Excerpt: To Failure (MM Physique #1) by CJ Ashworth
In a sport that runs on the word more — more size, more chemistry, more — Eli has spent fifteen years on the opposite one: enough.
He competes natural, carving his body down to exactly what it should be and no further — a shape that has to win on proportion, because it gave up winning on size. He trains before dawn, alone — the hand at everyone else's back on the last brutal rep, and no one at his. He calls that strength. Knowing when to stop.
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Guest Post: The Lark by Laura C. Rader
When The Wizard of Oz graced the silver screen in 1939, it changed cinema and popular culture forever. But the true story began decades earlier with the young composer who risked everything to bring it to the Broadway stage.
At the turn of the century, twenty-three-year-old Paul Tietjens is a gifted classical pianist with dreams of greatness and a non-refundable ticket to Europe to study with the master composers of his time.
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Excerpt: Unveiled (Monarchs of Magic #1) by Susan Mac Nicol
In the mist-shrouded Scottish Highlands, a centuries-old legend stirs to life when a mysterious town appears during a fierce storm.
Through the Mists of Time
Like a place in fables and fairytales, the town of Glengàill is filled with secrets and enchantments.
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Excerpt: WhiteGrass by Richard Smith
At its core, WhiteGrass is a gripping near-future climate change thriller about family survival, technological power, and the terrifying moment when artificial intelligence stops serving humanity—and starts judging it.
Blending nanotechnology science fiction, AI humanoid emotional evolution, and hard-science realism, WhiteGrass delivers relentless pacing, cinematic stakes, and deeply human emotion. It is a story about parents willing to risk everything to protect their child
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Excerpt: How Can I Help You Today? by Julia L. Rule
At Ashwood High, everyone uses Pulse. It offers perfect, convincing advice at your fingertips. Always available, always validating.
Emma needs a scholarship. Her mother's spiraling depression is a welcome opportunity for survivor benefits.
Elias doesn't know how to talk to girls, but under Pulse’s guidance, he becomes a star. He might need some serious therapy now, though.
Riley only cares about increasing her follower count. Pulse calculates that a breast augmentation is
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Excerpt: The Declan Hunt Mysteries by Peter E. Fenton
Declan Hunt is good at solving mysteries, but cracking the case of his evolving relationship with his new office assistant Charlie Watts is proving to be more challenging than expected.
This four part detective series is filled with emotional twists and turns, secrets, crimes of passion and an unlikely partnership that simmers beneath the surface.
Declan and Charlie's adventures take them from the skyscrapers of downtown Calgary, to the prairies near The Badlands of Alberta
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Oct 23
Guest Post & Giveaway: The Lost Photograph by Archana Maniar
A forgotten photograph. A trailblazing ancestor. And a modern woman about to discover that her family’s past holds the key to her future.
When overworked surgeon Jaanvi Chowdhury finds a mysterious photograph and a small stack of letters hidden in her Boston attic, she uncovers the remarkable story of her great-aunt Kalyani Joshi―one of the first Indian women to study medicine in 1920s London.
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Oct 22
Excerpt, Guest Post, & Giveaway: Shifta (Bazaar Series #2) by Miles Joyner
An act of domestic terrorism during a cultural parade in downtown D.C. inflicts multiple casualties, including the life of a young Congressman, and law enforcement agencies are quick to conclude it was carried out by a mentally ill lone wolf manipulated by a chatbot.
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Oct 20
Review: When the Stones Held by David E. Owen
When The Stones Held is an unforgettable historical novel inspired by the true story of William Edwards, the self taught Welsh stonemason who built one of the greatest bridges of the eighteenth century.
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Oct 19
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.
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Oct 17
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.
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Oct 16
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.
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Oct 15
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.
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Oct 14
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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Oct 13
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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Oct 12
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
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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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