B07DYXVWHK

​He could feel her presence, sense her like he could the others but it was a different kind of sensing. He’d always be able to feel her, that he knew. He remembered the way he’d felt the first time she’d ripped into the water vault and smashed into him. It wasn’t the same hackle raising foreboding he’d come to accept as a condition of being whatever kind of fucked up immortal he was. What he got from her was different. It was a fire inside of him that only she brought to life. It was love. He loved her. She was his and he’d know her, feel her, anywhere.

Stay tuned to the blog for more excerpts and info.

Here is another fun aesthetic board that a friend of mind made up for Crystal Tide. The July 27th release for Book 2 in the Tides of Atlantis Series is getting closer. You can preorder your copy on Amazon today!

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Desires and Passion are brewing in the Tides - as unexpected as a hurricane and as old as an ancient land.
 
“That’s the funny thing about will…sometimes your own bumps up against that of another’s.”  ~Xieran Amphere, Crystal Tide
 
Devastated by the loss of both parents and running scared after a break-in at her home, Kay Laurens jumps on the first plane out of Denver heading south to Miami. There she meets up with, of all people, a love psychic for answers. On the tip of the Bermuda Triangle, she is swept up into the dark world of an ancient cult and sent on the ride of her life. Then her incense induced visions come to life in the form of an inter-world travelling, suspicious and sinfully hot immortal agent for Mt. Olympus.
 
Xieran has no memory of who he was before being stolen by Hermes. The Greek god uses him to enter Earth’s sphere under the guise of an affluent art dealer in search of an elusive artifact which, if he can find, will win him his freedom. When his latest mission is brought up short by a                     female grad student breaking into his complex travel system, he can’t help but be suspicious. It makes no difference that he finds her more and more irresistible with each encounter. With demon outbreaks, nefarious characters working in the Underworld and a power struggle of epic proportions going on, no one can be trusted.
 
As they are thrown into the Tides together, Kay and Xieran set out on a whirlwind adventure, racing through the streets of Rome, Miami and even Western Australia to chase down the answers that will win them their freedom from the overbearing gods. Will they come to terms with destiny and conquer the evil taking over the Tides, or will they succumb to the passion growing between them?
 
Join the forming crew of Poseidon’s defenders against the Underworld in book two of Amanda V. Shane’s Tides of Atlantis series!
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