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Review of Fairy Tale
Blurb: Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load....
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Jan 23, 20233 min read


Review for Amethyst: Rise to Piracy
Blurb: Forced into an abusive marriage and a destiny out of her control, Amethyst of the fae flees to the seas looking for freedom....
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Jan 16, 20232 min read


Review for Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb #3)
Blurb: Her city is under siege. The zombies are coming back. And all Nona wants is a birthday party. In many ways, Nona is like other...
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Jan 9, 20232 min read


Review for Darklands Online (Book #1)
Blurb: It had been a number of years since Kurt had last played a video game. That all changed when his state wrestling bid was cut...
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Jan 2, 20232 min read


Happy Holidays!
HAPPY HOLIDAYS! I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday season. Give from the heart. Give to bring smiles and share love. Give to inspire...
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Dec 23, 20221 min read


Review for The Dust Navigator
Blurb: No one believes a woman can become a ship’s navigator in a male-dominated society, but Lissa was going to prove them wrong. Lissa...
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Dec 19, 20222 min read


Review of The Switchgrass Crown
Blurb: The first time I saw him, I mistook him for something unnatural... Lucas Rowland knows from the start that Emory Avalon is unique,...
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Dec 12, 20222 min read


Review for Smitten with Baklava
Blurb: When Olivia is forced to take her first vacation in five years, she travels to a picturesque Greek island. But instead of spending...
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Dec 5, 20222 min read


NaNoWriMo 2022 Winner!
Huzzah! I hit the 50,000 word goal yesterday with my NaNoWriMo project, Blight of the Necromancer (Khthonia #3). I did my happy dance,...
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Nov 28, 20221 min read


Review for Hidden Omega
Blurb: I was in heat, and my alphas were willing to burn. It was just supposed to be a good time at the Alpha ball, not the moment my...
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Nov 21, 20222 min read


Review for The Flood Circle (Twenty Palaces #5)
Blurb: The three original spellbooks, source of all magic in the world, have been found, and Ray Lilly has already “acquired” one. Now he...
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Nov 14, 20222 min read


Review for The Dead of Autumn (Piper Blackwell #5)
Blurb: The green fairy never made it to the Halloween party. The costumed teen’s gruesome murder sends ripples of fear through Piper...
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Nov 7, 20222 min read


Review for The Binding (The Binding Universe #1)
Blurb: Drawn to the city of New Orleans, Sybella Rose seeks answers hidden in mausoleums of lore, and she soon discovers that history and...
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Oct 31, 20222 min read


Halloween Treats!
For those of you who love their ghost stories with more woo than boo, The Paramours trilogy is FREE through to November! New release! For...
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Oct 28, 20221 min read


Review for The Last Kids on Earth (Book #1)
Blurb: Ever since the monster apocalypse hit town, average thirteen year old Jack Sullivan has been living in his tree house, which he's...
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Oct 24, 20222 min read


Review for The Beached Ones
Blurb: He came back, determined to keep his promise. Daniel and his younger brother grew up in an abusive home. Daniel escaped. Now an...
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Oct 17, 20222 min read


Review for Gideon the Ninth
Blurb: The Emperor needs necromancers. The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman. Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more...
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Oct 10, 20223 min read


Review for Bound to a Vampire
Blurb: Cassandra Montclaire is a three-hundred-and-sixty-year-old vampire living in modern-day New York. Her human life ended three...
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Oct 3, 20222 min read


Review for Oscar, The Apprehensive Apparition #oscarghost
It’s a pleasure to welcome Author H. R. Sinclair here today as part of her tour from with MC Book Tours featuring her book, OSCAR, THE...
christinerainswrit
Sep 26, 20222 min read


Guest Post from Druid's Moon author, Deniz Bevan
Writing advice – for characters, too! One of my favourite bits of writing advice over the years has been: Send your characters off to a...
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Sep 20, 20224 min read


Review of A Quick Demise & Flash Fiction Tips
Blurb: Murder Ghosts Depravity We are drawn to the darkness that lurks within us. Reveal the depravity of human nature in this collection of tales. Each story is told in exactly 200 words and will send a quick shiver down your spine. Will you survive? Review: This little book has wonderfully unsettling little flash fiction stories. Each piece takes you by surprise, more so because they're so short. It gets you before you realize what's happening. There's a variety of horrors
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6 days ago2 min read


Review of Bearly Human
Blurb: On August 29, 1975, six men vanished in the middle of the night. Fifty years later, mechanic Harper Brinkman didn’t come to this sleepy seaside town for mysteries. She came to escape her toxic ex and start over. Armed with a duffle bag full of tools and her slightly crazy best friend, Harper is finally getting back on her feet when fate steps in to throw a wrench into her life. She should have known better. Who wins anything from those boardwalk claw machines? Of cours
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May 112 min read


Mother's Day Freebies
Image source from Prawny on Pixabay.com Happy Mother's day to all the moms and like-moms out there! I hope you get spoiled this weekend. I get to spend my Saturday watching my son compete at the Academic Super Bowl state championships. I also found out this week he got the internship he really wanted for next school year. He's going to be working in a veterinarian's office. I'm so proud of him. To celebrate all of us, I have some free books this weekend! SHUDDER OF SPECTERS
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May 81 min read


Review of Unintended
Blurb: He’s too young. She’s too damaged. But since when has love played by the rules? Evie From the outside, it looks like I’ve got my life together. A place to live and a successful business sure can hide a lot, namely the scars that remain from everything I’ve lost. The truth? I’m a shattered heart bundled up in a walking shell of anxiety. Until him. Ash Abuse comes in many forms, but who would believe me if I told them I was suffering at the hands of the woman I love? I k
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May 42 min read


Thinking On My Next Projects
Image source from Unsplash That image is frighteningly accurate. I sometimes lay there with a notebook on my face and let myself think. Maybe the scent of ink and paper helps? My carpet doesn't look nearly as plush though. I'm finishing off a romance book for my pen name (Alora James) that I wanted done two months ago. I dragged my feet because the story was already done in my head and I was ready for something new. This is why I'm a pantser. I need the novelty and the surpri
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Apr 272 min read


Review of Six of Crows
Blurb: Ketterdam : a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price—and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. But he can’t pull it off alone... A convict with a thirst for revenge A sharpshooter who can’t walk away from a wager A runaway with a privileged past A spy known as the Wraith A Heartrender using her magic to survive
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Apr 202 min read


Review of Worthe's Village
Blurb: Marcus Holt thought his worst memories were behind him. A veteran of the Vietnam War, the tough old soldier is haunted by nightmares of brutal conflict. But he’s about to discover that his battle for survival has only just begun. Professor Abel Worthe is brilliant, wealthy, and utterly immoral. He is an expert in a very particular field: the study of fear and death. Using his vast resources, Worthe has purchased a collection of haunted houses and paranormal sites, hid
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Apr 132 min read


Review of Ninth House
Blurb: Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. By age twenty, in fact, she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved multiple homicide. Some might say she’s thrown her life away. But at her hospital bed, Alex is offered a second chance: to attend one of the world’s m
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Apr 63 min read


Free Books in Your Basket!
Image credit: Alexas Fotos on Pixabay It's spring and time to fill yourself up with treats! Since I can't give chocolate to everyone, I want to fill your imagination with stories. Here are three amazing freebies for you this Easter weekend. Enjoy! CURSE OF THE HUNTED is a clean paranormal romance in a magical world shared with other authors. KNOT ON MY WATCH is a sweet and spicy reverse harem contemporary Omegaverse romance. The SASQUATCH SUSIES is a contemporary suspense
christinerainswrit
Apr 31 min read


Review of Nine Goblins
Blurb: No one knows exactly how the Goblin War began, but folks will tell you that goblins are stinking, slinking, filthy, sheep-stealing, henhouse-raiding, obnoxious, rude, and violent. Goblins would actually agree with all this, and might throw in “cowardly” and “lazy” too for good measure. But goblins don't go around killing people for fun, no matter what the propaganda posters say. And when a confrontation with an evil wizard lands a troop of nine goblins deep behind ene
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Mar 302 min read
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