Guest Post, Excerpt, & #Giveaway: Temperature Rising by Joel Burcat
Anna Freeman never expected a routine errand to change everything. But when the ambitious law student and environmental activist retrieves a harmless videotape on energy policy, she unknowingly steps into the heart of a ruthless conspiracy. Powerful lobbyists, corrupt politicians, and billion-dollar interests will do whatever it takes to keep their secrets buried—and now, Anna is in their crosshairs.
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Blitz: Natural Healing Handbook by Cliff Adkins
The Natural Healing Handbook is a beginner-friendly guide that helps you discover safe, practical, and time-tested natural remedies for everyday wellness. Designed in a beautiful full-color edition, this book makes learning about herbal remedies simple, enjoyable, and easy to follow.
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3 days ago
Excerpt & #Giveaway: The Art of Keeping Dangerous Books (The Apothecary’s Secret #1) by R.J. Blain
Bookshop owner by day, restorer of rare and dangerous books by night, Kita James is thrilled to acquire a new poisonous book from the Victorian era. From the swirling patterns on the cover to its unusual leather binding, IN SEARCH OF LIFE is truly a unique find. However, testing of the vibrant tome reveals its darker nature: the leather is that of a human along with an extinct animal from the ice age. To further complicate matters, a new radioactive element is discovered lurk
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4 days ago
Guest Post: Renaissance Rivals by Karen Essex
Pitted against each other by the ruthless political landscape and by the men they loved, Isabella and Lucrezia must learn how to survive in a world where women are treated as prizes, pawns, and weapons. Their battle is intimate, brilliant, and borders on the fatal, a war fought with jewels, letters, seduction, betrayal, and the strategic intelligence of women who refuse to disappear.
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6 days ago
Spotlight: Marie Conner – A Leading Lady by Elle Mott
In an era when daughters and wives are not supposed to be concerned with matters outside the home, Marie is determined to prove him wrong. To do this, she must break down barriers placed on women in society, overcome difficulties that befall her, surpass hardships from the Great Depression, and then face an inevitable relocation.
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Aug 11
Guest Post, Excerpt, & #Giveaway: Rhino Horn Underground by Deven Greene
Journalist Paige Remington came to South Africa to expose the brutal reality of rhino poaching.
She never expected to witness a massacre.
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Aug 10
Spotlight: Dragonslayer's Valkyrie: The Legend of Sigurd and Brynhildr by Jennifer Ivy Walker
As the Norns tighten the intricate threads of fate, Brynhildr must guide Sigurd toward his destiny as a dragonslayer—by defying the web of wyrd and incurring the wrath of Odin.
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Aug 7
Excerpt & #Giveaway: Obscura Nights by Warren Wynn
Seventeen-year-old Farris Aldan didn’t join the Sentinels to save the world.
He joined to escape insanity.
In Obscura City, contracting the whisperis means shedding your skin and becoming a monster. As a newly trained Sentinel, Farris hunts the infected, hoping vengeance will silence the guilt over his best friend Calla’s death.
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Aug 6
Spotlight: The Fern Flower by Kathleen Shoop
Born into privilege as the daughter of the Tsar’s favored vodka maker, Mila appears to have everything: wealth, status, and a household devoted to her happiness. But behind the gilded doors of her family estate, she is trapped by the cruelty of a stepmother whose greatest wish is to give birth to her own child.
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Aug 5
Review: Bonded by Love Series 1 - 3 by Gabbi Grey
Police Officer Tyson McGillvary, newly divorced, is not looking for love—with anyone.
Psychologist Hamish McAllister helps patients deal with workplace violence. He’s never been in a relationship—with anyone.
Stunt coordinator Donovan Riggs, working in Vancouver, Canada, on a popular television show, isn’t looking for permanent. He enjoys relationships—with everyone.
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Aug 4
Excerpt & #Giveaway: Bad Decisions & Back Roads (Southern Veterinary #2) by Zoe Forward
I used to be the rebellious girl from the wrong side of the fenceline. He was the local hellraiser nobody could tame. While our families carried on a feud older than indoor plumbing, we fell for each other.
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Aug 3
Guest Post: The Duty of Daughters / El Deber de las Hijas by Wendy J. Dunn
Doña Beatriz Galindo is an uneasy witness to the Holy War of Queen Isabel of Castile and her husband, Ferdinand, King of Aragon. A holy war pushing the Moors out of territories ruled by them for centuries.
Beatriz does not want a life like other women. She desires power over her own destiny. Even if this means walking a far harder road.
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Jul 30
Spotlight: One More Hour of Daylight by C.M. Gray
On the first day of World War II, a young man makes a promise—one that will shape every choice he makes for the next four years.
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Jul 29
Review: The Spirit of the Times by Justin Newland
In fourteenth-century Central Asia, Karia is a young woman living under the yoke of Mongol occupation. But she’s different. She’s a fighter with supernatural powers. She could use them to keep the Black Plague at bay and solve the mystery of the purple skies at dawn – if only she could overcome her self-doubt.
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Jul 27
Excerpt: Feral Hearts (Hearts on Fire #1) by A.J. Church
I was born with a silver spoon in my mouth, but I’ve never let that stand in the way of my two favorite past times–breaking hearts and disappointing my family. An ardent fan of the smooth line and shallow hookup, I excel at keeping things gliding on the surface. Feelings, when I have them, are reserved for the few I call friends. Until the night I walk into Club Eros and come face to face with Cutter Knight. Tall, dark, and mouthwateringly handsome, he’s also an uptight prick
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Jul 24
Review: The Making of Marigold McGrath by Carrie Hayes
New York City, 1937. Seventeen-year-old Marigold McGrath is coming undone.
Her mother is dead. Her father is drawn to dangerous politics. The only place she feels joy is behind a camera — where she can frame the world on her own terms.
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Jul 22
Spotlight: Fearless Hearts Forbidden Love (Hearts of Sparta Trilogy #1) by Anthea Laurelton
Spartan warrior, Diokles, has waited years for the opportunity to right a failure that torments his heart and integrity. Sent to hunt down a threat to Sparta, this campaign may be his final chance to restore his honour and uncover the traitor whose actions blighted his life. Success is at his fingertips, but when duty forces him to take an unwilling accomplice, his plans are challenged in ways he never foresaw.
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Jul 21
Snippet: The Valet's Witness by Rohn Hein
In the summer of 1776, as the Declaration of Independence takes shape within the charged chambers of the Second Continental Congress, two lives unfold in quiet, irrevocable collision-one etched into the official record, the other deliberately erased from it.
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Jul 20
A Poison of Shadows (Whisperbound #2) by Annie Anderson
A Poison of Shadows is the second book in a series of interconnected standalone romantasy novels—complete stories linked by blood, magic, and courtly deception. Expect one dangerously controlled vampire prince, one shadow-walking heroine powered by spite and sharp objects, and a mission that turns “watch his back” into something entirely too personal. Mature themes and dark romantic tension included. Reader discretion advised.
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Jul 17
Spotlight: Via Malorum by G.G. MacLeod
In the shadowed streets of ancient Rome, 37 CE, power is a blade that cuts both ways. Agrippina, a towering enigma of ambition, slips from Caligula’s gilded cage with her newborn son, Domitius, her mind a labyrinth of cold calculation. At her side prowls Messalina, a siren in scarlet, her seductive cunning as deadly as her blade. Together, they navigate a city teeming with decadence and deceit, pursued by whispers of treachery and the emperor’s wrath.
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Jul 16