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Book Spotlight Thursday: Kindred Spirits by Lynn Eldridge

Who says the spookiness has to end on Halloween? In the spotlight, today with its beautiful cover and alluring tale is the newly released Kindred Spirits by Lynn Eldridge. 

Kindred Spirits
Publication Date: October 31, 2023
Genre: Paranormal Romance

A captivating paranormal romance that embarks on a journey of newfound love… and the everlasting effects of grief.
After a devastating accident, young billionaire Jack Malone is left wanting for the family and life he lost. Closing his heart off to the world in fear of feeling the same heartache, he has become a notorious recluse and landlord to several houses in St. Augustine. But despite his best efforts to keep people at arm’s length, his carefully constructed world is about to crumble.
When teacher Sydney Crane blows into town, she doesn’t expect her first encounter with her landlord to involve property vandalization—and unexpected nudeness. Off to a rocky start, she is determined to change Jack’s opinion of her. But after the unexplainable shakes her world and she finds herself in his protective embrace…she worries she may have ventured too far.
As Jack and Sydney’s connection deepens, so do their supernatural encounters. Navigating past heartache and an increasingly haunted house, their pursuit of love becomes a race against time that even they fear they won’t survive.
Will Jack and Sydney be able to unravel an ancient murder before their chance at love evaporates faster than a fleeting apparition?

Get swept away by this heart-wrenching paranormal romance that showcases the strength of one couple’s resolve and their key to happily ever after. 

OUT NOW AND AVAILABLE HERE AND ON AMAZON

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Lynn Eldridge is a former president of the West Virginia Chapter of Romance Writers of America and earned an honorable mention in their Golden Heart Contest. Lynn is the author of several historical and contemporary romance novels, including Desire in Deadwood, Remember the Passion, Tame the Wild, and Skyrocket to Surrender. Her latest novel, Hearts and Mountains, is a 2023 Spur Award Finalist. In addition to her writing career, Lynn is a licensed clinical therapist and dedicates one day a week in an outpatient behavioral health facility in Charleston, West Virginia.

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Book Spotlight Special: The Crow Lord by J.M. Failde

TRICK OR TREAT! Well, I’ve got a TREAT for you in this Book Spotlight Special: Halloween Edition with The Crow Lord by J.M. Failde! Behold this book beauty!

The Crow Lord (The Vampires of Malvania Book 1)

Publication Date: October 24, 2023

Genre: Vampire Romantasy

Spice Level: 🌶️🌶️🌶️

🖤 Enemies-to-Lovers
🩸 Who Did this to You?!
🖤 Vampire/ Human
🩸 Forced Proximity
🖤 One Bed
🩸 Good Girl
🖤 Touch Her and I’ll Unalive You!

“What will you give me?” His voice again was like melted gold. Like a whisper in the bedroom. “Anything.”
Malvania is broken into four manors ruled by vampire: the Viper Morada, the Arachnid Estate, the Maggot Mansion, and the Crow Court. After escaping the cruel and malicious Viper siblings in search of her brother, Lila Bran finds herself caught in the gaze of the Crow Lord himself, Ambrose Draven.
Beyond her better judgment, Lila strikes a bargain with Ambrose, five favors in exchange for safety. But when she ends up back in the hands of the Vipers, can she trust the Crow Lord to save her despite her desire to hate him?
Now, Lila must discover more to Ambrose Draven than his title as the Monster of Malvania in order to save her brother and fulfill her half of the bargain. As she fights to survive, she uncovers the truth behind her lineage, ancient vampire secrets, and the heart of a monster.

(Note: This book contains mature language, themes, and content that may not be suitable for all readers. Reader discretion is advised.)

AVAILABLE ON AMAZON AND FREE FOR KU

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

J. M. Failde spent just over one hundred fortnights rigorously studying the complexities of the English language at Florida International University. While she is not conjuring up stories, she can be found searching for el chupacabra, befriending the ghost in her house, or dying her hair a new shade of blue. Failde currently resides in her gothic manor on the outskirts of Atlanta, Georgia, with her partner, Mike, and her familiar—the round but feisty calico cat, Maki.

Learn more at J.M. Failde

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Spooky Book Spotlight Series: What Happened At Sisters Creek by Lee Anderson

As we inch ever closer to Halloween caught in our Spooky Book Spotlight Series is What Happened At Sisters Creek by Lee Anderson, and to celebrate Halloween What Happened At Sisters Creek is currently available for only  0.99cent on ebook and $5.99 paperback! Read on!

What Happened At Sisters Creek

Genre: Horror, Suspense, Paranormal Suspense, Ghost Thriller

Publishing Date: August 2, 2023 (Palm Circle Press)

There are places you should never go…

Charlie Sparks is the sheriff of a small North Florida town, his career derailed by rampant scandal and corruption. At the worst time possible, he’s faced with solving the gruesome campsite murder of a young family. Though the youngest son survives, insisting a “monster” killed his parents and sister, Sheriff Sparks assumes the real culprits are two recent escaped convicts, seeking their revenge against him.

When a search party goes missing, Sparks assembles a makeshift search party of his own. It consists of the female deputy he’s having an affair with, his old friend just returned from action in the Middle East, and a self-serving journalist hoping for the news story of a lifetime. Eager to protect himself and those he loves (and to reclaim his reputation,) Sparks journeys into Sisters Creek, a national forest, to recapture the convicts before they can kill again.

A Horrifying Odyssey into the Unknown awaits you…

Here’s what readers have been saying.

AVAILABLE NOW ON AMAZON KINDLE 0.99 CENTS

ALSO AVAILABLE ON PAPERBACK $5.99

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Clarence Lee Anderson is an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. He is the author of the controversial horror novel WHAT HAPPENED AT SISTERS CREEK, the acclaimed short story collection DARK LORDS OF THE TRAILER PARK, and the fantasy duology THE LOST BOOKS OF JYN, entitled THE EXPLODING PRINCESS and THE APOCALYPSE WEDDING. His two plays, SUPPER’S READY and LITTLE AMERICA, were both staged in New York City, off-Broadway.

Lee collaborates with his wife Milana under the pen name “Heather Wilde.” Together, they’ve written the highly-rated suspense novels, THE MOST BEAUTIFUL INSANITY and SWEET DEMON LOVE BABY, Book One and Two of THE SOUTH BEACH CRIME THRILLER SERIES. Book Three, TWILIGHT ADJACENT, is due to be released in 2024.

Follow Lee and his books at  www.leeanderson.net

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Book Spotlight Thursday: Reign of Inception by J.C. Blacklock

A perfect fall read in the spotlight today is Reign of Inception by J.C. Blacklock.

The title and cover lured me so lets read on and its currently on a blog tour hosted by R&R Book Tours. Let’s read on!

Reign of Inception (Elderwood Series #1)

Publication Date: February 1, 2023

Genre: Urban Fantasy/ Fantasy Romance

Are you prepared to venture into a world you never knew existed?
A world of hidden secrets and untold stories of myths and legends long passed. Forgotten or believed to be just that… stories. For once you open your eyes to the impossible, everything becomes probable.
Like most good stories or life altering events, it begins with one action, one decision…
One stupid mistake.
That’s all it took to turn 17-year-old heiress to the family business Rayna Caliburn’s life upside down. After being shipped off to a private Academy halfway across the world, she soon realizes that life isn’t all fun and games. Especially when a shocking turn of events lands her and her companions in a land that shouldn’t exist.
Thrust into a turbulent pursuit of rectification, in a race against time with an unlikely group of beings from myths and legends, Rayna must face unimaginable dangers, uncontrollable magic, and irrepressible temptations that begin to wage war against everything she’s been led to believe about herself, her beliefs, her reality and even her sanity.

Reign of Inception is the first book in the crossover Elderwood Series. An Urban Fantasy meets Epic Fantasy Romance with Celtic Mythology and Arthurian Legend retellings. The main character is YA but the book is intended for older readers due to darker themes, language and scenes of sex and violence. Some readers may find certain scenes disturbing.

AVAILABLE NOW Free on KU and Available in paperback!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

J.C Blacklock is an Indie Author with her debut novel being Reign of Inception, the first book in her crossover Urban Fantasy Romance series Elderwood Series. She currently lives with her fiancé and two children along the coast of eastern Canada. She writes books with action, steam, tension, and plot twists in a range of different genres.

Learn more about J. C. at JC Blacklock

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Spooky Book Review: Bunso Meets A MuMu Written and Illustrated by Rev Valdez

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As we get deeper into the spooky season October also marks Fillipino American History Month.  Now what better book to review then than Bunso Meets A Mumu by Rev Valdez!

BUNSO MEETS A MUMU

Genre: Children

Published: May 30, 2023 (Paws Publishing)

Meet Bunso, a boy with a really scary problem. It’s the Mumu, the Filipino version of the Boogeyman, who likes to frighten kids who don’t do as they are told by their elders! The Mumu will not let Bunso draw (on the walls), eat ice cream (before dinner), or play video games (his older brother’s). But Bunso has had enough! Gearing up to fight back against this destroyer of fun, Bunso makes surprising discoveries about the Mumu (and himself) in this fun, comic-like picture book that introduces children to Filipino culture and words.

Get Your Copy now on AMAZON and Barnes & Noble

REVIEW

Bunso has a problem his older sister keeps telling scary stories and is now telling him the MUMU is going to get him if he doesn’t behave. Same with his Mom and Dad, The MUMU will get you if you don’t behave! His older brother just won’t let him play with his video games. Is this the curse of the MUMU? Wait what is a MUMU? Bunso is about to find out!

This book is the most adorable ever! While targeted at young children this book can be loved by all ages.  I read it to my book-loving ten-year-old twin boys and they really loved it. I confess I loved it!

Drawing from Filipino heritage and folklore Valdez creates a book for the whole family. Children will like the cool comic book-like drawing and Valdez writes with child-like dialogue that will reel young readers in. Parents and maybe older kids with like the worked in Fillipino culture and words therefore expanding their minds or finding a kindred spirit in Bunso’s world being Fillipino-American. Bunso Meets A MuMu looks like it’s the first in a series of Bunso Meets stories introducing other mythical monsters from Filipino culture. I for one can’t wait.

My rating 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR


Rev Valdez is a Filipino-American illustrator based in San Francisco, CA. He’s passionate about introducing young readers to the myths and mythical creatures of Filipino culture through fun and funny visual storytelling.

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Book Spotlight Wednesday: The Secrets of Jane by Charlotte Mallory

It’s not Thursday, but I am joining rrbooktours for the blog tour for The Secrets of Jan by Charlotte Mallory. Let’s read on!

The Secrets of Jane: Forgotten (Improper Bastards Series #1)

Publication Date: September 19, 2023

Genre: Dark Romantasy

🗝️ Enemies-to-Lovers
💀 Empath Daddy
🗝️ Everyone is Morally Grey
💀 EPIC Pirating World
🗝️ Secrets and Mysteries
💀 One bed/ One Horse
🗝️ Captor becomes Protector
💀 Steamy, Angry Scenes until Alphahole Catches Feelings First

“I’m a disciplined man, Jane. I can stay here for as long as you need before the lesson sinks in that you don’t run from me while in my charge.” — Soren.

He’s a Mercenary with powers that allow him feel the hearts/desires/fears of others.
She’s his target, and must guard her identity at all costs.
My village is aflame, and a deadly legend becomes my captor.
I’m to appear before the most elite faction of mercenaries and warlords, commanded to answer for a crime they refuse to explain. Even if my only guess for why they want me is wrong, they cannot have me. I’ve sworn to never return to Skull’s Row, home to thieves and killers; the graveyard of my childhood.
He plans to unbury every memory until my soul is stripped bare: Soren, my captor, is strangely fascinated by me. By what I hide. Of the scars I have.
I’m unwillingly drawn to him. To his brutality. He harbors the same viciousness that coats my veins. He even seems persistent in taking me for himself…
He’ll either be my reckoning, or my undoing.

Think the Witcher Meets Pirates of the Caribbean. It’s a dark fantasy romance duet full of foul language, sensual scenes, and improper bastards.

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AVAILABLE ON AMAZON


ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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Charlotte Mallory is eager to share her love for Dark Fantasy Romance stories, and dabbling in a few Contemporary Romances. What she enjoys most is taking well-loved tropes and adding her own take on them. Right now, she greatly enjoys anything with Fantasy or Contemporary with an Alpha male lead, paired with a female lead who can absolutely handle her own! In her spare time, she enjoys nature, bonsai trees, coffee, and taking random art classes.

Learn more about Charlotte at Charlotte Mallory

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Spooky Book Spotlight: Till Death Do Us Part by RE Johnson

It’s that most wonderful time of the year again! HALLOWEEN! Today starts my Spooky Book Spotlight Series where I spotlight some spooky reads you might want to check out.

Today in the spooky spotlight is Till Death Do Us Part by RE Johnson.

Till Death Do Us Part (A Monster Horror Romance)

Publication Date: October 30, 2023

Genre: Monster horror romance, Gothic romance, gothic fiction

Getting engaged is a big deal in my family, and I’m only doing it because my dad insisted. Big money has big responsibilities.

And, you know, I’m willing to keep up appearances to get them off my back so I can focus on more important things- namely ridding this planet of some scum.

The guy’s hot has a huge, spooky mansion, and keeps to himself. So what’s the harm in playing along?

Trouble is I had no idea when we said “till death do us part,” he’d take it so literally.

Good thing I’m not your typical bride.

Pre-order today!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Lover of dark, decadent, and deadly romances, RE Johnson has been a passionate storyteller and fantasy fan since they were in elementary school. In fact, they wrote their first novel in fifth grade.

Now, they use their Creative Writing degree to create stories that profess love, respect, and triumph over evil and contain strong female characters who are always ready to throw down – both in and out of the bedroom.

Currently, they reside in Las Vegas, Nevada, where they spend their free time playing Dungeons and Dragons, wrangling their two rambunctious children, and reading all the smut, fantasy, sci-fi, and mythology they can get their hands on.

Follow RE at  rejohnsonbooks.com  and on all social media

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Book Spotlight Thursday: Cynosura 99 by Sam Weiss

Shining a light this week we are happy to spotlight the release of Cynosura 99 by Sam Weiss. Think Stranger Things meets Donnie Darko. So happy book release week to Sam Weiss and let’s check out Cynosura 99.

Cynosura 99 (The Altered Planes #1)
Publication Date: October 9, 2023
Genre: Dark Fantasy w/ Sci-Fi Horror Elements

“The night the moon bleeds is the night the world will end. There’s death in the moon. And the moon is you.”
Atra Hart has spent the last seven years locked away in Vanishing Plains Psychiatric Hospital. In that time, her shadow has transformed into its own entity and is growing stronger by the day, threatening to devour her mind. She calls that shadow Dread, and only her missing father knows what it is.
When a fire breaks out at the asylum, Atra makes her way to freedom just in time to see an electric-purple rift sunder the sky. Like Dread, the rift is only visible to her.
Atra’s already loose grip on reality unravels when she learns the rift is a gateway to the world of the dead. And the Queen, an ancient evil lurking on its fringes, wants Dread for her own.
Even worse, Atra can’t tell if any of this is really happening. She might have escaped one asylum, but the closer she gets to unearthing answers about Dread, why her father knows it’s there, and its role in the Queen’s plans, the more she risks getting trapped inside her own mind forever.
Maybe some truths are meant to stay buried.

Now Available on Amazon

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Sam was named after a dog, a fact her mother disputes to this day.

While she’s terrible at writing “About Me’s “, she’s been told she’s great at writing about what fictional people do. The more miserable she can make them, the better. Her love of horror films from the 80s, sci-fi shows from the 90s, and alternative music from the 00s have inspired her to write what she’s calling “Dark Science Fantasy” although she’s kind of making that up as she goes along.

When she’s not ready to pull her hair out after discovering another plot hole she’s created, she goes camping with her husband as far away from society as possible. So far, this tactic has been mostly successful, and she’s only had to physically converse with a grand total of nine people this year. Next year, she hopes to get that number down to six.

Visit Sam and her works at Sam Weiss

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Book Review: If Only My Eyes Could Speak by Nicole Sadiee

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If Only My Eyes Could Speak

Published: (February 2018)

Genre: Memoirs,  Poetry by women

“If Only My Eyes Could Speak” is an important book that entails the struggles of a young black girl growing up in a broken home. It is a book made to represent the mistreatment and misinterpretation of adolescents who are forced to grow up in toxic environments. The book contains personal poems and letters that speak on behalf of sexual abuse, abandonment, miscarriage at a young age, and sexual conquests. This book is only a taste of what Nicole has seen and experienced through her own eyes.

Available Now on Amazon

REVIEW

 A silver winner of the Global Ebook Awards and Winner of the Dan Poynter Legacy Award If Only My Eyes Could Speak is a gut-wrenching read. A short but powerful read this book speaks volumes.

Reading like we are peeking into a young girl’s journal Sadiee shares her personal poetry, and prose (letters) she wrote as a young girl going through physical and sexual abuse trying to make sense of it all.

 Her writings start at the age of 14 and go through to 17, and the words and things Sadiee writes should not be in the mind of a child so young.  Yet, her prominent piece “Letter To My Mother” written at the tender age of 14 explains it all.  

It took me a couple of days to recover after reading this book. Haunted by the eloquence of young Sadiee’s words you FEEL each syllable she writes, and the therapeutic release she feels as she writes them. 

A beautiful piece to show we can overcome. We can take the bad and make it good.

My overall rating is 5 stars and beyond.

Purchase now on Amazon

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Nicole Sadiee is an upcoming model, author, and entrepreneur. Growing up in Georgia with a broken family and a love for writing helped produce her first book at 18. “If Only My Eyes Could Speak” is just a taste of how Nicole has experienced life beginning at the ripe age of 14. She lets you into her world raw and see how her childhood has shaped her into the young woman she is today.

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Book Spotlight: How to Get a Girlfriend (When You’re a Terrifying Monster) by Marie Cardno

The title of this book says it all as to why I am spotlighting this baby. In celebration of its sequel release book 1 How to Get a Girlfriend (When You’re a Terrifying Monster) by Marie Cardno is currently on tour with @rrbooktours and is on SALE NOW for only .99 cents!

How to Get a Girlfriend (When You’re a Terrifying Monster)

Publication Date: July 2022

Genre: Cozy Fantasy Romance/ Sapphic Romance/ Romcom

Life is tough when you’re an eldritch abomination.

Trillin isn’t technically a person. She’s a tiny breakaway piece of consciousness from the all-devouring Endless, doomed to eventually rejoin it. But when a human witch stumbles into her world, Trillin suddenly has a new reason to figure out individuality–one shape-shifting tentacle at a time.

Sian is sure important magical discoveries are just around the corner if she can just get her portals to work reliably. Reaching the dimension of the Endless without being eaten on sight is a dream come true, and Sian is determined to explore every bit of it. For science, of course, not for the strangely adorable life-form who keeps popping up and trying to… flirt?

But Trillin’s world can be a dangerous place, and keeping Sian safe might risk drawing the attention of the Endless itself–which will swallow Trillin up along with all her dreams of humanity. Together, can this unlikely duo escape the Endless, figure out the optimum number of appendages, and maybe even find love?

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How to Get a Girlfriend (When You’re a Terrifying Monster) is a sapphic cozy fantasy romance between a witch scientist and a shape-shifting Cthulhu monster. HEA guaranteed!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Marie Cardno loves cozy fantasy. She lives halfway between the sea and a French bakery on the south coast of the North Island of Aotearoa New Zealand, and writes stories about love, magic, and strange and wonderful worlds.

Follow @ Marie Cardno