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CHRISTINE RAINS
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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 for Dungeon Crawler Carl
Blurb: It's the most-watched game show in the galaxy! In a flash, every human-erected construction on Earth--from Buckingham Palace to...
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Sep 27, 20213 min read


Review for Marilia, the Warlord
Blurb: Born the bastard daughter of a painted lady, Marilia was told she would live out her days within the walls of her mother’s...
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Sep 20, 20213 min read


Review for The Sniggard's Revenge
Blurb: Taking from a Barrow? Not a good idea. Ethan's family has fallen from owning a manor to scraping by on a small farm. As he...
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Sep 13, 20212 min read


Review for Drunk on Love
Blurb: First my husband reveals himself as a werewolf by taking a bite out of me. If that’s not enough, I find out he's been cheating on...
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Sep 6, 20212 min read


Review for The Dragon's Enforcer
Blurb: A Triad heiress who wants nothing to do with her father's legacy. A rival gang enforcer who abhors violence. Together, they must...
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Aug 30, 20212 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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