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Bess – Tudor Gentlewoman (The Elizabethan Series #6) by Tony Riches
Bess Throckmorton defies her notorious background and lack of education to become Queen Elizabeth’s Gentlewoman and trusted confidante.
Forced to choose between loyalty and love, duty and desire, will she risk her queen’s anger by marrying adventurer Sir Walter Raleigh without permission?
Entangled in a web of intrigue, from the glittering Palace of Whitehall to the cells of the Tower of London, Bess endures tragedy and injustice, becoming a resilient, determined woman, who

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Review & #Giveaway: Ever Since the Ball by Kate Ellington
Miranda Harlake's only chance to escape the detestable match her parents are arranging is a sham betrothal to her best friend, Peter, who proposes solely to save her from a loveless marriage. She gratefully accepts, though both know they'll never wed.
Piqued by her parents' scheming, Miranda secretly attends a masked ball and dances with a fascinating stranger all night. Upon discovering her partner was the insufferable George Rockford, she tries to forget the romantic eve

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Excerpt: Ravens Hill (The Atheling Chronicles #5) by Garth Pettersen
In 1030 C.E. — When Harald, the second son of King Cnute, returns from fighting the king's enemies in Northern Wales, he expects his life to return to normal. He's surprised when he's granted a large landholding—an idyllic life, far from the power-mongering of King Cnute's court, farming in the Midlands, evening walks with his beloved Selia. It’s a gift they cannot refuse, but the king has other plans for Harald and his wife.

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Guest Post & #Giveaway: Arabesque by M G da Mota
Arabesque is a step in classic ballet, an appropriate title for a novel narrating the beauty of ballet and the artistry and athleticism involved; with the dancers’ stories depicting everything a romantic ballet should have: love, passion, obsession, deception, courage, determination, happiness, drama, fun. And sadness.

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3 days ago
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Guest Post & #Giveaway: The Everest Enigma (Abbie Bradford Mystery #1) by Jeannette de Beauvoir
Abbie Bradford is at a crossroads. Fresh off earning her doctorate in history, she’s unsure of her next move—until bestselling novelist Emma Caulfield, an acquaintance of her brother, presents an irresistible challenge: join her on a grueling trek from Kathmandu to Everest Base Camp in Nepal.

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4 days ago
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Excerpt & Review: Death & Maia by A. C. Jolly
In the shadowed streets of plague-ridden Athens, Maia lies on the brink of death. When the grim reaper appears to claim her, Maia makes a bold request: a kiss.

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Jun 13
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Excerpt: Death and The Poet (The Publius Ovidius Mysteries #2) by Fiona Forsyth
When Dokimos the vegetable seller is found bludgeoned to death in the Black Sea town of Tomis, it’s the most exciting thing to have happened in the region for years. Now reluctantly settled into life in exile, the disgraced Roman poet Ovid helps his friend Avitius to investigate the crime, with the evidence pointing straight at a cuckolded neighbour.
But Ovid is also on edge, waiting for the most momentous death of all. Augustus, the first Emperor of Rome, is nearing his end

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Jun 12
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Excerpt & #Giveaway: Forbidden Lust (Sinful Knights) by Oliver Takely
In the City of London, Josh works tirelessly to provide financial security for his younger sister, following the tragic deaths of his parents. He longs for a connection with his birth father who doesn’t want Josh to wreck his perfect life. Mature beyond his years, Josh craves the love and stability of an older man to anchor him.
Daniel, a wildly successful lawyer, works hard and plays even harder. His heart is closed to love after the betrayal of his ex-husband, until he m

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Jun 11
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Excerpt & #Giveaway: Perfect Vengeance (FBI Strike Force #1) by Tee O'Fallon
Robin Hood meets the Sopranos…an insanely dangerous scheme Gina Perot and her friends hatched to steal from the mob and donate the loot to a worthy cause. Successful Wall Street investment banker by day, cat burglar by night, Gina leads a double life. But she's never forgotten how the mob and the FBI destroyed her family and ripped her life apart. Now it's time for payback. Charity and revenge all rolled into one. Perfect. Until Gina's scheme sends her crashing headfirst into

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Jun 10
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Guest Post: Last Train to Freedom by Deborah Swift
1940. As Soviet forces storm Lithuania, Zofia and her brother Jacek must flee to survive.
A lifeline appears when Japanese consul Sugihara offers them visas on one condition: they must deliver a parcel to Tokyo. Inside lies intelligence on Nazi atrocities, evidence so explosive that Nazi and Soviet agents will stop at nothing to possess it.
Pursued across Siberia on the Trans-Siberian Express, Zofia faces danger at every turn, racing to expose the truth as Japan edges close

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Jun 9
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Excerpt & #Giveaway: Between the Living and the Dead by Sophie Jupillat Posey
Cavilla Ramirez is an average Peruvian teen, tethered to the 1990s rhythm of clarinet rehearsals, dog-eared Agatha Christie novels, and low-stakes schoolyard mysteries. But when a hit-and-run claims her two best friends, her world implodes—and then restructures itself in a seemingly impossible and unnerving way. Her friends aren't gone. Their ghosts linger, needing her help in solving their murder so that they can cross over. And it's not just them. Ghosts are everywhere, and

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Jun 6
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Excerpt: The Man in Black by L.R. Liverpool
Naive dreamer Fenimore James runs from home and goes west to become a famous outlaw––Simon Shaw. However, his fantasies of glamorous robberies quickly evaporate as he joins the notorious Red Evans gang and finds himself in the middle of a strange and bloody game, where gang members are suddenly being murdered one-by-one at the hand of a mysterious pursuer, who leaves cryptic signs scarifying their bodies.
To complicate matters further, Fenimore’s waking hours become tortur

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Excerpt & #Giveaway: The Chained Prince (The Eldergreen Series, #1) by Becca Calder
Fae mage Araya Starwind has survived the New Dominion’s brutal rule by keeping her head down and her magic leashed. To stay safe, she binds herself to a powerful human mage—Jaxon Shaw—whose protection comes at a steep and controlling cost.

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Jun 4
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Guest Post: Nothing Proved (Regina #1) by Janet Wertman
Elizabeth Tudor learned resilience young. Declared illegitimate after the execution of her mother Anne Boleyn, she bore her precarious position with unshakable grace. But upon the death of her father, King Henry VIII, the vulnerable fourteen-year-old must learn to navigate a world of shifting loyalties, power plays, and betrayal.
After narrowly escaping entanglement in Thomas Seymour’s treason, Elizabeth rebuilds her reputation as the perfect Protestant princess – which p

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Jun 3
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Guest Post & #Giveaway: Bazaar by Miles Joyner
A high-profile homicide of a former ambassador's son in the nightlife district of the nation's capital gets connected to an assassination market on the dark web, turning the DC area into a battlefield over a new generation of class warfare. When the ex-diplomat, Chiedu Attah, hires an elite executive protection team headed by siblings Yemi and Karen Uzunma to guarantee his safety, the security firm realizes they are going up against a young, inventive contract killer who is d

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Jun 2
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Review & #Giveaway: A Touch of Maple (Love in Maplewood #3) by Amy Aislin
After being traded numerous times over the course of his pro hockey career, all Bellamy Jordan wants is a place where he belongs. Burlington, Vermont, home of the Vermont Trailblazers, his newest team, might just be that place. The bonus: he’s within spitting distance of the grandparents who raised him. The drawback: his long-time rival’s gorgeous brother—who he can’t get out of his mind—also lives nearby.

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May 30
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Excerpt & #Giveaway: The Way Alex Sees Me (Aphrodite in Disguise #2) by Dann Hazel
High school senior Rusty Finch is in a pickle.
His grades are plummeting even though everyone says he’s got a good head on his shoulders. He and his mother Gloria are not getting along. Neither of them knows why.

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May 28
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Excerpt & #Giveaway: Father of One by Jani Anttola
Maka, a young Bosnian soldier, has survived three years under siege. When the enemy forces launch their final attack on his hometown, he must escape to the hills. But traversing the vast woods is a task against all odds: to stay alive, and to find his infant son and his wife, he is soon forced to make a desperate move.
Set against the harrowing background of raging guerrilla warfare and the genocide in Srebrenica, Father of One is, at heart, a story of deep humanity, compa

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May 27
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Excerpt: Boy with Wings by Mark Mustian
When Johnny Cruel is born with strange appendages on his back in the 1930s South, the locals think he's a devil. Determined to protect him, his mother fakes his death, and they flee. Thus begins Johnny's yearslong struggle to find a place he belongs.
From a turpentine camp of former slaves to a freak show run by a dwarf who calls herself Tiny Tot and on to the Florida capitol building, Johnny finds himself working alongside other outcasts, struggling to answer the question

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May 26
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Excerpt: Tangled in Water by Pam Records
1932. Natalia is 16 and a bootlegger's daughter, playing the mermaid mascot on a rundown paddlewheel used to entertain brewers and distributors.
A sequined costume hides her scarred and misshaped legs, but it can't cover up the painful memories and suspicions that haunt her. An eccentric healer who treats patients with Old Country tonics, tries to patch wounds, but only adds to the heartache. A fierce storm threatens to destroy everything, including a stash of stolen jew

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May 23
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Guest Post & #Giveaway: Muzzle the Black Dog by Mike Cobb
After a mysterious stranger appears at his isolated cabin door, Jack's life is forever changed. The stranger's cryptic message sets off a chain of events that lead Jack on a harrowing journey to uncover the true meaning of his own existence.

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May 22
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A Fate Forged in Fire (Bonded to Beasts #1) by Hazel McBride
Once a territory built on matriarchal rule, Tìr Teine has been without a female heir for centuries. Through a long line of corrupt kings, an

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May 20
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Guest Post & #Giveaway: Diamond In The Ruff (Wiggle Butt Manor #1) by Cindy Goyette
Charlie Calderbank always dreamed of being a cop, but a medical issue forces her out of the academy and to rethink her future. When Charlie’s Aunt Jo-Jo suffers injuries in a car accident, she offers to help at her aunt’s pet hotel, Wiggle Butt Manor, in the charming Pacific Northwest island town of Orca Cove.
With her Cocker Spaniel Noah at her side, she settles into life on the island and at the Manor. When the owner of Maya, the precocious mutt, is murdered, Jo-Jo becomes

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May 20
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Review & #Giveaway: Wolf of the Nordic Seas (Valiant Vikings #2) by Jennifer Ivy Walker
Named after the Norse God of the Sea, Njörd grew up sailing, swimming, and fishing the fjords of Norway. Endowed with extraordinary senses, speed, and strength, he became known as Wolf of the Nordic Seas, leading lucrative Viking raids from the Baltic shores to the Black and Caspian Seas. When a Viking völva foretells his future through a seidr vision, Njörd learns that his fate and his mate—the siren with the sea goddess eyes—lie on the alabaster coast of Normandy in the dis

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May 19
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Excerpt & #Giveaway: Same Place, Same Stars by Katey Taylor
Twenty-one-year-old Natalia battles a rare parasomnia sleep disorder that propels her to act violently, experience night terrors, and put herself in dangerous situations—all while she’s unconscious.

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May 16
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Review: Cowboy Watch (The Watchers #1) by Petie McCarty
Kellen Brand's inheritance comes as a monumental shock—a rundown farm she doesn't want and one paroled Watcher all her own. Kellen's eccentric mother believed Watchers to be fallen angels seeking penance by guarding individuals who had lost their way. Seriously? A Watcher?

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May 15
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Guest Post & #Giveaway: SWIPE by R.G. Belsky & Bonnie Traymore
After a stressful day at work and a creepy first meetup, Sonya Romano goes on a mission: teach a lesson to the smarmy guys she's meeting on her dating app. But when one of them falls to his death as a result of her confrontation--a married man posing as a single guy--she realizes she's gone too far.

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May 14
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Excerpt & #Giveaway: Splendificent 1+2 by Dacy Alex
Hell on Heels and Death by D Cup
This raw and naughty book brings together the first two Splendificent novels in one ENORMOUS package…
Not that type of enormous package!
I swear.

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May 13
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Showcase & #Giveaway: The Whisper Legacy (Pappa Legacy #1) by Tj O'Connor
Curran’s enemies thought he was dead.
They were wrong.
He thought his past was left on the Voula Beach Road.
He was wrong.
Now, that nightmare is drawing his enemies out.
The halls of power are being targeted—but by who?
Is the secret of the Voula Beach Road behind the chaos?
Curran knows the answer.
It’s all in The Whisper Legacy . . .

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May 12
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Guest Post & #Giveaway: Her Darkest Hour by Suzy Henderson
As war looms over Britain, Eliza MacLean wants nothing more than an ordinary life. Raised on the Isle of Mull, she’s spent years denying her gifts—just as her mother insisted. But her grandmother taught her differently, whispering ancient knowledge of herbs, charms, and spells.

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May 9
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To Love a Psycho Trilogy by C.F. White
Welcome to the #SeriesTour celebrating the To Love a Psycho Trilogyby @C.F.WhiteAuthor and the release of Killing Me Softly; the gripping conclusion to this thrilling series!

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May 8
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Guest Post & #Giveaway: The White Deer of Kildare (The Castle in Kilkenny: Fairy Tales #2) by Christy Matheson
All Maura wants is a peaceful winter holidays in her Irish castle, but her ex is threatening her with family court, and her second grader has invited a strange—completely unclothed—friend, to spend the holidays with them. Oh. And the friend’s dog, which is not actually a dog but probably one of the white deer of Celtic myth.

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May 7
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Excerpt: The Party Plot by Emily Spady
When Laurel Van Marcke comes home for the summer, he’s immediately thrown back into all the scandals, grudges, and petty gossip he wanted to avoid. But he was expecting that. What he wasn’t expecting was Casey Bright, his mom’s new party planner, who also happens to be the mystery man he spent an unforgettable night with three months ago. But something about Casey, and the whole situation, seems off, and Laurel needs this party to go off without a hitch.

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May 6
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Excerpt: White Feathers by Susan Lanigan
In 1913, Irish emigrée Eva Downey receives a bequest from an elderly suffragette to attend a finishing school. There she finds friendship and, eventually, love. But when war looms and he refuses to enlist, Eva is under family and social pressure to give the man she loves a white feather of cowardice. The decision she eventually makes will have lasting consequences for her and everyone around her.

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May 2
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Excerpt: Sister Rosa's Rebellion (The Meonbridge Chronicles #6) by Carolyn Hughes
1363. When Mother Angelica, the old prioress at Northwick Priory, dies, many of the nuns presume Sister Rosa – formerly Johanna de Bohun, of Meonbridge – will take her place. But Sister Evangelina, Angelica’s niece, believes the position is hers by right, and one way or another she will ensure it is.

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May 1
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Review & #Giveaway: Stone of Doubt (Stones of Iona #5) by Margaret Izard
A human with Fae powers living like an oddball has its ups and downs until Evie MacDougall’s dream Fae boy pops back into her life after she thought another was “the one.” One dark and devilish, the other her long-lost love. Evil forces trap her for a magic Fae stone, but which man can she trust?

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Apr 30
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Release Blitz & #Giveaway: Recurve Ridge (Savage Mountain #1) by Dove Priest
Mari Merripen can’t stay away from bad boys, but when she heads to Recurve Ridge, she crosses paths with men who both desire her and want to destroy her.

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Apr 29
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Review & #Giveaway: Caio (Limerent #1) by LS Delorme
Sarah Baker is a paralegal in a law firm in modern-day Brooklyn. Her life is bouncing between her abusive lawyer boyfriend, the voices she h

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Apr 28
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Author Interview: The Ballad of Mary Kearney by Katherine Mezzacappa
An impoverished tenant farmer sends his seventeen-year-old daughter Mary into service at the home of his Ascendancy landlord. Viscount Kilkeel, the impulsive but idealistic son of Lord Goward, lately returned from the Grand Tour, cohabits openly there with his married mistress – but at least her presence means he is not distracted by pretty servants. When Lady Mitchelstown dies, however, only Mary is willing to lay out the corpse. Impressed, Kilkeel decides to educate her and

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Apr 25
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Review & #Giveaway: The Schoolmaster's Daughter by Naomi Laeuchli
Deep in debt and desperate for a solution, Julius Claydon knows that marrying a wealthy woman is his only hope. When he meets the beautiful and rich Clara Haughton in Bath, he believes she could be his salvation, but there's one obstacle in his path: Lydia Cray, Clara's sharp-witted and penniless companion.

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Apr 24
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Spotlight: The Cross of Ciarán (The Cross of Ciarán #1) by Andrea Matthews
When a fifth century pagan priest is unearthed in Ireland fifteen hundred years after being entombed, archaeologist Caitlin O’Connell is convinced it’s the find of the century. The body is in perfect condition, right down to the intricate tattoos adorning the Celt’s skin. In fact, if scientific data hadn’t proved otherwise, she would swear he hadn’t been interred more than a few hours.

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Apr 23
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Guest Post & #Giveaway: A Code of Knights and Deception (Swords of Time #1) by Eliza Hampstead
When Sophia wakes up in 15th-century England, she expects hardship—but nothing prepares her for this brutal, unforgiving world. Lost, alone, and desperate to return to her husband and son, she vows to find a way home. But as weeks pass, Sophia finds kinship and purpose in this strange land.

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Apr 22
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Review & #Giveaway: Nothing But the Night (Basic Instincts #2) by Thom Collins
Three months after the death of his brother, Marc Glass faces a whole new dilemma. A tabloid journalist has made a connection between Theo a

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Apr 16
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Review & #Giveaway: Force Majeure by Elizabeth Noble
Ian Groden and Taren Murdoch have a good life. Their marriage is solid, and their Dom/sub lifestyle makes for an amazing and extra spicy sex

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Apr 15
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Spotlight: Oscar's Tale by Chris Bishop
Oscar’s Tale is that of a Saxon boy who sets out to find and rescue his father who has been taken by Viking slavers.
The story begins in 877, just prior to the Viking attack on Chippenham in which King Alfred was routed. Against this backdrop, Oscar is obliged to set out on his all but impossible quest and quickly becomes embroiled in all that’s going on in Wessex at this turbulent time, culminating in him playing a small but important part in the battle at Edington.

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Apr 15
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Excerpt & #Giveaway: Arcadia U Series #1 and #2 by Roxas Winters
I gave in to temptation, but happily ever after was never part of the deal.
I am heir to a mafia kingdom and taking my place means leaving

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Apr 3
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Excerpt: The Tudor Queens’ Midwife (The Tudor Queens’ Midwife #1) by Brigitte Barnard
In the glamorous, glittering and dangerous court of king Henry VIII and his queen Katherine of Aragon, the desperate desire for a healthy ma

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Apr 2
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Excerpt & #Giveaway: Murder on the Steel Pier (A Tess Mancini Time Travel Mystery #1) by Rosie Genova
The morning after a blowout birthday celebration in Atlantic City, crime reporter and party girl Tess Mancini wakes up in an unfamiliar plac

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Apr 1
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Review & #Giveaway: A Murder of Convenience by Kathleen Buckley
Ellen Cuthbert’s husband, Randolph, is now the Earl of Keswick’s heir. Their marriage is a sham, and Randolph’s mistress, Lydia, is present

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Mar 31
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Showcase & #Giveaway: What Goes Around by Michael Wendroff
Chilling killings terrorize a town and bring together two detectives to face the hardest tasks of their lives. Jack Ludlum, who relies on hi

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