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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


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
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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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