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Book Review: Heels Over Head by Clay G Small

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Release Date: February 7, 2017 Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group Press Format: Kindle Pages: 246 pages Genre: Suspense / fiction Buy: Kindle | Paperback Synopsis: Henry Lindon is playing a game of tit for tat that he’s about to lose. ​Successful, charming executive Henry Lindon was happily making high-dollar global deals and enjoying the good life in Dallas when his job mysteriously disappears—and with it, his identity. On top of that, he’s sure his beautiful wife is having an affair with some Romeo down in Argentina. While attempting to start a new life teaching law, Lindon is finding his paranoia has got him around the throat and won’t let go. In class one day, the discussion goes off track from law and libel to tattoos. When a student appears in his office in pink shorts and a crop top and takes the subject of tattoos to a much-too-personal level, Lindon’s at a loss to explain why and worried about ramifications. Discovering he may have the Department of Justice on

Silver Dagger Book Tour Cover Reveal: Beginners Luck by Kate Clayborn

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Release Date: October 31, 2017 Publisher: Lyrical Shine Genre: Contemporary Romance Buy:  Amazon  | Apple   | GooglePlay  | Kobo  | B&N   Synopsis: When three friends impulsively buy a lottery ticket, they never suspect the many ways their lives will change—or that for each of them, love will be the biggest win of all. Kit Averin is anything but a gambler. A scientist with a quiet, steady job at a university, Kit’s focus has always been maintaining the acceptable status quo. Being a sudden millionaire doesn’t change that, with one exception: the fixer-upper she plans to buy, her first and only real home. It’s more than enough to keep her busy, until an unsettlingly handsome, charming, and determined corporate recruiter shows up in her lab—and manages to work his way into her heart . . . Ben Tucker is surprised to find that the scientist he wants for Beaumont Materials is a young woman—and a beautiful, sharp-witted one at that. Talking her into a big-money position with hi

Silver Dagger Book Tours Cover Reveal: Desperate Bride by AS Fenichel

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Release Date: September 26, 2017 Publisher: Lyrical Press Genre: Historical Romance Buy: Amazon * Apple * GooglePlay * Kobo * B&N Synopsis:  An unexpected promise . . . an everlasting passion. An accomplished musician, Dorothea Flammel has refused more proposals than any London debutante; her only true love is her music. Dory’s shimmering talent and beauty have long been adored from afar by Thomas Wheel, an untitled gentleman who can only dream of asking for the hand of a nobleman’s daughter. But when her father, the insolvent Lord Flammel, arranges for Dory to marry a lecherous Earl in order to pay off a debt, she runs to Thomas—and proposes marriage to him. Eloping to Scotland saves Dory from a disastrous fate, but what is for her a mere marriage of convenience proves more passionate—and more complex—than either imagined as rumors, scandal, and buried emotions come to light. And when a vengeful challenge from a drunken and embittered Lord Flammel puts Thomas’s

ARC Review: Horace Winter Says Goodbye by Conor Bowman

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Release Date: April 6, 2017 Publisher: Hachette Books Ireland Format: Kindle Pages: 320 pages Genre: Fiction Buy: Paperback | Kindle Synopsis: Horace Winter has led an unexceptional life. Ever since that long-ago day, when the Very Bad Thing happened, he prefers to spend time with his butterfly and moth book instead of with other human beings - an interest was passed on to him by his father. But shortly after his retirement from his job as an assistant bank manager, Horace receives some devastating news and is forced to confront the life he has led (or hasn't led). As he does, he meets Amanda. And Max. He gets a man jailed (sort of) and rescues the man's son (sort of). He discovers a letter his father never posted, and sets off on a quest that changes everything. As Horace begins to let life in, he starts to experience a world which had almost entirely passed him by. Will he discover the man he was meant to be before it's too late? Review: I had a rou

Audio Book Review: All American Boys by Jason Reynolds & Brendan Kiely

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Release Date:  September 29, 2015 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio Format: Audible Narrator:  Guy Lockard, Keith Nobbs Length: 6 hours 35 minutes Genre: Fiction /Race / Racial Tensions Buy: Audible | Kindle | Paperback Synopsis: Two teens - one black, one white - grapple with the repercussions of a single violent act that leaves their school, their community, and ultimately the country bitterly divided by racial tension. A bag of chips. That's all 16-year-old Rashad is looking for at the corner bodega. What he finds instead is a fist-happy cop, Paul Galluzzo, who mistakes Rashad for a shoplifter, mistakes Rashad's pleadings that he's stolen nothing for belligerence, mistakes Rashad's resistance to leave the bodega as resisting arrest, mistakes Rashad's every flinch at every punch the cop throws as further resistance and refusal to STAY STILL as ordered. But how can you stay still when someone is pounding your face into the concrete pavement?

Audio Book Review: A Death In Sweden by Kevin Wignall

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Release Date: January 1, 2016 Publisher: Brilliance Audio Format: Audible Length: 7 hours 59 minutes Narrator: Will Damron Genre: Thriller, Suspense Buy: Audible | Kindle | Paperback Synopsis: Dan Hendricks is a man in need of a lifeline. A former CIA operative, he is now an agent for hire by foreign powers on the hunt for dangerous fugitives. It's a lethal world at the best of times, and Dan knows his number is almost up. His next job could be his last - and his next job is his biggest yet. The target sounds traceable enough: Jacques Fillon, who gave up his life trying to save a fellow passenger following a bus crash in northern Sweden. But the man was something of an enigma in this rural community, and his death exposes his greatest secret: Jacques Fillon never existed at all. Dan is tasked with uncovering Fillon's true identity - but can he do so before his own past catches up with him? Review: Someone is tying up loose ends, and one of those loose e

Book Review: If I Run by Terri Blackstock

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Release Date: February 16, 2016 Publisher: Zondervan Fiction Format: Kindle Pages: 318 Pages Genre: Mystery/Christian/Romance Buy: Kindle | Paperback | Audible  Synopsis: Casey knows the truth. But it won't set her free. Casey Cox's DNA is all over the crime scene. There's no use talking to police; they have failed her abysmally before. She has to flee before she's arrested...or worse. The truth doesn't matter anymore. But what is the truth? That's the question haunting Dylan Roberts, the war-weary veteran hired to find Casey. PTSD has marked him damaged goods, but bringing Casey back can redeem him. Though the crime scene seems to tell the whole story, details of the murder aren't adding up. Casey Cox doesn't fit the profile of a killer. But are Dylan's skewed perceptions keeping him from being objective? If she isn't guilty, why did she run? Unraveling her past and the evidence that condemns her will take more time than he