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Publication Date:  January 5, 2020 Publisher:  Vision Forty Press Format:  ebook Pages:   266 Pages Genre:   Mystery Buy:  Kindle  |  Paperback  |  Synopsis: Instagram Influencer Sydney Evans carefully curates her enviable public persona. Despite being freshly widowed, she’s eager to strike a pose at her best friend’s extravagant destination nuptials. But Sydney’s feed goes dark when she blacks out on the plane, awakening to discover another guest poisoned to death. With the FBI keen to use Sydney as an insider, she takes the arm of a rookie undercover agent hoping to capture something incriminating. But a deadly run-in exposes a shocking criminal underbelly lurking beneath her own picture-perfect marriage. And if she doesn’t solve the case before her friends tie the knot, the culprit will make sure her next selfie is her last. Can Sydney catch a murderer or will the wedding become a funeral? Review:  Sydney is a...

Dead Ringer Kat Ross (Gaslamp Gothic #5) Published by: Acorn Publishing Publication date: December 13th 2019 Genres: Adult, Fantasy, Paranormal, Retelling A poisonous secret. A terrifying curse. And a client she’d just as soon see dead in a ditch…. Summer 1889. Harrison Fearing Pell hoped for adventure when she signed on with the Society for Psychical Research as an occult investigator. Slogging through New York’s sewers in pursuit of a “mud man” wasn’t exactly what she had in mind. But the reeking monster terrorizing the dance halls of the Tenderloin leads her to an even more peculiar mystery — and the last man on earth Harry wishes to become entangled with. James Moran is a prodigy in music, mathematics . . . and crime. Harry’s older sister, the famed detective Myrtle Fearing Pell, has vowed to put him behind bars. But Harry owes Moran a personal debt, so when he demands her aid she can hardly refuse. It turns out that the brilliant black sheep of New York Societ...

Thirst Trap Zachary Ryan Published by: Kingston Publishing Company Publication date: November 4th 2019 Genres: Adult, Contemporary, LGBTQ+, Romance Tragedy comes in all forms, and you never know how you’ll deal with it. Four friends have all dealt with their fair share of struggles. Dillion, an aspiring writer with writers block because of his brothers sudden death, Jesse the emotional stunted drink thanks to his boyfriend’s suicide, Ivan the abused victim just looking for a place to call home, and Leo the stubborn romantic trying to get his friends to open up, while keeping his issues close to his chest. With these four friends, they avoid all their elephants in the room like a death card agreement between Dillion and Jesse, Ivan completely hoping his abusive lover with change or even Leo focusing on his friends problems instead of his own. Can these four friends learn to embrace and accept their own tragedy or will they be stuck in the past? Thirst Trap is a humorous c...

Nightblood Academy Allison West Publication date: January 27th 2020 Genres: Adult, Romance, Urban Fantasy I’m the missing girl who left school with a stranger, the story you’re warned about as a child. Was I kidnapped? Or did I go willingly? I didn’t listen. I never listen. And now, I’m stuck in another universe, protecting my best friend, worried about my sick sister back home, and forced to face the academy bully, who happens to be hot and single. He should be off-limits, but I can’t stop myself from falling for him, hard. Goodreads / Amazon Get it for only 99¢ for a limited time! — EXCERPT: “I want your word that you won’t hurt her,” Bray said. “She’s under my protection.” Eilith glided closer, leaning in, smelling him as she exhaled a soft, putrid breath. Bray’s eyes slammed shut and his nostrils flared with a scrunched nose. This was going to be hell. Willow would owe him big time when they were done with whatever the hell this creature was. “You think you ...

Publisher:  Audible Studios Format:  Audio Genre:  Romance Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle Synopsis:  One Man One man can change everything. That man can touch you until you tremble all over. That man can wake you up and allow you to breathe when life leaves you unable to catch your breath. For me that ONE MAN is Jax North. He's handsome, brutally so, and wealthy, money and power easily at his fingertips. He's dark, and yet, he can make me smile with a single look or word. He's a force when he walks into a room. Our first encounter is intense, overwhelmingly intense. I go with it. I go with him and how can I not? He's that ONE MAN for me and what a ride it is. But there are things about me that he doesn't know, he can't know, so I say goodbye. Only you don't say goodbye to a man like Jax if he doesn't want you to. I've challenged him without trying. He wants me. I don't want to want him, and yet, I crave him. He tears me down, my resistance...

Haskell Himself Gary Seigel Published by: Acorn Publishing Publication date: January 19th 2020 Genres: Historical, LGBTQ+, Young Adult Meet Haskell Hodge. At sixteen he’s already garnered some fame as a former child actor and star of a popular cereal commercial. But that doesn’t do much for him when he’s dumped at his aunt’s house in the suburbs of Los Angeles to face an assortment of neighborhood bullies. He thinks he might be gay. In fact, he could be the only gay person in the valley, maybe on the entire planet. Even if he does manage to find a boyfriend, their relationship would have to be secret and invisible. After all it’s 1966. And though Time Magazine claims the sexual revolution is in full swing, the freedoms straight people are enjoying don’t seem to apply to everyone. And as much as Haskell attempts to hide his true self, carefully navigating the tricky and risky terrain of being queer, he’s still taunted and teased relentlessly. Rather than give in to the i...

Release Date:  April 3, 2018 Publisher:  Blake Pierce Format:  Audio Length:  7 hours 44 minutes Narrator:  Elaine Wise Genre:  Mystery/suspense Police Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle Synopsis:  When two soldiers are found dead on a huge military base in California, apparently killed by gunshot, military investigators are stumped. Who is killing its soldiers, inside the secure confines of its own base? And why? The FBI is called in, and Riley Paige is summoned to take the lead. As Riley finds herself immersed in the military culture, she is amazed to realize that serial killers can strike even here, in the midst of the most secure location on earth. She finds herself in a frantic cat and mouse chase, racing to decode the killer’s psychology. Yet she soon discovers she is up against a highly-trained killer, one that may, even for her, be too deadly an opponent. A dark psychological thriller with heart-pounding suspense, ONCE S...

Release Date:  October 15, 2019 Publisher:  Blake Pierce Format:  Audio Length:  7 hours 26 minutes Narrator:  Jane McDowell Genre:  Mystery/suspense Police Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle Synopsis:  Deep Desire:  There's no leverage like seduction...until love takes a big bite out of Adin's plans. As the Indiana Jones of historical erotica, there is no document Adin Tredeger can't unearth. Why he would risk the biggest coup of his career to join the mile-high club is beyond him. Nevertheless, the disarming, dark-eyed vampire Donte somehow enters Adin's locked airplane washroom and has him completely nude and coming apart, all without a whimper of protest. From that moment, Adin and Donte engage in an international battle of wit and cunning. The prize is a priceless 500-year-old journal with illustrations so erotic the Marquis de Sade would blush.
Yet Donte's desire for the journal goes far beyond simple possession. He wrote...

Dirty Brilliance   by Lea Bronsen  Genre: Billionaire M/M Romance SYNOPSIS:  Kace Karrington is a wealthy, self-made investor with no qualms about steamrolling others to achieve his goals. He’s attracted to men, but picks up beautiful women, giving the cold, unfeeling world of Finance the appearance he’s successful...powerful. That is until he meets a smoking hot street punk eager to show him there’s more to life than making money.  REVIEW:  Kace Karrington is an unrepentant asshole.  He has sex with different women but doesn't have relationships.  His world revolves around money and loneliness. On his way to a soiree he keeps getting text messages from his sister which he ignores thinking she is just needing money.  After all he has bailed her out of more bad situations than he can count and will give her anything she needs unless its to get more drugs.  When his sister finally calls he answers only it isn't who he e...

Far Reaching Consequences Anya Summers (Crescent City Kings, #2) Published by: Blushing Books Publications Publication date: January 15th 2020 Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance Phoebe needs a second chance at life. In the aftermath of the devastation from her failed marriage, Phoebe returns to her old stomping grounds to open her own bed and breakfast. Starting over is the bravest thing she’s ever done – or so she thinks. But opening her front door to find a blast from her past on her front porch changes all that. The teenager she’d once known has become a jaw-dropping, dominant man in his prime. He wasn’t looking for a relationship until she blazed back into his life. Graham runs his own construction business, remodeling homes, and building brand new ones. When his buddy gives him a lead on a new project, he never expects to run into Phoebe, the woman he shared a single kiss with eons ago. Nor is he prepared for the Dominant in him to stake his claim before the end of t...

Release Date:  December 22, 2017 Publisher:  Blake Pierce Format:  Audio Length:  8 hours Narrator:  Elaine Wise Genre:  Mystery/suspense Police Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle Synopsis:  There is one cold case that has plagued Special Agent Riley Paige for her entire career, dwelling at the corners of her consciousness, forcing her to return to it again and again. The only case she has never solved, she has finally put it out of her mind. Until she gets a call from the murdered victim's mother. It spurs Riley to face the case once again, and to not give up until she has found answers. Yet Riley barely has time to catch her breath when she receives a lead for another cold case, one which, if possible, strikes an even deeper note within her. It is a lead that promises to solve the case of her own mother's killer. And it comes from Shane Hatcher. Review: Cold cases were never Riley's thing but there is a case that has be...

Inherent Truth Alicia Anthony (Blood Secrets, #1) Publication date: January 14th 2020 Genres: Adult, Suspense A woman with buried secrets… An agent with an impossible mission… An inheritance that will destroy them both… When Liv Sullivan’s grandmother beckons for help from beyond the grave, the reluctant psychic returns to her small Ohio hometown. Scrambling to make sense of the clues left by the vision, Liv finds herself face to face with undercover agent, Ridge McCaffrey. Assigned to protect a woman whose gifts unnerve him, for a covert psychic intelligence operation he doesn’t understand, Ridge struggles to place duty over desire. But when a gruesome discovery is unearthed at Sullivan Farm, the truth becomes clear… Some family secrets are best left buried. Inherent Truth is the first book in the gripping new Blood Secrets psychological thriller series about the cost of truth and the price we pay for love. If you like pulse-pounding page-turners laced with a touch of ...

Keep Forever Alexa Kingaard Published by: Acorn Publishing Publication date: April 30th 2020 Genres: Historical, Romance, Women’s Fiction “Unlike some war stories that focus on intense, harsh and graphic depictions of post-combat trauma, this tale unfolds gently, like an Edna Ferber novel, spread across many decades, detailing the impact this soldier’s illness has on an entire family, including children and grandchildren. KEEP FOREVER is a wonderful, emotionally satisfying read that I highly recommend. ” GARY SEIGEL, author of “Haskell Himself” Paul O’Brien’s idyllic childhood in Southern California comes to a halt when his mother dies in the summer before his senior year of high school and a very different persona of his father emerges – isolating himself inside the house, turning to alcohol for comfort, and barely noticing his only child. Simultaneously, the war in Vietnam is sending shock waves around the world and young men from one coast to the other are being called up...