Blog Tour: Tainted Love

Sweetest Taboo (Book #1) and Tainted Love (Book #2) by Eva Marquez
Tainted Love Release Date: March 5, 2013
Age: Mature YA, 16+
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Source: AToMR Tours
Buy it: Amazon

Isabel thought her life was on track – she was doing well in school, moving quickly toward her future, and deciding who she wanted to be. Best of all, she’d reunited with Tom, the love of her life. But it doesn’t take long for her history – and his – to start catching up with them, presenting a range of uncomfortable questions. Does he really love her? Are they meant to be together? And what exactly has he been doing in their time apart?

TAINTED LOVE EXCERPT

Preface
Dear Reader,
I suppose many of you may still have unanswered questions that you would like to ask, given the opportunity to do so. Perhaps you would like to comment on my behavior and actions. Before you solidify your beliefs about what kind of man I am, let me try to partly explain my side of the story, and what my thoughts were as to the decisions I made years ago.

I would like to start by saying that you don’t always have a choice with whom you truly fall in love with. For those of you who would like to argue the point, well, all I can say is, have you really ever been in love? I am not talking about infatuation, codependency, or being with someone for such a long time that you feel used to him or her, so used to them that you wouldn’t know how to live without that person. I am talking about the type of love that you know, that you feel in every fiber of your being, a feeling of comfort, of being at home in the arms of that person, knowing that even if you never saw him or her again, you would continue to love them unconditionally with all of your heart for the rest of your life? This is how I felt about Isabel. Don’t ask me why because I cannot explain, it is just how it was, how it is, and how it has always been since the moment I laid eyes on her.

The first time I saw Isabel from afar, I felt a connection. To be honest, I don’t know why I should have felt anything at all, as she was just one of thousands of students I have seen on campus over the years. But there was something there, something inexplicably familiar. I know, you may be thinking to yourself, but she was only fifteen. I didn’t look at Isabel as an age or as a student, I just felt a strong connection of some sort, it was just that simple. Nothing more, nothing less. I didn’t see her until the following year on the swim team, where as you have read, I got to know her quite well. I never set out to seduce her; it was quite the opposite as she flirted and made relentless advances by being near me every chance she could get. Eventually things happened (completely against my better judgment, I might add) as we got to know each other, as we fell in love, and as we dreamed of a life together.

I will always say that Isabel was never a schoolgirl, she was never an age, and she was never anyone I intentionally pursued. She just appeared in my life at that particular moment in time, in that particular place (my workplace, of all things) and while the relationship that developed between us was strong, it only became stronger as time went on. To you, the reader, know that I love Isabel with all of my heart, with all of my soul, and with every fiber of my being. It can and will never be any other way for me. This I know.
~ Tom Stevens

TOUR WIDE GIVEAWAY

Five (5) Print Copies of Tainted Love with Swag Packs – Open Internationally.

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GIVEAWAY
As part of the tour I am also hosting a giveaway for one ebook copy of Sweetest Taboo!
Simply email me at Carole.Mckenzie@yahoo.com with the subject TABOO to enter!
Ends March 20, 2013. Open Internationally. Must be 13 or older.

ABOUT EVA

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Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, daughter of European immigrants, Eva Márquez has spent most of her life outside of her home country. At the age of five, Eva accompanied her parents to the United States, where the family settled permanently. After graduating from university, she went on to complete graduate studies in International Relations in Spain. Eva received her Master of International Studies degree from the University of Sydney and went on to work in the global health field in Sub Saharan Africa and South East Asia. Eva currently resides in Southern Africa.

ABOUT BOOK 1

Isabel Cruz was fifteen years old when she met Tom Stevens. She was 15 when they started dating, and 16 when she lost her virginity to him. By the time she turned 18 and went to college, everything had fallen apart.

This hadn’t been an ordinary love, though. Not a love between two dear friends, or even high school sweethearts. This had been the most taboo sort of love there was: a relationship between a student and her teacher. Isabel started her high school career as a normal student, but set her sights on Tom Stevens as soon as she met him, and pursued him with an intense – and sometimes reckless – fascination. When he finally approached her after swim practice and told her that he shared her feelings, it was the start of a forbidden and dangerous relationship.

Join Isabel as she makes her way through this dark love story, hiding from teachers, lying to her parents, and defying the authorities to make a life with the man she loves. Watch as she discovers the wonders of love and romance, and the terrible betrayal of jealous friends. And cry with her when she learns the hard truth about life and the people in her world.

Sweetest Taboo is inspired by the true and tragic stories of students who fall in love with their teachers, and live with the hard truths of forbidden romances. In a world full of after-school specials on sexual predators, this touching book seeks a different path, casting both student and teacher in a gentle light, and showing that true love may lie at the base of even the most illicit romance.

Sweetest Taboo is inspired by the true and tragic stories of students who fall in love with their teachers, and live with the hard truths of forbidden romances. In a world full of after-school specials on sexual predators, this touching book seeks a different path, casting both student and teacher in a gentle light, and showing that true love may lie at the base of even the most illicit romance.