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Book Blitz: The Book of Lost Enchantments – Jessica Dodge

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The Book of Lost Enchantments by Jessica Dodge is now available for pre-order. When you do purchase a copy early, you’ll receive all kinds of bookish swag!

The Book of Lost Enchantments

Expected Publication Date: October 8, 2024

Genre: NA Fantasy/ Magic

At twenty-nine, Nora Cameron’s life feels adrift, her days are spent working in her parents’ bakery, and her nights are spent alone watching Hallmark movies. She yearns for something beyond her predictable existence, though she has no idea what that might be. That is, until fate intervenes, and Nora is swept into an unforeseen adventure to Scotland.

Guided by her grandmother’s cherished photo album from the 1940s, which documents her time spent as a medic-nurse in Scotland during World War II, Nora stumbles upon a mysterious old bookstore in Edinburgh. There, amidst the smell of old books and shelves lined with relics of forgotten lore, Nora’s eyes fall upon a peculiar little red book. As she delves into its pages, strange and unexplainable events unfold, including a sudden snowstorm that strands her in the Highlands with a handsome but surly journalist named Alistair.

Snowed in and at odds with one another, Nora and Alistair struggle to get along. With little else to do but tend the fire, Nora immerses herself in the red book’s tale of a young woman from centuries past, on a quest to save her grandmother and resist the pull she feels toward a dashing but aloof son of a Scottish Duke.

As the days pass, stranded in the cabin, Nora discovers a box of letters with an eerie connection to her grandmother’s past, uncovering a family secret buried deep in time. As the weather worsens and their supplies dwindle, bizarre events begin to escalate. With Alistair’s help, Nora starts to unravel the mystery, but what she uncovers not only threatens to fracture her idea of reality but may place her and Alistair in mortal danger.

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Blog Tour: Selfish Desires – Michelle Hall

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We’re celebrating the release of Selfish Desires by Michelle Hall this week! The big day is August 23rd!

Selfish Desires

Publication Date: August 23, 2024

Genre: Contemporary Romance

❤️Second Chance
🧊Morally Gray MMC
❤️Spice in Ch2
🧊Light BDSM
❤️Destroy her to protect her
🧊Groveling
❤️40 Somethings
🧊“Good girl/sl*t/wh*re”
❤️Third act oopsie baby

The love of my life, the person I trusted most, abandoned me in the worst way possible. There was no warning, not a single clue—just pure, devastating abandonment. I was left to pick up the pieces of my shattered heart.

To survive, I fled. I left behind everything and everyone I knew and loved, all in the desperate hope of forgetting him.

But then Vincent came back, and all the healing I thought I had achieved crumbled in an instant. He begged for my forgiveness, claiming he had no choice in what he did. Yet, I knew he always had a choice—and he chose wrong.

He said everything he did was to keep me safe. But safe from what?
Emotions I thought I had buried resurfaced, and while my mind screamed no, my heart whispered otherwise.

How could I give a second chance to the man who ruined me? How could I even consider it?

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Blog Tour: Secrets of the Unborn – C.H. Lyn

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We are thrilled to share thrilled to share The Leader of the Unborn duology with you this week! Both books will be released on September 6th!
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Unborn Rising by Tracey Barski


They were created to end the decades-long war. But what happens when the war is over?
Victoria has only ever been one thing: a warrior. Scientifically designed to be perfect in every way, she was enhanced for optimal precision in war, the model Silver—a leader until the end.
But after the war, Vic and her people, the Unborn, return to a society that’s in shambles, and the last thing the worn-out population wants is more mouths to feed.
As tensions and prejudices mount, the effort to carve out a life for themselves becomes a fight for survival when Vic’s entire village is annihilated and she’s the only one to make it out.
She seeks shelter from an old war buddy, discovering that trust is hard-won among the group of Unborn and Organics she finds—for her and her new community. Especially with the safe haven’s enigmatic leader. Feelings surface despite their mutual suspicion, putting Vic’s staunch adherence to protocol on shaky ground.
When she learns a secret that changes everything about who she is and what is happening to her people, she and her new allies work to find the key to freeing her fellow Unborn before they become victims to their programming.
Corruption is revealed, lives are put in danger, and everything comes down to one question: what does it mean to be human?


War of the Unborn by C.H. Lyn

The war is over.
Decades of strife and ruin brought to a close through the use of Unborn—super soldiers created with more strength and stamina than the average man could fathom.
For Jamie, life after the war is mundane: fight nights in the evenings bloodying her knuckles against the jaws of fellow Unborn, and construction work during the day clearing out ruined sections of a once-great city.
There’s not much to complain about. She has a roof over her head, a sister by her side, and sometimes enough food to fill her belly.
So when Oliver, an old flame and a fellow Unborn, arrives with devastating news about their people, Jamie is reluctant to get involved. This darkness, this plague of horror affecting the engineered soldiers, has nothing to do with her.
Until it does.
Jamie has always known loss, but not like this.
With a shadow looming over her people, and her sister’s life on the line, she joins Oliver on a trek across a crumbling country that neither trusts them as people nor accepts them as citizens.
The clock is ticking, the secret behind the darkness is unfolding, and Jamie’s staunch refusal to care about Oliver again is put to the test.

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Blog Tour: Oceansong – C.W. Rose

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We’re celebrating the upcoming release of Ocean Song this week! Pre-order a copy early a get one on August 27th!

Oceansong

Release Date: August 27, 2024

Genre: Adult Contemporary Romantasy

🧜🏼‍♂️Merfolk Mythology
🌊Ocean-based magic
⚔️Enemies-to-lovers
💘Forbidden & Slow Burn Romance
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦Asian family dynamics
😒🌞Grumpy (female) x sunshine (male)
💞HEAs
🥧Cinnamon roll male LI
🤨Prickly, snarky female MC who’s a softie inside
🏘️Small-town settings (Alaska)

Spice Level: 🌶️🌶️🌶️

OCEANSONG is an Adult Contemporary Romantasy that is an Asian Romeo & Juliet meets The Little Mermaid, set in the grittiness of the real world.

Fish are mysteriously disappearing, starving the people in Angie Song’s Alaskan hometown. Angie, an aspiring marine biologist and dock worker, enthusiastically joins the hunt to find out where the fish are gathering. When her family and the villagers discover that merfolk are responsible, they vow to destroy every last one. In the midst of the conflict, Angie faces off with a merman and fails to pull the trigger.

Inquisitive Mer-Prince Kaden is just as snarky as Angie, but he’s willing to talk and stop the brutal massacring of his people. The two form a cautious alliance to broker peace between the humans and mer before any more of them die.

As tensions clash between the two races fighting to control the sea’s resources, Angie and Kaden’s forbidden relationship ignites. And as she learns about the mer’s mysterious world and the reason why the fish are gone, Angie starts to question who the true monster is, and where her loyalties lie. Taking the wrong side means choosing between family and her job, or the man she’s fallen for and the merfolk she’s come to respect—or losing it all.

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Cover Reveal: Neon is the Colour of Vengeance – Elanor Miller

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Anyone who is a fan of this time period and aesthetic will love the cover for the prequel companion novel in Elanor Miller’s Flappers & False Gods series.

NEON IS THE COLOUR OF VENGEANCE

✨MM Mafia Romance❤️‍🔥
✨Enemies to lovers 🔪
✨Spicy🌶️🥵
✨Tragic💔
✨Reveņge plot🩸
✨Set in a futuristic Gatsby era🍸
✨John Wick/Peaky Blinders vibes🔫

He loved. He lost. He killed.

NEON IS THR COLOUR OF VENGEANCE is a dark MM mafia romance about a hitman who fell in love with the man he was supposed to kill only to have that man murdered by the people he trusted most.

It’s a tale of love, death, grief and vengeance with no happy ending.

By night or neon light, he will have his revenge.

NEON IS THE COLOUR OF VENGEANCE can be read on its own, or as a prequel to the main series as it features new characters

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Book Review: Luna’s Veil – Wes Verde

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Leonard Burton wakes up to find his life in ruins. His wife is dead, and no one believes his story about what killed her – he’s not even sure he believes it himself. Now, in jail for the crime and with no friends, his prospects are bleak. That is, until he is rescued by Dr. Cecil Gainor, an enigmatic investigator and perhaps the only other man who knows what unnatural horrors are really at work.

Unfortunately, more questions arise when Cecil’s partner disappears while chasing the same dark forces responsible for the death of Lenny’s wife. The two men realize they must follow the trail themselves, or many other lives may be at risk.

What follows is a race against time to clear Lenny’s name and find the real killers before the full moon. The death and destruction that has already been suffered is nothing compared to what will occur beneath Luna’s Veil.

My thoughts: This is a mix of crime thriller, investigating kidnappings, murder, secret societies, and eldritch horror – with terrifying creatures woken up and brought into the world.

After Lenny wakes up next to his wife’s body and is arrested for her murder, a strange man comes to break him out of jail and asks him about the changes in Rita’s behaviour before her death.

The pair go looking for another member of Cecil’s organisation, and Lenny hopes for answers. What they uncover is a terrifying conspiracy and monstrous crimes beyond the imagining.

The plot twists and turns, as the two men hunt for Cecil’s missing friend and then for a new acquaintance’s sister – a young girl with unusual abilities. They hook up with a family of bootleggers who give them the weapons they need when they reach the end game – at Lenny’s father-in-law’s island mansion, where the mysterious Taurus Society are summoning their first leviathan.

Creepy and suspenseful, with elements of the Jersey Devil folklore, and references to the infamous Aleistair Crowley (that idiot), it’s a nightmarish world where demonic creatures slumber in the rivers of New Jersey.

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*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review, all opinions remain my own.

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Cover Reveal: Creatures of Chaos – Julie Hall

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We are super excited to present the absolutely gorgeous cover for USA Today bestselling author, Julie Hall’s upcoming release, Creatures of Chaos!

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Creatures of Chaos

Expected Publication Date: October 29, 2024

Genre: YA Urban Fantasy

  • Best Friend to Lovers
  • Forbidden Love
  • Fake Dating
  • Secret dating
  • Not The Chosen One
  • Morally Gray MMC
  • Secretive MMC
  • Deadly Competition
  • Magic-less FMC in a Supernatural World
  • All the Supernatural Creatures

Perfect for fans of forbidden love, high-stakes games, and everything supernatural. Creatures of Chaos is a fast-paced YA urban fantasy series that’s being called The Serpent and the Wings of Night meets Crave.

There’s only one rule in chaos: win or die trying.

Chaos, the vicious supernatural competition where heroes are born and riches are won.

To most, it’s just an urban legend whispered in the darkest shadows, but that all changes when my best friend drags me into a savage world where vampires, shifters, and fae compete for glory and fame.

As a creature without magic, I’d be a fool to enter Chaos, but the prize—a dagger of untold power—could change my powerless existence. With that dagger, I could wield magic, earn respect, and maybe, just maybe, win the heart of the dragon heir… it’s a risk I have to take.

Now, I’m pitted against beasts in a ruthless battle with no powers, no plan, and an infuriatingly attractive ally who’s just as likely to slit my neck as save it. Every round of Chaos leads me closer to seizing my deepest desires or losing everything.

In Chaos, survival is the only rule. And winning is all that matters.

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The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Crave by Tracy Wolff, The Serpent and the Wings of Night by Carissa Broadbent, and Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

The Inheritance Games – Love triangle, difference in class standings, mystery and intrigue

Crave – YA urban fantasy with multiple different supernatural creatures set in an academy environment

The Serpent and the Wings of Night – High stakes games where she is forced to make an alliance with a rival

Fourth Wing – Love triangle aspect and an underdog female main character

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Book Review: Singapore Worlds – Murray Bailey

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Independent of the government, Carter is looking for work and thinks the unsolved death of a police officer. Sergeant Cox appears to have been murdered by a skilled assassin. The police have few clues and fewer suspects, but the suggestion that there may be a boxing connection intrigues him.

In this novella, set between Singapore Girl and Singapore Boxer, Carter confronts fighters in the ring and the streets to solve who killed Sergeant Cox and why.

My thoughts: Ash Carter is freelance but available to the military police, while working with the local force on the case of the murdered policeman. This will see him entangled in a world of gangs and underworld boxing rings. He’s sure that Sergeant Cox was crooked and his death has something to do with the gangs of young men he was supposed to be investigating.

A quick trip to look into the accidental death of a young soldier gets Carter some new acquaintances in the MP, which come in handy when he goes in search of a young gang member who might just hold the answers to both the murdered cop and a murdered gang leader.

I like Carter and the way he likes to work, just outside the lines, so it was nice to return to his story, as he investigates these cases, willing to go to places the police can’t. This story explains how he ends up boxing for a promoter in his next book too.

*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review, all opinions are my own.

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Blog Tour: A Deadly Affair – E.V. Hunter

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A local gossip is about to get her just desserts!

Life at Hopgood Hall is never boring, but Alexi Ellis hopes that there will be no more murders for the time being – she’s solved four already and is getting a reputation in the local area for being bad luck.

So when local gossip Polly Pearson arrives at Hopgood Hall, Alexi knows this can only mean bad news. Polly has made it clear that she dislikes Alexi and has campaigned for her to leave Hopgood Hall forever – so what could Polly want?

Then Polly reveals that her partner, Gerry, has been found murdered in her B&B and that she is the main suspect!

Alexi, her partner Jack, and Cosmo the cat are all left speechless. More so when Polly begs Alexi for help improving her innocence.

But Alexi isn’t sure she wants to help this spiteful gossip. Is she really innocent or as deadly as the police believe her to be?

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E.V. Hunter has written a great many successful regency romances as Wendy Soliman and revenge thrillers as Evie Hunter. She is now redirecting her talents to produce cosy murder mysteries. For the
past twenty years she has lived the life of a nomad, roaming the world on interesting forms of transport, but has now settled back in the UK.

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My thoughts: My cat is very jealous of how much I enjoy this series and Cosmo the crime fighting feline. I was reading this book and Ted was furiously demanding attention – oops!

But it is a great read, Alexi’s nemesis in the village, a woman who has spread malicious gossip about her for a while, now needs her help. Oh, and Jack’s horrible ex-wife is in town too, she’s Polly’s friend and conveniently turns up to support her.

There’s a lot of twists and turns in what the police originally thought was a straightforward murder case. He was found stabbed in Polly’s home, in her bed, with a knife like the set she has in the kitchen. And the B&B guests had heard Gerry and Polly arguing before he was killed.

But as Jack and Alexi (and obviously Cosmo) dig into Gerry’s life and all his secrets (and there are many) there are more suspects than just Polly. The local CID are quite happy for the team to do the legwork while they work on other cases, being a small department. And most people are more or less happy to help, except for a shady livery owner who tries to set his dog on them. As Jack and Alexi get to the bottom of Gerry’s shady dealings, secrets and lies spill out from everywhere.

Another absolutely fiendish and intelligent read from E.V. and a great book for fellow crime fans. Enjoy!

*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: 33 Women – Isabel Ashdown

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When sisters Celine and Pip get a call telling them their reclusive mother has died, the women are reunited at her riverside home in Arundel to pick up the pieces. But someone is missing – their middle sister, Vanessa, brutally murdered years ago and the victim of an unsolved case. As the sisters confront ghosts from the past, the discovery of another body in similar circumstances throws new light on Vanessa’s death. Could there be more to her case than the police first thought? And what do the mysterious residents of Two Cross Farm, the neighbouring women’s commune, have to do with it? What secrets are lurking behind their locked gates? And what is the significance of the number 33?

My thoughts: Two Cross Farm is a rather strange place, they choose to cut themselves off from the rest of the world – which means that rumours about what happens there.

Celine and Pip are sorting out their late mum’s house, or trying to, when a woman’s body is found just down the road. Was she from the farm? Did someone there kill her?

A twisting, intelligent thriller, which slowly reveals the truth behind the gates of the farm, the connection to Celine and Pip’s sister Vanessa, and what happened to the woman whose body was found.

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