New Covers, New Titles!

Most of you know how much I absolutely adore my MC series. I knew something was missing, I just didn't know what exactly! I happen to belong in a group where HM Ward dispenses advice and she spoke of the Trifecta in publishing: title, blurb and cover. 

Well, I'd already changed my blurbs and although I liked the covers, they didn't match -- they didn't look like a series and the titles had nothing to do with one another. So, without much more fanfare, here are the new covers for The Rough Riders Series!

Amazon
Amazon UK
Amazon CA
Amazon Australia
Barnes & Noble
Kobo
Apple

Blurb

Welcome to Northern Nevada. The scenery is idyllic, the people are friendly and the outlaws rule the Tri-City area between Reno, Carson City, and Lake Tahoe with an iron fist. The path to Hell is paved with good intentions, and so are the highways where Lucifer's Saints, Demon's Bastards and White Knights call the shots. 

Love isn't patient, love isn't always kind and love certainly doesn't love you. Gisela Jackson understands the sentiment more than most. The daughter of an original gangster father and a socialite mother, her life has come full circle. She's lost the one man she's always loved until life gives them a second chance...

Cillian "Killer" Cox, Vice President for the Lucifer's Saints Motorcycle Club, has had a crappy hand in life. The son of the Saints' President, he's never questioned the orders he's given to maintain the order, brotherhood and safety of the club or their community. Until now. An encounter with his childhood sweetheart and a moment of weakness will change his life -- and hers -- forever. 

This is Cillian and Gisela's story of love, loss, heartache, betrayal and pain. It's not pretty but neither is life so proceed with caution. 

Amazon

Amazon UK

Amazon CA

Amazon Australia

Barnes & Noble

Kobo

Apple

Blurb

Welcome to Northern Nevada. The scenery is idyllic, the people are friendly and the outlaws rule the Tri-City area between Reno, Carson City, and Lake Tahoe with an iron fist. The path to Hell is paved with good intentions, and so are the highways where Lucifer's Saints, Demon's Bastards and White Knights call the shots.

Club life is what Trey Lennon lives for and all he's known his adult life. As Sergeant at Arms for the Lucifer's Saints Motorcycle Club, his whole world changed when he lost the love of his life and his former status with the Demon's Bastards MC. Secrets continue to disrupt him from getting his life back on track but none bigger than the one a certain fiery haired attorney reveals...

Kyra Hughes is no stranger to the MC life. As the daughter of Jonesy Hughes, President of the Demon's Bastards, she works on the right side of the law defending the outlaws who only desire freedom to live life their way. When a new client puts her in the middle of a RICO investigation, she's forced to drag the one man she's always wanted to make her own into a mess that could blow up in both their faces.

This is Trey and Kyra's story of destruction, pain and an enduring love that will touch every corner of their lives. It's far from perfect but neither is life so proceed with caution.

WARNING: The Rough Riders Series should be read in order to follow the overall story arc. This novel contains adult situations, explicit language and violence.

The Rough Riders MC Series:

Ride to Temptation

Ride to Chaos

Ride to Vengeance (September, 2014)

The Premiere of In Too Deep (The Lovers Duet)

Amazon
Amazon UK
Amazon Canada
Barnes & Noble
Apple
Kobo

Cover Reveal for Out From Under!

Add to your TBR on Goodreads!

Title: Out From Under, A Novel (Stand alone, not part of a series)

Author: Selene Chardou

Expected release date: July 31st, 2013

Genre: Romantic Mystery & Suspense / Contemporary Romance

Age Group: New Adult

Cover Designed by: Alicia C. Mattern (https://www.facebook.com/AliciaCMatternCoverArtist) and CL Smith (www.goonwrite.com) 

Book Description:

Trista Lennon is strong, independent and only desires freedom. Freedom from the control of her parents, freedom from the motorcycle gangs she has had to put up with her whole life and freedom from a relationship that will trap her into the very life she has no wish to ever live.

The day before she’s supposed to leave for Stanford University to pursue her dreams, her world is shattered. After a tragedy that tears her family apart, Trey, her cousin, Talia, invites her to L.A. Her life is all the sudden Hollywood stars and sunshine, late nights and wild parties.

And then she meets him.

Linx Carter isn’t looking for a relationship. He survived a dysfunctional marriage with his childhood sweetheart, which produced two sons, an inability to trust women and a multitude of lies. He merely wants to recuperate from a rough, six month tour Winter’s Regret just completed with superstar band, Scarlet Fever, and enjoy a little peace and quiet.

Until he sees her.

Trista and Linx fight their attraction for one another like war on a battlefield.

She has a closetful of secrets and he would rather be single and pathetic than date a teenage girl who seems older than her years. However the passion between them is too much to resist and they realize in order to heal one another, they must destroy the walls they have constructed so tightly around their hearts.

Add Out From Under to your Goodreads TBR List Here: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18190579-out-from-under-a-novel

Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/ellechardou/out-from-under-a-novel/

Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7025554.Selene_Chardou

Tuesday tease for my upcoming stand-alone novel!

Out From Under is a multi-faceted New Adult stand alone novel that deals with loss, grief, love, happiness and finding yourself after losing yourself.

Trista Lennon is a young woman heading off to Stanford University when her life is turned upside down by a devastating accident where she loses most of her family. She trades Northern California and an Ivy League for the City of Angels and her rock star cousin, Talia Viaro-Stewart.

As her PA, she is run ragged by Talia but she enjoys the work and she never thought in a city as fake as L.A., she would find the one man who is so wrong for her, he's right. 

Trista experiences happiness for the first time since the accident but little does she know, she was supposed to die along with her parents and someone still wants her dead...

The following scene takes place before Trista's life is turned upside down.

Excerpt

Clooney still walked with a slight limp but at least he didn’t have to use his walking stick and he’d almost healed to the point where he could run.

He was the first man I’d ever given my virginity too and although we both knew there was zero chance of me ever becoming his old lady, we liked each other a lot. Too much because I was going to miss him, his girlish creamy complexion covered in a handful of tats and his lean body. I would even miss the scar that went from his left hip all the way down to his calf where multiple operations had taken place. It was a thin, pink scar which had keloid and was slightly puffy against his otherwise perfect skin.

I laid on my stomach in his bed in the clubhouse and ran my hands over one of his army tattoos on his smooth, hairless chest.

“So, what happens now? When will I see you?”

Ugh, I wanted to avoid that question like the plague and wondered why I felt like our situations were reversed. Why did I feel like the man and him the chick? I knew I would let him down what ever I told him but it was no use.

“You probably won’t see much of me,” I began in a cautious tone. “Stanford is no joke and I will have to work my ass off to maintain a good grade point average. I probably won’t be back until summer vacation.”

“Christ, that’s a long time. Why are you leaving now?” he inquired as he stroked my soft, dark hair.

Clooney loved my hair for some reason though there was nothing special about it except I had natural chestnut highlights running throughout.

“I want to settle in to dorm life,” I lied smoothly.

The reality was I just wanted to get the hell out of Pine Bluff and be around intelligent people my own age. I loved my parents but they were suffocating and although we’d spent Christmas together, they’d opted to spend the week of New Year’s with my aunt and uncle. Once they got back, we would celebrate with a wonderful dinner at a nice restaurant in Lake Tahoe and a couple days later, I would be leaving.

      Thank God for small favors.

So there it is...the novel involves all kinds of people from accountants and computer hackers to rock stars and bikers...I am very excited about this novel. 

The cover reveal will take place on Monday, July 15, 2013!

Thanks for reading and have a wonderful day!