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Tuesday, May 28, 2019

THE DEATH IN THE DRINK by Shéa MacLeod

Author: Shéa MacLeod

Narrator: Yvette Keller

Length: 4 hours 9 minutes

Series: The Viola Roberts Cozy Mysteries, Book 7

Publisher: Shéa MacLeod

Release date: Aug. 23, 2018

Genre: Cozy Mystery


A local costuming guild has arrived in Astoria for a long weekend of recreating their favorite time period - the Regency. Think Jane Austen, sailing ships, high tea, a costume ball, and...a dead body.

When the guild’s nastiest member winds up dead in the drink, Viola is convinced it’s no accident. And after the husband of the deceased gets into a brawl on the front lawn of the town’s most well-known landmark, she knows something’s up. Armed with nothing more than a folding fan and her wits, she sets out to unveil the killer before somebody else winds up in Davy Jones’ locker.

Viola Roberts cozy mysteries:
  1. The Corpse in the Cabana
  2. The Stiff in the Study
  3. The Poison in the Pudding
  4. The Body in the Bathtub
  5. The Venom in the Valentine
  6. The Remains in the Rectory
  7. The Death in the Drink


Shéa MacLeod writes urban fantasy post-apocalyptic sci-fi paranormal romances with a twist of steampunk. Mostly because she can’t make up her mind which genre she likes best so she decided to write them all.

After six years living in an Edwardian town house in London just a stone’s throw from the local cemetery, Shéa headed back to her hometown of Portland, Oregon. She plans to live out her days eating mushroom pizza, drinking too many caramel lattes, exploring exotic locales, and avoiding spiders.

Shéa is the author of the Viola Roberts Cozy Mysteries and the bestselling Lady Rample Mysteries.
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Narrator Bio


Yvette Keller’s first job as a narrator was reading aloud to keep her little brother out of trouble. Her favorite party trick is reading words upside down. Little kids need to see the pictures. Yvette lives in her beloved home town of Santa Barbara, using a lifetime of vocal stamina in her home studio. She produces technical VO industrials for Mesa Steps Consulting clients in addition to audiobooks. A lifetime of reading and speaking has proven one thing: Yvette loves stories. She is thrilled to be making books accessible and engaging through her narration work.
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Top 10 List
Viola Roberts' Top 10 Ways To Catch a Killer

  1. Social media stalking
  2. Identify their lawn clippings
  3. Invite them to a seance
  4. Pretend to buy real estate
  5. Tackle from moving car
  6. Hit them with a kayak oar
  7. Jump out a window
  8. Check their closets
  9. Cosmetics, cosmetics, cosmetics
  10. Slow speed car chase
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The Hollow Queen by Sherry D. Ficklin


The Hollow Queen
Sherry D. Ficklin
(Stolen Empire, #5)
Published by: Clean Teen Publishing
Publication date: September 23rd 2019
Genres: Historical, Young Adult
As a princess of the Romanov Empire, Elizabeth has enjoyed a life of luxury and privilege. But the sudden deaths of her parents leaves her unprotected – awash in the dangerous tide of her family’s political rivals. When the supreme council crowns her half-nephew Peter II in her place, Elizabeth is left with no title, no power—and no allies. Now little more than a bastard in the eyes of the world, she is sent to serve in the palatial home of Prince Menshikov—the real power behind the boy king.
But Elizabeth won’t fade quietly into the background.
Determined to uncover the truth behind her mother’s murder and expose the men who mean to rule Russia in secret, she grows closer to the handsome young king, and swears to protect him and his rule at any cost. But the forces that oppose them are as dark as they are far-reaching–and this time, Elizabeth could lose more than just her title…


Author Bio:
Sherry is the author of over a dozen novels for teens and young adults including the best selling Stolen Empire series. She can often be found browsing her local bookstore with a large white hot chocolate in one hand and a towering stack of books in the other. That is, unless she's on deadline at which time she, like the Loch Ness monster, is only seen in blurry photographs.

Sherry also writes contemporary romance under the pen name SJ Noble. You can find her at her official website, www.sherryficklin.com, or stalk her on her Facebook page www.facebook.com/sherry.ficklin.

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Captivate by CA Harms

Title: Captivate
Series: Brooklet Dreams #2
Author: C.A. Harms
Genre: NA Contemporary Romance
Release Date: May 28, 2019
Publisher: Limitless Publishing


I was back in Brooklet Georgia and things were far from how they were when I left years ago.

Maddison used to be one of the guys, but that was definitely not the case anymore... 

She had changed and damn if it didn’t make my heart race. With each passing second she began to consume me. Her smile made my knees weak and the way she looked at me took my breath away. 

She captivated me, but she was forbidden. She was the one girl I had no right to crave.

Things became messy, and fast, but to hell with the consequences...she was worth it.















C.A. Harms is like any other addicted reader. She enjoys happy endings and HEA love stories. She hasn't always been a lover of Romance and had once been addicted to a good Mystery. Just recently she has taken on a new liking and now is a full blown Romance novel addict.

She lives in Illinois and enjoys spending time with her husband and two children. You will always find her with her kindle or paperback in hand as it is her favorite pass time.




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Trudy Hicks Ghost Hunter Case Two-The Kept by Lori Zaremba


Trudy Hicks Ghost Hunter
Case Two-The Kept
Lori Zaremba

Genre: Paranormal Mystery

Publisher: Limitless Publishing

Date of Publication: 5/28/2019

ISBN-13: 978-1-64034-596-6 
ISBN-10: 1-64034-596-5
ASIN: B07RWMGKR2

 Number of pages:248
Word Count: 7850

 Tagline: Secrets of the past are about to turn deadly.

Book Description

If anyone tells you hunting ghosts is less dangerous than chasing down real-life criminals, they’re wrong. Very, very wrong.

Case two takes us to a New Jersey Shore Inn. A beautiful, yet dead opera singer seems to be begging for help, but her pleas do nothing but terrorize the locals.

While trying to decipher the clues to her 1919 disappearance, uncovering hair-raising horrors, it becomes clear that Jason and I no longer see eye-to-eye.

Jason wants me to stop meddling with the supernatural. He wants me to stop risking my life by interacting with demons and spirits.

What he doesn’t understand is this is my life. These tortured souls need my help in order to move on. How do I walk away from that—from them?

But the better question is—how do I walk away from him?

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Trudy Hicks Ghost Hunter Case One- The Deceit


Excerpt 1

The wind was
knocked out of her, and she had landed hard. Somewhere nearby, it was breathing
heavily. She had to listen over the short gasps for air that passed her lips
and the barking dog that was ramming against the other side of the locked door.
Trudy lay there frozen, exhausted…but not ready to die. Finally able to
breathe, she sucked in the precious air that her body denied her a minute ago
and realized a couple of ribs might have broken. She could taste the blood from
the gash on her upper lip.
Knowing she had
to find her way out of the room, Trudy got shakily to her feet and craned her
neck to look for a weapon, anything she could use to hurt or at least distract
the invisible demon that was attacking her. Ducking out of the way of a lamp
that flew through the air in her direction and a pair of projectile
candlesticks that impaled the wall behind her, she quickly dove to crouch
beside a desk where she had been working just a few minutes earlier.
What the hell
happened? A voice screamed inside her head over the snarl of her attacker. She
and Dana were packing up to leave. They had helped the troubled spirit of John
Thomas crossover, and the priest was blessing the house. Everything was
peaceful. It was one of the most straightforward investigations to date. She
even called Jason, who was coming to help her wrap up before taking her to his
friend’s cottage on a nearby lake, telling him to take his time. She truly
believed she had everything under control.
Rocky, the dog
she recently rescued, was now howling, and she could hear Dana calling to her.
Both sounded distraught. She knew if a miracle didn’t happen soon, she might be
a goner.
Trudy felt the
dark, rotten energy coming toward her again in a rush. Overcome by the smell of
sulfur that made her gasp and stung her eyes, she willed her broken body to
tumble under a nearby table then roll again when the thing picked that up and
slammed it down, nearly crushing her.
Jumping
awkwardly to her feet, mindless of her pain, Trudy felt a low vibration.
Pictures from the wall and books from the shelves came at her at a high rate of
speed. It took every bit of focus she had to block the onslaught of household
items now being used as weapons of mass destruction. Trudy noticed a crucifix
that had been hanging on the wall sailing past her on her right, and she
grabbed it before dropping and crawling between the couch and coffee table. She
could feel the vise-like grip around her ankle. Now what? She kicked her free
leg in the hope of making some contact but found only air.
It pulled her
rapidly toward the center of the room.
“Let go of me,
you bastard!” Grabbing on to one of the desk legs, Trudy held on with every bit
of strength she had left, but whatever was yanking her was too strong and
pulled her free. Watching in awe and horror as the desk rocketed to the
ceiling,where it hung suspended. With the crucifix still in her hand, she
bellowed, “Stop in the name of Jesus Christ.”
The activity stopped for a short, sweet moment, and Trudy sucked in a
shaky breath.
A low rumbling
started, and before she knew it, the coffee table and sofa lifted to join the
desk on the ceiling directly above her.
She weakly held
up the cross again and watched in horror as the furnishings dropped loudly,
piece by piece in rapid succession to the floor, nearly missing her as she
awkwardly somersaulted out of the way. Trudy, lying in the fetal position in
among the busted furniture, waited for the next attack. The room was quiet and
still. She tried to climb to her knees, but the pain in her midsection stopped
her. Suddenly lightheaded, she gasped for air as nausea consumed her.
The energy in
the room changed, and a swirling mist appeared to gather around her. Am I
dying? The images around her grew fuzzy. From somewhere behind, she heard a
loud bang, and before she knew what was happening, she was tumbling into open
space.



About the Author:

Lori Zaremba is a full-time Internet Sales Manager and writes Web Content as well as providing Copy Editing for businesses in the Greater Pittsburgh Area. Lori has published short ghost stories on Your Ghost Stories, as the Haunted_Cleaner and on her website lorizaremba.com

On her website, lorizaremba.com, Zaremba refers to herself as the ghost magnet and briefly describes her encounters with departing spirits.


Lori began writing her fiction story as a creative offering of why a ghost would haunt.  Before long the story became a novel Case One: The Deceit in the Trudy Hicks Ghost Hunter series.

Lori currently lives in the suburbs of Pittsburgh with her husband Wayne and two fur babies Jaxson and Stewie.

https://www.lorizaremba.com

https://twitter.com/lorighost

https://www.facebook.com/people/Lori-Zaremba-Author/100009214166378





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Monday, May 27, 2019

Dirty Hearts by Khardine Gray


Dirty
Hearts
Gangsters
and Dolls Book 1
by
Khardine Gray

Genre:
Mafia Romance 

From
USA Today Bestselling author Khardine Gray comes a sexy, delightfully
devilish, seductive second chance Mafia Romance. Be prepared to take
a walk on the dark side.

Claudius
Rule
#1 of being mafia boss- Trust
no one.
Rule
# 2-
Keep your friends and enemies damn close. In the underground world,
 friends and enemies could be the same thing.
My
story started out with a guy who liked a girl.
She
looked like an angel to him.
I
was the guy, Ava the angel.
But
I got caught in a game I didn’t want to play.
A
game with the devil that destroyed me.
My
life turned into this world where I got married to her twin sister
and Ava hated me.




The
situation became my weakness when my enemies used it against me, and
killed my wife.
Ava
could have died too so I stayed away from her.
It
was safer that way.
Year
in, year out I tell myself the same thing, and I stay away.
But,
the universe had other ideas, and threw her right back in my path.
I
can’t have her.
An
angel like her doesn’t belong in the darkness of my world.
I
know this, except, I’m selfish.
I
should leave her alone, but I can’t.
The
problem is …history is repeating itself, and there’s an enemy in
my circle.
It’s
the same game as before and this time losing could get her killed.




Ava
Avoid
him…
That
was the most sensible thing to do.
Besides,
Claudius wasn’t any old guy.
He
was the don of the Chicago mafia.
Ten
years ago, when I’d first met him, I knew the man was trouble, but
I didn’t listen.
He’d
made me love’s fool and broke my heart in so many ways when he
married my sister.
That
was a lesson to learn.
So,
what was I doing running back into the arms of a man I shouldn’t be
with?



We
were like darkness and light.
Different.
Too different.
Coincidence
reunited us, but my heart did the rest.
My
heart blinded me to sense and logic, and stifled the voice inside
that told me to run away.
My
heart made me selfish...
I
wanted him for myself.
I
knew I shouldn’t be with him, but I couldn’t leave him alone.
That
very thing could be my downfall.




This
isn’t like any other second chance romance you’ve read before…
If
you loved Lucian Morientz from Mafia Boss, you’re gonna love his
brother, Claudius.
Dirty
Hearts is a complete standalone, full length novel, with no cliff
hanger and part of the Gangsters and Dolls series.
The
Gangsters and Dolls series is a spin off from The Accidental Mafia
Queen series. Continue the adventure with these sizzling
hot, drool-worthy Alpha males.




**Only
99 cents!!**


Khardine
Gray is a contemporary romance author who lives in England with her
husband, two kids, and three crazy ferrets.


She
is well traveled, cultured, and a woman with a passion for dancing
and ice skating.

When
not writing you can catch her shopping, indulging on pizza and hot
chocolate, or hanging out with her family and friends.

No
need to spend money on an airline ticket. Simply pick up one of
Khardine's books to become immersed in the fascinating stories and
characters she creates.








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