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Crescent City Moon by Nola Nash is available today. This novel centers around Zéolie Cheval and is set in the 1820s New Orleans. She discovers her father brutally murdered on the eve of her twenty-first birthday. Zéolie becomes entangled in something she never imagined after the priest, sent to comfort her, also gets killed. The mystery leads Zéolie to the French Quarters, Ursuline Convent, and into the swamps of Louisiana. Officer Louis Saucier, forms a bond with Zéolie, but will she decide to act on her feelings for him? It’s a novel where lines of reality and fantasy are no…

The Mythical Universe: The Beginning is available today on Amazon. Fresh out of an abusive relationship, Aria moves in with her twin brother, Alex, ready for a new start. He offers her a job working with him as a paranormal investigator, which she reluctantly agrees to. Aria is a skeptic of anything she cannot see with her eyes. Alex, on the other hand, has always been a believer in anything and everything paranormal. When Aria and Alex go to California to help investigate a large building where strange things are happening, she has no idea how her world is going…

Evening in the Yellow Wood by Laura Kemp is out now. Abandoned by an eccentric father on the eve of her twelfth birthday, Justine Cook has lived with her fair share of unanswered questions. Now, ten years later, she leaves her life in southern Michigan and heads north to the mysterious town of Lantern Creek after seeing his picture in a local newspaper. Once there, she discovers her father had been leading a double life and meets the autistic brother she never knew—a young man who is mute but able to read her mind.When a local girl who looks like…

The Summer I Drowned by Taylor Hale is on Wattpad. Today, we have Taylor Hale, Author of The Summer I Drowned on: MENTAL HEALTH AND WRITING A MULTI-GENRE STORY Question: What inspired you to write The Summer I Drowned? Taylor Hale: Oddly enough, it was the name of a candle – “Sea Glass.” I thought it would make a pretty title for a story set in a beach town, maybe a romance. However, the title of the story evolved as the story itself did! Q: What struggles did you face when writing this book? How did you go about using…

The Dead of Jerusalem Ridge by Jean Rabe is out July 15th. Sheriff Piper Blackwell’s three-day vacation with old Army buddies ends in tragedy. At the same time, a vile hate crime along a county road enrages her department. Their forces divided, Piper and her deputies must solve both cases before tensions boil and threaten the rural fabric of Spencer County, Indiana. Only eight months on the job, the young sheriff must weave together clues to uncover both a killer and a secret that could scar her soul. “Piper Blackwell is a smart and capable small-town sheriff, a thoroughly modern…

I’ll Be The One by Lyla Lee Review is here. This YA novel centers around Shin Hanuel, better known as Skye. She is a sixteen-year-old girl who’s trying out for the reality competition called You’re My Shining Star. It’s for singers and dancers who aspire to be K-pop stars in Korea. Being plus size not only makes everyone doubt Skye’s ability as a performer but makes them not like her being there period due to her size. Skye, however, is determined to prove she belongs there not only because they think she can’t do it. But because her mom doubts,…

Hideaway by Nora Roberts review is here. This novel centers around the Sullivan family. They are basically like royalty in Hollywood. Their name carries weight because of all the movies they’ve been in and produced. Caitlyn Sullivan is nine years old when she gets abducted from her family’s estate while playing hide-and-seek. The family is frantic and tries to get her back safely. Thankfully, Caitlyn escapes, but can you ever erase the horror of an event like that in from within you? Order your copy on Amazon! During her escape, the Cooper family helps Caitlyn reunite with her family again.…

A Week at Surfside Beach by Pierce Koslosky Jr. is available today! Thousands of families and individuals are attracted to the South Carolina coast each year, renting houses up and down the beach throughout the seasons. They bring their lives with them when they come to this magical place. In A Week at Surfside Beach, author Pierce Koslosky Jr. has crafted sixteen poignant short stories that paint a vivid portrait of the beach’s diverse, temporary inhabitants: those people attracted to a landscape both beautiful and overwhelming in its ability to force introspection and change. Set over the course of a…

Inconvenient Daughter by Lauren J. Sharkey is out now. A vibrant and provocative debut novel that dispels myths surrounding transracial adoption. Rowan Kelly knows she’s lucky. After all, if she hadn’t been adopted, she could have spent her days in a rice paddy, or a windowless warehouse assembling iPhones—they make iPhones in Korea, right? Either way, slowly dying of boredom on Long Island is surely better than the alternative. But as she matures, she realizes that she’ll never know if she has her mother’s eyes, or if she’d be in America at all had her adoptive parents been able to…

The Forbidden Room by Alan Gorevan is available now. You and your partner are looking forward to a romantic break in the rugged landscape of West Cork, on the south west coast of Ireland. Cliff walks, seafood dinners and spectacular views of the Atlantic Ocean.But a storm is brewing. Your car breaks down in the middle of nowhere. There’s no phone signal. So you start walking.You search for help.And you find it. At an isolated house, a family gives you shelter… but something is wrong.The husband has a head wound. The son is too terrified to speak. And the wife…

The Lieutenant’s Nurse by Sara Ackerman Review is here. This novel centers around Eva Cassidy, who flees her hometown in Michigan, harboring a secret. She enlists in the Army Corps as a nurse and is headed to work at Tripler hospital in Hawaii near Pearl Harbor. The problem is Eva has to leave behind a lot more than her secrets. She has to leave behind her sister, Ruby. Ruby is recovering from polio and trying to regain the use of her legs. All the stress of Eva’s secrets she’s carried alone for years causes her to lose weight and almost…

13 Worlds by J.J. Hair is out now. This novel starts in the first person where we meet Joseph. We learn his younger brother, Malek, was diagnosed with psychopathy. During a sleep paralysis event, Velda, warns Joseph that his brother will kill everyone in their family if he doesn’t stop Malek first. A warning Joseph chooses not to heed. We then go back to when the boys are in middle school, learning that Joseph has multiple personality disorder. This discovery leads the boys being transferred to another school. A tragic turn of events happens not too long afterward. Was Joseph…