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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


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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