Sunday, September 16, 2012

BINDING ARBITRATION by Elizabeth Marx_Blog Tour





Title: Binding Arbitration
Author: Elizabeth Marx
Genre: Romance, Family Saga, Contemporary/Chick Lit
Publisher: Self Published
Paperback/Ebook
Pages: 477

Purchase:

Amazon (Kindle) | Amazon (Print) | Barnes and Noble | iTunes | Sony eReader | Diesel |

Book Description:

Through the corridors of the Windy City’s criminal courts, single mother Libby Tucker knows exactly how far she’ll go to save her cancer-stricken son’s life. The undefeated defense attorney is prepared to take her fight all the way to the majors.

Circumstances force Libby to plead her case at the cleats of celebrity baseball player Banford Aidan Palowski, the man who discarded her at their college graduation. Libby has worked her backside bare for everything she’s attained, while Aidan has been indulged since he slid through the birth canal and landed in a pile of Gold Coast money. But helping Libby and living up to his biological duty could jeopardize the only thing the jock worships: his baseball career.

If baseball imitates life, Aidan admits his appears to be silver-plated peanuts, until an unexpected confrontation with the most spectacular prize that’s ever poured from a caramel corn box blindsides him. When he learns about his son’s desperate need, it pricks open the wound he’s carried since he abandoned Libby and the child.

All Libby wants is a little anonymous DNA, but Aidan has a magical umpire in his head who knows Libby’s a fateball right to the heart. When a six-year-old sage and a hippy priestess step onto the field, there’s more to settle between Libby and Aidan than heartache, redemption, and forgiveness.

Also check out Cutters vs. Jocks!



On the idyllic campus of Indiana University, Little-Libby-Nobody runs into Band-Aid, All-American-Athlete, and fireworks explode. Libby and Aidan spiral into a collision course of love at first sight versus lust you can’t fight. As the game plays out and their affection grows, they soon realize that labels like cutters and jocks can’t keep them apart.

But when Libby and Aidan find themselves in trouble they have to confront the reality of where they each fit in the others’ world. Libby believes superstar jocks don’t take cutters to Rose Well House, in the center of campus, at midnight and pledge their undying devotion beneath its sparkling dome. And Band-Aid imagines there’s no place for a pregnant, small-town waitress in his bull-pen or the major leagues. What happens when worthy opponents refuse to play their hearts out?


About the Author:

Windy city writer, Elizabeth Marx, brings cosmopolitan life alive in her fiction—a blend

of romance, fast-paced Chicago living, and a sprinkle of magical realism. In her past incarnation she was an interior designer, not a decorator, a designer, which basically means she has a piece of paper to prove that she knows how to match things, measure things and miraculously make mundane pieces of furniture appear to be masterpieces. Elizabeth says being an interior designer is one part shrink, one part marriage counselor and one part artist, skills eerily similar to those employed in writing.

Elizabeth grew up in Illinois, but has also lived in Texas and Florida. If she’s not pounding her head against the wall trying to get the words just right, you can find her at a softball field out in the boonies somewhere or sitting in the bleachers by a basketball court. Elizabeth resides with her husband, girls, and two cats who’ve spelled everyone into believing they’re really dogs.

Elizabeth has traveled extensively, but still says there’s no town like Chi Town.

Find the Author:

Website | Email: elizabethmarxbooks@gmail.com | Blog | Facebook | Amazon Author Page | Twitter |


Mallory Heart Reviews:

Review of Binding Arbitration by Elizabeth Marx
5 Stars
“Binding Arbitration” is a gritty contemporary romance dealing with really serious issues (yes, not just intimacy, romance, and love): matters of the heart, familial abandonment (parent of child and parent of parent), terminal illness, workplace harassment, and much more). There’s even a sexy Mafia boss (really hot), missing witnesses, and paranormal elements. The heroine is a strong-willed, independent, very admirable individual, a criminal defense attorney who put herself through law school and is heading for partner at a prestigious Chicago law firm. The hero is a major-league baseball player with a lot of celebrity and an empty heart, yearning for he knows not what (but he’ll learn soon).
I predict romance fans are going to love “Binding Arbitration.” With an intense undercurrent of love and sensuality, plus a really intricate and stunning plot, this one’s a winner.

Tour Schedule:

Sept. 13th- A Bit of Dash (Excerpt/Giveaway)
Sept. 14th- Chaotic Book Corner (Review/Giveaway)
Sept. 15th- The Avid Reader (Interview/Giveaway)
Sept. 16th- Mallory Heart Reviews (Review/Giveaway)
Sept. 17th- Kaidans Seduction (Review)
Sept. 18th- SnifferWalk (Excerpt)
Sept. 19th- I Am, Indeed (Review/Giveaway)
Sept. 20th- Sugarbeat's Books (Interview)
Sept. 21st- Beach Bum Reads (Review/Giveaway)
Sept. 22nd- Laurie's Non-Paranormal Thoughts and Reviews (Interview/Giveaway)
Sept. 23rd- A Bibliophiles Thoughts on Books (Excerpt)
Sept. 24th- Blood, Lust and Erotica (Excerpt/Giveaway)
Sept. 25th- Herding Cats & Burning Soup (Review/Giveaway)
Sept. 26th- NightlyReading (Excerpt)
Sept. 27th- Tricia Kristufek (Guest Post/Giveaway)
Sept. 28th- Stitch Read Cook (Review/Giveaway)
Sept. 29th- The eBook Reviewers (Excerpt/Giveaway)
Sept. 30th- Words I Write Crazy (Review)
Oct. 1st- Community Bookstop (Review/Giveaway)
Oct. 2nd- Juniper Grove (Excerpt/Giveaway)
Oct. 3rd- Crossroads (Review/Giveaway)
Oct. 4th- Day Dreaming Book Reviews (Excerpt/Giveaway)
Oct. 5th- Black Hippie Chick's Take on Books & The World (Review/Giveaway)
Oct. 6th- My Seryniti (Review/Giveaway)
Oct. 7th- My Life. One Story at a Time (Excerpt)
Oct. 8th- Melissa's Eclectic Bookshelf (Guest Post)
Oct. 9th- Book Briefs (Excerpt/Giveaway)
Oct. 10th- The Bunny's Review (Review/Giveaway)
Oct. 11th- Crazy Four Books (Review/Giveaway)
Oct. 12th- Simply Infatuated (Interview/Giveaway)
Oct. 13th- Amy's Book World (Review/Giveaway)


1 comment:

  1. Thanks Mallory for revieiwing BA and being a stop on my tour. I'm so glad you enjoyed the complex journey of Libby & Aidan. FYI you'll hear more about the hot mob boss in the next book! I do have BA bookmarks available for you and any of your followers, just stop by my FB author page, leave a comment, a like and PM me your address (US).
    Thanks again and happy reading and reviewing,
    Elizabeth Marx

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