Welcome to the ARC tour for Grave Prophecies by Cassandra Aston! Read on for more details!
Grave Prophecies (Prophecies of Angels and Demons #2)
Expected Publication Date: February 24, 2024
Genre: Dark Urban Fantasy
What if everything you knew was a lie?
It’s been a busy summer. Things are heating up in Allie’s relationship with Simon and college is just on the horizon, but when school starts, so do all her problems.
Just when she’s ready to set off for college, a man from her past returns to stir up trouble, then students on campus start turning up dead. Worst of all, Simon’s been keeping late hours at work. Is it trouble in paradise, or can he be trusted?
The more Allie learns about her past, the more secrets there are to unravel.
After uncovering a prophecy foretelling the end of life as she knows it, she’ll need to rely on the help of a few unlikely allies to solve a mystery that may lead to the ultimate sacrifice.
If that weren’t enough, Gabriel has found himself in hot water, but friends willing to come to his aid are in short supply. Perhaps keeping everyone at arm’s length for eternity wasn’t the best plan after all.
Grave Prophecies is a dark urban fantasy story, recommended for 18+ due to mature content.
Cassandra Aston is the award-winning author of The Prophecies of Angels and Demons series, an electrifying paranormal fantasy romance bursting with dark magic, shocking secrets, and gut-wrenching twists.
Cassandra grew up near Austin, TX on a ranch just outside the city. She holds a BA in Communications and an MS in Psychology, from USC. She currently lives in Houston, TX with her family of four.
Connect with Cassandra through her website or on social media.
Synopsis (from Amazon):George and Murphy are two brothers who share everything-toys, secrets, and especially the love for their sweet grandmother. But one day, she goes to Heaven, and the brothers miss her alot.Then, something amazing happens. Bright red birds start showing up wherever they go. These aren’t just any birds; they seem special. Following these birds, George and Murphy go on a big adventure. Along the way, they learn that these birds have messages from their grandmother!The story of When the Red Bird Flies is like a big, warm hug. It tells us that even when someonewe love goes away, they’re still with us in different ways. Sometimes, they might send signs to let us know they’re watching over us. All we have to do is pay attention and believe. So, join George and Murphy as they learn about love, memories, and the magical ways the world tells us that we’re never truly alone. With every chirp and flutter of the red bird’s wings,they find a little more happiness and remember all the fun times they had with their grandmother.
Excerpt On a cold night in November, a loving grandmother had gained her heavenly wings — this left all her family in tears but especially George. George said “How will we go on without her? I will miss her so terribly much, Mommy.” His parents told him that he would never be alone, that his grandmother may have left but she is still here — right here. “You can feel her, but you can’t see her. If we believe enough and ask her to send us signs to let us know she is watching over us, she will do just that — always look for the signs when you need them most.” Shortly after his grandmother’s passing, George celebrated his seventh birthday. His parents tucked him into bed on the evening of his birthday. As his mom closed his door, she whispered: “Close your eyes and make a wish.” So, he did — he wished for his grandmother to send him a sign to let him know she is still with him.
Courtney Reames Haydell, born to Bonnie Carville Reames and Michael Wilks Reames, is theyoungest among six siblings. Hailing from a small town in Louisiana, she’s an author deeplyrooted in familial ties and the wonder of nature. Drawing inspiration from her own experiences and surroundings, her stories often touch upon themes of love, loss, and healing. Courtneycurrently resides in Texas, where she finds joy in the company ofher husband and two sons.Through her writing, she hopes to touch young hearts, helping them navigate through life’sprofound moments.
Hi, I am Courtney Reames Haydell, author of When the Red Bird Flies. I wrote my book through personalexperience. I lost my beautiful parents, my two boys’ grandparents, within four years. This took a hugehit on myself as a new mother and on my two sons as we are learning to navigate life without them.When the Red Bird Fliestakes place anywhere there is the grieving heart of a child missing someone theylove. I take great joy in being able to help other parents help their children cope with great loss.This is my first book. It has had many vulnerable moments, to say the least. It’s like putting your personal diary out into the world for everyone to read and judge. It can also be very liberating as well.The smiles and hugs from friends and strangers make me happy and so fulfilled when they tell you howmuch yourstory has helped them, their children, and their grandchildren, and they cannot recommendyour book enough to all they know.A little behind the scenes ofWhen the Red Bird Flies: My son, Maxwell (11 years old) wrote thejournaling questions in the back of the book. He wanted other kids to be able to write their feelings, and by doing so, it would help them stay close to the person or people they are missing. This was a proudmoment for me as a mother and for Maxwell. Getting to see how much his questions are helping other kids has brought him tremendous joy.This book really is a big warm hug. I am just so proud of it.When the Red Bird Flies has brought my family many smiles and loads of comfort.
Welcome to the tour for Shaken but Not Stirred, a new cozy mystery by Lana McAra. Read on for more details!
The Englewood Medium: Shaken But Not Stirred
Publication Date: January 10, 2024
Genre: Paranormal Cozy Mystery
When Haley Meyers opens a new chapter in her life with a move to the charming town of Englewood, Pennsylvania, everything seems perfect: her freshly remodelled apartment, easy access to her therapy practice, and a handsome downstairs neighbour to boot. The very last thing she expects as a housewarming gift is the sudden appearance of her long-deceased father.
Her idyllic image of the small town disappears when Haley finds herself the target of an unknown stalker who goes on a campaign of terror and destruction. She puts her newfound psychic talents to good use, but will she be able to discover who is after her before someone gets hurt? When her client is the victim of foul play, Haley can’t help but wonder: Will she be next?
Lana McAra is an award-winning, international best-selling author and ghostwriter of 44 titles through traditional publishing with a million books sold, many under the name Rosey Dow. She has been teaching how to write fiction for 20 years. She currently serves as the president of the Northeast Florida Chapter of Sisters in Crime and is the host of The Fiction Writer’s Podcast.
Writing under the name Rosey Dow, she won The Christy Award, The Book Excellence Award and The Literary Titan Silver Book Award for her historical novel Reaping the Whirlwind by Rosey Dow and her mystery series, Colorado, sold more than 250,000 copies. This year she released the paranormal cozy mystery, Shaken But Not Stirred by Lana McAra.
Welcome to the book tour for Sarah Emmer’s time travel fantasy, Dissonance. Read on for more details!
Dissonance (The Timekeepers of Laeviin Book 2)
Publication Date: December 2023
Genre: Romantic Fantasy/ Time Travel
End the Dissonance. Restart the Timeline.
Nirel and Jase escape, but arrive in the past injured and far from their destination. A new mission emerges: rescue the prince from the assassination that began the war.
However, the Goddess of Time is silent, leaving them without guidance when they need it the most.
In the present, Corvin fears the worst when he cannot locate Nirel, not even with the assistance of forbidden magic. This new power urges him to take innocent lives, and his spiral threatens destruction for the entire kingdom.
If those in the past can’t save the present, the future will cease to exist at all.
Sarah is a romantic fantasy and contemporary romance author and audiobook narrator. She loves to weave reality within imagined worlds and explore the depths of human emotion in her characters. Sarah has two very special sons that inspire her stories every day.
Welcome to the book tour for Maren Jenner’s Sweet Nothing’s romance, The Cupcake Standard!
The Cupcake Standard (Sweet Nothings Series #1)
Publication Date: August 15, 2023
Genre: Romance/ NA Billionaire Romance/ Fake Dating
Avery doesn’ t believe in true love, so fake dating the man of her dreams should be a piece of cake.
Avery Milbourne will do anything to get out of dinner with her famous, overbearing mother. Even kiss a stranger. It doesn’ t hurt that he’ s tall, dark, handsome, and wearing a very grabbable tie.
Gearing up to finish college, along with everything else happening in her life, Avery has no time for a relationship. But when the stranger turns out to be wealthy billionaire Derek Elgin, she thinks twice. Accepting Derek’ s offer to enter into a fake relationship and move in with him seems to solve all her problems. She doesn’ t expect to fall for him, but within Derek’ s quiet steadiness, Avery finds a retreat she is loath to give up.
But true love is a myth, and Avery’ s relationship with Derek isn’ t real, so where does that leave her?
Maren Jenner lives in Michigan with her supportive husband and spunky daughter. She loves writing, and, when she’s not working on her next book, she’s got her nose in a different one. Her summers are spent on any lake she can visit, but the beaches of Lake Michigan are her favorite.
The Cupcake Standard is her debut novel, though she’s been writing for as long as she can remember. It’s always been a dream to become a full-time author. Her dreams wouldn’t be possible without the love and support of her family and friends.
Welcome to the book tour for Of the Stars by A.M. Alcedo. Read on for more details!
Of the Stars
Publication Date: September 2023
Genre: Dark Urban Fantasy
You must choose: forsake your darkness or fight for it?
Norah Kestrel, a burned out mental health therapist in her late twenties, finds solace in helping others at Corvid’s Hospital while locking away her own haunting wounds within the spare room of her Gothic home.
Magical happenstance introduces her to her newest friend and colleague, Dexteras Doe, an elderly man with amnesia and a fading sense of existence. Their captivating connection sparks an insatiable curiosity for their untold pasts.
Drawn into an underground fight club promising long-sought answers for spilled blood, Norah and Dex unravel the mysteries of their identities and the enigmatic beings lurking beneath the club’s crimson neon. But as they confront their forgotten traumas, a chilling question arises: is their bond destined by the alignment of much darker stars?
Embark on a modern, fantastical journey that showcases the found-families who teach us to fall in love with healing ourselves, and the found-families best left unfounded. Experience a psychological narrative that cares for its readers and empathizes with the tired and self-aware who go to therapy on behalf of the generations before them who did not. New and established adult audiences will find confidants in neurodiverse and disabled characters and a father-daughteresque duo learning to craft their identities from scratch while overcoming complex intergenerational curses, grief, and loneliness.
A.M. Alcedo is a MSW, CSW, and licensed therapist with specialty training in trauma recovery. She adores the mental health field and the sacred space she’s permitted to hold for her clients. Her debut Of the Stars orbits vulnerable characters and a raw hope that A.M. Alcedo very much needed when she was young, and is written as a love letter in solidarity for those who have survived loss and isolation. It’s to remind them that they are not alone, they are not forgotten, and that they and their voices matter.
Ava Mae is a wife to the kindest man in the galaxy and a mother to Pancake the calico and countless house plants. She is a lover of Puh’erh tea, anything matcha flavored, birdwatching with binoculars, illustrating, hiking to waterfalls, and getting new tattoos. Above all else, she feels her Purpose is to hold space for the sacred stuff of others.
We’re celebrating the release of Secrets and Shadows this week and you are going to want to read it! Think Rear Window but with ghosts!
Secrets and Shadows
Publication Date: January 10, 2024
Genre: Paranormal Thriller
Everything she thought she knew was wrong
The cabin in the woods has been in her family for generations.
Her mother’s death has dropped ownership into her lap.
What she doesn’t know, when she moves in, is the space she hopes will bring her relaxation and a chance to write her next bestseller, holds family secrets she’s not quite ready to know.
But secrets always have a way of coming out.
And what’s lurking in the shadows will stop at nothing to make sure she stays long enough to find out.
A.L. Lynn is a paranormal thriller author releasing her debut Secrets and Shadows in January 2024. She lives in Pennsylvania with her boyfriend and her one-year-old German Shorthaired Pointer, Hoss. Her favorite genres to read are thriller, fantasy, and dark romance. When she’s not reading or writing she’s daydreaming about being a stay at home dog mom who gets to write thriller novels full time.
You can follow her on instagram and tiktok: @allynnbooks
Welcome to the tour for To Kiss the Sea by C.H. Carter. Read on for more details!
To Kiss the Sea
Publication Date: October 31, 2023
Genre: Sapphic Fantasy/ Fairy Tale Fantasy
🌊 Fairytale retelling
🌊 Mermaids, pirates, and spies – Oh my!
🌊 Force proximity
🌊 Enemies-to-friends
🌊 LGBTQ/Queer normative society
🌊 Found family
🌊 Mental health rep
🌊 Multi-POV
In the Birde Isles there’s a saying: You cannot take what the sea is not willing to give.
Ally Kingfisher never gave it much thought until she experienced the sea’s wrath firsthand. But after a near-drowning leaves her with a deeply ingrained fear of the water, Ally still finds herself inexplicably drawn to its depths. As if something is calling to her from beneath the waves, and it only grows louder each year.
Pasha is being punished for something she didn’t do, sentenced to a life of solitude until her kin return. But mermaids aren’t meant to live alone. Desperate for companionship, Pasha makes a deal that goes spectacularly awry, affecting the lives of everyone on the Isles for years to come.
When a pirate captain kidnaps Ally’s mother and demands Ally deliver the ransom personally, she is forced to leave land for the first time. Turning to Pasha, the one creature whose help she doesn’t want but whose power over the water she needs, Ally strikes a new bargain to get her to her mother. But she’ll have to confront more than her fears along the way…
Because even those in favor are still at the mercy of the sea.
We’re celebrating the release of Katie Richard’s latest romance, More than Our Fake Vows! Read on for more details and visit one of our Bookstagram hosts for a chance to win a book box!
More than Our Fake Vows
Publication Date: December 12, 2023
Genre: Contemporary Romance
🎵Marriage of Convenience
🎵Friends to Lovers
🎵Slow Burn
🎵Small Town
🎵Spicy
🎵Country Music Star
After catching her fiancé cheating, Natalie leaves the city she’s grown to love. Starting over in Hickory Valley, Georgia, a one-redlight town that makes for the perfect escape, or so she thought. Natalie makes quick friends with a local bartender and they both decide to make a pact- no men for a year. Natalie doubles down on her career until a handsome stranger strolls into the bar and threatens her resolve.
Teagan’s gold-digging ex is threatening to ruin him, his band and anything else she can get her greedy hands on. Hickory Valley looks like just the place to hide out while the press calms down. Nobody would think to look for him in this dust covered farm town.
With a cruel twist of fate, Natalie finds herself needing a husband, and fast! A fake marriage could fix both of their problems and what did they have to lose? Neither Teagan nor Natalie wants an actual relationship, it only has to look real to everyone else.
A string of events, tests their friendship and when emotions run high are they able to keep their feelings at bay? Or will they fall victim to the other’s charm and throw caution to the wind?
Katie is an Indie Author who lives in Vermont with her husband and their children. When she’s not busy working, writing, or spending time with loved ones, she enjoys getting lost in a good book. Katie loves all types of gardening but especially enjoys flowers. When she’s not hard at work writing the next novel in the Destiny Of Graystone series or the standalone romantic suspense novels, she likes creating things in Canva or Procreate!
Welcome to the ARC tour for Pacific State by Grant Price. Read on for more details!
Pacific State (Sundown Book 2)
Expected Publication Date: December 21, 2023
Genre: Cyberpunk/ Sci-Fi
“A rip-roaring cyberpunk novel… it’s definitely science fiction, but it’s frighteningly plausible.” –The San Francisco Book Review
On the streets of Berlin all morals can be bought for a price, and Owen Resler sold his long ago. Once an underground dissenter, now a corporate drone, he spends his days reluctantly manipulating data for Big Pharma.
Across town, notorious gun-for-hire Mia Warsaw is putting together a team to assassinate one of the city’s more unscrupulous business moguls and she needs someone to handle the ones and zeroes.
When Warsaw crosses paths with an increasingly desperate Resler, she hands the former radical an ultimatum: he can either succumb to death by a thousand bureaucratic paper cuts or take a chance with her.
Of course, there’s no guarantee he’ll survive that, either…
Grant Price is the author of three climate fiction novels set in the near future: By the Feet of Men (Cosmic Egg, 2019; submitted for consideration to the Arthur C. Clarke Award); Reality Testing (Black Rose, 2022; Kirkus Top 100 Novels 2021); Pacific State (Black Rose, forthcoming 2023). He lives in Berlin, Germany.
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