

Mr Collins in Love by Lee Welch
The year is 1811 and the new rector of Hunsford, Mr William Collins, must be above reproach. He must be respectable, pious, good at losing at quadrille, and disapproving of popular novels. Above all, he must obey his terrifying patroness, Lady Catherine de Bourgh.
When William’s boyhood friend Jem arrives, looking for safe harbour from the press-gangs, William’s ‘perfect clergyman’ disguise begins to slip. A farm labourer’s son, Jem is gentle and loyal, and being with him is
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Excerpt & #Giveaway: Gone To Ground by Morgan Hatch
The first in a suspenseful new trilogy, a fast-paced thriller set in the streets of Los Angeles, featuring a Mexican American high school senior embroiled in a conspiracy that threatens to destroy his neighborhood.Â
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Excerpt: Marguerite: Hell Hath No Fury! The Story of Marguerite of Anjou by Judith Arnopp
Marguerite: Queen of England
From the moment Henry VI's new queen, Marguerite of Anjou, sets foot on English soil she is despised by the English as a foreigner, and blamed for the failures of the hundred years war in France.
Her enemies impede her role as the king’s consort and when Henry sinks into apparent madness her bid to become regent is rejected. Marguerite must fight, not only for her own position but to maintain Henry’s possession of the crown.
The ambitious Duke,
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Silas's Sweetheart (Divergent Omegaverse #4) by JP Sayle
A summons home changes everything for Silas Starling. Can he confront his fears before it’s too late to reclaim the heart he tossed aside?
When he visits Hidden Desires and meets an omega snake shifter, Silas’s instincts tell him to run. Except he doesn't. The lure of the snake and his sexy lingerie are too much to resist.
Still reeling from the connection, Silas is dealt another shock when he learns the sexy snake is in fact his new PA, Ziggy.
Working together means hidin
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Velvet by Louisa Mae
AJ is the flamboyant face of Velvet, an upmarket cocktail lounge in Leeds. He’s quick witted and normally unflappable in every possible situation, although he’s given up on the chance of finding Mr.Right, let alone Mr. Right Now. Then, one night, fate intervenes when he spills drinks over a group of customers, one being his own Achilles heel, a hot man in a well-fitting suit. The chance encounter means AJ got more than he bargained for, in more ways than one.
Blake had alway
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Guest Post, Excerpt, & #Giveaway: They Came At Night by Westley Smith
In the five years since the fateful and horrific night that changed her life, Sandra Leigh has kept herself sequestered at the Compound, a trauma recovery/survival skill camp that helped her process her past and feel safe in the world again.
Now, the time has come for her to face life outside the Compound, and that starts with a family road trip to rebuild the relationship she once had with her young niece.
A weekend at a rented cabin in the woods sounds idyllic, but Sandra
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Review & #Giveaway: Seven Hundred Beachfront by Ligia de Wit
Some places hold memories. Others have opinions.
I didn't mean to run again.
But when life gets tangled, I untangle it by leaving. And this time, my escape came with strings attached: a five-year-old brother I never signed up to care for, a seaside town I barely remember, and a tattered house on stilts that belongs in Renter's Hell.
I told myself it was just for the summer. A break. A pause. A way to escape the people I care about but can't seem to fit with anymore, and the c
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Excerpt: Ping by Lisa Lucas & Steve Landsberg
PING, which was originally conceived in 2016, precedes the current cultural popularity in Ping Pong, exemplified in the upcoming 2025 Christmas movie release of Marty Supreme starring Timothée Chalamet and Gwyneth Paltrow.
Alternating between the pivotal 1971 Ping-Pong Diplomacy - where a simple game of table tennis thawed the icy relations between the U.S. and China during the Cold War - and the present-day struggles of a family weighed down by legacy, Ping is a compelling
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Review & Excerpt: Walking on Broken Paths by Amy Aislin
Desperate to escape the pain of his brother’s death, Jesse Melnik ran—but he couldn’t outrun the grief, no matter how much distance he put between himself and his past. Now, after fifteen years of trying, he’s finally ready to face his hometown of Charlottetown again.
He expects the memories of his brother to hover in every corner of his family’s sailboat and whisper in every sea-tinged breeze.
What he doesn’t expect is Parker Willis, the best friend he left behind without
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Guest Post & #Giveaway: Like Driftwood On The Salish Sea by Richard I Levine
When they met in the fourth grade, it was love at first sight for Mitchell Brody and Jessica Ramirez. He was the freckle-faced kid who stood up for her honor when he silenced the class bully who’d been teasing her because of her accent. She was the new kid whose family moved to San Juan Island, Washington, from San Juan, Puerto Rico, and whom Mitch had thought was the most beautiful girl in the world.
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The Seer (The Secret Tales #3) by Sanna Brand / Vicki Stiefel
A quest for truth. A legacy in stone. A love forged in danger.
When Lady Claire Pheland is publicly humiliated by London’s Society of Antiquarians, she vows to prove her radical theory: that the iconic ancient Greek statues were once vividly painted. Claire’s search for evidence leads her to Greece in the company of Lord Theseus Ashworth—a brilliant scholar on a dangerous mission of his own: returning his father’s Greek sculptures to their rightful home.
Their journey is fr
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Excerpt: A Prodigy in Auschwitz: Simon by Fred Raymond Goldman
When Nazi Germany troops enter Krakow, Poland on September 2, 1939, fourteen-year-old Simon Baron learns two truths that have been hidden from him.
One, the people who have raised him are not his biological parents. Two, his birth mother was Jewish. In the eyes of the Germans, although he has been raised Catholic, this makes Simon Jewish. Simon's dreams of becoming a concert violinist and composer are dashed when his school is forced to expel him, and he is no longer eligibl
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Guest Post & #Giveaway: Embedded (Dakota Judd #1) by John Lansing
Embedded, the first book in the new Dakota Judd thriller series, features John Lansing’s trademark propulsive, page-turning writing style, with a tough but sympathetic protagonist. Accompanying Dakota are two powerful women: Aunt Billie, his tough-as-nails wingman, a retired female detective who makes sure Dakota stays alive as he rotates back to civilian life where peril awaits, and Jean Steele, Dakota’s FBI handler, who must thwart her romantic impulses towards Dakota, as o
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Guest Post, Excerpt, & #Giveaway: Whispers by J. Herman Kleiger
With the page-turning suspense of Ava Strong’s FBI thriller Not Like He Seemed and gritty realism of Douglas and Olshaker’s New York Times Bestseller MindHunter, Whispers promises readers a nail-biting journey into the search for a serial killer and a window into the troubled mind of the agent who pursues him.
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Audio Snippet & #Giveaway: Dagger's Destiny (Curse of Clansmen and Kings #2) by Linnea Tanner
A Celtic warrior princess accused of treason for aiding her enemy lover must win back her father’s love and trust.
In the rich and vibrant tale, Author Linnea Tanner continues the story of Catrin and Marcellus that began with the awarding-winning novel Apollo’s Raven in the Curse of Clansmen and Kings Series. Book 2: Dagger’s Destiny sweeps you into an epic tale of forbidden love, mythological adventure, and political intrigue in Ancient Rome and Britannia.
War looms over 2
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Guest Post: Shadowed Witness (The Secrets of Kincaid #2) by Angela Carlisle
Murder--that's what photographer Allye Jessup knows she witnessed as she departed her studio one evening. Waking with bruises on her neck and a foggy memory, she believes she survived an attack, but everyone seems to think she simply sustained a head injury from falling down the stairs outside her studio. Plagued by an undiagnosed health condition, she is torn between the haunting reality of what she may have seen and the possibility that her mind is playing tricks on her.
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Spotlight: Unspoken (The Dust Series #1) by Jann Alexander
Ruby Lee Becker can't breathe. It's 1935 in the heart of the Dust Bowl, and the Becker family has clung to its Texas Panhandle farm through six years of drought, dying crops, and dust storms. On Black Sunday, the biggest blackest storm of them all threatens ten-year-old Ruby with deadly dust pneumonia and requires a drastic choice —one her mother, Willa Mae, will forever regret.
To survive, Ruby is forced to leave the only place she's ever known. Far from home in Waco, and w
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Review & #Giveaway: Magelight by Kacey Ezell
Fleeing her sheltered life, a noblewoman must trust a warrior, a forester, and a thief to unlock her true power and face her destiny.
Embrace Your Power and Forge Your Destiny
All her life, Aelys of Brionne had been weak. As the noble daughter of one of the empire’s most powerful magic-wielding families, it should have been easy for her to live her dream of bonding with a warrior protector and joining the Imperial Battlemage Corps. But when her weakness robs her of her drea
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Excerpt: An Echo of Ashes by Ron Allen Ames
An Echo of Ashes is a story lost to time, then found again in century-old letters that lay in a tattered box.
Based on actual events taken from the pages, this story tells of when the Great War and the Spanish Influenza forever altered the lives of millions, including a family of subsistence farmers who also worked the oil fields of Pennsylvania.
Ella and Almon make their home in the backcountry. Almon and his sons work in the oil fields, just as their forefathers before th
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Review, Excerpt, & #Giveaway: Golden Bond (Pleasure Palace #1) by Tavian Cross
I came to the sacred island to pay my family's debt. I never expected to lose my heart.
My name is Callis, and I'm an offering.
Sent to Eletheria—the legendary pleasure palace where gods once walked among mortals—I have one purpose: submit to the bonding ritual, serve my time, and return home with my family's honor restored.
But the man who chooses me changes everything.
Auren is silver-haired, devastatingly beautiful, and dangerously powerful. As a Thorn of the sacred or
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