Playing the Game (Love Goals #2) by Kristian Parker
After Brockton FC publicly declared itself a safe space for gay players, Swedish midfielder Jonas Haber knew he had to be part of it—even if it meant transferring from their fiercest rivals, Canonbury.
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Guest Post: Then Came The Summer Snow by Trisha T. Pritikin
Edith Higgenbothum is a 1950s housewife and mother in the “atomic town” of Richland, Washington. Edith’s husband, Herbert, is an engineer at Hanford, a secretive federal atomic weapons facility just north of town. Edith’s world, which is enshrouded in the myths, prejudices, and delusions of 1950s America, is thrown into turmoil and fear when her son Herbie powers up his father’s uranium prospecting Geiger counter. The device emits an ear-shattering barrage of clicks, revealin
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Interview: Leaving Winter for a Desert Sky by Skylar Lyralen Kaye
Erin has spent the last six years abroad, teaching English in Spain, France, Japan. Now, she’s back home in Maine for Christmas, for the first time in years. Her abusive father, Thomas, made it clear that Erin, a lesbian, was not welcome in the house, but her mother, Janet, recently ended the marriage, then invited Erin to come home for the holiday.
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Blood of the Damned - Thorn (Vaughn Winery #1) by JP Sayle
Ledger unexpectedly gains an unusual mate, his boss, Thorn Vaughan, and life swiftly becomes a roller coaster ride full of dips, heights, twists and turns. Extinct vampires with stunning wings, a proposal, a wedding—and babies. And as if that isn’t enough, his carriage on this particular ride is about to be derailed when he discovers his mate’s secret.
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3 days ago
Lost Shores of Thonis by E.L. Tenenbaum
A year ago, Azizi's island home abruptly sank into the Mediterranean, drowning her family, culture, and entire past. Once vibrant Thonis is now a curse, the three survivors are the Blessed. Azizi doesn't feel blessed.
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4 days ago
Review: The Blackest Time by Ken Tentarelli
It's Europe in the 1300s, and Gino, a young man living in rural Italy, leaves behind the familiarity of his family's farm to seek a new life as an apprentice in an apothecary shop in Florence.
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Oct 10
Review, Excerpt, & #Giveaway: Beyond the Darkness (Basic Instincts #3) by Thom Collins
American actor Hudson Rhodes enjoys working in the UK. After a successful career in film and TV in his twenties, he’s established himself as a bankable star in the theatre world. A month long run in a new play at Blyham’s Empire Theatre has the potential to lead to a West End run and Hudson is ready for it. The only thing threatening to spoil it is a series of sinister letters that point to a role he would rather forget.
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Oct 9
Excerpt & #Giveaway: Maximum Pressure (Claudia Rose Forensic Handwriting Mysteries #9) by Sheila Lowe
Claudia never intended to confront her past at her 25-year high school class reunion in Edentown, California. However, the reunion takes a chilling turn when she stumbles upon a drowning victim in the high school swimming pool—someone she knew. Was it a tragic accident or something more sinister?
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Oct 8
Ravens and Ruin (Brodyr Alarch #5) by Morgan Sheppard
In a land where gods still whisper through stone and stream, one man’s forbidden gift may be the key to salvation or ruin.
Two years have passed since Harri was crowned King of Melthkior. Though peace holds above, something ancient stirs beneath the earth. When Ewan—the youngest of Arianrhod’s Brodyr Alarch and now General of the Melthkiorian army—unknowingly consumes the flesh of the White Snake, a druidic creature steeped in forbidden magic, he gains the ability to hear th
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Oct 7
Author Interview & #Giveaway: The Long Shadow of Murder (Will Rees/Shaker Series) by Eleanor Kuhns
When the body of a visitor is found in the woods by the local Shaker community, suspicion immediately falls on them. Rees is reluctant to believe anyone in this peaceful community committed murder. And Hans Bergin arrived with his wife, his brother-in-law and sister-in-law. They had their own reasons to want Bergin dead.
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Oct 6
Review & #Giveaway: Crimson Jewel by A. Gordon
Bea spends her days fighting to stay alive in post-apocalyptic Alaska. She doesn’t have time to believe in giants, true love, or fairy tales. That is, until she uses a strange staircase concealed in the forest to escape the latest predator trying to kill her. While hiding, she’s caught by Raiden, a giant with stormy eyes and disturbingly sexy fangs. For trespassing, he forces her up the stairs to his realm.
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Oct 3
Excerpt & #Giveaway: Forewarned by Tracey S. Phillips
For 15-year-old Daphne Ann Post, the summer of 1976 at Lake Carlson should be filled with new friendships and carefree late-night parties. But something darker lurks beneath the surface—her chilling premonition that someone is going to drown.
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Oct 2
The Women in the Shadows by Harriet Fox
London, 1888. A monster prowls the gaslit streets, and the police are looking in all the wrong places, at all the wrong suspects. But three women refuse to stay silent.
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Oct 1
Guest Post & #Giveaway: Crime Writer by Vinnie Hansen
In the peaceful California coast city of Playa Maria, CRIME WRITER ZOEY KOZINSKI joins a local police officer for a ride-along in hopes of breaking through her writer’s block. But during a routine traffic stop, the cop is shot, the victim of a brutal homicide.
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Oct 1
Excerpt & #Giveaway: Old Ghosts (Saoirse Kennedy #1) by Janina Franck
Notorious crime boss Saoirse Kennedy finds herself entangled in a web of mystery when she receives orders to eliminate a detective and faces the resurgence of her haunting past.
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Sep 30
Excerpt: Tailored Truths (Silver Sampler #2) by Nancy Jardine
Employment as a lady’s maid and then as a private tutor in Liverpool in the 1860s bring thrilling opportunities Margaret could never have envisaged. Though when those posts end, her educational aspirations must be shelved again. Reliance on her sewing skills is paramount for survival when she returns to Dundee.
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Sep 26
Excerpt: Our Uncle’s Promise: A LGBTQ Family Story by Ruta Levu
This is a LGBTQIA family memoir. This is a story of two grandparents, two gay uncles and four little girls growing up in the 1970's and 1980's. The four little girls lost their mother, and their father was transferred by the military, so they were raised by their maternal grandparents and their two gay uncles. This story is about loss but also about unconditional love and the adventures with the fun uncles around the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Sep 25
Guest Post: The Man in the Stone Cottage by Stephanie Cowell
In 1846 Yorkshire, the Brontë sisters— Charlotte, Anne, and Emily— navigate precarious lives marked by heartbreak and struggle.
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Sep 24
Guest Post: Shades of Yellow by Wendy J. Dunn
During her battle with illness, Lucy Ellis found solace in writing a novel about the mysterious death of Amy Robsart, the first wife of Robert Dudley, the man who came close to marrying Elizabeth I. As Lucy delves into Amy's story, she also navigates the aftermath of her own experience that brought her close to death and the collapse of her marriage.
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Sep 23
Excerpt: Cobblestones – A New Orleans Tragedy by S. R. Perricone
The turbulent history of Post-Reconstruction New Orleans collides with the plight of Sicilian immigrants seeking refuge in America.
Antonio, a young man fleeing Sicily after avenging his father's murder, embarks on a harrowing journey to New Orleans with the help of Jesuit priests expelled from his homeland. But the promise of a fresh start quickly sours as Antonio finds himself entangled in a volatile clash of cultures, corruption, and crime.
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Sep 22