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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
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Oct 262 min read
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 31, 20252 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
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
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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
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Nov 21 min read
Halloween Book Blast!
CLICK HERE FOR YOUR 99c BOOKS! FOR ONE DAY ONLY! Treat yourself this Halloween Eve! Over 250 books for 99c! This includes my action-packed paranormal romance, OF BLOOD AND SORROW! Stuff your pumpkin! (That didn't sound dirty at all!) And tell your friends!
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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Sep 213 min read
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