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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…

Wiving by Caitlin Myer is a literary memoir of one woman’s journey from wife to warrior, in the vein of breakout hits like Cheryl Strayed’s ​Wild​ and Jeannette Walls’s ​The Glass Castle​. At thirty-six years old, Caitlin Myer is ready to start a family with her husband. She has left behind the restrictive confines of her Mormon upbringing and early sexual trauma and believes she is now living her happily ever after . . . when her body betrays her. In a single week, she suffers the twin losses of a hysterectomy and the death of her mother, and she…

Good Girl, Bad Blood by Holly Jackson Review is here. This novel brings back Pip Fitz-Amobi as this is the sequel to Good Girls Guide to Murder. We pick up a little while after the first book ended. Pip now has a successful podcast where she documented solving her first case. She has amassed a HUGE following in her podcast with sponsors contacting her left and right to advertise. However, Pip is reluctant to accept their offers because she is done solving crimes. Pip sacrificed so much while trying to figure out Addie and Sal’s case, putting her family, herself,…

New Gods by Graham McQuade is out now. This novel is the first in the Johnson trilogy. Creatures who aren’t exactly human are found in a cave deep within the Rhône-Alpes in France. This triggers a chain of events while Europe becomes paralyzed by an uncontrollable virus. Margaret and Jon are assigned to solve the mystery taking them from Europe all the way to Africa. New Gods is a story of fortitude, bravery, and heart all in the face of hardship. This novel was my first by author Graham. New Gods is a plot-driven story that is so relevant in…