Showing posts with label The Killer Next Door Series. Show all posts
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Sunday, October 20, 2013

Blog Tour: Given to You By Carlie Sexton


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Given To You
The Killer Next Door Series
By:  Carlie Sexton
Published:  Sept. 24, 2013
Source:  Author
Mature Content:  18 & Up
Cover Designed By:  Hot Damn Designs
Event organized by: Literati Author Services, Inc. 



GR's Summary:

To give is a virtue. But to give your very self, the ultimate bequest. Offered in love, it can be wondrous. Offered in desperation, it can be deadly.

In Book Two of this three-part epic, young and tempting Kate Simmons at last seemed to have reached a safe haven of happiness when she moved in with Neil, ambitious and persevering, both in his legal practice and his love life. Taking great care to protect his trophy and the surprise he had in mind for Kate, Neil hired security to accompany his soon-to-be fiancée on a scavenger hunt of a lifetime. As Book Three continues their saga, it is life itself that is in the balance when Kate becomes the hunted as the jilted Roger snatches his prey.

The obsessed minds of Neil and Roger now take aim squarely at each other — with a bare and exposed Kate directly in the crossfire. Knowing her very life will be the winner’s spoil, Kate stares agony in its ghastly face as it approaches for the death dance. 

There is no time, no place, no safety in a war of fixation. A war in which the winner will be either the last one standing, or the last one to die.





The Killer Next Door Series:

*To Read My Review on Fallen For You Click HERE
*To Read My Review on Taken By You Click HERE




My Take on this Journey:


Given to You, by Carlie Sexton was another great book in the Killer Next Door Series!  Ms. Sexton does not disappoint.  Given to you takes off from where Taken by You leaves off.  Porter, the man that was hired to protect Kate at all costs, has been shot in the neck with a tranquilizer by the ever clever Roger.  As Kate walks out of the Spa, where Neil has sent her for a day of pampering, Roger abducts her, and threatens her to behave or he will kill Neil.  Kate plays the game, though she is frightened out of her wits.  Roger has tranquilized his child, Jacob, so he won't ask any questions, and he is in the back seat of the SUV.  Kate is appalled when she realizes what he has done.  Roger takes them to his sisters cabin in the mountains, where he plans to get his way with Kate once and for all.

Meanwhile, Neil is setting up the romantic evening to pop the question to Kate, not knowing that something has gone terribly wrong with his romantic plans.  When Neil finally figures out what is going on, all chaos breaks loose, and leads on a wild ride to save the day!  This is a fantastic whirl wind of a story, with lots of intrigue, lust, love, rapture, danger, death, and crazy, nightmarish psycho-killer escapades!!!  You will not want to go anywhere without looking around first.


Ms. Sexton does it like only she knows how.  The characters are well rounded, including the secondary characters, which were essential to the story.  How she created such a scary, manipulative, psychotic character as Roger is beyond me.  He is calculating, sick and pathetic.  The women that enter his life, never see the light of day.  Frightening to think that there are people out there that can fool a person so easily.  It is amazing how he looks gorgeous, is very kind and alluring to women, and then the cold black eyes come out, and he turns into the black hole...void of feeling, character, compassion, or love, except for his son Jacob.  Ms. Sexton's writing is flawless, and it is evident that she has done her homework to come out with yet another blockbuster novel in this series.


There is a lot of drama in this segment, and some sad realizations.  Humor is one of the great components that that will have you smiling and laughing out of nowhere.  The sex scenes are delicious, and Neil is cotton candy on a stick!  You will fall in love with the characters, as I have, and want to get to the next segment in a hurry.  I read this straight through...just couldn't put it down.  Kate has to deal with so many hardships in this segment, and there are some times where your heart will be broken for her.  Charlie, Mitch, Mac and Natalie come to life in this novel.  You will be enveloped in there lives, and want to reach out to each and every one of them.


Looking forward to the next addition to the series, Beholden to You, the continuing saga, which will be telling the story of Mac, (Neil's best friend) and Natalie, (Kate's friend.)  I give Given to You, by Carlie Sexton, 5+ Amazing, Brilliant, Suspenseful, Courageous, Lust Filled Stars!!!





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Given to You (Book #3)

 Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Kobo 


Taken by You (Book #2)

  Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Kobo 


Fallen for You (Book #1)

Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Kobo | iTunes 


Book Trailers:


Fallen For You 


Taken By You

Book Teasers:



About the Author:


Carlie Sexton has had a passion for reading her entire life. She loves it so that she dedicated her life to educating children. As a teacher, she has had the profound pleasure of teaching children to read and explore their imaginations through a good book. Just recently she decided to write a story that had been on her mind. Now she has several that she wants to turn into additional books. Writing has become a passion that she dearly loves.

Carlie lives with her handsome husband in Southern California. They enjoy the relaxed lifestyle that California provides. They have two beautiful dogs, but no children.




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Monday, September 23, 2013

Book Event : Release Day Given To You (The Killer Next Door, Part 3)by Carlie Sexton



Given To You (The Killer Next Door, Part 3)
by Carlie Sexton

Release Date: September 24th 2013
Genres: Romance/Suspense/Thriller


Synopsis

To give is a virtue. But to give your very self, the ultimate bequest. Offered in love, it can be wondrous. Offered in desperation, it can be deadly.

In Book Two of this three-part epic, young and tempting Kate Simmons at last seemed to have reached a safe haven of happiness when she moved in with Neil, ambitious and persevering, both in his legal practice and his love life. Taking great care to protect his trophy and the surprise he had in mind for Kate, Neil hired security to accompany his soon-to-be fiancée on a scavenger hunt of a lifetime. As Book Three continues their saga, it is life itself that is in the balance when Kate becomes the hunted as the jilted Roger snatches his prey.

The obsessed minds of Neil and Roger now take aim squarely at each other — with a bare and exposed Kate directly in the crossfire. Knowing her very life will be the winner’s spoil, Kate stares agony in its ghastly face as it approaches for the death dance. 

There is no time, no place, no safety in a war of fixation. A war in which the winner will be either the last one standing, or the last one to die.





Fallen For You (The Killer Next Door, Part 1)






Taken By You (The Killer Next Door, Part 2)


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About the Author:



    Hi. I'm Carlie and I have found a new passion for life in writing. I am married and have two dogs, Selah and Houdini. I am blessed to be living in beautiful Southern California. In my free time outside of writing, I work on staying fit. Last year, I lost close to 40 pounds. 






Monday, August 26, 2013

Book Review: Taken By You (The Killer Next Door #2) by Carlie Sexton


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Taken By You
The Killer Next Door Part 2
By:  Carlie Sexton
Published:  July 9, 2013
Source:  Author
Mature Content:  18 & Over


GR's Summary:

How tragic it is when a caged spirit finally finds its freedom and — entranced in its ecstasy — is invited by that freedom into a cloaked dance with danger.

In Book One of this three-part epic, Kate Simmons — young and alluring, and finally out of her cage of grief — attracts more than attention. Intoxicated by her newfound independence, a blithe Kate is on her way to finding out that around the corners of life, some life-changing eye-openers await. As the story continues in Book Two and she begins to churn a dangerously turbulent trail, it is Kate who now has to snap to, to react, to outrun, or become yet another tortured victim who vanishes down the path of wrong choice.

Having already roiled the risky waters of jealousy, Kate moves in with Neil while Roger — an enamored oddity — visits his son in Germany. Upon his return and finding Kate gone, Roger’s predator mind becomes unhitched, and then unleashed, on the hunt of a lifetime. But whose life?

Step by creeping step, even as Kate’s future closes in on her, she attends — obliviously — to her new life, working through the challenges of fresh relationships, losing family members both to death and to deceit, questioning the depth of love. 
Every path offers a choice. Every choice offers a consequence. And every consequence summons its due. As emotions swirl across fateful days and nights, some in Kate’s life will reach out to touch happiness in warm embraces, others to sever ties in bloody traces.

The stains of passion are frequently mistaken. The question here is who will be taken?





First Book in the Series:

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***To Read My Review on Fallen For You Click HERE***




My Take on this Journey:  


Taken By You, by Carlie Sexton is the phenomenal sequel to Fallen For You.  The sequel takes off from the cliffhanger that was dropped at the end of book one.  

Roger returns from his trip to Germany to find that Kate and Charlie are gone, along with all of their belongings, when he creeps into their apartment to voyeur into her bedroom while Kate sleeps.  

Roger is a serial killer and a psychopath, who will stop at nothing to get what he wants.  Roger has an entitlement issue.  He thinks that he was deprived as a child, and needs attention along with anything he wants at any cost.

The girls made their move as soon as Roger left, and went into hiding.  Charlie moved in with her boyfriend, Mitch and Kate moved in with her boyfriend, Neil.   Kate is forced to quit her job at Nordstrom and work for Neil.  She stays in College, but has a body guard that Neil has hired to protect here from Roger. 

Roger has found a new girlfriend, Rose #2, and still has Pauline, (Jacobs mother) to contend with.  He has brought his son, Jacob, and Pauline into his apartment to stay until they find a place of their own.

There are accidental run in's, and a lot of twists and turns in this novel.  I do not want to give away any of the angst filled scenarios, but this novel will have you on the edge of your seat from beginning to end.   YES...another CliffHanger!!!!! AGH... I'm dying.  I have to get my hands on Given To You, the third book in The Killer Next Door series.  This is a must read people!  

Do not miss out out Ms. Sexton's series.  I guarantee you that you will not be disappointed.  Put this on your TBR now!  A lot of secrets are revealed in this segment, sorrowful moments come to pass, and surprise engagements announced!  

Ms. Sexton has flawless writing abilities, and will put you in step with each and every character and their respective situation as it is unveiled. 

I give Taken By You, 5 Riviting, Pain Staking, Lust Filled, Romance Ensconced, Blood Soaked, Tight Rope Falling... Stars!!!





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About the Author:



    Hi. I'm Carlie and I have found a new passion for life in writing. I am married and have two dogs, Selah and Houdini. I am blessed to be living in beautiful Southern California. In my free time outside of writing, I work on staying fit. Last year, I lost close to 40 pounds. I'm looking forward to publishing my book Fallen for You (The Killer Next Door, Part 1) in the very near future.






Friday, August 16, 2013

Book Review: Fallen For You (The Killer Next Door #1) by Carlie Sexton


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Fallen For You
The Killer Next Door Pt. 1
By:  Carlie Sexton
Published:  June 4, 2013
Source:  Author
Mature Content:  18 & Over


GR's Summary:


If you believe your life is the sum total of your choices, what do you do when things just don’t add up? You are about to find out. It won’t be pretty. It won’t be dull. And surely, it won’t be safe. In fact, making just one wrong choice could put evil at your bedside watching you sleep.


And so it is with Kate Simmons, a young woman who, by choosing to regain her life, actually puts it at risk by the very choices she makes. After unimaginable heartbreak stops her world on a dime, Kate falls into a three-year blackness of self blame that brings her to the edge of life, itself. As time finally brings light back through tiny cracks of renewed desire, Kate moves out of the prison she made for herself in her mother’s home to find a new reality, rooming with her best girlfriend, Charlie. 

Yet, to be free is to be vulnerable, and Kate’s choices more than ever mark a splattered line between being happy and being dead. 

Care to choose? Here’s your menu: 
A strangely alluring building manager so possessed with wanting you for his own, he’ll bury more than the fact he has a girlfriend; a buff college student for whom you are clearly hot, as are all the other girls on campus; a pushy lawyer who is as handsome as he is intoxicated with conquest, who doesn’t take no for an answer, who gets what he wants — always.

Sometimes, it’s whom you choose. Sometimes, it’s who chooses you. If you’re Kate, it’s both, and it puts you on a perilous road where good looks and humor are the thin masks of jealous delusion and utter violence.

You’re in trouble when the sum total of your choices is written in blood red.








My Take on this Journey:


Fallen for You, by Carlie Sexton is a dynamic debut novel that is original, and clearly full of twists, turns, angst, danger, fright, intrigue, humor, shock, suspense, and steamy romance!  Kate Simmons has been on a one way collision course with fate for a long time.  She has been living out her dreadful, all consuming life, with heartache eating her alive, for about 3 years, living with her mother.  They have their issues,  Kate has been trying to deal with her inner turmoil and guilt over the tragic death of someone close to her.  She is a college student, who finally decides to try to put her life back together, and reinvent it, with the help of her best friend, Charlie Andrews.  The two of them decide to become roommates, find the perfect apartment, and go back to college.  


Kate starts classes up at San Diego State University, and runs into Mark Baxter, a gorgeous, swoon worthy hunk, with beautiful, mind blowing green eyes.  Kate thinks he is a gigolo, because there are always girls all around him, even though he claims he only has eyes for her.  She also meets Neil Statton,  who is also great looking.  They have a lot in common.  He is very persistent guy, doesn't take "NO" for an answer, and he always gets what he wants at any cost.  Then, there is the manager of her apartments, who is also her neighbor, Roger Wilkins, who is nice to look at, says and does all the right things, but makes your skin crawl for one reason or another.  He is obsessive about Kate, and always conveniently shows up waiting around every corner at the right moment!  AGH!!!  

Kate and Charlie don't realize that their lives are in danger, literally, by one of these men.  One of them is a crazed stalker.  Kate believes that if a person makes the right choices in life, that will decide the outcome, good or bad.  That is until something really bad happens to her.  Kate is a bit naive.  There is a lot of edge of your seat suspense, steamy romance, intrigue and drama in this story.  The novel began at a fair pace, but once everything was in place, it just flew by. I couldn't put it down.  There was humor at times, and I was scared to death at other times.  Ms. Sexton has created a wonderfully scary thrill ride, that the reader will not soon forget.  The novel leaves questions unanswered for the reader, and that leads us to the second book in the series, Taken by You.  Mark is a real sweet talker, and just the essence of him will melt in your mouth at times.  He always knows the right words to say, but can he be trusted?  Neil is forward, yet acts at times gentlemanly, but watch out, cause he can change on a dime if he doesn't get what he wants!  Then, there is the all too available, obsessively wacko, goody two shoes looking manager, that will give the reader the creeps.  The friendly, "neighbor next door" that wants to know all your business, asks a lot of inappropriate questions, and makes Kate uncomfortable.  Ms. Sexton has written a creative, one of a kind, diabolical, excellent novel that will not be predictable.  This was a really freaky, mind blowing novel, that will knock your socks off!  If a, "Who done it" is your thing,  you are going to love this thrill of a ride!!!

I give, Fallen For You, By Carlie Sexton 5 Dramatic, Exhaustingly Terrifying, Steam-Filled, Mind Blowing Stars!!!  







Casting by Ms. Sexton:

"Kate Simmons"
"Neil Statton"



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About the Author:



    Hi. I'm Carlie and I have found a new passion for life in writing. I am married and have two dogs, Selah and Houdini. I am blessed to be living in beautiful Southern California. In my free time outside of writing, I work on staying fit. Last year, I lost close to 40 pounds. I'm looking forward to publishing my book Fallen for You (The Killer Next Door, Part 1) in the very near future.