Excerpt, Guest Post, & #Giveaway: Wildwood Exit by Joel E. Turner
A deadly family vendetta at a Jersey Shore restaurant pulls John McGinty (aka Ginty) into a dark world of embezzlement, drug-dealing, a lying wife and a junkie son.
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Jun 1
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, Guest Post, & #Giveaway: Last Dance Before Dawn (Nightingale Mysteries #4) by Katharine Schellman
Vivian Kelly has finally created a home and a family at the glamorous speakeasy known as The Nightingale, where no one cares who you are in the daytime. After all, in the underground world of 1920s New York City, everyone has a secret to keep, and they’re on the Nightingale's dance floor to leave those secrets behind. But sometimes it takes more than a dance to escape your past.
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May 28
Guest Post & #Giveaway: The Pawn (The Lemaster Files #2) by John David
When TV reporter Pete Lemaster gets an after-hours call from a college friend, he doesn’t expect it to catapult him into another big story in his reporting career. Scott “Uncle Scotty” Wilkins—a globe-trotting, charismatic businessman—has been arrested at a Singapore airport with enough drugs to guarantee a life sentence.
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May 27
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
A Ballooning Display (Bucket List Buddies #3) by J.P. Sayle & Lisa Oliver
Earnest’s last relationship was a disaster with a capital D. A disaster that keeps on giving when Earnest discovers his ex has joined up with Bucket List Buddies to offer hot air balloon rides—how Earnest met his ex when he landed unexpectedly in his paddock.
Debbie
May 22
Excerpt: Escape of the Grand Duchess by Susan Appleyard
Escape of the Grand Duchess by Susan Appleyard is a gripping historical novel that shatters the notion that royalty is synonymous with privilege and ease. At its heart is the youngest sister of Tsar Nicholas II, Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna—a Romanov who defied a doomed destiny and survived.
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May 21
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
A Ballooning Display (Bucket List Buddies #3) by JP Sayle & Lisa Oliver
Earnest’s last relationship was a disaster with a capital D. A disaster that keeps on giving when Earnest discovers his ex has joined up with Bucket List Buddies to offer hot air balloon rides—how Earnest met his ex when he landed unexpectedly in his paddock.
Merissa
May 19
Guest Post & #Giveaway: The Last Fatal Hour by Jan Matthews
For Leona Gladney, former woman soldier of the Union Army, life goes on despite the echoes of the battlefield in her heart. Now a suffragist and budding socialite in Brooklyn Heights, she yearns for a literary life and family. But her husband's business partner embezzles their money and disappears.
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May 18
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
Guest Post & #Giveaway: The Bush Tea Murder (A Caribbean Island Mystery #1) by Ashley-Ruth M. Bernier
Food journalist Naomi Sinclair doesn’t expect a side of murder with her passion fruit juice. But when her return to Saint Thomas heralds a series of troubling cases, ranging from petty theft to cold-blooded murder, that threaten her tight-knit community, that is exactly the kind of unsavory treat she must sink her teeth into.
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May 12
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
Living For the Dead (Lost Woman Lost World #1) by Katie Zaber
Another day, another traffic jam — until an earthquake strikes during the evening commute, and Amber Kay is one of roughly a hundred people pulled into a wrinkle in time, where dinosaurs are the apex predator and everything is out to kill the ragtag band of survivors. Wonders they’d never imagined and plants and animals found only in schoolbooks abound.
Merissa
May 7
Spotlight: That Catskill Summer (Lived-In Love #1) by Bart A. Charlow
Author Aaron Ben-Ami’s steamy novel, based on a failed youthful love affair in the "Summer of Love" Borscht Belt, is a sensation. Love was easy to come by in the resort culture of the early sexual revolution, but not so easy to keep. Now, as his story is being made into a movie starring Isobel “Izzy” Sandler, the past and present are about to collide.
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May 7
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