Winter Wishes Scattered (Bella and the Beast Master #6) by Sarah Westill
In Sziveria, winter is more than a season, it becomes a prison. When the Arctic winds descend and snow buries every door outside, Haven City knows the rules: stay warm, stay inside, stay sane, and survive until spring.
Merissa
Dec 22, 2025
Excerpt, Guest Post, & #Giveaway: Part of the Solution by Elana Michelson
It's 1978, and Jennifer Morgan, a sassy New Yorker, has escaped to the counterculture village of Flanders, Massachusetts. Her peaceful life is disrupted when one of her customers at the Café Galadriel is found dead. Everyone is a suspect—including the gentle artisan woodworker, the Yeats-wannabe poet, the town's anti-war hero, the peace-loving Episcopalian minister, and the local organic farmer who can hold a grudge.
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Nov 10, 2025
Interview, Excerpt, & #Giveaway: Murder at the Moulin Rouge (The Blackwell & Watson Time-Travel Mysteries #5) by Carol Pouliot
Paris, 1895. When a cancan dancer at the Moulin Rouge falls to her death from the top of one of Montmartre’s highest staircases, the police dismiss it as an accident. But, Madeleine was one of Toulouse-Lautrec’s favorite models, and the artist is certain she was murdered. Enter Depression-era detective Steven Blackwell and 21st-century journalist Olivia Watson who travel back in time to Paris to hunt down the killer. Before long, they learn that a second dancer—a ballerina an
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Nov 4, 2025
Excerpt & #Giveaway: Killer Tracks (Misty Pines Mystery #3) by Mary Keliikoa
Sheriff Jax Turner is worried about going off-grid and leaving his young team of deputies behind. But while his getaway with his ex is meant to help them reconnect, Jax is distracted by signs of a break-in at their rented lookout.
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Oct 30, 2025
Excerpt: Jenny Kidd by Laury A. Egan
While spending autumn in Venice, a young American artist, Jenny Kidd, hopes to create a portfolio of paintings to launch her career and establish her independence from her tyrannical father. At the Guggenheim Collection, she encounters Randi, a colorful British woman, who invites her to a masked ball at the Palazzo Barbon. There, she meets the seductive Caterina Barbon and her brother, Sebastiano, who entice Jenny into a world of glittering façades that cloak sexual perversio
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Oct 21, 2025
Lost Shores of Thonis by E.L. Tenenbaum
A year ago, Azizi's island home abruptly sank into the Mediterranean, drowning her family, culture, and entire past. Once vibrant Thonis is now a curse, the three survivors are the Blessed. Azizi doesn't feel blessed.
Merissa
Oct 13, 2025
Author Interview & #Giveaway: The Long Shadow of Murder (Will Rees/Shaker Series) by Eleanor Kuhns
When the body of a visitor is found in the woods by the local Shaker community, suspicion immediately falls on them. Rees is reluctant to believe anyone in this peaceful community committed murder. And Hans Bergin arrived with his wife, his brother-in-law and sister-in-law. They had their own reasons to want Bergin dead.
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Oct 6, 2025
Excerpt & #Giveaway: Forewarned by Tracey S. Phillips
For 15-year-old Daphne Ann Post, the summer of 1976 at Lake Carlson should be filled with new friendships and carefree late-night parties. But something darker lurks beneath the surface—her chilling premonition that someone is going to drown.
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Oct 2, 2025
The Women in the Shadows by Harriet Fox
London, 1888. A monster prowls the gaslit streets, and the police are looking in all the wrong places, at all the wrong suspects. But three women refuse to stay silent.
Merissa
Oct 1, 2025