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Publication Date:  May 11, 2021 Format:  Audio Genre:   Mystery/suspense Narrators:  Kirby Heyborne Publisher:  Macmillan Audio Length:  10 hours 54 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Jacob Finch Bonner was once a promising young novelist with a respectably published first book. Today, he’s teaching in a third-rate MFA program and struggling to maintain what’s left of his self-respect; he hasn’t written—let alone published—anything decent in years. When Evan Parker, his most arrogant student, announces he doesn’t need Jake’s help because the plot of his book in progress is a sure thing, Jake is prepared to dismiss the boast as typical amateur narcissism. But then . . . he hears the plot. Jake returns to the downward trajectory of his own career and braces himself for the su

Tracker Tam DeRudder Jackson Publication date: October 25th 2022 Genres: Adult, Paranormal, Romance A skilled warrior with a life-changing task… Every warrior needs a talisman – but for Riley Sheridan, he cares more about partying with his buddies than finding the mate he’s supposed to bond with for life. That is, until a stunning raven-haired woman steps up to the keg and asks for a beer. A fiery beauty with untapped powers… Lynnette Montgomery came to the festival to relax, celebrate, and take her mind off her still-undiscovered magical powers. But after fate draws her to a suave and cocky warrior, she’s shocked to realize that she’s his fated talisman. But finding your mate is never supposed to be this easy. And the wrath of a goddess bent on their demise. Drawn by a ripple in the cosmos, the infamous goddess Morrigan sets her sights on the pair. She’s dead-set on stopping the next Sheridan from bonding to his talisman – and when they retreat to a remote cabin to comple

Publication Date:  May 10, 2022 Format:  Audio Genre:   Spirituality Narrators:  Matthew Boston Publisher:  Tantor Audio Length:  1 hours 43 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis You Can Make Your Dreams Come True! Let this powerful little book guide you to the life you want to lead. You create every waking minute of every day—in fact, every second. Even more specifically, with every word you utter, you create. Once you realize and internalize this fact you will be on the path to fulfillment. The Tiny Book of Big Manifesting  is for anyone looking to create the life they want. It provides easy to understand manifestation techniques, along with a Code of Life by which to live. When the techniques and the Code are combined and put into practice, life-changing events can start to occur

Publication Date:  October 4, 2022 Format:  Audio Genre:   Rural Fiction/tame romance Narrators:  Brittany Pressley Publisher:  Harper Muse Length:  8 hours 57 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis A hidden past isn’t past at all. Violet Figg and her sister Trudy have lived a quiet life in Sugar Bend, Alabama, since a night forty years ago that stole Trudy’s voice and cemented Violet’s role as her sister’s fierce and loyal protector. Now Trudy spends her days making sculptures from found objects and speaking through notes written on scraps of paper, while Violet runs their art shop, monitors bird activity up and down the water, and tries not to think of the one great love she gave up to keep her sister safe. Eighteen-year-old Maya knows where everyone else

Hacienda Moon KaSonndra Leigh (The Pathseekers Duology, #1) Publication date: January 19th 2023 Genres: Adult, Paranormal, Suspense Tandie Harrison is a police medium who has just suffered a divorce after losing both her psychic visions and her daughter in a car accident. When she leaves New York City to start a new life near her hometown, she moves into the alluring plantation house, Chelby Rose, and falls for its charismatic caretaker, Eric Fontalvo. Their burgeoning affair ignites a centuries old curse ensnaring them in a web of danger, deceit, and intrigue. Soon Tandie learns that in placid Bolivia, the worlds of the living and the dead are dangerously connected. Hacienda Moon is a seductive tale of one woman’s journey to confront the demons of her past and find the courage to face her future. It is a mesmerizing novel that explores the deepest depths of human nature, and the characters will hold and haunt you long after you have read the final chapter. The Emerald I

Publication Date:  March 1, 2022 Format:  Kindle Genre:   AA women fiction Publisher:  47 North Length:  287 pages Buy:  Kindle  |  Paperback Synopsis A practitioner of Vodou must test the boundaries of her powers to solve a ritual murder in New Orleans and protect everything she holds sacred. Haitian-American Vodou priestess Mambo Reina Dumond runs a healing practice from her New Orleans home. Gifted with water magic since she was a child, Reina is devoted to the benevolent traditions of her ancestors. After a ritual slaying in the French Quarter, police arrest a fellow vodouisant. Detective Roman Frost, Reina’s ex-boyfriend—a fierce nonbeliever—is eager to tie the crime, and half a dozen others, to the Vodou practitioners of New Orleans. Reina resol

Blood and Thunder Wren Michaels (Thunderbird Brotherhood, #2) Publication date: October 20th 2022 Genres: Adult, Paranormal, Romance Rowtag Aktoon is about to die. He doesn’t know how, and he doesn’t know when. All he knows is it’s coming. After his cousin shares a vision and part of it comes true, the reality creeps in that his end could very well be imminent. His family convinces him to seek the help of a witch who could provide answers. He only hopes that what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas. Everleigh Ulric isn’t what she seems. Hiding from a father who wants to exploit her and an immortal witch out for vengeance, she’s built a life of anonymity hidden away at Cirque de Mystique – a paranormal circus. When Tag discovers Everleigh is his fated mate, life takes on new meaning, however short theirs may be. He plans to do everything in his power to make sure neither he nor his new mate end up six feet under. But dying may just be the key that unlocks the doors of their happ

  Publication Date:  June 2, 2022 Format:  Kindle Genre:   Dark Step-brother romance Publisher:  Banned Baddies LLC Length:  136 pages Buy:  Kindle  |  Paperback Synopsis My step-sister is the thorn in my side, and the only thing I've ever wanted that I couldn't have. I've broken her to ensure there's nothing left of Woodsboro but ashes. As secrets are revealed, and friends turn to enemies, one thing is clear. Carrington Jane wasn't the enemy all along. It turns out, she was the only one I could trust. Review:  Free on Kindle Unlimited.  This book picks up immediately after the 1st one ends.  CJ is caught in a fire and Sebastian is determined to save her or burn with her.  As the danger ramps up in this book, CJ and Sebastian seem to

Deadly Paradise Quinn Avery Publication date: October 18th 2022 Genres: Adult, Romance, Suspense As a child, Nova witnessed the murder of her parents. She is whisked away in the middle of the night to start a new life, however Nova can’t stop questioning the circumstances surrounding her parents’ deaths. As a teenager, Nova lives a lonely and sheltered existence until fate delivers a handsome Greek boy into her world. Although forbidden to speak to him, the teens navigate through first love until she discovers he’s guarding a secret that unravels everything between them. As a woman, Nova finally goes after the answers that have plagued her entire life. Answers that involve her first love, throwing them both in danger when he returns to save her life. Can she risk the dark secrets of their tangled past to collide with what could become a deadly present? Goodreads / Amazon / Barnes & Noble / iBooks / Kobo Get it for only 99c – this week only! — SNEAK PEEK: Nova w

Publication Date:  May 12, 2022 Format:  Kindle Genre:   Dark Step-brother Romance Publisher:  Banned Baddies LLC Length:  139 pages Buy:  Kindle  |  Paperback Synopsis Sebastian McCoy is going to pour gasoline on Woodsboro and burn it to the ground. The arrogant, heartbreakingly beautiful monster will torment me into lighting the first match. He knows all of my secrets, but he's forgetting that I know his too. If we burn, we burn together. This is a DARK, MF, STEPBROTHER, college romance. Sebastian is an antihero and themes within this book may make some readers uncomfortable. Because this is a duet, book one ends on a cliffhanger... Review:  Free on Kindle Unlimited  Blaine McCoy is dead and his brother Sebastian is determined to find out why.  Their step-sister CJ was supposed

  Publication Date:  December 31, 2020 Format:  Paperback Genre:   Suspense Thriller  Publisher:  River Run Length:  401 pages Buy:  Kindle  |  Paperback Synopsis A riveting mystery series set on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland's Outer Hebrides.   When a grisly murder occurs on the Isle of Lewis that bears similarities to a brutal killing on the mainland, Edinburgh detective and native islander Fin Macleod is dispatched to the Outer Hebrides to investigate, embarking at the same time on a voyage into his own troubled past.   As Fin reconnects with the people and places of his tortured childhood, the desolate but beautiful island and its ancient customs once again begin to assert their grip on his psyche. Every step toward solving the case brings Fin closer to a dangerous confront

Publication Date:  October 5, 2021 Format:  Kindle Genre:   Dark Mafia Romance Publisher:  self published Length:  343 pages Buy: currently unavailable Synopsis Viktor's out for revenge and Ava has a secret… It’s been over a year now since Ava O’Brien first walked into my life. Since I claimed her as mine in exchange for paying off her father’s debt. What started out as a business transaction turned into something so much more. A love powerful enough to bring me to my knees. I was all in with Ava, ready and willing to give her everything. And then life went into a tailspin. My father started cozying up to our enemy. Our clan has come under fire, and danger stalked my Ava. But what shattered us was the moment my past walked through our door. The

Publication Date:  July 9, 2019 Format:  Paperback Genre:   Ghost Fiction/Coming of Age Publisher:  Penguin Books  Length:  224  pages Buy:  Kindle  |  Paperback Synopsis Growing up in 1980s Niagara Falls - a seedy but magical, slightly haunted place - Jake Baker spends most of his time with his uncle Calvin, a kind but eccentric enthusiast of occult artifacts and conspiracy theories. The summer Jake turns twelve, he befriends a pair of siblings new to town, and so Calvin decides to initiate them all into the "Saturday Night Ghost Club." But as the summer goes on, what begins as a seemingly light-hearted project may ultimately uncover more than any of its members had imagined. Review:  This is a creepy atmospheric read. When Alice and h

Publication Date:  April 26, 2021 Format:  Kindle Genre:   dark mafia romance Publisher:  self published Length:  319 pages Buy:  Kindle  |  Synopsis Ava has to pay a debt… Viktor wants to claim her… "I have fallen in love with a man who will never be mine despite me being his." Ava O’Brien is drowning. She hasn’t finished paying off her father’s last gambling debt when he confesses to owing The Manarch Clan a hundred thousand dollars. In one week.   This Scottish Mafia clan is known for being ruthless and unforgiving. And Viktor Manarch has been groomed his entire life to take over. Business is business, and he always gets what he wants. When Ava walks into the family restaurant Viktor can’t help himself. He proposes an arrangement to pay off her father’

Publication Date:  October 4, 2022 Format:  Kindle Genre:   LGBTQ+, Memoir Publisher:  Harper One  Length:  306 pages Buy:  Kindle  |  Paperback Synopsis Jessi Hempel was raised in a seemingly picture-perfect, middle-class American family. But the truth was far from perfect. Her father was constantly away from home, traveling for work, while her stay-at-home mother became increasingly lonely and erratic. Growing up, Jessi and her two siblings struggled to make sense of their family, their world, their changing bodies, and the emotional turmoil each was experiencing. And each, in their own way, was hiding their true self from the world. By the time Jessi reached adulthood, everyone in her family had come out: Jessi as gay, her sister as bisexual, her father as gay, her brother as