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Guest Post by CassaDark author, Alex J. Cavanaugh
Challenges: That Fourth Book in the Series By Alex J. Cavanaugh The end of 2013 saw the release of the third book in my Cassa trilogy. I...
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May 4, 20223 min read


Review for The Dark Realm (Feyland #1)
Blurb: WHEN A GAME… Feyland is the most immersive computer game ever designed, and Jennet Carter is the first to play the prototype. But...
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Apr 25, 20222 min read


FREE Urban Fantasy Book
Stopping the undead will seem like child's play when the Cult of Ammut comes calling. Even after losing most of her adopted family, Erin...
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Apr 22, 20221 min read


Review for Starlight Web
Blurb: Moonshadow Bay…where magic lurks in the moonlight, and danger hides in the shadows. One month before January Jaxson turns 41, her...
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Apr 11, 20223 min read


Review for Murder Aboard the Mistletoe
Blurb: When Mollie McGhie attends a Christmas party aboard the Mistletoe, she was planning on sipping eggnog, decorating a nautically...
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Apr 4, 20222 min read


Review for Semi-Charmed
Blurb: She’s infamous. He’s legendary. Together, they’ll be epic…or a complete train wreck. It could go either way, really… Psychic and...
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Mar 28, 20222 min read


Review for Legends & Lattes
Blurb: High Fantasy with a double-shot of self-reinvention. Worn out after decades of packing steel and raising hell, Viv the orc...
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Mar 21, 20222 min read


Review of Come Back To What You Know
Blurb: When Charley Richards left the UK to work in Chicago for a year, she left a piece of her heart with Brayden McKie. After months of...
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Mar 14, 20222 min read


Review for Kings of Eden
Blurb: I've danced for some powerful and deadly men. But lately, instead of dollars, I'm collecting death warrants. I’ve always played...
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Mar 7, 20222 min read


Review of Alpha's Revenge
Blurb: A heartbroken furious alpha, a forbidden childhood crush revisited. Will karmic justice destroy them both? From the languid, sexy...
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Feb 28, 20222 min read


Cover Reveal for Ravage of Revenants
Everyone knows if you split the party, the players will die. But what if it's the only way to discover who the villain might be? Nora...
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Feb 21, 20222 min read


Review of Magic Forged
Blurb: I'm one scrappy wizard. As someone with barely a flicker of magic, I've spent my life being mocked and surviving fights with...
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Feb 14, 20223 min read


Roll for Love! #freebooks
Nothing says love like more dice. I mean, books! FREE BOOKS! I'm celebrating this week of romance by giving away the entire hilarious and...
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Feb 11, 20221 min read


Review of The Setup
Blurb: Can a weekend change your fate? As soon as Rory Price’s plane touches down in Britain for her two-year work contract , she has big...
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Feb 7, 20222 min read


Review of The Beginning of the End
Blurb: Daphne Rhodes would tell anyone: being ‘the one’ sucks. At least, she would if there was anyone left to tell. She’s the one who’d...
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Jan 31, 20222 min read


Review of Billy Summers
Blurb: Billy Summers is a man in a room with a gun. He’s a killer for hire and the best in the business. But he’ll do the job only if the...
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Jan 24, 20222 min read


Review for Darling, There Are Wolves in the Woods
Blurb: The woods are dark and wicked, and perhaps some things would be better off staying lost… Teya Jenkins is ten years old when her...
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Jan 17, 20222 min read


Review for The Dead of Winter
Blurb: In a deceptively peaceful county, a murderer hides in plain sight... Fifty-eight minutes into her first day on the job,...
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Jan 10, 20222 min read


New Year, New Look for my Geeky Romances
Happy New Year! It's my first day back to my regular routine. The sun is shining, the cats are begging for treats, and I'm so excited for...
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Jan 3, 20221 min read


Happy New Year!
It's almost 2022! Let's enter the new year cautiously, check for traps, and never split the party. I'm tentatively excited for the new...
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Dec 31, 20211 min read


Celebrating 10 Years of TOTEM
Image credit: Dan Parlante on Pexels.com Ten years ago, I published the first novella in my urban fantasy series, TOTEM. It's still the longest series I've written. I love the unique Inuit myths and lore that I wrapped my characters in, and I often long to return to that world. Yet too many new ideas occupy my muse. To celebrate my ten year book anniversary, I have compiled all nine novellas together into one massive collection. I'm releasing it not only in ebook format, but
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4 days ago2 min read


Review of Life Hacks for Healing & Harmony
Blurb: It’s not too late to tap into self-compassion and leave your troubles behind. Imagine a life where you don't dwell on problems, conflict, and hardship. Can you reimagine a new reality of self-compassion, replacing your harsh inner critic? The result? Inner calm becomes your default state. What if the secret to joy and contentment isn't hidden at all but waiting to be unlocked through a simple, transformative framework? The Three-Elements-of-Ease will show you how to C
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Jan 264 min read


Review of Space Worms
Blurb: The galaxy just got ridiculous. Space Squad 51 is on the job. Nikili Echols works the docks, living a quiet, predictable life until the freighter Red Dorry is late. When the ship opens, the crew is gone. Orbital Rescue Services Squad 51 arrives, assuring Nikili everything will be all right. But when they go in, screams and roars erupt from inside, and a smear of blood is left at the hatch. Nikili knows the team and crew need help before more ORS teams can arrive. Ste
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Jan 192 min read


January Freebies
Demons vs. Vampires OF BLOOD AND SORROW is FREE January 15th - 19th! In the game of Alphas vs. Omegas, someone is changing the rules so no one wins. KNOT DEAD YET is FREE January 15th - 19th!
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Jan 151 min read


Review of Something in the Walls
Blurb: Newly minted child psychologist Mina has little experience. In a field where the first people called are experts, she’s been unable to get her feet wet. Instead she aimlessly spends her days stuck in the stifling heat wave sweeping across Britain and anxiously contemplates her upcoming marriage to careful, precise researcher Oscar. The only reprieve from her small, close world is attending the local bereavement group to mourn her brother’s death from years ago. Then s
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Jan 123 min read


Review of Hagitude
Blurb: What is Hagitude? It means being at ease with the unique power women embody in the second half of their life. It means having a strong sense of who we are and what we have to offer the world. And a firm belief in our place in the ever-shifting web of life. For the woman who wishes to flourish without chasing eternal youth comes Hagitude. International bestselling author Sharon Blackie ( If Women Rose Rooted ) interweaves myth, psychology, landscape and ecofeminism, re
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Jan 62 min read


Happy Holidays!
I'm in a festive mood this month as we've gotten more snow before Christmas this year than we ever had since we moved to this area decades ago. It gives me a warm, cozy feeling, which leads me to read and write a lot of warm, cozy stories. I've been concentrating on my contemporary romance pen name this year, and I haven't put out anything else for myself. I intended to write a cozy fantasy LitRPG, but the idea slipped through my fingers. If I don't jump on a story when it's
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Dec 22, 20252 min read


Review of Christmas at Rainbow Falls
Blurb: When a disastrous mistake at work puts her career in jeopardy, Natalie Dunbar retreats to the small Vermont town of Rainbow Falls to settle the estate of an aunt she hardly knew. As the sole heir of half a building on Main Street, complete with an independent bookstore and second-floor apartment, Natalie hunkers down to figure out how to save her future. The problem? Her new neighbor, who owns the other half of the building, hates her at first sight. Celeste Wagner ha
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Dec 15, 20252 min read


Early Christmas Treats!
"I've read a few litRPG books, and this was definitely one of the best! It's like the old DnD cartoon where friends end up in a dangerous land and bicker about money, love and philosophy, like how friends do. Throw in some genuine surprises and graphic gore, and you have a tale any DnD player can get behind." GRAB YOUR COPY OF SHUDDER OF SPECTERS HERE! " Far from average, Christine Rains manages to tie together hot sexy, geeks, costumes, humor, and best of all, romance in one
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Dec 5, 20251 min read


Review of Manifesting Destiny
Blurb: Sixteen-year-old Cee Klinger is destined for heartbreak and she knows it. She's helplessly in love with Marcus, her childhood best friend. But soon they will change, transforming for the first time into whichever animal Clan they belong to, and once they join those Clans, they may never see one another again. Cee is desperate to make the most of their remaining time, but after Marcus's brother leaves to join the Aerie, Marcus begins pulling away. And then Cee discover
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Dec 1, 20253 min read
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