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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 The Cure
Since this is the first official week of my new blog, I'm celebrating by putting up two reviews! Also, I'm so excited for Patricia...
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Aug 26, 20212 min read


Review for Smitten with Candy Canes
Most books I read, I leave my review on Goodreads and Amazon. "Smitten with Candy Canes" is included in a big romance collection called...
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Aug 23, 20212 min read


New Blog, First Post
Hello internet! It's been a long time since I've written a blog post, and I miss it. I'm still trying to get into a regular routine. I do...
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Aug 16, 20211 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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5 days ago2 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


Sisters of the Pale Claw is Now in Paperback
Too bad we don't have any snow to take a picture in! Three sisters. Seven totems. One chance to save the world. It's taken a lot of work, but SISTERS OF THE PALE CLAW is finally available in paperback. I got my author's proof the other day, and I was so excited. It's a thick tome at 717 pages. Not one I could hold up with one hand and read. It's a two-hand job! It includes all nine novellas of the Totem series and bonus author's notes at the end of each novella. This is the
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Mar 232 min read


Lucky Day! Free books!
Photo credit: Alexas_Fotos from Pixabay It's second winter here and time to snuggle under a blanket with a good book. I've been good and keeping up with my reading challenge so far this year. Cozy stories have become my favorite way to escape. What have you been reading? I have a few more books to add to your e-reader! May luck and good books forever be in your life. When offered a choice between tedious research or fighting a dragon, the players always choose the dragon. Eve
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Mar 171 min read


Review of The Vampire Knitting Club
Blurb: At a crossroads between a cringe-worthy past (Todd the Toad) and an uncertain future (she's not exactly homeless, but it's close), Lucy Swift travels to Oxford to visit her grandmother. With Gran's undying love to count on and Cardinal Woolsey's, Gran's knitting shop, to keep her busy, Lucy can catch her breath and figure out what she's going to do. Except it turns out that Gran is the undying. Or at least, the undead. But there's a death certificate. And a will, leav
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Mar 162 min read


Review of Spread Me
Blurb: Kinsey has the perfect job as the team lead in a remote research outpost. She loves the solitude, and the way the desert keeps her far away from the temptations teeming out in the civilian world. When her crew discovers a mysterious specimen buried deep in the sand, Kinsey breaks quarantine and brings it into the hab. But the longer it's inside, the more her carefully controlled life begins to unravel. Temptation has found her after all, and it can't be ignored any lo
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Mar 92 min read


Cover Reveal for Tea Leaves, Pages, & Starlight
Blurb: Bethany Hawthorne has never felt like she truly belongs anywhere. So when a regular café customer recognizes what she is—a witch—and tells her there’s a place where she won’t have to hide her magic, Bethany does something she’s never done before. She leaves. Briardell is everything she hoped for: a secluded village filled with warmth, magic, and people who understand what it means to be different. There’s just one small problem. No one has a spare room to rent. No one,
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Mar 41 min read


Review of Ruthless Kingdom
Blurb: Born under a scarlet moon, Avianna Morningstar should have been revered and feared, as the prophecy proclaimed. But Avia is taken to a remote realm where she would be safe from the anarchy festering in the Kingdoms, meanwhile her potential as a sorceress is all but extinguished. A sinfully attractive tracker is tasked with bringing Avia back to a homeland she has never known in hopes of awakening the power that has lain dormant within her. The Kingdoms of Verdae and I
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Mar 22 min read
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