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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 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


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 Six of Crows
Blurb: Ketterdam : a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price—and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. But he can’t pull it off alone... A convict with a thirst for revenge A sharpshooter who can’t walk away from a wager A runaway with a privileged past A spy known as the Wraith A Heartrender using her magic to survive
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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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Apr 132 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
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