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Review of Vampire on the Orient Express (Avery & Carter #1)
Blurb: Paris, 1914. American adventurer Sam Carter boards the Orient Express, departing France in style after an impulsive decision to...
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Apr 24, 20232 min read


Review for Demons and Debts (Desire Aforethought #1)
Blurb: A neurodivergent waitress being hunted. An Incubi MC who can help. But will their price be more than she can pay? When I was...
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Apr 15, 20233 min read


Review of Proof of Existence (Existence #2)
Blurb: Proof of Existence picks up from Fractions of Existence's cliffhanger, where Gwendolyn is among the hostages of the Eyes in the...
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Apr 10, 20233 min read


Using Reality in an Urban Fantasy Novel - guest post by J Lenni Dorner
The most typical identifiers of the urban fantasy genre are a modern city setting (primarily), fantastical or supernatural elements, dark...
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Apr 4, 20234 min read


Review of Promises of Mercy
Blurb: Killing is wrong. The reason doesn't matter. Oncology nurse, Amber Delacroix is the number one suspect in a mercy-killing...
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Mar 27, 20232 min read


Review of Demon Bound (Imp #1)
Blurb: Samantha Martin is an imp, enjoying an extended vacation from Hel. All she wants to do is drink beer by the pool, play mischievous...
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Mar 21, 20232 min read


Lucky Day!
HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY! May you all find your most beautiful treasure at the end of the rainbow. And even if I can't give you a pot of...
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Mar 15, 20231 min read


Review of Realms of Ghosts and Magic (Fae Witch Chronicles #1)
Blurb: When the fae beckon, very few resist. Even fewer return. As a veil witch, I’m used to taking out the supernatural trash....
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Mar 13, 20232 min read


Review of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons From the Crematory
Blurb: Armed with a degree in medieval history and a flair for the macabre, Caitlin Doughty took a job at a crematory and turned morbid...
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Mar 6, 20232 min read


Review of Balance of Love (influenced Book #2)
Blurb: Their voices guide us. Or deceive us. But is there more to Light and Dark? Influencers are the voices that whisper in our ears....
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Feb 27, 20232 min read


Review of Blackmist (My Best Friend is an Eldritch Horror #1)
Blurb: Damien nearly ended the world. Now, his mistake might be the only thing that can save it. Good things come to those who wait....
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Feb 20, 20233 min read


Week of Love Freebies!
It's the week of love, and I want to share my appreciation with my fabulous readers. You're awesome! Thank you so much for supporting me...
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Feb 13, 20231 min read


Review for Defy the Stars
Blurb: Circus grunt. Charmer. Fire wrangler. Growing up within the grind of the enchanted Circus Faire, Crew’s unique talents have...
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Feb 6, 20233 min read


Review of Unexpectedly You
Blurb: Brooke Winters has every second of her day planned out. She makes lists for the satisfaction of checking things off. When Marks...
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Jan 30, 20232 min read


Review of Fairy Tale
Blurb: Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load....
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Jan 23, 20233 min read


Review for Amethyst: Rise to Piracy
Blurb: Forced into an abusive marriage and a destiny out of her control, Amethyst of the fae flees to the seas looking for freedom....
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Jan 16, 20232 min read


Review for Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb #3)
Blurb: Her city is under siege. The zombies are coming back. And all Nona wants is a birthday party. In many ways, Nona is like other...
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Jan 9, 20232 min read


Review for Darklands Online (Book #1)
Blurb: It had been a number of years since Kurt had last played a video game. That all changed when his state wrestling bid was cut...
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Jan 2, 20232 min read


Happy Holidays!
HAPPY HOLIDAYS! I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday season. Give from the heart. Give to bring smiles and share love. Give to inspire...
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Dec 23, 20221 min read


Review for The Dust Navigator
Blurb: No one believes a woman can become a ship’s navigator in a male-dominated society, but Lissa was going to prove them wrong. Lissa...
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Dec 19, 20222 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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6 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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