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Guest Post & Excerpt: Eyes to Deceit (The Company Files #4) by Gabriel Valjan

1953. The Company is orchestrating the overthrow of Iran’s elected leader—an operation cloaked in propaganda and alliances. In Rome, Walker is stationed with Leslie, former M16 and now Company agent, and tasked to coordinate efforts between the US and UK. But when resources on the ground become a liability, Walker is forced to make a difficult decision—one that threatens to unravel what’s left of his conscience.

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Mar 2

Spirit Out of Balance (The Guardians #5) by Tessa McFionn

Broken and dangerously so. Why did he find her now, when he can’t protect her? Centuries spent as the hero, vanished in one horrific, sickening twist. Now Guardian Warrior Mathias Blanchett must call on his fractured strength to save the tormented woman who calls to his spirit from enemies bent on their destruction. But will it be enough?

Merissa

Feb 27

Excerpt: One Fine Voice by Rebecca Langston-George

All her life, Esther Hopkins has been told she has a mighty fine voice. Still, she can't believe her luck when just days after moving to town, she's invited to sing a solo at the 1923 Independence Day picnic. But the group sponsoring the picnic is not the benevolent fraternal order they claim to be. Worse, they've recruited her father, the town's freshly ordained Baptist minister, to become their chaplain.

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Feb 27

Ten Books That Mean Something To Me - Debbie

My topic this month was supposed to be ten books that mean something to me, but since it’s my sister’s birthday this week, I asked her for 5 books. Her list comes after mine.

Debbie

Feb 26

Guest Post, Excerpt, & #Giveaway: A Murder of Furies (An Ancient Crete Mystery #3) by Eleanor Kuhns

When Tinos, the High Priestess's consort, asks Martis to search for his missing daughter, Martis becomes involved in the dangerous politics between Crete and Egypt. A young Egyptian prince is courting Hele, the High Priestess's daughter, despite her persistent refusals. And despite the lobbying by Hele's brother, Khoranos, who seeks the Cretan throne with Egypt's help.

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Feb 26

Furious Angels (The Order of the Senary #4) by L.D. Rose

Kasen Knight believed he could save the world. Now he’s barely surviving. The vampire war rages on, but the hybrids in New York City are rapidly losing ground. As the Senary’s healer, Kasen is drowning in death and bloodshed. The only thing driving him to carry on is his beloved mate and their unborn child. When the man responsible for his tortured past discovers Kasen has a baby on the way, the threat to all he holds dear has him grappling to keep his beast in check. Kasen

Merissa

Feb 25

Excerpt: Circus Bim Bom: A Cold War Adventure by Cliff Lovette

When the first privately owned Soviet circus arrived in America in 1990, as the Soviet Empire unraveled, its elite performers hoped to build cultural bridges through spectacular shows. Instead, this prestigious troupe faced a perilous journey through Cold War America.

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Feb 24

Excerpt & #Giveaway: Rhythm and Design (Rhythm and Design series #1) by Long Temple

Claire Baldwin is used to building beauty from structure—dreaming in blueprints, raised among silver spoons and Ivy League expectations. Focused, brilliant, and untouchable, love was never part of the plan. Until one almost-mistake in her youth taught her the price of giving too much to someone who offered too little.

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Feb 23

Guest Post: The Deserter: A Tale of the Foreign Legion by Wayne Turmel

Gil Vincente is a Boer War veteran, broken and adrift on the rough streets of Marseille. Desperate, he seeks discipline and renewed purpose in the unforgiving ranks of the French Foreign Legion. At first, he finds it, but not for long. When a treacherous soldier frames him for murder, it forces the new legionnaire to run for his life.

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Feb 20

Excerpt: Secrets in the Woods by Susan D. Levitte

On October 8, 1871, fire turned night into a living hell. While Chicago's blaze claimed the headlines, a fiercer and more devastating inferno swept across Wisconsin's Green Bay peninsula-obliterating farms, forests, and families in its path.

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Feb 19

Guest Post, Excerpt, & #Giveaway: Winter's Season by R.J. Koreto

In 1817 London, Before the Police, There Was Captain Winter. In 1817 London, before the police existed, Captain Winter is the city’s only hope against murder and deceit. This gripping historical crime thriller blends war-born cunning, high-society intrigue, and shadowy investigations in a world where every secret could be deadly.

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Feb 18

Guest Post, Excerpt, & #Giveaway: The First to Die by Suzanne Trauth

Connie Tucker, a free-spirited beach bartender, has been estranged from her family in New Jersey ever since her actress mother, Simone, disappeared one night during a violent storm at the theatre where she was rehearsing. Uncontrollable and in a rage at the loss of her parent, fifteen-year-old Connie is exiled to California, due to her delinquent behavior, to live with an aunt she doesn't know.

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Feb 17

Guest Post, Excerpt, & #Giveaway: The Fatal Saving Grace (Ed Earl Burch Crime Thriller #5) by Jim Nesbitt

After wandering the peephole wilderness of a private detective for two decades, defrocked Dallas homicide detective Ed Earl Burch is an official manhunter again, wearing the badge of a DA's investigator in the harsh desert mountains of West Texas.

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Feb 16

Review & Excerpt: Falling for my Ex's Twin (Falling For You #2) by Colette Davison

I thought my ex-husband’s twin hated me. I couldn’t have been more wrong. After my marriage breaks down, I move to a new town to start fresh and follow my dream of being a farmer. I know my ex’s twin, Jimmy, is at uni here, but I never expected our paths to cross—especially not like this.

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Feb 16

Reforged Flame (The Bloodline Chronicles) by Evelyn Silver & Ben Hart

As a former vigilante vampire hunter and powerful pyromancer, the last place twenty-year-old Lochlan Kelly ever expected to live was in the heart of vampire territory. But everything about his life changed the moment he accepted his new job as the first and only mortal knight among the undead in the secret vampire kingdom of New Ulster.

Debbie

Feb 13

Guest Post, Excerpt, & #Giveaway: Haunted by a Broken Oath (A JD Wolfe Investigation #1) by Dee Armstrong

When a hero dies and children vanish, PI JD Wolfe must confront a deadly conspiracy--and the ghost that's haunted her since childhood. A decorated military hero is found hanging from a rope. Two young boys vanish without a trace. And private investigator JD Wolfe's world begins to unravel.

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Feb 12

Spring Melt by Lori Duffy Foster

As a doctor’s wife in a thriving Adirondack village in the 1920s, Ella Devine seems to have an ideal life. Her husband grew rich catering to New York City socialites who wanted to hide their TB diagnoses from their friends. Their marriage is devoid of emotion, but so is she, having learned long ago to quietly accept whatever life offers. But all that changes when three men are charged with a nineteen-year-old murder, and the long-buried crime that shaped Ella’s childhood is e

Merissa

Feb 11

Spotlight: Quillan Creek and the Little War (Time Stones #1) by Ian Hunter

Jessie Mason lives with her nose in the pages of history. But she is about to discover that the past is a dangerous place where she doesn't belong, and knowledge alone is not going to save her. In Jessie’s troubled life her aunt is the only constant and comfort she has. But when she inexplicably disappears, and Jessie uncovers her mother's Time Stone, that unhappy life turns unreal and terrifying.She is summoned to a world in crisis, 250 years in her past, to three unlikely

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Feb 9

Author Spotlight Tour for Paolo G. Grossi

Author Spotlight & Backlist Tour (Jan 28–Feb 20): Join us as we celebrate Paolo G. Grossi and three standout titles from his backlist—a journey through rich #HistoricalFiction with powerful #LGBTQ+ themes. Discover the stories, dive into the worlds, and meet the author behind them.

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Feb 6

Guest Post, Excerpt, & #Giveaway: Hard Headed Woman by Howard Gimple

No one but Hannah Johansson believes her father was murdered. Not even her mother. The doctors say he had a stroke but Hannah knows he was poisoned. She just doesn’t know who did it or why. One thing she does know is that the answers can be found at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, a pristine 9,000 acre nature preserve where her father was superintendent.

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Feb 5