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Review of Hearthomancy (Vol. 1)
Blurb: Monsters, mortgages, and madmen – Being a new homeowner can be murder! My name is Brent, and I'm the proud, new owner of Rootwood...
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Apr 1, 20243 min read


Writing Life Update
Image from Voltamax on Pixabay.com It's November, and I'm still about a month behind schedule. I had hoped to have my Halloween book (for my pen name, Alora James) out last month, but, if I'm lucky, it'll be out next week. At least it's longer than I intended, and that's more story for readers to love. I need to get going on my Christmas book which I wanted to release next month, but we'll see how that goes. To give myself an extra boost, I'm doing the November 50k word chall
christinerainswrit
5 hours ago2 min read


Have Yourself a Knotty Little Christmas Release Day!
CLICK THE IMAGE OR HERE TO GET THE BOOK! One holiday break, three scent matched Alphas, and a Christmas that changes everything. All Emberlee Eriksson wants for Christmas is her family, together, in the same room. After a long semester away at college, she returns home to Green Bay to spend quality time with everyone. But when her parents announce they’re leaving on a holiday cruise and her siblings scatter with their own plans, Emberlee’s perfect Christmas starts slipping th
christinerainswrit
Nov 21 min read


Halloween Book Blast!
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christinerainswrit
Oct 301 min read


Review of The Haunting of Sunshine House
Blurb: Is the evil lurking in Sunshine House human or something much worse? Once an exclusive Hollywood hotel catering to the likes of Rudolf Valentino and other great stars of the Silent Film Era, the Bockerman Hotel now is the Sunshine House, an assisted living home for seniors. And its residents are dying… in droves. Sara Caine, paranormal investigator, couldn’t believe she got an invitation to hunt for ghosts in the most haunted building in all of Los Angeles, The Sunshin
christinerainswrit
Oct 262 min read


Review of The Night Swim
Blurb: Ever since her true-crime podcast became an overnight sensation and set an innocent man free, Rachel Krall has become a household name—and the last hope for people seeking justice. But she’s used to being recognized for her voice, not her face. Which makes it all the more unsettling when she finds a note on her car windshield, addressed to her, begging for help. The new season of Rachel's podcast has brought her to a small town being torn apart by a devastating rape tr
christinerainswrit
Oct 192 min read


Review of House of Leaves
Blurb: A young family moves into a small home on Ash Tree Lane where they discover something is terribly wrong: their house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. Of course, neither Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson nor his companion Karen Green was prepared to face the consequences of that impossibility, until the day their two little children wandered off and their voices eerily began to return another story—of creature darkness, of an ever-gr
christinerainswrit
Oct 123 min read


Review of Payback's a Witch
Blurb: Emmy Harlow is a witch but not a very powerful one—in part because she hasn't been home to the magical town of Thistle Grove in years. Her self-imposed exile has a lot to do with a complicated family history and a desire to forge her own way in the world, and only the very tiniest bit to do with Gareth Blackmoore, heir to the most powerful magical family in town and casual breaker of hearts and destroyer of dreams. But when a spellcasting tournament that her family ser
christinerainswrit
Oct 53 min read


Happy October!
Image from lavnatalia on Pixabay.com It's my favorite month of the year! Sweater weather (hopefully coming soon!), leaves falling from trees, spooky decorations, and curling up with a seasonal read. Right now I'm giving HOUSE OF LEAVES a second chance. I tried to read it years ago, but I hated the pretension and the weird formatting. It's going a little better this time, but it's highly pretentious. I can see how it inspired so much liminal horror which is popular these days.
christinerainswrit
Oct 21 min read


Review of The Witch's Orchard
Blurb: Former Air Force special investigator Annie Gore joined the military right after high school to escape the fraught homelife of her childhood. Now, she’s getting by as a private investigator, and her latest case takes her to an Appalachian holler not unlike the one where she grew up. Ten years ago, three little girls went missing from their tiny mountain town. While one was returned, the others were never seen again. After all this time without answers, the brother of o
christinerainswrit
Sep 282 min read


Review of May the Dead Keep You
Blurb: There’s nowhere Catie East would rather be than the redwood forest that surrounds her family’s unusual historic home, the Heights. She prefers being alone in the forest. People are…complicated. But when a scientist and his son move into the estate’s cottage, planning to study the woods around them, the boy catches Catie’s eye. And when a dead woodpecker miraculously comes back to life in his precious hands…he captures her heart. Necromancy isn’t the only strange thing
christinerainswrit
Sep 213 min read
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