We’re celebrating the release of Captured by the Werewolf Highwaymen by Eva Leigh all week long!
Captured by the Werewolf Highwaymen (Den of Thieves Book 2)
Release Date: September 9, 2026
Genre: Spicy Paranormal Why Choose Romance
Werewolves
Spicy
Why choose
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Widow
Monsters
In USA TODAY bestselling author Eva Leigh’s sensuous tale, a lonely widow finds unexpected desire with a band of werewolf highwaymen…
When a gang of highwaymen show up at Clara Ballantine’s door in the middle of the night, taking over her house, she has no choice but to obey. Shy and widowed, Clara is at first terrified of these dangerous men holding her captive.
Yet Clara can’t help herself from being drawn to handsome, roguish Des…and gentle Gideon…and playful Hugh. Is it possible for her to strip away a lifetime of shoulds and should nots, and allow herself to desire more than one man?
But these are no ordinary men. They’re werewolves. And as tensions erupt within the gang, Clara finds herself in the middle of a supernatural battle for supremacy, one that could claim her heart…and her life…
Captured by the Werewolf Highwaymen is a spicy paranormal why choose romance, and Book 2 in the Den of Thieves series.
Bob and Shirley run a lovely country pub. They also solve murders …
A warmly funny, gloriously British cozy crime and murder mystery series that can be read as standalones or part of a series. Set in a village where the pub is the heart of country life and served with warmth, wit and a very good Sunday roast.
“Murder? In our quiet, little English village? Great Oakley is a place of hanging baskets, tearooms and riverside walks. We’ve won ‘Britain’s safest village’ 10 years running. I keep three pound coins, a box of toffees and a bottle of Pepto-Bismol on my dashboard at all times, and I’ve never needed to lock my car. Certainly, Bevvy Hogg was disliked. She ran the local Waist Watchers group, yet came to our pub for fish and chips, treacle tart and a bottle of Chardonnay every Friday. But I don’t think she was murdered …”
When Bevvy Hogg is found dead in the Goose and Gander pub garden, with an empty treacle tart plate beside her and several dress sizes slimmer than anyone remembers, Great Oakley’s winning streak as Britain’s safest village comes to an abrupt end.
Suzy K Quinn (hello – it’s me!) is writing this bio in the third person. Which feels duplicitous and also a little egotistical. But here goes …
Suzy K Quinn writes book club books and murder mystery series, and has sold over 1 million copies worldwide. She’s a bestselling author in the US, UK and Germany and will soon, very possibly, have written more books than she’s read.
Suzy lives in Wivenhoe, Essex, with her husband and two daughters. She is a twin, an incompetent parent of two and now fully decaffeinated. Her twin sister, Cate Quinn, is also a bestseller author. When Suzy isn’t writing in cafes, she is walking around woods dictating like a lunatic.
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My thoughts: This is very funny, Bob and Shirley alternate in telling you their theories, suspicions and personal vendettas (mostly Shirley).
Pub regular Bevvy Hogg is found by Bob one morning as he goes to check on his tomatoes, dead on the patio he lovingly power washes every week. There’s a suspicious yellow stain next to her and she’s removed her ever present cardigan.
Bevvy was in the pub the night before, downing jugs of water and acting a bit strange. Was she poisoned by John Boy’s cooking? Bob and Shirley are sure their nephew is innocent and are determined to prove it so he can enter the village bake off, but who killed Bevvy Hogg and why?
It’s a convoluted tale of bitter people and long held grudges (many of them Shirley’s) with cake, fish and chips, a Sunday roast and a brand new uncorruptible police constable working on solving the case with some help from Bob’s spreadsheets, a fox called Cyril and Shirley’s unique way with words.
One of Great Oakley’s five open gardens served poisoned tea. Can you work out which one before Bob does?
‘Like Murdle and a cozy mystery rolled into one.’
Murder mystery logic puzzle stories for fans of The Killer Isn’t Alice, Murdle and Can You Solve the Murder?
These are ‘Puzzlories’. Read them like stories, solve them like puzzles. Each one takes about an hour to read and solve.
It’s Open Gardens weekend in Great Oakley. Five gardeners have opened their gardens to the public, and each is offering a unique drink, cake, flower and interesting garden feature to their fellow villagers.
Unfortunately, one garden owner poured poisoned tea. Probably not on purpose. But you never know. There are more murders in Britain’s safest village than you might imagine.
Village pub landlady Shirley Duffy visited all five open gardens before returning to the Goose and Gander for a much-needed beer and a sit down. One of those five gardens was the scene of the crime. The trouble is, Shirley’s memory is known to be … selective. She can remember every cake she’s eaten since 1987, but not necessarily when and where she ate it. And she can’t remember which garden served tea on Saturday afternoon.
Shirley’s husband, Bob, is frustrated that Shirley can’t remember one garden from another. But he finds many things about his wife frustrating, and loves her anyway. As Bob presses Shirley for details, the clues pile up. Your job is to note them down and work out who served the tea before Bob does.
Twenty clues, one in every short chapter. Fill in your detective’s grid, cross off your suspects and name the poisoner.Grab your notebook, put the kettle on (carefully) and see if you can beat Bob to the answer.
*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in this blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.
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When the skeletons of a young woman and a baby are uncovered on a long-abandoned farm in Hvalfjörður, it is clear they were buried years apart. West Iceland CID begins to investigate the disturbing discovery, aware that someone has gone to great lengths to keep the past hidden.
In Akranes, Karitas, a young single mother seeking a new start, settles in with her four-year-old son and rents a basement flat from an eccentric landlord. A cautious sense of happiness returns when she meets the boy next door.
But when news breaks that a local girl has been murdered, Karitas must decide who she can trust, knowing that one wrong choice could place her and her child in danger. Detective Elma is drawn into the case, forced to navigate long-hidden family secrets to understand a killer’s motive, while struggling to hold together her increasingly troubled relationship with Sævar.
Born in Akranes, Eva Björg Ægisdóttir studied for an MSc in Globalisation in Norway before returning to Iceland and deciding to write a novel.
Her debut, The Creak on the Stairs, was published in 2018, becoming a bestseller in Iceland and going on to win the Blackbird Award and the Storytel Award for Best Crime Novel of the Year. It was published in English by Orenda Books in 2020, and became a number-one bestseller in ebook, shortlisting for Capital Crime’s Amazon Publishing Awards in two categories, and winning the CWA John Creasey New Blood Dagger.
Girls Who Lie, Night Shadows, You Can’t See Me and Boys Who Hurt soon followed suit, shortlisting for the CWA Crime in Translation Dagger, the Capital Crime Awards, and the Petrona Award for Best Scandinavian Crime Novel. You Can’t See Me won the Storyteller Award for Best Crime Novel of the Year in Iceland in 2023. In 2024, Eva won Iceland’s prestigious Crime Fiction Award, the Blood Drop, for Home before Dark and was shortlisted for the coveted Glass Key.
The Forbidden Iceland series, due to hit streaming services in Autumn 2026 via GlassRiver, has established Eva as one of Iceland’s bestselling and most distinguished crime writers, and her books are published in twenty-nine languages with more than a million copies sold.
My thoughts: This creeped me out a bit, especially when Karitas thinks someone has been in her flat while she’s out but she can’t prove it, and feels paranoid – that’s something I would not cope with, too many TV shows and books about someone living in your house without you knowing.
But it is a creepy story – the missing woman who spent time in the basement flat, the slightly weird (but ultimately quite sweet) old man upstairs, the next door neighbours who are definitely not right, the baby found buried in the old barn not far from the missing woman.
And it’s complicated, no one has lived at the farm in years, the people who worked there are hard to trace as there’s only nicknames to go on in some cases, the trace DNA evidence that throws uncertainty on the identities of the remains.
However, it is so well written, so compelling it completely hooks you and draws you in. I felt for Karitas and her little son, and for their landlord, who was clearly still mourning his lost family, both lost souls in need of support and found family.
This series is so, so good, you need to get into it if you love crime fiction, smart, but really human, detectives and cases that make you go 😮
*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in this blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.
We’re touring the August release Ink Witch this week! If you love a good witchy book with a fierce FMC, you need to read this one!
Ink Witch (Arcane Magic Book One)
Release Date: August 27, 2026
Genre: Urban Fantasy Stand-Alone
Fierce Heroine
Magical Mysteries
Runes & Sigils
No Spice, Slow-Burn Romance
Magical Worlds
Loyal Dog
Branded a failure. Buried in shame. Then they steal her dog.
Once, Elenora “Elmo” Morris was the pride of Ink District. Chosen as Champion for the Immortality Trials, she carried a city’s hopes on her shoulders — until it all went wrong and she crawled home in disgrace.
Now Elmo works as a bounty hunter in a city ruled by immortals. Her only friend is Mina, her beloved dog. When enforcers snatch Mina and drag her to the immortal commander’s compound, Elmo has only hours before her dog disappears for good.
Breaking in should be a death sentence. Instead, ink power flares back to life, and Elmo discovers the Trials weren’t just rigged — they were a lie.
To save her dog and face the family who cast her out, this ink witch must stop running from the past and become the spark that burns the lies down.
Ink Witch is the spellbinding first standalone in the Arcane Magic urban fantasy series. If you love fierce middle-aged heroines, slow-burn romance, loyal dogs, and magic-soaked suspense, you’ll adore this magical rollercoaster ride.
When bestselling author Helen finds herself at the centre of a scandal, she escapes to Rathbrooke Hall on a remote island off the Northumberland coast.
Tasked with cataloguing the books of a reclusive collector she’s relieved to be out of the glare of publicity, even if the locals are less than welcoming. But as she spends more time among the dusty bookshelves and rare first editions, she uncovers clues to a secret collection of books that could save the island – and the community that she’s begun to feel part of.
Can she unravel the mystery of the hidden library and can she trust Thiago, a charming librarian with secrets of his own?
Sharon started her career as an entertainment journalist, writing non-fiction books about film and television. She is also the author of multiple children’s books. Sharon and her husband live in a small village in northern Cumbria where they run a second-hand bookshop, Withnail Books in Penrith. She can be found on Twitter @sharongosling.
My thoughts: I loved this, a huge house, a magnificent library, secrets and a lost Shakespeare manuscript – this could not be more me. It’s the stuff literary nerds dream of.
On an island off the Northumberland coast, where a reclusive collector has built a library of rare and precious books (the smell must be heavenly, all those old books) Helen has been sent to catalogue and also try to find the late owner’s will.
When a man who looks like a pirate turns up claiming to be a librarian who had been in contact with Cyril, Helen is swept into a quest for a missing Shakespeare manuscript that might just be hidden in the library.
There’s danger, intrigue, possibly ghosts, definitely a grumpy teenage girl, storms, possible romance, giant cats and if this house was real I’d be campaigning to move in as the resident librarian.
It’s an enchanting and very enjoyable read, and if like me you like books about books and bookish people – you’ll love this.
*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in this blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.
Mary English, a dockworker’s daughter from Faversham, England, travels to South America to escape a scandal from her past. She ends up running a cacao plantation in Colombia, at a time when women were not legally allowed to own businesses there.
Manuela Sáenz, tempestuous lover of Venezuelan revolutionary Simón Bolívar, serves as a colonel in his army. She joins him in battle to fight the Spanish and twice saves his life from assassination attempts.
This is the story of two real-life remarkable women, both fighting oppression, hardship and danger in 1820s Colombia, who come together to change the course of a nation’s history.
GD Harper became a full-time author in 2016. He has written three psychological thrillers, Love’s Long Road, A Friend in Deed and Silent Money, and two historical novels, The Maids of Biddenden and Arden.
The Maids of Biddenden was the winner in the historical fiction category of the 2024 Next Generation Indie Book Awards, the largest international awards program for indie authors and independent publishers, and was shortlisted for the 2023 Selfies Award at the London Book Fair.
Arden was placed third in the 2024 Yeovil International Literary Prize. The Other Life of Mary English was a finalist in the Eyelands Book Awards. He has also been longlisted or shortlisted for fourteen other awards.
His books have had over one million page reads on Kindle Unlimited, been number one most downloaded e-book on Amazon UK, number three on Amazon worldwide, and garnered over two thousand reviews and ratings on Amazon and Goodreads, with an average rating score of 4.4.
He lives in East Sussex and, when not writing, can be found wild camping in the Scottish mountains or in the mosh pit at live music events.
My thoughts: I love learning about women from the past, especially those who defied convention and forged their own paths as both Mary English and Manuela Sàenz did at a time and in a place that did not encourage them at all.
Mary returns to Colombia as a widow, and as the agent of a bank aiming to establish themselves as the go to for all the material comforts of Britain in the newly established republic. She’s attempting to outrun a scandal too. Her first husband was a bigamist and is still alive, unfortunately in South America, and while her marriage to General English was legitimate, her daughter Eliza isn’t.
She becomes the Belle of Bogota, a society hostess, popular with the locals of high society and the British military types. She plans to marry Colonel Campbell but the threat of scandal destroys that, although he remains both Britain’s chief envoy and a loyal friend. Instead she marries William Greenup and together they buy a cacao plantation, with dreams of making their fortune from chocolate.
When William must return to England, Mary runs the plantation with the help of her foreman. But this is unheard of and adds more challenges to her ambitious plan.
At the same time Simòn Bolívar is fighting against the Spanish to liberate and hopefully unite South America. His lover, Manuela Sáenz, is by his side, even traversing the mountains of Peru to be with him in battle. She’s incredibly brave and resourceful, risking scandal and her life to accompany the Liberator as he fights for a new future.
The two women form an alliance and share information in an attempt to prevent Bolívar from being assassinated.
While some parts of the story are fictionalised, GD Harper draws on the letters and diaries from the time and from both women to bring their world, of revolution and struggle, to life.
An absolutely fascinating and enjoyable read.
*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in this blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.
Every now and then we get to share something special with you all and The Peddler is a fantasy anthology which is the very definition!
The Peddler
Release Date: January 2026
Genre: Fantasy Short Stories/ Fantasy Anthology
A traveling peddler enters a tavern on a stormy night.
She takes a seat at a table, opens her sailcloth bag, and removes a number of trinkets, ready to weave tales from her travels to her rapt audience… But where to begin?
…a mermaid seeking to walk on land to avenge a murder.
…a daughter of powerful nobles battling how she was raised and what she believes.
…a lighthouse keeper holding vigil for her long-lost love across the sea.
…a petty thief scamming the rich to help the poor.
…or perhaps something else to keep her audience on the edge of their seats.
This collection of fairytale retellings will introduce you to familiar characters you may no longer recognize. Perfect for fans of shadowy plots, criminals with hearts of gold, star-crossed lovers, and happily-ever-afters, The Peddler is sure to entertain you as much as her captive audience.
We’re celebrating the August release of the audiobook edition of Twisted Bond by Katlyn DeRouen!
Twisted Bond (Twisted Bond Series #1)
Release Date: August 4, 2026
Genre: Portal Fantasy
Narrators: Monica Cannon & Dallin Bradford
Found family
Enemies to lovers
Hidden identities
Royalty
Closed door
Prophecies
Fae
Portal to another world
Enemies to friends to lovers
Good vs. Evil
Three Girls.
Three Lives.
One Bond.
After almost a decade apart, Cammie, Hannah, and Sabina never expected their paths to cross again so suddenly. But when Cammie is plagued by memories of a person she has never met, she has no choice but to reach out to the friends she lost touch with years ago.
A charismatic stranger—by the name of Caelan—claims he holds the answers to her mounting list of questions. Instead, Cammie winds up in a comatose state. With Caelan’s help, Sabina races against time to find the man in Cammie’s memories who holds the key to an unseen world… before her friend is lost within her own mind forever.
Meanwhile, Hannah finds herself fighting for her life after being thrust into the middle of a war between beings rumored to be myth. In the midst of the chaos, one element holds true… fate pulled them back together for a reason. Will the trio uncover the truth they seek? Or run from an answer they fear will shatter their world as they know it?
Trigger warnings in this book include kidnapping, minor descriptions of blood, a few on screen character deaths, and characters you will love/hate to root for.
Jen is confident she has complete control over the things that are trying to control her. Until she isn’t. Until she hasn’t. Until she realises she has never been in control at all. She’s been papering over it for years.
It’s the start of the year 2000. A new millennium has arrived. For Jen and her three friends, university life in Manchester is full of possibility and endless fun. Sassiness, spontaneity, marvellous mayhem and youthful optimism reign in the Manchester rain.
But beneath the sometimes brash bravado sometimes even the most resilient, carefree, fun-loving characters who, on the surface look like they are living their best lives, are perilously close to falling apart. Over the course of one unforgettable year, the young women confront their own realities and truths. Some make foolish mistakes and others life changing choices. Sometimes heartwarming and other times heartbreaking, but always brutally honest.
This is a story of friendship, mistakes, self-discovery and acceptance; identity, love and the messy reality of becoming an adult. It’s about the masks we wear, the mistakes and choices we make, and the courage it takes to stop papering over it and face ourselves when everything feels like it’s falling apart.
It’s real, raw, raunchy, sometimes random and frankly rude at times. Just like Jen and her friends.
Ruth has worked in Marketing for twenty-seven years and has always loved writing and storytelling. Understanding people and their behaviour, creating stories that resonate and developing engaging and enduring narratives have all been key to success in her professional background.
From a personal perspective, Ruth is a Manchester born, bred and based menopausal mum of three boys (twelve, fifteen and twenty seven). She spends most of her weekends trying to manage the family mayhem with her partner Simon and watching their younger boys on the sideline of various sports pitches hunting for a loo (occasionally having to resort to a wild wee), a sausage sandwich and a brew while trying to keep warm in doubled-up big socks (mainly stolen from the males in her house) and multiple layers (having had it drilled into her since childhood that it is the number of layers that count, not the thickness of each layer – the complete opposite of friendships).
A nasty accident on Good (Bad) Friday in 2024 meant she spent several months sat on her arse with one leg having to be perpetually higher than said arse. As an energetic, self-confessed curator of chaos, she needed something to focus on and keep her from going frankly crazy. And keep her family from going crazy too. She found that you can’t do much when you’re in acute pain with one leg in the air (including the jigsaws and ‘paint by numbers’ well-wishers had kindly gifted her). But you can read, reflect, think and you can definitely reminisce and daydream. And you can write. Which is what she did.
Her debut novel, Paper Over It, combines her sometimes over-enthusiastic imagination with insights gained from growing up in the 80s and becoming a young mum in the late 90s, her silent struggle with eating disorders in her earlier years, the power of some relationships and the destructive nature of others, and the joy of family, friendship, loyalty, hope and laughter.
My thoughts: I’m a bit younger than the characters in this book, but I do remember the early 2000s, I was a teenager and the music the girls listen to was the soundtrack to my year back then too.
Jen, Em, Lou and Kate are all at Manchester uni, with their final year (except for Kate who’s on a 4 year course) and their futures all ahead of them.
Over the course of a tumultuous year, they’ll fall in love, figure out their next steps, party hard and deal with heartbreak, unexpected surprises and learn how to be adults.
I really enjoyed the book, I liked the four young women at the heart of the story, their adventures, mistakes, and the bond they share. It was funny, life affirming and enjoyable, a book with real heart.
*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in this blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.
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