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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23 hours ago
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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23 hours ago
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.
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4 days ago
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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5 days ago
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
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6 days ago
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
Guest Post, Excerpt, & #Giveaway: Bait the Devil (A Bounty of Shadows #2) by Winter Austin
In bounty hunting, clean jobs are a myth. Dot knows—she’s seen the blood.Dot Ybarra doesn’t bluff. Fresh into her bounty hunting career, she’s already earning a reputation for results. But when a “routine” rogue bounty—taken as a favor to her lawyer cousin—turns lethal, she’s staring down a case with international reach, bodies in its wake, and the stench of power.
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Feb 3
Excerpt: The Relic Keeper by Heidi Eljarbo
Italy, 1620.
Angelo is an orphan, lonely and forgotten. Having been passed on from one family to the next, he ends up as a common thief, subject to and under the thumb of a ruthless robber called Tozzo.
Angelo knows no other life and has lost hope that any chance of providence will ever replace his lonely, misfortunate existence. When he loses his master, his livelihood is shaken. Tozzo’s plunder is hidden in a safe place, but what will happen if someone comes after Angelo
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Feb 2
Guest Post: Showboat Soubrette by Brodie Curtis
Showboat singer Stella Parrot’s star rises in the Antebellum South with every sold-out performance along the lower Mississippi River. When a river pirate viciously assaults her, new friends Toby Freeman and John Dee Franklin foil the attack. However, the pirate’s family is bent on revenge.
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Jan 30
Review & Excerpt: An Impossible Mate (Strength of the Pack #1) by Joy Lynn Fielding
Alpha shifter Matt Urban is always in control. He has to be. Keeping his territory, his pack, and himself tightly leashed is the only way to protect his precarious peace. So when a defiant, smart-mouthed lone wolf stumbles into his territory, Matt’s first instinct is to drive him out. His second instinct? Quite the opposite, unfortunately…
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Jan 29
Debbie's Throwback Review Highlight
But sometimes, there comes along a book that throws you for a loop, on a deeply personal level. I knew something in the book would touch a nerve; I just wasn't prepared for how much it would affect me, and how I viewed someone very close to me.
A book that spawns a brand new shelf on Goodreads, called Masterpieces, with this being the inaugural book to that shelf, in March 2018. A shelf that carries only 13 books in 8 years.
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Jan 28
Spotlight: Whispers in the Snow (Heartwarming Christmas) by Heidi Eljarbo
Cornelia Gran is a dedicated daughter, friendly and kind; although, she has an exorbitant amount of curiosity. She devours Arthur Conan Doyle’s magazine articles and tries to follow the fictitious Sherlock Holmes’s investigative examples, but her fascination with solving puzzles always gets her into mischief.
Each morning, Cornelia reads the newspaper, looking for a conundrum to solve. Searching for clues—and then chronicling her discoveries—thrills her. She certainly finds
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Jan 28
Captivated by Dominik (The Ralston Brothers) by Sarah Westill
When beast master Dominik Ralston agrees to pose as Sienna Heathwood’s husband for a government assignment, he anticipates the pretense and even the deceit. What he doesn’t expect is the fierce desire she awakens within him, or the struggle to keep the need to claim her from clouding his judgment. Disguised as a scientific expedition to New Columbia, their true mission is to uncover whether the nation is secretly mining iron and supplying it to an emerging superpower that tre
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Jan 27
Review: The Unquiet Spirit (Spirited Encounters #1) by Penny Hampson
With her love life in tatters, Kate Wilson needs a fresh start, and where could be better than the old Cornish house that had belonged to her godmother?
There’s just one problem – it comes with a ghost as a sitting tenant.
Her grumpy new neighbour, the broodingly handsome Tom Carbis, is another fly in the ointment – he seems to turn up wherever Kate goes. His dog might be friendly, but he’s definitely not.
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Jan 26
Merissa's Year in Books
I realised recently that I never really paused to acknowledge it properly, but over the course of 2025, I read 552 books, a number that still feels slightly unreal when I see it written down. It works out at more than one book a day, not as a challenge or a target, but simply as the natural rhythm of how reading has fitted into my life this year.
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Jan 23
Excerpt: Therein Lies the Pearl by Catherine Hughes
Celia Campion, a girl of humble background, finds herself caught in a web of intrigue when Duke William commands her to work as his spy, holding her younger sister hostage. Her mission: to sail across the sea to Wilton Abbey and convince Margaret, daughter of Edward the Exile, to take final vows rather than form a marriage alliance with the newly crowned king to the North, Malcolm III of Scotland. Preventing a union between the Saxons and Scots is critical to the success of t
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Jan 23
Excerpt: Red Anemones by Paula Dáil
Moving among generations of a German-Jewish-American family, "Red Anemones" is a poignant exploration of the intricate bonds, untold secrets, and unspoken legacies our ancestors bestow upon us.
Natalie Barlow's journey of self-discovery begins when her estranged mother's sudden death releases a storm of unrevealed family secrets reaching back to pre-WWI Germany.
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Jan 22
Guest Post, Excerpt, & #Giveaway: Illusion of Truth (A Detective Emily Hunter Mystery #3) by James L'Etoile
Sacramento Detective Emily Hunter is exposed to inhumanity on a daily basis―it’s the unfortunate baggage that comes with police work, and she’s mostly learned how to shoulder the load. But it all turns personal when her fellow cop and boyfriend, Brian Conner, is caught in the blast of a targeted church bombing.
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Jan 21