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Monday, June 17, 2019

The Wonkiest Witch by Jeannie Wycherley

Author: Jeannie Wycherley

Narrator: Kim Bretton

Length: 4 hours and 20 minutes

Series: Wonky Inn, Book 1

Publisher: Jeannie Wycherley

Released: May 3, 2019

Genre: Cozy Mystery


Alfhild Daemonne has inherited an inn.

And a dead body.

Estranged from her witch mother, and having committed to little in her 30 years, Alf surprises herself when she decides to start a new life.

She heads deep into the English countryside, intent on making a success of the once popular inn. However, discovering the murder throws her a curve ball. Especially when she suspects dark magick.

Additionally, a less than warm welcome from several locals persuades her that a variety of folk - of both the mortal and magickal persuasions - have it in for her.

The dilapidated inn presents a huge challenge for Alf. Uncertain who to trust, she considers calling time on the venture.

Should she pack her bags and head back to London?

Don’t be daft.

Alf’s magickal powers may be as wonky as the inn, but she’s dead set on finding the murderer.

Once a witch, always a witch - and this one is fighting back.

A clean and cozy witch mystery.

Take the opportunity to immerse yourself in this fantastic new witch mystery series, from the author of the award-winning novel, Crone.




Genre-hopping introvert and word witch living somewhere between the forest and the sea in East Devon, UK.

Jeannie finds inspiration everywhere: in myths, stories and songs, while people watching, a word here, a look there. However, her main inspiration comes from the landscape. Devon has it all - a rocky coastline, pebble and sandy beaches, narrow winding lanes and picture perfect cottages, steep cliffs and an abundance of forest.

A good day for Jeannie means a blustery wind, racing waves and salty rain. She lives with her husband and two dogs, makes a lot of soup, plays too many computer games and loves watching movies.
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Narrator Bio


An accomplished and award winning actress with West End and Broadway theatre credits Kim has been doing voice over work for 15 years. She has voiced cartoon characters for the BBC and been a regular vocal impersonator on a popular London radio show. Kim has narrated and produced 15 audiobooks since she joined ACX this year! Her voice over clients include Carnival Cruises, Gucci, Sennheiser, American Express, HRH UK Prisons systems, Doubletree Hotels, Victorian Trading Company and so many more. Quick, reliable and always professional.Kim has a reassuring, kind and expressive style.
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This was a fun and relatively short listen. The audiobook is only 4:20 long. Between the Author Jeannie Wycherley and the narrator Kim Bretton I found myself smiling a lot and laughing several times. The Wonkiest Witch is book 1 in the new series called the Wonky Inn. There are a lot of plot twists. Kim Bretton really brings a ton of energy to this fast paced book. There is no strong language or sex but some mild violence in the book. I cannot wait for the next book in the series.

In the book Alfhild "Alf" Daemonne's Mother has passed away. Not thinking she has inherited much and fine with that she goes to the reading of the will and finds out she has  inherited a whole town. The town includes a Inn. As she goes to see her town and Inn one of the first thing she sees is a dead body outside the kitchen. As she begins work on the Inn threats to her and her inn start to come in from all over. Not knowing who to trust alf must make a decision.

Alf is a witch but had renounced her powers after her father went missing when she was a child, decides its time to dust the cob webs off her powers and she also calls in help from other witches in order to save her inn.


I received this audiobook as part of my participation in a blog tour with Audiobookworm Promotions. The tour is being sponsored by Jeannie Wycherley. The gifting of this audiobook did not affect my opinion of it.


Dream Cast
Dream Cast Author Jeannie Wycherley
  • Alfhild Daemonne – Karen Gillan (Amy Pond in Doctor Who)
  • Millicent Ballicott – Kathy Bates
  • DS George Gilchrist – Laurence Fox (DS James Hathaway in Lewis)
  • Wizard Shadowmender – Bill Pullman
  • Mr Kephisto – Tcheky Karyo (from Baptiste)
  • Jed Bailey – Boris Van Severen (Salamander/Baptiste)
  • Erik Daemonne – Bryan Cranston
  • Penelope Quigwell – Nicole Kidman
  • Gladstone Talbot Lloyd – Hugh Grant
  • Charity – Rebel Wilson
  • Rhona Marsh – Ashley Judd
  • Stanley Marsh – Stan Laurel
  • Lyle Cavendish - Stephen Graham (Line of Duty)
  • Sally – Cameron Diaz
  • Mortimer – Elvis Presley
  • Red Daltry - Kristofer Hivju (Game of Thrones)
  • Finbarr – Devon Murray (Seamus Finnigan in the Harry Potter series)
Character Profile for Alfhild Yasmin Daemonne
  • Age: Recently turned 30.
  • Birthday: 20th March (Spring Equinox in the Northern Hemisphere)
  • Star sign: On the cusp of Pisces into Aries
  • Place of birth: Near Glastonbury in Somerset in the UK.
  • Parents: Yasmin and Erik Daemonne.
  • Siblings: None
  • Height: 5 ft 8
  • Weight: Curvy, but otherwise none of your business
  • Shoe size: UK 8 (US 41?)
  • Eyes: Green
  • Hair: Reddy brown and lots of it. Wild curls. Usually dishevelled.
  • Fashion sense: Jeans and t-shirts. Lots of black. Witchy robes in plain charcoal.
  • Freckles: On her nose.
  • Music: Loves a bit of rock, jazz and blues. A Foo Fighters fan.
  • Loves: Cake. Tea. Owls. Walking in the woods. Baths. Relaxation.
  • Hates: Vampires, the cold – especially the snow, getting up early, Maths!
  • Ambitions: To learn to drive, to run a successful business.
  • Marital status: Single
  • Current job: Innkeeper
  • Previous jobs: Barmaid, landlord, manager of nightclub.
  • Characteristics: A little sarcastic, great sense of fun, intelligent, feisty, scatterbrained at times, adventurous, loyal, friendly, inquisitive, has a notable sweet tooth, observant.

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Guardian Domination by Breanna Hayse


Guardian
Domination
by
Breanna Hayse

Genre:
Contemporary Romance 

Celeste
Bronston once again faces the law and the only way to avoid
incarceration is to submit herself to a man she’s never met—her
godfather, Jace Jordon. The judge’s condition is that the
18-year-old will be under Jace’s authority until she turns
twenty-one. Having no other choice except for jail, she accepts the
court’s offer.


Her
legal guardian is not at all what she imagined him to be! Besides
being young, quite wealthy and exceedingly handsome, the man has a
unique way in dealing with obstinate and naughty young woman. Failure
to follow his strict rules and exercising poor behavior promptly
earns the young lady and trip over his knee for a memorable
bare-bottom spanking!

Jace
also offers her the love and respect that she had not experienced in
the past. Together with his best friend, Mark, the men help Celeste
learn about her value and worth as a human being. As she thrives in
the environment of domestic discipline, Celeste’s feelings toward
Jace begin to change—along with her desire to learn more about his
lifestyle as a dominant. She accepts his challenge to learn about
dominance and submission, themselves facing a crossroads. Do they
dare step over the line and experiment with romance?
Guardian
Domination was written to share my actual training as a submissive in
a fictional background. All the scenes are recreations of actual
events. This work includes spanking of adult women. If you liked
Fifty Shades of Grey, then this book is certainly for you.










BDSM/AP
lifestyler Breanna Hayse strives to give her readers truth and
reality of the BDSM/Age-Play/Total Power and Erotic Exchange
lifestyle.

Who
am I?
I'm
a native Californian gone 'wild', and had the opportunity to travel
the globe and discover the world through the eyes of both a Marine
Intelligence specialist and a BDSM lifestyler. I left the service to
go into hospice nursing and grief counseling, eventually working as a
marriage and family therapist for those involved in alternative
lifestyle development. This experience has allowed me to gain unique
inspiration for my books and offer realistic plots and relatable
characters.

In
2004, my husband, John, and I joined forces to work with both
submissives and dominants- teaching, training, listening and loving.
Our goal was to take the mystery and fear out of the lifestyle and
mentor people in safe, consensual and healthy relationships.

My
first book, The Game Plan, was published in 2012 and opened the door
to the now-booming world of Age-Play literature. Since that time,
I've devoted my 'spare' time to writing, researching, community
involvement, and private and group pro bono counseling in deviant
behavior, alternative lifestyle, and addiction recovery.

I
was formally 'dungeon trained' as a Domme before discovering my
submissive side when I joined the service. My scenarios are pulled
primarily from either personal experience or observation, including
spending time in BDSM clubs as the safety/medical officer. My
multi-faceted background allows me to glean from many avenues and
give a unique and intelligent literary experience through elements of
fantasy and fiction. I also discuss the questions and psychology of
the lifestyle in a manner that is fun and informative, and based on
'the real deal.'

I
live with my husband, musician, and fellow-author, John Hayse, and
two border collies in southern California. We practice a 24/7 D&S
relationship with speckles of AP (and many trips to Build-A-Bear),
and happily spend every moment together that we can. My hobbies
include my puppies, hiding my vanilla salt-water taffy where John
can't find it, exotic art, collecting inspirational trinkets, and
developing my own paddle line. You can also see me as a featured
author/instructor in professional conference settings and as a
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Great Summer Reads Countdown Blitz Stevie-girl and the Phantom Pilot - Book One of Series by Ann Swann Day 11








Ann has been a writer since junior high, but to
pay the bills she has waited tables, delivered newspapers, cleaned other
people's houses, taught school, and had a stint as a secretary in a rock-n-roll
radio station. She also worked as a 911 operator and a police dispatcher. 




Her fiction began to win awards during her college days. Since then she's
published several short stories, novels, and novellas. She’s always reading and
always writing, but even if she never sold another story, Ann would not stop
writing. For her it's a necessity, like breathing. Most of the time, it even
keeps her sane.




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When a small planes crashes behind Jase's rural home, the ghost of the pilot
begins to haunt him. Jase can't figure out what to do until the day he sees his
classmate, Stevie-girl, enter the legendary haunted house. That's when he
decides if anyone can help him solve the mystery, she's the one. 













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Live music
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Dating by the Book by Mary Ann Marlowe


Dating by the Book
Mary Ann Marlowe
Published by: Kensington
Publication date: June 25th 2019
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance

Is love just something you find in books?

Six months ago, writer and bookstore owner Maddie Hanson was left at the altar. Since then, she’s had zero interest in romance—despite the fact that she runs a book club full of sexy eligible bachelors. But when her latest novel is panned by an anonymous blogger who goes by the name Silver Fox—and who accuses her of knowing nothing about passion—she decides to prove her nemesis wrong by seeking a romance hero in real life . . .

There’s the smoldering rock musician, the bookish college professor, and her competitive childhood friend who may want to steal her bookstore more than her heart. Even Silver Fox is getting in on the action, sending Maddie alarmingly—and intoxicatingly—flirtatious emails. And that’s not all. Her ex wants her back.

Now Maddie is about to discover that like any good story, life has twists and turns, and love can happen when you least expect it—with the person you least expect . .

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The cry of You’ve got mail! broke the silence, and I made the mistake of checking my phone. The preview showed me an incoming email from Silver Fox. I steeled my nerves for the inevitable sting and clicked the link with one eye closed, bracing for a deadly attack. Here he was a total stranger, and the prospect alone of what he might say had my heart racing worse than a Stephen King novel.

I bounced my foot on the spindle of the stool and dove headfirst into what I was sure would be a flogging.

Ms. Kincaid,

I don’t know why I’m responding to you, but I confess that I keep arguing with you in my head, so I’ve finally decided to tell you a thing or two.

First, you’re wrong if you think reviewers don’t hear from authors. We hear plenty, and trust me when I tell you that responses can be pretty vicious. I sometimes ignore them, but believe it or not, I do realize that authors are people, too, which is why I find myself wanting to mentor you to a better mental place. My main argument is that you shouldn’t respond to reviewers because your opinion is no longer valid. Or let me rephrase it—your opinion is no more valid than mine.

Second, I find myself once again in the position of defending my own personal situation. While I do enjoy video games as much as anyone of my generation, it’s not my primary occupation. In fact, writing reviews is my hobby. I may do this in my underwear, but not simultaneously at my mother’s house.

Third, I do have a healthy imagination, and I can read between the lines. You may have romantic experience, but I suspect you’ve forgotten what it feels like to truly be in love. Unfortunately for me, love is a feeling I’m all too familiar with, and I recognize when someone is faking it. If I could offer you some free advice, I’d urge you to get out and get more experience—romance, sex, heartache. Live a little. If you haven’t felt your stomach flip when your hand brushes someone else’s, if your spine doesn’t tingle when you think back on your first kiss, you can’t bring those feelings to your readers.

Or ignore me. I’m sure there will be plenty of readers who don’t care about the romance anyway. You can write for them.

SF

Heartache? He wanted me to intentionally fly into that turbulence again? It had taken me six months to nurse myself from the depths of the abyss before I could sink my fingernails into the ledge and heave myself up and out. Silver Fox expected me to just do it again? Sure.

But what if he was right? What if the cocoon I’d wrapped myself in was preventing me from writing a genuine relationship? Worse, what if it was preventing me from moving on with my life?

I poked at my bruised heart and didn’t recoil in agony. Had it dried up and died?

“Live a little.” Like that was so easy.

I made a fresh latte and walked over to sit with fellow romance-phobe Charlie.

“What are you working on, Charlie?”

“Reading.” He closed his laptop and stretched. “Why do you think so much of literature is about waiting? Why can’t it all just be the good parts? Why do I have to wade through hundreds of pages lost in the mines of Moria before getting to some real action?”

“Are we talking about Tolkien?”

“It’s just a metaphor. So much wandering around. My patience grows short.”

“Sounds like my life. I strayed from the path in Mirkwood forest and can’t find my way back.”

“Have you considered flipping pages?”

“Of my life?” I laughed, trying to imagine how that would work.

“Why not? Choose your own adventure.” He pointed his index finger toward an invisible lightbulb. “Stuck in the mines? Go over the mountain.”

“Madness.”

“Maybe, but it’s still a choice. Or just go to the next chapter. It can’t be that hard.”

I considered his premise. “But what if you skipped over all the boring or hard parts of life? You’d go straight to your death bed!”

“Hmm. I think you can always choose to stray from the path.” He stirred his coffee. “And with that in mind, I’m going to make a monumental decision to start a new book.” His eyes sharpened with sincerity. “You could, too.”

Charlie the Chronicler had struck again.

“Choose your own adventure . . .”

Peter wasn’t even in this chapter of my life. How long was I expected to wait for the return of the king? Did I have to return to the original path? Did I have to wait for Peter to come back around?

Or could I consider other avenues?

What if, instead of sitting in my own self-pity, I took a chance on a perilous quest fraught with messy complications, whose successful completion seemed impossible? It wasn’t like there was safety hiding in the mines anyway. I’d already spent six months in the dark, chased by a cave troll of emotional destruction. I might not die of heartbreak, but loneliness rose up like a flaming Balrog from the depths of hell, and only I could choose to fly to higher ground.

I wanted to emerge as the heroine of my own adventure. A badass heroine controlling her own destiny.



Author Bio:

Some Kind of Magic is Mary Ann Marlowe's first novel. When not writing, she works by day as a computer programmer/DBA. She spent ten years as a university-level French professor, and her resume includes stints as an au pair in Calais, a hotel intern in Paris, a German tutor, a college radio disc jockey, and a webmaster for several online musician fandoms, plus she has a second-degree black belt. She has lived in twelve states and three countries and loves to travel. She now lives in central Virginia where she is hard at work on her second novel. She loves to hear from readers and can be reached through her website at www.maryannmarlowe.com, on Facebook, www.facebook.com/marlowemaryann/, and at twitter.com/maryannmarlowe.

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Jedson by Cora Brent





Title: Jedson

Series: The Ruins of Emblem #2
Author: Cora Brent
Genre: Standalone Contemporary Romance

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Photo: Sara Eirew

Release Date: June 27, 2019





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JEDSON (The Ruins of Emblem)

Leah
When I was
too young to know any better Ryan Jedson fascinated me.  
After he
went on the run I thought I’d never see him again.  
I was
wrong.
Now that
he’s back in town I realize it’s a bad idea to catch his eye. 
And yet I
can’t help it. 
Sometimes
you want the one you shouldn’t want.  
But there’s
a complication. 
He has no
idea that I’m the reason his life fell apart.  
And I don’t
know what he’ll do if he ever finds out.  

Jedson
Back in the
day when we were neighbors she was too young, not even worth a second
look.  
However,
six years have gone by and now Leah Brandeis is fair game.  
I see how
she looks at me.   
I
understand she thinks her secret is safe.  
And I’m
playing along. 
For
now.  
But soon
the truth will come out and there will be hell to pay.  
Because I
know what she did. 
I’ve always
known.







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Cora Brent was born
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has affectionately named ‘Spot’. Cora’s closet is filled with boxes of
unfinished stories that date back her 1980’s childhood and all her life she has
dreamed of being an author. Amazingly, she is now a New York Times and USA
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BRASH by SC Daiko





Title: BRASH: An Enemies to Lovers Romance
Author: SC Daiko
Genre: Contemporary Romance/Romantic Suspense
Release Date: June 17, 2019




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I’m cast away on a
tropical island with a dirty, damaged alpha-hole.
Women swoon over
him.
I’m not one of them.
I hate him.
And I see right
through those indigo-blue eyes.
Brash is hurting.
But that doesn’t
give him the right to be a douchebag.
Especially now that
I’m all he’s got here.
A mafia princess who
knows how to set someone straight.
I will bring him to
his knees.
If only he’d stop
making me weak in mine.
His strong arms have
become my refuge.
And his gorgeous
smile, my hope.
He tells me that I
belong to him.
That he’ll protect
me in this dangerous place.
But what happens if
my heart is at risk?
Who will save me
then?

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SC Daiko, aka Siobhan, is an
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contemporary romance and romantic suspense. Siobhan loves to swim in the sea,
travel around Europe, sample different food and enjoy local wine. She has
worked in the City of London and taught languages in a Welsh high school before
moving to Italy, where she now lives with her husband and two cats. Nothing
makes her happier than connecting with readers and fellow authors.



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SHIFTER’S WISH by Louise Cypress

SHIFTER’S WISH

by Louise Cypress
Publication Date: June 17, 2019
Genres: Adult, Young Adult, Paranormal, Romance

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SYNOPSIS

When his family is threatened, a shifter must choose between high school and a life of crime.
For the past six hundred years the Byrd family members have been shifters with avian powers. Seventeen-year-old Rolf is the only Byrd who transforms into a dog. Rolf knows that when his mom looks at him, all she sees is a mutant, but Rolf has plans for his future that go beyond shifting.
Rolf is using senior year to shoot Desperate Dawn, a film that he hopes will win him a prestigious scholarship to the University of Southern California. If Rolf can convince Summer Hathaway to be his leading lady, he’ll be golden. But when Rolf finds twenty dead ravens on his porch, shifter problems show up at his door.
Snake bites, wild coyotes, and drive-by shootings–Rolf’s neighborhood suddenly becomes a deadly place to be. Summer’s douchebag boyfriend makes it worse, especially when he attacks Rolf’s sister. Rolf will do anything to protect the people he loves, even if it means giving up on his dreams. Hopefully, he won’t have to.
Shoot the film. Get the girl. Save his family. It’s a good thing that Rolf can fight like a dog.
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Shifting was in my blood. My father was a shifter, just like his father before him. They were bird shifters, but I was canine. I could transform into any dog I wanted—almost any dog, that is. I’d never mastered a large breed like a St. Bernard or Great Dane. Granddad thought that was because as a human, I was five feet, five inches—the shortest guy in my high school. But I didn’t need to become a big animal to protect my sister.
Hounds were my favorite breeds to shift into because they allowed me to look for things that other people couldn’t see. My nose smashed against the sidewalk. Something about Dory’s shoes smelled delicious. I sniffed around the bottom of her sandals and discovered a tiny morsel of dried-up pizza.
“You don’t need to be a drug-sniffing beagle.” Dory nudged me away with her toe. “Lenox doesn’t do shit like that. Pick something else that won’t be so obvious.”
I closed my eyes, took a deep whiff of the night air, and shifted into something smaller.
“A pocket beagle?” Dory crossed her arms. “The deal’s off. Find yourself a new wardrobe assistant because I’d rather miss the party then show up with—”
“Hey, Dory,” said a friendly voice. “Cute dog.”
A slim brunette in a skirt and cowboy boots walked up to us. It was Rain Hathaway, who had the good fortune to be the younger sister of Summer Hathaway, the girl I was going to marry.
“Hi, Rain.” Dory plastered a smile on her face and fiddled with the tassel on her purse. “Is that your Lexus?”
“I wish. It’s my mom’s. I’m staying at her house this weekend.” Rain smelled like Tide Pods and soy sauce. She bent down on the pavement. “Is it okay if I pet your dog?”
“Sure,” Dory said in a higher-than-normal voice.
“What a cutie.” Rain held her hand up to my nose so I could sniff it. Now that she was closer, I smelled other things on her too. She’d eaten tuna rolls for dinner, followed by a Dr. Pepper. Her mom’s Lexus was relatively new and still off-gassing chemicals.
I nuzzled Rain’s hand and sniffed deeper. There was a dog at her house, a female Shih Tzu. As Rain ran her hand down my back, I closed my eyes, enjoying the massage. My tail wagged. I couldn’t help it. She scratched me behind the ears and I groaned. I looked up at Rain with my puppy-dog eyes, and she giggled.
“Your dog is adorable,” she said. “I’ve never seen a beagle so small before. What’s his name?”
“Trouble.” Dory glared down at me. “His name is Trouble because he is a pain in the ass.”

ABOUT LOUISE CYPRESS

Louise Cypress believes in friendship, true love, and the everlasting power of books. She has never met a vampire, but she has been to a Love Sucks concert on Valentine’s Day. Like Morgan, Louise can often be found curled up with a romance novel on Saturday night, diet soda in hand, secretly wishing bustles were back in fashion. Louise lives in San Diego, California, where the beach is crowded and summer is immortal.

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