Dusty Ropes and Rusty Spurs (Bucket List Buddies #4) by JP Sayle & Lisa Oliver
Rick isn’t looking for an omega or beta—will a Bucket List Buddies event find him his perfect match?
Rick, an alpha bear, once upon a time, worked the rodeo circuit, now he’s content working in the florist business with his best friend. Or so he thought after he takes a chance and some unsolicited advice, and buys a ticket to a “Cowboy for a Day” event.
Merissa
2 days ago
Excerpt, Guest Post, & #Giveaway: Lies To Forever by Marlene M. Bell
April Manning’s generous nature has always been a gift, and her greatest weakness. After being scammed out of her life savings by a trusted friend, April is left with an eviction notice and one last hope: reclaiming her position as an interior designer at her old architectural firm, even if it means a showdown with head architect Hunter Ellis, her cheating ex.
Archaeolibrarian
3 days ago
Spotlight: The Therans Trilogy by Cyndi Brec
Legends don’t stay buried. Secrets don’t stay silent. And Callie Tresham is about to learn that some truths rewrite everything.
Sixteen-year-old Callie Tresham never asked to be bound to prophecy, but her life is stitched together by legends, lies, and a past that destroys. When a hidden power awakens inside her, she’s thrust between two worlds—one shaped by the modern world, the other by the consequences of centuries-old deceit and legends.
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4 days ago
Guest Post, & #Giveaway: Deadly Gold Rush (The Indie Retirement Mystery Series) by Landis Wade
When a shady real estate developer is found murdered beneath Harriet Keaton’s family home—shot, stabbed, and surrounded by rare 1830s gold coins—her estranged twin brother Joey is the prime suspect. He insists he’s innocent...but won’t name the real culprit.
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May 29
Excerpt: Precious Friends: Murder in Sag Harbor (Angelo Perrotta Mysteries #3) by Frank Spinelli
JB Pulaski, a tenured sociology professor, thought surviving cancer was his greatest battle. Now, desperate to save his crumbling marriage, he retreats to his Sag Harbor summer home with his philandering husband Mike and teenage son Emilio.
Instead, he finds humiliation.
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May 26
Review & Excerpt: Beyond the Dark Oceans by Alison Huntingford
In 1906, the Huntingford family leaves England behind, crossing dark oceans in search of hope and opportunity in a new land. Canada promises a fresh start but for the eldest son, Georgy, it also brings hardship, responsibility, and a future shaped by forces far beyond his control.
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May 21
Excerpt & #Giveaway: Jane Won't Quit by Eva Shaw
When a high-profile scandal erupts inside a powerful Las Vegas mega church, Jane is pulled into an investigation far darker than corruption or infidelity. Behind the polished sermons and celebrity pastors lurks a brutal international trafficking ring—one that buys, sells, and returns unwanted children through a diabolical foreign adoption scheme.
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May 20
Kari's Kismet (Divergent Omegaverse #6) by JP Sayle
Everything about Bowie appeals to Kari, but he’s always kept his distance from the shy omega. Working circumstances throw Kari and Bowie together with no escape from the cuteness overload. When Kari finds himself becoming emotionally attached to his PA, he fights against it. Fights against his instinct to nurture Bowie right until Bowie’s boyfriend leaves him in a desperate state, giving Kari two choices.
Leave or stay.
Merissa
May 15
Showcase & #Giveaway: Daughter of Mine (A Stolen at Birth Novel) by Angie Stanton
In the maternity ward of Mercy Hospital, two women's lives collide in an act that will haunt them both for years to come. For Melissa Grout, a fifteen-minute shower becomes an eternal nightmare when she emerges to find her newborn daughter's bassinet empty. As police search futilely and her world crumbles under the weight of loss, she refuses to give up hope that somewhere, somehow, her baby is alive.
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May 14
Showcase: Firevein: The Awakening (Firevein Saga #1) by Hanna Park
I went to Røros for a wedding—not to fall for a man who looked at me like he had already mourned me once.
From the moment Rurik touches me, something beneath my skin ignites. Every kiss feels inevitable. Every glance pulls at something I can’t remember—but can’t ignore. He says I’ve lived before. That I’ve died before. That he has loved me through it all.
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May 13
Kari's Kismet (Divergent Omegaverse #6) by JP Sayle
Everything about Bowie appeals to Kari, but he’s always kept his distance from the shy omega. Working circumstances throw Kari and Bowie together with no escape from the cuteness overload. When Kari finds himself becoming emotionally attached to his PA, he fights against it. Fights against his instinct to nurture Bowie right until Bowie’s boyfriend leaves him in a desperate state, giving Kari two choices.
Debbie
May 11
Review: Lady of Lincoln (The Nicola de la Haye Series #1) by Rachel Elwiss Joyce
12th-century England. Nicola de la Haye wants to do her duty. But though she’s taught a female cannot lead alone, the young noblewoman bristles at the marriage her father has arranged to secure her inheritance. And when an unexpected death leaves her unguided, the impetuous girl shuns the king’s blessing and weds a handsome-but-landless knight.
Merissa
May 8
Rue's Rapture (Divergent Omegaverse #5) by JP Sayle
Rue’s past haunts his present, but is there a happy ever after in his future?
Lane and Derick Starling adopting Rue may have saved him, but his subsequent therapy fails to make him believe he is worthy of love. More than a decade later, Rue faces a personal crisis.
Merissa
May 6
Review: Save The Date (Square Mile Rogues #4) by Sophia Soames
Save the Date is a standalone novel set in the Square Mile Rogues universe. Content warnings for death of a partner, violent grief and finding out that love…really matters.
Debbie
May 4
The Fae's Promise (Grym Hollow #5) by Tati B. Alvarez
Evangeline has always dreamed of a life outside Grym Hollow, exploring a world of culinary magic and making her own. It’s what her parents would’ve wanted for her. But like the other women, leaving is only possible through The Guardian’s contract, which comes with its own rewards…and risks.
Merissa
Apr 28
Spotlight: Infidel: The Daughters of Aragon (Six Tudor Queens) by Nicola Harris
Born in the glittering courts of Castile and Aragon and forged in the shadow of war, Catalina de Aragón grows up surrounded by queens, rebels, and ghosts. She is her mother’s last daughter, the final jewel of a dynasty built on conquest and faith, and the one child Isabella of Castile cannot bear to lose.
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Apr 28
Guest Post & #Giveaway: Agatha Christie, She Watched (At the Movies With Teresa #1) by Teresa Peschel
Care to match wits with Hercule Poirot? Share tea and gossip with Miss Marple? Chase spies with Tommy and Tuppence?
“Agatha Christie, She Watched” will introduce you to must-see movies (and must-avoid dogs) that prove Agatha’s genius depicting the hopeful and dark sides of human nature. These movies will tantalize you, mystify you, and make you laugh at the folly of humanity.
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Apr 27
Spotlight: Another Soul Saved: A Story of the Holocaust by John Anthony Miller
Monika Graf, the wife of a wealthy Austrian military commander, steals two Jewish girls from the Nazis—a crime often punishable by death. With soldiers in rapid pursuit, a homeless Jew named Janik, a mysterious man who lurks in the shadows, helps her escape.
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Apr 21
Series Review: Death's Embrace Series by H. L. Moore
Doran Ó Seanáin, former miner and leader of the Black Lung Gang, and his best friend, Lien, are almost at a breaking point in their ongoing conflict with the city of Arajon’s tyrannical ruler. Just as things are spiralling out of control, Doran crosses paths with Nathaniel Morgenstern, an apotheker with a mysterious past. As their relationship develops against the backdrop of the ongoing social turmoil, the secrets Nathaniel is keeping might threaten to destroy them all…
Debbie
Apr 17
Moonbound Bonds (Wild Divide #1) by Annie Anderson
In the Divide, magic has a way of making you pay twice.
Sable has spent thirteen years as a crime lord's property. When she finally gets the chance to break free, she runs... straight into the jaws of something far worse.
Harkan is ruthless and utterly uninterested in letting her go. When he severs her old chains, he replaces them with something far more dangerous: a bond that hums beneath her skin every time he's near.
Merissa
Apr 16