Release Blitz & Giveaway ~ Forbidden Promises, The O'Malley's #4, by Katee Robert

Forbidden Promises

Author: Katee Robert

Series: The O’Malleys, #4

On Sale: May 30, 2017

Publisher: Forever

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New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Katee Robert delivers the next book in her sizzling O'Malleys family series, hailed as "The Godfather meets Romeo & Juliet."

“A tension-filled plot full of deceit, betrayal, and sizzling love scenes will make it impossible for readers to set the book down.” ~ Publishers Weekly

“A great read from the talented Robert!” ~ RT Book Reviews

“This is an extraordinary series by any standards, and Forbidden Promises slays the competition.” ~ Fresh Fiction

Some lines should never be crossed . . . not even for love.

Sloan O'Malley just left her entire world behind—her family, her wealth, and even her real name. For the first time in her life, she's free. She can live the "normal" life she's always wanted. A life without fear. But there's nothing safe about her intensely sexy next-door neighbor.

Jude MacNamara has no room for innocence in his life. Only revenge. Still, he's never been able to walk away from the forbidden, and Sloan—who is every inch of pure, mouthwatering temptation—has forbidden written all over her. Only after it's way too late does he discover the real danger: claiming Sloan as his puts a target on her back. To protect her, Jude is willing risk everything . . . and to hell with the consequences.

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The O’Malleys Series

The Marriage Contract, #1

The Wedding Pact, #2

Indecent Proposal, #3

Forbidden Promises, #4

Undercover Attraction, #5
Untitled O'Malleys #6

Series Page on Goodreads

Interview With Katee Robert

If you could tell your younger writing self anything, what would it be?

I would tell her to stop worrying so much about people’s approval and write the books she loves, unlikable heroines and all. The heart and soul books are the ones that hit the spot, no matter how “marketable” they are.

What kind of research do you do, and how long do you spend researching before beginning a book?

Each book is a little different. For my O’Malley books, I have random rabbit holes of research, but my Hidden Sins series requires months of research before I even start the book.

How do you select the names of your characters?

I’m almost superstitious about names. Sometimes a character arrives with a name already attached. Sometimes, I scroll through baby name websites until I find one that “feels” right for the type of personality/history I know the character has.

What was your hardest scene to write? What was the hardest thing about writing Forbidden Promises?

The hardest scene is different in each book, but it’s usually right around 60% of the way into the draft. Forbidden Promises was different. The ending gave me fits, and it took several tries and a few conversations with my editor to get it exactly right. I felt that click on the third version of it.

If you could have been the original author of any book, what would it have been and why?

Oooh. That’s a good question. Maybe Anne Bishop’s The Black Jewels trilogy, but if I’d written it, I don’t know that I’d love it the way I do as reading it as a reader.

Thank you Katee!!

Review

Katee Robert brings us another titillating tale in The O'Malley series.

Sloan O'Malley has made a run for it, a chance for a life outside the family influence.

Jude is the last of his family and over the last several years he's systemically sought revenge on the family that took his.

A chance encounter brings these two together and the more time they spend together, the stronger their bond becomes. And when a threat is directed toward Sloan, Jude will stop at nothing to keep her safe and in his arms.

And when all is said and done, will Sloan choose to return to her family or leave everything behind and start a new life with Jude?

Forbidden Promises is an engrossing, scintillating read that keeps the read on the edge of their seat from start to finish. The O'Malley may not be a typical family, but you can't help by appreciate the love they have for each other.

Jude and Sloan are complete opposites yet completely perfect for each other. I loved watching them fight their attraction and then in the end submit to it. Neither want to attempt the love that is there, but they refuse to give up on their relationship.

Jude isn't your typical hero given his past, but he'll make you swoon over and over again with how he treats, protects, and loves Sloan. He'd go to the end of the world for her and that is something you can't help be love.

I always love picking up a Katee Robert book with her ability to draw a reader into the story and Forbidden Promises is everything you hope for. I love The O'Malley series and can't wait to see what Katee will give us next.

About The Author

Katee Robert is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author who learned to tell stories at her grandpa's knee. Her novel The Marriage Contract was a RITA finalist, and RT Book Reviews named it "a compulsively readable book with just the right amount of suspense and tension." When not writing sexy contemporary and romantic suspense, she spends her time playing imaginary games with her children, driving her husband batty with what-if questions, and planning for the inevitable zombie apocalypse.

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Release Blitz & Giveaway ~ An Indecent Proposal, The O'MalleysSeries #3, by Katee Robert

An Indecent Proposal

The O'Malley's Series

by Katee Robert

On Sale: August 30, 2016

Publisher: Forever

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New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Katee Robert continues her smoking-hot series about the O'Malleys—wealthy, powerful, and full of scandalous family secrets.

Greed. Ambition. Violence. Those are the "values" Olivia Rashidi learned from her Russian mob family-and the values she must leave behind for the sake of her daughter. When she meets Cillian O'Malley, she recognizes the red flag of his family name…yet she still can't stop herself from seeing the smoldering, tortured man. To save her family, Olivia sets out to discover Cillian's own secrets, but the real revelation is how fast—and how hard—she's falling for him.

Plagued by a violent past, Cillian is more vulnerable than anyone realizes. Anyone except Olivia, whose beauty, compassion, and pride have him at "hello," even if she's more inclined to say good-bye to an O'Malley. While his proposal of sex with no strings seems simple, what he feels for her isn't, especially after he learns that she belongs to a rival crime family. Cillian knows that there is no escape from the life, but Olivia may be worth trying—and dying—for.

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Review

Life isn't always easy, but when you are born into an organized crime family life isn't not only tough, but not your own.

Cillian is more than the man he appears to be. Although he's taken his role within the family seriously, he's a man tormented by the past and the role he played that resulted in the death of his brother. He may have changed his ways, when people see him they only see a man that trouble seems to find.

Olivia is the new girl in town, leaving a haunted past behind her. She only wants to provide a life for his daughter that is vastly different than the life she, herself, had. The last thing she needs is to hook up with a man that personifies the life she is running from.

Cillian knows he can't provide the life Olivia wants, but he can't seem to stay away from her. So when she calls for help, he jumps into action. He'll do everything in his power to protect her and her daughter, even if it means walking away from the only women that owns  his heart.

Just when I thought I couldn't for another O'Malley, Katee goes and gives us Cillian! As soon as I walked back into the world that is Boston, the only thing I could do was to grab hold of Cillian and enjoy the ride.

This O'Malley is the whole package, a man that will always stand by his family and their business, but also a man that knows when to step away for the good of the woman he loves. I love how he didn't push her to answer his questions, instead proving that he would always be there for her, that he's a person she can trust. 

Olivia has trust issues stemming from childhood, but I love how when push came to shove, she was able to believe Cillian's word. She sees him for more than the sexy yet dangerous man in a killer suit. 

Every book in this series keeps getting juicer and juice and An Indecent Proposal is all that and more. It's got the suspence you would expect given the business the family is in, but it's also got two broken souls coming together and healing each other. The passion that exist between the two is so undeniable that is flows off the pages. What's not to love about a couple that will go to the end of the world and fight anyone and anything for the one they love.

I love this family and can't wait for the next book in this exhilarating series

An Indecent Proposal

Q&A

1) What drew you towards writing about these crazy, intimidating mob families in the first place?

I love the contrasting elements that you see in fictional mob families. They orchestrate and do these terrible things, but there is this core set of values that puts family above all. So you have a leader of a mob family who might order a hit on an enemy, and then go share a meal with his family. Examining the kind of people who can live these dual sort of lives—and what happens when you start throwing wrenches into the mix—is something that I’ve always wanted to do. This series has been such a blast to write as a result.

2) What do you think sets this book apart from the other two in the series?

The events in The Marriage Contract (O’Malley #1) has some long-standing effects. We saw a bit of that in the second book, but Cillian O’Malley has a serious case of survivor guilt and the death of his little brother has altered his perspective of life on a fundamental level. So you have this guy who used to be a party boy and lived on the edge, and now he’s a shadow of who he used to be…but might be stronger as a result. He’s very different from Teague and James, and he’s what sets this book apart from the ones that have come before.

3) Out of the three O’Malley men you’ve written books for, which one would you say is closest to being your perfect match and why?

I think they’d all eat me alive. Haha. Okay, but seriously. My heart belongs to James. I have a thing for alpha dudes who don’t always behave the way you expect alpha dudes to behave, and James fits that description to a T!

4) What is your favorite trope to read?

I love, love, love marriage of convenience. You get these two strangers (or enemies or people who would never have been married otherwise) and they are forced into one of the most intimate relationships a person can be in. Reading about the couple finding their way and then realizing that, hey, they might actually want to make this a marriage FOR REAL *waggles eyebrows* … Yeah, that’s my favorite.

5) What are you currently working on? And do you plan on writing any more books based on mob life?

I’m currently doing edits on Sloan’s book (O’Malley #4) and then I’m finishing up writing Aiden’s book (O’Malley #5), both of which will be out next year. I’m a firm believer in no man or lady left behind when it comes to happily ever after, and that definitely applies to the O’Malley family! They’ve been through so much (and will go through so much for over the next few books)—they deserve to each find their person and fall head over heels in love.

Meet The O’Malleys

The Wedding Pact, #1

The Marriage Contract, #2

An Indecent Proposal, #3

Series Page on Goodreads

About The Author

Katee Robert learned to tell stories at her grandpa's knee. Her favorites then were the rather epic adventures of The Three Bears, but at age twelve she discovered romance novels and never looked back. 

Though she dabbled in writing, life got in the way-as it often does-and she spent a few years traveling, living in both Philadelphia and Germany. In between traveling and raising her two wee ones, she had the crazy idea that she'd like to write a book and try to get published. 

Her first novel was an epic fantasy that, God willing, will never see the light of day. From there, she dabbled in YA and horror, before finally finding romance. Because, really, who wouldn't want to write entire books about the smoking-hot relationships between two people? 

She now spends her time-when not lost in Far Reach worlds-playing imaginary games with her wee ones, writing, ogling men, and planning for the inevitable zombie apocalypse.

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The Wedding Pact
The O'Malleys Series
by Katee Robert

Date of Publication: April 26, 2016

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Katee Robert continues her smoking-hot series about the O'Malleys-wealthy, powerful, and full of scandalous family secrets.

Carrigan O'Malley has always known her arranged marriage would be more about power and prestige than passion. But after one taste of the hard-bodied, whiskey-voiced James Halloran, she's ruined for anyone else. Too bad James and his family are enemy number 1.

Hallorans vs. O'Malleys-that's how it's always been. James should be thinking more about how to expand his family's empire instead of how silky Carrigan's skin is against his and how he can next get her into his bed. Those are dangerous thoughts. But not nearly as dangerous as he'll be if he can't get what he wants: Carrigan by his side for the rest of their lives.

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About Katee Robert

Katee Robert learned to tell stories at her grandpa's knee. Her favorites then were the rather epic adventures of The Three Bears, but at age twelve she discovered romance novels and never looked back.

Though she dabbled in writing, life got in the way-as it often does-and she spent a few years traveling, living in both Philadelphia and Germany. In between traveling and raising her two wee ones, she had the crazy idea that she'd like to write a book and try to get published.

Her first novel was an epic fantasy that, God willing, will never see the light of day. From there, she dabbled in YA and horror, before finally finding romance. Because, really, who wouldn't want to write entire books about the smoking-hot relationships between two people?

She now spends her time-when not lost in Far Reach worlds-playing imaginary games with her wee ones, writing, ogling men, and planning for the inevitable zombie apocalypse.

Find Katee Online

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Excerpt

James had thought he'd imagined the fear in Carrigan's voice when she called. If she was in actual trouble, she sure as hell wasn't going to call him—no matter how much he liked the idea of being the one to swoop in and save her from her problems. He liked the idea too much.

But then she walked into the quiet little pub where he was waiting and he realized he hadn't been wrong the first time. There were faint bruises beneath her eyes, like she'd been sleeping even less than he had, and she held herself like a woman who'd been beaten for the first time. He was on his feet before he made a conscious decision to move. "Who hurt you?"

"No one."

"Don't play that martyr bullshit with me, Carrigan. Who the fuck put that look on your face?" She'd gone through hell and back because of him and it hadn't put that haunted expression in her green eyes. He clenched his fists, trying and failing to get control of his temper. She wasn't his to protect. Hell, even if she was, he had a pretty shitty track record of keeping people in his care safe. There was no reason why she'd be any different.

Except that he wanted her to be different.

She brushed past him, drawing his attention to her clothing. "What the hell are you wearing?"

Carrigan spun and glared. "I don't need your shit right now."

"You called me, lovely, so my shit is exactly what you're going to get." She looked like an angel—one that had had its wings clipped. He wasn't sure what gave him that impression, but the long white dress was opposite of everything he'd found the woman to be in the short time they'd known each other. She was wild and impulsive and free. She wasn't…this virginal almost-bride. He didn't like the change. He didn't like it one bit. "Sit your ass down. I'll get us drinks, and then you're telling me what the fuck is going on."

"Don't hold your breath on that."

He wouldn't have to. She might be prickly as all get out, but she wanted to talk. She wouldn't have called him otherwise. The bartender met him halfway, a nervous little mouse of a guy. James made an effort to speak softly because the man looked half a second from pissing himself at the idea of a Halloran in his bar. "Whiskey for me. Dirty martini for the lady."

He made his way back to where Carrigan had picked a booth. Ignoring the empty side, he slid in next to her.

The bartender appeared with their drinks, and James waited for him to scurry away before he spoke again. "Talk to me. I can't help you if I don't know what's wrong."

"No one can help me."

The raw pain in her voice made him want to comfort her, but that was one skill James had never learned. Maybe if his mother had lived…But there was no room in this world for "what if" and "maybe." So he did the one thing that he knew how to do. The single thing guaranteed to distract her.
He kissed her.

Carrigan went rigid for half a second, but he waited, his lips on hers, and let her choose. That hesitation was all it took for her to melt, turning to fire in his arms. He wanted to haul her against him, to let this feeling consume him until none of the bullshit mattered anymore. Right now, in this moment, there was only her. They could be the last two people in the world for all he gave a fuck. Hell, part of him hoped they were. As her tongue stroked his, a small, treacherous thought wormed into his brain and took root.

With this woman by my side, I'd be content to let the rest of the world burn.

Review

What happens when two people that should never cross paths and to be sworn enemies have an undeniable connection?

That's what happens in this intriguing, explosive, roller coaster ride of a book.

The sparks that fly between Carrigan and James will ignite a flame that can't be extinguished.

As the story progresses, the reader will not only be drawn into the drama but also the all encompassing passion. You'll be glue to the pages trying to figure out what will happen next. But don't think too hard, because that is when a twist you didn't see coming strike.

This is an action packed, suspenseful love story that can't be missed!

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