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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 Cupid's Corset, Harlow!: Ask Crystal Ball Mystery #3
Blurb: Harlow Grayson protects her heart with an iron corset… …and sticking to her cynical view of Valentine’s Day seems safer than...
christinerainswrit
Feb 10, 20252 min read


Review of The Librarian of the Haunted Library
Blurb: My escape from a creepy clown lands me in a town straight out of a fever dream. And guess what? I become the new librarian after...
christinerainswrit
Nov 25, 20242 min read


Review of Beyond Starlight: An Alien Fated Mate Boxset
Blurb: To the deepest reaches of the galaxy these warriors will fight to find their fated mates. When their females are at the lowest in...
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Nov 19, 20243 min read


Review of Donn's Hill (The Soul Searchers Mysteries #1)
Blurb: Mackenzie Clair needs a fresh start. The death of her father and a broken relationship rendered her old life unlivable. What...
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Oct 21, 20242 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...
christinerainswrit
Oct 23, 20232 min read


Halloween Treats!
For those of you who love their ghost stories with more woo than boo, The Paramours trilogy is FREE through to November! New release! For...
christinerainswrit
Oct 28, 20221 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...
christinerainswrit
Oct 17, 20222 min read


Review for Bound to a Vampire
Blurb: Cassandra Montclaire is a three-hundred-and-sixty-year-old vampire living in modern-day New York. Her human life ended three...
christinerainswrit
Oct 3, 20222 min read


Review for Oscar, The Apprehensive Apparition #oscarghost
It’s a pleasure to welcome Author H. R. Sinclair here today as part of her tour from with MC Book Tours featuring her book, OSCAR, THE...
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Sep 26, 20222 min read


Review for Witch of the Wild Beasts
Blurb: When Evalina is imprisoned for witchcraft, will her supernatural bond with animals be her curse or salvation? In 1854, Evalina...
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Sep 12, 20222 min read


Review for One Night In Wildcat Woods
Blurb: 1989. The woods behind Wyland High School enclose over a century of local lore. When ex best friends Drew and Rayze become lost...
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Aug 15, 20222 min read


Review for Mooncakes
Blurb: A story of love and demons, family and witchcraft. Nova Huang knows more about magic than your average teen witch. She works at...
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Jul 25, 20222 min read


Review for Serenade (The Dark Nocturne #1)
Blurb: St. Paul’s Academy of the Arts isn’t your usual boarding school... When November Huntington is sent away to live with her...
christinerainswrit
Jun 20, 20222 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 for The Omen of Crows Nest
Blurb: No blood. No body. No murder. That’s what the police found after Penelope spun her bizarre tale. In a hysterical state, she said...
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May 9, 20222 min read


Review for Semi-Charmed
Blurb: She’s infamous. He’s legendary. Together, they’ll be epic…or a complete train wreck. It could go either way, really… Psychic and...
christinerainswrit
Mar 28, 20222 min read


Review of The Beginning of the End
Blurb: Daphne Rhodes would tell anyone: being ‘the one’ sucks. At least, she would if there was anyone left to tell. She’s the one who’d...
christinerainswrit
Jan 31, 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...
christinerainswrit
Nov 22, 20212 min read


Review for Valkyrie 101
Blurb: Her dream comes at the price of human souls. Ylva has always wanted to become a Valkyrie, and now she's enrolled in her first year...
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Nov 15, 20212 min read


Review of Life Hacks for Healing & Harmony
Blurb: It’s not too late to tap into self-compassion and leave your troubles behind. Imagine a life where you don't dwell on problems, conflict, and hardship. Can you reimagine a new reality of self-compassion, replacing your harsh inner critic? The result? Inner calm becomes your default state. What if the secret to joy and contentment isn't hidden at all but waiting to be unlocked through a simple, transformative framework? The Three-Elements-of-Ease will show you how to C
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3 hours ago4 min read


Review of Space Worms
Blurb: The galaxy just got ridiculous. Space Squad 51 is on the job. Nikili Echols works the docks, living a quiet, predictable life until the freighter Red Dorry is late. When the ship opens, the crew is gone. Orbital Rescue Services Squad 51 arrives, assuring Nikili everything will be all right. But when they go in, screams and roars erupt from inside, and a smear of blood is left at the hatch. Nikili knows the team and crew need help before more ORS teams can arrive. Ste
christinerainswrit
Jan 192 min read


January Freebies
Demons vs. Vampires OF BLOOD AND SORROW is FREE January 15th - 19th! In the game of Alphas vs. Omegas, someone is changing the rules so no one wins. KNOT DEAD YET is FREE January 15th - 19th!
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Jan 151 min read


Review of Something in the Walls
Blurb: Newly minted child psychologist Mina has little experience. In a field where the first people called are experts, she’s been unable to get her feet wet. Instead she aimlessly spends her days stuck in the stifling heat wave sweeping across Britain and anxiously contemplates her upcoming marriage to careful, precise researcher Oscar. The only reprieve from her small, close world is attending the local bereavement group to mourn her brother’s death from years ago. Then s
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Jan 123 min read


Review of Hagitude
Blurb: What is Hagitude? It means being at ease with the unique power women embody in the second half of their life. It means having a strong sense of who we are and what we have to offer the world. And a firm belief in our place in the ever-shifting web of life. For the woman who wishes to flourish without chasing eternal youth comes Hagitude. International bestselling author Sharon Blackie ( If Women Rose Rooted ) interweaves myth, psychology, landscape and ecofeminism, re
christinerainswrit
Jan 62 min read


Happy Holidays!
I'm in a festive mood this month as we've gotten more snow before Christmas this year than we ever had since we moved to this area decades ago. It gives me a warm, cozy feeling, which leads me to read and write a lot of warm, cozy stories. I've been concentrating on my contemporary romance pen name this year, and I haven't put out anything else for myself. I intended to write a cozy fantasy LitRPG, but the idea slipped through my fingers. If I don't jump on a story when it's
christinerainswrit
Dec 22, 20252 min read


Review of Christmas at Rainbow Falls
Blurb: When a disastrous mistake at work puts her career in jeopardy, Natalie Dunbar retreats to the small Vermont town of Rainbow Falls to settle the estate of an aunt she hardly knew. As the sole heir of half a building on Main Street, complete with an independent bookstore and second-floor apartment, Natalie hunkers down to figure out how to save her future. The problem? Her new neighbor, who owns the other half of the building, hates her at first sight. Celeste Wagner ha
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Dec 15, 20252 min read


Early Christmas Treats!
"I've read a few litRPG books, and this was definitely one of the best! It's like the old DnD cartoon where friends end up in a dangerous land and bicker about money, love and philosophy, like how friends do. Throw in some genuine surprises and graphic gore, and you have a tale any DnD player can get behind." GRAB YOUR COPY OF SHUDDER OF SPECTERS HERE! " Far from average, Christine Rains manages to tie together hot sexy, geeks, costumes, humor, and best of all, romance in one
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Dec 5, 20251 min read


Review of Manifesting Destiny
Blurb: Sixteen-year-old Cee Klinger is destined for heartbreak and she knows it. She's helplessly in love with Marcus, her childhood best friend. But soon they will change, transforming for the first time into whichever animal Clan they belong to, and once they join those Clans, they may never see one another again. Cee is desperate to make the most of their remaining time, but after Marcus's brother leaves to join the Aerie, Marcus begins pulling away. And then Cee discover
christinerainswrit
Dec 1, 20253 min read


Free Romance Reads + a New Release
" If you're looking for an exceptionally well written story, mystery, mythology, a sprinkle of romance, and lots of laughs, you will adore Curse of the Hunted. I want more..." Autumn is my favorite time of the year, and I love to get cozy on the couch under a warm blanket with a good book. CURSE OF THE HUNTED is the perfect cozy paranormal romance in a little supernatural town by the sea. - - - - - KNOT LETTING GO is FREE November 24th - 28th! "If you love a sweet-but-spic
christinerainswrit
Nov 24, 20252 min read
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