Sunday, March 31, 2019

Blog Ahead for March 2019 recap


Blog Ahead happens three times a year and is hosted by Anna @ Herding Cats and Burning Soup. For me it was fate.

It's funny how things work sometimes, those who know me know that I had to retire early to care for my disabled husband who suffers from Parkinson's disease and unfortunately the disease is progressing so that he's now a 24/7 job and as a result sometimes after a day of therapy and multiple doctor's appointments I'm asleep on the couch at 8pm and find I'm formatting the next day's blog post a few hours before it's due, aka, by the seat of my pants. Anna often talks about blogging ahead and how it's save her tush many times and I was just about to give it a try when I saw her Blog Ahead for March post – fate I decided.



I participated all four weeks and on most days posted two blog entries and before I knew it I was two weeks ahead. WOW! I am amazed at how freeing it is to actually be not only caught up but so far ahead that if something came up I could take a week or so break from blogging. I am now a true Blog Ahead believer!

Thank you Anna for hosting blog ahead March 2019!
I can't wait for the next one

Friday, March 29, 2019

Guest Post-by Lucille Moncrief - Drusilla Character Interview

When new to me author Lucille Moncrief reached out to me about her paranormal novella Drusilla I knew I wanted to read the story and when she offered a guest post interviewing Drusilla I hoped my readers would want to learn more about her just like me!
Enjoy!

Thursday, March 28, 2019

Showcase Fatal Reckoning by Marie Force - Fatal #14

Today I'm showcasing #14 in Bestseller Marie Force's Fatal series, Fatal Reckoning. Sam and Nick are back and better than ever in this thrilling chiller.
Enjoy!


ISBN-13: 9781335017659
Publisher: Harlequin
Release Date: 3-26-2019
Length: 384pp
Fatal #14
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Overview:

When tragedy strikes, a cold case suddenly turns hot—and deadly
A peaceful morning is shattered when Washington Metro Police lieutenant Sam Holland’s beloved father succumbs to injuries from an unsolved shooting while on duty four years ago. As the community rallies around Sam and her family, one thing becomes crystal clear: her father’s death has turned the unsolved case into a homicide—and it’s on her to bring her father’s killer to justice.

But the case has been cold for years…until an anonymous tip that’s too shocking to believe leads Sam down a dark and dangerous path. Her husband, Vice President Nick Cappuano, knows if she can’t solve this case, it will haunt her for the rest of her life. She’ll need the strength of their bond to pull her out of the darkness before it’s too late, because as the missing pieces rapidly fall into place, Sam realizes the truth might just break her all the same—and that her father’s killer isn’t done yet…


Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Showcase - The Perfect Girlfriend by Karen Hamilton

Today I have a just released women's fiction debut by Karen Hamilton published by Graydon House Books an imprint of Harlequin.
Enjoy!

ISBN-13: 9781525831737
Publisher: Graydon House Books
Release Date: 3-26-2019
Length: 352pp
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Overview:

A “twisted page-turner that should appeal to fans of You”.—Entertainment Weekly.com

YOU’VE NEVER READ A LOVE STORY AS TWISTED AS THIS.

Juliette loves Nate.
She will follow him anywhere. She’s even become a flight attendant for his airline, so she can keep a closer eye on him.

They are meant to be.
The fact that Nate broke up with her six months ago means nothing. Because Juliette has a plan to win him back.
She is the perfect girlfriend. And she’ll make sure no one stops her from getting exactly what she wants.
True love hurts, but Juliette knows it’s worth all the pain...

Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Showcase - All Happy Families by Hervé Le Tellier translated from the French by Adriana Hunter

Today I have another winner from one of my favorite Indie Publishers, Other Press, they have some fantastic offerings like this one a memoir by acclaimed French author Hervé Le Tellier translated by Adriana Hunter, All Happy Families.
Enjoy!


ISBN-13: 978-1590519370
Publisher: Other Press
Release Date: 3-26-2019
Length: 192pp
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Overview:

A prominent French writer delves into his own history in this eloquent reflection on dysfunctional family relationships.
Hervé Le Tellier did not consider himself to have been an unhappy child—he was not deprived, or beaten, or abused. And yet he understood from a young age that something was wrong, and longed to leave. Children sometimes have only the option of escaping, driven by their even greater love of life.

Having reached a certain emotional distance at sixty years old, and with his father and stepfather dead and his mother suffering from late-stage Alzheimer’s disease, Le Tellier finally felt able to write the story of his family. Abandoned early by his father and raised in part by his grandparents, he was profoundly affected by his relationship with his mother, a troubled woman with damaging views on love.

In this perceptive, deeply personal account, Le Tellier attempts to look back on trying times without anger or regret, and sometimes even with humor


Monday, March 25, 2019

The Goodbye Café by Mariah Stewart Simon & Schuster Blog Tour

Today is my stop on The Goodbye Café blog tour check it out!
Enjoy!


Book details
THE GOODBYE CAFÉ
Mariah Stewart
The Hudson Sisters series, Book 3
On sale March 26, 2019
Trade Paperback • Price: $16.00 • ISBN: 9781501145124
eBook • Price: $7.99 • ISBN: 9781501145162

Book description
California girl Allie Hudson Monroe can’t wait for the day when the renovations on the Sugarhouse Theater are complete so she can finally collect the inheritance from her father and leave Pennsylvania. After all, her life and her fourteen-year-old daughter are in Los Angeles.

But Allie’s divorce left her tottering on the edge of bankruptcy, so to keep up on payments for her house and her daughter’s private school tuition, Allie packed up and flew out east. But fate has a curve-ball or two to toss in Allie’s direction—she just doesn’t know it yet.

She hadn’t anticipated how her life would change after reuniting with her estranged sister, Des, or meeting her previously unknown half-sister, Cara. And she’d certainly never expected to find small-town living charming. But the biggest surprise was that her long-forgotten artistry would save the day when the theater’s renovation fund dried up.

With opening day upon the sisters, Allie’s free to go. But for the first time in her life, she feels like the woman she was always meant to be. Will she return to the West Coast and resume her previous life, or will the love of “this amazing, endearing family of women” (Robyn Carr, #1 New York Times bestselling author) be enough to draw her back to the place where the Hudson roots grow so deep?


About the author
Mariah Stewart is the award-winning New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author of numerous novels and several novellas and short stories. A native of Hightstown, New Jersey, she lives with her husband and two rambunctious rescue dogs amid the rolling hills of Chester County, Pennsylvania, where she savors country life and tends her gardens while she works on her next novel. Visit her website at MariahStewart.com, like her on Facebook at Facebook.com/AuthorMariahStewart, and follow her on Instagram @Mariah_Stewart_Books.







Excerpt
Allie swung her bag over her shoulder, preparing to start her descent, thinking how much her life had changed since she’d arrived in Hidden Falls. There were days when she felt like a different person from the one who’d boarded the plane at LAX and flown to Scranton, Pennsylvania, rented a car, and driven to this tiny nowhere town. At first she’d hated it. Now she was growing accustomed to the slow pace and the fact that everyone in town knew who she was and where she came from simply by virtue of her being Barney Hudson’s niece.
She dropped one leg over the side, singing softly to herself, “Don’t look down, girl, just don’t look down. Everything’s okay as long as you don’t look down,” when she did exactly that.
She bristled at the sight of the man who stood at the foot of the scaffold staring straight up.
“What are you doing here?”
“I was looking for Des. I stopped over at the house but no one answered.” His arms were crossed over his chest, and instead of wearing his usual chief of police uniform, Ben Haldeman—the very bane of Allie’s existence, the gigantic thorn in her side—was dressed in cutoff jeans and a light blue tank top, flip-flops on his feet. He didn’t bother to smile at her—why pretend he liked her any more than she liked him?—but he didn’t blink when she stared down at him, either.
“I’ll let her know when I see her.”
“Then I’ll just leave this little guy here and you can take him home with you. How ’bout I just tie his leash up to the scaffold?”
“What little . . .” Allie leaned over the side of the platform, just far enough to make her head spin and her stomach flip. She pulled back, but not before she saw the little black dog on the red leash that Ben was tying to the bottom rung. “Wait, where’d that dog come from? You can’t leave it here.”
“Found him out on the highway running loose. Tell Des to give me a call.” Ben patted the dog on the head and turned toward the door.
“Wait. Ben. No, don’t . . .”
He waved as he walked away. “Have a nice day.”
With a deep sigh of exasperation, Allie sat back on the platform.

Friday, March 22, 2019

Audible Review- The Man I Thought You Were by Leah Mercer

The Man I Thought You Were was an audible daily deal (when daily deals were open to everyone) and since I love Brit Lit I thought I'd give it a try. I am so glad I did.
Enjoy!


ASIN; B074F3RDXH
Publisher: Lake Union Publishing
Release Date: 8-29-2017
Length: 8hrs 3 mins
Source: Purchased from Audible
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Overview:

One fine autumn evening, Anna returns from work and starts making dinner, eager to welcome home her husband, Mark. It's just like any other day in their ten-year, Pinterest-perfect marriage - until he says he's leaving her.

Discovering that the man she thought she knew better than anyone else is capable of abandoning it all sends Anna reeling. She believed the life they'd built together - and the bright future they'd imagined - counted for everything. How can he walk away?

The truth is Mark is battling secrets of his own - secrets Anna knows nothing about. A painful past and an uncertain future threaten to bring his life down around him - and he'll do anything not to expose her to that.

But unravelling the past is lonelier than Mark could ever have imagined and, as the days turn to months, Anna worries the separation will break them forever. Can she bring him back from the brink of self-destruction before it's t
oo late, or will she discover that she never really knew him at all?

Thursday, March 21, 2019

Sophia Rose Reviews The Man From the Broken Hills by Louis L'Amour

Today I once again leave the blog in the very capable hands of my friend Sophia Rose who's love for Louis will be obvious when you read her review.
Enjoy!



The Man From the Broken Hills by Louis L’Amour, Narrated by MacLeod Andrews
#4 Talon and Chantry
Western, Historical Fiction
Publisher:  Random House Audio
Published: 3.5.19
ISBN:  1524783315
Time:  8 hours 10 minutes
Rating: 4
Narrator Rating: 5
Format: CD
Source:  Random House Audio
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Wednesday, March 20, 2019

Macmillan Audio Review of Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss

I'm excited today to present my Macmillan Audio review of a haunting novella by Sarah Moss 
Enjoy!




Ghost Wall
A Novel


By: Sarah Moss
Narrated by: Christine Hewitt
Length: 3 hrs and 48 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 01-08-19
Language: English
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Buy at: Audible

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Overview:
Southern Living Best New Book of Winter 2019; A Refinery29 Best Book of January 2019; A Most Anticipated Book of 2019 at The Week, Huffington Post, Nylon, and Lit HubAn Indie Next Pick for January 2019

The light blinds you; there’s a lot you miss by gathering at the fireside.

In the north of England, far from the intrusions of cities but not far from civilization, Silvie and her family are living as if they are ancient Britons, surviving by the tools and knowledge of the Iron Age.

For two weeks, the length of her father’s vacation, they join an anthropology course set to reenact life in simpler times. They are surrounded by forests of birch and rowan; they make stew from foraged roots and hunted rabbit. The students are fulfilling their coursework; Silvie’s father is fulfilling his lifelong obsession. He has raised her on stories of early man, taken her to witness rare artifacts, recounted time and again their rituals and beliefs—particularly their sacrifices to the bog. Mixing with the students, Silvie begins to see, hear, and imagine another kind of life, one that might include going to university, traveling beyond England, choosing her own clothes and food, speaking her mind.

The ancient Britons built ghost walls to ward off enemy invaders, rude barricades of stakes topped with ancestral skulls. When the group builds one of their own, they find a spiritual connection to the past. What comes next but human sacrifice?

A story at once mythic and strikingly timely, Sarah Moss’s Ghost Wall urges us to wonder how far we have come from the “primitive minds” of our ancestors.

Tuesday, March 19, 2019

Showcase The Things We Cannot Say by Kelly Rimmer Grayon House Publishing

Today I'm showcasing USA Today Bestseller Kelly Rimmer's latest women's fiction novel, The Things We Cannot Say. Lovers of WWII literature will inhale this gem.
Enjoy!


ISBN-13: 9781525831515
Publisher: Graydon House
Release Date: 3-19-2019
Length: 432pp
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Overview:

In 1942, Europe remains in the relentless grip of war. Just beyond the tents of the Russian refugee camp she calls home, a young woman speaks her wedding vows. It’s a decision that will alter her destiny…and it’s a lie that will remain buried until the next century.

Since she was nine years old, Alina Dziak knew she would marry her best friend, Tomasz. Now fifteen and engaged, Alina is unconcerned by reports of Nazi soldiers at the Polish border, believing her neighbors that they pose no real threat, and dreams instead of the day Tomasz returns from college in Warsaw so they can be married. But little by little, injustice by brutal injustice, the Nazi occupation takes hold, and Alina’s tiny rural village, its families, are divided by fear and hate. Then, as the fabric of their lives is slowly picked apart, Tomasz disappears. Where Alina used to measure time between visits from her beloved, now she measures the spaces between hope and despair, waiting for word from Tomasz and avoiding the attentions of the soldiers who patrol her parents’ farm. But for now, even deafening silence is preferable to grief.

Slipping between Nazi-occupied Poland and the frenetic pace of modern life, Kelly Rimmer creates an emotional and finely wrought narrative that weaves together two women’s stories into a tapestry of perseverance, loyalty, love and honor. The Things We Cannot Say is an unshakable reminder of the devastation when truth is silenced…and how it can take a lifetime to find our voice before we learn to trust it.

Monday, March 18, 2019

#GIVEAWAY The Baby Arrangement by Tara Taylor Quinn March '19 Special Edition Showcase


Welcome to the March 2019 showcase of the fabulous Harlequin Special Edition series and my review of The Baby Arrangement by Tara Taylor Quinn who is sponsoring a #giveaway, details below. I know you'll find the perfect warmhearted romance in the following books.
Enjoy!

Friday, March 15, 2019

Showcase Dear George Dear Mary by Mary Calvi

Today I'm so excited to be showcasing Mary Calvi's fascinating historical fiction debut  that's based on factual accounts about George Washington's relationship with heiress Mary Philipse.
Enjoy!


ISBN-13: 9781250162946
Publisher: St Martin's Press
Release Date: 2-19-2019
Length: 336pp
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Overview:

A novel about heiress Mary Philipse's relationship with George Washington, based on historical accounts, letters, and personal journals by nine-time New York Emmy Award-winning journalist Mary Calvi.
“Love is said to be an involuntary passion, and it is, therefore, contended that it cannot be resisted.” —George Washington

Did unrequited love spark a flame that ignited a cause that became the American Revolution? Never before has this story about George Washington been told. Crafted from hundreds of letters, witness accounts, and journal entries, Dear George, Dear Mary explores George’s relationship with his first love, New York heiress Mary Philipse, the richest belle in Colonial America.

From elegant eighteenth-century society to bloody battlefields, the novel creates breathtaking scenes and riveting characters. Dramatic portraits of the two main characters unveil a Washington on the precipice of greatness, using the very words he spoke and wrote, and his ravishing love, whose outward beauty and refinement disguise a complex inner struggle.

Dear George, Dear Mary reveals why George Washington had such bitter resentment toward the Brits, established nearly two decades before the American Revolution, and it unveils details of a deception long hidden from the world that led Mary Philipse to be named a traitor, condemned to death and left with nothing. While that may sound like the end, ultimately both Mary and George achieve what they always wanted.


Thursday, March 14, 2019

BookTrib Celebrate's Women's History Month with a FAB #GIVEAWAY


It's Women's History Month and to celebrate BookTrib thought why not have a #Giveaway featuring 10 books by women authors a mix of genres both fiction and non-fiction, historical and contemporary  
  
For One Week Only Thursday March 14-Thursday March 21
US Entries Only


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About BookTrib:
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Our Mission


Even Dickens, Bronte and Tolstoy were up and coming authors once, struggling to advance their ambitions and likely without a website to help generate any zing.

Welcome to BookTrib.com, a hub for booklovers and dedicated to on-the-rise authors you may not have heard of but someday surely will. They excel at their craft and have great stories to tell. If you are constantly in search of new titles, authors and ideas for your next read, we will introduce you to a universe of under-the-radar writers who might be your perfect match.



BookTrib.com has it all: new and noteworthy, exclusive reviews, video interviews, the hottest book podcasts, and all the buzz to enhance your understanding and enjoyment of books and up and coming authors. Top-notch contributors. In-the-know content partners. Expert recommendations. Behind-the-scenes peeks.

BookTrib.com is produced by Meryl Moss Media, a leading book industry publicity firm which for more than 25 years has helped authors discover who they are and who they strive to be through publicity campaigns that are seamless, newsworthy and on target. Many debut authors, those trying to build a following, and established writers come to us for help with positioning, media exposure, marketing and social media.


Besides authors, we work closely with booksellers, libraries and book publishers, particularly smaller shops that tend to represent up and coming authors. Learn about the many ways to Work With Us for the mutual benefit of those who write and certainly those who love to read.

You never know – maybe together we’ll discover the next classic in the making.








#GIVEAWAY Until The Day I Die Interview with author Emily Carpenter

Today I'm showcasing fantastic author Emily Carpenter's brand new Lake Union Release, Until The Day I Die and Emily has been kind enough to sit down and answer some questions. Plus she's giving away one autographed copy of her novel, details below.
Enjoy!


ISBN-13: 978-1503904217
Publisher: Lake Union Publishing
Release Date: 3-12-2019
Length: 347pp
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Overview:
If there’s a healthy way to grieve, Erin Gaines hasn’t found it. After her husband’s sudden death, the runaway success of the tech company they built with their best friends has become overwhelming. Her nerves are frayed, she’s disengaged, and her frustrated daughter, Shorie, is pulling away from her. Maybe Erin’s friends and family are right. Maybe a few weeks at a spa resort in the Caribbean islands is just what she needs to hit the reset button…
Shorie is not only worried about her mother’s mental state but also for the future of her parents’ company. Especially when she begins to suspect that not all of Erin’s colleagues can be trusted. It seems someone is spinning an intricate web of deception—the foundation for a conspiracy that is putting everything, and everyone she loves, at risk. And she may be the only one who can stop it.
Now, thousands of miles away in a remote, and oftentimes menacing, tropical jungle, Erin is beginning to have similar fears. Things at the resort aren’t exactly how the brochure described, and unless she’s losing her mind, Erin’s pretty sure she wasn’t sent there to recover—she was sent to disappear.

Emily is offering one signed copy of
Until The Day I Die
US ONLY
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Wednesday, March 13, 2019

Showcase - Slow Ride by Lori Foster Road to Love #2

Today I'm excited to be showcasing fave Lori Foster's number 2 in her Road To Love series, Slow Ride.
Enjoy!

ISBN-13: 9781335504944
Publisher: Harlequin
Release Date: 3-12-2019
Length: 384pp
Road to Love #2
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Overview:
You can’t put the brakes on love…

Ronnie Ashford needs a distraction. In the morning, she has to offer arrogant, conventional Jack Crews a job and convince him not to take it. She doesn’t need anyone’s help, thank you very much. But tonight is all about the tall, sexy stranger who just walked in the bar—and all the delicious trouble they could get into together. Too bad just as things are heating up between them, he whispers the three little words that destroy everything: “I’m Jack Crews.”

Jack is determined to connect with fiery Ronnie—in bed and out of it—but her terms are clear. If he takes the job, helping her acquire prized artifacts for her mysterious bosses, anything between them is strictly off-limits. Somehow he has to convince a woman who’s never felt like she belonged that she’s found her place—with him. And with the danger sparking hotter than the fire between them, it’s going to be one unforgettable trip…

Tuesday, March 12, 2019

Showcase - Article 353 by Tanguy Viel translated from the French by William Rodarmor

If you've been visiting the blog lately you'll notice I've been showcasing a lot of books published by this incredible indie house called Other Press. They offer such a diverse selection of both fiction and non-fiction some homegrown but many like today's showcase translated.
Enjoy!


ISBN-13:  978-1-59051-934-9
Publisher: Other Press
Release Date: 3-12-2019
Length: 160pp
Translated from the French by William Rodarmor
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Overview:
This atmospheric noir novel retraces the steps that led to a murder off the coast of Brittany, probing the relationship between law and justice.
In a depressed town on France’s northern coast, a man named Martial Kermeur has been arrested for the murder of real estate developer Antoine Lazenec after throwing him overboard. Called before a judge, Kermeur goes back to the beginning to explain what brought him to this desperate point: his divorce, his son’s acting out, layoffs at his job, and, above all, Lazenec’s dazzling project for a seaside resort. The temptation to invest all of your severance pay in a beautiful apartment with a view of the sea is great. But of course, this is only a plan in the works—or is it?

In this subtle, enthralling novel, Tanguy Viel examines not only the psychology of a crime, but also the larger social ills that may offer its justification.


Monday, March 11, 2019

Review - Never Tell by Lisa Gardner

Lisa Gardner was my first favorite author, her first thriller, The Perfect Husband still gives me the chills and an autographed copy of it sits in pride of place in my bookshelf. I have loved everything she's written both stand alone and series and I absolutely love how a previous character will have a cameo in a current book. So when Library Journal asked me to review Never Tell, Lisa's latest DD Warren novel I said Yes Please!
Enjoy the showcase and my review courtesy of LJ!


ISBN-13: 9781524742089
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Release Date: 2-19-2019
Length: 416pp
Source: Library Journal for Review
DD Warren #10
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Overview:

A man is dead, shot three times in his home office. But his computer has been shot twelve times, and when the cops arrive, his pregnant wife is holding the gun.

D.D. Warren arrives on the scene and recognizes the woman – Evie Carter – from a case many years back. Evie’s father was killed in a shooting that was ruled an accident. But for D.D., two coincidental murders is too many.

Flora Dane sees the murder of Conrad Carter on the TV news and immediately knows his face. She remembers a night when she was still a victim – a hostage – and her captor knew this man. Overcome with guilt that she never tracked him down, Flora is now determined to learn the truth of Conrad’s murder.

But D.D. and Flora are about to discover that in this case the truth is a devilishly elusive thing. As layer by layer they peel away the half-truths and outright lies, they wonder: How many secrets can one family have?


Friday, March 8, 2019

Review- The Dragon's Blade The Reborn King by Michael R Miller

I recently started reviewing for a UK review blog called Reedsy, they just launched on Monday and I'm happy to say it was a huge success! Yay
Enjoy my review of Dragon's Blade and right now you can buy it for 3.99 on Amazon

ISBN-13: 978-1729148594
Publisher: Self Published
Release Date: 11-16-2015
Length: 408pp
Source: Reedsy Discovery for review
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Overview:

Arrogant. Scornful. Full of pride. Darnuir, Prince of Dragons, cares nothing for the damage he's doing to the faltering alliance against the Shadow. He thinks himself invincible - right up till a mortal wound forces him to undergo a dangerous rebirthing spell, leaving him a helpless babe in human hands.

Twenty years pass and demonic forces are poised to sweep across the land. With the alliance between humanity, dragons, and fairies fracturing, Darnuir will have to uncover the secrets of his past, seek redemption for his sins, and rally the disparate races if they are to survive.

Only Darnuir can do this. For he's the last member of the royal bloodline and only he can wield the Dragon's Blade.

His second chance is the world's last hope.

Thursday, March 7, 2019

Showcase This Heart of Mine by C.C. Hunter Wednesday Books

Today I'm excited to be showcasing C. C. Hunter's This Heart of Mine a new release by Wednesday Books a brand new imprint of St. Martin's Press (see below for more about Wednesday Books).
Enjoy!


ISBN-13: 9781250035905
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Release Date: 2-5-2019
Length: 400pp
YA ages 13-18
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Overview

C. C. Hunter’s emotional story about a girl whose new heart may help her to catch a killer, now in trade paperback.

A new heart saved her life—but will it help her find out what really happened to its donor?


From the New York Times bestselling author of the Shadow Falls series comes C. C. Hunter's This Heart of Mine: a haunting, poignant tale about living and dying, surviving grief, guilt, and heartache, while discovering love and hope in the midst of sadness.

Seventeen-year-old Leah MacKenzie is heartless. An artificial heart in a backpack is keeping her alive. However, this route only offers her a few years. And with her rare blood type, a transplant isn’t likely. Living like you are dying isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. But when a heart becomes available, she’s given a second chance at life. Except Leah discovers who the donor was — a boy from her school — and they’re saying he killed himself. Plagued with dreams since the transplant, she realizes she may hold the clues to what really happened.

Matt refuses to believe his twin killed himself. When Leah seeks him out, he learns they are both having similar dreams and he’s certain it means something. While unraveling the secrets of his brother’s final moments, Leah and Matt find each other, and a love they are terrified to lose. But life and even new hearts don’t come with guarantees. Who knew living, took more courage than dying?


Wednesday, March 6, 2019

#GIVEAWAY West of Famous Interview with author Joni Fisher

Today I have an interview with author Joni Fisher about #3 in her Compass Crime series West of Famous.
Joni's publicist Author/Guide is offering a #Giveaway, see below for details!
Enjoy!


ISBN-13: 978-0997257540
Publisher: Self Published
Release Date: 2-17-2019
Length: 268pp
Compass Crimes #3
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Overview:
This contemporary suspense story, set in Florida, features a strong female protagonist facing the issues of identity, mortality, and survival after kidnappers mistake her for a celebrity. The boating community known as Loopers play a key role in the story.
This is the third book in the Compass Crimes series, which is a collection of stories linked by an ensemble cast of characters. Each book can stand alone. Each book features a different heroine and a life-changing crime. The stories are linked by the alliances, friendships, and occupations of the characters common to the stories. While some of the stories contain a romantic subplot, some do not. In the aftermath of each crime, the relationships between these characters grow deeper and stronger


The Giveaway is
The complete 3 book set of
The Compass Crime Series
Print US ONLY
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Tuesday, March 5, 2019

#GIVEAWAY Showcase Women by Mihail Sebastian Other Press


Today I'm showcasing a fantastic sounding novel, Women, by renowned author Mihail Sebastian that Kirkus calls edgy and compelling. Despite having been written in the 1930s, the four interlocking stories of WOMEN feel fresh and contemporary – especially on the roles of women and stigmas on sex – and exceedingly relatable.
Other Press is sponsoring a #giveaway of this novel, details below

ISBN-13:  978-1-59051-955-4
Publisher: Other Press
Release Date: 3-5-2019
Length: 192pp
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Overview:
A rediscovered classic from the author of For Two Thousand Years, this remarkable novel presents nuanced snapshots of love in the early twentieth century.

Stefan Valeriu, a young Romanian man who has just completed his medical studies in Paris, spends his vacation in the Alps, where he quickly becomes entangled with three different women. We follow Stefan after his return to Paris as he reflects on the women in his life, at times playing the lover, and at others observing shrewdly from the periphery.

Women’s four interlinked stories offer moving, strikingly modern portraits of romantic relationships in all their complexity, from unrequited loves and passionate affairs to tepid marriages of convenience. In the
same eloquent style that would characterize his later, more political writings, Mihail Sebastian explores longing, otherness, empathy, and regret.



Other Press is offering
one print copy of
Women US ONLY
Please use Rafflecopter form to enter
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Monday, March 4, 2019

#GIVEAWAY Showcase Dangerous Flaws by Susan Hunter a Partners In Crime virtual tour

Today is my stop on the Dangerous Flaws by Susan Hunter blog tour sponsored by Partners In Crime virtual tours.
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Friday, March 1, 2019

#GIVEAWAY Showcase The Buried Girl by Richard Montanari a Partners in Crime Virtual Tour

Today is my stop on the The Buried Girl by Richard Montanari book tour sponsored by Partners In Crime Virtual Tours.
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The Buried Girl

by Richard Montanari

on Tour March 1-31, 2019

Synopsis:


A haunting, nerve-jangling psychological thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author Richard Montanari, set in a small town hiding a very dark secret

New York psychologist Will Hardy had it all—a loving family, a flourishing career, a bestselling book. Until the night it all ended in a tempest of fire and ash, leaving only Will and his fifteen-year-old daughter Bernadette to stand in the ruins.

Haunted and grief-stricken, Will accepts an enigmatic invitation from his family’s past to begin their lives anew in the small town of Abbeville, Ohio.

Meanwhile, Abbeville Chief of Police Ivy Holgrave is investigating the death of a local girl, convinced this may only be the latest in a long line of murders dating back decades—including her own long-missing sister.

But what place does Will's new home have in the story of the missing girls? And what links the killings to the diary of a young woman written over a century earlier? The disappearances in Abbeville have happened before, and now Will’s own daughter might be next…

Book Details:

Genre: Mystery
Published by: Witness Impulse
Publication Date: January 8th 2019
Number of Pages: 400
ISBN: 0062467468 (ISBN13: 9780062467461)
Series: Jessica Balzano & Kevin Byrne #10
Purchase Links: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Goodreads