Ash and his Dragon (Colorado Dragons #4) by Victoria Sue
Ash Thorne doesn’t trust easy smiles, loud laughter, or men like Max Renaud. He learned young that attention always comes at a painful price—and he’s spent his life making sure no one ever gets close enough to collect.
As a forward for the Colorado Dragons, Ash keeps his head down, his game sharp, and his distance absolute—even from the teammate everyone else can’t get enough of.
Merissa
2 hours ago
Review: Learning To Breathe Again (The Work of Becoming #1) by Tonya Cam
Miami, 1933. Mary Simons was supposed to fill her scrapbook with photos of her baby's first smiles, locks of fine hair, and handwritten milestones. Instead, she records respiration rates and temperatures, hoping science can save what love can't. When her baby dies, the future she imagined dies with her.
Merissa
1 day ago
Review & Excerpt: No Man’s Territory (The Long Shadow Series) by Duncan Gaye
Lieutenant Alistair Harrow knows the rules of survival during wartime: stay alert, maintain control, and never let the men see you crack. Then, his world explodes. An artillery attack leaves him broken and half-buried beneath the wreckage of a collapsed trench, certain he will die alone.
Until he is rescued by a giant Polish volunteer.
Merissa
2 days ago
Review & Giveaway: Invisible Justice (A Kyle McMann & Graham Kurland Medical Thriller) by Gary Brown MD
A group of doctors decides to exact revenge on evildoers who have escaped justice after killing and maiming innocent people. They incapacitate sociopaths and predators in the same ways these monstrous villains harmed their victims-brilliantly disguising the murders as deaths from natural causes.
Merissa
3 days ago
Excerpt: What Love E'er Meant (Regina #2) by Janet Wertman
A new queen must prove she deserves the throne God gave her, while the path everyone insists will secure it might cost her everything.
Against all odds, Elizabeth Tudor has become Queen of England. Determined to fulfill what she sees as a divine responsibility, she sets out to heal a country ravaged by religious discord, war, and debt – and vindicate the legacy of Anne Boleyn, the mother who did not deserve her fate.
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4 days ago
Spotlight: The Bonnet Brigade (The Bonnet Brigade #1) by Christy Matheson
She needs a husband. He cannot offer his hand. Together, they may lose everything—or find the future they never dared hope for.
When the fortune supporting Celia Westhaven and her cousins disappears overnight, she knows she must secure their future. The spirited Irishwoman needs an income, a home—and, by necessity, a husband. Since the one gentleman she truly wants insists he cannot marry her, she is prepared to wed anyone willing to provide for her family.
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5 days ago
Excerpt & Review: From A to Us (Vermont Trailblazers #3) by Amy Aislin
Eli worked his butt off to earn a spot with the Vermont Trailblazers, and he has absolutely no intention of losing it. Unfortunately, his second NHL season has brought a sophomore slump, an endless parade of team obligations, and the possibility that enthusiasm might not be enough to keep his plates spinning—or keep him from being sent to the minors. So naturally, this is the perfect time for Nolan Madolora—his coach’s son, his sister’s ex, and the man Eli had an impossible c
Debbie
Oct 9
Excerpt, Guest Post, & Giveaway: Outage by Mike Trigg
Rachel Farrell is working from home in suburban Virginia when the internet goes out. Juggling clients, two restless teenagers, and dinner logistics with her husband, Caleb, a DC lobbyist, she assumes it’s just a routine inconvenience.
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Oct 9
Audio Excerpt: Debt Reckoning: Teetering on the Brink (Wayward Patriot) by Jack Meyer
U.S. Senator Rick Taylor has been warning anyone who'll listen: the national debt is no longer a spreadsheet problem-it's a ticking bomb. But in Washington, truth is toxic. Colleagues dismiss him, constituents scream about "cuts to my benefits," and the media paints him as the villain who wants to gut Social Security.
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Oct 8
Excerpt: Boomerang Street by Garrick Jones
1932, Sydney, Australia, in the height of the Great Depression, Joe Ing, one man among the two-thirds of Australian men out of work, will do anything to put food on the table for his family.
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Oct 7
Blitz & Giveaway: Love and Other Cures for the Recently Undead by H.J. Ramsay
CeCe Campbell wakes on the asphalt of a mall parking lot with two missing years and a body that no longer feels like her own. Infected with the Kill Virus on her 18th birthday, she’s among the first to be cured.
Rehabilitation teaches CeCe how to walk, how to speak, how to exist in a world rebuilding itself, but it cannot return what she lost. Her mother is dead. Her brother is missing. And the last memory before the dark is a bite she cannot escape.
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Oct 6
Review, Excerpt, & Giveaway: All That Was Left Unsaid by Danielle Dragona
At seventy, Katrina Johnson thought she understood the shape of her life. She was a devoted wife, a mother who did her best, and the keeper of a Victorian farmhouse that had held her family’s joys and sorrows for generations. Then her husband dies—and everything she believed about her marriage begins to unravel.
Merissa
Oct 5
The Hidden (The Secret Tales #4) by Sanna Brand/Vicki Stiefel
In the quiet wilds of Devon, Lady Amalie Northbrooke has carved out a life on her own terms—breeding her cherished basset hounds and protecting Mere Manor, the estate left to her by tragedy. Though unseasoned in society, she is no stranger to independence…until danger finds her.
Merissa
Oct 2
Excerpt: The Crucible by Aoibh Wood
Aethyrim like Mora Dray don't enroll. They're delivered.
Property of the Empire. Trained to kill. Culled when they break.
Mora walks through the gates with quick knives, a closed mouth, and a secret that will hang her if anyone looks too closely. So the plan is the one that's kept her breathing this long: be nobody. Head down, scores middling, name off every list. She has invisible down to an art.
Nobody warned her about Liora Skaggs.
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Oct 2
Guest Post, Excerpt, & Giveaway: Darkness Falls (A Detective Nathan Parker Novel #5) by James L'Etoile
Detective Nathan Parker discovers a double murder in a Phoenix drug lab, and all the evidence points at a connection to his son, Miguel. Was his adopted son swept up in a drug rip-off and murder? Did he play a role in the distribution of illicit designer drugs in the valley? As authorities close in on Miguel, Parker discovers a border militia group rushing to control the drug flow. The Night Watch militia leaves of trail of violence in their wake and local politicians use the
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Sep 30
Unveiled (Monarchs of Magic #1) by Susan Mac Nicol
Like a place in fables and fairytales, the town of Glengàill is filled with secrets and enchantments.
This remote area of the Highlands is home to two enigmatic wolf shifters. Connor, who rules his clan with primal strength and fierce loyalty, and Adrian, whose compassion and humour shines through to keep the clans balanced.
Merissa
Sep 29
Audio Excerpt & Giveaway: Sword Brethren (The Northern Crusader Chronicles #1) by Jon Byrne
1242: Wounded at the Battle on the Ice, English knight Richard Fitz Simon becomes a prisoner of Prince Alexander Nevsky of Novgorod. Intrigued by his captive, Alexander orders his scholar to record Richard's life story.
Richard's chronicle begins in 1203, when betrayal shatters his training for knighthood and forces him to flee England. In Lübeck, he finds work with a ruthless salt merchant and becomes entangled in an illicit affair–until scandal and violence drive him onwar
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Sep 29
Guest Post & Giveaway: Blackout (Jake Bendel Thrillers #3) by J. Luke Bennecke
The assassination was only the beginning. When the President of the United States is killed in a coordinated drone strike, the nation spirals into chaos. But this isn’t terrorism. It’s strategy.
Behind the attack stands a brilliant and ruthless leader of a shadowy global cabal known only as New3—a group convinced the age of American dominance is already over.
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Sep 28
Guest Post, Excerpt, & Giveaway: Invisible Justice (A Kyle McMann & Graham Kurland Medical Thriller) by Gary Brown MD
A group of doctors decides to exact revenge on evildoers who have escaped justice after killing and maiming innocent people. They incapacitate sociopaths and predators in the same ways these monstrous villains harmed their victims-brilliantly disguising the murders as deaths from natural causes.
Archaeolibrarian
Sep 25
The Last Library of Paris by Kerry Barrett
As the city’s shopfronts go dark and war rages across Europe, Frances Reed is determined to keep her library open. Delivering books to those who need them most, she knows stories are more than just words – they can save lives.
Merissa
Sep 24