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Blog Tour: Hollow Point – Russ Stone

The world is on fire. Only one man can extinguish the flames.

Snakeriver – a shadowy private company that handles missions the U.S. government can’t touch. Former Navy SEAL Travis Delta is Snakeriver’s top gun.
When Mossad and the CIA discover that Russia and Iran may be plotting to seize control of Eastern Europe and the Middle East, Travis is tasked with stopping them – by whatever means necessary.

The intel is chilling: first, Iran will obliterate Israel with Russian nuclear weapons. Then, while the Middle East burns, Russia’s ruthless president will seize Europe and resurrect his empire.

Delta covertly crosses into Iran, extracting critical intelligence with unexpected help from Nickie Chandler—a journalist and former lover.

From the treacherous streets of Tehran to a black site interrogation in Poland, Delta follows the conspiracy all the way to the heart of the Kremlin itself. There he embarks on what seems like a suicide mission – while the fate of the world hangs in the balance.

Hollow Point – book 1 in the stunning action series featuring ex-Navy SEAL, Travis Delta.

Perfect for fans of Lee Child, Jason Kasper & David Archer.

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Russ Stone’s longtime interest in counterintelligence prompted him to create Travis Delta, the protagonist of his international conspiracy series. Each of these fact-based novels explores the
growing threat posed by rogue nations, foreign agents, and terrorists, both foreign and domestic. Reviewers point to Stone’s crisp prose and highly credible plots as the twin engines that drive his stories.

He has published twenty-nine novels, among them police procedurals, satiric comedies, and psychological thrillers. His multifaceted career includes time spent as a university literature teacher, a U.S. military officer, a college vice president, a managing director of a major U.S.
investment bank, and a professional watercolor artist.

A ninth-degree black belt in taekwondo, he has been a martial artist for more than fifty years and is a two-time U.S. national champion.

This is his first action thriller with Inkubator Books.

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My thoughts: Snakeriver operates outside of the law, they do the jobs that the alphabet agencies can’t, but fully aware that everyone will deny knowing anything about the organisation. Travis Delta is their top operative.

When Russia and Iran decide to join forces and enact a rather terrible plan to eradicate Israel and rebuild the Soviet Union by throwing the world into chaos, neither the Israelis nor the Americans can be seen to interfere. But Snakeriver can.

Travis is tasked with putting an end to this plot, by any means necessary.

This means travelling around the globe to put his plans into action. His enemies are everywhere, but he’s an intelligent and ruthless operator.

This was a really cracking geopolitical thriller, while Travis’ methods may not be to everyone’s taste, they certainly get the job done.

*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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Blog Tour: Color of Fire – Gina Giordano

We’re touring the Color of Fire to celebrate the release and to mark the completion of the Strange Eden trilogy!

Color of Fire (Strange Eden Trilogy)

Release Date: Nov 20, 2025

Genre: Gothic/ Historical Fiction

🌴 Dark History
🔥 Feminine Rage
🌴 Fierce FMC
🔥 She Saves Him
🌴 Dark Obsession
🔥 Revenge
🌴 Emotional Wreckage
🔥 Last In Series
🌴 Pirates
🔥 Adventure
🌴 Dual POV
🔥 Enemies to Lovers
🌴 Exotic Setting
🔥 Touch Her & Die
🌴 Hidden Identity
🔥 Secrets Unveiled
🌴 Forced Proximity
🔥 Love Triangle
🌴 Political Corruption
🔥 Slow Burn
🌴 Thick Tension

“And I thought you were my savior in my darkest hour. How very wrong I was.”

1794: Devastated by the violent disappearance of her husband, Charles Sharpe, Eliza struggles to save Pleasant Hall from the hands of crooked creditors and the governor’s greed. In the aftermath of the attack, her husband’s enemies have branded him a traitor and declare him dead.

But an unlikely source carries knowledge that he still lives, and he alone knows who has taken Charles. Eliza’s desperation drives her to form an alliance with the king of the underworld himself: Captain Hiram Bruin, a notorious man who is more pirate than privateer.

Eliza’s death has been ordered by Lord Dunmore, and Bruin himself tasked with the deed. But Hiram Bruin has never been a man to follow orders. He offers her passage on his ship, the Fortuyne, and his personal protection. In her hour of distress, Eliza accepts—for she has no other choice.

Bruin takes Eliza on a wild and dangerous voyage from the island of New Providence to the wild and untamed Saba, and finally to England, where her journey started three years ago.

Eliza endures her new sinister reality, one where death creeps ever closer, and quickly learns that the only monsters at sea are men. Ensnared by the salt air and damning secrets, one thing is startlingly clear: Bruin wants to take everything she holds dear. For the roots of revenge lie deep…

Will Eliza be able to save the life of her husband before it’s too late? What price is she willing to pay for his freedom? And can she escape this unimaginable nightmare, fueled by a man of unspeakable cruelty?

Color of Fire is the dark, thrilling conclusion to Gina Giordano’s sweeping historical epic, the Strange Eden Trilogy.

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Blog Tour: The Ruffler’s Child – John Pilkington

BE YE HUNTER OR PREY?

Introducing Thomas Finbow – falconer to Sir Robert Vicary and Lady Margaret of Petbury, Berkshire. He keeps his mind sharp and his body primed as he goes about his duties with the diligent confidence of one who once served Queen and country.

When Nathaniel Pickering, Lady Margaret’s older brother is found murdered, Thomas takes her away to London, in search of gryfalcons. Lady Margaret being a keen lover of the sport of falconry herself, Thomas hopes it will help distract his mistress from her grief, however once they reach the city it becomes apparent that much bigger things are at play – and the murder of Master Pickering was just the beginning…

Thomas’s astute mind is unable to ignore the clues, and in uncovering some dark secrets, he places himself – and his mistress – in grave danger. Now a target himself, Thomas must face some of London’s most notorious criminals, in a battle of both brain and brawn.

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A writer for over forty years, John Pilkington was born in Lancashire and worked at many jobs. He has also written plays for radio and theatre, television scripts for a BBC soap, a short-lived children’s series and numerous works of historical fiction, concentrating now on the Tudor and Stuart eras. He now lives in a village on a tidal estuary in Devon with his long-term partner Elisabeth; they have a son who is a psychologist and musician. When not at the desk he walks, swims, listens to music and tinkers with d.i.y. projects, and is enjoying being a grandfather.

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My thoughts: Secrets are terrible things, it’s why I don’t have any. They can cause all sorts of trouble. 

In this case, a death or two, Thomas gets beaten up a few times and into fights, his Lady is upset and scared, some dodgy characters try to extort money and someone murders four beautiful gyrfalcons. Which makes Thomas, a falconer, very angry.

Visiting London to assist his master’s wife as she sorts out her murdered brother’s affairs, or tries to, and buy some hunting birds for his master, he’s soon drawn into a web of secrets and violence. Lady Margaret’s secrets have long worried her, and now they’re rearing their ugly heads again. The wrong sort of people know, or think they know, and want paying off to stay silent, but she can’t do that without bringing her husband into things and he has no idea.

So Thomas attempts to help her, but he’s not a detective or a constable, he has no authority and despite having been a soldier, he’s no fan of a fight. He just wants to do his job as a falconer and care for his daughter. However, he’s clever and determined and after the birds are killed, angry. He wants to understand why someone would do that, and who, so they can be stopped. In the alleyways and dank pubs of London are the answers but it won’t be easy to find them.

Clever, and well researched, this brings the old London, before fire and war demolished its grottier bits and rebuilding finished them off, when bear pits and theatres rubbed alongside each other and dark deeds were done quite easily without electric lights showing them and bodies slid quickly into the river. Looking forward to reading more.

*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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Blog Tour: Daughters of Nicnevin – Shona Kinsella

Mairead and Constance, two powerful witches, meet in the early days of the 1745 Jacobite uprising. While the men of the vilage are away fighting, the vilagers face threats from both the Black Watch and raiders, and the women are confronted with their vulnerability. They enlist the help of Nicnevin, fae queen of witches, to bring men made of earth to life to help protect their vilage. But just who do they need protection from? And what will happen when the vilage men return?

Shona Kinsela is a British Fantasy Award nominated author who lives and works in Scotland. Her works include the Vessel of KalaDene trilogy, industrial fantasy novela, The Flame and the Flood, and dark Scottish fantasy novela Petra MacDonald and the Queen of the Fae. She is the Chair of the British Fantasy Society.

My thoughts: Mairead is drawn to the village of Kilmartin by the power of Constance, an unhappy woman, and another witch but far more powerful. The men have gone off to join the Jacobite army, leaving their homes and families unprotected, the harvest not gathered in.

Constance finds herself leading the villagers in her husband’s stead, and needs a solution to the lack of safety and the workload. With Mairead she summons the fae queen of witches – Nicnevin, and they create men of the earth, who they call Albans, to aid them. 

But this great use of magic is bound to their lives and those of the village, and should they misuse it, Nicnevin will take her revenge. As danger grows closer and the rebellion fails, will the two women distort the magic between them and use it for ill? 

Clever, intriguing and with two interesting protagonists in Mairead and Constance, not to mention the mysterious Nicnevin, this historical fantasy weaves a spell all of its own.

*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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Blog Tour: Burning State – Rob Sinclair

Can one man stop a nation from going up in flames?

James Ryker, former intelligence agent, is thrust into a high-stakes conspiracy that will test his limits, and his loyalty, to the max. Sent to Atlanta, Georgia, his mission to find a missing governor’s daughter quickly spirals into a deadly pursuit of ex-special ops agent Caleb Marshall. A man presumed dead, but very much alive, and with a terrifying thirst for vengeance.

As Ryker navigates a treacherous landscape of radical right-wing factions, underground networks, and devastating terror attacks, he uncovers a plot of unimaginable scale. Marshall’s meticulous plan to plunge the USA into chaos is playing out before his eyes, and with just a handful of allies, Ryker finds himself in a desperate race against time to stop the world’s leading power combusting from within.

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Rob Sinclair is the million copy bestseller of over twenty thrillers, including the James Ryker series. Rob previously studied Biochemistry at Nottingham University. He also worked for a global accounting firm for 13 years, specialising in global fraud investigations.

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My thoughts: James Ryker always sails close to the wind and none of his adventures are entirely sanctioned by anyone, so when he’s sent to the States ostensibly to find a governor’s missing daughter, who might have got involved with white supremacist terrorists, it’s not entirely surprising no one wants to help when he uncovers a huge and quite deadly scheme. 

Caleb Marshall is a man on a mission, feeling betrayed and abandoned by his country, he’s planning a terrible revenge. And he doesn’t care who gets hurt along the way. There’s people on his list he needs to kill and then he can put his final plan into place, and if a home grown terror group can be of use to him for a while, then that’s fine too. He genuinely doesn’t care about their aims or beliefs, but until they stop being useful, he can pretend.

When Ryker realises Marshall has plans of his own, that go far beyond the small terror cell, he needs help, but apart from a journalist and her ex-sister-in-law, GBI agent Cindy, he’s on his own, and not exactly thrilled about it. Could this be beyond his special skills?

Gripping, thrilling stuff, and if you’re a Reacher fan, then you should be a Ryker fan too.

*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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Blog Tour: Buried Beneath the Light – Carliann Jean

Welcome to the tour for the second book in The Soul Bound Realms series, Buried Beneath the Light by Carliann Jean!

Buried Beneath the Light (The Soul Bound Realms Book 2)

Release Date: January 2025

Genre: Dark Romantasy

  • Trauma and mental health rep
  • Healers w/ magic
  • Corruption
  • Forced proximity & spice
  • Found family
  • Dystopian & magical realms
  • Fierce feminine power

We’re all just monsters wearing different skins.

Devastated by the monstrous attacks in Rioa, Eira, Nyx, and their soul-bonded friends scramble to heal the newly traumatized souls and discover the source of the attacks. The plague of darkness has unleashed new horrors on Majikaero, and the only way the shattered group of souls will find the answers they seek is if they can shine light on their darkest secrets and remove the masks they hide behind.

Meanwhile, on Earth, the last of Eira’s dearest friends fight for their lives as they navigate a post-apocalyptic nightmare. The remaining people of Earth have sheltered underground and formed new societies—some more corrupt and evil than others. After two years of horrific abuse in an underground cult, Astira and Liv escape and reunite with Jace. But the years of trauma have altered the very essence of these friends, and not all is as it seems in their new underground haven. Plagued by strange dreams and skeptical of the leadership in their city, Astira and Liv struggle to begin their healing journeys.

Buried Beneath the Light is book two in the Soul Bound Realms series, a thrilling fantasy romance that begs the question: how much healing can one soul sacrifice before they’re buried beneath the light?

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Blog Tour: The Feeding – Melissa Groeling

Not everyone likes to read cozy holiday tales this time of year. If you enjoy scary reads all year round The Feeding is for you!

The Feeding

Release Date: November 6, 2025

Genre: Horror

  • End-of-the-world
  • Enemies to something…else
  • Bloody and bits of gore
  • Humanity’s fate in hands of characters

It’s time to eat…

After spending eight years in prison as an accessory to murder, Joe Gott was counting the days until the end of his parole so he could get away from this lousy town and everyone in it.

As if it would be that easy.

The mistakes he made left their mark, penetrating the barrier between this world and the next. Now life has reached its end, the world overrun with shrieking, bloodthirsty nightmares, each one more terrifying than the next.

Embittered, riddled with scars both inside and out, Joe falls in with a small band of survivors struggling to stay off the menu of hell run amok. The months turn into years and he is certain that this is the end of humankind.

Until he meets Bennett.

Joe knows exactly what Bennett is (not a he but definitely an it) and wants nothing more than to put a bullet right between its eyes. But Bennett seems to be the only thing willing to help keep the earth and Joe from going completely extinct. Bennett also has answers. Answers that have eluded Joe for most of his life, since before his incarceration.

Can Bennett be trusted? What is the connection between Bennett and Joe and why is the fate of humanity resting on it?

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Blog Tour: Don’t Forget the Crazy – Lucy Kaufman

Her lists are life or death.
“If it’s on the list, I have to do it.”

Milli Morgan lives by her lists. Groceries, goals, organising her boss – nothing escapes being ticked off her ever-growing to-do lists. Order brings her comfort; control keeps the chaos at bay. Everyone can rely on Milli. 

Until the day new items start appearing on her list in red ink.

At first, she blames stress. A prank. Someone playing mind-games. But one instruction on the list refuses to be erased and demands to be completed.

A command so terrible she would have to be crazy to tick it off.

Don’t Forget the Crazy is a dark psychological suspense short story about obsession, perfection, and the dangerous pressure of always being “the good girl.” Fans of Gillian Flynn, Lisa Jewell, Patricia Highsmith, and Shirley Jackson will devour this chilling portrait of order unravelling into darkness. 

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Lucy Kaufman is an award-winning author, playwright, audio dramatist and poet. 40 of her plays have been performed professionally around the UK and Australia, to critical acclaim. She has lectured in Playwriting and Screenwriting for Pen to Print and Canterbury Christ Church University and is a mentor at The Writing Coach. Originally from London, she now lives by the sea with her husband, sons, dogs and cats. 

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My thoughts: This short story depicts a descent into madness and mayhem for a tightly wound writer of lists. I like lists too, but not as much as Milli, who has so many, they’ve taken over her life. Daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, she’s completely reliant on them to get things done and now they want her to do something terrible.

The work Christmas Secret Santa is always riddled with risk – what if you don’t like your Santee, what if you get it totally wrong? But when someone gets Milli a “Crazy Cat Lady Starter Kit”, she starts to spiral. She doesn’t even have a cat.

And after that…well… you’ll have to read it to find out!

*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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Blog Tour: Atlantis Rising – Amy Cip

The lost city of Atlantis was cursed to the sky, and it falls upon one girl, with the help of an Atlantian refugee and a ragtag band of space pirates, to return the magical city to the ground.

Welcome to the tour for Atlantis by Amy Cip!

Atlantis Rising

Release Date: May 6, 2025

Genre: Sci-Fi Fantasy

The lost city of Atlantis was cursed to the sky, and it falls upon one girl, with the help of an Atlantian refugee and a ragtag band of space pirates, to return the magical city to the ground.

When an accident on the mainland leaves her parents dead and her sister in long term care, Ember Weathers is forced to drop out of school to run her parents’ bookstore in Devil’s Fork, Maine. Her only excitement is her pet dragon, who no one else can see. At least not until an attractive stranger named Shepherd walks in seeking her mother’s art. Before she can get any answers from him, hellhounds chase them to the relative safety of a woman named Maryse, who turns out to be no friend at all, but another seeker of Atlantis who will do anything to see the island returned.

They’re rescued by a band of space pirates led by Captain Hawkins who are ancestors of Atlantis that seek and protect survivors from the curse of the Atlantian King’s brother. Ember has a choice to stay with this band of survivors or pursue the return of Atlantis. In her quest, she’ll be forced to seek out Maryse, who holds her sister hostage, as well as discover the secrets of Shepherd’s past, including the dark magic allowing him to live hundreds of years. In the end, it’s Ember who must go alone if she’s to free her sister and return the island of magic and love to the world.

Fans of Holly Black, Rebecca Ross, Sarah J. Maas, Lauren Roberts, Kiera Cass, Tracy Wolff, and Jennifer L. Armentrout will enjoy Amy Cip.

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Blog Tour: Blackwater – Sarah Sultoon

London, Christmas 1999. The world is on edge. With the new millennium just days away, fears of the Millennium Bug are spiralling– warnings of computer failures, market crashes, even global catastrophe.

But fifty miles east, on the frozen Blackwater Island, a different kind of mystery unfolds. A child’s body is discovered on the bracken, untouched by footprints, with no sign of how he died. And no one has come forward to claim him. At the International Tribune, reporter Jonny Murphy senses something is off. Police are appealing for relatives, not suspects. An anonymous call led officers to the scene, but no one knows who made it.

While the world fixates on a digital apocalypse, Jonny sees the real disaster unfolding closer to home. With just twenty-hour hours before the century turns, he heads to Blackwater– driven by curiosity, desperation, and the sting of rejection from his colleague Paloma. But Blackwater has secrets buried deep in the frozen ground. More victims– some dead, others still paying for past sins. And when Paloma catches up to him, they stumble onto something far bigger than either of them imagined. Something that could change everything.

The millennium is coming. The clock is ticking.

Can Jonny stop it? Should he?

And what if Y2K wasn’t a hoax, but a warning…?

Sarah Sultoon is an award-winning journalist and writer, whose work as an international news executive with CNN and for Channel 4 News has taken her all over the world, from the seats of power in both Westminster and Washington to the frontlines of Iraq and Afghanistan. Her debut thriller, The Source, was a Capital Crime Book Club pick, won the Crime Fiction Lover Best Debut Award, was nominated for the CWA’s New Blood Dagger, was a number one bestseller on Kindle and is currently in production with Lime Pictures. It was followed by the critically acclaimed The Shot, Dirt and Death Flight.

My thoughts: a new book by Sarah Sultoon is pretty much a guaranteed stay-up-all-night-totally-gripped read. And so this one is.

Set in 1999, when I was 13, the eve of the Millennium, when Y2K was a paranoid fear, when computers weren’t as prevalent as they are today but still heavily relied on, people genuinely thought aeroplanes might fall out of the sky. But everyone was also geared up for a massive party with fireworks and the Millennium Dome (now the O2 Arena) was a huge tourist draw.

However, in a quiet Essex backwater, on an island designated a Special Scientific area of Study and therefore off limits, things are happening of a different nature. A young boy’s body is found on the island, he’s dressed in strange clothes and seems to have come from nowhere. No one is that bothered, and the only police officer in the area can’t do much.

Reporter Johnny has been sent to find out more, his editor desperate for something other than the Millennium to fill the pages of the newspaper. Finding the tiny village with its pub and not much else is one thing, getting anyone to talk about the island is another.

But out there in the marshes is a story bigger than anything Johnny has covered before, if he survives long enough to file it. 

Intelligent, engaging and utterly brilliant, this is a book that will not only keep you up all night but leave you gasping and utterly hooked. Clear your calendar. 

*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in this blog tour, but all opinions remain my own