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Pale Morning Light With Violet Swan by Deborah Reed comes out October 2020. The story of a world-renowned artist at the end of her life—and the long-buried secrets that she can’t keep hidden much longer. Ninety-three-year-old Violet Swan has spent a lifetime translating tragedy and hardship into art, becoming famous for her abstract paintings, which evoke tranquility, innocence, and joy. For nearly a century Violet has lived a peaceful, private life of painting on the coast of Oregon. The “business of Violet” is run by her only child, Francisco, and his wife, Penny. But shortly before Violet’s death, an earthquake…

Where The Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens Review is here. Catherine Danielle Clark, also known as Kya or the Marsh Girl, lives in a shack with her family within the marshes of North Carolina. The novel starts off with her mother, leaving all her children behind. Kya, no older than seven, sits on the porch steps and believes her mother will be back. Jodie, her older brother, tells her she will, even though deep down, they know their mother left to escape their abusive father. It isn’t long before all her brothers and sisters leave the house, abandoning Kya, forcing…

This is a story about reclaiming your life. “Not that anyone stole mine. I just lost who I’d wanted to be.” — From Virtue Virtue explores the vulnerability and randomness of human existence through the lives of Tom and Hannah Holder, each of whom are grappling with midlife crises. Scarred by an incident from his youth that broke up his family and left him estranged from his father, Tom has carried self-doubt, buried in a battered soul, his entire life. In the span of a few short months, Tom, now a philosophy professor, watches his adult life unravel as the…

Twins of Shadow by Abby Arthur is out now. A crown prince and his twin brother are secretly skilled assassins… …killing for a cause they both despise. Bound to a dragon by a powerful spell, Tarrek and Albree are sent on their deadliest mission yet: Overcome an archangel, capture an innocent snake whisperer and smuggle him across foreign soil, alive. If they fail to comply with the spell’s demand, it will drive them to insanity. Yet a deadlier force commands their attention when an ice-wielding slave trader freezes several civilians in a local village, ensnaring Albree’s love interest in the…

Alex Six by Vince Taplin is available on Amazon today! Alexa and Francis were wealthy executives who had everything, except for kids. When he tragically passed away, she gave up hope for being a mother… until she met Vick Miller, a simple family man, and a nearly perfect doppelganger of her husband. She pays him handsomely for his donations to produce a child who resembles her beloved husband. The offers grow more enticing, and Vick’s marriage begins to strain.Alexa wants his genes… his looks anyway. She is wealthy, attractive, powerful, and utterly obsessed.He has no idea she is watching him.…

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Blood and Silver by Vali Benson is available on Amazon now. What is a twelve-year-old girl to do when she finds herself in the silver boomtown of Tombstone, Arizona, in 1880, and her only home is a brothel, and her only parent is a drug-addicted mother? If she is Carissa Beaumont, she outsmarts the evil madam and figures a way out. After tricking the madam, Miss Lucille, into summoning a doctor for her mother, Lisette, she discovers that Miss Lucille has been drugging her. She and the kind doctor make a plan to try to save Lisette by dosing her…

My August TBR Picks are here. There are so many amazing books on the shelves, and it was hard for me to decide which books to add to my TBR pile for the month. I am so excited to reveal that the books I recommend reading through the month of August are…Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens, Faith Taking Flight by Julie Murphy, Little Tea by Claire Fullerton, Red Sky over Hawaii by Sara Ackerman, Fair Warning by Michael Connelly, The Witches of Vegas by Mark Rosendorf, and 1st Case by James Patterson. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia…

The Beantown Girls by Jane Healey Review is here! This book follows Fiona Denning and her friends—Dottie and Viv. Fiona had her entire life planned out: work for the Mayor of Boston, marry her fiancé Danny, and move to suburbs to raise their family. All that changed when Danny goes missing in WWII, leaving the world of grief-stricken Fi shattered. The not knowing what happened to Danny and if he might still be alive is what keeps Fiona from healing entirely. She, therefore, decides to volunteer for the Club mobile Red Cross girls alongside her best friends Dottie and Viv.…

Fifteen Days by Graham McQuade is the second novel in the Johnson Trilogy. The backdrop of this science fiction novel is the horrible deaths of the Rhodes’ family deep in the rainforest of Guatemalan in May 1994. Then, there is the emergence of obscurities in Trenton, New Jersey, 28 years later. Johnson and Wallis face challenged both emotionally and physically as they fight both time and things beyond their imaginations. Travel from Trenton to the rainforests of Mexico and Guatemalan when you read this novel Overall, this is a wonderful second novel. I started this book as soon as I…

Calgary readers and writers festival reborn for 2020 The popular When Words Collide festival has been reinvented as an online event for the pandemic-affected summer of 2020. The 2020 edition of the Calgary festival for readers and writers was cancelled when the Alberta government banned indoor gatherings of 15+ people until the end of summer due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. Since then, organizers have been hard at work to develop an alternative. When Words Collide is now pleased to announce a free, online version of WWC will be held August 14-16, 2020. Already, more than 65 hours of programming…

A second chance always comes at a high price. Anna Graham puts in her time as a waitress like the good girl she’s trying to be. She doesn’t want to miss the wild recklessness that made her feel like she owned the world – and that nearly destroyed her. She’s struggled to overcome her drug addiction and everything that came with it, but an endless succession of lonely nights is poor compensation. And some memories refuse to stay in the past. When she meets Mark Powell, a biologist who’s come home to recuperate from field research, she feels for the…