{"id":57133,"date":"2021-01-26T08:00:59","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T13:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/?p=57133"},"modified":"2021-01-26T05:14:24","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T10:14:24","slug":"release-blitz-bloody-vows-lilah-love-5-by-lisa-renee-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/?p=57133","title":{"rendered":"Release Blitz: Bloody Vows (Lilah Love, #5) by Lisa Renee Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bloody Vows<\/strong>
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by Lisa Renee Jones<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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Released – 26 January 2021<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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Available Now!<\/strong>
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Blurb<\/strong><\/h4>\n

FBI agent Lilah Love leads a complicated life. She’s engaged to Kane Mendez, a man most call dangerous, but hey birds of a feather, do flock together. She’s dangerous, too, and in ways only Kane understands. As for their happily ever after, well that might have to wait. Right now, an old enemy who should be dead is still living, Junior, her mystery letter writer, is stirring up trouble, and her family is trying to prove they’re crazier than her. On top of that she has a new case: a dead woman in a bloody wedding dress. And since Lilah knows all too well there is no such thing as coincidence, clearly someone is sending her yet another message.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Excerpt<\/strong><\/h4>\n

By the time I\u2019m in the garage at the house, Kane is waiting for me at the door. He studies me with intensity, intensely unreadable. He\u2019s assessing, questioning, but not talking. God love him and his understanding of how I operate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m in my head.<\/span><\/p>\n

I need to stay there right now.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

He backs up to allow me to enter the back hallway and I\u2019m quick to do just that. Once we\u2019re both inside the warm house, I strip off my wet boots and he takes my coat before I follow him to the kitchen. I settle onto a barstool in front of the marbled island, while he prepares, and then hands me a hot Bailey\u2019s coffee with whipped cream. Yes, the dark, dangerous Kane Mendez put whipped cream on my coffee. And still, we haven\u2019t spoken a word.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

He joins me, claiming the spot next to me while I sip my coffee, the warm, sweet liquid sliding down my throat and helping me come down about two notches.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Ready now, for more than my own mental ping-ponging of thoughts, I grab my phone, thumbing through photos until I find the image of the jar of blood. I set it in front of Kane.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThat was left for me in the refrigerator of the crime scene.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

He glances at it and then me, arching his dark brow. \u201cThe victim\u2019s blood?\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cPig\u2019s blood,\u201d I say matter-of-factly. \u201cThat\u2019s not confirmed, but it\u2019s going to be pig\u2019s blood. I know it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

He doesn\u2019t freak out but then I don\u2019t expect anything but calm, thoughtful contemplation from Kane. He doesn\u2019t even ask why I make that assessment. He simply asks, \u201cIs this Pocher or a Roger prot\u00e9g\u00e9?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Just that easily he\u2019s already in my headspace. And the question spoken at just the right time grounds me in logic rather than the emotion that had me storming out of Emma\u2019s kitchen ready to kill Pocher.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cLogically,\u201d I say, \u201cthe dress and the jar could point to either. Of course, my first reaction was Pocher. We just found out he came back. And when I saw that dead woman and then saw the jar of blood, I was ready to kill him.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAndrew influenced that. He already believed it was Pocher when he called you to the scene.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTrue. And it could be Pocher.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBut your gut isn\u2019t reading it that way. I can tell.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I sip my coffee and add, \u201cWith the dress, and without the jar of blood, this would have read like a classic jealousy crime. The groom was already neglecting the bride and she had a side dude. And yet, it wasn\u2019t a crime of rage. We\u2019re not even sure how the woman died.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMeaning what?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cShe seemed to have a rupture from her throat, but there was no obvious cut.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cPoison?\u201d he asks.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe new medical examiner doesn\u2019t think so.\u201d My cellphone rings with Lucas\u2019s number where it still lays between me and Kane. His jaw clenches.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI called him to hack for me, and he\u2019s coming to dinner. And before you scowl, he was going to be alone, Kane.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

He downs his coffee, every last drop, and stands up, his spine stiff. <\/span>Fuck.<\/span><\/i> I answer the call on speaker. It\u2019s better that way, with Kane\u2019s ear where my ears are right now. \u201cLucas,\u201d I say, and I don\u2019t warn him that Kane is in the room. If he\u2019s not smart enough to figure that out, he deserves whatever he gets. \u201cWhat do you have for me?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI pulled Danica and North\u2019s records. I\u2019m sending them in a secure file by maildrop for you to accept. But there\u2019s nothing exceptional there to see. And before you bitch, I\u2019m digging deeper, but that will take time.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat about the victim and the men in her life?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBoth her dead husband and her fianc\u00e9 have donated to various Pocher-driven campaigns. That was easy to pull. Her fianc\u00e9 has actually donated to your father\u2019s campaign. But Lilah, you\u2019d be hard pressed to find anyone in this town who hasn\u2019t pandered to Pocher\u2019s power. And that\u2019s all I have now. I\u2019m drunk. I\u2019m still drinking. No more updates tonight.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYes, but\u2014\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNo,\u201d he says, \u201cand I\u2019m hanging up.\u201d He disconnects.<\/span><\/p>\n

I grimace and I\u2019d call him back, but I decide better.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Kane at this point has filled a whiskey glass and is leaning on the counter in front of the sink. I stand up and close the space between us. I step directly in front of him and he downs his drink and sets the glass down. His hands are on the counter behind him. He doesn\u2019t even think about touching me and I know it\u2019s about Lucas. Which is exactly why I want him to know that I\u2019m not thinking about Lucas, but rather those donations that connect Emma\u2019s fianc\u00e9 to my father. And I\u2019m thinking about his words, his declaration that we\u2019re dangerous to the Society. \u201cWhat if\u2014\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

He grabs me and pulls me to him. \u201cIf you say that woman died because we\u2019re together, and turn this into another reason to take off my ring, I swear to God, Lilah, I\u2019m done.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

I can be hard. I can be cold. I can apparently be a killer. But I love Kane Mendez. He\u2019s hard, too. He\u2019s cold as ice. He\u2019s forever in control. But he\u2019s not those things with me. And it\u2019s in this moment, for the first time ever, I realize how much I hurt him when I left him. Just how much I cut him.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI regret every moment we were apart more than you can know. I\u2019m not taking off the ring, Kane.\u201d My hands settle on his chest. \u201cNot ever. I\u2019m not\u2014\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

His mouth closes down on mine, his hand on the back of my head, and just that easily, he reminds me I\u2019m human again, capable of wanting, loving, needing, and forgetting all but the moment. But more so, he reminds me that <\/span>he\u2019s<\/span><\/i> human. He isn\u2019t always in control. He has emotions, torment I can taste on his tongue, even desperation he\u2019d allow no other human to know he\u2019s capable of feeling. I\u2019ve pushed him away. I\u2019ve hurt him. But I\u2019ve always loved him and he doesn\u2019t yet know that I\u2019m done fighting against this, against us.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

He just doesn\u2019t know that.<\/span><\/p>\n

And that\u2019s a problem.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kane picks me up and I don\u2019t fight him. He has this thing about taking me to his bed, now <\/span>our<\/span><\/i> bed, as if that establishes some sort of ownership of me and us. Not that I could ever be owned, but deep down, I know we own each other. We always have. We always will. And if that\u2019s what he needs, to feel that ownership, I\u2019m not at war with him. I\u2019m at war with Pocher and the Society. But he doesn\u2019t take me upstairs and to the bedroom. He walks to the living room, neutral territory, and I understand his message. The tide has shifted. The demands have changed. Either I\u2019m in this as his equal or I\u2019m not in this at all. And neither is he. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Murder Notes (#1)
\n<\/strong>Review<\/a>
\nBuy:\u00a0Amazon<\/a>\u00a0 | \u00a0Paperback<\/a><\/p>\n

Murder Girl (#2)
\n<\/strong>Review<\/a>
\nBuy: Amazon<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0Paperback<\/a><\/p>\n

Love Me Dead (#3)
\n<\/strong>Buy: Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n

Love Kills (#4)<\/strong>
\nBuy: Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n

Bloody Vows (#5)
\n<\/strong>Releasing – 26 January 2021
\nPre-order: Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n

Bloody Love (#6)
\n<\/strong>Releasing – 29 June 2021
\nPre-order: Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n

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About the Author<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Lisa Renee Jones writes dark, edgy fiction including the highly acclaimed INSIDE OUT series and the upcoming, crime thriller The Poet. Suzanne Todd (producer of Alice in Wonderland and Bad Mom’s) on the INSIDE OUT series: Lisa has created a beautiful, complicated, and sensual world that is filled with intrigue and suspense.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Prior to publishing Lisa owned a multi-state staffing agency that was recognized many times by The Austin Business Journal and also praised by the Dallas Women\u2019s Magazine. In 1998 Lisa was listed as the #7 growing women owned business in Entrepreneur Magazine. She lives in Colorado with her husband, a cat that talks too much, and a Golden Retriever who is afraid of trash bags.<\/span><\/p>\n

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