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Friday, January 15, 2021
#Trigger Warnings and the #Creative Process
Monday, January 11, 2021
Saturday, December 19, 2020
Ravensong Cover Reveal
Ravensong
Ravenlight Cycles Book 2
by Melissa Riddell
Young Adult Fairy Tales
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A woman determined to protect her heart, and a man willing to test its limits. Will his secret break her curse or doom them for eternity?
Imala Chogan
From the day my tribe was cursed by a rival shaman two hundred years ago, my life has been nothing but a dreary, loveless existence. The one day I can shed my raven form, I am reminded all over of the pain and loss of those I had to leave behind. I’ll never subject myself to that kind of agony again—even if it swaggers in with a ridiculous Stetson hat and talks with a cute, southern drawl. Besides, what man would want to be with me when they learn my secret?
Jaggar Martin
A fresh start sounded good, especially after the horror I’d witnessed—and created—while in the military. Keeping a steady job working for Revan Chogan, having a roof over my head, and putting an end to the blood-soaked nightmares is my version of heaven. Enter Imala, who’s gorgeous, sharp-tongued, and cold like frigid icicles. I think she’s warming up to me, though. But if she gets a glimpse of what I keep buried deep inside, will she love me—or kill me?
Melissa Riddell is from a small, West Texas town in which she still lives with her husband. Her writing career started as a hobby when she was a teenager, writing poems and short stories. Eventually, she branched out and began constructing novels. When not contemplating new story ideas, she can be found traipsing around Texas State Parks, herding her cats, or reading a book.
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Thursday, December 17, 2020
Yuletide Blog Tour & Giveaway
Tuesday, December 15, 2020
Steamy Stocking Stuffers Release
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This steamy collection of holiday short stories featuring the Stronghold Doms includes:
All I Want for Christmas - Master Will and Gina have been scening together for months, but a relationship is on Gina's wishlist this year. Will Santa deliver?
Mistletoe Meltdown - A single moment under the mistletoe is all it takes for Zach to finally understand why Master Kincaid has always made him question everything he thought he knew about himself.
About the Author:
Golden Angel is a USA Today best-selling author, Amazon Top 50 bestselling author, and a self-described bibliophile with a "kinky" bent who loves to write stories for the characters in her head. If she didn't get them out, she's pretty sure she'd go just a little crazy.
She is happily married, old enough to know better but still too young to care, and a big fan of happily-ever-afters, strong heroes and heroines, and sizzling chemistry.
She believes the world is a better place when there's a little magic in it.
Tuesday, November 3, 2020
Amongst the Chaos Tour & Giveaway
Grayson Wyatt would be dead if it weren't for his mentor—a woman who saved him and so many others from a life filled with violence and torment, helping them to rebuild after the abuse that tore them apart. So when she passes unexpectedly, Grayson is determined to see that her legacy lives on. He isn't expecting a niece no one even knew existed to inherit it all, leaving the future of the club and those it protects uncertain.
But Chloe has more in common with Grayson and the people of Club Chaos than she realizes. And when her situation takes a dangerous turn, she finds solace in the embrace of this unconventional family. When the trauma of the past collides with the desire of the present, Chloe must fight her way through the pain to find the peace that lies amongst the chaos.
Monday, November 2, 2020
Adult in the Room Blitz
Mystery, Thriller
Publisher: The Good as Gone Group
The Adults in the Room is the first book in the high octane Tim Hall Mystery series. If you like stunning revelations, deep state conspiracies, and a touch of romance, then you’ll love Jeffrey Mechling’s mind-bending thriller!
A CIA officer is still suffering partial amnesia from the car crash that stole his wife from him.
Now the memories he has forgotten, might be the only things that can keep him alive. Can he fill in the blanks of his fractured memory?
Relieved by the familiar face of his biker girlfriend, he’s shocked to learn her true identity and the devastating secrets about his accident. And soon he’s swept up in a deadly that could decimate American politics.
The Adults in the Room is a standalone book.
Other books in the Tim Hall and Mary Ann Wilson Mystery Series:
The Safe House
Tim Hall and Mary Ann Wilson, Book 2
Publisher: The Good as Gone Group
A spy under pressure. A secret below the sea. Can he blow the lid off a treacherous conspiracy?
CIA Case Officer Tim Hall will go to any lengths to protect his safe house. And with his FBI agent girlfriend now under the same roof, he’s confident everything is locked down. So when a Soviet-era submarine lurks off the Florida coast, he’s sure they’ll send someone else to assess the threat.
Headstrong Bureau operative Mary Ann Wilson isn’t about to take orders from her lover. When she pulls the assignment to investigate the mysterious submersible, she accepts without hesitation. But an unfortunate misstep sends her in over her head and snares Agent Hall in her wake…
As duty tears the lovers apart, they sink deeper into a dangerous web of lies, secrets, and betrayals. And when they find themselves trapped aboard the underwater menace, it may doom both their love and their missions.
Can they force justice to the surface before they’re both sent to a watery grave?
The Decoys
Tim Hall and Mary Ann Wilson, Book 3
Publisher: The Good as Gone Group
After an attempt is made on Tim and Mary Ann lives, they travel to San Francisco seeking answers from Ex-CIA Agent Bernard Haskell. However they soon discover that there are many more questions than answers. Now married, CIA Agent Tim Hall continues to butt heads with his wife, FBI Special Agent Mary Ann Wilson-Hall. Although their investigative methods may differ, the couple still enjoys a meeting of the minds in the bedroom but will that be enough to keep these two together?
This is the third novel in the Tim and Mary Ann Hall mystery series and Jeffrey Mechling does not disappoint. In San Francisco Tim and Mary Ann face the homeless issue, the real estate industry, and local political corruption. There are also murders that appear unconnected but are they? Are Tim and Mary Ann investigating rampant corruptions or are they simply being used as decoy?
About the Author
Jeffrey Mechling was born in Alexandria Virginia to a family full of secrets. His maternal grandfather was thought to be an original member of the OSS [The Office of Strategic Services].
Other members of the Mechling and Emerson families, as well as family friends, lived within the shadowy world of espionage and would only revealed that they "worked for the government".
Mr. Mechling himself has worked as a Financial Economist and Operations Research Analyst with a not too secret government agency.
Jeff has written three novels - The Adults in the Room, The Safe House and The Decoys. All three feature super spy couple Tim Hall and Mary Ann Wilson.
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Sunday, November 1, 2020
The Drums of Unrest (The Cycle of Bones) Cover Reveal
Title: The Drums of Unrest
Series: The Cycle of Bones
JP Corwyn
Genre: Epic Fantasy
Artist: Jeff Brown
Release Date: November 19th, 2020
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The Cycle of Bones continues in The Drums of Unrest, JP Corwyn's eagerly awaited sequel to the bestselling novella: the Dawn of Unions. In the wake of the Red Storm at Westsong... Even as County Thorion prepares for the war to come... The foundations of power begin to crumble When there are no easy answers... When all choices seem ill... A man born to the spear is forced to make an impossible choice.
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What do you see when you close your eyes? Does your mind conjure more than just images? For JP Corwyn, that sense of the click-click-clicking of the world goes far beyond just the visual. Legally blind from birth, Corwyn has made a career out of connecting the words and worlds in his head with the hearts and minds of those around him. A born performer, he sang before he spoke and declared his intention to pursue music at the ripe old age of five. He began writing stories and songs in high school. By the time he’d graduated, he was ready to hit the studio and started touring. JP Corwyn has graced stages from Florida to New York, west to Mississippi, and abroad. But Corwyn’s harbored a dark, secret obsession throughout his musical career. He’s spent years building fantasy worlds - entire universes for later use in his other driving force – writing fiction. “For me, it’s more like archeology than creation,” Corwyn says. After spending 20+ years unearthing the cultures, languages, histories - all the things that bring a world and its people to life - it was time to embark on his epic fantasy series The Cycle of Bones. Corwyn’s released the first book in the series – a novella entitled The Dawn of Unions. The second book and a series soundtrack are slated for release in mid-2020. When he’s not writing prose, you can usually find Corwyn on stage or in the studio. He’s always working on something new, but you might catch him at a coffee shop, a game store, or even a medieval fair.
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