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CHRISTINE RAINS
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Review of Re-Writing Christmas
Blurb: When Nova McKay heads to her elderly neighbour’s house for their regular afternoon tea, she’s greeted by an unfamiliar face....
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Dec 25, 20232 min read


Review of Pastels and Jingle Bells
Blurb: Trish Ackerly never expected to cross paths with Ian Rafferty again, but when she spots the former bully of her childhood years...
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Dec 11, 20232 min read


Knot My Secret Santa
Blurb: She’s falling for her Secret Santa and his perfect gifts. What she doesn’t know is that he’s her boss. Avery Bell is excited for...
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Dec 4, 20232 min read


Review of On the Edge of Broken Pieces
Blurb: One moment changes everything. Xander Morales is close to getting his big ticket out of his crappy life. All he needs to do is...
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Nov 27, 20232 min read


Review for Natural Exposure (Bijou Basin #1)
Blurb: It’s business as usual for Kenzie in her boudoir studio. Every day, fascinating people of all genders stroll through and Kenzie...
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Jun 19, 20232 min read


Review of A Reckless Note (Brilliance Trilogy #1)
Blurb: It all started with a note, just a simple note hand written by a woman I didn't know, never even met. But in that note is perhaps...
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May 15, 20232 min read


Review for Demons and Debts (Desire Aforethought #1)
Blurb: A neurodivergent waitress being hunted. An Incubi MC who can help. But will their price be more than she can pay? When I was...
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Apr 15, 20233 min read


Review of Promises of Mercy
Blurb: Killing is wrong. The reason doesn't matter. Oncology nurse, Amber Delacroix is the number one suspect in a mercy-killing...
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Mar 27, 20232 min read


Review of Unexpectedly You
Blurb: Brooke Winters has every second of her day planned out. She makes lists for the satisfaction of checking things off. When Marks...
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Jan 30, 20232 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 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 About Her (Second Chance Romance #2)
Blurb: Shelley Ward doesn’t know what she wants out of life, but she knows being a broke, accidental home-wrecker isn’t it. Her whole...
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Jul 18, 20222 min read


Review for The Heart to Lead (The Playgrounds #3)
Blurb: Three years of mourning. One night of pleasure. It might be a new beginning, but only if he is willing to submit. Three years ago,...
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Jun 14, 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 State of Grace (Moonflower Cove #1)
Blurb: Blake Calloway has spent decades thinking her mother didn’t want her, but letters found in a chest tell a very different story....
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May 30, 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 Setup
Blurb: Can a weekend change your fate? As soon as Rory Price’s plane touches down in Britain for her two-year work contract , she has big...
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Feb 7, 20222 min read


Happy Holidays & Freebies!
Happy holidays from my home to yours! It's been a big year, and I've a lot to be grateful for. Right now, though, I want to show you how...
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Dec 23, 20211 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 for Drunk on Love
Blurb: First my husband reveals himself as a werewolf by taking a bite out of me. If that’s not enough, I find out he's been cheating on...
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Sep 6, 20212 min read


Review of You Let Me In
Blurb: Cassandra Tipp is dead...or is she? After all, the notorious recluse and eccentric bestselling novelist has always been prone to flights of fancy--everyone in town remembers the shocking events leading up to Cassie's infamous trial (she may have been acquitted, but the insanity defense only stretches so far). Cassandra Tipp has left behind no body--just her massive fortune, and one final manuscript. Then again, there are enough bodies in her past--her husband Tommy Tip
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4 days ago2 min read


End of Summer Break Update
Image from chenspec on Pixabay.com It's been a while since I've said hello and checked in. I've been in that summer break haze. There was no vacation for us this year as we got a new roof, but my adventures consisted of teaching my son to drive and exploring the county with him. I have new inspiration for stories and several more gray hairs. Most of my writing energy goes to my pen name, Alora James. I've been writing a cozy contemporary romance and enjoying a northern Ontari
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Aug 32 min read


Review of The Temptation of Charlotte North
Blurb: Be careful what you wish for. It might come true.... In 1910, on a small, remote island that boasts more sheep than people, life does not hold a lot of promise for spirited Charlotte North. Her only escape from both this insular community and a family who does not understand her seems to be through marriage—an institution she is not at all eager to join, given the unhappiness of her parents' own union. Plus, eligible suitors are few and far between, which is why Charlo
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Jul 272 min read


Review of The Mapmaker
Blurb: Kidnapped as an infant, Aleeya has spent her life as a slave to the Temple of Nesha with her wings bound and spirit unbroken. Her mapmaking skills and the will of the gods have kept her relatively safe in this foreign city, but her luck runs out when her escape plans are revealed, prompting her master to sell her. Just before the sale is completed, slave smugglers kidnap Aleeya from the temple for reasons they refuse to share. They free her wings but deliver her into t
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Jul 203 min read


Review of Heat Mountain
Blurb: Everyone knows that omegas can’t be doctors, not with the alpha-dominated medical establishment still stuck a hundred years in the past. So when she arrives in Heat Mountain for her month-long wilderness medicine fellowship, Holly plans to do the same thing she has always done…pretend to be a beta. Until her designation suppressing medication fails spectacularly and she ends up accidentally bonded to the hottest pack of alphas in town, one of whom also happens to be he
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Jul 132 min read


Review of A Game of Cat and Witch
Blurb: Avery Alarch has always been the worst witch at Caerwyn University. Now she’s got twenty-four hours to conjure a familiar or get kicked out for good—a fate that means losing her magic forever and being stuck on a dreary island with nothing but regrets. Desperate times call for desperate spells. So when Avery stumbles on a forbidden grimoire, she decides to risk it all. One little summoning later, she’s expecting a cute magical cat. Instead? She gets Felix, a six-foot-s
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Jul 63 min read


Heatwave Bringing Free Books!
Image from Pexels HAPPY CANADA DAY! & HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY! July is starting off with a heatwave. Record breaking hot days. I've been hiding inside curled up with some good books. I recommend you do the same thing. In fact, I have some free books to share with you that will help you through the brutal weather. RAVAGE OF REVENANTS is FREE today through July 5th! Have a taste of Christmas in July! THE TWELVE KNOTS OF CHRISTMAS is FREE today through July 5th!
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Jul 11 min read


Review of The Line Between
Blurb: Rule number one, whenever we want each other, we can come to each other. Day or night. Paisley never imagined she’d hear those words coming from the demon lord, but nothing has gone according to plan. Following the murder of her parents, Paisley becomes queen for the vampyre and faye factions. The day she’s crowned, a threat pits her up against Lord Case, an infuriating demon who claims he wants her the first time they meet. And damn if she doesn’t desire him, too. Exc
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Jun 222 min read


Review of Ararat
Blurb: When a newly engaged couple climbs Mount Ararat in Turkey, an avalanche forces them to seek shelter inside a massive cave uncovered by the snow fall. The cave is actually an ancient, buried ship that many quickly come to believe is really Noah’s Ark. When a team of scholars, archaeologists, and filmmakers make it inside the ark for the first time, they discover an elaborate coffin in its recesses. The artifact tempts their professional curiosity; so they break it open.
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Jun 152 min read


Review of The Witchstone
Blurb: Meet Laszlo, eight-hundred-year-old demon and Hell’s least productive Curse Keeper. From his office beneath Midtown, he oversees the Drakeford Curse, which involves a pathetic family upstate and a mysterious black stone. It’s a sexy enough assignment—colonial origins, mutating victims, et cetera—but Laszlo has no interest in maximizing the curse’s potential; he’d rather sunbathe in Ibiza, quaff martinis, and hustle the hustlers on Manhattan’s subway. Unfortunately, his
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Jun 83 min read
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