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CHRISTINE RAINS
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Review of Witches and Fairies and Tacos... Oh My!
Blurb: Charli Quinn and her sister Brielle own House Witches Cleaning and promise to clean like magic. They may not be your everyday,...
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Mar 312 min read


Review of The Graystone Killings (Ella Mills #1)
Blurb: GRAYSTONE MANOR HAS A CHEQUERED PAST. BUT SOME THINGS CAN NEVER BE FORGOTTEN... Ella Mills considers her life to have a...
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Oct 7, 20242 min read


Review of That Much She Knew
Blurb: A murder, a missing colleague, and a pack of lies… When DCI Gawn Girvin is called to a murder scene, she is shocked to find the...
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Jul 8, 20242 min read


Review of Caskets & Conspiracies (Lindy Johnson #1)
Blurb: A favor for her quirky aunt unleashes a dangerous conspiracy. Can she survive their deadly attempt to silence her forever? Lindy...
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Mar 4, 20242 min read


Review of Death by Dating
Blurb: Zosha Paul navigates an unpredictable career, disastrous love life, endlessly critical mother, and best friend who’s been accused...
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Feb 26, 20242 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 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 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 Stradivarius
Blurb: When a surprise inheritance and whirlwind romance offer Mae a chance to escape her repressive aunt, she’s all too eager to elope...
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May 29, 20232 min read


Review of Grave Mistake (Hedgewitch for Hire #1)
Blurb: When you pull up stakes, make sure you don’t get stabbed in the back. Self-taught in the arcane arts, hedgewitch Selena Marx is...
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May 1, 20232 min read


Review for The Dead of Autumn (Piper Blackwell #5)
Blurb: The green fairy never made it to the Halloween party. The costumed teen’s gruesome murder sends ripples of fear through Piper...
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Nov 7, 20222 min read


Review for The Beached Ones
Blurb: He came back, determined to keep his promise. Daniel and his younger brother grew up in an abusive home. Daniel escaped. Now an...
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Oct 17, 20222 min read


Review for Something in the Water
Blurb: If you could make one simple choice that would change your life forever, would you? Erin is a documentary filmmaker on the brink...
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Jul 4, 20222 min read


Review of Four Point (Four Point Trilogy #1)
Blurb: Thirty-two bodies, twenty years, and a cold case that lives inside her alone. Detective Sali James teeters on the edge of sanity...
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Jun 6, 20221 min read


Review for The Body at Blackwell Lake
Blurb: She hates her power to detect missing things. When it leads her to a dead woman, can she smoke out a killer before she’s the next...
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May 16, 20222 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 of The Haunting of Ashburn House
Blurb: Everyone knows about Ashburn House. They whisper its old owner went mad, and restless ghosts still walk the halls. They say it's the dwelling place of something cruel and sinister. But when Adrienne―desperate and in need of a place to stay―inherits the crumbling old mansion, she only sees it as a lifeline... until darkness falls. Strange messages are etched into the walls. Furniture moves when she leaves the room. There's something here―something powerful, angry, and
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6 days ago2 min read


Review of The Final Girl Support Group
Blurb: Lynnette Tarkington is a real-life final girl who survived a massacre. For more than a decade, she’s been meeting with five other final girls and their therapist in a support group for those who survived the unthinkable, working to put their lives back together. Then one woman misses a meeting, and their worst fears are realized—someone knows about the group and is determined to rip their lives apart again, piece by piece. But the thing about final girls is that no ma
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Nov 102 min read


Release Day for The Twelve Knots of Christmas
She hates the fuss people make over the holidays, but these gorgeous Alphas are about to give her a gift she never knew she wanted. Christmas has long lost its magic for Mariska Belmont. She has no time for the festive fluff because she’s preparing to move to the west coast for the job of her dreams. Yet when she meets three hot Alphas at a Christmas tree farm, she’s torn between working under sunny California skies and her growing feelings for the pack. The Alphas of Silver
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Nov 31 min read


Halloween Treats!
HAPPY (early) HALLOWEEN! It's my favorite time of the year. I love the cool, crisp weather and the spooky events. I've been reading some great horror books this year. Check out my reviews if you're looking to add any to your TBR list. I'm going to help add to your list with two treats! Both of these books are FREE from today through November 1st! When players are offered the choice between tedious research and fighting a dragon, the players always choose the dragon. Even when
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Oct 281 min read


Review of All Hallows
Blurb: It’s Halloween night, 1984, in Coventry, Massachusetts, and two families are unraveling. Up and down the street, horrifying secrets are being revealed, and all the while, mixed in with the trick-or-treaters of all ages, four children who do not belong are walking door to door, merging with the kids of Parmenter Road. Children in vintage costumes with faded, eerie makeup. They seem terrified, and beg the neighborhood kids to hide them away, to keep them safe from The C
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Oct 202 min read


Review of The Man With No Shadow (How to Survive Camping #1)
Blurb: I am a campground manager. I don’t have a list of rules because I’m trying to ruin your fun…I’m trying to keep you from doing...
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Oct 133 min read


Review of The Bewitching
Blurb: “Back then, when I was a young woman, there were still witches”: That was how Nana Alba always began the stories she told her...
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Oct 62 min read


Prepping for the Festive Season
Now available for pre-order: She hates the fuss people make over the holidays, but these gorgeous Alphas are about to give her a gift she...
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Sep 292 min read


Review of Shades of Shame
Blurb: One night changed everything. What began as a carefree evening with friends ended in an act of sexual assault that shattered...
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Sep 223 min read


Review of The Library at Hellebore
Blurb: The Hellebore Technical Institute for the Gifted is the premier academy for the dangerously the Anti-Christs and Ragnaroks, the...
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Sep 152 min read
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