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Celebrating start of spooky season!
Photo credit: Photorama at Pixabay.com It's my favorite time of the year: the start of spooky season! I am not a summer person at all. The heat does not agree with me, and the sun burns me within minutes after I go outside. Give me cool autumn breezes, cozy sweaters, and celebrating the weird. To welcome the new season, I'm offering a trio of books for free. It's the magic of three! FREE TODAY THROUGH SEPTEMBER 7th "A very enjoyable read for fans of fantasy and LitRPG. Highl
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Sep 31 min read
Review of Magically Murdered
Blurb: Moonstruck Manor is a perfect little bed & breakfast for a romantic getaway…or a murder. The police enlist free-spirited witch Kyla to go undercover to find the killer. Her quirkiness and magical abilities make her the perfect candidate to pose as their new chef. Unfortunately, she has a secret - while she can sense hidden magic, she's not so great at making breakfast. But that’s not her only problem. The magical deaths she’s investigating were of the previous two chef
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May 253 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 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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Mar 28, 20222 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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9 hours ago2 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
New Release: Sugar Bush Scent Mates
Blurb: Love is sticky business in the sugar bush. Cast out by her pack, accused of being nothing but a gold digger, Ellora Flynn collects what little she owns and heads north to the tiny Ontario town of Moose Hollow. All she has is her best friend and her Nana who she hasn’t seen in years. She hopes to find a quiet place to put her broken heart back together. She never expected to discover a second chance waiting for her among the snow-covered maples. The local sugar bush is
christinerainswrit
Sep 142 min read
Celebrating start of spooky season!
Photo credit: Photorama at Pixabay.com It's my favorite time of the year: the start of spooky season! I am not a summer person at all. The heat does not agree with me, and the sun burns me within minutes after I go outside. Give me cool autumn breezes, cozy sweaters, and celebrating the weird. To welcome the new season, I'm offering a trio of books for free. It's the magic of three! FREE TODAY THROUGH SEPTEMBER 7th "A very enjoyable read for fans of fantasy and LitRPG. Highl
christinerainswrit
Sep 31 min read
Review of Haunting Skies
Blurb: Earth has fallen to alien invaders, who abduct the last survivors for grotesque experiments. Their fatal mistake will be taking Elisa—a young girl possessed by Satan. Father Kang, the last surviving exorcist, has one insane plan: get Elisa aboard the mothership, strike a deal with the Devil, and turn Hell against the aliens. Claire and Derek are on the run with their daughter, Elisa—who carries a terrifying secret: she is possessed by Satan himself. Their only hope is
christinerainswrit
Aug 312 min read
Review of Corpse in the Crop Circle
Blurb: The truth is out there . . . along with a killer. When Thea Olson stumbles upon a murder in the middle of a crop circle, all eyes turn skyward. Rumors of UFOs, unexplained lights, and little green men spread through Why, North Dakota, faster than prairie wildfire. As suspicion falls on someone Thea knows, she's determined to uncover the truth. With help from her grandmother, library director Hudson Carter, and Edgar—the magical chameleon with a sarcastic streak—Thea di
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Aug 242 min read
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