Beltway Betrayers: Blog Tour

Beltway Betrayers
Taylor Marsh
Publication date: May 12th 2017
Genres: Adult, Psychological Thriller

There’s a secret.

A woman is heard whimpering in a parking garage.

A dark side to the powerfully rich is exposed.

And Alex Gantry is at the center of it all.

After several frightening events that shook Alex’s world, things have settled down.

So it seems…

Elite life coach, Alex Gantry, is enjoying her new life in the Washington, D.C. Beltway.

T.J. Gale, who’s part greenpreneur, part leader of a quick-strike unit of former military and intelligence professionals, has set her heart aflame.

Alex and T.J. are in love.

Enter Jett Spence, a man who once was part of T.J.’s world but who is now an unknown, because no one can tell whose side he’s on.

Two thousand miles away in Hollywood, Alex’s old haunts, the powerful producer Brian Marks is falling apart because he’s lost her. The woman he never thought would leave him is now in the bed of a younger man.

In New York City, T.J.’s ex-wife, Lisa, is looking to get even with the woman she thinks destroyed her marriage. Her vengeful father Davin Dalaney is eager to help because T.J. is no longer willing to ignore his criminal profits.

Brian is intent on getting Alex back.

Lisa wants to make her pay.

And T.J. is attempting to keep her safe.

Alex believes she can take care of herself, but being with T.J. has taught her it’s not always that simple.

From the Washington, D.C. Beltway to Los Angeles, California, the stakes couldn’t be higher.

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Author Bio:

Taylor Marsh writes smart, arousing romance while deciphering world events. She lives in the Beltway area of Washington D.C.

“Beltway Betrayers,” Book 2 of The Beltway Series, will be out in May 2017 and Book 3 of this series will be out in the fall.

She is a former Broadway performer and beauty queen who was the Relationship Consultant for LA WEEKLY, then the nation’s top alternative newsweekly. Taylor is the author of two traditionally published non-fiction books, “The Hillary Effect,” and her memoir, “The Sexual Education of a Beauty Queen.”

Taylor was profiled in The Washington Post and The New Republic for her coverage of Hillary Clinton during the 2008 Democratic primary season. She became a contributor to The Huffington Post in 2006, and has written for Washington, D.C.’s The Hill, as well as for U.S. News & World Report and for Zócalo Public Square in Los Angeles, among others. As a seasoned entertainer, communicator and speaker, Taylor has also been interviewed by The Los Angeles Times, Al Jazeera Media Network, The New York Times, BBC, CNN, MSNBC, and C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, among other outlets.

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Top 10 List

10 Favorite Books By Taylor Marsh, Author of Beltway Betrayers

Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell

Post-Mortem, by Patricia Cornwell

Grace and Power, by Sally Bedell Smith

River God: A Novel of Ancient Egypt, by Wilbur Smith

Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry

An Unfinished Life, by Robert Dallek

Tropic of Cancer, by Henry Miller

The Gold Coast, by Nelson DeMille

The Bourne Identity, by Richard Ludlum

M is for Malice, by Sue Grafton

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Top ten books I’m determined to devour over spring

TTTm3This week’s Top Ten set by THE BROKE AND THE BOOKISH is Top Ten Books On My Fall TBR. The Broke and the Bookish are up there in the Northern Hemisphere having fall (aka autumn), but I’m down here in the Southern and spring be springing. So here is my top ten books I’m determined to devour over spring.

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Crystal Kingdom (Kanin Chronicles #3) by Amanda Hocking

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Vampire Academy (Vampire Academy #1) by Richelle Mead

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Pieces of Sky by Trinity Doyle

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A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses #1) by Sarah J. Maas

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Paradise Road (Paradise #2) by C.J. Duggan

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Batgirl: Year One (Batgirl) by Scott Beatty, Chuck Dixon, Marcos Martin

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Beautiful Creatures (Caster Chronicles #1) by Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl

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Saga, Volume 1 (Saga: Collected Editions #1) by Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples

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The Rise of Nine (Lorien Legacies #3) by Pittacus Lore

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Chains of Water and Stone (Griever’s Mark #2) by Katherine Hurley

Ten Finished Series I Have YET to finish

TTTm3This week’s Top Ten set by THE BROKE AND THE BOOKISH is Top Ten Ten Finished Series I Have YET to finish.

The NINE series I came up with are complete and I own all the books in them, I just haven’t read them all, YET!!

Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead

Animorphs by Katherine Applegate

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I know these aren’t real covers but I found them online and they cracked me up. If they cracked you up, we’re now BFF. I actually laughed out loud at the Pitbull cover, it was the first image that popped up. Oh Mr World Wide you never looked better.

The Circle of Talia by Dionne Lister

Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien

I’ve read the hobbit and seen the LOTR movies, but I still NEED to read the books.

Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini

All Souls Trilogy by Deborah Harkness

Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy by Laini Taylor

Rain Wilds Chronicles by Robin Hobb

The Grimoire Saga by S.M. Boyce

So many books, so little time!!!!!

My Top Ten Auto-buy Authors

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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature created by The Broke and the Bookish.

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday is Top Ten Of Your Auto-buy Authors.

 I’ve managed to read more books this year than ever before, but I could only come up with 6 authors. So far in my entire life I’ve read about 300 books. Some of you out there read that number in a year. I got into this game late, which is a mistake I will not let my son make. I’ve read over 100 of those 300 books this year! So yes I’m not all that “well read”, but I’m working on it furiously. I didn’t read much when I was younger, I didn’t do well in school, I didn’t play many video games, I just didn’t have the attention span for any of it. I couldn’t sit still. I’d get home from school, eat some food while watching some cartons, then I’d go to my room, turn my stereo up as loud as it would go and dance around my room until I was tired enough to sleep. You’ll still find me doing this on the weekends when I need to de-stress, my two year old son thinks it’s fantastic and joins in.

Ok so I got off topic there, but sometimes I feel more than a little unknowledgeable. But I guess we’ve all different in this community and we all bring something different to the table. Even though I can’t come up with the content for each weeks Top Ten every time, I still love reading all your Top Ten’s and finding new books to add to my ever growing TBR.

So without further ado here is my list.

Leigh Hutton(1) Leigh Hutton. I’d buy any of Leigh’s books regardless what it was about. I think Leigh is an awesome woman and have really enjoyed reading her Girl Power filled YA books.22031265

Rick Riordan

(2) Rick Riordan. Totally buy anything if it’s Percy Jackson related. I have actually got two of his adult books but haven’t got around to reading them yet.12127810
Lee Child

(3) Lee child. So far the only work I’ve come across of Child’s is his Jack Reacher series which I love. I’d be willing to give another series a go if Child ever runs out of Reacher content. The series is 24 books strong, but Reacher is getting on in years – so who knows.

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J.K. Rowling

(4) J.K. Rowling. Totally buy anything if it’s Harry Potter related. If she was to come up with another YA/MG world I would give it ago. I haven’t read any of her adult books, yet!22842001

Amanda Hocking

(5) Amanda Hocking. I have really enjoyed everything I’ve read by Amanda and If I haven’t read it, It is sitting on my self to be read.

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(6) LOCAL! I’m a proud Novocastrian (person from Newcastle). See we’re so special they have a name for us :-P. localsRecently I decided to start finding books by people from or living in Newie, Lake Mac, Hunter Valley and the central coast and buying their books. Obviously I’m only going to buy the ones that appeal to me, ones that I want to read.

These are the ones I’ve purchased so far. Trinity Doyle / Kaz Delaney / Lizzie Wilcock / Susan Whelan I have more on my list that I want to buy, but sadly I need to eat.

Top Ten Tuesdays: Books I’d Love to See as Movies

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Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created by Capturyyyy

June 2nd Is Top Ten Books I’d Love to See as Movies or TV Shows

A lot of books I love have already been turned into movies or TV shows with varying results of awesomeness and some being just plain shitty!

So this is my list of ones I think they should give ago – FYI I’m available for creative input into the production process if you’re interested; Sony? Universal? Disney? Anybody?

Movies:

(1) The Divided” by Amy A. Bartol

(2) We All Looked Up by Tommy Wallach 

(3) Attachments by Rainbow Rowell

(4) Jump Girl by Leigh Hutton

(5) Rev Girl by Leigh Hutton

(6) Longhorn by Jo Baker

TV Series:

(7) The Heroes of Olympus Series by Rick Riordan

(8) The Jack Reacher Series by Lee Child without Tom Cruise anywhere near the project

I stopped at eight – thinking so hard at this time of the morning was starting to hurt :-P.

Last Kiss

As I was driving to drop my son off at daycare yesterday before work I had my iPhone on shuffle and Pearl Jam’s version of Last Kiss came on, one of my all-time favourite songs. Now I Love the 1961 original By J. Frank Wilson but feel the 1999 Pearl Jam version is more passionate.

So this got me thinking about my all-time loved songs. So I sat in the car park before I took my son inside and scribed down the first Ten songs that jumped into mind. Now I love listening to music and if I really sat down with time to think I know I would come up with more like 200+ all-time favourites, but I thought I’d share this list as it was the first ten off the top of my head.

It wasn’t till I sat down to type this out I was horrified to realise that Stevie Wright’s Evie part one, two & three,  AS WELL AS Deep Purple’s Sweet Child of Time were missing, two of what I would consider top top top of my list (My mother will be disappointed in me for forgetting them). But I’ll stick the rushed scribbled ten for this experiment – and I wonder what they say about me – Thoughts anyone??

Last Kiss – Pearl Jam http://youtu.be/4447lT5GQOk

Lithium – Nirvana http://youtu.be/RIQ4tkfysn8

Sinnerman – Nina Simone http://youtu.be/Bn5tiuZU4JI

Stand By Me – Ben E King http://youtu.be/Vbg7YoXiKn0

Live It Up – 360 http://youtu.be/O9ZmEA7UJX8

Nothing On My Mind – Paul Kelly http://youtu.be/IREBNzEKzFY (fighting the bull is one thing, fighting bullshit’s another, you know what I’m saying the bull shit just never seems to die)

Downbound Train – Bruce Springsteen http://youtu.be/Nc_mv46NwT4

Chain Of Fools – Aretha Franklin http://youtu.be/gGAiW5dOnKo

Holding Out For A Hero – Bonnie Tyler http://youtu.be/7f_HsjpSVaI

Follow That Dream – Elvis http://youtu.be/Am05yZehlAM

What is the Top Ten that spring (without too much thought) to your mind??