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New Release Book Tour & Giveaway with Excerpt! At War with a Broken Heart by Dahlia Donovan!

 

https://www.silverdaggertours.com/

 


Readers, are you have fun yet? Well I have another new release to share with you! At War With A Broken Heart is a mmm contemporary romance by Dahlia Donovan! Enjoy and don’t forget to enter the giveaway!

 

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At War With a Broken Heart
by Dahlia Donovan
Genre: M/M Contemporary Romance


What's the perfect recipe for an emotional MMM romance?

 

One autistic coffee shop owner, one morose mug maker, and a mostly cheerful police detective.

 

Fie Morogh Russell goes off to war with a broken heart and returns with a shattered spirit. He hermits away in Bideford, Devon, making mugs, with his service dog, Haggard, for company. Post-traumatic stress turns every memory into a minefield, and life is dismal with one or two rare exceptions.

 

Davet Heuse drags his younger brother to Bideford for a new start. Both autistic, the two siblings have fought hard to enjoy freedom by the seaside. While Davet runs a coffee shop from his tiny house, his brother pursues his dream at university.

 

Detective Sidney Little has transitioned from military service to the police force easily. His unrequited crushes and his estranged father are the only points of frustration in his life. He hasn't quite figured out how to deal with either problem.

When a tragic accident brings Davet's world crashing down around him, can Fie and Sid help him through the pain of loss?

 

In this May-December romance with a twist, three men struggle through one obstacle after the other to somehow find themselves in love on the other side.

 


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Goodreads - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43238548-at-war-with-a-broken-heart

 

BookBub - https://www.bookbub.com/books/at-war-with-a-broken-heart-by-dahlia-donovan

 

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“You refused to call me anything at all for years. And how is where I live any of your business?” Fie honestly didn’t want to revisit their failed relationship. “What’s changed? Did your latest fling kick you out?”


“I missed you. Us, even.” Edmund gestured towards Haggard, Fie’s blue merle border collie service dog, stretched out across a blanket in his corner of the pottery shed. “I can help. What can your old mutt do that I can’t?”


“Help? You broke me. You lost the right to put me back together.” Fie wiped absently at the sheen of sweat on his brow; he hadn’t even gotten close to his kiln yet. Why am I suddenly overheating? “Sod off with you back to your posh London penthouse.”


“I’m sorry.”


“Hell.” Fie dragged a hand roughly through his greying hair. His dark brown eyes examined Edmund and found him relatively unchanged. Still as selfish as ever. He’d missed seeing the fault in his ex-lover’s personality until far too late. “Well, I hope the apology made it all better for you. I still feel like shite.”


“I’m sorry.” Edmund was trying for heartfelt, but it came out sulky to Fie.


“You sent me off to war with a broken heart.” Fie stood up suddenly, knocking his stool over. He dwarfed Edmund with his tall, bulky, almost bearlike frame. “Now I’m shipping you off to London. I imagine it’s far less dangerous than disarming explosives in the desert, and you’re certainly not as emotionally shattered as I was.”


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$5 Amazon

 

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a Rafflecopter giveaway

 

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Dahlia Donovan wrote her first romance series after a crazy dream about shifters and damsels in distress. She prefers irreverent humour and unconventional characters. An autistic and occasional hermit, her life wouldn’t be complete without her husband and her massive collection of books and video games.



Website - http://dahliadonovan.com/

 

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Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/dahliadonovan

 

Twitter - https://twitter.com/DahliaDonovan

 

Amazon - https://www.amazon.com/Dahlia-Donovan/e/B00KFNZFHU/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1

 

Goodreads - https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8184061.Dahlia_Donovan

 

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New Release Book Tour & Giveaway with Excerpt! At War with a Broken Heart by Dahlia Donovan!

 

 

https://www.silverdaggertours.com/

 


Readers, are you have fun yet? Well I have another new release to share with you! At War With A Broken Heart is a mmm contemporary romance by Dahlia Donovan! Enjoy and don’t forget to enter the giveaway!

 

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

 

 

At War With a Broken Heart
by Dahlia Donovan
Genre: M/M Contemporary Romance


What's the perfect recipe for an emotional MMM romance?

 

One autistic coffee shop owner, one morose mug maker, and a mostly cheerful police detective.

 

Fie Morogh Russell goes off to war with a broken heart and returns with a shattered spirit. He hermits away in Bideford, Devon, making mugs, with his service dog, Haggard, for company. Post-traumatic stress turns every memory into a minefield, and life is dismal with one or two rare exceptions.

 

Davet Heuse drags his younger brother to Bideford for a new start. Both autistic, the two siblings have fought hard to enjoy freedom by the seaside. While Davet runs a coffee shop from his tiny house, his brother pursues his dream at university.

 

Detective Sidney Little has transitioned from military service to the police force easily. His unrequited crushes and his estranged father are the only points of frustration in his life. He hasn't quite figured out how to deal with either problem.

When a tragic accident brings Davet's world crashing down around him, can Fie and Sid help him through the pain of loss?

 

In this May-December romance with a twist, three men struggle through one obstacle after the other to somehow find themselves in love on the other side.

 


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

 

Goodreads - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43238548-at-war-with-a-broken-heart

 

BookBub - https://www.bookbub.com/books/at-war-with-a-broken-heart-by-dahlia-donovan

 

Riffle - https://www.rifflebooks.com/books/1040790

 

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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

 

AVAILABLE in ebook

 

Amazon - https://amzn.to/2S8sZl4

 

iBooks - https://apple.co/2DwNovA

 

B&N - http://bit.ly/2S7gXIr

 

Kobo - http://bit.ly/2Km1ku3

 

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“You refused to call me anything at all for years. And how is where I live any of your business?” Fie honestly didn’t want to revisit their failed relationship. “What’s changed? Did your latest fling kick you out?”


“I missed you. Us, even.” Edmund gestured towards Haggard, Fie’s blue merle border collie service dog, stretched out across a blanket in his corner of the pottery shed. “I can help. What can your old mutt do that I can’t?”


“Help? You broke me. You lost the right to put me back together.” Fie wiped absently at the sheen of sweat on his brow; he hadn’t even gotten close to his kiln yet. Why am I suddenly overheating? “Sod off with you back to your posh London penthouse.”


“I’m sorry.”


“Hell.” Fie dragged a hand roughly through his greying hair. His dark brown eyes examined Edmund and found him relatively unchanged. Still as selfish as ever. He’d missed seeing the fault in his ex-lover’s personality until far too late. “Well, I hope the apology made it all better for you. I still feel like shite.”


“I’m sorry.” Edmund was trying for heartfelt, but it came out sulky to Fie.


“You sent me off to war with a broken heart.” Fie stood up suddenly, knocking his stool over. He dwarfed Edmund with his tall, bulky, almost bearlike frame. “Now I’m shipping you off to London. I imagine it’s far less dangerous than disarming explosives in the desert, and you’re certainly not as emotionally shattered as I was.”


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

 

$5 Amazon

 

Follow the tour HERE for exclusive content and a giveaway!

 

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Dahlia Donovan wrote her first romance series after a crazy dream about shifters and damsels in distress. She prefers irreverent humour and unconventional characters. An autistic and occasional hermit, her life wouldn’t be complete without her husband and her massive collection of books and video games.



Website - http://dahliadonovan.com/

 

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BookBub - https://www.bookbub.com/authors/dahlia-donovan

 

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/dahliadonovan

 

Twitter - https://twitter.com/DahliaDonovan

 

Amazon - https://www.amazon.com/Dahlia-Donovan/e/B00KFNZFHU/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1

 

Goodreads - https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8184061.Dahlia_Donovan

 

 


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Blog Tour with Excerpt & Giveaway! Dead in the Shop (Grasmere Cottage Mystery #3) Dahlia Donovan!

 

 

 

 

Author: Dahlia Donovan
Title: Dead in the Shop
Series: The Grasmere Cottage Mystery Trilogy, #3
Genre: Gay Romantic Cosy Mystery
Release Date: October 20, 2018
Publisher: Hot Tree Publishing
Cover Designer: Claire Smith


On sale for 99c!

 

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"A spectacular ending to a great trilogy" 5 stars - Goodreads reviewer

 


Join bestselling author Dahlia Donovan in the final book of her cosy mystery adventure in Grasmere Cottage Mystery book three. With love, wit, and a murder to solve, Valor and Bishan really need to stop life being so bloody complicated in this sweet gay romance.

 

Deadly fire? Check.

 

Fear-induced heart attack imminent? Check.

 

Time running out on them? Not good.

 

Valor Scott wants nothing more than to enjoy life in his little cottage with his boyfriend. The shadows of a serial killer continue to haunt him, though. He only wants the living nightmare to end. He battles one catastrophic event after the other, intent on bringing his loved ones through to the other side safely.

 

As their killer finally comes out into the open, Valor finds himself face-to-face with an obsessed murderer intent on destroying everyone in their path.

 


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Dead in the Shop is the 3rd book in the Grasmere Cottage Mystery Trilogy

 

Goodreads - https://www.goodreads.com/series/238344-grasmere-cottage-mystery

 

 

1 Dead in the Garden
2 Dead in the Pond
3 Dead in the Shop

 


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Go faster.

 

Go faster.

 

Go. Sodding. Faster.

 

Valor tapped his foot impatiently, trying to ignore the periodic glares from the helicopter pilot. “Can this go any faster?”

 

Silence.

 

That’s a no, then?

 

The second Valor stepped off the helicopter, he reached for his mobile. He tried Bishan first, hoping against all the odds his beloved Bish would be conscious and able to pick up. No answer. Right.

 

He tried Detective Inspector Spurling next with no luck. He called Hugh, but his old schoolmate didn’t answer either. No news might be good news. I hope.

 

A friendly police officer met him once he’d gotten away from the helicopter and refused to give him any information while driving him through Windermere. Valor sat, frozen, unable to get his hands to stop shaking. Visions of Bishan covered in dust and blood kept flashing in front of his eyes.

 

All day an uneasy sensation had gnawed at his stomach. He’d ignored it, assuming all his family drama had caused his inner turmoil. Hugh’s call had brought all the nightmares of the last six months rushing back to him.

 

As they swerved around a corner, Valor got his first view of what had happened to the beautiful little restaurant.


Smoke drifted above a partially collapsed building. The fire was clearly put out, though the firefighters continued to mill about outside.

 

How had any of his family survived?

 

Valor stumbled out of the vehicle when it finally came to a stop. “Bish?”

“Val?”

 

He barely heard Reggie, who stopped him from ducking under the caution tape. “I have to—”

 

“Bishan isn’t in there. They managed to extract him safely from underneath a collapsed wall. We’ve sealed it off to investigate for arson and attempted murder, and your presence will only muddy the waters for us.” Reggie grabbed him firmly by the shoulder and led him over to one of the unmarked SUVs. “Let’s get you over to the hospital to see him.”

 



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Dahlia Donovan wrote her first romance series after a crazy dream about shifters and damsels in distress. She prefers irreverent humour and unconventional characters. An autistic and occasional hermit, her life wouldn’t be complete without her husband and her massive collection of books and video games.

 

 


Website - http://dahliadonovan.com/

 

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/dahliadonovan

 

Twitter - https://twitter.com/DahliaDonovan

 

Goodreads - http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8184061.Dahlia_Donovan


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Blog Tour with Excerpt & Giveaway! Dead in the Pond (Grasmere Cottage Mysteries #2) Dahlia Donovan!

 

 

Author: Dahlia Donovan
Title: Dead in the Pond
Series: The Grasmere Cottage Mystery Trilogy, #2
Genre: Gay Romantic Cosy Mystery
Release Date: October 13, 2018
Publisher: Hot Tree Publishing
Cover Designer: Claire Smith

 

On sale for 99c!
Amazon US: https://amzn.to/2mj7UpR
All other links: books2read.com/grasmere2

 

 


Join bestselling author Dahlia Donovan on a cosy mystery adventure in Grasmere Cottage Mystery book two. With love, wit, and a murder to solve, life for Valor and Bishan continues to be blinkin' complicated in this sweet gay romance.


Killer on the loose? Check.

 

Frogs in the garden? Check


Playing a twisted game with a killer? Not good.

 

Bishan Tamboli struggles to recover from his false arrest. He worries the police still aren’t as convinced about his innocence. With his longtime boyfriend, Valor, at his side, he intends to solve the puzzles and catch the murderer amongst their former schoolmates.

 

He’s fought hard for his independence as an autistic and refuses to throw it all away because of a nameless monster. With friends and family in the killer’s crosshairs, Bishan fears the mystery will bring the end of everything and everyone he loves.

 

 

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Dead in the Garden (bk 1)


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“Might need about three more cups of tea before any of this makes any sense to me.” Valor rested his head on Bishan’s shoulder briefly. “I am so glad you’re home.”


Everyone aside from Valor had been decidedly odd since Bishan’s release from jail. He didn’t like it. At all. Why couldn’t their lives return to business as usual?


Well, probably not business as usual exactly.


Nothing could be quite normal after finding themselves smack dab in the midst of a mystery of the Poirot and Father Brown variety. The police had yet to figure out who’d begun the murderous campaign against former Harrovians; Bishan was only glad they’d stopped pursuing him for it.
He’d been freed from jail two days ago.


And sometimes it still felt as though he were there.


“It’s not an anagram,” Bishan insisted pedantically. And it wasn’t. The creepy murder messages left via bolded letters in old Harrow play programs might be puzzles, but they weren’t anagrams. “They’re not already formed into words that you have to unscramble.”


Valor had spread out the multiple not-anagrams across their kitchen table along with the two that had potentially been deciphered already. “So what are they?”


“Puzzles.”


“Right.” Valor grabbed his cup for more tea. “Do you think they got the first two correct?”


Bishan glanced at the two supposedly decoded messages with a critical eye. They both seemed plausible in the context of the victims and assuming the perpetrator was indeed a former schoolmate of theirs. He found the “Shh” or “Sh” at the beginning to be odd.


Shh. Not so cleverly done. Time’s almost up. When the clock strikes one, whose name shall be crossed out?


Sh. The play has just begun. Tick-tock. Tick-tock. Lord Byron is struck down. How many more to go?


“I’m not the killer. I don’t know.” Bishan picked up one of the programs yet to be deciphered. He wrote down each bolded letter at the top of a plain sheet of paper. “They seem threatening enough to be accurate.”
Valor plucked Staccato off the table and set the cat on his shoulder. “I know you’re not the killer, Bish.”


“I know you know.” Bishan couldn’t keep the slight sharpness out of his voice. He’d never doubted Valor’s belief in him.


Valor stretched a hand out to rest on Bishan’s shoulder. “I was agreeing.”
“Oh.” He deflated slightly. Non-autistics tended to agree by repeating what had been said, something he always found a bit confusing. “Of course.”

 

 

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Dahlia Donovan wrote her first romance series after a crazy dream about shifters and damsels in distress. She prefers irreverent humour and unconventional characters. An autistic and occasional hermit, her life wouldn’t be complete without her husband and her massive collection of books and video games.

 


Website - http://dahliadonovan.com/


Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/dahliadonovan


Twitter - https://twitter.com/DahliaDonovan


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Blog Tour with Excerpt & Giveaway! Dead in the Garden (Grasmere Cottage Mystery #1) Dahlia Donovan!

 

 

Author: Dahlia Donovan
Title: Dead in the Garden
Series: The Grasmere Cottage Mystery Trilogy, #1
Genre: Gay Romantic Cosy Mystery
Release Date: October 6, 2018
Publisher: Hot Tree Publishing
Cover Designer: Claire Smith

 

 

AVAILABLE NOW! 
Amazon US: https://amzn.to/2uqKgvZ
All other links: books2read.com/grasmere1

 

 

Join bestselling author Dahlia Donovan on a cosy mystery adventure in Grasmere Cottage Mystery book one. With love, wit, and a murder to solve, life for Valor and Bishan is about to get bloomin' complicated in this sweet gay romance.

 

Dead body in the garden? Check.

 

Mystery to solve? Check.


Police focused on the wrong person? Not good.

 

All grown up and graduated, Valor Tarquin Scott, son to Earl and Countess Scott, owns The Ginger’s Bread, a biscuit shop, in Grasmere in the Lake District. The love of his life, Bishan Tamboli, has turned his music studies into a successful career playing with the London Symphony Orchestra. It’s a perfect life with their cat, spending evenings watching Poirot on the television.

 

The nightmare begins with one dead former schoolmate, leading police to believe Bishan is responsible.

 

Valor struggles to solve the cryptic puzzles left behind in a race to prove Bishan’s innocence.

 

He can’t help wondering how far the body count will rise before they manage to stop the killer.

 

 


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Dead in the Pond (bk 2)
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“That is a body.” Valor stared stupidly out the window over the sink where he’d been rinsing his coffee mug, his hazel eyes glued to the obviously dead man at the corner of their garden. He dragged his fingers shakily through his mussed-up red hair. “Bish?”


“Yes, it is.” Bishan joined him with their fawn-coloured, long-haired cat, Staccato, perched on his shoulder, playing with his wavy inky hair.
“That’s a dead body in our garden.” He risked a glance at his long-time boyfriend to find him mesmerised by the sight. “I mean, it’s a corpse.”


“Very astute of you. Very. Astute. Quite astute. Incredibly so, actually.” Bishan had a tendency to repeat words when he enjoyed the way they sounded to him. He claimed it was one of his many autistic superpowers.
“Ahhh—stute.”


“Yes, I grasp the concept. Why’s a body in our rose bushes?” Valor carefully set the mug into the sudsy water, drying his hands off on his jeans and ignoring the indignant huff from Bishan. “Right. I’ll call the police, and you put Staccato in the bedroom.”


Their cat enjoyed climbing up on anyone who came into their cottage. Valor didn’t think the local constables would appreciate their uniforms being covered by their feline’s orange-sherbet-tinted hair. She also loved to disappear into the garden, something that wouldn’t be helpful either.
“Why are you calling the police?” Bishan had his phone out already.


“They hate you.” Valor fumbled with his iPhone for a second.
“Only because I set fire to cotton wool. And they think I’m a terrorist.” Bishan shuddered, obviously thinking about the offensive white fluff balls that he hated with a passion. “Val? It’s a body. Out there. In our garden.”


“Maybe stop looking at it?”


The police didn’t actually think Bishan was a terrorist. They’d had one unpleasant run-in with one of their neighbours when they moved into the small cottage in Grasmere in the Lake District. The older gentleman hadn’t appreciated Bish’s Indian heritage, their out-and-proud relationship, or the Tamboli family who’d come en masse to help the two move into their home.


Everyone else in Grasmere had been lovely to them. They’d welcomed the couple with open arms. Valor had needed the encouragement after falling out with his own family.


Ironic, in some ways, considering they’d always assumed Bishan’s traditionalist parents would be the disapproving ones. It seemed being gay and dating an Anglo-Indian had been one step too far for the son of an earl. Valor Tarquin Scott had been struck from the family; his father, mother, and elder brother hadn’t spoken to him in over a decade, not since a year after his graduation from Harrow.


By contrast, the Tambolis had embraced both their son and his boyfriend. Valor had been relieved. He didn’t honestly know how they would’ve gotten through without their support—and the help of the old boy network from Harrow.


We take care of our own.
Valor drew his attention back to his still muttering boyfriend. “Cotton wool is an inanimate object, Bish. It can’t hurt you.”


“It’s evil and must be purged with fire.” He gently set Staccato into their bedroom and closed the door. “Wicked stuff.”


“Overly dramatic twit.” Val rolled his eyes.


“It squeaks when you pull it apart. That’s not natural.” Bishan gave a full-body shudder this time. Hypersensitivity to sound was yet another of his autistic superpowers—or maybe more of his kryptonite. “Well? Call the police.”

 

 

 

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ABOUT DAHLIA DONOVAN!

Dahlia Donovan wrote her first romance series after a crazy dream about shifters and damsels in distress. She prefers irreverent humour and unconventional characters. An autistic and occasional hermit, her life wouldn’t be complete without her husband and her massive collection of books and video games.


Website - http://dahliadonovan.com/


Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/dahliadonovan


Twitter - https://twitter.com/DahliaDonovan


Goodreads - http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8184061.Dahlia_Donovan

 

Amazon - http://www.amazon.com/Dahlia-Donovan/e/B00KFNZFHU

 

 

 


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