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CHRISTINE RAINS
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Review of Aether Bound (The Rise of Lilith #1)
Blurb: Hello, my name is Lil, and I can see the demon on your shoulder. I found my calling as a bartender in Laguna Beach, California....
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Nov 13, 20232 min read


Review of The Monster MASH (The Monster M*A*S*H #1)
Blurb: Ancient gods. Modern war. And a star-crossed couple who could use some divine intervention. The day I was drafted into the army of...
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Nov 6, 20233 min read


Review of Mexican Gothic
Blurb: After receiving a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom, Noemí Taboada...
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Oct 30, 20233 min read


Review of Dark River Inn (Trouble Spirits #1)
Blurb: Inspired by a chilling true story... It’s the day of his ex-wife’s wedding when Dan makes the winding mountain journey to a remote...
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Oct 23, 20232 min read


Review for Guardian of Monsters: Sleuths of Shadow Salon #1
Blurb: Celestine, witch and wolf shifter has a talent for prophetic drawings. She’s shocked when she draws her landlord Ray with his eyes...
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Oct 9, 20233 min read


Review of Warlock at Law
Blurb: Attorney Alistair Burke has been newly hired to represent supernaturals who find themselves in legal trouble in the state of...
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Sep 25, 20232 min read


Review of Heavy Dirty Soul
Blurb: A love that transcends Death. A curse that defies Time. Bold, independent Ivy is a witch. In a time of rampant hysteria against...
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Sep 18, 20232 min read


Review of The Chimera Bounty (Fae Prison: Earth #1)
Blurb: Before meeting Corvin, Maeve’s penniless investigative journalist days were on wash, rinse, repeat: gym, latte, class, bar job,...
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Sep 11, 20232 min read


Review of Bed and Breakfast and Murder (Fiona Fleming #1)
Blurb: Fiona Fleming hasn't lived in Reading, Vermont in over a decade, her escape from small town living leading her to New York City...
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Sep 4, 20232 min read


Review of The Girl from Silent Lake (Detective Kay Sharp #1)
Blurb: Her daughter, with emerald eyes and the sweetest smile, is everything to her. Her whole world. “Mommy,” the little girl says,...
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Aug 28, 20233 min read


Review of Murder at the Library
Blurb: Libraries are full of books . . . and deadly secrets. When Thea Olson agreed to volunteer at her local library, she anticipated...
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Aug 21, 20232 min read


Review of The Last House on Needless Street
Blurb: This is the story of a serial killer. A stolen child. Revenge. Death. And an ordinary house at the end of an ordinary street. All...
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Aug 14, 20232 min read


Review of Ill Will & 99c Promo
Blurb: “We are always telling a story to ourselves, about ourselves,” Dustin Tillman likes to say. It’s one of the little mantras he...
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Aug 7, 20233 min read


Review of Roseland: Volume 1
Blurb: Secret Societies, Serial Killers, and a Seriously Snarky PI. When Ginger Mitchell finds out her mother committed suicide, she...
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Jul 31, 20232 min read


Review of Murders at the Manor (Inspector Broekstein Mysteries #1)
Blurb: Murders Most Foul "What would you say if I were to tell you I believed...that in the heart of every man and woman alive, there...
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Jul 24, 20232 min read


Review of The Eye of the Bedlam Bride (Dungeon Crawler Carl #6)
Blurb: A pantheon of forgotten gods. An old grudge between a talk show host, an heiress, and the man they shattered along the way. A...
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Jul 17, 20233 min read


Review of The Whisper Man
Blurb: After the sudden death of his wife, Tom Kennedy believes a fresh start will help him and his young son Jake heal. A new beginning,...
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Jul 10, 20232 min read


Review of The Shut Eye
Blurb: Five footprints are the only sign that Daniel Buck was ever here. Yesterday they were a family just like any other: Anna and...
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Jul 3, 20234 min read


Review for The Fox and the Briar
Blurb: Neither of us will bow, so one must break. Princess Briar Rose has been betrothed to Seelie Prince Loren since her naming day—the...
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Jun 26, 20232 min read


Review for Natural Exposure (Bijou Basin #1)
Blurb: It’s business as usual for Kenzie in her boudoir studio. Every day, fascinating people of all genders stroll through and Kenzie...
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Jun 19, 20232 min read


Review of Heat Mountain
Blurb: Everyone knows that omegas can’t be doctors, not with the alpha-dominated medical establishment still stuck a hundred years in the past. So when she arrives in Heat Mountain for her month-long wilderness medicine fellowship, Holly plans to do the same thing she has always done…pretend to be a beta. Until her designation suppressing medication fails spectacularly and she ends up accidentally bonded to the hottest pack of alphas in town, one of whom also happens to be he
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17 hours ago2 min read


Review of A Game of Cat and Witch
Blurb: Avery Alarch has always been the worst witch at Caerwyn University. Now she’s got twenty-four hours to conjure a familiar or get kicked out for good—a fate that means losing her magic forever and being stuck on a dreary island with nothing but regrets. Desperate times call for desperate spells. So when Avery stumbles on a forbidden grimoire, she decides to risk it all. One little summoning later, she’s expecting a cute magical cat. Instead? She gets Felix, a six-foot-s
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Jul 63 min read


Heatwave Bringing Free Books!
Image from Pexels HAPPY CANADA DAY! & HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY! July is starting off with a heatwave. Record breaking hot days. I've been hiding inside curled up with some good books. I recommend you do the same thing. In fact, I have some free books to share with you that will help you through the brutal weather. RAVAGE OF REVENANTS is FREE today through July 5th! Have a taste of Christmas in July! THE TWELVE KNOTS OF CHRISTMAS is FREE today through July 5th!
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Jul 11 min read


Review of The Line Between
Blurb: Rule number one, whenever we want each other, we can come to each other. Day or night. Paisley never imagined she’d hear those words coming from the demon lord, but nothing has gone according to plan. Following the murder of her parents, Paisley becomes queen for the vampyre and faye factions. The day she’s crowned, a threat pits her up against Lord Case, an infuriating demon who claims he wants her the first time they meet. And damn if she doesn’t desire him, too. Exc
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Jun 222 min read


Review of Ararat
Blurb: When a newly engaged couple climbs Mount Ararat in Turkey, an avalanche forces them to seek shelter inside a massive cave uncovered by the snow fall. The cave is actually an ancient, buried ship that many quickly come to believe is really Noah’s Ark. When a team of scholars, archaeologists, and filmmakers make it inside the ark for the first time, they discover an elaborate coffin in its recesses. The artifact tempts their professional curiosity; so they break it open.
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Jun 152 min read


Review of The Witchstone
Blurb: Meet Laszlo, eight-hundred-year-old demon and Hell’s least productive Curse Keeper. From his office beneath Midtown, he oversees the Drakeford Curse, which involves a pathetic family upstate and a mysterious black stone. It’s a sexy enough assignment—colonial origins, mutating victims, et cetera—but Laszlo has no interest in maximizing the curse’s potential; he’d rather sunbathe in Ibiza, quaff martinis, and hustle the hustlers on Manhattan’s subway. Unfortunately, his
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Jun 83 min read


Review of Magically Murdered
Blurb: Moonstruck Manor is a perfect little bed & breakfast for a romantic getaway…or a murder. The police enlist free-spirited witch Kyla to go undercover to find the killer. Her quirkiness and magical abilities make her the perfect candidate to pose as their new chef. Unfortunately, she has a secret - while she can sense hidden magic, she's not so great at making breakfast. But that’s not her only problem. The magical deaths she’s investigating were of the previous two chef
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May 253 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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May 182 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
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