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CHRISTINE RAINS
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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
Happy Holidays & Freebies!
Happy holidays from my home to yours! It's been a big year, and I've a lot to be grateful for. Right now, though, I want to show you how...
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Dec 23, 20211 min read
Review for Small Forgotten Moments
Blurb: Is Zenna a muse, a sleep-deprived apparition, or something much more sinister? Suffering long-term amnesia, artist Jo Mckye is...
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Dec 20, 20212 min read
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Dec 16, 20210 min read
Review for I Knew You Were Trouble
Blurb: All I want to do is fall in love. I’ve heard it’s great. Lots of kissing and cuddling, and the whole “my lover is my best friend!”...
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Dec 13, 20212 min read
Review for Alpaca My Bags
Blurb: When anxiety threatens to derail a homeschooled girl's attempt to make new friends, she finds support in an unlikely source . . ....
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Dec 6, 20213 min read
Review for Hot Hex
Blurb: She’s a new witch learning to control her powers. He’s a dragon shifter with a centuries-old vow to destroy her coven. Rowan...
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Nov 29, 20212 min read
Review of The Ghosts of Marshley Park
Blurb: Jade Roberts is a modern girl with an anger management problem, and nothing makes her more mad than turning up dead. Julian...
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Nov 22, 20212 min read
Review for Valkyrie 101
Blurb: Her dream comes at the price of human souls. Ylva has always wanted to become a Valkyrie, and now she's enrolled in her first year...
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Nov 15, 20212 min read
Review for Hoax for Hire
Blurb: The McNeil family has always been professional hoaxers—tricking bystanders into believing they’re seeing legendary creatures like...
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Nov 8, 20212 min read
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Nov 1, 20210 min read
Happy Halloween! A Treat for You!
It's that spooky time of year! Time to carve the pumpkins and greet all the little monsters who come to your door. It's also a time for...
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Oct 29, 20211 min read
Review for The Fall of the House of Cabal
Blurb: Johannes Cabal, a necromancer of some little infamy, has come into possession of a vital clue that may lead him to his ultimate...
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Oct 25, 20212 min read
Review for The Crane Diaries: Dirty Blood
Blurb: Deep in the swamps of the Louisiana bayou, a horrifying secret lies waiting to be discovered. A legend haunts the bayou, a...
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Oct 18, 20212 min read
Review for The Tenth
Blurb: Being buried alive is just the beginning. Emerging from a cardboard coffin with no memory of her past, Sky knew only three things:...
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Oct 11, 20212 min read
Release day for Shudder of Specters!
Huzzah! It's time to celebrate and roll for initiative! I'm so excited to share with the world my first LitRPG/Gamelit novel, Shudder of...
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Oct 5, 20212 min read
Review of All Hallows
Blurb: It’s Halloween night, 1984, in Coventry, Massachusetts, and two families are unraveling. Up and down the street, horrifying secrets are being revealed, and all the while, mixed in with the trick-or-treaters of all ages, four children who do not belong are walking door to door, merging with the kids of Parmenter Road. Children in vintage costumes with faded, eerie makeup. They seem terrified, and beg the neighborhood kids to hide them away, to keep them safe from The C
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Oct 202 min read
Review of The Man With No Shadow (How to Survive Camping #1)
Blurb: I am a campground manager. I don’t have a list of rules because I’m trying to ruin your fun…I’m trying to keep you from doing...
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Oct 133 min read
Review of The Bewitching
Blurb: “Back then, when I was a young woman, there were still witches”: That was how Nana Alba always began the stories she told her...
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Oct 62 min read
Prepping for the Festive Season
Now available for pre-order: She hates the fuss people make over the holidays, but these gorgeous Alphas are about to give her a gift she...
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Sep 292 min read
Review of Shades of Shame
Blurb: One night changed everything. What began as a carefree evening with friends ended in an act of sexual assault that shattered...
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Sep 223 min read
Review of The Library at Hellebore
Blurb: The Hellebore Technical Institute for the Gifted is the premier academy for the dangerously the Anti-Christs and Ragnaroks, the...
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Sep 152 min read
Review of The Staircase in the Woods
Blurb: A group of friends investigates the mystery of a strange staircase in the woods. While on a camping trip, five high-schoolers...
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Sep 82 min read
End of Summer Freebies
FREE today through September 2nd! School is in session and summer is nearly at an end. We're coming up on my favorite season of the...
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Aug 301 min read
My Procrastination Types
Last week was release day for Colleen M. Story 's new nonfiction book, Escape the Writer's Web . It's a guide to help creative...
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Aug 256 min read
Release Day for Escape the Writer's Web
Blurb: Untangle Your Procrastination Type, Discover Personalized Solutions, and Transform Your Writing Life. Are You Trapped in the Web...
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Aug 193 min read
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